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Evening star., 1925-01-09
BUTTER LOWER TODAY.

CHICAGO, January 0. - Butter
Lower: creamery extras, 40: stand
ards. 80 Il; extra firsts, 3s14 a3e; firsts,
36a37; seconds. 32a34iz
Eggs-Slower; receipts, 3,053 cases;
hrsts, So; ordinary firsts, 45a50; re-
frigerator extras, IL: frsts, 431a.
Evening star., 1925-01-09
STERLING EXCHANGE
8 CENTS FROM PAR
Norwegian Kronen Also Scores
New Mark in Advance
Today.
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, January s-Sterling
exchan se today advanced another step
towards par, the der-and rate at the
opening of the local foreign exchange
market moving up almost a cent to
4.Is Z, within about cents of the
gold parity basis
Norwegian kronen also advanced.
touching the highest point since 1923
at 1881
Evening star., 1925-01-09
Your Banker Knows.

When in doubt about a security
consult your banker. 1t is equally
as much his interest as yours to pro
tect your savings. You trust him
with your deposits-why not trust
him with your investment problems: ::
Evening star., 1925-01-09

NEW YORK, January e.-Follow-
ing Is an official list of bonds and
stocks traded in on the New York
Curb market today:
Evening star., 1925-01-09

Saxony shipped more than T5. 900 vo-
Inns. at an average price Of $3.50, to the
United States in 1924.
Evening star., 1925-01-09
TRUST COMPANY.
SAVINGS BANK.
FIRE INSURANCE.
TITLE INSURANCE.
MISCELLANEOUS.
PUBLIC UTILITY.

Columbia Title: -..-..---'.. ,1ts
nal Estate Title. 1o1
Evening star., 1925-09-06
Going UP!

New York's latest building project
promises to be a veritable self-con.
tanned city. A wealthy realtor of Man
haitian announces that he proposes
to erect a structure of 65 stories, 500
feet in height, s feet higher than the
Woolworth Building, which will con-
tain a 4,500-room hotel with dining
room seating 1000 persons, a church,
bank, stores, a hospital and IL
roof gardens. It will thus embrace
all the needs of man. A person can
subsist and be supplied with all physi-
cal requirements and spiritual guild
ance without leaving the walls. Its
population when fully occupied will be
at least 5000 people. This building is
TO be erected as an expression of
gratitude for the recovery from a dan
gerous illness of the projectors son.
Ten per cent of the profits of the en-
terprise will be devoted to missionary
work. The son himself, who has fully
recovered, is now studying to become
q medical missionary. The building
will be virtually independent of all
outside service, as within it will be
generated the power for illumination,
refrigeration and elevation. Nothing
quite like 1t has ever been proposed,
even in that city of extraordinary
structures. 1t will not add to the
towering sky line of the lower middle
Manhattan, the site being located on
One Hundred and Twenty
street, in what used to be generally
known as Harlem. Thus does the big
town grow upward.
Evening star., 1925-09-06

tages in warfare. They can carry large
crews, can. indeed, probably in their
later development, be used for trans
port. They command a wide range of
vision for observation and scouting.
They have tremendous power Of at
tack in bombing, with an extensive
radius of action. However, they Of
fer a wide mark for enemy missiles
and their chief means of defense lies
in their ability TO attain and maintain
high attitudes in which an attacking
plane force is subjected to extreme
hazard.
But the dirigible is susceptible to
the menace of the storm. Its very size
and consequent superiority in range
and altitude attainment is its chief
weakness. The more it is developed
in dimensions the greater the risk of
loss through air stress.
Many planes can be constructed for
the cost Of one dirigible. 1t is con-
therefore, poor investment as COM
pared with the cheaper, more mobile
and, in certain conditions, more eff
cient heavier-than-air machines. Yet
all the nations that are developing
their aviation defense equipments are
clinging to the dirigibles as at least
a supplement. if not major item.
In the use of helium the United
States has a marked advantage over
other nations in dirigible construction
and use. For the source of that gas
lies mainly, if not exclusively, within
this country. This fact alone would
seem to warrant, if not compel, the
continued use and development of the
dirigible in preparation for defensive
operations, which may be required
hereafter.
1t is possible that the dirigible of the
future, perhaps the Shenandoah's sue
cessor. will be stout enough to with
stand the severest storm stresses
Study of this disaster is, therefore,
imperative to determine precisely the
cause of the collapse, and hence the
cure of any weakness that contributed
to it. This is a research quite apart
from determination of responsibility
for exposing the Shenandoah to the
chance of encounter with dangerous
storm.
Evening star., 1925-09-06
MEN AND AFFAIRS
BY ROBERT T. SMALL.

