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Evening star., 1927-10-20
THIS AND THAT


These ordinarily are used tn light the
gas range, in starting furnace hres
and in tobacco smoking.
Modern people are so used TO han.
ding matches that they commonly
never stop 10 think Of the potentiality
for harm that is wrapped up in the
innocent appearing Slivers Of wood.
Yet n match might fire an entire city.
Each household ought to keep its
entire match supply in one place. pre-.
ferably in the kitchen, in jar or
other f1reproof vessel. Matches car
ried to other parts of the house should
be returned to the jar II not used.
Burned matches should not he care
lessly discarded. thrown into an open
bucket or into the coal pile. as some
| persons are in the habit Of doing; but
each match. after being lit. should be
broken in two, or placed in the fur.
mace. or in basin of water.
This may seem to much care
but one only has 10 witness a really
had home conflagraiion to realize that
no amount Of daily care is too great
to prevent such a holocaust
y Il ~
/ ThouG htIess keeping of matches
whether of the plain or so-called
safety" variety. in coats hanging In
household fires.
! Another source of the home fire Is
| the gas heater in the basement. Too
often this is turned on. then forgotten
and only the good luck Of the house
hold prevents a bursting tank.
! - 1t Is amazing how many persons run
| water heating systems, for In
stance, without ever really knowing
whether the plant Is steam or hot
| water.
| Another bit OF carelessness Ia tc
open the furnace draft at night and 60
to bed with 1t still wide open.
Electric irons, not turned off, may
start fires. The whole subject OF the
electric wiring of - home in modern
city is one that the householder must
trust to God and the electrical inspec.
| tor and particularly to the builder.
| No amount OF care on The part oi
the owner and occupant will do much
good in the face of defective wiring
| There ought to he but one standard
or wiring in citv--the best Short
OF this, no home should be allowed to
possess the boon of electric service.
n 4 ~
All infiammahle substances should
he kept outside the house, il possible:
or IT within, under the constant and
daily scrutiny of the householder.
The handling of matches by chill
| dren and their playing with the same
| Is something frowned upon by the
common consent OF mankind. but toe
often too little care is taken in this
regard. so that parents are not in
! formed
| A fire in the city involves not only
the persons whose property catches
but all too often the adjacent prop
erty. so that q fire is not just one
persons business, but it is every one s
! business.
, Some European countries make a
| IRE in home an offense, punishable
by fine and imprisonment. While this
r,ay seem a rather harsh after.climax
TO visit upon man who perhaps ha 3
lost his home. vet surely it serves to
bring home TO every one the sense OF
| personal responsibility and the reaIiza
| non that fire, so good a friend when
within hounds. ia raging monster
when unleashed, fully capable Of turn
/ ing home into a hell on earth.
Evening star., 1927-10-20
Where Most Credit Lies.

After serving his Government faith
fully for twenty eight years at an
average salary of $S5 a month and
raising family of twenty children
Conrad Zeller has been retired from
the Post ONCE Department at the
age Of sixty-five. But one looks in
vain through the accounts OF Mr.
Zeller's accomplishments for ade-
ouate mention OF the real hero of the
story. who. it must he generally
agreed. ia Mrs. Xeller. Mr.. Ieller
has won praise from his superiors,
including the Postmaster General, FOR
his faithtulness TO duty, his efficiency,
his steadiness and his skill. lie has
reaped further honors as an angler
who always possessed an uncanny
knowledge OF where the FISH were
biting and how to make them bite
in the presence of high officials for
whom he served as a guide. But
such honors, as worthy as they may
be, fade into insignif1cance when held
up to the light OF comparison with
those due Mrs. Zeller. 1t Is some
thing to he the father of twenty
children, but how about being the
mother OF twenty children? Who
was 1t who rose in the dark, chilly
hours of dawn to heat bottles of
milk with which to silence bitter
walls from cribs? Who was 1t who
through more than score OF long
years tied and united each morning
and night countless shoestrings?
Who was it who slept for two dec
AIDES with one eve open and both
ears alert TO be the first on the scene
with ipecac when croupy coughs
made the night hideous? And who
was it who so arranged the family
bin of fare that twenty-five hungry
mouths three times a day would find
sustaining food smoking on the
table?
Praise be to Mr.. Zeller, who served
his country long and faithfully! But
more praise to Mrs. Zeller, whose
crown OF twenty jewels was won
after toll which only mothers under
stand
Evening star., 1927-10-20

