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Evening star., 1925-09-06
NEBRASKA SENATOR
SAYS SHIPS CAN PAY
Howell, After 92-Day Cruise,
Convinced U. S. Should
Operate Lines.

Senator Howell, Republican, Ne
hraska, who returned yesterday from
an African trip, during which he trav-
eled 80 days on Shipping Board and
foreign ships, declared he was con-
vinced that the only way the United
States could build up commerce on
the seas was by Government opera
ton.
This method of Government opera
ton of ships can be made a success,
he said. if they are operated for
blood" on a competitive business
basis without any gentleman's agree
ment. Under the present system, he
added there is no incentive for Gov
crnment shipping employees 10 make d
line a success because as soon as one
becomes successful it is sold to pri-
vate operators.
L. ). Lines iii Manned.
Foreign vessels have an advantage
over American ships, the Senator con
tinued. because they maintain a per-
manent crew. British officers and sea-
men go into the shipping service as
their lifetime work and after a period
of continuous service they are retired
on substantial pension, he said. On
the other hand. he added, American
ships are operated by temporary and
unframed crews, who are paid off
after each voyage.
Stopped for Repairs.
The Nebraska Senator said he
started on voyage on the American
South African line with a. schedule of
2S days. Tho ship put out, he
charged, without being properly con-
ditioned and three times had to be
stopped and have one of the engines
overhauled and 1t required 33 days to
complete the trip. He declared the
sister ship to the one he was on had
previously required so days to make
the same voyage with passengers
aboard. The British ships. he said,
maintained an unbroken schedule.
Evening star., 1925-09-06
Says Helium Progress Slow.

Satisfactory progress is being
made in the development of helium
gas" he continues. "By using nom
inf1ammable helium gas in airships
a means of transportation is devel-
oped which is sure, safe and reli-
able. We have, then, two means of
navigating the air that are fairly
well developed. One is the airplane.
Then we have the lighter
than air machine or airship. Neither
of these classes have reached their
ultimate development, but real prog
reSS is being made daily in perfect
result of the lack of:
''In few years we may expect air
lines from the United States to Eu-
rope and Asia via the Arctic and to
Australia and Africa via South Amer
lea and the Antarctic continent" the
book asserts.
The concluding chapter of Winged
Defense" harbors another sally at,
Americas air policies. LAS a result of
many years of service and an intimate
knowledge of the aeronautical organi-
Zation of each of the great powers,
the colonel emphasizes, Il am con-
vinced that our inefficient national
military aeronautics our undeveloped
civil and commercial aeronautics, and
our curtailed and interrupted expert
mentation in aeronautics are a direct
result of:
Il. A department of aeronautics to
handle the whole air question, CO.
equal with the Army and Navy.
Sees Real Policy Needed.
"2. A definite aeronautical policy.
''3. An organization, both military
and civil, to fit the aeronautical
policy.
"4. A method of providing suitable
personnel for all air undertakings.
'5. A single system of procurement
and supply for all air undertakings.
'6. A system of instruction and in
spection for all air elements.
Until these fundamental principles
for the creation of air power are put
into effect. the air power of the
United States will continue to fioun-
der in the slough Of aeronautical
despoDd."
Evening star., 1925-09-06
By the Associated Press.

FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany
September 5.-The report from Amer
lea that eight of the safety valves
were removed from the dirigible
Shenandoah before the fight which
ended in her destruction is regarded
at the Zeppelin works here as a logi-
cal explanation of the disaster.
1t is believed that the dirigible was
Evening star., 1925-09-06

tate a ship against the rocks With
the equipment available at present the
best thing we can do is to keep out of
these storms
Aircraft need have no great diff
Guilty with such obstacles. All that is
necessary is a proper meteorological
service equipped with an efficient radio
system and good navigation instru-
ments on the planes"
Il want to say something about
the lighter -than-air machine-that is,
the dirigible," Col Mitchell states in
another part of his work. The Ger
mans used a dirigible airship in 1900.
There were many ups and downs en-
countered with it, but before the
World War the Germans succeeded
in carrying 100000 passengers in
airships without a single accident.
Our figures show that, in the larger
airships with a full load, passengers
can be carried for distances of over
500 miles at about 312 cents per
mile An excellent lighter
than air station can be constructed
for about s5.000,00 Five airships,
running continuously from New York
to Chicago, could carry as many peo-
pie as are carried on all the fast
trains at the present time"
Evening star., 1925-09-06
Bic STILL SEIZED
ON CH|LLUM ARM
Prisoners Claim to Be Ten
ants of Roscoe Bruce,
Negro Educator.
Special Dispatch 10 The Star


