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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-10-28

A PICTURESQUE FIGURE-Althoughl
he has been in retirement for more than
a decade. Cunningham Graham. English
aristocrat, socialist, cow-puncher. author
and traveller. is still one of London's most
picturesque figures. He has sought advent
ture in nearly every corner of the earth.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-09

Scotia last Saturday the tanks had
become so depleted that the COM
mander headed for Halifax. His oil
supply was exhausted before he could
reach there, and for some hours the
ship lay in the trough of the sea, help
less. No steam could be made for pro.
pulsion. 1t was impossible to heat the
ship. The passengers suffered from
cold. 1t was necessary to break up
hatch covers and other wooden equip
ment to provide fuel for the galleys
for cooking. Finally a small steamer
came in sight and was hailed by the
liners siren, which could barely be
sounded. Help was obtained. a little
oil was transferred to the Harding for
heating purposes and she was taken
in tow to Halifax.
Such an experience seems wholly
anomalous in these days, and yet with
tho use of oil fuel it is quite definite
possibility. In this case 1t is evident
that mistake was made in attempt
ing to cross the ocean with leaking
tanks. Doubtless a rule of safety will
be adopted by all steamship manage
ments to prevent the taking of such
chances hereafter.
The experience of the passengers
on the Harding brings to memory that
of Phineas Fogg, Jules Verne's world
touring character in Around the
World in Eighty Days" On his last
lap the ship in which he was speeding
ran short of fuel, and it was necessary
to use practically all the wood which
could be spared from the craft to keep
the boilers going. That was before
the days of metal ships, and so the
whole vessel was a potential fuel pile.
A steel ship furnishes but little fuel
reserve out of her own structure, and
an oil burner is handicapped by the
peculiar construction of her furnaces.
Evidently the care of the oil tanks is
the first duty of the commander of
such craft.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-09
HELPLESS at Sea.

Powerful as 1t is when fully fueled
and under steam, the modern ship is
still weak and helpless when it is lack
ing in heat units. Rarely does it hap
pen that a liner or even a tramp
freighter is thus stranded, as it were,
without the means of making steam
and maintaining Roadway. At the be-
ginning of every voyage it's bunkers
are filed, and 1t has an ample reserve
to enable 1t to hold it's own against
even the severest weather. The tramp
steamer can always find coal at some
port which it can make by using its
reserves. With the introduction of oil
for fuel, however, has entered new
element Of danger into the navigation
problems This was illustrated in the
case of the steamer President Harding
on her latest voyage from Bremen to
New York. Shortly after the ship left
Cobh-which used to be known as
Queenstown leak in the fuel tanks
was discovered. It was thought that
the ship could make port. but OF Nova
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-09
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

kinsman OF William Pitt FeSsenden,
once an eminent member of the United
States Senate. Fessenden has prac-
tfced law In Shanghai for more than
a quarter of a century. He was taken
into partnership by Consul General
Jernigan. Americas well known repre-
sentative at Shanghai during the
Cleveland administration, and, on Jer-
nigan's death. succeeded to the lead
ership of the firm. The Shanghai mu-
nicipal council consists of nine foreign
ers-six Britons, two Americans and
one Japanese-the proportion of ma
tional membership depending upon the
Importance of the respective country's
interests in the city. The Chinese of
Shanghai are like the citizens of the
District of Columbia-they are vote
less. They own about 80 per cent of
all the property in the city, but prac-
tically all of the valuable business area
along the river rfront-the famous
Bund-is owned by foreigners.
X X
Senator Charles L. McNary, Re-
publican of Oregon, grandfather and
father of the farm-relief bill which
bears his name, is basking in the
caressing breezes of vice presiden-
tial boom. His stock is bound to rise
il the McNary Haugen project be-
comes law. It is some time since the
G. o. P. has gone to the Far West
for presidential or vice presidential
timber. 1t happens that McNary is
one of Vice President Dawes cronies.
but the present presiding officer of
the Senate may find consolation for
the McNary movement" In the cir
cumstance that the Republicans are
not accustomed to renominate their
own Vice Presidents.
X X "
Senator-elect William S. Ware, Re-
publican. of Pennsylvania, has left his
trials and tribulations at Washing
ton behind him and embarked upon a
months motor trip through Florida
with his wife and two daughters. The
Philadelphia BOSS" who still repre-
sents his district In the House, does
not share the view now widespread in
Pennsylvania that he viii never take
his seat in the United States Senate.
Meantime, there is one Senator Ware
whose rights are uncontested-Sen-
ator Flora M. Ware of the Pennsyl-
vania upper house, now in biennial
session at Harrisburg. She Is the
widow of State Senator Edwin H.
Ware. The latter was succeeded by
Ills DFOLner, Representative Bill ..
Ware, and when he entered the
House of Representatives at Wash
ington his sister-in-law-the present
State Senator-Succeeded him.
Il X X X
Dancing customarily winds up the
White House receptions which the
President and Mrs. Coolidge have
been giving during the Winter.
Despite the noble dimensions of the
east room, waltZng and fox-trotting
proceed amid eongested traffic. A
Tammany congressman. who was
plotting his lady through one of the
recent brushes, said he felt himself
more danced against than dancing"
tCopyright. 1927
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-09

