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High Cost of Cities.

The Census Bureau furnishes an in.
teresting echo to the hue and cry al
ways heard this time of year over re-
ducing the expenditures Of the Fed
eral Government and bringing about.
at the same time, reduction in Fed
eral taxes. The Government is looked
upon as the greatest spender, and 1t
is. But the entire expenditures of the
Federal Government during the fiscal
year 1926, according TO the Census Bu-
reau, exceeded by only ten per cent
the expenditures of $50 cities OF the
United States having more than 10000
population. And during this period
these cities spent eighty-nine per cent
more than the governments of the
forty-eight States. Maintaining an
American city is becoming more ex.
pensive every year. The per capita
cost for operation and maintenance
has increased from $19.07 in 1917 to
1913 per capita in 1926, or more than
one hundred per cent. What is the
reason for it, and where is it going to
stop? With the program of Federal
tax reduction so widely advertised, and
with the Federal economy program so
highly praised. II is probable that the
average American city is losing sight
of the fact that economy, as well as
charity. should begin at home. Cost
of maintaining the Federal Govern
ment is increasing. But the percentage
of increase is small compared to the
percentage of increase in the cities.
One simple explanation of the in
creasing cost of maintaining an Amer
tcan city is the fact that the cities are
growing, and it costs more to main
tain a large city than it does to run q
small one. Increasing revenue &C
companies increasing population, bu
the larger revenue never seems t.
make up for the larger demands. TIL
demands upon the cities have grown
but so has the per capita cost of meet
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SHOOTING STARS.
ny PEILANDLR Johnson.
Historical Hysteria.

Historical Hysteria.
The speeches of yore
Are sounding no more,
AS school books adopt a "tra-la"
Which does not admit
The old boys are a hit.
And hints that their words are but
"Blah!'
Those far distant times
We have put into rhymes.
Which end with hearty "ha-ha"
We turn to joss,
Who is now the big boss
The great and ineffable "Blah."
The serious thought
Must be patiently taught.
The child sweetly murmurs Mamma"
When I. at your knee,
Seek to learn histor-ee,
Why does it so much sound like
"Biah?"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-14

All those who come from country
or small town viii welcome Folks Is
Folks" written by John II. Bartlett,
First Assistant Postmaster General,
and just published by the NJ, A. Don
ahue Co
odd expressions, strange customs,
queer habits and eccentric charac-
ters-" there are what Gov. Bart
lett portrays in his successor to Spice
for Speeches" which he put out last
year.
Government circles are getting to
expect an annual Christmas volume
from the former president of the Civil
Service Commission. and no one will
be disappointed with the present one,
although the reader will find in it
none of the prominent public charac-
tiers of the former book.
The folks" of the present Offering
are the sort every one knows about
who ever lived in country town or on
the farm, the unusual characters"
that seem to grow only in such places.
One might perhaps better say seem
to have grown for perhaps even the
country and small towns are sophis-
ticated today. Standardization is
ironing us out.
Such men and women as the former
Governor of New Hampshire pictures
in "Folks Is Folks" are becoming in
creasingly hard to find in the United
States.
1t may be said, therefore. that Gov.
Bartlett has done a service, as well
as provided entertainment, in collect
ing the treasures of his memory in
such handy form.
Although the avowed purpose of the
book is to cause smiles, many reader
will find his eyes moist over Folks Is
Folks"
Here we have Uncle Healey, the
religious character, who wanted to
meet his Maker with clean shirt
on; Bal Lightbody. the man who
laughed with his feet; Hepsibah Ware,
postmstress, who never knew when
she had the office locked; Lon Moss,
the pig sticker; Impetuous Jumpsle
the changeable girl; Old Mite, the all
night perambulator; Mire Morey, the
snufftaker, and Dim Dow, the STAN
merer.
Uncle Healey was ''poorer'n Jobs
turkey" a man who was all rell-
gion," Gen. Bartlett tells us. He
had religion for breakfast, dinner and
supper. lie talked Oh IlOLHltS else.
He cared for nothing else. He was
poor in spirit believing the promise. ;"
The Book of Job was Uncle Healey's
especial topic. He could talk about it
all day long, and often did, as he went
about his work of tinsmith. The peo-
pie thereabouts said he knew more'n
Job did about job"
Unlike Calvin Coolidge" Gov.
Bartlett says, Uncle Healey chose 10
rum all the time" he being always
in a hurry.
Perhaps the best and strangest
thing that Uncle Healey did was to
make it business for many years
of praying with each and every
family in the entire township once
year, travelling many miles on foot to
do so.
HE would rush into house rather
noisily, kneel down hard and pray
long, and then rush out again with
out and hellos or good-bys. He just
prayed, that's all. Everybody became
used to him, took it as matter of
course from him. and, on the whole,
treated it reverently."
One night fire broke out in the viii
lage in a larger shop next to Uncle
Healey's, and when the community
got there they found Healey's tinshop
doomed. with the old man trapped in
the attic.
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Gen. Woods Successor.

