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.THE EVENING STAR
With Sunday Morning Edition.
WASHINGTON. D. C.
FRIDAY April 27, 1928 1
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Judicial Expedition.
In an address before the American
Law Institute, now in session in this
city. Chief Justice Taft yesterday de
plored delays in criminal procedure tn j
the courts of this country. He said, j
however, that the Supreme Court has j
determined “that those gentlemen un
fortunate enough to have been convict- j
ed in the lower courts are not going to
have a period of rest in contemplation j
before beginning to serve the state " ;
To this end the Supreme Court is ad
vancing every criminal case that comes
before it, and when it adjourns for the
Summer it will have heard every cause j
of that character on Its docket
This is an example of expedition
with justice that should be followed by
all of the lower courts of the country.
The courts themselves are in a meas
ure responsible for the delay’s in pro
cedure, though the state of the laws is
to be blamed for the major measure of
prolonging trial. On this point the
Chief Justice said: ‘ At no time in his- ■
tory have legislators been so interested
lr. criminal codes, not so much be-1
cause the legislators themselves are in- j
teres ted. but because the people are
stirring them up and demanding: better
administration of justice."
In opening the session of the instt - j
tute the president of the organization,
former Attorney General Wickersham,
said that the administration of ertm- j
Inal justice in this country for some ;
tune past has been a matter of re- •
proach for thoughtful men. This con
dition, he said, is due primarily to the,
failure of the community at large to
recognize the absolute need of a learned, j
Impartial and powerful judiciary. But
there is at work a force to better this
condition, and at no time in the his
tory of the bar has it been more active
ly engaged in work designed to improve ■
the administration of justice than at
the present time.
Here are two notes of encouragement.
The Chief Justice of the United States
and the head of one of the most in
clusive and important organizations of
lawyers are in agreement upon the
trend toward betterment of conditions
There are unmistakable evidences of
progress In several of the States re
codification of the criminal laws has j
been undertaken to the end of speeding
procedure and lessening the chances of;
the lawbreaker to evade the eonse- j
quences of hi* crimes. Earlier and i
shorter trials, fewer appeals based on
technicalities, more prompt considera
tion of appeals and curtailment of op
portunities for evasion, together with
suffer penalties in cases of conviction,
are all in the line of betterment.
The example of the Supreme Court of
the United States in clearing its docket
of criminal cases for the current ses
sion is stimulating. Chief Justice Taft
in his talk yesterday lamented the fact.
that the Supreme Court has become a j
criminal court, “not so much in the
cases we hear, but in the cases we de- j
elm* to hear.* The expedition with
which this highest court disposes of j
baseless appeals might well be emulated j
by other appellate courts. For most of
the delay in the administration of erlm- j
Inal justice in this country lies in the
disposal of appeals, the great majority
of which are founded upon immaterial
technicalities without reference to the
fundamental questions at issue.
A dark horse ha* difficulty In holding j
an obscure position In a manner that
will avert curiosity which brings more
©r less publicity.
New York night eiub* no ionger greet
the visitor with "Hello, Sucker," Man
ner*, if not morals, begin to show im
provement.
It required the airplane to demon
*trate the risks that, will be faced f'M j
the sake of fame. j
The Red Ciom m Chin*. <
News just published in '1 he Htar that j
tne Red Cross 1* disinclined to call upon ;
tii« American people to contribute to
faniinc relief in China coincide* with
tragic tiding* from tha* distracted j
country. A famous American medical |
missionary lit Walter F Heymour, has j
been murdered try a Nationalist soldier i
Tuning, in southeastern (Shantung j
There sre unconfirmed report* of out- j
f*ges upon other AmcrJgan* in China
(Southern arid northern forces, resum
ing »in r Spring ' campaign" for dorn-
Uaticsu of war-racked China are now
‘•operating" or, cbaraetenatically ruth
br* lilies War a* waged by U*
bar*dil-miDt*riaU c JstowMMily do** more
violence to tie lieipiese civilian popu
ij,tk/n than to eou>t»umU, Apparently
(l«e attacks on foreign mtasion* are in
cident*. to the resumed drive of the
guomtoltMig armies against Peking
•jtu Htd Cross jusllfie* IU reluctance
ask for American dolia/a for China
famine relief on tie ground that whin-
Jftwbsa conditions prevail Uiere is rm
warrant for a ciiarltabl* appeal tn tiie
peoiiie of tiie United htate* ‘f ile fted
Cr<m ljE the grand airnonar of the Re*
psolu ft holds a responsible trustee
ahip fro m the Ration. Wf*en it a*k*
trust purse -airing* be unloosed, the fted
Cross want# to ba Wf* that the cause
ir not only indubitably Just, but. th*»
jther* la no la** certainty that resultant
benefit* ahall reach those it Is Intended
to auccor. On that score the Red Cross
cherishes grave doubts with regard to
present-hour China. Distress is the
j most acute in the Province of Shan
tung. Shantung is now a roaring bat
tlefield. It could easily become a
shambles.
Meantime, a China famine relief
committee, under distinguished denom
inational auspices, has been formed at
New York. By a Nation-wide drive it
plans to raise $10,000,000. It purposes
not only to relieve immediate physical
distress in Shantung and adjacent ter
ritory. but also to undertake public
work which would give employment to
! starving Chinese peasants.
The Red Cross, it goes without say
j ing. will place no obstacles in the path
j of the China famine relief committee's
: well-intentioned program. But until
I generous American donors can be guar
j anteod that their bounty will reach
i destination, atvd not find its way into
j the already swollen private treasuries
jof power-drunk Tuehirr it would not
seem amiss to suggest that the commit
«tee's eleemosynary activities should be
i marked by extreme circumspection. *
| The American people wish the Chinese
i nation well. The latter is not likely to
« mistake the attitude of the Red Cross
for any lack of good will upon the part
| of a country Justly know n as "China’s
best friend." American money and
j Red Cross direction relieved the great
Shantung famine of 1920-21. They
; would not fail the Chinese in any other
emergency that justified a similar inter
j vent ion.
