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Evening star., 1925-03-23
Old Romance Realized
Autos and Airplanes in Land of
Arabian Nights.

Even Scheherazade would have
paused in her enchanting tales to
hear the news of the automobile that
stopped in the heart of the Syrian
Desert to aid a fallen airplane bound
from Cairo to Bagdad. Speaking of
winged horses and magic carriages"
the witty queen would have said, be-
hold"
f. From Beirut on the Syrian coast
on to Damascus, and thence across
the sandy waste to the green shores
Of the Tigris and the city of the good
Haroun al-Raschid, runs a motor line.
500 miles IN length. Where once the
caravan labored from oasis to oasis
the gasoline genie now speeds lightly,
accomplishing in % hours ID journey
that aforetime required weeks, and
bringing Mesopotamia. as a current
report OF the enternrise observes.
within 10 days Of Western Europe.
instead OF almost a month taken by
the old route through the Red Sea and
Persian Gulf to Bagdad." II appears
further that the motor line in the first
years--of its operation carried $4,000
pounds of mail and some $500 pas-
sengers, without accident and with
out one serious delay. INTERESTINGLY
too, the tribesmen of the territory
traversed by these cars, though usu-
ally hostile to European encroach-
ments, have been we'll disposed to the
automobile. The new mode of trans
port evidently has established itself
in these ancient seats of civilization,
and doubtless Will work many a Won
der
The airplane has not been so fortu-
nate. Its service between Bagdad and
Cairo was lnaugurated by the Brit
tsh authorities, primarily to expedite
mails. But there have been frequent
delays, the trouble being ascribed to
sundry circumstances. notably to "the
increased strain put on the machine
by the severe climatic conditions
existing over these vast expanses of
the desert sands" Engine failure
caused the breakdown of the airplane,
TO whose relief came the automobile
crew, with spare engine that en-
abled the aviators to go rejoicing on
their flight. In time. no doubt. the
climatic difficulties will somehow be
overcome and Bagdad will behold it's
skyey navies moving in full ease.
while radio and the Y ray, to say
nothing of telephones and telescopes
bring all the rest of Arabian Nights
romance to pass.-Atlanta Journal.
Evening star., 1925-03-23
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

lating of international traffic in the
highways and bySays of the globe, with
a view to seeing that it keeps moving
in orderly. peaceful and systematic
fashion. That doesn't mean nliIitarisrn
or war. 1t would mean brotherhood,
common sense and general welfare"
i = =
Former Vice President Tom Mar
snail once said that the paramount is
sue in American politics is a good :. cent
cigar. Gov. "Al' Smith says the domes-
tic question OF the day is where 10 parI,
your car. Golf Illustrated. the priucipal
organ OF the American goifng frater-
fdtF' is now TO the front with the pa
mount issue in international politics. 1t
calls for the creation of an "interna-
tional board of golf" to resula 70 con
troVersial issues on the links. and sus-
~Hsts that the Royal and Ancient Golf
Ciuo OF ST Andrews, Scotland, and the
United states Golf Associat ton should
De the Parents of such a body
\ # >,
The late Marquis Curzon of KedIes-
toh married two American women in
succession and ALWAYS maintainad
cordial social relations with Amar;
cans But United States Amhassa-
dors TO Great Britain during III.
past L or 10 years never regarded
tnat most superior Curzon" as psr-
ucularly friendly TO this country in
political sense He was one of the
irreconcflable Tories who anprily
deprecated our Hardness" in enter
ing the World War. Walter Hines
Page. our war envoy in London. bit-
terry resented Lord CurZon's anti
Alnei,ean spirit, born, as it was. as
an inherent belief in our national in
ieriority. When Mr.. Page heard
that Curzon was to be the chief
British rem esentative at a function
organized to mark Americas entr,.
into the war. in April. 1917. the Am
hassacor rofubly protested. Some
one else was finally put in Lord
Curzon's place
Electric signs carving 4-foot let
ters' reading Government Printing
Chtce... now blaze from the roof of
Imat Dig establishment on two fronts.
Ihe signs We're put up Just before
Inauguration day and are aeSirnef, tn
De permanent. Since the layofY of
u. r. o. printers there has been some
curiosity as to how the public print
er recohel es economy with the cleo
trical display. Mr. Carter informs
TINS observer that the cost is triffing.
only couple of dollars a night"
The installation, he says, was inex-
pensive. having been made by print
ing office electricians from stock on
hand and In disuse. Our shop needs
Identification, MIR. Carter explains.
"and is always being confused with
the Bureau of Engraving and Print
ing. Many people don't know what
OF where it is-inc' uding an Assistant
Attorney General of the TTnitad
States, who recently had business
here"
Copyright, 1saal
Evening star., 1925-03-23
Secret Societies.

