Evening Star Newspaper, March 12, 1928, Page 8

8 Igi(’.l‘I-IE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C IMONDAY........March 12, 1028 — e THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor #The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Oftie 11th &1 and Pennavivania Av New York Office: st 47nd Chicago OfMce: Tower Ruilding. Furopean Office: 14 Rogent St., London, England. in the City. . 43¢ per month s Star . 80¢ per mcrth Rate by Carrier With The Eveming Star The Evening and twhen 4 Sunda; The Evening 3 S ~63¢ pAr month e per copy §is unday Sta: e ¥ SIAF. . sovesbane 4o at the end ot e e sent in by mail or telephone, Rate by Mail—Payable in A Maryland and Virgini: Daily and Su 1 yr., $9.00: 2 mo. not ot and also the local news publiched n. All righte of publication ©of special diepatehes herein are also reserved. = The Transfer of a Great Treasure. The people of the United States have entered into & rich legacy. With thei formal inaugural opening of the famed | W. A. Clark art collection at the Cor- coran Gallery Saturday night, and with the first public inspection thereof yes- | terday, the lovers of art in this Nation | have become possessed of an inherit-{ ance which throughout the years to come will prove a source of gratifica- tion and of inspiration. The wires of press associations carried news of the event into every corner of the country. Through the collection's disposition to this gallery its enjoyment by the people of this entire community was best assured. By virtue of its perma- nent location here in the Capital City the interests of all the people of this Nation were best served. It is adequately and harmoniously displayed in accordance with the express desire of its donor, because he possessed the wise forethought to place it in the custody of an institution with which for decades he had been intimately and generously connected and in whose ideals and ability he had the utmost confidence. It was a striking combi- pation of prescience, of extreme liber- , ality and of practical utilization of al- ready established and thoroughly tested instrumentality. The accommodating interplay of tes- tamentary wisdom on the part of the late Scnator Clark, of striking gener- osity on the part of his widow and his daughters, and of desire and ability on the part of the direct legatee, the gal- Jery, cheerfully to accede to the stipu- lations of the collector have brought sbout an establishment in the world of art of which all concerned may be proud. The publi¢ shares in this pride. 1t is difficult to praise too highly the collection and its new home. It would be equally difficult to praise too highly the public-spirited generosity of such surviving members of Mr. Clark’s fam- ily as have made promptly possible the enjoyment of this collection by the public which he served during his life- time. Of necessity the Corcoran G Jery must have declined his legacy but for the supplementary gracefully ten- dered good offices of Mrs. Clark and of his daughters, Mrs. Mary Clark de PBrabant, Mrs. Katherine Clark Morris 2nd Miss Huguette Marcelle Clark. Its existing edifice was already filled. Its tncome was limited. It enjoyed, how- ever, three assets which were efficacious in bringing to 1t the necessary fourth. These were the ardent desire to pos- | ters for the transaction of their bus! jother than to make the best possible prayer to rehabilitate Chicago, with its gunmen, gangs and corruption. It has fallen into & low estate indeed. Prayer will help, of course, but it should be more unanimous than was the case in yesterday's demonstration. While one hundred thousand people prayed for aid a million were going about their divers businesses and some few thou- sands were cooking up new schemes for erime. To a less degree, perhaps, the rest of the country feels the same way about the city that the praying Chi- cagoans do, and it might be suggested that the next time a day is to be st aside the rest of the United States be vequested to participate. There are many who would gladly pray for Chi- cago’s reform. N Center Market Plans. The explanation that has been given that the notice to Center Market deal- ers does not explicitly mean their ouster from that establishment on the first of January next, but is intended merely as & warning that they must eventuall perhaps in two years, 1. other quar- ness, somewhat eases the situation re- garding this institution, the fate of which is a matter of considerable con- cern to a large number of Washing- tonfans, both venders and buyers of food supplies. It is, however, not de- sirable to take advantage of the longer and somewhat indefinite term of tenure that is indicated by the explanation, arrangements for continuing the main- tenance of a large public market at some other point than that which has| been occupied for more than hall al century. | It has already been indicated that a plan 1s under way for the construc- tion of a large public retail market on another site under private auspices, and | the statement is made that & number of present stall holders at Center Mar- ket have signed tentative contracts to take space in this new building when it is erected. This indicates an expec- tation that there will be no move for the reproduction of Center Market as a Government or District institution. Certainly a private enterprise can be more speedily and surely organized than a continued public establishment. Ex- perience amply demonstrates the diffi- culties and delays incident to legisla- tion looking to the enactment of laws| relative to market emplacements. Al- though the necessity for the replace- ment of the Farmers' Market to make way for the new Internal Revenue Building has been known for a year and a half, the legislative authority for the new establishment has not yet been granted. It is reassuring to know that there is a move for a private enterprise that will assure the Capital community of a large, modern, convenient and effi- cient public retail food center. The public retail market has not lost its value as a result of changes in eco- nomic conditions. It is still a conven- fence to the food buyers, as witness the reaction and protest to the proposal to close the Western Market. It affords opportunity for