After an exhaustive and painstakinG
consideration of many names the
President has selected Col. Henry l..
Stimson of New York to be the Gov
ernor General of the Philippines, to
succeed the late Gen. Leonard Wood,
and Col. Stimson has accepted the as.
signment to duty. This is an excep-
tionally fortunate choice. and will COM
mand the immediate approval of the
country.
There were numerous possibilities
for appointment. Men of eminent
ability had been proposed, and most of
them would have been we'll adapted TO
the difficult task. In his selection OF
Col Stimson, however, the President
has secured for the distant post man
of administrative experience, who has
become familiar with the problem Of
insular government through his pre-
vious service as Secretary of War and
in the course of a personal visit to the
islands over which he is now to pre-
side as the representative of the Fed
eral Government.
Col. Stimson believes in granting the
Filipinos an increasing degree of par
ticipation in their own administration,
but he does not believe in the complete
independence Of the islands at this
stage of their development and present
conditions. He is fully acquainted
with the unfortunate results of the un-
wise course pursued some years ago,
and with the difficulties that Gen.
Wood had TO overcome upon his as
sumption of the post at Manila. Yet
his appointment has already evoked
expressions of approval from leaders
Of the Filipinos who desire larger
degree of autonomy, and there is rea-
son to believe that they will cooperate
with him sincerely.
In accepting this appointment Col.
Stimson has made sacrifice which
calls for acknowledgment and APP
probation. He has always responded
to a summons to public service when
the occasion arose. Recently he has
accomplished task of exceptional diff
ficulty in Nicaragua, where he went at
the request of the President to investi-
gate the conditions growing out of an
instruction in that republic. Upon
his return to this country he was pub.
licly praised by the Chief Executive,
who expressed himself as gratified at
the results of his delicate mission.
For the aspirations of the Filipinos
for a greater share in their own ad-
ministration there is a general SYM
pathy in this country. But it is real
lied that there must be a period of
preparation, and that period is not yet
ended. The inhabitants of the archi-
pelago are not homogeneous. There
are marked differences in race and in
religion and in degrees of social de-
velopment. The guardianship of the
United States must continue to be ex-
ercised, perhaps for a long time. re-
gardless Of its own interests. In pur-
suance Of this policy Col. Stimson will
be of great service to the Filipinos and
to the American Government.
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- because informers receive halt
the fine imposed. You can carry a
patent lighter by taking out license
at 10 pesos a year.
There's a Washington social organ
ization which enjoys the unique dis
tinction of being listed in the Con-
gressional Directory. along with a
host Of semi-official agencies, boards,
commissions, bureaus and other in
situations. It's the Congressional
Club, whose membership Is composed
exclusively of women in official life,
mostly wives or daughters of Sena.
tors and Representatives. The club
is in O class by itself by reason of
the fact that it will in 1928 celebrate
the twentieth anniversary of its in
corporation by act of Congress. The
present president is Mrs. Peter G.
Gerry, wife of the senior Senator
from Rhode Island. The organization
owns a fine clubhouse at the juncture
OF New Hampshire avenue and Six
teenth street. It's not quite as ex-
elusive as the Senate Ladies' Lunch
con Club" but the scope of it's activi-
ties Is considerably wider.
Almost everybody knows that AS
sociate Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes
of the United States Supreme Court
was shot through the breast, through
the neck and in the heel, respectively,
at Balls Bluff, Antietam and Fred
ericksburg while serving with the
goth Massachusetts Volunteer 1nfan-
try in the Civil War. Lewis l..
Strauss, Herbert Hoover's wartime
secretary, recently acquired first
edition of the "Autocrat of the Break
fast Table" in which Is pasted pres
entation letter from the author-the
father of Justice Holmes. The letter
is addressed to DIR. Hunt in Phila-
delphia, who, it appears, ministered
to the needs of Lieut.. Holmes, as he
Law wounded on the field of Balls
Bluff. 1t says:
INV son, who with myself will
always recall your kind attentions
with gratitude, is now married
and a lawyer no doubt known to
/ many of the profession in Phila-
delphia by his edition of kent's
Commentaries. l think they will
| tell you that he has proved him.
self worth the trouble you took
| to save him. The five bullet
| marks, left by the balls. remain
| as honorable trophies, but give no
other token of themselves in the
way of pain or inconvenience"
y
| Senior Honorio Pueyrredon; the
Argentinian Ambassador to the United
States, serves nothing but meat from
his own country at his hospitable
/ table in Washington. He's himself
one of the Argentine's great ranch
| owners and cattle-raisers, and has a
corresponding partially for beef and
mutton grown on the hoofs which
| roam the land of the Tango. The
! Ambassadors meat supplies are reg
ularly replenished by refrigerated
/ shipments from Buenos Aires.
! downright. 1927
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-14

