Evening Star Newspaper, February 26, 1928, Page 26

WHE EVENING STAR " With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D.C. BUNDAY..... February 26, 1928 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor TR The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Ofice- 11th St and Pennsylvania Ave. New York Office: 110 East 42nd St. Chicago Office: Tower Building. European Office: 14 Regent St.. London, “England. Rate by Carrier Within the City. The Evening Star. . .45¢ per month Fhe Evening an. (when 4 Sund; e Evening and ‘when 5 Sunday . 85c per month “The Sunday Star. .. ... Be per copy Collection made at ihe end of each month, Onders mas be sent in by mail or telephone. ar .60¢ per month enthusiasm were instrumental in re- movinz the heavy debts resting upon the churches of the local presbytery. As first president of the Washington Federation of Churches he organized and steadily and harmoniously extended the weighty influence of that body. | In so far as his own church was con- cerned, his pastorate witnessed a de- cided growth in membership, while the number of persons who were other- wise the gainers through its beneficent influence, especially during the trying period of the World War, must be a great one. So far as is known the | third minister of the Church of the Covenant has not yet been chosen. { That he may be such a man as were the first two, and enjoy a term of service of commensurate length, is Main 5000 Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. sincerely to be hoped. —_— e Approximating Perpetual Motion. Despite the sequence of mechanical i marvels which have made the last tos and Canada, | Quarter century stand out as an era 00: 1 mo.. $1.00 of phenomenal advance in science and $3:00: 1ma- 23¢ | has bred a disposition to accept placid- |1y successive revolutionizing inventions and discoveries, skepticism regarding the new mag- netic plane motor which has just been | tested at Detroit. This motor, it is ex- | plained, is operated electromagnetically | without fuel. It runs, says one au- | thorized account, on “electrical mag- netism as applied to the rotary motion tion bill now goes to the Senate and | the earth.” Then the explanation that body will determine: jcontinues: “It is in no sense con- 1. Whether in amount and in dis- | hected with a perpetual fnonon idea, tribution among urgent and dmr\'ingn"“h"“‘h recent tests have proved it 2 . = {will run for long periods.” Neverthe- r:::iz;::l ]‘:::ds LIRS .dequ“c'lless the suggestion of taking power a | ial etism 2. Whether the funds appropriated | ?::‘ :'::ly?;l: ;:( t:r:!o:uce nr‘r:ogtxllcn et are provided in equitable proportions by | 2 i | highly reminiscent of the dreams of S e Tfi”‘“mg'““"‘:;munuess inventors who have thought i pressingmnniotpal” meeds aequl i to harness the mtangible forces of the additional appropriations this money | | ivorce. should be cxacted entirely from local | It has always been laid down as a taxation under the lump-sum payment practice | tion” is impossible. That is to say, 3. Whether the Senate, which has|iiion created by etherc or gravita- protected from amendment the substan- | yjona) jnfluences. Thousands of de- tive law of 1022, establishing the 60-40 | icec powever, have been produced Tatio or definite proportion contribution, | which have “almost” reached the point but has permitted as temporary. eX-|of continuous action without fuel or All Other Daily and Daily o ¢ Sundar only 0.0 Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled | to the n of all news dis- | patches ¢ ot otherwise cred- ited in this paper and also the local news published herein. Al richts of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. The Senate Now to Act. ‘The District of Columbia appropria- there may be some | dictum of science that “perpetual mo- | perimental. annual appropriation prac- springs or air currents or waterpower. THE SUNDAY. STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FEBRUARY 26, 1928 PART. 2 would be overwhelming, notwithstand- ing the desirability of owning becom- ing clothing of good quality and special adaptation to the job in hand. That little nickel badge worn on the left “gallus” and that persuader in the form of an automatic seem to be about all the identification needed for these guardians of our wild life. The public shame of being under arrest by and escort of a uniformed man might be salutary, but there is little doubt that there would be fewer so arrested. Game wardens must travel light and for long distances. A uniform worn would be a disadvantage; unworn would be cum- bersome baggage; lett at home would be worse than useless. So why a uni- form? —_— e Chicago's Latest. Chicago's latest contribution to the crime record is on a scale that shows that the gangs in that city are not en- tirely engrossed in picayune affairs or in internecine warfare. A band of men held up a train on the outskirts of the city yesterday, terrorized seventy- five passengers and train employes, blasted a mail car and escaped with at least $133,000. This robbery occurred in the identical spot where a train was held up a year ago with a theft of $135,000. The same gang, it is believed, worked both robberies. The method employed yesterday was such as to suggest that there is something wrong with the system of train control on this particular line. The train was stopped at a regular flag point and a passenger, who is believed to have been one of the gang, alighted. A quarter of a mile down the track five men wearing black masks and khaki overalls flagged the train, which had resumed headway, and the engineer stopped it, whereupon the gang invaded the coaches. Just why an engineer should stop his train at the display of a flag signal by a band of masked men passes under- standing. There is no mention in the news accounts of the outrage of the use. of any barrier on the track or the throwing of a switch. The gang simply stepped forward, waved the flag and the train was halted. It would seem tice the substitution of the $9.000.000 | gy ot quite. Half a century or 5o ago lumo-sum payment plan for the 60-40 (no celebrated Keeley motor was being ratio of contribution, is convinced by exploited at a heavy cost to credulous several years of observation and ex- jnyestors, and the exposure of that perience that the lump-sum payment ' scheme, which was eventually demon- practice is unjust and unwise and $hat | grateq as a plain traud, caused the appropriation practice should quickly ' publc for a long time to be decidedly be brought into