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Evening star., 1922-04-30
Engagement to Wed -.
In Society : Calendar

AT a dinner given at their residence,
Woodlawn. Friday evening. Mr.. and
Mrs, Ambrose, Hammet Burroughs Of
Iryinston on -the-H Hudson announced
the engagement Of their daughter.
Miss Lulie, Davis Burroughs. to Mr..
q. de Ereest Larner Of New York.
and formerly ofVVashing gton.
Miss Burroughs attended the Misses
Masters School and Is b graduate of
the Mary A. Burnham School of
Northampton. Mass. !.
MIR. LArner Is the son of Mrs. Rob-
ert Martin I4arner and the late Robert
Martin Larner Of this city. He was
graduated from Lawrencevilie. class
Of 'fs. and Columbia uniyersity, class
war aa an ace, serving With the La
fayette Escadriiie and later In the
United States air ssrvice. with the
rank of captain.i He.iis q member
Of the Army and Navy aha the Chevy
Chase Clubs and Of the Columbia and
Evening star., 1922-04-30

Rosenblatt. Mr. and Mrs. H. Freshie
Miss X. Schwartz and Mr.. Louis
Cohen. I'd. of Philadelphia; Mr.. Ma
than Goldrich of New York. Mr., and
Mrs. r. Engleman. Miss LilIion En-.
gleman, Mr.. G. Engleman and Mr.
Jack White Of Baltimore. The home
was most attractively decorated in
palms and cut flowers.
The engagement Of Miss Ellen
Magill Baker to Mr.. Alfred Kerfoot
of Berryville has just been an
nounced. The wedding will take
place in June.
Miss Baker is the daughter of H.
We Baker. president of the First
National Bank of Berryville: Mr.
Kerfoot is the son of Mrs. NJ H
Kerfoot of Lewellyn. Clarke county
and the late DR.. Henry d. Kerfoot
The engagement is announced by
Mrs. ]. r. FAINT of Newberry. N. c..
Of her daughter Pauline to Mr.. Seth
Adair Meeks. Columbus. Miss, the
wedding to take place June I. Mr.
Meeks is the nephew of Mr.. Samuel
NJ. Meeks Of Washington and is well
known here.
Evening star., 1922-04-30

for Warwick Lodge Tweed
Suits that have just been reduc-
ed from $24.75.
Evening star., 1922-07-21
Rate by Mail-Payable in Advance.
Maryl3ud and Virginia.
All Other States,
A Coal Commission Assured.

a COdl OUlululSSlOu x1sSuASu'
AT time of disappointed hopes and
serious concern for the future, there
is encouragement in President Hard
ing's announced determination to go
ahead with the creation of Il coal COM
mission. regardless Of the rejection OF
his arbitration proposal by the miners
and a minority of the mine owners.
The time is not distant when the
American people must make momen-
tous decisions as To the future Of TINS
industry. and il is needful that they
have all the facts before them in order
that these decisions may be intelligent
and just.
When the time comes that the COM
mission is to be created, the President
should summon to the task the ma
TONS abIeSt minds and most exalted
characters. The commission should be
of such impressive ability and stand
ing that there will not rest in any
unpre JUDGED mind q doubt as to the
wisdom and fairness of its findings.
The people are determined that some
thing must and shall be done to make
impossible in the future such situa-
ton as exists today. and they will not
tolerate that the thing to be done shall
be either a wrong thing or an met
fective thing. Creation of such COM
mission as the President proposes,
therefore, is an essential first step in
Of h n
shall guarantee the continuous pro-
duction of coal and also assure justice
to both the capital and the labor en-
gagged in its production.
To contend that the federal govern
ment lacks the power TO work out and
make effective such a program Is TO
argue that it is no government at all.
The government can do anything that
may become necessary to safeguard
the national life. If there are inter
pretations of the written Constitution
which would seem to erect barrier
against effective action. the written
form can be changed, for the spirit
and intent of the Constitution was to
futile one. If it was worth while to
change the Constitution in order that
women might be given suffrage, 1t
certainly is worth while to change it
in order that the people may not be
deprived of life.
1t is a narrow view which regards
the government as consisting of cer-
tain elected persons. The Declaration
of Independence set forth that all
governments derive their just powers
from the consent of the governed"
and as it is the American people which
constitute this government they can
do through it whatever they will shall
be done. To set up any claim to the
contrary would be a denial that the
people are self-governing. President
Harding grasped this fact and ex
pressed it forcibiy when he wrote to
Gov Sproul that: There is an au
thority above all workers and opera
tors, and that authority-the Ameri
can public-must have an agency of
effective expression"
Evening star., 1922-07-21

