Evening Star Newspaper, August 3, 1928, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR| talking movie throughout the country . THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, AUGUST 3, 1928.° e e e e P ! all cases investigation proves that theyl With Sunday Mornitig Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY August 3, THEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office 11tn St and Pennaylvania ave New York Office: 110 Fast 42nd St. Chicago Office: Tower Building. European Office 14 Regent St. Loaden, England. Rate by Carrier Within the City. ‘The Evening Star 45¢ per month ug and Sunday Star ass) and Sunday Star davs) SM\ per month 4 of each month t the en by cr telephone Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. $10.00: 1 mo $600: 1 mo. $400: 1 mo. s8¢ Soe 40 Ali Other States and Canada. dav 12 00 hes -d - | with regard for their “screening < | ities eation of o reserved. | will Jessen the support of the road com- | are due to hidden flaws in the material | 1928 60c per month ter copy | panies that usually go forth from a|which do not develop until a breaking Broadway success for widespread prrs-istuln is imposed. A theory is enter- entation. The producers who are plan- | tained by some engineers that fabricated ning the making of these talking mms";tn—l after a period of use becomes explain that they contemplate sending | subject to “fatigue,” which is due to the films only to those cities which | crystallization leading to a sudden de- have few if any “legitimate” theaters, | velopment of fatal weakness. but which have motion picture houses.| In any enterprises involving { This, however, does not allay the ap-|handling of ponderous masses and ’]‘n‘hrmu\m of Equity, inasmuch as the | heavy weights there is always the pos- control of legitimate houses over a|sibility of mishap. Cables may be- | large section of the country is in the [come frayed or strained, to vield un- |hands of a few theatrical magnates, |expectedly. Steel may become weak- who may at will transform them into | ened by use or by rust, despite all pro- | “sereen palaces” or combination houses. | tective endeavors. Even inspection at 1f the plans for the almost simulta- | frequent intervals may fail to disclo | neous reproduction of the Broadway flaws. This liability imposes a heavy | shows that succeed carry through. the | responsibility upon those In charge of country may witness a material change | such works and when accident oceurs in the status, perhaps a large reduction ' there should be always the {in the numbers of the thespians. A | single company, probably that which presents the original preduction. will sorve to cover a wide area of the “road.” Furthermore, actors may be {chosen for original stage productions qual- once the been any lapse of attention or any fault of judgment. - The Rescue of Courtney. The importance of the radio and of an airplane capable of remaining afloat on A nice question arises at as to the compensation of the perform- ers. A new rate should, equitably, be yesterday in the rescue of Capt. Frank T the steamship Minnewaska after they the | most ‘ thorough fnquiry to determine whether | | hocum water in overseas flights was fllustrated | [ we P! Courtney and three companions by | honest, truth of 1t My birthday'--what a different sound That word had in my youthful ears. —Moore. Birthdays are curious things. When you are young you look forward to them with tremendous eagerness, as if leach ong were to put you tiptoe upon a mountain peak, whence you might gaze down upon _thrilling sights Life and Time, inexorable twins, change all that with most of us, so that after a certain age we would be |glad to forget our birthdays, except upon occasion. This turning point comes with women the age of 25 years, and with men | at years old, After those ages, in any particular case, one seldom hears a man or woman talking about a per- al birthday. There fs about It is great deal of pleasant how one may grow or rather ft was—quite ounger. the thing to speak of an elderly man | or¥e iy in athers it 15 & day much as 0 years young." as The idea scemed to be to*fool the recipient and one's self fnto the fond al elief that the actually is such thing as growing any way but old As o mat stmpl older—that is the Time, the mysteri- which no one understands, makes grow THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. ter of plain fact, there is not. | ) | One does not give it any | attention one’s self. There is too much | going on, There is school and play-| time, books and adventure, knowledge and the escape from knowledge. These overwhelm one with their immensity, their inescapable necessity, until birth- days become too common for utterance Even during these periods, however, there will be a few to remember how \d one is, and to make out as if the mniversary of the coming into this vorld of such a one is worth observing. Let us shed tears in memory that any one remembers. It is the hope of sal- vation of every man and woman now alive that some one somewhere does | remember, In the days of young manhood and womanhood the birthday plays a pecul- | far role. It may or may not amount |to anything or something, as the case |may be. In some homes it functions of routine. PHILOSOPHIES BY GLENN FRANK About 25 years ago America began to stir out of its smugness and the clean winds of a_critical spirit began to blow across its life. It was about that time that J. B Yeats, sensing a new sell-consclousness fcal vitality under the brash T| I all over America. hat' creatively critical spirlt has had its setbacks, but it has never lacked its faithful sponsors to keep its pure flame alive, and it will yet give us a new and more meaningful Amer: Every good move its bad by-produ lovely fruits cf this movement of seif- | examination hes been the development | chool of smart-aleck and soz'al ‘The eritics of the leck are now doing litile beyond reheshing a set of sterile catch phrases that are just a5 standardized as the catch phra: | other days, with perhaps ice cream for {33 | dessert or an old friend dropping in. | 1t is only after the mystic ages of 25 or 35 years that the average man or woman comes to think of seriously. Hitherto they have been | taken as granted; now thi bring one | face to face with the Inevitable The inspiring thing is that the In-| birthdays | | e | passing_through of the more w : phra e up the stock nart-o : idy camp follo generaiizations thet in trede of thege ¢ who ere bui the sho: Wers Stop a minute and think about this fact: You can ask our information bureau any question of fact and get, |the answer back in a personal letter. |It Is a great educational idea intro- duced into the lives of the most intelli- |gent people in the world—American | newspaper readers. It is a part of that best purpose of a newspaper—service. There 15 no charge except 2 cents in ¢ "1 or stamps for return postage. Get the habit of asking questions. Addri your letter to The Evening Star Infor mation Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, | director, Washington, D. C. Q. What is the greatest distan: {a golf ball has been driven?