Evening Star Newspaper, April 16, 1929, Page 8

_THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C, TUE SDAY, APRIL 16, 1929.° centuries has naturally turned to tea as a rich source of revenue. It was first taxed in “good Queen Bess' " reign. The Stuart kings levied heavily upon it for their lavish civil lists. Charles II was given permission to lay eightpence a pound on tes. THE' EVENING STAR :___With Sunday Morning Editien. WASHEINGTON, D. C. WURSDAY......a-April 16, 1920 PR THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor BY CHARLES the train, not,| For a century and s half preceding| The young man was reading volume The Evening Star Company | however, get enough en- | the World War the tea tax approached |I of Henry Adams' “History of the 1 m_, s gineer time to apply his|the vanishing point, but the financial u‘m““m’”mtnnfldloo{muflm | ol %‘;‘u‘hlg( e, brakes, without materially reducing | exigencies of 1914-1918 sent 1t up 10 8 | garministration. and we eould ‘seo. over i} e O e 16 Regent o | speed, when the collision occurred. shilling, or twenty-four cents, a pound. | his shoulder that he was walking with i aglan This happened on the main line of | Since the war the British public has|8reat men. a trunk railroad, over which the max- imum trafic pours daily—express, local and freight —scores of trains in the course of twenty-four hours. It is also , | the scene of a heavy road traffic, many thousands of persons passing dally over the tracks by motor cars and in busses and afoot. Yet it is & level crossing, without positive safeguards against ac- cident. It is typical of thousands of such cases that yet remain in the area of congested raflroad and highway traf- fic in the Eastern part of this country. Had this accident resulted in many deaths—as it might easily have done but for a remarkable twist of eiroum- stances—it would perhaps have called public attention to the fact that death traps are still existent on the lines of the main routes of travel, places where the railroad travelers as well as others are endangered. As it is, with a lucky escape from serious damage, save to the mechanism of train, truck and ditch-digger and some disturbance of the road bed and dislocation of sched- ules, the incident will pass with little notice. It should, however, be regarded as & grave reminder of the perils that are run dally with the crossings main- tained at grade—perils that affect every user of the railroad service as well as those who travel by other means. —— . . Extra Session and the District. The Washington community will oc- cupy the position of s disinterested spectator on the side lines during the special session of Congress which gets under way and hits its stride with de- livery of the President’s message today. Lack of proper organization in the House would, ordinarily, prevent the se- rious consideration of any local legis- lation. In addition, there are only one or two measures on the proposed cal- endar of local bills that are net con- troversial. Congress is going to have its hands so full of tariff and farm re- lief that little time will be available for airing the pros and cons of matters that apply only to the District. ‘There is one measure, lLowever, the lbrary expansion program, which might easily be disposed of. This bill was passed unanimously by the House at the last session and favorably re- ported to the Senate. If the Senate could find time to act upon it, the sug- gestion has been made that a special Tule might be obtalned in the House which would permit of a second vote there, without reference to the now non- clamored for taxless tea, with “A free breakfast table!” as the battle ery. Mr. Churchill's announcement in the House of Commons answers that call in sweep- ing terms. Expressed in our money, the British exchequer stands to lose more than thirty million dollars & year in the sur- render of the tea tax. Even so, the re- sourceful Mr. Churchill presents a bal- anced budget revealing a surplus of twenty million dollars. That the Bald- win ministry, moreover, goes to the country on & vote-making platform can- not be doubted. ‘The British Isles face next month their first “flapper election,” as it is being called in token of the fact that for the first time all females aged 21 and over may vote. Tea drinking in Great Britain and Ulster is not confined to the fairer of the species, but it has myriads of devotees among it. There could be no single issue’ more seductive to this new and immense British elec- torate than the epoch-making tax re- mission which took its place in British history yesterday. Its author aspires and hopes some day to become British prime minister. From this Olympic height, it would look as if his boom had been effectually Jaunched and that “Winston” i now irresistibly headed for No. 10 Downing street. At any rate, Mr. Churchill seems to have been looking into the bottom of his teacups, where superstitious souls profess ability to read the future, and determined that in tea leaves—tax free ——lies political fortune. poleon himself,” day—shone from several paragraphs. He was a young man on a street car, perhaps a beginner in doings of the great. LR 1 celebrated ime 1 mo. memories and names? ANl Other States and Canada. .1 yr., $13.00; 1 mo., § 11, 00; 1 mo., yr., $5.00; 1 mo. ‘Member of the Associated Press. Associsted Press is exclusively en! %o the use for republication of ail news tehes credited to it or not otherwise cred. in this paper and the local news also erein. All rights of publication of G