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Evening star., 1927-08-26
One Hundred Dollars Reward.

\ fine civic spirit is shown In the
offer of the American Automobile AS
sociation to pay one hundred dollars
reward to any one giving information
which leads to the apprehension ana
conviction Of a hit-and-run automobile
driver. In a letter to Commissioner
Dougherty the association urges the
District to accept it's proffer in the be-
lief that it will put every citizen in
the community on his toes to aid In
wipins out this despicable type of mo-
torist.
The A. A. A., which deals exclusive
ly with motoring and it's problems, has
gone eyhaustively into the subject OF
h;t-and.run drivers in the National
CAPITAL In deciding to make the award
it was guided by the fact that during
the past year more than three hundred
and fifty arrests were made of those
who hit and ran away, but that hardly
more than fifty per cent were con-
victed. 1t is the belief of the organiza-
ton that the one hundred dollar re-
ward will enable those to so to court
as witnesses who otherwise would be
unable to afford repeated absences
from gainful occupation.
If there is no legal hitch in the ac.
ceptance by the Commissioners of the
offer, and there appears to be none,
haste should be made to take advan.
tage of it. No time should be lost in
sweeping the ranks Of motordom clean
of the craven, the hit-and-runner. He
Is a blot on the landscape and a dis
grace to mankind and any measure
looking to his elimination should be
gratefully welcomed.
Evening star., 1927-08-26
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN.

@. When did the tradition start that
Jewish people should marry within
their own race?-F, F.
A: The American Hebrew says that
the tradition against intermarriage
among Jews is traced back to Abra-
ham, who ordered his estate manager.
Eliezer, to obtain a wife for Isaac
from among his, Abraham's, own peo-
pie, in Aramea. 1t should be added
that this is only tradition. 1t be-
came practice among Jews at the
time they returned from the BabylO
nian exile in the fifth century be-
fore the common era. Intermarriage.
however, has taken place among Jews
at all times. The reason why Jews
have clung to the tradition Of Abra-
ham and the enactment Of Ezra lies
In the psychology of group conscious
ness especially as this is welded by the
religious ideal. The belief of the Jews
that they are d people chosen by God
to disseminate knowledge of Him and
His moral and ethical will among the
peoples of the world is also a great
factor mOtivated by the desire to hold
to it's mission in the world and, prob
ably, also by the fear lest intermar-
riage should weaken the force for car
rying out it's mission.
Q. Who is the greatest master of
pianoforte compostion?-F. +.
A. Chopin is usually accorded this
place.
@. Is the heath hen extinct in this
country? 1t not, where can it be
found and how many of the species
remain?-T. q. T.
A. A census in March of 1927 indi.
Gated the existence of less than 30
heath hens in Marthas Vineyard. the
only section of the United States where
these birds are found at the present
time.
@. Are steam, electricity. airplanes,
etc, strictly modern inventions?-A. S.
A. Archaeological discoveries reveal
that the principles of the use of steam,
hydraulics, smoke screens, concave
and convex mirrors, magnets, ETC..
were known to the ancients and EN-.
ployed by priests in temples to per.
form supernatural feats- Steam, for
instance, was used in Babylonian tenn
pies as early as 100 BIC. to cause
images Of gods to move their heads,
eyes or arms. Many similar devices
may be cited.
Q. Where is the manuscript of Frank
Inns autobiography?- w.
A. The Huntington Library and Art
Gallery. San MarinO, Calf. includes
this manuscript in its collection.
Q. How much do the railroads pay
for fuel in year?-T. ]. o.
A. In 1926 the fuel bill for the rail.
roads was s473,353,928. They used
nearly rs per cent of the bituminous
coal and Az per cent of the anthracite
coal produced in the country. Fuel oil
approximated 20 per cent Of the out.
put and wood between is and 25 per
cent.
Q. What is the name given to tax.
ing score overlooked by an opponent
at cribbage?-D. L.
A. The term is muggins.
Q. What Is the meaning of the word
precieuse?-S. d.
A. When an adjective it means over
precise; excessively nice. The noun re.
fers to an affected woman in polite
society, particularly one of the literary
women Of the French salons of the
seventeenth century.
@. What is the kind of LACQUER ware
Evening star., 1927-08-26
American Opinion in Doubt
Over Results of Dole Flight

