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iMUE EVENING STAR
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TRIDAY February 17. 1928
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Valuation and Profits.
As was expected criticism of the pro
posed traction mercer p'.an. from the ;
public point of view, as expressed by a j
committee of the Federation (f Citizens’
Associations, pitches mainly upon the |
two points of capitalization and profti
guarantee Preparations are being
made by that body to attack the figures ;
presented by the corporations in respect
to valuation, and to enter objection to I
the seven per cent stipulation in regard j
to net earnings. Other features of the
plan are questioned, and proposal is i
made for the addition cf certain guar
antees of sendee.
A rapid transit corporation is given 1
♦he right to use the public streets not 1
primarily for the sake of permitting :
those who form it to make money, but |
for the purpose of affording sendee to j
the community, it is a public utility. ’
which is vested, for perhaps an indefi- i
mite term, in an association of indi- J
riduals who sell transportation to the j
people at rates which are regulated by ,
the community, through officially dcsig- j
rated commissions. There are two con- J
sidermtions in the case, that of the qual- j
fir of sendee rendered and that of the !
cost to the users. The quality cf service
*nd the cost are factors in the financial j
equation. Primarily, however, comes
the financial investment upon which
the rate of net earnings allowable is to
be based.
It is the duty of the Public Utilities
Commission, in its review of the merger
proposal, to determine, first, whether j
the capitalization, or valuation, cf the
combined properties is equitable to the •
corporation and to the community Thie
ls a difficult matter. Many factors enter j
Into the computation. The rights o! j
those who have contributed their funds
to the capital of the individual com- !
panics, merger of which is proposed, j
are to be considered. Primarily, how- j
ever, the rights of the public, a non
' investing partner, art to be borne in,
mind. An excessive capitalization or
valuation will lead to excessive rates of
fare in the future.
That there have been substantial in
vestments, in cash, in the properties of
the rapid transit corporations is known
That there have been some expansions
of the capital not based upon actual
values is believed. Whether the pres
ent computation cf values presented for
purposes of merger will withstand the
test of actuarial scrutiny remains to be ;
seen. Upon the Public Utilities Com
mission. in the first stage of the matter, ,
will depend the answer to this question j
For a long period there was a consid- j
creole difference between the financial,
situations of the two traction compa
nies . One of them, with a larger plant j
gnd potentially larger earning powers,
was handicapped by what the public S
believed to be ar. excessive capitaliza
tion. To enable it to earn a reasonable
return the rate of fare for the District, ;
affecting both companies, was ad
vanced. It was then that merger was
actively urged as the only sure means
of equalizing the conditions and per
mitting a reduction in the fare rate for
the benefit of the public. The disparity
between the companies has now disap
peared.
Fare fixing should be based upon co&t
of service, plus reasonable profit. Cost
cf service includes "overhead" as well
as actual operation cost Reasonable
profit means profit upon reasonable
valuation. That is the problem which
in broad terms, is now presented to the
Public Utilities Commission for solu
tion, as the basis of a recommendation
to Congress which must pats ar. en
abling act to permit the merger
So general it the appeal of prohibi- i
tion that even some of the most pros
perous bootleggers are supposed to be
in favor of it
A Well Behind Clown.
Eddie Foy *s dead It *e*m# in
credible, for Eddie Foy ha* been for so
many years a fig ire on the stage that
he has seemed perennial, timeless. He
begar. hi* career as a clog dancer nearly
aixty years ago and ne continued to ’he
last day of hia hie to contribute to the
amuvmeni of the American public. He
was an institution Never great in his
parte, never varying from the pro- ;
pounced individuality of hi* perform
antut. simply an Irresistible Clown h
made mlihone laugh in ’he course of
tilt long career He i»ad t.a'urai gH’s
es mimicry and *tt endowed with a
rare ag.ji’y tfia’ enabled Him to prank
delightfully on the stag* He early de
veloped from * mere dancer into *
COftieeuan H* nafl a funny vobe a
tinny !■'.*, a funny manner funny
fat and the </rmbir*a'ion flrsadr * strong
apt/ea. upon ’n« favor of audien'es
Nature east h.m in 'he
gu.e. of funmaxer. lie could not i.;eve
beer, serous in hu work by any < nance
fifh timers was a pa’he-Uc tide. u> him,
for it *u known that it* aidently de
fired to do a l.ig.'P-r grade of part* than
those for which Ja: was cast Every
How and then H was anrwuhced, with
vnat einoerUy is r*ut to ire determined,
that fcdd* Foy *s* going into th*
" Toe public back * tii*
Statement as imitiy a bit of pm*
a*»nvry Wiar. some yea it ago l< was
a** ! ed »ha< Mamie* was the goal of
gftif r/mr.i performer 'he joae was so
tape 4c*• trust u »u i*» mc »*.*'. in*
A
clown had given up hope of attaining
higher lines. Foy—hla birth name was
Fitzgerald, though few knew the fact—
remained a buffoon to the end. and he
worked as such to the very last. He was
| playing in the Iroquois Theater in Chi
j fAgn when that house burned, with a
i heavy loss of lire. With his little son.
: who was watching the performance in
i the wings, in his arms he started to es-
I cape. He saw that the people were in
a panic. Passing his boy to a stage
i hand he went down into the auditorium
1 and strove valiantly to stem the stain
; pede. He remained until he was him
self severely burned, and then desisted
and fled for his own life. This action
• marked him for special distinction, but
j Foy refused to regard his deed as of i
( moment. He was beloved by all his a«-
' soeiates of the stage and by the count
< levs numbers who. during two genera
tions. saw him in action. It is given to
some to rise to heights of distinction
I through serious meriis. Eddie Foy
| sained a high place in the hearts of ;
i people bv his clowning, which was al- ;
ways elenn and wholesome. He gave j
’. ri his best that men and women might
jby laughter find enjoyment and case
j from care.
Exit Dr. Pueyrredon.
j More than one good crusader has;
I found his lance broken at the hilt, him
! self rudely dismounted in a cloud of
dust and his erstwhile fiery warhorse
galloping madly away. And this has
been the fate of Dr. Honorio Pueyrre
! don, Argentina's Ambassador to Wash
ington and the leader of her delegation
: to the sixth international meeting of
American states at Havana. From th?
first he has been a crusader, and:
| his joust* with the United States Dc- !
