Evening Star Newspaper, September 25, 1928, Page 8

L} 8 ITHE EVENING STAR ) With Sunday Morning Edition. | WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY....September 25, 1928 THEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company 1 ‘Business Office; and Pennssivamis Ave. ce: 110 East 42nd 8t. Tower Buildin. Rate by Carrier Within the City. A 45¢ per month r 60c per month onth r 65¢ per m. . Sc per col Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. d and Virgini $10.00. Daily only Sunday only All Other States and Daily and Sunday .1 yr., §1 Daily only ...l r. S8 Sunday only . $5. Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press s exclusively entitied to the use tor republication of all news cis- | atches credited to it or not otherwise cred- ted in this paper and also the local news published hereln_ AJl richts of publication of | special dispatches herein are also reserved | pe— — Count Uchida in Washington. Washington welcomes this week a | distinguished visitor from Japan, who is no stranger, Count Uchida, one-time Ambassador to the United States and thrice foreign minister of Nippon. He | was dispatched to Paris to sign his gov- ernment’s name to the multiliteral pact outlawing war, and is now on his way home. In Great Britain Count Uchida tarried a week for conference with the British authorities, and he now plans an “unofficial” sojourn in Washington, during which he will pay his respects to President Coolidge and Secretary Kellogg. Japancse-American relations have steadily improved since the Washington ‘ conierence, though they underwent a period of undeniable strain following the passage of the 1924 American im- migration law. The so-called exclusion clause of that act of Congress still rankles in the Japanese breast, though time is exercising its mollifying in- fluence and reconciling the Island Em- pire to an apparently fixed principle of American policy. ‘The factor in Japanese-American re- lations which will inevitably be the ob- ject of discussion with Count Uchida is Japan’s attitude toward New China. Under the vigorous Jeadership of Secre- tary Hughes, the ancient American pol- icy of the open door in China and the territorial integrity of that country was reaffirmed and covenanted at the Washington conference. To that prin- ciple the United States remains fixedly devoted. Our recent lead to the world in recognizing the government of Na- tionelist China, by entering into a tariff treaty with the Nanking authorities, is token of our abiding interest in the welfare and independence of the Chi-~ nese nation. , Japan has on repeated occasions pro- tested that her interest in China is ac- companied by no sinister designs. Even when the Tanaka government felt com- pelled to throw heavy detachments of troops into Shantung last Spring, to defend imperiled Japanese life and property after the Tsinanfu outrage against them, it continued to insist that those measures were wholly protective in character. Tokio emphatically de- nied, despite the proximity of this force to the border of Manchuria, that it was Canada. 00: 1 mo, $1.00 sc 1y " to be employed for the purpose of ex- tending Japan's already paramount foothold in that great province of sov- sreign China or of throwing itself across the path of Nationalist China's armies. Meantime, Sino-Japanese relations have become dangerously embittered. Tokio sent Baron Hayashi to Mukden to restrain Chang Hsuieh-Liang, son and successor of the late Manchurian war lord, Chang Tso-Lin, from linking the province’s fortunes to Nationalist China. China countered that act by abrogating without notice its commer- cial treaty with Japan, a procedure as- sailed at Tokio as “an outrageous viola- tion” of international law. In the wake of these two events, Nationalist resent- ment was fanned into fresh fury. The anti-Japanese trade boycott was re- vived. All over China the cry was raised that the Japanese are bent upon a deliberate policy of thwarting Nation- alism’s aspirations. The charge echoes across the seas and is heard in America. Count Uchida is in position to throw guthoritative light upon Japan's real purposes in China. His country has vast and legitimate. interests there.: Americans will greet with satisfaction an assurance that Japanese statesman- ship plans to safeguard them without jeopardizing the new China’s chance to | live or flouting the world’s demand for equality of opportunity throughout its whole domain. ————— Campaign speakers risk a certain degree of unpopularity as their duties compel them at times to interfere with our favorite radio announeers. v Possible Parole for Young Fiends. According to a statement just is- sued by the chairman of the Illinois ! State Board of Pardons and Paroles, an error in the “mittimus” under which Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, jr., were sent to the Joliet Penitentiary for life imprisonment makes these two youths eligible for parole in six more years. The crimes for which these two were tried and convicted and given life sentences four years ago profoundly shocked the coun- try. They had kidnaped a little boy and had tortured him to death. They had no defense. They were found guilty of both kidnaping and murder and the only question was whether they would be sentenced to death or to life imprisonment. The presiding judge, in consideration of their youth, gave them the latter sentence and was himself subjected to severe criti- cism. It was immediately felt that the wealth of the families of these two lads would eventually effect their re- lease on parole. Since their incarcera- tion at Joliet they have made records as well behaved prisoners, although Leopold is believed to have been the “brains” of a prison outbreak a few months ago which cost several lives and has resulted in the execution of three convicts. In passing. sentence upon these two | Sout.s the court recommended that ! neither should be granted a parole, no | ymatter how long they might serve.’ Yet it now appears that through some er- rorin the formal order of commitment they are eligible to release on good conduct at the end of ten years. Im- mediately the question arises whether that error, to which the chairman of the State board now calls attention, was honestly made or was the result of influence, operating through devious channels. Also arises the question of whether it cannot be corrected in sea- son to prevent any application for parole. For there should never be a release from prison of these murderers. To grant them liberty, however long after their crime, would be to do ir- reparable injury to the cause of jus- tice in America. For the first offender who commits a crime under some unusual incitement or in the stress of passion or from some imagined need there should be a chance for freedom after a period of prison confinement during which he has repented of his offense and has learned the lesson of retribution and resolved to lead a correct life there- after. But for such as these young murderers, who slew for the sake of a “thrill,” morally unregenerate experi- menters, there should never be a chance opportunity would be to negative the law which prescribes the severest pos- sible punishment for unpardonable crimes. Police Recommendations. 