Evening Star Newspaper, August 17, 1928, Page 8

THE EVENING E EVENING STARI“*”‘ eighteen of the Incumbents faded | gard for his time and his nerves. This With Sunday Morning Edition. out of the pieture when informed that |is particularly true in cities where all- they must undergo this test. day or long-limit parking is permitted WASHINGTON, D. C It was promptly explained by the|in the business section. In this city FRIDAY. .. ..August 17, 1928 | officials that most of these young men | it is only by rare good fortune that the ® ———— | who were formally rated as life guards | average motorist using and driving his Editor | were, in fact, only taken on as first- | own machine for midday activities can — —— |atders, to assist in resuscitation when | find a piace wherein to leave his car TH THEODORE W. NOYES.... The Evening Star Newspaper Company | bathers overcome by the waves were | within two or three blocks of the place | Business O 11th Bt. and Penns: New York Offce Chicago Office: Tower Buil Office: 14 Regent St.. England. o | brought to shore by the official and [of call. In some instances he walks | volunteer life savers. But this expla- | farther in going from and to the park- {nation did not entirely satisfy those | ing place than from his own office to " | conducting the inquiry, and it was|the errand point Rate by Carrier Within the Cit finally admitted that it is getting very | Few bank buildings are so arranged 43¢ per month | hard to find competent life guards for [as to permit the installation of court 60c per month | the public beaches at the rate of pay |cages for the accommodation of motor granted by the municipality, inasmuch . patrons. Perhaps the business estab- as the supply is nearly exhausted by | jishment of the future will be designed the demands of the private beaches with this situation in and pools. This implication that there ! special accommodations for those mak- |is a shortage of competent swimmers ing quick calls, to whom time is val is somewhat surprising in view of the ' yable. remarkable development in natation | in recent years, especially since Chan- | nel swimming became the It is now suggested that the landlocked | qjent practice on the part of telephone life guards be given a distinctive uni- | (ynceribers to call up Central and ask form, so that the public will ot be |(pe time of day. led to expect assistance from them be- ,.o.olv wanted to set their clocks and yond the shore line. watches accurately. Others, however, In this connection the president of | were just using the phone service as & the borough tn whose jurisdiction most of these matters arise remarked in commenting on the general situation When Mayor Hylan, back in 1921 .0 a timepiece. Finally this practice said, 1 am giving you fifty Jobs." I 10ld | yacame such a burden upon the various him, ‘You are giving me a lot of | .yehanges that the telephone compa- trouble. ” To Hylan these piaces Were |0 conorally prohibited it. and all patronage. To the public they Were! .. inore were notified that they supposed safeguards. Now the New |\ 14 noi pe given the time in Any York Civil Service Commission s/ oo o o Teor a SOINg to try to make them both JobS | ponce” eratore had to explain i e |time callers that the rules prohibited o | accommodation, but eventually the new Star Sunday Star ) 65¢ per month Sc per copy made at the end of each month Orders mas be sent n by mail or telephone Main 5000 Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Marvland and Virginia. 1 ¥r.$10.00: 1 mo. $600. 1 ma. $400. 1 mo, BSe S0 e “What Time Is It, Central?” All Other States and Canada. vogue. | 151, $1200 1 mo. 81 B tral for a clock quotation than to go Signing the Treaties. Kellogg is to sail tol where with the foreign he other great powers he the multilateral treaty re- nouncing war. he signing this treaty will be hailed as a great step toward better relations among the na- tions. The powers- involved pledge themselves not to resort to war in set- tlement of difficulties which may arise emong them. The fact that they are to give such a pledge is in it- ndication of & “will" to have has unfortunately been past Ty is of annually. | | . BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. | Presid: Coolidge giving treaty his approval and will seek Lo and Germai ce the American people and the Benate of its value. The ratification of the pact at the coming session of Con- the last session during ad- ration, would be regarded as a crowning achievement of term of office as Chuef Executive. e ratte— are a few bets on the election aiready posted, but the k sums se- cured for campaign purposes are not in of how & camera Ax i L N 00 v rarely of late women and children crowded the docks | ono m: :;:Tmm;:r ,r,:r( purpose at Bremen yesterday. singing *Deutsch-! mpe New York Telephone Co. ha land Uber Alles” and cheered as & NeW | 10« jnaugurated a new service of giv- which had its inception | 46.000-ton ocean liner slipped down the |10 yime information, establishing a made by France to the | Wavs and took to the water. The day ! ..ce of five cents for ever tates that these two nations, | Dbefore a great crowd at Hamburg wite| .o oo wectorday was the first traditional friends, enter into an agree- | nessed the American Ambassador, Mr. | ment to renounce war as between them- Schurman, christen a sister ship. In the twenty-four hours there twere selves. is to be signed by representa- | two days Germany has launched 92.000 10,0 qu"'m vielding the corporation tives of fifteen countries, mftludmfi in gross tons t;l !:16"3\!!