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Evening star., 1925-07-30
Our Barbarous Frontier.

When an American citizen is cap
tured by Chinese bandits, maltreated,
held for ransom, perhaps slain, the
people of this country express intense
Indignation at the outrage and the
Government moves to obtain repara.
ton. The region is described as un.
civilized and the people as barbarians.
The frontiers of barbarism, however,
are not so far removed as China. 1t
is not necessary for Americans to go
into that .distraught land. or to Africa
or into the wilds of Borneo, or into
sovietized Russia to find adventure.
They can get it right here at home
In the United States They have
sienty of opportunity for contact with
S'andttry in the very centers of Ameri.
can population.
Yesterday in Chicago occurred an
enterprise in brigandage that for
nerve and daring surpasses anything
that Chinese bandits have ever under
taken. Four men walked into one
Of the largest hotels in that, city in
the middle of. the afternoon carrying
sawed-off shotguns, in their hands.
They meandered through Hobbies and
Evening star., 1925-07-30
All Other States.
A Crusade Against Crime.

At a meeting in New York yester-
day, called by Judge Elbert H. Gary,
Il movement was initiated for the or
ganization of a nationwide crusade
for the suppression of crime. Gov.
Smith of New York was present and
pledged earnest support to the move
ment, and a proposal was made that
the matter be laid before President
Coolidge, with request for co-opera-
tion.
As a focal point about which the
organization would be based it is pro
posed to create a national crime COM
mission. which would do laboratory
work in the study of crime and Grim
inals and give law enforcement Of
f1cials the benefit of it's conclusions.
but the more important part of the
movement would be to arouse the pub
lie to an understanding Of the seri-
BUSINESS of the situation. 1t is realized
that so long as the public is indiffer-
ent to crime and the punishment of
criminals crime is bound to increase.
Not only is the public indifferent. but
it contributes directly to lawlessness
by a f1abby sympathy for and mawk-
ish sentimentality over criminals. The
criminal has become more of a hero
than an outcast. Prisons have lost
their terror. and the peril of the gal.
lows or the chair has become almost
negligible. Publicity and flowers, in.
stead of the dungeon and the hang.
mans moose, have become the lot of
murderers.
At the New York meeting there
was lack of agreement as to RESPONSE
bility for the fact that this country
is so infested with crime, some blam.
ing the police. some the courts and
others the prosecuting officers, but
there was no disagreement as to the
necessity Of doing something about it
Every good citizen ought to help
and one way good citizens can help is
by obeying the laws themselves and
refusing TO have traffic with law.
breakers. A very considerable pro.
portion of our crime is among boot
leggers and rum-runners. They mur
der each other, murder law officers
and frequently slaughter the innocent
bystander. all as result of keen com
petition for the patronage of the
good citizen
Evening star., 1925-07-30
A Bold Rum Runner,

A steamship slipped through the
narrows into New York Bay the
other day, and, without pausing to
observe the usual formalities of port
entrance, passed up into the. Hudson.
where she dropped anchor" A lighter
quickly swung alongside and the
cargo of the ship was transferred.
This unusual proceeding naturally
attracted attention and customs au-
thorities got busy and visited the
ship. They held a preliminary court
proceeding on board as the craft was
being towed down to the barge office,
and they reached the conclusion, sup
ported by frank statements of the
commander, that the cargo that had
been lightered was one of wet
goods" The ship, had been chartered
for a run from somewhere in the
neighborhood of New Orleans to New
York and had taken on. her cargo in
the Gulf from another vessel. The
only evidences of her traffic were IS
bottles of various liquors. The ship
was held, though the liquor had been
apparently all removed.
Not satisfied with the first exam
ination of the craft, customs agents
decided upon more thorough
search and yesterday they found hid
den under several tons of coal in the
after hold nearly 3,o00 cases of
liquor and champagne. They ALSO dig
covered that the officers of the ship
Evening star., 1925-07-30
Mrs. La Follette's Refusal.

