Evening Star Newspaper, September 11, 1928, Page 8

THE EVENING erty promoted by the secret arming of | of the law under $10,000 ball for assault : prisoners. Jailers and guards have | An indictment was immediately voted | been slain. As for the prisoners them- | by the grand jury. the members of selves, they have taken their chances | which wrote both to the judge and to | and their fate is not to be particularly | the prosecuting attorney complimenting | bewniled because they have chosen a | them on bringing the case to light. The desperate course, with death as the | investigation of the entire tunnel force | probable penalty of faflure The men STAR. WASHINGTON, THIS AND THAT BY CHARIL. D. C, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1928. JHE EVENING STAR ___With Sunday Morning Edition. NEW BOOKS AT RANDOM LG M. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY....September 11. 1928 THEODORE W. NOYES. ... Editor This newspaper puts at your disposal | notes were round, square or triangular. a cotps of trained researchers in|black or whits. according to the place Mr. Oogle has & firm belief in the| A rich man dies. And. after a seemly | The Evening Star Newspaper Company B egent 8t..- London. = R!nu by Carrier e Evening St The Evening and (wh unday: ‘The Evening and Sundav Star (when 5 Sundays) hin the City. r 43¢ oer month Sunday Star 3 60c per month 8¢ per month S¢ per copy #nd af eacy menth v mail or telephone at the Orders may bs <ant in b Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Dally 2nd Sunday . .1 yr.$1000. 1+ mo. 8¢ Daily enly 1er. $600 1 wn. $oc | who guard them have the most direct |interest to keep them from being | harmed. and yet again and sgain | weapons are smuggled into jails and |ing a slackening of safeguards. doubt- | Ioss through a sense of security. Prob- ably now there will be a stiffening up of regulations and precautions in the prisons in Lonisiana. But sooner or later there will he other traz- ties sim- [ilar to this latest one as the prison Irules are reloxed. The truth is that prison rules snd discipline are not striet penitentiaries and conviet camps, show- | | was immediately begun. | Unquestionably. the police of the Holland Tunnel ere a hard-boiled lot. | They have to be to keep trafie flowing | smoothly through the big tubes under the river. In their daily work they Imust deal with all types of motorists. ; Actions such as these two are accused of. however, deserve the stiffest of jail sentences and no more mercy should be shown them when they are brought to trial than they showed the hapless vietim of thelr unprovoked assault. | Blackguardly tactics and brutality have 0o place in the relations between the A peculiarity of human nature is that some people cannot stand criticism un- | less they do it! | Let them make a comment upon some one else. the fhing is all right: | {but. just let you make it. somehow they | {resent it | Thus they may be said to be right | theoretically and wrong in practice, | | since what is sauce for the goose ought | {to be breakfast food, at least, for the gander | If criticism is just from one person, 11t is eminently so from some one else, | provided both parties are honest with | | themselves and others | It is not possible for every one at |all times to see clearly in this dark world, but so long as malice is not chastity of women. Let any one so much as whisper against one of them, | no matter who or what she be, he| foams at the mouth and_constitutes | himself her Sir Galahad. Perhaps the | lady in question would wonder to see this utter strange foaming at the mouth in her defen Every one must wonder why he does it. What is she to him? This terrible | tenderness for others bespeaks an un- casy mind, a warring state brought about by doubt of one's self. mingled | with the high ego of the average human | | being He who resents it when some one ! finds fault with some third person had | Fnor | a part of the program there is no reason | Poiter look into himself and find out | =h in this country for the public | police and public. It is too often the | case that immediately a man puts on |8 uniform and a badge of authority he conceives himself to be the master of | The Federsl Radio Commission mda_vlm .he surveys. Policemen are paid el 'h”;er\'n"\u of the public and if they are b a5t . & rutal and vicious shoul o e ol | e .:;lr' <'|;; curative it has ve admin- !lev B i t: bo_ treated s paper, and alto Tt Tews | isterad fo the Nation's broadeasting ils. | : e o co e !:;:”*h!l Ights | Washington's four active stations, along { mitted grave breaches of - Wr. s Sundav only 1y 84000 1 mol Soc | securiiy. - P, The Radio Changes. Al Other States and Canada. Datly and Sunday 2 Daily onls Bunday only Member of the Assoctated Press ress 15 exclisively entitien The Associated Pr %8 *ho use for repudlicition of all i are. Alsn eserved " | with nearly all others in the country, | HOIIARA Tunnel case should be a lesson, : " were included in the uphsaval 7 pot only to the other police of the The Result in Maine | " SWRC. the Capital's major station, wint | t4Anel. but to the police of every clty Maine has gone Republican. TMatine moved down the broadeasting chan. | the country & was expected. Indeed. had Maine eleet-| oyt 4625 10 3156 meters. bat. for- | e, ed 2 Pemocratic governor vesterday the | funat its power and sarviee are not | MANY efforts to establish eountry would have been astound>d and 1n he curtailed. WMAL has been as. | 0NA1 peace have fafled. So did many the Democratic hopes for November sjoncd a hotter wave band. but it will | °TOFS to produce a telephone or an wou'd have soared. The only question fauffer through a reduction of power and | AifPiane. Where there is intelligent de- involved, as bearing upon the presi- | divicion of its time on the air with a | 'C'Mination there is always the pos- dential contest eight weeks hence, WaS tation in Wilmington, Del. WRHF also | S0ty of success. how large a majority the R2publicans has been hurt to some extont by a P ] would score in the State fight. {much lower wave assiznment, and| TDCTe is something in a political Eighty thousand is the present ap- WTFF's band has heen raised slightly, | "*1°CT Which interferes with poputar proximate figure, and it would scem but it will be required to share broad- | |'CTATY stvle. Even Trotsky. with all likely that it will stand as the final|rasting time with a 3.000-watt broad. | 'S inside information. cannot create a cult. There can be no doubting the |“aster in St. Paul. “best seller.” Republican trend in the