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6 THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY July 31, 1024 THEODORE W. NOYES Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company • Business OlSef. 11th Pt. and Pennsylvania A,v«. N>w York Office: 110 Slit 42nd St. ChiruKO Office: Tower Building. Caropeau Office: 16 Regent St.,London, England. Toe Evening Star. with the Rnnda.r morning edition, is del’vered by carriers within the fity at 60 cents per month: daily only. 45 rents per month: Sunday only. 20 cent* per month. Orders may be sent by mail or tele phone Ma n 5000. Collection la made by car riers at the end of each month. Hale by Mail— Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunday.,l yr, $8.40 ; 1 mo., 70c Daily only 1 yr., $6.00 ; 1 mo.. 50c Sunday only 1 yr., $2.40 ; X mo., 20c All Other States. Daily and Sunday.l yr., SIO,OO ; 1 mo.. 85c . Daily only 1 yr., $7.00 ; 1 mo., 60c Bunday only 1 yr., $3.00 ; 1 mo., 25c Member of file Associated Press. The Associated Tress is eichisiv*ly entitled so the use for repuhlication of all new, dis patches credited to it or not otherwise credited In this paper and also the local news pub lished heroin. All rlehta of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. The Bryan Bone. Evidence appears that the position .taken by Gov. Bryan of Nebraska on the subject of Defense day was not the result of consultation with his major associate on the Democratic national ticket. Mr. Davis, on leaving Maine for New York at the close of his vacation, indicated that the sub ject was entirely strange to him. The controversy, he said, was “all Greek" to him. Thus it would appear that the Governor of Nebraska, acting in * that capacity, took his position on day without reference to his political partner. . This fact, however, does not relieve the embarrassment that must be felt by Mr. Davis as he finds his ticket associate taking a pronounced position cn an important national question ir respective of his own views or the expressed declarations of their party. That embarrassment Is inevitable. It arises from the fact that the candi date for Vice President on the Demo cratic national ticket is in advance of the formal notification speeches. which are accepted as marking the beginning of the campaign, striking out on national questions of moment. A vice presidential candidate is usually expected to assume a "me too" role. He should not, according to all the established rules of the po litical game, put himself forward as an independent thinker. He should take his cue from his chief. The nom inee for President is the chief in fact. He becomes the head of the party as soon as he is named. It is always expected that the vice presidential nominee will follow his leadership, that he will not try to set the pace. The circumstances in which Gov. Bryan w-as nominated, however, do not precisely make for this relation ship. He was chosen, according to the best information obtainable, in order that Brother William, supposed to exercise still a potent influence in the Democratic party, should be kept in good mood and made favorable to the national ticket. The fact that concession was made to Brother Wil liam gave Brother Charles a greater than-usual importance. It is possible— it is, indeed, a psychological probabil ity—that this manner of his nomina tion has affected his judgment of the relation between the two ends of the ticket. In base ball, where teamwork is . essential for success, they say when a player makes a blunder of judgment that he has "pulled a bone.” He fails to do the right thing in an emergency, when quick thinking is necessary as -well as quick action. The belief is that Gov. Bryan of Ne braska has in his State executive ca pacity pulled a decided bone as a jnember of the Democratic pennant seeking team of 1924. Although a seasoned politician and an experienced magistrate, in both of which capacities he must have en : Countered many strange phases of /. human life, it may be doubted whether J. R. Caverly of Chicago ever en countered so strange a case as that over which he presides as judge. He is 63 years old and thoroughly sophisticated, which is fortunate, as his courtroom at present is no place for a youthful and innocent person. His fame as an inventor and a benefactor, great as it Is. would be enhanced if Henry Ford could apply This genius to the discovery of a so lution of the parking problem. France and Germany have at least one point in common in the present discussion. They both need the _money. £t Hylan's Home-Coming. When Mayor Hylan reached home yesterday from the Pacific Coast it -was expected that he would add -somewhat to the heat from which Broadway was shimmering. It was Mhe hottest day of the season, with an official temperature of 91, but the mayor’s observations did not add to the temperature. They were, indeed. _jof a placid and cooling character. They were poetic. They revealed the nature-lover, a passionate admirer of beauty in the great open spaces. Lest —he be misquoted or misunderstood, or lest he fail in his enthusiasm to give Tull expression to his emotion, the “mayor had written a "piece” on the train, which constituted his Interview. ■ He handed copies to the eagerly await ing press men who greeted him at the station in the hope of something pyrotechnic. It was a pastoral pro duction, tender and almost rhythmic •In its sweet emotion. There was talk of -vast herds of klne on the great hun dred-thousand-acre ranch, "a thou sand head of cattle grazing peacefully on a thousand hills.” There was a ‘ picture of “beautiful buildings of Spanish architecture surrounded by beautiful gardens of ever-blooming gorgeous flowers, and orchards of orange, peach and cherry trees.” By the way. the ‘mayor evidently failed to learn that a bunch of orange trees is called a grove and not an orchard. There was much in eulogy of his host. Truly, the mayor did himself proud. If things political go awry and the mayor fails to get a third term at the city hall, or a first term at the State house at Albany, he should have no difficulty in landing a job as one of his recent host's feature writers. There Is surely a niche for him in the great organization which