Evening Star Newspaper, May 1, 1928, Page 8

' HE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. [off TUESDXY, WMAY T, 1928.' L AR THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D.C. TUESDAY..........May 1, 1928, THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor The Evening Star Nu:‘mner Company Business Uftice. Llin St and Pennavlvania Ave. New York Office: 110 East 42nd St Chicago Oftice: Tower Burlding. an Office: 14 Regent St.. London, England. the City. Sc per month 6uc per month c per month Sc per cony The Sunday Star O oh month on made at the en oo of eac Ordors may be sent in by mail or telephone, Nain 5000 Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. All Other States and Canada. Daily and Sunday .1 vr., $12.00: 1 mo., $1.00 Daily only . (1. $8.00: 1 mo. Sundas only $4.00: 1 mon Member of the Associated Press. ss 18 exclusively entitie biication of all news die not otherwise cred: aiso the losal news shts of pablication s May the Conferees Agree! | The deadlock between the House and | Senate in the conference upon the Dis- trict appropriations bill should not be | permitted to Kill that bill by preventing _{stand facilities for immense numbers of < | ways emphatic, and whoever has the e and who, landing on a desolate islet oft the coast of Labrador, were saved from death by a narrow chance. A deafen- ng volume of sound arose in the narrow streets, and countless tons of paper filled the air. A spirit of International- ism prevailed Two of the fiyers are German, and they were accorded as warm a welcome as though there-had been no troubdle with their native coun- | try at any time. They were received as | | ploneers of aviation and not as repre- | | sentatives of any particular nationality. | New York does these things well. It |is generous in the expenditure of funds and it has an organization for receptioh that functions effectively whenever oc- casion arises. Its public officials are trained by frequent experience in the art of receiving all comers of note with grace and hearty welcome. Its towering buildings that make the downtown streets veritable canyons, provide grand- seople. Its vocal demonstrations are al- | | good fortune to be accorded such a re- | ception has reason to feel proud of the acclaim of millions. | ——— et { The Campaign Fund Imquiry. | | Following a precedent made four to expend every effort to deliver. The Spirit of St. Louls was given its final skyward chance yesterday and no vet- eran ever made & greater comeback. Replaced by another and destined to lle idle forever after, the Spirit zoomed through the heavens in a final des- perate effort to prevent separation from its master. Although the famous plane may be unable to realize it, there is much con- solation to be had in the life it is| destined to lead. It has the satisfac- | tion of work well performed, of never failing in its appointed task and of being the first of its kind to span the ocean in non-stop flight. It will be regarded with reverence by millions | who will make the Smithsonian a shrine. And its master may write the inseription “Well done, good and faith- ful servant!™ e Ingratitude. Probably no more shocking example of ingratitude has ever been revealed than in the case of the Florida invalid who, for no apparent reason, killed his | wife who had nursed him devotedly and supported him for fifteen years Always working at night so that she | years ago, the Senate has adopted n;:‘“_‘d be "fl*‘r m‘l" sick klusbn!\dk in m; | resolution providing for the appointment | aytime when he was awake an . e tee of five to Inves- | Aeeded her, this woman found that the { s Spiw . n‘n:‘ n expenditures of ‘mi fruits of her sacrifice for the despicable il . lingrate was death. As if the killing of | various aspirants both for the nomina- | tions and after nominations for the presidency. An appropriation of twenty- five thousand dollars is made to cover the expenses of agreement by the conferees in respect to ment of this ses- | v the responsibility for catastrophe, if it happens, will be upon the House conferees. The Senate by move than & two-thirds vote (this majority being approximately evenly di- | vided between the two great political | parties) has proposed the substitution | for the nine millions lump sum appro- | priation of the sixty-forty ratio of ap- propriation provided by the substantive Jaw of 1922, which remains unrepealed and unamended though two vigorous efforts by the House to secure such di- rect repeal have been denied by Con- gress through refusal of the Senate to assent. | Before the present conference began | one of the House conferees declared that the Senate must accept without the slightest alteration the House's fis- cal provision, which disregards existing substantive law, or the House by inac- tion would kill the whole District bill, | thus throwing into chaos the District’s fiscal affairs, and thus, even if the preceding year's appropriations were extended, checking abruptly the Cap- tal's wholesome development. And the House conferees are apparently making good this threat by refusing perempto- rily to consider any postponement or compromise of the issue and by de-! “Manding (in order to avert murder of + the District bill) unconditional surrender " by the Senate of its contention that the substantive fiscal law should be obeyed. The Senate’s amendments to the District bill propose increases of cer- tain appropriations as well as a vital —rchange in the method of financing __them. If the Senate increases in ap- % propriation were made without this ‘change in financing or without a cor- responding increase of the lump-sum £ payment the effect would be to decrease Snm further the percentage contribution the Nation and to make heavier the 3istrict’s financial burden. The Sen- #ie's amendments are thus inseparably hmmmefl&tmewmo{ the House conferees is thus to deny in #dvance any consideration of Senate $mendments to the District bill, which as framed tentatively by the House be- comes as unalterable as the laws of tke | Medes and Persians. * The position of the House conferees, 4 1t is as represented, is untenable. The Senate is & co-ordinate