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Evening star., 1925-10-10

The humble weed of one period be-
comes an aristocratie plant in an
other
good home for so many plants diff
ferinS in taste and habit must have
variety of location. 1t ought to have
a front on a river with sand, muck
and marsh. There should. be sullies
that are, damp and bossy and which
sunlight not often enters, There
must be patches, OF DENSE woods and
patches where sun and shade alter
natesf ThAfe must be hills. There
,qust be atches Of field where the sun
shines fierce In Summer. Therecn,ust
be soil OF leaf mold and acres OF IA nd
sandy loan, and gravelly clay. 1t Is
not impossible to. obtain an appro-
pirate tract of land near Washington
II such garden could be started
there could come into being a col
lectors' society of mere or less skilled
naturalists. The society might num-
Der several thousands in WASHINGTON
and adjoining States. The planting
should be under direction of botansts.
Information of plants wanted could
be passed to u committee OF the
collectors society and the plant would
be brought to the garden. There
would have to be supervision that the
collectors society would not dig up
so many specimens Of one plant that
the variety or species would be extin-
Suished In our neighborhood.
School classes and clubs pore over
books and pictures and tramp the
country endeavorins to match living
plants against drawings and technical
descriptions. The work involved in
this is excellent training and perhaps
ought not and would not be discour-
aged. but in garden where the liv.
ing plants were catalogued and in
dexed study could be carried on more
effectively.
Evening star., 1925-10-10

ment that IF any effort to lessen the
destructiveness of the continuous men.
ace of fire hazard Is TO be at all ef-
fective it must be continuous" Con
slant thought, the Winston-Salem
Journal declares. should be directed
during Fire ePrevention week to the
following figures showing annual per
capita fire losses: I'm the United
States, $500; in Great Britain. ~ cents:
in France, 4e cents; in Germany, %
cents; in Australia. % cents; in Italy.
20 cents: in Switzerland, Is cents, and
in Holland, IL cents The Journal
remarks that surely, in the face of
these facts. every good citizen of
North Carolina and of America will
feel like doing whatever he can for
fire prevention.
IF the immense. unrea sonable loss
due to carelessness and slovenliness,
says the Danville Bee. can be brought
home to the people. we may in time
educate ourselves to see that matches.
cigarettes and cigars are eXtinsuished
before we throw them away that piles
of rubbish are not allowed to accumu.
late where the addition of spark
may mean conflagration: that highly
inflamma BILE materials and explosives
are handled carefully and respect
fully"
Evening star., 1925-10-10
New Hampshire Shakes Itself.

| New England indulsed itself in a
little earthquake of its own yester.
| day, a temblor of the fifth or sixth in
tensity. according to the seismographic
scale. 1t was a strictly local happen.
ing in the upper Merrimac Valley,
chiefly felt in central and eastern
New Hampshire and southwestern
Maine. AS far as ascertained 1t had
only slight results. \ few dishes were
broken. some chimneys were toppled,
clocks were stopped and canned goods
! in country stores were ratified off the
| shelves. 1t was just a little diversion
from the normally placid life of the
| region. 1t lasted about one minute.
There is no objection whatever to
| this sort of quake. 1t adds somewhat
| to the spice of life. To be sure, it
shakes confidence to some extent in
the stability of the earth, and there is
no place in the United States where
the crust is supposedly more stable
than in the granite hills Of New
Hampshire. Natures adherence of
change is nowhere more strongly
marked than there. There is one point
in particular where this sort of thing
is unwelcome. At Franklin. y. H..
which was apparently the center Of
yesterdays disarrangement of the
strata, a similar phenomenon occurred
last February. That one caused fire
in which child was burned to death
Yesterdays temblor caused no casual.
| ties.
| These strictly local earthquakes are
due, it is believed. to slips and read
! justments in the immediate under
! lying rock strata. Yet 1t is to be noted
that almost simultaneously with the
New Hampshire quake a shock was
felt at Santa Barbara, Calf, so re-
| Gently the scene Of costly disaster.
There nay have been no connection
whatever between the two, separated
by the width Of the continent, yet the
coincidence must be noted as sug-
gestive.
Evening star., 1925-10-10
A National Botanic Garden.

