Evening Star Newspaper, August 31, 1928, Page 8

THE EVENING s C., FRIDAY, AUGUST 3 31, 1978. ~mm— e THE EVENING STAR , ficult problem. It must Aind a pllcPlC"\' and Monday and Tuesday they With Sunday Morning Edition. ifor the House of Detention and no| will be pouring out again. The Penn- neighborhood will permit its location | sylvania Rallroad alone will put eighty WASHINGTON, D. C. there without vigorous protest and ef- | extra trains into service to handle the FRIDAY . 1928 fort to prevent. This situation cannot I rush, and other railroads are making be indefinitely protracted. The Gov- | correspondingly adequate plans. Here THEODORE W. NOYES. ... Edimr,' ernment must soon obtain possession of | in Washington the annual rush of those | the site for the proposed new huilding. | who are going out and those who are The Evening Star Newspaper Company ki uu.:'n?,n Office D 1ith St and Pennsylvania Ave New Vork Office: 110 East 42nd St Chicago Office: Tower Building Furopean Office: 14 Regent St.. London. | England Rate by Carrier Within the City. The Evenine Star 45¢ per month The Evening and day Star (when 4 Sunday The Evenine and Sundas Star (when 5 Sundass) §5¢ per The Sunday Star .. .5¢c per copy Collection made at the end of each month Orders way be sent in by mail or telephone Main 5000, 60c per month | | | Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. ©ais and Sunday.. 1 ¥r.$1000. 1 mo 36.00 3400 1yl 1o All Other States and Canada. Sunday. .1 yr.$12.000 1 mo. 1vrl, $800: 1 mo. &y oniy 1510 $300: 1 mel sen- ings of o There ix so much motor capital in- volved in this Summer's campaign that | some influential adviser may make a hit | bv promising a harassed public relief | from the parking conditions. | JORNSON, Result of Each Election. While listening to each campalgn, | An old assurance comes again; 1f we're alert and well behaved, Once more the country will be saved. | are would seem te recently a site was there. The prospect is presented of 1t proceedings 1o estop the transac- cherish such pride,” said of Chinatown, “as to be feared by all ‘1t you Hi Ho, the sage makes you wish men, become & tax gatherer Climate and Crops. When neighbors get together, Let's try to make things pleasant Don't talk ahout the weather There may he farmers present. w th the I has seen 1t happen.” sald Uncle | beauty a month ago. | woman | short ‘a’" common words which she says Mr. Hoo- | college & good many vew | ing | speech, | congratulations or Interpretations | until the United States Senal= has ratl- rejoined | * The garden at this time of year is not much to look at, compared with its Besides, garden interest is on its annual wane. This is a regrettable but necessary factor in this great outdoor sport. Just as foot ball has its season, and base | | ball its own particular time, so garden- | ing claims the months of March. April, May, June, July, August and September. There may be gardening in February, and there may be cosmos and chrysan- themums in bloom in October, but for all practical purposes gardening in this latitude is confined to the seven months named. This is well Too much of anything 15 bad makes no difference whether human be- ings. flowers or sports are beinz con- sidered. Attempts to pley foot ball the vear around lead to noching but satia- tion It s a blessing, even to the most ardent gardener, that Autumn and Win- ter put a chill upon the growing of flowers and vegetables. 1If it were not | for this annual interruption. only a few super-enthusiasts could retain a life- long love for the work which has heen said by some one not to be too low for | the highest, nor too high for the lowest ¥ k% The annual hiatus in the pleasant recreation comes at a time when keen interest has somewhat dwindled simply through inertia. There is an incrtia in mental as well as in physical activities It is true that an absence from town for several weeks will send onc out into the garden in a fever of activity, but this is more in the nature of a clean- up than real garden work Something of zest is lacking, nor is this strange. since. as the ring in the story had it. “Even this shall pass awav." There can be no perpetual motion in gardening any more than in any other activity engaged in by that most instable of creatures, man. His very mind and heart demand change No matter how good the hook reads. he wants a new one. If song he hears strikes his fancy as be- ing little lower than that sung by the angels, vet the time will come when it will sound otherwise to hi; jaded ears. He will call, and rightly. for something new. Gardens in climates wher> there i< he perpetual Springtime needs must have | resting periods. since Nature hersell seems incapable of continuous action in this regard. She seems lo have regretted her continuity to the extent of having instituted resting times, dur- ing which trees and plants repose grandly. as if tired of their supreme efforts in the way of leaves and flowers The geardener may well take a tip fram the Great Mother. leaving the couduct of the garden from now on to the control of mighty and immortal forces, which, after all, do most of the work, anyway About, all that any gardener does is give his seemingly senseless plants a bit of intelligent control. If the wind and rain bowl a flower over, the gardener may come and pick it up.| Often Nature seems strangely incapa- ble of doing these little tricks for her children. A plant now and then may have enough elasticity in lts stalks to| right itself, but often enough one will be found with no such powers of re- | bound If the gardener will come to ils as- sistance, the plant will rejoice by grow- ing. and the friend in need will feel that he has had a real part in the pageant of Nature, which spreads out its interesting panorama no less surely in a small back yard than along the mighty canvon of the Yellowstone. PR The satiety of the garden fs no less interesting, in its way, than the full WASHINGTON Chairman Raskob appears to have assembled at New York Democratic headquarters a political stafl well above the average in ability and experience Typical of the kind of men now holding down desks there is Maj. Gen. Henry T Allen, a distinguished World War sol- dier with a fine fighting record France and the American commader in the Rhineland after the armistice A | | | Gen. Allen heads the veterans' bureau at Democratic headquarters. He is a Rative of Kentucky, a Baptist. and was intended for the ministry by his parents but got switched to Wast Point Military Academy. He is the author of two in- teresting books on the war. - “Mike" Hennessy, veteran political re- porter, in his Round-About column in the Boston Globe, tells of a New York who complains of Hoover's pronunciation and grammar in his speech of acceptance. which she thinks were so faulty and inexcusable | in a college graduate that she enight as well vote for Al Smith 'She disap- proves of Hoover's aping Senator Mo pronunciation of ‘national,’ using the long first ‘a’ instead of the avcustomed writes Mr. Hennessy. “Other Ver 'mispronounced by accenting the wrong syllable are ' ‘rampant’ and ‘exigency.’ She says he used ‘comprise’ when he meant ‘com- e’ and sald ‘emigrant’ when he eant ‘immigrant.’ But worse than that she declares she heard Mr, Hoover use plural subjects with singular verbs. Then Mr. Hennessy comment Women are not always as charitabl: as they should be. Mr. Hoover has been ont el roaming the world earning his daily aside a little for a rainy day. getters of the Hoover type are seidom recognized grammarians. Mr. Hoover s critic makes no objection Gov Smith’s pronunciation of for work, or ‘foist’ for first.” % o kW This week’s cables report that “Ke!- logg mutism sets new style In diplo- macy.” It appears that not a single 0- [ ‘wolk’ American Secretary of State Lo eremonies of executd w war, Mr. Kellogg' of the Parls and the the treaty to outls silence communicated itself to th diplomats in attendance, with & conse- auence that their business was tran ted without any oratoricel vhl:\:ulm Never before have statesmen presented # treaty to the world without saying something about it. It ts whispered that Mr. Cool- idge suggested to Mr. Kellogg that sllence was a pretty good policy, al least fied the document. An outpouring of official interpretations might have be | trayed too many different opinions P The Federal Radio Commisslon con- tnues to be a storm center both within and without. On the outside there is still the pulling and hauling over the renssignment of wave lengths and sta- tion power, and cancellation of licenses which is part and parcel of the new radio set-up made necessary by he qual allocation” by zones provision of the new radio law, The new “set- up” was slated o be promulgated Sep- tember 1, but may now be further de- layed due to n varlety of complications and conflicts between opposing the as to how to accomplish equal alloca- tion with minimum _d.aturbance W extsting broudcasters. Within the com- mission there 15 similar disagreement 0. H. Caldwell of New York, one of the | two members now remaining whose !nnpoll\lmrnl dates from original crea- tion of the commission, has sald he intended to resign soon. Judge Ira . Robinson of Weat Virginla, present | chairman of the board, is reported to | be _on the eve of quitting, though the judge himself denies this. Robinson and Caldwell are exponents of divergent l" ayon the land, having bought it |coming in is anticipated as usual, many vears ago. It has granted special | though no estimates are available as | dispensation in this case because of to the numbers concerned. In Nr'w‘ the recognized difficulties attending the | York the movement this Labor day is 1 removal. The Commissioners are not| expected to be 20 per cent heavier than | m":e n'rcusv-d‘o{ trickery in proceeding | jast year, and that increase is expected without proclamation of purpose i1 (5 prevail rally r the 1 seeking a site, for it is evident that any | nddr:“nn mgq’:: rrn’wfl‘:’:\n the Ir:r;l(:oad: ;\:fl?n‘m.\'ofncem.pnl‘nf intention would | every excursion boat will be packed to P g 'h"flfl"’“‘ protest | the gunwales, and those who do not ‘wh;“:‘“; _:h“ ';":"" ‘"‘“; be settled | travel by train or boat will be found B \N”m: “"" l'v"“": bl "““"4‘ | this evening greasing the car and fll- et ;:“d"-‘ ant ‘f“l soon, _""» ing the tank, preparatory to taking s e hoped that it will not evoke | 1, (1o highways tomarrow and Sunday. e painful recriminations upon public 1\!-1 The free-born American is largely | 1 Mal 8¢ feinls who are merely seeking 10 €0 | ruied by circumstance or habit, Tn | thelr duty to the women and children | iaiflions AT Sases; Fts HeikLY ton/din= g who are temporarily in custody. | day is an opportunity in the form of Toc e A brief respite from routine. and it | The Harland Report. ol | knocks but once. If the opportunity Member of the Associated Press. Flimination of mandatory jail 3 e The Assoctated SAclusively enticle is not answered, it is lost. But In T, Assoctated Pross s (AGIUSIELY SN | tences for third offense speeding. first | other cases, the movement on Labor Pl edlied To o (ot otferwizt bid: | offense driving while infoxicated and | day is directed by force of habit alone gublisheq herain Al rignts of :;LGf:{y;-‘\;;r:wcn.\d ofiense reckless driving are Mr. Smith could arrange just as well = R recommended by Traffic Director (o bring his family back to the city fen | R | William H. Harland in his first annual e Wikt 67 t Puesday | A Missioner to the Farmers. d days hence, but he does it on Tuesday e ot sa s Sehesan oty | report. In making these radical | because the day after Labor day seems | the Democratic nomination for Vice e it A B e Lo 5 : actuated by two motives, to secure more | home. Mr. Brown could as well ar- Prosident strikes an aggressive note, convictions in traffic cases and to re- ! yange a week-end trip for September especially on the {arm relief QUESUON. | move the inequity of & compulsory jail | § as for September 1, but he would not that is well suited to the conditions ' v ] | sentence for a motorist convicted of | think of going away except for Labor | ;! the campaign m: the region -r:ch minor speeding three times during his | day. Wi i | e represents on the national ticket. 