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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-05

The wilderness is an incompatible
school of wisdom.
The ancient ascetic retiring from
the world into his monastery and the
modern American rushing from his
busy Office into far-off woods and far
away mountains for q vacation may
alike be following an inherited sense
of the healing of spirit and tutoring of
mind to be found in the wilds.
Alfred Aloysius Horn, now an old
man who, save for the briar pipe pro-
truding from his white. bearded mouth,
might be milder Moses peering from
the pages of an old family Bible, was,
for the years of his youth, an adven-
turous trader on the ivory coast of
Africa, sailing up mystery-haunted
rivers where white faces had never
before been seen, listening to the dawn
cry of the gorilla, engaging in ZeStful
contest with rogue and rebel elephants,
sucking up out of the life of the will
dernesS wisdom that cannot be
taught in schools, and achieving pic
turesque and colorful grace of speech
that will ever remain an unlocked
secret to drawing-room rhetoricians.
Discovered by Mrs. Ethelreda Lewis,
a South African novelist, as he was
trying to sell to her a gridiron from
the peddler's pack Of wire kitchen
goods he carried, old Trader Horn was
induced to write out his recollections
of the radiant days he spent in the
African wilderness. For months this
old African trader toiled away Saving
and cherishing memories that had
flowed SO near the edge of oblivion"
Finally the writing has been caught
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-05
UNITED STATES
in WORLD WAR
Ten Years Ago Today

First American troops leave for
permanent training camp near front
and entire first eXpeditionary force
is expected to be encamped by July
Is, with Maj. Gen. Sibert in COM
mand. Fourth of July cele-
brations, accompanied by expressions
of widest enthusiasm, were held in
nearly every allied country to convey
to United States their joy over our
entry into World War. I'm
constitutional censorship ends when
Secretary Baker revokes order divert
ing cables sent to newspapers.
Emergency passed" is the reason
given. Government expert
back from France, says this country
must furnish 10000 airplanes, and
maintain this average in the face of
casualties, If war Is to be won. Says
Americans cannot appreciate magni-
tude of present war; that in some
places the British battle line Is 40
miles deep, trains Of motor lorries
20 miles long. Since April
British and French have taken 63,222
prisoners on western battle front.
Red Cross mission, with tons
or materials, speeds to Russia within
i've days after it's organization.
Secret service agents of al.
lies to help Federal agents run down
German spy system in the United
States. Great Britain gets
an additional loan of 500, 900. 900 and
Italy $60,000,000. Recent ar.
count Of sea fight and attack on our
transports questioned. Creel admits
elaboration from brief dispatches. but
says it was justified.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-05

Human life at times is cheap indeed.
Thrown in the balance against lesser
things it often fails to move the scales.
Yesterday three men were drowning
in the waters of the Hudson a few feet
from the gray walls of Sing Sing.
Crowding against the iron fence that
separates the prison from the water,
hundreds Of convicts begged, some OF
them crying like children, for a chance
to risk their lives in an attempted
rescue. But guards with leveled rifles
held them back. The three men, strug.
Cling with sure death, went down
without hand held out to save them.
Among the convicts there must have
been excellent swimmers. Surely there
were men who would have welcomed
this opportunity to regain. in one bold
sacrifice, much that the years behind
had lost for them. Given permission.
three or four of them might have
brought the overturned canoeists safe
ly to land. But the guards had their
orders. Convicts were not to be trust.
ed. One or more of them, under pre-.
tense of effecting a rescue, might re-
gain their freedom. Three men were
drowning, but there was the rule.
Three men were drowned, but no con.
victs escaped. The traditions of the
prison remained unbroken,
Hard. cold, almost inhuman. But
are the guards to blame? First, they
had their orders. Second, they had
before them the experience Of past
leniency, where some act Of human
kindness on the part Of a prison Off.
cial was rewarded only in broken
faith. They were dealing with men
who, because Of deliberate offenses
against society, had lost their stand.
ing in society. A bitter circumstance.
this. which must have brought their
status home to them again sharply
and wildly. They found themselves
denied that greatest Of privileges. the
right to offer a life for a life. And
the curling waters of the Hudson
which closed above the heads of the
three drowned men could have been
no more cruel than the inevitable pris.
on routine which. broken for a Sec
ond or two by an incident which lifted
the convicts to the heights. shut them
in again and swallowed them in its
grim, unremitting severity.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-05
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

