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Evening star., 1925-01-21
Urges Cooperation.
Writer Gives Suggestive Idea for
Motorists.

To the Editor Of The Star;
May 7 not add a suggestive idea to
the plan being worked out for safe
traffic rule?
1t is simple. but if carried out there
is that voluntary action, with no
thought of law that is too often
broken.
There has always been what has be
come an unwritten law in regard to
the movements of both pedestrians
and vehicles, Keep to the right" We
all know that with unity of thought,
there is cooperation, and we move
involuntarily with the rule, as given
through the centuries. to keep from
butting into a stone wall; We know
that all we have to do is to avoid the
wall-this is all there is to it! We
know the rule, why should we try to
change it when change causes con-
fusion and veering, this way and
that, or head-on collision?
Drivers know when they go wrong
needless of consequences; they know
the far out turn at corners, why try
the short cut? Why not conscien-
tiously follow the rule and be united
in action, not only for others, but
for themselves and families? Better
lose a few moments than to go head
long into a death trap, for that is
What IL amounts 10, ana IL is Such
senseless thing to do.
All the laws made about anything
amount to nothing without co-opera-
ton!
Do be sane, citizens, and don't COM
NIT murder or MAIN some one for
life by needless, careless driving. We
all reach our destination, whether it's
on foot or in a motor, and nearly
always on time!
Let our motto. be cooperation.
l.. WHITE.
Evening star., 1925-01-21
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.

A COmplacency.
Most everybody thinks he might
have gone upon the stage
To be a figure of artistic pride,
Depicting love and hate, likewise
docility and rage;
You're sure that you could do it if
you tried.
1 know 1 might have been a man of
oratoric fame,
Or else a famous pitcher in the base
ballistic game.
l never made an effort thus to shine,
but just the same
I'm sure that I could do it if l
tried.
My tastes are scientific, but they
never brought renown.
Such opportunity has been denied.
I never had a chance to run a rail
road or a town
I'm sure that could do it if I tried.
Let others toll and venture, risking
poverty and grief.
With no such care l feel myself a
wonder and a chief.
Heroic deeds come natural. But life,
you know is brief
I'm sure that I could do 'em if l
tried
Evening star., 1925-01-21
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE

not only long, long thoughts" but
queer, quaint thoughts
x X &,s*
All this is by way of reminiscent
Introduction. Yet it is pertinent 10
that which I wish today to say Mr..
Coolidge is opposed to an inaugural
ceremony on March on any lines
that SAVIOR of fummery or flamboy-
ancy. L appeal to him in the name Of
the American boy not to let his ma
tionally approved partiality for econ
omy cheat the Nation out Of COM
mensurately notable inauguration
party six and half weeks hence. The
country knows Mr.. Coolidge's passion
for thrift. 1t approved it by a land
| slide majority on November 4, 1924.
But | find in the official returns no
| instruction, no mandate, no wish no
authority for a cancellation of a ira
dition on which, doubt not, despite
his Vermont origin, Calvin Coolidge
himself, like all American boys, grew
up. l appeal to the Green Mountain
lad who came into the world on a
Fourth of July, and who became
President of the Republic under the
light Of a kerosene lamp, to give the
American boy an inauguration that
measures up to the American bows
imagination. 1 appeal to President
Coolidge to suppress, sidetrack, for
get and obliterate his temperamental
distaste for show and be "a boy
! again, just for day"
X X X
If it be not presumptuous to take
issue with the Chief Magistrate of the
republic on a theme so essentially
personal to himself, may 1 venture to
suggest that the person of the Presi-
Of ho nj
ring 4ths of March, is not alto
gether his private possession? For
that day he becomes, to my way of
/ thinking, a Symbol-nationaI prom
erty, If you please-to serve a vast
purpose. The purpose is to build
anew the fires of patriotism, set
alight by the heartbeat of great emo
tions. l would have Calvin Coolidge,
for the day, step out of the role he
plays so naturally, SO becomingly and
so beneticently-the role of the
watchdog of the Treasury-and play
the Prestdent-elect of hoary tradition
and unquenchable sentiment.
X X X X
Supposing the inauguration does
| cost a hundred thousand dollars of
the budgets money; or ten times a
hundred thousand dollars. That I'm
Gle Sam can afford it is to utter a
| commonplace. Time has marched
fast and long since March 4, 1901,
when Thomas Jefferson rode to the
old Capitol and hitched his horse to a
rail, while he went through the cere-
monial of inauguration. This is no
longer hitching-post country. 1t
has become the worlds creditor. The
| total taxable income of the American
people has just been officially report
ed to be in excess of rs, 900, 600, 900 of
gold dollars. A brilliant inaugural
of the next President of the United
States-I am sure the Director of the
Budget and the Secretary of the
Treasury will sustain the contention
can make no appreciable dent on
Mr.. Mellen's available cash on hand
or on the tax rate. And, even if it
did, there's the American boy. Isn't
he worth his weight in all the gold
that Europe owes us or with which
the United States Treasury's vaults
are bulging?
! copyright. 1925,A
Evening star., 1925-01-21

