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his machine completes an errand. Of course, if this maneuver takes place on W Sunduy Morning BAMION. __ | arrow street or near an tntersection WASHINGTON, D. C. [in heavy traffic. it is cause for action WHURSDAY. .....August 9, 1928 on the part of the police, but under or- dinary circumstances there should be THEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor | no more cause to arrest this type of | driver than there would be if a truck The Evening Star Newspaper Company operator stopped for a moment to un- Bu THE EVENING STAR om 11t st "hnd Penasivania Ave lond goods. New Yerk f)"m“" 110 East "'v*:_m At a matter of fact, parking abreast | PurceaOmen 34 Rovens Bi- London. | i¢ quite prevalent in Washington, and. P ! zenerally speaking. it does not hamper Rate by Carrier Within fhe Cltv. | through traffic. It is a necessary evil} 5 45¢ per month & e e ey et in Al large cities. From a reading ‘;')r_n l| .unld ;:' s #0c per month ;flf the regulation it s clear that motor- e A ndey BT e per month {ists have taken it upon themselves | 3¢ per con¥ | mildlr to violate it. but inasmuch as| At the end af each month mail or telephone {resulis have not been serious, it would appear that Judge Hitt's decision might well point the way to a change so that ! private owners would At least enjoy approximately the same rights as are accorded merchants. Nt —— Balanced Tickets. I The Democracy of Missouri is oing | to the polis in that State next NOVPm-i ber with a ticket half wet and half "8 | dry. The wet end of the ticket is Gov tian of ' Smith. the parts’s nominee for Presi- > Gent. The dry end it Charles M. Hay : EX Democratic nominee for Senator. And swklng to M\“lbn!. somewhere between the two extremes Judging from the pre-errangements| eomoq their candidate for governer for the transmission of the ACCCDLANCE | prapcis M. Wilson, who is dry “of rec- speech of Mr. Hoover by radio on Sat-| g put who is not unacceptable, it is arday night. the wireless svstem of OM- ! opqrieq, 1o the wet leaders in St. Louis munication is to play a highly Impor-| .4 gansas City. tant part in the present cempaign. Yes- |y js possible that the Democrats in | terday. 1t is reported, the Republican |y o P lh N e 16 play both ends candidate went to the great stadium of jooinct the middle, and put their ticket, the Stanford Dniversity and tried out | 12000 "0 BYG T Mier o viotors. | 1 | 19r. | ANl Other States and Canada. aily and Sunday..i r.$1200: 1 mo. £100 iIv only ... ...1 yr. $8.00: 1 mo. 78 day only . 1 yr. $500: 1 mo. I0c Member of the Associated Press. iated Pracs 1s exelusi' entitled 1on die- | ted to it or 1t paper and also AN rivht: herein The Assoel 0 the use for ren: tches credi in_this herein of a! + otherw the laca mRties also e BuNiched anecial the microphone and the amplifiers that{ 4,04 it i« what the Democrats have | fines, two-thousand-dollar owners one- | are to carry his voice to the 100.000 0f 4o taken to do in the sslection of the | the immediate audience and the count- . ona) ticket, the Nation over, with Tess millions of the “unssen audience™ gn i o wet, at the head of the ticket | when he formalls aceepts the Repub- ..y pobinson. a dry. at the other end. lican nomination for the presldency. g, gmith has made the issue in the | With the exception that the transmit-| ., aqien however. one of prohibition. | z;:; :::':‘n:; :: ;atr:::sé:imlr‘\z‘ .'r" with his telegram to the Houston con- rangements were found to be satisfac- .4, woulg peint the way to a change E"',:“w::“:u":“;e::: r:::r?:;"“ the Inw:-e;‘hlc? -m:ld permit ;‘m' 5 !States to decide for themselves what | ;‘;‘;‘;“""' not ‘:":;e"‘u:‘: :“"““‘ | constituted compliance with the eight- 3 . 3 . |centh amendment. B B G —— Gov Smith's | MP. Hay, the apparent nominee of th: | speech of acceptance, Which Wil be de- |\ o quri pemocrats for the Senate, has | lvered a few days later. will CarTy 10|, ounced that he will support the | ! an immense multitude. No specific de- | ., jigecy of Smith for the presidency. | absence of complete communication owing to the wrecking of the wire lines. to collect the data for a full summary of the losses. Florida is exposed to these destruc- tive storms owing to the peculiar con- formation of the coast at the point where many of those which form in the Caribbean whirl landward. There is no possible insurance Against them, no means of protection from their vio- lence. After the storm of 1926, recon- struction was undertaken upon a more substantial basis than had previously obtained, and the comparative im- munity of the larger areas of oceupa- tion mav be due to the higher resiat- ance of the struetures. Yet, in all like- lihood. the smaller loss of this time is probably attributable to the fact that the storm was not as severe or as pro- longed as that of two years ago. This visitation does not mount to the point of disaster such as that of 1926, when it was necessary for the relief agencles of the country at large to go to the aid of the stricken people. Thus far there has been no Indication of a need of help. If. however. upon a fuller disclosure of the losses it should appear that Florida is again In straits and requires assistance it will doubtless be promptly forthcoming. with the same as on the former zeal and efMclency occasion of disaster. TJustice? An innovation in motorists’ fines was | tried recently in Far Rockaway. when | tinetly mer. Zinnias were unusually slow to | a magistrate penalized those brought | before him on the basis of the cost of Four-thousand-dol- two-dollar their automobiles. lar car owners were given and those who possessed off dollar fines decrepit or inexpensive cars got altogether. Assuming that the report of this remarkable procedurs is correct. it would appear that the effect of the heat is being felt as much in Far Rock- vention. in which he said that if elect- away as it is in other sections of th~ he has been remiss in country. Such proceedings make a laughing stock of justice. Persons can be injured or killed by a five-hundred- dollar car as well as by a four-thou- sand-dollar machine, and to attempt to discriminate in a matter of this kind is nothing but a djstorted conception of justice. The magistrate should take no THIS the con- know full revising our opinjons on garden subjects. As those wonderful people, stant realers of this column, well, we are constantly One time we are just as likely as not to