Evening Star Newspaper, August 16, 1928, Page 8

NG STAR, WASHINGTON. D. (8] THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 1928. PHILOSOPHIES BY THE EVENING STAR |struet With Sunday Morning Edition. equipment it is possible to reach the T A S average fire in the city within five min- WASHINGTON. D. C. |utes after the signal sounds. In those fon. In these days of motorized [ something in life—something fine nndl deeply satisfying. An intelligent dog, well trained and well cared for, is a friend who always comforts, who al- ways sympathizes, and who always re- THIS AND THAT GLENN FRANK ANSWERS TO BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. QUESTIONS THURSDAY. .... August 16, 1928 five minutes the fire has little chance to - o A Y »-g-—— — {gain headway. The quicker the re-|joices with the pleasure and happiness BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. - : O e ot ol b | B M b wiHe heathec o i THEODORE W. NOYES. . .. Editor | sbonse the greater the chance of an jm- | of "t‘\: l"‘;:‘i::rdn;:‘?‘ ':f‘:&'f:w"figi"fil We caught the rear end of the ex-| Meantime the corn and hibiscus were that '«'fip“’p’l‘nES?: 0 ‘edneation 15 1o |sal & corps GG o e outside of Israel altogether. i - - | mediate smothering of the flames and | acteristics i 1 % S Srodi vodtice, net ind stuffed with in- | Washington who will answer questions ¥ 2 | - ying by the window at a prodigious | produce, not a mind stu | Wash . . How long did it take to develop The Evening Star Newspaper Company |of & reduction of the damage to small | humans. Their great differences lie In | cursion train just as it pulled out :o{ g thing. mawed dry. How Souid | formation, but a mind trained to think | m Jou, 1;’,;““!,“;,:“;6“,&? ,]?;rg?& msmmmmhn. A 1o e Blsiness ome | sreportions, = temperament. Some dogs are jocose | the shore. We like excursion trains|ipe corm know that within 24 hours it | and a personality adjusted to the life ateiin gnl‘{erles and public buildings | _A. Theodore Case began 19 years ago New! Tork Qfce: 110 Faxt dpe st o iose who believe it to be|and. folly, others serious and_sedate. | now and then. A steady diet of rattles | would receive the record ramnfall n fof s time. o P55 G to e umerous associations which | (o Work tovard this end. One of th n & e vely 'S - | wi c) K t once & ars? Taate . k ' rst successfu ietone 2 : IO aon, | dangerous for the fire apparatus to|Some are lively in nc(lm‘\ othereddemi would be much too much b;n h»“ «m_‘ T4 couldn't, and it didn't; the stalks | learning more closely to life ??g‘xglm ?{efi%?‘%aiq:;;bg,‘:;;en(z::;m: O Rcetatul misvistans Rictiel W England make high speed in going through the |€rate. Some are inquisitive and have | year an excursion proves profitable, looked_ary, the.jeaves Tobked very dry: | We have far fo So. however, hofore | Capltal. 1€ they can be of assistance | S1OWE, Jl JaniY 1 e | streets and who would have limits put |An investigating turn of mind, others| teresting and exciting it was corn growing in a land without | we shall have converted our schools| @ %00 AFE OO CHIEER PR e | her Catalan songs. by Carrier Within the City. prki o g s put | ercly a sense of responsibility| One big poat about not roaming |a sky, in so far as we could see in our | from warehouses for information into | F05, FItG, (0 PeCs M FER o, ST T Stare e, 45 permonty |upon the paces of the engines and Beve Mere & SO O SRS round much s that. when one does | standing position, those dark green | intellectunl gymnasiums to The Evening Star Information Bl- | o How much doss the heat of the * Sunday Blar o month | trucks. But if their own dwellings or | for the safe keeping of propert €| foam the roaming is a novelty. We |blinds cutting off the landscape at| We still dissect knowledge and em- | (OfGh, orrt®lys ( FASER » | sun vary in a given number of year Sunday Star, business houses are on fire they are the | characteristics are infinite in thelr va-| by these poor folk who go so much | jarge. [bam it as deud specimog, instead of | W . o IN.F 55 (o L (e e sttt e | riations Phat the going has . lost its charm.| After all, we could see by leaning | seeking and using living knowledge for | Q How large an lceberg has been| A. The intensity of the radiation fro Sc per copy | most urgent advocates of speed in re- | Bt PSR — Quiet individuals find a trip pa {over the old gentleman’s head, now | the purposes of living men and women. | seen?—E. C the sun has varied from about 1 per Qrders may Chere is no danger In the| p o oo o State Chairmen. |real “kick” in its make-up, wher land then, that the landscape would | We tear knowledge out of the living . The size of icebergs varies. They | cent above normal at the time of s in 5909 streets if all drivers heed the signals | 0 Wo i | called "go-getters™ are bored for miles | never have taken any prizes et v tssue of existence and shock it nimay be 100 or more feet high with|spot maximum (1917) to about 1 per o 3 are g N -| An exceptional condition obtains in | at a stretch would ever sit himself down out there | neat piles as a Kansas farmer Shocks | crests or minarets from 200 to 300 feet | cent below the normal at the time Rate by Mail-—Payable in Advance. are given tn warming ‘of Hths ap St s .| Hopping the last platform of that |t transfer impresslons to canvas his hay—such piles as history, philoso- | above the base, which may be hundreds | Of sunspot minimum (1913 and 1923). ke s N S N ach of fire apparatus. They have | New York State politics. The other day || "oORRER (i 1<t "began to get up | Ordinary good canvas was worth | phy, philology, anthropology, ethics,|of yards in length. In the Kennedy onty 6000 1 t to pull to the curbs and clear the Lieut. Gov. Edwin Corning resigned as | sioqm was as exciting as going to the | more than that! | physics, chemistry, biology, geography. | Ghamnel. Greely followed an iceberg | & What does a trip to Hawaii cost 3 2 sd there is always time for this [chairman of the Democratic State | North Pole. We landed with our left { The Mnm.Tphr-rv* of n:x'l |'lwns ‘\'ln(y geology, botany, politics, economics, and | which was estimated to be 15 mm.siWAb-n 15/ possible merely i eatimat ” yashington is pro cord of tee and his duties were o- | side against the brake, which wasn't |free. ~Gentlemen smoked when they | so on R oveat 100 Taeh SHik. e Tor i s possible merely to All Other States and Canada. washingicn s proud fof thirecord ochen iRt BRIEEE R SE IR Faty et £o1t ke 1t: our old gentleman, who hnd | * These haycacks of knowledge are |Jonk: OVEr 100 feet thick and of b | minimum cost. It vould at lea . Sunday. 