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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-26

in the list Of provisions and hospital
stores of the famous old frigate Con-
stitution. The records of the Navy De-
partment show that for a three-month
cruise, the stores on "Old Ironsides"
included 33.124 pints of rum for the
crew. The crew numbered about 400
and each member received q half pint
of rum a day. The list Of hospital
stores, outside of juiep, disclosed that
the principal medicines were French
brandy, sherry wine, port wine, low
white wine and porter. Raising the
'Save Old Ironsides Fund" to defray
the cost of restoring the historic YES
sci which has lain for long years
warped to its pier in the Charleston
Navy Yard at Boston is making slow
but sure progress. American school
children started the fund with their
pennies. Now their parents are
asked to aid the cause. Secretary
Wilbur recently issued a glowing in
dorsement and promised that his
Navy Department would cooperate"
1t still remains bit of mystery
Just why the Government should not
foot the bill.
Maj. Walton A. Green, head of the
prohibition under cover" division,
quits the Federal service this week.
Gen. Andrews. who appointed Green
and had proclaimed him his strong
right arm" accepted the majors resig-
nation with profound regret" on the
eve OF Andrews departure for Eu-
rope earlier this month. Green's re-
tirement was generally hailed as fore.
casting for a certainty Andrews own
resignation. But Maj. Green insists
there is no connection between the
two. He says he Is leaving the pro-
hibition unit in order to have a free
hand to write the inside story of the
prohibition fight" for newspaper syn
dicates and magazines. Several pro-
hibition articles from his pen have
appeared in a leading weekly in re-
cent months but were devoid of SEN
sational revelations. Both Maj.
Green and Gen. Andrews have main
tanned sphinX-like silence when in
terviewed by Washington newspaper
correspondents as to the activities OF
the prohibition Gnder.cover division.
Perhaps now the real story Is to be
told. Maj. Green is a journalist of
long experience, once publisher of
the now defunct Boston Journal. He
ought to have a good story to tell
and will know how to tell it well.
\ X
Attorney General Sargent of Ver-
mont, the greatest fisherman in the
cabinet, as well as Mr.. Coolidge's
closest friend, is clearing his desk
this week preparatory to an August
at his home in Vermont, and
is going to join the President in some
fishing expeditions at White Pine
Camp later in the Summer. He has
been reading about Mr.. Coolidge's
fishing exploits with many a quiet
chuckle. The Attorney General is as
good story teller as he is a fisher
man and the fishing yarns after he
arrives at Lake Osgood viii make
these mystical pixies pale into insig-
nificance.
Copyright 1920
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-26
Paris and Her Visitors.

1t would seem that the Parisians
are becoming rather ashamed of their
outbursts of animosity toward Ameri.
cans and other tourists. who have
been made the object OF attack and
affront for several days in the French
capital The press of Paris has be-
gun to deprecate the maneuvers and
manifestations as harmful to France,
which they certainly are, and as not
justified by even the annoying con-
suggest that the conduct of the Wis,
itors in Paris has been any more
obnoxious or less considerable lately
than In the past. Unquestionably
some of them, perhaps many, have
been taking advantage Of the low rate
Of exchange to spend money more
freely than usual. Some Of them may
lay in large stocks OF goods. But so
have the French people themselves
been buying freely in consequence OF
the fall OF the franc. There was I'm
deed such an orgy of spending by the
French people during the recent rapid
decline in the exchange value of the
franc that the government sounded
a warning that this indulgence in bar
gain hunting was promoting the de-
cline.
AS for the misbehavipr of the tour
lists. there Is no evidence at all that
it has been more pronounced recently
than in the past. Paris has had
rowdy visitors for a great many years
and indeed has welcomed and ex.
plotted them. A veritable industry
has developed in catering to the
prurient tastes of certain type OF
guests in the French capital. Paris
has organized at least show Of vice
to entertain the free-spending visitors.
Now this fact is being realized and it
is noteworthy that some of the Pari-
sian papers are protesting the propa-
ganda Of the purlieus that has brought
in large profits in the past and has
given Paris an unenviable and unde-
served repute throughout the world
as sink Of iniquity.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-26
Craving for Simple
Life Declared ''Bunk' y

