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Evening star., 1925-10-11
Prevent Forest Fire.

Washington pedestrians Ghere are
some left and. like the American
beaver, they are coming back were
highly amused one day last week to
spst a sidewalk sign on a downtown
corner which had been stenciled there
as preliminary to. national Fire
Prevention week, and which read
Prevent Forest Fire" instead of just
Prevent Fire"
Many a giggle and jest were heard
at the expense Of the official or as
sistant who had used the wrong stem.
Gil. obtained no one knows just how,
and probably intended for the side
walk ornamentation Of some small
town wherein the aroma Of newly
sawn lumber shares the air with the
reek of gasoline.
But, on second thought. the white
washed slogan, now obliterated by
thousands of passing feet and prob
ably corrected for urban surroundings.
Is not so funny after all. This is the
season of the year when the amateur
uimrod goes forth to his chosen
haunts.s plentifully supplied with
smokes and matches as well as with
cartridges and shells. This is the sea-
Evening star., 1925-10-11
The Conservation Controversy
BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN.

powered to overrule the Secretary of
Agriculture.
Conservationists. on the other hand
contend that grazing fees should be
increased from so to IS per cent. be-
cause grazing is national asset
which should be cashed in at its
market value, and say that it would
pe absurd to grant any priority or
preference to ranchers now holdiry
grazing permits or who enjoyed free
grazing years ago.
Permits Are Not BankabIe.
Another complaint of the ranchers
IS that their grazing permits have no
bdnkable value. That is TO saw thev
are not acceptable as collateral in
making loans for the reason tha,
they may be Cancelled at any time
Ihls Is answered by defenders of the
present system with the statement
tnat the grazing permits must be re
'ocable, as otherwise ii would he
practically impossible to enforce ,ba
regulations that must be thrown
around the use of the public lands
by private individuals and interests $
ihese regulations. it is argued. have
been too liberal and too easily eyaded
as it Is.
One or the main attacks on Secre.
tary or Interior Work was made he.
lore the Senate committee at Baker
Oreg., where there is a proiectnG
irrigation development that has moi
peen actually started, although Con.
Sress has appropriated the necessary
money. Some of the witnesses. all of
whom represented cattle. sheen. or
WOOL associations, or irrigationists
charged that the Governments entire
reclamation program which was he.
gun under President Roosevelt IS
nkely to be wrecked If DR. Work is
permitted to continue to hold the
Interior portfolio.
Inc Secretary's friends insist that
ne Is not unfriendly to irrigation nroi
ects and that he will see that they
are carried out just as fast as II is
reasonably assured that there will
oe settiers to go on the reclaimed
iands. They likewise say that con.
serVatlon as Federal policy would
go glimmering if the selfish interests 9
that are out to get" Secretary IEorL
were successful in their efforts. and
that the opposition to him is the very
pest evidence of his fitness for the
place. oi 'iie
Heads Of the Interior Department
VINO are wholly satisfactory to those
bent upon the exploitation of the
Nations natural resources are not IL
Is pointed out, the kind of officials
Whom the people as a whole want IN
see in that job. -
President Coolidge. it is to be noted
mas indicated that he has every con.
ildence In Secretary Work and viii,
BACK MIN up to the limit.
Evening star., 1925-10-11

lund to Lieut.. Col. Costa Drake to
Gen. Tennison to Lieut.. Col. Ed
Sigirst to Oberatoor Pakamnlandant nj
Wildholz to Oberst Won GieSe to Gen
Count Heniholdven Rosen to Gen
Ernest Linder to Capt. Trygra Aker.
land to Capt. Count f. G.. Lowen.
noupt to Capt. Count Carl Gronstedt
to Lieut.. Col. o. Tragardt to Gros.
seier F. II. Treschow to Godweir
Wetve Egeberg to DR.. Juris Herman
Hall to Pianist Edv. Sylvon kreutz
to Composer Herman Sonsby to Alex
Simonson to Adolph Tondler, musical
director; to Fred w. Blanchard to Sid
Grammar to Harold Lloyd to Joseph
Schenck to Hiram Arams to Dennis
OBrien to A. C. Berman to Arthur
S. Friend to Jules L. Brulatour to
Herbert Yates to l.. j. San to Eddie
Mannix to Joe Goldberg to Bill -Jen-
ner to Alexander Pantages to John
P. Mills to John Fl. Burke to Roland
G. Swoffield to Thorley J. Lord to
r. II. Green to Stanley S. Stonaker
to Axel F. Jerner. Axel +. Jerner to
E. A. Cason, e. A. Cason to Joe G.
Curry, Joe G. Curry to John A. Renoe,
Clarence J. Mcleod, Representative
Mcleod to Will p. Kennedy.
Copy this and send it to nine peo-
pie whom you wish good luck. The
chain was started by an American
officer and should go around the world
three times. Do not break the chain,
for whoever does this will have had
luck. Do it within "a hours and count
nine days and you will have some
great luck Wish success for you to
let US so smiling through 1925"
Evening star., 1925-10-11
A Prompt Debt Settlement.