harmony with the 60-40 | dubious about any project of this kind. Tati> of substantive law. | Some years ago when a method of pro- 4. Whether the lump-sum payment. | ducing liquid air was effected a plausi- s long as it continues the temporary | ble operator sought to sell stock in a approbriation practice, should not be | company for the utilization of this -substantially increased in amount for | form of concentrated power, which was Teasons vigorously urged by representa- | nothing less than perpetual motion— tives of the tax-paying Capital com- one quart of liquid air to make two munity: provided this in can be | quarts and so on. ad infinitum. But sccomplished without committinz !hz;uun did not go well, and since then Senate to the lump-sum payment plan | there have bzen no serious attempts to as permanent law and without interfer- | float a perpetual motion scheme on a ing with a vigorous fight by the Senate | large scale. to reinstate at once as appropriation | It is doubtless with the recollection practice the 60-40 substantive law. of these fiascos that the accounts of 5. Whether the contention of Wash- | the Detroit test distinctly disavow any “ington is not sound that its present | perpetual motion idza in the new de- tax-burden is already too great in vice. comparison with those of other com- operate a motor by means of the ter- parable cities, if the differing standards | restrial magnetism, Wwhich is fnex- and conditions of ass:ssment are taken | haustible as far as man knows, it would thoroughly into account, and if in the | naturally follow that perpetual motion | comparison State taxes and taxes tois feasible. And in view of the sclen- Taise money o pay interest and sinking | tific miracles that have been worked in fund on bonded indebtedness are { the last twenty-five years, it is not safe eliminated. | %o discount this possibility. For after Washington urges with all the w( all, “perpetual motion” is merely a of which it is capable that the &enate | Phrase of definition. It does not nec- fensw its determined battle for the |essarily signify the actuation of ma- definite proportion ratio of national | Chinery by self-generated power with- contribution, which was suspended Out fuel, water or wind. If a machine when the lump-sum payment experi-|Can be constructed that will take | ment began; and that without receding | etheric currents, which are now utilized | _In the slightest from its opposition to | fOr the transmission of sound over | the lump-sum provision as permanent | 8reat distances, and have even trans- | law the Senate incrzase the temporary | Mitted pictures, and transform them into | lump-sum payment for the reasons, | MOWr energy. there will have been at- general and specific, which Washington ! tamed what is nothing less than per- bas urged in support of that increase. | P°tual motion, masmuch as the source —————— | of this energy 15, 50 far as man knows, | Puel problems assert themselves most | Without ifmit. | scutely at both ends of the system of | R | distribution, the bitterest complaints| Many economic theories have been | coming from the initial producer and | advanced by Soviets in contradiction of | the ultimate consumer. | previous ideas. Like many individuals, a government may assume that inexpe- Flood control can never be expected | rience affords an escape from old preju- to limit the floods of oratory to h,[dlces by tubstituting new mistakes. Jooked for next Summer. | ——eaee A Fortunate Church. In the nearly half-century of its ex- fstznce the Church of the Covenant N has had but two pastors. Needless to | e s27. its congregation has been fortu- | Useless Uniforms. | nate not only in the fact that both| The State of Wisconsin &5 going %o | were far above the average in ability, | try uniformed game wardens. Its con but in the fact that both were spared | servation commission has just passed | o serve 50 long. To Rev. Dr. Teunis | a resolution calling for an invariable | B Hamlin fell the burden of putlng|and easily recognizable garb for these | this church firmly on its feet and|officials in order that they may serve ! carTying it through over two decades | the woods as do policemen in cities of growth and prosperity. To Rev. DI.| The State'’s wardens are said to be gen- ! Charles Wood, who today completes the | erally opposed to this innovation, 80 | twenty-fifth year of his pastorate and | pat the scheme will be tried out del- | the £ity-ffth since his ordination, fell | jearely and slowly. The chief warden | i task, ably fulfilled, of maintaining | gng the conservation directors are | end amphiyng the work already 50|, given discretionary powers as | sbly begun. | when uniforms should be worn. Dr. Wood vendered bis resignation in| 1o 4 pur natural thet the wardens | December iast—a resignation thal %as | ypemyelves should be opposed to the | recelved with regret and with a reluc- | gouninor distinetive clothing, A uni- | tance tist was tempered only BY & gormeq” policeman has certaln dutics; | realization of the pastor's own ardent | Ui Ciotes man has certain quite esire o be relieved and o change| giynereny gutes and his abilities are the 0f bis Jabors by relnquish- g gn quite o different manner ing his ecuve pasurate and d"'-'lllhfl In fact, just when a game warden's humself fully to the furtherance of the | o Lo e o gonre oS ectanlishment of a grest National | (TR T P8 08 R 'f"“""f_‘_’“‘“l”‘“”" here in the Na-| Uy i the element of surprise and of “‘;"',:"“‘::jwl;w” i recenly preparea | Smple disgulse—that is, disgulse as an in connection with this minister's re- | rOMary oivilian woodsman or outdoor | vacstionist—-that 1s the warden’s surest Urement by 8 specisl commities of the church the foliowirg parsgraph is | Wesbon. One who is enjoying sport selected” “Dr. Woud's eminence us u preacher of the inexhaustibl. riches of the Gospel, his talents as a speaker, hie Belpful and generous spint, his graces of mind wnd person, have won for bim wnd for the Church of the i B —_——— The only time the United States Sen- | ate is likely to discover any one who, | does not wish to talk is when it has i somebody in the witness box. | | casual stranger who, as likely as not, {15 alss equipped with nfle or shotgun (or with rod and cree). An acqualntance s etruck up, luck is compared; some- {Umes indiscreet confidences are of- Covenant a prominent place in the life | fered Buddenly, In the midst of the of e Preshyverisn Church and of the Chast, comes the shnple but grave Netion” T that statement the com- 1w~m“'Mu 1 see your