is all very we'll. but 1t Is being over
DONE"
1T is a healthy condition." remarks
the Fort Worth Record Telegram,
when flights such as the Lindbergh,
Chamberlin and Levine and the Byrd
adventures are financed by those in O.
position to lend the proper aid to the
new profession. But it is not one
when 'derbies' are organized for fights
that have no other value than to finish
inside the money" The Richmond
News-Leader recognizing that 'many
of the most fundamental problems are
still unsolved," contends that this is
work for the Lindberghs and the
Byrds, not for amateurs" and adds
that true research in any sphere is
always retarded when it becUmes the
play of sensation seekers"
"Too brief preparation, planes not
fitted for such an adventure, and rash.
ness in undertaking IL" is the verdict
of the New York Times. and the Louis
vile Times AYERS that the race has
done more to impress on the popular
mind the extreme hazard that still at
tends long flights than to convince
any one that trapsoceanic travel BY
air is yet practical, Syen as sporting
proposition The Indianapolis News
emphasizes the fact that misfortune
has cast an element of gloom over the
entire race"
"a transocean fight" as viewed by
the Kansas City Journal, whether a
sweepstakes event or a solo under
taking, is not as yet something to be
accomplished by just any one or by
competent aviators in just any air.
plane; and, the Philadelphia Evening
Bulletin, while declaring that "these
flights across the seas are inspiring"
and that they justify the hope of reg
ular and routine performance" warns
that "in the excitement of the hour
there is likely to be tendency to for
get that such flights are still extraor-
dinary undertakings. for which only
he staunches and best are competent,
An incidental lesson or the flight, to
the Worcester Evening Gazette, is that
lost flyers may demonstrate the tre-
mendous Importance of carrying
strong and dependable radio equip
ment."
Evening star., 1927-08-26

|, called which seems to have a sprin-
king OF gold In the finish?-s. n. r.
A. Aventurin lacquer Is the LACQUER
whose che r: cteristic is a sprinkling of
gold particles, either uniform in char
acter or !, cloudings.
O. Whv 10 we never hear nowadays
of people having inflammation Of the
brain?- r.
A. This is an old and unscientific
term which was applied to both cere-
britis and meningitis. These terms are
now in general use.
Q. When was the Birth Control Re
view first issued?-R. l..
A. 1t was started in 1917. In the
year ending June. 1924. there We're
published $4,000 copies of this maga
zine.
q. What country makes the mos
silk. and what one consumes the most
L. :.
a. The United States has become tn,
largest and most important silk manu-
featuring and silk-cunsuming countr.
IN the world. II takes aproximatel,
.hreefourths Of the worlds production
The raw material is all imported.
O What is the difference betweer
! facinSs and Things on military gai
| ments?-M. T..
A. Facings are on the outside Of tht
garment and are for ornamental pur
poses. Innings are on the inside to
give the garment a neat, smooth sp
pearance and cover up canvas, wad
ding, etc.
@. Is the author of "Cyrano de Ber-
| gerac" living?-F. d. j.
| A. Edmond Rostand. dramatist and
poet. was born in 1869 and died In
| 1920.
q. What is the name of the castle
| at the entrance of the harbOr at Vera
| Cruz, Mexico?-G. T. l..
A. 1t is gan Juan de uiua.
@. In what country do the most po.
pie carry life insurance?--C. L.
A. In the United States. At the
| C. 1se Of 1924 there was life insurance
| . ltstanding in the entire world that
amounted to $50 .000, 100000 OF this
amount $e3 800 900, 900, over two
| thirds, was held by United States COM
pa MES.
q. Are there many pureblOodsd ne
groes in the United States?--A. q. s.
A. Among the 100000 enumerated
as colOred In the census of 1920 the
population of pure -blooded Africans Is
comparatively small.
Q. Is 1t true that the first use of
perfumery was in connection with re-
| ligious ceremonies?-M. r. d.
| A. The first mention of the use Of
perfumery seems to be in the 30th
| chapter of Exodus, 34th verse, con.
| tanning the formula for the holy
amounting oil to be used solely by the
priest of the tabernacle of the Jews.
| This perfume consisted Of sweet
spices. stacte, onycha and galbanum."
| These were all aromatic herbs or
gums.
Frederic j. Haskin Is employed By
| this paper to handle inquiries Of our
| readers, and you are inUited to call
upon him as freely and as often as
you please. Ask anything that is a
matter OF fact. and The authority Uiu
be quoted you. There is no charge
| for this service. Ask trhdt you rant,
sign your name and address and tn
| close 2 cents In stamps for return
postage. Address The EreninO Star
Information Bureau. Frederic J. Has
| Kin. director. Washington, ID. c.
Evening star., 1927-08-26

