Evening Star Newspaper, August 10, 1928, Page 6

THE EVENING ST/ With Sunday Morning Edition. _ WASHINGTON, D. C FRIDAY August 10, 1928 Tl(l'\"\‘ORl' W. NOYES. ...Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company te by Carrier fail—Payable in Advance. Rate by M Maryland and V o reserved ticket, 1e old Bay State Republican: s having a hard time stomachin Mo Mr. Moses has dubbed Eastern manager | mpaign and contact | hatrman Work of the tional committee and the | The | substance of the criticism of s by Mr. Burrill is that Sen- as three times predicted | he Republican senatorial | when he is nominated, in | ator Mos: for defeat cation of | four mil - o PAR [His sense of direction is affected. 50 Clouds in the upper air are not dangerous, for they can be evaded, or, when encountered, soon left behind by changes of course. But the eloud that {rests upon the earth is the foe to be {most greatly feared. If through the researches and experi- ments conducted by the Guggenheim | Fund a way can be found to permit fog flying without risk one of the most serfous obs! ne will be overcome. Tt o that Lindbergh, the pioncer of sin- gle transatlar ¥ing. one of the mo: skilled plots the wor as ever pro- d identified with this which makes for the establish- t of the lane as a dependable of rapld transit in daily business .- The Earth's Wrath. his une sho be arth of ours is con R evido of its tempe tal tendencies. The latest case reported from the Dutch East Indies, where nearly the entire island of Paloc- weh was destroyed by a volcanic erup- tion on the fourth and fifth of this month. This island, w n diameter a- and rf s to +.600 feet, contained a popula- ¥ 6.000. The erup- ed without taking Six hun- 18 were also d by fra rown from the crater and other re caused by t org- swept over This disaster recalls the blast which {in 1883 nearly destroyed the Island of toa, in the Straits of Sunda, be- Sumatra and Java. A series of nic discharges occurred from May *o August, climaxing in the most ter- rific blast of seismic force the world has ever known within the range of man’s records. It is estimated that cublc mile of rock materfal was hurled into the air with attendant explosions that were heard 150 miles away. A loss ct the Republican nominee for the | ead of leaving that task w" the Republican voters of the State, and | th: he is opposed to the Volstead act. Burrill has been so outraged that ly taken his pen in hand | tten to Mr. Hoover, the Repub- | hat Mr. Moses be compelled to confine his activities for the rest of the cam- paign to New Hampshire, where, he sa) “his idiosyncracies are enjoyed | and understood.” There are other Re- publicans in the Bay State who 1&11 much as does Mr. Burrill. They do not | relish the idea that New Hampshire shall dabble in Massachusetts politics | to the extent that Senator Moses has | undertaken to do. Massachusetts is | jealous of her own prerogatives, and one of them is the selection of her own | candidates, right or wrong, for office. ] Senator Moses has been an ardent | Hoover man {rom the start of the pre- convention campaign more than a year ago. He, along with millions of other Republicans, is anxious to bring about the election of Mr. Hoover to the presi- dency. He is in California now, chair- man of the committee appointed by the Republican national convention to no- tify Mr. Hoover that he is the party’s choice for President, and tomorrow night will deliver an address of notifi- cation to the candidate. It does not appear unreasonable to ask Mr. Moses, however, not to stir up trouble among the Republicans of Massachusetts and other New England States. In New England the fight for political suprem- acy this year is bitter and will be hard fought, and Senator Moses may well take a leaf from the book of another distinguished New Englander and keep silent on subjects that are calculated to stir up trouble when discussed. Scnator Moses is a capable cam- paigner, a hard hitter in debate and on the stump. He carried the fight to Smith is his address to the Republican national convention, declaring that Bmith must stand on his Tammany record. The New York governor has| been on the defensive ever since. In| his first address, delivered on July 4! nomination at Houston, Gov. 8mi undertook to defend Tammany, and the probabilities are that he will be | found on the defensive, so far as Tam- | many is concerned, up to the close of | the campaign. But Senator Moses as| a campaign manager is not shining mi‘ date. He has been in the limelight as | mainly in consequence of tidal waves of tremendous size which swept over the island. disappeared into the sea. This disaster at Paloeweh may be the first of a series. Heretofore it has been noted that one of these violent erup- nominee for President, asking | tlons is attended by others in short or- | der, perhaps at considerable distances. Yet the hypothesis of voleanic activity { which now generally obtains does not regard the activity of the vents in the earth’s surface as due to related causes. The explosion of a long-dormant vol- cano is supposed to result from the ac- cumulation of gas beneath a “plug” that hes formed in the chimney. When the force below is sufficient the gas blows the plug out even as a cork is blown from a bottle neck by effervescence and in the rush of the released gas molten matter is drawn or forced up in the form of lava. When equilibrium has been established the eruption ceases and after a period- the quiescent once more. In some cases, as at Vesuvius, small vents permit the gradual escape of gas almost continu- ally and thus prevent the accumulation of dangerously large volumes of ex- plosive material, although from time to time, even in these cases, the thrust from below comes spasmodically and gives rise to “eruptions” of a spectacular and occasionally destructive character. The wonder is that people continue to live within the zone of a crater that may at any time destroy them. In the South Seas are many islands of this character, all densely populated and from time to time the scene of tragedy. Yet always after each blast the survivors rebuild their homes and reorganize their lives, without thought of migration to safer scenes. To them these great chim- neys