Evening Star Newspaper, April 9, 1928, Page 8

{THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY. .April 9, 1098 { THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office 11th St. and Peansylvania Ave. New York Ofce: Fast 420d St. Chicago Office: Tower Building. European Office . London, Fugland. the City. 43¢ per month Rate by Carrier Within v 60c per month 65¢ per month B¢ per copy T each month, may be sent m by or telephene, Main 5000 Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia, Other States and Canada, d Sunday..l yr., $12.00: 1 mo., $1 0 1¥rL SKO0:1mon $4.00{1mo, 3 Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Pross is exclusively entit o the use for repudlication of all news dited 10 it or not otherwise o aper and aleo the local 1nd No Lump-Sum Payment. It was understood when the act of | June 29, 1 was agreed upon by | House and Senate that the act was| a compromise measure disposing for many years of troublesome fiscal re- Jation issues. The District’s contribution | ’ amount uncertain and fluctuating, on the same basis as before 1878, it should in equity restore to the District its power which existed before 1878 of fix- ing through self-taxation the amount of its own Capital contribution. If the Nation is not to share in def- inite ratio In municipal tax paying it ought not in e ity to fix the amount of local taxati If the local* com- munity is to raise substantially all of the local revenue (with the Nation as a fluctuating and uncertain donor) the Capital must on American principles be permitted to tax itself, and to de- termine for itself how much shall be raised, and by what methods of taxa- tion, and for what purposes the tax money shall be expended. Obligation follows power. Financial | obligation is coupled with political | power. If the nation controls it pays, and to the extent that it controls it pays. Washington is the only Capital in the world in which if certain policies prevail the Nation would do all of the controlling and none of the paying. - The Test in Chicago. Murders, bombings, machine gun warfare between rival bootleg factions, protected vice and gambling—all of these manifestations of chaos and evil have combined to place Chicago before the country as a modern Sodom or | Gomorrah. And one might expect that the fire from heaven, which in an eaclier day destroyed these two citadels of the devil, will take form tomoirow in & blast of ballots in the Iilinois State primary, sweeping into outer darkness those who by toleration or misgovern- ment have permitted conditions in Chi- cago to become what they are today. toward Capital upbuilding in- | creased from 50 to 60 per cent; its tax on intangible personality was increased 66 2-3 per cent, and the foundation was | Jaid for increasing its realty tax; it was | deprived of exclusive credit for large‘ sums of miscellaneous receipts hitherto | solely enjoyed, this action inflicting a heavy loss, and it was compelled to ac- cumulate from its tax money of present years (every cent of which was needed to meet the urgent municipal needs of today) a fund of millions to provide in advance for meeting the first half-year expenses of 1927-8. In partial compensa- tion for these drastic exactions the Dis- trict was to enjoy for five years and in- definitely thereafter the benefit of ap- proximate certainty as to its ratio of proportionate contribution; it was through increased respect to be 3hown 0 the Commissioners’ estimates to have in substance the privilege of influential participation in shaping appropriations | of which it should pay 60 per cent, and it was to be spared for a long period the hurtful deadlocks over ratios between House and Senate which annually en- dang'red the District appropriations and indeservedly prejudiced House sen- times t against the Capital community. But no sooner was the definite 60-40 ratio fixed by compromise agreement, leaving only the surplus guestion to be decided equitably by Congress, and al- most before the Capital community. had " adjusted itself to its new fiscal organic act and had begun to enjoy the prom- ised bliss of fiscal peace, than a propo- sition appeared to repudiate the agree- ment upon the 60-40 ratio, to substitute & system of indefinite contribution by Capital and Nation and to precipitate - Washington taxpayers into the fiscal chaos from which they had emerged. The vital feature of the act of 1922, carried over from the act of 1878, is that it fixes a definite equitable stand- erd of national participation in Capi- tal making, related to the contribution exacted in taxes from the Capital com- munity, and does not leave this stand- ard to the shiftings of caprice. Two practical questions in respect to financing the Capital have been of vital | importance from the beginning: (1) 1 Shall the national and local contribu-, tions be definite or indefinite, related or independent? (2) Who shall determine the relation of the amount of these contributions, respectively? The history of the Capital has dem- onstrated distinctly that these con- tributions should be definite and re- Jated: and that if indefinite and unre- lated to insure justice each contrib- i utor should have a voice in determin- | ing the amount of his contribution. ' Since the day of the creation of the | Capital the Nation's obligation toward the Nation's City has been the same— primary, exclusive and dominating. Not the obligation itself, but the de- gree In which it has been recognized | #nd met has been the fluctuating fac- tor in the equation. From 1800 to 1874-8 the national and Jocal Capital contributions were in- definite and unrelated. Each contrib- | uted what it pleased toward Capital upbuilding. The Nation measured its| own obligation in terms of dollars as next to nothing. The local community | Will there be such a blast? Will the Republican primaries serve as a demon- stration of how an aroused populace may strike? There is interest from the country in the results of the primary as far as they concern the State at large. But there is much more interest in watch- ing the way the wind will blow in Cook County. There the fight narrows to a battle between State's Attorney Robert E. Crowe, who