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ST;\RI"“‘ the scientific adventurers and set With Sunday Morning Editien. a premium upon their endeavors. In SRS = = | the course of the recent years of ex- WASHINGTON, D. C ploration many rich finds have been SATURDAY. August 18, 1928 | made, including egge of the dinosaur. TR remarkably preserved in form and serving as an Invaluable link iIn the chain of deduction regarding the nature of the giant ereatures that once roamed l'hr Asiatic plains and forests. | Tt is stated that owing to the passage | of time and the difficuities of transport | it was necessary to leave many of the | bones of the newly found monster of [the dessrt in the places where they 80c per month | were discovered. The director of the Sunday ST L e month | eXpedition expresses the deepest regret Sc per conv | gt fhis necessity, but says that it is Y made at ihe end of each month. | T B Gent tn by mail or tslephone | planned to return and get the entire skeleton, including the tail, if in fact | the beast had such an appendage. That is assured. So long s there are traces of the early life this forbidding land will be visited and combed and 1 | treasures, more precious to thelr dis- $L00 coverers and reclalmers than gold, ¢ brought forth and revealed to the view of men Little by littie the story of life on the carth in the far distant ages is being S'ens | t0ld by means of these finds. Step by AlLviehis of publication o | step the frontier of human knowledge ————— | reqarding the past is being pressed ! back. The soil and the rocks have held their secrets for centuries upon cen- turies, and now at last they are giving hem forth, reluctantly. [ An Inundated Highway. Attention is again called to the bad road situation at Bladensburg on the Baltimore-Washington Highway due to the torrential rains of the past week. vears, in fact sincs the pres- UTHE EVENING ES....Editor THEODORE W. NOY The Evening Star Newspaper Company ” om 11th St and Pennavivania Ave New York Office: 110 East 42nd 8t Chicage Office: Tower Building Furopean Office: 14 Regent St. Londen. England. he City. Rate by Carrier Within Sc per month The Evening Star “The Evening and Sindav Star o t e Rate hy Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. ANl Other States an Datle and Sunday 1 31§ Pailr o Suncay London “Wiped Out.” As the result of a series of night air enemy” afreraft over Lon- don. maneuvers which tested the anti- defences of the British capital. theoretically, it now marked smoking ruins. The head- | air force have been 4, home of Winston chancellor of the exchequer. al pile of brick and mortar. that eity by shattered, s of the the its | them are of real value, but their collec- | tors got a‘lot of fun out of them while they were in the making and acquired {much Interesting if not valuable geo- |graphieal and politieal information. The true philatelist goes beyond mere | markings and records of issue and atud- {1es the history of the stamps, the rea- sons for changes in design, the changes |of government that have caused salter- H ations. | Thilately will continue to interest and jengage the attentions and absorb the | funds of devotees as long as the human |race retains its urge to acquire the un- {usual, the difficult, the rare. The spirit of competition is the most potent factor |in the development of this sclence, and !such mishaps in the vending as the ! sale of a stamp supposedly worth fifteen hundred dollars for one hundred and | coltector. Louis Tracy. Lovers of “mystery” fiction and tales >t adventure will deeply regret the pass- {ing of Louls Tracy, author of a long list of titles, who died Monday in Eng- {1and at the age of sixty-five. For many {vears he has delighted innumerable | readers, both in his own country and America, with his stories of romance. | | | his intricate narrations of plots. his re- | citals of the experiences of altogether !human characters in strange and be- | wildering situations. He was a journal- |ist at the age of twenty-one, but was in his thirties when he, like many of his Icolleagues of the British press, turned | ! his hand to fiction. I note that, l ‘Then he struck a resounded widely in “The Final War.” But it was his “Wings of | the Morning” that gave him his first wide fame. It was not a momentous |eleven dollars stimulate the ardor of the | Henry Gearshiff. sank into his little bed with a sigh of relief. It was his first night at the shore in many years. He had spent the day rambling around in a desultory fash- fon, ers and the sky and the dogs. so that by nightfall he had become very sleepy. Under the light of a kerosene lamp he had sat on the screened porch and had played an old-fashioned game witi a new-fashioned hostess and her hi band. Now the hour for retirement had come. It was a typical seaside bed. none too wide and none too soft. but an old feather mattress could have felt no better to Henry. “Ah!" he said to himself, as he re- 1axed between the sheets, which smelled {sweet and clean. The comforter over | him was soft and woolly. | “Ah" he sald to himself, “here is where T do & prize job of sleeping!” Henry had forgotten, alas, the two big glasses of iced coffee which he had drunk for lunch. and the two even {larger glasses of iced tea which he had | consumed at dinner! ‘There had been a day in Gearshift's {1ife when he could easily have con- | sumed that much tea and coffes with- out having suffered as a result, but time has a queer way of taking away one’s tolerance for such things. It was not until he began to toss around a bit that he realized that a combination of causes and cireum- stances was keeping him wide awake. The excitement of the journey down, the strange scenes. and especially the strange bed, held his eves wide open. e Gearshift. closed them religiously, of course, trying to woo sleep. the elusive. i but she would have none of his wooing. He listened to the rain falling, strik- ing the overhanging roof. dripping off H atcRing the water and the bath- THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.. one knows, is to take a searchlight and play it beams upon it. Then, when the thing is squarely defined in the light. to | soak it on the noodle with a 10-foot | piece of cordwood. | thing to do is to call in the fire de- | partment and lét. the brave men assault it with water at 200 pounds pressure | per square inch. h | Pogsessing neither a_searchlight nor | a fre department, Henry Gearshift was |forced to take refuge beneath the [ sheets. He refused to put his head un- | der, however, and so the mosquito was satisfied Buz-2-2-7! This time it approached from the | teft, near the wall of the cottage. The | sleeper thought he would try strategy on it. If he could catch it as it made the passage, he might crush it on the boards. Nearer and nearer sounded the war | ery. What Is more keen, more intense, | than the roar of a mosquito out for blood? | Gearshift_had heard that singing mosquitoes never bite, but he long ago |had put that down for a li>—a well | meaning lie, perhaps, but a falsehood, | nevertheless. | A dog’s bark is worse than his bite, |it has been said, and certainly a mos- quito’s hum is worse than its sting. If the thing would only land quietly and go about_its feeding, it would not be so bad. But it insists on keeping one awake into the bargain. It is like the motorist with the bugle horn, who must blow it at 2 o’clock in ‘he morning just to show the neighbors that he has one. * * % % ‘The persistency of Gearshift's mos- | quito was really Temarkable. 