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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-15
THINK 1T OVER
Anything In the Paper:
By William Mdther Lewis,
President George Washington University.

\, Anything in the paper today?"
This is an oft-repeated question. And
the answer frequently comes. mo,
there's not a bit of news But If we
go into the woods for a week and do
not see daily newspaper, we there
after learn that there is always
something in the paper. The stock
which we could have sold to advan-
tage last Tuesday has now fallen off
10 points, an interesting concert is
missed, good friend has died, an
important political situation has de-
veloped, a turn has come in a Euro
pean industrial crisis.
Nothing in the paper. There is
never an issue of a representative
American daily that does not have in
It an amazing fund Of information.
The weather report, the financial
forecast, the sporting news. current
history from all parts of the globe.
social activities. theatrical and other
entertainments. commercial announce
ments of various kinds in the adver-
Using columns, humorous bits,
thoughtful editorials on matters of
public policy-these are but a few of
the features presented by our daily
papers.
The newspaper ONCE is the reser.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-15
Taxi Drivers and Insurance.

Insurance companies and the Gov.
eminent are usually considered fair
game when it comes to collecting
claims. Both, however, are somewhat
hard boiled. In order the better to
protect themselves, mutual taxicab
insurance companies in New York
have taken steps to organize a central
information bureau, which will keep
tabs on criminal and negligent driv-
ers, fraudulent claims, doctors who
issue false certificates Of injuries, etc.
This bureau should be valuable not
alone to the insurance companies, but
to the travelling public. If through
the insurance companies demands
the taxicab companies were compelled
to employ only drivers whose records
were clear, crimes and collisions and
death and injuries due to taxicab
drivers and to careless driving would
be minimized. Furthermore. under
such conditions the insurance compa-
MES could give better rates to the
taxicab companies.
Reckless taxi drivers are too nu-
merous in New York and elsewhere.
One OF the reasons they are willing
to take a chance" is their realiza.
ton that the insurance company is
there to fight or to adjust the claims
that may be made in the event of in
jury. That Is one of the reasons, too,
that the taxicab companies themselves
are sometimes willing to take chances
on the drivers they employ.
A certain class of lawyers likewise
contribute to the unhappiness of the
insurance companies. They are the
men who make it a business to keep
in touch with minor accidents, cab
collisions in which passengers or per.
sons In other cars or pedestrians
might have been injured. Some of
them even go so far as to draft lists
Of fake victims and present claims
to the insurance companies. The bu.
reau now proposed by the insurance
companies in New York will deal also
with these gentry.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-15
WATCH YOUR STEP"
Romans, rt.4: Walk in the Ne,cness
of Lite"

Romans. Uf.4: Walk IN the Nepness
of Life"
phrases that greets us on every hand
Is Watch your step" The purpose
or 1t Is quite obvious. It is designed
TO warn the unwary, in places of peril,
10 exercise due caution. It has largely
to do with our physical well.being.
Our age has witnessed a great ad-
vance In life-saving devices, as we'll
as in the progress of the science of
medicine and surgery. We give much
heed to preventable accidents and
preventable diseases. and it Is we'll
that this Is so. Newer and better
ways are being devised almost daily,
Doth Tor our comfort and protection.
No period in the worlds history has
been marked by a greater advance
along scientific and mechanical lines
than the one in which we live The
discovery of a continent by Columbus
would hardly compare favorably with
some of the discoveries that have en-
riched and enhanced human life.
In the realm of great discoveries no
one has contributed so largely to the
higher advancement and enrichment
of man as the great teacher who came
out Of Nazareth. II am come tina,
might have 1t more abundantly," was
His declaration. Even from the refuse
heaps of humanity He plucked those
who had been disowned and discarded
by their fellows, and opened up be-
fore them new vistas of hope and
promise. His policy of neither do I
condemn thee" coupled with His I'M
failing word of encouragement, gave
a new outlook and inspiration to those
who were without God and without
hope in the world. He did not seek
to present a program of life whose
disciplines were stern and forbidding
He did not seek to harden, but rather
to soften, the way and to make 1t more
passable for human pilgrims. He
saw as no one else ever did the diff
culties and trials that encompassed
the way of men. His one supreme
desire was to furnish a solution to
the problems and to shed light upon
obscure and darkened pathways
Somehow or other His teaching has
come to be identified with methods
and practices that are unattractiye
and difficult of accomplishment. To
the average man or woman religion
means the way of an institution rather
than the way Of Christ. In his re.
markable book. entitled THE Christ
of the Indian Road" T.. Stanley Jones
tells Of the difficulties he encountered
in presenting the new way of Christ
to the confused peoples of India. He
found no difficulty in presenting the
high claims Of the Savior to men, but
repeatedly he found himself embar-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-15

