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Evening star., 1925-04-24

Prince of Wales'-that is. our anbas 6.
sador to the world at large-retains
his old offices in the State, War and
navy building. He keeps a military
secretary there. who puts in full eight.
hour days attending to the heavy cor.
respondence Gen. Pershing continues
10 receive. The general remains chair.
man OF the Battle Monuments Com.
mission, though on the Arrnv's re-
tired list. and that is his formal and
on1clal activity in Washington. Many
OF the letters Pershing gets are from
war comrades, now in civilian life
VINO want recommendations from him
experience has taught them thera
are no better credentials than a well
done" from BLACK Jack"
me White House spokesman" the
executive child, who NAV be saan h,,t
not heard in his own name. often
tens the newspapermen there was
nothlng of Importance at today's
cabinet meeting" Usually, that's tha
literal truth. The real meetings ne
the cabinet take place after the meet
lngs have adjourned. That is to saw
II Is the custom of the Presidents
~ executive chfeftains to wait upon
him, individually, at his desk when
thO SoplioL SeSSlOn Is over. They do
so In the order of their seniority
Each confabs with the chief as long
as the business in hand requires
That's how and when the real bust
ness of the Government on cabinet
days is transacted.
X X X
Far Eastern affairs will be the tonic
OF a conference to be held at the
University of Chicago in June. Count
Y. Soyeshima, a member of the jap
anese House of Peers-Nippon's g
Senate-has accepted the invitation of
the university to present that coun-
try's views. DIR. Chang Po King,
probably the most distinguished of
Chinese educators, is coming from
the Far East especially to participate
in the conference. The conference
will resemble, in general outline, the
round table held annually at the
Williamstown Institute Of Politics.
Count Soyeshima Is a graduate of
Cambridge University, England. He
Is an authority on Chinese and
Korean affairs and will address him
self to those themes, in relation to
Japan, at Chicago.
Copyright, 192o.)
Evening star., 1925-04-24
Cleanup, Paint Up.

Cleanup week approaches, and is a
reminder, If one were needed, Of the
flight Of time. This year Cleanup
week has its name expanded to Clean
up, Paint-up week, though in other
years District cleaners-up have also
used the paint brush along with the
rake and broom. The Commissioners
have proclaimed the week April 81
May as time Of labor in sprucing
up the garden and house. They say
that during that time I'VE call upon
the residents of Washington to clean
up their premises, rid yards, alleys
and vacant lots of trash, repair houses
tify such premises" The Commission
ers also summon all civic and trade as
sooiations to assist in this work by
calling attention to it at their meet
ings and by aiding in a movement to
keep our parks and streets clear of
waste paper 'and other trash and rub
bish."
Let US joyfully obey. While most
Washingtonians need no proclamation
to make the home q credit to the
family, there are those to whom a
little jogging Of the memory and
stimulation Of the practical civic spirit
will not do harm. During the brilliant
Spring days. some Of them very like
Midsummer days, hosts Of Washing
tonians have taken off the coat or put
on the apron and have given kind
ministration to the lawn and flower
beds, and have also willed that the
back yard be freed of the miscellany
which gathers there in Winter and
passes by the name of trash.
The front lawn and the back yard
in some ways are an index to the
home, and most persons believe that Il
the grounds" in front and rear of the
home are untidy there is some indif-
ferent housekeeping in the dining
room, kitchen and basement. Let US
show the neighbors that we are as
skillful with the rake and paint brush
as with golf clubs and tennis rackets,
and that not all our energy is expend.
ed in talking Of the greater need for
civic spirit.
Evening star., 1925-04-24
The Unguessable Sport.

Contrast between recent base ball
games in this city furnishes the rea-
son why the sport has such a strong
hold upon the American public. On
Wednesday an unusually dull. fea-
tureless and, save for its result from
a local point Of view, uninteresting
game was played before a crowd that
filled the ball park to it's capacity.
Yesterday before an audience of about
one-fourth the size a game was played
that for snap, sparkle. excitement,
color and last-minute fireworks has
rarely been equaled
The point is that there is absolutely
no guessing a ball game. No one can
tell what is going to happen. The
game simply cannot be 'doped out"
in advance. A pebble, the twist of a
finger, the blink of an eye, lapse of
mind, an extra step, a sudden flash of
inspiration and determination-any
one Of these may completely change
Evening star., 1925-04-24
No Laws Delay of World Court