ibpatihes hereln are also reserved. of books, that throi e ;fi them any one'can of this world. known President Jefferson personally, Becih today. In the pages of the however, he knew him Adams The President’s Message. An economic problem’s proper solu- tion is to be found in the field of eco- nomies, not in the fleld of politics, President Hoover says. This is the key- note of his message to Congress, rec- emmending that farm-relief legislation be enacted and that there should be & limited tariff revision. For years now, the farm problem has been a foot ball of polities. The solutions advanced have been, in many ocases, closely in- volved with the political aspirations of candidates for office. It was politics which prevented farm-relief legislation in the last administration. It is poli- ties which even now threatens to de- lay the passage of legislation in the present administration. President Hoo- ver, however, has the advantage of hav- Ing carried the great farm States of the country in the presidential election with his program for the farmers laid be- fore them. The politicians have been able in the past to prevent any farm legislation, hoping that the farmers themselves would arise and overthrow the administration. But. now farmers themselves, backing the President, have indicated their faith in the ability of the Chief Executive to deal with the problem of farm relief. In a message more brief, perhaps, than any other transmitted by a Chief Executive of the United States to a new Congress at its opening session, Mr. Hoover has, in the vernacular, “sald a mouthful.” Any one who reads the message will be able to understand what he favors with regard to farm re- lief and tariff revision to aid certain of the American manufacturing interests. He does not tell Congress in exacl terson’s age knew him. He go'“a_t the heart of in ad problems then, t0o. * K ok % It is no wonder that books are so loved by young people, especially when the youngsters are “breaking into” busi- ness life. Does & young man ever feel quite 50 lonesome as during the first few weeks or months in his first job? position which, in some of its aspects, any means, smacks something of the inside job. In such work & young fellow will sit around with little to do, realizing his newness and his inexperience, wishing hopefully for more work, yet realizi full well, if he be honest with himself, that he has not yet got enough grasp of the business to do much. * ok k ¥ In such situations & book is a life saver. 3 One might pick and choose ambitious young men by their application to books during those inevitable idle hours when they are “breaking in.” Surely the boy who prefers to walk with Jefferson and Napoleon is more ‘The exact date of Col. Lindbergh's marriage is not disclosed. Lindbergh has been showered with so many gifts that the possible avalanche of wedding presents becomes something to be con- templated with discreet restraint. o The D. A. R. hints at & stormy ses- sion. The spirit of the organization is idealistically militant. There is'no ex- pectation of a D. A. R. meeting to record on the minutes merely “met and adjourned.” blood who spends all of such spare time gossiping about the flapper he met the other evening, and of what she answered her. A devation to good fiction will do just as well; narrative is the very life- blood of deeds, since a story is a telling of something done, and something done is what America most rewards. ‘The great fiction of the world dove- talls closely with the grand narratives of history and blography; we had lfef see & young man reading Dumas o! Dickens or Conrad as “The Education of Henry Aduns.‘ i * ] Eminent financiers seek to show how Germany could manage her finances better. Germany goes ahead with an idea of simple interest on a huge in- vestment. R Each session of the D. A. R. is her- alded as one of peculiar stress. Yet, as in the case of national political con- ventions, ¢ ing always smooths ered reading the most unlikely things. THIS AND THAT The name of ‘the Pirst Consul—“Na- as we would say to- business, some young underling in an office, but for the time being he was admitted to the ‘What difference did it make that the actors in those scenes had passed from this earth many, many years ago, leaving behind them only Perhaps that is one of the glories them and in Instantly be ad- mitted to the ranks of the great ones No doubt our reading young man, had he lived in that far day, would not have any more than he knows Mr. Hoover ‘history, far better, in a sense, than most of the people of Jef- and trigue high stralegy, and was “let in” in the g‘medenu issues of the era. Yes, they And we speak particularly of the although it may not -be all of them, by likely to succeed than the gay young | P E. TRACEWELL, Once there was a ms his odd moments, much ment of his Rabindran: ,” and yet senger has as much right to kn gore as a president or general manager, . as “peculiar.” amours; they may be pitchin mhahly they are growling al e work and small pay. The youth who read Tagore better man because he read “The ization of Life.” ‘The late Dr. Frank Crane, writing of universal as the sunshine.” * Ok ko even heard of it? ‘That is another one of the stuff.” There are so many pleasant peths in his own mind's tastes. What if they do not suit Reading is a lonesome thing. most readers read by themselves, themselves and for themselves. divine selfishness, yet himself? He who reads ood tell others about it; ‘le (S | and profit from the work that he did. * k k¥ In ‘telling