United States Treasury officials, as
well as internal revenue collectors
the country over, have made no
secret the past few days of their
fears as to the effect of the publicity
Of the income tax returns.
One of the greatest fears is that
the returns may induce to fraud or
to a general attempt to cover up"
on the part of thousands of persons
who feel they are bearing an unjust
burden when compared to rich
neighbors who have managed so to
invest their money or so to manipu-
late their returns as to contribute
virtually nothing to the support of
the Government and to paying the
cost of Americas participation in the
World War.
1t is disconeerting, to say the
least, for d man who has struggled
hard to make $4,000 or $4,000 a year
to find that he has contributed what
to him is a rather large sum and
that some nationally known million
aires are to be found on the mon
taxable" list, not paying l penny of
income tax to that dear Uncle Sam.
1t is just as disconcerting for the
man with an income of $4,000 a
year to find that he has paid an
equal sum to a Midwest statesman
millionaire. who is known to be
worth between S45.000,000 and $50.-
600 900.
1t is easy enough to explain these
discrepancies. The man at $4,000
a year receives a salary. The man
with the $50,000,000 invests his money
in tax-exempt securities and, although
his income may actually amout to
100000 a year, he does not pay
anything on that sum to the Treas
ury. The salaried man must pay
because he works and his money is
earned. The multi millionaire does
not have to pay-because his money
is unearned.
AS said before, this sort of thing
is easy to explain, but it is mighty
difficult to justify to the man in the
street. The tax-exempt securities
are, generally speaking, State, county
and city bonds. The interest that
they earn is made tax exempt as
an inducement for capitalists to in
vest in them. Andrew Mellon, Sec
retary of the Treasury, is against the
tax exempt securities and his ancient
feud with Senator Couzens of Mich
igan on tax matters has been based
largely on this issue.
What the Treasury officials and
collectors fear is that the average tax
payer will argue to himself that If
the really rich men find ways and
means to evade paying their proper
proportion of the income tax he is
justified in doing all he can to write
down his own returns and TO charge
off" every possible penny. This does
not imply the belief that any tax
payer is willfully dishonest, but the
returns published certainly indicate
there are means in which the wealthy
can escape, while the man in the
street is lined up against the wall and
shot at sunrise; shot squarely in the
pocketbook.
X X X
Out of the mountains and from the
lakes and seashores are coming the
usual run of Summer vacation stories.
Here is one perhaps a little out of
the ordinary and little better than
the average run. 1t is the story of a
mother and two sons who were rough
ing it in mountain shack. The two
Evening star., 1925-09-06
Bail Bonds and Crime.

According to the report of COM
mittee of the National jewelers. Board
Of Trade which recently investigated
crime in this country as affecting that
line of business, of each AZ criminals
convicted Al escaped punishment. This
finding was based upon testimony
given by Police Commissioners Enright
of New York, who has promised active
cooperation with an intensive drive
by the jewelers. against crime for the
protection of the lives and property of
the members of the organization.
In his statement before the jewelers.
Commissioner Enright said
that 134 men released on bail in New
York City in 1924 committed addi-
tional crimes while at liberty under
bail bond, and during the first five
months of the present year additional
crimes were committed by 169 men
at liberty under bail.
The other day in Chicago q Judge
Evening star., 1925-09-06
Smithsonian Does Not
Forecast Weather
To the Editor of The Star:

My attention is drawn to statements
by your Paris correspondent, in your
issue of August 80, to the effect that
the Smithsonian Institution predicts
exceptional weather in the years 1926
and 1927. This is erroneous. So far
as know no one while connected with
the Smithsonian Institution has made
any public forecasts of weather con.
ditions whatsoever since the Weather
Bureau was established, many years
ago.
Not only this. but, although we are
interested in our private experiments
to test the possible usefulness of the
variation of the sun as an hitherto un-
recognized factor in foreeasting de.
partures from normal temperatures,
there is no one connected with the
Smithsonian Institution who knows of
any sound basis for such forecasts a
season or more In advance.
II the prognostications of others for
the years 1926 and 1927 should be
verified. the Smithsonian Institution
could claim no part whatever in a fore.
knowledge of the causes of unusually
cold weather. G. G. ABBOT,
Acting Secretary,
Evening star., 1925-09-06
The Bathing Beach Need.

