Evening Star Newspaper, June 4, 1928, Page 8

'ITHE EVENING STAR |bends the branches of the hybrid per- ' With a petuals—now rapidly passing out of ex- 8 = —— istence before the newer varleties of | WASHINGTON, D. C. roses which blossom recurrently during MONDAY. vve..June 4, 1928 the Summer. Most striking in the 1\ moonlight are those with white blos- THEODORE W. NOYES. ...Editor|soms. such as the bridelike Frau Karl — oo | Druschki or the old-fashioned Margaret The Evening Star Newspaper Company Dickson. Like timid maids, they wait Business Office: in the moonlit gardens for their demon F!::"::Y:E& é’é&:‘;"fi:’; “I[Alm’fl“m. lovers: like shy, bewitched Undines, ropean Office. 14 Reent St London, |they stand—cascades of white petals oy falling occasionally in the evening breeves. g The red and pink roses, the Gruss au Teplitz, the General Jack and the Magna Charta, sink almost into in- visibility in the moonlight. They are bold, queenlike creatures of the noon- day rendered unseen by the incanta- tions of Twilight, potent Merlin of the garden closes. If Oberon and Titania with their at- tendant elves still dance on green lawns in the falling dew they can be seen tonight in Washington gardens if the clouds do not cover the moon. They will be floating about on magic carpets of rose petals and playing hide-and- seek in crystal caverns of dewdrops. The garden tonight offers an escape from the workday world into the fair- est vales of fairy lands forlorn. In & day or two the enchantment will be lifted. The roses and the moon will have gone, perhaps not to return so fortuitously again for many months. it ——r—— Rate by Carrier Within the City. ning Star............45¢ per month ning and Sunday Star indays) . . g\c per month ¥ ¥ .65¢c_per month Sunday Star. ¥ ot R OB Collection made at ihe end of each mont Orders may be sent in by mail or telephone. Main 5000. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. 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Silence on the part of | livered to the Commissioners Saturday | the President will be construed as|by the Bureau of Efficiency, is that the | *consent” by the leaders of the “draft”| work which went into this 318-page | movement, notwithstanding the re-| Volume was completed last Fall, before peated assertions of Mr. Coolidge that | Congress convened. In the meantime he does not wish to run. To many | the report and recommendations were Republicans it is inconceivable that|8iven & private and restricted circula- President Coolidge would permit him- | tion in the city. One conclusion im- #elf to be nominated by his party only | Mediately presents itself. That is, the to turn down the honor after it shall | Bureau of Efficlency deliberately post- have been offered him. And most Re- | Poned making the report public because publicans, believing that the President [ it knew very well that Congress, during has turned his back squarely on the | the session just closed, would do noth- nomination, do not think the President [ Ing about it. Congress has been over- would accept the nomination under | “helmed with reports and recommenda- any circumstances. During his service tions and requests for five-year pro- in the White House and before, Mr. | 8Tams. One more, no matter how vital, Coolidge has established a remarkable | WOuld attract littie attention. It would vecord for consistency. He does mot|De lost in the shuffie. So, four days back-track. When he takes a position, | 2fter Congress adjourns, the report is he takes it after due deliberation, and, | Made public, possibly to receive atten- having taken it, sticks to it. tion during a short session of Congress VThe President has a reputation also when politics, and not the health sit- for silence. But on every occasion when ::;‘s‘:';n‘“ the District, is the burning | m:m:; h;:m:;m‘;fedm::r‘u: As for the health report itself, it will matters, he has done so in no uncertain | FARK 8s one of the most important terms. In some quarters it is urged pieces of work undertaken by the Bu- that the President cannot with pro-|Fcau of Efficiency. Its conclusions are priety decline the presidential nomina- | ‘lluminating. Its recommendations are | tion because it has not yet been ten- valuable. It provides a text book for tudy when the time comes to do some ; that he advisedly | ® @ered b‘:'mm B "“’:‘,,! 4o mot | Of the things that must be done to raise when prtnmelioeed m“‘ of those the District’s health work to par. There «choose is one paragraph which adequately THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTOX, D. €. MONDAY, JUNE 4,.19%8.° THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. if it was unconscious. They brought & Kindller, more patient, more sympa- thetic atmosphere into the schoolroom. They endowed education with the “mother” spirit. Whereas, the man too often considered thrashing the older boys the most essential part of his work, the woman concentrated her attention on comforting and encouraging the little ones. Her interests and sympathies were closer to those of the child. The “sweet girl graduate” made a place for herself in elementary education from which she never can be ousted. The man still held his place in the high schools. ‘The teacher's desk of- fered him almost his only opportunity to earn a living and regain financial independence as a basis for further progress after graduation from college. But during the last two decades he has found more profitable employment in business which has held out increasing opportunities to college graduates. Meantime, there has come about a revolutionary change in pedagogy fit- self. It has developed a complicated and difficult technique. It has aspired to and reached a professional status at least on a par with medicine, law or ministry. “The competent school teacher of today,” saild an official of the Natlonal Education Association In a recent conversation, “must have much more professional knowledge than was required for a physician forty years ago.” ‘The teacher of the present is about as far removed from the schoolmaster and “schoolmarm™ of the last century as the surgeon of today is removed from the medieval barber who bled pa- tients for all maladies as a sideline. With increasing professional require- ments and an increasing professional dignity communities have been forced to raise salaries to a point where