O. What was done with the pipe
organ that was exhibited at the Phil.
adelphia Exposition last year?-N. w.
A. This $3.50, 900 organ was pur-
chased by Cyrus II. X Curtis and pre-
scented to the University of Pennsyl'
vania. The organ is said to be one
of the largest in the world. TIE re-
ported purchase price was $4,000.
O. When was the song Aud Lang
Syne." written?-B. B.
A. This song, by Burns, was written
about 1889.
@. Was barley used in ancient
times?--C. N. N.
A. II is said that barley is the old.
est food of man. Several varieties,
one the sacred barley of the ancients,
were known to the lake jewellers OF
Switzerland. 1t was cultivated in an
cient Egypt and was also the chiei
breadstuff of the Hebrews, Greeks ana
Romans.
@. Where is Fort Riley located
N. r.
A. 1t is at the junction of the Re-
publican and Kansas Rivers in Kan
sas.
@ What was the BLACK Act?"-
A. This refers to An English stat
ute of 1722. so.called because designed
originally to suppress associations of
lawless persons who called themselves
blacks" 1t made felonies certain
crimes against game laws, the send
ing of anonymous letters demanding
money, etc.
@. Did the Federal government re
deem all the currency issued by the
Continental Congress?-E. A. c.
A. The various issues of Cont
mental currency were never redeem
able by the United States as reorgan-
lied under the Constitution. By the
act of August 4, 1890 Il Stat, 140). II
was receivable at the Treasury in sub
scription to a loan at the rate OF one
hundred dollars in Continental money
for one dollar in specie. BY the act
of March 3, 1897 Il Stat, $780, 1t was
declared that said money should he
receivable as above until December 81
1891 and no longer.
q. Please given some information
about San Francisco. G.
A. San Francisco. Calf, was first
settled in 1875, when two Franciscan
monks, Palou and Cambon, established
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UNITED STATES
IN WORLD WAR
Ten Years Ago To-day