With the disbarment from desirable
extra-curriculum activities of nearly
one hundred students Aof Washing
ton high schools because Of ad.
mitted membership in forbidden
Greekletter fraternities and sorori.
ties, the school authorities are up
against a battling problem, one which
goes far back in history and, has its
roots deep in the psychology of man.
kind. 80.
Washington public schools have
been confronted Herewith off and
on for a long period. Several times
1t has been considered settled. but the
difficulty breaks out afresh. just as
1t did recently with the discovery
that, in spite of written pledge to
the contrary, a group of high school
boys i. had accepted membership in
one of the forbidden organizations
and had had a group photograph
taken, the display of which in a show
window brought about retribution.
1t is one of the hardest things in
the world to keep people, especially
young people Of q common age. SINH
lar surroundings and similar tastes,
from creating and Joining secret or
Evening star., 1925-03-23

standing between the executive Office
and the shop reached through the in.
itiative of broad-minded and generous
employers.
To the spread Of cooperative man
agement may be attributed a great
deal of the Improvement In the rela-
tionship under consideration. DIR. Eliot
finds that either through the regular
unions already organized In the plants
or by means Of reorganization estab-
lished for the purpose, representatives
of the workers in many instances now
sit down with their employers to dis,
cuss in democratic fashion the prob
lens of their industry. A growing fea-
ture OF the improved relations between
employe and employer. especially in
large industries, is the establishment
OF insurance against unemployment,
accident, sickness and death.
Either Jointly with the regular
unions or independently on behalf of
their employees many employers have
esta blished funds to protect them from
the blows of circumstance. Many of
the larger companies have taken their
employees into partnership through a
wide distribution Of stock among the
workers and by the sharing Of their
profits among the customers they
serve. Other employers have made
what amounts to sharing of profits
by the distribution of substantial
bonuses.
In Canada, DR.. Eliot points out, gov
ernment mediation and conciliation as
carried on by the Canadian depart
ment of labor prevented. during the
year 1922, the loss Of a single working
hour on the railways of Canada. In
happily, the contrary was the result
in the United States. which suffered
enormous losses through strikes of
railway labor.
Evening star., 1925-03-23
Bay Incident Recalled.
Tornado and Water Spout Declar'
ed to Appear in Similar Forms.
To the Editor Of The star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
The accounts OF the recent disas-
trous windstorm in Illinois and In
diana suggest to me that short de-
scription OF the formation OF a water
spout. which Is essentially similar in
&C ion 70 a tornado. and which wit
messed. might interest some of your
readers.
During the Summer of 1904 my old
est son and another youth and were
sailing across Chesapeake Bay from
the mouth OF the Potomac River in
small sloop. when we were overtaken
by a southeast storm. After that
storm abated. the wind where We
were blew briskly from the southwest.
and in an almost opposite direction a
mile north of us, Is ] observed from
the direction in which a three-masted
schooner there was sailing.
A black, funnel-shaped cloud, with
the big end above. soon after formed
approximately three quarters of a
mile up the bay from us and whirled
with great velocity as it gradually
extended it's smaller end toward the
surface of the water. The water be-
low it became exceedingly turbulent,
as If it were dashing against hidden
rocks or violently boiling.
when the lower end of the cloud
cone was about the height of the
washing ton Monument above the bay
the water beneath it began to whirl
rapidly and soon a cone of it sud-
denly sprang up and joined the lower
end of the cloud formation, by which
the smaller ends or the two cones
were united, leaving one large end
above and one below with a long mar
rover waist between. This whirling
formation, roaring and seething at
the surface of the water, moved
gracefully around with the sinuous
undulation Of an enormous serpent
and at one time. barely missed the
schooner mentioned. Finally the
formation leaned so far that 1t brok e
and the lower portion fell with q
spectacular splash.
1t fS probable that the reason why
such manifestations are more violent
when they occur on land than when
they occur on water, is that. as they
cannot draw or force up the land,
they continue to get narrower and to
increase in velocity of rotation in
proportion as they decrease in diam
eter and approach the surface of the
earth. WILLIAM TINDALL
Evening star., 1925-03-23
Makes Position Clear
on Study of Negroes
To the Editor of The Star

