Evening Star Newspaper, October 15, 1928, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY.......October 15, 1928 THEODORE W. NOYES. ...Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office: 1ith St and Pennsyivanta Ave New York Office: 110 East 4nd St. Chicago Office: Tower Bulldinz. European Off-e 14 Regent St.. Londen. ngland. Rate by Carrier Within the City. e Evenine Star 45c per month he Evening and Sunday Star (when 4 Sundass) The Evening and Sunday Star (when 5 Sundays) 3 The Sunday Star E 5: per ccpy Collection made at the end of vach manth Qrders may be sent in by mail or telephone Main 5000 Rate hv Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Dallt ana surday... 1 yr.$19.00: 1 mo.. 85c Dailr onlv 1yr. $6.00: 1 mo., 50 Sunday only . $4.00: 1 mo.. 40c 60c per month 65¢ per month Al Other States and Canada. and Sundas " 3 onty Dail: Sunda The Associated Pre to the nss for republic atches credited to it or not etherwise cred- ted in this paper and also the .ocal rews published herein. All rizhts of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved —_—— President Irigoyen. Senor Hipolito Irigoyen, elected to office by a landslide majority last April, has just been inaugurated President of the Argentine Republic. Like Grover Cleveland in this country, 36 vears ago, Senor Irigoven resumes after an in- terregnum the exalted place he has| filled before. His first term in the Ar- | gentinian presidency was from 1916i to 1922. A dominant figure in national affairs for more than a generation, President Irigoyen is hailed as Argen- tina’s most popular living citizen. The people of the United States, as Presi- dent Coolidge has assured him in a message of congratulation, bespeak for Senor Ifigoyen a successful administra- tion, and for ourselves a continuance of agreeable relations with South Amer- ica’s second largest couniry. The Buenos Aires government was the stormy petrel of the Pan-American Conference at Havana last Winter. Its spokesman there, Senor Puerryedon, former Argentinian Ambassador to the United States, eventually retired from his post at Washington under circum- stances more or less directly due to differences with his government over procedure at Havana. The organization of the Pan-American Union, inter- American tariffs and the right of the United States to intervene in Latin- American affairs were among the is- sues over which the delegations of Ar- gentina and the United States did not always see eye to eye. At present Ar- gentinian public opinion is exercised over a possible increase in our tariff on corn and flaxseed and consequent dis- advantage to Argentinian export trade. ‘The adherence of Argentina to. the Kellogg multilateral pact for renuncia- tion of war has not yet been proclaimed. ‘There is thus no dearth of material for issues and incidents between Presi~ dent Irigoyen's government and our own. Happily for both countries, the new chief executive is an apostle of close pan-American friendship. He and his political associates represent that school of thought which apparently sees greater salvation for the ideals of the Western Hemisphere in pan- American fraternity than in the League of Nations. It was under President Iri- goyen's first administration that Ar- gentina withdrew from Geneva. Like the United States, she is now repre- sented there only unofficially. The Chamber of Deputies only a few days prior to President Irigoyen’s inaugura- tion reaffirmed Argentina's .divorce from the League by eliminating from the budget an item providing for pay- ment of the republic's dues. The cham- ber is dominated by Irigoyenistas. The Monroe Doctrine does not enjoy universal popularity in Argentina. Even now there are rumblings that any at- tempt on the part of the United States specifeally to reserve the doctrine from the anti-war commitments of the Kel- ’8 pact would encounter disapproval # Buenos Aires. President Irigoyen's luence is not likely to be cast on the side of any Argentinian policy inimical to the United States. e Uncertainty as to the listing of vari- ous States has caused many a patient the presence on her of several score of people, her choice of a rather round- about route to avoid storms, her par- tial disablement, her struggle against head winds, all contributed to an inter- esp that sent great numbers out to Lake- hurst yesterday. Those who were stalled in the road without food far hours have some measure of sv=-"athy with the be- lated dirigible’s cc , although they had the supreme al ntage of being able to walk back home. . A School That Is Needed. The Kiwanis Club, which since 1923 has made the care and treatment of crippled children its major objective, is seeking to interest the Board of Educa- tion and other organizations in the es- tablishment, as a part of the public school system, of a special school for | the combined treatment and education | of crippled children. The appeal comes at a time when the opening of the school year once again shows that Washington is woefully behind in its equipment even for the education of normal children. The Kiwanis Club, therefore, can hardly expect that its appeal will bring immediate results. But it has set a goal, and a most de- sirable one. It is only reasonable ta expect that in time it will be reached. Since 1923 the Kiwanis Club has given its attention to the care and treatment of some 260 cases of crippled children. It has spent more than $20,- 000 on hospital fees, nurses, braces, etc. 1t has used its good offices to obtain surgical treatment for its patients, and none of the doctors thus enlisted has ever submitted a bill. Today it has 160 cases in hand. But the field is always broadening. The demand has already reached proportions never contemplated by the club in the beginning. Study of the situation has convinced the club that a problem is presented which will find its only solution when the com- munity steps in and makes the educa- tion and care of crippled children a part of its duty. The Kiwanis Club believes that in the National Capital, which the country should regard as a model in educational and child health facilities, there should be established a crippled-child school, centrally located and properly equipped with a bus system and provided and maintained with equipment and per= sonngl for treatment as well as educa- tion of the pupils. The Kiwanis Club further asks for the approval of a de- velopment plan for hospitalization, in the nature of a convalescent home ad- jacent to Gallinger Hospital for the care of prolonged hospital cases. There is no provision of such care in