Evening Star Newspaper, April 19, 1928, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D.C. THURSDAY.... THEODORE W. NOYES. ...Editor . .April 19, 1928 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €. THURSDAY, confession and secure the presence of Allen in that State. Full belief is not to be placed in this avowal of guilt. In other cases men have “confessed” to erfmes which they have never committed, in order to escape prosecution for offenses of which The Evening Sta Business Office: 11th St. and Peansyivants Ave, New York Office: 110 East 42nd St Chioage Office: Tower By Turopean Office: 14 R n Rate by Carrier Within the City. The Evening Star ... Ahe Evening Twzen n The Evening (when 5 Star o made at the end of cach r.onth be soot in by mail or te Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland Daite and Daix on nd Virginia. ouly States and Canada. S1200; 1 €R.00° 1 mo r Newspaper Company 43¢ per month 60c per month r 65¢ per month | e per cony Phove, e ftified. The promotion of the crime they were in fact guilty. or perhaps {to obtain transportation. In almost all cases these confessions have come from persens in custody. Usually these avow- |als of guilt have related to notorious ;trlmrs which have been widely dis- jcussed and the detafls of which are | well known, so that faking has been comparatively easy in respect to the particulars of the offense. he storv told by Allen appears, as 1far as it is disclosed, to vary consid- {orably from the theory of the crime upon which the prosecutions that end- {#d in acquittals were based. If Allen’s | story is true those acquittals were jus- was laid to a relative of the dead | woman and not to a relative of the clergyman who w n with her. The theory of suicide in the Hall- APRIL 19, 1928, ing thousand miles to its original des- tination, Mitchel Field, N. Y., is still a matter for conjecture. The propeller is bent, the shaft is out of line and the undercarriage is smashed. From Maj, Fitzmaurice’s account it is evi- dent that the three airmen are de- termined to complete the trip. If they do succeed, it will add luster to names that will go down in aviation history as the first to make the westward non- stop flight in a heavier-than-air ma- chine, and if they do not, it will de- tract nothing from their ucomvlish-‘ ment, It is a matter for them to decide, and in the light of the trip they have already survived it is assured that they will make the right decision. At this point mention may well be | made of the manner in which Fitz maurice was able to return to civiliza. | tion to tell the story of the epic flight. Duke Schiller, the well known Cana- dian fiyer, is the man who made pos- sible Fitzmaurice's return, and in dnumi !'so wrote another startling chapter in | aviation history. Through blizzard and gale, without map, chart or compass, | murder. Mills case has never been seriously en- tertained. It has baen accepted as as- sured that these two people came to their death at the hands of some other person—that it was, in fact, a case of ‘There was nd lack of possible | Schiller fought his way across six hun- dred miles of desolate country to reach | Greenly Island. If his plane had failed him in the northern wilds of Quebec or in Labrador, he would have been in |a far worse fix than were the crew of | the Bremen when they put their plane International Realities. It In no wise de mires the importance of Secretary Ko | 1| Bismarck in hi: ponderables i s’ Geneva dispatch in | The Sunday Star there were sidelights preseat-hour European situa- tion which graphically flluminate exist- tng world politics. He speaks of her re- | District committee on legislative pro- | impossible to fasten guilt upon any one If Allen’s story is true it may be that this mystery will be solved. If untrue it will be quickly disproved v Condémnation Procedure. Hearings are now in progress before the judiciary subcommittee of the House down near the only habitation within miles. It is truly a remarkable series of events—the flight of the Bremen and | { the stirring rescue trip of the Schiller | plane—and it is a stolid person indeed | who 1s able to contemplate them with- jout a quickening of heartbeats - R — Landing platforms posals to facilitate condemnation pro-|should not be difficult to locate if ceedings. There are three proposals.|gmciently numerous. The angle of ‘b.\:kcd. respectively, by the National!picqnle divergence would be slight: | Capital Park and Planning Commission. | n5tning comparable to that liable to for airplanes !by the Department of Justice and by | ! ‘ the District Commissioners. he hear- ! actance to abandon that sea power = - | 5 | tngs are being held before the judiciary | Great Britain established macy. ence upon He shows how Britain's in- i superior naval strength deprives her of calling upon France to Teduce ber ary armament. He re- fers to the Versallles treaty provisions | which tmposed military and naval im- | potency upon the Germans, and won- | ders how long Germany will consent to femain “politically negligible.” He mentions Poland's unwillingness to re- duce her army as Jong &s no “Eastern Locarno” pledges Germany to respect the latler's eastern frontiers as perma- ment. as the “Western Locarno” has fixed ner borders which run with those of Prance. Throughout Mr. Simonds’ thoughtful review runs a note of European hope- lessness, as far &s the utility of further conferences for disarmament purposes s concernsd. He makes it plain that until European countries are guaran- teed “security"—ie. the integrity of their territory—-"disarmament” is doom- ed to remain a plous aspiration. “As for tne Italians,” remarks Mr. Simonds, parenthetically, “they are definitely fol- lowing under Fascismo a program of military and naval development.” Else- where on the same page of The Sunday ®tar, which contained this disquisition by a trained American observer, were two other pieces of European news. *“Hungary Is Looking Forward to Return of Lost Territories” ran the headline other. Conditions thus are not such as to encourage the faith that we are heading irresistibly toward a warless world. Take an fllustration that