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Evening star., 1927-12-05

Installment buying, for a long. time
watched with suspicion and uneasi-
ness by students of economics who
feared that the tremendous growth
of the practice actually threatened
national disaster, is given clean Dill
Of health almost unanimously Dy the
press in commenting on a recent Ia.
yorable report by Prof. Sellgman oi
Columbia University.
"Those of us who have opposed IN
stallment buying" says the kansas
City Post, may have been ioousn
for doing so, but we are at least
snoart enough to know when we are
routed. We are willing to publicly
admit that the other side has won a
decisive victory. The fact Is. 1t looks
as though there no longer Is any
other plan. 1t seems to be an Install
ment age, and even those VINO nave
money insist upon using this plan.
Then. too, there is something in the
argument wife makes to an old-raSn-
ioned husband. You save your money,
she says to him, and when you put
it in the bank it Is Immediately
loaned to some one else and THIS some
one else buys a car with it. The re-
sult is that YOU are working your life
away and other people are riding on
your money. Many of us still think
people are foolish, but with most
foreign countries adopting the Ameri-
can plan of enjoying 1t while father
pays for 1t, there Is no use fighting
the installment plan. We just simply
are whipped"
"It is not to be supposed" accord
ing to the Syracuse Herald, that
Prof. Seligman's answers will wholly
satisfy the unfavorable critics. They
will claim that he lays too much
stress upon the utilities of the new
system. and too little upon the pos
sible dangers and abuses revealed in
the course Of it's administration. Yet
he can easily show that the ordinary
system Of bank credits has en-
countered similar difficulties in the
past. and has bravely weathered the
storm. In this respect, he need only
point to the severe bank ordeals of
1873, 1884, 1898 and 1907 in confirma.
ton Of his comparison" The Herald,
however. advises that "the admins
traitors of the new system must guard
against the abuses and temptations
in its operation. which the present
period of national prosperity is likely
to engender."
Bankers have expressed the fear"
the Yakima Morning Herald remarks,
that the installment system would
lead to extravaganza and a back
breaking load of debt to be carried
by the American family. Prof. Selig-
mans study, the result Of Is months Of
with a staff Of research
assistants, offers evidence to the con-
trary." The Columbia Record finds
that these conclusions are in agree
ment with experiences in the buying
of motor cars. "a few years ago."
the Record adds, $50 many drivers
were paying for cars that some of the
people said there would ultimately be
a tremendous crash and racing to the
poorhouse in a year or two-or when
the payments on the cars were auto |
demanAd. Those car buy
ers Of that day lie still smiling and
Evening star., 1927-12-05
Seek the Restoration
Of Ancient Cathedral
To the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor OF The Star:
May we crave the courtesy Of your
columns to explain to American people
the object of our mission to this coun-
try? Scottish people have ever remem-
bered with a peculiar pride that in the
days when our Episcopal religion was
prosecuted and prescribed the first
American bishop was consecrated by
our Scottish bishops in an upper room
in Aberdeen in the year 1884, and the
concordat was signed which left it's
abiding mark on the liturgy Of the
American Episcopal Church. That
event created a unique and imperish-
able tie between Scotland and Amer
lea and further it led to issues greater
than seen at the time, for when Bishop
Seabury returned to America he was
the first bishop Of the Anglican COM
munion to found a diocese beyond the
shores of Great Britain, and the first
stone of the vast structure of the An
glican communion throughout the
world was laid in that upper room in
Aberdeen.
That room has long since gone and
the congregation which worshiped
there now worships in a building
which has the reputation of being the
poorest and plainest cathedral in the
British Isles. It's architecture is en-
tirely unworthy, alike of its history.
and its rank. No better memorial of
the conservation of Americas first
bishop could be devised than a recon-
structed cathedral which would always
be connected with his name and bear
upon its front, carved in stone, the
historic scene of his conservation. In
seeking to interest the American pub
lie in this memorial we have the pow
erful support Of the American Episco-
pal Church whose cordial welcome to
us was expressed in the following
words:
''The Episcopal Church in the
United States gratefully recognizes its
unreasonable debt to the Episcopal
Church Of Scotland not only for the
conservation of DR.. Samuel Seabury
as the first American bishop, but also
for the Scottish liturgy, which has so
profoundly affected our American use,
and commends to the favorable con-
sideration of all American churchmen
the proposed Seabury Memorial"
FREDERIC L. DEANE, D. D.,
Bishop Of Aberdeen.
Fl. ERSKINE HILL,
Provost of st. Andrews Cathedral,
Aberdeen.
Evening star., 1927-12-05
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

