Evening star., 1925-07-26
Capital Sidelights

During these Summer months, wher
the tourist camp Is crowded almost to
capacity and when the family fiivver
makes almost daily incursions upon
the suburbs. o. p. Hopkins. assistant
chief of the Bureau of Foreign and
Domestic Commerce and one of the
most practical, knows his job men that
Secretary Hoover has working with
him, pertinently calls our attention to
the fact that we are the worlds most
inveterate motor fans.
In these 48 United States-conti
mental United States-we are consum-
ing 70 per cent of all the gasoline that
all the world uses. Here in the United
States we drive four cars to every sin
gle car driven anywhere else in the
entire world.
kins calls attention, by way of striking
illustration, that throughout the
United Kingdom, which is the next
largest consumer of gasoline, they use
only about per cent of the gasoline
we do In the United States. In China
In whole year they use just as much
gasoline as would last us eight hours
in the United States.
The gasoline trade has grown enor-
mously in the last 10 years, Mr.. Hop
kins emphasizes. In 1914 America
produced less than 1900. 900, 900 gal
Ions, and last year the production was
trivial increase of some 500 per cent
We sold $3.50. 200. 900 worth of gasoline
to other countries last year.
OF course, our motoring proclivities
are aided and abetted by our good
roads system, which stretched out last
year another 10000 miles of Federal
aid roads.
Perhaps you don't know that 175..
000mile Federal highway system.
which is to serve as the main road
system of the Nation. has been decided
upon and that more than $4,000 miles
of this are now in service.
Because of its great delicacy and the
difficulty of transporting the mango
steen a long distance, Queen Victoria
once offered a handsome reward to the
first man who succeeded in placing a
dish of this most famous fruit in the
world upon her table in Buckingham
Palace-but the reward was never
won.
The President of the United States
has offered no such reward. but one
humble. but very persistent, worker in
Uncle Sans service, DR.. David Fair
child, after many years of tireless ex-
ploration and field study, now aims to
place this delicious delicacy on the
White House table within 10 years.
Not only that, but to make 1t available
for you and me who will never sit al
the White House table.
In this ambition DIR. Fairchild has
the support and encouragement of his
chief, DR.. William A. Taylor, who is
in charge of the Bureau of Plant In
dustry. and who for more than sc
years has been supplying US with new
and improved varieties of foodstuffs
based on the worlds experiences. DR.
Taylor has given us improved varie
ties of the avocado, the d9sheen, q
number of varieties of dates, superior
varieties of olives. jujubes. grapes and
many other fruits and vegetables.
What about the mangosteen? It's I'M
like any fruit cultivated in the United
States. For many years II was thought
1t could not be cultivated outside the
Asiatic tropics. 1t can only be grown
where the temperature never drops
below 35 degrees above zero. II is the
size of a mandarin orange, deep pur
pie externally with thick, woody
rind. Within are segments OF snow
white pulp of extremely delicate fla
vor.
When he was still a very young
man, DIR. Fatrchild became interested
in the mangosteen. He made eXpedi
tions into the Malay Peninsula, Java
Sumatra and elsewhere. He would
not rest content until his experiments
proved that he could grow this fruit
in the West Indies, and with DIR. Tay.
lor's cooperation, plantations of young
trees have been started in the Canal
~
With the advent OF refrigera ton il
has become possible, DR.. Fairchild and
DR.. Taylor agree, for this delicate and
delicious fruit to be brought 10 the
American market from commercial
orchards in tropical America.
Members of Congress delight ir
boasting about their home towns and
their environs. Representative Isaac
Bacharach. who, with his brother. did
more than any other two men to make
Atlantic City the Summer playground
Of the Nation, is no exception. Just
now he Is making a double -barreled
brag.
First he is gleefully proclaimine
that the modern prototype of the
mythical moon-jumping COW has made
its first appearance at Atlantic City
or course, he exaggerates a bit, be
cause milk has not actually been car
ried over the moon, but 1t really wal
carried from California to Atlantic
City by airship, during the nationa
certified milk scoring contest. Ths
milk was drawn from a "bossy" neal
San Francisco on a Friday eyeninl
and reached Atlantic City on Sunday
morning.
rrt,t. 80, g.. .,,.-x ...,, ,
out as a demonstration of expedited
service for an essential food product
Then, Representative Bacharach /.
cheering more soberly and impressine
upon his colleagues the importance Of
the action taken in presenting a cop,
of the Declaration of Independence,
and of the Federal and State Consti
tutions to every grammar school grad
uate by the State Of New Jersey. H,
explains that provision for this erea
patriotic work which is bound to rails,
the quality of citizenship was made a
the last session Of the State Legisla
ture. He also finds reason for graft
| f1cation, and suggestion of good ex
| ample. in the fact that dental clinics
in schools and pensions for schoo
medical inspectors and for janitors in
| jured in service were also provided.
Schools are in yacation-mos
places, but
Edward c. Finney, Assistant Secre
tary of the Interior, under whose ad
ministration the national parks come
and
John j. Tigert, United States com.
missioner of education, are co-operat
| ing In pioneer training for a new pro
| fession, You see, new ideas in edu
cation are constantly being advance,
to meet changing conditions Of human
| society.