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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-16
Warm Weather Excites
Tidal Basin Memories

To tho Editor of The Star
The recent warm days have made
the lovers of the water wish many
times for the Tidal Basin bathing
beach so much enjoyed by so many
thousands in the past. / sometimes
wonder If those who were responsible
for abolishing it have ever realized
fully the pleasure they have denied
so many children as we'll as grown
men and women. I wish / could
express to them in words all / have
heard said in reference to this.
feel sure If l could they would have
a feeling of regret. Sunday, as 1
passed along the road where this
innocent amusement and fine recrea-
ton was so. much enjoyed for seven
years, l could not help wondering
where the thousands of boys and girls
and men and women were who would
be there If it We're still in existence. l
venture to say, many of them were
in worse places where less benefit
could be derived. The idol of all the
world, our Charles Lindbergh. is a
lover and a believer in clean outdoor
sports. Perhaps If he had not been
raised by a Christian father and
mother to live clean life we would
not be able today to acclaim him as
our model American boy and greatest
hero.
Perhaps before the hot Summer
days have gone some lad who has
the same high ideals he furnished
when in his tender years will meet
his death in a watery grave because
Of the neglect of the Government to
provide proper place where lives
can be protected. I would like to see
the papers bring this matter to the
attention of the public during these
warm days, as / feel sure when Con-
gress meets there will be many things
discussed before this is ever men,
toned, and this is the third long hot
Summer that we have been without
any bathing facilities.
Those who go to the mountains
and seashore resorts are not here
now. but let them read in the papers
of our National Capital how we poor
souls suffer. JOHN P. WAGER.
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The Night Bird.

Charles Lindbergh gave an exhibi-
ton early today of his speed and skill
which must give a thrill even though
the public has been aroused to an ex.
ceptional pitch of enthusiasm over his
historic achievement. Leaving
theater in New York after a benefit
performance, he went to Mitchell
Field, where, putting a flying suit over
his evening clothes, he entered a plane
and at 1:45 o'clock hoped off for
Washington. Flying at high speed
through the night, he landed at Boil.
ing Field as the eastern sky was be.
ginning to brighten. The Spirit of st.
Louis was ready for him, and with no
delay he entered its cockpit and start.
ed back for New York, where he
landed at 6:57 o'clock. He had been
gone from Mitchell Field just Ave
hours and twelve minutes. Such is
Ltndbergh.
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THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