is running for renom- ination against a candidate for that office, John A. Swanson. Crowe fis backed by the Thompson faction in Chicago, and Swanson has the support of the faction headed by United States Senator Charles S. Deneen. So thick and fast have the charges and counter- charges flown back and forth between these factions that the poor voter must be left in a maze, indeed, when he at- tempts to choose between them on the basis of their claims or promises. But the voter should have no great dif- ficulty in concluding that the Crowe- ‘Thompson crowd represents the govern- ment of Chicago today; the Deneen- Swanson faction represents a change, and a change at least connotes the pos- sibility of improvement. Dispatches from Chicago indicate that the good people of that city are aroused to the point of wanting to kick somebody out. They have good reason to be. The name of the city has be- come synonymous throughout the land with crime and crookedness. If such things are cause for laughter, Chicago has become the country's laughing stock. But while these good people may be highly indignant, the question re- mains of whether their indignation is stronger than the tie that binds the voters of such efficient organizations as those controlled by Mr. Crowe and Mr. Thompson. That is where the interest lies in the IDlinois primaries tomorrow. Mayor Thompson is not personally con- cerned, as there is no mayoralty con- test involved. But the mayor’s regime is being put to a test. If it is over- thrown to the extent of a defeat of his political allies, the overthrow may be interpreted as the result of an aroused and indignant electorate. If his regime is indorsed, the result will be an en- lightening commentary upon the futility of popular indignation when it is op- posed to well ofled political machinery. Well Earned. The Howard University is to be con- gratulated upon the acquisition of its new Medical School Building, secured through the contributing co-operation of the Government, under whose au- thority the university functions, and the General Education Board of New York. This new plant, now being dedicated, reprezents s cost for puilding and equipment of half a million dollars. The record of Howard University Med- ical School is ,an honorable one, its | graduates having #ne forth to heal in | many places, With its new equipment, represent- ing the latest thought in medical pedagogy, the school no doubt will better its past record, if faculty and students keep well in mind the fact yaised and disbursed its own taxes at ts pleasure. 1t measured its Capital| ebligation considerably beyond the lim- | s of its meager taxable resources and | twice became practically bankrupt in| performing slmost unaided the Nation's | task of Capital buflding. In 1878 the Nation confessed its vio- fation or gross negiect of jts Capital | ohligation. 1t gave practical expression | W its revived sense of this obligation | in it undertaking 0 pay -half the | sccumilated funded indebledness of | the D and one-hal? of future ex- penses. It ook from the District the | power of self-taxation and assum compley e of the right v fix the o as s or y exere contribution well as Nation safeguarded the national com- munity by the pledge that 1o every dol- lar collected in taxes from the local tax- payers should be added a dollar from the Natlonal Treasury and that the ag- gregate revenue should be expended for Capital uphuilding The 1922 retains e related ch . Capital contrivu- of 1898 wes of goued, 1 oo ehsbiged 50-50 W 60-40 did Bot witer the basic princple involved Tise Womp summ payment plan destroys O relation between the national and ool contributions, and, leaving all tax fug power in the hands of the United Blates, deprives the unrepresented Capital of i safegugrd sgainst ex cessive taxation by a taxing body n which it is net represented. Whenever, if ever, the United Slates i relieve itself from e self-imposed and promise o contribuv Capitel upbutiding en it definitely related o the local the Jaw 1 the ratio of yelation ’ )igation o0 r # 5 contribution, ennusl In thus exercising taxation with- | out representation over the District the | that no amount of equipment, nor any size of bullding, can take the place of earnest minds and sincere hearts. e According to the fiippant proverb, “Nobody loves a fat man.” In studies | of international prosperity, Uncle S8am is compelled to wonder whether any- body loves & creditor, ——— e Easter has passed, with the usual devout attention claimed by prayer hook and fashion magaz A oot Wasted Energy. Col. Charles A, Lindbergh bus set many & feminine heart fluttering in an unaccustomed way, but so far the fly- ing hero has given no indication of reciprocating the multitudinous affec- tions that could be his for the asking Consequently, he will probably be not |in the lemst perturbed about the re- sults of the idiotic questionnaire which was distributed among a hundred wnd fitty girls st Btephens College in | Columbia, Mo, Out of the one hundred the principle |and fifty near-flappers, flappers and | wever-will-be-flappers, only twenty-nine | wered that they would gladly wed, it the the outstanding wvlator of the sge. As mentioned be noweyver, Ui small percentage of fven chanee, | tore | talr maddens anxious Lo make w mutch | will not concern Lindbergh st all, but the fact that bis name 15 belng bandled about fn such s manner will probably |@ive him a feeling of justifiable $rri- | tution Columble 18 on the main etween Bt Louls and Kanses City and |6 famous ae 8 college Lown in Lhat sec- ton of the country, It I8 presumed that it atieined its reputation through {the excellence of it educatjonal facili- Vties, but if the students are allowed Lo and shell leave that engege in Nlling out guestionnsires re- he 1 talkin' about” highwey | garding their marriage attitude toward famous men and this fact is brulted about throughout the United States, Columbla is In a fair way to lose its standing in the minds of thinking per- sons. It 1s more or less insulting to a man of Lindbergh's character to juggle his name about in a frivolous manner. He has earned the respect and admira- tlon of the entire world and the