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iTHE EVENING STAR
With Sunday Morning Edition.
WASHINGTON, D. C,
MONDAY April 9. 1928
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No Lump-Sum Payment.
* It was understood when the act of
June 29, 1922. was agreed upon by
House and Senate that the act was
a compromise measure disposing for
many years of troublesome fiscal re
lation issues. The District s contribution
toward Capital upbuilding was in- j
creased from 50 to 6fl per cent; its tax
on intangible personality was increased 1
66 2-3 per cent, and the foundation was j
laid for increasing its realty tax; it was j
deprived of exclusive credit for large
sums of miscellaneous receipts hitherto I
aolrly enjoyed, this action inflicting a
heavy loss, and it was compelled to ac
cumulate from Its tax money of present
years (every cent of which was needed
to meet the urgent municipal needs of
today) a fund of millions to provide in
advance for meeting the first half-year
expenses of 1921-8. In partial compensa
tion for these drastic exactions the Dis
trict was to enjoy for five years and in
definitely thereafter the benefit of ap
proximate certainty as to its ratio of
proportionate contribution; it was
through increased respect to be Shown
to the Commissioners' estimates to have
in substance the privilege of influential j
participation in shaping appropriations :
of which it should pay 60 per cent, and it
was to be spared for a long period the
hurtful deadlocks over ratios between
House and Senate which annually en
dang 'red the District appropriations
and indescrvedly prejudiced House sen
timm t against the Capital community.
But no sooner was the definite 60-40
ratio fixed by compromise agreement,
leaving only the surplus question to be
decided equitably by Congress, and al
most before the Capital community had
adjusted itself to its new fiscal organic
act and had begun to enjoy the prom
ised bliss of fiscal peace, than a propo
sition appeared to repudiate the agree
ment upon the 60-40 ratio, to substitute
a system of indefinite contribution by
Capital and Nation and to precipitate
Washington taxpayers into the fiscal
chaos from which they had emerged.
The vital feature of the act of 1922,
carried over from the act of 1878, is
that it fixes a definite equitable stand
ard of national participation in Capi
tal making, related t« the contribatlon
exacted In taxes from the Capital com
asnnity. and does not leave this stand
ard to the shiftings of caprice.
Two practical questions in respect to
financing the Capital have been of vital
Importance from the beginning; (l)j
Shall the national and local contribu- 1
tkms be definite or indefinite, related or
independent? (2) Who shall determine
the relation of the amount of these
contributions, respectively?
The history of the Capital has dem
onstrated distinctly that these con
tributions should be definite and re
lated: and that if indefinite and unre
lated to insure justice each contrib
utor should have a voice in determin
ing the amount of his contribution.
Since the day of the creation of the j
Capital the Nation’s obligation toward •
the Nation’s City has been the same —
primary, exclusive and dominating.
Not the obligation itself, but the de
gree in which it has been recognized j
and met has been the fluctuating sac- j
tor in the equation.
From ISM to 1874-8 the national and j
local Capital contributions were in- j
definite and unrelated. Each contrib- j
lived w hat it pleased toward Capital j
upbuilding Tlie Nation measured its j
own obligation in terms of dollars as j
next to nothing The local community j
railed and disbursed Us own taxes at |
Its pleasure. It measured its Capital
obligation considerably beyond the lim
it* of its meager taxable resources and j
twice became practically bankrupt in j
performing almost unaided the Nation's J
task of Capital building
In 3 878 the Nation confessed it* vio
lation or gross neglect of It* Capital
obligation Jt gave practical expression
to its revived sense of this obligation
In Us undertaking to pay one-half tile j
accumulated funded indebtedness of
the District arid one-half of future ex- j
pvijfjet It took from fie- District ihe i
j/ov, *-r of self-taxation and assuni' fl j
Completely exereiae of tier right to fix j
the V/cai contribution as well a* Its!
ovo In tinn exercising taxation with- j
nut representation over the District the ,
Nation safeguarded (he national torn- j
imo.lt y by the pledge that to every doi- I
lar collected In taxes from the lo«al tax
payer* should he added a dollar from
V m* National Treasury and that the ag
gregate revenue should be expended for
Capital upbuilding.
law of 1922 retain# the piirpiple
of definite related Capital contribu
tions, Ui which the jaw of i 818 was
gvovd. list Ire rasp, of tins relation
V chang' d from to-UO t/> 60-40 did
fiv- utter the basic principle Involved
I he; lump sum payment plan destroy *
pli relation he-tweeu the national and
|o'ai contribution*, and. leaving all tax
ing power in the hands ol the t (tiled
plates, deprives tire unrepresented
I a pita I of Its saDgugyd against e*
«<•**»ive taxation by a Using body in
pinch it Is not represented.
Whenever. it ever, (hr United fitsUs#
t ,-i yejieve itself from it* seif-topo***!
gdrUgstton and promise b> contribute
1 i Capital upbuilding an snnusl
( . in' definitely related Ur tire local
g j, rontftbutten, end shall have that
A
amount uncertain and fluctuating, on
the same basis as before 1878, It should
In equity restore to the District Its
power which existed before 1878 of Ax
ing through self-taxation the amount
1 of its own Capital contribution.
If the Nation is not to share in def
inite ratio in municipal tax paying It
ought not In o "tty to fix the amount
of local taxati .i If the local - com
munity Is to raise substantially all of
the local revenue (with the Nation as a
fluctuating and uncertain donor) the
Capital must on American principles be
permitted to tax Itself, and to de
termine for Itself how much shall be
raised, and by what methods of taxa
tion. and for what purposes the tax
money shall be expended.
Obligation follows power. Financial
obligation is coupled with political i
power. If the nation controls it pays,
; and to the extent that it controls it
: pays. Washington is the only Capital in
the world in which if errtain policies
j prevail the Nation would do all of the
! controlling and none of the paying.
The Test in Chicago.
