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THIS AND THAT


any facility whatever is shown, the
, doer becomes interested in what he
is doing.
| He-he-iS doing it,
Upon this sure basis, that Of human
nature, the school hopes to build up
the education of the child. Certain
! factors, however, seem to be intro
| duced. which ordinarily have fol
result that they turn many children
against school, and lose the precious
! keen edge of interest, without which
school life or any other life. for that
matter, is not what life might be.
| And life ought to be, for the great
est possible number. all that life ought
| to be. The old-fashioned idea of kings
| that one sort of life was for them,
| and another and lesser life quite good
enough for the common people, long
ago went out of style in the world
about 1916, we believe-with the sign
| ing of that great document, the
| Declaration of independence.
| There was another revolution worked
in mems thought, by business, which
| in the United States, with increased
making and selling, has made ii
possible for those who are sometimes
called Ordinary folk" to have and
enjoy things that kings never had
before.
Despite these manifest benefits, the
children are being turned against their
school days, at the very beginning of
their social careers, as it were. School,
it scarcely need be added, is the real
beginning of the social life. Before
that, the child knows only it's family
and a few members of a few other
families. In the school. however, he
becomes a member Of a social group
where his interests are not paramount,
but only theoretically the equal 0.
every other member of the group)
X X X
than go to school?
1t is a big question, dear parents
and mot so dear) educators, and we
can offer at this time just one little
light
Little Ben isn't treated like human
being!
He leaves a home where he is &C.
customed to all the dignity of a real
human, and enters a class where an
arbitrary person, called teacher, is
placed at the head of the room, with
the children arrayed in ranks in front
of her.
Ask us not, kind reader, how else
it could be done.
We do not know Let us admit
that. Anyway, it is the educators
business, not ours.
Then little Ben, if he dares to speak
to the teacher as he has spoken to
his mother, simply in natural way,
without any special signs of artificial
respect, is very likely to be branded
as 'impudent"
And Ben isn't "impudent," whatever
that means. Nor is he a soldier, to
be put in rank and file. Nor is he
an animal. to be marched in line.
Remember, this is just one of the
many reasons why Ben-and thou
sands of other Bens-would rather
wash Dishes"
The schools are FORGETTING their
claims, to a certain degree, because
they have forgotten and are forget
ting the essential dignity of human
being.
We heard of an older boy recently
who hates his lessons" and will not
read books, but who has spent hours
devouring every word that he can
find in newspapers about the heroic
Charles Lindbergh.
Why?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-08

Ben. 5 years old and a real boy
was talking with a neighbor, who had
come out in her back yard to do a
little early morning gardening. The
| conversation ended this way:
II have to go to school," said Ben
He referred to his kindergarten class
And | have to wash Dishes" smiled
the lady. Which would you rather
| do. Ben-go to school or wash Dishes?
Ben did not hesitate a second for
answer.
I'd rather wash Dishes" he said
| in his positive manner.
Overhearing this conversation, we
| could not help wondering what is
the trouble with modern schools and
educational systems, when bright.
intelligent and inquisitive boy would
prefer to wash dishes to attending his
classes!
Here was child, not yet in the
grades, who had, as yet, only a taste
of the orthodox education system, yet
already had secured much of that
distaste for schools which millions of
men will confess to, in their honest
moments.
Why is school so unattractive to so
many?
Why isn't it interesting?
Is it the childs fault?
Or is it the teachers?
The example of little Ben seemed
to us an unusually interesting one,
since it brought home rather pointedly
the failure of the schools to win the
children. Offhand, one would think
that school, with its increased social
life for the child, would be the hap
piest period in life. Every one knows
the inquisitive mind of the average
child, and how it grasps for knowl.
!, edge, now upon one subject, now upon
another. forever seeking the why and
the wherefore of a thousand and one
things, all the phenomena which many
adults smugly pass up for one reason
or another. some because they feel
that wisdom is now theirs, others be-
cause they recognize the futility of
the search, from the larger standpoint.
The school, it might seem, would
offer the happiest medium in the
world for the acquiring of knowledge.
Indeed, that is it's ostensible purpose.