1f children could be trained to be as intent on geiting their lessons as I this does not end it. the only, THE LIBRARY TABLE By the Rooklover ‘In the preface to his latest, and last | collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, | “The Case Book of Sherlock Holm Conan Doyle apologizes for the frequent revivals of his popular detective, fear- ing that he may have become “like one of those popular tenors who. having | outlived their time, are still tempted to | make repeated farewell bows to their | indulgent audiences.” But now, he | says, “this must cease and he must go the way of all flesh, material or imagi- | nary.” In bidding him farewell. his | creator gives a brief summary of his fictional life. “HIs career has been a long one—though it is possible to ex- aggerate 1t; decrepit gentlemen who ap- | proach me and declare that his adven- | tures formed the reading of thelr hoy- | hood do not mest the response from | me which they seem to expect. One | is not anxious to have one’s persnluli | dates handled so unkindly. As a mat- | ter of cold fact Holmes made his debut | |in ‘A Study in Scarlet’ and in ‘The Sign of Four.’ two small booklets which | appeared between 1887 and 1889. It | was in 1801 that ‘A Scandal in Bo- | | hemia.” the first of the long series of | | short stories, appeared In the Strand | | Magazine. The public seemed apnre- | | clative and desirous of more. so that | from that date, 36 vears ago, they have | ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. ‘There s no other agencey in the world that can answer as many legitimate aquestions as our free Information Bu- reau in Washington, D. C. This highly organized institution has been built up | and is under the personal direction of | Prederie J. Haskin. By keeping in con- stant touch with Federal bureans and other educational enterprises it is in a | position to pass on to vou authoritative information of the highest order. Sub-| mit your queries to the staff of experts whose services are put at your free dis- posal. There s no charge except 2 cents in coin or stamps for return pos age. Address The Evening Star Infor- mation Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, di- reetor, Washington, D. C. Q._What States have laws similar to the Baumes laws of New York State? — S. A F. A. Other States which have enacted Iegislation similar to the Baumes laws are California, Kansas, New Jersey North Dakota, Oregon. South Dakota and Vermont. ' Michigan has 2 law im- posing life sentence for fourth offense. Q Did the President have power to loan money abroad during the war and after_the armistice?—J. H. R. A. The President of the Unitad States has not the sole power to negotiate loans with foreign countries. The loans | | been produced in a broken series which | to foreign countries both during the war now contains no_fewer than 56 stories, | republished in ‘The Adventures’ ‘The Memoirs,” ‘The Return’ and ‘His Last | | Bow.’ and there remain these 12 pub- | ! lished during the last few years which | i are here produced under the title of | “The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes' He began his adventures in the very heart of the later Victorian era, carried it through the all-too-3hort reign of | Edward, and has managed to hold his | own little niche even in these feverish | days. Thus it would be true to say | that those who first read of him, as and after armistic® was signed were | authorized by acts of Congress Mos® | of the loans were provided for in the ! Liberty bond acts | | Q. Did the Indians have sonzs suited to various occasions?—S. A. | A. Practically all occasions had special | songs. Hunting songs were sung only | in hunting seasons. visiting songs sung only whan paying visits, and so on Q. Please tell something abont the mining of emeralds.—R. P. in mining emeralds owing in i risk of breaking them. Skilled natives sre generally employed to do this work Q. Did Hudson Maxim cripple himself while experimenting with explosives? — A. He narrowly escaped death many times, and his left hand was blown off during his experiments with maximite. In spite of his bent toward invention of war materials Hudson Maxim was an advocate of arbitration Q. Does an Indian Nawab rank above 4 Maharajah?>—C. C. W. A. Nawab is the title of & Monam- medan chief, whether a rling prinee or a title of honor, and is equivalent to both Rajah and Maharajah. Q. When were s W. D. A. The first roference to sad frons that we find was in the vear 1832. Be- fore tne use of jrons for smoothing clothes. a form of mangle was emploved The box mangle by which articles were preszed on flat surfaces by rollers, which were weighted with a box full of stones moved to and fro by a rack and pinion The clothes were passed between wonden rollers or howls held close together by weighted levers. In earlier periods. and in rural districts particularly, clothes were very often pressed by folding them carefully and placing heavy welzhts upon them. Q. Should garments be cleansd ha- fore being dyed?