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Evening star., 1926-05-24
A Warning to Flappers.

A scathing arraignment of the craze
Of the American f1apper for a boyish
figure has been made by a prominent
New York doctor who states that
Ten million girls are doomed to a
haggard and vinegar-visaged old age"
In warning issued to "the young
womanhood" the physician says:
The craze for flat forms is running
the race. Young girls are swallowing
poisonous drugs to prevent putting on
flesh which nature intended them to
wear. Cancer is the nemesis Of the
human race at this moment. To com.
bat the inroadS Of this frightful
scourge we need healthy bodies. More
than half our girls, the mothers of
the future. are rendering themselves
unfit by their fight against flesh. BY
the methods they use, the girls Of to-
day are inviting every i'll to which q
human Is heir.
The drugs our young women Swal-
low daily would destroy a feet Of bat.
tleships. They do not realize that the
human body is the most complicated
chemical factory in existence. They
treat their stomachs as If they were
concrete mixers. There can be but
one result.
Although to the average person this
warning would seem to exaggerate
slightly the actual state Of affairs, there
does not seem to be the slightest doubt
that "f1apper ideas" Of figure and
dress. if carried to extremes, are dan
gerous to the growing womanhood of
this country.
Reducing for either man or woman
Is a serious matter and should be car
ried out only under the advice of doc
tors. Drugs of any kind should never
be used promiscuously for this pur-
pose. Every human is different in
body and in face. There has never
been and never will be a medicine
concocted which will turn out identi-
cal figures or faces.
So the fiapper should heed the ad-
vice Of physicians and cease her at
tempt to fight nature, because in all
cases the use of drugs can have but
one result, i'll health and shorter
span Of life.
Evening star., 1926-05-24
A Needed Reformation.
From the New York Times.

TUm tne new 1OTk 1luSs.
At last there has been a real be.
ginning in the needed task of rescuing
the fingerprinting system from the
too close association with crimi-
nality. which for so long has pre-
vented the full benefits which that
system always has offered.
One Of the big bonding companies
has persuaded the brokers down in
the Wall Street region to insist that
the fingertips of all their messengers
be printed and that the records thus
created be made available to all in.
terested. Shrewdly, but honestly, too,
the company emphasizes. not the fact
that thus the messengers will be more
easily caught If they try to run away
with the securities intrusted to them,
but the other fact that the messen-
gers will be protected from having
their identities stolen by men and
boys who only by doing so are able to
get within the breastWorks Of the
financial army.
None of the. Wall Street runners
can refuse to submit to having his
very distinctive mark" put away for
future reference, for by doing so he
purposes. And the more that honest
folk come to have their fingers
printed the sooner will disappear the
absurd notion that in doing it they
necessarily suffer humiliation and are
put in a sort of rogues' gallery. That
Is true only so long as only criminals
are subjected to the fingerprinting
process. When everybody is, nobody
will mind it at all, and the number
Of mysterious disappearances and
disputed signatures will be vastly cut
down.
Evening star., 1926-05-24

expression. AS player, as coach, as
official, as rulemaker, he was admired
by men even as he had repeatedly
sent them head-downward into the
mud. and beloved by men who had
never seen him.
Now comes the most interesting
part. Although the gateway is to be
erected at Yale, the cost of its con-
struction is to be shared by every uni.
versity. college and preparatory
school in which foot ball is played.
Could any freshman entering his
chosen college close his eyes and
imagine for himself a vision of the
future more gratifying than that?
Walter Camp won the right to the
varsity "Y" many times in a number
of different sports. Strip the "Y" or
the up" or the III" or the 81" from
the chest OF many Il brawny and
popular fellow and nothing Is left.
Camp was so much greater than any
broad white letter that the latter
grows dim and it's outlines blur. In
so far as human estimation goes his
spirit is entitled to wear the entire
collegiate alphabet. The campus" of
every such institution, irrespective of
the derivation of the word, enshrines
his memory.
Evening star., 1926-05-24
Grade Crossing Tragedies.

