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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-10-19

at." Let US take the last statement
first. 1t Is not true. Jokes that had
gray whiskers when Christy's Min.
strels and Carncross' Minstrels came
to Washington are still in use in new
comic operas, the latest Broadway
comedies and the funny columns Of
newspapers and without them there
would be no vaudeville. Men still
laugh at them. Jokes that Billy Burch,
Charlie Backus. Hi Henry. Thatcher,
Primrose and West. Milt Barlow and
Jack Haverley's humorists got of are
still doing business at the old stand.
at new stands and in the movies. II
the professor had said that people no
longer weep at the things they used
to weep at he would be nearer right
One does not see ladies with tear,wet
faces at Camille" Leah the For.
saken," THE Two Orphans" and
East Lynne" The weep play has
gone, but not the siggle show.
The professors second statement 10
about the spread OF learning. He as.
sumes that learning is spreading
There are contenders that learning il
There are perhaps more
things to learn, but some authorities
will say that we learn fewer OF them.
When one talks with the average man
he feels that learning has not spread
tar. II the professor means by the
spread of learning the extension Of in.
formation concerning carburetors, &C.
celerators. windshields, gas stations
and roadhouses he may be right. But
take these fellows who know so much
about speedometers and inner tubes
and quiz them on whinierees. throat
latches, hitching reins, back straps
and cruppers and one will find that
though learning may have spread It
has not yet engulfed mankind.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-10-19
The Traffic Whistle.

There is one phase OF trafIc direc,
ton by the Washington police force
which cries aloud for prompt correc-
ton. And this is the unintelligent in
depreciation by many OF the force of
the correct relationship between the
traffic whistle and the use of go" and
stop" signals either by soma phore or
hand.
In every city except Washington
where careful thought has been ex.
pended upon traffic direction the
whistle is used by the directing officer
as a preliminary warning of the fact
that the flow of traffic is about to be
shifted. 1t is blown at least 80 seconds
before the actual shift is ordered. It
is the signal which advises motorists
who have not yet reached the inter.
section to stop short thereof, which
advises pedestrians Of what is about
to happen and gives cars which are in
the intersection at the time when it
is blown opportunity to pass on and
clear the way.
That is not the fashion in which the
whistle is used in a ma jority of in
stances in Washington. Here, with
all traffic moving, let us say. north
and south, the directing officer deter
mines to shift to east and .gesl. Comes
a shrill blast from his whistle, stimuli
taneous turning of the sena phore or
vigorous hand signal and inevitable
confusion. The released east and west
traffic moves forward with authority.
The sudden shift leaves the tail end of
north and south traffic Fastening to
get out of the intersection. Pedes
TRANS are caught with traffic moving
in both directions. Result: A con.
fused honking Of horns. the harassed
lodging of pedestrians, perhaps
scraped tenders or the reprima nding
of some driver doing the best he could
in situation for which the traffic Of
ficer is alone responsible.
1t is high time that this system be
altered in favor OF one proven else.
where to be the more expedient. 1t is
high time that directions be issued by
the Traffic Bureau that the whistle
ia to be used as warning that traf.
fic is about to be shifted at least 80
seconds before that shift is initiated,
and that the officer shall see that the
traffic which has been moving is halt
ed and the intersection cleared before
giving the final signal which COM
pletes the shift.
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Foot Ball.

Yesterday was a foot ball Saturday
and an important day to millions Of
young persons, and millions Of per-
sons perhaps not young in years, but
still young in spirit. We have not
reached the top of the foot ball sea-
son, but we are on the way, and it
may be said that this is midseason
play, and that hundreds, even thou.
sands, Of teams are ready to go upon
the grid and "show their stuff" or
show the stuff that's in them. For a
while we speak not Of singles and bin
giles, two-base hits, homers,. double
plays, balls, strikes and the. like, but
rather of wing shifts, double passes,
forward passes, delayed passes. drop
kicks, crisscrosses, line plunges,
touchdowns and goals. A thousand
dashing, crafty and hard-drilled STRAIT
agems are used to advance the ball or
hold it from a goal line.
There is talk of "stars" and "stars"
in this and that position. Famous
"ends,' guards" "tackles'' and
skill, speed and strength, and it may
be that many players whose praises
have not been sung by university, col
lege, high school or schools that are
not 80 high will during this season
write their names in foot balls hall
of fame.
Not SO much is heard OF the danger
and roughness of foot ball as in other
years. In the sos the block game"
was done away with, and in the COS
momentum plays" flying wedges,
tandems and all that were ruled out.
Changes have been in the direction
Of open play, and hard rules and
penalties have been made against
those plays agreed on as unsportsman.
like. Foot ball, which comes to us
from our early ancestors in northern
Europe. and was played by the old
Romans, has not been trimmed and
refined until it is as kind and grace
full as croquet, and our people would
not have it SO. 1t is a hardy game
which calls for the best that is in
husky youths.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-10-19
La Toilette on Foreign Loans.

