Evening Star Newspaper, March 19, 1928, Page 8

5 *7 THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY........March 19, 1828 THEODORE W. NOYES. ...Editor | The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Ofhe: 11th St. and Pennsylvanta Ave. New York Office: 110 East 42nd St. Chicago Office: Tower Building. European Office: 14 Resent St.. London, England. Rate by Carrier The Evening Star . The Erening_and Sui 1when 4 Sundars) The Eveuiog_and (when a) n the City. . 45¢ per month ar . 60¢ per mcrth Sunday Star ve) 65¢ per month 2 5¢ per copy on at the end of each month. ¥ be sent in by mail or telephone, 000. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. s ise iso the local news A bts of publication s herein are also reserved. A Measure of Justice and Economy. The cause of the Government em- lores who are asking for the enactment the Welch bill, which proposes a hor- izontal increase in Federal service com- pensations, hearings on which began to- before the House committee on 1 service. is strong enough without v spectacular demonstrations. There n be no doudt whatever as to the ¥ of the desire of the depart- workers for financial better- be taken for granted has the unqualified of all who are now draw- g pay from the United States. anc | the “march” conducted this morning the Capitcl was a superfluous ges- e. It is to be hoped that it will not e a harmful effect. Analysis of the pay scales of the Government, even as revised by the re- classification act of 1923, reveals a serious condition whichy deplorably af- ting the personnel, reacts harmfully its efficiency. The reclassification act was under consideration for a num- ber of years, and while it was in process formation and passage, hope was en- ndered among the Government work- ers that it would Tesult in a material elief from the onerous conditions that n2d prevailed for many years. with in- ~reasing pressure upon the personnel When et last the bill was passed and was put into execution it was found t with few exceptions the individual workers for the Government had gained tttle. They had been reclassified 1n groups according to the nature of their iasks and with prospects of automatic sromotion within “watertight compart- ments,” from which there was small THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €. MONDAY, MARCH 19, 1928. ganization, which in business lead to |She and Arthur had never had a baby prosperity and profit, to the conduct |and she had been unable to borrow the of crime as an occupation has resulted | same infant for both trips to court. | the burglar, the footpad and the ass in a high degree of concentration on the part of those who are criminally minded, with an effectiveness that shames American civilization. Judge Kavanagh estimates that there are now in the United States 350,000 | men and women who make their living wholly or in part by crime. Last year. he declares, these criminals committed 12,000 murders and took enough booty to pay for the construction of the Panama Canal. His estimate, whatever its basis, affords an interesting com- mentary upon the efficiency of the | modern criminal and the inefficiency of the safeguards of the law for the pro- tection of society. If the population of this country is 120,000,000, as the Bu- reau of the Census now computes, the criminal population, according to Judge Kavanagh's figures, is about three- tenths of one per cent. This is a smalt fraction of the whole, but its efficiency is disproportionate to its numerical | ratio. Undoubtedly one of the chief facto: in the success of this comparatively small number of lawbreakers is the motor car, which enables the bandit, s- | sin to escape with a larger chance of complete evasion of the law than ever | before. The ease with which the crim- inal can arm himself, owing to the | laxity of the laws relating to the pro- | curement of weapons, is another ele- ment in his favor. These factors, coupled with the overcomplication of the statutes, which are, with the ex- ception of New York's late enactments, decidedly in his favor, and the deger- eration of the bar to the point at which many of its members are actually par- t nts in crime promotion give the | criminal fraction a pronounced ad- | vantage. It is an encouraging sign that these questions are now being treated frankly and in a determined spirit of reform. Through disclosure will come the awak- ening of the national sense of self- protection. Difficult as it is, the prob- lem is not bevond solution. The Airplane’s Silver Jubilee. Through diplomatic channels the United States will presently wing to the fifty-five nations with which we main- tain formal international relations an invitation to celebrate on American soil the twenty-fifth anniversary of the first flight by man in a machine heavier than air. It will be a quarter of a century on| December 17, 1928, since Wilbur and Orville Wright, on the bleak sand dunes at Kitty Hawk, N. C., made their im- mortal soar into the theretofore un- traveled heavens. As recorded in The Sunday Star, the United States plans to commemorate that epochal achieve- ment by holding an international air conference at Washington, an aviation industrial exposition at Chicago and fitting ceremonies at Kitty Hawk. It is a foregone conclusion that the world will eagerly express its readiness to join in so historic a celebration. Mother Earth is air-minded