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Evening star., 1923-10-15
A New Kind of Dog Show.

A mutt dog show is to be given az
Washington by the Humane Educa-
tional Society, and it is planned to
form a National Mutt Show Associa-
tion which will hold an exposition at
the Capital each year. A mutt is the
kind of dog that belongs to the aver
age Washington man and boy. Some.
times this kind OF dog does not be
long" but lives in freedom by his wits.
That is a hard way TO live, and any
dog in that state would welcome
adoption by boy. The only dog to
be barred from the approaching show
will be the one with recorded pedi-
gree. The judges will have naught to
do with dog genealogy. 1t is what a
dog is and not what his great-grand-
father was that is 10 count.
The piebeian dog is to have his day.
Perhaps he is now expressing himself,
by vibrations OF his tail and other
wise, in somewhat this fashion:
"Yelp, Yelp, Pass the news to Towser
Smith, Bowser Jones. Rags Brown and
oil lIlC olliCl ItSullI LcLlo"S llldI we
are going to have a plain business
dog show. Dogs that have maids.
manicures and footmen: dogs that
have never felt the bite of fieas; dogs
that have never dug for bones, will
not be there. Cream-fed creatures
that have a silken bed made up for
'em in the drawing room with nurse
to lullaby 'em to sleep will not have
a look-in at this show. Dogs whose
ancestors went to England with Will
liam the Conqueror or came to Amer
lea in the Mayfiower. and never did
anything after the trip, will not have
standing room in this show. We dogs
,of the District who play tag and ball
with the boys. guard the home. ter
roriZe the cats-that is, some cats
bark at burglars, strangers and every
noise. are to be the whole show. The
medals will be pinned on US! So yelp
the news along that the mutt dog
show is on the cards!'
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SHOOTING STARS.
BY PnILANDER JOHNSON.
Evolution i'm Reverse.

