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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-11
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS

wears the Countess Gizycka fitted
from washington to European capt.
tails. always q notable figure, feted
ana admired, but unattached. Her
marriage to Elmer Schlesinger, Chi
cago LAWYER and an old friend, is OF
recent making.
It is the Countess Gizycka" who
appears on the title page as author
of "Glass Houses" which was broad
w heralded as an audacious novel of
Washington society. She wrote the
book, so she says, las a new adVen-
ture," but she will not repeat the ad-
venture. Miss Hoyt's book. entitled
Roundabout, also has it's settings in
the National Capital. 1t has met with
such enthusiastic reception that she
is already laying plans to write
another and has recently gone to
Europe to get her material. Elir1or
Wylie, who now lives in Italy and
who has achieved considerable fame
as novelist, is Nancy Hoyt's elder
sister. Leila Warren's book, like the
other two, has for it's principal char
acter a young girl whose experiences
might have happened in any present
day American city. Washington is
not named. 1t Is titled "GroWing
Pains" All three authors have quite
oNlQoNLly UEdWH IIldIly VI IHSlI AIlCl-
dents from real life, which by their
fidelity have startled none so much as
those who find themselves in the pic
ture.
The crop Of fish stories. always
plentiful, is unusually heavy this year
by reason of the wide advertising CIV
en- Mr.. Coolidge's sudden penchant for
this ancient 'pastine. This observer
submits the following yarn brought to
Washington this week from Vermont
as a splendid example of the super
fish story. A Vermont golfer of re-
nown, while trout fishing in Yer
mont stream on a Summer day ten
years ago, lost a gold golf medal. Just
why he took his medal on fishing ex
petition is rot known, but anyhow he
did. Now the trophy has just been
returned to him by fellow Vermont
sportsman, who landed a four-and-a-
half-pound trout recently, and upon
splitting it for grilling over his camp
fire found the medal inside. Who can
tell better one than that?
Copyright. 1920
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-11

source. Their motive cannot be de-
termined.
If these stories of conflict between
members of the Soviet organization,
running to the extremes Of assassina-
ton and mutiny, are wholly untrue as
the Associated Press dispatch from
Moscow indicates, with no basis what
ever for them, the suspicion arises
that they have been put forth for a
sinister purpose. Whose interest is 1t
to spread belief that the Soviet organ
ization is at the point of dissolution?
The royalist Russian refugees natural
ly hope for a reaction, but falsely
proclaiming that one is occurring does
not increase the chance of its hap
pening.
The question arises whether a sur
vey Of conditions at Moscow Is an al
together satisfactory basis for the as
sertion that all Is peaceful within the
Russian boundary. Many visitors to
Moscow have reported 1t to be uni
formly calm and we'll administered.
The Soviet Is strongest there. 1t Is
in complete control. Visitors to Rus
STA have not absolutely free access to
other parts of the country. There is
rigid censorship over news. This is
not to suggest that the correspondent
Of the Associated Press at Moscow has
been deceived by the conditions at the
capital. But the fact remains that
circumstantial reports of revolution
gained wide circulation, with no evil
dent motive for their PRONUNCIATION.
and the mystery Of their basis or the
motive of a fiction remains unsolved
by even this categorical denial.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-11
THINK 1T OVER
A Peculiar Thrill
By William Mather LetOis,
President George Washington University.

In recent crime news more than one
reference has been made to robberies
committed "for thrill" Some one
is held up, some house Is entered. We
learn that the act is committed by a.
wealthy youth who seeks loot not so
much as he seeks excitemax.-
Among all the excuses for outiawry
this is among the weakest. We are
asked to believe that a normal young
man becomes so bored with tb-, tame
ness Of everything else in Ifs that he
must needs turn criminal.
Has the thrill burglar exhausted
the possibilities in the following acts
from the accomplishment of which
most people get pleasant sensation?
A hole in ones
A home run with three on.
Landing a 40-pound muskie.
Shooting a mountain goat.
Sticking to a bucktng broncho.
Looping the loop in an airplane.
ACCOMPANYING behind real speed
boat.
He has not And most of these
thrills would not appeal TO him for
the simple reason that he Is alb
normal. He doesn't have the sport
ing tendency. but the criminal tend
ency.
There are still plenty of legitimate
thrills to be experienced by youth OF
physical stamina and mental nerve.
and there are still plausible alibis To
be invented by ingenious crooks.
Whether a person Is a thief or "A
thrill burglar" doesn't interest US
when we are held up on the street
and made to surrender our property.
Our interest then and thereafter is
that steps shall be taken to restrain
the criminally inclined. no matter
what their classification.
Copyright. l9:6.l -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-11
Straits Settlements.