: p.artment cf Agriculture have been :
; merry affairs, indeed, cabled at length '
from Washington for the avid reading '
of his friends, the farmers of Argen-1
I tina He rode bravely into the melee i
at Havana, and his colors soon were
found flying where the fight was hot
test. At the outset he threw down his |
gauntlet as a challenge for "open cove- j
; rsants openly arrived at." But no one j
! regarded his gesture as a challenge. He \
i unexpectedly found agreement instead j
; of disagreement, and the policy of open i
' meeting was adopted.
Then he struck at greater things. He j
took the attitude that a pan-American j
; oonferenre is a legislative body which
i might enact into international law a
proposal that would prohibit all inter- j
; vention by any state in the internal I
affairs of another. A few followed in j
his tram, but it was when he stood for j
the principle of injecting tariff disputes
; into the peaceful functions of the Pan-
American Union that he found himself
almost deserted. It was here that he
broke his lance and lost his stirrups, for
he found himself not. as he had hoped,
in combat with Uncle Sam alone, but
with an overwhelming majority of the
twenty-one states represented at the
conference. From the sublime heights
of a noble crusade he descended to a
ridiculous charge against a windmill.
Dr Pueyrredon will probably rbtum
| to Argentina, where his skill and ability
as a statesman and politician may ye*
lead him to the presidency of that great
and friendly republic. In the mean
time, the good that came of his serv
' tecs at Havana is not to be discounted.
’ It was through his instrumentality that
t those force*, so much talked about as
being opposed to the United States,
were led into the open. And what did
they show? Instead of finding this Na
tion. with its terrifying imperialism,
fighting a lone h3.nd against the Latin
American group. Argentina instead was j
placet# in the minority, surrounded by a j
handful of the faithful, while the prin- j
ciplcs upheld by the United States were i
| those that found favor with nearly every •
•*ther republic represented
The insistence of the Argentine dele- S
| gation had become a serious obstacle to !
j the smooth progress of those subjects
!on the conference agenda favored by
| the majority. Mr. Hughes may have ,
‘ been on the point of asking Dr Pueyrre
| don:
"Pcrb»»’s it was right to dissemble your j
love,
But—v.,,y did you kick me downstair*?"
For that seemed to be what Dr
Pueyrredon had in mind. The removal *
j of the leader of the Argentine delega
tion may enable the conference, in the
few days remaining before Its adjourn
ment, to reach agreements which other
wise would have been impossible.
Present political discussion ignore*
the adage to the effect that the early
spotlight does not invariably disclose j
the successful candidate for,nomina
tion.
Perhaps It is ill-advised to isjum?
that the proper way to salute a man
like Lindbergh is to make every land
ing an excuse for presenting a lie*
questionnaire
The Profile * Pro*pect.
Franconia Notch now lies buried
deep in Winter drift* and The Old
Man of the Mountain" gazes as nxedly
< as ever over a bleak landscape wherein *
only the dark conifers relieve the mo
; notchy of mo*\ ice and rock It will
< not be many moons, however, before
people from *ll part* ot the United
'Stater, Including It* Capital City, will
be touring through that gap in ’he |
White Mountain# and pausing to Juok j
up. no matter how many urnes they •
may have seen it before, at the Great
Stone Face which Inspired Nathaniel
I Hawthorn* and ha* inspired so many
j other thousands who lacked Haw*
'.home's powers of expression.
I* iveems that unless prompt step*
aie taken by those who bast love
natures handiwork unadorned and un
.v.arred by the hand of man, ih<- Old
Man may in the not far duMont fu
ture he surveying a scene far more
bleak and desolate than that created
by Winter, The canny lumberman us
greedily eyeing the densely wooded sides
of th- notch. Tfiere unless a national
campaign sponsored by the ffoeiety tot
the Protection of New Hampshire Kor
e*'s la fully and soon successful, Hie
|»* will ring and the < ant-dog will
.dick and tit* whip-saw will whine Tint
result is but i/*i well known to ajj who
] have viewed recently lumbered north
I woodland The society has broadcast a
| picture, "faxed * but faked In a g<u>d
j cause by a Boston newspaper, showing
| irow the slopes Just underneath the
i jutting rock formailon will )<<ok in
: s.u< n a rase ft is an *r< urste and a
i dec/hat# a»er*e
I I Th# sum needed to buy and for ever
preserve tiie «,bOO acres of truss d*«Uv
THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C„ FRIDAY, FEBftTTAKY 17. 1928,
itles in their primitive beauty 1* $400,-
000. To show what New Hampshire
herself thinks of the notch, she has ap
nropriated half the amount from her
none too bursting treasury. To show
what New' Hampshire's governor, Hunt
lev N. Spaulding, thinks personally of
this asset of his Statq. he has Just
made an individual contribution of
*I.OOO. Under the Will of the late James
J. Stomnv SIOOOOO was generously set
aside as a contribution to this fund,
j leaving a amount to be raised
iby popular subscription. The society
has “in hand" from this source today
about $36,000. with $25,000 more “in
sight," The remainder, it admits, is
"uncertain."
I In comparatively recent years it was
found that weather and frost were dis
integrating the tremendous boulders
which long-ago glaciers hewed ami
piled into the form of a human profile
Just In time a clever quarryman, at
great risk, hardship and expense, was
| empowered to install steel bolts and
I cables which, properly looked after,
: are calculated to hold it together for
Jan indefinite period of time. The
; Great Stone Face was saved for gencra
! tions yet unborn. Now its view, and
i that of its viewer, must be saved. It
! is realized that Washingtonians have
many calls on their purses from rauses
much nearer home, nevertheless there
must be some who have mellow mem
ories of a ride through the cool, leafy
canyon of Franconia Notch, accom- j
panied by the creamy waters of that
lovely brook that rushes to help form <
the infant Pemigewassett River, or who ;
have promised themselves that Sum- ,
mer pleasure, v.ho can and will send j
] something to the treasurer of the so-j
i ciety. headquarters of which are at i
, Boston.
One Every Minute.
| A visitor to Washington recently j
walked out of his hotel and asked a |
man to g't a one-hundred-doliar bill i
I changed for him He had never seen j
j ’he man before. When the fellow dis- |
! appeared around the corner It was the
| last time the visitor ever saw either him
j or the hundred-dollar bill.