—L. H A. Dye does not conceal sofled spot< Garments should be cleaned. Q. What is the fire cherry’—C. T. A. The pin or fire cherry (prunus Pennsylvanica) is a small tree frequently found in cut-over or burned-over wood- lands and in neglected pastures. Tts flowers. and iater the small red fruits, are borne in clusters like sweet cherries E A. B | irons invented - Gattle are sometimes poisoned by eating the wiited leaves of thse cherrien the market today are obtained from the | g - '\ Republic of Colombin. The ~Muzo | tate prasee sem " om0 ORS Accumii- emeralds of that country oceur in caleite | . veins. The bank may prove worthless . severs storms have «wollen the Eastern Branch, so that in ‘his low spot the roadway has been in- s undated by the rushing waters, Wash- 2 mosquito 15 on sacuring his night's ouota of human gore, learning would | become child’s piay, indeed. As Henry lay there, momentarily ex- peeting to hear that hum again, he re- young men, have lived to se> thair own grown-up children following the same adventures in the same magazine. It is a striking example of the patience and loyalty of the British public.” ok ok K story, nor an especially new one, being (the caves A. A great many of the emeralds on the narrative of the adventures of | Db GP: dribhe |man and a woman marooned upon a | the katvdids Singing-- | southern isle by shipwreck. But many| Buz- the various and gruesome heaps in the mind's eve, are noted as g large spaces of the public liked to listen - He could hear Q. How are potatoss hardened or streets. are composed of mothing less o g rainfall of the past Fri- | SHan mortal remaint of former| . g prday and Sunday put the happy and upright Englishmen road completely out of commission. What dose it all mean> With star- 0 ST howers of the past two tling franknese the British press con- 30 (8 T D damage and fncon- eludes that London has been almost oo o motorists, and this much- | wiped oft the map and that something |, o4 yiopqay is now under three feet | must be done. But what can be done? | "T LANEL e, both for An- The leaders of the big air force move- | gng Baltimore, is forced to de- | ment point to the fact that the air o "\ "y cireuitous route through force must be increased, that more two- | ol 0, seater fighters must be provided to off- “p plans actively under way to re- #et the increase in fast Buoibers stnce lieve the grade-crossing menace at the war and that the only defense .. .. e the only other danger spot against aircraft is attack against alf- . on, of the most important roads in craft. But David Lioyd George, the ... c.ctjon it would appear that the | Libersl leader. concludes that what Lon- % T0 L Bl engineering study | don needs is not more aircraft, but 0 be made of the problem created Jess afreraft: that the demonstraion | .ue, waters and a lowland road. over London has shown conclusively | (o B T o e past week have that war in the air tn the future will |0 F 0T o ceverity and bridges mean devastation and annihilation. S0 ' opcacl have been covered the thing to do is fo limit aireraft and |, qughout this part of the country. the disarm. lesson it not Inss pointed as far as One of the radical London newspapers pgiaqenshurg i concerned because it is Jaughs at the whole performance and ... ,cua) thing. even with storms of savs it does not mean anything, formore .. pioder variety, to have this high- pecple have been killed in street acci- way inundated. dents in London in four years than the .. ramqval of the grade crossing is Germens killed by their air ralds . " p. an expensive and necessary throughout the war and that a OISon ,rocecs. While the periodical road in- gas which the alarmists conclude Would | yngqtion has so far elaimed no lives. it have depopulated London is UNKROWR gy gepy within the bounds of possibility o science, But another radical OTEaN ynat it will and it would seem that it draws the opposite conclusion and de- | (hoyid take equal rank with the elimi- | clares that the authorities who planned | nation of the point where road and rail the mimic air raids should have taken meer It was only yesterdav that two the opportunity to train the civiliad | persons were rescued with the greatest population in the use of gas masks. 10 diMculty after they had been swept into make men and women expert by the|tne stream when they were unsble to pext war Several French organs con- | distinguish between the road and deep elude that the alr foree demonstration water as they attempted to cross. and was intended to create popular support | many more accidents of this kind are of the Franco-British entente. lixely to occur. The offietal report of the maneuvers — Diversion of the Eastern Branch or merely reltes that 250 ships were en- | the building of a higher road and bridge gaged on both sides: that the ettack 'would seem to be the solution of the tonk place each day between 6 p.m. and | problem. In any event. the Maryland 2 am. that 250,000 miles were flown State Roads Commission should order br opposing ajrcraft, and some three | an immediate study to determine what hundred tons of bombs were dropped. ' steps will be necessary to remove a Omly 138 fghters were lost, though 151 point of danger that has menaced bombers weore declared to have been motorists of this section for too many brought down by defense aircraft and vears. twentz-one wers sunk by anti-aireraft guns. can handle. Historie assassinations call Of course, the whole thing was in _ fun. anyhow; and if the maneuvers had attention to the fact that the condition & 1t represents one of the old is ot new not n eccompanied by the roar of a -uw:: motors :1 night long and the |T¢sponsibilities confronting an sdvanc- brillant glars and display of search- | "% civilization. iights and signal rockets. they would 2y not have created nearly so mueh inter- metropolis is wicked. But for really | sensational murder mysteries the small et And it the experiment had not| U AU ML TREIE L O taken place in the midst of the dull supply Bummer season. it might not have at- 5 tracted 80 much attention. Az it was there was nothing much going on at the time—outside of the fact that the American Secretary of State was taking ship for Paris, where he iz to meet the statesmen of other leading world powers o sign with them a treaty renouncing war as a national policy. et Rumors of Lindbergh's de the pubile. Lindbergh is too intelligent en airman to allow himsel! to become a party to the superstition that avia- tion invites membership In a suicide elub. ‘There is more crime than the police - i Philately. | thirty-fourth In the course of the annual convention of the Society of Philatelic Americans in this city a | stamp auction has been held, in accord- | ance with custom, and in that competi tive vending some surprises have heen | caused. One of them was the low price ath startied | PTOURht by a rare stamp issued in the Tsiand of Mauritius some seventy-seven vears ago. It was rated ss likely to bring at least fifteen hundred dollars | when put “on the block” but when the | hammer finally went down to close the | sale the price bid was only one hundred {and eleven doliars Intrinsically, or rather officially, that bit, of paper, perhaps less than an inch square, is worth two cents. Its market value is whatever any one is willing to | pay for ft. What makes it so valuable? | The Gobi Desert Giant | First of all, its rarity. There are very Pirst reports from the Roy Chapman |few Mauritian stamps of that denomina- Andrews expedition into the Gobi ton snd fssue now in existence, and Desers. where for several months ex- none other. it Is said. in 50 good con- plorations for traces of early life have |dition as this. Anything that is hard been indicated the finding obtain acquires a ie from that of & glant creature, described as longer | fact than height of the Wonlworth| Philately—which literally means Bullding York. This suggestion | love of exemption from taxation, and of & mammoth animal. far exceeding (who does not love such exemption? any dimensions sver suspeeted, was|is the aclence or practice of collecting received with skepticism by scientists |and studving the postage tokens of all in this who have been attentively |nations. It dates from about 1850, and. following the rourse of all researches |according to an encyclopedic summary into the prehisioric ages. Now comes| il embraces some seven hundred and e description of the bones of this|fifty thousand followers in different titanic heast. which Teveals that the|parts of the world. The larger number proportions are not 5 immense as at|are in the United States, estimated at first suggested. The humerus is said| from one hundred and ffty thousand 1n he four feet long, the pelvis a¢ big|tn one hundred and eighty thousand s a base drum, the collarbone makes|Some of the collectors are persons of » full load for a ooolie eminence and high rank in human af- ————— Campaign funds are enormous. Bt ® stack of blue chips is not as much of ap srgument in politics as it i in a poker game - in progress n the " n New eity These facts denote & truly tremendous creature. but wot one of the first indicated sine H The Gobl Desert has proved tn be a| wich field of explorations. It has turned out during recent rs some of the rarest finds of the era of research into the early life on this planet. The mculties of travel and of meintaining life in this region are exceedingly great “The climate is forbidding and treacher- ous and complicated political conditions interpose & serious barrier 1o visitors one of the most ardent of them ali Financiers have gone in for philately as 4 diversion. The Rothschild collection has heen appraised at one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars, and is probebly worth more than that sum now, inasmuch as stamp values are con- stantly growing. Nearly every boy has had a stamp col- lecting urge at one stage or another of his development. Stamp albums are cupplics have tn he harne inlznd for | scattered v dely nver this country, most grest distences by primitive means of |1y stored in atticspr goode rooms, long tzansport, ¥et thess very Aificulties neglecied and o a reader of that story will remember now the thrill of. romance that per- | vaded it, fts truly literary quality, its {lively action with the element of sus-{ pense. Later, when the fashion in fic- | It was a mosquito. Henry had been told that they were around. but had not paid much atten- tion to the warning. Buz-z-7-7.7-7! Cautiously he poked one hand from | share of attention. These were not en- | | during works, but they contributed to | hopefully. s {beneath the sheet and swatted in the tion somewhat changed, Tracy turned |qenera] direction of the pestiferous in- to the so-called “detective novel” and | sect. produced a number of works of this, His slap hit himself on the nose. character that won their propnrflonlu’ n"flh;w;'lmqmm. of course, carefully “Maybe I got him,” sald Gearshift He knew from past expe- the pleasure and entertainment of a | riences that if there is onlv one mos- | voted to glorifying the American pu- | [ fairs such as the King of Ttaly. who is | | host of readers. There was a time when ! the authenticity of the author's name | was questioned, when it was wondered | whether he was not another person | using a nom de plume. All doubts on this score were resolved when m 1916 Louis Tracy came to America and lec- ured, revealing himself as a real per- sonag> and a man of culture with a | wide range of information and a capac- ity for expression. He did not contrib- | ute greatly to the lasting works of Brit- | ish authorship, but iis * titles” embrace | a long range that in the aggregate of | circulation nave made for tne arrayal! of a host of readers. His work was al- | ways conscientiously and thoroughly cone, as in almost ail cases of the Brit- | ish writers who have turned to litera- iure of the imaginative kind. ————e et There is no possibility of a quarrel' with Canada. The U. S. A. enjoys| abundant prosperity and reports from ! tourist traffic indicate a generous will- ingness to share it. | e European statesmanship once pro- fessed to know little about U. S. politics. Some cminent European statesmen now assume to know more about it than Americans themselve: P Ther: is a satisfaction in going fish- | ing. No remarks are called for and, oven if temperamental observations were | compelied, the fish is never in a posi- tion to talk back. Physical beauty is a great present| consideration. Much printer’s ink is de- | gilist. e S Regardless of the brokerage charges. for each new gambol, there are always 1ambs in Wall Street, e Barefoot dancers may return to favor. | A first-class pair of shoes now costs as much as a new dress. - et "SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. The Big Endeavor. There will he found a way To render natfons free. Freedom from foolish fray We'll surely see. ‘The generations past, With good intentions blest, Brill bravely say, at last, “We Did Our Best.” And they who seek to find To honest peace a means wil) surely leave behind Strife's cruel scenes. Each effort that has failed Renewed the patriot zest. With honor theyll be hailed Who Did Their Best. Leadership. | “Yon have been a party leader for | many years.” “I won't say 1 have exactly been a leader,” answered Senator Sorghum. But I have been pretty successtul in guessing which way the party was ltkely 10 g0 and then getting out in front.” Busy Life. The farmer rises with the sun, And works until the day is done; Then stays awake tll five or alx, While worrying about polities. Jud Tunkins says that suburban de- | velopment, has persuaded too many farmers o be realtors in