tell you that waiering the lawn weather-vane sort of porformancs Garden writings here at least have | the merit of actuality. We carefully | rofrain from serving up the old stuff | that has com» down through garden | lit=rature for hundreds of years 1t s remarkable how casy it | 1o accept what some one clse za i something and let it go at th | Because of this attitude many garden | articlesare filled with time-honored simply about | trom one generation of gardeners to | another. | " “The result is that amateur gardeners {are filled with a mixture of real in- | formation and misinformation. The sad | part of it Is that many of us will not ! believe our eyes when we prove a thing wrong, but go ahsad doubting our own | work o oxox This Summer we announce our con- A to the full watering program We have fried nz Nature take care of our back yard, and are sorry | to_announce that it doesn't work. Nothing in the garden except the | grass has done as well this season as last. The gladioli arc through, tne | hibiscus not up to snuff, the phiox dis- behind its blooming of last Sum- ver mature and blossoms have not been quite as good as usual. Even the pe- tunias, the blooming-est flowers of all, | have been slow to show flowers in the | borders. All of this shortage ascribed to lack of water, of course, since a dearth of fertilizer has been an accompanying villain. Just how to balance the two is a problem which we shall not attempt to solve. Only A | series of laborious experiments. carried cannot be out_over years. could begin to read such | | a riddle. If & gardener knows, however, that two detalls of | his gardening, to wit, watering and | fertilizing, he may reasonably suppose | that these shortages are responsible for | his failures. In our own case the lack of watering [ was deliberate. Tt came about through |an attempt to prove our belief that a lawn will be a better lawn and Winter- i1l less if Nature is allowed to take icare of it. Steady readers here will | recall that we have advocated both AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. |is good for it. and tae next day that {it fs bad for it Experience s the reason for this hokum blindly accepted and repeated | |Jim Jones was benefited by an fice | | cold bath. Sam Smith must be similar- y treated. Too often the cold bath | has exactly the opposite effect on Sam | that it did on Jim, yet the practition- |er shrinks from admitting it, since it breaks up the beautiful chain of de- ductions which he has drawn from his | experience with Jones e ok % Let us hasten to say that our jump- | ing at the conchrsion that the flowers did not need so much watering was en- tirely erroneous. The flowers didn't agree with us Allowing for the fact that proper fer. tilizer was lacking, the entire yard has a look which seems to bespeak nothing | | but lack of water. i We forget, as we believe most ama- | | | teur gardeners forget, that plant life | is mainly water The sturdy green stalks, the flat| leaves, the flowers themselves, all seem | so solid and meaty that it is difiicult | to remember thal about nine-tenths of them is water | A human being is largely water, but | A plant in the home garden is almost entirely so. If Nature endows a com- munity with an average rainfall, there mizht be little need for artificial water- inz, except for onme factor, that of drainage The general foar. in garden litera- ture, is (hat there will not be adequate | drainage, but in and around the Dis- | irfet of Columbia experience points to | just._the opposite condition. The great danger in this vicinity is that the garden is too well drained. The result is that even the most in- tense rainstorm flows away in about | 24 hours, leaving borders and beds almost as dry as ever. Perhaps you have been surprised, a day or 50 after a heavy rain, in mulch- ing a rose bed, to discover that the | ground Is only slightly damp as far down as you can reach convenlently. | This 15 because it has drained away; | | the drainage is too good, if anything!| | For_this reason, we have concluded, | our beds and borders need constant and heavy watering all Summer long. | Had we done this, everything in the | vard would have been much farther along, and, undoubtedly, better in re- <pect to both follage and flower. | Watering the garden becomes some- thing of a nuisance, it must be admit- ted, even If one is convinced of its as we are now convinced change our mind again, per- haps). Good hose, free from leaks, is A necessity. An outside connection i l PHILOSOPHIES BY GLENN FRANK Respect for law seems to be suffering the same setback that reverence has suffered in the modern world. The growing contempt for law that marks our time Is doubtless due, in part, to the general revolt against authority out of the turmolil of which the modern world was born 1 think it is accurate to say that the i shift from medievalism to modernism has been very largely the result of hu- manity’s attempt to substitute internal experience for external authority as & basis of thought and action. The growing contempt for law is also due, in part, no doubt, to the after effects of the war. ‘While it is true that war stimulates a regard for discipline and authority while war is on, it is also true that war results in a revolt against discipline and authority when war is over, for war is invariably followed by a let-down and loosening of the normal controls that govern men in their social relations. But it will not do, I think, to charge {all of the current disrespect for law | either to the long-time revolt of t modern mind agaipst ths philosophy of | authority or to the short-time reaction | against discipline that has followed lhv{ war There are other causss more specific and more susceptible to treatment by voters and by legislators, the more ob- vious of which may be listed, viz First, inexpertly drafted laws. If legislation could always be written s0 clearly that he who runs might read. we might eliminate a largs amount of the irritating litigation that crowds our courts, reduce the number of conflicting decisions, all of which hardly minister to popular respect for the law. Second, faddist legislation that seeks | to bring under public control rights and | actions that are manifestly personal and private. Unwarranted legal invasions of the private life of the indlvidual are not only socfally unsound, but ére next to impossible to administer. and futile leg- islation is the fertile sofl in which