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Evening star., 1925-05-03
F|SHERMEN'S FUND
FOR NETS GROWING
Col. Sheriff. Holds Sports
men Who Fail to Give for
Basin Suffer Hard Luck.

Followers OF Izaac Walton continue
10 send in their subscriptions to The
Evening Star fund to defray expenses
for the nets TO be placed across the
inlet and outlet of the Tidal Basin 10
keep all the mamma and papa and lit
tie baby basses in their own back
yard, where they can more readily
find the delectable diet of flies and
worms and minnows on the end Of
Washington fishing tackle rather than
wander off into the broad reaches Of
the Atlantic, where such succulenV
food is scarce.
The fund is growing very slowly but
surely.
The bass, large ones, ready to be
hooked. played. netted and eaten this
summer. have been donated by the
Bureau of Fisheries.
All the facilities for installing the
nets have been arranged for through
the office of Col. G. O. Sheriff., in
charge of the Tidal Basin fishing re
sort. The nets viii he installed. Col
Sheriff. says. and all that now re
mains is for the fund TO be completed
for their purchase.
Col Sheriff. holds the Washington
sportsmen and sportswomen who
plan to fish in the Basin, and there
are thousands of them, should do
nate and donate, at least a little,
willingly. He also adds that fisher
mans luck is a tickle affair. and hard
luck may follow in the trail of those
who pass up a chance to help.
Contributions received yesterday
Evening star., 1925-05-03
LEGION FUND MOUNTING.

NEW YORK, May 2-Ten States
have given their quotas in the Ameri-
can Legion's campaign for an endow-
Inent fund to finance work for disabled
veterans and orphans of men who
died in the war, National Commander
James A. Drain said here today, just
before leaving for Culver Ind, to at
tend a State meeting.
1--WE do not intend to displace any
of the institutions that already exist
for these purposes. but to supple
paent their work" Mr. Drain said.
I'VE have started the Legion En-
Giowment Fund, so that interest in it
can provide lasting support for this
V-orlS !"
Evening star., 1925-05-03
Missing Physician,
Secretary Work
VuccinuteS Self

Following the policy of Presi-
dent Coolidge, Secretary Work not
only was vaccinated yesterday as
a precaution against smallpox. but
he went his superior one better.
He vaccinated himself
Arrangements had been made for
the Interior Department medical
officer to vaccinate the Secretary,
but when he arrived the physician
had stepped out.
III vaccinate myself then" said
the Secretary, who was noted
physician before he became a cabi-
net member and served at one time
as president of the American
Medical Association.
Evening star., 1925-05-03
Traffic
DriUes President
Back to .Side,uulk

Some Washington traffic police
men apparently are no respecters
of persons.
On his usual late afternoon stroll
through the business section yes
terday President Coolidge at a busy
corner drew back to the curb for
safety after he had edged his way
into the middle of the street, as
street cars and automobiles
whiZzed by. At several crossings
the President was obliged to wait
a minute until the stream of traffic
had passed.
Occasionally a traffic officer. on
the lookout for the President, stops
traffic and gives him the right of
way.
Evening star., 1925-05-03
COLLEGE PAPERS RISQUE.
intercollegiate Conference Sees
Publication Curb Needed.

ITHACA, y. Y, May college
humorous papers are getting too
risque, and steps should be taken TO
curb them, it was decided today at the
third intercollegiate conference at Cor
nell University. There was discussion
over faculty censorship and the con
census seemed to be for informal cen
sorshop to he used only in emergen-
cieS.
Twenty-seven colleges and universi-
ties were represented at the confer
encs and there were 90 delegates. The
next conference will be held at Ann
Arbor, Mich, in 1927.
Ambition and love are the wings
nf
Evening star., 1925-05-03
Only Person Seriously Hurt Is One
Who Succeeded in Jumping.
Special Dispatch to The star.