Pine Tree| The new allocation has heen in th- | B State. If there is anything in the old | Drocess of development for a year, and, | VAshinzion, D. C.. admittedly one of political apothegm that begins “As goes |in the fudgment of the commission and | (1° VSt &overned cities in the country, Maine." the result in November is fore- ' its engineers. will place radio reception ]"’"’"' underzo certain check-ups and in- shadowed. {on a higher plane than it ever before |1UITIS from time fo time in order to The figures of the fight for the gov- |°nioved. The effect of such a dras- | MAIntain its m:tl:lnnz ernorship are interesting. With a few : chEnge’inroadch sty oovditlons. | Srehis inebinteanonaile fios) G TR precincts missing this morning, the |NOWeVer, cannot. be. accurately meas- | o oo SHEONS eount showsd a margin of 79.488 out of | Ured until the new frequency ASSIEN- | cepipos nsist on Wrmn“" '::"” sl & total vote of 200,996, this total being | MeNtS become effective and broadcast- | po cannot get undivided u:’r‘n:lu':n”;:: somewhat less than in other presiden- | 1€ PASSCS through a new experimental pic perconal lterary expressions, tial years. The largest previous ma-|*TRL L i, Jority for the governorship was ss.ufi.‘rpmmi” W-ZhT,:":; fln" as !all'f‘(d tr;’ Politics would be greatly simplified if | given in 1920. a vear of overvhelming | COFLE WASTOAON A A NAUOMAL the recult of A Maine election could bs Republican success throughout the |\ B0 B8 BRI ';n al’??; et '; accepted. without further formality, as country. In 1924 President Coolidze .o aglonal” instead of 3 geeisive expression rendering further | careies the State by 8 plurality of 95476 |, “Metional” station. it mevertheless and » majority over Davis and La Fol. | V1614ed 10 popular demand and allowed | contention unnecessary. tiis station full time. i lette of 85.094. In that same year Gov. | ‘There is no reas vhy 'S new | Brewster was elected by 36.655. If yes- e s S, Yachting joins in the depression of | ) e : agriculture, as Sir Thomas Lipton an- . 3 requency should not give satisfactory | nounces that the Shamrock crop i terday's gubernatorial result bears the seryice in the District and the territory | tatlure this year ks same relationship to the presidential as| iy Maryland and Virginia that it is de- 5 four vears ago, Mr. Hoover is booked |sjgnad to serve ynder the new scheme. to carry Maine in November by some- | The 3156-meter channel is the same thing over 125.000. But this is hardly . ] used for the last several years by | within any conreivable reckoning. i The straphanger gets a great deal of muscular exercise for which no charge | KDKA. the world's pioneer broadens Democratic reactions on ths Maine | ing station. and it appeared to be en- is made. Street rallway managoment may be overlooking a point. e A fesult are not likely to be comforting. | tirely satisfied with this assignment. By keeping Gen. Smedley Butler | It may be said that vesterday's fight| It is regretted, however, that the com- | where he is, it may at least be possible | turned upon State issues, and that na- ' mission could not have devised some |to clear the baotleggers out of China. tional questions had no part in it. But plan to permit WMAL to broadcast fun | - ———e that has been true always in the past.|time. This is strictly a locel station, and Ma; barometric reading in Sep- | which has devoted its efforts to broad- tember has been. with practically no|casting the best entertainment that can' exception, indicative of the November |be found among Washington talent. Its! weather. Again, it may be urged that | absence from the air at least three Maine as a pioneer prohibition State | nigits a week will be keenly missed. 18 not a fair index of the general re- R sponse to the present appeal of Gov., A Splendid Performance. Smith for election as an advocate of | Although Earl Rowland of Wichita, modification and change in the na-|gans, who has been unofficielly de- tional prohibition system: that in other | cjoraq the winner of the Class A race Btates his appeal for votes on that issue | of the United States Air Derby from will meet with a more satisfactory re-| New York to Los Angeles, with an eponse than can be expected fromejapced time of twenty-six hours and A “lame duck” occasionally succeeds | in showing thet he is still in the polit- ical swim. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON Averages. We are travelin’ on together, An’ we sing the same old song. Which 1s. “Never Mind the Weather," Though the clouds go driftin’ wrong We have difference of opinion interna- HMeaine. Furthermore, it may be said that the full strength for the presiden- Hal ticket was not turned out vesterday | In Maine and that there is a reserve | for the November count. | ‘These lines of reasoning may vield | #ome Democratic solace in the face of | the truly surprisingly large Republican | margin in Maine, but the general effect of this manifestation of favor for the | Republican nominations in that State | thirty minutes, deserves credit for his | achievement, the important part of the competition just completed as far as the public is concerned is the sp>ndid | As to what the world should dn. | An" we hope for a dominion Where the skics are always bhi- | selves. therefore, that there is no danger Iwhy an honest opinion should not be | | given | If such comments are made behind the back. they may do a great deal of | good. There is no use, of course, to hurt some one. In this respect the old shrinking | | trom talking behind the back is very much in error. |71t one must talk, by all means do it | behind the other fellow’s back! | " Social intercourse receives some of its hardest blows from those persons who pride themselves upon being frank. Too often they are only cruel And cruclty is no more In piace in | public or social life than in private life. | * ok ok ¥ 1 Is it not unjust and unnatural to | expect. that any one. no matter of how {mild a disposition. shall continue to be interested in human beings without {secing their fauits and foibles as well | as their good points? And is it nol equally true that these | same faults and foibles are often by far more interesting than their good ! points? And does not interest consti- tute the chief charm of conversation? Faults stand out from human beings. { For_every one who radiates charm or distinetion there will be a hundred who jam their faults into the public eye upon a moment's notice. It is too bad the world is so consti- tuted. but it would take more argument than a couple of lawyers