Murders, bombings, machine gun
warfare between rival bootleg factions,
protected vice and gambling—all of
these manifestations of chaos and evil
have combined to place Chicago before
the country as a modern Sodom or
Gomorrah. And one might expect that
the fire from heaven, which in an
earlier day destroyed these two citadels
of the devil, will take form tomoirow
in a blast of ballots in the Illinois State
primary, sweeping into outer darkness
t hose who by toleration or misgovern -
ment have permitted conditions in Chl
! cago to become what they are today,
j Will there be such a blast? Will the
' Republican primaries serve as a demon
j stration of how an aroused populace
I may strike?
| There is interest from the country’ in
| the results of the primary as far as
| they concern the State at large. But
there is much more interest in watch
ing the way the wind will blow in Cook
County. There the fight narrows to a
battle between State's Attorney Robert
E. Crowe, who is naming for renom
ination against a candidate for that
office. John A. Swanson. Crowe is
backed by the Thompson faction in
Chicago, and Swanson has the support
of the faction headed by United States
Senator Charles S. Deneen. So thick
and fast have the charges and counter
charges flown back and forth between
these factions that the poor voter must
; be left in a maze, indeed, when he at
| tempts to choose between them on the
basis of their claims or promises. But
the voter should have no great dif
ficulty in concluding that the Crowe-
Thompson crowd represents the govern
ment of Chicago today; the Deneen-
Swanson faction represents a change,
and a change at least connotes the pos
sibility of improvement.
Dispatches from Chicago indicate
that the good people of that city arc
aroused to the point of wanting to kick
somebody out They have good reason
to be. The name of the city has be
come synonymous throughout the land
with crime and crookedness. If such
things are cause for laughter, Chicago
has become the country’s laughing
stock. But while these good people may
be highly indignant, the question re
mains of whether their indignation is
stronger than the tie that binds the
voters of such efficient organizations as
those controlled by Mr. Crowe and Mr
Thompson. That is where the interest
lies in the Illinois primaries tomorrow.
Mayor Thompson is not personally con
cerned. as there is no mayoralty con
test involved. But the mayor’s regime
is being put to a test. If it is over
thrown to the extent of a defeat of his
political allies, the overthrow may be
; interpreted as the result of an aroused
; and Indignant electorate. If his regime
is indorsed, the result will be an en
lightening commentary upon the futility
of popular indignation when it is op
posed to well oiled political machinery.
Well Earned.
The Howard University is to be con
gratulated upon the acquisition of Its
new Medical School Building, secured
through the contributing co-operation
of the Government, under whose au
j thority the university functions, and
. the General Education Board of New
York.
This new piant, now being dedicated,
reprerents a cost for building and
equipment of half a million dollars,
i The record of Howard University M»-d
--■ ical School Is an honorable one, it*
| graduates having Itrie forth to heal in !
j many places.
With it* new equipment, represent
jmg the latest thought in medical
pedagogy, the school no doubt will
better It* past record, If faculty and
student* keep well in mind the fact
j that no amount of equipment, nor any
j size of building, can take the place of
i earnest minds and sincere heart*.
According to the flippant proverb,
“Nobody loves a fat man." In studies
of International prosperity, Uncle Bam
is compelled to wonder whether any
body loves a creditor.
Easier has passed, with the usual
j devout attention claimed by prayer book
; and fashion magazine.
Waited Energy.
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh has set
| many a feminine heart fluttering in an
unaccustomed way, but so far the fly
ing hero has given no indication of
I reciprocating the multitudinous affec
tion* that could te- his for the asking
Consequently, he will probably ire not
! in the least perturbed about th* re
j suits of the idiotic questionnaire
which was distributed among a hundred
and fifty girl* at Stephens College in
Columbia, Mo. Out of the one hundred
arid fitly near-flappers, flapper* and
: ni ver-wiil-b'-flappers, only twenty-nine
answered that, they would gladly wed,
if given 'he chance, tire outstanding
aviator of the age A* mentioned be
j fore, however, tire small percentage of
> j fair maiden# anxious ter make a match
l : will not concern 14fidla-rgh at all, but
the fact that his name 1# being bandied
l about In such a manner wit) probably
I j give him a feeling of justifiable Ini*
- ’ union.
i Columbia 1* on Ihe main highway
between «' Ixml# and Kan&as City and
: f is famous a* a college town in that see*
J Uon of tla- country Jt Is presumed
S (hat It attained It* reputation through
i ! 'he excellence of its educational laelll*
I tie* but If the student* are allowed to
t * ngage in fining out questionnaires re
JTjm .EVSSnNQ; STAft, WA3HTKGTpy, ft. U, TVTOyrPAY, JAPKTTf 9, MMZ-k
i gnrdlng their marriage attitude toward
I famous men and this fact is bruited
t about throughout the United States,
> Columbia is In a fairway to lose its
: standing In the minds of thinking per
sons. It is more or less insulting to a
man of Lindbergh's character to Juggle
his name about In a frivolous manner.
He has earned the respect ami admira
tion of the entire world and the dis
tribution of such It questionnaire Is
probably regarded by him as a de
cidedly back-handed compliment.
The Opening Game.
Tomorrow is the big day, the day for
which thousands of Washingtonians
have boon waiting and the day that
comes only once a year. In short, the
first, major league base ball game of the
j 1928 season will be officially started,
with President Cooltdge throwing out
the first, ball, at three o’clock tomor
row afternoon. The usual first-game
band will be on hand to add gayety to
the occasion, and more than twenty
thousand persons will probably be en
sronred In the commodious stands
when the umpire calls "Play ball!”
Conceded to have one of the strong
est pitching staffs in the league, the
1928 edition of the Washington team Is
determined to make a fight for high
honors. Except for a last-minute
change In plans by Manager Harris,
new faces will be seen at. first, base,
shortstop and center field. Sammle
West, who is expected to fill Tris
Speaker's shoes in center, is a new
comer only In the sense that he played
so few games last year that the fans
have not become thoroughly acquainted
with him. Grant Gillls seems to have
won the shortstop berth from Bobble
Reeves, while George Stsler, one of the
greatest batsmen of all time, is slated
to start the season at first base instead
of the graceful Joe Judge.