branch of Congress. Its acts are entitled to as much consideration as those of the House. The very purpose of eonference eommittees is to compromise existing @ifferences and neither side can proper- 1y assume an unyielding attitude. If the Senate through its conferees indicates that it is willing to discuss the ques- | tions involved and possibly to modify 415 action despite the vote on the floor, 4t 15 up to the House to heed such over- tures and to go some distance at least 4n conciliation and compromise. Washington has petitioned Congress (1) that the sixty-forty ratio be sub- stituted for the lump-sum payment; (2) that if this substitution cannot be| effected in the few weeks remaining of | the present session the fiscal issue be submitted to a joint commission to ve- | £ port at the next session, and (3) that to | correct the grossest inequities of the | { Jump-sum eppropriation practice, while | it is permitted temporarily to prevail | the amount of the lump-sum payment be substantially increased. The reasous for these items of petition are set forth | in detel in argumentative supplements | 10 the petition. The District is painfully aware of its | temerity in petitioning 2t all. It h been threatened with reduction of the lump-sum payment if it ventures | push for any change in the wording of the House eppropriations committee’s fiscal provision The Distriet puts into the Treasury | each year over eighteen millions of na- | ional taxes and between thirly and nirty-five millions of municipal taxes. | 1t is not represented in Congress, its | | i | excess, however, is a question. It costs | spent under color of “expenses,” which {any person that they wish to question, | fnal trip through the sky. | pronoun “we” has invested the Spirit | The irrtable sick person is the rule powered to sit and act at such time: and places as it may deem necessary The scope of this scrutiny over th campaign is broad. The committee is | to “report to the Senate as soon as| possible the campaign expenditures of the various presidential candidates in both parties, the names of the persons, firms or corporations subscribing, the amounts contributed, the method of expenditure of said sums and all facts in relation thereto, not only as to the subscripiions of money and expendi- tures thereof, but as to the use of any other means or influence, including the promise or use of patronage and the | providing of funds for setting up con- testing delegations, and all of the facts in relation thereto that would not only | be of public interest, but would aid the Congress in any necessary remedial legislation.” | The most remarkable feature of this| action was that the resolution was| adopted without debate and that the| only discussion upon it occurred after | this was accomplished. It was then suggested that perhaps the instructions | to the committee did not go far enough | —indeed, that the resolution should | contain a prescription of limit to the amount to be subscribed from any po- | litical interest. This, however, it was | pointed out, could not be effectively done, as there are methods of camou- flage whereby campaign funds are dis- | tributed by “covering” devices. Undoubtedly the use of money in campaigns, both those before and after the conventions, is an evil if carried to excess. Just what constitutes that| money to organize any campaign for nomination or for election. There are numerous and heavy expenses in the maintensnce of headquarters, the em- ployment of clerical assistants, the printing of material, the legitimate em- ployment of agents. But the line be- tween the legitimate and the illegiti- mate is a fine one, scarcely distinguish- able. In recent years in certain cam- paigns not only for the presidency, but for other offices, vast sums have been were unquestionably used for “influ- ence” It is wholesome that there should be | a scrutiny and that it should be thor- ough, non-partisan and sincere. The Senate select committee will have am- ple powers of subpoena and the com- pulsion of witnesses. It may travel to any point, require the attendance of and under a statute hold to penalty any witness who refuses to answer any per- | tinent inquiry. The adoption of this resolution in the midst of the pre-convention campaign may not insure scrupulous honesty in all the proceedings yet to come, or un- cover all chicane employed, but it at least assures against flagrant violations | of the fundamental principle of the American system of government that offices are not 1o be bought with cash | or with promises of valuable favors, v e In one little point the modest Lind- bergh miscalculated. A successful ‘flyer needs no letters of introduction. BSOSy The Last Flight. The Spirit of 8t. Louls has made its Jast flight. It and the other half of “We” joined hands yesterday for its Under the guiding hand of its master, Col Charles A. Lindbergh, the Spirit, as if conscious that this was to be its last | adventure, drove forward al such @ speed that the seven hundred and twenty-five miles between St. Louis and Washington were covered in five hours | fiat, Col. Lindbergh, by his use of the of Bt Louis with human qualities. Per- haps it 18 In order, therefore, o think of the famous plane as the possessor nationsl, state and municipal legisia- ture, and it has not & word 1o say like other American communities coneérn- | ng the amount of these laves or the nner of expending them g4 the Capit 1is legislators ip both branches of Con- gress for fair play, for financial equity and for just &né even sympathetic con- eration of its petition 1t urges that no personal prejudice or obstinate pride of opinlon be per- scitted Lo divert any of s legisistors in Congress, W whose protection the Constitution has intrusted its legislative weelfare, from dispensing even-handed Justice In sppropriating for the Dis- .- Gotham's Greetings. New York recelved ihe wesiward transatisntic fiyers yesterday i & wel- come thal Wes even more noisy end Bpeciacular than preceding oconsions of this character, gathered along the line of progress to ly the right of petition is left 1o it, | community sppeals 10 | Bevers! million people | of feelings, Imagine then how the other half of “We” must feel at the | prospect of spending the rest of its | days within the four walls of the air- [y.