1 ¥r.. $12.00 Fire Department—a record which | rarily assumed by Mrs. Carolyn O'Da Thside the conch was what might be |a fringe of white hair displayed very | convenient forms for the professor. { by the bark Emil Julius in 1884 towered | three weeks from the Pacific 1 . uses i ety to stand out con-|the vice chairman. Yesterday George | {ermed, with no disrespect, a_conglom. | prominently around his skull, insisted ]and_v means of filing his material, | ahout 1,700 feet above the sea. Only cost at least $375, | spicuousiy as one of small losses be- | K. Morris, chairman of the Republican | eration of human beings. Excursion |on smoking a big cig ) but, in_any understanding of or ad- | 3u0lt ene-cighth or one-ninth of the| Q. In what art gallery is the “Winged | | zrowds dre like er gr 5 at least 6 miles to | justment to li hey are distres ; } : & art g . g cause of quickly extinguished blazes. | State committee, died suddenly and his :‘}(?r“‘(lds :};‘LJ"‘MM_“‘."h(;:‘l‘l‘l“fnhl_ollll);“11“1‘\:3::. “"}‘Ll ‘.‘[nUkH-'hir"l‘n(k s ! llll:i\'ll\“l nt to living, they are distress- | mass lies above the water. | Victory of Samothrace?"—A. M. A. t ors the men who comprise the | duties have lfkewise been temporarily | ¢ if you get what we m |ench match going out obligingly as| e inayi TAtHEEAMORONBIN | oAty e oA aallsE ) It i in the Louvre in Paris. ompanies and it will in a few days|assumed by Miss Sarah Butler, the | Our biggest kick against our (nn—‘llh'“\\md from |ml‘y“li("d:mn:lllrx“c('ixll(;n\ | G ;rhr:nl f} o ;it given some of the Marine Corps mean? | Q What is Peter B. Kyne's Indian have occasior Sphorinlly fo | v " ” s at | glomeration wae ®hat it permea o | There scemed to be cinders | e ion, not in terms of air-tight|"_ name?—F. E. O. £ oostanisng oppottunty fo pay | vice SBAKTRR LT s R OvemED S 8H) PR e gy it we [ coming in by this time to provide fuel ( compartments of information, but in | & Yyu ; A. The name Eys was _giver " ¢ " car so thoroughly tha e 4 = A. The Maltese Cross is awarded to e nam y given bute to them when they hold their | the head of each State committee of | for any cigar end, but somehow the | terms of a; /me by the Stoney n I : | | stand up. | L 0 n attempt to answer the | a1"Gemcers and enlisted men of the Ma- | Kyne by the Stoney In In thei ade and carnival. The win- | New York, a situation that has never |~ Of course. we were not the only per- |0ld gentleman had a _l]m)d m;n- O{v It | living questions that the adventure of | yine’ Corps who served in France during | language it means painter in wor companies of this compe! for | before occurred. son standing up. That helped some. | He kept «\“llk‘mk',m_"d‘ et e | meanwhile there will be | ¢ world War, but who did not par- | Only three other white men have be be o In all Mkelhood these two acting | There was a cute little trick standing [8%ay untdl he got red in the face; We| no reason why scholars cannot g0 on | icipate in any engagement. accepted 4s chiefs by the Stoney tri e conspicuo o S B | b fust a few feet from us. She wore ‘t felt sorry, m'x_-l hm‘\ s got 3 toehold on | Ith their investigations in terms of | i % They are the Duke of Connaught, t& chairmen will be relieved of their un- |, yhite sailor jumper and a pair of '““\' h:'l‘.:ir.nr m\x:”;qrrr I‘f?& flimlr(x'z ;m\am lhv;r(x;m‘d departments @ In what month are there the most | Prince of Wales and Lord Willingdon. ———— | expected responsibilities in season as | white long pants—"longies,” they call | the end of his cigate ue : | should like to sce a school or-|q .~y # o0 T Chile aceldents?— P . ! | 1 tha vhe orn by ks | puffed it into a conflagration; at 1ast | ganized around the attempt to answer | 9¢2ths 5 Q. What is the most popular spor The Ohio Primary. gtho(\\'n chairmanships are filled. Mean- | HT} \:1";“1\ ‘rnf;:nmi\ i;m:‘tl“. bo_\;l {he was smoking happily. ) | e Fich Tatktions & thes S |P. T " | amhoig Prenchment=F: € kTS ior whe st while, however, important matters are | €T COUC AEE TeC 1 w"’;“m‘;x’_k‘;g;p Most of his .&mnk’\- l|r<{’ aased 1ESelf| " wiiat do F need: to: Mnow about Ane| & ”'x‘)(w‘ rs;g'z:;rm szfe;: f(gflfi"* A. It is said that tennis is the mo o the nominaticn of o arr: o | ' yos : | gently across our face, but we were | funcq 5 =3 says that in e month of Octo- | 1 ame in Prance. Boys b flto be arranged. It is expected that |and her cheeks shone with natural | BEPtS ut unctions and the care of my body? | evS Gt | popular g s 3 2 . s atural | S ausc it covered up the S : ¥? . Iber was the peak. The daily average | e s early as 7 ¢ atorial and | " opay will function as chairman | color. Maybe we were fooled by this—- | S1ad, foF 1h beeauss 1t o e ol R b L L TR Py month was 91, September | lCArning the game as early as 7 ar {until the Democratic State conventlon | e ate Hever sure any more, whether | we could see great belches of cin | Wit i i o)k iabnit s with 87 daily, then Decem- |62 OF 48¢ to press = st of Oc- | It is Nature or rouge. Perhaps it makes | qar-filled smoke pouring down in a|ay andatt e Jure, 80: Au-| Q@ Who was the primary o | Teets 2t Rochester “-"v”‘(“ g o rder | o particular difference, the result is | mysterious manner from the roof of | &l too mysterious part my emotions . 65: May, 64; April. 59; | for the Confederate States e L R e | the car ahead into the very door of all'T nect s 54; March, 53, and Janu- | Civil War’—W. H. A ) Srimary. the o |and presiding until a permanent or- | Benuty. whether from jar or Jehovah. | our cun vehicle P e t and do | ore 5. IR i Revoy Pupe Walker: P ota | is still a thing of joy. 51 R t 4 o | @S 3 T { : 3 g | gan! s o e Republi- g of joy Suction, no doubt. pulled it in. Ex-| ; 5 g . 