of the earth are of sacred signifi- cance. With the fatalisma that marks these millions of backward people they accept their ill fortune as pumshmnntl at the hands of an angered god. O e Gene Tunney, disdaining the pugilis- tic championship belt, prefers to be known hereafter as a white collar man. v The wise and accomplished aviator knows when to start and also when to quit. - e — A Long Delayed Letter. Instances of letters long on their way to destination have come to light from time to time, so rarely as to em- phasize the regularity and dispatch of h is only about | A large portion of Krakatoa volcano becomes | & disturbing element in the national|the postal service. The latest case is of organization, Perhaps Mr. Hoover Will | oyeeptional interest, owing to the D be zble 1o convince Mr. Moses that|cyjjar circumstances of its delive teamwork 1is, after all, the prmmr'!lv'rhv-, other day a letter reached the of- desideratum in any campaign } ————— | lorida reserves Summer for its rough | weather and Winter for its furious| finance. In spite of its reputation for | placid luxury it does not escape the | cares common to all geograp { .- | Fighting F Aid Flyers. | og to Charles A. Lindbergh | rather mysterious , seemingty 10 purpose Occastonally | stories about his hav- fogs comprise of this countr official explanation from the elm Pund for the Pro- s which solves the ent, Harry blish o section y where fog rating condi- studied. Lindbergh i w0 aving already number of cted for the ex- course of this hich he was deliberately for fog, tha! his recent experi- The purpose of \his research fs W est enemy. A d in fog flyling will find bulit planes with v spread o give excep- | ow landing speed for protec n case of crashes will be used, A1l known devices for combating fog will be employed and tested and if pos- eible developed Those who have risen from the earth By plane face no terror greater than that of the mists that cling o %lc sur- face. A piiot eznnot determine his lo- | which 1t was drawn. Some anxiety | sed on this score and|qeiay is forthcoming, and the surmise | {1s that the letter was ¢ ® | the mailing chutes or had fallen into & | you utter little more than confessions ’ | tion can econce! cation or the nature of the terraln. of fice of a business firm in New York bearing a cancellation stamp dated August 1, 1900. It contained a check for $4.90, in payment for a bill of goods s0ld twenty-eight years ago to an in- dividual whose present address fs un- known. All efforts to locate him have failed, and the check has not yet been | presented for payment to the bank on L an in- D. €, FRIDAY, AU GUST 10, 1928, THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, fected. And yet, large numbers find | their way annually into the dead letter office for permanent entombment be- cause those who have addressed and matled them have not done their part {in the postal process. | i The Study of Anaphylaxis. “One man's meat is another man's So runs the old adage, Its is demonstrated by | potson.” ith frequently oxperfence. 1t can be interpreted in a narrow and | titeral sens applied to the material | things we cat and come in contact with. | v ons get “hre from | Some | | peact when | sleep on ing | coughing when they come into the neighborhood of some shrub or flower, No two human systems are exactly alike or fitted in exactly the same way environment. The probability at the frritating substances contain some slight polsons to which most in- | dividuals are immune. ! The phenomenon is known as ana- phylaxis. The method of approach lies in isolating the poisons, necessaril extremely procedure. ‘The prob- | lem is or { ieal chemistry, Real progress has been made, how- | kings-out™ on the strawberries or frritations Some cannot horse downy pillow without sneez- Others are thrown into spasms of riding a low of the most difficult in med- " ever. This was reported recently to the | American Chemical Soclety, in session | at Chicago, by Prof. Arthur I. Kendall, Medical School of | former dean of th | Northwestern University. The poison- | | ous substances occur in such slight | quantities that they are almost impos- | sible to measure. Prof. Kendall has succecded in determining the nature of some of them and in reproducing cases of anaphyl: | The value of such a line of research | does not lie entirely in the possibility of | developing serums for various sorts of | anaphylaxis. This is not one of the major medical problems. But inten- | stve investigation is likely to throw much light on the obscure chemical { affinities and lead the way to the deter- | mination of remedies of extreme im- | portance. | The human organism is delicately ad- | justed to the world in which it lives and minor maladjustments which interfere | with the perfect functioning of the machine always constitute a threat to the ultimate success of the species. The study of anaphylaxis not only is of in- trinsic importance, but it promises to open paths into the deeper mysteries of iufe itself. — ettt e All kinds of popularity is available to | Gov. Al Smith. The number of per- i sonages who would like to share the | spotlight with him on the debating plat- | form is beyond calculation. e Sending movies by radio will repre- sent a great triumph of the human | brain. An improvement of the scenarios | corresponding to improvement in me- chanical equipment should come next. b However great may be a man'’s power in public affairs, sooner ot later he turns to the physiclan as the great authority in his affairs. No military expert has been able to show convincingly that the submarine is anything morg than a pernicious habit. e 'SHOOTING STARS. | BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. The Gentle Ananias. When a feller goes a-fishin® He may tell a tale, alas, That will give him a position In the Ananias class! In a hammock lightly swinging, He will pass the hours away While the birds are sweetly singing And the fish are all at play. Nature fair and unmolested, Is his scheme of gentle joy. But the neighbors have protested, Say, “How’s the fish, my boy?" | We must then invent the glories That the public likes to hear And we tell the splendid storfes Of a fisherman's good cheer, | Spheres