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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-06-27
New York's Stun Problem

New Yorll's tenements have long
heen Il serious problem. Housing as
they have multitudes of people, many
Of them newly arrived immigrants,
ignorant in large measure Of sanitary
laws and indifferent to comforts and
safeguards for the preservation of
health, these great warrens have been
breeding grounds for crime and dis
ease, besides disfiguring a large sec
ton of the city. From time to time
efforts to cure this condition have
been made. only to fail in the greater
part. New buildings have been erect
be filled to overlooking. at rents dis
proportionate to the accommodations
granted. Landlords have not sought
the betterment of their tenants. and
tenants have not appreciated the ad-
vantages of newer constructions and
more sanitary conditions. The "slums"
have remained despite all endeavors.
Now another effort is to be made to
EuTe tnlS evil. Mayor w dlhel HAS dp-
pointed August Heckscher, millionaire
real estate operator and philan-
thropist, as special enlissary Of
New York City" to go abroad to study
European methods of providing proper
housing in congested districts, and he,
accepting this mission, is about to sail,
announcing that upon his return he
will organize a syndicate for the cree
ton of model tenements on at least
two blocks on the lower East Side of
New York, to be rented to the poor
at reasonable rates, and designed in
accordance with the best possible prin-
niples of sanitation and convenience.
He mentions the possibility Of provid-
big quarters of this character at a
COST TO- the tenants of from Sc to SO a
month for each room. This enterprise,
he says. will not be an investment, but
O practical philanthropy, the subscrib-
ers being willing to take small re-
turn scn their money for the sake OF
municipal health and morals.
While the hast wishes Of I'll ANsE'
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So This Is Fame!

From the Providence Evening Bulletin.
a Blackstone farmer, grazing his
cows by the roadside and reading a
book comfortably against n wall, was
interrupted the other day by a dusty
stranger who inquired, not without
pride:
"Do YOU know who l am? I'm
Remblad''
That so?" said the farmer, turn
ing a page.
I've been sleeping in your barn
for 10 days and I'm getting tired
of it,
The agriculturist read on upper
turbed. A queer duck, thought the
stranger, and he drew q gun from his
pocket and announced:
II think I'll knock that cap off your
head
II wouldn't" suggested the farmer,
glancing up for an instant from his
book. "You might hit low and hurt
me-"
What was the use? After a fellow
has achieved fame by escaping from
an insane asylum. robbing a score of
houses ard stores. stealing a garage
full of automobiles and thumbing his
nose at the police of two States and
a dozen towns for weeks, here was a
hick who preferred reading a darned
old book to listening to his heroic tale
of adventure.
Remblad snorted disgustedly pushed
the gun back into his pocket and
trudged gloomily off down the road.
And the Blackstone farmer just turned
another page.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-06-27
MEN AND AFFAIRS
BY ROBERT r. SMALL.

