Evening Star Newspaper, May 29, 1928, Page 8

sy THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D.C. TUESDAY.........May 29, 1928 THEODORE W. NOYES. - The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office: 11th St. and Pennsyivania Ave. New York Offic 10 East 42nd St Chicago Offic ‘ower Building. European Office: 14 Regent St., London, Engiand Rate by Carrier W The Evening Star ... The Evening (when 4 Sund; The Evening and Sunday (when > Sundays).. ithin the City. .. 43¢ per month nday Star . 60c per month -65c per month The RTRO 5c per copy pp made at the end of each monih. o has be sent in by mail or telephoue, Mam 3000, .. ~%e o | turn. States and Canada >.00: 1 mo. <R.00: 1 mo . $3.00:1mo., 100 Member of the Associated Press. The Ascociated Prrss is exclusively ent Federal Pay Equity. With the signing yesterday by the President of the Welch bill, the United States Government made the first gen- eral salary increase in its Federal serv- ice sinte 1853. Seventy-five years ago, administration of President Pierce, a law was passed which effected an upward revision of the scale of departmental pay. Since then. save for the war-time bonus and the readjust- ment effected by the reclassification act of 1923, there has never been a system- atic advance in the salary schedule. The bonus was a provisional, temporary ~ arrangement due to an emergency. The reclassification adjustment did not yield s uniform increase—indeed, it caused in many cases actual losses in pay. While this present increase is provi- slonal, it is basic in character, establish- ing & new standard of compensation, from which there will be no departure save in further advances as the survey that is provided for in the measure is made as the groundwork of further helpful adjustments. This new scale does not adequately align the Govern- ment service with private occupations in point of pay. It leaves much to be done in the way of relief of the lower grades of workers. Anxiety on the score of appropriations sufficient to meet this new scale has been allayed by the assurance that no specific additional funds are required. The act of Congress which yesterday became a law establishes the rate of pay beginning July 1 and affords a war- Tant for all disbursing officers to make payments at the new rate. If the ap- propriations which have been made for the coming fiscal year for departmental service are not sufficient to meet this new scale, a deficiency will be created, to meet which Congress will at the next mental conditions looking to & further Tevision of the scale. The bill that was signed yesterday requires that this be It was Mr. Hughes himself who of- he might be statesman that have not! veceived very serious public considera- tion. ————— “What's in 2 name?” Uncie Remus was once & name associated by Joel Chandler Harris with graceflul expres- slons of negro myth and fancy. “Uncle Remus” s now identified with under- ————ee Cheers from 2ll the world will arise 4 Novile can be reciaimed from jcy oblivion. ‘The alrplane speaks all lan- gusges and ziways in accents of hope. Nobile's Pate in Doubt. With vague and unconfirmed reports | yeceived thzt Noplle's dirigibie Itaiia, which started a few days ago for a survéy fiight v the North Pole, has been Jocawd at Amsterdsm Island, north of Bpilzbergen, preparations for sending out & grest velief expedition 10| . . Editor 8¢ | ” | avenues and Third and Seventh streets. but little information, as the view was obscured by fogs «xlmost the entire time. He started for the Pole with what was believed to be an ample fuel supply, with a sufficlent margin to meet all emer- gencies. His failure to return and, save possibly for the indeterminate messages received a few days ago, to report has caused the gravest apprehension. Polar survey from the air has been proved to be practicable in the flight of the Norge and the Byrd plane, both of which traversed the axial point in 1926, and by Wilkins, whose recent flight from Point Barrow to Spitzbergen was a dramatic demonstration of Arctic air voyaging, though he did not cover the polar zone itself. Whether Nobile { has reached the Pole and suffered dis- taster on his return or failed to reach it on his outward flight, he has demon- ;strstcd the possession of the spirit that { makes for progress in exploration. The world hopes for his recovery and re- He is a gallant airman, skilled |and brave. and if he has succumbed jto the flerce forces of the north, his {name will be added to a long list of | | venturesome men who have given their [lives in the cause of science and | rescarch. ———— A Capital-Making Session. A bill which the House passed yes- | terday and which it is hoped will be igi\'rn concurrent consideration by the | Senate before adjournment assures the | | beginning of a work of Capital develop- | | ment which has been unduly protracted, | |but which can now go forward ef-| |fectively in full harmony with other | projects. This measure authorizes an | appropriation of $4,912,414 for carrying | {out the plans for extending the Capitol | grounds to the Union Station Plaza| | and adopts what is known as “Plan B," | which provides for the cutting of a| | boulevard extending from the Columbus | fountain, in front of the Union Station, | to Pennsylvania avenue between Second land Third streets. With the concur- | rence of the Senate this great project | Ivrm be definitely adopted and authoriza- tion will be given for a commencement jof the work of clearing the space that | is to be added to the Capitol grounds. General plans for the development of | | the Capital have now been co-ordinated | {and with ample funds provided for me{ various works the actual process of ex- | ecution may be at once undertaken. | Under the bill which it is expected is | about to become a law, the Capitol- | Station Plaza will be cleared of the temporary structures erected there dur- ing the war, the grounds will be graded and improved and the vision of the| Capitol to all visitors will be open with- | out impediment. The new boulevard will afford direct access to Pennsylvania avenue, reaching that historic