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Evening star., 1925-04-19
Hylan Hits at Traffic Pets.

Mayor Hylan of New York is a
candidate for reelection, and there
Is a feeling on the part of a good
many New Yorkers--whether a ma
jority or not remains to be seen
that eight years have been quite
enough for him at City Hall. AL
though the election will not take place
until November the campaign is
really on at this time. and every
move Of the mayor is calculated to
affect the result. His latest step is
thus given a political significance
traffic situation. He has ordered the
police commissioner to enforce the
traffic rules against all vehicles, even
though they bear the mystic letters
''P. D." on their radiators, as sym.
bols of special privileges granted by
the police department. There are
scores of these cars, usually motors
of the de luxe class, driven by liveried
chauffeurs, daily depositing and TAX
ing up. their passengers at down
town Office buildings and manufac-
turing establishments. In their
course downtown in the morning and
uptown in the afternoon they whiz
along like fire engines, regardless of
rules and signs and lights. They
are the class" of the traffic. In.
quiry proves that these "P. D." signs
have been granted to special favorites
of the police commissioner who have
in some cases been given honorary
titles as officials of his branch OF
the municipal government. Now the
mayor declares that they must be
held subject to traffic rules. The
humber machines of the hoi polloi
will not have to halt while they go
whirling past with traffic cops salut.
ing and clearing the way for them.
If their drivers transgress the rules
they must go to court
OF course, there is indignation
among the "P. D." favorites. and
there is also rejoicing among the
lowlier users of the streets of Man.
haitian For the moment the mayor
has scored. The police commissioner
is yet to have his innings, but in.
asmuch as he is the subordinate of
the mayor he is not likely to score
heavily in his turn at bat. 1t is a
merry game. Meanwhile the bank
ers and the shirtwaist manufacturers
and the motion picture magnates and
the other special deputies and honor.
ary deputy commissioners of police
whose cars have the big letters in
front are wondering whether the
privileges running with the badge are
worth the publicity they are now get
ting.
Evening star., 1925-04-19
Trotsky Back in Favor.

A dispatch from Moscow announces
that Leon Trotsky, who a few months
ago was dismissed from his post as
head Of the Soviet army, has been re.
stored to favor through a reconcilia.
tion with the commissars, and it is ex-
pected that he will soon return to ac-
tive administrative work. He is re-
ported to be again in good health and
eager to get back into harness. Some
weeks ago, it is now stated, he was
offered the enthusiastically to japan,
but feared that the duty would i'm.
pose too great a task upon his i'm.
paired health. The dispatch further
says that Zinovieff, whose opposition
to Trotsky was the main cause of the
latter's fall from power, has been
"silenced," though it is denied that he
is to be dismissed from the govern
ment councils.
This news is of importance as indi.
eating that there Is no real change at
Moscow. When Trotsky had been dis
missed, and virtually exiled, hope was
felt that his treatment was a conse.
quence Of a modification Of Soviet
ideas Of government. 1t appears now
to have been due to personal quarrels.
Indeed, ever since Lenin's illness
which led to his death those who as.
pired to succeed him as chief of COM
missars, and who compromised their
aspirations by forming a cabal, or
governing commission, have been
manifesting intense jealousies, due,
not to differences of opinion on funda-
mental questions of government, but
to conflicting ambitions.
Trotsky's dismissal in January un.
doubtedly evoked for him a considera-
BILE sentiment of sympathy among the
Russian people faithful to the Soviet
regime. The military forces were
particularly displeased. The erstwhile
East Side New Yorker had won the
admiration of the troops by his daring
maneuvers and BY his eloquence. 1t
was feared by his enemies at Moscow
that his custer would be resisted by
the army. But no demonstration was
made in his favor, probably as a result
Of his own shrewd precautions. He
doubtless knew that military resist
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Proposed Agriculture Building.