comparison of prices and qualities, it offers a wide range of choice, and even in these days of telephonic orders there is still a.large volume of personal marketing, sufficient to keep an institution of this kind busy on a profitable basis. R Bathing Beauty Contests. ‘The announcement that Atlantic City has held its last bathing beauty con- test will evoke no tears of sOrrow ex- cept possibly from a few publicity-mad girls who had high hopes of parading along the Boardwalk to the cheers of the multitude, but who are better off in their niche in the old home town. The public is fed up with such spec- tacles and there is a well defined belief sess the collection, the unreserved dif- position to display it in full accordance with its former owner's wishes, and the complete professional ability wherewith ccessfully to function as ;—uusu-e for the people, who, In the final analysis, are the legatees. Mrs. Olark @nd her daughters promptly provided what was needed —the spacious and harmonious new wing, skillfully de- signed, wherein on Saturday the First Citizen of the Land was the first guest 10 enter, o be followed, it is hoped, throughout the years by millions of his fellow countrymen 1n the words of the president of the custodian institution, “The beautiful addition was erected as a tribute o Benator Clark by his widow and his daughters, Their action has saved this grest collection not only for the Cor- coran Gallery and the National Capital, but for the ¢ ¢ Nation and for future generations “The Netion will hold Benetor Clark's name in teful remembrance, and o & scarcel degree the graceful gen- erosity o nis wise snd beneficent plan Lo ? these women, but for whom | might | 1% contests do no good. Their poten- that the aping of Atlantic City's an- nual pulchritudinous display by small towns has resulted in thel spread of a none too uplifting form of entertain- ment. Atlantic City is evidently through with this type of amusement and now that the inspiration has gone there may be a general falling off throughout the country, & conditicn devoutly to be sought. Beauty contests are one thing, but bathing beauty contests are another, Both kinds are held to achieve pub- licity, but the former do far less dam- age than the latter. It mey be all very well to take a chance of ruining a girl's isposition by flattering her with a srown of beauty, but it is a horse of mntirely different color when the same ansophisticated lass is forced to parade, | in scanty sttire, before ogling habitues | of such affairs. The human body 1s beautiful and is a work of art, say those who defend these spectacles, but art s far from the thoughts of some of those who witness them Bo, from every standpoint, Atlantic City’s decision will be applauded. Bath- tialities are all the other way and never have been fulfilled g R Before he can be expected o restore the glories of ancient Rome, Mussolin! 15 expected by kis constituency to find & way v make the present civilization el Lindbergh's mother ia & fiying en- When admonished 0 quit jon he heeds the old song and “sl- er's advice . -v— ways takes mot Praying Chicago. smns the other day tried & periment w rid the oty of . und corruption. With more than nundred thousand persons teking t wside for prayer, isters in ull parts of the Lake d upon divine guidance roeongregutions ok &n vakened sense of eivic duty w the end thst Chicago would be rescued from the “morass” which hes enguifed it In partioular, prayers were asked for & Jurge regls\ration of YoLers next week end wlw st the primery elections on the 10th of April Chicago_is U second Americen ity o call for divine wid U rescue 3t from lerabile humsn conditions, Denver wies 3 i connection with her Lrattic ond usd the slogan “Pruy instead of psy!’ 1L wes & no- Ucesble fact, however, that soon sfer this plen was Jusugursted conditions Yeceme 55 much woree that pedestrians were the only ones who aid sny prey- once vinlators 2. 6nd, eccording U el mecounts, they | natio [« keeping it Up £ven now. 1 will undoubledly lake more young womanhood is far better off with- {out them | It is the privilege of Mr. Willls to | assume that in sny discussion of politi- | eal prospects Obio must naturally be | accorded a loud volce, | The Hopi Quits the Race. | The spelling of the name of Nieholas | Quamawebu, member of the Hopl tribe | |of Indians of Arizons, has varled from | dny to day s dispatches came along in- 1!mm,y.g the public o0 the progress of 1he Cont-to-coast, marathon racers who |took ot in Celifornia recently and ;)m‘.'l‘ their face oL toward the grand- and uf the Yankee ftadiom i New York. Nicholas' stride, however, did not vary. A few daye ngo he held the advantage in total elopred time, and | subsequent <toites have told of m pest- ton well up mwong the Jeaders, bhut now comes ‘he unveleome news 1hat [ he has hud to dron out of the vace | Numerous nationslites are partiol- | psting in his race, although of the 1199 startere many have fullen by the ! wayside, Finns, Celts, Britons end pluin Americans of enduring sinews and Lample Jung power are stiving for in- aividual and for recisl glory, 10 would [ hve been peculiarly nppropriate if this [ Hopl, most distinctly and genuinely | Amertesn of all the entrants, should | have won the prise | Many wil recall the thidll that ran THE FEVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, 1896, & Greek who had started from the actual spot left by Pheldippides was the first to enter the stadium. That one of the ancient Hellenie blood should win this particular contest secmed just about right to everybody, even includ- ing. later on, his competitors. Ages before the radlo, the telegraph, the stagecoach or the pony express; for untold centuries before the Con- quistadores brought to these shores the first horses, bronzed rulers and chief- tains sent messages of importance swiftly and, but for the chance en- counter with wild beast or savage enemy, surely by just such courlers as Nicholas. Clad in little or nothing, with sustenance carried at the belt, for mile after mile they ran when they could and walked or rested only when they must, over mountains, through forests and canyons and across deserts. But in this modern specimen of his race, while the results of this ancestral