| AT THE NATIONS THEATER
! What. Price Inauguration"
The President of the United States
| and the Inaugural Committee of
Washington, d. c., present a tragi-
! comedy based on a psyche -pohti-
/ cal study in thrift
The Cast:
| Calvin Coolidge A Careful Vermonter
I w. T Galliher.A Conscientious Protector
| Other disfranchised residents of the
| District Of Columbia, patriots all
Miss Columbia. The Country at Large
x x x
! This observer is young enough to
| remember vividly a Hoosier boyhood.
| 1t was a youth STEPPED in high poll
| tics, for all Indiana boys are born
/ either poets or politicians This par
| ticular product of the Hoosier pie
| belt, which had already given Colfax
| and Hendricks to the Nation and was
| about to give Benjamin Harrison,
was brought up, as millions of Amer
! lean boys before and after him were
| brought up, to hold the presidency of
| the United States to be a very great
/ and a very glorious thing. Most of
| the aspirations of boyhood are unre-
! Quilted ambitions. My salad days were
|
| pretended one wish, the non-realiza-
| tion of.Yhich left an endless shadow.
| That was a desire to see President
| of the United Statse inaugurated with
| all the pomp and circumstance of
! tradition.
| | wonder how many boys-yes and
| girls, too-and even men and women
and other children there are who
! cherish the patriotic long1ngs that
were mine, well, let US say in the
closing years of the recent century.
| [ wonder how. many there are who
| pant, as I did, to hear the national
! via triumphalis, Pennsylvania avenue,
| in the panoply of full glory, resound-
| ing to the throb of military and civic
| cavalcades; to see the White House
and the Treasury and the Capitol, and
| other Givernment buildings and pri-
vate buildings, in Washington afiame
with red, white and blue; to have the
blood tingle for a whole day and eve
| ming, as great bands blared forth the
| songs which have rung across the
| continent in hours of joy and days
! of stress; to thrill as the ashington
Monument lowered into the nocturnal
] heavens, bathed in electric glory,
| while all around the skies were lurid
with rockets red glare" Yes, those
are the things my Hoosier boyhood
| heart yearned to see and hear 1t was
mans estate before I was to know
your Washington and mine; and by
that time enthusiasm pals.
| . A boys will is the winds will
And the thoughts of youth are long, long
| thoughts.
! X X X
| And, of course, I wanted to see in
| the flesh a President Of the United
| States rising to the heights that
| every American boy is taught he him
self may scale; standing on the east
| steps of the Capitol, always the domed
symbol of American grandeur, taking
the oath of Office whereby he becomes
| the ruler of the mightiest sovereign
power on Gods footstool AS an Ameri-
can boy and Hoosier l experienced a
particular anxiety to be eyewitness of a
| ceremonial in which, weird fancy
| whispered to me, 1 myself might one
day be cast for the central figure. The
! Thoughts Of youth sometimes are
Evening star., 1925-01-21
Spanking Advocates
and Foes Both Right

