Evening Star Newspaper, February 1, 1929, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR — With Sunday Morning Editigg. WASHINGTON, A C PRIDAY.......February ¢, 1020 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company 11tn st AR Penms yante A and Pennsyiyanis Ave. Ne Office: 110 East 42nd Office: Tower Buflding Burope Regent St.. Londen, England. Rate by Carrier Within the City. The Evenine Svar. ... .......45¢ oer ronth The Event: Sunday Star v8) -60¢ per inonth star .65 per month 1. .3c per capy of each month. nt in by mail or telephone Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. tly and Sunda ily only . unday only All Other States and Canada. lv and Sunday..1 vr. 31200 1 mo. 8100 iy only “173r, $800; 1 mo. 78¢ day only 197, $5.00: 1 mo. 80c nM:mb" 05 ('Ile A:soclll‘evll Prr-h e Associated Press is exclusively cutitled %o the use for republication of nfi-m fl:— patcbes credited to it or not otherwise cred: in this paper and also the ‘ocal iiews i ublished herein. All rights of publication of #prcial dispatches herein are also reserved. Merger Entangled Again. Senator Blaine of Wisconsin has tied the merger agreement into a Gordian knot, and in the interest of the public be should use the Alexandrian method of untangling it and have the prudent fnvestment theory, which he espouses, considered as separate and distinct from the movement for unified opera- tion of the traction systems. After prolonged investigation by the Senate's own expert, Dr. Maltbie, & form of merger agreement has been drawn ‘which is acceptable to Washington and which will in all probability receive the indorsement of the stockholders in the bus and street car companies. Ener- getically pushed, the chances are that this merger agreement could be brought before House and Senate in the four ‘weeks remaining of the present session and approved, thus opening the way for the merger operation so long sought. Senator Blaine wishes to incorporate in the merger resolution the adoption by the Public Utilities Commission of the so-called prudent investment theory. i THE EVENING BTAR, WASHINGT the ciops s November 1. not & great deal of time to putting through the census bill and ac- eompanying appropriations. A great force of enumerators must be organized in every State and Territory. If the bill is not put through by March 4, it may. of course, be taken up and passed in the special session of the new Con- gress, which is to meet this Spring to deal with farm and tariff problems. But the aim of the leaders is to dis- pose of the rensus bill at the present session, By itself the census bill would doubtless go through the Senate at a hand gallop. Bul on effort is to be made to add the bill for reapportion- ment of the House membership as an amendment to the census bill. Senators hailing from some of ‘the seventeen States that will lose representation un- der the reapportionment plan are mot anxious for that bill to become a law. The decennial census taken in 1920 cost the total sum of $25,117,000. The present estimate for the next census is nearly $15,000,000 more than that amount. But is is pointed out that the population of the country has grown greatly, requiring far more work, and that in the ten-year period salaries have been on the increase. These facts, it is said, explain the need of a much larger sum for census taking now than ten years ago. B e — Hoover Between Bites. Indicalions bearing every evidence of authenticity are oozing out of Miami to the effect that President-elect Hoover will not announce his cabinet until noon of March 5. The first to know of it, we hear, will be the United States Senate, to which the names will be transmitted for confirmation. Such a decision, even though it ‘where the inscitutions themselves require a varlety of services, for which they are willing to pay students who will perform them. While the percentage of employed students in men’s colleges and women’s colleges is lower, it is in- teresting to note that within the last few years there has Been a change in the conservative attitude of many of the women's colleges, and student employment bureaus and vocational agencies have been established to find effective employment for the students. ‘The time has long since passed when the young man who earned his way through college by firing furnaces along faculty row or by waiting on table was regarded-as a curlosity and pointed to with exceptional pride by the profes- sors. Tens of thousands of young men have joined him, to form an educational aristocracy able to get along without the patronizing pats of the fortunate students who receive their tuition fees from fond parents at home. A time may yet come when our great univer- sities, crowded as they are by applicants, will become so exclusive as to restrict the entrants to those who are willing and anxious to work their way through. Degrees from such institutions would carry more weight than those from col- leges which