Evening Star Newspaper, February 12, 1929, Page 8

8 THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. 'WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY.....February 12, 1920 The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business: Office: 21th St. and Pennsylvani; New York Office: 110 East 2 Chicazo Office: Tower Bulldine. European Office: 14 Regent St., London, § England. Rate by Carrier Within the City. The Evening Star. .45¢ per month The Evening and Si r (when 4 Sunda. .60c per month The Evening and T 85¢ per month ch mon telephone ys) Sunday Sta ). t Orders may be sent Main 5600 Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Dally and Sunda: 1 yr., $10.00: 1 Daily only 1yr. Sunday only . 1 yr. i d of 1n by mail or mo., 85¢ 36.00; 1 mo.. 8¢ 34.00; 1 mo.. 40c All Other States and Canada. Daily only . Sunday only Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusizely entifled to the use for republization of all “ews dis- »d to it or not o‘Lerwise cred his paper and also the local news sublished herein. Al rizhcs of publication of apecial dispatches herein are also reserved. | Municipal Group Financing. Washington's natural gratification | over action of the House yesterday in | wisely authorizing the purchase of the | {the opening of & new administration, susded that such conditions prevail in China, extraterritoriality is doomed, as it ought to be. ‘When he sent the tariff treaty to the | Senate, President Coolidge described it ias “an evidence of the desire of the United States to deal justly with the Chinese nation.” Supplementing the President’s message, Secretary Kellogg said that the bestowal of American tariff equality “is in conformity with the ship toward the Chinese people.” ‘There will be universal agreement in | this country with these friendly seqti- | ments. | e Still Guessing. President Coolidge has issued a proc- lamation convening the Senate in spe- cial session at noon March 4, to receive such communications as the Chief Executive may desire to submit to it. Herbert Hoover, the President-elect, will become Chief Executive at that time, lowed the usual custom.of calling the Senate to meet in executive session at One of Mr. Hoover's first actions as | President will be to send to the Senate the list of his appointments to the cab- inet. The President-elect .is closely guarding the secret of his selections for membership in his official family. Rumors of the appointment of various men spring up overnight and most of entire site for the proposed municipal center, instead of following the Budget | Bureau's recommended piecemeal pur- | chase of this land, will be tinged with | some slarm over the fact that the| money needed for the acquisition, ap- | proximately six million dollars, is to be | drawn from District revenues, with 1o | provision for Federal participation in | the financing of this great project. The | present plan is fo insert in the second | deficiency bill a provision for appro- | priating approximately two and a half them die almost as quickly. Literally scores and even hundreds of names have been put forward as “possible” members of the Hoover cabinet. There hes been no authoritative statement from any source connecting any one definitely with any cabinet office so far, | Generally the belief has grown up that Secretery Andrew W. Mellon of the Treasury Department will continue in his present office after Mr. Hoover traditional American policy of mend-’ and President Coolidge has merely fol- | “PHE FVENING STAR. -WASHINGTON. ‘D.- €. TURSDAY. FERRUARY 12. 1920, T safeguard. Once the powers are )-r-lbun the fault of the District or due to! any lack of merit in the legisiation offered. Representative Blanton, Democrat, co-operated with Chairman Zihiman, Republican, and House Leader Tilson counseled in such a way that non-con- troversial measures were passed prompt- ly before those on which debate was prapable were called up. ‘This was good teamwork. Those who co-operated are congratulated. The District had a real day. Meritorious legislation was passed. Prompt action will result in considerable savings of funds and in facilitating municipal ac- work. Let us have more of this teamwork, more such District days. et gy Saluting a Shrine. Within the past week a man was walking along Tenth street northwest between E and F streete, There was | nathing conspicuous about him; he was neither overly well dressed nor the op- posite. There was nothing to indicate | whether he was a Washingtonian or a visitor. As he passed the quaint old red brick house, which Is No. 516, {he paused an instant in his walk and with utmost gravity, and yet withal naturally and unconsciously, lifted his hat for an instant. Few, perhaps, noted his act. One who did was a newspaper reporter. To that reporter instantly occurred the thought that here was the possible beginning of a custom graceful, appro- priate and inspiring. ‘In that little house early on the morning of April 15, 1865, a man whom many consider the greatest American, and who all in- stantly agree was one of the two great- est, breathed his last. That house, as long as it stands, is a shrine of mourn- ing for all his fellow countrymen. Born tivities, and in promoting humanitarian | in a low log cabin and passing from this | { {becomes President. But this is 1argely ijite in a humble vrban dwelling, be- eved that Mr. Mellon's million dollars from the Distrlct's sur-:"';“"“ "w‘zu:’;";":m';lv Beopicinitt pius revenues this vear, which wil | etention S < v ¢ t Probably be sufficient’to begih the direct | ¥12¢ move’ on the part of the next | | President, and not because of anything Pl of e vipsly nieR (mhlt Mr. Hoover or Mr. Mellon may | have said. Henry L. Stimson, governor general of the Philippine Islands and former Secretary of ‘War in the Taft admin- istration, has admitted he is coming back to the United States to take a new post under the Hoover administra- tion. Mr. Stimson is slated, according to report, to head the State Depart- ment. But neither Mr. Stimson rior Mr. Hoover has given any public indication as to the truth of this report. PFrom California has come the word that President Ray Lyman Wilbur of Stanford University is preparing to leave the university to coms to Wash- ington to take the office of Secretary of the Interior, and it is reported that the board has arranged a°leave of absence for him to do so. But there has