Evening Star Newspaper, August 23, 1928, Page 8

3 THE TEVENING STAR., WASHINGTON, D. ., THURSDAY, A UGUST 23, 1928. s THE EVENING STAR . With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C THURSDAY.....August 23, 1928 THEODORE W. NOYES. ...Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company e e Copy th ephone Rate by Mail—Payable in Adyance. Marvland and Virginia All Other Sta acceptance is an| to the na- He would tion of | They are picked over by scavengers who om the mere | the enforcement laws| This change, he | ake the form and be giving to each individ- | approval by a refer- people, the | rders to im- | to be man-| aleoholic beverages, | only by the State not for consumption in any public place.” In short, Gov. Smith's specific prescription for the flls of pro- hibition as now practiced is to allow the States to determine for themselves the question of engaging in State con- | trolled and administered liquor traffic. | Meanwhile, pending such a change in the con tional amendment, Gov. ith would afford “some immediate hrough an amendment to the | Istead law giving a scientific defini- tion of the alcoholic content of anj intoxicating beverage, leaving each| State to fix its own standard, not ex- ceeding that fixed by Congress. Here is a definite proposition. First, | the statutory enactment of establishing a maximum a\“i content, with the States con- | o that maximum and adopting | jwn preferred standards; second, | in the fundamental constitu- | to leave the whole question | es for definition and en-| their boundaries, the | be under State administration, | with no places of public consumption. | It cannot be said by Gov. Smith's | opponents that he fails w0 meet the| issue with indirection or vagueness. He 15 specific. He stands, he declares, against the saloon and in favor of le- | galized liquor traffic conducted by tncg with a maximum of alcoholism. | ement of the matter hel before the country. | t to the Republican party’s record Gov. Smith the aggressive critic. | es that four years cause of a sweeping in-| that party which the elec- refused to heed claim of the Republi-| has been the| gh legislation prosperity | been blessed scores x burden upon en lightened by Re-| gement and legislation. the claim that the Repub-| is a factor for the national | the speech his performances and | survey of District conditions, recom- | animals. Last year nearly $150,000 was | more than the author of the Kellogg treaty, that a solemn declaration against war or removal of the word “war” from the national vocabulary will render it forever | impossible. 1 have said, and I | repeat, | that a firm decision never to | have Tpeourse to aggression must be | accompanied by an equai decision to | resist aggression. ¢ * * But every act | which ‘can contribute to diminishing | bitterngss and distrust between peoples | should be encouraged. if not initiated, | by France. * * * By attesting through this nev gesture that her army is to be devoted: to the service of peace, France, thout weakening her material force, can indrease her moral force and con- tribute to European conciliation Tt might be argued that M. Painleve to eliminate the word “wa t logically be followed by the elimination of other symbols of | war, and that the French army, if it |15 to be ‘devoted to peace, should turn n its rifle s, artillery and text on strategy in battle. Such an been the chief sccessful culmination »f movements similar to Mr. Kellogg's i treaty. The world, brought p on war, has alway is licked before it s when it comes g war. It has alw inevitable, and war b s been inevitable. y and M. Painleve’ nothing more than guestion | infallibility the doctrine that war is one of the ne i of evil upo s | Dofense and Baltimore-Washington highways to facilitate the movement of traffic on Sundays and holidays. Motor- ists, it is stated, have been held up at this point as much as a half lmyr because of the lack of some one in authority to direct traffic. | mr. | pro- | 1. This in itself all that anybody - O The Dump Fire Nuisance. I report the supervisor refuse urges the pro- tors for the consump- | nable waste, as a means of » District of the nuisance of odors arising from the “dumps’ where | h of this character is deposited. | Hacker recognizes that the practice | of piling this form of trash upon va- | cant spaces in the outskirts of the city | is & bad one. His recommendation will be heartily indorsed by the community. In several places in and around the District these dump fires are constantl; burning, sending their fumes out over| a wide area and greatly annoying thou- sands of people. The waste materials are used for the filling of low ground. | an; tion of bu derive subsistence from their findings.; The ultimate waste is piled and fired, and at night these blazes dot the land- scape and at all hours their malodorous emanations drift with the wind for | miles beyond. This is a relic of the past period of | municipal mismanagement that should | be speedily cast aside forever. It should not have persisted as long as it has. Incinerators should have been installed | for the disposal of worthless trash along with the establishment of garbage re- duction plants. Some time ago the Bu- reau of Efficiency, in the course of its mended the provision of three incin- erators in different parts of the city for the consumption of refuse of this char- actor. Nothing was done about the matter. Now the proposition has been laid before the Commissioners by the supervisor of disposal of city refuse, in terms which should cause them to seek the provision of funds for this purpose. This branch of the District government turns in revenues from the sale of grease from garbage reduction, of sal- vaged materials and of hides from dead thus charged to the credit of the mu- nicipality as an offset against the cost of collection and disposal. Assuredly a small part of this fund can be used for keeping the atmosphere surrounding