license, Suunity will eheertully subscribe, | Mister?” und the evildoer, if such he Dr. Wod was selected v succeed Dr. | %, 15 distinetly out of luck. Even the un- Bumin only sfer the merits and | Wiormed warden s known W wo many qualifications of many sble men bad | 854 Bl whereabouts ure wo carefully beer discussed and weighed. B0 suc- | checked up For him v atempt W 8p- cesstul hiad he proved in previous pas- | Prehend the poscher or game hog or Lorstes in Philsdelphis &nd elsewhere | Violawr of Uie closed sewson while be- that there wis st first some duubt as | decked I & uniform essily discernea W the possibility of his procurement, | 664 wustantly recognized muakes his task That scoompiished, his congregation | Uhst much harder und lesscns his use- snd bis city hive hisd steadily increas- | fuliess Y Uie cause of Conservaton Jig resson for self-cougratulstion. | It 18 lkely thut it a poll of all the | that there is need of intensive educa- | tional work on this railroad to cause | the engineers to know the difference betwcen ordinary track gangs and masked bandits. It is believed, as stated, that the EVERYDAY BY THE RIGHT REV. JAMES E. FREEMAN, D. D., LL. D., Bishop of Washington Loyalty to Loyalty. Some years ago Prof. Josiah Royce of Harvard delivered a series of lectures under the general title, “The Philosophy of Loyalty.” In this remarkable book he has a chapter entitled, “Loyalty to Loyalty,” in which he stresses the su- preme need of loyalty to a cause. He says, “In choosing and serving the cause to which you are to be loyal, be, in any case, loyal to loyalty.” He sets forth loyalty as one of the supreme virtues of life. He goes on to maintaln, that when 3 man is committed to a great cause he dare not violate his obliga- tions. He makes an interesting cita- tion_in support of his contention and recalls the memorable incident of the speaker of the House of Commons in his declination to accede to the royal man- date. When ealled upon to identify those who had refused to be amenable to the king's dictum, the speaker said, “Your Majesty, I am the speaker of this House, and, being such, I have neither eyes to see nor tongue to speak, save as this House shall command.” This, says Prof. Royce, s a supreme example of loyalty—loyalty to a cause that rises high above even a king’s mandate. Possibly at no time in our history has there been greater urgency for stressing the clalms of loyalty than in the pres- ent critical hour. We seem to have reached a stage in our individual and corporate life where we dis- esteem or hold lightly our sense of ob- ligation to a cause, to a principle or to an ideal. It was written of those of old that “every man did that which was right in his own eyes.” This is equiva- lent to saying that the nation became a nation of individualists, wholly unre- sponsive to their col te responsibil- ity. Loyalty to law, loyalty to national ideals, is indispensable; without it a na- tion cannot endure. To believe that we can treat laws as matters of inconse- quence. obey them or disregard them a! our will, is to invite disorder and, ulti- mately, anarchy. As we mature in life | more and more we become affiliated with definite organizations, political parties, fraternities, the church, ete, In each instance we assume definite obligations. We may not affiliate with any one of these without assuming | meet the conditions He lays down. RELIGION | tain declarations concerning our alle- glance to the principles they represent. Having assumed these obligations, loy- alty becomes imperative. Environing conditions or the changing circum- stances of life may alter our relation to some of these bodles. It does not alter our relation to the principles they stand for and represent. To bring up the youth of our homes with the idea that they are frec to regard with favor or disfavor those well established laws and conventions that have to do with our soclal and corporgte well-being is to generate in impulses that must ultimately make them undesirable and disloyal citizens of the state. Any form of self-expression that does violence to well tested and fundamental principles that concern our individual and corpo- rate well-being is unworthy and pro- duces ultimately moral degeneration. Loyalty to high ideals is utterly indis- pensable, not only to the upbuilding of moral character, but to the very security of those things that concern our deep- est interests. In the case of our reli- glous convictions and our devotion to the ideals set forth by the Christian Church, loyalty plays a most conspicu- ous part. Jesus declared, “If any man will come after me, let him deny him- self, take up his cross daily, and follow Me.” Repeatedly he affirmed that loy- alty to Him and to the fundamental erclples He laid down governing uman_conduct implied self-surrender | and self-sacrifice. He would teach men | @ better way of life, He would show them that to gain the largest and the best things in life they must be ready. if need be, to subordinate self-interes and to place under control selfish d sires, Loyalty in the sense in which He taught it calls for whole-hearted serv- ice. It is inconceivable that we should expect from Him supporting and sustain- ing power unless we are prepared to Ir His way of life is one worth following, then it is worth complete obedience and complete self-subordination. To stand before men as the exponents of | the supreme virtue of loyalty. means to | have fellowship with Him who counted | net His life dear unto Himself that He might demonstrate tp the world lov- alty to loyaliy In its sublimest expres- certain responsibilities and making cer- MERCHANDISI When will department stores be ad- vertising sales of airplanes at marked- down prices? The time is not so far BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. N sion. ¥ AIRPLANES ing togs and accessories are on sale in this department. With the improve- | al Sidelighls When the Washington birthday cele- bration in Alexandria was being dis- cussed in the cl of the House yesterday an interesting fact was brought out which gives some little credit to the “grand old man” of the House, Representative Henry Allen Cooper of ‘Wisconsin, who is now serving his thirty- third year in Congress. Some years ago after he had returned from the Capit !trip with the Taft party to the Orient Mr. Cooper was importuned to make an address in Alexandria about the Philippmes and the Orient. The late Willlam Jennings Bryan had been scheduled to speak, but was prevented by iliness, and had recommended that 1 Mr. Cooper