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Evening star., 1924-12-22
WILL DEMONSTRATE
MAKING OF CEREAL
Special Feature Announced
for Food Show Opening
Here in January.

One Of the features of the National
Food Show and Household Exposi-
tion, to be held January to ~ at
Convention Hall, will be the actual
demon stration of the manufacture OF
one Of Americas leading cereal PROD
ucts, 1t was announced today at ex-
position headquarters.
About 100 local, national and In
ternational exhibits of pure FOODS ana
labor-saving devices for the nome
will be on display. Expert repre-
sentatives of the country's foremost
food and appliance manufacturers
will be on hand to explain the ex-
hibits to visitors.
The latest developments in the
furniture industry will be shown IN
the household section. where modei
furnished suites Of modern and Pc
riod pieces will be exhibited.
One of washington's leading de-
partment stores has reserved an en-
tire section for the demonstration OF
many of the new labor and time saw
ing devices for the Kitchen ana
household generally.
Retail grocers Of the National Cap
ital who are members of the Retail
Grocers' Protective Association and
the Capital Retail Grocery Associa-
tlon, under whose auspices the expo
sition Is being arranged. have
planned numerous special surprise
exhibits, to be announced later.
Experts will be in attendance at
every exhibit to conduct demonstra-
tions and answer inquiries, both at
the afternoon and the evening per-
formances.
Reservations for the show arc be-
ing received daily from all parts of
the United States, as far West as
the Pacific Coast. 1t was stated at
headquarters in the Warder Building
Evening star., 1924-12-22
PRESBYTERIANS TO ACT
ON MERGING CHURCHES
Many in Canada Opposed to Join
ing Methodists and Con-
gregationalists.

TORONTO, Ontario, December "a
Presbyterian churches throughout Can
ada will vote today on the question of
union with the Methodists and Congre-
gationalists. A majority of votes will
be required to decide whether these
churches shall abandon their present
identity to enter the United Church Of
Canada.
Those congregations whose members
voted against union with the other de-
nominations will function as part Of
Continuing Presbyterian Church" AL
though the Presbyterian General AS
sembly Is committed to church union,
anti-unionists last night said they were
confident that many churches, particu-
larly in Ontario will vote to stay out.
Evening star., 1924-12-22
Fat Now Brushed Away.

A South American doctor has intro
duced into the capitals OF Europe q
new reducing method that Is attract
Ing attention OF the overfat. He pre-
scribed dry scrubbing for the feshy
parts of the body with a brush
slightly softer in brstles than an
ordinary kitchen brush. Rubs four
or five times a day, he says, will
carry away g. pound OF flesh a week
Not until 1S40 were watches sue
cessfully made by machinery.
Evening star., 1924-12-22
REFUSES DATA ON FARM.
Virginian Blocks Census, and Ad-
vice Is Asked of Washington,
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Va, December ga
Farmer in Virginia refuses to give
the farm census enumerator any in
formation. He said he gloried in the
fact that he was not going to tell
the Government single fact about
his farm, animals, crops, roads, or,
for that matter, anything.
Henry NJ Taylor, statistician in
charge of the census taking in this
district, is awaiting orders from the
head Of the Farm Census Bureau
The farmer is a resident of Chester
field County. One farm in Virginia
has been found on which there is
only one chicken.
Evening star., 1924-12-22

Well bet that folks who spell
Christmas Xmus leave Their
greetin' cards unsealed so they'll
20 fer a cent.
I'm tired bein' tn guinea pig
around this house." said Lafe
Bud, this mornin', as he threw
some felt griddle cakes on tn
floor an tore out.
Copyright, John B. Ollie Co.)
Evening star., 1924-04-06
The New Conduit.

