Evening Star Newspaper, August 21, 1928, Page 8

‘THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. _ WASHINGTON, D. C TUESDAY . . .August 21, THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office: 11th St and Pennsyivania Ave. New York Office: 110 East 42nd St. Chicagd Tower Bullding. European Office; 14 Regent St. Loadon, and. Rate by Carrier Within the City. e Evening Star ...... 43¢ per month e Evening and Sunday Sta r 60¢ per month 65¢ per month .Sc per copy each month or telephone (when 4 Sundars) The Evening and Sunday (when 5 Sundavs). The Sunday Star Collection made jers may be sent in b fain Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. y nd Virginia. Macyland " l“‘rlM 1 mo., 8%¢ 1600 1 mo., S0¢ $4.00; 1 mo., d0¢ 3 y mall Canada. 00: 1 mo.. §1 £0c Alla‘(\lll rlqul s and 0 50 reserved. Gov. Smith's Reply. Gov. Smith's reply to William Allen White's attack s record as As- semblyman in w York State Legislature has been prompted by the fssuance by the Republican public committee in New York of the Kansa editor’s statement regarding the with- drawal of certain portions of his at- tack. The implication is that but for this apparent adoption of the White charge as campaign material by the Hoover organization the governor would pot have recognized it. He had. how- ever, in the first stage of the contro- versy, returned a vigorous answer to Mr. White, who had promptly returned an elaboration of his original assertions based upon the record of the governor &s a legislator. This is Gov. Smith's last word on the | subject, he says. Whether Mr. White | 1928 viously could be broken with a modern plane equipped with Instruments and motor of the latest design, granted, of course, expert piloting and the smile of fortune. Goebel, in preparation for a later transcontinental derby, realized that with his new and powerful ship it would be comparatively a simple mat- Iter to add this inviting record to his {achievements, which fnclude winning the tragic Dole race, from San Fran- cisco to Hawail, | 'To the average man it will probably be a greater satisfaction to know that | the American continent can be spanned, without surmounting top-heavy odds, in less than a day, than it is for him to know that the Atlantic Ocean can be | conguered by those lucky enough to |avoid an ocean grave. Col. Lindbergh's | flight was an epic. He was the ploneer, {but the others who have come after him, and succeeded or failed, have added little to world knowledge of | treacherous ocean flying in land planes. For this reason the forthcoming | transcontinental race is certaln to | arouse the greatest interest. In this 4| event, which is probably one of the | most sensible airplane competitions ever { arranged, will be entered all manner of | planes with all types of motors. The new and powerful air-cooled engines will form a prominent part of the | squipment of the contestants. Of course, | there may be minor and serious crashes on the way, but at least the public will be spared that hopeless feeling that comes with the “lost-at-sea” announce- ment and the knowledge that one more | daring soul has put too high a premium 'on the stability of manmade apparatus matched against the forces of nature. | et Butler Bolts Half Way. Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, presi- | dent of Columbia University and a life- |long Republican, takes issue sharply | with Mr. Hoover on the score of the | Republican candidate’s position and { remarks upon the subject of prohibition | and also his references to national de- ifense. The latter question is beside | the mark, as there is no evidence that i the subject of this country’s prepared- THE _ EVENING than as the American Ambassador to the Court of St. James. And it was the friendship of Harvey, more than the friendship of a leading Democrat of the day, which helped to secure the presi- dency for Woodrow Wilson, just as it was the allenation of Harvey, rather than the bolt of a Democrat, which hurt so much when it came to pass. His brilllant mind equipped him for success in business and in journalism, flelds which hold their reward for in- dividualism. But as a politiclan, despite the part he played on the American political stage and in diplomacy he was a fallure. He lacked the ability of the successful politiclan and the skilled diplomat to seal his lips at the proper time. His presence in any man's politi- cal camp was a sure sou of restless- ness on the part of the leaders for fear of what Harvey might say, or do, with the rising of the next day's sun. And wearing his silver-buckled slippers in London he made more hearts than one quicken their beats at the State Depart- ment here. His sun reached its meridian during the Harding campaign. When, after the election, he ceased publication of Harvey's Weekly, he summed up his efforts, characteristically: “Sd, the war is won; the League is dead; autocracy is no more; the nincompoops are out.” And while there followed his appoint- ment to the highest diplomatic post within the power of President Harding to confer and his later editorship, for one year, of the Washington Post, dur- ing which he supported Mr. Coolidge, his sun was setting. Death took him when he had already retired from the stage he loved. Nevertheless, he will be missed. ———————r——————— ‘The multi-millionaire oll man, Henry Blackmer, 18 described as an exile in Paris. A multi-millionaire may be an exile, but in Paris he is never lonesome. —— . China shows a growing disposition to regard her relations with nations as of more importance than her neighborhood quarrels. —————— It is now candidly agreed among will return to the contest with rejoinder | ness for defense is an issue in the pres- | yoyng anq old that there is no “Santa remains to be seen. Considering the case closed, however, as far as the gov- ernor is concerned, the record is ex- plained in & manner to give perfect satisfaction to his admirers, and it may be to the conviction in his favor of those who were possibly hovering be- tween support and opposition. !ent campaign. On the matter of pro- | hibition Dr. Butler's position is well !known. He is a “wet” has always borne himself consistently as opposed to the eighteenth amendment and as a critic of the methods of enforcement. He could not wéll have spoken in the campalgn without expressing his views ‘Whether short of stultifying himself. there was any specific occasion for him to speak now, unless in preparation for a change of allegiance, remains to be seen. mfl::" be a certain deliberation in the ing of this letter, written to the New York Times and given forth In bis