comes home more ciearly to ourselves. Our relations with Japan were never better than they are today. The four-power Pacific treaty, signed at the Washington con- ference six years ago, ushered in an era ©of good feeling and security between the United States and Nippon. Even the intervening crisis of our immigra- tion exclusion laws, while it strained, #id not seriously impair Japanese-Amer- fcan friendship. Yet we continue to maintain the overwhelming bulk of our mnaval power on the West Coast. Ameri- can statesmen recognize the “imponder- sbles” in the Pacific situation. Take still another illustration that Amenicans will have no difficulty in un- Gerstanding. The Monroe Doctrine re- mains the keystone in the arch of the United States’ foreign policy. We would | subcommittee of the House District committee. but it is probable that the matter will have to be passed upon by the House judiciary committee There are two phases of the subject— acquisition of land for the Federal Gov- | ernment’s use in its public building pro- | gram, including the development of the ! triangle south of Pennsylvania avenue to the Mall, and acquisition of land for District government or municipal occu- ] pancy, such as school and playground | | sites. Nowhere else throughout the en- | | tire country are condemnation proceed- | ings necessary on such a large and con- tinuous scale as here in the National' | Capital. | | The congestion of our higher courts here, due largely to the fact that this | being the seat of government forces into our courts many cases other than those that would ordinarily be tried there as| a court district, has resulted in con- | demnation cases being delayed for trial, | working a bardship both to the Govern- | ment and to the owner of the property | to be acquired. ‘The sobition originally recommended | by the National Capital Park and Planning Commission, and subsequently urged in the bill drafted by the cor- poration counsel's office, is for the very practical relief through appointment of an additional judge, whose primary duty would be to sit in condemnation cases, and when there was no condemnation case to keep him occupled, would be available for the relief of the regular court docket. | Condemnation cases are involved and intricate and can best be handled by one with extensive experience. The proposed course would give the new Jjudge unprecedented experience, so that he would soon be an expert on this sub- ject, and so could do more exact justice to the parties in controversy, the owner and the Government seeking to acquire the property. However, there is controversy as to| jurisdiction, it being the contention of the House judiclary committee that it has exclusive jurisdiction over such leg- { islation as calls for an increase In the judiclary. Of course, there is the counter argument that as this legisia- tion applies exclusively to acquisition of property here in the District the House District committee has jurisdiction. The District Commissioners and the corporation counsel contend that the | present law is not so bad as is reported, | | | arise in so long a course as from the California coast to Hawall. —_— — A murder mystery occupies the atten- tion of Rockville. No community, how- | ever conservative and dignified, can be sure of escaping the neurosis or the hysterta or whatever it is that impels the individual to crime. S e Washington, D. C., is experiencing a remarkable week and evincing devout appreciation of fine vocal expression in grand opera as well as in patriotic oratory. e e—eee | So much earnest interest is being displayed that only the ardor of states- | manship can expect to provide the usual supply of convention enthusiasm. s Reports from Russia indicate the old | condition complained of by economists, in which the rich keep growing richer and the poor keep growing poorer. A o Science has gone far, but has yet found no way to equip the peach tree with a thermostatic device to prevent premature blossoming. - An Illinois gang man, doomed to exe- cution today, made his headquarters at a place called “Shady Rest"—more shady than restful. USROS Ay ‘While respectfully according the King of Italy .his title, Mussolini still holds on to the press agent department of the government. ——— ‘The trip from Greenly Isle is slower than all the rest of the long journey. But it is likely to be safer. . ——— Ireland in pardonable pride may call for & Fitzmaurice day rivaling even St. Patrick’s day. e - SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Feminine Independence. Oh, times have changed, since the sad old days! ‘They've taken a different tack Since 1 found her in crinolines and stays And buttoned her up the back. | She tosses a fabric in the atr. All form it appears to lack, And leaves me useless, still waiting there |2nd that what is needed above all exu{ To button her up the back. Mke our sister nations throughout the | s an additional judge, 0 that cases can | 1 (o) with collar and belt and brace, lobe 1o join us in renouncing war “as | be brought fo trial, even though the | Ang struggle, a weary hack— an instrument of national policy.” But | ordinary court docket may be congested. | ghe needs no one, in her airy grace, lives there anywhere an American with | They also emphasize that the present| 1, pytion her up the back. political soul 50 atrophied as to imagine | that, war-renuncistion treaties or not, | the United Btates would not unhesitat- | ingly resort to war if the Monroe Doc- | trine from any quarter were 1o be as- law has been passed upon by the Court | of Appeals, while & new law could not | be thus supported by decision on appeals | for several years. | To prevent costly delay in the Fed- Disbellef. “You said you did not belleve in eve- lution.” “I still disbelieve in it," answered Sen- THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. At this time of the year, when thou- sands of city backyard gardeners put seeds into the ground, it is well to con- sider the miracle of plant growth. Especially is the seed itself a never- ending source of wonder to those who have not allowed their perceptions to be dulled by acquaintance, The