dis- tribution of such ¥ questionnaire Is probably regarded by him as a de- cidedly back-handed compliment, ——v et The Opening Game. Tomorrow is the big day, the day for which thousands of Washingtonians have been waiting and the day that comes only once a year. In short, the first major league base ball game of the 1928 season will be officially started, with President Coolidge throwing out the first ball, at three o'clock tomor- row afterncon. The usual first-game band will be on hand to add gayety to the occasion, and more than twenty thousand persons will probably be en- sconced in the commodious stands when the umpire calls “Play ball!” Conceded to have one of the strong- est pitching staffs in the league, the 1928 edition of the Washington team is determined to make a fight for high honors. Except for a last-minute change in plans by Manager Harris, new faces will be seen at first base, shortstop and center field. Sammie West, who is expected to fill Tris Speaker's shoes in center, is a new- comer only in the sense that he played so few games last year that the fans have not become thoroughly acquainted with him. Grant Gillis seems to have won the shortstop berth from Bobble Reeves, while George Sisler, one of the greatest batsmen of all time, is slated to start the season at first base instead of the graceful Joe Judge. The Washington team will put up a smart and aggressive brand of base ball. That much is assured. Whether the necessary batting punch can be de- veloped to compete with teams of greater offensive power is something that only the future will tell. Rice, Goslin, Sisler, Tate and Ruel are proven stars with the bat. They will hit for a good percentage in any league. West, however, is still of undetermined batting quality. Harris, Gillis and Bluege are timely. but not consistent batters. Although at least three other teams in the league carry greater punch in their line-ups than Washington, the smart local team with good pitching and fair batting will make itself a de- cided factor in the race. It may not win the pennant, but it will be well up toward the front, and with a few breaks may romp home in the lead. Tomor- row is the day. Play ball! s Admiring throngs are held responsible for mishaps in the career of Wales as a horseman. A true prince can hold his head. But a horse is “temperamental B Mergers are in the air. Barnum and Bailey set the pace in indicating that there is not room in the world for more than one “greatest show on earth.” ————— Mussolini has convinced Italy by means of a personality and & prospectus. He is one of the world's greatest ex- amples of modern salesmanship. ———— An appeal for money to provide a tribute to Senator Borah's patriotism might easily find more response than one to reimburse Harry Sinclair, —-———— An effort to fight the presidential campaign out in April may result in making life a little easler in the hot Midsummer months. ————— Rumors of assassination call attention to the fact that, just at present, Trotsky is not regarded as of much importance, alive or dead ——————— Among individuals the notice “Please remit” 15 simple and easily understood. Among nations it involves complicated discussion. B S As the political picture shifts, a spot- light contender in April may prove to be a “dark horse” in Midsummer. e SHOOTING STARS. B PHILANDER JOHNSON, Cherry Bloom. An iridescent cloud Descends through Winter gloom. Humbly we come-—yet proud-— ‘To greet the cherry bloom! With beauteous display It brings a message dear, From skies so far away, Into our blossoming year, Individualism. “A true patriot should not be afrald of any man on earth.” “You are wrong,” answered Senator Sorghum. “There {s no amount of patriotism that will keep a man from being terrified in the dentist’s chair.” Hook-up. My radio! My radio! Quite soon I'm going to look up Bome fishing tackle that will show A really worth-while hook-up. Jud Tunkins says he doesn’t belleve half he h , and at that he thinks maybe he has got hold of the wrong half. Omitted. “Why are you not listed in the Soclal Catalogue?” It fsn't our fault,” answered Miss Cayenne. “Mother happened to be out when the book agent called.” | | “Heed the small voice of conactence,” sad HI Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “and you need have no fear of the pawhing out of & policeman.” Lightsomeness. ' | In Mfe some laughter may resound | Where disuppointments fit, A lighter for cigars he found Which genuinely 1it! Cultivating Appearances, “You were seen talking to a hoot- legger.” “Yes,” answered Uncle Bill Botuetop, “and u bigh-class, expensive hootlegger, }j..w that, I prolonged the conversation s much 8s 1 could so as o improve my credit,” “De man wit de biggest volce,” sald Uncle Eben, "gets de most attention, regardless of whether he knows what T THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Spring is one season no one gets too old to enjay. Winter's joys are in the past for many; Summer is simply much too hot; Autumn is wishy-washy, not yet Winter nor yet Summer, Spring, however, is eternally the same, whether it comes in youth or old age. The exact date of its appearance makes little difference, nor does it mat- ter much that it is not in every feature the same old sort of Spring one knew as a child. . Spring is a state of mind, superim- posed on mankind by milder air, real rains and brighter sunshine. It is the sun, literally and figura- tively, which makes our Spring. It causes the earth to stir with life, tender shoots to appear, grass to green, red tips of peonies to come above ground. This is the only magic. * K kK All of us become sun worshipers at this time of year. ‘To sit in a stufly office on such a day as several experienced last week and look out at the glorious beams playing across the city was to become young again in a twinkling of the eye. ‘Those Spring smells came in at the timidly opened window. The air was redolent with something that the whole of this section of the world seemed to be experiencing and thus exhaling for the benefit of mankind. Sights, sounds, colors—these took on new meanings. From the drab of Win- ter we had wakened to the glow of Springtime, We had become one with