Evening Star Newspaper, May 10, 1928, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Kdition. TWASHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY.......May 10, 1028 THEODORE W. NOYES. ...Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Ofice THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON. D. 0. THURSDAY. MAY 10. 1928 rail lines And the erection of the Union | This seems the short-cut way to ease Station, this method of construction | the situation, and such a provision was was adopted because it was the least|contained in the bill first drafted by the expensive, and, furthermore, at that|National Capital Park and Planning time the street traMie had not reached | Commission. the volume or speed now prevalent. It was regarded as a safe system. It has proved to be decidedly unsafe. Tt has cost several lives and may at any hour cost more. Grade crossings have. been has since been advocating a more com- plieated method of perfecting the con- demnation law, with the result that the MoLeod subcommittee of the House Dis- However, the Department of Justice | 1Lth St And Pennayivama Ave | succeeded by death traps of another New York Offies: 170 East 4204 St Chicago Office: Tower Ruiding Buropean Office: 14 Resent St. London, England by Carvier Within the City. ening Star ASc per month Evening_and Sundas Star hen 4 Sundara).. ... Evenng_and Sunday Star (when 8 Surdays) .. nday Star. e per cony Collection made at the end af each month Onors mav be sent in be mail or telephone, Main 3000 Rate by Mall—F Maryland Dails and Sunday Daily onlx Bunday only Rate The Ly 80c yer month 85¢ per month able in Advance. d Virginia. L1 SO0 T me 1 yel $K00° 1 mu L5000 1 mo.] All Other States and Canada, Dails and Sunday.1 3¢ Daily onle . KOG T Mo Sunday only . . $100: 1 mos 3 Member of the Associnted Press. The Associated Press s sxclumvaly entitled th the ase for republication of all news din phtches credited 19 1L or not otherwise crea fi8d in this paper and also tha local news puntished herein. All righta of publication of special dispatches nerein are also reserved. Rockefeller and Stewart. 1f it was difficult at one time to rec- encile the many philanthropic and al- truistic endeavors of John D. Rockefel- ler, jr., with what appeared to be his tacit condonation of questionable tac tics on the part of one of his lieutenants in the oil industry, the correspondence made public today between Mr. Rocke- feller and Col. Robert W. Stewart, chairman of the board of the Standard Ol Co. of Indiana, removes that difi- eulty and puts Mr. Rockefeller in an altogether favorable light. Last. Feb- ruary Senator Walsh introduced corre- spondence which showed that it was Mr. Rockefeller's commendable inter- wention that led Col. Stewart to drop his defiant attitude toward the oil in- vestigators and agree to come to Wash- ington. And, later, Mr. Rockefeller, ap- pearing before the committee, frankly told the investigators that he disap- proved of Col. Stewart's testimony. But on March 1 last, after Mr. Rocke- | feller had said that Col. Stewart's re- tention of his post as active head of the Standard of Indiana was “a question which the stockholders should, of course, and will consider as the matter | develops,” the stockholders met and re- | elected Col. Stewart as chairman of the board. Their action was interpreted ax Col. Stewart's vindication by the ofl industry. Mr. Rockefeller did not wote. And his “hands off” attitude was eriticized. It appeared that while Mr. Rockefeller did not approve of Col. Stewart's actions, his disapproval was of & passive type that meant little. Bearing & name that is synonymous with power in the ofl industry, Mr. Rockefeller, it was felt, was not using that power altogether righteously. The correspondence made public to- day tells another story entirely. It shows that three days after Col.-Stew- ing to receipt of the famous Continen- tal Trading Co.’s profits, Mr. Rockefeller | character. ‘These subways are not only danger- ous, but are unsightly. They are poorly illuminated at night, are damp and usually unclean. They should be re- constructed to give the widest possible | clearance for vehicles, to be attractive | nstead of disfiguring, to be sanitary in- stead of as at present insanitary, and |to be safe instead of being & constant menace to life, ) trict committes, which has been con- dueting hearings, is confused as to what new legislation is really necessary. This | subcommittes is eager to aet for reliet of the situation and to expedite the Federal building program as much as possible. 8o alo is the full committee. Another complication is that the ju- i diclary committee claims that it has | exclusive jurisdiction over any measure | ealling for appointment of an additional | udge. It would seem that this question of THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. wash dishes, who doesn't like to wash dishes, simply hasn't had & girl's old- time traini She has been allowed to row up like a man, with all of & man's atience and restlessness. The blgrst necessary nuisance in | gardening is spraying. In such uncertain seasons as the resent, when one never knows whether it will be fair or foul, whether he will | Capital Theater Data Taken From the Book To the Editor of Tha Star: I haven't the slightest desire to de- tract anything from the prestige of the National Theater—would not if T could, and eould not if T would—but there are some statements made by John Clagett Proctor in his Sunday article entitled “Stage History of the National” that are ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. ‘This newspaper puts at your disposal A corps of trained researchers in Wash- ington _who will answer questions for| Bos Library, you. They have access to the Govern- Qi 1408000 ment departments, the libraries, mu-| Q. What are the real names of the seums, galleries and public buildings, | Moran and Mack team?