Evening Star Newspaper, July 6, 1929, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY.... | | ! THEODORE W. NOYES. ...Editor French sentiment,” to he incorporated | bination of these elements a man is in a separate resolution, but not attached | & sneak-thief. With another combina- ... .July 8, 1920 to the ratifying act, would adequately meet the situation. M. Poincare has s very recent ex- ample in Washington as a mode} for this adroit solution of his parliamentary difficulties. A majority of the foreign | The Evening Star Newspaper Company ess Office Rate by Carrier Within the City. e i 45C Dor month #0c per month 650 per month NAtional Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Dalle and Sunda....1 ¥r.$10.00; 1 mo. 88 Daily only 5 mo., Sunday only . mo., 40c Al Other States Daily rnd Sunday..1 yr. Daily only ssuncay only ‘Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusivaly ertilled 1o the use for republication of all bews dl Paiches credited Yo It or not otherwise crec Te thi 1 new: publis| anecial dispateh E _— The Building Program. The President’s discussion of the Gov- ernment building program for Wash- ington again indicates hie desire that Uncle Sam, once having undertaken the task of adequately ‘housing his offices in buildings that will conform to 1 1 nada. = 0‘5‘ 1 $1.00 2y 1 Ton ise 5 relations committee desired a reserva- tion to the Kellogg pact, reafirming America’s rights under the Monroe Doctrine. The State Department ob- jected. Finally, as & way out of the threatened impasse, it was agreed that the Senate would accept a.‘report” from the foreign relations commitiee, “inter- preting” our conception of the multi- Iateral pact in its relation to the Mon- pact was duly ratified. Apparently the Quai d'Orsay hopes to bring about ratification of the Mellon- Berenger agreement by resort to an “expression of French sentiment” which will have no binding force. It is mot likely that the United States Congress will shy at so innocuous a recourse. e e For Tmmediate Farm Aid. President Hoover believes that ihe adminisiration of the new farm aid act should begin without delay. He has called, therefore, a meating of the Fed- fact that three of the members of the board are still to be formally appointed However, it is probable that within the next week the vacancies still remaining on the board will have been filled. ‘The whole country will watch with roe Doctrine. It was so ordered and the | eral Farm Board for July 15, despite the | tion he 1s & hero and a saint. This is afirmed continuously by the records of experience. If there is.any funda- mental unchanging element in char- acter self—if there is entity which can be called “character”—it thus far has eluded all search for it. ‘We can hardly concelve of & more tragic thing than to give school ehil- dren a “character record” in black and white—(o stay with them through life and continuously to influence. the atti- tude of others toward them, v —eites. Valuable Flights. Byron K. Newcomb snd Roy L. Mitchell rode to fame and glory Iast night before one hundred thousand | wildly cheering persons when they landed their endurence piane, the City |of Cleveland, atter more than one | hundred and seventy-four hours in the |air. Almost overcome by fatigue but happy in the realization that they had broken the record by two hours, the fiyers were triumphantly escorted from Ime fleld 1o ebtain a well deserved rest. | Damage to the plane in refueling op- erations alone brought | Their goal was two hundred hours, but in the contacts made in “bumpy” weather with the “nurse” ship part of the fuselage was ripped open, and after breaking the record the fiyers were conient to take no further risk. Service for being the ploneer in this {kind of aviation, It is safe and sene the high standard set for the Capital, | keenest interest the onganisacion of the |and eminently valuable, 1t tests men, will go forward rapidly and steadily to its completion. His defermination to seck the appropriation of more money annually for construction work is founded on the economies to be effecied | | farm board and the adoptionsof its first | program. Upon the vision of iis mem- bers, taken collectively, aided by the advice of the Fresident himself, will de- pend in no small measure the success motors and plane structure, It teaches them down. | Much credit is due 10 the Army Air THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL, There are book collectors, old bttle collectors, stamp collector: antique turniture collectors. } of golf clubs, others who specialize in gathering together radio sets, others who “go in” for beetles. . ‘There 1s no accounting for such hob- bies, either. The man who fancies his rare old bottles, interesting bits of glass work. can see no earthly sense in col- leclfl'x}g first editions. he paid $100 for in a cheap edition at 75 cenis—exactly the same book, and even better printed!” It is true, but to' the dyed-in-the- wool booklover the rare first edition far transcends any number of later editions. Not all booklovers, of course, are book collectors in the real sense of the term. Many a man who loves books . books of any description. | Those who do not understand the mysteries of the book-collectis may read with interest and pi Vin- cent Starrett’s new work, “Pennywise and Book Foolish.” There will be found espiained, as well | as it can be expounded, the resson for i such & fine frensy of collection. * Kok ok ‘Perhaps the most curious collection of which we have knowledge is that of ! a friend who is quietly making & round- up of household articles in the sem- blance of cats. | Is it necessary to say that the | gentleman is & cat fancier? Here sgain human nature ie various. Such men like dogs besi, others cers, still others bantam roosters. a | Many men go through life with & | secret. hankering for pigeons, which There are men who make collections | ly, I can get the same book which | cares nothing for first editions or rare | valuable lessons which will redound 1o JpeWt SVMIEURE L Oy £Fheir youth, the benefit of air-minded Americs. ! pui given up with gray hairs snd wis- {When the Question Mark, the Army |dom (supposed). ek e go_siowly in his collecting, or eise he | will not onlv wasie much good money, but find his enthusiasm waning, as his inner” eye realizes the uselessness of many poor specimens, o aw ‘The gem of the cat fancier's galaxy is o striking oil painting of & cat with | green eyes, which hangs over the fire- place in the living room. ‘The eyes are dead center, which ac- counts for the fact that no meiter where one is sitting those green orbs ! look