be invited. After the address Mr. Cooper in chat- ting with some of the leading Masons, who had been describing to him the matchless collection of Washington relies and memorabilia owned by the Washington Lodge, advocated the erec- tion of a monumental memorial to Washington as a Mason in which these Washingtoniana might be preserved. ‘When they told him that Washington's own lodge in Alexandria couid not af- ford to erect such a structure, he ad- vised them to get the idea started and that lodges all over the country would contribute sufficiently to make the me- morial a reality. ‘They were so much taken with the idea that a committee waited upon Mr. Cooper in his office the next day and the memorial project was soon launched, and the imposing Masonic Memorial to Washington is now nearing completion. * ok ok x The mail of members of Congress brings in many curiosities, not only in the line of chirography, grandilogquent expression, presumptuous demands and a display of rudimentary ignorance as to the real duties of a member of Con- gress and the scope of legislation, but | in the actual physical contents as well. Representative Sol Bloom of New York was fauch gratified some time ago to be able to get a pension for a needy woman, who has since repeatedly writ- ten him that as soon as she could she ! wanted to send him something nice. The other day he opened a long, bulky | letter, to find the remnants of a cigar and wadded tinfoil, inclosed with which was a notation: “I think this must be a good one, so I am sending it to you. but I don’t know whether it is a good one or not." |BORAH’S PLAN TO RE-CODIFY MARITIME LAW IN WAR TIME BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. | Senator William E. Borah of Idaho| has gone straight to the crux of the| burning question of Anglo-American naval rivalry with his proposal to “re- state and re-codify” maritime law in time of war. The plan of the Senate foreign relations committee chairman directly involves the whole question of naval armament and is destined to have far-reaching effects upon it. With both the United States and Great Britain _contending they must maintain big fleets to safeguard their | overseas commercial interests whenever nations are at war, the problem of “rights at sea” is fundamental to their | respective naval needs. If the problem | is neither necessary,” he says, “that the United States join the League nor in- dispensable that she participate actively in the sanctions the League might be forced to proclaim. But on the other hand it does appear necessary that the United States should not seek, in main- taining rigorously the principle of the freedom of the seas, to disturb a block- ade which might be established in the name of the League of Nations. In that case controversies might ariwe which, far from favoring the main- tenance of pesce, might enlarge the field = o “In Englana they are very much alive to this possible danger. * * * At a time when the United States is can be solved by joint agreement, the | negotiating agreements outlawing war, way is opened to moderate naval arma- ments. As long as it is unsolved, the possibility of a clash will continue. With it will remain the necessity for excessive naval armaments. * ok ok ok ‘That is the situation in a nutshell. Borah, with his intuitive grasp of es- There is reason to believe the Idahoan will not content himself with merely | placing the Senate on record in favor of a re-codification of the law. Borah wants an international conference on the subject. It has not been forgotten that it was his initiative that even- tually brought about the Washington Conference on Limitation of Naval Armament. Toward the end of 1920, at his instigation, the naval appropriation bill carried a recommendation that the United States should call a limitation conference. The Harding administra- | tion was barely four months old when it moved in that direction. Senator Borah is expected to push his latest plan to a similar conclusion. Since the Idahoan's proposal was launched, on February 21, two impor- tant developments have come to light. The principle one is that Borah's scheme will directly and immediately involve the League of Nations. The Covenant of the League provides that the full power of member nations shall be used against an ‘“aggressor state.” The blockade power of the British fleet would be the League's chief dependence {in bringing such an offender to terms. The Lcague's theory is that it would never have to make war on an “ag- gressor state” if the blockads were “hermetical.” * x x * | | Would the United States respect a | League blockade? 1If the League were | sentials, recognizes this to be the case.| and the committee of security of the League of Nations is again in session. |1t seems well to present these questions {In plain terms. There is really only | one question: What will be the attitude of the American people toward a state Ithat is the aggressor? Will it prefer the freedom of the seas to peace? This is 4 question that Europe anxiously and hopefully addresses to America.” * x5 % x Uncle Sam's insistence on shipping the sinews of war to any European port he pleased in 1914, 1915 and 1916 nearly plunged him into war with Great Britain. In 1917 and 1918 the United States aligned itself unreserved- ly with the blockade practices to which we_previously objected. The other development in the Borah project, no portant than e League of Nations aspect, is the assur- ance that Lord Robert Cecil, eminent British statesman, is ready to join Borah in bringing about an Anglo- American conference on maritime law. Lord Robert thinks the United States is piling up naval armaments beeause {of American hostility to Britain's con- | ception of the eea rihts of belligurems jand neutrals M wa® time. Ouf huge 1916 buliding program was born mainly io{ A{nefl‘;awlemtlmtion to put this country ion to resist illegitfinate | interference with our maritime privi- |leges. Lord Robert Cecil d res: “Great Britain ought to let Uncle Ssm know that, if Americans desired ft, we should be quite ready to discuss the whole question of rights at sea, just as we should be equally prepared to discuss schemes of international arhi- tration and the outlawry of war. Like limitations of armament, such » dis- cussion would be a step leading # the | peace mind and not to the war mind.” * x % x | | i The sad part of it is that no one! Ut to punish and suppress Mussolini| will ever kngw whether that particular | 2nd Italy, for example, would the cigar would have been a good