Evening Star Newspaper, September 8, 1928, Page 6

Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. EATURDAY...September 8, 192 ;HVEObORE W. NOYES. The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office 1 and Pennsvlvania Ave New York Office 110 East 42nd St. Chicago Office” Tower Ruildine European Office._14 Recent St.. London, Fneland, ithin the City. 1th 8t Rate by Carrier W The Eve: ar The Event d Sunday Star eys) ne and Sunda 60c per month Siar 65¢ per mon 5¢ per copy r ade at The aid of each meuth. | 3 t in by mail or telephone Main 5000 Rate by Mail—Pavable in Advance. Maryland and Virgin e g Sinday 1 yr 000 only £4.00 1 wo 1 mo.. 85c 3nc en > 10c 1 ; 15 ther States and Canada. A e S S M oot mo. 5100 135 tEe 0 1 mon iae L 8 R ted Press vely entitled Assoc| o4 Precs is o republictiion of all & o 1t or not otherw er wnd aiso the icca g All tishis of pup i 1 Gispatches herein are also res The e ise for ches cred! Assoct The New Police Trial Board. Rr the adoption of Maj. Hesse's rec- | ommendation for the reorganization of the police frial board and putting the immediately into operation. Commissioners have evi- the District denced a determination to proceed with | 2 thorough reformation of the force. the need of which has been clearly in- dicated by recent happenings. confidence in the morale and efficiency of the police organization has been geverely shaken by the numerous ac- cusations of intemperance and neglect of duty that have come before the board and by the inadequacy of the penaltics meted out to offenders. While there is no on of corruption or flagrant failure of performance on the part of the police as a whole, the fecling has grown into virtual convic- tion age of measurs up to the requirements. Whether the fault lies in the lack of a praper scale of penalties for minor derelic and the uncertainty of the dismissal of major offenders against the police regulations is a question. It ang! is now sought, by thz reorganization | | matches, but France, the likely victor, of the trial board, to assure a more thorough inquiry into each case, with | the prosccution of charges placed in | the hands of an assistant corporation counsel, acting as representative of the public. The officers who have been assigned to duty as members of the | board are all competent and depend- able. They are veterans of the force end upon their judgment as to de- | linquencies the community may with | past few years. good reason for the present rely. The police force should be above all suspicion of incompetence or indiffer- ence to the fullest exactions of duty. 1t should be meintained upon th basis of strict discipline. Intemperance, in any degree, is to bz prohibited, under | | penalty of dismissal. Slackness of con- | duct, on or off duty, is to be con- demned. Abuse of power and brutality of behavior are to be rated as cause for removal. Negligence in any par- ticular is to be punished by admoni- tory penaltics and if repeated by dis- missal. Only by a rigid system of punishments can the standard of the force b> main- tained. The position of a policeman is that of a public servant, charged with the duty of a strict enforcement of the law. His relations to the public are such as to require from him at all times the utmost regard for the rights of the law-abiding citizen. His power of rrrest 1s only based upon obvious breach of the law committed within | his own view or upon reliable report of offense from a citizen. He is a pro- tective, not an oppressive agent. He must be strictly sober, respectful, hu- mane and dependable. The newly organized trial board must | do justice to the poiicemen. It must consider the evidence in =2l cases re- gardless of associations and free from prejudice. It g | Wall Street commissioners Editor 43¢ per month Public | t a disiressingly large percent- | the members have failed to| I | | THE EVENT STAR., WASHINGTON, . \ING STAR |forbld members acting as stakeholders During the Wilson-Hughes campaign of 1916, it is computed, no less than $10.- 000,000 changed hands, mostly through The daily | “odds” wcre quoted and printed as news. | Practically all of the commissioners | are now out of business. The odds are !no longer printed and there is no or- | ganized beiting on the campaign out- come. Of course, there | between individuals that do not reach | pubiic attention. Par sist in backing their judgment—or their | hopes-—with wagers. They will not . 1 however, be guided by public announc will be many bets | screens of countless theaters and old raflroad presidents, who used to be call boys, will criticize his technique or | praise his voice, depending upon their | political affiliations. No, young John Coolidge has no soft snap ahead of him. If he does well in his work, that will be news. 1If he does not do well In his work, that will be bigger news still. If he proves himself a mediocre workman--but that can never be: such comfort is denied him, | for he is a President’s son. In the choice of a vocation, though, If he had decided to become a bond salesman, go into avia- | ment of prevailing odds and will be in- fuenced in their offers and demands for | differentials by the degree of their el | thusiasm. And there will also be prob- | lably the usual number of freak bets. | This year it is stated the favorite prop- osition ot this charactcr relates to the | famous brown d with which Gov. Smith is identified. the Hoover agreeing to wear such hea of Smith’s election and the dorsor accepting the prospective pen- | alty of wearing a straw hat throughout November. There will be wheclbarrow | pushers and peanut rtollers and cos- tume wearers and, perhaps, board | growers, and maybe shavers. There is no limit { the Smith in- to the imagination of partisen in proposing penalties for the | defeated. But none of these wagers has any more influence upon the re- | sult than the falling of the leaves dur- ing the campaign, and probably none of the recorded money bets has the slightest effect upon the election. { R A Sporting Week. Beginning Sunday and lasting almost | throughout the wesk, sport devot wiil have their cup of excitement full { and running over in three of the major athletic competitions. On Sunday the staggering New York American Leagu: team will engage in two games with the i | | Philadelphia Athletics who, after a gal- Jant fight, have brought themselves up to even terms with the world's cham- pions. A crowd of eighty-five thousand persons is expccied to witness