| MANY a man who thinks to found
a home discovers that he has merely
opened d tavern for his friends" says
| Norman Douglas. in South Wind.
There is a whimsical sentence for
you,
| One might think the writer of 1t
was an old crouch. sitting i'm the
midst of walled acres, unwilling to
receive "a friend.
Yet nothing could be further from
the truth, as the experience of every
man proves, Even If one does not
maintain free inn for all his ac-
quaintance, he knows of some~ one
else who does.
Especially does this hold true of
Washington, the cynosure of all eyes
OF the Nation. Out in the States
| they look upon the National Capital
with a feeling mixed of awe. antici-
patton and credulity.
| To go to Washington for q visit
Is an event. All Washingtonians
ought to remember. that when they
receive the guests from the States,
and not fail to answer the door bell,
just to please Norman Douglas.
So let us admit, once and for all,
that often enough it is better to make
a tavern out Of ones home than to
allow II TO go guestless.
| ~ **
| Yet must something be said on the
other side!
| Every one knows of some unlucky
| couple whose home and resources are
made a good thing of" by every
chance acquaintance in the home
State
They are forever dining people who
| mean nothing to them, simply because
1--WE suspecn they do not know how to
get out Of it, or are not ready enough
| liars.
Social lies, of course, are not really
| lies.
The abstract regard Of truth which
distinguishes some entirely ethical
people Is rather nuisance at times,
say such a time as Mrs. Heffington
writes that she intends to come camp
down on one for two weeks"
Now what one should do, in such an
emergency, Is to send telegram at
once:
Am leaving for seashore immedi.
ately. Very sorry ! will not be home. :"
Or: extreme illness in family de-
prives us of pleasure of having you as
guest"
Come to think or 1t, either of these
kilograms would entail much dodg-
ing around, for Mrs. Heffington, one
we'll recalls, is determined lady, espe-
cially when checking upon friends.
One would not say that she is sus-
picious, but-well, you know what one
| means! Suppose that first telegram
were sent, the one about going to the
seashore.
The only thing left to do would be
to go, or, possibly, to close the house
up tight, and sneak in the back way
for couple of weeks.
No sooner would Mrs. III. land in
Washington than she would take ex-
treme pains to walk by the house. in
order to catch one at home.
Sure she would.
In the event the telegram about
sickness were dispatched, she would
come Immediately from the train to
the house to express her coincidence
and also to get the exact facts in the
case,
A jar Of homemade jelly would COM
plicate the case. Like all of the folks
from back home, old Mrs. Heffington
Evening star., 1927-08-26
Study of Astronomy
Needed i'm All Sciences
To the Editor of The Star.

All colleges and high schools should
require all students to study one year
In astronomy, and all mechanics, in
Ventors. agriculturists and electricians
should study one year In astronomy,
about an hour after working hours.
Without the clear understanding Of
orbit motion, as seen in the solar
system. no one can understand clearly
chemistry, mechanics, agriculture,
plant growth, animal growth, elec-
tricity, physiology, geology, mag
netism, airplanes, the weather, etc.
They should know the movements in
orbits and changing of orbits that are
going on inside of all kinds of matter,
The accurate accomplishments, espe-
cially in physics. chemistry, machine
cry and agriculture, require cisar
understanding of the laws of orbits
and their alignments and disalign,
ments that produce all the physical
phenomena Of matter.
D. A, ". GROVER,
Kansas City. No.
Evening star., 1927-08-26
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Signs of Autumn.

Signs of Autumn.
When the goldenrod is Haunting
And the leaves begin to fade,
When the melodies come haunting
From the depths of forest shade,
AS you seek destination
Through a rustic thoroughfare,
You observe with new eiation
Signs Of Autumn everywhere.
Signs that tell Of motor fixtures,
Not forgetting gas and oil,
Or of dainty breakfast mixtures
To give strength for daily toll.
Hidden are the trees we cherished,
AS we view the gay designs.
Natures olden charm has perished
AS we view the Autumn signs.
Evening star., 1927-08-26

One of the advantages enjoyed by
Mr.. Dawes should not be overlooked.
His famous MELODY" stamps him as
a. musician who might easily compose
a campaign song with far-reaching
CONSEQUENCES.
Evening star., 1927-08-26

It has been asserted that there are
not enough policemen. 1t is deilcate
matter to secure a precisely adequate
supply of law enforcement; supply
that will provide co-ordinated compe-
tanoa instead of making officers sa
numerous that they get in one an
others way.
Evening star., 1927-08-26
Shifting Sentiments.

