Evening Star Newspaper, March 10, 1928, Page 6

B e e dHL EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D.C. SATURDAY March 10, 1928 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor e Evening Star Newspaper Company ness Office: 11th St and Pennavivanta Ave. New York Office: 110 Fa 42nd St Chicago Office: Tower Butlding. Enropean Office: 14 Regent St. London. England Rate by Carrier Within the City. The Even: 45¢ per month ".60c per month per month 5 8¢ per cony fe at {he end of eac! ent in by mail or er States a day..1y7. $12 2T $8.00: 1 $4001 1 mo. 'y entitled 1 of all news dis. ot otherwise o the lo ts of pu Center Market. Action by the committees on retail de of the Washington crce, meeting jointly, hold pending closing { et to make way for al ilding, brings the mat- | ter of the future of that establish 3 to att, In the course of | or the clearance of | he new home for the De- partment of Justice, which is to be lo- cated on the ground now and for many years occupied by Center Market, no- tices have been served on the mer- | chants occupying stalls there to vacate e first of January next. There is n of any move for the re- t of the market on another | te, as in the case of the Farmers'| Market, and apparently there is in con- templation no plan for the continua- tion of this iristitution. | Center Market, which has ocmpicd‘ the area of its present situation fo many vears—beyond the memory, In- deed, of most living Washingtonians— has for some time been direct nder Government administration, being oper- ted by the Department of Agriculture. It is regarded as unlikely that the Gov- ernment will undertake its replacement in another situation, in continuation of this procedure, when the time comes to raze it to make room for structural operations. The question now to be an- swered is whether it will be replaced through private enterprise. It would be a great pity if this estab- Hshment, which has been so intimate a | part of the community life for several generations, should pass out of exist- ence. It has rendered valuable service to Washington. It is rated as one of the best public markets in the country, in point of its equipment and its serv- ice to the people. It gives employment %0 a large number of persons, who, if when the site is cleared no replace- ment occurs, would be thrown out of work, with no immediate prospect of re- engagement. The value of the public market to the people has recently been strikingly demonstrated by the popular reaction to the proposal to close the Western Market, at the corner of Twenty-first &34 K streets. When it became known that the Commissioners contemplated allowing this establishment to lapse through failure to renew appropriations and to provide funds for its rehabilita- tion, protests arose in such volume as to cause reconsideration, and there is now pending a requisition from the Commissioners for the grant of the funds necessary for the reconditioning and the continued maintenance of the market, which has been proved to be a valuable public utility. ‘There is time for a full consideration of the future of Center Market before 1t 15 necessary to clear the site. Wheth- er it is continued as a Government in- stitution, or maintained by private en- terprise, it should be reproduced at a point at which it will render the maxi- mum of service to the community. In the case of the Farmers' Market, the removal of which from its long occupted ®te was obviously necessary, preclous time was spent in profitless discussion of location, and that question is not even now definitely determined. There should be no such delay in the case of Center Market, If the Government is not to continue 88 the owner and manager of this Jargest retall food vending center, and 1t it is not 0 be transferred as a pub- Je institution t the District, there #hould be declsion in season o permit the organization of & private corpora- Uon v carry on the Center Market in & manner % meet city's require- ments and v continue the tradition of &2 up-to-date, convenient, well man- Bged 1004 supply center, ——te. 4. grest deal of congressional discus- ¥on continues 1 show superabundant Cernperament with scarcity of technique. | hy ing that Cony Braying From the Bench. now feel free to take the family car on Sunday afternoon and go where they odlease. If papa, or mamma, spanks—oh! That hundred-dollar fine! Many people have many theorles about what is wrong with this country. One theory is that too many woodsheds have been torn down, too many razor straps have been thrown away. An- other theory is that there are too many Jjudges like Judge White. Aesop tells the fable of the ass that dressed himself like a lion and threw the villagers into hysterical panic—un- til he forgot himself and brayed. Then the villagers knew that he was only an ass after all. One who wears the robes of a judge commands respect. But if o The Lame-Ducks Still Lame. By a'vote of 209 in the aMirmative and 157 m the negative, thus falling thirty-six short of the necessary two-| thirds, the House of Representatives yesterday rejected the proposed consti- tutional amendment providing a change in the schedule of Congress, known popularly at the “lame-duck” amend- ment. The vote was in no sense par- tisan. Each side of the House con- tributed to the affirmative and to the negative, Three times the Scnate has adopted this resolution and sent it to the House for concurrence. On each occasion it has been either ignored by that body or, as in this latest instance, rejected. Still it remains an issue, and probably the next Congress will have its fourth go at it. . The purpose of the proposed change is to prevent legislation by a Congress that is about to quit, after the country has elected another one. It is to insure that the “voice of the people,” expressed in November, shall register in January, two months later, and not in December, hirteen months later. It is also to end the anomaly of an abbreviated session, marked by hasty legislation and some- times with blockades of all legislation. There is little doubt that if the mat- ter were referred to the voters it would be decided in favor of a change in the system. The absurdity of continuing the hold-over Congress in service after the votes have been cast and counted and registered for its successor is widely recognized. The injustice of permitting | legislators who have been defeated