mems travel equipment, for mems ap-
parel styles do not shift appreciably.
The long.tail coat has almost gone out
of wear and is seldom carried on a
trip. That is about the ouly gain in
point of space. Collars, shirts and
neckties--de cuffs are not now
to be Observation-Disclosures and hose
and toilet articles constitute the chief
line of gear that must be borne.
There is more travelling now with
small baggage than with the cumber-
some trunks of the past. Many wom-
an is able to make brilliant showing
of gowns out of week end bag" of
amazingly small proportions. The
question arises whether this tendency
will continue. win the tissues be
made thinner and finer and the bags
and trunks grow less and even less
in proportion?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-09
Trunks and Fashions.

Feminine fashions are affecting the
size and shape of trunks and other
baggage devices. At meeting of the
National Luggage Dealers Association
in Chicago an exhibition of new prod
ucts shows an array of trunks and
bags that appear like toys. The presi-
dent Of the association in explanation
says: THE women don't wear any
thing and we can't sell the old line.
Formerly a woman's clothes were a
matter of pounds. Now they are
ounces
The old-style Saratoga trunk" is
now little more than a mere memory.
Here and there one reappears, drawn
from the attic of an old.fashioned
house for a rare journey. 1t holds
the personal effects of the entire
family for a long trip. The so-called
wardrobe trunk has replaced this enor-
nous box, greatly to the relief of the
baggage smashers" of the railway
lines. But even these contraptions of
late times are shrinking. Owing to
the shift in styles, a woman can
carry a dozen gowns in a space that
was formerly sufficient for only about
four.
There Il no change. however, t3
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-09
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

With their mind equipment dis
tinctly third class, they do so and so,
and Society holds up it's hands In holy
horror, declaring that they nave
broken the rules of first-class conduct.
Why, certainly! What else can be ex-
pected? "You cannot make SILK
purse out of a sow's' ear" says the
homely old aphorism although that
saying was born before the days or
applied chemistry.
With lessened standards, lack of
pride of place, With no sense of the
fitness of things, orr pride in them
selves or their families, these per
sons find life lacking in thrills,
hence they run headlong into murder
disease, wrongs of oil sorts, and the
chronicling of their doings, in some
unhappy quarters, tends to make the
whole world lose it's sense of proper
ton.
The reason why all men do not mi
crate to the sunny climes is simply
this: That well balanced persons
store sunshine in their own hearts' 10
carry them through the dark days
Their minds make sunshine wherever
they are.
a. mental thing than the sunshine or
Spring Is a physical actually, ana
the one is no less important than the
other, in the economy of the well or
dered life. No mans life is SO well
ordered. of course, that there IS not
much inner turmoil in 1t, but his lie
is. as compared with that of the
other sort, so free and happy that we
get back to the original meaning OF
the famous phrase, "All men are porn
fee and equal"
The gentleman who said, Il feel
happy-because Spring is coming,
undoubtedly possesses the mind that
sees, and ne lives, in essence, the well
ordered life.
Such a life is more to be desired
than many fine automobiles, for 1t
can give what nothing made by hands
can give-happiness From 1t now
daily the fresh winds of joy, balmy
airs of clean living, fresh odors OF
interest. Without these winds and
airs and scents to keep the Spring
time-in the Heart" would life not run
great risks of being a continuous
Winter?
X x X
The hazards alongthe roads of life
are not so much speeding automobiles,
or lurking germs, or great wars. In
some moods it Is easy to see that we
must all die, and we might as well
die one way as another.
The true pitfalls along the roads,
the dangerous ouiblettes set by some
wicked queen of evil, are rather those
habits, both individual and racial,
those traits of mind. that call out the
worst in us, and make us only ami
mails, after all, using different methods
of tearing and rending:. more danger
Gus because they are more insidious,
less decent because they are more
sneaking.
This has been the real great fight
of the ages, to pacify these animal and
subanimal traits III human nature,
and make us all what every one, in
his best moods, knows we might as
well be. That is the pity of 1t! Every
one knows what life should be. and
might be, but between the cup and
the lip there is many a fall indeed!
Come soon, Spring, that we may be
happier than usual, land, If possible,
better.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-09
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN.