—C. T. versity, Cambridge, Mass. 1.361,000; Chicagn Public Library, 1,280,528, and bake in Summer sunshine or freeze in Autumnlike cold rains, spraying takes on_added importance. ‘The control of inseot. pests and vari- ous fungous diseases it hluhlflmusury at this time of year, especlally under such changeable conditions, aince the future growth of the garden depends upon it Now s the time for every good gar- dener to come 1o the aid of his garden. These varying da; first hot, then | o0ld, now dry, now | Ing every brand of insect, every variety | Lof dis . Includi the black spot of | roses and various sorts of fungous | rm¥ makes A sorry mess of it. sloshes water from the spi over the glasses, stands tl drain to dry. f thay come out with nothing more than varfous and sundry streaks inside and outside, he is satisfied, And {f there i soap still clinging to the , bring into be- | glass, he will not kick—if 1t iIs on the outside. ok he average man who washes dishes He slops around with soap and cold water—it is too much trouble to heat the water— t Into and em on the imagines himself an immaculate “housekeeper.” £12.00 1 mo. Lo | A | publican party. Indiana’s Six Per Cent. | jurisdiction should be first settled by Analysis of the Indiana primary re- | consultation with the parliamentary uu- sults affords comfort to both the Hoover | thorities and with the House leadership and the anti-Hoover forces in the Re- |to enlist their support On the one aide 1t 18] It seems also that what needed "m“r;nnn is emergency legislation to get ol Quick action in acquisition of the | triangle south of Pennsylvania avenue | | to be acknowledged that Mr | made a surprisingly good showing in State with & “favorite son,” who had | growths, such as mildew. | | Since most gardeners, male and fe- Later in the year, when the plants’ maje, use the small hand sprayers in have made more growth, they will bt | cyraving insecticides and fungleides, the more able to take care of themselves,| only’ thing to do Is to buckle down to but now, when bud and Ienf are grow-| tha task. ing rapidly, there Is & pecullar necessity | 1¢ is a task. for_frequent and adequate spraying. | Strong men shrink from it. Any one Rosebushes, perhaps more than AnY| who has held the sprayer in his left other shrub, need this measure Just At/ hand and pumped with his right will this time {n the Spring. Not only 18 the | know why and how it is & real task. ! for the new buildings, the site for the i v Supreme Court Building and such other | svery county. On the othe ¥ | ar h‘“nru of iand, like the National Ar- | | { fact stands that as a consequence of the primary the State's m|r|._v-mm\h°""“"" eady provided for. Perfect. | | ” {ing legislation should not be hurried, | | delegates at Kansas City will be east|, . 04 be considered deliberately so | | for Watson on at least the first ballot | [and will thereafter be ranged in tm‘"‘:"'l""’::;;::“;::‘::';;Z,m:"" i ik ’ Undoubtedly, here at the Nation's | Had Mr. Hoover won the State-wide | o, q) where thers are and will be primary and secured the thirty-three | . .., csndemnation proceedings than votes. his candidacy would have been ! oo o T T T to-date condem« greatly strengthened, not merely in | 4ion jaw should be in force, which terms of the addition of those YOLeS 0. i do full justice to the property own- his support in the convention on the |4 and still not allow the Government | first ballot, but in prestige in Othar 1s e “held up” or its development pros | States, where the delegates have ¥et|grun to be delayed or frustrated. [0 be selected or Instructed. Failure | of course, extreme cars should be I'behind him a strong organization in | mulching the soil, but where fs the first. magnificent flm‘\ of blossoms in| Tet us admit the inadequacy of the immediate prospect, but the later €rops | qevice. You have to pump like fury of flowers largely depend upon the ald | (o put half enough spray on your given the bushes at this time. | bushes and plants, ER Even then it 18 almost impossible to Yet with all this recognition of the hit the under sides, where the polson 15 ' Cadmit | Most needed. T eorryine Inty offeot of such & |, There is & vast intelligence running through nature, even down to the teeny- righteous garden program is one long 3 ) and lingering nul tiny plant lice, or aphids, which are 4 lingering e n planting, in | Ul PATtICUIRr rose pests at this partic- ular time. transplanting, in fertilizing, even The way they can run around from | af : Fardener who gets any real kick out of | L’-‘E,.,“’.’m"'m:m’fi.. ..',‘,‘r.'v"'m‘."“".'n'.m“‘.i spraying? comical. For a plant louse this is an It is simply something which SUEh! | accompiishment on & par with the suc- :; .:'md;;n;- ':\':“::‘l 'l"':"“mm“;"‘fl- A the | cessful retreat of & human general with Saen. 11 Bk ?ofl it t'inhll. hf' :"::‘m:"" and troops on the field of following In the footsteps of those fool- he aner with ish householders who ealmly allow their | ‘prT";,r iy irine i ,:‘l'f"‘:n",'n'm',‘;{.‘,d: ! in in| #0 manifestly Incorrect that I want to correet them, He opens it by Inferring that “Floro- dora” was played at the National. date book, before me, shows that “Florodora” was played at the Columbia ‘Theater, under the management of Luckett & Dwyer, the first engagement beginning the week of November 18, 1901, and it played to $11,536. The re- turn engagement was also Elnytd at this theater, beginning the week of April 14, 1902, to $11,798. It had previously fin- ished its long run at the in New York, and it might be interest- ing to state that business was so bad in the beginning that it was seriously thought of being taken off. The original owners were Ryley & Fisher, and the former could not stand | the losses any longer, withdrew, and left the sole ownership to Fisher. The Iat- ter, too, was about at the end of his resources, and the piece was ahout to be taken off, when the Saturday matinee receipts made a big jump, and it was decided to try it another week. Night after night the receipts increased. It was kept on and later proved to be the greatest financial success and longest run of any musical comedy play on Broadway up to that time. Fisher made millions out of it, while Ryley went broke. Again he refers to Francls Wilson, saying: “Of course, he played other pieces besides those mentioned, but not at the National.” Now, the fact is that Francis Wilson never played any other theater in Washington than the Na- lonal, excepting once, and that was at the Columbia Theater, under the above noted management, and that came about In a peculiar way. Wilson and other New York theatrical managers at the time