en- durance and training were for a short time apparent, he scems to have been uncqual to the task he undertook and "[fell by the wayside, to the sympathetic regret of many who hoped to sce a real “American” wift sthe contest. ot Grade-Crossing Removal. Through the medium of the new four-cent gas tax and other revenues, coupled with a realization of the in- creasing menace of the grade crossing, Maryland is making gratifying progress in the elimination 6f this bugaboo of motoring. Under the construction pro- gram of the State Roads Commission, just announced for this year, four grade crossings will be abolished. Of particular interest to Washingtonians Is the fact that first on the list is the dangerous Intersection of road and rail at Hyattsville, where the Baltimore- Washington boulevard will be switched to a new roadbed over a bridge. In no other feature of road building !s the ratio so direct between life and death as that of grade-crossing re- moval. Roads may be narrow, roads may be rutty and dangerous, and roads may be bullt over mountains and ledges with some assurance that accidents will be few, but when & road and a railroad track intersect, apparently there is no power in the world strong enough to prevent the fatalities that inevitably occur. Every grade crossing removed means the saving of life, and every crossing that remains constitutes an invitation to disaster. The Utopia of motoring, when road and rall are forever separated, may never be reached, but money spent to attain the goal is in no sense wasted. In eliminating four crossings during the coming year Maryland ranks high in the list of States which can point to the safety of their roads as a boon to motoring. FemReE T Investigation of King Tut's tomb reveals lavish wealth, accumulated under conditions which offered no op- portunity for extravagance in cam- paign funds. It is an investigation which at least offers no suggestion of political scandal. e e A merger may eventually regulate fares so that the passenger will at least be relieved of the necessity of trying to count out small metal change on a swaying platform. et In Wall Street, General Motors quo- tations are regarded as showing re- markable promptness in answering either the brake or the accelerator. ——— et Pharyngitls, laryngitis, bronchitis and threats of pneumonia are reported from all parts of the globe. The grip germ 1s our leading internationalist. e —e———— Atlantic City is tired of “Beauty Con- tesf ‘Too many of the winners have proved “beautiful, but dumb.” et Some aviators should be required to consult more with their mechanicians and less with their publicity experts. ——ve—s SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON, Makin' Trouble. Makin' trouble. What's the good, In a peaceful neighborhood? Yet it seems the only way To enjoy the spotlight’s ray. Happiness we freely find. It does not content the mind Which has felt the innate rage For the center of the st 50 & plan we boldly frame, To invade the haunts of fame, Makin' trouble where we can-— Bend along the camera man! Preserving the Hat's Respectability, “Have you thrown your hat into the ring? “No," anawered Senator Sorghum. “I must hesitate when the most influential ring in my town 1s a bootleg ring.” Unforeseen Values. We vow that art 18 beautiful, And wonder if today Some fllustrator may, In avocation dutiful, Produce an art display, Though valued now at very little more ‘Than credit at the nearest grocery store, In future years, presented in a gallery, May b worth more than many a lordly iy Jud Tunkins says & bootlegger takes a big profit and still wanta to be re- garded us some new kind of Santa Claus, Vuith, “Are you going to buy & new car?" “No" answered Mr. Chuggins, "1 (st have faith in the salesman who told me what & wonderful machine 1 was getting that would run me far fnto the future.” “An ancient idol,” sald Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “Is nO more passive- ly unresponsive 1o prayers than a mod- ern politiclan Bheptics, ‘The early robin has been heard Bomewhere, dull care forsaking And once agaln our minds With fears of “nature faking” Mene “And memory 18 the only thing that wrief can call her own,” sang the village SO “What are you talkin' ‘hout?” asked Uncle B Bottletop. "My mint pateh?” athrred I not anly over sl Greece, hut over ajl when, on the occasion of the st vevival of the marsthon rece st the Olymplc games held in Alhens in “Bunday religlon,” sald Ungle Eben, ain' Mable 10 do much goos i oonly WOrks une day & week," MONDAY, THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. The plain necessity for giving ex- plicit directions to children 1s shown in the following ancedote: A small tiger-striped kitten, with a face exactly like that of a lion cub, rambled into the back yard. Its countenance was so_lconine that we immediately dubbed it Leo. Leo, however, was affiicted with what appeared to be the mange on the top of its head. The desirability of having him around was lessened immensely by this fact, owing to the proximity of the other feline friends of the household. Sceing small Jeanne, we offered her the kitten, and said, “Get your mamma to give you some vaseline and rub it between its ears Then you will be doing a good decd, just like a Boy Scout.” Jeanne went away happily, only to return in 15 minutes with Leo un- anointed. amma wouldn't let me have any ne,” she explained, putting the 1 down in our back yard again. L Leo, happy in his ignorance of the cruel fate he had missed, purred con- tentedly. Yet if the child had managed to get some “gas,” thus menacing her own and the kitten's health, no one in the world could have been blamed for the accident. ‘The incident shows how careful onc must be, in making statements to other persons, not alone to children, perhaps. ‘The trouble comes in the assumption on the part of the first party that the party of the second part understands everything that he says, when the plain fact may be that the latter does not “get it” at all. ‘There are so many factors involved that oral explanations ought to be made “air-tight,” 1f possible. in order to avoid the slightest chance for a slip-up. Every one has heard jokes in which a doctor orders such-and-such treatment for a patient, only to have it misunder- stood in some simple, blundering fashion. Much the same misunderstanding may occur, however, in any walk of life. through an inference on the part ?