these dramatic battles. On Monday at Forest Hills, Long Island, the national singles | tennis championship will begin, with | the best players of France, England and America fighting for supremacy. Rene Lacoste, winner of last year's honor: will not participate in the forthcoming will be well represented In young Henrl Cocliet and Jean Boroira. Likewise on | Monday at the historic Brae Burn, Mass.,, course, the pick of the worlds | amateur golfers will start out over bun- kered terrain in a desperat> attempt to wrest from the head of Bobby Jones the golfing crown that he has so de- servingly and becomingly worn for the The ball games between New York | and Philadelphia may well decide the American League pennant. The Yankees, rated as sure winners even up to thz first weeks of July, have tossed away a thirteen-game lead, and yesterday, meet- ing double defeat at the hands of the Washington team while the Athletics were winning twice in Boston, found themselves on even terms with Connic Mack's fighters from the City of Broth- erly Love. The Yanks are slipping, and the “A’s" are full of the vigor that be- longs to the victor, and New York's | supremacy is seriously threatencd. France, during the past few years, has come rapidly to the front in tennis, | and appears to be ready to annex the | singles championship again to add to a long list of triumphs. In Hennessey and Lott America possesses two fine young players, but it is doubtful whether they will be able to withstand the assault of the French invaders, Cochet and Boro- tra. Victory to the French is not yat conceded, but all signs point that way. At Brae Burn Bobby Jones, the great- est golfing machine ever developed, will strive to keep his golfing crown perched firmly on his head. It is Jones agains the field, and Jones, master that he is, is capable of repelling all attacks. A golfer who beats his greatest opponent, old man par, day after day has little { can never expect is a court of justice, | ! to fear from human opposition. Bobby may be beaten, of course, but the per- chosen with care to hear a particular | son who beats him will have to be line of complaints and charges. Its| “hot,” and the Jones swing will have proceedings are public and henceforth they will be observed with the closest scrutiny to assure the community that the policemen who fail adequately punished, that undesirables are weeded out, and that those who are innocent of offense are freed from ac- cusation. If the board holds to this standard it will have rendered valuable service. If it falls short of it another method of dealing with police derelic- tions must be sought and found. For the Capital's police force must be brought to the point where it is above suspicion of delinquency or demoraliza- ten. SR Many years have elapsed since | Thomas Nast pictorially interpreted ' suggestions of the elephant and donkey a5 political emblems. They survive, in | spite of competitors, such as the bellig- erent bull moose and the water-loving camel. There is a strong trend to con- servatism in America’s political humor. S Election Betting. In previous presidential campaigns | for many yvears past great sums of money have been wagered on the re- sults. As the fights progressed the | quotations of betting odds have been | printed and have been scanned by ob- servers keen to discern the trend of the times. There have been suspicions that sometimes these odds were manip- ulated and that some of the money put up was furnished by campaign commit tees. Indeed, doubls have bren cast upon the validity of many of the large wagers reported. This year there is a dearth of bet- ting, whereas heretofore there have been almost daily quotations of odds and reporis of amounts placed. Now enly nccasionally is a bet recorded and prediction has been made that this will probably gn down into history as | the “betless election.” It has just been estimated as a result of a canvass §n New York that less than $10,000 has been laid in actual wagers. Most of these bets, it is said, have been on the basis of two to one on Hoover's chances. And all of them have been made privately between individuals. In other years the brokerage firms in duty are | | to 10se some o its rhythm and accuracy. It is a stolid person, indeed, who does | not thrill to one or all of the struggles about to begin. Base ball, tennis and | golf make a great triumvirate, and the fact that base ball alone of the three is a professional sport does not detract trom its appeal. From East to West and North to South, America will be fol- | Jowing the progress of the titanic con- | | tests on diamond, court and green. It is | a healthy sign, this Nation-wide interest | in sports. It makes for clean minds, clean living and wholesome outlook upon the problems of life. The crack of the { bat, the twang of the racket and the click of the well hit golf shot, there- fore, are indications of a Nation of up- and-doing people, alert to the problems of the day whether in business or in play. —_ - When Tunney protested against pub- licity, London editors politely complied with his desire by leaving his name out | of the paps A good showman never quarrels with his press agent. Tunney | has ceased to be & showman and may learn to enjoy exclusiveness which limits his hopes in the way of print to possible references in the society columns, - The Young Railroader. Young John Coolidge has a job. It man lands a job and the world should rejoice with John and wish him well | But along with this well-wishing there | should go a lot of sympathy. He is start- ing ut the bottom of the railn under a tremendous There is plenty of room at the top of | thy lroad business, according to the | latest information available, so starting | at the bottom is no handicap. But be- | ing the son of a President is a terrific | load for any man to bear. If John Coolidge is first assigned to filling ink wells, checking or billing or trucking | freight, he cannot fill his inkwells or check or bill or truck his freight in | peace or comfort. If he fills an fukwell | he must do it with flashlights banging cameras clicking and reporters taking hurried notes. If he spills the ink there will be no end of talk—think of the President’s son spilling the ink! If he is made a call boy, his duty being to sum- ness a that are members of the various ex- changes made a business of Pplacing | mon train crews to their work, the is always fine news when any young| tion, take up law, politics, or enter the