One of the most insistent pleas by
supposed spokesman for the American
farmer has been that Europe should
be rehabilitated. with the aid Of
American capital, to the end that its
purchasing power might be restored
and a market afforded for surplus
farm products. The present admins.
tration has been severely criticized
because it would not rush headlong
into various Undertakings Of the kind
which lacked the essential element OF
security for the capital they would
have called for. If one were to judge
by the noise made by advocates of
this particular panacea for agricul-
tural ills, he might be led to believe
nothing else was needed to elevate
tho American farmer to the pinnacle
of plutocracy.
Now comes Senator La Toilette and
tells q South Dakota audience that
it is all wrong, that instead Of lend.
ing money abroad it should be loaned
TO the farmer direct. Bankers have
exported capital, he said. chiefly to
keep up interest rates at home, with
the result that farmers could not get
the loans they needed to save them
from bankruptcy. Yet it has been
the almost universal testimony Of cx.
perts that one OF the farmers chief
didicul5es has arisen from too much
credit. leading him to overexpandon
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MEN AND AFFAIRS
BY ROBERT T. SMALL.

Once again the cry goes up. The
battleship Is doomed! This time
the ZR-3 Is the doomster. A few
weeks ago it was the return of
the world girdling planes. Every
time there IL an accomplishment in
the air. the poor old sea Navy theo-
retically is blown out of the water
1nasmuch as tho Navy itself is do
ing all it's limited funds permit to de-
velop aerial navigation, IL cannot
be said TO be unconscious OF the pos
sibilitieS in that direction or Of their
bearing upon the battleship, the
cruiser and all the other parapher-
MALTA OF power afiOat. The Navy is
keenly alive to the influence Of air
craft upon the future, but for the
moment it realizes the many difficult
ties which must be overcome.
1t is the sound judgment of the
Navy that many battieships and
cruisers may be built and may become
outworn in Ss<~ine before the air
force becomes predominant.
Not until airplanes and dirigibles
can take the sea and remain out upon
it for two or three weeks, or a month,
without having to return to base, will
they be able to drive the floating
craft to oblivion. That such a day
may come is beyond question. 1t is
not yet in sight.
This. in effect will be the report
President Coolidge will receive from
the naval board studying the entire
question of the air against the
water.
The arrival of the German built
zeppelin recalls to the writer an in
cident of a raid in London. 1t was
the usual Saturday night affair. The
alarm had come fairly early and this
reporter had been held at his Office in
the city" to write the story for the
American papers Finally o'clock
arrived and there still was no trace
OF the marauders. Tho censors an
nounced they were through and so
there was general movement up to-
ward the Strand. where some signs
OF night life were still aglou
The writer had just reached a cor
ner OF the Bank of England and was
waiting for a darkened bus to emerge
from the Stygean gloom when the
racket began. There was a crash of
giant bomb. Then the bark of the
defending guns and the cross ribbon
ing OF the sky with powerful search
lights. The noise and the flash Of
the bombs came nearer when sud
denly just overhead the searchlights
caught one of the silver painted
raiders.
"Ain't she the big 'un?" WHISPERED
London bobby, who had appeared
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-10-19

fore the Civil War. When Thomas
H. Benton of Missouri had served 80
years it gave him the longest term in
Congress that had been enjoyed by
any member in either house. Since
the Civil War many members have
served longer than Benton, some OF
them having 40 years Of service in
both branches to their credit
The Senate wing of the Capitol
abounds in priceless relics. There In
an old clock in the main corridor OF
the Senate which keeps good time.
It has been in service 121 years and
this is proved by the fact that there
is q shield on the body of the clock
containing II stars. Ohio was the
seventeenth state to enter the Union.
and the date of its entrance was
1902. In the same corridor of the
Senate hangs a picture of George
Washington, by Gilbert Stuart.
Stuart is probably the only artist in
the world who had the distinction of
painting the portrait Of King George
III OF nglAnd and Of President
George WAahington e the Units4
States.
Copyright. 1874. BY Frederic J. Haskis.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-10-19
Swedish Locomotive =
Saves Half on Coal

A Swedish engineer named Lung
strom has invented a new type Of rail
way engine. He has named 1t a ''tur-
bine locomotive" and 1t promises to
revolutioniZe railway running costs.
In a recent trial trip from Gothenburg
to Stockholm 1t did the run in record
time. the result being triumph for
economy of coal and water used with
ordinary locomotives. The trip of over.
400 miles was accomplished without
changing engines twics being the
usucI aumber on this rum. or any
fresh supplies Of coal or water be
ing needed. while there was . supply
left for the return journey on arrival
At Stockholm. :
The economy OF coal II racknasd al
50 per cent. while that OF the water
used is two cubic meters to the IS
usually required by engines Of the or
binary type. which have been used On
this particular run
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-10-19