the District at the present time. Other citles have established schools for crippled children and their success has been marked. Here in Washington the child handicapped by physical de- formities, many of which can be recti- fled in part by proper treatment, are deprived of the education that is due them, in many cases deprived of the treatment that might cure them, unless they are taken under the wing of a pri- vate organization such as the Kiwanis Club. Those who do attend school are held back because of their physical afl- ments, despite their mental ability to progress with normal children. The need is established, and the community should join the Kiwanis Club in its ap- peal that it be properly met, It was only within the recent past that the District school system recog- nized the necessity for the establish- ment of a separate school for the treat- ment and care of tuberculous children. Two such schools are now oper- ating, and such has been the demand upon their facilities that they, too, are overcrowded, and with other agencies of the District suffer from lack of funds and equipment. But they have been established. The problem of the tuBerculous school child is in way of being solved. Likewise, it required years to focus public attention on the need for the provision of special edu- cational facilities for deaf and dumb children. That problem is also being solved. The Kiwanis Club has shown the need for another step, which the community must now prepare to take. ———— Registration has increased enormously throughout the country. The phenom- enon has been variously interpreted. It may mean a voting power closely bal- anced, and it may mean the “land- Journalist to figure as a ‘“‘doubtful columnist” in the present campaign. — e Waiting for the Graf Zeppelin. All day yesterday a great throng of people waited at Lakehurst for the ar- rival of the Graf Zeppelin. They went out by motor cars, by busses and by trolleys. So many of them went in motors that there was a traffic jam that kept thousands of them long dis- tances out on the road for hours. The line of waiting vehicles was so extensive that the available refreshment re- azgees were exhausted and great num- bers of the people returned to New York in a famished condition. Perhaps the most interesting aspect of this demonstration of American curiosity is the wide range of the esti- mates made of the size of the gssem- blage at and around Lakehurst. The | New York Times conservatively com- putes the crowd at 65,000. The New York Tribune puts it at 90,000. The New York World, perhaps taking into account the folks who never reached Lakehurst, but were on their way, sets the figure at 250,000, or approximately four times the lowest estimate. This shows how hard it is to figure on a crowd in these days of rapid individual transportation. It is not surprising that so large a number, whether 65000 or 250,000, should have wanted to be on the field when the Graf Zeppelin arrived. She is the biggest thing in the air. She is the first veritable passenger aircraft to cross the Atlantic. She is undoubtedly the forerunner of an important addi- tion to the transatlantic transportation service. Her misadventures in cross- ing have been such as to increase rather than diminish interest in her arrival. Late reports of the exhaustion of her food supplies, down to mere champagne and caviar, came a little after the crowd at Lakehurst had dispersed, but enough had been received yesterday morning to indicate that the Graf Zeppelin's company had been subjected to some- what rough treatment in the air, had passed through anxious hours and were réceiving less than their scheduled gQuantities of nourishment. 4 ( The great size of the Graf Zeplelin, persuasion rather than compulsion. a big building. Bolts slide” that has become almost habitual in political affairs, e Statesmanship has always assumed to be working for posterity and yet has often succeeded in piling up trouble for generations to come. e Any average man having worked as hard as either presidential candidate would be tempted to demand a week off to go fishing. ——— Walter and Bucky as Managers. Announcement that Stanjey Harris, who until the close of the late base ball season was manager of the Wash- ington team, will occupy the same posi- tion with the Detroit team of the American League is gratifying to his fricnds in this city, who deplored the prospect of “Bucky” passing out of the managerial picture in the major cir- cult. His selection to succeed Manager Moriarty appears to be contingent only upon the laying down of the reins by the Wolverine leader, which is confi- dently expected. It is somewhat of a striking coincidence that the announce- ment of Harris’ contract comes almost at the same time as the selection of his successor in this city in the person of Walter Johnson. Between these two players, one much the senior of the other, there was the warmest friend- ship during their association here. When Harris was manager and Walter ‘was under his direction it was generally understood that the veteran was as amenable to guidance as the newest rookie on the team. Harris has now had five years of experience as a man- ager and Johnson one, Harris' experi- ence being in the American League and Johnson's in a minor organization. Hexsris goes to a “fighting team,” which for a period of many years has had but three managers, Jennings, Cobb and Moriarty. That team has played an important part in base ball history in the past quarter century, having had its ups and downs, and including many famous players. Harris' task will be to infuse the old fighting spirit into a team that has become somewhat complacent and quiescent. *Johnson's task in Washington will be to rule by THE EVENING 'STAR'.VWASHINGTOK D. €. MONDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1928. The two men are of different tempera- ments and will employ different meth- ods. Washington base ball supporters will watch their courses during the coming season with interest, hoping that each will succeed, but naturally hoping most strongly for a triumphant debut by their beloved Walter in his role as major league manager. ——rae. ‘Washington Talks With Madrid. The opening of direct telephonic com- runication between this country and Spain Saturday with an exchange of messages between President Coolidge and King Alfonso is but the latest step in the spread of the great network of wires linking all parts of the world closer together. There is no longer any marvel in the transmission of the hu- man voice under ‘ne ocean and through the air over thousands