disguise. No Keys. | “Did they give you the keys to the | eity when you visited the metropolis?” | “No." said the out-of-town buyer. "I | happened In Just when all the night | elubs were heing padiocked.” | “We nonor our ancestors most,” satd Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “In seek- | ing to forget their follies.” Empty Repetition. A parrot is & happy bird. He simply speaks what he has heard. He might be happler still if he A campalign orator could be. quito, and that one is killed, the rest of the night may be passed in peace. Z-2-2-2-2-2-2! There it was again. Cautiously he cased his hand out and held it poised. The mosquito made a neat landing on the little finger and was just about to puncture it when Henry ed the member to and fro rapidly, islodging the eritter into space again “Mavbe he will stay owar murmurad. now.” he * o % BUZ~Z+772-0-7e 0022727 This time the insect made no pre- liminery campaign. but landed deftly ylfl)(’n the very end of Gearshift's rather large n This away. “It'Il get tired of this pretty soon.” he sald to himself. He did not want to wake any one clse. 50 made all his movements short and secretive, as it were, exactly the wrong type for cateh- ing_mosquitoes. The best way to catch one, as svery * . 0se. time Henry merely brushed it X(Ttion Is : 'W/ld ress labor organization to any party in the na tional political campaign. Many rea sons are set forth for the judgment that this attitude was the only effective one that could have been adopted. Differing party affiliations among the members are assumed to be the rule, and the record of 1924 is held to have been a lesson to the unions. “It is virtually impossible," declares the Columbus Evening Dispatch (inde- pendent). “that either of the two great hostility toward the laboring classes, or ven of Indifference toward labor's rights and aspirations. An actual fight against either party could be justified only if the party concerned should as- | sume a clearly hostile attitude—a con- dition that certainly does not exist in the present campaign, and is not at (inde- come.” The Syracuse Herald | pendent) holds that “the inevitable re- sult of a partisan stand by the national body of the trades unions would be to provoke antagonisms, which, to say the least, would detract from its legiti- mate strength and influence.” ok oxox “Members of the American tion of Labor no doubt indorse the union label as applied to the products | of union labor.” suggests the Lynch- | burg News (Democratic), “but they { know that it has no business being at- tached to political candidates. They aturally and properly resent anything that may even give the appearance that they are sheep whose voles can be delivered en bloc by union officials.” The Detroit Free Press (Independent) | points out that “as new issues arise, or the varlous parties shift the emphasis of their attention to labor matters. American labor, as long as it _adheres tn its policy f non-partisanship, can support presidential or congressional candidates most likely to promote its interests, Whenever it has abandoned that freedom of action in the past, it has had reason to rue ts decision.” SUIl greater independence & Aadvo- ted by the Lowell Evening Leader (in- dependent, Republican), with the state- ment: “The voters of organized labor are competent to fudge for themselves. They may be safely and preferably al- | lowed to do so. And the interesis of {1abor, which the federation was organ- ized to maintain, will be best conserved when it funetions on a strictly non-pat- tisan _basi The Leader also feels sure that “there is no desire to repeat the blunder of 1924, when the candidacy |of La Follette was Indorsed. That ex- perience has not heen forgotten. It prove * the futility of attempting to de- liver the labor vote in the mass R 1t is recalled by the New .Orieans Times-Pleayune (independent Demo- ratic) that in the election of 1024 he result. proved the indorsement tile and the ‘organized labor vote' un- deliverable on order. * * * The men in the labor ranks voted their individual convictions and political hellefs just about as freely as did their fellow citizers in other walks, Doubtless they will do fhat this year, ragardless of whether or not the federation’s executive commit- | in the campalgn, And surely that is what all American voters should do for their own and their country’s good . “The unfortunate and divisive effect New York Times (independent) “ap. to have carried its lesson for the ‘ederation of Labor. * = * The polic: resolved upon is pretty clearly a case of the burnt child dreading the fire.” The ?olicy of “non-intervention in presiden- fal elections” is viewed by the New York Herald Tribune (Republican) as “a great gain for sound politics,” and that paper adds: “Some of the federation “When it comes down to facts,” sald Uncle Ehen, “loud talk haz no, more genuine persuasion in politics dldj members are for Mr, Hoover and some are for Gov. Smith. But there Is no reason . hy they should he for either it has ! symply because of the membsrehip cards | Oupid has Vesy fow of 18 craD BAR" e ihey hald, They are clipens i parties should assume an attitude of all likely to exist in any campaign to| Federa- tee changes it ‘non-partisan policy’ later | of the 1024 action,” according to the | fiected on other tales he hzd heard of | mosquitoes. One was that mosquitoes which bit had their bills on a level wiih their | bodies, whereas the kindly mosquitoes which would never think of tampering with human cuticle wore their bills at an_angle. Gearshift reflected that it made no difference in the world how a mosquito carried his proboscis, since these dip- "rmus insects arrive in the dark. | Sleepily he thought that it might be a good jdea to wear bumpers on his \rlrn‘ so that straight-billed mosquitoes could not reach him | Buz-g-7-7-2-2-2-2! | There it was again. After all. the actual sound was not as disheartenin; as the intense silence which prevailed | before the arrival of the creature. The suspense was wearing. Henry thought he would let the fe' low bite him, this time, and be doae | | with it. but no sooner did he feel it light, than he slapped at it narrowly, missing by several full inches, | It became a sort of game, with the |mosquito trying to land. and Gear- | hift attempting to slap him to kingdom come. By this time Henry was look at his watch hands and numbers shone fitfully the night. but he refrained from looking too closely. He waited—and waited— Buz-z-z-z-7-7! | The persistent mosquito landad, it | stuck in its proboscis, it had a. fair | field to_conquer—— |, For Henry Gearshift ! tast fraid to was asleep at ely ApproveAdifl When Labor General approval is given by the of the country to the action of leaders in the American Pederation for their decision against committing tha* Spurns Politics 1!