The Washington team will put up a
smart and aggressive brand of base ball.
That much Is assured. Whether the
necessary batting punch can be de
veloped to compete with teams of
greater offensive power Is something
that only the future will tell. Rice,
Goslln, Sisler. Tate and Rtiel are proven
stars with the bat. They will hit for
a good percentage in any league. West,
however, Is still of undetermined batting
quality. Harris, Gillis and Bluege are
timely but not consistent batters.
Although at least three other teams
in the league carry greater punch In
their line-ups than Washington, the
smart local team with good pitching
and fair batting will make Itself a de
cided factor in the race. It may not
win the pennant, but it will be well up
toward the front, and with a few’ breaks
may romp home In the lead. Tomor
row is the day. Play ball!
Admiring throngs are held responsible
for mishaps in the career of Wales as
a horseman. A true prince can hold his
head. But a horse Is "temperamental."
Mergers are in the air. Barnum and
Bailey set the pace In Indicating that
there is not room in the world for more
than one “greatest show on earth.”
Mussolini has convinced Italy by
means of a personality and a prospectus.
He Is one of the world’s greatest ex
amples of modern salesmanship.
An appeal for money to provide a
tribute to Senator Borah's patriotism
might easily find more response than
one to reimburse Harry Sinclair.
An effort to fight the presidential
campaign out in April may result In
making life a little easier In the hot
Midsummer months.
——— > 4-
Rumors of assassination call attention
to the fact that, just at present, Trotsky
Is not regarded as of much Importance,
alive or dead.
Among individuals the notice “Please
remit” Is simple and easily understood.
Among nations It Involves complicated
discussion.
As the political picture shifts, a spot
light contender in April may prove to
be a "dark horse” In Midsummer.
SHOOTING STARS.
B PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Cherry Bloom.
An iridescent cloud
Descends through Winter gloom.
Humbly we come—yet proud—
To greet the cherry bloom!
With beauteous display
It brings a message dear,
From skies so far away,
Into our blossoming year.
Individualism.
“A true patriot should not be afraid
of any man on earth.”
"You are wrong,” answered Senator
Borghum. "There is no amount of
patriotism that will keep a man from
being terrified in the dentist's chair.”
Hook-up.
My radio! My radio!
Quite soon I’m going to look up
Borne fishing tackle that will show
A really worth-while hook-up.
Jud Tunkins says he doesn't believe
half he hears, and at, that he thinks
maybe he ha# got hold of the wrong
half.
Omitted.
"Why are you not listed in the Bocial
Catalogue?”
"It Isn’t our fault,” answered Miss
Cayenne. "Mother happened to ire out
j alien the book agent called ”
'Tieed the small voice of conscience,”
said 111 Ho, the sage of Chinatown,
“and you need have no fear of the
| bawling out of a policeman."
Llghtsomeness. I
In life some laughter may resound
Where disappointment* flit.
A lighter for cigars he found
Which genuinely HU
riiltteallng Appearance*.
“You were seen talking to a boot
legger.”
“yes,” answered Uncle Mill Bottlfitop,
“and a high-class, expensive bootlegger,
at that I prolonged the conversation
us mm h as ] could so as to improve
! my credit."
i "D* man wlf de biggest voice," said
Unci* Kben, “gel* de most attention,
i regardless of whether he knows What
■ ho l* talkin' about.”
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THIS AND THAT
i _________________________
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.
Spring is one season no one gets too
. old to enjoy.
Winter’s joys are in the past for
many; Summer is simply much too hot;
1 Autumn is wishy-washy, not yet Winter
nor yet Summer.
Spring, however, Is eternally the
same, whether it conies In youth or old
age.
The exact date of it* appearance
makes little difference, nor does it mat
ter much that it is not in every feature
! the same old sort of Spring one knew
as a child.
Spring is a state of mind, superim
posed on mankind by milder air, real
rains and brighter sunshine.
It is the sun, literally and figura
tively. which makes our Spring. It
causes the earth to stir with life, tender
shoot* to appear, grass to green, red
tips of peonies to come above ground.
This is the only magic.
** ♦ *
All of us become sun worshipers at
this time of year.
To sit in a stuffy office on such a day
ns several experienced last week and
look out at the glorious beams playing
across the eity was to become young
again in a twinkling of the eye.
Those Spring smells came in at the
timidly opened window. The air was
redolent with something that the whole
of this section of the world seemed to
be experiencing and thus exhaling for
the benefit of mankind.
Sights, sounds, colors—these took on
new meanings. From the drab of Win
ter we had wakened to the glow of
Springtime.
We had become one with grasshop
pers and blades of grass. We felt an
urge of sympathy for the curious little
bugs that live under rocks and run as
on wheels when their cover is disturbed.
We wanted to get out and run, too.
* * ys *
This is the authentic feeling of true
Spring.
False Spring left hope, but it was not
the real thing.
Expectation often is better than real
ity. but not in the case of Spring.
Here the genuine article far surpasses
dreams.
Spring does not satiate. One may
drink deep of Spring without intoxica
tion. revel in Spring without disorder,
admire Spring without fatuity.
“Spring fever” is the most admirable
illness in the world, although It has
been held up as reprehensible and Its
victims put through a course of lec
tures, or even a dosage of a stronger
brew’.
One may now subscribe to the doc
trine that man is an outdoor animal.
Even those who shrank all Winter long !
from contact with cooling winds find
themselves willing to face the elements
now.
** * *
A whole city wants to walk F street,
or go fishing, or rake grass in the back
yard.
There is a busy stir among amateur
horticulturist*. Those who forgot to
order their seeds early, as the seedsmen
ask them to do, now excitedly make out
orders and then fervently curse fate
because they are not filled as rapidly as
they expected. But seed houses are
human organizations, and seedsmen
tills month confront a deluge of orders.
No doubt they do the best they can.