of Influence. | “Why don't you tell your constituents how to vote?” | “I've tried to tell some of 'em,” re- plied Senator Sorghum. “All I hope is ltmn when it comes to telling 'em how “lo vote, I'll have better luck with the | public than I have in the home."” There Ts Till Competition. | We've heard that competition's right; | And so we ascertain with pride A billion, dollars has to fight A billlon on the other side. Jud Tunkins says many a man hates to neglect his own business and so hires | ‘kumn-bfldy to neglect it for him. Discriminating Against the Dog. “Do you like dogs | quiry into the circumstances in which | g0 zhe letter required twenty-cight years o reach destination, ¢ ce hundred feet from the Hudson Terminal postal station, where it was mailed been frujtless. No explanation of the long th ught in one of Now | dark corner, where it escaped observa- | of a guilty consclence.” tion | 3 - These cases are likely to oceur now| . ‘l‘“""" "“"'“‘,"‘1 and then. Despite all precautions e talks about election's fun : against overlooked mail matter, it wit| And hinis, with satistaction grim, occastonally find its way Into obscu Letters have clung to the fabric of*mail 1t they had nominated him. ' pouches for long periods. ‘They have,| “De world owes every man a livin'" as suggested in this case, stuck in|sald Uncle Eben, “but a few loafers I chutes. They have fallen into cracks| knows of is collectin’ more dan is comin’ of sorting boxes. They have fallen upon | wo ‘em.” the floors, to be thrust eside by hurry- o g e ing feet into dim areas. But consider-| Long Ballots for Full Names. ng the enormous volume of MALET 1= | prom the Muskeson® Chronicle, trusted to the mails, and with the rarcst of exceptions delivered, the number of these cases of lost or long-delayed let- ters Is remarkably small, No organiz y be shsolutely per fect, yet the postal service high a percentage of efficiency that the ratio of losses to deliveries is infinitesi- mally small Balancing the rare cases of actual fadl { ores 50 { ures, such as this, in which it required | twenty-eight years to send a letter | three hundred feet, ate the great num- {ber of instances in which the postal il;er\'me overcomes the difficulties due to | carelessness In the addressing of mail matter. The organization conducts & | veritanle cryptogram solving service, and | through 1t some remarkable solutions Ll “Some dogs,” sald the sardonic per- “A dog has great affection, but | ike a humen must be judged by the | company he keeps, and I know dogs | devotedly attached to people with whom | T wouldn’t assoctate.” hatreds,” sald lest “Bpeak of Ho, the carefully sage of Chinatown, | Ht The ticket would far better run The Attorney General has ruled the full name must be on the ballot. That's | why we have the long ballot. | - | One Other Improvement Need, From the Bpringfield Daily Republican With talking movies in color in the offing there remains to look for only reproduction of the third dimension-- | and better plays and acting, All Kinds. From the Bavannab Press The experts say it was a technical knockout that downed Heeney, It was rather practical as well as technical, e s Tilden Knows His R From the Dayion Daily News, | acket, | the BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. The blessing of running water in the home strikes even lifelong city dwell- «rs at this season of the year. How much more does it appeal, then, to.those of us who were brought up in country or small town where a bathtub was a mark of distinction! In those days we took a bath in a wooden washtub placed in front of the kitchen stove. Somehow or other we never recall our bovhood home bathing except in cold weather. If we bathed in Summer, as we sup- pose we did, it left no fmpress upon our memory. The Winter-time bath, how- ever, looms large. ure, it was on Saturday night. The night before Sunday was univer- sally chosen for childhood’s ablutions One bath a week, in those days, was thought plenty. ‘They didn’t have soap in those days that acted as deodorants, any more than they had cigarettes that functioned as cough remedies, but they got along rea- sonably well, and grew up into more or less healthy and efficlent citizens The Saturday night bath no doubt had a lot to do with it. W Carefully the hot water was poured from the kettles into the wooden tub, which only a few days before had done duty to hold the family wash. It was a sweet-smelling tub, as we and countless thousands remember it, kept fresh by much water and soap and effort. One was ushered into the kitchen on the run, maybe down a cold hall where big drumstove’s heat failed to penetrate. How cozy and comfortable the rug in front of the kitchen stove seemed, with the glare from the coals shining down upon it in red patches against the general illumination of the kerosene lamp! . It is soothing to recall that in those days even the humblest dwelling had good lamps—that they were “table lamps,” indecd, and gave a good if not powerful illumination quite in keeping with the tenets of good light- ing which were to come into circu- lation a quarter of a century later. A small-town home, in those days, with its big oil lamp on the dining room table (for the family lived as well as ate in the dining room), had as correct a reading lamp as any elabo- rate electric fixture of today. Such lamps gave softer and more beautiful lighting effects than did the early electric lights, which were noth- ing more than bare lamps suspended from cords, and for many, many years did not advance beyond the stage of | Fva\'y fixtures suspended from the ceil- | ng. It was under the glow of such kind- Iy “coal oil” lamps, and before such roaring kitchen ranges, that the little Willie of those days took his Saturday night bath. How his knees were scrunched up against his chest as he sat in the none too ample washtub and tried to look ;)}:nnsant while mother carefully soaped him! Standing up to get rinsed off was both an elaborate and silly perform- ance. Somehow we felt ashamed be- fore the keen, red eyes of the kitchen range. With prophetic eye we felt the need of a one-plece bathing suit! * ok ok % Today all that is changed A bathroom is so common that no one thinks much about it, when