000. Under such conditions, all | :‘r:::‘:n,:::fl,f hhl‘l:,‘:flml that | ok % ¥ cursion trains. ought” o devise some | , WAt shall T need to know and do| Q. what became of Jefferson Davis | Q Which furs are for dress wear ¢ likelihoo ity ¥ ) anizat s il o s 1 deflec vhich | 3.8 ma ! | aft R g s s wear?—L. D. Adame' {deac in 1823 | Ukelihood. or even possibility, of Gov.| While we stood there, trying to|Sort of antisuction deflectors which | g VY, fpaN 08 VORARE ) after his release from prison?—V. O, T. | which for sports wearb TL- B g ne has been expound- times and in more or n by Van Buren. Web- | t, Fish, Evarts Cleveland. Roose- | to mention vari- | ne, Olney, tion today is not There are | ning s | Doctrine it was a century ago. of jon cone: Co a Rica would 11 i Costa ™. | unimportant, point. The Versailles ne- | gotiations at the end of the Great War | promised. a time, to substitute a doctrine for the Monroe Doctrine Western Hemisphere, but the h arose in the Ul d corporation in Article 21 of the League Cor nt of the following clause: “The covenant does not affect the validity ©f international engagements, such as treaties or arbitration er regional un- derstandings like the Monroe Doctrine, for se the maintenance of peace. Therefore, Costa Rica points out, every member of the League of Nations rec- | ognizes the Monroe Doctrine as a “re- | gioral understanding.” Before lccept-i ing by re-entering the League, this con- | ception of the Monroe Doctrine, Costa Rica asks the League to give its official | view of the document and prevent Costa Rica, in effect, from signing something that Costa Rica does not understand. Costa Rica’s request may have been eimed at embarrassing the League m; the extent of asking the League to do | something that it will not and can- not, in propriety, do. At the same| time Costa Pica focuses attention on the position taken by her sister republics of the south in retaining their member- ship in the League. The League Coun- il is understood to have declined al- ready the task of interpreting the Mon- | roe Doctrine, but has passed tlong‘l Costa Rica’s request to the member na- | o An Associated Press dispatch | from Geneva hints that this may re- sult in a debate on the Monroe Doctrine | when the League Assembly convenes in September. The debate will be, like Costa Rica’s request, interesting if un- important. While the Monroe Doctrine has been accepted as a “regional understanding” the American republics, it remains a ates policy. President Wil- said that there was no| the doctrine of what the | pretation has always rested, and always th the United States. Mon- ly stated the fundamentals of 2 policy which has been applied under ons of which he never dreamed. fundamentals remain, but con- always change ——— Public utterance is necessarily more | or diffuse. No candidate would | dare limit words of his speech of ecceptance to “Yes, thank - ) you!’ | i Fire Apparatus Speed. The annual competitior. between the fire engine companies of the District | for speed g under way in re- | sponse to ala been won by No. | No. 14 Truck Co., The former | 6 and 2-5 seconds, | of a second of | shed in 1926 The latter got | which is also ame house 5 seconds second slower than the ch was made by it Jast these achiev propriate g con- of the de- alertness and % summons ng competition tests may igher marky conditions, the act remains that the companies of the Fire Department are exception- edy in answering alarms The are kept fine condition, the 4, and when mot men are constantly dr the beil all 1= In readiness for tnstant answer. Only on rare occasions e stall or balk in leaving Rometimes this is due o the ardor of the company. a commonplace that prompt s an it { victory to the Hoover banner there. { Graham P. Hunt of Cineinnati. {fraud in the primary, however. Hunt jand himself an ardent wet. The other \mflty over George White, former mem- | thousands, |said and done it is money that makes | Smith’s carrying the Buckeye State against Mr. Hoover in November ap- | pears to have vanished Furthermore, the drys in Ohio, except in the choice of the Democratic sena- torial candidate, have triumphantly aominated their candidates in both par- ties for the principal offices. Both Re- publicans and Democrats have picked dry candidates for governor, the former being Myers Y. Cooper of Cincinnati and the latter Representative Martin L Davey. The Republicans have renomi- | nated Senator Fess. a dry, to succeed himself and have selected Representa- tive Theodore E. Burton to run for the | short term. Mr. Burton is a dry and an ardent supporter of Mr. Hoover. Indeed, Mr. Burton took the lead in the pri- mary campaign for Hoover in Ohio last Spring and aided materially in bringing The Democrats have named a wet, ap- parently, to run against Mr. Burton, Hunt's lead over Senater Cyrus Locher, ap- pointed by Gov. Donahey after the death of Senator Frank B. Willis, is about 12,000. Locher, a dry, claims is an avowed supporter of Gov. Smith Democratic senatorial nomination seems to have gone to Charles V. Truax, State director of agriculture, by a 10,000 ma- ber of the House and former chairman of the Democratic natfonal committee. Both are drys. Mr, White has been a supporter of Gov. Smith. Ohio is a “dry” State in sentiment. notwithstanding the large number of “wets” found in Cincinnati and Cleve- land and several other cities. It has been estimated that on a straightout wet and «dry fight, without regard to party politics, the State would go dry by 150,000. In politics the State is Re- publican by a large majority. ‘The victory of Mr. Burton in the sen- | atorial primary is particularly pleasing | to the friends of the veteran legislator. Mr. Burton served in the Senate a num- ber of years ago, but voluntarily re- tired. Later he was persuaded to run | for the House, in which he had served with distinction before he was elected to the Senate, and he was elected. As a debater, Mr. Burton has few equals in either house of Congress. Democratic hopes were raised when the Willis-Hoover fight for delegates to the Republican natfonal convention was at its height last Spring, so serious did the rift in the Republican ranks appear 1o be. But the Republicans have been engaged in burying the hatchet in the intervening months, and, while some soreness still persists, the Republican mafority in the State next November is expected to run into the hundreds of R American candidates boast of humble | beginnings in life. The assurance to | the small boy that he may one day | become President of the United States | still holds good. — - S “Riches have wings” is an old adage. Fiyers are explaining that when all is | #0. the airship —ritt—a~ Sentiment and romance may even | weaken the cynicism of a park police- | man when he is off duty | .