Evening Star Newspaper, December 6, 1928, Page 8

8 THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1928, one can perform bodily exercises in the | way of moving and flexing limbs and torso which would be almost impossible on dry land. Once submerged in the !could have been done would be the call of a special session of Congress imme- | diately after the presidential inaugu- | ration March 4. THURSDAY. . ..December 6, 1928 | liquid medium it is as it one were in| The questicn whether to attempt THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office: 11th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. m East 42nd 8t. don. Rate by Carrier Within the City. The Evening Star 45¢ per menth The Evening and S ar (when 4 Sundays) .. ._60c per month The Evenin= and Sunday St ‘when 5 Sundays) 85¢ per month The Sunday Star . c Sc per copy Collection made at the end of each mionth. Orders may be sent in by mail cr telephone Main 5000. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. 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In every instance we are told of tremendous in- crease in the number of contributors to local welfare work and of enhanced effi- | clency and co-operative enthusiasm on | the part of the agencies themselves. | There is not and has never been justifi- | cation for the pessimistic belief some- | times expressed that there is some mys- : terious factor in the local situation ' which is going to prevent the achieve- | ment of full success here for a srhemei fully successful in not one but scores of | other communities essentially divergent in their respective problems. But there is one factor in the local equation | which must be recognized and coped | with if anything like the potential | strength of the National Capital is to be thrown behind the Chest movement. That factor is the relationship of ap- | proximately sixty-five thousand Govern- ment employes in Washington to local | welfare work. | Perhaps the most fundamental pur- | pose of the Chest, wherever in oper- | ation, is to bring home to every citizen of the community in which it operates the fact that he or she shares the re- | sponsibility of adequately meeting that | community’s welfare needs. Perhaps the most satisfactory outcome of the Community Chest movement throughout ! the country has been the demonstrated | pride of tens of thousands in playing | their part in making the Chests suc- | cessful. Government employes are Washing- tonians. They benefit with every other citizen of the National Capital in the efficient operation of the local welfare agencies. They are, in a vast majority of instances, entirely able to contribute to the support of the essential work carried on by those agencies. ‘There has been in the past a strictly enforced prohibition against solicitation | in the various governmental depart- | ments and bureaus which has protected | the Government employe from the harassments of other Washingtonians | incidental to the multiple drives, cam- | paigns and appeals of the past. Some have given despite this fact. But to a vast majority, properly protected in the | interests of the business efficiency of the Government, the fact that their aid | is needed if the welfare problems of | their community are to be met has never been brought home. That fact must be brought home in the coming campaign if success is to | crown & tremendously worth-while project. | The logical point at which to ap- proach Government employes with a view to enlisting their support for the Chest is at their place of business rather than at sixty-five thousand scattered residences. It is so that other employes | will be approached. Surely some method | can be devised for enabling this to be the procedure. The very nature of the | Chest, purposed as it is to relieve the old condition of muitiple appeals, which made necessary the old ruling of no de- partmental solicitation, justifies and ' calls for the change in the ruling which ‘would enable the Chest campaign work- ers to reach the Government employes. ‘The technical phases of just how that approach could best be effected could be readily arranged by those familiar with the details concerned. All that is necessary is that the cabinet of Presi- dent Coolidge, apprised of the exigen- cles of the situation, should acquiesce to the plausible and necessary proposal that on one or more days of the week devoted to the Chest campaign the great body of Washingtonians formed by Uncle Sam's employes may be in- vited to participate in a very important civic enterprise. That such acquies- cence will be forthcoming will be the earnest hope, not only of the com- munity as a whole, but of a great ma- jority of that public-spirited group which would thus be brought into their true relationship to that enterprise. R —— Congress Is expected to ask some em- barrassing questions. There is no rea- son to think that, in a matter like this, one session will differ from another. T R A Miracle Modernized. A mental picture as full of joy and hope as of pathos is called into existence by a recent dispatch from Warm Springs, Ga., describing the dedication of a great glass-inclosed swimming pool given by Mr. and Mrs. Edsel Ford for the benefit of sufferers rrom that dread usease, infantile peralysis. The happy program is said to have been suggested by Gov.-elect Roosevelt of New York, himself a convalescent vietim of this malady, who ascribes much of his progress toward recovery to exercises taken while immersed in warm and healing waters. There was a water carnival, even a water foot ball game between patients and physio- therapists, and, finally, the formation by half & hundred men, women and chil- dren of a huge letter “R” in honor of him who has been a ploneer in the foundation established for the purpose of curing by graduated immersion those ! senate appropriations subcommittee in |ence is well qualified for the task, another world wherein certain usually iron-clad laws affecting the human body had suddenly ceased to operate. This fact has been utilized in restoring tone and power to weakened and long dis- used muscles, tendons and nerves. At | first in up to the neck, later, perhaps, only to the knees, and supported when necessary by apparatus, the sufferers once more learn to walk, to flex their arms and trunks. It is all marvelous, | but all perfectly natural, and in curing themselves they can enjoy themselves. In time they can do in the air what they can do in the water. It may be that in presenting this great gift to their unfortunate fellow citizens, Mr. and