the | Capital clean. B Hardly Enough. Two hundred and ten days in jail and a fine of thirty-five dollars seems a heavy penalty for traffic offenses, but when it is realized that this sentence was imposed on a man who was book- ed for almost every conceivable viola- tion of the traffic regulations, except intoxication, it hardly seems enough. Here was a person who was arrested on June 5 for speeding and driving without a permit, He disappeared and was not caught until Tuesday, when he was captured by a citizen as he at- tempted to leave the scene of an acci- dent which threatens to end fatally for a ten-year-old boy. Upon this fortunate arrest he was charged not only with but with leaving after colliding, with | reckless driving, with driving wi!houv.! a permit and with bad brakes. Seven ! months in jail may be sufficient to| cause him to change his thought re- garding the duties and responsibilities of & person who drives an automobile, | any change that takes place should | |'do bim no good as a driver. He should | never again be allowed to operate an automobtle in this jurisdiction - Little more can be looked for in a| t ateness in one of the vocal selections the fime just before the grand entrance of the participants. When the song “How Dry I Am" resounded, it was reported, the candidate was annoyed. Those about him were chagrined. Some one rushed forward as rapidly as the ithe song. It was a bit of misdirected humor. It was probably not significant, but it jarred. It is recalled that four years ago the Democratic notification ceremony in New York was sim! marred by rain. Is there an omen in this coincidence? Seckers for the cryptic significances of natural phenomena in conjunction with political affairs are at liberty to follow their fancies. e JE— A Needed Detail. reported that Col. E. Austin Commissioner of Motor has been It is | Baughman, | venicles of Maryland, e s | quested to detail a member of the State | jng e ¢ | & public that selects admitted that it| conctapulary to the Intersection of the | rendered by a quartet that filled in| | press of people permitted and stopped | iforn { re- | Of having T It is to be hoped that Col. Baughman | can find a way to comply with this reasonable request. These highways probably carry as much traffic as any sther two in Maryland, and the congest- | ed crossing at the monument in Blad- | ensburg is indeed a breeding spot for ac- cidents bestdes a source of inconvenience and delay to the motorist. One of the biggest difficulties is that two streams of traffic come together at an angle which necessitates dextrous handling of the car to get through. Washington motor- ists will welcome the stationing of a policeman at this point o - There is no possible danger of un- friendly relations with Canada at any time. At present friendship is doubly secure. Prohibition gives Canada much | the better of certain bargains. | Washington, D. C., is the objective | point of American tourists. The mat- ter of a fine inaugural celebration be- comes a subject of national and not lo- cal concern. —_— v ———- Fashion illustrations in Summer indi- cate that a bathing suit is accepted as “full dress.” There is no room on earth for the old-time prude who shuddered’ at the word “decollete. | r———— ‘The price of “call money” cannot in- fluence speculation. There is no limit to the confident imagination of & per- son who feels that he is financing a good tip. L e Only one little thing is needed for avi- | ation and that is to provide a system of filling stations as reliable as that en- joyed by the automobile. et The supercilious attitude of Tunney toward the prize ring may tempt some plain pugilist to try to. lick him infor- mally merely as a matter of pleasure. — The attitude of the farmer begins to imply that unless he gets relfef, some of the politicians will need it. e SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Straight Talk. ‘When I heard a candidate Sentiments release, Thought he showed a talent great ‘When he spoke a plece; Felt that we were on our way On a prosperous wave— ‘Whether he was grave or gay, We said, “Let Him Rave!” Now an earnest Thought we meet, Told in simple phrase, ‘With & hope that we shall greet Ever-brightening days. No pretense the speaker brings Of fictitious Art, When he keeps on saying things From the Head and Heart. Consistent Politician. “You appear to disapprove of exped!- tions.” “I can’t see the sense of them,” an- swered Senator Sorghum. “The Eski- He assails 5 (no yiglations committed on June 5,| oc haven't any votes.” Autocrat. Each citizen is proud and free— His afrs he'll drop Whenever he may chance to see A Traffic Cop. Jud Tunkins says politics is some- times frivolous, but just now the public appears to be takin' its own applause kind o’ serfously. Embarrassing Ballyhoo. How oft a candidate may find I for | speech of acceptance, heyond a Apo.xmve | A discontented state of mind, the | assurance that the candidate has NOU|.p o o pratse from sources bold, buli er Democrat! does not | , bid ntented t for ponal f war. M. Paln- ed 1 that of For leve's gesture is founded or limination of shed by dictated has b signing of o 1 a1 not one 1o b 4 o f cows, & 40 agh be words chznged his mind. .