of miles. Trans- atlantic telephony has been established on a practical basis long enough to demonstrate the feasibility of the “wire and wireless” method of direct com- munication. And these services are now being availed of by large numbers in the transaction of business. Saturday's ceremony of inaugura- tion was particularly felicitous. The day fitself was especially appropriate, following immediately the anniversary of the discovery of America by Christo- pher Columbus. Four hundred and thirty-six years ago the great navigator touched land after a long voyage into the unknown. Saturday the Chief Ex- ecutive of the Nation whose establish- ment grew out of that discovery talked at length with the ruler of the land from which Columbus sailed, each at his own capital. Columbus made his way to the West on his great voyage of discovery through the assistance of the Spanish King and Queen of that time. Today an empire flourishes here, closely linked with all the world, a power for the good of mankind. From this land came the inventions that made for quick com- munication. The steamboat, the tele- graph and later the telephone. Now by means of this last-named device, brought to a remarkable pitch of per- fection and efficiency, the two execu- tives of their respective countries ex- change greetings and compliments and thus inaugurate a service that will draw more closely together the peoples of the two worlds. R Interest in registration is such as to give even a campaign its Autumn status as an outdoor sport. Anybody with a vote can now save his gasoline and travel as a motor guest. N Gunmen take flowers in profusion to the funeral of a friend. The dejected moonshiner trudging a weary road under the surveillance of revenue officers is a figure of the past. —_— Speakers at the Houston convention were undoubtedly brilliant. Neverthe- less Al Smith has seen fit, so far, to do most of his own talking. ———— It is a part of American history for every candidate to promise the voting public more than he is able, if elected, to deliver. e Nature makes her mistakes. In view of aeronautic requirements, the Atlantic Ocean should have been made not quite so wide. ——— The Zeppelin is described as “a silver fish.” Fish culture becomes bigger sport than fish-catching. ) SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Anti-Music. Used to feel so happy when the band began to play! But now I turn away In tremulous dismay. T know the demonstration May pertain to some oration That'll leave me all perplexed concern- ing next election day. Used to feel so happy when the band began to toot, But now I fear pursuit From a night club where they shoot. It's a serious situation That we have in contemplation; For once in all our lives we wish that music could be mute. Valuable Time. “We used to cheer a candidate by the hour,” protested the vociferous citizen. “All that is changed by the radio,” answered Senator Sorghum. “Time is so valuable that it costs good money even to lift a few cheers.” Says the Static. My Radio! My Radio! Quite fairly you behave. You let the words and music flow, And holler, “Let 'Em Rave!” Jud Tunkins says bein’ as everybody knows there js no Santa Claus, the candidate has o step forward and promise everytning anybody wants. Mendacious Singer. ‘The katydid foretold & frost; And that was long ago. A reputation has been lost In this autumnal glow. Votes and Speeches. “You do not think women have been trained in the arts of oratory?” “Not as much as men,"” answered Miss Cayenne. “Then you do not believe in votes for women?” “Votes in abundance, but speeches in moderation.” “It will be hard for men to agree,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “so long as the same thought can arouse antagonism when expressed in different languages.” The Landing. Be our emotions gay or grim As we must face a future dim, ‘The question of surmounting worth Is that of getting back to earth. And Life is like an airship flight; The problem is, “How Shall We Light?” “If you thinks you never makes mis- takes,” sald Uncle Eben, “dat’s one mis- take you's makin’ right now.” b Should Rivet Attention. From the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. A consignments of rivets was recently rushed from London to Amsterdam by airships in time to keep k going on blue. Every one knows that the title of Dumas’ famous story, “The Three Musketeers,” is misleading, since there are in reality four of them, the fourth being that most famous one of all, none other than the precious D, Artag- nan_himself. The four musketeers of the home garden may be easily selected if rip- roaring blooming ability and all-round satisfaction are the basis for choice. They are: 1. Ageratum. 2. Zinnia. 3. Dwarf marigold. 4. Petunia. ‘This is the home garden quartet that never disappoints. Its floral music is more steady than the output of a mod- ern radio broadcasting station, and it performs rain or shine. our list of a dozen “sure-fire” plants, printed here several months ago, may be boiled down to these four with | great profit. To be sure, the garden with no more might lack a bit of va- riety, but what is variety after all? . ‘When one has been gardening for several years he runs through the nov- elties in a season or two and shortly comes to one determination, to stick to the flowers which stick by him. He is playing safe with a purpose. In some affairs of life there is no particu- lar point to be gained by playing safe, but in the back vard discretion is often the better part of valor A Why experiment with beauty, if beauty is the end-all and be-all? Let this grand floral quartet gain posses- sion of annual borders. Nothing can be said, of course, against the satisfac- tory perennials, the shrubs, bulbs, etc. They have their place. But when it comes to annual plants which must be put in afresh every Spring, nothing takes the place of the petunia, the zinnia, the dwarf or French marigold and ageratum. et ‘Three of the four—and they may be called the original musketeers, Athos, Porthos and Aramis—are members of the great composite family, which has in its membership one-tenth of the living seed plants. These are distrib- uted among herbs, shrubs, even trees. the ageratum belong to this highest order of plants. The lettuce and the artichoke are cousins to the zinnia and the marigold. It is not possible here to go into the technical description of this family, but so many of the com- mon flowers belong to it that one is safe in putting most of them into it. As will be seen from the three named, many of our most valuable garden an- nuals