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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-08-12
'WHlTTEM0RE
HANGS TONIGHT
Effort to Save Life of Prison.
er, Sentenced TO BE
Hanged. Is Futile

Beverly Farms. Mass. Aug. lc.
-tR)-lIpited States Supreme
Court Jdstice Oliver Wendell
Holmes today denied the applica-
ti0n for . writ Of error made BY
Attorney G. l.. PendietOn In he.
half Of Richard Reese White
more. under sentence Of death In
Baltimore.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-08-12

Mostly cloudy tonight and Friday
with possibly showers warmer tonight
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-11-05
1000 CLAIM HAIL LOSS
South Dakota Farmers Get Insur.
ance for Crop Damage.
~ United Press

BIZ United Press
PIERRE, S. D., Nov. 1.-Two
thousand farmers have claimed hail
losses for 1928, the State hail insur.
ance department has announced.
The. payment will necessitate the
outlay Of nearly a half million dol
lars. it has been estimated.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-05

bred by the picnic spirit. People take
desperate chances on such occasions.
Old and young seem to forget the
ordinary rules of caution and run
deadly risks
On the roads the percentage of
ends and on holidays. The. highways
are crowded with vehicles, mostly
motors. Their drivers race with death
and often lose. They crowd at the
turns, speeding furiously to gain little
distances. as though some grave issue
We're at stake. They cut down their
margins of safety To the narroWest
point, and hundreds of them come to
grief, and their passengers with them.
They dash upon the railroad tracks
at grade crossings. only to find that
they cannot beat the trains, and fur
nish occasion for roruners juries to
render Nerdicts of reckless driving.
Novices 80 swimming or boating
and many are drowned. Little chill
dren venture into dangerous waters
all waters are dangerous to them
and when they find themselves in
peril scream for help and often their
rescuers are drowned with them.
Campers Indifferent to others
rights, build fires to prepare their
meals and allow the embers to remain,
TO be blown into flame and spread
into underbrush and destroy thou
sands OF trees, perhaps dwellings and
stock.
These are some of the sacrifices
that are made constantly to the great
Sod Fun. The cost is uncountable
The distress and sorrow are unmeas-
uiable. This is indeed rare and
wonderful civilization.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-05
Bad Holiday Weather.

Tens of thousands of people have
been disappointed by the weather.
With Independence day falling on
Sunday and the official celebration
occurring on Monday, three -day
holiday has this year become pos
sible. Saturday was fair and warm,
an ideal Summer day. The prospect
was good for three delightful days, a
long stretch of pleasurable outing
time. Had those who planned pro-
tracted picnics and drives and dis
tant visits consulted the weather
map" on Saturday morning, however,
they would have found there warn
ing of unfavorable conditions. A
''low" of decided character would
have been found looming near, in the
region from which come the pro-
longed disturbances.
These storms develop somewhere
in the waters south of this continent
and sweep up along the coast, their
centers located somewhat inland.
They swing curvingly toward the
northeast, following the shore. AS
long as their centers lie to the south
and west of this region, the winds
come from the northeast and east;
which are weather breeders"
There is at least one dependable
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-05

