Evening Star Newspaper, May 11, 1929, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR | certain national causes celebres aragg>e| ous worthy civic ends. That this| | pring opening may be held under smil- | With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY.......May 11, 1929 YHEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor The Evenin; Star Newspaper Company e s, Biiness Office: and Pennesivania New York ice: 110 East 42nd St. hic Office: Lake Michigan Building. n. Office; 14 Regen .. Lond England Rate by Carrler Within the City. g: Evenine Sta 45¢ per month Evening and unda; ..80c per month ar -.85¢ per month r Sunday Star 0 w and Sunday St jundass) : their interminable lengths to inconchi- sive ends, that there is crying need to cope with the law’s delays. Speakers at the Law Institute yes- terday submitted concrete plans for ac- complishment of that purpose. Three | major propositions were discussed—op- | tional waiver by the defendant of trial by jury; examination of prospective | jurors by or through the presiding judge the defense. institute favor these time-saving devices for criminal courts, the provisions will be formally recommended to the Legis- If the best minds of the | Star Sc per copy at ihe end of eech month. only, and the equalization of peremp- | tory challenges between the State and | THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON. D. € ing skies, may be fully successful and may be annually repeated is the hope of every one who has ever been fortu- | nate enough to wander through the | enchanting and enchanted premises to be thrown open. —on—s Tariff Storm Clouds. The Republican leaders of the House | are on the troubled party waters which | have followed in the wake of the intro- | duction of the tariff bill. Yesterday afternoon the Republican members met {latures of all the States and to Con- | In conference. Protests against ceriain THIS AN ATURDAY., MAY 11 1099, D THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL, 1 Ralsing a mustache is one of man's few remaining prerogatives. Even the most startling things a woman can do to her face will make no such change ! in her personal appearance. Growing an_upper lip adornment | or indoor sport. but in either case it | is a sport, both for the grower and his | friends. | This is one of the subjects upon | which the world. at least the modern | world, has agreed to-laugh. Mankind is so pathetically eager to smile that ¥ in by mail or telepnone | gress for ineorporation, respectively, in | features of the measure were given an ' the slightest thing is seized upon. !'the law codes of the Union's separate | airing, in the hope that the dust of Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Bally and Sunday v ‘ Sindas only All Other States and Can: ily and Sunday..1 r.$12.00: 1 mo.. $1.00 iy only . 191, 18000 ) mo. iS¢ 5.00; 1 mo.. S0c T 3400 1 mo. ‘Member of the Associated Press. ¥ The Asseciated Press is eclusivaly entitled 0 the ure for republication of all news dis- | patches credited to it or not otherwise cred- ited in this paper and alswo the local news published hersin. Al rights of publicatian ef special dispatches herein are also reserved. Mr. Hartman and Public Utilities. A good record, experience in the | #pecialized field of public regulation of privately owned public utilities and the | high indorsement of men with whom he served on the Interstate Commerece | Commission, professionally and other- wise, apparently qualify Harleigh H. Hartman, whom the President has nomi- nated for the Public Utilities Commis- sion, to undertake the important service | to. this community which lies ahead of | him. The manner and success with which he undertakes this service depend | upon him. Speculation on such points is tdle. But the extraordinary interest shown by President Hoover in making Ris choice of Mr. Hartman the result | of & highly selective process, involving the consideration of many candidates, speaks well of Mr. Hartman's ability ! #nd is the source of gratification to Washington. Regulation of the District’s expanding | public utilities, with the many questions | such regulation involves, is at the be- ginning of 'a new chapter in Wash- ington. The still infant Public Utilities | Commission has lost its original per- sonnel. During the short period of its life the problems in the regulation of public utilities in & growing community have increased. Several of them, notably the transportation merger and car fares, ‘will soon present themselves for settle- | ment in forms both new and old. A public utilities body with two energetic and informed civilian Commissioners sitting with Col. Ladue is of prime importance o the people of the Capital. Mr. Hartman's career has identified him with neither the anti-corporation mor the pre-eorporation view upon the general question of public regulatory eontrol of utilities. His own writings uwpon and research into the question attest the independent thought of a student. This is as 1t should be. It would be as unwise to select for this quasi-judicial post one -of -pronounced anti-corporation ‘leanings as it would be-fatal to pelect one whose sympathies and training had instilled into him the ,of the corporations. The Public Utilities Commission is, first of all, & body set up ‘o protect the! interests of the public. While these interests are not best served by destroy- ing or discouraging private enterprise and initiative, they are by no means served by coddling the corporations. ‘While these interests demand protection o the relatively few stockholders who are entitled to a fair return upon the money they have invested in the eorporations, they by no means extend te making this protection overshadow in importance the rights of the general public, owning the streets used for | profit by the corporations. While these interests demand an intelligent under- standing of confiscatory Tates, they de- | mand even a better understanding of | what constitute the lowest possible car | fares and the highest efciency in | serving the public. ‘The corporation viewpoint, fluently Ppresented and skillfully defended, is too | apt to triumph over the less articulate viewpoint of the unorganized public. | The Public Utilities Commissioners sit &8 judges, but as judges representing the people before whom the corpora- tions come with their pleas; under whom are the corporations who must render service in return for privileges sranted. Mr. Hartman will take office the | eynosure of all eyes, and the best that one may wish him is that he may be able fully to grasp the splendid oppor- tunities offered for public service, S Applause is regarded by psychologists 8 a rather mysterious demonstration. Even Congress should not be expected | to expliin