Former Secretary Hughes, in his
address last night before the Amerl'
can Society of international Law,
urged adherence by this country 10
the World Court, under the reserVa-
tions laid down by Presidents Harding
and Coolidge, without waiting until, as
some urge, "a fairly complete BODY OF
international law has been prepared.
The existing code, says Mr.. Hughes,
is sufficiently comprehensive and
strong to form the basis OF interna'
tional justice. 1t Is not necessary TO
wait for its development.
A perfect International code may
never be evolved. To wait for its per-
fection before engaging in a procedure
of international justice would put the
United States in the position Of seek
ing an excuse for abstention from a
movement which makes for the i'm
provement of the code. In other words,
by participating now in the World
Court the United States can promote
the evolution of a system of interna-
tssual jurisprudence Of the highest
equity.
International law differs from statu-
tory domestic law in that it is the re-
suit of conferences, treaties and arbi-
tration between nations rather than
the deliberations and actions of elect
ed responsible delegates to a law
making body. 1t is composite of ma
tional opinions and not of direct ac-
tions. No nation can be absolutely
bound to its observance save by force
OF war unless all nations subscribe to
it under the authority of an interna.
tional court.
The World Court is an agency for
the application and the enforcement
Of international law. 1t takes that
Law as it stands, but it can improve
1t through agreements effected by its
influence and under its authority.
A world conference for the develop
ment Of international law might be
called, yet with little promise Of re-
suit. Such conference would surely
be protracted, confused and would
probably yield little in the form of
agreement. 1t might clear the way
for future World Court endeavors to
improve and possibly to perfect the
international code. But in the final
analysis tribunal of international
justice is most likely to be the means
Of creating a system Of laws between
nations, governing all. both great and
f1ict by substituting judicial settle.
ments.
Evening star., 1925-04-24
Tammany and Hylan.

The Democratic party nationally
went on the rocks in New York City
in 1924. There is a breeze blowing to-
day from the metropolis which seems
to say that split Is coming in the
very Democracy Of the city itself, a
split which may have far-reaching
consequences not only in New York
CITY, but on State and national poll
tics.
The trouble is brewing over the
mayoralty. Mayor John F. Hylan, who
Is serving his eighth year as the chief
executive of the city, is opposed,
though not yet openly, for renomina-
ton and reelection by no less a per-
Son than Gov. Al Smith. On the other
hand, William Randolph Hearst, storm
center for years Of Democratic politics
In New York, has pledged his support
TO Mayor Hylan, even to the extent Of
declaring that he will back the mayor
on an Independent ticket If HyIan
tails to receive the Democratic non-
lnation.
Look at it as you will, the seeds of
pretty row seem to have been sown.
And at the bottom is the clash of the
personal ambitions Of Gov. Smith and
Mayor Hylan. 1t is no secret to those
who kept pace with the doings of the
Democratic national convention last
June, and the subsequent gyrations of
some Of the prominent Democrats of
New York, that all has not been well
in the Democratic camp. Even in con-
vention days, when the supporters of
Gov. Smith were locked in grapple
with the McAdoo forces, there were
charges of 1ukewarmness on the part
OF the mayor and Hearst and Cone.
land.
According to the latest reports from
New York, Tammany is feeling out
the sentiment Of the people to ascer.
tain just how popular Mayor Hylan
-saily Is. 1t is conducting a systematic
canvass for this purpose, and much
Will depend upon its result. At the
same time, Gov. Smith has let 1t be
known to his intimates in the organi-
Zation that he does not believe the
mayor should be renominated. for the
Evening star., 1925-04-24
Water for Bird and Beast.
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor of The Star:
In response to the letter appearing
a few nights ago regarding water in
the parks for the birds, wish to add
my plea. For several Summers I have
wondered what to do when 1 regret
fully noted the dry water cocks, when
but a few drops flowing constantly from
each and caught in small cement basins
would mean but a trif1inig expense to
the city and would bring such comfort
and make so grateful the CHEEKY birds
and squirrels which help make our
parks so attractive. Also at times
what godsends they would prove to
foot-sore, confused. homeless or lost
dogs, seeking the green and shade to
rest and get their bearings away from
the chaos of the crowded, hot streets
of Summer, just the time when dogs
should be kept the most quiet and
cool, rather than irritated, and on the
first sign of nervousness, fright or
sickness, chased and shouted at as
mad" especially If, in seeking to de-
fend themselves, some should bite.
On streets also a part Of the over
flow from the fountains for people
might just as well be caught in a re-
ceptacle below for thirsty small ami
mails. In providing for our own COM
forts we human beings in so many
ways could share with the speechless
creatures, so many of the needs of
which are the same as ours, especially
when we consider that, as the Good
Book says, the dogs ask only "the
crumbs from their masters tables"
Let us try to cooperate by sending
in numbers of petitions to the Water
Department to respond to this plea
for those who cannot speak for them.
selves and must therefore SO often
suffer in silence.
VIRGINIA W. SARGENT.
Evening star., 1925-04-24
Representation and the
Citizens Advisory Body