Mrs. Ford had in mind | the pool of Siloam in ancient Jerusalem. ’ St. John relates, “For an angel went | down at a certain season into the pool and troubled the water; whosoever then first after the troubling of the water | stepped in was made whole of whatso- ever disease he had. And a certain man | was there which had an infirmity thirty and eight years. When Jesus saw him lie and knew that he had been now a | long time in that case, he sa:d unto him, Wilt thou be made whole? The impo- | tent man answered him, ‘Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put | me into the pool: but while I am com- | ing, another steppeth down before me. Jesus said unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.” Verl'y for these mod- | erns. an angel may be said to trouble | these waters. e Senator Bingham's Selection. Selection of Senator Hiram Bingham of Connecticut to be chairman of the charge of the District of Columbia ap- propriation bill is a matter of con- gratylation. Senator Bingham, a man of culture, ability and personal influ- which is of great importance to the people of the District of Columbia, since it has to do with the expenditures of the money paid into the Treasury by the taxpayers here and with the de- velopment and proper government of the city. Senator Bingham succeeds in his new | office Senator Lawrence C. Phipps of | Colorado. The people of the Capital | City are deeply grateful to Senator Phipps. He has labored for many years | in their interests. Under his guiding hand appropriations for manyimportant | projects and improvements in the city have been cared for in the Senate. | Senator Phipps has insisted always that the citizens of the District be given | justice by the Congress. It has been | his contention that the Federal Gov- | ernment, because of its huge interests | in the Capital of the Nation, and be- | cause of the need of the outlay of large sums of money, should contribute liberally to the upkeep and develop- | ment of Washington. He has urged xi return to the earlier and more just plan of having the Government contribute on a definite proportionate basis. The District has been happy in the selection of chairmen of this important Senate subcommittee. Before Senator Phipps held that place Senator| Charles Curtis of Kansas, Vice Presi- | dent-elect, who had long been familiar with the needs of the District, handled the appropriation bills. Senator Bingham was elected and served as lieutenant governor of Con- necticut. He was elected governor of his State, and almost immediately aft- erward was chosen Senator to fill the! unexpired term of the late Senator | Brandegee in 1924. Two years later he was re-elected to the Senate. He has lived in Washington for four years and has learned much of its needs. Before he was chosen to public office, Senator Bingham was a professor at Yale University. During the war he served his country with distinction as lieutenant colonel of aviation. - The spirit of commerce reverts to sound principles of publicity. Even where that great world asset, good will | among nations, is involved, it pays to | advertise. i | more than a thousand dollars for the | | farm legislation at the present session or to wait for a special session in the i Spring is complicated by the lack of | time to give teal consideration to all the | angles of the question at a short ses- | slon, and also a desire of the friends of | farm legislation to obtain the most sym- pathetic hearings they can. In some quarters it is urged that the new Con- |gress and the new President will be | more responsive to the demands of the | farmers, particularly in view of their campaign pledges. | the farmers cannot hope for tariff revi- sion in their interests at the present short session, and a revision of the | tariff is one of the main pieces of legis- lation that was promised them by the Republican campaigners. Mr. Hoover has said all he can or should say in regard to the matter of farm legisiation. His views of what should be done for the farmer are known. As has been indicated, it would | be far more proper for the newly | elected Congress and a President re-| cently chcsen by the people to deal with | important legislation than for the Con- gress and the Chief Executive now | about to retire to do so. But under the | Constitution the ‘“lame-duck” session still continues. Some day the House, like the Senate, may see the wisdom of a change. 3 - e E { Opportunity Knocks But Once. | “Bossy" Gillis, the best press-agented | mayor in this or any other country, does | not seem to have been much benefited | by his two months' incarceration in | jail, except perhaps by an ‘“inside” knowledge of the laundry business, which he acquired when forced to per- | form his daily tasks at the lock-up. | Bossy, the political freak of Newbury- | port, Mass., consistently ran counter to | the laws of his home town in setting | up and operating a gasoline station | without the proper permits. When, by | a strange turn of fortune, he became mayor he used his new office to commit | other violations of the law by cumnz:’ down trees and changing the grade of a street to build a new station. Fined first offenses, he was summarily ordered | to spend two months in jail for the | later ones. Now he has completed his | term, and, instead of being chastened | in spirit with a determination to set an | example by his good conduct, he VOwS | vengeance on those who filed charges against him and the judge who de- | livered the verdict. Opportunity is said to knock but once, | and to be exceedingly chary as to fu- ture calls if rebuff is met. Opportunity | assuredly camped on Bossy's doorstep | when he was elevated to the mayoralty, | and he was the possessor of chances that | come to few to occupy a high office with a dignity which would earn the ro- spect of those with whom he was asso- ciated in the administration of the af- fairs of the town. Instead he chose | the other course—the course which led to jail. vt It will be a quiet inauguration, with no expectation of making the 4th of March celebration figure as a climax to the brilliant preliminaries. At any rate, the 4th of July will still be with us. ———r—e— Ratings of comparative importance are simplified in Italy. Mussolini has made it a brief and simple matter to offer a statement of “Who's Who in Rome.” PR T Opening of his message to Congress proves that President Coolidge has not receded in the slightest from the ideas laid down in his Thanksgiving procla- mation. Cout ianiats Blueprints are not sufficiently popu- lar in naval