Even the fisherman gets no more joy
out of Spring than the amateur gar
dener. Whether he owns a small back
yard or an estate, the home gardener
meet* all the Spring there is.
The full tide of this glorious time
hit* the gardener in the face. It tans !
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS |
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE.
Frank B. Kellogg, Secretary of State,
has just prepared for the Republican
national committee the fifth of Us se
ries of "fact-pamphlets.'* It is entitled
"Foreign Relations” and deals in detail
with the United States’ international
activities during the past four years.
An appendix lists the 60-odd treaties
negotiated by this country with foreign
governments in that period Consider
able space is devoted to "difficulties in
China/’ and our relations with Mexico
and Nicaragua are discussed in general
terms. Mr. Kellogg’s preachment places
the blame for the failure of the 1927
Geneva limitation conference squarely
on the shoulders of Great Britain "due
to the divergence of views regarding
cruisers.” The Secretary of State identi
fies himself with his distinguished pivd
ecessor’s conception of the State De
partment’s excuse for existence. Mr.
Hughes once said that the department
is largely occupied with "keeping the
highways of commerce open and in
good repair.’*
** * *
Secretary Kellogg’s friends and
these include in particular the staff of
the State Department—are always ir
ritated by the periodical rumors of his
resignation. One such has been in cir
culation again during the past lew days
There is nothing in it Kellogg plans
to stick to his job until March 4. 1929,
unless President Coolidge retires him in
the meantime, and the master of the
White House selves numerous occasions
to indicate that he has no intentions of
that sort. Will domestic politics hold
ing the center of the stage at the mo
ment, Americans aren’t wasting much
thought on foreign all airs. The fact is
that Kellogg's recent diplomacy in mak
ing peace with the Nationalist China
at Nanking is as significant an achieve
ment in Far Eastern relations as has
been accomplished in many years, it
is so recognized In capitals like London
and Tokio. Another feather in Kel
loggs cap, of which the Nation at large
isn’t aware, is that it was largely on
Ills Initiative that Dwight W. Morrow
was made Ambassador to Mexico,
♦* * *
In "Jim” Good of lowa the Hoover
organization has acquired as canny a
politician as the Republican party has
developed in recent times William M.
Butler, who was in charge of Calvin
Coolldge’a 1924 pre-convention fortunes,
thought so highly of (loud that, the
lowan was put m command’ of the Pres
ident’s Western fences four years ago
this Spring. Good enlists under the
Hoover banner with unusual appropri
ateness, because, like the (Secretary of
Commerce, he Is himself a native
Hawkeye. When he resigned from the
House hi 1921 Good surrendered the
blue ribbon post of chairman of the
powerful appropriations committee, Ui
which he had advanced himself by dint
of hard work and sagacity m fiscal uf
falrs. Politically the true inwardness of
(inod's entry Into the Hoover camp lies
in the additional evidence of the Cali
fornian’s determination this time to in
trust his aspirations to professionals.
In 1920, by common consent, Hoover’s
bark was shipwrecked mainly by his
crew of amateurs.
♦* + *
Current .events in the Henate are
proving that Hie age of political chiv
alry is not gone. Old-timers mall
notlilng more handsome than Senator
Thomas .1. Walsh's brilliant defense of
At Hmltii against the oil aspersions of
.•■Senator Arthur ft. ltoblnson, Repub
lican, of ludlanu Many regard Walsh
as Hmllh’B most formidable rival for the
Democratic presidential nomination,
though, the way things are going, that
doesn’t mean much The Montanan
carries the McAdoo trak« mark, whether
Walsii admits It or not a circumstance
which makes his eulogy of Hmltii nil
the more noteworthy, The real test of
the Walsh Mi Aduo alliance against tile
New Yorker will come hi the California
primary on May 1, where there'll he a
three-cornered contest, between Hmitli,
Walsii and Reed Waist) is a native of
Wisconsin, but the lad who once light
ed the street lamps of Two Rivers in
that, Htal.e developed no unlive son
st rength hi Hie Wisconsin prim try,
from which Hinllh lias just merged
with the full Badger delegation ,
his Winter-whitened skin, limbers up
his knee joints, makes the small bones
In the soles of his feet ache with a
surpassing aching.
Gardening, like fishing and hunting,
goes back to the long-lost, even forgot
ten. days of man. These activities,
however, have come down in all their
glory, although the ancient men who
founded them are only a memory, or
scarcely more than a queer name which
they themselves never would have rec
ognized.
♦♦ ♦ *
The tragedy of staying In an office
on such days is a real one to some
natures.
These, in excuse for themselves, may
feel (and no doubt rightly) that tluy
are In exquisite harmony with the
season.
Crasser souls, these may believe, may
do very well within four walls, but those
whom the Spring has marked for its
own will have none of walls except upon
compulsion.
It Is a sorry fact to them that com
pulsion Is so all-llred compulsive. A
job has to be done. Something or other
lias to be written. So-and-so work
must be gotten out, such-and-such
business attended to.
While all this Is going on the sun is
shining and the birds are singing their
fool heads off. and the white clouds are
scudding through the sky as lightly as
any Lindbergh.
** * *
If one w’ere only out there in that
sunshine, soon the delicious glow’ of
Spring's first sunburn would begin to
steal over the face.
The Winter has been confining, its
sunbeams too anemic. Out there at
last, gleam real sunbeams, hot off the
immortal griddle called the sun.
One stands in a window, high in the
air, allowing those sunny particles to
flow over and Into one, each tiny ele
ment bringing it* quota of health and
happiness.
There is no eat or do'g that has not
got enough sense to bathe in the sun
shine every day, but there are innumer
able men and women who seem to have
forgotten their birthright.
“Flowers are children of the light,”
said the sage, but mankind is no less a
child of the sun. When life first quick
ened on the borders of the salt marshes
and came to earth with sprawiy feet it
was the rank sunshine of a hotter day
than ours that guided those stumbling
paws.
** * *
Down through the ages the great
sun, now a thing to worship, now some
thing to bo investigated in a scientific
spirit, has gleamed in the heavens away
from our earth, wangling, revivifying,
expanding.