welcomed at the ticket booth and
proudly joined the throng of men
only
Mana" was a beautiful nude The
lecturer, pointing out the fine points
OF this high art, explained that the
posed figure was that of the artists
daughter Mana. How vivid II all was
Mana. gracefully reclining on a luxuri
Gus dlVdn. was regarding herself in
Il mirror and evidently was much
pleased. The painting was splendidlv
done. Perhaps today it is hanging in
some gallery of art. It was really no
dime museum or side-shOw affair, hui
it was used as such and was intended
to shock the mid Victorian morals
of the early nineties. There are thou.
sa nds of Nanas in the art world today
which merely attract professional
criticism.
The Worlds Fair had the creates
transportation exhibit the world has
ever known. II had the first train
of wide-vestibuled cars. In the Pull
mans of those days YOU had 10 pump
your own water into the basin. To
day you simply press d button or
pull u small lever. Otherwise Pull
mans are much the same-partic
struction has replaced wood. Trains
are heavier and harder to start
Therefore you get more bumps and
iolts. Electricity was just replscinp
gas and oil for lighting purposes.
But I'm all the displays of modern
transportation there was no hint oi
the coming motor car or tho aero
plane. Today it seems as If the motor
car has been with us forever. We
have the new motor morals. which
certainly are not an Improvement on
the buggy ride. As d matter OF fare.
a new age of evil seemed to open
with the common use of the auto
mobile. Thirty-three years ago the
traffic cop was unknown in Chicago
Today traffic is the greatest police and
municipal problem.
Overhead airplanes drone their wa
with scarce an eve uplifted to observe
the direction of their flight.
In 1898 the Ferris wheel was "the
eighth wonder of the world Three
succeeding decades have brought no
greater wheel. The eighth wonder
lived it's hour alone.
Chicago of the Worlds Fair was not
without it's skyscraper. 1t had the Old
Masonic Temple. II. too. was a won
der of the world. 1t attracted almost
as many visitors as the fair. II was
spectacular suicide center. Many per
sons jumped to their death. Today il
is a pygmy surrounded by towering
and tempted giants of steel and stone.
Great cathedral-like towers pierce the
sky. Indeed. Of all the arts, architec'
ture seems TO have made the greatest
strides.
20 4 nf
all but gone. Two distinct reminders
remain: The old whaleback steamer
Christopher Columbus still plows the
Lake Michigan main. and the smoky
little suburban engines of the Illinois
Central still spoil the view of the lake
front from Michigan boulevard. on
the 1sr of July the smoky little en-
gines will begin TO give way 10 cleo
tricity. but the Christopher Columbus
promises 10 go on forever.
tCOpyrleht 1926
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EVERYDAY RELIGION
BY THE RIGHT REV. JAMES E. FREEMAN, D. D, LII. d.,
Bishop Of Washigton

questions either the value or extent or
the church's influence, but 1t is becom-
ing increasingly clear that If its mes
sage is to lay hold of our generation
an aIticulate faith must be substituted
for an inarticulate one.
The element in Christianity that has
ever proved irresistible is the heroic.
1t has commanded the unfailing de-
votion and consecrated zeal of youth
and lent freshened impulse to those of
mature years. christianity makes
two appeals-the one to the contem-
platiVe and the other to the active.
There have been men and women
whose contemplatiVe habits have pro
duced some of the finest of our deVo-
tional literature, and they doubtless
have their large place i'll each genera
ton. The active progressive and ag-
gressive periods have been those in
which the disciples of Christ have
dared to set their standards forward
in spite of criticism and persecution.
The world today is seeking q way
out of it's present critical condition
On every hand we are being told that
time-honored systems that we have
followed have ceased to be of value.
There is growing feeling that Chris
tianity is the solvent of our per
picking problems. If this solvent Is to
ne hDplltu, IL VIII De through liloSN
who accept the leadership of the great
Master. We have too long been salts
fled with reciting creeda, saying pray
ers and participating in services. Our
religious habits are eminently reSpeC-
table, but we have not brought them
into contact with the immediate con
Germs of our everyday life. We hold
our faith largely to ourselves. our
witnessing is practically Valueiess. II
we believe that the application of
Christ teachings bears Immediately
upon common concerns, then we
should he ready to give a reason Tor
the hope that is in us. The admins
tration of the church indeed, the
only effective expression Of our faith
Is in the hands of an ordained minis
try. This obviously is Indispensable,
but the times call for men nd women
who, believing in the power of Christ
and His teachings. are willing and
ready to openly profess their faith in
Him before men. Those who believe
in His power dare not, except to the
peril of His cause, reserve their faith
in Him to themselves. The world is
not unresponSive to those who boldly
declare their allegiance to Him. 1t Is
unresponsive to those whose daily
habits are out of consonance with
their Sunday professions.
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cans will so with MIR. Heckscher on his
complete success of his project. IN
less the previous experience OF would
be slum curers in both this country
and abroad is now to be reversed, dis
appointment is likely to result from
this laudable enterprise. A number Of
years ago the London county council
tried this same experiment. 1t bought
and RACED several groups OF buildings
and replaced them with model tene
menrs. Two of these groups constitut
ed notorious slums. that of Seven
new structures were ready for occu
pancy they were filled, not with the
former deniZens of the slums, but with
small tradesmen. clerks and others Of
moderate means. attracted by the low
rents and the superior accommoda-
tons. The Summers" drifted into
other slums, and as far as they were
concerned their last estate was actual
ly worse than their first.
In New York. too, Stun curing by
rebuilding has not been successful.
found on their rounds of new tene-
ments the bathtubs filled with coal and
the fire escapes clogged with house
hold goods. They have found families
living In single rooms. in order that
boarderS might be accommodated in
the other rooms of the apartment. No
matter how low the rate of the rent.
the disposition to make a profit has
prevailed and the doubling up process
has continued
Washington has sought to cure GER
tain slums, consisting of alley dwell
ings, to be replaced with sanitary ac;
commodations on the ma jor streets. 1t
has not succeeded in furnishing the
requirements. One consequence is
Spread of the busted alley jewellers
into other congested quarters.
The Stun evil comes from over
population. SO long as New York har
boris an excess of people in a narrow
area it will have this problem. Philan-
thropy may modify, but ii cannot
wholly correct the congestion, and
with congestion comes the exploitation
by the tenantry of whatever accom-
modations are offered. A long process
of education is necessary. But with
the constant inflow of newcomers of
lower range of intelligence it becomes
difficult, almost impossible, to bring
about universal appreciation of the
blessings Of sanitary housing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-06-27
THINK 1T OVER
Word Wealth.
By William Mather Le,Uis.
President George Washington University