analysis of the record of his | legislative votes Gov. Smith shows that none of the measures in question was in vital relation to the saloon, that they were all minor matters, corrective of | technicalities, and that they were strongly, in one case unanimously, sup- ported by the members of the Assembly, i both Republicans and Democrats. The governor assuredly meets the chnrcu‘ frankly and fully. . It s important to note that despite Mr. White's withdrawal of the charges relating to the votes in support of - gambling and prostitution, Gov. Smith carries his summary of his legislative conduct throughout the entire list, showing that his votes on measures bearing upon these two evils were not subject to characterization as in aid of the practices. Thus if Mr. White re- turns to the contest and reopens the chapters which he closed with his with- drawals he will find that the subject has been already disposed of, finally as far as the governor is concerned, as- suming that the latter does not again find that his restraint cannot be main- tained in the face of continued attacks. Incidentally it is indicated plainly that Gov. Smith regards the Straton in- eident as closed. He will not debate with the minister, who accused him of being a foe to moral progress. It would probably have been wiser if he had not taken cognizance of the pulpit remarks. ‘Having done 50, in the form of a chal- Jenge to a debate, he has failed to ar- Tange the terms of the meeting to his satisfaction and refuses further contro- wersy. His present reply to Editor White mey be accepted, therefore, as in leu ©of his response to the ministerial critic. Taken as a whole, Gov. Smith has come through with an explanation of | his record as legislator in a manner that does not leave his critics with much, it any, material for attack. He voted a8 did the majority of the Legislature for the correction of certain conditions affecting the dispensing of liquor, which was then legal. Had he done this at the outset, immediately upon the appear- ance of the charge that as legislator twenty years ago he acted as the “friend of the saloon.” this unseemly spectacle of “mud slinging” and il temper would have been avoided. — i Occasional reports, which an admir- ing public chooses to regard as more or less irresponsible, indicate that the methods by which film stars undertake to entertain one another are far less decorous than those by which they en- tertain the pubiic. - A Fine Achievement. It is a distinct pleasure for a world #ated with senseless and generslly fatal exhibitions by publicity-mad fiyers, to congratulate Arthur Goebel and his backer, Harry Tucker, on their remark able non-stop flight across the Unite Btates. Leaving Los Angeles on Sunday afternoon, Goebel flew over mountain, desert and plain at a speed of nearly two and a half miles a minute and set his trim ship down upon Curtiss }’ield‘ eighteen hours and fifty-eight minutes after the take-off. The previous record was heid by MacReady and Kelly, who 0 1923 crossed the continent in slightly fpore than twenty-six hours without for general distribution through the press. It comes on the eve of Gov. Smith's speech of acceptance, in which it is to be confidently expected that the Democratic candidate for President will *laborate the views regarding prohibition which were succinctly expressed in his telegram to the national convention at Houston informally accepting the nom- ination. It requires no particular pre- science to look for s vigorous attack in tomorrow’s speech upon the amend- ment and upon the manner in which the legislation enacted under it has been administered. The query most pertinent now fis whether Dr. Butler, upon reading Gov. Smith's statement in his address of acceptance, will take the next loglcal step and declare his support of the Democratic nominee, in contiavention to his lifelong record as a Pzpublican. He has repudiated the Republ n nom- inee upon two counts. Will he make that repudiation effective by accepting the Democratic nominee as representa- tive of his own views and ideals? Indeed, this present letter from Dr. Butler is already hailed with satisfac- tion by the Democratic campalgn“ian- agers. At the same time it is discussed by the Republican leaders with evi- dences of equal satisfaction, though the latter are not as assuredly jubilant as their opponents. The only comfort, in- deed, that the Republican campaign directors can derive from this defection is that it gerves to draw the lines more closely upon the prohibition question, and they declare their confidence that the dry vote is larger than the wet vote, and that whatever tends to align the two parties on this question makes | for Republican victory, | Unless Prof. Seligman, also of Co- |lumbia University, whom Chairman | Raskob has asked to find a specific formula for farm relief that will supply | the Democratic party with a vote-win- ‘ning slogan in the agricultural West, comes forth with a satisfactory solution, | the prohibition question remains as the | dominant issue of the campaign. Dr. | Butler's declaration that he cannot fol- |low Mr. Hoover on two questions, of | which this is the more significant and | important, assuredly concentrates pub- lie thought upon the difference between he two parties as now set up in battle rray on the score of the eighteenth mendment and the measure of its en- la |a forcement. | — | e ‘The behavior of people in automobiles ught to be supervised. The young po- liceman may be put in the way of val- | usble yet comparatively harmless train- { ng in nocturnal vigtlance by taking his | automatic away from him and handing {bim » flashlight, B —— | George B. Harvey. Col. Gearge B, Harvey's activities as editor, politician and diplomat seemed Claus.” But there is still the Nobel prize. N In some communities, when a candi- date is asked whether he is “dry,” the query is appended, “If s0, how much, and why?” —raee ‘The saddest part of an aviator's fate when his venture fails lles in the fact that he so seldom gets a second chance. e ———— English Channel swimming is still good sport and should be encougaged. It is less dangerous than aviation. [ G —— 8o many new mergers are announced that financial life is apparently becom- ing one chain store after another. —————— Pecuniary successes may leave it open to doubt whether Gene Tunney is to be rated as a pugilist or & capitalist. e e SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. ‘Vacation Days. Vacation days! Vacation days! % ‘Their dreams have brought delight. The Summer moon transmits her rays So- besutifuland bright— And then we hear the heartless hum Of the mosquito bold; The sunburn irritates us some; ‘The fish are coy and cold. Vacation days! Vacation days!