—W. A. A drive of 470 yards, made by | Jimmy Gullane, Colorado Springs, Colo., ce that E. H. " | March 21, 1925, is the record distance { for a goif drive. | Q. What countries have benefited | the most by the building of the Panama Canal?—A. J. L A. The increasing service of the Panama Canal to foreign trade is indi- | cated by the increasing volume of cargo it since its opening he sources and destination of the cargo | indicate that the trade regions to which |the canal is of most benefit are th | cast coast of the United States, the {west coast of South America, Europe, coast of the United States, the 1 Q. How ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY PREDERIC J. HASKIN. clusive, there were 104 policemen killed| in Chicago. Of these two were park| licemen. ‘There were six persons ung upon being convicted of the mur-| @e: of policemen, 20 were sentenced to life terms in the penitentiary and one| ?x? a term of 14 years In the peniten- | tiary.” Q. Is the asphalt mined in Utah a pure product?—L. C. T. A. Tt is said to be an absolutely nat- ural asphalt, almost 100 per cent pure when taken from the earth. Q. Who was the great diamond mil- licnatre who committed suicide by jumping off a boa M. L A. It was Barney Barnato, who died {in this manner in 1897, following & | great mental strain brought about by | financial worries. What s put acidophilus milk? A. The culture used in making acid- ophilus milk is a species of bacteria, an organism of animal life. In making this preparation sterile milk has to be in order that the organisms will milk | in to make J does Clara Bow pronounce ame?—D | her n: | A. Her name rhymes with - . jers : Senator Simmons' Advice | adopted it the actors of the Broadway | | play are used both for the stage ver- a dominant figure FWCH Gjon and the film reproduction. I the rfol who acts both before an au- er of & century, takes the pos f:: 2 ‘;’“:‘;‘d . (;‘: ‘i ¢ “ i "‘m = t Democratic voters of his State | 1°1°¢ = e Bty fomans * “should be free from coerclon or re. | Volce-catching device share the of the screen-voice version? {us pay attention to her swift glide at | oyjiaple is now seen ot to be so terri- had been adrift for hours in mid- |least upon one day in “‘l“ yenr. e in|Dle. after all. In the past we had f’ S orcus critical mood. I Atlantic. Capt. Courtney, in his huge | GCarefully we measure her passage ') looked uoon advancing age with averted Ahout comment unknown quantities, which we eall sec- | 2exed 2pon SCTarteni Bie b ere im- The midd! flying boat, was attempting to make onds and minutes, as if to satisfy our- | S, T ot it was SRl shiotirts 140 tHe ed and hard- the first east-to-west ocean flight from |selves with words. But a second is just \”MS,”_; to consider the problems of d the Atores to Newfoundland. For four- | 3 unthinkable as a minute, and & oternity, ‘but that they spoke in a teen hours the ship winged its wa list Far East and Australasia. G WS o e by o[BS, 1d| A. Gadget is a slang term, the mean- |ing of which is so broad that it seem- | A The Army Ordnance Departme ngly can be applied almost without says that practically all of the tra ervation. It is practically the equiv- 1 | t [ " bullets employed during the World War | alent of our expression “thing.” G — ‘gadget’?— Q. What kind of tracer bullets w used by airplanes during the Wor War?—F. W. M enator Simmons. h Carolina politics for more thar i3 thisk-head- v bhas velue merely "l because it i less mere! i minute as an hour, and a month as a ar. and & year as an eternity. trange tongue to us who were on m: the exercise of their co adgment wit! " Fur- ta give| State, | of t Democrats ided support to the t and local nominees e v. Without mentioning Gov. Smith nons has virtually turned | n the national cam Of all the States of the “solid South” the of the Republicans appear ter in North Carolina than in any other. The advice of Senator Sim- | the Democratic voters of the of whom are bitterly op-| d ss will h: s that Senator Simmons strongest opponents of ination of Gov. Smith before ng the Houston convention. t 1t was generally supposed that once the nomination of Smith had been con- summated, the veteran leader would | swing into line and heln put the Demo- cratic national ticket across in North.| Carolina and other parts of the South Senator Simmons has maintained from the first, however, that he opposed Gov. Smith on principle; that the New Yorker stood for principles of govern- | ment to which he and other Southern Democrats could not subscribe. The North Carolina Senator has long had & | reputation for tenacity. In the case of | Gov. Smith and the presidency he has | not changed. The last straw, apparent- 1y, so far as Senstor Simmons is con- cerned, was Smith’s telegram to the Houston convention asserting that if elected he would point a way to the modification of the prohibition laws The North Carolina Senator’s advice | to the Democratic voters is contained | in & letter written by Senator Simmons and made public by A. B. Groom, who turnad it over to the Wilmington News- Dispatch. It is no secret that Senator Stmmons and some of his closest friends in the State have said for months that if Smith were nominated, North Céro- lina would bolt the Democratic national | ticket. There has been talk of the| waning of the political influence