an- archy flowers Third. legislation that rests upon a cowardly compromise with obsolete tra- ditions and ancient prejudices which the majority no longer accepts, even though it has not yet openly revelted against them. Fourth, sluggish and uncertain court | procedures. The well-to-do who can back their cases with a_battery of distinguished | lawyers can often save themselves from such uncertainty and delay: but the poor are not likely to prostrate them- helps smooth the path tremendously. | selves In reverence before a legal ad- Our present bellef points to a three | ministration marked by an uncertainty and delay thev cannot circumvent. BY PREDERI There is no other agency in the world that can answer as many legitimate questions_as our free Information Bu- reau in Washington, D. C. This highly | organized institution has been built up |and is under the personal direction of | Frederic J. Haskin. By keeping In con- | stant touch with Federal bureaus and | other educational enterprises it is in a | position to pass on to you authoriative information of the highest order. Sub- mit your queres to the staff of experts | whose services are put at your free dis- !posal. There is no charge except 2 |cents in coln or stampe for return | postage. Address The Evening Star Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, director. Washington, D | Q What is a fair winaz—M. H. | A, This nautical term appiies to & 1w|nd which is the greatest help to a | sailing vessel, | the direction the vessel wishes to go. Q. Can the word “very” be used to modify “unique”?—B. M | A. The word cannot be modified or ualified. since “unique” is defined as “being without a like or equal; single in kind or excellence ™ wrote S. “The Q. Who | Bucket"? | A, This song was written by Samuel | Woodworth in 1817, and first published | under the title “The Bucket.” The air Is an adaptation by Frederick Smith of Kiallmark's musie. which was composed for Moore's “Araby’s Daughter.” Q. Was ensign ever an Army rank? —B.E. T. A. Ensign was the lowest rank of an |officer in the Revolutionary Army and |also in the British Army. The duties were to carry the ensign, or regimental | colors. The rank has now been abol- ished in the Army, and the lowest rank of commissioned officer is second lieu- tenant { est rank of commissioned officer. Old Oaken B 3 ! Is any pprt of Solomon's Temple | still standing?—E. H. L A. There is no part of Solomon’ | Temple standing. It was completely | Other temples were erected on the site. but nn part of Selomon's Temple re- | mained. Q. How did Zasu Pitts get her first name?—T. R. | A. The father of Zasu Pitts had two sisters, one named Eliza and the other Susan. Her mother decided to take the last syllable of the one name and the first of the other and give it to the child. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS ~ namely, one blowing in | In the Navy, ensign is the low- | destroved by the Assyrians in 586 B.C. | pride in the publicity which he has re- | watering and non-watering for lawns, or four hour watering every other even- | ing during such hot weather as has The current disresoect for law is a What is the longest ski jump on C ]. HASKIN. 240 feet. by any g, l;n l('.lem Austin white or colored? A. He is white. He comes from Shreveport, La., which accounts for his ;mttyl to sing in such perfect negro lect. Q. How many the Philippine Islands have heen named?—N. 8. A. Of the 7083 islands that form | this archipelago 2441 are named, Q. Where did our best breeds of cat- tle come from?—E. G. 8. A. The principal and most valuahle | breeds of the American cattle have been ‘This mark is not recognized tion. portions of northwestern Europe. Q. How are draftsmen chosen for navy yards?>—H. J. L. A. The positions of draftsmen in United States navy yards are filled b civillans, who are chosen through Civi! Service examinations. Q. Please give a blography of Cagli- 08tro. L M. J. A. His real name was Giuseppe Bal- samo. This Itallan was born at Pa- lermo June 8. 1743, and_died -at St Leon, Italy, August 26, 1795. He en- tered the Order of Brothers of Mere where he received training In medical science. As he showed a love of dissi- pation. he was compelled to separate from the order. He assumed the name Count Cagliostro and traveled through Europe, and by his chemical mixtures and tricks gained sums of money. In 1789 he returned to Rome. Here he busied himself about Freemasonry, but. being discovered, was condemned to imprisonment for life as a Freemason and a heretic. He died after five years' imprisonment. Q. At what altitude is grown in Mexico?—H. G. H. A. The Pan-American Unlon savs | that while cane flourishes in almost every region from the level of the sea to an altitude of 5000 feet. the chief sugar districts are all on the Pacific | Coast. i sugar cane H. Q. Has the percentage of rural and city Inhabitants changed much since the 1920 census?—C. D. A. The 1927 estimate gives an urban population of £0.975,000 and rural popu- lation of 57,653.000. The percentages, 51.4 urban and 48.6 rural, are still quite accurate. Q. Who is Thea Alba>—B. 8. A. Miss Alba is a young woman who |in 1923 was examined by the Medical | Society of Metaphysic Research at | Berlin. Her ability to control simulta- apparently conscious making but one reservation. that in neously several extremely hot, dry spells, when brown | spots begin to appear in the grass, the | | hese should be used for at least two | some forbearance toward Chinese who | hours. record>—J. Y. L. A The world ski jump record is 220 | acts brought her to the attention of it at | scientists. For example, with her left [ feet, made by Henry Hall of Detro; | Revelstoke February 9. 1021. Nels Nel- | hand Thea Alba can write one line in son of Revelstoke, British Columbia,| reverse at the same time that _the amateur champion. in a ski meet held | fingers of her right hand. working in ails of the arrangements for this broad- | ;g ne will oppose any change in | ceived. casting have been made public, but it is | 0 4o jaqe which Gov. Smith, if elect- | assumed that no provision will be over- | .4 progident, may recommend. This is | looked to give the widest possible pub- | ;0 poug as logical as the nomination prevailed here during July and the | moral problem that cannot be solved by first part of August. !.moralizing on the desirability of re- This much, mind you, for a smalll speet for law: it must be solved. in large garden. A large plot of ground would | part, bv a realistic statesmanship that take longer. going on the theory that|deals with such factors as I have here P It has been found necessary to show in words with which the | Tleity l:mm! B et i (of a dry on a ticket with & wet. BUt |have treated American property as i | The lawn did. indeed, do very well|the average home owner is not equip- | listed Democratic nom! | politicians are mot always strong on | America were a hostlle mation. It is | Vlihout sprinkling. either partial o | ped with an claborate and expensive capsrichi. McChure Newsaer Ssndicate.) {at that place February 4. 