at him. Many guesie do not realize at first what it is In the room which sttracts {them. 1In, a few instances, it must be | ndmitted, a repuision has arisen, since | some men and women do not care for | the steady stare of the house cat. ‘The rait of the great tiger whose lambent eyes foliow you is ! masterpiece of the collection. It is sp attractive that even n cat |fancier is in the home some time be- {fore he realizes that cats are every- ‘-lhm. By the fireside and harmonizing with |the dull black andirons siis a black iron cat, done in the “modernistic” | manner. | It is & curious piece. When one first | looks st it he Xnows it for a cat, al | good-looking cat. A second glance 1‘ shows that it is composed of a series of triangles, with short slits denoting eyes. ‘ 17X thira glance, and the cat resolves ftself into & mere mass of iron. ‘The visitor, after a slight shake of the head to get the geometrical illu- {sion out of his mind, discovers again | that he is looking at a representation of & cai, and & very good one, 100, all | tbe more faithful because of its curious evolution, cat the | *xx . There sits aL one end of the mantel | & short row of books, heid iIn place by | # pair of cat ends, done in a dark | sure about the facts. | bwisted once it begins going around, and .pllne, was outfitted for its refueling It is not every dog fancier, or cal| | fancier, who carries his Mking farther | groen soamel or Iaoquer. with exquisite by permitting work to continue unin- | of this venture into the field of Govern- terruptedly until it is finished, instead | ment activity for the benefit of the of by fits and starts that might be nec- | American farmer. While the farm aid ossary under the present. plan of limit- | bill was under consideration in the ing the total available for expenditure | Congress, the prediction was made by each vear. { opponents of the administration that Up 1o this time there has been a total of £75.000,000 authorized for the Gov- | accomplish nothing for sgriculture. ernment’s improvement. and housing | Well, the test is about to be made. The | acheme. Twenty-five million of this | proof of the pudding is in the eating. | amount was set aside for the purchase | The form board under the law is of land, to be avallable when needed. | given wide powers, both for sdvice and | The remaining $50,000.000 has been ! actual aid to the farmers of the coun- | made avallable over a period of five vears | try, | at the rate of $10,000,000 a vear. The | the bosrd believe that it can accomplish President believes that this annual|a grest deal. amount. should be increased by $2,500,- | posal a huge Tevolving fund to be used 000. With this sum in hand the various | for more orderly marketing of the farm | steps in the construction of the entire : crops. The Congress has tecently ap- group of buildings may progress with- | propriaied $150.000,000 of the helf bil- out the intervention of extended periods | lion dollars authorized for this fund of idleness. belleving that s all ihe money that The Government building Program | could be needed or expended at present, the propos:d new law could and wouid | ‘The supporters of the plan for | It will have st its @is- | trip over California doubt was ex- pressed as to how long it would st up. The pick of the service was » signed to the task of keeping the giant plane in the air longer than any ship, dirigible or airplane. For five days the | Question Mark, appropriately named, {soared alofi, finally being forced 1o de: scend because of valve trouble in its motors, Fine European potiery pieces, show- 2 ing s mother cat and kittens. retail ‘Then came the gallant fight in & re- | for strikingly lsrge prices, owing to the | made plane and rebullc motor of James | duty. | Kelly and Reginald Robbins. Without much backing snd with only a deter- | i icat Palisctionor ot {frind . mination 10 succeed, they set out in| In 5 or 10 yeass he expecte Lo have thelr ship, the Fort Worth, for the ® ;g-‘ wumiw‘l'»‘ ’Noiw-(m will tell one modestly, it is ts infancy. | record established after months of | "t " lhestor mever burries preparation by the crew of the Ques-| There may be occasions, of course. tion Mark. They had learned & les- when speed is the essence of the dea! son from the Army ship snd ingenlously | 10, Barner some prize before the un constructed & catwalk sround ! known rival gets it is sometimes s their | neces single motor so that the rocker arms; Asa nernl,:‘uie of m?‘l“i?’!dur"b:::. i ever. one collects, whether s on the valvex could be properly olled jar.,. o cts, in a Jeisurely manner. than the real creatures in the fiesh. ‘Every once in & while, however, there ctops up some place or other a real “fan,” one who collects dogs in minia. ture, or cats in images. The European peoples have a fiair for small dogs of ivory and fancy metal | work. At one time Teturning travelers " | invariably brought back with ihem ex- quisitely done small dogs for mantel ornaments. * o ox o | patina. These are represeniations of the an- | cient. Egyptian cat Mish, catiike, yet :m’nmt, with the mystery of snclent | ays. | A yellow potiery ‘cat from Japan lies | | curled in front of the fireplace. From the same jand have come iny cat and | | even smaller mice. carved in ivory, | | which forever chase and are being | chased in front of the Tow of books. | A doorstep shows a white cat with freen even. and one rather suspects ! | that this came from Hoboken. N. J. | There is a white china cat and a | candy jar (from Germany) with s cat | mounted on the cover. The collector | has a bowl with biack cat heads on it | snd & cream plicher showing a black | cat climbing over the rim. | He has a large pitcher with a gray cet as the handle. The roof of his dwell- |ing is ornemenied with an iron cat in blsck and his door knocker is & bra i cat. He has 2 lamp in the form of & cat and & terra cotta cat in white which climbs realistically up an ioterior door. |He has 2 paper weight glaved potiery cat in grav which he purchased a few | | will exceed -the $75,000,000 that Con- | Already in some of the farm States | in order fo avert the motor sioppage | gress has authorized. Al but four of the | the mere psychological effect of the +wenty-three blocks involved in the sites | passage of the long swaited Federal for the buildings have been purchased or | farm aid legislation is having & bene- are in the process of condemnation and | ficial effect. The men who have been ! in fhe next session of Congress an addi- | appointed members of the board, in- | tional appropristion is expected to com- | cluding Mr. Legge, its chairman, have | plete the purchase of all the land now | wide knowledge of the farmers' prob- sought. Contracts and plans for the | lems. It is 10 be expected that the that forced the Question Mark down. | For more than & hundred and sevent; two hours they fiew without a stop, bat- tering the Army record by iwo da | They had established a fine mark, had | conquered the trouble which brought | the Question Mark to earth, but had | discovered a new trouble of their own. one up with all manner of junk. A collector, even the mosiL expert, finds himself with 2 neat mass of noth- ' ing. unless he is extremely careful. It is easy to be imposed upon, extremely simple to make mistakes one's self. + As for the amateur hé sbove sll must | bhuildings themselves already contem- | ! plate the expenditure of about $50,000.