- A Wet Day at Albany. As a spectacle the notification cere-~ | monies at Albany yesterday were not | together successful. Elaborate prep- | arations had been made for the as-| semblage and accommodation of an | nse throng to hear the speeches. | An attendance of close upon a hundred thousand was expeeted. But Nature ! frowned upon the program. Rain fell the morning and discour- | / who had planned to go 1o | from distant points. It con- | through the day and dampened | who, with optimistic | for clearing skles. It | hour set for the per- pproached, and when at hour had come iU was dl‘rl affair would be | nout tinued pirits of those looke oph 1 the outdo 4 arrangements were has for the delivery of the noti- 1d acceplance addresses with- embly chamber of the Btate There was & big crowd in as Indoor crowds are meas- A “ anice ured and overfiowed. But there was lacking t spontaneity of response that i sssured in the gathering of & vast mul- sde, servéd with loud eakers, in an pen arena of discourse Quite ally and ine behavior of the weather and the dom ting tople of the speech of accept- were noted g concidental The weather was wet and the candidate's most striking contribution to the liter ! gture of his campaign was likewlse wet natu itably, the ane :‘Ii'wgw e Vs YAb & Aggsd MABRRERMEN CUYMED, UL LIGY DORS B0 1t completely filled the chamber | small, Which isn't any help at alll “They who talk of good old days,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “think, as a rule, only of confident aspirations which were not realized.” Political Machines. Sald Raskob unto Henry Ford, “We know these motoring arts. Each old machine may be restored We can supply new parts.” “Bueh 15 egotism,” sald Uncle Eben, | “dat every man who sets off an ordi- | nary skyrocket thinks it ought to startle de world.” & - v Fail 1o Survive First I | Prom the Bluefield aily Telegraph A ot of politiclans who make fond predictions along about the first of August wake up after the first frost 1o find that it was only a Midsummer night's dream | N | Old Diogenes Under Suspicion. | From the Colunibus, Ohlo, Btate Journal | We suppose one rumor they started | about old Diogenes as he went peering around looking for an honest man was that he probably stole his lantern s —oee “Best Cigars” in Background. From the Nashville Bann | rnere are plenty of o | we believe we could tell, bilndfolded that the very best clgars in the world weren't belig smoked S What Olympic Swimmers Lack., rost. - | | " From the Akron Beacon Journal Few of the Olympic swimmers could qualify as life guar They swim well LA | reader. | that he does know. | there is place, of course, for those who | | castons when | pendent) comments, “Gov. Smith’s re- Jig Mat amazing salarics to prevent them- ! THIS AN “you've missed a lot,” she said, when ed that he had not read a cer- tain popular book of the day. Well, what difference did it make? What difference does it make? We have been pondering this ques- tion at some length recently—at some considerable expense, too—and have come to the definite conclusion that it makes no difference at all. 1f a book is really worth reading, it will be as worthy 5 vears from now | or 10 years hence, as it is today. To be strictly up to the minute in ding means very little, if anything, after all. One's friends have never read the new book that one has read, and so the pleasure of discussing . it vanishes before it even comes into existence Friends always have an uncanny way d something e section of the read- new books, espe- cially novels, simply on the names of authors, They religiously buy worthy, whether they like This is perhaps the easiest way of posing as well read. Every one who reads at all has heard of the famous English novelist, and so the fact of having read his “latest” carries with it great satisfaction. It shows one to be intensely sophis- ticated, ultra to a degree and quite in step with the presses. No publisher can slip over a Gals- worthy on him! large There 1s everything by Ga t or not. ¥ The great trouble with scrupulously trying to keep up with the new books | that there are so many of them, in the first place, and, in the second, that they are all untried on the most faithful mentors of the latest publications seem lost in the wel- ter steaming from the busy presses of America. Publishers are vyidg with one an- other to catch the popular fancy to such an extent that more volumes are issued each year than any one booklover can | possibly aspire to know about, let alone read. Those who attempt to boil the lists down for an Impatient public may or may not do a good job of it. They are between the devil of playing the pub- lishers' game and serving the possible And the hard part of it is that when | these more or less conscientious per- sons have done their level best, granting that they do their level best, even they | have no way of knowing whether the | book is worth what they say it is. If they possessed this knowledge to perfection publishers would hire them selves from making the very mistakes they do make If any one man or woman could in- fallibly put nis finger on a manuseript | and say. “This will make a go,” he could retire rich in a few years. Publishers must gamble on their books or take a chance on them, if | the former term is not liked. Popularity, good sales, intrinsic worth—these are qualities which the most experienced | may think he knows, but never be sure He merely say: think s0.” P The quiet-tempered booklover will not be led astray by the seduction of “keep- ing up with the new books.” It takes all types of book friends to make up the gigantic public that pur- chases books, old and new; among them somehow believe that books are like dresses, in the mode, chic. Among them surely there is place for the conservative person who asks that | new book lure fall down, in our opinion, | I how fair she be?” | ume by an eminent English thinker TRACEWELL. others do the experimenting with the fresh things. Often it may be a mat- ter of money. Since uncertainty as to the worth of any book does exist, it will be better for some to allow others to expend the necessary purchase price. If time shall show that the work in question is really worth while, and, what is more to the point, desirable in the individual case, then life will bring one around to it at last Where so many who succumb to_ the is in not regarding themselves the | ultimate judge of ail books, old or new, and especially new “If her love be not for me, what care went the old song The same sentiment may be applied to books, with certain modifications. If a book is not exactly suited to the inner spirit_of a reader cader-—why should that