represent scholastic attain- ments alone. ] Uncle Sam as Municipal Taxpayer. If Uncle Sam is, as proposed, to be viewed as an ordinary municipal tax- payer in Washington, a substitute for the owners of the greatest industries of the commercial cities, then the hy- pothesis must be carried out in a thor- oughgoing way in order to make fair the comparison with other cities. The Bureau of Efficiency has been justly strains national curiosity to the break- ing point, would be rooted deep in precedent. It accords with Mr. Hoover’s penchant for orderly procedure. The orgy of cabinet guessing is not lkely to subside in the meantime, but it is daily becoming plainer that the country will probably have to wait another four and & half weeks for the real thing. in making its valuations of public util- fties. This system has been used by ‘the United States Interstate Commerce - Commission in its railroad valuation. Tt takes into account actual investment plus capital additions and betterments, @s opposed to the reproduction cost method. The principle is now being fested In the courts, and its continua- tion depends upon the outcome of the O'Fallon case, now before the United States Supreme Court. The merits or demerits of the prudent fnvestment theory are not at issue, as far as Senator Blaine's proposal is con- cerned. The point is that if Congress decides on & formu'a for appraising the walue of public utilities in the District, that formula should be made an amend- .ment to the public utilities act and should not be tacked on to the pending merger resolution. As Senator Vanden- rfigiggfigg calls for & census taking May 1, 1930. The Sen- Every imaginable consideration justi- fles the President-elect's wisdom in keéping his admiring fellow citizens on ‘the anxious seat. It is reported that he amuses himself by card-indexing the names of all the cabinet “eligibles” se- lected for him by kindly outsiders, in- cluding, no doubt, some of the “eligi~ bles” themselves. Mr. Hoover, after all, has but ten loaves to distribute among all these fishes. In their number are many entitled to command his respect. But an incoming President’s task in choosing & cabinet is subject, in a way, to that system of checks and balances provided by our constitutional system. He has to match this consideration against that; to weigh, first of all, his personal predilections for a man on merit against that man's geographical or political background; to give due is not conducive to h a duty. be- ‘upon long time between bites of he amberjack, the barracuda and the for Hoover cabinet, when finally fashioned and ready for the country's cynosure, is altogether likely to be nota- thought So are By going to the coal flelds, the Prince of Wales indicates a willingness to certain problems by a method of investigation at close range. Various Senators should approve his attitude in The question for a while was what Trotsky would do with Russia. The consistent in this respect. Carefully excluding every item of which the tax- able quality is dubious, it assesses Uncle Sam’s realty and tangible personalty on the same basis as the similar property of the individual taxpayer, and it esti- mates his tax on intangibles on a basis which causes the estimate to constitute an insignificant fraction of Uncle Sam’s actual intangibles and millions less than the probable intangibles of the ewners of the great industries (like the guto- mobile industries of Detroit) whom Uncle Sam in this hypothesis repre- sents. The only reasonable criticism of the bureau’s estimate of Uncle Sam'’s equitably, taxable intangibles is that it is too low. The difficulty in making a reasonable appraisement of taxable in- tangibles attributable to Uncle Sam should not cause these intangibles to be inequitably cut out of the calculation altogether. The very conservative esti- point may perhaps be wisely accepted by everybody. —_————— Book purchasers are not necessarily . Einstein will sell many thousands of copies of a book which not more than twenty persons in the entire world are expected to understand. ———— A patron may sometimes forget the professional attitude of & palmist and drifting back to youthful sentiment imagine that she is only making:'an excuse for “holding hands.” ———— When President Coolidge writes his ON, D. ©. THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. ‘There dre, in the main, two sorts of people in the world—those who are sub- jective and those who are objective. Those of the second class find them- selves under the necessity of buzzing around day and night, ever on the search for objects to amuse them or de- light them, or to give them food for thought. The former are under no such need, but find life summed up in themselves, into whom they look with curiosity mingled with amusement and respect. The sound of a fire engine siren wil cause objective persons to rush auto- matically to the window, but the sub- jective man will remain quietly at