One sympathizes with De Maupas
sant, the sick man, who fled to Africa
that he might bask in hotter rays than
ours. We. however, who are under no
such necessity, ought to make the most
of the more equitable beams we possess.
The rays of the sun are mighty, the
rays of the sun are benign. ’ Like
Portia's quality of mercy, they descend
upon the just and the unjust, and do
it without fear of favor.
"He judges as the sun judges,” said
Walt Whitman, paying tribute both to
the perfect jurist and the solar orb.
Since Spring so tempts us out, we
would do well to give in to the urge as
often and for so long as possible in the
firm belief that sunshine and fresh air
constitute the best tonic in the world for
those who need it most —the moderately
healthy.
. tary of Agriculture, In recalling college
i days at the Agricultural College of
• Utah, wondered what had become of a
I famous Indian athlete, a Cheyenne,
I , who manhandled the cabinet minister-
II to-be every time their respective teams
. i clashed at foot ball. Early this month
> I Dr. Jardine received a call from an of
i ficial spokesman of the Northern Chev
■ enne tribe of Montana. The Indian had
i come to urge the need of agricultural
) schools for his people. Immediately
t the Secretary recognized In his visitor
’ Eugene Fisher, tlie redskin who used
f to tackle him in so deadly fashion on
• the Far Western gridirons a quarter of
• a century ago.
r** * *
Mrs. Alfred J. Brosseau, president
. general of the Daughters of the Ameri
can Revolution, with whom William
Allen White has just gone to the mat,
, Is herself, like the Kansas editor, a
writing person. Before D. A. R, activi
ties absorbed her energies, Mrs. Bros
, scan was a producer of short stories. A
; native daughter of Illinois, Mrs. Bros
seau now makes her home at Green -
’ wich. Conn. She has combativeness in
plenty, as becomes a descendant of the
fighting fathers, and at the forthcom
ing D. A. R. Congress in Washington
' the president-general Is likely to pay
| her respects io "Bill” White and others
' who asperse the motives of the "Daugh
, ters," One of Mrs. Brosseau's achieve*
> ments in D. A, R. work is the Ellis
; Island committee, which the society
maintains. As its active director for
\ more than three years, Mrs. Brosseau
; made its humanitarian program a real
! factor at our chief port of immigrant
entry. In the old days, during the
. period of detention, would-be candidates
j for the melting pot had to undergo de
pressing trials Nowadays, the hours of
| waiting are pleasantly occupied.
*+ * *
Nearly every one of the Easter tour
! lsts now filling Washington with their
all-American accents wants to shake
hands with "Cal” and see Congress per
» form, but neither the President nor
t House or Senate begins to compete
• with the cherry blossoms as the Capi
tal’s real attraction. They have be
-1 come a national Institution. Nothing
; in Washington Is better advertised all
over the country, and none of the Dis
trict of Columbia's countless sights af
| fords visitors so much Joy. The one
possible exception is the Lincoln Me-
I mortal.
(CimvHsiit i 0"a i
* « • mmmm
Hazardous Kmßtjm ise.
• Knmt flit* To!*Mu ltlw»li*
Much Is being said of the two French
men who have Invented a player-violin,
f Hut no legal steps have been taken.
t ....
Irauklin'* Statu**
on ['lie Avi'iiut*.
F-S NSCULPTURED in no park
•s of shading trees,
■a But on a lilt of bare tri-
I angular ground
Where many pass, lie stands
close-bordered round
By pavements hard; and harder
destinies •
1 Os men are here revealed, and
less of ease
Os life in those seen tills way
daily bound,
| Titan an* m parks with slatued
heroes found.
And idlers Idle ns the effigies.
Ben Franklin, man of thrifty
! days, with skill
i To build a stove or captivate a
1 queen.
It suils him best to hold this
traveled spot
Ah it with busy men commingling
1 still, j
1 And nor some flowery square's
inactive scene
' Where indolence reposing labors
not.
r. j, quiNN
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■' ' >
PHILOSOPHIC
IIY
GLENN FRANK
We are a bundle of tendencies.
In the determination of the conduct
of a day or the achievement of a life
time, we play stage manager to our
intermittent impulses and our deep
seated tendencies.
W 6 cannot begin to live and work
with maximum intelligence until we
know our particular impulses and tend
encies, until we know t,he tendencies
we. must foster and the ones we must
frown upon.
William McDougall, distinguished
psychologist, asserts that there are cer
tain inborn emotional tendencies that
go along with human nature. He ven
tures to list those that seem to him
most nearly indisputable. If these
tendencies are in all or most of us, it
is important for us to know them, for
they are part of the raw materials out
of which we must fashion our char
acters and our achievements. Mr. Mc-
Dougall's list of human tendencies runs
as follows:
In addition to the basic tendencies
of fear, anger, curiosity and sex, ten
other tendencies are observable:
“We have a tendency to seek the
company of our fellows and to stay
among them when we have found them.
“We have a tendency to display and
assert ourselves among our fellows, and
to find satisfaction in their yielding to
us their submission, deference and ad
miration.
“We have a contrary tendency to
yield submission and deference to those
who are powerful, to bow down and
humble ourselves before them, to fol
low them and trust them.
“We have a tendency to reject, to
turn away with disgust from what
ever is foul and odious.
“We have a tendency tft cry aloud for
help when we are at the end of our
tether, when we find that our best
efforts avail nothing and our desire is
utterly frustrated.
“We have a tendency to seek and
consume food and drink.
“We have a tendency to arrange, to
build up, to construct, to bring into
some kind of order whatever we are
dealing with.
“We have a tendency to hoard, to
store away, to preserve whatever seems
to us of value.
“We have a tendency to make merry,
to laugh aloud when we see others mak
ing a mess of things, failing, slipping,
baffled, buffeted or perplexed, acting
stupidly or clumsily.
“We have also very simple tend
encies to respond appropriately to cer
tain bodily sensations announcing needs
of bodily organs that require for their
removal the co-operation of the whole
organism.”