thor- oughfare at such a point as to assure the clearance of unsightly conditions. From the point of this junction of the boulevard and the Avenue will extend to the west a series of impressive Gov- | ernment buildings, occupying the great | ]mande, for the acquisition of which in its entirety Congress has provided. | A further project remains for definite | adoption before this work of redeeming | Pennsylvania avenue is fully assured.; That is the plan for the creation of a | municipal center in thie area bounded by Pennsylvania, Indiana and Louisiana This is now contemplated as the next measure to be framed and enacted, ten- tative plans having been prepared for it. When that is done there will re- main but the physical work of construc- tion, the FPederal bulldings on the south and the municipal buildings on the north, to make Pennsylvania ave- nue between the Capitol and the Treas- ury worthy of the seat of Government of which it is the most important, con- spicuous and famous thoroughfare. This session of Congress just closing has marked important advances in the work of Capital making. The public building program has been carried for- ward, especially by the enactment of | authorization for the purchase of all | the remaining lands in the Mall-Avenue | triangie not now in Government owner- iship. By the time the BSeventy-first Congress assembles the construction ! work now starting will have been well | advanced and a second group of public will be ready for specific fund allotment. It is to be expected that {there will be no slackening, but that this process will be prosecuted without | interruption to carry on the great pro- | gram without check or delay. The i transformation of Washington, and par- | ticularly fts central portion, is now as- | sured within & brief span of years o | make 1 1n truth the wonder city of the world. - Chinese statesmanship is compelled to realizs that it was & mistake (o assume that it could limit its political and military affairs to terms of soclal ieulunvcneu, s aos. 1 Parm relief brings o attention the | ides that while a government can and | iw(ht o sdminister justice, it should | not be expected o work financial mira- | cles. ! et e Blaming It on the Dog. One of ghe best remedies for crime, search lor Uw missing dirigivie €| ypqing 1o Willlsm J, Plyan, former being pressed by Norway. This searchiy, g of the United Btates Becret Berv- | Sor the Liallan air expiorer will be D8I~ | o, jipy i taking politics out of the ticipated in f:y several units ’[wo,mm,‘ department, “Take politics out Messmehiips will endeavor (o Penelrate | op iy pojice department,” he said in Yoe ie. A scaplane Wil undertake &, w4qress 10 the World Assoclation of | swils survey of the sea poris of BpUi- | roiiiyey 1y gession st Chicago, “snd | bergen, sod W kine 8 45 .X‘*"‘r‘m"_‘ixmn walch results, Give the police | t“"” Wi, i peeded, suppiement his | aop,riment & free hand and let the | | ehiet use bis unhampered judgment as Tie toeory s baid taat Nowtle's tuel | U5 U8 St ’pr p, becas exnausied snd thet be alowed | Tl ity and he will undoubtedly o st | ts T W 9wy | beat the crooks. Politics, however, tends 25 & free balloon | witll & landing pece wes tound. The great dirigivle may now be marooned | on Bn e field or posibly an isilend, or 3% ey have gone Vo the surface of the wea with the loss of il on bosrd. I may bave boen Gestroyed in 8 grest | worm. Wo Uace of ¥ may ever bel found. But bope persists that 1t has | pwvived the siress of westher and the bazards of Ve Trown ws, and Wi e rescien by rescurrs, Who Rre now Blraiing every perve Vo wake tie bhunt, Hobile's expediiion wes & galisnt at- tempt W supplement the work of Byrd and Amundeen wo years sgo when {ermment adopied voat 5t | % tie & men’s hands and thereby ruin | any chances of organized action sgainst | orgenized crime” | Mr. ¥iyun speaks with suthority, and | when he complains of politics in the police department he s atlacking one of the wesknesees of a system of gove by the founding fathers, Every city is dountless cursed by polities in the police department, which hampers efficlency in grester or lese degree, Mr, Fiynn's desl would probebly be an sucratic establishe ment, the police ehlet rullng with a rod they few, respectively, in plane snd einigivie over the poikr sres, Nowile was one of hmuntwn's sides on his Bign. loeplred by & Gesire Vo mske furtier yescurcives, sip end carried her W BpWarTeen, from which, 88 & predupinery enier- prise, e made wn B Yoyege 36 wenrch of wnerpiored eress north of Biberis - e 1ol thet venvuls with e secured bl owWn | of fron snd brooking no interference | trom any wurce Bub the s\tainment 1ot such an \desl, while highly desirable s Amposile, There will slways be poitice, It is naturel W bleme it on the 6ok Innd one of the mos. eccessible dogs courageous and honest men to rise above politics, even in the administra- tion of a police department. If a police crooks by political interference, there could lle before him no straighter path to glory than an cpen denunciation of those who tie his hands. If the police chief sets as high a value on his ideals as he does on his job, the probabilities are that he will keep both. The trouble is not so much in politics, but in the average police chief’s bellef that ideal- ism is a fine thing to talk about, but a good, safe job is preferable to ideal- ism every day in the week. ————————— Airplane Golfers. A new aid for the golf duffer has| been found. No longer will sevens and eights appear on his card if he adopts a plan which was tried at the West- bury Golf Club recently and which proved so successful that one man played nine holes in twenty-cight strokes and the other got around in thirty-two. ‘This game is simple. All the duffer has to do is hire an airplane for his pa r and in place of driving off the tee have him drop the ball as near ecch pin as possible. If the duffer is a good putier and his partner a good thrower, there appears to be no reason why the all-time low score for eighteen holes should not be lowered. ‘This may be an expensive way for the duffer to get into the low fifties for