one or | United States. as a neutral and non- not if smoked before it went through mm;ber ,Of the League, respect the the stamp cancellation operation. But, blockade? IWnuId the Washington Gov: the sender will get a letter of appreci- ¢Inment place an embargo on sales of iment of airplane construction, bringing distant as the casual reader may think, | about greater comfort in air travel, un- | for actually two stores which sell every i American food and munitions to Italy, ation from Mr. Bloom just the same. jor would the United States Navy be i s | employed to see that our ships, ca 1f, however. it is possible to| | offered by woods and waters meets u | | gang that held up the train yesterday is the same as that which operated a year ago. These men are doubtless denizems of the Chicago underworld. They probably took their loot right | back into the city from the hold-up spot, which was twelve miles from the downtown station. They presumably know their ground thoroughly and can | exactly reckon their chances of con- cealment and escape from arrest. The loot was In the form of currency on the way to meet pay rolls. In that | form it is easily disposed of without {leaving any trace, unless the serial | numbers of notes in the consignment | had been noted. But even in that case | it would be extremely difficult to pursue { the trail of this particular money in { view of the enormous circulation of | cash in Chicago. The ease with which this train was | held up and robbed puts a premium on crimes of this character, and brings the frontiers of our civilization practically to the city limits, within which indeed atrocitles and crimes unknown in the are being constantly perpetrated. —_— et a troublesome neighbor. Mussolini may be regarded as too philanthropic in his suspected willingness to extend the benefit of his benevolent dictatorship to other nations. e It is impossible to believe that the crime wave must not begin to recede. The limit of human atrocity has un- doubtedly been reached, and at least a slight tendency in the opposite direc- ticn is to be expected. T — SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON, Foolishness. As customs change, they bring surprise, And, maybe, some distress. The notions which we thought were wise Prove only foolishness The good old motto, Home." We earnestly extol; Yet, as our fancles swiftly roam, ‘We talk of “Birth Control.” “Home, Sweet We thought we were in error great It we defied the text Of statutes fair—we simply wait ‘To see what may be next. And this has happened oft before, As modern ways digress. The customs we revered of yore Prove only foolishness, Nothing Unusual. “Bome of your home folks say you have fallacious ideas” *“Ihat means nothing to me,” sald Benator Sorghum, “Didn’t they once suy the same thing about George Wash- ington?"” At the Hotel. In Florida the man who stays To regulate the one who pays Inquires as to how much you've got, And says, “Just put it in the slot.” Lust Shall Be First, Jud Tunkins says a woman always ‘lmu the last word—which 15 liable to be the first word in the next argument. Glad Surprine, “You were golng sixty miles an hour,” sald the traffic cop, “lead me W the fine,” said Mr. Chug- gins, proudly. "I didn't think the old v could do 101" “We neglect the present,” sald Hi Ho, the Bage of Chinatown, we Jook for wisdom in the far past or the near future.” Natire. I love the man who gave sdvice Anid made me promise o “he nice,” 1 love still more the honest chaff OF one who war me by & laugh “An enemy,” sald Uncle Eben, “ia Aside from bis purely pastoral capacity, | wardens 1n sl the Btates could be ‘.- energy, geneiosity and stunulsting taken the vuuxm-uut e unform most dangerous when he cuts up an' tiles W pertend bie's yoh me,t." old times of the country's settlement | | smashed against a beacon post!" | @ male customer on the morning after. Italian comment refers to Austria as | thing from cold cream to furniture have opened departments devoted to things aeronautic. In other words, for two years a store in Philadelphia and more recently a store in Washington have given what is most valuable to merchants, floor | space, to a commodity which, if it is not new, is being offered to the public | in an entirely new way. gl An ad spread in the Sunday papers might catch the eye by proclaiming “Fly High on Our Low Prices. The Humming Bird, Last Word in Air Art and Sclence, Now Reduced to $2,999.99 All Models Including the Family Friend Greatly Reduced. The Family Friend Complete With Baby's Hammock Re- duced 107. Picnic Refrigerator $29.27 extra." The more modest trade-puller might read: “Polychrome Parachutes; Have Your Safety-Catch Match Your Cos- tume: Particular Parachutes for Par- ticular People Are Not the Cheapest. But Are the Safest.” Such advertising campaigns undoubt- edly would attract the family trade and make Mother willing for the heir to have a sport plane for his graduation present, if he could order it at the emporium guaranteeing it would be one of those safe ones and where it could be charged on the monthly bill. “Send up a new wheel for my land- ing gear; I landed on the roof last night when I was going home and | wls The bride wails, “The color of my | wings won't do at all! I especially ordered beige to match my going-away hat, and now here we have a plane that :-eon‘! harmonize with any of my trous- a “Book passage for New York for me on the 4:30 no-stop speclal!” orders the business man, and Mother schedules her flight lessons to sandwich in with ' the bridge club and the lectures on | politics | Why a department store should give | floor and advertising space, salesmen and money to an interest that is pnpu-‘ larly thought to belong to mailmen, ad- | venturers, sportsmen, devil-may-cares ! and the idle rich is frankly rxplnlnedi by the man who introduced airplanes into Washington merchandising Publicity the Big Idea. As might be expected, he is young | and enthusiastic, but at the same time | he is experienced, having received his store training in how to sell and how to attract the public to his sales. He Is interested in aviation not only bes cause there is a possibility of its be- coming the major transportation serv- ice of the future, but because he be- lieves that all stores will have to get into some phase of the business, and he wants his to lead the way. It may bc conceded that his firm is not young and impetuous, for having been established nearly 70 years ago, it apparently has reached the age of discretion, The owners of the Washington store admit