nowadays. Tragedies like last week's ill-starred England-America flight are impotent | f arighter future for the Government workers than they can possibly enjoy under that statute. It should mot be - considered as a “zalary drive,” but 25 8 iogicel conseguence of the legislation of 1923, establishing pay percentages which experience proves to be logical and eguitable in reiation to the com- pensstions enjored by workers in other lines outside of the Government service. Several thousand Federal employes m this city—and the conditions here are duplicated eisewhere—are 2t present barely eking out an existence. They ve being paid relatively in sixty-cent dolizrs; they are paying for their sub- stence one-hundred-cent dollars They are giving the Government faith- ful and in some cases highly technical their years of tenure, is an asset of high vziue 1o the Government. The reaction of discouragement resulting from the working out of the reclassification act has unguestionably Jowered their spirit. The thirty or forty million dollars which it is estimated the Welch bill, if enacted into law, will cost the Govern- ment will be 2 valuable investment in | { o arrest the daring of men and women yearning to bring fresh luster to the fiying art, for disaster was ever the price of progress in trail-blazing ave- nues of human endeavor. ‘Who knows what new glories aviation | will have to its unending credit by the time the nations are in conclave as- sembled, to éo homage to the brothers Wright, who paved the way to all that has happened in the air since they first wrought? It is not yet a twelvemonth since Lindbergh electrified human hearts by | his New York-Paris feat. Is it not well within the range of possibilities that| during the next twelvemonth mel other aviator, American or European or Asiatie, will span a space twice or thrice the oceanic distance “Lindy” negotiated? Who is 30 brash as to banish such an accomplishment as 2 globe-girdling non-stop flight to the reaim of the unthinkable? In 1910, when M. Bleriot took men’s breath away by crossing the English {Channel from Dover 1o Calais in 2 twenty-one-mile non-stop fiight, the | stmulation and encouragement and consequent efficiency. Regarded as 8 measure of economy, it deserves favor. 2sie considerstion, even when efforis are being made o cut the cost of the public service by eliminating waste and extravegance. ——— Marvels cen be done with aeroplanes. | But no mechanism is 80 complete that 1t ean compete with buman brains and & man how w0 run Three-tenths of One Per Cent. Oueie of political questions, 1o sub. that of the prevaience of ¢ United States. On every is the wpie of considerstion ¢ organized groupe hant ¥ Individuzis @ haz beosme 8 na- equires Gras la el busne and 1 zre men e question zws mon ie progress s 2222 4 s, ew Yore Visre & wries o 25 ren en- Bowd, the et of which has been W om % ut Yavensyn of the Bu- cago i the v nw bk His Allier nd . ferin 08 e Y w iames Vs 40 begel prox + Genigned v prowel tran the public Te crime | yooort of tue Uniwg Slate, he sy ket Ui couniry the mest lawiess ®Ll lew-riGten of Civilized ns\ins Tt Uiie W L0l Yo severe s nak owed with Buy Cegrex ww technigue has Y eneirege Ve crm- | revher W Biseirege Frenchman who won Lord Northeliffe's | | £10,000 prize was idly imagined to hnvei s2t up a milestone which the dewdcs; iperhaps might see regularly equaled, {but not soon outstripped. | Men would be as foolhardy today % {fancy that the triumphs of Lindbergh, Byrd, Chamberiin, Maitland, &hlee,. Erock, Hegenberger and the rest of| | gallent crew will long remain un- eclipsed. By the time the Juminaries of the international alr firmament are | seintillating ‘Washington nine months | hence, thrilling new history in their {element 13 virtually certain 1 be writ- fen | e | Of course, eynics are inquiring what |useful or patriotic thing Sinclair ever Is it any wonder that judges become cynical after years on the bench? A few cases like this would destroy any man’s faith in human nature and crim- inals will resort to every ingenuity to escape penalty for their crimes. Of course, this affair has its amusing as- pects, if perjury can ever be said to be amusing, but it vividly demonstrates the difficulties of a court in dispensing real justice. r—or—s Bathing and Television. The Right Rev. Michael B. Furse, England’s tallest bishop, has his facetious moods. other day before a conference, Speaking the he ventions, was skeptical of the degree of happiness that they brought to civ- ilization and expressed considerable personal trepidation at the advent of television, which, he stated, seemed des- tined to rob him of his only remain- ing privacy, that of his morning bath. The bishop concluded his remarks by stating that he could view with nothing but alarm the day when American au- diences would be enabled to observe his daily ablutions on a screen. Offhand. there would seem to be no need for the bishop to worry. In the first place, television will never be used for this purpose, and in the second it cannot be imagined that the bishop's bath is important enough to anybody but himself for the public to “tune in,” if that is the expression which should be used for the new art. If the har- rowing prospect of bathtaking in pub- lic is the only thing that causes Dr. Furse to feel that modern inventicns in which to live, it is well to disillusion him at the earliest