gators of crime have for quite q num-
ber of years been experimenting with
psycho-mechanical devices. and have
produced some rather remarkable ma
chimes for measuring the nervous re,
actions. But they have not been
adopted in this country officially. The
courts have shown tine same indisposi-
ton toward them that was displayed
by Chief Justice Mccoy. 1t may be
that they are trustworthy and valu-
able. But certainly if they are applied
in test it should not be in the course
of examination in open court in the
presence of spectators. The conditions
of the tests should be different from
those that prevail in a crowded court
room.
What is wanted in all legal pro-
cedure is the truth. 1t is assumed that
self-interest dictates conceaiment, dis
tortion. evasion and direct untruthful-
ness. If a machine could be devised
that would betray lie or an eauivoca-
ton or a concealment the course of
justice would certainly be smoothed
and shortened. In his refusal yester-
day to admit the test as part of the
pending trial Chief Justice Mccoy
properly said that when the device is
developed to the point Of perfection
reached by the telephone and the tele-
graph it might be considered. 1t is as
- h.f
be found to reveal the truth, and a
machine that can do it is to be vel
coined.
Evening star., 1922-07-21
A No Thoroughfare Bridge

In the course of the hearing before
the District Zoning commission yes
terday regarding the classification of
the area between the lines of West
Virginia and New York avenues men
ton was made of the prospects OF that
territory when New York avenue
has been extended" This brings to
mind the fact that an important prof.
ect of city development has been sus-
pended for twelve OF fifteen years.
When the Union station terminal
plans were drawn, in the elimination
of grade crossings, certain streets
were marked to be carried under the
tracks. as II. X and NJ, and Florida
and Rhode Island avenues. New York
avenue was to be carried over the
rails. and substantial bridge was
planned for that purpose and was
erected. This bridge, costing a large
sum of money, has been standing as a
viadnct over the tracks ever since the
terminal project was completed, but
leading nowhere. Its westerly end has
that time by an asphalt salvage plant,
a nuisance in it's foul odors and smoke
and its unsightly debris and surround
ings. On the easterly end the bridge
gives upon an embankment, beyond
which is a grove of trees without a
road. Somewhere in the distance is
Ivy City, but the bridge affords no ac-
cess. When Camp Meigs was estab-
lished this bridge afforded sort of
back-door entrance. Its only practical
use during all the years it has stood
was that during the war it was the
only direct approach to the canteen
established in the railroad yards.
Here is an example of wasting funds
by not utilizing initial expenditures.
The District paid it's part Of the con-
struction of this bridge long ago. and
has received nothing whatever in re-
turn for it in terms of service and
use. 1t would have been far more eco
nomical in the absence of the imme-
date avenue extension on the eastern
side to have left the bridge merely an
item of the plan, to be provided when
ever the street was extended and
ready for use. The area east of the
tracks will surely not be developed
normally until the street is extended,
and it is paradoXical to wait for the
area to develop before extending the
street. Meanwhile, there stands the
costly bridge leading nowhere. serving
no one and disfigured by trespassing
public nuisance.
Perhaps this Zoning question will
bring the matter to point. and cause
the Commissioners to lay this matter
before Congress in terms of strong
recommendation for the extension of
New York avenue and the utilization
OF the long-wasted bridge structure.
Evening star., 1922-07-21

place. Leader Murphy gave the order,
and the rest was easy.
But the new mayor and his creator
did not get along well together. and
the program ended. The mayor did
not become governor, and necessarily
the presidency faded out.
Some years seem to have been nee
essary to bring the two men together
again. But here they are. confabulat-
ing about politics and Office, with the
one seeking at the hands of the other
his former place in Congress.
A try at the House is probably a
better bet than try at the Senate
would be. The Tammany congress
sional districts are as rule cinches,
whereas the senatorial role this year,
with Mr.. Calder leading the republic
ans, will give the democrats good
deal to think about A bird in the
hand is popularly appraised as worth
two in the bush.
Evening star., 1922-07-21
Slemp, or Slump.