The survey Of the Potomac River
water by the Public Health Service,
which has resulted in a report show,
ing a heavy degree of pollution, was
undertaken for the purpose of ascer-
tanning whether it would be safe to
establish public bathing beaches on
the banks of the Potomac or the Ana
costa River to replace those in the
Tidal Basin which Congress ordered
closed. AT the time of the move to
prevent the construction of beach
for colored persons in the Tidal Ba sin,
which was needed. il was proposed
that beaches for both white and col
ored people should be located on the
river banks. Particular sites were
suggested. 1t was then questioned
whether the waters of the rivers were
sufficiently free of harmful contents
to permit bathing. 1t was known that
sewage flowed into the Potomac and
the Anacostia above the proposed
bathing places,
1t is now evident from the Public
Health Service report that bathing
beaches cannot be established on the
river banks unless a complete system
of sewage disposal in the District and
in the States of Maryland and Vir-
ginia, costing an enormous sum of
money, is developed. Even if such a
sewage disposal system were imme-
diately undertaken to free the Poto-
mac waters from pollution, it would
take several years to complete it.
During this past Summer the need
of public bathing beaches has been
felt. Many lives have been lost be-
this kind. Is Washington to remain
indefinitely without safe and sanitary
public bathing facilities?
1t has been proposed that bathing
pools be established in East Potomac
Park. These pools, it is clear from
the report just published, could not be
safely supplied with water from the
river. 1t would be necessary to use
the filtered water from the city's
reservoirs. There would, therefore, be
no advantage in locating the pools in
Potomac Park. They might be just as
well placed elsewhere.
This question demands thorough
study by the Commissioners and by
Congress when the matter is laid be-
fore that body. 1t should not be treat
ed as negligible, as something that
can be settled any time later.
Lives are at stake. Another season is
certain to cost heavily, if bathing
facilities are not provided. in accidents
and in deaths from disease through
bathing in the river water at any
place.
1t may be possible to make the
Potomac water clean. 1t is certainly
possible to provide safe and sanitary
bathing beaches or pools. Both should
be undertaken, but while waiting for
the former the latter should surely
be provided.
Evening star., 1925-09-06

sons had a pal visiting them. In the
shack, however. there were chairs ~
the dning room for only three. This
meant that one of the boys had TO sit
on a box at meal time.
The mother busy in the kitchen one
day, heard a terrible commotion in
the dining room. She rushed in to
fnd the three boys in a free-for-all
fight. trying to determine the ques-
ton as TO which one of them at the
next meal would have to sit on the
box. The mother stopped the hostiI-
ity, and, being of a religious turn of
mind, began to lecture the boys on
the errors of their ways and the par
ticular evils of the selfishness which
had engendered the scrap.
The fond mother concluded by tell
ing the lads something Of the story of
Jesus, and said that when He was
their age the little Jesus would have
practiced sef-denial and would glad
ly have accepted the box as His chair
The boys seemed much impressed, and
the mother returned TO her work
Scarcely two minutes had passed,
however, when the battle was re
newed. The mother sighed deeply
Evidently her little sermon had not
been taken to heart. But when she
entered the dining room this time
she found the fight proceeding along
entirely different lines
The three boys were fighting over
which one of them should emulate
the little Jesus.
While this country and much of
Europe are going crazy over the pep
piest of all the modern Jazz dances,
the Charleston" there still persists
much speculation as to where the in
sidious thing got its birth and being.
A Long Island lady, with all the
modesty inherent in a New Yorker. or
near New Yorker, avows that her
daughter some two years ago, watch
ing some negroes dancing on the
Charleston water front, caught the
tempo of the new dance and intro
duced it to New York City. She re
Gently suggested that the City of
Charleston, S. c., should present her
daughter with some recognition Of her
services in bringing so much fame
to the ancient municipality.
The Charleston Evening Post, edited
by Mr.. Thomas r. Waring, has in
vestigated the claim and discovers
that the dance is generally supposed
to have come into the dance halls Of
Broadway from the negro cafes of
Harlem and to have been brought
to those resorts by the Charleston
negroes who had migrated TO the col
ored section of New York. Continu-
ing, the Evening Post says:
1T is a nice bit of irony, showing
that fame is no respecter of COM.
munities, that the most civilized towrS
in America as William Allen White
/ has aptly chara acterized Charleston
should be celebrated as the pregenitor
of the jaZziest of jazz in a highly
jazzed period. but that fact only goes
TO show that Charleston is, in all
ages, the leader and pattern in social
customs and measures. What adept
of the Charleston, or observer of its
performance, would believe otherwise
than that the city from which it takes
its name and in which il originated is
the iiveliest and most advanced com
munity of its day and time and as
sprightly in its two hundred and fifty
second year as Methuselah was at, sav
600.'
Copyright. 1920
Evening star., 1925-09-06
EVERYDAY RELIGION
BY THE RIGHT REV. JAMES E. FREEMAN. D. D.,
Bistop of Washington