| has been the salvation OF mankind.
| In the cave-man days, the specimen
Of the genus homo who was able to
grapple with the bear hand-to-paw
| was the big man of the tribe.
In succeeding centuries. the tall,
brawny men, who could best handle
the battle-ax, were chosen as chiefs
and kings, and their posterity We're
given like honors, so great was the
respect for them.
A Roman holiday" meant great
carnival OF emotionalism, as the con-
quering hero returned in triumph.
These deeds were necessary for the
survival of mankind. in competition
with animals. and especially In compe-
tition with each other.
All this time, however, the high
place Of the mind was fighting war
Of it's own. Not for a second,
through the centuries. did this war
fare relax.
And it Is going on today.
Man everywhere praises the doings
of the mind, as set forth in literature,
poetry, scientific achievements, Won
derful Inventions; but still the flow
! Of his heart Is toward the big boy
who can cut loose in the hour Of need
and do what every man would like to
do, but which thousands Of us are not
capable of handling.
Millions Of men, as they walked in
the night and thought of Lindbergh
| flying across the sea in the dark,
knew in their own hearts that they
would never have had the nerve to
do what he was doing-knew beyond
peradventure that this flying alone
into the face of danger was the
bravest personal deed which had &C.
Cured in their day and generation.
X y X
And some few of them, then,
stopped to realize, with something of
gasp, that bravery, after all, holds
the first place in the estimation of
mankind.
We had forgotten it!
City life had tended to make us
forget that at the last a man must
be thrown on his own resources, that
actually he goes through the world
by himself, that thinking may often
come second to doing.
Mans ideal, of course, has been to
use the mind first, carefully think
out problem, then to act; and this,
in essence, was exactly what Charles
Lindbergh did, thus embodying, in
his superb feat, great combination
of brain and daring.
The results of this combination
there is no denying; what interests
us, in the Lindbergh epic, is the way
it reacted upon human beings
throughout the world. It was not
the preliminary thinking that the
world applauded, but wholly the deed
itself, its perfect working out and the
subsequent actions of the hero.
Is 1t thinkable, a like frenzy of
greeting to an intellectual hero, per-
haps the discoverer of way to eradi-
cate some major disease. or the
writer Of some world classic?
No, we do not greet such heroes
from the heart, but only from the
mind. and the mind is inclined to be
undemonstrative. The great deeds of
the mind receive our blessing, but
we do not stand on Pennsylvania
avenue to applaud such heroes.
These great ovations, from the
heart of mankind, we reserve for
those heroes, such as Charles Lind
bergh, who work in the direct path
of mans advance through the cen.
turtles, and who make every man wish
that he, too, could go and do like
wise.
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strong representation to Moscow. has.
1t would seem, weakened in its inten-
ton, and now seeks to occupy the
position of mediator. advising Russia
to moderate it's communistic propa-
ganda and the powers to avoid the ap-
pearance of a concert.
The situation Is undoubtedly deli
cate. There are evidences that Russia
is now having trouble at home. Sus-
picion Is rife, at the European capitals
that the fiare.up over the British an
nulment of relations and the Warsaw
assassination is primarily designed to
arouse the nationalistic spirit of the
Russians, who are backsliding from
bolSheviSm. The so-called reign Of
terror that has been instituted at Mos
COW, marked by numerous executions
of persons accused of espionage and
revolutionary activity. is thought to
be part of Russia's home campaign.
Meanwhile at Warsaw has occurred
the trial and conviction of the youth
who killed M. Voikoff, the Russian
Minister to Poland. He was sentenced
to life Imprisonment, but the court
petitioned the President of Poland to
commute the sentence to fifteen
years. This action Is calculated to
cause an unfavorable reaction at Mos
cow. where the assassin would un.
doubtedly have been Immediately con.
demned to death. Russia demanded
the surrender of the prisoner, and it
may be expected that now it will
make a violent protest against the
mercy shown to him by Poland. espe.
cially if the sentence is committed.
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PHILOSOPHERS
GLENN FRANK

Now and then I like to withdraw
from the fetid atmosphere of the In
Vulnerable back.fence chickering's OF
theological pettifoggers that have
shamed our generations and escape
into the healing fellowship of minds
that can be intelligent without being
hard and spiritual without being soft.
have just gone adventuring with
such a mind.
I have just finished reading George
Santayana's Platonism and the Spir-
itual Life.
I should like to commend this little
volume to the two extremists in the
current civil war among the religion
lists.
The Modernist whose spirit has
shrivelled need 1t.
The Fundamentals whose mind
has committed suicide needs it.
1 have friends in both these camps
who in no wise answer these descrip-
tons; / speak only of the lunatic
fringe Of the two religious groups.
Santayana's book comes like refresh
ing air from the hills. He is never
seduced by the false Importance of
commentator once said of his books,
Here in the cool clo!ster of thought,
we return to problems which are eter-
nal, and to solutions which repeat
themselves from generation to genera
ton We moderns boast Of our progress
in material conveniences and resources,
but in the quiet kingdom of the mind
we have advanced nothing since the
days when the youth of Athens sat at
the feet Of Socrates"
In the tiny essay l have just read,
Santayana summarizes the things that
Dean Inge has suggested as common
to Platonism and to spiritual religion.
I commend these six points as a salts
flying creed for a sensible man.
First, a firm belief in absolute and
eternal values as the most real things
in the world
Second, a confidence that these val
ueS are movable by man.
Third. belief that they can never
theless be known only by whole heart
ed conservation of the intellect. will.
and affections to the great quest.
Fourth, an entirely open mind to-
ward the discoveries of science.
Fifth, a reverent and receptive atti-
tude to the beauty, sublimity, and wis
dom of the creation, as a revelation of
the mind and character of the Creator.
Sixth, a complete indifference to the
current valuations Of the wording.
Every intelligent man would want
freedom to amplify his own under
standing of some Of these phrases, but
l suggest that they afford a key to
escape from the unspiritual vendettas
that now disgrace religious discussion
in America.
tCopyright 1927
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Give Washington an Airport!

