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The Open Golf Champion.

Washington welcomes home its first
national open golf champion from his
triumph on the Oakmont course at
To Tommy Armour of
the Congressional Club goes the ac-
claim of a proud city. Showing the
same fighting spirit that compelled
his promotion from a private to a
major in the World War. Armour,
after tying the Iow-medal score with
a magnificent finish, won yesterday
in the play-off for national honors.
Probably no finer exhibition of
courage on the golf course was ever
shown. Apparently hopelessly out of
the running in the final round, the
new champion pulled himself together
and reached the seventeenth tee with
a margin of seven strokes, one under
par, to tie Harry Cooper for the lead.
Making his par four on the seven
teenth, Tommy was confronted with
the necessity of scoring birdie three
on the our-hundred-a sixty yard
eighteenth hole.
The chances of making a three on
a par four hole of that length are
conservatively estimated to be about
fifty to one under such pressure. No
golfer in the world is capable Of shoot
ing with such mathematical precision
that a birdie can be procured when
ever needed. After a fine drive, how.
ever, Armour put his second shot on
the green twelve feet from the cup.
And with perhaps $4,000 hanging on
that putt he sent the ball unerringly
into the tin. It was a grand exhibit
ton of grit.
After coming from behind. there
was little doubt that Armour would
triumph in the play-off. He did win
by the comfortable margin of three
strokes, but it required a game fight
to do it, because through most of the
match he was trailing. So to Tommy
Armour, late of Scotland, but now of
Washington, who never gives up in
war or peace, go the plaudits of the
National Capital.
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Illinois Backs Smith.

Illinois Is going to the bat for Col.
Frank l.. Smith, Senator.elect. The
State Legislature has provided by
resolution for committee of two
members Of each house to urge the
seating of Smith when the United
States. Senate meets. The Senate de-
clined to permit Col. Smith to take
his seat at the last session of Con-
gress, when he came to the Capitol
under the appointment of Gov. Len
Small to fill the vacancy caused by
the death of Senator William b. Nc
Kinley. The opposition of the Senate
to Col. Smith at that time was based,
not on any question Of the governors
right to appoint. but on charges made
against Smith in the Illinois senatorial
primary in 1926. The opposition to
his seating when the new Congress
meets will be rooted in the same
charges.
1t Is a serious matter to deny to
any State its full representation In
| the Senate Of the United States. Yet
| this was the effect of the refusal OF
' the Senate to seat Smith during the
Lest session. 1t is apparent that every
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that this particular designation be
made as that Washington should have
at once municipal airport apart from
the Government fields on the south
ern bank of the Anacostia. Partly,
perhaps. because of the presence of
those two fields, which have thus far
served the. local aircraft needs, no
progress has been made toward secur.
ing and maintaining municipal air
port. The emergency of the intercity
relay situation brings this important
question to focus. While Washing
ton has waited for Congress to act in
authorization other cities have gone
ahead and established airports as part
of their municipal equipment. 1t is
for business Washington now to dem
onstrate it's capacity to provide an air.
port, even though in the future some
changes may be made in location and
in means of maintenance.
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THIS AND THAT