‘( one of the two parties to a conversa- lon. Recently a Washingtonian was having some work done in his home. He hired a man of Itallan birth to change the ga kitien stones in his fireplace, these men being | particularly adept at such work. Maybe you have watched one of these craftsmen place the stones in the outer wall of a house. He will select a stone, fit it in, stand off and gaze at it, shake his head, take it out. try another one. Well, this particular ‘man signified that he would return on the morrow to complete the job, but that he would need a half pound of a certain material, ‘The owner could not understand what the substance might be, so finally asked him if he could write the name for him. This the_mason did in fine r“ound hand, and "here is what he ime block.” This was what it seemed to the owner, at any rate, and he pronounced it so. His pronunciation was met with a Asr:llllng :.pprg\'nL he started out t 4 blo'(:,kt." . 0 hunt for “lime er trying several firms in vi he finally stumbled upon & man ‘who put two and two together. “Oh, you want lamp black!"” sald he. e These homely examples show how, with the best faith i’ the ‘world, one may give another an entirely “wrong steer,” through failure to make sure that the other thoroughly understands everything that is said to him. When one understands the huge compass of the English language, and how so many of its words sound altke, and how many idlomatic expressions it uses, 1t Is not to be wondered at that 7 every one does not comprehend every statement in exactly the same way. There are more than 400,000 words in the larger dictionaries, and these are being added to constantly. Of course, no one human being uses more than a tithe of them, but even at iis smallest the average vocabulary is pretty good sized enough for plenty of misunderstanding to enter. Perhaps it is the infinite varicty of combtnations of words that helps in this difficulty. ‘Then, too, idiomatic ex- pressions may not always be taken in the same veln. One could not blame a forcigner, for instance, for not under- standing many of our expressions. One of the Boy Scout laws runs to the effecct that a Scout must o & good turn to som~ one cvery day.” What does it mean, “to do a good turn"? Every one knows offhand what it | means. yet very few, perhaps, could ex- | plain “exactly “that "“doing of a good turn” expression. It is a part of the heritage of our language. That is why nothing can take the place of early instruction; why gram- mar ought to be taught in the schools; why language study, especlally of de- rivatives, is good. why reading of the good books is Indispensable in true education. To get the fullest enjoyment from reading, a man must instinctively, it were, know his words. He must “get” them without effort, as he reads. He may not even be able to define a word, but the very “feel” of it in its place will be comprehensible to him as he reads, because his training has been such as to allow him to do this. * K K % Take the word “duplicate.” Here is a word often used wrongly, because the person who uses it has not had cnough experience with words to know when it is or is not correct. It is, loosely, & synonym for the fol- lowing: Copy. counterpart, facsimile, imita- tion, likeness, replica, transcript. Al of these, however, are merely synonyms in the large sense of the term. * They are not exact synonyms, by _any means. The late Dr. James C. Fernald (who, by the way, once lectured at the Wash- ington Y. C. A) had the following differentiations to make: “A copy is as nearly like the original as the coj t has power to make it; a duplicate is exactly like the original; a carbon copy of a typewritten docu- ment must be a duplicate; we may have an inaccurate copy, but never an inaccurate duplicate. appearance; a duplicate is the same the original in substance and effect: a facsimile of the Declaration of Inde- pendence s not a duplicate, “A facsimile of a key might be quite useless: a duplicate will open the lock. A counterpart exactly corresponds to another object, but perhaps without de- sign, while a copy is intentional. “An imitation is always thought of as inferior to the original: as, “an imi- tation of Milton." A replica 1s a copy of a work of art made by the maker of the original. “In law, a copy of an instrument has in itself no authority; the signatures, as well as other matters, may be copied; & duplicate is really an original, con- taining the same provisions and signed by the same persons, so that it may have in all respects the same force and effect: a transcript is an officlal copy, authenticated by the signature of the proper officer and by the seal of the appropriate court. “While strictly there could be but one duplicate, the word is now extended to an indefinite number of exact coples. | Reproduction is chiefly applied to live ing organisms.” WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Some basic principles are involved in Herbert Hoover's bearding of the llons’ den In Ohlo and Indiana. In determining to fight “favorite sons” there, the Secretary of Commerce is giving their respective Republican vot- ers a classic chance to show whether | they prefer a presidential nominee who is admittedly a statesman rather than a politiclan %o one as admittedly 1~ ticlan rather than a statesman. Both Senator Willls and Scnator Watson have rendered their home common- wealths effective service. Willls served two terms in the House of Representa- tives and one term in the Ohlo gov- ernorship, and is now in his second Senate term. Watson has been In- diana’s handy man at Washington for a generation, including a long career in the House and his three terms in the Scnate. The Hoosler's loyalty to the Republican party has been of the wheclhorse kind that wins elections. But Presidents, most Americans feel, must be men of something more than State-wide or political background, and with constructive achicvements of na- tional scope to their credit. Ohlo in April and Indiana in May will have opportunities to show whether they subscribe to that theory, or whether they think