this panegyric praises so highly. So that, whatever happens, the agonies of composition suffered on the homeward journey will not have been in vain. Hog Prices and Prosperity. The humble hog may play havoc with some political plans this year. It would be a pity to have the porkers put the progressives in a pickle, yet that is a possibility. When a little while ago wheat prices rose and re ports came from the West that the farmers were rejoicing. It was after ward pointed out by the political pes simists that this jubilation was pre mature, that the higher wheat prices were being paid, not to the farmers, but to the middlemen and grain fac tors. to whom the farmers had already sold their wheat at the lower prices. Still, the higher wheat prices made the farmers feel a little easier In their minds. And then came the hog prices upward, and corn prices, and now porcine prosperity prevails through out the great hog belt. Farmers are getting $10.50 a hundred pounds for their hogs In market, or a little over $24 a hog at the average weights of this season. This is good money, a profitable price. The States where the farmers have the most hogs to sell, i according to Department of Agricul ture reports. Include Indiana. Illinois, lowa, Missouri, eastern Kansas and Nebraska and southern Minnesota. That is right in the heart of the happy hunting grounds of the progressives, the center of the zone of discontent. There is another thing that is help ing the hogs to bring happiness hack to the region where the La Follette fever is supposed to be burning high. That is the knowledge that has been gained by the farmers from bitter ex perience with certain phony stocks. Four or five years ago the farmers were prosperous. They had a lot of money. Salesmen of fake stocks mopped up that money without the slightest difficulty. Profits from good crops were squandered in worthless securities, and that was one of the factors of the present depression in the Middle West and the Northwest, in the course of which a number of radical members of House and Sen ate were elected. In Nebraska alone over $50,000,000 was thrown away on these fake stocks of all kinds. Those Western farmers are now shy of stock schemes. If the salesmen of oil, mining and doubtful industrial securities think to get some of this good hog money or corn money or wheat money, they are vastly mis taken. They may find a few ear marks, but it is doubtful whether their success in selling worthless se curities will pay railroad fares, print ing and postage expenses this year. The hog and wheat and com money is all going into stock of the right kind—live stock: into the payment of debts, into machinery, into motor cars and tractors. And with that money thus invested the farmers of the Middle and North West are in November likely to be much less in clined toward hopeless third partyism than they would have been with lower prices. Too Early for Signs of Apathy. Some of the politicians are reported as complaining that they sense a spirit of apathy among the voters in both parties, and say that the efforts of the Democratic and Republican leaders must be speeded up to arouse the voter*. Is it not a bit too early in the game to become alarmed on this score? Wait until the speeches of ac ceptance are delivered and the broad casting of the spellbinders begins thereafter. Then it will be dollars to doughnuts that the country will become aroused and “sounders-out” of political sentiment be in better con dition to get a line on the drift of things political and will probably have less difficulty in sensing the senti ment of the electorate than in previ ous years. There is every reason to believe that, with three parties in the field, this is to be one of the most stirring campaigns in many years and it is likply that a record-breaking vote will be polled. Passions of the voters will be stirred by the greatest flood of oratory the country has probably ever witnessed and the “getting out of the vote” will be easier than be fore in consequence. — Report goes forth that Mr. Malcolm McAdoo will net follow the example of Mr. William McAdoo and support the Democratic ticket, because of dis appointments at the New York nomi nating convention. This course seems contrary to what should be looked for. In this era of reconstruction Democracy brothers are expected to stand together. Perhaps Leopold and Loeb smile during the proceedings because they are among the few sufficiently Intel lectual to grasp the distinctions sought to be drawn as to mental, moral or legal insanity. The friends of President Coolldge regard him as likely to remain In Washington, not only this Bummer, but also .next Summer and several Summets after that. Campaign Policies and Practices. News dispatches from Chicago tell of the plans and policies of the Repub lican and Progressive leader* for the coming campaign, while from New York come outlines in a broad way of the Democratic intentions. There is a new thought in the Republicans’ pro gram. According to the leaders, the campaign is to be marked “by a quiet dignity and an ever-present appeal to common sense.” That sounds encour aging, suggesting ayoidance of cam paign claptrap designed to deceive the unwary. The Republicans also pro pose to bring all sections and factions of the country to “a national view THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON. D. C . ' THURSDAY. JULY 31, 1924. point” in the consideration of eco nomic and political questions. That also rings well. It would mean elevating politics and educating the voter to a broader conception of his duties to his country and his fellow man. It is to be hoped that both these plans can be carried out. The La Follette forces in the West are working on an interesting proposi tion. They will use “flivver” 'forces to comb the countryside for votes. Motor squads of front 5 to 20 cars will be stationed at temporary field headquar ters. maintaining contact with State headquarters. From these stations they will diverge, carrying the gospel of La Follette by word of mouth and In printed form. Chairman Shaver of the Democratic national committee says the Demo cratic campaign will not open before September. The Democratic leader does not