Allied Naval Council is formed WIN
France. England, Italy. Japan a.u
the United States co-Opera tlis.
Council will watch over conduc.
sea and intensity activities.
President expected to take over con-
troll of the railroads of the country
without asking Congress to ehas'
legislation authorizing him 10 uo
1t. Present law gives him the power
necessary. Lloyd George eA-
horts British to hold fast and w;n
with Americas aid Forecasts pis
German drive and says Germany
gambling on failure of United states
to get army to the battle frons soon
enough to be of real help. .ac.oN
hangs on sufficient tonnage.
Germans continue heavy bomparo-
ment of French and British mes,
but make inconsequential gains.
Settle 1t In the West" Is Germany's
cry. Germans taken prisoner pre-
diet heavy blow. one that VIII. make
for peace. Record day In vol
untary enlistments for Regular Army
with total OF 14,29L 4
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ing them. Another and highly I'M
portant factor in relation to increas.
ing per capita cost is the popularity of
the bond issue as means of getting
everything at once. Census figures
show that per capita debt in the ESQ
cities increased about ten per cent in
1925 over the debt in 1925. 1t has
grown from $S0.75 in 1917 to $12S.13
in 1926. The craze for buying on the
instalment plan has struck the cities
with a bang. A city administration
coming into power finds that the
easiest way to make a name for Itself
in bringing improvements is to APP
prove a bond issue. The citizens look
with pride upon their fine new high
WAYS, their beautiful new schools, and
perhaps forget that what they have
bought must be paid for by their chill
dren and perhaps their children's chill
dren. The old practice in New Eng
land in the early DAYS of paying cash
for improvements and raising the
money by special assessment is disap-
pearing. just as the theory of our
grandfathers that one should not have
what one cannot pay for is making
way for the new belief that what one
cannot pay for now, one can pay for
at so much a month for the next year.
The benefits or the harm from apply
ing such theories cannot be judged
now Today the cities are building
roads and building schools at a great
rate Cities vie with each other in pro-
viding the smoothest streets and the
most imposing school buildings. 1t is
money spent in a good cause. But the
be judged by later generation.
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ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC J. HASKlN.

an Indian mission which they called
San Francisco de Assist. the name San
Francisco having been previously
given to the. bay. In 1S46 the United
States took possession. In 1S4S gold
was discovered in California, and peo-
pie fiocked to San Francisco. In
March, 1S4s, the population was 500;
in September, 1S49. it was at least
10 900. San Francisco was incorpo-
rated In 1850. and in 1885 the city and
the county were consolidated.
@. What is meant by a compose
dress?-M. 4.
A. A compose dress generally means
sleeveless dress to be worn during
the afternoon or evening which also
has g separate jacket. The dress when
worn with a jacket Is appropriate for
afternoon street wear.
n Are warships other than Brit.
ish allowed to use the Suez Canal
j F.
1855 "the vessels of all nations,
whether armed or not. are TO be allow.
ed to pass through the Suez Canal in
peace or war"
q To Cullen Landis married?-A.
A. This movie actor is married to
Loca Hearne.
q How far does a rural mail car.
rier travel on his route? What sal
ary does he get?--M III.
A, The standard rural mail delivery
service route is - miles. For this
route the salary is $500 year. An
additional $50 a month is added for
every mile over the "a. An equipment
allowance of. & cents a mile IS also
given. Routes under the standard
number of miles are graded accord
ingiy.
Find out achdteDer you rant TO
kno,c. There is no room for ignorance
in this busy aoorId. The person 1cho
loses out is the one tDho 0nesses. The
person teho gets on is Gltcdys the one
nho acts upon reliable information.
This paper employs Frederic J. Has
ki,. to conduct an Information Bureau
in Washin oton TOR the free use OF the
public. There is no charge eTcept ?
cents IN stamps for return postage.
Write to him today for any facts you
desire. Address The EUentng Star In
formation Bureau, Frederic J. Hdskin,
director. Washington, ID. @.
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testify. To be a young prince is
something more. and to be a good.
looking prince still better. But to be
a prince young and handsome and
also able and quick to do what prob
ably every one of us would like to
do at least once every week of our
lives. namely. to give an impudent and
inconsiderate taxi driver exactly what
was coming TO him-Oh, Boy!
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From the New York Sun.
Senator Jim Reed says 1.-The citizen
is crowded further and further from
direct participation in and knowledge
of Government affairs" Yet this Is
period of unprecedented surveys,
inquiries and consequent expositions
of Government activities. Perhaps
the very multiplicity OF agencies for
the exposure of State processes and
practices defeats its own purposes.
The citizen has not the time to read
the mass of literature that flows from
the presses.
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nation next September of President
Coolidge for the Senate IL the Repub-
licans of Massachusetts were DESTROYS
of nominating him. and If the Presi-
dent would agree to make the race.
If the President were candidate for
the Senate. the senatorial election in
Massachusetts would be followed with
almost as keen interest as the contest
for the presidency. Perhaps. it was
said here. the President would prefer
to wait until 1882 before he enters the
political arena again. At that time he
might be available either for the presi-
dental nomination or the senatorial.
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The lady who kills her husband be-
comes an immediate mark for the
camera. There is no satisfactory re-
Spouse to the photographer custom
airy request, Look pleasant" Under
the circumstances, it is too much to
ask
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-14