evolution of the seed in the ground is a true miracle. Note the tiny, hard bit of stuff; it is as dry and | lifeless as a crumb of stone. Yet something strange begins to hap- pen to it before it has been in the earth very long. And this strange something may occur many years alter he queer thing known as a seed came !into the world. Perhaps no writer has written of this everyday miracle more entertainingly than F. F. Rockwell, in a recent book, when he says: “A seed, when you stop to consider it, is really a marvelous piece of mech- anism. Here, within a bomb-like shell— so tiny that in some instances you al- most need a microscope to see it—lies hidden the infinitesmial germ of life, which may have to lie dormant for weeks, months or even years before it receives the signal from outside auto- matically to set itself offl Compared with such a masterpiece as this, how crude seems the cleverest bomb ever contrived by human ingenuity. “The stimulus required to bring this apparently dead thing, a dry seed, back | to life, is the correct combination of moisture and temperature. Given this, the covering of the seed, usually tough, frequently extremely hard, but never- theless very Sensitive, responds. The life within. which has been arrested, miraculously starts anew With a foree which, if it could be measured in terms >f pounds - pressure - per - square - inch, would be simply stupendous, the swell- Ing germ bursts from its sealed coffin and sends one tiny sprout upward toward the sunshine and the air, and another downward in_search of mois- ture and food.” N * x % % s | scores of beautiful blossoms 5 inches across? Who, gazing at a hollyhock seed in his hand, would suspect, if he did not know, that from it would come a stalk 10 feet high, bearing many fine flowers. * ko n The seed is the important thing, horticulturally speaking; germinatioh the transcendant action. The cotyled- | ons are in the seed, the endosperm is there waiting to feed them. The actual germination, the sprout- ing, depends upon the fertility and vi- tality of the seed, acting in_ response to warmth and molsture in the native element, the earth. The carth is at once the cradle and the home of the seed. After it begins 10 grow, and some time, after the shoots get to the light of day, the seed ceases to exist, as a seed—it is a plant, with | all the requirements of a plant, all the | rights of a plant. Some of the requirements have been | | given in the above quotation. Proper | moisture there must be, else there will | be no germination. It is questionable | whether a seed in perfectly dry sand or earth would ever sprout. Dry sand is used to pack around various tubers, such as the dahlia, to preserve them | through the Winter. They do not grow therein. Thus it is seen that darkness alone will not cause growth. It might help, since lack of light is one of the factors in the seed’s situation in the | earth. Neither would warmth, of itself, cause a seed to respond to the call of | the fmmortal forces which wield the | | planets as if they were grains of sand. | | With warmth and darkness there must | be that third factor, and most impurvi tant—water. | T All life came from the deeps, we are told. There would seem to be some- thing almost pathetic, deep and tender {in the urge which all life has toward | water It is the very vehicle of life | Life is in solutinn* * % Plcture the seed lying in the ground, not more than a quarter of an inch From then on Mr. Rockwell points | 1o A e | out (in the book, “Gardening With Peat | 42> at the most; probably not more Moss™), if conditions are favorable, than half that depth Let's go!™ calls the darkness. growth ' is marvelously rapid “Every hour, almost, there is appre- ciable development. You go to bed one night, with no sign that anything . is happening. and the next morning tiny sprouts are pushing up tarougn the surface—lifting and overthrowing what, in proportion to their own size, are huge slabs of soil weighing tons. “Truly, familiarity breeds contempt. All this miracle of seed germination and growth we take for granted. The real wonder is that seeds can thus ressurect themselves, come to life, and push their way out of the soil prison, even under the most favorable conditions. And yet we covér them with loads of sofl they cannot possibly lift, with soil that bakes, under repeated waterings, to & cement- like crust, and dries out'so thoroughly | to the depth at which the seeds a lanted that the delicate first tendril- ike root is shrivelled to a crisp—and then we write in to the seedsman and tell him that his seeds are not good!" While admitting the dramatic value of Mr. Rockwell's figures of speech, the bomb and the coffin, one might prefer to look upon a seed as a sort of Pan- dora’s box fllled with treasures. It is| an even more wonderful chest than Pandora’s, grows and multiplies itself. ‘Who, for instance, looking at a minute seed of one of the fancy varieties of petunia, would ever think that from it would come a plant 5 feet tall, bearing because it is a box that| | “Who are vou?" responds the seed. | | “I knew you in the paper bag, and| you weren't anybody.” | “Let's begin,” screams the warmth. “Don’t be in such a hurry." replies | | the seed. “I sat in that bag all Winter | | near a radiator, and you're not so hot.” | (This is a very modern young seed, of course—almost “modernistic."") { “Here I am," whispers water. | “Hooray!" shrills the seed. feeling a| stir through its every fiber. “Let's go!