want too long or too intensive a campaign. He plans to use the radio frequently, but to broadcast only prominent speakers who are likely to attract large audiences. He thinks this preferable to employing a pro fusion of unknown speakers. It would appear from these outlines that the country is to have a vacation from politics during August, anyhow. And that sounds good. Home for Feeble-Minded. The home for feeble-minded will begin to function this fall on the fine farm near Camp Mead© which the District has bought. The present buildings will be used to house pa tients who go to this farm for rest and perhaps restoration to health. It will not be long before simple, suita ble buildings are sot up. Money for that purpose was appropriated by Congress last session and the municipal architect Is at work on specifications for the structure, which will be of the cottage type and as near fireproof as possible. The plan is that each cottage will have two dormitories accommodating 50 pa tients, It does not appear from pub lished accounts that a satisfactory name has been adopted for this cot tage colony. When the matter was under discussion last Winter the Dis trict authorities thought it kind and sensible to give this farm a name suggesting peace, happiness and rural scones and without a hint as to any deficiency in the patients. The time has arrived when a "front porch campaign" need not prevent the public from becoming fairly well acquaincd with a candidate if the porch is equipped with a moving pic ture camera and a radiocaster. People who predict that the presi dential election will result in a dead lock do not show due consideration for the fact that Congress has been having trouble enough. Popular confidence in a European loan can be fortified beyond question if J. Plerpont Morgan decides to pledge hi* private fortune to the en terprise. In opposing Mobilization day Col. W. J. Bryan will scarcely go so far as to propose a ratio of sixteen sol diers in another army to one in our own. The wedding march is frequently utilized in Broadway publicity as a musical comedy number. SHOOTING STABS. BY PBILANDBR JOHNSON. A Sermon in Crimson Gulch. Old Cactus Joe a boost had made. In moments free from care. That he of nothng was afrad And wouldn’t take a dare. The minister had gone to seek A field less battle torn. They dared Joe to arise and speak For him on Sunday morn. He faced a grave, attentive throng. The far-off Sunday school With other memories brought along The simple Golden Rule. He stammered. Something was amiss. And then he said, "Well, pards. That Golden Rule is just like this. Thou Shalt Not Stack the Cards.” His audience first smiled; then saw The meaning In his mind. As he was setting forth the law Fit for all humankind. They cried, “Go on. You’ve lots of time. Let’s have your further views.” Said Joe, “If heavenward you’d climb. Be honest, win or lose. When sittln’ Into any game Whose stake is big or small, For love, for profit or for fame. Don’t cheat; and that’s ’bout all. Saint Peter will not bar your way. He’ll call off all the guards Around the gate, if you can say, •’I Never ‘Stacked the Cards.’ ” The Practical Politician. “I see our friend Grabwell an nounces he Is busy doing his share in the campaign." “I would not say exactly he’s busy doing his share,” rejoined Senator Sorghum. “He’s busy getting It.” Labor Shortage. The farmer with a grief profound Surveys the cultivated scene Where lusty laborers gather ’round To manicure a putting green. Jud Tunklns says a lot of people can think of reforms that ought to be fought for. but most everybody Is willing for some one else to be the , hero. His Usual Luck. "Wheat and pork are going to be very valuable.” "1 suspected they would,” answered 1 Farmer Corntossel. “Why?* ! “I didn’t raise any wheat and sold ’ all my pigs.” i Paths of Knowledge. - The youthful genius brings dismay > Who seeks for Wisdom’s glories t And gets fed up along the way > ' With punk defective atonies. “I has heard political speeches,” > said Uncle Eben, “dat didn’ appear ■ to me to have any more real influence i on de‘ course of events dan hollerin’ - j ‘come seven’ In a crap game." Answers to Questions BY FREDERIC J. HASK*V Q. What •Aras the first newspaper printed In Washington? A. The first newspaper published in what Ik now the city of Washing ton was the Times and Fotowmack Pocket. It started in February, 1789, the exact date being'uncertain. The paper was delivered to subscribers in town by "carrier” at their houses, weekly, on Wednesdays, and to those at a distance by the quickest convey ance. Q. Kindly advise me where I can can get a copy of the personal prop erty tax law of the District of Co lumbia?—T. McQ. A. You can obtain a copy of the personal property tax law from the tax assesor's office if the District building, Thirteenth and Pennsylvania avenue. Q. Do Englishmen eat as much fruit as Americans do?—E, B. BJ A. Americans consume a great deal of fruit, while England is a low per :aplta fruit-consuming country. There is now an “Eat More Fruit” campaign under way In England. Q. What are the proper services at the grave of a soldier? In what direction should the ahots be fired over the grave?—J. H. M. A. The War Department says when a soldier is buried the following iis the procedure: The body Is lower jed into the grave as the priest or I minister reads a short service. Usually music is played or a hymn is sung. A bugle then sounds taps, after which a firing squad fires three 1 rounds over the grave. The guns j are pointed upward. In no particular direction After the funeral party leaves the cemetery the cemetertal help closes the grave. Q. When were postage stamps first collected?—R. T. A. The fancy for stamp collecting began a short time after the issue of the first British penny and two-penny stamps in 1840. Dr. Gray of the Brit ish Museum began collecting them soon after their appearance. An ad vertisement in the Times of 1841 asked for gifts of canceled stamps for a young lady. In 1842 the new hobby was criticized by Punch. In 1860 stamp collecting began to be systematically carried on with regard to different kinds of paper, water marks. perforations, shade of color and distinctive outline. In 1882 a teacher in Paris required pupils to collect and paste stamps in atlases and geographies according to coun tries, and this may have been the first form of systematic classification of stamps in a collection. Q. Why are ambassadors to Great Britain called "Ambassadors to the Court of St. James?"