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city, would meet some time
late this week TO formulate
further plans for the field.
In making the reservation. Prcni,
dent puttuu o. the park hoard,
stated that the park commissioner
are heartily IN favor q such n field
and they believe that IL would be
wonderful thing for Seattle ath.
letics az Il would concentrate base
hiiL track. football. polo and soccer
there The land n Ideally suited for
such a stadium.
QUESTION or
FINANCE
1t IL impossible for the board at
tho present time 90 finance such a
gigantic venture" says Dutton. hut
j l believe that enough money could
M raised by popular subscription
20 begin operations and that bonds
could D. sold 10 build the rest OF
the field The receipts. In time.
would pay off the bonded indebted
ness and would maintain the up
keep Of the field"
DutiOn also states that the
street committee of the city
council l. considering the rec
concentration Of street TO be
cut to the proposed field that
would cut off the long grade
down =. Madison II. 10 n To
make easier access 10 Washing
ton park.
More definite IDEAS ~ 10 the
plans for financing the venture VIII
L. formulated NJ the meeting Of the
committee ln charge Of Luther.
ZIG MED
FOR FIELD
Amateur athletic officials point
out that there II q big need for
such field TO ecntmlizc high
school activities and amateur hase'
haIi and soccer ~ the present
Tine the high school league IA rent
ing Denny field from the University
Of Washington. and while tho league
has tho use Of tho field pfuctlcnly
assured until u has other accom-
modailons for football q is under
stood that tho womeu's department
Of the university wish 10 tear down
the present stands at Denny field
as soon aA possible and landscape
the grounds.
The field will bc the first thing
attempted. large field house IN
conjunction with the stadium IL DO
Ing planned for tho future " the
field "a constructed.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-02-17

a, ,s;o o'elork-pick Burr v. Dick
DunSls
Al siso o'eiosk-whiteons VI, Lacy
iiofius
a, 'it o'clock -Lson de Tursnns ~
Percy lee
~ o'elock-LsHoy Foley VI. Harry
LiFhif9at.
A. $50 o'eiosk-JseE sehaiiy Va c. C.
Williams
A. sac O'Clock % T. Stephens ". II.
FinesiiYsf.
a, 1.it O'Clock - Dick wander Las ".
Charles sparks
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YESTERDAYS RESULTS

wits piummsr defeated II Fiosmsn
e.. 60.
y. Robertson lost to W. Bssrdslsy,
O.. s.s 80
Merritt Day pon from Johnny vosleg,
s-5. s.i.
nifty tisWkirk won from Joe fivsu.
good. - and then default.
George Clark uon from Nestlsr Kline.
berg TsT 81
saint Miller Won from Eddie Bycrm,
60. al.
Mack Gleason Loot to ~ WATSON. SO
s.1
y. g. hest and j. NcGrath ended each
50 Time was called. and the play-oiI
viii come later.
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@oa &@ Sex
BY BOZO BUNK

Tn addition 10 Mr., Kearns, It may
L now be said Mr.. Dempsey has
Estelie to support
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-02-17

When Joe nsnJamin and Jack silver
nsht In san Franfiscs soon, thsY viil boz
a. - pounds Hos this viii affect their
standing IN the NsH YORK tournament IL
not known. ~ the vsiEht there Il rs
pounds This match is tp count iu the
Uaiham tournament.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-02-17

Vou probably noticed that Firpo
= was not the best man. Indeed.
he was not the best man az prev.
ious affair IN which Mr.. Dempsey
participated.
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W. suppose Miss Taylor agreed
to take the champion for better or
worse and yet he could hardly he
any worse than he was The night
he fought Bill Brennan.
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soc
20 Girls Wool MIddIes, originally 1895,
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So Jumper Skirts, originally 1926, now 800
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Negligees Reduced
50 Box Loom Crepe Kmonos lace and satin
trimmed slightly soilcd; medium and extras,
originally i5e5: s3.D5.
Enthusiastically socd-hnlf price
I wash SILK Dresses. originally 1iO75. now
$3.50
Crepe de Chine Ncggecs. originally ,a.75--
small sizes S5.0o
IS Wash Dresses sizes &c 10 ~. s1.OO.
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ready TO serve YOU at any time
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Evening star., 1925-08-30