In the ninth Virginia congressional
district the republican situation is
clearly Slemp or slump. MIR. Slemp
himself has made it so.
Having been led by him so often to
victory. the republicans cannot asso-
ciate victory with any other leader
ship. He appears to them as the one
sure shot. Hence their reluctance to
release him from the place he has es-
tablished for himself. Hence the
demonstration in his honor at their
convention yesterday.
Strong as he has shown himself to
be in his own district, Mr.. Slemp has
not been able to spread his strength
beyond. The ninth has remained for
years the only republican district in
the state, while the state as a whole
has. campaign after campaign, regis
tered large democratic majority
Two years ago, Gov. Cox, who Jared
so badly elsewhere, carried the Old
Dominion by sixty thousand.
1t is far cry to Malone and the re-
adjusters. Since that time the demo.
Gratis have had everything their own
way. They have not at all times been
happy family. Some sharp faction.
ism has on several occasions shown it.
self. But it was never permitted to
get out of hand. The republicans at
the showdown were never able to turn
It to account.
How much longer this condition of
affairs will continue is a problem men
elsewhere than in Virginia have often
puzzled over. But certain 1t is that
today bucking the democratic line in
Virginia seems the most futile of per-
formances.
Evening star., 1922-07-21
When the House Reassembles.

What will be done upon the reas-
sembling of the House is question.
Adjournment was taken partly to give
the Senate chance to catch up with
business.
But the Senate has not been hurry
ing Its movement. on the contrary,
has been leisurely to the point of COM
plaint. The tariff debate has been
dragging it's slow length along. and
now and then charges of a filibuster
have been made. Their authors could
probably have proved them if they
had tried.
The members of the House have
been sounding sentiment at home on
matters in general. and on the mer-
chant marine in particular. What
until their return. and what they do,
or offer to do, in obedience to the
wishes of their constituents, will fol-
low.
They will be crowded for time if
they are to take an active part in
campaign work. Election day will be
only two months and half away. So
that if the session is to be brought to
a close and the shutters put up in sea-
son to allow senators and representa-
tives to separate and take charge each
of his own campaign, they must work
fast if they work at all.
There is work to be homework
overdue, and work Of Importance. To
sort it out, and mark those things
must" which have the strongest bear
ing on the campaign will test to the
full the judgment Of those in charge.
Evening star., 1922-07-21
A Code New to the Sea.

There is going to be plenty of in
dignation expressed at the statement
Of the Liverpool firm of shipowners
hich holds it is mot necessarily the
duty of a vessel to proceed to the as
sistance of another which has met
with disaster in a fog The indig-
nation will probably nowhere be more
pronounced than in the country under
whose flag the shipowners in Ques-
tion ply their trade. for no one has
contributed more gallantly to estab-
lish the best traditions of seafaring
than the men who sail the seven seas
In her ships.
One of the first traditions of the sea
is to go to the aid of the ship in dis
tress. and to go whether in good
weather or bad, in security or in dan
ger: through calm seas or tempest
riven infernos. Only get there. Look
out for yourself after you have looked
out for the vessel that is worse off
than you are. And the worse she is
off the more she needs your help.
That was the old doctrine. Here is
the new: 1T Is certainly difficult to
conceive of anything more dangerous
than for several vessels proceeding on
converging courses In a fog with the
sense that early arrival at the scene
Such an operation is far more likely
to increase than diminish the loss Of
life and property" OF course, it is
dangerous. Masters of sailing ships
do not need to be told that by owners
writing letters from a swivel chair
They know it well enough. But there
is the difference of viewpoint. The
sailor would go. knowing the danger;
the owner would have him stop be-
cause of the danger.
This new creed is frankly a ship
owners creed. But we imagine there
Will be few other shipowners who
will uphold it. Most of them are will
Ing to make their own sacrifices
when the inexorable sea demands
them.-Philadelphia Public Ledger.
Evening star., 1922-07-21
Seven More Dead.