particular Recently we purchased with some aplomb a large and finely got-up vol- an wit. We negotiated 40 pages of it and there left 1t flat, with some 300 or 400 pages yet to go, we forget which. As far as we were concerned, we had wasted our money. The book did not appeal to us and at the present writing we do not think it ever will. Of course we may be mistaken. Probably we are. perhaps the day will arrive when we will be glad our shelves harbor that large book. But we would have done | better, we are convinced, if we had lis- tened to our own taste and not some- body else’s. * koK % The needs of the individual case are paramount in book buying and he who will not heed them must remain the vane that answers to every wind but his own. As the inner life of the mind and spirit is private, unknown except in bits even by one who sits across the table so the choice of reading must be indi- vidual, private, almost secret. There can be no true selection made on the base of another’s choice. In an ad- visory capacity such help may have its place, but that is its limit. When it has advised, it has fulfilled its only true mission. No one else can stand in a man’s mind and know what he thinks and hopes and longs for. No other person, no matter how close, can realize what he needs for mental and spiritual food. Here, as in crasser planes, what is one man’s food 1s another man’s poison He who is inoculated against certain phases of life may read easily and with- out. harm books that another would be harmed by. No one else car say. The need of one person for romance may be better met by Alexandre Dumas than by all the storles of ail the later- day novelists. His friends may not like them at all. We have upon our | desk at this writing a historical novel a foreign author that seemed upon casual inspection to be a fair imitation of the work of the great Frenchman. Reading shows it to be nothing of the sort, but only a most sordid, cruel ac- count of depravity—interesting enough in its way, but a terrible way. Such books as one needs—these are the only books, and it makes no differ- ence whether they were published 2,000 years ago or yesterday. There was claptrap printed yesterday, and there is claptrap being put on the market now; past centuries saw good books and the year 1928 knows excellent ones. The ‘point is that the average book buyer can make a more certain selec- tion from books which have been pub- lished some years than from the latest arrivals. Booksellers will be as eager to accommodate him with the former as with the latter. When you buy books consult your own conscience, not that of some one else. Whatever the final score in the Smith- White tilt may be, an interesting feature of the bout is the number of editors in the anti-Smith cheering section who ap- pear willing to give the governor a hand for his “comeback,” though many regret the incident and hope for its close. There are those also who feel that the reply does not alter the Democratic can- didate's record in regard to the saloon. “His reply should be satisfactory ex- cept to those who do not wish to be satisfled,” according to the Newark Evening News (independent). “Taking | up his public record, bill by bill, Mr. Smith gives a good explanation of his attitude toward legislation affecting gambling and prostitution. RN to be hoped that Mr. Smith's reply will put an end to, or at least impose a check upon, the mud slinging, which both candidates promised to try to keey out of the campaign. Mr. Smith has been too long and too prominently in public life to have many mysteries.” “Fair-minded readers of his categori- cal statement.” in the opinion of the New York Times (independent), “will dismiss the charges from their minds, as the governor proposes to dismiss them for the rest of the campaign. * * * He leaves both the Kansas brethren— | White and Henry J. Allen—in a posi- tion where no other Republican will envy them. He proves that the pro- tagonist of the charges knew nothing about the background of the bills he cited as proof that Assemblyman Smith was the defender of disreputable ele- ments of soclety.” : * * K “We cannot believe that any man of normal intelligence and normal decency felt that Gov. Smith needed to make a veply to the charges of Wiillam Allen White,” says the Baltimore Sun (inde- pendent Democratic). “The latter, a distinguished and popular figure in American journaltsm, handled his charges against Gov, Smith in & man- ner that grieved his friends and re- jolced his enemies. * * ° If Smith had been utterly subservient to Tam- many as o young man and had worked himself out of that degradation and up to his present station as a man of fine private honor and fine public service, but two things would have been proved: One, the extraordinary and inspiring strength of the man in overcoming such handicaps, and the other. the glorious possibilities of American Hfe, As it is, the governor has made a lengthy and detailed statement which demonstrates very clearly, we think, that his votes on the measures mentioned were intelligent and creditable " The reply appears to the Philadelphin Record (independent Demoeratic) to be “simply devastating,” and that paper states farther: “The governor has no trouble in proving thal In no way was| he influenced by any particular par-| ts, and that and he acted in nearly all accordance with the votes cast by the Republican majoritv, which controlled the Leglsiature, Where —corstitutional questions were concerned, he exerclsed | his best judgment as @ consclentious leglslator. In opposition to this vie ment by the Fort Wayne (Republiean), which argues: “The Tam- | many sachem’s stinging attacks on his opponent’s so-called cowardly course | do not avail to erase the record cited by the Emporia publisher. Nov do they| serve to erase the plain statement of his| most friendly blographer that since the lquor interests had for years given Tammany their hearty support, it was only natural