much it is on it's queen of Summer
| Towering bulbs, the name is still
| spelled gladioli for the plural prac-
| tically everywhere. In order to avoid
| constant dispute with the proofroon
| we ourselves have used the Latin
| plural in this column, after writing
| last Summer in praise of the one form
and pronunciation "gladi-o-lus" for
both singular and plural.
y u X
The flower names almost without
| exception are beautiful, as is wit
messed by the adoption by the human
race of many of them as names for
girls.
Rose. Lily. Violet. Pansy. Iris
these are but few of the common
ones. Even those that have not
been so adopted are beautiful and
might we'll be chosen.
Would not "GladiOlus' make re
sounding name for boy-"little
sWord"-and how about "Gladiola'
for q girl? 1t is true there is no
such form as the latter, but we could
use 1t anyway.
Poppy Is a name sometimes heard
Anchusa, gentian-blue flower, is
pretty. Gentian, by the way, Is
sometimes used as name. Astet
is not bad, while Daisy is world
known.
The columbine is a garden friend
and has given its name to an old
theatrical favorite. Candytuft. tulip
calendula. hyacinth, campanula are
lords that trip off the tongue.
Carnation is word known to
every one. because the flower has
had a great and deserved vogue.
There is, too, the cineraria, the
coreopsis. the delphinium.
Gypsophila has the pleasant sub
name of "baby's breath Linaria
trailing plant, is another pretty
for naming a flower of the human
family.
Why use the commonplace names
for girl babies when there is avail
Would not Nemesia, too, be pretty?
Lobeiia is not bad either.
Mignonette has long been a ia
vorite name among the French.
Phlox is not bad sounding, although
perhaps too unusual for a human
name. j. Phlox Smith might shock
the natives. indeed.
The tufted pansies. or violas, have
given us our name Viola. Polyan
thus would do as the masculine form
of Poliyanna. perhaps. And Primula,
now: but hardly Rudbeckia. Scabiosa
or Pyrethrum'
Tritoma (red-hot poker plant
would do for Il modern "go-getter.'
Veronica. also called the speedwell
is sometimes used as a human name.
Narcissus. name of ancient days
is now best known as that of one
of our most popular Spring Towering
bulbs. Amaryllis, the giant Towering
is often used as u name. JOnquil
hath a right pleasant sound, as hath
Anemone. Nor should we omit
Peony. the queen of the May.
Among the bulbs we like crocus
coy little fellow, and frtillaria
which reminds us of fritters, and the
freesia. of which one variety is
named General Pershing.
Surely we have given enough tc
show that the flower names are beau
tiful and easily pronounced by any
one who will take the trouble to look
at them and spell them over men
tally to himself before he speaks.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-05
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

More persons experience troubl
pronouncinS flower names than any
other words. Men who will think
nothing at all of "appendectomy'
shy horribly at so innocent word as
"gladiolus"
"Chrysanthemum" becomes "crys
er-anthemum," "Hydrangea" rolls
forth as ny geranium," even such q
primary term as iris becomes
iriSheS."
These are typical cases. spoken in
our nearing by persons who know
better, If only they would stop and
consider. The trouble arises because
they will not look at a word long
enough TO become familiar with it
1t Is impossible, for instance, for
any one to pronounce iris as irish
the name of a great race of people
II only they will take the time and
trouble to really look at the word
in print
There is perhaps no one who is
not familiar with the iris of the eye
and not a one would experience any
dlfflculty i'll pronouncing the word
correctly in connection with the eve
but when they talk of the flower, iris
they become confused and blundel
into ''irishes."
Now. there are German iris. and
Japanese iris, so-called Dutch iris, and
the Florentine iris. but there are no
Irish iris, as far as we know, al.
though there may be species growing
in the Emerald Isle, at that.
Chrysa millennium, we admit, is a
mouthful as the modern expression
has it. yet even this is commonly
handled without mistake by most on
account of the popularity of this
glory of the Autumn garden.
The joke of ii is that the word,
properly pronounced. is much easier
to say than "crys.e -
which is no word at all, properly
speaking.
A Thy geranium,' we discovered. is
nothing more than the hydrange the
amateur gardener confusing this
flower with the Geranium. a term ia =
miliar through long usage to prac-
tically every one.
Very few stop to realize any more
that they are talking Latin when
they say geranium. or any one of a
hundred other familiar flower names
Yet out of 10 persons still STUN
BILE over the word "gladiolus." as if
it were a veritable jaw breaker.
iiiF ~ hdS, III pal " lilC Slic'~
berry formerly prevalent, which al
lowed person who preferred the
Latin pronunciation to openly cor
rect one who used the straight Eng
lish.
AS d matter of fact. those who so
glibly pronounced it glad eye olus, -
We're incorrect themselves, since the
best Latin dictionaries give it as
glad eyeawlus.' the accent on the
second syllable, in both cases.
Those who prefer the American
pronunciation stuck consistently to
"gla % luS. giving the normal
English accent on the next to the
last syllable Those with feel for
our language will instantly sense the
satisfaction of this pronunciation.
So much confusion resulted that
the American Gladiolus Society, at
it's convention last Summer, adopted
the single form "Gladi o -lus" for both
singular and plural. Thus one speaks
of one gladiolus or two gladiolus. ac.
cordng to this form.
Since the society, however. is not
an authority on language, however
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-05
Who Can Sing the
National Anthem?

