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Evening star., 1927-11-17

Small Cash Payments Accepted.
Terms Cheaper Than Rent.
THE JOSEPH SHAPIRO CO.,
Owners.
1416 Eve 81 NV Main sq4o
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THF ARGONNF

Ibth and IOlumb1a I'd.
Very desirable apartment.
Two large, bright rooms, over
looking Rock Creek Park; bath
with built-in fixtures; recep-
tion hall. kitchen and balcony F.;
Z4-hour service. ReIdent man
aeer on premises.
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Apt. for rent. entire 2nd floor private home
cham stores. paved street: low rent. Col
0JOS
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sALE-HOUSES.

CHEVY CHASE.
Eight Large Rooms. Two Tile
Baths and Extra Tile Lavatory.
$15,o50.
Situated near Conn. ave. on larre.
sttractively handicapped home Ete 10
excellent section of this exclusive
community: large covered porches
immaculate model kitchen, deliEhtfui
breakfast room all rooms larEe and
cheerful. with latest decorations and
fittings: detached garage foored at
tic etc. A new home and one OF ths
best buys ever offered in Chevy Chase.
!. f. DOUGLASS CO.,
Successors 10 DOUGLASS 4 Phillips. Inc,
1921 K ST NV. Frank SS1s
Evening Phone Service Until Pm.
Evening star., 1927-05-30
A Dangerous Slayer at Large.

A murder which for brutality has
seldom been equaled in this region
was committed Saturday night at
Somerset, Md. where a watchman on
q construction work was killed as he
slept, evidently by an assailant who
reached through a window and
crushed his head with a hatchet and
who then, after robbing his victim,
saturated the premises with oil and
set fire to the place in an effort to
remove traces Of the crime. No clue
to the perpetrator of this ghastly deed
has yet been found. There is a posi-
bility that he may have left his fin
gerprints upon the empty pocketbook
Of the murdered man.
Crime of this description calls for
the most thorough efforts for detection
and punishment. Its perpetrator Is a
dangerous public menace as long as
he is at large. Doubtless the authori-
ties Of Montgomery County will do
their utmost IN the search, and they
should be given the fullest aid by the
District, for the nearness of the crime
makes this a matter of concern to all
Washingtonians.
Evening star., 1927-05-30
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

stamp collector, points out that phi
latelists "perpetuate historical events
in way unparalleled"
X x X *
Latin American officials in Wash
ington long have been interested in
the development of Japanese colonial
ton in Brazil. There are already
some $4,000 Nipponese in the vast
Amazon republic, but it has just been
stated by DR. Ariyoshi the new Jap
anese Ambassador at Rio de Janeiro,
that the number will be doubled with
in the next 10 years. Every japanese
ship now arriving at the port of Sac
Paulo brings 800 or 400 Japanese la
borers, who obtain immediate work at
good wages on coffee plantations. For
the most part, according to the Jap
anese Ambassador. his people come to
Brazil to stay and adopt it as their
new home. In preWar days the south
ern provinces of Brazil were ear
marked and publicly advertised in
Berlin as German colonies" Ger
mans still inhabit Brazil in large num-
berS.
X X X X
The busiest man in the United
States isn't President Coolidge. I'm
doubtedly that distinction today is
held by John j. Wicker, ir., national
travel director of the American Legion
France Convention Committee. The
job Of getting 10000 Legionnaires
ready for the Second A. E. F."
which is to invade Paris in September,
is almost as tough a proposition as
the War Department had when it
was preparing to ship a couple of
million doughboys "over there"
Wicker has put in about three years
on the Legion's forthcoming pilgrim
age. Hitherto the largest peace-time
migration of Americans to Europe
was the Bar Associations trip in 1924
The Legion caravan will be 10 times
the size of the lawyers lark. Gen.
Frank T. Hines, now director of the
veterans Bureau, supervised the
ocean movements of American troops
during the World War, and has given
experience in 1917 and 1918. Wicker
is Virginian, a lawyer. and had
overseas experience in the Air Service
News of foreign affairs is distributed
to the American press through the
"DiVlsiOn of Current Information" at
the State Department. A new chief
of the division has just been appointed
by Secretary Kellogg. He is Michael
j. McDermott, hitherto holding the
rank of a drafting officer and of
assistant chief of the division. "Mac,"
as the news gathering fraternity at
Washington calls him, is a Massachu-
setts lad in the early thirties. During
the war he was a clerk in both the
War Department and the White
House, and wound up by being a con-
fidential clerk to Gen. Tasker III. Bliss
on the American Peace Mission in
Paris. McDermott has a genius for
giving diplomatic news without ever
revealing state secrets.
Copyright. 1927
Evening star., 1927-05-30
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

