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Evening star., 1927-06-02
Lindbergh Acclaimed
AS a Modern Viking
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor OF The Star:
Amid all the acclaim Of Charles
Lindbergh because of his great tri.
umph over time, space and air, has it
ever been pointed out that he is q
Swede, a Scandinavian. by descent,
and what this fact means in American
history? 1t was another Scandina.
Wan who, in the year 1000, set sail
upon the trackless, uncharted ocean, !,
inspired with just such buoyant faith
and courage, and who, after many
days. touched the land now called
North America. This great achieve.
ment Of the Norsemen is being tardily
acknowledged by this Nation through
the erection, here in the Capital City.
of monument to Lief Ericsson, leader
of this expedition.
What an inspiring combination of
facts 1t is to recall that a Norseman
first braved the unknown track of the
seats perils and unconQuered forces
guided mainly by faith and intuition,
to establish the fact Of this continent S
existence, and that after $500 years
had elapsed we find another, the son
of a Norseman, through that sama
faith and intuition. Drawing the un-
known forces of the air, taking back
to Europe the fruits OF the civiliza ton,
If | take the wings of the morning
And dwell in the uttermost parts OF the
Even there shall Thy hand lead me.
And Thy right hand shall hold me.
JULIA b. SCOTT.
Evening star., 1927-06-02

Commission, but made no provision
for the actual building of levees or
protection of the lands from overfioW.
In 1880 Congress made the first appro-
priation for the Improvement Of the
Mississippi River. From 1879, undSr
the commission, the Federal Govern
ment has expended more than $780, ,OO0.-
900 in the improvement Of the
Mississippi River and the protection
of lands rrorn overflow.
Q. Has vivisection ever been per-
formed on a human belng?-C. r.
A. Recently Prof. Fraser Of st.
Bartholomew's Hospital, London. per-
formed such an operation or J. B. y.
Haldane, lecturer in biochemistry AT
Cambridge University, in order 10
diagnose the effect of acidosis on the
blood-information necessary In the
treatment Of diabetes.
O. Does the Poet Laureate OF Eng
land receive compensation for services
in that position?-E. J. @.
A. The compensation that goes with
the office is $3.50 per annun.
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Evening star., 1927-06-02

contrasting with greater areas OF in
tense gloom.
In few of the streets OF the Capital
Is il possible to drive q motor car with
any view whatever Of the condition OF
the street save for a very short dis
tance Immediately in front of the ma
chine. Pedestrians cannot be dis
cerned until they come squarely into
the rays Of the headlights of the car
Very often this results in collision and
casualty, for which the drivers cannot
properly be blamed.
Recently high. powered lamps have
been installed on some of the arterial
highways. to the great relief of all, pc
destrians and motorists alike. But to
pass from one of these brightly lighted
streets into another of less illumina'
ton Is to incur a grave risk Of COLI
sion. The change is binding.
The additional cost of higher-pow.
cred street lamps for the entire urban
area will not be too great. in consid
GRAFTON Of the degree Of safety insured
There should be no black spots III
Washington, places where crime can
be committed without detection, where
people may be run down because they
are not seen, where the blackleg and
the thug can commit offenses with i'm
punity.
Evening star., 1927-06-02
UNITED STATES
in WORLD WAR
Ten Years Ago Today

Gore food bill passes Senate unani.
mously, with food census eliminated
and President given powers TO shut
up exchanges where gambling in grain
futures is carried on. - .! Gov
ernment uncovers plot to establish
German subnaMne base or Venezuelan
coast. United States advances
another 800 900 900 to France.
President issues l 900 additional com.
missions to men for duty in new
Army. D" Berlin official denies
that American citizens are being de-
tanned in Germany Intentionally.
Secretary Daniels denies rumor that
any American destroyers have been lost
duC to defective ammunition.
House welcomes Italian mission.
State Department unable to trace
President Wilson's message to Russia,
sent 10 days ago and not yet received.
Message set forth Americas aims I'm
the war and was addressed to the Rus
sian government. Allies hopeful OF its
good effects. Anarchists parade
Petrograd streets. Adjutaft
General announces that second series
of officers training camps viii open
August %. ~
Evening star., 1927-06-02
Medical Association
and Liquor Prescriptions
To the Editor Of The Star:

Az she &s0AtVE va 1hS StuE'
PUSSY cat, pussy cat, what saw
you there? I saw little mouse under
the chair" Under the chair of the
Church Temperance. Society OF the
Protestant Episcopal Church." spy
rather big mouse. Some time ago
this society was conspicuous in its
work against prohibition. Bishop
Manning of New York assured the
public that this wing of the Episcopal
Church did not represent the Protes-
tant Episcopal Church at large. This
is equally true Of the wing of the
American Medical Association; for we
know that in 1917 the American Medi-
cal Association declared that the use
of alcoholic liquors as a therapeutic
agent was without scientific ba sis
and should be discouraged. and at its
| meeting in 1921 adopted resolution
saying reproach has been brought
upon the medical profession by some
Of It's members who misused the law
which permits the prescription Of al
cohol.
With this as the situation to be
met, the judiciary committee OF the
House of Representatives reported
with favorable recommendation the bill
which became the act of November
%, 1921, whereby the prescription OF
intoxicating malt liquors for medicinal
use is entirely prohibited and the pre-
scription of other intoxicating liquors
is subjected to restrictions, which I
do not need to repeat, as the law is
well known as the one the physicians
are seeking to have rescinded and they
have permission to fully prescribe
alcoholic stimulants. If all physicians
were honest there would be no need
Of apy restrictions. Unfortunately
there are unprincipled men in the
medical profession, just as there are
in all professions, and laws have to
be made to meet such lawless, selfish
men. Their stand in the human
family is on a par with the status
of the mouse in the animal kingdom;
1t matters not whether they wear the
cloak of the Church Temperance So
ciety or the American Medical Asso.
citation.
My husband, DR.. Rienzi Robinson,
was a charter member, as were the
Mayos, of the temperance wing Of
the American Medical Association.
They had no use for alcoholic medi.
cines." The longer DIR. Robinson
lived the more firmly he believed that
thousands Of patients died as the re.
suit of the use Of alcohol and not
from disease.
Doubtless there are physicians who
still are imbued with the old-fashioned
idea that alcohol is medicine. If
there are, the limitation by law gives
them the right to use 1t Just as they
use other medicines in reasonable
quantities. That the provision Is not
| arbitrary has been proved by evi.
dences disclosing the fact that there
were some disposed to give prescrip.
tions when the real purpose was to
divert the liquor to beverage use, not
only for their patients but for them.
selves.
Congress understands human nature
| and that the vets will fight to restore
| liquors until their death. Alcohol is
poison and must come under the
restrictions of other poisons. We are
living in an age Of scientific and intel.
lectual progress and it is well known
what a dangerous poison alcohol is
and can no longer be trified with
under the disguise of medicine
MALINDA G. ROBINSON.
Evening star., 1927-06-02

