Evening Star Newspaper, September 13, 1928, Page 8

AHE EVENING STAR| With Sunday Morning qullun. " WASHINGTON, D. C. AHURSDAY . .September 13. 1928 | MHEODORE W. NOYES. .. ‘Edi'orJ thésé relations a& a pérénnial sourcé of éxplndiveness. At Locarho Germany ré- nounced the purpose ever to seek by force the restitution of Alsace and Lor- aine. But with Briand's belching forth { language which the Rhine neighbor constders tn be tones of affront and defi- THE_EVENING tauslly PIAin that Europé must régard | that K Actéd with charactéristie vigor | |4t the moment when 1t would bé most | | likely that thé greater number of those | involved could be taken in the net of | the police. A few hours later, according to the plans of thé revolters, a& now understood. and there wouldl have been bloodshed throughout Spain. The out- _STAR._WASHINGTO | Two men were seated at a tablé, THIS AN BY CHARLES E. TRACEW ELL. TRRDAY. D THAT | characters whizh would glve rise to &EPTEMBER 13, cofhe of the attempt to overthrow the earnestly talking about something or | 2ny particular movement | ance. the world may wake up some hor- | rified day and find the German spirit of | government is hardly to be doubted. nea Fork ézw"'::r°’£i£-’i“_’:‘fi.‘is. | “Revanche” galvanized into biezing lite [evén though it had gone to the point Burobean Office.. 14 Resent St.. London. It is gratifying to find. in the same | an actual outbreak of force. so long ac Pneland cables which reflect German exaspera- | the army was not seduced from i Rate by Carrier Within ¢ tion with M. Briand's prnvnrfl'“f’flr\.\'flw Ahe Evenmne Star. e e | speech. accounts of the German bank-| His five years of dictatorship have girEn s Sundeen S ere” convention at Calone. Tt unani- | provéd Gen. Primo de Rivéra's cminent TGtin 5 Sunfaye) - monsly approved the Reich's policy of | capacity as leader, Hé has thioughont B e o KA o (he anajor meeting without quible the enfrmous this pariod had thé faithful support of @rders mav bb tent in by mail or telephons | naw anpuitipz, effective this vear. of [ the army. of which he was oace com- i) 2500000000 gold marks. which Ger- { mander-in-chicf. There have many heneeforward must pay under the | several atfempts to break through this Dawss reparations plan. In that resolve [ cordon. Spain has been in a fermen lies a solid hop» of European peace. | almost. eonstantly. The present revol E—— | tionary plot s but the latest of a serf A Venomous Tongue Silenced. | of efforts to catch the government nap- In his straightforward exposure ping. But it would scem that Primo d. | the falsity of a report circulated to disadvantace by partisan critics, afee- ing his personal charhcier and bearin: in public. Gov. Smith has acted with couraze and commendable directness The slander rezarding him. orienatin A in & letter from a woman in New York | Vacation Is Over. | State to another in West Virginda. i< One more Washingtonian sits in an | proved te be baseless, The inquiry inta officé today, Aguratively trving tn brush | §t was ecanductsd by A political op- from his eves a pérsistantly | ponent. wha may not he accused of ! vigion ef lons. quiet davs in canl. shady | partisenship and who has @>houneed wonds: of deep, still water and of ¢lay | the rumor of public mish=havior on the pigeons that float lazily down a £mM00th | part of the governor as outragrousl: stretch of dull blue steel. The return | false. to earth from such pleasant fancies 15| This is a sample of the “whispers” sccompanied in each instance by A that are in circulation and rogarding startling joit in the form of a very|hich protests have been ade by both | tanzivle desk piled hizh with accumu- | the Democratic and Republican cam- | fated work ! paizn managers. This particular one In the five and a as o distinetly personal in character maining before he leaves the While | reqecting seriously upon the Democrati Houge, the hardest sort of work les| cangidate as a man. that it calied for béfore the President. One item requir- | qpecific refutation. The manner m ing attention f& the Fadetdl Govérn- | pich the 1ie 1 seotched should serve meht's threatened @eficit of $94.000. 000 { {1 reach all who have heard the slander | hands he emeraed triumphant during this ficcal year. Another is 10 ,n4 mijlions moré who have not. | There can be no quattel with lav cut a course for the Navy, &nd an-| 1 o aieavs a question whether to | coerstary's method of “netting” his “The Evening Star Newspapér Company vin 50 Bsiness Ofce ) he City. 3¢ ner month | 0 per month oh nonth | e pr cnne Rate bv Mail—Payabhle in Advance. Marvlan@ and Virginia. i1y #nd Sunday 1000, 1 mo. 21> only ! e 8undav only 1 mo Bar Snr toc B3ty ara Sundas s1.00 411 i anlv Sunday only of 1 mo. Abc awake throughout his dictatorship With a less watehful and eheractic and courageons leader the King's govern- ment would perhaps have becn sub- { verted ere now. T ncLpetvely entiyiea | o I e e R I e T B Free rper, Ang Alen The neal ews blichod hassin Al TIzkts of Mn 12t at ChEtia] Sitnarines Meiein are Mita Tewrred espra A Diving Fisherman. Everstt Sandrrs, seerrtary th Pres dent Coolldgs, has insugurated 4 new method of catchinz fish. Angling near the DPresident's Summer camp A few davs asn. the former Indiana Repre- | <ntative nooked a three-and-a-half- Bound boss, and by skillful maneuvar- g worked f into shallow water. By a sudden tug on the line, however. th> fich got free, but, not bring aware of the fact. lay sHll near the surface in {order to recover iis strongth. Seere- ;vnr_v Sandere was much chagrined to | see his nrize slipping away from him snd arrived at an instant decision, | Ovarboard he went on top of the fecbly | wrieeling fish and grosping it in his half months re- the been | Rivera docs not nap. He has kapt wide- | other. Since there arc any number of engaging topics of conversation open as the result of daily happenings an obsarver might have thought them deal- ing in matters of 1928, As a matter of fact they were dis- cussing the romances of Alexandre | Dumas. the great French master, whos® inimitable tales are s*ill big s-llere over i the book counters of the world. Neither politics. nor avlation, nor bus inesz moved these men at the moment What interested them for the time bring was the werk of a man long since departed this lift—a man who posscssea the gift of narration. A story! Manking loves a good story as well | today as in the purple vears when Homer sang, or the imaglnaty Ossian weaved his tales of the white-armed | Strina-Dona and her chos n one. | Th y is the thing. | To the truth of this these talkers testifisd. as they at table in a | restaurant, musing over cups of coffee | and th~ historical romances of fhat | high-cpirited teller of tales, Dumas, the | elder. i ok ok % Those who magine that modern busi- nese passosses all the “pep™ in the world ouaht 1o consitier the facts in the case of Dumas His *fiction factory.” first and last of its kind. tors nmever cqualed the high standard | he set. turned out in the neighborhnod {of 1000 romances, mostly dealing with French histor; | To that same history, no doubt. the stories of Dumas owe a great deal. The French people and thuir history |are filled with a certain gusto, as one mioht call it, which spills over their wriiinas. | Both the iaults and | this prop'e come from this clation of spirit. both physical and mental. which is cvident in thelr man- ners. speech. writing and - history. ! Ths perpetual plottings ant counter- | plottihas to be found in the magic pag-s of Dumas cvidence this |doubt. he exaggerates. as all | writers do. but he could not ex probably the the virtues of good since imifa- | L | into | certain | No | othér is to guidé safely through the tangled forests of the United States Benate the new-born tréaty just signed in Paris, an infant that requires much nursing andl protection against ex- tremes of témparaturs. There are many othsr odds and ends that néed presi- dénrial attention, but most of them fade into insignificance compared to the delicate task of merely nceupying the White Housé for the remainder of térm that comés to an énd on March 4. By the time Congress meets in De- cember, the people of the United Statés will have named the Presi- dént's succéssor. The period frof No- vémber to March will be spent almost wholly in waiting for the Président to quit and the néw man to get on the §0b. About all that Mr. Coolidge can | Lif the basic guality and facts W Dhmas largely solved this problem selecting for pleturization men and men who were as full-blooded as | nimself. That, we belleve. 15 one tha secrets of the appeal of the stord The reader finds no “ps cHolony.” as such, no author stringit forth the mner feclings of men and woren. The men and women in Dumas think. feel and act—and talk Now isn’t that much what men and women de in everyday life? Is there any indly anthor sianding around for most ot us, willing—nay. cagor—to discuss our inmost thoughts with the public at Intge? Mostly we have to stumble along the best we mav. very much misunderstood 2t times, half-understood most of the time. and occasionally valued properly bocause others are in full possessios 4ll the facts in the cast | PRI | It would seem that Dums: esting to the averag: reader beca treats his characters as men and won en and approaches them from the view- p~’ tof tk~ average man or woman. He neither sits above thom nor below them, nor inside them. They act, and talk. Fapecially. they talk! is our contention that no romancer wall as n ever handled conversation as Alexandre Dumas. Some of it may be called stilted. if you will. or even unnatural, it makes no difference. By and large, the talk in Dumas’ notels is convineing because it is both natural and apropos. What they | say is what real people would say under | similar circumstances. It is such talk as goes on in a million hom exciling question of which one of the on the market to put in 11, taik which needs no | “he she said’ 'to make it | Plausible. Dumas’ characters act—and talk. So we said. The reverse is even more | true. They talk—and act. Dumas lets | the reader take a part in the story by | listening in on the conversation. While most authors 1 this. of courss, !in a loose sense.-perhaps, no other story teller manages it quite so weil. The average novelist is satisfied if he can give a page of conversation, without . i other statements to which I take excep- | over the | 1928, ! “Stat Spangled Banner” Held as National Anthem To the Bditn: of The Sta; Realizing the unueral value of vour ! paper from an educational point of view, | not only locally but nationally, I take !the liberty of asking that I may be al- lowed space to take issue with certain statements disparaging to “The Star | Spangled Banner” which appeared in a | feature article by Mr. John Clagett Proctor in the Sunday edition. Among tion the writer says, “Congress, realiz: ing that there Is not a unanimous de- I mand for ‘The Star Spangled Banner, !'has dlways managed to pigeonhole ant [1ocord in favor of any particular plece | as the country's national anthem.” {1t scoms to me that Congress “put |itself on record” officially in acknowl- cdgment of “The Star Spangled Ban- |ner” as our natlonal anthem when it | voted unanimously to name the million- "dollar bridge, crossing th> Potomac at {the Nation's Capital. “The Francis Scott | Kev Bridze” in honor of the writer. Not | a dissenting voice was heard in Congress oS Hill of Maryland this name be given the bridge as a memorial to Francis Scott Key. Congress again voted to honor the | writer of ou onal anthem when it voted to prescrve Fort McHenry as & national shrine because of its connec- historfeally with the writing of The Star Spangled Banner.” In an interview with Admiral Georae Dewey in 1915, the admiral said. when T expressed regret. that Conaress had not acted officially in the matter of our { national anthem. “Do not both-r about | congressional action. That is not neces. | sary and Congress realizes the fact. “Th | Star Spangled Banner’ is v-~d officially, |as you know. by the Army and Navy as {our national anthem and it is |10 all of us because of general usage over one hundred years. Tl { never be any other national anthem for as considered sacred then, which was before the World War |by our great admiral preelous it is to us now after the World | War when its strains inspired our boys to do and die in that conflict! In my efforts to have the Francis Scott Key Bridge so nam-d. I interview- >d many members of Congress. They ex- pressed the same opinion set forth by Admiral Dewey that no official con- gressional action is nocessary in the maiter of our national anthem, Recently a volunteer veteran of the Spanish American War sald in my presence. “1, for one, will never acknowl- o for will | | ‘| ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN. readets send in questions signedifffomsr to get at the wiring to the meter {only with initials, asking that the an-| without breaking the seal. swers appear in the newspaper. ace is limited and would not accom- Q. What causes dew?