Evolution i'm Reverse.
When they say my primal forebear
was monkey.
Who somehow evoluted into me
just an ordinary organ grinders
turnkey
| ought to grow indignant as can be-
And yet l feel no sense of agitation.
To monkeys quite a liking people
take.
I contemplate with pride my present
station.
My past remOte-what difference
does it make?
But if this plan which some call "evo.
ton"
Should turn around and work the
other way,
a monkey might complain of persecu.
ton
II friends about him certain things
should say.
If as homo they should vow he
started.
Who drank and fought and robbed
the helpless poor,
That simian would be angry and down.
hearted
And think he had a libel case for
Surei
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| What is more exasperating than 10
have a clock continually inaccurate?
When It gives the exact time. that
course. But how minutely accurate
must be its adjustments to make II
| register. year after year-century
after century--millennium after mil
lennium--with the one perfect time
piece in all creation.
One of the most battling problems
of man has been to find a true meas
sure of the lapse of time from the
, crossing of Il meridian by the sun.
at exactly the same altitude. one year
from the fraction OF second when
it crossed In the previous year, at
the same altitude.
y X # =
How long is a year? How long is
a millennium?
The earliest known efforts to mark
off the lapse of seasons and years
were made In Egypt. 1t was highly
important that every available hour
of crop-growth time be used IN that
narrow strip of fertile land along
the Nile, where intensive cultivation
was vital to the necessary food pro-
duction for the great population. No
delay in springtime In the planting
of the crops could be permitted.
Therefore. certain wise men planted
, a pole, about eight feet high. and
measured the length OF it's shadow
when the sun crossed the meridian.
At certain length. the crop was
soWn. Yet, In even days, the measure
was never alike. The shadow never
seemed to reach it's apex from year
10 year at the same time,
From the eight-foot shadow pole
evolved the building of the pyramids
IN such exactness as to direction and
height that their shadows formed
gigantic sundials-5.000 years ago,
The shadow of the Sphinx marks
the seasons. though too indistinctly
at their extreme points to come
within week OF accuracy. In India,
in Borneo. in Mexico and South Amer
lea, gigantic sundials told the cal
endar-not too crudely. The shadows
OF Druidical Stonehenge of England.
/ the Delhi obelisk in India and the
obelisk in the center of st. Peters
square. Rome. all mark the passage
of time.
1t has been proposed that the
Washington Monument be utilized as
gigantic sundial. A circular con-
crete walk laid around the great
shadow-casting shaft could be prop
erly marked to interpret the stretches g
of the shadow according to the sea-
son and day.
\ x y
Greece followed the knowledge of
the Egyptians.
When Romulus founded Rome, he
proclaimed new measurement of
the year. The Egyptian year was
so short that the feast days of Win
ter gradually receded into autumn.
then backward into summer. Romulus
made the year 365 days. and that
measure continued up to the time of
julius Caesar.
But the suns crossing Of the merid
Ian at the same altitude showed that
300 days were not full year Cen
tuli"s had passed since the time OF
Romulus, and the error was cumu-
latiNe. Julius Caesar proposed to cor
rect the calendar-and was ridiculed
by Cicero for his audacity. Never
theless, he decreed that, beginning in
what we know az ~ BIC. the wears
should consist of 365k DAYS. He
died the year before his decree be-
| came effective, but today ne is re-
mcmbered most clearly by what is
known as the Julian calendar
X X i !.
Yet even the Julian calendar was
inaccurate. In the fourth century its
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democratic way in a commonwealth
of world wide area lesson has been
taught so obvious in its implications
that nobody can escape II. If volun-
this conference that imperial unity is
better for them than independence
the bearing on the future will be in
calcula BILE. On the other hand. if Can
ada and Australia and South Africa
call for independence that also will
have bearing fully as incalculable." 7"
x x * =
The New York Post feels that the
addresses Of Premier Baldwin and Lord
Curzon before the conference "show
one side Of Downing Street is imper-
fectly in sympathy with what the other
side of Downing Street is doing" al
though the Spokane Spokesman Review
suggests this is Of no great consequence
because "a powerful appeal viii be
made to the patriotism of the as
sembled premiers, TO their pride in the
great British Empire and to their self
interest SO that the results may exert
a profound bearing on our trade re-
lations with the British Empire and
with Canada in particular"
This view is amplified by the Detroit
Free Press in calling attention to
the fact that ''the British Isles do not
ask 10 De the exclusive beneficiary in
any arrangement for the promotion of
trade that may be evolved. The bene-
fits are to be mutual and everybody,
the helpers and the helped, is to be
happier and richer. The empire will be
working toward goal that will make
II self-Sustaining in every direction.
The dominions are to provide the food
stuffs and the raw materials for manu-
featuring. the British Isles are to pro-
vide industrial plants. the overseas dis
equipment. The idea is a great one
and the British are people who ought
to be capable OF working it out
Despite the admitted mistakes of
British past policy, the Birmingham
News is convinced "tne sound and
sane and wholehearted cooperation of
the colonies with the mother govern
ment, in peace and In war the same,
would seem sufficient proof of Britain
will to justice. The manner in which
the empire en- maSse sent representa-
tives to the titanic wrestle in central
Europe when trouble was on, and in
the dogged persistence with which
Britain has opposed the war after the
war, are arguments sufficient TO all
level-headed thinkers that the British
policy is a policy of peace, and it's drift
toward a parliament Of man, a feder-
alton of the world" And Baldwin,
the business man." the Peoria Tran
script continues, ''is taking the OBJ
vious business course Of developing the
property of the empire. Cultivating the
dominions is now deemed imperative,
for unemployment is increasing and Eu-
rope is in turmoil"
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the signal to mean that the way was
clear. He started his car, saw his
danger, stopped the machine, evident.
ly trying to back off the tracks, but
not in time 10 avoid being hit. All
, but one OF the occupants of the car
We're killed, one man escaping by
jumping.
These circumstances clearly indi.
cate that the view of the track was
obscured, else the driver of the car
would not have gone ahead. There
are hundreds OF these crossings in this
country, places where there are no
gates and no signals save perhaps d
warning sign. These mute signs,
however, have become ineffective.
There must be something to arrest
sharply the attention Of the motorist,
q flashing light or a gong. In New
York state a swinging sign hanging
over the road gives notice that dan.
ger is near. At a crossing in one of
the New England states where nu-
nierous fatalities have occurred the
MTeckage Of machines that have been
hit by trains has been assembled and
hung upon telephone poles on both
sides Of the track.
One of the terrible facts in connec.
ton with the grade crossing evil is
that the slaughter is in such large
numbers. For instance, in the Penn.
sylvania accident last week six We're
killed. and in the Ohio case eight were
killed. Yesterday in Indiana nine lost
their lives. a total of twenty.three
fatalities In four days in three cases.
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Twenty-Three in Four DAYS.