The grade crossing takes its toll of
life with a frequency that should stir
agitation against it until there will be
no intersections of railroads and auto
mobile roads or streets on the same
level Yesterdays known dead from
collision between trains and automo-
biles was fourteen and the dispatches
telling of the grade crossing TRACE
dies come from Flint, Mich; Fort Mad.
ison. Iowa, and Buffalo. n. Y. 1t is
not likely that all the grade crossing
accidents of the day have been re-
ported to newspapers. 1t is useless
to speculate on whose fault these
tragedies were. The railroad grade
crossing was thing inveighed
against when the ordinary roads We're
travelled by an occasional horse and
day passed along a railroad. Many
country roads carry more traffic than
Broadway carried twenty-five years
ago, and demand for abolition of all
grade crossings Of rail and auto roads
grows more insistent. We have got
rid of nearly all such crossings in the
District, and it is believed that the
last of them will be made safe soon
by passing the auto road under Or
above the railroad. In the country
near Washington grade crossings are
still numerous, but in the country
bordering the District gradual re-
lief from their danger is being brought
about. Sundry States are carrying
on work of making grade crossings
safe by eliminating them and New
York has had under consideration a
measure for the wholesale abolition
of railroad and auto road grade cross
ings, which calls for a very large ex-
penditure Of money to be paid by the
State, the railroads and by municipali.
ties that receive benefits.
Evening star., 1926-05-24
Coolidge on State Rights
Arouses Differing Views

ent) says of the present that 'the
States have lost much of their old
fashioned American Self-reliance. III
any crisis" continues the Ledger.
they come running to Washington
for help. There has been steady
breaking down of government"
The Executives words also are de
clared by the Yakima Daily Republic
(Republican) to have been timely and
needed: they ought to be carefully
read and highly treasured by all Citi-
zens of this Republic"
But. having applauded the Presi-
dent" laments the Asheville Times
independent Democratic). many OF
the visitors went home to lapse back
into a political inertia which in the
past several decades has seemed to
make inevitable the building up Of
that bureaucratic central Government
in Washington which the President
deplored." AS a remedy for the exist
ing conditions. the Reno Evening
Gazette Republican) suggests that
1.-The dangerous trend of the times to-
ward Capitalization of government and
bureaucracy could not be pointed out
in stronger terms than those used by
the head of the Nation" The Daven-
port Democrat Democraticl says.
Such rights as should appertain TO
the States, he declared. the States
should retain and eXercise-which is
very good Democratic doctrine, and
we thank him for it,"
In defense of the present tendency.
on the other hand. the Norfolk Daily
News independently remarks: I'VE
don't expect as much of our State
governments as we used to, and new
problems are constantly being taken
to the Federal Government for solu-
ton. Both of the tendencies are natu
raj to growing country in which dis
tance is gradually being all but OBJ
liberated by the progress of tranSpor-
tation. AS the American people be-
come unified in thought it is to be ex-
pected that they will look more to the
general Government as their most ef-
ficient agent" The Springfield Repub-
lican independently indorses the sug-
gestion made by Newton D. Baker for
direct contact between Congress and
the departmentS," based upon World
War experience, and believes that
more alert interest in technical ad-
ministration on the part of Congress
and the country will help to correct
the avoidable evils of bureaucracy"
Fright now, every hour and every
day." according to the Butte Daily
Post Republican) 1.-The country is
within full view of glaring illustra-
tions of the evils due to this tendency
to Capitalization. The wrong use Of it
resulted in writing the eighteenth
amendment into the Constitution of
the United States-the prohibition
section. That relates to a matter
which, beyond dispute, is the legiti-
mate business of each State and not a
proper Federal function. Woodrow
Wilson and others tried to impress
that fact when the booze issue was
at it's start. but their opinion was
ignored" The Peoria Transcript tin
dependent), however, states that
president Coolidge always has been
an advocate of local self-government.
and therefore his Williamsburg speech
cannot be construed as slap at Fed
eral prohibition"
Evening star., 1926-05-24
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.