1925, jumped pairs, produce two other lines. of party selection. |logic. Mr. Hay fs seeking the support | intensive—so very well, in fact. that the | underground system o Pkl b e This campatgn will be & mixture of | F0 (L LD csourt, as well as ;;';::W ;fh““:h"""‘"“' :"5‘:'"’ ::’-dedélfl;nn which one’ normally might | With such constant watering, we are R i i " 5 n = canno lone e make from e procecding was simply | n v i i i H 1 i P Ply | now convinced, such a back vard might of Fish Reported | BACKGROUND OF EVENTS is | Rain If the grass, which loves plenty of | water, nevertheless can get nlong with- { become an oasis of floral an_otherwise arid region. A garden can do amazingly well beauty direct and indirect speechmaking. Each eandidate will maks & tour of the coun- innocent bystander must assume the re- | th | that of the dry vote. in order to win the election to the Senate. That is quite ¥From North Ireland sponsibility of protecting himself. I BY PAUL V. COLLINS. try, speaking et carefully selected points, | 10y e pational Democratic lead- -, jout it, the flowers ought to benefit from from which his words will be broadeast. | ers, on the other hand, are seeking the Thus every sentence uttered in Public | 4y yoie of the State for Smith, as well | {28 the wet vote, and are hoping to use | Hay as an aid toward that end. There is a difference of opinion over | the probable effects of the Hay victory | in the Missouri primary on Tuesday. | Some of the Democrats insist that it will aid the ticket materially. keeping the rural sections, where the Democrats are strong. lined up for the party ticket. { On the other hand, some of the Repub- ®|licans are taking heart, because they see the dry sentiment in the State so " | marked. They believe that in thou- | sends of instances the Democrats will split their ticket, voting for Hay. the dry "mth ‘on the same issue. Hay's victory was won, notwithstand- | ing a bitter campaign waged against | him by Senator Reed of Missouri, an | | old-time enemy. Reed took the position | that in view of the issue raised by Smith, the wet and dry issue, it would | be ridiculous to nominate a bone-dry !lke Hay to run with him for election Mr. Hay countered with the remark { that there was room in the Democratic | | party for both drys and wets, as Sena- s %Q Many names prominent in public dis- cussion are being transferred from the political battlefield to the silent domain of the epitaph. It has been said that no man is so important that he cannot be replaced. Yet this process of replace- ment becomes less casy with ‘each passing year. - . -ooe Herbert Hoover and Al Smith are both tamous fishermen. There iz some- thing about fishing that harmonizes with politics, enabling A man to be pa- tient in adversity without relaxing the vigllance on which success must depend . -on | Eminent personages who demand | 2| pemocrat, and for Hoover as asainst| trout stresms miss the pleasures offered | | by some splendid swimming pools hers | In Washington, now regarded hy s0| many as the Nation's greatest Summer resort R Crime fiction fades Into insiznif- cance. A genuine killer has no time for literature, and leaves exploits in the realms of adventure to some kindly and obliging old story teller like Trader Horn. - la like procedure. This deduction, which we might as well admit now is entirely erroneous. shows very well the danger inherent in all such drawing of conclusions | When such a jumping at conclusions | made in medicine it is called empir | —that is, thory is disregarded. and ex- | perience is made the sole basis | treatment. The danter, of course, lies | in drawing a conclusion from too little experfence. in inferring that because of the Atlantie t6 Great Britain's grave unemployment situation and especially 1o the recurring proposals to solve the | problem through emigration of workers | to the British dominions or elsewhere. The Canadian position is disciosed by the Toronto Daily Star. which, after re- ferring to the fact that thousands of | British coal miners are out of work and that their emigration to Canada is sug- gesied, says: “But could the Canadian Plight of Britiéh Unempl«i)ye—(‘l Given Sympathetic Attention without much water, let it be admitted. Nature has put a large tolerance in her creations. Plants that need water pos- sess the ability to make the most of what thev get | Everything else being equal, however, the more water the bigger and better the plants and flowers. Last, but not least, iry watering the rose beds. Gar- den writers say it is not necessary, and maybe it isn't, but we are beginning to believe that roses like plenty of water as well as other flowers, Much attention is given on this side | employment threatens to be a recurrent | the ocel cep! | problem.” B | | The Pasadena Star-News declares | that this problem “goes back to the | very fundamentals in economics “the best talent in Britain is required to find a solution for the problem,” and, | “while the United States is not con- | fronted by conditions so serious as is Britain. vet this country also has its | unemployment problem of grave pro- ’mnions" Canada’s ability to absorb 20,000 of | the surplus laborers. “provided they are agriculturists and are able o engage in | o % AL | with a quantity of black mud or slime RY E. E. FREE, PH. D. | | One of the few reasonably authentic | | examples of the much-disputed weather | if some fine morning next October. the | event, a rain of fish, is reported from | Democratic candidate for the presidency It would seem passing strange | should flee to Cuba, declaring that, as far as he was concerned, the elec- {tion should be abandoned to the Re- publicans. It might cause equal sur- {prise if at any time prior to election | Mr. Hoover should ge to Maxico City | for safety, declaring that the Republic- ans could not get to the official reg- |isters; hence he would just let the country go to the bow-wows and let | the Smiths run it. ° Or, suppose the election actually took | place but the result did not suit every- body. should we settle the dispute with a revolution? When Samuel J. Tilden claimed clection over Rutherford B. .Alyts “lln 1876 there v:mmlm:n wao believed Tilden was en to the vie- il :',"’,,.