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pertaining to organized government.

pertaining to organized government.
In Chicago yesterday q girl OF six
teen led a mob in manifestation OF
hostility and precipitated riot, which,
| fortunately. was suppressed before
damage was done. She declared her.
self to be an anarchist and the daugh.
ter of an anarchist. A flaming figure
Of dissent, she swayed the passions of
the crowd by her intrepidity. It may
| be asked what conceivable knowledge
Of the real merits Of tho Sacco.Van-
zetti matter this child could have had.
With an ancestry of anarchism, she
son. and the mob responded to her
as does the finder to the flame OF a
match.
1t does not argue that there is deep
seated discomfort with social condi-
tons prevalent in the United States
because a few thousand in the large
centers of population can be swayed in
this manner by hot.headed or coldly
calculating agitators. Against the
comparative few who rage and storm
in Demonstration" are hundreds of
housands-millions indeed--of sober.
minded people who, whether they
reason out or not. are satisfied that
Justice prevails; who, If they are dis
contented with the proceedings Of JUS
tce, are critics of its failure to meet
the needs Of society in safeguarding
1t against crime and violence and rad
icalism
Hysteria, however, is a dangerous
factor in any state or community. It
may cause trouble. 1t did so in France
nearly hundred and forty years ago.
It has done SO on other occasions.
when nations have been shaken and
society has been deeply disturbed.
But there were real grievances at
those times and there is no real griev-
ance now. 1t is, for example, no
grievance to the people Of London or
of Paris or of Moscow that American
judicial processes are operating for
mally and normally to the end of the
execution Of two men accused OF
crime and convicted after n protracted
trial and the fullest possible chance
to prove their innocence. A false
issue has been raised, an issue that
will be perhaps productive Of i..uch
disorder and maybe at some time a
conflict, but the outcome cannot be
doubted. Government will be sus-
tanned and the law justified despite
the clamors of those who are now
seeking to utilize this affair as a
means to the end of a proletarian rev.
olution.
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To the Editor of The Star.

To the Editor of The Star:
Your editorial on the ridiculous in.
adequacy Of many of the amounts of
collateral proposed in the Bureau of
Efficiency schedule is quite to the
point. The figures Of $40 for driving
through an occupied safety zone and
80 for failure to grant the right of way
to a pedestrian on a crosswalk are
quite In keeping with the light regard
the public authorities of Washington
have for the welfare of the pedes.
TRAN.
/ believe, however, you miss another
important point. The committee on en-
forcement OF the National Conference
on Street and Highway Safety, while
advocating traffic violations bureaus.
strongly condemned the privilege of
depositing and FORGETTING collateral
without trial. The essential difference
is that with violations bureaus prop
erly set up the offender. in order to
escape trial, must appear at or send
representative to the bureau and
plead guilty, and the offense is re.
corded against him. He cannot mere.
ly pay his collateral and nonchalantly
charge it to operating expenses as he
would a supply of gas or a new inner
tube.
In keeping with this plan, the sched-
ule Of rates increases with second
and third offenses. and for more seri-
Gus violations second or third offenses
must go to trial. OF course, first Of
lenses for the most serious violations.
such as driving while intoxicated,
should go to trial.
CHARLES w. STARK.
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UNITED STATES
in WORLD WAR
Ten Years Ago To-day

Liner sinks U-boat with three direct
hits. German crew wave white hand
kerchiefS as their vessel begins dive
burg camp will open August 25.
French army experts arrive in
this country to help drill our men and
give them modern training in our
cantOnmentS. Army critics
praise results of training undertaken
at Plattsburg as bold experiment
and call it model school and big
success. Nearly $500 out of $500
men have qualified and been commits
stoned. Allies to confer on
naval action and develop more Az
gressive sea policy. = Draft law
framed for the Nation. not for the
ing against evasions. = Federal
Trade Commission warns coal dealers
that an increase of more than 10
cents a ton on anthracite September
Is unwarranted. Senator in
PRODUCES a resolution (tending to in
duce Congress to take an attitude for
early peace) asking this Government
to define its war purposes and calling
for reaffirmation of the terms upon
which the allies would accept peace.
Suffragettes lose two more
banners when angry crowds in front
of the White House destroy flags in
scribed to Kaiser Wilson"
urged In the Senate to
suppress lawlessness OF I. w. w. agi.
satora - ina Mssk i--s~-v-.-----,-
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Urges Forlorn Pets
Be Saved from Death