The supervising architect of the
Treasury has prepared plans for Civ
ing proper housing to the Department
Of Agriculture. The bill for $50, ,000, ;.
600 Government building program at
Washington, lost at the late session of
Congress, will be revived next session,
and the Department Of Agriculture
means to be ready with plans for the
structure it needs. 1t claims to be the
worst housed of all the departments in
Washington, and it backs up the claim
with figures showing the number Of
private structures in which it has un-
suitable quarters. Two marble build.
ings have been standing in the "Agri-
cultural grounds Of the Mall since
1908. These were built to be wings of
large central building which, though
il years have passed, still remains a
mere sketch on paper. The red brick
structure, or administration build
ing" built in 1868, is in use, and the
department rents about % buildings
nnd also rents offices In about 90
others. Congress has continued to
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ance would be disastrous to him and
perhaps to the Soviet government.
Those who have been hoping for q
material change Of heart at Moscow
leading to the establishment there OF
sound governmental principles will be
disheartened by this announcement of
Trotsky's restoration to favor of au.
thority. The Third Internationale.
with its pernicious doctrines of COM
munism, is still dominant in Russia.
Evening star., 1925-04-19
SHOOTING STARS.
By fHILANDER JOHNSON.

Chronological Complaint.
There are twenty-four houss
In day,
For Iaborious pow'rs
Or for play.
We would like forty-eight
At the least,
To golf or crate
At the feast.
We will eat, we will dance,
We will play.
We will not miss a chance
To be gay.
When the work that is ours
We must do,
These twenty.four hours
Are too few!
Evening star., 1925-04-19

Scientists have raised the question
of whether men are becoming woman
ish. The resemblance between men
and women has increased because of
bobbed hair. But there is still the fact
that no woman. in initiating the head
styles of her brothers, will go so far
as to become bald.
Evening star., 1925-04-19
MEN AND AFFAIRS
BY ROBERT +. SMALL.

duced the conference to resolve that
Angling provides a sport unparat-
leled for its recreational health Civ
ing advantages for individuals in
every walk of life, regardless of class,
age, nationality or sex. from the
humblest barefooted boy to the baron
in industry"
Whatever may have been intended
or unintended in the White House
fish pronouncement, the foregoing res
olution will be music to the anglers
ears
The truth about the President is
that he thinks of fishing just as he
does of virtually every other sport.
1t may be all right for other people,
but it has no appeal to him. This
Is true of so many other things.
The President probably thinks OF
golf with a shudder, Like those who
scoffed at the game years ago, he
probably sees no reason why a grown
man should chase a little white ball
in and out of bitches and sandtraps
Tor whole afternoon. Such a sport
does not come under the head of
pleasure with him. The President
does not care for hunting. He occa-
sionally has gone out riding, but not
with any particularly degree of either
satisfaction or comfort His friend
liest biographers have dwelt upon
this lack Of the love Of sports in his
makeup. They say he was not even
fond of fishing as a boy and the
woods in Autumn held no keen in
terest for him as for the ordinary bog
and his gun and his dog.
The President always has been a
worker. He is one of those few men
to whom work is a recreation, sup
plying all the want of sport or pas
time.
And yet the contradiction to all
this would seem to be the Presidents
love for yachting trips on the May
flower. He has used the yacht far
more often and consistently than any
other President.
4 X
At this time, when housing condi-
tions are occupying the attention of
the entire country, it may be of in
terest to read the laws of landlord
and tenant laid down by the wise King
kamehameha / of Hawaii, back in
1892. kamehameha had conquered
all the Sandwich Islands and the New
England missionaries were on their
way to bring the more modern ideas
OF civilization. Royal Mead, who
divides his time between Washington
| and Hawaii, dug up the old law of
hamehameha for some Of his legal
friends at the Capital and at least
the tenants of these later DAYS will
rise up and call the King blessed who
decreed:
Landlords. oppress not your ten
ants; condemn them not without
cause, while they continue to do well.
II land agent do thus to his tenants
and dispossess them without a crime
on their part, he shall pay a fathom
swine to his tenant and the tenant
shall not be dispossessed.
Inc penalty was a heavy one, for
even in the stockyards today IL would
De difhcult to find six-foot pig with
which to pay
(CopyriEht 1923
Evening star., 1925-04-19