To the Editor of The Star:
The Star of July carries an edi-
torial. mo Hatred in the Song
After reading this with much interest
and being struck with the truth of
the statement that very few Ameri-
cans know more than the first verse
of The Star Spangled Banner re
called that in my book Scraps of
Paper" which contains clippings from
here. there and everywhere. l have
the following, which was written by
John Radameyer of the Akron. Ohio,
Rotary Club. 1t might be of interest.
Oh. say. can you sing from the start to the
What So proudly YOU stand for when or
chestras play 1t: :.
When the whole congregation. IN voices that
Strike up the grand march. and then tor
ture and slay it:
How they below and shout. when they re
But t hes' da ssafs'ne eariy light finds them
laundering about -,
It's THE Star Spangled Banner" they re
But they don't know the words of the pre-
cious old thing.
Hank! the "twilights last cleaning" has
some of them stopt.
But the valiant survivors press forward
To the ramparts we watched where some
others are dropt
And the loss of the leaders is manifest
The "rocket's red glare gives the bravest
And there's s but few left to face 1.-THE bombs
It's thin line of heroes that manage to
The last Of the verse and 1.-The home of the
EDWIN F. HILL.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-05
Drill in Schools
Approved by Many Editors

ut now appears that the differences
drawn from the Presidents state
ments." says the indianapolis Star.
were other than those he wished to
convey. 1t is insisted that he took.
no unqualified stand against cons
pulsory training, but only remarked
that. in his opinion, such training
should have for it's purpose the bet
terment of mind and body, and not
the incubation of a military spirit"
This paper further states that the
Presidents attitude is that of every
patriotic citizen and 1t is chiefly be-
cause of the physical exercise and the
important factor of mental discipline
that the military training is so
highly commended"
Touching on the history of military
training in colleges. the Milwaukee
Journal remarks: I'VE have had COM
pulsory military courses in colleges
for so years without producing a mill
tary spirit. Military training came
into these schools through the land
grant act Of July. 1862. 1t was es-
sentially a war measure, dictated by
the state of the Union that then was
in the throes of civil conflict. Con
Sress. in granting thousands of acres
OF land to found schools for the pro
motion OF agriculture and the me-
chanical arts, specified that these
schools must give courses in military
training. It was thought of as Just
one means OF promoting national de-
fense,' the Journal concludes, as il
noted that I'VE have now progressed
far beyond that point. We have a
plan of national defense by which
citizens, coming of their own free
will into the Officers Reserve Corps,
the National Guard units and the citi-
zens military training camps, are pre-
pared to take part in national Defense
X X X
Says the Memphis News Scimitar.
The person who attends one of these
camps is not necessarily more mill
tant. but he should come out Of the
intensive training more efficient,
stronger and better poised than when
he went in" In the judgment Of the
GAINESVILLE Daily Gazette, Ito have the
carriage, the upstandngness.f the pre-
ciSiOn of movement of the soldier and
the slouchiness removed and a good
physique in its place never hurt a
hair on the head of a single youth of
the United States.".
AS to the instruction given at the
camps the Seattle Daily Times says,
ut is likely that the purely military
side of the training will be forgot
ten long before the young men are
needed to defend the country, but the
lessons in citizenship, in patriotism
and in athletics will remain with them
always" Comment from the Appleton
Post. Crescent is that military train
ing builds self-reliant character, and
certainly this country and the world
needs a, good stiff injection of that"
Declaring its belief that the train
ing Of youth for citizenship should in
clude the rudiments Of service in the
national defense. the San Francisco
Bulletin says. There Is no defiance in
the spirit of the American people, and
though We should be better able TO
defend ourselves we should not be any
more defiant If every boy In the
country knew how to carry Q rife and
every girl how to use bandage."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-05