that under certain conditions horses
are probably cheaper. Where feed 10
homegrown and raised without much
outlay, the use Of horses is often prof
liable. Horses can be turned out to
forage for their feed when they are
not working. Some farmers, more
over, prefer horses to the tractor for
Summer following, because the tractor
packs plowed land. Farmers tilling
volcanic ash soils believe, too, that
the life Of the tractor on such soils Is
greatly reduced because there is 80
much dust.
There seems to be some conserva-
tism in the West. One thanks the
Department of Agriculture for saying
something about the horse. In these
days when we read so much about
new bus lines, airplanes for every
body and sky traffic, and when one
cannot cross the street without risk of
being taken to the hospital in a motor
ambulance, 1t gives little variety to
read about the horse.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-15
EVERYDAY RELIGION
BY THE RIGHT REV. JAMES E. FREEMAN, d. D., ILL., d.,
Bishop of Washington.

raised in attempting to explain the
different methods Of Interpretation
through which the various churches
sought to exemplify His teaching.
One wonders whether the situation in
India does not find its parallel here in
America. Have we not encountered
our Christian systems with too many
man-made directions and formulate
and has there not been a tendency to
emphasize unduly the institution
rather than the Christ way of living?
No one questions the wisdom or pro.
priety of we'll conceived or we'll
ordered religious institutions. but one
Is sometimes compelled to wonder
whether membership in one of these
valued institutions is not overempha-
sized, while the way of Him for whom
the institution stands is little stressed
or ignored.
Christianity is the expression of the
Christ philosophy or method of life
1t has to do specifically with the way
of living. 1t has to do not only with
| mans relation to God. but mans rela-
ton to his fellows. 1t Is not a sys-
tenn merely Of worship: it is one that
affects daily habit and practice. Faith
and works are indissolubly related.
One cannot think of the Christ way of
living without associating it with the
brightest and happiest outlook upon
life. To walk Gin newness of life"
every day means to come to the world
with each recurring morning In q
spirit of adventure and high expectan-
cy. 1t means that no two days shall
be alike; that each new experience,
each new effort, shall be the unfolding
Of that which gives satisfaction and
richer enjoyment to life. When
Robert J. Burdett. the journalist and
evangelist, came to the closing days
Of his life he disclosed in his latest
utterances nothing of regret or bit
terness. AS he sat looking out over
the broad eXpanse of the Pacific, he
said:
Beyond the gates of the sunset,
farther away than the stars. away
past the bars Of the night, there is
another land. / have never seen it; I
have never known any one who has
the Oriental lands in which I have
travelled is mere conjecture compared
with my positive belief in that blessed
sun sinks lower and the skies grow
dark in the deepening twilight. the
star of faith shines more brightly
Every evening when the sun goes
down I can see that land of eternal
morning"
He was walking in neWness of
life" as he had walked all through the
long years. Life to him had been a
great adventure and had furnished a
supreme experience. After the dull
monotony of our colorleSs, unat-
tractive. objectless habit of living, let
us walk 'in newneSs of life"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-15