At times, being mellowed by sci
del of home brew and a good cigar,
you say to some equally mellowed in
innate: Yeah, 1 believe in spank
ing 'em. / was licked a lot when l
was a kid. Did me good. Didn't get
half as many as l needed" And you
are liar, and the truth isn't in you.
You are pretending that you endured
martyrdom right gladly for your
souls sake, whereas your large toll
erance of spanking is due to the fact
that you no longer smart.
The old-time spanking was eff
cient You knew how the dime novel
hero felt when compelled to dig his
own grave, for you were required to
unbutton and bend without parental
assistance. And when the back of a
hair-brush first made contact it lift
ed you off the floor and strained your
voice cracks on the high notes.
The theory of spanking is wholly
sound. For it is manifestly difficult
to make dog, horse, boy or man be
good-that is, do the will of those
having authority-unless some threat
of punishment for wrongdoing is
provided as an aid to virtue.
But in many instances the un-
spanked become millionaires, Con-
gressmen and labor leaders, while the
spanked go down to unremembered
graves.
AS many parents can testify,
spanking works. But as all parents
know in their secret hearts, 1t is en-
ployed because 1t affords the easiest
way out of difficulty. 1t relieves
nerve tension; it imparts a lust for
righteousness; it saves time and ar
gument; but it does not accomplish
anything that patience, kindness.
comradeship and reason could not ac-
complish.
1t is not recorded that any one of
! Gods poor creatures ever went to
the gallowS or a throne because of
spanking or for lack Of fit-Baltimore
Hvsatng 6a0A
Evening star., 1925-01-21

Charges against former Gov
Jonathan NJ Davis of Kansas. re-
sulting inE his arrest a few hours
before retiring from the g-uberna-
torial chair on allegations OF par
ticipating in the sale OF executive
clemency, have stirred editors of the
country to Yetrospection as to the
justice of vesting the pardoning
power in any one man. Most edi-
tors in their comment are inclined to
withhold judgment as to the guilt of
the former governor personally, and
confine their opinions to the system
which permitted the evil to be
charged.
The pardoning power in the
executive" says the Des Noines
Tribune, "is survival Of the days
in history when the king was the
sovereign and could act in his
mercy. 1t is a part of the monar-
chical system. Our courts have time
and again held that this fiction that
the state is the king is no longer
true in American history. We give
to no one any of the privileges and
prerogatives of royalty in these
days. We have experimental with
one man authority too often in the
past not to know it Is the most pro-
life source of trouble there is" In
press, Too much power over the
granting of pardons and paroles is
vouchsafed the governor in the
average State; the temptation to
abuse it is too strong for the weak
or corrupt official to resist Con-
sidering this circumstance, it were
better to take the prerogative away
from the executive and vest it in a
pardoning board, appointed for long
a nd fro fy-Ar
other undue influences"
*** x
do disclosures such as the recent
one at Topeka really undermine the
popular confidepce in. our free in
stitutions?" asks the Portland Gore
gon) Telegram, I'VE believe not"
the Telegram answers. and adds: "Ex-
perience ever since history began to
be written has taught that a certain
percentage of men in public life are
venal. Probably the time will never
come when every man in public life
is incorruptible" Says the Omaha
World Herald: "Such things as this
hurt Good citizens everywhere view
them with sorrow, and with a feeling of
sympathy for the community or COM
monweatlh whose trust has been vio-
lated. There have been altogether too
many such public scandals in recent
years. They have invaded the cabinet,
striking distressfnGly close to the
presidential Office. They have reared
their heads in both houses of Con-
gress. They have smirched the execu-
tive offices of great States like
Illinois and Indiana and Oklahoma
and Texas. They have dishonored
even the judiciary. And their effect is
to confirm a prevalent but wholly
erroneous impression of public men
and public Office"
In the case of Gov. Davis, the Kan
sas City Journal-Post made the ex-
pose in which 1t is related the son of
the governor Russell Davis, received
sum of money from a paroled con-
vict and in return presented a full
pardon, which had been issued by the
governor. Commenting on the case,
thte Journal-Post says: How far the
history of thousand dollar pardons
reaches cannot now, if ever, be more
than approximately foretold. Bene-
ficiaries of such shady transactions
rarely have the courage to disclose
their own participation in the wrong
Evening star., 1925-01-21

