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The Washington times., 1927-03-25

women have ayineed interest than
ever before, Mrs. Virginia White
Speel, president Of the District
League, declared.
Secretary Of thee Navy Curtis D.
Wilbur was the principal speaker
at last nights session, which was
largely attended by women in pub
lie from all sections Of the ceun,
try. In addition to the naval sec.
rotary, the school was dressed
yesterday by Herbert M, Lord, di,
rector Of the budget, who outlined
the business end Of the Govern
nent to the women.
The Washington times., 1927-03-25

Dresses in light attrac-
tive silks. One and two
pieced models. Georgette
dresses. Sizes z to ID.
$4.95.
The Washington times., 1927-03-25
Easter
Dresses
$50

Dresses of flat crepe,
georgette, willosheen, crepe
roma and other interesting
Spring fabrics are made in
every desirable style for
Easter wear. Many shades
of popular appeal. Sizes Is
to 20, 1415 to 2O1s, 36 to
az and IA to so. Others
$3.50 and $3.50.
The Washington times., 1927-03-25
Three Horses Burn
To Death in Blaze

Three horses were burned t.
death last night when the stable al
212 C St., s. W., was destroyed by
fire, The blaze had gained such
headway when firemen arrived that
they could not save either the
animals or the building.
Mrs. Ruby Randolph, who owns
the premises. told fiFemen and police
that she had no idea how the fire
originated, Total damage was sci
at $500. There were no injuries d
firemen reported.
The Washington times., 1927-03-25
$50 Boys Apiece
Easter
Suits
$3.50


Every boy will need .
''brand new" suit for
Easter, and if he is out
fitted by Lansburgh's
Basement, he can get
one that combines style
with economy. In, new
weaves and patterns and
in single or double
breasted style. In sizes
Z to 16.
The Washington times., 1927-03-25
Novelty Easter Shoes
Waydown
81 80

Many Of the 1900 pairs we're
offering will walk out of the
Basement Saturday when women
see how snartly new are the
styles and feathers. Pumps, stran
effects and eyelet ties are included
in the lot Of patent, light kid and
velvet or satin shoes. Every
wanted heel. Sizes 8 to 8 in the
group but not in every style.
The Washington times., 1927-03-25
Your Coat Low Priced
For Easter
s19.75
and
$14.75

Lorsheen, twillsheen,
kasha and satin are the
popular. materials and
the trims of squirrel,
monkey, twin beaver
and moufflon are at
tractive. Every coat in
the higher-priced group
is silk crepe lined, and
the STATS coats have
satin or silk crepe lin
ings. Sizes ID to 90
and SO to dc.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-29
Clear Thinking Necessary
In Regard to Radicalism

To the Editor Of The Star:
The pathetic letter in Thursdays
Star, entitled Defense of Radicalism, 4"
is another instance of failure to
analyze the situation. 1t would be
hard to prove such statements as mo
one has ever met any of them who
would replace the Stars and Stripes
with the red, flag" and that the 1. w.
w. does not advocate anything con-
flicting with our Constitution or
traditions" The fact that the writer
has never encountered any red propa-
ganda hardly bears on the question at
issue.
The writer fails to distinguish be-
tween the two uses of the word
radical" and it is regrettable that
such divergent meanings exist. The
radical who strives to reach the root
of any matter is to be commended.
The radical who is doing his best to
uprOot organized government is
menace, and the latter is represented
by the Sacco.Vanzetti crowd. The
writer is correct in saying that "only
a deluded ignoramus would strive to
overthrow our form of government"
and that is exactly what these radicals
are doing. The tree is known by it's
Ii OilS, anu TIC pOSc VI Tic dIldt-
chists Is proved not only by their name
but by the means employed for put
ting over their cause.
That there are too many unprogres-
sive souls who sneer or look askance
at every suggestion of change for the
better Is too obvious for argument.
but to include the I. w. W.. the
Socialists. and the Single Takers in
the same class or to ally the Declara-
ton of Independence with the propa-
ganda of Soviet Russia is not clear
thinking.
The real issue is between material
ism and idealisnl the spirit of Alex
ander the Great and Jesus. The quest
Of materialism will never end in peace
or promote true progress. The man
who, when face to face with death,
cries Long Live Anarchy" is fire
brand, and firebrands. are not con-
structive material.
WILLIAM J. SEELYE.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-29