as a matter WASHINGTON Democratic campaign activity has not yet been reflected in the Washing- ton headquarters of the Democratic na- tional committee, which occupies a fine corner suite in the National Press Building. Richard T. Buchanan, a graduate of many years' standing in the practical school of American journal- ism, who has presided over the destin] of the permanent Democratic Washing- ton office since before the days of Clem Shaver, in 1924, continues in charge as a courteous and soft-spoken contact man with the Washington corre- spondents and with the offices of Demo- cratic Congressmen on the Hill. To date no plans are in sight for augment- ing the Democratic headquarters here, Reports that headquarters for the South Atlantic States were to be set up here are as yet but idle rumor, Nor do the Democratic publicity plans, as far as the Washington office has been advised, contemplate any publicity bureau here. Publicity is to be directed almost en- tirely from the General Motors Build- mg in New York, according to the pre- liminary program * oK K K So far as publicity s concerned, there is & temporary lull in the investigation of the public utilities by the Federal Trade Commission. But there is no ces- sation of activity of the investigators, who are as busy as ever gathering new evidence for public presentation when hearings are resumed in September, The hearings started March 8, and when the Summer recess was taken, July 6, 71 witnesses had been examined orally, 38 volumes of testimony comprising 4,877 pages had been taken and 3,670 exhibits had gone into the record. These hearings were devoted entirely to the publicity and propaganda phases of the inquiry, and Judge Healy, the com: counsel, says that yet we have only scratched the surface The financial phases of the utilities will be_the next line of fvestigation. Obvh)\mg’ this offers a_tremendous fleld for inquiry, John H. Bickley, who has served both the Maryland and Pennsyl- vania Public Service Commissions as auditor and accountant, has recently been added to Judge Healy's stafl. PR The public utilities investigation has served to completely overshadow the other inquiries belng pursued by the Federal Trade Commission, either on its own initiative or at congressional behest. It 18 carrying on a comprehensive study of resale price maintenance, which is still in the questionnaire stage. The sale of blue sky securities Is another in- quiry in progress. A draft report is now before the commission of its Investiga- tion of du Pont investments in United States Steel and General Motors. Pur- suant to the Brookhart resolution, adopted by the Senate near the close of the last session, a sweeping investiga- tion 15 just now getting under way of merchandising through chain stores, to ascertain if there be an apparent viola- tlon of anti-trust laws oK kK Since a Democratic nomination in Florida is still rated the equivalent of election, it is already possible to refer to Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen, daughter of the late Willlam Jennings Bryan, as the new woman member of Congress. She defeated W. J. Sears, the present in- cumbent, in the fourth district of Flor- fda in the Democratic primary. The daughter of the “Great Commoner" carries a great political heritage as well as the accumulated political wisdom of a lifetime spent in close assoclation with men and women promunent in public aftairs, For the past half a dozen years Mrs, Owen has been in constant demand as a Chautaugua lectures, and Is one of the highest pald women in that work, She is the mother of four children. Her mother, the widow of the sllver-tongued orator from Nebraska, will accompany Mrs. Owen to Wash- Ington, and they will make their home here together \ sion’s general * ok The United Statos Army Band, under the leadership of Capt. William J. Stan- nard, is rapldly overtaking its older rival, the famous Marine Band, and s in & falr way of making a great name for itself as one of the crack military bands of the world. Next Bummer it will go abroad to the international ex- position at Seville, Spain, as a feature of cold fact it is the most interesting and useful room in the home. Espectally does really hot weather call attention to the wonder of the modern bath, whether it be a humble affair with no more than a tub or one of these palatial places decorated accord- ing to the latest dictates of young ladies who specialize in just such matters, ‘The beauty of having a river at com- mand is appreciated to its full worth when the thermometer reglsters 96 de- grees in the shade. Nothing but a bath will restore one’s equilibrium when Nature pours forth the honest sweat, and dogs pant and cats try to keep cool under the buffet, and flies attempt to fight their way into houses through screens, and Junior tries to unlock the screen door in order to get out. Then, if ever, comes the perfect bath. The mere shedding of clothes, that necessary preliminary, puts one into a better frame of mind. Let it be said. in passing, that a right frame of mind is as necessary in bathing as in any other pursuit. Recall Johnnie, who kicks and screams because he “doesn’t wanna take a bath.” Lively appreciation of the boon of | a bath is at once the best prelimina to and the best state of mind for a sousing shower. One ought not to greet such a succcess as the modern bath as if it were commonplace. Even the mightiest Roman of them all, to wit, Julius Caesar, when he wanted to take a bath had to go to the public baths Today we Americans bathe at home with more splendor’ than the Romans ever knew without as much publicity. PR A bath still remains the most private affair of the private citizen. One may sing in his bath, or keep silent in it, but almost always he takes it alone. Solitude best fits the home bather. Aloofness characterizes the tired busi- ness man when he kicks off his shoes and so on and retires through the door | of the bathroom. He may have been sociable all day long, may have treated his employes with cordiality, may have eaten lunc at a club where hundreds called him his first name, but when he gets home and desires to lave himself he becomes as_unsocial as a clam. Every bathroom ought to have a sign on it such as one