thought F street was a suburb of Washington, and we My| asino Theater | and to the numerous associations which | intain headquarters in the Nation's | Capital. If they can be of assistance to you, write your question plainly, and! send with a 2-cent stamp to The Eve-| ning Star Information Bureau, Prederic | J. Haskin director, Washington, D. C. | Q. When was first military execu- | tion in the American Army?. . V. A, | A. A conspiracy of the British offi- cials and Loyalists of New York was made in 1776 to end the Revolutionary War by the murder or capture of its leaders and the seizure or destruction of its supplies. Washington was o be | A. Their na GLLtr, Bmes are George Moran Q. In taking moving _pic! are white clothzl never 'm—’g' 'h, A A. White clothing is not allowed for he screen. The first rule of esvery studio is an avoidance of dead-white | materials. White, catching the artificial | lights, produces halation, and in the finished picture shows a ghostly shadow, which seems to follow the piayers, ‘Women choose any sort of light shade rather than white. This is the reason |:Jh'y white screen clothing is = light yel- taken alive and delivered to 8ir William white. t was noticed that | ot yellow photographs & ciear ht pink and biue togr Howe. Two guards were bribed, but a | & dainty white, s {hird pretended o fin the biot 04 | o, 1 have o copy af'y ex nstead. One of the treach- | . @ newspaper pub- erous guards was named Thomas ’r::"ff "fl Boston in 1728, Can you tell Hickey. He was hanged June 27, 1776, M If there were any printed in this :\h' |hm Amlllury execution in the | COUNtTY o '"I“P:;Lflfldn??;‘c. M. T, | American Army. ) ecord of K St of ‘& newspaper in the United &aier Q. Were high schools original In this g":g{,"”o‘;’:l"fim"'h"; eatllest was enfitied country?—C. M. V. ¢ Ocet ces. issued (n A.-The high school is distinetly an| % ¥ear 1690 in the form of a small American institution. The English High "ATto sheet, School of Boston, founded in 1821, was| @ When was ;hn nlm of its “?.d' and gradually. a8 race?—v. G. ree elementary schools were established " What r | throughout the country, the high | ,,.fi;,,fi.‘é:" :?}.5“'..?' é"m‘c'mmm' ‘;n‘ah-" {sehools followed. Donsored by & Chicago newspaer six o TS S over a cot [ s e el mbi W RS ettty el anaitwor ARG Four of the cars wers A Meroury s a heavy, silvery-white | by elertraie® Grrir O eEe, Dropelied liquid metallic element. ‘It is used in | winner of the $300 prize. Autis in 1o barometers and thermometers and fot | hours and 23 mingtes - T Ened 0 10 other scientific purposes. It is also used | — for extracting gold and silver from their Q. Can the fat of a | ores (amalgamation process). Its com- | used for shortening?—K. pounds are used in medicine as pu A. It makes excellent shortening. tive hml!l'l.rrunve.!, andespooially asantic| . o @ o i T bert; LS S, 1 3 M vphilitie cent pieces -m’m&c‘xav. E h;!M . A. The Numismatist says: “Prom a source believed reliable it is said that, the first automobile fl; chicken be Q. Is it correct to speak of & United States Senator as a Congressman?—B. | to win in Indiana leaves him perhaps taken A little worse off than if he had not entered the primary, unless the fact that he made a remarkably good show- |ing against a strongly intrenched op- position organization may be interpret. ed as a sign of strength with the people who are not dominated by machine polities. Those who are fighting the Hoover candidacy are today declaring that its ide has reached its maximum and will | now ebb — that Indiana marked the turn. But, save for the fact that a that the individual's property rights are in no way violated. Nothing | must be done to weaken the confidence |of the people in the integrity of their property rights, or lead them to believe that the Government ean or will ruth- lessly despoil them of their property, | which was purchased after careful fore- | | thought, looking to the future develop- | ment of the Capital City. But, in the present case, the desire (0 write & perfect condemnation law should not be allowed to prevent the ‘pns‘n! of emergency legislation tq take home and grounds to “go to seed.” Every one recognizes the necessity, ing the campaign with old-fashioned and inadequate artillery. He is unable | had a hard job convineing them that it ||, G. was near the center of the city. Wilson| A It Is absolutely correct. The Con- five pieces, in proof. of the Liberty- head type. dated 1913, were struck ! that not. but the actual spraying I8 another mat- ter, Here one gets down to facts, and facts not always are as interesting as theores. especially when they invol hard work. Let us admit at the compressed-air sprayers take much to follow up his advantage. He must | Iet the enemy get awav because he is| not powerful enough to follow him. v | o or e t that the outset that the! It one does not have too many rose- the muscular effort out of the job, and bushes and has the time and inclina- to that extent help. Yet the fact is tion. he will find that “hand picking” 1 in 10 amateur gardeners ! one of the best ways of killing the Aphis. Perhaps a more literal but less ke | elegant phraseology demands the uerml 11| “hand smearing.” | By drawing the forefinger and thumb | lovingly along leaves and buds, care not to crush them, since both are! | tender at this time, the plant lice may | owns one. Perhaps the man of the house thin| that he would look ridiculous in & sma back yard toting around three or four gallons of spray on his back. Maybe the affair is too heavy to be slung over had an understanding with the elder Rapley to play at the National. where | he had always done good business. After playing his regular engagement there during the Winter, he was in Pitts- burgh closing his season on his way back to New York. when we offered him a guarantee of $5,000 for a week in May :l" the Columbia. It was a pick-up for m. ‘The plece was “Erminie”: otherwise we would not have offered it, because “Erminie,” with Francis Wilson in the taking | cast, was the greatest musical success Winnipeg, Montreal, up to that time. He came, and we played to $0,876, pocketing the differ- | gress of the United States consists of A°Arly in (hat year. These are all the two bodies—the Senate and the House genuine Liberty-head type dated 1913 {of Representatives—and members of | that are known. None passed into cir- both are equally members of the Con- Culation. The five pleces were obtained | gress. The correct designation of a| from the mint by a gentleman who | House member is Representative. | showed them at the Detroit convention | s of the A. N. A. in August. 