been no official confirmaticn of this rumored selection for a cabinet post. Other cabinet posts are filled accord- ing to rumor, usually advanced “on high authority,” but without connecting Mr. Hoover directly with the rumors. For example, it is reported that Secretary Jardine is to remain as head of the Department of Agriculture; that Col. Willilam J. Donovan, Assistant of the Attorney General, is to be. Atterney General, or, failing that, Secretary of War; that Walter F. Brown is slated to be Postmaster General, provided, of course, Postmaster General Harry New is not retained or First Assistant Post~ master General Bartlett is not pro- moted. These are samples of the guess- work now going on in Washington. The Senate is not likely to remain long in' session after March 4, though there have been threats from various Senators to fight this or that man it he were appointed to the cabinet. In the old days, a President’s cabinet se- lections were approved by the Senate largely as & matter of form. It was considered that a Chief Executive had the right to pick any one he desired to help him run the Government. But a change has come. The Senate turned down one of President Coolidge's ap- pointees, Charles Beecher Warren of Michigan, to be Attorney General, and has attacked others. Opposition to the reappointment of Secretaries Mellon and Jardine has bzen voiced already by members of the Senate, and tlireats of opposition have been made against the appointment of Col. Donovan to be At- torney General. Mr. "Hoover, however, if he determines to retain any of the present members of the cabinet, is not forced to submit . their names to the Senate. Under, the law,. these gentle- men may continue to hold office -in which they have already been confirmed by the Senate, with the exception of the Postmaster General, whose term of office has been fixed by law at four years, Mr. Hoover may or may not have cabinet surprises up his sleeve. One thing is certain, however: He has shown thimself «:an adept at keeping the, guessers guessing. S v Of course, the District should not he: ealled upon to finance alone an under- taking which is made necessary by the Federal Government’s own building program, and which will be extraordi- nerily expensive because of the desire of Capital planncrs to make the pro- posed municipal group conform in scope end appearance to the Federal group on the other side of Pennsylvania ave- nue. It would be impractical for any community of Washington’s size and assets to embark upon such a building program as contemplated in the mu- nicipal ‘center group, when the commu- nity needs as many other things as Washington needs. And it would be highly unjust for Congress, with sole legisiative and taxing power over the unrepresented District, to force the Capital community into this undertak- ing without offering to bear some def- inite proportion of the burden. While it is duly recognized that the House has acted wisely in deciding to authorize the purchase of the land im- mcdiately, before property values are exorbitantly increased, Congress could well afford to give some thought now to the question of how large a part in building the new municipal center the Federal Government is willing to essume. The present Municipal Build- ing will be occupled by the District Government for some time. Many years may pass before the Federal Govern- ment will have {o take it. When it “does take this building, how much will the District, which paid for half of it, realize from the transaction? How far will the proceeds of the confiscation of the District Building go toward meet- ing the cxpense of the land purchase end construction of the new group of buildings? The District has a right to know more about these important aspects of the municipal center group than it has, 50 1ar, been able to learn. When the House bill, passed yesterday, reaches the Benate, it is to be hoped that the op- portunity thus presented will be seized and that a provision will be written into the bill guarantecing a program of fixed Federal contribution toward the erection of the municipal group. If this is not done, the District cannot but regard Congress as “Greeks bear- ing gilts” and must look upon the pro- posed municipal group as a polen- tially dangerous scheme. ——————————— When Thomas Edison has & birthday the hope arises that sclence may find ways to prolong lifetime, especially a lifetime representing so valuable an in- ventive career. . B o -— America and New China. About the time when Rome was yester- day the scenc of the signing of the Italo- Papal pact the United States Senate was the forum of action in its way qujte as historic. It ratified the first inter- national treaty with the new Nationalist Republic of China, granting the Chinese, as far as America is concerned. the same Iuli-fiedged teriff equality enjoyed Wy other sovereign countries. The treaty was negotiated with the Nanking government last Summer, by which act the United States took the Jead in according recognition to the regime that had battled its way to na- tional ir Chipa. Sioce i power 26 this moment is ia process of com- posing her differences with her great Oriental neighbor. When they are rec- onciled, the new China will be on the high road to the full achievement of her ambitions to sit in the family of nations no longer as a dependent, but as an equal among equals. Before that goal is reached the Chi- nese must realize one of the other fundamentel items in their sovereignty program, the abolition of extraterri- toriality. To that end negotiations are now in progress at Washington. It is obviously Nanking's hops that if the United States will show the way in that Airection, as it showed it in respect of ariff autonomy, the powers will have before them an example likely to prove no less contagious. America sympathizes with China’s as- piration to be master in its own judi- cial house. But the Chinese are aware of the only price at which extraterri- toriality can be purchased by them. They must supply unmistakable proof of their ability to administer justice npon lines that throw around foreigners i thelr proparty rights every rquu y!man of tha { tween the two had come a residence in |mixed up with the tripods of seere: that mansion whose occupaney tells of the citizens of the United States. Every vessel, naval or civilian, passing Mount Vernon salutes with whistle, with bell