Evening Star Newspaper, August 7, 1928, Page 8

THE EVEN NG STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY, AUGUST 7. 1928. R s e THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY.......August 7, 1928 THEODORE W. NOYES. ...Editor The Evening sm!:emm Compawy w 3 1ith St and Pennsy) 8 Av | New York Office: 1l st 42nd Chicago Office: Tower Bullding. European Office: 14 Regent St., Londen. England. Rate by Carrier Within the City. 45c rer menth ¥ 60c per month T ..1.68¢ per month The Sunday Star ... c per copy Collection made at the end of each month. Orders may bo sent in by mail cr telephone Main 5000 Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. | Maryland and Virginia. { Daily and Sund: 1 yr, $10.00: 1 mo., 8¢ E.lile only, 6. 1 mo., 50¢ cnday only $4.00. 1 mo., 40c All Other States and Canada. Datly and Sund: 1 yr. 812 1 mo, $1.00 ily only 1 18 "5S¢ inday only . BX soc Member of the Associated Press. ated Press is exclusively entitled tton of all 1 ews dis- e o ed 1n this paper and al o shed herein. All rights of publicatl a1 dispatches herein are Also rese news on of rved. i publ: an pe= The District Budget. Dispatches from Brule. Wis, state | that the District budget for the fiscal year of 1930 has been tentatively placed | at & maximum of $39.900,000 after a pruning of the preliminary estimates for the Govel t by the President and the director of the budget. It is| indicated that if any change occurs in the initial budget it will be in a down- i ward direction, but not materially. This total granted the District, which is a trifie more than a million dollars below | the total of the appropriations & su-} able for Capital maintenance for (hcl current vear, including the supple- mental appropriations, is reported to be almost solely for current actual ex- penses incident to District administra- tion. Practically no provision is made in this estimated amount for unusual or extraordinary purposes. No allow- ance is given for the municipal airport, and no instal'ment on the public schools building program is provided. In other words, the budget of $39,960,000, which may shrink before submission to Con- gress. allows for no advance in needed permanent improvements. The District naturally hopes for a re- wision upward of its appropriation al- Jowance. It is entouraged somewhat by the intimation that the Bureau of the Budget will not interpose objections to supplemental appropriations to the amount of an additional million. But even this enlargement of the fund ‘would not satisfactorily provide for the vir- tually essential works that remain to ready knows, they floated safely on top of the waves until rescued by the steamer which answered their S O S calls. The landing and rescue constitute a bright point in aviation history. To be forced to land on the ocean from a height of fifteen hundred feet within thirty seconds in the daytime is a situ- ation fraught with difficulties, but to drop a ship down out of the skies upon the top of high waves in the blackness of night adds a fifty per cent hazard to an already precarfous plight. Once safely down the entire crew could con- centrate on extinguishing the blaze, but to get down before fire ate away the tail controls was the problem that had to be met and conquered without time harassed fivers on the right path is a tribute to their airmanship. It is small wonder that Capt. Court- ney is firm in his conviction that the ing boat instead of a plane equipped good radio set is essential if airmen would take the proper precautions in their gamble with the elements. Un- questionably, Courtney and his com- panions are alive today solely because | their craft was stanch enough to with- stand the shock of landing, seaworth: enough to ride for more than ten hours above the waves and was equipped with | a radlo set powerful enough to summon ! ocean liners for aid. Truly, in the les- | sons it taught it was, as Capt. Court- ney so aptly states, “a successful fail- | ure.” | —atr— Talkative Managers. Silence is golden, but it is also diffi- | cult. Campaign managers have found | this true to their cost. John J. Raskob, heading Gov. Smith's campaign for the | presidency, s one of the latest to dis- cover that a wagging tongue is not al- ways an asset. A few days ago Mr. Raskob was quoted as saying that he found nothing uneconomical in the equalization fee principle of the Mc- Nary-Haugen farm-ald bill. He had been in conference with the persuasive George N. Peek, chairman of the Farm Belt Committee of Twenty-two, who has since announced his support of Smith for President. Then came Gov. Smith’s flat statement that the equali- zation fee would not do, that he would not accept it, but would seek to work out some other plgn of accomplishing the same end. And now Mr. Raskob asserts that he was incorrectly quoted, that he had no opinion on the subject of the equalization fee and that he, in fact, did not understand it. This is| frank, at least, although his statement | denying the quotation comes almost a | week after the publication of the quota- i for thought. That instinct guided lhel proper plane for overseas trips is a fly- | with wing pontoons, and also that a | tion. Mr. Raskob announces, too, that he has engaged Prof. Edwin R. A. Selig: man of Columbia University, N. Y., an be authorized and financed. The question of the basis on which the appropriations are made by Con- gress unmistakably arises in considering the sdequacy of the provisions made by Congress. Despite the persistence of the House of Representatives in main- mm:mpmpmmmm muwmmemmunhw which establishes a fixed ratio of sixty- mnmmmmum- eral Government, ¥he District must con- tinue to demand full equity in the mat- mo!wldonlurme-enma( maintenance and of growth. It was disappointed last session when, after 2 vigorous fight by the Senate for the yestoration of the substantive law, the act was passed on the lump sum basis. It will continue at the next session to demand the restora- authority on finance,. to work out’ s plan of farm relief. This ought to tickle the farmers of the Middle West. Prof. Seligman may be the right man to solve this problem. The implication con- tained in Mr. Raskob's statement ix. that the pian developed by the New York professor is to be adopted as the Democratic farm-aid plan. But here again Mr. Raskob may run foul of his chief, Gov. Smith, and may have to pull in his horns. ‘The Democratic chairman not long ago said that some of the pastors of Protestant churches in the South, who have been antagonistic to the election of Smith, had been warned that their | churches would be poorer unless they desisted in their attacks on Smith; that | 1arge contributors to the churches would A