Pettishness.
| For sheer narrowness and pettishness
[nothing probably has ever approached
j the statements attributed to prominent
Canadians in connection with the gal
lant and desperate trip of Col. Charles
A. Lindbergh when he carried pneu
monia serum from New York to Quebec
to the bedside of Floyd Bennett. While
the flying ace himself is not accused of i
knowingly participating in the “huge !
bluff," these Canadians charge that un- i
named ‘persons used the colonel to fur
ther their selfish aims in a vulgar pub
licity stunt." And “I cannot stomach
this way of taking profit of a tragic
situation under the mask of charity.
Here we have everything that is neces
sary. and we do not need them to come
from the United States to bring us
| serum. We can also get along without
j American doctors, be they the most ac- |
complishcd specialists of that great '
! country."
Well, well, well! Canada should cer
tainly be proud to have such statements
as these spread about the world, and
that they will be is a surety. The death
of Floyd Bennett was an international
tragedy, and international attention lias
been focused on the brave fight for his
! life. No one doubts but that Canada
possesses pneumonia serum and ample
facilities of the most modern kiud to
combat all the diseases to which hu
mans fall heir, but it remains a fact
that so great was the interest and con
cern in Bennett's illness among his own
countrymen that no effort and no ex
pense was spared in the vain effort to
save his life.
Whether the particular serum that
was desired was available in Canada is
a moot question. Tite specialist on the
case asked particularly for serum pre
pared by the Rockefeller Institute, and
it is assumed that he believed this type
best suited to his purpose. If he could
have procured the identical serum in
Montreal, thep he obviously was not
looking after the best interests of his
patient, but this thought Is so far-fetch
ed that no one would seriously con
sider it.
Criticism of the strenuous attempt to
save Bennett's life does not sit well to
! This country. Even the most rabid anti-
American would find it difficult, nay.
impossible, to discover wherein lay
profit for any of those who turned time,
, money and energy to the task. Tlic
Rockefeller Institute does not need pub
licity, neither does Lindbergh, and the
Ouggenheun Foundation for the Pro
motion of Aeronautic* can hardly be
accused of being a profit-making or
| ganization. As Dr. W. H. Delaney, su
i perintendent of the Jeffrey Hale Hos
| pital of Quebec so aptly says, "The
; world of medicine has no border line."
It Is a pity, therefore, that ill-advised
i Canadians will, in jealousy and bad
I taste, attempt to make an issue out of
a country’s love and affection for oil*
; of its foremost heroes of the air.
Theater* complain of the enactions
of stage hands. There is no present
plan for dealing with combination* In
restraint of "art.”
I.' r
Public opinion may have a deterrent
influence on crime waves, a* it decide*
! that they are no longer picturesque or
| interesting.
Orator* who were denied audience by
j the D A R. may find occasion to de
mand hearings by the great national
party conventions
Book Price*.
j The question of book price* was in
; terjected into the hearipC before the
( hen ate post office committee to behalf
of a bill for lower postal rate* on book*.
Henator McKellar of Tennessee declared
i that he found that novel* worth “two
j bits ' couldn’t be bought for less than 12.
Senator Phipps of Colorado charged
i that book prices nowaday* were "ex
’ orb) Uni"
! Members of Congress usually can be
j depended upon to state frankly the
j thought* of their constituent*, and it
I 1* interesting, therefore, to discover that
lhe:<- Rena tors, and so the people they
represent, feel that book prices are bo
i high.
Perhaps not only the people of
j 'Jenneaaee and Colorado fe<l this way
; about it The peoples of these United
j hUPei*. e* a have not yet l»een
thoroughly 'sold 1 ' on fancy price* for
books, Especially is this true of novels
j Publisher* gamble in futurities wher
putting out stories, for not even the
most baga/iou* firm can absolutely pre*
: diet best seljei# “
In nothing do human taste* vary
rnoMe tiian in lb* matter of Action.
1 ) What 1* a good story to on* I* branded
! I by ti*e nest reader as "not worth two
1 i bits," and so it goes, with no tuns jutig
I rnent to be given by any on* Even in
j the last resort, public approval, as
i : manifested toy a book Incoming a “best
) j seller," I* no criterion The "best
' \ *elieis“ of 20 years ago, In won* eases,
t j strike us of today *« pretty poor stuff
i ihc individual judgment of a book,
THE EVENING STAR. -WASHINGTON, D. C.. FRIDAY. APRIL' 27, 1928.
then, 1# practically worthless; what
should count 1* the quality of printing,
presswork. binding, and so on, In
relation to a fair profit. Those who ex
pect to be abreast of the times must
pay for it. “New books” always cost
more than old ones, Just, as new motor
cars are more expensive than old
models. The point to be determined Is
not, whether any one thinks a book
good, but whether the purchaser is
given a square deal. That is all any
buyer asks, whether he buys a new
novel or a ton of coal.
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All in the Day's Work.
Yesterday at two fires Washington
firemen rescued lives. In the first. In
stance seven persons were taken from
a blazing buildtng. In the .second an
aged woman, an invalid, trapped by the
flames, was carried to safety. In each
ease the firemen risked their own lives.
Yet none or these men engaged In this
salvage operation hesitated, or when the
work was done thought that they had
accomplished anything unusual. For It
was all in the line of duty.
When the siren sounds and the en
gines siart forth from their stations In
response to an alarm they make a gal
lant spectacle ns they dash up the
street. At the first stroke of the bell the
men have Jumped upon the apparatus,
and as the engines speed on their way
they, as a rule, are still flinging on
their coats. Few think as this scene Is
presented of the perils these crews are
facing. In this city the average fire Is
a small one. Indeed, in most cases the
engines are on their way back home
only a few minutes after they have
gone out. But every alarm carries the
possibility of a tragedy.
Those who demur to the speed with
a-htch the fire apparatus responds to the
signal bell fail to appreciate the fact
that every second is precious, that a
slight blockade in the traffic may cost
a life. Flames and smoke are swift in
spreading, and a comparatively small
blaze in an occupied building may. in a
| few moments, imperil lives. It Is the
j duty of the firemen not merely to couple
i base and direct streams of water upon
the fire, but to see that all the occupants
of the burning building are removed j
Upon arrival at the scene it is their first
thought to insure that the place is va
cated. They do not stop to reckon the
chanc.es. for while they are debating
life may be lost.