HYATTSVILLE, Md, September g.
Five negroes and a quantity Of alleged
distillery equipment were seized early
yesterday at the farm near Chillum.
said to be owned by Roscoe C. Bruce
former assistant superintendent of the
colored schools Of Washington.
Efforts were made by Sheriff Fink
last night to communicate with Bruce
In New York to notify him that the
place was unattended and the stock
and poultry might suffer.
Wives Held as Witnesses.
The prisoners are Melvin ]. Stub
blefield, Hal and Lucius Layman and
the wives of the Layman brothers.
The men are charged with manu-
facture and possession Of liquor and
are held under $4,000 bonds each, in
lieu of which they were sent to the
Bladensburg Jail. The women are
held in $500 bonds each as material
witnesses.
Equipment Elaborate.
Sheriff Fink said the equipment
seized was the most elaborate ever
taken in a raid in this county About
100 cans which had contained alleged
lye, believed by the officer to have
been used to aid in the fermentation
processes of liquor manufacture, were
found about the premises.
Stubblefield said he had been en-
ployed by Bruce TO look after the
place in his absence.
Evening star., 1925-09-06

Feathers Of which the color is
washed out by rain are the curious
possession OF the touracou, bird ma
tive to Senegal.
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Text: but they measuring them
selves and comparing themselves
among themselves, are not wise. -
2 Cor. 1912.
RI T is the measuring themselves
by themselves and comparing
themselves among them
selves. that makes men conceited.
Here is a business man who goes
out among other business men, and
when he measures himself by them
he finds that he Is superior to them.
He is a more slxillful trader. and can
get more business. Overlapping
them, he thinks himself very high
When a small man compares himself
with still smaller men, he always
comes to have a high opinion Of
himself.
What the small man needs in
order to get a proper measurement
of himself, is to come into contact
with larger men. 1t Is not good for
any man TO live always among peo-
pie who are his inferior. This, some
men deliberately choose to do. They
would rather be big men among small
men than small men among big
men.
Such men are unwise. It is not
good for a man in business to have
dealings only with men whose bust
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RIGHT HERE
IN INDIANA
BY GAYLORD NELSON

the Apostles precept that inter
fere with their own comfort or
convenience.
only about one hundred years
ago men wore long hair and ram
bling boards flecked with soft
boiled egg. Yet st. Paul says IL
a man has long hair, It IS a shame
unto him. Until the invention VI
the safety razor and modern bar
Der tools men didn't pay much at
tenuOn TO st. Paul.
Now it is more comfortable and
convenient to be smooth-shaven
and short haired. So men pursue
convenience and for the moment
the resulting style happens to
coincide with the Epistle to the
Corinthians.
Why shouldn't women be equal
~ free in choosing their styles of
couture and clothes? If they
affect a certain method Of hair
dressing or style Of apparel for
convenience why should mere man
grow indignant?
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LOOKING OVER NEW
BILL AT THE LYRIC