the present hearing) assume mystic signif-
canoe because they happen to be junction
northwestern Pennsylvania for eXample) be-
cause they mean per cent grade; in which
communities exist only for what they ship
coal, automobiles pig iron. 1t Is a world in
which the road testified in trial
of the Rock Island, cant never do anything
wrong" 1t is a world in which men have, as
one participant in the present hearing shyly
confessed. the choo-choo bug"
This Autumn. 1t has been privately
nounced, President Pat E. Crowley of the New
York Central President Samuel Rea and Vice
President w. w. Atterbury of the Pennsyl-
vania, President Daniel Willard of the Balti-
more and Ohio and the two Van Sweringens
Will meet in New York. President L. F. Loree
or the Delaware and Hudson presumably will
represent a fifth interest. With them will be
trathc men, engineers, accountants and secre-
taries. They will be assembled to divide a rail-
road empire, the independent roads of the East.
Plans for Consolidation.
The transporta ton act after years of agi-
tation, passed by a Republican ma jority in
1920. II permitted railroads to form consolida-
tons, something which had been forbidden since
the days of Jay Gould, Commodore Cornelius
Vanderbilt and f. II. Hartman. On August
3, 1921, the Interstate Commerce Commission
issued it's preliminary plan of consolidation.
based on a-survey of Prof. William H. Ripley
of Harvard, grouping the railroads of the coun-
try into 10 great systems. An appeal was gen.
orally made to the executives of the railroads
TO agree upon some plan of voluntary consoli-
dation among themselves, with this prelimi-
nary plan as a guide, and to present 1t to the
toilliiiSsion loT approval Inc appeal IeH on
deaf ears.
According to the act the Interstate Com
merce Commission must prepare a final plan
for consolidation. II the railroads then have
not themselves acted it is believed this final
plan will be basis for compulsory consolida-
tion by Congress.
Three Great Systems.
In the Eastern district between New York
and Chicago, are three great systems, the
New York Central the Pennsylvania and the
Baltimore and Ohio. After them comes the
smaller Nickel Plate system of the Van Swern
gems. They divide naturally into two groups
the Central and Van Sweringens' roads on the
north, skirting the Great Lakes, and Pennsyl-
Vania and Baltimore and Ohio to the SOUTH
serving Philadelphia and Washington. The
Delaware and Hudson OF Loree, with its en-
trance to New England. lies between them.
The dominant executive in the northern
group is Crowley Of the New York Central
trained under the ablest railroad statesman n of
this generation. the late Alfred H. Smith, whose
memory, incidentally, fills like escap ping djinn
the testimony of the present hearing. The
cutive for the Van Sweringens is J. j. Bernet.
another Smith protege. On the opposite side is
the 70yearold Rea and Atterbury. student of
formal philosophy, exshop mocha MIC chief OF
the railways OF the American expeditionary
Evening star., 1925-08-30

there are many problems which have
to be settled before the nations can
return to anything like a secure pros-
perity. but mainly they are problems
Of individual nations and not of Eu-
rope whole. The case of Italy
will serve to illustrate. Italy was hard
hit by the war and her people suffered
as much, il not more. than any of the
other belligerents, but under Musso-
lini there is semblance of order and
a fair start toward economic recovery.
Hydraulic development is giving Ital-
ian manufacturers cheap power, and
were it not for the scarcity of raw
materials and the difficulty of obtain
ing them, the outlook would be hope
full. 1t is true that Italy has a sur
plus and fast growing population for
which some outlet must be found, but
there is no thought that Italy ever Is
likely to go to war to obtain such an
outlet. So far as it is possible for any
one to see, Italy is not one of the
powers which menace the peace of
Europe.
In previous articles 1 have discussed
the American attitude toward Europe
in general, and l want to add just this
conclusions: 1 believe that during the
six years since the armistice 1t has
been to the benefit Of Europe that the
United States held aloof from political
entanglements and maintained liberty
of action. / believe it has been possi-
BILE for America to help Europe more,
for instance, than il we had been a
member of the League Of Nations.
Whether this will continue to be true
is another matter. When certain set
Elements are made. some Of them be-
ing already under way, the entire
European situation will be changed.
and 1t is not beyond the range of
proba bilities that those changes will
necessitate changes in the American
attitude.
tCopyriEht. 19:5.)
Evening star., 1925-08-30
Both Heats and Cools His Dwelling
With Air Piped From Luray Caverns