his work. He has watched fire engines be- fore, and can see no reason why he shouild hop up every time a bell Tings. Members of the subjective class must resign themselves to being misunder- stood, even disliked, for their numbers are few compared with the great mass of men and women who must seek out objects of all kinds in order to find life tolerable. Subjectives, as we might call them, are both the envy and despair of their friends. On the one hand they 'S8 an equilibrium which is most discon- certing to the fire apparatus chasers. Hence envy. They are the despair of their friends because the latter think the former are missing so much. What! You don't go to the theater much? You missed that great show last week? ‘What! You have never been to that curious eating place where the snappy crowd gathers in a vain attempt to ape Greenwich Village? You do not go to the movies? Mon dieu, what do you do to amuse your- self? You are a curious fellow, indeed. * ok ok ok Arthur Schopenhauer, most honest of philosophers, indicated these two classes of human beings when he wrote, in his “Wisdom of Life,” the following para- graph: “pvlhhlt a man is and has in himself— in a word, personality, with all it en- tails—is the only immediate and direct factor in his happiness and welfare. All else is mediate and indirect, and its influence can be neutralized and frus- trated; but the influence of personality never. That is why the envy which personal _qualities excite is the most|hand implacable of all—as it is ‘the most carefully dissembled.” ‘While one would in no sense wish to say that fire engine chasers (as we insist on calling them) are lacking in | personality, there can be little question that “different” people have more per- sonality, everything being equal (which often it is not), and therefore have fewer friends and more enemies: In other words, he is more in himself, and has more in himself. He is more self-sufficient. Yet, strangely, there are few conceited men in this class. Such persons have lived with themselves un- der the microscope.too long to put any great stock in what they have dis- coyered. It is only the essentially ignorant man—ignorant of himself—who gazes with great pride at his reflection in the mirror, and comes to honestly believe that God lost the pattern when he was Even the comparatively few concelted women are dependent upon outside objects bjects 5 mate of the B of Efficiency on this jects for subjects of conversation. | him: must dance, go to the play, play bridge, smoke cigarettes, swim, drive through the countryside in sutomqbiles, before their minds and hearts have any- thing to work onm. LR ‘Those who are of the opposite tem- perament are never understood by these people, who are always trying to reform their friends and acquaintances. “You must get out more,” they declare, in their most patronizing tones. Get out where? All this roaring around gets one nowhere, unless one is precisely of the temperament to profit by such restlessness. The whole point is that the other type of person has more in himself, and therefore is more in himself, The envy which he excites follows the efforts of others to drag him down, level, and his invariable refusal to be so manipulated. He resembles the cat. This animal has never been as popular as the dog because it will not fawn as a dog will, and will not give up its personal habits for any man. Fido will give up his warm cushion to join his two-legged friend in the cold fields, but honest Tom, more comfort- able by the fireside, will scarcely deign to look uknnce* wi-nen invited to go out. * % ‘To have enemies, or those who dislike onesis to be sure that one has personal qualities which excite envy, and that this envy is the most implacable of all, as u}h' wise, clear seeing Schopenhauer sal This envy is also the most carefully dissembled. It is manifested, if one is engaged in artistic endeavor, in the well known “damning with faint praise.” The varieties of this are well known. - Under the guise of great in- terest one’s friends want to “'help- ful suggestions.” “This would be all right, if such “suggestions” did not in- variably contain subtle indirect “knocks” at one’s own little suggestions as pro- duced. “Why don’t you do so-and-s0?” is the standard formula. This excellent sen- tence is highly recommended .to those who want to do any extra hot job of damning with faint praise. The praise here is very faint, indeed, but enough to still all opposition. If he resents it, he plays directly into your s. The very form of the question implies that although former production has perhaps some merit, it might be improved immensely by doing what this helpful one is about to suggest. The joke of it is that his suggestions are all based on what he would do if he were in your position. He could do as you are doing, therefore he wculd do as he could do—and what an ass you n:d:glr not following such an excelient m * ok ok X ‘Therefore we see, as Schopenhauer so well knew, that the man with a great deal in . even others will Ganger "0t ‘being Dotk mmndein nger of derstood and disliked, The less dependent he is on outside shows, the more likely others are to re- sent him. The less standardized he is, the more others are likely to find him uncomfortable to be wif ‘The tr: shall come to out being able self that purpose. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood is the sub- tct of a monumental biography now ing compiled in Washington. The author is Herman Hagedorn, biographer of Theodore Roosevelt and executive director of the Roosevelt Memorial As- sociation. Nine flvlum ago, at the out- set of Wood's iil-starred bid for the lcan ‘nomination, book, the public may hope to learn|more com about some of the things concerning b which he has maintained so interesting a silence. President-elect Hoover is hard -at work on his message. Only an unpatriotic fish would nibble inopportunely and Possibly interrupt a good idea. ————— Estimated cost of prohibition enforce- ment serves only to remind skeptics that b'.:;“ are some things money cannot The most encouraging thing that a battleship has done recently was to figure with influence in a good-will tour, SHOOTING STARS, BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Inequality of Force. A peaceful man disdained a fight. A gunman, very impolite, Remarked, “That’s perfectly all right, “I'm just as peaceable as you, Provided I can carry through The hold-up I've set out to do. “Hand forth the purse and jewels fair commerece, which has | usual course in the biography of a You carry unprotected there; to the Senate with [dictator asserts itself and the question I'll guarantee them better care.” s, proposes that the census lected. It has been pointed out by Becretary Jardine of the Department of Agriculture that the period between Christmas and April 1 is the time when the farmers of the country are on the move. It is said that fourteen per cent of all the farmers of the country change to new farms during that period, and that forty-two per cent of the tenant farmers make such moves. Under such circumstances it is not dificult to understand the problem that would con- front the census takers, especially when 4t comes to obtaining data on the oper- ation of the farms, if the census were taken on a date when so many of the farmers of the country had changed to pew farms, ‘The census bill includes & new sub- Ject—that of distribution. It has been placed in the bill on the recommenda- tion of President-elect Hoover, who, while Secretary of Commerce, wrote to Chairman Fenn of the House commit- tee on census, declaring tirat such a eensus would be of great value. He pointed out that little is known of dis- tribution of commodities in this coun- try; that attention has been given prin- eipally to production and stocks of com- modities. In the opinion of the next President, business generally would be sided by statistical information, accu- rate and in detall, of distribution of gommodities. | Bupporters of the plan to take the ° | idiosyncrasies of the much abused and now is what Russia is going to do with Self-Supporting Students. A new angle from which to study the much debated younger generation of college men and women is presented by the United States Bureau of Education] in a recently completed survey of the number of college students working their way through college. In the one thousand and sixty-eight institutions of higher learning listed in the Educational Directory for 1928, with enrollments totaling eight hundred and seventy- eight thousand men and women students, about half of the men and a quarter of the women are found to be contributing to their support in college by working part-time and about a fifth of the men. and more than a tenth of the women are entirely self-supporting. ‘The survey indicates that more young men and women than ever before are 80 determined to win a college education that they are willing to work for it. Not all of the college students of the day, at least, spend their time in raccoon skin coats making daily experiments concerning the use of alcohol as fuel for collegiate flivvers. Students helping themselves are eaming something like thirty-three million dollars annually, and this money probably represents more hard-earned cash, well spent, than A Few Answers Desired. next years, estimates. It is under- stood that Gen. Wood’s family induced . Hagedorn to undertake the d the , the general's sanitation job cr‘:lh -‘nd"zfls ls,ir‘\fleelu governor gen- eral of the ippines. 