Base Ball Spurt. | withhold their usual gifts. Mr. Raskob What for some time past has seemed | may be perfectly correct in this state- o be » runaway race in the American | yent. But he showed little wisdom in League of base ball clubs, with the New | aqvertising the fact that the screws are York Yankees a certain winner, DOW ¢ be put upon the Protestant churches develops into a close fight for league | in the South in order to halt attacks supremacy, with the possibility of & ypon the Democratic candidate. @ramatic finish for the season. At the| Mr Raskob and Gov. Smith appar- height of their prowess of batting and | ently are in perfect harmony on the pitching the league leaders suddenly | wet and dry issue. But here again Mr. went into a slump. And at the same| Raskob has gone beyond the stand so time Manager Cornelius Magillicuddy’s | far taken by the candidate. For Mr. Athletics, which have been trailing| Raskob has declared that the wet and miong in & seemingly hopeless second | dry question is the main issue of the place from nearly the beginning of the | campaign. That doubtless goes well in season, went into a spurt that has al-| New York City and other wet centers, most. closed the gap between the two | but not 5o well in the more arid South teams. The protracted series of Yankee | and States of the West. Even now com= defeats, coinciding with an equally pro- | intimations that the governor does not tracted stretch of Athletic victories, has | desire to stress the issue in dry terri- narrowed the margin of the New York tory. champions to three and a half games.| Candidates, naturally, having placed Base ball observers have seen mny‘men of their choice at the head of the ©f these strange slumps on the part of | campaign committees, must allow them seemingly perfect combinations of play- | leeway. Only men who have ability to ers. Nobody knows just what causes| manage a grest political campaign are them. With a wide margin in the per- | supposed to be selected for these posi- centage column, the leading team has | tions. But doubtless there come times no particular need to extend itself. It| when candidates must wish that an simply goes “stale” & phenomenon “open season” in which to gun for known in all branches of athletics. The | campalgn managers could be arranged. pitchers lose their cunning, the batters | JRS——-- their eye. Fielders fumble easy| In the Olympic games America was ehences or make wild heaves at critical | conspicuous in events calling for team points of the game. Sometimes the | work. ‘The spirit of m-omlnluoln isa siump ends as suddenly as it began s national trait, which base ball may the morale of the organization is re- | possibly have had something to do with stored. But anxiety over the failure of | developing the best efforts to win has its deterio- rating effect, just as the confidence of the overtaking team acts as a stimulant With the keenest sympathy for the Some years ago the Boston team of | distress of the Italian people caused by the National League, going into a spurt | the sinking of & submarine in the Adri- which made base ball history, advanced | atic, Americans are chiefly alert to note from last place on the first of July 10 |the methods employed in the efforts to the leadership and ended the season |rescue the imprisoned men. This is Similar Submarine Disasters. of the efforts to vescue the forty-two men imprisoned in the S-4, all of whom | were lost. 1In the course of the dis- russion many methods of succoring submarine crews were advanced, some fantastic, some possibly practical. It would be important to note whether the methods employed in the case of the Italian submarine demonstrate an improvement, due possibly to the Amer- ican experience. After the sinking of the S-4 messages were received from the crew through the medium of hammer blows upon the hull. It is reported from Rome that communication has been established with the men in the«F-14, the Italian craft, by means of a submarine tele- phone, the nature of which is not dis- closed. The tragedy of the S-4 was intensified by the knowledge that ite occupants survived for many hours, Two days after the collision a faintly tapped message was received, asking “Is there any Mope?” A day later the tapping became unintelligible and then there were no more signals. When the submarine was raised several months later evidences were found that several of the members of the crew had sur- vived the first inrush of waters and that they might have been saved if he craft could have been raised promptly. Many submarines have been lost in peace time, some of them in collision, some in consequence of failures of the valves or the mechanism. Undersea service is exceptionally hazardous. The danger of collision between a rising submarine and surface craft is espe- cially great i1 the course of maneuvers | or in frequented channels. A large per- centage of the disasters of this charac- ter is due to this cause. There seems to be no known means at present to avert the danger. But doubtless meth- | ods will be found whereby the navi-| gators of underwater craft can dPlF(‘t" the proximity of surface craft when | returning from submergence. Until that achieved there will be more of these | tragedles. - A Sorry Story. From a perusal of the day's news it appears that the recent heat wave has claimed many victims. In Pennsylvania a man has filed application for per- mission to roll a barrel through the State en route from Buffalo, N. Y., to Miami, Fla. In New York State two marathon dancers won a prize when they allegedly danced from Bridgeport, Conn,, to New York City in thirty-three hours. And in Connecticut a man ran backward from Bridgeport to Stamford in seven and one-half hours. What a record for supposedly sane America to compile in one day! Rolling a barrel, dancing over the highways and running backward in blazing Mid- summer! It is a sorry spectacle in- deed and.one that can bring no pride to a country noted for industry, efi- ciency, literacy and intelligence. —_— It may be necessary, after all, to al- low Mr. Blackmer, the ol man, to fol- low the example of other ex-patriots| and become sufficiently homesick to take a chance on coming back on his own account. S A slogan should be tested out very carefully in private before being launched into publicity. Many slogans have developed marked relationships to the boomerang. - So far as the prohibition situation is concerned, the citizens who “point with pride” are not so numerous as those who “view with alarm.” e ‘The coolness of earlier Summer was a matter for comment, but the month of August enables the law of averages to command its customary respect. S SRR B Paris fashion experts