"A committee of the Washington
Chamber of Commerce urges the ap-
preparation by Congress of the full
amount OF the estimate OF the engineer
in charge for pressing work on the
new conduit from Great Falls. That
report was presented to the board Of
directors and will be considered by the
chamber at it's next meeting There
is no doubt that this report. which
recites what is we'll known, that the
old conduit is being used at its maxi
mum capacity, and that there are
weak sections in the single water line
between Great Falls and the filtration
plant, will be approved. A few days
ago the Washington Board of Trade
adopted a report of its water supply
committee that there should not be
delay in the work Of building the sec.
ond conduit, and urged that con-
siderably larger appropriation for con-
tinuing the work should be made for
the next fiscal year than has been ap-
proved by the budget bureau.
The action of these important civic
Evening star., 1924-04-06
Personalities and Politics.

The political atmosphere in Con-
gress and out of it is surcharged with
personalities; oratorical lightning
flashes across the horizon, the boom
ing of the thunder reverberates. Sena-
tor Peppers Maine speech brewed a
storm in several quarters, and Repre-
sentative Longworth's Philadelphia
man Hull of the democratic national
committee adds his quota of animadver-
sion upon the republican party and
the administration. Former Attorney
General Daugherty comes back" at
Senator Pepper in vigorous fashion,
and threatens to go farther if pro-
voked.
Senator Robinson. of Arkansas, the
democratic floor leader, objects to Mr..
Longworth saying the democratic en-
blem has been changed from the
rooster to the buzzard. Senator Hiram
w. johnson, who is campaigning in
Illinois, charges that the appointment
Of Harlan +. Stone to be Attorney
is, rededicated to reaction.
So the fur is flying in every di-
rection. 1t had been thought that there
was surcease from excitement and
agitation as the investigations slowed
down. But, to the contrary, there is
no balm in Gilead for the man who
wants peace.
Evening star., 1924-04-06
Anacostia Park Assessments.

The question of paying part Of the
cost, and perhaps a large part Of the
cost, of reclaiming the Eastern Branch
swamp by assessment against abutting
and adjacent property has been taken
up by various citizens associations, and
is opposed not only by owners Of prop
erty that would have special tax as.
sessments laid against 1t, but by other
citizens. A weak argument may be
made that the whole cost of any public
Improvement should be paid by own
ers of the property benefited, but in
the cases of two major public improve
ments at the Capital, Potomac Park
and Rock Creek Park, no special as
sessment was made. or rather COL
lected, against owners of property
benefited. If those major improve
ments were not specially charged
against property holders in South
Washington and Northwest Washing
ton it would not be fair to put spe-
cial tax for a national and Capital i'm
provement against owners OF property
in East Washington. The law directs
that jury shall determine the special
benefit which the reclaimed land gives
Evening star., 1924-04-06

to land "abutting such improvement
or adjacent thereto" put the benefit in
money terms and assess it against the
land. To justly make such an assess
ment is impossible. "Abutting prop
erty" is easy to define, but adjacent
property is vague. No jury can tell
where adjacent property begins and
ends, though it may adopt an arbitrary
rule which must be unfair.
II a jury had assessed benefits in the
case OF Potomac Park against "ad-
jacent" property it would surely have
put special tax against every lot be-
tween the river and Pennsylvania ave-
nue., and if the park benefits spread
that far they must have been felt
north OF the Avenue to an indetermina-
BILE distance. In the case Of Rock
Creek the benefits must have extended
an indeterminable distance west and
east and spread throughout the city.
In the case of the Eastern branch i'm
provement the benefits will spread
east to the District line, west to the
Capitol and throughout the city.
NO rule can be found for determin-
ing in dollars and cents how much
benefit a new mud park pumped from
the river bottom gives to adjoining and
adjacent land. Value is given by the
park, but it is not a cashable value
until people want the near-parkland
to build on, and then the tax assessor
takes his cue, the tax bills rise and
the landholders make their contribu-
ton toward paying for the benefits re-
ceived. The Anacostia Park will be a
benefit to the whole District, and will
advance the value Of nation-owned as
well as private-owned property.
The nation and tie District dredge
a river and make several hundred
acres. Of land. and then say to people
who live nearby, I'VE have made this
land and we own it, and will own it
for all time, but we expect you to bear
the expense we went to in getting it,
The Anacostia Park is not to be a pri-
vate lawn for the exclusive use Of per-
sons who live along the Eastern
citizens OF the District and all Ameri-
cans who visit the city OF which they
are part owners. The Anacostia Park
was not created primarily as recrea-
ton measure. The flats were filed as
a public health measure in the interest
Of the whole District.
If abutting property holders are to
pay the cost of national improvement
projects, and must pay for the public
street before their homes, it may soon
come to pass that every householder
will have to pave the gutter and reset
the curb in front of his house, and
that the District will send him a tax
bill for the gas burned in the street
lamp before his lot, with special as
sessments for benefits which that
street lamp gave to adjacent property.
Evening star., 1924-04-06
Summer White House