“ ships, establish- | 0 e esiagn. If this rate is the list the great divisions of the Brit- | ing a record that is unique in the ma- o ih Empire. France, Germany, Italy, | rine annals of the world. The patriotic jEintaiosr, jhy (chmpkny - snde; Japan and the other nations signatory | enthusiasm displayed at Bremen yester- | to the Locarno treaties will subscribe. day was a notice, served to the world, The United States suggested, when M. | ihat Germany is “coming beck,” while Briand's proposal for a bilateral treaty | the participation of the American | renouncing war was presented to Sec- | Ambassador in the Hamburg launching the time of day at the cost of & nickel retary Kellogg a little more than a year | the day before is embiematic of the el w ago, that it would be well to have other good will with which a nation, ten oA 3 s 5 ns:n nations sign the same treaty, and | years ago seeking to defeat Germany in ,”"”"' ot s el ]:l:fks’ ‘c:: this plan has finally prevailed. war, now regards Germany's recovery. i b i DR 1 After all, the very simplicity of the| Germany is building ships. Depriveq|OT 18 it becaute the individual tme- articles of the treaty is its strength. | by the reparations clause in the Ver- |Pleces are undependable? What an op- | 2t does not undertake to define aggres- | sallles treaty of her merchant ships of | POtUNIY for the clockmakers and the sive or defensive wartsre, or to Himit | over 1000 tons, plus many bf her| Thichmakers! There are tmepieces on | in any way the anguage and inten- | smaller ones, and compelled in addition | th® Market that sell for a dollar apiece | tion of the treaty. It simply denounces | to build ships for the allied powers, | “Dich can be relied upon for at least and renounces war as a means of setthing | Germany paid the price of a loser | T o g ,"n'. o 'h"“i disputes among nations. There is notii- | the Great War and, in the reconstruc- | “OWd represent only twenty calls at| ing in the treaty that would prevent tion of her once-powerful merchant ¢ Cents each. Assuredly there it a one of the signatories from defending | fleet, had to start from the bottom, | P2nce here for some active salesman- siself if attacked by one of the other | The increase in her merchant fieet in' NP 8 ! powers. As has been so ably pointed | 1927 was exceeded oniy by Italy. One, y, y"hoo Trotsky's ambition to lh‘o! out by Secretary Kellogg in his cor- | may sympathize with the patriotic| e sunie in seclusion and write. In| respondence with those governmenis fervor which stirred the crowds at!y.. coje of ot N iy AR which have agreed to sign the treaty, | Hamburg and Bremen as they ‘AnlChEdJ'flmsEK back in a hall w"x;m con- | @eif-defense is the inherent right of | (Wo more fine ships, the largest of the |y ping unmolested to radical publi- | any nation. To seek to interject into | new fleet, take to their element. AS| ,yonc the treaty renouncing war any declara- | President von Hindenburg recalled | 4 s S%01% tion that a war of self-defense was vesterday at the launching of the| Efforts to end wars have recently justifiable would be merely stating a Bremen, the real birth of the German | proved successful in avolding the lines proposition that the new treaty in no; merchant marine took place seventy | of altercation often provoked by well ‘way atiacks. The treaty, after it has been signed the World War, had been prodigious. of new conflict. in Paris on August 27, must be ratificd | Then it was cut down. Now it is ex-| by the nations in accordance with their | periencing rebirth and from an economic | constitutional provisions before it be- | standpoint this is a healthy thing. An| has a message of such importance that comes actually effective. Therefore, it | idle, impoverished and unpmducllve“ he is willing to stop the campaign in must have the approval of two-thirds nation in the world's community of | order to be heard. or more of the Senate of the United | nations is as demoralizing as an idle, | —_— e States. Here and there already sigus | impoverished and unproductive man in| A good aviator, like every other artist, | of coming opposition to the ratification | @ community of men. | of the treaty have cropped up. It of Germany's two merchant ships yes- | appreciation. comes from those who believe, perhaps, | terday is only one of many other signs | e S e s 0 war as an ancient institution. It| that Germanys cog in the world's| Boxing gloves are well enough in their comes from others who look askance xt | machinery again is functioning | place, but Tunney prefers kid gloves. any step which they may interpret as The two ships, the Europa and the| e ioining the United States with Euro- Bremen, are modern procucts of a SHOOTING STARS. pean affairs. nation that has always turned out fine | PP ARSI But the new treaty is in no sense 2 | ships. They represent the latest de-| Jeague of nations. No supergovernment | velopments in the construction of the e s involved. It is merely a voluntary ocean greyhound of today. They are| Listenin’ In, declaration to abstain from war as a | cquipped with devices for launching| Listenin’ in to the singin' means of settling international dis- | airplanes from their decks and by this| Of a bird over there in the tree. putes. ‘There is no power other than | method it is hoped to cut down the Every tune he is bringin' that of public opinion and the good | schedule of transatlantic mail from| Is a new kind o’ pleasure to me. faith of the individual states involved European ports to New York by one! Listenin’ in to the hummin® o enforce the terms of the treaty. The 8] By the combination of fast| Of the bee as he goes on his wi treaty does not make war impossible. | steamer and airplane, experts are pre- | Listenin’ in to the strummin’ It make: it more improbable. It is a dicting that Germany will soon be "’I‘i Of the locust, with jazz all the day. #p in the moral ascendency of | t0 boast of new records for speed in| Ng yge o trying to change 'em— scheduled traffic across the AUDUc.