To the Editor of The Star:
President Jesse G. Suter, president
of the Federation of Citizens Asso-
Citations, is quoted in The Star as
Yoicing the sentiment that the mem
bers of the proposed Citizens Ad-
visory Council shall represent not
each a particular section of the COM
munity, but the District OF Column
bia as a whole.
In line with this, would 1t not he
well to limit representation to organ
iZations whose field of activity COM
prfses the entire range of civic mat.
ters here, and. accordingly, exclude
representatives of special interests,
no matter how worthy or important?
To illustrate: 1t appears that nom
inee has been named by the Parent
Teacher Association, one by the
American Institute of Architects and
the Arts Club, one by the District
Society of Natives, one by the Wash
ington Chapter of the American As
sociation of Engineers and one by
the District League of Women
Voters.
Granted that each of these valua
BILE organizations has civic side
that their work has a bearing upon
the welfare of Washington-is not
their interest, after all, an incidental
slider, in turn, the particular organ
izations cited: The reason for being
Of the first named Is the promotion
of education; of the second, archi
lecture and art; of the third, fell
lowship and local history; of the
fourth, engineering, and of the last,
wider participation by women in
public affairs. Godspeed to each of
these organizations in its particular
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the organic life of the District of Co.
lumbia
Then, too, how are we to recon-
cile the representation of these or
ganizations upon the body which is
to choose the advisory council with
the lack of representation on the
part of other organizations? What
about the tremendous interest of our
Board of Trade? What about the
Central Labor Union, with its mem
bership of over $4,000, including the
numerous organizations of Federal
employees? What about the Real Es
tate Board, which now largely con-
trolls such fundamental matters as
renting and housing in the District?
What about the Ministers Associa-
ton and a lengthy list of other Or
ganizations? We could consider a
strange spectacle a conference called.
say, to consider administrative prob
lens incident to the government and
management of schools on a State
wide scale, to which there were sent
as delegates or representatives teach
ers of music, or drawing. or domestic
science, or manual training. These
branches are proper subjects for
careful consideration and oversight,
but they are akin to individual in
struments in an orchestra in sit
uGtion requiring an orchestra leader.
Does not the analogy hold good in
the case of sending of representatives
of special interests to the body from
which is to be chosen the Citizens
Advisory Council?
GEORGE A. WARREN.
Evening star., 1925-04-24

| every bud off of every bush came to
| and rejoice in the dark deed.
| Come on, Dolly"
| The milkmans voice sounds por-
| tentous. clamoring, amid the gen
eral stiffness.
Come on, Dolly"
Ears are strained to catch the first
movement of the horse and wagon
but they are strained entirely in vain
Come on, Dolly"
A note of impatience has entered
the milkman's voice. He seems
chagrined that Dolly fails to respond
| to his command.
He begins to cluck at her.
Still Dolly does not bulge. ImGgi-
nation shows her, teeth bare, nib
| by the gate.
Jaw, come on, Dolly"
The dairy employe is patient with
Dolly. He knows what she has to
put up with. He understands her
moods. He sympathizes. Have they
not made this journey in fair and
| foul weather? Has he not stuck by
Dolly and has not Dolly stuck by
pelting down?
In how many violent transforms
have not these two been together?
Come on, Dolly"
This time there is a faint stirring
Come on, Dolly"
This time Dolly comes. She moves
and so does her load of bottled food
She will go forward just the width
of four back yards. Then she will
stop.
cpra noourh 49, H.. r., =:
stinct, by George!
Dolly has but one more step now
before she turns the bend, going
north out of hearing. I follow her
to the bend, l see the wheels turn
l picture the caravan on its way.
Goodbye, Dolly, faithful old hoss!
Surely there is many a two Legged
| animal with larger pretensions who
| does not do one-half so much good ir
| the world as you do.
You carry perhaps the best food
| in the world TO children and their
elders, and render real service with
out mouthing around about it.
Goodbye, Dolly, and best luckI
| Dawn is creeping in the windows
A dog howls in the distance. Insects
keep up monotonous hum in the
bushes. Everything is busy, and ]
| must be busy, too.
So I plan 66 This and That's for
| readers of The Star. This one, about
| Dolly, you have before you-almost
| all Of it, now. The IS others will come
along in due time.
l follow them all through five
stages-the idea, then the article that
| goes upstairs to the linotype ma
chine, the carbon copy, the proof and
the final article as you read 1t here
Sometimes the plan seems better
than the article, sometimes the fin
| ished product is vastly better thar
the original idea. Sometimes This
| and That takes charge of itself and
turns out much better than 1 ever
dreamed it would. Sometimes II
happens just the other way around
Often the one / like the best nc
one else seems to think much of, un-
til months later it returns to me in
the heart of a friend. Often the one
thought not so good gets the most
A distant bell chimes 6 o'clock
| Time to be up and doing! We have
to immortalize Dolly, you know. And
now-have we done It?
Evening star., 1925-04-24
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