construction to encourage new composers to hope that a “blues” can become a national anthem. o SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Mirth Inheritance. There was a man who learned a joke; And that was long ago. He told it often to invoke “Passing the Buck” to Hoover. President-elect Herbert Hoover has been asked, or will be asked, by Repub- lican leaders whether he wishes farm relief legislation put through at the | present short session of Congress, it is| now reported. Mr. Hoover said during the campaign that if farm legislation | were not put through at the short ses- sion, he would call a special session of Congress to handle the matter soon after he was inaugurated President. It| would seem the part both of wisdom and ‘ propriety that Mr. Hoover let the matter | stand there. He has made it clear that if Congress does not enact satisfactory and adequate farm legislation he will | call the new Congress together to deal with such legislation. President Coolidge has made his posi- tion definite with regard to farm legis- | lation in his annual message to Con- gress. He has recommended the enact- ment of & bill providing for the ap- pointment of a Federal Farm Board to ald in dealing with crop surpluses. Mr. Hoover has said many times he favored the passage of such a bill. Both Presi- dent Coolidge and Mr. Hoover are op- posed to the old equalization fee plan. | Why any need now of running to Mr. Hoover to ask whether farm legisla- tion shall be put through now or at a special session? Mr. Hoover wisely, it seems, has put several thousands of miles between himself and congres- sional leaders, if they are to be run- ning to him with this and like ques- tions. He is not yet President. To give advice such as that which is now desired by some of the leaders might well embarrass him greatly, not only at present, but in the future. As a matter of fact, the very situa- tion that has now arisen is a shining example of the folly of the short or “lame duck” sessions of Congress. If provisions had been made for a meeting of Congress the first of January, with the newly eclected Congress in office and with the newly elected President in- augurated soon after the assembling of the Congress, the whole matter would be simplified. Suppose the Democrats had elected a President this year. How foolish to look to a short sesslon of the old Congress, with a Republican Presi- The laughter's meyry flow. It was about how apple juice Brought Adam unto grief. It hinted prohibition's use And also farm relief. It is a fine ancestral jest Which we cannot forget. We often hear it at its best. We're laughing at it yet. Hours of Jubilation. “Do you favor a quiet inauguration?” “No,” answered Senator Sorghum. “People should not be encouraged to become too serious. Occasionally we should recognize the idea that the more noise we make the less we think.” Jud Tunkins says a political boss used to be satisfled with a Prince Al- bert coat. Now he wants a bulletproof vest. Implements. The racketeer spoils The convivial fun. Instead of a corkscrew He uses a gun. “We wish that we could live our lives over again,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown. “We should only be carried on in the social momentum to make the same old mistakes.” More Genius! Soon we shall see as well as hear The radio actors all serene Projected so as to draw near Into the placid, homelike scene. Genius mechanical has done So much to set the world aglow, We wish that Thomas Edison Would write us a scenario. “When anybody talks to me 'bout evolution,” sald Uncle Eben, “dar ain’ much excuse foh quar’lin’. I's willin' to admit, right off, dat both of us don't know all dere is to be said on de sub- Jec'. .o And Headaches. From the Indianapolis Star. The sport fans will now trade foot ball pneumonia for basket ball's indoor germs. et —— There Have Been Some. 1t is quite true that | | passed that way overnight. | It must be confessed that even the prettiest garden does not “look like much” at this time of year. With the exception of the evergreens, and privet, which is almost an ever- green in this latitude, the average gar- den is a pretty bleak-looking affair. And this despite the fact that Au- tumn, with the exception of a few days, has been much more “open” than nor- mal. Some few chrysanthemum blossoms may be discovered here and there, with | perhaps a bloom of a rock garden plant, | but in the main these are simply the “last leaf upon the tree.” Outdoor gardening is definitely over for 1928. It will be resumed in 1929— how strange it looks!-—the exact date depending upon the weather. | 1929! Time is so intangible. There is no way to get hold of it, or | to feel at home with it. | | It is all around us, in a sense we move in it, but somehow we feel that | humanity has nothing to do with it. | The best interests of mankind lie out- | side time and space. The feeling of eternity which comes cven to the most | obtuse at intervals makes it seem al- most an enem: | *x | Yet Time is the great friend of the garden, What today seems so bare and life- less will blossom with beauty and color | tomorrow, simply because Time has It is the expectation of things hoped for which enables the gardencr to look into his bare back yard with hopeful eyes. He cannot blame a visitor tor seeing nothing there. That is why 1 estate men, astute gentlemen who know their business, place little, if any, valuation upon a garden. : They know that the next purchaser will care nothing for flowers, or, if he does, will want to carry out private plans of his own. The planter, however, the one who has labored over yonder shrubs, sees qualities there which no one else can e. This is one of the real pleasures of | gardening, not often considered even in_the best of garden books or articles. Plants are living things, and while | perhaps no one, not even the most ardent. can work up a real affection for them, there is little doubt that many who work with plants come to have an actual fondness for certain bushes. Particularly is this true of the rose. Yonder glorious specimen of Radiance, prize grower of the lot—it is a bush one would hesitate to leave behind, it has been so faithful to its mission, so profuse in its blooming. Covered with great flowers in May, it bloomed every month thereafter, the last flower being taken from it during the last week in November. With a little better luck in the weather there would have been roses | in December. Those bushes you saw | in the public parks, bearing pink roses late last month, they, too, were Radiances. ‘The