- 000 and this sum does not include anv | funds toward construction of the De: | partment. ot Labor Building, the De | partment of Justice Bullding or the res | facing work on the State, War and Navy Building. The President evidently intends the next Congress to make enough money available to complete the | the Government 3s to put Its back into | plans and his statement enunciates the | finally a real effort to put rhe farmers | policy of supplving money to fit the | pn R Parity jn the matter of prosperity | plans, instead of trimming plans to fit the money now in sight. Speaking some time ago of the ac complishments already written in Capi- tal building, Representative Elliott de- clared that “the Sixty-ninth snd the Seventieth Congresses will go down in history as doing more in a constructive way for the remaking of the National Capital and the providing of adequate public buildings throughout. the coun- try than all the preceding Congresses have done in this behalf.” Such a record is worth while. The Seventy-fist Con- gress may not. be called upon to exceed jt. But it will have the opportunity of continuing a new congressional policy 10 make of Washington the Capital that its founders conceived in the beginning. g —rmo— President Hoover is said to have en- joved seeing groups of bovs playing | base ball. There is pleasure in friendly | contest which ecan involve publicity nor politics. Z e neither | board will look before it leaps: that it will go carefully into the situation con- fronting ‘agriculture before it outlines its program snd iis policies. The sea s still uncharied. A missiep at the out- | set would be unfortunate, even though it might not be fatal. The main thing, however, is that an | actudl beginning is to be made; that | with the other industries of the country. The formulation of the farm aid progrem by the new board and its operation have their political sspects. | A failure to accomplish anyihing of | value for the farmers would be seized { upon by opponents of the administra- tion. ,Indeed, while some of them would | solemnly express thelr grief that | nothing was being accomplished for the { farmer. they would be secretly pleased. Who does not relish saying. “I told | you so.” particularly when its saving may be of political benefit? But how ! much more important to the tarmers | and to the country ‘st large would be a success under the new law than | the political benefits which might arise 0 any group from its fallure. The new farm sid law is in the balance and along with it are the hopes of thou- sands of farmers. oo i { The Japanese beetle has a lustrous ; green head snd s body with golden | stripes. It contradicts the poet. A thing tual Work on | Their propeller, nicked by the bullet- | £ | like raindrops of the repeated storms | that they pessed through, was thrown | out of line and, at the time of their | descent, was rapidly tearing the molor | | 1o pieces. | An early beginning of the actual) | And so, each flight has taught its | work on the great Boulder Dam project | Apparently at Last in Sight stroyed the store where he bought it. He has smell cats | wood (Italy,. Viennese posteards ‘with_voice.” Boulder Dam | As things look now, the power dis- | may be simpler and easler than Haste not onlv makes waste. it loads | days before a disastrous fire which de- | “Dich he was deter: THE LIBRARY TABLE By the Booklover Two more studies of women have been added to Booth Tarkington's collection with his novel, “Young Mrs. Greeley.” But more valuable than his creation of A relia Hedge and Stella Greeley s his creation of Bill Greeley. All three are small town products and Aurelia and Stella wouid elways remain small town natures, whatever . their environment, but Bill would be at home, after a short time for adjustment, in any society, be- cause he is able so soon to forget him- self and to become interested in outside things. He is so big and simple and sincere and unsuspecting that his vain, foolish wife almost wrecks him, would have done so perhaps If it had not been for the watchfulness of a far cleverer woman, his secretary, Crystal Nelson. Crystal Nelson, by the way, i& another of Booth Tarkington's interesting femi- nioe studies, % * xox ‘When Bill Gregley first has an ink- ling that his wife is doing some lalking of a sort not creditable to him or her- self, he decides in his direct way to ask her about the matter, but he meets with stony oppositi Stella refuses to an- swer quest! and angrily hums “Auld | Lang Syne.” Bill gives up for the time being. After the dinner at the home of the “big boss,” followed by the hys- terical scene with Aurelia, Bill is further enlightened, but he is not yet aliogether | X *“ ‘There's some- thing I've got 10 get at, Stella’ he said | slowly. ‘Last night after what Mrs. Gliesinger told me 1 asked you if you'd been talking, and then you got so 1 #bout a dress for this dinner tonight end all, I couldn’t go on with it. Well, I've been thinking. The way Mrs. Gliesinger had it I was supposed to be | Jealous—Lord knows what about!—but | everybody understands how gossip gets | ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERI There 15 no other sgency in the | world that can answer as many legiti- | mate questions as our free Information ‘Bureau in Washington, D. C. This highly organized institution has been | rection of Frederic J. Haskin. By keeping In consiant louch with Federal | bureaus and other educational enter- prises it is in a position to pass on to you suthoritative information of the highest order. Submit your queries to the staff of experts whose services are | put at your fre disposal. There is no | charge except 2 cents in coin or stamps | for return postage. Address The Eve- | ning Star Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, director, Washington, D. C. Q. How many motion picture theaters are there in the United States and how many of them are equipped for talk- {les?