A shipment of $125,000 in United
States gold coin to the Straits Settle
ments Is explained as due to the
marriage season" in that Far East
British colony, which comprises Slnga'
pore, Penang, Malacca and several
smaller possessions OH and near the
Malay Peninsula. 1t has nothing to
do with foreign exchange conditions
and Is not made in connection with
ordinary commercial settlements, but
is the result Of wedding customs that
prevail in that part Of the Orient. In
addition to a dowry, the father OF the
bride usually presents her with brace
let's, necklaces, rings and other orna-
ments made of gold. Gold coin Is
bought in the United States and other
countries, melted and made into orna-
ments in the Far East.
Singapore, the capital and largest
city, has come to be called, because
of the volume of its trade, the Liver
pool of the East. Kipling in a poem
represented Singapore as one of the
evil places Of the world-perhaps the
most immoral place on earth. The
moving picture has extended that
view of the city to millions Of Ameri-
cans. There was truth in Kipling' S
lines when written. but the British
administrators Of the Straits Settle
ments have carried on cleanup cam
paigns till the dive sections Of Singa.
pore have been immensely improved.
Any visitor to Singapore who does not
inquire the way to the quarters Of
least repute will get the impression
that Singapore Is we'll built and clean
and a great city in the matters of
trade, population and improvements.
It's modern docks stretch for six miles
along one Of the worlds finest har-
bors, and since the World War ex-
tensive improvements have been made
In the city. It's population must now
be close to or quite 100000, mostly
Chinese, Malays and other East In
dams, small but commanding num-
Der of whites, and with large popu-
lation of transients from every part
Of the world.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-11
Russian Revolt Denied.

An Associated Press report from
Moscow puts the quietus ON the re-
ports of a Russian revolt against the
Soviet government. denies the exile
of Zenovieff. the flight of Trotsky, the
murder Of Stain and the mutiny of
portions Of the army and navy as
Summer fictions. 1t describes the
present situation in Russia as placid:
Moscow is as quiet as any American
city on Sunday morning; half the pop
ulation is away in the country and the
tide of life runs sluggishly through
the old capital
Who started the Summer fictions"
of the Russian revolution? They came
from many sources. They were cir
cumstantial. They indicated a chaotic
condition in Leningrad and in certain
Of the southern cities. with Moscow
tense and strained and prepared for
conflict.
It is idle TO hope for an explanation
of this phenomenon of apparently
baseless reports of revolution in Rus
Isia. They caa9u. he traced TO their
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-11
Georgia Watermelons
Lead in Shipping Lists

From the Atlanta Journal.
OF the % different fruits and vege-
tables which scored so remarkable a
shipping record in the week ended
: July II, watermelons led the list with
a total Of $500 cars, or enough to
make up a train 60 miles long. More
than 10000 melons. 1t is computed,
were shipped in the course of the
week-and imagine the delight they
spread around millions Of dinner
tables.
There has been large increase in
Americas consumption Of fresh fruits
and vegetables, and evidently will
continue to be as their importance to
health is more widely understood. Six
times as much lettuce goes to market
now as was shipped a decade ago.
The annual return from the crop, &C.
cording to the National Department Of
Agriculture, is around $40, 000,0 900.
Only three other vegetables-white po-
tatoes, sweet potatoes and tomatoes
exceed it in value. Other products Of
the truck farm and the orchard are
gaining in favor with the public and in
profitableness to the grower.
All this signifies much for Georgia.
whose climate and soil are excellently
suited to such crops. Happily, too.
these resources are being turned to
rich account by an increasingly large
number Of native farmers and by in
vestors from other regions of the coun-
try. Georgia supplies major part
of the peaches and melons now NOV
ing by thousands of carloads to the
great markets Of the East, the North
and the West. The time Is not Tar
dist MT when she will supply also Q
goodly portion Of their vegetables.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-11
Texas Developments Put
Mrs. Ferguson ON Defensive

