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by the South Dakota immigration
Department, designed to encourage
new settlers to this now famous State
The bulletin concludes with this op.
timistic note: South Dakota offers
you prosperity and an assured future
1t Is a young State, whose greatest
development is yet to come. Land
prices are correspondingly low and
will advance
Emile Berliner, q Washingtonian
whose scientific achievements have
brought him worldwide recognition
is sailing for Germany early in Au
gust for another pilgrimage to his
native heath, Hanover. He will
demonstrate at the famous Hanover
ian Technical College-which cor.
responds to Boston's Institute OF
Technology-his latest invention
acoustic tiles, designed to improve the
addition Of public halls and theaters
His present trip recalls similar visit
which he made to Germany two
decades ago, following his invention
of the telephone transmitter and the
microphone in the early eighties. He
went to Hanover then, and the demon.
stration of his inventions paved the
way for the introduction of the tele
phone into Germany.
In an effort to keep the crooks out
of the prohibition enforcement serv.
ice the Civil Service Commission,
which is now engaged in examining
10000 applicants for approximately
$500 positions in the prohibition unit,
has decided to fingerprint every eligi.
BILE candidate and then compare the
prints with what the commission
characterizes as "the appropriate
fingerprint records" Even the as.
sistant prohibition commissioners
$4,000 job-must qualify under civil
service and be fingerprinted along
with the rest of the force.
(Copyright 1927
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THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

You can't get blood out Of a tur.
nip" as the old saying had 1t; you
| can't get tall, fine spikes Of gladioli
| without proper fertilization.
We learned this latter to our sorrow
this season after a most successful
Summer in 1926, when our ""glads'
grew as tall as feet 10 inches, in
some cases, with none of them less
than Az feet high.
There is just as much difference be-
tween a gladiolus 3 or 312 feet tall and
one Az to feet. as there Is between
a sweet alyssum and a gorgeous
| rose. say a full-blown specimen of
Claudius Pernet's Souvenir.
Those who have never seen big
thick spikes, with grand flowers, have
never seen the gladiolus, that is all.
The gladiolus is one of the few flow
ers that manage to keep their eXqui-
siteness with size.
The same thing holds true of human
beings. Have you ever seen an over
grown child, pretty girl, who yet
through very quantity has lost some
of the daintiness which is an integral
part of childhood?
Most flowers. with huge size, take
on a certain coarseness, but this is not
true of the gladiolus. The larger it
grows. the finer it becomes, so that it
may be truly said that no one knows
this flower who has not seen it grow
to it's perfection.
X X X r
The writer here can say this whole.
heartedly, since he has had both pleas
ure and disappointment in his own
back yard in this respect. AS the
gladioli come into flower, as they have
been doing for the past weeks, each
spike Is about half the size of last
year.
Few of the tips come higher than
the fence, which is the average mod
ern low fence of wire on wooden posts
and two-by.fours. The result is that,
in comparison with last year, the
spikes look "chinchy."
The individual flowers are but a
1.-THE of the size of last years varie-
ties, and where there were IA to 20
flowers on spike, this year there are
but 6 to a dozen, all told.
Reports Of similar conditions come
to us from other amateur growers, all
using the bulbs which they harvested
last Autumn.
X * X
The question was brought wildly to
mind by seeing some fine specimens
of the old commercial variety America
and discovering that the grower mad
used bone meal and plenty of it.
We didn't!
Last year we used bone meal with
the results stated. but this season we
thought we could do without it.
No doubt the grower of the fine
spikes had new bulbs, fresh from
lands highly fortified, full of pep"
able to give fine spikes, even had no
bone meal been used.
The question of fertilization goes
farther back than any one season. Not
only must the ground be fertile for a
bulb or seed to do it's best, but the
seed and bulb themselves must be
overlooking with energy.
1t becomes a question whether
the average amateur grower can pack
his own harvest of bulbs with the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-25
PHILOSOPHERS
BY
GLENN FRANK

The poet captures the soul Of an
era in an epic.
The composer makes the inarticu-
late heart of a people sing folk
song or opera.