dom from the dictation of the Anti.
Saloon League and a subservient Con.
gress in matter Of medical judg.
ment, with which neither the league
nor the Congress is in any sense en-
dowed. The Syracuse Herald re-
marks that there is nothing to pre-
vent similar legislation with regard to
every item In the pharmacopeia, If
Congress sets out to make such laws" "
Admitting that 'the United States SUI
preme Court has upheld the legality
Of these restrictions in the Volstead
law" the Columbus Ohio State Jour.
nal says, ALAS, a thing may be
strictly legal without being at all
sensible.'
The doctors are quoted by the st.
Louis Post-Dispatch as regarding the
provision OF the law as "a reflection
upon the honor, conscience and IN.
telligence OF the profession" with the
remark, And rightly so. They are
particularly incensed when, by some
nook or crook, patent medicines with
high alcoholic content are sold openly
land freely as beverages" The Spring
field Union, in similar vein, argues
III our physicians, who form as high
minded class as exists in the COM
munity. cannot be trusted to respect
the letter and spirit OF tho prohloi'
tion laws. who can be trusted|
unfortunately" admits the Ashe'
vile Times. some doctors yield to
the opportunities of friends ailing
| only because of thirst. Nevertheless,
something should be done by Congress
ana State Legislatures to enable
PHYSICIANS, when they desire it, TO
obtain pure whisky and other alco'
holic liquors for medicine" The
Louisville Courier.Journal maintains
that mot only should the present
arbitrary restrictions on physicians
prescriptions be abolished, as urged
by the American Medical Associa-
ton. but the Government, having
outiawed beverage whisky. should
see to it that there is an adequate
supply Of pure medicinal whisky"
1T the medical profession appeals
to Congress, when it meets again, to
revoke its fat. the appeal IL likely to
Evening star., 1927-06-02
Let There Be More Light!

In continuation of the policy of CIV
ing better illumination to the streets
Of Washington, the District Commits
sioners have ordered the installation
of higher powered lamps within the
area bounded by Sixth, Eighteenth and
NJ streets and Massachusetts avenue.
and also In Sixth and Eighth streets
southeast and southwest. This. it is
stated, is the largest single order ever
approved. Further improvements in
lighting are soon to be ordered. At
this rate the dark spots in the city
will quickly be relieved.
Save for few thoroughfares, Wash
ington's streets are badly illuminated.
Indeed the greater part Of the city is
virtually in darkness after the descent
Of the sun, when the moon is not shin
ing. The continued use Of gas and of
small incandescent lamps on infre-
quent poles gives the effect of re-
stricted patches OF semi brightness.
Evening star., 1927-06-02
Views Differ on Restriction
Of Prescriptions for Liquor

The recent action Of the House of
Delegates of the American Medical
Association in protesting against the
legal limitation on the amount Of
whisky that may be prescribed for
patients has been received by the pub
lie with viewpoints widely differing
as they are always where any ques-
ton relating to liquor Is concerned.
Many newspapers, commenting, in
sist that physicians should not be in
terfered with; others support the law
as O curb on the use OF prescriptions
by the unscrupulous to provide liquor
for beverage purposes.
Quoting the demand Of the profes.
sion for legislation permitting doctors
ito prescribe whatever amounts of
alcoholic liquors may be needed for
their respective patients" the New
York Sun refers to "the absurd pro.
vision, now in the law, which prohib.
it's a physician from prescribing more
than one pint Of whisky for a patient
every 10 days." and says, THE court
having upheld the right of Congress
| to establish such limit, nothing re-
mains for the doctors, but to attempt
to have Congress undo an obvious mis-
take"
Doctors are either eligible to pre-
scribe for a patient or they are not, u
declares the Fort Worth Record.Tele
gram. If they are, no person out
side the profession should be per
mitted to curtail their powers of pre-
negatives. II they are not competent
we should get those together who un
| doubtedly are, and raise the bars OF
permission to practice SO high that
only the acknowledged competents
may get over" The Chicago Tribune
points out that 'law does not restrict
dosage of other medicine available
for the practitioner and patient" and
pictures the situation as peculiar,
| in that 'Volstead and the doctor are
supposed to go arm in arm to the
patient, and ii the doctor prescribes
whisky the Volstead act prescribes
how much"
What they demand, and have q
] right to obtain" in the judgment oi
the Newark Evening News, lis free
Evening star., 1927-06-02
FORD AND GHANDI TALK
BY GLENN FRANK,
President Of University of Wisconsin.