-nr, exhibit st the Smithsonlan In- titution. No thoroughbred ever wishes | |10 give up, and it may well be that the | Spirt brought s mester to Washing- wn b such unprecedented speed 1o | convince bim that he was making | mistake 0 his deciston w0 present 1t W | the tnstitution, | ¥or more than forty thousand miles, | the Bpirit and its master have soared |the heavens together, one dependent lupon the other. Over ocean, desert and mountain thelr sturdiness and | skill have enabled them 0 laugh at the | elements secking 1 destroy them, But 1wl good things must end. Col. Lind- lmmh made the decision o give his | other hat 1o the Bmithsonian, and i | anticipation of the @it the Bpirit Jay | 1die in the Bt Louls hangar o be re- | placed by & new plane, Mo outstanding base ball player likes the devoted wife did not vividly in- dicate the character of the man, he heaped further shame on his head when he told the chief of police that | he wanted a cheap funeral for her. The cheerful invalid is hard to find. | Few, however, go to the limits of vent- ng their irascibility on those around | hem as this man did. It s unques- | tionably a hard and difficult life when | one 1s bereft of health, but while much | sympathy should be extended the in- | valid those attending the sick are like- | wise entitled to consideration. Minis- tering to the bed-ridden is too often a thankless task, but is seldom resultant in such a tragedy. Invalid or not, no leniency should be shown to this Florida ingrate of ingrates. —er—————— Excavations of ancient tombs indi- cate that the luxuries of life had been pretty well standardized for the benefit of the favored few. King Tut is a fig- ure of archeological interest, but with no influence in sociological develop- ment. .. One of the grim suspicions relating to various volumes of recent print arises from the fear that fiction writers, hav- ing exhausted the resources of imag- ination, are compelled to fall back on the truth. e R A Summer convention always calls for a patriotic martyrdom which ren- ders the song “Hot Time in the Old Town" peculiarly appropriate. vt Years bring wisdom. When Charles E. Hughes intimates that he is “too old to run” it may only mean that he is too wise. —— et —————— Oll money, like oil itself. leaves a sense of uncertainty as to when some- body may strike a gusher, What is called “war” in China looks from a distance like the clashes of gangs in different towns. A “joy-ride” too often proves a grievous occasion. R SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. “Rip Snorting.” We're goin’ to have a convention, ‘With thrills to enliven the throng. ‘We mean to make clear our contention; We're goin’ “rip snortin’” along. Of course, it brings easy elations, To find all the work done 50 neat; When some one presents calculations, And hands us the answer complete. Of “dark horses” we spoke with in- sistence, But now we have nothing to say. If a dark horse looms up in the dis- tance, ‘We soon turn the spotlight his way, We can’t have a torchlight procession, We can't call the glee club to sing, In previous lines of expression; And yet to our ardor we cling. We must keep up semblance of scrap- pin’, In fight that appeals to the throng. ‘Though we know just what's going to happen, We still go “rip snortin’ " along. Advice Heeded. “I have often advised you to keep out of the uncertainties of politics.” “I have tried to heed your advice” answered Senator Sorghum. “In my present campaign I have avolded un- certainties. I have a sure thing.” Mundane Monotony, Out in the sky Are men s0 true, The men who bravely fly, And boldly try And dare. “Where is the thrill?" ‘These men inquire, When earthly banquets fll The usual bill Of fare? Jud Tunkins says a foolish man Is lucky if he can be funny instead of pathetic, Gaining Credit. “Don't you know that man you shook hands with 15 a bootlegger?” “I do,” answered Uncle Bill Bottle- top. “And that handshake improved my credit, He's the most expensive bootlegger in the community,” “A woman in politics,” suld HiI Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “is & powerful influence, as she reminds the influential male of the danger of a maternal spanking " Changeful Outlook. 1 bade my sad forebodings hush 1 joined the joyful Ist, 1 tried to M)l & four-card flush. I'm now & pessimist, Two pultry deuces came Lo view 1 ventured to persist And then I drew the other two, I'm now an optimist, 10 feel thal age necessitales his with- “A Joy ride,” sald Uncle Eben, " 'most Jwer the three men who were the first ) drawal from the line-up for & younger ! oo often ain't regarded as/ complete imwmmwww man, snd U given s chance 1 certaln wifout & fool at de stesrin’ yhesl” “Dear Sir: This and that have kept me from time to time from breaking out in approval of the many things in your column that to my mind are ‘right as a trivet! As a friend I over- look the reactions on the subject of | your oceasfonal | tobacco caused by wanderings in a field in which you are a comparative novice. “Your editorial of recent date said | exactly what I would say if 1 had been blessed with the knack of timely and pointed expression. 