for re-election to pursue the work of law- making for what is in legislative terms another year after rejection is clearly | seen. Yet there is at present not a two- thirds majority for the proposition in the House of Representatives. The argu- ments of the proponents, grounded in logic, have not persuaded a sufficient number to cause them to cast their votes for this reform. There may be some repercussion from the vote of yes- terday in the primaries and at the polls in the course of the coming campaign. Inasmuch as a margin of only thirty- six votes stood between adoption and rejection yesterday in the House it is safe to say that eventually this com- mon-sense change in the Federal sched- ule will be made. N Rodman Wanamaker, A serious loss is suffered; by the country in the death of Rodman Wana- maker, who passed away yesterday after a brief illness. He was comparatively a young man, in terms of further poten- tial usefulness. He had administered his large inheritance of wealth from his father in a manner to render great service to the people. He not only gave generously of his surplus to the support of charities and other benevolent works, but he contributed unstintedly to the development of aviation. Therein lay his keenest interest, beyond the con- duct of the great business to which he succeeded. His contributions to afrcraft advancement were of great value. He promoted Byrd's flight to the North Pole, and his purse was always open to practical projects for aeronautical serv- ice. It. was his confident expectation that regular transoceanic service would be established, and there was no Amer- jcan more ardent than he in applause for and encouragement of the cross- seas flying of last Summer. It is there- fore a serious loss that such a man, endowed so richly with wealth and blessed with broad vislon and practical conception’ of the possibilities of air transport, should pass at the very time when the encouragement and the as- sistance which he could give in abun- dant measure are required. ——— vt The old-fashioned rhetoriclans made oratory a little wearisome. There is &t present an evident wish for more of the authenticated poetical quotations and not so many garbled statistics. - Economy Versus Esprit de Corps. Bentimentalists everywhere and par- ticularly in the British Isles will be touched in a tender spot by news of the serious contemplation, indicated in the official statement of the 1928 Brit- ish Army estimates, of the conversion of two cavalry regiments into armored car regiments having reduced strength. This 15 in line with & movement in the service which has long been In prog- re: Slowly but surely the anclent famillar panoply of war and of ma- neuvers gives way to the more efficient but far less romantic modern mechant- Judge White's courtroom was oo | Brrall, 0 the hearing was transterred v | im of the city hull of Kan- | The £ £l ot 5,600 ammed and ey n fainted. Judge ravely handed down his | encing the mother of a| d girl $100 or 100 days erowd pushed i\ nger. The daughters of wes taking the family car on Bunday ®fernoo sand refusing W wll whepe ehe went 0 it The punishment, sald Vi severe, Judge sald he was between two Bhould Le decice for the daugh- ver, every schoslyirl might think she end 4o wipat she plessed, and ber ®sother would have no right w punish ber. I he aecided for the mother, his worfle pilgit be interprewd by perents 1 mesn that they could use any tectics W control thelr offepring. Me chose the Joeser of two evils und decided for the Guughter, Millions of parents In the land will now hesitate before sdminis- tering punishment with & cost hanger The Judge hus saved the childien of pmerica from i Thunk Ydewven for that! But by the Judge's own sdmisslon s W Laucrian schoulginis will ! e Mdish vorture, zation of military utilittes, All the medium artillery, 1t 1s an- nounced, 15 W be mechanizd and ex- riments along the same line us re- rds other artillery units wre 0 be ntinued. In view of the history of the World War one rather expects ur- tilery eventually 1o become largely a matter of tractors and other motor ve- bicles instead of dashing, prancing horses, but when it comes W cavalry, an | tnfinitely older and more pleturesque wrm of battles, that §s another Whing Speculation will be rife ny to Just | which of the British cavalry regiments will be selected Yo undergo this revolus tonary chunge, The British regulnr wriny possesses betwen thirty and forty such und every one s historie, tradi- Uonal and in some way unique. One cannot imagine either the officers or men of any of them viewing the drastio change with equanimity. ‘Ihe house- told cavalry, the Life and Horse Guards, certuinly will be exempt. They date frum Ui Restoration sfter Cromwell und were reorganized wlong “modern” Hnes ws far back ws 1786, Can any one imagine the coul-black steeds which ae company the person of the soverelgn changed for snoruing ges engines? As nearly we can be wscertabied the very neest, st upstart Britlsh regls L] THE EVENING ment of horse was established as far back as 1861, while most of them long antedate that year. The 17th Lancers— the lance, by the way, has just been dis- continued by Britaln as an actual weapon of war—once led by Earl Haig, served in the American colonles as long ago as 1763. The 9th, 12th and 16th regiments became lancers more than a hundred years since and were light dragoons before that. Could it be hussars that are to suffer this radical alteration? If so, the pic- turesque and the historical will suffer a sad blow. Four of those units date back to 1805 and served with distinction as such in the Peninsular campaign of 1808-9. The 10th Hussars has the King as its colonel-in-chief. George 1V, Ed- ward VII, Prince Albert Victor and other scions of royalty received their military training as members of its corps of officer: ‘The 4th, 8th, 11th and 13th Iussars, together with the 17th Lancers, composed the famous “Light Brigade” of Balaklava fame. Could there be a view without a pang of any of these famous units stepping on thelr self-starters? The 4th and 5th Dragoon Guards and the Ist, 2nd and 6th Dragoons also made a gallant and much more suc- cessful charge at Balaklava, and all were ancient regiments even then. The 2nd, the “Royal Scots Greys,” per- formed heroic exploits at Waterloo. Many of the British cavalry units re- joice in special titles, such as the “Queen’s Own,” “Prince Albert's Own, “Queen Alexandra's Own,” “The Em- press of India’s” and “The King's.” The tradition of such names dies hard. Perhaps it is all for the best and some day the highly trained and metic- ulously greomed cavalry horse will be as out-of-date as the jousting lance or the long bow still romantically carried by the honor guard of bonneted gentle- men which escorts the King when he crosses into Scotland. Certain it is that any regiments selected to undergo the promised transformation will sub- mit with a heavy heart. However, war is a business, and a dirty one at that, and perhaps the sooner it be shorn of all 1ts enhancing, entraneing and in- oflicient accessories the better off man- kind will be, . There are bootleggers in Washington, no doubt. Probably there are not so many in proportion to population as in other large cities which do mnot have the moral benefit of a congressional censorship, ————————— A buzzard flying wild can wreck an airplane. The feat is remarkable, but nothing as compared with the infinitest- mal germ which in its wanderings can wreck human health, ——————— Comment on the theater fs hindered by the fact that it is usually impossible to break down the proprieties of print to the extent of describing the plot in detail. ———te. Some first-rate poetry was written in Chicago. That was before the big city of the Midwest devoted so much at- tention to developing police new e One of the severe blows to the amuse ment industry was dealt when “Lindy™ positively stated that he did not choose to be a star. —————— A number of States indicate willing- ness to regard Herbert Hoover in a kindly way as a favorite adopted son. D SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON, The Wish, “A liberal legacy have I,* Sald Hezekiah Bings. “It is enough to let me try To do a lot of things. T might contest in fortune's quest, Or, with a buoyant heart, Proceed to further what seems best In various forms of art, “I might attempt the paths of fame, Regardless of expense— And yet, what simple pleasures claim My longing, so intense! I only pine to cast a line And hear the bird that sings, Where skies of April brightly shing Sald Hezekiah Bings. Business. “My motto is business before pleas- ure,” remarked the severe person, “S0 15 mine,” answered Senator Sor- ghum. “But I have gotten into such a big line of public business that I can't hope to give much time to a little thing like mere personal money making.” Working Time. Oh, who shall do this old world's work, When everywhere temptations lurk Till 3 am. awake to stay, And slumber all the following day! Jud Tunkins says a good man fis known by the company he avolds, Unused. “I understand you have a used car.” “No such thing,” answered Mr, Chug- gins. “It has been in the repalr shop for three weeks.” “Man would nearly approach perfec- tion,” sald H1 Ho, the sage of China- town, “could he forgive the faults of others us readily as he forgives his own,” The Subconsclence, Of prychopathy I have read, It often seemed improper, “Let's put the book away,” I sald. “Bome one might call a copper.” “A dog 18 yoh best friend,” sald Uncle Eben. “Mebbe its lucky foh some of us dat & dog don't never git supercilious ‘bout pickin’ his company.” =] It Would Be Interesting, Vrom the Fort Worth ecord Teledram, What we would lke to turry here & while Jonger to see 18 whay kind of excuses the third generation will find for building fine monuments over our neglected resting places and bragging about having us for ancestors, PSS — The Stopper’s Weather Rule, Feom tho Waterlon "Tyibane, ‘I'he stormy «ll{n you decide to walk down town nobody stops for you. ‘The nice dsy when yon conclude o walk for exercise, w half dozen autos stop for you v Youngsters, From tua Roanokes Times A baby born February 20 this year will have & birthday every four years We know lots of people who imust have been hoin Felwuary 29, STAR, WASR THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL, ‘The difficulty of doing a good deed is not always appreciated at its full worth. One may sympathize with the Boy Scouts, in their endeavor to do a good turn to some one every day, when he finds his own actions misinterpreted. The trouble scems to lie in the fact that many persons, under conditions of modern civilization, especially in the large cities, fail to credit good motives. ‘Take the sublime faith in human na- ture recently demonstrated on a public vehicle by J. Henry Gearshift, a solid citizen who belleves in doing good. Gearshift is always bucking up against the indifference or suspiclon of those he tries to help, but that does not deter him long, for the accent of his soul is upon_helpfulness Did you ever stop to think about the accent of a soul? ‘The French have two very interest- ing little marks used in their language, called the “grave” and the “acute,” which make all the difference in the world in the pronounciation. These accents transform the sound of a word, make the very word itself something different. So the accent which a human being gives his soul transforms him, makes him different from those who do not have this bias. As the accent is good or bad, so is the man. F kK ok Gearshift had been discussing at lunch the day before the difference in the gallantry of the city man of 1928 from that of the same gentleman of 10, 15, 20 years ago. One of the other business men pres- ent had expressed the opinion that ere distinctly less gallant, but Gearshift had not agreed to that at all, “No.” he said, in his decisive fashion. “It is not a question of less politeness, but simply a proposition of different economic conditions working on the e of the human mind.” “Exactly!” smiled the other, with a grin and a wink, “My statement is casy enough,” went on Gearshift. “Every honest man ad- mits that when women went in for business qnd industry, thousands of mere males said to themselves, ‘Well, if they want to vote and work, then they ought to be treated as men are treated.’ “This tor, however, does not ex- plain the half of it. Probably the onc thing that induccd the ot-car- riding public to stop the old, pleasant custom of giving up their s to women was the general impoliteness and lack of thanks received for the courtesy. “Especially were young and pretiy girls indifferent to the plain necessity which called for some sort of acknowl- edgment of the gallantry. There is no man alive today over the age of 30 years who cannot recall many times when he arose to give up his seat to some woman to have her accept it without so much as a glance or a word. “Now this sort of thing, often con- tinued, led first one man and then an- other to discontinue the pretty custom which he had learned at his mother’s knee of offering his t in a street car to any woman who seen standing. “It was, and it is, a fine custom. But appreciation also 1s a fine thing. To do some one a courtesy, and this utterly outside sex, and to receive absolutely no v [she was almost home recognition of it, is to recelve a severe blow in one's bump of politen; “Perhaps the final straw in most such cases was the open sneer recelved some evening from some fresh young damsel, who sank into the seat as if she had been insulted instead of benefited. “Then the long-suffering gentleman solemnly held up his hand to high Heaven—at least mentally—and swore that never again would he give up his seat to a woman-—any woman! * K K K “Very few of them, however, stuck closely to their vow, although the unanimous effect of these. oaths was such as to utterly change the habits of the street-car-riding public. “Today one often sees a man get up to allow an elderly woman to sit down, or to give his seat to a crippled man, “It takes more than a pretty face and a pair of silk stockings to lure a male passenger from his seat these days! “Nor do the women expect it any longer. Seldom does one see a girl sidling up to a man end looking down at him with that old look which used to say as plain as words, ‘Now if you are any sort of gentleman at all, you get up and let me sit down.” every one who has got a seat sits, that is all to it, and every one who is forced to stand stands, that is all. Men smugly read their papers or look out the window.” * ko ok It was the next morning that Gear- shift got on the bus with this con- versation still fresh in his mind. He began to think about, the cour- tesy of old, and determined then and there for that one morning, at least, he would be ant again, “just to see as he told himself. Fate, however, scemed against him. ‘The bus was comfortably filled, with a vacant seat here and there, although several men were standing in the aisle, evidently from preference. Gearshift sat next the aisle, an un- known gentleman to his left. At the next corner a young girl got on. She was no beauty, there was no question about that at all. Nothing about her “matched,” as one might say; For some reason or other she did not see the several vacant seats, but continued to nd, gripping the handle on the end of a scat two places up, A few blocks farther down the street Gearshitt’'s gentleman rose to get out. To accommodate him it was necessary for Gearshift to arise and stand in the aisle. As he stood there, slightly to the rear of the scat the old instinct of gallant- ry struck him with full force. He ostentatiously drew back and looked down at the vacant seat. He would not give up his own place, he thought to himself, as this would be in defiance of modern-day public cour- tesy, but he would magnanimously al- Jow the young lady the seat by the window. He even looked at her squarely, sig- nificantly, in a way which said plai “Take this seat here by the window. The girl looked away—and continued to stand. “Well"—and Gearshift sat down— cured forever. Will _Hays Is F layeAd by Press For His Part Almost universal criticism, unfavor- able and severe, has marked newspaper comment on the admission by Will H. Hays that as chairman of the Re- publican national committee seven years ago he received a large contribution from Harry F. Sinclair to help meet the deficit of the Harding campalgn. In defense of the position of the Re- publican party, the San Francisco Bul- letin says: “The Democrats may hurl mud at thelr opponents, but the Re- publicans may well say, ‘Though he gave us $160,000, which we accepted in good faith, nevertheless, we are pros- ecuting him in the oil lease cases. National political parties cannot func- tion without funds. They are entitled to collect them from friends, and to assume that a gift is an expression of political friendship. The Reno Gazette (independent Republican) also argues, “The statement of Hays that they solicited and accepted funds from Sin- clair just as they did from other wealthy persons with large industrial interests, and considered their actions legitimate, will be accepted.” But many Republican newspapers are sharp in their condemnation. The New York Herald Tribune (Republican), in an editorial headed “Evading Truth and the Law,” says of the campalgn manager: “Most men make mistakes, and it would be casy to forgive Mr. Hays this blunder if he had frankly faced the facts thereafter and told the whole truth to his party and to the public. He did not. Whatever the technicalities, Mr. Hays’ original failure to report on the witness stand the loan made by Mr. Sinclalr satisfied neither the Republican party's obligations to the public nor the intent of the law. Now, in attempting to explain this juggling of Mr. Sinclair's bonds, Mr. Hays only makes matters worse. Mr. Hays’ evasion of the law and the truth has been deplorable.” K K K “The fact that Sinclair had a special deal with Fall, for which he corruptly puid him a large sum, according to court testimony,” concedes the Kansas City Journal (Republican), “could not have been known by Hays. The fact that the bonds advanced came from the juggling of prices in a deal that robbed several ofl companies was like- wise & secret, but recently brought to Hght” ‘The Journal, however, adds: “Had Mr, Hays told all about this long ago, the matter would have been thrashed out, without any danger of the sintster constructions likely to be placed upon it now. In falling to speak in time, Mr. Hays has left a nasty mess on the doorstep of his party on the eve of a presidential campalgn.” “The effect of Will H. Hays' disclo~ sure of the Sinclair benefaction to the Republican party,” according to the New Bedford Standard (Republican), “1s all the worse because there has neen such an obvious attempt to avold it Sincluir’s money wus used to help the party settle for the Harding campalgn, and the fact does not come out anhl seven years later, In the meantime, the country has come to know a good deal about this particular political angel, with no less authoritative a tribunal