Evening Star Newspaper, August 28, 1928, Page 8

e THE EVENING STAR| {or accost them they certainly have a | perfect right ta look at them. It might well be that some eagie-eved but over- WASHINGTON, D. C TUERSDAY. . .August 28, 1928 THEODORE W. NOYES. ... Editor| ° ® Man cruising around the block The Evening Star Newspaper Company | Business Office 1th 8t and Pennsyivania Ave New York Offies: 110 it 42nd St Chicage Office. Tower Bufldine Furopean Office. 14 Regent St.. London. England. 1 be unjust In the extreme, | mashing or obstructing trafic the obvi- Rate by Carrier Within the City. The Evening s?,. 45c per month remedy for a situstion that has The Evening and Sundar Star (when 4 Sundars) The Evening and Sundas Star (when 5 Sundars) The Sunday Star Sc per copy Colleciion made at the and af rach manth O Gt (2 he mail or telenhone ous 80c per manth | | busiest thoreughfares ous letter writing by Bureau ean accomplish nothing in the (way of refarm. The Commissionars should put an immediate stop to it e Radio as & Nuisance. A Camden. N. J nontr Maryland and Viegin ails and Sundsy .. | vr.$10.00. Daily and Sund: 1000 N mo 1 mo. All Other States and Canada. Datly and Sunday 1 $1200: 1 mo, $1.00 Rl an? $800. 1 mo. I8¢ | Sunday only $5.00. 1 mo. his machine at any hour he wishes, re- gardless of the comfort of his neighbors | In this case & woman charged that her husband was unable to obtain sufficient sleep because of the noises that came from a nearby radio as late as 1 a'clock in the morning. The judge dismissed the case There Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Prass 18 012 st\lfll!’ ent. to 'the ‘ise Far repualization of il 1 e T e Sratited 10 11 ar Lot otherwis e . {his DADer % Thee foaat o ew A shed erem AL o Drbiieation of e et imes ‘nerein are Aiso reserved teq a Raskob's Roseate Vision Raskoh of the national having aualified by pre- Chairman Demacratic committee as s “claimer” the other dav Gicting that Pennsylvania will cast its electoral vote for Gov. Smith this vear, the role with confidence i caoian ey (e hour I I T AR ONIGY Ui st dain)th will arcytou- § s wedio GRmsc /RS Srafickecha o Sis ek i atidikion “to Sthe (sl | A0 olaterous “pariy’ o his premises South, with a total of 309 votes out of stan hour when most people are sup- the 531 available. He adds that there :‘“"‘ to be seeking shimber he would e asichanas itk “with ST /plecioray | COUEUC thave Hheen restrained on the votes, which “any prudent business man ground that he was maintaining a nui- would at this time classify for Smith." " Many such a charge has been Adding the absolutely sure Smith States | Iaid and has been sustained. tn these the grand total of Smith votes in the electoral eoilege would be 366, jeaving Hoover & mere 165, The States assigned to the Smith eolumn by Chairman Ra. ob In addi- tion to the solid South. which includes Kentucky, Tennessee and Oklahoma. are New York, New .Jersey. Rhode Isiand, Massachusetts, Maryland, Wis- consin, Arizona, Colorado, Minnesota. Montana, Nebraska, Missouri, New Mex- fe> and Nevada. The six others which bl bnaiioNeummeliinsd e o | comfort and health. _Evidently Camen ppirapediesii ® €O s no such rule pecticut, Delaware. Indiana, North Da- Sota. Bouth Dakota and Wyming and it should be enforced is probably no auestion about the right of an individual to run his radin as long as he wants. But this right does not fustify him in running it as loudly as he wishes regardless of that sleep is impossible. A loud speaker ent. can keep scores of people awake. Its tones penetrate into sleeping chambers at long distances. In some cities regu- lations have been adopted putting a THE EVENI to the beautiful women on Washington's | the women persisted and two streets and as long as they do not annoy | finally taken into custody. | These women practicing the meth- ods adopted here several years Aago will probably be released. although the realous sleuth might mistake the actions | French coutts are not lenient in mat ters of this kind and these disturbers | waiting for his wife to finish her shop- of the peace may receive punishment ping for those of the masher, and for | It is unfortunate in any case that they the Woman's Bureau to “write a letter | should have so borne themselves as to home™ about such an incident would | lead to an arrest, for they have thereby contributed to the feeling against So it would seem that with arrest for | Americans which has been lamentably | in evidence for some time in France. This affair revives memorfes of the | come about on one of Washington's|days when marching squads of women potentially libel- | Were in evidence around the White the Woman's | House in this eity. They walked back and forth with banners inscribed with the slogans of their cause. In imita- tion of the militants of London, who {went to extreme lengths and many of judge. in & TUNg | o eustody in & case brought before him in €om- | pricon pins in token of thelr martyr- plaint against a radio operator has held | gom. {0 | that any owner has a right to listen t0 o, s nuisance and by & very consider- There is no difference between a loud | party which constitutes a nuisance to nearby residents and a mechanical de- | vice which causes such a disturbance | of the kind so commonly in use at pres- | with numerous amplifying tubes, | limit upon the time in which loud radios | can be operated. as a measure of public | But it should have, | { There is actually no occasion what- | o] is t. A careful search of this list fails 10/ 0 "o thy yse of amplifying devices | teveal the name of Pennsylvania, on a domestic radio sufficient to carry | the claiming of which Chairman Raskob the sound beyond the walls and win- | cualified as an official optimist. It i€ 400 o the dwelling. It there is any in order to ask what has happened 10 yopyry i the program it is not merely cause this omission. The prediction re- o reqqeq hut is actually lessened by rding the Kevstone State was made immediztely following & Juncheon €oN- |, the program it is not made more keen ference in Philadelphia. There Mas . coeling the sound so that it will have been something in the atmosphere ..