A delightful little fantasy THE
Spirit Of Vaudeville, takes the
honors Of this weeks bill at the
Lyric.
AS the curtain goes up you are in
front Of what appears to be a
mystic palace. A girl inquiries Of an
aged man what is contained therein.
He tells her that it is the home of
all the amusements, that drama,
opera. musical comedy, burlesque
and circus all live there and indulge
in a continual squabble as to who is
the best an entertainer Of the people.
Then from out the old castle come
each in his turn the amusements
mentioned above.
First, we have Musical Comedy,
as this Offering we are given
tango done in very swift and
pleasing fashion. Then Drama.
Drama, played by man in
Shakespearean character literally
acts all over the stage. gives us some
real deep stuff. The Circus and Bur.
lesquo are represented in turn and
then we have some opera. For
those who have a liking to hear a
real good voice here is a treat.
Have you ever heard a rooster
do much more than crow at the
wrong hours OF the morning? II
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IN HE Marion County commissioners are
- again discussing the question of buying
and wrecking the two churches on the war
memorial plaza site. These are the only two
buildings that have not been acquired.
If the original war memorial plans are to
be carried out, and it seems at present that
they will be- we fail to see how the churches
could possibly be left standing.
The plan calls for large beautiful and
useless monumental structure. Undoubtedly,
it will be thing of beauty, and, if the copy
books are right, it should therefore be a Joy
forever. But it can not be thing of beauty
with two churches standing in front of it.
Undoubtedly, the churches themselves are
INTELLECTUALLY beautiful, but they certainly
will not fit in with the architecture of the
proposed memorial building. Their presence
would detract from its appearance to such an
extent that the entire effect would be lost
While we are determined to spend millions for
thing of beauty, let S really make it beautiful
We can sympathize with the membership
of the two churches, but we can not see how
they and the memorial building can both be
allowed to exist on the same plot of ground
On the other hand, we might be willing to ad-
NIT that for the good of the community it
would be better to abandon the memorial
building and retain the churches.
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A Sermon for Today
BY Rev. John r. Gum

ness ability is inferior to his own.
He may hold his advantage over
them, but he will miss the challenge
to a better and bigger business that
would come to him through dealing
with men ahead of him in business
ability and achievement. The same
principle applies in ones fntellectu-
al and moral life. 1t is not wise for
any man to associate continually
with men who are intellectually and
morally beneath him. To do so will
deprive him of the incentive and
stimulus that comes from contact
with better and greater men. Com
pairing himself only with his in
feriors, he will come to think of him
self more highly than he ought to
think.
1t was a wise man who said, "If I
could choose a young mans com
panions, some Of them should be
weaker than himself, that he might
learn patience and charity; many
should be as nearly as possible his
equals, that he might have the full
freedom Of friendship; but most of
them should be stronger than he.
that he might ever be thinking
humbly OF himself and be tempted
TO higher things"
Copyright, 125, by John r. Gunn)
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A Complaint of Fraud

R FEW days ago our esteemed evening con-
Ia temporary was clamoring for a grand
jury investigation of the late city election. A
little later it declared with the same amount of
earnestness it used in asking for an investiga-
ton that there has been 'no complaint of
fraud
Now DR.. Frank S. c. Wcks, pastor of All
Souls Unitarian Church and a gentleman of
high standing in the community, makes some
startling statements concerning the election and
insists he makes them of his own knowledge.
81 know there was wholesale corruption Of
the negro in the recent election" Dr. Wicks
said. 81 know one man who bought carload
of liquor to distribute to the colored voters. l
myself saw white man passing money to a
negro"
Even those who have so suddenly discov-
cred that there is mo complaint of fraud will
hardly question the integrity of DIR. Wicks. Per-
haps that grand jury investigation which these
same persons at one time were so earnestly de-
handing would not be amiss after ALL
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B0BBED HAIR
FOR CONVENIENCE

E1RS. HANNAH BRAD
IMI BURY, of Greens Fork,
XII Wayne County, who cele-
brated her ninety-seventh birthday
anniversary Monday, wears bobbed
hair. That news may cause those
who denounce the present feminine
style Of shorn locks 10 shudder.
But the near centenarian lady OF
Greens Fork is not an abandoned
flapper or a daughter of Belial.
For eighty-two years she has
taught a Sunday school class in
the church of which she has been
q member eight-five years. She
had her hair cut off for conven-
fence not to entrap susceptible
males.
Most Of the bitter condemnation
hurled at feminine cropped heads,
and still appearing from time to
time in burning letters to the
press, is ridiculous.
Such critics make much of
'woman's browning glory" and be-
moan the effect of hair cut on
woman's morals. These critics
mostly men quote st. Paul to re-
inforce their condemnation. But
they aren't so careful to observe
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Liberty Street is not very wide.
There's some mo Parkin' " signs
along the east side.
take notice every morning about
8 o'clock
There's several cars parked in the
400 block.
drive this street every morn
at 8,
And when I get there I have to
wait.
Give 1t your attention, If you will,
please,
And then 1 know that I'll rest With
ease. =
Here's the dope from Mr. Fixit:
OF all the pests, the one l hate
Is the guy on whom have to
wait.
And so to vent our mutual
spleen,
The case 1 told to Lieutenant
Dean.
mo parking means just what It
says"
Quoth officer Dean, land that's
no guess"
He told me he would send some
cops
To halt fore'er your starts and
hops.
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dollars and cents side to be con.
sidered, All things being equal.
Latin-American trade ultimately will
go where sentiment is strongest.
Europe is cultivating these people,
waiting to grab their business If we
can't hold 1t. And European agents
are not slow to exploit such plumbers
as Kellogg's. using them to fan the
flames of native suspicious against
the powerful Republic in the north.
That is why Kellogg's fist under
Gales nose was so serious a thing.
The incident may be CLOSED over,
but it cannot be lived down for
years. Mexico, likely enough, is not
blind to the difficulties which beset
the road of our Latin-American
diplomacy. Perhaps she is inclined
even to take advantage of them at
times. But that means we must use
all the more caution to keep out of
traps, not just willfully forging into
them and trusting to our superior
strength and the Big Stick methods
to get us out again.
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A SACRED
STATUTE

