Evening Star Newspaper, February 17, 1928, Page 8

clown had given up hope of attaining higher lines. . Foy—his birth name was Fitzgerald, though few knew the fact— remained a buffoon to the end, and he worked as such to the very last. He was playing in the Iroquois Theater in Chi- cago when that house burned, with a {heavy loss of life. With his little son, {Who was watching the performance in (the wings. in his arms he started to es- cape. He saw that the people were in A panic. Passing his boy to a stage hand he went down into the auditorium |and strove valiantly to stem the stam< the City. [pede. He remained until he was him- 33cper month | self severely burned. and then desisted 6oc per month | and fled for his own life. This action { marked him for special distinction, but Foy refused to vegard his deed as of moment. He was beloved by all his as- sociates of the stage and by the count- :lc&s numbers who. during two gencra- tios W him in action. It is given to | some to to heigl of distinction l*hr\‘u:h serious merits. Eddie Foy Rained a high place in the hearts of le by his clowning. which was al- 2vs clean and wholesome. He gave that men and women mizht find enjorment and case QIHE EVENING STAR - With Sunday Morning Edition. —_— WASHINGTON, D.C. FRIDAY......February 17, 1928 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Offie 11th St and Pennsyivania New York Office: 110 East 42nd St Chicago Office: Tower Building European Office: 14 Recent St. London. England Rate by Carrier Within e Evening Star e Evening ard The E Sanday Star ch At the ehd ot e mar be w by mall or telephone ) Main 5000 Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia SSH00. 1 mo 3007 1 mo All Other St sdas IO = Exit Dr. Pueyrredon. More than one good crusader h feund his lance broken at the hilt, him | self rudely dismounted in a cloud of dust and his erstwhile flery warhorse o 1 or ang alss the loval news rights of nuhbicaton %8 aiso reeervad —— Valuation and Profits. As was expected. criticism of the pro- galloping madly away. posad traction merger plan, from the been the fate of Dr. Honorio Pueyrre- public point of view. as expressed by a fdon, Argentina’s Ambassador to Wash- committee of the Federation ¢f Citizens’ | ington and the leader of her delegation Associstions, piteh inly upon the|to the sixth international meeting of two points of capitalization and profit | American states at Havana. From the guarantee. Preparations are being first he has been a crusader. and made by that body to attack the figures | his jousts with the United States De- presented by the corporations pect | partment of Agriculture have been to valuation, and to enter objection t v affairs, indeed. cabled at length the seven per cent ion in regard | from Washington for the avid reading 0 net eamnfhgs. Other features of the plan are questioned. and proposal i made for the addition cf certain guar antees of service. A rapid transit corporation is given the right to use the public streets not 2. He rode brately tnto the melee at Havana. and his colors soon were found fiying where the fight was hot- | |test. At the outset he threw down hi: ! gauntlet as a challenge for “open cove- primarily for the sake of permitting | nants openly arrived at.” But no one those who form it to make money. but | for the purpose of affording service to | unexpectedly found agreement instead the commun It is a public utility. | of disagreement, and the policy of open | which is vested, for perhaps an indefi- : meeting was adopted. pite term, in an association of indi-| Then he struck at greater thinas viduals who sell transportation to the | o0k the attitude tha?a |)an~hA"r‘nZAric?r: pecple at rates which are re_:\fll?'d b¥ | ponference is a legisiative body witch the community. through oficially desic- | migut enact into international law a nated commissions. There are ™0 CON- | propoga) that would prohibit all inter- | siderations in the case: that of the qUAl. | yentiogibylany ' state ‘in) the intemal 8ty o service rendered and that of the | ygairs”of another. A followed in €0st to the users. The quality of service | pye oo 1ot it was whe { and the cost are factors in the fnancial |y pr o l:f:fi“‘:;“u’r‘:fls:’::u{::‘ E:t:;r:m;nmww:f‘a' | mto the peaceful functions of the Pan- s ottt il iy | A‘mencm Union that he found himself | . ) almost ges:rled. It was here that he based. roke his lance and lost his stirrups, for It is the duty of the Public Utilities . v = he found himself not, as he had hoped. Commission. in its review of the merger | i bat with Uncle e proposal, to determine, , first, whether | SRt iR loverwheriing o ) < N 1 3 jority of the e praponies s equasme 1o the | ITERty-one siates represented st the corporation and to the community. This | conference. From the sublime neights i 8 difficult matter. Many faciors enter | °F # Poble crusade he descended to a nto the computation. The rights of | T'Giculous charge against a windmill. those who heve contributed their fund.-! Dr. Pueyrredon will probably réturn to the capital of the individual com- | w0 Arien:m. where his skill and ability panies ’ |as a statesman and politician may yet s iy g;;;‘,,;*“g‘n;”{,; ".