The Botanical Society of Wash
ington has urged again the estab-
iishment of a national arboretum at
the Capital, and there is no doubt
that the society favors the creation
of a park to include the world of
plants and which would include a
comprehensive collection of the fora
of temperate America. The Botanical
Society of Washington is made up
mainly of professional botanists en-
gagged in the agricultural research. A
resolution was adopted which set
forth that Washington botanists and
the research and educational institu-
tions in and about Washington need
the facilities of an arboretum as
much as mechanic needs shop
or a historian needs books and
manuscripts
A practical idea of national bo-
tanic garden is that it should in
elude all economic plants, Indigenous
and naturalized. that grow in our
climate. 1t should be the home of all
economic plants that are also orna =
mental and of ornamental plants
which have not definite economic
status. A sentimental and academic
idea Is that such garden should
give places TO all the wildlings that
grow in this part of America. Many
Southern forms have advanced to a
climate similar 10 that of Washing
ton and many Northern plant families
have sent species this far South
Botanists have listed several thou
sand genera. species and varieties
and these are described in books and
specimens are preserved in herbari-
ums. the largest being that of the
Smithsonian Institution. More than
one botanist has planted an imper-
feet collection of the forms of the
Washington region, but a public gar
den in which everything that grows
in our region, from the lichens, mosses
and ferns TO the oaks could be ar
ranged as nearly as practicable IN
their orders and marked with vulgar
and technical names, would become
not only a place of resort for per-
sons with a vague interest in such
things but also study ground fo1
those with a lively or serious interest
in plants. Even those plants which
for lack of conspicuous flowers and
from their habit Of growing where
not wanted, we call weeds
should have home i'll the national
garden. The weed may be interest
ing in itself. and it may be the poor
and uncuItured relation of priced
flowers and expensive vegetables
Evening star., 1925-10-10
World Series Weather.

In consequence of the fact that the
world series of base ball games be-
tween the pennant winners Of the two
big leagues cannot start until the
championship races of the leagues
have ended. the weather plays a large
part in the great classic of the ma
tional sport. The league games con-
tinue until the beginning of October.
when the frost may come at any time.
Two or three days must elapse before
the pennant teams can get together.
Thus the series may run into adverse
Yesterdays postponement in this
city is an example of the i'll fortune
that awaits series contenders and
spectators in these circumstances. 1t
would have been actually possible to
play the game. The grounds were not
Sufficiently soaked by the rain to pre-
vent a contest. Many a game has
been played in midseason in worse
conditions. But there was no assur-
ance that the storm would pass. The
his judgment the skies would clear
by one o'clock. The wind was Ger.
t%iniy shifting from the southeast to-
ward the south, and that signifed a
further shift to southwest and finally
to the northwest. But the high com
missioner of the sport, with an eye
10 the assured comfort of the thou.
sands who were ballpark bent, con.
ctuded at. 1880 that the chances of a
'learance in time for the game were
90 slender to warrant continuance
md. gave the word that caused in.
.ense disappointment to a multitude,
Somebody had to render the decision
Judge Landis. who has given many a
ruling in far more important issues
took the responsibility. His guess, as
it proved. was wrong. Nobody really
suffered, unless it was those who stood
Evening star., 1925-10-10
Aviation and Politics.

Representative Mcleod of Michi.
gan has urged the Presidents Air
Board to do all in its power to keep
the fight over aviation ''out of poll
tics. III the interest of the national
defense. 1t is d plea that merits con-
sideration, although it is difficult to
see just how the Air Board will be
able to accomplish such results il the
opponents of the administration. seek
to make capital Of the controversy.
The board can do this. however. 1t
can frame a set of recommendations
of such apparent real value to the
country that once adopted by the ad-
nninistration, and urged upon Con.
Sress, there will be small loophole
through which the politicians may
rally to the attack.
The Air Board, it is well understood,
has a real job on it's hands. 1t is COM
posed, however, of men in whom the
President and the public have con-
fidence, and it may be expected to
achieve valuable results. If Its recon.
mendations are TO be of value. and
are to serve in a measure to keep the
air defense from becoming the foot
ball of the politicians. they must he
definite and must outline a program
that promises to give the United
States adequate protection in the air.
Frankly, the Democrats are plan
ming TO start their campaign for the
election of a Democratic House and
Senate during the next session of
Congress. The issues, they hope, will
he made between the coming Decem-
her and June of next year, so that
they can go to the country with plea
10 support the Democracy. The avia.
tion problem is difficult one, and, un-
less the administra ton handles it with
skill, may lead to trouble.
National defense is serious and a
vital matter, and defense in the air
is becoming more and more important.
Agree with him or not, Col. William
Mitchell, with his slashing attacks on
what ne calls the bureaucracy of the
War and Navy Departments, has
ouoiI Liz Inauguration VI many VI
he people, most of whom know prac-
tieally nothing of the details of the
controversy. Col. Mitchell is the son
Of the late Senator Mitchell of Wis
consin, a Democrat. The sons OF all
Democrats are not necessarily them
selves Democrats, and the same is
true of the sons Of Republicans. But
it is not difficult to understand that
Democrats might see an opportunity
to capitalize Col. Mitchell's popularity
for political purposes in the event his
plans for aviation are not followed
and Col: Mitchell goes out of the
Army
Evening star., 1925-10-10
Spare Time Is Worth
$40, 900 to One Man