And now and then some one snares
whole civilization in one short
phrase.
w. r. Hotchkin. associate director
of Amos Parrish & Co.. of New York.
caught the distilled essence of at least
one major aspect of American cfviliza-
ton in a phrase when he contributed
to a recent issue of Advertising and
Selling an article on Volume Mad
ness, the Profit Waster."
Volume madness Is social dropsy.
American business in particular and
American civilization in general are
smitten by this sinister disease.
1.-THE slogan of commerce during
the present generation" says Mr..
Hotchkin. rs expressed in three crisp
words: Smash that record
Business progress is today regis
tered by beating quotas, and any bust
ness that falls short of making its
quota Of 10 to so per cent increase
on it's past highest record of sales or
output reports that 1t has had a bad
year.
Have you, Mr.. Manufacturer, and
you, Mr.. Retailer. ever had a shock OF
surprise-after chuckling most of the
year over your marvellous gains in
volume-to discover that your net
profits had shrunk to distressingly
small dimensions? If you have not,
you are indeed lucky.
1.-THE greatest MASTERS Of the age
are not the prof1igates who squander
money on mad efforts to give surcease
to dull life. The greatest money
MASTERS are those manufacturers and
retailers who fail to make fair
profit on the golden market that they
exhaust. because in their mad scram-
BILE for abnormal volume they waste
much of their deserved profit in ham
mering down the wall that should pro.
tect them from diminishing returns.
There is n line of volume sales in
every business where abnormal sales
resistance begins. In some in
stances it may cost as much to force
the last 10 per cent of it's volume as
it cost to secure the earlier 80 per
cent"
I commend this business mans
preachment to VOlume-mad businesses
to still other sections Of our social
order:
To the church that prizes the size
of it's membership above the still
small voice of prophetic pulpit.
To the college that thinks more Of
putting magnificent buildings over it's
students heads than of putting mag
nificent inspirations into it's students
heads.
To the political party that thinks
more of the size of it's majority than
of the sincerity of it's measures.
Volume madness! This Is a phrase
freighted with meaning for modern
America.
(Copyright 1927
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-25
UNITED STATES
in WORLD WAR
Ten Years Ago Today

Pershing's forces busy digging in"
over in France. Trenches being con-
structed at camp and Marines are
busy building barbed-wire entangle-
ments. One hundred and
fifty thousand more militia answer
Federal call. All National Guard ex-
cept those Of California and South
western States now in service. =
Two thousand two hundred and ninety
four voluntary enlistments in Regular
Army today. . American off.
GERS back from France are conf.
dent that Allies can break through
the German lines. Five killed
in explosion on board American sub
marine at Cavite. on Manila Bay.
Gen. Pershing, at French
front. reviews famous battalion of the
ChaSSeurs. U-bOats sink %
British steamers during past week
Weather and daylight conditions will
soon become less favorable to sub
marine activity. Government
plans corporation to control Joint us,
of Wright and Curtiss airplane
patents and will pay owners big royal
ties. Senators favor bond is.
sues for new war budget and oppose
further taxation. Senator Smoot esti.
mates first years war bill at $4,000.
100000 including loans to Allies.
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cultivated. Indeed, the great men NJ
the twentieth century are likely to
come under the classification of that
nomely verse which used to appear in
all the school readers:
Great not like Caesar stained with blood
but only great as | am good
So also the Houston Chronicle sug.
gests that 1.-The present age probably
doesn't exalt men to fame as former
ages have done. 1t very evidently
isn't given so much to hero Worship.
ing. AS education becomes more
general, the world learns that a great
deal or greatness Of old was largely
a matter of myth. e Pertains
the reason we don't acclaim so many
Is because we are shifting from the
Old custom of acclaiming the master
and ruler or the man with front
and appearance. and trying to find
true greatness before we bow down
to 1t. If so. we certainly have ad.
vanced far in the development OF in.
telligence." Yet the Albany Evening
News feels that "the general level of
intelligence has not risen so high that
the great do not stand out. DR.. But
ler's perspective is not good" AYERS
the Evening News.