others about his discovery, ticular book at the particular time. JGst as no man can force friendship, volume, |- To him, Zola’ means little if anything. who happen as a revelation, a joy and an inspiration. | left to his own devi impressed upon him * % * ¥ Books thus constitute the great refuge who in them may asso- ciate with the true best minds, and flee from the harsh realfties which at | for the youn | the time they may not be to master. Achievement has | tery has so0 occupied the a bosk. phraseology just what measures it shall enact. He makes no effort to frame a farm bill or a tariff bill in his message. He does indicate clearly, however, the lines which he believes such legisla- tion should follow and the limits which should be set. The President desires the creaiion of 8 PFederal Farm Board with wide pow- ers—a board that would be able to as- sist the farmers to meet their prob- lems and to help solve them on thelr own merits. The President points out the multiplicity of the problems which confront the Americin farmers and the impossibility of curing all cheir iils with any one or & series of pftes of legls- iation. He places reliance, however, upon the creation of an agency which would be able to inform, advise and .aid farmers to meet these differing problems. He recommends also that 1he Government provide sufficlent funds to help the farmers toward more orderly marketing of their crops and to meet the problems which arise from sur- pluses. “The President, however, is firm in his determination not to place the Govern- ment in the business of buying and sell- ing farm products. He believes that the farmers, through their own organi- zations, will be able to deal with the problems of marketing and randling surpluses, although they may need loans from the funds provided by the Government to aid them in their trans- actions. He is strongly opposed to the ‘mposition of any fee or tax upon the farmers. Recognizing the fact that the Amer- fcan farmers have s real problem, or rather many real problems, President Hoover demands that “we meke & start.” In the creation of such a Fed- " eral Farm Board as he recommends, the President sees a real start. If experi- ence shows need for further action, then the President will not oppose it, he in- dicates. Mr. Hoover deals with the problem of tariff revision also from the point of view of economics rather than pol‘tics. He regards an increase in the duties on some of the farm products as & peasure of real aid to the farmers. He urges the revision of tariff rates on American- produced commodities which have suf- fered from foreign cqmpetition in re- ocent years, causing loss of employment and production in this country. He fa- wors strengthening the Tariff.Commis- slon and, so far as possible, removing the tariff problem from politics and submitting it to the tests of economics. Doubtless there will be those who complain because the President has falled to write a new tariff measure or & farm-relef bill into his message. The President, however, has properly left the drafting of legislation to the Con- gress, whose duty it is under the Con- stitution. He has not left the Con- gress in doubt as to what Le belleves existent committee on the District of Columbia. As the District auditor has in- cluded the library building program as one of the major improvements con- templaled in the proposed five-year budget, and would have appropriations for the first year's work included in the 1931 estimates now being prepared, Congress might well find time to au- thorize the work now, thus preparing the way for the inclusion of funds in the appropriation bill which comes up for consideration in the regular sedsion in December. But beyond this one measure, upon which there seems to be no disagreement, the outlook for Dis- trict legislation is rigorously confined. If Mr. Zihiman intends, as is report- ed, to introduce his bill for an in- crease in the gasoline tax at this ses- sion of Congress, the more innocuous the desuetude to which it is referred the better. Here is one measure which should rally to the support of the local community all of its friends within and outside of Conj It is obvious that the agitation in favor of this bill, which 50 far has not shown itself, must come from gasoline salesmen in Maryland. If the proponents of park legislation are seriously considering this expedient to raise money for parks, they have stepped qff on the wrong foot. Regard- less of the fact that the tax burden in the District is high enough, the mere fact that the proposed measure is class legislation should kill it where it stands. It is & source of surprise to the Dis- trict that Mr. Zihlman should even contemplate such an unjust, as well as necesserily uneconomic, measure as he Tow sponsors. 