! The police vouch for this story, else
j it would be almost, if not quite, unbe- j
I lievab’e. Faith in human nature is,
{r, wonderful quality, but too much trust j
j in strangers—especially when one is in j
I a strange city—Ls something else again !
i The world presents a twofold aspect j
; Frcm one viewpoint it may be regarded
I as a place wherein honest men w alk J
j among dishonest. From another, a rt |
glen where dishonest men lurk for the j
honest,
Whether one looks at life front the
standpoint of the respectable or the un- i
respectable citizen, he will equally come j
to the conclusion that a little common j
sense will save a great deal of trouble !
all around.
Life is not all warfare, a great city j
Ls not just a place where sharpers lie in j
wait tor suckers. But no one wants to j
be a sucker—so why hand a stranger a '
hundred-dollar bill? Barnum was right. I
I M» ■
Young Mr. Bruce, son-in-law of Sec
retary’ Mellon, has become a fifty-dol
lar-a-week bank clerk. He is in line
for promotion, of course. His refusal
to rank as one of those who "begin
at the top" cannot fail to win confl- j
dence in connection with future rela
tionships.
The Latins are fond of music. The 1
situation might be mollified if. in addi- (
tion to fighting Marines, a detachment i
of the Marine Band could be sent to J
j Nicaragua under the leadership of the .
j now unengaged Bill Santelman.
; With Harvey Firestone providing tires, j
Henry Ford in charge of general con
i struction and Thomas Edison super- i
j v ising the ignition, the Herbert Hoover j
bandwagon must be regarded" as being I
in remarkably good shape.
j Jazz music is a recognized institu- j
i Mors, but it will never found an Ameri-1
; can school of opera until a poet is j
discovered who can keep up with its |
complicated rhythms.
Study of the power Industry brings
up a question not only of power but j
of authority.
SHOOTING STARS.
BY FHILANDKR JOHNSON.
Untruth.
If you can smile when thing* go wrong |
' And hide each sorrow in a song.
When all is said and done,
I truly feel constrained to say
As you pretend from day to day,
You're no George Washington
Os course, you make a proper move,
As you the scenery improve
With imitation fun.
And when a figure gay you rut.
You merit much approval—but
You're no George Washington,
Insincere Patriotism.
■ Are you one of the men who think
i all persons connected with the Govern
ment are overpaid?"
I am not." answered Senator Sor
ghum "I cannot believe that any citl*
, zen. in or out of Government service.
: would commit himself to the idea of
; less pay and more work."
Nothin* New.
i Bill Shakespeare understood hi* art
As well as author* of today,
i He learned the naughty words by heart
And put them Into many a play.
Jud Tunklns says an art gallery
shows you how ‘careless women were
about dress before they h»d fashion
i magazines
Suitable ( elebrstion.
"Mow will >,ou celebrate Washing
lons birthday?"
I shall avoid telling a single un
truth "
How can you In* sure of that?"
"For twenty-four hours 1 shall ob
; serve a vow of silence"
——-
j "Men cannot be wholly at peace."
-.aid Hi tio the ssge of Chinatown ;
j "until professed affection is ea con- j
1 j stent, and sincere a# a concealed!
' j thought of hatred "
I * »•- "irr-nwrr
N« Gratuitous Reformer.
i; My neighbor hae been very rude,
Rut I shall not berate him
Why should I generously Intrude
And try to educate him?
'George WashUM'd," said Uncle
J Kiien, "is glorified one day each Feb u
i ary Rot dat Ananias Club keeps open
ah as year round. ‘
THIS AND THAT
UY CHARLES E. TRACER ELL.
The brook gave the beholder an ab
surd and childish pleasure. .
Not often, indeed, does one find a
babbling brook in a city back yard.
It was all of 3 feet wide as it mean
dered across the rear of the lot this
side of the garage. An imposing cul
vert allowed automobiles to cross.
One got all the thrill of water with
out any of its dangers, for not even
the most optimistic person could imag
ine that even a sparrow could drown
in such an infantile stream nr that by
any possibility nature could make it
overflow its little banks.
Yet the beholder saw possibilities in
it. After all. what is better than possi
bilities? As long as there's life there's ;
hope, went the old saying, and as long
as there are possibilities there are op
portunities.
If the possibilities arp not there,
however, the opportunities will never
eventuate —and this applies as well to
a brook as to a man or to a nation.
The brook in the back yard might
be the happiest playground for chil- ;
dren in the world, or it might be turned
into th° central note of a real garden, ;
and this either with or without dam
ming.
It seemed to come from Nowhere on
the North and disappear into Nothing j
on the Left, a clear trickle of water in j
its tiny bed. making a small plashing
sound as it gurgled along.
* >je sjc 4c
One could not help but wonder if it
would really emulate Lord Tennyson's
1 famous stream. Would it really go on
I forever? Would its slight but none the
j less actual murmur, the sort one reads
; about in poems, continue to send forth
j its natural music years hence, when
j this house should be old?
! One tell to wondering about all this
! as he stood there in the mud at the
I rear of the yet unfinished house and
j grounds, with red clay where green
grass would be. and an unfinished look
■ wh'-re later would be perfection,
i Who would buy this home?
It might be a family with an innate ,
j appreciation for the brook and its pos-
I sibilities, or it might be some who
! would scorn it and make light of it,
! as if a brook in one s back yard was a
I matter of small consequence or per-
I haps even a shame.
! If a man and wife got this place who
believed m the brook, they would dream
of the brook and nothing else for weeks
at a time. Long before their first, Spring
I in this place they would see the brook
with finished banks.
J In imagination they would see clean,
small pebbles along its course < which
I they would have put there, of course.)
! They would see the banks built up. so
j that the stream would have an actual
j course
j They would soe Japanese iris, water
Ilovcis. growing over there against the
garage, gorgeous white Japanese iris, j
such as one may see when Spring and
j Summer meet in the White House gar-}
dens.
j They would see hosts of naturalized
i croei and narcissi dotting the greening
; grass like stars in the Summer night
They would see whole tribes of little
i birds, including the beloved songsters, ,
; with heqp and there a-fat robin, bath
i ing in this natural "bird bath,” drink
ing of its waters.
They might even ronjure up, so
; mighty is the power of the imagination.