L1dtC we HUI I1luSl6lH, asks tllo
Providence Journal. land has he not
proved himself another Newton,
Transforming mans conception of the'
universe as completely by relatively
as Newton transformed it two CEN
turtles ago by gravitation?" In fact,
to the Waterloo Tribune, DR.. Butler
rs talking in the past" and that
paper affirms: "a mere warrior is not
the idol he was. A ruler of the peo-
pie Is not countenanced at ALL" AS the
Syracuse Herald views the matter,
advanced popular education has Great
ed more exacting tests for gauging
personal greatness" and the Des
Moines Tribune-Capital states, There
may be a philosopher, there may be
an artist in brass or stone or words,
there may be scientific thinker,
who, almost unknown and little re-
garded by his generation, will be as
founding, long after his death, gen.
Grafton after generation by his bril-
lance"
after all. race of men Of normal
size is preferable to one in which a
multitude of Lilliputians make a g.
footer look like a giant" says the
Portsmouth Daily Times. while the
Bloomington Paragraph believes
that "the American people can fur
nish thousands of citizens who are
above the world average in those
qualities which make for progress"
and the Akron Beacon-Journal holds
that IAN age whose science and in
vention have produced the marvels of
which DIR. Butler speaks can manage
to get along without the ministration
Of supermen."
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Smart-Aleck FLYING.

In sharp contrast to the glorious
flight of Lieut.. Champion Is the
smart-aleck exhibition given yester-
day in Northwest Washington by an
unidentified aviator who violated all
rules of the air In descending close
to the street in a series of crazy
maneuvers. Whether this flyer
wished to give Washingtonians a
thrill or he had some trouble with
his machine is undetermined, but
from all appearances 1t was simply a
case of Showing off" and he sue
ceeded amply in providing a thrill,
but it was a thrill Of disgust and
contempt.
Every city has regulations for the
altitude OF airplanes. 1t Is a regu-
lation based on safety. both for the
flyer and for those below. Free
quently this fundamental rule is vio-
lated by those who have the same
complex as the roadhog motorist.
Policemen of the air are not yet on
duty and these violations are difficult
to check. but residents of any city,
on being affronted by such actions,
can provide the necessary remedy by
| securing the license number of the
| )ffending machine.
In yesterdays affair the police were
called by frightened residents OF
the neighborhood. but before they
could arrive to aid in Identifying the
machine the flyer had zoomed off into
the sky. Today a check-up is being
! made to ascertain what machines
were in the air over this locality
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| ployes, a not unfamiliar phenomenon
| in labor disputes. The public is not
directly concerned in the quarrel, save
as it's convenience and safety are af-
fected. A rapid transit strike in New
York, as elsewhere, always inflicts a
heavy damage upon the community
1t takes heavy toll in loss of time, in
loss of business and in disorder. The
employment Of strikebreakers involves
serious risk Of accidents, due to the
unfamiliarity of the new force with
the operating conditions.
Mayor Walker, who is about to sail
for Europe on a vacation, has endeav-
ored to adjust the trouble, but with
out effect. He has offered mediation,
trying to get the two sides together
for an amicable discussion and settle
ment. At the meeting tomorrow night
the result of his effort, a negative
one, 1t would seem, will be reported,
and the order to strike will probably
be adopted with enthusiasm by the
operatives, whose representatives de-
clare that they are we'll prepared
financially for a protracted struggle.
Meanwhile the car riders of the city
are wondering just why they should
be mulcted in delays and disorders
and in loss of business because the
two factors of the rapid transit equa.
ton, the managers and the workers,
cannot agree upon formula Of re.
lationship that will insure continuous
service.
A strike of the kind that Is now
brewing will probably cost New York
millions of dollars when all the ele.
ments are reckoned. A peaceful ad-
justment would cost far less. But,
unfortunately. there is no way to
bring about such an adjustment, es-
pecially as long as there is rivalry
between organizations. The public
will pay the bill and pray that the
strike will not lead to rioting, which
may cost heavily in lives.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-25
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC J. HASKlN.

q. How many newspapers are
there printed in English in the United
StateS?-W. +.