— A ticket, mister, please! Let me ride back to 'customed ways And “toiling,” take my ease. Let me turn on the 'lectric fan, Likewise the radio, And be an honest workingman 'Mongst people that I know. Vacation days! Vacation days! Show me my office chair. Let me snap on the lamp whose rays Are than yon moon more fair! Take me away from the canoe And from the jazzy dance. Oid pathways I would fain pursue— And thankful for the chance! No Copyrights for Statesmanship. “Posterity will remember many things you have said.” “Yes,” answered Senator Sorghum. “But the ruthless imitator is always abroad In the land. If I have made any remarks worth remembering, Posterity will probably be persuaded to attribute them to some one else.” Variabllity. ‘They ask, am I a wet or dry? Alas, I cannot always tell! One day a bathing sult I try, And next I carry an umbrell, Jud Tunkins says the man who brags about himself is likely to prove a poor judge of character. Suspiclous Nature. “Will you be glad to go back to school?” “No,” sald the overwise lad. “I'm strongly tempted to play truant. I un- derstand there is a whole lot of propa- ganda in those new school books.” “Life cannot be all Truth,” sald i Ho, the sage of Chinatown. “Simple courtesy often compels us to say things we do not quite believe.” Speeding Traffic. The Jay Walk is a fearsome pace, That terrorizes every place. Why not employ a band to play A Fox Trot where pedestrians stray? always to leave the impression that what he did was done for the fun that was in it--not the fun of making others of great scientific value, which is more | 1augh, perhaps, but of laughing alone than can be sald for many of the While others squirm. Armed with & pen flights, successtul or unsuccessful, which that was keener than any sword, he rode have taken place in the past two years. | around looking for balioons to puncture He has made the first non-stop trip | OF men to stab, and his armor of abso- from West o East between the two|lute indifference to criticlsm protected great oceans which border the United | him from the malevolent shafts, direct- Btates, and he has made it faster than | ed in counter attack, that soon must suy human has ever before. He has | have unhorsed s weaker or less cour- demonstrated that it 1s possible to get a | ageous crusader. His penchant was for modern plane across the country in less | tearing down, rather than for building, than a day with comparative safety. {and he will be remembered more for It has long been & source of wonder | the picturesque capers that he cut than 1o the layman why the non-stop record | for any lasting good that will live after ©f MacReady and Kelly has been al-| him Jowed to stand unchallenged for nearly | ¥ree soul that he was, he could never five years. Certainly, non-siop transit | quite be broken to the harness of team- betveen the Pacific and the Atlantic is | work. He was known more as Col. Hai portant. 1o this country at least,| vey than as -the editor of Harpe &5 the over-ocean erossing to England, | Weekly, the North American Review or woguinental Europe or the Hawalian Is-athe review which bore his name. He Yel here was & x:ri:m taal ob~'was kngwn wore as Gegree Hapyey - Janding in the crossing. Goebel has performed a notable feat “If you has a good dog,” said Uncle Eben, “you has at least one friend who is sure to take yoh side of an argu- ment.” v—ve— Leaps and Bounds Typified. From the Charlotte, N. C., Ne The automobile industry, says one of its executives, is growing by leaps and bounds, which, as s result of it, is exactly the way the pedestrians are golng. —as— Where Students Draw the Line. From the Key West Oitizen. There are many students who would concur in the opinion that education is A great thing were it not for the studies and examinations. —o——s Reasonable Conclusion. ¥rom the Detroit Ne “On a new mountain raliway through the Pyrenees, from France to Spain,” says the engineer's description, “there | major wars withing the decade since | stunned when are 18 bores.” the &J’aw«mh STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €., TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1928. The best part about going away on vacation is coming back home again. Let who will deny it! No matter how fine the trip, how swell the accommodations, how enjoy- able the companions, the song about home, sweet home, takes on new mean- the old door mat. How nice the block looks, and how beautiful the trees! ‘The shore, after all, had an arid look, now didn't it, Baby? See how the rosebushes by the front door have grown over the top, and look how the grass is spreading over the walk. We will have to get after that tomorrow. Say, doesn't the living room look nice? Why, our furniture doesn't look as bad as we thought it did. Some- how or other absence makes the heart grow fonder; it puts a polish on old things, and brings again to mind the virtues which we overlooked This is the way, Baby, that our friends see our house. Living day by day with things makes one look upon them with lack of appreciation; this is one of the solid gains of a trip. To go away and come back again makes one view his belongings with the eyes of those who only come occa- sionally. Then furniture and rugs and hangings appear in their true light acquaintance would make them. K K K Perhaps the most solid foy of coming home is the hot bath. This, particular- ly, if the family has been at a place where hot baths were frowned upon, where open-air bathing was both the order of the day and night. We had all the clothes in the posses- sion of the family stowed away In ca- pacious trunks. The cool air made it ible to wear every garmen' more than once. The constant bathing helped a great deal, too. Yet every one knows that salt water bathing, at its best, possesses no such cleansing propertics as a hot bath with plenty of soap, followed by a cold shower and plenty of towels. Viewed from the standpoint of the so- phisticated city, open-air bathing is more a matter of fun and health than cleanliness. You usually undress in a miserable bath house, Scarcely large enough to turn around again. You hang your | garments on various hooks and struggle into & bathing suit, which may or may not be exactly dry. | What is there about a semi-wet bath- | ing sult which rubs one entirely the | wrong way? It will be only a few min- | utes before the garment is wringing | wet again, but that period of probation | strikes one as entirely uncalled for. Dry bathing suits are