—w. J. L. A. There are about 20,500 motion | picture theaters in the United States | and about 2,100 of these are equipped for sound. This number is being added to daily. to enlist Tor Army aviation?—C. K. A. The United States Air Corps says that the reason that married men are not allowed to enter the Army avia- tion school in Texas is, first, hecause there are no quarters as yet buily to sccommodate the wives and families of such men, and second, the course is of such & strenuous nature that a single man has all he can do o keep up his work without having ihe sdded re- sponsibility of & family. Q. How many houses were there in sncient Athens’—8. W. A. There were 10,000 houses and more in & space limited by a city wall only 5 miles in circumference, Q. Which river carries more water, the Colorado or the Rio Grande?— J. A A It looks fo me if Mrs. Gllesinger had | tounded what she said on a rw!sfid ver- sion of your jealousy about Miss Crystal Nelson and me. Anvhow, it's clear that ' stories about us have been going around | Aurella’s been acting tonight.’” In the | Ianguage of children's games, Bill is: getting warmer.” but not vet does he | force Stella to tell the truth, | *ox o % | There is & final soene batw | and his treasonable wife. m which Bl | bardens himself 10 be ruthless in his | administration of justice. - ‘Stella,” he | began havshly. . . . ‘Stella—she look- | ed up at him and he stopped speaking, | for this upward look of hers startled bim by its resemblance to one that he bad seen, upon occasion, long ago. wax s liitle shocked piteous eyes of his wife should reming bim of the eyes of that old dog of } r‘u: . Willlam b:gan again ‘Stells, the firsu thing T want to know-—- | But his voice was unsteady as he gazed | down into the eyes lifted so helplessly to his. He coughed loudly. He would | talk about something else for a few ed, and then begin | questioning of her upon He | to find thac the | moments, he decid the severe mined.” But the | A. The Geological Survey savs thal as far as its files show the Colorado 2nd Rio Grande are the same length, but built up and is under the personal di- | Q. Why sre married men not allowed C J. HASKIN. ' that four times the amount of water | goes down the Colorado. Q. What papers have been merged |into the Chicago Hersld snd Ex- | aminer?>—B. T. A. Iy, represents the merging of the Times, the Record, the Inter Ocesn, the Herald and the Examiner. | Q. What is the highest office that is held in Chicago by a woman?—C. O'B. A. The bighest woman official in Chicago is Mrs. Anna L. Smith, com- missioner of public weifare, i Q. How many beauty shoj in the United States?F. A. A. There are about 24,000. Their annual business amounts to 3370, ps are there Q In salling eastward from the United States to Europe, does the moon appear at about the same place at the same time each night?—E. E, D. A. The Naval Observatory save that the change in an observer's position from day to day on an ocean irip would affect the moon’s apparent position so slightly as to be scarcely noticeable— that is the moon's local time of rising | would change from day to dav just about as it would if the observer were siationary. However, if the rising of the moon were timed bv a watch keep- tinf, for instance, Eastern standard time, the speed of the ship might be such that the risings on successive nights would be at approximately the same watch time, | | Q. When is the planting sesson for pineapples in Hawaii?—A. Y. A. The Department of Agriculture says that, due to the climate of Hawaii, pineapples mav be planted any time of the year that'the rain is right. In other words, the planting of pineapples is di- rectly dependent on rainfall rather than It takes a year for the plants to mature and produce fruit. Q. What is t “‘economics"? on weather, he derivation of the word -P. D. from two Greek words household mansgement.” BACKGROUND OF EV BY PAUL V. COLLINS. One of the wisest bits of advice given by Lord Chesterfield io his son was that he sbould never criticire a whole class of people: he might point out faults of individu but never at- tack & class for the faults of the one or_two. For example, if we apply Lord Chesterfleld’s wisdom, we will not con- demn the Jews because of a Shyvlock, for, in addition to Shylock, there was St." Paul, not to speak of his sacred Master. We should not find fault with Americans in general bzcause of Gen. Benedict Arnold, for there was Nathan Hale, besides Washington et al. Why condemn all Frenchmen because Talley- rand was a bribe-taker and Napoleon a ruthless world conqueror? There was Lafayeite. We might even be unjust | Questioning 1s never completed. Bill is | in prejudice aguinst the race of ihe | [ | about everything.’ | lesson—the Question Msrk the neces- | sity for rocker arm lubrication, the Fort Worth the vulnerability of wooden propellers and the City of Cleveland the dengers incident (o transferring ! bulky arricles such 8s ol cans from | plane to plane. Each one of these les- sons will result in better molors, propel- ! lers and plane structures at vital points. ! Such hearted public support and the crews ! of the three plames should be hatled | as benefactors of mankind. i P Lindbergh is affable in front of the camers, though perhaps justified in | wondering what the admiring public {can at present want with any more | photographs of him. SV, “Sidewalks of New York” is agreeabie in sentiment. Architecturally, Tammany | keeps drawing closer to the skyscraper | region. R TING STARS. SHOO' BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Sudden Fame, tesis are deserving of whole- | is believed by many observers to be in | sight now that President Hoover has | proclaimed the signing of the compact. Dy aix of the seven interested States in the Colorado River Basin. Arizona | stands out in opposition and there is much symputhetic speculation in some | quarcers over the possibility of court | proceedings by that State in a final ef- | fors 1o block the project. Evening News, “is the belief of in which Utah and Wyoming have at times mgreed, that Californis will obiain an undue share of bene- fits and that Arizona will actuslly be ! | deprived of some of her rights in the ! river. Since the great dam, which is to create ihe largest artificial Jake in the world, will id near the junction of the State lines of Arizona, Nevadsa and California, Arizona is one of the States | which will be most affected for good or (M. 1t is 10 be hoped, since the dam | means much to her 