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Evening star., 1927-04-18
New York to Paris by Air.

Although Condr. Richard E. Byrd
and his pilot, Floyd Bennett, con-
querors of the North Pole by air
plane, have been compelled to post
pOne indefinitely their transoceanic
trip because of injuries received
when their plane turned over, the
gallant naval officer has shown his
craftsmanship by offering to aid one
Of his rivals in preparations for the
New York-Paris hop. Clarence d.
recently established fifty-one-hour
world duration record, visited Comdr
Byrd at the hospital and discussed
the proposed Bellanca monoplane
fight. which he and his flying
partner will attempt soon. Comdr.
Byrd offered to give the civilian fly
ers the benefit of his experience in
long distance flying and to train
them in the use of navigation instru-
ments. His proffer was accepted i'm
mediately by Chamberlin.
With Byrd removed from. competi-
ton for an indefinite period the thrill
ing overseas race to Paris will lie
between Fonck and his Sikorsky
ship, Lieut.. Comdr. Davis and his
American Legion. and the Wright
Bellanca plane piloted by Chamberlin
and Acosta, or one of the two, with
a navigator. There are also some
Western flights planned to New York
from Paris by several French teams,
but due to lack of publicity as to the
extent to which their preparations
have been made, it is considered
probable that one of the teams start
| ing from this side will be the first to
make the nonstop flight.
Second in peril only to the North
| Pole fight Of Byrd and Bennett is
the transoceanic hop. Skillful navi.
cation and plotting along with a large
slice of that element known as Lady
Luck" is needed for success. In the
Acosta- -Chamberlin attempt it is
planned TO drop the undercarriage
from the machine as soon as it gets
into the air. This maneuver will
tighten the plane. but will add to the
dangers because it the ayiators sue,
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Evening star., 1927-04-18

more recent political history of the
United States doubt that Theodore
Roosevelt, had he lived, would have
been the nominee of the Republican
party in 1920, and that he would have
been elected President, smashing the
precedent that no man has served
longer than eight years in the White
House.
Re-eIigibility of the President was
discussed thoroughly in the constitu-
tional convention in 1887. The trainers
of the Constitution placed no ban on
reelection of President, once, twice
or three times. 1t is true that Thomas
Jefferson was strongly in favor of linn
iting a President to one term. He was
at the time of the convention Amer
ican Minister to France. But George
Washington, who presided over the
constitutional convention, took seri-
Gus issue with Jefferson on this point.
In letter written to Lafayette, Wash
ington said:
/ confess L ulilef "luelS my SCH
from Mr.. jefferson and as to the
necessity or expediency of rotation in
that department. There cannot, in
my judgement, be the least danger
that the President will by any prac-
ticable intrigue be able to continue
himself one moment in office, much
less perpetuate himself in it.
can see no propriety in precluding
ourselves from the services of any
man who in some great emergency
shall be deemed universally most
capable of serving the public.
Republican leaders now discount
the strength of the ''third-terin" issue,
even while maintaining that it cannot
apply properly in the case Of Mr.. Cool
idge. They contend that the Amer
ican people, accustomed to use the
ballot as their weapon in political and
governmental emergencies during the
last $50 years, are capable at all times
of preventing the self-perpetuation of
any President in office. In this, ap-
parently, they agree with George
Washington.
Evening star., 1927-04-18
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS

spend for a Washington legation, is
canvassing suitable properties with a
view to early decision and purchase.
The temporary White House at Is
Dupont circle-the Patterson mansion
of white marbles receiving serious
consideration in this connection. Con-
struction work on the new British
embassy, which has been in the plan
ming stage for several years, win start
this Summer Sir Edwin Lutyens,
the architect, has just arrived in
Washington to oversee the prelimi-
naries. Spain has acquired a new
Washington embassy. With a few
days has come the announcement of
Spain's purchase of the palatial house
on Embassy row. which has been
lying idle ever since Mrs. John b.
Henderson erected it with the expec-
tation that it would become the official
residence of Vice Presidents, but
which Congress declined to accept.
AT the present rate we may soon hear
of proposal for a conference for the
limitation of embassies as a means of
calling a halt to competitive building
programs.
A recipe for white House Coffee
SOuIlles ny MFS. COOllQBe, ana Tor
Federation String Beans" by Mrs.
John d. Sherman, president of the
General Federation of Women's Clubs,
and for Brownies" by Gov. Nellie
Ross of Wyoming, are some of the
more notable contributions to a new
cookbook-'F'amous Food by Famous
Folk k"--collected and published by the
Women's Club of Hagerman, n. Mex,
as means of raising funds for a
community clubhouse there. The club,
which numbers only 20 members, has
hit upon a scheme which is bringing
dollars from all over the country, for
the book is selling like the proverbial
hot cakes" This is the second cook
book to which Mrs. Coolidge has con.
tributed. The other, announced last
year, is not yet issued, but will be
"out' shortly under the auspices of an
organization OF Washington women.
The White House is now likely to be
deluged with requests for Coolidge
recipes. Mrs. Coolidge has the reputa-
tion of being an excellent cook in her
own right. and her husband was al.
ways blessed with good appetite and
kind Of particular" about his food.
Copyright. 1927
Evening star., 1927-04-18
Says Charities Group
Critics Misinformed
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor of The Star:
The Associated Charities is in the
limelight just now. And because this
most practical and effective organiza-
ton is SO often misjudged, even by
those most charitably inclined, I am
asking The Star to explain it's meth.
DDS. / know the timeliness and neces-
sity of this because talk" is rampant
just now. The writer has been ap-
preached, again and again, not by
carping critics but by the most lovable
and sweetest, generally women. First,
the extravaganza of the Associated
Charities. One dear woman (she is the
prototype of hundreds of both men
and women) said:
Think of the enormous salaries
paid the clerical and executive force,
astically by willing volunteers, with.
out any cost" And many complain of
their personal experience-of worthy
poor ignored.
One sanity character informed me
she and her friends had personally
contributed to relieve such a case.
How could inform such people that
they were mistaken-how explain the
real economy of paid experts and Of
the extravaganza of the blind giving
of doles? How show that the one lifts
up and sustains while the other per-
petuates pauperism? Let the light so
shine that the full worth of the Asso-
ciated Charities shall no longer be
questioned. w. 6. KENT.
Evening star., 1927-04-18
The Third Term" Issue

The so-called "third.term" issue is
not material and, indeed, does not
exist in connection with the possible
nomination and reelection Of Presi.
dent Coolidge in the opinion of i'm.
portant leaders in the Republican
party.
A poll of the Republican national
committee undertaken by The Star
gives clear indication of the feeling
among party leaders. Replies already
received are practically unanimous in
declaring that the issue will not pre-.
vent the nomination and reelection
Of the President in 1928, provided, of
course, he does not decline to be a
candidate. With great propriety Mr..
Coolidge has said nothing about his
possible candidacy for reelection. His
silence, however, is taken in many
quarters to mean consent.
The demand for the reelection of
the President comes from many other
Republicans outside of the national
committee membership. Senator Fess
OF Ohio is emphatic both in his pre-,
diction of the reelection of Mr.. Cool.
idge and also in his declaration that
another term for the President would
not constitute third term" in the
generally accepted sense of that
phrase.
There is no use or wisdom, how.
ever, in attempting to disguise the
fact that opponents of Mr.. Coolidge
both for denomination and for re-elec
tion, will make what use they can OF
the precedent which has hitherto linn
tied a President of the United States
TO eight years in the White House
President Coolidge served as Chief
Executive during nineteen months ot
the unexpired term of the late Presi
dent Harding.
Senator Fess and other Republican
leaders point out that another tern
for Mr.. Coolidge win be a "secont
elective term and is not to he con
fused with a third elective term
which George Washington, the frs
President, declined, thereby settinl
an anti-third term precedent. No ont
today doubts that Washington coulc
have had a third elective term haG
he been willing to stand for re-eAc
aOA Few who are familiar With jN
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Evening star., 1927-04-18
Jewel Thefts.