1 would, however, have added a few strong adjectives. The ‘man with the dirty yard'—the child with the lawn-digging heels—they are always with us. “A close second are the baying hounds of Gayvilla, the youths who mistake one's yard_(never their own) for Clark Griffith’s Stadium, and those with a very kegn sense of humor who are blessed with or inherit the belief that the funniest thing in the world is to | cavort around other people’s houses and make o first-class nuisance of them- selves. he only thing that keeps me in my usual good humor is the morning diversion of watching the dear lady bus riders flap from north, east, south and west, speeding the parting bus run- ning on a four-minute headway, by de- manding of the long-suffering engineer that he wait for them. Later he waits for them to find & ticket or a nice new | five-dollar bill for him to amuse himself with. “Well, what of it? and we must bury our grouches in our back yards—and then find some new ones. “Yours with appreciation, & oy * ok ok ok While we appreciate the kind things said by Mr. L. we rather resent his slur at our activities in the wide fields of nicotine. Have we not “caked” two pipes com- pletely, so that scarcely a pinch of tobacco could be inserted in either bowl? Have we not suffered the tortures of the damned in “breaking in” a third pipe which resolutely refused to be broken in? Have we not spent a pigmy fortune in the search for the “perfect pipe tobacco™ And have we found it? We ask Mr. L what a man must do to qualify as an ‘“expert,” according to his notions. If doing all these things makes one only “a comparative novice,” what must one do to become an “au- thority™? *xn . Innocently enough, we hate always believed that an “expert” was some one who put up a tremendous bluff about knowing something about something. Not everything about something, of course, but just something or other about something. Experts have sprung up like weeds in recent years. It used to be that no man was regarded as an expert until he had taken 26 years of consecutive study in educational institutions, but nowadays any one with the rudiments of poker playing in the back of his head seems to be able to get away with it There are, of course, some genuine experts. ‘They “know their stuff.” ‘The trouble seems to be that when a man really is an “authority” on Spring is here | something, his success seems to go to his head. He wants to pose as an “expert” on everything. The writer here has the unique dis- tinction of never having posed as an expert on anything whatsoever. We have watched men write learned- Iy on railroading who wouldn’t know a locomotive from a tender. We have seen the base ball “experts” select a team to finish first which ruthlessly finished last, and we have watched the pugilistic “experts” infal- libly select the man to win who has got the short end of the encounter two times running. All this time, may we modestly state, we have been banging away on a type- writer, with no thought at all that any one would consider us an expert on anything, or an authority on some- thing, even. We just write. * K K K Hence we state unhesitatingly that ,one does not have to spit tobacco juice | to be a pipe smoker. All any one has to do, to smoke a pipe, is to smoke it. Novel, but true. As little as two pipefulls a day, if smoked at the right time, will allow any [ man to qualify. | "First of all, he must smoke when | the majority of his Business associates are able to see him do it In the second place—and this is really |the first place—he must smoke in the | place where they can all see him do it. | " 1t follows, therefore (this has nothing lat all to do with nicotine), that pub- | licity is the crux of the question. x K K x Most men smoke, let it be said, be- cause they think it makes them look | “big.” Deny this who will. | "Soking s a manly tradition. | Drinking is another one. The true ! solution of the liquor problem, we are | convinced, lies not in amendments or enforcement, but in some subtle back- stage jugglery. | Let ‘a group of sincere men pick out | chosen athletes, and get them to agree | to poke fun at the drinking business. | This country is so sold on athletics | that if this Nation-wide band of manly ‘mtn would frown upon booze there | would be no more problem. | It would go up—in a puff of smoke. R Another reason why men like to smoke is that it makes 'em look very importanj, Nine out of ten men, seeing an asso- ciate musingly looking into space, will openly brand him as a loafer, whereas if he is engaged in the same occupa- | tion, but has a pipe in his mouth, they | will| regard him as doing heavy thinking. | Thus we see that pipe smoking: | 1. Gives a man something to do. ‘ 2. Makes him look masculine. 3. Makes him appear busy. | Can a cigarette do as much for you? ‘We doubt it. If you have ever tried | to smoke a cigarette while reading, you | will know what we mean. | " Just as the villain grabs the lady by | the throat, the teetering ashes fall | smack-dab ' upon the printed page, | obscuring the hero to the point of total obscuration. | “"We are not sure that there is any {such word as “obscuration,” but it | doesn't make any difference. We who | do not pose as “experts” are not a bit fussy about words, either. Words are | for the writer and reader, not the 'reader and writer for words. Wilkins’ Feat Unparalleled, Verdict of An achievement, in many respects unparalleled, is credited to Capt. George H. Wilkins and Lieut. Carl B. Eielson, who flew across Arctic wastes from Point Barrow, Alaska, to Spitz- bergen. Success after years of effort is seen as the result of courage and persistence on the part of Capt. Wil- kins, and the observations made in the region of the Pole are hailed as im- portant contributions to geographical knowledge. “Capt. Wilkins,” according to the Louisville Courier-Journal, “has accom- plished a feat that is without prece- dent, an aerial journey to the Pole from west to east, and the spanning of the Arctic in a heavier-than-air machine. Wherever courage and perseverance are admired Wilkins' Polar expedition will receive its share of praise, though Arc- tic flights have ceased to appeal to popular imagination. The Detroit News sees “at last the| true northwest passage, so long sought by intrepid sallors; a passage proved impossible by water, but now shown feasible by air; the shortest distance between east and west over the curve of the world which follows latitude and cuts longitude to a minimum!” “Behind their 20';-hour passage above the Arctic basin lles a story of patience, industry and calm calculation which denies the assumption that their feat and others comparable with it are merely sporting challenges to fate,” says the New York Sun, which adds: “They are, in fact, testimony to the practicableness of a new instrument of transportation with which statesmen, captains of industry and masters of commerce must deal” . “Wilkins' feat,” in the opinion of the Springfield (11l.) State Journal, “is the greatest achlevement yet