a complete round, but then golf is rather expensive, anyway, and to a man breaking a hundred for the first chief is hampered in his drive on the | i the fact that nothing tal time no price is too great. If the plan is adopted universally it may become | common for the club member to ask the caddymaster for a plane and pilot | instead of the usual lad who carts his clubs around the course. As a matter of fact, the plane offers about the only method for some golfers to break the century mark. —————— By alternating sleeping cars with airplanes the Pennsyivania Railroad will carry passengers from New York to California in forty-eight hours. This will require only a small additional al- lowance of time for a most pleasurable and thrilling week end trip. e A market tipster who says with per- functory monotony, “Don’t gamble, does not expect others to heed his ad- | vice. He probably does not heed it| himself. — e A candidate goes fishing. His placid frame of mind is one which the aver- age citizen agitated about a political crisis may find enviable, —————— ‘The stock ticker is occasionally com- pelled to halt in bull market enthu- siasm and voice the request “Please There would be great saving to the popular purse if car fares could be re- duced as easily as taxes. — b ‘There is no longer a “darkest Rus- sia.” The searchlight of civilization is frankly demanded. ————————— Filibustering makes 1t clear that sleepless nights are requisite for pa- triotic service. As compared with & “beauty contest,” an “oratorical contest” is an intellec- tual relief. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON, The Dance. Everybody learns to dance To the music gay; Everybody takes a chance On a rhythmic play. Once our poets were but few, Now a thousand choose To parade their feet anew, Romping with the Muse, Dactyls sound, iambs abound In the ragtime page. Idle fancles, thoughts profound, Syncopated, rage. Bymphonies we used to know Echo in the “Blues,” As impetuous poets go Romping with the Muse. Favoritisms. “Women are prominent in politics.” “Not so prominent as I hoped for,” #ald Benator Borghum. “In & few years I expect to hear as much about favor. ite daughters as about favorite sons.” The Little Flivver. Had a little motor car And I forgot to lock it. The thief did not get very far ‘Tl some one picked his pocket, Jud Tunkins says prevalence of clothes in Arctic regions have inter- fered with the appearance of “Miss North Pole” in a beauty contest, Cuckon Thrift, Hiz eggs the lazy Clckoo lays In nests he never made, The speculator apes her ways Upon the Board of Trade, Conversational Release. “You have fallen in love with a movie | actress.” “1 look forward to happiness, A]‘ movie actress is not expected to talk.” “Not on the screen, But think of the home! How about the law of ave erages?” “Should we succeed In restoring glorles of bygone ages sald Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “we would only find ourselves hopelessly out of style” Primeval Supremacy, O monkey, ancestor of mine, Your talents 1 admit, In art it's now the “monkey shine” That makes the real hit, | practically automatic, but | man agen | beings refus | taking and finishing of “pictures” must THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY, MAY 29, 1928, THIS AND THAT % BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Those who take up the interesting laboratory experiment of developing and printing their own plctures, as sug- gested in this column yesterday, ought not to expect too good results at first. They may have “beginner’s luck,” of course, in which event they will be en- couraged to go ahead. Discouragement probably will come with the next batch of negatives and prints. P Every branch of endeavor, from base ball to writing, from building bridges to examining plants under the microscope, knows this form of secondary fallure. It comes with perhaps too much overconfidence, but is based solidly on the place of experience. After all, how could even the most enthusiastic expect any- thing different? 1t is one thing to plunge into a work, but quite another to make a success at it. Not every one, either, is destined to find a given pursuit congenial. In school r after, one will develop an aptitude, lled, f line. “It comes easy to him, Thus one student “shines” in study of English, another in mathe- maties, ancther in_foreign languag: He who excels in English composition most often finds mathematics, in its varifous branches, an almost impossible | task. * ok ok K All this applics with especial force to the developing and printing of one's own photographs on a strictly amateur basis. Although a world of experience, including years of patient experiment- ing, has been put into cameras. film, paper, and so on, there are two factors which even the most progressive of manufacturers cannot control. These are the varfations in sunlight and the vageries of the human mind If it were not for sunshine and hliman minds amateur photography might be as long as ses to be controlied by hu- and as long as human e to usc, their heads, the the sun refu: ! remain on a delightfully experimental plane, This. of course, Is exactly why the thing is interesting. Suppose you buy your boy a nice camera and set him up to a complete developing and print- ing outfit. He goes out and snaps some pictures. Studiously he studies directions, develops and prints. Much to his delight (and your utter | amazement), he presents the world with 10 good prints out of 12 sheeis of paper. They are not as good as a pro- fessional could do, of course, but each | and every one is a presentable speci- men. You have visions of Junior becoming a great photographer, maybe making photographs of the great and the near- great at an untoid number of doliars per photograph. Junior, no doubt, feels somewhat the y ut himself. Then he “shoots” some more pic- tures, Again he develops, but this time the negatives are weak, thin, lacking in contrast. (He overlooked the fact that the sunshine was very weak when he took the pictures.) He prints and overexposes the first two or three, with the result that the prints