Evening Star Newspaper, August 20, 1928, Page 8

— .THE EVENING STAR [to his chegrin that 1t was scaled by a|different localities. Tn Washington. for | il ton | funicu'ar ratlway. And later he was be- " | guiled by & mendaclous friend with tales | ished. ‘With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. .August 20. THEODORE W. NOYES.. The Evening Star Newspaper Company 11tn e DiSiness Office and Pennsviv New York Offce 110 East Chicago Office. Tower Build, European Office_ 14 Regent St. England. Rate hy Carrier Within the City. A5e oer month ar 60¢ ver and Sund 4 Sundavs ning and Sundav Siar 5 Sundavs! das Star ction made & way be sent | e Evenin; month 5¢ oer month 5¢ per copy month e end of b slenhone by m Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryiand and Virginia aen e $600. 1 10 §400) fa States and Canada 1yr. 81200 1 mo. « e Associated Prass 0 the use for repunlicy paiches credited to ted eserved A Campaign Without Parallel. It has been heretofore remarked that no two political campaigns in - thi country are wholly similar. Each con- test for votes has own distinguish- ing features. in the iss 1 the per- sonalities of candidat wccom- paniments of developing circums In the long course of American events since the Nation began *o choose own administrators. there gradual changes in political alignments in questions on which the people have divided and in the manner in which they have been grouped in parties. In some respects. however. there a definite resemblance between the present campaign and that of 1896 thirty-two years ago. In the point of realignments of the people in parly afMliations this present contest has no more distinct parallel than that. In 1896 both parties formally divided. Th: division was caused by the econom.c fssue of bimetallism. At each national eonvention there was & “walkout.” delegates leaving in groups to regist: their protests. The free silver Rep licans joined forces with the Democrais while the gold Democrats organized ‘2 third ticket. Many thousands of voters shifted allegiance. In the present campaizn two questions upon which party lines are being broken, prohibition and farm felief. Unlike 1896. however, there is c. definite walkout or third party movement. The changes from ene side to the other are more indi- vidual than organized. Nobody know: how great will be the aggregate of thes changes. Not until November can it pe determined whether they will af- fect the result. The situationis com- plicated, furthermore, by the fact that considerations which may induce a shift on the score of one of the issues— ¢ farm relief can be so called--opera‘c to prevent a shift on the other. Thus the party-breaking influences are some- what counteracted. Those who study the tables of elec- tion returns of the past for guidance in this present campaign are certain to be eonfused by these forces of disruption and realignment. There is furthermore a new element as compared with 1896 in the fact that the women of the eountry are fully enfranchised, and. it 1s evident_ are fully aroused to the im- portance of taking part in the cam- nees heve besr there are paign. At no time since the nineteentb | amendment was ratified has there beea 80 plain an evidence of keen interest | by the women of the country in the questions involved in a presidential campaign. There iz every reason to look for the | polling of the largest vote in the history | of the country, not merely an increase in the totals proportionate to the in- | erease in population, but a much greater | addition to the number of voters owing | to the peculiar character of the ques- | tions before the people and the earne.i- ness with which they are studied on which opinion is expressed. In the ecircumstances a computation of prob- | able returns on election day iz purely speculative 77777 o e—e— i Por some mysterious reason, an edmiring public appears to regard a divorce by theater artists as of far more serious importance than the actual principals in the transaction S .- Alpine Sacrifices Within a few days stx Alpine chmbers have lost their lives. four in one party and two in another. In the former case. s the men were passing over a danger- | ous point in their ascent of one of the | Alpine peaks cne slipped and went the edge. dragging hir companions one by one into an abyss from which it is probable their bodies will not be covered for many years if ever In the latter case seven young men. all ac- ecomplished and experienced Alpinists. had reached the altitude of 8,000 of the | 9,500 feet of mountain height, when | they encoy snowstorm which prevented them from either proceeding or returning One of them went mad from the of the position. Hi companions tied him 10 & rock. but he freed himself and disappeared over the precipice. Later a rescue party reached & point ahove them and lowered & rope Five of tne 0 safety. but one was killed broke snd he mountainside Hundreds of lives have been sac in Alpine chmbing. For lure of the great nills na: drawn men ene women on \n death send forth s challenge ana brave spiit accept L. With infinite labor they make their ascent over places where the siip of an inch foothold means death They crawl scross slender hrid; that span crevasses of fanthoml depth. They take thelr chances with storm, with cold, with sudden thaws Even the most expert miss their footing st times. Accomplished guides who have climbed the slopes for many years, who know every foothold, every bridge, every pass, every peril, sometimes miscalculate the weather or the strength of the sup porting ice. And some of these in fali ing have dragged thelr charges o deatn Alphonse Daudet. in his delectable ~Tartarin in the Alps’ tells how the Aesr Taraseonian Wwho had trained in work on the little nills of e, climbed the Rigi oply to find re- itered a horro; » survivors were hauled the rope n s dashed down the ficed cent the The giant peaks : .Edi(,nri .near the gate of of how inoccuous the Alps really were. 1028 | how accidents could never possibly oc- | THE EVENING instance, the chief of police has recom- mended that parking lights be abol- In New York the commissioner of police apparently gives his tacit ap- STAR, | BY CHARLES | cur ‘and how the stories of tragedy were | proval to police vandalism in enforclnll | Tartarin, Daudet presented a picture of [ and sane middle ground. the naive Provencal. He had no thought | of seducing people into Alpine perils. manufactured to lure climbers to face | what at best Is a minor regulation., pertls that actually did mot exist. In|Surely there must be a logical, sensible Motorists as |a whole will neither approve of the | Hesse plan. which involves danger to which, of course. he knew were real| moving traffic. nor of the New York !and terrible So long as the Alps ris> In their majes- | struetion of proper and of their | ctims will year by year inerease. For- | community those | foreed. who visit this great plavground of Eu- point of safety them from will climb the toll ty some menace men fall. and and will majority of ately the great rope are content to view safe places rather than to seek their conquest .