}, many other ears than those of of that occasion to stimulate hope which | 1o household. has faded with the evaporation of the Gnmictakably a prejudice is growing infiluences inducing it agamnst radio use through these abuses Just why Indiana should be put i .4 manufacturers of sets should be _the “prudent business man” class and | yuimed by the outspoken and increasing ot its neighbor oa the west offers Some |, racre of those who suffer from the ground for mystification. for despite the |y onciderate performances of many traditional weight of Republican VOleS yag4iq users to discourage the establish- the amplification. If there is any humor | I Diinois. that State has been recently ' ment of these needlessly loud instru- | regarded by some of Mr. Raskob’s more | mente in domestic premises. At the enthusiastic colleagues of the Demo- precent rate of developing antagonism eratic organization as better than fair 14 thoughtless radio use manifested by fighting ground. Recent reports from | ynose who wish for. and have a right to. Michigan. to0, have ziven a stimulus 10 ' peace in their own homes there will Democratic hopes in that quarter, bUt | soon develop an imperative demand for Mr. Raskob fails to include that Staie ' ryjes that will constitute radio noise a | i his list of either certainties or prob- ' puplic nuisance, to be suppressed by abilities. the law As the Raskob list stands. Mr. Hoover Baz a chance only to carry Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont in the East: Ohin, Michigan. Dlinois and West Vir- ginia in the Eastern Central region, and a small scattering of Middle and Par Western States. This is assuredly s shocking blow to Republican hopes. But still, cne wonders why the Demo- eratic chairman failed to include Penn- svivania this time as an assured Smith State. Perhaps he forgot it? e - - The Drowning Cherry Trees. here but throughout the country, for ! the deplorable condition of the cherry trees in Potomac Park, many of whicn are now dying as a result of the ex- traordinarily heavy rains of the pres- ent Summer. of these trees on Hains Point are be- lieved to be beyond recovery, while fully dition part of the Spring beauty of Potoma Park will be lost. and the sam2 condi- tions may arise at any time to menac® destroy other No nation on earth would be quite sc erude as o declare itself in favor o war on general principles. The senti- ment for peace continues to gather mo- mentum and Woodrow Wilson's famous phraze. “100 proud to fight” may ne tound—especially when spoken by a 2ourageous and resourceful nation—with | ' practical as well as idealistic signifi- eance and perhaps in the hope of saving the trees tha' not already beyond redemption. tended with risk and may not be suc- cessful The soil of Potomac Park s a nll from the river bottom, dredged by suc- tion pumps and poured over between riprap walls of stone, raising the level several feet above the normal stage of the river. It ix remarkably fertile and thus far has made an ideal ground for the cherry trees and other growthe \ransforming the great area. formerly a marsh. into one of the most beautifu; parks in the worid. There is sufficient . Reing a good editor. Josephus Daniels will know how to use the blue pencil when pronibition ascerts itself in his thoughts while he prepares a Demc eratic campaign speech SN, Letter-Writing Policewomen. Out of the discussion as 1o ways and o curb the eruising automobile sheiks announcement from Mrs Mira Van Winkie. head of the Woman's Bureau of the Police Department, thay | drainage in ordinary conditions 1o carry an effective plan has siready been de- | Off the rainfail, aithough on the oc- put into operation. ‘This plan | carion of heavy showers water has here aceording o its numbers of automobiles con- appesr fiirtatious mrans fiirtatious activities of P street’s comes the vined an consists taking taining intent sponsors the trees. But these recent downpours male occupants who trees have been kept asoak for days al The cnerry trees in Potomac Park aie known for their beauty throughout the and a1 the time of their bloom- visited by many who make this To the res ipon engaging in ome of the graceful femi- sidewalks. Then ascertains 10 9t thrive, yedestrians on the Wom Burean he ear belongs and a brief note the whom " equa country ing Washington thot of people great reservation a mecca idents of the Capital they are a sourc of annual delight. Any menace 1o then I e of great public distress and Ihere s a fervent hope that the efforts now planned (o rescue the trees may ed aritien to the home where it s ¢ wiil fall in the i parents or an ands The effectivencs of the the Woman's Buresu fact young hushand who wes supposed 10 be the office scheme, zecording 1o is attested by the that # Jse but instead was ¥ P with his better nalf “working at “Jonking nto serious them over’ on treet Minneapolis avoided attempting a dif just_how “Home become 2 spesk becs he letter trom the Bureai of dealing with as o may fieult question Home and it ) not the » mashers emphatics)l Woma snnoys Bwee a ehay ren way A man by blowing his horn or . ave “Militaney” i France, de- the 1he street arrest nim 1 fine slowly hem or American A dispateh today from Paris seribes an ineident at Ramboulllet 4 “ gond o af crusng y intent P in his suton ipon secur- g feminine companionship arvest him | Summer residence of the President of just st promptly and make him put up Franee, which fortunately followed heavy eollateral for obstructing trafc | rather There is 56 one in the world, or at lcast | the treaty by representatives of fificen e nas never been discovered. who can | nations yesterday. An American mili- @rive an sutomobile at & pace necessary | tant suffragist, who gained 10 keep trafic moxing end st the same et & firtation with some one for equsl politiesl rights attempted with companions 1o the ehala®i with hanners an tation | women enter Yime e 1den alk The writing of & function of the police depertment and |2 petition fn many ceses 16 &n unjust procedure. | entrance, expressing etiers 15 certainly not Universal regret will be felt, not oniv | whom were imprisoned, they invited arrests, rejoicing when they were taken ‘They proudly wore their They were regarded generally able proportion of the women engaged in the campaign for the adoption of the nineteenth amendment to the Con- stitution their activities were looked upon as harmful to the cause rather than helpful The leader of the agitators arrested vesterday in Paris is & the American organization veloped from the militant group of suffragists in this country. Their action at Rambouillet suggests that a campaign of militancy is perhaps to be inaugurated in France in behalf of the women of that country, who have, however, thus far given no pronounced signs of desiring and certainly not any token of demanding the vote, although there is probably a wish on the part of many French women to secure the franchise. whieh de- Children who used to be all dressed up for a