A heating system which exceIls in
efhclency any yet perfected by man
for the comfort of his home is to be
found in the home of T. C. Northcott
of Luray, Va, president of the Luray
Cavern Corporation, which owns the
caverns famed throughout the world
for their great natural beauty and
the wonder of their innumerable sta
lactites and stalagmites.
j. w. Shaffer, illuminating engineer
for the General Electric Co., who re-
Gently had charge of installing an in
candescent lighting system in the
caves, reports that the methods used
by Mr.. Northcott for regulating the
temperature OF his home are both
unique and extremely practical.
1t chances that the air in the cav
erns, with the exception Of being meis-
ture laden, is almost completely free
of impurities. Mr.. Northcott built
his house close to one arm of the
cavern so that 1t would stand directly
over one of the larger caves. He
then drilled down to the cave and
installed a pumping system which
would draw air from the cave. force
ii through drying chamber into a
ventilating system and hence through
the rooms of his home.
The temperature of the cave remains
fairly constant in the neighborhood
Of so degrees. This means that in the
Summer the air In the house may be
as much as 40 degrees cooler than
Evening star., 1925-08-30

force in France and terror of Republican poll
ticians. He has given his life to the Pennsylva-
mia, the standard railroad of the world" No
one knows. except other railroad men, the emo
tions with which he has watched the recent
rise, under President Smith of the New York
Central In operating efficiency and prestige.
Rise of the Van Sweringens.
The three years after the issuance of the
preliminary report of the Interstate Commerce
Commission, years in which move toward
consolidation was made by the three great sys-
TENS, were busy years for the Van Sweringen
boys. They already had the Nickel Plate, sold
to them by Smith in 1916. AS soon as the trans
portation act passed they acquired the
bankrupt Clover Leaf and the Lake Erie and
Western. They soon began gathering control of
the Erie and Pere Marquette. They felt that
their system had two great needs. The Nickel
Plates eastern end is in Buffalo. They needed
line like the Delaware Lackawanna and West
ern to carry it into New York. This would
change the Nickel Plate from a bridge line to
A trunk line. They needed one of the inde
pendent roads from Buffalo to New York they
ualy in getting the Erie. They needed of
the rich Southern coal roads like the Chesa
peake and Ohio. Then they would own the po-
tential equal of any system in the country.
1t is possible they began the most delicate
negotiations to find out how the big roads wouA
regard their acquisition of the Lackawanna. If
they did, they found the nerves of the three
big trunk lines on edge. There were three of
them and between New York and Buffalo, and
only two strong independent lines, the Lacka
wanna and the Lehigh. Some one to be dis
appointed. The Van Swerngens found their
powerful neighbors unfriendly to their hopes
Meantime, the Van Sweringens quietly bought
the Huntington interest in the Chesapeake and
Ohio and its subsidiary, the Hooking Valley
This was the situation when President Smith
18 months ago. was thrown from his horse in
Central Park and killed.
Sought Permission to Merge
Five months later, in August of last year
the Van Sweringens announced they would ap-
ply to the Interstate Commerce Commission for
permission to consolidate with their Nickel
Plate system the Erie, the Pere Marquette and
the Chesapeake and Ohio. This applicatio is
now being fought by the minority Chesapeake
and Ohio stockholders
A month after that came the first conference
of Crowley. Rea, Atterbury, Willard and the
van SWeringens to reach agreement for
voluntary consolidation in the Eastern district
The Van Sweringens alone entered the confer
ence with nothing TO lose and everything-spe
cif1cally the Lackawanna-to gain. They pro-
posed that that road be given to them, the Le
high Valley to the New York Central and the
Reading and the Central Railroad of New Jer
sey 10 the Baltimore nd Ohio President Rea
and Gen. Atterbury of the Pennsylvania vio-
lently disa greed their counter proposals were
rejected by Crowley and Willard: nd the CON
n,,ad bird
Evening star., 1925-08-30
BY ROBERT T. SMALL.