From the Cleveland News.
A vast amount of nonsense is talked
and written about the fervent long
ing many Americans are said to have
for a sweeping movement backward
toward simplicity in living. They are
described as poor, nervous victims OF
high-pressure conditions which they
can scarcely endure and are ready TO
revolt against when leadership comes
and start is once made.
One might think, If he came from
some other sphere to survey condi'
lions on this earth, that enormously
strong and formidable barriers had
been erected % prevent men and
women, sick of the complex and bur
densome life Of the twentieth century,
from escaping it, i'm whatever degree,
and finding the simple ways OF exist
ence, which they are pictured as GRAY
ing constantly.
But that, of course, is bunk.
There are still wide regions where life
is crude and plain and dull enough
to satisfy the most extreme taste Tor
negotiating. 1t is cheap and easy to
exist that way, II any one really
yearns for all that it means and i'm
plies. Entertainments can be avoided,
diet reduced to the plainest food pos
sib,e to, desire and clothing made ex-
trenely plain, cheap and easy to wear,
take care Of and cleanse. There is no
law against doing without practically
all Of the frills and refinements, the
rich interests and many-sided Milling
out of modern life.
The truth is that no one except
few freakish persons here and there
really desires the conditions many are
said to hunger and thirst Tor every
day. -,
What we often and quite generally
coyet is all we want Of the fruits OF
a complex and opu1ent civilization,
without worry or much hard work IN
getting such abundance of the fuil
life of the times.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-26
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES &. TRAcEWELL.

and on the way conceived the bright
idea OF pasting a label on the crea-
lures back.
This he did with generous hand.
| When the motorist discovered the
deed, however, he declared that the
washed OF the label and It's adhering
paste.
He then placed his charge in wire
waste paper basket and put the bas-
ket on top of his desk. The tortoise
dwelt in simplicity at the bottom OF
| his pen. poking out his head now and
| then. Rattle of typewriters annoyed
| the reptile, II seemed. He kept NOV
| ing his crooked legs in and out, and
once even darted out his little tongue.
"Why don't you give that turtle to
| Bill JoneS?" spoke up an associate.
HE has a big place and would like
to have that turtle; 1t would eat bugs
in his garden"
SO the tortoise changed ownership.
No sooner had Jones got possession
Of the Massachusetts avenue speci-
men than he spied the injured plas-
from. He thought that here was
case for the medical clinic Of the in
stitution for which he worked. The
doctor and the nurse thought so, too
An injury draws the world closer.
Even q suffering turtle arouses sym
pathy. Note the human chain that
had lifted q common land tortoise on
busy thoroughfare and put him into
a medical clinic:
l. Kind motorist.
2. Bill Jones.
g. Doctor.
| a. Nurse.
After the wound was cauterized, the
| creature was given back into the
| hands of Jones, who kept it in paste
| board box until it was time TO go
| home.
AS he lived on the bay. Jones placed
| the tortoise in a suit case for safe
| transportation. II was the hottest day
of the Summer, but the turtle put up
no holler at all. He had seen some
queer doings since morning, and was
game for anything by this time.
At the shore the fresh breeze re-
vived the spirits of the encased fellow,
clamped by Nature beneath his up
per and lower shells. He could smell
the air, and he began kicking his legs
and darting out his tongue.
what on earth have you got
there?" asked Mrs. Jones. as her hus-
band carefully opened the suit case.
"A tortoise replied Bill.
"a tortoise said Mrs. Jones, in ac-
cents of scorn. why, what are you
going to do with a tortoise
Put him in the garden
why, he won't like the garden. >"
"You wait and see," calmy replied
Bill Jones. who felt something like
hero. a deliverer of turtles, as it were.
Watch him wiggle" he cried. as he
held the critter aloft. HE smells the
breeze and the moist land. III put
him over there in the fern bed"
The family stood around as Jones
lowered the tortoise to the ground In
front Of the cool fern bed. The turtle
had his four legs. his tail and his head
all stuck out in anticipation.
He caught the earth with his feet,
wagged his tail and nodded happily
at Jones. "Good.by, old man, I'm
off," his little bright eyes seemed to
say, and he disappeared, going at the
high turtle speed of miles an hour.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-26
Dog Strongly Defended
AS Not Needing Muzzle
To the Editor OF The star,