credited to aviation—2,200 miles over an unex- plored region, conquering the Arctic and sighting the North Pole liself * * ¢ Nothing like it has been done by man.” The Willlamsport Sun cred- its the two men with * of daring and of skill in aviation” which is “without peer, and it places the two airmen in the front ranks of those who, in the past few years, have been adding thrilling chapiers to the history of the conquest of the air. “They were in reality air ploneers so far as & great part of the territory they tranversed was concerned,” states the Nashville Banner, which suggests that “the success of Capt. Wilkins' tempt to explore the Arctic by seems likely to cause school children bit of extra trouble, It is likely now, continues that paper, “that maps must be changed and geographies rewritten as soon as Capt. Wilking makes defi- nite reports of his observations. * * * All in all, too, the fiight furnishes an- other striking example of the remark- able reliability and power of the air- plane of the day if given proper han- dling and weather conditions that are even half-way possible.” “Another five years and alr excur- slons across the Pole will be as stand- ard and safe as big-game hunting in Africa,” in the opinion of the Dayton Dally News, Of the solentific value of the fight the Passale Dally Herald cords: “Three areas noted by cartog- raphers in thelr mapmaking db not ex- st In the Arctic wastes, deserts, there are mirages that decelve the most careful of wmen, WIking, aloft in his plane, had better oppor- tunities for observation than Peary, Stefansson, Amundsen and other ex- plorers,” The Bpringfield Republican that “expeditions have spent ye the Arctic and ncurred terrible suffer- ings and much loss of lfe to muke smaller changes i the map than Wilking has effected In 20'5 hours of In addition to these facts, the ‘foledo Blade emphasizes the point that “other sclentific data collected by the explorer will add greatly to th Ittle man knows sbout the world he lives on above the Arctle Cirele,” o “There s lttle left of ploneer con- quest I the alr,” says the Asheville Times. "Now it must be the task of aviation sclence to consolidate its vio- tories, reducing the data collected to practical forms for the promotion of Wider knowledge of fylng conditions n exhibition | ws In the American Press Jand making possible the building of | better types of flying craft.” | _The Wheeling Intelligencer predicts that “in the not distant future it is | reasonable to expect the development of aircraft superior to the conditions of any adverse wind or weather, and then the brave pioneering of such men as | Wilkins. Byrd and Amundsen will have Mzmu:d the trail" continues that paper, “for complete knowledge of the Arctic :lnd whatever benefit may come from “In some respects the most hazard- ous flight ever made,” is the \'erdlzt of the Bellingham Herald, and the St. Louls Globe-Democrat comments: “To be with Peary on the great day he reached the Pole would have meant for most of us too great a cost in exhausting l:bors and cold. The possi- ble failure of his plane would have been an unpleasant thought in Aleska, but, assured of its trustworthiness of wing, who would not desire to float with Wil ::.‘I;SD:A" :{\: white Al;:.‘-tll}: brilliancy clear he upper - terrestrial ball ";%‘e R “This man has earned his success,” explains the Buffalo Evening News, “by long preparedness and persistent effort | He was an aviator in the war. He had his first experience in Arctic explora- tion under Stefansson. He was a com- panion of Shackleton. His world-record flight has been accomplished only after two previous attempts had failed. The world may well acclaim a man who would not give up.” —— et A Matter of Choice. From the Toledo Blade. Dr. Glenn Frank, president of the University of Wisconsin, says modern knowledge has broken up into so many specializations “that our colleges have become intellectual cafeterias,” and stu- dents come out with a smattering of information about many things, but {with no well knit conception of the world. Dr. Frank is in_position to speak with authority from both observation and experience. Doubtless what he says is true of some colleges and many stu- dents. It does not, however, necessarily discredit the so-called cafeteria plan of education as much as it reflects upon the judgment of students who select lobster salad and ice cream when they might have exercised the option of ob- taining wholesome intellectual nourish- ment with & dessert of real culture for the same price, ] The Lindbergh Lever, From the New York Herald Tribune. | Lindbergh raised the average level 1of Congress for a day or so anyway. UNITED STATES IN WORLD WAR Ten Years Ago Today Amerfcan forces win thelr first fight on the Amlens front. Heavy German attack against the Americans in the vicinity of Villers-Britonneux 15 re pulsed with heavy losses to the enemy Fierce hand-to-hand fighting all along the line, with enemy dead and wounded covering the ground in all directions. Amerfean losses are rather severe, * ¢ ¢ Aside from heavy shelling by the CGermans of French positlons in the Locre sector and theilr bombardment of the back areas near Bethune, there is little activity today on the Lys-Ypres front, the German high command being evidently busy reorganieing the divi- slons shattered in the fghting of the lnst fow days, * * * Conservatively estimated, the Germans have lost ap- proximately 360,000 men n this battle to date, ns Indicated by the with- drawal of 186 divisions. Allled cor manders think the Gormans are capable of one more big drive. * * ¢ The steamer City of Athens, of the Savan- nah line, Is rammed In dense fog off Cape Romalne, near the Delaware Conat, by & French warship and sunk; 07 liven are lost d only 68 saved . * ¢ Qe 73 casunities Pershing veporta list of tor »fiu and poses, NEW BOOKS AT RANDOM LG M. RAINBOW ROUND MY SHOULDERS: The Blue Trail of Black Ulysse Howard W. Odum. The Bobbs- Merrill Company. “Eve'where I look, look this mornin® Looks like rain, Lawd, looks like rain; I got rainbow tied round my shoulders; Ain’t gonna rain, Lawd, ain't gonna rain.” True to both form and character