—A. G. A. The Court of St. James's, more commonly, though less correctly, the Court of St. James, is the usual desig nation of the British court; so-called from the old Palace of St. James which was long used for royal recep tions, levees and drawing rooms. Q. How long have boxers used boxing gloves?—A. T. D. A. It has been supposed that the first glove contest was the battle be tween John L. Sullivan and James J. 'Corbett for the heavyweight cham pionship in 1892. This was the first big glove contest in America. There Is a record of a boxing bout in France between two English boxers in 1818 which mentions the fact that both men wore huge padded gloves. Q. What proportion of the popula tion of the Philippines are Christians? —F. T. M. A. In 1918 the popuulalion of the islands reached ! 0,350,730, of whom 9,463,731 were classed as Christians, and 888,999 as non-Christians. Q. Did Gen. Grant’ demand the sur render of Gen. Lee’s sword?—G. V, O. A. Contrary to- the popular belief this incident did not occur. , In the possession of Robert Underwood Johnson at the time that he pre pared Grant’s memoirs were Gen. Grant’s signed words in his own handwriting: “There was no demand made for Gen. Lee’s sword and no tender of it.” Q. How many men were killed in coal mines last year?—T. T. A. The Bureau of Mines says that in 1923 there were accidents in and around coal mines which resulted in the death of 2.452 men. This output of coal for the year was 641.476,000 tons, the fatality rate being 3.82 per million tons. Q. What salaries do air mail plane aviators get?—T. A. F. A. The Post Office Department says that the salary of an aviator in the United States Mail Service is as fol lows; Base pay is $2,000, plus 5 cents a mile for each flight. Q. How are stamps applied to stamped envelopes? Can one be cut from an envelope and used on another one?—L. J. S. A. The Post Office Department says that the stamp is embossed on the envelope at the time the envelope Is made, and is a part of the envelope itself. If the embossed stamp Is cut from the original envelope, it is not good for postage - if attached to an other envelope. Q. Can children’s cotton clothing be rendered fireproof?—M. T. E. A. Into the starch used for muolins or other light and fluffy material used for dresses, etc., put an ounce of alum or sal-amraonlao to abo.ut three or four quarts of the starch when ready to use. Q. When is Midsummer eve?—P. S. A. Midsummer eve falls on the night before the festival of St. John the Baptist, June 24. This used to be observed in all parts of Europe. Fires were kindled in the market places and the young people leaped over the flames or threw garlands into them. Dancing and singing played a part in the festival. Q. What does “avatar” mean?—H. R. A. “Avatar” comes from a Sanskrit word meaning a "descent.” It is ap plied particularly to the descent of a Hindu deity to earth In a manifest form, either for beneficent or retribu tive reasons. It corresponds to the Christian term “Incarnation." Q. Tell something of the history and aims of the American Bible So ciety?—F. M. F. A. The American Bible Society was organised in New York City, 1816, to encourage a wider circulation of the Bible. In 1841 an act of incorpora tion was made, and in 1852 “Bible House” was built, one of the oldest office buildings in New York City. The board of managers consists of 36 lavmen, and the object is to translate and circulate the Holy Scriptures to ail the ends of the earth, and espe cially among the benighted and des titute. It is strictly undenomina tional. and during 100 years 117,130,- 711 volumes were distributed, printed in 164 languages. The society is maintained by bequests, endowments and subscriptions. Q. Should “gasoline” be spelled with an “e” or an “i"7—F. L. J. A. Either "gasoline” or “gasolene” Is correct. Q. What is sea-wrack?—F. P. A. Sea-wrack is any marine vege tation cast up on the shore, such as ieel grass or grass-wrack. Q. What has become of the Ger man liner “Imperator?”—A. W. A. A. The Imperator Is now the Cun arder “Bereogaria." * (Did you ever vrrite o Utter to Fred eric J. Baskin f You can ask our In. formation Bureau any question of fact and get the answer in a personal letter. This is a part of that best purpose of this newspaper — SEßVlCE. There is no charge except t cents in stamps for return postage. Get the habit of asking questions of The Star Information ..Bn. real. Froderie 1.-Baskin, Director, Twen ty-first and C streets northwest.) LONDON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. BY FREDERICK WILLIAM WILE. American politics has always baffled the Britisher, and his interest in it, even during a presidential campaign. Is not lively. He consider* such things as primaries and the electoral college far too complicated to be worth understanding, and when you attempt to explain to him what may happen if the election is thrown Into Congress he calls for help and changes the subject. The nomination of John W. Davis by the Democrats naturally attracts attention in Lon don, where he earned great popular ity during his ambassadorship at the end of the war. Britons are too wise to take even the appearance of sides In an American presidential contest— in this year of all years. They re member what Grover Cleveland did to I.ord Jfackvllle West on a historic occasion. But our British friends are gratified that one of the major par ties lias placed In the field a man who knows Europe from first-hand knowl edge. ** * * Wickham Steed, former editor of The Times and now editor of the re juvenated Review of Reviews (founded | by the late William T. Stead), tells a story which, he says, established John W. Davis’ reputation In England as a master of tact. The. Prince of WaJea in 1921 was a guest of honor at a lord mayor’s dinner on his highness’ return from Canada. Davis was down for the final speech on a program which Included addresses by ; the lord