to pass laws operative within their
borders and enforcible through their
courts making penal and punishable
the manufacture, sale and use of bev-
erages, and in that connection to de-
fine without regard to Federal enact
ments what shall be deemed intoxi-
eating beverages within those States.
Were the eighteenth amendment
not in force, the States could by legis-
lative enactments permit the manu-
facture and sale of all forms of intox-
icants. Before the amendment was
adopted the States could prohibit any
form of beverages deemed intoxicat-
ing. Under the eighteenth amendment
the States can pass enforcing laws
supplementary to the Federal law, or
they can abstain from specific en-
forcement enactments, leaving the en-
forcement of the Volstead act under
the eighteenth amendment solely
with the United States
This referendum proposal is to
CliSlI tHc OpllllOll VI Tic pcOpIS VI
New York State on the subject for
the guidance of Congress. 1t has
been by some declared to be uncon-
stitutional. That, however, is not
warrapted by any reading of the Con-
stitution. The right of the people to
petition is guaranteed by that instru-
ment. and a referendum such as that
proposed in New York is but the ex-
ercise of that right. Should the vote
in November in all eighteen States in
which referendums have been pro-
vided for be adverse to the law or to
the amendment upon which the law
is based, Congress will have an indi-
cation Of public opinion that may
guide it in any action which it under
takes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-15

Senator Pat Harrison, genial Demo.
crat from the sunny South, has been
talking again. This time in Paris,
where he Is reported to have said
that European debtors of the United
States will be unable to pay their
debts unless the American protective
tariff were lowered. For that reason
Senator Harrison predicted, the tariff
will become an issue in the next cam.
paign.
The Democrats apparently are ring.
ing the changes on the tariff. First
they insist that the tariff Is the enemy
of the American farmer. Now Senator
Harrison says that the American Gov.
eminent need not expect Great Brit.
ain. France, Italy and other debtor
nations to pay up unless the tariff is
lowered.
From the American point of view
it would be far worse if American
workingmen, American manufac-
turers, and American farmers were
unable to pay their debts, or to pay
their ordinary living expenses. than
for the European debtor nations to be
unable to pay their war debts to this
country. Yet here is Senator Harrison
proposing that the tariff barriers be
lowered SO that foreign made goods
may come in, presumably in large
quantities, in order to enable the
debtor nations to meet the debt pay.
ments. They must send goods into
the United States in very large guam
titles, if they are to earn the interest
and the principal on their billions OF
| debts to this country. What becomes
Of the American produced goods, OF
| of the men who produce them, in that
event? They, the workers and pro
ducers, take up the roles of unem.
ployed and bankrupt.
If Senator Harrison and his Demo.
cratic conferees really intend to make
the protective tariff an issue in the
congressional campaign this year
and presumably in the presidential
campaign OL 1870, the INcpuDilCdHS
have little to fear AS matter o.
fact. many of the Democrats them
selves would violently oppose remov
ing or reducing the tariff on the prod
ucts of the mills and labor of their
own States. The very fact that the
Democrats are talking tariff is in
dicativ however, Of the fact they
have no real issue upon which to en-
ter the contest with the Republican
a this ime
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-15
PART-TIME.WORK FRAUDS
BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN.