1t begins to look very much as -
we would have a senatorial investiga-
tion next Winter of the so-called fish
incident at the White House. The
inquiry will be directed at finding out
just what the President actually did
mean when he seemed to imply that
grown-ups ought to stay away from
hook, line and sinker; that they ought
to stick to their job. remain at their
desks and leave such pastimes to the
forgotten days of their boyhood.
In casting aspersions at the noble
art of angling-if he did cast asper.
sions-the President treaded not alone
upon the toes of some highly regarded
members of his cabinet, but on some
rather sore toes up on Capitol Hill
among other things, it so hap
pened that Senator Borah of Idaho,
the most powerful man on the Re.
publican side of the Senate, had but
recently delivered very profound and
always learned address before the
lzaak walton League up in New
YORK City. Senator Borah appeared
TO go upon the theory that the fisher
man was a philosopher; that he was
ruminant, so to speak, meditatively
considering the state of the Nation
man, In short, to be addressed in a
serious, thoughtful frame of mind. In
any event Senator Borah treated the
members of the Izaak Walton League
with deep respect and this was a
great concession on his part for any
organization with the name league"
attacned 10 It's is anathema to the dis
unguished son of Idaho.
1t is no light thing in the present
state of strained relations for the
White House even mildly to seem To
cast asperslons upon anything a SEN
atof may do, whether ii be to sit nv
stream and angle himself or TO ad-
dress body of profound anglers on
the hlgher thought of the day. Conse-
quently an investigation would seem
to be in order. There have been in.
Vestlgatlons on far less provocation.
flshlng is funny thing. You are
either fisherman or you are NOT
Ihere is no midground You are a
bug or a total abstainer. Neither
pug nor total abstainer can under
stand the degradation of the other.
o1hand, one would say that Presi-
dent Coolidge has the ideal fishing
temperament - patient, painstaxinp
calm, cool and collected. He looks lie
an angler who would wait all day for
a bite. There unquestionably is a
mystery about the fishing business.
There are men of so and more TODAY
VINO are as fond of the sport as Tom
Sawyer and 'Huck" Finn ever were.
They will never get over it. They
are fishermen to their graves.
The Presidents intimation that
fishing is no mans sport-in so far as
he is concerned, at any rate-is ques.
toned, 1T would seem, by his very own
national conference on outdoor recrea-
ton, in which young Col. Theodore
Roosevelt represented the Chief Ex-
ecutive. That conference adopted a
resolution on fishing. It might have
been written by old Izaak Walton
himself. In any event, he would have
been proud Of the disciple who in
Evening star., 1925-04-19

Paris still sets the fashions, al
though some of her serious-minded
citizens contend that they do not re-
fleet conservative French taste, but
are set as traps to catch American
wealth.
Evening star., 1925-04-19

An issue of the Harvard Lampoon
was suppressed because the American
flag was not treated with proper dig
nifty. The effort to be merry becomes
more and more difficult, not to say
dangerous.
Evening star., 1925-04-19

Recognition of the Soviet govern.
ment might be accompanied by an un-
derstanding that Russia's attitude to-
ward visiting foreigners will never re-
sumo the uncompro omising exclusive
ness of the old days.
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Evening star., 1925-04-19

History repeats itself. this time in
the form Of translation as France
takes up that old L. s. A. struggle for
hard money against greenbacks.
Evening star., 1925-04-19

Advocates of plans for conciliation
between France and Germany are
afraid that the mention of Won Hin
denburg's name has spoiled the party.
Evening star., 1925-04-19
MOdesty.

home
II dunno as l am so popular" an
swered Senator Sorghum. Folks have
sort o. come to regard me as in
evitable.''
Evening star., 1925-04-19

The Stone Mountain statuary will
introduce the technique of the "to.be-
continued story into sculpture.
Evening star., 1925-04-19

The real mystery of so-called
mystery play is the impetuous readi.
ness OF people to pay good money at
the box office.
Evening star., 1925-04-19
A resignation rumor.

Jud Tunkins says freedom of speech
is a blessing until it is 80 promiscuous-
ly exercised that you can't hear what's
being said.
Evening star., 1925-04-19
Office Holding.

An Office now does not appeal to me.
1t contradicts my humor.
The most of what you get appears
to be
A resignation rumor.
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No Sense of Comedy.

No Sense Of Comedy.
Your boy Josh says he's going to
be movie actor"
"I heard 'im," answered Farmer
Corntossel, "but his appetites too
good fur such a career. Every time
we have pie, he insists on eatin' it in.
stid Of lettin' me throw 1t at him."
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Musically Barred.