Special Dispatch to The star.
NEWARK, y. J, May "a one
man public service trolley car. its
controls useless from a collision with
a truck At the top of West Kinney
street hill, made a backward run Of
three blocks at 80 miles an hour to
day. while passengers screamed and
fought to get out. 1t tore through
heavy wire fence and crashed against
an iron post in a school playground
Twenty passengers We're bruised
but Howard Hubbard. a health in
spector. who alone succeeded in
jumping, was the only one seriously
injured.
Laughing, weeping, joy and grief
ore fir-S- cgucirG
Evening star., 1925-05-03
Pitched Ball Kills PLAYER

PHILADELPHIA, May Flames
(BuO Bradley. pitcher for the Rein
hold professional base ball team of
this city, was hit in the stomach with
pitched ball during game today
and died shortly afterward.
Evening star., 1925-05-03

Knew What They Wanted" won the
81 900 prize for the best play. This
play, by the way, was one of those
investigated by the recently formed
play jury inquiring into the produc-
ton of immoral plays, and was exon
Grated.
Frederick L. PaXSon, for his his
tory of the American Frontier" won
81 900 for the best historical book of
the year, while NJ. A. De Wolfe Howe,
for his Barrett Wendell and His Let
ters," won 1000 for the best Amer
lean biography. Edwin Arlington
Robinson won $1,000 for the best book
of poems through his 'The Man Who
Died Twice"
Two scholarships in journalism for
pupils of the Columbia School of Jour
nalism and two scholarships in music
to enable students selected by the
judges to continue their studies
abroad were also awarded. Two re
porters each won 81 900 for their work
on the Chicago Daily News in the Leo
pold-Loeb murder investigation.
Ciuics.
Vice President Dawes, who has
gained at least one recruit from the
ranks of the Senate in his fight to
change the rules of that body, has
also been collecting some enemies
While Senator Butler of Massachu
setts has Joined the Vice President in
declaring that the rules Of the Senate
should be changed to prevent an or
ganized minority from holding up
business of interest to the majority
Senator Moses of New Hampshire and
Senator Fess of Ohio told newspaper
correspondents last week they doubt
ed If the Vice Presidents plans would
bear fruit. The views of Senator
Moses are interesting, because he is a
member of the rules committee of the
Senate, and, in addition, is president
pro tenn. of that body. "Our rules dc
not prevent the passage of legisla
ton which the people really want,
said Senator Moses. Senator Fess
said Mr.. Dawes plan would aid rather
than check the mania for new laws.
Evening star., 1925-05-03

A girl may speak a dozen different
languages and yet be unable to say
-aHesp to q young man in any of them.
Evening star., 1925-05-03
Arts and Letters.

The annual Pulitzer prizes in Jour
nalism and letters were awarded last
week, and promise to bring on the
usual controversy over the selections.
The interesting awards follow:
Edna Ferber, for her novel $50
Big" was awarded the 81 900 for the
best American novel published dur
ing the year which shall present the
wholesome atmosphere of American
life and the highest standards of
American manners and manhood
The $500 for the best cartoon pub.
Hshed during the year went to Rolin
Kirby Of the New York World.
Sidney Howard aur>ar Of They
Evening star., 1925-05-03
Current News Events
Summary of Important National, Foreign and
Local Affairs Specially Arranged for the
Convenience of Students
Economic.

'abstention" from labor of many
working men
Evening star., 1925-05-03
Science.

The annual meeting of the National
Academy Of Sciences, held here last
week, heard discussions ranging from
proof of the Einstein theory, disprooi
Of the same theory and the artistic
emotions Of opera singers to the
birthplace of bananas.
German chemists have perfected a
process for the manufacture of a
synthetic alcohol which threatens tc
put some American manufacturers out
of business. The new product, which
goes under the trade name OF
'nethynCl," resembles wood alcoho
very closely and sells for about one
half as much. American manufac
turers, 1t is stated, are changing over
their plants and taking steps to Sc
cure the, necessary rights for manu-
facture.
Evening star., 1925-05-03

Laughing, weeping, joy and grief
ore first cousins
Evening star., 1925-05-03

Inc enect OF the new tax law, which
brought about decided reduction in
income taxes, was shown last weel,
with the publication of the first off,
clal ngures on collection of income
tax during the first quarter of this
year. Income tax receipts were s67..
o4l ,S69.41 less for the first quarter
TINS year than for the same period
last year.
Evening star., 1925-05-03

England's restoration of the gold
standard will necessitate a like move
on the part of France, it is believed
by some French experts. This would
mean sacrifice on the part of France,
but the opinion is expressed that the
time. has come when it must be at
tempted.
Evening star., 1925-05-03
ONE-MAN CAR RUNS WILD.