1t will doubtless surprise many Wash- ingtonians to learn from the annual report of Maj. Hesse, superintendent of police, that although the patrol force consists of 1,348 men, there are actu- ally on duty at one time no more than 213 men in an area of approximately seventy square miles. This is in part owing to the three-platoon system, under which the members ot the force remain on active duty only eight hours at a stretch. In other part it is due to the large number of men on special detail. ' Furthermore, much time must be spent by policemen at court, in pre- senting cases for trial and in testifying. The major and superintendent urges that the force be increased to 1,500, which would add 150 men to the active patrol duty. ‘The spreading out of 213 men over an area of seventy square miles is giv- ing too thin a protection. To cover the ground the r-licemen must work long beats. They cannot completely com- pass the ground of their assignments. Patrolling in such circumstances be- comes more or less perfunctory. The malefactor, bent ypon the commission of a crime, is enabled to time his ac- tivity with confidence that he will not be disturbed. This is true even in the business section, where the patrol is in shorter beats, with a larger assign- ment of men. The numerous store rob- beries that have been committed in this city during the past few years have been possible chiefly because of the thinness of the protection afforded by the police force, stretched as it has had to b: over a wider area than safety requires. In connagtion with his recommenda- tion for a larger force Maj. Hesse urges an increase in the maximum pay for policemen. Recent happenings have di- rected attention to the fact that an unusually large number of policemen to live in freedom. To give them that | -THE - EVENING STAR,. WASHINGTON,-D. €., TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER Republicans to vote for Mr. Blaine. ‘When Republicans slide all the way over to the Democratic cause the future usually holds difficulties for them, and some of them find themselves per- manently in the Democratic party. ‘The Democratic progressives in the Senate have lined up for Gov. Smith. Senator Dill declared early in the pre- convention campaign that the nomina- tion of Smith would spell defeat for himself in Washington and for other Democratic Senators seeking re-election. But he is making a real fight for re- election against the Republican nom- inee, McIntosh. Senator Wheeler has Ithe fight of his life, running against former Gov. Dixon, an old Republican progressive war horse, who defeated the Democratic Senator some years ago in & gubernatorial race. Four years ago Wheeler was La Follette's running mate on the independent progressive national ticket. came to a head in 1924 and centered about the La Follette-Wheeler ticket, finds its leaders for the most part aligned again with the two old political parties. The friends of both Mr. Hoover and Gov. Smith insist that their candi- dates are worthy of progressive sup- port; indeed, are real progressives. And the progressive Republicans and the progressive Democrats are encouraging themselves in their support of these candidates because of the progressive- ness of Hoover and Smith. vt The Roosevelt Stadium. | A determined effort will be made | by a special committee of the Wnsh-i ington Board of Trade to procure for this city the proposed five-million-dol- lar Roosevelt Stadium which the Roose- velt Memorial Foundation of New York | is to erect in memory of the late Presi- dent. At a meeting of the executive committee yesterday a special commit- ( tee was appointed to confer with of-| ficials of the foundation. Lieut. Col. | Ulysses S. Grant, 3d, director of pub- | lic buildings and public parks, wfll! accompany the delegation to New York | to assist in pleading the cause of the | National Capital. ‘Washingtonians for years have want- ed an athletic stadium in which events of national importance could be held. The proposed Roosevelt Stadium, while its seating capacity has not been de- termined, will cover approximately sev- | enty-five acres of ground and will | be in architectural beauty in keeping with the memorial purpose for which | it is erected. The committee of the board believes that Washington is the logical place for the location of the stadium and will endeavor to drive home this thought in the minds of members of the foundation. When the Board of Trade committee | leaves for New York it will carry with it the whole-hearted support of the city. While the committee may not succeed in its mission, its enterprice is to be commended, and if the Roosevelt Stadium is not secured for the National Capital there will be no cessation of effort until the dream i fulfilled and the National Capital shall be the pos- sessor of an athletic field large enough to stage national and even international sporting events. o Suggestions that he might utilize his have fallen from the high standard of behavior that i§ required by the public security. Whether this seeming demoralization has been due to the difficulty of getting men of the proper character to become members of the force on account of the rates of com- pensation is not determined. Present efforts to restore discipline and to se- cure dependable performance may dis- close whether the rate of pay is in- adequate. The main question is really ! not only of compensation, but of ade- quacy of the force. Yet. however large in numbers, a police force that is not efficient in personnel and at all times trustworthy is not a safeguard, but may actually be a menace. Eminent motor authorities are arrayed in opposition in national affairs and as yet have no time to cortribute real genius toward a solution of the great American parking problem. The Progressives. Senator George W. Norris of Nebraska has announced that he intends to fight the battles of the progressive Senators who are up for re-election, irrespective of party affiliations. For the present, at least, he will take no stand on the presidential tickets. Of the seven mem- bers of the Senate now seeking to suc- ceed themselves whom Senator Norris lists as progressives, two are Democrats, Wheeler of Montana and Dill of Wash- ington; four are