desirable, necessary, | but sometimes they won't get dry. And after the dip, whether one has gone under a shower or not, the re-| moval of said suit and the attempted | removal of salt water becomes not so much a cleansing process as a neces- sary evil, to be endured because one | must endure it to go back to civilization, | or to be permitted to partake of the fine luncheon awaiting all the hungry. And how hungry one is, to be sure, and how eager to get to it, and so ing when you step out of the taxi at| THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. lows himself to remain moist and sticky. ‘That first hot bath at home! One fairly wallows in it. The steam coming off the water strikes the homecomer as exquisite. | See how it curls and eddies around the mirror, slowly but surely coating it with watery particles which hide one’s beautiful sunburnt reflection. We can remedy that easily enough, however, by taking the corner of a bath towel and genily wiping away the dew, whereupon our gorgeous reflection will once more appear in all its beauty. For the nonce we are too busy in the tub to bother about the vapor. We had forgotten that a hot bath gives the human cuticle such a kick. Formerly we had sneered at advertisements of hot-water heaters, which, we said, at- | tempted to make readers believe that the hot bath was the only bath, “Absurd,” we had grumbled. “You might think that the only sort of bath permissible under the law was the hot one. The cool bath.is much preferable | from every standpoint.” Now we know better, Here in the sizzling tub, with the spigot running free, we know all the luxury old Caesar ever knew. No won- der the Romans went in strongly for hot baths. They had sense, those old-timers. The spigot begins to make a splut- i he was hottest on the trail of Villa in NEW BOOKS AT RANDOM LG Have we had the pleasure of serving you through our Washington Informa- | tion Bureau? Can't \;e“be nrblsnm: . help to you in your daily problems? I have decided upon Pershing e ou? business is to furnish you with all others to head the A. E. F.” e | authoritative information, and we in- Secretary of War talking to the Presi- | yite you to ask us any question of fact dent. And he went on to say that,|in which you are Interested. Send examining the records for a commander, | your inquiry to The Evéning Star In- he had been impressed with Pershing’s | formation Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, trained and habltual respect for au- | pirector, Washington, D. C. Inclose thority. A supreme quality, he counted |2 cenis in coin or stamps for return this in’ so stupendous and sensitive an | postage. undertaking as the one at hand. As! a case in point among many such, the Secretary cited this leader's quick right- about at word from Washington just as PERSHING. John Callan O'Laughlin. G. P. Putnam'’s Sons. abovs Th | — ! of the Miracle shown in + ever actually exist | anywhere?—R. E. R. | A The city shown on the screen Mexico. A hard blow, which another | was purely fictional. Mr. Fairbanks might have dodged by ignoring the |received his original Inspiration on n[ order under one pretext or another. | visit to Lourdes and transplanted Qhr-[ | shrine to South America because the | majesty of the Andes seemed an ap-| propriate background. This has been done in military opera- tions more than once. Not by Per- shing, however. It seems to me that of all the finely inspiring things recited here by Mr. Does electric light cost more than | ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY PREDERIC J. HASK, O'Laughlin, this point is a supreme one in so far as any common use can be made of the career of John Per-| shing. This and one other. Thou-| sands of yougsters are envisaging them- | selves as future Pershings. Thay will not be that, but every mother’s son of them will be under authority of one sort or another. Everybody—save only the Almighty Himself—is an underling to some superior force. And the best | candle light did 50 years ago?—W. S. A. The cost of a glven amount of light today is about 5 per cent of what it was then. The difference in expense is caused by the fact that we are not now satisfied with 20 times the light that was used at that time. Q. A batter is called out when he changes his position from one side to the other while at bat. Who is credited | he exports the flour from that wheat, he may apply to the Treasury Depart- ment for a refund or drawback on 90 per cent of the duty paid. The reason that very few millers use this system is that it tal many months to get their money refunded, and, of course, they are deprived of the use of it for that period. The system in common use among a considerable number of United States mills along the Great Lakes, particularly in Buffalo, when they desire to use Canadian wheat, is to import it and store in a bonded warehouse and grind it in a bonded mill, exporting the flour from that mill. Under this system they are not com- pelled to pay the duty on wheat. Q. What is meant by a diamond edition?—L. J. B. A. It is said of an edition in a small volume or volumes printed in small type. Q. What is the fuel value of maple syrup?—W. 8. P. A. Mapie syrup consists of a total carbohydrate content of 71.4 per cent, with a fuel value per pound of 1330 calories. Q. When was the last Model T Ford motor turned out?’—W. G. A. A. The Ford Motor Co. says that it 18 still making them. Q. Please name the decisive battles for what they are, and not as constant | tering sound. Hey! Maybe you had better turn that heater off. This thing s going to blow up. * Ok Kk | job that can possibly be turned out by anybody is to fit himself into his place through ready response. prompt with the putout? E A. The putout is given to Q. What became . of M. | of the World War—O. O. the catcher.