of the veteran Senator during recent months. But it is doubtful that he has lost his grip on the rank and file of the party to whom he has turned so often and &0 successfully in his political battles in the past. He stemmed the Smith tide in the Tar Heel State at the time | of the State primaries. His attitude | now will be no help to the Smith can- didacy. Senator Simmons’ letter not only crit- fcizes the telegram sent by Gov. Smith | the amount earned in interest on the | clearing house member banks. profits That is what Eq now 10 know. And meanwhile Hollywood, from which most of the old-style silent screen versions of modern drama go forth, is wondering what is to become of its industry if the New York stage magnates adopt the new device and for aid the policy of virtually simultaneous| Had the gallant British fiyer not car- jons on stage and screen. It is!ried a radio or chosen a flying boat for vident that the stage business is the long journey, his name would prob- | a state of flux in consequence of the ably have gone down in history as an- development of machines that trespass other who essayed a hazardous trip seriously upon the field of the actor. with incomplete preparation and equip- , v ment. To these two things he un-| doubtedly owes his life. It is & matter | of extreme regret that Capt. Courtney did not succeed in accomplishing that which he set out to do. The consola- tion lies in the fact that he is alive| to try again instead of being listed as ‘among those missing” on overwater fAights. | over water, but was forced down, sup- | by engine failure. For ten| urs Ct Courtney and his crew | drifted helplessly on the water, but were finally sighted and rescued by the steamer, which answered their calls; wants posedly in | | Banks and Street Loans. In the effort to check the volume of call loans made by corporations for purposes of stock speculation, the New York Clearing House Association has adopted two remedies. One is an in-| crease of the service charge to be made by the banks for handling street loans for the account of others than bankers. | The present charge is five per cent of | o | The management’s profits would have | been secure if all the teachers and others | who have heard Tunney had gone to see | his fight. As a showman he displayed | an indifference to his normal and | legitimate public which could not fail | to lessen enthusiasm and financial re- sponse. Whalever may be his future iiterary laurels, he must figure in the rigorous and not always polite annals | of sport as one who took the cash and | let the credit go loan. The new rule imposes a straight service charge of one-half of one per cent on the amount loaned. This rule is to go into effect September 1. The other change, which is to become ef- fective next Monday, increases the in- terest rates to be paid to depositors by These two changes attack the situation from different angles. The former tends to lessen the interest earned by the cor- porations on loans, and the latter in- creases the inducement to allow funds to remain on deposit. It remains to be seen how far these remedies will be ef- | fective. i In considering this situation sight must not be lost of the fact that loans v made by banks directly are of money In order to be perfectly fair a debater deposited with them, the money of feels it necessary to pay Gov. Smith so others, and in the main that of the } many compliments on his personal in- larger corporations using the banks as | tegrity that he is liable to imply that custodians of their surplus or floating | Tammany Hall was not his fault, but cash. The position taken by the banks ' his misfortune. . in this matter is that they should have = a larger measure of control over the| A crowd of over two thousand terms on which loans are made and | “Atched the demonstrations at New the periods for which the money thus | Bedford, Mass. 1f all the interested loaned is to remain in the hands of | spectators should take a notion to go to borrowers. Inasmuch as it is the rl(hxx work a strike would be easily broken. of the depositor to withdraw his de- | .o posits at will, a corporation may “call” | It will never be denied that Vice| its loans to the bank in the form of | President Dawes, while not finding time | deposits Whenever it sees fit, or when- | (0 CArTY them all into effect, has given ever it may need the cash for dividend | the Unitgd States Senate some very disbursements or for operation expense. | valuable suggestions. Should the corporation-depositor with- | P draw s large amount, for any purpose, | Even a presidential campaign is in- the bank may be compelled to call its | elined to postpone its work till after Joans, made with the money of this de- | L8BOF day, and' avoid Interrupting its positor. Thus in the end the effect fs | SUmmMer vacation the same, whether the loan is made by — s - | ‘The voter may be reminded of the | old assertion, “All whisky is good, but | some kinds are better than others,” when he discovers that all prohibition enforcement is esteemed desirable, yet with varying degrees of merit. S We may lit our seconds into still but it makes no differenc measure still des U The clock tells us nothing. we could know what Time is, we might know something about Life x % % K The birthd of childhood are mostly made out of cake and ice cream, super- imposed upon a confused state of being vaguely termed a “party.”’ With the very young a “birthday party” means a hurly-burly of youngsters whom one has played with on sandpiles, now all dregsed up in white frocks, ribbons and everything, each one bringing, in some mysterfous burst of gencrosity, a present. Presents! Mother stands at the front door in her best dress with her widest smile working overtime while Johnny and Sally, and Mary and Gertrude, and Ethel and Bill, and all the other kids come trooping in. Each bears a package wrapped in white tissue paper. Each looks resent- fully at the one to whom it must be given. It must be handed over, how ever, and the deed is done with ac- claim, The mixture of presents and ioe well dressed playfellows is just a bit too much. The only thing that makes the “party” human is when mischiev ous Bobby kicks Mary in the shins and makes her cry. You remember that And maybe down in your heart you have a fresh inhabitant—Mary Louise, whose silky dress and golden hair regis- tered heavily. Such is a childhood | birthday party | * "o Later there comes a period when no one pays any particular attention tol one’s birthday. It becomes a matter WASHINGTON which Senator Pat Har- ippt has been making in his home State this past week would in- dicate pretty conclusively that Gov. Smith’s oratorical champions do not intend to pussyfoot on the prohibition issue and the religious question in the territory below the Mason-Dixon line, | but wiil meet both boldly and in the open. At Lake Mississippi on Wednes- day Senator Harrison discussed the pro- hibition issue at length in pungent lan- guage, of which he is past master. He declared that the “Republicans have | made a mess of enforcement” and that | the Democratic nominee “has declared | clearly and unequivocably for its (the Jaw’s) most rigid enforcement.” At Philadelphia, Miss, on Thursday pleaded for religious toleranc “Why | should a man who is in every other | way qualified by training and ability | and character be denied the presidency | of .the United States simply because he is a Catholic?” he said. In both speeches he urged Democratic unity in spite of any differences of religion and prohibition Thegspeeches Q&\ Mississ] * ¥ During the seven years that Herbert Hoover has headed the Department of Commerce he has delivered a not in- considerable number of public ad- dresses on & wide variety of subjects, cream and cake and candy and so many | OBSERVATIONS different plane. | oo E* | | The advancing years. however, have | carefully conspired to pull us down off our high horse, and they have done well {to do so | 711 it _were not for these self-same | remorseless vears, we would still be the sublime ass we were when we left | high school | Thank God for Time! Our birthdays make us more sure of ourselves. We know better what we like, and. equally important, what we do_not like. We have learned that the world was | 8% I not waiting for us to reform it. If there is any way in which we may | | | help out, it is by giving as good an Realism consists in cetails of unchastit Sixth: Degeneracy i3 piguant Seventh: The Furitan com ex- cludes art and beau The Victo*ews ®:re fussy Ninth: Protestant minis tentious hypocrites Tenth: Slander of the dead is clever TS ere pre- eventh: The intellact {5 2n infallible st the smari-alocz school of en excellent target for come nove: who can do for I'isst street what Sincla'r Lewis did for Mein sireet. example to others as we know how If our example shall have in it any- thing worth while, it may be picked up { by the discerning and appropriated for hefr own use. | We have learned not to bemoan our | | fate at being misunderstood. There is {alwavs some one to understand—and | on® is_enough | | We have come to the soothing con- | | clusion that to live the best one can.| {f he genufnely tries, is about the best anv one can do. It one can say to himself upon his | birthday that he loves good things bet- ter than bad ones. although | not always be able to make the best selection: | If he is able to tell himself without | pride that he has never sneaked or| withheld the words of deserved praise; And knows in his heart that he has stood for just a few things worth while and has brought others to respect them: If he can say to himself that no woman has ever been the worse for knowing him- Then on his birthday he may be happy if he can. he may | though in the past few Indians have| exercised the franchise. The Republic- ans are counting on Charlie Curtis’ In- dian ancestry to bring the solid Indian vote to the Hoover-Curtis ticket this year, and if this hope is realized, i may be the deciding factor in Oklahoma. * ook F A prominent and popular Washington hostess who has been held in Wash- ington this Summer by the exigencies of the political campaign in which her husband is deeply engrossed recently served her dinner guests with roast sir- loin of reindeer, direct from Alaska. It | evoked a chorus of praise. The game | flavor was not strong and it was as | the tenderest beef tenderloin. | | 5 explained that “it was all | in the roasting,” and that the prepara- | tion of reindeer to please the palate of cosmopolitan epicures required a spe- clal technique which few cooks under- | stood. At about the same time the In- | terfor Department was announcing that ships were now coming down from Alaska regularly with cargoes of 2,000 or more reindeer carcasses to supply | the increasing demand of the Ameri- | can market. One firm at Nome, Alaska, at present controls most of the export shipments. This firm has a herd of 50,000 reindeer * Kk % ‘fihsm is the very essence of religion, | their pages ! munion, which is the vital principle | from which all religions have evolved. to the Houston convention zefting UP|in, depositor through the medium of s wet party plank for the national|yne pany gg agent or by the bank itsell | - . | SHOOTING STARS. { - n— ith of dealing in the main with problems Every August in Washington sees the ticket and throwing the convention platform plank into the discard, but his appointment of Raskob, a wet, as cam- paign manager. He charges that Smith is allied with groups and interests “hos- tile and antagonistic to the fundamen- tal principles of Democracy.” This is | strong language from a Democrat who| has never ered before in his alle- gilance to the nominees of his party ‘ Benator Simmons recently resigned as | & member of the Democratic national committee, apparently feeling that he could not conscientiously support the presidential nominee. ———— Of course, it would be a wicked Wall Street broker who would advance the odds on Hoover and then put up a little count Ever since the motion picture indus- try developed to the point of the pro- duction of stage plays reduced to the proportions and the medium of the silent screen much anxiety has been feit by the member the theatrical | profession regarding possibility of | a don ipa of field of dramatic this new method of far, however ating oce ] the play has been necessity of rep- through action 4 fragments have in a protected the performers adopted the slage as & pro comes the “talking xt of the play L verbatim by of the voice in the pictured action iade now In New York of & number of the % yn- the actors are 4 & command v its members, who of the members not 1 participate in e talking plcture the has been fully dis d and & course of action has been profession particular t of subject he danger. from the viewpoint A Nevertheless it is felt by the Clearing | BY PHILANDER JOHNSON, House Association and the member banks as we!l that a more stable condi- tion is assured when the banks are more fully in control of the terms of these “street loans," or loans made for stock-transaction purposes Day Drama. Taking the world as you find it; | Waiting for morn's new display, | The night is & curtain. Behind it Are scenes of a glorfous day. It 1s certainly not desirable that great ‘ Whether they're mirthful or tragic volumes of money should be made| OF only for dancer and clown, available for the operations of purely | We're glad for the moments of maglc And sad when the eurtain rings down. speculative security traders. Such trans- | actions are not creative in character. | In spite of the star-promised Glory, They are likely to be disturbing and | When the curtain at last shall de-| dangerous. But with a heavy surplus | piamy of cash such as now prevails in this | In reluctance we turn from the story country, owing to exceptional national And wish that life never might end. prosperity and the enjoyment of a pro- ed balance of trade, some outlet Trustfulness. must be found for this excess of funds ‘A public office is a public over what may be called operative remarked the ready-made philosopher needs, and speculation is the inevitahle | “Yes" answered Senator Sorghum, use to which & large percentage pf i# | “but you've got to pick your company is put 5 and be careful about trusting the wrong > !part of the trouble” trust st Nothing that happens discredits Lind- bergh. Much of the trouble with avia- tion today lies in the fact that there is only one of him Mean Disposition. I have a fifend to whom I owe Two Dollars; and each week or so He sends to me a proper bill Embellished with the penman’s skill Il pay him, when unto my door He's brought hundred stamps more, And then, to shatter his content, Show him he hasn't made a cent! [ . Steel Failures The other day @ steel boom of a der- jck on the Arlington Memorial Bridge fatled 1n talling, one man and several By a merciful chance the lives of fully thirty men were spared in th crash. ‘The only explanation of the ae cident is that the vibration of a me chanical hammer upon the sheet piling that the boom was holding in place SR caused the great member to buckle Safe Topic. and collapse. Later a crane hold-| “You talk a great deal about evolu- ing one of the gates of the New Wel- | tion?” land Canal st Thorold, Onterlo, in| “Yes” answered Farmer Corntossel the course of construction, fajled and|“It's safer than politics, It hes its the great steel fabric was allowed to|quarrelsome temptations, but at least fall into the lock, bringing death or in- | there’s no chance of rough dispute. A a or work ervice and killed tnjured others Jud Tunkins says you are apt to find about what he 1s go- about what he & man who ‘bra ing o do mostly has actually done flent | comprehensive list of human rights, the public and private welfare. Most of these have now been reprinted in leaflet form &5 Republican campaign “litera- ture.” The tith of these Hoover speeches embrace “Government O ship,” “Commercial Aviation,” chant Marine Policy,” “The St. Law- rence Shipway,” “Improvement of Farmers' Profits,” indeed, every politi- cal issue of the present day 1s covered except prohibition. But, according to gossip at Republican headquarters here, the Hoover leaflet for which there is the most popular demand so far is “A Remedy for Disappearing Game Fishes," the reprint of an address delivered in Chicago in April, 1927, before the Izaak Walton League of America. oW K K In his address to the Izaak Walton Leagu: Mr. Hoover magle some sage observations. He declared: “Man and boy, the American is a fisherman. That of Independence, 15 firm | are endowed Declaration that all men ¢and boys) with certain inalienable rights, includ- ing Ilfe, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, which obviously includes the pursult of fish. America is a well water- ed country and the inhabitants know their fishing holes. * * I am for fish. Fishing Is not so much getting fish as it is a state of mind and a lure to the human soul into refreshment. But it 1s too long between bites. We must have more fish in proportion to the water.” r Willebrandt, \eral, who deals with | prohibition enforcement cases in the Department of Justice and who has | been conspicuous in her zeal fn prose- | cution of violations of the eighteenth 8 Mrs. Mabel Walk sistant Attorney G Holden Tinkham of Boston, arch enemy of prohibition and usually rated as the wettest wet in Congress, have long enjoyed a soclal acquaintance. They met recently in the dining room of a Washington hotel, Mrs. Wille- brandt was accompanied by some guests from her home State of California “Lel me present you to Mr. Tinkham, my worst enemy in Washington,” Mrs. Willebrandt with a smile 15 not quite true" retorted the State bearded bachelor quickly only my head—not my hearl disapproves of you. T Bay “It 18 which | outbreak of the war, eighty-eighth year and apparently a: amendmeni, and Representative Creorge | revival of the perennial story that Oliver Wendell Holmes is to resixn his place on the Supreme Court. The 1928 report to this effect Is just “out,” Jus- tice Holmes will have completed 26 years of service on the Supreme bench | next December 4, if he remains until | that date-—the longest term of service | in the history of the court. He served ! 