mayor, the prince, and Mr. | Lloyd George (them premier). Both ! the prince and the premier deeply ! stirred the distinguished audience. | Davis’ turn came. Before him lay a sheaf of notes for a prepared address. (But the Ambassador, conscious that i Guildhall was under the spell of what 1 prince and premier had said, deter mined to avoid an anti-climax.. Lift ing his glass, he said: "My Lord Mayor, Your Royal Highness, Your Excellencies, My Lords and Gentle men; I have the honor to propose the health of the Lord Mayor.” And that was all. The great audience caught the point and Davis took his seat amid a thunder of applause and cheers. Many said it was the speech of the night. ** * * Little is known in Great Britain of the personality of President Coolldge, but American visitors are often pressed to discuss it. From what they have read of ’’Cautious Cal," Britons are convinced he Is a man of the type of mind and temperament who would fit ideally into their own public life, which Is the highest trib ute they can pay any foreigner. Hts campaign utterances will be closely studied here. Ambassador Kellogg is an effective missionary in the Pres ident’s cause. He loses no oppor tunity to depict Mr. Coolldge in the right light, and especially to contro vert the theory that the President Is the uncompromising head and front of the Republican "isolationist” school. Senator La Follette visited Europe a few months ago and spent some time in England. The La Fol lette-wheeler movement Is looked upon here as more or less the coun terpart of the British Labor party idea.’ If It should be any chance prove triumphant, there would be Britons to claim that America had at length gone the way w-hfeh Ger many, Great Britain and France went, respectively, with Marx. Her riot and MacDonald. r % *♦ * ♦ It is the common thing in London to say that the RamsAy MacDonald government is in office but not in power. By that, of course, is meant that the Labor government has no majority in the House of Commons and. theoretically, could be turned out at any time by a coalition of Liberals and Unionists. Everybody says that is exactly what would happen if Labor ever tried to "do its stuff.” i. e., enact socialistic or even srmi-socialistlc legislation. To dale MacDonald has steered so middle a course that he has kept wide of the coalition rocks. Undoubtedly hi* prestige is being enhanced from day to day. He has made no serious blunders. If he gets some order out of the European reparations chaos, his hold on public esteem will be very strong. *♦ ♦ ♦ The shabbiest establishment in Lon don is the untenanted American Em bassy. at 12 and 13 Prince’s Gate, Hyde Park —the gift mansion be stowed upon the United States three years ago by J. Pierpont Morgan. Al i though Congress appropriated $150,000 for rehabilitation of the place, not a 1 stroke of work has been done to that end. Nobody knows why. Meantime the two houses, which are to be • knocked into one, are literally going to rack and ruin. The windows are dirty, the lawns unkempt, the walls streaked with grime and dust, and the whole aspect of the Institution that of a shack in the slums. On i either side are the splendid homes of - 1 ... ... - ■' 11,1 " "■ Press Gratified by Defense Plea of Guilty in Franks Case Cause for gratification is found by the press in the action of counsel for Leopold and Loeb, confessed murder ers of the Franks boy in Chicago, whose pleas were changed to “guilty,” leaving to the presiding Judge the determination of the penalty. Thus the public -is saved from an open court airing of ghastly details and, in the opinion of moat editors who have commented on the case, the ends of justice best will be served. “In a day when legal quibbles over the responsibility before the law of mental defectives is frequent and when obvious cheating of Justice is common,” observes the Springfield Union, “this attitude is, gratlnrlng on the part of the defense, that might, if it wished, spend unlimited time and * money in an effort to escape the i law.” The Chicago Daily News feels, 1 “the issue in the extraordinary case has been greatly simplified and re duced from both a legal and social point of view to the question wheth er the defendants deserve clemency from the court. To the vindication 1 of the law Itself no obstacle has been 1 Interposed as matters have shaped themselves.”. It is a wholesome thing for justice, according to the Milwaukee 1 Journal, “that there is to be no spec tacle of an attempt to free these young men.’” ♦* * ♦ As the New Tork World sees It. • “Rarely before has a Judge been re -4 qulred to commit himself so clearly on the Issue of capital punishment. ’ The crime was committed. It was ab solutely deliberate. There were no ' extenuating circumstances. If ever there was a case wherein capital * punishment was indicated under the • law. It Is called for here.” Believing t that the public Interest could have ’• been served in no better .way, the f New York Herald-Tribune suggests. » "the only evidence which is now to r be submitted is that which is alone J important to the public.” . It. there U no-escape frent.the pub - He Airings- -of -expert theories., the New Orleans TTmes-Picayune IS com* aristocrats and plutocras, and directly across the way is tha park, now re splendent In midsummer glory. Mean time Mr. and Mrs. Kellogg are ten ants in a Mayfair mansion, Crowe House, for which they pay out of their own pockets an annual rent of $12,800, or about three-quarters of the ambassador’s salary. ♦♦ * * No sooner Is the average American, if he be of the male persuasion, ar rived in Londontown than he proceeds to deck himself out as much like the native of the gentleman species as he possibly can. He rushes to Piccadilly for spats, a walking stick, a pair of gloves (to carry, not wear), a soft hat to supplant the straw he brought with him and a top (silk) hat for the state occasions to which he hopes to be Invited. The American Bar Asso ciation almost sent up the price of "toppers” when its members learned that the “morning dress” required for the King and Queen’s garden partv called for that kind of headgear. ♦* * * Radio is not approximately as wide ly developed in Great Britain as lt-is In the United States. There are only about a million receiving sets in use, and the number of habitual llstcners- In probably does not reach 5,000,000. The licensing system is responsible for the fact that less than one-tenth of the population consists of radio addicts, as compared with our 40.