starchy afterncon promenade now put on bathing suits and make for the nearest fountain: another evidence of civilization’s progress. [, Chicago intends to have the tallest building in the world. Among those in that city who keep their thoughts turned heavenward are the designers ok skyscrapers. e The kind of efficiency which goes too far in standardizing human effort can- not go as does in providing for repairs and re- placements R Diplomatists are now confident that a way can be found for making relations of nations permanently binding and not merely companionate. e oot The camera would be more generous if it could limit itself to the display of TAR Henry Gearshift looked with amuse- ment at his feet and legs in undress. They were covered with red splotches, the result of the application of a popu- | grate from the family pet. It was unfortunate, Gearshift | thought. that the family fleas had to select him as host. Upon the cat | they seemed perfectly at home, secure in the concealment of the soft fur In changing their habitat, the insects Iran a grave risk of being discovered. | not only in their hopping from animal | to animal (the second being Henry Gearshift. esq.). but also after landing |~ Gearshift happened to he one of these | persons who suffer immensely from in- | sect bites. whether of the mosquito | flea or other variety. Other members of the family were immune. but let a flea get within a mile of him, as he said, he was sure to be bitten. What caused him to smile, as he surveyed his red splotched legs. was the following thought: be caught in some sort of volcanic eruption, and lava overflow the entire ! populace. ‘Then suppose. centufies later. | that one Henry Gearshift should be un- covared by exploring scientists of the vear 3000 Picture them. Henry said to himself, looking learnedly at his spots. and won- man or high priest of something or other. No doubt the dispute would be serfous among the scientists, for the use of the certain popular antiseptic would have gone out centuries before, and probably have been long forgotten | o owox Picture the explorers of that far time | uncovering a strange device in the form | of & paper circle, resembling a very flat- tened cone. 1t would be mounted on a metal stand- lard by a sort of circular box at the Irear, and would have hitched to it a | cord of soft material, with two smaller | cords branching at the end, surmounted with metal tips. | "'Would records be sufficient for the | scientists of those day to unerringly label this thing as a “Radio Loud | Spedker of the Year 1926”7 | ““There would be all sorts of specula- { tions rife as to the real status of many today seem mere matter of fact. And surest of all, there would be infinite amusement among those peoples at the supreme crudity of much that we of to- day regard as the “last word | Surely this is one of the most curious mental traits of the animal. man, that amid universal progress. and the vear- by-year superseding of something by lfiomtlhml else, he would ever feel sat- | isfaction with what he has. Yet there is nothing that & man is | isfaction as it goes along. ‘Take that new motor car advertised so lovingly ¢and, indeed. so boastingly) by the manufacturer. He thought it the “last word” in motor cars, as no doubt it was. When you read the ad, you thought so. too. and went down and bought one on the strength of your be- {lief. muscular graces and omit the strained facial expression. e | 02 | ear, SHOOTING STARS. money that was buying the thing, and | that you were perfectly satisfied with it. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON Your dear friends tried to tell vou | in tront of your house | as the very zenith of beauty and per. formance. Dry Q Good-Bye Summer. So long. August! Needn't linger here. You're bout the poorest company that comes in all the year' Miss Summertime kep' shippin' as the days went rollin’ by. She brought the Junetime roses, but | they withered in July. The locust sits up In & tree, his discord to rehearse. July seemed bad as it could be. vet went from bad to worse We'll ride into a snowstorm if we'll only persevere. S0 long. August! Needn't linger here! Principal Differenc “Appeals to patriotism distinguished | campaign speaking. just as they always | did.” From twenty-five to fifty | two hundred more are in a serious con- | Should these trees die a grea’ | “True.” answered Senator Sorghum “The only difference I can see is that whereas an old-time speech began “Priends and Pellow Citizens.” a pres- ent-day address begins “Ladies and | Gentlemen'” growths, | Extranrdinary measures are to be taken | Adjustment of Ideas. The orator from duty does not shrink He sends great wisdom forth from day to day. |t wonder, does he tell us what to think consisting of lifting them bodily two or | three feet—a process that will be at- | | | sage of Chinatown, “can be absolutely | n | tofore stood for a short time around | have so saturated the ground that the | time, & condition in which they wil! torfety in this country during the agl- | for | | From the Yakima Daily Repubiic The guards prevented their | & willingness 1n | Or does our thinking tell him what to sav? Jud Tunkins says a friend who tells you to laugh at troubles always means yours and not his Consistent Opinion. ‘Do you consider it wrong money in campaign publicity”” “Certainly not" replied Mr. Dustin Stax. “While we are keeping our minds and our throats open, there is no rea- son for keeping our pocketbooks closed " to use No great thought,” raid Hi Ho, the original, Truly great thoughts are as old as human language.” The Big Station. My Radio! My Radio! Your song was once 5o free! Each melody now seems to flow Prom Station ADV A man dat thinks he's smarter dan everyhody else.” sald Uncle Eben. ‘s allus lable to be eaught off his guard and eany fooled.” s Many Tunes Exempted. Dally News That German scientist who claims that music spreads disease should real- ize there are a lot of tunes that are not ecatchy -, Farmer Congratulated. From the Toledo Blude Well. it has heen pretty generally recognized now that the farmer needs velief. ‘That 1» an important gain for him . -.