That 1t accomplishes this, to some
degree, at least, there can be no ques
ton. The point is that it seems to
fail in many ways. One of these is
the failure to teach the child exactly
how to study. Another is the failure
to get and keep the interest of the
child. Another is in moral instruction,
except in a secondhand fashion, as the
child derives lessons from the exam
Piles of great heroes and literature.
Another is the abject failure of the
schools to teach children how to live,
in the broadcast sense. especially how
to handle money. Physiology is taught
only in the most rudimentary fashion,
yet one must live with his body all his
life-in fact, he cannot live without it,
These questions, however. are beside
our point today. We must get back
to the question of interest. that driving
force of men, women and children.
X X X X
We must be interested. we human
beings, before life has any zest for
us. Just living is not enough for most
of us. We soon exhaust the POSSIBLE
tiles of just plain, everyday living.
Even children do that, at a surpris-
ingly little age.
Tell me something to play, mother,
is the universal wall of childhood.
One ordinarily becomes interested in
what he does Human conceit. the
ego of man or child, sees to that. If
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-08
The Warsaw Assassination.

Moscow flames in fury over the as
sassination at Warsaw OF Peter Vol-
koff, or Wojkoff, as one spelling OF
the name runs, the Soviet Minister to
Poland. The crime was committed by
a youth who declared that he was a
member of a Russian monarchical
revolutionary party and had been for
months seeking opportunity to take
the life of the envoy. The Soviet gov
eminent in. a note to Warsaw reg
listers an emphatic and indignant pro-
test, declaring that the Polish govern
ment cannot repudiate responsibility
for the crime. Furthermore, there is
evidence that Moscow regards this
staying as part of a systematic at
tack upon the bolshevik government,
linking it up with the Peking raid on
the Soviet legation and the custer of
the Soviet representation from Lon
don.
There is no evidence whatever that
the crime at Warsaw has anything to
do with other moves against the So
Wet government, or in fact that there
is any arranged, concerted movement
against the Soviet on the part of the
powers. The incidents" are not in
any manner related. In China there
was ample ground for the belief that
the Picking legation was the head.
Of nj h
nistic propaganda. In London there
was equal ground for believing that
the Soviet headquarters were the cen
ter of similar communistic activities,
directed by the Third Internationale,
if not by the Soviet government at
Moscow itself, the creature Of or the
coadjutor with the Third Interna-
tionale.
The Warsaw crime appears TO have
been an individual act. The Soviet
envoy was believed to be identical
with the Peter Voikoff who, it is al
legged, signed the warrant for the exc
cution of the late Car and his family
at Ekaterinburg, a crime of the most
abhorrent character. Moscow denies
that there was any relation between
the envoy who was shot yesterday
and any individual connected with the
staying of the Car and his family
1t is pointed out that two separate in
uuiries into the Ekaterinburg atroc
fly, one by the white Russian" army
authorities and the other by Rex
Army" representatives, failed to dis
close participation by a Voikoff. New
theless the idea persists that PG'fsI
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-08
President Is Commended
For Choice of Summer Home

President Coolidge's decision tC
spend his Summer vacation in the
| Black Hills of South Dakota brings a
| chorus of commentator. The prece-
dent established is appreciated by the
| West, and the East generally is dis
| posed to approve the section as one
which will offer to busy Executive
| the maximum of freedom from official
cares in the midst of health giving OPP
| portunities for recreation.
Describing the region as part of
| the American wonderland" the Des
Moines Tribune-Capital declares that
''the President would not be more ro-
mantically situated in Glacier Ma
tional Park or Yellowstone National
Park" The Kalamazoo Gazette, as
Stunning that "the main thing he wants
Is solitude believes that "he should
get plenty of that-far more than he
would be likely to get in Michigan,
Wisconsin or any other Midwestern
State.'
