Evening Star Newspaper, March 21, 1929, Page 8

T IHE EVENING STAR |drove his Golden Arrow at 231 miles an | tually at the time of his death, the air- With Ssndsy Morning Editien. WASHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY......March 21, 1920 THEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor The Evening Star Ni per Company 11t} 8t A Pencarivanis Ave New Yor| : 110 East €3nd B¢ ;, Lake Michizan g Englan i Rate by Carrier Within the City. _45¢ er month and Bunday Star days) 60c per month (when & e Eveni; Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. aryland and Virgi hour on the beach at Daytona, Fla. .| plane as a means of research and es- Yesterday at Biscayne Bay he hooked | pecially as a means of practical trans- up with Gar Wood, the greatest pro- ponent of power-boat racing in the world, and because of a broken steer- ing wheel in the American craft was able to win the heat simply by assuring a full running of the course. His speed was at the slow rate of 50 miles an hour. ‘When Wood was forced to quit he was leading the major by & quarter of a lap, and it was apparent that Miss America VII was superior in speed to Miss England, the sleek white craft brought overseas by the Britisher. Races, however, are won by the per- son who finishes them and not by su- perior speed which cannot be main- tained until the end. Consequently, all e [ that Ma). Segrave must do is to open All Other States and Canada. day..1 yr. §1200: 1 mo., 3100 Member of the Associated Press. Associated Press is exclusively entitled use for republication of all rews ais- to s credite this paper and also the local news . All rights of publication of ied b E et Faetion 1 Marshal Foch. ‘Beauvais, April 3, 1918. “General Foch is charged by the British, French and American gov- ernments with the co-ordination of the action of the allied armies on the ‘Western front. To this end there 18 conferred on him all the powers necessary for its effective realization. To the same end, the British, French and American governments confide in General Foch the strategic m; tion of military operations. * * * It was on the heels of unforgettable *Black week” of March, 1918, when the Germans were crashing toward the Channel coast that the historic allied agreement, above quoted, was sealed. Conceived in grave emergency, it was destined to prove the turning point in the World War.: It was no eagy thing for Haig and ed t0 1t or not otherwise cred- | wide his throttle in today's brush with Wood and hope that fortune will smile upon him sufficiently to acclaim him 3¢ | the winner of the Harnesworth Trophy and the undisputed holder of the two world records which he set out to attain. America’s hopes rest solely on Wood, the ‘gray-haired pilot who for years has reigned over the select circle of speed boat racing drivers. In the Miss America VII, on the Detroit River, Wood has done better than 92 miles an hour, and is the present possessor of the world's record. Maj. Segrave's boat has a theoretical speed of 100 miles an hour. ‘Theoretical speed, however, and actual speed are two entirely dif- ferent matters, and if Wood's boat functions well today the Britisher may find himself striving vainly to avoid the American’s backwash. It will be a great battle anyway, and may the best man ‘The Board of Trade's public health committee is to be commended for tak- ing up the problem of the high cost of | hospital treatment in Washington. The port was unknown. He would have re- Joiced in the possibility of flight over the forbidding spaces, for the conquest of which he pianned a rail line, It will perhaps be long before the na- tives of Africa will grow sufficiently ac- customed to airplanes in regular transit over that vast expanse to understand their nature. There remain many mil- lions of men and women in the heart of Africa who have no concept of the mechanisms of civilization. Perhaps Africa flying will become a popular &port for the sake of the thrill of glimpae ing raw nature. P PN Absolute perfection is nowhere to be expected, philosophers say. This rule, according to some critics, cannot apply to the Washington, D. C. police or- ganization, which is expected to be an example of righteous exactitude for the Nation. ———— Ex-President Coolidge is said to be anxious to buy the automobile he used while in the White House. axiom of psychology that & man always prefers the kind of trouble to which he has grown accustomed. ———— ‘Tammany may develop a tiger fight that will be almost as impressive as [that of the Kilkenny cats, which, tied over a clothesline by their tails, car- ried on the fray until nothing was left of either, o oo Rty There is admiration for the heroism that faces hardship; even more than for expert science in observation. For every polar exploration, either north or south, there must be a rescue party. o —— Sentiment is still supreme. Discus- sions involving national prestige and prosperity remain less conspicuous than inquiries a8 to the exact date of the Lindbergh-Morrow wedding. - R Next to a beauty prize competition at Pershing to surrender supreme com- |problem is by no means purely local.| coney Island, New York is thrilled by mand of their gwn forces. To their | Every city must wrestie with it. But the the Tammany popularity contest be- eternal credit and lasting fame it will ionly solution liet along the path fol-|iveen Mayor Walker and ex-Gov. e recorded that the sacrifice was made. | lowed by the Board of Trade's commit | gmpep p ‘The Spartan spirit in which it was of- fered is immortalized, as far as the tee. First, all the facts must be obtained and public attention and interest cen- r—.