| Greetin's that sound through the air. the | Both ships will ply between New York | hink you could well rearrange 'em? | Effort is not worth the care. According o recent police reports, 1M§fl°;’:'5‘ flfi:“:&mfi:‘” i ‘lfe. liberty and the pursult of happi- | o Soten o FEBRES T fl:‘khh' E ness” are negligible considerations n | NOPCR B L RS the minds of many notoriety seekers, 0y g TR D | Famous Thoroughfares. _ Law enforcement, has become a prob- | .your name will echo down the cor- Pt L.',:;',':":;":"éfm:;‘f‘l::;‘"‘ UP 0 vidors of time!" remarked the admir- e | ing friend any way 1o be construed as encourage- | Terre Haute, Ind., takes & step for- | fueure and aren't ‘mdp‘,,,, 8 ARy ment to speculation ward in meeting present-day traffic | aetyal votes as sidewalks of New York, gt problems that deserves emulative at- | or something like that.” Eminent public men are giving £0me | tention. Pinding that many of its cus- | modest and admirable demonstrations | tomers have been seriously discom- | Revising the Classics. ) catch fish without the aid of moded by street congestion and the The tragic story we’ll amend difficulty of finding parking space for| Az Art with Pugilism tolls. their motor cars while transacting busi- | We’ll make the Hamlet story end ness, one of the largest banks of that| With Boxing Gloves instead of Folls ty has adopted an expedient that will N e Landlocked Life Guards. prevalent public onception of 2 guard at a bathing beach is of atly facilitate affairs @ strong, Uronzed, Herculean man-fish, vided a cage window in ¢ competent in the water, an expert the building which is accessible from street, 50 that motor-patrons can e in and without leaving their cars | make their deposits or cash checks | or meet or renew their no “I try to,” answered the small boy This innovation reflects A problem | «gyy they are never home when 1 want t has of late years greatly concerned | o ask them what I ought to do." under public | business establishments and those who Many of them | have relations with them. The average | “Boast not of mere wealth,” sald Hi It was noted business errand occupirs only a few | Ho. the sage of Chinatown. “Be happy them never minutes. But to transact it ealls, in | if you can point with pride to the man- ve perhaps these d for the expenditure of a|ner in which it was attained.” just whether they | much Jonger time in finding parking | indifferent or reluctant prce. The motor car in these eir-| Sky Regulations. ago, through the activi- | cumstances becomes a nuisance rather | The aviator forged ahead of the local Civil Bervice Reform |than a convenience, 8 time waster| 50 obstinately prond; sation, the position of life guards |rather than s tme saver. Actual tests|A trafic cop flew forth and sald, &t the public beaches was placed on |will demonstrate that it takes longer | “This is & one-way cloud! the competitive list and the municipal to park and unpark a car in the busi- Civil Service Commission decided 1o ex- | ness section of a large city than it does | amine not only all future candidates in | to do any errand or to conclude any the specific duties of life guardianship, | transaction of the ordinary kind ¢ swimming, but those now in| In the present circumstances the{ the gervice Alas for the popular con- | wise course for the business man who | cept of tne besch hero! When the |drives his own car and uses it for his e teste were applied no less than fifteen | dally movements is to store it in the | “If dese here campalgn funds keep morning and rely upon his own motive | growin’,” aaid Uncle Eben, “it looks to It has pro-| Jud Tunkins says a race horse 1s the court of | haughty and handsome, never realizing swimmer brave, resourceful, alert, thor- bling device. ed In the anfor- Obedience Difficult. “Do you obey your parents?” in rescue of ver, doubt minds of regard. e guar some people 9 th % quall at the beache which are ipervi undersized ever went w0 knee depth into [ 5% e Agin’ the Rusticator. “We don't want them outsiders, | the boss of the rural community. “Who don't want ‘em?” “Everyhody, except the hotel keepers and the realtors.” sald inety view and offer | the disgrace of being classed as a gam- | | expected resignation earlier this week of | Lieut. Gov. Edwin Corning from his post | | STAR is more delightful at the an the cottage library Every home one enters has a few books on shelves, usually in the big living room, just off the front porch We had the privilege of inspecting one such book collection recently, and while others were absent abstracted a list for future perusal Among the books present were the lowing : “Our Mutual Dickens “Young Earnest,” Cannan “When Joy Begins." Laughlin. “Bucking the Sage Brush, man. “The Death of Society, son “Life Story of an Otter. “Denry the Audacious Nothin| seashore T ol b by Friend,"” Charles Steed- Romer Wil- Tregarthen. * Arnold Ben- Sometimes people | 1y’ | into another part of the house to look |\ oo | little while ex- | to | Wharton | {funl day of its operation and during [ VO¥ M [ make about $187.000 additional revenue | at courage of our convictions we will steal | out in the middle of nett “The Marital Adventures of Honry Until a few vears ago it was a prev-| . 4 ae William Allen White “The Building of the Organ,” Dole. “Ghitza,” Bercovici. and Experiences,” W s. “The Bent Twig,” Canfield. “The Secret Victor: McKenna “The Day of Glory," Canficld, “The Woman in White," Wilkie step saver, finding it easier to call Cen- | Collins “The Clean Heart,” Hutchinson. “We and Our Neighbors” H. B, “Jewels of Memory.” Joyce. A primary arithmetic. “Jude the Obscure.” Thomas Hardy ¥ % ok X Another small case others, the following: “The Ruling Passion,” Henry Van vke. held, among The Fruit of the Tree” FEdith Yeast.” Charles Kingsley. Main Street.” Sinclair Lewis “Twelve Men.” Theodore Drefser “The Brook Kerith,” Moore Adventures in Friendship.” David on. “Nights in London."” Thomas Burke “The Eternal City,” Hall Caine Resurrection.” Tolstof “Trilby.” Du Maurier. ‘My Discovery of England,’ Stephen auery of | Leacock. “Henry Esmond,” Thackeray Why is it that every such library in s in it one or more volumes of Wilkie Collins? Is it simply because e makes good Summer reading or is it because there is some occult influence at_work? We have never yet examined a shelf the shore without finding “The Woman in White” in the collection. Sometimes it is “The Moonstone.” Per- Even in so large a city as Greater | hang the best explanation is that these New York it is surprising to find that | little libraries more than 10,000 people need to ask Present time. were founded by men and those available at the “middle: And most middle-aged persons women whom one would call aged.” Is it because there are so many | like a dash of the undisputed classic: Perhaps 20 vears from now. when vou and I are oid, Maggie, we will totter down to the shore and look at vet other libraries and will find no Wilkie Collins, no Dickens. no Thackeray. but only such ste” as young people of today pretend to read. And if we have the the night and dump the stuff into the ocean—and feel sorry for the fishes. ¥ % We were glad to see Dickens repre- ¥ ¥ sented by “Our Mutual Friend. Most often the volume included is Travels in Italy Just why this par- ticular travel hook of the great Vic- torian is brought to the shore is an other mystery. mend “Great Expectations,” t ©f those enrolled were found o be to- incapable of ewimming by sny'power or on street cars or taxicabs | me lke hard times problems ought to & soke, And W addition to during the day. That is, if he Lias Té- be solved fob dis Summer, anyhow.” 