flash black almost before he can get them out of the developer. ‘Then he gets two pieces of paper stuck together and hence wastes one. His next trial results in a fair print, but the whites are grayish in ton Something is wrong. He tries again. This time he holds his fingers too long in one place, with the result that these spots print out nice and black. ‘When Junlor gets his dozen prints— or what is left of them—spread out to dry he decides that maybe he isn't cut mlllt to be a Great Photographer, after all, ok K 1t is this very trial-and-error method of procedure which makes home labora- tory work intensely interesting and greatly worth while, Making pictures develops a hoy's judgment. He has to use his head. He must figure out the why of his suc- cesses even more than the reason for his_failures. He learns to control his temper; to realize that the chances are a thousand to one that failure is his own fault; | | that he did something wrong and must | find out what it was and correct the | error next time. It is the “next time" that holds forth the real lure. Next time one is to take | a perfect picture, do a grand job of | developing, print a dozen -perfect prints. | When one is busy with chemical | reactions, however, all is not done as easily as said. He discovers that when is meant. but 6 Not 61/10 or 64, but 6 second: Precision, within ordinary human limits, is burned in with failure. The boy photographer becomes a better citizen by imperceptible degrees in that 7, painless fashion which real boys appreciate. No one is lecturing him; he lectures himself. He becomes disgusted with himself because he has not done as well as he desires. He makes that} greatest of resolves, to find out what is wrong with himself, He learns to put two and two | together, to observe, to deduce, to put | into effect his observing and his de- | ductions. The result is that, to a cer- tain extent, at least, he educates him- self. He is the self-educated boy who | is the father of the seif-educated man. | Sox ik | The value of-cleanliness and care 15 brought home to the young photogra- pher so that in after years he no doubt | | will appreciate the same qualities in a | home. He who has been careless in develop- | ing a film and firmly placed a series of | neat fingerprints right down the cen- | ter of several negatives will come by | degrees to appreciate perfect work. | The boy who gets careless in han- dling his prints and fails to wash the | “hypo” off his fingers before putting | the next sheet of sensitized paper in his | printing frame will realize just what a | good job some friend has done whose | prints are free from the discolorations which disfigure his ow Précision, care, accuracy, cleanliness, |are some of the good qualities about which a boy learns who takes up home photographic work. These are not qualities ordinarily born with boys. | | Most of them are indifferent to pre- | | cision work. They are prone to be in- accurate, to take little care in doing delicate work. As for cleanliness, their bent with respect to this is too well known to need mentioning. Photographic work forces the young man to pay attention to these traits | and the wholesome respect he comes to | have for them will show him through- | out life, especially in relation to the | home and the things of home, that | these same qualities of heart and mind make for perfection of living. A home may be dirty and still be a home, but the chances are against it. One may do his daily work in a careless fashion; he may be inaccurate; he may not be precise. The chances are a hundred to one that he will be more or | |less of a faliure, Home photography helps impress val- uable lessons upon the boy at one of | the most impressionable periods of life, | hence its value in the everyday train- ing of youth, BACKGROUND OF EVENTS BY PAUL V. COLLINS. In no other country and at no other period in this country has there ever been such an institution as Decoration day. It is now more generally known as “Memorial da: erans who still prefer the original name, “Decoration day”—the day when the decoration for patriotism 1 bestow upon the last resting places of soldlers | by the survivors of the veterans who of- fereg their lives for the country they oved, Not all fell in battle; not all fought for the same cause—some were defend- ers of the “Union, one and indivisible,” some for the Confederacy, but both were devoted to what they esteemed the cause of patriotism, and today there is no class, whether In the North or South, 50 ready to recognize the same spirit of genuine patriotism as are the men who wore the uniform of their cause. * %k x There have been three United States wars since the Grand Army of the Re. public founded Decoration day. The Spanish and Philippine War veterans and the World War veterans now join with their forefathers of the Civil War in honoring, not merely their own de- ceaged comrades, but rather the abstract spirit of devotion to patriotic sacrifices, which is the same in all the wars of our country. 8o the parades on Decoration day, wherever they uphold the true spirit of its founders, are not limited now to Civil War veterans, but rightly in- clude all veterans surviving all wars in which the cause of our country was involved. In some reglons this broadened spirit has not yet been manifested. In New York City, for example, there is fric- tion because leaders oppose the pres- ence in the parade of any but ‘Civil War veterans, or at least oppose the presence of World War soldlers who fought in the World War under the British fi although now living In the United States and members of the American Legion, As a result of police interference in restricting the parade to the flag of Old Glory and its followers, the frictlon has become, unfortunately, 5o bitter that the Amer- jean Leglon refuses to participate at al It would be regrettable, indeed, if, through narrowness of interpretation, Memorial day, instead of honoring the patriotic nobility of sacrifice, should be restricted to only one class of military patriots—a class which 1s on the verge of extinction as 1o living members, Already, in