year, corn on 100000 acres, hay on
$4,000 acres. No estimates are avail
able to show how much of the flooded
area was replanted this year. though
at the height of the flood a special
survey shows that the farmers intend
ed to plant corn on 1851 400 acres,
hay on 447.300 acres and other crops,
including cotton, on 2.O44,60O acres.
These figures give concept of the
devastation wrought by the waters in
one of the most fertile regions in the
United States, an area I'm which
agriculture is the principal resource
Of the people. The loss Of live stock
is an especially serious factor of the
disaster. The Mississippi Valley plant
ing is almost all done by animal trac-
ton, not mechanical. The loss of
more than $4,000 head of horses and
mules therefore is a grievous handicap
10 the planters of the flooded area.
This stock cannot be quickly replaced,
though the Government did something
to alleviate the situation in this
respect.
While no estimates are available as
to the replanted acreage, it is known
that the inhabitants of the flooded
region went back to their homes as
soon as the waters subsidized and
started in as best they could to redeem
something from the disaster. Some
reports have come to show that in the
higher areas. from which the waters
subsidized earliest, unusually heavy
crops have been grown. The inunda-
ton has indeed, to some of the people,
been a blessing. But these are excep-
tional and the total reckoning is one
of an enormous loss.
Engineering studies have been con-
Quoted in the light of the experience
of this year to find the surest way of
flood control. A project will I'M
doubtedly be presented to Congress at
the next session. Estimates of the
cost will run into high figures, but in
view of the losses that the Depart.
ment of Agriculture's reports reveal
the magnitude of the undertaking
should not discourage action.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-29
The Decision.

From the Portland (OregD Journal.
Bill Lamance is going to become a
preacher. That is not an unusual
thing for young man to do, but the
method by which Bill Lamance
reached his decision-it was made by
a referee in prize ring-is another
story.
Bills father had been a prize
fighter. He left that profession Is
years ago to become preacher, and
is a preacher still. When it came
time for his son to prepare himself
for a career the youngster was un
decided as to whether he would under
take his fathers first calling, profess
sional boxing, or follow him into the
ministry.
Bill studied for the ministry. but
while he was in school he also kept
up his boxing. Upon graduation he
was still at sea as to which career he
should adopt. After a time he decided
that he would try the ring and If he
won an important bout he would re-
main q prize fighter. If he lost he
would fight the devil from the pulpit
He and his father set up training
camp. For weeks Bill Lamance
trained for the bout, with his father
his counselor. trainer and manager.
The contest was fought few days
ago.
At the end of the fight the referee
held up the hand Of Lamance's OPP
ponent in token Of victory. 1t was
Lamance's last fight in the prize
ring. From now on his fight is for
souls from the pulpit.
1t is a more worthy calling, but IT
is to be hoped that Bill Lamance will
be more successful in his struggle
there than he was in the boxing con-
test that altered his career.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-29
Fast Time to London.

The round-thc-w world record Of Lin
ton Wells and Edward F. Evans of
approximately twenty-eight days APP
pears to be in considerable danger of
being hettered by the ambitious fly
ing excursion of Edward f. Schlee
and William s. Brock, who completed
the first leg of their globe-circling
trip in fast time. Yesterday they
landed at Croydon airdrome twenty
three hours and twenty-one minutes
after they took off from Harbor
Grace, Newfoundland, successfully
covering the twenty-three hundred
and fifty miles over the Atlantic,
their next to longest ocean hop. If
they can keep up the speed estab-
lished on the first lap of their more
than nty-thousand-mile trip they
VIII set a new mark by comfortable
margin.
Wells and Evans used trains,
planes, boats and automobiles in their
twenty eight-iay jaunt. They missed
connections at times, but demon
strated resourcefulness in making up
for delays. Already SChlee and Brock.
in their all-plane trip, have proved
that they are ingenious as well as
skillful They lost their way over
England. but almost Immediately con-
cocted a plan to enable them to get
their bearings. Finding themselves
over a sandy beach they dropped
notes on the inhabitants of the
nearby town asking that their loca-
ton be written on the sand.
S.e-a-t-o-n was spelled out in large
letters and a small Union Jack was
hoisted on q pole, and the aviators
knew at once where they were and
set off on a Decline for Croydon. 1t
was a device similar to but undoubt-
edly more efficacious than Lind
bergh's shouted query to a group of
fishermen far out at sea, us this the
right road to Ireland?"
Of course, the time will come, and
soon, when the names of all towns,
whether in America, England or con-
tinental Europe, will be written large
in some conspicuous place for the
guidance of aviators. but for the pres
ent flyers must rely on their own in
genuity when they are lost. Schlee
and Brock are, therefore, to be con-
graduated for not only the first non
stop flight from America to London,
but for a demonstration of resource
fulness and skill that will carry them
long way in their periibestrewn
path around the world.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-29
Losses in the Floods.

