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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-19

HUDSON-ESSEX
COACHES.
Ideal Cars for Winter.
Year End Cleanup.
Another Reduction in Our Used
Car Prices.
Hudson 20 Coach. .$625
Hudson rs Coach. ...... SIS
Hudson "a Coach. ....... 800
Hudson % Coach. ....... ESQ
Essex 20 Coach, ........ SIS
Essex rs Coach. ......... 325
Essex ~ Touring. ..... $50
Essex % Coach. ........ 2o5
Kissel Roadster .......... 3Z5
Chevrolet rs Coach. ...... 375
Chevrolet rs Coupe. ..... AS
Chrysler '25 Touring. 49,. $50
Chevrolet rs Sedan. -. AS
We have. never before sold
cars at such low prices. Your
car in trade, but they must come
in at the right price.
LAMBERr-HUDSON
MOTORS CO.,
1872 l. ST, West of Conn. Ave.
ARE YOU INTEREsTED
4hE 4 PREwA sSs3oa TGMk w..
Main 4I73. 1902 18th st. NV.
VERY EASY TERMS.
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FORDS
FORDS
EOPDS

HILL & TIBBITTS.
30l l4th St. NV.
ARE YOU INTERESTED
4EEEP & I iS%fS s E Wi Sii e..
~ VERY EASY TERMS.
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CHEVROLET COACH. 1928 driven care
fully by owner under I 900 miles; good rub
Der. paint and motor in excellent condition
sacrifice S495. third down. balance 10
Hnnpfhs Narth EE22.W
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ARE you INTERESTED
In good used car?
SEE OUR ASSORTMENT.
Mi THE TREW MOTOR co.
VERY EASY TERMS,
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FOR SALE-AUTOMoBu.ES.

PT7TCK ROADSTER. 1925 has winter in
closure and heater tires. puco finish:
$3.50: terms. Wisconsin Motor &C., 10
Pa ave.
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CHEVROLET COUPE. latest model. almost
new: low mileage: 3 balloon tires. disc
wheels and several other extras Party
months 10 nay for it, Trade your car m.
Always omen. See Mr.. Springman. Peck s
Garage 2121 14th ST. NV.
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new car slightly used driven 5000 miles
by owner: 5est.Iooking car in town n;,e l.
bumpers front and rear. This car cost
81 300 few months ago Party taking up ip
nav for it. Trade your car in; Always
opep See Mr.. Springman. Pecks Garage,
p1oP I4th
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NO CASH ...
IF
You have good used car to
Trade. :
.,t@ IF -.>.-
You Have No Car to Trade and
NO
Cash, Or Just Little Cash.
Write to the address below,
tell us what you want and how
much you want to pay. Expect
a big surprise.
BETTER USED CARS" .
Address Box 1905, Star office.
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ATTENTION.
Now is your opportunity to
purchase a good used car at a
price which is more than rea-
sonable. -.
A fine selection to choose
from.
BUICK.
All models and prices. Also
various other makes of cars, in
GLIDING:
DODGE,
FORD,
STUDEBAKER,
ETC.
Best Terms.
Your Car in Trade.
EMERSON & ORME,
1920 M St. NV. !
FL FIR. $3.50.
Open Evenings-Sunday.,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-19

CHEVROLET; late 1924-Sport touring
disc wheels. bumpers. etc: very nifty; runs
fine: 500 all cash. 43 NJ NV.
CHEVROLET COUPE. 1924 model: recently
reprinted. new rubber, hrst-class mechanical
condition; a give-away for $3.50. and you
only need S65 to drive it home. Don't phone
Potomac 5S60W unless YOU want a real
bargain Mr. Fisher
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-19