| = A " among the decisive batles of the | World War the following may be men- | tioned: Marne, September 6-11, 1914; the railway How clean the bed linen looks! How neat and soft the curtains at the win- dows! Even a cave man would appre- ciate such things. And the modern homecomer, of course, is nofta cave man. He is the product of some 20 centuries of so- called clvilization, during all of which time mankind was slowly bullding itself up again to the complete enjoyment of the hot bath. We have to get back to that bath. It is the bath of the centuries. No later bath shall feel as gogd, we know that. Custom and the unhappy effects of the every day will take the pep out of it. Soon we will go back to a cool shower of our own accord. If we want to know the real joy of a hot bath again we will have to wait until next Summer, and go away on a vacation again—and come back home again. The neighborhood looks unaffected by our absence. This strikes one as wrong somehow. Perahps no brass bands were to be expected, but some one ought to show a little interest. But no, they are 1 about their old pursuits. Sam Jones is huddled down under his | car out in the alley, just as he was when we went away. He gives us a neighborly greeting, then turns again to his bolts Old Timothy Hay is cutting his grass He stops long enough to lean on tha handle of his mowing machine and wave | a hand across fences. No one seems particularly interested in our return. Well, maybe it wasn't so important, after all, except to one’s self To one’s self, however, it was magnifi- cent. The very trees nodded their tops and the vines and flowers seemed to bend low in recognition of the prodigal return. How green and luxuriant everything looks, especially the trees. We are glad | we have real trees in our neighborhood. he rushes through his dressing and al- BY PAUL V. Next Monday, in Paris, the gates of Janus will be closed to all the civilized world—the most remarkable event in | diplomacy since the beginning of na- tions. Fifteen leading powers will there | meet to sign a solemn agreement that | hereafter war shall not be a recognized | part of the policies of nations, but that all matters of difference between gov- ernments and peoples shall be adjusted | by other means. * Kok Cynics there are who scorn this “gentlemen’s agreement” and declare | that it cannot be enforced. There are enthusiasts who imagine that immedi- ately upon the signing of the pact the spirit of man will be changed so that ere can be no further use for navies and armies, hence there should be an immediate disarmament of the world. They challenge the governments to show their sincerity by ceasing to maintain natlonal defense against attack, whether from outlawed piratical nations or from lawless brigands who defy governments. Neither President Coolidge nor Secretary of State Kellogg has ever subscribed to either of those unfounded assumptions of pessimists or optimists. But that in | no sense belittles the great importance of the multilateral treaty of universal peace. Nor does it affect the mainte- | nance of our Monroe Doctrine, for that | foctrine is a fundamental of the defense | of the Western Hemisphere in general and the United States in particular. The treaty does not forbid national de- | fense, but diplomacy knows many meth- | ods of defense against attack short of war, Away back in the days of Cicero, there came a proverb, “The defense of a just cause is easy.” EEE In the 10,000 years of history or tra- dition there has never before been &0 momentous an agreement for ostracizing war. as will be consummated next Mon- day. We of the living generation can- not comprehend its full significance as will our descendants 1,000 years hen Hftherto might made right in the poli cies of governments, for any statesman could find sophistry or casulstry suffi- clent to justify aggression on the weaker nations, The League of Nations merely bound its members to unite in making war upon a nation which was so wicked as to make war without its consent. The Kellogg pact will go in the opposite direction and forbid war as the aggres- sive poliey of any nation—including the memmra of the League of Nations. All recognized governments will then be in- vited to join with the 15 ‘charter mem- bers” of the peace treaty’ The enfofce- ment of the treaty will be with the world spirit and passion for peace. Per- sonal duels today are not usually pre- vented by the billy of the police and arrest- of the fighters, but they are made impossible by the universal sentiment that dueling 1s willful murder, and he who commits it 1s inexcusably vicious, unfit for decent society. Similar pres- sure will now prevent nations from “dueling” for self-aggrandizement, * K KK There have been many previous at- tempts to abolish war, but never any which could be compared with the pres- ent agreement. ‘There was the famous “Pax Romana,” noted in the history of the Roman em- pire, but it never extended beyond th Roman-conquered countries bordering on the Mediterranean, and was seldom effective even there, though it was de- creed by the authority of the empire Following the death of Charlemagne Europe was in a state of anarchy, and the papal power was invoked to enforce peace through what was known as “God's truce.” The effort began in southern France, about the year 1000 AD, and was encourgaed by Henry 111, 'who decreed that from Wednesday evening to Monday morning, every week there should be peace—no murders nor acts of violence, under penalty of fines, banishment and excommunication. Pro- tection was thus given particularly to women, pilgrims, priests and farmers The very fact of such a “peace” indl- cated the general state of wnarchy. China built its great wall to avert invasions and wars, Today such a wall would not stop an army a single day from swarming over it, or blasting a path through the obstruction. |of Gen. Pershing to the youngsters | co-operation, immediate contribution to | the free flow of the thing in hand. This, to my thinking, is the true gift coming on. This and one other quali Here i5 a human being—a human b ing more than he is anything else. A tremendously significant foree. | However, ‘this book is in no sense | precept, not by design at_least. In- stead, it s a complete, competent, deep- ly enthusfastic study of the man who did such high service for his country and the world during the war. It is biography of historic scope. Reading here, one meets not the military leader alone, born and reared in a passion for the glory of battlefield and bloodshed. No, first there is the farmer lad doing his work — plowing, sowing, reaping. Then the teacher, since this seemed | After- to be the next piece of work. ward came the formal military train- ing, a process that in this case turned | out no machine-made man of martinet | mood and method. A soldier, certainly, | as time so abundantly proved, but a | soldier "of vision—that combination of far sight, keen perception and sound | sense. Easily and naturally, therefore, | upon occasion and demand, the soldier became administrator in a civil as well as in a military sense. The under- standing methods of the administrator | added diplomat to the other titles of | this plowboy of Missouri, this Indian | fighter of the West. ‘The story of Gen. Pershing in France is a familiar one. The years of boy- hood, youth and early manhood are | less familiar, but they are essential to | an understanding of the whole man. | John Callan O'Laughlin has given the | complete story here for the sake of its best usefulness. Boys coming on will eat up whole this adventure of one man’s life, because it is history moving before their eyes, because it is so in- | | man who invented Esperanto?