Dolly comes along our alley about
o'clock every morning, rain or shine
hitched to a milk wagon. She pro.
crosses by fits and starts, her vehicle
rumbling after her like thunder on
wheels.
1t is only when have touch of
insomnia that Dolly ever bothers me.
On most nights she makes her trip
from east to west, to the accompani-
ment of sundry cluckiings from the
milk man, utterly unknown to me.
The other morning, however, 1 fol-
lowed Dolly over the whole trip. At
supper / had tried to revive my fail
ing liking for tea, and had drunk
neither wisely nor we'll.
Three cups of tea, 1t may be laid
down as an axiom, is not good for any
one in the evening. Perhaps a like
number of cups of coffee would be
worse, but the tea is bad enough
/ was glad to stay awake, though,
If for no other reason than to accom-.
pany Dolly down the alley. Not that
l have ever seen the horse. She
passes, like ships in the night, amid
such general gloom that no one has
ever seen her.
Perhaps, just for an instant, her
coat CLEANS DULY down the alley be-
meath the gas lamp. The distance
Is too great to really see her. and
whether she is black, bay, white or
what not no dweller In our alley can
say.
Dolly Is but a name, at the most a
huge. indistinct shape, bursting into
sound with several creakings, clatter-
ings of bottles, cluckings and "Gid
APPS"
To lie there, in the dark, wide
awake, and follow Dolly through the
alley, is an experience. Here is the
way / did it.
"Get up. Dolly" came the far-off cry
of the milkman. You could hear
Dolly crunching along on the crushed
stone of the distant roadbed. That
street is not paved.
Get up, Dolly" softly comes
through the night.
There is a creaking, as faithful Doll
lunges forward. Her shoulders take
the burden of heavy glass bottles
and weighty milk. She moves. The
wagon follows.
Then the crunching noise stops, as
Dolly hits our concrete alley, 20 feet
wide, sloping toward the middle In
very approved style. The wheels rat.
tie. No longer do the soft stones muf-
lie Inelr roll.
Here comes Dolly!
Faithfully she. stops. There are Just
five stops for Dolly in our alley. She
stops down at the Jones', at the
Whites, at the Smiths, at the
Browns, at the Greens.
She is as automatic about it as a
screen door closer. Long usage has
given her full control of that uncanny
sense which animals have in abun.
dance.
When she gets in our alley, some.
thing utterly beyond her tells her
where to stop. OF course, she has the
aid of the driver. but his assistance is
| mostly confined to cluckings when to
start.
Between stops and starts Dolly re.
mains motionless. Just what she does
there in the dark, is something of a
mystery, but we have a suspicion that
she eats the buds off the althea bushes.
No one could blame her for that, !
am sure. The buds look tempting
enough for any one to eat. They are
positively new, of a delicate young
pea green, just ripe for a horse.
am quite sure that If had to haul
milk wagon all night 1 would eat
Evening star., 1925-04-24

