davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-25
This and That
By Charles E. TraceDeu.

Perhaps no animal in the world is
none more so.
Every movement of the domestic
cat is a miracle of grace, a deft use of
muscle, bones and joints to achieve a
fixed purpose.
The cat does nothing without
thought.
AS far as he can, the cat thinks his
way through life. He never plumbers
through, as does the dog.
Curiosity, of course. often leads the
cat into trouble, but that is his limita-
ton. If he were able to reason con-
as he does.
Your average house cat knows very
we'll what he can and what he cannot
do in the way of physical feats.
Jack Spratt, for instance, never at
tempts a leap unless he is sure of it.
Once he wanted to get into a win
dow box from the ground.
lie ran forward and looked up at
the box.
Now. no cat in the world could have
made that leap. and Jack soon saw
that he could not.
1t was interesting, then, to see him
look, first right, then left, as If DELHI
erately looking for another place from
which to attempt the leap.
He looked left-saw the fence-de-
cided against it.
Then he gaZed right-took in the
steps and porch. and, seeing they
were higher, decided in their favor.
With determination upon his white
face. Jack gracefully ran up the steps
nd hnnpod fn hn roiIino
This maneuver, however. brought
him so to one side that he immediate
ly sensed that he could not make the
jump from that angle.
So he ran down the steps again,
sat back on his launches and gave a
petulant meow. Those who watched
this performance believed that they
had witnessed not only some graceful
action, but also a plain piece of ami
NAL reasoning.
We have been told similar tales of
cat thinking, or sensing, whichever
one wants to call it, and every one in
terested in these creatures can recall
similar instances.
On par, in interest, with the
thinking" Of the cat In such cases is
the supple ease with which the
creature goes through his eVolut1OnS.
Recently Nipper III decided he want
ed to get on top of a sectional book
case. As Nip is a little fellow. the
jump from the ground was much too
much for him. Even the larger and
more powerful Spratt cannot negoti-
ate 1t from the floor.
Nip. therefore. hoped to the back
of the davenport.
Once. there, he took off for the top
of the case, but misjudged the distance
badly-at least, so it seemed to us.
He hit the glass of the top section
and fell to the floor, a most astonished
look upon his solemn young counte.
nance.
Then we realized that Nipper had
not aimed for the top of the case at
all, but had simply mistaken clear
glass for empty space.
Evidently it was his first encounter
with glass. He learned a great deal,
too, for without a moments hesitation
he jumped to the back of the sofa
again and took off once more.
This time he made a pretty leap to
the top of the case.
Once there. he seemed satisfied to
look down with deep interest upon the
radio speaker a couple of feet below
him. ee
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-25
A Safety" Exhibition.

baron Won Nathan, the German
Ambassador to the United States, and
five other passengers were killed in
Germany Friday when one of the
wings of their plane crumpled and
they were dashed to earth. A week
ago yesterday seven persons were
killed in the crash of a big Fokker
plane near New Market. n. J. Both
of these tragedies make doubly in.
teresting the test held yesterday over
Boiling Field, where nine Navy and
Marine Corps aviators demonstrated
the ease with which a passenger
laden transport plane may be emptied
by jumping with parachutes, one
after another, in the elapsed time of
eighteen seconds. The experiment
yesterday in no manner demonstrates,
however, that death in the two re.
cent accidents would have been
averted by parachute jumps. In the
case of the German accident, and
barring the human element of timid-
ity and unskillful handling of para.
chutes, the passengers conceivably
might have been saved by their use.
In the New Jersey accident the crash
was so sudden, the altitude so low.
that parachutes would have awaited
nothing. But yesterdays experiment
does indicate that parachutes may be.
come great factor of safety on the
part OF future air line passengers.
AS 1t is today, jumping in a para
chute is no feat to be undertaken
carelessly by an amateur. Skill is
necessary in jumping clear of the
plane. The jumper must know what
he is about, lest the parachute be
opened too soon or too late. The
ground lubber" views with consid-
cradle alarm the prospect Of jumping
from a moving plane into space, trust.
ing his life to parachute which, for
all he knows, may not open. Faced
with the necessity to jump, his in
ability to arrive at an instant decision
might prove fatal. The amateur who
has flown once or twice IS impressed
with the difficulty of moving about in
roaring plane, high above the earth.
To be able to crawl to a perilous DO.
sition in the plane, when it Is per.
haps already circling down in
plunge, and to fling himself free,
trusting that ten seconds later the
xr,iN
form itself into dainty parachute to
catch and hold him swinging in the
air, requires a courage derived only
from experience and familiarity with
the task. Today the pilot of plane
would rather trust the lives of his
passengers to his own skill and the
theoretical safety Of his machine
than to the possibility that they
would all seek safety. in jumping for
the first time in parachutes.
But by casting the mind back few
years over the recent progress of
aviation, it is not difficult to picture
the time when air passengers will
look upon their parachutes as uncon-
cernedly as ship passengers now view
the life preservers strung at strategic
points about the ship. 1t required
only eighteen seconds yesterday for
nine men to leave a plane. high in
the air. To the man on the ground
it was a courageous and picturesque
performance. To the. aviators 1t was
all in the days work. Fifty years
hence the reader of yellowed news
paper files will pause at the item, and
wonder why it was mentioned at all!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-25
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.