\5' " The Herald Tribune feels that | “crganized labor ought not to be made 11}\9 tail to any political party's kite, and, since it does not wish to create a | party of its own. it is only logical that {1t should avoid Nationwide political | commitments.” | * ok ok ok “It is the diversity of political opinion in democratic America’s industrialism." isv.vps the Kansas City Journal (Repub- ican), be fustly held unfriendly to labor. Mr | Gompers was a lifelong Democrat, and usually his comments on politics bore the marks of his party favoritism. Yet, during all his long direction of organized labor, it is probable that a majority of the workers of the country voted the Republican ticket. Union leaders will not more effectually shape political thinking of their followers in this cam- paign, by suggestion or example.” The Trenton Evening Times (independent) reminds its readers that “America has no labor party.” and th: because of that fact, “the only practicable course is for labor to hold itself aloof and evalu- ate individual candidate: that, “any attempt to control their votes would be sure to have a disastrous effect upon the organization.” *ox o “It would have been a hold and un " maintains the | warranted assumptios Philadelphia Evening Bulletin (inde- | pendent Republican), “if the executive council of the A, F. of L. had attempted | to speak for ‘organized labor.’ |nefther the authority nor ! means of information to deter adequate ‘mine the political purpose or interest of its mil- | llon members. Moreover, the execu- council is mindful that ‘the Amer- ican Federation of Labor has found from experience that the best interests of the entire membership have been protected and conserved through a striet adherence to the non-partisan political poliey.' “Business interests politics.” observes the News (independent. Democratic). “long Ago ceased to follow party lines in the bastowal of thelr support. They sup- ported thelr supporters of whatever party. Trade unions, trained in pursuit of their own interests, have learned to do the same, Reviewing the favor that was be- stowed by labor upon President Wilson in 1916, the New York World (independ- ent) explains: “He has just signed the Adamson act, and his Clayton act was long step toward abolishing the injunc tlon weapon against labor. Both enact ments were under fire, and labor came to their ald. Except under such extia dinary conditions as in 1916, labor's entry into polities is riskv—and also largely Ineffective ™ ) concerned with A Good Opening. Prom the Springfield. Ohin, Sun Cleveland gunman murdered another His methods are a hit strong. a future for that man in the agency collection field .- Speed Cop of the S From the Toronto, Canada, Daily Star The first alr speed cop has heen ap- pointed, and one good thing about it will be that it will be easy to see him coming. Still, he will probably hide | behind a cloud and use a stop-wateh on you Kies, .- Two Ways of Pa | From the Olean Herald It's all the same to the merchant ‘The poor man pays a little each month for six months, and the rich man walts six months to pay. e Shakespearean, From the Indianapelis Star. ‘The Shakespearean he; dently feels that his . Dan Ado About occasioned: Tts phosphorescent | in | ‘which has made it impossible | | for any one partisan movement ever fo | It has | Dayton Daily | man who wouldn't pay him a $35 debt. | Despite the fondness of the British. and we might add the American, public | for the lean, pallid, drug-taking. violin- | playing master of inductive reasoning. | Conan Doyle obviously holds a grudge | against him. because his popularity has prevented his author's more serinuw | work from receiving the recognition de- | stred. | Doyle says, “at the conclusion of ‘The | iMemnlrs‘ to bring Holmes to an end. | as 1 felt that my literary energies should not be directed too much into one channel. That pale, clear-cut face and loose-limbed figure were taking up | | 'an undue share of my imagination. 1 | did the deed. but. fortunately, no coro- | | ner had pronounced upon the remains, | and so. after a long interval, it was not difficult for me to respond to the | flattering demand and to explain my | rash act away. I have never regretted it. for I have not in actual practice | found that these lighter sketches have prevented me from exploring and find- {ing my limitations in such varied branches of literature as histol try, - | historical novels, psychic research and | the drama. Had Holmes never existed I could not have done more, though | he may perhaps have stood a little in the way of the recognition of my more | sorious literary work.” * x s ¥ Swedish history in the reign of | Charles XTI and part of the family story of the Lowenskolds are combined in Selma Lagerlof's recent short romance, “The General's Ring.” The fortune of Bengt Lowenskold was made when he | fought in the wars of his king and as a reward received the estate of Hedeby and the Ritle of general. When he died his signet ring was burled with him. | but its presence was disclosed some | | time later when the vault was opened for another interment. The theft of the big ring by Bard Bardsson brought many evils in its train, possibly the work of the dead general wreaking vengeance. At the death of Bard, the ring was again stolen and again mis fortunes followed fast. The thief was murdered and his murderers were hanged. but it was 30 years before the ring was found. * “She looked like a lady, but did you ! hear her talk?" is a remark which ingi- | cates how often people are judged by their conversation. One of the frequent questions asked of librarians is, “Where | can T find books to help me improve my | | English?” With this in mind the Amer- | jcan Library Association has published | a reading course on “Good English.’ which aims to help those who wish to improve their conversation. their use of words and. incidentally, their apprecia- tion of what they read and hear. The author, Virginia Bacon, readers’ adviser of the Library Association of Portland, Oreg.. has given the reader a number of suggestions to help him in his stud: Among the things she mentions ar Use the dictionary: keep a special note- book for vocabuiary study: find some | one to study with you and make a game of your work wherever you can; avold self-conscionsn: rena good books, especially the informal essay and mod- ern drama, for help in improving con- versational English. Mrs. Bacon recom- mends five books, including A grammar all of them simple and easv to follow These, together with the introduetory cssay, point the way to the correct use of English for conversation and writing, to the enlargement of the vocabulary | and to a wider understanding and ap- preciation of the spoken and written language of other people. Good Eng- lish" is the most recent of the “Read- ing with a Purpose” series. The American Revolution did not seem a% important to George IIT as it aid to ths American colonists. This is shown conclusively by ‘“the corre- spondence of King George I {rom 1760 to December, 178! edited by Sir ohn Fortescue, LL. D, D. Litt. This vk is in two volumes, the last of six. | From these letters, George IIT w much more interested in patronage. ap ointments. pensions and titles ‘than n the rebellious intrigues of a_certain George Washington, of good old Eng- | lish family, over in the troublesome British colonles n Ameriea. Mean- while, the obtuse Lord North, who was <o hated in the colonies, was trying | azain and again to resign. He pleaded | ill_health, falling memory and general | unfitness. but the King paid little at- tention to his complaints and retained him. A letter of May 18, 1780, is really pathetic: “Lord North fecls himself so weak and unable to go on for any time that he capnot help reminding his majesty of the request he has late had the honour more than once of sub- mitting to the majesty’s goodness Sametimes the King was half-hearted sympathetic, without granting the re- | auest; at other times decidedly sharp | He wrote: 1 feel my task as un- | pleasant as he can possibly find his, | Ibut both of us are in trammels and 1t 1= our duty to continue". and again. ‘It you resign, hefore 1 have decided what T will do, you will certainly for- | |ever forfelt my regard” Tha indica {tions are that Lord North's health would have been more equel to his task it he had not been disgusted with his part In the American war and had not fairly well foreseen the end. N The Iast book of Vicente Blasco thanez, who died not along ago, to h!“ published in this coun s “Reeds and Mud. story of Spanish life in the country Like Thanez's novel it con- | cerns peasants, bound to the soil by | {foree of circumstances and tradition Old Tio Paloma is a fisherman of the | Lake Albufera region, proud of his call- | ing and agrressively independent. His son, Tono, is & farmer and spends his days in the rice fields, to the disgust of his father. The grandson. Tonet, has not the stamina of either father or {nndmhar and brings trouble uj both through his susceptibility to the ntrigues of a beautiful but vicloua R 'n'mn‘;: 7 ;‘l‘h- nmn:‘hem the sordld 0 oal and mud #bout the lake is almost palntully vivid. * oo | | | | | | after months of work. for no one can petrified>—P. T. R estimate the probable value of any par-| A. Make a solution of 4 parts of cular section of a deposit. In this| sulphuric acid in 50 parts of water way emerald mining is different from | Treat peeled potatoes with this saly- most._other branches of the industry.| tion for 36 hours. Dry the mass between The tools used are steel bars about five | blotting paper and subject to great | alone half a day to pass City Hal | against_Chicago police within the last | Sodom. | elusive of 215 killings in what are known | eities? !and in | New York, Chicago and Philadelphia® | Butler resigned as chief of police. 1€ they had been so driven out of one feet long. weighing 30 pounds, and shovels. The bars are forged to a point at one end and made wedge-shaped on pressure. By using very stros - sure billlard balls have be::l! ;rs' closely resembling ivory. The material “T had fully determined.” Conan | the other. Great care must be exercised | can be carved. BACKGROUND OF EVENTS BY PAUL In the fiscal years 1926 and '27, there | were, in Philadelphia and its environs, 760 murders, of which crimes 104 were put down by the police as “unsolved mysteries.” It would take the hea or the combined murder funeral. including the relatives and other mourners, would be as jong a parade that of an Army corps and would stretch through two days and a night before its dirges would cease to accuse the Government of the City of Brotherly Love. *oh ok ¥ A report of the crime commission of citizens of Chicago, which was made public within the last week. accuses the Police Department of connivane with criminals and with svstematicaily lying to cover up the reign of terror by distorting the nature of crimes reported: v robbery has been lerly conduct,” mur- More than 60,000 entry are charzed entered year. The police are alleged to have | sought to cover up either their con- nivanee with erime or their utt in- competence. Since the Chicago “beer war of 1922 there have been. in that no fewer than 375 murders, in- “gang killings,” aside from the 160 deaths caused by the police in making or attempting arrests. o ox o Americans are shocked at the fends of Albania and other mi-civilized™ ragions. Are such more horrifying than the union of police and gangsters in Philadelphia. Chicago and New York? In the greatest metropolis of the United | States, gangsters are said by the police to go about the streets in automobiles seeking thely marked victims to murder. The automobiles are batteries on motor: openly loaded with sawed-off shotguns | and sometimes machine guns such a armies use in warfare. Such transport- ing of weapons openly does not conflict | with the law against carryving “concealed’ weapons. for the guns are not concealed The crime comes only when the vietim is cornered, helpless and is ruthlessly slain within sight and sound of police. o ow . Is all America in the grip of murder. like the gang wars of the three greatest It not. why not?