‘f r&“::fl ,:.""h‘o'",',fid | tory, and there were actually some hot- the explanation whieh weather experts | heads Who wanted him to head an army belleve accounts for all such instances |And assert his rights. even in a revo I of falls of fish or other animals with |lutionary war. But the hot-heads were \vain. This is that the fish, together | S00N given to understand that this was a {not Latin America, and that the presi- dency itself was not worth the price of ! waterspout or other tornado-like storm | CIvil war. - How different s the spirit | trom some nearby stream, lake or arm |Of Central Americat of the =ea. to be dropped later on Mr. | il 4 | McMaster’s farm: much as dust, dried The Republic of Panama held an | hay and many other thinzs are often |election for the presidency last Sunda: | carried for miles by the tornadoes of |but for some days prior to the ballol | the middlewestern part of the United|ing the Conservative candidate, Dr. | States, Jorge Bovd. had practically withdrawn. Weather experts have hoped for vears | declaring that it was impossible to hold | northern Ireland. After a recent severe 1 thunderstorm James McMaster, a farm- | er living near the city of Belfast. found {on the roof of his bungalow a number | of living fish. some of them as much as ! twa inches long. ‘The fish were not actually seen to fall with the rain, but it is virtually certain, Mr. McMaster reports, that they did so. No other means is imaginable by which they could have reached the bungalow raof. It i reported also that nearby | vegetation was blackened as though | scorched, probably really by black mud | | which also fell with the rain. i | Prof. Gregg Wilson of Queen's Uni- | | versity in Belfast, who has investigated from the bottom. were picked up by a sion and brings surprises even In Panama. While there has never yet been a shortage of water from Gatun Lake, even in the dryest season, embarrassing to the lockage of vessels, yet as traffic increases there is apparent a possibility that there might come a very dry sea- son which would limit the capacity of the locks in the daily demand. = Ac- cording to the 1927 report of the gov- ernor, M. L. Walker, the situation Is summed up as follows | “From the early days of the canal the need of additional storage of water has | been recognized in order that a reserve | might be available in the event of a |long dry season. During approximately eight months of the year much excess water enters the lake and has to be spilled into the sea. During the re- four months the inflow is wholly inadequate to meet the demands for water which must be provided for the lockage of ships, the generation of electric power and for municipal pur- poses, in addition to the heavy lasses | resulting from evaporation. The maxi- | mum height to which Gatun Lake may be filled is 87 feet plus. The minimum lake elevation, permitting safe naviga- ticn through Gaillard Cut, is 80 feet plus. This gives a margin of 7 feet of storage available for drawing upon dur- ing the dry season. With the continued increase of traffic, the time is approach- ing when this margin will not suffiee i | The truly able politician has the art | coal-mining industry ebsorb them? And of making the farmer proud of the no-| if not, are they likely to succeed in ble and familiar friend whe comforts| those other industri-s, including agri him with the reassurance that poverty | culture, In which employment i avail No amount of pressure will in- to provide safe transit through the cut for heavy vessels toward the end of a dry season both extremely dry and un- usually prolonged. “By the erection of a dam at Alha- the work required In reclaiming and that some scientific man competent to|a fair election, for the Liberals con- | bringing ta productivity some of the test this explanation would have the trolled the ballot boxes and refused to nd in Canada’s western province,” is good luck to be on the ground when one | let the Conservatives register. So Dr.| basis for discussion by the of these animal rains oceurs, but that Boyd came to America to ask President | Coolidge to pull his hot chestnuts out | | tor Reed had contended vigorously dur- | {ing his own campaign for the Demo- | cratic presidential nomination before | Sighiping | the Houston convention. i H 22 H and, it is to be hoped, made a able? has never vet happened. R win : :"’""" ‘:’ ‘;":‘:::l '!""'rl The Republicans in the Missourt pri- | ““m : "“‘m’ Aeyschin h"']m-rv have apparently nominated Ros- bom’ m"m. “’ bl i v m<z Pl::w;:on s dr';‘ as their candidate °f 0 for the Senate. The wet vote in St. ::::n uuh;l::‘dl::: ':"“T:::;s;‘lmll and Kansas City was not suffi- "".'"m g it e th;‘\el“n" to overcome the strength of the .-w““ 0 1o the w“_“flry‘ although it was split between two | wfi:‘““'m“ SO bve Bien candidates, Pa‘terson and Proctor. Na- | more fully inf upon the lssues than Prank, former member of Con- and e e and, as far | ST a8 the leading candidate of the o uun“ ’mlln““ehl Potigor! | wets for the nomination, but the com- | <Ry o than ey h.v:l s | bined 'mu of Patterson and Proctor was almost two to one against Frank, | ToSiis Bpbers it & smpippal siootion (and Patterson, in the latest reports, is no disgrace P When motion pictures vocalize, many stars will have to retire when it is dis- covered that the day of the “beautiful but dumb” has passed, s SHOOTING STARS. RY PHILANDER JOHNSON Resetting the Stage. We see the transformation strange ‘That bids the goldenrod draw near, SR St S was lesd e thi LX R SETRIN AN TN v oot .l S s flowers and when a fruit erop talls| pp, yep o 3 5 nd dry issue is to play a there the disastrous eftect i felt all pig pyry geemingly, In the eloction in through the country. It is no longer | ypeonn i possible to regard Plorida chiefly a« a! 5 romantic playground of nature I A Sound Decision. .ot ‘The submarine recalls no scenes of gallantry to cheer the imagination. It has taken brave men to their death. Although directly contrary to the They perish obscurely and often in tor- terms of the traffic code, Judge Hitwt