Terms for funding the debt OF
Czechoslovakia to the United States.
agreed upon by the American and
a week after the arrival in Washing
ton of the latter commission, are
basically the same as those between
the United States and Great Britain
and other foreign debtors Of this coun-
try. The settlement negotiated is in
line with the policy of the United
States to treat all it's foreign debtors
justly, and to grant the debtors plenty
Of time to complete their payments.
The debt of Czechoslovakia, while not
so great rs that of some Of the other
nations, is nevertheless considerable,
amounting to s115. 100000. 1t will be
paid over a period of &c years, with
interest at 3 and az per cent. The
total amount paid TO the United States
at the end Of the 81 years, including
principal and interest, it is estimated
will be $500, ,000, goo. The United States
Government is paying rates of inter-
Liberty bonds from the sale of which
the loans to European nations were
made.
The CZechoslovakians have in the
past desired recounting of the prin-
cipal of the debt to the United States,
there being some dispute over various
items. But when it became evident
that such a recapitulation would ex.
tend over a long period the debt COM
mission Of that country agreed to a
fat sum Of Sis. 900, 900, preferring to
bring about a prompt funding of the
debt.
The promptness with which Czecho-
slovakia. through its commission, has
negotiated the debt.funding arrange.
ment with this country compares very
favorably with the negotiations be-
tween the United States and other
governments over the war debts. The
foreign nations which have already
made arrangements with the United
States to pay their war and post.
war debts are Great Britain, Belgium,
Hungary, Latvia. Lithuania, Finland,
Poland and Czeehoslovakia. Cuba,
which borrowed $4,000, 900, paid it's
debt in full in August. 1922. Austria,
under the terms Of the so-called Lodge
resolution, will be accorded special
privileges with regard to the postpone
ment of payments. Nicaragua, which
owes the United States a small debt
for materials obtained from this coun-
try since the war, is paying it off
regularly. The other foreign nations
which owe this country, and whose
debts have not yet been funded or
paid. are France, Italy, Greece, Ru-
mania, Russia, Esthonia, Liberia.
Jugoslavia and Armenia.
The Rumanian debt commission,
which was slated to sail for this coun-
try, has Cancelled it's sailing, according
to dispatches from Paris. Tho United
States Government, through its Min
lister in Bucharest, has urged the Ru.
manian government to arrange for
funding its debt, amounting to $780,
00O, 900.
Evening star., 1925-10-11
MEN AND AFFAIRS
BY ROBERT T. SNAIL.