weather sign in Washington, the
sonian Institution, which, free from
all eddies and cross currents and
high above all nearby structures,
tells the tale of the air currents ac-
curately. When the arrow head of
that vane points to the eastern hemi-
sphere, look for disturba noes. When
ii swings SO that the arrow points to
the western zone. clearing weather Is
due. Should the vane head swing
around by way of the south the
clearing will be spasmodic. with in
tervals of rain Should it swing
through the northern are of the cir
Gle it will be more positive, with u
cool clearing of the atmosphere.
The vane points into the northeast
this morning. The "low" is there
fore still somewhere to the south of
Washington. The winds, which flow
into Il storm center. are coming OIL
the sea, heavily moisture laden. The
nollddN makers are DelnS cnllleu ana
drenChed. Had the low" been two
days earlier or later in forming this
Independence day time would prob
ably have been delightfully."- agree
able and suitable for outings of all
kinds. Somehow there has been lack
of coordination between the ele-
ments and the calendar, and hence
the disappointment of tens of
thousands, who thought to be happy
IN the enjoyment of an unusual
stretch of playtime.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-05
The New Traffic Law.

In passing the amended ira ffic
bill for tthe District of Columbia in
the closing hours of the session lust
ended. Congress has shown again
its unmistaka BILE intention of turn
ing over the traffic affairs of the
ed by the District commissioners
This specialist Is Traffic Director
Eldridge. who for the past year has
been laborinG under not only handi-
caps imposed by the inadequacy of
the original traffic code. but under
criticism and lack of cooperation
from those District agencies from
whom he has the right to expect the
most harmonious aid. Now that
Congress has again SiSnitied its con-
fldence in his administration. there
should he an abrupt about face" by
all of these agencies that have in
the past proved an embarrassing
stumbling block for all efforts look
ing to traffic betterment.
Congress in the new law makes it
plain that it intends the director to
have exclusive charge over all traf
fic on the streets of the city. includ
ing pedestrians, horse drawn We
hicles and street cars. No loophole
is now to be found by any court to
nullify the regulations devised by
the director in his attempt to create
a better traffic city. He is empow-
cred to reduce the speed limit or to
demand, and he is authorized to rid
the streets of criminally careless
drivers by the revocation of their
permits. Under the law he can now
proceed in his extension of the auto
matte control lights, the completion
of the boulevard stop system, the re-
issuance of drivers permits and the
general REIMBURSEMENT of the traffic
scheme in the city that for the past
year has been beset with confusion
caused almost entirely by unwar-
IIiCllOIl III tUc very dcCllCiCo
that should have striven to elm
mate it.
Mr.. Eldridge, confident that the
relief which has just been given
could be had from Congress. has in
the meantime gone ahead slowly
with the few agencies at his COM
Ia
mended by him and promulgated by
the Commissioners in regard to the
automatic lights. pedestrian control,
horse-drawn traffic and speed limits
had not been overturned by a judge
in the Traffic Court. Washington
would even now be we'll on it's way
to better things, but as it is, start
must be made again almost from the
beginning.
1t is the hope of all WaShingto-
mans that the new law will be up
held by the courts as Congress in
tends it should be- that a spirit of
real cooperation between the Com
missionerS. the police and the traffic
office will prevail, and that every
conscientious and law hiding motor
list will do his utmost to aid in the
campaign for fewer traffic injuries
and deaths.
A new era is to be inaugurated
and the shoulders of a united city
must be put to the wheel in order
that Washington may be ranked
with the well regulated cities of the
United States.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-05