To the Editor of The Star:
While reading the advertisement Of
the Rescue League in your paper
Monday evening came upon this
paragraph relating to the leaving of
animals as families went away to their
Summer homes and the calling up of
the league by some kind" neighbor to
come for them, 1t occurred to me to
wonder just how many people would
think so far as to interpret the mean
ing of kind"
If little child were left helpless
and alone. crying for food, would it be
kindness" in a neighbor to call up a
wagon to come for it to be chloro-
formed? Would not kindness be in
feeding the child and ministering to
It's needs? And If that were not pos
sible by the individual, to find some
home that would give it shelter? Even
If none among the thousands of citi-
zens had heart in the matter, it still
might be sent to a charitable institu-
ton ready for just such protection.
Does poor animal not feel and
think and remember? Why kill it to
prevent the suffering?
Has no one heart to relieve suf-
fering by food and shelter in some
really kind home? If not, there is the
Maryland farm for just such waits.
Is 1t Kindness" to kill? There is
even a protest in some quarters
against putting to death a murderer
now, the taking of life for a crime
Has the poor little abandoned animal
committed crime?
Are we living in the days of Roman
barbarism or in a civilized land where
gentleness and mercy find play? Did
not Christ ask what man there was
who would not pull a sheep out of
pit even on the Sabbath day? Did he
refer to killing it or sending it to be
killed? The taking of the life of
person Is called murder.
Why should the taking of life of an
animal be so CLOSED over with YER
biase as to call it putting to sleep"
and the people kind" who further
the killing? There is always fright
and struggle for breath and the last
fierce fight for self representation. XIII
1t, and prevent its suffering?
Why not find the heart of kindness
in helping 1t to food and care?
NJ. r. WOODWARD,
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Paying the Public Debt.

Reduction of the public debt since
the Republican administration came
into power after the war has resulted
in an annual saving of 5000, 900, 900.
Refinancing at lower rates of interest
| has brought about an additional saw
ing of $50, 900 900. Undersecretary of
| the Treasury Ogden Mills, speaking
at the Institute of Public Affairs of
the University of Virginia, laid par
ticular emphasis upon these reduc-
tons in the tax burdens Of the Amer
lean people-reductions made possible
through the wise procedure of paying
debts.
The time to pay debts, either for a
nation or for an individual, is when
the money is in hand. The present
administration has held firmly to this
policy, although at the same time
taking a lead in the matter of tax re-
duction. Efforts have been made to
stampede the administration into inn
mediate and more drastic tax cuts,
but President Coolidge and Secretary
Mellon have kept their feet success
fully on the ground in this matter.
Federal taxes have been lowered I'M
til they are no longer an excessive
burden. Millions of smaller incomes
have been exempted from taxation, or
the tax upon them SO lowered as to be
almost negligible.
There have been signs recently that
insistent demands will be made at the
next Congress for large reductions in
the tax rates. Some of the Democrats
may seek to out-Coolidge Coolidge in
slashing taxes. Certain business in
terests, more selfish In their demands
than far-seeing for the country. are
intent also upon taking the fullest
advantage of present conditions to re-
duce taxes.
The public debt. still running into
many billions of dollars, is being paid
with astonishing rapidity through the
financial administration OF the Gov
eminent. It is being paid at a time
when the country has been enormously
prosperous. It is being paid by the
wealth Of the country, and properly So
Mr.. Mills disclosed in his Char
lottesville addresses the plans for the
retirement of the second Liberty loan
bonds, amounting to S1,276,000. 600.
These bonds are to be retired by NO
vember IS through funds obtained
from the sale of obligations which
will be made to mature on future
quarterly tax payment dates. The
whole program looks to the actual re-
payment Of the loan and also to the
substitution of obligations bearing a
lower rate Of interest for part Of the
bonds.
President Coolidge has been &C.
cused by the Democrats in the past of
Withholding tax reductions, which
might have been made Immediately,
until. the eve Of an election, SO that
he and his party might benefit at the
polls. This was their plant at the
last session Of Congress, when the ad-
ministration wisely refrained from
lowering tax rates until it should have
fuller information regarding the oper-
alton Of the tax law Of 1925. Now that
Mr.. Coolidge has withdrawn himself
from the presidential race in 1928, this
line of attack upon him falls to the
ground. He cannot be accused OF
playing personal politics in this mat
ter by the widest stretch of the i'm
agination.
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THIS AND THAT