many localitics, the aged veterans of the Grand Army of the Re- public have abandoned the march alto- gether, and must be carried In auto- mobiles, if they parade at all. Shall their spirit be no longer the inspira- tion of the day when they are passed over the grand parade to their eternal resting place? o h It was not so in olden time, when the story written by Sir Walter Scott de- picted the scenes and the spirit of pa- triotism in “The Lady of the Lake" Danger threatened and the leader chief took up the crosslet, dipped in blood and fire, and gave it over to Malise, with command to carry it throughout the land to the next one assigned 1o take it up and spread the call to rally. “The muster-place 15 Lanrick mead; Radio Relief. “You display great interest in the coming conventions” “Yes,” answered Miss Cayenne, “IL will be @ relief o hear more politics and less advertisement,” “Paifh an’ hope” sald Uncle Eben, “is represenied by & four-card heart fush. Charity 1 what you may need when you draws & spade” ) Pasmsing of the Gown, ¥rom the Nashville ‘Fennesmonn, for lame s politics, It msy be im- possile 1o Tid police departments of poistics, bul 3 is siweys pomsible for The gentlemen dancer no longer wears & handkerchict over his hand 1o k:" his motst finger tips from stelning oown, ber gown n'y there, Bpeed forth the signal! Clansman, S e 1 “peed, Mallse, speed! . . The lake Is past; Duncraggin’s huts appear at last And peep, like mossgrown rocks, half soen, Half hidden in the copse so green; ‘There mayst thou rest, thy labor done, Their Lord shall speed the signal on." But when Malise reached the castle of Toderiek--Lord Duncen-~ ‘Within the hall, where torches’ ray fuded beams of day, His stripling son stands mournful by~ . . e . . B . Angus, the hejr of Duncan's line, #prung forth and seized the fatal sign. 1 haste the stripling 1o his side His fother's dirk and hrosdsword ted,” L. . but there are vet-| So the sword of the passing genera- tion is seized by the next and valor passes from {ather to son. Shall it be otherwise today—tomorrow—and tomor- | row? * x % ¥ Here in Washington, fortunately, we have seen none of this jealousy so| marked in other places, particularly in New York, buy rather the spirit of Lord | Duncan’s line, which inspires the fathers and grandfathers to pass their veteran | sons their swords of honor and bravery. | ‘The Grand Army of the Republic will head the parade, as usual, tomorrow morning, and after it, under the same flag—Old Glory—will march in step, veterans of the Spanish War and of the Philippine War, then the Military Order of the World War and the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign | Wars, together with the Women's American Legion and Legion Auxiliary and nurses. Those brave and stalwart graybeards of “Boys in Blue," those scarcely less venerated veterans of the wars of 30 years ago—will they not set the step for the World War “veterans,” of the aver- age birth dating within a decade of the day that the Army and Navy came back from the Philippines? We hear that al- ready the veterans of the World War have reached an average age of 35 years—boys when the draft carried them over the seas, Middle-aged men who volunteered thelr services to make the world safe for democracy and free- dom already “Oslerized!” Is there any difference in the spirit which keeps step in that patriotic pa- rade? All have proved their love for Old Glos there is no difference in their spirit. They keep step! * ok K ox And in one voice every veteran, of whatever war, prays that the world will come into full and unreserved accord in signing the American pledge that there shall be no more wars forever. It may not fmpress others as it did the present writer, last Fall, when, | upon returning to the battlefield where on Armistice day he was hauling am- munition from a dump in the woods to a battery close to the “No Man's Land,” he there discovered the exact spot locating the dump of high ex- plosives of 1918, now ablaze with pop- ples. Prophetic, were they not, of the millions of popples today pinned over the hearts of American veterans and their loved ones? Emblems of the soldiers’ ""lp" as truly as that of the softest pacifist, that the men who lie in Flanders Fleld have not died in vain, but that perhaps—nay, God grant it!—there shall be a truer way than war for settling the differences of nations, as there is a better way than dueling for preserving the honor and peace of the land. Yet, if war must come, our veterans are Americans st ko x Boldiers alll The new custodian of the Lincoln Relics Museum collection, Lewls Gardner Reynolds—-the unf- inator of the carnation emblem in honor of the assassinated President McKinley—1is the originator of detail of a ceremony of Memorial day which takes in the veterans of the World War definitely. It was first recognized by President Harding-—at that time a Benator—-in his sperech a’ the Soldiers’ Home of Dayton, Ohio, It 1s described s follow Audience stand at attention for one minute in silence while buglers sound SPaps.” Afl' then face the east—toward Flanders Field—bow the heads and re- peat In unison after the leader: “To our fallen heroes who sleep in graves across the sea, we rededicate ourselves to the principles for which you fought and died, and pledge everlasting devotion to your memories! Amen.” This Mittle m-rbmnnr has never yet been introduced at Arlington, but thero Army, as well lon, who have | expressed & wish that 1t might be in- serted In tomorrow's program in the Amphlthn:”u.! and wherever Arun.m* e s s0be gy Fail V, Collisn) 255 NEW BOOKS AT RANDOM LG M. THE CRIMINAL AND HIS ALLIES. Martin Cavanagh. The Bobbs-Mer- rell. Co, ‘Many thousands of times within the past century and a half has the United States held itself up to the rest of the world as a gloriously triumphant ex- periment in democracy, as a govern- ment actually made by the people themselves, actually sustained by them. The unescapable logic of such claim is that the people, severally and collec- tively, are directly responsible not only for the kind of government under which they live but