"Mr. Coolidge is taking some
chances" the Charleston Evening
Post thinks, ''in going over the hills
and far away, and it is going to be
interesting to see how he gets through
with the adventure. Having and hold
ing the Presidency is not, after all, an
Beacon recalls that it was in the
Black Hills country that Theodore
Roosevelt got his first taste of the real
West, with it's frontier life." and says
that everybody in the Middle West
if not in the Mountain or Coast States
will admit that he has located the
sure-enough West"
X x * +
at appears certain that the art of
angling. learned in the neighborhood
of White Pine Camp in the Adiron-
dacks. will be. improved" observes
the New York Sun. The Houston
Chronicle sees. in the spot selected,
beauties of the mountain country.
forests and waterfalls, crags and
multi-colored canyons. almost. If not
quite, as numerous and impressive as
those in the Colorado Rockies" The
Pueblo Star-Journal. stating that
Colorado made a good fight to obtain
the Summer capital. and will be a
graceful loser to South Dakota" feels
that "the entire West is pleased that
President Coolidge is the first Presi-
dent to give consideration to the West
in selection of the Summer capital"
He will not be permitted to take
a horse and blanket, pick lonely
way through the hills and down the
canyons and spend his nights out
under the stars" remarks the Kansas
City Star. with the statement, how
ever. that, she will live in the Black
Hills as a President must live, and
we predict he will get lot out of the
living" The Butte Daily Post adds:
Here's hoping that he will have a
restful, refreshing outing. which will
tempt him to hike farther westward
some other year." The Waterloo
Tribune promises that "a chance to
sleep will make his days merry" and
that ''he will awaken fit for his pan.
cakes and sausage to be delivered to
him in large quantities.
X 4
Every President ought to spend
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-08
Butler Gets a Boost.

DIR. Nicholas Murray Butler, the
battling wet Republican, is the
choice, so far, of the ANTI third
termers," who have communicated
with the Anti-Third Term League
in New York, it is announced by
Henry Salant, president of the
league. Is this an indication of real
strength on the part of DR.. Butler
weakness on the part of the anti
third term movement?
The president of Columbia Univer-
sity some months ago declared that
President Coolidge would not be a
candidate to succeed himself. At
that time he said that Mr.. Coolidge's
own good sense and inclinations
would bring him to eliminate himself
from the picture in 1928. Since then
DR.. Butler has with increasing
vehemence declared that President
Coolidge would not be a candidate
and would not be renominated. AT
the same time that DR.. Butler un-
dertook to interpret the views Of the
President in regard to another term
of office, he also declared with
emphasis that the Republican party
was doomed to defeat in the national
elections next year unless it espoused
the wet cause and nominated a wet
candidate. Apparently, the vets are
rallying now to DR.. Butler himself
in the effort to stem the tide which
has set so strongly toward the nomi-
nation of President Coolidge.
1t would be unfair to dub the new
Anti Third Term League an organi-
zation in the interests Of the wet
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-08

cause. But the vets apparently
have determined to take the organi-
cation to their bosom, and IL they
can make it appear that there is a
real demand for wet candidate for
President, so much the better from
their point of view.
The announcement made by Mr..
Salant covered the replies which had
been received to a letter sent out by
the Anti Third Term League q week
ago. While DR.. Buffers name led
all the rest as the choice of the
anti-Coolidge faction, former Gov.
Frank Q. Lowden of Illinois was Sec
ond on the list Speaker Longworth
of Ohio. third Senator William E.
Borah of Idaho. fourth; Secretary
Mellon. fifth. and former Gov. Nathan
l.. Miller. sixth.
Mr.. Salant, head of the new league,
has apparently been concerned over
the progressive label which has been
tied to the organization. He HIM
'NAA sAAid SCNSldl OIHGES
connected with the league were for
mer Bull Moosers. The fact that
supporters of the late Col Theodore
Roosevelt for another term as Presi-
deht-called a third term by some
OF his opponents-are heading a move
ment against another term for Pres
ident Coolidge on the anti-third term
issue alone is rather a large oyster
for the public to swallow. Mr..
Salant insists that the league is
really more conservative than pro-
Sressive, pointing to the fact that
DR., Butler is conservative as proof
Progressive or conservative, the
league has not yet started a con-
hagration. nor does it give indica-
ton of doing so.
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Voikoff was involved in the crime.
The man who went as envoy to War
saw was believed to be identical with
the one who was named by the Rus
sian Judge SokoIoff who, after inves-
tigating the circumstances of the
tragedy, declared in book that Peter
Noikon was involved in the murders.