predict a re- turn to long voluminous skirts. Strictly speaking, their announcement is not | precisely a prediction, but only a hope. | oo Any one who doubts the lavish wealth of this time and country need only make a casual survey of tips and cover charges at a night club. ———— A valuable precaution would be found if every plane before making a hop-off could be required to be chalked “O. K., | Lindbergh. e e SHOOTING STARS. i | | | | BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. The Much-Approved Smile. “Don’t forget to wear a smile,” Comes the word of kind advice. Let's go somewhat further, while ‘We would make this world so nice. Don’t forget to wear a hat Like a helmet, closely pressed, Nor to wear each this or that ‘Requisite to one well dressed. | Don't forget to wear the shoes ‘With the heels so very high, Nog to wear the curlicues at in newest gowns draw nigh. Let good spirits persevere, Even with a trace of guile. Don't forget the make-up, dea Don't forget to wear a smile, Cold Calculation. “Did that opulent person balk when you told him how much you desired from him for the campaign?” “He didn't exactly balk,” sald Sena- | with their A sensitive child can get more pleas- ure out of the cloud pictures at the sca- shore than from all the toys in all the shops in the world. The shore is a wonderful place in many respects, as every one knows, not up of great white, gray and sometimes black mas Everyday clouds, even at the seashore, will not do. Such ordinary manfesta- tions are merely pretty, just as they are in eity and town: there is no particular point to them, in so far as cloud pictures are concerned. It would take a supersensitive child to see castles and giants in the average grouping of clouds, either in town, coun- try, in the mountains or at the sea- shore. It is only occasionally, at none too frequent intervals, that clouds so form themselves as to allow one to actually “see” all sorts of things in them. Per- haps the seaside is the best place for this. Why this is so we do not know. The sea magnifies everything, of course. The sun is hotter, the brecze stronger, the air more full of life-giv~ ing qualities. There is no happiness like happiness at the seashore. There is no sleep so sound, nor awakening so cheer- ful. Only the life by the sounding surf can give us these benefits. For those at the seashore the great ocean exists, not so much to ride on or play in, as to fur- nish an exquisite background for life. One might presumably live in a sea- side city and never go near the shore, yet forever feel the glamour of it, and get the full benefit of the great ocean surging fitfully shoreward. This feeling is the reward of those who align themselves with elemental things—and there is nothing quite so elemental in this wdrld as the sea. From its depth, the scientists tell us, all life sprang. Truly today one may well believe it, as he stands on the shore, | looking out to the horizon, and smells | the salt air, which is like life to his | nostrils, ol | On certain days at the seashore, for | obscure reasons which it is not neces- sary to go into, clond formations take on forms easily recognized by human eyes as pictures. ‘These are the “cloud pictures” which every child knows who has ever visited the shore for any length of time. It takes the imaginative minds of children, unclouded perceptions, to make the most of them. . Their elders forget that clouds easily work themselves into representations of | things animate and inanimate, or, if they do have it pointed out to them, they affect to believe that the recogni- tion of such pictures is somewhat silly and essentially childish Perhaps that is true to a certain ex- tent; but we may recall Wordsworth's | great poem. in which he points out that children are nearer to Paradise than their elders, in some respects. Surely this is one matter in respect to which children clearly have the top | hand. A father or mother may not be | able to see the giant up there at all, but | the child sees it very plainly. We can recall one day in our own youth at a Maryland resort when cloud pictures came and went with the regu- larity of views on a strip of movie film. They were, rather, dissolving views, re- sulting from slow formations gradually building themselves up into pictures, then as slowly disintegrating. Huge battlements would throw them- selves up for miles nlnm% the coast. It was on an afternoon following a severe | THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. the least of which is this gorgeous piling | es filling the sky to seaward. | | white cloud against the gr: | his tall, which more resembled a bal- nor'easter which had swept the coast the day before. The porpoises had wheeled their way South for three days previous to the storm. The waves had grown higher and higher; then came a gale, a burst of rain, and the utter dampness of a seashore storm covered everything. ‘What lightning there had been, what | great crashes of thunder, but above all, | what awe-inspiring black clouds! The | sea works up the blackest, thickest | cloud formations in Nature. To watch such a storm come rolling in from the | deep is to stand face to face with Crea- | tion for a little while, at least. And yet one is strangely unafraid, in | the face of such a sight. The lighining glitters against the black, the wind al- most pushes one over (and sometimes does, if one is very small), but somehow there is not a fright in a stormful. The | elemental atmosphers puts some of the elemental stuff into every backbone. Let 'er blow! * kx4 On the afternoon after this storm huge fleecy white masses of clouds built themselves up on the horizon, far away, yet seeming near, because of their grand extent, Much gray was mixed in, with here and there a stieak of black, as if re- mindful of what had gone before. And as one looked, the plctures began to parade across the heavens. There was a man's foce, with a nose 5 miles long, and two eyes at least 10 miles apart., He was wearing an old hat, something like the one the great Napoleon fancied. And now his nose was thickening, be- coming straight—by George, it was Na- poleon himself! There Bonaparte looked down from heaven upon a small group of imaginative boys and girls who had read enough to be able to recognize the mighty warrior. The sad part was to watch him break up. First his fine nose got a hump in it. | then it was smeared over his face. The | {wo eyes became streaks, huge v hisps of s. Then the famous hat bej The cockade went first, being s lowed up by the foundation of what wal- was a; {to turn into a castle, only we didn't/ | know that as yet. The left corner of the hat went in one grand obliteration, and soon_there was no more