Musically Barred.
/ cannot sing the old songs;
And I must let alone
The tunes of modern, bold songs.
I'm not a saxophone.
"De hardest work dar is said Uncle
Eben, 'is fussin' around to disgaisG
de fact dat you ain doin..sn1rr1
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Lions or
What?

carved the heads of lions, or whether
he Intentionally modified the leonine
phiZ with a touch of grotesqueness
usual in gargoyles. 1t places us in a
delicate position. We can give but
one opinion, we must satisfy both par
ties, and we always tell the truth.
These spouting beasts were good, con-
ventional lions in the beginning, but
have imbibed Potomac water till they
are turning into dragons"
Evening star., 1925-04-19

Comparison of the taxation rates and
levies in Washington with those in
other cities which has been necessary
in recent years to show. contrary TO
Evening star., 1925-04-19

Two ladies'" says The Star of April
13, 1875, who fell into a polite dis
pute yesterday while looking at the
north fountain of the Treasury and
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paper on THE Modern Woman in
Business"
Mrs. Alice w. Hunt of Providence
and lecturer on political subjects
will be guest of honor and speaker
Wednesday afternoon at the regular
meeting of the Indiana Wellesley
Club. at the home of Mrs. III. B.
Pike. 3012 n. Talbot st.
A banquet has been planned for
the members OF the cast of THE
Finger of Scorn," Thursday evening
at the Sphinx Arms. The play was
given by the St. Mary's Alumnae
Sunday afternoon. Honor guests
are Misses Violet Topmiller, Aleen
Betz. Marie Mergel. Lenora Wuest
and Messrs.; Mathew Samulovitz.
Eomund Bradley, Joseph Mock
wort. Raymond Hausser, Car!
Sucker and Gene Thale.
Miss Helen Seward invited guests
to prettily appointed kitchen
shower and bridge party Tuesday
evening in honor of Miss Dorothy
Rhoades, whose marriage to Loren
Hickman will take place Saturday.
Appointments of lavendar sweet
peas tide, with yellow tuIle. were to
be used
Miss Seward was to be assisted by
her mother, Mrs. O. A. Seward, and
other guests were to be Misses Mar
garet Kellenbach, Irene thurman.
Geneva Hungate, Mildred Kennedy.
Sarah Rodecker, Helen F'aker. and
Mesdames Russell Holler, Robert
Manifold, Albert Mueller. Richard
Johnson, and Leland Ridgeway.
The guest meeting of the indie
pendent Social Club was held Tues
day afternoon at the Spink-Arms.
with Mrs. Frank Shellhouse, hostess.
assisted by Mrs. Allen T. Fleming.
president.
Mrs. Fleming gave greetings. a
musical program was given which
included songs by Mrs. George Ray
by Penn; "TuSt A'Wearyin' For
You" by Carrie Jacobs Bond. A
novelty number was given by Mrs.
William r. Seibert, Mrs. Eckert.
Mrs. NJ. d. Didway. and Mrs. Grace
Linn Sandy. Mrs. Sandy and Mrs.
Didway played duet numbers,
Loves Messages. and Pearls. IS
Mrs. J. F.. Andrews told the story of
sweet Bonnie Brier Bush"
Spring flowers and carnations
were used in decorating. Special
guests were Mrs. Bert Gadd. presi-
dent Of the Local Council: Mrs. J.
T. Wheeler. president Of the Seventh
District Federation OF Clubs; Mrs.
David Ross. president Of the Ma
tional Indorsers of Thotoplays: Mrs.
]. D. Hoss. president Of the Day
| Nursery Association. and Mrs
Charles J. Buchanan. president of
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OFFICERS Are
INSTALLED FOR
LOCAL COUNCIL
Charles Lee of FIanner Guild
Talks on Work of
Organization.