— ‘There have been late March bliz- American Army is concerned, by Gen.!tered on conditions as they are. After|zards. Spring as announced by astro- Pershing's address to Gen. Foch on the | that is done, there it no reason why|nomieal calculation holds no authority eve of the Frenchman's formal ap-|scientific and economic solutions can-|over the day-by-day weather reports, pointment as_generalissimo. . “I have come to tell you,” said Per-} shing, “that the American people will hold it a high honor that their troops should take part in the present battle. I ask you to permit this in my name and in theirs. At the p’esent moment there is only one thing to do—to fight. In- fantry, artillery, seroplanes—all that I have, I put at your disposal. Do what you like with them. More will come—in fact, all that may be neces- sary. I have come expressly to tell ,you that the American people will be proud to take part in this, the great and most striking battle of history.” Then ensued a battle that was to experience many phases and cost rivers of blood, but was to know no ending until the armistice of seven months later. It was Foch's battle. The glory of it was great, and many shared it. But the directing brain, the unifying genius of it all, was the gallant gentle- men and soldier of Prance whose mem- ory the world this day salutes in rev-| erence and enduring gratitude. In an official Independence day ad- dress in honor of ‘the now laurel- | crowned troops of the United States not be found. ‘The Board of Trade's survey of ‘Washington hospitals already has de- veloped some interesting points of view from the hospitals. Four of the hos- pitals asserted that “worthy citizens” are deprived of hospital treatment by reason of prohibitive costs, while four other hospitals declined to admit that such is the case. But there can be no disputing the fact that the man of aver- age salary, whose social position has lifted him out of the class of charity, finds hospital treatment a luxury which will either drain his pocketbook or which must be given up, possibly at the cost of his health. The blame for this condition cannot be placed upon the hospitals. The con- dition merely represents another one of those problems that eommuni- ties with an enlightened sense of social responsibility have not reached on their ocalendars. Every tal, except those maintained for private gain, performs a varying amount of free clinical and hospital work, and the cost of this must be paid for by somebody. The “some- | body” is Tom, Dick or Harry, who ean- not accept charity and who pays when ———r——— Persistent reverses may as well pre- pare the Mexicans, first called revolu- tionists, eventually to be classified as bandits and outlaws. ———vaee Diplomacy s not quite prepared to demand the signing of a total absti- nence pledge by every foreign repre- sentative in this country. r—oes. ‘The industrious Elthu Root is the one man of great prominence who never | seems to want to play golf or go fishing. —— e In the annals of exploration, #t is “Little America” that is affording the big news. e So far as official favor is concerned, Mount Weather encounters another cold It is an | on - THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL, a great deal de- pends upon the book, and even more upanA the u:.nlcuhr reader. sentence dl‘l(fid context must never be sul scrutiny, since it is went before the under consideration as much as what came afte It has 3 g W' fashion, however, to cull out suel ‘b\‘k of conversation, and serve them up to readers in all sorts of publications evidently on the basis that great men have great thoughts. There is nothing the average reader can do but take the quotations for their intrinsic worth, without reference to a past which 18 not there or to a future which he is left to suppose. * ok ok Is it better to read one good book several times than several good books ice? Well, book dealers probably would not agree, for one thing, although school teachers might. Abraham Lincoln read s few books over and over, yet on the other hand Thecdore Roosevelt read thousands of books at top s{:‘ed, Every one knows some reader who lovingly reads and rereads the novels of Charles Dickens, getting more satis- faction from this procedure than by madly going through the “latest novels” one after another. The chances are that he will know some other reader who takes pride in never reading any book but once. “When I read, I read,” seems to be the motto of the latter, who by no means would browse through the same book twice, and certainly never thrice. * ok k% Just what any one may mean by the term “good book” is left to others and perhaps no two would have exactly the same definition. As a general proposition, a good book may be said to be a book of any sort in which the writer achieves what he utA out tmchlev'. novelist wants to tell as good a story as possible, & mathematician to write as good a mathematics as he can, a poet to make as good poetry as is in him. Each, however, must meet the appro- bation of others, who, although they may not be creators, at least have large powers of appreciation. It is probably true that there are few great books in existence which are not well known. A disgruntled receiver of rejection slips may think that publishers are a set of fools and that his book is & rose that is born to blush unseen, but the chances are that really it is not worth very much if he cannot get it published. * ok ok X A good book, therefore, must neces- sarily be one which meets the approval of the discriminating. ‘This is about as far as definition can §0. It is a common-sense definition rather than a learned one. It takes into account both the writer and the reader. Sometimes there is a tendency to make the writer a god, but there can be no great writers without .