that men of mainly local merit are adequate presidential tmber. That, at any rate, is the significance which Washington attaches to the Ohlo and Indiane primary contests. L Senator Willls, 1f any fmportance 1s to be 1 to hiy clection figu in 1920 and 1926, 15 not the vol in Ohfo that he used to be, carried nto the Senate, elght years ago on the crest of the ing landslide Willls' majority was in a total poll of nearly 2,000,000 votes, But in 1026 he secured re-election by only 88,138 against former Senator Atlee Pomerene, Democrat, Senator Watson's drawing power at the Indiana polls has undergone an cven more severe slump. ‘The 1920 Republican avalanche swept im" into his second term in the Ben- ate by & majority of 167,660, the RBeveridge boy-orator type, Albert Stump, Watson pulled through by a meager majority of 11383 Plus “the Jocal enmities they've mopped up in the course of thefr successful careers, these evidences of slipping strength at the polls give the manngers of both Willis and Watson plenty of food for thought aow ok Politically minded Washington s, of c d motives into the 3 Coolidge s under consideration an invitation to pitch the 1928 Summer White House at Asheville North Carollna his cone to be regarded the most Republican Htate in - Dixle Anti-Smith enthustasty st it firat among those “sure” o go G. O, P this year it “Al” fs the D atie cnndi- date for Prestdent. ‘The Harding-Cool- Idge vote i North Caroling i 1020 wis 282,000 out of w total poll of 637,000 and Davis carrled 1t over Coolldge In 1024 by dess thisn 100,000, With s vast textile trade, the Old North tate 15 probably as protectionist in its tarift sympathics as New England, Zealandia, the mugnificent country place outside of Asheville, which has been tendered o the Presdent and Mys. Coolidge, 15 the property of Philip 8. Honry, once sher, but for more than 30 years a putriotie eltizen of the United Hintes My ry wias tuken to the White Houne by Benutor Overman of North Caroling and personully placed hin entublishment sl the Frestdent's dis- ponsl, ERC Uncle Bam has only un academio In- terest i John Bull's woes fn Avabla, Kaypt and other embittered polnts I he Near Eant. We have connilar offi gers ut places lke Hagdad and Je e and"socrodit’ u ministor ‘o' Ghiro n 1926, running against ‘a young Democrat of | But our political concern with the Is- |lamic world is limited. Since last De- ‘ccmbn American capital has had a | substantial fosthold in Irak (formerly | Mesopotamia), in consequence of a deal between five American oil companies and the Turkish Petroleum Co. The Standard companles of New York and New Jersey, the Pan American Petro- leum & Transport Co., the Atlantic Refining Co. and the Gulf Oil Corpora- tion now participate actively with the British, French and Dutch concerns which were already in the rich Irak flelds. Each of the foreign groups cone trols 23%; per cent of the Turkish com- pany’s shares. oo ox “Bill” Borah's Idaho State Soclety speech in Washington Saturday night sounded mighty like a presidential can- didacy announcement. If the idolizing Gem . Staters who pald the Senator homage had been the delegates consti- tuting the Kansas City convention, Borah would have been nominated by acclamation. Voters who want shorter and better platforms would have de- lighted In Borah's brief and brave set of prineiples. Here they are: 1, Rejec- ton In toto of Bolshevism and Fascism as substitutes for the American theory of government; 2, party issues that the people are iInterested In; 3, aboli- tion of boss rule and hand-picked dele- gates to national conventions; 4, plain statements by parties and by presis dential candidates on burning ques- tions of the hour; 5, ruthless con- fdemnation of tainted campaign funds. Borah boasted that he's voted “No" foftener than any man fn Congress dur~ ing the past 22 years, and regrets hav- ig cast only one such negative LR Senator Arthur Capper, Republican, of Kansas, recalls that Theodore Roose~ velt saw the American farm crists com- ing and was filled with an earnest de- sire to confront it. Capper declares that “T. R.'s" untimely passing “was a real loss to the farmers of the United States” More than any other national ol ys, Roosevelt under- difficulties and be- t to expect relief at the Nation's hands. “I know this to be Henator Capper has just told a New York audience, “because I was one of the last men in public life to talk with Roosevelt He then expressed to me his be that the farmer was not on a falr and equal footing with indus- try and business, and that hard times were uhend for our rural population A% & construetive national agricul- poliey was adopted " L Yet another Amerlean “made” the forelgn service, She s Miss France Ellzaboth — Willls of Motropolis, 11, who has just been ap- polnted viee consul at Valparalso, Ohile, aftor pasatng the Btate Department ex- aminations and a distinguished career fn college, both as a student and as a cacher. A wradunte of Kempel Hall, At Kenosha, Wis, and an A, B of 8tan- ford University, followed by two vears of post-gruduate work at the Univeraity of Helghum, in Brussels, Miss Willls was an nstraetor n history at Goucher Col- lege, Bultimore, and luter an asststant profossor of poittical solence at Vassar. Just 10 devating hersell to study for the forelun sevvice, Miss Willls was a volunteer worker for the International crenfell Assoclation’s health-education campaign In - Newfoundland, Uncls Ham's newest diplomat will not be 30 until next your e e ) ‘- All On One Road e Hargiabing Pt gl has reproduction, | “A facsimile is ltke the original In| | ighty per cent of the veglateved ears it e world United Slates But how do { of & Bunds are i th A ‘ all wlho aame ol | the enlisted man! MARCH 12, 1928. World War Enlisted Men Entitled to Consideration To the Editor of The Star: A bill now pending in Congress to give emergency World War officers the same monetary retirement pay now paid Regular Army officers isn't what it appears to be on its face. It dis- criminates a2gainst that personnel that won the war—the enlisted man. Dur- ing the war the emergency officer 100 the pay of the officer in the Regular Army—the enlisted man’ got $30. For every officer that manned the trenches, 100 enlisted men did likewise. Herolsm