—— “Ware of Umhrella Fiends. Prom the Davion Daily News King Gieorge brags he has had one "hat for 10 years, bur we'd like to sce him try thet trick with an umbrella v Answer Not Necessary. than preceded the signing of | g, (ne ohartotte (N, €1 News Three more months and the academic year at colleges will begin of fool ball sewson, lsn't it? Science Given a Boust. | noticed thwt Belance may have is tooler Intely. You weether the earth 18 That's | | much no- | About the length of tme until the end | gupization on State office it would b al the rate of 2| Co; { | Prospeéts in Ohio interest national leaders of both political parties, as they survey the results of the promaries in that State. A strongly dry tendency | among the voters is recognized. A straight-out conclusion that this means { the loss of the State to Gov. Smith | is drawn by some observers. To others | there appear local issues and the ques- |tion of fitness of State candidates. which overshadow contest | "In a review of the situation. the Day- | ton Daifly News (independent Demo- | cratic) states: “The Republican candi- date for governor is a successful busi- ness man of Cincinnati. After one cam | paign for governor. :n which he was defeated, Mr. Cooper retained the con- | fidence of the voters sufficiently to win | a second nomination. As far as can | be scen now, the contest for governor will turn on a comparison of two com- mendable personalities and upon such {ssues as to policy as may arise between | Lo | record-breaking vote everywhere in No- them.” “There 1s no reason for not expecting complete Republican victory for the ticket at the polls this Fall" declares the Toledo Blade (independent Repub- iican), but the Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Independent) comments: “Primary re- sults are queerly mixed. Though Martin | L. Davey. Democratic nominee for gov- ernor, and Myers Cooper. Republica: nominee, are both drys. and venerable Representative Burton, also a dry. won almost without a contest, and Senator Fess had no opposition, the Democratic candidate against Burton for the short | term is Graham P. Hunt, who is a | Smith supporter and a wet, and It is figured that, altogether, in both ties, more wei than dry votes polled. Yet the Republican total was more than double the Democratic total. ‘B For a Democratic candidate for President to carry the State” in the opinion of the Rochester Times-Union | (Independent), “requires a quite un- | usual combination of cifcumstances or an issue 8o strong as to draw away from the Republican candidate large num WASHINGTON, D THIS AND THAT member of | dering whether he had been a tattooed | { of the devices in all walks of life which | far as mechanical ingenuity | more prone to do than be satisfied, let] those who. will sp=ak of pessimism and | been ~mosquitoes cynicism. ‘This is the one trait which well known creatures. has put mankind on its fest, and kept |cline toward the flea theory. A care- |1t ever going forward, if not to ultimate | ful examination of the skin shows un- perfection, certainly to more or less sat- | mistakable evidence that these bites C. TUESDAY Wy BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELI.. Look at those lines! It did not seem possible to you that there could ever be more snap put into body designing. How would any manu- lar antiseptic to certain bites received | facturer ever be able to put out a better from fleas which had decided to m|-](m,k|nu automobile? o ‘The satisfaction of the average man with what he has Is encouraging, although certain temperaments may at times and under certain conditions find it slightly amusing 1t is well for most of us that we can be pleased with our nwn appearance. and our own folks. and our own house, and our own car, and our own radio. 1f it were not for this ability there would be more dissatisfaction than there is. and Heaven knows there is enoygh already. faction there is dissatisfaction? In the midst of dissatisfaction there is any considerable amount of this satisfaction | picking up halfpence and with we praise? Yes! 1 ! In the midst of satis- | | The two exist side by side. since satis- | | Suppose Washington suddenly should | raotion is primarily personal, dissatis- faction impersonal Some of the ugliest wights alive smirk at themselves in mirrors with intense satisfaction. Those outstanding ears. they imagine. give them a forceful look If ‘their nose is large, it resembles Caesar's The best sort of dissatisfaction is that which is impersonal, running from the mind of the beholder to conditions which strike him as wrong. whether they apply to himself or to others. Mostly these conditions react on others. But if they do impinge upon the beholder. he looks upon them as an abstract problem, not in the same way in which he regards the purchase of a new car. This is why the bounding, rigible optimist is a dead loss. incor- never see anything wrong. If his child | contrasts exist? throws a dog down the steps. why the | Deither serves to interpret the Now | Oddly, two heroes of the present dav. little dear didn't mean to hurt it the little dear did mean to hurt it. too. The same attitude results in the soft- soaping of misery. To revert to our fu- ture scientists inspecting the spotted legs of one Gearshift: If one of them should chance to be an ootimist, he would unhesitatingly say. “Oh, he iust spotted himself like that for fun!" The saner brother scientist would not be atisfied with such a deduction. He uld realize that nobodv. not even the orehistoric Indians (as they then would be), ever painted themselves for fun And what a triumphant hour it would be for this investigator when he could stand on a platform, before a great society, and declare: ‘Gentlemen, I have now solved the mystery of the strange red spots. My conclusion is that they were put there in an effort to stop the ravages of some sort of bite. Parasitic Insects were rife in those days, and these may have fleas_or other T personally in- | were inflicted bv Ctenocephalus Canis, uestion Is Uppermost In Outcome of Ohio Battles the Hoover-Smith | which was finally eradicated from the world in 2678 AD. The discovery of these rare bites marks a milestone in the rehabilitation of the early history of insecticides. T call upon you. gentle- men, to picture this miserable speci- men of humanity, as he was besieged by what was called then. in the ver- nacular, fleas. No doubt his associates that some other car was a much better | laughed at him. but it was no joke, to but you answered that it was your relapse again into the strange, crude | speech of that era. In despair he sought out the bottle of antiseptic. then in You surveyed the new bus as it stood | the vogue, and applied its colorful fluid It struek you | to his bites, And then the lava wiped a civilization out. Think of the tragedy of it. gentlemen!'" It was a queer primary. but most pri- maries are queer.” The Youngstown Vindicator (Democratic), says: “The outstanding result of the voting