Total
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-12-25
Eight Permits Revoked.

Traffic Director Eldridge gave the
great majority of the motorists in
Washington a suitable Christmas pres
ent yesterday when he revoked the
permits of eight drivers who have
shown themselves to be a menace to
the community.
Six revocations were for driving
while drunk; one for leaving the scene
of collision without making identity
known and the other for speeding
Every drivers permit revoked for
cause adds to the safety of the streets
of the National Capital, and every
operator who drives recklessly and
drunkenly should be dealt with in the
same manner. 1t is practically the
only protection that can be given for
the great body of conscientious and
careful drivers.
A lesson in the quick justice that
may be expected in the District courts
in the future was given recently when
habitual traffic offender, driving
without permit. was sent to Jail for
nineteen months. Automobile drivers
whose permits have been revoked and
are still to be seen operating automo.
biles about the city should take note
of this case. 1t may save them a
lengthy absence from their accus.
toned haunts.
Under Director Eldridge a rigid
check-up is being kept of these driv.
ers. Before lie took Office there were
many who openly boasted that thew
had no permit, and, although often
arrested, paid the $40 collateral with
sheer and went back to their cars.
With stiff penalties now being infiict.
ed, and with the police and the di.
rector doing all in their power to
break up the practice, steady improve.
ment in the traffic conduct of Wash.
ington motorists may be expected.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-12-25
A Welcome Christmas Gift.

A christmas gift" more welcome
than any other that could have been
received comes today in the announce
NelopinG changes in the anthracite
strike situation negotiations for the
resumption of mining will be opened
next Tuesday in New York. with
bright prospect of success.
To the miners in the hard-coal dis
trict this word comes as tidings of a
great blessing. To all who use coal
IL comes as promise of relief from an
anxiety that has been heavily weigh
ing upon them for many weeks. in
creasing daily as the Winter advances
Just what brought about the change
OF view on the part of the mine union
leaders to cause them to accede to the
proposition of a meeting without stipu-
lations as to methods of settlement
remains to be disclosed. The mayor
in the matter. The clergy Of the an
thracite district have undoubtedly
taken part in the case. The Governor
OF Pennsylvania has been for some
time seeking to bring the opposing
sides together. Public opinion has
been increasingly applied.
1t would appear that back Of the
rather sudden change of position by
the union chief regarding the resump
ton of negotiations is the fact that
the miners themselves are DESTROYS of
ending the strike on whatever terms
can be obtained through arbitration.
They have had their holiday" and
costly one it has proved. They have
been idle for nearly four months, and
their savings are all spent for neces-
sites. their strike doles have not suf-
feed to maintain them and their fami-
lies, their credit is exhausted and
they have come to realize that what
ever gain they may make in the pay
scale will hardly compensate them
for the loss Of a third Of years
wages.
So the prospect is today that peace
will come in the anthracite field very
shortly. OF course, the negotiations
may fail. Another tangle may de-
velop. But the long step has been
taken in the agreement to meet with
out stipulations or restrictions, and
il nature takes it's course" that meet
ing will probably result in a settle
ment. if not Immediately. surely soon.
So it is, indeed, merry Christmas"
in the hard-coal district and wherever
&c mead
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-12-25

ington Railway and Electric and the
Capital Traction use this stretch of
track, resulting in four-way turns at
Seventh street and Florida avenue.
Long conceded to be one Of the most
congested and hazardous intersections
in the city, elimination Of this dan.
gerous condition will benefit the many
thousands of motorists, pedestrians
and street car riders who attend
games at the park.
Congressional action is needed to ef-
feet the change, inasmuch as new
trackage must be laid, but 1t Is be-
lieved that Congress will readily &C.
auiesce in such an important and
beneficial measure. 1t has only been
in recent years that congestion mas
reached the acute stage at this point.
With Washington the winner of the
world championship in 1924 and the
pennant in 1925. the size OF the crowds
attending games at the stadium mas
increased. With a stadium seating
nearly So 900 persons, 1t has been a
difficult task for the police to handle
the huge throng with any degree or
dispatch. Passage of the Lihlpan
measure. however, will bring about
sorely needed relief. By the time
play BALI echoes out over the sta
dunn next Summer all Washingtonians
hope that access to the park will be
made easier by elimination of the
plan.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-12-25