or with banner the birthplace ship captain long ago started that com- mendakle custom, still rigidly observed. It may be that the citizen who, moved by something within himself, reverently lifted his hat as he passed the scene of the untimely death of the Great “There are cynical suspicions to the | fect that there s no move hope of | stooping stock marke; gembling. than | there is of prohibiting bets on & horse race, —re—t A Real District Day. The House leadership and the chair- | H Districc commitis ryare io bs copgrainia 0 the Hows v, some of whicn have beea Laugiug fire for a long Uawe, weie passed and another important measure. the medical practice sct, was whipped into shape for & vote during a lengthy discussion, when time was called. This is the first, and probably the last, distinct District day of the pres- ent session, but the District fared as well, if not better than it ordinarily does in a half dozen District days. This was accomplished because the District committee brought its bills into the House well and seasonably considered, and there was co-operated effort to put them through. It resulted also from the-very im- portant fact that the District day was not taken as s field day for discussion of various and sundry matters far re- moved from the affairs of the National Capital. Quite frequently when the chairman of the District committee is allowed to bring up his calendar on a nomihally District day he is burdened with the obligation of allowing long | hours for “general debate,” so that it has truthfully been said that the Dis- trict days are spent in talk and wran- g'ing with little achieved. This has not Emancipator, born a century and a score of years ago, shall have inaugu- rated a custom which will come to be 2 recognized and invariable procedure. If s0, both he and those who follow his example are to be congratulated. o It is fortunate that the average would-be assassin has a bad conscience, which shatters his nerves and destroys his markmanship. — et Btandard Oil of New Jersey appears in danger of being crowded out of the center of the stage by Standard Oil of Indiena. RIS Some night Col. Stewart of Indiana Oil may be persuaded to give s radio audition under the title “Proxy and His ———— Dynamiters seldom geb the man they are after. In riotous conditions it is usually the innocent bystander who pays. Having enjoyed all sorts of glory, Col. Lindbergh appears content to fig- ure as a letter carrier de luxe. i gt In current finance a personality is not what counts so much as a vote, SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Chief- Commodity. Publicity is, after all, ‘The thing that most we prize. Look out for something, great or small, | ‘That you can advertise. It may be coffee, tea or bread, Or bricks in gilt disguise. To fortune you may still be led If you can advertise. So, 1t you wish to be in style And prove that you are wise, Get. yourself something for a while ‘That you can advertise. Lighiness. “Some of these companies who sell us {llumination seem very light hearted.” “Yes,” answered Senator Sorghum, | “electric-light hearted.” Jud Tunkins says the only way for a man to have the last word is to send a posteard and conceal his next address, Business of Sphinxing. A statesman never said a word. He eyed us without winking. The general comment soon was heard: “How hard he must be thinking!” Palmistry. “Do you believe in palmistry?™ “Oh, yes,” answered Miss Cayenne, “Bub it sometimes fails, I knew of a palmist who could not read her own hand and foresee that sorrow would come into her life because a handsome policeman crossed her path.” “We have no mesn< of forelalling aid Hi Ho, 1he sage of China- | | rowr ting b the pect. What auman naiors hies done in in2 pasi, il will aiways be prone o do.” Einstelniana, Oh, Einstein! You disclose a flaw! (Your theory? I indorse it.) Unless they understand your law, How can Police enforce it. “Meny a man,” sald Uncle Eben, “prays for salvation on Sunday an’ den works a’gin’ his own Heavenly interests | all de rest of de week.” . Radiotorials. “The story of the world each day Has a new chapter on displey. ‘This tale of wonders as it goes 15 nearly always told in prose. 1t seems to me a proper time “To trim it up & bit with rhyme. ‘The brain of Edison is in pursuit Of that much-needed substitute, And for Inauguration there may be Synthetic necks to help us all to see, ‘The Prince gives up horses. It's not 50 long since Some horses were eager To_give up the Prince, serene confidence of a majority of | of' the Father of the Country. Some | he | BY CHARLES Likes and dislikes for certain letters and numbers constitute one of the queerest -oddities of the human mind. Most people have some decided pref- erence for certain letters of the alpha- {pet, and equally some as distinct pri- vate grudge against other letters. Almost -every one has a favorite number or set of numbers. Mostly it will be found that an individual who favors even numbers dislikes the odd, and vice versa. | | decided preference for the number 6 !and its multiples, but not all of them. | _We like 24 but not 18, 24 but not 36. | We dote on 48 in particular. Perhaps | we might solve this by stating that we { are excessively fond of 2, 4, 6, 7 and 8. We loathe 1, 3 and 0. Therefore, it is no wonder that we do not care for 18, which is 3 times 8 favorites), but 36 is not so simple of explanation. Perhaps it' Is because it has a 3 in it. * ok % Xk As for letlers, we have a fondness for C. E. and T, which is not strange, but | an aimost equal reverence for M and S. The letters-J and F are not to our |liking at all; we have always been glad |that there is no J street in the Na- | tional Capital. On the other hand, we with the word “street” makes it some- thing else again. One finds that Six- teenth street, an air all its own, given to it by its width and class of | residences. | As for the remainder of the alpha bet, we are fairly neutral in regard to the letters. A is a good letter, as is X We turn no handsprings over D or G, but can ‘stand their appearance in words. One might think we preferred strictly angular creations, such as V, | W and X or Z, arouse no umbrage. ek The place which the number 7 holds be stressed. It is the one true “mystic” number, |coming down to us from remote age and the colorful tails of the peacoc! | the “power” of this number, and it is still evoked with bated breath