Republicans, Frazier of North Dakota, Howell of Nebraska, La Follette of Wisconsin, and Johnson of California, and one is a Farmer-Labor party man, Shipstead of Minnesota. With the exception of La Follette and Shipstead all these Senators have aligned themselves with their respective party national tickets. . Indeed, the progressive Republicans generally, except for La Follette, who has said nothing, and his colleague, Senator Blaine, who has practically an- nounced for Smith, and Senator Norris, have come out for Hoover and are work- ing for his election and against the election of Gov. Smith. Both the North Dakota Senators, supporters of the late Senator La Follette in 1924, have an- nounced themselves for Hoover and will campaign for him. Senator Hiram Johnson, Theodore Roosevelt's running mate in 1912, has buried the hatchet and is supporting the Hoover-Curtis ticket. Senator Howell, colleague of Senator Norrls, is out for Hoover, and S0 is Senator Borah of Idaho. Senator Borah is one of the principal speakers in the Republican list of spellbinders this year. He has taken more interest in the present presidential campaign than in any other for years. Senator Brookhart of Iowa, who has led the farm forces in that State for years, is campaigning with vigor for Hoover. The fact of the matter is that Mr. Hoover has all of the Republican pro- gressive leaders of the West, with few exceptions, lined up for him. Norris and La Follette, it is true, have withheld their support so far. But it is significant that they have not gone over to Smith either. Senator Blaine, having declared publicly that no Republican in Wiscon- sin need feel called upon to vote for the Republican natfonal ticket this year, may find in the future that some other Republican leader in the Badger State ey suggest that there is ne eall for the popularity in politics appear to have prompted Lindbergh to tune up the sky craft and keep as far from earth as possible. ‘The Antarctic region is useful m' enabling the world to think of new perils and forget the disappointments. ——.—— | None of the amplifiers is affording much encouragement to the idea that this is a “whispering campaign.” O e ‘The full dinner pail is not so crowded that it has not room in its corners for a little campaign literature. — e SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Makings. He couldn’t make a pair of shoes. He couldn’t make a kettle. He couldn't make a thing we use In leather or in metal. He could not make an ‘aeroplane. He could not make a flivver. He could not start a railway train, Or steamboat on the river. Yet Something each of us must Make. His efforts he’ll redouble. ‘We cry, “Desist, for Pity's Sake, For all you Make is Trouble!" Not Altogether Unselfish. “What are your ideals in politics?” “I always hope the best man will win,” answered Senator Sorghum. “In- | cidentally I may mention that in con- tests reaching through a long period of years I have invariably proved my- self the best man.” Evidence of Prestige. My Radio! My Radio! A Statesman’s pull I Look Up. And first of all I ask to know How generous is your Hook Up? Jud Tunkins says literature is get- ting rough. What was once called a “bon mot” is now referred to as a “wise crack.” Futile Advice. If You were I and I were You, We'd tell each other what to do, And then in disappointment sigh, The same as just plain You and I. Using Discretion. “My father promised me a gold watch,” sald Mr. Dustin Stax, “if I would not smoke until I was twenty-one years old.” “Did you hold him to the bar- gain?” “No. The matter was dropped. Father went into the tobacco trade and I was proving a bad advertise- ment for the business.” “We have few real friends,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown. “But, on the other hand, most of our enemies are only imaginary.” Unrelated Sound. I did not hear the speech, because The tumult was erratic, And much of what we deemed applause Proved just a bit of static. “De only man dat finds ezackly whut he is lookin’ foh in dis life,” said Uncle Eben, “is de man dat is lookin' foh trouble.” So the progressive movement, which | A big yellow and black spider was rocking himself back and forward furi- ously in his web as the result of a pcking given him with the end of a stick. . His rage was almost manlike as he angrily shook himself back and forth, |swaying the entire web to and fro. The central portion, with its ladder of white reinforccment, shook the most, with the motivating energy making the widest swing Hf all. He was just one of the ordinary | spiders, the sort said to be of great 1 benefit to gardens, owing to their great cepacity for consuming insects, among which may be many inimical to | flowers. His web was in a hibiscus bush, anchored to a ripening sced pod, now | quite brown, almost black. The guy wire, or whatever it is called, ran al- most to the ground, hitching onto a branch near the carth. The web itself was about a foot in diameter. It was, to our way of think- !ing, rather sloppily constructed—for a | spider—with the exception of the curi- {ous white reinforcement. Perhaps this was not a strengthening but a conceal- ing device, since it obstructed the Mas- ter Mind to a large degree. | Surely the spider is one of the real | | master minds, as he cunningly weaves | {his web and then sits in it, preying | upon the less masterful insects that | fly, hop and c:awl. All that com2s his | way is grist. One day it is a grasshop- | per, next a fly, then a butterfly. | It makes no difference. to the cruel | Master Mind; he eats 'em all—and allve, too. Perhaps it is unfair to call him cruel, if cruelty means a purpose- ful, conscious mind. Is the tiger cruel when he leaps upon his prey? We think not. Only man has the capacity to be cruel. ‘Yet it is not difficult to credit the spiders with the intent and purpose of cruelty as they sit there in their webs with thelr little evil eyes glittering and | their hairy legs crooking in the wind. Spiders to most people are simply nasty brutes the world would be better off without. Even the ardent gardener would forego willingly the actual or thecretical benefit which they bring to gardens, or or> supposed to bring to gardens The most interesting thing about them is the web. Truly that is a mas- terpiece. We recounted in this column a year ago the tale of the spider which flung his lifeline 12 feet from a border to a bed. It was a fine job. The bracing of | that line at 2ither end was done with mathematical sureness, as certainly as if it had ceen calculated for strains and | stresses. | Yet that builder was only a “bug” in the common sense—a thing, if you will, | without rhyme or reeson, blindly doing | what he did because of forces outside and beyond bim, of which he knew