2 ———————— Questions of social precedence make their way sléwly into the limbo of cross- word puszles which simply cannot be solved. out. ————————— Japanese cherry trees attract thou- sands of visitors to Washington, D. C. The reminder of foreign friendliness is asserted and blossoming beauty has its diplomatic value. Senator Johnson's opposition to the Elthu Root plan for adherence to the World Court by the United States is dismissed lightly by most of the news- papers discussing the subject. Many observers think Californian falls to appreciate the character of the World Court. “It must be very disagreeable for Senator Johnson to live in such a small- minded and poor-spirited world as he pictures and to dweil with the constant suspicion that every one outside of the United States is waiting for a chance to stick a knife in this country’s back,” says the Newark Evening News. “That attitude must be outgrown if this country is to become a republic in mind as well as in form.” “The ‘trap’ which Senator Johnson's keen eyes discern,” to the Cleveland Plain Dealer, “is hidden in the verblage of the final alternative under the t formula (that, as a safe- judice). United States, rather than resign, would yield to major pressure and become in effect, if not in fact, a member of the League of Nations. Fie, fle! Does the Senator believe that there will be no Johnsons and Borahs to prevent such & dreadful calamity? Even though a pre- ponderance of enlightened American opinion may in the future favor par- ticipation in the League, there should always be plenty of ‘small American’ guardian angels to forestall the con- summation.” A rum-runner is a lonely sort of ship, with only prospects of convivial- ties in which it cannot hope to par- ticipate. ———r—t— Crowds are sald to be wearying Col. Lindbergh. It is a bad actor who quar- rels with his audience. A Mexican bandit exemplifies human aspiration in his hope of being pro- moted to the title of “revolutionist.” SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Indebtedness. The times went going with a whisz, With joys and also ills. And stfll the mighty question ris, “How kin you meet your bills?” We seek for a financial wis ‘To ease each nation's thrills. ‘The big and little question is, “How kin you meet your:bills?” Though socially you may expand, ‘With furbelows and frills, This is the question still st hand, “How kin you meet your bills?"” ‘We owe a hero many & debt, * As he great hope fulfills; And, in his honor, question yet, “How kin we meet our bills?” PR “The real foundation of Senator g News, s hat ¢ pposes e Lyncl ews, e opposes entry into the World Court and sub- mission of questions to arbitration by that body because he fears that in some particular case the court might decide against ‘the United States. His objec- tion is not to the World Court, but to arbitration. It amounts to the assertion that in every disagreement between this country and another the United States must be the sole judge of the facts. * s & That means that in case of dif- ference which cannot be settled by the other nation backing down, the United States must enforce its will by war. But we have, signed a treaty renouncing war. That seems to leave Senator Johnson out on & limb, which could be borne with eglununlty, but it also leaves the United States out on a limb, and that isn’t pleasant.” “To say that the United States has lost nothing to date by remaining out of the court is to ignore public opinion in this and other countries,” declares the Providence Bulletin, with the con-~ clusion as to the controversy: “Presi- dent Hoover has given tacit approval to the Root plan for adherence. - With former Secretary of State Hughes sail- ing soon to take his seat on the inter- national bench, the prospect that American interests will be securely pro- tected can be considered satisfactory.” ‘The New York Evening World points out that “the care which Senator {ghnm nk:r fg refer t&m th: wun’u e ‘League ations irt’ goes far lain his hostility.” The Louisville -Journal states: “Senator John- son seeks to make a bugbear of advisory inions. If he is sincere in em, his only argument should the United States should accept the Root plan in (u'due‘.rt to No Boss. “Were you ever & political boss?” “No such luck,” answered Senator Sorghum. “I have spent my entire pub- lic career taking orders of one kind or another.” Jud Tunkins says he wishes he could quit being & professional comic. The idea makes life altogether too serious. ] John Bull and His Tea. If George III's chancellor of the ex- chequer had had the wit of George V’s ‘Winston Churchill, these United States of ours might still be part and parcel of the British Empire, There would have been, in other words, no tex on tea, no Boston tea party and, perhaps, no American Revolution. It has taken Great Britain one hun- dred and fifty-six years to realize the iniquities of the tea tax, for it was in 1773 that the Boston, colonists made thelr immortal raid on the tea-laden ship lying at anchor in their harbor and dumped its cargo into the water. Yesterday, A.D. 1929, the British chan- cellor, in a budget speech, which is as- sured of immortality, proclaimed the abandonment of the tax which Brit- ish governments have imposed upon tea since the Elizabethan era. Perhaps it was the Yankee blood— “the English Winston Churchill” is halt American on his mother's side—that induced the finance minister of the Baldwin government to propose a tax revision that cuts the price of tea to Key Men. Reformers none would dare to snub In programs comprehensive. They put & padlock on the club And made the key expensive. Providing for the Future. “I hear you have bought an aero- plane.” “Yes,” answered Mr. Chuggins. “How can you meet the expense?” “My family will be able to pay for it out of my life insurance.” “They who have lived long,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “think of the past as a picture and of the future as a dream.” . Flowering. & ‘The Japenese send cherry trees In beauty all a-bloom; allow this con = the consumer fourpence, which amounts | And yet, uests for to eight cents in American money, Our modest violet b Ly Helps to dispel the gloom. pound. Mr. Churchill, a historian by profession, remembers that the tea tax cost the crown the