The men who took part yesterday In
the rescue wortc will be formally praised
j and thanked, and their services will
! then be quickly forgotten. But they
| should be, in fact, borne to mind it
jnly to emphasize the fact that the fire
man's responsibility is a weighty one,
and that his risks are constant.
When the weather was dry the
Arkansas Traveler said there was no
need to repair the roof. When there
was rain he could not work on it. And
so the problem of flood control lingers
i. .1—
Propaganda should be contemplated
without too much apprehension. There
are propagandists on both sides of every
question.
While aggressive patriotic sentiment
is always highly regarded, a few able
bodied pacificist* might help the situa
tion in Nicaragua.
SHOOTING STARS.
BV PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Old Hong*.
In other day* we sang a song,
And lei the old world drift along.
It was a simple light refrain.
Which now we hear with much dis
dain—
For we have learned to complicate
The rhythms of that earlier date.
Until the echo sounds so free,
That we forget the melody.
When life ha* danced a little while
We'll greet the sorrow or the smile.
Despite the strain* this time may bring.
With Just the songs we u»ed to sing.
Question of Locality.
"Are you a wet or a dry?” inquired
the interviewer.
"I can’t *ay offhand, *’ rejoined Sena
tor Sorghum, as he looked out of the
railway window. "What State are
we in now?”
Retiring Disposition.
The aviator turn* from haunt* of glee.
And i* no glory seeker.
He'd rather course the *ilent skies
than be
An after-dinner speaker.
Jud Tunkin* say* a man who liken
to hear himself talk is generally good
natured and easy pleased.
Athletics.
"I've got to reduce! The doctor
recommends horseback riding "
"Is It satisfactory?”
"Not exactly. I'm not losing weight,
but I'm falling off."
"He who seek* to rule by terror." said
Hi Ho, the *age e>f Chinatown, "i* like
the child who put* on a fearsome mask
which deceives no one ”
All Settled.
We know Jtjst who
Is due
A candidate to be
Well play base ball,
Wt'/TTi all &
I he.ie little cares quite free.
' We wish foh old times,” said Uncle
Ela n “When we was enjoyin' 'em. we
kept wmhin’ foh new time*,"
• • » *§M» 4
CntitPiilnd Millions.
Entm (toe ( lisrlolt* < N I', t New*
(Secretary Davis thinks there must be
at least 2,000,000 men In America today
who are out of a job, and to make it
much worse such a condition is prob
ably katUfar lory to a vast number of
them.
Grnuml Mini Lofly Hookies.
Eros* Iti* Nu#hvl!!« Banner
One difference between n«)kle hall
playem and rookie parachute Jumper*
is that the latter can't make even one
error and stay in the league,
- » aft*** •<— -■
A Heavy l.ialnlity.
Pi lire ihe l.Mnaiiig stat« Journal
i Our operations In Nicaragua thus far
have cost 11,000,000 This does not In
clude 'he newspaper space taken by ob
-1 lectors,
Not a Solicitor,
E#*«w Mi* cuji'iunsn 'I tin#* tolar.
ftomathing tell# us that on the show
ing to date no party will ever make Will
, Worth It* campaign collector^
THIS AND THAT I
J?Y CHARLES E. TBACEWELL.
A proud father handed tut the follow’-
!ng list, showing the vocabulary of his
19-month-old son. He indicated that
the pronunciation was not precise In
every Instance, but, that in none was
there any doubt of the meaning.
Every one knows how baby will call
a bunny “bun-bun,” and so on. The
number of these infantile modifications
is legion. The father's list follows:
Apple, apron, airplane, arm, air. auto
mobile.
Box. bed. broke, burn, bump. back,
bath, ball. belt, book, better, baby. bird,
bay. bread, butter, banana, bucket, bas
ket. bell, big, beads, bus, both, bean,
brush, breakfast, bicycle, bone, blotter,
baik. bottle.
Chair, curtain, cover, cup. cellar, cat,
chicken, check, coat, clock, candy, cold,
cool, cow, cloud, carrots, coffee, can,
.dean. car. cake, cracker, cry, coal, comb,
come. card, cloth, cook, cough, close,
corn, to crow: cut.
Daddy, door, dish. dog. drink, dress,
dirt, dirty, down, dry. dust, duck, draw
er. dinner, doll. do.
Excuse me. elephant, ears, egg. eyes,
Flower, fare, floor, fall, fork, fire,
foot, feather, fly, finger, furnace, fix, full.
Go, grandma, grandpa, gloves, gravy,
good-by, glass, good. gone, going, girl.
House, hand. hat. horse, hospital,
borne, hill. hair, hairpin. Humpty-
Dumpty, hurt, hot, hole. head, how-do
you-do.
Ice. ink.
Juice. Jump.
Kitchen, knife, knee. kick. key.
leg. light, lady, laundry, letter, little.
Mother, mouth, moon, money, man,
me. milk, meat, meet, morning, medi
cine.
No. not. neck, night, nose.
Out, orange, other, oatmeal, outdoors,
open.
Pillow, plate, pipe, pretty, pot. paper,
pocket book. pan. pocket, potato, pepper,
piece, peas, please, pencil, pump, power,
picture, pull. play. pin.
Room, romper, rain, roller, radio, ride,
rabbit, rice. rua. ring. rug.
Stove, sink, saucer, spoon, siboke,
stairs, shoe, sox, stomach, sweater,
shirt, scarf, sky, stek. string, stone,
splinter, steps, stop, sun, star, spool,
shave, soup, spinach, snow, sugar, salt,
skate, school, soap, slipper, sore, store,
screen, shovel, siren iflre). soldier,
sleep, sing, see, sneeze, spit, stick, shut,
stuck, stool.
I Tree, table, tub. truck, tongue, tooth,
top, toast, tomato, tear, tom, towel,
toes, tower, tomorrow, telephone, throw.