Wholesale grade-crossing killings
are coming so rapidly now that it
would seem to be the order of the
day. Following quickly on the acci-
dents of last week when fourteen lost
their lives at two crossings, in Ohio
and Pennsylvania, comes a similar
tragedy at Fairland, Ind, where Il
train hit a motor car and killed nine
Of it's occupants. Evidently this was
a masked crossing, for the driver of
the machine ahead Of that which was
struck says that On crossing the
tracks he saw the train approaching
and that he turned and motioned the
driver of the following car to stop.
Apparently the latter misinterpreted
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ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN

Q. Do you have to have a license
to hunt in the District2--L.tH.
A. 1t is not necessary to have a
license, but hunting is prohibited in
the District OF Columbia by act of
on the Eastern branch above Ana
costa bridge, and below the Aquedact
bridge on the Virginia side of the Po-
tomac. In these areas no birds may
be shot Within 200 yards of any bridge
or dwelling.
Q. What is the depth OF the Poto-
mac river at Chain bridge?-C. F. >.
A. It has been reported that in
certain spots of the Potomac river
near Chain bridge there Is a depth
of from seventy-five to eighty feet.
Q. How many veterans of the world
war have taken advantage OF their
preferred standing for civil service
ST.. ID.
A. At the close of the last fiscal
year 250.000 had taken civil service
examinations. OF these, $4,000 quail
hed and became eligible for appoint
ment and more than $4,000 actually
received appointments.
O, Is American foot ball played in
Canadian colleges and high schools?--
o. n.
A. No Canadian high schools play
American foot ball McGill Univer-
which plays the game, and il does so
only when playing the American team
at Syracuse, y. "
Q. who was the first of our Presi-
dents to have a valet?-A. +.
w fnt re
connected with the White House, says
in his memoirs that Arthur was prob
ably the first.
O. What is the object of the or
ganization known as Scapa?-P.. T.
the Society for Checking the Abuses
of Public Advertising. 1t was founded
in London for the purpose of re-
straining through legislation and So
cial influence. the Disagreement of
towns and rural scenery by business
announcements.
Q. What is the term applied to
the dizziness and nausea experienced
when one is high in the air?-D. &.
a. The scientific term applied to
the condition of becoming dizzy in
high places is 'acrophobia."
Q. Has Great Britain an air station
at Gibraltar?-L G. 7.
A. 1t is reported that this huge
rock fortress is being tunneled for
hangar and repair space for British
air station.
O. What was the last chemical
element discoyered?-G. y. r.
A. Hafuium was the last element
discovered. This brought the total of
known elements TO eighty-seven, five
having been discovered since 1918.
Since scientists argue that there are
ninety-two clements. this leaves five
to be discovered.
@. Has the Library of Congress A
good collection of opera librettos 2
L. d.
! A. Its collection is thought to be
the largest ard most important in the
world.
G. How is Petoskey stone polished
| C. a. I.
A. Petoskey stone is silicified fos-
sill and is polished like agate. Various
polishing powders such as tin oxide
chromium-o and iron-oxide are
| used.
Q. Does il rain every day in Pan
anna during the summer?-C. S.
A. The rainy season begins about
the Goth of April and lasts until early
December. 1t does not rain con-
Evening star., 1923-10-15
IN TODAY'S SPOTLIGHT
BY PAUL Y. COLLINS