by dev- otees of. certain small squares of bone inlaid with black dots. To most persons, hoWever, one num- ber is about as good as another, with the preference given to the larger ones, especially’ when they are used as tokens othz;uh. i erhaps magic no longer plays a part, but it is certainly true thay: ng:fly every one has a favorite numeral, such as our 6. Since childhood, for instance, 6 has_exercised great influence in our life. Its double, 12, is no less pleasing. Even better is 24, which contains the irresistible 6 concealend, as it were, and also two other neat numbers, 2 and 4. No doubt symmetry has a great deal to do with, it. If it is a question of symmetry, how- ever, how Is it possible to account for our personal fondness for 13, the sup- posedly unlucky number? | This is thé birthday of the only | President of the United States who ever got a patent upon. an invention— Abraham Lincoln. It is not of public record that ‘any President ever regis- tered a trade mark, but with a pan- American conference to discuss inter- national reciprocity on trade marks, in full session, close to the White House, upon the eve:of the promotion of the former _cabinet official charge of trade and all interests of commerce, Wwho can deny that it looks like some- thing brewing? Perhaps Lincoln’s invention was not originally applicable to the ship of state, and the patent has long ago ex- pired. Trade marks are applicable even on dead patents, if any one is alert to register them and exploit the goods. President-elect Hoover's special attention, therefore, is called to his predecessot’s device and his own liberty to use it after March 4, when he finds ‘his ship of state in shallow water. It is of vital Interest to the trade mark conferenée under the circumstances. This is the legal description of Lin- | coln’s invention: Patent No. 6,469, March 10, 1849, “To whom it ‘may\concern: “Be it"known that I, Abraham Lin- coln of .Springfield, in the County of Sangamon, in the State of Illinois, have invented a new and improved manner of combining adjustable buoyant air | chambers with a steamboat or other vessel for the purpose of enabling their draft of water to be readily lessened, to enable them to pass over bars (prior to the eighteenth amendment and Volstead law) or through shallow wlter,‘wi'-hsut discharging their i he - buoyant chambers, 3 { which I employ, are constructed in | such & manner that they can be ex- | panded so as to hold a large volume of ailr when' required for use, and can be contracted into very small space and safely secured as soon as their services can be dispensed with.” * ok kK ‘While the Lincoln patent ran for only 14 years, expiring in 1863, without renewal, the manufacturer of such buoyant, air chambers may still be pro- tected against unfair competition un- der various ,trade names—such as “Applesance” * or “Bolona” and a modern improvement—possibly subject to_a new patent, would be the use only of “hot air”” This is called to the attention of President-elect Hoover, wao well knows, from his cabinet experi- ence, how useful is buoyant ‘“hot air” | in_political shoals. True, the latest Einsiein apnounce- { netism the pull of gravity may be neu- | tralized, and at once a learned college 'pmus«or has jumned 1o the conclusion that Jack's seven-league boots had be- come a fact in of fiction. Still, while savants are working out the Ein- stein theory, President-elect Hoover might attach’a Lincoln air chamber to the ship of he register his frede mark. 1w o Dod that | 488 paient: pnlr:;n;nzh L';&-' Today there are about 85, annual ‘The total its ed -in t] country up to Y:'u was ‘120,573 and since 1871 up to 1927 the total was 1,664,477, population of the United States, by the census of 1860, was 31,443,321, In 1920 the population -was shown to be 105,- 1‘13’.:ng tI:mreu’e. m'la muken. al ree times in popui : The total number of patents in that finst 70 years was about 6,500 and in the succeeding 65 years the total num- ber reached 1,664,477—250 times a many as in the first period of approx- imately. the .same length. Is it any wonder that modern “American inge nuity and inventiveness” are traditiona the world over? 4 R Americans procure so many patents in Canada that their fees alone more than all enses of the Canadian Pnunrgmu. one year, an average year, the Americans registered 6,287 Ca- nadian patents; all other foreign na- tions received 3,231 and the Canadian inventors only 1,285. Two-thirds of Ca- nadian ‘patents come to United States inventors. More than a quarter of all tents issued in the world are issued y the United States. * Xk X % ‘There is a distinction between a pai- ‘ent and a registered trade mark. whicl distinction is often confused by the THIS AND THAT The writer here, for instance, has a| (even though the latter is one of our | E. TRACEWELL. Many people, we have discovered, Te- | gard 13 as their lucky number. Even | the old superstition about sitting down |to table “with 12 others leaves them | cold. * ke k Many a real estate agent has lost the | |sale of a house because the numbers, on the front door did not add up lr)“ suit the taste of the prospective client. | Perhaps no would-be purchaser ever | admitted as much to the argumentative | salesman, but it is the truth, neverthe- ! less. We know one man who balked on a | | house numbered 704 simply because | their sum was 11, a number which he | did not like. i | Very few persons will admit to these ! |little oddities, these likes and dislikes | | which are purely their own. although | others will insist on making them their buciness if they find them out. No doubt an ardent psychologist | | might insist that a liking for 7 showed | | that the holder thereof had a secret desire to kill his grandmother when | 1all the time every one else would reai- | ize that it was simply an idiosyncrasy. | * ok * |1t 15 interesting to recall that many | great men have manifest decided pecul- ! iarities in regard to numbers. ‘The first Napoleon had an ill-con- {if he felt that he had made a mistake | he would ride back and pegin all over| ain. H Emile Zola, the great French novelist. | | was known to go through certain mut- | be terings which contained numbers in |closing the windows of his sleeping |apartment. when he retired. Any on who chooses to laugh may_do so; it| makes no difference fo Zola. His! NEW BOOKS MEET GENERAL GRANT. ‘Woodward. Horace Liveright. | [ ! | _There is no oih | questions as our free information bu- ¢ agoney in the world | renunciation of war was signed |that can answer as many legilimate | Paris August 27, 1928, by the Tepre- ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. at ntalives-of 15 nations—Germany, the : | reau in Washinglon, D. C. This highly | United States, Belgium, France, Great “Meet General Grant” sums to the | organized institution has been built up | Britain, India, Canada, Australia, New | clearance of a path through that which {and is under the personal direction of | Zealand, South { for 65 years has proved to be a seem- | Frederic J. Haskin. By keeping in con- | Italy; Japan, Poland and Czechoslovakia. Irish Pree State, ingly impassable undergrowth of false | :iant touch with Federal bureaus and | Every sovereign independent nation in report, easy credulity, sectional bitter- | giher educational enterprises it is in a | the world with which the United States ness in every quarter. tive, all this, to & natural and vigorou growth in either individual or collec tive life. “Meet General Grant” gives over th> man himself. Here native qualily growth of character, play of tempera ment and personality through contribut- ing circumstance and event are brought 40 bear upon Grant in his public serv- ice as military leader and President nfl | in existence who were some of the grad- | the United States. But the book is oven more than this. It is, besides. a thing very. close to an actual re-embodi- meni, of the most important period in the History of this country—the period of the Civil War Coming ont from this reading. on is astonished at ! that it has, at which it mp Such effect is_du in the main, to the author’s outioo: upon the Civil War and upon thoso who carried it through. Two facts—bui two—serve as standing ground for th development: First, the war was eco- nomic in its_essence. Second, it was !like the name P street, but, of course, a | ealed 1iking for counting the windows | girected and fought in the plain human | number or letter used in connectfon 3l0DE 8 street. and it is even sald that | nature that has been carrying on ever since man took a step ahead of the other animals. The North discarded slavery because climate and soil worked against its J ‘The South retained s climate soil made it a paying concern. Even in the South slavery lagged when tobacco and rice and indigo had worn out the soil for them. Cotton was negligible. No | profit in that because of the tenacious rsonal partaking | nicely curved letters, such as U, but| in the affection of thousands need not | "‘L‘Assammolr” stands sure. i | habit of the cotfon seed in its hold After all, there Is no particular reason | ypon the fiber. Then a Yankee school why a human being shouldn't have likes | teacher down that way thought out and dislikes in regard to such intimate | 2 rude contraption that ginned the cot- things as the letters and numbers which | ton like a house' afire. And, 5o, cotlon | he uses every day. | became king. The Negro was a revived ‘We are apt to think of them merely i asset. Slavery took a new lease on |as letters, merely as digits, when the'life. More cotton States became the . | race is wrapped up in them. BACKGROUND OF BY PAUL V. COLLINS. ment foid us that by the use of mag- | state and the Mayflower, if | Th: tions strike a ‘new’ nhtion, it may ¥ of the | Everything that men have dreamed ; has come out in the combinations of Much emphasis has been placed on | the letters of the alphabet known as | self-righteous. (sioutly maintained its own rightness-in words. Just as words have been called things, 50 the letters are things, too, each with | its own hues, its own atmosphere, its own reflections. Before the dearest words in the lan- guage may be words they must first be letters curiously combined to mean what they do. Thus to the young man to whom Mary Louise, for instance, is the sweet- est combination in the world, the com- ponent parts thereof have accents of | tenderness. It will be found that the same is true (of all words which mankind loves, even | as the letters in words which it dislikes | are loathed. Lite has entered into the letters and numbers and shines out through their cr«l»::n and curlicues. “Mind your P's and Q's,” ents | once told their children, Qvis'th flmz deal of truth and justice, it would seem. EVENTS average citizen. A trade mark is a dis- | tinctive word, emblem, symbol or device, | or a combination of these, used on goods | actually sold in commerce, to indicate or identify the manufacturer or seller of the goods. The mark must have been used in interstate or foreign com- merce before an application for - tration can be filed in the Patent 3 o s, s 2 e verse, requiring applicai for regisiration to be made before actual | commercial use of the device, phrase or word o be registered as a trade mark, while we Tequire years of actual use be- fore registration, and that use must ex- tent outside of one State boundary—- into interstate or foreign commerce. A trade mark does not have to be jregistered in order that the user thereof may claim property right to its exciu- | sive use. ithout registration, however, he cannot protect himself in Federal court and he has to bring evidence into court to prove his claims, such as the registration proves once for all time. Trade-mark registration is based on a Federal law passed February 20, 1905. * Kok K ‘The trade-marked article may or may not be patented, or the patent may have expired, or the invention may be that of another owner, if the patent has ex- pired or was never issued. The trade mark does not certify anything as to the invention or patent; it simply an- nounces to commerce that that mark mufl on or att eehzg to articl a les of that are sold under different trade marks, but they must not infringe on each other’s marks in a way to confuse the buyer as to what firm is producing the goods. Or 2’1_10 owner of a trade mark may cover "It is The ehict object of the present ol presen ‘Trade Mark , session in the Pan-American Building, to arrive at an inf 1 agreement to adopt uniform laws for international trade marks throughout the Western Hemi- ere. It is announced this week that Mr. Edison’ b can be grown in the United States, has demonstrated its success. One “weed” produces five pounds of “milk” per day. such g::d\lcflon will_be upon a commercial basis, making this coun- try