out by the Charleston Evening Post
independent Democratic), should
both have served In the office of gov
ernor Of a great state is a rare dis
tinCtion, yet, remarkable as Is the
record. it is not unique. II. however.
Ma Ferguson Is Ousted from office
by impea chment, as Jim was, there
will be a record which ought to stand
In political annals for long time un-
matched. In event of Mrs. Ferguson'S
being deposed. 1t might be In order
for her daughter to run for COVER
nor"
1T remained for Texas" says the
Reno Evening Gazette Republican,.
"to be the first State of the Union
in which scandal should arise about
the expenditure of the funds for Fed
eral road projects. But what else can
be expected? There IS no one who
loves his native State more sincerely
and Loyalty than a Texan, but he will
have to admit that the conditions at
Austin are shocking. Information
from papers In the South shows that
Mrs. Ferguson scarcely acts as COVER
nor at all. Her husband is declared
to be an unofficial member of the
highway commission. The pardoning
of convicts from the Texas prison has
become outrageous. but Ma Fergu
son continues to sign on the dotted
line"
"She has not been good COVER
nor" declares the Albany Evening
News independent Republican,, with
the statements: "She has pardoned
convicts in large numbers. The state
has recovered $500, 900 from one high
way contracting firm" Charges by
Representative Irwin of Dallas are
declared by the Springfield Illinois
State Journal Republican, to be
astounding indictments of official in
capacity and neglect" Attacking
'Fergusonism I'm Texas" the Chat
tanooga News Democratic) says
that IAN opportunity is apparently
developing for Attorney General Dan
Moody TO duplicate the record OF Joe
Folk in st. Louis 20-odd years ago"
and adds that MOODY is ALREADY
being heralded Us the next governor.
which doubtless should constitute n
very small part of the housekeeping
program" The Raleigh News and
Observer Democratic) exclairns
Watch Dan Moody and declares
that every State In the Union needs
such prosecuting officers"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-11
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

J, Henry Loomis grinned at the
recollection.
You were just a little boy at a
country fair, but you saw it all. The
cool wonder of hokey-pokey slid
down your throat, and nothing ever
tasted so good to you.
you didn't miss a thing. Years
later you wondered why, older people,
the good mothers and fathers, fondly
imagine children do not see half of
what is going on.
They see everytlnng-and then
some. You saw the peerless Mana.
haton don his lose-fitting cap. 1t
was black. and made him look like
a bald-headed eagle. Four men
hefted a piece of rock onto the cap,
and balanced it there.
ut was the same blue-gray rock
that lined the old spring. You knew
it. You saw the man raise the great
mallet and bring 1t down on the
rock, while the muscles stood out
pact.
Twas a blow to kill an OK, but
1t did not worry the famous Mana
haton, the Man with the Iron Skull.
He had not been named in vain. or
to lose his life at q small country
fair.
IF he were going to suffer a
broken neck, it would be before a
full house of intellectuals, not be-
fore group of rustics. Whang!
There was a split. a crash and
cheer, as the rock fell in fragments
around him, and fIanahaton bounded
to his feet, DOTTED his cap and be-
gan taking up the collection. That
was when you left.
"You had finished your cake of
hockey pokey in a gulp. 1t was gone.
You looked at your empty paper IN
hopeless longing. Would you ever
know it's like again?
Eyes, you did. when you made
some with snow In the place Of Ice.
when you had grown to be a larger
! to know the world-or at least
it so seemed to you"
J. Henry Loomis stopped. and
smiled at his wife. How about
making some hockey pokey?"
"You won't like it,"
Sure I will. Let's go!'
So the freezer was gotten out, the
| ice cracked, the salt poured In. the
mixture prepared ready for the can.
Just milk, sugar and vanilla, that
was all. Into the can it went.
Around went the grinding. the ice
melted, the mixture was frozen.
"Ah!" breathed J. Henry. looking
into the can at last. His mouth
| fairly watered. Guess we had bet
ter let it ripen for an hour" he said
When the hour was up Mrs
Loomis called. .,
"ShaIl I serve the hokey-pokey
"Sure," said J. Henry-but there
was a strange lack of enthusiasm
in his tone.
His eyes cleaned, though. when
the saucer of heaped frozen milk
was set before him. He dipped IN
his spoon with avidity, nearly froze
his forehead with the size OF his bite,
toned down his desires, ate more cas-
| ily from then on.
How do you like it," inquired
| Mrs. LOOMS. at last.
| Fine" said J. Henry.
rs it as good as you thought 1t
would be-"
! "Of course not" grinned j. Henry
LOOMS, LAS matter of fact. 1t is
awful. It's the same old hockey
| pokey, but two factors. are lacking
my old appetite and my old lack OF
discrimination
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-11
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN.