- 000,000 or 50,000,000 fans. Every Briton who has a receiving set must pay a government licensing fee of $2.25 or $3.37%, depending, respec tively, on whether the set is manu factured by the British Broadcasting Company or is homemade. The gov ernment gets 50 cents of the fee; the balance goes to the broadcasting com pany, which is a trust formed by the companies manufacturing radio ap paratus. Anybody using a set with out a license is subject to a fine of $450, or six months’ Imprisonment, un der the act prohibiting the mainte nance of wireless receiving stations without a license. Bands, artists, speakers and others who furnish radio programs are paid for their services by the broadcasting company. *♦ * * One of the proletarian boons con ferred by the Labor government la the opening of Hyde Park to taxi cab traffic. Previously only private vehicles had access to the park. The new government also raised the motor speed limit from 12 to 20 miles an hour. "Why didn’t we think of that?” Winston Churchill, who was in office under Uoyd George, lamented, when the plain people gave thanks for the Jemocratisation of traffic in Hyde Park. ** ♦ * The Prince of Wales, who will soon be in the United States, wants the American people to know him in some other capacity than merely that of "a regular fellow” who faJls off his horse systematically and frequents Parisian cabarets. He is. in fact, one of the hardest working young men in Great Britain. His daily program in busy times like these discloses a series of activities that keep him go ing day and night, and often on the wing from one end of the Kingdom to the other. His job is to represent the royal house bn an endless variety of public and semi-public occasions. The unaffected, tireless and smiling manner In which he weathers the con stant ordeal is responsible for his popularity, which amounts to down right affection. 4 4 4* Every American visitor to Britain is cross-examined about prohibition. There Is a dry movement In this country, but there seems little pros pect, in the measureable future, that it will ever get anywhere. Labor, it is said, would oppose it. tooth and nail. Tho British liquor interests leave no stone unturned to advertise the epidemic of lawbreaking that is alleged to have resulted from pro hibition in the United Slates, and urge Brttons to take timely warning from that horrible example. Our country is depicted, too, as succumb ing in terrifying degree to the drug habit, as one of the direct effects of Srohibition. Britain has not gone ack to pre-war liquor licensing laws. Hourse of sale In public houses (saloons) are still restricted, though not as much as in war-time. Drunk enness Is not wholly eradicated, but It is vastly less than In the old days. ♦* * * This observer asked one of the foremost industrialists of Great Brit ain—a steel and Iron magnate ot Sheffield —for the British business view of America's high-tariff policy. He rejoined: "We. of course, think it is a mis take from your point of view-; that It is restricting your exports and is locking In your gold; is undoubtedly costing you $315,000,000 per annum, and increasing the cost of production and the cost of living On the other hand, there is no doubt that we are finding it easier to compete with American manufacturers in other markets, owing to’ your hlgh-tarlll policy.” (Copyright. 1924.) sorted “in the assurance that the ar guments pro and con will be consid ered by a judge learned in the crim inal law and presumably a trained abd clear-headed logician. proof against mere emotional and senti mental attack.” The Duluth HeraJd is glad “the public is spared the sick ening details of a ghastly revelation of the depths of horror to which ab normal human minds can sink.” In the opinion of the Newark New* “the plea of guilty and the statement of counsel represent not so much a sur render to the inevitable as a last-ditch defense In a desperate extremity. Wip ing out the expected reliance on insanity to save Leopold and Loeb from the ex treme penalty, their counsel retains a doubtful opportunity to employ some fine shading of the element of moral re sponsibility and the chance of convinc ing a dispassionate Judge of what he ad mits no Jury could be convinced—that the extreme penalty should be with, held.” The Flint Journal considers “the move was a shrewd play upon psychol ogy. upon the chance that the court would not undertake of bis own respon sibility to impose the death penalty.” Another possibility, the Sioux City Jour nal notes, is that Attorney Darrow may intend to demand trial if the court passes sentence more severe than is ex pected, and “it appears to most persons that Leopold and Loeb have better than an even chance to save their worthless lives.” *♦ ♦ ♦ “Clarence Darrow is shrewd.” agrees the Brooklyn Eagle, “his plea of guilty on behalf of Leopold and Loeb is clever,” for ‘trial will go on without a Jury, the defense merely seeking to pre sent evidence as to the moral responsi bility of the young men and frankly acknowledging that the defendants ‘should be permanently Isolated from so ciety,’ ” but “whether this will actually save the lives of the criminals is uncer tain,” because “we have little doubt that the prosecutor is fully confident that he can prove the youths entirely sane and worthy of nothing but the death pen alty.” The Judge “will have to face the Issue squarely and surrender to the con sequences of his decision.” concludes the Reading Tribune, and “it Is his job that should arouse sympathy, for Jt-4* -his decision which, will gratify or anger a nation.” (this and thatl ! I J BV C. K. mCBWGM,. Most bobbed-hair ladies think it adventure enough to go to the beauty parlor to gel their “crowning glory" clipped. Washington girls and women by ' the hundred during the past six months have succumbed to the lure of the short locks. Men of the National Capital, hus bands, sweetheartsj brothers, have stood aloof