windows tight, to keep off drafts
All in all, however, those subject
to colds find comparative freedom
from this nuisance during Summer
if ordinary precaution is taken against
chilling.
There has been some disposition OF
recent years to Sneer at drafts" but
the observations of our ancestors held
much common sense. The very WORD
cold" contains a weight of meaning
Drafts may not be the cause of colds
but certainly chilling of the cpl
dermis is a contributing factor, and
too often enough results in queer
feeling eyes and other we'll known
signs of cold.
during such Summer weather as has
prevailed to date. what must be the
fate of the plants, set solidly in the
cool earth?
Let it be remembered, of course.
that the earth is the natural habitat
OF plants, and that they could not dis
like cold weather as much as some
human beings do, even if they had
the ability to dislike" anything
which they have not, of course. Let
SO much be admitted.
But the hating season undoubtedly
has held back the flowers, as they
failed to find the continued warmth
upon which their proper growth de-
ponds. For q wonder, there have been
few aphids, or plant lice, this season,
despite the cool weather, and this
blessed lack is probably due to the
comparative dryness.
Perhaps garden Impotence tinges us.
One cannot hurry fha Hnvuorc h11t
one is always trying to,
Perhaps our garden Is only a week
or two behind last year, but-well;
last year was last year, and this year
is this.
In the garden we live entirely in
the present.
Each morning is a new one, in the
garden; each evening the only one we
have ever seen. This keen sense of
freshness appears nowhere in the
world so full-blown as in garden, no
matter how small.
1t the dew were not quite so wet,
we would like to emulate those ardent
persons who get up at 4:30 am. and
appear in their plots of ground before
5 am, there to fuss with their
flowers and vegetables.
Such gardeners must feel, perhaps
more than others, the joy of COM
munion with Nature at it's most
beautiful, and receive, in the largest
measure, the sense of standing beside
the Creator in the light of the early
morning sun, when the day appears
the only one that has ever come from
the throne Of light, and life like some
thing exquisitely. fragile, yet ever
enduring.
Yet at any time of day one may get
something Of this feeling, if he can
have peace and quiet, which are some
times very hard to find, even in q
garden. He may realize afresh the
cleansing qualities of Nature, the Pc
culiar purity of the very dirt beneath
his feet, despite the fact that every
ounce of it, according to the scien-
fists, has gone through strange trans
mutations.
We want continued warm weather;
but we must take the weather as we
find it, of course. Even if it is not en-
tirely and completely to our individual
liking, it is great old weather, just the
same.
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Links Flood Control
and River Navigation

From the Kansas City Post.
A significant comment made at the
Chicago flood control conference came
from Maj. Gen. Thomas q. Ashburn,
chairman of the Inland Waterways
Corporation. He emphasized the fact
that river navigation is so closely IN
terwoven with the problems of flood
control that the two cannot be sepa-
rated. This Is fact which at no
time should be ignored by those who
are attempting to devise methods to
prevent a recurrence of the catas-
trophe which has driven 100000 per-
sons from their homes in the Missis-
sippi Valley.
Whatever prevents floods will help
to make rivers navigable provided
the work is done properly. and what
ever promotes dependable navigability
will help prevent floods. The two prof.
ects should be dovetailed for the pre-.
vention of suffering in the future and
the furtherance of the economic prog
ress of the Middle West.
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CAROLS Prison Sentence
Deserved, Is View of Press

few months will kill the prisoner, the
President might be justified in con.
Guiding he had been punished enough
and pardon him." Because of the con-
flicting opinions of the physicians, the
Akron Beacon Journal also feels that
"the Nation deserves to know little
more about this illness of Earl Car.
roll" for somebody is wrong"
X X X X
The Toledo Blade remarks: Earl
Carroll seems to have had a severe
attack of Discrimination" and the Day
tona Beach News Journal states that
Attorney General Sargent has found
that his illness is just q little boy
stunt, species of hysteria, like many
little boys before who have been i'll
were to be spanked
The diagnosis of the Ohio State Jour
nal Is to the effect that Carroll ''is of a
nervous, high-strung temperament,
has held his head high, and simply did
not have the courage to take his medi-
cine like a man." This is also the
view Of the New Orleans Morning
Tribune, which says: Meantime, re-
CARELESS Of the genuineness of his
symptoms, Carroll presents no pretty
contrast to the debonair, 1aw-scoffing
staggering smutmerchant he was a
year ago. For If his troubles are gen.
uine they result from pure funk
cowardice, lack of sportsmanship
enough to take his medicine grace.
fully"
Pointing a moral. the Portland
Oregon Journal says: "From power he
Is reduced to weakness. From fa.
nous. confident, smiling producer, ma.
tionally known, he has faded from pub.
lie view and is only NO. 24909.'
"It's cheaper to be decent.
"It's safer to be truthful.
tits more profitable to be on the
level"
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Light Penalty for Police Brutality.