| Homer twanged his Tyre and poured
forth his roster of the Greek and Tro-
| jan forces, with what amounted to the
| official communicates of their battles,
| he was telling a story.
| Christian peoples the world over re-
| gard the gospel of Christ as one of the
| most enthralling stories ever told. The
| basic accounts of the major religions
| of humanity are founded firmly in
narrative art.
Something happened something
must be told. At first the accounts
were plain matter of fact, but as story
after story was told, there grew Up
an art of story telling.
Today mankind apparently has
reached the zenith of story telling,
ranging from the good words of the
gospels. simple narrative, to the most
| deliberately organized novel of today,
| told with the finished techni 1ue os the
master performer.
In between come various ranges,
such as the short story, in which
America played such a part, to the
| novelette,. as some call it, which may
| be regarded as a short novel, or a very
long short story" as the reader
| chooses.
After all, is not the novel easy
| reading" largely because it Is so in.
| tensely human, so pat to our moods
and sensations, our very minds and
hearts, our longings, aspirations, emo
| tions?
Take the love story.
AS novels are a fundamental form OF
writing, based on human needs, so the
In, ,@a &c, Jx~l re
| the novel, the first and last stand of
| those who deal in this form of writing.
There are many great stories with
out the love element, of course. But
| how many more there are with it!
And we speak not of those which
sully the printed page in the name
| of truth" but solely of those great
| stories which eXalt the human spirit,
which steadfastly refuse to look
| upon the sordid. which make men
and women the better for having
| read.
There is something about print
| which calls for the best that writer
has in the very great majority of
cases. There are not so many per-
sons who rush into print" as are
popularity supposed.
The more one writes (and there
lore, everything else DelnS equal, lHe
better) the less inclined is he to dash
off few lines without doing the
best by himself that he can, and also
the best by his readers.
There is a sort of solemn unwrit-
ten contract, so that no writer who
has one iota of respect for his me-
dunn can do anything but his
| best. Much that he might like to
say, as he contemplated the situa-
| tion before he sat down to write,
must now be left out, for 1t Is too
| flip, or he is not exactly sure it Is
true, or he catches a glimpse, even
though 1t may be fieeting, of higher
| things.
These exquisite feelings, if one may
call them that, are the heritage of
the English novelist. They stand
as the guardians of the printed page,
calling on indecency to halt.
Therefore it is the glory of YOUR
| novels, in the main, that they are
clean, At reading for men, women,
| boys and girls who prefer the ocean
| breeze, or the sun and air of the
golf course, to the primrose path of
dalliance.
| Such are the novels recommended
in the list of Summer reading"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-05

ties occurred. The saddest happening
Of the day was the overwhelming
double defeat of the Washington base
ball team in New York--a defeat which
was notable for the fact that 1t was
witnessed by the largest number of
persons ever assembled at an exhibi.
ton of the national sport.
Such a day cannot fail to carry on
the tradition Of the national indie
pendence. 1t Is far cry from the
old time when the day was one chiefly
of din and destruction. The oratory
of speakers on independence day is
not hackneyed as rule. 1t applies
to present.day conditions, it teaches
lessons of practical value to the pres
emit generation. All that is happening
in these progressive. active times is of
meaning on such an occasion and
speakers utilize the occurrences to
point the moral of good citizenship.
One of the most interesting fea-
lures of yesterdays celebration was
that at Rapid City. S. Oak. where
President Coolidges fifty-fifth birth
day anniversary was observed in pic
turesque style by multitude Of tour
lists to the Summer White House.
The President cut a birthday cake
and donned a cowboy outfit. which
was one of the presents received by
him. The outfit included a horse,
but the President did not mount the
animal, He still limits his equestrian
ism to the electric creation. Calvin
Coolidge enjoys the distinction of be-
ing the only one of the Presidents of
the United States born on the Fourth
OF July, and it is suitable that his
anniversary. coinciding as
It does with the natal day of the Ma
ton, should be especially comment
grated.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-05

well DO NE running mate Of President
Coolidge in 1928.
Selection OF Senator McNary for the
vice presidential nomination would be
a recognition Of the Far West. which
has not hitherto been accorded by the
Republican party. though the Bull
Moose in 1912 put Hiram johnson of
California on the ticket with Theodore
Roosevelt. Furthermore. the nomina.
ton of McNary would balance" the
Republican ticket in something more
than geography. The Oregon SEN
ator's name has been linked more
closely with farm relief-the kind of
farm relief that the corn and wheat
farmers have demanded - than has
that of any other man in Congress,
with the possible exception Of Repre-.
sentative Haugen of Iowa. 1t was
under Senator McNarys leadership
that the McNary.Haugen farm relief
bill was brought to vote and passed
by the Senate at the last session of
Congress.
The veto Of this bill hg President
Coolidge might have been expected to
keep the two men apart. But the
President called in Senator McNary
not long afterward to discuss the pos
sibility of a new measure which would
be satisfactory. If the Oregon Sen.
ator can produce such a measure and
bring about it's passage in the coming
Congress, he should stand ace-high
with the administration. And who
could with better chance Of success
present new, or slightly different
plan to the farmers with the hope of
their accepting it?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-05