CHEVROLET TOURING. 1925: mechanical.
" perfect; excellent balloon tires. spare,
bumpers transmission lock, motor meter
$3.50. terms: no trade Call Mr.. Connell,
Adams 6H0O or Col. 1h1A.J.
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L0DGE COUPE. 1879. has balloon tires
automatic windshield .wiper. rear vision mir
ror and parking light can he had on rea-
eonahle terms The Trew Motor Co 1909
14th ct n " Main 41T3
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This coupon ad will be accepted
as $50 cash on any used car in
our stock. Look these bargains
over, then cut this ad. Act
quickly. First come first served.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-19

FORD COUPE late 1926 driven carefully
BY the owner Just few hundred miles; lock
wheel, stop and parking lights: paint motor
and rubber like new: sacrifice; easy terms
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HUPP SEDAN, 1o22-Good rubber. snub-
bers sun visor mirror. windshield cleaner,
| perfection heater: a rare value as the up
| holstery is very clean showing good care ;
! terms: ask TO see No. 3017 Sterrett & Flem-
! ino O1SS Chan1piaiu at
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HUPP CLUB SEDAN iao5-Painted tan
Duco. four new Goodyear tires, cowl lights.
snubbers. sun visor. automatic Windshield
cleaner. upholstery in tan diamond cloth to
match paint--a rare value for SS50--yours In
trade: small cash payment long time on bal
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-19

WARDMAN,
1926 18th St. NV.
I'LL l4th St. NV.
1901 H St. NE.
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FORD COCPE--Late model: excellent condi-
ton real buy. S225. North o063-W .
FORD COUPE 1925 model; balloon tires
fully equipped: splendid condition: reason
sb]e A2r,s,s q IN 100
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FORD COUPE. 1872: in Al condition:
good tires. lock wheel; parking lights 500
nash ilhAnn Pnl hAAS-I
Evening star., 1926-04-18

Or else:
There you see the castle of Schlitz.
im-Mein with the village resting be-
side it. 1t was celebrated as the seat
of the Vehmgericht."
What's the population of the vii
lage?"
Or observe what happens when any
good American gets hold of a book
dealing. let us say. with modern China.
Instinctively. he turns past the pages
that deal with the history and the
customs and the ideals of the Chinese.
He doesn't care a cuss about all that.
What he wants to know is: How
many Chinese are there, anyway?
Presently he hits on some columns
Of figures that give him what he wants
and you hear him exclaim: Say, can
you beat it? How many Chinese do
you think there are in the city of
Hankow? One million four hundred
and fifty thousand two hundred and
eight! And look at this: The Province
of Foo.Chee- Something has four times
as many people as half of the popula'
ton of New York State.'
To which an English listener would
merely answer, us it conceivable?'
and forget it.
Evening star., 1926-04-18
mercan Artists of All Kinds Have Their Own Little Pecuiarites
Smokeless Tobacco and Wedding Days
Fail to Tax Perfect Fools Ingenuit
BY ED. WYNN.

~ EAR Mr.. Wynn: While visit
ing New York City was
asked what I thought Of the
IL so-called sausage" fashion
the girls have OF wearing
stockings. / could not answer as
did not know what they meant. Can
you tell me what they mean by girls
wearing stockings sausage fashion?
Truly yours,
NJ. I. STUPID.
Answer: Wearing stockings "sau-
sage fashion" means "below-knees."
Dear Mr.. Wynn: What does
union" mean when its men go on a
strike for more money and shorter
hours? Yours truly.
DELLA GATE.
Answer: That means the men want
1t in.
Dear Mr.. Wynn: When a business
concern has a failure" there are gen.
orally two kinds of creditors, just a
plain creditor and a preferred creditor.
Can you tell me the difference?
/. NJ. STUCK.
Answer: A preferred creditor knows
Immediately that he gets nothing.
while a plain creditor has to walt 50
TO 80 days to find it out.
Dear Mr.. Wynn: My husband was
saying that ne knows a man who uses
"smokelesS" tobacco. I've known of
horSeless carriages, wireless telegra-
ply, seedless oranges, but what In
the world is ''smokeless tobacco?
Yours truly,
INA YAPP.
Answer: Chewing tobacco.
Dear Mr.. Wynn: My wife and have
saved up $40. Now she wants to buy
a cow and want to buy a bicycle.
claim she'll look funny riding around
town on a COW. Am I right?
Truly yours.
WATTEL 7. DEW.
Answer: She sure would look funny
riding a COW. but no funnier than
she'd look milking a bicycle.
Dear Mr.. Wynn: I am AZ years Of
age and a single woman. Met a man
last night who has asked to call on
me. He Is coming to see me next
Saturday. / have never had a man
call on me before. In case he wants
to kiss me, shall ] call for help?
Sincerely,
NAY DIN.
Answer: BY TO means call for help.
If YOU are ~ years old and have
never been married and a man tries
Evening star., 1926-04-18
Arlington "Contraband Camp"