1t was in consequence of this accusa-
ton that the Polish government in
1874 objected to receiving Voikoff as
envoy, but after an official denial had
been issued by Moscow that he had
anything to do with the murders he
was accepted and eventually dissi
pated the i'll feeling against him.
If Voikoff was killed by the War
saw assassin because of the belief that
ne was one of the Ekaterinburg regi-
cides, there is no possible ground for
the protest of Moscow to Poland. An
effort to liken the crime to that of
June, 1914. at Seraje when the
Grand Duke Ferdinand and his wife
were slain by Serbs, is indicated in
Moscow dispatches. There is, how.
ever, but little likelihood that the as
sassination will form the basis of mill
tant actions by Russia against Poland.
The assassin is a Russian. not a Pole
Moscow is making much of it's trou-
bles, claiming an international plot to
force it into war. It has but to regu-
late its own affairs, abstain from de-
structive propaganda and check it's
c n people from communistic activity
in other lands, to be quite -secure from
assault or reprisal.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-08
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

ancestral record, which Is without
parallel in United States history.
Y X X
South Dakota bands have sent to
Washington for the music of Lord
jeffrey Amherst" having heard that
it is the favorite tune of both the
President and Mrs. Coolid ye. So the
Black Hills this summer are going
to resound to the strains of what
has been called the most stirring col
lege anthem ever written. Contrary
to popular belief, Lord Jeffrey Am.
herst" is the song of neither Amherst
College nor the Coolidge class of '95,
Words and music were composed by
James Shelley Hamilton, Amherst, 'O6.
during his undergraduate DAYS. But
the song became and has continued
so popular, ever since Amherst made
the White House, that it's commonly
regarded the colleges official ballad.
The President always has it played
by Navy orchestra on Mayflower
yachting parties, usually at dinner
time. Mrs. Coolidge kno, ) the words
by heart and often leads the singing
of Lord jeffrey
Jimmy" B. Reynolds of Washing.
ton, who has ranked as a member of
the Coolidge inner circle ever since he
had charge of the Governor of Massa.
chusetts' presidential publicity in
1870, has just made some significant
remarks at Philadelphia. He was
talking tariff in the high tariff at
mosphere of that city's celebrated
Manufacturers Club. His audience
was the Alumni Association of the
Philadelphia Textile School, Reynolds
warned his hearers gloomily that the
protective tariff is in jeopardy, be-
cause an unholy alliance of Republi-
can Progressives, farm leaders, inter-
national bankers, and even some la
Dor spokesman, has designs upon the
fiscal system, which is the ark of the
q. o. +. covenant. Reynolds, who was
once Federal tariff expert and is now
District of Columbia banl- r. adj
monisheS the friends of protection to
get busy and organize in defense of
their sacred ideal.
X x X *
It's plain bill" Jardine. horny.
handed Kansan, not the distinguish.
ed Secretary of Agriculture at Wash
lilSton, who's now touring the Sun
flower State and the wheat-belt,
I whence he vaulted into the cabinet
IN 1928. DR.. Jardine. following a so.
Journ at Kansas State Agricultural
college,, of which he used to be presi-
Gent, is crossing the State glad-hand-
ing dirt farmers, country bankers
ana small-toWn business men, and abb
sorblng first-hand information on
what the rural region thinks of, and
wants from, Uncle Sam. Jardine finds
relatively little farm distress in
kansas. At the get.together outside of
Abilene the other day, where he par
took OF an honest-to-goodness country
style supper, the Secretary of Agri-
culture said, Perhaps the reason you
Kansas farmers weren't in Washing
ton last Winter asking for relief is
mat you live in this kind of State"
It's no longer high treason for a
farmer to play golf in Kansas, so
Jardine has been frequently seen on
me INKS during his vacation out
here.
tCopyrght 1927
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3 months in the 12 beyond the
Alleghenies or south of the Potomac"
in the opinion of the Richmond News
Leader, which predicts for Mr.. Cool
idge "a new orientation of America"
The Tulsa World proclaimS that "the
west welcomes him, and feels compli-
mented that he is coming" The
Cedar Rapids Gazette holds that "the
most effective way of reaching the
heart of Calvin Coolidge and influenc.
ing his mind is to show him the typi-
cal courtesy of the Midwest, which
means that he may feel at ease in our
midst and do as he pleases."