it invariably in terms of cold,"analytical rationalism. R e T A Although former President Coolidge | gave the veto much exercise, President | Hoover may find that a little training | will put it in good form. R — | A new party alignment may substi- | fute “Wets” and “Drys” for “Repub- Heans” and “Democrats.” - v~ Law's Del;yl. The Washington is host this week end to | which | the American Law Institute, meets in annual conclave in the Na- tional Capital to exchange ideas and | pool proposals for the betterment of all snd sundry associated with the admin- fstration of justice. bare half-dozen years old, the institute, forfunately endowed with ample funds, already has to its credit a record of practical achievement in its chosen fleld. Its surveys looking to “restate- ment” of the Jaw, to simplification, to eodification and to kindred subjects are producing cumulative results, of which bench and bar alike will be the ultimate beneficiaries, to say nothing of the litigious public. ‘This year's meeting of the American Law Institute, whose membership is | deservedly be placed under a cloud Though it is a| commonwealths and of the District of Columbia. The Law Institute was told of an ex- | periment, by consent of each side, which | be laid. was recently condueted in an Eastern jurisdiction, whereby examination of | jury talesmen was left exclusively to the judge. It was estimated that, under existing procedure, two court days would have been consumed in filling the jury box. Under the experimental scheme, & jury was secured in less than an hour, We live in an age of speed, even | though current history in the United | States Senate may belie that assertion. | There is no reason why the courts, | along with the rest of American man- ! kind, should not step on the gas. { e Senator Brookhart's Charges. The serious nature of the charges | contained in Senator Brookhart’s reso- lution for an inquiry into Teal estate ! financing operations in the District should lead to its adoption, i for no | other reason than that the broad gen- | eralities contained in the Senator's in- dictment should be swept away or re- duced to specifications. 1f there are specifications, they should, of course, be made available to the proper legal | authorities for whatever action is pos- sible. The many real estate firms in | Washington, whose reputation for hon- | est dealing has been established through | the years and whose names stand hali-marks in the community, cannot | through the allegedly shady transa tions of & few. It is as important that they be given unquestioned vindication as it is necessary that transgressors be brought to book, Through actions in the past the Sen- ate has unfortunately established a reputation for embarking on “fishing expeditions” wilh the general hope of bringing something up, but with nothing definite in mind. In the process honest men may become the victims of insinuation and innuendo, with their inquisitors responsible to no one for the conclusions they draw or the statements they make. Por this reason a congressional investigation is not apt to be greeted with open arms or unbounded enthusiasm by those to be included within its seope. But if Senator Brookhart can substantiate his charges, and If the Teal estate fra- ternity knows that truth lies behind them, these men should be the first to support the Senator in his effort to bring out the truth and sift it free of unhealthy conjecture and unfounded suspicion. R Monte Carlo is represented as not 0. much favored as in the past. Possibly | what the old place needs is a good press agent. B Reparations plans resolve themselves gradually into a recognition of the well known antipathy to an L O. U. of any kind. It is honestly feared that many a guileless farmer would not know what | to do with & debenture if he had it. O Gracious Georgetowa. “How I wish I could get & good look into the fascinating old garden!” is a remark made practically every day in the year by visitors to Georgetown and many times a day in the vernal season when these beauty spots sre at their | best. Next Tuesday, o, in case of rain, | on the day following, the wish can come true. On that day the historic | old section, now an integral part of the National Capital, but still retaining | much of the flavor of the days when it was & Maryland Colonial town, will ! throw open many of her finest gardens | to all and sundry who love such re- treats. This special exhibition has been ar- | ranged under the auspices of the Georgetown Garden Club. It is in line with the recent opening, for a limited period, of ancient and lovely gardens in Virginia and elsewhere. All the person desirous of viewing several of these famed inclosures has to do Is to note a poster attached to some old house announcing that its| arden is open for inspection. There | he may purchase a ticket which en- titles him to admission to all the others o the list, more than-s score:in num- ber, and to enjoy tea in one of them. The complete list of those opened will | be attached to each ticket so that the | rest of the tour is made easy. 1t would be invidious o mention any few, or even all, of the gardens to be viewed, inasmuch as each possesses some feature not enjoyed by any of the others, and because, if certain ones are excluded from the exhibition, it is for good and sufficient cause. The complete list has been published else- where. Generally the co-operation’ has been ample and enthusiastic, In some cases representatives of the original families still occupy the premises of which these beauty spots are features, in others newcomers and recent pur- chasers are in possession, but no one buys or leases places like these unless actuated by love of gardens, so that appreciative care is apparent in con- nection with all of them. Georgetown has become somewhat modernly fashionable lately and has more or less come into its own again. Nevertheless, it has never lost and, it is hoped, mever can lose that atmos- | phere of the days when Thirty-first | street was Fishing lane and Wisconsin eonfined largely to men and women of exceptional learning in the.law, has dealt largely with projected changes in the system of criminal justice. The ehanges aim primarily at expedition. They seek to speed up or altogether ob- Mterate practices which now clog, ham- per and obstruct. In the District of Columbis, in late vears, the country has had graphic and irritating evidence, 83 avenue was High street; when its pave- | ments. its waxed floors and its garden walks were trodden by Wirt, Decatur, | Calhoun, Key, Randolph, Fulton, Irving, | Talleyrand, Marths and Eliza Custis, Dolly Madison, Humboldt, Louis Phi- | 1ippe of France and the Father of His | Country himself. | that trite old phrase, “I hold you