from this observers list Of House
graduates translated into the upper
chamber of the new Congress. Though
still a political youngster, Senator
Hayden's been in Congress ever since
Arizona became State, having been
sent to the Sixty-second Congress and
to all succeeding Houses of Repre-
sentatives. Arizona, which has only
one member of the House, has Just
kept on voting for Hayden out of
habit. The new solon is a native of
his State. Before he was 80 Hayden
was sheriff Of his home county and
lived the picturesque life that Bill
Hart's pictures have immortalized
Senator Hayden is Stanford Univer-
sity fellow alumnus of Herbert Hoover.
X X X
It's been mooted around Washington
that scheme is afoot to wind up
the Anti-Saloon League and merge
it with a certain national religious or
ganiZation. Resolutions to that ef-
feet, twas said, would be submitted
at this weeks biennial of the league
in the Capital. The underlying theory
is that the leagues work is done,
with prohibition the law of the land
and National and State Governments
pledged to it's enforcement. Dry lead
ers not only deny the story, but dis
pute the premise on which it rests
They contend that the leagues work
Is far from completed-that, on the
contrary, like John Paul Jones, it's
"only begun to fight" From the drys'
standpoint, the need for militant, or
ganized vigilance was never so urgent
as now.
X X X X
1t won't long now! A Republican
in Grafton, w. Va, has it all worked
out. "Renominate Coolidge and
Dawes" he writes to a New York pa
per. THE President to accept, but
with the definite understanding that,
If elected and he lives, he will resign
after serving no longer than eight
years in all. Thus two things would
be settled--(O spiking the third-term
issue; (b) in place Of one, two candi-
dates for the presidency on the same
ticket, one East, one West, both ac-
ceptable."
(Copyright. 1927
Evening star., 1927-12-05

he holds down a big position with
his firm, and directs the activities OF
several who were big men" when he
was scarcely regarded.
The "bigness" of the former big
men" melts away. There are thou
sands Of successful men who never
played foot ball. but who kept them
selves in condition, and today find no
handicap whatever from the former
gridiron activities of the old stars. "
So it goes in every sphere. The
Greek letter fraternity pin loses
that magic which it had on the
campus and in the small college town.
and turns into a neat jewel to be
worn upon occasion.
These artificial badges take their
proper places. All that man is and
has comes to show in his face, as he
has stamped It there, unknowing, by
his thoughts and actions, by his very
life as he has lived it.
Even granting so much, the lover of
his species must bewail, now and
then, the paucity of unusual persons.
Men are so much alike. Women
handle this better than men. There
are five times as many distinguished
looking women on the streets as men.
Their faces have more verve, or
whatever one chooses to call it.
Take a walk down F street, some
day between noon and 1 o'clock, and
note the number of men who really
stand out from the crowd.
Your hand will not be made tired
by handling pencil and notebook
Your scrutiny, no matter how many
minutes it is carried over, will force
you to say, at last:
'"The world Of men is drab. uninter.
esting.
'"They all look alike!
ITO save my life, 1 couldn't pick
the unsuccessful man from the sue
cessful one just by looking at them. ,
There are no more heroes left
or, at least, even the heroes look like
the rest of u.s."
X n X X
This Is the happy part Of 1t all.
Suppose modern life resembled that
in the old Morse sagas, wherein lead
ers were chosen because they were
the largest and best appearing men in
the tribe.
The ruck of humanity would be
distinctly "out of luck" AS 1t Is,
modern civilization actually comes
words:
Kind hearts are more than coronets,
And simple faith than Norman blood. u
This verse has had so much fun
poked at it that it Is hard to realize
that it is more or less true.
Nowadays civilization in such
countries as our own has reached a
plane wherein results count. The man
who can produce, the fellow who can
come across, is the man of the hour
and the minute.
He may be no more distinguished
looking than an old board fence, but
like the fence. he can be depended
upon. His batting average at the
office Is high.
We shall never forget first meeting
the late DR.. Charles Proteus Stein
metz in a hotel lobby. A little man.
not much over feet high. utterly
undistinguished in appearance-but
when he began to explain his arc
light, we realized that we had met a
superior person.
Evening star., 1927-12-05
Cruelty to Animals.