inaccuracy was noted by the Coun-
Gil or Nicea, which found that the
feast days Of the Christian church
were about three days wrong. By
the sixteenth century it's dates were
about ten days too slow as compared
with sun time. 1t was at this time
that Pope Gregory became the head
or the Roman Catholic Church.
IN 1852 Pope Gregory decreed q
new adjustment of the calendar since
when time ;he Gregorian calendar
has been In use in all Roman Catholic
countries. In 1852, this calendar was
adopted by Great Britain. though
prior to that date both systems were
USED jointly-with Il double date.
While all Roman Catholic and Prot
estant peoples have long since aban-
doned the use of the Julian calendar
1t has been retained by the Greek
Orthodox Church. Greece, Russia and
most Of the smaller European nations
adhering to the Greek Church have
chung to the Julian calendar, espe-
cially in ecclesiastical matters. though
being confused In political and diplo-
matte affairs.
Slovakia adopted the Gregorian
calendar Immediately after the world
war: Russia. when the soviets gained
control. China had Il lunar calendar
of her own-364 days In 4 year-until
the organization of the republic In
1911, when the Gregorian calendar
was adopted. Japan also has the
Gregorian system.
Greece, the last nation in the world
TO retain the Julian system. adopted
the Gregorian calendar on Friday
October 13), 1923.
y II IL
The inaccuracy of the Julian call
endar year amounted to three days
every 400 years-a month in 1000
years. Pope Gregory attempted TO
adjust that discrepancy by adding an
extra day every forty years, and drop
ping three of these extra days every
400 years. But the year Is still
twehty-six seconds too long, making
an error Of one day In every 1898
years.
When Cortez conquered the Aztecs
at the close of the fifteenth century
the Aztec calendar was measuring
from the year 46s BIC, with an ac-
curacy which would require 5000
years to make days error, when
compared with the sun.
= =
How long Is a SOAR year? Ask ed
at the United States Naval Observa-
tory. this is the mathematical an
swer: 1t Is decimalIy expressed as
365.242. .1s8.7eo days; but for real ac-
curacy il is to be diminished yearly
by 0.000. .0oo.9614th OF day. Students
of mathematics will easily reduce TO
minutes and seconds those million tbs
of day-and set their watches ac-
cordtngly.
Bible students will be interested in
noting that Hebrew year varied in
length. and was never 1854 days.
The year, in Methuselah's day was
''one moon" long. His $50 years
when he died was seventy nine years
Abraham's 175 years (of five months
ieach) were seventy-two years. Jacobs
l47 years (of six months eachl were
seventy three years. These dates are
according to the calendars of the va
rious periods referred to.
The Hebrew calendar was in use
prior to the Egyptian bondage of the
Israelites. During their stay in
Egypt-two centurics--thcy adopted
the Egyptian calendar. Not once
after the Exodus. is any age men
toned In the Bible beyond the modern
usual limits.
Copyright. 1923. by Paul Y ColIins)
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stantly. Usually rain does not fall
more than two hours of the twenty
| four.
@. Who wrote Sweet Alice, Ben
| Bolt"?--A. w. 3T.
a. Thomas Dunn English, an
ters. published this poem IN Willis
New York Mirror in 1S43. AS set to
music by Nelson Kneass IT became
widely known both in England and
America.
Q. In connection with tne oSbserv-
ance Of the one hundredth anniVer-
sary of the birth OF Francis Parkman
September IS. 1929. / see reference
TO his youthful motto" Can you
give it to me?-A. G.
A. Not happiness. but achieve
! ment" was the motto chosen by
Parkman when young man+ How
well he exemplified 1t in his coura-
geous life is a story in itself.
@. Who said on the eve of execu-
! tion, ~ hear the eXecutAOner is a good
| one, and my neck is very little" ?-R. ).
! A. These words arc attributed TO
Anne Boleyn.
Q. Would you advise US what rail-
| road yards IN the United States and
| Canada are largest and bow many
A. The two yards OF the Canadian
| Pacific railway at Winnipeg, Mani
| toba, are the largest in Canada and
probably in the world. They contain,
| respectively, 100 and 1s3 mikes. The
latter is composed of seventy tracks.
Some of the large yards in the United
States are. Chicago clearing yards,
/ standing car capacity $4,000: Conway,
| Pa, yards, outside OF Pittsburgh.
capacity &967; Altoona, Pa. shops,
Pennsylvania yards at Enola. Pa,
have 100 miles of trackage am1 can
accommodate 10,705 cars. There Is
also vast yard at Mitchell. 5. ID.
Q. How many current magazines
are received by the Library Of Con-
gress in a year?-M. D. A.
A. Last year 7,4s1 different cur
rent periodicals were received. Count
ing all the issues of these periodicals
received, a total OF 126.s74 copies
| reached the Library.
Q. At what age should a child's
training begin?-F. o. y.
A. 1t should begin as soon as the
child is born. Regularity is the first
lesson. Feeding, bathing, airing and
putting a baby in its bed at the same
times daily inculcates its first habits.
Q. Is there nicotineless tobacco?-
j. l. p.
| a. j ne OL
says that so far as they know at the
present time nicotineless tobacco is
an impossibility. It is the nicotine
| content of tobacco that makes 1t so
entirely different from other products.
Q. Are as many turkeys raised as
| there used to Bee. p
| A. In 1900 the census showed
| 6.594.695 turkeys in the United states.
| In 1910 there were 3.69s,708, while in
! the 1920 census they stand at 3,627,02S.
| One of the reasons for this is that as
| farming becomes more intensive there
! is less space suitable for turkeys to
range In the middle west, where
most of them are raised. few fiocks
! contain more than fifty, while in
] Texas flocks of several hundred are
| common.
! O When were pensions first grant
! ed to civil war veterans?-C. u.
! a. The first law pensioning civil
war veterans was disability pension
| law of July Il, 1852.
| tHGre you a question you +odnt
dnSDeredf Send it TO The StGr IH-
| formation Bureau. Frederic j. Has
| kim director, 1920 North Capitol
street. Gire your full name and 0d-
dress and inclosG ? cents iH stamps
| for return poStdge.1
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ent and just participation i'm contribu-
tion (by bond issue Or through loans or
advances by nation to District of tax
payers Of the near future. who will
profit more than anybody else from the
completion and utilization of great per.
manent public improvements.
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Menu Reform,