A hero was the whole worlds favorite
son.
Upon page 1
Print told what he had done.
The next thing that the reading pub.
lie knew,
Upon page 2
His honored name they'd view.
The marvellous and merited display,
From day to day,
Still further slipped away.
Now Ave brief lines that tell of him
are seen, .......,.
In type serene, ..,-..-.
Upon page II.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-25

After the fight Is over an argument
is liable to start that will lead TO a
combat to a finish without ring re.
strictions or financial advantage.
There Is provocation enough for some
such demonstration. Yet business in
stfnct renders a professional fighter
able to hold his temper sufficiently to
avoid giving free exhibitions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-25

Several statesmen who have been
perfectly willing to discuss evolution,
meteorology and the Einstein theory
will possibly be ready to hold up
Mississippi River appropriations until
they can satisfy their minds about
details of typographical engineering.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-25

The Old World often takes an inter.
est in the politics Of the u. s. A, as
we'll as in it's finances. Every Euro
pean city Mr.. Walker has visited Is
heart and hand for his reelection to
the position of mayor of New York.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-25

Clemenceau even dancedba few steps
in his rejoicing. When a man Is finely
tempered he retains q certain elias.
ITCHY of spirit. Even a Tiger at eighty
again.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-25

It is regretfully admitted by Fanny
Brice that 'Nicky" aArnstein has
proved one of the most mischievous
little husbands an actress ever had.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-25

The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled
70 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
published herein All rights of publication
of special dispatches herein are also reserved.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-25

No statesman who now says II do
not choose. can hope to convey the
same thrill as that of the original
remark.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-25
Fifty Years Ago
In The Star

The following paragraph in The
Star OF September IS, 1877, paints a
Sbabhy rather unlovely picture of
the parks of the Capital so
Parks. years ago:
There can be but one
opinion as to the justice of the charges
maze Dy the Washington corresponds
| ent or the New York Times against
Commissioner Casey of shameful neg.
lect of the public grounds, with the
exception of one or two pet squares
IN the vicinity of the White House.
IN the other parks. circles and reser-
Vatlons, as truthfully stated instead Of
Wei trimmed lawns and fine foliage,
| tall rank weeds have oyerrun the
grass, choked the flowers out of exist.
ence and now wave on high their
triumphant heads and scatter their
prolific seeds in all directions. This
neglect or public property is properly
characterized as simply inexcusa bic
and 1t will result in the destruction of
much of the ornamental vegetation
with which the public parks were so
aDundantly stocked and at such heavy
expense.
We hear ii stated by the way, that
the commissioner of public buildings
ana grounds boasts that he will he
able to turn in at least q thousand
dollars of unexpended appropriations
az the result OF his failure to keep the
grounds in proper condition. As the
loss to the Government property from
ms dlsgraceful neglect of the grounds
must be many thousands of dollars,
thls saving would he economy with q
vengeance. In common fairness he
| should also return his salary to the
Government, for it is not easy 10 see
where he has earned a penny of it,
From present Indications" SAYS
The Star of September %, 1877, 'it is
Many Visitors Washington during
Expected. the approaching SEES
sions of Congress.
will be crowded with large
number of visitors and sojourners.
we learn that the inquiry
/ Tor houses is almost unprecedented;
tnat there has been no such de-
mand since the war times. The para
lived business interests of the country
demand important consideration at
the hands of Congress- and from what
we can gather it is quite certain that
the various business industries OF this
country will be largely represented In
the character of our visitors this
Winter. This class of live American
t-~-ssWs. representing the capital, bust
ness industries and labor interests of
the country will. it is hoped, exert
healthy influence in shaping i'm
portant legislation in the In
terest of the whole country;
and the Winters work is likely 10 be
quite in contrast with the war Of poll
ticians of the last session of Congress.
If this is a Government of the people,
by the people and for the people. Their
there has never before been time
when the peoples material interests
were more in need of proper consid-
Grafton by the National Legislature
than the present. Now is the time
for business men to come to the front
and mere politicians remain in the
rear. We can assure the country that
Washington is in excellent condition
20 accommodate all visitors and that
the beauty. comfort and attractions
of our city will i:,,e-eSs them all with
feeling of pride in the grandeur.
progress and development Of their
National Capital. Come ont.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-25
Years.