nothing nor could know anything. The spider seemed almost an anto- maton, set in motion one knew not| how, keeping on the go one cared not how, but always, whether in this cen- tury or thousands of years ago, or 10,- 000 years to come, building the same careful webs because spiders had alwa built such webs, and in the same effi- cient manner. Such creatures seem to give the lie to evolution. Webs have always been the same and always will be the same. No spider builds a better web today than its ancesters did yesterday. The spiders of the year 10,000 A.D. will be throwing out the'same patterns, with exactly the same guides, as the fellows in the gar- den now. They are standing still! They know nothing of the alert busi- ness man’s motto, “You can't stand still; you musi either go forward or backward.” sp)zde;s Pugh at mottoes. * | The ants are the most prominent garden insects. More evident than the spiders, on account of their number, THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. | hood. although much less spectacular, the ants are all-season nuisances. Spiders only begin to appear in August and vanish when cold weather comes on, but the ants are at it all season long, begin- ning their nefarious work with the first touch of Spring. Perhaps the most disagreeable efTect | of ants is on and in lawns. A dozen or o ant hills, appearing here and there in a grass plot overnight, are guaran-| teed to spoil the appearance of any lawn. Thete are many remedies sug- gested, but perhaps the average gar- dene” is too lazy to try any of them. The easiest is to kick the hill with the | foot. thus making a nice red smear in ! the grass and getting mud on onc’s shoes if this hostile demonstratien is made in the early morning when the grass is wet with dew. The unsatisfactory part of it all is! that the next morning there the hills will be again. Ants are determined. No sooner is their hill leveled than the, start to build it up again. Nothing | stops them except boiling water, and| | unfortunately tha® kills the grass. Ants | have a bad habit, too, of gathering in great masses at certain points, from which only a liberal outpouring of hot water will dislodge them. They are said to assist certain garden operations, such as the opening of the peony buds, but we have always thought this to be mere favorable propaganda. Perhaps ants have their uses in a garden. They do a great deal of scavenger work, it is true, and thus rid the place of factors which might be inimical, but what they cart away plecemeal is very small as a whole, and perhaps would do no great harm, anyway. The ant may be a model of busy-ness, but it is somewhat of a nuisance in a garden. * Kk * Ladybugs are among the welcome in- sects, it- being stated that they eat large quantities of plant lice, those de- vouring, good-for-nothing critters. We have watched ladybugs hope- fully, intent on seeing them devour aphids, but never yet have seen them | cat so much as a one. Therefore have | come to more or less doubt the authen- | ticity of the legend in their favor. ’rhey] are appealing bugs, however, with their ' bright, hard coats and their nursery| rhyme associations. There is not much sense to the sung, is there? “Ladybug, ladybug, fly away home; “Your house is on fire and your children will burn.” It is a poor piece of rhyming, to say nothing of the fact that these insects are not possessed of houses capable of | being devoured by incendiary holo- causts. Yet perhaps the verse may in- culcate among the children of the hu- man species the dire results of care- less playing with matches, and if that be so the crud> poetical offering may have its place in a world where many tough rthymes have found ready wel- come from the none too critical masses. There are two other garden insects | of interest, mostly on account of their | scarcity. One is what we call the “pep- | permint bug.” since its coat is done in | alternate layers of green and bright | pink, in geometrical stripes somewhat | Tesembling those once found on pepper- mint sticks, dear to the palate of child- This insect is scen mostly on zinnia plants, and it would be a rea- sonable deduction that somehow it came | from Mexico, too. The other is the “phlox “Sunday bug.” as it shows up in late| August on the phlox plants, almost | always being sceq for the first time on Sunday mornio W: would not say that this coincidence is a sure thing, but we have notce it for the past four years. Some navc told us that there | is no mystery about this bug; that it is | just a sphinx-head moth, but we pre- | fer to regard it as very queer, with its | coat of green feathers and red head, from which protrude antennae. Our phlox bug is the most friendly of gar- den creatures, and does not min# our | presence in the least. That is the sort of bug we like bug,” or Radio World A It is taken for granted by most ob- servers that there can be mno settling down to a real trial of new Federal radio regulations until the courts have passed upon the orders of the Radio Commission under the existing law. “As the commission points out some- what plaintively,” says the Chicago Daily News, “the responsibility for the hardships and losses likely to result from its reallocations rests with Con- gress, which enacted, despite much op- position, the Davis-Dill law providing for equality among the radio zones. Under that arbitrary law any plan, as the commission says, would fail to give anything Jike universal satisfaction. In due time the courts will determine, first, the constitutionality of the orders of the Radio Commission, and, in the second place, perhaps inferentially, the validity of the offensive procrustean feature of the new radio law. The question of immediate interest and im- portance is whether the commission’s reallocations will benefit the great radio public by doing away with interference and by improving the radio programs.” The Buffalo Evening News agrees that “the law as it stands, with its geo- graphical lines that largely disregard the distribution of population, cannot be made to work satisfactorily, in spite of the best efforts of the Radio Com- mission.” “The commission’s task is not a pleas- ant one,” observes the Ann Arbor Duily News. “It is bound to b2 ecriticized, whatever it may do. When it seeks to improve radio reception by eliminating stations that have contributed to the congestion it cannot avoid stepping on somebody’s toes.” * K K Placing reliance upon the importance of the legal test by a Chicago station, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram makes the comment: “The suit is obviously to be welcomed by the Radio Commis- sion and by all broadcasting and radio industry interests, as well as by ‘the public—the radio listeners. The sooner