| marked contrast to the attitude of the
party that ran over Jim. Sometimes
1t would seem as if the prevailing
method Of chronicling automobile ac-
cidents were In error.
John Jones was struck by a car
driven by Henry Smith," etc, or
Samuel Green was run over and
killed today by an automobile while
| attempting to cross Pennsylvania
avenue"
Now, the car, while it undoubtedly
does the actual hitting, Is only the
agent of the real hitter-the driver.
Suppose the above were phrased in
| this way:
John Jones was struck by Henry
Smith; Samuel Green was run over
and killed today by Alfred Brown"
| After all, 1t does not make much
difference whether one is killed with
a little instrument called a pistol or a
large one called an automobile. Both
are in the control of the killer, and
neither deserves the distinction Of be-
ing called the actual assailant.
| Such accidents bring home to all
dog lovers the absolute necessity for
making a pet dog mind
| Spare the rod and spoil the child"
|
switch and spoil the dog
There Is no medicine In the world
quite so good for dog as taste Of
| the switch.
| The happy part Of its use is that
the dog loves YOU all the more for
| giving him a few cuts with it now
and then as needed.
| He yields to your master judgment
as to what is good for him. Even
were you cruel to him, he would love
you the more for it.
| There Is no necessity, however, for
even an approach to cruelty. Cruelty
| Is in the mind. not in the switch.
| In house breaking dog and in
breaking him of the habit of chasing
after automobiles there Is nothing in
the world that will take the place of
a small, keen switch, either of the
leather variety or one cut from a
| bush.
| A few well applied cuts on the
posterior of the animal. just above the
| tail. shortly teach him what he may
and what he may not do
If this training is begun early
enough, all bad habits are nipped in
the bud in puppyhood. so that by the
time dog gets grown and inclined
| to be headStrong O mere look toward
|
| A switch of witch hazel or some
other shrub is a thousand times more
efficacious than stick or piece of
board. Through hundreds of years of
| training, dogs have come to realize
that when their master switches them
| he Is doing ii for their own good
| Anything else they fail to understand
A dog. to be a satisfactory pet and
companion, especially in the city, must
mind It's owner The modern dog
daily faces changed living conditions
with which it unaided Is unable to
cope. Many human beings find it
takes constant vigilance to guard
| their own safety.
To make your dog mind, therefore,
is not cruelty to the animal, but the
| best sort of kindness, and one for
| which ne will thank you with many
years OF happy life.
| Spare the switch and lose your
! dog" Is the alternative.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-11

York and New York needs no help
| After hectic afternoon behind the
plate Mr.. Rowland was greeted by a
shower of paper cups, few pop bot
ties. and one outraged fan tried to hit
him with a straw hat. He left the
ball park to the boots Of an angry
mob and accompanied by detail OF
police. lie probably slept fltfully last
night, menaced In his dreams by de.
moniacal boos and groans.
No base ball fan believes Mr.. Row.
land erred deliberately in his deci.
sions. It was zone of those days"
And those of the crowd yesterday who
would gleefully have torn him limb
from limb are sitting at their desks
today covering under the eyes Of the
boss. The belligerent fellow of yes
terday afternoon who screamed
Dirty cur" and threw away his straw
hat i'll his rage, in all probability
sneaked home last night and mum
hled incoherent apologies for having
kept dinner waiting, explaining that
his hat blew off in the street car and
he was delayed in trying to find it.
The mob leader of yesterday will be
found today wrapping up packages of
cheese. lettuce and pickles for the
grocery customers and whiting under
the lashing tongue of the lady who
accuses him of having given her short
measure in potatoes last week.
Base ball elevates the coward and
makes of him bloodthirsty warrior.
Base bail drives away an inferiority
complex and substitutes. for a few
golden hours. a raucous voice and a
bull-toned below. Such is base ball.
The only good thing that can be said
about Yesterdays mob demonstration
is the fact that it will lack the Gus
tomary explanation. Certainly it can
not be blamed by police on the &C
tivities Of Sacco-Vanzetti sympa-
thizers.'
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Zone Of Those Days. :"