Radiance rose must mystery. Where does it get that unparalleled vigor, those sturdy stalks, that freedom from trouble? It came from sturdy stock, but the cross which it is possesses qualities not found in precisely the same way in its parents. We say again, and never tire of say- remain a Great Britain is not a republic and may never become one during the pres- | ent generation, but the power of ruler- | ship by its King passed, last Tuesday, into the hands not of a single regent, but of a commission—a “council of state"—made up of representatives of | every “estate” of the empire—except the " so-called “Fourth Estate” — the | newspapers. | The liberalization is marked by the| handing over of the royal power, pend- ing the serious illness of King George V, to a council rather than an individ- | ual regent. The theory of democracy is largely based upon the idea that there is safety in numbers. All instincts of | democracy guide away from one-man | power. All strength of monarchy rests | upon one-man control. A marked exception to this was made | by our Constitution, when all executive | power was placed exclusively in the| hands of one man—the President—ex- | cept as to our foreign relations, which | require “advice and consent of the Sen- ate,” not in negotiating, but in rati- | fication. | ‘The cabinet, as it has developed through practice and precedent orig- inating in the administration of Thom- as Jefferson, our third President, is without any status under the provisions | of the Constitution. The creation of a | council of state to advise with the President and share his responsibility was rejected wholly in the final consid- | eration of the Constitution. The Presi- { dent is authorized by the Constitution to call upon any Secretary of a depart- ment for his written opinion on any policy connected with his department, but the President may ignore that opin- | fon or the advice of the entire cabinet. | * ok K K A loyal Briton today would resent the charge that that nation was not as free as any republic and had not been so for many years. The Fresident of the United States exercises far more individual power than does the King of England, Scotland, Wales and North Ireland and Emperor of India. Yet when our Presidents have be- | come physically incapacitated or have | been absent from the country, never has there been a transference of presi- dential authority to the Vice President nor to a commission, although the Con- stitution so provides in case of “in- capacity” of the President. McKinley and Garfield and Wilson were totally unable to function as President for pro- longed periods, yet none of their powers passed to any others, before actual death closed the chapter. In some countries the instant the President steps upon foreign soil he ceases to func- tion as President, and his office auto- matically passes to the Vice President or to some other power constitutionally | provided. * ok kK When President Wilson went to Eu- rope to direct the settlement of the World War, he was_still functioning in statecraft of the United States, as well as looming large in affairs in which the United States was but a minor unit and the major issues were European. Vice President Marshall was urged by some advisers to assume leadership in the Government, but he refused to make the slightest approach toward such action, Not only did he recognize | that it would be resented vigorously by | the man who brooked no division of | his constitutional powers, but the Vice | President was too good & constitutional | lawyer to pretend a shadow of legal | right to interfere. In the face of that legalistic inter- pretation by the “heir apparent,” the Vice President, all members of the cabinet decided to recognize an emer- fiency requiring mutual conferences sim- ar to cabinet meetings, and, at the | joint request of all the department Secretaries, Mr. Lansing, Secretary of State, called the cabinet together while President Wilson was in Europe. For that act he was made the scapegoat, with a demand from the President for his resignation. In justice to Secre- tary Lansing, it was suggested then that the other “equally guilty” members of the cabinet should resign also, but they did not do so. * ok kA | dent in office, to fulfill the campaign afflicted with the paral Every swimm-r cvery bather has noted the fact that when ‘under water such conditions, the only thing that looking for some films that pledges of the Democratic party. Under From the Springfeld (Ohlo) Daily News. While the reformers are trying to clean up the films, the movie folks are Will cleap up. Following the tragedies of presidential rssassinations, with the peril that, at the same time, a Vice President might also be murdered, Congress, as author- BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. | remains open, the planting of roses is BACKGROUND OF EVENTS BY PAUL V. | the King, foreseeing the possibility of | lof the sick King, and then sent in the | regent for the prince, but as George V THIS AND THAT | ing it, that the average home gardener | will get all there is in rose growing by | planting Radiance and its sister, Red | Radiance. If he starts off with these good bushes no doubt he will long to experiment with other varieties, but the chances are 10 to 1 that after he has done so, he | will be willing to return to his first and | last love among the roses. Some of the other fair charmers may possess flashing qualities which for a time may lure him away, but in the end he will be glad to come back to | the honest faithfulness, the homely | beauty, the decent simplicity of his oid | friend. | R One of the best features of the! Radiances is their graceful habit of | growth. Most rosebushes are ungainly and sprawly in character. This is one of the failings which the rose lover becomes accustomed to, and simply | forgets about, out of justice to the| splendid qualities which this shrub | possesses. . | The rose has not been called the! “queen of flowers” for nothing; she is every inch a queen, but possesses cer- tain failings which cannot be helped. | Qm‘"musl make the best of them; that | is all. Even the most ardent rose “fan” could not truthfully say that the rose- | bush, per se, was a thing of beauty. When he pricks his fingers on the sharp thorns, he is not likely to hail { it as a “joy forever, | Yet the bushes of Radiance and | Rod Radiance, when placed in beds, grow so symmetrically that the total | result is one of beauty. In this con- nection a word of warning is in place | in regard to growing the two together. Radiance is