are included in this classification. The name means nothing particularly to the home gardener, since the plants will grow for him just as well if he does not know the name as if he does. It makes no difference to a zinnia whether you bow low before it! How satisfactory it would be to be a flower sometimes! ~Then the ecruelty and misery of this world would heedlessly fall away from one’s petals, instead of wounding the mind and spirit Ageratum, a favorite with gardeners because of its quiet blue. offering con- trast to more gayly colored flowers, is called a half-hardy annual because it must not be planted out until May. As a matter of fact, it does very well in this climate all Summer and Fall and is hardy enough for any one. It blooms as nearly continuously as any plant, being particularly fetching at this time of year. The kingdom of flowers offers no prettier color combination than blue and yellow. Somehow this mixture seems to appeal to more different sorts of persons than any other. For the WASHINGTON BY FREDERIC Events which Democratic leaders be- lieve are destined to have a decisive influence upon the presidential election are just over the horizon. They con- cern’ Senator George W. Norris, Repub- lican of Nebraska. Cireumstantial re- ports credit “the greatest living Pro- gressive” with the intention of for- mally “coming out” for Gov. Smith be- fore the end of October. Norris is un- derstood to be delaying his pronounce- ment only until his bipartisan speak- ing campaign on behalf of seven Pro- gressive candidates for re-election the Senate is ended. Then, according to the program mnow thrilling the Democratic camp, the inheritor-in-chief of “Fighting Bob” La Follette’s mantle will pitch into the eleventh-hour battle to elect Smith. Norrls' crusade is ap- parently planned as part and parcel of the Democratic whirlwind finish in the three principal fighting areas—East, South and West. T there is to be—will undoubtedly throw forked lightning across the Republican heavens. bones about his opposition to Hoover, mainly on the water power issue, but to date he has refrained from any out right indorsement of Smith. A fla footed Norris campaign on the New Yorker's behalf is counted upon by the Democratic management to swing a solid block of five Northwestern States into the Smith column. These are Ne- braska, North and South Dakota, Min- nesota and Wisconsin. With Montana, earmarked as being also susceptible to Norris influence, they comprise a total of 42 electoral votes. They could casily turn the tide in a close election. There is terror enough in such a prospect to send cold chills running down even so impervious a spine as that of Dr. Worl * X ok ox All six of these “Norris States” went Republican in 4, but in every one except Minnesota, Coolidge won only by a plurality. In the other five the combined La Follette-Davis vote out- stripped the Republican vote. The Pro- gressive total altogether was 1,125,953 It reduced to comparative insignificance the Democratic total of 336,194. If Senator Norris could mobilize any con- lette strength in Smith’s favor next month, it's plain as a pikestaff that it would play havoc with the Hoover- Curtis ticket in the Northwest. The Democrats are jubilantly hopeful that this is exactly *what's going to happen. * k% Tt was 8:57!5 o'clock p.m. central time, on Saturday, October 13, that the Democratic party's ancient and honor- able position on the tariff was dumped overboard and sunk. At that hour, Gov. Smith, speaking at Louisville, did the historic trick. ~As matters no stand, the Democratic attitude on the tariff is about as different from the Re- publican attitude as tweedledum from tweedledee. In particular, Smith sent the Underwood law--the Democrats’ last crack at the tariff—to Davy Jones' Jocker. Now that it can be told, certain old-line Democrats frothed at the mouth in Houston over the tariff stand taken at Smith's insistence. It was re- lated that Champ Clark’s son sat in the resolutions committee and lamented that “if my father were alive and saw me voting for this plank, he'd choke me!” In other words, to go as far as the Democrats go in hugging protection to their bosom is tantamount to party treason, in the opinion of many Jeffer- sonians, Jacksonians and Clevelandites. Gov. Smith chose rather inappropria ground for his tarift heresy. wa none other than “Marse Henry” Wat- terson who first thundered in the Louis ville Courier-Journal hat slogan, “Tariff for revenue only!" which, un- til 1928, was Democratic gospel. * ik “Prosperity” 1s bounding into the picture with a vengeance, as the cam paign fumes to its finish. The Demo- cratic argument on prosperity has been set to music by Gov. Si reate, Irving Berlin. The latter's an- them, which recently had a maiden rendition by radio, sets forth that The zinnia, the dwarf marigold and | Senator Norris’ bolt to Smith—if such | The Nebraskan has made o | siderable proportion of the 1924 La Fol- | h's jazz lau- | THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. | Autumn_garden nothing nicer is to be found than ageratum and dwarf mari- golds blooming together. Care must have been taken earlier, however, if the best, effect is wanted in the Fall. This | care is simply to give ageratum plenty of room. The plants are very bushy, and take up more space than the un- wary might allow for. The ageratum is a native of tropical | America, as so many of our best garden | flowers are. The blooms are curious, | burrlike things, of tufty character. The foliage is dark green, the leaves quite_large for such low bushes. Li H. Bailey, in his “The Gardencr,” y easily. taken up in the Fall and set in the house for Winter bloom, but must be cut back severely to stand the trans- planting. . H R “The marigolds of the old-fashioned |gardens are still among the best of plants for Autumn color,” states Prof. Balley. “They are hardy annuals of the easiest culture and are always cer- tain of giving strong and excellent re- sults.” The tall varieties, the so-called Afri- can, are in reality natives of Mexico, as are the dwarf varieties, sometimes called French marigolds. “The Gar- dener” continues “All marigolds may be sown where the plants are to stand, since the flow- Summer or early Fall, at which time | they usually give their best bloom. If they are wanted earlier, however, the seeds may be started in the house or hotbed. Tall varietics of the African class may be allowed to stand 10 to 18 inches apart and the dwarfs at some- what less distance. All of them should have full sunny exposure, and a rather light soil is to