(.re“ t readers, too, as Walt Whitman ‘wave. SHOOTING STARS. BY PRILANDER JOHNSON. Art and Fashion. A-Iady tore her clothes apart * Ané posed with great composure. Marshal Foch was able to say, on July | pe enters s hospital, not merely the Then, everybody said, “That's Art!” 4, 1918: “After four years of struggle, cost of his own eare but an amount Admiring the disclosure, the plans of the enemy for dominance |gpg¢ prorated among other paying Pa- | Then, more demure, in gown arrayed, are stopped. He sees the number of his sdversaries increase each day, and the tients, covers the hospital overhead. The overhead is naturally increased by As clothes became her passion, ‘We saw her out upon parade young American Army bring into the | cnarity work. The resulting picture| And murmured, “That is Fashion!” battle a valor and a faith without equal. 1Is not this a sure pledge of the definite triumph of the just cause?” So it turned out to be. It was the beginning of the end. Foch planned his final offensive and crucial counter- stroke against the Germans on & ma- jestic scale of Napoleonic strategy. By Midsummer, - 88 one graphic British historian has put it, Foch “had won his Gettysburg and assured his Appomat- tox.” He had paralyzed the nerve center of the enemy and driven him down the first stage of the road to de- feat. Three months later the Kalser was in flight, his armies in retreat and Hindenburg suing for a cessation of | hestilities. Foch had organized victory. Perhaps Ferdinand Foch's place in Ristory will be enshrined most gloriously of all for his farewell act as allied gen- eralissimo. It lay within his power to prolong fighting operations until his in- vincible hosts had battied and bombed their way through Alsace-Lorraine and the Rhineland to Berlin, Long after the passions of conflict were cooled, men in meny oountries lamented that it would have been better if peace had been dictated to & Germany helpless on her knees within her conquered terri- tory—peace, in other words, on the Bismarckian model. Foch demurred. He surveyed his be- loved Prance, devastated and bieeding from every pore, and the graves of her million and three-quarters of herolc depd. Germany was baffled and beaten. ‘The allies’ purpose accomplished, Foch's soul rebelled against the spilling of so much as another drop of either allied or German blood. He ordered arms stacked, instead of shouldered for an ifvasion of the enemy's country. ‘When posterity pays him tribute in the Invalides at Paris it will remember Poch's last command. It will stand in veneration before the tomb of a soldier ‘who proved himself as valorous in the ‘Works of mercy as in the arts of war. — e ‘While other eminent personages make plans for fishing, the future reveals - wery little for Elihu Root, except more ‘work. — v A Rare Opportunity. ‘With one heat of the international speed boat race already clocked in his favor, Maj. H. O. D. Segrave, the dar- ing British racing driver, stands today elose tp the pinnacle which he set out to scale when he left England a month or so ago. Opportunity such as faces the blond young Britisher seldom falls to the lot of one man. Provided with the fastest automobile that human in- genuity could construct and with the- oretically the fastest hydroplane that ever churned the spray high into the air, Maj. Segrave was sent from Eng- shows the free hospital work of a com- munity paid for by the community’s sick. The sick represent not only a rel- atively small proportion of the popula- tion, but a proportion that should be spared extra The broad aim of those who seek to remedy this condil hospital costs rendered for services and to treat free clinical work as & separate item of expense to the community. This not only would have the effect of lowering hospital costs to paying patients, but would eventually extend the benefits of charity work. ‘The American Medical Association has promised its co-operation to the Board of Trade committee, and this committee begins its researches at & time when the community is awakening to the po- tentialities of the Community Chest. No undertaking by the Board of Trade in recent years will be watched with such wide interest on the part of the com- munity and none is more deserving of success. v It was comparatively easy to settle the question of who was to be Presi- dent of the United States. The ques- tion of who is to be the real boss of Tammany Hall may require a long, hard argument. P Seeing Africa From Above. An American newspaper publisher, an ardent aviator, 18 now engaged in a fiy- ing trip in Africa, and has just accom- plished a flight from Khartum to Mon- galia, in the upper Sudan, a distance of 725 miles. He made this in less than seven hours. Flying at an altitude of from fifty to one hundred feet, the oc- cupants of the plane observed a 200- logical panorama. They saw herds of elephants, giraffes, antelopes, water bucks, zebras and gazelles, and some lions, crocodiles and hippopotami. In places of habitation the natives ran wildly for