to persuade the frank observer of life and manners that it is constituted in any other way. The virtues of the world pass un- recognized cxcept at some particular moment and upon stated occasions. There is a mute conspiracy among mankind to frown upon the discussion of the good end the beautiful. The | thing has got to such- a pass today | thet we do not willingly read stories | which contain “morals,” either hidden | or openly expressed Yet we are willinz, one and all, to spend hours reading accounts of strange. outlandish happenings from all | parts of the world. W2 prefer our | novels to be spiced and our songs to possess a bit of daring | Mankind i< interested in the good | and the beautiful only at times—when | |he has agreed to be in a solemn mood. | He is interested in their opposites at | all times and in all pleces. That is why criticism. as commonly under- | stood. forms a basic part of life. * k% x Mrs. Gearshift is willing enough to criticize the neighbors’ children if they smear mud on tha windows of her car, | but if any one clse resents their shying | a rock through a window she is up in | arms about it. Last week she was ter- | ribly indiznant at one of their pranks. but this week she deprecates similar riticism from one who has as much right to be indignant today as she had than. RY PAUL ¥ The city of Athens, Greace, was of- ficially reported in 1920 s having a | population of 292.801. According to Associated Press cables, thers are today | some 250.000 of that population stricken | with dengue fover Among the victims | is Premier Venizelos. who, only within the last fortnight. has regained power as actual ruler of the country. Greece is a long distance from Am-j- | ica and it would be casy to assure ou.- of the epidemic =0 spreading as to in- vade this country Yet there are many | performance of the small-powered nr-} planes. Thirt) ven planes took the air from New York Twenty-two flashed over the finish line yesterday in Los Angeles. And although-some of the planes which did not complete the flight made forced landings under dan- But the sun forever shinin’ Would bring sorrowin’ again We should surely be repinin’ For a little spell o' rain. Joy may often slip its tether. Grief may lead us quite 3 But it's “Never Mind the Weather." | ships and many cargoes coming from For things all come right, some day. 15 not to be discounted. There is gen- | gerous conditions, the race was entirely uine cause for Republican jubilation | free from casualties. over yesterday's result and for corre-| It was a notable demonstration of the tponding Democratic discouragement. | progress ot aviation in the United Prudence. “Are you going to conduct a front- the Mediterrancan to our ports and if one of them carricd a single stowaway mosquito. ot the right species and va- ricty. that insect might spread an epi- demic even here which would rival the Spanish “flu” of 1918 or the bubonic plague which once threatened to de- populate Europe. It is a long voyage. aiso, from Brazil to England. and great care is necessary to guard against the importation into England from Brazil of infect>d rats. which ecarry fleas, ich eonvey the bu- e | States. The small ships. driven by en- A world peace may readily be reach- | zines of one hundred and ten horse- ed when a small nation can conduct a | Power and less, and many of them fnal war bringing factional contention | carrying two persons, met every test to a permanent decision. China's po- | that was demanded of them. Over Htical and economic vision i so limited | rugged and forbidding mountain ranges, that, despite its large population. it fig- | where & high ceiling was necessary to ures as a “srhall nation,” along with | get through, and over desert and plain. ethers whose unrest tends to stimulate | with temperatures of one hundred de- aggressive efforts from the outside at|grees and more, where a cool running “peacemaking.” i motor was essential to sucecess, the porch campaign?" “I'm keeping that a swered Senator Sorghum. “I am look- ing for a house. If the realtor finds I need a front porch I'm afraid he will charge me a whole lot extra.” bonie plague. A few days ago. at Liv- erpool. a_ship which hed sailed from Rosario. Brazil. was fumigated as cus- tomary before any of its cargo had been permitted to land. After the disinfect- ing. seven dead infected rats were dis- covered, which might have communi- cated the infection to native rats and ! started a terrible plague upon the island. * ook X 1t is not at all impossible for dengue fever to he prevalent in the United States. At Austin, Tex.. ‘n 1885 it attacked 16.00) persons m A population seeret,” an- Apartment House. I dreamt I dwelt in marble halls. The dream at last comes true, And yet my haughty spirit falls As grandeur I pursue, - Another Jail Break. | Baton Rouge, La. furnishes the | latest of a long series of tragedies growing ot of slackness in prison dis- | ::‘fi,m;'.n!l:;!;:fizr;'; t:::f,‘:p:,r';m::_ them because of serious trouble. Even feen convicts in the State prison camp, | i automobile racing, with the present- | day perfection of the motor car, it is six are now known to be dead. a score | | seldom that any large percentaze n(‘ & planes never faltered. For the first time in the development of flying the public was given &n oppor- tunity to watch a group performance of small ships. Fifteen of them drop- ped out. 1t is true, but not all of The janitor relentless calls And must be tipped anew. Jud Tunkins says, “Don’t gamble vou can’t eonquer the temptation, least don't grumble.” Jealousy. “How did your boy Josh get on in college?” of 22.000. At Galveston. in 1897, half the people were afflicted. and in 1922, in Monroe, La.. a quarter of the popu- Jation was stricken. There were 1.000 cases before the local physicians knew of its existence. Dengue is spread by the samc mos- | quito as carries yellow fever, and it is | often confused with yellow' fever. Tt is nicknamed “breakbone fover.” ow- ing to the fact that the patient feels as if some tormentor were hammering | or more of prisoners and guards are | wounded and at latest aceounts two | the entrants complete the contest. In ere still at large. This break was this competition, however, involving a | “What he tells me” said Farmet | pic jjmbs with an instrument and hit- Corntossel. “makes me think he nat- | ting hard enough to break his bones knew so much more than the| It may come suddenly within two planned by two men of a higher de- | three-thousand-mile cross-country flight, uraily gree of intelligence than the average | Practically two-thirds of the contest- ants crossed the finish line. prison inmates. One was a contractor | Furthermore. every plane in the race | and the other a bank robber. Accom- | o . H plices had smuggled three pistols to | *25 strictly “stock.” In other words, | the sage of Chinatown. “are grateful for | them and they planned to make their | (N€ ldentical ships which have just|the privilege of speaking without being escape alone, commandeer a steam- |NOWN their mettle can be bought by | obliged in turn to listen.” boat. cross the river and steal an au. | the Public from the manufacturers. It tomobye for flight. The news of their . assuredly cause for satisfaction that Palliating Circumstance. phan ‘spread among the prisoners and | the Dniten States 14 taking its might- | A Padiock on the Olub was shown | Bhout: o kiwen oihers Maskied upcn‘"'l place in the development of the It caused a great unrest, joining them. The actual break, it |2irPlane, big and small, to which it | Until beneath it there was shown would seem., was made impulsively. |32Ve birth ! The sign. “Go One Door West. After holding up one of the guards the % convicts .charged the armory of the | A peace pact is hopefully regarded by camp and armed themselves with shot- | Secretary Kellogg as a matter of simple guns, then making for the river with | Muman understaiding that should have two guards held as shields against the |10 politics behind it fire of the prison forces. Seeing them | . coming. the crew of a steamer that | Brutality Under the Hudson. was tied to the levee cast off into mid- | A grand jury of New York City is | stream. but the conviets seized a row- | nvestigating the activities of the entire boat and eght of them with the two | police force of two hundred and fifty guards set out in the small craft. In |men attached to the Holland Tunnei ! the fight that followed all were killed |under the Hudson River. following the professors that they got jealous and | sent him home. “They who worship idols,” said Hi Ho, R “If a man's appetite depended on | his conscience,” said Uncle Eben, | “many a chicken dinner would be kind | o' umenjoyable.” e We Doubt It From the Montana Record-Herald (Helena) Probably the time will come when a President” will exaci from every ap- poitee a pledge not to write recolles tions. - Mouth Work. days after infaction. or it may not ~omplete incubation for two weeks. Dur- ing the early stages. the patient's face becomes swollen and inflamed. as if he had been on an alcoholic debauch. His back and loins and all jointe are verely attacked with pain. One emi- nent scientist says: “These pains, to- gether with the mental depression dur- ing convalescence. have caused the dis- ense to be celled ‘the sum total of hu- man misery,” vet it is usually not so fata) as veilow fever and certain other epidemics which have afficted _the world. After complications are serious. but one attack usually leaves the pa- tient immune to a repetition for a few vears. * ok ok ok Usually h.u. : of cleanliness. together with sanitary environment, are consid- ered as preventing dengue fever, but this is by no means assured. In our own South creoles and negroes are said to be almest free from it. but when it attacks a community it usually pros- trates nearly the total white population. Where there are no mosquitoes of the spocies “Acdes Aegypti” thore is no spread of dengue. This has been dem- onstrated in Alabama and in the West Indies and elsewhere. But the female what it is in him that does the resent- ing. Life is 100 big a_proposition for any one person to handle. The play of all life against lives is utterly outside the proper scope of any one man or any one woman. The| thoughts that A shall have about B' are different from what C shall have abou’ B, and neither A nor C is in | |any position to say that the other is | | wrong in thinking as he does. | If there are factors which one person | does not_know and which it might be | well for him to know, equally there are points unknown to others which it might be good for them to know. In all question of human relations | the open mind is best. To feel a stand- | ardized resentment when some one | criticizes some one else—not one's self— is to go out of one's way to quarrel. It must be remembered that there is a nagging sort of quarreling as well as an out-and-out wrangling. It is hard | to say which is the worst. * ok oo We believe in criticism. There are enough “yes the world, enough peopl ing to substitute “rescue with a bland smile. There are enough optimi es” men in who are will- for “killing” 5. enough | | defenders of others without rhyme or | reason, too many who “wear the foolish face of praise.” The world has plenty of room for the “gripers,” the fault-finders, those who insist on exercising their divine right to sce both the good and the bad as they see it. ‘What is more divine in a world where pregress is a development, where de- velopment Is progress, than this ability and determination to see what one sees and to express the findings in words? If this honest expression sometimes strikes others as out of place or carping in nature, let them remember that King George II had a similar_opinion of George Washington and that his- tory has held him to have been terribly in _error. Life is a globe of many colored glass. in which one person sees some tints and another other shades and hues. ~So long as honesty is at the bottom of the selection, it {ll behooves either one to inveigle against the other for his choles. If there is a flaw in one facet and all beholders insist on overlooking it. how is the glob> to become perfect Who can mold it nearer to the heart desire until a free man sees the fault and dares say. “There it is! Some- thing is wrong there"? He who would merely answer. “Oh. ! you should not find so much fault!” would merely hold hack perfection, be- cause he has an innate desire to be contrary. His slant for non-eriticism is as hostile to improvement as would be that of one who never found any- thing to praise. BACKGROUND OF EVEN . COLLINS, |one pair of rats can reproduce 600 | M rais in 18 months. and all will become | infected. * ok ok ¥ Now ships are built ratproof, so that althoug rats may get aboard they can- not ramble around. hence, as one medi- cal authority expresses-it, they are con- fronted with th2 high cost of living for rats, an acute housing problem and poor transportation from their market supplies to their nests. A ship with na rats cannot earry the plague. The same principle of building houses will de- stroy rats