left of Napoleon I than history says. He had given way to a beautiful cas- tle, a Maxfield Parrish sort of thing, with spires on spires, domes above domes, with minarets and turrets, and lookout windows 15 miles in air, tower- ing majestically toward the super hea- ven of dreams. It was with real sorrow that we watched this huge edifice, built without hands, being a combination of immortal forces working with that even more im- mortal thing, the human imagination, dissolve slowly into nothingness. An old woman and a dog replaced it. The woman had on a bonnet, beneath which her crooked nose peered down at. the passing steamers which attempted to hit her with their streamers of black smoke. [ The dog was a good dog, except for loon than a tail; his legs werg a bit far- fetched, but his head was rhagnificent. There were other pictures, too nu- merous to mention, in fact so many that soon we grew tired of watching them, and left them unheeded in the heavens, while we went to help a real live dog digging for a fiddler crab on the beach. So always men leave imortal and hea- venly things for the crasser substances of a crude but glorious world. Statements made at the Seaftle ses- sions of the American Bar Association have appealed to the press as a chal- lenge both to citizens generally and to the legal profession in particular, Prevalence of crime is declared to call for an awakening of the public con- sclence and an increased feeling of responsibility is invoked for those who practice law. President Silas H. Strawn of the association spoke of the effect on crime of the law's delays and weak- nesses, casy transportation, organization among criminals and political contri- butions by law breakers. A report to the association emphasized the effect upon public life of enormous profits made by bootleggers. “Observant Americans,” says the Cleveland News, “are well aware of these disquieting truths. That lawyers also realize the facts may be encour- aging. But it would be more helpful if the law's practitioners would recom- mend ways to restore law to a state of efficiency and respect. Then lay- men could consider the advisability of additional means; such as curbing the extent to which lawyers can gain im- munity for criminals in return for shares of crime’s easy profits.” “The profession is obviously wonder- ing about itself and its future,” the Baltimore Evening Sun suggests. “Whom does it serve? Is it the bulwark of the public against evildoers, or is it the bul- wark of private interests against the public? 1Is it ®he nemesis of crime, or is the lawyer's office the sanctuary of criminals? When these questions begin to be asked, not at all ironically, but in grave earnest, it is time for the profes- sion to hegin to check up, to return to, first principles, to analyze its basic ten- dencies.” B ‘The statement by Mr. Strawn that “the reduction of crime depends not 50 much upon prosecuting officlals and courts as it does upon the attitude of the people,” Is taken up by the Savan- nah Morning News with the comment: “Those who blame the courts and the officers charged with the enforcement of the law forget that these are repre- sentatives of ‘the people,’ that they are chosen in election or appointed by au- thority Itself selected by the people, that they are agents of and servants for the people; that they are affected— oftentimes unconsclously—by the will of those who placed them in office * * * If the laws are not enforced, the people can, by expression of genu- ine, determined opinion, bring about an nlmoxph!’l" in which, so far as human effort, can *accomplish it, the laws will be enforced.” “It will do 1o good to pass additional laws, only to have them flouted by s while complaisani_officlals look ATgU the Santa Barbara Dally Awakened Public Conscience Needed to Crush Crime Wave. Advertiser, with the further statement: “The statutes themselves, generally speaking, are adequate. The fault is with their enforcement. To say that such a statement is commonplace is to admit the shameful truth that the wide- spread prevalence of crime is being ac- cepted by a large proportion of the public and by many officials as a nor- mal, or at least as an unavoidable, con- dition, instead of a recognized national | evil to be rooted out by extraordinary measures.” Quoting from Mr. Strawn, the opinion that “discontented citizens should med- itate more intently upon the possibility of helping themselves,” the Youngtown Vindicator states: “After all, l]aws can- not do everything. They cannot be too far in advance of the people; for if they are they are broken so much that the public comes to assume that if some | laws are held in such contempt others may be as well. In the end/ that leads to anarchy. The point is| worth remembering. So is Mr. Strawrs | remark that instead of trying to make | men good by law we must get them to | do something for themselves.” The New York Times' «discussion of the subject as related to bootleggers is quoted by the Raleigh News and Ob- server, with a reply to the view of the Times: “The Times says the associa- tion committee is repeating ‘the thread- bare demand,’ says talk of ‘vigorous en- forcement’ and ‘honest effort to en- force' is empty, and compares it to| ‘Dame Partington trying to mop up the ocean of rum.' * * The duty is incumbent upon all those who seek to| lead the people to preach respect for the | laws of the land. Failure to do this as| to one law encourages men to feel that | an with impunity violate other | | UNITED STATES IN WORLD WAR Ten Years Ago Today. French and American troops last night and today forced the passage of the Vesle along a front between Braisne and Pismes and are holding the high- way paralleling the river in the face of furious German counterattacks. * * Under an inferno of shrapnel and ma- chine-gun fire and waves of gas, the Americans forced their way over the Vesle River, while rain, varying from a drizzle to a downpour, drenched the battlefield. The French have already gained positions on the American left. * * * Field Marshal Halg this morning struck heavily at the armles of Crown Prince Rupprecht on the south side of | fact. NEW BOOKS AT RANDOM LG M. THE RISE OF THE HOUSE OF ROTHSCHILD. Count Egon Caesar Cortl. Cosmopolitan Corporation A story of lowly beginnings is that of the famous house of Rothschild. And to general readers this is the fact paramount that is caleulated to waken their deepest_interest. For the uplift- | ing of the humble has ever been a | matter of surpassing personal appeal to | the great commonalty, since— who | knows! And, from time out of mind. moralist and’ fabulist, romancer, poet and plain literalist, have wrought unon | this theme their best and most