—D. L. proposttior. which would put itself on | how much more | The t A. Three concurfent sources of dew aré recognized: The condensation of | the moisture of the atmosphere (when modate a fraction of such requests. The answers published are ones that may Ll rf;f@:;io;(a"::ro;'}:" the | dew may be sald to fall): the condensa- questions should be accompaniéd with | tion of waters vapor arising from thé £95 wriléi's nadie’ hut A00reds MO0 7 | o ai i o paty, NG mi- | cents in coin or stamps for reply. Send | "M® ¢ Gl your question to The Evening Star In- What can be used to get apots formation Bureau. Frederic J. Haskin. ouf of glase that needs resilvering? — director, Washingion. D. C. i i ¥ P in | A Thé Buréau of Standards saye i | 1ol Veate expiain the lack of raln he glass ic swabbed with a5 per cent nd e ohngeles during the Summer | queous solution of hydrofioric dcld - - urrence during the Winter.— | the spots may sometimes be removed “ & The Weathér Bubeat sags. that| CAE,Mmust bé uséd not (5 Allow the | dtiitgtne. Summet ‘the so-catlpt BeIE| T corne i ESOLAEE Wil thé: Rarida. | of high atmospheric pressure, the desert @ What appointments does the belt as some have called it. extends President make’—D. G. G. | Telkiticly ar5 and et it | corat ot el gttt Mihout scending air that, with a few breaks, fifé'rlwno..na s Nhrrin: of Conc extends around the world parallel to gress. 'The President. with the con- wihere aloni ths’ belt bicauss 1ot o0F | Lo mp e pee i aie: Appoints about | where is _bel aus persons a year. ese Include §Somparatively dry. Furthermore. In ambissadors. consuls. judges. collectors e v ngeles, as also in | of customs, eabinet officials. distriet at- e AR AT (B torness. marshals, territorial governors, | dur s < still | postmasters of certain classes. freas g‘u‘r’;rn m‘n?wm\‘w?n an" ':‘-' more unlikely. | urer of thé United States. controller of | nigh pressure. s tariher south: and | M LI ndent o€ mintk | high '} . . : comiissioner of intérnal revenue. ine g 8 o r pensions. patents. Indian affairs, all :m;:kl;vr;":}:n«m'l;r::fmz'gmslJ}l:m h\,x"ruu chiefs, all r'nlmdr!' and naval | of Los Angeles. This precipitation is CITECSST AT RN et | further increased by the then rela-| @. Was | tively low t=mperature of the land. espe- | w. B. N. Ldall_v in the mountainous portion. o & \The former Kalsér of Gérmany s 4 Mason. The Masonic Grand Tem- 11 _Q Ho.“.d s‘)m_uld ntlcn)‘lcrr(e surface ple at Wachington savs that the Kaiser { P AP canite or paintiie 81 con- | iamios " " #i4nding in he organ- : aining o - ization. | erete should be preceded by the appli- | | cation of an aqueous solution of zinc | | sulphate (four pounds of zinc sulphate {to one gallon of water) in order to | neutralize any lime that may have been | —g. S. | deposited on the surface as a result | A “Obeah” i& a West African word. | of the chemical action that takes place which now i< translatéd to mean sor- | during the hardening of the concrete. gery or witcheraft. At least forty-eight hours should elapse |~ ° p | before the addition of other material jto the surface. the Kaiser a Mason’-- Q. A man in Jamaica was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment for prac- ticing obsah. What does “obsah™ mean? Q. Give the reply of Gav. Smith tn the challénge that he could not accord religious loyalty to the Catholic faith and patriotic loyalty to the U Red Cross make in a month?— Slawsm»‘n’th: ssl.(:i‘.:"i‘lm:f—l\'}."s.lm"d | @ How many peges of Braille does ! the edge any other song as ouf national | { notice belittling and character-cloudinz | catch. The fish was his and the adop- { rumors and statements that constitute | tion of harolc measures to land it part of the “atthosphere” of evéry po- showed a fine determination. The litical campaign. Often the policy of | true fish>rman hates to confess to his | wisdom is to ignore them. But in this | fellow campers that “a big one" got campaign there are in cireulation un- ! away, and | truths and half truths resarding bots |such conf-ssions with a grain of salt | candidates that are so outrageously un- | The secretary has pointed to an obvi- | fair and which are so wickedly enlculated | dus way to remove forever this topic Ito create prejudice that self-respect of conversation from the campfire. and ! calls for their @énial and correction. | it may be in the future that diving Obviously it is impossible for Gov. |suits end helmets will berome a regi- Sthith or his spokesmen to nail every [lar part of the cquipmont of all Izaak 1ie that is being uttered about him and | Waltons. his associates and his aims and policies — If attention were given to all of them | A young man of distinzuished fam- | thére would be little time for the dis- | fly, who really wants to go to wbrk. has | cussion of the questions of real 1m-jto ask mercy from th» camera men i portahcé now before the people. in-|who do nat see the ‘nacessity of his volvéd in the campaign for the pres when the whistle blows. { e his colleagues always take | description. Dumas, alone of authors, lets the reader eavesdrop on_continuous pages, | page after page, | Thus, he combiries the art of the novel- ist with that of the dramatist. It is slgnificant that his son “majored” in the latter branch of literary composi- tlon. | 'Not only does Alexandre Dumas, the | elder, excel in the shecr amount of his rather here, There is a certain something in all French stories not to be found in Eng- !lish or American novels. Tt is difficult tn ol one’s finger exactly upon A par- ticular thing and say, “This iz it.” but “he giceriminatine reader knows it t | be as cortain as the very words them- | 8sivee, It §5 Fronch. T convarsational he s paramount bocause all his talk actually furthers the action of the story . i Imitators have mess | page of dialogue. without a dialogne: i Yet Dumas was enouzh of a cosmo- ! politan to put som~thing e'se inta his :M‘ > ha would not enjoy the | 1d-wide popularity which is his to- S k! | day. | but none has ever managed to infuse | "He had an_ncompatable ability to | ihe lines with such a sense of light- | move a story alonz, This I8 commonly | ness and gayety. Dumas cleverly chose I called “action.” but. lefving the techni- | to write about characters after his own | cal ci¢é out f the discuscon, it is a4 | heart. Boing a hearty. glad-hearted | “ualitv_which ma¥ be termed narfi- | man himsolf. most of his heroes and i tivn skill. heroines, cspeetally the former, are fitled | Dumaé had it with the Joy of life. | H> could make a plot progress, not | Perhaps this quality in his pageés is onlv through the astual telline. but | What frtesistibly appea's to the modern of simple dialogue. | 1 @0 15 to carry on. And that is not a being on tine simple thing to do. If he rocks the boat he will be blamed for rocking it to embarrass his successor. If he doés not rock the boat occasionally he will be accused of passing to his suceessor that onerous but