peda- ROgy once more is attractive to men— not as a stop-gap this time, but as a life work. The financial return, of course, has not advanced as have the requirements, but the promise for the future is bright. ‘Thus is explained the change in the curve of masculine employment in the schools, as reported by the Bureau of Education. The schoolroom is now a challenge and a promise. ——ee The “Phantom Stabber.” Bridgeport's “phantom stabber” claim- ed another victim yesterday when a young woman walking along a busy who suddenly jostled against her. She was the twenty-sixth victim of the Connecticut city's crafty criminal who has eluded the police, despite intensive search, for more than three years After each attack, which has always been on young girls, a cordon of, police has immediately been thrown around the scene of the outrage, but due to the generally vague descriptions given by the startled and wounded women, the fiend has so far proved too elusive for the police. ‘This is a strange case and one that {has attracted nation-wide attention. *| There is no question in the minds of mflnlheml.d&flnlmdzdfl;\; Wi S tivities of the pted standards of modern publi health practice, g‘h beuev;d lhn's’umlf evidence been offered in the first ballot for the presidential nomina- mmmormummmm§ tion is taken at Kansas City. To pthers \‘::'omdmkm that the ¥ for adequate and ineffective in many of gates in the convention have actually | its component activities. cast their votes for his nomination And the remedy suggested is a five- ‘Whatever the decision of the President | year program which will require a grad- in this matter, if he permits a group | ual increase of appropriations to give ©of delegates to vote for him on the|the Health Department nearly one first ballot in the convention and after | hundred per cent more money annually that continues to remain silent, his|five years hence than it now recelves. .fence will be interpreted as full con-| Where is this money coming from? sent that the convention renominate| With one hand Congress turns loose the Bureau of Efficiency in the District The President holds in the palm of | Building to discover deficiencies and hand the key to the uncertain sit- | recommend the remedies. With the which confronts the delegates| other hand Congress extracts the max- Republican leaders, If he | imum in revenue from the District, con- silence, from one hundred | tributes $9,000000 as the Nation's hundred delegates | share to build “the most important on the first ballot.| municipality of the Nation,” and re- all, of these delegates | gards with interest the suggestions for the first ballot for Her-|five and ten year programs, alluding, bert Hoover with the President defi- | meanwlile, to the fact that their con- nitely out of the running. With Presi- | stituents back home get along very well dent Coclidge out of the picture Mr. | without such programs. Hoover is Jooked upon as the adminis-| When Congress adopts a fair and tration candidate in contradistinction | consistent fiscal plan for the District, %o other candidates who have definitely | recommendations for carrying out five- opposed the President on important|year programe for the Health Depart- fssues. Many of the members of the ment will recelve the serious attention the people at Bridgeport that they have to deal with a cunning sadist who, outside of periodic crimes, is probably a normal appearing person. He never robs and always flees after a quick lunge at his victims. While it appears that the police department of Bridge- port has exerted every effort to catch this fiend, it would seem that extraor~ dinary measures were necessary. Per- haps the swearing in of a few hundred citizens of the city to be ready for the next attack might mean the solution of this fantastic crime problem. ————— By calling attention to his age, Mr. Hughes, without meaning to do so, in- cidentally calls attention to his most honorable public service and practical campaign experience. s ———— e Beauty contests will soon be In order again. The supply of brains is limited, but the supply of beauty remains un- restricted. — et ‘The farmer has succeeded in estab- lishing contact with every branch of the Government, from the Department of Agriculture to the Department of State. et President Coolidge enjoys a great deal of admiration from a public that re- gards the veto as desirable in connec- tion with impulsive initiative. e vt President’s cabinet have declared their | they deserve. support of Mr. Hoover's candidacy, as ——— et have other officials of importance in| ‘The radio announcer becomes an in- the present sdministration. Continued | fluence in public opinion. When a con- sllence on the part of the President is | vention is on, only he can persuade a the hope of anti-Hoover candidates. Nation momentarily to forget its base Next to the “favorite son” method | ball. of attack, the unpledged delegation fa- vorable to the renomination of the President has been the important ‘ea- ture of the strategy of the “fleld” which is seeking to “stop” Mr. Hoover #t Kansas City. In their hearts these opponents of Mr. Hoover do not belleve | i, ¢y ypjted States. The profession that the President would accept the ;e pedagegy has been passing into the nomination if it were offered him. Bul|y.54e of women, But now, according their bope is that enough delegates Will | ¢y geqtistics gathered by the United vote for the President 1o prevent 2|giai0s Bureau of Education, the curve prompt nomination of the Becretary |y turning up again. of Commerce and in the end bring| when men began to abandon peda- sbout & disintegration of the Hoover|gogy 1o women it was & profession of forees in the convention. No one has, jittle dignity or promise. Youths taught ever yet successfully accused the Presi- | quring intervals of their college careers @ent of being deficient in political un- | or jmmediately after graduation to se- @erstanding. Nor does it appear that he | cure money with which to complete R The Return of the Schoolmaster. The schoolmaster’ is coming back to his desk. Por several generations there has been a steady decline of men teachers wili now piay into the hands of anti- sdministration candidates for the Re- publican nomination. ——tee— June 12 the month dedicated 1o brides and school commencement speakers, The big national conventions ere most their educations for law, medicine or the ministry, These were interludes of im- patience with little serious purpose, so far as the job at hand was concerned, ‘Teaching merely was a stepping stone to higher things; few, indeed, visualized education itself as the highest thing. eonspicuous in the effort o give this old world & new start .