endur- | | ing work. From a single point of view | the records of the Rothschilds belongs. clearly, to_the medium of saga and romance. From its chief substance and effect, however, the narrative is pure In mood and purpose, in ap- proach and method, in general outlook and intellectual equipment, Count Corti is the historian, presenting an impor- tant period of European politics by way of this family group of financiers. Meyer Amschel Rothschild was born in the ghetto of Frankfort-on-the-Main late in the eighteenth century. Then, as before and since, all -sorts of re- strictions were placed upon the Jews Only a few occupations were open to | them. Wearing inhibitions upon the | personal daily lile were many ani burdensome. Handicaps and hardship. | appeared to be invented mercly to thwart and defeat them. It is inferest- ing, and stirring, to reflect that many | of the conspicuous business and civic | excellencies of the Jews today arc sourced in those old impositions and in the indomitable spirit of the Hebrews themselves. However, that is a long story, and a different one. Let us go back to Meyer Amschel who, as a lad of 12, was expert in money changing— that is, in exchanging gold and silver for the appropriate amount of copper, “coarse” money. At that time Europe | was a motley of petty kingdoms and principalities, each with a currency of its own. So, at every frontier ths money changer was a person of im- portance in the progress of any com- mercial transaction whatever. The boy Meyer Amschel was conspicuously ready-handed in these dealings. With the deft hand there went along a keen money wit. Besides, the boy became something of an authority in the mat- ter of coins, many rare ones coming his way. Even as a stripling he grew to be a recognized collector of rare and valuable coins. All the days and nights so spent, either in action or dreaming, gave nurture to Meyer Amschel's deep- lying sense of money values and uses and ultimate potencies. It was in such | small and matter-of-fact manner that the house of Rothschild took seed and sprouted and grew till its branches | finally came to offer shade and ma- | terial comfort to the hard-pressed coun- | tries of all Europe and beyond, a financial concern known and respected throughout the world. Looking into this matter from the i | Washington Information Burea | Pt Is oint ahout your business | What do you need to know? there some f or personal there something you | fe that puzzles you? Is want to know without delay? Submit your question to | of our | He | is employed to help you. Address your inquiry to The Evening Star Informa- | tion Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, d rector, Washington, D. C., and inclo 2 cents in coin or stamps for ret postage. Are many lamp-posts destroyed by automobile accidents?—K | A. In New York City alone their replacement costs about $18,000 nually. The costs are usually collected from the drivers or their estates. Frederic J. Haskin, director rn Q. How many members has the | Japanese Red Cross?—C. R. A. It now has a membership 2,500.000. of The American Red Cross | has a membership of about 4.000,000 ' tand is driving for 5,000,000 for the twelfth roll call. Q. Who is the Treasurer of the United States?—8. M. A. Mr. H. Theodore Tate is the Treasurer of the United States. H 1928 easury Ir De: was appointed on June Tate has served in the | partment_for 20 years and in the ca- of assistant treasurer for pacity yea . How do the English the word schedule?—W. W A. They pronounce it a: shed’ yul. Q. During the World War in how many combats were American aviators engaged?—G. P. A. American jators engaged over 2,100 combats during the war. How many biblical sites in Pal- estine have been accurately located?- w. pronounce ¥ ¢ in in Palestine E. A. Over 1300 places have been mentioned in the Bible identified. Q. Does thunder cause milk to sour?—S. D. P. A. Thunder do#s not cause milk to sour. However, milk will sour in any kind of warm and moist temperature, and because just before and during a thunderstorm the air is generally quite BY PAUL It's hard to keep a good issue down, even if it be not mentipneéd in either the Democratic or Republican plat- forms. Possibly that non-mention makes it all the easier for the Demo- cratic candidate to adopt it. No ent-up Utica” is his platform. So one of the great issues thrown into ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. s if spalled | BACKGROUND OF EVENTS V. COLLINS. warm and moist, milk will sour more quickly than under normal conditions. @ Are any of the great poets of e Romantic Age buried in Westmin- r Abbey?—P. M. A. Not one is buried there, Q. How did the number of Boers compare with th imber of British ! during the Bc War? E. L A. The total Boer enlistment did not e 75000, while the British forces cngaged numbered nearly 450,000 men. Q. How many Masons are there in the United States?—H. H. W. A. The total membership of the Masonic organization is approximately 3,134,501, in the United States. Q. d any negroes hold property L before the Civil War?—M. G. Many slaves had been freed and A had acquired property before the Civil ‘War. Q. When will the bridge across the | Mississippi at Cape Girardeau be com- | pleted?—W. J. C | A. 1Its dedication is set for October. | It is the only bridge across the Missis- sippi River between St. Louls and | Memphis, is 3,413 feet in length, and ust $1,600,000. Q. What woods should be used to make posts on the farm?—R. D. | Almost any of the hard woods including cedar and locust, if properly treated, may be used for making posts. Q. How Jong have shoes been worn? —N. M. P. A. The sandal, the earliest and simplest shoe, was known by the most primitive races and was certainly worn by the ancient Egyptians. The Hittites wore shoes, often with gaiters above to protect the ankle and calf of the | @ What are some of the steps that | can be taken to prevent crime?