sometimes sees on l(:)usiness office doors, “Private—Keep ut.” ‘The sanctity of the bath is something like that of the mails. One as seldom opens a bathroom door when the sounds of a bath issue forth as he does a letter which is not his. It is just something that isn’t done. This is, to us, the beauty of the bath, that in it one may retire and be alone for a time with the most agreeable (and | sometimes most disagreeable) of all per- sons, his precious self. When one thinks of the affairs of life that call for crowding together, their number and force, he is all the more grateful to any institution that will allow him to be’by himself for a while. ‘The bathroom is almost the sole place in a modern home where a man may be free, at least for a time, from the in- trusion of others. In this hot weather let us make the most of it, and rejoice, not only in the bath itself, but in the seclusion which it affords weary mortals. As Tiny Tim didn't say, God bless us every one in our bath! OBSERVATIONS sembled, and 30 programs, comprising more than 400 selections of real “Amer- ican” music, have been arranged by Capt. Stapnard which the Army Band will present on its foreign tour. * ok kK ‘The Army Band is an outgrowth of the World War, but the Marine Band dates back to the earliest days of the Republic. It was organized in 1768 and gave its first public concert in Phila- delphia in 1800. It has played for every President from John Adams to Calvin Coolidge and has furnished the music for White House New Year receptions for more than a hundred years. The members are among the best paid men in the Marine Corps. The leader gets the pay and allowances of a captain ‘The assistant leader receives $200 a month and the allowances of a ser- geant-major. 'The Government fur- nishes the band instruments and the | brilliant red uniforms. o ‘The passport division of the State De- partment continues to operate at top | speed with no mid-Summer let-down. So far as passports may be taken as a criterion of the volume of American travel abroad, 1928 bids fair to set a new high record of all time. In May, which is invariably the peak month of the year in the passport division, the total issued was 37,648, the greatest number ever issued in a single month— and more than 5,000 ahead of the same month a year ago. The June total was 29,651, In July it ran well past the 15,000 mark. For the 12 months end- ing June 30 the total was 188,236, a new high record. Since passports are now good for ¢wo years without renewal and since it is possible for an entire family to travel on one passport, it 13 safe to estimate that the annual Euro- pean migration is running well past the half-million mark. (Copyright, 1928 R Modern “Barefoot Bo From the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. 1f the poet Whittler were driving an automobile today he might write soms what differently of the “barefoot boy with cheek of tan,” on whose head he called down blessings. Barefoot trudging at his side,’ Let the million-dollared ride. The barefoot boy still has his cheek, plenty of it, hut he no longer does much trudging if he can help it; he has taken to “hitch-hiking," and the million-dol- lared gentry who formerly threw benevo- lent smiles at the sturdy lad by the roadside now toot an anxious horn to avold running him down. ‘The automobile must bear the blame for taking @& lot of the poetry out of boyhood and rumnl a lot of bad temper in its che, Driving along al- most any boulevard today, one passes through lanes of persistent lads who stand with upraised hands—not in blessing--and making inaudible move- ments with their lips. All they want 1s free transportation 1f one were to pick up all the wistful boys who line the road from the t‘ll{l to the lake, for instance, nothing less than a sightseelng bus would serve. And even the most benevolent-minded citizen does not care to drive a sight- seeing bus in place of his roadster built to cany two or three ‘There s no use denying that this ride-begging has become an insufferable nuisance. More, it adds to the perils of motoring, it endangers the boys them- selves and endangers the cars that are forced to swerve out for them The great majority of motorists are quick to do kindness for needy persons along the road, Iif not for no other reason than that they know they may some time be In the same predicament. But promiscuous begging of rides by able-bodied boys, many of them bent on mischief, imposes no obligations on the sympathy or kindness of motorlsts It has been carried much too far. In New Jersey there is a movement on foot to prohibit the practice by law, and it may come to that in other States. “Blessings on thee, little man,” but glve us room to get by with our cars. Trout Pleased With Season. of this Nation’s p-v“rlpmlu:l in that Bill Tilden not only mindles a rac- uet. well but he knows how to stir up event., Already rare and ancient un- publ musle of the early days of 340 Prom the Philadelphiy Evening Bulletin. an Not of the Whittier Type| ' H : PHILOSOPHIES BY GLENN FRANK Among the well fed, well clothed and well housed it is a common habit to consider soclal content among the masses of the people as divine and social discontent as diabolical The fact is, however, that everything depends upon the character of the con- tent or the discontent—social content may be diabolical and social discontent divine. It is all a question of the objectivi a people has in mind when it rests content or roars in discontent Social content is diabolic: prosperity of a no _sense of soc different to evel of 1ts possessors. Social content is diabolical when it . means submission to unsatisfactory conditions that might be improved. Social content is dlabolical when it means that nowhere in the nation are soctal conditions looked into until some I obligation and is in- danger Social content fs diabolical when it means indifference to the quality of the nation’s prestige, when it means a willingness on the part of the people {to think a nation great simply because it is rich. Socinl discontent is diabolical when it inspires a crusade to correct an injus tice to a class by methods that are dangerous to the common weal Social discontent is diabolical when its only objective is to