most of them has in common is the
fact that the would-be home worker
must first send some money for some
thing.
Not All Are Fakes.
Not all such advertisements are
fraudulent. Some concerns really do
offer some forms of home employ
ment. The advertisements are each
SC small that reputable newspapers
which would not knowingly carry a
questionable advertisement some
tines accept these small classified ads
because they cannot we'll afford the
cost of a thorough investigation. The
difficulties encountered by the postal
inspectors in running down these
frauds demonstrate why Il newspaper
cannot afford the task. Many of these
homework proposals do really offer
some work, although not always In
1.-THE paying quantities which the pros
pect has come to anticipate. The Post
Office Department is obliged to follow
each proposal through from start to
finish, to determine whether or not
fraud actually exists.
Shortly after tho war a number of
concerns advertised for home work
ers to make stockings. and offered to
sell a machine that would knit the
socks and the material from which
to knit them and also to buy the fin
ished product or to sell it for the
home worker. In some cases these
concerns actually performed every
thing that they stated, while in others
the machines would not work, or the
selling concern failed to find a market
for the socks, or the price fell below
expectations. A great many people
were thoroughly trimmed by pro
posals of this sort. but the Govern
ment had to be very careful in run
ming down these cases so as not to i'll
jure any legitimate concern.
The worst phase of all Of the lille
Ultimate part-time- work schemes is
that they find for their victims PEG
pie who can least afford the loss OF
even small sums Of money Invalids
| who have had aroused by the ad
vertisements the hope OF earning a
little something from their beds or
wheel chairs, and thus relieving the
distress of their families, were typical
victims Of these schemes. Thus pro
posal which looks like a veritable
Godsend to some unhappy and unfor
| tunate invalid turns out to be a
fraud, and the victim is robbed OF
whatever little sum he or she may
have possessed.
The postal inspectors cannot issue
any general warming about these
| plans, as they are not authorized by
law to do so. They can only investi
gate when complaints are made and
stop any scheme which proves to be
! using the mails to defraud They dc
| not pretend to assume that there are
not legitimate plans by which people
may earn money at home. An inspec
| ton of the postal records on such
cases. however, would lead any pru
| dent person to investigate carefully
before sendings money on any such
plan. The advice of Egolf to the eff
| feet that all other mail-order.par
| time-Work-at-home schemes were de
cidedly suspicious seems to have been
pretty good. Since the Post Office
declares that he was in the same line
| of business, he ought to know.
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He had faced death so often. and
cheated 1t, it seems difficult to believe
that at last the decision has gone
against him. 1t seems only yesterday
he was seriously explaining to the
writer how a recent fall from an air
plane had taken at least 10 strokes
off his golf game. His ankle had been
busted" as he, a gentleman from
Mississippi, expressed it, and in favor.
ing this ankle he was swinging easier
at the ball and getting drives as long
and as straight as professional.
And he had made 50 light of the
dangers of flying. He had been com
PEELED to leap half a dozen times from
failing and falling machines. but al
ways had managed to get the old
parachute to work in time. On We'd
nesday last at Dayton, Ohio. however.
his motor failed. there was a tail spin,
a jump. a tangle. and Lieut.. Eugene
Fl. BarkSdale, war ace and chief test
pilot at McCook Field. plunged to his
death before the eyes of f. Trubee
Dawson, Assistant Secretary of War,
and himself an aviator.
Lieut.. Barksdale's last crash prior
to the fatal one, came when the wings
ing. 1t is interesting to recall what
he said as we trudged across the links
of the Dayton Country Club, how he
laughed when he was asked about the
ia st thoughts" of a man facing actual
death and escaping by an eyelash.
He grinned like a boy when it was
suggested that his whole life must
have passed before his eyes, as 1t al
ways does in a story book, and that
L. L. .~IA
upon the things he ought to have
done and the things which should
have been left undone.
my thoughts were purely mechani-
cal most of the time said the lieu
tenant; II wondered if ! was high
enough for the parachute to work
properly. Perhaps 1 gave a moment s
reflection to the fact that the last
time / went down my compa Mon In
the ship was killed. l don't know
that / actually did. In any event
had had ample time to know the old
ship 1 was testing was going to pieces.
The wings began to wobble. l shut off
the throttle and then 1t seemed as if
some giant dog had caught the plane
in his teeth and was shaking it like q
terrier would a rat.
Then the wings flew off and i
started to plunge downward. l got a
bit tangled with one of the wings. but
in a moment or two was free. Then
began reaching for the ring to re-
lease the old chute. I couldn't find it.
1 reached twice. Then l got mad at
myself for forgetting one of the first
lessons in f1ying-the right way to
reach for and pull the parachute ring.
l got it in time, however, and here
am, with a busted ankle but a vastly
| improved golf game.
You mustn't think of flying as so
dangerous he explained: land YOU
| mustn't think all airplanes lose their
| wings a thousand feet up. l just hap
pened to get this old fellow when he
decided to give up the ghost
1t should be comforting to those
who knew him best to realize that
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The Horse Lives!