necessary task. If he g02s cut of his way to help the aims sf his party’s nominee he will face criti- ecism for using his presidential office in politics. If he does nothing to show his approval of thé Republican nomi- née he will be criticized for sélfish in- difference. To undertake a job and to be al- lowed to finish it i& oné thing. Merely to occupy a chair and hold on is enother. As Summer ends and grim Winter approaches, carr¥ing with it no one knows what fate, President Cool- {dze’s choice of his last vacation stand bocoines apparent. Out there in the | Notth woods there is fottifying peace | and silence. Thé President. already blessed with a rare gift for eloquent silencé, has probably been taking les- sons from Nature to replenish his stock for this final ordeal. ———te————— Republican managers are confident | that the traditions of the circus will prevail in politics. The show that makes the best display in the elephant line hes all the advantege over oné that relics on the trick mulé. B When it comes to a sugaestion of eampaign “mud.” hoth parties are at| present willing to put up a detour sign. i mente Europe's Ever-Troubled Waters. Obviously it takss more than one !dency. But this particular slander re- P | quired attention and exposuré. inasmuc: az it was circulated just prior to the Dermaeratic candidate’s first speaking tour. It is to be hoped that the scotchi of this falsehood, in so distinct ana | complete a manner, will have the effect { of quieting the whispering tongues thut are mischievously and venomousiy { wagging to the disparagement and dis- | honor of the men who have been se- lected by their respective parties as { candidates for the presidency — men against Whose personal character noth !ing can in truth be said and for whom | inlividually there is universally the highést ésteem and respect. |is leaving it to be inferred that it has inadvertently fostered some reprefeh- sible underworld fraternal associations ek Practical aviation is confident that & passénger will share the sifety, now well recognized. of a letter with an air- mail stamp on it. B A few of the Wall Street investors for “call money” want relief as much | as the farme it An international peacé understanding is expectedl to 1pAve manv 4 so-ealled | war to be regarded merfly a& a loval ) a disturbance. An Intricate Problem. The Police Court at Nyack. N. Y. has | been called upon to decide an unusual and intricate domestic problem. The complainant is a boy, sixteen years old. e and the defendant is his brother, eight-| A hot wave following Labor day calls n. It seems that Albert. the elder. has ' for another vacatioh. a girl. That in itself would not seem | sdbes to be reasdn for court action, but there | n is more to it. George, the younger, | SHOOTING STARS. complains that Albart, in order to court | his girl, puts the entire family to bed | every night at nifie o'clock so that he | Katvaid, can use the parlor of the family Rome pyough the Hot Wave seems just in for that purpase. George has hndl %he middle. enough sleep. and. according to him, 0| .t Katedid bravely will play! have his mother. two other brothers and |y o his hind leg for a Addle a sister. and he wants to be relieved Ang yeon merrily sawing away. | from the compulsory home curfew at i fe The Democratic party follows its old custom of contemplating the Maine vote in a spirit of patient resignation. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON mer, I of Frost that must end our dismay. And throughout iway to the jutige: “Al comes home levery night with his best girl. He Philadelphia. City of Brothrly Love, | who have been eaizht By Rizh rates) | nine o'clock. George cxplained it this His tune, while our spirits grow glum- | enti-war pact swallow to make a Sum- m>r of European peace. A bare fort- night after the signature of the “Kel- logg treaty” in Paris, M. Briand, the French foreign minister. speaking a. the Léague of Nations in Geneva, hurls fire | and brimstone at Germany in terms fmmensely more redolent of 1908 than of 1928 1 chases us all to bed. your honor. out. We're sick of beds, and either Al| He keeps hopefully sawing away. does his courting outside our parlor or | Hé was discussing the Ger- | brow of the most learned justice. It's got to stop. The whole family is slept want him arreste No ohe will envy the court the con- | sideration ot this case. There are enough | | complications about it o furrow th* | and keep mérrily sawing away! Al- this long. lingering | Summer 0. Rhymists, who draw the conclusion That snowflakes are not far away. |On the type keys produce vour pro- fusion. { Test of Statesmanship. “You have been in politics a long ! time " “A very long time,” agreéd Senator Sorghum. “I have resisted temptations to go into private employment. I hope to be remembered as a stalesman.” “What is your idea of a statesman?” “A patriot who can be content with long hours and a small salary.” mens' yearning desire for allied evacua- | 921t 15 evidently obeying the age-old tion of the Rhineland, which Is hased | injunction of mothers to “brinz your partially on the military weakness im- | 2irl home instead of running the streets posed upon them by the treaty of Ver- |all night,” while George and the rest| seill “Military weakness, fiadle- |Of the family are upset over the condi- sticks!” thundered Briand. *The Ger- | Uons that this literal obedience cntails mans maintain a standine army of 100,- | It Would appear that the best the court | 000 men; they possess an enormous res- | could do would be to attempt to effect ervoir of man-power, and they are rnp_la compromise as to the use of the par- idly expanding their m=rchant marine :lon but, failing in that, might insiruet to pre-war dimensions." | the mether of the selfish Albert to as- | Berlin dispatches depict Germany as | SCFU her prerogative as the head of the| stunned by the Briand speech. It has house in the interests of all her chil-| shattered the Reich's hopes for Rhine- | 9Fen. land evacuation and blasted German faith in Locarno. It compels German public opinion tn question whether the roteate prospects opsned up to a war- weary world by the Kellogg pact are ever destinéd to be renlized. German militarists, furlous that France should | doubt German disarmament. are de-| Cash and Carfare. When T my jingling carfare bring. Tl soon present to view My copper cash upon a string, Just as the Chinese do. ———s Many Florida realtors abstain from { foreclosing mortgages. Land values are | | areat and permanent and a foreclosed | | morigage does not represent enough ad. | vantage to offset a bad advertisement. oabee Nipped in the Bud. A snn.nssflutam. Jud Tunkins