Mrs. Irene Castle Mclaughlin,
widely known for her introduction to
the women Of the United States Of
the bobbed hair style of coiffure, is
known to lesser number as an in
variable humanitarian and true friend
Of animals. Her latest crusade has
been against the use of iron tail
sets" in producing a high arch in
horses tails.
Selling the opportune moment Of
the Chicago horse show, Mrs. Nc.
Laughlin, well known to friends Of
animals in the District Of Columbia
for her humane efforts, attacked the
practice as cruel and unnatural.
Whether or not her structures sue.
ceed in abolishing the tail set" and
its use, her efforts will not be wasted.
It is one of the highest tributes to
the civilization Of any nation that
there exist in 1t those who feel indig.
nant at the sight Of cruelty practiced
toward the so-called dumb creatures.
The history Of civilization might well
be measured by the successive aboli.
tion Of such cruel practices, which
also might include slavery, mans in.
humanity to man. In England the
crude sport Of bull batting by dogs
had its day and went out of existence
through the building up Of humane
public opinion.
In the United States, dog fighting,
as sport, has gone through a some
what similar course, with the prac-
tice decidedly on the wane. The Gus
tom Of cropping the ears and tails of
bulldogs is in the limelight just now,
with every evidence that the practice
will be abolished among pedigreed
animals.
These evidences of better taste and
more humanity, in the large. are
happy forerunners, perhaps, of a day
when cruelty to animals will be re.
duced to q minimum. The appeal OF
helpless things, whether they be chill
dren or dogs, cats or horses, Is a pc
culiar one. finding its largest scope ir
| the huma nitarian care of children
:. who. by nature and parentage. fai
to receive the sturdiness which ever,
Evening star., 1927-12-05

child needs in the struggle for success.
In a peculiar sense. all four-footed
creatures are helpless, under the con-
ditions of modern civilization. They
are, indeed, relics Of other ages, when
they were the acme of speed in mo-
ton. Their condition iE modern CIV
ilized cities. in particules is lament
able, unless those who appreciate
their honesty and simplicity are will
ing to stand up for them and to do
battle, IL need be, in their defense,
Such good humanitarians as Mrs. Nc
Laughlin point the way to a better
world, not only for the furry friends
of forest and field, but also for hui
manity, which will never prove it's
right to it's own name until it becomes
entirely humane.
Evening star., 1927-12-05
PHILOSOPHERS
BY
GLENN FRANK

Truth is a flower that does not
grow on battlefields.
Physical welfare kills mems bodies.
Intellectual welfare kills mems
minds.
Spiritual welfare kills mems souls.
/ mean by this that the spirit of
truth fees from propaganda arenas
where men are fighting to maintain
their respective positions.
The laboratory Is the womb OF
truth, for there men investigate with
calm impartiality.
The battlefield Is the tomb of truth.
for there men fight with bitter IA
naticism.
I have lately been reading in fas-
cinating history of the Renaissance
and the Reformation. / saw again
the way in which the Reformation,
for all it's high intent. withered the
finer coverings of the Renaissance,
that glowing movement in which a
fresh advance of the human spirit
seemed certain to endow the world
with a whole set Of new values.
There have been many explana-
tions of this, each eXplainer revealing
his own prejudice in his explana-
ton.
Religion. says one man, Is always
the enemy of culture and science.
Professionalism was wrong, cries a
Romanist.
Romanism was at fault. cries a
Protestant.
Most of the explanations given
seem to me beside the point. Dean
Inge has. 1 think, given the real ex-
planation:
"The truth is," he says, "that the
e., r0% HhpGKe0
obscured the scientific progress
which had begun in the century
which preceded it. The out
break of fierce religious wars in the
sixteenth century destroyed the hopes
of the humanists.
at Is useless to ask whether the
Catholics or the Protestants were most
guilty Of this setback to civilization.
It was not Catholicism or Protestant
ism, but the state Of war between
them, which had this evil consequence.
"Christianity,' when unmenaced, Is
no enemy of culture; but as soon as
war is declared, every nation or 1nstl-
tuition must subordinate all other con-
siderations to the necessity Of victory.
"It must curtail liberty Of action,
speech and thought.
"It must devise and publish fight
ing propaganda, in which the claims
of truth and fairness are cynically dis
regarded.
ut must rest its claims on very
clear and simple issues, which all can
understand.
when two religions are at war,
there is no call for deep philosophers
or subtle theologians. Both sides will
rest their case on some external au-
thority; their dogmas will be coars-
ened and materialized; they will both.
while the struggle lasts, become reli-
gions of a narrow and brutal type"
In our struggles for truth in reli-
gion and politics, it is well that we
remember this.
Copyright. Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.)
Evening star., 1927-12-05
Installment Buying Given
Vote of Approval by Press