The disgusting exhibition of police
brutality which has just been reveal
ed through correspondence between
the State Department and the Com.
missioners makes Westinghouse
blush with shame. An Italian was
questioned by police as the result Of
a flimsy clue given by an amateur
detective about the molestation of
schoolgirls. He went voluntarily to
the police station, where he was sub
jected to a beating by an patrolman.
The next day the girls on whose be-
half the complaint was made failed to
identify him. The italian promptly
complained to the embassy of his gov
eminent of his treatment at the hands
of the police and the two privates in
volved were hailed before the trial
board and fined.
Thus the public is given a view into
the methods of some members of the
police force when they are supposed
ly safe from supervision. Many are
the stories of police brutality in the
confines of the various station houses,
but they have been taken heretofore
with a grain of salt, because 1t has
been the general belief that If sus-
pect was undeniably guilty almost any
method was justifiable to make him
incriminate himself, and that prison
ers in an effort to gain sympathy ex-
aggerated and falsified when they told
these stories.
In this case, however, there is not
a vestige of esstuse. The Italian APP
parently was sa,t under arrest, else
he would not nave gone voluntarily
to the precinct station. And, of course,
the fact that on the next day he could
not be identified as the offender proves
beyond doubt that he was not only
but that the grounds upon
which he was questioned were filmsy
in the extreme.
Blackguardism and brutality have
no place on the police force Of the
National Capital. The two men in
volved should have been dismissed,
and the fact that they were punished
only with a small fine is a serious re-
Election upon the police administra-
ton. Conception Of the majesty Of
the law indeed varies in the minds
Of those who have sworn to uphold
it, and the shameful part of 1t seems
to be that those in authority approve
by leniency any distortion of right
and justice that shows itself under
their command.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-18

Just as those who have seen a play
like to talk 1t over" afterward, so
gardeners are fond of discussing the
weather. and the way their plants are
coming on.
The big rains recently, following a
few days Of hot weather, were a boon
to Washington gardens.
Lawns that were in none too good
condition picked up Immediately. Tin
MIA, those trusted flowers, those de-
lightful old standbys, grew several
inches overnight.
Then, on the heels of the rains, came
temperatures around 60 degrees, or
even bit lower, administering an
other check to all growing things in
this vicinity.
1t was as if Mother Nature, stepping
out in her "high-powere /" car, had
suddenly put on the brakes.
Now, there has been decidedly too
much of this sort of thing this sea.
son for the good of our gardens.
What we want is hot weather, and
plenty of it!
Heat is what the garden needs. even
more than water. Man may supply
water, via the hose, but only God can
warm the earth and put the zest of
growing into the queer green things
we call plants.
Flowers and vegetables, to do their
best. must feel the urge of the sun.
warming the clods, as the poet said,
into life.
X X X X
Continued warmth is the need.
Inc gardener feels almost as if he
would like to quote the popular SONG,
Not for just an hour, not for lust
a day not for inst y vaar h,,+ ~
ways.'
truly. If this section Of the coun-
try IS to have any real Summer.
'tWere well 1t were quickly achieved,
AT the best, there can scarcely he
a longer period than three months of
really warm weather, in which men.
children, dogs, cats and plants nav
iuxuriate in seasonable warmth.
why, many of us like hot weather!
Ihere IS something about the beat,
altnough one may grumble at 1T, which
relaXes the f1bers, as it were, of the
human plant, causing aches to dis
appear. and geniality to blossom.
The hotter the day, the better ball
the boys play.
So 1t Is in all things.
Take the matter of freedom from
illness.
There is much less sickness in Sum.
mer than in Winter. Slight increases
IN certain complaints-such as caused
by eating too much watermeloni-are
more than discounted by the lessen.
ing in the number of respirat:onal dis
eases.
Many persons subject to taking
cold look with longing toward the
Summer months, knowing from past
experience that they will have a com
pArative freedom for that MANY
months, at least. from the bane of
their existence, the so-called common
cold"
There is, of course, no guarantee in
the matter. The writer here has had
the unenviable distinction Of having
mad pneumonia twice in Augusts, and
they were long time ago, when it
was the fashion to treat this disease
by wrapping the poor child in FLAX.
seed jacket" composed principally of
cotton batting, which was nice and
hot. Also, they shut the doors and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-18
UNITED STATES
in WORLD WAR
Ten Years Ago Today