cover, dropping their weapons, as the plane appeared above them. It was only a comparatively little time ago that travel through the upper Sudan was a matter of the greatest difficulty and peril. Men risked their lives in their explorations. They went for weeks upon weeks through jungles and over plains, and at every stage fought nature and savage humanity. Now the distance is covered in a few | hours in perfect safety and ease. Where are the dark places on the | rapidly. region by means of aireraft. | map? The plane is illuminating them Exploration is now possible over immense areas that heretofore have defled investigation. Byrd in the Antarctic s now mapping that polar Cecil Rhodes dreamed of a Cape-to- land to make a one-man onslaught on | Cairo railroad that would link the ex- the American-held records on land and | tremities of Africa and open the riches water. The first part of his mission of that great continent to human use. ¢ B aady been accomplished Hs When this vision came to him, and vire Wl be dope by the Robot Rirefl mat. _ And o0, with our opinions tamed, Until they seem the oddest, ‘While Art, with great respect is' named, Fashion seems much more modest. . Mutual Consideration. “When you speak are you careful to, remember there are ladies present?” “Invariably,” answered Senator Sor- ghum, “But some of the lady oraters get excited sometimes and forget to remember that there are gentlemen present.” Jud Tunkins says he has read his Bible many times with so much respeet- ful interest that he has had no time for arguments about religion. Poetical Abundance. For rhyming certain rules apply— The craving, none can sink it. How many can write po-e-tryl How very few can think it! Seeking a Test. “Why did you forbid him to see you again?” “He said he loved me,” answered Miss Cayenne. “If that is really true, no | little thing I can say will prevent him | from seeing me, even if he has to pick a lock or climb a transom.” “Great names are numerous,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “but really great men are few.” Climate Chase. Of Home, Sweet Home, we often sing. Btill we conduct a climate chase, 1 And, after each brief lingering, Buy tiekets for another place. “Gamblin’ sho' is wrong,” said Uncle | Eben, “especially foh a bad guesser.” Spring Special on Time. (Mareh 20.) An hour or two hence bringing pleasure immense, ‘The train bringing Springtime draws near. It speeds on its way with its Passenger eay . ‘Toward skies that -are sunny and clear. The bird song's delight and the blossom- ing bright Make us really glad we're alive. ‘With joy we'll prepare for a journey so fair— All aboard for the Nine-Thirty-five! The Robot Firefly. To a Robot age we are drawing near. A Robot firefly gives light so clear. We'll have Robot cows to milk each day And a Robot hen our eggs will lay. Mechanical pigs will be heard to squeal ‘When the Robot firefly his rays reveal. And all of the work in this wondrous plan epios By svsntins. milime o em| spen: m! on roads and mflw&nc“ ‘hnpmvem‘enu figures prominently comment on this side of the water on the British pre-election campaign. does not very e¢learly appear,” says the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, “that the country needs the proposed com- munications or that once they were constructed the persons employed would find further work to do. There arises some doubt whether the persons with- dutworknnppenbbetheooufln- fled for work of this sort. The scheme has serious defects, but for campaign purposes it has the shin advantage of offering & new medicine to a chronic sufferer. Econom! the scheme is dublous; politically it is formidable.” Admitf that “all political parties in Great Britain are devising reform R:cnml" and that. “Mr. Lioyd George his own pansicea for labor troubles and may be given credit for having made the most sensational bid for votes yet announced.” the Montreal Gasette comments: “Apparently Lloyd George believes that and can internally ab- sorb its unemployed in works of public improvement and that once the workers have been settled upon the available farm lands the whole labor problem will be solved. As he figures it, the defrayment of the costs would come out of increased motor car taxation and out of the increased revenue derived from enhanced land values. Upon the para- mount question as to how England, sup- posing her house to be thus sat in order, is to recover her trade in the world's markets, not a single hint or sugges- tion is advanced, and upon this com- mercial revival everything else de- pends.” * ko “The very fact that the former prime minister is devoting so much attention to the unemplovment issue,” ip the opinion of the Providence Journal, “is evidence that he regards the Labor rty as the most formidable opponent the“:;ecaon. But ':e faces ‘a dlg- cult trying persuade the voters that the Liberals can succeed in solving the unemployment problem, where the Conservatives and Laborites alike have heretofore falled. He must realize that the unemployed have been fed up on political promises. And he must know that out of their experience of the last few years they have become distrustful in proportion to the extrava- gance of such el Quoting, however, the promise of Lloyd George that he will “reduce the terrible figures of the workless in a single year to normal proportions.” the Saginaw Daily News holds that “if he can only convince the people over there of his ability to make good on that one promise alone, then a Liberal