ture. The submarine is one of the the Police Court rendered a sound | Sreatest of inyentions. It has so far when he dismissed a charge Proved one of least service to mankind s 5 against & motorist for parking abreast. | The judge held that inasmuch as such | Florida Again Swept by Storm. parking was permitted to ensbie com-| For the second time within two years unload | Plorida has heen struck by a violent storm which has ravaged the land, de- ‘oerond erops and bufldings, and aite- mercial vehicle: 1o load and merchandise, the permission should ap- ply equally to the private car owner fn the transaction of his business. The | gether inflicted millions of dollars of | ériver in this case had parked abreast|loss upon the State. This latest Visita- on New York avenue while his sen |tion, which has now spent ftself and made & brief visit to a neighhoring passed out into the Gulf of Mexieo, shop | has been of less intensity and destrue- The clause in the traffic code which governs parking abreest reads a: fol- which desolated a wide area, and, com- | tiveness than that of Beptember, 1926, | Like harlequins, to mark the chanee Of beauty in the passing year. Plerrot his merry smile will lose: And as the blossoms fainter shine And careless friends no more amuse We bid farewell to Columbine. | When snowflakes tremble in the sky, | And tor some future charm we ask, | 8ee old man Pantalon draw nigh To help the stagehands in their task Working Well and Wisely. “You have always worked hard for tue success of your party.” | “Always," agreed Senator Sorghum. | “And T have worked discreetly also, | putting in my hest endeavors, yet never |letting 1t appear that I regarded the politieal situation as at all desperate.” rm Relief. There & one farm-reliever | With gratitude we hail. He says he’ll take hay fever And eure it without fall | duce Canada to accept these or other | tmmigrants, if they are unsuited to Canada’s needs. For unsuitable immi- | grants not only become a charge upon the public purse, but their letters home and their cxperiences as contributed to the British press arc a deterrent -to other immigrants who might be valu- | able to the country. Of British immi- | grants likely to make a success of life !in Canada the Dominion cannot have | oo many.” “The idle men in the British Isle | it 1s pointed out by the New York Sun, ‘are of numerous crafts, many of them inhabitants of cities or large towns Some of these could undoubtedly be trained to. agricuitural tasks, but many others have not the background fo en- courag® putting men on the land. | When the United States adhered to & | most generously receptive policy in its traatment of immigrants, the complaint was often made that too few farn | and too many town-bred men were com: | ing to America. The sentiment aroused { by this reconciled many citizens to | drestic revision of the fmmigration laws, | The British dominions have shown no { intention to place themselves in a sim- ilar situation i | i N That Britain has & p lus of industrial workers is recognized the Manchester Unlon, which urges “it 15 futile to employ temporary f the joblexs | permanent St | p! by | that | measures for the support o with the expectation that | conditions will make it possible for { them to resume their old employment | Doubtless,” continues the Unlon, “we have here in an aggravated form a sit- | uatio | day. | everywhere demeand and the increasin tion of Industry are reducir | tunities for work in some | 1s futile to ignore this fact major economic problems Industrial conditions are changing Modifications in the public g mechaniza~ 1g the oppor- industries. 1t one of the today 18 to e of surplus labor changing | n that is more or less general to-| & e Jud Tunkins says a depressing Influ-{ Assure a transferenc to localitics | Utiea Observer-Dispatch, which state. | “But it requires at least some little ready money to reach Canada. Aus- | tralla, New Zealand. South Africa, or wherever the families may go, and to set one down on a plece of land with- {out habitation, tools. stock, seed and {time in which to bring forth a crop i quite like sentencing one to slow starvation, * But 1t is felt that the matier is urgent { wish to enter another Winter with a prospect before it of so much suffering | Datly Eagle holds that “the roots of | the problem run deeper than even the subsoll of * partisanship.” and quotes disnatches to show that “out of 12.000.- 000 ‘wage earners in the British Islands 11 per cent are idle. Yet the aggre- gnte number of persons emploved Is greater than ever before. A partial xplanation of the anomaly.” continues the Eagle, “lies in the vast number of voung women who, since the war, have been entering business and trade and industry.” “If the English were a less stable people,” concludes the Worcester Tele- |aram, “they would have had a disas- trous blow-up of some kind long be- |fore this. * * * In contrast to what ingland has suffered in recent years, America has been a virtual paradise Yet England has plodded along without grumbling, even making the war debt payments to us without protest.” | || UNITED STAT | IN WORLD WAR | Ten Years Ago Today. Extracts from a letter written by & German lieutenant to his father dis- close that the Germans wera appalled by the rush of the American soldiers, England does not | | of the fire. and by intervention force a fair" election. The State Department declined intervention, since it is not our affair to run all elections of all Central America. Panamans had not begun to shoot each other up, and until they | From the Houston Chronicle. fired the shot that would be heard from ‘The proposal of the English-speaking ' the Canal to the Potomac we would Union to erect a statue of John Paul | limit our Marines to Nicarsgua. where Jones at Flamborough Head in Great |they shoot as they vote—before and Britain has met with a ready response, | after elections. not only. in America, but in England. It So the Sabbath peace of Panama was John Paul Jones Statue i Proposal Wins Favor for lack of work." illustrates concretely the present cordial | uninterrupted last Sunday, and Dr. Although the matter has had its| fesling between the two countries, a | Florencio Arosemena was duly and place in recent politics, the Brooklyn | friendly - spirit —constantly growing unanimously “elected” President We stronger in spite of mischief-makers 'do not ‘“recognize” rulers who come | Hke Big Bill ompson and his “hi- |into