President pledges this country to
free Belgium when Belgian mission
presents letter of gratitude from King
Albert. Rapid fall in German
mark is causing grave apprehension
in Germany. Fifty-one coal
operators put on trial on charge or
violating Sherman antitrust act by
combining to increase and fix coal
prices. Secretary Daniels orders
coal and oil producers to supply Navy
with enormous quantities needed, at
a price to be determined later by the
Federal Trade Commission as fair.
Internal revenue agents ex-
pose widespread attempts on part or
munitions makers to evade profits
taxes. President Wilson takes
personal charge of shipbuilding con-
troversy to end internal squabbllng.
limitations made that U-boat toll
Is growing dangerously heavy.
German casualties in May more than
double the total for April.
Root mission finds that powerful or
ganizations in Russia are covertly hos
tile to President Wilson and lukewarm
toward the war.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-18

effort will be made by Smiths friends
to prove conclusively that Illinois is
back of the Senator-elect, and that a
refusal to seat him will be denial of
the right of the people of that State
to select their own representatives.
Under the Constitution the Senate
is the sole judge of the qualifications
Of it's own members. There is no ap-
peal from its decision in this matter.
Even should Illinois re-elect Col
Smith after rejection by that body
it could not force the Senate to accept
him if it remained in the same frame
of mind. For the sake of it's own repu.
tation and regard among the people
of the United States. the Senate can.
not afford to ignore the demands OF
the electorate Of Illinois on grounds
that are not of the solidest.
Certain qualifications for Senators
are laid down in the Constitution.
These qualifications are that a Sem
ator must be thirty years of age, nine
years a resident Of the United States
and an inhabitant of the State in
which he is chosen. Supporters of
Col Smith will insist that If these
qualifications are fully filled by the
Senator-elect and if his credentials of
election are regular, the Senate has
no jurisdiction to go beyond them and
must seat him. This view is not taken
by many of the Senators, however.
who insist that the Senate has the right
to determine whether Senator-elect
is qualified 'in every way" The prin-
cipal charge against Smith is that
while he was head of the public util-
ties commission of Illinois he accepted
a contribution of S125, 900 from Samuel
insult. public utility magnate. for use
senatorial nomination. This, it is
urged, is sufficient to debar him from
the Senate.
AS a practical matter, it does not
now appear that the Senate will agree
to seat Col Smith. Indeed. the make
up Of the new Senate promises to be
more antagonistic to Smith than was
the membership of the last, which de-
clined to seat him under the governors
appointment. On the other hand, 1t
appears that the political powers in
Illinois are uniting in a movement
whose end shall be Smith or no one.
If the people and public sentiment of
the State back this movement 1t can.
not fail to create an ugly situation if
the Senate persists in its rejection Of
Col. Smith.
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ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS


Q. Has the number of deaths from
automobile accidents increased or de-
creased?-H. /. D.
A. Official figures indicate that of
az States reporting, 30 showed an In
crease and IL a decrease during 1926.
The total increase was about per
cent. The total of motor vehicle IA
talities in this country during 1926
was about $4,000.
t. { {. f +. Monte Blue an American
A. Yes; he is Cherokee Indian and
was born in Indianapolis, Ind, in 1890.
@. What effect does the addition of
phosphorus have in cast iron?--C. j. j.
A. Phosphorus, If present in too
large a quantity, renders iron more
brittle under shock. reduces the hot
strength and tendency to segregate.
On the other hand, it makes metal
fluid and decreases contraction.
@. Please name an example of a
famous "love match" in ancient
Greece.--P. M. f.
A. Perhaps the most conspicuous
love match of the fifth century was
the marriage of Elpinice to Callias.
The bride was a sister of Cimon.
Q. What are the functions of the
modern hospitals?-J. +. S.
A. The functions of modern hos
pital are: ID Medical--to care for the
sick and injured; (2) educational-to
train physicians. nurses and social
workers; go to educate the community
in public health and personal hygiene;
az ACKNOWLEDGEMENT investigation
and experience, to throw light on pub
lie health and hygiene.
@. Does the filing of a patent appli-
cation confer complete protection on
the inventor?-A. A. r.
A. An inventor is unprotected until
he has been granted a patent. The
filing of patent application is merely
step in that direction. 1t is not
necessarily the first person making
application who is entitled to a pat
ent, in case two or more persons seek
patents for the same thing. Priority
in filing gives one competitor certain
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-18