Umbrella, up.
Vase, vaseline.
Water, walk, window, wagon, wet.
Yes. you.
** * *
Here are some 275 words which give
a cross-section of a very little child's
life.
From them the curious observer
might deduct the baby’s food, the loca
tion of its home, the father's occupa
tion. some of his habits, baby’s first
acquaintance with literary characters.
A child’s first observances undoubt
edly are of food, that is why the list
of foodstuffs in the above vocabulary
is so remarkably full.
We find apple, milk, bread, butter,
oatmeal, cracker, banana, toast, tomato,
orange, spinach, egg, carrots, coffee,
cake, rice.
It might be added that from this
dietary not only babies but adults might
select foods for a lifetime. There is
enough heat and energy units, together
with the necessary salLs.- vitamins and
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE.
1 I
With the average politician convinced \
by current events that it will be Hoover
vs. Smith in 1928, more or less authen- ;
tic plans are already attributed, respec- i
tively, to the Secretary of Commerce j
and the Governor of New York. Hoover,!
it is fairly certain, will resign his cab
inet office if he is nominated for Pres
ident at Kansas City. Mr, Taft laid down ;
the secretaryship of war in the Roosevelt j
cabinet in June, 1908, following norn- I
ination for the presidency. Mr. Hughes j
resigned from the Supreme Court bench
the day the Chicago convention chose j
him as the Republican nominee in 1916. i
Hoover Is not expected to pitch his cam
paign tent—if such a tepee is to be set i
up—as far afield as his home at Stan
ford. Calif It is much more likely to j
be staked out somewhere near the geo
graphical center of the country. For 1
strategic reasons, Hoover headquarters ,
may be in the corn belt.
** * *
A1 Smith will probably emulate Wood
row' Wilson and establish his front !
porch on the New Jersey coast, where j
the governor is now taking a supple
mentary Spring vacation, lie is fond of
the country club at Absecon, near At- j
iantlc City Smith, of course. If nom- j
inated, will cross the country and show !
himself to the people who inhabit the i
wide often spaces As hi* admirers
credit "Al" with the magnetic qualities
of Roosevelt they are laying great store
by his anticipated winning of the West
when the governor casts the spell of hi*
personality upon it What Republicans
have to say on this score is that no
body ever roused the rabble, West and
East, like William Jennings Bryan did i
but somehow the crowds that turned
out to see and hear him were conspic
uous by their absence from the Demo
cratic voting booths on election day!
Hoover isn’t likely to swing around
anv oratorical circle. It is not his long i
suit. He likes the radio and has a good
broadcasting style.
** a *
With Hoover and Hmlth picked by the
talent as prospective victors In the pres
idential sweepstakes, speculation hence
forward will be largely concentrated on
tbelr running mates. The woods a e
full of "possibilities.’ Moses of New'
Hampshire, Edge of New Jersey, Mills
and Donovan of New York, Tllson of
Connecticut, Fuller of Massachusetts
and Blair of North Carolina are among
Ihe honorably mentioned on the Repub
lican side of the fence, A Hoover-Call
fornian head would, of course, call for
an Eastern tail to the G. O, P. ticket.
By the same reckoning, u Smith nomi\
nation would mean a Democratic candi
date for Vice President either from the
South or West He would la- a Prot
estant and probably dry, although those
who would convert the While House
Into another Hmlthxoiibui Institution
insist that if "Al" is to win on*his wet
ness, there must be no palpably Incon
sistency in the choice of a running mate
like the Davis-Bryan combination in
1024
Mr* l
Not long ago Gen, Lord, director of
the budget, was attending an exhibition
of Government departments at the Na
tional Museum Among the exhibits
was Hie Zoological Park of Washington
As Lord passed tin* Zoo division lie
heard a voice crooning: "How about the
appropriation How uiwitit the appro
priation?” The budget boss couldn’t
discover Unit anybody had addressed
him, whereupon, to Ills consternation,
it turned out that the voice was that of
Hie mynah bln! which the Zoo not
tour? ago imported from India. It Is a
talking bird, though not of the patrol :
family, and is black and moi«- like our
crow, wilh a smaller bill, Yellowish
orange wattles on either side supply the
mynah with a dash of bright color,
Guy Emile, a keeper in the bird division
of the Zoo, lias taught the mynah con
siderable vocabulary. H can say "What
do you say?” "H»*ilo, boyl” and "Mo’s
your old man," in addition to "Mow
about the appropriation?" The bird can
laugh, cough and whistle It Is being
taught to recognise Representative Mad
den and (Senator Warren.
•» * ♦
Chalk up another good job for Indi
ana. I#e Nixon, a long-time official of
Hie Republican national committee in
Washington and former city clerk of
what not, to supply all the bodily needs.
Here we have the basis of the lacto
vegetable diet Indorsed by great dietl
i tians—milk, the basic food, together
i with the vitamins of orange and to
mato juice, the essential salts of spln
! ach, together with carrots, eggs, bread
1 and butter.
It is a safe bet that such a hygienic
child knows coffee only as he sees Ills
parents drink It. Perhaps through his
childish mind some such thought as
, the following flits nebulously:
"Ah, my dear parents, I see that
coffee Is one of the delights of being
, grown-up, that not being allowed to
, drink it is one of the penalties of be
ing a child. Just wait until I get
grown up!”
♦* * a
Humpty-Dumpty is baby’s first lit
erary acquaintance. No doubt he is
reasonably well acquainted with that
heroic character's chief dramatic ac
tion. sitting upon a wall, with the en
suing climax, falling off therefrom.
Some persons might mistakingly believe
that the fall was the major action, but
any one who will give the talc the
slightest analysis will come to realize
that the sitting was the action, the
falling the climax, or even possibly the
denouement.
The failure of all the king’s horses
and all the king's men to put Humpty-
Dumpty together again will point
the following moral to the childish
mind, to wit, that what you do you
never can undo—therefore, child, do
not do it. Personally, we have always j
wished that the tale had ended with
I Humpty-Dumpty bn the ground The
| stuff about the horses and the men is
! an anti-climax, leaving nothing to the
! imagination of the reader, besides i»-
I culcating pessimistic visions of futility
| and failure into infantile minds. Those
j persons who have been so exercised over
the images planted tn such minds by
j the Mother Goose rhymes ought to
i look Into this one particularly.