so.” opposition which has blown up from the | Western prairies as well as from the industrial centers of New England could As a result of the conference it is reported that concessions may be made; that the House will be given an oppor. tunity to vote directly on some of the schedules. House leadership, however, to throw the gate wide open and permit individual | members to offer such amendments as they see fit to all the schedules. A special rule will be brought in desig- nating the parts of the bill which may be subject to amendment. This is a practice usual in the House in the con- sideration of a general tariff bill. To do otherwise, with a membership of | 435 strong, might lead to an intermi- nable debate of the tariff biil and break down all semblance of party regularity. For the tariff, as was said many years ago, is & “local issue,” with every com- munity advancing its own demands for increases or reductions in the duties. ‘The Representatives of the farm States are up in arms over the duties imposed in the bill on shingles, lumber, brick and cement, all building materials which must be used by the farmers as well as by every one else. They are dissatisfied, too, with the rates fixed on several of the products of the farm. From New England comes vigorous pro- test against the failure to levy a duty | on shoes. The American shoe industry is suffering intensely, it is said, from the competition of Czechoslovakia and other European countries where labor | costs are scarcely more than half what they are here. Large users of sugar are flooding Congress with protests against the proposed increased duties on that commodity and at the same time sugar beet producers in Colorado are protesting against the failure of the ways and means committee to check free entry of sugar from the Philippice Islands. While the Republicans in the House are divided among themselves over the proposed tariff rates, the Democrats Lave already begun their attacks on the bill s & whole. The eforts of the Republican members of the ways and means committee and of President Hoover to confine the amendments of the existing law within reasonable bounds have resulted apparently in pleasing few groups. The new adminis- tration already has struck a snag over its farm program with the Republican insurgents in the Senate on a rampage. The storm clouds in the House over the tariff bill are not calculated to brighten the prospect for, a speedy dis- position by the Congress of the two great tasks for which it was called in the special session by Mr. Hoover. Already the voice of the croakers has been raised. Republicans who warned the President against calling a special session of Congress so early in the ad- ministration repeat again and again J Despite the party troubles which have arisen the President, however, took the bolder course when he called Congress to deal with farm relief and tariff re- vision. Unless the Republican party leaders and the rank and file lose all sense of responsibility and direction these problems will be solved. Having been presented at court, Helen Wills resumes her undisputed position in popular esteem as queen of the tennis court. e Political affairs go on as usual. Any little misunderstanding that arises brings up another discussion of the tariff, R A cold estimate of a war expense is likely to lead to the conclusion that 1t is not the plan of the ! | Just as liquor, booze, hooch—what- ! ever one chooses to call it—is used more | by the American people now for laugh- ing purposes than for drinking, so the time-honored manly mustache is today the subject for quips and would-be Jjests, It s s curlously interesting phe- | nomenon, the way liquor can scarcely be mentioned to an audience of any | sort, even of temperance people. with- | out ' every member instantly bursting into laughter. Mankind seems to { want to “laugh it off.” | | One’s friends will treat your favorite mustache in the same way if they can find the slightest possible grounds for complaint. The only way you can get away with it is to produce a really good mustache. In that case, mostly they will say nothing. Occasionally some kindly person, with the milk of human kindness in’ him, will draw up and earnestly declare, ‘Say. I lke your mustache!” And that more than makes up for the silence of the crowd. * ok ox % The mustache is one of humanity's standard_jokes, like the mother-in-law and the bride's first baking powder bis- cuils and the size of a caught fish. | Now, it has long been known that a ‘mother-in-law may be - the nicest woman in the world, with a due re- gard for the fact that her new home 15 mot her own, but another woman's. It is universally realized that thou- sands of brides can turn out the finest “soda biscuits” in the world. Likewise, it is known that often enough & fisher- man under rather than over estimates the size of his catch. | Nevertheless, any group of persons, no matter what their standing In the com- | munity, 15 willing to laugh loud and long at the first mention of any of these things. Again we say, it is a race tradition. The mother-in-law joke, for instance, form: “Not 50 bad.” sald the man, as he mother-in-law, * K % % A mustache is a thing & man can get along with or without. This is one of | his charms. If he forgets to put on his garters in the morning he will regret it, but if he carelessly shaves off his mustache only his wife will miss it. Surprising one’s friends and dear as- sociates with this on-and-off nerforw- ance is one of the joys of possessing a mustache. After you have got them thoroughly used to it, the thing to do is to appear before them without warn- ing minus the symbol of ferocity. It is a startling thing how long one's upper lip looks alter such an abandon- ment. Usually it takes several days for | one to become accustomed to his own appearzance. | Then, in a spirit of deflance, grow | another one, just like the other one, | s0 that everybody will be kept guessing. | Al ill pretend to pay | the slightest bit of attention to the mustache. | when eal R It i~ interesting to recall that the mustac 1e (something spelled “mous- tache”) in the infancy of the race wes associated with the ferocity of the soldier, ‘The Prench soldiers for centuries We make no claim for it, but we wouldn't be surprised if the word “‘mousqueteer,” or musketeer, came from it. Recall paintings of Napoleon's gren- adiers. Every last man of them wore the mustache. Bonaparte, no doubt, kept himself clean shaven to set him- If apart. Nearly all of his marshals ore long “soup strainers.” as they ir- reverently were called during the post- Victorian age. Tartars and similar warlike peoplas always have specialized in it. No doubt [It lay too much in the path of prob- | before civilization every male member