is this “black Ulysses” when he plucks down out of the sky the immemorial pledge of God to Neah, tying tae bright promise round his own shoulders to fend off a rainy day. For this black man, like all other children, is the surpassing egoist, counting his own tiny orbit the great universe itself, his own near needs and desires the proper preoccupation of whatever gods there be. Six feet tall and I don't know how many years old, but a child all the same. Just a negro taken up with his own body—food, sleep, laughter, lust, the hot sun on his back, his feet shufflin’ along to the tum-tum of picked strings, driving him here and there. stay here any longer” is the refrain that for twoscore years has passed him on over a large part of the United States. Working a little, playing a lot, drinking, gambling, breaking the law and running away from it, sobbing like a child over a lonesomeness that is deeper than his own life. nd all the time he goes talking to himself, or to the long ribbon of white road before him, or to the bird with bright, curious eyes perched on a wayside weed. He is telling about when he was a little boy, of the games he played, of the friends he had, of the doings of the neighbors roundabout. Then he moves on into the later years of roistering and drink- ing, of working now and then, of hid- ing away from real or imagined pur- suers. He recalls chance friends, ques- tionable amusements, chuckling at a passing advantage, whimpering over a deserved punishment. Just a child, a lost and alien one at that, whose fears and superstitions run back and back to some forgotten time, to some other where. and offerings. Here is an Odyssey running twice the | time that it took the reluctant Ulysses of ancient Greece to get back to wife and hearth; one. besides, that is calcu- | lated to make the King of Ithaca look a shade wan and to turn his wanderings into something like plain philandering and transparent time-killing. Raw as red meat is this latter recital, brutal as life itself, disconsolate as a lost and homesick ghost. Nothing is held back, nothing is smoothed over. Instead. here is an innocence of full self-disclosure that is unsurpassable. An amazing per- sonal revelation that reaches out to take in a people and & race. No, you don't like it! Nobody assumed that you would Once inside the book, however, the bet is that you will stay inside up to the last word. Then you will sit back won- dering over the insight and sympathy of the author who has delivered over to you, body and soul, this “black Uly and his race. L ARE THEY THE SAME AT HOME? Beverly Nichols. Company. We are told in a quite impressive grav- ity that Beverly Nichols cannot help be- ing clever. And this—I leave it to you— is one of the two heaviest handicaps that mortal man can suffer. No sooner is the brand “clever,” on the one hand, or “humorist,” on the other, affixed to a person than that one promptly enters upon a veritable dog’s life trying to live up to his label.. There is a still further isadvantage in the situation. The pub- lic instinctively resists either of these claims upon its appreciation. You re- call Holmes' truth—that there is a good deal of human nature in a hog or a| good deal of hog in human nature, just| simply refuses to be driven. So. facing | the clever man, or the humorist, the | public sits back, every line of it saying, “Well go ahead and be clever,” or “funny” as the case may be. Naturally, in such a situation the clever one cannot | scintillate for the life of him, nor can| the funny man draw out a smile. All| this to say that it is decidedly unfair to| the young man before us who here “dif- fidently distribtues a series of bouquets.” These nosegays prove to be portraits of perhaps half a hundred notables, chiefly in the fleld of writing. There is no question whatever about the good enter- tainment lying in this performance. Not only that, there is no question about the | good substance of these passing inter- | views, either in their personal appraisal or in their critical accountings. When Nichols gets through being clever—that | 1s, when he gets through ramping wround, digging his elbows into the other fellow’s ribs, trampling on his feet, and telling him that he is all out of gear both mentally and physically—why, then he becomes delightfully penetrating in his views of this man’s work or that one’s. He is then understanding and friendly, beautifully free in his expres- slons of praise, boyishly frank in his approvals and sympathies and outgo- ings. It is at such moments that you suspect this young fellow of being de- signedly blunt and bulldozing. This, no doubt, is the pepper and the spice, those biting, savory things that invite people to the feast. The real dining 18 another matter, as it is here. Just a revolt against the dry and sere academician whom nowadays almost nobody will read. And he is justified, it such be his object, for this is stirring stuff that permits no one to turn his back upon it in weariness. As for pleturesque writing, captivating and true, the young man is a good deal of & marvel. 'This book is filled with proof of that fact. Here is a single touch in the case of Suranne Lenglen or “Much Ado About Nothing"—"I know nothing whatever about tennis, and I am there- fore able to judge Suzanne's game from the only possible standard in which & woman’s game should be judged--the esthetie.” (Mandarin and Pontift rolled into one, but that is not the point, 50, let us go on) “Her game is esthetically perfect; it arouses in me emotions curiously similar to those aroused by Paviova. The delicacy of | her rhythm, the swift poise and flutter, the twinkling feet that seem hardly to touch the ground. the curving, sinuous, lithe body, the boyish grace of her repose—all these are a keen delight which will remain long after her eccen« tricities are forgotten. . And so, you see, I prefer to think of her from a purely esthetic point of view. One d perhap a great composer will ne ballet. And then this tempestuous woman will be seen as God mtended her to be seen B neer pure and simy Here are other portraits ' last one of them nold Ben- | or “A Great Reporte Gea Gershwin," or Drunken Schuber “Anthony Hope”™ or “Auything But | Sendle”; “Lloyd Qeorge” or “The | World's Spelibinder”; “W. J or “An Intoxleated Ascetic™ Mills," or “A Lonely Blackbird"; “George Moore,” or “The Cause of All ‘Trouble”—and many more of these Alternatives in & young man's apprais- als. ALl of these, you will find, ask for @ second reading. Some of them are due for many readings—from me - tainly, and almost as certainly from you, Wwo, And upon the ‘teenth going over we shall find ourselves growing anxious. 