"Do you love your enemies?
Il am often obliged to-" answered
Senator Sorghum. 1.-THE man who was
opposed to you on one issue Is very
likely to be supporting you enthusias-
tically on another
Evening star., 1927-08-26

Most Of the murder mysteries sure
of being solved at present are those
described by magazine authors, who
know in the first chapter precisely
what they are talking about.
Evening star., 1927-08-26

Aviation has been the source Of the
most happy enthusiasms and the
most saddening depressions that the
present century so far has expert
enced,
Evening star., 1927-08-26
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Evening star., 1927-08-26

The diplomatic world situation is
calculated to drive the average citizen
looking for mental occupation within
his capacity back to the GROSSLY word
puzzle.
Evening star., 1927-08-26
An Anachronism.

From the Detroit Free Press.
One Of the Detroit Cleveland busses
was wrecked when 1t hit horse.
What business has q horse on the
highway, anyhow
Evening star., 1927-08-26

Every now and then some lady OF
social eminence decides that there is
more satisfaction in selling tea than
in merely pouring it.
Evening star., 1927-08-26

Several motion picture stars would
be glad if their films could have as
much prominence as their divorces.
Evening star., 1927-08-26
Literary Preferences.

Most everything he writes l read,
This mighty pugilist.
I'll frankly say he is indeed
NV favorite "Kol-um-ist.'
Evening star., 1927-08-26
Literary DISAGREEMENT.

The literature the newsstands bring
Contains immoral stuff.
So to the classics / shall cling.
They're surely good enough.
To Shakespeare's pages now l turn
MY state Of mind grows queer.
Some naughty phrases ! discern.
Oh, dear! Oh, dear! Oh, dear!
Evening star., 1927-08-26

The only genuine efficiency expert
that human industry has found Is
Mussolini.
Evening star., 1927-08-26
Ill.fated Fat Man.

why does nobody love fat manF'
Because he is usually trying to re-
duce, and. in consequence, is underfed
and iu.natured"
Evening star., 1927-08-26
Too Tiring.

From the Louisville Times.
Some women visit cosmeticians so
frequently thsy actually look beauty
shop worn
Evening star., 1927-08-26
From the Albany News,

From the Albany News,
New Jersey is said to be searching
for a wild man" who rides about in
an automobile. New York state would
be glad to send New Jersey Q few
thousand Of these wild men.
Evening star., 1927-08-26

Jud Tunkins says d lazy man al
ways has to keep fearfully busy look
ing for some kind of job where he
can pretend to be boss.
Evening star., 1927-08-26

The Evening Star with the sunday morn
ing edition s delivered by carriers within
the city at 80 cents per month: daily only.
AZ CENTS Der month. sundays onlv 20 rrnts
per month Orders nav lie sent hy mail or
telephone Main 5000. Coltertlon IL mace by
carrier at end OF each month
Evening star., 1927-08-26

"You can't Judge by appearances,
said Uncle Eben. Desc knickerbock-
ers make gemmen an ladies look
purtG much de same." .-..---
Evening star., 1927-08-26
Concentration.

do you enjoy bridge?"
"Very much," answered MISS cay
enne. "a bridge game is one occa'
sion on which people are expected to
keep quiet unless they know exactly
what they are talking about"
Evening star., 1927-08-26

"It is BETTER" said Hi Ho, ito rely
on the man who whispers what he
can do, than to heed one who shouts
what he will do"
Evening star., 1927-08-26

1.-THE public craze for long distance
flying" according to the Charleston
Evening Post. lis being carried to an
eytravagant point without a proper
sense OF yaiuesa and there should be
serne modification Of It. Stunt flying
Evening star., 1927-08-26
Second Childhood, Perhaps.


The world may be. q million years
old. as scientists assert. If SO. it is
pretty jazzy for its age.
Evening star., 1927-08-26
THEODORE W. MOVES =. Editor
10 Evening Star Newspaper Con
Business Office

nth st and Pennsylyanis ave.
New York Office 10 East f2n1 -.
European Office IA Regent St. London
England
Evening star., 1927-08-26

@. What is the kind of lacquer wa
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-22
By CARL HAESSLER,
Federated Press.)