artment store business in Boston, there would have been some rea- son for it. As it is, the thing Is almost unexplainable. In the first {o become a Tafl president, for all railroad presidents started out as very poor lads with wid- support, and there is not one of them who ever began as the son of a Presi- dent of the Uniled States. But th reason for his choice is John Coolidg business. The greatest thing that any one could wish for him now is that he will be allowed to attend to it. R Misuse of the Courts. Rebuffed in the State courts, a Nevada woman has, through her attorney, asked the United States Supreme Court to hold responsible for damages A club at which her husband spent his time and los: his moncy at poker. She claims that because of her spouse’s fondness for club life and card playing she has becn deprived of rightful companionship and @ fair part of his income, and would have the club pay her damagas to soothe her wounded feelings. The courts, both State and Federal, nave from time to time been used for many ridiculous purposes by persons with distorted ideas of their functions. This is one of the most absurd. If the husband chooses to spend his time play- ing poker instead of giving his wife the companionship which she evidently craves it 1 purely a personal matter between them and assuredly not one t0 be aired in public. She has, however a legitimate recourse to the courts if he refuses to mend his ways, but it is | the divorce court and no other to which | . o Henry Ford and the president ot General Motors have come into agree- ment in politics regardless of competitive attitudes in commerce. The problem of keeping business and politics separate is, after all, not so hard to solv she should appl - The Pennsylvania Railroad may help | to establish an airship journcy as a matter of regular traffic apart from the “hop-off” as a superdangerous semi- sporting event. ——— There is to be no mud slinging in this campaign. But when a candidate I suspected of taking a convivial drink, | there may be a little gin slinging. PR IS O e Racketeers have become alarmingly impudent. but have not gone so far as to organize an effort to padlock police stations, ] Maine is always regarded as sure to go Republican. The question of im- portance in the minds of forecasters is “if so, how much?” Prohibition agents are expected to keep out of politics as individuals Collectively and impersonally they are in deep. ‘The ad writers in Philadelphia have not yei felt called upon to include mention of marked-down prices on bulletproof vests. = s Philadelphia is said to be a wicked | old town at present, with no desire to send to China and page Smedley Butler. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON, Reciprocated Confidence. "Twas not so very long ago when wicked men would stray Into our native village, causing losses and dismay. In confidential spirit, my forebodings to dispel, It was to a Policeman that my troubles I would tell. Now, when a Policeman I see, I say, “Tell Your Troubles to Me.” He tells me of the Bootleg Band that starts & fearful fray, And even puts temptation in an honest Copper's way. He tells how needed Evidence may swiftly disappear, And of the dreadful doings of a Reck- less Racketeer. And so, to keep mum I agree, While he Tells His Troubles to Me. Not Stationary. “Where do you stand in paign?” “I don't say I am exactly standing anywhere,” said Senator Sorghum. “I have been obliged to change my posi- tion with such swiftness that I almost this cam- skates."” The All-Important Flyer. The Dove of Peace across the sky Now sets his course again. We trust more safely he may fly Than many an aeroplane. Jud Tunkins says he is glad his boy can play the banjo. He can see him in the orchestra for hours at a time and be sure he is out of mischief. Mental Agitation. “Your mind is unduly ngitated.” “What do you advise? See a psychoanalyst.” “I have done so. His mind was worse agitated than mine. He was all wrought up on the subject of psychoanalysis.” “What we proudly call ‘our princi- ples, " said Hi Ho, the sage of China- All Kinds of Words. I hear the orator intense Repeat his words anew, Some of them are good common sense, And some are Ballyhoo, “I don't see de use of a political specch,” sald Uncle Eben, “None of de folks I know goes to he#r ‘em unless voung John Coolidge has done the un- | | expected thing. owed mothers or orphaned sisters to | first Autumn-like day made | one shut the windows and ihink about coal. | After a hot Summer, when doors and | windows were wide open, the closing | of them seemed almost symbolic 1 Symbolism is something that fails to hold down much of a place in everyday life of modern people. They admit it upon special occasion and in particu- | lar connections, but as a general thing stick to the plain matier of fact Yet the closing of those doors and | windows at the first touch of raw | weather seemed to speak of things yet | to come. saw | b the whole panorama of | stretched out for 8 months | lor so, a life that is amazingly different | from that lived during July and August For one thing, there will be mor reading done by many from now on. The charms of the outdoors fail sig- lly with many persons when cool cather sets in. Even warm-blooded. “peppy” people, in | many instances, begin to freeze up, ws hey say, at the first touch of Autumy Perhaps they reqiire a certain time to get used fo the change, for they aver that they do not mind but actu- ally like Winter itself. No doubt heat- less houses in Fall are partly responsible for this frame of mind, since the physi- cal condition reacts strongly upon the mental No doubt. cither, that coal companics would make more money and home owners would be more comfortable and | happy if they would start their fu naces wecks before they do. To around in a house that is several de- grees colder than the outdoors is to| | court discomfort, at the least, and colds, at the worst. ok k¥ ¢ thing, home life is more than during the warm | the quietest neighbor- | hoods nowadays are not very quict! | Automobiles, trucks, wide-open radios, | to mention only a few of the priz taking noise-makers, combine to send a perpetuzl roar dinning into receptive ear Now the essence of a home is quir'l,! No two persons, of course, would agree | upon the exact amount of this com- | modity necessary to make a house a home, but perhaps every one would be willing to admit that a home shouid not sound like a stadium, It is because those who have the means recognize this that they build | themselves, s integral parts of their houses, libraries wherein they may go to cnjoy the seclusion and quiet which every one ought to have when he read: | This sterling Winter enjoyment takes | on added intcrest with the first touch of Fall. It seems more natural to be | in the house, and rooms are more quict | then, everything else being equal, which | they not always are. 