I a pool created by the brook flowing
!in at one end and out th<* other. Here,
| in little, man might produce something
WASHINGTt)N <)BSERVATIONS
1
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM I THE.
His anti-McNary-Haugen reputation
■ to th? contrary notwithstanding, Calvin
Csolidg? continues to be the farmers'
favorite candidate far President in 1928
At least, that's the story told in the
| March number of the Farm Journal,
For several months that widely circu-
J lated Philadelphia magazine has been
straw-polling the bucolic brethren. Al
-1 though CooUdge's 'choose" dictum is
t now more than six months old. the
j farmers keep on voting for him The
J latest figures, covering about 40.000 bal
f lots cast in all parts of the country.
1 show the President far in the lead. His
I total is 11.893. Lowden comes next with
i 6.262: smith, with 4 983: Hoover, with
! 4 S3B and Borah, with ! 820. Senator
j "Jim" Heed polls 1,793 farm vot-s. and
Dawes rolls up 1 38* Some R 000 votes
• arc scattered among otner candidates.
** a *
President Coohdge received about 32
per cent of the total above dissected
j The editor of the Farm Journal, afer
i analysing the count State by State, ex
! presses the opinion that the President’s
: farm strength will eventually be split
between Lowden and Hoover The poll
■ indicates that Lowden s popularity is
j sectional and confined for the most part
to the corn-belt States of the Middle
West, Hoover’s support is much more
widely distributed The Secretary of
Commerce is weakest in the regions
where lowden is strongest But thr
overshadowing feature of the agricul
tural test vote Is that about, one out of
every three Republican farmers still
favors Coohdge. The Farm Journal re
marks: ’ Their persistence I* a remark
able circumstance, whether it indicates
the President’s great popularity, nr the
weakness of other candidates, or both."
** * *
In the rooms of the Senate commit
tee on post offices and post roads of
which Senator George It, Mo*** Re
publican, of New Hampshire 1*
chairman, hangs a small fortune
in pictures They are only two m
number, but are both masterpieces.
One is an original Gilbert Stuart por
trait of George Washington, valued at
$40,000 Across from it is displayed a
painting of Henry Lawrence, president
of the First Congress of the United
States, bv John Singleton Copley, emi
nent English artist The Lawrence por
trait is worth $60,000. It was made
i while the subject was a prisoner In th-
Tower of lamdon, the British having
captured the American patriot on the
high seas while he was rn route to the
Netherlands on a diplomatic mission for
the Colonies. The picture was ac
quired for the United States Govern
ment at a London auction of an old
English manor house collection some 40
year* ago. In Lawrence's background
can be discerned the faint outlines of
the tower,
** * *
Former Keimtor Robert L, Owen of
Oklahoma deposes and says he's Inter
ested In "closer co-operation of pro
gressive Republicans end Democrats"
rather than in anything so formidable
us Die formation of a new Progressive
party Owen thinks Senator Brook hart
put Uie matter in a nutshell tills week
when he told the Renata Unit a "Jeffer
son Democrat" and a Lincoln Repub
| (lean ' are of about the same kidney It
<is this idea, Owen believes, which is
! leading to effective co-operation In
j Congress belwaen Republican Pi ogres
slves und the Democrats during the
present session Gwen may he heard
from before the Democrats decide upon
U»eir l nun presidential nominee The
party still labels the Federal Reserve
ad as Its greatest constructive ac|i|eve
t menl In modem times The Okta
! tinman, of Indian ancestry. Is accounted
| by nmst authorities the principal archl
i led of Iha system which has become
the tied rock of American economic se
curity Many Democrata consider him
worthy national Umber
* * «* a
l/mls Ludlow, Washington corre
spondent and late president of the Na
tional Press Club addressed the Indiana
Democratic Editorial Association In In
dianapolis last night on Ute timely topic
of ’ What's the Matter With Indiana?"
i Ludlow thinks there’s nothtuH the mat
ter with hi-' Rooster land This Is 111-
fervent fashion in which he dealt with
great, there being Intense satisfaction
m compelling nature to do what man
w'llls. This ls part of the pleasure man
kind always has derived from dams,
tunnels, waterfalls.
In these utilizations of nature and
her objects, man has managed to turn
the eternal wisdom to his own ends,
simply and p ..ely. Nature, the inscru
table. the creator of winds, heaver of
oceans, down-thrower ot mighty cities,
; for the time being ls put in harness and
made to work the will of the puny
creature that stands there master.
* * * i*
Once clammed, this little brook would
become a placid pool, with a gurgle
at one end and a gurgle at the other.
There would be a slight agitation of the
water in it, just enough to keep it
fresh.
Tile powerful, clean odor of water
lilies, those nymphs of the flowers,
would permeate the air, under the
shade of the mighty tree flinging its
branches out over the water,
j Gold fish, silver fish would dart to
i and fro. now and then butting their
I noses against the wire screen which
j would restrain them at either end. but
; which would not prevent the brook
from gurgling in and gurgling out.
Time, intelligence, money, work, de
i sire—these would be some of the in
gredients necessary to bring all this
i about,
i Imagination, too, might plaee a bird
bridge across the brook. Who ever
heard of f. bird bridge? But the feath
ered creatures would like it, no doubt,
j It would be a perfectly built bridge, !
arch and all. but with a "road bed" I
| iust 6 inches wide. Cats. too. would ;
appreciate this dry road. There would
be no traffic conflict, it might be stated. |
between birds and cats!
i Suppose a family purchased this j
home who had no appreciation for the !
brook “What shall we do about that
dirty little trickle'of water out there
in the bark yard?" she would say.
I don’t know." he might, answer. *
"I guess we can dry it up some way.”
j "it will breed mosquitoes.” she would
add
j "The kids will be getting their feet
wet all thp time."
"If we should have a freshet or
something it would bark up into the i
basement.” .
i "Probably it would draw snakes, too." i
"Maybe we can get the citizens' as
sociation to do something about it."
The beholder, standing in the mud.
i hopes that this type of family will re
sent the brook too much to buy the
house that belongs to it.
No man ought to wrestle with a :
brook except in a friendly spirit. A
i water course is too much to have on
i one's mind unless he love it.