is not in the nominations made, but in the gravely serious claims of fraud in the voting and counting in Cleveland. To- ledo and Cincinnati. * * * Ohio is passing under the voke, as New York, l""cnns vania and Illinois have already jon “More and more the campaign shapes up as a wet and dry campaign,” ass-rts the Portsmouth Sun (Republican), with the call: “Well let’s line up and fight it out.” The Binghamton Press (inde- pendent Republican), points out that | “the irregularity of the balloting throws | | issue in November.” doubt upon the claim of the drys that 'kind of Loti," NEW BOOKS AT RANDOM LG M. They were talking together about the English novel, Sir Edmund Gosse and George Moore, in the armchair fireside fashion so much beloved of Moore. From Fielding forward and backward | they moved at will, discovering here and there fresh relationships of purpose and achievement, in the field of English fic- tion. In this way they found them- selves setting up new groups, each one in bond to the literary blood tie rather than to that defined by years and periods. At the momen! Rohert Louis Steven- son was the point of inferest. Both agreed that by reason of two facts Stevenson missed his greatest goal. On ihe one hand was the man'a unhealth and on the other his lack of power to partake vitally in his own inventions. A sick man. Moreover. an outside work- er, an impersonal onlooker, “an eye- mai Moore put it, “a wanderer ex- quisite craft turning them into guineas.” f nature had given him health we should have had the most wonderful travel tales ever written.” “A superior ventured Gosse. “So superior that no comparison s possible” was the conclusive, Moore-ish retort. Rather unfair, as a_conclusion of two literary savants. don't you think? If Stevenson had been this or that. h* would have done so and so. But he was not this or that. 8o, he did not achieve to the limit of his fine gifts and finer promise. On the other hand Loti, a hale and lusty adventurer traveling the world over. always the hero of his own drama, centering every situation with his own temperamental exuberance—Loti actually did produce | inspiring travel tales—not might have Iess | | the bravest but did—tales that are the delight of hosts of readers. He is a clearly be- loved travel writer in many languages. He will | Why attempt comparison where only different, other. Basically suggest the unlikenesses of Loti and Stevenson. Here is one, just naturally and without design, the great hero of his own adventure—Comdr. Byrd. Here is the other, more impersonal, engrossed in the outcome—Lindbergh Both doing their royal best, each in his own way. Both achieving wonders. Why try to make them responsible for identical effects and methods! e o However, all this is a_shade beside the point. The matter of the moment is that the house of Frederick A Stokes has decided it to be both good business and good opportunity for readers to issue a uniform edition of the works of Pierre Loti—-Louis Marie Julien Viaud, born in the middle of th~ last, century, member of the French Academy, member also of the French Navy traveling the world over in part of these adventures, beloved both in his own country and other where. volumes, very substdntial and dignified to look at. Competently franslated by men and women who are at home with the idiom of both languages, equally familiar also with French literature and its traditions. The books are, besides, freely illustrated in a fashion calculated 1o objectify the text on the one hand and on the other to impart to it sie- nificances too clusive to be ecaught by You will have genuine joy cooler, | the | in ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. This newspaper puts at your disposal a corps of trained researchers in Wash- ington who_will answer questions for you | ment departments, the libraries, | ums, galleries and public buildings, and to the numerous assoclations which maintain headquarters in the Nation's Capital. If they can be of assistance to you, write your question plainly, and muse- ar, Information to The Evening Haskin, director Bureawu, Frederic Washington, D. C. Q. Who originated the term knock- out in_prize {fighting?--S. O'B A. This tg'm i3 said to have be coined by §3illy Madden, Sullivar | trainer, on ! the occasion of Paddy | Ryan's defeat by Sullivan, February 7 1882 at Mississippi City. | Q. On what stage and what year did Joseph Jefferson, the famous actor. first appear?—L. H. A. The first appearance of Joseph Jefferson on any stage was in black- face. as a partner of Daddy Rice, at | the Bowery Theater, ‘Washington, D. C.. {in 1832, Jefferson, a tiny bov at th I time, was carried on by Rice in a valise, smerging as a miniature Jim Crow and joining Rice in a song and dance. Q. What materials artists’ paints?—A. J. L A Some of the principal materials from which artists' paints are made are | zine oxide (white), lampblack. madder. ! alizarine, vellow ocher, antimonate of are used in They have access to the Govern- | send with two cents in coin or stamps | lead, red oxides of iron, sulphide of mercury, cobalt, zinc oxide, brown silicate of iron, and manganese. Q. What were the names of the ships that brought the Catholic pilgrims to Maryland?—J. McC. A They were the Ark and the Dove, sailing November 22. 1633. Q. What is the derivation of the word, kodak?—S. McL. A. The word is an artificial invented as a trade mark. one Q. How much weight iz an Armv parachute supposed to stand?—J. P. W. A. The United States Army para- chute is so constructed as to be capable nf withstanding a weight of 200 pounds fall at a speed of 400 miles. an hour. It is a 24-sided polygon, 24 feet in di- ameter. The average rate of descent | is 16 feet per second. The weight when | packed is about 18 pounds. | @ 1In what time belt is Alaska? - G. P. C. | “'A.” Alaska lies within the Pacific time | belt. | Q. What is the smallest mammal? -8. G. A. The smallest known mammal s the Italian shrew, which weighs lese than an ounce. Q. What magazine runs a eolumn ealled the Port of Missing Men>—C. G A. The Red Cros: Courier runs this column devoted to advertising for miss- ing people. BACKGROUND OF EVENTS BY PAUL V. COLLINS. ‘homn its sanctity, its rest, guarding of the family and re, these with a distillery beyond the reach of the Prohibition Bureau? Out in Minneapolis and St. Paul an Assistant United States Attorney has ventured to ask the Federal Court for padlocks upon 16 homes in the Flour City and 10 in the State capital. but Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebran®-, the Assistant At- torney