♦* * *
Baby’s father, wp deduct, smokes a !
! pipe. His work is either with radios j
or telephones. From the word “pump"
one might deduce that the family lives
j in the country, surrounded by trees,
tftnbrellas and vaseline,
i Baby’s first word, we unhesitatingly
! declare, was "No." Every modern child
I knotvs this word before any other, and
i uses it more constantly from the age
| of 1 to 6 years.
There are plenty of “yes-yes" men,
| but no “yes-yes” babies. They are all
1 "no-no" babies, from the hour of
birth: the "vessing" comes with ma
; turity. Thus Wordsworth, in his “Ode
! on Immortality,” was right when he
| said that, later years bring forgetful
ness of the divine birthright of man.
He meant that man was made to say
“No,” Success in life depends upon the
powder of the individual to say “No” to
untruths, temptations, inimical forces.
Baby, in his 300 words or so, has an
j elementary education in cause and ef
* feet (fire. hurt. sore, sick, medicine);
in hygiene isoap, tooth, water); in
I exercise (walk, skate, out, outdoors).
He Is acquainted with the familiar
pets, the dog, the cat and the rabbit ;
he has some rudiments of politeness,
with "excuse me." "how-do-you-do,”
and "please " Small children, we have
| noticed, are Inordinately fond of say
! ing "how’-do-you-do."
AH in all. we think this young fellow
i Is to be congratulated on his vooab
i ulary. May it grow with the rest of
i him to man’s estate.
i
l Indianapolis, has just been designated
as sergeant-at-arms of the Kansas City
I convention. It's a responsible job. It
| comprehends complete charge of the
convention premises, keeping of order
j during sessions and -most exacting task
of all--guarding of dozens of doors.
' Nixon w as once postmaster of San Juan,
Porto Rico, following the Spanish-Amer
j lean War period. One of his letter car
j riers was “Roxy” Rothafel, Marine, now
| a luminary in the radio firmament.
** * *
! The Institut Francalx de Washington
j will celebrate a historic American an
niversary on Sunday, May 6—the l.iOth
recurrence of the date of Gen. Wash- 1
button's proclamation to the Conti- j
nental Army at Valley Forge on May 1
6, 1778 The palatlai home of Perry
Belmont on New Hampshire avenue ,
| will be the scene of the commemora
tion and the guest of honor at a recep
i Non there will be M. Paul Claudel, the
French Ambassador Dr David Jayne
1 Hill, historian and diplomat, will read
- Washington’s proclamation and deliver
| words of welcome to the envoy of the
colonies' ally of a century and a half;
ago.
** * *
A writer with the undeniably good
j Republican name of Matthew Quay
Glaser, editor of the Masonic Review.
! has fust produced an eloquent eulogy
of Senator Charles Curtis in that maga
zine It is entitled “Curtis for Presi
dent.*' An Interesting paragraph nar
rates Curtis' ancestry. The Kansan*
father was a native of Indiana, who
emigrated to the Sunflower State In
i 1856. His mother was Ellen Pappan. a
Kuw, who was born on the Kansas In
dian Reservation At the age of 5,
Curtis, his father having died, went to
live with his mother’s people on the
Kaw reservation. He attended the In
dian mission schools until 1868, when
he returned to Topeka, for residence
afterward with hi* father’* parent*
There are shrewd Republicans who sav
"Charlie” Curtis will be the victorious
dark horse at Kansas City. He's as
sured of at least one vote from down
East—that of hi* married daughter,
Mrs, Knight of Providence, elected a
delegate at large from Rhode Island.
(t'«t>s»l*lit. ltt'.’S i
UNITED STATES
IN WORM) WAR
Ten Yenr* Ago Today,
Allies are holding fast on Kemmel
front and around Voormeieeele, barely
2 miles from Yprea. Germans under
Von Aruim are busy consolidating tlielr
positions around Mont Kemmel and re
organizing their forces for a new drive
again, it. the other hills held by the allies
to tlie west Germans must have fresh
troops to continue the attack One
British brigade inflicted four times as
many losses as they themselves suffered.
* # * French troops counterattack
successfully on their, front from La
Civile <2 miles northwest of Kemmel*
to Dine (2 miles west of Kemmel).
They recapture Loere and repulse vio
lent efforts of the enemy to reach the
nearby litlls. * * • Dispatch from
Copenhagen says a counter revolution
has broken out In Petiograd, Serious
rioting there and rumor 1* persistent
that Grand Duke Alexis, son of the ex-
Czar has been proclaimed Emperor
Russian embassy lit Washington has
j tin new* as yet * * * One hundred
and three casualties reported by Gan
Pershing, Including 12 commissioned
officers,
• «
Heller Hum Some.
t'jiim Ik* Terra llauto Star
The radio audience may lie tiring, but
law* still ranks several notches higher
than a campaign speech.
l*re*mnj*live.
Pinm Pm Hostile Kvauies TntuwiH*t
The New York Damoeratie State com
mittee having formally indorsed Oov.
Hmlth. it is now pretty generally mi
derstood that h* l* a candidal* lor the 1
presidential nominal^,
PHILOSOPHIES
BY
GLENN FRANK
The next great advance of the human
spirit will come when we discover the
secret of harnessing for daylight uses
the serenity and swiftness of mental
operations that take place In our
dreams. ......
Maurice Maeterlinck once said that
every man is a Shakespeare In his
dreams.
I remembered today the story of the
Frenchman who became a student of
the mind of dreamland.
He was ever trying to find ways and
means of waking suddenly enough to
catch his mind in the dream process.
lie arranged that his little daughter
should, when she found him asleep,
waken him by some unusual means.
Finding her father dozing in his chair
after the midday meal, his head thrown
back in his chair, the little girl quickly
drew her fingernail across his throat.
He wakened instantly with a dream
fresh in his mind.