™ And go it does, with a will. It grabs up its hat and coat, kicks the door open { and starts two ways at once, a most | wonderful performance, far outdoing man., A man can go in one direction only at a time, but a seed goes both up and down at the same instant. Its little root goes down, searching food, its little sprout goes up, seeking light and air. The portion below ground depends upon water, that above mostly on light. The vital process of food ab- sorption” underground takes place only in the presence of water, since the foods {must be in solution to be utilized by the growing plant. The work of the leaves above ground, under the influ- ence of light rays, is no less wonderful and interesting. The manufacture of the green mat- ter in plants, or the chlorophyll, is an achievement of Nature's chemical lab- oratories, quite on a par, as a miracle, with the germination of the seed from which it all began. Vindication of Democracy Seen in “Big Bill's” Defeat Chicago's repudiation of Mayor Thompson and his allies has the subject of world-wide comment since the news was flashed that the Illinois voters, swarming to the polls in the Republican primary, had smashed what the Chicago Tribune called “as vicious and powerful a machine of corruption as ever fastened itself upon an Amerk can Commonwealth.” The American press generally regards the result as a vindication of democracy, a striking illustration of what the ordinarily in- different average citizen can do in politics when aroused. “Decency and common sense,” pro- claims the Chicago Dally News, “are in the ascendant once more. But the reason for this hl‘hl{l beneficial change should be taken to heart and empha- sized on all suitable occasions. The heavy registration, the voting by tens of thousands of citieens who too often stay away from primaries, the deter- mined sulting of deed to word, the carrying to the polls of the people’s in- ward discontent—these are the main factors in the inspiring moral victory in Cook County and Illinofs.” Commending the citizens who carried the day, the Richmond News-Leader re- marks that “the line of political decency is all that separates democracy from mobocracy,” and warns that “in Chi- cago or some other city where the people remain indifferent that line will some day be crossed and a city will be given over to open plunder.” The Newark Evening News, realizing that “when the people wake up to a reallzation of their plight they can throw the corrupt machines out,” asks: “But why should they go to sleep and let these machines establish themselves in control?" | blather as it was of misrule and crimi- | nality.” oo “The event was fortunate for the gen- eral reputation of the United States, upon which Thompsonism has brought ridicule.” states the New York Sun. “The blatherskite mayor was actually accepted in some countries as repre- sentative of midiand America. He over- | played the clown, however, and alien- ated all but the ranks of ignorance and prejudice. It will be a happy moment when he disappear. from public life.” “Chicago and Illinols have made a beginning for a new day, but the work is only begun,” advises the Albany Eve- ning News, and the Springfleld Unlon fears that “there is too much reason to believe that the opposing factions clashed less over principles than over the distribution of patronage and per- haps of ft." The Texarkana Gazette avers that “it remains to be seen whether they are strong enough to sup- press crime.” “The battle is not yet won: it is far from won,” in the judgment of the San Bernardino Sun, which feels that “when Iawlessness gets such a hold upon a Commonwealth as it had in Illinols' great city more than an election victory is needed to stamp it out.” The San Antonlo Express also sug- gests that “the principal difficulty about this sort of housecleaning is that its effects rarely endure.” While the Meri- dian Star holds that “at this distance the row between the Thompson and Deneen factions appears largely a battle between rival gangsters.” Rt 3 A Asks Preservation PHILOSOPHIES BY GLENN FRANK Even the most sordld warfare cannot o wholly obliterate from the human heart the high instinct of chivalry. Up through the cracks and crevices between the burial stones that.lle in grim reminder of atrocities that shame the race, bright little flowers of lovely gestures to enemies spring. As 1 mingle among the young veter- 2us of the World War and turn an ear to thelr reminiscences, I think I sense a higher frequency and a more hearty quality of chivalry among the air fight- ers than among the land fighters. ’ I hesitate to say this, and I hasten to say that if it be true it is in no sense an indication of a difference in quality between the men who fight in the air and the men who fight on the land. Man tor man, the land man can match the air man in wits and worthi- ness, in character and consecration—in the basic personal fmpulse to chivalry. If, proportionately, chivalry between enemies bulked larger in the air than upon land in the late war, it was due to the difference in_ the methods of fighting, not to a difference in the fighters themselves. Fighting on land has become a vast, impersonal, mechanized mass operation. The high dedication and holy deter- mination of individual soldiers is but the fuel that feeds a machine. There is no chance for the saving | spirit of chivalry to fly beside the shells | of long-range guns across tragic miles to_unseen enemies It 1= only in oceasional close encoun- ters that the benediction of chivalry can fall upon the blood-stained ventures of land fighting. And even here, the mass | character of modern war gives the qual- ity of the individual but little chance. It is different in the air. Here again the individual fighter ap- | pears; something of the quality of the | face-to-face combats of ancient knights | marks the combats of the air. And it is the same story in peace. ‘When we move from small scale com- munion or combat between individuals to the large scale communion or combat | of crowds, the lovely delicactes and the | creative touch of the individual are lost When iIn education we convert a small school into a gigantic university, | the contagion of spirit is likely to go the | way that chivalry has gone in the mass | operations of modern warfare. | Religion, politics, journalism, all tell the same story. Somehow, inside the justifiable and | large scale operations of modern life, we must manage to organize our lives in smaller and more manageable units. (Copyright. McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) | e Dr. Gidley’s Discovery In Florida Is Lauded | To the Editor of The Star: In The Evening Star of April 13 is an interesting report of an interview with Dr. James W. Gidley of the United States National Museum on the subject of Pleistocene man in Florida. Dr. Gidley