grasshop pers and blades of grass. We felt an urge of sympathy for the curious little bugs that live under rocks and run as on wheels when their cover is disturbed. We wanted to get out and run, too. W This is the authentic feeling of true Spring. False Spring left hope, but it was not the real thing. Expectation often is better than real- ity. but not in the case of Spring. Here the genuine article far surpasses dreams. Spring does not satiate. One may drink deep of Spring without intoxica- tion, revel in Spring without disorder, admire Spring without fatuity. “Spring fever” is the most admirable iliness in the world, although it has been held up as reprehensible and its victims put through a course of lec- tures, or even a dosage of a stronger brew. One may now subscribe to the doc- trine that man is an outdoor animal Even those who shrank all Winter long from contact with cooling winds find | themselves willing to face the elements now. o A whole city wants to walk F street, or ‘g‘o fishing, or rake grass in the back yard. There is a busy stir among amateur horticulturists. Those who forgot to order their seeds early, as the seedsmen ask them to do, now excitedly make out orders and then fervently curse fate because they are not filled as rapidly as they expected. But seed houses are human organizations, and seedsmen this month confront a deluge of orders. No doubt they do the best they can. Even the fisherman gets no more joy out of Spring than the amateur gar- dener. Whether he owns a small back yard or an estate, the home gardener meets all the Spring there is. The full tide of this glorious time hits the gardener in the face. It tans his Winter-whitened skin, limbers up his knee joints, makes the small bones in the soles of his feet ache with a surpassing aching. Gardening, like fishing and hunting, goes back to the long-lost, even forgot- ten, days of man, These activities, however, have come down in all their glory, although the anclent men who founded them are only a memory, or scarcely more than a queer name which they themselves never would have rec- ognized. * ok ml The tragedy of staying in an office on such days is a real one to some natures, ‘These, in excuse for themselves, may feel (and no doubt rightly) thi are in exquisite harmony with season. Crasser souls, these may believe, may do very well within four walls, but those whom' the Spring has marked for its own will have none of walls except upon compulsion. It is a sorry fact to them that com- pulsion is so all-fired compulsive. A job has to be done. Something or other has to be written. So-and-so work must be gotten out, such-and-such business attended to. While all this is going on the sun is shining and the birds are singing their fool heads off, and the white clouds are scudding through the sky as lightly as any Lindbergh. * oK Kk If one were only out there in that sunshine, soon the deliclous glow of Spring’s first sunburn would begin to steal over the face. The Winter has been confining, its sunbeams too anemic. Out there at last gleam real sunbeams, hot off the immortal griddle called the sun. One stands in a window, high in the air, allowing those sunny particles to flow over and into one, each tiny ele- ment bringing its quota of health and happiness. ‘There is no cat or dog that has not got enough sense to bathe in the sun- shine every day, but there are innumer- able men and women who seem to have forgotten their birthright. “Flowers are children of the light,” sald the sage, but mankind is no less a child of the sun. When life first quick- ened on the borders of the salt marshes and came to earth with sprawly feet it was the rank sunshine of a hotter day than ours that guided those stumbling paws. Lo Down through the ages the great | sun, now a thing to worship, now some- thing to be investigated in a scientific spirit, has gleamed in the heavens away from ‘our earth, warming, revivifying, expanding. One sympathizes with De Maupas- | sant, the sick man, who fled to Africa that he might bask in hotter rays than | ours. We, however, who are under no such necessity, ought to make the most | of the more equitable beams we possess. ‘The rays of the sun are mighty, the rays of the sun are benign. Like Portia’s quality of mercy, they descend upon the just and the unjust, and do it without fear ot favor. | . “He_ judges as the sun judges,” said Walt Whitman, paying tribute both to the perfect jurist and the solar orb. Since Spring so tempts us out, we would do well to give in to the urge as often and for so long as possible in the | firm belief that sunshine and fresh air | constitute the best tonic in the world for | those who need it most—the moderately ! healthy. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Frank B. Kellogg, Secretary of State, has just prepared for the Republican national committee the fifth of its se- ries of “fact-pamphlets.” It is entitled “Foreign Relations” and deals in detail with the United States’ international actlvities during the past four years. An appendix lists the 60-odd treatles negotiated by this country with foreign governments in that period. Consider- able space is devoted to “difficulties in China” and our relations with Mexico and Nicaragua are discussed in gen ml; terms. M. Kellogg's preachment places the blame for the failure of the 1927 Geneva limitation conference squarely | on the shoulders of Great Britain “due to the divergence of views regarding cruisers.” The Secretary of State identi- fies himself with his distinguished pred- ecessor’'s conception of the State De- partment's excuse for existence. Mr. Hughes once said that the department | is largely occupied with “keeping the highways of commerce open and in good Tepair.” ook Secretary Kellogg's friends — and these include in particular the staff of the State Department—are always ir- ritated by the periodical rumors of his resignation. One such has been in cir- culation again during the past few days There is nothing in it. Kellogg plans to stick to his job until March 4, 1929, unless President Coolidge retires him in the meantime, and the master of the White House seizes numerous occasions to indicate that he has no intentions