Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-07-17
CAPITAL KEYNOTES
BY PAUL y. COLLINS

Hughes gets his plan accepted to
make the limit of stop and search OF
suspected liquor ships four times as
far from dry land?
Certain Neutrality-suspicious. have set
out to try to stop needless noises. If
they should undertake to list need
less noises, all of which tap the
nerves and lessen the vitality of the
sufferers. where would the list begin
and where would it end? In Mime
apolis and st. Paul the street car
company has introduced silent
street car. Every wheel is ballbear-
ing, and the cars run along with no
more sound than a rubber-tired baby
carriage. Incidentally, the ball bear
ings so reduce the necessary traC-
, tion that the saving of power. will
eventually repay the investment.
a noiSe-nuisance mentioned by
! some complaining witness in Wash
ington is that of open throttles of
automobiles, both passenger and
truck, and the frenzy some drivers
have for racing their engines Once
there was small boy going through
a forest, and he was singing to Keep
up his courage. A friend called out:
Listen to Willie. Thinks he's some,
cause he's hollern'."
That is about how the engine racers
strike the neighbors: Think they
are some" because they can make
noisy nuisance of themselves. 1t is
no mark of knowledge of an engine
the contrary.
Noise? What equals a milk wagon
at o'clock in the morning. especially
in an open court. With its echoins
walls? Nothing, except two milk
wagons and the neighbors aroused
dogs.
a representative of one of the
leading firms of builders of Wash
ington is going to Europe to
study the ideas of building small
homes a la European. If he inter
viewed Ellis Island candidates for
Americanization, he would find
among the European improve
ments that much may be saved by
eliminating bathtubs and other
plumbing. Steam heating, or practi-
cally any other heating, is waste
full and ridiculous excess" Euro
peans prefer a temperature about 60
degrees F., while Americans insist
on IS to ~.
Our built-in garage is not exactly
new, for Europe has long had its
built-in COW house and horse stable
Lighting used to consist of a tallow
candle, but Europe is catching up
on that item, and using electricity
ephones in the private homes are
rare, but probably the home occu-
pied by a former budget controller
was equipped with a French tele-
phone. It's service nearly always re-
suits in "profanitis," just like his
trouble.
Yes, we have no need of many Eu-
ropean improvements on our Amer
lean homes. Eugene Field, upon re-
turning from an extensive tour or
theme was the various heating sys-
TENS in different European countries
contrasted with what he found at
home. and every verse ended win
the refrain:
"The land of stoves and sunshine is
good enough for me-"
American legionaires are rejoicing
over the decision of a federal judge to
I the effect that total disability" un-
der the war insurance law is not
limited to the cases that come under
| the arbitrary rules laid down by the
Veterans Bureau. 1t is a question
of fact. to be decided in each case
on it's merits, as to whether a veter-
an is so disabled that he cannot
earn a living, and as to whether that
stability is of permanent nature.
The old limitations We're fixed be-
| fore Gen. Hines became director, and
| the courts construction Of the law will
undoubtedly be welcomed by him. for
| his course is looking always to the in
terests of the wounded veteran.
Copyright. 1928. by p. ". CollineA