“’m"s‘“‘_; |lead him to the presidency of that great ever, the rights of the public. a non. | and friendly republic. In the mean- investing partner, are to be borne m;umr« the good that came of his serv- mind An excessive capitalization or |'C°S 3t Havana is not to be discounted. valustion will lead to excessive rates of | It Was through his instrumentality that fare in the future. fthme forces, so much talked about as That there have been substantial in. D°IN8 opposed to the United States. westments, in cash, in the properties of | “e7¢ led into the open. And what did | the rapid transit corporations is known | they show? Instead of finding this Na- That there have been some expansions tion. with its terrifying imperialism, of the capital not based upon actual fighting a lone hand against the Latin values is believed. Whether the pres- | Amcrican group, Argentina instead was | ent computation of values presented for | P in the minority, surrounded by a | And this has | ‘of his friends. the farmers of Argen- | regarded his gesture as a challenge. He | THE EVENING ities in their primitive beauty is $400,- 000. To show what New Hampshire herself thinks of the notch, she has ap- propriated half the amount from her none too bursting treasury. To show what New Hampshire's governor, Hunt- ley N. Spaulding. thinks personally of this asset of his Statg, he has just made an individual contribution of $1,000. Under the Wil of the late James J. Storrow $100,000 was generously set iaside as a contribution to this fund. leaving a s)mn;! amount to be raised iby popular subfcription. The society has “in hand” from this source today about $36.000, with $25,000 more “in sight.” Th> remainder, it admits, is l “uncertain.” | In comparatively recent years it was i!ound that weather and frost were dis- |integrating the tremendous boulders | which long-ago glaciers hewed and | piled into the form of a human profile {Just In time a clever quarryman, at !areat risk, hardship and expense, was | empowered to install steel bolts and | cables which, properly looked after, lare calculated to hold it together for {an indefinite period of time. The | Great Stone Face was saved for genera- | tions yet unborn. Now its: view. and {that of its viower, must be saved. It {is realized that Washingtonians have many calls on their purses from causes {much ncarer home, nevertheless there jmust be some who have mellow mem- jories of a ride through the cool. lea |canyon of Franconia Notch, accom- | panied by the creamy waters of that lovely brook that ryshes to help form the infant Pemigewassett River, or who |have promiscd themselves that Sum- {mer pleasure, who can and will send {something to the treasurer of the so- | ciety. headquarters of which are at Boston. et One Every Minute. A visitor to Washington recently walked out of his hotel and asked a man to g3t a one-hundred-doliar biil changed for him. He had never seen the man before. When the fellow dis- appeared around the corner it was the last time the visitor ever saw either him or the hundrad-dollar bill. it would be almost. if not quite, unbe- licvab'e. Faith tn human nature is & wonderful quality. but too much trust in strangers—especially when one is in a strange city—is something else again The world presents a twofold aspect. From one viewpoint it msy be regarded among dishonest. From another. a re gicn vhere dishonest men lurk for the honest. to the conclusion that a little common sense will save a great deal of trouble all around. Life is not all warfare, a great city is not just a place where sharpers lie in wait for suckers. But no one wants to be 2 sucker—so why hand a stranger a ‘hundred-dollar bill? Barnum was right. r——- Young Mr. Bruce. son-in-law of Scc- lar-a-weck bank clerk. He is in line to rank as one of those who “b2gin at the top” cannot fail to win confl- dence in connection with future rela- The Latins are fond of music. The situation might b2 mollified if, in addi- tion to fighting Marines, a detachment of the Marine Band could b: sent to Nicaragua under the leadership of the now unengaged Bill Santelman. rposes of er will withstand the handful of the fsithful, while the prin- :n of mm::ln scrutiny remains to be | CIPIcS uphield by the United States werc : seen. TUpon the Public Utilities Com- | 50s¢ that found tavor with nearly every | mission, in the first stage of the matter, |Vther rcpublic represented i will depend the answer (o this question. | The insistence of the Argentine dele- | Por a long period there was & consid- | gg:lon had become a serious obstacle to | erebie diference between the financial | !he smooth progress of those subjects | situations of the two traction compa- ©5 the conference agenda favored by pies. One of them, with a larger plant | the majority. Mr. Hughes may ha i and potentially larger earning powers, 2¢°n on the point of asking Dr. Pueyrre- was handicapped by what tne public | ¢” believed to be an excessive capitaliza- tion. To enable it t0 earn a reasonable | g, geturn the rate of fare for the District, | aflecting both companies, wis ad- wvanced It was then that merger was sctively urged as the only sure means of equaliring the conditions and per- mitting & reduction in the fare rate for ke beneft of the public. The disparity between the compa: has now disap- prared. Fare fixing should be based havs it was rig love, vy did you kick me downstairg?"” For that seemed o be what Dr | Pueyrredon had in mind. The removal | of the leader of the Argentine delega- tion may enable the conference, in the few days remaining before its adjourn- | ment, 1o reach agrecments which other- | ve been impossible. i - | upon cost Present political discussion ignores of service, plus reasonztie profit. Cost the adage to the effect that the early of service includes “overnead” as well EPOUIGh coes not invariably disclose ) 95 ‘actusl operation cost Reasonable | the successful candidate for,nomina- profit meens profit upon reasonable Uon. walustion. That is the problem which s S o $n broad terms, is now presented o the Perhaps it s ill-advised to asiume Publie Utilities Commission for solu- that the proper way to salute a man tion, as the basis of & recommendation !like Lindbergh is to make every lanc, % Oy which must pass an en- IDg @n excuse for presenting a hew sbling act w0 permit the merger onnaire S 4 86 ganersl 1 the appeal of proht The Profile’s Prospect. tion that even some of the mort