Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-12-21

"Digging the Big Ditch"
IF you read the first articles Of the series the RO
i NANCE OF PANAMA. by Edgar Allen Forbes.
you will be eager to read the second in next SUNDAY
MAGAZINE. In it you will find this:
at be said of him truthully that the canal could not
have been built without him
Naturally your first thought will be that this refers to
Colonel Cocktails but happens that he the author OF
the quotation Nor the chief engineer Of the canal
speaking of Colonel Gorgas. He meant Colonel H. F.
Hodges, the who designed the Gatun locks "and
everything else that is big on the isthnus.'
And while the full credit is given Colonel Gorgas,
there much about Emmett Ireland Vaughn to whom his
chief IS eager to give credit as Colonel Goehals to
Colonel Hodges By the way when Colonel Hodges fin
shed his work Panama and returned to New York there
wasn't single line in newspaper chroniclng his arrival.
So you that this article by Mr. Forbes is not
conventional He isn't that kind of historian He
makes you understand the canal he tells things about
the enterprise that has had written about it than any
human undertaking. In his vivid, forceul way, Mr..
For makes that with which less familiar
fresh and by bringing out significance that is
strange He is entertaining always when he handles
statistics; although he doesn't devote much attention to
them except for illustration.
THE PARCEL POST AND IT'S . MICE : is article
by A. B. Maine that could be much longer, because
it deals with of the biggest departures in
government, which to be growing and more
paterna The actual working OF the parcel post has ur-
nished many surprises.
Of course YOU know that retail dealers especially the
country much afraid that the parcel post would put
them of business because would give the mail order
concerns such enormous advantage The latter
wiser because they realized that the parcel post would
bring increase the number of small orders, and
that the cost of handling would enormously reduce their
profits
1t has already been proved pretty concusvely that the
benefited by the parcel post the people gen.
orally and the retail dealer particularly and that the great
burden falls upon the wholesaler and manufacturer In
stead of the parcel post putting him of business he
feared the retail dealer finds that enables him to
his customers better than he ever did.
But is different with the jobber. He finds that ice'
eating up his profits and he is in quandary You will
have read the article in the understand
clearly.
other tale of the Mighty Harkins Show by Glenmore
Davis who as you know makes Of fiction tell of
of his actual experiences and he might have had
press agent of circus 1t shows the brilliant magma
on the untrng energy, the wonderful audacy, of these
exploiters of sensation and in this particular how
spectacular suffered from small thing that had
been anticipated 1t makes mighty good tale which is
choke full of humor.
TAPS FOR THE TOPAZ TABLE is kind of Christmas
story written in the French form by Robert Emmett
MacA1arney. who, you probably know of the big
in the Pulitzer School of Journalism in Columbia
University.
1t is fantastic finely written tale whose significance is
largely alegorcal and very different from most SUNDAY
MAGAZINE 1t particularly effective in the vivid
of its descriptions and its characterization.
THE amazing capacity of Burmah Jones and his great
skill in handling shown in the instalment