'To scek a big easy chair in Summer is not exactly the same as finding solace in it during Autumn or Winter. The quintessence of reading comfort comes on a snowy night. ‘Then a thrill- ing story takes on added interest. Every snowflake that falls adds point to the tale. One may be unconscious of the fact, but the simple truth is that he is constantly congratulating himself on being safe from the play of the ele- ments, He thinks of sailors at sea, and | is glad that he is not a_ sailor. He admires sailors, he takes off his hat to sailors, but at the same time he is will- ing to let them have their thrilling | and none too comfortable jobs. ® ok K x The best way to treat that neces- sary evil, the furnace, 1s to realize the full value of what it does for a home, and to work up a fervent admiration | for it, so that the constant tending day and night will not bore one. If the | t | | | For anoth ! quiet in Wint | months. Even | i Scnator Robinson’s speech accepting | the Democratic vice presidential nomi- nation is acclaimed by most of the Democtatic newspapers as a clear expo- sition of the issues of the campaign. | Republican comment emphasizes the | differences between the prohibition views of the Senator and those of th head of his ticket and attacks what the Charleston Daily Mail (indcpendent Republican) describes as “his lame ef- fort to place on Hoover the entire burden of preventing relief for farmers. “A golden day for American democ- racy, especially for Arkansas and her sister commonwealths of the South,” is | welcomed by the Atlanta Journal| (Democratic), which says that the qu tions involved in the campaign discussed by Senator Robinson “with | | & { limitl Robinson Speech Wins Acclaim From Champions of His Party were | , THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. home owner is able to put himself in this frame of mind, he will find that Winter has lost one of its greatest ources of annoyance, What is more enjoyable, after all, on a cold morning than to kick nto one's slippers and bathrobe and gallop down to the basement to open up the fur- nace? It is sheer plensure, nothing to peer into the feed door and mee that the coals are burning thiough lively and free, with every evidence desiring to do thelr duty The ash-pit door Is ralsed, the drafl opened and In a few minutes there I i businesslike ronr issulng fro the throat of the iron monsier One knows that upstairs the radiators are but surcly getting warmer nd warmer, This is one of the Joys of Winter There has been enough singing about the biling, bracing air and the color of Autumn leaves, 15 all but there are other joys le sung. They deserve I none 4 tor more living Is done indoors tin Win- ter than outdoors n * & Winter intensity very restriction ot ummer one felt th his ,room. He w and out doors without thought of tem- perature, )t when it rose to an unprecedented degree, When Winter comes, however, and doors are shut and windows down, the rooms of a house become the bound- aries of a kingdom that s in essence s, but which in reality is often rx(x: mely circumscribed. The kingdom of the mind has the curious property of expanding and con- uacing at any and all seasons of the ar. In Winter it expands Lo meet the physical limits of the indoors. there 15 a wild mood 1 Summer, most noticeable at the scashore. This melts away with the cold of Wintel thus reversing the usual poysical char acteristics ot substances in the presence of lowered temperatur Above all, Winter puts every one and * Autumn and through the rooms. 1In whole city wa life o the it everything in its right place. The ex- | pansive moods of the warm days evapo- | rate with the first Romance thrives in a warm tempera- | ture, When Winter puts a crimp in flowing and flowering minds the net result is that everything is likely to | ke its proper place in the personal | norizon. To put one’s mental horizon in order is one of the outstanding feats which | may be atiributed to Winter, Then one thinks what a fool one has made out of himself, and mutely resolves not to do it | touch of cold. | ring the horizon of cobwebs whicn ! it up comes about naturally in Winter, as the result of the increascd | amount of time which one has to give | meditation. Not every one, of course, ' n do more heavy thinking in the cold on than during the warm, but such man or woman probably is the ex- ception. When Winter drives us to our fire- sides we are in a position to think, not | to be driven hither and thither by the | whim of every entrancing sight and | sound which comes along. | In Winter one retires into one's self, | a very good place to go, unless one hap- | pens to be of the temperament whi hates that very action. In such a casc | there 1s no ground for argument. Every one must live his life to suit himself, (f he feels that introspection is too com- plicated, that is distinctly his busin and we would have no' quarrel with 1im. As for us, Winter not only increases our coal bill (and frees us from the fcc bill), but in a larger sense increases our respect for ourself, and sets us free from the foolishness of Summer. Surely that is enough for any one season to do. | | political platform during the present campaign. Lack of moderation, in- temperance in making laws for tem- perance, he inferred,” continues the Star-Telegram, “has defeated the very object of the lawmaking, it always has done and always will. General ac ceptance of the viewpoint thus enunci- ated is essential, of course, if the South is to remain Démocratic this year. It is the job of the vice presidential nomi- nee to bring about this general ac- ceptance.” The Texarkana Gazette (Democratic) says n his ultimate analysis it be- | comes simply a question of law enfor ment. The Nation has all the prohi- bition laws needed to absolutely dry it up, so far as alcoholic drinks are con- ed, but it never has had effectivi enforcement of th . . mC e o | true, | nt in | recor me The United States Children’s Bureau, | through its research and its public in- | struction, has done much to reduce in- | fant mortality. In Colonial days, before !