1913. Noth- Q. How many cities have automatic ing more was heard of them until in | telephone systems?—C. A. M. December. 1923, when a gentleman liv- | A °n the United States, where the | ing in Philadeiphia advertised in the system was invented, it is in use in Numismatist as follows: ‘For sale. five | about 200 cities. Sydney and Melbourne | 5-cent Liberty-head 1913 eoins. proef. | (Australia), Buenos Aires (Argentina), | the only five-cent Liberty-head eoins Toronto and Ed-| of this design and year in existenes' monton (Canada)., Honolulu, Havana,| These were undoubtedly the five re. | Manila, London, Berlin and Tokio have ferred to. Thers is no record of the Hoover vietory in Indiana would haye | care of the existing situation in which been unmistakably to the advantage of |the Government is impatient to get the the Secretary of Commerce in his cam- | land, the owners perfectly willing to va- paign for the nomination, it would seem | cate and surrender, but with the courts | that in the conditions the victory .‘f}m jammed that the condemnation trials | the State organization. acting under Annot be heid. orders. is, sfter all, not so serious a| setback. The favorite son was indorsed, but by a majority that was reduced to | & small margin, It has evidently been | less than six per cent in a total vm} —— e e ‘The market tipster always finishes with the warning, “Don't gamble!” thereby asserting sagacity in forecast, while evading moral responsibility. the supposedly delicate shoulders of the woman gardener. And it must be re- membered that 8 out of 10 home gar- i be crushed in their prime. | A‘I‘\ advantage of lhl! mflhdod 1.ldthl! | it allows one to reach the under side of | ko < VS 0 | bud and leaf with less disturbance of | the temper than when the spray is used. After ali, what would our homes and | It is & somewhat messy operation. how- | grounds look like If it were not for the | ever, on a small scale, and therefore is | womenfolk? not recommended for the finicky. | Houses would degenerate into hovels, | After all, it is difficult to regard plant | | yards into brambles, Interiors into dens, | lice as animal in nature—they are so if the women were not around to take green. so vegetablelike, just fat, milky |urr of them, | bits of green stuff, which by some in- Men as & class are mentally and | comprehensible stroke of creation were physioally lazy. when it comes to these | made to prove an annual pest to the thin They may have the desire to | rose lover. ence. Ordinarily it would have been | Automatic telephone service. 70-30 contract, and he would have| Q. How much of the sold 1 taken down nearly $7,000. IV, sasers. 10 “THe. Wostink Fhree e | K000, ACLINRE IS 18 TIpaStess | with Alice Nellson as the prima donna.| ‘This opera was first played in this city | st the Lafavette Theater. with Frank | Perley as its business manager, and I distinctly recall a Thanksgiving night when more than $500 went away from| Q Which Sta the box office by people who refused to| which the smallest percentage of coun- take the seats offered. That was the| try people in proportion to its total pop- reason why I took the lease on the| yjation?—S. A. F. Columbia Theater, and never a dollar| A According to the 1920 United went away from that theater if we had | States census, Mississippl has the larg- ‘A, The president of. the Woolworth worth of goods sold by them during as imported. | 1927 only 5 per cent stores says that out of the $270,000.000 the largest and of somewhat over 400,000 { Thus the Indiana primary yielded a | | negative result, rather than a posjtive, | Tt seems to have brought out. M'even, i the fact that the farmers of the State | are not particularly friendly to Mr | | Hoover That is the most significant | | fact of the situation, which may have | an influence in.other States where del- egates are yet to be chosen or in-| structed. e——— « Aviation's Bad Boy. Bert Acosta, internationally famous | fiyer And & member of Comdr. Byrd's crew on the transatlantic flight, is in & fair way to become one of aviation's bad boys. Last Summer Acosta .paid | & visit to his home town of Naugatuck, | Conn., and indulged in so many low- fiying aerial acrobatics that he was arrested for violating the flying regu- lations. He explained to the judge that his jubilation at being home again was | Fashions follow the heroes of the air, | as styles in women's hats frankly ad- | mit. Huenefeld may yet succeed in| popularizing the monoele. ! — e ‘The late Jossph Pulitzer could not | establish & prize that would render | frank endeavor free from ‘“office poi- Ities.” . | O A “favorite son” is in danger of find- ing himself in the position that profes- sional players refer to as that of the “local amateurs.” | Flood control cannot be disregarded as & public question. Every time a dam | breaks it comes to the front. v n A convention keynote is impressively sounded. The matter of harmony or discord remains to be regulated. SHOOTING STARS. ng spick and span, but they | see everythh i d persistence to lack the patience an ‘There, on the ground, however, scur- riss the real culprit, the ever and always | the seats to sell. | est percentage of rural population. 86.6 Mr. Proctor makes another mistake | per cent, and Rhode Island, 2.5 per whereaboutt of the present owner of these coins.” Q. Is Ireland the only isiand in the world completely free from venomous snakes>—M. E. T. A. Madagascar. off the east coast of | Africa, is the only other island charac- terized by an absence of poisonous serpents. | Q 1Is it possible to ripen fruits arti- ficially?