pros- Franconia Notch now buried percus bontieggers are supposed 0 be derp in Winter drifis and “The Old Man of the Mountain” gazes as fxedly 23 ever over a bleak landscape whereln the dark eonifers relieve the mo- ny of tnow, ice and rock. It will (not be many moons, huwe before ! peopie trom parts of Statep, Including fta Capital City, will | wuring through that gap in the| White Mountainy and pausitiy W ook up. no matter how many mes they | o public. fe [AY hve seen it before, at the Great ever great in i Blone Face Which luipired Nathaniel fawthorne and has inspired v many | other thoussnds lacked Haw- | thorne's powers of expression It seems 1hat unless prompt sbeps are tsken by those L ture's handiwork unsdorned and un- scarred by the hand of man, the Old o may, I8 the not far distant fu- | e surveying Leak wsnd desolale than thal created y by Wuer. The canny lumberman i ong | greedlly eyeing the denoely wonded sides of eudiences of the powh. There e w national Neture cast bLim perma: the eampaign sponsored by the Bociety for yoie of funmaker, He could not bave Peer serious in bis work by sny clstoe el Liere was 8 pathetic si6e U im for 1t wae known that he srdenty de- sired v Gy & higher grace of parts \han 1 those for which he was cast Every | b mow end then 1t was snnounced, with | woudland to dissemble your | qu —emeea | les A Well Beloved Clown. B4die Foy is dead It seems credivie, tor RAdie ¥oy many years a figure o Yo hze seemed perenn began nis career e clog dancey e sixty years ago &nd he oo Jast dey of Lis life W con azuusement of the Ar wer an Inel parie, never pounced sov, s e that erying from the pro- duality of hie perform y &n irresisuible cown, he gede millione lsugh in the course of bir long cereer. He Lsd re cry end wes end who who jove prank mere Gancer u scene nad & from & eomedian He funny a tu s end the comb) i sppes upon the fssvor funny n eate 18 fully and soon successful, the sz will ring, and the cant-dog will click and the whip-sew will whine. The St de but o well kiiown w el who e viewed recently lumbered north | “The sociely bas broadcest & What sincerily i not o be determined, | picture, "faked,” but faked In u good tioet Eddie ¥oy wes goug inw the | cause by & Boston newspuper, showing Slegitimate.” The public took “the how the slopes Just underneath the eement s merely @ bt of press JWUng rock formation will Jook in Sueniry. Wien some yeers ago it wes | & cuse 10 s an mecurste and o #teted that Hamler wes the gowl of |desisle sene $hie comic performer the joke wer &l The sum needed (o buy and forever Whvious Loel it was reslzed fnal lbe preserve Uie €000 acres of Lness declive fur more | the Provection of New Hampshire Fore | e With Harvey Firestone providing tires. Henry Ford in charge of general con- struction and Thomas Edison super- vising the ignition, the Herbert Hoover bandwagon must b regarded’ as being | in remarkably good shape. AR Jazz music s a recognized institu- tion, but it will never found an Ameri- discovered who can keep up with its complicated rhythms. —ee Study of the power industry brings up a question not only of power but of authority S SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON, Untruth. It you can smile when things go wrong And hide each sorrow in a song, When all is said and done, 1 truly feel constrained to say As you pretend from day to day, You're no George Washington Of course, you make @ proper move, As you the scenery improve With tmitation fun. And when a figure gay you cut, You merit much approval—but You're no George Washington. Insincere Patriotism. “Are you one of the men who think all prrsons connected with the Govern- | ment are overpald “I am not.” answered Senator Bor- ghum. “I cannot believe that any citi- e United zen. In or out of Government service, | would commit himsell to the idea of less pay and more work.” Nothihg New. Bill Bhakespeare understood his art As well as authors of today. He learned the naughty words by heart And put them into many a play. Jud Tunkins says an art gallery shows you how ‘careless women were about dress bsfore they had fashion | migrzines Sultable Celebration. “How will celehrate Wasl ton's hirthday?" “1 ehall avold telling a single truth How can you be sure of that?" “For twenty-four hours I shall ob- cerve & vow of silence.” you | un- “Men cannot be wholly &t peace” sald HI Ho, the sege of Chinstown until professed affection 1 ss con- stant and slncere a8 & concealed thought of hatred " No Gratultous Reformer. My neighbor has been very rude, Rut 1 shall not berate him Why should 1 generously intrude And try w0 educate him? { “Chenrge Washint's sald Uncle ¥hen, “ia glorified one day each Feb'u- ory ut dat Ananias Club keeps vpen al de year ‘sound.” The police vouch for this story, else | as a place wherein honest men walk | Whether one looks at life from the | andpoint of the respectable or the un- respectable citizen, he will equally come : retary Mellon, has become a fifty-dol- | for promotion, of course. His refusal, STAR, WASHINGTON, THIS AN The brook gave the beholder an ab- surd and childish pleasure. . Not often, indeed, does one find a babbling brook in a city back yard. It was all of 2 feet wide as it mean- dered across the rear of the lot this side of the garage. An imposing cul- vert allowed automobiles to cross. One got all the thrill of water with- out any of its dangers, for not cven | the most optimistic person could imag-: ine that even a sparrow could drown | i such an infantile stream or that by any possibility nature could make it overflow its little banks. Yet the beholder saw possibilities in it. After all, what is better than possi- bilities? As long as there's life there's hope, went the old saying, and as long | as there are possibilities there are op- | portunities. If the possibilitios