(he formatlon of a National Govern- | ment, when life, death and health were perconal matters, it scems, as we read u that children were born bt to die. Th | distinguished citizen of Massachusetts, [ who bec in 1718 chiel justice of the Hupkrior Court, 15 sad reading from this point of view. Sewall was the father of 15 children, but only a few lved to g to adult years and fewer [-.nu outlived him, for he managed in | thoswe dicult times to live to be 78. In it diary he recorded thy births, and, often within | the deaths of his children. The ent; are conelse, “December 13, 16 i | Willard bapilzeth my Son lately born, whom I named Henry. . . . Dec. 22 And 50 about Sunrise, or little after, he [ fell asleep, T hope in”Jesus, and that o | Minsion was ready for him in ihe | s House.” “Feb. 6, 1687. B tween 3 and 4 PM. Mr. Willard ba tizeth my Son, whom I named Stept ... July 26, About Nine aclock n dear Son Stephen Sewall expires, ju after the Judges coming to Town. died in his Grandmother's Bed-Chamber in Nurse Hill's Arms. Had two Teeth cu no Convulsions.” “August 24, 1690. I publish my little Daughter’s name be Judith, held her up for Mr. Willard to baptize her. . .. Sept. 20. My little Judith languishes and_moans, ready to die. . Sept. 2i. Between 7 and 8 in the evening the child died, and hope sleeps in Jesus.” “Aug. 7, 1695 My Wife 1s brought to Bed of a Daugh- ter. . . . Sept. 13. Between 12 and 1 {at night following that day, Litte Jane | expires, much as Henry aid, in nei | bour Smith’s lap, Kurse Hill and I b: ing by Samuc! Sewall's son John d 17 months and his son Hull and daughter Sarzh about two ¥ * K Kk Others than children died ary of Samuel Scwall, | al days or months, | to! Iof ANSWERS TO QUES 'IONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Any reader can get the answer to any question by writing to our Infor tion Bureau in Washington, D. C. This offer applies strictly to informatio | The burcau cannot give ce medical and fina tters. It {docs not attempt to domestic | troubles, nor under stive T earch on_any your | question plainly me and address cents in stamps for return i reply is sent direct to the { Address The Evening Star Information | Burcau, Frederic J. Haskin, Director, | Washington, D. C. | Q How did geometry 5:85:4 A. According to Herodotus, from the need of sur inundated by the Q. How orig y students attend ambridge?—T. e has alwa continues to be a small ¢ at present 180 students and Charles Kingsley men, as was Henry Duns dent of Harvard. Q What ex- A is considered the best isting portrait of Gilbert Stuart? —L. A Gilbert Stuart, the artist noted f his portraits of George Washington, best delineated by John Nagle. one the ecarly American portrait painte Nagle married the daughter of Thom: cully, and studied under him. 24 Q. Did the Dutch discover Connecti- cut? E. G A. The claim of the Dutch to Con- necticut by right of discovery was well founded. The accounts of th: voyage: Henry Hudson in 1609 and | Adrian Bloch in 1614 n. id’s mother?>—P. R. Q. Who was D Y B0 known, but A It is not positi many authorities think sh> | tribe of Moab, since David when hard | pressed | protection of the Ki Q. What is the g i such a circus s the combined Ringling of Moab. of ve the first de- iptions which history recoids of this as of the placed his parenis under the cating capacity of | were not usually such | speak with him and no other. | of which to when atiacked by disease. is had | Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Cir- few resources and were often not €ven | cysy—F, W. called in. Witcheraft was frequently | A. Such a cireus ca suspected as the cause of illness and | o 12,000 spectators. prayer was the means of overcoming it. | Some entries in the diary show that | rugs Wi ctime: ~esulis | around the North Pole T B et calanian ] territory _surrounding the O cifiy drugs for specific | North Pole is owned by different na- dis is left side was chiefly |tions. The United States owns Algsis, struck with a kind of Palsy: His speech | Canaca oW Comc i b Bering Straits westward. Norway owns e s e 6 ad | Spitzbergen. Denmark owns Iceland. : There is no knowledge of land nearer O T e 1| the North Pole than the places listed. ber.” My Daughter being ihrealencd | Q. How with the headache, I sent Chapman to | —T. N, Cambridge to Dr. Oliver for a Piais-| A, Thunder is seldom heard at a dis- ter. . . Laid on a Plaister; Daughter | tance of more than 20 miles, and grows better.” When Samuel Sewall's [usually not over 10 or 15 milcs. mother fell ill, certainly everything R " possible was done for her. “I went to | o @ How long did it take:to raise apt e s*;’;flp"‘;fhg‘:;f;?f Tfiffi? A, Three monihs were required fo Ellis made a Cake of Herbs to try to | Faise the S-4 A%out Bl months were strengthen Mother’s Stomach. In the: i3 g S morn Roger Judd is sent to Cambridge for Dr. Oliver, mother chusing (o When he comes he advises to a Plaister for the Stomach, which is applied; and a Potion made of Bezar to be taken in Syrup of Sufiron and Treacle water: | once or twice. About 8 or 9 I call'd Mr. Willard at her de- sire, who prays with her. . . . A liitle before Sunset she expired, to our ivery n seat from 10,000 Q What nation owns the country —M. C. M. ar can thunder be heard? the BY PAUL How fitting it is that, Q After the Battic of Little Big Horn | and sweet potatoes coming ahead. BACKGROUND OF EV in the first| which Injuns miss out | did any man or beast of Cus mand survive? A. Comanc | Myles Keogh, nimate part ¢ urvived. He had three sey but was cared for by the officers an men of the Tth Cavairy until his death at the age of ars in 1891, | Q. what Rubicon? A. The r's com= the horse of Capt. cros: meant by Gaul and crossing it war in: taking an irrevc Q. What ed in coll in the Rom How man on changed £ s four times was Samuel D foNowed by Louis Mcl Duane, Roger D. Taney and Levi Wood= bury. In turn Roger ' was pointed and | stopped making deposits money in the United States B |its branches. The cabinet this policy and the former Secretarv of the Treasury had refused to earry it out. After Taney's action, the Senate re- d to confirm his nomina cretary. He was afterward appointed ch of the United States Supreme Court. Q. Who first di ver ‘\ ded the Bible into or of the division of the nto verses is not known wens (or Estienne), & first divided the New verses, in an edition in 1551, Stepk ench prin Testament into printed at Genev Q. Do the various keys in music ex= press different feelings or emotions?