than the Bupreme Court of the Untted Btates stamping the seal of 1ts disap- proval upon him, * * * Mr, Hays has shed n little new light on an unsavory episode, but the public long ago made up its mind this was n rot bustoess, and 1s Incapable of further resentment., Perhaps the principal consaqaente 18 the damage done to Mr, Hays' reputa- ton for veracity, His explanation of why he did not mention all of Sinelair's benefactions when he testified before is n very poor explanation.” R ‘The_conclusion 18 drawn by the To~ peka Daily Capital (Republican) that while “the Teapot. Dome plot has proven w long trall” yet “the Walsh comimittes may now be nearing the ox- planation of the reluctance, through Four yeurs, of men high i politieal and financial circles to teatity,” The HBaltimore Bun (ndependent Democratic) says: “This s to be suld in Justice to Hays —he does not deserve the entlie blame of these transactions, MHe was not operating in s vaouum, When he obtatned and used money from Binclaty, before wnd after the revelatton of Hinclali's part W the Teapot Done sorruption, he was acting on bohalt of in Sinclair Gift the Republican party. And its responsi- ble leaders were beneficiaries of his acts “These gifts or ‘Joans’ " in the opinion of the Santa Barbara Daily News (Dem- ocratic), “are based on .he theory that somewhere, somehow, there will be a proper recompense for such generosity ® < * This system puts a premium on dishonesty in public life because it pro= vides an incentive to serve private ine terests and reward those who have loosened their purse strings to aid the part, Similarly, the Des Moines Trib- une-Capital (independent Republican) argues: “One can sympathize to some degree with the problem of a campaign manager who has gone in the hole and wants to get out. He may be simple, naive and incidentally hard pressed, and so fail to think about any quid pro quo. But does anybody question that Harry Sinclair thought he was strength- ening himself and securing his interests when he cheerfully ‘bought’ the deficit of the Republican national committee?” As for Hays himself, the Day! independent Democratic) ol “As & prominent national figur sught he not to have come, all quibbling, all technicalities aside, long ago to the help of his Government, as it sought, against obstruction and odds, to protect itself from a great fraud? Ought he not to have done this, notwithstanding the facts would embarrass his party? Would not he and his party, indeed, be far better off today if he had done that?™ x ok K X ‘The Richmond Times-Dispatch (Dem. ocratic) offers the comment: “But why be charitable in dealing with Mr. Ha: In his dealings with the Ser commit- tee, which represented us, the people of the United States, he was not fair or above board. The truth s, Mr. Hays was anxfous to keep from the public & smelly plece of business—a transaction involving the Teapot Dome ofl scandal. Perhaps the former Postmaster ‘General knew what he was about, but those old- fashioned folk who believe in the strict- est truth under oath never again will regard Mr. Hays in the same light as they do other elders of the Presbyterian Church.” The Morgantown New Do- minfon (Independent Democratic) insists that “when the ofl magnate ‘put up' to pay the old bills, the Republican party new that Fall's action in leasing th oll reserves was crooked and yet the tainted money was accepted.” “The Intel of the Republican party and the policles of government for which it stands are inescapably hurt by the revelation,” in the judgment of the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin _(inde- pendent Republican), while the Chicago Tribune (Republican) makes the gen- eral statement: “After the Harding nd- ministration, the Republican party re- formed Itself discrectly, Government wits cleaned up, but the party reforma- tlon has lncked n moral quality. 1t pre- sented virtues of expediency rather than of conselence.” The ‘Tribune, howe holds that "My, Coolldge has been large 1y instrumental fn regaining public con- fidence, he Roanoke Times Demoeratie) conclude Republican candidat be, may be able to clean,’ the country will 3 you help trace down and punish the gullty parties’?” The Charleston Eve- ning Post (Independent Demoeratie) asks: “Has any eminent member of the party stood up and denounced the great conspliracy or called for punishment of the rators? © Not that anybody has he 13 that paper's reply Independent Even though the whoever he may My hands ure Why didn't The Modern Fasy Way, Fro Bome folk who speak in glowing terms of the wonderful ploneer spirit call up a garago to have a tire changoed. chsops et sty No Expert, Frow the Nastville Hanuor A Ohfego ‘Tribune reporter van down and cuptured n ortminal, which fndis cates that he had had 10 experience on the Windy City's police force, - e Co From the Savannah Mo Nows One writer urges that political plat forms should cover all great national questions. They do a0 effectively that You couldn't find one with & probe, ly, | THE LIBRARY TABLE By the Boollover ‘The ex-Kalser appears in Emil Lud- wig's blography, “Wilhelm Hohenzol- lern,” not as the redoubtable war lord, responsible for the World War, but as a loquacious, egotistical neurotie, cager for popularity at home and abroad, but incapable of conceiving or carrying out a settled policy.. The desire throughout life to conceal his physical affliction, an arm crippled from birth, added to his nervous instability, made him do every- thing in an exaggerated fashion, Of the Kaiser at the time of his accession Dr. Ludwig says: “But now, in the new ruler, the consclousness of documen- tary rights was united with a prodiglous self-esteem, and thus, possessed by the idea that he was the instrument of God, too suddenly and much too early called to supreme power, a man of 30 fell a prey fo all the dangers of infatuation, of delusion; Willlam was driven to an ostentatious display of his authority by the wish—perpetual still, even though perhaps unconscious—to betray no sign of physical weakness.” The new Kai- ser’s love of ostentation sometimes took both childish and extravagant forms, as when on his first trip to Vienna and Rome he took as presents “80 diamond rings, 150 silver orders, 50 breastpins, 3 gold photograph mes, 30 gold watches and chains, a hundred caskets and 20 diamond-set Orders of the Eagle. ‘That was the way to be popular