To the Editor of Tho Star;
A letter from Mrs. j. r.. Heck criti-
cizcs what she claims amounts to a
fiouting Of the dog -muzzling law, and
states how many times she has read
In the papers of people being bitten.
For Mrs. Heck's benefit. permit me
to say that vast ma jority of cases
reported are untrue, and | say this
from actual experience as ii was al
legged that a certain dog bit a certain
child. The papers in Washington, ex-
cept The Star, came out with fiaring
headlines, stating two dogs had at
tackled the child. knocked it down and
were tearing its clothes off, etc.
When asked about their source of
information, the editors claimed they
could not remember it, and since the
law holds it impossible to libel dog,
what could the owner do about It?
This Notwithstanding that the pub
lished account was an absolute false.
hood.
1t is true that The Star was not
among the papers publishing this ac-
count. II Mrs. Heck will personally
investigate, she will find the facts and
will, / believe, reach the conclusion
that many things published in certain
Washington newspapers are, to say
the least, inaccurate.
Dogs are the most faithful and in.
telligent animal known. Read the ac-
count Of how a dog tore burning
clothes off a child Of certain police
lieutenant just few days ago; get
some actual irst-hand experience, and
then ask yourself whether you would
muzzle such a faithful companion.
] defy any person to show where a
dog has taken human life, as claimed
by Mrs. Heck. A dog Is just as much
entitled to defend himself as any hui
man is.
This reminds me of court case a
few days ago, in which it was sworn
that boys stealing apples caused a dog
to bark and this annoyed the neigh
borhood. The judge asked the witness
IL he would kick a dog If the dog was
on his property and the boys were
stealing apples out of his tree. The
witness replied, mo, sir, but / would
not expect the dog to bark IL they
were stealing apples from the next
door"
In one case, 1t was claimed a dog
bit a child. The doctor swore in court
that he had seen many dog bites; that
In his opinion the mark on the child
had been caused by a pin or nail:
that there were no indications of a dog
bite on the child. Understand, this
doctor was paid by the person claim
ing the child had been bitten.
r. A. HARTMAN.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-26

A mother who recently lost her son
has decided upon a remarkably fine
memorial for him. She has arranged
to pay the college expenses of a par
ticularly promising young man who
otherwise would be deprived Of the
opportunity for higher education.
Doubtless she will find an increasing
element of comfort I'm the realization
that what she would have done for
her own son she is now doing for an
other. to the ultimate benefit OF so
ciety. What n helpful thing It would
be if all the memorials throughout
the land were of similar nature.
The success Of a memorial project
should be measured by its contribu-
ton to human welfare and happiness.
Endowments for the treatment OF
crippled children, the provision or
public Fairgrounds, loan funds Tor
ambitious students--these are q rev
Of the countless needs common 10 al
communities. In making provision 10
answer such needs as these the donor
may we'll feel that the one whose name
is memorialized is thus made q per1na-
nently living force.
The day of the useless memorial
the memorial which serves no aitru-
istfc purposes drawing TO close.
More and more we see evidences of
broader and really constructive
thought in connection with them. And
when the desire for useful memorials
becomes universal many of the prob
lens in connection with the adequate
carrying on Of social welfare activi-
ties and educational enterprises will
be at an end. Then the millions upon
millions of dollars which are now an
nually spent for dead memorials VIII
be diverted into channels where tnoy
viii create 10y instead of sadness.
lconax4gh6 -4e2e.1 -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-26
Thrillers.