1t has been said that the President
will probably pass most Of the summer
at the White House, and that he finds
that dwelling very comfortable. There
is always a certain amount of social
expectancy and Quivering on the sub
ject of the summer White House" !"
There are many offers and invitations,
and there might also be offers Of a
spring White House. a fall White
House and a winter White House, if
such tenders received the slightest
encouragement.
Outside of Washington there is a
general desire that the President stay
in Washington and attend to business.
but there are many special and par
ticular desires that he lay corner
stone at one place, dedicate something
a thousand miles farther on and then
cross the continent to take part in an
unveiling. There are special invita-
tions that the President spend 1.-The
heated term" at that splendid summer
resort whose citizens sing, Yes, We
I1dfS -NO
There are always persons who dwell
on the terrors Of the Washington eli
mate. There are really no terrors in
it, Some Of our folk who look on rail-
way fare and hotel bills as trifies go to
Florida and California in winter, come
back to Washington to spend a week
or so in teas and receptions and hop
off to Maine or Canada to spend the
summer, but the persons who have
money enough to do these things are
a small part of our population. True,
we have contracted the vacation habit
here, and most Of US go on a wild tear
for a week or two in summer and gem
orally find it hotter than at home.
It has been said before that the
White House is one Of the old and
mansions Of the town. OF
course, it is natural that the President
should like to look upon the White
and the Green mountains,
but these are no, brighter than our
Blue mountains. It is natural that he
should like to hear the surge of surf
on the granite coast Of New England,
and if he is able to take a summer
outing it will probably be in that di-
rection. But in this event he will not
go to New England for its climate, but
because it is home.
Evening star., 1924-04-06

bodies is in support of the report re-
Gently made to the Secretary Of War
by the chief of engineers of the Army,
and the recommendation in that re-
port have been laid before the Presi-
dent. The chief of engineers said that
haste was desirable in the co1struc-
ton of the second conduit. and that
this new water line should be made
available at the earliest possible date,
that Washington's water supply might
not be cut off. He reported that the
situation is serious. The tunnel from
the Georgetown reservoir to the filtra-
tion plant was found to be in danger
Of collapsing in 1908. and sundry re-
pairs of temporary character were
made. An examination of the tunnel
in 1913 showed that this repair work
was still in position, ''but in such a
sidered safe to unwater the tunnel
since that time for fear OF collapse"
The danger of the situation is obvious
and pressing. Eleven years ago the
engineers found that the water tunnel
between the main reservoir on the
Conduit road and the filtration plant
was in danger of cola psing if it were
unwatered that repairs be made to
some temporary reinforcement work
done five years before. A break in
that tunnel, or in any part of the long
single water line between Great Falls
and the distribution system in the
Capital would expose Washington to
water famine, pestilence and confagra-
ton.
There were years of delay in con-
gressional authorization for beginning
work on the new conduit, new reser-
voirs and a supplemental filtration
engineer in charge estimated that with
an adequate annual appropriation the
new conduit could be finished in 1927.
In his recent report to the Secretary
of War he estimated that if the annual
appropriation should be no larger than
that allowed by the budget for the pres
ent fiscal year the conduit could not be
finished before 1882. The sum appeo-
priated for the work for the fiscal year
1925 is considered dangerously made
quate. The amount authorized for
that year is $500, 900, and the chief Of
engineers urges that it be increased to
s2,50o,0 900, and in his report he said
that "any less sum may seriously i'm
peril the health and property of the
people of the District of Columbia" 1t
was announced at the time the report
went to Secretary Weeks that he was
in accord with the view of Gen. Beach,
and that he laid the matter before the
President.
Evening star., 1924-04-06
Pershing's History.