the question of validity of regulation and authority of the commission are settled the sooner will be inaugurated a condition of order where there has been chaos. If the present legislation is faulty, it is best to know it as soon as possible, in orcer that other legislation may be formulated. Radio regulation is demanded by the public interest, and it must be carried through.” “Charlotte’s radio station, WBT, seems to have been the special target of discrimination ever since its estab- lishment,” charges the Charlotte News, which presents a situation typical of many others. According to the Char- lotte paper, “from the very beginning of radio broadcasting this station has given the radio fans of this section ¢he very best at its command,” and yet “not only does the Radio Commission insist that WBT, with the finest transmitter obtainable, divide time with Raleigh, which has only 1,000 watts, one-tenth the power of WBT, but it says also that WBT can handle only one’ New York program per night, unless the closest station handling the same program is located at least 300 miles away. The station is in hands that intend to go thc limit for the proper consideration of the fans in this territory.” “It was to be expected that the Radio Commission’s allocation of wave lengths would stir up some of the 60-odd broad- casters whose powers are affected,” states the Providence Bulletin, with the thought that “the wonder is that there has not been greater outcry,” but that| paper states that “manufacturers, al- most without exception,” hold to th2 view that “though the law is impertect it is the best that could be devised un- der, present conditions, and at least opens the way for necessary improve- ments later.” LR The new regulations are described Ashland Daily Independent as * by "of Of Courts on New Allocations waits Decision | I the same type as the decisions of the | commission, some of which have becn | the suppression of certain stations that | interchanged abuse, and of another whose owner used it for tirades and for compaign propaganda. The com-l mission should be advised of further | nuisances on the air of which it may | not have heard,” concludes the Inde- | pendent. | Postponement of the new arrange- ment from the 1st of October to No- vember 11 is mentioned by the Lansing State Journal, with the suggestion that “perhaps the thought was that, with | election out ot the way, people would be in a more equable frame of mind to | give heed.” That paper says that “the public will doubtless be inclined to think fairly of any sincere attempt to bettor the situation aud will give the new ar- rangement a :air trial.” _“The impression is that we ought to give the new regulations a fair trial,” adds the Lowwl Evening Leader, and the Chattanooga Times emphasizes the | fact that “while the commission has issued an ordor cutting the number of broadeasting siations, it would seem | that this action may not necessarily spell the doom of the small or local station. The cime may come,” continues the Leader, “when almost every com-! munity desiring one may be able to boast a small station for neighborhood broadcasting. Such stations would not, | as a matter of course, put the tow having them on the map, so to speak, | but they would nevertheless serve a | certain more or less useful purpose.” “The situation, with many more sia- | tions demanding space on the air than | can be accommédated, has seemed to demand a maximum of public service,” | declares the Indianapolis News. is the yardstick by which the Radio Commission measures most requests, | and the station serving everybody with- in hearing of its programs has a bet- ter chance to remain in operation than one operated for a private or selfish | purpose.” ““Too many stations have been on the air,” in the judgment of the Columbus | Ohio State Journal, “with little or nothing substantial to offer, and in| certain’ instances there has been too| much interference with really good programs by inferior stations, If the! new regulations will remedy this situa- tion, the purpose of the law will be| served and the great army of radio| fans will ne everlastingly grateful.” oo Portuguese Law Compels| Shoes for Everybody From the New York Times. | In recent months governments all over the world seem to be taking a| lively interest in what their people must | wear. South American Indians have been ordercd by law to modermze their dress. In the Near East those who cling to national costumes nave been legislated into European clothes. Now the Portuguese Republic has passed a law, effective October 1, requiring every citizen to wear shoes. Dispatches do not state whether there are hygienic reasons for this ruling, as in the South, where hookworm attacks the soles of the feet, or as in South America, where the deadly jigger makes its onslaughts under the toenails. At all events, it 1s anticipated that there will be considerable cbjection to the new law. Fishmongers and peddlers, long accustomed to parading the streets | barefooted, will not easily be forced into | shoes. Many others will resent this encroachment upon the freedom of their feet. Strategy should easily overcome ob- jections. A quantity of broken glass and sharp-pointed tacks, judiciously scattered through the streets, ought to }zro‘.ve a strong grgument against bare ee! kA | quillity. | such quest. AT RANDOM LG.M. TO BAGDAD AND BACK. Joe M:tchell Chapple. The Century Co. The mood behind this adventure- the one that takes“it in hand. sets it pacity that relates to information. This and sees it through s a mood to which t majority of us is bound to yield immediate and eager partaking. in the years behind us, far or near, who has not fallen deep into the magi of Scheherazade, bent to the natura upon_its w o ® | it deprives you of benefits to which 1iare entitled. Your obligation is on! ¥Or | congs in coin or stamps, inclosed with |1873. + | yeur inquiry for direct reply. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. This is a special department, devoted‘ solely to the handling of queries. This| paper puts at your disposal the sery-| ices of an exiensive organization I Washington to serve you in any ca-| Failure to make use of you ly 2 service is free. Address | e Evening Star Information Bureau, | | Frederic Jo Haskin director, Washing-| and worthy job of saving her own neck | ¢on D. C. | from the ferocity of Sultan Shahriar, whose mind in respect to his women| had the bad habit of shifting over- night? Scheherazade's way, you recall, was to cast over the fickie lord of her own personal destiny the spell of “A Thousand Nights and a Night,” an en. chantment still potent, the source even yet of much of our own “once upon a time" happiness. Who has not szen, plain as day, upon the far horizon of his own desires and his own imagin- ings the walled splendor of old Bagdad, | metropolis of youth everywhere in its slining and impossible deeds? So, completely at one with the mood of this adventurer, off we go with him upon an actual journey to a place about which maybe we have a few very nat- ural dubieties. Shall we find it? Shall we see’ it? Huwever, there is no time for doubts to breed, since every minute of this outfaring is a packed minute. Promptly there is commanded for our use every device invented by audacious man to prove that distance is a myth, space a mere figment of the fancy— sails, wings. Then we arrive y—arrive at Bagdad by way of cemel and donkey. No other way would have done at all. This? This, Bagdad? Oh, no! But it is! Illimitable gray sand, patches of dun wajl standing, tallen ruin roundabout it. Mean streets, squalid huts. Oh, disappointment! But just at this very instant Adven- | ture, in the seeming of Joe Mitchell Chapple, touches us upon the shoulder, takes us by the arm. Now as we move about in the sordid and dirty streets of Bagdad, stopping at this point, stand-| ing close by that one, the slow dawning of the old day comes creeping out of the eastern sky. The old enchantment | comes stealing back, reinforced by this | bare reality, upon which aided by the divine gift of imagination—and Joe Chapple—we begin to rebuild the an- cient splendor that has delighted the world for so many centuries. It is here, right here, that Scheherazade circum- vented Shahriar by the simple art of amusing him—a long lesson, active to- day. Here that Haroun sallied out to his wild nights. Here that the student, Omar Khayyem, sang the immortal{of ‘millions of men fighting in death “Rubaiyat.” And here many another of our “once upon a time” friends had their little heyday of life, or seeming. Sindbad the Sailor, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves are among these. Here are the Talking Bird and the Singing Tree. All come back again. All are springing alive around us out of this| rubble and grayness, out of this old| Bagdad. Then upon this clear wizardry | of re-embodiment Mr. Joe Chapple First Adventurer, builds into the pres- ent, -Moving swiftly up into it, he gathers along the way a point of evi- dence that the four quarters of the earth are hearing swiftly in upon the land of Haroun, that they are meeting here to revive an old land, to recover a lost heritage, to bring the miracle of science and modern industry and gov- ernment to a region that plainly stands waiting for the sunrise of a new mode of life, The particular adventure of Bagdad itself sets the method of Mr. Chapple’s work throughout this so- journ in the East. First there comes the appeal to the early impressions that have been gathered from fairy tale and Bible lore, from history and geography, from the whole what-not of early school- ing and earlier home life. Upon this common posse.sion there is erected a comprehensive sweep of fact and impli- cation, covering the immediate East— Bagdad. the Holy Land, Egypt, the Su- dan. Each stands in its pressnt status | and outlook, iu its immediate future of contact and participation with the rest of the modern world. The whole sums to a finely considerable survey of this region in its various aspects of promise for the nearing future. Wide informa- tion about the vital questions of this locality, a trained art in the way of setting facts cut by way of words, a robust joy in the adventure itself, hu- mor an it for steady company—these are among the elements that contribute so markedly o the height and depth of this prime adyenture. To these of us who take 1t by way of book a word should be said for the beautiful housing of the whole matter. “To Bagdad and Back” is rather sumptuous in externals, as, indeed, it deserves to be. The pic- tures are of th> best for their purpose here—etchings by Levon West, draw- ings by Chauncey Peters, colored insets by Saul Arkin and Konrad Meindl Dressed in crimson and azure and gold, it is most delightful to the eye. That as it should be, for here is a finely substantial adventure, whose good sub- stance is only increased by the spirit of the past in which it is born ani brought up to the present. * ok Kk QUIET CITIES. Joseph Hergesheimer. Alfred Knepf, Here, again, is a book shaped to the pattern of the author's mood. That mood was clearly induced by an earnest reach and neced for a little more of quietude, more space to move around in, | more of a general sense of blessed tran- But nowhere does the whirling | present offer such gifts to even the most deserving. The situation appears to have created an emergency for Mr. Hergesheimer to meet by some invention of his own. Well, invention appears to | be quite in his line, and here it does | not fail him. Merely a matter of walk- ing back into the past, and this is what the author docs, laying aside a hundred years or so, much as one rolls back the blankets that have passed from a com- | forting warmth into a smothering dis- tress. Then, cleared of this burden, he “That | begins to move about the country from | city to city, reacquainting himself end us with them in the days of their com- parative youth and simpler behaviors. In no very long time you discover that Mr. Hergssheimer is not on a quest of quietude and tranquillity—not solely on Quite as much is it youth that he is seeking—youth with sim- plicity and certainty, and particularly with that phase of youth that requires a_forthrightness, a clean-fisted facing of life that the hepelessly complicated present does not ofier. So a day, younger, simpler, more courageous, is that for which this man is looking, quite as much as for a leisured ampli- tude of life. The search is made by way of certamn of our cities, “quiet cities”—New Orleans, Charleston, Pitts- burgh, Albany, and so on, and so on. Each of these is peisonified by way of a story wherein men and women, char- acteristic of their day and special set- ting, pursue the business of being alive and making headway as men and women have done from the beginning. It is from th> true history of each of | these towns and its immediate neigh- borhood that the clear flavors of the whole arise. An atmosphere to which all of the senses respond supports each of these pictures, or sketches, or tales. At bottom you see, therefore, that the work is as scundly based from the point of accurate history as if it had been dull and dreary, as so much of true chronicle is likely to be. “Thomas Armit gave it as his opinion that Pitts- burgh was hardly fitten to live in. It stood to reason,” he said, “that it wasn't healthy to crowd a thousaid| people and worse in a point of land in- tended for onl, a French fort"—that's the way the story of Pittsburgh begins, and it carries its own flavor, doesn't it? They all do; they would. That which is perhaps the most interesting effect of the book is that, setting out in a definite mood, it not only holds to that, but, better yet, this mood takes com- plefe posscssion of the reader, sending him, too, off npon a search for room and alr and quiet, for youth and cour- age, for a sturdier day than this mul- tifarious one can possibly offer. its history and its quiel | though science has al | a decade spent millions of dollars scek- | dotia; | | “rmy and break its morale. | | lcate the borer. | appropriation was made in January, | | e Q. How many negro delegates were, there to the Democratic convention af Houston?