are not there, however, the opportunities will never eventuate—and this applics as well to | a brook as to a man or to a nation. The brook in the back yard mizht be the happiest playground for chil- dren in the world, or it might be turned | into the central note of a real garden, | and this cither with or without dam- ming. It ssemed to come from Nowhere on the North and disappear into Nothing | on the Left. a clear trickle of water in its tiny bed, making a small plashing sound as it gurgled along. e One could not halp but wonder if it {would really emulate Lord Tennyson's famous stream. Would it really go on forever? Would its slight but none the less actual murmur, the sort one reads abcut in poems, continue to send forth its ratural music years hence, when this hous> should be old? On= fell to wondering about all this as he stood there in the mud at the rear of the vet unfinished house and grounds, with red clay where green ' grass would be, and an unfinished look {where later would be perfection. Who would buy this home? It might be a family with an innate appreciation for the brook and its pos- sibiiities, or it might be some who would scorn it and make light of it, as if a brook 11 one’s back vard was a matter of small consequence or per- {haps even a shame. | If a man and wife got this place who | believed In the brook, they would dream ' of the brook and nothing else for weeks !'at a time. Long before their first Spring in this place they would sce the brook with finished banks. In mmagination they would see clean, small pebbles along its course (which they would have put there, of coursec.) They would see the banks built up, so that the stream would have an actual course They would see Japanese iris, water lovers, growing over there against the garpge, gorgeous white Japanese fris, such as one may sce when Spring and Summer meet in the White House gar- dens. They would sce hosts of naturalized ' croci and narcissi dotting the greening grass like stars in the Summer night They would sec whole tribes of littie rds, including the beloved songsters, ith hege and there a-fat robin. bath- ing in this natural “bird bath,” drink- ing of its waters. | They might even conjure up. so { mizhty is the power of the imagination, a pool created by the brook flowine in at one end and out the other. Here, in little, man might produce something | His anti-McNary-Haugen reputation to the contrary notwithstanding, Calvin “Cwndn continues to be the farmers’ favorite candidate for President in 1928. | | At least, that's the story told in the | | March number of the Farm Journal For several months that widely circu- |lated Philadelphia magazine has been straw-polling the bucolic brethren. Al- though Coolid; dictum is now more than six months old, the farmers keep on voting for him The latest figures. covering about 40,000 bal- {lots cast in all ‘parts of the country show the President far in the lead. His | total 15 11.893. Lowden comes next wiih {6.262: smith. with 4.083: Hoover. with | 4.538. and Borah, with 18§20. Senator Jim” Reed polls 1,793 farm votes, and | Dawes roils up 1.388. Some 8.000 votes | are scattered »mong otner candidates PR President Coolidge recetved about 32 { per cent of the total above dissected | can school of opera untll a poet is|Tie editor of the Farm Journal after | analyzing the count State by State. | presses the opinion that the President’s | farm strength will eventually be spiit | between Lowden and Hoover. The poll | indicates that Lowden’s popularity 15 | sectional and confined for the most part ! to the corn-belt States of the Middle West. Hoover's support is much more widely distributed. The Secretary of Commerce 15 weakest in the reglons where Lowden is strongest. DBut the overshadowing feature of the agricul- tural test vote is that about one out of | every three Republican farmers still! favors Coolidge. The Farm Journal re- marks: “Their psrsistence 1s a remark- able eircumstance, whether it indicates the President's great popularity, or the weakness of other candidates, or both.”" | PR In the rooms of the Senate commit- tee on post offices und post roads. of which Senator George H. Mosas Re- publican, of New Hampshire s chairman, hangs @ small fortune in pietures. They are only two in number, but are both masterpieces One is an original Gilbert Stuart por- tralt_of George Washington, valued at $40.000. Across from it is displayed a painting of Henry Lawrence, president of the First Congress of the United States, by John Singleton Copley, emi- nent English artist. The Lawrence por- | trajt 45 worth $60.000. It was made | while the subject was a prisoner in th= | Tower of London. the British having | eaptured the American patriot on the | high seas while he was en route to the | Netherlands on & diplomatic mission for | the Colonien. The Jnmurn was ace | quired for the United States Govern- | ment at w London auction of an old Engilsh manor house collection some 40 years ugo. In Lawrence's background can be discerned the faint outlines of | the tower. | o e | _Former Benator Robert L. Owen of | Oklahoma deposes and says he's inter- estad In “closer cosoperation of Pro- | |gressive Republicans and Domocrata” | | tather than in anything so formidable | s the formation of a new Progresaive | {party. Qwen thinks Senator Brookhart | DUt the matter i w nutshell this woek | [ when ha told the Benate that a “Jeffers | son Democrat” und a “Lincoln Repub- [liean ure of about the same kiduey It | 15 thin ddea, Owen believes, which i | leading to effcotive co.operation i | Congress between fepublican Progres- | {nivew und the Democrats during the | | present sesslon. Owen may be heard from hefore the Democrats decide up their 1028 presidential nomines. The bols the Federul Rescrve achieve- ment inmodern The Okla- [ homan, of Indian ancestry, s aecounted by most authorities the principal srchi [tect of tha aystem which has become the bediock of American economic se- {eurity Many Democrats consider him | worthy national timber DR Louls Ludlow, Washington corre- spondent and late president of the Na- thonal Brews Ciitb, nidreased the Tndinna Demacratie Fditortul Amoctation in In- dianapolis lant ol it on the timely topic of “What's the Matter With Indlana?" Ludlow thinks there's nothing the mat- ter with his Hooster land. This i the fervent fashion in which he dealt with | made to work | creature that stands there master. | Miies, | ment D. C. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17. 1928. D THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. great, there being intense satisfaction in_compelling nature to do what man wills. This is part of the pleasure man- kind always has derived from dams, wunnels, watertalls, In these utilizations of nature and her objects, man has managed to turn the eternal visdom to his own ends, simply and 1 .cely. Nature, the inscru- table, the creator of winds, heaver of | oceans, down-thrower of mighty cittes, for the time being is put in harness and the will of the puny PRt Once dammed, this little brook would become a placid pool, with a gurgle i at one ¢nd and a gurgle at the other. “There would be a sight agitation of the water in it, just enough to keep it fresh. The powerful, clean odor of water those nymphs of the flowers, would permeate the air, under the | shade of the mighty tree flinging its branches out over the water. Gold fish. silver and [ro, now and then butting their noses against the wire screen which would restrain them at either end. but which would not prevent the brook from gurzling in and gurgling out. Time, intelligence, money, work, de- | sire—thse would be some of the in- aredienls necessary to bring all this | about. Imagination, too, might place a bird bridze across the breok, Who ever heard of @ bird bridge? But the feath- erod creatures would like it, no doubt. It would be a perfectly built bridge, arci and all. but with a “road bed” just 6 inches wide. Cats, too, would appreciate this dry road. There would be no trafc conflict, it might be stated, between birds and cats! Suppos> a family purchased this heme who had no appreciation for the brook. “What shall we do about that dirty little trickle*of water out there in the back vard?" she would say. “I don’t know,” he might answer. “I guess we can dry it up some way.” “it will breed mosquitoes,” she would a “The kids will be getting their feet wet all the time.” “If we should have a freshet or something it would back up into the basement. Toba v it would draw snakes. too. Maybe we can get the citizens' as- sociation to do something about it.” The beholder, standing in the mud, hopes that this type of family will re- sent the brook too much to buy the house that belongs to it. No mean ought brook except in a friendly spirit. A water course is too much to have on one's mind unless he love it The man who purchasss this place ought to be, for the sake of his own immortal soul. a lover of brooks and a dreamer of garden dreams. He should--as no doubt he will—wel- come the chance to do something dif- ferent. to have something that very few families own—a real, live brook in one's back vard. Suppose it should dry up of its own free will> Unhappy thotght, awa May those who take under their wing this bit of nature never know the un- haopiness of the end of their brook Families may come and families may RO. they do in a city. but may this little brook 20 on forever. singing dreams into the heads of those who may work them out. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. “urrent events on the banks of the 2bash and points farther away: My defense of our native land ways has been that no State is sounder at the core than Indiana: that our citizenship as a whole is law-abiding and that no people any- where cherishes higher ideals: that while it is true some of our officials have been found wanting, there is not the slightest evidence in Indiana of public condonement of such a sit- uation. in which respect we differ utterlr from other States that ap- pear to be corrupt and contented.” o ox If Senate cloakroom gossip means anvthing the vote on the electric power fnquiry will not pass into history with out further developments inside the Democratic senatorial group. Walsh of Montana is reported in any thing but a moxd to take his licking Iving down. What irks the hero of Teapot Dome 1is that his own party leader. Scnator Robinson of Arkansas headed a bolt of no fewer than 18 Dem- ocrats against the project to have the Senate itself investigate power With Ropublican Progressive support. the Democrats, had they suffered only a handful of defections, could easily have carried the dav for the Walsh resalu- tion, but when more than a third of them voted to send the investigation to the Federal Trade Commission, Walsh was sunk. Its suggested that the Mon- tanan may seek A caucus for discussion of the mutinv aboard the Democratic s*natorial bark L Delegates to national conventions pay their own expenses. No organization funds are available. That circumstance frequently keeps well qualified men and women from sitting in the quadrennial party counctls where presidential can- didates Are nominated. An old conven- n hand assures this observer that it costs an average of anywhere from $600 to 81,000 to be a delegate nowadays Such n total includes rallway travel to | and from the convention city, bills while there. hotel ‘entertainment” and other “{ncidentals " Here and there a State or county committes well lined with funds puts up the expenses of a delegate or delegates whom Inrly anxious to send to a convention But in nine eases out of