10 IHe OF Inc star.
May I ask the courtesy of your col
urns to correct one or two misstate-
ments which occurred in your report
of the talk concerning my research on
negro-white crossing which I gave
at the meeting of the Washington
Anthropolosical Association? | real
ize that it Is difficult for the untrain-
ed listener to accurately report a
technical address, but some of the
points made in Your account all un-
Willingly do the negro some injus-
tice, and somewhat distort my posi-
tion.
1t is not true that "a white man
can survive better under our civili-
zation than a negro is the reason
why the negroes as a group in this
country are lighter than the Africans,
The simple fact of racial mixture
is quite. sufficient to account for this
tightening of color. While il seems
to be true that in marriages among
negroes the men are somewhat dark
er than the women, ] did not say that
"the average boy told ME that his
ideal of a sweetheart was a light
er negro girl" While it would be
interesting TO know il this is the case,
at the same time am in no position
to testify, since it is manifestly inn
possible to discuss questions of such
intimacy with large numbers of stu
dents. Finally. II Is not at all possible,
as your report indicated. that the
characteristics which a given couple
viii pass on to their children can be
figured with mathematical certainty"
or anything approaching 1t.
I shall appreciate very much, in
deed, this opportunity to correct
these statements, which ] recognize,
are almost bound to be made where
an address is not reported steno-
graphically. or read from a prepared
manuscript.
MELVILLE j. HERSKOvITS.
Evening star., 1925-03-23
Few Vassar Girls Smoke
Alleged Statistics Misleadins.
Student Assembly Saws.

1t is explained by, the Student As
sembly- of Vassar that the statistics
widely published recently concernipr 9
the smoking habits OF the Young
women of the college have been gem
orally misinterpreted. The figures
themselves, it is pointed out, do not
represent the real status of oub,ic
opinion, because in their anxiety to
be fair every young lady who has
ever taken a Whit f C c'garerte has
evidently listed herself as smoker.
Furthermore, the question as TO
whether smoking was disspproved by,
parents was eenxclsntiously answered
by many of the girls in the negative
merely because their fathers are
snok ers.
3 The ofieial publication of Vassar
College reports AtAstt no married
change has taken place in the student
attitude in recent years The self
Evening star., 1925-03-23
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

Paul Laurence Dunbar, the negro
poet, after whom a great secondary
school is named in Washington, ought
In Literary Square.
The publication OF his complete
noNms in one beautiful volume by
Dodd, Mead & Co.. gives one opportu-
nifty to read the work of one whom
w. d. Howells called the first American
negro to evince Inmate distinction In
literature
In rhe Introduction to Lyrics OF
Lowly Life" which forms the preface
to this collection, the late dean of
American letters explains his position
at length.
To him (and may I add, to me?)
the fact that Dunbar was a coloreo
man had nothing at all to do with his
regard for his poems. He boosted"
them because they were good work
well done.
Il think l should scarcely trouble
the reader with special appeal in
behalf of this book. if it had not es-
necinllv appealed to me for reasons
apart from the authors race origin
and condition." Mr.. Howells states.
The world is too old now, and I
hnd myself too much of it's mood, to
care for the work of a poet because
he is black. because his father and
mother were slaves, because he was,
before and after he began to write
poems, an elevator boy.
These facts would certainly at
tract me to him as a man, if knew
him to have literary ambition, but
when 1t came to his literary art. I
must judge il irrespective of these
facts. and enjoy IT or endure it for
what IL was in itself"
Any honest lover Of poetry must
read The Complete Poems nt Psul
Laurence Dunbar" in exactly that
spirit. And with such eminent criti-
cal opinion behind him, he will have
little trouble in doing so.
The romance of Dunbar's achieve-
ment, however, l am sure Mr.. Howells
never meant any one to forget For
any one to rise from elevator boy to
poet, from pushing levers to pushing
the pen. is a romance.
There is no one, white or black
yellow or green twith jealousyo who
would not envy any man who could
get his work published in such a
beautiful book, with the poems set
In large tyne. in double columns.
The physical layout OF poetry has
much to do with it's proper apprecia-
tion. The publishers, therefore. are
to be congratulated on displaying
these poems to their best advantage
Few radio fans" there are who
have not heard. at some time or
other, the following song over the
air:
Thou art the soul OF q Summers day.
Thou art the breath Of the rose
But the Summer Is hed
And the is dead.
Where are they gone. who knows. who kuowsi
rhou art the blood of my heart O. hearts,
Thou are my soul's repose.
hut my heart grows numb
And my soul grows dumb.
Where art thou. love, who knows, who knows
Thou art the hope of my after years
Sun for nv Winter SHOWS.
But the years so by
Meath clouded sky.
Where shall we meet. who knows. who knsws:
Perhaps the next best known poem
in this volume is The Sum"
little dreaming by the way.
A little telling day by day
4 little pain. little strife.
A little jsy-aud that is life.
Evening star., 1925-03-23