be preferred.” We have had dwarf marigolds in full bloom for weeks in full shade, although they enjoyed sunlight earlier in the Summer. The soil, too, is unusually heavy in character, and acid, being al- most gummy. In’ other words, dwarf marigolds are “sure-fire” with a ven- | geance. | The zinnia. sturdy old Porthos of plants, deserves all the praise that any one can give it. Without any attention |at all it flourishes and biooms. | recent years this flower has come more and more into prominence. Scores of varieties are to be purchased by one interested, but most home growers are satisfled with packets of mixed dahlia- flowered, which usually yield some highly satisfactory blooms.” Although they are at their best at a distance, where they may not be examined too closely, they are excellent for planting around houses and near porches, and are able to pass close scrutiny if neces- sary. %ok % | The D'Artagnan of our quartet fs the petunia, raember of the :mm.:t:u:e | family, which Includes the potato and the eggplant. The petunia is the dog of the plant world, since it adapts itselt 50 _casily to all of man's requirements, | This trustworthy flower grows n win- | dow boxes, in beds. in borders and even does a litfle steady climbing as a vine, |if man wants it to do so. We have some white petunias blooming 7 feet in the air at the top of a lilac bush. Petunias do unusually well in late Summer and the Autumn, filling in with color spots that would be bare without them. They, like the zinnias, thrive under neglect,” Put the seed in ground, then forget They will 6o the rest - e A'back yard planted to petunias, zin- nias, ageratum and marigolds will be | a riot of color and a season-long satis- faction. What more can one want? OBSERVATIONS WILLIAM WILE. | “We'll have good times with Hoover, but better times with AL" Put in plain English, the refrain expresses the Dem- ocratic theory that while prosperity | wouldn't be imperiled by a Republican victory, there'd be more of the same |if Smith were in the White House. The let-well-enough-alone idea probably working out to Hoover's ad vanlage. The notion that the country ougitn’t to run the risk of a change in administrations is spreading like wild- fire. It's operating against Smith even on his own adoring Manhattan Island, Somehow it's getting into the heads of the small business man and wage earn- er (the cloak-and-suit trade, for in stance) that times would slump if “Coolidge policies” were suddenly to be scrapped. The Democrats know they have to combat this sort of thing vig- orously, as well as the persistent talk that Smith favors more immigration. e R Not many Americans Count Zeppelin, inventor German superdirigibles—"Graf Zep- pelin” by the way, means “Count Zeopelin"—began his practical aero. nautical career in the United States during the Civl War. He came to this country as the military attache of Wurttemberg with the Union Army. The dashing young German cavalry lieutenant soon evinced a desire to get into the fray in some more exci: know that f the great bystander. Eventually ‘he was permit- ted to go up as an observer in a captive balloon, and did so frequently. Zeppelin always claimed it was th initial “flights” that determined him to devote his life to aeronautics, of his earliest forecasts was that air. | ships would some day cross the At lantic. At the battle of Frederick: burg, Count Zeppelin narrowly escaped | capture by Confederate cavalry raiders, * k% ‘Two Americans described as “Hua. Wa” and “Ssu-Mi-Ssu” are now ap- | pearing regularly in the columns of newspapers in China. It seems they are the rival contenders for the presi- dency of the United States. A scholar- ly Chinese is authority for the assur- ance that the names given, respectively, to Hoover and Smith have no definits meaning, but are indicated by “highly honorable characters " (Copyright, 1928.) UNITED STATES IN WORLD WAR Ten Years Ago Today. ! In the cold rain of the clammy mid- October of northern France the dough- {boys of the American Army again hit | the German line north of Verdun. Against a concentration of machine guns never before equaled, Pershing's |mcn drive their wedge deeper into the | Kriemhilde line. Machine-gun nests of masonry and steel, resisting shellfire, jare wrested from the enemy by bitter fighting. * * * The allied offensive !in Flanders grows more successful as {the Germans are forced back on a 25- .mile front and their lines of commu- I nication are cut. Twelve thousand | prisoners are taken in two days. More 'than 130 guns are captured by the British at the outskirts of Courtrai. inorth of Laon and in eastern Cham- ipagne. * * * The allied capitals !indorse President’s rejection note and newspapers indicate their approval. Paris is jubilant over his reply. * * Eight hundred and ninety-five names on casualty list today, with 226 killed in action, 586 wounded and 85 missing. Grand total now 51,552, e Or Prolong Winter. From the Willlamsport Sun. The coal industry is searching for new ways to put life into it. We'd sug- gest the simple s of cutting the mgg- P that pleces of young wood root | Plants, he says, may be | |ers are usually not wanted until late | of | ing capacity than that of an innocent | One | British forces are only 3 miles | from Lille, and the French make gains | PHILOSOPHIES BY GLENN FRANK Dentistry is coming of age through- {out the civilized world. The other day | & professional obligation took me to the | national assembly of the American Dental Association. As I talked with |1ts leaders I caught something of the vision that is animating them. The early dentists engaged in little more than a game of puil and plug. The early dentists spent most of their | time on the double joy of helping peo- ple to chew better and to look better Neither the dentists nor the phy sicians of earlier days realized the in disease and in health Dentistry was a mechanical esthetic _enterprise. Research has revealed, however, the critical importance of the teeth in the diagnosis and treatment of disease as well as in the preservation of health. Dentistry is now seen to have a biological significance as well as a me- chanical and an esthetic signfficance. The modern dentist knows that it is his duty to help people to be better as well as to chew better and to look better. This means that he- must have a broader and more basic training than the old dentist enjoyed: the new denf must subject himself to the most rigid and comprehensive scientific training if he is to see and administer dentistry as one of the fundamental branches of medical practice and heaith