Whether these tendencies are Inborn
or of later origin, we have most of
them; I cannot, at the moment, think
of any special tendency of any indi
vidual that is not the child of one of
these tendencies listed by Mr. Mc-
Dougall.
It is worth while to study this spirit
ual table of contents of ourselves.
(Copyright, McClure Newspaper Syndicate.)
Says Dupont Circle
Is Traffic Hazard
To the Kditor of The Start
In connection with your commendable
Golden Rule Safety Driving Campaign,
it may be an opportune time to focus at
tention upon certain dangerous points
within the District of Columbia, where
it seems imperative that some measures
should be taken to remedy conditions. It
is possible that a little publicity con
cerning such places might bring forth
favorable co-operation on the part of
drivers, and might prompt the proper
officials to effect immediate changes
without waiting for any accidents to
occur before considering some reason
able remedies.
The dangerous point to which I refer
is on Connecticut avenue immediately
south of Dupont Circle, where it must
be admitted that two factors are at
once obvious as to why this particular
point is so unsafe. First. Connecticut
avenue Is much too narrow for such an
important thoroughfare at the converg
ing point of ten radial highways. Second,
it is extremely unfortunate that double
tracks of the Washington Railway &
Electric Co. should occupy so much of
the width of the roadway, and that,
furthermore, car stops and transfer
points had to be established at this
worst possible place in the proximity of
the circle.
To try' to improve the routing of
traffic, especially on the arterial high
ways, would it not be reasonable and
wise to require the routing of all vehicu
lar traffic as fobows:
The south-bound traffic out of Du
pont Circle might move south on Nine
teenth street, thence easterly on N
street, and resume its route on Connecti
cut avenue again North-bound traffic
might be required to deviate from
Connecticut avenue on to Eighteenth
street, whence it would have the several
options of approaching Dupont Circle
again via Massachusetts avenue or P
street.
Pending the inevitable necessity of
widening the roadway on Connecticut
avenue between N street and Dupont
Circle, perhaps the thousands of drivers
who daily pass this point would gladly
comply with such a traffic regulation, i
and certainly the hundreds who daily i
use the car stop safety rones would ac
tually feel safe.
ROBERT S. JIGGER.
Praises Welsh Blood
in Presidential Raee
To the Editor of The Star -
When you consider the greatness of ;
the Presidency of the United States, as ;
a position of honor, power and respon- i
stbility, and consider the scarcity of i
qualified candidates, it is, indeed, a j
tribute to the little nation of Wales I
that two of those who have been men- ]
Boned are Welshmen Davis and j
Hughes.
They are great In being mentioned
as candidates, even though Hughes
"does not choose to serve."
Secretary of Labor Davis Is a native
of Tredegar, Wales, and Charles Evans
Hughes comes from full-blooded Welsh
parents. THOMAS GARRETT.
Petticoats ami Politics.
grant Out Payton Daily New*.
Noted German says America is gov- j
erned by petticoats. Now we understand \
what is meant by Invisible government, j
UNITED STATES
IN WORLD WAR
Ten Years Ano Today
American railway engineers who
helped stem the tide of the onrushlng
Germans during the opening days of
the present drive are highly praised by
British officers for their bravery and
stamina. * * * Acting on cabled ni
si ructions from Secretary Maker, the
War Department tonight resumed publi
cation of dally casualty lists of the
A. K F * * * Names of 447 Americans
included In list covering six days, with
1-4 for April f>. the heaviest of any
single day since American troops landed
m France. * * * Beginning with a bom
bardment of great Intensity, German
tloops this morning delivered heavy at
tacks upon Hrttlsh and Portuguese lines
from the t.a Bassee Canal to neighbor
hood ot Armentteres, a distance of about
It tulles Battle lasts all day and (tie
allied center is forced back on River
I.vh, but the British flanks lurid Fog
helped the enemy, * * * Germans used
unison gas In immense quantities and
It Is estimated that 00,000 gas shells
were used in an attempt to gas allied
troops. * * * Prisoners captured op the
Oise front sav that the German start
fully expected to teach their objectives
on the morning of Aprtl it. counting on
their superior numbers to overwhelm
the French end cause a general with
drawal all along the front.
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS j
BY FREDERIC J. MASK IN. fl
k ■
The answers to questions printed here i
each day are specimens picked from the
mass of Inquiries handled by our great j
Information Bureau maintained in'
Washington, D. C. This valuable serv- j
ice is for the free use of the public. Ask!
any question of fact you may want to J
know and you will get an immediate j
reply. Write plainly, inclose 2 cents In
stamps for return postage, and address
The Evening Star Information Bureau,
Frederic J. Haskln, director, Washing
ton, D. C.
Q. Can a street car company make '
money on a 5-cent fare?—R. S. P.
A. Experts in urban transportation j
matters say that It Is impossible, con
ceding, however, that there may be ex- i
ceptional cases, inasmuch as the factors
controlling a street car company’s earn
ing powers—capitalization, labor costs,
other operating charges, taxes, etc.—
are variable. The average street rail
way fare in the United States is now
8.01 cents, this average being based
upon the fares in 272 cities of more
than 25,000 population. In 112 of these
cities the fare is 10 cents.
Q. Is it true that there is a play in
New York that lasts from 6 o'clock until
midnight 9 —J. B. C.
A. Eugene O'Neill’s new play,
"Strange Interlude,” requires about five
hours for a performance.
Q. Is it possible to cook without fire
or electric current?—M. V.
A. A bulletin of the General Electric
Co., in describing a new high-frequency
radio tube, says: "Among the stunts
demonstrated with the high-frequency
apparatus was radio cooking. A wire
was suspended over a table at some dis
tance from the radiating aerial and
parallel to it. A sausage placed in a
glass tube was hung from the end of
this receiving aerial, and in a few min
utes it began to steam. On being re
moved it Was found to have been beau
tifully cooked by the high-frequency
currents induced in it, although no
flames or other visible means of heat
ing were applied. A fry less fried egg
was also prepared in the glass tube* and
served hot to the spectators. An apple
was impaled upon the end of the receiv
ing aerial and in a short time was thor
oughly baked.”