Says a new “friend in eed” is always welcome, until he turns |out to be just another high-power | salesman. v two other methods not alwnvs avail- 1anin 1o the avereas teller of tale: | One lay in his inherent “feel” for | shavactars in their relations to ane an- aihier. Todav many novels are mos'ly ' v deseribad action. without in Ik uations or | | BY PAUL | Wil France evacuate the Rhine un- der the ditation of the Leagu® of | Natio The subjcct, is now | discuseAd i Geheva, ft was not un- der the sanction of the League of Na- tions that France came into military | possassion of the late encmy's terri- | tory. in 1870, nor until France had actually subject is brought up at this time in Iclose conneetion with th» Kellogs- Briand treaty abandohine war s a govcrnment policy, although it has no Ingitimate connection with that agree- Iment, Foreign Minister Briand of Franc~ has bluntly declared thit there will be no evAcuatith until Germany ves satisfactory sccurity otherwise for the full payment of thé reparations. | under the Dawes plan. Unless the | Leamus of Natlons 18 a supergovern- ment, with power to dictate to France |and other allies and associates of the {1ate war. of what avail will be the present debate in Geneva? 1t is openly predicted that next vear. when. under the Dawes plan. Germany must pay her full annual installment— immenscly more than her previous in- S 060.000, or $750,000.- 000—she will declars payment impossi- | ble and demand a revision of the plan. Under the Dawes plan. Germany will !iesue bonds based on her railroads and other public property. The proceeds of Ithage bonds will go to the reparations. | so that thereafter the debt will lie be- tweeh the private bondholders and the German government and not between {the countries now holding reparations claims and Germany. If is counted Iihat the United States investine public will buy these bonds. but whether the marketing here will be approved by our | Governiment s hot assured. If the | bonds cannot be sold Germany certainly | will default in her payments next vear | and there will be a néw crisis in which | |she will be practically bankrupt unless a revision is made in the Dawes plan and in the ferms of payment of repara- tions. That will thon Be a basis for a renewal of France's claim for more can- cellation of the loans made by the | United States to France after the war, |#ithough already we have eanceled | every dollar of loans advanced to carry lon the war. | “"When that impasse comes France will 1nnld power, under the original Ver- illes treaty, to impose penalties for | default_and ‘execute them by further ssession of Germany's territory and | resources. Will the League step in and ]bv indorsing the debtor’s bonds relicve her of her present embarrassment? The | control of th» League is in the hands {of the allies and thoy are the creditors ! The other members are small nations | not_at all likely to take over the burden of German reparations. Then why the present parley? i R | According to the | patch from Geneva, “France stands for ! no amelioration in the present econdi- V. COLLINS. boing | t. nor did Germany evacuate France | puid her indeninity for her defeat. The | | reader. In whom it may be lacking. having been knocked out by civilization. training and environment Dumnas restors us izhts as breathing animals, as human s, and so puls, us in his debt as fow other fiction writers do. . EACKGRUUND OF EVENTS ‘, the Ruhr, Januar 1923, the Ger- | mans made no resistance, but, a few ve later, passive resistance broke out | inth> form of a strike of all railroad employes, and the Germans absolutely pretended not to see a French soldier. 1 The only eflect of that course was that | the military force was supplemented by French railway men, and since then the trains have been running with ex- clusive French forces. Leaders in the | passive resistance movement were & sands. Under th> terms of the pea-e treaty the bridgehéad of Coblentz is to be evacuited in 1330 and the final evacu- ation of all the Rhine is set at 1935, but thess evacuatiohs are based upon Ger- many’s fulfillment of her payments in the meanwhile, or her giving other = curitics, to take the place of the occu- pation of the Rhineland. Prior to t Briand-Kelloge pact abolishing war a national policy under all circun | stances except in national defense, the ordinary recourse of France in case of Germany's persistent default would have been military occupation of A Germanv if necessary to enforce settle- ment. But, in the light of the recent {agreement. what will be the course? Not war-—unless Germany should show the madness of attempted invasion of France—but coercion through commer- cial measures and general ostracism may be resorted to through the League of Nations. * ok Germany's present agitation of hor demand for evacuation of the Rhine- land is creating political trouble throughout France, for the people will not support any lenlency of their gov- ernment toward the enemy who caused 1so much suffering in the war. While Mihister Briand has spoken firmly to Germany, he is looked upon by the French as Inclined toward conciliation. which they will resent. Other members of the cabinet, though not including Poincare, the premier, are not in fuil agreement with Briand, and any weak- ness would precipitate a finencial and political crisis, which would cost Messrs Poincare and Briand their offices In Germany the position of Foreign Minister Stresemann is also in the bal- ance—if he fails to secure the evacua- tion, his government will fall. Stresc- mann has posed as a pacifist, to set at ease the fears of the Sociali but he dare not affront the Nationali patriotic party devoted to the upbuild- ing of the German Republic. The fu- ture holds this program, according to high German authority: The demand for a revision of the Dawes plan next vear, in the face of annual payments of 000 a year: a modification or altera- tion of the eastern boundaries, including the abolition of the “Corridor” which separates eastern Prussia from west sociated Press diS- | prussia and gives Poland access to the | \scar restoration of Danzig to the | German Republic, and union of Ger- to our ancient | pell>d from the country by the thou- ! ultra- | hem. I réezll the surrender which sed the Spanish American War, July 1898, at Santiago, Cuba, when our boys, 17.000 of them, burst into the sirains of ‘The Star Spangled Banner, thus takl sive ceremony.” Not only Congress. as above shown, has voted unanimously ih racognition of “The Star Spangled Banher” as our national anthem, but representatives from 26 patriotic societics in con- vention in Washington, D. C.. for two consccutive years, recently voted unanimously to recognize “The Star Spangled Bann-r" as our national anthem. The representailves came from every section of our country. The Na- tionai Society. D. A. R., representing nearly 200,000 women and every Statc in the Union, h: voted unanimous their Con3: year after year, recognize “The Star Spangled Banner” as our national anthem and yet your writer states, “In Washington, quite naturally, we would adopt ‘The Star Spangleq Banner' principally because it is most familiar to us. and incidentally because Francis Scott Koy was one of our own residents. * * * In the { Northern States, ‘America’ ‘and ‘Yankoe Doodle’ would be most acceptable, and of course the South loves ‘Dixie.’ " According to the viewpoint expressed by the late President Harding at the dedication of Fort McHenry, he did not seem to think it nocessary, as coss your writer, that another “Rouget de Lisle appear upon life’s scene and does as well for America as that writer did for France " In his speech President Hard- ing said, “Francis Scott Key. though he produced some splendid lines, was not a areat poct. He was less, but he was also more. than a great poet. He was posses- . sor of a pitriotism which in a supreme moment_could m: its eredtures and servitors: and so a modest genius was rais>d in one flam- ing hour to place athong the immortals To give ringing voice to such a convic- tion, to sich an inspiration, was one of the greatest services which any man could do for the young repablic. hat !'was the service of Francis Scott Key. It was not in the production of soul-stir- ring lires, thrilling with mattial appeal: it was in th2 contribution of his great hymn toward creating that sense of national pride and that realization of responsiblity for a great adventure in behalf of humenity which became at last the inspiration of union preserved and of nationalism established. I think it fair to say that we have come here today, not so much to pay tribute to the gsnius which caucht the inspiration of a vital moment and wrote that in- ages, but rather more to membtializ> the patriotic service of the author in his everlzsting contribution t6 the soul up- lift and exaltation of his countrymen who live after him.” “The Star Spangled Banner™ has heen | christened our national anthem. bap- [tized in the red blood shed by | heroi=_dead, | .MAUD LIPSCOMB GREENAWALT, Regent Ruth Brewster Chapter, D. A.R. ———— ructive Work Is Con To the Editor of The Star | Now that the animal lovers are voicin | their sen‘iments through your valiab: {paper. 1 would suggest that we all g» | together and do some constructive worl {rather than so much criticlsm. We lamenting the electrocution of dogs and | the chloroforming of cats: let us get lour minds and our wills together and . get Congress to make it unlawful io vivisect any animal. We talk about it | and about once a year, more or less, we {have a lukewarm discussion in one of the committee rooms under the great whitc dome and that is all it amoun:s to. We get nowhere, neither do the | vivisectors. The terrible scourge, can- | has not been decreased one iota | Pellegra is being eradicated throu vegetable diet. The properties of insul: lare being found in the vegetable king- | dom. Now. why all the waste of time in the vivisection of animals? A business | that wastes all its energy and time and the alleged impossible sum of $750.000,- | &°ts nowhere is not a very lucrative | in the mayor" ! business. i Then let us see what we ean dn to ! abolish this iniumane practice. MARY E. CLARK. B ) - | Believe Election their part in this impres- | | A The record varies. Last April ft reached its record_production, prodic- |ing 24.272 pages of Braille for the ust | of biind readers. . Do most words in the Englith | lanmuage begin with the letter “e"2— A. The letter “e" f& used most fre- quently, but accotding to the New Ox- | ford Dictionary most wortis begin with | = RIn this " dictionary thay number 18 128, | Q. How many firms operate chain | groceries?>—V. G. S. | A, Thare are apptotimately 40.000 | chain ~grocery stores in the United | States at the present time. operated by 328 firms and co-operative assoriations living in one the electrie | @ could a famiy |apartment tamper with | meters so that its electricity would b= | | charged to another meter?—E. H. A, A. In replying to Charles C. Mar- shall, who asked this question. Gov, Smith said: “I have taken an oath of office in the State of New York 19 | times. Each time I swore to defend and maintain the Constitution of the United States. I have never known any conflict between my officlal dutiés and my religious belief.” Q. How is the an airplane?—W. F. A. The instrument used to indicate | the air speed of an airplane is com- monly called a “pilot tube.” The air passes through this tube across an open- | ing in oné side and in so doing builds |‘up air pressure on one side of the diaphragm and ereates a vachum in he other. This uneven foree operates | a pointer on a dial and Indicated the air speed. .E,r-fid measured on Q. How much did Totta Crabtres | leave to charit: WA words and meters | | spiration into one of the songs of th | our | | A. The Burcau of Standards says| A. Her will disposod of some $4.000.- | that the only way in which the inter-| 000 fof charitable and philanthropi- feronce referred to could be accom- PUrposes. plished is by meddling with the con- | 2 | nections to the meters. Electric meters | Q. Will afi object weighing a pound i can be and are at times caused to regis- | sink to_the bottom of the ocean?—- Iter incorrectly for purposes of fraud. To W. W. B. | prevent some of the casier ways of | A. Whethér or not an object weigh- | stealing electrical energy by such medns ifig a pound goes to the bottom of the many of the larger companies require | ocean depends upon its structure. If the use of meter cabinets, arranged to | its spoeific gravity or density Is areat | be sealed by the compahy. which make | than that of waler. it will sink to (it difficult or impossible for thé cus- bottom no matter how great the depth ‘Philadelphia’s V}ce Crusade .~ Arouses Interest and Doub: | Philadelphia’s battle with bootleagers | that Philadelphta was shockéd to the | and ganasters is watched by the country | point of doing something. 1In other | at largs with intersst. accompanied by | words. thérs was acquicstence in whole- | doubts that vice can be suppressed in | sale violation of the Vo'stead Jaw, bt the Pennsylvania metropolis or any| Philadelphia draws the line when or- othor city through flares of crusading | ganized gangs begin to shoot up th- unless supported by a militantly favor- | town.” able public sentiment. Quoting the ma order for a The Philadelphia Evening Bulletin clean-up in 24 hours, the $t. Lonis believes the ire of godd citizins Has| Globe-Democrat comments: “If a ‘real. { been stirred to the required pitch.