4 12 kuia | ty Personally. we would rather recom- a favorite WASHINGTON ‘Tight races almost all along the line i featured Tuesday's Ohio primary. The | reads ; | Anti-Saloon League appears (o | years ago. Its growth, at the time of | meaning attempts which end in threats ;‘arrle'd off the major honors in the | Introduction. Annotations and Appen- | larges | amid the largest field of candidates Ohio !'has ever known. Rev. John R. Straton feels that he|at stake. | tally dry, carried off the Republican | nominations without substantial opposi- have primary outpouring of votes ‘Two Senate seats are Fess and Burton, both teeto- fon. On the Democratic end, Graham | P. Hunt of Cincinnati appears to have beaten Cyrus Locher, present Senator by gubernatorial appointment, for the | shol ? s V. X The launching | needs financial backing o gain PUbMC | Yiowor ox's close marsin for (he Dem | ocratic nomination for Hl:nt is for modification of the Volstead | {ac back the drys sustained. In the gover- norship contests, Myers Y Cincinnati !'James T. Begg by a hair-line margin |an the Republican side. | were { though Cooper alone carried the League's formal the long term His nomination was the only set- cdged out Representative Both men Anti-Saloon League proteges, mndorsement. Representative Martia L. Davey, who has made a for- |tune as a “tree surgeon” and who is | the Anti-Saloon League candidate for rovernor on the Democratic ticket, won a handsome victory, Total vote cast in Ohio Tuesday is estimated at 850,000, divided about 625,000 in the Republican | primary and 225,000 in the Democratic | primary & Wk W There are two more senatorial pri- | maries this month—in Wyoming on the 21st, where the Republicans will pick a candidate to oppose Senator Kendrick, the Democratic incumbent, and in Cal- ifornia on the 28th, where Hiram John- | | son is in the limelight in the battle for his Senate seat. Next month there are primaries in Michigan, Nevada and Wis. consin on the 4th, in Arizona, Vermont and Washington on the 11th, and in New York and Massachusetts on the 13th. In the Bay State there is a tri- | angular raee to pick the man to oppose | Senator David I. Walsh. The three | aspirants are Eben 8. Draper, wealthy gover- | son of a former Massachusetts nor; Benjamin L. Young, a Boston Jaw- yer with a long legislative record, and tinguished Massachusetts familv. Who- ever wins has his work cut out for him in pitting his strength against Walsh PR The tudden death of George K. Mor- tls, chairman of the Republican State committee in New York, serves to ele- vate to temporary headship of the Re- publican organization in the Empire | State Barah Schuyler Butler, daughter of the pugnacious anti-prohibitionist, Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbla University. Miss Butler holds the post of Republican vice chairman The temporary g-lder of the State Dem- ocrats likewise is a woman, Miss Caro- line O'Day of Tye, who is the Demo- | cratic vice chalrman because of the un- 15 State committee chairman. Women in_ politics are surely coming in for rightful and merited recognition in the present campaign on both sides of the politieal fence. * * ¥ Intimate personal word pictures the wives of the presidential nominees were delfvered over the radio this week on the Voters' Service program of the | National League of Women Voters, Mrs Tohn T, Pratt, member of the New York hoard of aldermen and a candidate for | Congress, presented the picture of Mrs, Hoover, Mrs, Howard Chandler Chris- wife of the noted Hlustrator and mainter, spoke concerning Mrs. Smith Roth speakers contrived to avoid effu- sion and flattery and yet to eulogize in ¢flective fashion the respective subjects of thelr discourses. Mrs. Hoover and Mrs. Smith were both plctured as devot- ~d wives and mothers with characters in which simplicity and sweetness pre- Aominated—true helpmates of their dis- inguished husbands R Mute but indubiiable evidence of high | | scholarship and a passion for profound research is found between the covers of a large tome-—about the size of the old- fashioned family Bible-—which bhears the eryptic title: “Georgius Agricola- De Metallica.” The explanatory Cooper_of | of | WASHINGTON, | | | of ours, or “Pickwick Papers” that | great, hearty slice of old English life On' a blustery, raw afternoon, when | & noreaster has set in and there {nm much to do outdoors for even the heartiest, nothing could be bétter than | | following the adventures of Samuel | Pickwick The papers are blustery in their own | | right, They breathe the atmosphere of rougher civilization than is ours of today in the great cities. And it Is well for us now and then to turn back | of time and take such stories | | s | | the page: in_hand The ale and the meat pies and the stage coaches have their place in his- | tory, just as loud speakers, chocolate | sodas and _automobiles have theirs Dickens told us convincingly and charmingly of the former. One may wonder if any modern writer will leave | as imperishable a_record of the latter | " Thackeray's “Henry Esmond” we! were glad to find on the shelves. This, | too. Is a good seaside story, although a better selection would be “Vanity Fair,” | in_our opinion The beauty of such & that they are a growth, hooks being | brought down year by vear. either by the cottage owner or by friends, and most probably by hoth Thus cach such collection cents a composite pieture of Fiction sty car Little no poetry hore libraries is | repre- reading s the is in- | | | ¥ helve: or cluded Just how the primaty arithmetic got | in"we do not know, unless from the hands of some younsster who promised | | his parents that he