Subscriptions to German bonds were
literally entered by capitalists who
are prepared to meet depressions or
delays as they occur. The proposition
is strictly a business one, and care
was evidently taken to prevent its
handling from suggesting in any way
a revival of the Liberty loan drive.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-10-19

A refusal to be drawn into loqua.
cious emonstration indicates discrim.
mating intellectual restraint on the
part of President Coolidge. Efforts to
bring up every question known to
politics have been made in this CAM
paign. No one man would have time
to explain all the answers, even if he
knew them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-10-19
Member Of the Assoeiated prexs.
The Washington Community.


The heartiness with which all Wash.
ington celebrated the winning of the
American League pennant and then
of the world base ball championship
is new evidence Of the existence of a
distinctive Capital community, self,
conscious, characterized by strong
local public spirit and by a wholesome
local civic pride.
The winning itself tends to weld the
community more closely together in
the ties of that local civic pride which
the celebration Of the victory demon.
strates.
The indomitable never -say-die spirit
through which the victory was won
inspires all who fight for Washington
on any line-for financial equity. for
political equity, for adequate munich.
pal equipment and development in
such items as schools, streets, parks,
branch libraries and water supply-to
attack with unity OF teamwork and
with irresistible energy, brushing
aside all obstacles, undismaycd by
temporary defeats, always rallying
with increase of power to push for.
ward to victory.
Base ball victory is thus a demon.
stration, an inspiration, a factor in
municipal development.
The existence at the seat of Govern.
ment of an American National Capital
community - intelligent, resourceful,
public spirited patriotic-has, of
course, been already conclusively
proven by evidence much stronger,
more direct and more significant than
bali victory.
The World War and the 1920 census
have alone demonstrated the existence
and made clear the dominating char.
acteristics of Washington as distinc.
tive American community.
The Washington community ex-
ceeds in population seven of the
States. Contrary to the popular i'm
preston, this population is not con-
stantly shifting aggregation of tran.
sients, here temporarily for Gov
eminent purposes, with permanent
ties in distant States. or it's 437 900
people in 1920, more than 100000
were born in the section remaining
of the original District Of Columbia;
and in the metropolitan district Of the
National Capital, including adjacent
Maryland and Virginia from which
the original District was carved 271,-
aS7 or 62.1 per cent of the total popu.
lation were born.
This percentage Of home-born pop.
nlation is about the same as that
of New York State and Illinois.
This community is intensely ma.
tional-public-spirit and patriotic
in its .Americanism. 1t sent nearly
$4,000 of it's sons as soldiers or sail
ors in the World War. OF this total
Of voluntary enlistments and Undue
tons by way Of registration the Dis
trict's percentage of voluntary en-
listments was greater than that Of
As States Of the Union.
In National taxes internal rev.
enue), to sustain the Nation in war
and peace, the District contributed
in 1919 more than fifteen Of the
States and more than five Of the
States combined.
The Washington community is thus
a notably helpful factor in National
maintenance, defense and upbuiIding.
1t is not to be ignored, or slurred, or
longer denied the rights and powers
of National representation which be-
long to all Americans who bear their
share of National burdens and respond
to the Nations call to arms in its
defense.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-10-19

from nowhere, with his thumbs stuck
in his belt.
shes the biggest I ever saw" he
added. She seems to be coming
nearer. sir" he babbled And then:
II don't mind s'yins, sir, that IL
she gets bit closer l think l shall
'op it,
where you going to 'op it," said
the writer with not uncommon in
terest.
Il know cellar, sir, Just around
the corner. sir; I've been there be-
fore, sir. It's quite all right"
Very good then" spoke up the re-
porter, Il think I'll 'op it with you"
But 1t wasn't necessary to hop il:
the pig Zeppelin turned away and
the danger to that particular section
of the city was over Probably +be
captain of thSI raider never knew
now close he came to the dear old
bank.
Clar>-ce barrow, in whose eventful
life the Loeb and Leopold case wa.
but another incident" says he has
found a surcease of sorrow in doing
the crossword puzzles. They take his
mind off of politics and off of the
many foolish letters he still is GEL
ting and, he adds. by confning his
attention TO doing cross-words rather
than saying them, he doesn't seem
TO annoy the newspapers any more.
Although he presided at a political
Joint debate in New York the mast
week. Mr.. barrow refuses himself to
become embroiled in politics. He
simply says he doesn't care who beats
Coolidge. But If it is necessary to
go and register and then go and vote
IN order TO do il. why it's too much
trouble. What's the use? What's the
use? Such a life! Such a life! There
amt no use in nothing Such is the
philosophy OF this master mind OF
criminology. If such a PHILOSOPHER
can find comfort and solace in
crossword puzzle there must he
something to this new fad after all
New York is not a city OF .littlo
nothers alone. There are plenty of
little fathers" on the lower East and
west Sides as well One of the Httle
fathers was wheeling his Kid brother
along IN Il carriage when he spicd
playmate. ..
Come on, Johnny" he called.
wen GIT the kid to sleep and then
we can play some ball"
ana away they hiked to one NJ ~.
quieter corners, where thev couId
play in the streets and dodge the
iumoerins trucks as they honked by.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-10-19
PROGRESS Of Learning.