—J. G. A. | A. There were no negro delegates. | | Q. Should an icebox be kept full of ice or replenished when the ice is al- most gone?—A. C. V. A. Allowing the ice to get low the box causes a fluctuating tempera- |ture and wastes ice. A refrizerator should never be permitted to become ! highet in temperature than 55 degrees. | From 45 to 50 degrees is the proper temperature t> maintain. | Q. When was the first successful air flight made to Hawaii?>—L. S. A. The first successful flight to Ha- wali was made June 28 and 29, 1927, by Lieuts. Lester J. Maitland and Al- bert F. Hegehberger of the Army Air Corps. | Q How many people in America | have savings accounts?—N. S. A. The American Bankers' Assoch-‘ tion has made the statement that in 11918 there were 10,000,000 savings ac- counts, and the number is now more | than 40,000,000, Q. What is a split infini - B A. A split infinitive is one the in- tegral parts of which have been sepa- e?—L. | and steel caused by rust? suthorities regard the word “to” as being so much a part of the infinitive that it should not be separated from the word which is introduccd by it. Q. When were the first and last half dimes mace?—O. B. A. They were first coined in 1794, The last issue of such picces was in Q. Please name some celebrated phi- losophers of ancient Greece.—J. P. A. The earliest philosopher on rec- ord among the Grecks was Tha Other celebrated philosophers of this school include Socrates, Plato, Aristotie, | Anaximander and Heraclitu: Q. When was the last issue of the Stars and Stripes publiched in France? —H. W. L. A The last issus publi was dated June 13, 1919. Q. Which of the Canadia are called the Prairie Provin A. Prairie Province: plied to the three C of Manitoba, Saskatchewa: berta. Q. What is the annual loss in iron P. N, A. Corrosion, the most common ma ifestation of which is rust, desir scme 21,000,000 tons of iron and st a year. Q. How tall are g ing up. and w! do they we A. Male gorillas usually exceed 6 feet in height when standing upright. The female is smaller, measuring about 413 feet The weight of a gorilla varies according to the different localities. A fair average, however, is 200 pounds Q. Please anniversarie: . M. A. First, paper; second, calice d in France provinees # cos?— illas when stand- igh?—C. 8. give the first 10 wedding A. d, muslin; fourth, silk: fifth. wood: |vated by the introduction of an adverb. For example, to heartily laugh. Many BY PAUL V. | There is a very significant lesson ! presented by the contrast of interest found in a calamity which comes sud- denly and dramatically, or a catas- trophe which is silent and slowly pro- gressive. In the World War this was demon- strated by the battle news—the tragedy grip, with cannons and rifles,and ma- chine guns, on the one hand, and the deadly, but silent, influenza epidemic, which ravaged the homes of America and caused thousands of fatalities, al- most equaling the American losses in battle. The folks at home knew about the battles, but they didn't worry the boys at the front by telling much about the fatalities and shocks of the epi- demic. It was so deadly silent! o T There is a later instance of some: what similar nature, although, fortu- nately, it has to do only with property loss, while the lesser economic tragedy combines loss of lives by the thousands, as well as destruction of property by the hundreds of millions of dollars. The lesser came in sudden fury, which star- tled 'us. Reference is made to the “lesser tragedy,” which in this case is the hurricane with its appalling feroc- ity; yet its destruction of property is far less than that of the other menace. The greater catastrophe has not shocked the general public—not yet— although it menaces the country with a loss mounting into not millions, but bil- lions of dollars, against which there has not been found adequate defense, even ady in less than ing to avert the threatened tragedy. | The public has scarcely heard of the| seriousness of the danger. H i * ok ok ok This “greater menace” is a Euro- pean invasion. It began to threaten in | 1919, even as the veterans of the World War were straggling home as fast as | Atlantic transportation enabled them to | return from the fields of battle. Some alert defenders of America ex- | claimed in due military form: “Atten- tion! The European corn borer!” But| discipline had grown slack and few rose | to attention. Some yawned and grum- bled, “Why worry?”—just as in the war. It was reported that the enemy had | than iron: seventh, copper: eighth, bro: ninth, pottery: tenth, tin. BACKGROUND OF EVENTS . COLLINS. stubble, in spite of the fact that the Government and States offered to pay them a certain reward per acre for cleaning up. Appeals to the courts to compel such a clean-up were in vain. The Federal Government has no such police power and it could not be ruled that the flying of the borer moth over State lines constituted “interstate com= merce.” The moth lays its eggs inside the pith of the stalk or the inside of the cob, and there the eggs hatch for the next year's campaign. The de- partment will ask for another huge ap- propriation this Winter. but again it will come after Winter wheat occupies the stubble fields. * k ok K The region now seriously infested is around Lake Erie, extending south to the middle of Ohio, east to the mid- dle of New York, and in another spread covering tihe Hudson River Valley and New England and Long Isiand. North of Lake Erie and Lake Ontario, it is seriously in possession of the Canada corn region, and has completely de- stroyed corn in the region between Lakes Erie and St. Clair. It has spread over half the distance across Michi- gan and is now touching Lake Michi- gen; it covers th2 norih half of Indi- ana. All western Pennsylvania Is with- in the infested belt. By the time next year's corn !s ma- turing, the spread of the pest may capture Illinois and possibly Iowa. Nothing is able to slop it—not even the efforts to purchase co-operation from all farmers through their clean- ¢ ing up all corn