League of Nations is contemplated ''
The Des Moines Evening Tribune
cites the fact that the House gave d
majority of sol TO IS for the court
as giving warning to the Senate
that the great majority of the people
favor the court and demand. at the
very least, that it be debated and IA
decision be made
y y *
The Wheeling Register finds that.
despite the wishes of President Cool
ldge. the Senate Republicans are de
rernined to prevent action on the
court for the next two years And
the worst of il is that the objection
comes from those who are supposed
to stand firmly behind Mr.. Coolidge.
ANY declaration to the contrary must
be taken with grain of salt
The Kansas City Journal feels that
the Senate's failure to act on the
court proposal is due largely to fear
of pub ic misunderstanding The
Senators do not themselves confuse
the court with the league, but they
fear that the public may. The time
for that fear is past. The proposal
has been before the. Senate for a
little more than two years. The pub
lie generally understands it. 1t is
time resolution providing for:Amer-
lean adherence was adopted The
Lynchburg Advance asserts that
many of the Republicans are favor
abe and some others, unfavorable.
will not oppose it. A mere handful
of Republicans are frightening the
majority leaders into an attitude OF
hesitation and delay
Fitness of American participation
is argued by the Knoxville Sentinel
which reviews the history of the tri-
bunal: That the World Court as
constituted is operative without pref
udice to the United States is guar
anteed by the fact that TO E'ihu Root.
an .eminent American statesman and
jurist of unquestioned loyalty 10 his
country, rs due the lions share of
the credit for having framed the ju-
diciai machinery of the World Court
and aided in organizing il for bust
ness. And this absence of prejudice
to our American institutions has been
recognized in the recommendation of
the court by two Republican Presi-
dents"
The Detroit Free Press raises the
question as to whether or not the
Senate was guided by a fear that
tast-rlinute business would be tied
up If the court matter were taken
up. 1T is not at all ciear," states
the Fress Press, that the refusal
of the Senate to pass motion to
consider resolution providing for
American adherence 10 the Interna-
tional Court of Justice rodects the
temper of a majority or even of
minority of the members.
The resolution MAS introduced sud
denly on the last day of the regular
session" The Pittsburgh Chronicle
Telegraph believes the House an
pro9ai was in accord with the ssenti-
ment Of the country The Santa Bar
bara Daily News predicts the ulti-
mate adoption of the Presidents rec
Evening star., 1925-03-23
World Court Discussions
Linked With Disarmament