O. Why, when glowing cigarette
| is carried in a rapid circular motion
at night, Is the entire circle of light
visible M. c. 3.
, A. Psychologists explain the phe-
nomenon which you mention In your
letter by the fact that the sensory
nerves, although slow to respond TO
the stimulus of light, continue 10 re-
spond long after the response is once
set up.
O. Is the astronomical clock. ex-
hibited over the country In 1878, Still
| in existence?-A. S. j.
A, The astronomical clock. which
was invented and constructed by
Stephen d. Engle, Is still In existence:
| The clock Is now in the possession or
II. Eugene Smith of Skaneateles, N. -.
Mr.. Smith has owned the clock LOT ~
years, having purchased 1t June TO-
1886.
@. When was Rush Medical School
established?-O. c. d.
A. Rush Medical College was char
tered by a special act OF the Leglsia-
ture of the State of Illinois In Febru'
ary, 1887. It was founded by the late
Daniel Brainerd, who was It's nrst
president. The first course OF lectures
was delivered in the second story or a
frame building on Clark street near
Randolph in 1S43. =
@. What part Of the Jewish popu-
lation Of the world is in New York
A. About one-tenth. The Jewish
ponulation of New York City Is
.643 900. The Jewish population Of the
world has been estimated at 15,o5O'ooo.
9. Why is Fall River. Mass SO
A. Fall River takes its name from
about 2 miles in length and falls
about 140 feet in a half-mile.
O. When were the eth and 10th
Cavalry organized?-J. H. N.
A. The 9Th Cavalry was organized
in November, 1866. The 10th Cavalry
was organized in February, 1857.
These are negro regiments.
@. Which State leads in the vehicle
| for.hire business?-N. M. K.
A. New York State leads with H.
1855 concerns, and Nevada mas the
least, having 104 concerns.
@. What kind Of material is felt?
How long has 1t been made?-R. n.
A. Felt is a fabric formed without
| weaving, by taking advantage OF the
natural tendency Of the fibers OF hair
and wool to interlace with and cling to
one another. AS to the knowledge
of felt making, its beginnings ante
| date by many centuries the Chr1stlan
era and the fabric Is mentioned by
| the earliest writers. In fact, st.
Clement is the patron saint of felt
| makers, since he was said to have
put carded wool between his feet and
the soles of his sandals at the begin
ming of q journey and found 1t trans
formed into cloth at its end. On &C
count of greater simplicity of Its
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-11
Convention VS.. Primary.

Demand for a return to the con
ventiou system of nominating Sena.
tors appears TO be gaining ground. 1t
is traccable. of course. to the revela.
tons of gross expenditures in the
Pennsylvania and Illinois primaries
for Senator this year.
Some confusion seems to exist in
the popular mind between nominating
primaries and popular elections of
Senators, now prescribed by the Con
stitution. II is possible to have the
convention system of nominating for
the Senate. and at the same time to
have the popular election of Sena-
tors. Indeed. at least seven of the
States continue to nominate in con
vention. and another, South Dakota.
has what is called a pre-primary con
Vention, where candidates are select
ed TO be voted for in the nominating
primary. Nominations are made for
the Senate by the convention route
In New York. Idaho. Connecticut
Utah and several other States.
In some of the Southern States,
dyed.in-the wool Democratic States.
the abandonment OF the primary for
tho nomination Of Senators would re.
suit practically in the selection and
election of Senator'S by convention, for
no Republican could be expected to
u1n in the general election. The SAME
condition would arise in rock-ribbed
Republican States like Vermont and
pennsylvania. The only course open
10 voters if they did not like the nomi-
nations made In such States by party
JrnN entiuuS would be 10 enter indie
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-11
Bang.
What was that, Estella?
Nothing much.

