Evening Star Newspaper, March 16, 1928, Page 8

P L8 THE_EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C. TFTRIDAY. MARCH 16, 1928. known to this part of the world--just THE EVENING STAR Eee DERRLY Metaink WdNion. foundlend or an Irish wolfhound. For the authorities to begin to make { exceptions, no matter how exceptional the circumstances, would lead to noth- ing but trouble. If a Pekinese is all right, then how about a King Charles i spanicl or a Mexican hairless? Just | where the line shouid be or could be drawn would worry Solomon himself, And even with certain breeds cata- {logued as innocuous, or possibly the | oppesite. there enters in range of half-breads and other weird WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY.........March 16, 1928 THEODORE W. NOYES. ... Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business 11th St ana Pennsylvania Ave New York Office: 110 Faxt 4 Chicage Office: Tower Butld European Office: 13 Rezont St Engtand. nl:p by Carrier Within vening N The Evemng and Sunday Star (uhen 4 Sundaysi. The Eventas and (when 3 Sundays e Sunday St ¢ Doction made at the € e e 5ov ver mrtn | face of things, any little dog that can oor manty | 08 held in its owner's arms might well | be relicved of the necessity of wearing a my On the other hand is the | groatest good for the greatest number jand the necessity for some rogulation for 'he bonefit of street car passengers | who do not fancy dogs as traveling companions and which cannot consist- | | sntly state, “All dogs except such-and- | such breeds” or “All dogs with noses v | of such-and-such a pattern.” It is tough on this “Peke” and hard on his iress, yet once an exception to this jor simiiar rules is made cverything is inday St y mai or telephone. Rate by Mail—Payable N nd and Vies s Wvance. Dailr and Su Daly oty .. Sunday only .. Member of the Associated Press. O Bad Taste. Yesterday In the House of Repre- | | sentatives & member of that body criti- | cized the Secretary of the Navy for 4| Atiending the scssion of the House while the naval bill was under discus- on, denouncing his presence as an act of “bad taste.” Other members of | the House rejoined to remark that the Socretary was present under a rule of licans an opporiunity to re r their (he House, which is tantamount to an repudiation of the relations between | nVitation, rmd‘ protested that there the financial branch of the party or- | WaS N0 impropriety whatever in a mem ganization and the promoters of dubi- | O°F Of the cabinet occupying a seat on ous schemes of ofl exploitation. He the floor of the chamber while matters proposes to raise $160.000 by small con- ! of particular moment to their depart- tributions wherewith 1o l;&Y off the Ments were under discussion. Prece- debt to Sinclair and his ascoclates, fn- | GeDS Were cited to that effect. i in the donation of that amount | Inasmuch as the rules of Congress by them to liquidate the deficit of the 2O% ;‘;°$’:“;:::n:? “*:e ;‘fi;:;‘:"‘; f 1920. st | v | ?;:u(:t:h:o::::xfin :\,;9 :50[:):, ln}:dt ! see wherein there is any suggestion of | been secured by this means. bad taste in the attendance of lhel It is a question how far this appeal | SECTetary of the Navy during the dis- | will carry, The revelations recently | Cussion of this most important measure made of large subscriptions to the Re- ©f Naval administration and develop- publican campaign fund under cover|Ment. There would assurediy be no| Tave undoubtedly shocked the country, | CFiticism of such presence if he were | disturbed the leaders of the party. 4 Just what the public reaction will be "_’:r‘:"flp::p;:'z":h: C:;BL;L:““:‘H;*: S ins to be seen. | VeI 3 e e o weem- 15 to allow the chief administrative off- 2go even more shocking revelations | Cials to attend s\slons at which mat- were made concerning relations be- | €75 Of moment to their branches of s Simbera for) @ KR b ad- | the Government are discussed. ministration and the same ofl pro-| Reference was made yesterday by moters, revelations which have led to ‘ Secretary Wilbur's critic to the British seemingly interminable litigation and | SYStem of participation by members of prosecutions. It was thought -at the the ministry in the parliamentary pro- time that the Republican party had |Cccedings, and he deplored the pos- been mortally wounded by these blm‘;sibflny of an approach to that system But when the campaign actually opened in this country. It is to be borne a few months later it was found that|in mind in this connection that the country did not react strongly to|th€. members of the British min- the uncovering of these scandals. Cer- | SUY are in fact members of Par- Borah Passes the Hat. Senator Borah's ente! dosign to purge the Republican party of the * of association with unscrupulous oil magnates is wholly commendable. It may not succeed. but it will at least give a number of conscientious Repub- do the infinite "n | combinations of canine blood. On-the | tainly the result of the election showed that there was no marked disposition wlhepnrtu(lhevoungpubflcw‘ hold the Republican party accountable to the extent of rejecting its nominees. The present disclosures turn upon rather subtle points of ethics. A large contribution was made to the Republi- can treasury by Sinclair and his nmchtuwclmeupmdefl:lththe‘ campaign fund of 1920. In order to avoid the appearance, it would seem, of ac-| eepting such a sum of money from such | & source an effort was inade to camou- fiage it by distributing credits among | & number of weaithy men closely iden- tified with the Republican organization, each of them to receive the equivalent of his supposed gift in bonds turned | over 1 the chairman of the Republican national committee by the ol mag-| nates. Some of these individuals, at' Jeast, refused to be parties to such a liament. They are elected to that body and sit there as of membership right. They not only participate in the de- bates, but they vote on the questions laid before the house. There is a vast difference between the situation in that country