CroeSuSes" is Il flood of So-Calle'l
begging mail which pours in upon
the AL but defenSeIcSS beads OF the
various Government departments.
The appeals come from every dlrec-
ton, FOR every cause. and breathe a1
expectancy of sums Of money of any
size.
In addition TO Mr.. Mellon the richer
members Of the cabinet are suppose
to be MesSrs. Weeks, Kellogg, Hoover
Davis and Work. while the job 5
turkeys or church mice are Messrs.
New, .lardine, Sargent and Wilbur.
1t is perfectly true, the richer mem
bers' say, that they could possibly
make both ends meet if Sliddenly
they We're turned out Of the Federal
service and their pay checks stopped.
Ec' thcE are far from being the
perambulating gold mines the public
would have them, and they have to Ia.
Il blt circUnSpcct in the amount OF
their worldly goods they can part with
on demand. No cabinet officer likes
10 he considered i "pikcr," but some
of them viii lie forced to quit Wash
ington before long if the drain on
their resources continues II is all
very well for a man to give his serv
ices to the Government for onc-tenth
III what ne tpuId sell these services IN
the open market, but it is something
else again 10 expect him to give and
give and give in every other direction
X x < 4
a queer tale comes out of eastern.
Ohio of possibly the first man ever to
die a violent death as the result of a
world series base bali score. The
story W3s told on one of the base ba II
specials coming east from Pittsburgh
Thursday night when the base ball
drama was being shifted from the
! rnurky atmosphere Of the Steel City 70
the classic shades of Washington
1t seems that Il local running be
tween Columbus, Ohio. and Pittsburgh
happened at "A station just as the
ninth inning was being played, Wash
| ington having three men on bases and
nobody out. Leaving time came, but
| the passengers pleaded with the train
crew to wait Just Il minute or two IL
| get the final results
According 10 the story, there was ar
eight-minute wait before the innine
! was over and the final score flashed
| Not very long after the train had re
! sumed its journey and was HURTING
along at top speed ii crashed into al
| automobile at grade crossing in
stantly killing the driver of the ma
| chine and sma shing his car tc
| splinters. Ii there had been no sto,
! for the ball score, would there hav.
! been the fatal crash at the crossing.
tCopyright 1929
Evening star., 1925-10-11
The Uhderwritten Life.

Genesis, xxviii.15-"'I am with thee,
and will keep thee In all places whittier
thou goest.''
Our security as well as our pros
perfty are largely guaranteed to us
by the kind of credentials we carry.
NO matter what mans genius may
be, his success largely depends upon
his indorsers. IL he is properly un-
derwritten by one whom the world
recognizes and has confidence in, he
will go far. Throughout. the whole
of life we recognize that all our plan
ming and scheming must reckon with
the fact that life is interdependent
In studying the lives of the great and
the good 1t is interesting to note how
the men and women who have
achieved a place of distinction have
recognized their dependence upon the
supervising and experimenting care
or God. Their faith In Gods direct
Ing power may. have been expressed
IN very simple terms. or it may have
been what Donald Hankey called, IAN
inarticulate faith" nevertheless il
constituted a vital element in their
lives. 1t Is the kind of simple faith
that begins with the child; the only
KIND OF faith that Jesus declared en-
titles one to enter the Kingdom OF
Heaven.
Vision of the Future.
The story from which the above pas
sage is taken is thrillingly dramatic.
The incident Of which it forms a part
CONCERNS the life of Jacob. BY rea.
son of an offense committed against
his brother ESau he was compelled to
leaVe his home and to seek refuge
among strangers. While in flight he
was given vision of the possibilities
or his future. Conditioned upon his
loyalty to God the promise was made
him. Il am with thee and will keen
thee in, all places whittier thou goest,
and will bring thee again into this
land With d deep sense of his own
unfitness for Gods favor "He was
afraid and said. How dreadful is
this place! This is none other but the
house of God, and this the gate of
Heaven. Awed by his experience.
he made VOW to dedicate the best
OF his iife's service to Jehovah. The
subsequent story of his career Is in
deulonStrat1on of the fulfillment of
his vow and Of the promise of God.
IT was the ASSURANCE given him of
GODS. purpose and plan concerning his
life that renewed his courage and gave
nigh purpose to his life
Remote In time as the incident is.
We nave witnessed repeated demon
strations of its fulfillment in other
men and women. Now and again
there comes to every one of us a place
where the roads seem to fork, the one
leading TO self satisfaction, the graft.
hcation of desire and the fulhliment
OF our own petty schemes. II is Il way
that takes no reckoning of Gods plan
and purpose. The other is a way that.
While fraught with difficulties and
sometimes perils. has as its stimula-
ton and encouragement the conscious
Evening star., 1925-10-11
EVERYDAY RELIGION
BY THE RIGHT SREV. JAMES Z. FREEMAN d. d., LII. D..
Bishop of Washington.