most Of them are now driving more
costly cars on the same plan. More
over, Prof. Seligman finds that install.
ment buying has added millions Of
dollars to trade, INCREASED employ
ment, added to thrift and benefited
hundreds, where one may have been
harmed, by losing chance To- keep
in the road. For this reason 1t '4s
predicted that the installment plan is
here to stay, and we think the con-
clusion is sound"
The strongest point in favor of the
economists decision, in the opinion
of the Topeka Daily Capital, is that re-
lating to stabilization of business.
while the steel and automobile and
some other industries have slowed
down to some extent" says that
paper, "yet business forecasts univer-
sally point to the fact, as a reasSur-
ing condition Of business, that neither
merchants nor factories have large
supplies on their shelves. This is due
to hand-to-mouth buying and that is
due to installment buying by con-
sumers. If business should decline, 1t
would have no such disastrous conse-
quences as in 1921, when shelves were
stocked high with goods, inventories
of factories were high and goods had
to be sacrificed for what they would
bring. Prof. Seligman's elaborate re-
port has strengthened confidence
in installment buying among the
doubters.'
It is pointed out by the Minneapolis
Tribune that "the laws governing
bankers and producers credit have
been codified, one might say, in the
course of many years experimental
ton. There has been." continues the
Tribune, mo analogous codif1cation Of
the laws governing consumers credit
because of the lateness of its appear
ance on the scene. One would judge
that consumers credit. intelligently
directed and not abused, aids greatly
in the stimulation of general prosper
ity and diminishes the likelihood of
sharp fluctuations from good times to
bad times. We may, at some future
period, overdo consumers credit, and
find it necessary to pay the penalty as
a result. But the principle itself Is
sound. With proper care as to the
method. we need not worry about the
coming developments"
Proposed credit under the newly ap-
proved system. as applied to honey
moon trips interests the Buffalo Eve
ming News, which observes: 1.-THE way
to matrimony is thus made more than
ever easy. Once the boy gets the girl
to agree to his proposal he has little to
worry about. The fact that he is out
of pocket does not deter him from pop
ping the question; he knows that on
the deferred payment plan he can get
the ring which every girl has a right
to expect as sign and symbol. He
has long known that the plan would
provide him with the things necessary
10 t,a~ III
been the thought Of honeymoon ex-
penses. Now that question is settled.
He simply walks over to the office of
the tourist agency and on the pledge
Of his good name-with perhaps some
other formalities-he gets tickets for
two for Q cruise,
Evening star., 1927-12-05
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.
How few really distinguished-look

How few really distinguished-look
ing persons one meets!
The connoisseur of humanity has to
wade through a thousand men to find
one who really stands out from the
crowd.
The exceptional -person-he is as
hard to find as the proverbial needle
in the haystack, and the sad part of
it is that even when you find him the
chances are you won't recognize him.!
The trouble Is, probably, that we
expect too much. Our ideals Of what
a man or woman might be are too
high.
We look for angels. and flnd-men
and women. Our idea of distinction
is one thing and the reality another.
We find it difficult to work the matter
out in life.
There is no question here of
eminence, such as that of some great
artist, whose work is recognized
around the world. Nor do we expect
that greatness must be heralded in
variably by a distinguished appear
ance.
We speak only Of the everyday
walks Of life, in which one meets the
men and women who do the worlds
work in high places and in low.
In such paths, we claim, there Is
sad lack of the conspicuous man, the
fellow who figuratively and actually
stands "head and shoulders" above his
companions.
Take the college foot ball player,
for instance.
During undergraduate days he is a
marked man.
His picture, in various absurd poses,
is played up in the sporting pages of
all the newspapers. If he happens to
be able to kick ball farther than
most similarly brawny young men, he
is called a star"
His name CLEANS back at him in
the largest and blackest type. He is
one of the big men" Of his institution.
He wears a vivid sweater with a huge
letter" emblazoned on his mighty
chest.
He excels in a truly wonderful
sport. A man has to be a man to
play foot ball, there is no question
about it. Here Is no game of chance,
but one in which the best player
proves to be the best player.
The older person, whether he be
graduate or not, looks at the conspicu-
Gus young fellow with awe and amaze
ment mingled.
With this flying start in life. how
can he fail to stand out later in busi-
ness or professional life?
1t would seem impossible but that
he must go crashing down the fields
of life, scoring goals easily from all
angles, while the rest of us poor NOR
tails hang on the sidelines, grateful for
a few crumbs left by him in his swift
progress.
X X X
The truth of the matter, Is that the
eminent foot ball player, once he takes
his place in the workaday world, neat
ly merges into the rank and file.
One would not say that many fine
foot ball stars" have not made con-
spicuous successes. They have. But
so have thousands Of men who never
played foot ball.
Take yonder little runt. who was the
worst sort of grind" during his un-
dergraduate days.
Today he is as runty as ever, but
Evening star., 1927-12-05
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.