power by violence, but who has cago satellites. Popular subscriptions ' dared say there was any coup d'etat in Wil furnish. the funds to place the | Panama when all opposition | was statue on the lofty promontory from drowned and Dr. Boyd was resting safely which anxfous watchers in the vear in Washington and could not even 1779 caught vivid glimpses of the his- ' hear a gun-cock by a loud speaker? toric sea fight between the Bonhomme ' And now the election is a fait accompli | Richard and the Serapls. —just ke that! Panama has not even | It the Scottish-American scaman been invited to sign the multilateral | could return to earth, he would doubi- | treaty abolishing war. Only eivilized less be amused at British efforts to|nations seem to need such a mutual | honor the man they heartily denounced ' pledge of their pacification. aa vlrln'e during the Revolution. Yet PPN | he would perhaps not be surprised at | e "conerons teute.to-s ‘mesify foe| poTHE Jnlied States guaranices ihe r rt:;ghull! thelr history, the English- | BeAge 00 PRARME WORENEC 8 o pane iheaking beoples have been noted for | ama Canal, but it does not presume to DI O ek | meddle in the freedom of internal af- m:rm:m;:u:gel..m'l:‘t'\elh:aopm'mwn::f fairs of the republic. We own a stri) e cruiser - - o den In England and the hearty welcome | ::':"w,? e h’lf.:':l"‘:,w:d?,r,l,:::. o accorded the genial Teuton, Von Luck- | tory for dams and reservoirs. It would e o merican hdmirers of his 8| take a hardy or intoxicated lot of dis- nanship and courage in the late War. | iyrbers of the peace who would dare furnish arditional and recent proof of | invade our Canal Zone. Within their N gl Baxon tendency. aion Ut own republic they may be permitted to i, m,fl'“':!;"‘|","l"m":mx:"""" of | whoop it up to their hearts' content, dered by armed confiel have al jast | Aer the e T e subsided 1 . “ Although England has long since be. [JUst (o be merry. So long as they keep come reconclled (0 American inges | SiHIR local limits, there s no more pendence and is today on the hest of terms with the younger and stronger nation. one must remember that the patriots of ‘75 took their lives in thelr intervene than that Vice President Dawes would let go his grip on a bois- terous Senate before next March just to Intervene in Ch! riota, Let likelihood that the United States would | juela a second basin ecan be created where surplus water can be stored in the rainy season to be drawn upon dur- ing the dry season to maintain the level of Gatun Laks. Recent topographical surveys show that it is feasible to bufld a dam about 170 feet in height which will create a reservoir covering about 22 square miles and provide additional storage of about 22.000,000.000 cubic feet. In addition. the reservoir would be a means of control of the Chagres River during floogs in the rainy season. ui’hlrh are a possible menace to naviga- tion “It will probably require about five years to complete this project from the | time appropriations become available. and it is highly desirable to proceed with the construction at an early date The vecessity for additional storage is but a matter of time in any event. and early construction will simplity present operating problems and minimize the possibilities of serious aceidents or de- lays to shipping.” e ow Another project of enlarging the capacity is that of constructing a third set of locks alongside of the double locks now existing. The new locks were foreseen by the engineers from the beginning, but certain features now recognized as needed were not antici- pated 20 years ago. While the present locks are still large enough for all exist- | | | | | ing ships, the third lock will be proba- bly both longer and wider. The only ships today which em- | barrass the locks are the plane-carriers. on account of the'r width. But what will be the length and beam of the next decade’s Leviathans® So the new Ipck will probably be 1,200 feet long. with a corresponding inerease of width Y ‘The canal is now making a net profit sufficient to cover interest accopnt on the investment and leave a sinking fund of more than $8,000,000 a year. It is a good commercial investment - siiorignd {ing as 1t did at a time of financial % ) from areas of depression 4 disturbance, inflicted an enormous dam- | nce 18 the man who makes n IRTge | yor, “j"oan e profitably employed, | “Never have I seen such thing. N Dihde wien the¥ oppated the tIHEENY | {aside from th AR weishs st pork within sty | shop-window display of thermometers. | 1n"ive past this problem has been Iefi | body could have withaiood them.” 9f 1 Grrman King who ‘graced” the et e Ll g i e il o s S . ol | _Much has been sald of the miracles filche:“n.l‘lumwhenumt l»: avall and f no space is available ' feulty recovered within a ressonable distance a vehicle . may stop parallel and as near as prac- | The latest storm, like its predecessor Tcable 1o parked vehicles only long| WPt In from the ocesn. having been enough actually to take on or let off [bred in that incubator of hurricanes the Caribbesn. It struck the BState pessengers or o losd or unload mer- | chandbse, Lt asld vehicle 1t (om0 | somewhat north of the polnt of tmpact in 1926, the city of Miami, which suf- by 8 licensed operator 1t is perfectly obvious that Ieeway | foroq moxt severely two years ago, es- caping any appreciable damage. Pass- should be permitted merchants o load | ce |age, from which Florida has with dif- | | The Vanished Simple Life. night club!” sald Mr. Meekton ‘Wil that spofl your happiness? “1 ean remain cheerful enbugh. But {1 dont think Henrietta will ever be | antisfied to listen to the radio concerts and eat home cooking.' | “They have padlocked our favorite end unload their vehieles, but it would #leo seem obvious that some such len- | ing directly across the peninsula, it in- ! “One who has no worries in life,” sald flicted more or less destruction UDON |y yo the age of Chinatown, “ix not some and 1owns, jency should be extended private own- ers. In neither case, however, should perking sbreast be permitted If the twenty-three cities but, strange o ~ay, although et times the wind rose 1o & velocity of 110 miles !0 be admired or envied He 5 happy !in being ton dull to see the dangers he | must face like all the rest of us.” parked vehicle obstructs or slows up an hour, and debris flew widely as| the trafic stream Al operators, | putldings were wrecked, no lives were Snubhed! whether commercial or