- Msuy s Congress leaves behind an Smpression that its most distinguishing Seature is its “unfinished business” S oug— The Bose Moon. Pew combinations in nature are cal- culated betler 1o arouse the esthetic emotions than that of moonlight snd The full moon of these past few eve- pings has fidoded with its soft Jight bupdreds of Washington gardens in which the hybrid perpetusls, the old- fashioned June Toses, are in the high tide of their blossoming. Fortultously, due 1o the exceptionally cold Bpring, these bushes are & week or more late this year, otherwise the magical com- binetion would not have teken piace or would have passed unnoticed in the oerly hours of morning. At no other time of the year is there | Bs-Lall We bloom of tha Yiieh ROV It was a barbarous age in the light of modern pedagogy. ‘There was no pro- fesslonal technique. The young man placed In charge of a country school depended as much on his fists as his education in holding his job, Use of the lash was frequent and commended, “Then dawned the age of higher edu- cation for women. ‘The earlier products of the “female seminaries” gravitated naturally tw teaching; there was no other place for them to go, Gradually they secured more and more of the avallable positions until the male teacher wes confined largely 1o the high schools, Elementary education began 0 be regarded as “women's work.” BUill pedagogy was & stop-gep rather than & dignified profession. Few girls dreamed of making it their life work ‘They sought merely 1o fill in the years hetween graduation and marriage -and many of them cordially detested the SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON, Unanimous Prediction. Bee the old thermometer ‘Which we gayly Set Up, ‘Tellin’ what will soon occur— ‘We'll all be Het Up! Big conventions drawin’ nigh, Blates they’'ll boldly Get Up. ‘This much no one can deny; ‘We'll all be Het Up, Disappointments of the past Bring a great Regret Up. But we must agree, at last— We'll all be Het Up, Variability. “Are you a dry or a wet?"” “It depends,” answered Senator Sor- ghum, “on whether I am making a campaign speech or glving a dinner party.” Spirits, “In the_celebration you plan how are you going to represent the BSpirit of Crimson Gulch?” “My idea,” sald Cactus Joe, “is to get up & beautiful float with shocks of corn surrounding half-gallon jars” Jud Tunkins says & man who knows all about other people’s business takes an awful chance on neglecting his own, Impetuous Crowd. ‘The aviator goes his way, ‘With bold achievements thrilling us. He tries to land in such & way ‘That won’t result in killing us. Recognition, “How are you getting on?" “My soclal status is Improving,” an- swered Uncle Bill Bottletop. “A mil- lionmire hootlegger shakes hands with me in public” ““We honor our ancestors,” sald Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “but neglect to Inquire whether, if they were alive to- day, we could deserve their respect, work. “The influx of women did bring about & Botabie Lpprovemspt, Rowevss, eYsh “Dar ain’t no worse exiravagence,” sald Uncle Eben, “dan to throw away » Uladslip b & el Ll el " | the grand and comic varieti street was slashed in the arm by a man | ‘When one thinks of the role played by flowers in poetry it is surprising that they have not been used more as the titles of musical compositions. Yet a survey of music will show that surprisingly few operas or songs are named directly after flowers, compared to the total number of compositions in existence, We got to thinking of this the other day while considering the practica- bility of naming a comic opera after the glnlflnlus, king of Summer . flowering ulbs. “The Gladiolus Girl,” we thought, would have furnished the late Victor Herbert with a good title, especially if pronounced in good American fashion, with the accent on the letter “0.” From this beginning we tried to re- call the names of operas, either grand or comic, with flower names. Much to our surprise, only two came to mind— Mascagnl's “Iris” and Richard Strauss’ “Rosenkavalier.” ‘The immortal composer of “Cavalleria Rusticana,” however, did notsname his opera so much from the flower as from the name of the Japanese heroine. ‘That name came, of course, from the old Greek word for rainbow after which the many-hued flower is named. EE ‘The names of most flowers, both per- ennials and annuals, as well as various shrubs, are musical in the extreme. ‘Take the sweet pepper bush, as it is popularly called. The scientific name for this is “Clethra Alnifolia.” There is a harmonious combination! It might be used as a girl's name with distinction. Miss Clethra Alnifolia Mar- tin, for instance, would have a name different from other girls, at the same time rejoice in one that had a sound to it. How utterly commonplace some names are! But certainly no one could say that of Clethra (the “e” pronounced as in Eve). The scientific names of plants con- tain many such pleasant syllables. In view of this, it would seem that par- ents are too conservative in naming their little ones. Why should one stick forever to Mary and Jane, when there is such a pleasant name as Clethra waiting to be used? The rose, queen of all flowers, easily takes the lead in song writing. No other flower can touch the rose when it comes to use in songs. Musicland is filled with rose songs, although even the number of these will prove a sur- prise. Perhaps ene should begin with “The Last Rose of Summer,” Thomas Moore's song. to which Flotow set the music in his famous opera, “Martha.” This piece proved to be the “hit” of the opera, which stands midway between This melodious composition has_car- ried the fame of the rose around the world, if anything were needed to carry its fame, which 1s not. The more one works with the rose, the more he studles it, the more he comes to appre- ciate and love it. It is not at ail surprising, therefore, | that it figures in musical composition more than any other flower, just as it does in history. Even the lily plays second fiddle to the rose. N “Love Sends a