Lindbergh displayed a most sensitive
intelligence in every act and word,
and so won the hearts of the French
people.
The man who, without the excuse
of disease, allows his countenance to
blast friend and foe alike is something
of fool, if not just little bit of a
criminal.
This may seem pretty strong, but
science, especially as exemplified in
psychology, is more and more coming
to show the absolute hurt which such
man is doing not only to himself
(for he is the worst sufferer), but also
to every sensitive person who sees
him.
Take the office crouch. Some estab-
lishments have several Of them. Often
he is a man of keen intelligence: often
enough-and surprisingly, too-he is a
very young man.
Yet he is but a surly dog in his
treatment of others. When, by the
divine grace of his royal will, he con-
descends to smile upon men, it is only
because he has for moment forgotten
his pose.
For surely it is q pose, assumed as
an armor against the buffetings of
fate and other men. And so we ought
not, perhaps. to blame the fellow too
much, for he is wearing his heart on
his sleeve and doesn't know it.
Instead of hiding his real nature. he
is displaying it for all those who have
eyes to see. What matter If he speak
or not?
And yet so long as single human
being acts So the man of sensitive
heart and mind will find himself un-
easy and long for the golden age when
man to man will eXemplify all those
high qualities which the best men of
marks of a gentleman.
X X x X
There is the store misanthrope.
Too often, alas, this is a woman.
Now. there is more excuse for a
woman. Women have not yet been
able in many cases to adjust them
selves to the wage-earning business.
The student of humanity, therefore,
will do his best at all times to view
such cases with extreme charity in so
far as his milk of human kindness can
turn the trick.
There will be many moments when
he, being human, can be none other
than offended at the lack of courtesy
with which his efforts to purchase de-
sired articles are received.
Yet he will recall the high place of
woman in the universe and forget if
he cannot forgive. This is an honest
use of words surely. Often forgetting
is not so easy.
The child misanthrope touches the
heart. To see one so little, SO mex
perienced. already blighted with this
fell disease of the mind, heart and
spirit is to know the depth of sorrow
for others.
You cannot teach an old dog new
tricks. says the saying. And this is
the hope for such child, for he is
"new dog" to revert to the saying,
and may be taught to think and act
differently and finally to eXemplifv in
some degree the social amenities which
men have united to call good.
The grouches of this world, are they
not reversions to cave types, cropping
up through the social strata to dis
tress men of good will?
Evening star., 1927-05-30
Lindbergh's Future Role.

Ever since Lindbergh arrived IN
Paris he has been showered with offers
of employment that, If accepted IN
full, would make him independently
wealthy. He has been invited to go
into the movies, to appear upon the
dramatic stage and the lecture plat
form, and to write at high rates for
the newspaper and periodical press.
Thus far he has accepted none of these
propositions. In an interview at Brus-
sells he said: "I am not going to throw
away blindly all the offers made to me
last week. That would be neither
courteous nor intelligent. But l want
to do things which are natural to me.
1 want to do things that will help
along aviation"
In that concluding sentence Lind
bergh speaks in a manner to be def
nitely understood as to his real aspi-
rations. He regards himself as a
servant of the airplane. Intensely
interested in the promotion Of fly
ing, his desire Is to play a part In the
sszsSas
Evening star., 1927-05-30