Three warm political spots mark
the map of the Nation today, and with.
in the next three weeks two Of them
at least will have reached the boiling
point and have bubbled over.
New York is in the throes of its most
baffling and interesting mayoralty
campaign. which threatens to have
far-reaching political effect.
Wisconsin is witnessing a fight
which will determine whether or not
young Bob La Toilette can hold to.
gether, even temporarily, the great
political machine built up by his
father through 80 years of uncea sing,
painstaking effort.
In both Wisconsin and New York
City the issues will be settled at a
primary on September Is.
The third hot spot" politically is
In Pennsylvania, where Clifford
Pinchot. whole year in advance of
the Republican primaries, has begun
his campaign for the United States
Senate. This Is the first move in what
Pinchot's firm intention to try for the
White House as soon as Mr.. Coolidge
releases the honor of the presidency,
or even before II the Coolidge tenure
threatens to endure too long. There
can be nothing like a climax in Penn.
sylvania for another IL months, but
the situation there will bear constant
watching by those who are interested
in the political portents and purposes.
Both Sides Are Fighting.
In New York City there is in
ternecine strife in both the Demo
cratic and Republican ranks. At first
III seemed all the fighting would be
done by the Democrats. The Demo
Gratis are noted for that sort of thing.
The Republicans thought that with
Mayor Hylan and Gov AL Smith at
death grips the city hall plum would
fall squarely into their waiting and
empty laps. But no sooner were the
Republicans set to feast upon the
Democratic carcass than trouble start
ed within the G. o. p. ranks, and thew
now have a first.rate family row to
deal with on primary day. Frank d.
Evening star., 1925-08-30
BY JOHN Il. MITCHELL.

IT HE hearing on the application of Oris ?.
and Mantas j. Van Sweringen, the
Van Sweringen boys of Cleveland to
the Interstate Commerce Commission
for permission to consolidate, 5000
miles of railroad-the Nickel Plate, the Erie,
the Pere Marquette and the Chesapeake and
Oho-will be resumed after months adjourn
ment, on September s. 1t began last April
Commissioner Balthasar H. Meyer and Di-
rector of Finance Charles d. Mahafie have lis
tened TO enough testimony to fill one of the
Van Sweringen box and TO merciless ques-
tioning of witnesses by the attorneys for those
who object to the consolidation-the minority
stockholders OF the Chesapeake and Ohio.
This hearing win help decide, perhaps def
nitely will decide whether consolidation of
railroads in this country can be accomplished.
1t is part of the most spectacular turning
point in the business and industrial life of the
Nation since the mergers OF the United States
Steel Corporation and the Standard Oil.
Billion Dollars Involved.
vast amount of money is involved. Paper
profits of the Van Sweringens and the owners
have been estimated at 500 900 900. The value
of the railroads is more than billion dollars.
The decision of the Interstate Commerce Com.
mission on this application will influence the
whole stock market, and the number of men
and women whose interests will be Influenced
by 1t is incalculable.
The decision will have political effects too
Consolidation of railroads was Republican
war cry in 1920. 1t has been the darling of the
especial pet of Herbert Hoover. When the hear
ing was adjourned four weeks ago, President
Coolidge announced in Swampscott that ''volun-
tary consolidation of railroads will pave the
way for a solution of the transportation prob
lem. The President, dispatches continued lis
watching with interest the efforts of the Van
Sweringens to obtain approval of their merger
plan
The Railroad War
Beneath this is the approaching struggle OF
the railroads Of the East, struggle upon
which is staked the fortunes of their executives
and their hundreds of thousa nds of employees
1t is story of strange, fierce loyalties and
bitter rivalries
To understa nd it. must see with his ewes
railroad mans world-a world in which drs h
little towns tF,ostora Ohio is such a one in
Evening star., 1925-08-30
TOLERANCE, NOT INDIFFERENCE.
HELD NEED OF AMERICA TODAY
Fight for Truth and Freedom of Opinion Should
Mark Life, According to Church Coun.
Gil Secretary.