a decided pink, Red Ra- diance a distinct red. The two do not “go” together very well, each tending to pale the other. The best way to grow these bushes in kteds is to fill one bed entirely with Radiance, the other with Red Radiance, and to ailow them to be seen only one bed at a time, if possible. Their clashing is not extreme, but enough so to make their separate planting desirable. Activity with roses is not entirely at wn end, although Winter does, in- deed, approach, and cold days seem near at hand. As long as the weather in_order. Lest any doubtful person feel that December is too late to plant rose- bushes, let us instance the example of an ardent gardener who put bushes into the ground just before Christmas last year, and had 11 out of 12 live to tell the tale with flowers Ilast Summer. These bushes were planted only a few hours before freezing weather. They were “hilled up” to a height of about 8 inches around the stalks, before, not after, the freeze. The latter procedure is advocated by grow- ers, based on the theory that the canes should be frozen and: the frost kept in by the dirt, but in the case of froshly planted bushes this may be inimical. It is better to protect them from freezing than to allow them to freaze so near the ground. Little, if any, pruning should be done to rose- bushes at this time. Long, straggly canes may be “topped,” but no real! pruning should be indulged in. Many violate this rule, but they are taking a chance with their bushes. Play safe, and do not prune until next March. COLLINS. ized by the Constitution, has ldopwd‘ a line of successorship in such an emer- | gency—Vice President, Secretary of | State, Secretary of the Treasury, etc.— but no action has been taken to cover such a situation as that which existed | for weeks while President Garfield and President McKinley, and—later, Presi- dent Wilson—hovered between life and death, yet remaining the sole holder of | presidential authcrity. So the Repub-| lican United States remains tled to| one-man power much more perilously | than does the Kingdom of Great| Britain. EEE In England the law already provided | for relieving the King of his_ duties and powers when he ceased to be able | to function. The English constitution | is made of precedents, not of writ-| ten inflexible words adopted by compli- | cated legislative machinery. The first precedent for appointing a | council to take over power of the throne dates back to Henry VIII, when | his death before his son became of age, | and fearing to risk the fate of the prince, heir apparent, with a regency of one man lest the regent should steal | the permanent power for himself, cre- | ated a law providing for a council of | state, which held the wer until the | prince gained his majority and was’ crowned Edward VI H Individual regencies had existed prior to that, and mostly they held power | faithfully in trust, but not always, either in England or Europe. H william Rufus, son of William the | Conqueror, was on the continent when his royal father died, in London, and in those days it took longer to cross Europe and reach England than it s now taking the Prince of Wales to escape from the jungles of Africa mi hurry to his father's deathbed. Today | not an hour passes without verbal com- | munication. between the Prince of Walzs | upon the high seas and Buckingham | Palace, where the King lies fighting for ; life. The radio thus changes all things | in such an emergency. While William Rufus was hurrying as fast as horses could carry him to his | imperiled crown, Lanfranc held the sub- jects in order until the arrival of the | royal successor. Today, while thel Prince of Wales is speeding by steamship toward England, and pre- paring to fly- by plane over the final | stretches across Europe, the regularity | of administration is maintained by a; council duly authorized by law and con- firmed over the trembling signature of the suffering King. The council in cludes Queen Mary, the Prince of Wales, his brother (and next in line of suc- cession), the Duke of York; the Arch- bishop of Canterbury, the lord chan- cellor (Lord Haldane)' and the prime minister, Stanley Baldwin. It was a solemn moment when the new council of state held its first con-i ference, just outside the open doorway bill for the signature of the hand so dangerously near the end of all human power, £ g ! This is the second time King George has authorized such a transfer of his power. The other time was when he went, on a cruise of the Mediterranean during the period of his convalescence after an attack of illness only a little less severe than the present crisis. i It is also the second time that there has been a regency to hold the power pending the accession of the present Prince of Wales. At the time George V took the throne, after the death of Edward VII, the present Prince of Wales, his son, was a minor. So the mother, Queen Mary, was appointed | continued to live and reign, there was no occasion for calling that regency | into power. If King George should now recover his strength and health, the present council of state will automati- cally cease to exist, and the King will resume his power, * o ok % In this connection it is interesting lo‘ recall the “mad dream” in which American Tories and “Loyalists” in- | dulged while our Constitution was in the meking, after the near-anarchy of the Confederation. They started the report that it was planned to reunite with the mother country by sending to | a psychological laboratory. Two Classes of People Divided by Scientists ‘ BY E. E. FREE, PH. D. A questionnaire which distinguishes people who ought to be doctors and ex- | perimenters from those who will make | good teachers of history or specialists | in philosophy or mathematics has been prepared by Prof. Friedrich Moritz of the Medical School at Cologne, Ger- | many, and tried out on professors of | that relates to information. This serv- K — medicine, history, philosophy and | mathematics in German universities. The tests will find wider usefulness, | Prof. Moritz believes, in distinguishing | 2 cents in coin or stamps, inclosed with | between individuals who belong to the two main classes of people, the eye- minded and the ear-minded. Other tests for this usually require a visit to Prof. Moritz believes that the dis- tinction between the two types is not precisely between judging things by eve or by ear, but is between a tendency 0 learn by observing what goes on around ene and a contrary habit of de- pending chiefly on written or spoken words, His questionnaire for sorting people