- Lord Haldane. Scapegoat. The death of V int Haldane ot Cloan, in Scotiand. yesterday revives the memory of a political tragedy. In 1905 | before he wes elevated to the peerage he became minister of war in the Camp- bell-Banherman government of Great Britain. and set about to reorganize the | British Army. He found that the con- dition of England's fighting farce. par- ticularly in the matter of organization. was undependable. The reforms that had been instituted by Lord Roberts fol- lowing the Boer war had not been ef- fected, and there remained much to be i done to bring the land defenses of the | United Kingdom up to the mark of de- pendability. Haldane had to fight op position in his own political party and even some of his colleagues in the min- istry. He persisted. however, and ef- ! fected a revision of the British general staff the creation of a new armv of “territorials.” This took seven years of constant endeavor. When in 1912 Haldane, then hecome a peer. was named lord high chancellor of England. he had succeeded in this reformation. and had laid the foundation for the creation {of an army of emergency. the need of which two | foreseen. Early in his carcer Lord Haldane fell deeply in love with German scholarship He studied assiduously the works of the German philosophers. He formed in- ate acquaintances in Germany and conceived a strong liking for the Ger- man people. When the war broke in 1914 this spiritual and intellectual af- filiatlon between him and Germany which was widely known, caused him to be immediately suspected of sympathy with that country in the issues of thai conflict. He was the object of bitter criticism. He was openly attacked in the press and from the rostrum. When in 1915 the coalition ministry was formed to carry on the war Haldan was excluded and retired virtually private life, though he remained a judi- | cial member of the Privy Council. In ‘ 1924, forsaking the Liberal party. he en- tered the Labor ministry of Ramsay MacDonald as lord chancellor When the criticism arose against Hal- | dane at the beginning of the war sight was generally lost of the fact that ow- g to his antebzllum efforts for the reorganization of the British Army it | had been possible for England to put a to ! large force into the field in short order. | | It was then by some, however, acknowl- | | edged. and later it was admitted by | most Englishmen that had it not been itor Haldane's work England could no! | have made a showing in keeping with | her military history when she joined | Prance in alliance to fight Germany. | But in later years Haldane's services to his country in this pre-war reform of the British military organization wers | recognized. The bitterness aro'ized by | his intellectual affiliations with Ger- many subsided, and tribute was paid to him in full measure for his contribution 0 Great Britain's success in the su- | oreme emergency. But he, while forgiv- ing. did not forget the injustice inflicted upon him. He had been made a seape- goat without biame. R Sympathy Lacking. More than a dozen survivors of the Coney Island dance marathon are re- ported to be disconsolately hovering the stadium where they have been shufing thelr tired bodies around the floor for six hundred and twenty-nine hours. looking for the promoters of the derby. who vanished as pay day arrived. The stadium had been closed by order of the court, and the hungry and tired dancers were left without even earfare to their homes. Certainly, the rascally promoters if they have sbsconded with the cash ! derived from the efforts of their puppets will deserve the utmost execration. bu herdly any sympathy can be mustered for the couples who have been daneing since July 22 without pay. The same amount of energy would have brought in handsome returns in almost any line | of endeavor, and it is not pleasant to think of men and women burning up their health in senseless exhibitions ST While the expressions so fa been eloquent and convincing Gov Smith's admirers are frankly that there i still much to be said - Police Vandalism New York have hit method prevent ing without lights is, they found a means parking without lights without actually preventing it. This new method doubtedly was evolved hy mind in the department imply of with & sharp-pointed ice pick then goes the regulation vehicle on the » light detect The upor police of unique to that 4 master onsiste traiman I'he for violators ot 1o policeman of that every Aark shall display officer’s keen 1 street the law eyes one f these unlighted machines ne sneaks warily upon it and with boldness horn with his little ice ce puneture or more of of prac one tres pick the One hundred and twenty automobiles i the Sheepshead Bay area one hundred Adoubtless rueful eyes and de thereugon that fustice in thi land had taken a To add Insult of Saturday and motorists tires with on 1wenty their clded great devious path the commisstoner New potice his | section of parking without lights Traffe views unguestionably very in ) ars later was not. of course. | have | certain discourage un- | the brain of furnishing each pa- 1ok which When were | 5 Pr strange and o Injury, | York « sald to have blithely conceded that men have adopted this practice to break up the prevalent habit in that | plan, which countsnances reckless de- v for no good pur- pose Parking in be light regulations every should. 