and the condition here. And inasmuch as the privilege of attend- ance at the sessions of the American Congress by members of the cabinet has continued for many years, without any advance toward the British mode of legislative government, it would seem to be rather absurd to express appre- | hension now, on the score of interven- tion in legislation by the administrative officials of the Federal organization. It is, in truth, far more dignified for a member of the cabinet to occupy aj seat on the floor of the House than | for him, on such an occasion as yes- | terday, to take a seat in the gallery. | On countless occasions well known lob- transsction and gave of their own| DYIStS. deeply interested In pending leg- funds without collateral. It has been | 513D, have sat in the reserved spac indicated that the chalrman of the| ® the gallerles of both House and | committee used this method to elicyt| Sehate and have from those points of | subscriptions without expecting the ac- | Y2013g¢ conducted their campalgns for esptance of the bonds by the donors | the enactment or for the defeat of Be that as it may, the fund was com- | pending measures. Occasionally atten- pleted and the books were closed, 1o be | 00 has been drawn to them by mem- | opened, however, with embarrassing re- | bers, in criticlsm, and with far more | silts by the present ofl probers, who| °3%0n and propriety than the chal- #re, it would seem, more intent upon | “getting something on” the Republican | party than upon any other object. | Whatever the motive of the inquiry, | 3t has had a wholesome effect in bring- | ing o light a transaction that cannot | be fustified by any political exigenc and that i decidedly unsavory o the | American public. Benator Borah's scheme of restitution | % 10 be accepted as a sincere endeasor | 1t would be | 1 clean the party house unfair v suspect that it is prompted rather by & sense of humor than by, 1 { whomsoever §t plea any other motive [ES— There are always persons wiliing to rise thelr Yves in spectacular aGven- wre ne camera man bids them fare- well and the sob specialists bewail their faliure W rewurn. Populsr interest con- centrates on the new form of humsn sacrifice that aviation has introduced - Non-Supporting Noses. How hard Uons, exceller not oniy on but alss on sl by the ca and affable D Jaws and regula- may he ) perso s wner of aog Buia- E e ing ' explain ot her pet w muzse, a5 prescri portabic therel, ool sl whin 5 elreel care The owner broy; Erniuit A, snd miseloner Doug ve wokice ot BppEeronoe His ownir w W of e 36 prouebly true wes the Lenor Ber pet wlong from Com on through 4id he bear the necding v e muzsed ired every one that he a and this [N wigument in sub w e down * wngelic disposition Bo o ol her ulation which B car vides wnd who Know the Pekinese bneed gutment s W el Larmles snoontovertibie. On 8 dog is 8 dog nclined sometimes wnd it an & [ te mon, dieadlul Giss w sl the ar- wen hena e e oLher douipt 3t e Jep-doy var gase of b ties - #00 —amw © 8 humen 2 vl ! not extend to the point of excluding | withugn one may be | lenge of the right and the good taste of the Becretary of the Navy in sitting | with the House while the naval appro- priation bill is under discussion, Congress is properly jealous of fts prerogative But that prerogative does | from intimate association with it, dur- | ing its deliberations, by those officers | of the Government who are responsible for the execution of the laws it enacts | Good taste, cited yesterday in mistaken | application, demands scknowledgment of the right of the House to invite attend ity 5 bosm for best man and A wedding as- | as surely ®s that of & mastiff, & Now- | ssmoiage of cheering foremast hands. | The master of the vessel read the one of his own devising—the brave young man and the fair young malid | “plped up” sincer if perhaps tremu- lously, and the connubial knot was tied as firm terbury or the Lord Chief Justice him- 1f had condescended to officiate. The captain on his quarter-deck was | j ence supreme and unhampered lord of | all he surveyed. He had to be. He| {was responsible for everything and | everybody. He could hang a sailor from | the yardarm as quickly as one can say | “Scat!™ He could do this and he could | j that, and he did them. And the skip-| |per could marry a couple with a rapidity and a validity that lent itself | delightfully to song and story. Today. with huge hotel-like vossels, rapid voyages, constant touch by radio with other shippinz and with all shor sees a great change from those rare old times. The ease just decided in the affirmative was one in which Com- modore Herbagé Hartley, until recently commander of the Leviathan, officiated. There at hand. had the principals de- sired them, were a plentiful supply n:; feminine attendants and handsomely uniformed ushers, an orchestra, chefs to concoct a collation—all the acces- sories of a great hostelry. It is nice to think that an accredited master of | the tiniest ocean-going tramp steamer or the frailest of deep-sea sailing craft could have done and can continue to do, if need shali arise, just what the gold-braided commodore did, say with unimpeachable authority, “I pronounce you to be man and wife” May no higher authority ever take f{rom such! officers this pleasant power, reminiscent | f & day gone by! e Lindy's Plane to the Smithsonian. Col. Charles A. Lindbergh is reported to be ready to give his plane, the fa- mous “Spirit of St. Louis,” to the Smithsonian Institution. Soon after he returned to this country the flying colonel indicated that eventually he would present his trim little craft to the institution. Since then he has flown many thousands of miles in this country and in South and Central America. The Spirit of St. Louis is still in fine condition, but now that Lindy has, to a large extent, forsaken his solitary journeys, it is believed that the time has arrived when he will be willing to give up the use of the single- seater ship which carrfed him to un- dying fame. Smithsonian officials have promised that a