for the perpetua- tion as well of its original high purpose and its original high fulfillments, In other words, the United States has pre- cisely the measure of good government that its citizenship permits it to have. At this point protest enters. Here are ‘long and loud personal disclaimers of any part in public abuses that are as obvious as they are many and subver- sive. The denial, however, does not hold. humanity proves it to be more good than bad, proves honest intent to be more general than evil design. The straight road s ever more inviting than the crooked one, more companionable, more heartening. Therefore, at any point of impending common danger it is only for the outweighing bulk of good citizens to press forward in ro- bust remedial activity. The general franchise is the American weapon of righteousness. This and a commonly honest purpose among men determine the quality of our government, pro- vided— * Kk K K “The Criminal and His Allies” is a challenge to the people of this coun- try. It s also an accusation. It sums to the unassailable statement that the United States possesses the most money, the most power, the most laws and the most criminals of all countries. It is within such summary that both chal- lenge and accusation le. Judge Cava- nagh takes the ground. takes it with reason, you will agree, that every citi- zen of the United States who is indif- ferent toward the subject of our crimi- nal record, who is a slacker in respect to the making of our laws and toward the enforcement of these, is himself, as matter of ultimate fact, in potential | as logically apply h alliance with the criminal and with crime. The enfranchised citizens of the count by way of their legislative agents, make the laws of the lan This power stands as the bulwark of the republic. On a level with it in importance is the doctrine of law ob- servance. These two declare the stand- ard of the commonwealth and test the capacity of the people for self-govern- ment, It is upon such foundation that Judge Cavanagh erects the body of experience and definite conclusion set out in “The Criminal and His Allies. From the actual workings of this com- | bination he draws the startling accu- sation of a general public complicity in the criminal activities of the country. Unconscious and innocent, maybe, but complicity nevertheless, And, by the way, the active and responsible agents of government in a great country have no business to be either unconscious or_innocent in this respect. Set out here is the result of 30 years | of daily practical dealings with vio- lators of the law. Innumerable stories of crime here become plain statements of fact. Thousands of perverted beings step into this open disclosure. From such immediate contact the writer moves further out to examine the laws through whose workings the fate of these criminals is settled. Without mercy he points to their inadequacies and futilitles. Outworn laws, whose chief use is to provide obstructive measures calculated to thwart the straight course of justice. Much, he points out, is being done to correct this evil. Much remains yet to be done. Coming nearer to all of us, Judge Cavanagh talks plainly of the evils and ineptitudes of city control, of police regulations and performances, of the free trade in firearms, of the automobile as brigand and highway- man. Scholar, lawyer, judge and man, this writer has -nothing to say that les outside his domain of interest and activity. Much the greater part of this matter is of first-hand origin. It is the scholar who examines the law in its history and present maladjustments, who studies the professional criminol- ogist, who takes a look at the faddist and sentimentalist in their attitudes toward crime and its punishment, who declares stoutly, convincingly and amusingly against the great majority of popular “intelligence tests” and “studies in degeneracy.” A robust and forthright man quite destitute of sym- pathy with the not uncommon notion that the criminal is unable to help himself, that the reasons for his er- rancy are too deep for him to reach, or even to realize, and that, therefore, he should not suffer the extreme pen- alty of the law. A man of old-fash- ioned thinking, you will say, who has no shade of doubt that many a child has been utterly spoiled by a total sparing of the rod. A valuable study. As striking, too, as it is sound in substance. High at- tainments in his own field as both law- yer and judge, wide research in the remoter aspects of the subject, a rug- ged assurance of opinion on outstand- ing phases of crime, a sturdy avowal of public complicity in wrongdoing— these are the powers and qualities that underlie this remarkable study of the criminal record of this country and of our own part in it. * kK % THE GREEN MURDER CASE. By S. g.o Van Dine. Charles Scribners’ ns. It fiction in its most important pur- pose is to yeflect the life of the period with which 1t deals—why, then, the novel of crime and its detection should tand at the head of the list of new books. And as matter fact it does come near to occupying that very post of honor. Here is a new one—and a much better one than comes this way as a rule. Yet, so engrossing is a tale of wrongdoing that readers suffer, glad- ly, many a nluvenl{ for the joy of looking in upon strange things that the human can be led to do. However, the story In hand is an ex- ceptionally good one, one calculated to stir thinking in the reader, to turn him yarn spinner just for the time being into detective on his | P own account, checking up this Philo Vance, who seems to be having things frpuy much his own way in the slueth- ng game, Quite In keep! with the day this story projects what may be called a mass murder, four members of the same family, one after another, being passed on at the hands of a mon- ster of incredible skill in covering his ways and means. The seiting of the story—a lonely mansion left standing in the heart of New York till only the seclusion of great business houses shuts it in. Bpaclous grounds, darkened by many trees, shaded by clinging vines and hanging streamers of greenery, em- phasize