—L. F. coach in which Lincoln’s 112 dy was borne to Springfield, G. T. the Lin- A. The Pullman } | coln tuneral party traveled in !hrl Pioneer, the first all-Pullman-built car, but that the body of the Presi was borne in a Baltimore & Ohio coach. The Lincoln car was purchased by the Union Pacific. Novnmbr‘r.l 1903 Pacific to F. B. Snow, who placed it | in the Lincoln exhibit at the St. Louis World Fair. In 1905 Thomas Lowry purchased the car and presented it to the City of Minneapolis, and it was placed on display at Thirty-seventh avenue and Jackson street. Some time | during 1911 the grass around the car caught fire and the car was burned. Q. What was the nationality of the | A. Dr. Lazarus Zamenhof was a Jew, | born in Russia. ! Q. Has the Mauthusian theory work- ed out as to the relation between popu- lation and subsistence?—D. W. A. Conditions have changed within | the past hundred years. Railroads, | steamships, farm machinery, mineral fertilizers and plant and animal preed- ing have improved the subsistence pos- ' sibilities materially. while the popula- nnr]. has not increased in the expected ratio, Q. What becomes of the shed horns of deer?>—E. M. A. It has been pretty well estab- lished that horns of deer and moose | which are shed in the Winter are eaten | by rodents. Q. What is the meaning of the draw- | back in connection with Canadian | wheat?—C. S. | A. The drawback comes under the | tariff system on importing wheat for the car was sold by the Union | ¢ BACKGROUND OF EVENTS | savagery and injustice to be met and | eal tree And gee! wasn't that a great bath? | tengely alive. ~And the rest of us will read, in clear appreciation, this finely adequate biographic account of Gen. John Pershing. * ok ok oa | o | THE LEGION OF THE DAMNED. . COLLINS. Bennett J. Doty., The Century Com- pany, “Another war book! I ean't, I simply can’t!” But I did. Before half a dozen pages had moved under my eye I was sitting up, quite awake, waiting for the next, and the next one. This is no war story. That is, not of the World War with its heart-breaking records of tragedy and mistake. Instead it emerges from that generally misunder- stood military unit known all over the world as the “Foreign Legion.” Its activities, as these are pictured here, come after the great war, centering upon the subjugation of the Druse l{ibesrln lsy{‘ll vf the French. The clear fascination of the story does not deserved no protection from his gov- | lie, however, in the fact 1‘)?1! French ernment. “And Moses said unto the | military forces, including the “Legion™ children of Qld and unto the children | are fighting rebellious Druses off in of Reuben, ‘Shall your brethren go|the East. The lure of the story rests to war, and shall ye sit here?’ " The | with the American youth who had » pacifist who shirked his duty was|part in that expedition as a member despised, and the Bible makes due |of the “Legion of the Damned.” Meet record of the contempt he deserved in | here, a pure adventurer from the in- accepting the safety of civilized gov- |side out. Back from the war in 1919 ‘The history of mankind has been the story of wars, for there has ever been ! overcome. Perhaps the oldest war of | record was that of the five against four kings of Israel fighting for power, in which Lot, who had no part in the provocation of the hostilitles, was cap- tured by one of the kings, and later rescued by his uncle Abraham. That was some 6,000 years ago. It is not assumed that previous peoples were less sanguinary. War then was the only means of self-defense, and he who would not fight in defense of home, family and nation was a coward and | sort of defenselessness which brought ernment, and shirking aid to that gov- | ernment in danger. It is common to look upon modern wars, with all the improved means of destruction, as incomparably more ter- | rible than those of ancient days, and | so it is argued that there will be no | more wars, because of their terror. Yet | when has there been a city in modern | times destroyed with such slaughter as | that of Titus' destruction of Jerusalem, | A.D. 70, with 1,500,000 killed and 100,- 000 enslaved? ok ok ok War’s terrors will not prevent battles. Natlonal disarnfament will not bring safety and peace. It was just that | the Fall of Rome. In Gibbon's “De- | cline and Fall of the Roman Empire" | the story is told in a paragraph: “It s the just and important observa- tfon of Vegetius,” says Gfbbon, “that | the Infantry was invariably covered | with defensive armor from the founda- tion of the city to the reign of Em- peror Gratlan. “The relaxation of dis- cipline and the disuse of exercise rendered the soldlers less able and less willing to support the fatigues of the service; they complained of the weight of the armor, which they seldom wore; and they successively obtained the per- mission " of laying aside both thelr culrasses and helmets. ‘The heavy weapons of their ancestors, the short sword and the formidable pilum, which had subdued the world, insensibly dropped from their feeble hands. As the use of the shield is incompatible with that of the bow, they reluctantly marched Into the field condemned to suffer either the pains of wounds or the ignominy of flight, and always disposed ;;- prefer the more shameful alterna- ve. “The cavalry of the Goths, the Huns and the Alani had felt the benefits and adopted the use of defensive armor; and ‘as they excelled in the manage- ment of missile wenpons, they easily overwhelmed the naked and trembling | legions, whose heads and breasts wer exposed, without defense, to the ar- rows of the barbariaus, * * * The cnervated soldlers abandoned thelr own and public defense, and their pusl- lanimous Indolence may be considered the immediate cause of the downfall of the empire,” It makes no difference whether the disarmament of defense of a nation is | office where he signed himself away | to his home In Tennessee, Bennett Déty found the world of restored peace to be a very dull world indeed. So out he fared once more hunting for an- other bit of stir to life. Here and! there and over yonder—not very exclth‘ ing. So, one day, he brought up in Bordeaux at the door of a recruiting as a member of that famous—or in- | famous—refuge for the lost and damned from every corner of the earth. This is Doty’s story of that adventure. “For an entire year I