every- where.” His interest in the position of Emperor was more concerned with the prerogatives and the publicity than with the duties, and this continued to be true throughout nis life, even during the World War. It became evident to his ministers soon after his accession that nis careful attention to affairs of state could not be expected. His friend, Wal- dersee, wrote: “Quite gradually there is growing a certain disillusionment; his frequent journeys, his restless activity, | his numerous Interests have their nat- ular consequences in a lack of thorough- ness. The cabinet ministers compiain that they can only with difficulty ob- tain an audience, and that then every- thing has to be scttled too cursorily and hastily.” The forcing by the Kaiser of Bismarck’s resignation as chancellor was fully as much because the crotchety old statesman did not flatter the young ruler’s vanity as because of differences of opinion about policies. Throughout his reign the Kai ‘}r':rdln:: to Dr. Ludwig, showed little | development in_ stability and responsi- | bility. Gen. Freyvtag-Loringhoven said of him: “The Emperor, during the war, refused to face facts and mtrenched {himself in optimism. * ¢ * The con- trast between the masterful personality which he tried to assume (and, indeed, was obliged to assume) and the absence of any real force of character grew | Gaily more glaring until the bitter end.” The war was even, Ludwig implies, something of a diversion for him and certainly his own safely and comfort were, with him, a prime consideration. | His days were spent well behind the | lines, in walking, talking, lunching with guests, napping, reading and tracing the military operations on the maps. Five million Germans are fighting to ave five-and-fifty. Behind the lines th preme war lord sits at table ¥ * he now, after the fatigues of the ay, sits with his boon companions— cheery souls. or pretending to be so— efr s . Many readers send in questions, signed only with initials, asking that the answers appear in the newspaper. The space is limited and would not accommodate a fraction of such re- quests. The answers published are ones that may interest many readers rather than the one who asks the question only. All questions should be accom- panied with the writer's name and ad- dress and a 2-cent stamp for reply. Send your question to The Evening Star Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, director, Washington, D. C. Q. Ts there danger of carbon monox- ide poisoning in an automobile of the closed car type?—W. D. A. There is danger if all the win- dows are closed when the engine 1s running. Usually the driver has his window open even when the weather is disagreeable. Should it become neces- sary to close this window, another one should be opened. Q. Is Grace Van Studdiford, the prima donna, living?—L. 8. A. She died January 29, 1927. She sang at the Metropolitan and later turned to light opera, being particularly remembered in Koven and Smith's “The Red Feather. Q. Where is the largest stand of vir- gin Western yellow pine in the United States?—P. G. B. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY. FREDERIC J. HASKI] of virgin Western yellow pine timber. ‘There is estimated to be a total of 20,474.478,000 board feet of lumber in the State. Q. Is King Tut's mummy 5iill in the museum at Cairo?—T, R. H. A. The mummy of King Tut-ankh- Amen was removed by Mr, Carter, under the permission of the Egyptian authori- ties, to the Museum of Cairo for exhibi- tion purposes. The inside of the golden coffin, the golden mask, with the or pall, were also exhibited for and then Mr. Carter replaced tr mummy in the sarcophagus or outside case in the tomb October 31, 1927. Q. What were the names of Julius Caesar’s mother and father?—W. R. T. A. Julius Caesar was born probably 100 B.C. of the purest patriclan an try. His father was Julil Caesar; mother, Aurella. His father was a praetor In the Roman Senate. Q. Are sharks edible?—Y. T. P. A. The Soclete d'Acciimitation of Paris, which endeavors to enlarge the dietary of the French, says that the flesh of the shark is edible and has a taste like tender veal. Q. What Is the correct pron: tof Bellefourche, a town In Sout kota?—C. C. O. A. Arizona has the largest expanse Probably next Wednesday, the House of Representatives will decide the fate of “H. J. Res. 183" (House Calendar, No. 136). ‘That announcement sounds routine and uninteresting, but if the H. J. Reso- lution No. 183 should pass it would mean that not a pound of cotton could be legally exported at any time when there exists a war anywhere upon earth. And when is there a time when the Occident _and Orient are wholly at peace? Since the League of Nations established and undertook to maintain peace upon earth, to men of good W there have been approximately an | erage of three major wars each year— ¥ one once a quarter. That woull e very little, if any, opening for the new Burton resolution No.183 were the rule and law. For the proposed em- portation to the field of hostilities, but “from any place in the United States or any possession thereof % the terri- tory of either belligerent, or to any place—(to any place)—if the ultimate destination of such arms, munitions or implements of war is within the ter- | ritory of either belligerent or any mili- tary or naval force of either bellig- erent.” * % ¥ % Cotton is the most important in- gredient of guncotton and of smokeless gunpowder, or nitrogelatin, and in the making of gas masks. So is export must all be stopped whenever there is a war anywhere, who tell him anecdotes of heroism at the front.”” Nor did he share war dep- | rivatio “While in Brussels the Ger- | man command Wwas requisitioning the | handles and the weather-cock. and commandeering every scrap of cop- | per—while millions of German house- | wives were emptying thelr kitchens of | the glittering utensils handed down to | them through generations—the Em- | peror ordered from Belgian craftsmen | a bath for the royal train in pure | copper, to be made in the workshops | of the Brussels State Railway.” And when, at the end, he fled to Holland, “nobody held the Emperor back—the | saddest of all epllogues.” i * X % ¥ “Tron and Smoke,” the last nove! of | Sheila Kaye-Snuth, shows the conquest | of agricuiture by industry—the dese- | cration of land, which has for genera- | tions been cultivated. planted and graz- ed upon, by