1t is necessary from the stand- There is no occaston. to of course en- howevar, in tha effort to enforce it use picks or axes or dynamite on the ~ars of recaleitrant motorists. Parking {light viclators are probably the easlest | to catch of all motorists who are dis- obedient to regulations. It requires no qun play, no detective ability and no common to tell whether a car | standing at the eurb has lights on it |ar not. A tickst on the steering wheel s a warrant to be served at a | venient time is all that is necessary to ng the motorist to book. Any other procedure is vandalism. which, as far as the police of any city are concerned, {will not be tolerated by an outraged public. sense con- by oons Police officors are required to give attention to so many culpabilities of \arving degrees that they are in dan- ger of becoming confused A burglar may get by because he so much harder catch than a muititude of offenders againat traffic regula- 50 to minor ions The arator used ] and fellow citizens” Now he says Ladies and gentlemen.” and may be under some restraint to avoid imitating the vaudeville monologist who says, “Ladics—and What Came with you e A “non-partisan campaign’ introduce in politics hopes of bringing about a more tremendous merger than any that has been accomplished in finance to beg [ The farmer may be pardoned for a certain cynical skepticism as to possi- bility of sifting all the methods for his velief ‘in one brief presidential paign cam- O, form of active farm relief is in the nature of an effort 1o relieve the comn producers of moral responsibllity in conneetion with illicit beverages | The “dime novel” is obsolete some instances its quite equal to the novel One Yet in literary merit was present two-dollar ‘.- One of the difficulties in Furopean affairs appears to lie in the fact that none of the leaders ever find time to re2lax and go fishinz. i - R | The old Prohibition party might be a power in affairs todag if it could have realized more fully what a pull its ideas have with the people. | ————— SHOOTING STARS. 15V PHILANDER JOHNSON Standing By. We jonged for the flow'r: soming bow'rs | Depicted in colorings rare In the catalogue neat, or. embroiderad | complete, To be hung on the back of a chair But August will try to be worse than July, And September i still far from anow; We are waiting to hear later greetings of cheer From the Isles where the Ieicles grow. When elections turkey anew As a big bird of freedom draws nigh: | When the trees we behold clad in pur- i ple and gold As they borrow the tints from the sky When the window pane’s lost in the fairyland frost And the drifts flow We will stand ty till then hear onee again From the Isles where the Ieicles grow are through and the like a tide ebb and when we'll | ! Rehearsals. “Classical orators rehearsed their speeches on a solitary seashore, 1n | competition with the roar of the waves.” | “Rehearsals are worse at present.” | commented Senator Sorghum. “There is at least some response from the vasty deep but a microphone simply gazes at you in dull, implacable silence ™ | | Flection Sport. | ‘The patriot neglects his task | And o'er his duty nods | When he is only moved to ask “What are the betting odds>" Jud Tunkins says if you want real |applause for a hard luck story, spare | your friends and tell it to your enemies | | The Real Consideration. “What do you think of the | that Bacon wrote 8hakespeare”” ‘T don't think of it replied Miss Cayenne. 1 have none too much tme to study the plays. let alone the con- troversy claim “In order to love our neighbors,” suid Hi Ho the sage of Chinatown. “we should avoid familiarity which leads to acquaintance with shortcomings ’ Obstinate Aunditor. hears the orators who say This world's the hest or worst place And then proceeds to vote the way He to in the first place. meant “Fvervhody has worries' sald Uncle Eoen. “A man dat always looks good- natured is one o' dese optical fllusions R The Difference. | From the Danbury Kvening News The mother 1 the one who looks s0 young .o On the Tnside. 1t hegins to seem as If General Mo- | tors might get the contract for 'h Democratic band wagon ‘ - Lindy's Big Thrill. From (he Flovenes (Als 1 Herald At last Lindbergh has had thrill. He got a ride In the cab of a lo comotive Friends | woulrd | | vou can easily tell the modern mother | bucket reated with this new-fangled method | and her daughter apart and | surveyed real “Dear Sir: 1 have just finished your !not like, try as we may. Now I want WASHINGTON. column for today, the one in which you | enjoy say there are some people we just can- | candle that just now gi D. €., MONDAY, .l THIS AND THAT teenth century jocularity as little as we the fragrance of a blownout ave us light, or of the smoking room | to add & thought. There are some words | the morning.” also that one just doesn't like and to| which one cannot by any means adjust himself, They are like sand In one's “o0d “My particular aversion n words that one. ‘individual’ which I noticed In your essav. And particularly am 1 distressed when 1 find it used by my habitual authc is no escape ‘Now sometimes we talk about the Nation, the State. the county and the neighborhood. and finally the individual ! 'In this sense the word Is correctly used and I have no quarrel with it. But I s, for then it scems there | ould like some one to tell me why.| when one means just plain wholesome person.’ it is necessary to siznify by the choice of the word thet the portion of humanity referred to cannot further be subdivided. Mavbe the reason is ! that it is thought impolite to call a man a person and that it ls necessary cach time to add by implication the touch of flattery that he is so impreg- nable in his might as not to be sus- ceptible of being cut up inta little pieces And while 1 am on this subject retire’ for 'to g0 to hed’ is another word I can't bring mysell to like. Is gning to bed someihing crass gross, vulgar that we must cloak it? Or is it neces- sary to play to each other that we all | are kings and queens? Th~ widespread use of ‘zentleman and ‘lady’ for ‘man’ and ‘woman’ onlv anoiher instance. Since when was it ‘common’ for A man to be a man or A woman fo be a woman? | “Amid these artificialities let me rush out of doors into the fresh air and inshine that these focling couns-lors may remind me what [ am. Vours very truly P M v ¥ feelings are Every reader things (since slap one in meetz them his favorite Our correspondent’s readily understandable. has pet word aversions, | words are things) which the face every time he while walking through pages. The writer is quite right in his stric- tures on the use of “individual (Let us pa here to state briefly that ex- cessive use of “quite” is held by the best authorities to amount to A man- nerism. “Quite all right” is scored as a foolish pleonasm. Other uscs amount to nothing more nor less than a slip- shod extension. Quite horrible, in- deed!) We quote the following succinct re- marks from that standard work. "A Dictionary of Modern English Usage.” by H. W. Fowler “Individual—The remarks to be made concern the noun only. not the ad- jeetive. ‘Individual, which almost made the fortune of many a Victorian novel- ist, is one of the modern editor's shib- boleths for detecting the unfit.’ so it has been said. but editors seem to relax their vigilance occasionally. and the word slips through an its sad old errand of solichinT » =mils m vam. pare ave A couple of passages in which the choice of it ean be dictated hy nothing but wornout humor: It i= a most spirited | episode. with a supernatural ending, ac- cording to Tom Causey: this wily indi- vidual is the h=ro of some highly divert- ing storiss Taking a leaf out of the book of the individuat wrn o vears aga put forth his recollections under th= title of ‘Reminiscences of a Young Man “The test for the right use of the word as opposed to the ‘colloquial vulgarism' (Oxford English Dictionary) is the question whether the means or not to contrast the person he calls an individual with society, the | family or some body o1 persons | his heroine 18| R ‘The writer here wishes to state, for the benefit of all persons fussy about words, In which group he classes him- self. that he has never consclously used the word “individual” in an attempt to be humorous, any more than he has failled to use the word “gentieman or the word “lady” when he chose to. (Or any more than he hesitates to end a sentence with a preposition.) Sometimes we have used the perfectly good word “person” so many times in | an article that we have used “individ- ual” as a sheer synonym. Perhaps we might have used “man. or “human being " or even “deceiver,” “dupe or “blockhead.” but we preterred “ina vidual.” which has a good dictiona primary meaning of “any one person.” or “a single particular being." Words are to be used. not to use the user e agree with our corresponaent in a fecling against the use of “retire” for and places where one naturally retires from a living room to a bedroom. “Re- tire,” in its essential meaning, simply implies a going or a withdrawing, usually for the sake of protection of some sort or other. Certainly a bed is one of the most protective devices in the world retire, we would not force her to go to bed for the world, neither, we believe, would our interest- ing correspondent As for tleman” These words have gone and “lady™! through so | much that one approaches them with a writer | 12 ne |4 he feels in t. fecling of tenderness. Surely there is a growing disposition today to permit them to revert to their old status. No two persons’ (or individuals) definitoin of a gentleman may agree. but surely the word means something. And 1f you the user, think it fits in any particular case not use it, either in talking or writing. Thank God, every one knows a gentle- man or two, maybe no more than two. and every one, un'sss mnch misused by fortune, knows at least one gentle- woman! . * ¥ ¥ Prof_ Fowler. in his Dictionary Good Usage, begins hiz artiele on the split infinitive with the following sen- tence “The English-speaking world may be divided into (1) those who neither know nor care what a split infinitive is: (2) those who do not know, but care very much: (3) those who know and condemn: (4) those who know and approve and (5) those who know and distinguish.” One may know the sin and flounder about in saving themselves from it Such indulzence is the sin of pedan- try. Tt is easily understood that Prof Fowler approves of the third and fifth groups. as he does of the first. as strange Aas it may seem at firat glance. He realizes. as all must realize who love the tongue, that to say .what one wants to say, to put over the meaninz. as it were, so that the reader or hearer gets it is much more important than sticking to the rules. everything else being equal Rules have their place, but they are cold compared to the warmth of mind Negro dialect is & case in point. How could the most meticulous scholar do anything with the spirituals but ruin them. even as the cultured musicians have ruined them by attempting to give them more scholarly settings? “Done found my lost sheep” touches the heart more than “I have found my lost sheep.” This is A mere example. it is true, with which one may quarrel. he mood: behind the | does, he may say ‘individual’ with a ciear | example and the quarrel stands firm conseience: if not, he must expect us to ! the inescapable fluency of the English 1ik> his evocation of this ghost of nine- language. SHINGTON OBSERVATIONS those blos- cratary Kellogg fs off for Paris where he will be the central figure in | the forry. ! execution of the multilater- al treaty for the renunciation of war the so-called Kellogg peace treaties -on August 27. It has been sug- gested that Mr. Kellogz mod dis- claims any desire to have these treaties recorded in history as the “Kelloag pact” and that (hey may becom® docy mented as the “1928 Trenty of Paris.’ The Canadian premicr, W. L. MacKen- zie-King, is fellow voyager with the American Scerctary of State and bound on the same mission —to sign the treaty in behalf of Canada. Before Secretary Kellogg returns home. he will visit the Trish Free State and London, going to Ireland first to return the official call which President Cosgrave d the American State Department last Spring ok ox o J. Reuben Clark. fr. of Utah, noted authority on international law and ap- | pointed Undersecretary of State 1o suc- ceed Robert E. Olds. who resigned six weeks ago to enter private law prac- | tice, will preside over the destinies of the State Department in (he absence of Mr. Kellogg. In the past [wo years, Mr. Clark has nad a large, though lit- tle-advertised. hand in our dealinzs | with Mexico. He was Ambassador Mor- row's prineipal atd in bringing about a ! settlement of the Mexiean ofl lands | controversy, and before that he was { American agsnt of the Mexican-Ameri- can Mixed Claims Commission <iate Department service dat the Roosevelt days. and under Taft he as the State Department solicitor He 1s 57. and the father of four chil- dren. In the Republican nominating | convention 1 Utah a week ngo. his | name was presented for the Republican senatorial nomination along with that »f Ernest Bamberger, a former Repub- an national committeeman. The con- vention nommated Bambergor, and