Mrs La Toilette has declared her
self out of the race for the senatorial
seat made vacant by the death of her
husband. Robert Marion La Toilette.
Her statement was made in reply to
various women's organizations which
have urged her to run, on the theory
that now was the time and opportu-
the United States.
Two reasons were given by Mrs. La
Toilette for her declination to become
a candidate. The first was that 'it
would be against nature for me to
undertake the responsibilities of po-
litical leadership" The second was
! that she plans to write her husband s
biography from a wealth of material
and notes prepared by Senator La Fol
lette, which he had intended to use to
bring his autobiography up to date,
from the year 1912. This work, she
declared, would be a greater service
to the progressive cause than her cleo
ton to the Senate.
To women anxious to see one of
their sex elected to the Senate. Mrs.
La Follette's announcement doubtless
will be disappointing. for had she de-
termined to run the people of Wiscon.
sin, devoted to Senator La Toilette,
would probably have elected her. But
Mrs. La Toilette has remained true to
herself in making her decision, and
the reasons she has given appear ex.
cellent. She is anxious to see the
cause of progressivism led by her
| husband continue to advance. Her
belief is that his successor should be
| a man physically and mentally able
to carry on. an arduous fight for the
progressives. That she should enter
| the Senate merely because she is a
| woman, and because she happens to
I be the widow OF the man who has held
| Wisconsin in the hollow of his hand
| politically for a generation. does not
| appeal to her.
Women have attained the ballot In
| this country. They are on a political
| equality with men. They should un
| derstand that woman should not be
elected to the Senate, or to any other
| office, merely because she is a woman
and not man. They should under
stand that when a woman is elected to
Office it is because she is particularly
fitted for that Office and is capable OF
giving more efficient service than her
| opponents-men or women. When
such a woman announces her candi
dacy for the Senate she should be
elected.
OF the women elected to the House
of Representatives so far, nearly al
of them have been chosen to succeed
dead husbands or fathers, and they
have not been reelected. It is a kind
of nepotism made possible by the sen
timentality of the American people
Mrs. La Toilette has wisely turned
her face against 1t.
Evening star., 1925-07-30
"Stop! ="

At numerous points about the city
the word stop" is painted in large
white letters upon the pavements.
That four-letter word means stop"
and not "slacken." 1t means that all
drivers must bring their machines to
a dead halt and not merely slip over
the crossings at reduced speed.
The purpose of this new rule, SO
plainly denoted in signs that all can
read-unless they are illiterate, and
such should not be permitted to drive
motors-is to prevent collisions at
street intersections. 1t is for the pro-
lection of all street users. If 1t is
obeyed as it should be it will lessen
the number of crossing accidents to a
negligible point. There may be some
bumps through misunderstanding but
when machines have been brought to
dead halt they cannot be sent across
the intersections at dangerous PAGES.
Inc damage caused by such nlishaps
as may occur will be slight.
This rule has not been devised to
annoy the motorists of the District or
to check the flow of traffic. It's intent
is to protect all street users and to
permit a safe flow of vehicles. It
should be so accepted and observed In
spirit as we'll as in accordance with
the letter of the word that now con.
fronts the drivers of Washington.
Stop" means nothing else but.
Evening star., 1925-07-30

halls to the offices of the hotel. where
they held up the entire Office force
at the point of their guns and scooped
up several thousand dollars.
1t is at this point that the tale
differentiates. Had these been Chinese
bandits they would have escaped with
their loot, perhaps with a few
hostages. 1t so happened. however,
that one of the girls of the Office
force-a half-drunken bandit had
been marching the squad back and
forth between rooms while the robbery
was in progress-slammed a door in
the escorts face, and that started a
panic. The thieves ran after doing
some shooting, and a pursuit was
started. The net result of the whole
affair, at the end of a few minutes
which compassed it, was the death of
three men. two of them members of
the capture of third brigand. The
fourth escaped.
Daylight hold-ups are by no means
in this country nowadays.
The Chicago affair just reported is
simply a little more sensational than
many that have preceded. The use
of the shotguns, weapons that cannot
be well concealed, marks an advance
in boldness In criminal procedure.
That 1t was an inside job" as shown
by the accuracy of the movements of
the thieves, in no wise lessons its bold
ness. II will be interesting to know
how a squad of four men could walk
through the corridors OF big metro
politan hotel, filled with people, car
rying weapons in their hands, without
attracting attention. Has crime be-
come so commonplace in Chicago that
this spectacle goes unnoticed?
Evening star., 1925-07-30

had no license papers and there We're
no ships articles. Now "a people
are In custody and the ship Is held
under a number of charges, and
whether the first cargo yeas, success
fully landed or not. consignment of
wet goods worth several hundred
thousand dollars is confiscated.
The other day in New York large
number of pending liquor charges
were heard in special court session
and the defendants were cleared out
with more or less nominal fines. This
present case. however, should not be
treated in such a summary manner.
The ship is certainly forfeit. and
every man on her should so to prison
for long term. Even ii by the land
ing of part of the consignment a
large profit was made, maximum
sentence would hardly be compensat-
ed for by the gains of this piratical
enterprise.
Evening star., 1925-07-30
Georgia Refuses to Ban Science.