possible moment so that he may entertain a more philo- sophical outlook, even in his most fa- cetious periods. ——— Unemployment is attributed to th: increasing use of machinery. There is an argument open until it can be as- certained how much new employment is afforded by the labor in gathering material and rendering it constructive~ Iy available for new machines, and how much is due to the difficulty in adjust- ing to changed conditions. vt assumes an advantage over a man who earnestness to wald affairs. As a poli- | tician Mr. Willis was educated in Ohio. oo New York play producers occasionally be employed in producing plays worth- | white. —_———ee “Sidewalks of New York” is now ance. It was a pretty good little song t1l it got into politics. s el Radio can accomplish strange things. This fact alone tempts the irresponsible venturer in science to use it for his own publicity purposes. Some of the support indicated for Gov. Al Smith appears to present him to attention more as a threat than as a promise. ‘The White House breakfast is influ- ential, but the full dinner pail will continue to be used as a point of con- troversy. —————— A “grip” epidemic 1s contemplated with fear. The germ sets the most prevalent fashion free of charge. — e ‘The matter of “choosing” may bring into attention a new kind of politics to be known as the eclectic school. e among the electioneering incidents in Nicaragua. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON, “Tis Folly to Be Wise. Oh, Mister Foolish Man, How happy you must be; ‘While others toll as best they can, You revel fancy free. You let the moments come and go, And think this life a joke. You're smiling when the shekels flow And grinning when you're broke! Oh, Mister Poolish Man, You tread a merry way, While following a reekless plan ‘That makes our hair turn gray. ‘Though idie pranks may oft annoy, The fact we can't disgulse That being foolish may bring joy Far more than being wise. Past and Future. “We must look forward to a glorious futur “We must,” answered Senator Sor- through with investigations of a ter- rible past.” | 6id tn deserve 2 refund of $160,000. i ——— 1f Fuymevelt were here he might have | Y say about the Ana- | ] i | Judges Prefer Blondes. | Ordinarily the oilor of & baby's hair | the | would not make & great deal of ¢if- by independent as he may seem. | Halr s liable ¥ be of all shades and no one thinks much about . In s Ban Prancisco courtroom, | however, the oolor of the hair of an | infant has resulwd in 8 oontretemps | for Arthur Hymsnson, Arrested Te- cently for passing bad checks, Arthur eppeared in oourt with his wife and il enild 2ud lignt balr snd the mother, with syes brimming over with tears, tld the ' juoge t . Lad risked 8 £ 1 plead clemency for her The baby ored and gurgled Vi sppeared U be vis- Wy Smpressed by the Gramatic setting tor the trisl, Me, therefore, after Lunder pat on the hesd of the Jittle Gecided Vo lake the cose under ad- Visemant 101 & week | When the week was up, Arthur, his | wite wnd the Laby sppesred dgsin be- ference Az |fore the Judge snd then 1t all hap- | | pened. “let me we that baby” de- | manded hie honor. Hestatingly, the upber wdvanied i the bench, “How i thet Jest week the baby you brougit in here bad biue eyes snd wona nair and this week U hes brown yes €06 bisck Dad? erked tne Judge mo Aot 1ne pow thorougnly wrnfied womsn, | gune jey us hoy The taby had blue eyes | ip from | The Solemn Aspect. We think & man who wears a frown Has something on his mind. And give o many a mimic clown “The burdens of mankind. Jud Tunkins says & rich man s not He has 1o consult his expert accountant to find out how much he 1s worth, Budding Art. “Juhnny drew w funny picture of teacher on his slate!” sald the small brother, “What did the teacher say?" “he wid him o go home and tell | bis parents 1o decide whether they were | going o let him become a comle artist or a eriminal.” “He who thinks only of himself," sald $1 Mo, the ssge of Chinswown, “finds & At length with- ubject he cen discy, U interesting other Open and Above Board. Bt Patrick travels on his way. And all in gratitude may say “Thet while March 17 was cool It wasn't any April Fool, o | | seen nobody s leards or & st of ‘hones’ " .- Tut, the Detroit News However dusty the vade may he next S8 pphve S LR PILLCpIS QL VRRISUpG Lie Losk waa Cuulewd. GBS WIS sLvUkl Lol Vo o undoubtedly | deprecated the usefulness of modern in- | are not making the world a better place | In attacking Mr. Hoover, Mr. Willis | has devoted himself with conscientious | attack newspaper critics, thus squander- ! ing valuable energy which might better = sung with an air of persuasion or defl- | BY CHARL) @ talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy, Which is as thin of substance as the air And more inconstant than the wind.” ~—Romeo and Julict. Thus Shakespeare expressed the old idea of dreams, but the ancient peoples did not believe so, nor do modern ps chologists. A psychiatrist of today would say, “It is very pretty poetry, Mr. Shakespeare, but it is not true. Dreams, far from being thin fantasy merely, are solid sig- nal flags, flung to the brecze by mr-‘ unconscious, and easily read by those | who know how.” i In order to allow those who may be! interested in dreams to exercise theit | ability as analysts (and also to exercise | their imagination, for there is a vast| amount of it