Evening star., 1923-01-02
CAPITAL KEYNOTES
BY PAUL y. COLLINS.

| not live when DON Quixota was fight
| ing Dufch windmiils: they would nave
| had SO many bouts with the great
swordsman that traffic would nave
been interrupted.
| Mr.. J. Wilson Leakin of Baltimore.
who willed 100000 to the nation with
which TO erect a summer residences
for the President of the United states
| within fifty miles OF Washington, GER
! tainiy did not intend to give the rooI.
No President would rest easy under
king sleeping in his crown. IL this
bequest is not formally accepted
within eighteen months, the money
will revert to his estate. The terms
stipulate that the summer White
House must be within fifty miles or
Washington. and be q replica OF the
White House in Washington. While
no expression has come from the
President regarding the gift, there
I - some coRment upon the restric-
ton that 1t will hardly reach
| mountain altitude desirable for cool
| ness. The President certainly needs
! a cool retreat though keeping close
enough TO the capital for daily
II is remarkable showing of in
| creased care that with 10000 more
automobiles upon the streets OF wash
| ington In 1922 than in 1921, there was
| not a proportionate increase of acci-
dents. It Is an increase of machines
| by 80 per cent, and at the same pro-
portion, there would have been 80
| per cent additional accidents above
the 6,2S5 Of 1921, making a total of
s.17o. but. in fact, there were only
| 5,si5. That shows an improved con-
| dition OF traffic regulation and acci-
dents equivalent to only 70 per cent of
the proportionate number. 1t would
not have been surprising IL the acci-
dents had gone away ahead of the
numerical proportion of machines fer
| the congestion was far greater than
/ in 1921.
One of the most disinterested and
patriotic acts that have been recorded
| In Washington for years IS the dona-
| tton of $4,000 to the city by John
/ Hays Hammond for the purpose of
| financing the painting Of white lines
| upon the streets to guide pedestrians
and chauffeurs. 1t had been found
that no appropriation by Congress
| could possibly be counted as available
7 before the next fiscal year-July l.
and Mr.. Hammond felt so strongly the
| life-saving Importance Of the lines of
trafTic control that he volunteered to
pay all the expense himself How
| many citizens will actually owe their
! lives to that donation Will never be.
| known. but all may realize that such
| a spirit as that manifests is invalra-
| BILE to q community.
| =
| So many innovations are coming
| into our old methods. due ID the -a-
| dio, that one ceases TO exclain at
| them. A few weeks ago 1t seemed
| interesting to learn that soma of the
! churches were broadcasting their SER
mons. so tfa the voice OF the preacher
! in Washington reaches to Texas and
Maine. Now comes the United States
commissioner Of education, DIR. tt
CERT with a broadcasting service of
instruction, to be gent out all over
America every Monday and Thurs
| day. at 6.45 pm. through the naval
station NOF, wave length 330 meters.
DR.; Tigert, commenting on this new
| service. says:
"A new situation in education has
| arisen and new method of reaching it
| must be found. i believe that radio
| furnishes such a method Radio is
| cheaper than printing; it reaches its
audience quicker: it reaches mass of
ticles." ~ ~ 90 :. .-''e0 =
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The new method of instruction is even
greater and more revolutionary than
DR.. Tigert has indicated. It means
| that what was done toward college ex-
tension, in reaching adults of a genera
| tion ago, by ''Cnautauqua" reading
courses and Chautauqua lectures, will
soon be done from educational centers
by radio. Radio colleges may be es-
tablished, and courses given daily to
| students who arc scattered in homes
| all over the continent. Aside from
| chemistry, there Is scarcely a branch of
| science, languages history or literature
which cannot be SO taught through
| radio lectures.
American students may listen-irl and
| follow the lectures Of oxford or anv
! other European college, and students of
Europe will become radio alumni of
/ American colleges. Thus will deveiop
closer bonds between peoples and race
prejudices will be Cancelled by closer
| knowledge and closer sympathies witch
| follow such contacts Education will bc
democratized and will make the world
democratic.
The new year has wonders yet be-
fore US.