into these two types inquires about the studies which were most liked in school and about the activities fol- lowed most eagerly. Schoolboys w: liked experiments and who enjoyed collecting things, like minerals or birds' eggs, usually belong, Prof. Moritz con- cludes, to the eye-minded people who concentrate on observing things and who make good physicians. On the other hand, scholars who habitually Iearned their lessons by heart belong to the ear-minded people who think in words and make good philosophers or historians. [ R Inventor Is Martyr To His Own Courage From the St. Paul Dally Nows J The inventor of radium paint is dead, a martyr to his own courage and| originality. He was Dr. Sabin von | Sochocky and was only 46. An Austrian by birth, he came to this country in| 1906 after completing a medical course at the University of Moscow. For 10 years he practiced in New York and then moved to New Jersey. He later became technical director of the United States Radium Corporation. Three years ago one of his colleagues, Dr. Edward J. Lehman, died from the effects of radium. A little later five woman employes sued the company for $1.250,000, alleging they had been fatally poisoned. It was while preparing tests to de- termine their condition in conjunction with the medical examiner of Essex County, N. J., that Dr. von Sochocky was found to have absorbed the poison to a fatal degree. ‘The suit brorzht by the five women was eventually settled out of court, each of them receiving $10,000 in cash and $600 a year, as well as free medical treatment during life. The next time you look at a gleam- ing watch or clock dial in the night, think of Dr. von Sochocky and Dr. Lehman, who are dead, and the five women who still live in the shadow of death. Their fate is symbolical of the | sacrifice that goes with human progress. Whether in the wilderness or the laboratory, we pay as we go. The struggle upward not only involves hard work, but hazard. Those men and women who pioneer, whether by covered wagon or test tube, often take more chances than they reaiize and always more than the rest of us realize. For one reason or another, we think of scientific pursuits as comparatively safe. That is why they do not appeal to us as particularly romantic or ad- venturous. We find it difficult to re- gard those men who trail the secrets of nature through the dark chambers | of speculative effort in the same light as we regard old-time piloneers and | explorers. The barriers they face, how- | ever, are often no less deadly. | B | Books on Evolution | in Bryan’s Library | From the Memphis Commercial Appeal. | | | There is nothing inconsistent in the | Yrite “Air mail® on the envelope?— fact that copies of Darwin's “Origin of | the Species” and “Descent of Man” | were found in the library of the late Col. Willilam Jennings Bryan. It is to| the credit of the Commoner that h studied the works of Darwin before he launched his attacks on them. The/ marginal notes in the volumes will have | some historic value probably in years | to come. But for the present they point | nation of importance that has not such out the fact that the arch enemy of | a law, but permits its ships to go to sea | with no Federal precautions as to the | the evolution theory gave some thought | to that theory, regartless of how pro-| found or how shallow one may consider | that thought to have been. i However, it is an entirely different matter when the works of Darwin are to be given to an institution founded upon an anti-evolution basis and lo cated in a State that forbids the teach- ing of the Darwinian theory in its pub- lic schools. And it so happens that the | Darwin volumes are part of the library | legacy that Mr. Bryan has given to the | university that is to arise out of the fa- | mous monkey trial. | If the Dayton University is to be sup- | ported either wholly or in part by pub- | lic funds of the State of Tennessee i!“ is unlikely that the Darwin volumes can legally repose in its library. For| the anti-evolution law of the State for- bids the teaching of the Darwinian the- o ry in schools supported wholly or in | gritjsh manufacturers. Whether the | year's crop wi part by the State, and a book stands | as its own silent teacher of what it con- | s, | But if the Dayton University is to be | a private institution then the books can be received and retained lawfully, for the simple reason that the anti-evolu- tion law does not apply to private schools or Institutions of education. ( However, acceptance and retention of | the books there would be a violation |34 js “important to our own cotton- ! of the spirit of the Tennessee enact- ment, the spirit upon which the Day- ton University idea is founded. | At the same time it would be a most | ungracious, if not ungrateful, act to re- | fuse the bequest of one of the institu-| tion’s founders and benefactors. Dayton is faced with a dilemma any | way it turns in the disposition of one | of its first gifts. ) We Don’t Think at That Hour. From the Florence Herald. It makes a frugal person sad to think f all the good downtown parking places that go to waste between 2 and 4| o'clock a.m. | S e = | There Is That From the Detroit Free Press. | Probably, as the months pass, Al Smith will be mpre and more inclined | to think about what he escaped rather l than about what he missed. ol ey It's the “Might” That Worries. | From the Richmond News Leader Mental anguish doubtless is what a Scotchman endures when he thinks a $5 tonic might save his hair. —————— The Soup Stage Is a Penalty. From the Sioux City Tribune. The fat philosopher of turkeydom is an earnest supporter of the theory that too many ax murderers go unpunished. England for the “Bishop of Osnaburg” to come over and be crowned King of the United States. PFew knew that the “Bishop of Osna- burg” was the Duke of York, then 24 years of age, son of George III, whom George Washington had so recently de- feated in liberating the colonies. The prince had been made “Bishop of Osna- burg” of Germany when he was a baby, 1 year old. The queer rumor of the 24-year-old bishop as American king gained considerable credence un- il the Constitution was finally pub- hed. It is recalled now, in view of the publicity regarding the present Duke of York, next in line for the British crown after his brother, the Prince of Wales—in case the Prince of Wales leaves no heir. (Covyrizht, 1928, by Paul V. Collins.) | ing ruler>—J. E. D, BY FREDERI This is a special department devoted solely to the handling of queries. This paper puts at your disposal the serv- ices of an extensive organization in Washington to serve you in any capacity ice is free. Failure to make use of it | deprives you of benefits to which you | are entitled. Your obligation is only your inquiry for direct reply. Address The Evening Star Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, director, Washing- ton, D. C. Q. During what years was Sousa leader of the Marine Band?