Accidents are featured in the news
today that reflect the public taste for
thrills" At Coney Island thirty-six
people were badly hurt in q collision
between two cars on q device known as
the ''thunderbolt ride a so-calied
scenic railway on which the vehicles.
actuated by gravity, slide down undu-
lating tracks without other means OF
power. One of the cars failed to make
the grade Of an uphill space and SLID
back into the hollow, to be met by
an oncoming car. The wonder Is that
many were not killed outright In the
collision. These devices are common
at all amusement parks and resorts,
not that particular type, perhaps, but
various schemes for thrilling" dashes
that are attractive because Of their
very danger. They are supposed to be
regulated and inspected, but accidents
are so numerous during the resort
season that 1t is evident the safe
guards against mishap are undependa-
BILE.
At Whitesville, w. Va, a bridge on
which 125 people were crowded to
view a free carnival act collapsed and
all were thrown into the river, Ave
dying instantly and others being more
or less dangerously hurt. These peo-
pie had assembled to watch a man,
his clothing saturated with gasoline
and set on FIRE, run along the bank and
plunge into the river. AS the per-
former made his run beneath the
bridge, which was a frail suspension
affair, the crowd shifted from one
side to the other, and the structure
broke. The performer was caught in
the falling mass OF humanity, but
managed to escape and get into the
water with only a few bruises and
burns.
Human curiosity is certainly beyond
understanding. The "dip-the.dips"
and the roller coasters at the amuse-
ment parks cater to it. They are at
tended by people who want to know
how it feels to fiirt with death. In
the West Virginia case the crowd az.
sembled to see CHASTITY spectacle,
a human torch. It was "thrSn~ for
them. They got it, but in a different
way from their expectations.
There is another item in the news
Of yesterday which reflects the cray
ing for dangerous spectacles. A pair
of trapeze performers in a big circus
tent fell sixty feet to the ground when
the bar on which they were sitting
slipped. and were desperately injured.
Probably a great majority of those
who attend these performances are
attracted by the risk of aerial per-
formers, who take their lives literal.
ly in their hands whenever they grasp
their flying rods and hurl themselves
through the air.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-26
Speed and Energy
of Falling Bodies

To the Editor of The Star:
In The Evening Star for July 70,
1926, was an editorial about the eaten
ing OF base balls dropped from high
points, Do you not agree there has
been some mishandling of mathemat.
ical and physical laws in making the
statements regarding the striking
force" and the speed of falling bodies!
Assuming ''in vacuo" conditions, lie,
neglecting the resistance or the air,
II correctly recall the laws OF phys
les, the following are the facts: In
one second an object falls about 4"
feet and acquires velocity or about
80 feet per second; in two seconds
Arr object falls about 81 feet and
ACQUIRES a velocity of about "a feet
per second falling about 48 feet the
second second, and in the three Sec
onds an object falls about 144 feet,
ACQUIRES a velocity OF about SO feet
per second, and falls about 80 feet
during the third second, etc. From
these data we see that the velocity
varies directly with the time, and as
the square root of the distance. not
the square Of the distance, as stated
in the editorial. For, in the above
examples. the distances are 16, ID and
ia, or in the ratio of ], 4 and 9, and
with square roots in the ratio Of /,
and 8. and the velocities are 81. 64
and 80, also in the ratio of /, and
However. the energy of the blow. raH
ed striking force" In your editorial,
varies as the square of the velocity.
Therefore, we have the velocity vary
ing as the square root of the distance,
and the energy varying as the square
Of the velocity, which makes the vari.
alton of energy directly proportional
to the distance fallen. Correct?
In the above discussion / have
assumed that by striking force you
meant striking energy, but If we wish
to go further and find the force which
must be exerted through the catcher's
or f1elder's mitt or glove to stop the
hall, then we must know how much
the glove moves with the ball before
it is stopped. For the energy all.
sorbed is the product of the force and
the distance through which it works
II the catcher lets his mitt or glove
give two feet under the impact. he
must exert a certain force; If he let's
the glove give only one foot, lie
must exert a greater force to absorb
the same energy of blow.
&. c. TERRY.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-26
RecOllectiOns of
Daniel Webster
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor of The Star:
Passing the statue Of Daniel Web
ster near Scott Circle, the other day,
put me In mind of the two old houses
built adjoining on G street between
Third and Four-and-a-half streets
northwest, now the site of the Arizona
Hotel. where Webster and Henry Clay
lived side by side and used to hold con-
versAtion over the fence which sep
arated them. There was an old print
ing office around the corner, run by
Mr.. Wright, and he worked for both.
He made 1T a business every morning
to call upon MIR. Webster and see to
him and very often accompany him
to Congress under large umbrella.
which Mr. Wright owned. Webster
beiTlg out sometimes of a nighttime.
making speeches and telling jokes Of
which he was fond. would sometimes
next morning have a headache 21id his'
friend Mr. Wright would work on him
with red pepper and sweet oil so as to
fit him for his work on the floor of
Congress. Webster's head was angle.
shaped and was often spoken OF and
commented upon while on the floor.
His last words were, II live again.
JOSEPH /. KEETER
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-26