negotiations few years since for the
same harbor.
1t is not improbable that, at the
time of that important expedition. in
formation relative to slaves generally
in Cuban waters was gathered for
the interested attention Of Secretary
Seward, whose special zeal against
slavery was only too well known.
In letter written by Secretary
Seward on February 4. 1864, to
Charles Francis Adams, he comments
on the price of slaves at that date as
having deprecated from earlier quo
tations." and in view of the recent in
terest here in Washington in the pens
under the old Capitol Hotel, where il
is reported that slaves were kept over
night for auction at a block a few
squares off. this makes an interesting
sidelight on conditions of that time.
Mr.. Seward writes:
Il have noticed that one hundred
and fifty or two hundred dollars, l..
S. currency, is the highest price which
the most marketable slave commands
either in Virginia or in Georgia
One notable result of the CORES
pondence between Lord Russell and
the Department of State was the con
certed action taken to prevent future
landings of slaves brought over from
Africa or elsewhere.
1t is. in n way, a pleasant memory TO
have as a part of the background for
what has become the site of a ma
tional shrine, that those hills and
gentle slopes overlooking the city Of
Washington afford an imperishable
record of the courtesy and hospitality
of a nation in behalf of it's destitute
and helpless proteges.
There are few actions more credit
able to the Army and Navy men than
the friendly guidance in those years
that are noted briefly in the pages OF
executive document No. $50.
Evening star., 1926-04-18

it was sacked by Danes and never ex.
acuy recovered"
And what is the building with the
pillars?"
Some sort of court or something.
think
And after half an hour of similar
enlightenment the Engllshman takes
the visitor to some odd little corner
of the town to show him q little
three cornered stone that is said tc
have been put there by Edward the
Confessor.
But turn the interview round the
other way and see how different it is
Now, here" says the American,
right where you are standing. II
youth step up onto that curbstone
you are exactly 2,116 feet above the
sea-"
"Really?"
"You are right exactly on the divide
between the water running into the
Susquehanna and the water running
into the Youghiogheny."
Am I. really?"
"Now, just look q little sideways
almost due east. That big, square
building is our piano factory. / sup
pose you know that this place turns
out more upright pianos than any
place east Of Grand Rapids, Mich, and
west Of Paterson, N. j."
Does it. indeed?"
Yes, that building with the pillars
excuse me, I'll just turn your face
for you, so you can see IT. is the new
Y. NJ. C. A. The auditorium in that
seats 1,941 people, and there's a swim.
ming pool in it that holds 100000 gal.
Ions of water and can swim zoo peo-
pie at one time"
"Yes?"
And there are so miles OF car
tracks in the town and 200 miles Of
cement sidewalk.
This place eats more eggs in one
day than are produced in all Rhode
Island.
1--WE wear out 1000 pairs OF rub
bers here every month, and the Sun.
day papers printed here. II spread
out fiat, sheet by sheet, would cover
more space than all the leaves on the
trees in any park in Europe.
There's a little booklet published
by the chamber of commerce here
that gives you the whole thing-all /
told you and a lot more like 1t. I'll
send it around to your hotel"
Thanks. I'd like it immensely"
So, after all. is it any wonder when
YOU come to think of it that we are
moving past all the European people
with such gigantic strides?
fAApy1ght, 1926.l
Evening star., 1926-04-18