Countless seekers for business posi-
tions are unsuccessful because their
letters. of application are poorly
phrased Thousands of lawsuits have
resulted from the incorrect use of a
word or a punctuation mark. Many
an estate has not gone where its crea-
tor intended that it should because OF
the careless wording of a will.
Multiply the examples and one in
evitably comes to the conclusion that
ability to use the English language
discriminatingly and fluently IS not
g. mere parlor accomplishment. 1t IS
one of the keys to business and pro-
fessional success. AS we add to our
vocabulary, we add to our capital.
Slang and profanity indicate word
poverty. When we cannot summon
the effective word from our vocabu-
larry, we fill the breach by the vaude.
willie phrase or the crude oath. And
when that important moment comes
when it Is necessary to make a good
impression, we realize that slang and
profanity must be avoided. Then we
stand speechless while the coveted
honor goes to another.
It Is not necessary to return to
school to acquire a good vocabulary.
Read daily the leading editorial in
your newspaper or a chapter in the
Bible, an act from Shakespeare.
page from one of Lincoln's speeches
or Emersori's Essays. Read with at
tention and understanding. Consult
the maligned but the most important
volume, the dictionary, for an ex'
PLANTATION of the obscure words. Make
those words and their meaning yours.
This suggestion may well be accepted
by the bank president as well as by
the office boy. No one can ac0olre
too much word wealth. 1t never
shrinks in value; 1t rises above par In
hard times; no one can rob you OF It.
lCopyrishk 1a26.l
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-06-27