prominent display will be given to the famous plane and when it is finally installed the museum will become the mecca for the mil- lions of people who are eager to sce the vehicle in which the colonel crossed the ocean from New York to Paris in | thirty-three hours, e — ‘Tourlsts from all parts of the country come to see this city. They are-inter- ested in George Washington and Abra- ham Lincoln. The barker for the sight show wagon Is, after all, the reliable in- dex of popular sentiment. ——— et o Should Mussolini contemplate hostili- ties, he may do well to remember the days when he made the black shirt an issue and measure his influence by the modern tendency in men’'s apparel. Russia is propaganding the red shirt with considerable defiance. ——e e It may be reasonably and respectfully assumed that Secretary Mellon could not logically be expected to keep up with the calculations of all the expert accountants and “efficlency” men who intruded into the political picture. v —o— Bill Nye was a true humorls ‘That fact does not prevent his surviving rela- tives from taking themselves seriously in a spirit of public helpfulness, —— e Peace conferences call for discussion that relates to possibilities of war. The gentle dove is not yet so Influential as the martial eagle, - Reckless aviators come pretty near realizing Robert Louis Stevenson's fan- tastic story of a suicide club. P It is easy to bulld a big dam. Making the structure safe for the innocent by- | stander is a different matter. e o There are seemingly no “safety-first” rules that apply to the aviation hop-off. ] 4 SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Um La La! I heard the dear Blue Danube waltz, My own melodious, cherished “schatz.” A critic sald it had its faults, But never registered “the dots'” | tesstons and the right of whomsoever desires 0 do #0 W accept the invitation, | whatever the occasion | When Coolidge sald he did not | chuose” he created & wholesome inter- | st In the simple stgnificances of English | grammar R —— idates sre not lacking. However sumetbing more Is needed for popularity than a wil, eness W stand in line and shake hands | . - ‘ Hymen on the High Seas, ALl lovers of romance will rejolce in the news promulgsted from New York hat the appeliate divislon of the State ipreme Conurt bas upheld the legality et at sew. The old stand- wilkers of u day gone were Gretna Green and the wind- wept deck of w schooner, bark, brig slleon or frowning frigate, with a tarcy vender-lieurted caplaln performing gentie it binding office for cnamored s Gretnn G with il $ts wtmos phiere provided by trembling feminine sunmvays mecompanicd by deshing and persunsive sultors, sud tratled by pur- ple-tuced, fist-shakhy sires I hopeless stern chise, ts gone from English 1iters- ture, Me departore synchronized with this the legal steps that sholshed the vulm-[ iy of u marrage Wlacksmith or Nitle which ver the bhorder” by by pareon, 1 mattered | 4o with w Jove-stiuck couple ploked up from come dexert isle, or pursued by u and wnee i Wi bha ps ol cuuive, with poscily & burly ven e them married on the poop " 1 “politicatly, the | What in the world fs wn wuthor W | Above the din of war and hate “That gentle melody survives, And secks the story to relate Of simple love in all our lves Bupport, “Your constituents are willing to sup- 1 you” yes,” #ald Benator Sor- ghum. “But they are not always alert in comprehending my financlal neces- l:,nu ‘ Contributed by a Boollegger. 1 1Us hare 10 estimate the load | While traveling 0 and fro, The bogtleg person rules the rond | When be says “Btop” or “Go," I Jud Tunkins says a friend who goes I hack on you s like a crock of home brew the' has turned sour, Sentiment, “How many miles an hour were you making?” arked the trafe cop, Dow't ask me,” 1ejoined Mr, Chig | e “Yau were golng b least sixty,” “Em o wililng 1o pay s bit of & fine for sake of the flattery to the old M1v.” “We revere s mummy,” sald Wi Ho, Lthe suge of Chinstown, “Perhaps we {should feel no respect for Wim it we could hear him tatk " Shnple Gratitude, | the mocking Wird, he sings 1o me 1 fed him 0 a wmood protectionute 1 love Wis song, which scems Lo be | An honest utterance affectionate [ A camp meetin’ converts stners ! evatt) Fhen " 10 ook ke dar wis mo’ ciners dan dar le Wk eeUi's Lo ek care of ‘e, i Unele “hit o hegln ceremony—semetimes he just reeited | as if the Archbishop of Can- | - " labout it” | Bintes, Fplants would smount to shout 85,000,000 | Many a man comes to the decislon never again to recommend anything to iend. The one sure way to damn some fa- vorite book, or play. or brand of cof- fee, is to sing its praises. Just as the surest way to lose a friend to n him money, so the sure-fire way to prevent his enjoyment of some- thing you like is to tell him how good is. The thing iz ridiculous, but true, J. Henry Gearshift recently tried the experiment, on the articles named. He did it at the suggestion of a comrade, who enunciated the somewhat cynical doctrine herein stated. Gearshift, with his acenstomod faith absurd,” he declaved. in his positive manner, “When T find some- thinz eood, I Ifke to tell my irien ure, vou do.” ve all do. But don't do it, that if you want' him to like it.” “Why not?” Human natare 15 o ec cannot stand the strain,” oniy answer given. So Gearshift, being thrown on his own resources, cither to prove ov dis- prove the theory, and highly hopeful of being able to demonstrate it for a base libel on mankind, set out that very hour to do as much, if not exactly in so many words, then at least to prove it wrong in three separate actions. The first thing Gearshift thought of was that new book which had so de- lighted him, a “modernistic” novel in the gay manner. J. Henry wasn't ex- actly sure what the term “modernisti meant, bug so far as he could find ov no one else understood it, cither, s that didn't make much difference. Evidently if an artist cut loose and avolved something bizarre, judged stituted that it was the to label it “modernistic.” It seemed almost as if the artist used the one word to replace some such sign as the following: “Notice! “This darn thing will give you a shock, but you will have to admit that it is unlike what was done yesterday. “That is why we call it modern. “Next year it will not be quite so modern, of course, but by that time every one will have forgotten about this thing, and I will b> doing something els> again. “Probably will label the mew thing of nmext year ‘super-modernistic.’ and the v ter that ‘ultra-modernistic.’ By that time the cycle of things will have gotten around to the point where I can unblushingly use the simple word ‘modernistic’ again. Great, indeed, is o " the author of this modernistic novel was not quite so frank as that: he simply turned out a pretty good book. in an exceptionally frank way. so much so that Gearshift and some trymen read enough coples to make it a “best seller.” To be a “best seller” a book has to have something, it must be admitted. ‘Whether or not it will go into the gal- lery of the immortals remains to be seen, but any “best seller” may unhe: itatingly lay claim to being able to ex tract so many solid counters. known as from just so many pocketbooks. Gearshift recommended his find to Samuel P, Jones, a soid friend, who 1so ltked the newest things in books, clally if they really were worth | reading. Have the Democrats sprung the lat- est oll scandal—the unholy alliance between Sinclair and the Republican national committee—too early in 1928 | to do them any good? Have they, in other words, committed the same tacti- | cal error they made in 1924, when they sprang the Teapot Dome in February— | nine months before clection? Seasoned | Washington politicians think _this 1s | about what has happencd. They are persuaded history will repeat itself, and that sensations of March will be old | stuff in November. Old hands belleve | the Hags-Mellon-Butler-Sinclair affair Just alred before the S mittee might have proved high explo- | sive of annibilating content if the | Democrats had let it off, say, a week | before election day. Now, politiclans assert, priceless ammunition has béen | fired ‘months ahcad of time. VRum, Romanism and rebellion.” the - liest presidential bombshell of the gen- eration, was thrown on the very eve of the first Cleveland clection In 1884, and turned the tide of battle: * o ox % d Prentiss Costigan, Democrat, : igned from the United States Tariff Commission in a state of high dudgeon, is a Virginian, though he's been identified with Colorado poli- | tics for nearly 30 years. He got his AB. | at Harvard In 1899 and opened a | law office in Denver in 1900. Previously | stigan had been admitted to the bar In Utah. He's been a crusader his mature lfe, so that bellige the tarff commisslon came 1 For many years Costigan w est elections” uplifter in Colorado, an Anti-Saloon League leader, a clvil serv- ice reformer and a law-enforcement | apostle, Costigan ranks as a Democrat | nowadays and was appointed to the | U commizsion under such colors by 1dent in 1917, But only | 4 to that he wa and ran for ull Moose L Roosevelt. Progr hor on the gov- | cot m Col- | * oAk ok street 1y Washington's prin- | iture mart, The other day o | woman, who hasn't yet finished her | course - Amertounization, strolled into one of 1ts well known shops and asked for | a "Generul Pershing v “The salesmun who was walting on her ealled for help. | IL developed that the customer wiw | looking for & “genuine g LR If Uncle Sum should go into power production and disttibution on country-wide Hnes—ws contemplated by the Norrts resolution for Federal opera ton of Musele Shoals—he hus the tidy total of 12,200,000 horsepower to traflic i, Thut was the “developed water power” 1 the United States on January 1, 1928, according to an announceme: Just Issued by the Geologleal Sy The survey makes two other Interesting statement It says that the total amount of potentinl water power avail- | able 90 per cent of the tme s 30,110,000 | harsepower, while 69,106,000 horsepower 15 avallable 50 per cent of the tme If 4t were feastble to develop all the waler-power reiources of the United the ul copacity of water mstalled ot wll water-power wheels orsepuWer, ook 4 Reprosentative Chintles Brand, e publican, of Oblo, who came 5o greviously w-cropper’ this week in the Foover duel with his fellow-Buckeye, presentative Burton, proudly records I “Who's Who' thit fie wies s member e UHuller and MUK Commission Herbert Hoover during the World Brand's fallure o vemembe miee buosted Hoover for the leulture s the e congressional bull of the era. There are parliumentary oystems i the world which would make U impossible for n public mai (o make @ break ke Brund's and politically survive. Alveady in human nature, pooh-poohad the idea | | answered the other, | former standards. the thing to do was ! scores of thousands of his fellow coun- | ate ofl com- | 1 THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. “You'll like this,” Henry said, as he handed the volume over to Jones. He saw a glint come Into the latter's eyes. Now Gearshift had seen that look in eyes before. He knew from past experience that it sald almost as plainly as words, “I don't know whether you are much of a judge or nof So Gearshift thought it incumbent on him to launch into praise, Before he got done he had detailed the tri- umphs of the nauthor, outlined the novel and predicted its place in the world's list of the hundred best books. He saw nothing more of Jones for six months, but one day, after he had riven the novel up for lost, here it came, with Jones holding it gingerly the cover. old man,” said Jones to it?" asked J. Henry. ald Jones. “Say, by u read that story in the paper——"" And he launched into a picce of narrative on his own ac- | count. | Try as hard as he could, Gearshift | could not induce him to come around to the subject of the prize novel. Evi- dently he didn't like it. It had been | praised too highly. | Gearshift had forgotten about this cpisode, when he happened to see a play that struck him as the very best thing of