that they do not expect to make fortunes overnight in their new enter- prise and that they undertook it for the publicity they would gain, as well as to show their faith in the future of avi- ation and to establish a department that would prosper. In the meantim= until the department pays its way they ase satisfled that it will be an asset as an_attraction, They display a real airplane engine and a model of an airplane on the first floor at the present time, but soon they vx!)cc(. to give greater space, where they will exhibit a real, full-sized plane ‘They sponsor two planes, identical in body construction, but using engines of widely different classes, as thelr prices indlcate. ‘The expert who 15 in charge of the exhibition explains that the planes are sport models with dual control and are bullt to accommodate a pilot and two passengers, ‘The bodies are maroon and the wings are tan ‘The engine in the plane selling for about $3,000 has 1{!:1‘(1 of _approxi- mately 100 miles an hour. The more powerful engine, which raises the price y $5,000, ulso ralses the speed to 140 miles an hour. ‘They both have a cruts- Ine radius of about five hours, the fuel consumption being measured in the aly by the hour instead of miles, “Bolo,Y “take-off,” “brondcast” and “sign off" are among the many words with new significance now In common use because of the progress of inven- Uon, and "R, T. F." may be considered the last word 1n new expressions, Every one knows that in making s purchuse “f 0. b. Detroit” the price includes the frefght from Detroit to the delivery polnt. In the swme way the price quoted "I, T, F." such-and-such » fly- fng fleld means the cost of a plane ready to fly from that point, A New Service Offered. A service offered by this department, which 15 run on the sume basia as all the others in the store—and which will show un dmmediate return, wocording to the store heads—In that of booking office for Lourista’ sightscelng and for genernl air transportation from ity to city, The ugent books alr pas- suge any place i the United Blates | and in Europe, where alrplanes are run on rehedules like tratns, and the com- punies publish tme tables and price ints, serve meals and carry baggage, even the familiar excoss haggage Leather coats, helmeta and other fy- Ithe fact that private owners will very | !cars just as horsemen motor to their | usual and picturesque costumes are going the way of motor veils, dusters | and goggles, but sport planes, like sport | cars, do require protective clothing. In | the more luxurious cabin planes, fa- | miliar to European travelers and now | teing introduced in the United States, passengers are advised that they need | ‘l:"(]iy bring a warm coat for high alti- | udes. | An odd comparison is warranted by: likely keep their planes in the same | way rich men now keep horses. The | planes will be housed at landing fields | on convenient roads and their owners will drive out to them, leave their cars, fly and return to the field and waiting | hunt “clubs or private stables. The | hangar will not become a part of the house. The private stable is a thing of the past except on vast estates, and the garage, which is moving from the out- side to the inside of the house, is the | connecting link between horses. motor | boats and airplanes and those who use them. The airplane de) classed among the departments which retail to the public. | but who doubts that eventualiy we | shall see advertised in bargain base- ments run-of-mill wings, slightly dam- aged fuselages or seconds in landing gear at very specially reduced and low ¢ next step in airplane merchan- dising probably will be used and Tepos- { sessed airplanes at big bargains. B Soft Coal Industry Is iu a Bad Way BY HARDEN COLFAX. Whatever may come forth from the Senate investigation of conditions in the soft coal districts where strikes or | lockouts exist, it is difficult to visualize legislation which can cure the fun- damental economic illness of the | bituminous coal industry without a form of governmental paternalism or a private monopoly. | The plain fact’ is that there are | too many mines and too many miners | under present-day conditfons to make | the industry, as a whole, profitable | elther for capital or labor. ! From the humanitarian standpoint, the inquiry by the Senate committee on interstate commerce, which now has a subcommittee observing condi- tions in Pennsylvania, and this week plans hearings in Washington, with probably a personal inspection tour of Ohlo and parts of West Virginia later, may result in something to alleviate suffering and halt abuses of power, whether the offenses be by govern- ment, by capitalists or by workmen. But, beyond the effect of education of the general public to conditions, no resulls are i sight to get at the roots | of the matter. Every time the Federal Government has intervened in a labor dispute in the coal fields of the country higher grk‘u for coal have resulted. There ave been investigations before, and no remedy for conditions which ad- mittedly cause distress has come forth. The present study is heralded as aimed at the soclal situation, but unless the economic factors are con- sidered anything which may be done will be of merely transitory character; important temporarily and therefore worth while, but drugging rather than curing the patient. o oxox The market for soft coal is sagging. It 15 not only the unionized mines which are operating part time, but the non-unfon flelds are working far below capacity. Soft conl is cheaper now than a year ago. Consumption I lower and stocks in the bins of consumers are large. The Bureau of Mines reports 55,500,000 tons of bituminous coal in the hands of con- sumers January 1. a reduction of 6,400,000 under the figures disclosed by the October 1 survey, but an in- crease of 500,000 above the figures for the first of 1927 Consumption in the last quarter of 1927 was 115 per cent below the corresponding pertod of 1026, due mainly to less industrial de- mand, although milder weather also caused deliveries of retall dealers for household use to decline, Production of soft coal from last April 1, the beginning of the conl year, to February 11 aggreguted 410,283,000 tons, which compares with 508,238,000 n the corresponding pertod of 1924-27 and 466,674,000 in 1025-26. The output of anthracite conl also s off this year, due to slack demand, totaling 70,401,000 tons from April 1 to February 11, con. trasted with 82440000 In the cor- responding pertol of the rvel‘fl‘lnl coal year. ‘There is no labor trouble