II would be a relief to many minds
densed into January and February
and leave early March free from
threats of discomfort for the inaugura.
ton crowds. However, the American
people are sportsmen, and regard
4th Of March weather as one of the
occasions that make a great occasion
interesting.
Evening star., 1925-01-21

There is enough time to elapse be.
fore the resignation Of Secretary
Hughes takes effect to make him an
object Of respectful interest to the
QUESTIONABLE squad in the United
States Senate.
Evening star., 1925-01-21

A plan for elevating guns by utiliz.
ing the roll of the ship has been
worked out by Thomas Edison. Sure.
ly no nation will construe a list to
port as a violation of international
agreement.
Evening star., 1925-01-21
Member of the Associated Press.

ii1 -NNS'ttdltd tFtNS Is tNcluSI.t'H tht'',t' ,'
patches credited TO il or not otherwise credited
iu this paper and also the locsi news pun
i>hed herein. All rights Of publication Of
special dispatches herein are also reserved.
Evening star., 1925-01-21

Germany preserves a familiar policy
of allowing the conversation to pro-
ceed with as little interruption as pos
sible on her part.
Evening star., 1925-01-21

The Evening star, with the Sunday morning
edition, is delivered by carriers within the
city at go cents per month: daily only A.
cents per month; Sunday only. 20 cents per
month. Orders may be sent by mail tele-
PhVGe Main 5000. Collection Is made by car
Ncrs at the end Of each month
Evening star., 1925-01-21

O. When was Al Smith hrst elect . III
Governor of New York?-C. 8.
a. A. L. Smith was first elected
governor on November 5, 1918.
Evening star., 1925-01-21

One thing that is always liable to
interfere with the courteous formali-
ties of craftsmanship is the Unsuitable
senatorial inquisitiveness.
Evening star., 1925-01-21

Business Office. nth st. and Pennsylvania Ave.
sew York Office: 10 East 42nd st.
Chicago Office: Tower Building.
GQrFpcun Office 1G Regent st, London England.
Evening star., 1925-01-21