/ am indebted to a Frenchman for
suggesting to me an interesting specu.
lation on what would be said If the
fair.skinned Henry Ford in a sack
suit sat down to talk with the dark.
skinned Mahatma Gandhi in his loin
cloth.
Ander Siegfried, distinguished
French scholar of the Free School Of
Social Sciences In Paris, has written a
fair and farsighted analysis Of the de-
sires and dilemmas that mark modern
American civilization.
His book-"America Comes Of Age"
lis refreshingly free from the flip
smart-aleckism that mars the iudg.
ment OF many of our imported and
homegrown critics. The book has
bite and brilliance. but 1t has the feel
of q book that has been written by a
sound scientist and a just Judge.
In his analysis of ouy religious. in
dustrial and political life. there runs,
like a binding thread, the contention
that America Is putting the material
above the mental. the mass above the
man, quantity above quality,
The final sentence Of the book opens
the door to an interesting speculation.
so the discussion broadens," M.
Siegfried concludes, until It becomes
dialogue, as 1t were, between Ford
and Gandhi."
What would Ford and Gandhi talk
about II they met either In the nerve.
racking roar Of Fords factory or un.
der the sedative hum Of Gandhi's spin.
ming wheel?
At first glance. Ford and Gandhi
seemed poles apart.
Gandhi Is the uncompromising enc.
my Of machine civilization.
Ford Is the ardent apostle Of ma.
chine civilization,
Evening star., 1927-06-02
The Coming Tax Fight.

Rumblings, forerunners of the fight
over tax revision in the Federal Con.
Eress next December, are already in
the air. On the eve of a national cam.
paign, 1t Is scarcely TO be expected
that the Democrats and Republicans
VIII lie down in peace and permit the
tax bill to pass without what is com.
monty referred to as a desperate con.
test" Indeed, the word has gone
forth that the Democrats in Congress
Will oppose the tax reduction program
Of the administration Republicans.
Why, bless their hearts, of course they
Will oppose this program. though in
the end they may prove themselves
more foolish than wise by such a
course!
A tax reduction bill is practically
certain to be enacted into law at the
coming session of Congress. The Re.
publican party, as the controlling
party in Congress and in the executive
branch Of the Government, will obtain
whatever credit or blame attaches to
such a measure. If the Democrats set
themselves up as obstructionists, or
even place themselves in the position
of delaying tax reduction because they
insist upon greater reductions for the
little fellows, they will still lay them
selves open to criticism by the general
public. 1t is no news that the little
fellow now pays no Federal income tan
or very little. 1t is no news either
that under the Mellon plan of reduc
ing the surtaxes more money has beer
released for commercial enterprises
and at the same time the flood of rev
enue has not been halted, but rather
increased.
In 1924, another presidential cleo
tioR year. the Democrats united with
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Evening star., 1927-06-02

| the insurgent Republican forces in
the administrations plan for tax re-
duction. 1t is not on record, however,
that this course on the part Of the
| Democrats brought them any measure
of success at the polls. Furthermore,
the Democrats, somewhat chastened in
spirit, really aided the Republicans in
the revision of the tax law in 1926.
The American people are more inter.
ested in sane and effective tax reduc'
! ton than they are in the politics
which may be a by-product Of such
revision. One thing appears certain
and that is that there will be reduc-
ton in the corporation tax, which is
now fixed AT i3ia per cent. The Cham
Der of Commerce of the United States
would reduce this to 10 per cent, lop-
ping off total OF S325,000,0 900. 1t
would repeal the estate tax and Ger.
tain excise taxes. The administration
Republicans are willing to reduce the
corporation tax, but only to IL or lila
per cent, and the Democrats also viii
favor a reduction of the corporation
tax and may even favor the 10 per
cent proposed by the Chamber of Com
mcrce. The Democrats are still clam
oring for a reduction of the taxes paid
by persons with smaller incomes and.
it is said, viii oppose cuts in the high
er surtax brackets.
Democrats have in the past and
doubtless will in the future charge the
Republican administration with hold
ing back a further tax reduction until
the eve Of the national campaign. But
it is doubtful that such charges will
have much effect upon a public which
is benefiting from cut in the taxes.
Evening star., 1927-06-02
Lindberghs Welcome Home.