Jewel thefts and pay roll hold-ups
engage the lowest cunning and high
est daring of criminals. Taste or
vanity in the matter of jewelry puts
a serious liability on many women.
In the news are reports that woman
left jewels worth 100000 in her New
York hotel ROOM She told the police
she had been robbed. Another
woman, shopping in New York, left
jewels valued at $685. in her auto
mobile. They were stolen. There are
big jewel thefts every day, and they
have been common enough in Wash
ington. TT is a hard question. Women
buy diamonds and pearls to wear them
and show them and not to keep them
in a safe-deposit box at the bank. A
woman cannot outshine other women
with her jewels in a vault. It is said
that some women keep their jewels
in safes and wear limitations of them,
but such women may be charged by
other women with not having dia-
monds and pearls and with making
vain show with counterfeit gems.
A woman with jewels seems marked
by thieves. If there is promise of
rich booty thieves bide their time. 1t
is perilous to wear a wealth of jewels,
to keep them at home and to carry
them in handbag. Women, despite
the activity and shrewdness of thieves,
go their way with jewels, thinking
perhaps that while other women are
robbed they will not be. Women and
jewels have been associated for ten
thousand years, and wearing jewels
is fashion that does not change.
The only safe course is not to own
valuable jewelry or else to keep it
in a safe-deposit vault. 1t is not like
ly that women who can afford rare
Jewels will Withstand their fascination,
and it is not likely that women having
such jewels will be content to store
them in bank vaults.
Evening star., 1927-04-18

dred gladiolus bulbs, for instance.
there probably will be at least to 3
per cent which will be failures.
Sometimes a bud spike will grow
down instead of up. Just why this
happens we have never heard any one
explain but it does happen.
In Midsummer apparently healthy
flower spikes, just about to unfold
their glorious blossoms, will wither
away. Lack of water may be the
cause; then again it may not. There
is q growing belief that a disease is at
the bottom of such blasted spikes, in
some cases, at least.
The gardener who is willing to be.
lieve, when he puts his bulbs in the
ground, that a certain number of them
will be failures will not be disappoint-
ed when he does not get 100 per cent
results.
The first year the present writer
grew these king Of Summer bulbs fully
SO per cent of them failed to bloom,
and this though he had paid top-notch
prices for them.
His dissatisfaction with the grower,
therefore, was legitimate, even If the
beauty of the other half did make up
for the SO per cent that either never
came up at all or did not flower.
The next year. he bought from a
grower who charged much higher
prices. That year he got 96 per cent
bloom of splendid quality, and he was
satisfied. This is where luck" enters
the garden. Perhaps there are some
so fortunate as to buy 100 perfect
bulbs, but that has not been our luck
to date We are satisfied if we can get
80 out of 100 to bloom in first-class
style.
xk Ii ~
Until one gets perfect soil and per-
feet weather. and perfect understand
ing, and perfect "elbow grease" he
can hardly expect to get perfect re-
suits with flowers or vegetables. rs
pecially can he expect this all the
time
Take sweet peas. In hundreds of
gardens they are grown with the
greatest of ease and minimum of
trouble. This is true all through the
Middle West.
Yet here in Washington the outdoor
growing of these beauties is notorious
ly difficult, particularly among anna
teur gardeners. Often the vines will
grow we'll enough for a time, only to
turn brown after the flowers have
been out about two weeks.
Lack of water, too much sun-these
are some of the causes, according to
popular prescriptions. Red spider,
says some one else. Plant your seed
and take your choice! Many of us,
therefore, have given up sweet peas.
They shall disappoint us no more!
Perhaps the greatest disappointment
the home gardener may be called upon
to face is theft. To wake up some
morning and find ones iris cleaned
out" is disturbing, to put it mildly.
Usually such thievery is not per.
petrated by a neighbor, but by those
who come in from the outside, often
from far sections of town. Boys at
the dangerous age" often are the
malefactors. \ The flowers are stolen
in one block, after dark, then sold to
innocent neighbors down the street.
Persons besought by boys after dark
to buy flowers ought to try to dis
cover where the flowers came from,
and if answers are too glib, or evasive,
might profitably call the police. His
thieving tendencies nipped in the bud,
many a boy has been saved from a
life of crime, and has f1owered into a
good and honest citizen as the result
of a good talking to--in time.
Evening star., 1927-04-18