ers suggested that they should try
another kind of cabaret from that
which they were Witnessing. There
upon, the four bundled into a taxi and
whispered instructions were given to
the driver. A few minutes later they
where the man who had received the
note explained to the desk sergeant
that these two kids have run away
from their small town home. I have
sisters and I came also from small
town. They will not go back by them.
selves, so I thought the best thing to
do was to have the police take charge
of them before they get into trouble" !"
without seeking In any way 10 cast
slurs on the male sex, it is pretty
certain that only one in ten would do
what these two young Chicagoans did
under similar circumstances. 1t is
unfortunately the case that young
girls seeking excitement OF this kind
get their full share of it. aided and
abetted by the type Of men who have
little responsibility and no Chivalry.
Back again in their small.town ex-
isterce these young girls should
ponder carefully the results of their
first expedition. IL they do they will
have a finer and keener appreciation
OF character than ever before and
they themselves may absorb some OF
II to their everla sting benefit.
Evening star., 1927-10-20
BACKGROUND OF EVENTS
BY PAUL y. COLLINS.

years or child's training and it fears
| not the rest of the years SUNDAY
schools operate upon that basis The
Socialist propagandists recognize 1t
and boast that if they can convert the
children of today to Socialism. the
| adults Of the next generation will give
them Socialist government.
In catechism compiled by pa tr
| otlc propaganda occurs this picture
or the situation az the investigator
! sees it:
Question--"Do students understan nd
the purely destructive nature Of these
Socialistic clubs?" Tin schools and col
leGes)
Answer-"Not at all. Enrico Ferri
an Italian Socialist. once boasted. 4
can make three.fourths of nay class
Socialists without once pronouncina
the Word Socialism, And when Com
munist students start new club
they often pose as liberals. or even
conservatives, choosing mainly unsus
| pecting, genuine conservative students
for their members and orga nizine
largely under the guise Of peace or ol
religion. Gradually. through skill
fully graded Socialistic books. pam
phlets, and, above all, through lee
| turers who know how to sway an au
dlence emotionally. many students are
LED to ridicule the old true values oi
hfe and to glorify immortality. slack
erlsm, atheism and reTolutiOn'
Question-"Are there specific exam
pies OF instigation against religion
morality and patriotism in the Youth
movement"
Answer-"Yes. Then. at last. the
cry that had been waiting so long ~
outbreak in God ia dead" A CRY
accusation and longing all in one. We
became enemies of the church, etc. -
The New Student, March 3, 1928.
Again: When a students father
wrote to the president of -
College Ia high.standing college for
girls, protesting against an unhealthy
and immoral book on sex being re.
quired reading there. he received an
answer: The students of
College are encouraged to read a great
many books the teaching of which ii
would not think of indorsing.'"
Reviewing the various movements
zations striving to influence the youth
in their attitude toward military train.
ing. toward nationalism, toward the
race question. toward world church.
unity idealism. toward the sex uues.
tlon. In this great industrial State
movement Of paramount signifca nee
TO the future industry of Ohio is the
activity known as the Student IN In.
dustry' movement
The secretary Of the Washington
Chapter of the American Association
fer the Advancement of Atheism
writes an open letter to the Daugh.
ters Of the American Revolution, say.
ing:
II hereby denounce the efforts of
your organization to force Bible read
ing in the public schools. 1t is an
anachronism of the twentieth century
that supposedly intelligent women
should engage in attempts to pump
silly, stupid and obsolete superstitions
into the brains of the children of the
United States. Why don't you try to
teach facts instead of foolshness--
science instead OF theology"
The above scra ps of references ind-
cate some Of the problems now faced
by the American public schools and
colleges and by all parents of students
therein. Not all problems are Euro.
pean.
tcopvrisht. 1927. bv Paul v. Colns1
Evening star., 1927-10-20