Following almost Immediately upon
the urgent admonition by Col. Lind
bergh that every city in the United
States should be equipped with an air
port for the advancement of flying
as public utility comes the an
nouncement that unless Washington
provides such a facility 1t will not be
included as a stopping point in the
route Of the projected New York-At-
lanta mail service. If the Capital is
gagged in this service Baltimore will
be chosen as the relay point. Hence
an impetus is given to the plans for
the establishment here of suitable
place for commercial flying service.
The situation demands speedy ac-
ton, but, unfortunately, the matter Is
tied up by the tendency in Congress
of proposition for the securing of a
site for municipal airport and action
cannot be had upon it for several
months. Three possible sites have
been named, one in Virginia, at the
extreme southwest corner of the Dis
trict, on filled land alongside Of the
river; one at the now unused steel
plant across the river in the District,
and the third at the former Benning
race track, northeast of the city. Any
of these would meet the requirements
in point of space and convenience Of
access.
Inasmuch as 1t is impossible to Sc
cure congressional authorization for
the establishment of an airport as a
municipal utility in season for the &C.
commodation of the New York.Atlanta
mail service, efforts are now being
made to obtain the use Of a suitable
area Professionally to retain for Wash.
ihgton the rank of an air-mail stop.
ping point. There is ground for hope
that this may be accomplished.
1t would be in every respect insult
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Coolidge and the West.

The West has welcomed President
Coolidge. Whatever may be its real
sentiment toward farm relief legisla-
ton of the McNary-Haugen bill type,
which the President vetoed, it has for
gotten its disappointment in the real
pleasure of entertaining the Chief
Executive and the First Lady of the
Land. 1t has lived up to it's reputa.
ton for hearty hospitality.
1t is far cry from the Black Hills
Of South Dakota to Washington. But
the link between the two in all prob.
ability will be more strongly welded
than ever before, due to the presence
of the President and the Summer
White House in South Dakota. In a
measure, the President will play the
part of an ambassador of good will
from the East to the West this Sum-
mer. With the sentiment of section
alism which unfortunately has devel.
oped in recent years Americans must
be concerned. If the Presidents visit
to the West can eliminate to some
extent this feeling, so much the bet
ter for the country. If more kindly
feeling between the two sections Of the
country, which after all are depend.
ent upon one another, grows out of
this personal contact of the Nations
Chief Executive with the West, much
will have been accomplished.
Already the West is we'll on the
mend after the disastrous years for
agriculture which followed the war.
Reports indicate that the farmers are
in better shape. The outlook for good
crops this season is said to be excel
lent.
Probably it is true that any Presi-
dent Of the United States would be
made welcome by the West. The
West Is intensely American. 1t would
honor the high Office. There is no real
doubt, however, that President Cool.
idge is himself personally popular In
the broad expenses of the Western
States. The West gave him unstint-
eddy its support in the national cam.
paign Of four years ago.. Not a single
State of the West failed to cast its
electoral vote for the Republican ma.
tional ticket, except Wisconsin, which
followed Loyalty it's chosen leader. the
late Senator Robert M. La Toilette.
The same characteristics of honesty,
common sense and courage which the
President has shown, and which made
their appeal to the people of the East,
made also their appeal to the West.
President Coolidge has repeatedly
made clear his desire to aid in every
way that was economically sound the
people of the agricultural West. BY
personal contact with its people. the
President will doubtless be able to
carry even more strongly this mes
sage to the West this Summer. At
the same time he will be in a better
position to understand the real prob
lens Of the people who have wrung
this great empire from the wilderness.
He will spend three months in coun-
try which less than a half century
ago was the scene of Indian warfare.
The present development in that sec.
ton is tribute to the hardy pioneer
ing, type of Americans which made it
possible,
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UNITED STATES
in WORLD WAR
Ten Years Ago Today