There are, OF course, two kinds OF
motorists, the kind sort and the other
kind.
One Of the former spied small
tortoise painfully ambling across
Massachusetts, avenue the other
morning in front of Nicholas Long
worth's home.
The motorist knew that if he al
lowed the creature to crawl on it's
way 1t, would shortly be reduced to
turtle soup. So he stopped his car,
got out, and picked 1t up.
AS he had suspected. the reptile
was injured. probably having been
tossed by wheel, landing heavily
on the concrete, injuring his lower
shield, or plastrom.
The creature was about six inches
i'm diameter The thoughtful motor.
ist, being alone. allowed the tortoise
to sit beside him, and downtown
they sped, the driver conscious of
having done a good deed, and the
turtle
Well. it would be pretty hard to
say what the turtle was thinking
about. or all queer critters on land
or sea. the members of the group
Chelonia are the queerest. They re.
semble the heather Chinee" of
Faithful James.
Perhaps the tortoise was thinking
to himself:
Hot dog. Here I go for an auto
mobile ride at last. l thought this
Teller had a kind heart. that is the
reason / rambled out right in front
of him. You can always tell a Teller
by looking at him.
I'm bet he Is not one of the chaps
who goes around sneering at others
who call me a turtle. AS matter OF
fact, while ! was lurking in the grass
the other evening, ! heard two scien.
lists discussing my family. and one
said usage does not warrant restrict.
ing the term turtle to the acILa attic
~ called tortoise and land tur ties
oftener tortoise than turtle So
take your choice. folks"
Having delivered this address in tur-
tie mot tortoise) language, the travel
ing reptile became silent and looked at
the whizzing world from far back in
his carapace, into which he had re.
tracted his head and most Of his legs.
Surely no tortoise Tor turtle) ever
went on such a ride before He buzzed
along the tree.lined street, stopped
at the flashing of red lights, looked
out over hurrying crowds of grown.up
ladies stealing the little girls stuff by
wearing knee-length skirts and bobbed
hair. past big buildings, traffic police.
men, alongside buses, big cars and
little cars.
Finally he was seized by the upper
shell (the carapace) and firmly escort
ed to large office. where many men
were working. Placed upon a desk, he
Immediately went into his shell again,
being Of very retiring disposition.
Strong men stopped work to take a
look at him, and one fair girl took him
in her arms for q petting party, but
discovered that a tortoise is about the
poorest excuse in the world for some.
thing to pet.
Nobody ever says Mice turtle. Nice
turtle!' to a tortoise. 1t just isn't
done, that is ALL
After a while the omnipresent Office
boy appeared upon the scene. He bore
the turtle away to show to his mates,