and service were no more the part of the officer than of the soldier. Both received the same fire, the same wounds and the same percentage of disabllity—except that the ratio of wounded enlisted men was a thousand- fold greater than of officers. Under cxisting law Congress has been equi- | table and just in the same proportions to both. This proposed law will wip2 out that equity and equality by mate- rially increasing the disability pension of the emergency officer over that paid Now, ask you, why should that be? If the officer is o get it, why not the boys that nced it more, the enlisted men? Their in- duction into the service was the same, their service to the country identical— their disabilities no different. Comparing Regular Army officers with emergency officers, as is being done, is camoufiage, and aside from the real principle involved in the proposed passage of this bill. Let us have equal- ity before the court in adjudging ben- efits to the deserving. CHARLES B. COSTELLO. - Old Record Carries Chevy Chase Name To the Editor of The Star: In your issue of March 1, on page 9, in an article headed “Rites Tomorrow for A. Y. Bradley,” your paper states! “The eclder Mr. Bradley later settled on a farm which he named Chevy Chase, and it was from the farm that the suburb derived its name. A patent s In existence “to Joseph Belt for 560 acres of land called Chevie Chase, dated 12 January, 1721, from Charles Absolute Lord Propry of the Provinces of Maryland and Avalon, Lord Baron of Baltimore &c. to per- sons to whom these presents shall come Greeting: in our Lord God Everlasting, Know Yee that for and in considera- tion that Joseph Belt of Prince Georges County, &c., &c.” I have a copy of the full patent, if you would like to publish it. ‘The residence of Col. Joseph Belt was pulled down about 1895 and was a sub- stantial brick house located about 300 yards southeast of Chevy Chase Circle. Col. Joseph Belt was a colonel in‘| command of a regiment of colonial militia and several times aided Col. Ninian Beall to keep the Susquehanocks in order. He marricd Col. Ninian Beall's daughter, Esther. 1 am satisfled that Mr. Bradley's family will not care to be erroneously credited with giving Chevy Chase its name, so I hope you will correct the error. F. M. M. BEALL. PHILOSOPHIES BY GLENN FRANK ‘The perversity of human nature fs such that we are foréver forgetting the things we should remember and re- membering the things we should forget. As I write it scems that a speech by Hindenburg may land Europe back in a bitter and bootless discussion of war guilt and war-time atrocities. In a letter to the Phillippians, St. Paul, as Edgar J. Goodspeed translates him, said, “Forgstting what is behind me and straining toward what lles ahead, I am pressing toward the goal. <+ ¢ Let as many of us, therefore, as ature have this attitude.” his gospel of the mature attitude might well be pondered by Europe and by all of us before we slump back into 2n orgy of charges and counter-charges about the immoralities and insanities of war time, And along with this sage sentence from St. Paul we might well reread this brilliant paragraph which Bernard Shaw wrote shortly after the war, in a paper in which he reminded his fellow countrymen that the intellectual riot- ing and looting that follow a war are even more dangerous than the physical rioting and locting. “Gvery ons who is not a born fool, sald Mr. Shaw, “must realize soon what all clever ple realized long ago, that the moral cleaning up after the war i far more important than the material restorations. “The towns that have been knocked down mostly needed it very badly, and will be replaced, let us hope, by better planned, healthier, happier habitations. “We shall be able to build cathedrals quite as handsome as the best medievay and all, as soon & by hatred. the darkening of the h mind by lies, and the hardening of the human heart by slaughter end destruc- | tion and starvation are evils that spread and fester long after the guns have topped. et the mportance that war gives to fools who are negligible in peace makes them lonth to let the wat cease Af they can possibly carry it on by mere rancor after the soldiers have come home. We had octter muzzle the trumpet and raise the hymn of peace, even though its lovellest and noblest set- tngs, in “The Messiah,' in “The Magio Flute, in ‘The Ninth Symphony ‘Par<tal’ of notorious Mozart, B ell the wo Huns -~ Hendel, 13 that nte mon men everywhere, whether the terests that wnter in o steel foundry or in a whony, bear little relatior o post essosements of war | guilt and belated analyses of war | atrecitie Wo would best be busy building a new world; we haven't time to spend Judgtng the old order. YCopvilght, McChue Nowspaper Sindicate.) UNITED STATES IN WORLD WAR Ten Yoars Ago Today nan trenches east Amerieans ratd G rraine border, of Luneville, near th Enter the enemy’s 1 behind a bare rage, find them acuated, and e turn without single casualty, « ¢ ¢ An American ratding party enters the German trenches along the Toul sec- tor early this morning after 43-minute artillery bombardment. Enemy withe drew many men, expecting a raid to follow, In hand-to-hand - fighting a number of the enemy are Killed and wounded and left in thelr trenches. KEvery Amerfcan who left the front line returned. * ¢ ¢ Last nlght's German alr rald on Parts caused 100 deaths 34 were killed by bombs and 66 suftocate I n subway entrance trying to take refuge from bombs. * ¢ * Chief of ST announces Lhat seven major gens erals have been found unfit for overs send service and amalgned to other duty. s+ ¢ War Department s redoubling ita efforts to rush Woops across o France. Hocond dvaft call of #00,000 | imminent, and 93,000 will llkely be mobiileed this month B ) Hens and Poets, From the Savannal Piess The lay of the Hpring poet has rhyme perhaps, but the Spring lay of Have we had the pleasure of serving you through our Washington Informa- tion Bureau? Can't we be of some help to you in your daily problems? Our business is to furnish you with author- itative Information, and we invite you to ask us any question of fact in which you are intcrested. Eend your inquiry to The Evening Star Information Bu- reau, Frederic J. Haskin, director, Washington, D. C. Inclose 2 cents in {stamps for return postage. Q. What breed of chicken grows the largest In this country?