- Faithful Unto Death. ! To those who know and love dogs the | death of the collie Pal, inflicted by the Animal Rescue League, appears as a| merciful dispensation, though pitiful | and distressing. This dog was owned | by & man and woman who recently lost | their lives in an accident. He was in- consolable. He mourned and refused He conld not be comforted or mpted with the most dainty food. He starving himself to death. There re thousands who would gladly have given him a home, but he would have suffered with any of them and prob- \ably have died painfully in a short time. ‘To put him out of his misery | was the wisest, most humane course, and it wes followed yesterday. The fidelity of dogs is traditional I'here can be no question of their de- votion to their masters—a devotion that surpasses even that of many humans. Cases have been known of dogs that | have sought the graves of those they have loved in life and have refused to | | leave and have died there. Certain doj | are more keenly sensitive than others | Certain breeds of dogs are more sym- | pathetic, more loyal and unfaltering in | thelr devotion, This dog Pal was one | of these, an exceptional creature. To many who do not understand dogs | who do not appreciate their almost hu- | man qualities, who do not cultivate | thelr acquaintance, who do not know { while Miss Butler will hold the title pro- | We'll seek the time when men may visionally the work of the State com- mittee will be actually directed by Na- tional Committeeman Charles D. Hilles and Secretary L. B. Gleason. Even though these two women should be replaced by men before the close of the campaign, they are actively en- gaged in the fight for votes in their respective parties, having particular charge of the women's departments. | In the allocation of duties in both | State and national campaigns in both parties women are playing important parts. It is recognized that the vote of the women of this country will be perhaps a decisive factor in the con- test More fully than at any time | since the nineteenth amendment was | adopted are the woman voters of | America now participating. They have | formed clubs innumerable for their re- spective favorites. They have formed | leagues in their States. They are pre- paring and distributing campaign ma- terial, are addressing meetings and as the campaign progresses will be more fully and constantly heard “on the stump.” So that even though Mrs. ODay and Miss Butler after brief periods of chairmanship are replaced by men, they will still have much to do toward the selection of the next Presi- dent. et — Elephants, donkeys and tigers are placed on display in a manner to in- dicate that P. T. Barnum is managing to maintain some kind of an ectoplasmic influence in political affairs. e i Canada and the U. 8. A. are in;| friendly agreement to such an extent that the northward tourist traffic is greater than ever before. o—— Dry principles are making so much progress as to create hopes that even some of the bootleggers may be con- verted. — e Apparently all Trotzky needs to make him happy is a quiet corner where he can typewrite without interruption .- A polar expedition, even when devoid of scientific results, is pretty sure to discover something to talk about. i R S Not only the night clubs, but the wet orators, have been padlocked. — gt SH UOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON, ‘Wet Propaganda. i We're going to have a change of heart | While listening, all intent, To learn how each should play a part | ‘To run the Government. ‘We hope that we may have a hunch To solve depressing doubt And bring us back the old Free Lunch | And leave the Licker out. The living problem may be met With swift and subtle ease, | If free to all there may be set The Crackers and the Cheese. munch And measure, without fear, A big percentage of free lunch To one near glass of beer. Successtul Demonstration. “Was your radio demonstration a| “It was," answered Senator Sorghum “I am perfectly aware it was uninter- | esting. But I showed I had enough influence to prevent me from being shut off.” Working Out Problems. I tried to Guess the Market. My Hard Luck Expression muzzles; And many a time I wish that I had stuck To Cross-word Puzzles! Judge Tunkins says “It's a long lane | that has no turning” is one of those things they used to say before you ran {into & detour every hundred yards i | | Practical Relief “What's your idea of farm rell “More men takin’ weeds out of po- | tato patches,” sald Farmer Corntossel, instead of putiin’ greens.” “What we call civilization,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Ohinatown, “often | proves little more than a desire to fol- | low the fashion.” Merry Merging. The Get-Together Day is here, With all its soclal urges. Clubs and Stock Companies draw near And Everybody Merges. “I fs @ law-abldin' citizen” satd | her quota by 3,000 | Spender, {of great cities and ce breathe normally, so that none of our fellow passengers would sense the fact that we had run rapidly for an old fel- low, we kept on looking up and down the aisle, which was swaying in an alarming fashion by this time. We Yes, there it was. Breathing a sigh of relief, we turned to look out the window, only to discov- er that all the blinds were down half way, and that the countryside, to us, was fated to be only a procession of nodding corn and leaping rnadb!