American Col- onies. The immediate necessities of the Conservative party have induced in the chancellor of the exchequer the con- clusion that abolition of that same tax may save the Tory government its job— bring it victory and retention of power in Ahe forthcoming general elections. As a political stroke, 1t is difficult to imagine & shrewder maneuver. Tea in Britain is not a beverage. It is & sacred rite. King and commoner practice it. It is as much a part of British history as Magna Charta, What ambrosia was to the gods, tea is to John Byll. Being the emost. . object of consump-' tlon, the Britisly-treasury through the - “A tip or de races,” said Uncle. Eben, | the “often makes you de more grateful to | the court de man who jes’ leaves plain two-bits on de tablecloth.” Y Prehistoric Restaurant. From the Yakims Morning Herald. No doubt that n | unto the Near East who found f in & restaurant the prehistoric surprised fcmmmemm the of coffee. : of thuy Repentant. Prom the Springfield, Ohio, Daily News. (o Scading wivee, Bt ihe ey siready Bad renised Johnson Attack on Root Plan Dismissed Lightly by Press| argues: “Senator Johnson takes it for granted that in any liquor case the court would decide against the United States because of !mi’.cn antipathy for itous prohibition. - This gratul assumption. A court deals with sub- mitted issues of law or fact or both. | | | | ment for or against prohibition, would be in a very weak position, court or settled it by tions.” “The alternative to judicial settlement of a ite Sun, “is an exhausting exc parte notes, followed either grudging settlement or, if the dispute tionably be more satisfactory riod of tension, innuendoes tility.” Differ papers which have commented, the Fresno Bee' takes the position repre- sented by the statement that “the United States should stay out of the court altogether, reservations or no ; that “it should be the not, of one, enter that court without from the schemes of the majority of nations, among which, as s:?l'fl!uhuonuyl.mmmtwc we! Sound Waves May Aid BY E. E. FREE, PH. D. ‘Thousands of wrecked treasure ships, belonging to every century since man began to sail the sea, are known to lie here and there on the boitom of the ocean; too deep to be explored by divers and seemingly quite beyond the sight of man unless new diving apparatus can be perfected. Yet that the situation may not_be quite hopeless was explained by Rear Admiral H. P. Douglas, hydro- graphic officer of the British navy, in a recent lecture in London on modern methods of using sound waves to explore the ocean. One of the greatest - ties that confronts the would-be sal- vager of such a sunken wreck is that of finding it. No searchlight will pene- trate far through the water of the ocean. If the depth is too great for divers, about the only possible way to locate a wreck exactly is to drag a long wire along the sea bottom and note where it catches on some obstruction. kee !urln! be that | iy send back Dull Days for Drys, Prom the Cleveland News. g = Even prohibition agents seem to have dull days. They made three raids in Sandusky and found nothing but some sweet cider. ———r—e—————— Where Clocks Are Needed. . Prom the Daston Daily News. who t the. ml!w- reading comrades, _in Tagore's “Sadhana, or a mes- ow Ta- and surely it means more when he does Usually suc!:vs boy is Jumped off course, he is unusual; the other kids are chatting about their huddiinl pennies; ut their was branded as “peculiar” and maybe he [ Das was, but the chances are that he B: ]l “Sadhana,” said, “Here is & book from & master, free as the air, with a mind Is it not inspiring to think that a youngster discovered the book for him- self, when most of his elders had never jood ints of books. One does not hav'- to a professor of literature to be able to recognize and to appreciate the “good Bookdom that no one shouid have any trouble at all in finding & few to suit (i In this respect reading is a sort of one in which there must perpetually be an overflow of good, for where is the genuine read- er who is eble to keep his reading to book wants to enuinely wishes that others may get the same pleasure | however, often he will find that the| | friend is not in the mood for the par- except at a terrible cost, 50 no reader can browbeat another into liking a given ‘Germinal” may come |as an inspiration, bui to his friend it the one ed to be in the precise mood | to be stirred by this earliest and best “labor” book, Zola's masterpiece came ‘When, however, he attempted to force | his friend to read it, Me discovered that in Bookdom every wanderer must be Perhaps he sald to him, and of how cleverly he | knew this truth before, but he had it been so much lauded that sometimes one is apt to forget that there is such a thing as failure. Mas- thoughts of men that one is likely to overlook the sad fact that often enough one is not Office boys sometimes will be discov- | in a position to master anything except Sympathy with or antipathy for a Eollcy cannot enter into the case.” The uffalo Evening News aiso holds that “if the United States rested & case of high seas jurisdiction merely on -ent.k whether it submitted the question to a direct negotia- arbitration n;r e that raised by the sinking of the I'm Alone,” as viewed by the Baltimore change of ex- pore 8 serious enough, the breaking off of relations and, ultimately, war. Should such a case ba submitted to the court, the resulting settlement would unques- than a and sullen from' most of the mnews- In Finding Sea Treasure NEW BOOKS AT