used in these modern in. terpretations), we present here six| dream stories which have come to our attention in the past few months, All of these dreams were dreamed by high-class, intelligent men and women, ' who either expressed horror or amusi ment at their drecam vagaries. and were utterly at loss to “explain” them. Many dreams, as every one knows, are the result of some chance sight or | word, carried into dreamland either consciously or unconsciously. “Oh, 1| know what made me dream that!” one | | | | says.; Just why, however, he dreamed as he | did is entirely another matter. The six | following dreams fall into two groups. | the horrible and the pleasant. There | are four of the former and a brace of | the latter. ko k THE HEAD IN THE COAL BIN. The dreamer had gone down into | the basement to fix the furnace for the night, ‘ | “FiXing the furnace” is a rite, a | something that must be done, a neces- <ary prelude to slecp in thousands of households. This evening the dreamer was sleepy. He had to rub his eyes as he opened the feed door. in order to assure him- self that the fire was burning at all. The slight flames playing over the top of the bed were lethargic. slow, heavy, as if wishing-to go to sleep them- selves. |~ They barely stuck their pink tongues | | above the level of the black. They shot | up a quarter of an inch higher, only to | die down again. | “Something is the matter,” popped something in the coals. One of them had suddenly snapped, | | as burning coals sometim: 11, ‘The dreamer went heav | coal bin. The air seemed languid. | He seized the shovel, ani | the pile. Up came the instrument, coal rolling | off the edges. | | And as the man raised his figure | upright, with the shovel swinging eas- | ily from his left and right hands. one | at the handle, the other down near the scoop. he saw—he saw— A human head. begrimed. cut off at the neck, reposing in his shovel. He had shoveled a human head out of h bin. wil over to the d dug it into | &, THE BLOODY PIT. The dreamer went through an in- | calculable amount of adventure, in the | strange, absurd manner of dreams Years, decades, centuries passed, and he | | was still adventuring on. No sooner | had one adventure come than he went | into another, with such swift transition | | that he totally forgot the last one. | | Then he found himself in the midst | of a great pit of liquid, thick. turgid I fluld, which came up to his chin. At} { first’ he did not know how he got | | there, but then he realized that he had { | been ‘fighting. | | His opponents were two immense bears, of transcendant size and ferocity, comparable to the gigantic battle which he had =o far successfully waged, ‘The fluid in the pit, he now realized, | was simply the blood of the two bears. These great animals roared and lthlrged around the rim, while their THIS AND THAT E. TRACEWELL. | heard | the mouth and to try to scream, while | | of diamonds and crystal, while flower Tif blood poured from them in streams. A monster paw smote at him, first at his face, then at his back, but he carefully repelled every attack, and gave blow for blow, while he tried to keep his head above the warm element in which he was submerged. The bears bled more and more freely, the flood of blood mounted higher soon it would be above his mouth — then his nose—while the awful crea- tures, staggering, lumbering, drippin blood, struck viciously at him * '« * * kK K ¥ THE THING ON THE FOOTBOARD. ‘The dreamer was entirely conscious that the whole thing was a dream, bu: that did not help the situation at all. He knew he was lying on his bed. He knew that it was about 4 am. He the milk men shifting their rates, an action which aroused his ire now as always. The: in the dim light from the window, he saw Something sitting on the foot of the bed. It was a true Thing intangible, with- out shape yet having a shape, without eyes yet sitting there glaring at him, without life yet merciless, withont | brains yet pitiless. A Thing was sitting there, looking— looking—-— And the dreamer began to moan at the Thing continued to sit and look and i look. i R “100 CHILDREN KILLED.” | The dreamer’s house was just in Lhel rear of a candy store (so he suddenly found), where the astute proprietor had built a gigantic rack, as high as the| store, on which a hundred children were sitting like so many birds. They were all industriously eating chocolate bars, when all at once the | huge rack began to tip. Evidently the | restless children had stirred it off its| foundations. The dreamer’s heart stood still. He saw it coming, but h2 could not move. As the great stand fell forward, the children on the top rungs were sprayed | into the air— | He stopped no longer, but ran down- stairs and out into the street seeking a | friend. to whom he began to scream, “One hundred chi n_ killed! One; hundred children killed! Later returns put the number at 3,} and when the dreamer heard this th was disappointed, not, he told himself, | because 97 were saved, but simply be- cause his own estimate was false, and he took pride in being truthful. 