q Did Queen victorIa,s husband
oficaa1Iy receive the title Of consort? ?-t
9. p, 4
A. The tf<le Of consort was con
ferred on Prince Albert in 1887 by
royal Ietters4patent
Q. How long did the nght between
Heenan and Sayers last?-I. r. Mel.
A. On April II, 1850, HeeHan fought
Tom Sayers, champion Of England,
for International title at Farnbo-.
rough, ending in a general row after
A rounds had been fought. Both.
sides claimed victory, but d draw was
the result, and each was presented
with championship belt in acknoNl-
edgment Of his wonderful fight. HeC-
nan again CHALLENGED Sayers, but the
latter declined and retired.
Q. Which causes more damage, fire
or water?-A G
A. 1t IS difficult to make a com
parison OF the relative damage caused
| by fire and water since statistics or.
floods are very meagcr. While the
number Of actual iuuucatious is per
haps less than the number Of fires.
they generally cover q far larger ter.
ritory and involve a greater loss both
"A
of the daily records Of - Journal OF
| Comm cree shows that during the pact
A years the aggreE gate fire waste OF
the United States and Canada reached
a total Of $E,1gG.5GG.7t5. These fig
ures cover the period from 1STa-lez2
The only comprehensive aDcd figure .
attempting TO cover the country as -
whole are those prepared by Mr.. NJ. O.
leighton and published by the Geo
| the years from 1s0g-1g0S, and places
| the total estimated flood loss at $3.50
/ $4,000. Since that date there haye
/ been the following important floods
I Mississippi Valley, 1913. Sl63, ,3G4.7sg-
! Dayton, Ohio, 1913, ST&-24s.140. Sci0ra
Valley, 1919, $l0s5T2,I9Os CaIiforu.a
1914, SI0.000.G0o
Q. DIR. o. w. Holmes used to t-li f..
/ quaint story concerning his first shin
/ gle. Can You refer me TO the story
IS. r
! a. Mrs. Naude Howe Elliott, in brr
I recent book Of "reminiscences, SaE-
that Or. Holmes himself made his frs
! 'shInEle.' The announcement read
/ "Dr. Q. W. Holmes. last door but one
/ The young physician walked dow.
/ the street 10 observe the effect. "cle
/ that VIII never do" ne exclaimed
/ what if it would strike the patieur
! that if I am the last door bur one.
/ must be next to the tomb" Ir
/ Holmes promptly removed the sfg.
+ and repainted il. II read "Ir
! Holmes, S Montgomery place"
Q. When was the special deliver.
stamp reduced to 10 cents 2--J. z. Mel.
/ A The Post Office Department Says
/ that the special delivery stamp has
! never been sold for more nor l-s
I than 10 cents
! Q. Can you ten me what is the mo
/ delicate use Of the muscles that maa
! can make u. T.
| A. 1t is said that the finest au5
most delicate use that we make Il
our muscles is in speaking.
/ Q. Where may [ find a suit
! Gothic armor Of Jeanne d'Arc's day
II. :.
A. No complete suit Of Gothic ar
/ NOR of that period is extaut.
df yo7s hare a question yop tgaut ar
| SlCerGd send it TO The Srar TnfC7.ad ion
! Bureau, Frederic j. HGsEtu. director
/ Trent1l-frSt ana c streets H0rtHlscst
! The only charge for thtg srrctec is
cents IN stamps for return poStogeJ
Evening star., 1925-01-21
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC J. HASKIV

1923, the establishments engaged pri-
marily in the smelling and refining OF
scrap metals other than gold, silver
ana platinum reported products val
ued at $35,7b5,50l, an Increase Of
1872 per cent, as compared with 1921
tho last preceding census ycaa
Evening star., 1925-01-21
Rate by MaiI-Payable in Advance.
Maryland and Virginia.

Daily and Sunday l VT, $40; mo-, zoe
Daily only........I VI, sc. 800; mo. soc
sunday only. ......1 yr., $24O; mo-, zoe
Evening star., 1925-01-21

While not conspicuously regular.
Hiram Johnson is remarkably con-
sistent
Evening star., 1925-01-21
The Student of Patronage.

Have you a plan for prohibition
enforcement?"
Il have" answered Senator Sor-
ghum. Raise the pay of officers in
charge of it and let me name the per-
SOnnel"
Evening star., 1925-01-21
All Other States.

Daily and Sunday yr, $1,000; mo-, S5c
Daily only. .......1 VI, $500; 1 mo-, 60c
Sunday only. y......1yr.. $3.OO; l mo, 25c
Evening star., 1925-01-21
The Erening Star Newspaner Company

THEODORE w. MOVES. . Editor
Evening star., 1925-01-21
The Coasters,

The Coasters.
Oh, youth in a snowstorm, what heart
could refuse
The swift life of pleasure you've led.
Some day you'll be owning a home
and must use
A shovel instead of a sled.
Evening star., 1925-01-21

@ Did Queen Victoria's husband
oficta1y' receive the title Of consort p
Evening star., 1925-01-21

A. The tf<le Of consort was con
ferred on Prince Albert in 1857 BY
royal Ietters4patent
Evening star., 1925-01-21

Don't remind friend of his short
comings," said Uncle Eben. "De
chances are you can't remind him of
thing his own family hasn't already
told him.
Evening star., 1925-01-21
Time for Improvement.