In a list of books "for Summer
reading" printed in this column re-
Gently. 1t was noticeable that the
ajority Of the titles were those of
novels.
This did not come about because
any attempt was made to select light"
reading. whatever that is, but simply
because the story is a fundamental
thing in human life.
One only has to recall the dramatic
episode of Charles Lindbergh, with
it's suspense. to realize the place the
story holds in the hearts of mankind.
We are storytelling and story-hear.
ing animals. The plot Is the thing.
1t makes no particular difference
whether the story Is in print or just
'in the air"
Whenever men get together, some
one Is forever telling stories. Maybe
the thing is in the form of a joke. so
called, which ends in loud laughter.
Perhaps the discussion is more
serious--in any event, it will be found
that some sort Of story sequence Is
under discussion.
Newspapers TEEN with stories. The
news columns are the grist of life's
mill. as lived by millions of human be-
ingS the world over, each one busily
Sometimes the life of a city block
seems prosaic enough. but stories are
being lived out there. just the same.
Plots and counterplots are flying back
and forth, with invisible wings fan.
ming the pure air.
Life is a story, indeed
" X X v
Novels, therefore. which give men
and women undiluted stories, without
pretense to higher things, really pre-
sent them with exactly the food for
the human mind.
Sordid and cheap novels, which
from time to time have glutted the
market, only temporarily displace this
form of writing from the premier
place which it holds in the affection Of
the reading public.
At one period in the history of the
novel this influence was so strong that
it left a sort of bad taste adhering to
the very name, and this latter taste"
is still all that some can sense.
The term novel" to them, has a
somewhat bad connotation. "All she
does is just sit around and read
novelist" Many a time has that re-
mark been made, in small country
towns, where leisure in any form was
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devil.
Such abuse of reading, of course,
may and does exist. If one does moth
ing but read. day after day, perhaps
the books might as well be novels as
any other form of literature. To sit
around and read little poetry books"
might be quite as i'll advised.
To read properly, however, means
to read when one wants to read, read
what one wants to read. Reading Is
individual. Some persons manage to
read to each other, but more often 1t
Is a solo performance.
X X X X
The story, either long or short, pre-
dominates in the reading Of most per-
sons, not only because it is an easy
form-let us be honest enough to ad-
NIT that-but more because it meets
a basic need in our common human
nature.
Many of the greatest. wisest men
in history have been avid novel read
ers, and some of them writer's of the
same.
The novel, as such, is a mere child
as compared to the narrative, the
plain, artless story which starts some
place and gets somewhere.
When the one popularity called
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-05
WISDOM FROM THE WILDS
BY GLENN FRANK
Of

between two covers under the title of
Trader Horn It Is a masterpiece
of wisdom from the wilds clothed in
the garments Of an unspoiled magma
ton.
/ give you these samples Of old
Trader Horns talk, taken at random
from the book:
"'Twas a terrible thing to see them
being separated" he says, telling of
the way in which the early traders
tore families apart in the selling of
slaves. When a savage lcses his kin
his heart breaks. He's got no news
papers and these so-called cinemas to
cheer him up. All he knows Of pleas
ure comes, not from food, but from
eating it with his kind. Not from
hunting, but from hunting with his
tribe. He pines like a dog. The first
thing education teaches you is to walk
alone. Aye, you can sure stand on
your own spear when you've learnt the
word good-by, and say it clear"
Maybe it is the legacy of this saw.
age loneliness and love Of communion
that lies back of so many Of our con-
servatiSms and conformitieS.
faye, rivers" he says. musing
over distant days he spent on their
bosoms, you've got to learn from the
noble savage the law of rivers. Make
friends on one bank of the river and
do it we'll and good. Then there's safe
navigation. Neither in politics nor In
real life can a man make friends on
both banks of the river"
If you come to know him, you will
thank me for having introduced you
to Trader Horn.
Copyright 1927
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-05
A Quarter Million Dollar Bang.

A reminder Of the good old times"
when anybody could fire off anything
in the way of an explosive without
stint was had in New York yesterday
when some ardent celebrant Of indie.
pendence day, a passenger on an ele.
waited train, lighted a giant flrecrack.
er and tossed it out Of the car win.
dow. It landed on the tar roof Of an
old brewery and on decorating 1t set
fire to the structure. which blazed for
several hours, cost $250, 900 and block
AIDED the transportation service in the
neighborhood for several hundred
thousand people. The man who threw
that flrecracker was having fun"
He doubtless had no idea that the
thing would land on a tar roof. It
might have landed in the street and
taken life. 1t might have exploded
in the air and merely showered the
ground with the fragments of paper.
1t might have gone into a window
and exploding within a room caused a
holocaust. 1t was one of the most
dangerous things that any one could
do. Probably the person who threw
the cracker will never be identified.
He knows, of course, that he was the
cause of the r-million-dollar
blaze, but he is not likely to boast of
the feat.
Despite such occasional cases Of
criminal carelessness there are those
who would go back to the indiscrim.
mate display Of pyrotechnics on In
dependence day. There are those who
deplore the passing of the "old.time
FOURTH" who would like to have the
children given free access to the most
dangerous devices. who forget the
lives that have been sacrificed, the
blinded, MANNED victims Of reckless
celebration" the millions of dollars
of property destroyed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-05
McNary for Vice President.