The House of Representatives of the
State of Georgia has voted down over
whelmingly a proposal to prohibit the
teaching of evolution in the common
schools. The fundamentalists of the
Cracker State, it appears, have met
check.
The action of the Georgia legislators
is particularly wise. since the whole
matter of teaching or not teaching evo-
luton is now before the courts, and
vii! finally be determined by the Su-
preme Court OF the United States.
The questions involved relate to the
freedom to believe and to teach, very
vital questions to any people, and to
the people of the United States, which
was conceived and created in the de-
sire for freedom.
The report of the debate in the
Georgia Legislature shows the father
of the proposed anti-evolution amend
ment as saying: II don't want any
smart Alec trying to teach my child
that man descended from a tadpole or
monkey. When a man gets so smart
that he can't believe the Bible, he is
just too smart to know that he is q
fool"
Yet Mr.. Lindsay must know that
many men rated smart" able and
even eminent in church affairs have
differed strongly about the true mean.
ing of parts Of the Bible. He must
know that men who have gained high
regulations as scientists and have
done much for mankind continue to
believe in the Christian God, and that
they reconcile scientific truths with
the Scriptures. Intolerance, in the
long run, meets defeat. Since the
earliest days of man, he has striven to
gain moro and more knowledge, to
know the truth. Fanatics, some of
them religious. have sought to check
this cropping for enlightenment. But
while the cause of progress in the past
| has been checked, it has been only for
| a time.
The failure of the Georgia House of
Representatives to approve the ban on
! teaching evolution is an indication
that the drive to make an issue of
fundamentalism in politics is not likely
| to be successful
Evening star., 1925-07-30
Why Bryan Resigned
From the Cabinet

To the Editor Of The Star:
noticed an Associated Press dis.
patch from Portland. Greg, Wednes-
day morning containing an interview
with Milton A. Miller, purporting to
give the reason why Bryan resigned
from the cabinet. The interview Is
partially true, but contains some in
accuracies. Before the resignation had
become public 1 called on Mr.. Bryan
at his home on Clifton street, and he
confided to me the real reason for his
resignation. AS Mr.. Miller states, it
was because of the note to Amba ssador
Dumba of Austria, and not directly
because of the German note. Quoting
an interview with Bryan, Mr.. Miller
SAYS: las the President did not give
out why rendered my resignation, l
did not think that I should do so.
The world has the idea that l resigned
on account of the Presidents note to
Germany. Let It think So"
The facts are these, as related to me
by Mr.. Bryan: Because of the sinking
of an American vessel by Austria, as
Secretary of State, he was compelled
to take cogniza nee of 1t, and wrote a
peaceful note of protest to Ambas-
sador Dumba When it was submitted
to President Wilson he insisted that a
warlike rote be sent, and he made GER
tain interlineations in 1t which Bryan
refused to sign, and rendered his resig-
nation. Since Wilson was a candidate
for denomination and not knowing
what effect Bryan's resignation would
have on the denomination and re-elec-
ton, he sent Secretary McAdoo. his
wife CWilson's daughter) and Tumulty
to see Bryan and urge him to with.
draw his resignation, stating that he
had sent the original peace note which
Bryan had signed. / was with Bryan
at his home on Clifton street at the
time. He absolutely refused to with.
draw his resignation, and left those
mentioned standing at the foot of the
stairway, and he went upstairs, clos.
ing the incident.
1t might be added that there were
| other easons why Bryan resigned
| but that he did not feel justified In
leaving the cabinet because of them
These reasons related to Federal
patronage. The administration had
promised to appoint certain friends of
Bryan to political Office. When Will
son decided to seek a denomination he
| turned down all Of Bryan's recon.
mendations and built up a political
! machine of Federal office holders of
his own choosing to make his renomi.
| nation certain. w. j. .DWYER.
Evening star., 1925-07-30
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