would “bone up" on | the subject during the holidays. We feel convinced that he never did, and were happy that he had not; for | | there was not a page turned over at the corner. This was as it should be. | | Who wants to study how many square | vards of carpet it will take to cover a room 9 by 15 feet when he may be studying the number of crabs in the bay, or the quantity of fish in the ocean, or experiencing the brute force of the breakers, or exploring the m terious softness of a girl's hand at night? (This latter problem. of course, if the young man were a bit older.) We do not care to put into cold print just how few of those books we had read. Perhaps no one would. It is not essential to living that one should have read Hardy's somber tale, “Jude the Obscure.” Or that one know Denry | by_heart We were glad to “Yeast" on the shelves. There was a book we had been promising to read for more years than we would like to| admit. We decided to read it. Is it} | necessary to state that it is still un- read? After all, books at | mainly ornamental. As long as the sun shines and companions are gay there | is little need of them. We a:: all like the boy and his arithmetic—it is much | more fun to be in sunshine, on the beach or in the water than to sit read- | ing in the shade. | We may read any fortunate few can day by day, month b vear sce Kinasley's the seashore are | time. but only a now the seashore nonth, year after | nt to have the| quiet companionship of books. excel- | |lent to know that they are there, in- | spiring to feel their presence amid much traction Like cats, which ornament a home, | hooks are old friends, whether one reads | them or-not. .Just as one may not pay much attention to the household pet. | nevertheless may fecl its subtle | | charm, o a visitor appreciates the shore library, whether he reads any of its books or not OBSERVATION | subtitle, however, is fully informing. It | “Translated From the First Lat- Edition of 1536, with Biographical in dices, Upon the Development of Mining Methods, Metallurgical Processes, Ge ology, Mineralogy and Mining Law | From the Farliest Times to the Six- teenth Century.” But it is the rest of posingly type-set title page which | attention y Herbert Clark A. B, ‘Stanford University: Member American Institute of Mining Engineers, Mining and Metailurgical So- ciety of America, Societe des Ingencurs Civils de France, American_Institute of Civil Engineers, Fellow Royal Geo- graphical Society, etc.. and Lou Henry Hoover, A. B. Stanford University Member American Association for Ad- vancement, of Science, the National | Geographical Society, Royal Scottish | Geographical Society. ete. ~Printed for the Translators by the Mining Maga- 7ine, Salisbury House, London, E. C * % * ¥ This Hoover book is not destined to | be reprinted and circulated as a cam- paign document. Its size precludes | that, if there were no other reason There are 637 large pages of closely- | set type enlivened with reproductions of | dozens of old wood cuts illustrative of the text. Nor is it easy to procure a | | copy, for only a few thousand were ever | printed, and these have found their way |into libraries, public and private, the | world over. and into treasured hands of book collectors. In typography and binding—the covers are vellum, after the furhion of a sixteenth century bind- | ing—it is a fine example of the book- maker's art. Its writing—for the trans- |lation of the old Latin text is but a small part of the entire “opus”—is sald | to have occupied the spare time of the } Hoovers, husband and wife, working side by side, for a dozen years of their early married life as they moved about in far quarters of the globe. It a Hoover hobhy Five proj of the local building program north and Federal south of | Gen. Butler Ames, son of another dis- | the Mall will he finished, or nearly o, 1Dy 1032, according to present estimate: | These are the Department of Com- merce, Internal Revenue, Department |of Labor and Department of Justice | buildings, in the triangle north of the Mall, and the Department of Agrieul- | ture building south of it. The site for | the Department of Commerce structur the first to go up, Is now ready, and | bids will be called for next month. Com- (pletion of the Arlington Memorial | Bridge, of the boulevard to Mount Ver- {non, and of the Capitol-Union Station | Plaza are also scheduled for 1932, coin- |cident with the George Washington bi- | centennial celebration (Copyright. ———— Needless Toil. From the Toronto Daily Star Two men_are sotting out to boat from Boston to St John it_curious how men who don't | work like to do it? - Don’t Wink at the Wheel. om the Manchester Union 1t 15 figured that in the winking of an {eve an auto traveling sixty miles an | hour goes ten feot. Which is well to| bear in mind when exchanging civilities | while touring 1928) row a Isn't | have to Verbal Riches and Restraint, From the Helena (Mont) Record-Herald | Anybody can acquire & good vocabu- Ulary. " But only the wise can keep the | thing from working too hard B True Courtesy. From the Rutland Daily Horald | Courtesy Is just a subtle business of | | leaving the other fellow's sense of tm- | | portance undisturbed 1 - A Broadcaster in Keeping. { | Prom the Greensboro Daily Record A cave in Biclly magnifies the volee 40 times, Wouldn't Senator Heflin simply adore that! | J | all things for her | what | voung, { on noise | wedge | and | vostok | ehina PHILOSOPHIES BY GLENN FRANK The tragedy of teaching is that it so casily slumps from a passion into a pro- fession. Notoriously niggard in fts reward of teaching, society is evolving ail sorts of | devices. to safeguard the teacher at his | post We try to protect the teacher from hecoming a serf to the political powers that e; ise legal control of the school vstem. We set up varied limitations upon the autoeratic power of hoards to hire and firs teachers at the whim of the dis- gruntled. The danger is that we shall succeed only in assuring the teacher of poverty and security. These two—poverty and security—are dangerous gifts. both distill a subtle poison that makes for submission and sycophancy in the teacher. Tt would be better for the future of | education