was in the For- eign Legion during some of the most desperate fighting that famous corps has ever done. And this in a country, one of color and mystery and romance. I had hardly completed my preliminary training in Alglers when 1 was assigned to the now famed Vingt- neuvieme Compagnie of*the Legion and hurled into Syria in 1925, w revolt, fire and rapine reigning everywhere and the French sorely pressed.” Then he tells the story of this fighting, a face-to-face & vivid enough to make the reader himself sniff danger, and shiver under the shock of hand- to-hand conflict with strange and fan- atic tribes of wholly treacherous in- tent and action. “On June 6th, my father in his home fown iIn Tennessee was notified that I, a soldier of the Foreign Leglon in Syria, thousands of miles away, had been court-martialed, sentenced to death, and was about to be shot” That, you see, was a mis- take. Yet the fellow was sentenced to eight years In prison for deserting. As long As there was fighting to do, as long as the Druses called for —more punishment at the hands of the Leglon, Doty was in fine fettle. But, the fight- ing over, cleaning up the country and administeripg it according to the French noffons of the right kind of protectorate, there began system of road-building, in which carrying heavy stones by hand had a large part. No work this for a soldier and an adventurer. Might as well be back on the hills of Tennesse digging out rocks and putting them somewhere else, And, so, Doty—or Gilbert Clare, accord- | ing to the enlistment papers—simply lit out for freedom. He and three others. Caught, of course, and brought to military trial. Then come release and & return to the dull ways of Ten- nessee, a prelude, no doubt, to other flights into the middle of things. As | Omaha World- | a story, as a record of personal experi- ue to the indolence of the individual milling purposes to the United States, | particularly as applicable to Canadian wheat imported by United States mill- jers. It is used very little, however. | The term means that a miller in the | United States may import Canadian | wheat and pay the duty and then, if| Tannenberg, August 26, 1914; Verdun, February 22, 1916; Vimy Ridge, April 9, 1917; Chateau-Thierry, July 15, 1918; Meuse-Argonne, September 26, October and November 1, i918; Jutland (naval attle), May 31, 1916. Q. How far is the Boulder Dam site from Los Angeles and from Yuma?— . 8. A. The Boulder Dam site is 240 miles from Los Angeles. From Yuma, Ari to this site it is 225 miles by air line, or 320 by river. Q. How many airplanes have the Army and Navy?—C. J. A. In 1928 the United States Army Air Corps had 952 airplanes, divided as Attack, 1; bombardment, 78; , 403; photographie, 2 training, 159; cargo, 27; s, 84. At the present time the Navy and Marine Corps-combined have 625 planes, Q. Where is the largest cold storage warchouse in the world>—V. C. A. Montreal claims to have the larg- est one in the world. Q. What makes jazz music differ- ent-—E. L. A. Aaron C- ines the jazs germ as a certain sor. i cross-accent- ng. . What is the word that means the putting to an easy and painless death babiles that are hopelessly defective and people who are suffering intensely with incurable diseases?—O. B. A. The term is euthanasia. What part of the eye does the seeing?—D. W. A. A layer of interlaced and matted nerves on the inside surface of the | back part of the eyeball. This is called the retina, which means network. The rest of the eye is a camera with a lens in front, like an ordinary photographic camera. It makes a picture on the retina like the picture on the back of the camera. The retina communicates this picture to the brain. | Satisfaction s expressed in this coun- | try that American contestants in the Olympic games, although winners on | thelr final showing, met with stronger | competition than had been experienced !in previous world contests. It is felt |that this promises greater future achievements for all the nations and | that American teams will be spurred to more effective efforts. Some com- ments indicate a bellef that a poor showing in some events simply meant that opponents had better training than previously and a greater purpose to win. “ the whole, we aren't so sure but that it has been a good thing for | us to be taken down & peg or two; to find out that we aren't quite so good as we thought we were says the Herald, while the New York Evening Post predicts that “com- |Americans at Home Approve Increased Olympic Rivalry time. Also, there might well be effort to simplify rules in many sports, in order that fewer decisions would have to be made by officials.” o A5 “The supremacy which has been America’s during the past in the Olym- pic games faces a serious threat during the coming four years,” it is feared by the Flint Daily Journal, since it is matter of speculation whether the mar- gin of winning is great enough to in- sure future victories.” The Minneapolis Tribune’s view is that “the United States was represented by a team re- puted to be the most brilliant ever as- sembled,” but that “man after man on this team found his superior among the athletes of the Old World" The Tribune takes the further position that, “best of all, this country's athletes came tition in 1932 will be all the keener Por the results of 1928, advising that | “if we are going to continue to ignore | those sports in which Europe is more | greatly interested and more skillful | than this country, it is not without | value to the Olympic games that we | are at last being challenged in our n fleld.” c“"'\;;’lwe won all the track events, as, we cleaned up in most of the fleld events, we might get unbearably su- perior and perhaps overconfident,” sug- gests the Passaic Herald, and the Mus- Kegon Chronicle considers it “infinitely better” if we were “to lose the next meet altogether, not because of lack of spirit in competition, but because of the | development of better athletes else- | where. It would stimulate interest in} the games here as nothing else could. P - eversal of form of the Ameri- .