Little Gift of Roses” is one of the better known of the grace- ful rose ballads of recent years. “Love’s Garden of Roses” is another. A melodious South American tune, named “A Bowl of Roses,” generally | crops up as a marimba or xylophone solo, and is a “knockout” from every earpoint. ‘Who does not recall Chauncey Ol- cott's “My Wild Irish Rose"? It4s not a bad tune at all, even teday, although perhaps not as great as it seemed when it first flashed on the musical horizon from the magic throat of the popular singer. “Rosts of Picardy,” a song which won fame during the World War, is a pleas- ing thing in a strictly popular vein. What makes it stand out is the fact that, musically speaking, it may be played slowly with an increase of mu- sical tenseness. A song that can be treated in this manner is a good song. Nothing but a good tune will stand it. Rimsky-Korsakoff, the Russian, has a song, “The Nightingale and the Rose,” and the late Reginald de Koven, we believe, had a song of similar title in one of his lesser known operas. Certalnly one of the most famous of the rose songs is Ethelbert Nevin's “Mighty Lak' a Rose.” Here one has appropriate melody wedded forever to appropriate verse. The result is a com- position that perennially charms the world. ok o # The same composer, whose untimely death was one of the saddest blows ever sustained by musical America, has an- other composition with a flower name, “Narcissi but this, like “Iris,” is named rather after the mythological figure than the flower directly. The musical pattern, with its two notes in the melody followed by the echoing notes in the lower register, deplicts the answering of the youth's reflection in the water to his own movements. We almost forgot to put in Edward MacDowell's “To a Wild Rose.” This, one of the best of the rose melodies, is sald to have been rejected by the com- poser and rescued from the waste- basket by his wife. Another of this composer's pieces in the same suite is “To a Water Lily"— the wild rose offering. Violets are recalled in the intensely popular composition of some 20 or 25 years ago, “Every Morn I Bring Thee Violets.” At that time all the swains who could sing, or who thought they could sing, were yowling in tenorish tones how often they were bringing her violets, They still bring them, of course, as it is just as good a song now as it was then. Still another rose song springs to mind—Schubert’s immortal *Haiden- roslein” (Hedge Roses). Another war- time song one must not forget is the melodious “Apple Blossom Time in Nor- mandy,” still welcome to the ear. x ok ok % | Famous “flower songs"” are contained |In Bizet's “Carmen” and Gounod's | “Faust.” "Otto Lange also has a_well | known “flower song” popular with man- dolin students . ‘Tschaikow: has a pleasing “Waltz of the Flowers” in his “Nutcracker | Suite,” while “Hearts and Flowers,” by | Tobant, still weaves its spell, despite being played to pieces in motion picture theaters during the “heart interest” portions of films, “Thank God for a Garden” and “I Know a Lovely Garden" are two more | popular songs of the ballad class in the better type | We might mention the light opera “Blossom Time,” built on the life and | melodies of Schubert, and Fritz Kreis- lerg one venture in the same field, “Apple Blossoms.” Harry Lauder has sung of his “Scotch Blue Bell.” A fa- vorite of every one is the old tune “The Blue Bells of Scotland.” ‘These are some of the better known | works, large and small, built around flowers and flower names. No doubt every reader will be able to think of | others. We have not considered, of named after flowers. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC ‘Washington reads motives into almost everything a politiclan does. Even Presidents of the United States do not escape the soft impeachment. Mr. Coolidge’s apparent plans to be en route to Wisconsin about the time the Re- | publican national convention gets down | to business are now interpreted as a deep-dyed plot on his part to be nomi- nated before he can prevent it! That theory s put forth in all serlousness by an authority who claims special knowl- edge of the President’s tental processes. He says the Washington-to-Wisconsin itinerary is Coolidge cunning at its zenith, " The Chief Executive's strategy, which provides for his being drafted at Kansas City against his will and without his knowledge, rests on Mr. Coolidge's expressed desire for secrecy about his travel arrangements. .On or about June 15, so this precious theory has it, the President will be tearing through the wilds of the Middle West. Thus no long-distance telephone calls or telegrams can reach him. The con- vention will ballot. It will be too late for Coolidge to say it nay. He will be renominated. Tableau. * ook ok There'll be no undue privacy for the Summer White House family if the American Automobile Association can have its way; or, rather, if its enter- prising publfl:l?y ‘chief at Washington a canny Scot named Alexander J. Montgomery, realizes his ambitions. Almost before the ink was dry on the story about the President’s choice of the Lake Superfor region, “Monty” had circulated & glowing news-release glorifying the beauties of motor travel in and around that neck of the woods where Wisconsin _and Minnesota rub shoulders. That thousands of A. A, A. members will route thelr vacation trips via the Brule River is now not to be doubted. Until amphiblan flivvers are turned out, however, Mr. and Mrs, Cool- idge will be fairly isolated at Cedar Island Lodge, for their log cabin stands in midstream. The A, A. A. ballyhoo chief is a brilliant former member of the Washington press gallery, He rendered yeoman publicity service 1o the Coolidge cause at Republican na- tional headquarters in 1924, Kok ox As at Kansas City, so at Houston there’s to be n spirited contest for second place, and the Democrats are tving earnest consideration to the se- ection of Al Smith's running mate Beveral basic conditions are settled: the vice presidential nominee must be Protestant and non-Eastern, He will robably be a dry. Whether he shall be aken from the South or the West is the question. The newest Westerner hon- orably mentioneds i3 Huston Thomp- son of Colorado, whose friends, think- ing there's something in a name, al- ready have coined the slogan “Houston for Huston!” Many Democratic leaders think that party strategy