ten the honor {s something the patriot in question has to finanee out of his own pocket. Usu- ally he tor she) is a political nobod: (Camvright 107 PHILOSOPHIES ny GLENN ¥RANK Conventence is the new goal of ofvili- ration We are tncreastr willing to barter valuss for ease of operation 1 came upon an unconscious confes- ston of this willingness h a recent dis- cussion of radio development by Lee De Forest in the New York Times. Mr. De Forest was .discussing the main problems of radio development on which the radio laboratories are now working Me listed the develop. of “mono-control recelvers” as one of the three main problems De- wpite ita eargo of technical terminol- ogy, I quote one paragraph from his discussion ¥ e many of the hest sets on the warket have mono-control by single dinl, the fact ts incontestable that by the uxe of vernter condensers the dif- ferent tuned stagos will M every case bring up the efficiency of reception, frequently increasing the range as much aa 100 per cent In masy pro- duction of veceiver sets there s found o enter & certain amount of variation I inductance and dilectric capacities impossible to avold. Where we are working within a fraction of a kilo- [ & few Inches more or less of wire or a fow more drops of insulating compound in the coll ntroduce varin. tona imposaible to foresse and to bal. wiice out by any standardised ariange- ment of variables " “The conventences of mono-control however ™ Mr De Foreat concludes I A sentence 1 take for a text 0UA that one Is content to s ewhial In Fange o selec With the radio, aa with every mod- fish would dart to | to wrestle with al Senator | t's particus | Dangers in Potomae River Dam Are Stressed To the Editor of The Star: At the time of the recent New Eng- land floods The Star published an edi- torlal pointing out the danger to Wash- reservoirs and power dams in the Poto- mac River. Following closely on the heels of the Lichtenstein catastrophe in Germany, the New England floods caused the breaking of dams supposcd to be more than adequate and to this was traceable most of the damage and suffering. The Star pointed out that e man's opinion as to how large and strong a dam is necessary in a glven situation is no better than any other | man’s, merely because he is an engi- ! neer; for no one can predict the rain- fall which may be precipitated upon a watershed. | It seems to the writer that reiteration | of this pomnt of view is called for at | this time because of the proposal of [ the Army engineers to develop a ‘com- | promise plan which will permit of con- serving the scenic beauty of the Great Falls area without abandoning the power plan. The writer's home is in this district and he fully appreciates the desirability of preserving iis natural beauty, but surely the safety of the Na- tion’s Capital is an issue the importance one on which there can be no compto- mise. With the development of a power plant by private capital for the pur- | pose of profit, however, there can be | nothing but compromise in this matter becauss the cost of construction must money-making ba scaled do to a basis, which, with the recent large in- creases in efficiency of steam turbines, |is not so easy as the public might be | led to believe. The average layman generally ex- the power available in a and more particularly s he 'stands in awe at its | turbulent _ beauty. ~ Harnessing - Great Failg as Niagara is harnessed is admit- tedly wholly without the possibility of profit because of the great variations in the flow of the Potomac. Huge dam= mus: be constructed not only i0 the available head. but more cially to equalize the seasonal | and even then steam must be to supplement the water power at spectally when the rainfall is ! for more than a year at a time. the difference between the cost of wa power and steam power rapidly decreas ing, the writer believes that in permi | aggerates | wacerfall | avatiubility 2h! 1bject itself to needless risk of a fright ful catastrophe for little, if any. profit. The ordinary consumer would scarce! notice the difference in what hs pav | for current particularly if private con- cerns are given control of distribution. for even at best the cost of distribution far outweighs the cost of production from any source of power May I be permitted to add another impor- ohzervation of relativelv min tance, but which may have escaped the ettention of engineers who the proposed Chain Bridge power dam’ The normal water level be! would be 115 feet ahove sea level. Thi is the elevation of the level of norm: flow in Rock Run. where it flow through a cuivert under the city wate conduitz about 5 'miles below | Palls. be practically filled uite must be passed through this | Such a flood carries with it man of detritis—sand, gravel. m | which. with the water level a | would ebviousiy be deposited tn the | vert. clogging "1t at once and ca flood ington of a series of large impounding ' of which far transcends its beauty. and its ¢ | milita With | 31840 water ting such a development, particularly | w private capital, the Nation would planned | nd this dam Great I have scen this culvert two- thirds full of water when this stream was flooded and it has been known tc Under such condi- tions it may be estimated that as much ax 200000 cubic feet of water per min- This is a special department de- voted solely to the handling of queries. This paper puts at your disposal the services of an extensive organization | in Washington to serve you in any ca- pacity that relates to information. This service is free. Failure to make | juse of it deprives you of benefits to ! | which you are entitled. Your ‘obliga- tion is only two cents in stamps en- closed with your inquiry for direct re- ply. Address The Evening Star In formation Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, Director, Washington, D. C. Q. How many licensed airplane pilots are there? Is there plenty of room in this field’>—J. L. B A. The Department of Commerce says that 1350 persons have received pilots’ licenses. There are 4,145 pilots | who have filed applications for pilots’ ilif‘flnsrs. At the present time there are more student airplane pilots than there | is a demand for them However, the airplane industry is expected to de- velop rapidly and there should be in Ithe ncar future a formation of new | companics which will need experienced aviators and mechanics. faln? Of an clephant?