As the eager flames. leaping high
into the air. fairly ran along the back
porches. we realized "a never before
WHY the ancients pictured hell as both
very Lot and very fiery.
The clock in distant tower sounded
the time as 40 am. The community
had not yet got over the surprise and
shock of the dread cry of Fire"
DaZed by the colossal bonfire OF half
dozen neighbors' homes. men stood
in tho alley. uncertain as to what to
do.
One felt utterly helpless.
1t took a certain number OF minutes
TO orient ones self to the realization
that something out Of the ordinary
had happened.
There are some rare persons who
instantly respond TO the unusual. but
the average man or woman is not SO
constituted, and requires a minute or
so. often a very precious bit of time,
to get used to the new fact
A fire is a real fact. one Of the most
real in this world of many facts facts
fairly tumhling over one another. like
flames in their conquest Of dry wood.
The best way to prevent q fre Is
not to have one.
II this could he answered com,
pletely. there would he no necessity 10,
Fire Prevention week" or city fire
departments, or elaborate fire fighting
equipment. and the expenditure ot
hundreds Of thousands OF dollars in
tiremen'S salaries.
BY taking thought, however, much
can be done by the average house
holder to prevent fires. A fire in q
neiGhborhood brings home to many
persons just what n monster fire is.
Ordinarily one does not stop to think
much about the matter. One reads
about a fire In another section of the
city with strange calmness. But let
the bright light come from across the
street or down the alley, one suddenly
realizes that fire is q very real menace.
Looking into the front door of q
home ruined by fire, a man with com
mon. ordinary sense speedily makes n
resolution that. in so far az possible
he will not allow the same thing 10
happen TO his own home There Is
the grand piano. once a thing OF song
and happiness. now mass of charred
wood. it's strings probably wrecked he
yond reclaiming. ForlOrn, indeed, are
the once cOmfort8 bic davenport and
chairs, and miserable the smoked and
dingy ceiling, with chunks OF plaster
loosened and about ready to fall.
There on the hack steps sit three
bottles Of milk. mute reminders that
the faithful milkman did his duty
after the fire was put out by the hard
working firemen. Here where only a
few hours ago was a home IL a ruined
place where fire and insurance inSpec
tors yet have to do their work.
Shall such a scene occur at your
home? No. you say. But have you
any form Of fire extingusher, or even
the garden hose hooked up?
X Il
When one recalls the intipite care
lessness with which the average house
hold handles matches, and runs fur
naces, and snaps on and off electric
lights. and radio sets using large
voltages, the wonder grows that there
are not 10 times as many home fires
as there are.
The first care in household. II
would seem, ought to he for the
matches used in the daily routine
Evening star., 1927-10-20
Alabama Cleans House.

While her sister States look on with
approval. Alabama continues TO clean
her own house, rectifying through the
orderly processes of constituted au.
thority a condition which an inveSti-
eating grand jury has likened to
those which existed during the Span
ish Inquisition. A series of brutal nd
cowardly foggings by masked men
who worked under the cover OF dark
ness has been laid at the door OF
the special grand jury OF Crenshaw
County has handed down 102 indict-
ments against men charged with COM
plicity in twenty or more cases of
lashings. With one exception, all of
the indictments were against members
Of the Ku Klux Klan, and the grand
jury charged that all except one OF
the hoggings were committed by mem
bers OF the order wearing their masks
and robes. The grand jury went
further and implicated high officials
OF the State klan.
Since the widespread organiza ton
Of the Ku Klux Klan throughout the
country many cases Of violence have
been charged against the members of
this order, but the Ku Klux Klan has
countered with the assertion that
crimes committed by men wearing
masks and uniforms could not be
blamed upon their organization, for
the organization countenanced no such
tactics. II the Ku Klux Klan as a
society stands for law and order, the
labama indictments afford an excel
lent opportunity to prove it. If the
cowardly assassins who beat men and
women acted without the license of
their ofiicials, If they deliberately uni
formed themselves and performed
their deeds in the name OF the Kan
when the Klan was guiltless, now is
time when the Ku klux Klan as
a whole may center its attention on
Alabama and take q leading part in
bringing to trial and helping to prose.
cute its members who have been in.
dicted. If the ku Klux Klan possesses
those vast financial resources popu-
larly attributed to it, no better way
Of spending a part of them can be
found than in bringing to justice men
who pose as its members and commit
outrages in its name which shock de-
cency and form a blot on present day
civilization.
Evening star., 1927-10-20
Denies Professionalism
Is Entering Dark Ages