dictates the choice of a tall-ender who 15 both Bouthern and Western—like Cordell Hull of Tennessee or Jesse H. Jones of Texas. LR A lady whom it is permissible to de- seribe as the wittlest woman in Wash- ington—that narrows the guessing while concenling the identity—wus usked the other day to inscribe a portralt of her- self with “a chwracteristic sentiment and not an autograph-album slgna- ture.” This is what she wrote: "“To hell with the League of Natlons!” L B Dr. Antonlo Sanchez de Bustamente, the Cuban jurist who was chalrman of the Pan-American Congress in Ha- vana last Winter, has ed In the United Btates. He come recelve AN honorary LL, D, from Columbia Uni- versity, Dr. Bustamente, who 15 w judge of the World Court at The Hague, and 15 now on his way to Europe, declares that co-operation among the Pan- American republics has steadily in- creased since the Havana conference, To that happy result, he adds, the work of the United States delegation, par- tioularly the conciiatory tacties of Charles Evans Hughes, contributed in . Dr, Bustamente that WILLIAM WILE. Cuba, when opening the conference, | | as “a free and independent state,” has become part of the history of the is- land, and a gratefully A appreciated | part. * ok ok ¥ Dr. James Brown Scott, secretary of the Carnegie Endowment for Inter- national Peace at Washington, has gone to Germany to deliver a series of five university lectures. His toplc is “The Spanish Origin of International | ILnl’," and he will address the faculties | and student bodies of Bonn, Heidel- | | Scott speaks fluent German. He holds | & degree from Heidelberg. * ok ok X ‘The Rev. Lieut, Col. Thomas J. Dick- son, senlor chaplain of the 1st Division, A. E. F, who has consecrated himself 1o “de-bunking” American schoal histories of their World War absurdities, is now on the firing line about the new Ar- lington Memorial Bridge. Col. Dickson has appealed to the Fine Arts Com- mission at Washington to remove from the bridge certain decorative features which he holds to be out of place in so sacred and strictly American a me- | morial. Among them, he says, are “Mexican eagles, lions, buffalo, Italian fascios and other supposed objects of art." Col. Dickson assalls the “proposed embellishments” as “very common- place” and charges that “they pay no homage to our immortals.” * ok ok K Perry Belmont, veteran Democratic leader and chairman of the House for- elgn affairs committee In the Cleveland administration, has just had evidence that flowers once in a while are be- stowed upon the living. Belmont Abbey College, at Belmont, N, C, is abou} to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary.” It has sent Mr. Belmont a speclal invita- tion to attend, coupled with the re- minder that the college, as well as the town, was named after him by Bishop Leo Hald, its founder, Belmont con- siders It an Interesting circumstance especially in the hectic political times it ahead of us—that an important uthern Roman Catholle Institution should have been named after a Protest- ant Eplscopalian, He purposes bequeath- ing to Belmont Abbey the famous Ii- brary commenced by his father, the late August Belmont. (Copyright, 1028.) UNITED STATES IN WORLD WAR Ten Years Ago Today American troops co-operating with the French west of Chateau-Thierry north of the Marne, and the nearest and most critical point to Paris thus far reached by the enemy, have bril- liantly checked the onrushing Germans, bealing off repeated tacks and in- flicting severe losses, * * * Within an hour after their arrival on the bank of the Marne, American machine gun- ners were ortlered into Chateau-Thierry with & battalion of French Colonial troops and took & most active part in its defense, ‘The Amerieans entered the battle enthusiastically und eagerly, after a long march, Thelr vietorlous stand with their gallant French allies 50 soon after entering the line has electrified all France. In the stiffest sort of hand-to-hand fighting and use of machine guns, they aecquit them- selves splendidly, * ¢ * Owing to the flerconess of the battle, it s hard to vority details, but it {s known that Pershing’s men have captured some prisoners without losing any themselves, ** * Americean destroyers seeking Cer- man U-boats operating off the Atlantie Const Interrupt an wttack on a French steamer, but fail to capture the sub- marine, * * * Cerman report of (he capture of American tanks brings an admission from offielal Washington that tanks, commanded by Am n offioers and manned by Amer sols olpat i the diers, R- have been Aghting, ...z . 'y good. but lacking the melodic gift of | course, the countless teaching ‘pleces | | berg, Berlin, Kiel and Goettingen. Dr. | | member of the committee PHILOSOPHIES BY ~ GLENN FRANK Zechariah Chafee, jr., has written an- other text book for Tories—the first was his “Freedom of Speech,” the sec- ond is his “The Inquiring Mind.” The book is a dynamic and well documented defense of the famous statement of Lessing’s on the pursuit of truth in which the ultimate justification of tolerance is found. “Not the truth in any one's actual or supposed possession,” said Lessing, “but the sincere effort he has exerted to master the truth, makes the worth of the man. For not through the pS- sfon but through the pursuit of truth comes that widening of a man's powers by which alone is achleved his ever- growing perfection. Possession makes one stagnant, lazy, proud. If God held shut in His right hand the whole of truth, and in His left hand only ever- active striving after truth with the cer- tainty of ever and always erring, and H: said to me, ‘Choose!’ I should hum- bly reach toward His left hand, saying, ‘Father, give me this. The pure truth is_indeed for Thee alone.’