—M. L. A. H. E. Barnes says: “Pirst step in preventing crime is to see that the human individual is well born; second, adequate education: third, sufficient manual or vocational education to pro- vide means of making a living: fourth, efficient methods of aiding backward children who might become victims of criminal suggestion.” by way of the St. Lawrence as opposed ta the Erie Canal, or to railway trans- portation. And unless we can do some- thing to build up this agricultural in- | dustry to expand our food products, i New York as a food-shipping port will disappear at any event, and she will | have been deprived of the enormous | historian’s point of view, Count Corti | this. national campaign, according to | business and commerce that results. appears to have reached the conclusion that the story of political BEurope | around about the Napoleonic period and i the story of the great banking concern | going vessels shall penetrate to Chicago | transportation. the New York Times, is whether the St. Lawrence Ship Canal shall be built around the rapids. and thereby ocean- panding agricultural in- 3 * We have a problem all the United States in railway Our railway trans- from dus over the ex .. of Rothschild run along together at|and Duluth and save 10 cents a bushel | portation has not kept pace with the many a crisis in continental affairs. |frejght charges on Northwestern grain, By this time there are sons to Carry ior a barge canal from Niagara to Al- on, four or five Rothschilds, peers of | pany shall cross Gov. Smith's State one another in the domain of Euro- iand enable New York to advertise pean financial affairs. Very mixed |itself as “Greater New York.” Accerd- | tion of vital importance and wide scope. growth of our population and busi- | ness. At the period of peak load in the | Fall of every year, we asrive at a grow- ing crisis with every year that passes. | This year we have had such a shortage affairs these were, too, with princelings |ing to Julius Barnes, that saving to | in {ransportation facilities that at many as petty as they were generally impe- cunious, all clamoring for the where- withal to continue each his own royal | existence. It was at these junctures shat the great bankers were of prime importance, During a part of this time | Napoleon was a very special pest to the little potentates, making and unmak- ing kingdoms to suit himself and his brood of greedy in-laws, each hungering for a realm all his own to rattle around in his pocket for the fine jingling sound and the rich feel of the thing. And with these swift map changes in Europe of that period the Rothschilds kept step, growing in finesse and subtlety and power, growing in a knowl- edge of state affairs, till the political opintons and judgments of this famous brotherhood became second in value to the soundness of their financial re- sources and their financial statesman- ship. Money, power, prestige, united ultimately to set the house of Roths- child high in the deliberations of the great ones of the earth. Along the way storms assailed that which they had so carefully built, disaster threat- ened the house of Rothschild, yet always a clear foresight, coupled with ready adaptability, served this famous . as it serves every enterprise, reat or small. A fine story, to which ts author devoted arduous study for several years before putting it into print. His material was old letters and documents, embodying many & transac- | Among these Count Corti searched, col- lecting and organizing them into a unit that sets out not only the story of this famous Jewish family of finan- clers, but that sums as well to a record of European diplomacy and intrigue during the time when the continent through many vicissitudes, ap- was, proaching the modern sense of nation- ¢ ality. ‘This a movement which re- sulted in the constitution of Europe | as it stands politically today. Here the biography of an institution and a family expands by its own substance | to include a chapter in the develop- | men of modern nationalism. * Kk THE PORTRAIT OF A BAN James Stillman. Anna Robeson Duffield & Co. In a broad sense this is a study of a group representing the modern system of finance and banking--that is, except for the feature of James Stiliman which | it portrays in friendly intimacy, it stands besides as a running account of the attitudes and behaviors of several | of the great bankers of the country. | Sort of a composite, the study is in its | general effect. It is this view of the| banking system as it is today which, though sketchily presented as it cer- tainly is, gives to the story its widest | interest and usefulness. ~Like every | other department of knowledge, finance | and banking have within recent years rounded into a system, taken on nl specfal technic, assumed powerful rela- | tions with every other sort of enterprise become the most potent of active in- dustrial influences. Yet, tion of finance and banking remains to | the average man and woman most abracadabrh-—sounds without meaning. Any effort, therefore, to open up the on understanding KER: Burr. | | greatest advantage to Syracuse could have its own seaboard, or if it grain raisers alone would be $336,- 000,000 a year. * ook % In support of the local New York project is the argument of Engineer Olin Landreth, who calls attention to the claim that “most of the Great Lakes traffic is domestic, rather thai foreign, American rather than Cana- dian.” From this he concludes that only the domestic needs should be con- sidered. Yet if domestic needs alone are counted, why should there be any canal? The products of the great West can reach Buffalo by water already, and railroad competition is what outbid the barge canal across the State of New York. Gov. Smith, in a message of 1925 stated that already $225,000,000 has been invested in the barge canal, upon the expecta- tion that traffic wculd run up to 20,000,000 tons a year, but up to 1925 the \maximum had been 3,000,000. No traffic except domestic can use the barge canal: nections, hence 3,000,000 tons may be its maximum. Gov. Smith hoped that the . Federal Government might take over that local ditch and improve it, or that some “canal authority” would undertake it by issuing bonds to be amortized out of the fature earnings. * % %k W. C. Redfield, Secretary of Com- merce under President Wilson, later Member of Congress, and forever a “regular Democrat” of New York, testified in 1920 concerning the St Lawrence Ship Canal: “As a citizen of this State I quite fail to understand the opposition to this project on what seemed o me, I will say frankly, provincial or parochial grounds. I can imagine that it would be of great advantage to the City of Buffalo to be made a sea- | s can come from | port to which vessel all over the world. The city limits of Rochester already reach to Lake On- tario, and I can conceive that, as other cities have done, it might be of the it it might possibly extend itself into im- mediate touch with the sea. To my mind, the development of 590,000, or | thereabouts, kilowatts of energy right | {at the border of our State, which can | be distributed throughout the State, substantially, by well known methods, can_only be beneficial to the State of New York, relieving its railways from the unnecessary obligation of carrying coal, and providing just so much clear movement for its other transportation. I can conceive that New England itself would gain very largely from the same ability to get power and stopping thereby the