of that sort. Wiih domestic politics hold- ing the center of the stage at the mo- ment, Americans aren't wasting much thought on foreign affairs. The fact is that Kellogg's recent diplomacy in mak- ing_peace with the Nationalist China at Nanking is as significant an achicve- ment in Far Eastern relations as has been accomplished in many years. It is 8o recognized In capitals like London and Tokio. Another feather in Kel- logg's cap, of which the Nation at large isn't aware, is that it was largely on his initiative that Dwight W, Morrow was made Ambassador to Mexico, o ow In “Jim" Good of Iowa the Hoover organization has acquired as canny a politician as the Republican party has developed In recent times, Willlam M. Butler, who was in charge of Calvin Coolidge's 1924 pre-convention fortunes, thought so highly of Good that the Towan was put in command of the Pres- ident’s Western fences four y ago this Spring. Good enlists und the Hoover banner with unusual appropri- ateness, because, like the Secretary of Commerce, he 15 himself a native Hawkeye. When he resigned from the House In 1921 Good surrendered the blue ribbon post of chairman of the powerful appropriations committee, W which he had advanced himself by dint of hard work and sagacity in fiscal af- fairs, Politically the true inwardness of Good's entry into the Hoover camp lies in the additional evidence of the Call- fornian’s determination this time to in- trust his aspirations to professonals In 1920, by common consent, Hoover's bark was shipwrecked mainly by his crew of amateurs. LR Current (events in the Senate are proving that the age of political ehiv- alry 18 not gone. Old-timers recull nothing more handsome than Senator Thomas J. Walsh's brilllant defense of Al Smith sgainst the oll aspersions of Henator Arthur R, Roblnson, Repub- lean, of Indiana, Many regard Walsh s Hmith's most formidable rival for the Democratie presidential — nomnation, though, the wiy things are going, thal doesn’t. mean much. The Montanan carrles the MeAdoo trake mark, whether Walsh admits 1L or not—a elrcumstay which makes his eulogy of Hmith all the more noteworthy, ‘The real test of the Walsh . o alllance ugatnst the New Yorker will come In the California srimary on May 1, where Il be w hree-cornered contest between Bmith, Walsh and Reed. Walsh 1s a native of Wiseonsin, but the Ind ‘who onee light- ed the street lamps of Two Rivers in that State devel d no native-son strength I the Wisconsin primary, from which Bmith has just erierged with the full Badger delegation . % e HNot long ago "BII" Jardine, Hgore- tary of Agriculture, in recalling college days at the Agricultural College of Utah, wondered what had become of & famous Indian athlete, a Cheyenne, who manhandled the cabinet minister- to-be every time their respectiye teams | clashed at foot ball. Early this month | Dr. Jardine received a call from an of- ficial spokesman of the Northern Chey= enne tribe of Montana. The Indian had come to urge the need of agricultural schools for his peopte. Immediately the Secretary recognized in his visitor | Eugene Fisher, the redskin who used | to tackle him in so deadly fashion on the Far Western gridirons a quarter of |a century ago. * ok ok W Mrs. Alfred J. Brosseau, president- general of the Daughters of the Ameri- can Revolution, with whom William | Allen White has just gone to the mat, {15 herself, like the Kansas editor, a writing person. Before D. A, R. activi- ties absorbed her energies, Mrs. Bros- seau was a producer of short stories. A native daughter of Illinols, Mrs. Bros- seau now makes her home at Green- wich, Conn. She has combativeness in plenty, as becomes a descendant of the fighting fathe and at the forthcom- ing D. A. R. Congress in Washington the president-general is likely to pay her to “Bill" White and others se the motives of the “Daug One of Mrs. Brosseau's achieve in D. A R. work is the Ellis Island committee, which the soclety maintains. As its active director for more than three years, Mrs, Brosseau made its humanitarian program a real factor at our chief port of immigrant entry. In the old days, during the period of detentlon, would-be candidates for the melting pot had to undergo de- pressing trials. Nowadays, the hours of waiting are pleasantly occupled. PR Nearly every one of the Easter tour- ists now filling Washington with their all-American accents wants to shake hands with “Cal” and see Congress per- form, but neither the President nor House or Senate begins to compete with the cherry blossoms as the Capi- tal's real attraction. They have be- come @ national institution. Nothing In Washington is better advertised all over the country, and none of the Dis- trict of Columbia’s countless sights a fords visitors so much joy. ‘The one possible exception 1s the Lincoln Me- morial. (Convrleht. 1028} e Hazardous Enterprise. From the Toledo Ble Much 13 being sald of the two French- men who have invented a player-violin, But no legal steps have been taken, Franklin’s Statue ps on The Avenue F angular ground Where many pass, he close-bordered round By pavements hard and harder destintes Of men are here revealed, and less of ease Of life In those seen this way dally bound, Than are i parks with statued heroes found, And idlers ldle as the eMgles, Ben Pranklin, man of thrifty dayn, with wkill To bulld & stove or captivate & queen, 1C sults him best to hold this traveled spot A5 A with busy men commingling aiill, And ot some flowery squa fnactive acene Where indolence repostng labors not. NSCULPTURED in no park of shading trees, But on a bit of bare tri- stands R. J. QUINN PlllLOEPl’ll- GLENN FRANK We are a bundle of tendencies. In the determination of the conduct of a day or the achievement of a life- time, we play stage manager to our intermittent impulses and our deep- seated tendencies. W& cannot begin to live and work with maximum intelligence until we know our particular impulses and tefd- encies, until we know the tendencies we. must foster and the ones we must frown upon. William ' McDougall, ~ distinguished psychologist, nsserts that there are cer- tain_inborn emotional tendencies that %o along with human nature. He ven- tures to list those that seem