secure material advantzges, when It seeks fat living rather than a full life. But there are conditions under which discontent takes on divinity. Social discontent s divine when the objectives of its crusades take into ac- | count the welfare of all | "“Social discontent is divine when it | seeks the emancipation and enrichment |'of the whole of men's lives and not | simply a part of their lives Social discontent is divine when it breeds a willingness to suffer and to sacrifice for its objectives | "'Social discontent is divine when it is intelligently patient about the achieve- | ments of its objectives. Diabolical discontent is a raging to | that floods the countryside an | Sweeps away the solid achievements o | generations. | " Divine discontent is a stream that | runs with resistless power down its | channel, generating added power as it | flows and turning the wheels of pro- ductive enterprise. (Copyright, McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) | | - d 2 f Imitation War Noise Used in Making Film BY E. E. FREE, PH. D. Taming the noises of war, so that they come and go and perform their | tricks at the behest of the stage di- rector, like trained elephants in a cir- cus, is the recent accomplishment of a New York theatrical expert, Mr. John Higham of the Display Stage Lighting Co. In the motion picture, “Wings, scenes showing battles between aircraft or on the ground are intended to be | accompanied, for greater impressiveness, by the hums of airplane propellers, the rendigg crash of wood. the rat-tat-tat of machine guns, the clank and rattle of the giant tanks and other nolses of the fighting front. Acoustic engincers attempted, at first, to produce these sounds by phonograph records of the actual noises. productions of real noises turned out, however, to be less convincing than imi- tation noises, like the familiar theatrical “thunder” of shaken sheets of tin and heavy balls rolled down a trough. Stage noises need “make-up” to seem “nat- ural” in the theater, just as actors and actresses use grease paint for the same . To produce his make-up noises, mhnm bufit a_roundproof box con- talning, for example, a device by which tiny chains and bolts are dragged by an electric moter across a plate of fron. This produces a miniature noise re- sembling, in everything but loudness, the clangor of a giant war tank. This artificial noise is picked up by a micro- phone inside the soundproof box, enormously magnified by a radio ampli- ier and fed out into the theater from iant loud speakers. In the same way & small wooden ratchet “makes up” to imitate the crash of rending wood, a rapid drum beat represents the hum of an airplane and so on. Canadian Farmers Pool Wheat Crops | From the Charleston Evening Post. If farmers in the United States will do what farmers in Canada have done and on a proportionate scale they will not have to worry about the equaliza- Haugen measure. No less than 142 together in what is known as the Cana- dian wheat pool. in which the farmers agree to market their wheat through the pool for a perfod of five years. [ They own their elevators, terminal | facilities and shipping facilities. They | maintain_selling agencles all over the world. claim to have increased the price of wheat obtained by the farmer without raising the price of bread to the consumer. They are mar- keting more than half the wheat of Canada and doing more than $1,000,000 a day of business. The Canadian wheat farmers have learned the secret of co-operation, just as some of the fruit farmers of the { Pacific have learned it, and the truth ! has made them free. They are depend- ent neither on the exactions of com- mercial parasites nor upon the whims {and vagaries of politicians. They do their own business in their owi and do it well. When the wheat farm- ers of the Middle West and the cotton farmers of the South learn how to co- | operate effectively on a large scale they will laugh at equalization fees and Gov- ernment crop reports. UNITED STATES IN WORLD WAR Ten Years dgo Today. Throwing his 1st Army against the apex of the German salient southeast of Amiens, Marshal Foch today cap- tured Montdidier and followed up his success by smashing into the salient for an average depth of 6 miles on a 13-mile front. The whole allled line fror . Albert to the southern side of the Montdidier salient has been pushed eastward, * * * Between the Ancre and the Somme American troops have co-operated with the British and the two captured Morlancourt and held the village against heavy counter- attacks. Estimated to taken 24,000 Cerman prisoners, * In the last 36 hours the Germans have executed four counter-attacks aganst the Americans between Bazoches and Fismes (on the Vesle front), using high explosives and gas preparation, but in ase they were repulsed with losses * * American troops have also been thrown mto the fighting in the great battle in the Amiens-Somme and, after overeoming stiff re- they helped the British cap- ortant positions in an. attack between the Ancre and the me, American machine gunners and Ine fantry went Into the battle with their traditional enthustasm, meeting the Germans and defeating them as they did along the Marne. * * * In battle in the air between 13 German plenes and 5 American planes two of our men bring down Cerman planes without any casualties e Bringing Home the Bacon. From the Detroit Free Press Al Smith says he won't go in for “bolognes would have no objections to a A news reel showing him thing save the comfort | one’s immediate personal interest is in | tion fee or such bills as the McNarys ! Canadian wheat farmers have banded | Any reader can get the answer to, any question by writing to our Informa- [tion Bureau in Washington, D. C. This offer applies strictly to information The bureau cannot give advice on legal medical and financial matters. It does not attempt to settle domestic troubles nor undertake exhaustive research én any subject. Write your question plainly and briefly. Give full name and address and inclose 2 cents in coin or stamps for return postage. The reply ‘:h sent direct to the inquirer. Address The Evening Star Information Bureau, | Frederic J. Haskin, director, Washing- ton, D. C. Q. How old are children?