He had dreamed that he was in the
midst of the French Revolution: that
he was suspected of royalist tendencies
that enraged the passion-frenzied
French democrats of the time: that he
was arrested after long and tedious and
to evade the pur
suers; that he was brought before the
tribunal; that a long and dramatic trial
ensued; that he was finally sentenced
to death by the guillotine, and he had
awakened just as the knife had touched
his throat.
All this had obviously happened in
dreamland in the instant following the
j sharp journey of his little daughter s
* fingernail across his throat.
Days of sights and sounds, of obser
vations and experiences had been
crowded into a flashing instant
It staggers the imagination to try to
think what we might be and do if we
couid contrive to achieve in daylight
this mental swiftness of dreamland.
Even the genius of daylight is but
a plodding plowboy compared with the
magical scope and speed of the dream
mind. . »
If we could harness the swiftness of
! the dream mind for the mastery of the
1 problems of davlight. reality would make
romance a dull and dreary business in
comparison. _ .
(Copyricht. McClure Nrwßpsprr Syndi'-ate.l
College Figures Prove
Modern Youth Steadfast
To the Editor of The Star:
Modern youth is so frivolous! So
wail the pessimists, who claim that the
breakdown of the home or the advent
of prohibition has sent the youthful
life of the Nation whizzing to hades
on a glary toboggan slide
But is youth frivolous? Francis
W. Lawson, who Is the director of em
| ploy merit in the University of New
York, does not venture an opinion, but
he does state that of the 32 000 en
rolled students in that university over
21 000. or 70 per cent, earn either ail
or a part of their way through the
university. Not less than 17,570 of
these do full-time work and 3.545 do
part-time work, with an average per
capita earning of about S3OO per year
as against $1,500 per year for the stu
dents who hold full-time jobs. The
aggregate annual earnings of these
students total the somewhat impressive
sum of $27,000,000. Not so frivolous,
after all. Even more surprising is the
fact that in the fashionable Smith Col
lege for women almost half of the
students are earning all or a part of
their way.
Back in 1914. before the home had
“lost its grip," or prohibition bad filled
the young people with deviltry, the at
tendance at the colleges and univer
sities totaled 274.084. while in 1924
726.124 of the frivolous young rene
gades were enrolled, and doubtless more
of them were working their way than
the total in attendance during the
“good old days.'* when pa and ma
were sober-minded young folks, and
the home was “all that it ought to be.”
and a smelly grog shop adorned t?>
the principal street comers in village
and city, with white-aproned, red
nosed barkeepers "slinging the suds"
behind the mahogany bar with a brass
rail.
Oh, for gfienr good old. sweet old
days, Steve'.
CHARLES P. NELSON.
Minneapolis, Minn.
Explains Early Porni
By Pay nr on Home
t Tu the Editor of The Star
j lam grateful for the notice given by
J you in The Star Wednesday of my re
| marks before the Columbia Historical
Society last night on the life and career
of John Howard Payne. Permit me.
j however, to call your attention to a mis
| leading statement in regard* to the
j publication in Scribner's Magazine of
an earlier poem on “Home" than the
' Home, Sweet Home’" familiarly known.
This earlier poem was written by Mr.
Payne at the age of 15. when a student
at Union College, Schenectady. N. Y.
It was published for the first time In
Scribner's for December. 1915. by Mr
Payne's grandnephew. Col. Thatcher
T P. Luquer, 109 years after It was
written. Your mention of it might lead
one to think that Mr Payne himself
published it in Scribner's when first
written, which would have been im
possible.
I do not think that the genesis of
"Home, Sweet Home" can be traced to
tills poem, written at such an immature
age. but, taken together, the two may
indicate that the author's thoughts
dwelt much upon the theme of home.
Mr Pavne returned to this country
In 1832. He died in 1852, after being
twice consul to Tunis.
ROSA PENDLETON CHILES.
Briitmi Asks for an Offer.
~FVn»H thii 11. ouMvm Dally Ess If
With Beilin expressing satisfaction
with inlands speech on Rhineland
evacuation the way is cleared for some
concrete proposal in the course of the
present year. The treaty of Versailles
provides for occupation until 1935
Having fulfilled the treaty’s terms. Ger
many declares that since the purpose of
the occupation is to assure fulfillment
the French should now withdraw from
German soil
"Very well," says Rtiaml “We are ]
ready to withdraw', What have you to j
offer us a quid pro quo for being saved j
the cost and humiliation of another j
seven years of armed occupation?"
Tills puts the matter on a financial ]
basis, it tells Germany in so many j
words that if she can find some way of i
liquidating her reparation debt In one
lump France will get out of Germany.
How can Germany do this? There
Is only one way, By floating an inter
naltoiml commercial loan to cover what
she owes France If the world’s money
markets are willing to accept German
securities in sufficient amounts to en
able Fiance to pay her debts to Eng
land and tile United Bt»t*s. the whole
matter might be cleared up this year
Os course, the total sum Germany
owes must first tie rived at a reasonable
figure, say eight billions Germany
will have to accept some kind of mil
itary control ot the Rhineland at least
until 1935, French Nationalist.a wifi
Insist on more money than Germany
can pay, and German Nationalists will
insist upon less control than France
can concede it witl require all the
|MM allusive |rowels of 111 laud and Htreae
otarru to force a successful issue,
—' - « * •
A Magnet, Then.
From tire IHot Mattie* TtllatSe t'stMtsi
It is easy for a man to locate rela
tives, neat and distant, after tie has
become a hero,
- » * »
Aii Agricultural Definition.
ft MIM Uis I*, trail New »
“On-ordination in agriculture” means
1 Hist after you dig for worms you dls*
vuver you liavt spaded th« garden.
| ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
RY FREDERIC J. HASKIN.
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world that can answer as many legiti
mate questions as our free Information
Bureau in Washington, D. C. This
highly organized institution has been
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rection of Frederic J. Haskin. By
keeping in constant touch with Federal
bureaus and other educational enter
prises it is in a position to pass on to
you authoritative information of the
highest order. Submit your queries to
the staff or experts whose services are
put at your free disposal. There is no
charge except 2 cents in stamps for
return postage. Address The Evening
Star Information Bureau. Frederic J.