—E. W. A. The Jersey Black Giant is the largest American breed of chicken. Q. What is the cost of production of 2-cent stamps?—J. H. H. A. The approximate cost of the stamps per thousand is 61 cents. Q. How many big-game animals are there in the Natlonal forests? —R.E.S. A. It is estimated that there are 368.000 big-game animals and beaver in the naticnal forests of continental Unitel States and Alaska. Of these 671,050 are deer. Q. Upon arriving in any given port, must the wife of an ensign make the initial call upon the wife of every in- dividual officer of the ship on which her husband served?—J. B. any call of ceremony save upon the wife of the ship's captain and upon the wife of the exescutive offler. if desired. Q. How wide isThe 1op of Pike's Peak? A. The summit of the peak covers an area approximately 700 by 300 feet. Q. What is meant by a compound fracture?—B. W, A. A compound fracture is a frac- ture of a bone so that the skin is multiple fracture, the proper name when more than one break exists. Q. Did the Indlans have fire before Columbus discovered America?—M. M. A. Fire was known to the Indlans before the advent of Columbus. Primi- tive man created fire either by friction of wood in the fire drill, fire plow and fire saw, or by percussion of minerals, principally the flint and pyrites. Q. What is meant by the Lord of Sabaoth?—S. T. 8. A. Saboath means armies or hosts and the expression may be translated the Lord of Hosts. Q. Is C. Fox Smith a man?—N. H. A. The British sea poet, Cicely Fox Smith, is a woman. Q. Please name the national sports of some nations other than America with its base ball—F. J. K. A. The national sport of Spain is bullfighting, of Scotland. golf: England. cricket; Belgium, cockfighting; Cuba and South America, jai al Q. Why s it thought to be un- lucky to light three cigarettes with one match?—H. F. T. A. This superstition has its origin in the fact that in the old Russian funeral service three altar candles were lighted from one taper. It was con- sidered an act of impiety to make other lights in groups of three, and therefore fll luck would follow such an act. Q. Give the meaning and origination of “Simon Pure"?—S. W. A. In Mrs. Centlivre’s comedy, “A Bold Stroke for a Wife" (1717), Simon Pure is the name of & Quaker who is impersonated by another character during part of the play. We say the real Simon Pure.” meaning the real, genuine or authentic thing or per- son. As an adjective, it means au- thentic, genuine, real. Q. When was bookkeeping first sys- tematized?>—H. H. A. Business records of some form or other were probably employed in the earliest times in the history of trade and credit. Practically nothing is known, however, of the earliest forms of bookkeeping. From the works of Leonardo of Pisa it appears certain that the merchants of Italy, France and Spain practiced systematic bookkeeping for some time prior to the thirteenth century. We owe the present system of bookkeeping., however, to the Itallan traders of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, particularly the merchants friar, published a work which contains 8 treatise on double-entry bookkeeping. | From Italy the system spread to the Netherlands, thence to Eng and from there to all parts of the world. Ireland? How many of the inhabitants speak it?—G. W. R. A. The Irish have a native language. which s known as the Irish or Gaelic z | A. It is not necessary that she pay broken. This is often confused with a | of Qenoa, Florence and Venice. In 1494 | Luca Pacioli. or Luca di Burgo. a Tuscan | Q. What is the native language of | dod ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. }llnnulge. At present about 1 per cent ‘n( the population speaks Gaelic only, 186 per cent English only, and about 13 | per cent both languages. Since the | establishment, of the Irish Free Stats, |Irish 15 being taught in schools, with the idea of the eventual restoration ef llrlsh as the vernacular of the country. | R | Q Are Christlans permitted in the | city of Mecea?—K. B. A. Mecca is the sacred city of the { Mohammedans, and non-Mohammedans | are strictly prohibited by law from entering its boundaries, | Q. What 15 meant by a “subalt |the British arm oA 1 | A. The term is applied to a co issioned officer below the. rank o captain. | @ Who said, “There, but for the grace of God, gors—i— BoG T | _A. The saying, “There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford.” s | attributed to John Bradford in his writ- |ings on seeing a criminal pass by, It has also been credited to Baxter, | Bunyan and John Wesley. ] | Q. When s Walters Art | Baltimore, Md., open?—R. T.G Ry | A. It i3 open from 11 am. to 4 pm jon Wednesdays and Saturdays during | March and April, and on Easter Monday | @ Do Indians have a writ - 1.7”:80251. . written lan: | B ey have no written langu » | other than pleture writing, Th'irxl'rl:‘i: {and legrnds were preserved from gen. ; eration to generation by word of mouth. Q. Is the doliar ths monnta cmx*lrici\{o than the ‘{Prit;hd A. The doliar iz the in several count 2 the monetary unft esides the Unit States, mely British Hond P!d :;’n‘x’mmn. Liberia, Nicaragua. Colombia ; nQ Canada tcxmew:cand!and» . Who painted the picture }?:e\-olutlan that has thrv?e nxur:wt ;g: playing a fife. one a drum and one carrying a flag’—S. A. T. Av, This picture. entitled “The Spirit {of '76." was painted by A. M. Willerd. pasteurized milk s Q. How my jused in the United States?—R., T. A. The Bure: ry Industry [tintes” thats ooy 124 | gallons of pas: | sumed daily s pproximately 6.000.000 teurized milk are con- in the United States. | Q@ What rank @id ¢ | @ t rank did George Washing ton have in the British Af’m;‘Y— R |, A. George Washington was appointed |to the rank of major in the Britich {Amv in 1751, with a salary of 137 pounds. In 1754 he was made sacon {in command and upon the death of |commanding officer, Ccl. Joshua |during an expedition to establish out- | posts in what is now the 8tate of Ohlo, _hcn\;:s left in sole command of the reg- ! Q. If a number of silver coi: - :‘afine rl;é.;d 1:3 c;thtr in a fire, bfi :.re s nizable, - ]‘de;mefi?