‘1 Every one who was seated seemed to be perfectly satisfied with the adjust- ment of the blinds. We felt impelled to ask an old codger seated by the window to pull up his blind. but dis- covered that he was deaf, so gave it up as a bad job Being thus forced to look for amuse- ment within the car, we turned our sparkling eyes upon the aforementioned conglomeration. We knew from past experience that there was no use mov- ing from place to place, or from car to car. All the cars were alike, and, besides, already there were far too many per- sons milling around. Most of them were small boys, who insisted on carry ing dripping glasses of water to and fro—mostly to—to mamme and daddy and littie sister. Train riding does make human beings thirsty, there is not the least bit of doubt of it: but if parents are going to | permit their urchins to lug away the | entire contents of the water tank dur- ing the first 5 miles down the rails, at the least they should instruct them not to drip water on other people’s toes. Our feet are still wet from the in- felt to see if we still had our ticket.| | that of a cow, and the manner Was ex | would cause the smoke to be deflected to some other car. It is not fair to | pull it all into the very coach we hap- | pen to mount. | * ok Kk Kk ‘There went a nice girl with a baby in her arms. She had yellow hair, bound around with a pink bandeau, or whatever you call it, which scrumpled | her bob in the back in a most engaging | fashion. | She was a nice girl and looked at us | | with friendly eyes. We were glad to| | see her and sorry to see her pass from | our coach, but maybe she would come | | back again. but she didn't. By this | time the traffic in small boys for ice| | water was too great i Small boys in knickers wedged them- | selves through the crowd, each young-| ster bearing aloft a big glass of water. | Somehow the kids with the tumblers | did not seem to drip as much water as | those bearing paper containers { | There was no way of seeing how much | | water was in a paper cup. but one| could be reasonably sure that each one beld as much water as the law and the railroad company would allow. Just then the conductor came by. He was a big brute, with a face like | | | { tremely and unnecessarily rude—at teast it struck us that way, because we were angry already since we had to stand up He grabbed our ticket with a short- arm jab, tore off one end, then stabbed it back to us. We seized it with similar vigor, slamming it back into our pocket with true conductorish vim “When do we get in?" we asked, ex- pecting to be glared at “In just an hour, sir.” gently replied the brute, with a pleasant smile, as he‘ hurled himself upon our neighbor's voluntary ablutions they received that day. BY PAUL V. The annual summary for the last fis- cal year of immigration into the United | States shows a marked decrease in number coming from both Mexico and Canada, although both are non-quota | countries—a decrease of about 8,000 from Canada and about 8500 from Mexico. At the same time, there was an increase of some 10,000 from Great Britain and Ireland, and 1500 from | It: But Germany failed to use up admitted a We total of 500,631 aliens, while turned to their native lands our net increase of aliens was only about 225.000. Of the gross incomi: immigrants, 85.3 per cent came from | Mexico, Germany, the Irish Free State. England, Scotland, Italy and the Scan- dinavian_countries We deported 11,625 undesirable aliens, of whom 1211 were criminals 959 insane, epileptic or mentally unfit, and 563 immoral. Half of the deportees were trom Europe and the rest were almost, equally divided between Canada and Mexico, aside from 297 from the West Indies, 213 from Central and South America and 232 from China, 108 from Japan and 304 from other coun- trles. Such are the “dry statistics” of our immigration. There are other phases of the story not half so uninteresting, | * ok ok x One of the most prominent journal- ists of England has been visiting the United States and studying its institu- tions with practiced eyes—Mr. J | former editor of the West-| minster Gazette. He is particularly im- | pressed with the marvelous power of | assimilation of allen races manifested | by the United States. In an article by | Mr. Spender, which has just appeared in the New York Times, he says “The traveling Englishman is struck by the existence of as yet unassimilated | chunks in what is called the ‘American | melting pot’ He finds certain quarters | ain areas else- | where which strike him as purely cosmo- | politan and seem to contain a greater number of different kinds of people than any similar area in Europe. But, on the whole, as 1 have already said, he is| much more Impressed by the extraordi- nary suceess with which the process of assimilation goes forward than by the resistance to it of certain stubborn ele- ments. He is conscious of a national genius at work over the whole area and making all the time sométhing which transcends the different nationali- ties and is characteristically American The courageous American experiment of keeping doors wide open for at least the first century of the national life seems to him to have been well justi- fled and he wishes that the British Dominions could be induced to repeat it “American anxleties on this subject are natural, but T get the impression that they are somewhat exaggerated. 