has had the good fortune | to find bones and flint implements of | man in a formation usually believed to | belong to the Pleistocene epoch. | This deposit is known in geological and anthropological discussions as *“No. 2" It is composed of sand mingled with some muck, and contains many bones of large extinct animals. Dr. Gidley is to be congratulated on his discoveries, for they demonstrate the futility of the labored argumentation indulged in by various geologists, an- thropologists and paleontologists in 1917 in their efforts to discredit the presence of man in stratum “No. 2" at Vero, Fla. I note with some interest that Dr. Gidley gives this stratum to the late Pleistocene. This indicates some en- couraging change of- view. About one year ago he returned from those regions and announced that these deposits be- longed not improbably to the early Recent epoch. No adequate reasons were given for that sequence and there | appear to be none for that of the present The writer believes that Dr. Gidley falls to realize the full significance of his discoveries. I may be pardoned for mentioning the fact that in three vol- umes published for me by the Carnegle Institution of Washington on the Pleis- tocene of North America and in papers on the same subject in scientific jour- nals I have endeavored to show that the deposits mentioned and others similar in other localities in Florida and in other States belong to the early Pleisto- | cene: more definitely, to the first in-| terglacial stage. Nobody has yet made | a serious attempt to subvert my con-| clusions. Among the numerous animals found in those early deposits are many which never again appear where thelr age may be geologically determined. Among those same animals are many others which still exist, and it is probable that all, or nearly all. now existing species lived at that time. Man probably passed through the same course of evo- lution as did the other mammals, and somewhere he was, in the early Pleisto- cene, presert in a condition at least not inferfor to some now existing tribes There are many and yearly increasing evidences that this “somewhere” is North America. OLIVER P. HAY. Jackson in Lafayette ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN. Q. When was wheat first grown?— | ty-fifth, silver; thirtleth, pearl; thirty- A I | fifth, ivor fortieth, vuby; fiftieth, A. No one knows !Xhe age r:; wh;:'t, | golden; s y-fifth, diamond. History refuses to give us the st of its origin, = We £7¢ told that the | Q@ What is ths doliar actually worth Chinese used wheat for food 2700 | today’—M. N. B years before the Christian era, and that | A. The present purchasing power of it has been known on the uplands | the dollar is about 71 cents as eom- of Syria and in the valleys of the|pared with the 1913 or pre-war 100- Euphrates and Tigris Rivers for ages. | cent doliar. Traces of burled wheat have been | found in ancient tombs of Egypt, in| Q. [How 1m£hn7a‘;l?mmnbfle$l %flx_flfll 30 lak: dwellin, country sell abro: last year?—L. e taiend and o e A. The United States e in of | Switzerland and in certain regions of | xporied Asia. But it is impossible to determine | 1927. 384000 automoblles, valued at the exact age of wheat. Anclent his- | $278,083,000. tory speaks familiarly of cereals, among which is wheat, and freely mentions Q When did Congress fi the plow. 1In fact, the oldest countries | rivers and harbors bill>—J. are those which seem closely connected | A. While an appropriation of $30,000 with this world-wide food. was made in 1802 for the eonstruction i — « | of public piers at Philadeiphia and one Q. “Nhen was Vilma Banky born?—|of '$22700 in 1822 for a harbor of T. refuge in Delaware Bay, the first ap- proach to a rivers and harbors bill was made in 1826, when about $150000 was appropriated for carrying on work in about 20 localities. st pass & H. A. She was born January 9, 1902, in | Budapest. Q. How, briefly, was the Oakland-| Alameda Tunnel constructed and how much did it cost?>—P. D. | A. The Oakland-Alameda _estuary | tube is constructed in 12 separate pre- cast sections of reinforced concrete, | built in a dry dock, floated 10 miles | down San Francisco Bay to the spot | and lowered to a trench in the bed of the estuary. There, 42 feet below | the surface, the mammoth cylinders were foined in a continuous water- tight line. The cost was $4,500,000. Q. In what countries does the United | tates own embassies and legations?— | G A. It owns embassies in Brazil, Chile, “uba, France, England, Mexico and | Turkey: legations in China, Costa Rica, Czechoslovakia, Morocco, Norway, Pan- ma, lvador and Siam. The em-| bassy in Tokio, Japan, was destroyed by | the earthquake.” but money has been | appropriated for its reconstruction. A site has been purchased for a legation building in Nicaragua. Q Is the radio used in surveying?— C. A. The radio has been used recen in various surveying work, notably in Alaska. In order to determine the long! tude of a place it was formerly neces sary for a surveyor®o have an accur chronometer, from which he knew standard time. Now if he has a set he can pick up the time sig: from the larger radio stations, esp the Arl als. G. A_ This was a plot to kill Char! II and James, Duke of York. It was so called from a house in Hartfor shire. the alleged meeting place of conspirators. Q. Are tra commiss] Which book is the shortest one | - . { written by St. Paul while a prisoner? Department of Commeree A. The Epistol to Philemon. Q. It is insisted by some golf yers that a club mav be soled wherever there is grase, even in a hazard. Is this true? May a club be soled i ap i is grass growing in it>—H. T A. The club may be soled only in grass which is a recognized part of the fairway. If the grass grows down into the hazard, it is permitted to sole the | club if the ball rests completely on the grass and is not touching the natural soil or sand. In case a tuft or two of grass grows in a bunker and the ball rests on that grass—which might well be described as “casual grass"—you are and Narragansett. Q. When was the Australian ballot first used in the United States’—A E A. The Australian ballot was introduced into the United States 1888 in Kentucky. Q. Would the imaginary necting the magnetic poles pass © the center of the earth’—R. J. P. A. The north magnetic pole s lo- cated at about latitude 70° N., lJengi tude 97° W, and ti not allowed to sole the club. Q. What are the names of the wedding anniversaries?