to him most nearly indisputable. If these tendencies are in all or most of us, it t for us to know them, for part of the raw materials out of which we must fashion our char- In addition to the basic tendencies of fear, anger, curiosity and sex, ten other tendencies are observable: “We have a tendency to seek the company of our fellows and to stay among them when we have found them. “We have a tendency to display and assert ourselves among our fellows, and to find satisfaction in their yielding to us their submission, deference and ad- miration. “We have a contrary tendency to yield submission and deference to those Who are powerful, to bow down and humble ourselves before them, to fol- low them and trust them. “We have a tendency to reject, to turn away with disgust from what- ever is foul and odiou ““We have a tendency td cry aloud for help when we are at the end of our tether, when we find that our best efforts avail nothing and our desire is utterly frustrated. “We have a tendency to seek and consume food and drink. “We have a tendency to arrange, to build up, to construct, to bring into some kind of order whatever we are dealing with. “We have a tendency to hoard, to to preserve whatever seems lue. “We have a tendency to make merry, to laugh aloud when we see others mak- ing a mess of things, failing, slipping, baffled, buffeted or perplexed, acting stupidly or clumsily. “We have also very simple tend- encies to respond appropriately to cer- tain bodily sensations announcing needs of bodily organs that require for their removal the co-operation of the whole organism.” ‘Whether these tendencies are inborn or of later origin, we have most of them; I cannot, at the moment, think of any special tendency of any indi- vidual that is not the child of one of these tendencies listed by Mr. Me- Dougall. It is worth while to study this spirit- ual table of contents of ourselves. (Copyright, McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) vs Dupont Circle Is Traffic Hazard To the Editor of The Stary In connection with your commendable Golden Rule Safety Driving Campaign, it may be an opportune time to focus at- tention upon certain dangerous points within the District of Columbia, where r—ve— it scems imperative that some measures | should be taken to remedy conditions. It is possible that a little publicity con- cerning such places might bring forth favorable co-operation on the part of drivers, and might prompt the proper officials to effect immediate changes without waiting for any accidents to occur before considering some reason- able remedies. The dangerous point to which I refer is on Connecticut avenue immediately south of Dupont Circle, where it must be admitted that two factors are at once obvious as to why this particular poiut is so unsafe. First, Connecticut avenue is much too narrow for such an important thoroughfare at the converg- ing point of ten radial highways. Second, it is extremely unfortunate that double tracks of the Washington Rallway & Electric Co. should occupy so much of the width of the roadway, and that, furthermore, car stops and transfer points had to be established at this worst possible place in the proximity of the circle. To try to improve the routing of traffic, especially on the arterial high- ways, would it not be reasonable and wise to require the routing of all vehicu- lar traffic as foliows: ‘The south-bound traffic out of Du- pont Circle might move south on Nine- teenth street, thence easterly on N street, and resume its route on Connecti- cut avenue again. North-bound traffic might be required to deviate from Connecticut avenue on to Eighteenth street, whence it would have the several options of approaching Dupont Circle again via Massachusetts avenue or P street. Pending the inevitable necessity of widening the roadway on Connecticut avenue between N street and Dupont Circle, perhaps the thousands of drivers | who daily pass this point wouid gladiy comply with such a traffic regulation, and certainly the hundreds who daily | use the car stop safety zones would ac- tually feel safe. ROBERT 8. JIGGER. e Praises Welsh Blood in Presidential Race | To the Editor of The Star When you consider the greatness of | the Presidency of the United States, as a position of honor, power and respon- | sibility, and consider the scarcity of | qualified candidates, it 1s, indeed, a tribute to the little nation of Wales that two of those who have been men- tioned are Welshmen — Davis and Hughes. ‘They are great in being mentioned as candidates, even though Hughes “does not choose to serve.” Secretary of Labor Davis is a native of Tredegar, Wales, and Charles Evans Hughes comes from full-blooded Welsh THOMAS GARRETT, [ Petticoats and Pol From the Dayton Daily News Noted German says America is gov- | erned by petticonts. Now we understand | what 18 meant by invisible government. UNITED STATES IN WORLD WAR Ten Yoars Ago Today American rallway engineers who helped stem the tide of the onrushing Germans during the opening days of the present drive are highly praised by British officers for their bravery and stamina, * cting on cabled in- | structions from Secrelary Baker, the War Department tonight resumed publi- | cation_of dally casualty lists of the A E F.* * * Names of 447 Amerioans tneluded tn lst covering six days, with 124 for April 5, the heaviest of wny | stugle day since Ameriean troops landed | I France, * * * Beginning with a bom- | bardment of great intensity, Cerman | troops (his morning delivered heavy at- tacks upon Hritish and Portuguese Hnes from the La Hussee Canal (o helghbor- hood of Armentieres, n distance of about 11 miles. Battle lasts all day and the allied conter 15 forced back on River Lys, but the Hritish flanks hold. Fog helped the enemy. * * * Germans used polson gas 10 immense quantities and {15 eatimated that 60,000 gas shells © used I an attempt o gas allied s, * ¢ % Prisoners captured on the Olse front say that the German staf fully expected to reach thelr objectives on the morning of April 6, counting on ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS ‘The answers to questions printed here each day are specimens picked from the mass of inquiries handled by our great Information Bureau maintaines in Washington, D. C. This valuable serv- ice is for the free use of the public. Ask | any question of fact you may want to know and you will get an immediate reply. Write plainly, inclose 2 cents in | stamps for return postage, and address The Evening Star Information Bureau, | Frederic J. Haskin, director, Washing- | ton, D. C. Q. Can a street car company make | money on a 5-cent far . 