Its kind that he had ‘cver secn. ‘The play itself was wonderfully writ- ten, and. the acting was flawless. All in all, it was as fine a show as the city had seen in many a year. He was so injudicious as to say as much, to a_play-going friend of the family, one Mrs, T. Russell Lampkin. The next time he saw Mrs. Lampkin. | which was a week or so later, he asked her how she liked the play. “Oh, I was rather disappointed with {1t," said she. * ok * This time Gearshift remembered what his cynical friend had told him. He had but one more card to play— coffee—and he was through. Men differ in their coffee tastes more than in any other one thing,-unless perhaps it be their politics or their religion. One coffee drinker will like his black, another lightened with cream, an- other chooses what he pleases to call a | blend, a fourth will demand some one | coffee, perhaps grown in a certain sec- | tion of the world. | Gearshift was a crank about his coffee. He believed that some gigantic | corporation missed a bet when they ! failed to select him as their “coffec taster.” | He felt sure that his palate was per- | fect when it came to discriminating | ex cllent coffee from merely good i ee, dnd the latter from just fair coffee. As for really poor coffee, he didn't even have to taste it or smell | it—one look was enough. One day he found the perfect coffee. | It was so good that he told all his | frien about it. There was one, in | particular, he wanted to like it, be- { cause he knew it was good. and he | also knew that this man. really appre- | ciated a good cup of the world’s most popular drink. | “The best coffee you ever drank.” | he blurted out--and then realized that he had made a mistake. But it was i(&m late. He had said it. and could | * | but walt to see how the thing would turn out. He would back that coffee against them all. “How did you like that coffee?” he | asked his friend the next day. Oh, 50-s¢ sald the other. isn't it “Nice da WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. dairy in Columbus. ‘joiners” in Ohio and a Moose and an of the biggest They're gre: e Brand is a ) Eagle, PR Carleton Beals, the young American seribe who brought letters out of Nicaragua from Sandino to Borah, was born and raised in Kahsas and edu- cated In California, Italy and Mexico. Eight vears ago he was principal of the American high school in Mexico City and an instructor on the personal staff of President Carranza. a post-graduate course at the Uni- versity of Rome in 1922 when Musso- lini led his Black Shirt hosts Into th Eternal City. writer produced a book entitled me or_ Death—The Story of Fasclsm.” Bea’s also has & couple of volumes on Mexlco to his literary credit. L B B A granddaughter of Sitting Bull— Zitkala-Sa, whose “civilized name is Gertrude Bonnin—1s the principal In- dian spokesman at Washington. Cul- tured, typical daughter of her race, she Tunctions as president of the National Council of American Indians, whose official purpose is to help Indlans to help themselves” in protecting thelr rights and properties. “I was born on Washington’s birth 1896, in a blanket of snow on the Dakota plaiy Zitknla-Sa narrates, “My mother car ried me in her arms into the tepee, Grandfather Sitting Bull was making his vain outery sgainst broken treaties rew up In an atmosphere filled with war tragedies. Three expeditionary forces closed In shmultaneous Yellowstone country of the | the West, the South and the ing from the clutches of th host, the Stoux eventually vanquished Gen, Custe command, Custer himself falling in the 1 " Mrs. Bonnin was cducated at Earlham College, and stud- fed musie In Boston. Her childhood ambition was to speak English “with a stralght tongue” Her mother used to suy that “bad interp % with forked tongues” misled the Indlans and eansed much of their troubles with the Great White Father, (Copyright. 1028 ) e Political Issues Py . iy T'o Reecive Airing From the Pasadena Star-News, American voters are not unthinking numskulls, led hither and yon by scheming politiclans, They ure more in- dependent today, perhaps, than ever before in Ameriean political history The average of intelligence I8 higher “The menns of Information on ma politienl are more accessible to th { the people than ever before ore voters are avalling ‘hemseives of these independent sources of infor- mation and are shaping their political conclustonys mand convictions aecordingly The American newspaper, even though not @ party organ, continues to be the ehlet source of political Information Phe typleal American newspaper to all parties and gives them a hewring o 15 news columns. This en al the v o Inform htmselt fully ws Lo the attitude of each of the parties, an Lo the attitude and record of (he re. spective candidates. And with this tn- ormation i his hand the voter 1s en- to ehieck up on parties, platforms, v s, es and cundidat natlonil-cumpalgn . year prom- 1508 00 show much independence xmong voters, No political parly ¢an enter tha campalgn with the certalnty thau 1 is carrying the majority of the people with I with suvety of victory in November Bach party his to ke ita case yet haw 10 win or lose belween now and November [its whispered that 1f the | people carry the Urbana distiiet i the Ohlo P haes, they Il po wlte brother Foands sealp pronta. In his nons palitical gnearnation, the man who fors Wot bs w nu)g,‘wu, hv}ul il auien, prineiples, policies and getion (rom ner e wum-\ whu. Independent thinking and unpro- wrammed aotion on the part of voters are very destrable. Phis coure on the Pt of electars brings the beat b " - i oy Beals was tak- | A year later the Ameri- | PHILOSOPHIES BY GLENN FRANK Somewhere, as a boy, I read a tale of an old wizard who succeeded in grafting a part of one insect on the body of another, produclng a syn- thetic creature in which were joined directly opposite natures. Evidently with this tale in mind, W. L. Watkinson speculates on the possibility of a spider-butterfly, with “a passion for sunshine and a love for darkness, with a longing for roses and a