if. instead of poverty and se- nciety nd ris Under the stars of prosperity and risk, the teacher would be more likely 10 rise to the challenge that the great curity oerity e to the teacher pros- | Johann Fichte flung to his students at Erlangen. when he said ‘T am a priest of Truth: T am in her pay: L have bound myself to do all things, to venture all things, to suffer If 1 should be perse- cuted 2nd hated for her sake, If I should cven meet death in her service, what wenderful thing is it I shall have done— but that which T clearly ought to do? P nervel know that an effeminate and s generation will tolerate neither those feelings nor the expression of them: but T know, too, where I speak. T speak before young men who are at | present secured by their youth aga this utter enervation T would contribute something to ex tend in every direction a more manly tone of thouzht, a stronger sense of ele- vation and aignity. a more ardent zeal to fulfill our destiny at every hazard that when you shail have left this place, and are scattered abroad in all directions, T may one day know in vou, wherever you may dwell. men hose chosen friend is Truth, who ad- nere to her in life and in death. who roceive her when she is passed out by 2ll the world. who 1ake her openly un- der their protection when she is tra- duced and calumniated, who for her sake will concealed enmity of the great, the dull sneer of th> coxcomb and the compas- sionating shrug of the fool.” Teachers, by and large. will not rise to this challenge while they are “kep! children” on spare rations. The great teacher has something of prophet and pioneer in him (Copyright, McClure Newspaper Sendicate ) Serum From Piglet Skin As Complexion Renewer BY E. E. FREE, PH. D. Promising results from a new serum designed to improve the growth af | human skin, and thus to renew fading complexions from within instead of to conceal them by a layer of cosmetics applied from without. are described by Dr. George S. von Wedelstaedt of Lot Angeles, Calif.. in a symposium on the health and disease of the human skin cently arranged by the New York medical periodical, American Medicine This remarkable serum. suggestion of which is credited by Dr. von Wedel- staedt to Dr. Josef Franz Kapp of New York City, is made by extracting the | liquid part of the outer skin layer of healthv pigs. The theory is that the injection of very tiny doses of this pig-skin serum into the body of an aging human being will provide a needed chemical substance, like the sacretions of the ductless glands. which substance stimulates the growth of new layers of skin beneath the old un- hezxlthy layers. This continual growth of new skin goes on rapidly in youth. the older skin being lost from the surface in thin scales as fast as new skin is formed below. As age come: on. this skin-renewing process often be- | comes sluggish. _The obiect of the new skin serum. as Dr. von Wedelstaedt ex- ains it, is to speed up this process, uch as taking other chemicals pro- ed by the glands of animals some- times benefits persons who are handi- capped by deficient secretions of their own body glands RSP Plea for Quietude trongly Indorsed of The Star To the Editor I want to thank vou for the editorial | nuisances and nerves, in the Monday evening paper. With all the advances in science there has been a great increase There is sald to be greater inventive genius in Americans than in any other people. 1 wish some inventive genius would invent street cars that could run | with less noise. It seems to me- the Washington cars are the notsest I ever heard anywhere. What you say of radio is very true A great many ecnjoy it, but to some of their neighbors it is a bane. So many have radios and keep them going all the evening. they are very trying and wearisome to tired or sick people. ‘There are no quiet hours any more. 1 wish more might be said and done to help the public to be quiet and to remember that there are many neigh- bors who need quiet WARREN MARY J. UNITED STATES IN WORLD WAR Ten Years Ago Today In an attack north of the Aisne, in the Auireches region northwest of Solssons, French troops have driven a into the enemy positions to a depth of nearly a mile on a front of more than 3 miles, giving them command of the region extending northward, south of the Olse River. * * * The great activity in the rear of the German lines suggests the possibility that the Germans are preparing another Hindenburg line and utilizing the labor of the inhabitants of this region in erecting fortifications. * * * The French are now within a mile of Roye on two | sides and all roads leading into that place are under fire. * * * of Frapelle (east of St. Die) and wiped out a considerable German salient in | the allied lines, with the enemy suffer- ing heavy casualties in killed, wounded and prisoners taken. * * * Gen, March, chief of staff, tells the Senate commit- tee on military affairs that America has now sont 1450000 men overseas and the War Department is approsimately four months ahead of its transportation program. * * * “Big Bill" Haywood 100 members of the 1. W. W. are found guilty of conspiracy to harry the Nation in the prosecution of the war, ad for violation of the esplonage act + Japan lands troops at nd sends another foree to help .- Aerial Retribution, m the Florence (Ala) Herald Owners of small ears will rejoice that an airplane smashed a truck tie other day B Hasty Ones. From the New Castle News. People are precipitant. Alw; ting off something till tomorrow, instead of day after tomorrow. - Smith-Straton Subject. From the Indianapolis News The subject of the Smith-Straton de- bate might be Resolved, that fir water does more damage than rain water. joyfully bear the cunningly | in nose. | Americans | carly this morning captured the village | Viadi- | put- | ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN. The answers to questions printed hereFrench cleaning and dry cleaning? each day are specimens piaked from the | How long has such a process been in | mass of inquiries handled by our great use?—J. H. J. | Information bureau, maintained in| A. The process of dry Washington, D. C. This valuable serv- | known variously as dry, French and ice is for the free use of the public.