A New York University professor
has said that we will come to an age
~ithout laughter. He says that this
will be caused by the spread
Of learning. Further on in his out.
break he says that men no longer
laugh 1t the things they used to laugh
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-10-19
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANpER JOHNSON.

Large Order!
Out yonder in the sky
Are orbs. that swiftly fly
And fiercely clash and burn,
Or smolder in their turn.
Humanity, whose mind
Is gentle and refined,
Must bid destruction cease
And point the way to peace.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-10-19
From the Heart.

From the Heart.
You spoke very sympathetically
about the farmer"
That's the way I feel" answered
Senator Sorghum. "a farmer is just
as uncertain in his mind about the
way crops will turn out as am about
the way folks are going to vote"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-10-19

The more wheat costs the higher a
Of the latter Is already SO high as to
leave margin of profit despite en-
HANGED cost OF raw material.
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Artificial Sugar.

Principal Irvine Of st. Andrews Uni
varsity is stated to have confirmed, by
Fret Daly Of Liverpool to be able to
produee sugar BY . chemical process.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-10-19

Race horses sent over by Europe
cannot be expected to carry away
enough money to give them standing
as reliable assets in Old World finance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-10-19

New York betting odds will no
doubt be regarded by numerous
farmer voters as new evidence of the
wickedness Of Wall Street.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-10-19

But little time remains for anybody
engaged in campaign oratory to think
up an idea that will be really novel.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-10-19
NefHhborly Rexard.

THAT exhorter said Crimson Gulch
is on the way to perdition.'
'He was right" answered Cactus
Joe. 1.-THE Gulch is right on the main
line Of travel to Snake RIDGE
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Art Note.

The advertising was 80 tough,
The show. we have been told,
Could not be made quite rough enough
To 1T the posters bold.
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Ton Much Persidase.

Too Much PersidAse.
A little nonsense now and then
Is relished by the best Of men,
But campaign talks that made no hit
Have left us all fed up on it.
Jud Tunkins says the only man he
knows who never makes mistakes
doesn't stay awake long enough to do
anything.
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Fifty Years Ago
In The Star

whether the retrocession of the
virginia portion of the original Dis
trict of Columbia was warranted re-
manned moot point for many years
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Serious SOngster,

The katydid's Autumnal song
No moro delights the soul
OF one who tarried most too long
In ordering his coal.
Good advice" said Uncle Eben, "is
mos lisble to make de listenin' friend
suspect you's hytn' to show OF -
bein' smarter dan he n"
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Evening star., 1924-06-09
Votaw-BOtsford Wedding
In TakOma Park Lust Nf<ht.

Miss Verna Botsford of Melrose.
Mass. and Mr.. William Bryan Vo-
taw of Woodward, Okla, were married
last night by the Rev. n. H votaw,
uncle of the bridegroom. at the lat
1er's residence, 500 Carroll avenue,
Takoma Park
1t was at a, New Year celebration
at the Washington Missionary Col
1ege that the couple became ac-
quainted. Miss Botsford had been a
student at the institution for two
years previous to the celebration, and
Mr.. Votaw had just entered the col
1ege at the beginning of the school
year. The cetemony was performed
at o'clock in the presence of a few
Immediate friends, and the couple
Immediately left on their honeymoon
"trip TO visit the BRIDES parents, Mr.
and Mrs. J.; H Botsford, in Meirose,
q suburb of Boston
The hTide wore a white dress, with
veil to match, and carried a shower
bouquet of white roses. Miss Buia
-Botsford, sister of the bride. was
bridesmaid. She was dressed in pink
sand carried ping roses
Mr. William Loveless of Phoenix.
Tex. a fellow classmate of the bride
Evening star., 1924-06-09

Wells, Brig. Gen. and Mrs. Dennis
Nolan, Brig. Gen. and Mrs. Hugh K.
Drum, Maj. and Mrs. Harold Raynor.
Capt. and Mrs. George Adamson, Col.
and Mrs. Frank Burnett and Miss Ra-
mona Lefevre-
Col. Marshall. who has been aide TO
Gen. Pershing for several years, will
be stationed at Tientsin for three
wears Col. and Mrs. Marshall will sail