that Tammany should have been friendly to the lguor inter- ests The Oklahoma City Times (inde- | w 15 the state- | News-Sentinel ply, while 1t does not change the wet | record, certainly puts it in a fairer | light. " | R | “He fs not very convinelng W his| statements about voting to extend the | hours when saloons could remafn open. Those votes do not disclose the hos- tility to the saloon which are found in declaies Ris iseent atatemenls” | us Mr Both Sides Express Hope White-Smith Row Is Ended News and Observer (Demo- cratic), which, however, gives force to the candidate's assurance that “he would never advocate or approve any law which directly or indirectly permits the return of the saloon.” The Cincinnati Times-Star (Repub- lican) unqualifiedly supports the Smith sosition: “Willlam Allen White's charges against the legislative record of Gov. Al Smith when he was not a governor, but just a young East Side Assembly- man, have always seemed to us suspi- cious, because they go far back; be- cause, as a Kansan, Mr. White could know little about New York legislation and nothing about bills 20 or more years old; and because, on their face, the charges bore the disingenuous quality characteristic of the Anti-Saloon League, from whose agents they originate. ‘I denounce as unfair, unmanly and un- American,’ says Gov. Smith, ‘this slan- derous attack upon me and my record. As a Republican newspaper, the Time Star cannot quarrel with his epithets. Two more Midwest papers add a not unfriendly word —the Omaha World Herald (independent) says “Gov. Smith is by no means the only honorable and decent public man who has been be- spattered by the mud batteries of the editor of the Emporia Gazette. To re- call only two recent instances, it is just a few weeks ago that Mr. White was referring to Herbert Hoover as ‘a timid fat capon’; not much longer also he branded his fellow Kansan, Senator Charles Curtis, as ‘a nit-wit.’"” The Duluth Herald (independent Repub- lican) states “Gov. Smith's answer to the charges made by William Allen White is very effective. Tt will satisf most unbiased people that there nothing in the Democratic candidate’s public record that Is shameful, and nothing in it for controversy except whal is consistent with his present stand as a thoroughgoing opponent of prohibition.” “Mr. White was ground,” agrees the Kansas City Jour- nal-Post (independent Republican) “when he sought to interpret a 20-year- old legislative record without knowledge of the facts and circumstances sur- rounding the various bills involved.” “The Republican party claims to be conducting & high type of campaign,” states the Roanoke Times (independent Democratic), but the Times finds sig- nificance in the report that Eakor White's statement, retracting his for- mer retraction, was issued by the of- ficial publicity’ bureau of the Repub- llcan party.” ‘The Louisville Times (ndependent), feeling that “the answer will be entirely satisfactory to Gov. Smith'’s support suggests that “the promise to ignore further charges Raleigh treading ticklish | should be cheering to readers of cam- paign utterances.” * o ox ok ‘The document, as viewed by the New York World (independent), “stamps the governor as a man who deals in the actual realitles of government, instead of the sham realities that were enough for Mr. White, as a practical man, a man_ who 1s as completely responsible White, in this instance at least frresponsible. The World recog- % w pullic demand that the candi- be on@® who will have “competence at the job he aspires to,” and concludes, “In throwing this side of the governor into high relief, Mr. White has done Jim a real service.” Disagreement with the governor's contention that the original White charges were “inspired by the Repub- lican organization” is expressed by the Hartford Courant (independent Repub- lican), a paper which, however, con cludes as to the main lssue “Mr, Smith defends his votes in highly creditable fashion. Now that he has issued this strong defense, the Democratic eandi- date may well vest his case. We have never felt that these attacks based on his legislative record of 20 vears ago would prove popular or effective.” “T'he governor hits straight and hits hard, The statement rings with sin- was ni cority,” asserts the Gleveland P Wb Dewii GRdsDeRERt LRIAHEL e QAlS Animal Rescue League’s Work Is One of Mercy To the Editor of The Star: In answer to a_comment on my re- cent letter about Summer work for un- fortunate children and animals, in which the writer indicated that I was not familiar with the work of the Ani- mal Rescue League, and for those who have not learned of the leagfie's work through various previous articles by myself_and others, or otherwise, may 1 state 1 have belonged to the league since its organization, in 1914, and have rescu-d hundreds of miserable cats and dogs myself. The league has prevented untold suffering to animals in this great city, and deserves only the highest com- { mendation. In the first piace, by no means are all the animals killed, as tated in the comment. Many lost pets have becn restored to grateful owners, | good homes have been found for scores 1of desirable ones—mostly young, healthy males—but no one who has picked up the miserable creatures 1 have from yards, streets and alleys can deny that the iong sleep is best for the thousands of others, sick, starved, injured, d scrted. at last reaching this refuge— too, for even healthy ones turned in, but which, if given away, would not be properly cared for. We believe in placing a few animals in really happy | homes’ rather than forcing many into | homes where they would be neglected, especially in the case of female dogs land cats, which, often tired of, are { turned out with their helpless offspring by human beings in this supposedly civilized Christian day and age The story of the aged collie, Pal, on a hunger strike, mourning for his drowned master and mistress, his break- {ing heart stilled in the league’s electric | cage, has no doubt touched hundreds. | Death here certainly was a merciful | ministry to the loyal creature. A min- |istry it is in every case where life | would be misery if human guardians do | not, provide happiness in personal homes {nor funds for the proper maintenance {of institutional ones. For where could | we keep the thousands upon thousands aken in—last year more than 30,000— he vast majority in the miserable con- ditions described above? Kind-hearted persons cannot always keep the strays they often befriend. Were it not for a place to take them, many who other- wise would rescue them would pass them by. _ Many a poor, tired horse, worked to its last ounce of strength, has been given up by or taken from his owner, igiven a few days of good feed and kind | treatment, then had his unappreciated toil quietly ended in the electric stall. 