• The man who purchases this place
ought to be. for the sake of his own
j immortal soul, a lover of brooks and
a dreamer of garden dreams,
j He should —as no doubt hp will—wel-
I come the chance to do something dis
( ferent, to have something that verv
few families own—a real, live brook in
one's bark yard.
Suppose it should dry ujx of its own
I free will? Unhappy thought., away!
May those who take under their wing
j this bit of nature never know the un
hnnpiness of the end of their brook
Families may come and families may
go. as they do in a city, but may this
little brook go on forever, singing
dreams into the h«a4s of those who
may work them out.
-urrent events on the banks of the
Wabash and points farther away:
“My defense of our native land al
ways has been that no State is
sounder at the core than Indiana:
that our citizenship as a whole is
law-abiding and that no people any
where cherishes higher ideals: that
w hile it is true some of our officials
have been found wanting, there is
not the slightest evidence in Indiana
of public condonement of such a sit
uation. in which respect we differ
utterly from other States that ap
pear to be corrupt aud contented."
*» * *
If Senate cloakroom gossip means
anything the vote on the electric power
inquiry will not pass into history with
out further developments inside the
Democratic senatorial group. Senator
Walsh of Montana is reported in any
thing hut a mood to take his licking
King down What irks the hero of
Teapot Dome is that his own partv
leader. Senator Robinson of Arkansas
headed a bolt of no fewer than 18 Dem
ocrats against the project to liave the
Senate Itself investigate power With
j Republican Progressive support, the
Democrats, had they suffered only a
handful of defections, could easily have
carried the dav for the Walsh resolu
tion, but when more than a third of
them voted to send the investigation to
the Federal Trade Commission. Walsh
j was sunk It’s suggested that the Mon
tanan may seek a caucus for discussion
of th» mutinv aboard the Democratic
= senatorial bark
** * *
Delegates to national conventions pay
their own expenses. No organization
! funds are available That circumstance
| frequently keeps well qualified men and
women from sitting in the quadrennial
party councils where presidential can- ;
i didates are nominated An old comen- j
tion hand assures this observer that it
i costs an average of anywhere from S6OO >
to SI,OOO to be a delegate nowadays
| Such a total Includes railway travel io j
end from the convention city, hotel
I bills while there, "entertainment" and
other "Incidentals” Here and there ii
l.state or county committee well lined
with funds puts up the expenses of aj
i delegate or delegates whom it's particu
larly anxious to send to a convention j
j But m nine eases out of ten the honor
Js something the patriot in question has I
!to finance out of lus own pocket Usti- I
ally lie cor she> |s a political nobody, j
»C«t>»rl*ht lie* '
PHILOSOPHIES
in
<;lknn prank
Convenience t* the new goal of clvili-
I ration
We are Increasingly willing to trailer
| valuta for rase of operation
I 1 came upon an unconscious confea
| stop of Mils wUitngnrsa in a recent dis
| cushion of radio development by Lee 1
| Dr Forest tn the New York Times,
j Mr De Forest w«* .diacuaamg the
| main problems of radio development
on which the radio laboratories are
j now working He listed the develop
j Hunt of "mono-control receivers" as
j one of the three main problems Dr
j spile its cargo of technical terminol- j
! ogy, I quote one paragraph from h!»
| discussion:
"While many of the best .sets on the i
I market have mono-control by single
i dial, the fact Is incontestable that by
the use of vernier condensers the dis
• fcrept tuned stages will rt> every eaa*
bring up the efficiency of reception,
frequently Increasing the range as
much as 100 per cent In mass pro
duction of receiver set* there la found
tn enter a certain amount of variation
hi inductance and dilretrle capacities
impossible io avoid Where we are
working within a fraction of a kilo
cycle. a few incites more or less of
wuc or a few more drops of insulating
nnnpmmd in the coil introduce varia
tions impossible to foresee and to bal
ance out by any standardized auangr
mem of variables,"
"The conveniences of mono-control,
however" Mi De Forest concludes
itt a sememe I take for a text, "are so
obvious that one is content tn sacrifice
somewhat in range or selectivity,"
With the radio, as with every mod-
Dangers in Potomac
River Dam Are Stressed
To the Editor of Th« Star:
At the time of the recent New Eng
land floods The Star published an edi
torial pointing out the danger to Wash
ington of a series of large impounding
reservoirs and power dams in the Poto
mac River. Following closely on the :
heeb of the Lichtenstein catastrophe in I
Germany, the New England floods;
caused the breaking of dams supposed
to be more than adequate and to this
W as traceable most of the damage and
suffering The Star pointed out that
one man's opinion as to how large and
strong a dam is necessary in a given
situation is no better than any other
man's, merely because he is an engi
neer- for no one can predict the rain
fall which may be precipitated upon a
watershed. .
It seems to the writer that reiteration
of this point, of view is called for at
this tim* because of the proposal of
th« Army engineers to develop a com
promise jilan which will permit of con- j
serving the scenic beauty of the Groat (
Falls area without abandoning the j
power plan. The writer's home is in
this district and he fully appreciates
the desirability of preserving its natural
beauty, but surely the safety of the Na- j
tion's Capital is an issue the importance ,
of which far transcends its beauty, and
one on which th*re can be no compro
mise. With the development, of a power
plant by private capital for th” pur
pose of' profit, however, there can be
nothing but compromise in this matter,
becaus* the cost of construction must i
be scaled down to a money-making |
basis which, with the recent large in- I
creases in efficiency of steam turbines, |
: is not so easy as the public might be i
i led to believe.
The average layman generally ex- j
j aggerates the power available in a <
j waterfall and more particularly its
avaitebilttv. as he “stands in awe at its 1
I turbulent beauty. Harnessing Great
! Fall# as Niagara is harnessed is admit
’ tcdlv wholly without the possibility of
profit because of the great variations in
! the flow of the Potomac. Huge dam- j
, must be constructed not only to add
to the available head, but more espe
cially to equalize the seasonal variation,
and even then steam must be available ,
: to supplement the water power at times, j
i especially when the rainfall is light j
for more than a year at a time. With
the difference between the cost of water
! power and steam power rapidly decreas
-1 ing. the writer believes that in permit
ting such a development, particularly
by private capital, the Nation would
! subject itself to needless risk of a fright- \
fill catastrophe for little, if any. profit.