How much is ones spare time
worth? A'~hard question: to answer,
to be sure but the spare time; of
millions of people was worth nearly
$50, 900 to at least one man in Amer
ica. Mr.. Prosper Buranelli. has made
that much in royalties from the sale
of crossword puzzle books he helped
prepare. And there was a time, when
he did not think the puzzle worth
laboring over.
The moral of Mr.. Buranelli's story
is simple: if you want to make money.
plan something that will help count
less people kill the time which hangs
heavy.
But there is another moral, now
that we have got down to moralizing:
suppose those people who spend so
much time working crossword puzzles
had bent their energies toward i'm.
proving their minds. mo, the puzzles
didn't and preparing themselves for
some real work. If the little labor
Mr.. Buranelli put forth was worth
$4,000, how much more would the
labor of those puzzled over his defini.
tions had been worth if they had been
doing something definitely progressive
and oonstructive?'Fargo Forum.
Evening star., 1925-10-10

Land Leaguers" Thackeray's un-
finished novel, Denis Duval. ap-
peared in the Cornhill Magazine for
June, 1854. Robert Louis Stevenson
died before completing The Weir of
lIermiston." but the novel was after
ward finished by Sir Arthur Quiiier-
Couch. II.
q. What military rank did l,afay.
cite and Hancock hold?-J. d. 5.
A. John Hancock was a mai jor gen
eral Of the Massachusetts Militia. Mar
quis de Lafayette was in 1777 az
pointed major general OF the Initet
States Army. He was also ma jory gen.
eral and later field marshal Of ths
French Army.
Q. Who wrote Just Before the Bat.
tie. Mothcr"?-W. NJ.
A. 1t was written by George +.
Root and copyrighted in 1853
q. Who was Red Cloud III. II. +.
A. Red Cloud was the principal
chief Of the Oglala Teton Sioux Of
Pine Ridge Reservation. the largest
band Of the Sioux Nation, and prob
ably the most famous and powerful
! chief in the history of the tribe. He
was born at the forks of the Platte
River, Nebr., in 1922. and died at Pine
Ridge on December 10. 1909.
O. Are there more fire companies
! east of Seventh street or west of
Seventh street ?-R. +.
| A. The fire boat is located at tn.
! Seventh Street wharf. This is known
as the dividing line. In the city
! there are 2S engine companies and II
! truck companies. OF the 40 com
panies. 10 are east of Seventh street
! and p are west.
| .. Did Comdr. Rodgers and his
| men use their shirts for sails as
| Secretary Wilbur had said they prob
ably would DOR. f. I.
A. Comdr. Rodgers reports that
the men on the disabled hydroplane
used their shirts for sails.
Q. Why are SO many things bought
in Chinese shops wrapped in Ameri-
can newspapers?-A. y. 7.
A Thousands of tons of American
overissue papers are sold in the
Orient TO shopkeepers who find them
| cheaper than wrapping paper.
! Q. Is the production of minerals
| increa sing or decreasing?-C. |. J.
4. F. g. Tyron in his statistical
study of this subject states that in
.; the hundred years since the close of
the Napoleonic wars the white popu
lation OF the world has increa sed
tfireefold. while the output Of Sin ip-
creased IS fold. Of copper 63 fold. of
pig iron 100 fold.
O. Can the original gloss he re
stored 10 rubber Overshoes?-C. T. a.
a. The gloss on rubber overshoes
Is made by the use of a special ruhher
varnish which is applied before the
shoes are vulca anized. The gloss can
be restored to some extent by rubhin {
with Glycern.
tTHe resources Of the National
Capital proriic more information Of
| erery Kind than can be found in ann
other place IN the trorld. Fortunately
this enormous rolume Of hnOWlrdor
is ardudble to the expert in research.
We are organized to get it. The mails
1riN cdrrH II UHererer ii is Hecded.
tThe EUening star Information Burfdt'
,rdS established for the purpose 81
making this enormous body OF knoHi-
edge accessible TO yon. ASK rhGtfrer
you r0ht to HnoT and send : cCHfs
in stamps for return postage. 4d
dress The Erening star Informntion
bureau. Frederic J. Hdskin, djrectnr.
! Washington, d. c.
Evening star., 1925-10-10
Sees Need of Hospital
of Moderate Fee
To the Editor OF The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
A retired woman clerk. needing
medical care. applied to a hospital in
this city The answer was, Five, six
and seven dollars a day, payable week
ly in advance
There is. not hospital in this city
where a sick woman, even in moder-
ate circumstances, can have a week 8
care and medical attention. in return
for a weeks income. scarcely for a
months.
/ worked steadily out of my home
for Sc years-teacher. principal of city
high school, newspaper editor and
Government accountant. never
earned enough any week to pay hos
pitfalls smallest price for a week This
is probably true of ninety-nine hun
dredths Of the working women in this
city.
A lady recently sent for four differ
ent physicians in succession. None
came and none replied to her CALL In
the words of Scripture, Lord, to
whom shall we so?"
RUTH G. y. HANENS
Evening star., 1925-10-10
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS j.
BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN.