'The old settlers, whether British, Dutch or ‘Nordic,” as the modern word is, have a long start, and the general American pattern ts predominantly theirs. It will no doubt be modified, as time goes on, but it will not be Italfanized or Balkan- ized or Polified; it will still be Ameri- can. It is already sufficlently distin- guished from Anglo-Saxon to afford no reasonable ground for jealousy to the other races, all of whom have their opportunity of contributing to it ac cording to thelr character and ability xRk Discussing the above expression of astonishment i our assimilation of aliens with the well known ethnologist, Dr. Hrdlicka, the sclentist declared that most of the credit must be ascribed to our wonderful public school system Nowhere else in the world s there any such an institution. The alien child who enters an American public school finds himself uncomfortable so long as he knows only his forelgn tongue and BACKGROUND OF EVENTS | stve | how creation keeps up that population ticket. . COLLINS. diately he—or she—becomes a part of the class, and no longer is there any feeling of the “inferiority complex” as he becomes an “American.” Nowhere else in the world is there an opportu- nity to assimilate so quickly as in the American public schools. No parochial or other special class institution can offer such advantages of Americaniza- tion as the public schools * * The quick assimilation of the chil- dren through the public schools brings a crisis in the homes of their parents, where it is soon manifested that the | language of their fatherlands is diffi-| cult to keep alive in the families, since | the only language the children hear | outside of nome—in public, not parc- chial, schools—is “English” or rather American.” A few years ago, New York City was made up of a checkerboard of nation- | alities huddled in separate sections. There were certain biocks where only German was spoken, others where only | Italian or Polish or Russian or some other alien tongue could be heard. The | width of a street marked the passage from one alien community to another The change of language within a few blocks was distinct—and decidedly un- American ‘Today, the aliens are more progr As Dr. Hrdlicka explains it. the have “graduated” from their hyphen ated environments and are proud to be able to establish themselves in busin and residence in purely American tions. The class communities are bre ing up everywhere Such has long been the case in other parts of the country. There are no move loyal native Americans than the sec- ond—or even the first——generation of Scandinavians, living in the upper Mis sissippl Valley and on the Westen pratries. It would be a foolish offi seeker today who would dare openly to appeal to the race prejudices of a “hyphenated” American volers World War asphyxiated the hyphen in practically all communities. S There 1s a mystery about migration | that has never been accounted for by | sclentists, that is observed in vital Whenever there is a marked loss population by either death or migr: tion, the births so increase as to refill | the vacancies “Nature abhors a vacuum’—in popu- lation. But what is the explanation of 1t is the same phenomenon | statistics of balance? ¥ oK X X next year, we were to receive a Russians from certain prov- inces—or from one province in Russia in the following years the numbers of births In those berett communitic would increase a million bables. Why? Nobody knows. | The Encyclopaedia Britannica, volume | 18, page 431, discusses the ethnological tery in the following language cven in particular districts where emigration is heavy the loss is made up If, million by births. For instance, in 1891 the emigration from West Prussia and Posen was extraordinarily strong—10.9 and 104 per thousand respectively but the excess of births o deaths was 19.6 per thousand Emigration may give temporary relief to congested df tricts, but it is not in itself a remedy for overpopulation “It s dificult to analyze closely the economic effect of emigration, because 50 much depends on the character of the emigrants and the condition of the labor market. The following considera- tlons have been urged at different tme “Although emigration does not dimin- ish population, yet as the emigrants are in the most productive period of life allen manners, He is lnughed at by Uncle Eben. “Outside o' my natural fense of ihe community against de- apt to be nulsances. But these folks miss licensed to carry a gun.” American youths for his pecullarities until within & remarkably shert time fire alarms is the best de- | how to “get along” with them, they are | disposition is de fact dat de cop 18]he picks up some of the language and Joins In the American games, Imme- (15 to 45 years of age), the country of emigration loses adults and replaces them with children It, therefore, loses the cost of rearing that number of people to adull age, and s left with a ’ | bridges | Paris newspapers state that the total of | derstood to be 6.000,000. | the as_a parent? What shall I need as an employer? What are the major unsolved prob- lems of my time? What are my prospects if I project my present habits into my occupation? What are my internal resources for rational living and lasting happiness? Why is there so much unhappiness 1 Is it due to the cha abits of individuals or to the policies and practices of the social order? to know and do There would be no lack of curricu- lum material (Cop! McCl re Newspaper Svndicate.) P, Gold More Abundant In the Antarctic To the ¥ or of The Star Gold and heavy metals should be more easily obtained in the Antarctic reglons than in other places. because there has been the most tremendous wash of surface materials from the South Pole toward the Equator. leaving South America and Africa such point- ed continents. This has been going on ever since the earth’s axis was en- tirely tilted over like Neptune's, when the earth’s perihelion was in the same celestial longitude as Neptune's peri- helion is now, thereby resulting in in- tense heai at perihelion in Summer when the South Pole of the earth was directly toward the sun, and in intense cold in Winter when the South Pole was directly away from the sun. D. A. N. GROVER Mo. Kansas City, UNITED SAATES IN WORLD WAR Ten Years Ago Today. In strongly held German positions between Chaulnes and Roye. and some distance concerted thrusts against the south of Roye, British and French troops today pushed their way eastward over an 8-mile front, wiping out the salient before Roye—only 2 miles aw; now. * * * The fall of Roye now seems inevitable. * * * British troops from Bagdad. and also from India, arrive in South Russia. * * * The Germans launched a combinyd gas. artillery and air bombing attack upon the French and Americans along the | Vesle early today, in retaliation for a| bombing raid by American airmen upon | over the Aisne yesterday. American airmen harassed the Germans unmercifully. * * ¢ Gen. Pershing re- ports that a squadron of 18 American- buiit De Havilands (equipped with | Liberty motors) has made