—O. C. A._Experiments carried on by Dr. J T. Rose at the University Farm at Davis, Calif.. show that certain fruits can be given the color and texturs of ripeness by treatment with ethvlene make it so. | busy ant, the fellow who carefully har- It takes a woman's training to be bored the lice all Winter. and, who Able to stick to a dish-washing job un- | brought them forth at this time for til it i finished. The woman who can't purposes strictly his own. BACKGROUND OF EVENTS BY PAUL V. COLLINS. Japan is sending some 20,000 more withdrawal from her encroachments in troops into China, and within the last few hours battle has raged between the Chinese Nationalists and the Japanese —yet China and Japan are not At war. The Japanese are simply protecting their own nationals, who are reported to be in imminent danger from the looting and badly disciplined Nationalist revo- lutionists marching toward Tsinan. In Tsinan there are 1,600 Japanese nationals engaged in business. In the entirs province there are 16,000 Japa- nese. The Japanese have evacuated This agreement read as follows: Article I The contrficting powers, other than China, agree: 11) To respect the sovereignty, the | Ind noe and the territorial and | administrative integrity of China: | (2) To provide the fullest and most | unembarrassed opportunity to China to | develop and maintain for herself an ef- | fective and stable government: | (3) To use their influence for the ‘wrnou of effectually establishing and maintaining the principle of equal op- portunity for the commerce and Indus- | try of 2]l nations throughout the terri- ! when he says: “Who will ever forget standing for an hour on the iron steps leading to the gallery entrance of this theater and almost breaking his neck up those three or four flights of narrow stalrs to get a front seat to see Prank Daniels in ‘The Idol's Eye'”? Frank Danfels played “The Idol's Eye” the first and subsequent engagements at the Columbia Theater to record-breaking re- ceipts, and not at the National. Also he refers to John MeCullough— before the days of the Columbia—say- ing: “One night a few days later, when McCullough was in the midst of one of his plays, the curtain was rung down for the last time, and he died in a hos- pital for insane patients." The writer heppened to see this last performance of one of the greatest Shakespearea actors that ever lived. It was a Satu day matinee, not night, at the National, when he was playing “Richard the ‘Third,” with Joseph Hayworth as Rich mond. The curtain was rung down, as stated. and he later died In the Bellevue Hospital In New York. He also infers that Maude Adams’ ‘Little Minister” was played at the National. It probably was later, but cent, the smallest. Q Do young Infants ever | ehickenpox or mumps?—G. M. S. A. No age is exempt from chicken- pox. Infants and very young children | rarely have mumps. [ 18 Q. How many portraits did Thomas Sully t>—L. M. A. re are over 2.000 listed por- traits by this artist. In addition he ;;;cuud many miniatures and about O e ety Mieaes ire Ol ] TS IR TENTAN the United States containing & millién| Q. What countries produce the most | or more books?—S. E. K. | coal?>—K. D. wing libraries in 1923| A. The world production of coal and | lignite in 1926 totaled 1.355.000,000 me- A. The follo rted more than a million volumes: tric tons of 2,204.6 pounds. Uni States, first. 601.613,000: Germany, 285.- ry of Congress, Washington, D. C., 3.080.341; New York City Public Li- 240,307: United Kingdom of Great Brit- and France, 52477.972 have | re) | brary, 2.678.150; Yale University. New | Haven, Conn.. 1.382,102; Harvard Uni-| ain. 177.589.000. ;Brit;in’s Difficulty in Egypt Likened to U. S. Canal Problem 1 | | | American observers find In the recent| foreign _nationais. ~ But, unlike the | surrender by Egypt to demands of | United States, which seeks to cut short | Great Britain a paraliel to the events in | intervention tral America ‘The correspondence, made ) - public, | the cause of his antics, but the court | TIPS, their nationals from all southern China. | or.” of Chi | soon as its forces can be withdrawn. { the premiere performance was at the Central America which are associated Col. Stewart agreed | was adamant and sentenced him to | Mr. Rockefeller request- | five days in jall. After serving three | since changed his mind | days of this time he was released on and decided not to quit under fire. If 4 hundred-dollar-bond appesl. He was | make & fight for his Job | due o0 appear in court on Monday, but | meeting of the | pvidently forgot all about it and the Judge has ordered the issuance of a whether Mr. Rockefeller's fifteen per ! warrant for his arrest. etnt of the more than nine million | Now comes word from Chicago which shares of Standard of Indiana holdings | explains Acosta’s lack of memory re- | will give him the control necessary 10 | garding the Connecticut incident. John | oust Col. Btewart, or whether Col. Stew- l’ Casey, superintendent of the Chicago | art's friends will rally to his aid and munieipal afrport, has announced that | retain him, despite Mr. Rockefeller. | scoata has been suspended for ten days | That, however, and the fight that Col. ' yrom the use of the field hecause by Btewart may decide to make, are rela- | 1ooning the Joop and executing a series tively unimportant. The Important | ¢ yharp banks close to the ground he | thing is that a leading figure in the 04 mengeed the safety of other fiyers | ofl industry has voluntarily and whole- | ;,ng the field. The superintendent on | heartedly joined the Senate In its At~ | suigrying the transatlantic fiyer's low- | tempt to clean up bad spots. Judge | yuniing axhibition summarily signaled | Parker's pies. to the business men of the | pim down and without further ado sus- | Nation 18 60 their own housecleaning { | has been anticipated, in one quarter 2t least. - . ‘The Chinese have long besn fighting among themselves. Japan, apparéntly has decided 1o step in and make it & resl wi | .