— G. W, A. ‘There is a general belief that cer- tain keys do express particular emo- tions best, and many composers con= seiously o unconsciously employ them. The minor keys as a class are sad, somber and melancholy, each having varticular attributes. In the major C is simple, naive and common- : G is rural. merry; B flat. noble, graceful; E flat, sonorous, chivalrots; and so0 on. plac | elegan vigorol ‘ Q. Are toreign ambassadors allowed to bring intoxicating beverages into the couniry?—S. T. | A. Diplomatic representatives are al- {lowed to bring wines and liq | jors_into the United States 25 an act of inter- | national courtes; | Q. What is the size of the California grope crop—A. S. A. In 1927 it was estimated at 2.264,000 tons. Grapes rank fifth in value among California’s fruit and vege- table crops. poiatoss. apples, oranges V. COLLINS. on! Indians | know their God in the clouds and in the surprising Grief and Sorrow.” disease of “Small Pocks"” seems to have ‘The | presidential election following the en- iranchisement of all American Indians. [ been common and ‘o, have beeh Ieft | ey will have an opportunity to vote | | frequent deaths and also many recoy- | for an Indian for Vice President! It erfes. A quarantine of the patien: was, | is true that the law making all Indians of course, unknown. When the “Small | american citizens was adopted in June. Pocks” visited the Sewall family the | 1924-—some months prior to the presi diarist recorded its progress from mem- | gential election four years ago—but it | ber to member. “Found my Family all | was so new then that it is not likely well, save Sam'’s sore in the neck, and | that many of its beneficiaries were able Hanah droops as though would have | to {umction under it. Next Novemb-r the Small Pocks, . . . Has the Small | every brave and every squaw will be Pocks very favorably, keeps her Bed |expected to vote for Big Chief Charles but three or four days; about 50 or | Curtis. the only Indian that ever ran { 60 in her face: pretty many on her | for so high an office. Senator Cur { Wrists. . . . Begins to keep below with | has always shown pride in the fact her Brother and Sister Betty.” Of | he is descended from Indians, and course, the brother and sister show { his early life was spent i | signs of the discase a week or 10 days | with his parents and grandparents. [ later: “Betty and Joseph are taken. -, Betty very dellrious. . . . Joseph hath| o0 o not in the English language a very bad night, as also the night |, FHerE 18 B ey before. . . . He grows better and the | % DIl OF POy 50 GOS0/ 0 : at of Pope in reference to the ! Small Pocks doe apparently dye away | 35 ihab Of FORC I FEETIE O in his face.” From this epidemic there | . ¢ HERa L were, it appears, no deaths in the | Lo, Sewall family. Dorothy M. Richardson has added another to her long series of novels | about Miriam Henderson, “Oberland,” | which takes Miriam to Switzerlend. | The general name of the series is “Pil- grimage” and the volumes previously ublished are called “Pointed Roofs,” “Backwater,” “Honeycomb,” “The Tun- mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind: His soul proud to stray Far as the solar walk or Milky Way." “The poor Indian” sports the most | costly limousine in Oklahoma and has the United States Treasury as his bank cience never taught s picture | the poor Indian; whose untutored | winds, even as did the biblical prophets, who never heard of electrons. But last week another great scientist was installed as president of that Eng- lish scientific organization, which holds no Indizns, and he shows beyond a doubt that science can prove that there is & soul. In the meanwhile, the Indian, all the time, has seen God in clouds and heard im in the wind, and never stopped to wander down sunbeams or to lose him- StIf in the Milky Way, secking the Cre- ator of the Happy Hitr'ing Ground and the stars of the heavens. e be inferred e indians have beceme ng oil, all are so well provide i year 1t required of Gove.nment rations not less than $187.- 000 o keep the Indian body and soul together. 1L is the Osages who are lucky. Soms years ago the Usage tribe bought from acreage, for which aid $1.25 an acre. That now proves to be rich oil land. Some of the Osages have taken allotments of it, but the get only surface rigts; the profits from the oil go to the general tribe, and the annual shares per capita amount to about $13,200. Some families have in- comes exceeding $100,000 a year. “Lo, the poor Indian!" Of course, must ot becaus althy | i th | | | keen and clarifying logic and With | propibition is just as safe under a feel as if I were on rhetorical rullcr‘ sincerity that rang home to his nearers. | The Journal believes that the address “struck decp into issues with which the whole Nation is concerned.” Lauding “frank and cogent words” on the eie® - eenth amendment, as well as stater s on “justice to agriculture” an the| merchant marine, the Georgia pape concludes as to the issue of corruption, “Against that story of shame he sets the unblemished record of Democracy’s candidate for President.” The Little Rock Arkansas Democrat (Democratic) declares: “In a clear way, he presented the Democratic s of the two large issues of the campaign, farm relief and prohibition. In neithe case has a real Democrat cause to d sent. There will be critics, to be su but they will be members of the Re- publican faith.” He “stresses what should be the out- standing s Republican corruption and farm relief” says the Houston Chronicle (Democratic), which thinks that “undoubtedly he will do much in| the next two months to make them the real issues in the Middle West.” The Chronicle holds that through “his | Southern assoclations, his appeal to the | great agrarian elements of the country! and his forceful advocacy of funda-| mental Democratic principles, he should | prove as able an aide to Gov. Smith’s | campaign _as could have been found | anywhere.” | | Kok kK | “Democracy took on an added virtue | when it removed the bars of sectional | discrimination,” declarcs the Memphis | Commercial Appeal (Democratic), with | the statement that “Senator Robinsor acquitted himself in a manner well be. coming a distinguished son of Dixle. And the Charlotte News (Democratic) | agrees that the speech “was typical of | the abilities of one of the strong men of | the Democratic party and one who ha consistently been a eredit to the Stat