its first re-| | connaissance flight' behind the German lines and returned with losses. * . German los from the beginning of the war to the end of July, 1918, is un The figures in clude 1,400,000 killed up to the begin ning of the German offensive last March. The German losses since July 18 are estimated at 360.000 disproportionate old people. In the same vein, it is urged that | voluntary emigrant takes away the | m of the working class. It is the man of energy. of some means, of am ition, who takes number of children | the w ined that such emi- process of selection to the home on institutes which unfavorable country On the men who are least likely to emigrate have the least to gain. Modern means of travel have made the voyage so other side, it is said that | doing well at home are | because they | men* A | Europe and spent the rest of his life in retirement, during which he wrote “The Rise and Fall of the Confed- After his release he visited erate Government.” He died Decem- ber 6, 1889, in New Orleans. Q. What is the quotation beginning “IIl fares the land to countless ills a prey?” Who wrote it>—G. B. G. A. The quotation, “Ill fares the land to hastening ills a prey, where wealth accumulates and men d is from “The Deserted Village, by Oliver | Goldsmith | Q. Please_name the wildflowers of | { California—P. R. A. Some of them are: Annual California poppy. blazing star, v blue eyes. white daisy, blue lupin: | Clarkea elegans and wild Canterbury | bells: perennials, Indian paint brush, | scarlet larkspur, pride of California, | scarlet honeysuckle, California fuchsia | | and white evening primrose. Q. Which State leads in the pro- duction of frogs’ legs?—B. G. A. Louisiana ranks first in this in- | dustry, having produced last year a billion’ pounds of dressed frogs valued | at $500,000. Q. How many Federal and Confed- erate troops were there in the Battle | of Gettysburg?—D. M . The strength of the FPederal forces at the Battle of Gettysburg was | about 82.000: that of the Confederate | forces, about 73,000. Q. What woods have other peopls ed for carving?—J. D. A. The ancient Egyptians used the sycamore and cedar. The Greeks and Romans used cedar. The Hindus used the sandal, the Japanese, ebony; the | | Swiss, satinwood | . Why were the publicans so slightly spoken of in the New Testa- | ment?—S. C. A. The alien government of Pale: tine, whether of Rome or its depu | princes, the Herods, collected its taxes {and customs through speculators who bought up the right of collecting the revenue (publicum) for their own ad- | vantage. While these men were often |natives, they were classed by t Jews not only with the social out us | (dyed coney). mink, kolins E: | Education and Medicine” sa; | college graduates do when they en | rapid accumulation of fat, | family |its boundaries to children were living during the termines this to some extent. Genera speaking, furs for dress wear ar American broadtail (processed laml broadtail, caracul, astrakhan, weas ermine, squirrel, chinchilla and mole. Furs for sports wear: Muskrat, raccoon, civet cat, skunk. opossum, the leopard and his kindred. Russian pony and korova, suslik, antelope and gazellc, goat and kid, chipmunk and burunduk. Dependable coat furs for most oc- casions are: Alaska seal, Hudson sez! (dyed muskrat). sealine and near seal y, beav nutria, krimmer and Persian lamb. . Where is the Huron Nati Forest?>—J. P. J. A. It is in the northeastern part « the southern veninsula of Michigar near Lake Huron. Q Why do many athletes grow and sluggish in middle age R A. Dr. McKenzie in are also dangers that accompany the later years of a man's athletic life Having accustomed himself to a high rate of physical activity it is dangerous to stop 2l exercise suddenly, as so many business. The combination of over- nourishment and underelimination that is sure to follow upsets the digestion brings on palpitation and helps in t nd th m introspectiv symptoms often make morbid and neurotic.” . Please give an account of Marsha’ Hall. Who lived there in Washington® time?—C. K. M. A. Marshall Hall was the colon! eat of the Marshalls, It was originally a tract of 200 acres purchased direct from the Piscataway Indians by Wil- liam Marshall, 1st. The old mansion was built by William Marshall, 2d. a half century before Mount Vernon. ‘The property remained in the Marshall for generations and extended include 1,000 acres. In 1866. through Civil War misfortune. the familv lost it. Thomas Hanson Marshall lived there in Gen. Washing- ton’s time and served under W ton in the Revolutionary War married Rebecca Dent. Four of b n He nary War. American opinion does not unan: mously applaud thousand-dollar Go ernment champagne parties as a means of enforcing prohibition. If there are those who approve of the methods re. cently revealed in the expense acounts of the dry sleuths who drank their way into the confidence of tho. Broadwa night-club hostesses, most of them are flent. Many comment . ironically. but | others object to the high cost of this method of sleuthing or seriously urge | the importance of stopping the flow at | the source rather than at the bottle | neck. 1 “They never ail who drink in a great | ause,” philosophizes the New York | Times (independent), as it views the scene in which “strong-hearted and | strong-stomached men welcome the risks to which a collector of ‘evidence’ in these cases is exposed,” and states | that “if the prohibition authorities e right, there is ‘poison’ in every illegiti- mate glass.” But the Times is inclined | to believe that “keepers of night clubs are as ‘easy marks' as their clients | “How eastly gulled were these charm- ing peop night-club hostesses of | New Yo exclaims the St. Louis | Post-Dispatch (independent). explam- | ing* “Along come the prohibition agents representing themselves as ‘big busines from somewhere ‘out where the cheap that almost anybody is able to go. It is therefore the restless, the un successful, or least fitted for the strenu ous competition of the older c who are tempted to go. The suppl easy game. And the abominable stuff | t2ined at v less co labor is reduced somewhat, but purveyed in these