24 x> THE ARABIAN HORSES. The dreamer sat on the top of a tall tower made of ladders curiously placed. With him was a horse trainer, while far below the beautiful chargers, full- | blooded Arabian steeds, curvetted on | the plain. i “Up. Arabians, up!” commanded the trainer. ‘The horses wheeled in a body and| made for the ladders, up which they| began to climb. each horse placing his | forefeet on one ladder and his hind | feet on another. Finally all were at the top, except| five or six which refused to come any | higher. These simply went to sleep on the rungs. ‘THE TURTLE RAILROAD. This railway, on which the dreamer | was riding, had boards for a track and turtles for trains. One passenger oc- | cupied each car. The fare was a bite from a turtle, and the road kept St. Bernard dogs to lick the wounds of the passengers. When the trains finally came to the station the turtles vanished and the passengers found themselves in a minia- ture raflroad station, seemingly in the capital of Fairyland. Bright lights gleamed through lamps decorations festooned arches and roof. The trains were of shining, polished | steel, without a spot of dusk or grime on them. i | | | Refuse to Be 0ld friends of Mark Twain's Tom | | Some big military parades will be Sawyer feel that he is not dead and that Thomas Sawyer, who died | cannot die, even though a man of thatJ‘ name who died the other day in Ari- Tom Sawyer’s Old Friends lieve Him Dead! mentarily arrested by the assertion| Tucson, Ariz., was the same Tom Sa yer whose adventures are now classics | | smoki | southward migrations, guided by a God- PHILOSOPHIES BY GLENN FRANK Light has long been a symbol of truth, ‘I speak today of one aspect of thiz symbolism; like light, truth may be cither a source of life or a snare of death, Alike in religion and in education, grave concern is now and then ex- pressed over the casualties that coms on the battlefield of truth. Now and | then we come upon pathetic instances of young men and young women who have been blinded and broken by the ! impact of their minds against some | new truth which they have been un- able to assimilate quickly and com- pletely. | The truth, understood, might have | bolstered them up. | The truth, misunderstood, has broken | them down. What is the answer to these disas- ters that seem to spring dut of the di- vinity of truth itself? ‘The timid man an pression and censorship. The symbolism of light helps us here. A few weeks ago the press carried the story of the brilliantly illuminated stacks of the Ana~onda Copper Company of Great Falls, Mont. Thev were admirable as advertising. They fling a spot of beauty against Mon- tana’s night sky. They were a source of life, of profit, to the company. But when vast flocks of birds began their vers with sup- | given flair for direction, many of them, bewildered and blinded by the sudden brilliance of the lights, dashed them- selves to death against the giant smoke- stacks. The superintendent, Mr. A. E. Wiggin, beneficent as well as busines: like, ordered the flood lights out during the ‘season of bird migrations. | Commenting on this, the Plain Dealer | of Cleveland made this suggestive com- ment: “Along the seacoasts of Europe and | America untold thousands of migrating birds have dashed themselves to death gainst the lighthouses. We cannot ex- iinguish the lighthouses to save the birds, nor do we seem able to devise any effective measure to minimize the | danger. As long as there are brilliant | ghts in the path of raigra will be blinded and killed. Lighthouses we must have, but get along for a time without floodlights on smokestacks, no matter how fine a nocturnal display of industry may thus be offered.” Here, I think, is a statement of the | most that can ¥ be done about the occasional death that may lurk in the advance of truth. ‘There are fundamental aspects of truth that are to the mind of the race what lighthouses are to mariners of the sea; there are incidental aspects of truth that are of passing interest and importance to a limited few that are like the illuminated smokestacks of the copper company. “Lighthouses we must have’ cannot_suppr pects of truth, to the occasional mind. “We can get along for a time with- ut flood lights on smokestacks.” The wise teacher does not insist upon pa- rading every incidental aspect of truth | regardless of its effect upon the minds | before him. | At best, we must live dangerously. | (Copyrizht, McClure, Newspaper Ssndicate.) —————————— | | | i | Fuelless Motor Issue Correspondent’s Topic! To tha Editor of The Star Permit me to take issue with your ditorfal in Thursd: Star entitled, “Qut of Order,” in which you criticize a * statement of Porter Adams, president of the National Aeronautic Association, ! commenting on the Hendershot fueiless motor. ‘When we reflect on the present won- derful hold of aviation upon the interest of the people, and realize that its popuiarity has been attained by over-| coming obstacles withoy! number and | the sacrifice of many of America’s| st aviators, is it not fitting and| proper that there should be some champion of the good name of avia-' tion—one who would call a halt to its use to promote something but re-| motely, if at all, identified with aeronautics? If the Hendershot fuelless motor is in fact a sound invention or develop- | no publicity for it other than that de- | |rived through association with names | made popular with aviation? If the| fuelless motor. is what Hendershot claims it to be, it can well stand on its w [P | streams often built like a letter S?