congestion of the New England lines with coal.” PR The St. Lawrence Ship Canal alone will produce great electric power: the barge canal across New York will pro- duce no power, and in fact the grave question is how it can be supplied with water suffictent for transportation. The Welland Canal around Niagara this combina- | pails is wholly in Canadian territory: | country has agricult it will be completed In 1929, but that can have no possible connection with the New York Barge Canal. Another canal around Niagara would have to be it has no ocean con-| and | | points there has been a differential, | a premium upon cars, a differential be- | tween wheat in the elevators seekh transportation and wheat one hundr‘:s miles away in the terminals, a diffe ential of upward of 20 cents a bushel. That is a penalty taken from the American farm: it only represents one | small charge imposed upon the com- munity by the inadequacy of our rail- roads. I believe that any group of who sit down to consider e problem of the expansion of these rajlw: to mect the growing needs of | our people and to develop it to the { handling even our present prod- v will agree that one of the most economic directions in which that transportation can be expanded is through the construction of this “I have regretted very much to see the local opposition in New York City I have indeed felt that | it was based somewhat upon the same attitude of mind that objects to the introduction of labor-saving machinery. Every item that we can introduce into - | our tools of production that decreases | the cost of production and serves to in- | crease the standard of living of the | American people is something that we | should aspire to achieve. I belleve | that this project will increase;.the | volume of our production, and it will increase the standard of life.* If | we can lower the cost of transportation | from the inland ports of the United | States, we will have contributed direct- Iy ta the welfare of the whole people ‘qnfl Nt;v\" York depends vitally, lives solely, upon the prosperity United States. * + & Tt would crease the productivity of the States by the measure that we | opportunity to the farmer to | him to use fertilizers to in m‘xdlllvr“m . | ew York advocate of the {canal. Mr. Hill, queried: “Then m-“: question of the supply of fertilizes to btrhr”{‘n‘rmo;‘ rather than the incrégsed acilities for transportation -that« wil help the farmer in opr?m and ':“ | to this project. Mr. Hoover—Not solely, because is a large area of land not vet ht |into production in the United States, and by every cent that we can s the the value of produce we in are Mr. Hill-Do yvou apptehend that :‘!'}‘cr\‘ ‘[;llll:f a ;I\me when the total ton- age wi exhausted—t! s, pr i hat is, in' time Mr. Hoover—T expect to see that de- jcrease gradually until it is exhausted, {unless we can give a return to the | farmer in the United States that brings imore profit and a larger vield per acre. | . Mr. Hill-—That brings the point forci- | bly before me. TIs it not a fact that we gradually are absorbing all the cereal tproduets of this country? Mr. Hoover—Quite, and New York will | soon disappear as a cereal port unless We can give the farmer encouragement. Mr. Hill-We will need all the prod- nets in the countrv to supply a grow- | ing population of 105,000,000. Mr. Hoover—Not necessarily. This ural productivity that can be made to keep ahead of fts | growing people * o owow Mr. Hoover demonstrated his contin- o5 champion. Ever since then every |because of the unfortunate fallure of |tor Sorghum. “but his patriotlc spirit |y “Honest police officers and | B¢ sallent. ' Attacking on a front | mystery to & comi built, at an estimated cost of $150.000,- manager has hoped for such a streak | endeavors to save the crew of the §-4 | hesitated. He reminded me that helcounty officers, honest courts and|of HEARY O Thiig i P B0 British ad- | j5"a worthy effort. And in the measure | 600, ' That would let traffic down some reciation of the importance of o wood fortune or good playing. 1In|of the American Navy, which was sunk | €Ould back a big musical show for less | jurles can and will clean up the crime | 5 T ot OO AT« S oo | fo. Whith (B MINE R e oy | 110 erinira Take Bvis fo the Jowi | Lawrence Ship Canal and s & “ 4 - than half as , inals. And an aroused public will see 0 # C¢ 000 ) wrough her subject, the foundations of | 5t the terminus of the barge canal, | cleetric power production, whe . this present case the rise of “Connle | in similar circumstances last December. | /0" ”'_""h'"”“‘ I’f“’“"’ and probably | { Vi (hat officials do their duty or {;1““‘(‘) the “"‘,-V‘c’-“"":,‘ road and expel | panking, Its purpose, its procedure, is | and then (he barge canal would have clared in a speech in New Haven ":;a:‘c’h ve more than twice as much fun, drive them (o the tall timber. After | the Getmans from ridge positions east | benefits, to that extent the book 1s of | to “step up” 300 feet to get over the |12, 19 * of Amiens. * * * Today's casualty contains 1,014 names, bringing the grand total of casualties for Army and Mack’s” Athletics to within striking dis- | The 8-4 was rammed by a destroyer in tance of the league leadership is com- | the Coast Guard service off Province- general interest. However, this writer is not a student of the science of bank- profession. | helght of land. then descend fo the| “But our major purpose is to |level of the Hudsen River at Albany. great and cheaper h'nnxnoru(mnMI::;(: | Therefore all the water supply would | The development of power is a fore all, the remedy lies with the people, Obscure Contributor, and they mus! it or submit to the She is a novelist by parable to the Boston performance on that occasion Chicago continues in a movement 1o establish bombmaking as a regular in- dustry ] A Successful Failure, Detatls of the accident which befell Capt. Frank T. Courtney and his three eompanions on their attempted over- seas flight to New York add another thrilling exploit to the annals of avia. tion, At midnight, when fifteen hun- dred feet above the ocean, Capt. Court- ney was startled by the reflection of & red glare in his tiny windshield. In- stantly sensing that the big flying bost had caught on fire, the Britisher dived for the sea. He did not know in which direction the wind was blowing or with any exaciness his height above the water 'To his skill in landing by the Yight of his burning ship he and his town, Mass,, as the submarine was ris- ing. The Italian submarine was hit in almost the same manner by a destroyer in the course of maneuvers, likewise as the undersea hoat was emerging. The 8-4 went down in 102 feet of water, the Itallan craft in 131. In each case