thirst for blood, demanding inconsistent satisfaction, perplexed within itself, afraid of itself, devour- ing itself.” This is an accurate allegory of the perplexity that faces most of us, for we are a bundle of clashing impulses and contradictory desires. Hawthorne and Poe have given us two unforgettable tales of this spider- butterfly problem in human terms. Hawthorne gave up the story of Roderick Elliston, who carried in his bosom a green serpent—long and icy and poisonous. It ate its way into his life. When his mind came upon ex- cellence in another it pained him: when his mind saw tragedy trailing another it gave him pleasure. It touched his pasty-white face with a decay-1i It put poison in his T hiss in his speech. He a repulsive reptile. e by side with this reptilian came And natur Pce gave us the story of William ll50n, who was ever running across a men whese name and voice and look were duplicates of his own. But this irritating double was utterly unlike him otherwise, thwarting his impulses at every step, warning and wooing him back from false steps. One day Wilison, tired of his double’s endless interventions, thrust him through with a rapier, but, as the double died, he said to Willson: “Henceforth art thou also dead—dead to the world, to Heaven, and to hope! In me didst thou exist, and in my death, see by this image, which is thine own, how utterly thou hast murdered thyself.” Here is ti ever-old and ever-new <tory of the split soul, the divided mind, the sundered character. " ltl\ house divided against itself will all. A human being divided against it- self will fall. In critical situations, when mind has abdicated and emotion has taken the reins, the common counsel is, Pull yourself together! But this pull- ing ofmrcelves together is a thing we need to do in days of calm as well as in days cf crisis. We' must integrate ourselves: we must not become a spiritual depart- ment store under a hat; we must at least keep the doors between the de- partments of life open. Otherwise we become a m of mutually canceling inconsisten thinking one way in rel'gion, ancther in politics, another in business end another in science. (Copyrizht, McClure Newspar ndicate.) ——— e Mussolini Stirs U; Opposition in Tyrol From the Rochester Times-Un ‘These are bad days for Mussolini in the field of international public opin- fon. The Italian government stands suspected of complicity with the gov- ernment of Hungary in smuggling arms into the latter country in flat violation of the peace treaties. At the same time there ha cen & new outburst of criticism with regard to the treatment of the German-speaking population of the Italian T; By the peace treaty Italy acquired the region of the Tyrol up to the Bren- ner. This region contains about 200.- 000 German-speaking inhabitants, who were, before the war, among the most devoted subjects of the Austrian Em- peror. At first, these people were treat- ed with great toleration by the Italian government. Indeed, pledges were made at the peace treaty that they would be respected in their racial in- dividuality. Since Fascismo came into ver, the pledges have not been kept. ic measures have been taken to Italianize the population of the Tyrol, place names changed, the railroads put entirely in the hands of Italian speak- ing personnel, schools closed, walking clubs forbidden and other measures of the same type devised to exterminate Germanism, ¢ * ‘The question of the Tyrol is not a big enough one to cause a war, at least ns long as Austria is a small and a disarmed state; but it loes not make ‘or a friendly attitude toward Fascismo in either Austria or Germany. It is one of the elements contributing to the fact that the Italian government has hardly a sincere friend among all the other governments of Europe. - a Secondary Schools Accused by Lowell| From the Cloveland Plain Dealet President Lowell of H; before the National Education Assocta- tion in Boston a long-standing issue between the colleges and the ondary schools when he charges the latter with ineffectual eflort and with fallure to prepare pupils for college, . Spokesmen for the secondary schools in turn charge the colleges with an attempt to domi- nate the high school curriculum and with the imposition of arbitrary en- trance requirement For this diff conflict of alms 15 doubtless lary responsible. It is natural for the colleges to think of the high schools as training grounds for their material and lttle more, despite the fact that only a small percentage of high school graduates go to college, In Ilinois a few years ago a high school principal asserted it was foolish to shape a currieulum for the 4 per cent who £0 to college, leaving the 96 per cent who do not make the best of an educa- tlonal program not designed for their needs. At ent there appear to be many secondary school people Who are of the same opinion, though the percentage entering college hns inerensed in recent yeurs. The overcrowding of the cleri- cal und many of the professional fields us @ result of this fnerease has led se ondary school teachers to advise many high school graduates against going to college, And in line with that advice have appeared changes in the high sehool curvieulum looking rather toward trade education than toward preparas tion for u liberal arts college. Certalnly the question of secondary school currleulum and aim {8 not one which can be answered In monosylla- bles. Tt is fnfinitely easter to find fault with the sttuation as it extts than to suggest changes for improving it 1t Preatdent Lowell were o become a high sehool principal for a year he might be less disposed to point to secondary sehool fatlures, vard reopens UNITED STATE IN WORLD WAR Ten Years Ago Today. Competent military observers insist that an allied viclory ngatnat the cen- powers depends upon the defeat of submarine menace, and they look o Amerlon to swing the vietory for the allies. « Qerman - Admiral von Tipits predicts that the U-boats will win_ the War, © O C 0 Bighty-five casualties vatse A KIS total to 1807, with 27 dend, on Porshing's 1st for today, * ¢ ¢ Amerionn guns hammer away constantly AL dines near Toul, bombarding Clev AN obiervition posts and causing win exploston of what Is thought to be a huge ammunition dump. Ameriean anipers are busy silencing the enemy every time they peep outover the trenches, * * * ‘The War Depar oreates & Construetion Divislon af ex- to take over all Avmy building ordes to ellminate profiecving * v French forces awalt the muche advertised and long-expected Gorman offensive With delensen 20 wilies il ih ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERI: The resources of our free informa- tlon bureau are at your service. You are invited to call upon it as often as you please. It is being maintained solely to serve you. What question can we answer for you? 