Umpire Rowland had lone Of those
days yesterday. Everybody has
them. In the case Of the private in
dividual zone of those days" begins
and progresses with failure Of the
alarm clock to go of. tepid coffee.
burnt toast, crowded street cars. ar
rival at the Office coincident with the
discovery that keys and pocketbook
have been left at home, a runin with
the boss, q set-to with the stenogra-
pher, impotence from the office boy
and return home In the evening to
receive news from headquarters that
the cook has left in a huff and the
children have broken the parlor lamp
Umpire Rowia nd's day yesterday
was even more tragic. If he called a
ball a strike there We're cries for his
blood from the fans and rough, I'M
couth remarks from the ball players.
If he called a strike a ball there
were more insistent demands for his
carcass from the fans and low, pain
full howls of anguish from the play
erE. He banished two Washington
players from the game. He refused
the estimable Mr., Bluege a quiet.
conscientious worker--a free trip to
first base, although Mr.. Bluege pain
fully designated time and again the
exact spot where the pitched ball had
struck him. If his decisions had been
against New York and for Washing.
ton all this would have been over
looked. lie would have been regarded
AS a discerning man, permitting no
hokum. But the sad thing about ii
al was that his decisions helped New
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Press Approves Investigation
of Bic Industrial Alliances

United States heading into an era of
industrial feudaliSm," the most
"menacing" feature of which is the
fact that 1.-The public at large has been
luled into acquiescence by a relative
prosperity" pictures the day when
eventually, the industries of the
United States will center in even
fewer hands than today, control will
be completely interlocking. policies.
methods and the destiny of all in
volved dictated from a central COM
mand and even the Government over
Swallowed"
That "the public is in state of un-
certainty in reference to our anti
trust laws" is the statement of the
Baltimore Sun, which says of the pub.
lie, 1T is not wholly convinced that
the economies brought about by Well
conducted combinations are complete
answer to elimination of competition.
but 1t seems willing to be shown" AS
the Memphis Commercial Appeal sees
the situation, I'VE are in "A day when
mergers are put to the necessity of
showing only that their objects and
methods will be Good for the people
as whole. In other words, it is now
established that there can be good
trusts as Wen as Ddu trusts, Il LI1lHS
that was hardly possible to conceive
20 years ago and less"
LAS the Du Points, manufacturers of
chemicals. the General Motors and
the Steel Corporation are engaged in
oncOmpettive business. the alliance
does not appear to be one of monopo-
ly," according to the Utica Observer
Dispatch, while the Canton Daily
News calls it vertical trust" ex-
planning that such trust isn't NEG
essarily in the monopoly sense Il trust
at all, but is IN organization which
aims, not necessarily at control of
any product, but at the production of
all the main articles entering into it's
final product
Speaking also on this point, the
Miami Daily News remarks: Henry
Ford is all by himself a vertical
trust. He has made himself, In short,
a self-contained economic unit. Such
an arrangement is apparently the aim
of Mr.. Ford's great competitor, the
group of industries clustering about
General Motors and the Du Pont com
pany,' concludes the News.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-11
PHILOSOPHERS
BY
GLENN FRANK