The ordinary’ consumer would scarcely i
notice the difference in what h? pay? i
'■ for current particularly if private eon- ,
i eerns are given control of distribution.
for even at best the cost of distribution
1 far outweighs the cost of production ;
from anv source of power.
May I be permitted to add another
observation of relatively minor impor
tance. but whs'h may have escaped th'
i attention of engineers who p’anned
the proposed Chain Bridge power dam
The normal water level behind this dam
would be 115 feet above sea level. This :
is the elevation of the level of normal
flow in Rock Run. where it flow?
through a culvert under th* city water,
conduits about 5 miles below Great
Falls I have seen this culvert two
thirds full of water when this stream
was flooded and 1t has been known tr
be practically filled Under such condi
tion* it may be estimated that as much
as 200 000 cubic feet of water per min
ute must be passed through this culvert
I Such a flood carries with it many tons
of detritis—sand, gravel, mud. etc
whi'h. with the wat*r level at 115 feet,
would obviously b* deposited in the cul
vert. clogging it at once and causing
flood waters to pile up bark of th* two
ritr water conduits, perhaps even to the
■: notjit of overflowing them and putting
j Washington's water supply in *'ri nr
j jeopardy. ALDEN A. POTTER.
Tribute Paid
I To “The Rambler."
To thf Mitor f»? Th* Stn*
Thousands of readers of The star
like mvseif never knew Mr Shannon
personally, but certainly no local writer
ever had as large and enthusiastic an
audience as he With the clippings
from The star in our hands for guide
books, we followed, on foot, horseback
and in autos, th* roads and trails he
j described so picturesquely He led us to
1 long-forgotten but historic old home?
j hidden away m the country around this
! city and told us of their past tn the most
i attractive mann*r.
: He took us through deep woods, along
i lovely little brooks and streams, where
| hidden away from prying eyes, he
showed us the crumbling wails of old
grist mills. Revolutionary foundries
1 once splendid old colonial homes and
log cabins of the early *etti?rs He
peopled them with real flesh and blood
men and women and made them live
again in our Imaginations. We fol
-1 lowed him down old roads once high-
Ivvavs. the wheel tracks and ruts now
overgrown with grass and brush They
led us to once important settlements
* now forgotten by all but for the Ram
bler and hi* love for delving into the
past, plus a keen instinct for research
H* told us more real local history
than all the historians. He showed us
more beauties of nature than all th*
artist;,. He made many lons Summer
Sunday afternoons ones of real adven
ture and profit.
I'm sure there are 10.000 or more
set ap books in Washington that are
j fairly bulging with the clippings from
J The Star written bv this kindly man .
i who called himself the Rambler They
i will furnish the motif for many a future
; harpy out in; by men and women new
; children, to whom he w ill l>e only a
name.
I We shall all mo- him May he con- f
tinue to ramble "over there." amid
green field; and pastures new
WILL C BARNES
llii* ’.’all Higher l {*.
I Emm th* Norfolk t |» »oai >
It is understood that the Chicago j
j Polire Department is to have an official ;
lot higher rank General shake-up,!
1 probably
| Tr\ tug to Ho Ho-pitalilc.
\ hum true llaiile Stir
1 Having none of the familiar machine
I guns with which to welcome Mavor
Thompson. New Orleans "n» compelled
to drag out -some of u? venerable can
non.
Superfluous,
Ernm thr tVlniit Ni «»
A New York bandit was cured of
criminality by three operations, two
i more than were performed by the old*
j time Vigilantes
—
f
ern machine the atm is to make it j
foolproof and to devise an instrument
that a child can manage as easil.v as
tt ern tut;t on a water faucet.
Year by veni we invent and perfect
| more and more mechanical rnsiru
j menu and tool* that can be managed
j bv watchers instead »{ opn rtors
For a while v.*e shall ' tunc in" on
our radios, ultimately v.e shall tun
only to "turn on" out radio*, mecha
nism will have done its perfect work |
once more.
A constant battle is going on be
tween the enjoyment ot operating and
the ease of operation of out machines
We progressively diminish the chal
lenge to tire human Ingenuity ot the :
average man
We head toward a canned goods
world.
Hut. as I said the other day, there j
Is a brig lit side to this picture, there |
are a thousand and one functions and |
operations, on winch man trad fiddled
away hr* tune and energy for ecu- j
tuitea. and from which he domes no ;
particular benefit ts we can only
standatdiae and mechanise alt these
man writ have hi* time and energv j
tt** for mere important thing*
itvamshi .VLUvns Sva,lu*t« )
ANSWERS # TO QUESTIONS
liY FREDERIC J. IIASKM.
! ’
I This Is a special department de-,
| voted solely to the handling of queries.
This paper puts at .vour disposal the
services of an extensive organization
in Washington to serve you in any ca
i parity that relates to information, j
: This service is free. Failure to make :
i use of it deprives you of benefits to!
i which you arc entitled. Your obliga
tion Is only two cents in stamps en
closed with your inquiry for direct re
ply. Address The Evening Star In- j
formation Bureau. Frederic J. Haskin,
Director, Washington, D. C.
Q. How many licensed airplane I
pilots are there? Is there plenty of
room in this field?—J. L. B
A. The Department of Commerce
says that 1.350 persons have received
pilots’ licenser,. There arc 4,145 pilots
1 who have filed applications for pilots'
! licenses. At the present time there are
j more student airplane pilots than there
jis a demand for them However, the
j airplane industry is expected to dc
' velop rapidly and th*re should be in
the near future a formation of new
| companies which will need experienced
] aviators and mechanics.
Q How thick is th* hide of a buf
falo? Os an elephant?—V. L. G
A The National Zoological Park in
forms us that the skin of a mature
buffalo is about one-sixteenth of an
! inch thick Where the hair is long,
j however, around the head and shoul
j ders, the skin is sometimes as thick as
| three-sixteenth of an inch. The skin
i of an ordinary sized elephant is ap
i proximatcly three-quarters of an inch
! in thickness.
Q What is the longest time a per
i son has stayed under water without
a breathing appliance?—l. C B
A. The diving record for d'pth and
endurance was made bv Ed Harrison,
j depth. 55 feet; under water 3 minutes
43 seconds.
Q How much money was spent bv
; the War Department last year?—C. M.