—W. E. N A. The boys are 18 and 13 and the | daughter is 15. Q. What became of the steamer East- | 1and, which sank in the Chicago River many years ago?—A. J. A.” The steamship Eastland was raised |and sold. It is now the Wilmette and | is operated by the Division of Naval ! serve of Chicago. Q. After what building was the Scot- | tish Rite Temple in Washington, D. C., | modeled?—A. M. T. | A. 1t is said to be reminiscent of the | Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, which | was one of the seven wonders of the | ancient world. It was designed by John | Russell Pope. | @ Why will lightning strike three or { four times in the same place on open ground?—A. W. N. |~ A. It is proba | posit of ore in the land face which attracts electricity. has often been the case, or it may be that the locality is one where electrical storms are prevalent and lightning inacurauy enters the ground by trees, | posts, etc. Q When 1s the best time for climb- {ing the Matterhorn? Who climbed it first?>—A. G. T. | " A The time for climbing the Matter- |horn is considered best during the | Summer season, although Winter trips | have been made. The Matterhorn was !the last of the Alpine peaks to be con- quered, more than 50 years after Mont Blanc had been scaled. ~Edward Whymper was the first to reach the top. Q. What school in Washington, D. C. has a foreign service course?—H. H. S. A. Both George Washington Univer- sity and Georgetown University offer | foreign service courses. Q. Where was the Leviathan at the time the armistice was signed?—N. T. { A This ship was docked at Liv | pool, England, on November 11, 1918. Q. What is meant by delivery price? —S. A. L. A. This is the price fixed upca a given date, usually about the same as the market price on that day, by which ithel Barrymore's | i gard to contracts actually delivered. Q. Doés any one know the name of | the first English song?—G. D. A. The first real English song was “Sumer Is Icumen In" Words mod- ernized, “Summer Is Come In.” This song belongs to the Anglo-Norman pe- riod, having been written about 1250. | Q When was the American flag first | seen in foreign waters?—E. C. N. A. On February 14, 1778, the sloop- of-war Ranger, commanded by John Paul Jones and flying the American flag, sailed into the Bay of Biscay, near Quiberon, Prance, and was greet- ed by a salute from the guns of a near- by ship. This was the first.time in history that the Stars and Stripes had ever been seen and saluted in foreign waters. & What s our principal import?— ‘A. Crude rubber heads the list. Q. Where was the first Childs Res- taurant started?—L. G. A. William Childs and his brother, the late S. S. Childs, started the first Childs Restaurant in Cortlandt street, New York City, in 1889. Q. When is the Law Research School to be opened at Johns Hopkins Uni- versity?—N. E. P, A. The Law Research School at Johns Hopkins University will be organized when school opens this Fall. This in- stitute for the study of law is the first of its kind in the country and it is ex- pficted that its research will accomplish ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. financtal settlements are made, in re-| for law what the Johns Hopkins Med- ical Center has achieved in its field. Q. Who established t Girls of America?—A. A A. The idea of the Camp Fire Girls of America originated with Mrs. Char- | lotte V. Gulick, who died quite recently. | The enterprise was launched in 1912 and there are now 170.000 active mem- bers. Mrs. Gulick was the first presi- dent of the Association of Directors of Girls’ Camps. he Camp Fire . B. traveler in Q. Who is the greatest the world?—J. C. B. No definite answer can be giv Newman and E. Burton H: - lecturers, have visited ma many tim |_A |E. M tra lands Q. Is a man without a country from | the time that he files his declarat { of intention until he gets his final | papers?—G. P. | _A. First papers do not change an | alien's status. He is still a subject | of the country from which he came. | Q What do the initials F. R. S. A | stand for>—W. s. { A They are the abbreviation for | Fellow of the Royal Soclety of Arts. Q. How many ruling princes has In- dia?—F. N. | "A. There are about 700 ruling princes in India, governing about two-fifths of the population of 320,000,000. Q. What points of interest are thera sburg, Pa., besides the battle- H H C ettysburg College is the oldest Lutheran College in America. The his- | toric Dobbin House. the first school building west of the Susquehanna River still stands within the town. Free mu- seums are open to all visitors. The home of Thaddeus Stevens, patron of | education, is on one of the main street. | Q. To whom did the arm and hand that represented Christ in the motion picture, “Ben-Hur,” belong?—E. W. A. Its producer says, “In ‘Ben-Hur' we made a particular point of not show- ing the figure and face of Christ as im- personated by any actor, and we did not allow any actor’s personality or identity to be {identified in any with the photographs which indica that Christ was partly in the scene.” Q. Is the use of gases in warfare a recent development?—W. E. A. Many efforts have been made in {the past to use vnrious gases—chiefly sulphur dioxide—in warfare. As early as 431 B.C. the Spartans, in besieging the citles of Belium and Platea, burned pitch and sulphur under the walls of these cities in order to break down their defense by suffocation of the troops of the citles. Q. A bets that there are more hands that will beat four tens than there are that will beat four aces. Does he win?—H. L. A. A loses. There are 32 hands that will beat four aces and only 24 that will beat four tens. Only straight flushes will beat four aces and there are 32 in which aces do not figure (the aces beiny held against the possible combinations). There are only 20 straight flushes that can be made with- out the use of the tens. Add to this | number the four sets of fours that will |beat the four ‘tens and the result is {that you have only 24 hands that will | beat four tens. Q. What is the Interdepartmental Patents Board?