the following day Mr. appointment to the State Department was announced It hardly seems fair to call it a “conso- {iation prize.” for he is now on the road {10 a full cabinet place or a major diplo- | matic post . . | Twenty-four hours after the Palo Alto acceptance speech of Herbert Hoover, talking movies of the Republi- can nominee reading portions of his ad- | dress were being shown In the Broad- way film palaces and In Washington and Chicago. Next day the Hoover movietone was being shown al the Executive Mansion al Albany for the edification of Gov. Smith and his cam- pilgn cabinet The Democrats are zoing (he Hoover managers one het- [ fer, and the Smith acceptance speech | movietone will be shown all over the country simultaneously with the de- | all the Coolidges on the continent. If Alfred E. Smith is the next President of the United States, the compiler of a Smith Family in America has a man size job ahead . oxox % To those of Gov yrofess to belisve he can have little first- hand knowledge of the farmer’s problems because his experience has been largely | hmited to the confines of the State of | post office to its patrons, | quarters in Washington and lin New His | from | | age stamps worth £29 644 | ora s heing made New York. his supporters pertinently point out that two-thirds of the area of the State is farm land. The farm sopulation of New York State aggregates three-quarters of a million persons, and the capital employed in farm lands and farm equipment within the State ap- proximates two billion dollars. New York nks eighth in the State list in total agricultural production, and first in the production of potatoes, hay, sweet corn ind many market vegetables: and second in dairy products, apples and grapes — . Thot Mailing Better and More Careful has been sloganized by every the fact re- mains that the aggregate number of “pleces of mail” which reach the dead letter offices has reached the stupen- dous annual total of 25000000, and shows no tendency to diminish. There are four dead letter districts, with head- branches York. Chicago and San Fran- ciseo. The money found in dead (el ters is also on the increase Last year the Pest Office dead letter division re- ported 54.000 monev inclosures aggre- aating $113,000, 155,000 drafts. checks and_money orders. which at face value totaled about $5.000.000, and loose post- A fine rec- hawsver in locating senders or unknown addressees. Of the $113.000 in lnose money in dead letters last vear, $72105 was returned to the rightful owners . reader of “Washington Observations” has propounded a simple auestion which proves a poser /hy is 1t" she writes, “that we address President Coolidge as ‘Mr. President and Mavor Walker as ‘Mr. Mayor' and Secretary Hoover as ‘Mr Seeretary hut when we start a letter to Gov. Smith we do not sav ‘Dear My Governor.' but rather ‘My dear Governor'? And like- wise we never say ‘Mr. Senator'?” Cus- tom has settled the usage and anv one wha wrote “My dear President” with ant the insertion af the “Mr.” would be ullty of an_abvious soclal impropristy And “Mr. Governor” s an imnossible combinstion Rut why it should be so A feminine {ix A riddie lvery of the address on the statehouse steps at Albany next Wednesday. The Hoover pieture “rendition” s devold of geatures, with but fleeting glimpses of the speaker's eves, which are constantly east down upon his manusceipt. Gov Smith 15 reported to have had better movie “direction.” to “look into the camera” as he talks, and to reinforce his verbal punches with gesture | . " T'he Smiths-for-Hoover York has enrolled 50 members. This | news item secures a large headline, but | abviously is but a drop in the proverbial There are nearly two million Smiths listed in telephone and city directories If the rule of directory | publishers 15 adopted, 0 multiply by 21, 50 as to include married women and ehfidren not in the published list, then | the Smiths of the Nation must number [ close to seven milllon persons There {are more Smiths embalmed fn the annals lof the Eneyclopaedin Britannica, and | listed in Who's Who in America and | In Who's Who in New York State, than | any other name The Twin Oities of | Minneapolis and St Paul are the only places where the Smiths are velegated to second place. There the Johnsons lead. There 15 & Coolidge Family in America Association, embracing most Club In New | | I | | Conviisht. 1998 [, rap the Str and Reduee the Noise af The Se et Cars A letter whieh made for auietude. printed in your paper of the 1ith instant, suggests the question Would not the same number of motor busses better the needs of the public than the street cars, and do it with less nolse and less inconvenience, plea meet | arising from tearing up the streets to repair defective tracks—which seems to be about every four months i some places—and less expense and discom- fort to the public arising from wide Ing the streets, eutting down the shade trees. fearing up pavements, front steps. porches and less trafMe difficultios” LESLIE NOYES COMFORT. RN Just Plain Shavers, From (he Akron Reacon Jouinal A Ohicago barher shop was by a bomb. The strange element of the crime s that the barbers weren't of the massage-and-tonic-selling variety, AUGUST 20, visited early in | to go to bed.” yet can sce times | if any writer prefers to have | znd‘ there is no reason why vou should | of | Smith's crities who | wrecked 1928, Dog’s Execution Evokes 5 Queries From a Critic To the Editor of The Star In recent issues of your paper ap- peared the story of a dog. An old} |collie, bereft of master, refused to eat |and was killed by the Animal Rescue | League. |~ Why should an organization with the experience of thousands of dogs’ execu- tions behind it suddenly become fool- ishly and tearfully affectionate, sym- | pathetic and compassionate, for just |another dog. all in the days' work? Did it not select this occasion. because of |the tragedy which had already befallen |t"is home, to feed the press a new lead {to an ald story for the purpose of self- serying publicity? Is it possible that | just around the’ corner is a_campaign \calling upon dog-hearted Washington | for contributions to conduct its dog- | killing activities, while the taxpayers of | Washington receive the same services {{rom a paid poundmaster? Does slab- bering over a dog and then killing him | justify the league's duplication of the poundmaster's work. or make the lot of the unfortunate dog easier? Death at