ness that somehow, some way. we are
fulfilling a destiny and achieving n
purpose that God has designed for us.
The latter way may seem at the first
less attractive than the other, but to
pursue II means II peace and aatisfac.
ton that in themselves constitute our
great reward. Phillips Brooks felt
that his career was designed TO be
that OF teacher in the classroom.
lie undertook to fulfill this purpose In
the Boston Latin School, only to dis.
cover that this course would lead ulti-
mately to the miscarriage OF his high.
est aims and purposes. Ultimately he
gave himself to the Christian ministry.
with the result that he came to be one
of the foremost preachers Of his gen
GRAFTON. What vision Of his future
was given him when he came to the
fork in the road is not told us, but we
do Know in what Il singular way God
blessed his ministry and made him the
enricher of countless thousands.
Entered New Apprenticeship.
Dwight Moody sought to be an ap.
prentice in his uncles shop in Chi.
caeo. Here he thought he could work
out his destiny and achieve his for
tune, but God had other plans for his
life. From apprenticeship to man he
yielded himself to an apprenticeship
to God and became one Of His fore.
most evangelists of the world. Fred.
erick Robertson aspired to enter the
army service. To serve his king and
country was his supreme ambition.
Failing in this pursuit on physical
grounds, he was arrested in his course
substituted the ministry of peace for
that OF war, and so powerful did he
become as preacher that his great
messages still carry to multitudes of
readers power and inspiration. "Iie
being dead, yet Speaketh." We have
not yet learned the secret impulses
that led the late Victor Lawson, pub.
Usher of the Chicago Daily News. into
the career that made him one of the
most distinguished and outstanding
publishers of his time. We do know
that he consecrated his great gifts to
the making Of clean and wholesome
journalism, and his will discloses the
fact that he regarded himself as the
steward of the bounty God had given
him. While he worked for himself
and his generation, he worked for
God, and he left behind him a record
of service nobly performed that gives
him place of the highest distinction
in the field of journalism.
Whether we live on the higher or
the lower levels of service makes little
difference if our philosophy of life is
right. To believe that there is a
power that shapes our ends; to feel
that, from day to day, in tasks great
or small. God is directing us. presid.
ing over our destiny. lends TO life q
sense of assurance and peace greater
than all the worlds applause. more
satisfying than all it's gifts In DAYS
OF loneliness and seeming failure, or
in hours of bitter disappointment.
such an assurance restores our conf
dence, renews our hope and gives US
strength TO carry on. even in the face
of insuperable difficulties
Copyright. 1925
Evening star., 1925-10-11
Fifty Years Ago
In The Star

Fifty years ago the cause and the
means of transmission Of malaria
were unknown. The disease was
attributed to miaSma arising from
| Stagnant w d e r.
| Sunu0WerS as q SWamps, marshes
and the like. The
4dldlid Culc' disease did come
iii fact, from such
| places, but not through miasrna The
mosquito bea ring of the malarial
germ had not been discovered was
not, indeed. for nearly a quarter of a
century. In The Star of October 8.
1879. is an article which illustra teS
how earnestly the people of this
country sought relief from and pre-
vention Of an aff1iction that counted
its victims by great numbers:
Mr.. T. Serle Jerrold writes to
Public Opinion a letter recommend
ing the cultivation of sunflowers in
marshes as a protection against ma
larious influences. He says that Gen.
Sherman recommended the use of
sunfiowerS for this purpose several
years ago, and that he has since
| found by observation and experiment
! that they really have a benetic cia |
/ effect on the atmosphere He gives
several instances where the sowing of
| the sunflower seeds has resulted in
| the protection of a community from
| miasmatic fevers heretofore quite
! common. His explanation of the
work which the sunfiower does is
| that during its rapid growth il alb
| serbs great quantities of nitrogen
| and evaporates as much as a quart
of water daily.
I'm this city some years ago
malaria from the fats in the Potomac
above the Long Bridge caused fever
! and aSue TO prevail extensively in
and about the National Observatory,
as 1t still does to some extent. we
believe, in that locality. At the time
| referred to the family of the officer
in charge of the observatory-Lieu
Maury, if we mistake not-suffered
from the disease. and "A large quan-
tfty of SunfiowerS We're planted be-
! tween the buildings and the river.
The effect, 1t is generally understood,
was not perceptible. If sunfiowers
were really any protection against
malaria, the people of Council
Bluffs. on the Missouri River, ought
to be fever proof. as they are sur
rounded for miles by probably the
most luxuriant growth of sunflowers
known in the country, the plants rising
almost to the dignity of trees in height
and amount of foliage; but we believe
that druggists of that favorite local
ity sell quite as much quinine as do
those in places where Sunf1owers are
unknown
Proponents of the sunftower theory
OF protection against malaria were
on the right track. though uncon-
sciously. The planting of sunf1owers
in marshy ground was beneficial, but
only to the extent of drying the soil
and not through any emanation from
the plant, either of nitrogen or of
moisture. The suntiowers planted be-
tween the National Observatory and
the river were doubtless Intellectual be-
cause they were sown on solid ground
and not on the marsh itself. Had
they been planted in the swampy soil
bit farther south they would have
been helpful to the extent of reduc
Ing the area of stagnant water in
which the mosquito larvae were de-
veloped.
Evening star., 1925-10-11