have practical unit magnitudes, where
as meter, liter and gram have imprac-
tical magnitudes. Meter, liter and
gram are comparable in magnitude to
yard, quart and scruple which are
unimportant obsolescent units in the
United States. No American would
think of building up an exclusive sys-
tenn of weights and measures out OF
the decimal multiples and submultiples
of yard, quart and scruple. Such
scheme, if effectuated, would mean
nothing less than the mensurational
bankruptcy of the United States.
Pound and inch, and pole, cubic foot
and ounce represent the survival of
the fittest. In the modern sense these
are to be regarded as commensurate
but as otherwise Independent units,
each dominant in it's proper field. Kilo,
millimeter and liter represent the sur
vival of the least unfit of the metric
units. Kilo e is pounds). millimeter
(5-127 fnch) and liter (35 is ounces of
water), may be regarded as having
been adopted into our American units
of measure for such restricted use as
we may find for them. They are
merely secondary and subsidiary
measures tolerated by law. and defined
in terms of the common measures of
the country. Progress in standard
ization and unification may be ex-
pected to bring about their ultimate
elimination as useless non-commen-
S''aO'' u SAMUEL RUSSELL.
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development OF aviation in the United
States. "If have become we'll known
because of this flight" he says. moth
ing would give me so much satisfac-
ton as to have it lead to a better un-
derstanding Of the possibilities of air
navigation"
Lindbergh as a public exponent of
progress in the air would be a power
full factor in developing the science in
this country. On the lecture plat
form. in the movies or in print he
could not fail to stimulate national
interest in the possibilities of air
transportation. He has just demon
strated in a most dramatic manner.
arousing the whole world to a pitch
of interest never before attained, the
practicability of individual flight
across a wide stretch of ocean to a
definite objective. BY his skill he
can be driven single-handed a dis.
tance of more than $500 miles against
hazards of weather. 1t now remains
to capitalize this proof, to utilize it in
regular service, not merely as a po-
tential war agency. but as a peace
facility.
America, the birthplace Of the air
plane, has Jagged in its practical COM
development. Save for the
of regular aerial mail
routes, there are practically no regu-
lar services maintained in this coun-
try. Lindbergh will not have to fly
in further demonstration. He
has done his bit, and the hope of the
country is that he will henceforth de-
vote himself to propaganda in behalf
of better understanding and fuller
development Of the possibilities of
for the benefit Of the Amer
lean people.
Evening star., 1927-05-30

| There are so many gloomy, grouchy
| faces in the world that an inhabitant
of another sphere visiting the world
| might be forgiven for supposing that
| men were the unhappiest of creatures.
Tigers and lions in their moments of
repose show noble, dignified counte-
nances. faces Softened, even, by GER
| tain benignity. Every one has seen
| dogs and cats with faces which might
properly be dubbed sweet.
How does it come about then, that
so many men and women one meets
have mouths drawn down in charac-
teristic lines of chronic anger?
Are men and women less than lions
and tigers that, whereas the beasts of
the field find much to soothe their
savage breasts in this world, men
alone of all the creatures must in so
many instances discover only misery
and woe in the process Of daily living?
Maybe it is true that the gayness of
mankind, reaching an artificial climax
in the hectic wildness of might life
in the great cities. is only a surface
show. a smoke screen set up by hu-
manity to glaze over the fear of the
hereafter.
Perhaps, faced by the Great Mys-
terry, thousands of men and women
wilt before the divine uncertainty and
allow their inner fears to crop out in
their faces.
Who knows?
X X X
Yet such an answer, interesting
though it may be, is too charitable in
the case of many persons.
These persons poison daily living.
No doubt they might be indignant
enough if told this, but it would be
the truth, just the same. Instead of
throwing material poison in wells,
they distribute mental contagion to
every one they meet.
Those lucky ones with certain
rough resistance to such inimical
forces get off scot free, but those with
more sensitive minds and hearts must
bear the brunt.
There are such things, of course, as
sensitive minds and hearts, although
it is somewhat the fashion in certain
circles to sneer at them.
The man whose olfactory sense is
not very good cannot understand how
another man with a nose like that OF
a bloodhound can smell what he can
not. He resents it as matter of fact.
Thus the gentleman with a keen
sense of scent is forever finding him
self the butt of his companions, who
ridicule him for his ''inickiness," ac-
cording to them, but for his truth
telling proclivities, according to him.
And he is right. Ten minutes after
he smells smoke the remainder of the
company will smell it. Yet the next
time he plays the prophet they will
treat him in the same way, having
forgotten his past good performance.
Such is the fate of prophets of the
every day in the company OF their
everyday companions
Unusual sensitiveness Of heart and
mind might better be thought of as
sensitiveness of emotions and intelli-
gence. 1t is not the fashion, of course,
to use the word "sensitiveness' in
connection with the emotions, and
especially with the intellect. but we
believe the use good, 80 we let 1t
stand.
To be intelligent is one thing. to be
sensitively intelligent is another. An
average flyer might have used intelli-
gence after he got to Paris; Charles
Evening star., 1927-05-30
PHILOSOPHERS
GLENN FRANK