glamorous, exclusive [Ment and at vastl kept up for those who remain. | studios! The champagne at a | Federal agents' moral Those who go find means of bettering | quart, we are told, was charged water |1and News (independent their own conditions bevond the seas, | spiked with alcohol, and the superan- | holds that “these 1 nuated Scotch and venerable bourbon | Complished nothing toward | the sources of supply. though tt where they become producers of food and raw material for the home country and at the same time become custome for her manufactured products. Emi. eration therefore an economic directly and indirectly.” ¥ ok % How about the converse of the above sclentifie results of migration? " It when an increased exodus from a_community Is offset by an increase | of births to fill all vacancies, what is the unexplained effect of that influx | aliens into our own country, in fore- | decrease of births of original an stoc It s familiar that the native Amerfean birthrate is al- most the lowest per thousand families in the world (hardly excepting the French), while the in aliens maintain an extraordinarily high birth- | rate. In 45 years, from 1776 to 1820, we received a total of only 250,000 in migrants. Large families of native Americans were the rule during that pertod—families of 12 to 20 children Up to 1920, we held our ports open to all_immigration ould send us that the Old World we received a total of ,630,104 tmmigrants in that 100 vears, 1820 to 1920, and our native family birthrate fell to about two and one-half children per family, regard- of infant mortality. Americans ned what was meant by “race sutelde”—thanks to President Roosevelt and scientists generally 1t we had not admitted that 3 104 aliens, would nature not have given | American families 33,630,104 more bables in of deaths of infants? It is A po le that does not work | both way H we been trading unborn Americans for allen fmmi- grants? Wil we be able to note an increased American birthrate under immigration restriction? (Cobyrisht, 1035, by Paul V. Colline) i | dem { have gotten little thrill in treeing such | {of an illuston left " & | dependent Democratic), “have aBout West begins.' convivial chaps and good | penders, and are so accepted without | or question. The sleuths coultl nthetic products fresh from the laborat&ry. Scarcely a shred or a tatter “Some of the agents” suggests the | Hartford Courant (independent Repub- | pendent) | lican), “apparently decided that it was | bxtraordtna | better to secure too much than too little | jiquor was evidenee. |the major problems of enforc: Cost 6f Drying Up New i.(.n'k , Assailed With Much Satir a padlock snapped shut on t # palais de this c under another location. * L keep an observant eye on the con of this gripping spect The age! can't lose, the night clubs won how about the taxpayers? Enfc can be accomplished at far * k% % The suggestion that “no doubt the formation (about the intended raids was kept secret from the other agen: in Washington. otherwise ther would have been a riot among tr forcers for the honor of invad: metropolis,” comes from the Bellir Herald (independent Republican) the Binghamton Prest Republican) fe public will ¢ the agents and the: 'S an must have a good time seein; as it is in these Volstes Quoting a Statement Comm pose to on the ; urces York World (indepe tention to the fact that of el ) di ‘we are now d that ‘drying up Broadway' is or suppl nden and refers to the matéer as * formance.” The Columbus O! Jou ndependent Republi ma “We ima, the 3 ments obtained ine tle r might have gone far i diverted for purpose.” | i “The prohibition aut i ing to ndlanapo) News been praised for success in finding sold in these resarts in vi In fact, during the course of | jation of the N their activities they must have acquired * g m.f“ h,;;:,\;,.\,“a enough_evidence to flont n fair-steed | Government g poit ship. Yet it may readily be assumed | those sates. Patrons of T Ghs that, generally speaking, the agents | pecially those faoor, Of the clubs, ¢ ] ! the { pecially those from the West, mary were mn.xx'n-n(h\ps in their disbur: at the suceess of the club proprietor aids s % jthe money to buy. and s convictions are secured against the 138 individuals indicted, and even if each of them 1s given the maximum penalty of a $10.000 fine and two years in prison. Needless (o say, the chances are that conviction will be secured | against relatively few of them and that the maximum penalty will be inflicted on few or none of them.” “If we are to judge by the results of a loag series of less expensive and spec- tacular raids ot this character.” accord- ing to the Syracuse Herald (independ- ent). “the only efect of the present drive will be to make the venders of illegal beverages in the metropolis more vigilant, or perhaps to turn over a part of their surreptitious business to the less aristocratic speakeasies and the boot- | egging agencies.” “The night-club closures,” according to the Morgantown New Dominion (n- v 1 the same effect on drying up Manhat- tan lIsland as the dipping of a few buckets of water from the Hudson River 1 ! | trafic a se | ernment. l:nb!c 1o go broke before it cor Hits | Other parts ot {to favoritism | Worl $42 champagne necessar; |stead act say ( particularly, no amendment evidence, Just as well” cago lican) contends that “every one in th United States Daily Commercial (independs are very earnest in their g Governm New York enforcement the country for there be visited, ‘Why, we wonder, " Herald (independe nothing of champa r does the eighteent A bottle of Scotch, would certainly have done Furthermore, the Chi- Tribune (independent Repub except the prohibitio: unit has known the aleoholte conter of New York and Washington socis ife." In more serfous vein, the Bango: ent Repub “Every indication exis ment offfe! rndeavor to tean) says hat the Federal enfore would have on an attempt to dry up the | decrease the molstness of New York river channel " The Harrisburg Tele- “Experience has shown e t every time ¢ ¢ ¢ The clubs cannot continue the graph (independent Republican) says: | sale of ) e mor {f the thorittes % sop e saier T M s