RANDOM LG M Little, Brown & Co. Many thousands living along, the rural borders of Erie Canal , no doubt, be glad to write down their names in formal attesation of the simon-pure truth of “Rome Haul” & story of this historic waterway. -Within city limits the evidence might not be so forthright, for there old Erie, like many another, becomes diminis in effect by the crowds around it. Oul in the open country, however, children, parents and grandparents, living along side, show clearly that for three gener: tions at least this handmade waterway been & potency in their daily lives. “He is holding his own amazingly” is often heard in respect to some aging man. And old Erie, turned the century mark five years ago, is certainiy “hold- ing his own.” To be sure, under the universal modern slogan, “Step on the gas!” the leisurely canal has had to speed up a bit. But under this surface hurry the old spell still holds. I know. For, a child, the Erie Canal was my dream of adventure—the long, bright way to shining deeds. When I grew up I was going to be a cook on a canal boat, sitting on the deck across which were strung pink aprons and blue shirts flapping in laughter at the joy of going somewhere. away I may go, efther in time or place, the name “Erie Canal” brings me back, hot-1¢ to find out what this old friend , what of it? Of f n is doing. And I read “Rome Haul” in a very dear delight over its actuality of fact, over the irue essence of its spirit, over its power of revival. In effect this is history, the authentic account of the beginnings of internal improvements in the country, of en- be reached by immigrants for seitie- ment and farm-making. All this—but it is, first and foremost, & story, cen: tered chiefly in the stretch of canal that approaches the now-flourishing city of Rome. Its chief figure is Dan, a country boy gone out adventuring, as country boys have done and will do,much to the advantage of the world at large. The Erie Canal provides Dan with the way for his great outfaring—that of driving & mule team on the Erie towpath. Around this lad the intimate business of “canal-ing” grows. The long, sluggish craft, the captaln, the steersman and the coqk, the muies and the drivers, the short day’s run, the frequent “tie-ups” for sober—usually sober—dealings with the shore folks and long talks with other beatmen over this wonder of the times— a handmade river, if you please, stretched from Albany clear to Buffalo. Seems 'sif the times have gone crazy over business. And around the resting boats come the people from roundabout —farmer, storckeeper, blacksmith, ped- dler, preacher, gambler and loafer, with a scant sprinkling of the womenfolks. There is talk and more talk in this ex- change of different ways of life. The canal men coming and going leave their mark upon the banks fo the end that this waterway has established a certain kind of population different from that further inland from it. All this Mr. Ed- monds has realized. This is, indeed, his theme. And around it he has built in- numerable contributory elements. He has pictured the creation of this par- ticular canal zone, by way of the Erie Canal itself, The story beccmes a mat. ter of dealing with such material—s! ing it up, ehoosing, rejecting, co- ordinating, rounding the whole into a unity that becomes animate and keen with the spirit of Old Erie, as it was 50 years age. Maybe not so long ag maybe longer. But no matter. For here, positively, is a spirit, embodied in the story of a short run of the Erie Canal in the good old Empire State. Not the Mississippi, it is true, nor the Nile, nor the Ganges. Just a man-made canal, threading a narrow valley and, in large measure, shaping the lives of the peo- ple of that valley. En-rmous drudgery | of research lies bohind the story. But the digging doesn’t anpear. Only the | story shows—and what a fine one! * K ok ok WIND. Donald and Louise Peattie. D. Appicton & Co. Having stepped out separately at first —each on its own, so to speak—in ene or another current magazine, thes: stories come together here by way of a common kinship. “Animal stories” may signify almost anything in the story line. The term on the one hand may cover the bone- dry rattle of the bone-dry sclentist. or [DOWN' sentimentalist. Between these two there is, however, a happy man, a growing company of writers who have discovered tthh: tl'\tll.h llnd lvond:{u and beauty of natural world. se two jters, Donald and Louise Peattie, live Eflmz No, not Adam and Eve in the . ‘These appear to have gone the pair one better in that they have scotched the snake to & harmless e~ tude, leaving them free for a wider range than the original r:fi:fle ‘would allow. To such freedom Peatties have added the discovery that their quarry does not live on the other side of the world, but in their own dooryard in- the nearby woods. And that is an im- portant find for their readers, who, under the lure of this book, would much like to follow along, and can since the road is not a distant one. Another vitel discovery is revealed by these stories. And is that the mystery of all life—of your life and mine—Ilooks out from the existence of bird and bee and hufi no less than from that of man him- self. Takes a poet to find this out. But these are poets, these two. And so you read about—well, maybe about a bear or a cat or possibly a raccoon, or about birds, or any whatnot of animal doings and t! . Whatever the particular subject, you are certain to be absorbed at once in some incident that is vital to the animal in question and, so, it be: comes vital to you. Pretty soon you have read them the whole 15 stories. Having been deeply interested, quite in fact; you grow critical. We are t way. Puritans at heart, you see, suspi- cious of any source of great delight. In this mood of reaction you begin to poke and prod these stories one after another. For instance, that 1t is against the law of our early teach- | be ing. And'you sniff at every one of these tales that might have been stories about humans themselves. And really that's the point. With but a shred of experience, no more than feeding the live things in the park every day, rain or shine—you come after a while to lize that, within their own needs, robins, ROME HAUL. Walter D, Edmonds.