-t Control of raliway facilities is re- garded as vital in China. Mere detalls 25 15 mergers are regarded as negligibie | formalities, B The Viaduet Death Traps. At 2 meeting of the Michigan Park Oitizens’ Association just held a resoh- tion was adopted urging the District Commissioners 1o move for the widen- ing of the drivewsy under the rallroad visfluct which crosses Rhode Isiand avenue by reducing the sidewalk spaces | and thus eniarging the clearsnce for | vehicles between the curbs and the steel uprights supporting the bridge, | This visduct has been the scene of sev- oral accidents, some of them fatal, and | 15 regarded as an slement of denger In one of the most used thoroughtares of | tie suburben ares. The traffic on this | avenus is now hesvy snd s incressing | vapidly. ‘This obstruction should he re- | moved, not merely made less perilous Immediately toliowing s recent fo- | tality at that point The Blar suggested | that this obstruction 10 travel e enr- | Yecied by removing the supporting siee) | pillars slogether wnd carrying the bridge over the street by means of & wingle spen. either srched or strongly gizdered. There will be no safety there | or st other points in the eity where wimiler conditions prevall as long as the wtreet way is blocked by heavy steel These places are boltle necks, st which trafic & necessarily congesied “Fhe interposition of pillars makes them dengerous 1o every vehicle that trev- erees them, by Aey or night When the program of grade-crossing elimination wee corried inin effect in coplunciion with the econcentration of 5 | circumstance. He har deliberately vio. | propriated tor comstruction work, by pended him. | Much sympathy for Acosta was ex- pressed at the time he was arrested in ' | Connecticut, and the jail sentence for Senator Sorghum, an offense of that nature was univer- sally deplored. From these later de- velopments. however, It would appear that the punishment was not severe | enough to convince the fyer that mu- nicipalities do not intend to have their safety regulstions laughed off by any | one, famous or not It seems a shame that a person of Acosta’s prominence should not set » better example 10 younger and more obscure aviators, Acosta has heen fly- ing for years and s undoubtedly one | of the most skillful pllots in the coun- | try This fact, however, should inecline | him tn caution rather than smart- aleckism in the air. As matters have turned oul, no one has been hurt in eny of his low-flying exhibitions, hut this cannot be cited AN extenuating Inted regulstions designed to protect the public. and such offenses cannot be condoned, Acosta should take stock | of himself snd his standing with the | publie and turn over & new leal - | If Prince Carol were 1o adopt a pop- ular song, 1t would possibly he “Where Do We Go From Here? v Fxpedite Condemnation, The Government's public hullding program is being seriously delayed, sven though sdequate funds are already ap- condsmnation proceedings, ‘The prin- cipal cause of delay is because the Dis- triet eourts are congested and it 18 ale maost impossible 1o get & condemnation | case tried, In hearings thet have hesn hald i has been shown that the Distriet Gom- missioners and the corporation eounsel | recommena the appointment of an ad- | aitions] Judge whose primary duty wit) BY PHILANDER JOHNSON, Big Ren. Big Ben Franklin — he was & mighty man! He summoned -electricity to help the general plan. g Ben Pranklin, so merry and so bold, | ‘Was not prepared To keep us scared As new events unfold! Big Ben Pranklin! He had the human | thrill And taught the small economy that helips to pay the bill, Big Ben Pranklin—his thought will| still resound In tones immense Of common sense, While this old world goss round! A Stand on Principle. “Are you a wet or & dry?” “1 helleve in enforeing the law.” said | “regardless of my Forecast. The robin hops across the lawn, ‘The catbird sings with glee, And yet the cold wave has not gone ‘That blasts the blossoming tree, Although the frult crop may go wrong | And leave the branch to gloom, 11l still be thankful for the song And grateful for the bloom. Jud Tunkina says & man ought to| ssy what he thinks-—provided he knows how, . Chemical Appesl, “Your sofl is sour,” seld the agricul- tursl expert. "It needs lime. " “S0 s my disposition,” aniwered Parmer Corntossel. "Cimme & presorip- tion for some kind o' calclum.” “It is the privilege of the petty poli- telan,” said Hi Ho, the sage of China- town, “to start & fist Aght and pretend "ois e war” Dark Hom, That old Dark Hoss 15 in the stall " lose after all, RBring him across Refore next Fall ‘That old Dark Hos I in the stall! “A good fAinancler,” sald Uncle Fhen, 15 & man who ecan satisfy de head walter wit & tip on de hosses instead of & tip In ready cash.' i v The Worst From the Lansinn State dour Successtul Ayers have lewrned how " ice Yoe 1o sik in condemnation cases and ks become an u!m M such maLiars {2 Nado le 'ol‘\:l'v wil hut not | % eanfetth from getting down el ‘Soiars, ity ) | war at present, notwithstanding killing | the | with the i [ of ‘all poliee in China, together with | many Japanese upon her police forcen | | helong to Japan. but it would be impossible to carry them out of Tsinan and the Province of Shantung without ruining their busi- nesses. Instead, the J ese are d termined to protect their people, even with military defense. They announce, however, that the troops will be with- drawn from China 8s soon as orderly government is established. The situa- tion Is similar to the condition of the United States in protecting our em- bassy and nationals in Peking and sur- rounding country. o In of China there are 346,000 for- eigners, of whom 236,000 are Japancse Japanese commerce with China I8 che‘ leading !ora’n trade, It I8 more dir-| turbed, therefore, than that of all ather | nations combined. Yet, in spite of the | disorder and destruction. due to the struggle of the contending forces of | Chinese and the total absence of & rec- ognized Chinese government. frains from intervention. There is no on hoth sides, LR In 1917, Japan was recognized by the Lansing-Ishil treaty as holding para- | mount interest in China and the res of the Far Fast, in spite of Russl holdings, in Siberia, of a greater than all of Japan's of the world have had inst her attempt to overreach Chin orld War, Long before the war, Japan had begun her encroachments upon the independence of China, dating from 1895—shortly after the 8ino- Japanese war In which Japan tri- umphed, ‘The treaty ending that war in 1805 ave o Japan all of the island of rmoss. the Pescadores Islands and the Peninsula of Lisotung, together ht to hold Watheiwel, as surety that China would fulfill the rest of the peace treaty. The powers forced her to relinquish the Lisotung Penin- sula, but in 1910, as a result of the Japanese-Russian r, Japan gained Port Arthur and Dairen, and foreibly annexed ¥orea, and also Invaded and held the territory of Upper Bakhalin Islend. L Five years later, taking advantage of the fact that Europe was absorbed In its World War, Japan bscame dictatorial to Chins, and made 21 audacious de- covering speclal rights In Man- and also asserting that Japan d have “joint_control” with China mand the agraement that China must employ | All mines in & certain district were to | China was to hind herself never in cede to any other power any porta, harhors or Ialands China wa =nrrm o sign these demands ). . Japan, In the World War Tsinan-Teingtao Rallway rmany, and | cation for sending ocoupyl the seieed territory, so that, of the Disarmament O Warhington, in 1021, Jaj Russian righta In Manchuria German rights In Shantu reason of her power she strongly than either Russis or Germany hud ever held (hem, 9.9 9.9 The disarmamen! rconference, 1021, ulted not ly in Japsn’s signature o the nevy ut also to her | tonals, (4) To retrain from taking advantage of conditions In China in order to seek special rlfi\ul or privileges which would abridge the rights of subjects or citi- zens of friendly states, and from coun- tenancing action inimical to the se- curity of such States, I Followinz the disarmament confer~ ence and Japan's agreement to with- draw and leave to China the “open door” for equality of all nations, as in« sisted upon by the rest of the world, and with a diplomatic flourish, Japan. under a new administration. announced a new policy, to be known as “friend- ship policy.” 8o, In 1922, In the so- lled Washington treaty, Japan me- ted the sale of the railroad to Chin: which agreed to purchi it for $20,. 000,000, payable annually in install ments covering 15 years. She is now in arrears of two annual instaliments, owing to the pending revolution. CEE R In April, 1923, the Japanese and American governments terminated the Lansing-Ishii treaty, under which the United States had recognized Japan's “special interests In China.” There after, in accord with the “friendship policy,” Japan withdrew her aggres- slons, both as to China and as to northern Sakhalin, owned by Russia, in which Japan had held troops. Japan also followed the perican example in returning her share of the indemnity for the damuges of the Boxer Rebel- Hon, to bs devoted to education 1 China, and In every way since then she has done all in her power to avold friction and to regain the good will of China and the other powers. The lley of non-intervention was emphatically declared by the then for- eign minister, Shidehara, but It was severely condemned hy Baron Tanaka, head of the Selyukal party of opposi- tion, who declared that the unrest in China was endangering the entire Far East, He advocated Japanese Interven- tion year & Recently ‘Anaka became premier and forelgn minister of Japan, vet up to the present he has protested that he does not propose intervention, but protection for Jap we lives and perty. The \ese_have taken possession of the ‘Tainan Rallroad (the one cap- tured from Germany and sold to China by Jupan) and demanded that the Chi- nese forces retire 7 miles from the track, on hoth aldes, nese have refused to do The road had been cut In four places, but Japan s repalring it determined to keep an open road for the evacuation of Ity na~ I necessary, and for its own military line of col unioation for sup- plies, The situation Is recognized as | extremely critical CRUR Roarcely less oritioal may soon he- coma the position of the United States, holding, by the Boxer treaty, its line of communication hetween Peking and the ports of Tientaln and Taku We now have 701 soldiers in Tientsin, 10 along the route between Tientsin and Peking, 3,000 Marines at Tientain and 1,320 ines Ahankal and other points, beside et of destroyers, All of our foroe: a fow miles north of the Japanese-Ohlnese-Nationalist (rou- ble, but in oase the Nationalists were to make & drive northward, they might quickly overrun the Peking territory :n:lnmml the American embassy n The gleam of hope for peace romes in yeaterday's news of & proo ation which the Chi- | Lafayette Theater, but because of too | much Scotch dialect. which the public | could not understand, it was taken off. { revamped, and then put on again, and | was one of the biggest successes in stage | annals. | _ Another inference is that Mrs. Leslie | Carter’s “Du Barry” was at the Na- tional. This plece also had its initial performance at the Lafayette. as well As her greatest success. “Zaz." W. J. DWYER. vs Uncle Snmm;l Is Doing Quite Well To the Fditer of Tha Just between you and me, confiden- tially, Uncle Sam is doing pretty well ately. With less than 7 per cent of | i with the fusey stovepipe hat, the star! spangled blue vest and the red-and- white nmrfl breeches and the paint, brush on his chin, owns and drives 83 per cent of the world’s autos. | And, take it from me, he's some oy | rider, for he burns 72 per cent of the world’s gasoline. He has more than | half of the world’s bank deposits, which | | he has increased by more than $9.000.- | 000,000 in the past 10 years, and at the same time has increased the wages of [ the workers by $8,000,000,000 per year, He carrles 71 per cent of the world's life Insurance, or more than 10 times the per capita average. He jingles al- most half of the gold of the world in his breeches pockets. He has nearly two-thirds of tha world's telephones Andi about the same proportion of the radio| sets, . And he 1 good to his wife, Aunt! | Columbla, for she has recently bought | |a million vacuum cleaners, nearly s/ many electric washers, and a perfectly | ridiculous number of electric refrigera- | | tors, She wears silk stockings and| atep-ins for every day, and more than' four million of her school ehildren have ! bank accounts in their own names. i A1lln*p-l‘l! don't lisp a word | Uncle Sam was drinking too mueh. Dear, good old Uncle, he meant all right! But at the earnest persuasion of Aunt Columbia he swore off back in 1920, You see. she was worried about the kiddies and all that. 8he couldn't give them the school that they ought (o have, and she saw that the boose was robbing Uncle Sam and the family of a lot of the life, liberty and happl- ness guaranteed by the Constitution And, besides, his health now is a lot better, He doesn’t