The death of Elwood Haynes, called
the father of the automobile" has
inspired numberless tributes to his
genius as a mechanical expert and to
the contribution ne made to modern
progress. The press OF the country,
generally, points to the unique eX-
perience Haynes had of seeing in his
own lifetime a great revolution in
world methods wrought by his own
inventive talent.
The contribution to the growth of
cities and the acquisition of homes is
emphasized by the New York Times
as to the credit of the invention of the
motor car. at is no longer neces-
sary," according to the Times, Ito
urge that America be seen first. 1t
would be impossible to measure the
pleasure which the automobile yields. "
1t is as If by magic that the change
has been wrought, remarks the Terre
Haute Star, which continues: auto
mobiles have supplanted the horse
and carriage and have become so
common that the horse is more of a
curiosity on city street in these
days. And all the advance in motor
transportation the man who made the
first machine has lived to see. A few
hundred years ago such a step in the
life of one man would have been re-
garded as nothing short of miracle" :"
Starting with a description of the
dramatic scene when Haynes "jaunted
into Kokomo, where the holiday
crowds lined the streets to welcome
the first 'horseless buggy the
to the far-reaching effect of the in
vention: Haynes is dead. The
'horseless. buggy is safely preserved
in the Smithsonian Institution. But
millions Of its descendants, sumptuous
coaches by comparison, wind in and
about the noisy city streets OF the
world and speed swiftly over the
paved highways of the countryside.
The wheels of industry have been ac-
celerated many times over. The move
ment of civilization has been revolu-
tionized, and the span of human life
is heightened by the saving of time"
The very hugeness of the thing he
started is viewed by the st. Louis Post
Dispatch as the reason why Haynes
name will be remembered. Nor was
he without courage and fortitude, ="
adds the Post-Dispatch. WHO but a
man of firm purpose and daring would
have mounted that queer one-cylinder
thing, shivering, splitting, fuming and
exploding, which was ordered off the
street by a Chicago policeman" I'm
like many another pioneer, he died
immensely rich as the result of his
mechanical genius and his ability to
capitalize his knowledge and enter
prise in a business way, says the
Harrisburg Telegraph. mo State in
America" observes the Roanoke
World-News, has highways which
are adequate for increasing motor car
transportation The automobile has SO
Evening star., 1925-04-24
Death of Haynes Brings
Tributes to Auto Pioneer

transformed American life that we
have scarcely kept pace with the out
put of the manufacturers who fol-
lowed Haynes. Here, at least, was
one visionary inventor who lived 10
see his widest dreams come true.
The episode of the motor car is held
by the ST. Paul Pioneer-Press to have
no rival in the history Of practlcal
mechanics. Because of the automo-
bile states the Pioneer-Press, "a
great network of highways is created
and a whole State is thrown into
perennial controversy over the build
ing Of more and better highways. Sol
emn judges rule to make the old laws
apply to new necessities, and law
makers deliberate day after day to Mt
the automobile into its proper rela-
tionships. The automobile has given
us new crime. 1t has created traffic
problem. 1t has conjured up gi-
gantic industry called OIL which has
its own ramifcation." The Portland
Oregon Journal refers to the rise
within 30 years of the greatest de-
velopment in a single field in the
whole history of industry" and cites
as the climax the continued conf
dence in the future of the industry as
indicated by the financing of the
Dodge Co. Our method of going i'm
mediately hither and thither has been
changed in those 80 years more than
1t had been in 80 centuries" is the
comment of the Cincinnati Times
Star.
Special emphasis is laid on the fact
that Haynes was a highly trained ex-
pert and that he did other important
work in addition to the creation of
the motor car. His interests were
scientific rather than mechanical, re-
calls the San Antonio Express. Gre
ative chemistry was his chosen field
and his labors there were crowned
with success. He introduced aluminium
into automobile manufacture. His al
loys of cobalt and chromium, with
tungsten and molybdentm, rank as
highly valuable contributions to in
duStry. Several years ago he aban-
doned automobile manufacture for this
more congenial work" The Brooklyn
Eagle, in speaking of Haynes equip
ment for the establishment of a new
era, describes him as a graduate of
the Worcester School Of Technology
and later a student at Johns Hopkins,
who was in business methods a con-
servative. His company" adds the
Eagle, was a big factor in the manu-
facture of practical cars, progressing
with each new invention and contri-
buting its share to the sequence of
helpful devices
A joint tribute to Haynes and to
Wilbur Wright as men whose achieve
ments are matters of pride to Indiana
is paid by the Lafayette Journal and
Courier, which declares they rank
together "'in the realm of monumental
achievement on behalf of progrcSs
sive humanity -a--.' IS 90