Bang.
What was that, Estella?
Nothing much.
Just the breaking of another. illu
sion, held for years by ]. Henry
Loomis. solid citizen.
Hokey-pokey. he maintained, was
the finest form of frozen dainty in the
world. 1t was, he sturdily declared
the zenith of ice cream
When reminded that hokey-pokey
Is not made of cream at all, but
merely Of milk, he countered by ad
hitting the allegation, holding the
fact as merit, not fault, however
'Hokey-pokey!" he would say, with
a smack of his lips and a rolling OF
his big round eyes. "Is can remember
the first hokey-pokey I ever ate.
thought it was the best stuff 1 had
ever eaten in my life, and / still think
So"
why, you haven't eaten any fol
20 years. he was reminded.
ooh, Is that so?" j. Henry would
answer, with infinite scorn. 1T has
not been so many years ago. now
that I made some myself. We made
it in Winter. Those were the years
when boys INDUCED in other thar
noisy play.
To-day boys seem to lack intellec
tual amusements They throw balls
roar around on skates, run and holler
but never sit and talk over books. OF
play checkers. or go in for chess. OF
do any one of a. score of things boys
of my day and age found amusing.
Yes, we played games, too. but
not all the time. We rather prided
ourselves on having opinions. We
could settle the affairs of nations as
we'll as the statesmen, if not a little
bit better"
j. Henry Loomis went back into
the realm Of memory, over long
long trail, and this Is what he found
there:
ut was at the county fair that
first met hokey-pokey. 1t was served
up under a tent. 1 can see the out
lines of the tent. but not the color
The rains of many years have wash
ed the tint away.
"The taste of that hokey-pokey
however, fingers in my mouth yet!
"It was handed to you for the sun
of a nickel. It took the form Of 6
fiat cake, wrapped in paraff1ned pa
per. Il was deliciously cold to the
touch, as the gentleman in the white
apron and big white hat handed II
over into your small fingers, with al
admonition mot to drop it.
You didn't need any warning
There was just one place you intended
to drop it'-that was down your
gullet How cold the cake was! Yor
pulled back the wrapper and exposed
the white delicacy to view.
Around you the hundred activities
of country fair roared away. NJ
noise of teeming city in later year:
could equal it, as 1t sounded in YOU
small ears then. 1t was a big racke
in little ears. Nearby was the stool
exhibit, from which came the mos
Of glossy COWS. the squeal of pigs
and the bellows, clucks and varied
noises Of other farm animals.
You could see the races going on
the dust flying. Over there was thu
peerless Manahaton, the Man will
the Iron Skull, who was about tt
allow a huge slab Of rock to b.
knocked to bits as it reposed upo1
his dome. You thought you would g
over and look at this spectacle. and 81
YOU took your precious cake of hockey
pokey, now beginning to drip slightly
and wedged your way into a point o
vantage"
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structure, 1t Is probable that felt was
made long before the art of produc-
ing cloth by spinning and weaving
had been discovered.
@. Who is president of Howard
University and what is his salary
A. P.
A. DR.. Mordecai W. Johnston is
president of Howard University and
receives a salary Of $1,000 a year in
addition to housings facilities.
mascot when 1t was wrecked?-S. a.
A. It did not.
q. Why will a straw twirl when
laid across q ripe watermelon end
remain stationary when placed on an
unripe one?-M. p. V.
A. The Bureau Of Plant Industry
says that 1t has never experimental
with a straw for testing the ripeness
Of watermelons. but 1t Is of the opin-
ion that the straw would not remain
stationary when tho melon Is green
any more than when the melon is
ripe.
@. What people wrote the first his
tory?--N. S.
A. The first historical narrative of
the Hebrews of ancient Palestine. The
Babylonians and Assyrians had earlier
historical writings, but they were not
collected. These date back to the
third millennium BIC.
Q. Why isn't the Titanic raised?-
L. p. Y.
A. Salvage experts have stated that
Il would be impossible to raise the
Titanic. This is largely because the
exact location is unknown. The YES
sci sank in one of the deepest parts
Of the Atlantic.
@. When was the Atlantic first
crossed by hydroplane?-A. NJ.
CAM departed from Trepassey, New
foundland, May 16, and arrived in
Lisbon, Portugal. May II. The flying
tine was 26 hours AZ minutes.
@. When will the g. A. r. encamp-
ment be held?-T. c.
A. It will be held in Des Moines.
Iowa. the week beginning Septem-
| Der 10.
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