A ball meant tied score, a hit a foe
| mans lead. An out would give the
victory.
That was one of the moments that
make base Rtu tho s,-lest of all
sports. The pitcher wound up. swung,
the ball shot forward. the bat flashed,
the ball was hit, and nearly eighty
thousand eyes followed its fight.
Would it go into one of the field
stands? Or would it fall within the en-
veloping hands of a Washington
fielder?
This crisis lasted perhaps three sec
ondS. The ball came down, a fielder
moved swiftly into the trajectory, and
just before it reached the ground it
was nabbed, neatly and securely. The
game was won.
Such are the thrills that close.
hard-fought, important ball game fur
nishes. Had yesterdays contest been
the concluding one Of the series. with
the world title depending upon it, the
tension could not have been greater.
There were other moments of In
tensity, such as that when Washing
tons right fielder sprang into the air
at the barrier and gripped with one
hand a ball that, two inches higher,
would have dropped safely into the
home-run area, to tie the score. Or
that earlier when. with the score a tie
and two Nationals on base, u doughty
Washington club swinger slammed
out hit that gave the margin of vic
tory.
Yes, it was a cold day, but there
was no sluggish blood in the veins of
those who braved the elements.
Evening star., 1925-10-11

Visitors 10 the world series base
ball games at Pittsburgh found their
chief point Of interest, outside the
ball grounds, Of course, to be Secre-
tary Andrew Melons magnificent ma
tional bank. Not SO large as the
Treasury. or as the Bank of England.
and possibly not the Credit Lyon
naise of France, the Mellon bank
nevertheless, is one Of the most
gorgeous financial Institutions in all
the world. The exterior of the bank.
built entirely along classical lines
with no office structure above, IS
most impressive and in it's weight
and ruggedness sends ones mind
back to the Pyramids for compar;
, son. The interior is d thing Of gilt
tcring beauty. In the cathedral like
height Of the main banking room
mere man sinks into the role of
pyGmy. 1t. .rnust have been quite Il
wrench for Mr. Mellon to tear him
self away from the shimmering mar
BILE elories of his own bank and hide
himself away in the granite muSti-
ness of the gray old Treasury.
In It's architectural beauty and i'm
pressivcneSs the Mellon bank out
strips anything in the financial dis
trict of New York. 1t could swallow
up the offices of j. +. Morgan & Co.
anu never nave IL )dHB OF lnOlGeSLlOn. n.
Somehow or other to see that bank
day after day and to realize the
genius which made it possible, gives
one added respect for the Secretary.
You feel as If Congress ought to go
to Pittsburgh and have IL look. Maybe
1t would have a higher opinion OF
| the Secretary of the Treasury after
that. for the Senate is getting all ser
already to sink any tax plans which
may come from the administration.
| regardless OF whether they bear the
Mellon label or not. Senators think
they know more about finance than
the Secretary. But one thing is sure,
none of them can boast such finan-
cial palace as he can. Mr.. Mellon
resigned as president of the Pitts
burGh institution when he entered the
cabinet. His brother Richard is at
| present the directing genius.
< =
!. Speaking of cabinet members, Mr.
| Melons wealth is so Great--he is
assuredly the first Government Off
clal ever to pay more than 81 900, 900
a year in taxes--that the country
possibly has got an eXaggcra ted idea
| of the wealth of the other members
of the millionaire official family"
which surrounds President Coolidge
In some instances ii is asserted the
wealth of cabinet members has been
multiplied by tens and tWelves in the
public estimation. One result of this
| wide conception of the "Coolid e