Haskin. Director, Washington, D. C.
Q. Is the practice of liming soils of
comparatively recent origin?—J. T.
A. The practice of .applying lime to
soils to increase crop yields has been
more or less common in many parts
of this country since its first settle
ment. It has been followed in many
parts of Europe for centuries, and dates
back more than 3,000 years.
Q. What is the general consensus of
opinion with reference to the relative
merits of the four following plays:
“Blossom Time,” “The Student Prince,”
“Rose Marie” and “My Maryland”?—
J. G. B.
A. The theater critic of the New
York Times says: “According to re-
I views which appeared in the Times
I and in general point of success, we list
i the following plays in order of their
| importance: "Rose Marie,” “The Stu-
I dent Prince, Blossom Time,” and “My
1 Maryland.” The last named, of course,
I is still running in New York.”
Q. When was an airplane first ;
launched by catapult?—E. M. C.
A. The first time an airplane was
catapulted off a ship was on Novem- |
her 12. 1918, by .the United States j
Navy.
q if a bucket of water freezes and
, is then allowed to melt, will there be
| more water than before it froze?—
!C A E There would be the same amount ,
of water after freezing if same had
been kept in an air-tight vessel. If ;
not, there would be a small loss from
evaporation.
Q. Can you give me some idea of
i the number of beggars encountered by ,
1 a traveler in India? —F. H.
A It has recently been stated that
at the latest twelfth-year fair at
Madras the road from the city to the
j bathing place —a distance t of two and
I a half miles—was lined with religious
j beggars, sitting shoulder to shoulder,
i Each had an attendant sitting in front
| soliciting alms for his master.
j Q What is the regulation width of j
j an auto truck required by law In Ne
! braska?— L. H R.
i A According to the State law of Ne
: braska an automobile truck can not
be more than 90 inches in width.
Q. When was wall paper first used
in the United States? —A. L. |
A. Wall paper was imiiorted by the
early settlers of the colonies. The
first factory’for making wail paper was j
established' in this country in 1790 by
John B Howell at Albany. N. Y.. bit j
i the second one did not appear until i
j 1810. During this period the wealthy
1 people were in the habit of importing ,
their wall paper from England and ,
| France. _
' Q What percentage of the total ,
number of soldiers gassed during the i
war died?—A. M. P.
A Very few men were killed by gas ;
on the field of battle— probably under ■
200—since concentrations of gas suf
ficient to kill within, say, 12 hours were j
seldom obtained. Os the 70.552 gas i
cases admitted to hospitals 1.221 died.
Assuming that 200 died on the field of ,
battle from gas. the total deaths from
this cause was 1.421. or 2 per cent of ,
the total number gassed.
Q What Btat« have more women
than men in their population?—T. N.
A. Females exceed males in Massa
: chusetts. Rhode Island. New York.
North Carolina. South Carolina. Geor
; gia. Alabama and in the District of
| Columbia.
[ Q When cream is changed to butter
j is there a physical or chemical change? \
—V. S
A The Dalrv Division says when 1
iCoolidge Talk on States*
Rights Stirs Animated Debate
Centralization, which was attacked
| by President Coolidge in his address be
fore the convention of the Daughters
of the American Revolution, is taken
up by the press of the country as an
appropriate subject for discussion in
connection with existing national poli
cies Some emphasis is placed on the
fact that the head of the Republican
party in the present administration
should so emphatically indorse the
doctrine of States' rights. Dissenting
views are from those who believe the
administration has not exemplified the j
theory and those who uphold
national action on matters which are
on a large scale.
• He did not hesitate to discard en
tirely *’ according to the St louts Times
(Republican*, what has in essence,
been accepted as a guiding principle j
of the Republican party since the rise (
and dominance of Roosevelt tsm—the
centralisation of authority in Washing-j
ton but boldly strode across the bound- j
arv lines and accentuated the worth of j
a cardinal doctrine long cherished by
Democracy as a party, that being the
doctrine of local self-government j
Centralisation of power Into bureaucrat- ,
ic hands is the menace of the time ,
it is true that we possess an India- ,
soluble union, but it remains equally
a truth that it must continue to be com- ,
posed of indestructible States Else we
are lost."
** ♦ *
The Binghamton Press tindepend
ent Republlcani feels that the time
undoubtedly will come when party lines j
will not stand in the way of determtna- j
lion of the American people to halt the
invasion of States' rights bv tlie Fed- j
erwl Goveminent." and the Chatta- j
nooga Times v Independent Democratic* ;
states “that the President’s warning
against the dangers of centralized, bu
reaucrat le government and his Insist
cnee that government must be kept out
of the domain of private business, on
natn of loss of ihc political as well as
tiie economic freedom of the people,
should have evoked such widespread
favorable comment is an encouraging
sign"
"Much of the trend." Ur the opinion
of the Nashville Banner (independent
Republican*, has been due to thought
lessness on the part of our national
legislators They have too often been
either quiescent or favorable when the
buck of responsibility was being passed.
The warning of President Cooltdge was
proper lls effects should be to call a
halt upon the mo common habit of
delegating authority " The Indianapolis
News i indeiteudent * remarks 'There
are manv hupUcattous In all tills which
will suggest themselves to the carehil
reader. Hut it is enough to have tin*
excellent and most lirnely protest
against bureaucracy and centrwllaauoh
and the extension of the sphere of
Government over local affairs and in
dividual activities"
** * *
*'A nation »»f government servants
would become." states the Ban Fran
cisco Bulletin t Republican*, ‘ as soft a*
those nations that were unable to de
fend themselves against live fury of
parlvaile hordes Decadence may come
M *un?ly though misgovmuuent as *
tH TTTlnii
cream is changed to butter It la a
physical change.
Q How many cigarettes are smoked
in a year in the United States’—G. V.
A. According to the most accurate
figures available burned or burning
cigarettes are discarded at the rate of
170,000 a minute, or 90 000.000,000 a
year.
Q. Please give examples of words in
which the letter ”w” Is used as a vowel.