>—E. B. S. A. The Interdepratmental Patents , Board is composed of representatives of the War, Navy, Commerce, Justice and Interior Departments, and was set up on August 9, 1922, by executive order No. 3721. It was created to recom- mend suita'le regulations to be fol- lowed by the Government with respect to handling inventions &nd patents evolved by Government employes and other inventions and patents acquired by the Governmert. Like other inter- departmental agencies, the chief co-or- dinator exercises control over it in ac- cordance with the terms of an executive order of November 8, 1921, No. 3571. It not only investigates matters of the ¢ above nature referred to it. but dissemi- nates proper information among the de- partments and other units of the Gov- ernment concerning patents, applica- tions for patent licenses and other rights under patents owned by the Gov- ernment, and performs such other du- ties relating to this subject as are re- ferred to it by the chief co-ordinator. i | ed “You take all the experience and Judgment of men over 50 out of the world and there wouldn't be enough left to run it. Youngsters have their place and are necessary, but the expe- rience and judgment of men over 50 are what give purpose and meaning to younger men's efforts.” These words of Henry Ford in an .interview given to newspaper men on the recent ocea- sion of his sixty-fifth birthday have | attracted nation-wide attention in an | tured the foreground of the picture ‘Henry Ford's defense of the old man Ford View of Age in Bl;siness Arous?s Echoes of Approval lera when youth seemed to have cap-| something to contribute in drive. and pep, and new ideas,” though this paper acknowledges that “some youthful ideas have to be toned down and tempered by the experience of elders in order to render them practical the opinion | of the Rochester Democrat and Chroni- cle, “Youth and age are the same rela- | tive balance wheels they have been for soclety as a whole, b number of vears & man has lived has never been a reliable gage of what he can do. And with science constantly adding useful years to human life. age Is even less a factor in achievement ‘ of 50 will make him friends in many firesides throughout the Nation. It i the first pleasant word the aged has- beens have had in a long time,” say the Springfield Illinols State Journal; | trac jthan ever,” this paper conciudes. * o ox % t would have been a notable sub- v while the San Francisco Chronicle re- |marks: “Henry Ford's assertion on his ixty-fifth birthday that his best are ahead should prove con- soling to those sociologists who have been trying to decide whether men over of chloroform or sent to the poorhouse.” Agreeing with Mr. Fords point of view, the Waterloo Tribune says, he experience and judgment of men over 50 years is the most valuable thing in the world today,” and proceeds to butions of youth and age to the life of the times, saying: “Younger men pro- duce things: they are active: their minds respond quickly. But men of experfence—and experience brings judg- ment—plan and carry out. Many of them, like Ford, do not leave the plan: for younger men to carry out; they carry them out themselves. They don do the actual work, perhaps, but they see that the work is done. Their ex- perience and judgment, gained through trials and tribulations. furnish what may be called the ‘intuition' which enables them to find the men best adapted to perform in accordance with their planning* * * ¥ That “this generation is clipping the wings of Time" and that “men and ‘women are being lifted out of age con- sclousness” is the view of the Pasadena Star-News, as it declares that “in styles of dress and styles of thought, i activi- ties continued beyond the traditional age for retiring or slowing down. and in the whole psychologio atmosphere of the times, growing old is not recog- nized. This generation has all but found the fountain of perpetual youth,” cugclugrs ‘lht; ‘fltnthws. 0 the Willlamsport Sun “the sycret of this changed conditler s, perhaps, not to be found so much in the world's attitude toward age as in age's attitude toward the world. Modern old men,™ 1t declares, “seem to have learned that there is an undisputed place for them n the world as long as they keep in pace with the procession” and it con- gratulates older men in that “some of :{:e:x“ll\are mofl not only to keep in Vi el ng conditions B L ohane but even pletures. Still, he probably | The 40 should be subject to a humane dose | analyze the difference in the contri- | tion from the sum total of huma: Judgment, in its effect on material del1 | velopment, practical affairs, at all events, if that of Mr. Ford had ceased to function at the age of 50" is the remark of the Aberdeen Daily World Noting that Mr. Ford also stated that he lcoks forward eagerly to the next five years, prophesying that he will ac- complish more in that period than he has in the last 20 vears.” the Long Beach Press-Telegram exclatn “This is the attitude that carvies men to bigger and higher things | response of the mode: | automobile wizard, as he | his sixty-fitth birthday t. five years of his life's hi says the Waterbury Republ iv\'hl(‘h characterizes his brain as “s and quick” and “his judgmen on experfence, invaluable.” Comme: ing on this determination of Mr. Far that is usefulness shall not cease, the Portsmouth Sun says: “There are | many religions and not the least of | them is the one of doing the duty that lies nearest and everlastingly to keep {on doing it.” while the Helena Mo | tana Record-Herald thinks “that's a m?n\m Henry has outlined SIng Mr. Ford's belief that “if | there s an age Mmit for work he doesn’t | know what it 15" the Duluth Herald | declares ‘There 1 no happier per- {son in the world than the one who ;ml:’nr'k t; do that he likes and who {18 able to keep at it.* | Sun finds “it would be h;rr:en?‘dl&m | with his notion that there is o sudsti- {tute for work except more intelligent K‘vmrk The Santa Barbara Daily News finds the kernel of Mr. Ford's birthday | Interview in his position that “after all jthe chief thing that counts is the .::;:‘h\- man can render to his fellow The Altoona Mirror beligves th: 0 matter how old & man or woman may b continued Interest in the business of the day or the activities of the home s essential to the highest happiness. ;l‘h o) . which lists a general to the ounces on ! served also.” The | siders M,