A The expenditures of the War D*-
j partment. for the fiscal year 1927. for
j miliiarv activities amounted to 5257.-
! 31R.490.i1: for non-military activities.
584.344.322.23 which sum includes
j 565.384.524 27 tor rivers and harbors,
land 52.499.904.19 tor inland and coast -
j wise waterways service.
Q What is the population of In
dia?— M. A
A I f is more than 300.009 000.
' Q Who were th* Essences? Did
‘ Jesus Christ and John the Baptist be
i lone to the order?—C W.
A Th<* Essences were a Jewish
| brotherhood which was founded orob
ablv after the Maccabees at least two
centuries before Christ, existing to
about 290 AD. The records of them
avc not found in ?h* Bible or rabbinical
1 literature, but certain proton" writers
such as Pliny. Jospppus and Philo d*-
i scribe them as religious separatists,
having a strict code of ceremonial ob
senances much rr.or® rigid than the
i ordinarv ceremonials of Judaism
' Thev a’so were celibete and lived in
communities holding all things in com
mon. Th* reouirements fe* member
shin were most rigid, recuiring long
neriod of tosfirsc end disclaim* Th*re
i is no proboV’itv that Jesus Christ was
an but it M* been "dvanned
I th«t John th* Baptist was of a type
which wotild be acceptable.
O What is t'n- amount cf rainfall
in Shanghai and Peking?—T. E.
A Dtrirg % 33-v'*r n'rmd th* *v
rrac* rr.ir'aU in Sha , ""h ,, i was 44 1
inches, and in Peking. 25 inch"'.
a How much wou’d it cost th* Gov
'-t.t'oi to do th* n*c'ssary work *n
♦he Missi&dnni Riv-r to remedy the
flc-dira problem”—B I
A The report of th* Anr.v engineers
contains an estimat* of approximately
5390.000 000 for needed works.
Q Who were the Fatimite Califs”—
E C».
A The Fe'unites were an Arabian
dynasty of Califs who reigned over
Northern Africa and Syria 909-1171.
Thev professed to trac* their descent
from Fatima, the daughter of Moham
med The califate was established by
Senate’s Vote oil Third Term
Criticized as Empty Gesturj
Whatever may be the feeling of tbr
countrv uiwaro the tradition against
third terms tor Presidents, tire action
of the present S-natc m passing »n arui
third-torm resolution seems to he Quite
genet ally regarded as Sacking signifi
cance or meet.
Emphatic rebuke comes from the
Buffalo Evenin'; New > v Republican >.
with the sUtetnent President Cooi
sdge has offered no encouragement to
those who have talked m terms of draft
ing Sum He has pointed out that the
party is well supplied with men capable
of leading the party to victory next
Kali, and has urged the national com
mittee to pne attention to the business
of selecting a new leader
The Pittsburgh Pest-Garotte Repub
lican'. referring to the resolution as
adoptixl "by a coalition of Democrats
and a group of Republicans." holds that
u has no more authority back of fi
; than if it had been adopted by some
old ladies' sewing society.' and ad
uses that if the Senate were seriously
afraid of third terms.’ it might pro
pose a constitutional amendment cov*
f erbv; tin* sub'eei "
Its tths Senate’s' opinion on th.ts
subject ’’ as th- Drtrv.nl News tmdepend
j ent> sees it, "is just about as valuable
as that of any other body of 3d Amer
ican citisens It might, and some day
nrobablv will if the idea occurs to a>mr
Senator, resolve that in poker a straight
is. and of right ought to be. higher
! than a flush ' But poker plovers out
side the Senate would still rely on
Hoyle ”
** * •
The Sen Francisco Bulletin Repub
lican' contends that to pass a resolu
tion advising the President to take a
course already announced by him is *
gratuitous insult." The Bulletin adds
that "the rest is m*rely claptrap."
“The resolution had no force of ;a»
and no excuse for introduction.’’ de-
I dares the Indianapolis Star ilndepend
i ent Republican*. while the Worcester
Telegram «independent* affirms that
; "the country needs no senatorial pro
nouncement tor its preservation against
tv»o protected incumbency of the presi
dential office ’’ The Chattanooga
j Times {independent tVm.vratic* also
otters she comment that •‘third* termtam
may be tin-American and an unsound
doctrine but the founders of the re
public seemed lo have faith and confi
dence in the people. and so it was 'eft
I to the people to sav whom thev wanted
’ to sene them and for how long
"ivmocraev the Port Worth Roeord
I’elegratn iDemoetatie* observ es, is
; the will of the mammy if more peo
pie want a candidate for President to
run (lie second third or fourth tune
thev have the democratic right to *»
to the is'Us and elect him.* The Haiti
more Kvemt'.g Pun »tsdenenti'‘nt IVmo
viatic* suggests As lor its moral effect,.
consider who passrd the revolution
Senators, all elected lot six years. many |
lof them having ahead* served longer
i than the time limit of eight years which
i thev seek to impose upon the President
and each and every one barring Am;
Heed working hard to tv re-elected '*
<* * * »
As to the tradition itself the Canton
| Daily New* undependent Democratic*
stairs "No matter how the tu%-third-
I term tradition arose it did arise and it
! has served and ought aitU to serve a
saving pmpo*e in this Republic, not
I because u U a trradtiion of veaterday,
i but because *he experience of vestetdav j
1 has proved it a sound polio* fo* today “ *
live Hanger (A'UUjputaJ v Republican*,
Obeid-Allah and he had !3 successors.
Their reign In Egypt begin In 969.
Q. Is carbon monoxide heavier or
lighter than air? Why doe* It form
i from a ga* burner?—V. M T.
A. Carbon monoxide gas 1* somewhat
i lighter than air. The Bureau of
Standards says that the escape of car
bon monoxide from gas appliances may
come from the following sources: From
incomplete combustion of the gas, either
! because there is an insufficient supply
1 of air to the flame or because of sud
den cooling of the burner ga* to below
the temperature of ignition before r*ac
tlon is complete; leakage through flex
ible gas tubing or the accidental dis
connection of such tubing from an ap
pliance; leakage from poorly fitting con
trol* cocks or defective piping: the open
ing of gas cocks without ligh'ing the
gas. whether by accident or Intent: the
accidental extinguishing of flames. The
bureau has arranged thee* five source
in what it believes to be th*ir ord*r of
relative importance. The accidental ex
tinction of flame is so rare as to merit
' comparatively little attention.