growing for the American market be
extensively entered on in the Philip
pines and parts of tropical America.
This would take time, but the pros
pect of it might serve as a warming
10 foreign rubber combine that the
American nation cannot be held up.
Extension of rubber culture in the
Philippines and South America would
operate against planters combine to
practice extortion. The development
OF substitute for rubber, cheaper
than rubber and giving as good serv-
ice. is one of the worlds needs.
1t is reported that several English
newspapers and part of the English
public are amused at the American
protest against rubber prices, and are
making ungracious charges. There is
no reason for either side to become
heated on this question, but, if rubber
planters having a practical MONOPOLY
of rubber production are bent on en-
tortion. the United States, by far the
largest consumer of rubber among
nations, will find a way to protect
itself against the practice.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-12-25
Ball Park CONGESTION.

A bill designed to eliminate the dam
gerous congestion near the Washing
ton American League Ball Park will
soon be introduced in the House by
Representative Zihlman Of Maryland
chairman of the House District com.
mittee.
Sponsored by the District Commits
sioners, the measure will provide for
new railway trackage north on Ninth
street from Florida avenue. with an
extension between Seventh and Ninth,
SO that the new line can join the
regular trackage on Seventh street
north of the base ball park. Tracks
in front of the entrance to the park
will be eliminated and Capital Trac-
ton street cars will be the only users
of trackage between Seventh and Ninth
on Florida avenue.
At the present time both the Wash
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-12-25
Monuments to Heroes
Should Be Practical

To the Editor of The Star:
In the December 81 issue of
Your paper appears an article head
ed Legends Are Written in Sands
of Time" to which L lend my most
earnest and congratulatory assent
In this day of silly sayings en-
balmed in chronic folly such articles are
valuable. for although she but touched
the borderland of vital. fundamental
truths, yet her terse dissertation re-
garding the lack of wisdom displayed
in the attempt to procure a congress
sional appropriation in the amount of
$4,000 to erect a monument to the
Unknown Soldier was refreShingly sem
sible. When, upon referring to me-
MORALS to the dead, she said, Their
memorials will survive by merit, and
require no ostentatious display" she
succinctly stated a great philosophic
truth.
The whole scope and tenor of that
article indicated it's construction was
the work of clear thinking. The logi-
cal conclusion to be reached appears
to be that it's author would dissent
from the opinion of a certain class
of So-called thinkers who contend that
the rule laid down in the Latin axiom
De Mortuis nil nisi bonum'-say
nothing but good of the dead-should
Dc StIICtly lOliOWeu. Inc everlasting,
transcendent beauty of good character
possessed by the little old man who
lived around the corner" whose daily
walk the great Voltaire admitted he
could not understand, is a something
which, after the temple of clay has
crumpled in death, the pure soul, be-
fore its winged journey home, leaves
as memoir to this withered vale of
tears, and which shines amid the
splendor of gala day and Eliminates
the dark ravines of motaps ken.
Lessons are properly to be derived
from the lives of the departed. The
doctrine of contrast is necessarily in
Nolved but the merits and demerits
should be adjusted in love, the time,
place and purpose to be served con-
shutting vital factors.
I am quite sure the writer who SO
well enunciated a thoroughly sound
doctrine would concur in the judg-
ment that, in exceptionally merito-
rious cases, memorials consistent with
the life work of the departed, which
are capable of and likely to produce
good-for example. schools, endow.
ments, etc.-are compatible with cor
rect action. All non-productive monu.
ments are the acme of folly. You can
not aid the perpetuation of a good
thing with useless thing. Proper
memorials aid in that they more wise
ly disseminate the truths for which
the departed fought.
VIM. X: YATES.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-12-25
The Rubber Situation.