|not a perfunctory. job' is made of it, | “From time to tifite,” says the Bulletin. | hé will be lucky if he gets it cleanct he people. ordinarily pessive, have up in & hundred times that period. or boen roused by some extraordinary | even in 24 months instead of hours. scandal or by the cumulative growth That city’s version of hootch dealing. of the graft and there has been a house- | hi-jacking. official corruption. does not cleaning, That is what has happened differ so much in general features from and is now happening in Philadelphia, versions that have become threadbare and there is every expectation here that | in other cities.” The Montgormers Ad- the law and its fearless prosecutor, Dis- | vert agrees that “conditions in trict Attorney Monaghan. will come Philadelphia are typical of American | through with substantially a clean | cities in Tnm\l." and the Muncie Star | sweep.™ | believes that “ihe City of Brotheriy | “If politiclans work hand ifi Hand in ' Love doubtless will be considered some- | such a game, they can be exposed and | what provineial in raising a clamor over | the practice broken up.” contends the a convenient arrangement to ignore th~ | Philadelphia Record. with the explana- | laws against liquor, gambling and other tion that “admittedly there is a good | forms of vice.” dral of cheap and ctooked politics in| Referring to the report of 13.000 the protection given by the police to Speakeasies and going back to 1918 for r's the bootlegeing industry.” The Lancaster Inteliigencer Journal wonders why Mayot Mackey should | wait until his admihistration was tar- | nished before he acted. Thé Williams- | port Sun expresses the opinion: “There | eeded for Animals may b> some quesiion ss to whether | police corruption is an effect of crime | or its cause. There is less question | about the remedy—a poilce force which is the enemy of cririe, rather than its «comparison. the New Orlrans Item says: “If more than 2.000 saloons ex- |isted there at that time. it could not have been many mor>. If the mavor is | right, prohibition has been anything | but prohibitive in the Pennsylvania metropolis. New Orleans is commonly reputed to be largelv favorabls to the ‘dl!penslng of stimulating beverages. both then and now. On the strensth bf Mayor Mackey's statemént. New Or- ally." leans ought to take its hat off to Phil- “Whenever authorities wait for ‘some | Adelphia.” N i kY | on> to complain’ before wiping out a| “The Philadelphia and Chicago revé- nest of iniquity.” advises the Utica Ob- | lations.” declares the Youngstown Vin- | server-Bispatch, “it spreads and pro- dicator. “ought to be sufficient warning Prople of Of what will surely follow in any city | duces other similar nests. shatly morals. fceing that outidwed | Bhere oath of office it disregarded and nals =S wid peofilibic ar the public Is at the merev of cr e ot e foree i Tttt ale | with whorn police are in alliance.” The They corfupt the citv Govérn- | Charleston Daily Mail. however, offers ment if they tan. Philadelphia. over- | the view ac to the two cities: “There run with law-breaking business, is pay- | is one big difference between the con- g the price of delay " dition in Philadelphia and the one in | Chicago. The latter has been allowed ok ko [to_ continue in existence almost with The Louisville Courier- <ug- | oven official sanction. In Philadeiphia. | gests that when Cm; ;rn‘,r:‘d‘".;fi;\' "Ye- | on the other hand. striking of the first ported 13.000 speaksasies and hundreds | {rall, in this instance. made as result of gunmen, “the police probably were ?r the slayine of a gangster. was fol- as paimed and surprised as the mayor lowed immediatelv with a probs that el Bomting mut thar. | Aleady must shake the foundations af drastic crusade.” 34 the svstem of alleged crooked rollision hours notice was given by him.” the| 2nd threatens to wine ot the fat:r Roanoke World-News asserts: “The | With extraordinare swifinese. inference is that the underworld was S given time to get to cover. Liquor deal- | | ers may merely lock the front door and | wait for the storm to blow over, as it always has done before.” UNITED STATE IN WORLD WAR ‘The that | " geribed as in mood “to cast discretion| On the eve of the fifth anniversary ot | “How are you going to vote? | tions of Europe, so far as they CONCern | many and Austria, restoration of her Syracuse Herald holds to the winds and arm to the teeth.” A ‘Wilhelmstrasse politician who ranks as a mouthpiece of Foreign Minister Stresemann gobs the lugubrious length of saying that Briand's speech “closes the old era of trying to effect an under- standing and opens an era of estrange- ment leading noné knows where.” On the heels of the Briand fulmination | comes a révelation of German disquiet ovér the ever-mysterious Anglo-French naval agreement. Berlin interprets that @usive entente as destructive of the un- «derlying principles of Locarno and dis- cerns in Briand's speech an indication that the French, already tired of friend- 1y relations with Germany, have decided once again to cast their lot with their former British ally and newly acquired partner in a secret armament under- standing. Making due allowance for the heat oftén unduly génerated by the ebulli- #tions of foréign statesmen. it is plain ‘that Briand hat flung a frésh firehrand fato Franco-German relations. It is the establishment of the present dic- tatorship government in Spain, a revo 1 | “I am convinced that there is no patri- | o conspiracy was thwarted by Gen. Primo ! otic joy in a preliminary argument | sgages de Rivera. Taking advantage of th absence of King Alfonso in Sweden, cei- tain groups of agitators. Republican:, Liberals and Communists, schemed 19 | overthrow the government. It Is in- dicated in the dispatches that the plo was orlginally to have been spiung ints action later in the Autumn, but that | the King's visit to Stockholm afforded an opportunity which it was planncd to seize on the occasion of the festivities in connection with the anniversary of the Primo de Rivera coup in 1923, ‘There is evidence that the plot was widespread. Some reports place the number of arrests at 2,000. Only a few names are mentioned as among thos2 seized by the government. Stress s laid in the official statements upon the fact that no member of thé military ot- ganization is involved. It would seeni that the premier wac fully iiforfned of'the circumstances ane | “In silence,” answered Miss Cayennc. | among people who have already made | up their minds.” | “They who break the law," said | Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “should I not b~ disappointed when they seck in vain to utilize it for their own protec- | tion " Handsome Signhoardl Model. The cigaréttes 1 chose to smoke Make me teel rather like a joke 1 realize my pose 18 bad; I nevér can look like the Ad. “I never could understand,” said Uncle Eben, “why, most usually, a good talkér makes more money dan a hard worker,"” — —es - Fires al Neighbors' Toes. From the New Castle News. Thé phonograph is 50 véars of age. but some of the neighbors’ rec’)rd.s aré nct more than half that old, | Germany.” | "It would be intercsting to compare rance’s demand that the United hould cancel more of its debt s alrcady canceled $3,000,000.