independent of the rubber monopo- 2 lies of Great Britain. It Is such “in ! ventions” as that which have brough rosperity to the Unitad States, rathes then profiteering in the World War. | 1¢ Mr. Fdison, by breeding or crossing, jcreated this new rubber, be may pe.. ent it. Similarly, mve:xt'l"ms in ma- chinery wealth of our phenomenal growth. * ok kK It is the profection’ of patents trade ! marks 20d copyxight: ‘han bave Tes waraed foveniors and, sunibors o * their brain work and encouréged addi- tions) progress in invention. This was tesuied 10 in & decens ardcle by Sir Robert A. Hadfleld of Sheffield, Eng- land, a great inventor and manufac- turer. He said: “As showing how patents for inven- be mentioned that the Japanese gov- ernment, when considering the estab- lishment..of a patent system on_the, {lines of that created by the American ; {patent act of 1899, appointed Mr. ; Takanashi their special commissioner i to Washington, D. C._ On being asked why the people of Japan desired to! | | have a patent system, he replied: { “‘It is only since Commodore Perry, in 1854, opened the ports of Japan o foreign commerce that the Japanese | have been uylnguw become a great. ! nation, and we have looked about us to see what nations are the greatest, so that we can be like them. and we |said: “There is the United States, not much more than 100 years old, and America not discovered by call:lmbua until 400 years ago.” ‘We said: “What is 1t that makes the United States such a great nation?” and we investigated and found that it was patents.’ “The writer (Sir Robert) in every way agrees with this wise statement and wishes his countrymen would insist upon a British Parliament giving to the British empire a patent law es liberal and as equitable as that of the United States of America.” § (Copyright, by Paul V. Coliins.) ) uth is that the whole histor: goal of the South, with tighter bonds for the slave. At this point that old reliable human nature began to work, | the North grew more righteous, more ‘The South in turn this respect of both attitude and action. According to this writer thesé are th: two basic elements that projected the war and carried it through. No other accounting appears to be quite so con- sistently plausible as this one. It tallies with what we know about the human in both individual and collective affair: To be sure, libraries have been written | and millions of voices worn out in ex- planation of the great national calamity on the ground of constitutional rights, S bty purpedss.” Confusiag. st and ur) : ing stuff, the most g{ ?L and in this case, ft turns out, not essential to & better under- standing of this vital hour of history. And, to be sure again, military leaders have been made over into gods or devils, according to the side engaged in the fabrication, and children in the schools have for more than 60 years been fed on material which, stripped of its use- less impedimenta, can be at least fairly well understood on the basis of produc- tion and the instruments therefor, with, on the other hand, an organized oppo- | particular ‘medi sition to the human for such. an economic course. ‘The straight simplicity of this study, its tally with what we know of human behaviors, its engaging plain sense, the indubitable search into every corner of authentic information—this it is that makes “Meet General Grant” a substantially great book. For_all these years we have heard Civil War stories—terrible stories. Bar- barous methods of fighting,. savage treatment of the wounded, horrors of the prisons, raiders upon peaceful ham- Vrecked ©bamercr” Aghin. - thromgtout ‘wrecl ¥ es, © 3 Ul thmymwemuhurdotfigdn- serters, the bounty jumpers, the tyranny of the draft, profiteers, & soldiery in habitual | panic. Well, from reading here, and elsewhere, it seems to be pretty much the truth—not quite, but pretty much. That which makes the whole believable is that these terrible things existed in both armies, in the Army of the North and the Army of the South. Cowardice and panic on both sides. Desertions and malingerings on hoth sides. Well, why not! These were human beings, behaving in humau fashion. In perfect fidelity to the facts. to the clear facts of all human nature, Mr. Woodward offers the whole view. not a half, and a distorted half at that. ‘The special purpose of the study pro- duces this back-turning sequence—Gen. Grant, the Civil War, slavery, cotton. ‘These moving forward in a biend of war motive and action constitute the setting that involves the military lead- ership under which the ultimate issue | took ghape in freedom for the Negroes and the preservation of the Union. Mr, Woodward's biography produ telll from boy life. An understanding workman is on this job. Sympathetic, too, one would say, if that word had not latterly taken {on the cast of partisanship. Theve 3 no pariisan here. Instead, & man who rather austerely collects material which he uses for the fashioning of the man of whom this material was an inherent o huofl?:ymw ll‘lfl‘ kward s as awkwar and as are dozens of the country boys that you know, or did know when you lived back on the farm. A boy who plowed and drew wood to the house or to the nearby market, growing a little stooped in his careless way of walking with a day’s work in his muscles. A boy that must have had many things going on inside himself-— not much of anything on the outside, however. He never lost his reticence, this wordless state into which he seem- ed.to have been born. Companionship never came his way, nor did he invite A colorless boy, a drab life--one ants to speak to him, to let him feel omehow, that it is not so lonesome, his being alive. as he seems io fhink it. He neyer lost this bearing of aloofness. It he had sloughed it at West Point o later it would not have counied. But he never did—not even when, having fought the most decisive battle of the Civil War, he was, for the time at least, in the broad sunlight-of popular ap- plause. The same silent man—and one wants again to speak to him, to sav omething, Jitile thing. And ail thronga, s Grag' Qs at (he nrad ol ihe Unto my, vaca b acclaimed rverywhere as the greal e of 1ne war and. later, whe is ab the hend of ibe Nailon--Grani 3% the silent man—Ilonely, one tninks. Aud this on: wants, desperately, to say 2 word to him. The effect of the book, its splvit, is that of the solitary, of the inexpressive man. It is to be doubted