— ANSWERS TO QUESTION BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN. There is no other agency in the world that can answer as many legiti- mate questions as our free Information Bureau in Washington, D. C. This| highly organized institution has been built up and is under the personal direction of Frederic J. Haskin. keeping In constant touch with Fed- eral bureaus and other educational en- terprises it s n a position to pass on to you authoritative information of the highest order. Submit your queries to the staff of experts whose services are put at your free disposal. There 13 no charge except. 2 cents in stamps for re- turn postage. Address The Evening Star Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, director, Washington, D. C. dna Ferber bo aper reporter?— no was_born in Kalamazoo, Mich.. August 15, 1287. She worked on the Appieton Dally Crescent. the Milwaukee Journal and the Chicagn Tribune. Q. Who was the first person to make a map of the moon?—H. M. A. The first map of the moon was made by Riccioli, in 1630. Q. Who was “Nolichueky Jack A. “Nolichucky Jack” was the nick- name which was given to John Sevier, famous American pioneer and Indian fighter, who founded the town of New Market. Q. How long do crabs, leeches and spiders live?—W. E. D. A. The span of life of a crab is 20 | years; of a leech, 20 years; of a spider, 10 to 15 years. Q. How much sediment is to the Gulf of Mexico by the ) sippi River in one yea: D. A. A. The amount sediment to the Guif of Mexico in one more than 400,000,000 tons. v “Most every —GOEE * should never be used fo “Most” is the superlat ‘much” and hence refers to de; quantity. Q. Are sudden cold snaps caused by the influx of air from above?’—E. B. G A. That would lead to an incre: of temperature. A cold snap is cau by a horizontal inflow of colder from some other region. Q. Was the building now occupied ¢ the National Woman's Party in H\mgzon, D. C, ever a prison?— A. The building has experienced many changes. It served as a board- ing house in the days of Calhov a Federal prison in Civil War days, 2 a private mansion and as the tempo- rary Capitol w Q. What makes a parrot p: feathers’—G. C. K. A Feather-pulling in parrots distressing habit brought about by + rious causes and the treatment m vary according to the basic trouble. Irritation of the skin following indi- gestion is one cause. Feather - pulling may be due to lice, in which event dust pyrethrum powder through feathers to the skin of the bird at intervals until all the parasites are killed. and thoroughly sterilize the cage or other quarters. Q. Why are bridges ov out T small A A A. The Bureau of Public Roads says that often small highway bridges are built in the shape of the letter S be- cause the road approaches the stream at an angle inot a right angle). and t is desirable to cross the stream at a right angle with the channel. Q. Who was considered the be: Latin grammarian?—C. T. A. Priscian was the most noted of Latin grammarians. He belongs to the early part of the sixth century, teach- ing Latin at Censtantinople. probably at the imperial court ceived a government s: Q. What s meant by a “hard spot” in the stock market?—L. M A. Strength in a portion of the market as a result of considerable buy- ing is called a “hard spot. Q. What meaning is attached to the | name of t! 2 {ment, why has there been practically | he French town Carcassonne —M. A. L zona may be credited with the inspira- | of American literature. * * ¢ A twin tion for Twain's immortal boy. | monument in bronze to the memory of Mark Twain's famous statement to | Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer has own merits, for its uses in the electrical engineering field will be vastly greater| ghum, “just as soon as we can get| “$0 fer” sald Uncle Eben, “I ain’ unemployed dat he Leouldn’t efford de price of & pack of pe that Kansas City has s, | the newspapers that the report of his | death had been “greatly exaggerated” | | is quoted by the Aberdeen Daily World i with the suggestion: “In very truth,| and whatever the merits of the argu-| ment on either side as to the identity | of the Thomas Sawyer who passed away in Arizona with that of the hero of Mark Twain's book, it may be safely asserted, now, that the report | of the demise of Tom Sawyer—of the Tom Sawyer known and loved le- | gions of readers of his adventufes—is ‘greatly exaggerated.’ For Tom Sawyer | cannot die * * * The Tom Sawyer | we love s still with us, and will be for | | many a generation.” | “He 1s alive somewhere avers the Worcester Evening Gazette, “encour- aging Becky iost in the great cave, discovering to Huck Finn a hoard of| robbers’ gold, or raiding a Sunday #chool picnic with his highwaymen He 15 persuading the reluctant Huck 1o go to school by threatening expul- sion from his band. He is making every lad in town compete for the privilege of whitewashing Aunt Polly’s fence. He is prescribing a soul-shiver- ing oath for his gang and making them sign it in blood. He fs deliriously hap- py over a gunshot wound in the leg. For Tom Bawyer will never die. If Thomas Sawyer of Tucson, Ariz, was Mark Twain's Tom, he has a share in immortality.” v The Arizona Thomas Sawyer's siste) according to the San Francisco Ev ning News, “asserts that he was verl tably the hero of the humorist's divert. ing tales, It seems that her brother actually was reared in Hanuibal, Mo., and as he lived the life of the average robust ploneer lad, he may have com mitted some of the pranks with which the author credits him. However, the reader is still