Don't you think you are old enough
to retire from poliics?"
mo-" answered Senator Sorghum.
Years bring wisdom and l am old
enough to know better than to make
such q silly move"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-25

Whenever a Navy officer begins to
write magazine articles all hands are
summoned to man the blue pencil.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-25
After the FRAY.

why is the bandage on your hand?"
Said Dempsey unto Tunney.
What were the licks that you could
land
To make your fist look funny"
There's nothing wrong about my
hand"
To Dempsey answered Tunney.
Il sprained my wrist-you'll under.
stand
While counting so much money"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-25
Suspicious Nature,

when goes to church" said Uncle
Eben, II counts de congrega tion. An
IL dar's any member niissin' l. goes
back home an counts de hen roost."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-25

Polar exploration is difficult and
dangerous. 1t leaves more encourage
ment for rescue expedition than a
lost airplane.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-25
Rate by Mail-PayabIe in Advance.
Maryland ard Virginia.
All Other States and Canada.
Member Of the Associated Press.

Daily and Sunday. VT. SO 90 mo-, 81 90
Sunday only ..... VT, $500. mo-. Doc
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-25
THEODORE w. MOVES. . Editor

The Evening star with the Sunday morn
ing edition is delivered by carriers within
the city at 80 cents per month; daily only,
AZ cents per month: Sundays only, 20 cents
per month. Orders may be sent 10y mail or
telephone Main 5000. Collection is made ~
carrier at end OF each month.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-25
The Menagprie.

do you favor the elephant or the
Donkey" :'.a
Neither" said Uncle Bill Bottletop.
I'm for the camel. who desires only
water and lots of It."
''The wisdom Of our ancestors" said
Hi Ho, the sage Of Chinatown. might
not seem so great were it not for the
folly of their pOsterity.' T.,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-25
Daylight Saving.

There came hope, sweet and sublime,
When we got daylight saving time"
Alas, my hours have misbehaved.
Where is the daylight we have saved?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-25

Jud Tunkins says successful loafer
is one who knows when to act busy
whether he is doing anything or not.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-25

From present Indications says
The Star of September %, 1877, lit is
Evening star., 1927-12-06
Law ON VAGRANCY
WITH TEETH URGED
Board of Trade Committee to
! Consider Police Superin-
tendent's Suggestion.