1 have seen these creatures of God, large and small, for which man will not nor cannot provide otherwise, in all sorts of conditions pass through the | portals of the league, and I know what a boon it is to them. VIRGINIA W. SARGENT. Charges D. C. Police With Tyranny Over Citizens To the Editor of The Star: Please accept my thanks for the very timely and well written editorial which appeared in The Evening Star for Au- gust 20 under the title “Police Vandal- ism.” There is one statement in that editorial with which the writer desires to take issue, however. It is to be in- ferred, from the wording of the last sentence, that the citizens of the Dis- trict of Columbia will not “tolerate™ the wanton destruction of their prop- erty by the members of the Police De- partment. Perhaps it would be well for the writer of that editorial to state the means of redress which the citizens of the District of Columbia have against the repeated assaults upon their per- sons and property by the members of the Police Department, or, indeed, against the very free killing of any of the citizens whom it happens to please the Police Department to summarily dispatch. The writer, during the ten years of his residence in the District of Columbia, has very carefully followed to its conclusion every case (of which the number is legion) of unlawful slaughter or of unlawful assault upon the person and property in which redress has been sought and which the news- papers have reported, but it appears that the lves and property of the un- fortunate citizens of the District of Co- lumbia are subject to the arbitrary whims of the members of the Police Department, and that a particular per- son has not as yet been brought to complete realization of that fact is due to the auxiliary fact that, with a popu- lation of nearly 600,000, the Police De- partment has not yet been able to reach that particular person for the execution of its tyranny upon him. Not any one is immune from such a condition of tyranny as has been established by the Police Department of the District of Columbia and from which the helpless citizens have not any means of redres: | The statement that the citizens of t District of Columbia will not “tolerate the vandalism of the Police Department appears to be an il-timed attempt te be humorous. FRANK M. DRYZER. e Friend of the Street Car Deplores Bus Suggestion To the Editor of Ths St A letter printed in Monday's issue of The Star suggested replacing street cars with busses for the sake of quietude. Now, what can be noisier than a bus? On the streets downtown when a bus starts or stops, you can barely hear your- self speak. 1 have never come across a street car yet that is as noisy as are ordinary bu: Again, 1 wonder if the writer of that letter realizes how many busses would be needed to replace the street cars. One street car seats 58 persons; one bus seats perhaps 20 or 22 persons. Think of the number of street cars needed on Pennsylvania avenue in the evenings and mornings. Can't you imagine the congestion of traffic that would result in replacing the cars with busses? And, for the sake of comfort also, please let's retain the cars. What can offer more contrast than a ride in a swift, steady, clean and cool street car, or a e in & slow, stufly, noisy and greasy bus that reeks with the odor of gasoline and ofl and bounces you into the alr at every bump in the street? And also don’t forget the wear on the streets by the busses, the repair of which is paid by the public. W. JOHNSON. UNITED STATES IN WORLD WAR Ten Years Ago Today. ‘The British attack on Crown Prince Rupprecht’s armies has developed into u general engagement along a 30-mile front. * * * Considered in connection with that of the French from their point of junction with the British to | Solssons, ~the allied battle now in | progress on a 50-mile front promises o be one of the greatest of the whole | WAr. * * * The British take nine towns | nd close in on Bapaume. * * * The French armies under Gens. Humbert nd Mangin galned important ground between the Mets River and the acea north of Soissons. Humbert drove across the Divette, southeast of Noyon, and Mangin's troops have pressed over the Atlette behind the fleeing Germans * * * German Chemin des Dames is now threatened by the French advance. Noyon is menaced from the northeast and northwest and also from the south, and the enemy is reduced to fghting from its left flank, from which the guns are pouring A tremendous fire in- cessantly. * * * The Navy Department announces the sinking of three Amer- loan vessels in foreign waters by Ger- | man U-boats. Twp ships were home- | ward bound when sunk. Only 19 miss- ing from the three crews; others saved + 7%+ One hundred and eighty-five on | Storfes for Boys and Girls A\NSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. “This is a speclal department devoted to the handling of inquiries. You have at your disposal an extensive organiza- | tion in Washington to serve you in any | capacity that relates to information Write your question, your name and| your address clearly and inclose 2 cents | in coin or stamps for reply. Send to The Evening Star Information Bureau Frederic J. Haskin, Director, Washing- ton, D. C. Q. How long do eagles live? —E. W. A. Some species of cagle have been | known to live 100 years. The Ameri-| can bald eagle would probably live | between 50 and 75 years. Q. What is the hydraulic press and when was it invented?