victory may be looked for.” ‘The point at which the Liberals have separated from the Labor party is dis- cussed by the Seattle Daily Times, with the statement: “The Labor government having so soon collapsed after failure to meet the expectations that brought about the coalition with the Liberals, the latter are impelled to seek more secure moorings for their influential minority. Yet the Labor government was not wholly to blame for its speedy downfall. It was with Liberal sponsor- ship that it undertook to cure all the ills of which British labor complained. Its rise was attended by the fallacy that anything and everything can be changed for the better by law or by gov- ernmental intervention.” EE “Labor’s program for meeting the un- employment situation,” the New York Evening Post explains, “is not to rely upon & financial miracle to ;uy those who are set to work on roa and other public improvements, but to transfer for this purpose a large amount of money now expended on the army, navy and air forces, It would link do- mestic and international 3“0&00“ by calling an international ament conference, which would allow England to divert into productive indust a part of the money now going to defense. Thuphnuvynomelmlwm?w solution of the problem, but it is of far greater significance than Lloyd George's melul. and, furthermore, it is one 'rom which the rest of the world would 11 as profit as wel 1 ristically bold in conception” “Characte: is the Le “goncrete, specific” plan of I ‘Time necessarily is the essence of a truly book. = Unless it is able to stand the strain of time, and to sell over the years, it scarcely deserves the des- ignation of good, in the sense in which ‘we use it here, ‘This is why, to our way of thinking, an attempt to “keep up with the new books” as they are {ssued is rather too much of & good thing. No one—not even the publisher—knows which book wilL ¥ " two years from now. hle id, he would never publish the L Each reader must remain the cri- terion for himself; since some benefit from reading a book over, others find 1t boresome. ‘The first grand flush of reading s good book can never be exaectly dupli- cated. While this 1s particularly true of the novel, it holds good in some de- gree of all other creative works. A certain elation of the mind is stir- red up on the reading of a fine book which subsequent readings cannot reach. At best, later readings are only pale images of the first. This is tanta- mount to saying that the first never comes but once, that there is only one first time. In some sorts of books & second read- ing enables a reader to “get” fine points which escaped his attention the first time. ‘The pace of the reading has nothing to do with it, or very little, at the best. He who reads slow or he who reads fast may discover exactly the same good points, and miss exactly the same ones. ‘These certain subtle lines or thoughts, these clever concelts—they are lke the arias in an opera, so good that often they pass completely over the head af the reader. At the second reading he wonders how he missed them the first time. * K K % It is impossible, therefore, to wholly agree with Lioyd George that “it's better to read one good book several times than several books once.” Acceptance of that dictum would put too great a premium on the accepted good books, not that & premium should not be put upon them, but that there is & danger of putt too much on them. ‘The point is that there are too many m books. ' There are so many good s that the book lover can never get through them all in a lifetime. Should he give up half of them and go over and over a few? ‘We doubt it. *x k¥ Read a good book several times, by all n';?ns. but read some of the others, It's good to read some good books several times and several good books once. It's good to have favorites, but also fine to discover new favorites. ‘The picture of the ambitious ye man concentrating on his Bible an Shakespeare is beautiful, but there is nothing to be said against some other Luunc fellow who keeps his mind and eart open for more. The Oliver Twistian attitude is to be commended, not because numbers h\#m, but because the some books by reading them t more pleasure and it et s a it genmre estimable gain In & acquaintance bulding |t xington Leader's view of the is Litle with something or some one great. Comment on British Campaign /&= Centers Around Lloyd George|® Welshman.” The “His mind is one of the most fruitful, his brain one of the most ih the world. lem he has courage would undoubtedly be reached by the scheme he has sketched. What is nndu’ln is smn:hm'lpams at good wages, order - tha purchasing power of millions may become a stim- ulus to manufacturing and trading. Where four or five million people, work- ers and dependents, are living from hand to mouth, as in Britaln, with a population of less than 40,000,000, busi- ness is bound to suffer seriously.” L “The entire scheme,” concludes the Manchester Union, “purposes the de- velopment of public utilities and the ex- tension of agriculture to a point suffi- cient to absorb Britain’s unemployed. ‘While the Liberals are exchanging con- gratulations over this scheme, even go- ing s0 far as to prophesy the return of the war-time premier to power, the Tories, t0o, have scored a gain. Regional reports from several parts of England indicate a marked improvement in in- dustry and employment during the past few weeks. Four big steel mills have reopened in South Wales after a long period of idleness, and the coal mining situation in this same region is much improved. The Tories have seised upon these facts as an evidence that their policles will rehabllitate England, if| I they are given time. The turn of the road, they declare, has come, their economi¢ schemes are already proving effective.” “People may like Lloyd George, or dis- like him; they cannot be indifferent to him,” concludes the Ottawa Journal. “For years now he has been without the trappings of office, without the glamour of power; yet nothing that those who hold office can do is successful crowding him off the stage.