where he goes. Ills chief enjoyment
in life seems to come from doing
things for people and the only time
he gets mean is when you try to pay
4 check. Well, anyway he introduced
US to Valentino and Wilma Banky and
sgd Chaplin and Chuck" Reisner,
who is directing sgd in 1.-The Better
Ole" and finely. in the Famous
Players studio, he asked me If
wanted to meet Pola Negri and / said
yes and Miss Negri was resting be-
tween scenes of Naughty Cinder-
ella" which they are going to call
Good and Naughty" for no reason,
and she was reading a magazine and
| will hardly forget the self-controi
she exhibited when the introduction
was made.
Miss Negri,' said Teddy. this IS
Mr.. Lardner, the writer
oh said Miss Negri. and never
raised her eyes from the magazine.
At the Universal City we had our
photograph taken with Norman
Kerry. who was busy with a picture
called THE Love Thief asked
him what the story was about and he
said he didn't know as he had only
been working on il months. Vile he
was there a lady come up and asked
for his autograph and he wrote it for
her. 1t is no novelty for screen stars
to be asked for their autograph by
mail. but the practice of movie fans
coming right up to YOU and asking
for it in person is libel to cause a up
heaval in the lives of Hollywood's
artistes, many of who will half 10 take
= course in penmanship and spelling.
Evening star., 1926-04-18

Continued from Third Page
| then decided over by George Washing
ton Custis Lee.
Mr.. Custis had originally given
about II acres in the southwest corner
to certain of his slaves, and though
there appeared to be no deed on record
of this conveyance, the Government
had never exacted rent of the Syphax
heirs who made claim to this land,
and subsequently paid over to them at
their request $4,000 in full release for
the tract in question.
AS is indicated by letters and notes
In the diplomatic correspondence Of
the Civil War period. the state De.
partment discussed the question OF
slaves extensively.
There are messages that passed
briskly back and forth between VIII
liam II. Seward. Secretary of state,
and Lord Russell. and between w.
Hunter and Charles Francis Adams,
of the State Department.
On August, 1865. Mr.. Seward wrote
confidentially to Mr.. Adams that he
had just received "a dispatch from the
United States consulate at Havana
that it was informed by private ad-
vice that some 400 negroes from
from Africa: that they had been land
Cienfuegos at q distance of some so
miles.
Mr.. Bunch, then British consul gen.
eral at Havana, did not seem to know
anything of the matter, according to
this same dispatch. but Secretary
Seward was readily able to overcome
this matter by promptly forwarding
copy of the information to Lord
Russell.
TT is by no means improbable that
= that the gallant Admiral David d.
Porter was somewhat acquainted with
slavery conditions, not only along the
Atlantic seaboard, as already noted.
but also in the West Indies, for in
the latter part of 1866 he was dis.
patched on a. highly confidential trip
to Santo Domingo.
Though his sailing records on file
in the Navy Department book that
lists such orders do not mention this
interesting expedition, 1t is referred to
by Secretary Seward a few years later.
and also by the Encyclopedia of Amer
lean Biography. 1t states that Admiral
Porter went on special mission for
President Johnson to negotiate with
the authorities at Santo Domingo for
the harbor of Samara. for which a
bonus of some 100000 was to be
offered.
One report is TO the effect that the
admiral sailed out of Annapolis with
two men-of-war loaded with gold, In
order promptly to bind the bargain for
this important naval site that had
long been coveted by the Government. !.
But the deal fell through, as did alsd
Evening star., 1926-04-18
Screen Stars Should Not Be Compelled
To Give Autographs on Spur of Moment