elements of strength that are most
appealing to one who feels the need
of guidance and support in hfe's
struggle. His delineation of what he
understands Christ to be comes within
the range of our common experience
and observation. He makes Him real,
he reveals the chivalry and heroism
OF His nature. For the pale Nazarene
he substitutes the aggressive re-
former. the defender of the defense
less, the uplifter of the fallen, the SYM
pathetic understanding of one who,
knowing what was in man, was able
to support him in the hour of his
confusion and trial. The tragic thing
about this book is that the writer be-
ieves Christ to be the most misunder-
stood and misinterpreted figure in
human history.
Accepted Too Lightly.
Both of these books but serve to
indicate the growing and absorbing in
terest that centers In the life of Him
who declared Himself to be The Son
OF Man" One obvious reason why our
religious faith plays so inconspicuous
a part in our daily thought and habit
Is that we weigh ii less carefully and
practice IT less seriously than we do
those matters that seem more impor-
tant, and that have to do with the
common concerns of everyday living.
Too many of US hold a faith that
has never been seriously and re-
fiectively considered 1t is too much
thing accepted as auxiliary to those
concerns that constitute our everyday
thought and practice. Jesus, Himself,
declared, IF any man wills to do My
Will, he shall know of My teaching
In a world that is filled with con-
f1icting ideals and purposes, where the
emphasis Is too frequently laid upon
that which represents the point of
view OF some exclusive and insular
group, there Is supreme need to study
afresh the life and teachings of the
Man of Gahlee. 1t Is not enough that
we consider Him the foremost rehg-
ious teacher of the world, remote in
time and place, but that we bring
Him within the sphere of our every
day living and relate Him to the vex-
ing problems that embarrass and
hinder us in our upward climb. Some
times He would seem OF be the man
whom nobody knows" He may be
reverenced, His sublime person and
teaching may be made evident
through the medium of art and
architecture and music, as we'll as in
the refnements of an ornate service.
He must be brought into closer
touch with life's common interests
and it's common concerns. We must
come to see in Him the sympathetic
and understanding companion of the
thinker and the scholar, of the
worker at his toll and the man at his
leisure: the lightener of life's burdens
and the, interpreter of its problems.
Not what do believe but whom!
who who shaIss Shalks beside ,s me me in the gloom?
Who all the dim way Goth Hume
And bids me look beyond the tomb
The larger life TO live:
Copyright, 1925)
Evening star., 1925-09-06
Give the Guard an Armoryl