Perhaps at some future time"
hopes the Salt Lake Deseret News,
the intermOuntain region may be
thus favored. as, with the advent of
the automobile and flying machine.
the question of distance is being elimi-
mated as a factor to be reckOned with
In deciding issues of this kind" The
Topeka Daily Capital also voices the
welcome of the West, and the Charles.
ton Daily Mail observes Il wholesome
effect and considers that "such a visit
is something of recognition that an
Executive of the United States belongs
to all the people"
X x x x
The romance of the Black Hills is
emphasized by the Buffalo Evening
News, which mentions the fact that
Cluster and Miles. Sitting Bull and
Chief Strike the Tree, Daadwood Dick
and Wild Bill Hickok had a Black
Hills background" The Seattle Daily
Times, however. fears that when all
those newspaper correspondents get
TO browsing around the historic Black
Hills. some of our boyhood idols may
be shattered"
Balanced against the romance and
the recreation is the judgment of the
Springfield Union that 1.-THE Presi-
dents Summer sojourn in the wild
country where fish and game abound
and the air is bracing and health
giving may be vacation. but it must
still be a business vacation" while
the Sioux Falls Argus Leader affirms
that ''his days will be filed with
visits and conferences with political
leaders, men and women who want
him to do one thing or another, and
thousands of others who just want a
glimpse of him" And the Duluth
Herald exclaims: cit is great, of
course, to be President. But it is also
great to be nobody, who can go on
his two-week vacation and wear his
old clothes without anybody bothering
to notice even that he has gone"
His being in the Black Hills will
give him an opportunity to learn in
personal conferences. as it cannot be
learned in Washington, the point OF
view of some. disconnected Western
people" according to the Chicago
Daily News, and this view is empha-
sized by the Lansing State Journal.
st. Joseph News-Press and Oklahoma
City Oklahoman. The Oklahoman
suggests also that at will be of ben
eft to the West to learn more of Mr..
Coolidge"
The political aspect of the selection is
by the Fort Worth Star
Telegram, Lynchburg News. Nashville
Banner and Birmingham News.
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ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN.

@. Does Ringing Bros. and Barnum
Bailey's circus give street parades?
%. r.
A. 1t has given no street parades
since 1920. The size of the show and
weight of the equipment is such that
1t takes the entire time to get ready
for the afternoon performance.
@. In what work is Nine. Papado-
poulus engaged at present?-N. p. T..
A. Nine. Anna Papadopoulus.
known as 1.-THE Greek Soldiers
Mother" is in this country for the
purpose of raising money from Greek
Americans for equipping a tubercu-
losis sanatorium for ex-service men.
Q. What is the duty of a queens
maid of honor?-C. w. K.
A, The maids of honor are the
queens immediate attendants and in
rotation perform the duty of accom-
panying her on all occasions. Queen
Mary of England has nine maids of
honor.
@. What is the value of pocket
books manufactured in this country?
C. T. d.
A In 1925 the value of pocketbooks
produced amounted to 43.183,755 ac-
cording to a report of the Census
Bureau.
@. What is an ornithopter?-J. F.
A. G..
A. "Ornithopter" embraces, as its
name implies, any type of flying ma
chine modelled after the Tapping or
vibrating action Of bird or insect
wings.
@. When was an "h" added to the
name of the city Of Pittsburgh
G.. L. S.
A. The addition of the letter "h" In
the spelling of pittsburgh" goes back
to the remaining by Gen. Forbes of
what had been Fort Duquesne. With
the departure of the French from
Fort Duquesne, which they fired be-
| fore leaving, the first thought of the
| English conquerors was to rename the
place in honor of William Pitt, at
that time-1758-Prime Minister of
| England. The English took posses
sion November 20, 1853. While Forbes
spelling of the name has been repre-
scented Variously as Peterborough
and Pittsburgh" he always added
the "h."
| @. May a person make a collection
of relics found in national parks?-
J. B. D.
A. The National Park Service says
that it Is necessary to obtain a per
NIT from it in order to make a collec
ton of relics found in national parks
Such permits are given only to those
making these collections for public
museums of standing, and with the