8, P. A. ‘Experts in urban transportation | matters say that it is impossible, con- ceding, however, that there may be ex- | ceptional cases, Inasmuch as the factors controlling a street car company’s earn. ing powers—capitalization, labor costs, other operating charges, taxes, etc.— are variable. The average street rail- way fare in the United States is now | 801 cents, this average being based | upon the fares in 272 cities of more than 25,000 population. In 112 of these cities the fare is 10 cents. | Q. Is it true that there is a play in New York that lasts from 6 o'clock until midnight?—J. B. C. | A. Eugene ONeill's new play, “Strange Interlude,” requires about five hours for a performance. | Q. Is it possible to cook without fire or electric current?—M. V. A. A bulletin of the General Electric Co., in describing a new high-frequency radio tube, say “Among the stun demonstrated with the high-frequen apparatus was radio cooking. A wire was suspended over a table at some dis- tance from the radiating aerial and parallel to it. A sausage placed in a glass tube was hung from the end of | this receiving aerial, and in a few min- | utes it began to steam. On being re- moved it was found to have been beau- tifully cooked by the high-frequen currents induced in it, although no flames or other visible means of heat- | ing were applied. A fryless fried egg was also prepared in the glass tube and served hot to the spectators. An apple was impaled upon the end of the receiv- ing aerial and in a short time was thor- oughly baked.” e Q. What is the strongest animal in the world?>—P. L. H. | A. It is impossible to name the strongest animal in the world, since some of the smallest insects have more | strength in proportion to their weight than some of the largest animals. An ant, for instance, may carry a load 15 or 20 times its own weight, while an | elephant could scarcely drag twice its | weight. Q. What was tes . 0. N. A. The “Bonfire of Vanities” was the burning of masks and other objects pertaining to frivolity at Florence, Italy, in 1497, un- merchant offered 22,000 gold florins for rejected and his portrait was added to | the pyre. It is said that no book or painting of value was destroyed. Q. Please tell me what “Samvat" means.—A. J. A. “Samvat” is an abbreviation of the Sanskrit word “Samvatsara,” which means a “year.” Samvat is the method of reckoning time used generally in India, except Bengal. Christian dates | are reduced to Samvat by adding 57 to | thie Christian year. Q. What country or people first built seagoing vessels?—R. L. A. Credit is usually given the Phoe- nicians for the building of the first galleys which could stand sea travel. O‘g' What is “Paine’s process”?—C. G. | A. “Paine’s process” is a process for | preserving timber and making it incom- | bustible by impregnating it successively | with solutions of sulphate of iron and | calelum chloride in vacuo. Q. What is “false dawn"?—A.B. M. A. Science Service says that “false dawn” is the zodiacal light, supposed to | be due to the reflection of sunlight from | fine particles of matter entirely outside the earth's atmosphere. It is best seen in low latitudes, especially in the pure | air of tropical and subtropical deserts. Q. Who is the author named Ernest Booth, who writes crime and prison stories’—A. M. W. A. His publishers say that he is a | international indecent books, pictures, | - der order of Savonarola. A Venetian | the doomed vanities, but his offer was | BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. man who Is serving a life sen‘enes in Folsom Prison, California. Q. What does a lion cost? Not tha {vv.i\(nl to buy one, but I'm cutious. A.“Full-grown lions, untamed, are quoted at from $1.200 to $1,500 eath, Q. When was Labor day first made holiday?—G. P. F. = 5 - A. The first Labor day celebration was held in New York in 1882, when the Knights of Labor held their general assembly there. Colorado was the first tate to enact a law making the first Monday in September a holiday known as “Labor da; ‘That was done in 1887, Q. What is the distance by road from San Francisco to New York City Omaha?—F. V. R. ance from San Franciscd the Lincoln Highway from San Franciseo t is 3,323 miles, Q. Who was the first woman law yer’—H. L. M. A. The first woman admitted to the practice of law in the United Sta was Mrs. Carrie Burnham Kilgore, wh was admitted to the Delaware County, Pa, courts and to one Philadelphi common pleas court in 1884. The firs oman permitted to practice law Europe was Mlle. Chauvin, Paris, 1897. Q. What is the difference bet an ambassador and an env A. The ¢ difference ambassador and an envoy 1,901 New York , ar city 1 y?—S. between that by Vienna in 1815 of demanding pe the head of governm be the 1 Q. What is the large stone s Broadway and 116th a C. ears ago sity by on Q. Will you kindly state how often and on what dates the famous Quebec Bridge fell during construction?—A. W. A. On August 29, 1907, the | half of the Quebec Bridge, course of erect crumbled own weight. ‘ptember | while the suspension span co: the two cantilevers was being into position, a failure occurred and | entire structure fell to the bottom the river. On September 20, 15 | suspension bri | and bolted i “the “Bonfire of Vani-| Q. What is the origin of “30," as used by newspaper men and telegraphers?