q. Why are hearts. spades, clubs
and diamonds used on playing cards :?
L. f. McC.
A. The figures OF the four suits
of playing cards are supposed to have
been originally intended for symbol
ical representations of the four great
classes of men and the names at
tached to these figures in England
arose from "A apprehension Of the
names originally assigned to them.
Thus, says one authority, by the
hearts are meant the sends de choeur
icoeur), the choirmen or ecclesiastics,
and hence these are called copas. or
chalices, by the Spaniards. Their
word espada. sword. indicating the
nobility and warriors of state, has
been corrupted into the English
spade. The clubs were originally
tief1es urefoil leaves, and denote
peasantry; while the citizens and
merchants were marked by the dia :
! monds (carreauX square tiles).
q. Please give some informa ton
about the old fort at st. Augustine
l.-G. J.
A. The ancient fort of San Marco
now Fort Marion, was begun about
| 1856 and finished Il century later. II
| covers 4 acres.
q. When did Ike Walton, the
| fisherman, ive?-H. o. w,
A. Izaak Walton was born in
Stafford. England. August g., 1893
| and died in Winchester December
| 1888. ..
Q. Are Holland and the Neither
lands the same?-R. II. l..
! a. Holland is The name of u
medieval country whose territories
now form the provinces of North and
South Holland III the Kingdom of the
, Netherlands.
| q. What is the transla ton of the
| Latin inscription on the Confederate
| Monument in .ArlinGton?-M. r.
a. The Latin is ''Nictrix causa del!
, placuit sed victa Catoni,' and is trans
| lated The victorious cause was pleas
| ing 10 the gods, but the lost cause Il
| Cato,
q. Has sal soda fertilzing value?-
c. p. l..
A. The Bureau Of Plant Industry
says that sal soda. known as sodium
carbonate. is plant poison. anc
should never be used as fertilizer.
q. In what places is it possible fol
| immigrants to the United States Il
be examined before leaving their owr
countries?-C. e.
a. This experiment is now beine
tried in the consulates at London
Liverpool. Southampton. Glasgow Bel
| fast. Dublin and Queenstown. Sur
geons from the Public Health Servic,
| have been assigned 20 these places
It is hoped in this way TO prevent i'm
migrants from coming to this countr,
| who cannot he admitted. II the plaI
proves successful it will be applied Il
certain other conSulates in such coun
tries as may express willingness Il
have examinations made in their terri
tory.
! Q. Why is British soldier calico
Tommy Atkins" &C. s.
A. II is said 10 have originated a:
the fictitious name inserted in til,
models given to soldiers to guide then
/ in filling out accounts, statements
etc.
Q. What are the names of some O
the famous unfinished novel" >
Y. h. &.
A. Charles Dickens died before h,
had completed Edwin Drood.' Lore
Lytton never finished "Pausa Mas. tn,
Spartan" and Anthony Trollope wa.
only on the forty-ninth chapter of hi:
Evening star., 1925-10-10
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEVELL.