The proposed draft Of a new va.
erancy law for the District of Colum.
bia which would have sufficient teeth
In it to correct a situation here which
Mai. Edwin B. Hesse, superintendent
of police, has declared needs atten-
ton, will be considered by the COM
mittee on public order of the Wash.
tngton Board of Trade at a meeting
Friday noon at the Raleigh Hotel.
The committee on law of the trade
body will meet Thursday afternoon at
Ais o'clock for consideration of the
proposed new condemnation law, and
Friday afternoon at o'clock, in the
offices of the board in The Star Build
ing. a special subcommittee of the
municipal finance committee Will
draft a report to the full committee
on the national tax survey made by
the offices of the board. This report
later will be presented to the Board
of Trade and subsequently will be for
warded to Congress in conjunction
with the petition of Washington for
a readiustment of the present fiscal
relations plan.
The board of directors of the Board
of Trade yesterday approved the rec
ommendation of the Chamber of Com
merce of the United States calling for
legislation at this session Of Congress
for Mississippi Valley flood control.
The committee disapproved. however.
the suggestion that the Federal Gov.
ernment should bear the full cost or
the development of food control facll-
titles, proposing instead that the cost
be equitably apportioned between the
Federal Government and the various
States.
Evening star., 1927-12-06
Larger Women's Coats. S135

eaphc possible
Evening star., 1927-12-06
START OF HENRY HUDSON
MARKED IN AMSTERDAM

Correspondence of the Associated Press.
AMSTERDAM.-T commemorate
the sailing of Henry Hudson in 1909
on the expedition which took him to
New York and the Hudson River a
plaque has been placed on the walls
of the famous old Amsterdam land
mark known as the Weeping Tower.
The Greenwich Village Historical
Society of New York originated the
idea of the plaque. which is in bronze.
On the left of the inscription is a
representation Of the Half Moon sur.
mounted by the arms of the City OF
Amsterdam. while on the right-hand
side is bust of Henry Hudson above
the arms of New Amsterdam.
1t was at the Tower of Tears or
Weeping Tower that wives and sweet.
hearts used to take farewell of their
menfolk in olden days, and it was
known, too, as the Crier's Tower,
from which the harbor master used
to announce the arrivals and de-
partures of overseas vessels.
The tower Is still the official resi-
dence of the harbor master Of the
port of Amsterdam.
Evening star., 1927-12-06
BY LEMUEL f. PARTON.

| Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, December eff you
can tell within 1000 how many per
sons We're murdered in the United
States last year, you are good guess
er. This 1000 is just about the mar
gin of inaccuracy of national homicide
| figures, on which crime experts rely
| for statistics, according to Louis McH.
| Howe, assistant chairman of the Ma.
tional Crime Commission.
A good sized library of books on
crime might well be scrapped by the
commissions discovery of sweeping
and elaborate ignorance on crime and
criminals The general finding of the
commission, after two years work,
Mr.. Howe said today, is that, statis-
tically speaking, dependable knowl-
edge of crime in America is just above
zero.
States Jealous of Power.
In view Of the industry and efficien-
cy of the Federal Government in gath
ering statistics on nearly everything
else, Mr.. Howe was asked why it
couldn't also get accurate crime data.
States are peculiarly touchy about
their police powers" he said. Il am
convinced that national law com
pelling the keeping of crime statistics
and making them available to the Fed
eral Government would be resisted as
invasion of States rights. The only
way it could be done is by legislative
enactments in the various States. The
association had cOnsiCk red drafting
bills to be placed before the Legisla-
lures, but at the recent Washington
conference it was decided that this
would not be advisable at this time.
rrSI. 1e or1Ny h n
be cleared away before we begin to
kno, anything about crime in Amer
lea.
Theoretical psychiatrists and crimi-
nologists mix things up a lot They
so to the Legislatures with elaborate
and complicated bills requesting sta
tistics which we know it would be
impos sf .le to get. Imagine getting a
tin-StEr constable, or even blg-clty
cop, t. fill in a blank requiring in
form ttion about the prisoners inhibi-
tons snd repressionS and things like
that! These proposals irritate Legis.
latures and make it harder to get
them to pass simple and workable
laws.
Need Two Sets of Information.
"Our proposal is to start clear on
the outskirts of the problem and get
the simplest information and to add
the trimmings later. We want to
know at the start just two things
first, how many crimes are committed;
second, how many people go to Jail.
That seems easy enough, but it be-
comes complicated the minute you dig
into it. From certain section you
get reports of a large number of
homicides. You investigate and find
that in this region the accidental kill
ing of a person by an automobile is
listed as homicide; in other places it
is not.
You find that in one county in
the South there is only one hospital
Evening star., 1927-12-06
Women's Coats, $135