Lttersnces of President Coolidge
and a resolution passed by the House
of Representatives favorable to the
World Court have impelled Ameri.
can newspaper editors to analyze
national sentiment on the subject
of adherence to the court 1t is
recognized that such action would
bear close relation to future dis
armament discussions A single
group in the Senate is held to fur
nish the chief opposition.
The Kansas City Star, while in
dorsing the Presidents program in
general, states that there is one
instrument urged by the President
which the Star believes is unneces-
sary, and for the United States would
result in harm. That instrument is
the Permanent Court of International
Justice. The court is European
tribunal, dominated by European ma
tions. The European prejudice
against America is too deep and far
reaching. In the second place, the
court is an adjunct to the League of
Nations" ...
The New York Evening Post holds
an entirely different view: America
and great part of the world want
another disarmament conference. Ac-
tion by the Senate should come as
one of it's needed preliminaries. For
there should be a judicial body ready
to interpret agreements and make
decisions upon problems that may
grow out of second series of arms
treaties. With America as mem
ber. the World Court would be such
a body. There is no international
politics in the World Court. Its
business is with the law
The Topeka State Journal points to
the fact that nominations to the court
are made by the nations represented
in the Hague court and that this
provision removes the possibility of
domination by any nation or group
of nations. The present judges sit
for nine years and, according to, the
statute, may. be reelected. As there
Is, very little probability that they
will not be re-elected, the question
of future elections will come up. for
years to come, only in case of filling
such vacancies as may occur"
The Minneapolis Journal states
that President Coolidge has a back
ground Of knowledge for urging that
the United States get behind the
World Court. His words should be
taken seriously, for they cempre-
hepd tho fu'ur" as we'll as the nres-
ent." The Salt Lake Deseret News
declares that the Importance oil the
position taken by the House cannot
be exaggerated and argues that "the
function of the House is not to guide
public opinion. but to reflect clearly
and in a responsible manner the Will
of the people. This branch of the
National Legislature is cenvinceds. as
Is President Coolidge. that the
American people have spoken ON the
Issue at the election, II there is any
traditional policy of the United
States, II is 10 seek an arnicable set
tlement of all interna tional ques-
tions. In the establishment of this
court OF Justice no adherence to the
Evening star., 1925-03-23
Congressional Medicine.

Lo, the poor. congressman. UnaYail-
ing his protest against the salary in
crease which raises his annual stipend
to $4,000. Controller General Nc
Carl, the uncontrolled. has decreed
Senators and Representatives must
take their fun pay checks; they can
not be paid at the rate of $500, the
old congressional salary. But, and
here is where the controller general is
truly unkind, Mr.. McCarl has added
d kind of postscript which says that
if a Congressman wishes he may re-
turn to the Treasury any part of The
salary he receives. Why could not the
controller general have settled the
matter once and for all? Why leave
a loophole to worry those who have
abnormally active consciences? Why
simulate a physician who prescribes
draught which must be taken in the
mouth, but need not be swallowed?
Some members OF the House,
Sergeant alarms J.. G. Rogers wrote
Mr.. McCari, intimated they did not
care to take the increase in pay under
the now famous law Of 1895. Mr.
Rogers wanted TO know if he could
pay them less than the s10,0 900. Mr..
McCarl has replied with firmness that
they must be paid the full amount,
But after Congressman has received
the sum, he may do with it as he
will, even to returning part of it or
all of it to Uncle Sam.
It will be: interesting to observe
how many members OF the Senate and
House restore to the Treasury the
s.. 500 increase which the new law
allows them. There is no obligation
so to do-none, unless perchance the
Congressman has protested SO vigor-
oasly against the increase he may run
the risk of hearing from his enemies
the charge: "Methinks the gentleman
did protest too much" When the salary
increase was debated in the Senate
after it had been agreed to-snd
some of the Senators raised their
voices in opposition to the added pay.
Immediately they were charged with
assuming a 'holier than thou atti-
tude. So the man who returns his
increase now-if any does-may be
criticized for playing to the galleries.
A member of Congress is entitled to
his $4,000 year or he is not. If he
is to devote his whole time and at
tention TO the Government service.
undoubtedly the old $500 salary is
too little. If he is to devote only
modicum of his time to his duties here
then his old salary was too much.
Congress, passing on the matter it
self. decided that the salary should be
advanced to cover more adequately a
year-round service to the Government
The alternative was TO reduce the
salary-perhaps to the size of the
of a member of the Brit
ish House of Commons, who receives
f400 a year, about $1,000. But
If the member of Congress is to re-
ceive a year-round salary it is not too
much to ask that he stay on the job.
Evening star., 1925-03-23

literary sensation was once Great
ed by the question "Is marriage
failure?" Divorce procedure has
robbed the query of some of it's
romance. Yet the marriage license
clerk is still kept busy and the sale of
wedding rings forms a substantial
part Of the jewelers. business. The
sentiment that survives and flourishes
is liable to be overlooked because it
Graves no publicity.