ceed in their crossing attempt a very
delicate pancaked landing will be
necessary if they are to escape with
out injury or death.
In the first successful transatlantic
nonstop flight of Alcock and Brown
this method of eliminating weight
was used and the two flyers were
successful in f1attening out on soft
ground when they reached England,
but at best it is a hazardous method.
The entire Nation is watching with
interest the preparations for these
death -defying and science-advancing
flights. The most appropriate weather
for the attempt will soon be here and
there is no one in this country who
will not thrill with pride If America
can claim the honor of the first New
York Paris conquest.
Evening star., 1927-04-18
Driving Out the Crooks.

Mayor Thompson of Chicago, newly
elected and installed in that office, has
in keeping with his post-election
pledge, given notice to the gangsters
and gunner of that city that they
must leave Chicago within a specified
time. The alternative is that they
will be relentlessly pursued and pros
ecuted when caught.
This is the move along" policy
which has spasmodically prevailed in
some of the larger cities of this coun-
try, with the evil result of merely
shifting the crime centers without
curing them. From time to time
there have been "clean-ups" in the
crime-infested cities. Reform move
ments have usually had that aspect.
Exceptional police endeavors have
been directed in the main to driving
the crooks and criminals out of town
rather than putting them behind bars.
In the days Of Inspector Byrnes of
New York it was customary for him
tell them to 'beat it, Indeed, it was
said that the origin of the slang
phrase, now out of currency "twen-
ty-three for you." meaning immediate
exit, arose from Byrnes' habit of pre-
scribing a speedy trip out of town
by the Twenty-third Street Ferry,
which would land the crook in New
Jersey.
Passing the. criminal class along,
pushing it out of range, is not q Cure
or even palliative. For If the law
less class obeys the official injunction
and gets out of town it merely moves
to other scenes and continues it's dep
relations upon society.
What Chicago needs, as all other
cities that are afflicted by bold Grim
inal tendency, is a. cleanup that will
sweep the lawless ones not out of town
but into Jail 1t is well understood
that these people are known to the po-
lice-so well KNOWN, indeed, that their
criminal methods are definitely under
stood. Crimes can be attributed to
the right people with but little chance
of mistake. And yet they are toler-
ated. Perhaps the difficulty Of getting
convictions has something to do with
this tolerance. Possibly the COM
plexities of the law that work for the
benefit of the criminal rather than
society are responsible, but a vigorous
prosecution on a wholesale basis Of
those who are known to be living
through lawlessness will be much
more to the public interest than any
sidestepping through mandates of
exile.
Evening star., 1927-04-18
Offers New Scheme
For Picking Teachers