Reports from six OF the States
which suffered most severely from
the foods during May, June and July
have been gathered by the Depart
ment Of Agriculture with the result
Of a compilation of the damage and
losses inflicted running into high
figures. The total flooded area in
these six States was 4,417,500 acres.
The chief sufferer was Arkansas, with
1,S38,400 acres, and next was
Louisiana with 1,112,200 acres. In
Mississippi sci 900 acres were covered,
in Missouri $50 1000, in Tennessee
1875, 900 and in Kentucky $4,000 More
than 225 900 head of horses, mules.
cattle and swine, and poultry TO the
number Of 100000 We're lost. No
monetary estimate of the losses has
been undertaken, but 1t is evident that
the damage ran into an enormous
total. Crop estimators report that cot
ton was groW1 in 1925 on about
100000 acres u the area flooded this
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-29
How Hagerstown
Regulates Walkers
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor of The Star:
i notice your front page article in
regard to the regulation of pedestrian
traffic in the City of Washington In
fact. it is a problem everywhere. /,
too like thousands of others in your
city, noticed the very thing of which
the article states. However, had not
been in the hustling little city of
Hagerstown, Md.-on my way home
five minutes until / noticed their sys-
tenn of regulation, by a bell sys-
tenn, assisted by green lights on each
side of the street. The pedestrian
traffic is under a splendid system of
regulation; in fact, as good as any
place should desire. l think it might
be a good plan for your able body of
traffic managers to go to Hagerstown
and investigate its plan. l know
that the same plan will not work
everywhere, but the principle of regu-
lation OF passenger or pedestrian
traffic is the same. We are prone to
despise the plans of smaller cities,
but If better plan is in existence
than 1 have found here I would like
to see it. JESSE COLDREN,
Brownsville. Pa.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-29

attitude that the motorist in this case
should be treated as If he were a
policeman at the time of his death
and that his estate should receive the
same benefits. Twelve thousand dol
lars, sum slightly more than would
accrue to a policeman's family under
similar circumstances. has been
awarded Mrs. Golden This amount
added to the five hundred dollars
which was sent anonymously to her
will serve to keep the wolf from the
door until she can adapt herself to
changed conditions. New York, OF
course, cannot give her back hel
husband. but it is doing the next
best thing in the appropriation which
was made less than two weeks after
the accident. New York has set q
fine example for the rest of the
country to follow in this matter, and
until an adequate number OF auto
mobiles are provided for the aprre.
hcnsion of lawhrCakers, every other
city should follow its lead.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-29
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