in the hard coal flelds, 1t may be noted, this area being completely untontzed. LR The United Mine Workers of Amerle catled 1ts men from the mines i prac tically all flelds where It his a footing last. April 1, due o fallure to wgree on A New Wage contract with the explration of the Jacksonville agreement, macc three years before. Previously some operators had locked out the unton Contracts have Ixm‘ made by the unlon rtment {s 3 igh-hat and elite | | | ITyin Congress got a little lecture on bells | food and munitions, were not interfered the other day, which emphasized that | with en route to Italian ports? our American bell founders cannot! Dr. William Martin, foreign editor of supply bells for carillon purposes. The | the Journal de Geneve, published at carillon. Representative Celler of New | the scat of the League of Nations, has York emphasized, is the highest form |Jjust been writing on that subject. “It of bell music and in fact the only form ! Senator Borah's plan fevives the “freedom of the seas” issue raised by President Woodrow Wilson during fhe World War. Mr. Wilson went 0 the | Paris peace conference hopeful that the went the way of the fourteen points. | Today. by general consent of statesmen €| and naval authorities alike, the prob- | lem remains the Alpha and Omega of Anglo-American relations. Borah and | Cecil are on common grounds in recog- nizing its gravity and in | solution. ' (Copyrizht. 1928.) chromatic scale. It requires bells of | the finest musical quality and tone.| a piano or organ. There are usually bia a permanent two rows for the hands and ‘two rows| Government Bil], form of govern- that can be "?"'d 'fu:x"d":nfi u:g!; o of carillon. He explaine e | Flf - Y A carillon differS from a chime in that| t) ears o0 it is more extensive in range of notes. = It contains all the semitones of the In The Star It usually has three octaves or about | 35 bells. Its maximum compass of range is 53 bells or four and one-half Half a century ago Congress was on octaves. The action and console of a | the point of legislating to ln*et !kéeo]ms‘ i trict - carillon is similar to the keyboard of Permanent D. C. of um for the feet. The player is called a | ment and sev- carilloneur, who sits on a bench and | eral bills were pending varying consid- plays like an organist. erably in detail and in principle. The In carillon music there is a great Star of February 19. 1878, says: variety of melodies, with harmonies | “The bill providing a permanent and chords like on an organ or piano.| form of government for the District of Mr. Celler introduced the testimony | Columbia—originally introduced in the of Frederick C. Mayer, organist and House by Mr. Hendee—was reported choirmaster of the United States Mili- | back from the District commisee tary Academy, and of Walter Damrosh | terday with amendments and the 5th to the effect that a fine carillon is as of March was assigned for its consider- precious as a violin by Stradivarius. ation. Mr. Hendee in moving its as- Mr. Mayer said: | signment for that day stated that there “The art of casting and tuning bells of | Was not time yesterday to consider the the highest musical quality was known | bill before adjournment. because it was | and extensively practiced in Flanders | one which would provoke and demand ! several hundred years ago. But this art (of carillon), like that of the old Ital- ian makers of master violins, soon be- came lost; in the case of bells the art has been rediscovered only within the present generation. This rediscovery has occurred in England. and a revival in the old carillon art is in full swing in England, Holland and Belgium. “In Belgium there is a national school of carillon playing maintained by the Belgian government, where the art of a carilloneur is taught with as great artistic thoroughness. pursued through years of serious devotion, as that con- | nected with other branches of the art of music. The comparison of the 12-note console of what is often spoken of as our best native chime. that in the tower of the Cadet Chapel, West Point, N. Y., | lose sight of the great essential point | with the 45-note console of the finest cartllon now in the world, that in the tower of the cathedral of Malines, Be gium, would be like comparing a child's toy piano keyboard of one octave of white keys only with a standard piano keyboard of full and complete compass. And the difference in the music possible from these two sets of bells is like com- paring the playing of a child with that of & mature artist.” LB There is a ma N receiving & smail sala ry i the District Building who is an authority on speedometers to such | an extent that his testimony is accep’~ od by the courts, who furnishes his own tools and works at home nights testing | and repairing speedometers for the Police Department, thereby saving a large amount of money and valuable time, who has to do this extra work for nothing. Maj. Hesse explained this situatton | to the House appropriations commit- tee as follows: “1 would like to discuss a propasition providing that the Commissioners be Authorized to employ the electrician ‘n the District Building to repair speedom- eters at such cost as they may approve, payment hereunder to be in addition to his regular compensation. “We used to test our speedometers on a mile track on Sixteenth street. There Was not anything accurate about that, and we finally got the National Electric Supply Co. to take over the repairs of the speedometers and test them It cost us a lot of money, and sometimes we were as long as 30 days getting the speedometers back. We found a man employed in the District Building who could do it. “That man has been repatring our | speedometers after office hours. He s qualified as an expert, and in the courts his testimony 15 taken and accepted But it is unjust to have that man do | this work and not be able to be compen- sated for {t. The controller generyl has ruled that because the amount we pald him and the salary he gets amounts to over $2,000 a vear. they would not allow him to be paid by us He i still doing the work " since then in some of the flelds, but in jothers the strike, ar cessation of work, continues, e public has paid litle attention o this strike because price of coal haa not been affected ad- versely to the consumers’ interests. More than 60 per cent of all the soft coal now marketed Is produced by non- unfon mines. Thelr capacity s even sreater ould the demand justity heavier workings, The frelght rate stricture influences the coal market constderably, as may