firing Of delays in Congress, Presi.
dent Wilson orders Hoover to begin
his food conservation campaign at
once. 80" Senate passes war rail-
road bill with notifications. curtailing
power granted to President in orig
inal bill, and barring seizure of roads
but authorizing priority shipments.
German military experts,
trying to reassure German people,
sneer at Pershing's arrival in France
and assert war will be won before
United States gives any real aid.
Russia rejects a separate
peace after Elihu Root makes power
ful appeal for firm stand by that
country. 49, Russia resents Ger.
many's latest peace move and expels
Swiss Socialist acting as their agent.
First quota. SIS students for
Engineers and Coast Artillery. leave
Plattsburg camp to finish training in
Washington and Fort Monroe. !"
Red Cross war council creates won-
ans bureau and a national advisory
Of women.
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The glorious reception given Col
Charles A. Lindbergh by France, Bel
GUM, England and the United States
shows that the heart Of mankind still
thrills most at a deed of physical dar-
ing that stirs the emotions. Let us
admit this. while continuing to join
in the tremendous ovation as 1t
sweeps to the West.
The intellect holds second place, in
the eternal contest between It and
Drawn. and the whole hearted well
come given Lindbergh proves it as
neatly as he demonstrated his own in
telligence. his selfreliance and his
wonderful bravery.
Intelligence as a personal posses
sion is one thing, and intelligence as
the supposedly highest manifestation
of the human being. Is distinctly an
other.
The United States has concentrated
on it's schools, and the printed word is
probably more abundant in America
than in any other country in the
world--but what hero of science has
ever been given an ovation from the
heart such as was accorded the
manly young fellow with the light
hair and the pleasant smile?
Those whose hearts beat and who
felt tears come to their eyes as they
waited for the flying hero to come up
Pennsylvania avenue, at the same
time wondered, many Of them, just
why the enthusiasm was so great.
Now that the shouting and the
tumult has died. may we not admit
that we were paying a tribute to
what mankind has always reserved Its
most tremendous ovations for-per-
sonal bravery?
We hope that no one reading here
will think that we have any the less
reverence for Lindbergh than he, the
reader, has. Laid up in bed on Lind
bergh day." we listened with profound
interest to the most excellent broad
cast of the event and tears welled
in our eyes from time to time, and
we are not ashamed to admit it.
At the same time the unprecedented
feeling evoked by the epic that
is Lindbergh caused us to wonder
about ourself, and, since we are but
one of the billions Of persons in the
world, to wonder about humanity; for
what one feels, in essentials, all feel.
Trying to trace it back to funda-
mentals, we saw that the reason the
feat of Col. Lindbergh thrilled us so.
was because he did what every man
in the world would like to do.
He did a deed of personal, physical
bravery, which embodied great re-
sources of head and heart. as we'll as
certain other obscure qualities which
time has not yet allowed mankind to
trace.
From the days when men swung
in trees as moneylike creatures, if
we are to believe the evolutionists,
down through the long centuries, past
the lordly fighting days of Rome.
through the broad reaches of world
history to the very present. men have
warmed to the deed of personal
bravery.
No doubt the monkey.man that
managed to leap across a certain
space from q tree to tree, that no
as yet had spanned, got
the greatest ovation from the mem
bers Of his tribe.
He was aiding man in his unknown
course down, or rather up, through
the centuries, and he got the recep-
ton which such men ever receive.
Is it any wonder?
Despite our prating OF the brain,
and of the mind and Of the intellect,
the physical deed at the right time
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ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN.