of a tribe let his hair come as with the result that whis mustaches had their golden age. The first man to whet a bone sharp enough to serve as a razor started something, as we say today. Some wag with a certain cast of countenance, after taking off all below the mouth, discovered that what remained above it served to enhance his personal ap- pearance. He was the inventor of the mustache. * %ok % Today one does not have to be either a caveman or & soldier to grow a mustache. It is a free-for-all, in which some succeed and some do not. Those who fail usually let the merciful razor do its work in time. Those who achieve in the art should never pride selves on it. for even the alley have splendid mustaches (called hiskers,” but they in reality adorn the feline upper lip.) ‘There can be little question that the mustache is coming back in America | Such things go in waves; the Civil War | study. found every man with full beard and mustache: then the safety razor came into being, and with it went whiskers and mustache. Now the latter Is creeping back on hundreds and thousands of upper lips. Look around in the street cars and busses and in the streets themselves, and you will note outcroppings where no hair grew before. They range all the way from the slightest sort of adornment to huge and bushy ones. They extend from a half inch long to 3 or 4 inches. Some droop, some are neatly pointed, others square cut. Most women prefer came from Greece, in the following to see their men with one of the latter. | ‘The square cut is the mustache of Frits Kreisler, the eminent violinist, and is threw a stone at » dog and hit his about as good as any, especially for men | who do not specialize in the neat and dapper. For them th: waxed variety is the best. * ok K % One’s acquaintances usually are di- vided into two groups at first, those who invariably say they like it and those who as invariably declare that they do not. Fersist, however, and they will all come arcund, sconer or later, at least to tacit consent. The comments of the most obdurate can be no more scathing than they would be upon sighting the shorn upper lip. "My, but you look funny!" “Haw, haw, so you shaved it off?" In r of the mustache, it may be stated that it is the best way for an in- significant man to attract attention to himself, and for the youthful-looking to take on an ap) ance of maturity. pet Some say that it also acts as a barri- | de to cold germs. The worst that can ca be sald J;lnlt it is that it is a nuisance Edison Arouses tempting to select a young genius who | shall be his successor is received by | marked skepticism on the part of the | public. His proposal to give a free edu- | cation to the youth who may be chosen | by him with the aid of the several State executives of the country is looked upon | as an excellent opportunity for the | fortunate young man, but most writers feel that the real successor of the | ‘Wizard of Invention will not be dis- covered by rule of thumb, or slide-rule, either, ‘The Detroit News is one of the few newspapers to look hopefully on Mr. Edison’s plan. “Although readings from | the lives of Edison himself and of many great men,” it says, “say that disap- pointments, poverty and hardships in youth developed their minds and formed their characters, still numbers of the old judgments based on the worldly ex- perience of past eras are being modified or set aside. We have known hopeless cases of self-approval developea with less encouragement: but in Edison’s | hands a care to prevent the young genius being spolled by too much suc- cess t00 young may be taken for granted. Invention contains imaginative appeal to youth. As an offset to most of the competitions which seem chiefly to stimulate the ardor of boys, this one stands out as conspicuously good. It is well worth having and watching.” “Inventive genius,” warns the Provi- it was not worth the price. —_— ——e SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Queen of the May. The May Queen is arranged In splendor sparkling gay With Beauty on parade To grace & holiday. A diamond may move Our thought to envious quest; An feicle will prove More splendid than the rest. Charms of Eloquence. “You have made some great speeches.” “Yes,” replied Senator Sorghum. “But I have been embarrassed by doubts on the part of the boss whether to rate me as a statesman or an en- tertainer.” Getting Into the Rough. My Radio! My Radio! I stay awake at night And wonder at the talk you show | That scarcely seems polite. { | Jud Tunkins says the only time he can get his wife really interested is when he talks in his sleep. Compulsory Advice. “A man should always seek the ad- vice of his wife.” “Of course,” answered Mr. Chuggins. “It's perfectly understood in our fam- ily that the old fiiv is going to be driven from the back seat. “Hatred,” sald Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, only imagination that | has turned sour. | s Guessing Contest. I know that all will turn out well And Luck will not b2 slow, It each four years I can foretell Just how the votes will go. “You gotta respect de piety of & man,” said Uncle Eben,’ “dat kin shout | Proceeds from the sale of the ne sary tickets will be expended for vari- jes’ as loud at a camp meetin’ as he does at & crap game.” on school report cards. It is just as likely to have its principal outlet dur- ing adolescence In extra-curriculum activities that teachers know nothing about, or even in schoolroom pranks that they know too much about. And a questionnaire proposed by so famous a person as the world's greatest inventor might completely bewilder a boy pos- | sessing & remarkable faculty for doing things and_no felicity in answering questions. But, although there may be doubts as to the undiluted merit of Mr. | Edison’s scheme, there is none at all as to the desirability of and need for find- | ing by some means those boys and | voung men who, by reason of their latent genfus, are capable of carrying on the kind of work that has engaged the mind and heart of the Menlo Park wizard for so many y “It 18 to be doubted.” declares the St. | Louis Globe-Democrat, “that such & | selection will give to the world of | sclence a figure that can in any way compare with this man now in the eve- ning of life who has done so much for the comfort of man. No better method of selection. however, is advanced: probably there is no’ better method. The point is that genius is not selected by rule and averages and grades. * * * Mr. Edison probably would not have been selected for crown-prince honors by the then scientific genius when he ‘was of high-school age. Selection prob- ably would have missed him entirely. * ** This plan no doubt will re sult in an excellent technical educa- | tion for some worthy young man