To the Editor of The Star:
Your brief notice of a book. soon to
be published. in which the editor of
the Christian Register tells the world
that modernism has lost it's battle and
that fundamentalism is triumphant,
with the consequence that Protestant
ism enters the Dark Ages, calls for a
showdown of facts.
Those who are in close touch with
the clergy OF today know that the
clash between what has been dubbed
fundamentalism and modernism has
about worn itself out. but with no de-
cided victory for either school of inter
probation. Sane men OF both sides
have long since seen that the conflict
was over terms and supposed beliefs
rather than over essential differences.
If, instead of using either the term
"fundamentaliSm" or modernism, !"
there could he used some such word
as "essentialism," the great majority
of our Protestant clergymen would ad-
NIT that they meant nothing more
than this by the stand they took. The
more conservative students of the Bible
ask no more than that the essentials
of the Bible stand undisturbed. and
the rank and file of so.called modern
lists" mean no more than that a
strained liberalism he surrendered for
the essential meaning of the Scrip
lures.
But the editor OF the Christian Reg
lister speaks Of something very unlike
popular modernism when he says that
school Of Interpretation has gone down
In defeat. When modernism takes the
form of something more radical than
even high.class paganism. there Should
ne no surprise over the defeat OF this
as the accepted Interpretation Of the
Bible. Professionalism is not entering
the Dark Ages, but Is emerging from
an Interpretation Of the Bible which
could not be reconciled with reason.
science, archaeology or philology. The
editor of the Christian Register does
not speak for Professionalism. He only
speaks for very radical and small
section of it. J. o. KNOTT.
Evening star., 1927-10-20
Arbitrary Age Limit for Workers
Attacked by Many as Unfounded

cidentally the 1920 census shows an
employment ratio of 97.2 per cent for
men between 25 ard As wears Of age.
and ratio of 93.S per cent for men be-
tween As and 64 years. The difference
of something like 3.5 per cent is not
big enough to support the theory OF
modern economists who would send
the worker TO the scrap after his first
youth Is gone"
'Our past-S0 Oliver Wendell
Holmes" suggests the Oklahoma City
Oklahoman. lis the brightest jewel of
the Supreme bench, past-S0 Hin.
denburg Is saving an empire from the
wreckage Of war, Clemenceau. at 81.
still Is breathing out threatenings and
slaughter. while Hardy. at 81, is writ
ing purer poetry than he wrote al 35."
And the Pasadena 'Star-News asserts:
Truth is. the age of men is deter
mined more by their spirit and their
mental attitudes than ny their years.
Some men are younger in spirit. in
mind, In ambition and in vision At 20
than some others at 40. Age is no
bar to useful and successful activities.
II one keeps in health of body and
mind. and il one keeps up with the
times. and faces life and its problems
souls who never grow old. even though
their years may multiply to 40, so
and even 90"
1T Is not the number OF times the
earth has travelled about the sun that
determines when a man has reached
the zenith of ability" according 10
the Ann Arbor Times-News. More
important is the question of how he
has lived while those journeys were
being made. Age, according to the
calendar, really means very little. In
fact. age itself may be something OF
an Illusion"
The Columbia State offers the com.
ment: when the Hebrew minor prOph-
et Joel wrote the lovely saying that
Dryden hammered into an heroic line
Your old men shall dream dreams.
your young men shall see visions'-he
was probably-we haven't the Hebrew
text before us-trying to round out
what is known as a Hebrew parallel.
ism saying one thing in two ways.
rather than two things in kind Of
formula. He was saying that every
body, with due illumination, would
dream dreams and see visions, as job
dreamed and saw them in the dead
watches of the night. Neither old
nor young has a monopoly of dream
and vision
Evening star., 1927-10-20
Diminishing Destruction.