> Whence| come the gangst: that t dare defy [ihe law of America and of civilization? | Why do they not attempt such a course of lawlessness in the National Capital other cities as brazenly as in The answer is given indirectly by a Philadelphia Public Ledger editorial, which alleges that the reason of the gang war in that city is the incom- petence or corruption of the police: the gangsters hold & lash which the police dare not face. The police themselves fear the low politiclans who hold a grip on the controlling officeholders. The citizens are cowed by crime rampant in the very centers of Government The ~conspicuous gang murders Philadelphia in the last three years have all been by-products of bootlegging gangs. No systematie and determined effort has been made to drive the rogues out of the city since Gen Even city, it would mean simply their seat- tering to other places—probably a large addition to the criminal classes of Washington. We have no Baume law which would send persistent criminals to the penitentiary for life, leaving no power of lenicncy to the judge One police officlal explains that the reason the National Capital has had no “gAngs” is because we have no vote. hence no ward-heelers to protsct the Yet the United States is a re- It boast its democracy! e o is claimed at police headquarters that we have not more than two or three unsolved murders a year. The murder record for the last decade begins n 1918 with 26 murders: in 1919, 49 and since then has ranged from 26 to 47. an average of 375. The population | has increased from 340.796 in 1919 to 320,000 (estimated by the Cansus Bu- veau) for 1923 The population increase amounts to 50 per cent, hence, to koep up the same ratio as to murders, we would have had an average of 56, in- stead of the last two vears' average of 42 | ‘The common apology for the national or metropolitan increase of violence and murder in the last 10 years Is that it is dus to “the violence of the World Wsr" Has not the District of Co- | lumbia as good grounds for increase of violence as any region. if the violence i+ attributable to the war® Nao region (surely not Chicago, Philadelphia nor New York) sent a higher percentage of fighters nto battle than did the City of Washington 3 In trafic “manslaughter” killings, the statisties show for 1018, 14 such deaths in 1027, 26 deaths, That is nearly 100 per cent increase. As against the in- crease of 50 per cent in nlation, but the proportion of automobiles in use has more than doubled in the last 10 years and has outrun police control. The District became “dry” under the Sheppard Ia * in 1918, but In that year there were 244 arrests for “drinking in publie”: in 1026 thers wers only 161 sueh Arrests, andMast vear only 113, However, “-‘v‘uuunn nublic It | both_ the | (nareotics) whole matter. as a . expert greed by a police make further the heavy shell Germans o h :mm back along four miles, betwees v bl n Bailleul and Veiux tured the | took 400 priseners. l:l:\ rain shells tncessantly on Fresno: of Roye. mans keep up a continuous desperat conflict in (he Lassigny area, but, de spite a hail of enemy French lines sradual positions. as if gas or hi simply did not exist. | cans | day tes reported ng the total for AME, * - s | allied ' bombding of Franktort but alrmen keep )l V. COLLINS. 1918 for intoxication, and 13,892 in the fiscal year ending last June 30—double the arrests in & population only 50 per cent increased? Why? One police of- ficer explains that the liquor drunk to- day is so much more powerful that one or two drinks makes the drinker “dead drunk.” Commissioner Dougherty at- trihutes the excess of arresis tn the increased efficiency of the police. years ago. a drunkard was not arrested unless he made himself intolerably con- icuous: today all {ound drunk in pub- lic_are arreste The arrests for all in 1218 year, Not all under the Volstead law For example, last week. a pairolman ticketed the write automobile for parking 20 minutes on K street near Fifteenth, where ihree other automo- biles were already parked. Back of all the four offending autos. neariy half & block from the corner, was an unseen sign, “No parking to the, cornes ‘Reserved for public vehicles, there was no mark painted on roadway from that little sign u, corner. indicating the “taboo. patrolman chuckled in court over his ccess in catching “from 12 to 15" & dav in thet trap, The attention of Police Department Traffic Bureau since h to the unfair “trap.” but no painted mark vet segregates it and puts drivers on_notice. Query: How much of the increased record of arrests by polie how much for seriot der or robbery? How much to sly po- lice “traps” to build up “records” tend- ing far more than the Volstead law to bringing law enforcement into con- tempt because of its triviality? The court declared the patrolman was not to blame for the “trap.” Who was? * % % » Tt is a favorite argument by the op- posers of the prohibition laws that “‘he la cannot be enforced, hener thes, bring contempt on all laws” and should be modified or reneajed.” The last annual report of the Federal prison at Leavenworth states (page 33) the number of prisoners in the Federal prison for violation of the drug mct leads the classes of erim- inals. is, for narcotics, 1.062: for motor vehicle erimes. 324: for violations of the prohibition act, 300 at the be- ginning of the year. ar the end of the year. By the anti-Volstead logic. because the narcotic law iz persistently violated more than any other law, it should be repealed. and narcoties be admitted without limit or restraint. Also thefts of automobiles. or man- slaughter by reckless or vicious drivers ceses in excess of all liquor cases in the penitentiarv—demonstrate that it should be made no crime to steal a moter car. or to murder with onc' are more violations of postal laws vhnnn there are of liquor la why punis robbers or s of the franking privilege, or ::m( who use the mails for obscene literature ar for frauds® “Abolish law that is violated!™ Crime is incressing through- out the country. PFive vears ago. the three Federal penitentiaries reesived 1.200 conviets; last vear, 5.800. But the full story is not told. because nobody knows how big or numerous were the fish that got awa The one feature bevond dispute is that narcoties lead he crimes. ahead of the violations af lquar laws. The conelusion of the felonies ', 4,439, Appears to be that the new and problems of police work eall ; higher intelligence tn mee'mg hem than former conditions demanded 1998 by Paul V. Colling lppery iCopvrieht e e R UNITED STATES WORID WAR Ten Years dgo Teday. American “troogs on the lorraine ains at Prapelle. des ing o(A'he village by the b Ut American gunn: M the Vesle front are pouring » stream of shells into the German posi- ns to the north. The enemv's rep!: *_been much feebler than usua! In fishting west of Armen- tieres, British troops forced the Ger- A front of more than the Lys sector. They ca village of Outersteene and LW & The I important German pesition norih * ¢ PFrench and Ge shells on the the poilus keep up the “nibbling™ the Garman explosives * Ameri- e to shel ain more ground at Fraj ty-six casual- in today's list. bring- Army and Marines fo The Kaiser terms the “unlew- raid-