CHICAGO, Sept. q. 49, AS com
muters on the Chicago and North
western road settle comfortably into
the new passenger coaches equipped
with roller bearings they do not
think of the aggravated unemploy-
ment the new labor-displacing device
brings to train and engine service
employees, to workers in the rail-
road shops and to the coal miners
as well as other wage earners. The
commuters think only of the in
creased transportation luxury which
permits trains to start with a mini
mum Of jerking, pick up speed quick
~ and to stop almost without any
jar at all.
A locomotive fireman on the Chi
cago-kenosha suburban run was
rather prematurely jubilant about the
new invention. "The roller bearings
Tor the car aXles are a marvel, he
said to a passenger. 81 had to shovel
only about half the coal"
He did not realize that in time
there may be only half the number
of locomotive firemen, half the
engineers and half the conductors en-
ployed Railroad executives are al
ready talking of doubling the num-
Der OF new coaches drawn by a loco
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-22
Widow Says Dry Agent
Blew Out Brains of a
Helpless Unarmed Man

LEONARDTOWN, Md, Sept. 21.-
j. r. Brewer, a dry agent, was held
without bail in jail here today follow
ing hearing into the killing of
Charles P. Gundlach, II, a farmer,
during raid by prohibition officers.
D. M, Jackson, another agent, was
released in $4,000 bond. ]. T. Fisher
had previously been held in $1,000
bond. While a fourth agent, R. S.
Cornet, Jr., was dismissed. Fisher
was wounded
Gundlach's widow pointed out
Brewer as the agent who had held a
pistol to her husbands head and
blown out his brains as he lay un-
armed and wounded on the porch of
their home.
States Attorney Dorsey said he
would ask indictment of Brewer for
murder.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-22
Meredith Organizing
Democratic Party to
Smash Governor Smith

Edwin 7. Meredith of Iowa, former
secretary of agriculture, has appar-
emily seized the anti-Smith leader
ship in the democratic party. In a
statement issued here in which he de-
scribes the virtues of dry, farm
bill platform for the democrats, and
denounces Al. Smith, James Reed and
Richie of Maryland, he calls for or
ganization behind himself to control
the democratic party convention.
He suggested Walsh of Montana.
Baker of Ohio, or Robinson of Ar
kansas as good timber, and coyly in
timated that he might himself make
either president or a vice president
if asked and voted for.
Said to be formulating plans for a
move toward nominating Governor
midwest movement to oppose any
Washington today. The former sec
McAdoo was scheduled to depart for
Al. Smith for president, William G.
rotary of the treasury also plans to
attend a prohibition conference in
Washington, it was said.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-22
BY HARVEY o'CoNNoR.

WASHINGTON, (FP)--Sept. 90
strikers who are foreign born cam
not be deported just because they
violate an injunction. That was the
reply of w. w. Husband, assistant
secretary of labor in charge of inmi
grafton to the threat of Fed. Judge
Benson Hough of eastern Ohio. Judge
Hough has just issued a tyrannous
injunction binding the striking mine
workers of eastern Ohio hand and
foot. From the bench he angrily as
serted that foreign born workers who
violated his law would be recon-
mended for deportation.
mo, there is no provision in the
deportation act against strikers,
declared Husband. aside from IL
legal entry, an alien can be deported
only if he becomes a public charge
or commits a felony and is sentenced
to one year or more"
"But what if foreign born strikers
who violate Judge Hough's injunction
are found guilty of contempt of court
ana sentenced to more than one years
imprisonment. Federated Press in
CURED of Husband.
Eve have never had such a case
before u.s., he answered. 81 don't
know just what our action would be
until test case were submitted"
Cannot Be DepOrted.
The strikers would have to be
found guilty of felony, not mis-
demeanor, Husband pointed out and
receive adequate sentence if there
were to be any question whatever of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-22
Wardrobe Workers
Union Wins STA
Increase in Paw

An increase of $14 week in the
minimum wage scale for wardrobe at
tendants has been won by the The
atrical Wardrobe Attendants Union
for the members of its organization.
Under the revised scale attendants
will now get minimum of S55 a
week and viii also get an additional
sixth, little over SO for SUNDAYS
when Sunday work is required. The
scale is also effective all down the
line, assistant attendants being in
creased to $45 a week plus Sunday
pay, and dressers now being scaled at
$3.50 performance
All of the managers now Producing
in New York have given orders to
their business departments to put the
raise into immediate effect with the
single exception of Florence Ziegfield
who is still holding out for the old
wage scale.
In the motion picture houses a new
scale has also recently been won by
the union.