The horse may be disappearing
from the farm, but he has not disap-
peared. Authority for this is the De-
partment Of Agriculture, which says:
Twelve and twAnty-horse teams are
coming rapidly eato use for blowing,
seeding and harvesting in Montana
and other dry farming areas of the
horses in the East and hears so much
about motor drawn plowS, harrowS,
seeders and the like that it is trifle
shocking TO be told in Government
publication that twenty horse teams
are coming rapidly into use for plow-
ing" In the movies one sees ranks
Of motor blows that turn an acre of
land in less time than 1t used to take
TO hitch a horse to one-share pillow.
| There are pictures Of motor driven
machines eating up a wheatfleld of a
size that makes a Maryland farm
seem but O vegetable patch.
It must be pleasant to old-fashioned
persons 10 hear that the horse Is still
working out West and earning his
corn and fodder. In this part Of the
world the horse seems headed for ex.
t,nction. and one sees his name in the
papers only in connection with horse
shows and race track news. When a
horse joys along the street little chill
dren turn to look at him, and perhaps
| some tot asks its mother, Mamma. is
the circus in town." Many young
persons are so full Of information
about differentials and carburetors
that they would be dazed IL a man
should talk Of reins, traces. while.
trees and surcingles. If this thing
keeps up the Zoo will have to keep a
pair Of horses in a paddock as ex.
| hibits with mountain goats or sheep
elk and spotted deer.
The Department of Agriculture,
apologizing for or explaining the ex-
istence of horse teams in the West,
says:
One reason why the tractor Is not
everywhere displacing the big team IL
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voir into which pour from the tele-
graph wire and radio machine and
telephone; from the letter and mimeo-
graphed sheet, from the desks of
alert reporters, the great streams of
the days activities. And the editors
boil 1t down for US.
Newspapers more and more are be-
ing used as adjuncts to text books in
school and college classroOms, and
their vast stores of information thus
are being given specific educational
direction. 1t would be an excellent
thing II our students were given a
course Of lectures on "How to Read
a Newspaper" Without such instruc-
ton a newspaper may mean to one
merely a sports page, to another So
cietv column. to another a stock re
port. But every newspaper is all
these things and many more. An in
telligent person who has method in
his newspaper reading can keep
abreast of the times by Is minutes
daily association with his favorite
journal
(Copyright. 1897
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MEN AND AFFAIRS
BY ROBERT T. SMALL.

this must have been the spirit with
which Barksdale met his defeat and
death at last. Once more he was
thousand feet up. once more he was
testing one of the many machines and
devices which go to make up the
Army equipment, once more there
came the failure. once moro he got
tangled with the "old ship" but this
time it would not let him go. He
crashed to instant death. He prob
ably was fighting to the last foot and
had no time to think other than OF the
job before him.
In commenting upon the Barksda;e
| philosophy of flying this writer said
when the old parachute works tho
| falls don't amount to much. When
| il fails-the work of testing and flying
! goes on the next day just the snrnA
The conquest of the air must neVeS
| lag
And so at Dayton tomorrow. and
at many other fields. they Will be
flying by day and by night. and more
young vikings of the air will go to
their death that a science may he
| ccsne secure.
| Winston Churchill. British chauceS
| Tor of the exchequer. has found II
| necessary once more to explain TO
! his friends and enemies alike that he
feels he has a perfect right to criti.
cize the Yankees" being one half
Ynnk himself. In spite of all he says
about America and Americans and tho
harshness of the war debt terms i'm.
posed by Uncle Sam. Chancellor
Churchill is mighty proud of his
American blood.
| And during the World War, when
things were at their darkest for Eng.
land and the allies he never hesitated
to tell his own people. as we'll as the
French and the Belgians. that they
could never expect to win the war
! unless America came in. That waA
how he felt about America I'm those
days. and he probably thinks the
some way today. But. as one brother
always feels the right to speak NOR,
freely about another brother than h"
would permit any one else to DO
= Churchill feels he can say pretty
mucl as he darn pleases about the
United States and get away with Il
He can always claim that blood re
lationship on his mothers side. even
if he does remain an Englishman for
political and other purposes.
| Americans who know Churchill will
find it difficult to get angry at his
criticisms.
The waE who remarked some time
ago that men were giving up smok
ing because it was becoming too Of
| Terminate said more than he had any
idea Of. The modern city restaurant
comes very near proving the Conten-
ton. At the smart hotels and at the
more exclusive restaurants. scarCel,
a oman enters without smoking. And
she begins to smoke the moment she
sits down. Men generally wait until
the meal has been served. Further
more. an observer has noticed scores
of women smoking at tables where
the man is abstaining from the
wicked weed. 1t is easy for any per
son 20 check these statements They
are undeniably true
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