so Mr.. Terrence wouldn't half to spend
his recess in a strange environment
Buster Collier come to Hollywood
three yrs. ago to stay 8 wks. and ain't
never been home since, though his
home is only 3 miles from Great Neck.
He is g. likable boy and didn't make
no squawk when he seen that the
young lady with me was setting in
his chair. We disgust his old man
Willie and we talked about this in
that and l happened to mention that
Grantland Rice was in our party and
he said, "Oh, another of my admirers"
which ! will modestly half to exclaim
that what he meant to say was "Oh,
I read his stuff, too"
There was no music at Charlie
Chaplin'S studio. but the promising
young comic made up for it by treat
ing us like our visit had rendered it
perfect day. We set In nameless
chairs and watched him make several
scenes in his new picture. The Cir
GUS" which comes out next fall and
will be a WOW from what we seen of it.
While the different lights and etc. was
being got in readiness. Charlie enter
tanned us with limitations of various
nuts and finely overwhelmed US with
a invitation TO dine at his house on
the following Saturday night.
. So we dined their en- famille with
Mr.. and Mrs. Charlie and the mother
in-law and Harry. Crocker. a genial
friend of Charles, who doubles as his
secretary and also gives him advice
which he don't take. Charlie has got
his own screen and projecting machine
and after dinner he said he had 3 new
pictures which we could take our
choice. The 3 was "Tumbleweeds'
and THE Devils Circus" and some
thing else, and we chose The Devils
Circus" This was our mistake.
Another feature of the Chaplin
home is a big pipe organ which
Charlie played on it for us. His taste
runs to soft. foreign sounding tunes
and improvisations and he plays
everything in the key of F. All and all
this was as nice an evening as we
spent In the West, and from now on /
will be a Chaplin booster. You renen.
Der how / used to pan him.
We dropped In for a few minutes
at a midnight party given by Mr.. and
Mrs. Conway Tearle, she being the
former Adele Rowland and one of my
favorite musical comedy gals. We
met Buster Keaton and Trixie Fri
ganza and renewed a old acquaintance
with Nora Rayes and seen 4 or of
the Talmadge girls and etc, but by
this time we was SO immune to differ
ent notorieties that / swear 1 can't
Evening star., 1926-04-18
BY STEPHEN LEACOCK.

~ n the train the other day
looked up from the book /
was reading-it was called
%-/ Five Thousand Facts About
America ca"--and 1 observed
that the man across the aisle was read
ing an almanac, and another man was
absorbed in an annual and there was
an old lady nearby busy with the
Statistical Abstract Of the United
states" The porter was leaning up
against the end of the car and read.
ing a book called "Coiored Statistics"
There Is no doubt that on this con-
finent we all have the statistical idea,
and we have 1t bad. In other coun-
tries 1t Is not so. Ask a Frenchn1an
what Is the population of Paris and
he will tell you that 1t is about one
or two million. He could tell you
also that Marseille is a very large
place with many restaurants of the
first class, and he would feel certain
that there are government officials
who could supply. If necessary, de-
tails even more precise.
In the same way no Englishman
could say how many students there
are at oxford or which is the second
largest lunatic asylum in Wales. |
once asked an Englishman how many
taxicabs there were in London. and
he answered, Il haven't the faintest
idea" He seemed proud of it.
They fall down on little things like
that every time. AS to giving rea-
sonable estimate Of the tonnage com
ing up the Thames every hour, or the
number of people in Middlesex with
one leg. they simply couldn't dc 1t.
How different it is with us. Ask
any man from any little town ir
America what is the population OF the
place and he answers at once. Eleven
thousand six hundred and eighty-one
at the last census" or, more likely, he
gives it to you with specific details
such as, "It is estimated that 5,21t
people at their Christmas dinner in
this town last Christmas
Similarly, when we arrive in one
another's towns. the first thing we
ask one another is the amount Of
population. A man gets off train
tired and breathlesS and covered with
the dust of travel and collapses into
a taxicab with the words, What is
the population of this town." The
taxi driver tells him and he reviNes.
For a like reason when we go
abroad we always ask first about the
population of each place. On the
deck Of any steamer on the Rhine
you will hear dialogues such as this:
THAT town over there is Ehren.
breitstein, where the Empror Charles
the Fifth was imprisoned"
''And what's the population"
Evening star., 1926-04-18
People Abroad Fall Down on Such Things
AS Statistics, in Which We Are Experts