-—D. O’B.
A. In words where “w” forms the
second element of a diphthong, as in
few and how, "w” is a vowel.
Q. Where did the slang expression
‘He’s a hellbender” come from?—E. E. C
A. Possibly from a large salamander
called the hellbender, found chiefly ;n
the streams emptying into the Great
Lakes. This is an extremely ugly but
perfectly harmless creature that is ex
ceedingly tenacious of life and
hibernates In cold weather.
Q. Who invented painting in oils’
—R. A. B.
A. Jan Van Eych of the Flemish
School has been generally credited wTh
the Invention, or at least with the first
practice, of painting in oil.
Q. Has it been customary to give the
title of Duke of Gloucester to younger
sons of the King of England?—C. E. R.
A. The Earldom of Gloucester has
been held by several members of'the
royal family. Including Robert, natural
son of Hpnry I and John, afterwards
King of England. The dukedom dates
from 1385, when Thomas Woodstock,
younger son of Edward 111 was created
Duke of Gloucester, The last duke was
j William Frederick, who died In 1834,
i leaving no children. The present duke
is Prince Henry, third son of King
i George, who was created such in 1928.
' Q. How much has it cost to build the
New York Presbyterian Hospital?
—J. E. M.
A. The vie* president of the hos
pital says: "So far it has cost us about
512.000.000. The end is in sight, hw
-1 ever, and I think that will about
| cover It.”
Q. How many garages are there in
i the United States doing repair work’
! —D. W.
A. There are approximately 50,000
1 garages In this business and about
j $1,000,000,000 is spent yearly for this
upkeep.
Q How many banks are there in
the United States?—A. L. B.
A. On June 30, 1927. there were in
the United States 19.265 reporting
banks other than national. On this
date there were 7.796 national banks,
making a total of 27,061 reporting
banks.
Q How is the sturgeon caught’—
C. M.
A. The Bureau of Fisheries says that
i the sturgeon is caught by snagging. It
, will not take any bait. Snagging is
1 done with a hook and line. A very
heavy linen thread is used for the line
about one-eighth-inch in diameter. The
, hook should be very stout and from
three to four inches in length.
Q When and where was the install
ment system of buying and selling
' started?—R. H. P.
| . A. The system of purchasing on the
installment plan can be traced back to
t antiquity. Crassus. a contemporary of
i Julius Caesar, is said to have made a
i fortune by building houses outside of
Rome and selling them on the install
| ment plan. The present system is
known to have existed a century ago.
; it was during the last decade that tre
, mendous expansion in sales and indus
i tries in intallment buying occurred.
-
Q How many cars are owned by the
] Pullman Co.?—F. I. S.
A. On December 31. J 927 this company
1 owned 9.068 cars. This number included
standard sleeping cars, parlor cars, rom
* posite cars, private cars, tourist cars
and miscellaneous ears.
Q. Has Marion Talley ever studied
anv branch of music other than vocal?
B W
A. Miss Talley has studied piano and
violin in addition to vocal.
Q. How many wives and children
had the father of the present King of
Siam?—W. E M.
: A. King Chulalongkorn had 3 000
j wives and 370 children. There were
1 134 sons and 236 daughters.
, through laziness and licentiousness
i The Green Bay Press-Gazette (inde
; pendent* adds that "when the national
j government finishes performing purely
! national functions it has finished its
work. To give it more is not onlv to
j have the work performed in poorer
fashion, but. as the President, said, it is
bartering a wav one's freedom "
| "This country must keep away from
I any paternalistic tendency, either tn
business or in other matters ' advises
the Albany Evening News «independent
: Republican), and the Altoona Mirror
i (independent) affirms that the Presi
j dent *'is quite right when he commends
l individual independence and State as
sumption of authority m all local m*t
! ters." The Syracuse Herald (tndepend
! rut* holds that "he said enough to
; measure his understanding of the Na
; lions divergence from the standards
f and aims of the founders of the Repub
j lie ” The Youngstown Vindicator iDem
! ocratic* contends that our forefathers
i could they look in on conditions today
i would be amazed to see how far we
* have drifted from their Ideals" The
; Columbus Ohio State Journal Repub
lican* avers that "it ts Ume to call *
| halt" The Richmond News Leader
! (independent Democratic* ts convinced
1 that "the ideal government is the one
, that has the least to do. the worn
government is the busiest '*
WWW*
Nevertheless, the Utica Observes-Dus
patch (independent> asserts that "Vli
Coolidge‘s emphasis on individualism
can be carried too far It ts an inea*
i cajvabie fact," continues the paper, "that
j there are more and more aeretces which
i everybody today considers ts* be public
i services * • * It la equally clear that
! government's work of protecting the
| weak against the strong must inevitable
grow m scope as our civUiaalion be
csvjnes mom complex “ The Hanta Bar
bara Dally News , IVnwvrattc' believes
that when a job becomes too big for
local control. It is right and proper for
tlie ptopk to look to the national gov
ernment tor aid
Mr. Cooltdge ts appealing to the
country to vlettver itself from the conse
quences of his own acts and the acts
of statesmen who have acted as he has
acted says the Dayton Daily News
(IndcfViident Democt atic*. and the
Houston Chronicle (Democratic* offrr%
the comment ''threshlent Cooltdge as
suming that things as they now stand
and the system as it Is now operated
are lust amt right, says that on this
basts we will be fair to everybody amt
play no favorites It all reminds us of
the trite story of the youngster whs' eats
half ius apple amt then 'plays t»iv‘ by
giving halt s*f the remainder to ht»
br\*tlier "
“Mis utterance on government inter
ference m private business" in the
judgment of the Chicago Daily Tribune
(Republican*, "issound, wholesoute ami
timely in the face s*l a popular willing
ness to s-entraitae power in Washing
ton ami let Washington run the couu
trv Hut his willingness and the move
ment that takes advantage of it does
not confine ttself to economic hfe It
lias extended over every part and phase
of life What the country needs ts a
tu nhet who hall denounce gov em
inent control of every personal arttvttv
• n well as control of burnt*** aim*.