's book is as to his connection with pre-conven- tion events in 1920. ¥ - nder | has just of pol of Berlin, Mr. Y receives chief 'g'edu for flndlum:g: solution which made the Dawes the voyage experts to Europe, as well as afterwards at Paris, he successfully argued the thesis that (as the experts’ report puts ‘the German scheme of taxation “What is your opinion of this grave | this question?” “So far as I am concerned,” answered Senator Sorghum, “it seems superfiuous, For the present we already have on hand more questions than we can an- swer for years.” Jud Tunkins says music is a beautiful accomplishment, but the hardest of all instruments to play successfully is the cash register. Confirmed Gloom. Old Mister Groundhog, all prepared to run; Peekin’ 'round the corner for a glimmer of the sun! Like some folks that worry, even when the skies are gay, It you should see your shadow, you would turn and run away. Intuitive Wisdom. “Your boy Josh seems to think he knew more than the professor.” “He did,” answered Farmer Corn- tossel. “Josh was too bashful to fiirt. The professor got sued for breach of Ppromise.” “To the man who thinks always of ‘himself,” said Hi Ho, the sage of China- town, “comes disappointment because the world seems to show him so little worth thinking about.” Assertion of Power, any other thirty-three million dollars found anywhere else in the world. ‘The majority of self-help students are found in the co-educational institutions because of the favorable conditions “I rule the earth,” man said one day And gave his head a haughty toss. A Flu Germ came along that way And sald, “Now tell me who is Boss?” Pensus May 1, 1030, believe that the | existing in this type of college. One| “Everybody makes mistakes” said weather on that date, particularly in | hundred and six of them are publicly| Uncle Eben, “but ’tain’ no sense to be Borthern parts of the United States, | owned and controlled, and the tuition|like a factory tryin' to incresse do Would make the work Jess arduous than fees are uniformly low. Again many of trouble output” Y o , Prof, Sering asserts, which un- whumlg.towrwlumvebeen tangle. * K kR ‘Washington newspaper men freely concede that the wittiest man in thelr midst. is—of all others in the world— an Englishman. His mots are numerous and famous. The other day, when it was announced that Mark Sullivan had become the guest of President-elect Hoover in Miami, a Yankee - league remarked to the Briton: “Looks ht be Secretary of . e London scribe: “A-ha! the elevation of the Mark and the deflation of the Frank!" * K ok K Notre Dame men in Washington will entertain at tomorrow in raveled & hopeless luncheon honor of their famous graduate foot ball coach, Knute Rockne, and to meet him will bring together a distinguishe group of official notables. The “Fighting Irish” are the only college in the coun- try which has both the Army and the Navy on its annual schedules. Now- adays West Point, Annapolis and Notre of no icant magnitude in foot ball realm. Amo: who will attend the Rockne are Curtis D. Wilbur, Secretary of the Navy; Col. Charles - B. Robbins, acting Secretary of War; Representative Hamilton Fish, jr, of New York, and Huston Thomp- son, former chairman of the Federal Commission. Wilbur starred in foot ball as a midshipman at Annapolis. “Ham” Fish was a famous captain and all-American at Harvard. “Shy” Thomp- son was a Princeton player. * Kk k Alfred P. Dennis, vice chairman of the United States n, e at the recent annual dinner of French liner Ile as pinch-hitter A , Secretary of . ted out that sommercially the United States and WILLIAM WILE France are customers rather than trade rivals. ‘worl against, France and the United States are commercially inter- dependent. I doubt if we are itors with the French in world to the amount of 5 trade. As intes A former Philadelphia editor and re- nowned Rooseveltian crusader, E. A. Van . | Valk W the agricultural region around Williams- | their vacation in port. ‘There, amid what is now known as “Van's Acres,” Van Valkenburgh is a great experimental ing to concentrate on some of the practical Pt e o S means of. grap, em, he holds, is the lundz.me!a.lmueln American life at this time; * ok ok % Under the auspices of the Institute for Government Research of the Brook- ings Institution at Washington there been published a volume deal- “Group fon Herring, > purpose to t groups in respect to 1m"°'“u§'x'. dedredm of, ormvmedb.wngrefllflcfln‘ :t;el:fl;ndt‘enmn." iv:ryw ranch oel fie - g game at Washington—in- cluding_the “social lobby"—is handled (Copyright, 1929.) Objection Is Voiced To Sale of Firearms To the Editor of The Star: There is a way that our Government ; could stop much of the crime and mur- ders that are committed, If a law was made that no ammunition or firearms could be manufactured or sold except by ' the Government, and then only rifles or guns be sold to any individual except to policemen, and if no concealed ‘weapons were sol R Pt s s, Government as soon as they ceased to be policemen, then most of the worst crimes would cease. No guns or rifles should be allowed in d | Public places unless there is a reason- lb}? excuse lt:; it. conceal weapons were not gl- to be sold to unofficial poo;ae. bandits, sneak thieves and murderers would soon become scarce and the world would soon become a much