>—T. B. S. A. First year, paper; second, cali pole at latitude 72° S. longitude third, muslin; fourth, silk; fifth, wood- E. The exact position varies from time en; sixth, iron; seventh, woolen; eighth. | to time. A line connecting the poles bronze; ninth, pottery: tenth, tin; fif-| would pass through the earth 750 miles teenth, crystal; twentieth, china; twen- distant from the center. various BY PAUL V. COLLINS. With what cunning and ease is the | morals and health) who are actively good name of Uncle Sam dandled in | working for anti-narcotic relief throu the debates of the League of Nations!|laws to stop narcotic importatiom, ex It were so courteous and kind if acept what is needed for medicine and Japanese were to speak Latin enough science. One such organization an- to refer to Commodore Perry’s invita- | nounces that it is endeavoring to ereats page. " as debauchery of mankind! tion to Japan, in 1854, to come into the family of civilized nations: “Tetigisti me et exarsi in pacem tuam.” (Thou hast touched me and I have been trans- de 1 Sato, delegate from Nippon, was dis- cussing the exportation of contraband opium, and he boasted that before Commodore Perry “broke Japan's isola- tion.” the bright lexicon of Nippo: knew no such word as “contraband.” So it was all the fault of Perry that resisted this and other attempts to force foreign products and customs upon the Japanese people, Sato as- serted. he would not be at Geneva to- day, for Ji now would be a colony of some other power. He annot that Japan would re- fuse to limit the production and expor- tation of narcotics until the other na- tions did the same Yet, Japan, by soiemn treaty, is com- mitted to that limitation. R So it is only because Japan “resisted’ the bad American influences that she is still an independent nation: otherwise some other nation would have come in against her isolation and conquered her independence—as America had no de- reasoning which casts whatever blame | is possible to cast upon Perry's achieve- ment in uniting Japan with civilization. quake relief and other si of friend- liness may be forgo N, Ty, the vil- lafn, is to blame for Japan's exporting in 1928 oplum and its products of ev And so profitable is the export of th contraband that that thrifty country will not agree to stop it so long as competitor nations do not achieve their stop) hrift, Horatio!" As well * . * » However, it has not always been that Japan has spoken in the tone of M. sire to do. It is a long and involved |&ble, and it pen America's gift of $10.000.000 for earth- | an international conference to be held | this Summer or early Fall in the United | States, and the chairman of the mar- cotic committee of the organization con- firms the report that Premier Benito Mussolini of Italy has definitely prom- | ised to attend such conference. Also the Shah of Persia and Emin Pasha, | e of the Turkish Republic, agree to attend. ‘While the repart that this conference was initiated by the General Federation of Women's Clubs proves to be errone- ous, the orga tion teck of it is of high responsibility and energy and | enthusiasm in its reform. Iis chairman of the narcotic committee reports tha she holds the letters of the great work statesmen promising to come. ... In the meanwhile Representative S phen G. Porter has found opportuni to bri important relief to the thou sands o'g narcotic addicts now imprison- ed Federal penitentiaries with erim: nals. The Porter bill undertakes two ted States narcoiic farms the care and treatment of persons, now confined in Federal prisons, who are ad- | dicted to the use of habit-form: cotic drugs. The bill also provides t addicts who are not Federal may be admitted if facilities a: e lated tb crex addicts who have viol laws, at a Fede NIr. Porter. The Feder capacity of 3000 times reached as h 1915 the average prisoners in confn nearly fourfold. I can son for this expansion o that the prohibition ac narotie theft Safied o vislsted? | ersd butiding and Capital dewsiopumnt | stor Sorbum, 90 far Wa my publlo| MSepbu: puinogs in politios’ the Square LY ‘These are international realities. They | program, it is of extreme importance that | career s concerned. It has no value ecannot be covenanted out of existence, | We cun highly and sincerely resolve 1o ! consider for their solution, as Article 11 | of the suggested Kellogg-Briand draft | tresty proposes, mone “except pacific | mesns” but until Utopia's banners are | Sying from the ramparis of & regen- | erste mwankind, we shall inhablt & world | surcharged with the possibilities of con- | fuct. r———— Germany Goes not care for base ball Presigent Hingenourg i deprived of the fume which ettaches 10 an annusl cere- mony of umsing the first sphere into e erena - ; Many pobticians eontinue 1o insist et Presigent Coolidge said “I @0 not choose,” he only meant “Please #tand by when A Hull-Mills Murder Confession. 1t just made by & e Oklstoms chprger one of th ot erime steries eouniry has ever known s sboutl W e woived. Eawin ¥ Allen, it i reporiad 4 Wey B4 Bleanor Mills in near New Brunswick, 1922, He suys Uil the “oonfession Jmil of urglary e trae neid in n on puziing m this e Rusery s lae N J, Bepemiver 14 wed 1o commit U crime by a | 3., & relative ¢ & sum of money Maleq in the news RLOOUNLS of t wt five thousand, #x Lhusend sne Hususenid Gullars Foue of the delalls of the crime aie withheld by U prisoner, snd some of Lisose of the confession are not revealed 6 the officiel accounts of Uhis remark- sble swlement, 'The prisoner declares fie willinguess W relurn W New Jersey without extradition proceedings. The Pew Jersey authorities sre now check- fng P detengining whelber of Lot 10 gve creds the n warbrasl o feaeio seven on Vhe case hetore | sgencles of the Pederal and District | whatever as an argument in a political Governments that are interested in such | campaign.” matters should &5 soon as possible agree | ik on » compromise measure that can be Both Ways. passed by Congress before adjournment. | The old Atlantic Ocean there, Extensive hearings before a subcom-| Despite the wind and sleet, mittes of the House District committee | Buys, “Here's a generous thoroughfare are unsvailing unless those in author-| And not a one-way street.” ity agree on what should be done and | the two House committees now in dis- | agreement over the question of jurisdic- ton unite in supporting a relief measure w0 much needed, Perhaps Communists are not entirely | | o blame for China’s trouble, Through| “orry” said Miss Cayenne, “But centuries China has proved quite com- | that hand looks to me lke & palr of petent 1o make her own trouble. | deuces included in @ four-card flush.” # v —— | ; A Stirring Narrative, “Bome who are held up in history as With the srrival of Ma). Jumes A.