The latest and the worst for a long
time of the embarrassing tragedies
occurred yesterday near Bridgeburg.
Ont, when seven people were killed in
a motor car The most shocking phase
of the accident was that the crossing
was only short distance from the
house from which the motor party had
just started. within so short a dis
tance, indeed, that the father of one
Of the children who was in the car.
standing at his door, witnessed the col
lision.
In this case the man driving was a
visitor, he and his family having come
from Colorado to spend a few weeks
with friends. But he had driven the
car over that crossing a number Of
knew the general schedule of the
trains Yet without any thought of
danger he ran his machine, containing g
his entire family and the son of his
host. upon the tracks directly in front
of the approaching train.
Attention is being called TO these
frequent cases of grade-crossing care
lessness in the hope that the shocking
examples may cause motorists to take
warning and be more careful. Surely
these cases are being read about by
every person who drives a machine.
They are being printed in the news
columns of papers all over the coun-
try. They are supplementing the post
ers that are being displayed through
out the United States depicting a
grade-crossing accident and begging
the people to be more careful. Yet
day after day motor cars are hit and
groups of people are wiped out of
existence just as though the danger
were unknown. What more can be
done to give warning?
Evening star., 1922-07-21
The Lie Detector.

Chief Justice Mccoy, was sound in
his refusal to permit the application in
court of device that has come to be
known as the lie meter, designed to
test the truthfulness Of witness by
the measurement Of his nerve reac.
tions as he responds to questions
Such device may be highly scientific
and susceptible Of valuable applica.
ton. But it is now of too doubtful a
character to bring it forth in open
court as determining test in the life
or liberty Of . man.
q French penologists and investi.
Evening star., 1922-07-21
Part the Automobile Is Playing
In the Field Of Transportation

which enables the children to come
from long distances.
+ X n
of the motor vehicle today, as far as
utility is concerned. is on the farms
of the country. where something like
1850, 900 motor cars and 10000 trucks
are In daily use. A recent congress
sional report on the use of motor
trucks on the farm showed that the
estimated hauling cost in wagons
from farms to shipping points aver
aged about 80 cents per ton per mile
for wheat. 33 cents for corn and 4S
cents for cotton. Hauling in motor
truck or by tractor averaged Is cents
for wheat and corn and Is cents for
cotton. Wagon hauling averaged
nine miles from farm to shipping
point, while motor-truck hauls ran
around 11.3 miles. The motor truck
averaged 3.4 trips per day, while the
wagon made about IL trips per day.
Secretary Hoover is credited with
the statement that "the motor truck
radius of food supplies by some fifty
miles, and thereby protects such vital
matters as milk and perishahlea." In
this connection survey conducted by
the National Automobile Chamber Of
Commerce, with the aid of real estate
boards. in sixty cities of the country
showed that approximately $4,000
homes depend chiefly on the motor
truck and bus for passenger and
freight transportation.
X X X
More than a million tourists went
motoring last summer, which gives an
To
the railroads through the motor car.
About 300 cities in the country now
have established municipal motor
camp sites-or tin can tourist camps
and dozens more are said to be plan
ming the accommodations for this
year. While the season for tourists
is not over, something like $4,000
tourists were using the municipal
| camping grounds in the early part Of
1922. and thousands more were camp
ing in the state and national reServa-
tions.
But while motor transportation is
on the increase and would. at first, in
dicate that freight hauling by truck
is cutting enormously into the rev.
enue of the railroads, there is a
marked line which will always sepa-
rate the fields of activity of the two.
The motor truck is ideally adapted to
short hauls. while the railroads are
best fitted to carry large amounts of
freight over long distances. The
short haul. on account of terminal ex-
penses, is not remunerative to the
railroad. The ideal toward which mo-
tor transport and good roads men
are working is the system which will
allow the truck and the railroad to
share the heavy burden of an increas-
ing industrial activity. and by a sys-
TEN of good highways allow the two
to cooperate in their work in such a
way as to benefit the carriers of both
types and the shippers at the same
time
Evening star., 1922-07-21