General in special charge of pro- hibition law, has her doubts as to the law which will enable the court to ap- ply such drastic measures to “Home, | Sweet, Swect Home" (made so much sweeter by many barrels | to have been a sale of liquor. * % % of clicking bottles midnight stillness, but or without a search warrant. Has the American home lost its soul? Have modern conditions taken from the its safe- placed all |and incidentally of securing respect, for of sugar). unless within that home there is proved Congress recognized that “home” is sacred: it must remain its occupant’s castle” —or his distillery—undisturbed. line of duty, prolific writer by virtue in | There may be a still in every nursery, half the bedrooms may be clogged with | the makings of intoxicants, and on the Here at hand are four of the Loti | nottest day the chimney of the fur- | nace may pour forth smoke. indicative | of other uses than making steam. The surrounding air may reek with the ! emell of liquor, men may reel as they come out of the house and the sound ‘mav. disturb_the it is alleged by | some lawvers. no_policeman nor Fed- | eral prohibition officer may enter. with unless print. first. without fraud or deceit or show BT i Pheneny tom | S subisity. heleanstep IECURCY stantinople.” “Egypt.” “Japan." These are the four volumes at hand—four n\:‘l s*:rve to illustrate both the scope | and the characteristic quality of Loti's T vl 1 ek THCE Tk of ADis at you real:| mmice™ witIE whid sseptings e e B &n odtéandooat Tomance of the sen;| istant Attomey Geneta’, U SeSLE & (a6 a6 ARotin Strewsat; whoss bustness | CTinot intetfare with searcls wartamie & tale, o Arctic stresses. whose businest | Only sn actual sale of the contraban exterminating all but the hardiest and | who come Its way. The shore touch of this adventure is that of Brittany and the simpler fisher folks along its coast. Vivid pictures of these people in their primitive and unchang- ing modes of lif> stand out here in and with crooked elbow exclaim, *Here's to vour health!™ The making of liquor is “home eco- rant The Federal West is to he commended for his en- thustasm, but cantioned as to the law v o x The cases brought last week in Min- nesota bv Assistant Unfted States At- room, lav down his unmarked money | ronctitutes ground for a search war- | sttorney in the | proof of Loti’s pictoriai art. The world of these fishemen and their familics has but two zones, the home shore and the frozen region of the Iceland fish- eries. A love story, simple and inar- | ticulate, moves soberly toward its tragic climax ome, foreboding sea, with the Polar seas. The trans- lation is a particularly good one. I have compared It with another, the one [ | ptont greoti®y Lb NMrs. Gertrude ! . ““We have been emplov- | better one, where both are good. There’s | jng those provisions for some time and | sales therein have read over and over. Thi A reason. v % % “Japan” i a double adventure—that of travel and that of love. are one. “Madame Chrysantheme,” the Japanese doll with whom Loti set up a sort of housckeeping while his ship * the Buckeye State is overwhelmingly|yag in the harbor, was just another bit be swayed exclusively by the wet-dry The Duluth Her- ald (independent Republican). sees evi- dence in Ohio of the heralding of “a | vember." | ber of voters more interested in the | ssue than in their party allegiance Chere is this year only one such lssue “It is possible,” suggests the Spring- field Union (Republican), “that in the presidential election the question of pro- hibition may have its effect in Ohio as m other States of the North, both favor- able and unfavorable to both Hoover and Smith, but it is more probable that the real fssue and test will be between | bone-dry, and that the voters there will | 5'tpe * 2 dceape. | { | Not much more than an inseparable part of the pretty pictures into which the landscape com- posed 1itself, just a part of the fragile tashions of life that, certainly in that day, made up a considerable part of Japan. Not much more, these Japan dolls, than the lotus and the moth and | the flame that sometimes decorated lantern and fan, that sometimes walked the qualifications of the candidates and | the record of thelr parties. and that Ohio may be counted as safe for Hoo- ver for that reason.” UNITED STATES IN WORLD WAR Ten Years Ago Today The French armies are driving the enemy before them on the whole front from Chaulnes to the Ofse. Since the trst battle of the Marne no other ad- vance has been so rapid 10 o'clock this morning Gen. Humbert's troops had gained 8 miles at the ex- | poch in sight, and that is the ‘wet or dry'{ume depth, despite the most difficult W carry question. If Gov. Smith s Ohio, it will have to be on Issue. He can certainly get no comfort from these primarie “On the face of the figures. any one who has the courage (o put Ohio even in the doubtful column plainly ignores the significance of mathematice” ad- vises the Santa Barbara Daily News (Democratic), and the Morgantown | New Dominfon (independent = Demo- cratic), argues. “Tf any candidate be | leves today that by appealing to the wet sentiment of the country he Is go- ing 1o fide into office on a tremendous wave of enthusiasm, the vote in Ohio is lkely to make him sit up and take notice the wet | The people of this country are ! not yet ready to give up the experiment | of prohibition and Its enforcement A different interpretation of the facts comes from the Houston Chronlc (Democratic). which states that prohi- biton 15 a fact and that “Republican enforcement from the very nature | the party never will be good”: (hat there is.a vising fide of discontent, not | with the dry laws of the Nation, biit with the spineless enforcement methods {of & Coolidge and & Mellon” he | Chronicle, however. remarks leaders of the Ohlo Democracy no lo | ehase the wet will-o'-the-wisp. They realize that the Stale is dry. bone dry | continually electing to office dry Sena- tors and Representatives” o owon “Into these fghts of locality and or- |Wrong to read national implications | avers the New York Times (independ [ent). with the added thought: “The dreariest response of the oracle of the people’s will adition and newly |lius- of | | Tuesday, ix the triumph | ™ the | in Oineinnati of the old Republican says | machine, the worthy maintainer of the wooded, mountainous and ravines In (he massit west + ¢ % German genera head- claim that Ameriean losses as the result of fierce fAght- In the Vesle sector around Bazo- but the Americans held their ground * * * British troops continue their attacks