3 especially to California’s Imperial Val- | ley problem. it will turn out to be good for all.” The Spokane Spokesman-Re- | vlew remarks that “seven-eighths of the | potential horsepower is in Arizona” and | that “the prinel | fictary will be California™ “Arizona is on the wrong side of the Colorado River at the ntroversial point,” the Fort Worth Record-Tele- gram says. “Tt should have the right to the water of the Colorado River for the hundred miles or more of its way through the State, and it is entitled t0 as pointed out by the | and | 1 immediate bene- i 5 Willie brought us great content. half of that which makes the dividing | possl w thinks the San | with the added | comment: birst of the Southern | California coastal plain is likely to cut the knot at a single blow. Los Angeles. with & metropolitan water district at| | its back, proposes to sign for the entire power potential of the dam. This, not | because Los Angeles wants the power particularly, but because it ts wa- ter. This is a huge undertaking. but | Los Angeles, urged on by & parched throet, has it well under way and seems | likely to put it over.” | “A mew era in this vast seclion” is seen by the Los Angeles Express, which | dexcribes the enterprise as “the mighti- est work of the kind ever undertaken | by men.” and, referring 10 the visit of | Dr. Blwood Mead, Commissioner of Reclamation, and Raymond F. Walter, | chiet enginetr of the Reclamation | Service, Teports that “they found in| Southern Californis a potentisl market | for the entire power to be generated | at the dam—upon the sale of which the | Government will depend for repayment | | of the cost of construction—in the event that other parts of the Southwest might take little or none. ‘The Southwest in this gre enter- | | prise” concludes the long Beach| Press-Telegram, “sees guarantee of a | great and assured fuiure. The States | of the Colorado River Basin will benefit | | directlv from this mammoth project., | Thelr benefit will be more generous then that of any other State, or any | other portion of the country. But the whole Nation will share in the material in chocolate | '00 Benerous to be the just judge. “The | Kgiser Wilhelm, for there was (United States). soap (France) and |veat Duich King of England never did | Steuben, who was more valuabie to the | There is even a rubber | @ better thing tha cat with squeaker for the children. And | ¥ithout reading i showing kittens | the names of those n when he destroyed | L the scroll bearing who had conspirea | against him. They had been trajtor. but would be truer to him thenceforth than if they knew he knew them for uraltors. William of Orange let them live in safety and with spirits unbroken. By instinct sheerly, this other William did as fine o thing. He heard the lift | in his wife's voice. ‘Ah. well; the good : fellow said to himsel!, ‘I guess I can ge: | along without knowing every last thing R Another of Hendrik Van Loon’s de- lightful combinetions of tex: and :1: tures, equally for aduits and children is “Man the Miracle Maker.” The il- lustrations, quaint little affairs of lines and curves and shading, are, ps usual by the suthor! The text is the swory of | the inventions of man from the fiis. | striking of fire from two dry sticks o | stones. Mr. Van Loon says that the | superior man “realized a. a very early moment that there was something more | to life than the mere business of get- | ting enough 1o eat snd drink. ‘tne ' simpler inventions made by primitive | P ere the foundation of the ver inventions plex clvittzation, - O OUF IMter eom o % A Washingion woman s’s‘eoo ;longr of hr.he Atlan .000, offered by the Atlani and Little, Brown & Co. mfi‘in“e“?'},'.fi!;'l Interesting biography of any kind. sort | or description.” Mrs. Herbert D. Brown (Haxriet Connor Brown) won the prize for her book “Grandmother Brown's ' Hundred Years, 1827-1927." ‘The biog- raphy is chiefly in the form of a dia. logue recording conversations betwees Mrs. Herbert Brown and her husband's sged mother. The record was kept with no idea of publication, simply as a legacy for the grandchildren, but it is: fortunate for biography lovers that| Mrs. Brown thought of submitting it | for the Atlantic prize, for it is a unique | plece of work. Grandmother Brown was born in Athens, Ohio, April 9! 1827, and died January 8, 1929, Through her own memories and those has received | tic prise of | Von American Revolutionary Army than even 20-year-old Msj. Gen. Lafavetie. # o e S0 we might be making & mistake in crediting all the virtues of & benefactor to the entire race of that noble indi- vidual. It has been quite the fashion since the entrance of America into the ! World War to idealize the race of La- fayette and credit it with romantic unselfishoess, and fall in love with it bacause of our ancesiors’ obligations 10 young Lafayette, who got his coun- ixy invoived in the war wiith Great Britain, the traditional enemy of | France during the eighteenth century, s Germany has been in the succeed- ng century. So we pose in great dignity and ex- ciaim, “Lafayette, we are here!" ! when we might, with equal historical accuracy, shout, “Talleyrand! Voila!” * oxoxox This dissertation is leading up—or down—to a present-day event, but in the meanwhile what was the act of Talleyrand which takes the taste out of the mouth when we shout to the spirit of Lafayette that we have ‘“come 5877 We cite first that Franc® helped whip | George TI1, and even loaned us, in 1741, |2 sum of $181,500. at 5 per cent: in 1778-'82 various sums totaling $3,267 - 000, at 5 per cent; and in 1783, $1,080,.- 000 at. not 5°per cent, but 15 per cent inierest. Not one of the histories ever has cused us of talking about any French “‘Shylock” who charged us 15 per cent interest because we were in financial straits and so nominated extortion in the bond. Anyhow, we paid all the debt without whimpering. We pald part within five years after the peace wilh Great Britain, and all but $176.000 by 1795, the bal: e being funded into 4’2 per cent stock—a mighty safe financial paper readily sold. We will give the King his due, for in the contract of 1782 France remitted arrears of interest on preceding loans up to the date of our peace, to- gether with commissions and bank charges on the 10,000,000 livres which she obiained for us, from Holland. | market value-of her franc and honds. Yei, today. in spite of the strenuous efforis of Premier Poincare and other leading statesmen. there are sgitators | playing to the galleries and srguing for repudiation or default. If France elects 10 pay the $400.