A. The Editor and Publisher says
that there are 419 morning papers,
1888 evening papers and 531 Sunday
papers printed in English in this
country. The total number Of daily
newspapers of general circulation in
English is 1852.
Q. Was Louis Sherry an Ameri.
can?-E. s. D.
a. He was born in Vermont about
1855. His first employment at the age
of Il was in hotel in Montreal. He
soon went to New York, and started
as a bus boy. In two years he had
saved enough money to open his first
restaurant. He went out of the res.
taurant business in 1919, and died in
| 1926.
II. e. NJ. N-''A'' '"
A. 1t indicates the playing OF
stringed instruments by plucking the
strings with the finger instead Of us.
ing the bow.
Q. How much platinum is produced
| in this country?-L. f. T.
| A. In 1925, there were 343 ounces
produced. 1t brought about Sis ar
ounce. Most Of it came from Cali
fornia.
Q. Where did crocheting originate:
w. G. II.
A. Crocheting, as we'll as knitting
| is believed to have developed from
the ancient art Of netting. The word
crochet" first appeared in the Eng
fish language in the year 1S4S.
Q. Is the Capitol in Washington be
ing reprinted or is it being cleaned
with acid?-A. V A.
| A. The Capitol dome and central
portion are being reprinted.
| q. How did grammar begin? When
was a grammar first compiled
]. H. B.
A. The earliest grammar known tic
the modern world is the Sanskrit
| grammar of Panini, who fiourished
about 800 BIC. This gives the rules
Tor classical Sanskrit. The author re-
ters to 81 predecessors. One cannot
say definitely where and how grammar
originated. 1t has been evolved from
the necessity Of systematizing the use
Of words.
Q. When does Autumn begin this
| year?-E. d. N.
A. Astronomically Autumn begins
| in the north temperate zone at the
autumnal equinox-that is, when the
sun crosses the Equator from north tc
south. The exact date varies from
year to year and is generally about
September %. For the year 1927
Eastern standard time, the autumna1
equinox has been calculated at Sep
TENDER %, SIT pm.
Q. Upon the ruins Of what city
was Phoenix, Ariz., built that il
should have been given this name:
j. A. w.
A. Jack Swilling, with an outfit
| OF about two dozen men and an eight
mule team and a wagon loaded with
provisions and tools, in 1867 started
to construct ditch from the river
about opposite a point where Tempe
now stands. This work failed because
of the rocky formation and the out
tit moved down river to a point
mile below where Joint Head is now
situated, and close by were the well
defined ruins of an ancient pueblo
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-25
Dog Assists Judge
To Decide Owner

From the Admission Star.
A judge in Georgia. puzzled over
conflicting testimony of nearly so
witnesses in a case involving the own
ership Of a dog, finally decided to let
the dog settle the controversy and
based his decision partly on the proof
furnished by the animal.
One man claimed ownership Of the
dog and was seeking to recover it
from a neighbor, who sought to prove
that he was the rightful possessor of
the animal which was the innocent
cause of the trouble. The man who
brought the suit to gain possession
of the dog insisted that its name was
Louder" while the other man called
it Rock" The judge had a specta-
tor call to the dog by each name. No
response was made when Rock" was
spoken. but the call Louder" brought
the dog to its feet and toward the man
giving the call.
The decision Of the judge in favor
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divine vim and vigor which they must
| have to live up to their kind.
* X X
He cannot do it, certainly, unless
he realizes to the full the prime i'm.
portance of fertilization.
1t has taken us four Springs and
Summers of backyard gardening to
even begin to realize the necessity
| for adequate fertilization.
This, like water. evidently can
scarcely be overdone-that is, the
| amateur is hardly likely to ever water
too much or to fertilize too much.
| Too many human factors, such as
laziness, lack of money and indiffer-
ence, are liable to interfere with a
theoretical program Of proper fertili-
cation.
Men who grow crops of various
kinds for living have been forced
to heavy fertilization, but those who
garden, whether vegetable or flower,
merely for the pleasure of it. have no
such heavy hand hanging over them.
"Oh. l guess they will grow all
right" we say, and 60 about our
business.