WILLIAM UPSIIAW, intense
IWI ly arid Congressman from
III Georgia, in an address at
TT. Wayne Sunday, characterized
efforts of organizations and in
dividuals to modify the Volstead
act as unconstitutional encourage
ment to drinkers, law breakers
and liars"
Those are strong words. But It's
quite the custom of dry crusaders
to shower rugged eplthets on those
who don't see eye to eye with
them.
OF course the Volstead act, what
ever it's virtues or faults, is part OF
the law Of the land and should be
obeyed and enforced like any other
law.
But it's not a sacred statute. Nor
are those who criticise It guilty Of
blasphemy. 1t is as proper and
constitutional for those who favor
its repeal to organize and work for
that purpose as it is to work for
the modification OF the income and
inheritance tax laws. the tariff
measure or any other act OF Con-
gress.
One Of the most recent criticisms
of the dry act is the report OF a
survey conducted by the Modera-
ticn League, Inc. Among the
directors and members Of the ad-
visory board of that organization
are such men as Haley Fisk, presi-
dent Of the Metropolitan Life; II.
S. Pritchett, president Of the Car
negie Foundation for the Advance
ment of Teaching. Henry Holt.
publisher; Elihu Root.
1t is puerile to charge that such
men are trying to undermine and
nullify the constitution.
Public opinion will ultimately
determine the success, failure or
modification OF the Volstead act.
AS long as 1t remains the law en-
force 1t to the letter. Nothing is
gained, either for prohibition or
the law itself, by trying intoler-
antly to stifie every honest ex-
preston OF adverse criticism.
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About Sidney Lanier