private, should | lost 1 safd a-fshing 1 would g0, In this visitation the heaviest de- struction, it now appears, was in the cltrus plantations, where & heavy crop was ruined. Estimates of the total cost 10 the Btate of this storm vary consid- ershly, A mintmum of five millions has been computed. although it is ob- viously impossible at present in the be arrested under these circumstances and charged, not with parking abreast, but with obstrueting trafm. Certainly there should be no quarrel with the driver who finds his way into & store blocked and who stops for @ brief time outside the Jine of parked Seicles while some other occupant of My purposes were quite 0. k 1 kept the date, as friends all know The fish agreed 1o stay away “De men det has big fortunes,” said Unele Eben, “keeps playin’ de game fes’ | "hout as hard as ever, only dey uses & checkbook ‘stid of & stack of chips.” to take care of itself, but unusual condi- | tlons today demand that It be given at tention." “Britaln’s only chance would seem to | be some rearrangement of her economic | | structure, some new industrial discovery, | which would enable her to use her mil lions before they starve (o death.” ad- | vises the Baltimore Evening Sun with the following deseription of the exisi- | ing situation. “Approximately a million | | persons are bheing urged to emigrate I next, as its only supply line 18 un- | But they don't emigrate, The British in- e ot the Germans fall back in| . WIth the sinking hulk of his battered dustrinl worker refuses to leave. He re-| haste © “UWhile the French and|Ship lashed to his British antagonist. | fuses to go to Canada, Australia, South | British are hitting the enemy to the the founder of the American Navy set America, South Africa, or to the United | States. He will not do as the Irish did | | & century ago. He prefers apparently, to | take his chances at home, even If it| means no work and restarvation That the Baldwin ministry “hopes | that, by alding a comparatively small | number to move, many others may be | induced to follow," is emphasized by the Indlanapolis News, with the explanatory + "only by productive effort in Industry can theve he any prospect of employment for all British wage earners, Peak operations, without interruption, are too much to expeet. Henpe, as long as the papulation of the nation remains what it Is, un- 1n poss ning through Plerrepont, Arvillers, Ro- sleres, maximum advance since last night of Allled advance east of Amiens continues, with the Anglo-French for fon late today of the line run- T the Americans were rebels, guilty of high (reason, their property and in thelr very existence a forfelt to the state. With such a dreary future view, it is not to be wondered that on land Rainecourt and Morcourt, & about 5 miles. Seventeen thousand| ANd sea the founders of the Natlon prisonces captured by allled forces, | {0UBht with desperate courage. In. “ 7% Chaulnes, an important er- | terested spectators on Flamborough Head, & hundred and fifty years ago, saw conclusive proof of the determined spirit of thelr colonists man he lat raflway junction, is mennced by advance and Montdidier may e In Nicaragua we hold the purchased right to bulld a canal across the farms {and mountain valleys when and where we ple: Hence 1 is our duty to back up that vested interest with guns and airplanes against outlaws, at the invit tion of the government, which confess it own inability to protect our acknow! edged rights against bandits marauding our unsurveyed canal routes. The sit- | uation, therefore, ls quite different be- !tween Paname and Nicaragua. west, the Americans and French keep up an unrelenting pressure along the L Accordng to ofclal engineering aus an inspiring example to future genera- | tlons with his thrilling reply to the can forees is not being made without English demand for surrends Sir, 1 have not hegun to fght! Sueh fighting spirit proved unconquerable and Jones safled triumphantly into the Vesle River and slowly improve their Progress positions, * ¥ * of Ameri- thority, it may be a whole generation | vet before the capacity of the Panama Canal, with the improvements which will be added in additional water sup- ply and additional lockage, will find it- strenuous opposition. Tn the last 34 hours our troops have repulsed no fewer than five attacks on our position north of the Vesle Riv I keeping up n never-ceasing five on D continual maximum | the German positions between the Alsne | | and the Vesle, and lnst night the sky was lighted brightly by the constantly i repeated Aashes of our big guns. . W | 8Ix hundred and fwenty-three casual- | ties i today's report, with 167 killed tn action and 333 missing ! harbor Ameriean artillery | of Brest with his hard-won | self incapable of taking care of the | Increasing traffic. The ultimate date [to which the capacity of the developed s at U, S. Movies, | PAnama Canal will carry all trans- | aceanie shipping is given as 1938, After [ that date the Nicaragua canal will be needed. and. of course, work on that new sanal must hegin several vears in advancs sre {ts avallability in | prize. .- Hungary Ai | From the Woreester Evening Gazette This dectston of Hungary to movie-making in the schools sounds like a well considered blow at the teach | (of hoalth preservation achieved by |Science in the development of Panama, iyet it is difficult to comprehend what ! has really been accomplished. In 1908 | the death rate in Colon from all causes :‘ : Snlllicglfinl'“l‘l'»flh Sinee 1922 in the A neve cerde 14.17, and In 1925 it was nnl‘)' 'l:‘:;d & | In the city of Panama in 1908 the ?Pllh rnlrflwnn 65.82, while for the past our or fiv « '!Mn = e yeams it has been less For the entire Canal e absalute control by the Uniteq Siatee fhe death rate in 1908 was 49.86, and It fell to 13.33 only three years later !':;vl'l:.l.l.ln 1916, l'l‘|d alnce 1917 1t has ached as s e igh as 10, the rate In 1908 the death rate from malarta (due to mosquitoes) was 743 Since 1931 there has not been a single death from malarta, except in 1917, when the tate amounted to .17 per 1,000 among 11623 employes. The malaria deaths since 1908 have boen less than 1 per 1000 annually. Great as ave the engi- neering achievements at Pana greater than popularity among the young of a great Amerte; lndullgy. . ample time. Increase of traffiec seems to have a habit of geometric progres- IConyrizhi. 1098 hv Paul V. 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