8 il 'a el Enatosiid ‘Aotiucalig. of lifetime. Ads the regulation stands ul! Some day some wise person will de- | o= o & | present a driver may be arrested on | cige to stay at home on Labor day and | faith in '“"dl“’”"”’: pahy "t“""»‘h""““ three oceasions in a period of {Wenty | do his excursioning the week after & vigorous denunciation of the short- A i 4 SRR e ears for speeding. yet on the third But once word gets abroad of what oox D SN offense the judge is compelled to send | i i Fespoct it goes outside of the lines thus | < : e B CE o By S PRt far Iald down in the mcceptance him to jail. Mr. Harland recommends ' (housands will immediately decide to | e ot 3 ikt it Shsciees CAlrectly | that the third offense speeding should | do the same thing. and another custom Al Y Coctecn Nt Mk be confined to a period of one year and | will have been established. :’MV" Bpllipsiies ) mm'm | that the courts. be given discretion in | - - witbwetorivonh sty the severity of sentences for first| Controlling an airship by radio with B i) o ananag while intoxicated, and | no human being on board, as German oot WA e For second offense of reckless driving | experts now propose, may shift the S8 stand e es 1 b 2 . i O In respect to the fallure to secure | attention of military theorists back {rom which they were named at Kansas City N ] v ¥ convictions under the present svstem, | the skv to terra firma. The importani and Houston “went after” the 0pposi- \i Harland say: | 9 r. Harland says | attacks will be concentrated on the tion by specific name or charge. Owing o' Bie’ compuliory failoisen- | ranio stations There will doubtless be response in | tences for convictions of driving while Y rebuttal to Senator Robinson's accusa- | intoxicated and second offense reckless | .\ o0 Loy . tion that Mr. Hoovér: has' consistently | QFVIng nearly all‘offenders arreated on | e hot wave has mot been of long it el Sl e these charges ask for jury trial and ex- | duration and the tourists have con- N o | s int, t yash- party failed in its discharge of duty in | the compulsory jail sentence. It is be- | s A S el o] "She mstter oF Regiuisiin for the agri- | B0l that the ends of justice would be | ington, D. C.. as the great American - | served if heavy fines were imposed for | Summer resort has not been seriously eultural interests. The story of the the first offense and permits canceled, | jmpaired. enactment of the McNary-Haugen bill s now provided by hm'.I d that 'hl'l p—— e | present maximum penaity apply only | = by C"“:"‘»" at the Iast session contains | F¥ Tepeaters. | A public that loves o be entertained ;i‘:;:v ;\- a:t‘e:m::::. T:,:. b,g b":u!h; mi‘ In cases where no one is injured and | is earnestly hoping that some of the i e g :c:‘ only the question of automobile speed | peakers who acquitted themsclves s i ':"" :‘ ‘“W’ e 8004 | 4 nvolved, a time limit should cer-| brilliantly in conventions will be heard s ; stk the face Of | \.i be put on offenses. Mr. Harland | from on the stump and even, should thm: !‘\‘" % ""' o . ""h MeAsUTe | i doubtless find hearty public support | Advertising pressure on space permit. gh. not primarily for the benefit |\ i recommendation. Whether the | across the radio. of the farmers. but for the discomfiture | peem S o o sk e ; limit should be placed at one year is a 2 administration party. | moot question and one that will have| Msine is lning up her forces with & In the matter of prohibition Senator | (O 0 i Che ched out by trame | VieW (o demonstrating a leadership in Robinson adopts a strategically sound | % : | v y | authoriti h | public sentiment, a sentiment now espe- position. Speaking in the South, | authorities and the courts. It is patent, . Speaking e South, as a |} 0" Tt there can be no fairness | CIAllY engaged in a study of practical Boutherner. he faces the unquestioned | 4 | S all P g+ 4| prohibition on which Maine has ) G 0 Bl o ik ighon e | L0, Mling R man Sus skenciing she WOBeC L i St i i Wit e i | TS By SN o’ Shee WS on thiee | i > purposes of the candidate for President, | 2°C251008 over & SOgperion hr Sime. | snd that there is & pronounced nhw‘_} Mr. Harland's other recommendations Son 10 revolt on this isste. So he says| 1l Probably evoke some difference of | hat erk s Atwa B | opinion. Washingtonians have suffered | e R sty e lhu’v = ho | 100 much at the hands of reckless and | | @iliee 45 %o0//tié. besi means of peomot- | SUmIKeR ‘drivers ‘o ‘look unanimously | oty | ing temperance and of suppressing the ;::":""::"['M““’:"""m:";"‘ o lessen e | 1t is frmly belleved that a peace | traffic in alcoholic beverages.” In this | Pt m"::' s Fm‘m”‘ ® | gocument has been devised whose pur- | phrase he offers comfort to those who | 00" =, IORRIT. T LT ;" "’"‘; port, as well as fts date, will prevent are st present disposed to doubt the andling of {4 from being confused with any mere meed of regularity in the face of o | 38§TANt traffic cases during the past|yey yeqr resolution candidacy which has revised the party | 1% Months, and regardiess of whether A ey Dlatform and has precipitated the pro. | Director Hariand's _recommendations | Nighi club patrons have no use for | hibition question as an acute issue. ;lrtb'rmt into effect, no mercy is likely | padlock publicity and make no effort to | It is evident from the stress laid by | '© D¢ Shown to those who are placed in | yake ft away from the proprietors who @enator Robinson in his speech upon :"c" for violations of the major regula- | can employ it, as & rule, quite profitably the agricultural question that his role | HON% | - i the campaign s 1 e that of & mk Naturally, the reason back of the Poverty is no disgrace. The proverb, sioner In the farm belt. He has the Tecommendations. to secure a greater nowever, does not imply that an gift of oratory and he makes an im- | PUmber of convictions, will have decided | enormously financed political campaign | pressive platform appearance. That he weight in the consideration of the cannot be highly respectable. | will repeat throughout the South and | Problem. Convictions even on lesser eeme 5 | West his plea for support for the Dem- | Penalties are much more to be desired As a grateful memory of youth, the | eerstic ticket fn somewhat the same | UhAn scquitials bscsuse the maximum | public fountain will take the place of | e | penalties, in the opinion of the judge | the “Old Swimmin' Hole." terms as those employed in his Hot judge Springs address would seem to be the | OF JUrY. are too severe. Neither public | o g probable plan of campaign. And in | MOF jury desires a jail sentence for the | SHOOTING STARS. that effort he is certain to make an im- | first offense of driving while drunk if | - - e S | the tipsy motorist is invelved in no RY PRILANDER R i accident, but is arrested for staggering & Promises of a brilliant inauguration | from his automobile as he parks at the Santa Claus In August. @isplay should, even at this early time, | curb. Neither is there any desire for a | Good old Myth of long ago! ly . | call for attention o snow-shoveling | compulsory jail sentence for the second | What would we not give to know g i equipment 