— | "A." Charles Payne Smith recently g | the following information in the Typo | graphical Journal; The first press asso- | ciation, organized in Civil War t | was composed largely of morning p: published near the Eastern | Each paper sent into the cen items of local interest, which w here | edited and telegraphed to all members, | It happened that the first message sent |to the association totaled 30 words, and | this figure, with the words “good night |and the signature of the sende: | placed at the bottom of the shee |operator. At that time piecework was | the rule on all papers. The dail | was usually set up, corrected and in the forms by 10 o'clock, but the compositors | were compelled to wait around at their |own expense until the foreman an- nounced “30" was in. So “30” became | & by-word among te! bolizin the ‘end. FE L E . | Q How many new words did the | World War_add to the English lan- guage?—T. E. A. Dr. Vizetell number to be less than 10,000. Q. Is Newfoundland a part of Can- ada?—H. M. a A. Newfoundland is & separate en- tity of the British Empire, and bears the same relationship to the empire that Canada does. It has its own Parlia- ment, premier, istry, and issues its Own money and bonds without regard to Canada. has estimated the Q. Is it correct to use “hung” as the imperfect tense and past participle in | speaking of a man being executed?— A.C. | A, Itis correct, but authorities | that “hanged” is to be preferred m the word is used in this Friends and foes of the new farm) relief bill await the action of Congress, | both assuming that the measure will be | passed, differing on the prospects of a presidential veto. Those who oppose the legislation insist that the prcsenl‘ modification of the equalization fee pro- | vision about which the fight centered on the McNary-Haugen bill has not changed the principle involved. | “There Is every reason to believe,” | according to the Chicago Daily Tribune | (Republican), “that the bill will again be approved by Congress, and there is | reason to hope that it will be signed | by the President. Mr. Coolidge has | said that he favors Government help to co-operative marketing associations as the solution of the agricultural prob- lem. He cannot veto this bill without virtually admitting that such financial assistance will not, of itself, prove ade- quate. The report of the Federal Re- | serve Board, which has just been made publie, ought to provide ammunition for 1 the friends of farm rellef in Congress. | ‘This report frankly states that the enormous resources of the reserve sys tem have been used in recent months | to stabilize credit conditions abroad. | The United States. it is explained, has half of the world's supply of gold, and has used it to create prosperity in for- | efgn lands, thereby cing them in a| position to buy our goods. To which | the farmers are entitled to reply, ‘Why | not “It will be earnestly hoped that the President will permit it to have & chance to show whether legislative re- lef possesses any merit fn fact,” de- clares the Springfield Ilinols State Journal (Republican) which points out that “the new bill ‘plays down' the equalization fee ‘The South Hend Tribune (independent Republican) states: “On the whole, the measure goes far toward meeting the farm-reliet legislation requirements outlined by Mr. Coolidge in his veto message. The equaligation fee is the only feature that is likely to make him reluctant to ac- cept the bill. but events are shaping for A compromise on that in case one is necessary.” R ! “If the Republican majority in (‘m\-l gress and the Republican administra tion have a desire to deal fairly on the | subjeet of agricultural equity.” advises | the Sioux City Tribune (independent), | “all they need to do is to accept and | Approve the reasonable program placed before them™ The Portland Oregon | Journal (independent) argues: By law, Congress directed that the rail- roads be allowed to collect rates large enough o insure & ‘falr return and the Interstate Commerce Commission | fixed 8%, per cent as a ‘fale veturn'| on capital invested in ratlvoads. 18| money Invested 1 ratiroads more vital | 1o the country than money invested i farms? Can Amerioa afford to reduce her conservative, home-loving, nation- | defending farmers to peasantry** “The farm took deflation full i the | face." says the Des Moines Tribune- | mruul Undependent Republican), | “while both labor and industry were organized n the main to dodge It If the Republicans put up a candidate thelr superfor numbers to overwhelm the French and cause a general with- drawal all along the front, to run ara program of the ‘law of sup ‘\Xl‘\’ and demand' for the farm, some- g 18 going o happen to the Re | than "science 'Prospects of Presidential Veto Of Farm Relief Bill Discussed publicans.” More hopeful is the argu- ment of the St. Paul Pioneer Press (independent) that “it is almo credible, but nevertheless the fac this is almost the t time five years the McNary-Haugen b: been before Congre that opyp have abandoned oppositi joined in sincere! o help e the faults which make it objec to them.” “The chances ar Houston Chronicle (Democrat ever, “that kill the m this. N proceed on this rather good evidence they are s ng n principla Topeka Dail ital (Re also will be v tion th: A President who will afix his to it.” The Capital has been from (hrl the N farmers’ relief . and this known to which has bee in the thic * * * The oppos tion has not been constructive. It ha only opposed.” xxox o the hope hel s the P of tere: as be e News (indepe hope does A T bu cal expe Herald “Unless Know now be founded o assage is Resty which don't really believe the measure can please the farmer a do no damage, because they Rnow bill will be vetoed.* The meas! is described by t mdependent Der public does A mere po Congressmen 1 the pri Dayton Daily News ocratio) as “a bit of b lible farmers. ntinues that Republican o S lure of subsid more or less disguised form has bec held out to the farmers by » thase who 1 political cap Question whether sub 18 fate will de The Baltimore Democratio) asks anting all the & claimed for effect of the bill o Prices of wheat how Wwill it ald the W efffolent and high-cost producer wher Promises of higher profits intensity competition he must meet ™ Prediction of a veto is made by th Rirmingham News (Democratie), 1t is held to bable by the San Bernardine Sun (Republican), while the Boston Transeript (independent) Voices the beliof that “little public in- terest appears to attach to the changes. once it I8 understood that the pro- vislon for equalization fea Tem:ina m e bl : (independer