|®nners.” said Hi Ho, the sage of China- Pitzmay &0 Murray Bay, Quebec,|10%D, "Are they against whom the gods |after & hasardous fight with Duke|have stacked the cards” ehilier, pilot of the plane of the North American Newspaper Alllance, from ythe marooned transatiantic ship, the | { Bremen, at Greenly Island, detalls of | | the swrm-ndden tip of the two gal- lant Germans and their Trish collesgue 4 nave been furpished W an eager world | Kerlous Colliston, M) Fitzmeurice has described how | “How sbout collecting some of this | fatlure in the lghting system during | collision insurance?” ssked Mr. Chug- | the night o the wir threw the nyrr-ixum off thelr coaree, how snow &nd rein | “Did you have s serious accldent?” | 6nd sieer held back the plane so that| “I certainly did, 1 ran into & trafc the gasoline was exhausted nine hours | cop.” | before it bad been estimated; how the | tiny tghthouse on the desolate island | | bad wppesred o them as sn ossis in | '& seemingly uninhabited eountry -.,ni”mhm | bow, after landing, they flipped coins 0 decide which one of Lhe three would Jud Tunkins says all men are equal and a erime wave tends to promote the idea that one man is just as bad as ; another, So, She Was Sorry. “I offer you my hand and heart!” fe Ntep by Step, Bome may il wnd some may rest In the road Lo joy oF BOrrOW; The most we can do 18 our level best To get from today to LOMOrTow “Y wish T was an wvintor,” said Uncle Ehen, “but dis old wheelbarrow 1s mighty useful, an’ s heap safer dan an .- w0 with Schiller b civiliaation w pro-| n"";. :«L.ol‘:rlr- v | From tie Bow York Wor [ cure new pirts for the Bremen. T i) " L LS DL Y 1 constdered & thrilling nerrative from heghnning % | one of the most highly educated grou {18, & story that ls the epitome of reck- | of people in I,h:u world, 1t has 468 { " " e i menbers; $18 belong Lo some profes- Jess daring and consummute ekl DAY s SR to s Drolese Whether or not the Bremen con be | 55" fyom spectal schools pt. medieine, put W eondition W Ny the remein- Jaw of husiness, A 4 - Roanoke World-News is convinced, “can never hope to succeed for long in a country ltke the United States. The faction In power has used every trick to maintain itself. The returns indi- cate a victory for decency. It is to be hoped that t| forces of order will be on guard to see that the fruits of victory are not snatched from them by illegal means.” L What happened in Llinols is viewed by the Loulsville Courler-Journal as “a signal demonstration of the fact that a long-suffering people, once aroused by the excenses of gangster rule, are invin- cible even against the arts of the most desperate crooks and rufflans.” The Cincinnat! Times-Star declares: “The American people make a lot of mistakes in politica. But when it comes to & time of real crisls they are reasonably sure to think straight. That is the chief reason why democracy In America has been the great success It has been up to the present writing. “Until the gullible goof 1s made aware of his folly and the sour cynic given reason to belleve that his participation in clvie affalrs may count for some- thing, existing conditlons may continue o make Chicago the political paradise of the dem u'm', the rogue, the un- principled peddler of ;mlmnurn and the out-and-out eriminal. Happlly, 1t now appears that there has been some im- provement over there” e resull Is heartening in other Btates,” states the Nashville Banner, which Jooks upon it as a “warning to politicians in high places that the people are becoming aroused and that corgul Uon 18 no longer condonable,” while Milwaukee Journal points out that “it 15 Lo be noted that lhlldymu corruption 15 not & dead issue and inertia 1s not uarantseing dividends to those who inve machines “I'he popular victory over gang rule” i described by the Akron Beacon Jour- nal as “not surpassed for magnitude since New York smashed the Tweed ring,” and that pape® adds: "It has had the fnstanl effeol everywhere throughout the Nation of quickening publie confidence In self-government.” ‘The Philadelphls Record offers the comment: “Undoubledly & main cause of the overthrow of Hig Hilllsm was Thompson himself, Hy his ineffuble bluster, hellowing nnd bunk he b made the community not only notorious but ridiculoys, and the resull was s much & sepudiation of his offvnsive possible ad | Corps 1o Of Battlefield To the Editor of The Star ‘The civic organizations of the District of Columbia could not do better than to {oln heartily in the support of the Zihlman bill for the preservation of the Monocacy battlefield, near Frederick. It is the most convenient to Washington of the Civil War battlefields, and its uavnlo&mml would add materially to the interest of the thousands of annual visitors to the Capital. Moreover, no incident of the Civil War was of more vital concern to the City of Washington. But for the loss of men and ammunition sustained by Early at the Anderson farm he would enstly have carrted the flimsy defenses on the Seventh street pike, and Wash- Ington for hours, and perhaps days, would have been at his mercy and sub- ject to the levying of a tremendous tribute. ‘The sunken road through the Ander- san farm on the Monocacy 15 as signifi- cant historically as the