Coy June.
It's May time, the gay time, the bios
soming play time
OF which we have dreamed through
the year.
But Winter still fingers, a serious
gray time
That mocks all our efforts at cheer
But bowers whose flowers with mys
tical powers
Awaken the mocking birds song
Remind us we'll soon have the sun
shiny showers
If we will keep coaxing along.
Why worry and scurry amid q sad
furry
And scorn the scant pleasure that
strays,
Because we can't reach with impetu.
GUS hurry
The balmy beneficent days?
The singing and flinging Of perfumes
are bringing
Assurances new to the throng.
So, let US join in as to hope we're all
clinging
And help to keep coaxing along.
Evening star., 1926-05-24
What a great deal one can accom-
nIiCh ~ nrn l,nu,c hoxx,f

What a great deal one can accom-
plish if one knows how!
This thought came the other day
as we stood admiring an old home
which had been remodeled after the
| latest principles of the decorative art.
Here was a frame house, not SO
much better than shed, that had
| been seen by a woman who combined
business with artistic ability.
Where you and I, kind reader. per-
| haps would have seen an old house
and nothing more. this woman saw a
| chance to make money while indulg-
Ing in her favorite recreation of deco
ration.
Today her home stands as an ex-
ample--we are almost inclined to say
a living example, so truly does the
spirit Of life breathe through the
structure-of what one may do If he,
or she, only knows how.
We are in 4 position to appreciate
what this woman has done with a
house, because we have done much
the same thing with writings submit
ted to us by others.
A. composition had come in. 1t was
we'll intended and had most of the
facts in 1t. but was woefully put to-
gether. One used to the (more or
less) accurate handling of words takes
such a tumble. and out of it produces
what the writer thought he had writ
ten, but had not.
SO with the old house. In it's day
it had served a worthy purpose, no
doubt, but it's day was long over.
Most persons would have thought it
only fit to be torn down.
The one able to see it's possibilities
however, had no difficulty in making a
what the rest of us would have
wrecked.
The exterior has been done over in
a soft yellow stucco, which time will
mellow into even more beautiful
shades. There is an old doorway,
with brick steps where the milkman
places his wares. MAY wandering
urchins never dare lift an unhallowed
Ina ando
Green shutters of a soft tone har-
monize unusually well with the walls
and with the maroon roof. The ex.
terror effect is colorful yet subdued,
arresting yet inviting. To get this
effect is given only to knowledge
welded to artistic sense.
An old light depends from the cell.
ing in the small entrance hall, up
from which winds a staircase in the
ancient way. To the immediate left
is the dining room. it's windows facing
in the street. We will describe this
room later. going now Immediately
through the hall alongside the steps
to the living room at the rear of the
house.
Here we find our dream come true.
Who is there, interested in homes.
who has not dreamed of the ideal
living room, large vet cozy; coIorful
yet not too 'peppy"; Il place TO read
undisturbed. yet where a dance might
be given equally well?
Such is this room. One finds him.
self in chamber 80 by Is feet. with
a great fireplace at one side. fianked
by built-in bookcases, the room
eliminating at the far end (south) in
three arches, through which one sees
winding staircase leading up from a
sunroom.
The distinction of this treatment
fascinates the appreciative visitor the
Evening star., 1926-05-24
The Sesquicentennial.

The celebration of the sesouicen.
tennial of the signing of the Declara-
ton of independence is to begin for.
mally a week from today with the
opening of the International Exposi.
ton in Philadelphia. The exposition
has been sanctioned by the Federal
Government and the foreign powers
will be represented both officially and
unoff1cially through the participation
Of their men Of commerce and indus.
try. Fifty years ago, the centen.
nial of the signing of the famous doc.
ument which proclaimed liberty
throughout the Republic was cele.
brated with a great exposition in
Philadelphia. That marked the first
of a list of remarkable and splendid
expositions which have been held in
this country in commemoration of
historic events and their anniversa.
ries, including the World Fair in Chi.
cago, the st. Louis Exposition at the
centennial Of the Louisiana Purchase
and the exposition in San Francisco.
Philadelphia, turning it's shoulder
to tha wheel has planned an exhibi,
t1oSf *S3l3X :sEno6eS11 SCALE at ones
Evening star., 1926-05-24
Urges Christianity
as Foreign Policy.
To the Editor of Tho Star:

To the Editor of Tho Star:
This is not sermon Il am not
qualified to preach one), or even a
moral lesson; it is an appeal to reason.
1 am not an enthusiast or a visionary.
I do not advocate universal disarma-
ment--at least, not yet. 1 am not
writing of Christianity as a creed "a
creed for which / have the greatest
respect), but as a logical solution of a
dangerous situation.
For nearly 1000 years the so-called
Christian nations" have ignored the
doctrines of Christ. In their blindness
and folly, they have systematically
practiced toward each other the exact
opposite of the teachings OF the
worlds greatest thinker and leader,
whose followers and disciples they
yet claimed to be.
Their salvation Il mean in a ma
terial and not in a spiritual sense)
now lies, not in leagues, or alliances.
or standing armies, but in a practical
application of the doctrines Of Chris
tianity to their foreign policy.
Our statesmen. rulers and poll
ticians must learn to know that Christ
was right, that He was an accurate
reasoner in a darkened world.
The reign of force and violence
must end. We must have peace on
earth," or our civilization may perish
In q death-agony Of mutual slaughten
BERTRANpS SHADWN&A
Evening star., 1926-05-24
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

moment he steps through the door
The walls and ceiling of the living
room are done in deep cream -colored
paint, while the sunroom and stair.
| case are in q light blue antique paper
after the old-fashioned manner.
X X X X
We could see ourself fleeing up
those glorified backsteps from the
Unwelcome Guest just as plain as II
we had actually owned the home!
Such is the inevitability, If one may
call it that, of the entire place. One
would have to flee up those intriguing
steps, even at the risk of breaking
ones neck. for there is no banister.
There would be no escaping falling
into a seat before the great fireplace,
at one side of the long room, nor,
equally, from allowing ones eyes to
glance over the embossed figures of
the mantel.
The visitor is not at all surprised to
learn that the mantel has a history.
1t ought to have-and, by George, 1t
has. 1t was secured at a ridiculous
figure in a junk shop.
Legend has 1t that the mantel orig
inally stood more than hundred
years ago in place where slaves were
'ouSi'I anu SOlu l<dultS Ol IL SyIL-
bolical nature troop across the top
front. or whatever you call the Sec
ton OF a mantel Just abaft the top.
On the left end. however, the lady Is
strangely missing. Some have sug-
eested that she be restored, but our
vote Is against any such desecration.
Let the Missing Lady be missed
unto eternity. in the same way that
the Venus of Milo must go without
her arms. and the great Victory with
out her head.
X X X x
We have fingered too long in the
living room. although that is exactly
the result every properly designed and
furnished living room should secure.
Let us go up the narrow stair. to the
landing. where we find a series of
three steps leading to a slightly
higher level, along a hall where a
bank of three closets hits the ladies
squarely between the eyes.
These three closets have Sky-blue
doors, which. upon opening. give
place to rows upon rows of shelves.
There are two baths and three bed
rooms. only one of which we have
space to describe.
The master bed chamber evidently
is a combination of a room and an old
porch now thrown into one. Six
windows, side by side, hung with "tie.
back" curtains, admit ali the air and
sunshine possible in this tremendous
alcove.
Descending to the first floor. we
enter the dining room. The walls
are finished in putty color, one side
having two recesses. with a shell eff.
feet at the top done in plaster and
painted the same as the walls.
To the side is the kitchen, also on
the front of the house. and with its
own door onto the street. Passing
again through the living room and
the sunroom. we go out on the porch,
which opens onto a c)osed-in garden,
where scarcely d cat might come un-
invited.
There is here brick terrace, a
grape arbor and arched trellises
whereon roses climb and bloom in
their proper season.
1t is on a cold. wintry night, how
ever. we would like this home best
Then we would get out a good book,
sit before that fire and let the rest of
the world go by.
Evening star., 1926-05-24