the han of a friend. Recall Caesar's emotions when he discovered Brutus among his assassins—his surprise and |chagrin_expressed in those few words Et tu. Brute!” What a feeling of re- {proach must have possessed that trust- | ful doz when he realized the words of | sympathy ware but the prelude to | death! The Animal Rescue League is o mis- nomer. The word “rescue” i3 defined | {as: “To deliver from actual or impend- 'ing injury. calamity or destruction: lib- crate, save.” - The dog was rescued by clectrocution. From what actual or impending injury, calamity or destruc- tion was the dog delivered? ~— From what was hliberated or saved? Well. |he was old and he was zrieving. and {he was rescued from grief and old oge by an unnatural death. With this {mathod of reseue fn mind the orphan may well find surcease from sorrow with a knowledge that the other loved ones were “rescued” from old age and grief by the humane murk of the low- cr Potomac. But she will be relieved to learn that there are no “rescue” organ- izations for bereaved children GFEORGE C. PAGE | Chickens Add to the Discomforts of | T the Editor of The Star I may seem late with my thanks for | your editorial on noise. nuisances and nerves, but the following will convince | you of my sincere appreciation. There is in our neighborhood a man who keeps chickens that start to sing at daylight. 4 am. every morning. Now | T do not mean an egg cackle, that starts laround 6 a.m. and is a rather pleasant | sound when one is awake To secure a permit for keeping chick- ens one must get a mafority of the peo- ple 1 the block to sign for it. When this man came around with his petition we three near neighbors refused to sign |and stated our objections. which he already knew. We thought we would be 200d neighbors and not circulate a peti- ti*n against it. really expecting that he would mak~ an effort to stop it The results have bsen that we three near neighbors have had to complain ! again to the Health Department about the awful odors, and we have had to forego the healthful benefits of our sleeping porches during this very hot weather, bacause we could not stand losing two and three hours' sleep every morning when it was coolest The Police Department informs us that they can do nothing as long 2s this man has a permit. I asked them why | they did not revoke the permit when they know this place has been reported | to them every year for keeping roosters, which fs against the police regulations. | nd it has been reported to the Health | Department. No answer! ! | Radios are a nuisance lots of times, | | but in the evenings when they are going | | there are other noises to counteract { them to some extent. But imagine sing- ing chickens at 4.30 am. in a block of row houses! New laws are needed badly to protect the noisy ones, who. as you sav. think they do not mind it. as well as the lovers | of quiet MRS J. K. UTLE O Noise Local Traffic Conditions Scored by Newcomer Would you please inform me whether there are any rules or regulations in regard to driving automobiles in this city? The careless and reckless driving of the motorists here is awful. Whether vou are walking or driving you surely do take vour life into vour hands. as you never can tell what the drivers of the various machines are going to do. Every large city that I have lived in has compelled motorists to slow down at the crossings and the cross streets give the long streets the right of way. and the motorists are not allowed fo block the crossings nor to turn around anywhere they please as they do this city. The numerous accidents here due to carcless driving are appalling “ompared to the other large cities which have twice as many congested streets New York and Los Angeles have traffic officers at all the stieets to see that th laws are obeved by the motorists. Here they run through the streets like a I of country idiots. If the ecity has ne enough officers for traffic duty. wh can they not use some of the reserve soldiers and Marines for traffic duty until the countrymen learn the law. of a_civilized city? For humanity's sake T think something should be done ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN. Stop a minute and think about this| fact. You can ask our Information | Bureau any question of fact and get | | the answer back in a personal letter. | {1t 1s a great educational idea introduced | into the lives of the most intelligent people in paper readers. It is a part of that best purpose of a newspaper—service. | There I8 no charge except 2 cents In coin or stamps for return postage Get the habit of asking questions. Ad- dress your letter to The Evening Star Information Bureau. Frederic J. Has- kin, director, Washington, D. C. Q. How much money is taken in by base ball_pools yearly in the United States”—B. T A On the basls of known returns to the pools now under Government investigation in New York, $100.000,000 is a conservative estimate of the annual takings of the national string Q. Where did John Drew make his first and last appearances on the stage? M. T A. John Drew made his first appear- ance on the stage in his mother's theater in Philadelphia, 1873, when he was 20, and his Iast in San Francisco 54 years later Q How many mail bags has the Government_in_circulation’—A. C. D. A The Post Office Department savs that at the present time there are ap- proximately 12.000.000 mail bags in service Q. What kind of fruit is plantain’- M A. Plantain (Musa paradisiaca) is a pecies of banana, the fruit of which is a staple articls of food in the tropics It i< larger than the ordinary banana areenish veilow in color. less sweet and more starchy. It i& cooked in various ways. L. Q. How are airplanes assisted in Janding on the deck of a ship?—J. M. D. A. Airplanes are enabled to land on the deck of aircraft carriers by means of wires stretched crosswise and length- wise across the deck. The plane, as it descends, lets fall a large hook which catches in the wires, thus retarding the speed of the plane Q. What does the werd mean?—R. K A. It ig the opposite of “hibernate’ and is which sleep throughout the Summer Q. When the German submarine Deutschland came to the United States in 1916, did it travel above or below the water?—E. T. C. A. The whole distance of about 3.800 miles. with the exception of about 90 miles when it was necessary to sub- merge, wes traversed above water. .Q Which country owns diamonds?