Why do people put off buying the
little things that would make life more
enjoyable?
know a couple who have been try
ing to get a 10-cent tea strainer for
the past year. but never seem to be
able to get round to it,
/ know woman with fine diamonds
on her fingers who declared that she
could not afford to pay 35 cents for
some bug powder" to rid her kitchen
of reaches. s.-.-. ,.---..4
Hundreds of thousands of men shine
their shoes on scraps and tags of
rags, instead of purchasing a decent
piece OF flannel.
Some even have been driven to the
necessity Qet 1t be told bravely) of
using the towel to put a polish on
their shoes, because they never could
induce any one to buy them real
shoe-shining rag. such as the boot.
blacks have.
II you are ever in shoe shine
parlor' and see one of the customers
casting wistful glances at the strip of
fiannel being slapped upon his shoes,
know that the gentleman lacks such
an article at home.
one OF my acquaintances recently
lamented. when meeting friend on
the street, that he had never had a
shine his shoes in all the days of his
life, and never expected to own one.
Several days later a messenger
brought him a neat packet. inside of
which he discovered d very capable
looking piece of white flannel.
he would have preferred it gray, but
remembered the old adage, "Beggars
cannot be choosers. Accordingly, he
mentally thanked the unknown giver,
NrnnHnr}nO
Several days later another neatly.
wrapped parcel arrived. The gentle.
man poked it gingerly. Once in his
lie he had been the victim of a joke
along these lines, since when the
ghost of that exploit had haunted
him.
The parcel had a most suspicious
look.
Should he open it boldly, he thought
or tackle 1t with discretion, long
heralded as the better part of valor
The too-neat appearance of the
parcel decided him in favor of the
latter method. First he poked the
package. but, as nothing rustled in
1t, decided to summon up courage.
Holding the thing down carefully
With his left hand, he tore open one
va AASa' <AS tiOkLI1S pOppEu Odt. ne
proceeded to remove more paper, and
as he did SO, saw what was In the
package.
1t was another shoe rag
DE luxe edition for your Sunday
shoes" read a penciled memoranda
pinned to the strip of white lambs
wool.
Now, who on earth could have
sent me this?" inquired the victim
to himself. Who have / talked tc
about not having a shoe-shining rag7'
Much cudgeling of his brain re
suited in no progress, despite the fact
that such fiagellation of the menta
faculties is normally supposed tc
result happily for the f1agellant.
Several days later he met a friend
in the elevator.
Hello. Bill" he said.
Hello" said the other. How die
you like those shoe rags"
''Oh. no! So you are the bird
Great stuff, my boy-and thank
you. too" E.
Most households think nothing al
Evening star., 1925-07-30

all nowadays OF buying car, or
fine radio receiving set. but think 1t
gross extravaganza to buy dollars
worth of shoestrings at one time.
Take shoestrings.
What happens in the average home
when somebody breaks a shoestring?
You know as we'll as | do!
The unlucky one Is up against 1t. :"
Usually this happens when one Is in
hurry. Some way or other Fate
| invariably reserves the breaking Of
shoestrings for the times when q man
is in hurry.
| Even in this matter, however. there
has been. warning.
Every man has premonition when
his shoestring is going to break.
II had better buy some new shoe
! strings" he tells himself.
But he never does II. We never do!
Life glides away, and our shoestrtngs
get'~thinner and thinner, and then
Plop!
"Ive broke my shoestring! we roar,
and upstairs floats cool voice:
Il told you to get some shoestrings
the other day"
for emergencies? Here am, late for
| the Office, and there Is not darn
shoestring in the house!
You'd think we didn't have cent
to our name. Now what will | do? 1t
is too short to tie together. Guess
will have to use some string
This threat usually produces re.
suits. An old pair of laces is fished
out from an old pair of shoes, to do
duty until 1t shall break in its turn.
The question is: Why doesn't the
| average family stock up on shoe
| strings?
Why must there be a wild scramble
| to find an old one every time man
| breaks a shoe lace?
One would think shoestrings cost a
| thousand dollars each, the way the
| average family resents investing In
| them. You know shoe laces will
break. You know that time flies, or
at least have been told 1t often
fenough.
Yet the next time the thing hap
pens all the rest of this merry drama
will take place, too, and you will go
down town with a lace knotted to-
| gether, or with white string showing
gayly in your black shoes.
How about that dustpan the family
| has been talking about for the past
| five. years?
| There is no legitimate reason in the
world for having failed to buy that
handy article. Literally tens of thou
sands of dustpans have flung them.
selves in your face during those five
years, clamoring to be purchased, but
| you steeled your heart against them
and bought a pound of candy instead.
A monkey wrench is another article
the average family has on its list to
| buy some time. One hates like sin to
loosen up" for a monkey wrench, SO
We go to the theater instead, a much
less expensive form of amusement
than buying monkey wrenches.
In brief, inertia has US in its grip
We have gotten along very well to
date without a tea strainer, l guess
we can wiggle along a while longer.
We survive without some bug pow
der, let us leave the reaches in peace
| for a while longer.
We have managed to shine our shoes
| some way, why go to the trouble OF
making the job easier and more expe
ditious?
Our sfIoestrings will break. we know
| it-but we should worry!
Evening star., 1925-07-30
Ford's Hardest Job Ahead
In Revival of Old Dances