Q. Why is the Philadelphia team in
the American League called the
white Elephants"?- n. Med.
A. The club received the name of
the white Elephants" because Mr..
John McGraw of the New York Giants
made the remark that its late presi-
dent. Mr.. B. F. Shibe. had a white
elephant" on his hands when he pur-
chased the club.
Q. Is the Washington elm at Har.
ward still standing?-B. S.
A. The Washington elm which stood
at the present corner Of Mason and
Garden streets. on the edge of the
Cambridge Common, is no longer
standing. The spot on which 1t stood
is now marked by a stone tablet.
Q. Please give the cost of the Bear
Mountain BRIDGE. f. S.
A. The cost of Bear Mountain
Bridge, with the approaches, is APP
proximately $4,000.000.
q. What is the science or art of
flying called?-G. r.
A. 1t is known as "aerodromics.
@. How much room would it take
to stack a million silver dollars?
N. A.
A. The Department of the Treasury
says that $50 cubic feet are required
to store one million silver dollars.
O. Is Fiume a free state or not?--
NJ. A. b.
A. Fiume, which until January 81,
1924, was an independent state under
the treaty of Rapallo, was annexed
to Italy on the date named above.
when the treaty of Rome was signed.
@. What became of the library of
| Ferdinand Columbus?-C. D.
| A. The son of Christopher Column
bus was a great book lover and col
Iector. His library is owned by the
cathedral at Seville. Spain.
Q. How old is Nathalia Crane. who
wrote 1.-The Janitor's Boy"?-M. Nice.
| A. She was born August IL, 1913,
so is now approaching IA.
@. Can you tell me who is the
| sculptor of the Joan of Arc statue
| in Meridian Park?-L. E. s.
A. The French sculptor, Paul pu.
bois, executed the statue of Joan OF
Arc. copy of which is In Meridian
Park, Washington, d. c.
O. What kind of musical instru.
ment is the vibraphone?-H. ].
| A. The vibraphone is similar to a
xylophone. The keys are of metal
and beneath each key is a cylinder
called a resonator. Each cylinder has
fan rotating within it which is
driven by an electric motor, and this
| fan amplifies the sound, giving it
| resonance.
| 0. Is the water produced by melt
| ing hailstones pure?-F. S.
A. Hailstones do not contain germs.
because they are formed by freezing
in the higher levels of the air. Water
| is evaporated before it becomes hail
stones and is practically the same as
! distilled water.
| @. Did Sir Henry Stanley's widow
marry again?-C. D.
A. Lady Stanley married Henry
Curtis in 1907.
@. What is the highest point on
Manhattan Island?-A. T.
| A. The highest point of Manhattan
Island is near Old Fort Washington,
a height of 267 feet.
Q. What are the first prizes of the
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light their way" points 6utt the
Canton Daily News. which continues.
however: But below was the tenn
restuous Atlantic, surg.ng, heaving.
restless, ever ready to gather the
unwary to a watery grave in its
bosom. Chamberlin and Levine came
through to a second epochar triumph
over the perils of the great ocean"
The Roanoke Times halls IAN impress
sive demonstration for the second
time in a fortnight Of the progress
that has been made in aviation"
X X
OF the effect of the fights on inter
national relations. the Hartford Times
says that without realizing it, Lind
bergh and Chamberlin may have sunk
more fleets than the Washington con-
ference. and signified as much by
their day as did the defeat of the
Spanish Armada" The Toledo Blads
holds that ''the very fact that theri
was so great an assemblage of eager
friendly Germans is indication enough
that animosities and enmities of thu
war have been forgiven If they hav-
not been forgotten The Providence
Journal pays the tribute to all the
transatlantic airmen that mo one will
deny that their courage and ability
nave won TOT Inen the plaudltS anu
the gratitude Of a world that is still
reading with amazement the record
of their daring exploits"
THE world can never forget the
men who marked a path through the
skies" asserts the Albany Evening
News. They have risked their lives
to point the way. America is proud
of them. But so are all the nations
proud. for this is an achievement OF
mankind" They are recognized by
the Reno Evening Gazette and Racine
Journal-News as messengers OF
peace" 49,
Flyers who wish to achieve equal
fame must dare the Pacific" in the
judgment OF the Kansas City Post,
while the Lansing State Journel sug-
gests. as the next step, the westward
trip over the Atlantic. The Oklahoma
City Times advises that there must
be many more experimental crossings
to prove the percentage of safety and
overcome the reasonable timidity Of
the public toward such strange and
stirring adventure
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SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Vacation Spot.

Vacation Spot.
I'll find a fair vacation spot,
Where waters sparkle bright;
And where, on many a grassy plot,
Each day Wen watch the flight
OF spheres, where golf or tennis bring
The spell of sporting zest,
Or fishermen their lines may fling
To angle for the best.
Where blossoms scent the wandering
breeze,
And trees their shade expand.
Where throngs may loiter at their
ease,
To listen to the band
There shall lure elusive rhyme,
From care and travel free;
1 fain would spend vacation time
In Washington, d. c.
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A little disorder in one of his audi
ences should not depress Sir Harry
Lauder. His popularity as a singer
is in no way concerned with his eff
cheney as a political speaker. His
references to a suspected willingness
to accept a dole instead of depending
on a days work will soon be forgotten
If he will cling to the reminders of
Bonnie Lassies and the Heather which
first won him the affection Of the
crowds