Anticipation with regard to a book
has been stirred to no greater pitch
than by the recent announcement
that Gen. Pershing is soon to publish
a history of the world war Appro-
priately secluded somewhere In
France" he has been at work on the
volume, which is now ready except
for the postwar chapters 1T will be
unusually Interesting to have de-
scriptfon of the war from the point
or view OF commanding officer.
Rershing's history of the war can
not be the calm, impersonal estimate
which the historians of another CEN
tury will write. 1t can do little more
than add one more impression, and
that the impression of a man who
knew as much as any one of what
was really going on. The new book
VIII not settle any difficult points
about responsibility for the war or
about the conduct of the war. But
we are entitled to hope that 1t will
make lively reading. Gen. Pershing
If the stories which we have been
relishing about him are true-has a
distinct flair for the picturesque and
the dramatic 1t will be pleasant to
read a report about Europe between
1914 and 1918 done in the spirit of
the Lafayette, We are here" episode.
st. Louis Pioneer Press
Evening star., 1924-04-06
Cleaning Up the Bootleggers.

Thoroughness of the roundup con-
Quoted by the police yesterday in their
effort to rid the Capital Of rum ped
dlers is encouraging evidence of de-
termination that the law shall be en-
forced. 1t was absurdly untrue, as
had been charged, that Washington
was the ''wettest" city in the United
States, but it was a great deal wetter
than any law-respecting community
ought to be. The police are entitled to
the support and encouragement Of
every good citizen in their program of
law enforcement.
The law for the suppression of the
liquor traffic is by its very nature
difficult one to enforce effectively. To
every transaction in illicit liquor there
necessarily are two parties, the seller
and the buyer. Each is equally guilty
of violation of the law, and each is
equally interested, therefore. that the
transaction shall be clandestine. 1t is
not often there are any witnesses, and
more seldom still any witnesses who
are willing to be complainants. When
A mans house is robbed he is loud in
his complaints and eager to help the
police, and all other good citizens are
equally ready to render assistance in
apprehending the thief. But when
liquor is sold many good" citizens
smile tolerantly, even if they do not
openly sympathize with the offense.
Under such circumstances the police
and enforcement officers have an ex.
ceedtngly difficult row to hoe.
When charges like that of the super
latiVe wetness of the Capital are pub
licly made there is much indignation
and a disposition to haul the police
over the Goals. But the fault is not
primarily or chiefly that of the police.
1t is primarily and chiefly that of the
citizenship. When the people of Wash
ington or any other community make
up their minds that the prohibition
laws must and shall be- enforced. and
are as ready to assist in their enforce.
n1ent as they are in case of laws
against other crimes, the police will be
up on their toes all the time and Of
lenses will be few and far between
Even if the police were reluctant to
enforce the laws, which generally they
are not, they would not long daily in
the face of determined public opinion.
Whether the Folstead act be re-
garded as wise or unwise, no sensible
man doubts that it is wise that laws
should be respected and obeyed. So it
becomes the duty of every good citi-
zen, regardless of his sympathies in
the matter, to encourage and assist
the police in their efforts, rather than
sit back and either criticize or jeer.
Evening star., 1924-04-06
In A FEW WORDS