—V. L. G A. Th= National Zoological Park in- forms us that the skin of a mature |buffalo is about one-sixteenth of an rinch thick Where the hair is long. however, around the head and shoul- the skin is sometimes as thick as three-sixteenth of an inch. The skin lof an ordinary sized elephant is ap- proximately three-quarters of an inch lin thickness. | @ What is the longest time a per- |son has stayed under water without ia bre: g appliance? C. B A. The diving record for d~pth and enduranee was made bv E4 Harrison. depth. 58 feet: under wa‘er 3 minutes 48 seconds. money was spent by 0.11: $34.344.322.2 $65.304.524 {and $2.499.004.19 for in wise waterways serviee. i i Q. What dia?—M. A A. It is more than 300,000,000 Q. Who were the Fesenes Jesus Christ and John the Ba long to the order?—C. W The Essences were a Jewish brothorhood which was founded prob- fablv after the Macecabees at lea. | eenturies before Chr | about 200 AD. The ¢ e not found in th> Bible or rabbini certain profane wri £ Josephus and Philo them as religious scparatists. g a strict code of reremonial ob- es much mor= rizid than the ¢ ceremonials of Judaism re celibate and lived in ities holding all things in com- raguirements member- iring long cal 1 i o probability that Jes: an Zssones, but it has been ~dvanced thet John the Baptist was of a type ch would be acceptable Q@ What is in Shenghai waters to pile up back of the iwo | efte water conduits. perhaps even to the | naint of ov~rflowing them and puttin | Washington's water supoly in_s-ri j=opardy ALDEN A. POTTER ——— ! Higl; Tribute P; aid To the Editor of The Star Thousands of readers of The like myself never knew Mr. personally. but ce: ever had as large audience as he. from The Star in o baoks. we followed, and | des nd He led us to old home: 1bed <0 picturesquely ! long hidden away in the count attractiv He too " hidder away from showed us the crumbli {grist mills, Revolutior lonee snlendid old color log cabins of t! peopled them w men and women and again in our imaginations lowed him down old roads on ways, the wheel t overgrown with gra {1ed us to once important | now forgotten by all but f ing Sunday afternnons ones of rea ture and profit. I'm sure there are 10.000 or more saap books in Wash n that are fairly bulging with th The Star written by this k (who called himseif the Rambler | Will furnish the motif for many happy outinz by men and wome i children, to whom he will be onl name. We shall all miss him M tinue to ramble “over t} green flelds and pastures now WILL C BARNES The "Zan Higher Up. From the Notfaix 1 It is understood th Chic Police Department s to have an oM of higher rank. General Shas probably . an—— rving to Be Hospitahle, L From the Terre Maute St | Having none of the familiar machine {guns with which to welcome Mavor hompson, New Orleans was compelled o drag out some of its venerable can- non. - Superfluous. From the Detrait News A New York bandit was cured of eriminality by three operations, two more than were performed by the old- | time Vigilantes. P ———————— Y the atm s to make 1t frument eastly as ern machine, foolproof and (o devise an that a ehlld can manage 10T turi an a water faucet Year by year we mvent and patfect mote and more mechanieal instra | ments and tools that can be managed by watehers instead of operators Por a while we shall “tune " on our radios, ultimataly we shall have only ta “turn on® our radios. mechas niam will have done its perfect work ance more. A constant battle 1s going on be- tween the enjoyment of operating and the ease of operation of our machines We ‘»n resstvely diminih the chal- lenge nfna human ingenuity of the average man world, But, as 1 said the other dav. (here 15 0 bright stde to this pleture. there are & thousand and one funetions and operations, an which man had fiddled away his time and eneigy for cen- turies, and fram which he derives no particular benefit 1t we can only standardise and mechanise all these man will have his time and energy frea for mare important things Shannon inly no local writer enthusiastic an With the clippings hands for guide n_ foot, horseback =™ in autos. the roads and trails he v around this city and told us of their past in the most We head toward & canned goods | Armv erzineers contains an est. To “The Rambler,™ 500000000 for 'ho were the Fatim lifs®— 's were an Arabian dynasty reigned over Northern Africa and Syria 909-1171. They professad to trace their descent from Fatima. the daughter of Moham- ed. T was established by Q. How thick is the hide of a buf- ANSWERS ,TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Obeid-Allah and he had 13 successors. ‘Their reign in Egypt began in 969. Q. Is carbon monoxide heavier or lighter than alr? Why does it form | from a gas burner?