It has been the fortune of George
Bernard Shaw to use the American
newspapers gratis instead of paying
for the services of billposters.
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Critical Information.

II have read all your speeches" re.
marked the admiring constituent.
II have been thinking about chang
ing my secretary" answered Senator
Sorghum. II wish you would tell me
if you think the speeches you read
are any good"
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Much European thought has been
devoted to efforts to show America
how to manage an extraordinary pros
perity. Prosperity is normal and
should not be managed. Its methods
should be studied and initiated.
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Congress will have a multitude of
bills to consider. Unfinished business
increases from session to session.
This makes no difference to the en-
thusiastic constituent who thinks he
has a new idea.
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Mail early" reminders again bring
up the fact that while Santa Claus
is tireless myth. friend letter car.
rier is patient and honest flesh and
blood.
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Tax reduction is always a subject
of interest. Yet the man who writes
an income tax check now must
breathe a sigh of relief as he com
pares it with the check Of several
years ago.
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A war in the air would be so devas-
blunder on the part of modern states
manship to allow any such thing to
happen.
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The 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 payer and also the local news
III hlished herein. All rights of publication
Of special DISPATCHES herein are also reserved.
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There is no way of persuading an
aviator to forsake the thrill of the air
and risk dying of Indigestion as he
haunts the banquet halls.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-14

Having experimental with editorial
experts, Henry Ford has evidently de-
termined to turn himself over unre-
servedly to the ad writer's.
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Soviet policies have at least arrived
at a dignity that permit them to be
announced from palaces instead of
hall rooms In the Bronx.
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Mexico has undeveloped resources
which make it difficult for her states
men to keep pace with the expert
biologists.
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From the New York Sun.
Women who wear short skirts live
longer. Paris statistics show. You
only have TO look around to come to
the conclusion most women are aim
ing to live to be at least 1000
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Christmas Tree.

VII lECCs
The sturdy Christmas tree
Let's bid it live.
A creature brave and free,
To thrive and give.
Not reminder, sad,
OF whitening,
But friend, true and glad,
New joys to bring.
Jud Tunkins says it's foolish not to
| be good loser" The loser has few
friends at best, and it's mistake to
get peeved and turn those few into
enemies.
I'VE forget friends and remember
enemies" said Hi Ho, the sage of
Chinatown. which is like squandering
good money and boarding bad coins"
Pertinent Question.
You can drive this car sixty miles
an hour" said the salesman, proudly.
who are you?" inquired MIR. Chug-
gins. THE traffic cop?"
The Big Gift.
Old Santa Claus is on his way
To gladden. all creation;
And yet he's not prepared to say
Who'll get the nomination.
What strikes me as kind of hypoc.
risy." said Uncle Eben, lis a man
] sittin' behind four aces and sayin
Happy New Yearp"
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