20 years of continuous service on the Massachusetts Supreme Court before his election to the United States Su- preme Court. He was three (imes wounded during his service in the Unlon Army in the Civil War, He had graduated from Harvard before th He is now in hi, pry of mind and body as ever. The nzme of Arthur P. Rugg, present chie instice of the Massachusetts Supreme | Court and 66 vears of age, has been | linked with the Holmes retirement story as his probable successor, if Cal- vin Coolidge makes the appointment Convr 1098 ) UNITED STATE WORLD WAR Ten Years Ago Today Sweeping victoriously northward be- hind the retreating Germans, the allies today captured virtually the entire Alsne-Vesle front between Soissons and | Reims, advancing more than 6 miles | at some points and occupymg more than | 50 villages recently held by the enemy. * * ¢ Early in the day the allies reached several fords of the Vesle and were pre- paring to push across the river i fur- ther pursuit of the foe, who are falling back precipitately. All the bridges over the Vesle have been destroyed and great fires are raging in the territory | evacuated by the enemy, and villages | are burning also in the area north of the Vesle, between Muzon and Saint Thierry. * * * American forces hold the outskirts of Fismes, which is burning | The Germans are setting fire to their supplies and abandoning large quantities of stores as they fall back. The enemy's losses are prodiglous and they are de- stroying bridges as they fight desper- ately and skiilfully to extricate them- | | [them to a hospital | Ambassadors Herrick and Morrow of + tatlure the sclwr, B thal the spread of the upon such works is small, jury w forty workmen Th two mecidents coinciding. sharply bring the fact that in the enlargement of th dimensions of ruction appllance a grave danger has been invoked. An person watching the erection of a build ing d w wonder at the apparer slenderness of the operating devices i contrust o the imme whic they y these appliances are sclentifically de with the ut agains of acciden 80 nearl to attentio welg upport e must carry and constructed and percentage signed and mos precaution care The In slmost wif @em in politics, chimpanzee never talks back.” ‘Nothing is more worthy than . wealth,” said HI Ho, the sage of China- town, “if 1t has been s0 honorably at- tainad that it purchases self-respect.” g Something to Argue About. ok ko | selves. In front of the 38th Division the Oklahoma 40 years ago was a wilder- | Americans could not advance without ness inhabited by Indlans and cow- | treading on German dead. * * * British punchers, Today 1t is a land flowing | troops n the Albert sector have recap- with milk, honey, corn, wheat, rye, oals, | tured most of the ground previously held cotton and eattlé, to say nothing of 1t | by the Ciermans west of the Ancre, * * * immense ofl flelds. This year iU is o be | A British officinl states that the most the scene of the most intensive political | titanie achievement of the whole war | battle the State has ever known. John | s been the transport of the American Of Gold we spoke and Silver Free We talked of ff and Free Trade fusue seems to be jeer and Lemonade n h ot \nd now the Iwixt Lager [ falks,” said Uncle Eben, “re state of future punishment a to anybody dut disagrees Some U gards & s ! what's comin g A e W. Davis carrled Oklahoma in 1924 over | Army across the Atlantic, in the face of | [ Coolidge by n margin of 30000 in aja submarine offensive waged by the | total of wbout hall million votes cast.| enemy Wwith s great a determination | L Follette polled 40,000 votes there. ‘This | and persistency as they have fought on {line-up indicates that 1t 18 a “doubtful” | the Western front. * * * Gen. March, State from both Republican and Demo- | chief-of-stafl, announces that = the cratie standpoints. There are 120,000 | record-breaking number of more than Indians in Oklahoma, according to the | $00,000 Amorrnnn soldiers were sent Burenn of Indian Affalrs, and the bu- | overseas in July, making a total of at real estimates that half of that num- | least 1,320,000 soldiers in France, Bel- ber, at least, are eligible Lo vote, al-'glum and Haly, " (Copyright. McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) prest - Sees in Spiritualism the Essence of Religion To the Editor of The Star I see in The Evening Star of Friday, | {riction | where the matches, which usually have July 20, that the District Commissio ers, in denying application of the Na- tional Spiritualist Assoclation from tax exemption on its headquarters make the following statement, “Spiritualism is not a religion.” They make in this | affirmation a grave mistake, as Spiritu- | for without Spiritualism there would be no religion Take the sacred books of all nations, the gospel of Buddha, the Koran of Mahomet, the legends of the Talmud, | and with them put the Old and New Testaments—here are combined the re- | Iglous history and revelations of the | early ages of man. Spiritualism is the | vital flame of truth in every one of these books, giving light and life to Spiritualism’s great fea- ture is to bring man into communion with the spirit world, and this has| ever been the source from which every religious system was horn. | As Moses, Jesus and Mahomet went | up on the mountain to talk with spirits | and Buddha listened to their voices | within the walls of his palace, so the | great founders of religious ems re- ceived their knowledge through spirit return from the ancient times up to the present. It is the aim and purpose of modern Spiritualism to emphasize this supreme fact of spirit return and spirit com- Its great work is to create a religion of such universal appeal that all mankind, regardless of race, creed or color, can God and come into intelligent com- munion with His ministering spirits In not granting freedom from taxa- tion to the National Spiritualist Asso- ctation’s office I believe the Commis- sioners are justified, as the property is not a church, but a general busin headquarters and office of the secreta If the National Spiritualist Association | had a church building in this city, dedi- cated entirely to religious services, I am sure it would be free from taxation, just as are all other church buildings. ALFRED H. TERRY of the First Spiritualist Church. 5 v 2 | Pastor | { for aircraft and anti-aircraft work were lused in machine guns. In every shot | tHere were about |and one tracer. Every nation has de- | veloped its own tracer ammunition. | .9 | of the Campbell clan?