|at And no mattér how far couragement to domestic commerce, of | means by which the near West could .| Samuel, who is “not like other men, on the other the sudsy Auft of the stark | stead, and in the surroun flelds and | Bri ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. This is & special department devoted | de jectidn and published = to the handling of inquiries. You have | map v.h.prwzrm in 1569, bty Q. What is the rezl name of Tully Marshall?—N. W. W. ‘This veteran of the stage and movies has merely his last name for professional use, His name is Tully Marshall Phillips. Q. Who were the Seven Championrs of Christendom?—S. D. F. A. BSt. George of England, St. Denis of Prance, St. James of Spain. 5t. An- thony of Italy, St. Andrew of Scotland, St. Patrick of Ireland and St. David of Wales were given this title, Q. Where was the stone secured for making the foundation for the Statue of Liberty?—H. H. B. A._The blocks that form the bese of the Statue of uhean made of stone quarried at Leets Island, Conn. Q. When did Disraeli become a Chris- tian?—D. L. A. When a boy of 12 or 13, he, with the other members of his family, was confirmed in the Church of England. His father had lost sympathy with the tenets of the uynno,u' and felt that the time had come for the family to embrace the Christian religion. Q. Did President Grant go sbroad | after his terms as President expired? —L. L. A. He salled with Mrs. Grant and his son Jesse in the Spring, after he retired from the Presidency. for an indefinite tour. It lengthened into a trip around the world and lasted over two years. He was received with marked attention and enthusiasm in the countries he visited. ton, D. C. Q What States have adopted the uniform motor vehicle code?—A. M. J. A. The American Motorist says that, so far, Pennsylvania and California a; the only States that have enacted the entire code. Twenty States have adopt- ed portions of it. These are: Maine, New Hampshire, Verment, Massa- chusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Dis- trict of Columbia, Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, Louisiana, Michigan, Minneso North Carolina, North Dakota,' V! ginia and Washington. Six States— Tennessee, Ylinols, Wisconsin, New Mexico, Missouri and- Oklahoma—have the code before their Legislatures at {the present time, while South Dakota is also considering a measure empbody- | ing its principal features. Q. Is there any prospect of connect- g San Francisco and Oskland with & . W. B. '&-nment of War says probably never be a bridge between Oakland and San Pran- cisco, ‘Calif. Q. What countries have colonies in | Africa?—M. C. A. Great Britain, France, Italy, Portugal, Spain and Belgium have Af- rican colonies. Q. How long Q. How can eggs be cleaned for mar- ket?—A. S. mon tree to bear?- A. going to market should not A" The Jepanese persimmon tree Wil |, " yaghea. Usially only high-quality bear when 1t becomes 4 OF § YEATS | eggy for immediate consumption sre old. The time at which the native | clian 'To clean eggs, use & damp rag persimmon reaches the bearing period | gng some abrasive, such as soda. Dry is variable. Under the most favorable | yinera) wool is the best, since this does conditions this tree will bear in | not wet the egg. - four to six years. J— Q. Do the cherry trees on the Speed- Q. Who was the first to make a map way in Washington bear fruit?>—C. V. of the world?>—F. P. The Japanese cherry that blos- A. Anaximander of Miletus (sixth soms so beautifully does not bear an century) is credited with the first at- | edible fruit. However, Japan has a tempt to draw a map of the then-known | cherry tree, native to the ‘mountainous world. Gerhard Kramer, generally|districts of the island. which bears a known as Mereator, invented the first large and delicious fruit. BACKGROUND OF EVENTS BY PAUL V. COLLINS. d oes it take & penl.;n- —J. C. . Will the Government confiscate the | nental America and all islands and the Leviathan, after selling her to private | contiguous waters. e eged & o in sontravention of s policy in contraven! of 2 the spirit, if not the letter, of the Vol- |, All of the sbove "M&Mfl;‘"‘lfm | stead law and the eighteenth amend: e | ) United States Supreme Court. | ment to the Constitution? The Su- oo, %o of In Tevenue, first P Krandy had something 0 88Y | Gigtrict of Michig 'n, v. Hiram Walker & B - ar | Sons, Ltd., appellant, snd in the case, Will the Government. sanction the |J0hor Tine, Lid. appellants, v. Ald- | sinking of a bootlegging vessel of Cana- | 1jgge " collector of customs, port of New | dian registration, under bombardment of | yori’ (8. C. Reporters’ ed., 80-97), the | one of our liquor patrols, and let the | gocision of the United States Supreme | mighty Queen of the Ocean, under our | Court, written by Mr. Justice Holmes, {own flag, carry