Oregon in 1920 led the stampede of
the Republican national convention
which resulted in the nomination of
Calvin Coolidge for Vice President. 1t
was an Oregon delegate to the conven-
ton who started the rumpus, naming
the Governor of far-off Massachusetts
for second place on the Republican
national ticket. Now New England,
through Senator George II. Moses of
New Hampshire, is suggesting an Ore.
gon man for the vice presidential nom.
ination in 1928. Turn about! Senator
Charles i. McNary, co-author Of the
McNary -Haugen farm relief bill, is the
man.
McNary Is chairman Of the Senate
committee on agriculture. He has
courage and ability to get things done.
In the ten years he has served in the
United States Senate he has played
important roles in the drama of legis.
lation. In his own State he Is strong
politically and personally, the leader
OF his party. During the present re.
cess Of Congress Senator McNary has
been at work on a new farm relief bill,
which 1t is hoped may receive the
support both of the corn and wheat
belts and Of the President.
There have been rumors in the past
that Senator McNary was flirting
with suggestion that he run as
vice presidential nominee of the Re
publican party with former Gov
Frank o. Lowden Of Illinois, another
friend of the farmer, at the head OF
the ticket. But from Oregon comes
now the report that Senator Moses
looks to that Pacific Coast State tc
furnish the nominee for Vice Presi
dent. and almost in the same breath
Senator Moses declares his belief
that President Coolidge can have
the nomination for President "if he
wants it, Possibly Senator Moses
still has in the back of his mind some
thought that Mr.. Coolidge will in the
end decline denomination, and Their
McNary might be the tail Of some
other Republicans kite. Lowden Oh
Hughes or Hoover. But the imnhca
tsc- 4s that the Oregon Senator might
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-05
A National Fault.

In many OF the addresses delivered
yesterday speakers stressed the fact
that there is a sad delinquency on the
part of American citizens in the mat
ter of voting. AS though in anticipa-
ton of next years presidential cleo.
ton the people were urged to remem-
Der their duty. They were admonished
In a wide range of expressions to make
use of the franchise which was grant.
ed to them by the Declaration of In
cessful war of the Revolution which
established these United States as an
Independent Nation.
Neglect to vote is one of the most
conspicuous failures of American de-
mocracy. AT no time since the Repub-
lie was organized has a majority of
the potential voters in this country
gone to the polls. The result Is minor
ity government in effect, and while it
has been good government in the main
1t has not been the creation Of the
whole people.
Organized efforts are now being
made on non-partisan basis to arouse
| the people to the Importance of going
to the polls on election day. With
good roads, with almost universal in
dividual transportation, with universal
information through newspapers,
through telephones, through radio,
there is no excuse for failure on this
score. Every facility is offered to the
people. They are given ample warn
Ing Of the days of registration. Cam.
paigning is conducted in such a way
as to bring home to every individual
the fact that an election is pending.
Yet on election day only minority
appears at the polls. and in some
cases elections go by default through
lack of participation by the people.
Those who signed the Declaration
Of Independence and those who made
II a reality in terms of political or.
ganization contemplated that all the
people qualified to vote should do so.
The very essence of that Declaration
was "self-determination." Had the
"signers" been able to see ahead CEN
fury and half and to find that ma
tional elections were being decided by
less than half Of the people eligible as
citizens to cast their ballots they
would have been astounded, would
perhaps have been discouraged, would
have felt possibly that the effort for
separation and independence was not
worth while.
In some communities and sections
the one-sidedness Of the political equa.
tion leads to election day stacking. But
even in those communities and sec.
lions primaries are held at which can.
didates are chosen, and at these there
should be full response and partici-
patton. In the States where either
party may win there should be a one
hundred per cent vote, at both pri-
naries and election.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-05
Celebrations.

Independence day passed in Wash
ington according to schedule, with a
large community celebration that at.
tracted a great throng of people and
furnished them with inspiring fea.
lures of commemoration. There were
several neighborhood and sectional
and organization observances, marked
by the time-honored ceremonies. by
oratory and by explosives. A greet
part Of the population observed the
day by taking to the road for motor
trips or to places of resorts for pleas.
uring. 1t was a perfect day in point
Of weather and, in the language Of
the classic item Of news, pleasant
time was had by all. There were no
serious accidents to mar the anniver.
sary; indeed, q minimum Of casual.