30 as o prevent minor inter- | offense reckless driving if no damage | That Friend Santa. far away, Serence with the main event. The cli- | has been done In elther case. There | Fits propellers on his sleigh . matic conditions of March 4 in an|Will be no disagreement that in cases And prepares some wings for flight tnaugural year have never checked | such as these a heavy fine and revoca- [ OD & crisp December night, enthusiasm when a program of general | tion of permit will suffice. |In his modern frame of mind, Tejolcing was decided on, The mext| In none of Mr. Harland's recom. | Leaving reindeer far BERITA Anauguration thould denote. the progress | mendations is he attempting to make | Friends and Kkin must buy the toys and prosperity of the Nation by being | the way easier for the violator of regu- Th™ F¢ ard good girls and hoys enuipped with all the modern con- lations. The public should m-\rw]or all ages, each 5o gay i veniences | understana this phase of theirebart. ‘He | L e 008 O Christmas day b & Dowews, ‘atiugting o wide out| 3 the Spirit of the pole | The House of Detention Problem, | Incquities in the traffic code. to fine the | :nn':s i ::g"::’ :‘ 'h',m"l 26t 46 300k ma A Use Hose. ‘ot | 118 Who Basetotore Hanigotien off en- { S SNt L Ay, | Detention. comprising also the heaq. | Hrely because of sympathy and to serve ! s s ik aF e bt auarters of the Women's Burean of the | DSt the ends of justice in the National ¥ | -9 Capital | Money can buy all the rest | m" iee 1:’:":""'0" would have to re- i ki Toys and tricks—we have the price— | ain indefinitely in its present quarters ! | B et oiiiian of wiicks Lhwiebtera) | B NomGLanon DeN I wond 1o/ be it S sl Government is waiting impatiently in | "'""r"' SAvS SISy, P Xejection Figures and Philosophie; { pecch er: 5o complete She Seimmtions Tor | TIIOR WOUM s SNMMLG o W) wupw Mg S0 Y00 UNSE & Shmpaign | the projected new home for the De- | “P*" | fund ought to be?” partment of Commerce. Or else some | The H <L TSR “Very large,” answered Senator Sor- aviation device may have to be found | e Homeward Migration. | ghum; “at the same time not. big enough capable of sustaining this necessary Sheep. geese and Americans do their | (o take a statesman’s mind off political ertablishment in the air. For wheneye: | MErating or moving about in flocks. | economy and keep it busy exclusively | the Commissioners find a place And It Americans, like geese, honked ' with the higher mathematics.” which it may be moved from its unten- | hen the spirit to move came upon able position objections raised by | them, there would at this moment be | those living near the proposed new site. | # Uremendous amount of honking | n that nobody wants the | tbroughout the land, for Labor day | House of Detention a5 3 neighbor, After | APProaches. Labor day marks the be- | several tentative selections were blocked | 8INnIng of the homeward migration u o1 1 | from Bummer rt comes at the | | 9 found and & | I resorts and comes at the | g oy ning says he Just read about Jense was secured on premises south of | Neight of the tide of tourists returning | 1 ’ an army of Amazons who had all the the Mall. Immediately upon the an- | from Europe. It is one of the last days . | | men In the anclent world scared. Times | nouncement of the fact a movemen! of the year when the city dweller feels | ain't so different, | was started 1o prevent the consumma- | the urge to gambol in the country, and | | tion of the establishment of this bureat | When the suburbanite seeks the bright | Hauteur. | lights and hard pavement of the city.| “He ix as haughty as a prince!” sald | e After Labor day, with the exception of | (he impressionable girl e | brief stir around Thanksgiving day, | “You have the wrong ldea,” The House of Detention s & neces- | the American quits rushing about and | Miss Cayenne. “I should say he was | sory establishment. 1L provides a place | gives himself up to a restful period | as haughty as a prize fighter or a pic- far the care and custody of women and | of hibernation which lasts until Easter. | ture star.” enildren accused of law bréRking, while | Then the perlodic rushing about starts ewaiting trial It is In effect an cx- |ODCe again | tension “jall” Every consideration of | Rallroad men and steamboat men decency and humanily requires thet | and garage men are already preparing these unfortunates should not he herded for the annual Labor-day movement th others in the regular place of de- |In New York City the rallroads are | wention. Great harm is done by the | expecting to transport more than one herding of women and children, espe- I milllon passengers over the week end eally in the first stages of their case tl"lduv and tomorrow there will be & | w miscellanenus assortment of weerted rush of outward-bound eiti- offenders against the laws, The chil- | s#ns, and on Monday and Tuesday dren particularly should never be put |these will be coming hack But travel- tnin contact with such conditions ax | ing against the tide will he another | Ehen, “dal de hardest thing ‘bout an lgreat army. Today and tomorrow | education was findin' out Jes' what to thousands are pouring Into New York do wif iL" prevail st even the hest of jaiis Sn the Distriet 1= faced with & dif- Theories as to power allocation. In any jevent, by the terms of the law. all members of the commission are auto- matically out of ofee on March 15 | the | in | Herbert | incomparablc.’ | long or short, marked the visit | | | | | of Friday. Augt | vigor of Spring. It plays a definite part | in the garden year. Some may say | that it does not exist, that for them gardening is always Interesting. They | but fool themselves. They are not honest with themselves These periods of enthusiasm and de- jection are part of the eternal* prepa- | (ration of earth for heaven. Only by | knowing something other than elation may mankind appreciate the forever ' frec. If even in such a small thing as a garden there were no disappoint- | ment, no work. no letting down of | hopes, every back yard would be 8 heaven on earth. And that could be. As it is, periods of satiety come in their natural course, along with the withering of the gladiolus leaves, The althea boughs, heavy with seed pods. lop over the fence. loosing the prim neatness of July days Mosl. of the flowers are gone. The hibiscus has begun to turn: there are only a few small blossoms opening | out frlornly in the morning breeze. Stanchly the zinnias and