Secretary Hoover urges American
motorists to conserve tires as one
means of combating the foreign rub
Der combination, which, he says, is
taking 800. 600 900 more than a. fair
profit from the American public for
The present years rubber supply. Sec
rotary Hoover calls for public CO.
operation in saving tires, consumption
of which can be reduced twenty-five
per cent without decreasing the use
of cars a single mile Car owners
will be glad to cooperate in such
plan, but it will need some explana-
lion to show drivers how they can
save 25 per cent on tires without re-
ducing the number of miles they
travel.
One part of Secretary Hoover's de-
Tense against foreign extortion in rub
Der would be the legalizing of COM
bined American buying, and he hopes
that congressional investigation of
methods by which East India rubber
growers have put up prices will make
1t possible for American rubber buy
ers to combine their purchasing
through a single agency which could
counter the efforts of the producing
group. Americans will accept as
true Mr.. Heover's statement that the
extraordinary increase in rubber
prices is artificial and due to the legal
lied restriction placed on exports by
the British government two or three
years ago at the request of the East
India planters. There is congressional
investigation of the workings Of the
rubber combine as well ''as the con-
troll of coffee prices In Brazil and Of
other foreign monopolies q important
raw materials, together with the Ca
madam pulpwood situation
1t has been proposed that rubber
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-12-25
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

estate at the National Capital is an
integral part of the machinery of gov
eminent. And Mr.. Coolidge thinks
newspaper employers ought to keep
it we'll creased. The fraternity hopes
that the Presidents ardor for fatter
pay envelopes will not be cooled by
the fact that the latest addition to
the Washington journalistic colony
drives to and from his work in the
newest Rolls Royce to reach the Dis
trict of Columbia,
Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas
is the baby Republican member of the
foreign relations committee. To pre-
pare Tor hitherto unfamiliar duties.
Capper went abroad last Summer
lies enthusiastic over the results OBJ
tainable from even a cursory inspec-
ton of Old World conditions. Senator
Borah's friends are constantly urging
MIN to cross the seas. even for a fleet.
ing visit. The foreign relations chair
man has never left American soil. It
was Tennyson, or somebody, who once
poetlcaliy inquired: What knows he
or England who only England
knows?" The whole world is anxious
Tor a look at the colossus of Congress-
In common with a lot Of his fellow
countrymen, the world thinks Rorah
might have better opinion Of it IL he
once took the trouble to look il over.
Now and then he threatens to do so.
X y x x
Antonius Pip, Esthonian Minister
70 the United States since December
81, 1923, Is retiring from that post a
the end of the year. He returns to his
nome capital. Tallinn, better known
Dy us old name Of Reval, to become
Ioreisn minister of Esthonia. Mr..
PllpS principal mission at Washing
ton was to fund the Esthonian debt
OF Sl7,O0O,000, and now he will resume
the cabinet portfolio he has filled twice
before. Overseas governments are be-
ginning to look upon diplomatic sery-
Ice In America as an excellent train.
ing for foreign ministers. Baron Shi.
dehara became foreign secretary of
Japan Immediately after his ambassa
dorsh1p to the United States. Several
countries, especially Latin American
republics. promote statesmen to dinlo.
matte posts at Washington after
terms of service in their respective,
foreign offices. Baron Nathan. Ger
man Ambassador, was vice minister
of foreign affairs at Berlin just before
coming here in March, 1925.
X x =
To date the World Court debate in
the Senate has been dullish, as the
English would say. High spots" have
been few and far between. Fireworks
have been shot off not at all. Neither
Borah nor Walsh approached his nor.
NAL level of forensic skill. Probably
the fight" is dull because everybody
knows the President has the votes for
the protocol resolution whenever the
ayes and noes can be called for. The
opposition Is pretty definitely con.
WINGED it is battling for a hopelessly
lost cause. Another month or more
OF talk is in prospect. Perhaps some
OF the anti-court party's reservations,
which are still to be trotted out. will
stir up something resembling strife.
Copyright 1921