that sent him to Congress and th South’ that claims him as its own.” Of (he two candidates that head the ! ticket, the Durham Sun (independent) | states: “Both have been honest with | the people. They are not afraid to pledge immediate action for the farmer | and face the manufacturing interests. | | They are not afraid to declare for strict | enforcement and face the wets, to de clare for modificaion and face the dr: Their stand is plain. their course clea ly mapped out. The followers of Smith | and Robinson may vote with their cyes‘ open.” “Perhaps the strongest portion of the address,” as viewed by the Nashville | Banner (Independent), “was that which dealt with corruption’ I the Govern- | ment during the past cight years. It | is one that &5 most generally understood by voters of the Nation, and one which the opposition party cannot satisfac- {orily explain or extenuate.” Senator Robinson's statement as to prohubition 15 considered by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram _ (independent Democratic) s coming “from & prohi- | bitionist beyond suspicion,” and that | election bets. But now the exchanges | alking movies will be on the scene. his ' dey knows beforehand dat delr opinions ' paper sugzests that he “said a thing ¢o not permit this practice and also every call will be echoed from the is gincter be agreed wif,” which ought to be rcpeated on every | Republican) observ Democratic administration as it would 2 under a renewed mandate to the Re- publicans, and enforcement of the ex- 1sling laws would be much more effec- ive with Mellon and Vare and Moses out of the picture.” As to his utterances on farm prob- ems, the Hartford Times cindependent | Democratic) believes that “he has won a good many votes in_the Mi Valley and not a few elsewhere, the Philadelphia Record (independent Democratic) commends his “particular scorn for the evasive policy which the Republican party has followed for the past_elght years” and the Syracuse Herald (indépendent) asserts that “he speaks with the authority of a Senator who has proved his friendship for the agricultural interests of the West and South by his influence and vote: Taking an impartial position on t subject, the Louisville Times (inde- pendent) comments, “Frankness com- pels the admission that both parties and their candidates are merely groping for ideas, and hoping for votes, where the farmers are concerned.” The Times adds that it “would like to sce Gov. Smith elected.” but “gets no inspira- tion out of Senator Robinson's Demo- | cratic-platform, farm-relief argument.” That the Senator exhibiting the admirable qualities which have gained for him the respect, and even the af- fection, of his political opponents” is conceded by the Chicago Daily News tindependent), which, however, see: “anxiety and perplexity” in his dry-law tand, and remarks as to agriculture: “Gov. Smith proposes to Investigate and consult experts: Senator Robinson s prepared to take risks, legal and practical, for the sake of justice to agri- culture.” “He is not, perhaps, so outspokenly dry as he has been,” concludes the Al- bany Evening News (independent Re- publican), with the added comment, "It s not a rousing address, nator Rob- nson obviously seeks a sort of ilent partner on the ticket.” The Cin- cinnati Times-Star (Republican) as- sumes that he irtually denied that vrohibition is an issue in (he present mpaign,” and ent ‘The Rochester Times-U. end- ent) thinks he “is tying to make the st of a bad situation.” The Morgan- own New Dominion (independent Dem- Jocratic) suggests that “his attempt to | ing. explain Smith's position and to justify his own was unnecessary and served (o weaken him before the people.” The Oakland Tribune «independent would tell the drys a President would be powerless; to the wets they hold out a promise of wines and bee Says the Chattanooga News (inde- | pendent Democratic), an uncompromis- ing dry advoeate: “The only candidale of the Democratic party this year whose views are of any importance is the candidate for President, and that 1 Gov. Smith. It is these views whi are obnoxious to milllons of Southern Democrats, and it i only natural that Senator Robinson shguld s these palatable to South.” “The Democrats | i nel” and “Interim.” One might jump I to the hasty conclusion that Miss Rich- ardson’s series has some kinship with the “Elsie Books, | which were the joy of children, parents | and Sunday school teachers of a genera~ mple Elcic, remaining a child until grandmotherhiood. Miriam is modern. sophisticated, introspective to such a degree that her thoughts fill volumes jand she finds it hard to summon will | to act at all. Nevertheless we become y much interested in her and her slow mental development: that is where Dorothy Richardson’s art comes in Oberland” is a complete novel i itself and does not depend for lucidity upon | the previous books of the series, though | Miriam is still the central character. | The plot Miriam and returns to Paris. But the stay in Switzerland is of tremendous | significance in Miriam’s mental biog- saphy. Whether she is in her room | one or out in the | Oberland, | winter vigorously trying all orts, she is seel c from something within he * R ok K “The Torches Flare,” by Stark i follows the carcer of one Lena Dand. ridge, who wins a success in a play of o wreat merit on the Ne he story itself is not striking but the characiers of Lena, Prof. Boardman and Arthur Lane are created with real | and some artistry. ~The setting chan; | from New York of the theater and the intellectuals to Clearwater Colloge in Mississippi, where Prof. Boardman and Arlh!ll‘ 80 to teach and Lena goes at i the same time to live Wwith her father. | Prof. Boardman is easily imaginod to | be Stark Young himself, giving his views on life and people. | Trollope’s “Rev. Mr. Quiverfull” Malling Is o “saint” um?und:’::;’ uffic cient hardships to earn his halo, His [ saliry of $2.000 is altogether inadequate for his large family. His wite's helth |5 broken down, his youngest ehild {5 o nlu mlrdeh’-- iv Ilm second daughte Str S far from the 1 rutes v | her father !l‘flt‘lllllg!s’?l I}I\i\‘““"“"“' o [ narrowly escapes Jail."and jone S paris are unappreciative of his :reach- But, like the Vicar of Wakefield | twhom Mr. King must surely have had in mind), Mr. Malling comes out of his adversity into a blaze of prosperity, and | | with this climax the story ends. L B B | Ludwig Lewisohn again treats tho| | problem of the Jew, as he t, in