Chicago of the Eucharistic Con-
rresS of 1926 and Chicago of the
Worlds Columbian Exposition of
1893. What vast changes those 80
years have Wrought--mpral changes
as great as the material ones which
have changed the face of the Mid
western metropolis so completely.
Thirty-thrce years ago. along
State street there was the raucous
cry of the barker:
Crap game going on downstairs.
Crap game going ON downstairs.
Step right down everybody and have
a fling at the bones!'
II seemed that almost every other
basement had been fitted up as
gambling hell. The writer, lad of
49, carries the memory wildly.
Probably he lost two or four bits.
For the crap game welcomed tho
children as we'll as the grown ups
and You could shoot a bit" or
dime. Probably there were games
where you could shoot q nickel, but
the writer was no piker-in those
piping days of old.
Licensed gambling was recognized
as 81 part and parcel of the liberty
of life. There were faro banks,
roulette wheels and all the other
paraphernalia of the gaming house.
They sought to catch the traveller
downtown, even before he got
chance to reach the exposition.
And the saloons. Ones memory
clusters particularly around THE
Overflow" 1t was a vast place and
it claimed To- serve the biggest
"sch0oners" in town. 1t must have.
fyyl1
bowls. The price was 5 cents and
the free lunch tables groaned under
their burden of food. Here again
the lad Of - had not the slightest
difficulty in stepping up to the bar
and nominating his poison lie
yielded nothing to the younger
generation of today.
Memory may be confused on this
particular point, but il seemed the
saloon was everywhere. The com
petition was intense. That is why
the glasses were so big and the
free lunch so bountiful. The Younger
generation of today viii never nave
any conception of those bygone days
and prices.
The Midway Plaisance' How the
younger generation of 1898 fioclled 10
its aentiCing and wicked shows.
Fatima. the dancing girl. The mar
Vicious muscle dance of the East 1t
was later 10 be known as the ''hOochv-
koochy" 1t was the height of bad
ness. 1t had made Sodom and
GomorITth of the Worlds Fair. There
was d loud cutlery against the de
grading exhibition. But Fatima car
ried on AT least it seemed III those
days she was certainly carrying on.
Today on Broadway Fatima would
be laughed off the boards. She would
he classed as a rank amateur. Her
dancing was timid and tame com
pared to the infinite varieties which
mark the modern stage. The audi
ences of today yawn, where those of
80 wears ago Gasped. Has the world
progressed? Maybe.
And the great painting Mana 1t
cost 30 cents to see Mana and, al
though il was classed a wicked pic
ture children-boy children-Were
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Parole System Faulty.
rom the Albany Evening News.

From the Albany Evening News.
George w. Benham, chairman of
the State Parole Board, testified re-
Gently before George w. Alger, COM
missioner investigating the prison
situation, that between 1900 and 1000
criminals are now on parole from New
York penal institutions.
He said, moreover, that 1t Is impossi-
BILE for the parole officers personally
to look after all these paroled prison
ers. He said that the board holds
monthly meetings Of 8 to hours in
each of four State prisons and that an
average Of SO applications for parole
are considered at each prison. except
ing Sing Sing. where the average Is 10.
This testimony is its cwn common
tary. The parole system is faulty.
Proper supervision cannot be kept
over all these criminals by the regu.
larry constituted officers. Much of
the work is done by outside agencies.
Sixty per cent Of paroles, Mr.. Ben
ham said, are granted on recommen-
dations of district attorneys. Do dis
trict attorneys really believe that the
men they prosecuted should 30 let
QUIT
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GETTING OUT THE VOTE
BY FREDERIC ]. HASkIN.

crease the vote in 1924. by many
different societies and organizations,
resulted in 81 States registering n
larger vote than in 1920. but this was
largely offset by II States which had
fewer voters in 1924 than four years
earlier.
The States where voting declined
were Alabama, Arkansas. Delaware.
Florida. Kentucky. louisiana Maine.
Maryland. Missouri. Montana, Ne.
,, vada, North Carolina, North Dakota.
Ohio, South Carolina Tennessee and
Virginia
Not Party Issue.
These were fairly well divided he
tween Republican and Democratic
strongholdS, and prove that negligence
about the affairs of Government is
no party matter. While both parties
number millions of So-called support
erS who do not bother TO vote. and the
independent voters complain somewhat
but vote little. there are we'll organized
movements going on which aim to
destroy the whole scheme OF Ameri
can Government, and establish Govern
ment by bullets instead of ballots The
constant failure of the voters to at
tend TO the business of self govern
ment gives encouragement to every
plan for the overthrow of Government
by force.
A recent survey revealed more than
900 publications in the United
States devoted 10 doctrines Of revo-
luton and the destruction Of ORDERLY
Government. Speakers and organizers
for these movements remain alertly
on the job. They express no hope Of
ever mastering a majority of the
country by vote. but they confidently
predict that they will overthrow the
Government, because the majority are
not interested in the maintenance of
IL free Government.
American Legion COoperates.
In launching the 1926 campaign
which Is aimed both to get out the
vote. and To stimulate interest in GOV
eminent Federal. State and local
the National civic Federation is On
listing those organizations which IT
feels can be depended upon To do ear
nest work in every community and
do Ii on "a non-partisan basis. The
American Legion, which by its national
constitution bars partisanship from
any of its activities has accepted the
invitation to cooperate, and the Boy
Scouts have offered their service for
| work in assisting the local committees.
me acceptance Dy ME-. hammond Oh
| leadership In this work has given
| new courage to many earlier workers
who have been somewhat discoura ged
by the meager results achieved. The
National League of Women Voters.
| disappointed because since women
have had the ballot much less than
| half of them have exercised the duty
and privilege of voting, will make a
| new drive to stimulate the female
vote. An effort will be kept up until
November to score the greatest con
gressional vote ever recorded.
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Sunday Opening.