service. There is no more reason why a den- tist should be considered adequately prepared for the practice of dentistry without a thorough medical training just because he can extract and fill teeth expertly, than that a surgeon should be considered adequately pre- parcd for the practice of surgery with- out a thorough medical training, just because he is adept at cutting and sew- ing human_tissues. We are happily emerging from the time when physician and dentist hardly spoke the same scientific language—a time when physicians rarely called den- tists into_consultation, although they were habitually calling eye. ear. nose and throat specialists into consultation. We now know that the more the dentist knows of medicine and the more the physician knows of dentistr the better for both and for the patients of both. As tbis medico-dental merging ad- vances, dentistry comes of age. (Copyright, McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) . Mr. Wile Alleges Error In Writer’s Statement To tne Editor of The Star: Your correspondent, Maria W. Carter, in Friday’s Star write X “Mr. Frederic Willlam Wile in his broadcast on Wednesday evening gave decided emphasis to_the fact that Sen- ator Shipstead (a Progressive) is op- posed to Mr. Hoover’s election.” To keep the air record straight may 1 cite, from the notes from which the broadcast in question was delivered, the one and only reference to Senator Shipstead contained therein: “The Democratic senatorial nominees and retired in_favor, Tespectively, of Ship- stead and ‘Young Bob' La Follette. There is some indication that their action is by arrangement with the Democratic national management_and is intended to help Smith carry Min- nesota _and Wisconsin.” As Miss Carter is manifestly a stickler for accuracy. I am sure she will not mind having the exact facts thus brought to_her attention FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. B Lovers of Wild Blooms Get Special Privilege To the Editor of The Star: The Kensington Railway Co.. owning to Chevy Chase Lake through the town of Kensington, and owning also a num- ber of acreage tracts along this line of railway, cordially invites residents or visitors in Washington who came by auto or on cars to gather wild flowers, such as the wild astor, phlox and other flowers now in blossom, or Autumn leaves, without fear of trespass signs along the railway. This suggestion is extended out of courtesy to people who have slight opportunity to gather wild flowers in the suburbs R. H. PHILLIPS, Secretary of Kensington & Sandy Springs Railway Co. r——— {New Bedford Strike Vote Given Praise | From the Boston Evening Transcript. After about six months of strife, the New Bedford mill operatives have voted to return to work. It is an exhibition of sober second thought and common sense. The result of the sccond ballot, reversing the decision of the first. was not unexpected. It was felt that if the wishes of the great majo: strikers were properly expressed the strike would come to an end. operatives were weary after six months of struggle. Winter approached, with its prospect of suffering from cold and hunger. The mill owners offered a re- duction of 5 instead of 10 per cent in wages. A public which had been largely sy pathetic with the workers evidently re- garded this as a suitable basis for bringing the war o an end, and aliena. tion of public support would have been a heavy blow to the strikers. Thi change in the public attitude was a factor of decisive importance. It may be said with fairness that in New Bed- ford, as has happened in many c: elsewhere, the strike was settled by the force of public opinion. ‘The strike which is now a thing of fhe past was an impressive object less in the fact that such methods of bring: ing about changes in industrial condi- tions should be relegated to a barbaric past. Where responsibility for it rests may be subject of discussion, but it will dering somewhere when such a com- promise as that now reached was not fTected without a struggle continuing for six months and costing millions of dollars. If it is urged that, after all, the strike merely did its part in curin overproduction, a view that may taken by some, the answer is that cur- is a remedy worse than the disease. ———— European Medical Centers Surpassed From the New York World. Europe led the way in the creation of medical centers to combine care of the afling, scientific research and medi- cal instruction. But Europe has noth- ing to compare physically with the immense center to be dedicated uptown this week. In 1925 the vision of a few far-sighted men began to be realized in the construction of the new Pres byterian Hospital and College of Phy sicians and Surgeons. The last three years have seen one of the most im- pressive architectural groups in the world rise above the Hudson. It is an astonishing feat in the location, rehous- ing, re-endowment and interrelation of a whole series of insitutions. The unsurpassed equipment of this center should be a challenge to the practitioners and research workers who will give it vitality. The very size of this group of hospitals, clinics, insti- tutes, laboratories and classrooms has its dange ‘There is the risk of ex- cessive centralization, of loss of indi- vidual enterprise and dehumanization. But the theory of the center is sound— that medical research is best carried on where many patients are being treated in a highly specialized way; that the treatment benefits in turn from the re- search, and that medical education re- quires both the research and the exten- sive examination of patients, portant factor the teeth might be in | in both Minnesota and Wisconsin have ; impress outsiders that there was blun- | | tailment of production by that means | SWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERI Any reader can get the answer to | any question by writing to our Infor- | mation _Bureau in Washington, D. C | This offer applies strictly to informa- {tion. The bureau cannot give advice lon legal, medical and financial mat- |ters. "It does not attempt to settle domestic troubles nor undertake ex- | baustive research on any subject. | Write your question plainly and brie Give full Rame and addr, 2 cents in stamps of coin for return | postage. The reply is sent direct to the | inquirer. ~Address The Evening Star Information Bureau. Frederic J. Has- kin, director, Washington, D. C. Q. Did_the Hoover children attend college?>—W. S. C. A. The older son is a graduate of Leland Stanford University, California, and the second son Is at present a stu- dent at this university. Q. Are many cigars made by ma- chinery?