Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-03-10

Emile Berliner. Washington scien
tist and philanthropist, shares in the
glories OF the golden jubilee Of the
telephone. 1t was so years ago today
that Alexander Graham Bell con
Quoted the first successfui telephone
| conversation. A year later, on April
"a. 1877. Berliner filed with the United
States Patent Once his caveAt GOV.
erinN the invention OF the microphone.
Or telephone tfansmittSr. The original
crude design. made out Of a soap box.
now fills an honored niche at the
Smithsonian Institution. The impor-
lance Of Berliner's achievement has
never been popularity recognized. His
biosra ply, to be published this year.
In designed to give him merited place
In the romance OF telephony. After
perfecting the telephone, Berliner i'm
proved the talking machine. He in
vented the disc record" that has
brought music into millions OF homes
and taught the cowboy to whistle
era nd opera. Whatever the telephone
and talking machine may have been
before Berliner's time" says Waldo
mar kaempffert, co.author Of "A Pop
ulsr History Of American Invention"
In a recent tribute to the Washingto
Man. 1T cannot he successfully dis
instruments they are today"
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Opponents Of the World Court are
licking their chops with something
akin TO f1endish Elee over the ruction
in the League Of Nations about seats
at the council table. They profess to
regard the row rs prima facie evidence
that Europe is a house hopelessly
divided against itself. and one with
which America should not become
entangled. SO the anti-courters re-
joice over the delay in approval Of
the United States Senate's reserva-
tons by the league powers, fondly
hoping that the interval will sufice
to convince the American people that
! adherence 70 the World Court is dan
gerous and undesirable. The State
Depa rtment sees no reason to fear
that league governments will wait I'M
reasonably long before asserting to
Americas safety.frst precautions. Sec
retary Kellogg lost no time In com.
municating with the Sc or Sc nations
| In question. period necessarily will
| elapse before all counties are heard
from. Many states doubtless will want
to communicate with one another.
But suggestions that 1t may be a
wear or more before definite results
are aCnl6VeO arc uOt tdhcH bcFlOuStH
! at our foreign ONCE.
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Massachusetts, there she stands
observed DanI Webster on an inn
mortal occasion. That's about the
standpat position Calvin Coolidge
takes nowadays when asked for his
views upon various Issues OF current
interest. What happens in that the
White House spokesman regularly re-
| fers ina,iirers to what the President
| has said in his various messages to
| Congress. One day this week seekers
of information on the Administrations
attitude toward the Great LAkes.St.
Lawrence waterway were reminded
that Mr.. Coolidge expressed himself on
that subject in three successive mes
sages, and that anybody bursting with
curiosity concerning 1t would 40 well
| to look them up. The President il not
addicted to changing his mind. Evil
IDENTIFY his position, as set forth In his
MESA ges, is meant to stick.
y X X X
Magnus Johnson, erstwhile Senator
| from Minnesota, who is about to re-
| ceivesthe order Of the boot from the
| BODY he once adOrned-the throwing,
out of his contest with Senator Schall
is partially responsible, for an i'm
porta mt boon just conferred upon his
state. One OF Johnson's last acts in
| the Senate was to petition the United
States Tariff Commission to increase
! the duty on butter from to - cents