Returning from two weeks Of field
training, the National Guard of the
District of Columbia is in a position
to point with pride" TO an augmented
record of efficiency and achievement.
The 121st Regiment of Engineers, the
29th Military Police Company and
local officers of the 29th Division staff
We're under canvas on the Virginia
Beach rifle range. the 260th Regiment
of Coast Artillery trained at Fort
Monroe and Company A, 1st Separate
Battalion, at Saunders range near
Baltimore.
Fresh from the valuable tactical ex-
perience of repelling ar invading
enemy" the troops of the organized
militia return to their home station,
the National Capital, to face a most
discouraging situation. Living condi-
tions for the Guard have been woeful-
ly lacking heretofore. but now have
apparently reached the limit of in
adequacy. Without Iull or vacation,
the citizen soldiery is required to re-
sume "armory drill'' instruction with
"armory drill facilities entirely lack
ing. Until the beginning of Summer,
Convention Hall was available on
Tuesday evenings for drill purposes,
when not otherwise in use for fairs,
carnivals. shows, dances and other
forms of entertainment. Now, it is
pointed out, Convention Hall is not
at the disposal of the Guard, and
there is likelihood that the rented
building now occupied as an armory
may be put to other use.
If the National Guard of the Dis
trict of Columbia ever needed an ade-
quate armory the time is now. In
spite of the most serious handicaps
since 1889, the Guard has lived and
f1ourished. 1t has participated in two
wars, with honor to itself and credit
TO the Capital City it represented. 1t
has trained thousands of young men,
in time of peace, for service in war
Surely, it at least deserves a home
of it's own.
1t is understood to be the desire of
the Militia Bureau of the War Depart
ment that the District National Guard,
located at the seat of government,
should be a model for the citizen SOL
diery of the entire country. 1t could.
and undoubtedly would, be, if encour-
agement Were extended in the way Of
building equipped to house properly.
not only the officers and men, but the
valuable Government property issued
to the command. For comparison, one
company of the Maryland National
Guard, at Hyattsville, has a stone
armory for it's exclusive use, erected
by the State of Maryland.
Renewed and determined effort will
be made to, induce Congress at the
coming session to authorize an armory
here that will be credit to the Ma
| tional Capital and an inspiration to
it's long suffering troops. The officers
and men give freely and unstintedly of
their time and energy. Surely they
should not be compelled to drill dur
| ing the cold of the coming Winter on
poorly lighted and traffic-laden city
streets.
The situation does not reflect credit
| on the city, or the Nation. Congress
should correct it. The District of Co
lumbia will gladly bear its pro rata
share of the cost.
Evening star., 1925-09-06

started new procedure in treating
by fixing their bail bonds at prohibftive
figures. He did this in view of the fact
that in Chicago, as III other cities, the
bailing of persons accused of crime
leads to ,repetitions and to a vicious
circle of criminality.
The only justification for the release
of persons accused of crime on bond
is that owing to the congestion in the
courts and the slow processes of trial
months may elapse before a hearing
But the community suffers by the re-
lease of habitual and professional
criminals far more than do. the ac-
cused through detention while await
ing trial.
In the past persons indicted for
homicide were never admitted to bail.
Nowadays. save for the very gravest
crimes, accused persons are allowed
to go free. Months, even years. may
elapse before they are brought into
court. Their bonds are given by pro-
fessionals for consideration. They
suffer no humiliation, and meanwhile
witnesses are lost to the court through
deaths and removals, sometimes
through improper influence.
Back of the great prevalence of
crime in this country lies as one of
the major causes the slowness and
uncertainty of judicial proceeding.
When, as in New York, as Commits
sioner Enright says, scores Of men re-
leased on bail commit additional
crimes while at liberty, it is evident
that the courts themselves are con-
tributing to the prevalence of law
breaking.
Evening star., 1925-09-06
The Capitol.

How strange is the spot where excur-
sionists wander
To mingle with shades of the past.
A feeling of sadness is theirs as they
ponder
On words and on deeds of the past.
Ger still, stony pavements the sun
beams are gliding
Where echoes triumphant once
stirred.
The big marble statues in shadows are
hiding
And no one is saying a word.
Mysterious temple of loftiest learningi
What mighty surprises were
wrought
Beneath yon great dome, as the
world kept on turning
To light or to darkness of thought.
In spite of the various manifestations
Of which we have breathlessly
heard,
This thing is most likely to astonish
the nations:
There's nobody saying a words
Evening star., 1925-09-06
Dirigibles to Continue.

No disposition appears in official
circles to abandon the dirigible form
of airship because of the disaster
which caused the total loss of the
Shenandoah. Whether recommends
tions will be made for appropriation
at the coming session for the replace
ment of the Shenandoah is in ques-
ton, but there is little doubt that
eventually, possibly at this session,
Congress will be asked for, funds for
this purpose. The dirigible. in short,
with all its deficiencies. is rated as a
valuable supplement to the air fight
sng force of the Nation.
Dirigibles possess certain advan'