stubble and stalks: the Government paying them for the extra cffort seems to be unsuccessful. In regions not yet devastated, farmers cannot conceive the seriousness of the danger. In Canada, the central government has polize power to compel obedience to mandates to: clean up the fields, but in the United States there remain “State rights,” more sacred than the whole corn crop and more to be desired agricultural prosperiiy. The farmers are ready to demand from th: Federal Government liberal ‘“relief. but no centralizing of police power in the Federal Government is to be toler- ated, though its lack jeopardizss agri- culture like a spre‘ndins prairie fire. + already in 1919 captured 1,000 square | miles of terrain about Boston—the very | region where the American Revolution | started. There were some Paul Reveres | who tried to arouse the “Spirit of '76” | and rally to a vigorous defense, crying | the Lexington ultimatum, “If war must | come, let it begin here and now!” | But the Department of Agriculture opposed the proposal of half a million | for defense (“with not a cent | for tribute"), so Congress appropriated | only $250.000, July 24, 1919. Science began a flank attack by bringing up a detachment of parasites to sap the en- | That re- | sulted in scattering the forces of the in- vaders, but they rallied in the early | Summer of 1920, on four fronts—along | | the seaboard of Massachusetts and New | Hampshire, in the east half of New | York. in the extreme west of New York, | in Ontario along the north shore of Lake Erie In the latter region prac- tically the entire corn crop was de- | stroyed: in some other infected regions | only 25 per cent. | Since then, Congress has appropriat- | cd from $216,000 to $400,000 a year to | carry on the fight against this deadly | European invasion, but always the vic- | vear, growing desperate, the ap- | | propriation was $10.000,000 from the Federal Treasury. made conditional in | its expenditure upon an equal amount e appropriated by the States in | which the fight should be made. Twenty million dollars given in one vear to science to fight a worm. a cat- erpillar, an insect which hides inside of | a corncob or cornstalk! And still the | invading army advances! Its irresist- ible march now defies the entire forces of science defending the corn crop of America and Canada, whose estimated alue ranges between $2.500.000,000 and | $3.000,000,000 a year. Unless some para- site be found which will prey success fully and adequately upon the corn | borer, the American corn crop s | doomed. Yet the Department of Agri- culture has not been able to discover such a parasite, with assurance that the parasite will not bring along some other parasite which will eat the first enemy of the borer faster than that first para- site can consume the borer. Some of our birds are feasting on the juicy worms, but the supply outruns the bird attack. Corn is the most important crop of the American farm: its destruction | would bankrupt agriculture. It exceeds cotton or wheat. The cotton boll wee- vil still torments the Southern farmer. | but it is of minor importance compared | with this European corn borer. * kK X % | Congress awoke at last to the immi- | nent need of stringent efforts to erad- | ‘The ten-million-dollar | 1927, but then it was found that it was too late to accomplish its main purpose in inducing farmers to cleart up their cornfields and destroy all stalks and stubble, for many had already sowed | Winter wheat upon the stubble, and they refused to destroy the next vear's wheat in order to clear up last year's | i i | fine colors, the book gives a lovely ner-! spective of seft suffusions, tha thing that James Huneker and somebody else have designated as “the pathos of dis- tance.” On some particular day or hour, and no other, when the spirit is opened jut toward the near past, tak» | up “Quiet Cities” to meet your mood more than half way. A beautiful ex- wuh‘perunce :ather than a mere reading, t drama and its wil el you. gz N * * A department bulletin telling of the 4 pest says: “There is no sw way of fighting corn-bprer moths. The habits of the moths have been cares fully studied. They fly during the eve- ning or early morning and therefore are seen only rarely. In daylight they remain concealed underne: the leaves of various plants or in thick growths of weeds and grasses. In the moth stage the Furopzan corn horer cannot be successfully destroyéd. Var trap lights and poisoned bails have been thoroughly tested and found to be use- less_under ordinary conditions. “The moths fly strofigly, It has been determined that the moths can fly fot a distance of at least 20 miles. During windy periods the direction of flights s b the wind. Large bodies of water do not check their flicht, as the moths have been seen to alight on the surface of the water and again take flight .k So while the pol ver farm relief Hool vith 1ts or something which will put ernment into business of ever known, all of tk to do with marketin; abroad at a sacrifice p maintain high cost of livin But the Europ: take care that there will be s to bother about, when it spread: the rest of the corn-growing Why worry over the equalization fea when there will be no surplus for 1t t¢ apply to? The corn borer is a greater bore than any statesman. We are appalled at the estimate of the hurricane destruction of properts f to the value perhaps-of $100.000,000 but we hear iittle of the calamity we are facing of a European invasion | which may equal in economic destruc- |tion three thousand such hurricanes, and may be repcated annually for many years. (Covyriznt 1978 hv Panl V. Collins.) ITEDs STATES N WORLD WAR Ten Years Ago Today. Germans are preparing to with: the civilian population from M account of t American bombardment of the city. American and German airmen ve along the Lorraine front creased artillery action is no he lines of the old St. Mih ith gunners bombarding ob, hind the front lines, s roads and troop formations far an¢ near. * * * Net losses in the over seas milit. ry forces of Canada up August 1 were 115,806, not countin| those wounded in action who have re covered and rejoined their uni * * * Bulgarian armies are not split into fragments and are fleeing be fore the allied troops on a front 13/ miles long. * * * Gen. Allenby i closing in on the Turks and herdinf them eest of the Jordan River for ! final round-up. * * ¢ A dispatct from Switzerland today says that younf Turk officials are makt heavy deg posits in Swiss banks, indicating thei misgivings over the stability of affain in Germany. * * Reported tha hundreds of Americans are mearryin| French girls snd will settle down it France after the war. * * ¢ Thre hundred and fifty-two casualties givel out today, P 3 g i