- 000,000 next August 1, that will mean that she refuses to ratify the Mellon- Berenger settlementi on the whole debt, and the whole loan, including the bil- lions loaned during the war, will be overdue and defaulted. * oxox They talk sbout ratifying the Mel- lon-Berenger s2ttlement with the reser- vation thet the payments will be made only on condition thet Germany makes her Teparation paymenis. It i as if a borrower from a bank were to say to the banker, “Yes, my note is past due, but I'll give you a new note bearing the conditional promise 1o pay, pro- viding mv own collections are good.” ‘What bank i accustomed to discount- | ing conditional notes? * % * % Revenons a nos moutons! There was Talleyrand and rhe French Directory of which he was a parf, successors o the King with bis head cut off. 1In 1798, France was again at war with Great Britain, and naturally she hoped to have alliance with the United States. | Buu ex-President Washington had seen the infantile weakness of the young re- public and had cautioned the coun in his Farewell Address, against *‘en. tangling alliances,” or mixing into Eu- rope’s long-standing quarrels. It was & aifferent government, then, in France— the Revolution. It was an exciting question in Amer- ica, many patriots still feeling senti- mentally grateful to France—confusing | revolutionary France with that of tie King who had come to our aid. because he hated Great Britain, rather than loved a republic. France demanded that we join her in warring against the English; it might have turned out well if we had so joined her, rather than fight alone our own War of 1812 against the English, but il we were what our Declaration of In- dependence said, then we could use our own judgment as to entering any war because some other country “de- manded” it We refused to demand of the Directory made war on us, and destroyed our shipping on the high seas. When we sent & commission 10 adjust the matter, Talleyrand, head of the Direciory, re- fured to receive the commission at all, until and unless we first paid him--per- sonally--a bribe of $250,000. Then snuke onr minisier plenipotentiary, M Pinckney, “We have millions for fense. but not one cent for tribute! «What a thrill those words still brin, Ah. there’s a hundred per cent Ameri- can!y Gen. Washington was recalled from Mount Vernon !0 command an army 1o defend us_against France, and word was sent, figuratively at least: “Talley- rand, we are here: come On Over. France is still indebied for some of + join France at the and France , | of beauty is not necessarily a_joy for- sdvantages which are sure to come | There is a certain discouragement | i from the building and operation of this | connected with official hand-shaking. ! line between Arizona and California. It | is not getting either. Therefore, it is | Our Minister, Pranklin, said in trans- | He never cut & caper— | { Of her father, {old to her, she reached | ms of damages of that day—-Credit % 243 | | “In reading the 2 Events have often proved that in actual | election it does not mean a thing. Ratification and Reservations. “There is really nothing new under the | sun, Here is the French Chamber of Deputies, in the Summer of 1929, stag- ing & “reservations” controversy similar in all essentials to the immortal ‘strug- gle waged by the Battalion of Death in the United States Senate in the Sum- | mer of 1919, In Paris, as was the case in Washing- ton. a hostile group opposes the ratifica- tion of a covenant which the govern- ment in power warmly expouses. Wood- row Wilson wanted his Versailles treaty, cum League of Nations, approved by the 8enate. Raymond Poincare seeks his Parliament’s concurrence in the Mellon- Berenger debt settlement. The Senate withheld its sanction without reservations. The Chamber demands reservations before i, will give its assent to the Franco- American debt accord. There is un- mistakable politics in the monkey- wrenches that have been thrown into M. Poincare’s machinery. There are cotemporary American historians who avow and aver that politics, as well as patriotism, thwarted Mr. Wilson's am- bition to take the United States into the League. The reservations which a determined | faction in the French Chamber is fo- menting comprehend the so-called “safeguard clause,” which wrecked the famous Caillaux debt negotiations in ‘Washington in 1925: France sought, but falled, to persuade the American debt commissioners, of whom Mr. Hoo- ver was one, formally to agree to re- linquish her from obligation to pay at any time Germany defaulted on repara- tion payments to France. That demand is now revived at Parls and couched in the form of a reserva- tion to be attached to ratification of the Mellon-Berrenger pact. Premier Poincare demurs. He believes—and probably with reason—that a French ratification so incumbered would defeat ratification of the agreement in the \ris i Prench | .- A more prosperous career might have | been historfeally noted if Kaiser Wil- heim hasd been content to remain as patient and unassuming as President Hindenburg. i - . —ome | he bas one advantage over his old part- ner Lenin, in being still alive. e Tests in Schools. ‘The Governor of Georgia, addressing in Annual convention in Atlants, made 1o suggestions which hardly will be {allowed 1o pass without challenge. | Pirst, he said, he would like to see | printed,” because he believes “that |every gray cell in the mind is repre- sented by corresponding territory in the periphery of the body,” and “‘we will be able to associate mentality and finger- i | mentality of the students.” ,Just. what this means it is rather difficult to say. It looks as if it meant | mystical correlation between the pa ! tern of convolutions at the tips of the hemispheres. This, of course, utter absurdity. : So long as gentlemen of the political prominence of the Governor of Georgia continue to sdvocate such things the public schools will continue from time to time to be laboratories of worthless and costly experiments. Furthermore, Gov. Hardman is re- ported to have suggested the establish- | ment of a system of eharacter tests in the schools, with records kept of the character of students. “This is approaching closer to common sense—but it still probably is a Jong way'off. In the first place it is doubt. ful whether any character test ever has been devised which is either re- Hable or valid. In the second place it is doubtful if one ever can be, for character 15 not, like fntelligence, & fixed factor. 