marigolds. trusty friends of the amateur, do their red and yellow best to revive our spirits. | We refuse to revive This is the time of year when we lose interest in the garden. and we do | not care who knows it. We even take | a pride in losing interest. It is a part | of life. Perpetual interest is not whole- | some. Let us turn away boldly from the | very thing that interests us, if we find | its “contemplation becoming dangerous. | * ok ¥ K not Out in the garden there is every sign | of oncoming degeneration, except in the | green grass, which remains a carpet | of velvet against which the flowers still in bloom shine by reflection in the deep mirror of the growing blades. Grass seems to be the only thing that benefits from such heavy rains as have visited the city this month. While even trees, in some cases. have sufferrd from the tremendous rainfall. the grass is Jooking up with a happy smile. How it loves water! There can never be too much of it for the grass, except. | perhaps. in those situations wher» snade tends to make soggy grourd and too acid soil. favoring the deveiopment of moulds. Rose bushes which were in perfect condition before the rains now. show a large development of black-spot. de- spite what was thought to have been adequate spraying with ammoniacal copper carbonate solution. In regard to this required garden activity, es- pecially in relation to roses,” mo gardeners fall down. Experience leads one to believe that one should spray rose bushes after every rain, even when it is plainly evident that an:ther vain will come within 24 hours. Heat and moisture favor fungus growths of all kinds, and the only wav to be half successful in fighting them is to get the jump on them This is the time of year when ex- perts advise closing the fertilizer sea- son. This seems to be common sense They say to leave off fertilizing the rose bushes, especially, as too much food from now on simply tends to de- velop lush growth which will not have time enough to harden before cold weather sets in Despite the lethargy. of the garden. there is still some interest to be found in it. Those who have planned for late-flowering plants may not agree with everything we have said here. and we hope they don’t. The common as- | sumption that every one who writes| sots himself up as infallible is fallacious. Thoughts are thrown out because they come, and not always because they are held to be true. Please remember this in reading This and That or any- | thing clse | OBSERVATIONS next. subject to presidential reappoint- , ment and confirmation by the Senate. | Commisstoner Caldwell was confirmed | Jast Spring by a margin of a single vote * o ow Chairman Stephen G. Porter, of the | House committee on foreign affairs and | chairman of the foreign service building: commission, has just presenied an inter- | esting report of progress in the pro- gram to house our foreign service offi- cers, ambassadors, ministers and con- suls under roofs owned by Uncle Sam. | Building sites have been acquired at | Aden, Arabia: Calcutta, India: Yoko- | hama, Japan: and in Honduras: Nica- | ragua; Lima, Peru; Santiago, Cuba, and, 'at Rio de Janiero. and construction | plans for building at these points are under way or m _prospect. In far-away Penang In the Straits Settlements and | at Nagasaki, Japan. our own consular bulldings are already up and furnished. and at Tirana, Albania, the bullding | is nearing completion. At Shanghai | and Amoy, China, new buildings are | in prospect soon. The biggest present project is the office building for (h»} Paris embassy, for which a magnificent site_has just been purchas A site| in Ottawa, Canada, has also recently | | been acquired | | | i | * ! | The Institute of Politics at Willlams- town, Mass., organized eight years ago as a fact-finding agency and a place to exchange Ideas on International problems, is to scek a permanent en- | dowment and to become a permanent | fixture. ‘The original financial guar- | antees which supported the institute | for the past five years have now come | to an end, but Dr_ Harry A, Garfield president of William College and chair- | | man of the institute, has announced | | that there is o be no interruption of | the annual sessions. The Willlamstown Institute has been widely copied, its most notable rival being under the aus pices of the University of Virginia at | Charlottesville. Dr. Garfleld says: “The Institute affords the best opportunity | | yet discovered for what has come to be | known as adult education, and its suc- cess 1s due In no small degree to the | assistance of the press | (Copyright. 19281 e other | UNITED STATES IN WORLD WAR Ten Years Ago Today President Wilson man-power bill this afternoon and fs- sued & ringing proclamation setting September 12 ps day of registration for all men between the ages of 18 and 45 Expect more than 12,000,000 to register and glve the army 2,300,000 additional men. * * * Americans hold their galns at Juvigny, but Germans offer | desperate tance present ad- | vance on plateau. Our men flank ma- chine-gun nests and fight over a de astated tercain llkened to the Battle | of the Wilderness * * Australian troops last night stormed Mont St Quentin and Feuillaucourt, north of Peronne, capturing 1,500 prisoners and glving the Britist an tmportent posi- tlon commanding Peronne and the bend In the Somme, * * * Hard fighting also on the Arras-Bepaume front. British eapture Riencourt. * * * The Germans are retiring from the Lys salient and the British have reoceu- pied Kemmel HIL. * * * Parls re- lolces over the capture of Noyon as shining symbol which marks the cer- tainty of rapidly approaching victory For nearly four years Noyon marked the point where the hated invader as grimly and persistently waiting his op- portunity to hu himself on Paris s v Casualty list glven out today confaine 313 names; A6 “killad o actlon.” 168 severely wounded and 77 wounded to a degree undetermined. - signed the new res to | ment | There was a time when no one had a [ “thought™ that there was a better way. | That time has passed. Ideals soar higher { more harmonious have begun, at least ! but | their God-given lives. | loud speaker nuisance. | and most of the | asked is something could not be done | the French war minister, Paul Painleve. | peace times, so that in a crisis the very | Protests Use of Dogs Critic of Rescue Leagune Calls for Discussion | Ta the Editor of The Star i I heartily concur with the views of | Mildred E. Ewin. appearing in The Star | 4, about the work of | The answers to questions printed | est number of bills durin; o | ans s S el = g his term of the Animal Rescue League of Washing- | pore each day are specimens mrkm! office?