After all, why should life be made so
stern, so uncompromising?
Life. itself, Is enough so-Why go
out of our way to make it more un.
yielding?
There is sorrow enough for all Of
us. Life Is such serious thing at
bottom and at top that there is no
need for so many persons assuming
the frozen face. the tone of harsh
command, the attitude of slave
drivers.
There might be. with evident better
ment all around, a more carefree
spirit in the world. This happy re-
suit might be secured, not by lower
ing of the bars" but by a clearing of
the public mind of outworn cobwebs
Now a cobweb wouldn't be so no.
ticeable if it We're not for the accumu
lation of dirt that accompanies it.
Many of the nasty traits of hui
mainly, the accumulation of centuries
and the residue of outworn creeds and
nations are incorporated in much of
our thinking.
The very physical ills of humanity
make men and women grouchy, Ill
tempered, hasty in word and action.
Things are magnified that ought to be
forgotten. When a person is i'll what
right does that give him to take it
OUT on his children or friends?
X
How much has the world suffered
because some one could not get along
with his wife,
Why should one have to test a
friend every day. as if he were some
sort of thermometer. to find out
whether or not it is safe to talk to
him?
There are men whom no one dares
approach in familiar fashion, no mat
ter how long the acquaintance, until
it is plainly manifest whether or not
they are willing.
Well, now, who or what gave any
human being such a divine preroga-
tive?
If one approaches. wishing to he
gay. what right has another to be
grouchy?
Rather ought he unbend, and in
the act Of unbending smile the best
he can, for a time may come when
he will ask the same Of the other.
This is the exact point where the
application of insouciance falls down.
If men and women were not so self
conferred. there might be more hope
LOT kcHeIdl duOptlOH VI CdlSIIcC
happiness. But life is, as an old song
had it, seesaw of ups and downs.
Some time I'm up. some time I'm
down. When we are down we are
down for good-or. at least, so it
seems from the depths. To have this
silly fool come with smile. when we,
the all-important we, can muster
nothing but frowns- is to offend the
divine ego of the human spirit.
1t is, however. precisely this ego
which holds the world back on its
grand swing toward complete happi-
ness. One would not minimize the
dark hours. They come to all. But
one should be sure. first, that they
really are the dark hours.
Let us save our sorrow for them,
and not dilute it over the years, cast
ing gloom where others ask, often
so pathetically, for smiles. Let us
rather live life with insousciance, if we
can, for even an earthworm can be
solemn. 1t Is only human beings who
can smile.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-29
The buffers Dream.

Ten under even tours and five
better than par for one hundred
and fifty-two holes of championship
golf. That a buffers dream of Para
disc. 1t is the actual score of one
Robert T. Jones in the just concluded
amateur championship of America,
And so Bobby, the Incompatible,
adds another scalp to his already sag
ging belt and another trophy to now
silver-lined walls of the Jones home
and the Eastlake Golf Club Of Atlanta.
1t is positively uncanny, the mas
terry that this lad has over the most
elusive and fascinating sport in the
world. A bad round for Bobby is in
the high seventies, and six on his
card looks to him like the knell of
doom to his game. Yet there are mil
lions Of able-bodied and able-minded
men who struggle around rolling fair
ways who are tickled to death to
shoot in the eighties or nineties and
who triumphantly boast of only two
sevenS on their score in eighteen
holes. Apropos Of SKIES on Bobby's
card, it might be remarked at this
point that he played through the en-
tire British open championship a
month or so ago without a single one
of these horrible figures on his tally
sheet, romping home a winner by a
wide margin.
Unless he is physically disabled
Jones, only twenty-five years old, is
good for twenty or thirty or perhaps
more major championships, thereby
setting a record that will live as long
as golf is played. lie is the master,
if there ever was one, of the royal
and ancient game, and he deserves the
congratulations of the sport-loving
world. May he always carry on to
| fight almost single handed the battle
against Old Man Par, so formidable
to most golfers, but to Bobby simply
another opponent to feel the sting of
defeat undor his skill with wood and
| iron!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-29

With "Cal'' out Of the running in '28
Democrats admit that their slogan
material has visibly shrunk.
X * y
Two new candidates for Gen. Leon
ard Woods vacant chair at Manila are
receiving some consideration at Wash
ington. One is Vice Gov. Gen. Eugene
A. Gilmore, who became Woods right
hand man in 1922. Gilmore is a col
lege professor by profession and was
drafted into the Philippines service
from the University of Wisconsin fac
ulty. He is an earnest supporter of
the policies Wood pursued in the
islands. especially against the en-
croachments of the Quezon-Osmena
"politicos. The other reputed aspi-
rant for the governor general
is a professional soldier, Maj. Gen.
William Weigel, who has Just
retired from active service, hav.
ing reached the statutory age of
GA. Weigel has n splendid record of
more than Al years of continuous
duty in the United States Army, fol-
lowing his graduation from West
Point in 1887. He saw fighting serv-
ice in the Philippines and throughout
the World War. In the campaign in
France Weigel, a divisional com.
mander, won numerous American and
French honors for distinguished deeds
in battle action.
X X X
The President of the Canadian Ma
tional Railways is Hoosier Yankee,
though now British subject and
knight-Sir Henry w. Thornton OF
Montreal. The other day newspaper
in Western Canada, which doesn't like
the c. n. r. or Thornton. launched a
yarn to the effect that he'd had to take
a hasty vacation because he'd just
suffered "a bad stroke" At the mo.
ment, Thornton, a giant, was in the
midst of a vigorous holiday in Jasper
National Park. Alberta. When the re-
port of his disability came to mis- at
tention, Thornton issued the following
statement: Yes, it's quite true. /
had bad stroke. 1t overlook me yes
terday. In fact, 1 had four bad
strokes in quick succession. They &C.
CURED near the fourteenth green on
the Jasper golf course. The first one,
one Of the worst / ever suffered, got
me into the bunker and l had three
more bad strokes before 1 got out"
Copyright 1927
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-29