* * * There is something about this man that chal- lenges admiration—sor that is different—and it may be that history will give him a far higher place than It‘fl accords to most of his contempo- raries.” Properly Discarded. Prom the Albany Evening News. ‘The Baumes Crime Commission now has discarded the proposal made a year #go by Gov. Smith that a sentencing board composed of experts be created to determine the disposition to be made of convicted criminals. It is well. The power of sentence should remain with the courts. It properly belongs there, and to take from ju any power that they now have would be to emasculate the courts. A board of psychiatrists, and alienists and other. experts serving the State, and passing on certain questions as to sanity, before a trial and not during a trial, might be of aid, but such a board should not have the power of sentencing. ‘There is probably a need for some body to pass on sanity. The present system whereby alienists for the prosecution and alienists for the defense give con- flicting opinions is wrong. Moreover the question of sanity should not be decided by a jury. It should be determined before a trial of a murderer. Judges are well qualified to deal with convicted criminals, r than any board might be. No power should be taken from the courts. If -nymlumm more power should be invested ‘The need of reromlnr! the system of criminal procedure, icularly so far as it concerns insanity as a defense, is ‘Will the State do nothing in hat direction, when there is common agreement that something should be done? P Careful Inquiry Unnecessary. From the Cleveland Plain Dealer. ‘The actual ruler of every country, says George Bernard Shaw, ought to be & woman. Well, careful investigation would probably reveal the fact that such is the case! Why These Days? From the Charleston Daily Mail. ‘These also are the days when what indecent is fiippantly described a8 Leader condnu-:] etrat ‘The solution ortnho w‘:‘: & attacked with his usual \ HE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1929. Lawyer’s Jones Law Statement Is Augfled To the Editer of The Star: ‘Your exposure of the true character and meaning of Frederick R. Coudert, jr’s, recent manifesto to bootleggers is incisive and telling. You correctly | stigmatize the performance as “aiding! \whreaking.” and abetting la: X In his inaugural address the Presi- dent of the United States called upon all good citizens to ald him in the en- {gm';mnt of the l.ll';s,w'rhfll:h'l‘:lelswct- able'y attorney repi ly en- couraging bootleggers to break the law and assuring them that he and others of his kind will use what influence they possess to help them in evading the penalties—and, as you point out, the offense is aggravated by the fact that he (Coudert) is, in legal theory at least, an officer of that very court which is charged with the responsibility of law enforcement. Mr. Coudert, T believe, is a member of the bsr association of New York City, one of whose objects is understood to be the maintenance of & high standard of professional ethics among its members. It remains to be seen whether a scarcely disguised declaration of an Intent to assist in defeating and breaking down one of the fundamental laws of the land is compatible with continued member- ship therein. The legal profession is not so firmly buttressed In the confidence and re- spect of the public that it can afford to overlook this manifest breach of decency and propriety by one of its most conspicuous members. JOHN BRENT. et Air and Sunlight Needed by Children BY E. E. FREE, PH. D. drafty woodshed may be even better, at least one distinguished physiologist believes, than to do so in a mansion too tight and weatherproof and close- locked against afr and sun. In a recent address before the Royal Institute of British Architects in Lon- don Leonard Hill, well known Fu;‘n'ee dldv;w“ul{en ‘:{o w‘e benefits of sun- ight and of TAYS, ur| that local authorities for they:elle(‘eg! the poor were often wrong in compelling poor families to abandon half-open shedlike structures, seemingly cold and drafty, in favor of dwellings of more conventional design in which the children might not receive as much average sunlight and fresh air. ‘There is much to be sald scientifically, Dr. Hill urged, for the light, flimsy house of the Japanese and of many savage tribes—dwellings which favor outdoor life and which can be easily moved, destroyed or replaced. If their house is too comfortable, growing chil- dlr.en may stay indoors too much to drafty shed, on the other hand, although most conventional ple would reject it as less healthy, family health may actually be much better, because the chil are continually outside in the sunlight and the o alr, the proper place, Dr. Hill insf playing and for all human beings to do as much as possible of their work. 0il Underproductjon To rear a family of children in a! Q. When was Kongo made a Belgian colony? What is the Negro and white population?