Nov that you have opened your
letter file to the public gaze, give
us some more" writes M. l.. r. 81
like them. and ! am sure your other
steady readers do. too.
II agree with you that letters are
among the most interesting forms OF
writing. Maybe 1t Is because we feel
when we read letters written by
others. that we are reading some
thing that Is no business of ours.
I'VE are all like that, And il
seems to me. too, that you ought IL
share more OF your letters with your
readers at large, and not selfishly
enjoy them all to yourself, because
as general group we may he re
garded as one person, If you get
what l mean.
DO not be held back by modesty
Modesty is something folks who write
should not have, judging from some
other writer's | have read.
Pull some more of those peeps
into other minds from out the old
letter file. and pour them forth or
paper, that we who read and write
to you max see ourselves as others
see u.s.
Several other letters of similar
tenor embolden me to dip again into
the This and That letter file, with
the following result:
From G. H., the publicity director
of one of our large hotels. who EVIL
IDENTIFY believes in preparedness:
My Dear Mr.. Tracewel:
AT Christmas time some very
unique and pleasant things are done
for the guests here at the -----------
Hotel that I thought YOU might like
TO incorporate in one Of your Christ
mas articles.
There is not an elaborate Yule
time 'splurSe'-juSt simple little
things, like stockings at every door
a big lighted tree in the yard fol
all to share. and carols in the morn
ina-but the spirit behind 1t all is
delightful and it . is helping US &c
build tradition.
IF YOU think il worth your while
| will he glad TO tell YOU more about
il. Sincerely, etc"
\ gentleman who manufactures 4
soap TO be used on dogs and cats
writes
Some time ago on return oi
Jack Spratt after his disappear
ance we sent YOU circular ol
our hoping that you would
give it trial. Evidently you didn't
try as you NOulu not nave
had the experience outlined in The
Sunday Star in the use OF sulphur
on Jack Spratt for fleas.
We note YOU say Jack Sprat'
doesn't like a bath. We can assure
YOU that after one bath with ------
he will not object To another bath
to the contrary. he will enjoy one
if - is used.
This has been the experience o.
all lovers and owners of dogs anc
cats who have used Theil
pets like and enjoy bath with -
We have running a series OF ad
vertiSements in your paper. The Eve
ming Star, and are sorry that 1t didn
attract your eye and eliminate thu
experience you had with sulphur. b.
acting on our ad. which would have
have been given Il very pleasing ex
perience.
I'VE are sure that if YOU drop intt
one Of the - drug stores. etc. etc.
and secure both yourself anr
Jack Spratt will be delighted with ths
product"
From a Washinstonian at hote
in Lanca ster. y. H.. the following:
MY Dear Tracewell:
Knowing how you like and use
good English. ] am sending you a cir
Evening star., 1925-10-10

A ''death-ray" inventor pretended
to kill a dog by his apparatus. The
animal was electrocuted by concealed
wires. The keeIy motor has long
been forgotten. This and other per
petual motion devices have been side
tracked to make way for trickeries
more closely in touch with the newer
lines OF scientific experiment.
Evening star., 1925-10-10
-S-N~-.

After all is said and done. Col.
Mitchell will have the satisfaction of
recalling that he is one of the officials
whose personal presence was regard
ed as absolutely necessary to the con-
duct Of business in Washington
Evening star., 1925-10-10

Great minds are now at work on
devisins a law against possessing fire
arms that will not give undue advan-
tage to criminals willing to break
this law along with the rest,
Evening star., 1925-10-10

AS the date for the assemblage of
Congress approaches interest in prac-
teal affairs increases and agitation
concerning the Einstein theory and
evolution gradually lessons.
Evening star., 1925-10-10
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fh the Use for repuhiPatiOn of all news dis
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Evening star., 1925-10-10

The old theory that it needs two
political parties to run free govern
ment has no standing whatever with
MuSsolini.
Evening star., 1925-10-10

A lapse of time can always be de-
pended on to mollify popular resent
ment. Nobody now cares where
Grover Bergdull is.