|chemical cleaning. and by its French Ask any questfon of fact you may want | equivalent “nettoyage a sec.” The dry to know and vou will get an immediate | process seems to have been first em reply. Write plainly, inclose 2 cents in | ployed commercially in the last centur | coin or stamps for return postage, and | M. Jolly. president of the Paris Syndi- | address The Evening Star Information | cate of Dvers, stated that the old mem- | Burcau, Frederi~ J. Haskin director, | bers recall having worked at dry cle | Washington, D. C. fng with essence about 1856, but ‘his | father recalled the employment of the @. What teams will play the annual | process as early as 1848. A this earlier East-West foot ball game on the Pa-| gate it would appear that tne spir cific Coast next Winter»—C. E. N. employed was camphene, an oil of tur- A, The teams have not been chosen | pentine specially distilled for burning |as yet. The committee to sr'h:cl,"hv‘ in lamps. | teams has been named. The committee ists of Kerr, coach of Washington| Q. In what States are the manufa and Jefferson, and Hanley of North- | ture and sale of cigarettes prohibited western University, who will choose the | H. H 5 | Eastern team, and Hollingbetry of | A. The Anti-Cigarette Alliance o Washington State and Warner of Stan- | that at present there are no States ford, who will select the Western team. | which prohibit the manufacture and # - le of cigarettes. All States and the Q. How many of the motion picture | District of Columbia prohibit the sale stars have had stage experience?—A.S. | and giving of cigaseties to bove and A. A survey of six Hollywood studios | girls, the ages varying. Eighteen years showed that 85 of the 143 feature play- | is the average, however. I'ors have had stage experience. Q. What countries Spitzhergen?—M. N A. This island was first believed to be a part of Greeniand. and was subse- quently claimed by Denmark. Then it was found to be an independent island, {and was formally annexed by England | in 1614. Of Jate vears Norway, Sweden and Russia have contended for its | ownership. Norway finally received it by a treaty signed at Paris in 1920. cleaning is Q. What determines whether or not a person is insane?—S. C. R A. Insanity is a purely legal term lves ifcelf into testamentary ca- and this varies with every juris- have claimed Q. How long has Japan had a con- stifutional government?—8. N A. It was promulgated in 1889, and the first Parliament was convened in accordance with the constitution in | 1890. Q. What is the official name of Old | Balley?—L. G. A. It is now officially designated as the Central Criminal Court. but still popularly known as Old Bail Q. What is the plural of bis I H A. Either biscuit plural. Q. What per cent of the Southern negroes vote?—C. B. Y. A. Tt is estimated that in the South- ern States no more than 15 per cent of the colored population votes. Negroes are not barred from voting in the Southern States if they can comply | with the educational or property quali- | fications of the State which are com- | I mon to both white and colored. | | @ For what debts are greenbacks | | legal tender?>—A. T. | A. United States notes, commonly | known as greenbacks, are legal tender | | for all debts, public and private, except customs and interest on the public debt; receivable for all public dues: re- deemable in gold at the Treasury. Q. What was the post office deficit year? E. C. A. The Pension Bureau has had ap- A. The operating deficit of the Post | proximately 3.000.000 pension cases and Office Department last year was $28.- | 600.000 bounty land cases. Worl 914,716.05. | cases are not handled by the Pen Bureau. | Q. Are carpeis and rugs the bigge:t | ftem of export from Persia?—Z. A. | "A. On the Northern hemisphere side| A. Mineral oils head the export list, of the magnetic equator the north-| With a value in 1925-26 of $54.480.000 | seeking end of the magnetic needle dips | Carpets and rugs came second, with a Ednv'n‘\‘ard below the horizontal direc- | vaiue of 511 00. tion by increasing amounts with in- e T creasing north latitudes until it a e o B B Brefoss sumes a vertical direction at the posi- | Mail from Hew Xorl ‘F“ to San Fran- tion of the north magnetic pole. and on | €i°¢ bY airplane2e W B E. the Southern hemisphere side of the . . 20 ]T‘“;"‘ “d "‘. e | magnetic equator th» south-seeking end | 32¥5 1 ;' ool gt e ! of the needle dips downward below the {m"“”‘;‘ 2 | horizontal in increasing amounts with | Pound trip | increasing south latitudes until the| @ When and needle assumes a vertical direction when ' pocsevels make the magnetic south pole is reached. ide?—W. H. F. = A. The Q. Did Mary Ball W Yite 8e | reside with her illustriou firy Pl | Washington, at Mount T. O | 'A. The mother of Grorge Wash- | ingion did not live at Mount Vernon, although she was frequently urged by | { her son to do so. ent her last cays in Fredericksburg. Va. to be near | her daughter. | aft? or biscuits is the Q. How many “dude ranches” are there in America”—F. H. A. The American Motorist says tha' the Dude Ranchers’ Association has 1 members, and that the number of per- sons who spend their vacations on the:e ranches runs into the tens of thousand Q. How many persons have been on the pension rolls”>—R. F. P. | 18 i Q. How does the magnetic needle |act going north and south from the | equator>—c. J hinzton ever son, George Vernon?—A | turned at 8:40 p.m ping one and ¢ m and five or ten minutes in were changed. Re- at Fairfax Bul Q. How many baronets and knights | are there in England?—E. H. G A. There ar> about 1530 baronsts and 3400 knights in the Brit | blity. | Q. Does the selection of 2 Presi- dent’s secretary have to be approved by ' B A. Thi ppointment that a President makes wihout consent of the Senate Canal, and el to g0 How long long does { through?—F. W. C. | A The Suez Canal is 100 m 147 feet wide and 30 feet deep. | s2a-tevel canal, and 1t under thafr own power, tme of transit is 16 h utes. The maximum speed permitt 51-3 nautical miles per hour | night vessels carry four Ights and a esa strong searchli c2pable of sending a Q. Is there a difference between ! bram 4,000 feet ahead { long, it is a through average s and 11 min- d l Q. Does a British title carry with it | an estate or income?