if ever a hero in the hands of his biographer had fewer favors granted him than has this one at the hands of Mr. Woodward. Here he is just as he was in life—silent, colorless, often deep in the shadows of something he more potent than he himself was—but, ! when the drive came, when the point of action arrived, there was Ulysses Grant already on the move. Oh, not in the regulation fashion of the beautiful military leader that the picture books show! A slumping sort of man whose entire body and soul were for that mo- ment engaged in getting through. Not a great military leader. Many another perhaps surpassed him in this respect. Many P.mi'::"tdm sut,;he wo:l ::: war. Persistent, rugged, denying to language any such word as compromise, surrender, delay, or other negatives for | prej immediate action. You all know the story of Ulysses Grant—soldier, general, President, traveler, honored in monu- ment and ceremonial. After this story you will know him better—the boy, the shut-in man, the friendly leader, the magnanimous victor. Lonesome and a stranger even to himself—this is the signs of an exhaustive | ces | t !5 bmit your queries to the staff of ex | perts whose servic irec disposal. There is no charge ex- cept 2 cents In coin or stamps for re- urn postage. Address The Evening !Star Information Bureau, Frederic J. + Haskin director, Washington, D. C. Q. When the Paramount School was | uates>—N. A, F. 116 puplls. The names of these pupils include the following: Buddy Rogers, ocephine Dunn, Jack Luden, Thelma Todd, Robert. Andrews, Dorothy Notirse, | | 1vy Harris, Walter Goss, Mona Palma. canne Morgan, Iris Gray, Buchanan, Greg Blackton, Charles Bro- ki Trving Hartley and Thelda Ken- vin. Q. How long has Myron T. Herrick en our Ambassador to France?— i be, A. He was appointed in February. 912, by President Taft and served un- til December, 1914. He was appointed {again in April, 1921, and has served | continuously since that time. | Q. Where is the largest chair in the | United States—E. W. T. A. The largest chair in the United States is located at Thomasville, N. C. (It is a furniture manufacturing town, |2nd the chair s located in the town | square. | Q. What flag?—P. T. A. There are four terms in use—flag, | color, standard and ens; | general term. A color is the military name for the ! units, <hips and small boats, g. sDo butterflies have a fragrance? A. Fragrance in butterfiies, though rlvr:.ulnc that ‘l’ilt flow;‘n. is not nearly as certain a quality. Many specimens are | without " odor, while others resembie the smell of sweet grass, jasmine, sy- | ringa, mignonette, orange blossoms or balsam. Q. When the Dartmouth case was aken to the United States Supreme Court who presented the main argu- ments?—B. 8. F. A. Daniel Webster made the main argument for the plaintiffs and William Wirt, Attorney General of the United States, for the defendants. The court in 1819 handed down & decision for the plaintiffs. Q. Why are the Arctic and Antarctic Oceans not as biue as the Atlantic and Pacific2—C. G. A. Pure ocean water has a clear blue color because salt water does not ab- sorb the blue rays of sunlight as it does the red rays. The blueness of the water depends largely upon its saltiness. The Arctic and Antarctic, which are cold and not very salt, are vivid green, Q. Is it a criminal offense to send a leiter to the President of the United States which contains a threat against his life?—T. M. A. In 1917 such & Federal law was | pasced. It covers such a threat sent through the mails or knowingly or will- fullv otherwise made. The penalty upon conviction is a fine not exceeding $1,000 or imprisonment not exceeding five years, or both. Q. Are caribou different from rein- it i i i | Summer | they move about a great deal to escape the flies. The barren-ground caribou {larger antlers, | country of North treme distance north America to an ex- ! of | tain from the caribou a Winter supply of meat and skins. The white caribou }nhalm.s the coastal valleys of Green- and. Q. treaty?—P. M. | A.” The Briand-Kellogg A. The Paramount School graduated Claude | — ) Who signed the Briand-Kellogg | y treaty for the ! Railwa; Plainly obstruc- | position to pass on to you authorita- | has diplomatic relations has been nof information of the highest order. | fied that the treaty is open to adher- ence.” Not all of the remaining coun- are put at your tries have as yet afixed their signa- ture: Q. Why was the New York Stock Exchange started’—N. W. A. On May 17, 1792, 25 of the old- | time brokers, whose usual place of meeting was in the sh: of a button- wood tree in Wall streét, feeling that the extent of their business and the welfare of their numerous clients re- aulrfld some formal regulation, met and irew up a document of agreement among themselves. As the business grew In importance and volume, a more compact organization was necessary. and Pebruary 21, 1820, the New York Stock Exchange was formed and a code of rules made, Membership cost $100 apiece. Q. Please give Rachmaninoff’s full name and tell the age that he entered the Conservatory of Music.—O. O. A. Sergei (Wassilievitch) Rachman- inoff was born in Novgorod, Russia, April 2. 1873. At 9 years of age he en- tered the St. Petersburg Conservatoire. Q. Have plans been made for the location of the bulldings at the Chicago | Centennial Exposition?—M. B, | A. It has been decided by the archi- fectural commission, of which Harvey Wiley Corbett is chairman, to construct the buildings of the 1933 exposition in ‘thc form of a tree, the various build- | Ings branching out from a eentral | building and connected by terraces, | moving sidewalks, canals and lagoons. Contrary to the usual custom of having | ign. Flag is a | the major exhibits on one floor, the is a flag carried | Chicago plan will use buildings of three by unmounted units. A standard is & or four floors, with an arrangement of flag carried by mounted or motorized |of moving stairways leading to an en- An ensign is a flag flown on | trance on the top floor. Q. Into how many languages has the | Koran been translated?—] H. A. The Koran has been translated | into English, French, German, Eastern languages of India and dialects of Ara- b‘l:;lwhn. Turkish, Syrian and Per- E . Q. Why do woodpeckers bore - into trees?—J. B. M. the burrows of A. are hunt wood-boring insects for food. Q. Does Conan Doyle know when he a Sherlock Holmes story how it will end?