Arrangements for the welcome home
10 Capt. Charles Lindbergh when he
arrives in Washington on the eleventh
of this month are progressing. A citi'
zens' committee has been named, un-
der the capable craftsmanship of John
Hays Hammond. representative Of
the community as well as the Gov
ernment. Details Of the reception are
being worked out. ii is assured that
a dignified yet enthusiastic ceremony
Of acclaim will be prepared.
In this reception TO Lindbergh every
Washingtonian may have a part, and
not merely a passive one. The entire
city should be decorated. especially
with the American flag. 1t should be
put into gala attire. Doubtless the
entire population will wish to see the
intrepid young aviator who has star
tied and thrilled the world by his gal
liant exploit. There will be opportu-
nifty for a vast multitude to greet him
and pay him homage.
1t is not desirable to resort to extraor-
dinary spectacular methods of greet
ing to make the occasion suitable and
sufficiently indicative of the American
peoples appreciation of Lindbergh's
feat. The flyer is coming home from
a series of remarkable demonstrations
in Paris, in Brussels, in London. Vast
crowds in themselves are not particu-
larly novel to him. Noise is not neces-
sarily indicative Of sincerity Of ap.
praiSal. The Washington welcome
should be hearty, but it need not. be
sensational.
In all likelihood there will be an es.
eort Of airplanes to accompany the
Memphis up the bay and the river. 1t
is hoped that the hour of arrival here
viii be such as to permit a daylight
view OF the ship and her distinguished
passenger. Lindbergh's plane, the
Spirit OF st. Louis, in which he made
his historic flight, will be borne home
by her. It may be assembled here and
the flyer may thus have an opportu.
nifty to give the Capital a view Of him
In the air, or at least OF the plane in
action. It has bean suggested that he
may make his trip to New York by
afr, which would be appropriate, mas.
much as he left. that city for Paris.
It is then proposed that he fly to st.
Louis. from which place he hoped
OFF for New York to make the fight
overseas.
There win be no lack of suggestions
for the detailed plans of reception.
Many have been already advanced.
Great fertility Of proposal is in evi.
dence. The task Of the citizens com.
mittee will be to make suitable selec.
ton and to arrange a program which
viii be in full keeping with the signifi.
canoe Of the occasion. will manifest in
the most striking and most dignified
manner the sentiment of the American
people for this great conqueror Of time
and space, who has so ably represented
them abroad.
Evening star., 1927-06-02

Gandhi considers the machine the
slayer OF mankind.
Ford considers the machine the sa.
vior Of mankind,
To Gandhi, the machine is a tyrant
to be destroyed.
To Ford. the machine is q tool to be
developed.
At second glance, Ford and Gandhi
seem to agree in much.
Both agree that the old Industrial
revolution, which turned a handmade
world into machine.made world, bred
many bad results. The world Of work
before the machine was invented gave
three priceless things to the work
man, viz:
A chance to express the best he had
In the thing he made.
The security that came from being
boss of his own Job.
Hope of independence in a world in
which he could go into business with
few simple tools.
Ford and Gandhi agree that there is
need for new industrial revolution
that will guarantee to the modern
workmen these three things chance
to be creative craftsman, security,
and independence.
They part company only when they
begin to discuss ways and means.
Gandhi would run away from the
challenge of modern complicated 80.
ciety. simplify life, smash machines.
and go back to hand production.
Ford would face the challenge Of
modern life. develop machines to the
limit. use them to gain shorter hours
and higher wages and longer leisure.
Sooner or later we shall have to
choose which we shall follow--Ford
with his factory or Gandhi with his
spinning wheel
But ! would like to eavesdrop a
Gandhi-Ford dialogue,
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