—J. M. A. Dark blue, green with yellow and red bars, were the colors used in the | Scottish plaids of the Campbell clan. | There were different patterns, however, |for the Clan Campbell of Argyle | Breadalbane, Cawdor and Loudown. | What colors are used in the plaid [ |T. F. | "A. The composition of thé head of an ordinary match consists of phos- | phorus and niter, or phosphorus, sul- ‘phur and chlorate of potash mixed with melted gum or glue and colored with vermilion, umber, soot or other coloring material. The safety match differs from the ordinary match in having the phosphorus omitted from the composi- | tion applied to the match stick, and | combined instead with sand to form a surface on the match box chlorate of potash in their heads, are rubbed in order to be lighted. In measuring mileage from city to city what point is taken?—O. F. A. The American Automobile Asso- ciation says that there is no one place in each city used for measuring the correct distance. Generally, whatever point is considered the center of town would be used. For, instance, in small a courthouse; in some large s, such as Washington, D. C., there is a zero milestone; in New York City, Times Square or City Hall. . Do our diplomats receive the same immunity abroad that we accord foreign diplomats in this country?—M 8. A. United States representatives to foreign countries have the same privi- leges as foreign diplomatic agents have in the United States. Q. What is the derivation of the word “news' . R. A. The word “ is from the Middle English “newe: which is a translation of the French ‘“nouvelle: which means news. The old etymology | that the word consisted of the initial letters of the four directions of t! compass—north, east, west and south-- is now regarded as absurd. Q. Does light weigh anything?—L. R E A. It has no weight. It is merely a form of radiant energy, or vibration in (find within its portals room to worship | the ether. Q. What can be put on a plaster of paris cast to harden the surface?—* FW A glass. Q. Can the Great Lakes be called eas?—D. P. F. A. According to a decision of the Supreme Court, handed down in 1893, It may be painted with water istic of seas. Have many in Chicago?—J. A. A. The Chicago Crime Commission From 1919 to June 30, 192 policemen been killed c U. S. Diplomacy Gains Favor by Friendship Prom the New Orleans Morning ibune. American diplomacy seems to be es- | itself on & mew basis, with | onal touch” much in evidence. | stwhile envoys and plenipoten seem 1o be profiting by the dis- | covery that Lindbergh's methods ac- | complished n great deal, and are cap- italizing friendship rather than dignity. | Not all of them can be so fortu and so opportune as Ambassador Who has twice assisted in the rescue | of Turkish women from perilous situa-| fions. The first tine he found twe Turkish girls in a smashed automobile | on a lonely road. and hastened with | Now he improves | upon that by leaping overboard from ferry fo rescue an aged woman who | had thrown herself in the waters of Bosphorus ! e Turkish press, we are told. is| ringing with his praiges, and he thus into the charmed circle which ready includes, besides Col. Lindbergh. two Who seem to have charmed completely the peoples to whom they are sent as representatives of the American people. These three ambassadors are all | shrewd and able diplomats, but it seems evident that their personal qualities have been even more fmportant than their canny diplomacy in establishing kindly foelings for this country. This soems only natural, and the wonder is that it was not recognized before Pl Without Tamult or Shoutir om the New York Herald Tribune 1t is difficult to imagine any climbing up on a chalr and cheering wildly at @ political oration, however eloguesnt, brought to him over the radio Willlam Jennings Bryan would hardly have swept the Nation with his “cross | of gold” speech as he swept the Chicago conventlon had it been disserdinated by | waves of ether and percolated into t'e homes of the people through a set of tubes and an amplifier. Enthusiasm usually 18 spread by contagion “This seaso.. the radio campaigns, fa- | miliar four years ago and effective among people who like to listen and “think it out,” will probably be supple- mented by the “movietone.” Thus the e & will supplement the ears in carry- ing to the brain the mes candidates and their supporters. concelvable that in a public hall, or even in a private living room in which 15 or 20 persons are gathered, a speech accompanied by the moving figure of the speaker will awaken vocal applause Yet such an “audition” will never equal | a rally | It 1s probably ali for the best. ‘The | spenkers. knowing that their words will { fall not alone on the ears of the crowd | fn the seats in front of them. but also o those of hundreds of thousands of people sitting quietly i their homes, will doubtless avoid the oratorieal tr and gestures which have the stron appeal to & crowd. Thus the voters will hear, and perhaps see, them at thelr | best, and mark and fowardly digest envoys e | Statesmanship four regular bullets | Q. How are safety matches made?— | the Great Lakes have every character- | be applied to any object from pener to a vanity case | get {a can Q. Does Mexico | vorce law?—A. S. N. | A The divorce laws of Mexico are imilar to those of the United States, |in that each province of Mexico makes |its own laws in this matter as do the | individual States of the Unfon. Gen- | erally speaking, there are more causes | for divorce than are granted in most f the States of the United States, in- | compatibility being a common cause. . How much does a gallon of gas- oline weigh?—M. C. A. It depends upon its specific grav- ity. Ordinary commercial gasoline weighs from 5.66 pounds to 6.24 pounds per gallon. Q. Are cities obliged to use the time of the standard time zones in which they ar2 placed geographically?—A. G. A. They are under no such obliga- tion. In fact. so many citles deviate from such allocation that the lines on ing the boundaries of tha of little value. Q. What part of the total sales grocery stores goes to chain stores?— C. e a uniform di- A. Chain store grocery sales aver- age $2.000,000,000 per year, or 10 per cent of the total in the grocery fleld. re are about 350,000 groceries ‘n the United States 352 wholesale and 40,090 chain groceries. Q. Can commissicns in the British army be bought?