Being mayor OF New York is a big
ger job than being President of the
United States.
DAVID HIRSHFIELD (Commis.
sioner Accounts, New York City,.
There is at present by no means
sufficient scientific knowledge to war
rant US in declaring what is impos-
sible, except with the qualification,
80 far as we know"
REV. FREDERICK PALMER.
Punishment must either reform the
criminal, exact retribution or set an
example. The death penalty does
none eff these.
WARDEN L. E. LAwES (sing
Sing).
AS a scheme for maintaining health,
golf is very clumsy, very costly and
somewhat inefficient. A man could
maintain his health far more efficient
ly by doing certain physical exercises
in front of an open window for half
an hour a day.
ARNOLD BENNETT.
The people who make money are
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people who never think of doing any
thing else.
&C. BERNARD SHAW.
The word tidealist' is much too
good to be handed over to dreamers,
political brigands and free-Iovers-
DEAN INGE.
am an absolute reactionary where
women are concerned.
G. K. CHESERTON.
My idea of the perfect vacation
place is one. where q husband and wife
may go and never see each other
from the moment they arrive until
they leaye-where they can lead sep-
arate lives together.
LORD CASTLERoSSE
The perfect and irresistible man is
a combination of Latin temperament
with Anglo-Saxon education.
MILE. SUZANNE BOITARD.
l am for a new diplomacy with,
white spats, tea drinkers and cookie
pushers eliminated. Halo chasers are
also unwelcome elements in the
= = = CMtnister- 10 Potand).
Evening star., 1924-04-06

course; no one is predicting that i. is
likely to happen, but that is not say
ing that it could not happen.
In Case the Senate DeadIocked.
In discussing these possibilities il
Is not to be forgotten that the SEN
ate might get into the same sort of
deadlock that has been hypothetical
ly projected for the House and be un-
able to elect a Vice President. In
that event there would, indeed, be
"the devil to pay and no pitch hot"
as the old saying goes, for it is by
no means certain just who would
succeed to the presidency. In fact,
the one certain thing in such a con-
tingency would be a controversy that
might jeopardize the government.
Congress has provided for the sue
cession in case of vacancies in both
the Presidency and Vice Presidency,
the Secretary of State being first in
line for the White House, and the
Secretary of the Treasury, the Sec
retary of War. the Attorney General,
the Postmaster General, the Secre-
tary of the Navy and the Secretary of
the Interior following in the order
named. This law was passed in 1885
ture, Commerce and Labor had been
created, and it has not been amended
to include the secretaries of those
departments in the succession.
But what would be the situation if
there were neither a President nor a
Vice President to be inaugurated at
noon on March 4? Would or would
there not be a Secretary of State, or
any other cabinet member, to fall heir
to the presidential honors?
Il, H.
to exist with the expiration OF the
term of the President, who appointed
it, and il that be true the ship of
state fould be without pilot in the
emergency described until a special
election could be held or Congress
could take some appropriate and neces-
sary action.
Cabinet Not in Line.
Under the old law governing the
presidential succession, which was
enacted in 1872, cabinet members were
not in line for advancement. That
law provided that after the Vice
President, the President pro-tempore
of the Senate and in turn the Speaker
of the House Of Representatives might
assume the office Of President of the
United States for the sole purpose of
ordering new election.
Thus it came about that there was
once senator who was the head of the
government for a day, although not
because neither a President nor a Vice
President had been elected. March 4,
1S49, came on Sunday and Gen. Taylor,
the President-elect, was not sworn in
until Monday. Therefore it was claim
ed that Senator David Rice ,Atchison,
the President of the Senate, was in
reality the legal President of the
United States during the twenty-four
hours that elapsed between the pass
ing of the old administration and
the Inauguration of the new.
Senator Atchison did not take the
oath of office, however. nor did he un-
dertake to discharge any of the
presidential functions.
But for all the gossip and specula-
tion as 10 possible Developments In
case there is formidable third party
movement in the impending campaign
it is decidedly oddS-on bet that
the next President will be duly elect
ed in November, as usual.