Following installation of new Off
GERS in the Local Council of Women
Tuesday afternoon at the Lincoln,
Charles Lee, of the Flanner Guild,
spoke on work of the guild among
negroes. Mr.. Lee covered the sub
ject from three angles, health, eco
nomic status, and housing problems.
He attributed the great mortality
rate among negroes to improper and
unhealthful living accommodations.
Community interest should be
stimulated in any problems of
health, contagious and infectious
diseases, and the burden of relief
constituted in hospitals, social SER
vice work and like institutions"
said Mr.. Lee. ''Lacl of interest in
such vital problem may he expen.
sive in two ways" Mr.. Lee declared.
I'VE are liable to the contagion our
selves. and we are burdened with
the cost of upkeep of the families
whose bread winners are stricken"
Miss June Baker, accompanied by
Miss Mildred Casey, sang. Officers
installed were Mrs. Bert S. Gadd.
president: Mrs. Q. C. Lukenbill. first
vice president Mrs. M. e. Robbins.
recording secretary; Mrs. Carl Day,
corresponding secretary, and Mrs.
NJ. l.. Moon, treasurer.
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The other is just the opposite. She
determines never to be a gimme"
wife, taking everything she can get
her hands on and driving her hus-
band to ruin. So she goes to the
other extreme. She refuses even TO
live up to her husbands position.
Afraid of poverty, she skimps and
makes her husband skimp, until he
loses his inspiration.
AS the happy medium between
these two extremes, there is the
woman who is a helpmeet in the full
meaning of the word. She inspires
her husband to work to give her the
things she wants for both herself
and for him. But she does not insist
upon those things faster than he can
afford them.
She does not grumhle because sue
cess is slow. But she is not afraid
Of it when it arrives.
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f. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
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| was able TO continue my work
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Charged with being owner of the
liquor supply station, at the colored
carnival, at Tomlinson Hall Monday
night, Charles r. Tompkins, so, col
ored, 523 Minerva St., janitor at the
hall. was slated at the city prison
charged with operating blind tiger.
Police said Tompkins had a guam
tity Of liquor under the stage. from
which he filed bottles and dispensed
them through refreshment stands.
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Letter From Ruth Burke to
Leslie Prescott

Your letter was not unexpected,
dear Leslie, although many oe the
things in It surprised me. particu-
larly that beautiful poem by Karl
Whitney.
In the first place must ten you
that Walter had some important
business that came up Unexpectedly
in New York. His attorney tele-
phoned him and as we had been
separated so much lately. I decided
TO go with him. We only had thirty
minutse to make the train, I In.
tended to call you up this morning
but received your letter before we
were through breakfast and so con.
cluded that would write to you
instead.
wonder II you realize how much
more intimate you and I are with
each other on paper than we are
when we speak face to face. Some
way when read your letters see
an entirely different Leslie before
me. You pour out Yourself on pa
per so completely. There are none
OF the inhibitions which you seem
to have when we are talking.
AS you say. Leslie. II took me a
marry Walter. In the first place. /
had a queer leftover prejudice about
a divorced woman. marrying again.
I got the wrong idea. ron know.
thought marriage should be easy
and divorce hard and now I know
that It should be marriage that
should be hard and divorce easy.
know now that the prejudice
against divorce Is a silly convention
or unwritten law invented by ran
who thinks thus to surround ruar-
riage with moro Importance.
Marriage Is sacredly important,
dear, but not In the way most peo-
pie look at it, We are Just begin
ming TO find out, we are just begin
ming to realize that IL is worse to
live with n man one abhors than It
Is TO leave him and live with the
man one wants. l recognize this
dimly all that last year when l was
uiuIIlCu W marry I4llAn6L OHs bul
said to myself that a divorced wom-
an was disgraced woman, 1 did
not realize that any other partner
ship was not irrevocable. that in any
other partnership one was not ex.
pected to keep on with It. If one saw
that ono had made great mistake.
Divorce In the minds OF some peo-
pie Is an almost objectionable sin
and no one so separated should be
given another chance, And 80 I
lived OH and on with Harry allow
ing him to torture me every day
with his neglect and his attentions
to other women. I would not even
acknowledge to myself that ] was
more or less. in love with Walter,
Are you shocked at that?
Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Incl
TOMORROW. This letter contIn-
ued.
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Miss lola Marie Rice is chair
man of the music committee for
the dinner-dance to be given May
7 at the Indianapolis Athletic
Club by the Daughters Of Isabella.
Miss Anna Roth is a member Of
the decorations committee. Reser-
vations are being made. Tickets
may be secured from Miss Edna
Buennagel 525 State Life Bldg;
Miss Regina Meyer, 219 S. Me-
ridian ST.; Miss Catherine Hollo-
rem, 500 Fidelity Trust Bldg; Mrs.
B. T. Costello, sixth floor Occiden-
tai Bldg, and at 1904 n. Pennsyl-
vania St.
Committees are: Publicity,
Misses Eileen Leane, Maryann
Fitz Simmons and Clara Willett;
music, Miss Rice and Miss Mae
belle Gordon; decorations, Miss
Buennagel, Miss Dorothy Roehm
and Miss Roth; invitations, Miss
Julia Bailey.