Q, What is the strongest animal in
the world?—P. L. H.
A. It is impassible to name the
strongest animal in the world, since
some of the smallest insects have more
strength in proportion to their weight
than some of the largest animals. An
ant, for instance, may carry a load 15
or 20 times its own weight, while an
elephant could scarcely drag twice its
weight.
Q What was the "Bonfire of Vani
ties’ ?—M. O. N.
A. The "Bonfire of Vanities” was the
burning of indecent books, pictures,
masks and other objects pertaining to
frivolity at Florence, Italy, in 1497, un
der order of Savonarola. A Venetian
merchant offered 22.000 gold florins for
the doomed vanities, but his offer was
rejected and his portrait was added to
the pyre. It is said that no book or
I painting of value was destroyed.
Q. Please tell me what "Samvat”
means.— A. J.
A. "Samvat” is an abbreviation of
the Sanskrit word "Samvatsara,” which
means a "year.” Samvat is the method
of reckoning time used generally in
India, except Bengal. Christian dates
are reduced to Samvat by adding 57 to
the Christian year.
Q. What country or people first built
seagoing vessels?—R. L.
A. Credit is usually given the Phoe
nicians for the building of the first
galleys which could stand sea travel.
Q. What is "Paine's process"?—C. G.
ON.
A. "Paine's process” is a process for
preserving timber and making it incom
bustible by impregnating it successively ;
with solutions of sulphate of iron and
calcium chloride in vacuo.
Q. What is "false dawn"?—A. B. M.
A. Science Service says that "false
dawn” is the zodiacal light, supposed to
be due to the reflection of sunlight from
fine particles of matter entirely outside
the earth's atmosphere. It is best seen
in low latitudes, especially in the pure
air of tropical and subtropical deserts.
Q Who is the author named Ernest
Booth, who writes crime and prison
stories?—A M. W.
A. His publishers say that he is a
Prospects of Presidential Veto
Os Farm Relief Bill Discussed
Friends and foes of the new farm
relief bill await the action of Congress,
both assuming that the measure will be
passed, differing on the prospects of a
! presidential veto. Those who oppose
' the legislation insist that the present
; modification of the equalization fee pro
vision about which the fight centered
: on the McNary-Haugen bill has not
changed the principle involved.
‘•There Is every reason to believe,"
according to the Chicago Daily Tribune
t ßepublican!, "that the bill will again
be approved by Congress, and there is
reason to hope that it will be signed
by the President Mr. Coolidge has
said that he favors Government help
i to co-operative marketing associations
as the solution of the agricultural prob
lem He cannot veto this bill without
virtually admitting that such financial
assistance will not. of itself, prove ade
quate The report of the Federal Re
serve Board, which has just been made
public, ought to provide ammunition for
the friends of farm relief in Congress. I
This report frankly states that the I
enormous resources of the reserve sys
tem have been used in recent months
to stabilize credit conditions abroad
The United States, it is explained, has
half of the world's supply of gold, and
has used It to create prosperity in for
eign lands, thereby placing them in a
position to buy our goods. To which
the farmers are entitled to reply. Why
not us?‘ ”,
"It will be earnestly hoped that the
President will permit it to have a
chance to show whether legislative re
| lief possesses any merit in fact,” de- j
i dares the Springfield Illinois State
Journal (Republican* which points
| out that “the new bill plays down' ;
the equalization fee*' The South
Bend Tribune (independent Republican*
states: "On the whole, the measure j
goes far toward meeting the farm-relief
legislation requirements outlined by Mr
Coohdge in his veto message. The
equalisation fee is the only feature that
is likely to make him reluctant io ac
cept the bill, but events are shaping for'
a compromise on that in case one is
necessary,"
** * *
"If the Republican majority in Con- j
grew and the Republican administra- ;
tion have a desire to deal fatrly on the ;
subject of agricultural equity." advises;
the Sioux Citv Tribune (independent!. I
“all they need to do ts to accept and
approve the reasonable program placed
ivtore them " The IVrtland Oregon \
Journal (independent! argues; “By
law Congress directed that the rail
roads t*e allowed to collect rates latge
enough to insure a 'fair return,' and
the Interstate Commerce Commission
fixed it *4 per cent as a ‘fair return' I
on capital invested in railroads Is;
money invested in railroads more vital'
to the country than money invested mi
farms;* Can America afford to reduce ;
her conservative, home-lot tng. nation- i
defending farmers to peasantrv *"
"The farm took deflation full in the j
face," says the lVs Moines Tribune - !
| Capital .independent Republican!,
"anile both labor and industry were,
organised in the main to dodge It |
It the Republicans put up a candidate;
to run ore a program of the law of sup- j
plv and demand,’ for the faun some- •
thing is going to happen to the Ke
• I H
j man who is serving a life aer/enM In M
I Folsom Prison, California.
' Q What does a lion coat? Not that Ilf
i 1 wont to buy one, but I'm curloui.— fl
j W. K. fl
1 A Full-grown Hons, untamed, are fl
i quoted at from 51.200 to $1,500 each. fl
Q When was Labor day first made a fl
I holiday?—G. P. F.
A The first Labor day celebration
i was held in N'-w York in 1882, when fli
■ the Knights of Labor held their general
assembly there. Colorado was the first
' State f 0 enact a law making the first
■ Monday in s* ptemb*-r a nolidav known
! 11S ' Laoor day.” That v.a., done in 1337.f18
Q. What Is the distance by road
Ban Frar.oi to N»-y York Cl**
! Omaha 9 —F. V. R.
A 'I he distai.'-** from San
to Omaha bv the I in coin Highway
1 908 mile;:, and from San Francisco
| New York City it is 3,323 miles.