the drill and shovel when a vein of coal is discovered deep down | under its meadowed surface. For I sacrificed both the mistress he loved | and the wife he did not love and, dy- | ing, has bound his wife to preserve Yockletts intact. at whatever cost. But son, Sir Aubrey, cares nothing for e land itself and resents the necessity of always spending—spending—upon it | the money he wants for the pleasures of nself and his demanding young wife. So, when coal is found, he joyou turns over Yockletts to a mining com- pany and exults in the thought of his generous rovalties, while his mother, turned out of her country home by Au- brey and his wife, reflects bitterly that by both husband and son she has been sacrificed. | S ex | The history of the Goncourt Acad- emy, founded by the will of Edmond de Goncourt as a protest against the con- servatism and officialdom of the French Academy, and as an encouragement to indevendent writers of realism. is told by the present president of the Go court Academy, J. H. Rosny, the elde in his “Memoires de Is vie Litteraire. By the will of Edmond de Goncourt each of the 10 members of the Gon- court Academy received a pension of 6,000 francs, reduced by litigation to 3,000 francs., Each year the Goncourt prize is awarded by this academy to the writer of & novel of striking erlg- inality and modernity. Twenty-seven writers have received this prize, among them Marcel Proust, Georges Duhamel Henrl Barbusse and the negro. Rene Maran, author of the prize novel “Ba- touala” and the recent novel “Kongo. CEE Kit Carson. hunter, and soldier of the 40s and 50s, is vividly drawn in Willa Catlfer's romance of the early days of New Mexico and Arizona, “Death Comes for the Archbishop.” Father Latour, coming as Bishop to New Mexico in 1850, is referred by the commantant at the fort to the scout Kit Carson, at Taos, for information about the extent of the ferritory in the dloceso and the trails by which it fs traversed. later the bishop and the scout meet under dramatic circum- stances, when Kit Carson takes to his home and his Mexican wife the cower- ing woman, Magdalena, whom the | bishop has tescued from a murderous husband ather Latour had_looked forward to meeting the scout. He had supposed him to be a very large man, of powerful bady and commanding presence. This Carson was not so tall as the bishop himself, was very slight . modest in manner, and he spoke English with a soft, Southern His face was both thoughtful ; anxfety had drawn a perma- nent ridge between his blue eves Un- der his blonde mustache his mouth had W singular vefinement. The Hps were full and deticately modeled. There was something curlously unconselous about | his mouth, reflective, a MHttle melan- choly, and something that suggested a capaclty for tenderness. ‘The bishop felt n quick glow of pleasure i loking at the man. As ho stood thero in his buckskin clothes, one felt fn him stan- dards, loyaltles, & code which fs not casily put into words, but which is in- stantly felt when two men who live by 1t como together by chance.” Y trapper. Count Hermaun von Keyserling, au- thor of “The Travel Diary of & Phi- losopher,” who 15 to lecture tn Wash- fngton soon, has & brother who 1y also ® writer, Count Eduard von Keyserlin i3 the author of “Twilight," published 0 transtation - America last year, and & volume of three stortes, “The Curse of the Tarniits” which has recently aps poared. T addition to the title story, he storles are "My Love Afatr” and 1 guide | | bargo. Corn is king for the Mississippi lley. But corn makes glucose, which is an essential of mu no corn may be exporied during any- ody's war, either as corn or corn products. (Messrs McNary and Haugen will take note and add another “equal- ization clause” to their farm relief bill.) The resoiution provides against ex- portation of: (13) Poifsonous gases, acids, or any | other articles or inventions prepared for use in warfare. (14) Component parts of the articles enumerated above if capable of being used in the assembly or repair of the said articles or as spare parts. That includes arsenic. Of course, arsenic is a poison; it is also a medicine" and an essential in industry and agricul- ture to such an extent that thousands {of tons are used annually in smelters and in insecticides. ‘Without adequate insecticides to keep |down the farmers' pests, there would be no crops. Every entomologist testifies e | s . e | of Yockletts, Sir Humphrey Mallard has | oy, (e Warfare between man and in sects is never halted by any armistice, and some sclentists are so pessimistic about the pests as to predict that ulti- mately the world will be captured by them, and mankind will be annihilated. Other scientists are more optimistie, and assure us that science wil master the insects, provided it - everlastingly at it Sometimes, when there appears dan- ger that a desirable species of birds or antmals is becoming exterminated by civilization, a remedy is sought by establishing & “refuge”—a great area of safety where the weakened species may breed and increase and replenk the earth. But if insecticides are cut off that will result in a world-wide “refuge” for insect pests until the Mosaic plague of Egypt will be repeated, not only abroad, but, with the multi- plied energy of the “refuge” increase, the pests will overflow into America as well. Cotton must be treated with calcium arsenate, fruit trees must be treated with arsenate, efficiently and abun- dantly. That means that the world must receive thousands of tons of ar- senate and other arsenic compounds. But arsenic is used in making gases for war purposes, hence the Burton resolution, says high chemical au- thority, would stop its flow in com- merce, where today it is an important and necessary article, indisputably legitimate. "rhv same must be said of cyanide, that must be used in treating its export would be wholly stopped. Cyanide is pnse quantities for extn Id be mining 1 it be take: from comme! Chlorine gas is serfous in {ts effects | when persons without gas masks are exposed o it—as thousands of British were at Ypres, when the enemy first violated his solemn pledge of The Hague ement and poured the poison xas | the battleield. 