i stormy weather prevailed, making sal- | vage work extremely difficuit, The con- | ditions were less favorable in the case of the B-4, however, than those ob- taining in the Guif of Pola, where the Italian craft was sunk. It is reported hat rescue work was started immedi- ately by the Italian Navy, whereas there was some delay in getting pon- toons and pumps to the 8-4. This de- lay was due in part to the weuther no assemblage of naval forces in Mas- | sachusetts Bay at the time, whereas | the seccident in the Adriatic occurred | during maneuvers, Much criticlsm was expressed las! and in part to the fact that there was ‘The fish that's landed as a prize For admiration comes to view; But has no chance to realize ‘The honors that to him are due. Jud Tunkins says when a man thinks he has everything his own way, that's the time to look out for the bump. Candid Avowal. “What do you think of aviation?" “I don't think of it at all if I can help 1t. I'm too casy scared.” “No one can be entirely idle,” Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown who toils little must talk much’ Where They Take the Temperature. Though reverent respect I always pay “To nearly every monument or mosque, 1'd like to get out with an ax some day And gayly smash that Avenue “Kiosk." “Dar ain’ no comfort,” sald Uncle Fhen, “who 'pears to imagine dat we | de orlginal discoverers of hot weather grew owe tielr livee, As the world pi- Winter op the score of the lnadequacy In Sumuner time," domination of crooks." Bub the Louisville Times remarks that, “as President Strawn points out, the public is careless in the selection of those who are entrusted WIth law en- forcement hereln, unquestionably,” continues that paper, “fs the principal point. ‘The encouragement of bootleg- ging comes from patrons, many of whom are classed otherwise as law-abiding citizens. But in bulldin t of the underworld these good ¢ are tearing at the foundations of law und order. They ure giving the under- world fast cars, corruption funds and mauchine guns.” “Whenever the public consclence be- comes aroused to action in maintaining respect for and obedience to law” de- clares the Philadelphia Evening Bulle- tin, “there will be irresistible power to enforce it. If the desired results in law enforcement. of any kind are to be at- tained, the appeal must go farther and deeper than merely to the mental facul- ties of the public; something more than & condition of alarm must be created The consclence of ‘the public needs to be aroused.” Marine Corps to 17,837; 115 Killed in action, 437 severely wounded and 113 missing in actlon. * * * Gen.Mangin, !who was In direct command of the | allied forces in the drive against the German right flank south of Soissons, issues an order of the day thanking the American troops for thelr brilliant par- | ticipation n the battle which caused |the German retreat und credits them with capturing 91 guns and 7,200 pris- oners. * * % Surg. Gen. CGorgas ap- peals for nurses throughout the United States to enlist at the rate of a thou- | sand & week for elght weeks, - v Bill Is “Food For Thought.” From the Loulsville Lourler-Journal. The advertisement of a prominent rallroad that it “serves food for thought in its dining cars” probably refers to the bill, . Nothing to Wear No Boast. From the Grand Rapids Press. L L Failure of the law to cope with crime # asserted by the Huntington Herald- In these days it seems almost A boast when a woman remarks that she has nothing to wear.” ing. Naturally, therefore, her approach to a subject is dramatic rather than exposi- tory. Here, in fact, a friendly artist sits down to paint the picture of a | triegd. And the subject IS an entirely worthy one. The sitter is, however, a prominent business man, the exponent of a highly specialized subject. No doubt he is made, mostly, of flnance knowledge of it, adventures within its domain, thoughts and feelings about it. Everybody Is made of his vocation, or a ation. The true artist knows this, and trles to get the spirit into color and pigment. This is a true artist, in her own field, which Is that of mak- ing up pleasing storles for readers to enjoy. But this s another matter. No- body 1s going to say that this is not an interesting story, for it is. A curiously complex and inexpressive character looks out now and then—a silent man who delivers always more than he promises. A successful man, with some of the Instruments of his success given here, 1s a good showing. Now it seems to one reader at least that if Mrs, Burr had nttempted less with the professtonal business life of James Stillman and had held more elosely to the personal life | and more impressive biography than s :lr:ln blend of syatem and the man, since e system s inadequately concelved there would have been a cleaner cut and handled by the author, have to come from the Adirondack | Mountains; there would be no surplus | tity for transportation over a channel ! 27 or 30 feet deop. 1 PR TS R It is of paramount interest to note what Herbert Hoover sald of the re- spective merits of the two canal proj- eets in 1920-years he became | A nominee for the presidency. He was | testifying a8 an engineer. not as a politiclan. Tt 8 of special interest to note his concern in the prosperity of agriculture i Mr. Hoover said | “At our present rate of ratio of in-| creased population to productivity of | our fayms, we will arrive within an- other 10 years at a point where we ‘¥ill not be exporting food products from the Unif States. If we arrive at that point. New York has lost nothing through the transportatgn of grain g e funate and val the total cost ;hle by-product. While f the works on the St. | for power, If, indeod, & sufficient quan- | Lawrence will amount o about $800.- 000,000, o our engineers estimate that a v we deduct that portion of which will be lul‘(--n over by :R: development by other agencies, fous estimates with a Federal and Dominion Gov- of from $£100,000,000 to $200.- 000,000, which itself may some day be recovered from power. This is not a stupendous sum for two nations.” It must be remembered that the barge eanal across New York cannot ;u-.l-mulv any electrie power n the same speect 3 O rn\‘f ech Mr. Hoover sum- “Our Army engineers have ny - haustive examination of the Nr:'dt.\';:k route. If it were constructed wholly upon Americhn soil, it would cost over $630,000,000. If it were constructed on the shorter route from Oswego to Al- bany, it would not be an all-American route, for ships would then need pass through ths Canadian Welland Canal around Niagara. In this case it would cost $300,000.000. In neither case would there be any eleetrical power it (Copyright, 1838, by Paul V. Collinsd we ¢ cost to ernment