opinions, or irresoluteness in stand
ing for what one believes to be the
truth, II would be indeed a doubtful
virtue. Lack of strong convictions Is
an even greater evil of our dav than
lack OF tolerance But true tolera nee
Is an utterly different thing from this
what ii involves is no compIa cent
shllly-shallying about my views of the
truth. but a recognition OF the other
mans right to do his own thinking
as do mine, to reach his own con
cluslons, and then to hold his own
honest convictions as fra nkly as | hold
mine. 1t makes me ready to sav. with
Voltaire, Il disa gree with everything
you say. but will defend to the death
your right to say it," 1t means that 7
nave so much confidence in the truth
mat can trust IL to win it's way
without any other compulsion tina n
that of its own intrinsic worth. |
shall reason with the man who differs
from me and seek to persuade him bv
showing him why / believe as / do,
but try to coerce him-never.
Is Earnestness OF Conviction.
True tolerance means. in word
earnestness OF conviction combined
with respect for the convictions of
others. 1t is, as Phillips Brooks once
PoAiftCu oot, a lQSiOH OIL IONe OF truth
with love of men. Strong love of truth
without love of ones fellows makes
the bigot. 1t is this which has lighted
the fires of persecution in every age.
Love of ones fellows, on the other
hand. without devotion to the truth
makes the sloppy sentimentalist. The
piendlng OF the two makes the ardent
and at the same time tolerant spirit.
AS long ago as the time of the
Peloponnesian War, Arfstopha mes
wrote certain lines that are as modern
as II penned yesterday and never more
needed than today:
suspicion
Win which we one another
Give us rest
Make new beginning
And mingle az ain the kindred of the nations
In the alchemy of love
And with some finer essence OF furbearan
Temper our mind
Copyright. l925)
Evening star., 1925-08-30
BY SAMUEL McCREA CAVERT,
General Secretary. Federal Council of
Churches.

Churches.
Long ago DIR. johnson remarked in
his famous dictionary that tolera nee
was a good word, but not used. What
would he say if he We're to see in the
twentieth century. the disheartening
spectacle of organizations whose very
corner stone rests on religious and ra-
cial intolerance?
The prevalence of intolera nee in our
own country is especially difficult to
understand when one realizes. first.
that intolera nee is un-American: and.
second, that it Is unchristian.
So inseparable was tolera nee felt
to be from the true genius of Amer
lea. that freedom of worship and free
dom Of conscience were guaranteed in
the Constitution itself Our fathers
saw clearly that in democracy made
up of diverse groups an ordered So
ciety is virtually impossible without
the practice OF federation.
Christ Opposed Intolerance.
How Incompatible the intolera mt
mind is with the true genius of the
Christian religion is indicated unnis-
takably In a revealing incident in the
life Of its Founder. When a group of
Samaritan villagers was unfriendly
and the angry disciples wanted to call
down fire upon these people of another
race and another religious tradition
Jesus pointedly rebuked His fol-
lowers, declaring, "Ye know not what
manner of spirit We are Of
There is, unfortunately, a kind of
ca sy going spineless indifference. be-
reft of any positive convictions. which
passes as tolerance but
which Is worse even than intolerance
1t is the attitude of a Montaigne, out
wardly patronizing all religions, but
inwardly believing none. II tolerance
really meant an absence of clear.cut
Evening star., 1925-08-30
Norway's Many Doctors.

Students Of medicine at the Univer-
sity in Oslo have been so numerous in
recent years that the medical pro-
fession is in serious danger of being
overcrowded. Doctors in Norway al
ways have enjoyed high social and
professional position, but many re-
sponsible persons predict that if the
development of recent years contin-
ues there will be a lowering of the
standard. In vain the medical facul-
ty has warned young men and women
against taking up medical studies and
there now approaches a crisis. Pres
sure has been brought on the Storth-
ing to pass law limiting the number
of practitioners to certain percent
age of the number of inhabitants.
Evening star., 1925-08-30

the outside temperature. The ven
tilating ducts are provided with heat.
ers which heat the air in the Winter.
The thermometer may be lowering
around the zero mark and the air
bitter cold, but Mr.. Northcott only
has to heat the air which he uses in
his home from so degrees to the tenn
perature desired for greatest comfort.
The ventilating system allows fresh air
to enter each room at the top and
stale air to go out at the bottom.