1t is not enough, | ing to veterans i and out of | Congress, to have vo down the Bur- | ton amendment o appropriation | DI which would have deprived Ameri- | can soldiers of gas masks, but comes the propasal to fordid the e tation of chlorine—from which, 1t true, chlorine gas IS made, but without | chloride, water for drinking and cook- | whether in our large cities or any Army camp, would be very gerous, There is as much chlo in peace as in_war, but under articles 18 and 14 ¢ cdild not be shipped ou side of America whenever there is a war fn the world It i produced by eloctrolysis of salt. in western New | York, tn West Virginta and Michigan Not only is it essential as a disintecs tant and for chlwmating sold and silver ores, but for bleaching all eotton | gonds white, | o owoa As to acids, there s no country maore dependent on producing acids than i) the United States. Astanishing s 8 | the statement, 1t i3 declared by no Jees | an authority than Dr. Charles L Par- | Son, secretary of the American Chems | foal . Soclety (the largest chemical | soclety i the world), that T8 per cent | of articles used for food and in the W= dustries, during peace as well as wai contain sulphurte oF nigto ackd: vet | both wolds would be embargoed o | expart 1t there be war i the world, anywhero, In making soap, glyverin 18 essential, but if to glyoerin a little W ackd 5 added we have nitro- glyeerin -a Nigh explosive, Yet nitros lyeerine ix vequired tn industry, i exs cavating, i fanming and mining, How | can there be fload vontral without w? | ove aceo! t & ‘Father and o The traditional suv- roungdings of the Huuuut\ aristooracy Jorm the background of all the atories, And nitre-glyvering absarbed o woed | Pulp makes it These are selling our surplus cotton abroad, if | bargo relates not merely to stopping ex- | But cotton is not alone in that'em- | ions; therefore | Ll nemy UE A fow Eypieal examples | frenches. A. Tt is pronounced as though s “Bellfoosh.” BACKGROUND OF EVENTS BY PAUL V. COLLINS. of the legitimate and essential demands for chemicals which would be barred proposed the ons. from commerce, under the resolution, lest some belligerent ge “makings” of some kind of mu . P The chairman of the foreign zJairs committee of the House, Mr. Porter, exempts the accredited author of the resolution, Mr. Burton. from respons bility for the clauses covering the phases above referred to; Mr. Porter explains | that he added that part, and took from the Geneva conference plan. B | that _conference, to which Represen ive Burton was a delegate, Great PBritain den of the League standing in the Unlted States policies, | according to both scientific and military authorities. No hearings on the resolution have been given by the committee, since both Chairman Porter and Mr. Burton are experts on the subject and needed no outside advice. The resolution has been “indorsed” by the committee, but sev- eral members did not vote. * % % * The project to prohibit the sale and exportation of chemicals and munitions in time of war was protested very em- phatically by all the smaller nations represented at the Geneva conference. They argued that that would give an unfair advantage to the great POWers, ! which were ‘able to manufacture muni- tions, if the small and weak nations. which could not keep up such industries | in time of peace, were prohibited from Ibuy‘mg' the means of defense when ai- tacke | “Even in the United States, it is au- thoritatively said, 95 per cent of tae munitions are bought by our Govera- ment from private producers, and if their capacity is crippled, in peace, by shutting off their exports—not of muni- tions, but of ingredients which are iden- tical, whether for munitions or for com- mercial purposes—then the Amencrn manufacturers would be in no condi- tion to supply our own means of de- fense against war attacks. ? The United States was the only great power which declined to sign The Hague peace agreement barring asphyxiating gases; Germany signed it, and broke her pledge at Ypres. Can she be trusted never to break a similar pledge in the future? There was an article in the Living Age. April 11, 1925, written by Ludovic Naudeau, from which the following is extracted: “It is of little practical value to com- pute just how many months it would take Germany, if she were free from military inspection, to re-equip herself completely for war. You will note that I say ‘months,’ for our military expertd assure me that it would not require much more than a year. ~Is not every one of the 15,000 chemi« cal factories in Germany an arsenal in itself? During the last war | fourths of the explosives used were sup- plied by private factories out of their regular line of products.” The Hague convention of 1807 tinctly declared that “there is n son for prohibiting or interfert commerce of a neutral must be borne in mind that the articles, acids or cotton. copper or steel. which would be stopped m | commerce whenever there is war anv= where, but that is used even more peaceful commerce than for war p Poses, and there is absolutely no & ence in the ingredients. * ® % % ca refuses to supp! three y mun! SOvernments, but never have we put an embargd on American exports to gove ernments or to general commerve, ex- cept once, when, in 1808, there was declared an embargo, as a m combating Great itain upon the seas. No expo Wwere permitted. ent upon commerve, s as) 0 redel! 5 shrinkage of val Bayard of De! St bargo the Na al Treasury $15.000.000 and the entire o than $40,000.000, As our populats ¥ 6.000.000 and much, opponents of th TO0 1S even greater N prop compared ‘with other s W propar nated, whilte have w the sa ITED STATES IN WORLD WAR Len \'c.-:..l—;u Todav, Voluntary enlistments in the Regular Army continue, * * ¢ Three hundret and elghiy-six thousand six and foriy=aiy, more than & der requited to bring the War sirength, have eniisied I9LT, * * % Secretar With Sttt af seven perso French poart an purely milis W conter with Pershing and ATy projects i War - Departiment that American forces ate now i fur sevtars--Changagne, O Aes Dames, Lorrame and Abaee. Ads Wits that American forves have doen CUSTARELY engaged, With their a, duily extendiig, And that w heir e ChMl sectdl they oocuny At deast fou and w half miles of frons, Nappy and cheertul despite th treiiches and are wholesaine food ¢ 3 hours Americant artilry has Vigs Arously Dondarnded ferfatin towns W e TOAT arvas, Toads and Qunmunivadng trenches of the Qermans opgvaite the Thul seetor with excellent resulis. Thelr ACCUTAtE shellig soatters thoops o Dilleis ufi denalishes wooupled Apr