on the Arras-Bapaume front and on both sides of the Somme they make substantial progress. Croi- selles, a strong German position north country broken by of Noyon quarters are heavy ng ches Lof Bapuume, 1s captured by a flanking movement. at all pol Bapaume and the River Scarpe German prisoners taken admit nany is short of reserves i+ using shattered divisions. American forces attack the Germans northwest of Solssons at 7 this mor ing and within an hour gain their first onjectives. German counteratiack 1s repulsed and Is still going on tonight, the first time American f been used north of the Alsne ey March announced today that ince July 1 allied forces have eaptured 112,000 prisoners and taken more than 1300 heavy guns, vast stoves of am- munition, thousands of machine guns and small arms. * * * Five hundred and thirty-four names on casualty lst given out today, bringing total Ameri- ean casuslties thus far in the war to 25,120 and Halg's men gain ground (s of the battle line between that and This i es have R Grab Supply Limited, n the New Oaatle News. Most of the bromee statues ave of slender men, which shows the famous weren't _banqueted in the old days as Fighting continues all dlv‘ Leorner back the flowery gardens of old Nippon. There 15, (0 be sure, A new Japan, an up-and-coming Japan, busy things and turning the cold shoulder of denial upon such pictures as these yet, Plerre Loti and Lafcadio Hearn have, each, a place in the poetic and picturesque past lying just around the of that ts destroying many a legend while it sets up miracles I their place. It |15 not easy to deseribe the delicacy of | | « s Byla Loti's work in this book of “Japan.” The best that 1 can do in this direetion is to say that the whole story and the way of its projection seem to be an actual part of this romantic and beautiful country drawn off and lifted over into the imagination of the reader. row o -Constantinople,” save for longitude and the lady, save for widely differing ternals, Is just another “Japan romance,” says Plunkett, friend of otf; Instead, If 1t be romance, “it is as devold of all plan as was the life of its So. in the planless way of diar and letiers Loti tells the story of Cou- stantinople, meeting place of all the peoples of the world. Here the lady name is “Aziyade,” and here the story of Stamboul and its pictures come to light by way of the ardors of Loti for (his Oriental stren. Farther along thes ‘ow clearer, better organized and pro- jected as the flame of love subsides to A point where the eyes are less dazzled the judgment less warped by the heat of the burning bush. To be sure, at the vy last Loti is weeping “hot tears” at [ memory of Aziyade. but this is & ges- » ture, A signal of farewell that made in fact and much to the advan- tage of the travel tale long before this final flow of tears on the part of Loti e R Fgypt” manages to get along in an atmosphere of historie racord of historic art. Pictures abound—pictures of Cairo and the Nile, pietures of tombs and temples and mosques hehes by Night” and again by sunlight work through the actual and imaginative powers of Lot to things of splendor and charm. Modern Luxor appears- “Poor Luxor! Along Its banks a row of tour- Ist boats, such as now infest the Nile from Caira to the Cataracts . nothing of the palaces nor the temples, 8o in the way of lament—very eloquent and touching lament-—does Loti travel through the land of Pharaohs, mark- ing the ruin and the relies that front themselves so unconquerably upon the march of progress. Unconquerable? Just walt! However, we come away om the old land with Loti, who has roved himself here the historian in outlook as he is at all tmes the poet in tmage and phrase Here are hooks to be read and reread, for their facts, for their winged fancies, for_their beautiful and enchanting way th words. A trie posseasion, 1 should think any one would count the works of is the Yet they | making | this amazing century | Not | was | torney Gifford have not vet cided. but Mr. Gifford declares ness exclusively, usually has affected by the padlock provision been forced to move Precedents! From Peoria, TIL, | Warner. wir been de- “In our proceedings in Minneapolis the entire building. be it home or nlace of busi- been In The Whole ls somber. fear- | maiority of proceedings the padlock ‘. L S | has closs whol s> and there | must be when N fate rests with the | 1 Clooed L e o milies have conviction. This is our way of teach- ing people like Flavius to behave, and of teaching people like Titus to behave the constitution. Our way of uphold- ling the eonstitution iz no* to strike at | the man w“o breaks it, but to let off { somebody else who broke somethinz else.” L Now what is it that the Assistan! Attornev General discloses ahout the awfulness of violating the sacredness of the home with its little still in the i nursery? Tt is that Congress was so | jealous of protecting the home from nreasonable entry and search” that | the penalty for an officer’s following any scent th.t leads to such a still. even if he finds it and a carload of “home brew.” 1s that he is subject to $1,000 fine and imprisonment. That effense |is worse than running the still and | feeding the baby on the mash, when | measured by the penalty of the law. P | No such protection from invasion with search warrant, applies to anv other place than the home of the boot- legger; it does not apply to a_business place or storehouse. The home is | different. except as Mrs. Willebrandt |says. in extending her definition “when it is a distillery masquerading a home.” But she declines to answer as to where lies the exact dividing line between a distillery and a real home That is for the court to decide. and any onc who guc:s ~ wrong. in advance of the court. 13 fit for “treasons’ strat- agems and spoils,” and subject to a fine of $1.000 and other penalties. So it iz wisest not to take chances in a Tuess * o o% % The Volstead law coniains this pro- vision “No search warrant shall issue to search any private dwelling occupied as such. unless it is being used for the unlawful sale of intoxicating liquor, or unless it is in part used for some busi- ness purpose. such as store. shop. saloon, restaurant. hotel or boarding house. The term ‘private dweiling’ shall be construed to include the room or rooms used and occupied. transiently, but solely as a residence. in | an apartment house, hotel or boarding house.’ It will be borne in mind that all this prohibition of sesreh warrants as ‘o private dwellings has no reference to justifying the 1llegal manufacture of | liquor in such dwellings, nor to the | possession of such therein. but apoplies not another Assistant | merely to forcible entry and the issu- ance of search warrants. unless there is information and belief of actual In case of a sale to an at present have about a dozen private | officer or other witness, then a searcn homes under padlock proceedings be- | warrant may be issued znd tl cause of prohibition law violations.” ! homes." e Has the beauty of Longfellow's appeal | bacome a serdonic meckery nnder a too, too legalistic interpretation? “Stav, stay at home. my heart, rest: Homekeeping hearts are happiest. ! For thos~ that wander they know not ! where | Are tull of trouble and full of care: To stay at home is best. | rest; | The bird s safest in its nest: Over all that flutter their wings and fly A hawk is hovering in the sky; ‘To stay at home is best." | another verse: | "Oh. little bootlegger. stay At home: iThr hawks will get you if you roam | Peed raisins and sugar to vour baby And you'll be safe -we don't sav may! Law’s motto is. ‘God biess our home Of course. Longfellow referred to a bird as a hawk, but who does not recog- nize the prophetic significance now of | the “haw Daily we read of how | the “hawks" destroy stills out in the { woods or in caves, but “to stay at home | is best"—i. e., safest for the hootlegger. Congress had heard speeches about the Magna Charta and about how the home was the Englishman's “castle.” impregnable and secure: it must not be | entered without the owner’s consent | So, acording to the Assistant Attornev General. that is now the Achilles heel of the Volstead law. and home brew is { beyond the law so long as a “hawk" is | unable to buy it in that home. He may | buy it in the house next door and that | next-door house may then be raided, | but not the home where it is made in the still and where the baby sleeps in | the fumes of its making » * This is one of the mooted peculiari- tles of “law and justice 1t is not seemly for r layman 1o argue about the law, but let a lawyer tackle I In the Tlinois Taw Review. No. 18, (1923-'24), page 333, {s a communica- tion discussing this same principle as {apolied to violations of the lottery law by obtaining evidence illegally. Quot- ing I part “Suppose the Government has fig- nored amendmen' 4. has uniawfully {carried uff a certain thing. What s to b2 done. when, during the trial, the Government offers the things selzed in eviden-e against the defendant® Prof. Wigmere contends that the evidence should he received, because the general rule is that “the admissibility of evi- dence 18 not affected by the llogality |of the means through which the party | has been enabled to obtain the evidence “The clusion o the evidence is ve- ferred to as a ‘quaint method of en- foreing the law,' and the imaginary court, acerrding to Prof, Wigmore, says b the defendant, and Flavius, the high-handed marshal “Titus, you have been found guilty of conducting a lottery: Flavius, you have confessedly violated the constitu- tion. Titus oueht to suffer imprison- ment for erime, and Flavius for con- [tempt. But, ns! We shall let you both go free ‘We shall g vins direo and Now the Department of Justice adds he atill | and house and all contents confiscaied Yet the Department of Justice holds and sold by order of the court. that homes cannot be padlocked “un- less they are saloons masquerading as e How strange and abnormal would b° any interpretation of law without “ex- ceptions!” So here is an exception in all the foregoing: In Cornelius’ “Search and Seizure” (1926), par. 91, page 288 is this - “When odor of intoxicating liquor or mash sufficient to constitute probable cause. Where an officer alleges that he is familiar with the odor of whisky or mash, and that he detected the odor |of such mash or whisky on certain premises at a certain designated time it has been held that this sufficient “Then stay at home my heart, and | 5 constitute probable cause for the | issue of a warrant, if the officer was not guilty of trespassing at the time he detected the odor of whisky or mash. Thus, in one case, certain offi- cers went to a farmhouse. and. being familiar with the smell of mash ani moonshine whisky, detected the odor | thereof, emanating from certain prem ises: the officers having made two or | three visits. on two occasions having detected the odor from the hizhwav and on one occasion having gone to the side of the house and having rap- ped at the door to gain admittance The officer secured a warrant issued on | an afMdavii, on which he stated * And that then and there I could | smell the odor of mash and moonshine | whisky coming from said buildings or {some of them: that mash is a concoc- | tion out of which moonshine whisky | an intoxicating beverage, so called. is manufactured: that I am familiar with the smell of mash. having smelled con siderable quantities of it, and that what 1 smelled. as alleged aforesaid, was | mash and moonshine whisky." ™ The court held that this was suf clent to warrant the issuance of & search warrant. and a search there- under was held to be legal. Peaple vs. Flaczinski. 323 Mich., 630, 194 N. W 56681 As all liquor. including that which contains less than one-half of 1 per cent of aleohol, is subject to a revenus iax. all revenue officers are authorized to enter wherever it is made or pos- sessed. 1o inspect and tax it Pro. | hibition officers may be guided by rev | enue officers, at times. If the sens» | of smell be acute, sometimes evidence equal to that in the case of Flacainsk! may procure & search warrant, even as o & home For another example, of- Ccers were upon certain premises law fully, and. while there saw & light in A cellar two or three doors away, and | detected the odor of cooking, raisins | The court, m passing on whether or not the odor of cooking ralsing was | sufficient (o warrant an arrest without A warrant, and to seize the evidence stated 1 an officer may arrest whan he | actually sees the com sion of & mis- | demeanor ot felony, why may he not do the same thing If the sense of smel! Informa him that a erime is being com- witted?® Sight is but one of the senses. and an afficer may be so trained that | the sense of smell is as unerring as the sense of sight, * * * 1 see no reason why the power to arrest may not exist {f the act of commission appealed to the sense of smell as well as to that of sight. (Cammonwealth vs Diebold, 302 Kv 415, 239 8. W, 705. To the same effect is McBride vs. United States, 284 Fed 418 U, 8 va. Apple. 1 Fed. (3. 493 hal odor of mash sufficlent o au e entry in residence)