dangerous, and his condition such that
an operation was not needed.
* X x
Brother Senators who have had ac-
cess to the undiplomatic correspond.
ence that recently has passed between
Hiram johnson and Thaddeus Cara
way pronounce 1t model Of plain
speaking on both sides. 1t refers to
the possession Of Calvert Manor, the
colonial estate which Senator John
SON inhabits just over the MARYLAND
line. The Californian has lease ex-
pir1ng March 4, 1929, but that didn't
prevent Caraway from buying Calvert
Manor, over Johnson's head and with
out the latter's knowledge, last Win.
ter. According to Senate cloakroom
gossip, Senator James Couzens Of
Michigan was impressed into service
as a mediator. Caraway is said to have
been offered a chance to resell the
property to Johnson at a profit, but
the Arkansan lowed he wanted the
house and not the cash. So Couzens
has retired from the scrap, leaving
senatorial courtesy to vindicate itself
as best it can.
"The Romance Of World Trade" is
the title Of a new book just off the
press. from the pen of DIR. Alfred P.
Dennis, vice chairman of the United
States Tariff Commission. DIR. Dennis
has contrived to tell the story of in.
ternational business almost in the
language Of romance. He analyses, in
brass tacks fashion. the agricultural
and commercial conditions Of the sew
eral countries Of Europe. depicts dis
cern1ngly the genius Of American
business and shows in what products
Europe Is either our customer or COM
petitor. The Maryland Democrat, who
was a comrade Of Calvin Coolidge's
youth at Northampton, is one Of
Americas most experienced authori.
ties in the realm. of world trade. He
has seen official duty in London and
Hoover's earliest assistants at the De
partment Of Commerce Dennis de-.
picts John Bull as our principal busi.
ness rival.
Representative Edgar Howard, Bry.
an Democrat, Of Nebraska, is conduct
ing a one-man campaign in the House
against the practice Of congressional
committees meeting in secret session,
Howard is a. member of the House
committees on Indian affairs public
lands and coinage, weights and meas
ures. He has attended only one closed
session in the present Congress, and
then on the understanding that he
was at liberty to discuss publicly any.
thing that took place there. "a lot Of
people smile and think I am a nut"
Howard says, "but that's their priv
ilege. 1 believe secret sessions Of con-
gressional committees result in the
public obtaining much misinfor1na-
tion."
(Copyright, 1926.)
Evening star., 1926-05-24
Long Air Trip Begun.

A flying boat set sail through the
sky today bound from New York to
Buenos Aires. Most persons will fol.
low the news of this ship with inter.
est. She lays her course above the
sea all the way to the city of Buenos
Aires, one Of the worlds great
cities, and will settle to the surface
OF the earth or bays at various sea,
cost cities along the way for the
purpose of taking on gas and oil
and delivering messages to officials.
So many journeys in the air are be.
ing made which would have been &C.
counted almost miraculous few
years ago that millions of persons
read without excitement Of the de.
parture of the flying boat from the
largest city in the Northern Hemi-
sphere to the largest in the South.
ern, on the American continent.
So used has one become to wonders
in aerial navigation that no doubt is
felt that the present adventure will
succeed.
Evening star., 1926-05-24
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN.

, lot as far as there is accurate record
was in 1880, when the percentage was
81 per cent. The lowest was in 1920.
when the number was 500 per cent.
The lowest before the suffrage was
granted to women was in 1912 with
62.S per cent.
O. How are the elements distrib-
uted throughout the earth?-T. G. II.
A. DIR. Henry S. Washington Of the
Geophysical Laboratory says that
iron is the most abundant, consti.
tuting 40 per cent of the whole, fol.
lowed by oxygen, silicon and mag
nesium. These four elements comprise
about 81 per cent of the whole earth.
Q. What is the largest artificial de-
fense structure on the face OF the
earth?-C. III.
A. The Great Wall of China is the
greatest barrier built by man and ex-
tends for about 1900 miles in the
north of China proper. Of which 1t
partly formed the boundary.
@. When did people begin making
soup from meat?-D. A. T.
A. The art Of soup making is one
of the oldest forms of cookery or
which we have any knowledge what
forward of the civilization of the
world when man learned that game
which he trapped or killed might he
prepared by a process Of "stone boil
| ing" affording him a. broth and
meat in place of the charred product
| which hitherto he had cooked over
| the hot Goals. The skin of the animal
was his soup kettle in which he placed
the meat and covered it with water.
| Then the improvised stock pot was
hung in some convenient spot, ana
stones. heated in the fire, were placed
! in it, one after the other as they he
came cool, until finally, after hours nf
| toll, the broth was ready for serving.
! o. What section of the country has
/ the highest average of cremations -
| Z. p. NJ.
| \. 1t appears that the growth of
| cremation is most rapid on the
| Pacific Coast, and it is stated that In
| Oakland and Pasadena the number
| of incinerations has equaled 80 per
| cent of the number of deaths.
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