'There is no charge at all except two cents in stamps for return postage. Address your le ter to The Evening Star Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, Director, Washington, D. C. Q. Are radio telephones used on the trains in Germany?—K. J. A. The best trains provide this serv- lce for patrons. A lecturer recently stated that by means of this telephone a traveler can call from his train any telephone :n the republic. Q. What causes the day-to-day change in the weather—one cold, next warm, then, perhaps, cold again?— W. C.T. A. The Weather Bureau says that this is mainly due to changes in the direction of the wind, and that in turn to changes in the distribution of air over the surface of the earth. The causes operating and their effects are rather complicated, but go back mainly to circulation between the equatorial ing of the tropical regions and the coo ing of the polar regions) as modified by earth, Q. What is the name for the char- acteristic Paraguayan lace?—N. D. A. It is called “nanduti’ The 'groundwork of this lace is usually com- posed of filete, or threads forming the radil of the circular pattern. Upon these are woven the designs. Q. Was Jenny Lind paid well for her concerts?—L. M. W. A. Jenny Lind was the highest paid singer of her day, the price paid ‘or a seat to hear her often being from $7 to $8. However, tickets sold at auc- tion brought as high as $650 each. P. T. Barnum, in his autoblography, gives the amount paid to Jennv Lind for her Americar: tour as $176.675.09. This en- tire amount was devoted to founding and endowing art scholarships and other charities in her native Sweden. Q. How Is electricity used in exter- minating tomato worms?—M. M. A. This unusual application of elec- tricity in agriculture i5 being demon- strated on the farm of L. W. Purdum & Sons, Danville, Va. Having tried all recommended measures for the control of the tomato worm without success, Mr. Purdum conceived the idea of trap- ping the tomato moth before it could lay eggs. A simple trap with a 40-watt lamp was constructed. A three-quart {pan containing kerosene is suspended 1 from the reflector about 6 inches below the lamp. The lights attract the in: they drop into the kerosene underneath. Q. What kind of a victory is one In which the losses of the victorious are dangerously great?>—S. M. A. It is called a Pyrrhic victory. Pyrrhus, King of Epirus, after his de. | feat of the Romans at Asculum in 2 B.C., exclaimed, “One more such victory over the Romans and we are utterly undone.” The remark has been para- phrased often to suit similar occasions. Q. Does a woman sit to the right or left of her dinner partner>—W. R. A. She sits at his right. Q. Is fox paw fur particularly de- sirable?—J. M. O'C. A. Fox paw fur is short, rather un- desirable and less expensive than other portions of the fox pelt. and polar regions (caused by the heat- | the cffects of the daily rotation of the | sects and in flving against the globe | 701 C J. HASKIN. founded In 1636 by Roger Willlams, who “in gratitude to his Supreme Do liverer” called the town “Providence.” Q. How hard should sirup be botled for candy?—D. C. A. There are five stages recognized candy making. The soft ball stage. for fondant; thread stage, used for sea foam; crack stage, used for glace fruits and nuts; hard ball stage, used for taffy, and caramel stage, used in making peanut brittle, Q. Would a hollow float of any ma- terial have greater buoyancy 1if filled with air or with compressed air?— A. M. 8. iy A. The less the weight of the body [for a given volume the greater will b~ its buoyancy. Therefore, a hollow body | containing compressed alr would have Iless buoyancy than one filled with ai at atmospheric pressure, Q. Did the Indians eat the fruits that grew wild in America?—B. B. A. Many of the fruits were utilized by the Indians. In Ohio they used the | cranberry, wild strawberry, pawpaw |and plum, and carefully guarded and | preserved the thickets in which they usually grew. The Indlans dried some of these fruits for Winter use. Q. How many animals have only one | toe?—R. 8. A. The horse is the only living one- toed animal. Q. When and by whom was the ques- tion of negro slavery introduced in | England?—D. C. C. | _A. The first persons in England who { undertook practical united action |against the slave trade were the | Quakers, following the lead of their founder, George Fox, who as early as 11671 expressed himself as opposed to slavery. Q. May one s Must it always be “If T be"? | " A. Josephine T. Baker says | indicative mode is used when the sup- { position is regarded 2s a fact: the sub- | junct when the supposition is re- | garded as merely thought of, or when | doubt or uncertainty is expressed.” Q. How Is the distance from the earth to the stars measured in miles?— T.P.B. A. The adopted unit of stellar dis- tance is the distance traveled by a light wave in a year. This unit is called the light year.” The distance in light years astronomically is then translated into miles, using as a basis the fact that the | velocity of light is 186300 miles per second. and it travels from the sun to the earth in 499 seconds. Q. What are the names of the mu- lcl:(ns known as the “Hill Billys"?