—R. L. A. The author answers this tion: “Of course I do. Ome | possibly steer a course if one did not | know his destination.” ~ Q. Please give a description of | Tacon Theater in Havana.—E. F. N. A. It is regarded as an unusually beautiful building. Its auditorium is in the shape of a horseshoe and is hand- somely decorated. The boxes are screened in front by light and graceful latticework. This is ornamented with gilt and so open that the costumes and jeven the slippers of the occupants of the boxes may be seen. The seating capacity of the theater is as follows: There are 28 boxes on the first fipor, 6 persons each; 28 boxes on the second floor, 8 boxes on the third, 2 e boxes on each of the three floors, 112 | reserved seats on the third floor, 852 | orchestra chairs on the second floor, 101 | chairs on tiers and front, 1,203 chairs, front and back tiers, and 612 seats in {the pit. ‘There is stan roem for | about 1,000. Since most of the opera houses of Havana are only in use dur- | ing the Spring season, it is to I;-emov- the seats when they are not {in use. ¥ which inject & substance. 7 into the plant fissue, thus causing it to expand. . Q Why do some locomotives have is & smaller and paler form, with |large wheels, while other have small inhabiting the open| wheels?>—E. L. A. Large wheels on locomotives make the tree | for speed, and small wheels are for growth. The Indians and Eskimos ob- weight and loads. Q. What rallroads are there in Alaska besides the Government-owned Alaskan railway?—H. T. C. A. Other railways in Alaska are the Copper River and Northwestern Rail- way Co. and the White Pass and Yukon i { the Hoover cabinet, appears to have ! the confidence of the country generally in extraordinary degree, and he is be- ing pointed to as typical of the prob- able selections of President-e! in assembling his official the Evening pendent Democratic). “Col. Stimson is an accomplished lawyer; he has had wide expe! district attorney in New York, Sec- | retary of War in President Taft’s cabi- net, and as Governor General-of the Philippines. He has had practical con- tact with politics, notably as Republican candidate for Governor of New York. ‘!‘rl‘l::t in the !emem:nt he made of tge araguan mess two years ago. He has made a study of foreign relations and is well acquainted with the inter national policies of the country. Mr. Hoover hias made a good start in choos- | ing Col. Stimson for the first place in cabinet.” 'he first of the ‘sure’ choices for the Hoover cabinet,” according to the at Manila Ji City Journal ( t Re- Coticany, 15 all Fight, 1! man Mr. Hoover is rience in government. as a |natives, and by arousing and his |and prosperous exp!r{ggu in cabinet affairs, it is like- |lyn Daily Eagle ly that Mr, Stimson can be taken as a |his career: i’ublic Opinion Is Fa.vorable To Stimson as Cabinet Head Henry L. Stimson, who is said to have | have to look far and wide to find & man en chosen for Secretary of State in | Whose training, experience and ality render him better fitted me post than Henry L. Stimson. * * * At Washington Mr. Stimson would un- doubtedly make & capable Secretary of At Manila he would be a difi- family. Calling “It is a first-rate selection,” says Ashevilie Charleston (inde- | ocsatie) vecordsthas.he e name for himself by conciliating the political malcontents among the both among Filipinos and Americans & new interest |in ‘the industrial possibilities of the isiands.” The New Castle News (inde- rendent) finds “his case very much ike that of Dwight W. Morrow, Am- bassador to Mexico. Both are of cabi- He has proved himself a capable diplo- | net caliber,” continues this paper, “and at the same time have been peculiarly {well fitted for their diplomatic and executive positions.” “He has made a internaiional affairs, chester Unfon (independent Republi- can), with the furlher ocmmeni that native co-of with Were aid for & peaceadle were 3 " The Brook- (independent) reviews e enjoys not only the the execuld foundations sample of cabinet caliber.” The Mont- | confidence of his party but the confi- Advertiser (Dem o appoiniment, v logicai oae With ibe conclusion 8 is eminenily quelified rubinei, by abllity, exper: ence aud irom all oiher standpoints,” that paper adds, “If all of Mr. Hoo- ver's cabinet appointments are in keep- ing with this one, there will be no lack of ability in it.” P | gomery stic) holds gor 1 “Gov. Gen. Stimson ministrative ability,” agrees the Fort Worth Record-Telegram (Democratic), ‘since he made his first contact with the ‘little brown brothers’ as a special representative of President Coolidge that marks him as cabinet material.” ‘The Kalamazoo Gazcite (independent) pays the tribute: “Mr. Hoover would Naturally, in so big 2 sweep of action there are other figures here—Lee, John- ston, Beaureguard, and, on the other side, many whom Grant superseded in command. To each of these this biographer gives the reality in estimates and genuinely human ap that weigh, sometimes in spite of your to the contrary. However, mg:m. It comes not so easy to aming fair dealing of this great study. y There Is a bit of a stery about tne title. ‘That was Grant's way of nam people to each ‘Meet Mr. Smith” or “Mr. Brown.” = i has shown ad- | { (independent ha we, all of us, have been’ brought up on | devel dence of the country as weil. He m one of the anlest Federai disirict ai- or appoivied by {h i tnie State. itable b nnsuccessiul ihe governoiship in 183 capapie mcmber of My, Wafls cabinow Secretary of War. He gave uceful ervice in France as an officer of Fleld Artillery. His more recent work as an arbiter in Nica and as Governor General of the ippines has increased wm:h.lre(errln! fzd v:;nl:r Stimson as “the evangel of m in Nicaragua.” maintains that “the‘ ‘Stimson ce’ was the culmination of unwarranted intervention that caused Latin America to view the United States with even greater suspicion and alarm than for- merly.” The Louisville paper, however, agrees that “there is no question as to ir. Stimson’s character and qualifica- ns.” “He has had a distinguished public career,” observes the S0, it is used here as; “his afliations the - Union _(independent) points out that in New York are with vital fact of Grant that you come awav'an appropriately informal title for the men of weight in the world of business with from (h2 reading of the book. story of a coy picuously informal man. and finance,’