—B. W. A. Sousa was leader of the Unitad States Marine Band from 1880 to 1892. Q. Please explain the Yebechai dance :'m.iA its portrayal on dance rugs.— A. The Smithsonian Institution says: “The Yebechal are nature gods of the Navaho whose chief function is healing the sick. The so-called Ye- bechai ‘dance’ is a ceremony for this purpose. Up to some years ago rep- resentations of the gods were painted in colored sands at the ceremony and wiped out at the close. Later, the Navaho began to weave the Yebechai figures in rugs for saie. These rugs are usually made on a hand loom. This may easily be told if the designs are alike on both sides as to form 1and color. Such specimens were never common."” Q. How did John D. Rockefeller | earn his first money?—D. T. A. John D. Rockefeller says that the | first money he ever earned was made by raising turkeys when he was 7 years old. His mother gave him curds from the milk to feed them. He kept an account in “Ledger A,” which is still in existence. Q. Who invented the sewing needle? —A. L. A. The sewing needle dates back to antiquity, and it is not known who in- vented this implement. It is evident from relics that stone needles were used in the Stone Age. The Chinese are believed to have been the first to | use needles of steel. They gradually spread Westward until brought to Eu- rope by the Moors. Q. Are the peopl intergsted in aviation?—H. T. T. A. Australia has 80 airports and the government has recently approved plans for 23 more. In_ addition, 97 emergency landing fields have been es- tablished. Q. In the early days where were our important lighthouses?>—P. T. A. Important colonial lighthouses were off Newport, on Sandy Hook, on Cape Henry, an island off Charleston, on Tybee River, Savannah, and Boston Harbor. Q. radio stations that have been hooked up for one event?—S. T. A. Upon the occasion of the broad- casting of Gov. Smith's speech accept- ing the Democratic nomination for the presidency the hook-up inclyded 115 stations, which is the present record number. Q. When was the law passed in Great Britain barring a Catholic from becom- A. The British act of settlement, passed in 1701, provides that no one but a Protestant shall accede to the throne of Great Britain. Q. What is the difference between cocoa and chocolate?—E. C. A. Cocoa is the ground cocoa hean from which part of the oil or fat has been extracted, and is sold in powdered form. Chocolate is the ground cocoa | bean including oil or fat, generally in cake form, either sweetened or un- sweetened. Q. When horizontal stripes of blue and red are drawn across an envelope or around its border, is it necessary to N. L. G. A. Ti sufficient postage has been af- fixed, the Post Office Department recog- nizes the striped envelope as one to be sent by air mail Q. Has the United States a law fixing the load line of a vessel>—N. S. A. This country is the only maritime depths to which they may load. Amer- ican shipping interests are dependent on foreign rules and regulations for the fixing of load lines for their vessels and must make use of such regulations if they are to avoid penalties and costly delays in the ports of nations which have recognized by their laws the im- ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS e of Australia much | What is the greatest number of | C J. HASKIN. portance of this safeguard to life and | property. Q. Was the ground where the | House stands given to the oovemm M. O'N. A A. The White House grounds were not donated. They were purchased from Davy Burnes, Q. What States have consolidated schools?—H. A. Among the States which have the largest consolidated schools are Indiana, Mississippi and Ohio. Q. How much sweeter than sugar s saccharine?—H. J. A. Its sweetness is variously esti- mated at 300 to 500 times that of cane sugar. : the largest How long has the carnation been under_cultivation’>—M. R. A. It was cultivated as early as 300 BC. by the Greek: Q. How many Presidents of the United States had seen previous service in the Senate?—H. W. ~ A. While President Harding is the only President who went directly from the Senate to the White House and | President Garfield had been elected to the Senate when nominated for .the presidency, there were 10 other Presi- dents who had been Senators—Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Jackson, Van Buren, Willlam Henry Harrison, Tyler, Pierce. Buchanan, Johnson and Benja- min Harrison. Q. Are Japanese screens often used in Japanese homes?>—R. F. S. A. They are manufactured chiefly | for ‘sending to other countries. The Japanese do not make much use of them. Q. Is the sounded in the word “recognizance”?—E. L. A. It is sounded in this word and in all other words related to it. Q. How many acres of land are there in the Indian reservations of the United States?—T. L. C. | A. There are approximately 70,000,000 acres in the land reserved for Indians. Q. T have a holly tree that blooms | but does not bear berries. What is the | reason for this?—N. S. A. Probably your holly tree is one bearing all staminate or male flowers. This being true, it is not possible to have such a tree bear fruit. If you desire a tree bearing berries it will be necessary to buy another tree of known fruiting ~ quality and plant near the male tree. Q. It is generally known that the real name of Mary Pickford was Gladys Smith, but how was the name Pickford selected?—S. T. | A, The mother of Mary Pickford, | Mrs. Charlotte Smith, decided to do away with the name of Smith for the purpose of the stage and took the family name Pickford, the name of her pater- nal grandmother. “Gladys Pickford” did not ring right to her ears and so “Gladys” was changed to “Mary.” Q. How did the phrase, “The Lost Cause,” become associated with the Con- federaey?—H. T. A. “The Lost Cause” is a phrase which became current through the title of a history of the Civil War (1886) by | E. A. Pollard. It is used as an expres- sion designative for the purposes and aims which the Southern people, through the war, vainly sought to realize in the permanent establishment of the Confederate States of America. Q. How many licensed planes are there flying in this country?