—S. T. ""[“ Tl R inaaat troversy | fom the mass of inquiries handled by | ~A. President Cleveland vetoed 435 e an interesting controversy o,y great Information Bureau mnln-’bllls during his terms as President | ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS. BY FREDERIC 1. HASKIN. and_one of far-reaching gond o have '\iihoq'in Washington, D, C. This val- | During his first term he vetoed 301 wrong of this animal-killing question public Ask any question of fact you | his predecessors comb!nm. The major- O O e larifying qualities | MAY, wank to know and you will get| ity of these were private pension bilis, of 60 Srotited Bl otnton for setile- | At immedists reply, Wil planly, | and only two.of them were passed ouér I cannot condemn too strongly | Inclose 2 cents in coin or stamps for | his m,n No President s:m Cleveland the methods of this league. ¥ return_postage. and address The Eve- | has v oed any considerable number of Up to a certain point of time in our ning Star Tnformation Burcau. Fred- | Pills. development we were not greatly of- | °ric J. Haskin, director, Washington. | fended by this whelesale putting to D. C death of helpless, dependent animals. | g jiow many prople did the Hous- ton Convention Hall seat?—L. L. A. It seated 25000 people and was 5 fect long. 270 feet wide and 60 ot high Q. How is crepe effect in materials made?—S. T. L A. Crepe effects in finished goods are produced by alternating a right and left hand highly twisted thread in the vp and filling the fabric with a lizh!- lv-twisted tram. When the woven goocd: | is boiled off and dyved the effect cf the alternately-twisted threads will by the puckering up of the fabric notiesd | in crepe de chine. Q. Was there actually named Tammanv?—G. S A. Tammany is the common form of the name of a noted ancient Delawary as the human soul reaches out for its 32 pression. Now, when | {¢ S many civilized - Christian p-op! whose hearts have opened to really cctie these animals and whose brains to dev w ad means for caring for this problem, | Jarge as T admit it is, it is inconceivable that the Animal Rescue League can con- tinue its present practice much longer, without. change. and continue to gain the support of thinking, feeling people. 1 predict. not far away is the time when rescuing homeless, friendless animals from the streets, or elsewhere, and kill- ing them will be as obsalete as the tal- low candle is today' Where are our churches? I severely criticize our Christian churches. of which T am an aggressive member, for their lukewarm attitude, in general, to our responsibility for the domesticated dependent creatures of the sub- human race. And, in particular. to the present burning question of vivisection 5 4 O uroLes ooNll kG brive: BT ADd) 7o ey o o '3;,{"3;"'{::"‘;&&(‘:: ceaseless stand for animal rights and " p @™ X justice. Animal leagues are veritable . ! : A This project is regarded as the dlaughter houses. and. along with the o Hict Yont: | slaughter houses of this RS and the | most ambitious of its kind fn the itz vivisection laboratories. a disgrace to a| @ When were playing cards in- country which stands for fair play vented?—J. 8 | The stupld. inane and heariless elec- A Many nations claim_the inven- | D R e b L e el b b overtly a “murder” to pass by without | Acia. probably China. The great Chi- comment. To each official of the Wash- | nese dictionary (1678) states that they SUPDOIECORE WOrk T siy: Atdls peror Seun-ho in 1120 A.D. Some o T i ok claniis Die e leagties oo} o unVEANEdE N0 Son SLLE B pond, Ty may tren meNwell Tt | VI Iing ot Rraice e g B oieh 10 A wel" We have | [0 Stk loff melarieboly AR dintiits ot 15 delver to Gioa the complete pat- | PLODOSSE tosrepresent B SOV EEC = of men in the kingdom—the clergy of Fitieve: is; a+ sollitionl tafthik problews; | NEAntas AneS nohillty=and St e e iion and It 18 Up to us to find 1t, [Por several | 1N POINS of -spears, poy Kaows S Yeacs iy heart his been Wit by what | Jpades:oylilie dismondst sod for €Uch e Nnown and seen of the workiigs | 7Cns:* mefchanits ‘and’ /trades-people; of the animal Rescue League. I have | the clubs referring o peasants and | wanted and have offered and am pre- | ("TMeTS: ed to rescue from the Animal Rescie i : B e it b athe el by Mo ey e malk faken there and help them to keep | '"A~ ‘The total population approxi- mates 11,189,978, The majority of | these are Bedouins, Arabs, Nubians and | forcign whites. The Copts. who repre- b e | sent the native old Egyptian stock of | o Egvpt, were estimated in 1907 to num- Police Unable to Help ber 667036, Orthodox Coptic members | 1 ¥ Sveiker. Vi of the ancient Christian church of | .oud Speaker Victims ezypt. 1n 1925 this number was esti- | mated to have grown to 706.322. @. Why is it not practicable to run | aufomobiles with natural gas?—T. M. S A. The Bureau of Standards savs that sutomobiles conld be run success- | fully on natural gas, but the gas would have to be compressed into steel eylin- | ders which would add considerable Weight The amount of natural 2as| chief, written also Tamanee. Tamanen cquivalent o 5 gallons of gasoline | Tamanend, Tamany, Tamened. Taminv, would require enormous containers if | Temane. In the form of Tamanen i | it were not compressed. name appears as one of the signers of Q. How many members have the [ deed to William Penn in 1643 for lan | not. far north from Philadelphia, within Assoclation of Post Office Clerks and | o Asaelalion gl oat of ast Ofie | U= Deese SNBIERS COLIY, g3 Clerks?—J. B. Q. Is Henry Ford actually developing o The membership of the United rubber in Brazil’—W. N. A. In July the Ford Motor Co. sent National Association of Post Office | | Clerks numbers 45.000. The member- | an expedition in the motor ship Lake chip of the National Federation of | Ormoc to Santarem, Brazil. This ship Post Office Clerks numbers 50.000. will be used as an engineering base for the development of the five-million-acre | plantation along the Amazon and Tapa- jos Rivers that the Ford company pur- chased from the Brazilian government last year. an Indian Q. What is the greatest mean varia- tion of ocean temperature throughout the year off our coasts?