>—C. R. G. A The military attache of the British embassy says that the practice of buy- ing, commissions in the British army wn‘s abolished about 1850 and no longer exists, Q. How large a part of Maryland's population is centered in Baltimore’— M. A. Baltimore contains more half of the State’s population. than Q. Who created Turandot when the opera was first produced in German: —A. L. T A. Anne Roselle sang the title role when Puccint’s opera was first produced outside of Italy. This was in July. 1926, at the Dresden Opera. Q. Why is purple so rare advertising’—A. M. E. A. An authority says that, while this color is distinetive, its suggestion of mourning makes it inappropriate for most advertising ¢ used in Q American history who the tle Glants"?—N. H A. This nickname was gt lowers of Stephen A. Doug’ nicknamed the “Litile Giar of, his short stature ar powers. Q. How he sun exte em?—J. S. H A. Theoretically, there is the distance over which th of the sun exte gravitat for each 1y as thelr mass and inversely as the square of their dis- tance, the attraction becoming nothing only when the masses are zero, the dis- ! tance infini! en to fol- who wes because men¢~! ttraction | solar t L na Lni trac the law , 1A\Af-eded to \léei Grave Problems in Coal Fields A call for real statesmanship to meet the crisis in the coal-mining industry has come as a result of the abandonment of the long-fought-out Jacksonville scale by the United Mine Workers. Tt is greed that, under existing conditions. he scale was too high, but the prospects of lack of umformity in wages causes fear that chaos may bring new troubles for the industry generally “The miners have removed the doubt that they are willing to co-oper- ate,” says the South Bend Tribune The Detroit Free Press, while recogniz- ing the “spirit of compromise among miners and operators, which a bring ultimate suc s, warns t action of the mine only & fi step toward a solution of the salf-coal industry’s problems.” The Flint Daily Journal expresses the hope that the op- erators “will go half way to meet the miners and thus put the coal industry partially on its feet,” and the Columbus Evening Dispatch ~ declares that It should not be necessary to argue that the miners should have the highest wages compatible with operating the mines at a falr rate of profit ‘The St. Louls Post-Dispatch speaks of the tremendous difficulties ahead *“No head of the mine workers, whatever his genius, could solve the problem of the coal industry, Neither should any operator or operators’ organization,” in the opinion of the Post-Dispatch. 1 problem of this basic industry ¢ the best minds among the operator the labor leaders, aided by the ablest techniclans, all of them striving for a solution under the authority and with | the earnest co-operation of the Govern- ment.” he utter lack of industrial anship of a constructive characte) believed by the Springtield Repub! to have been made conspicuous by re- cent experience, and that paper is con- vinced that “the decision to leave set-| ilements to the several mining districts may now result in a shapeless economic | chaos in the industry as a whole.” The | Baltimore Sun predicts that “if they at- " tempt to foree wages far down, the non- | union mines may retaliate with cuts, i v, 1S | lican | I 1 its own State erators have the intend reviewing conditic b and now and to use their advant this union is dest State Journal. “it another will be organtzed. men need the protection of organization just loyers do. and the Syste one side as the other.” Greater pr therefore low below th of the never willing co-opera themselves ng the 1 With consolid: machinery and the o ess to gre the mime operators of the may be able to prod; low enough and at the sa mensurate with standards of this country ction per man than pre the opin Tribu pture tk living passed News, states when, in itened commonwea. the worker, i or out of coal, could exploited foe the sole benefit of a master, personal corporate. Operators who are per= sisting in t unfon busting’ policy under conditions which should make for peace are piling up matertal for & co flagration” The St. Paul Ploneer Press, however, views the miners’ union as “no longer the powerful organization of a years ago,” and concludes that “the natio strikes in the soft-coal ¢ al | industry has passed The need of industry is emphu reorgantzation in the asized by the Chicago Jally News, Asheville Times, Kalamazoo Gazette and Indianapolis News. The Wilkes-Barre Times-Leader suggests The idea of allowing independent dis- tricts to arrange their own wage scales Is an experiment, and whether it means progress or multiplying vicinity strikes remains to be seen 5 A general improvement ts expectad to and a chaotic state be brought about " | follow the abandonment of the scale by This view ts taken also by the St. Joseph | Various papers, including the St. Louls ewsiinean QGlobe-Democrat, Jackson Citisen Pa- Another factor in the coal problem is ! triot. Waterloo Tribune brought up by the Huntmgton Adver- | Raplds Press. The Kans t Whieh observes: “All groups in |hopes that “in the enforced period of the lake cargo rate ltigation have been | Inactivity during the wage aispute, trade brought to a realization that the veal | conditicns will not have been warped obatacles to the success of the Northern [0 a state precluding v coal industry are not freight rates, but | along lnes of mutual profit local economic disadvan and an, York Sun. assailing the impossible, absurd wage agreement. W - nacy’ the mine union, declares the say all groups, except the Intersipie | present decision “might just as well Commerce Commission, which is still | have been made 16 months ago.” laboring under the delusion that a wider | “A new epoch” is hailed by the Iii- differential between West Virginia and | nofs State Journal, with the prediction Pennsylvania coal is essential to the | that this development “is bound to have and Qrand “fatal obsti what they have to say without being swayed In the least by the shouts of people all around them, [:eh-mmnuon of the Northern indus- xm«\n- or less effect upon industrial re- Y. ations between workers mplo) o Colugus Oblo State Jourual, th maby other branchen P » 3