and eliminate many disenses. Yet for the last 30 years the plague has been traveling over the world without stopping. and has killed no less than 10.000.000 human beings in India alone —nearly as many as died from battle in the World War. Last year alone # quarter of a million human cases of plague were reported in the world—ail | | directly traceable to rats. Entomologists sometimes scare the public by predicting a war between man and insccts for possession of the world, in which war the insectivorous armies 50 increase and multiply as to overcome man’s resistance. Even more frightful is the plague, for its power over man is not measured oy speculation but by historic example, since in the fourteenth eentury it ac- tually destroved hetween two-thirds and three-fourths of the world's population. And now within the present genera- tion men learn for the first time that it is wholly dependent upon rats as hosts to their special fleas. In one year, 1565, the plague killed 70.000 Londoners, out of a population, then. of less than that of Washington today. Yet, in spite of the advancement of science. th~ pandemic plague, which is said to have started in Hongkong in 1894, is still at work. IR The enormity of the 10,000,000 deaths from plague in India may be compared with the serious epidemic of influenza which appalled America in 1918, The total deaths in the United States that year from influenza are officially stated by the United States Public Healta Service to have heen not more than 500.000. while a similar epidemic in 1920 took another 100.000. This year there are few cases of influenza either in America or Europe. But scientific rescarch has little to its credit as to the cause or the treatment of that dread discase. Soviet Russia has 74,000 cases of influenza this year, and there is an mnfluenza epidemic in China. On the other hand. medical science | continues to perform miracles. For in- | stance. leprosy. which in biblical d: and for centuries later was considered an incurable curse, is now reckoned SHnE the lcun.lhle diseases. and whereas 1n early times it was supposed that the mere touch of a npgr"&"éum insure spread of the disease, that is | now known to be untrue. for physicians do not hesitate to handie their leprous | patients. Within the last seven years | | the Public Health Service has dis- | icharged 37 lepers from the hospital in | Louisiana. and of that 37 only one case nas relapsed. (Covvrizht 1098 by Paul v -—oma Get a Horse, From the Springfield News-Sun, | Traffic expert says street cars are here to stay. but the trouble is they all Colling.) Washington_who will answer questions for you. They have access to '"'i Government departments, the Hbrnrlrsu‘ ke, bonds and loads of loose change | museums, galleries and public build- | AnE lings and to the numerous associations | nf':{"’”” and dangerous stuft now, all | G5 10 intain headquarters in the | For, out of it has passed its| : " proper use as the measure of individual | Nation's Capital. " If they can be of D e arnest rewnrd, of personal | ASSISIANCe 1o you, write our ouestion effort. Now it is about to become the | Plainly and send with 2 cents in coln direct agent of new distrusts. enmities, | greeds. Now it s about to become the | fnsidious cause of blunted encrgies, of | sagging Ambitions, of siacked musces, | of ‘souls fat and flabby. A'rich man dies. And from all quar- | §E3%) tets come flocking, in love and homage, |7 M- B L 0o iace was notifted the countless benefelaries of that man's | A1 FTesdent EoolCEs o eton mind and spirit. Time and time again | 93 "¢ "prvhatiors. 15k WO L g e ltiogi e | CLSbOIEa W VR AlpmEL 1 Chisies . o = ryan, ncoin, lebr., Augusi ., an soulpture, in poem or flaming prose. i | Charles Gates Dawes, Evanston, IIL, Some sturdy offering to the knowledge of | gUarSS | the world, to the well-being of all. to the S general joy of common existence. Here| Q. How many United States Marines B hiehes. imperishable and indivisibie. | are now in Nicaragua?—W. L. Here s truly the wealth about which | "4 There are now about 1,500, s us, “scattereth ye! e e o rrect v . Are the fish in Lake Baikal of Aretic_variety?—D. D. S increaseth.” a free brq;w'n!h'rlm;nllv:n ve an who wills to claim it for his| 3 own Buch. broadly, are the two great| A. Fish in Lake Baikal are not typi- classes into which the wealth of the|cal of Arctic Ocean variety. They are world_separates. Such, in the main, |more like the fish faun of the notth eral effects of these two,|temperate region in general, but in de- Gl Ll tail they are peculiar to Lake Baikal, FEoRaw because that lake has been isolated for long_cons of time. and therefore has Just the other day. Donn Byrne. as| his habit was, went out on that morn- | developed a fauna peculfar to itself. Q. What do the Initials ing to catch a sight of his own particu- B mean after A man's name?>—A. G. P. lar stretch of ths Irish coast ‘\l'llh Vhf; blandishments of the ear w19 s“n} A. This is a title of honor in Great upon it. Now & great thing was in (¢ | gyiain conferred by roval patent upon IMRKINGHIRRE mosnIng: -y VIne | rristers of distinction. It gives cer- tain rights of procedure over barristers knew nothing at all of this. Then— in a flash of time this Irish bard stood I mot 50 honored, and is a highly valued distinction. face to face. alone, with the supreme adventurer in all life—death. Here | A came the one unconquerable enemy of | Q. How large must a bin be to hold 5 tons of stove coal>—H. C. R. A. One gross ton of stove coal accu- man—or Is it the friend? Whichever. | he is invincible. And in this moment pies 40 cubic feet. A 5-ton bin must have 200 cubic feet of space. of ambush and surprise Donn Byrne became a casualty in the never-ending Q. Can platinum be distinguished from white gold at sight>—D. B. F. battle that human cxistence so surely is. And a very rich man died with the Gl Chbal L A. Platinum can be distinguished fiagta by from white gold by any one experienced in the appearance of these metals. Platinum is whiter. pause, the heirs-at-law assemble to gather in the material usufruct of that man’s life. Houses and lands are here, mation Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, di- rector, Washington, D. C. Upon what dates were the presi- | dential candidates notified in 19247— M In the situation there seems nothing| immediate to do, save to sit down to the counting of this suddenly rounded wealth, to a conclusive measuring of the bulk and substance of the new legacy. And here it is. assembled—my_ in- heritance from the estate of Donn Byrne. Your inheritance, too, maybe. A handful of volumas. 