The French have good word, more
or less generally adopted into English
without change, the noun 1nSOu-
ciance." literally meaning carelessness.
heedlessness, recklessness.
In our tongue, however, 1t is given
4 less harsh connotation, usually in
dicating merely care-free. If one says
that So-and-So did a particular act
with insouciance. he merely means
that he did it more or less gayly, with
a certain Zest.
There might be more of this good
insouciance in life than there is, to
the benefit of all living creatures. The
insouciant man, rightly constituted,
knows and appreciates all bright and
happy things.
Color. tone, movement--these are
the components of the great picture
which he views in the act and art of
living. Harshness he abhors, although
he may come to look upon it in an
amused fashion.
The wide swing from the attitude
toward life of the Puritans to the
ultra modern conceptions of the happy
tlappers has been merely a step to-
ward insoucance in the daily life.
Pushed to the extreme limit, we
have heedlessness and recklessness
and worse. but such abuse attaches
itself to almost anything in the hands
and control Of certain persons.
In it's proper degree insoucance
gives us the happy frolic of the sea-
shore. the clear air of the golf courses.
the wholesome diversions of modern
life in general.
This is neither an immoral nor an
immodest age in its better aspects.
but merely a happier one.
X X X X
There once was, in certain large
city of this land. a newspaper man.
known to the public of his town as
the city editor. (The city editor" is
the one who tells the reporters what
to dOD
Now this was a morning news
paper, so the young gentlemen came
to work some time in the afternoon.
and labored until some time after
midnight.
One of these young men did his
work insOuciantly, as we might say
In English. He enjoyed himself i'm
mensely. Not the least of his de-
lights was flirting with the telephone
operator.
She was a snappy little lady, who
treated all the boys alike, and was
more or less of a pal and brother to
all of them,
Her quitting time was II pm. One
night the insouciant young gentle
man offered to take her home, and
his offer was accepted with thanks.
About midnight, the middle aged
city editor. who also was a good eX-
ample of insouciance. asked hur-
riedly for Mr.. So-and-So.
He's taking Nellie home" was the
reply.
At 1890. when Mr.. So-and-So
finally drfted in, the city editor
eyed him sternly.
where have you BEEN" he asked.
Seeing Nellie home" came the
truthful reply.
"Well, hereafter you are assigned
to take Nellie home every night at
II o'clock" grinned the editor.
And-believe it or not-this assign
ment stood on the books for a month
or so.
This is what one means by
"insouciance."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-29
A Prompt and Generous Act.

New York City has acted promptly
and generously to provide for the
destitute widow Of the motorist who
was Communicated by a policeman in
a chase for an automobile thief and
was shot and killed. The tragedy
occurred on August IA. Samuel
Golden, New Jersey truckman. was
driving peacefully along New York
street when a policeman jumped on
the running board Of his car and
ordered him to chase a stolen auto
mobile which was being driven rapidly
ahead. When Golden had almost
overtaken the other car shots were
exchanged and the motorist who was
lending his help to the law slumped
down in his seat. He died before
he could be rushed to the hospital.
The case aroused nationwide atten.
ton, as 1t is the practice in many
cities for policemen TO commander
automobiles in pursuit of law violators.
The pros and cons of the question as
TO whether policeman should thrust
q defenseless citizen into peril were
discussed and it was the consensus
that on dangerous missions the public
was we'll within its rights to refuse
10 aid. The incident also served to
stress the fact that all police depart.
nents are inadequately equipped with
mobile transportation and that one
OF the crying needs Of today is
speedy remedy for this condition.
New York. however. has taken the