1 am sure, lest this young fellow should take a notlon to let his youth go by with 1ts bit of bluster and its qu perceptible swagger and s cock-sui neas and its breath of bombast —and, it he should take such notion, why, that would be n real disaster, for, after all, th‘ " en in edge, | La Floren “Ain't gonna | To_the surface float strange fears and deep urges toward a fierce | god to be placated by unfamiliar rites | George H. Doran | | | and the university and la | the ratl splitter, and Garfleld. the tow ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. ‘This is & special department devofld“m' to fill out the line, and he or the solely to the handling of queries. This | make-up man is supposed to remove it paper puts at your disposal the services | before making up the type into pages. of an extensive organization in Wash-|In ‘running down pi,’ the operation sime= ington to serve you in any capacity that | ply runs his finger straight down the relates to information. This service is | keyboard, which results in any of the free. Failure to make use of it deprives | following six-letter combinations: you of benefits to which you are entitled. | ‘etaoin,’ ‘shrdlu,’ ‘cmfwyp,’ ‘vbeka).’ Your ogllgull;:n 1s only 2 cents in stamps | He repeats the combinations as m: nclosed with your inquiry for direct | times as necessary 1l out | reply. Address The Evening Star In-| Wi o Aloakie, L formation Bureau, Prederick J. Haskin, Director, Washington, D. C. Q. What is the correct mean! ch;‘ word mehari?—M. I ol i | Mehari 1s the Angelicize . Why is ihe steamer duck 0| Mahari. a N~~h African (Pzrr: m in called?—A. W. W. 2 | reference to swift-footed riding A. This large duck, found in South| camel. American waters, gets its name because of its ability to propel itself along the| Q. There is a train on the Chesa- surface of the water at great speed. This | Peake & Ohio Railroad called F. F. V. is attributed to the fact that at ma-| Limited. What does the F. F. V. stand turity this bird loses its power of mgm.i lmxfl%’ H. H —— 5 ne letters Q. How may the color be restored in | the Limited on ¢ a faded crex rug?—W. S. L. | Railroad stands A. A grass rug may be recolored by | ginian. using any dye used on cotton matert: s Dissolve it in boiling water and apply| Q. What is a bob in English cur- it on the rug by means of a brush. | ""ACWX“L N F. F. V. as applied to Chesapeake & Ohio Fast Fiying Vir- Q. What is menn; by cousins-ger- | 3! man?—W. A. |24 A. Cousins-german are first cousins. | | Q. Who founded the Florence Crit- tenton Home, and why was It so called?—O. H. A. The Florence Crittenton Home was founded by Charles Nelson Crit- tenton, an American philanthropist, who was born in Adams, N. Y. in 1833, and who died in 19(9. Critten- ton went into the drug business in | New York City in 1861, but after his 5-year-old daughter Florence died in 1882, he devoted his time and wealth to the establishment of Florence Crit- | tenton Homes. These were for home- |less and unfortunate girls and their | infant children. In 1895 the National | Florence Crittenton Mission was incor- | porated to carry on this work. Of these mission homes more than 70 were | organized in M. Crittenton’s lifetime in all the larger cities of the United States. Q. When boring down into the earth, at what rate does the tempera- ture increase? What would be the temperature at a depth of say 25 miles? | —A. R. 8. | A. The rate of increase of tempera- ture varies, ranging from 40-80 feet to 1° F. The average indicates that at a depth of 25 miles the tempera- ture would be about 2,200° F. which is above the melting point of iron and rocks. | | @ In finance, just what is treasury | stock?—E. O. H. to have a sligh percentage of fat than the 1 In one Experiments Australia hours_after the previous m tained over 1 per c ) dravn at the end of when he became A. He was the Hay, who was at one partner of Abraham Linco field, I Q. How old must furnit regarded as antique?—P. S. | "A. Generally spe: K { A. Treasury stock is a stock which a | It should also be at lea: | corporation is authorized to issue, but original. | which has not yet been sold. i — { Q. What man had Q. Why do the linotype machines lary?—K. R. when they commence to make “pi” write| A. The certain forms like “shrdlu” repeated- erary Dig Iy?>—G. C. | guists, say ‘The Government Printing Office | Mezzofantic, | says: “When a linotype operator has set | credited with | a part of a line, then for some reason wishes to reset it, he usually runs down | BACKGROUND OF EVENTS BY PAUL V. COLLINS. ent lin- Gius=ppe 1849 On May 10 the Hall of Fame, in New", afterward serve my apprenticeship in York, is to be graced with the busts of | commerce at Neufchatel, for a year and five more eminent Americans—five |a half. Then I should like to pass four more boys who had to face a hard |years at a university in Germany, and struggle to meet the problems of life. | finally finish my studies at Paris, where Of them all not one depended on his|T should stay about five years. Then. at dad to finance that struggle while the | m: age of 2% I muldtbegm to wr1u posed uch smarter | Now just think of that boy Louis! syr?:;;h"me 01:1s ;f-‘:‘ i | Could he ever get on the nine, or th Observers, of success in life often de- | eleven, or shake an oar in a U-boat clare that there is bus one kind of suc- | Face? Why, he couldn't even play golf! cessful man—the so-called self-made | But with his profound knowledge of !man. Any boy is so tremendously sciences ne did more than any man of | handicapped by being born rich that it his xEyeradon to interpret the records 15 too rare to count upon his achieving | Of nature. He was ome of the most & moch &8 Gia’ fathev Tad sccoui- | sineiit pEGESERSR Of MOKNS SW out plished. He is constitutionally “sof |nected with Harvard. His bust wil coac! . nd in America’s Hall of Fame The Indian coachman is now a prom- e tnent candidate for nomination to the | preacher falher was proud of his presidency. Thel:lmd Shcn:mrk::s u:m 5;3 ugbal:g shi:;“x:idm ';n\;l;l;ll n‘i; ( son of a poor widow who cool aj! u ., as well as s country hotel. and the boy did not know | iod. He never became “Soft. how to read when he was 12 years old. | * X x x His overburdened mother thought she | Samuel Finley Breese Morse? Ever was doing the best she could for NeT | hear of him? Why should his bust grace boy when she let a farmer take him. | (hat Hall of Fame> He was only a por- With the promise to have him do chores | trajt painter—an artist. It is tradi- on the farm while attending country | tional that artists are visionary. There chool. but when the lying farmer set | had been telegraph lines before that of him at full man's jobs, allowing no time | Morse, but it was the Morse system that for school, and lashed his bare calves |made them practical. Representative because he ran away to return to his | Sypset” Cox made a speech about mother, Tom ran aw: “for good” and | Morse, in which is this paragraph ran to the House of Representatives | “Wwhen Puck announced that he w and the United States ienate, after|put a girdle round the eart! running through school, high school | utes, how could he imagine tha school, Aght- | would come af ing his way, earning his Way as every | velop a system by me step. . |man may send a me He wasn't biind then—he wasn't e lind when he leaped over the heads of a bunch of 25 or 30 boys choking his comrade—brutal rooters—and crashed down in their midst, to fight it out with their adversaries in the foot ball game. Neither was a certain co-ed blind when she gasped at the thrilling bravery of that boy from Hamlin University, though she was a co-ed in the Uni- versity of Minnesota—and so they mar- | ried and “lived happily ever after.” It takes that sort of pluck in life! “Gentle- men” may “prefer blondes,” but bru- nettes like heroes. PR One of the most polished gentlemen known to official Washington taught a country school and waited on table in the Dartmouth College dining room while he studied. And he was so poor when, after graduation, he got a job to teach English literature in a W ern college that the boys of his cla: who were aristocratic, hooted his gro- tesque dress until he was driven to re- | sign. Later he drew $1000 a month and expenses as & NeWspaper corre- spondent and became minister plenipo- tentiary and was offered his choice be- tween Italy and Russia for the am- bassadorship. Nobody boosted him, ex; cept himself. Are boys of today made of sterner stuff than that? W e Oh, yes, boys have read of !uh\'!n.i ould reach its destination yesterday ing?" Nobody ever heard that M« financed his education or set him up b business either as painter or telegr: But now see that bust in the Hal Fame! % oxow the poet! When hi nt one of th slavery was s made a trip o upon his fath ter than eouw: was practical “Sir, poetry w o shoes. would not has given hum a ston in the Hall of Fame. * % ¥ ate was no her was & strong man § Before Rufus was 6 ad “Pllgrim's Progre ys that he used to abou sages from that ined his memory, les. He was so ¢ that he was leader in the classies mouth Coll Webster in an orator, By foot ball Hall of F tory of his path mule-driver, and Grant, the har- ness dealer, but the trouble for them now, seems to be that there are no more rails to split—{olks use wire fences now! And there are few canal boat | mules to drive; besides, in these days | of automobiles, why drive mules any how? Who uses harness on a “dendix or spark plug.. So boys have litte chance to get nto story books like those “anclents” Also, who wants to fight all | his life for a marble bust in the H. of Fame?” Can animated bust back 1 its mansion ecall the fleeting breath No, a feller's got to train, to get hi wind, It takes a grand lot of lfe—rea life—to call for a marble bust in the Hall of Fame, CGray never thought that, or he would have “killed” “Elegy” —sentimental stutt! ko Now there is Agassiz—Louls Agassiz! They are going to set up his bust in that | of Fame. Mis father was & Swiss | triog . How could a preacher’s pay But space could not permit evem & far toward bringing wp & bov— | st of the poor boys who have Decvas P feller”™® Why, that Kid was [ greal men in America, even luniting the funniest idler i the village—with | the list to our own generation of Rocke- his pockets always filled with bugs and | feller, Ford, Edison, Camnegie, James J his room filled with dead fish and lve | HUl Goethals, Henty, or the Davien guines pigs or mice, fleld mice, Dits, | nventors, the Wright brothers ete. Somehow, his father did mas There S room yet i the & to pay Louls' way four years through|for a hero must have been dead 3 school. In the last year, the dutlful son | years before his by be placest astonished his father and wother by | there ¥ writing, "1 wish 10 advance o the | of tim selences For that, 1 need d'Anville, Rit- | all ambitioy ter, an_Itallan dictionary, w Strabo in | becoming President CGireek, Mennert and Thiorseh, and also j Slates: now not all Presid the works of Malte-Brun and Seyfert | assured a niche in the Hall of Fame, a pliace I T in the John Pa Navy He merica. It b ¥ for Ame v Hall of F wd in st can Revolution, when he | plished mare for the patr than any other man upon seas. The encmy called him a Americans knew his ] accom- cause @ high pleate” him as & herolo pa- even If he cannot help “being clever,” he 8 & fresh breath no. better than that, he s & good west wind blowing over our old and musty make-belleves s 1 have resolved, as far as 1 oan do so, to | While every boy who works bard and nlu:m;a - v|luu of kuru.: b l\;r all uu - m:; becoine so famous i he thi ought to have about 12 luls. | W Wweleomed there upon & pedestal. (Less mu&l‘:\o.l 1 should lke o stay at* “Rah! Rah!" . Blenne month of July, Add (Cowciabi 1038 b Paul V. Cola) et