be inferved from the loud erles heard avising from the Nattonal l‘l!lllnll recently regarding the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Lake cargo case The bituminous coal industry has not vocovered from its war spurt Hun dreds of new mines wero opeied then Fhiey are not needed now. Theve are 250,000 wore winera than the mdustey tequives under normal conditions, and the present sttuation Is subnormal, [N AT s | the Capital City. the | | extensive discussion and deliberation on the part of the House, for the reason that it is not only important to.the District of Columbia and the residents | of the District, but that it is portant to the government of 3 | United States. It was very important | that some action be taken that the 'ple here, as well as the people of the United States, may understand fully ’nnd well the relations existing or that | are hercafter to exist between the Dis- | lsrm of Columbia and the United | states. | measure of this im| portance should be discussed at some length, but it is to be hoped that, in its consideration and | possible amendment. members will not | of establishing definitely the relations of the government to the District in the matter of the various expenses of If this matter is equitably settled the, citizens will be content with almost any form of Dis- trict government Congress may choose | to give. Their preference, as far as indicated, Is in favor of a commission- | veo- | "It is. of course. unavoidable that a ! {| This and That ~ By Charles E. Tracewell. ‘There appeared to be a convention going on down the alley, and we thought we could hear cat voices speak- Peter the Great lifted a yellow splotched white paw. | “Do you see that house down there?” he asked. “There is always a good hand-out for a fellow down there.” “That is where Jack Spratt lives,” | piped up a small biack cat with & rusty coat. “He's lucky, that Jack it u fellows maybe won't believe me.” continued Peter the Great, as if {he had not been interrupted. “but old | Jack gets between a half and a pound of meat for his dinner.” “Whew!” meowed the black cat. | “Gosh!" exclaimed a big maltese | with white chest. rianly. O get the leavines. once T portantly. “I get drew a big bone with plenty of beef- steak on it. Say, that was great.” Envious purrs went up. big head, land slightly elevated his right paw. |He was a Iuéscmex éeuot. -1;& | massive and wici green eyes. i "'Wnc;:“sout.“ he hissed. “Here comes something.” *x %% | _There was a rustle in the shrubbery. |then a gray and black tiger-striped | cat dashed through. | It was Little Nipper. “Hello, fellows” said he. “Where you been’" asked the rusty | black cat, as he sniffed suspictously | at_Nipper's whiskers. | The little round cat with the verr solemn visage looked more dignified | th ve! grunted | been eating my dinner. “Thought so.” Peter said. briefty. I ership form, and that principle is a'could smell fish on vour whiskers be- feature of the bill as reported: and, | while there are various other pro- | | visions of the bili that they might deem | | objectionable, there is not probably a | single one that they would not accept rather than have the main question of District equities defeated. “When the bill comes up for con- sideration again on the 5th of March |t is to be hoped that members will | enter upon its discussion with the single | purpose in view of legislating fustly and | | fairly for the people here. over whom | they have exclusive jurisdiction, and Who are now suffering from very ex- | ceptional burdens.” - Mo s “The Smithso: The Star of an Institution.” ‘cbruary 21. 1878, * soan distribute over ! American country _cireulars in- Viting the co-opet Antiquities. O U SN ha the time and disposition for such labor, i s researches concerning the A utties of America. The Instriution o the publication of an_ex- stive Work on Ameriean aveheology b numerous tlustrations. aud 1t de- sires” to colleet from cvery avatlable | source whatever is now Knowa or can | | be ascertained concerning the antiquit of North America. Toe eiretiar e a list Of questions 1o guide the nvest tar i his deseripion of mounds, caves, ete. Much valuabls material and tator- | mation has been obtamed i this way | by the Institution in the past and the | | proposed work will no doubdt targely | | Profit by the responses to this cireutar N . Local business conditions were | covertng re- 0 years ago Yr:\m\ the severe ump of the panic of the | Brighter cuiv seventies The star | February 23, 1878, had the | Outlook. (LT on the preapect. | “The business outlok tor the com- ! (g season s decidedly encouragin From A tatk with same of our ae tects and builders we learn that prep- ATALIONS wre 1 progress for quite an extensive line of bulldtng tmprovements. | Numorous first class residents are Bo erected i the northwest portion of | the city and other localities ‘The drivk and lumber dealers say that arders and INQuIrtes 10 their line ave coming | .‘mu- lively and that from present the dications more tmprovenents, W the erection of new butldings, Wil take Place this season than for & long e | Past. The real estate dealers assure us that thete is begtnning (0 be a lively guiry for chace ots —all of whieh PURES TOWATES Tenewed activity tn the substantial progress of our beautitul Oy, Cholce teal estate van b pur- chased W very favorable fetms and at no time within the past 30 years have bullting $lh‘l|kh beenn a8 low fore you came along.” Nipper grinned. “Chase yoursel! down Peter.” he cried. insolently “What's that you said?” “You heard me, Peter™ “Let me hear you say Peter the Grea: an enormous stze, and fur on his back an the alley. pufted cu ides unt! gan to walk toward with his head held he smaller cat dec s, indeed. the better par his human friends say, Peter. oid top. T was o you know. Of course ) dig cat has wsh ——— The Great Change. Of Ianes, the notalle sy thar, 18 may be said, as “"nm-‘ Ras deen sald of others. he never was the same man after he took to Pities, PRE as at th @ hresant and skilled an. " T CAn now be enu&\m..t\‘ the lowest jossibie tates The Presen therefire s the galden ADPartanity tor Persans o make “nuovements. \A’"'\ A ed policy I regand 1o the hatkonal fuanees and the wsamption By the Svheral goverment of it proper - darthn of the expenses of the Disirkt A CWlumbia, there will be ap advance M oprices along the whade e With e actiy HY M real estate peTemen s AU business thioughout the ety witt b benefliad We are glad o ohrniele Weh- encouraglng Pospects and Srast the good works may & bravely o