sunken road at Waterloo, and the perpetuation of the dramatic ineidents of the Monocacy fight is amply warranted by thelr im- portance in the history of the National Capital and of the Nation. H, C. GAUSS | UNITED STATES N WORLD W Ten Years Ago Today. ‘The German advance is stopped by appallipg slaughter. Enemy losses are uflm ering and the mussacre reaches & height rarely recorded in history, Forced to abandon the attack on a large soale where the French are fighting with the British. * * * 1 is oMmclally announcod that an Tialian avmy of 500,000 men is now - France and will soon be in hattle. The United States are speeding up ald and troops are going overseas more rapidly, Expect 2,200,000 men wil be under American colors by July, * * ¢ Ameriean and French forces rald the Cierman lines on the right bank of the Meuse and Inflict casualties on the enemy. * * * The House of Representa- Lives voles an Incresse I the Murine unwme for a foree of 75,600 men, double the present force. Will Tish the men to at the earliest mowmenty [T s I OLD tales of mighty men run through my mind— Men born obscure, but whom the gods, in mirth, Gave lordly souls with strength to shake the earth. And, standing here, the parallels Sato, even in an anti-narcotic confer- portant effec ence. v The first conference on that| subject of international concern was held at The Hague, 1912, but since the o nization of League of Na- tions the responsibility has been turned | over to the League, which has held two | conferences at CGeneva. The League has created an advisory committee on traffic of opium. At both conferences find, From all the years that time has left behind: Napoleon: Genghis Khan of eastern birth; | Cromwell; and-—-Ah, who yet | knows all his worth® Lincoln of peaceful heart heavy-lined. Unguessed before, power to rule They hald, who in their hour imperious smite, Or order nations with thelr sharp commands Today unknown, or held a clown or fool, Startling & world tomorrow, risen in might, % A Jackson or a Mussolint stands. | 1 | Turbulent, dominating, all your 0 | { i that Kingly days. | of Nations—that Rrooklng no obstacle before | ! your will, | Much has been sald against | | you that s il More ‘can be told in honorable pralse Upon your memory fame endur- aya double glory's Al Honoring the soldier for great battle skilk Honoring the statesman of the warless ways. laurel-double | | Yet, dead. T think not of your WALTIOr nam Nor of your strength that men you governed knew, BHut of your finest and your tonderest part, Who reverenced the white flower of woman's fame Ready as Lancelots sword to battle do, Within your breast you bore olean Cialahad's hoart R J QUINN Publiv | cial | rible earthquake verned, Breat argant at Geneva the United States has been | ably represented; the chief representa- th has been Representative Stephen Q. Porter, chairman of the House com- mittee on foreign relations. *ow o At the last conference in Geneva Japan was represented by M. Sugimura, | who spoke i a very different tone from that of the later spokesian for Japan | He said, as quoted in the official report As far as the Japanese delagation | was concerned, the question of optum was, above all, a humanitarian and so- question. The ecovomic and financinl eong'derations, regarding fm- port, exvar sale, purehase, ete, were only of secondary consequence, * ¢ ¢ Too much eriticlsim had been made by the League of Natlons i regard to ! China, Appeals should now be made | to the sentimenis of brotherhood which bound the people-—sentiments which formed the basis of the League noeountry could be | certain that it would not itself one day fall mto disorder, which would paralyse its normal life, In the previous yea .l.\\mu had been the vietim of & ters | d recetved the val- uable assistance of Great Britam France, United States. the Netherlaw China ftself and other nations and Japan would always be grateful for such & mark of sympathy. 1t feelings which had inspired such action were to disappear. what would be the uwse of | the League of Nations® Sueh feelinas | ought to dominate the question of oplum. which was. above ail. a4 human- aran and soctal question ™ . . % With the spirit of serious’ apprecias tlon of the world menace of the nar- Mo evil, and the rising above inter national jealousies M the cause of humanity, there is hope of warkd-wide ro-operation, without walting anywheve Wosee I fARARCIAL terests are onn- I the United Siates there are Hons of women (sueh ws Invariably take the lead i building up L e wplits of puiie l in view of tive need for relieving burdened facilities of the prisons the promiscuous overcrowding which courages the recruiling of narcotie ad- dicts and the general lowering of standards of the better men, the Go erm id establish imamedia a narcotie farm and take the 2.000 3300 men who are addicted to had forming dr out of the Federal pr © A prison is no place to treat m who are afficted with a disease. The medical profession now agrees that na cotie add'c disease which flicts honest. mtelligent people I Al walks of lfe Hearings on vext Wednesday oftice at the Ca This Porter measure now being v sidered has nothing to do 2 pression of the oplum trafic, dut ay Plles only vatme of the criminal T reguia ton of tmports and the daotlegwing o the drugs constitute & most o and il The two ons conteren tho Japay Mofits i the vented rigid ‘The Amert conference. authorteed The Chinese delogations withdrew from both conferences aft I had become evidemt that G Britaiy, France. the Nethertands, Pty gal Britiah India and Stam wowd BIOCK ANy measures whivh would curts the Chinese supplies of smoking opiun or the production of opium MW Orted t will be recalled that Grea | Rrttatin ance forved Chiva to cpen he ports 10 opium, and went to war N that unholy endt S0 the world spivit of Selfish gree. 5 sadly nearer that expressed by Sa than the ethios af Sughmure, and obvid stion has & lng road of pudlic edu cation to trave! before the greatest evil ~-gteater Gar (han the aleaholic evit can be vontrolied. The kex 10 1t 8 not wholly f (w Octent, but also in hose wienial dedduch Quamiries proitting by © xR s ery and T e R AN )