—F. P. A. Kongo was made a Belgian colony in 1908. 0 population is 8,800,- 000; white ation in 1927, 18,169. Q. When is the Army Band leaving for Spain?—F. J. A. 1t leaves for Spain May 4, 1929, Q. How was Omar Locklear killed>—H. L. F. A. Omar 8. Locklear, the aviator, was tion pictures. He, with his friend, Milt Elliott, who always hel, him in this work, was doln‘nl ht and shoot- ing off fireworks for use a motion icture. It is supposed that they were gll.nded by the 'works and did not realize how close they were to the ground. The machine crashed to the earth and both men were killed. | | | Have we had the pleasure of serving you through our Washington Informa- | tion Bureau? Can't we be of some help to you in your problems? Our business is to furnish you with authoritative information, and we invite you to ask us any question of fact in which you are interested. Send your in The Evening Star Information Bureau, i Prederic J. Haskin, director, Washing- ton, D. C. Inclose 2 cents in coin or stamps for return postage. Q. When were “'Way Down East” and “Broken Blossoms” put on the screen?—S. 8. A. “'Way Down Fast” was released by the United Artists Corporation Sep- | tember 12, 1920. “Broken BI % ;’3“1 ;l!;tued by D. W. Griffith April killed while performing stunts for mo- | quiry to | ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. nolias and azaleas bloom in Charleston, 8. C.2—M. L. W. A. The magnolias in Charleston, 8. C., bloom from about the 15th of May to the 1st of June. The azaleas in the A lia Gardens will bloom the latter of April. The blooming season of the magnolias is from two weeks to & month. Q. How fast does the average child arn to talk?’—M. L. K. A. Elizabeth Cleveland says that the child begins to use single words at from & year old. At 23 months using simple phrases. B: the time he is 3 he has a large vocal | Jary (500 to 1,500 words’ verse well enough for his own practical | purposes. Q. Do Navy vessels and merchant marine ships have to have pilots to | enter ports?—B. E. A. Navy vessels are allowed to {o | into port without a pilot in domesti |or foreign ports. However, merchant | marine vessels must always be accom- | panied by a pilot into any port. Q. How does the percentage of pupils studying modern languages in high school compare with the number study- ing Latin?—L. R. ‘m:. Y‘?fifll t{he ’t:“tlll.mmflrml in all modern fore iny is 25 {cent of the total school enfoliment, the total enroliment in Latin is 23.2 per cent. Of the foreign languages then, the sequence of enrollment and the re- lation to total enroliment are as fol- lows: Latin, 23.2 per cent: Prench, 13.2 per cent; Spanish, 9.6 per cent; Ger- man, 12 per cent, with Itallan and other languages forming a very small fraction. Of the total modern language enroliment French makes up a fraction over B5 per cent and shows the most {1es | Q. About what time do the mag- “One can do anytl with bayonets e-cept sit on them,” -h Plerre g‘u- parte, and it has remained ever since a bon mot among the French. ‘The Austrian usurper, Maximilian, discovered the application of it when he seized the throne of Mexico, with the aid of French bayonets, and then found the uartfid ‘bayonets maerly government in in the of ng 3 blic, and threatening invasion of that torn eountry to co- operate with Juarez’ army of defense. Maximilian and two of his leading gen- erals were shot as traitors when the bn;yonm on which they relied failed m. A government which has no place except at the bayonets is in a sorry appears to be the ‘Yankee for growing children to do all of their | Again Even if Is Declared Unlikely | To Prom the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel. Unless Congress sees fit to make the | 38Tee of oll lands by the Government President advantage of a co which says that he may or may not lease, according to his own good judg- ment and discretion, and it seems mly likely that Congress will say he For several years the ofl industry has sought pi o climinate. wastatul the anti-trust laws, but it is in posses- sion of power to remove some of the evils of situation by means of clos- g‘u tm own lands to develop- ent. There is now evidence that the ad- ministration is determined to ly this remedy by the most convenien able method. Senator Walsh has ex- of a monopoly by closing flelds of oppor- tunity to the smaller oil companies. This fear, however, would seem to em- body an undue apprehension. Only a small percentage of American oll lands are in Government possession, been fully exploited to date. And even with these lands closed to further de- velopment there appears to be little likelihood of underproduction. In any event, the Government has, as its pri- mary duty, the fullest possibl | Purveyors of “Bonded” | i | Liquor Are Exposed From the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel. Nobody knows any better than the | of the great | bootlegger the vast len; American sucker list. ’l""ll;'e local public has now been intiated into the secrets of the craft through discovery in a Fort Wayne cellar of a great stock of stamps, labels, seals, caps, water-marked Wraj etc, which, when afixed bottle of alcohol and distilled’ water, flavored with coal-tar essences, are sup- posed “f:_. guarantee the beverages as have been paying some booze mer t half a dollar a drink or $5 & pint for "finuhe" Mountain Ridge, Brook Hill, Old Kentucky, Old Crow or ‘Walker's Imperial, kindly consider that