—C. E. McC. A. The Weather Bureau says that available figures of ocean surface tem- peratures for a 5-year period, for the North Atlantic Ocean only, show the greatest annual ranges as between Au- gust and January to occur over that section of the ocean extending between Newfoundland and southern New Eng- land. Within this area the average an- nual extreme is about 23 degrees. The maximum range is 25 degrees, over the 5-degree square covering the western end of Massachusetts Bay and the waters immediately south of New Eng- land. Here the extremes—Midsummer and Midwinter—are 68 degrees and 41 degrees. Q. Please spell the name of the radio | announcer which sounds like Lois d~ Brilla.—M. W. A. His name is Alois Havrilla. Q. What are the colors and desicn of the flag of the Chinese National government?—B. C. H. A. The colors are red. white and blue The flag is three-fourths red. The left- hand corner is blue with a white sun in center having 12 white rays. Q. What are 10-kilowatt {lamps used for>—M. G. Q When were umbrellas introduced | A. They are used principally for into England?—O. C. | aviation_field lighting. although somc A The umbrella is a vlevelopment of are used in movie studios. The five- the movable canopy used in the Orient | kilowatt size and the two-and-one- from ancient times in ceremonial pro- han; = \|;:d for sludi{a Xli!z‘hm‘\:.!u- as to interfere v Wi G| cessions for persons of rank. It was|pecially where general Hiumination s Ackate s, xtout | ntroducen’ ino Bughind Wipupcaigly | e Spn Spadert M, SH4i0 from my home, These two loud speakers| ™ 7 11 ©% e | @ What is meant by the gift are operated through the night contin- | Q. Who were the Seven Sleepers?— | tongues?—E. P. . ually till 1 and 2 o'clock in the morning | B. M A It is a special divine or spiritual time all through the | A. They were, the heraes of An an- | gift’ attributed to some of the Chris- day. beginning at 7 am. until we cient legend. It is supposed that dur- | tians of New Testament times, the pre- and the other neizhbors are most fran- | ing the persecution of the Christians. cise nature of whieh it uncertam. but tic. They are heard a block away from about 250 AD. these seven Christian was apparently a kind of ecstatic utter- vhn‘ house in which they are installed. brothers of Ephesus took refuge in a ' ance usually unintelligible to the hear- My husband was quite ill two of the cave. Their retreat was discovered and ' ors and even to the speakers. It there- hn.nm weeks in August. I was worn | the mouth of the cave was walled up. | fqre required interpretation. Phenomenra out with nursing him and the loss of | Two hundred vears Iter the cave was|cimilar to this have been attributed in sleep through night. He was unable 0 accidently opened and the men emerged. | magern times to some figures’ fn r obtain the proper sleep. I phoned the having siept through the centuries as | figioue history. i neighbor asking if they would turn off | though but a single night. They found | i N v the {fld"\ at 1 am. but it did not the Christian religion accepted in the Q. What is the other form for - scemingly do any good. and our nerves | city. where they were honored and & quack?—A. L. being worn, and I almost being ready | feted. and where all of them died on the | A. An empiric is an ignorant and un- for the insane asylum. I called the near- | same day. skilled pretender. whether in medicine est police station at 12:30 at night and ' - or in other spheres. Q. What city is known as the Gibral- asked if there was not a law to stop tar of Ameérica?>—H. E. M. Q. Does a man having the lee whee! laud speakers on radios at this time of night. T told the man who answered | A. This name is often applied to|on a vessel actually do the steering? the phone that my husband was sick | Quebec, on account of its position and | G. B. O. and T was on verge of breakdown, and | sirong fortifications | "A. He is a second man at the whee! " RSy and merely assists in putting the helm oWt & e Hepia t M AN lover. ‘The man on the weather sidc T verse of SeVeN | i¢ qaid to have the weather wheel and is responsible for the steering. Q. Why should Lamb have called to do was that I would have to swear| guincar (he . B @ Who founded the National Fed- e rant Spense poets t?2—W. T. . . e T o N oy el pasies Tamb was an enthusias. | (FAHAT. 0F, Basinges gnd Profession Dollceuian ana sskitiic poopi to turn 1t | 2 narrer of i g e and| "A In 1919, Miss Lena M. Phillips T se o said: el | efforts that it reauired theihigh attistle | 1,0 pas tecently -been travelin s Vau o ateaid your mgn| Sroe. developed by SustCerie arti €l Etope to Ascertain. whether ot it o T rraised " He saly that the | YFiting poetry to appreciate Spenser. D8 50 /RSCER TSIV sy ol Bolice are human. He said there was Ll e b bgnl = e nothing could be done unless T would swear out a warrant and go to court Every house in my immediate neigh- borhood has a radio. but since these families have installed and operated their loud speakers it has caused the others to become disgusted with radios. And yet we enjoy good music. The man at police station informed me that any persons could operate a loud speaker or any other music all night if they cared to. It seems to me the time is at hand to make @ regulation to siop this nuisance. People are worn with the heat of Summer and unable to sleep at night and have to carry on through the day MRS. R. E. YOUNG - “War™ Titles Should Pass With Signing of Treaty To the Editor of The Star The German Republic has no war office, but instead a ministry of defense comments a political weekly. And now EMILY PALMER STEARNS. Brandy, Va Mazda To the Editor of The Sta It surely is gratifying to read recent editorials in your paper regarding the At the present moment, half a block from my house, a loud speaker 15 being operated so loud of to stop it. He said that there was no law or regulation: that in court If the police complained the judge said it did not annoy the police, and the only thing @. What President vetoed the great- Tragedy of Haldane’s Career Laid to Hysteria of Wartime In appraising Lord Haldane, who, Star, “knows that Haldane's patriotism dled recently, as one of the foremost of ;A"‘fl-' \mlntgenvch-blle plA:m mmm:l“::l em, as they contemplate his modern British statesmen and organ- | gevotion to the cause of university and izers, the American press attributes to | technical education, his contributions | an understandable wartime hysteria | to literature and science and jurispru- the blight upon Haldane's carcer whick | dence, his