better and safer place to live in. It is th m of concealed criminals so bold benefit humanity “more away with concealed weapons, and it is time that our Government was doing something that was effectual in de- reasing since g in their crimes. ‘1 know of no legislation that could than doing n pouring ofl on - bled mn.ufi'énm tarift waters, He | murdered. wmneadé:m! i an keepin, m U] mflgm welh'lnhnl P ARTHA SHEPARD LIPPINGOTT, IDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1 929. Holmead Traditions Reviewed by Relative To the Editor of The Star: 'his property w Kalorama, was it a grant from the King land to Anthony Holmead, nor was if inherited by a nephew of the same name from an uncle who would not avail him- self of the patent. if the census taking occurred ANSWERS TO QUESTI BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN. Take advantage of this free service. If you are one of the thousands who mv‘en pnvir'onhad the b::mtx. write # E have never used o iy It is maintained Q. Which of Mary Pickford's early films made her famous abroad?—L. D. A. While “A Good Little Devil" and “Tess of the Storm Country” estab- From the settlement of Maryland to! lished her as a great star, it was “The the War of Independence had a proprietary form of government, excepting for a very few years at the beginning of the S in whether or not, to their own personal | this section that colony | Poor Little Rich Girl” which made her fame worldwidg. . How much pressure can ice pro- d“rikc”mlné_;:'b produce pres- e can e po sures up to about 30,000 pounds per square inch, and so avoid waste of in space in genealog- ical history, it suffices to state that the | the' Hblmead name first appears in the rec- ords in 1718, when James Holmeard (sic) secured a patent for land from he government of Lord Baltimore. He later patented many additional tracts lying in the section from Cabin John to beyond the limits, on the east, of the present District of Columbia and gen- erally north of Boundary street, now FI avenue. A In 1741 James Holmead, sr., conveyed by dee’d to hlxsu‘n:plmv.t JlmuD;l&l; mead, jr, one hese tracts. in 1753 or 1754, all of his lands ded to James Holmead, jr. Senior and junior at that time did not necessarily mean father and son. The rent rolls (tax lists) show the proper- ties a year later in the n of James Holmead, jr.’s, heirs and in an- other year or two in that of Anthony story. The relationship of Antho; the two James has not yet been deter- mined, but he probably was also a nephew of the elder. Anthony Holmead was primarily pos- sessed, by inheritance and purchase, of about two or three thousand acres of all {land. He sold much of this, for, despite a patent to him in 1800 of Pleasant Plains of something in excess of five hundred acres, he bequeathed, mainly to his two sons, John and Anthony, but | Abraham approximately one thousand acres. You have heretofore published inter- esting articles on the history of Kalo- rama, which was the. home of Anthony Holmead prior to its sale to Augustus Scott in 1794. The old place at 2201 S street you likewise refer to as Rock Hill. The correct name was Canton Rock Hill, a fact established by several references to it in an old Bible of my grandfather, Lieut. J:l‘lm Milbourne ;m\? ‘HAI;.. whose wife was Sarah, of An- thony Holmead. Please allow me further short space to refute other erroneous . stories whioh have appeared at intervals. ‘The bricks of which this old house — S statements have frequently been made about Colonial homes constructed of sel ?{m ‘This is held to have been Anthony Holmead did not bid the Indians farewell from the porch of the old home, as has been told. The house . How deep is the deepest part of Grand Canyon?—D. W. D. A. Tt is from 4,000 to 6,000 feet deep. Q. Has there ever been a census taken of the world’s agricultural re- sources?—F. N. A. Such a census is to be taken in 1930, and it will be the first. Only 37 countries have taken an agricultural census during the last 25 years, and they include less than half the land area and only 30 f“ cent of the popu- lation of the world. Q. How does our supply of modern cruisers compare with that of Great Britain and Japan?—C. R. A. We are su| to be on a 5—5—3 8,205 gallons of line while on % {w-mw'—'x:nuw endurance mlny,m-rvlnhmu- 4 total of contents in the 626,682 are map sheets. There are 437, 343 duplicate map sheets and 13,352 at- Iases, books, pamphlets and so forth. Views and manuscript maps make up the balance. Q. What town was the Q. brary A How of A first, to_bear N. A, Ga., and Wi m, N. H, the dhllncflo‘;?m‘m Q. Is the coffin of Mohkmmed :_}osfii to be suspended in mld-dH:'E A. The story that the cofin of Mohammed rests somewhere between heaven and earth, suspended in the air, was invented by his enemies to bring ridicule on the prophet and his religion. In reality he was buried in the mosque in which he had held religious services for so many years and Medina has ever since been honored because it contains the tomb of the prophet. Q. What is the usual length of freight haul of the orange crop?