@. Who was the first mayor of New
York City?-T. T.. NJ.
A. Thomas Willett in 1865 was the
| first.
q. Is there really a sea elephant?-
S. c. w.
A. This name is applied to a very
large seal (Mirounga leonina) found
in the coast waters of the Southern
Hemisphere. 1t grows sometimes to
a length of 90 feet. and the old male
develops an elongated proboscis.
Q. How large is an atom; can it be
| SEEMS. O. NJ.
A. DIR. c. G.. Abbot, in q report of
the Smithsonian Institution. says that
the diameter of an atom does not
exceed one ten-millionth part of the
diameter of an ordinary bird shot 1t
is, therefore, much too minute to be
visible even under q microscope.
@. Where is the highest waterfall in
the world?--B. f.
A. Stirling Falls. New Zealand. hav-
ing a fall of 1904 feet, are probably
the highest in the world
Q. How should paint brushes be
| soaked in water?-D. l.. d.
A. Paint brushes should be put in
water, hanging so there is no weight
on the bristles. If brushes are to be
put away for longer than a day or two,
however, they should be thoroughly
| cleaned with benzine and washed in
hot soapsuds.
@. Are the regular traffic policemen
paid by the District government
N. w S.
A. The Traffic Bureau says they are
paid by the street railway companies.
@. Are Oriental rugs made in Persia
or Turkey?-R. M. G.
A. "Orientals" are rugs from Persia,
| Turkey, Armenia and the surround
ing territory of the Near East. Those
made in Persia are said by experts to
be the best The Turkish rugs are
seldom SO fine, because their weave
is coarser, the nap is longer, the ma
terialS not so good and aniline dyes
are used instead of vegetable dyes
which are more reliable.
@. Why is 1t sometimes as warm
when the sun is not shining as when
it is?-H. A. B.
A. The temperature Of the air at a
given place depends not only on the
sunshine 1t is then getting but also
on it's own recent history. Wind from
the south on a cloudy day may be
as warm as wind from the north
on sunshiny day. This is partic-
ularly true when, as often happens,
these winds have come a long way.
Furthermore, when it is warm, humid
air feels warmer than dry air at the
same temperature.
q. In proportion to the flag flown
with the Union Jack, what should be
the size of the latter?-I. F..
A. The Union Jack should be the
size of the union, or the national flag,
with which it is flown.
Q. When one has not met the first
member OF a receiving line, should
one introduce ones self?-M. d.
A. When one has not met the first
member of the receiving line, she
should say to the leader, II am Mrs
Jefferson"
Q. Please tell me something about
Averof. Was he pure Greek, and
what did he do for Greece?-J. p. G.
A. George Averof was a Greek
from the northern part of Greece.
called "Epirus" He made a large for
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-09
II feel happy today" he said.