get up in the morn- ing with that dark-brown taste in his mouth, with a grouch as big as a barn, nor with his head thumping like a 40+ ton trip-ham as it used to do on the morning after Down At the shop his ayes are keener, hix narve ateadier, his muscles stronger and his brain elearer, and he is on the Job Monday after pay day, ‘The fact I8 It has plumb rejuvenated Unele Sam, as it has many another good man, and Aunt Columbia wears the amile that won't come off! W. G, CALDERWOOD. from Chang Tso-lln, comm r of North Ohina , ordering all hos tilities againat the Nationallats to coase in order to save the country from de- Atruction, He asoribes the National- fstle movement to the Communists | Whether this order to “cease fiving” will lead (o peace s wulk\l\‘. by ex- perienced observers. No response ha Vel from the Nationalista (Comypiaht 10UR by Paal V. Colhna ) | the world's population, our lanky Uncle, . | with protection of the canal rights of | Great Britain seems to se¢ no immedi- | the United States. England, protecting | ate end to the guardianship of the | her position in the Suez Canal region. military forces.” | has forced the Parliament to| E:nwm until Fall action on a w to restrict interference by the police with political protest meetings. “To maintain its line of communica- tions with India." says the Omaha | World-Herald, “Britain must insure se- | curity for the Suez Canal. and to secure | ! the canal it must meddle in Egyptian| IInupl'.n'-l 'unc eno;nnl -l&“r:i. ,X:“(lhn: people of Egypt don't like | cn't help (hat, but It ean heip their | Nafas Pasha and T :'elend' too vocal about their dislike. They | exile, and m‘"‘" be n't hold mass meetings and make people must altar of an injudicious speeches and get up riots over thelr dislike. There was a time when an nnunlm The Herald Great Britain “has been | American might eriticize this sort_of | thing with a clear conscience. But P~ tentatively with freer home rule,” concludes that “it isn't working so | after Nicaragua and Haitl and the th_vpimn his tongue is more or less d. that it averts such disputes as the pres ent one.” The Chi Daifly News { convinced that “the statgs of | remains uncertain”; that ‘feeling bitter. and if no tresty is effectsc is | fueely.” says the Reno | The Hartford Times his g & 4 it Bgz if ardent Dalteves £ 225 ‘The New York Times, pointing out that “the proposed bill would have res stricted the power of the police in the face of domestic agitation.” states: | e “This constituted a threat against for- eign Interests other than English. And that In turn might mean complications between Great Britain and some other foreign power. Sir Austen Chamberlain minced no words In the House of Com- mons: “The interests of this country in Egypt make it impossible for us to con- | | template its occupation by any other wer than ourselves, " The Times | holds that “evidently British p\lhlk'; sentiment has grown tired of the re- ated crises precipitated by attempts | on the part of the Egyptian Nationalists to deal on their own initiative with the reserved questions which Great Britain is willing enough to discuss at leisure and in the absence of pressure.” CEE ) ‘The Philadelphia Record argues that “quite plainly there has been no settle ment, but merely A submission to foree and an aggravation of the eontroversy, for the Egyptian leaders will exploif the grievance that an explicit pledge of independence has been dishonored, and Qroat Britain can maintain her i tion only by military control and inflexi- ble exerclse of legislative veto power™ “The ambition of the Exyptian peopls to govern themselves is legitimate and worthy remarks the Seattle Dally Thmes, “except that the movement is | largely of anti-British inspiration. The | Anglophobia of the Egyptian National- Ists has been & stumbling block whieh has prevented real progress toward in- dependence. * * * Amerioa's respon- sibility in protecting the Panama Canal I8 In some respects similar to that of Creat Britain In protecting the Sues ©Canal, & vital link n the line of com- | munieations between England and the outposts of the British Empire. As for | Egypt's interests, they hava improved under Rritish protection. Certainly the | Egyptians are taday better off than they were under the Sultan of Turkey." As ta_the issue involyed, the New Orleans Tribune deelaves: “If the po- lice of any country are restrained from keeping order in assemblies until per- mission is granted by the managers of the gatherings, there will be litle arder maintained. Agitators _might call a meeting for the specific purpose of stirring up popular resentment against forelgners whom England s pledged to protect * As the Philadelphia Evening oo the situation, “according Rritish conception, Bgypt Cuba and It Nioaragua, It seeka | offect, treaty recognition af the ol Intervention te protest further complications are probable the near future.” “To bridge the gap between th Egyptian demand for complete, un trammeled sovereignty and the Britis insistence gn spl«-hl rights calls fo statesmanship of an . it magice rder,” in the i t of the Buffal Evening News, while the Wichita Bea con emphasizes the point that if “Eng land permits absolute freedom of speec! in Egypt. as in India, it may result & revolution: if she does not permit &k she Is engagig in medieval autocracy It is & problem we do not envy her, concludes the Kansas paper. y The St. Paul Ploneer Press comments “A short time back the British pres was calling America an imperialistt rogue on aceount of Latin America, bu Exypt. ‘that's different’ ™ As viewse by ‘the Ithaca Journal-News, Grest Britain_“stands frankly on a plea o her own paramount stake in the lane which flanks the Sues Canal and block the continental door to British Eas and South Afriea.” The Waterloo 1{1 une asserts that Rritain “is merely moving to protect her own interests, s as we would protect ours in Centrs .\Imerm or in Hawali or the Phillp pines.” UNITED STATES Eighty-seven ocasualties on today's lst, * Three missh N nitely known to :.. Mnm" ,'0. London W mnannlA I announced nmmlb::\“forluul bl lnmmnmwmm * % An American warship amivi At an Atlantie port smking of & :";:u\tnn-m t out 1t in two lifted 1t out b e Shgrin ‘:\.l. of the water, Bulletin | Gorma: o the i he the Br