Q. Who was the first woman
yer?—H. L. M.
i A. The fir.-u woman admitted to
practice of law in the United
was Mrs. Came Burnham Kilgore, w
was admitted to the Delaware Count
Pa , courts and to one
common pleas court in 3 884 'I he fi.rssfl
i woman permitted to practice law
Europe V.a. Mile. Chauvin, Pa.., 1897. flfl
Q. What is tin* difference betweenfl 11
an ambassador and an envoy?— H. E. g!^H
A, The chief difference between
ambassador and an envoy is that by
international agreement reached
Vienna in 1815 the former has a rizr;
: of demanding personal audiences wra fl
the head of government where stationed, fl
|be the latter president or king. Envovs fl
■ i and ministers, however, must transact fl
i business only with the secretary of state, fl
! Q What is the large stone sphere at ■
Broadway and 116th street, ar.d when fl
was it erected?—L. C. Y. fl
A. The granite sphere on 116 s h street fl
| between Broadway and Amsterdam ave- fl
nue is a sun dial, ar.d was erected about fl
|ls years ago as a gift to Columbia fl
University by or.e of the alumni classes. B
Q. Will you kindly state how often fl
and on what dates the famous Quebec fl
Bridge fell during construction?—A. W fl
A. On August 29. 1907, the southern M
I half of the Quebec Bridge, while in 1
1 course of erection, crumbled under its I
j own weight. On September 11. 1918, w
while the suspension span connecting 1
the two cantilevers was being hoisted
i into position, a failure occurred and the
entire structure fell to the bottom of
j the river. On September 20, 1917. the
t suspension bridge was successfully hung
j and bolted into its final position.”
Q. What is the origin of "30 ”as used
by newspaper men and telegraphers?—
H. S.
A. Charles Pavne Smith recently gave
the following information in the Typo
graphical Journal; The first press asso
ciation. organized in Civil War times,
was composed largely of morning papers
published near the Eastern seaboard
! Each paper sent into the central office
items of local interest, which were there
edited and telegraphed to all members.
It happened that the first message sent
to the association totaled 30 words, and
this figure, with the words "good night”
and the signature of the sender, were
placed at the bottom of the sheet by the
operator. At that time piecework was
the rule on all papers. The dailv grist
was usually set up. corrected and in the
forms by 10 o'clock, but the compositors
were compelled to wai: around at their
own expense until the foreman an
nounced "30” was in. So "30” became
a bv-word among printers, symbolizing
| the end.
' Q How many new words did the
World War add to the English lan
| guage?—T. E.
A. Dr. Vize telly has estimated the
number to be less than 20.000.
Q. Is Newfoundland a part of Can
ada?—H. M.
A. Newfoundland is a separate en
i tity of the British Empire, and bears the
same relationship to the empire that
Canada does. It has its own Parlia
ment. premier, ministry, and issues its *
j own money bonds without regard to
i Canada.
Q Is it correct to use “hung” as the
imperfect tense and past participle in
i speaking of a man being executed?—
A. C.
A. It is correct, but authorities agree
that "hanged'' is to be preferred when
the word is used in this sense.
i publicans." More hopeful is the argu
ment of the St. Paul Pioneer Press
' (independent* that "it ts almost in
■ credible, but nevertheless the fact, that
' s this is almost the first time in the
1 five years the McNary-Haugen b’.ll has
been before Congress that opponents
i j have abandoned fiat opposition and
joined in sincerely to help eliminate
t the faults which make it objectionable
j to them.”
"The chances are," predicts the
Houston Chronicle Democratic *, how -
ever. “that the President will again
| kill the measure. The farmer's know
' this. Nevertheless they propose to
] proceed on this line. Is not this
rather good evidence that they realire
they are striving now for a vita!
principle’” The Topeka Daiiv Cap
j ital (Republican! also says the b:
i "ill be vetoed, with the added center. -
j tion that “another Congress may fir..
a President who will affix his stgnatur.
jto It." The Capital believes that the:
j has been from the start more fee hr.
j than science in the attack on th
farmers' relief measure, and this i
; known to Congress, which has bee
I in the thick of it. * * • The oppos
tion has not been constructive. I: he.
only opposed."
♦* * *
Os the hope held by the farm tr
terests that the President "would re
frain from using the veto power on th
| theory that the equaliration fee. which
s he holds to be unconstitutional as wC
as economically unsound. would no
I be resorted to." the Newark Evemn
News (independent' observes. "Tht
; hope docs not seem to be founded o;
a nek, but it i* buttressed by pollt:
cal expediency akuie ' And the Dulu
Herald iindetvendent Republican! aver
(“Unless those who vote for the bi
know something the public does no
know, its passage is a suer# politic.',
gesture by which Congressmen w:
don't really believe in the principle o
the measure can please the farmev ar.
do no damage, because they know th
I blit will be vetoed "
The measure ts deseribed bv th,
j Dayton Daily News • independent Deie
(Viatic' as a bit of buncombe for gu!
j hbie farmers. It ts a political trick
j continues that paper, “to hold th.
i farmers m line till election.” The But
j h'lo Evening News (Republican* cor
j menus "The lure of subsidy in 'em
i move or less disguised form has tv*
i held out to the farmers by most -
| those who have under taken to mas
j political capital of their situation Th
question whetiu-i this bill #tnbodie*
subsidy or not will tx 1 the one on wht*
: its tate will depend"
The Baltimore Sun tindepender
i Democratic) ask "Granting all tha
I Is claimed for effect of the bill c.
pi Ux*s of wheat how yrtd it aid the In
j efficient and high-coat producer win;
I promises ,*f higher profits intensity th
| competition he must meet*"
Predietioiv of a veto is made bv th
! Hirminghain News (Democratic!, and u
I is iveid to tv probable by the San
! Bernardino Sun (Republican', whi
j the Boston Transcript (independent*
| voices tire behef that ' little pubhe in
-1 tcrest appear* to attach to the changes
j once tt is understood that the pro
-1 \ ision for equalization tea rear in* in
uw bui'
f .v - i. v:;" - .. Js,