'No more than 1 can stow in my pack and swing across | my shoulder for some day of outing | when sun and wind and gay shadows {are compact of pure Irishry that scts) he basement of its retail store covers I them all tripping off in step with the 9 337 square feet. | tunes crooning so melodiously within i ahout a block and a quarter, as it the pack upon my back. As I trampgccupies one entire block and the base- ! the roadside 1 count them over in my | men i 070 C0104 with ahout & quar- memory. First. of course, comes “MeSSeT | ter of a block across Washington street Marco Polo.” for it was by way of this [ he o passageway. gallant adventurer that I met Donn | als Byrne and gave my heart to him for good and all. At least. 0 I think. for [ agiples—F. H. L. that first enchantment s as shining as | ““X 37t ove from two to four years on the day when it cloaked me With|or clams to grow to edible size, the its radiance. And I recall, too. that|ovact time depending on food condi- other time. the day when on the good | tjons, temperature of the water and ship “The Wind Bloweth” I set sail ofher conditions. | with Byrne for Spain, there to taste the | | honey mouth of sweet Claire-Anne.| @ Can the blueberry be used as an there to aid and cncourage her deliv-|c.te icntalo— N. F. D. | crance from the frozen winds of A| "4 'As an ornamental the blueberry world that does not temper the rigors | is ‘attractive, both during the blooming of climate with any of the assuage-|goacon and the harvest season. In the ments of comprehension and sympathy. | pall the foliage changes to a distinc- | Oh, we were right. beautifully right. 10 [tile and beautiful shade of reddish mutder sweet Claire-Anne! Then, with | pr d0C MR srown quite easily conseience so eased. off to the Holy | iy anv acid, sandy soil. Land in a crusede against the heataen. - iz the enemies of our Lord, foes whom we| Q. What notes in music were called fought in a ferocity of pure Irish brand. | “buckwheat notes"?>—W. C. T. 7ealots at war in the cause of right-| A. Buckwheat notes were a style of cousness. our own righteousness. I re- | notation used in the Middle West sing- member in joy the long stay in the Holy | ing schools before the Civil War. The Q. What does “Singapore” mean?— G. 3 ‘A. The name of the capital of the | Straits Settlements is Malayan, and | means “lion’s town."” Q. How much floor space does the basement of Marshall Field's Chicago store cover?—L. G. T. | A, Marshall Field & Co. says that Q. How old are clams before they are or stamps to The Evening Star Infor- | C." | but In city blocks it in the scale they occupied. By the shape of the notes you could tell the scale lacation. The buckwheat note idea was said to be the work of Dr. Samuel Wakefield, about 1825, and that same doctor of divinity was great grandfather of Charles Wakefield Cad- man, Q. How are the chairmen of impor- ”flnsl genlte committees selected?— A. The chairmen of all important | Senate committees reach the office of | chairman by right of senlority. Upon | the death, resignation or removal of a | chairman the senior member of the | committee of the majority party takes | that place. In a change of adminis- tration the ranking member of th- minority party becomes chairman, | Q. Is there & place in the Americ where both the Atlantic and Pacit | oceans can be seen at once?—T. H A. On a clear day hoth oceans ra: | be seen from the summit of Irazu, : mountain in Cartago Province, Costt |Rica. It is 12,600 feet high. Q. What became the | Royal Oak?—C. E. M. | A. The Royal Oak stood near th~ farm of Boscobel, ip Shropshire. and for 24 hours afforded concealment (o Charles 11 after the hattle of Wores ter. in 1651. The tree was destroyed after the Restoration by relic hunters. an oak grown from an acorn of | the original tree stands on the spof. |and there is another, said to have bern planted by the King. in Hyde Park. origina’ Q. When will horse races be he Havre de Grace. Md.—T. B. A. From September 18 to 20. | @_How many counties are there | the State nf New York?—P. D. A. There are 61. Q. What is the national dance Norway?—W. N. A. The most characteristic dancs « Norway is the “Halling." It is ger erally danced by single dancers or I |two or three dancing in competitior The music is usually in 2-4 time and i a major key. | | : Q. How long has there been a D’ |of York?>—H. McM. A. The dukedom of York has alwa: | been a royal title since it was createc in 1385. It has expired and has been revived at various intervals. Princ James, the second son of Charleg 1, war | declared Duke of York at his birth and created as such by letters patent in | 1643, York again appears as a rern- dignity in 1784, when George III gave | the title to his second son, Prince Fred- erick. On ‘he latter's death the title | again expired, and remained unappro- | priated until the ereation of Prinee George of Wales in 1892. When he ascended the throne as George V the | dukedom again merged with the crown | until it was conferred upon Prince ‘Albe’rzté his son, by letters patent, June |3, 1920. Q. What causes some bread to mol so quickly when put in a tin containar B. S. A. This condition is usually due the fact ‘hat ths bread was put in whi’ still warm. Q. What did the Delaware India® call sycamore trees?>—M. W. J. A. The Bureau of Amevican Ethn: | ogy says that the Delaware Indian nan* | for sycamore tree is “amokholhe,” whi~ means “canoe wood.” Q. From what kind of milk is kum! made?—E. P. B. A. This product ‘s made from mare milk. which is never used in fresh cor dition, but is fermented. Joads of piety in his heart, and a fine issionizing punch to hoth of his two {fists. It is hapdly a secret any long2 Saul wes. deep in his blood. a good deal i of an Irishman. % Land. For there lived “Brother Saul a fierce. upstanding Christian. with Q () ol b Then. regularly, there was a_homing | back to the green island. Happily. | there were things and people to b | looked after there—like “Blind Raftery” | Prof. William H. Hobbs, head of & scientific expedition to Greenland sent . In Rescue of and “O'Mallev of Shanganagh” and the | matter of “The Hangman's House" to be cleared nn—odds and ends—too, per- taining to the soil and the scenery and the common folks, the by the University of Michigan, is ac- ciaimed hero by the press for his rescue of the Rockford fly Hassell and Cramer, who were forced down in the Arctic while trying to blaze a new trail the wavs of doings. hesides, of a host of powerful | from America to Europe. beings