™ It is good to have a high-minded de- fense of tolerance made by & man who does not himself rest under any sus- picion of subversive redicalism. Mr. Chafee’s book is a magnificent de- | fense of intellectual sportsmanship which I commend to the professional makers of black lists. “This book,” says Mr. Chafee, “some- times reaches the conclusion that an unpopular group has been badly treated. That is no reason for the assumption that the author shares the bellefs of that group. An alienist who wants bet- ter insane asylums is not necessarily a ‘lnna'k',. ‘William Lloyd Garrison was ‘not a negro, and Gamaliel was not a Christian.” Many Americans have yet to learn that a man may defend the rights of a minority whose views he despises. There is a large element in America that hungers for an extension and in- tensification of the “sedition laws” policy. Mr. Chafee's book brilliantly argues the wisdom of substituting for sedition laws the following four things: Toleration. An eflicient police to put down vio- lence. Good arguments against revolution, Sumulnnn? education. He argues for that healthy humility of mind that leads one to doubt the in- fallibility of one’s opinlons, the achieve- ment of the kind of mind F. W. Mait- land sensed in Henry Stdgwick when said of him, “I sometimes think that the one and only prejudice he had was a prejudice against his own results.” And, finally, he gives this same coun- sel: “Willingness to hear all views does not mean that we should, after hearing them. treat them all as of equal value. * * * We must be slow to impose our own standards of right and wrong upon others, but rigorous in imposing them upon ourselves.” (Copyright, McClire N — e Protests Removal Of “Old Capitol” To the Editor of The Star: As a civic servant in the National Capital for some 35 years, may the writer register a protest against the proposed demolition of the “Old Capitol”? Our country is not so rich in historic landmarks that we can afford to sacri- | fice, even to an object as worthy as a site for the Supreme Court, a structure so identified with our heroic past. Our generation has no right to cheat the future of the associations here gathered. Who are we to destroy what we never can restore? Why throw away the inspirations embodied in these old gray walls? We make ourselves ridiculous tear- ing down established landmarks while collecting hundreds of thousands of dollars to create new memorials to in- dividuals whose names are “writ in wafer.” When the Natlon's Capitol was in ashes, James Monroe was inaugurated President in front of these bulildings, Chief Justice Marshall administering the oath of office. Great names! An episode as romantic as the coronation of any king anywhere at any time in | human history. Ann Royall's daring | paper, the Huntress, was published | from this house. Surely a curlosity of { literature in the infancy of American | journalism and before “the advent of women was a recognized factor in polit- fcal and cultural life. John C. Calhoun lived and died in this house. During the Civil War, as a prison, plots equal i to the old Gunpowder Plot to destroy the English Houses of Parliament were hatched. Here were sufferings as dramatic as any recorded in the prisons of Chillon or on the storied Bridge of | Sighs. | Merely because these associations are | In America, and not invested with the hoary tradition of the Old World, does not prove that they are common, dull or lacking in romantic interest. Values invest these relics which cannot be esti- mated in dollars and cents, and time will prove this true. If the old Capitol is torn down Wash- | ington will regret it but once, and that | will be for always. capaper Syndicate.) |8 man or woman say with pride, “My | grandfather was instrumental in pre- | serving Mount Vernon.” One may imagine a distinguished visitor to Washington asking whereabouts of an old bullding, one | time the Capitol, later. the greatest of | Government prisons—and the answer, “Oh, yes, there once was such a place, |but my grandfather Babbitt helped to | pull it down!" MARIETTA MINNIGERODE ANDREWS. B — Democratic Committee Information Requested To the Editor ot The Stars I am quite sure that many thousands | of District Democrats are much in- | terested, in the letter of Mr. James V. Beyer, slgned as vice chairman of the | Democratic central committee, pub- lished in your issue of May 31. I served for a number of years as & and _can vouch for the statements of Mr. Beyer concerning his own membership and his lifelong devotion to the Democratic cause. Now that Mr. Bever has given pub- liclty to some of the facts concerning the membership of the Democratic central committee, it is hoped that he will furnish through your columns fur- ther information which many local Democrats have been vainly seeking for several years, 1 thierefore urge that he walte you for publication the names of every member of the present Democratic central com- mittee, stating the election district which each represents and the time and manner of the election or selection of each member, stating also who are the officers of the committee and where its headquarters is located JAM 8. EASBY-SMITH, ) Preparvedness, From the W Trilune, ‘The Business and Professlonal Women's Club in Arkansas City Is tak~ g up platol \n‘l('ll«n Must be some of 'lhrm are thinking of getting mar- rled, v . Testing Them Out, From the Dayton Datly News. New Yorkers gave the three Bremen fiyers automobiles, probably in an effort to find out It they really bear charmed lives. p — Far From the Front, From the Pittsburgh Post Gasette Oharlie Chaplin i3 to speak in Vienna o e | race in the United States. ! Calif.; Tiburon, Calif.; Yorktown, Va.; | | Cavite, P. I, and Cabras Island, Guam. | Have we had the pleasure of serving you through our Washington informa- tion bureau? Can't we be of some help to you in your daily problems? Our business is to furnish you with authori- tative information, and we invite you to ask us any question of fact in which you are interested. Send your inquiry to The Evening Star Information Bu- reau, Frederic J. Haskin director, Wash- ington, D. C. Inclose 2 cents in stamps for return postage. Q. When were books of postage stamps first used?—1. V. C. A. Books of stamps were first issued April 16, 1900. Q. Where is the largest heavily for- ested area in the world>—S. N. A. The Lincoln Library says that the | silvas of the Amazon Valley form the{ largest forested area in the world. | Q. Can Alaskan reindeer be produced successfully in this country?—H. S. A. The production of reindeer, al- though a promising industry in Alaska, | is not suited to conditions in any part of the United States. Reindeer grazing is limited to the Arctic and subarctic regions. The Bureau of Bfological Sur- vey is making detailed investigations re- garding the food resources of Alaska suited to these animals; also of the management practices that are most successful, and of the diseases and parasites of reindeer. Q. What is a clog almanac?