—K. A. M. A. The Department of Commerce re- cently reported that there are 5906 | licensed and identified planes in active cperation throughout the country. . What system of pronunciation was used by the Egyptians?>—F. S. P. A. All pronunciation is conjectural. It is customary to give the vowels the ismne value as in German. The con- | sonants are given the same value as in | English. | Q. Are there such things as trained | fleas?>—M. H. A. Fleas have been trained. “Puli- cology” is a treatise on this subject. Q. How thick is the earth's crust?— 8. C A. The thickness of the earth’s crust has been variously computed to be 10, 20 or more miles. Observations on earthquake motion by Milne and others indicated that the rocky material may extend for some 30 miles. Recent re- searches in regard to the radio-active substances present in rocks suggest that the crust is not more than 50 miles thick. New Textile Fiber May Rival America’s Great King Cotton Interested attention is being given in this country to the reports of experi- mental use of a new textile fiber by plant develops into a real competitor for American-grown cotton or turns out to be only another supplementing ally, its possibilities are regarded as tre- mendously important. “In this age of irresistible science no industry is assured that its tomorrow will be in the least like its today,” says the Dayton Daily New', with an expres- sion of belief that the news from Eng- growing South and to tropical cotton- growing sections in general. If a plant capable of producing cotton,” continues the Daily News, “can be grown in the British Isles, it can be grown over a | large part of the world. If this British | grown a s experiment is what is claimed for it, a revolution in cotton textiles is at hand. The case of artificial silk gives an idea !of what such a discovery as this might | mean in other fields.” The Montgomery Advertisér quotes the opinion of English cotton brokers and merchants that “the substitute will offer more competition to artificial silks than the cotton trade” and adds: “The opinion is expressed that the new substance might be used to improve cotton goods by making the fabrics more lustrous and attractive. More- over, the general opinion in the English cotton industry is that the new fiber, like artificial silk, will be lacking in durability and will be affected by damp- ness. In that case it cannot compete successfully with cotton. to the advantage of cotton growers, however, if it may be blended with cot- ton so as to make the fabric more lustrous.” * K K “If this product is of world-wldel value,” in the judgment of the Colum- | bia Record, however, “it is logical to | conclude that it would cause economic | changes in this country, affecting alike ! exports of cotton and of cotton manu- factures, and at the same time taking from Southern cotton mills the advan- tage they now enjoy over their New England competitors of being close to | the source of supply. The possibility of “another jolt" for cotton is seen by the Chattanocoga Times in considering the report from London “that between 3.000,000 and 4,000,000 pounds of ‘artificial cotton’ are now being grown in England and will be available in July for English cotton spinners at a fixed price of 12 cents a pound.” The Times, taking note of “a saving of about 8 cents a pound on the genuine article,” adds: “The new product is reported to meet every demand of the coarse count re- quired by the British mills. * * * What effect the cultivation of ‘artificial cotton’ will have n the cotton- growing industry remains to be seen, but reports would seem to indicate that the South's chiet crop has a dangerous rival in this new product.” The question of price seems to the \ R, It may work | Lincoln State Journal to be an out- standing feature of this new develop- ment, and that paper comments: “This 1l amount to about 8,000 | of our bales. This is not a large pro- | duction, but it is a boon to the English, who have no raw material and have | difficulty producing a livelihood on the | worn-out soil in many places. The new | fiber plant is more productive per acre than cotton, and can be sold at a profit for almost half the price of cotton.” | * ok ok x Difficulties in the growing of fibers | are pointed out by the Nashville Banner, ! which says of the report from abroad: “It remains to be seen what will come | of the matter in a practical way, but Essex and Sussex are alleged to have upply the past Summer that | will afford plenty of material for & mill | or two, and tests are to be made on a | scale sufficiently large to determine the | practicability of the project. We dare | incidentally, that some sort of ct pest will promptly develop and attack the plant in devastating num- bers and fashions if it does prove to be of genuine -alue in the textile indus- try. There will be a borer, or a weevil, or a scale, or something, to play wild with the farmers’ plans.” * K X % Agreeing that success with the new fiber “would be a most serious blow to the cotton growers,” the St. Joseph News-Press remarks that “the boll weevil has'a new ally with which to pester the American cotton producers,” .and says further: “Successful substi- tution of this cheaper fiber would also have an effect on the efforts of the British to grow their own cotton in Egypt, Sudan and Mesopotamia. Aboug 800,000,000 pounds of cotton were grown in Egypt alone in 1926. All these in- vestments in an attempt to break the virtual monopoly of cotton production held by this country would be depreci- ated if the demand for cotton were to be further reduced by the adoption of a cheaper material.” “These reports,’ concludes the An- niston Star, “furnish another reason why Southern farmers should be get- ting away from their old one-crop idea. It is probable that several vears will elapse before the use of the new product makes serious inroads upon the cotton industry of this country, but it would be well for the cotton growers to begin now to plan against that day. How- ever, it is stated that the substitute will be ready for the manufacturer next Summer, so if it proves to be what the producers believe it is—a thing that will take the place of cotton in making cloth—there is a possibility of an effect on the agricultural situation in the South at some time not too far distant. ‘The new product will be placed on the market after eight years of experimen- tation, and the mills of Yorkshire and London are looking to this ‘artificial cotton’ as a possible medium whereby they will regain their former position in the industrial world.” |