—P. R A. Tt is a machine by which a slender column of water may be made to raise the heavy weights. It was in- vented by Bramah, an Englishman, in 1786. Q. Why was Shake Night" so named?—L. A. One editor of says that the name of the play has no obvious connection with ~the story. Probably it is merely intended to convey that the comedy was suited for pro- duction on Twelfth Night, a feast set apart for mirth. Q. What part of the brain does the thinking?—N. D A. The gray matter, or what scien- tists call the “cortex.” This is a thin layer from one-tenth to one-quarter of an inch thick spread over the surface of the upper pari of the brain, Q. What is an Ole Bull violin?— OB P A. Ole Bull was the great Norwegian violinist, but was not a violin maker. The name Ole Bull fs used frequently s a trade mark on many comriercial vidlins, but has no real significance. eare’s “Twelfth Q. How can gilt picture frames be cleaned?--W. F. H. A. Gilt frames may be cleaned by washing them with a small sponge wet with ofl of turpentine, not too wet, but sufficiently to take off the dirt. They should not be wiped afterward, but left to dry of themselves. Q. What is the seating capacity of the theater in the new McKinley High School?—L. L. A. The theater in the McKinley High School has a seating capacity of 1,800 Q. Will dogs eat wildcat and fox flesh?—G. N. A. A trapper who has experimented with his dogs says that they will not eat fox flesh, even when starved mod- erately. Wildcat flesh which has been cooked Is relished. Q. Are the Rocky Mountains growing higher?—H. T. T. A. Probably. The Rocky Mountains are fairly new. Scientists know this 'welfth Night” | a lower forms. The growth of mountains is slow, They are not pushed up sud- denly in some grand cataclysm, but rise a few inches in 1,000 years. Q. Ts there any distinction in meaning between Mosaic beginning with a capital letter and with 2 small letter?—B. T. A. Mosaic, spelled v a captal, means pertainin Moses, to the law, institutions, saic, spelt with a small letter s an inlaid design of small particles cf glass, stone, etc, of various co of Standards says porcelain, an ordinary “The drill should a low pitch, e kept wet with the porcelain to a s driil down lightly and twist drill can coid alr or hot lighter than cold air. The latter is denser and therefore weighs more. Hot air carries more water vapor than cold air. ‘The amount of moisture necess: to produce satura- tion increases rapidly with the increase of temperature. Q. What is the tionalist Chinese go to Pekin . B. A. It is now c: A. Hot air me that the Na- vernment has give lled Peiping. Q. In how short a time has Ki Kt Cuyler circled the bases?—A. H. R. A. that he has no official record, but was credited with going around the bas s City in 1920, this time | experience in bases. Q What is meant by pairing of Senators?—G. L. A. This means that two Senators, having different views on some measure, agree to abstain from voting upon it, 5o that the absence of either will not affect the vote. Q. Why are outsiders not allowed in the Mormon Tabernacle at Salt Lake City?—D. P. A. The Mormon Tabernacle at Balt Lake City is not closed to outsiders, who are at liberty to inspect the won- derful building and to listen to the music of the great organ, one of the greatest in the world. The temple, however, is sacred to believers in the doctrines of the Mormon Church. This follows the practice of the ancient Hebrews, to whom the inner courts of the temple were sacred. Q. I see reference to a mew cabinet position being created. What depart- ment would it be?—S. E. H. because they are so steep. Old moun- tains are more worn down and have A. A Department of Education has been talked of for some time. BACKGROUND OF EVENTS BY PAULV Only Boy Scouts were eligible to the honor and adventure of accompanying Comdr. Byrd to the South Pole. There were nearly one hundred candidates within the chosen class of Boy Scouts, notwithstanding the knowledge of the desperateness of the venture. Out of the original number, six were selected to appear before Comdr. Byrd in an elimination test, and one was_chosen. The sele:ted Scout, Paul A. Siple of Erle, Pa., modestly attributes his choice to his “good luck,” but such distinctions seldom come through “luck.” All the other five showed rare qualifications for the service, including, most assuredly. our own Eagle Scout Snell, and. whether in frozen seas or before other hurdles of life. the qualifications which dis- tinguished thase boys above the average cannot fail to make them distinguished men, suited to marked achievements in their further maturity. Hurrah, then, for Eagle Snell! Hurrah for every bov who faces life seriously and knows that to “play the game” he must take the training of discipline and preparedness. Life is a “great adventure.” If faced with the courage of an eagle it affords a glorious victory over storms and dis- couragements. Soft winds do not strengthen the oak: coddling does not ! develop an Eagle Scout. * X K x What a difference there is between the atmosphere surrounding a boy of the last generation, and that of Scout training! Who remembers the “don'ts” of 30, 40, 50 years ago? Who forgets the foolish ventures of the boy hero who dared secrete the “dime novel” in the hay and read it stealthily behind the barn, become inspired with the bravery of the highwayman who held up 10 armed travelers and robbed them of their diamonds, so that he could aid a sick mother or finance a daring elope- ment? How grand to don a mask and sneak dad's revolver and hunting knife and run down