Joseph Conrad. who caught the
music and the madness of the sea In
his imperishable prose, and in whose
tales the sea sings with it's joys and
sobs with it's griefs until 1t ceases to be
body of water and becomes human
thing, has a word-sense that ap.
proaches wiZardry.
1t is not a surprise, therefore, to
find him an apostle of the omnipo-
tence of words.
In the delicate and delightful preface
to a little volume of intimately per-
sonal memories, Conrad tells how he
came to write it.
"As a general rule" he says, 1--WE do
not want much encouragement to talk
about ourselves; yet this little hook Is
the result Of friendly suggestion, and
even of a little friendly pressure. /
defend myself with some split; but,
with characteristic tenacity, the
friendly voice insisted, You know, you
really must
And then Conrad plays with the
effect the tiny word must had upon
him.
"It was not an argument" he says,
| "hlt | submitted at once. If one
must!
He who wants to persuade he
saws. commenting upon the kIngllke
command of this word, should put his
trust not in the right argument, but IN
the right word. The power of sound
has always been greater than the
mower of sense. / don't say this by
wav of disparagement. 1t is better for
mankind to be impressionable than re-
Elective. Nothing humanity great
great. + mean, as affecting a whole
mass of lives-has come from renee
ton. >,
ION the other hand, you cannot fail
to see the power of mere words; sucn
words as glory, for instance, or pity.
shouted with perseverance, with ardor
with conviction, these two by their
sound alone have set whole nations in
motion and upheaved the dry, hard
ground on which rests our whole so
cial fabric"
Don't talk to me Of your Achime-
des' lever" he concludes. Give me
the right word and the right accent
and / will move the world"
There is good counsel here, ii it Is
taken with the right amount of salt.
Words have precipitated revolutions
and phrases have sent nations into
war, and the right selection of the
words, the aptness of phrasing. and
the accent of speaking them have had
much to do with their power to move
men to action; but these magic words
have made history not by their own
power alone, but because the soil had
been prepared for their reception in
the hearts of men either by the drift
of affairs or by the design of leaders.
Words are magic when the stage is
set for them: but they fall powerless
on unprepared hearts.
The phrase about making the world
safe for democracy would fall on deaf
ears in 1927; it famed the spirit OF
mankind into a flame In 1917.
But the phrases that have leader
ship packed into them are not the
product of word-carpentry, but of a
subtle word-sense. And some day we
may so recast our methods of studying
and teaching literature'that something
of the cultivation Of this word-sense
may be achieved.
Copyright. 1927
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Jim the pup had formed the bad
habit of chasing automobiles.
Once dog gets the taste for this
dangerous sport, there can BIZ but one
Tend to it-sooner or later in the morn
ing, afternoon or evening, a car will
get him.
1t is a game no dog should play.
because the cards are stacked against
him from the beginning.
But how was Jim to know that?
He was just little yellow dog,
happy. friendly, frisky, who somehow
got the idea that it was great fun to
chase after the cars that sped along
his block.
He did not know that speed, as gen.
Grated by gasoline engines. mounted
on four rolling wheels. Is utterly out.
side the knowledge Of the canine race.
Dogs grew up side by side with men
when horse. or several horses
hitched to a chariot, wos the fastest
thing known.
\ dog today is still thinking in
speed terms of thousands Of years
ago when he chases after an auto.
mobile, running sideways. curving his
neck and barking at the peak of his
lungs.
He is enjoying himself, but he is
thinks he is chasing a bear or some.
thing which does not dare to turn and
devour him.
This monster, however, has but to
swerve its near wheel ever so slightly
to cut him down forever.
x n u y
It was so with jim.
Late one afternoon he was playing
on the sidewalk, his bright eyes on the
lookout for cars. Every effort had
been made to break him of the habit.
but without avail. Jim insisted on
chasing them.
A car came along at a good speed
making the small dog stretch his legs
to their utmost to keep up with 1t.
Frantically he barked, curving his
head almost beneath the right front
wheel
Then 1t happened. Just how 1t oc-
CURED no one knew, but when the
car had passed there was poor Jim
lying inert in the street.
He had not uttered a sound. either
as the car struck him or as 1t sped
away without It's occupants so much
as looking back
He lay there in the dusty concrete
street, his bark stilled forever, his
der crushed. his head thrown back.
They gathered around him and felt
for his heart, but it was not beating.
Jim. the friendly little fellow, was
gone. All that lay there was some
thing that could be taken up by its
legs, like sack of meal, and carried
off
Jim, the friend, had gone away.
X Il
Only a week or so earlier a lady
had knocked down and killed another
dog in the neighborhood. This dog,
according to reports, had dashed out
between parked cars and had run
squarely into the vehicle
The woman, jumping out Of her car
before it had stopped, left the door
swinging wide and ran over to the
dog. The car ran several feet before
1t stopped moving
The driver was much moved by the
fate of the dog, her sentiment being In