Q Which city is now considered th*
I dirtiest? —C. F.
! A. According to a series of experi
ments conducted for the American
Society of Heat and Ventilating Engi
neers, St. louis air contains the most
dust particles. In their order are S*.
Louis, 17.600 dust particles per ruble
foot: Cincinnati. 16.770: Pittsburgh.
16.100: Detroit. 15.300: Chicago. 14300;
Indianapolis, 14,300; Cleveland. 13840
1 Q. Where is Mount Ararat’—S N
A. In Eastern Turkey, approximate!'.*
at the point where the boundaries of
Russia and Persia meet that of Tur
key.
Q How many prisoners escaped from.
Libby Prison?—A. W. W.
A On February 9 1364. there was a
large delivery of Libby prisoners. 105
escaping through a tunnel. Os the**
59 ultimately reached th* Federal lines.
43 were recaptured and 2 were drowned
There were other escapes at times.
Q Are vitamins impor*ant in the
feeding of animals? —G. T D
A. At present vitamins appear of
significance chiefly in connection with
pigs and poultry, although they ms
possibly be important in connection
| with breeding animals, and also with
animals fed upon certain rations Or
dinary rations fed to animals contain
an abundance of vitamins.
Q Who chose the name for the State
of Tennessee?—E. S. G.
A Andrew Jackson helped draft the
constitution of Tennessee, and suggested
the name to the constitutional conven
tion. He said that Mrs Jackson had
suggested to him that the State be
named for the river of that name which
runs through the State. It is an Indian
name, meaning crooked spoor.
Q What is meant by a polemic
theme?—M. L. McM.
A. A polemic theme is a controversial
theme or a theme written in support cr
defense of an opinion or doctrine, es
pecially as aeainst another A well
: known examnle of pc’emics is Huxley s
• polemic vs. Herbert Spencer.
• ■■
I Q Why has Penh Amboy such an
■ odd name—F S.
A. Perth Amboy was settled in 1583
and wa« expected soon to outstrip its
1 neighbors and become the London cf
America It was named Perth, after
■ James. Earl of Perth, but Amboy, the
• anginal Indian name for the place, was
soon added. It was the capital of the
province from 1634 almost continuously
■ up to the time of the Revolution Wil
-1 ham Franklin, the last royal governor
“ was captured here in 1775. Perth Axn
, bov was incorporated as a city in 1715
i'
Q Where was Harold Lloyd, the
movie actor. b*wr. ”—E L.
A. He was born in Burchard N»br
in 1893
i Q When i* the World Conference
■ or. In:eraatior.al Justice to be held to
Cleveland. Ohio?—C O C
A. It will be h*!d May 7-11. under
■ the direction cf the Amrncan Peace
• Society.
too. finds that it :* the consensus of the
American people shat great Presidents
i of the Republic have not served beycr.d
•, ?;ght years, that Washington set the
• example, and that no mar. should be
given a longer period in the presidency
than the father of his country
"Mr Coolsdge could hat? avoided a”
this, of course,” are ties the Houston
Chronicle »Democratic ! . "by announc
ing his intention concerning re-election
in definite and unmistakable tortus
The Syracuse Herald < uidfp.ndcnt' de
clares that "the main objection to a
third term, such as it is, is based cr.
the theory that a President in power
no matter how he attained tha: power,
has at h:s command enormous resources,
including a vast army of Federal office
holders, which he can employ with tell
ing effect, if ne is so disposed, to per
petuate his control."
On? six-year term is advxvated by the
Savannah Morning N-ws -Democratic .
with the President removed from the
necessity of political maneuvering to
get a second term’ The New Orleans
Tribune «Democratic' also contends
that we muliijkv the evils of govern -
ment Quite enough already by framing
a Presidents office tenure so that he
puts tn his first four years laying lines
to be elected for a second four years,
rather than in making y.vd administra
tion his first last and mam ci* cot
WWW*
“But demagogisni easily evolves new
bogies so? new occasion* recta:k» th*
Providence Journal v independent with
the added statement Ju*t now ho oc
casion u> Mr CooUdgoX demon.'.rated
strength with the people The lYm '-
cratlc party appreciates this, while the
insurgent Republicans who voted . r the
antt-thtrd-term resolution were on. ' \v>
glad to serve, by then votes. the d u o
purpose of (mwini third tetip.s in g* •-
oral and embart aasuvg the Draft v\V
Uige vhouterv"
That Senator la Toilette au’hvr of
the resolution, ' is frankly gunning to;
those leaders in New York and o
"here who have announced that to.-v
still fs v vr the tenon nation of Pu *
dent CYxvhdge," is the opinion of be
Roc heater Hines Vnvu .rUrp'.it'o
The Philadelphia Shooing H_':o
independent Republican* th
lutiv'n is wulKHit legal effect. '*
adds Its only moral effect, if t*
have any will be a* a dts \wireg.vk '
to the talk of drafting the PrewSd'n: r-v
another tenn Thai t* one of ”v
mean* omplo'od bv five x* i Gua - d
head off the mv'vcment for the non: •*
you of Secretary HvX'ver
The incident is a sharp m»* >de'
that this 1* a pteatdenuai y- v *• :: *
the attendant temptations to .a. on*
aouvittea.' says the Manchester IT: xv
«independent Republican* and the
Hutto Daily hvsi , Reonh'io.vn' remarks
la FWleUcs V't''ixxwl e\sden.h was
‘based on the nlea that anu-thud-teim
assertion* by the Betiatr would have
great weight with the Ho has
a rktteuKxis conceit atx'ut the nreatige
ot the prwant-ume Senate m iW way
of influencing intelligent \psers '
"The naUadtum ol swrr hbeities wv*uM
Uv't be deefmvwd it we did have a kvxxi
maiv uv the White House and kem bun
there 15 vearx" Hi the opinion or the
Duluth HeraM ,
l > and the New Y.wk Rventng iv-t
vtndepenvletvt' cwnebHßw that the Hen
ale had an en>\eable time and piavexi
! party pphiios wtih a gvwl deal of skill
and no small degree of hinne- And the
! debate brmight. vwtt mfe;e»nnc SaUxWl
> mfoimsuwv and UHeipretdwa* voti
vTudee the Pnat.