People of the United States have
for years past been receiving the
gioomiest sort Of warnings from for
esters, conservationists, economists
and others interested in preventing the
terrain of this country from resem.
bling that Of tree.denuded China.
These warnings have dealt with sane
and conservative numbering, with re-
foresting. and. particularly, with the
terrible annual waste through hre--s
waste which benefits no living soul
and is in the nature of a crime against
civilization.
1t appears that America has begun
70 heed the CALL Fire Prevention
week for 1927, which ended recently,
brought the glad news that the FIRE
season, now over in the Northern Pa.
California, in the North and East, has
witnessed less forest fire damage than
any previous season for many years.
What with the tremendous recent in.
CtCdsE III tnc uuHtUcIb vi IlIptOLl LloJss
campers, hunters and fishermen, this
is a marked achievement.
Contributing causes, over and above
the favorable season, include the ex.
tension of Federal, State and private
Are prevention and suppression activi'
ties and the increasing care and eau.
tion OF the public. 1t ia the last
ramed that is particularly gratifying
americans get some lessons rapidly
others very slowly. They have been
q long, long time assimilating the idea
that Scrupulous care in the woods Is
an essential obligation to the next
fellow down the trail or along the
river and to their own posterity
Many a man who in years gone by
was perfectly willing TO go to wal
and risk his life to save his country
could not quite bring himself to the
task Of putting his campfire absolute
~ out. Of extinguishing his cigarette
or pipe dottel before he hurled it intc
Natures waste basket. Fathers have
/ tauSAt hsiE sens. guides hays tAlsh'
- sAN 80 %NA sA9&M8
Evening star., 1927-10-20
UNITED STATES
. in WORLD WAR
Ten Years Ago Today

Provost Marshal Crowder announces
new system of classifying drafted
men--f1ve classes, running from those
who have no dependents down TO those
who are physically or otherwise in.
capacitated for active service.
United States informed through official
channels that Germany has so far
wrung about $1,000, 100000 in cash
from Belgium. Deportations of Bel
glans to work in Germany and looting
OF Belgian industry continue.
Liberty Loan drive near two-billion
mark on eve of final week. New sub
scrtptions must average over 500, ,OOO..
600 day to reach the five.billion goal
set. -" President implored to re-
lease Dutch shipping on ground that
Holland Is not feeding Germany.
Present economic conditions in Hol-
land are bad and nations need of relief
is acute. 80 Sweeping order issued
that supplies Of sugar to candy manu-
facturers. etc. must be curtailed. IL
not entirely stopped, until Cuban
sugar is available I'm January.
French airmen and aircraft guns bring
down five and possibly seven giant
Zeppelins on their return from air
raid over England in which "a persons
were killed.
Evening star., 1927-10-20
New Songs.

From the New York Post.
While we have made great progress
during the present century in the
building of bridges. the erection Of
skyscrapers and the development OF
airplanes, philosophic students con.
tend that we have fallen off sadly In
the writing of songs. Few will dis
pute the contention. The great war
did not produce nearly so many as the
Civil War. Very little of the poetry
written during that worldwide con-
fiict has been virile enough to outlast
the hostilities. For the purpose OF
stimulating the writing OF songs he.
fore the veteran numbers are done to
DEATH" a Philadelphia musician has
offered a money prize for the best one
written today. The early responses In
dicate that poets still flourish in the
Evening star., 1927-10-20
Speedy TRANSPORTATION.

Although the four successful trans
atlantic airplane flights during the
past year did not prove the practica
bility of overseas passenger carrying
by air. there is no question but that
stimulation was given to speedy trans.
portation by a combination of boat
and airplane over the stretch of water
that lies between the United States
and Europe. Already, in this country.
plans are being carried forward to Put
into the transatlantic service a feet of
thirty-five-knot passenger ships, with
airplanes aboard in case the traveller
wishes to better the minimum time of
four days that it will take these fast
liners to make the trip. In England,
on the River Thames, experiments are
now being conducted with the "Ses
Flea" a small, peculiar looking craft
driven by air propellers, which have
skinned it over the water at a speed
in excess OF one hundred miles an
hour. The inventor Of this boat is
carry one hundred passengers across
the Atlantic In a record run.
Five days is now the accepted
length Of time for the Atlantic cross.
ing. The new thirty.fveknot boats
are expected to make it in four days
nat, and with airplanes cutting off
part of this time at both ends Of the
trip it could easily be reduced to
| three days. II the Sea Flea" type of
craft comes UP to the expectations of
its inventor It should make the cross
ing in about forty hours Speed is the
slogan of transportation today, and
with the impetus given to it by avia-
ton great things may be looked for in
future development.