HEN Postmaster General
AN Work few days ago had
|, v y the mail taken from the
mail trains tied up by the
strike and switched to motor trucks,
which took 1t flying across country to
its destination, he called on what
President Harding in message to
Congress termed "an indispensable
instrument in our political. social and
Industrial life," the motor car And
the Importance of the motor car and
the truck as agencies of transpor-
tation in a national emergency comes
to the front in time like the pres
ent when the railroads are threatened
with partial paralysis over recurring
labor troubles.
Last October when another railroad
strike threatened, the National Auto
mobile Chamber of Commerce con-
Quoted survey to find just what
sort of protection the country pos.
sesses in its motor vehicles IN eNeht
of transportation emergency. Ihere
were listed 9S4 truck companies en-
gagged in intercity transportation
i work and it was further shown that
there are enough automobiles Within
a radius of forty miles of the seven
largest cities in the United States 70
| care for the transportation to ana
; from business of all their surburbah
! residents. These figures are lacking
! as to detail. but they show roughly
the distribution of the motor car.
Even in times of industrial peace
or at least armistice. when the rail-
roads are carrying normal amount
of freight, the truck looms as rival
| of no mean consequence. Last year.
! for instance, the 965,241 trucks regis
tered in the United States carried 80
| per cent as much freight as all the
| railroads combined. or, expressed IN
tonnage, 1,430.000,0o0 tons against the
1,642, PSI 900 tons carried by the rali-
roads. The same trucks covered q
distance approximating i9,Zoo'oVo
miles. AS far as passenger trafhc Is
concerned. automobiles beat the RAN
! roads all hollow. for figures compiled
by some wizard in statistics for the
National Automobile Chamber OF Com
merce showed that last year 6,99o eoZ.
| 600 Americans rode in automoplles
while only 1,034,315,0 900 bought rail-
road tickets and travelled by train
Automobiles took their passengers
over 7OS2O, 900, 900 miles of road, while
the railroads only carried their pas
sengers the short distance of ABOUT
| 81 .329 900 miles.
| over 100000 doctors in the United
I States use automobiles to take them
| to and from their errands of mercy
| to the sick Over 10000 suburban
/ ties in the United States depend on
their cars to get them to and from
! the office in the city every day: Last
year something like 10000 children
~ n
| school. and in several instances the
| establishment of a country school IN
thinly populated area has been due
directly to the use of the motor bus,
Evening star., 1922-07-21
Murphy and McC Clellan.
Eron a New york news STORY:

George Mcclellan. former mayor
also saw Mr.. Murphy at the hall. He
wants to go to Congress. He would
like a nomination for the United
States Senate. but would be willing to
be a member of the House.
These few lines recall a chapter of
interesting history.
Some years ago Mr.. Mcclellan was
a member of the House from a Tam
many district, with tall calculations
harboring about his name. He was to
be transferred to the New York
,mayoralty, thence to the governorship
Of the state. and thence to the presi.
dency of the United States.
+ The transfer to the mayoralty4 took
Evening star., 1922-07-21
Declining Summer Shows.

Although summer sessions at the COL
leges and universities are growing in
popularity, especially since the war, the
summer sessions in the theater have
been going in the opposite direction.
Can 1t be that the days of the Silly sea
SON in theatricals are departing and
that people are demanding as good en-
tertalnment in hot weather as in cold?
TWO or three years ago it was lean
June and July when a dozen or so sum-
mer shows did not invade the theaters,
generally to die an early and ignomin-
lous death. ThiS year just two are down
to try their fate for July, and no more
are in sight. The same thing was true
growing wiser and the managers are
taking no chances Of having one of the
few really good plays they can find
killed by hot weather.-New York Post.
1t is hard for a man to love birds
when his cherries are ripe.-Green-
willie Piedmont.
What woman can't do with a hair
pin she can with the ice pick.-Grand
Rapids Press.
We have the unwritten law. What
we need Is the unbroken law.-Fort
Smith Southwest American.
In New York hospital they take al,
the babies f1ngerprints. Probably get
them off the walL-Charlotte OBJ
server
Striking shopmen are merely trying
to demonstrate that third rail cut
Is deadly.-Philadelph North Ameri-
can.
The Right to- Work" is an ex-
change editorial headline. But who
really wants to work?-Chattanooga
News
When you go out on an unsuitable
raft don't fail to take hoatable life
/ preserver with you.-Boston Tran
script.
AS 8.623 jokesmiths have announced
that China's Sun has set. none of them
should be surprised to note that same
Sun rising again within twelve hours.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
A hole in screen door has one, ad
vantage: After all the flies in the
! world have crawled through 1t you
then can eat IN peacekRn the hack
orchsArkansas Gsnef 3. 81,