1t is merely a reaction to environment influenced by innumerable is an environmente! cloments, With one com-, Trotsky is not welcome anywhere. But | the National Education Association now ! svery child in the public schools “finger- | {print reading and determine normal | that the governor thinks there is some fingers and ,the nature of the cerebral | Put on sporting togs snd sent His pleture to the paper! | Maggie held a gentle place In our estimation. 2 Now in “Sports,” she sends her face For genersl publication. And so the parenis’ gentle love Must, meet a new condition; Authority can’t rise sbove Athletic competition. Mutual Reminders. “What are you going to ssy to your constituents when you get back home?” “That’s a minor matter,” said Sen- ator Sorghum. “Thg thing I'm con- cerned about is whai my constituents are going to ssy to me.” Jud Tunkins said he was glad to buy the boys and gals plenty of freworks, slong 'as mone of ’'sm insisted on | breakin' out with & sawed-off shot- | gun. The Cackle. It's natural to sound self-praise. Even the hen can’t doubt it. And every tims an egg she lays, She stops to brag about if, Human Feeling. “What kind of reliet do you want?” “Something,” seid Farmer Corntossel, | “that’ll let me sympathize with some- | body else, instead of havin’ everybody sympathize with me.” | “The upstart,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “renders himself con- spicuous s be- takes the downward ‘way.” Knickers at Court, And still the petient public begs Of an ambassador to find. Not what he’s wearing on his legs, But what he has upon his mind. “An sirplane,” sald Uncle Eben, “don’t intérest me whaisomever, " It's 2ll wings-an’ no white meet.” — e As Far as Part of U. S. Knows. From the Syracuse lml:out Nits Canada _complains our 5 but her prinejpal comes in scot ll‘.-y e 0N . . most stubboroly recaicitrant on the | subjeet. = = * Texas offers condo- lences 10 Arizona. We, 100, have felt the oppressor's heel. * * * ‘There probably never will be & boider piece of congressional lobbying than the Boulder Dam project. Stay in there, Arizona! There's always the Supreme Court.” fon on this subjeci: “If Arizon carry out its announced intention it will attack the validity of the com States and nations have no right to al- | locate waters to which it is entitled. poing is that, while Arizona may make a showing, it is not likely to succeed in halting construction of a dam which would serve 30 wide an area and use waters originating in so many States.” ‘‘The project from the outset,” in the opinion of the New York Sun, “has been sustained by so many false repre- sentations, has involved so many frauds upon the public, that it never should have been approved by ess. efforts of Arizona to obtain relief through the courts will therefore be watched with sympathetic interest in many parts of the Nation.” *‘Arizona’ immediate need for the water of the river is relatively small” the Spring- fleld Union argues, “but it has held in Congress, and presumably may hold in court, that it is not a question of |might be sacrificed by the judicial {sanction of the project as now defined in law. If the case goes into the courts, it will lovolve many interesting ques. tions of the relation of the rights of States to power of the Federal Gov- ernment. = “No distinctly Tégional commitment on ti rt of - the Government h sur, this one In importance for several decades” says the Indianapolis News, explaining the mammoth pro- portions of the undertaking. “It is said that lfl),m acres in,tl Val- }.yn:. be made safe from disastrous nundation. irrigation possibilities are tremendous.” The News finds in- terest in the fact that ‘s reservoir is to have & gapacity of about 26,000,000 acre<feet of water. “In the announcement thatthe power companies are ready to take over all the power contained in the falling wa. ter that will ver the Boulder sale of the power, even ;lr:ldu ;‘a‘ct“: o lmmn‘ca‘:l; ‘contract, is an in_ financing th it work. ogly 2 be | trying to pop ‘on The Oakland Tribune offers the opin- | is 10} | on constifutional grounds, aileging other ! | Informal and unbiased opinion on the | The | ‘mmediate but of ultimate needs which | great enterprise. P Rigl;l-Angle Streets Cause Many Accidents, BY E. E. FREE, PH. D. It city streets never crossed each other at right angles but always, met in { threes, like the hub of a three-spoked | | wheel, the number of street-cdrner | | automobile collisions would be reduced by st least one-half because of that re- duction of possible “collision points. | N. chairman | of the Town P Ottawa, Canads, in before the Town Planning Institute in Tondon, when he explained his.hex- agonal system of city planning in which the city blocks look like the cells of & honeycomb or the stones of a mosaic pavement instead of like the squares of a checkerboard. Although the streets of My. Cauchon’s plan, with the exception of a few main avenues, are never straight for more than one block at & time, traffic would move wore rapidly sround these hexagonal blocks, he maintains, than through a city of the present type. This is because of easier turns at the corners and because the stream of traffic would flow together and apart again automatically at the three-street intersections, instead of be- ing held up for mutual crossing. The arrangement of the hexagonal blocks should be such, the lecturer continued, that no 'east-and west streets exist, 'as{ | these deprive some of the houses of sunlight. With the three street direc- | tions of the hexagonal city taken as north-south, northeast-southwest and northwest-southeast, every house would ‘nave sunlight at some hout of the day. — e Versatile, From the Detroit News. “If dampened slightly and , bran_makes a good wallpaper cleaner.” It was feared for a minute it was a recipe for puddin~ — oo Evea I It Hurts. From the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel. A great inspirational write: .advises that the time to pay debts is when you put into & the | have money, but some creditors are so unreasonable. e sate— Tt Wasn’t the Corn. Prom the Ann Arbor Daily News. A n wagon blew up in Detroit the day. ‘The WI Illl.hvv bark to the American Revolution. Her father, Ebenezer Foster. of Revolution- | ary ancestry, was one of the early set- | tlers of the Northwest Territory. Her husband was Daniel Truesdell Brown, | who lived to be 84, and she was the | mother of eight chiidren, four born in ©Ohlo and four in Jowa. Herbert D, Brown | is the youngest son. The book will be | published serially in the Atlantic| Monthly, beginning in August. and will Appear as a volume in the Autumn, It fs sald that Mrs, Brown has other in- teresting materially concerning the set- tlement of the Northwest, found during her researches in connection with the | background