Time for Improvement.
When there are evils to be cured
We diagnose 'em first.
Investigations we've endured;
And now we know the worst.
Jud Tunkins says he's terrible sus-
picious that the overshoe trust is try
ing to get influence with the street
cleaning department.
Illusions.
1.-The way the world is going, 1 fire.
quently find it difficult to believe my
eyes"
with all this trick stuff in the
movies you're not supposed to-
Evening star., 1925-01-21

WAS HIN o N, D. c.
January 81, 1925
Evening star., 1925-01-21

The real significance OF the work accom-
plshed by the Geneva Opium Conferences Is
outlined by the distinguished American dele-
gate who has become world authority on
the narcotic problem
Evening star., 1925-11-24
Through evhose help our blend from the
old South has become the most popular
of all coffees in the United States

VX7HATa 10y tis-hat yearly Thanksgiving FEAST To evel
w with whole heart in the dishes you like best To think
gratefully for time, only of the blessings of life!
To you at this happy season, wish to bring word
of gratitude.
Among the good things on your table, will BE- perhaps the
though the country will be adding share of content
and good cheer On Thanksgiving Day.
That you have chosen this coffee which blend and
that many others have chosen it's for very plainly
real and continual for thankfune For the actual
builders Of prosperity clearly the and women who
drink and enjoy Maxwell House Coffee.
From the very years ago Tennessee the greatest force
business has been the good word spoken by those who
knew this coffee and liked it.
Nauysd after the Javsous aid botsl in Nashville
The first spread the news of Maxwell House Coffee were the
guests of the old hotel ITSELF down in Nashville Tennessee
From the days of the Civil War on the Maxwell House
celebrated the whole South for wonderful food
Year after year the great banquets and balls brought together
henotabe and women Of old Dixie
Long aterward in their homes they remembered the mellow
richness of special blend of coffee which served there In
community after community families who appreciated the good
things life took steps it for their tables
Today this same blend of fine coee that such praise
years sale the United States 1t has pleased
people than any other coffee offered for SALE
And today you enjoy the full favored goodness and rich
which delighted the guests of the old Maxwell House
the very start, long ago.
Now after many years serving the public wish thank
all those who through their good will have given Maxwell
House Coffee growing popularity Its they who haven
the made the work of this company lasting
CHEEK-NEAL COFFEE COMPANY
Jacksonville Richmond New York
Evening star., 1925-11-24

The most famous botel
in the old Soatb gaze its
name to this coffee gears
ago. Throughout the
southern states THE old
MaxwelI House in
Nasbpillewast tamoastor
itsfood, d,anaespeeiallyfor
this blend Of fine eofees
"Good to the last drop"
Seward daily gateway., 1925-02-03

Arthur Allesandri, President of the Republic of Chile, who has rendered his resignation, after the Junta, or
 military committee, had forced chang
 es in the Government. He and his family are now guests at the U. S. Embassy.
Seward daily gateway., 1925-02-03
Bureau of Standards
 Plans Intricate Job
(By Associated Press)

(By Associated Press)
 WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.-Among the difficulties encountered by engi- Ineers and scientists in variety of enterprises is that metal discs or masses used in weighing the more delicate quantities refuse to stay uni form in their own weight. The differ ences that arise from the ageing, oxi- dation, or transformation of the metal in the weights have proven so serious that the Bureau of Standards will en- deavor to rid laboratories and work shops of the obstacle, or work out a series of standard variations that will simplify the reaching of exact an- swers to specific problems in micro weighing.
 A whole series of metals and alloys are being prepared and tested out. Also the manipulation of the metal masses which go into delicate weights is being studied that even density may be obtained in the final castings. The work will not be stopped until the whole subject has been explored.