persuaded that most of these antics were born of the author's fertile fancy, and, besides, Clemens is suspected of having drawn largely upon memories of his own boyhood for the yarns. Anyhow, it would appear that a youth so briliantly endoved as the hero of the tales would have carved for himself a loftler career than fell o the real Tom Bawyer.” ‘The Harrishurz Patriot eays m Sawyer, the figment of Mark Twain's imagination, i far more real than any ! | | book,” comments the Ann Arbor Daily | the hereafter and talk about the books, { more will brave members of the robber | tell been erected at Hannibal, Mo., on the bank of the Mississippi, which was the scene of their glorious adventure. It seems too bad these inseparable in life should be so far separated tn their final resting places.” . oxox “It 1s a fine thing to be able to write a great book. It is, perhaps, equally fine to be the inspiration for a great News, with the added thought: “How true to life was Tom Sawyer of the books may be somewhat of a question for Mark Twain was a genius who could as depict. The real Tom may not have been able to recog- nize himself in the storfes that he in- spired: nevertheless, he was the inspi- ration, and thus to a certain extent he was a collaborator in the literary world.” Of the Tom Sawyer who died in Arizona and the author of the book, the Daily News says: “Perhaps they will meet again on some ferryboat of and smile with gratification over the fact that the world is still enjoying the heritages they left. For both Mark and Tom were the kind of fellows to want the world to have a good time.” “So Tom has gone!" concludes the Little Rock Arkansas Democrat. “No gang gather in the cave and lay plans to raid Sunday school picnic parties which Tom’s wonderful imagination plctured to his faithtul followers as caravans of camels loaded with mil- lions of jewels and spices from the Orlent. No more_rescuing of ‘Nigger Jim’ the slave. No more signing-of sacred oaths with pens dipped in blood No more ‘ransoming’ of captives. They us, Thomas Sawyer, that you helped to bulld the Chicago, Milwau- kee & St Paul Railroad. 1f so. it was a splendid gift to posterity. But you did more than that. Thomas, you in- spired Twain to write a book which will never die.” ES IN WORLD WAR Ten Years Ago Today of the men and women who grew up in Hanntbal, Mo, half a century ago. 1fe has become immortal” says the Pa- triot, “and in the process has tuken on substance and reality, hence he will be Just as much alive as he 15 todsy.” ‘In the opinion_ of the Tulsa Dally Record, “Boyhood has not changed materially in any essen- tal since Mark “Twaln wrote his two classics,” an1 the boy of 14, “with all his buccaneering tralts, 15 at once the dread, the hope and joy of many home.” Quoting the report, “Tom Bawyer 18 dend,” the Newark Evening News re- marks: “One 15 tempted o say he s dean again, for there is an impression that dentity with the charming small ooy of Mark Twaln'’s fancy has been claimed for at Jeast one other who has passed on In the fullness of years, In facr, the claim 8 been set up that ‘Tom was no other than Mark Twain M, AL any rate, thought 15 mu- A century | Heads of the German Army have {vited a number of neutral corre- | spondents to be present ot the German offensive on the western front, and they will leave for the front on Wednesday. * * * American ob ™ t5t that the much-heralded German sive” on Paris and the Channel 5 18 largely “bluff,” and that the allies will take the offensives * ¢ 1 troops will' beat them; Areweary LIoops cannot pos- sibly endure a long-sustained offensive *F S French War crosses ure pre- sented o 17 American officers and pri- vates for bravery in action, In an im- pressive ceremony Just buck of the lnes in the Luneville sector. * * * Ame artillery locates German battery Luneville sector that had made a direct hit on dugout and concentrates high explosive on it, blowing it up. * * ¢ Estraordinnry - mitigry activity in and more valuable than in aeronautics. | Porter Adams was right in his effort | to preserve the present gocd name of | American aviation, and your policy of | cricicism was indeed shortsighted when | you did not see the danger of linking | principle and primary application lie ml another fleld. JAMES J. HAYDEN. ! Efficient Flying Control Is Urged | to aeronautics through skillful publicity an alleged invention whose fundamental | From the Nashville Banner Out in San Diego a day or so ago| there was a tragic and altogether un-| necessary demonstration of how badly | flving needs rigid and efficient control. An entirely incompetent pilot, flying a | homemade airplane, took up four pas- | sengers for a short flight and plunged | to death with them for no reasons other | than his own inexperience and the un- | trustworthiness of his ship. The city afr control board had refused this pilot a license and had ordered that the plane should not be allowed to fly. Pilot and passengers insisted on taking a! chance, however, and there was no| agency in operation to prevent their risking and losing their lives. It is obvlous, of course, that soclety | cannot prevent men from committing sufcide n a great many different ways it their minds are set on it, but it is possible to supervise fiying fields in such | manner that happenings such as the| one in question shall not occur under ! any semblance of official sanction. No joubt