who will make his mark in the scientific world. But some unheralded young genius, through his own efforts, wi outpoint him in the end.” “We fear that Mr. Edison is on a fruitless quest,” says the Flint Daily Journal. “There is no ‘brightest boy’ in America, and certainly the ques- tionnaire method will not reveal q]'I.l.m And surely Mr. Edison cannot pass the torch of his genius to any one else. * * * The man who may revo. lutionize the whole theory of electrica energy, the one who may draw energy from the earth on which we live, the one who may perform seeming miracles. may be some obscure youth who might never come in contact with this ques- tionnaire of Mr. Edison. Perhaps he is not considered of more than ordinary brightness by his teachers; perhaps he is considered to be below the average. It is said that Caruso's first teacher declared it was a waste of time to teach him to sing, as he never would become a singer.” Dismissing the whole thing as im- possible, the Anniston Star remarks | that “it is not believed that there is | another man like Edison”: that “there probably has not been another like him dence Journal, “doss not always show | gybelineH Skepticism In Search for Youhg Genius Thomas A. Edison’s method of at-|in all time, and offhand one would be | inclined to say that it is doubtful if one would ever be found to take his place. So the young man to whom is assigned the task of carrylng on the work of the wirard of electricity should be a genlus in a class by him- self.” Suggesting that the real suc- cessor may come from some remote section, the Star continues: “Some of our greatest men have come from these obscure places. The boy with the best natural endowments for a position as Edison’s successor may be now hoeing cotton or living In the poorer section of some city. The governors, indeed, | should exercise all ing_their choices.” “Some high school duffer, apparently possessing a mental vacuum,” remarks the Bellingham Herald, “may be the real successor of the famous inventor, But the opportunity offered is one of rare value, and the honor one that any youth in America might covet and strive for.” The Herald suggests that, “while it is not so revealed, a fair assumption is that the winner of the scholarship will be given the advan- tages that may accrue to him from the care possible in mak- great mentor may not be here—for he now is 82 years old—but in any event Edison's benign influence will not be lacking “Mr. Edison will not live to see his experiment nicle, “so he will be spared that disappointment. Like other great men, he has made the mistake here of wan- dering into a field in which he is not a genlus and imagining he can be the authority there that he is in his own realm, where he is without an equal. ‘The ‘American Wizard' would have | done better to let natural processes pick his successor, if, indeed, h: one." 'Mr, Bdison may find a genius.” con- he ever will . | cludes the Springfield Ohio Sun, “but it will not be because he was able to answer one of Mr. Edison's question- naires. Mr. Edison is probably the only person who can answer any great per- centage of them.” The Brooklyn Daily Eagle Views the Edison talent for asking questions as “among the rare gifts.” and that paper adds: “Skill in_asking | questions should enable him to find the | right boy. But so much depends on the questions that the method, for any one but Mr. Edison, hardly deserves recom= mendation.” e Mexico’s Troubles Blamed Upon Army From the Oakland Tribune. With the revolt apparently crushed, Mexico takes stock of the losses and listens to advice how to prevent new and larger revolutions. Millions of dollars have been slolenl from banks and cities occupied for brief spelis by the rebels. Leaders of the revolt are dead. have fled to the United {11 | States, or are hiding in the mountains. ‘The government is concerned with what has taken place to its once proud military machine. Possessing equip- ment second to none, a military colley which is often cited as a model, and a huge force of armed men, the Mexican government, theoretically, should have been ready to put down a revolution at | & moment's notice. Unfortunately, leadership in the revolt came from the army, as it almost invariably does in Mexican uprisings. The army needs attention. It is or- ganized to create trouble, in that it ls top-heavy with generals and honey- combed with politics. Personal ambi- tions among military men have bzen responsible for the ‘loss of lives and money. ‘How it will be possible in a country of unsettled conditions to de- mobilize the bulk of the army, reor- ganize what is left as a state constabu- lary, and reduce the proportion of offi- cers to men in the ranks without invit- ing attack is the large problem to be faced, and yet it is admitted that out of the present military system have come most of the nation's troubles, ‘. fail,” advises the Muskegon | THE LIBRARY TABLE By the Booklover | [ | | ‘The life of non-combatant Virginia aristocrats during the Civil War is no- | d than in . by Mrs. who where more intimately pictu “Recollections Grave and Ga: Burton Harrison. Mrs. Harrison, |at the oufbreak of the war was Miss Constance Cary, daughter of Archibald | Cary, editor at the time of his death of engaged in an effort to throw oil 'may be classed either as an outdoor have been very partial to the mustache. | the Cumberland Civilian, Cumberland, | Md., developed during those stressful |four years from a carefully guarded young girl into a mature and resource- ful woman, experienced far beyond what | would have been possible in peace times | In 1861 she was living with her widowed {mother at Vaucluse, the estate of her mother's father, Thomas Fairfax, 8 miles from Washington, near Alex- ndria. But “the old white stucco dwelling, with its wings to right and |left under the great oak trees of its {lawns,” was to be their home no longer. !ably advancing armies. So Mrs. Cary it would, | sent her children off to relatives at Mill- | i ers and ! Wood, Clarke County, Va., while she and | g:ct_class power?—S. C. A her sister went to Manassas Junction, | where the Southern troops were gather- ing, to serve as nurses. Before leaving.’ | the two sisters buried the family silver, iin two large trunks, in pits dug by a | Negro servant. the house had been destroyed by in- | cendiaries, the trees cut down, and the | whole place used as a Unite icamp, Mrs. Cary came back and found | the silver intact—"not a salt spoon | missing.” Soon the daughter was al- lowed to join her mother at Culpeper Court House, where there military hospital, but was not permitted to share the hardships of nursing. "My mother had arranged for me to stay near her at Culpeper, at a beautiful old {place called Belpre. * ¢ * It was my | wise mother's desire that I, already pressing_forward into unwonted pri |lege and eager to consider myself young lady,’ should be put back into the place habitual to immature years. and spend my days in reading and Alas! it was wartime; I had already tasted the sweets of emancipa- tion. * * * Like all the other girls of my acquaintance thereabout, I grew up !in" a night, and soon there was plenty of women’s work for us!” In 1864 Mrs |Cary went as division matron to the hospital at Camp Winder, outside Rich- mond, and her daughter accompanied |her as a nurse. “To the nurses and matrons was allotted one end of & huge Noah's Ark, built of unpainted pine, divided by a partition, the surgeons oc- cupying the other end. Nearby were the diet kitchens and _storerooms, around which were gathered wards and tents, the whole camp occupying an arid, shadeless sun-baked plain, without grass or water anywhere, encircled by a noxious trench too often used to re- ceive the nameless debris of the wards.” b Much of the war period was spent by the Carys in Richmond, where not all was gloom and horror. /& very economical scale, went on even | during the darkest days. Burton Har- rison, private secretary to President | Jeferson Davis, was a frequent visitor |in the Cary home, which shifted from | hotel %o lodgings, then to part of a house. The inauguration of Jefferson Davis was witnessed from a window of | lhe Virginia State Library, in the cap- !ltol; the receptions of Mrs. Davis were attended, there were excursions by sieemer down the James River and rides to the battlefields below Richmond and on one always-to-be-remembered eve- | ning the Carys recelved a call from the | commander-in-chief of the Army of | Northern Virginia, Gen. Lee. “It was {broad moonlight, and I recall as if it were yesterday the superb figure of our | hero standing in the little porch with- jout, saying a few last words as he swung his military cape around his shoulders.” There were even dinner and supper parties, though food was so scarce and unvaried that it could not constitute the chief entertainment. “The reign of expedients in food had now begun.. We had pork enough in different forms, potatoes, bread and eggs. ¥ * * For sweets there were pies made with dried fruit or cakes with black sorghum molasses in lieu of sugar, chopped dried peaches in place of cur- rants, dried orange peel, making believe it was citron, and dried apples doing their besi, but failing, to masquerade as raisins. My mother catered for us we fared well, though by then had in the perfod when it was said a citien went to market with his money in a market basket and brought home his provisions in his pocketbook.” Gifts of food were the most acceptable of all gifts. Following a visit in the country, when Constance Cary had given a silk petticoat to an admiring Negro serv- ant, a country wagon stopped before her lodgings in Richmond and a fat turkey, a supply of sweet potatoes, some apples and a bag of chestnuts were un- S & present from the grateful | Dilsey. “Conquering a strong tempta- | tion 10 send the whole box to the hos- | pital, we committed the rash act of | i { | i in monihs tasted fowl of any kind and | neighbor lodgis in the same house, Mr. Robert Dobbin of Baltimore, who accepted on condition that he fmight bring with him a round of Maryland spiced beef which had just dropped like manna upon his path. He came, bearing his contribution in & large china dish, made himself most witlty and agreeable, and at the close of our ban- quet withdrew, carrying the remainder of his beef at my mother's insistent re- quest.” Nearly all the amenities of life were scarce as food. ~Dishes and glassware were practically unobtain- tin_ plates, with salt and pepper in cocked-hat dishes made from paper. Stationery, cloth of all kinds, shoes, gloves, soap and all luxuries were highly prized, “As loot from the battlefields | young' men passed on to their sweet- hearts presents of toilet soap, combs and brushes, needle books (ah, so carefully made for the outgoing soldler in far- away Northern homes!), scissors, pins. On the retreat from Maryland in the previous Autumn yards of calico, rolls of tape and spools of sewing cotton had been tucked into knapsacks to be grate- | tully recetved by wives, mothers and daughters of soldiers.” . * KX % In “Lincoln or Lee,” by Prof. Willlam E. Dodd of the University of Chicago, is presented a series of dramatic epi- of the Civil War. Some current ideas are disputed. There is also much reasoning about what would have hap- pened if certain other things had hap- pened differently. For example, if Sherman had not made his victorious hmlrch Lto Ad'.l:l:\u. the Nr:rlh ‘would ave returned the peace to power and allowed the Soulhwllu ybe \lr,lglor. And Sherman would not have been vic- | torious if Jefferson Davis had not de- | posed Johnston and put Hood in his | place. % The regime of the Irish Free State | has found another defender in Denis | Gwynn, author of “The Irish Free | State.” Mr. Gwynn's interest is politi- cal rather than economic, though he does give séme attentlon to economic development under the rule of the | Dail. He pronounces the state co- operative creameries not altogether a success, and says that the coast fisher- les are badly off, though the salmon industry, under state supervision, is im- | proving. Sia iy Sir Gilbert Parker, veteran novelist, has gone to the Old Testament for the background of his novel, “The Prom- ised Land.” This is a story of Saul, David and Solomon and their kingdom | of Tsrael. The old familiar Bible stories | are woven into the plot, without attempt at modern interpretation—the stories of David and the lion, Goliath, Saul Endor, Bathsheba, David's dancing be- fore the Ark, Rizpah and Absalom, R Both Might Serve. From the Santa Rosa Press Democrat. ‘There is a demand in various big cities for voting machines, to insure an honest count. They seem even pref- erable to cash registers, Four years later, when | as a new | Sociabilities, on | giving a dinner party. None of us had | the result was a dazzling success. I fail | to recall any of the guests save our able and the Carys at times ate from | 1and the javelin throwing. the witch of | ANSWERS TO 'QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN. ‘The resources of our free Information | Bureau are at your service. You are | invited to call upon it as often as you | please. It is being maintained solely to| | serve you. What question can we answer | for you? There is no charge at all ex- | cept 2 cents in coin or stamps for re- | turn postage. Address your letter to| | The Evening Star Information Bureau, !H’edeflc J. Haskin, director, Washing- ton, D. C. . Are the talkies proving more pop- | ular than the silent movies>—L. M. S. A. One motion picture producing company has conducted a Nation-wide | survey to settle this question. It found | that at present public opinion is equally | divided between talkies and silent pic- tures, For this reason, this company is taking the precaution to make both kinds of pictures until the public re- jects or unqualifiedly accepts the talkies. Does Germany still rank as a Germany still ranks as a first- class power. The others are the United | States, Great Britain, France, Italy and | Japan. Q. Who was called the “Cincinnatus of the West” . C. 4 ! A. This was a nickname given Wil- liam Henry Harrison in allusion to his | having retired from the Army to live on a farm like the ancient Roman dic- { tator Cincinnatus Q. Is the wife of Grieg, the com- | poser, still living?