II feel happy today" he said.
"Why?" asked his inquisitive friend.
II don't know-just because Spring
is coming, I guess"
Warm days in February, more or
less common during recent years, un-
doubtedly have much the same effect
upon thousands of persons.
Spring Is coming!
Yes, indeed, and so is Christmas"
pipes up some surly humorist, so
called.
But Spring is actually on the way.
Formidable, cold Winter days may in
tervene, winds may blow, and all that
sort of thing, but the harbingers of
the vernal season have been seen,
heard and felt.
There is not a bit of doubt in the
world that Spring is coming, bringing
with it the freshest air in all this
world, the most beautiful sights, the
happiest sounds.
How can the crisp air of Fall or
the sharp air of Winter. really COM
pare with the delicious smell of a real
Spring day?
Windows In houses then are tinnid-
ly put up, as If the inhabitants were
afraid that a little air might be in
imical; but they shortly find that 1t
Is only benef1cent. bringing healing
to heated and stuffed lungs.
The damp GOODNESS of an early
Spring day is without parallel in the
wheel of the seasons. The moist
earth, soggy underfoot, feels the
caress of the sun. Animals run and
frisk, as likewise do little children.
Older ones feel exceptionally frisky.
Spring is in the air.
X x
Spring is only tentatively in the dir
now, as one might say She has put
forth but few timid advances. The
jonquils came up IN the front yard,
responding to the touch of the sun.
Their sisters, the tulips. In some places,
stuck their heads above the soil, but
this was a phenomenon depending
mostly upon a position in full sun
shine.
The sense of Spring, however, IS
something else again. This is the "es-
sence of things hoped for" the long
ing of the human being for fair and
bright skies beneath which carry
on his plans. 1t is a source of perpet,
ual wonder, If one stops to think about
it. why every last man of us does not
migrate to California, or Florida, or
Hawaii, or the islands of the south
seas, where balmy breezes forever
blow, according to the tales, and mys-
tic qualities of atmosphere send q
new tingle through the blood.
This, it would seem, might be a
Jingle distinctly worth while, in com
parison to the cheap attempts so often
fatuously made in our latitude to
w1est a thrill from life that too
often strikes some as insipid After
al what makes insipidity, in life, more
than the mind? You cannot get out
of a thing more than you put into it :"
says the saying, and this may well
apply to that greatest of affairs, life
itself. The world got off on the wrong
foot, in a sense, when it enunciated
the dictum that all men are born free
and equal" In the usual way of speak
ing, this justly famous statement
is hardly true. We are not born equal
in physique, in mind, in heart. One of
the great disturbing factors in the
world today is this very fact, that huge
numbers of children are born into the
world with no pride of place, no name
to uphold, no standards to maintain
no sense of the eternal fitness of
things" no pride in themselves of
their ancestors.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-09
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Had a Little Party.

Had a Little Party.
Had a little party
Down to Pohick on the Crick--
Old-time fiddlers playin'
With the proper old.time trick,
Old-time dancers shown
A touch of old-time grace,
And a good old-fashioned dinner
To assist the old-time pace.
We left the old-time music
And syncopated fast,
We danced the newest dances
Before the night was past;
But when they served the banquet,
The food was fine and fit,
That good old-fashioned dinner
Was the big new.fashioned hit.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-09
McAdoo's Speech on Dry Law
Stirs Great National Debate