>—R. W. A. At present most cigars are made by machinery. When they were mad: by hand the average production pe worker was rarely more than 300 a day {Most of the automatic machines are | capable of turning out 4,000 a day. | Q@ How many women are officers in |the Consular Service?—L. B A. There are only two woman career in the American Foreign Service t the present time. n Amsterdam, Netherlands: the | vice consul at Vadparaiso, Chile. {Most of the women in the Foreign clerical and stenographic © What foods contain the most iodine?>—C. A. P. A. The following foods contain the most iodine, in the order named: Gray fresh salmon, oysters, codfish, tunafish, | green beans, bananas, asparagus, garlic cabbage, green peas and tomatocs. Sca | foods in general contain more iodine | than cither vegetable or animal foods. Q. What industry ver?—W. K. A. Next fo the Government's use of silver for. coinage, the motion picture |industry is the greatest consumer of | silver. ses the most sil- | Q. How can low, wet = be made to bear crops?—T. A. Usually putting in tile drains will relieve the condition. When modern farm machinery is used, the tile drain is much better than the open ditch. pots on farms T. E. Q. How large is the new park in Pittsburgh?—H. S. A. The new park is known as “Frick ! Park.” and was donated to the city of Pittsburgh by the late Henry C. Frick. |1t contains 377 acres of ground, with | slopes, ravines, valleys and hills. When finally completed. the park will be ! equipped with modern buildings. It is \located in what is known as the “East | Liberty District of Pittsburgh.” Q. Please give a history of Da Vinei's painting, “The Last Supper.”—J. R. B. A. There is a legend to the effect that Ludo Vico Il Moro, the husband of Beatrice D’Estro, commissioned Leo- nardo da Vinci to execute “The Last Supper” on the walls of the refoctory of the convent of the Santa Mario della Grazie, in Milan. The commission was given to the great artist almost in the sense of an expiation of sin. It was occasioned by Ludo Vico's grief over the death of his young wife, whom he had treated unkindly. The painting is now practically wrecked, largely due to the fact that the artist was experi- | menting in the media which he used. {In Napoleon’s day a door was cut in |the wall beneath the painting and a | large portion of the center of the mural | was cut away. Q. How many boys and girls are graduated from high school, and how many of them enter college?—A. W. D. A. The Bureau of Education says that there were in 1925 173.386 boys quite a strip of land extending north | graduated from high school and 222,617 | |girls. * Of these graduates there were 64874 boys and 61,908 girls who en- tered college. | Q. How is Northern Ireland gov- lerned?—A. S. D. | A, It is administered by a governor, appointed by the King of England. The and inclose | One is a vice con- | rimp, crabs, lobster, smoked herring, | C J. HASKIN. | present governor is the Duke of Aber- corn, appointed December 11, 1922. Northern Ireland has a separate Par- liament and executive govénment, es | tablished in 1920. The Parllament has a Senate of 26 and a House of 52. | Northern Ireland also returns 13 mem- | bers to the British House of Commons. | goseinr Q. What is the inscription carved stone above the doorway of the Fo | laboratories?>—F. W. {. A. The inscription, which was writ- |ten by Mr. Ford, is as follows: “Man- kind passes from the old to the new on 2 human bridge, formed by those who |1abor in the three principal arts—agr} | cuiture, manufacture, transportation. | Q What is meant by the 4-C system {of farming?—J. E. G. | A. The 4-C em indicates that cotton, corn, cattle and clover are raised on the same farm. | | Q How many theaters are using | synchronized films?—L. L. A. At the present time about 500 heaters are using synchronized films. | Q What does the term “bogey” { mean with reference to golf?—J. H. M. A. A bogey is a phantom who is cred- | ited with a certain score for each hole, | against which score each player is com: peting. Q. Where | | Standish on Captain’s Hill, Duxbur: Mass.. near the site of his home. The monument consists of a stone shaft, 110 g feet high, and a bronze statue of him. | Q. Ts it better to be vaccinated on the | arm or the leg?—G. C. | A. Arm vaccinations are preferable. Leg vaccinations are exposed to more | moisture and to more contamination | from street dvst than vaccinations at | the region of the deltoid insertion. On | account of blood stasis, primary leg vaceinations in adults are often accom- { panied by a purplish discoloration. and { result in a large, slowly healing ulcera~ tion. They usuaily cause temporary dis- ability. Vaccination on the arm, when | performed by the multiple pressire | method. causes no disfigurement. The esulting vaccination scar is definits | and typically pitted for inspection pur- | poses. but hardly noticeable otherwise, | except as a sanitary dimple. [ @ When ‘does neap tide occur?— Ww. D. A. It is th~ tide occurring one or two days after the first and third quarters of the moon. when the rise and | fall of the tide are the least, cwing to | the attraction of the sun antagonizing | that of the moon: Spring tide occurs | one or two days after mew and full | moon. 1. . What is the distinction between | ‘burnishing and abrading?—A. C. R. . A. In burnishing an object, a smooth glossy surfaceé is obtained bv polishing | or rubbing. In abrading. the surface s actually worn off by the friction. | Q. Is it possible to light a cigarette with steam?—J. 5. W. A. It is possible to light a cigarette ! by steam. This was demonstrated by | Dr. Andrade of the Royal Institution of | London. who produced _high-pressure | steam hot enough to set fire to a match or a cigareite. The steam which es- | capes from a teakettle is not really | steam. It has ceased to be steam since " it has condensed to tiny drops of liquid water. Water steam is invisible gas. Q. What colors can fish distinguish? —B.C. A, Bees and most fishes see only blue | and’ yellow—all else is black or white, | or some shade partly black and partly white. | Q. Which country has the largest | number of doctors?—A. M. P. A. The United States has more phy- sicians in proportion to its population | than any other country. According to the latest figures available, there is one | physician to every 753 péople in the | United States, while in Great Britain there is one physician to every 1,087, in Switzerland and Japan, respectively, one to every 1290 and 1359, in Ger- many one {o every 1,940, in Austria one to every 2,120, and in Sweden one to every 3,500. 