the aloof character of the scene. A curjous will, exacting heavy and hate- ful toll ‘from its beneficaries, provides the motive for the complicated and heinous action, It Is the logic of the situation, step by step, that controls the development, rather than the multipli- catlon’ of circumstances with which so the path ) to reason is the outstanding attraci in & story that deals with characters of keen in- telligence, who by virtue of the facts around them and of thelr dealings with these facts take on, now here, now there, l?llle appearance of guilt. Whe the real criminal comes to light, it is, after all, the one whose grievance is in ;urt very real and In other part the nvention of pecullarly complicated nature—yet it s all as natural as are the behaviors of the others who fall under suspicion. Here Is & mystery tale that is a challenge to interest and thought, not merely a mild sleeping po- Only a common observation of | { 1 | | Bureau, | measure ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN. The answers to questions printed here each day are specimens picked | from the mass of inquiries handled by | our great information bureau maintain- | ed in Washington, D. C. This valual service i3 for the free use of the pub! Ask any question of fact you may want | to know and you will get an immediate reply. Write plainly, inclose 2 cents in stamps for return postage and ad- dress The Evening Star Information Frederic J. Haskin, Director, ‘Washington, D. C. | Q. How many commercial alrplancs were built last year?—L. T. A. During 1927 there were 2,011 com- mercial airplanes built in this country. In 1926 only 808 were built for com- | mercial use. Q. How many cigarettes are manu- | factured in the United States annu- | ally?—W. H. i A. The number of cigarettes manu- | factured in 1927 was about 97.000,000.- | 000 as compared with 89,000,000,000 in 1926, | Q. For how long a time Is the Julius Rosenwald Fund created’—M. V. G. A. The American Hebrew say: this fund, which is now in 20,000,000, is to be used ent ital and principal. Many philanthropic | enterprises are carried on by it at pres- | ent and it is Mr. Rosenwald's wish that the enire sum be used within 25 years | of his death. ! Q. Are pears a commercial cr Florida?—P. T. i A. Pear culture ¥as ofce a great in. dustry in Florida, but pear blight ruf the crops. ¢ Q. Please describe the dogwood blos- som~—L R. A. Contrary to the geferal belief the attractive white parts of the flowering dogwood (Cornus Floridh) are not the flower but_only modified leaves botanically as the Invol ‘The flowers are the inconspicunus owy | It ds. A pou How far away shyuld & book be e t A. Banners or flagyin church date from theitime Constant fourth century. Confan! on the cross uponfz b e he had sufh a ban was carried b#for he Ch of E h and Both Sides Speak Vigorously In Comment on Farm Bill Veto Plain speaking which marked the ! veto message to Congress. in whict President Coolidg> expressed his disap- proval of the McNary-Haugen farm re- liet bill is matched by the comments | from the press on th sides of the | question. se who saw econor dangers in the bill commend the co age of the President. Supporters of nqualifiedly assert that there | is expert testimony to its soundness and | merits or insist that the President could criticisms to the | accepted tariff policy or the recently approved shipping measurs “The message is a masterly paper of state. It is temperate, but as firm a: Gibraltar,” in the opinion of the St. Louis. Times (Republican), while the | Atlanta Constitution (Democratic) de- | scribes it as “refreshing” and evidenc of “the President’s personal courage.” | The Louisville Courier-Journal (inde- | pendent) calls it “by far the most no- table of his state papers,” the Buffalo Evening News (Republican) lauds his “courageous and statesmanlike course and other tributes to the President’s courage are paid by the Oakland Trib- une (independent Republican), Flint | Daily Journal (independent), Akron | Beacon Journal (Republican), Indian- apolis Star (independent Republican) and Newark Evening News (independ- | ent). i “When these Words have sunk into | the consciousness of the farmers Amer- | ican good sense may be expected to ap- | prove the judgment and applaud the | courage of Mr. Coolidge,” predicts the | New York Sun (independent), while th Philadelphia Record (independent Dem: ocratic) feels that the President “can have the consciousness that he has done his full duty, and no man can do more than that,” and the Bangor Com- mercial lauds “a meritorious service for the Nation. ‘The New York Times (independent) states: “It is his sworn duty to refuse to assent to a bill which he believes to be in violation of the or- ganic law or harmful to the country. Mr. Coolidge has merely been faithful to his trust.” “The whole message is a series of ad- ditional reasons for regretting President Coolidge does not choose to run this year,” declares the San Francisco Bul- Jetin (Republican), and the Seattle Times (independent Republican) offers the judgment, “He performed his duty as he sees it, and experience hasshown that usually he has been right.” ‘Among the leaders in support of the farm bill, the Des Moines Register | (independent Republican), says: “John | Donn said, ‘When a man becomes in- tractable and inaccessible by fierceness and pride, then .vituperation comes upon him. Here is a collection of the vituperative expressions which Presi- dent Coolidge applies to the McNary- Haugen bill: futile, bureaucratic, para- phernalia, vicious devices, fantastic, fallacious, dangerous, cruelly deceptive, delusive experiment intolerable es- plonage, flagrant, coercive, bureaucratic tyranny, bureau gone mad, ob- noxious, autocratic, profeundly repug- nant, bewildering snarl, vaguely drawn, insidious attack, preposterous fallacy, futile sophistries.” p * K K ¥ “Until President Coolidge realizes the justice of the demand and the motives that inspire it, there is little hope of his having an adequate understanding of the farm problem,” avers the Hous- ton Chronicle (Democratic). The Tulsa | World (independent) suggests