—G. H The conferring of a title does not | necessarily carry with it an annual | | income. ~ Some " peerages include es | tates, pensions or gifts. These ars gen- | erally awarded for some public servic | sl Forecast of Postal Deficit Brings Advice From Country | | Postmaster General New's forecast of | budget is to be made to balance is an | a deficit in his department for the cur- | other problem. to which the Postma rent year has resulted in many sugges- | General has already turned his | tions as to the problem of ting ex- | tion. The main point for the mom: i penses. Defenders of the deficit main- |is that it should not be accomplis tain that the Postal Service i not|at the expense of a fair return to intended to produce revenue, but that ' railroads.” the chief consideration is service. Some writers believe that the books should be properly balanced. and others comment on the excessive cost to the taxpayer | of the franking privilege. It is pointed out that large items in the financial | statement are accounted for by increased | pay for*employes and the Interstate Commerce Commission’s _retroactive decision that the railroads should have | areater compensation “Does Secretary Davis worry because the War Department does not pay ex- { penses?” asks the Hartford Courant “If he does, the fact is not generally known. We cannot imagine that the Department of the Interior is in a posi- | tion to declare a dividend out of its carnings or that anybody cares whether it does or not. The public does not care | as to the postal deficit, chiefly because | the Post Office Department performs a service which Intimatsly concerns all | of us.” A similar_position is taken by the Waterloo Tribune, which also contends “While the Postmaster General doesn't | E . part of the deficit for this year will be caused by the tons of campaign material coming out of Washington and under frank of Government officers. The taxpayers are paying for this po | litical propaganda.” The Meridian Star | insists that “as A matter of fact the deficit is no deficit at all. About sixty | million of the hundred million must be | i paid to the railroads because of in-| creased rates. Several million more go to increases in pay for postal workers.” * x “There are too many subsidies for educational purposes to expect the de- partment to run on a this is as it should be." say risburg Telegraph. while the San Fra cisco Bulletin affirms that “no one com- plains when a postal deficit is a nounced. It is expected. Service the essence of the postal contract. and the public is willing to pay for it. It venues are insufficient, the taxpayer does not mind making up the loss Giving attention to Postmaster Gen al New's announcement that under the law he must increase parcel pos rates if that branch ceases to pay its way, the Detroit News argues: “The purpose of the statute is to give the country the greatest pe t the lowest possible cost that is not to be done by driving par post business ta the express compa and other carriers. It would seem t instead of being critical Mr to thank Congress for giving him oprortunity such as no Postma General has ever had. He can ref: the parcel post along the best b lines, aided by the Comm sion. and without inter Congress.” | | “Somehow the Postal Service to be put on a_self-supporting b contends the Evansville Courter Journal. with the suggestion th one tn this day of efficiency and ¢ | omy should accept permanent defeat this matter.” The Manchester Un: holds that “it ought not to be diff to make readjustments that will Well, hurrah for Congress!” exclaims | | the Greensboro Daily Record, as it re-! fers to the charge that passage of pay- | the balance of revenue and ex increase bills was partly responsible.) closer to & sound business proce Chat paper continues: “The postal| The Fargo Forum com: workers have slaved for years on mis- | Rress “ran wild on appro erly wages, and it is time they be given [ Suggests the possibility recognition, even if there will be a !the natiomal budget deficit. * *~ We do not recall that | Situation, that paper sugges the Postal Service ever has been a pay- | department may be able to me: | Ing proposition, and there is, so far as | Increasing parcel post rates, but we can see, no reason why the deficit { 1S & matter which will have to be o= | shoutd not be handled in a deficiency | clded after thorough investigatio bill, as in the past.’ areful consideration.” 3 “Underpaid workers” also have the| Campaign documents inspire de | sympathy of the Akron Beacon-Journal, | cfation from the Toledo Blade, whic which, in addition. points out that “ihe 'convinced that “this rubbish | lowering of postal rates had been the | Wanted by the public and that | subject of many petitions to Congress,” | PAYErs “consign it to the wastebasket and continuta. ~ “As long as these [ The Binghamtom Press offers the juc | things are granted it must be expected | ment that “the post office defielt o that a reduction of receipts will follow. | to “all emphatic attention of the cou If Mr. New wants to gain the favor of {ty to the argument that it offers the Nation, let him attack some of the | against the extension of CGovernment real wastes that sapping the Gov- ownership. The post office has been ernment resources. | held up by advocates of Government | ;rh:mm\:' Y‘:;:'k Heu‘Ld-T‘rihuxxc. after | owninh:p of public utilities as an ex- referring to the greater compensation | ample of successful gove oper for the railroads, states: “It is true !ation." W that the effect of this increase in ex-| However, the Bellingham Herald pense, along with the granting of sub- | looking upon air mail as an aid @ ulti- ventions to ship lines operating under | mately solving the problem. remars | the American flag, recent pay advances | “Many years may elapse before the to postal workers. and a reduction of | first-class mall is carried almost exclu- some $16,000,000 in revenues from sec- | sively by air, but it is reasonable to be- hmt- ::\'l'"gm m?y folm'h‘ "r‘ldmmmm;:: 'I,!:u that :.n time railroad service will 3 supplanted almos! ! OMece Devartment budget. How the | delivery.” . A e 5 Rht