this inexperienced flyer could and | ‘uum have found a place to try his afrplane with equally disastrous results under present conditions, but his ship should have been confiscated and held until he learned to fly and made it con- | form to specifications. As it is, flying has another black eye that it in no proper way deserves. There is abso- lutely no connection betweei real flying and the blundering ride of death taken in San Diego, but, for all that, many persons will establish a connection and aviation will suffer in proportion It 1s lkewise pertinent to consider the fact that only good fortune kept the San Diego crash from being even more terrible than it was. It was easily sible for this poorly bullt, wn and ll-fated machine to plunged down into the crowd of spec tors at the field or to have gone rend- ing and tearing Its way through a resi- dence or business house. 1t is by no means the first tme such a thing has happened, but 1t should most emphati- cally be the last. Flylng 1s no business for the amateur and s status should not be damaged by allowing amateurs to have part in it even if one says nothing of horrible death for the un- tralned fiyer and his compantons. Chemin des Dames sector, where New England troops are in training, Ger- mans started 1t, but Americans and | neh give them four for one in re- turn. ¢ * Allles destroy 31 German planes in four days and Germans re port. downing 23 alled planes * Prestdent orders three spies deported to Frapce Lo face trial theve, Lit pulted out Men, women for withdrawal of the Marines Nicaragua need to remember moment they are taken away Brit Italian and other marines may sup. plant them. It has never been adver- tised as thoroughly as it ought to be that our Government is well aware that if it cannot or will not protect foreign rights in Nicaragua, the foreign gove ernments M question can and will do so. If they should, the Monroe Doc- trine would be at stake. of foreign troops on soil of the We: ern Hemisphere. But a landing, meant to be temporary, might develop c permanent aspects of distinct unpleas- antness from the United States’ stand- point. raguan waters when the present mess set in a year ago. Both London and Rome, there is reason to believe, let Washington know that they could not indefinitely tolerate menace to European interests in Nicaragua. So the Marines are doing more than chase Sandino: elusive forces and police the country for election purposes. They are in a very direct way guarding the Mon- roe Doctrine. S President Coolidge accepts invit tions to grace various occasions wi his presence on condition he will not be expected to sp Now and then venturesome presiding _officers. techni y observing that in subtly suggest that, if the s Il moves him, “a few rema be welcome. Not long ago the Pr unction, it after jdent attended the Founder's day ¢ bration of the Carnegie Institute at Pittsburgh. It was understood by all | concerned that he would be on the plat- | form, but enact the role of “Silent Cal” ‘The head of the institute was ing the anniversary audience e greatly honored.” he was say ing, “by the presence of the President | of the United States. 1 have promised | him he would not be called upon to address us.” At that moment, M. | Coolidge, sitting just behind the Car- | negie executive, leaned’toward him and | remarked in n stage whisper, “Yes. | and U'm going to help you keep that promise!” e Capitol Hill will easily recognize the hero of this story. He's a distinguished Senator, and an eloquent one. He 18 | also & temperamental gentleman, with | a habit of side-stepping public ev { ments without notice. One day this | Inter, Senator ——— accepted an in- vitatfon to address a meeting in the | Weat. The committee fn charge, being aware of his mercurlal personalt nt a speclal emissary to Washington to escort him across country. Al went well till they were at the rallway station and had actually passed through the barrlers leading to traing Suddenly | Senator exclaimed, “Excuse me, 1 forgot to buy A paper!" and o appeared The escort, smelling a rat, decided to follow the gentleman from and nabbed him i just time to lead him back to the train before From that moment til the hour of the meeting tn next day, the Sanator was never left alone for & solitggy minute. It was decided and groups clamoring| Monroeism | | does not specifically debar the landi a place o 1 ticuiar désire generic te town has lured ranks as one of monuments of t ing. Q. How shou prepared for danc A. The fl ffin p followed by a co worked onto the Q Was States ey e oo vl st ot S O WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. no chances co cave of W Ambassador of 2 ‘Personal assu mem A British cruiser was in Nica- n WOR, the 1dio at N while | would | 1o prevent character assasstnatior floors of Congress. Th lution under w blast will destre to see such ar away w | trom commonpk, who would because of fore nd alt of Capitol Hu - Speaker Longwarth put one quattet of Congresswomen Prag Kahn of Calitornia during the early hours of naval bill debate. It was a “NIcK™ was paying not only Kaha's parliamentary skiil memary of her 1 Kahn, who was one of the s friends national de Congress. The gentlewoman ¢ Qolden Gate has berited sturdy belle! W preparedi consistently ‘animated the Republican who piloted the World War draft through & Demoeratie House i 1917, (Coovriaht, 1998 of the m iR o s