—V. M. T. | A. Carbon monoxiGe gas is somewhat lighter than air. The Bureau of Standards says that the escape of car- bon monoxide from gas appilances may come from the following sources: Prom incomplete combustion of the gas, either | because there is an insufficient supply | of air to the flame or because of sud- den cooling of the burner gas to below the temperature of ignition before tion is complete; leakage through fle; ible gas tubing or the accidental d: connection of such tubing from an ap- pliance; leakage from poorly fitt trof cocks or defective piping: ope: ing of gas cocks without lighting the gas, whether by accident or inte he accidental extinguishing of flames bureau has arranged these fi r in what it believes to be their order of relative importance. The accidental ex tinction of flame is =0 rare as to meri comparatively little attention. Q. Which city is now considered the dirtiest>—C. F. A. According to a series of experi ments conducted for the American Society of Heat and Ventilating Eng! neers, St. Louis air contains the mo dust particles. In their order are S Louis, 17600 dust particles per cub! foot: Cincinnati. 16.770: Pittsburzh. 16.100: Detroit, 15.300: Chicago, 14.300 Indianapolis, 14,300: Cleveland. 13340, Q. Where is Mount Ararat’>—S. N A. In Eastern Turkey, approxim: at the point where the boundaries :lussm and Persia meet that of ey. Q. How many prisoners escaped from Lioby Prison?—A. W. W. A. On FPebruary 9. 1864, there was a large delivery of Libby prisoners. 10% escaping through a tunnel. thes~ 59 ultimately reached . 43 were recaptured and 2 w There were other escapes Q. Are vitamins important feeding of animais>—G. T. D. A. At present vitamins appear significance chiefly in connection w1 pigs . and poultry. although they ma possibly be important in connect: with breeding animals. and also 2 animals fed upon certain rations. Or- dinary rations fed to animais conta an zbundance of vitamins. Q. Who chose the name for the State of Tennessee’—E. E. G. constitution of Tennessee, 2nd sugs: the name to the constitutiona! conven- tion. He said that Mrs. Jackson had suggested to him that the State be named for the river of that name whi: runs through the State. It is an Ind: name. meaning crooked spoon Q. What s meant by a polemic theme?—M. L. McM. A. A polemic theme is a controversial thems or a theme written in support or defense of an opinio; pecially as against known examole of polemics is Huxler's polemic vs. Herbert Spencer. Q Why has Perth Ambor such an 9¢d name’—P. S. A. Perth Amboy was settied in 1583 and was expected soon to outstrip its neighbors and become the Londen of America. It was named Perth. after James. Earl of Perth. but Ambor. thr riginal Indian name for the place. was s3on added. It wss the capital of province from 1634 almast contin; up to the time of the Revolution. Wil- iam Franklin. the last royal governor. was captured here in 1775. Perth Am- 1 boy was incorporated as a city in 171 Q Where was Harold Lioyd. thr movie actor. bam?—E. L. A. He was born in Burchard. Nebr in 1893. Q. When is the World Conference on Intermational Justice to be held i Cleveland, Ohio?—C. 0. C. A. It will be held M L the direction of the American Soctety. Criticized as te (Rej lical ad { Republca ore suthority back of © 1f it had been adopted ladies' soctety.” t News (indeper is just adout as valuable at of any o body of 96 Amer- 1t might. and some day the idea occurs to some n poker a st But poker plavers ou he Senate would 2 e ow o ‘The San Francisco Bulletin (Repub- e ends that “to pass a resalu. tion ad \ms the Prasident to take » course already anuounced by him is a uttous ipsult” The Mulletin adds rest ts mearely claptrap” lution had no force of law se for introduction.” de- dianapolis Star (independ- lisan), while the Waorcester Uindependent) affirms tha y Aty needs no senatorial pro- NOURCemMent for 1S Preservation agatnst o protected ambency of the presi- dential offto The Chatta | Times (independent Democratic) A's offers the comment that “third-termiam may rican and an unsound Ao ¢ founders of the v pu ave faith and oo dence [ the people, and so 11 was let [ 1o the people (o say whom they wanted to serve them and for how long Democracy ” the Fort Warth Record Telegram (Democraticy ob s the Will of the maority 1 mare peo- ple want a candidate for President to run the second. third or fourth tume. they have the dem o Tight Lo R (1o the polls and el The Ralt more Evening Su . CYAtIc) SugEests “AS (o its moral eftect, , constder who passsd the resatution Senators, all elected for aix years, many fof them having already served longer | than the time it of elght vears whieh ey sesk to impase upoan the President and each and every ans harring im Reed working hard o bde re-alected ™ oo As 1o the (radition tself. the Canton | | Datly News ndependent Democratic) states’ “No matter how the nosthirds | term tradition arose it did avise, and 1t fhas served and ought still o ssrve a D saving purpose in this Repubdlic. not | ! because 1t & traditton of yvesterday, | DUt hecause the experience af veaterday | has proved 1 & sound paliey for today | | Senate’s Yote on Third Term Empty Gestui too, finds that American people of the Republic have r ,eight years. that Wast example, and tha given 8 longer per than the father clares that - third term, the the petuate hus control” One six-year term is advocated ters. That Senator la ¥ resalution, ase leaders n where who have e = Phuadelph: dependent Repu have any. will be as a > talk of dratiing c term That ploved dy acuv N s independent Repu Rutts Daty Post (Re 1a Fleties proposs 1hased on the idea that | assertions by the Sen weight with ¢ A Tidculus awcett ad A the jresent-Lme Seq of mftuencing telligent voters “The palladium of our Mdertios woukt not be c»-u\‘xvd 1 we did have & gt man i the White House and Kept hum there 12 years™ i the spmin o the Duinth Herald (ipdependent Repadli- can). and the New Yk Evening Fust (independent) canciudes that “ihe Sen- ate had an enjovable thme and paved PATEY palities With a good deal of ski) A o small degree of humar. And the debate brought out inteceat Nastorteal mbarmation and misrpretatin oas AComriaht NoGlure Nuwspaper Syndicate ) The Bangor (‘\\u\rwm (Republican), cludes the