Recent discussion in the press of
the country of the value of military
training in educational institutions
indicates widespread appreciation of
the benefits of the system. The de-
hate as to the character of the drill
desired has been enlivened by a state.
ment from President Coolidge favor
ing the bodybuilding features of drill
rather than those of a purely mill
tary character.
From the Presidents remarks"
says the Indianapolis News. lit is
clear that he wishes to avoid the crea-
ton of ooSestepping school and col
lege military organizations. The News
calls attention to the fact that the
1926 camps are larger than those at
any time since the beginning of this
movement, and declares that the adj
ministration is not misled by the
anti-preparedness forces which are
seeking to have these camps abol-
ished to eliminate all Government
support of military training in schools
and colleges. and to do away with
the organized reserve by cutting off
it's source of requirements"
Willing testimony" from college
men who have intimate daily touch
with the problem" is quoted by the
Little Rock Arkansas Democrat to the
effect that Reserve Officers Training
Corps training makes an enormous
contribution to the meaning of disci-
pline, the power and reward of conf
dence, the value of self-control. the
requisites of leadership. respect for
authority. the need of morale. the
care of the mind and body and the
rewards of promptness and obedi-
ence.' The Democrat, nevertheless,
feels that Compulsory military train
ing is highly debatable subject"
The Lynchburg Advance contends
that America must be reasonably
prepared, and the military schools and
military camps are serving that pur-
pose without causing other nations to
become alarmed" Action taken at
Boston is commended by the Atlanta
Journal. which records that with but
one dissenting vote. the school COM
mittee there decided to continue the
traditional drill and discipline which
give the city's youths a deal of self
control. along with physical training
and respect for their country's flag.
Call it 'militarism' if you must strain at
gnats and swallow camels," adds the
Journal; certainly it is patriotism and
common sense The Grand Rapids
Herald also states that the Boston
exhibit is particularly eloquent. Six
ty-three years is a long time in
which to test a system" continues
the Herald. Our observation is that
high school military training in
Grand Rapids has been wholly useful
in it's limited application. Those who
oppose it--from thoroughly earnest
and conscientious motives, no doubt
are not consulting reality. They are
taking counsel of idle theory and vain
trepidation. We recommend to them
Boston inquiry" The Grand Rapids
paper emphasizes the Testimony of
80 out of so college presidents who
have answered QUESTIONABLE TO the
effect that they consider military
training Of benefit Ito the students,
the college and the country"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-05
Proper Postponement.

PoStponement to Autumn of the
Education to create a committee OF
the whole, capable of sitting in secret
session for the consideration of ad
ministrative school business, is Il wise
action. And still wiser will be the
abandonment of the plan altogether
Those who favor such a mode of pro
cedure do not realize the intensity OF
public feeling in the District on the
score of secrecy in matters of public
school management. They perhaps
are not aware of the causes which led
under which the schools are now
governed the clause fOrbidding secret
sessions. They have possibly lost the
memory of the more recent happen
lngs which at time of crisis in
school administration caused, through
the invocation of secret methods, such
distressing decentralization in the
school system.
The law requires open sessions of
the Board of Education. 1t does not
permit subterfuge. y committee of
the whole sitting secretly. its conclu,
sions and agreements subject to mere
ly formal approval by the board in
open session, would be in defiance of
the law. That is SO plain that it is
surprising that the proposal has been
made to seek by that means to in
stitute system of secrecy of school
management.
The hope of those who are concerned
for the welfare of the public schools
is that this proposition has been given
an indefinite vacation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-05
Penalties of Pleasure.

Historians of later times could by
reference to the files of the daily
newspapers. mark the calendar of
Sundays and holidays without refer.
ence to dates, by the mere notation
Of accidents in this country. The
casualties of holiday making have
become a national liability of serious
proportions. Every year many lives
are destroyed through carelessness
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-05

A tax on bachelors is attempted
from time to time by various govern
ments. Spinsters should be willing
to see it abated. An unmarried man
proclaims by his selected situation
in life that he would make poor
husband.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-05

PENNSYLVANIA politics has nothing
to do with old-time Pennsylvania
patriotism. The thing to do in the
presence of a Sesquicentennial cee-
bration is to forget the present and
remember a glorious past.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-05
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-05

President Coolidge announces no
fishing, no tennis. no golf, no base
ball. as features of his Summer va
cation. It is evidently his intention
to make the vacation genuine and
complete.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-05

While restricting immigration,
Mussolini appears bent on bringing
about a state of affairs that will
render a large element of italian
citizenship more anxious than ever
to move,