-.n"’c%.fumms." to the St. Joseph News-Press, “Is rather a bitter dose to swallow,” but that paper thinks “it| may be sweetened by the thought that in the trials of skill no one country can claim superiority; that it is A wholesome thing to have numerous countries share in the honors. and that the results will make for & better un- derstanding and & ?llfifr er:rllnglgnsmp les of the ) e pe(‘t?n'dll enough _for the declares the Cleveland “in the victory it won. | oreign nhh;lrs who wrr; than our own in the races goo :’;t'!::men in this country will extend congratulations. If they were not su- perfor to our own in some fleld of ath- letic endeavor, there would be llI(_(lr n- | terest in the Olymplc games Plain Dealer Is of the opinion that 3 us this year's contests seemed to in- dicate, American supremacy in athletic events is based upon strength and skill rather than speed, that fact affords no valid basis for regret.” “Explanations are as many as the sands of the sea,” according to the Nashville Banner, but, referring to charges that “polities governed the se- | Jection of the athletes, that the elim- ination contests were held too late,” and to other criticlsms, that paper com- ments: “It has seemed that amateur Plain Dealer, And to the fc | host to the athletes of the world when through, in victory or defeat, with the standards of sportsmanship still flying.” The Buffalo Evening News offers the opinion: “National pride should be re- strained. It is a fine thing to win, but it is a better thing to lose gracefully. For the good of the Olympic games, it s well that one land does not over- whelm the others.” Looking to the future, the Springfleld Union states: “In four years the United States will the tenth renewal of the games will take place in California. At home, and under accustomed conditions, American athletes may hope for better success than was theirs at Amsterdam, and if world-wide interest in these clean sports brings from Europe and Asia some startling performers, we may look to see more records broken.” Referring to a suggestion that, in view of criticisms of the American team man- agement, “in the future such matters should be handled by and through the colleges,” the Baltimore Evening Sun responds with the opinion: “It is a sug- gestion that merits serious considera- tion. Certainly the college athletic or- ganizations would have to be geniuses in the matter if they could mess up the Olympics as much as the A. A. U. ap- parently messed them up this year.” The victory achieved by the crew of the University of California against the oarsmen of the world inspires this tribute from the San Francisco Chron- icle: “It is a great crew. It may well be the greatest ever produced in the history of rowing” And the Oakland Tribune say: ‘Considering the young men had gone through a season here, one in the East, and had met, with but a day or two beiween, Belgium, Den- mark, Italy, Canada and England, there is testimony here of the stamina of the Blue and Gold oarsmen and of the training they have received.” UNITED STATES IN WORLD WAR Ten Years Ago Today. Gen. Byng's 3d Army smashes the pldiers or to the shortsightedness of he government—the result is the same There may follow the present treaty outlawing war, a lessening of the burden of great navles, but national defense is stll held necessary by President Llem:e, and there is promised no agreement to sink modern American battleships while other nations sink only blue-prints. Though 15 natlons agree to keep peace, there will still re- main “the cavalry of the Goths, the Huns and the Alani.” (Conyright, 1928 by Paul V. Collins.) B And the Barber Won't 'Ffll. | From the Toledo Biade. Withouh further designation, there is the kind of man who would ask a barber how to disposs of used razor blades. e 8 Duplicates the Fish Habit., From the Adrian Daily Telpgram. ‘Wars are not prevented by obstrue- tion nor by force, There have heen 30 the founding of the League of Nations o stop war by force, A New York fisherman was slightly | lightning astruck his ating rod, As might been ex- pected, the lightning got &WAY, . ——— ence of most unusual cast, “The Legion of the Damned” is a thrilling and ex- | citing experience for any reader. From | it one is able to gather a clean-cut view of that otherwise puzzling outfit, the Forelgn Legion. The dally routine of the Leglon, its rl*omul discipline, its_exacting drills, its perfection of | military routine, its incongruous ele- ments being molded and melted into unity of action and a fierce loyalty for all ‘that the Leglon connotes—these facts and implications come out here in striking effect. It is a French Leglon such as almost none of us has envisaged—admirable in many respects, brutal and revolting in others. m the story, too, many a soldier—Pole, German, French, whatnot—ateps out v\ the very breath of life upon him, distinet and impressive in his own indi- viduality. Doty's story of himself is | wonderfully engrossing. First, there is | the foundation for the report, certainly A most spectacular one. Added to the facts themselves Is dramatic power of the man himself, Restraint, holding himself back, keeping to the facts, freed from a thousand and one gorgeous trimmings that might in truth have been added—these are the chavacter- BRREL I 10 DO i athletic assoclations of all sorts have | German line above Albert, taking seven been afficted with an irresistible urge | villages and sweeping over the railway to make themselves ridiculous on & |line there. Byng surprised the enemy grand and International scale, and so | under cover of a heavy fog and, with {t may be better further on. In all | tanks leading the attack, the British vents, 1t will hardly be worse, though | take many prisoners and infiict heavy that reflection is admittedly poor com- casualtiesalong a 10-mile front, * ® * _— French forces, continuing their attacks “It would be foolish to abandon the |northwest of Sotssans, capture umflw Olympics on the ground that they are and advance along a front of 15 miles, failing to promote international good | Plereing the German lines at some will to the extent hoped for” in the [ PUNtS &8 much as 5 miles. During the opinion of the Worcester Telegram. | PAst ™ hours the Brench have driven “The thing to do is for all countries, | the Germans out of about 20 towns especially America, to strive for a little General opinion is that the fall higher brand of sportsmanship next | Of Lassigny means the fall of Roye as well. * ' * Southeast of Lassigny the = French advance menaces the German hold on the valley of the Divette. Sev- eral thousand more prisoners are taken, one army corps capturing 1,600, * * ¢ The Germans brought up reinforce- ments during the night and are heavily counter-attacking on the right of the Alsne-Oise battle lne. * * * Noyon saltent is now threatened so seriousl I.hnt its_early evacuation is istics and uses that have made the story count so markedly Bennett Doty knew that the bare truth here would give rise to doubt. So, wisely, he denfed himself many a touch of actuality for the sake of the deep drama of the main action. 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