SuperciliOus Human.
The rain dropping lightly,
The sun shining brightly,
Arrive in the years mighty plan.
We blame or extol them.
But cannot control them.
We just do the best that we can.
Man thinks he's a wonder,
With lightning and thunder
Brought under restraint by his plan
OF the world and its glory
He tells the old story
"It's doing the best that 1t can"
OF conquest we chatter
Such has been the matter
For discourse since life first began.
The world rolls securely.
A man says, demurely,
tits doing the best that it CAM
And still we are hearing
The strange voices nearing
That tell Of the manners of man.
Mysterious forces,
In infinite courses,
Say. Hes doing the best that he can
Evening star., 1927-12-05

December is the month when the
world forsakes responsibility. The
holiday dates are not identically re-
lated, but the classic spirit of Winter
cheer still survives, and, in accord
ance with custom, centuries old, the
tired business man decides to take a
real holiday.
Evening star., 1927-12-05

Anybody who doubts the existence
Of Santa Claus can calm his fears by
backing up to a corner in a depart.
ment store where he can listen to the
cash register.
Evening star., 1927-12-05
Borah's Position.
rom the Boston Transcript.

From the Boston Transcript
AS we understand him, Senator
Borah takes the position that raising
the limit from one-half of / per cent
to three-quarters of / per cent would
not change the Volstead act in man.
ner to make it popular to a man with
a pronounced thirst.
Evening star., 1927-12-05
Coolidge Way Not Simple Way

From the Topeka Capital.
However, simple way for President
Coolidge to stop movements for his
denomination would be to state that
he will not be candidate or accept a
nomination. Until he does. such move.
ments will go ahead. And If he never
does maybe he will be a candidate
after all.
Evening star., 1927-12-05
Openest Mind, Closest Mouth.

From the Topeka Capital.
President Coolidge in White
House statement declares that he has
IAN open mind" on the subject of
farm relief. The present Chief Magis-
trate has the openest mind and closest
mouth Of all the Presidents,
Evening star., 1927-12-05

Threats Of railway rate war used
to worry the financial world. Interest
in the old iron horse becomes pic
turesque and sentimental as the pos
sibility looms of competition in the
price Of fivvers.
Evening star., 1927-12-05

The art impulse is sadly hindered
by automobile restrictions. There is
not license plate in the country that
can be seriously commended for COM
position or color scheme.
Evening star., 1927-12-05

The Associated Press is exclusively entitled
TO the use for republication Of all news dis
patches credited to il or not otherwise cred
tied in this paper and also the local news
of special dispatches herein are also reserved
Evening star., 1927-12-05

Mussolini may have to suspend
operations to restore the glories Of
ancient Rome, in order to settle a
neighborhood row.
Evening star., 1927-12-05

When the box office revises the sit
uation 1t is usually found that great
opera singer is also something of a
financier.
Evening star., 1927-12-05
Vice Presidency and the Man

From the Baltimore Sun.
The Vice Presidency is not, in
theory at least, very gay job. 1t is
an office and it has it's dignities, it's
silences and its precedents. But no
lights are trained upon it, and it
doesn't often line out decisions that
will startle millions or please them or
frighten them. No, it is not very CAV.
But Vice President is another thing
from his Office. There is Mr.. Dawes.
He, too, has his dignities and his
honors, but he doesn't enjoy silence
and he doesn't care for precedents.