Il propose" exclaimed Senator Sor.
ghum, ito lend my influence to any
movement to end this pernicious prac-
tice of printing menus in French
What for?"
My daughter is the only one in the
family who has studied French, and I
can't get anything to eat except what
she happens to know the name Of.
And the way it sounds always makes
me feel as if I'm not going to be able
to eat it,
Jud Tunkins says music has got so
queer a man can't say he likes a new
song without feeling called on to
apologize.
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Versatile Diplomats.
N the Kansas City Star

7
The British ambassador at Paris
has complained to the French foreign
office of a theatrical production in
which Britain is criticized for it's at
titude on the German .reparations
question. II seems that, in the pres
ent state of national sensibilities,
ambassadors must not only be diplo-
mats but dramatic critics II they
are to successfully uphold the pres
tige of the countries they represent.
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A volume Of "reminiscences is ex.
pected from Ambassador Harvey. 1t is
early for him to begin reverting to the
past. Despite an exceptional career
he is still regarded as young man
with a great future; one in whose
biography the most interesting chap
ters are still to be created.
Evening star., 1923-10-15

Disinterested and expert observation
may reveal to Germany more re-
sources that she has overlooked in the
excitement. Her present mood might
easily be one of exaggerated financial
pessimism.
Evening star., 1923-10-15

Girl in Baltimore charged with a
minor offense said she would rather
go to Jail than go home to her par
ents. Again fears arise that philan-
thropy is making prison life too attrac.
tive and interesting.
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C.emenceau says his political life is
finished forever. His impression may
prove fallacious owing to the fact that
there is no crisis at the moment of a
kind that fits his particular PERSONAL.
ity and power 50 closely as to make
him appear indispensable. However
content u statesman may be with re-
tirement there is no resisting a genu.
Inc case of overwhelming demand.
Evening star., 1923-10-15

The attitude Of the French is de.
fined as a willingness to let Germany
suffer anarchy and chaos for time as
d matter of discipline. Chaos is dan
gerous neighbor, and anarchy an ex-
tremely infectious mental ailment.
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Here's to More Of EN-, Cal!

From the Portland Express.
The Coolidges celebrated their
eighteenth wedding anniversary at
the White House on Thursday. We
trust that they will also celebrate
their twenty-second anniversary in
the same domicile.
Evening star., 1923-10-15

So much protest has been raised
against the selection of Zev to race
Papyrus that it almost looks like a
demand for referendum in turf mat.
ters.
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Availability.

'Of course. like him. said the am.
bilious girl; but why should ! marry
him? He has neither fame nor for
tune"
You mustn't forget one thing
mildly suggested Miss Cayenne. IF
he had either he might be entirely too
busy to fall in love and propose
Evening star., 1923-10-15

y dictatorship suggests complete
| and arbitrary authority, but under
| some circumstances it may mean only
an extremely delicate responsibility.
Evening star., 1923-10-15

The Ruhr has right to regard any
thing it stood to win in the war as all
out Of proportion to it's particular
share in the penalties OF defeat.
Evening star., 1923-10-15

Fixing prices is recognized as an ex-
pertinent of great difficulty. Even the
Standard Oil could not make the
same price for gas all over the coun.
try.
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Member NJ the Associated Press

The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled
to the use for republication OF all news dis
patches credited 10 IL or not otherwise credited
in this paper and also the local news pub
lished herein. All rights OF publication OF
special dispatches herein are also reserved.
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Simple Calculation.

"In ten little years prohibition will
thrive
Undisputed,'' the lecturer said.
"Those who shun the bad liquor will
still be alive,
And those who do not will be dead. -
Evening star., 1923-10-15

Hugo SHINES is described as tug
ging at his beard while sitting in the
reichstag. The hair-pulling will come
later.
Evening star., 1923-10-15
The Housing Problem.
ha po.tcr Trsnse,tnt

From the Boston Transcript.
"The Possibilities OF a Small House"
makes an interesting subject. but more
people, perhaps, are seriously con-
cerned about the impossibility of even
q small house. n