Henry Ford has tackled the hardest
job of his career in his campaign
against jazz, the country believes, as
1t views the establishment OF his
school for teaching the old dances.
Mr. Ford declares that the steps of
a former generation ARE in the blood
of the American people and will never
die" but. despite the acknowledged
beauty of the old dances, royal
battle is expected with King Jazz.
The Pittsburgh Sun feels that while
"Mr. Ford may not be as successful
in selling the old dances to this gen.
Grafton as he has been in selling mo-
tor cars" at any rate "he will have
the satisfaction of knowing that he
is contributing something Of gentflity
to temper the age of jazz, and he will
have a mighty good time" The idea
appeals to the Springfield (Mass.)
Union as one more step in the motor
kings career as a. s"standardizer. AS
chief of modern industrialists. he has
demonstrated what standardization
can do in modern society" and the
Union explains: that thanks to the
influence of his automobiles, an amaz-
ingly large number of persons, In the
United States ride in the same sort
of conveyance, go to the same sort
of towns, buy the same sort OF ne.
cessities, live in the same sort OF
houses, wear the same sort of clothes,
eat the same sort of food and indulge
in the same sort of amusements.
The Springfield paper concludes that
IF, now. he would have us dance the
same sort of dances, he may have
his way"
+ Analysing the situation, the St.
Joseph News-Press- suggests: THE
modern dances, when well performed,
have a kind of zip and pep. as the
boys would say, that makes them
very fascinating. Yet many of the
dancers go through with them in a
roughhouse way, in which the old
idea of the poetry of motion is all left
out. II people are interested in dane
ing as beautiful art-and some day
I they will return to that idea-they
will revive many of the graceful old
figures" Viewing the matter impair
TALLY, however. the Yonkers Herald.
while conceding that ''multitudes will
readily agree that the old-fashioned
dances are more beautiful" asserts
that 1.-The tendency is not in the di-
rection Of the formal, stately dances
of yore.
"it is a fine and commeudable en-
terprise" is the unqualified indorse-
| ment of the Morgantown New Do
| minion. Whatever may be said for
| the modern dancing 1t is certainly
| much less pretty than the old round
Land square dances; also less social
and probably less moral" The pos
sibility that the old dances might be
even more attractive to youth appeals
to the Syracuse Herald, which sees
! nothing but slide and shuf7se" in the
modern style, and remarks: IF it's
youthful votaries could gaze on a
Evening star., 1925-07-30
Denies Hoover Compared
British Debt and Rubber
To the Editor Of rhe star.


In The Washington Star of July 20
appears an article by Norbert Lyons,
secretary of the Philippine Chamber
OF Commerce, which begins as follows:
Secretary Hoover recently an
nounced that British control over the
rubber industry in the Middle East
will enable Great Britain to repay her
war debt to us out of the enhanced
profits thus accruing to her"
The Department Of Commerce has
issued an exhaustive report on the
subject of rubber in the Middle East,
but the report made no reference to
the British debt and neither Secretary
Hoover nor any other official of the
Department of Commerce referred in
any way to the British debt in con-
nection with the subject of rubber.
The comparison between increased
profits to British rubber growers and
the British debt to the United States
was cited by one of the press associa-
tions on it's own responsibility.
WILLIAM s. YELVERTON,
Assistant to Mr. Hoover.