—n. - could they be re % they prove to be genuine, the Treasury of the Uni il re- et ited States will re: Q. How should the visiting card of a | woman who has divorced usban re,\d?—sgv. H. A e % L e may use th name | her husband if she cr:omm; Ulnl"‘f |she prefers, if her name was Anna | Brown, and her married name is Smith, :zo have hex: cards engraved “Mrs ,lsinr;al‘[:._smth or “Mrs. Anna Brown How many songs did Ernest Ball Q. n}e:';s H. - He composed aj 00 songs. “Mother mtml:z f\!r and the World Is Mine” and “Till the Sands of the Desert Grow Cold” are among the most popular, % \gbnn was Forestry week started? A. In 1920, the ides of devo * week annually to an eduauculmum- paign in the interest of forests orig- inated in the Pacific Northwest. At Arst this week was called “Forest Pro- tection week.” In 1921, President Harding brought the Federal Govern- Tent behind the idea and issued & proc- |lamation. Since that time such a | week has been observed each year. Q. What is th “ - v m e plural of “corpse™? A. The modern plural is “corpses™ {(says Murray). In English, the ordi- | aary plural down to 1750 was “corps. hough “corpses” is occasional from the teenth century. In the seventeenth v “corps,” meaning “a single dead was often construed as a plural —“remains.” as is still the case dia- ‘lmulL{. In Smlhn‘d‘.d “corps.” plus Jave rise to a truncated singular “corp” i defore 1500. ik Lubowsk An cident which comes as brecze” is welcomed by the press as it tells of Alexander Lubowsky of New ork, & house painter out of work, | who found a bag containing §: and returned it to the owner. s most is that he was! man, with an empty | Just a comm till could | stomach and no work, and t the impact of $32,000." says the Springfield Republican, which feels | that ™ urages one to think well | of mankind " | “Say what you wi the | New York World, "8 000, and when it is in denominations that an ordinary man can understand it must be all the more enticin Yet | one suspects that nine ordinary men Abowsky did—would have taken that to have some authorized person take charge of it. There is something terrifying about the idea of having $32.000 W your arms. It must | aralyze every normal faculty and | pave you With your fingers trembling and your eyes swimming. It must be something like getting & baby hippo | for a Christmas present—the only | thing you can think of is to get some- | body to take it away. “We will not hang a moral to the | meldent.” states the Chatleston Datly Mail, “It's one phase of life in this twentieth century, an episode in that | busy, complex wotivity (hat is daily life, fn New York City, the magaifieent and, | In some respects, the wicked. Hut somehow, pondering over this reality that will probably be overlooked by modern fictiontsts seeking for some thing reeking with bad odors, we feel ke wishing we could trade some of our nolstest, self-acolaiming, hundred per cent native Amerioans for a few more Lubowskys, born in Paland or anywhery Mse, for that matter.™ LEUREN ) | “The newspaper account of the find fng of this sum. " according (o the Al bany Kvening News, “recounts simply that Mr. Lubowsky had his veward tn the pride of his wite and his daughter Helen, aged 19, and his son Stanley, aged 100 Yes, he had his reward i | Wy own pride of honesty and i the pridte of his childven. And at the same tme he has set up for his chitden a standard of honesty that they will keep always. - And that Is & great reward, “Oonfidence In the essential sounds ness of haman nature,” asserts the Nows (he hen has veason. ] Outstanders, am the Eialon StarGasoiie Juite & few oulstanding statesmen will ba standing out W the cold w few montha from now, ark Kvening News, “is held rather tenns vualy i these days of ofl soandals, jury shadowing, sttacks upon the integrity of men high I business and goveramental Aotivities, and weoumulating vestigas Hons of this And that phase of publie l morala S an incident of outatandin Bonesty i Hubie' alaton ‘and'of 14 | out of ten would have done just what | g v, Jobless But Honest, Called Man Diogenes Sought a | substantial If slightly belated reward comes as a reviving breere. ut the appeal for the majority lies in the fact that a jobless painter with a family to support should stumble upon \ find so litle temptation in his discovery as to take It at once to & gasoline filling station, find equall its T metropolis.” sugyests the New York He ald Tribune, “who now and t sider the possidility of hand, imto cigar n shops and incurring the risk of suit and arrest when they again with cash or jewels them g0 so far as to do this very But Mr. Lubowsky happened to be d of man for whom in vam with a lantern. the tag on the bag, which told him that it contamed $32,000 and was ¢ erty of & bank. Half l that institution was the bag and its contents. Mr. Sky was still &' house patter work. It has been said by a ¢! All people are as hanest as Afford o be. But this man means to indulge in s b just happened to be honest, an” A x e ow Referring to the belated Warding the man, and the wide pudl thon of the facts, the Cleveland News o ments: “Possibly the publicity hely o suggest o officers of the bank and the [rucking company that substantial appreciation would not be out of onder, ubder all the clivumstanees. At any Tate, the next day's stories puctured M Lubovisky as possessed of & cash reward O 1,900 and & job with the truck pany (Which lost the maney) vety A fAductary capacity. We are teonrd this happy ending, or any practical prowt that honesty really pas. T I st gratiiving that so large & Patt af the population stitl prefers o & stralght and refuses o do anvihiog Crooked, when so many seem to fowrish M wickedness without encountering any Breal rewibution.” Applauding the fact that the ks g company ofielals and the dankers foll that “virtue deserves same reward other than that inherent W iself” the Hivoklyn Datly Bagle adids “This, hows over, s only the ning Owanting Dis vaudeville pontracts. motin pieture, dramatio and book rights, My Lubows AkY should realise wueh wore than the 2000 he found "Yfl reburned. And he value af the incldantal publicity re~ Whe truckig company and bank should m‘ chue o the amount of money |n' WAL femporarily :. placed Altogether, the story Q A G