while this universal bar tering has gone on. If the operation turns out successfully they are the first to crow. If not, they keep jvise silence. It may be stated right here, that In the majority of cases the bobbing is a success. That fact Is shown beyond, peradvenlure, indeed, by the continual procession of women to the shops. If bobbing the hair were not some time more than a craze or simple fad it would have died out. long ago. like ping pong or diablo. The fact that It Is on the Increase shows there is something to it. ♦ ♦♦*•■• One local girl, however, had her real adventure In bobbed hair after she had her dark locks cut. By the way, should It be bob hair, bobbed hair, bob-haired or bobbed haired? Maybe Francis Dc Sales Ryan, who has been keeping Wash ington in the straight and narrow path of English undeflled lor many years, can help out. This girl, the bobbed-hair heroine of this tale, got into more trouble as a result of her new way of wearing her hair than did Helen of Troy. Helen let her shining glory "run wild," with the result that her Charming head is given credit lor having sunk a thousand ships. Who can say—if Helen had bobbed her hair the whole history of the world might have been changed! To get back to the Washington girl, however. She is a little miss who, at the time of this story, bad a good job with a big local concern. How her bobbed hair got her fired from her job is the purpose of this writing. No, you arc all wrong; the boss did not come into the office the next day, take a look at her and exclaim: "Miss Smith. 1 will have no bobbed hair girls in my employ. 1 will utand for rouge and powder and will admit that you put them on with discretion. I am game for touching up the eye lashes, if necessary, or pinking the finger nails. Nobody in this shop ever heard me kick about short skirts or send out an order that waists had to be higher in the neck. But I draw the line at this short-hair business. Miss Smith, vou are fired!’’ No. it wasn’t like that at all. It is an entirely new sort of story, and If you have any doubt about It just hang on to the end. You will see! ** * * Miss Smith—we will call her that for convenience, for she is a real girl and might get angry If her true name were used—had a nice job with her firm. She is—-or was—ambitious to get ahead. That was one reason she got her hair bobbed. It was so much less trouble to fix. took less time to wash and dry, looked better, felt bet ter. Ask any of your woman ac quaintances. She did her little job well, then in her epare momenta looked around for something else to do. She had read some of these efficiency books, you know—the sort that gives you per fectly good advice. The trouble with them is that the boss never seem* to have read them. Sometimes he doesn't seem to know what he ought , to do! Miss Smith studied other jobs, as well as filled her own. She was ready In case of need to step into the shoes of the employe just ahead of her. ; Had she done this, in a literal sense, of course, she would have presented a strange sight, as Miss . her superior, wore number 7 oxfords. Miss Smith wears 3<£. ♦* * * One day she heard that there was to be a meeting of the male em ployes of the firm. Women were not invited. Firm business was to be discussed In a big way. with out-of town officials present. It looked like a big night. Mias. Smith wondered how on earth she could get into that meeting. She tried suggesting to the boss that she be allowed to take notes, or just at tend as a guest, but was met with polite refusals. It was to be a “stag affair," pure and simple. "Just because you’ve got bobbed hair won’t get you into that meet ing," declared Jimmie, the office boy, with an affectionate grin. If some one had stuck a pin. Into the vivacious Miss Smith her reaction would have been no greater. “By George!” she shouted to the astonished Jimmie. “Just because I have bobbed hair is why 1 will get Into that meeting!” ** ♦ * A hurried trip to the beauty parlor late that afternoon and Misa Smith had the best “shingle bob" you ever saw. or any one ever saw. She look ed just like a boy. When she retired to her room and got into the salt of clothes that Jim mie had loaned her she looked exact ly like a boy. The possessor naturally of the much coveted “boyish, straight” lines. Miss Smith would have passed as a slender young man almost anywhere. Later that evening, however, as she confidently stepped into the bril liantly lighted building whore the important office meeting for man employes was being held, a feeling of trepidation suddenly came over her. It mads her feel as she did that morning she went to the beauty par lor for the first time and uttered those historic words, “Bob my hair.” This time, however. It was as If she had entered the portals of the largest men’s barber shop in the world and all the patrons were eyeing her as she walked down a hall 10,000 feet long to the only empty chair. ** * * Whew! She entered the door, hut nobody said a word. She went to her seat, but nobody paid any particular attention. She sat down, and the men kept on talking. She smiled shyly, but no one said anything. She began to realize the loneliness of men among men they do not know. Then the meeting started. "Big" offi cials of the company made speeches. Firm matters were discussed. It was Just a simple staff meeting. There was no reason why she should not have been there. It Interested her very much, though, and she was sorry when the evening was over. Elation filled her heart as she start ed for the door amid a mass of com rades all bent on the same objective. Here she was, a girl among 200 men, and not a one had recognized her! She neared the door, pile more step—and out! With a crash she slipped on a rug. fell against a large slid to the floor, pulling the screen on top of her.’ •• - *’■ Men hurried to help. They pulled the screen off, and as she lay there an unholy desire to laugh came ever her.. - Bht giggled. . GONDOLIER FIGHTS FORHISEXjSTENCE Venice Sees Struggle to Keep Ancient Craft Against , Motor Boats’ Rise. SUPREME FOR CENTURIES Evolution of Environment Like Flippers of Seals and Ducks’ Web Feet. A recent demonstration by indig nant gondoliers in Venice because of the increasing use of motor boats on the canals of the city may have the moat elementary economic considera tion at it* rgots—the fight to hold one’* Job—but there is much more at the bottom of it as well, according to a bulletin from the Washington head quarters of the National Geographic Society. "Venice’s environment evolved the gondola almost as truly as an aquatic life changed legs Into ’ flippers for seals or put web Wet on ducks," says the bulletin. "Venice not only has ‘water avenues/ large canals in which motor boats can operate, but also many scores of narrow and shaMou 'water lanes’ and ’water alleys’ where the use of mechanically-propelled *’ ou W he out of the question Probably no other boat as large as a gondola, even though driven bv oar or pole, could navigate these email channels successfully. Extreme light nees of draft, and ability to turn and swerve about agilely, are the chief requirements made fay Venice’s cana! traffic, and every line and curve of a gondola seems designed to achieve these ends. Like Skate Gliding Over Surface. “This distinctive is more like a .skate gliding over a surface than a boat ploughing inta it. Both ends are curved up and the bottom Is flattened. The weight of the gondolier in the stern tends to raise the prow and the boat seems eager to ciim’b out of the water at every stroke Al though a few- motor boats have oper ated satisfactorily for years on the broad Grand Canal, one can imagine their troubles in a traffic jam on even the medium-sized waterways to be not unlike those of a farm tractor set down among the darting dodging taxlt».bs of Fifth avenue. "Even if it were not surely pro tected by the existence of the smaller canals, sentiment would fight ably with the gondoliers for the life of their institution—for it is little lea*. One can hardly Imagine Venice with out gondolas. And the gondoliers themselves are aji important factor in Venetian life. Henry James called these sturdy, sun-bumed. water-lov ing men ’the true children of Venice.’ They typify much more closely than the merchants and artisans and gen try. on their pile-mad-- ground, the spirit of the founders of Venice, who built up among the waters the un equaled maritime world power of its day. lUaek by Law. 'The visitor To Venice for the first time is sure to be disappointed in the appearance of the gondola. So much that is romantic has been asso ciated with these boats that the stranger unconsciously expects them to be gayly decorated. But each Is like all the rest, a somber, unrelieved black. The powerful council of the old Venetian republic provided for this dusky hue back in the sixteenth century, and the requirement has been followed as faithfully ever since, as If the mighty ten still held unques tioned powers of life and death over all the citizenry. One explanation of the queer law is that Venetians were squandering too much money vicing with one another in decking their gondolas with costly trappings. An other is that it was to lend prestige to authority. At any rate the edict excepted the gondolas of the doge and the* foreign ambassadors which were, richly embellished In gold and crimson. Ganges of Prosperity. “At the height of Venetian pros perity the wealth of certain individ uals might be measured by the num ber of gondolas they maintained as in America today one’s bank account may sometimes be inferred from th< automobiles he owns. At the present time there are relatively few pri vately owned gondolas. They serve as taxicabs with ’stands’ at promi nent points along the canal banks. Some Venetian families hire a gon dolier and his boat from month to month; and as is true of chauffeurs hi some moderately well-to-do fami lies in the United States, the gondo lier,’ when not rowing his boat, may act as butler or general man-servant about the house. “The gondola is first mentioned in manuscripts of 1094 A. D.. but had probably been evolving from forms not greatly different since the first Venetians took up their abode on the lagoon mud-banks several centuries earlier. The unusual craft has flour ished only where it was born, and is hardly known in other parts of the world save as a curiosity, or to give a breath -of Venice to the ornamental lakes of world fairs. One of the few transplantations of the gondola tha' has been attempted was to the Grand Canal that Louis XIV built at Ver sailles In 1674. These boats, a gift of Venice, unlike their patterns, were brilliantly decorated. A colony of Italian gondoliers and their families was established in the Parisian suburb and remained until the French Revolution.” Bridge Rated Unsafe. Harpers Ferry Structure Said to Be Damaged by Flood. To the Editor of The Star: I was indeed glad to read your very timely and appropriate editorial in laat Saturday’s Star concerning the Harpers Ferry toll bridge. I should not complain regarding the exaction of a toll for crossing the Po tomac River from Maryland to Har pers Ferry, but the construction of this toll bridge at the present time is a public menace. The damage to the | bridge caused by the recent floods! has been only temporarily repairedl and it would have been better toj have closed the bridge entirely ami erect a new structure during the! Summer 'months rather than run the! risk of a "Very serious accident whicl* would possibly entail the loss of life! It Was my experience In crossing! the bridge on Friday last that I hadl to back my, machine completely off ■the bridged onto the Maryland side be cause another automobile was coming 4n the opposite direction and there •was n© room for both cars to pass. The bridge is privately owned; hence it Is a toll bridge and will doubtless continue as such as long as it is privately owned. However, unless either the Stale of Maryland or TVest Virginia takes prompt action for the protection of the traveling public who cross this bridge I fear a very serious accident is likely to occur In my judgment the structure of the bridge is unsafe, and rather than making temporary repairs, an entirely new and rnoder n bridge should have been built after a span had been washed away by th-4 May flood. The present structure is a’ relic of the past generation, wholly -ttMttUe* -to- present • -day .modaa- of