alleys seeking Injun chiefs to kill! To read “mere fiction” was taboo— unless it could be sworn that it was “founded on fact,” or unless it came from a Sundav school library with its dreary “moral” at the end. Paper- bound dime novels were the lures of the devil to trap little bovs into wick- edness. No such vile reading was ever found in a Sundav school library, al- though if their spirit were highly moral, like the preacher's fib about George Washington's inability to tell a He, the good lesson overcame the wickedness of fietion. “Pllgrim's Progress” and “Rob- fnson Crusoe” must have been founded on fact, for they were exempt, though fiction, i * X E ok | But, Old Fogy. have vou ever had the thrill of finding on the shelves of today's lbrary “Frank Before Vicks- burg,” by Harry Castlemon, and re alled | the ecstasy of reading it in one’s early | teens and sweating drops of excite- ment under “Frank on the TLower Mississippt” and “Frank on the Prairies,” and “Frank in the Woods" and “Frank, the Young Naturalist”? Was it not inspiring to feel in one's deepest soul that “Frank™” was just an- other name for one's self? Frank was | always brave and most discerning. If| his commanding officer did resent | Frank's eriticism of his blunders, didn't | the battle alwavs turn on what Frank had foreseen or what Frank dared | to do? The storles of bravery. foresight, ac- tion and success were fiction, not al- ways wholesome. too often morbldly | “moral” in their preachments. The | training of Boy Scouts today is not: with fiction, but with reality. That's the main difference, but it is as wide a difference as the distance between | {up to Seout ideals ’. COLLINS. are given scientific facts, and not exag- geration of “hearts saturated with nicoti don't smoke. * % % the “Sermon Stories.” It tells about Absalol 'Absalom was one of those soft, mushy sort of boys, and was very proud of his good looks. O most serious problems of his daily was how to have his curls combed as to produce the most stunning ef Indeed, every ) niversary for his weighed. Once, at L as much as 200 she fop and dandy, gossip kn actly how much Abs: curls weighed. He was one of those sleek and scented young fell ) spend more on combs and pe than they do on books. Tl rich, glossy growth on the ou their skulls, but are as bald as a window pane on the i Such people are never of any value to the world and are sure to come Now who will of curls, like Scouts don't v the “boyish b curls and ast, they weighed Is_. ‘Bvery_fool cvery silly fli tical and in truth and n bility of ideals. It develops sel ance based on actual knowledge. the Scout knows what to do emergency. He knows how t to rescue @ drowning perso: s vietim, to tor can arrive. fire in the woods live up to the He is able to bu without matches, Scout oath: “On my honor I will do my Des do my duty To God and my country, And to obey the Scout law ‘To help other people at all times: To keep myself Physically and mora * There have been critics who objected to the Boy Scouts on the ground that they are “militaristic”—whatever that means. nowhere in the ritual is avoring of militarism, is h to patriotism soldier duty The hc lly to mean “Duty to my co love it, be loyal to it, its laws stitutions; that I know the t of these laws acquie be & ution: or spirit of as I und cherish and c laws and institutions to the lin ability. Also that I do my propagate this standard of ¢ among my friends, my acqu and all others whom I can Also that T never be : of cfvic right an, It that be “mi make the most of it! de. There is one big grouch th into the heart of the writer upon read- ing that interpretation of Scout idea It is the great regret, or shame, that so very few adults are gh to 1 tves, Mav South Po , to renc hem some of us would go to the for the adventure our youth like t many dare live the the Pol There is a book which was published | in the last century entitled “Sermon | Here | one of the old sermon storles which is tvpleal: It tells of a rich speculator “For 20 years he was engaged in the heaviest financlal battles of modern times. But this smart, strong man met his fate when he drifted into the habit | of cigarette smoking. At the last, for several years, he smoked 50 cigarettes a day. He knew his danger, for head. heart, stomach and nerves protested against the deadly little cigarette. But | Woerlshoffer smiled and sald he would give it up when he tiked, and not before. | Soon his heart became like a big sponge, saturated with nicotine, and he was really alarmed when he found that he could not give up the cigarette {0 went to a famous doetor, and said ‘You shall have 850,000 if vou will save me from the cizarvette' The physician_worked hard. but it was of no use. The big man who tossed money | Kings about like bables lay crushed beneath a litcle vice-paper pigmy.” today's casualty list. and also 72 in + Marine Corps list, Total o Walds o The Boy Scouts ave taught the evils 10 L of smoking, bhatt they are not scared by [rev ol he QEaisig Wy There is that t} To help others at all time: ficlal interpretation reads as follows Helping other people at all times ttle comment. It includes the good done faithfully and regularly. as It also means un d line of th whenever and wherev conscience being the judge.™ What is the matier with Boy Scout It is that people lmit it to “Kkids."” instead of taking in old codgers who need the ideals they have forgot- ten in the struggles to make a lving Then the South Pole will be only a symbol of the coldness and perils of daily life at home, and all of us Scouts in the light of pure ideals may achieve the honor degree and exclaim with Milton: “Methinks T see in my mind a no and puissant nation rousing hersell A Strong man after sleep, and shaking ber invineible locks. Methinks 1 see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazaled cyes at the full midday beam." Cheers for Boy Scouts! Cheers with A tiger--or eagle! PTRRSRTISTST I e A ST R oble