that “perhaps his indifference to rural senti- ment may have lent acid to the presi- dential pen when he wrote the veto.” “The veto,” according to the St. Paul Pioneer Press (independent), “is a bitter disappointment ~of American agriculture’s hope of at least gaining a place of equality in the national eco- nomic scheme. Almost every argument running against the economic sound- ness of the measure appearing in the veto message could with equal force be used against the tariff or similar lg-- ternalistic laws now benefiting other classes of producers. ~Yet the tariff continues, while the farmer does not get that equal and effective protection to which he has a right." “The ? vy of special privilege and special favor,” remarks the Omaha World-Herald (independent), “is re- served exclusively for the fattening of Eastern industrialism. The fat to pro- duce it is fried out of the Middle West. When our fat is all gone the marrow from our bones will be demanded next.” The Chicago Tribune (Republican) also suggests, “It may not have bcen alto- | that since no alterra | fered, the |and cares less abor «in the coming can) holds, % his is known ol i den Argus men who have the lem are not that the President know workable Jaw than The Chicago D: ent) S: News (independ- r. Lowden insists T ought'to be appro an experiment, espedially #s the eq zation fee is ed k_as nothing more than a last resort.| In the Eas this view is w reg@ded as heresy. The East, howevs, knows thi essentials of genuine farm reliet. The Syracuse Herald (independent) suggests that “if the ratic party hould espouse the pringple of the bill a great body of voteryin the West might turn to it in theiprospect of & new deal all around.” | Responsibility for the relief is placed upon New York Herald Tril Detroit Free Press (in Pittsburgh Post-Gazett In this connection the ret News (independent)isees “a strong suspicion that many pupported the measure more as a maper of political expediency than of do t sympathy with its provisions.” » 58 he judgment of fie Kansas City (independent) “ bill would have discarded the sfind and tried principle of supply demand for subsidized production, with the burden of equalization fee, lend In ti Post production and consu: ing to an ultimately on the national designed to_remedy, a: Express (Republican medicine.” The veto, a8 vie Times (independent ever, “will be comme| real friends of the Jmerican farmer, but by careful studegs of the Ameri- can system of goyrnment” Simi- by the Ashe- (Democratic). upheld also by the (Republican lgde 1 4 Intelligencer (Repupican). Joumma‘l (independer)). Hartford Times (independent Demgratic), Cincinnat! Times-Star (Repubfan) and Youngs- town Vindicator ( ocratic). “That the bill wagthe product of po- litical strategy is t§ conviction of the Binghamton Press| (independent Re- publican), Albany Evening News (in- dependent Republign), Springfield Re- publican (independnt). Oklahoma City Times (independerj), Charleston Daily Mail (independery Republican) and Manchester Unior (independent Re- publican). The Glumbus Ohio State Journal (Republign) avers that “its political importand, if any, remains to be demonstrated an opinion with which the Ha: Telegraph (Re- publican) agrees. The Toledo BI: publican) finds among the farme: gan.” cratic) calls it a Philageiphia Evhing Bulletin Philadelp viing e pendent Republ| holds tha convention “candt nominate a Haugen candidate wi repudiating e President and tle common sense and integrity which have given him such extraordinary pstige hout the Nation.” That he conflict will figure ampaign also is the e Kalamazoo Garette d Charleston Evening t Democratic). The ‘imes-Pieayune contention of (independent) Post (indepen New Orleans pendent Demx gether fortunate that the President, in elaborating upon the economic fallacles of the bill, used language which a free- trader might have applied to the tariff with hardly any change of word or hrase.” K “In President Coolidge, it is not his opposition to the McNary-Haugen bill per se which puts him in the wrong,’ declares the Dayton Daily News (in- dependent Democratic), “but his eynical insistence that principles which are; holy when they put money in the pocket of one class me vicious when invoked for the benefit of another. ‘This makes him President, not of a Nation, but of a favored class within “Will the fld“ e i second rgec hange pu"bucln prefonvention drift tendencies as as did the stmiiar | veto of last yei UNITED STATES IN VORLD WAR Ten h-c—rp Today Americans Jold all the gains made the Nation.” The parallel of tariff and Industry is emphasized also by the Savannah Press (Democratic), New York World (independent), Raleigh News and Observer (Democratic), Bir- mingham News (Democratic) and Den- ve:‘ Rocky Mountain News (independ- ent). “Strangest anomaly of al the Morgantown New Dominion (inde- pendent Democratic), “President idge, on the same day that he vétoed the McNary-Haugen bill attached his signature to the Jones-White bill setting up a 250-million-dollar sul for the shipping interests. * * * e chief difference, in principle, was that the 400 million dollars was to be advanced to farmers who live out West and down South, while the 250 million dollars is to be lent to shipbuilders who live up East." The Schenectady Gasette (In- dependent Democratie), asserts: “Argu ments in favor of one &) with equal 8 Ty L e force to the other-—and so do arguments it each. And both are on a par with the inexcusably high tariff rates." “Not one farmer in fifty can yesterday at Chntigny and smash three counter-attac¥ with heavy enemy losses. Amerpan artillery fire com pletely smott Germans and stope the waves of §erman infantry short in the midst of their effort. Officers de- seribe the splehdid morale and ahs‘vlu-: confidence of our soldlers. * Under continted violent attacks the French troopsi on the right wing of the Alsne offqsive evacuate Solesons. except for its) western outskirts, and the German center are n n memd esle Rivers and a con- siderable part 4 having extend reglon about 4 on Reims. * using mize their b ™ hm:l are pl that the mately turn . e