SO much of the sterility and stand
ardization of American life is due to
timidity of mind that l hesitate to
speak a good word for intellectual
caution lest it give aid and comfort to
the enemies of a more courageous ma
tional mind.
But in the midst Of the widespread
rabbit -mindedness of the time there is
one exception of recklessness that de-
serves analysis.
The growing industry Of interview
ing rests upon the reckless readiness
Of public men to generalize on almost
any subject under the sun.
/ do my full share of generalizing,
so this is a confession as well as a
castigation.
/ feel a bit 'traitorous to my first
love of journalism in suggesting 1t,
but I suspect that we need league
to enforce caution among public men.
Ny memory goes back tonight to my
first editorial experience. l had just
become editor of the Century Maga-
zine. ] outlined on scratch pad
plan that seemed to me to give prom
tse of an invigorating series OF articles.
I proposed to ask half dozen dlst1n-
guished educators this question::
If unlimited funds were placed at
were provided, if you were given free
dom to begin with an absolutely clean
slate. and were asked to create a new
university in which you would be un-
der no obligation to observe any exist
ing academic tradition either in the
content of the curriculum or in the
methods of teaching, what kind OF uni
versity would you create?
It did not occur to me that | would
have any difficulty inducing educators
thus to play with the alluring riches
of possibility, unhampered by the in
Vulnerable concessions and compro-
misses that existing institutions I'M
pose upon the administrator l now
realize that I was very young then.
I turned first to President Lowell of
Harvard. He may have forgotten the
incident, but it sticks in my memory
like q burr.
'I should be glad" said DR.. Lowell,
with the suspicion of q smile, "to
write an article for you on almost any
subject in the world-except educa-
ton"
.'But, DR.. Lowell" I insisted, "edu-
cation is your field"
"That's Just the reason for my re-
luctance," he said. ''You see, if I have
anv valuable ideas about education
that are not in effect at Harvard. and
should write about them, readers
would say: why doesn't he practice
what he preaches?' Ind if 1 have any
valuable ideas about education that
are in effect at Harvard, they will
speak for themselves"
1 lost an article, but found point
of view
There are very few general truths
that are universally applicable; most
problems must be solved in terms of
particular places and particular per-
sons.
We need less sweeping generaliza-
ton and more sincere experimental
ton.
fCopyright 1927
Evening star., 1927-05-30

trolled nature, indeed, that can smile
and take with good grace such things
as these.
The peculiar psychology Of the mob
spirit is difficult to understand. Every
person in every gathering that has
greeted Lindbergh has undoubtedly
admired him for his heroism and
would be glad in any way to show
appreciation of his marvellous feat.
How is it, then, that these same kind
ly, sympathetic and hero-worshiping
people would deliberately set about to
place his life in danger by so weaken
Mrs that it might collapse the next
time he waves a jaunty farewell and
gives her the gum?
1t would not make so much differ
ence, in Lindbergh's case, If his plane
was not something on which his life
depended. But with the whole world
concerned for the safety of this
young American. it makes one shiver
with apprehension lest a strut be
loosened or a screw taken out by the
crowd Of souvenir hunters. 1t is great
ly to Lindbergh's credit that he has
borne these ordeals with such forti.
tude. If he was not made of the
finest stuff his first instinct would be
to aim a blow at the first hand laid
on his precious ship, whether he was
being greeted in Europe or in Amer
lea. That he has restrained himself
so we'll is additional tribute to the
young lad who has written a notable
page in the worlds history.
Evening star., 1927-05-30
UNITED STATES
in WORLD WAR
Ten Years Ago Today
MAY 80, 1917.