Fifty years ago. when the Centen-
NAL Exposition was dedicated at Phil
adelphia. there was a very general
dissent from the decision of the man
ayers of the big fair to close the
gates on Sunday. The Sesquicenten-
NAL Exposition held in the same city
in commemoration of the same event,
the signing of the Declaration of In
dependence, is to be opened to the
public on Sunday. From the decision
of the directors to keep it open seven
days of the week one of the members
of the board has dissented and has
resigned in consequence. Thus there
is marked change III fifty years. A
change has found expression In many
ways in recent times in the matter
of the Sunday opening of places of
public instruction and diversion.
Fifty years ago all art galleries and
museums and libraries were closed on
Sunday. Today they are open, and
the attendance on Sundays is usually
the largest Of any day. The man
ayers of the Sesquicentennial would
have made a very grave mistake
almost fatal to the success of the
great enterprise. had they closed the
gates of the exposition on Sunday.
They would have prevented the at
tendance of multitudes of people who
could find no other time than the
week end
Sunday openings are not in dis
accord with religious beliefs in the
main. They are not TO the disad-
vantage of the churches. In almost
all cases the doors of public institu-
tons are opened on sundays after
church hours.
Half century ago there We're no
public amusements of any kind open
10 the people on Sunday. Now most
theaters and other places of enter
tainment are open on Sunday. In
some cases there are Slight changes
in the programs. but as a rule the
usual bills are rendered as on week
days. Most churchmen have come to
regard these opportunities for public
diversion as helpful rather than
harmful.
The Sunday attendance at the
Sesquicentennial will doubtless estab-
lish records this Summer. In these
days of motoring it will be possible
for people from many miles around
Philadelphia to drive there and in one
day visit the fair and return to their
homes, which they could not do on
a week day without loss Of time
which many can ill-afford. They will
be better Americans for this vista
ton to the shrine Of liberty and they
will be no worse off in their morals
for having made the trip on Sunday.
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SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON
The Longer Days.

The Longer Days.
Old Mr.. Sun goes trailin' through
the sky.
Loiterin' along
AS he hears the Summer song,
To watch the Junetime meltjn' once
again into July.
Old Mr.. sun. lookin' down from Tar
above,
Sees he blossoms gay.
Too soon they fade away.
So he fingers on his journey through u
scene he's learned to love.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-06-27

The strict modernists and the I'M
compromising fundamentalists have
a difficult public in the large mass OF
people who have been influenced by
such men as Herbert Spencer and are
a. little of both.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-06-27

Mussolini is comparatively a young
man, still in his early forties. He is
q genius in his way. but liable at any
moment to encounter the distrust in
separable from contemplation of the
beIated infant prodigy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-06-27

Farmers are politely informed that
If they want relief they can get 1t by
holding on to what they raise until
prices prove profitable. 1t is to be
feared, however. that man capable
of so much financial perspicuity would
never make a practical farmer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-06-27

If such thing is within human
power. Mr.. Jim Reed may Vet succeed
in making the cross examination a
more interesting claim on attention
than the cross word puzzle.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-06-27

As car" Of the movies, Will Hays
offers "A wholesome demonstration of
how hard an "autocrat'' has 10 work
these days III order to hold his job.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-06-27

to the District, but he is convinced
now that that action was wrong.
"Mr. Landers Undiana) argued that
suffrage should be granted the people
here. under certain wholesome linita
tons and restrictions. II was not
necessary to make 1t universal
THE bill was then passed.