not _visible to the eye of the | | average. No end of work for Donn Byrne in Ireland itself. the place best t beloved by him. the place carcied all | Hobbs. “that there exists a «i‘?.’:','. over the world in bits of song and| of g?;mnggnhm'm:g: e iy ol L Lustom. In snatches of S°A oo, Here and there in distant places Tente Al of the world there are scientists scrupu- lously equipped for long and tedious flection.” says the Detroit News, in esti- mating the service rendered by Prof. “To the layman will come the re-| And a strange thing has happened. s0 it seems to me—a thing which is a part of Donn Byrne's passion for hom- ing back to his native land. That | strangs thing is “Destinv Bay"—Litle. | in the interest of practical | « '+ ¢ The scientist sets| sojourns knowledge. up his outpost to learn all that may add to the world’s needed knowledge. | and he becomes the rim of civilization ervice of Scientist Lauded Rockford Fl'yel‘ their rescue does mot in the least d prove the conclusions on the follv ¢ | such flights at\present. The princin: | thing their rescue proves is that the | are extremely lucky and that death i | not always the price of folly." Th | St. Louis Times says, “All of us re- joice with elated Rockford over th- rescue of her daring youth. but in- trepidity is not skill.” The Times see: “long chances” for those wha are loz “over Greenland'z icy mountains.” for | there are “no coral strands up that | Remarking on the rejoicing in the | families of Hassell and Cramer is ob- | served by the Birmingham News with the comment: “The world is glad, too. Aecronautical scientists are glad. Two weeks, reckoned in terms of brave missing men essaying flights like this, is a longer period than 14 days. To Brown & Co. Not only is this beautiful book an embodiment of the beloved is- land itself, but, even closer. it is_the story of a house. the house of MacFar- | Jane. This book is Ireland of an carlier dav. embodicd in the MacFariane family, projected by it. Is it not rather T i vl belg raiaedi sc LGS Gl Ao bl “‘:“"’::fl?:f: Hne space. of minutes the world Tast book it about the place that he so | WM, (0 SPACE G TTRCC" praved for Joved and that this dear spot is in | fwe Weeks." “Destiny Pay” interwoven with a family | “Te*iine type of man." according of true Irish distinction? No other book | 1o the Ann Arbor Daily News® estimate of this man's could possibly round the ! of prof. Hobbs, “to throw science over- whole as does this particular one. A | and the base to which new explorers. | faring farther, may look for help. It Is all very strange and stirring; it is so much out of the ordinary—this placid expedition quietly pursuing the arduous | task to which it had set its hand, and| those who love them and believe in | them two weeks can be a lifetime. And when fearless men are lost this way it means Interruption to the progress of aeronautics.” 5 “Safety mav he a homelier thing than glo?y.” avers the Baltimore Sun. “but it is often more comfortable. And |if the final climax of a landing in | Stockholm was denied Hassell and Cramer, they had at least an equally | adventurous and romantic time. To spend a fortnight afoot in a home for Eskimos and caribou hunters, with set- board for a few minutes in order to lend corner of Irish coast. as alive as hu-|a helping hand to a fellow human. He | tlements named Sukkertoppen and Fis- has no one-tmcll(( mlnd;‘he L: ex!:‘l':::‘:lr.\' ik"&le;sel'.‘ to w:nd!r about amid lwu"z versatile. He knows how to sure | and fjords and to come out clean] the winds. and likewise how to answer | without serious injuries or areat physi- an 8§ O lsd }irhll\'es at dthr sm}e (rl:'cw:r‘adl suffering—that is in itself a con- lin a world of theory and one of pi erable achievement.” | ticability. He knows the value of a| .one of the most thrilling moldy manuscript. but likewise is able | g 208, S0 PAC THE avers. be: to appreciate rcfin nndlhbnmn.m x:rvoefr xplore the Far North,” otserw | B e o e tecome ins | TulsS, World, and the Duluth Heryid | fernationally famous as one of the chief | WElcOMEs (HEm (58 LARER CE e | characters "In a spectacular human| zjaona Mirror concludes, “Those ‘of manity itself is alive, stands here in an intimacy of appearance and be- havior that is surpassing and verv lovely. Set here are the ones that are 1eft of the old MacFarlanes—Uncle Val- entine, Aunt Jenepher, blind and beau- tiful: Cousin Jenico, over at Spanish Men's Rest across the river, and James Carabine. valet, butler, “the greatest of all the old Irish prize-ring men.” Here are gypsies camping roundabout and then moving on. with only the placing stories to drama. He is a man who thinks things |and does things. The rescue might have been expected. because Hobbs of interwoven greens to mark their course. Here are the villagers. lowly | artistry of this author. | Treland. folks. lnoking upon the great house and its family with devotion and giving to it respectful fealty and service. Splen- did horses and fine dogs are a part of this picture of manorial life in Treland The whole is a blend of people and place. of custom and legend. of & thou- sand intimacies that come together in a <hining fabrie of life as it is lived and has been lived for centuries in a par- ticular corner of the earth. In a fidelity that is much older in source | than is the life of Donn Byrne himself there is a picturing here of the most minute details of the Irish life of a certain class. And these particulars meet and blend in a whole that is sur- passingly clear and fine and enchant- ng. Ing. < a story, as something of the Donn Byrne quality, what is “Destiny Bay" A robust fhing as a whole: a story invite readers that are, perhaps. not specially _interested in the sheer Well, here you have racing of the super order—racing where this is both a passion and an oc- cupation for the country gentiemen of Such races—and horses—that draw your heart clean out from your | body and set it to galloping beside this or that splendor of a creature. ‘And there is hunting—but this, happily | would do it if he had half a chance.” {us who are dominated by timidity or | who for divers reasons are destitute of | the spirit of high adventure and dar- ing may sometimes wonder why it is ? to | | that the world contains so many cou- rageous and daring spirits, but we shoul” remember that the situatfon nul;| hohvn;’v primitive still if ltzhwer- not for the daring sons and daughters ofhers who have failen Within its GFID. | 0 ‘men who have been inepired b (he * * The unexpected element In yocplecs spirit.” 