for “Grandmother B: ' Hundred Years.” di * oK “Presidents I've Known Near-Presidents,” by lent for the New York World. New York Times and New York Trib- une, is a conversational account of per- sonal experiences with several heads of the Nation. McKinley. Roosevelt, Taft. Wilson, Harding, Coolidge, Mark Hanna and Bryan are his subjects. The rem- iniscences are interesting; the judg- ments are, like all judgments, open to argument, Mr. Thompson is particu- larly hard on Wilson and Br I China and Syria as a ussell Smith, professor of economic geography in Columbia Uni- versity, tells of the need in our country of planting trees, both for the preser- tion of our soil and streams and for the production of food. His book is called Crops—a Permanent Ag- riculture.” Prof. Smith says that the tree is in some ways a better food plant than the grains, because it can suck up moisture from far below the surface of the ground and is not so dependent on regular rainfall. Tree crops could thus be grown on rocky hilis and other places where rainfall is scanty. Many frees not at present grown in this coun- try_could be acclimated here. When such a program is carried out. Prof. Smith and other agricultural economists should be prepared to cope with the many tree blights which have already been imj into the United States from fc countries and would come in still larger numbers. and Two Charles Willis Holding_uj warning, J. FCundbde” s bad and Bosionians. are ., " o . not buy the book. Since been Washington-: miiting the 1782 loan: contract you will discover several fresh marks of the King’s goodness to us amounting to near two millions” (livres) —about $363,000. So that $363.000 measured France’s financial contribu- tion to the thirteen colonies struggling to. win the joint war against Greal Britain. King Louis, voila! We go vou one better now by discounting not merely $363,000, but some four billion dollars “not, lvres nor francs—dollars. Bil- lions, not millions! Also, we never fook advantage of your stress by charging you 15 per cent interest. You charged interest of course | trom the day we signed peace with our enemy—5 per cent on some three mil- lion and 15 per cent on a million—until we paid it all. We began paying five years after our Revolution, and finished in 1795, though we were a feeble folk, even then. Todav France is the most prosperous nation in Europe, yet we are not crowding her for payment—we offer terms of 62 years so as to spread the burden over three generations in place of piling it all onto the soldiers of yesterday. * 4 R _In 8 statement by Secreiary of the lon-Berenger agreement (which even to- day is still under debate in the French Parliament and mey be rejected). Mr. Mellon said, in pa “Por obligations incurred by France to America after the war ended France owes us today $1,665,000,000. The pres- ent value of the entire French set- tlement, at the rate of interest car- ried in France's existing obligations, is $1,681,000,000, “In effect, therefore, America has canceled the obligations of France for in the Mellon-Berenger agreement has undertaken only to repay the advances -and obligations subsequent to the armi- stice. No other creditor of France has accorded such generous treatment.” * ok ok Part of that $1665,000000 due con- sists of $400,000,000 to pay for actual merchandise left in France after the amounted to several billion dollars, at bargain-counter prices, totaling only $400,000,000, which was made due in 10 years, payable next August 1. It will be postponed and made & part of the snnual paymentis extending over 1o the ne of the ban appeared in the of people who never into bookstores asking f Can . . . something or other.” and the Library have for that little the next 62 ye provided that set- tlement known as the Mellon-Berenger agreement is accepted by France with- out reservations or quibbles before August 1. But if that be not so sc- ted, Prance will either pay the $400,- 000 st 1, or default and so in- Jure her d credit and shrink the Treasury Mellon, dated July 16, 1926, | Mr. Mellon explained the proposed Mel- | all advances during the war, and France war, and sold to her, what by invoice | ¢ | Mobiller.” * A But America does not harbor grudges against & people because of & changing government of the: race. So when our World War Foreign Debt Commission got together with France's representa- tives three years ago, the whole debi was lumped together, and it wes pro- posed 1o give easy terms of settlement by spreading out the payments over 62 years, so that not all the burden would fall in the generation which had borne the heat of battle and suffered the losses of the war. Instead of collecting 15 per cent inierest on any pert of the debt, as France collected from us, no inicrest was to be collected prior to 193012 yesrs after the war—and the rate in the proposed Mellon-Berenger settlement over the whole 62 years will average only 1.965 per cent—less than 2 per cent on the original principal—or if figured on the debt as funded, it amounts to 1.640 per cent—a trifie over 11, per ceni or one-tenth of the r: the French King charged our struggling forefathers. And we are paying for that money to our holders of Liberty bonds 3%, per cent; we paid. for yeara, as high as 47, per cent on part of the bonds. % ox % “There are 13 nations which have funded their debts to the United States: 6 have reduced the principals, as agreed, with annual payments—Great Britain, Italy, Belgium, Jugoslavia, | Finland and Hungary. 8ix others have exercised options stipulated in thejr | settiements by postponing payments— Poland, Czechoslovakia, Rumania, Lith- uania and Latvia. The principal of | the Greek debt is the same as when its | funding agreement was consummated, | last May. France alone has failed either to pay {or to fund her debt into stipulated | agreementis. to pay annually. remier | Poincare is striving desperately to ob- tain parliamentary ratification of the | Mellon-Berenger agreement of 1926, and Iif he fails his cabinet must resign. | Instead of a-ting, the Chamber of | Deputies is begging postponement of |the payment due within three weeks. though no authority but Congress could | authorize such postponement, and Con- | gress is not in session, and would re- If\lle if it were. ‘Talleyrand, voila! (There it is!) M. Henrl Franklin Bouillon, chair- {man of the French foreign relations | used ‘threat lan- guage sgainst failure of ica to grant furthér time on the $400,000,000, tions Senate, replied with equsl directness. There will be no postpone- ment. and the situation grows tense, (Copyright, 1929, by Paul V. Collins.) t“"