Well, they often don't grow "all
right"
The necessity for constant and rich
fertilization, we believe, is one of the
hardest things for the average back.
yard gardener to learn.
IIe tries to get something for moth.
ing, in sense. and 1t can't be done.
A tanned gentleman in a large
wagon hailed us the other evening
from the alley.
i've got half a wagon load of rich
dirt here" he said, "and 1 want to
get rid of it. I'll let you have it
cheap"
Haven't any place to store it, and
don't want to put it on the borders
now holiered we. us and company.
But come around in the Fall with
wagon load of well rotted manure"
TO which he agreed
Now we wish we had made our or
der two wagon loads. Next Spring
ought to see our garden fairly groan-
ing with fertilizers.
We expect to have a magnificent
share of ants, and weeds and toad
stools. but these can be taken care
Of with a little work.
We are particularly anxious to try
out the new glass jars with "ant food
inside. There is a ladder" of excel.
sior, so that the ants can climb in
easily, and climb out with the food
the queen ant, and this they feed to
her. and partake of themselves. with
death to the whole outfit, since the
food" is poisoned.
X X X
Fertility is the first requisite of the
soil-available fertility, of course. If
the food elements are locked up, as it
were, they might as well not be there.
Manure, bone meal and the CONNER
cial garden fertilizers" with their
various formulae, are the hope Of all
Of us who are growing the same flow.
ers year after year on the same
ground.
Intensive gardening is what we are
doing. and we must go in for intensive
fertilization, too.
1t has taken us four years to learn
this lesson, and we state it here in
| order that others may read and profit
by it without going through the same
experience.
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| Darrell Duppa, a scholar who was
with the Swilling outfit, said, IA
call 1t Phoenix. for here upon tte NJ
a new city will RISE" and he told g.
the bird which rose from its ashe,
as set down in mythology.
Q. Can a woman obtain "sIlyer
wings"?-G. o.
A. Silver wings are given to ner
enlisted in the United States Arm
| Air Service when they are rated ~
| pilots. No woman can enlist in this
service.
Q. Who was the first man to ba
electrocuted? Who devised the cleo.
trio chair?-J. +. S.
| A. New York was the first st.,o
10 electrocute man. The first Grim
, 1nal to be executed by electricity wa
William Kemmler, August 6. 1890 al
Auburn Prison. The death chair"
with its adjustable headrest, binding
straps and adjustable electrodes. was
devised by r. F. Davis, the State eler.
trician Of New York.
Q. Do the men that ride IN tbc
bicycle races at Madison Square ia,
gen ride six days without anv rest?
NJ. NJ. c.
A. The six-day bicycle racss n.y.
ridden by relay teams, two men in
team. - '
u. What air route has carried ths
most mail in proportion to popuia
tion?-C. L. EP'''''
A. The Los-Angeles Salt LAX.
route led in a selected month. I,
carried 1871 pounds of mail DER On,
persons. Pueblo-Cheyenne was SECOND
with S.57 pounds per 900 population
FOR all air mail routes. the AVERAGE
was 3.49 pounds per 1000.
Q. How does the cost OF ed,c.tio,
In the United States compare tc;th
the cost of such luxuries as soft drink
ana ice cream, theaters, candy. che,r.
ing gum, jeWelry, tobacco. nerfur,o.
and cosmetics?-H. V.
"A. THESE Injuries were estimated NJ
$4,000 100000 in 1925, while in that
year the Nation expended s.. 900 0O0 oo0
Tor elementary and secondary nuhlic
schools and $500. 900, 900 for educa.
tlon In all types of schools and col.
ieges' Doth private and public.
@. When was Princess Elizabeth
daughter Of the Duke and Duchess Of
York, born?-N. N. -
A. She was born April 20, 1925.
@. When does the Christmas shop.
ping season open?-A. +.
A. With the mail-early and huv.
early campaigns, many gifts are pur.
chased months ahead of time. but the
intensive Christmas shopping NAV no
said to begin the Monday after
Thanksgiving day.
Q. When did the Brownsville riot
take PLACES. r. B.
A. The Brownsville riot in Texas
TOOK place on August 10, 1906.
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