MAY 80. 1917.
President Wilson, in stirring Me-
mortal day address at Arlington,
says we must fight out the cause of
human liberty and thus prove our
service. Soldiers in khaki
divide tribute with Civil War vet
Grams and heroic dead in Memorial
day parades throughout the entire
country. Only 19 British
ships sunk during the past week.
British officials loud in their praise
of the efficiency and zeal of Ameri-
can destroyers in multiplying the
U-boat menace. Attorney
General Gregory issues sweeping in
structions to Federal agents every
where to attend all anti-draft meet
ings and watch proceedings closely,
securing stenographic notes on
speeches. Considerable eXO-
dus of young men to Cuba and Mex
leo said to be an attempt to escape
draft. and government officials say
it will not succeed. n
Evening star., 1927-05-30
The Pledge of Memorial Day.

: In it's highest significance Me-
mortal day is a reminder to the Ma
ton of the services of the men who
have in times of national emergency
responded to the call to duty and Of
fered their lives in defense of the prin.
ciples of American government. The
act of laying tributes of flowers upon
the graves of those who died on duty
is only part of the recognition. That
is a personal acknowledgement. In
speech is expressed the appreciation of
the Nation of those who represented
It in times Of stress. The funda.
mental ideals of the American people
are voiced by exponents, including the
President of the United States, whose
address at Arlington sounds the key
note for the country.
Though not delivered upon Me-
mortal day, but at the dedication of
the National Cemetery at the battle
field Of Gettysburg, the address Of
Abraham Lincoln on the 18th of No
vember, 1868. most effectively ex-
presses the thought underlying the
ceremonies of this occasion. He said:
The world will little note, nor long
remember, what we say here; put II
can never forget what they did here.
It is for us, the living, rather to be
dedicated here to the unfinished work
which they who fought here have thus
far SO nobly advanced. 1t is rather for
us to be here dedicated in the great
task remaining before us, that from
these honored dead we take increased
devotion to that cause for which they
gave their last full measure Of devo-
ton; that we here highly resolve that
these dead shall not have died in vain;
that this Nation, under God, shall
have a new birth of freedom, and that
government of the people, by the peo-
pie and for the people. shall not perish
from the earth.
On whatever field Of battle Ameri-
can soldiers have fought, whether on
the home field Of civil strife or in
foreign lands in war against a foreign
foe, they are today honored for their
devotion to the principles which
called them into service. And by the
same token they are to be regarded as
hostages to the pledge of their COM
rades and their successors in citizen
ship to maintain those principles at
any sacrifice.
The struggle for the maintenance Of
the high ideals of lf-government
shall not have been in vain if every
American today resolves to continue
the contest in times of peace. There
are today forces at work to undermine
this Government. That they are nu-
merically small does not make them
innocuous. That they are working
secretly makes them dangerous. That
they represent an alien ideal of gov
ernment, diametrically opposed to that
which prevails here, makes it impera-
tive that they should be fought per-
sistently and unf1aggingly and with
out compromise.
Every grave that today is decorated
with the emblems Of appreciation
should be regarded as breastwork Of
protection against insidious assault
upon the doctrines of liberty and self
government. In that sense Memorial
day becomes a renewal of the pledge
of the people Of America to maintain
the ideals Of those who founded this
Nation.
Evening star., 1927-05-30
Souvenir Hunters.

In one way Capt. Charles Lind
bergh, conqueror of the Atlantic, de-
serves his nickname Lucky" He is
extraordinarily fortunate that his
plane has not been ripped to pieces
by the souvenir-hunting crowds that
have greeted him at every port made
by the Spirit of st. Louis. When
he landed in Paris after his record
breaking flight the wings Of his ship
were rent from end to end. The pneu-
matte life raft and air cushions were
taken and the Unsuitable lust OF the
crowd for some memento of the oc-
casion resulted in an attempt to tear
off the exhaust pipes Of the motor and
the instruments in the cockpit. In
Belgium he escaped with few dam
ages. inasmuch as the crowds were not
SO large and the police protection was
Of high order But in London yester-
day it looked for a time as If the
Spirit of st. Louis, piece by piece,
would decorate the homes Of several
hundred Englishmen who were near
the ship when it landed.
All of these countries, France, Bel
gium and England, have given Lind
bergh an enthusiastic and heart
warming welcome. But with an af
lection for his plano so pronounced
that he invariably speaks Of it and
himself as "we," what can Lind
bergh's feelings be when, immediately
. that a landing is made, hundreds o.
hands tear at the precious plane
which has borne him through wind
sleet and rain nearly seven Thousand
miles? 1t is a placid and well con