—M. Y. A. It 1s a form of rude calendar, said to be of Danish origin, consisting of a square stick notched for months and days and showing the saints’ days, moon’s phases and other features of the | almanac. Specimens are to be seen in | :?e British Museum and other collec- ons. Q. How much tea do we 1mpon\ annually?—T. M. | A. Imports of tea into the United | States during the calendar year 1927 totaled 89,169,373 pounds, as against | 95,930,041 pounds in 1926, while the| respective values were $31,349,054 and | $28,192,298. Q. When was Tuskegee Institute or- ganized? 1s 1t & sectarian school?—X. A. Tuskegee is a non-sectarian in- stitution near Tuskegee, Ala., organized in 1831 by Booker T. Washington for the practical education of the negro Q. How long did Col. Lindbergh's father live in Sweden?—I. S. G. bergh, was born in Sweden January 20, | 1860, and in the same year was brought | to the United States by his parents, | who settled in Mi ta. | Q. In what y used?—W. F. B. A. The first cut wire nails were made by i’;_l]’gmlah ‘Wilkinson in Rhode Island in 3 e wire nails first | Q. Where are the fuel depots of the Navy?—E. 8. A. The fuel depots of the Navy De- | partment now in operation are located | in the following places: Hampton Roads, Va.; Melville, R. 1.: San Diego, There is a fuel depot at Boston, Mass., | and at East La Moine, Me. These sta- tions are not operating now. Q. What country uses the most wood?—R. E. C. A. The United States uses as much wood as all other countries combined. | Railroad ties and paper are two of the | major consumers of wood. Q. Is Swiss cheese made of sweet milk or of sour milk>—J. H. | A. Imported Swiss cheese is made from perfectly fresh sweet milk; that is, without ripening. The curing covers | two stages, and is carried on in two cellars to secure the proper condition. Fine Swiss cheese takes about 8 or 10| months to cure. | Q. What was the name of the armes sailing vessels used by the Malay| pirates?—G. K. i A. These large rowboats, urr)'lnsl two masts with high triangular slfls‘ and armed with a few small swivel guns, are called gallivats. | Q. In what English words does the | }mml of his lifetime 1 ANSWERS "'TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. H . letter “f” have the sound of “v"?—F. C. A. The word “of” is the only En lish word we find in which “f” has the sound of “v."” Q. What is the estimated life of the modern skyscrapers?—G. L. A. The associate editor of the Archi- tectural Record says that the average skyscraper is estimated to continue in existence from 25 to 30 years. This brief period of existence is due to the rapid growth and changes in our cities, and does not indicate failure due to construction. The modern skyscraper, with proper care to protect the steel framework and footings, should exist & century or longer. Electrolyss has been found to be injurious to the life of steel, |and this may be a destructive factor (about which little is known) which under certain conditions may shorten | the life of the skyscraper to half a cen- tury or so. Q. What is the origin of the weepin willow tree in this country?— M. 80 ° A. The weeping willow was intro- ’?y('l'd into England from the East in 722, and into the United States in 177 by a British officer who came to 3«&3 with the army, bringing a twig. This twig came into possession of John Parke Custis, who planted it on his Psmle':]n Abingdon, Va., where it be- came the progenitor of i the United Staf s, Q. E. What was Alan Dale's real name? A. Alan Dale’s real name was J. Cohen. Mr. Dale. who died M:s"‘r;ld was the oldest New York dramatic critic in point of service. Born in Birming- ham, England, in 1861, he came to this country as a young man, and spent New York City. Q. In a whirlwind why don't the par- ticles of air moving around the axis of the whirl fly off at a tangent, thereby destroying the whirl>—W. T. B, A. The Weather Bureau says that the atmospheric pressure in a whirl- wind is less than in the still air out- side. There is thus a resultant force, directed toward the center of the ‘whirl, acting ox\thr air within the whirl. The tendency Yo fly off at a tangent is over- come by this inwardly directed force, and as a result the air moves circu- larly around the axis. Q. What is Gobelin tapestry?—M, J. A. A tapestry made in Faubourg, St. | Marcel, Paris, and so called from the | brothers Gobelin, dyers from Rheims, | who made a fortune from their scarlet A. His father, Charles Augustus Lind- | 3¥¢ In the reign of Francois I. In 1667 Louis XIV converted the business into a royal manufacture and employed emi- nent artists like Lebrun to invent di signs. Q. How much nicotine does a person absorb while smokin, — e o g cigareties? A. About 30 per cent of the nicotine in cigarettes is transferred to the smoke taken into the mouth. If a cigarette smoker smoked steadily for an hour, he might absorb about 36 milligrams, or haif a grain, of nicotine if he inhaled, (&:hallboul 27 milligrams if he did not 3 cngba}r‘:w i?;:es(hth(' sizerof Australia Wi e size st;:es?;M_G. size o ’xhc United . The area of contine, United States is 3,026,789 square m{l‘:f of Australia, 2,974,581 square miles. Q. In what sports did t indulge>—v. S, Sk A. The people of Egypt were greatl given to hunting and fishing; -usZ throwing of the rounded stones and | discus. They were also expert runners. Q. How many sheets and blankets d!dAt)‘l:e Pullman company buy in 19277 mAl: The Pullman company says that year 1927 it purchased 875.2: sheets and 3!.500’ hlu’l’kl“. T Q. What was the estimated actual cost of Key Bridge?