—S. T. A. The United States is a large pur- chaser of diamonds. One-third of the entire amount of cut stones iz owned in this country Q ed?—H. H. C. A. The guard was removed May 1. 1923, after the bodies had been tran: ferred from the temporary tomb to the mausoleum provided by the Harding Memorial Association. Q. Can straw flowers be dried so that they won't droop on their stems’— A LS A They shou be hung upside down to dry. “estivate” the most Q. In parliamentary practice does an appeal from the decision of the chair require A two-thirds vote to sustain the chair?—N. T. A. According to Roberts’ Rules a tic vote, even though the vote of the chair- man made it a tie, sustains the chair upon the principle that the decision of | the chair can be reversed only by a majority including the chair if a mem ber of the assembly. Q. What kind of food was the puls raten by Shadrach. Meshach and Abed- nego recorded in the Book of Daniel?- ¥ T A. The' word “pulse” is translated to mean anv of the leguminous grains such as beans. peas or lentils or as a mixture of such grains in a meal or flour to be made in cakes. Q. How much territory is one game warden responsible for?—A. L. A. In the best organized States in this country one game %arden s ex pected to look after at least 100 square miles. Q Are there many one-room schools left in the United States G. N A._Out of 275,000 public schools in the United Statés 158000 are of the one-room type Results of the Missouri primaries in Republican and Democratic parti have been considered largely in relation | to their bearing on the prohibition ques- tion. and much emphasis i< placed on the fact that senatorial candidates of both parties are dry. It is agreed that | Senator Reed was A loser through the | Herald the world—American news- | used in reference to animals | 1s the Harding tomb still guard- | | tolly Q. What are the names of the fa- mous_epies of India?>—T. R. T. A. The two great epics of ancient India are the Mahabharata and the Ramayana. Q What is the average length of 2 man's step?—L. A. H. A. The natural walking pace of the average man In average level country is 30 inches in length Q. For what offense was O. Henry sent to the penitentiary?—D. L. A. He was convicted of embezzlement of funds while engaged as paying and receiving teller of the Pirst National Bank of Aushn, Tex. and was sen- tenced to serve five years in the pen tentiary. For good hehavior nis term of imprisonment wat reduced to three years and three months, ’ Q. What can be done to hasten the freezing of cream in an electric re- frigerator?—G. F. F. A. The Burcan of Standards sase thas the best method is to stir the eream to provide better contact between its con- tainer and the refrigerated surface, Q. Pleas give complete list of United States mints.—J. C. F. A. The mints of the United States are under control of a Bureau of th Mint, at Washington, D. C.. which was | established in 1873, and is in charge of a director of the mint. The minting establishments of the United States, the marks by which their respective coimn are distinguished, and also the date of organization, and in some cases the dates of their suspension. are as fol- lows: The mint at Philadelphia. no mark, 1793. New Orleans, La. mint- mark O. 1838: suspended, 1861 - npened, 18 closed, 1910. Charlotte N. C.. mint-mark C. for the coinage of gold only. 1838-1861. Dahlonega. Ga mint-mark D. for the coinage of gold only. 1838-1861. San Francisco, mi mark S. 1854. Carson City, Nev mark CC. 1870-June 30. 1393 Celo., mint-mark D. 1906, Q. What language spoken Guam?—P. 8. A. The natives speak a native lan- guage. called “Chamorro.” Engl the officlal language, but Spa: spoken. Q When was the first.State park? A. G E A. The first State park of large size set apart primarily for recreation. wa | one which is now a famous natio | park, Yosemite. Congress ceded valley and a mile-wide bord~r aro it to California as a State park in 1865 Q. Does the govgrnor of any State have a six-year term?—F. G. A. No State elects a governor for more than four years. About half the State governors have four-year terms and half have two-year terms. New Jersey governor is elected for three vears. Q. Of what timbers was tion built>—E. K. A. According to Joshua Humphreys statement in regard to the Constitution, the frame of the vessel was made from live cak and red cedar: the keel of white oak: the decks of Caroline pitch pine Jeshua Humphreys was the designer of he ship. The Constitution is some- times called Old Irontides because of the hardness of her planking and tmbers. Q. What pereentage of Indian blood ontitles one to Government benefits>— E. McL. A. To be entitled to Indian money or land it is not necessary for one to have a certain percentage of Indian blood It all depends on whether or not one's nn‘mr is rightfully placed on the Indian rolls. is the he Consti ' N S hron Q. How many ! by the parachute in ihe T. W. D. A. As far as fs & saved oW the parachute aved 2 lives mn 10 10 in 1924, 13 in 2 26, 33 in 1927, and 17 hus far this year. totaling 93. These gures are only an approximation, as na reliable check can be kept on jumps made by commercial fiyers. Q. Is it true that stockings are manu- factured in Palestine>—T. W. A. The manufacture of stockings is on= of the most important industries , ¢ of Palestine. Q. Do magpies chatter as much as that phrase indicates’—0. A. G A. The Biological Survey pie does not talk very much however. depends on the individual bi and 1ts training. Q. What will take away the taste of water that has been boiled W.C_ S. A It should be aerated—that | poured from one clean receptacie another a few times flat Missouri Primaries Leave Some Questions Unsettled Democratic party in Missouri patd more ious attention to other iss “Any attempt to blacklist good Demo- ats who are also good prohibitior | would be a course of stupidity leading to certain disaster in the suggests the Omaha Worid- tindependent). with the con- end.” A human life does not seem to eount defeat of his candidate for the United | tention that “the Democratic party is very much in the eves of these idiots. | States Senate. The effect on the pros- | neither wet nor dry.” and the Spring- We have socleties for the prevention |pects of Gov. Smith is a subject of de- | field Illinois State Journal (Republic- of cruelty to apimals. Is not a human | seing more valuable than a dumb brute? I am a stranger here. but I love the beautiful city 1 think every native should take pride in