—R. N. A Long hauls are the rule rather than the exception. ly 58 per cent of the oranges shipped are hauled from 2,000 to 3,500 miles; about 34 per cent travel from 1,000 to 2,000 miles, and 8 per cent less than 1,000 pposed basis, Great Britain and the United ' States having the 5 end. At present the number of modern cruisers built, building and appropriated for in these countries stands as follows: The United States has 18, with a total tonnage of 10| 146,000; Great Britain has 63, with a total tonnage of 386,000, and Japan has 33, with a total tonnage of 206,000. Q. Can the density of aluminum be increased by compression?—J. W. F. A. The density of aluminum is not appreciably affected by compression. Q. How long after Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks were married was Lincoln born?—F. C. A. His parents were married June 17, 1806, and Abraham was born February 12, 1809. Q. Why does a bear wabble back and forth when he is tled?>—I. R. A. He moves to relieve the fatigue which goes with close confinement. Q. By what name was Gen. Grant known at West Point?—M. G. G. A. Gen. Grant was named “Hiram was not built until 1795 and Indians|. had departed from that section many years before. Last, but not the least, Anthony Hol- mead was not a . _Of one hundred and eleven signers of Oaths of Fidelity, recorded at Rockville, Md., before Jus- tice Burgess, I think it was, his name appears l:haumber 27. His de:cnefnamh oh d to have th rtunity to de please ve the oppo: y to deny this false tradition which e has brought cl 3 ALFRED HOWARD SPEAKE. | Tourist Camp Upheld . As Benefit to Public Aaron J. Prits, manager McReynolds Apartment Hotel, Wmmed an objec- t m.l.rht‘amp in East Po- ‘Park, s municipall A ducted enterprise in direct competi with ‘many of the hotels in Washing- Of Girl as Gun-Toter To the Editor of The Star: At In your Sunday edition, page 2, printed an article has much concern, and if it is strictly true should concern to every one who th | bers of ular of the Q. How much gas did the Question mxkluu on its endurance flight?— nts being met. I am|g M. 'A. The Question Mark consumed Q. Which is the largest county in England?—L, L. A. Yorkshire is the largest, with an area of 6,066 squaré miles. This is more than twice the size of Lincolnshire, the next largest county. Q. What is the greatest helght a one- valve Lnllanp will pull water straight up?—L. Q. pA. ‘The Bureau of Standards says that in theory a pump will lift water about 30 feet, but this is seldom attained in practice. About 25 feet is the best that can be expected ordinarily. Q. How many acres are there in the 5mLun€vl of the United States Capitol?— "A.” The Capitol grounds cover between 59 and 60 acres, and the Capitol bullding itself occupies a site of 32 acres. ‘banking. ‘The Chinese, Greeks and Hebrews bor- rowed on pledges in ancient times. Q. Is the Department of Agriculture helping Porto it l.n:fder! t does A. “Dhu” means “black. Senate’s Executive Sessions Draw Fire in West Controversy ‘While the appointment by President Coolidge of Roy O. West as Secretary of mltmhulu‘)‘"bue in dealing as rel with power m{m to final confirmation in the Senate centers around the executive session of tors are One notable result is a question the policy of permitting mem- Congress to vote secretly in de- ciding important issues. “The use of the executive session to rotect Senators from ity to efr constituents must be alleged secrecy of executive ses- sions is nothing less than a farce, but Senators will probably never consent to give it up,” says the Charleston Eve- ning Post (independent Democratic), W] the Portland Oregon Journal (in- dependent) comments: “They threaten to expel from the Senate the man who made the vote public. But is it the men who want public business trans- acted in the light of day who should be expelled from the Senate, if some- | body to be expelled? Or should it be those gentlemen who want to transact the public business in secret and behind closed doors?” “This incident should cause the Sen- ate to rid itself of executive sessions disregard of public opinion the quality e o o G Tt (indepent L. is in conflict with tal prin- ciples in public affairs.” Salina Journal (independent), conceding that “personalities” and “rumors” in con- nection with appointments “should not caused me | po prin "s:enlwrs should stand or fall on their vote * kR K Protesting against the 'issue raised against Mr. West, the Philadelphia Eve- . | ning Bulletin (tndepen%e:: Republican) states that “the pot bly | overtime on -this ad-interim appoint- ment, which will be a matter of history six weeks from now,” and dhat “the so- is a lawyer of ability. His service as secretary of the national U place, where they will til the name of an- S gig T8 il ‘ S888 3 4 i Eisz 8 gror HH I I Eigégs % i know jost