$165 90 Ftch-trmnned Coats in fine broadcloth-6nsh
$S500 Brown smooth fabric coat with beaver collar $3S
$165OO Coats with black fox collar cuffs and borders $135
$15500 Smart Black Coats with silver grey kit fox shawl
collars, elbow cuffs Observation-Disclosures. .$135
Evening star., 1927-12-06

supposed that America was In the
grip of a crime wave. The commits
sion has done some thorough and dill
gent investigating. and it can't say
yet whether there is a crime wave
or not.
THE commission now is concentrate
ing on fence legislation, which ought
to so long way in checking rob.
berries. 1t Is using every agency at
it's command to arouse the public and
enforcement officials to a swift and
unfaltering administration Of the laws.
While it is, I hope temporarily, sty-
mied on this matter Of statistics, it
has plenty of work on it's hands in
getting behind intelligent police work
and vigilance and law enforcement
generally. We don't need statistics
to tell us that there Is too much crime
in the country"
fCOpyrght 1927
Evening star., 1927-12-06
SOCIETY
Continued from Page Nineteen)

continued from rage NlneteenJ
several members of the Mentor
Shakespearean Society at tea yester-
day afternoon, at the Mayfiower. The
hostess was assisted by Mrs. c. M.
Hester, Mrs. J. X. Stattler and Miss
Margaret Wilson's.
Mrs Earle Grim of Orange, Va, is
visiting the Misses Seay. at 1880 Fuller
street northwest.
Miss Florence Grady and Miss Vir-
ginia Rutty were the acting hostesses
at an informal dance in the studio of
Miss Hester Walker Beall, in Stone
leigh Court, Saturday evening. Mrs.
Ethel Rutty was the chaperon. The
guests were Miss Marion Won Rosen.
Miss Doris Thomas, Miss Elizabeth
Miller, Miss Edna Scott, Miss Mary
Kicker, Miss Goldie Won Rosen, Miss
Margaret Elms, Miss Isabella Elms,
Miss Edith Bruce. Miss Eugenia
Tucker, Miss Marguerite Rector,
Miss Jane Huss, Mr.. Larry Wilson,
Mr.. Albert Rudes, Mr.. Bob Adams,
Mr.. Charles Follensbee. Mr. Vincent
Tompkins. jr.; Mr.. Charles Frame, Mr..
Richard Tedrow, Mr.. Arthur Kicker.
Mr. John Brosman and Mr.. Wilson
Stokes.
Evening star., 1927-12-06
EXPERTS FIND CRIME STATISTICS
DIFFICULT TO GET FROM STATES

and that victims of all crimes Of vio-
lence within a radius of a hundred
miles are taken to this hospital. You
have noted these crimes as committed
in the village where this hospital is
located. whereas they cover big
stretch of territory.
"If we can find out how many
crimes there are and how many per-
sons go TO Jail, we can reach some
conclusion as to whether crime is in
creasing in America.
THE National Crime Commission
was established when 1t was generally
Evening star., 1927-12-06
COMPROMISE OFFERED
IN RUMAEIAN, DISPUTE
Hungary Submits New Plan fol
Indemnity on Transylva-
nian Properties.

By the Associated Press.
GENEVA, December 6.-Hungary
has offered compromise suggestion
for settlement of the property dis
pute with Rumania. Instead Of COM
plete indemnity for all properties of
Hungarians sequestrated in the Prov.
Evening star., 1927-12-06

duster. 1t is in gold or platinum, AMI
besides covering the knuckle extends
down the finger like a sheath, reserS
bling the favorite weapon of the
Apache
Evening star., 1927-12-06

ince of Pennsylvania. which was an
nexed by Rumania, Hungary Is will
ing to accept indemnity for forests,
vineyards and buildings, abandoning
her claim for arabic lands.
Count Apponyi announced last night
that Hungary's proposal is based on
the idea that the two govern
ments should enter into direct negotia-
tions, with a view to reaching finan-
cial settlement without prejudice to
the treaty or the legal issue. No re-
ply has yet been received from the
Rumanian government.
Compulsory wage readjustments
Evening star., 1927-12-06
Knuckleduster Rings Worn.

Paris latest ring novelty is called
the Coup de poing American" but
the more familiar name is the knuckle-