You can get an answer TO any CUES
ton OF fact or information by writing
70 The Indianapolis Times washington
Bureau 1929, New York Ave. Wash.
stamps for reply Medical legal and
martial advice cannot be given nor
can extended research be undertaken
All other questions viii received per.
sonal reply URRsisped REQUESTS co cannot ao
tiai.@EditoT. ~ ''0'
Where is Sidney Lanier, the
poet and hymn writer buried?
When did he die?
He died in 1881, and is buried in
Greenmount Cemetery, Baltimore,
Nd.
What are the proper hours for
a children's party?
For very young children the hours
are from four to seven or from
three to six. For children under
sixteen but over ten they may be
from seven to ten or eleven but
never later.
What was the relationship
between the present King Of Eng
land and the former Car OF
Russia.
The mother Of King George v Of
England and of the former Car OF
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enough TO point out to Lansford, the
man who comes out TO the African
town, the danger that he faces.
LangfOrd knows that he will not
step across the color line. lie fights
in the wrong direction. He compro-
misses by marrying a half-breed, a
sand walker" and sinks lower and
lower in the social scale. The doc
tor and Witzel know the formula
that creates half men. They blame
it upon sex hunger.
white Cargo" is now a play that
has been seen in many cities for
long runs. il is cruel in its dra-
matte power. 1t is the sort Of a
dramatic and melodramatic mixture
that gets into your very blood. II
IS Intoxicating at times, and at
times it becomes like a drug-it
forces your will power into quiet
submission.
When men talk in this play they
talk as certain men do in certain I'M
healthy conditions. 1t is not
pleasant talk, but it IS the talk of
emotions that have been boiling, but
have never quite gone over the
kettle. But when the spill does
come, it is quite a splash.
The woman in white Cargo" is
not romantic like the poor native
woman in THE Bird Of Paradise.
The sand walker" in white Cargo
even poisons her own white husband.
She is dirt just through and through.
There was romantic beauty or
rather romantic intoXication in the
Bird" There is honesty in white
Cargo" because men who are lost
are honest" in the wrong way.
Here is realism-frank. vulgar,
powerful and at times real. Strong
situations call for strong acting and
that is supplied by Leon Gordon as
Witzel; Wallis Clark, former mem
Der OF the Gregory Kelly stock COM
pany at English's some years ago,
as the doctor; b. ". Levin as the
missionary; James c. Carroll as the
skipper; Allan Wallace as the
engineer and Frederick Forester as
Ashley, a human wreck. who honest
ly desired to come back.
Gordon mounts TO great heights in
the second act, second scene when
he tells Langford that two and two
make four and nothing else but. 1t
IS a cruel but an honest scene.
splendidly acted by the man who
wrote the play.
Wallis Clark as the drinking
doctor" gives a marvellous concep-
ton Of a character that is just drift
ing toward the end of everything.
Clark shades the different mental
experiences OF the doctor as only
a great artist could.
Austin Coghlan as Langford Is
better as the natural young man
than he is the hopeless human
wreck. This may be that I have a
little different conception OF Lang
ford as a wreck than Coghlan does.
He is probably right and am
wrong.
TOT deleyo. the sand walker" Of
mixed blood, is a symbol more than
she is a character. And that is the
way that Jean Downs plays her.
Tondeleyo might be considered a
black skin edition of Cleopatra with
out the snake and the fan.
And that is white Cargo"
Az En0lfSh'S all week
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Russia, Nicholas II. were sisters.
King George and tho former Car
were, therefore, first cousins.
Is an alien visiting the United
States as a tourist or temporarily
for business or pleasure an immi-
grant within the meaning OF the
immigration act1
No. Only those who come with
the expressed intention or purpose
of making their homes in this coun-
try are immigrants under the mean
ing Of the law.
Is II possible to tell a pedigreed
fox terrier by the markings?
No. The markings are so varied
that It is impossible TO Judge a
pedigreed dog by them
What causes water to flow down
hill or seek the lowest level?
The force Of gravitauon.
From what college did the poet
Longfellow graduate7
Bowdoin College, Maine, in 1898.
Can you give mo an Indian
name for little bird7
Zitkala.
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PUBLIC UTILITY
VALUATIONS

rT7DWARD w. BEMIS. expert
r. employed by the Indiana
IL public service commission
to appraise the properties Of the
Indiana Bell Telephone Company
in connection with the telephone
rate hearing now in progress be-
fore the commission, places the
present valuation Of the company's
properties at $4,000, 900.
Appraisal Of the same properties
by the Telephone Companys staff
give a total valuation of S45,S6O,-
S7196.
Quite difference. The two ap-
praisals-both presumably the
work Of high minded experts who
wouldn't knowingly falsify
figure to save themselves from the
gallows-aren't within speaking
distance Of each other.
Which valuation more nearly
approximates the truth? No one
knows-not even the experts
though the 90 cents at the end OF
the Bell Company's figures give
their appraisal a bland air Of
rectitude hard to dispute.
Yet on the valuation figures de-
Ponds the future peace Of mind of
Hoosier telephone subscribers.
Rates fixed to yield a fair return
on the valuation Of the commits
sioI's expert would be one thing.
fixed to yield a fair return on the
company's own appraisal would be
another. In the latter event some
thing distinctly unpleasant would
befall the subscribers.
The wide divergence Of the ex-
perts' figures In this case are
characteristic Of most public utility
rate hearings.
Usually months of Investigation
and thousands Of dollars are ex.
pended in accommodating a mass Of
conflicting data that only serve
as the basis Of argument. AS far
as the public is concerned utility
rate question might just as we'll be
settled by mere strong lunged de-
bate without n digit I'm the room.