—W. M. | A. Mme. Nina Grieg is living. She now 83 years old. She was once an em! nent planist and only a year ago took part in a concert compesed of Grieg selections. Q. How long has sericulture been an industry in Japan?—E. N. | A. The silkworm is mentioned in Japanese mythology, but its historical | record begins in 199 A.D., when a Chi-| | nese named Koma-O came to Japan| bringing silkworm eggs with hlm.} Ninety years later several Chinese ex- perts in sericulture went to Japan, and | { from that time the industry flourished. Q. How many sheep can be sheared in & day with a machine?—G. F. | BY PAUL V. [ Mr. Henry Ford is quoted, in an in- terview published in the June number | | of the Red Book Magazine, as declaring, | “The commonest thing we do is the | thing we know least about.” Just about | the time that assertion was being run | off the press there came a news item from Fredericksburg, Va., telling how this same gentleman was stalled in an automoblle on the street of that ven-| | erable city—or at least his chauffeur | ‘was put to it to make a car start, with | Mr. Ford as passenger, until a native | pointed out to him that he had for- gotten to turn on the ignition. But that was something else again—Mr. | Ford was not referring to anything so complicated as making one of his “Model Ts” go. He was explaining how much more important it was that preachers should substitute dietetics in i place of religion as the theme of their | { sermons. Even preachers know enough to turn on the ignition—they called it | hell a few years ago—but, according to the stalled automobilist, that is the reason they should now turn to som: topic they know less about—what to eat and when. * Xk % “I was thinking about that this morning while shaving,” he began, as reported by Mr. Norman Beasiey, the interviewer. “Thinking about that and ¢ thinking about the clergy. For a long | time now, the clergy has been teach- | ing people to be good. They cannot do | this and disregard habits of living. | Health is a condition that lflecfli everything. Instead of cluttering up religion with a lot of things that do not belong to it, why doesn't the clergy teach people how to eat? There are such great changes in mental attitude to be obtained by correct habits of diet that it would better pay the clergy to attend to the commoner,and more Tespectable habits, such as eating, than to some of the bad results of bad eat- ing. Most wrong acts committed by men are the result of wrong mixtures in the stomach. Booee is no food, but people put it into their stomachs, and you know what {frequently happens. Dope—wrong_foods——wrong mixtures of good food. Crime, if that is what you want to call it—comes from wrong mixtures.” Mr. Ford insisted that he does not propose a course in dietetics “Instead of religion, but as a part of religion.” “Discover the vital connection between food and attitudes of mind and body, zgaxa:znerlence the benefit of a proper | * X ok % In the name of the late Mi Baker Eddy, does Mr. Ford think h:rl{u dis- covered & new principle of theology? Or of psychology? Or of therapeutics? | Let some ex enced D.D. teke him aside and explain how to shift his gears, disengage the clutch and shift into neu~ tral, re-en the clutch and at the | same time accelerate the engine, then | disengage the clutch again and shift to second, r which re-eng: the clutch, With a little experience this can be made quietly so as not to awaken the deacon in the amen cormer or al;:l:u the controversy over infant bap- ‘Why confuse theology with such mod- | ern_unholy devices as digestion and a | traffic jam? But why not? * ok ¥ % ‘There is nothing new under the sun— | | | | iron, A. The Department of Agriculture says that the official record for sheep shearing is 164 in one day by a machins operated by ome person> This is dons with Government sheep at the United States Sheep Experimental Station, Du- bois, Idaho. Q. What sort of hat is a Southwester? —M. C. C. A. The name is applied to a tar- paulin hat with a broad brim behind. Q. Why is the “Iyre-bird” so called? oW A. The tail feathers of the male. 16 in number, are arranged in lyre shape. Q. What per cent of the pages in the Houss of Representatives come from outside the Cliy of Washington?— E. H. P. 3 A. About one-half the pages are not native Washingtonians. . Can one “date” the experimental science?—F. S. A. Arthur Bosiwick savs, “Experi- mental_sclence was born in 1215 with Roger Bacon, an English monk.” Q. Is standard time computed from the sun or from the stars>—H. A. M. A. Standard time is a civil time es tablished by law. In the United States there are four standard time sones adopted by the railroads. corresponding severally to mean local time of the 75th, 90th, 105th and 120th meridians west of Greenwich. It is computed from the sun, not from the stars. Q. What quantity of chloroform is necessary to put a person to sleep?— B. H. W. A. The quantity required to anes- thetize varies with the individual. Great care has to be exercised in administer- ing chloroform and it must be done by a competent physician, as poisoning sometimes results when too much is given, Q._What was the seating eapacity of the Oolosseum of Rome?—R. G. A. It seated 87,000 spectators. . Please give me Booker T. Wash« ington’s middle name.—A. W. D. A. It was Taliaferro. eginning of 5. D BACKGROUND OF EVENTS . COLLINS. and imaginations, will entail an im- moral tone on the body: so also will the body react on the soul by its appetites, passions and propensities, incre: the viclousness of the soul by pushing it to courses of vice not directly and im- mediately its own.” o o ow One must hold that preacher of half a century ago in the highest res] not only for his eloquence, but particte larly for his courage in breaking away from current ruts and in doing exactly what the great inventor of today ase sumes to be a radical suggestion: “I am fully aware” said Rev. Mr, Clymer in his sermon on eating, “of the fficulties I encounter in entering this thought on your minds. Because re- liglon has been considered as having little or nothing to do with the body, I shall encounter the settled opinions of good men to this effect. * * * Bee cause I shall call in question many in< dulgences of appetite hitherto considered sinless, I shall run the risk of bein called a fanatic or fool. Because I shlfi preach the New Testament doctrine of self-denial, many will say this is & hard saying—'who can bear it?’ But with the hope that I may unfold to you & glorious realm of liberty from the bond- ;gen:’yr db:!‘;ly );nl)penngll::. I cheerfully and leave the conseque: for God to look after.” T 3 8 * koW e continued: “And t I a without the fear of auceenln ful re!u':-' tion, that three-fourths of all our bodily .lmu:ms Im:. dlsnm,h:nd many of our oral acts, are the legitimate ree sults of improper diztetic el"llblu." He quotes the poet, Matthew Prior, of | two_centuries ago: “The effect of food on the lons and feelings are thus descril by Prior: ** ‘Observe the various operations Of food and drink in several nations; ‘Was ever Tartar fierce and cruel Upon the strength of water gruel? But who shall stand his rage and force When hflnt ?hz rides, then eats, his orse! Salads and eggs, and lighter fare, { Tune the Italian spark’s guitar; {And, if T take Don Confrere right, { Pudding and beef make Britons fight' ™ x X In a book entitled “Starving Amers ica,” by Alfred W. McCann, a mem! of the vigllance committse of the As. | sociated Advertising Clubs of America | and for some years astociated with Dr. Wiley, the eminent chemist and food reformer of the Department of Agri- culture, this paragraph appears: “This is now true: In the gradual breaking down of the food laws for which Dr. Wiley devoted 20 years of his life there are nearly 20 drugs which can legally be put into our ‘pure’ food | supply, and there are 12 necessary ele- ments which can legally be taken out of dur ‘pure’ food supply.” ‘The author adds: “Now let us tell you the startiing fact that the white bread of America is a human destroyer. White bread gets white because, from the {mund grain of wheat, fourths of he minerals including the phosphorus, lime, chlorine, silica, sulphur, potassium and magnesium are removed. These elements are contained in the brown outer skin of the wheat berry, called the bran, and in ths ‘shorts’ ‘middlings’ and ‘ailings’ which are nor in a rain. What Mr. Ford wants the up-to-date preacher to undertake today, in order to interest the hungry tourist with carburetor trouble, was | done half a century ago—even in ad- | vance of the first flivver. Now that Mr. Ford wants to learn more about it, let it be confessed that it was first introduced by “Mr. Deute- omy,” who noted how the youth of his day was running wild, disobeying its parents, showing a spirit of scofflaw and driving while drunk. Perhaps some | Chief Justice and former Attorney Gen- eral of that day were appealing to pub- lic sentiment to uphold the law, but this is what Deuteronomy directed as the best course to pursue, and Rev. J. F. Clymer quoted it as his first lesson from Holy Scriptures and used partly as a text of a Ford sermon. in the First | Methodist Church of Auburn, N, Y., June 20, 1880: Deuteronomy, xxi.18-20—“If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and that when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them, then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him unto the elders of the city, and unto the gates of his place; and they shall say unto the elders of his city: ‘This, our son is stubborn and rebellious; he will not obey our voice; he is a gluiton and & | drunkard.’ " | Then Rev. Mr. Clymer outlined the | general mistake made in his times—49 years before Mr. Ford thought of it— that “Sin has its center, seat, source and circumference in the soul or the immaterial nature of man. Hence we readily admit the fact that influences, good or bad, may pass over from the soul to the body, but we do not so readily admit that other fact, equal true, that influence, good or bad, may | 80 over from the body to the soul. The | road over which vicious though's and | lustfw imaginations pass from the soul | | to the body is the highway over which | unbridled appetites, unrestrained sions and unsubdued lusts in the body, | may go to the soul, goading it to the | wildest conceptions of vice and lecher- | ous imaginations. The warm rays of | the sun may gender rottenness in the muddy pool: so also will the effluvia from the pool poison the sunlight near it. The soul, by its vicious thoughts | not be classed with commercial | fcal fads, to advertise a sanitarium, but sifted and bolted out of the ground | meal, leaving principally. the ~white, ;!cuml-ey part of the interior part of the Literally, as well as ratively, the Bible foretold mo rnfl“‘lvhlte )breld., when it recorded, n cannot live by bread alone.” Why should not preachers explain . the science as well as she theelogy of thet text? ok ok x In the same ariicle in the magazine, Dr. Royal S. Copeland, United States Senator from New York, is also reported as confirming what Mr. Ford had said about the effect of dietetics upon the spirit as well as the body of man, alv though the Benator thought tI the school, rather than the pulpit, the proper place for teaching its principles, Dr. Copeland sald: “Uninformed per= sons will smile at . Ford's conclus sions. Doctors won't. Then he cited a case in point: “Seva eral years ago, in one of the asylums for insane, they began rationing foods— giving patients proper mixtures. Sinca the inauguration of this plan, 85 per cent of the sick people coming to that institution have been discharged as cured. You can better appreciate w that really means when I add that thq average percentage of discharges from such hospitals is 37 per cent. Unless insanity has been brought on by a deeply rooted organic trouble, the | chance for a cure in the institution X have specified is practically 100 per cent. per eating. fresh air and sune shine have accomplished that.” In conversation, yesterday, with th present writer, Senator Copeland stat that the Institution aforesaid is the New Jersey State Asylum, at Trenton, The dietetic treatment, therefore, cans med< is a truly sclentific demonstration. Much has been taught of the influenca of “mind over matter”; here is proof of the power of matter over mind. Of the approximately 30,000 patients now under treatment for various dis- eases in the hospitals of the Veterans' Bureau, the mental cases of the sole diers outnumber all other diseases com- bined. The Trenton secret of 85 per cent cures through proper dieting in the Veterans' Bureau! What a theme for patriotic sermons! (Copyright, 1929, by Psul V. Collinsd