'Hoover’s Tenne Studied as | An appeal to the South generally to support him for the presidency is recog- nized in the speech by Herbert Hoover at Elizabethton, Tenn. All observers | appear to agree cn that point, although | there are pronounced differences of | | opinion as to the effectiveness of the | address. | Many Democratic observers are sharp {in their adverse criticism. “He smeared i the to be deplored solidity of the South with 100 per cent Republican apple sauce,” asserts the Fort Worth Record- Telegram, (Democratic), with the con- | clusion that “doubtless there will be Scuthern Democrats who will sell their Democracy for a mess of platitudes, but it is a happy realization to feel that there are not half so many as there were before he dished it out to them.” While he was pouring out honeyed words on the Southerner: ys the Louisville Courier-Journal (independ- ent), “the leaders of his party in ssachusetts were warning the voters against sending to Congress any one who would respect the pretensions of Southern Democrats to a volce in the | direction of legislation.” ! The candidate’s plea for “an avoid- ance of personal bittern is com- mended in principle by the Roanoke | Times (independent Democratic), with | the added comment that “it is difficult | to keep from becoming bitter when one | views the reprehensible and unfair tac- tics to which some of Mr. Hoover's ad- vocates are resorting.” o n his review ‘of the history ani of the South Mr. Hoover was v and accurate, fully fortifled with ical illustration,” remarks the | Hartford Times (independent Demo- cratic), but the Memphis Commercial Appeal (Democratic) thinks “it was | more an e pression of good will and congratulations on what the South has hieved than an argument for support of the Republican ticket.” The results are discounted by the Columbia Record (Democratic) with the remark that it was “a formidable bid for the South’ electoral and popular vote in a section of the South which has been for many generations as radically Republican as Vermont.” Mr. Hoover's position on the power question is assailed by the Nashville (independent) with the conten- “For reasons satisfactory to him- self, Mr. Hoover continued to maintain the attitude of reserve which charac: terized his party convention and his course as a candidate. The power issue was practically ignored. The only refer- ence, indeed, made to it was indirect consisting only of his platitudinous o position to government in business. The Anniston Star (Democratic) also declares that “he was as evasive on the vital issues of the campaign as he had been at Newark. * ok ok % | With an approving comment, the San Antonio Express (independent Demo- | cratic) adds: “Continued prosperity depends on sound, far-sighted policies at Washington. It is as needful for the South as for the North that the na- tional administration follow a well charted course.” The Express holds that “in political alignment the South has generally persisted in clinging to a long-vanished past.” Another Southern paper, the Chattanooga News (Independ- ent Democratic), which is openly hos- tile to Gov. Smith, declares that the Republican nominee “proves that hs realizes the problems which face the South and ¢ heulg. sympathetic with “s ssee Speech Appeal to South | “The reception given the nominee was important in itself,” in the opinion of | the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Republi- | can). which credits Mr. Hoover with “making the most of his political op- portunity” and with having “addressed the whole South, emphasizing his stand |for the prohibition law. declaring for | the building up of the section indus- trially, and not forgettine to say a word | for ‘State rights’ or to mention hi | flocd relief work in th issippi Val- |ley.” The Salt Lake T | ent) | the Republican c: | Arbor Daily News (independent) holds | that “Hoover made friends.” althoush |it is problematical to that paper “how |many of these friends will desert the | Democratic standard.” | “His sound economic policies, his plea for fair play and his plan for the relief of agriculture made a deen impression on the people of the Southern States.” | says the Seattle Daily Times (independ- ent Republican), while the Morgan- town New Dominion (ind { impressed “not only with the fact th: | Mr. Hoover knows in an intimate way something about our national problems, whether they be in the West. the East the North or the South, but that he has an understanding of the needs of the | people”: that “his is the voice of the | statesman and not of the demagogue. * oK K % “Mr. Hoover leaves the scene with the impression forced upon his audience hat the South can trust him to be just nd liberal toward its economic, social nd political interests,” states the | Springfield Ilinois State Journal (Re- | publican), and the Erie Dispatch-Herald (Republican) contends that “his trip over the mountains may bring surpris- ing results,” for he “struck at Eliza- | bethton a heavy blow, and one that |will greatly damage the Democratic | forces in the Southeast.” | “Broadly constructive nationalism” is | seen by the Binghamton Press (inde- pendent), agreement with Southern views is ‘recognized by the Harrisburg Telegraph (Republican), dealing with “great questions as an expert econ- omist” by the Rock Island (in- dependent), “splendid idealism” fn his attitude toward the home by the Butte Daily Post (Republican), a “memorable commentary on that Main Street which has been the butt of satire from au- thors” by the Cincinnati Times-Star (Republican). and in_the judgment of the Buffalo Evening News (Republican) “the voice is that of the statesman who has no interest in denying the obvious, who sees the splendor of American achievements, and is concerned only to point out how they have been gained i order that the lessons of experience ma- guide to further progress : brilliant results.” and even more sure, sharp % strckes Mr. Hoover rev .‘,’,‘fi ,f‘f““" { tion on present-day questions and his conviction that the paths followed dur- ing the present administration were the ones which are more sure than anv | others to lead the coun erver-Dispatch | {indeper server-Dispatch _(independent). Topeka Daily Capital (Republiea; . a triblte to the Speakers ~mmubory grasp of national needs and interests. and the Reno Evening Gazette (inde- pendent Republican) feels that “the -gricultural, incustrial and business in- will ; fion thaon! Wil agree with change in na- tional noticies at this t L Jgjiste is Ime-collld bring