liquor? Both ships gugin part: | were, or will be, beyond the three-mile | *'“These cases raise -the question limit—beyond the twelve-mile treaty yhether the Constitution and the Vol- limit, and eventually beyond the one- stead act prohibit the transportation of | hour-from-shore limit. intoxicating liquors from a foreign port- * ok x % ? the United States | to another foreign port.” | through some part of Consider the great and good Uncle | After reciting briefly the srguments 1 of attorneys on a treaty permit- | nor even as this publican, “I'm Alone.” | ting exemption from duty of merchan- Behold the Senate, which makes treaties | dise passing through the United States alleged to be in direct defiance of the | ierritory under seal, Justice Holmes | eighteenth - amendment, trading her | points to the difference of the principle | birthright, to which she has no legal involved in transportation of liquor. He exclusive right, for a mess of pottage says: which is hard to digest! | “On the other side is the eighteenth | Now treaties are the supreme law of amendment forbidding the manufacture, the land—but not superior to the Con- | sale or transportation of intoxicating |'siitution. In some States—Oklahoma | liquor within, the importation thereof end Louisiana, for example—the Legis- | into, or the exportation thereof from the iatures impeach governors for less than | United States and all territory subject this, but what authority will dare im- | to the jurisdiction f, for beverage peach the Senate on cl of, viola- | pu: . ‘There is also the National | tion of the Constitution, and other high | Prohibition Act of October 28, 1919, | crimes and misdemeanors? Isn't it a | Chapter 85, etc., which provides that, pretty tangle we are getting into! The | ‘except as therein auth d, after the Consiitution is not a treature of the feighteenth amendment into effect, Senate. Of course, the treaties were | no person shall manufacture, sell, barter, made by the executive, but they were | transport, import, export, deliver, fur- with the advice and consent of the nish or possess any intoxicating liquor. | Senate, | All the provisions of this act are to be ! liberally to the end that the use of intoxicating liquor as a beverage may be prevented.’ " After referring to the arguments that all this applied only to the use of liquor as within the United States, Justice Holmes continued: “The eighteenth amendment meant a great revolution in the policy of this country, and presumably and obviouslv meant to upset & good many things on as well as off the statute book. It did not confine itself, in a meticulous wa: to the use of intoxicants in this coun- try. It forbade the export for beverage elsewhere. True, this discouraged pr duction here, but that was already for- bidden, and the provision applied to liquor already lawfully made. “It is obvious.” continued Justice Holmes, speaking for the Supreme Court, “that those whose wishes and opinions were embodied in the amend- ment meant to stop the whole business. ‘They did not want intoxicating liquor in the United States, and reasonably may have thought that if they let it in, some of it was likely to stay. When, therefore, the amendment forbids not only importation into and exportation from. the United States, but transpor- tation within it, the natural meaning of the words an altogether probable intent.” Yet Congress—or its treaty-making branch—ignored this ruling of the Supreme Court and bartered with Great Britain to it British vessels to { { | * k¥ X ‘There has been a great mystery sur- | irounding the hesitating attitude of Great Britain and Canada, in connec- tion with the sinking at high i the bootlegger. I'm Alone. Our inter- | national experts say the diplomatic representations of Canada havé been strong, yet neither Canada nor Great | Britain has even intimated.a possibility of annulling the treaty under whose cover the I'm Alone was sunk in “hot pursuit” outside the twelve-mile lmit from our shore. as stipulated in our treaty with Great Britain of 1924. Why? The treaty stipulates that either party | thereto may cancel it at will, upon | thirty days’ notice, but when that is canceled, away goes the right of Great tain’s ships to bring liquor into New York port under seal, and transport it out of port to the twelye-mile limit, be- fore breaking the seal. Also, away goes the right of Canada‘to violate the eighteenth amendment by transporting liquor across Alasks, under treaty. . (Treaty series No, 71 VII), which reads: “No penalty or forfeiture under the laws of the United States shall be ap- plicable or attached to alcoholic liquers or to vessels, vehicles or persons by rea- son of the carriage of such liquors when they are in transit under guard by Ca- nadian authorities, through terr! torial waters of the United armed guards. Whe tional authority for the Leviathan to earry lic sealed or unsealed, within 's sailing from America. x X ¥ ¥ A similar ruling of the Supreme Court was made in the cases 659 to 694, de- 1':2!. in which Mr. { principles as were not covered in the ustice Holmes decision are here cited: voluntarily entering the territorial limits of another, subjects herself to the juris- diction of the latter.” In confirmation, ¢ | Justice Van Devanter cltes a decision of Chief Justice John Marshall: “The e jurisdiction of the Nation within its own ferritory is necessarily exclusive.” Justice Van Devanter continues: guards under invade United States territory under any pretense? PR 1 H Ex H Segn Eszgs 4 & EieRiziinag Hid