his own city and | see_that evervthing is done to improve and to be of benefit to it As the Capital of the United States it should be the example of all the other cities in everything Every true American shonld take pride in his own country ‘nd love, honor and obev the laws of ! his country ANNA M. BONSTEAD, | !sand votes as the Democratic nominee bate. “We have the anomaly.” according to the St. Louis -Times Republican). “of Hay, as an avowed prohibitionist, walk- | ing o vietory by half a hundred thou- | for United States Senator, and Wilson. on the same party's ticket, rolling up four times as many as the candidate for vernor without once declaring he was dry. That sort of thing is puzsling to | the seeker for a party's position. | An interesting and a very important | phase of this vear's August poll” it is | |pointed out by the Kansas City Journal | UNITED STATES | IN WORLD WAR Ten Years tgo Today. ki B irivae gal Striking on a front of more than 15 miles today, between the Olse and the | Alsne. Gen. Mangin's 4th French Army | smashed into the German front to an | | average depth of 2'. miles. capturing | seven towns and 8000 prisoners. The attacking force took from the Germans the Iast heights remaining south of the Olse in that region With his | right gin s now sweeping the Germans off } the high ground south of the Oise, and Noyon will be hadly exposed to artillery | ¢ attacks from (he south. southeast and | southwe Field Marshal Halg's || forces continue to advance throughout | ¢ the day in the Merville sector of the Lys salient, closely following the re- | treating Germans, who show no fneli- nation to come to a halt *© Com parative quiet prevails today on the activity though _artillery much above normal Clemen- | ceau, in predicting an early end of the | war, pays a high tribute to American soldiers, He majntains thetr fighting has done more to terrorige the Germans than any other thing the enemy has | | encountered. * . |and eleven casualties on today's re- | [ Teases, with 100 killed i action, 102 se- ely wounded and 80 missing Room for lmp From the Harrishure Patriot An Ohlo steel millionalre is going to fnance a lot of public 1mpiosiner (or the town of Pugwash, n Nova Scotia buy the place a new name. vement, City cratic solidly on the heights north of | £ | the Alsne. around Fontenoy. Gen. Man- |by the St. Louls Post-Dispatch (inde- ' pendent ) I sue showing Kansas City parties made the Amertean front along the Vesle even|them for Senator as well as for gov- continues | ernor.” pendent), Three hundred | world asserts that Smith dependent Republiean) | the Missourt dry law [ ~ratic gubernatorial nomination by 76,- “is found in the fact that party lines are so entangled relative to national platform utterances and in- dividual opinfon that no clear idea re- garding possible party strength is ob- | tainable. There must have been consid- erable crossing of party lines in the primaries: it is impossible not to be- | lleve that much more of this will re- | sult in the November vote.” The Sioux Tribune tindependent) holds that | “Hay's vietory can be construed as mod- ifying the supposed ‘wet’ strength in that § ate. but e NUMEroUs Cross-cur: rents make analysis rather difficult.” The belief that “Hay won the Demo- nomination for United States nator despiie his dryness” is expressed (Republican) | S which concludes that the ve s “probably very little indication pf what will happen in November." and he Sreingfield Republiean (inde- penc ) feels that “the person who an discern in the results the least trend how the te will vote for IS very penetrating The Star (Independent) savs. be no question that both best selections open to President “There can L | Barring unlooked-for events, Mis- | sourt will continue a doudtful State up | to the évening of November 3 declares (Inde- while the New York Evening “there 1S no reason to mrerpret results as a slight to Gov who took no part in the pri- The Reno Evening Gagette (in- ferring to the defeat of Senator McCawley. author of for the Demo- the St Louts Globe-Democrat mary 250 votes. argues, “The contrasted vie- tory of a dry man for one nomination and the defeat of an equally d | ean- | While he's about it ne might didate for another, all within the same « prets the Missouri vote politieal party, can mean only that the that the West will not accept Smith, NN | vet become the paramount 1 .mare votes for himsell had he been an) thinks “the liquor question has nat 1e to th exclusion of other subjects affecting the elfare of the American people”. that he Missouri primary ought to en- lighten the fanaties of both sides of this issue " % “There is ground. certainly. for the deduction from this Missouri episode that the amount of oratory devoted to attacks on the ‘drys’ ' regime affords no convincing evidence of the state of pub- ifc opinion.” thinks the Manchester Union (independent Republican). while the Columbus Ohio State Journal (Re- publican) and the Boston Tran: (Independent) draw the eonclusion there is offered new evidence of a < difference between the ciry country districts in their titudes on the liquor questi “Both parties will make a for Missourt tes the Be Herald (independent Republicar Rssumes that “no doubt the Sm ganization. which was promised a support by Senator Reed. is wond how much it can count on the i ence of the flery solom in his how State” The Lincoln State .1 \ dependent Republican), belie the Senator could have polled ny n s as show- the race.” interprets the res: ing “that Reed's support M Missouri does not ins victory in that State" Evidently Senator Reed could change the whole opinior State. which two vears ago vote by 273,000 plurality a proposal to repeal the State enforcement act.” comments the Grand Rapids Press (independent) Wwhile the Chattancoga News Democratic) remarks course. Senator Reed spoke trul he sald that the Democratic party cot not nominate Mr. Hay without im. periling the ticket. Obviously he meant Mr. Hay's nomination would cause Gov. Smith to lose Missourl. What else could Senator Reed have meant™ The Buffalo Evening News (Repub. Nean) asserts that the Smith candidacy “has handicapped itself by becoming o _closely identified With the faction of Senator Reed.’ whils the Rochester Times-Union (independent) avers that ‘the wet stand of Gov. Smith seems likely to prove a handieap for the Dem. ocrats (n Missourt,” and the Santa Bar. bara Dally News (Democratic) inter. indieating