To the Editor of The Star:
I am interested in the schools of
Washington, D. c., in every way.
have been reading different opinions
sent to the Board of Education about
various things, including how teachers
should be appointed, how long a pupil
should go to the Normal School and
also, if married, teachers should teach,
etc.
l think that teacher to teach in
the primary schools of Washington,
d. c., should be a citizen of the Dis
trict of Columbia, having eight years
training in the primary schools, a
complete high school training, and
also a complete training in the Normal
School, whatever time is required to
complete the Normal School. Why
say said teacher should be a citi-
zen of the District of Columbia is
because this not as large a territory
as the States, which makes it very
narrow field, and if teachers from
other places or from the States are
permitted to teach here the taxpayers
here in many cases would again be
burdened with taxation without repre-
Sentation.
/ think the Normal School, so long
as the system is as it is, should have
course of three years instead of two.
Let the regular course be as it is
two years-and the other year be a
year of practice as substitutes with
pay, that each pupil or scholar would
be in a position to get back some of
the money spent for school, and If not
appointed the Normal School training
in reference to time would not be q
total loss. BY this system the schools
would not need regular or temporary
subs for primary schools. During
this extra year when a pupil would
not be teaching, or some time during
that year, by all means, this pupil
would for three months be given a
special course in something that
would cause her to be employed,
should said pupil not get a school
after graduation. This would be an
encouragement to others as well as
the children.
I think also that a good way to
stop having so many disappointed
graduates of the Normal School who
fail in appointment to school
would be to curb the privileges of
the married female teachers who
never stop teaching. BY this I mean
instead of permitting them to continue
teaching, let them teach a cerain
length of time.
For instance, if a female teacher
has been teaching for a certain num-
ber of years and desires to marry,
after she marries let her length of
limited teaching begin Immediately.
My opinion is that 10 years should be
her limit and should her husband die
within said time she would be auto
matieally carried on the single female
teachers roll. Should her husband
die after she was dropped for being
married she would be placed on the
eligible roll and given the next va.
cancy. and, when appointed, be kept
regular untn second marriage or
retirement. In retiring she should be
given credit for all past services rem
dered, provided she did not draw
money paidsf for retirement before and
Evening star., 1927-04-18

pounds of butter fat. while 100 pounds
of milk from Holstein cows would con-
tain about 3.3 pounds of butter fat.
From this it can be seen that the
Jersey milk is the richer.
Q. How long has THE Birth of a
Nation" been running?-F. E. X.
A. IT has had the longest run of any
movie. It was first shown at the Lib
erty Theater, New York City, March 3,
1915, and is still being shown in vari.
Gus places.
@. Is "cony," as applied to rabbit
skins. of recent origin?-C. B.
A. This Is an old English name for
the rabbit, which has led to the appli-
cation of this term in English versions
of the Bible and in common speech
elsewhere to quite different animals OF
small size and burrowing habits.
Q. For what are parabolic mirrors
used?--G. II.
A. The United States Army uses
these mirrors for searchlights. The
size required is 60-inch solid glass
parabolic searchlight mirrors.
@. Who invented dice?-E. NJ
A The inventor of dice Is not known.
but it was a boast of the ancient
Lydians that they invented dice and
coin also.
@. How do guinea eggs compare
with hen eggs?-G. l..
A. Guinea eggs are smaller, averag-
ing IA ounces each, while hen eggs
are about ounces each. The guinea
egg has a harder shell and the yoik
makes up a slightly greater proper
tion of its contents. Many people re-
gard guinea eggs as superior in flavor.
@. Is the toy 'teetotum" new
NJ a. A.
\. This toy is very old. Originally
it was used for games of chance. was
four sided. and on one side bore the
/ letter T, standing for the Latin 'to-
tum' (alD, meaning take all the
stakes"
Q. Can an airplane rise from the
ground when it's motor is making 20
or 80 revolutions a minute?-L. B.
A. 1t cannot rise until the motor
gains more momentum.
Q. What per cent of the population
Of some of the principal countries have
received college educations?-A. NJ. l..
A. 1t has been estimated that %
of per cent of the population of Ger
many have received a college educa-
tion, 30 Of 1 per cent of the popula-
tion of France, s. of l per cent Of the
population Of England, and .5S of 1
per cent of the population Of the
United States.
Q. Which is Shakespeare shortest
, Plays. NJ.
a. Macbeth" is Shakespeare's
shortest play, and is evidently much
mutilated.
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