the green stamp marked “Bottled at the Distillery. Export. Distilleries, Ltd., Canada” means only that it was fixed up in the improvised “distillery” (or, rather, mixing room) of some Fort Wayne faker's cellar. Of all the labels in the t stock selsed by Fort Wayne police ‘week this one takes the cake: “Owing to fraudulent imitation Gordon's Dry London Gin is now lufi)lud in certain | markets in this country in this New Bot- tle, and we hereby guarantee contents of same genuine.” Yes-siree! There's the famous boar's head and the pretty red “signature” to prove it, by heck! Everybody with the least famlliarity ing rln' But it has been a little ifficult to convince some of the trust- ing thirs fancy prices for synthetic hooch. pre- pared at a cost of three or four dollars s gallon, but marketed for $40 or more. Wasn't the stuff guaranteed? Didn’t it have all the labels and pretty seals to prove it was the real stuff? Of course. And you know perfectly well that your bootlegger wouldn’t think of fooling you. Oh, no-o-o! —_— They'll Say It, Too. Prom the Nashville Banner. One interesting thing about Mr. Hoo- ver's inauguration is the fact that m ple all over the world can truthi say, “Well, I knew him when—." .o Blood Rouses Suspicion. From the Clevelsnd News. Police of Rocky River had their sus- | free! picions when a stolen car was found | abandoned and bleod-stained. But may- be it was only A murder case, ity goofs that they were paying | tribes problem by abrogation of | Ge: If the United States receives these refugees (even though abandon their arms south of the ) and refuses to extradite them, the Mexican government would construe that as an unfriendly act toward -a friendly na- n. and the remainder has by no means ! tio; exico? Would Cuba take them? At what cost in the thereafter of her rebels to Soviet Russia, in view of the ideals of the ‘Russian Com: ‘We are interested in a peaceful, or- derly neighbor. American investors have built and now own two-thirds of the railroad mileage of Mexico and have holdings in haciendas, mines and other enterprises amounting to more than $650,000,000. We can no more rest indifferent to Mexican turmoil than we could to the prolonged revolution of Cuba against Spanish tyranny. culty in So the revolut forced to flee, but the significant point is that it was really an expression of jealousy and hatred of Americans. We recall Huerta’s antagonjsm to President ‘Wilson. * ok kK It is mystifying to an outsider to tempt to comprehend the Mexican si uation until he remembers that Mexico only a million white people in pure-blooded 8 he o 000,000 are either Indians or mixed- breeds. The Indians are divided into 100 dialects, which are each other of separate 8 unintelligible to tribes. llons of acres each. The land could not be bought from these landed proprie- tors, and they ruled with an absolute and unrestrained tyranny the millions were feudal slaves of ‘who bounpfle:“h' to the land. ‘The great estates were confiscated by the government (with prom-. ises to issue bonds to thelr value— only partly fulfilled) and the land was the peons. It was portioned among :pmnfl“mmmmle und for the neighbor nation? Could we send the | X uniform rate of growth. BACKGROUND OF EVENTS BY PAUL V. COLLINS. practical knowledge of farming, and, above all, are, by centuries of subjuga- tion, devoid of initiative. They had no farm tools and no farm ambition to oduce maximum crops, so, as a rule, he project has been an tural failure. They were given a cow per family, but the feed crop was ex- hing | hausted by the cow she was n turned out to forage for herleefl and 3 bandoned. It will take generations to bring up former peons into a self-reliant race. This applies to the half-breeds—not to o S an - tions of tribes. b i * %k % ording to Wallace Thompson, in ly logical and tially one whi cause of the failures and . | Meztizos witnessed evidences of the blind mixing of Indian ideals with those of the mod- emn cnmolle‘cnwch. For example, t:; |V of Spain to & dians driven out of very near being suspicious natives, who fear- .I:l]?;n g( their “holy” picture * k¥ ¥ few miles out from Cuernavaca (where our Ambassador Morrow visits recreation, the ochicalco—a pre-Spanish Astec ple-fortress. To reach the ruins it is ::u- m”w Mep- throy 3 Amc” vlli.us of about 100 inhabi nm‘: was accompanied by a le who ?:5 no_dialect whlch{ wfldundu- the before another com| of “soldiers,” barefooted and ‘mbtley, ’mrmunded :- and placed me under arrest for visiting the ruins without a written permit from the jefo-politico (who had chanced to be. u""&'& 'wt'llc we left Cuernavaca.). y lomatic guide managed to pla- cate '.hed.leider. and I “lived to Ef‘l& o When 1 reached the Astec village upon the return trip I was again ar- rested and haled before a court, in which the school teacher served as clerk and interpreter from Spanish to man of the .\'gxllllg';: ": t:e ‘nn.n‘cl e e’ an e was fero- clous and quite that the whole Yankee Nation would defend me, I asked what he meant by “gratificacion.” My lan mostly the tourist's sign la is universal, but I usef (“How much do you “Cinquento centavos!” was the stern andate of the court—about 23 cents. Vilage" " was sub me was that I his. e officer, the jefo-politico. g‘ekly dismissed the case, and ef- ively shook hands with the who then lost no time in out of his jurisdiction, barely the rurales, who released the ruins of 3 cided to rearrest the b el d punitive k guide and forced round of lead of loot them | only