advantages over others, but the Pat
ent Office undertakes in case OF con-
troversy to grant the patent to the
person who establishes that he was
first to invent.
O. Who invented baIloons?-L. NJ. r.
A, Joseph Michael Montgolfier was
the inventor of air balloons. He dis
covered that a balloon. with a car at
tached, could he kept suspended by a
supply of heated air. His brother,
Jacques Etienne, elaborated with
him in his scientific pursuits and par
ticipated with him in his first expert
ment in 1883.
O. How many American soldiers
| are buried in Flanders Field?-B. w.
, A. AS of June 80, 1926, there were
| 365 American World War dead buried
| in Flanders Field Belgium.
| O. What is the average weight Of
a cubic foot of sand2-L. I. w.
A. One cubic foot of dry sand Po-
tomac) will weigh approximately 105
pounds. The weight will vary with
the material and grading.
| O. What was the name of the first
British battleship?-P. J. OH.
| A. The Lion, built in 1882, was the
first real armored vessel Of the Brit.
ish Navy.
@. Is Antares q planets. NJ. W.
A. Antares is not n planet, but a
double star of the first magnitude. Its
diameter is about 500 times that Of
the sun.
The keynote of the times Is efficient
serpice. In supplying its readers qcith
q free Information Bureau in Wash
ington The Erening Star Is lining up
to this principle in deed and fact.
| We are paying for this serUice In
order that it mag be free to the pub
| Tic Submit your queries to the stat
| Of eTperts 4chose services are put at
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| Washington, ID. C.
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An effort to Introduce the New
Testament as ''first-page stuff has re-
suited necessarily in suggestions which
conservative thought will regard as
irreverent. The convention of the
Protestant Episcopal Church, in San
Francisco, has been struggling with
discussions which have released asser-
tions of arbitrary opinion which would
make utterances Of Tom Paine and
Bob Ingersoll seem mild by COMPARE
son,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-18

1t is unfortunate that flyers cannot
50 date their adventures as to permit
a separate claim for each In the spot
light Of fame. So many heroes assert
themselves at once that confusion is
inevitable.
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SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.

June Time Wisdom.
Now, why should we worry?
Our troubles are small.
The June time commencement
Will fathom them all.
BY each generation
A problem so vexed.
Is left to be answered
BY those who come next.
Each essay will offer
Significant truth.
Age.old are the questions
The answer is Youth.
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Financial Backing.

"You have decided to conduct your
next campaign without the use Of
money!"
sit appears" answered Senator
Sorghum, "that I shall be obliged to
do so. All the financial backing is
going to the aviators instead of the
politicians"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-18

Boosting the old home town" has
suddenly taken the form Of demand
for landing stations wherever they
can be used by air pilots.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-18

President Coolidge is expected to
catch so many fish in the Black Hills
that a problem may arise as to who
is going to eat them all.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-18

However valuable his advisory
services may be, no power on earth
will convince Lindbergh. that flying
may be regarded as a dangerous habit.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-18

Records of air travel bring a. sense
of humility to the motorist who used
to get arrested for covering more than
eight miles an hour.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-18

Canada has cool climate which
attracts tourists. The thirsty traveller
discards the prospectus for European
travel and exclaims. "See America
First!'
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-18

Chinese statesmen are beginning to
perceive that Russian Communism
has no more chance Of success in
China than it has in Russia.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-18

.~rae Associated Press is exclusively entitled
TO the use for republication of all news dis
patches credited TO it or not otherwise cred
TIED in this paper and also the local news
OF special dispatches herein are also reserved
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-18

Every now and then Lindbergh
hops off and leaves the after-dinner
speakers in exclusive control Of the
"gas line"