Anybody will observe this national
distinction-our passion for facts and
figures and the English indifference to
them--if he is shown by an English
man or by an American round the
native town Of either the one or the
other.
With the Englishman, the dialogue
runs after this fashion:
Now We'll stop a minute here.
We're high enough up to get a rather
good view OF the place. don't you
think?'
Yes. what's the altltude:"
II beg your pardon?"
Il mean, how high are we above
the sea?''
above the sea? Well. really. /
couldn't say. You see, there isn't any
sea very close hereabouts.''
"Oh, yes, and what is that huge red
brick building Just over there on the
right?"
THAT? Oh. imagine that must be
| some sort of factory or something!'
"A factory? What manufactures
do they have here?"
"Oh, imagine, quite q good many
of one sort or the other! But of course
this place isn't what it was. You see
Evening star., 1926-04-18

bill of fare as quick as Egbert could,
on account we didn't have our French
dictionary along. well, since that was
the case, we both said we'd take the
same.
SO it was certainly n wonderful
meal. And when 1t was all over,
Cousin Egbert seemed to of kinda got
over his prejudice against the famous
hotels at least he didn't display no
objection to the food while it lasted
In fact, when he pushed back the few
remaining knives and spoons, he says
ha! how few of us really understand
the Art of Eating, especially we Ameri.
cans, really it takes a artist to order
Il properly balanced meal.
And Geo. says yeh. and a properly
balanced waiter to serve Ii and a prop
erly balanced bank account to pay for
it. And Cousin Egbert says, we'll you
will admit that was a delicious dinner?
And Geo. says sure 1t was. 1t ought to
be, it's going to cost enough! And
Cousin Egbert says there you go
agaln--money, money, money: all you
butter and egg men think about Is
money, Now. we artists don't con.
slider those things. With> we artists
now, things are different. The true
artist never considers money-what
is mere money. after all? 1t doesn't
count. Beauty. gayety, freedom. all
the things that go to make up true
happiness. that's all we think of.
Money. bah! l never even stop to
consider money!
A ND then. to prove that he meant
it, Cousin Egbert says excuse me,
please, will Just telephone about
the theater tickets. and by curious
constance, just as he left the waiter
arrove with the bill. And l says to
Geo. while Geo. was paying the vul-
gar check. l says. isn't Cousin Egbert
simply marvellous? And Geo. says III
tell the cock-eyed world he Isl
Just then Cousin Egbert come back
and told us he wasn't able to get the
theater tickets In the hotel. but they
would be waiting for us at the theate~
box office. So, naturally. / and Geo
didn't get no chance at that time to
go any further into the subject Of how
marvellous Cousin Egbert was.
Well, anyways, we went on over to
the theater in another taxicab and
Hot Bozo! / hadn't never until this
evening realized the great beauty of
the electric lights on Broadway, and
how they must have a unconscious
effect for good on the minds OF the
common people who seen them. But
on this evening / am telling about,
why come to realize all that on ac-
count while Geo. was paying Off the
taxicab and buying the theater tickets,
why Cousin Egbert took me by the
elbow and explained all this beauty to
me, while we gazed on 1t and etc with
our backs to Georges sordid act until
it was all over and couldn't offend
Cousin Egbert's hatred of wealth and
the dull, prosaic things 1t buys.
Well. it was the Follies that we