William c. McAdoo's speech on
prohibition before the lawyers of Ohio
at Toledo, in which he denounced the
vets as nullif1cationists, has stirred a
great national debate. Opinions diff
fer as to the effect on McAdoo's for
tunes as a candidate for the presiden-
tial nomination, but 1t is widely be-
lieved that this speech has launched
the campaign of 1928.
Discussing "Mr. McAdoo's 1udg-
ment on those who would nullify that
part of the Federal Constitution
known as the eighteenth amend
ment," the Atlanta Journal Demo
cratic) records that so able an econ
omist as Irving Fisher of Yale Uni
versity sustains him, not as matter
of sentiment or of politics, but on
grounds of scientific truth, public In
terest and human welfare. The
Journal quotes DIR. Fisher as 'refuting
the charge that prohibition has re-
suited in an increase of deaths from
alcoholism" and that paper con-
cludes: Highly significant 1t is that
William G.. McAdoo, with a states
mans insight, and Irving Fisher, with
a scientists penetration, have reached,
by entirely independent paths. the
same conclusion on major issue or
the times"
Undoubtedly in this speech Mr..
McAdoo was giving his well considered
opinion upon a legal question" says
the Raleigh News and observer
Democratic), land yet the discussion
is so interviewer with his supposed
candidacy that little has been said of
his able argument. Is his position
unsound? II so, why should not his
critics attack 1t, instead of insinuating
that his legal argument is but
smoke screen for the announcement
of his candidacy"
The Santa Barbara Daily News
Cndependent Democratic) describes
the address as "a powerful and elo'
ouent plea for law and order and for
constitutional government" and adds:
mfr. McAdoo has taken stand
which will draw to him the great
mass of the members of his party In
the South and West. He has served
notice that the crooked bosses of the
great cities shall not commit the
party to a course which leads TO
notification and opens the way TO
anarchy and disunion."
"It is an issue that will not down.
and the political leaders cannot pre-
pare TOO SOOIl W SAAPPAO $1,000
hard fact and all its implications.
Moreover, 1t is plainly troublesome
problem that overlaps party lines,
declares the Syracuse Herald dnde-
pendent).
From the Wichita Beacon dnde'
pendent Republican, comes the COM
ment: "W. g. McAdoo has taken on
his coat and is using big, knobby
words to describe his contempt Tor
the person or persons he wishes to
defeat in the coming big fight. Talks
about grafters and skulduggery and
throwing the rascals out should come
next. 1t comes like refreshing blast
out of the West. Lay on, lay on,
treat 'em rough?'
other comments are: HE promises
to be the rallying point of all shades
of dry opinion Utica Observer Dis
patch independently. Hailed as the
spokesman who has made articulate
the dominant sentiment for law and
order"-winston-Sal Sentinel dnde-
pendent Democratic). His fight is
against the nullif1cationists who tear
at the Constitutions vitals''-Kalama-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-09

tune in Egypt, and on account OF his
generous donations to Greece is con
sidered one of the foremost benefac-
tors of the country 1t is with his
money that the Stadium of Athens
was built. for which Pentelic marble
was used, and erected on exactly the
same place where the ancient stadium
had stood. He also built the so-called
"Averofion" in Athens. a very large
reformatOry for boys and girls. He
willed a large sum of money for the
purchase of a cruiser, which was built
in England after his death and is still
unit of the Greek navy, bearing the
name of George Averof.
@. What is the longest length of
time for continual swimming "a. b.
A. The record for a long-distance
swim is held by Pedro Candioi, Argen-
tine amateur, who swan from Rosario
TO Santa Fe, Argentina. distance Of
rs miles, in 80 hours and / minute.
Q. What is the alcoholic content of
beer in Germany?-G. b. V.
a. On January /, 1926. the Ger
mans had Is per cent book beer for
tho first time since 1915. In 1925,
under the law. the limit of alcohol
contained in beer was IL per cent.
Q. May the women of India vote?
j. H.
A Women have had the vote in
some provinces since 1924.
| @. How many flyers were in the
| Lafayette Escadrille?-C. =.
| A. The total number of flyers be.
| longing to the Lafayette Escadrille
| during the World War was 30. OF
| these, 65 died and 10 were wounded.
Q. Is insurance popular with Cana
| dians?-M. NJ.
A. The president of one of the
large insurance companies Of Canada
says that the per capita insurance in
| 1925 exceeded $780, as against S444 in
| 1925. Canada is, therefore, the best
| life-insuring country in the world with
| the exception of the United States
where the per capita insurance is $3.50.
| O. Is cocoa more stimulating than
chocolate?-P. P. A.
A. Yes. 1t has more Of the nat
ural stimulant than chocolate.
Q. Is there a metal that is as
strong as steel and as light as alumni
num?-R. II. w.
| A. The Bureau of Standards says
| that heat-treated duralumin, an alu-
minum alloy, is as strong as mild
steel.
| O. How are moving pictures in
natural colors made? Is the film col
hored?-W. NJ.
| A. Colored motion pictures are
made with a double film. one side be
| ing painted green and the other red.
| This is patented device.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-09

Japan loves her ancient customs. A
deceased emperor is honored less by
modern magnificences than by ances-
trail ceremonials. However brilliant
the promises of the future, the influ-
ence of the splendid past remains in
superable. The world has struggled
much and what is learned through
hardship is not lightly forgotten, even
in the processes of change and ad-
vancement.