- it) with France's own refusal to cancel its claims against its recent | enemy. Yet why should cancellation | be expected In either case? Germany's invasion of France created damages. jand she Is required to make reimburse- | ment. There is no amount yel | nor time lmit for the full séttlement. | but Germany peremptorily refused pay- | ment and made default. until, (. h 000 o | provided in the Versailles treaty and ‘!hc peace treaty which Germany had iand waned before determined efforts | | signed as & condition of the war’s con- cluston. German territory along the west bank | which, the evacuation of the Rhine, Dr. | of the Rhine is occupled by a French { pMarx and Dr. Stresemann are in_ full | force of 50,000 men, together with smaller forces of British and Belgian armies. The cost of maintaining those armies of occupation Js charged agéinst Germany, as is customary. Originally, the United’States had an army of occupation in Germany, follow- ing the armistice. but its maintenance | has not vet been paid by Germany: it is the only clalm we hold againat her. ok ok K When thé French took possession of colonies and autonomy for Alsace and i Lorraine. It s intimated that Germany will form an alliance with bolshevic Russia. All of this preposterous program will (not tend to soften France's attitude as | to the evacuation of any territory now i held, but will warn her of trouble ahead. | for which she must prepare. Germany. while disclaiming any intent to change t fixed, | her eastern border by force. built forti- | i fications along that border. which the allies have compelled her to demolish. in 193, ! A writer for the Fortnightly Review of | | France took possession of the Ruht, as | London, Mr. John Bell, said last March: | “Not many moobns will have waxed | will be made to carry out the National- !ist program. with the main item of ) agreement. Allied diplomatists have ! very difficult tasks before them. They will have to meet the German on- slaught on what remains of the peacr treaty. The occupation of the Rhine i the only pledge that the allies hold, and its abandonmenit before the damages oi war have_been repaired would mean that the German dream of destroying the Versailles instruiént and winning the peace had beeq fulfilled.” (Copyrizht, 1928, by Paul V. Collins.) | Result Determined | From the Chicazo Daily News _Some political observers take the po- sition that the result of the November 1 election, nationally speaking, practically is determined already, so that the | labored campaign oratory of thé com- | Ing weeks will represent a waste of energy. If this view be correct, the millions of dollars to be collected and expended by the party managers will | b2 just so much money thrown away. | That view, however, is by no means complimentary to the American elec- torate. A nation in which the minds of the voters were permanently closed against three months before a presidential elec- tion would be a deplorable spectacle. The individual bolts of influential citizens from one party to another, announced with so much satisfaction by the rival national committees, seem to ‘ndicate that the political situation is iistinetly fluid and that persons capa- sle of reflection are studying the vari- Jus _elements which enter into that s!tuation and meantime have postponed ‘nal judgment on candidates and par- ties. This is a desirable condition of things. Tt is In fhflre harmony with the essentials of intelligent popular self- government. instruction in national issues | ‘Mayor Mackey, a feebler officer. is not | likely to succeed where Gen. Smedley | Butler failed.” To the New York World |1t appears that “what the mayor ob- | viously desires fs to give the city a! | surface cleaning and get everybody to | | forget the liquor and crime scandal ! The Bellingham Herald remarks, “New | York and Chicago have been vying with ! each other for the vice spotlight. and. no doubt. both will welcome an oppor- tunity to retreat to the wings while Philadelphia puts on its little shot The Indianapolis News states: “Pub- | {lic opinion must. of course. co-operate, | for where that is poisoned. little can | be done, . But it is to be assumed that | Mayor Mackey is in earnest. that he means what he says, and that the de- cent people of Philadelphia will sup- port him in his effort to make the city | decent.” The Brooklyn Daily Eagle thinks that “insistence on a high standard of police work all the time | ~an prevent what thé most zealous fits | of moral revivalism cannot easily cure.” i Ei “What seems significant in_these de- vélopments.” in the opinion of the Bal- timore Sun, “is that, while they have been !ang on, ever since s:mblhltm_nj was adopted, i.was Aot until the gun- man began His murderous outbreaks i | Ten Years dzo Today. American troops have entirely wiptd out the St. Mihlel salfent and the enémy forces are now virtually with their back to the famous “Wotan- Hindenburg” line. with the Americans and French paralleling theirs closple from Verdun to the Moselle: 12000 prisoners already counted and large numbers of captives are still coming in All the villages in the sallerit have been taken And thé front of this seftor has been reduced from some 40 miles to A NttIe less than 20. ¢ * « The Germans did not offér the tesistance the Americans expected and many of the enemy sutrendered readily to our forces. here the enemy. resisted with machine guns they were flanked and taken. * * * The British again cut into the Hindenburg line, storming the heights of Havrincourt, ovetlooking the | Gerthan défenses for some. distance ¢ * Von Hertling calls fo without conguest. TEIIS 1ABAF mer, \ocy Germany wants war's end, that armv chiefs desire it. And that peace is corfi- ing sooner than expected. * * .« Thres hundred and fifteen ngmes on casualty lists glvén out today 58 killsd in action, 167 wounded and 38 missing. i