sympathy for the common followed his remark 13 years ago thet | people, his service in the Commons and Germany was his “spiritual home." House of Lords, and his brilliant work He is dead.” says the Houston | RS secretary of war, realize that by his Chronicle. “and those who buried him | death Britain lost one of her greatest deeply beneath threats and curses i [ Sons and one whe was deeply wronged vears ago will doubtless he the first to | by the nation. Those in high places strew lilies on his grave. Probably | knew of that wrong and deplored it Lloyd George is only the first to confer | But. for the sake of expediency. to upon the dead statesman political can- | avoid controversy and concentrate ever: onization. The anvil chorus which | thought upon the winning of the war wreeked his career in wartime trills | they bowed before the storm of national hymns of praise as former enemies fol . | clamor.” low the funeral car with bowed heads | The New York Evening World fec! The taunts of foes will not awaken | that “it is remarkable that men who Shrill echoes n the silent tomb. The | knew better should have consented to Lord of Cloan is now deaf to oraise or | the humiliation of such a man. Mr blame.” The Chronicle adds: “When | Asquith in his diary records his contemp: and | the passions engendered by armed con- | for those who raised the hue and crv the | flict have subsided, nations manage fo and Lloyd George has since paid tribute recover a true perspective, and see more | 0 Haldane's patriotism. but at the has | clearly that citizens they condemned in | time he was being assailed there was ! a moment of passion have worked un- | All too little said in protest. Lord Hal selfishly for their country's best inter- | 4&ne was one of the greatest Englis ests. Of such was Haldane.” | men of his time. He was a prafound With & similar tribute to Lord Hal- | (hinker. a philosopher. & scholar. & dane ne “an organizer of highest | StAlesman. 8 powerful advocate of talents.” the Oakiand Tribune states: | Peace. Happily, he lived to see hi Haldane was a vietim of his own hon- | % ‘l""l?“l‘l‘nnrc‘m'd of their conduct esty and avoidance of sham. Becau:e Kb eSSary to go Into the he ‘was nlso & philasopher, he took the | PSychological background which made blow without bending and bided his | SUCh & lynching possible more than to time. Por trivial cause a big man was | 889 that. In war. reason and decency unseated. Britain mourns him today.' | Are ADU o be silent” says the Hartford He suffered a sort of moral lynch. | 1AMeS. with the added statement that g by British public opinion,” avers | cven Winston Churehill has described | Haldane as ‘one of the veryefew great the Chicago Tribune, “and chiefly be- w cause of A quite reasonable, though un- d\'l‘:pd".‘!.“'“"‘_"“! country has pro- | puarded. remark. which, in peace time, | ‘would not even have been noted by the | British publie, * * * He will be! . 7 honored in history, not only as a true mical War Tests patriot, but as an enlightened citizen of | that intellectual and spiritual republic | which transcends the political fabric of nations " Lauding the former British leader as “the maker of a great war machin the Haverhill Gazeite observes that made no protest at the treatment he had received,” and thinks that “prob- ably he understood that protest woull be futile and that history would deal proposes to change the name of his de- partment from “ministry of war’ to “ministry of peace” “The word war.” he argues, “ought to be expunged from written or spoken utterance during shock combat war' would opinfon to mention of arouse public scourge.” Now that Secretary signed the big peace pact, which he is largely responsible for precipitating, it would be interesting, should he happen to bring Paul Painleve or any of his col- leagues back to Washington with him to listen to what their comments might be as they stood on a Washington curb and watched the street cars going by with the sign “War College™ on them A college is o place where peaple go to learn something. Here in Washington then, is a college which teaches war! If Washington 18 going to appear con- sistent Is it not about time that we change the name of this loeal institu- tlon? CLARA LOUISE LESLIE. .- Kellogg v e In explanation of the situation the Loutsville Times suggests: “He satd. a! I a time of high feeling. and in the wrong way. what many a British citizen had said many times, and what might have been sald by any Briton or any Ameri- can at that time without offense, had it been put in words better chosen b TR at Lord Haldane was less » | iuyal Bitlan because of his fondness | for Germany is not a tenable thearv nowadays. But he expressed himself without an explanatory clause, when his audience was at the highest pitch of race feeling, in eircumstances fully warranting its mood.” For Ch To the Editor of The Star It 15 with deep regret that [ learn through your paper that dogs are given out at the District pound for experi- mental purposes Is this a just and fitting reward for the faithful service rendered by their kind during the late war that they should now be made the subject of these experimental gasses at Edgewood? | with him fairly. And history will™ | And are we, the people of this beauti- umes (he Gazette. The Nashville | ful_elty. powerless 1o help them? It | Banner pays the tribute (hat “it was to | seems to me rather incongruous with | his credit that he remained calm and the signing of the pea eaty that this | continued to do his utmost to !urlhrr“ The Indlanapolis News concludes should go on MARY E OLARK. | the Interests of his country and jta | ohe fecord favara the British leaders oy B, 0 31 who bellevod that the Germans es- That he was of great service is | Rriaht tde | not_only no longer questioned, but i | bected to achleve world supremacy sod vight Idea, made the subject of eulogies, con- | Nith it freedom from any accountability From the Port Wortn Record-Telextam | eludes that paper, with the remark that | 97 thelr methods of war. The evepts Qiolt s making » high bid for popu- | ‘Latd Haldane's cate ta another - | ofequlous as Fhardnne would heve beet Iarity. 16 be Mite, e 1 nevar will s | 'TAtIve of the ingratitude of proplen.” | SR B Flatdane Woule, have, beeh piant” ase Wl | ouine are cont: R e Ry 3 pelled to beat out 11 v putts and alide | “Every influential person in Britain | e patt nto the cup just ahead of the ball. today,” lrmrdh‘ T Ticnia Talts | aanatre s P