—W. | _A. Station WRC says they are: Al | Hopkins, manager; Joseph A. Hopkins, {G. E. Hopkins, John C. Hopkins, all of |North Carolina; Charles Bowman, | Tennessee; A. E. Alderman, Virginia. Q. Are Hawaii and the Philippines | two or three year details?—R. M. |, A. Officers and enlisted men are de- | tailed for three years in Hawail and the | Canal Zone; for two vears in the Phil- | ippine Islands and Alaska. Q. What was the first message sent |by the Atlantic cable? V. P, | "A. The message was, “Europe and | America are united by telegraph. Glory {to God in the highest; on earth, peace | and good will toward men!” Messages jand replies from Queen Victoria to the {President of the United States and |other officials followed. Q Who financed the Farm Bureau? Q To what church did John and| Charles Wesley belong before foundins | the Methodist Church?—M. A. | A. Both_were formerly members of A. The Farm Bureau has been from | the Church of England, which is sim- |the beginning and is now financed |flar to the Episcopal Church in the |Solely by membership fees. | United States. Q. What is “feterita”?—G. G. . W, B. A. It is a variety of non-saccharin| A. He is 5 feet 10 inches in height. sorghum native to the Sudan. It was| s introduced into the United States by | Q. How far from Capernaum is the Department of Agriculture in 1905 | Nazareth?—J. B. kit | 'A. The distance between Nazareth Q. Why was Providence, R. I, fojand Capernaum is approximately 1§ named?—L. R. W. {miles, Capernaum being almost due A. It was the first settlement and | north from Nazareth. Both are in the | mother town of the State. It wasiprovines of Galilee. Lame Duck Amendmeni Defeat Accepted Philosophically Q. How tall is' John Barrymore?— K. W.B. The country seems to have accepted | sonal equation to vote to abolish ‘lame philosophically the defeat of the pro- “ duck’ posed constitutional amendment whis | would have eliminated “lame du s slons of Congress. The measure, known as the Norris resolution, was passed by the Senate, but failed to muster the necessary number of votes in the How Some observers contend that the pres ent system of organizing the Govern- ment is better, anyhow: while newspa- “Popular sentiment crystallizing | this | Gazette ( the Alle san is gradually behind the movement™ for reform, says the Schenectady dependent Democratic), and ing Call (non-part:- mately it appears e question will be put to , present opinion that ere has been enough of contitutional for awhile,” continues the v be to the advantage of t e | th | amendme nent | pers representing a widespread senti- ment in favor of the change are in- clined to take it for granted will be needed to bring Congres: line, “The continued action of the and House on this matter Manchester Union (ndependent Repu! 1 as perhaps its chief s cance in the fllustration it offers © extent to which the traditional vo the two bodies have been exct It is the Senate now that a new order of things, w the Hou i1s disposed to apply the cons brak The Atlanta Constituty (Democratic) says of the result th fs & sad situation, but demonstrate: again the force of petty polities.” ‘That paper avers that “Congress will never a thoronghly representative body so | the present short-term system prevails” In support of the o ot House, the Harrisburg Telegraph (Res | (WG publican) argues that the long period | nuityic of delay under the present system ! that “lame organtng the new Congress aft | “though election is “likely to prevent snap Juds- | 4 ment,” and cont that it has been thus hil: ublic (inde- me day the (Repud! he e les of | © The Rena e Re m rejected tter body Noting that hostile ery ton are becomes stlly *The Min= holds in an ple, » ot met at once. Pressing public questions i A habit of settling themselves i At all events * ¢ * Con- uress would do well to give It mature constderation betore adopting & remedy that may be worse than the disea | “One grave fault with the resolutlon,” in the opinfon of Havtford Convant (independent Repub lean), “Is that it would give the cpuns fry two long sessions of Congress in- stead of one long and one short ses- |y, ston, Indeed, under this plan sesstons | « might be almost continmous. not_ belleve that the country wants any | such fnnovation! we are sure it does | decls not. We do not belteve that Congress | o needs (hix extra time o transact i busine 1t has all the time 16 needs now and more than it knows how to spend profitably,” concludes the Con ant, [ at, As to the voters, whom they want e o vote in dof ¥ 1 e 1 e feraty e . W d M (Demos ing 1eade sxts that an eftor s candidacy a7 Lowell Kven DAt Are so rea Mitle tn support presen e have ot the [ the adv = from the U 115 i b n o cndey 0 iy that, a8 “the ol Rasan £ A ndent Repubs A for A change to of the congressional has mueh 10 recommend Wt milar change I fausuras San approach to the same resutt t be gatned i the mitial date for A NeW Congress weie (o be set an the wing the 410 of Mare! .. the Bulleihn adds, “would afford A able Period between the time of election and the session and would avold the long delay ‘The Albany Events ent Republican) observes that “for this seaston at least the measure Killed,™ vet this paper feels that “there 13 HEtle doubt that it will be called up agaln, wnd probably eventually it will be adopted.” The 8t Joseph News Press dndependent), vemarking that “reforias suel as this move slowly,” and that “the next Cungiess wmay put 1 trough," concludes as (o the pre ent altuation that “tresponsibibiey S Pha rpase which the amendment Congress breeds e ttaingy e e L apghi (o accomplish was oo - omte e of ("0 Naton™ Thelabla® i the judgment of the 5 Huntington - Advert (DemMocratic) | gyening News (Repudlioan), whih, uays “the defeat s warth-whil wever, foels that “the wyessity foar meastre fs A regrelloae ineldent.” ¢ NNE e thai & el ¢ W en oxpresses the hope “that some SHhiect 15 open Y QUua e Y The thova will appear “\a Washington ARG BNy e s endent D retorm W (lndepend dav € That Congress that L Wil show enough falis Democratio) also belte and MM‘G\ t'lu pets m‘,h‘: h”umu‘uulua:dmtm