—A. A. The United States Army Engineer Corps_says that the estimated cost of the Key Bridge was $1,000.000. The aciual cost was $2,350,000. The increase in the cost of construction (labor and material) between the date when the cost of the bridge was estimated and the date when it was constructed ex- gulns the large difference in the above igures. and the L A P. Dry Stand of Texas Democrats son,” 1t 'S { "“Today it 1s & common thing to hear | Sosicues ey the | Arouses Int ‘Texas Democrats contributed to in-) terest In the closing weeks of the jre- | convention campaign by their State| convention demand for a dry candidate and a dry platform and their tribute to | the Texan favorite son, Jesse H. Jones. | The proposal that Texas cast its first | ballot at Houston for Jones, according | to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram (in- dependent Democratic), “has gained ground tremendously since the Beau- mont State convention. He is a favorite | T, “of whom any State might well ';ip;l(‘nud Of all the names that will be presented at| Houston, with greater or less support none will be more worthy than that of the great Texan. Of course, viewing' the prospects from this distance, it does not appear that the Texas vote for Jones would be much more than a ges- | ture of deserved appreciation—a gesture which will be understood and applauded by all the visiting delegates. But the convention could go farther away for | its candidate and do worse.” SCotl Referring to Mr. Jones’ supporters and to Gov. Moody's announcement “that he will vote for Mr. Jones if the Houstonian | IS put in nomination," the Dallas Jour- nal cindependent Democratic) states: “That’s moving toward affirmative ground, and it offers the Texas delega: tlon something to stand on. * * It would be more than a complimentary gesture, Smith, concededly, will have a commanding lead in the early voting. | But 1f he should fall short of the re- quired majority, this stalwart Texan | would prove a formidable contender, | The Democracy of Texas is not alone in its high estimate of his worth and ability,™ | “Jones was much mentioned.” recalls the Butte Daily Post (Republican), * the man whose pull took the convention | to Houston. Now and then he has been | suggested as a probable nominee for erest of Nation published by a corporation of which Mr. Joneg is the principal officer, makes this state! : “Mr. Jones has stated that he is a candidate for nothing except the good will of the people of Texas. Con- sequently the Chronicle has felt it im- proper to discuss his availability for the presidency. It will not now do so. But it can urge the things for which he stands as the things for which the Democratic party should stand in its national campaign this vear. Those things are farm rehabilitation and cleansing of the National Government from corruption.” The Chronicle main- tains that “prohidition will be safer in the hands of the Democratic party than it ever can be in the hands of the Republican party.” “Of the pronouncement it may be said,” according to the Hartford Times independent Democratic), “that it 8 the Texas delegates a place to st juntl they decide whether the Smith nomination is inevitable or whether the South may be able to direct the nomina- tion elsewhere.” The El Paso Herald tindependent) feels that “it still might be contended that a better campaign could be waged on an Al Smith-Jesse Jones coalition — Smith for President and Jones for Vice President—thereby engaging the family pride of all the Smiths and Joneses.” ok ok ow Among the newspapers which find the situation unchanged by Jones' can- didacy is the Lynchburg News (Demo- cratic), which argues: “Jesse H. Jones of Texas deserves well of the Demo- cratic party. and even better of Texas. That, we belleve, will be admitted. But to say that Mr. Jones hasn't a chance to get the nomination, that Gov. Moody nows he hasn't a chance, that Mr. Jones knows he hasn't a chance, and that everybody knows he Hasn't & Vice President. Not on your life!—Texas | chance, is to say something so obvious Democrats demand that he be selected | that it borders on the absurd to say it for the top of the ticket. Thus the| The Worcester Evening Gazette (In- Tezans are making strong and loud | dependent) feels that “with true South- their protest against the nomination of [ e paliteness the Texas Democrats re- Smith. Thelr convention wads vigorous | frain from a declaration against Smith.” in Its demand for a platform and a can- ¢but that “it is possible to regard this didate of the kind that would make | forbearance as a figurative crossing of Smith a misfit, Texas is aggressively | the fingers, designed to enable the Texas for Jones. ‘The State has 40 votes i Democrats (o accept Smith with good the national convention.” grace, should thiy nomination come to D | pass. The Jackson Citizen-Patriot (in~ “Col. Jones had his day in the pic- ! dependent) believes that while ““Texas ture at the State convention,” says the ! WHI protest against & wet presidential Port Arthur News (independent Demo- | candidate.” at the same time, “if Gov. eratle). “He may have it again at!Smith s nominated, 1t will most likely Houston," adds the News, which, after | fall in line.* a (ribute to the leadership of Qov, Recognizing three factions i the Moody, gives the assurance, “Moody | Texas convention, the Little Reck and those who follow his flag are party | Arkansas Democrat (Democratic) specits Democrats, and when the nominee has | lates as to the line-up at the national been declared by the national convens | convention: “The ultra-drys will be tion they will go down the line for plat- | well represented by the Solid South: the form and standard bearer. friends of Smith will come prineipaily “In effect,” declares. the Brooklyn | from the East, while the ‘harmony' fac- Daily Eagle (independent), “Texas fol- | tion—well, that remains to be seen. AN lows the policy of South Carolina. It s | of Which means. unless all signs faid, & ‘dry Tt refuses to suppart any ‘wet' in | rousing time will be had by all before convention, but refuses also to blacklist | Smith is nominated, if he is nominated any luulv\;lunl candidate & sn;:'m Onro- {at all NA was the greatest of the old ‘Cotton | Contending that Gov. S States Texas it the greatest of the new | nominated. ihe Alb(m\\' s!’l!ifi..“fli."\’: ‘Cotton States.’ Between them lio ' (ndependent Republican) expresses the Georgla, Alabama, Loulslana, Missis- judgment that “if Smith s poming sippl.© Tt I8 perhaps & falr guess that Texas Democrats will support him, they stand pretty nearly where Texas | The Philadelphia Evening Rulletin (e and South Carolina do. Those who are | dependent ' Repubiicans "hods: tha ulating about a break in the ‘Solid | would be folly it Mr, Jones, as & favorite on the tyranny of Amerioan women. stance In this case may not lend enchantment, but It guarantees safety, & uth' in November can find no hope | son, is & candidate for Vi of It in action yet taken by the Demoe- | “to nominate & . ‘mo:( u&yhol Dixie." o Houston Chronicle (Democratie), L oy serve with the ‘wet'. 1 York on & facing-bathsways Hel .