his | novel, “The Island Within he doc- trine which he preaches is that the Jew ould be proud of his race and should make his racial tradition a part of his | (modern life. This idea is worked out |in the story through the character of Arthur Levy, descendant of Polish Jews | 'but born in Ameri who is super-|{ sensitive about his race and ancestry. | | | { % to make | His life is nearly wrecked, but is saved | the weight~ there was none s e people of the by the development of a race devotion avoirdupois. nor in troy measur, which inspires great self-sacrifice, by Martha F. Finley, | tion ago. but Miriam Henderson is no | makes | crisp cold air of the | ¢ York stage. | as his business manager. He counts his 1v«cckly income by the thousands of dol- ars Uncle Sam himself, is sometimes em- i barrassed by his “surplus.” | “Whose untutored mind fellow graduates of our institutions of learning, while every little papoose is assured of a course in a boarding school, together with a technical train- ing in farming or almost any of the | trades, and the girl papooses are ught dressmaking and housekeepi —just what whites term “domestic science.” Yes, and they “dance—and sing—and laugh, ha, ha!" just like the giddy youths who require so much rouge and lipstick to emulate their nat- ural Indian red. “Untutored mind!" That may apply | to some 10,000 out of reach of the In- i dian schools, but Congress should en- Ilarge the appropriations just a little more. Indian schools, supported by the Fed- leral Government, contain 67.438 stu- dents—children of the reservations and [ tribes, while there remain 12,191 chil- ren mot yet provided with schools. ie boarding schools not located in the reservations have more than 10,000 pu- pils, not counting the mission day and boarding schools (not Government sup- which have 6,570 pupils. Con- annually appropriates $12,000.000 for the benefit of Indians, and .out of that appropriation half is used for the education of Indian children—"whese untutored minds” otherwise would de- velop like any other igno: in cities of the first class. Indian boara ing schools boast that they are run on haif the cost per capital required by white institutions of similar characte vet they furnish food. clothing, trans portation, medical and dental service and vocational training. Even day schools give all pupils a midday meal- and it is a “balanced ratior X oK oK | ul proud sclence never taught to siray | Far as the solar walk or Milky Way.” | Well, science has nothing on the In- | dian in that, for, of all the straggling about in the dark, no class of people have stumbled worse than have the ultra-scientists, it they may be judged by the disputes as to our souls, carried on in British sclentific circles. Last year the president of the What-you call-it Science Association the Einstein theory or the law of gravi- | tation that there is no soul and never has been; “a soul is a scientific impos- sibility,” 'so corporations which every. body knows are soulless, arc just as pious as any of us. Then, too, that old fellow who apostrophized his soul “Soul, take thine vase, thou hast much goods lald up’—was talking o what | never existed. | Oue of the great inventors of Ameri- | ca recently undertook to weigh a soul— weighing the dying body of & man just betore and just after the “soul” had left it, to see if there was any difference in own in “there. fore, no soul exists!” Great is “science, T | | of deposit, with a Government bureau | He is the only citizen who, like s a joke to proved by | But oil is not the only source of wealth for poor “Lo.” Thousands of the Indians have so grown in solf-depend- cnce that they have abandoned tribal relations and set up as farmers and | stock raisers, with the advantage of the | training they received at Federal farm schools. Eighty-five per cent of the | Five Civilized Tribes have thus become independent and self-supporting, and | 30,000 others have done likeiwise. These own 300,000 horses, 160.000 cattle and 867,000 sheep. About 27,500 of them | are farming 610,000 acres. and 31325 are using 20,000,600 acres for pasturage. | Forty thousand tamilies borrowed from | the Government $4,693,000 to set up in | business “on their own,” and they have repaid $3,310,514. The Government al- lows them six years to pay loans gotten | to buy live sfock and four years for | other loans. Now they have organized | themselves into farm clubs and are tak- ing their full share of prizes at the lo- al . * When an official of the Indien Bureau was asked why it was that, as nmv";f?x! | erations of Indians came. it was still { necessary that they should continue to | be Government wards: why should they not be educated to bocome self-reliant, now that have full rigts as citi- | zens? his reply was that their ancestral 1 habits had been in hunting and fishing, i and only in one century had there ever | been an’ effort to give them the civiliza- i tion which we whites have i through thousands of year | While the progress made toward the jarts of civilization in one century have i been very encouraging. it may not be forgotten that the training of the cen- turies m_ lhhr art of fighting came not {amiss within the last decade. dur { the World War, when 10.000 served 1 our Army and 2.200 in the Navy. We have heard much of the Kentueky | white man, who, single-handed. captured { 130 Germans, after shooting down some t 30. Brave hero! But here is the {story of one Indian—a full-blooded { Choctaw, named Joseph Oklahombi | Private of Co. D. 141st Infantry: hom: 1in Bismarck, Okl This is transk: P ion into English of oficial French grounds for award- this private the Croix de Guerre: . “Under a violent barrage, dashed to | the attack of an enemy position, cover- |ing about 210 yards through barbed- | wire entanglements. He rushed on ma- chine gun nests. capturing 171 prisoners | He stormed a strongly held position containing more than 50 machine guns and a number of trench mortar: Turned the captured guns on the enemy and held the position for four days, in ! spite of constant barrage of large ojcctiles and of gas she Crossed no ‘man’s land many times o get in- formation concerning the enemy and to st his wounded_comrad For once the Germans would have reed with Gen. Sheridan, who clared, “The only good Indian 1 ever saw was dead.” But Oklahombi was very much alive, and so are the 350.000 Indians now made vote casters for C White Father of America. they live! (Covyrizht 4928, by Paul V. Collins.) | in