2 their situation seems to have been the b 4 diffcults.” much _greater than anticl- ted, in covering the w rac p pated, in covering the waste [lUNt 'D STATES | I" WORLD WAR® H | which they found themselv Ten Years Ago Today. P Of the fvers the Brooklyn Daily | | Eagle remarks: “The Arctic has let | them off more easily than it has many “A daring voyage." which places Hassell and Cramer “among the pioneers of this new day of aviation,” is lauded by the Albany Evening News, which also ! points out that “radio has made the | world smaller. It touches the farthest - | points. There is no longer isolation.” American troops have been safel “A_ notable feat." according to the|janded at Archangel. the headauary New York Times, “was their flight rom | and supply base of the Allied Expal | Cochrane, Ontario, over the forbidding, tionary Force now operating in th wilderness of Labrador, across 300 miles | northern part of European Russia. ans of the Atlantic below the Arctic Circle. | working their w ily down th- | and northward 200 miles to a forced rajlroad line toward Vologda. * * * A | landing on the ice cap of Greenland—! troopship with 2,800 American soldier: {in all 1,800 miles. That paper con-ion board is torpedoed 200 miles off the cludes: “Only men of stout heart nnd; English coast. It was a unit of a larg: great vitality would have struggled on!convoy. All 2,800 men escaped. the men | with a_ration of & ounces of pemmi- | lambering dewn ropes to destroyer: can a day. But it was the little column ' which swarmed around the stricken ves. | of smoke that saved them.” | sel. instead of taking time to launch the The Decatur Review, advocating bet- | lifehoats. * = * French are eager for or taken. In the confusion of the con- Rict two prisoners slipped out of camp, indictment of two of the policemen for felonious assault made upon a motorist | From the Kalamazon Gazette seem to stay at the other end of the line. of the species is more deadly than other females. for she attacks ankles But were immediately pursued by a | when he inadvertently violated a tunnel sosse with bloodhounds and will prob- | traffic regulation. A week or so ago ably be taken. the motorist appearcd in court with his Repeatedly these jail breaks have |head encascd in bandages to answer occurred and in almost every case they |the charge placed by two policemen of have been finitiated with weapons that | pulling over the white line to avoid a have been smuggled to the convicts by |stalled car in the tunnel. Both his friends from outside. It would seem |jaws were broken and he was barely that there have been enough warnings |able to articulate. The judge. after to cause the strictest wateh over con- | hearing the story and those of his A new theory of weight reduction is that talking makes people thin. Maybe it refers, also, to those who have to listen. Tunney to Be Scribe. From the Terre Haute Star. | It is said that Gene Tunney wishes to be a writer. In that case he'll need all of his million dollars. | Silent Vote Ontlook. tacts between those outside of a place | witnesses, that following the alleged of detention and those within. Many | violation he was set upon and black- ives have been sacrificed. some of them ' jacked by the two policemen. dismissed 4 valuable one:, In these ruzhes for lib- the charge and held the two guardians ers. ( ’ From the Des Moines Tribune-Capital Indications are that this year the | faces and hands, and persists in buzzing around the ears. She is difficull fo catch. The only safe method of deal- inz with her is to destroy the eggs be- fore they are hatched. The infec- tion 1s found in dogs, cats, live stock, mice and birds. While yellow fever and dengue are diseases of warm climates, both have |made their ways up to Philadelphia and even to New England and Quebec, but their spreading is stopped by frost. Behold how great a matter a little flea createth! At many ports the quar- antine officials make surveys to catch the fleas and count the average num- indicates danger of an epidemic, for D International Tunnel. From the New Orleans Item. The Kansas City Star reports that new funnel is being built betwcen De- troit and Windsor, Ontario..” We don't know whether that's a misprint or not. | EENESE New Money in Demand. From the Portsmouth Daily Times. The treasury reports a heavy demand for bright new quarters and half-dollars. the old cnes. doesn't cut quite the figure that it does | er radio equipment for such enterprises | The Irish are better | a5 that of the two fiyers, holds that in this respect. But when it comes | proner “equipment would have brought | to the prize ring just follow the trail | Hassell and Cramer aid soon after| of James Carabine. valet, butler, cham- | their landing." ninn—hund. If you want'a’good fight. it ! why, here you are. 'or a general in- i ? e “They return to confound those who terest in the run of the whole story. and | Phey teturs 0 FRCRS e, e in special points calculated fo_atiract : Oy the reader of current interests, “Destiny | Tribune, which, however, adds: “But Bay" comes very close to being the out- e e 1 standing story by Donn Byrne. None of the beauty with which we are nll‘nuh. if not the highest. And we, you and I everywhere, are in deep debt to so familiar is lacking here. There is | besides. A most carefully wrought pi-- ' this Irish bard singing around the world in words of true Irish wizardry. A fine not so far away. lemy. ¢ new advance by Foch and are con- fident thet thte Hindenburg line will prove no barrier to their armies. * * * British make gains toward St. Quentin, near Vermand. and also improve their positions north of Epehy and in the Lens region. * * * Americans extend their lines along the Aisne despite the merciless machine-gun fire of the en- * * At 5 o'clock this morning the Germans began a heavy artillery action on the American front lines in the Vosges region and the raid that followed was marked by very severe fighting at close range, with grenades and automatic rifles, but the enemy was silent vote will be swayed by loud speak- ber per rat. One Checpis flea per rat Still and all, we won't refuse any of tfo stand just where it does stand. all told, you will count “Destiny Bay" ture of Ireland and a part of its * Then. strangest of all and best of legacy which we shall gather up as a repulsed. * * * Si: o 15 the book of all books by this v b Gl L nossession without price, particularly [ one names on casualty lists given out this since there i= not anywhere in'today—111 killed in action. 326 woundsd siht another Donn Byrne. and 140 missing. -~ {