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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-10-11
Foot Ball.

Tennis, polo, yachting. swimming,
golf, pugiIism ind base ball having had
their respective seasonal sways, now
comes that other monarch Of sport,
foot bah, to rule the hearts and pas
kions, and exercise the lungs, OF It's
universe Of devotees.
II base, bali reigns undisputably as
Abe national professional game, col
aege foot ball has quite as absolutely
ascended the throne of national anna
keur sport. There 10, happily, every
indication that its sovereignty as a
hon.professional pastime will not be
challenged. Since RED" Grange two
wears ago broke through the line OF
kridiron tradition and threatened foot
BALI with a big business touchdown.
The game, as a purely school and uni
kersity sport, has advanced in popu-
haritv. IL that were possible. It's status
a the greatest and finest of all col.
Iiegs athletics Is in no discernible
Hanger.
The 1927 season, now swinging into
Its stride, has opened under condi.
hions that emphasize the truly ma
Ifional character of foot ball. The
East, ancient and classic seat of grid.
kron pre-eminence, long since forfeited
THAT exclusive distinction. Proud
Harvard last Saturday succumbed to
. superb Midwestern team from Pur-
due. While the Crimson was trailing
lin the dust and dusk of Soldier
Field, the bulldog Of Yale was being
mauled at New Haven by an irwin
chile eleven from the University of
Georgia-
Teams from Midwest. South and
Far West for the past eight or ten
years have repeatedly taken the meas
lure of the "Big Three" or big Four"
colleges on the Atlantic seaboard. In
1924 the Fighting Irish Of Notre Dame
achieved the national championship
by 10 irrefutable margin that no one
challenged the Midwesterners' claim
10 a title never before decisively won.
Next Saturday Knute Rockne's men
DO battle, for the first time, with the
Navy at Baltimore.
y Crowds ranging in size from $4,000
10 100000 go to foot ball games nova
days. Attendance has come to be
limited only by the capacity of mon.
her amphitheaters like the Yale Bowl
Is The mammQth aI2aiuma af Nd
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-10-11
War Against Loot Disposers
Gets Applause From Editors

And it Is notAblYn Appropriate that
business men should be- selected for
this work" The Providence Journal
also lauds the fitness of the commit
tee. and states that 1.-The need of more
drastic laws has become impressed
upon the financial and commercial in.
terests, and it Is recognized that ener-
getic action is required IL the fight on
crime is to be successful" The Jour.
nal asserts that "if an enlightened and
determined public sentiment manifests
itself in sufficient strength. it would
not seem that legislatures can refuse
action that is so clearly essential to
the public good"
Unfortunately. the facts are not yet
appreciated or sufficiently grasped,
it appears to the Saginaw Daily News,
so that. generally speaking, the laws
of the various States are not adequate
to deal with the fence evil. This
stirs the National Commission to ef-
fort to get competent measures to
crush the intensive and extensive in
duStry."
An example of what has been done
in one line to overcome organized
crime is found by the Los Angeles
Times, which sees in the present agi-
tation the purpose Ito prevent crime
by taking the profit out of 1t, and
which describes the method as "a
short cut that may prove impractical
bic, but which, on the other hand, may
succeed where other methods have
failed"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-10-11
UNITED STATES
in WORLD WAR
Ten Years Ago Today


Gen. Pershing congratulates Field
Marshal Haig on the recent impor-
tant gains by the British in front
OF Ypres, and British commander
expresses hope that Americans will
soon join them in battle. 4"
Pershing's gunners now training with
big French 'heavies" to accustom
themselves to the heavy artillery.
Their French instructors say they
will make splendid artillery officers
with very little practice.
First detailed statement showing the
clothing and sleeping equipment fur
nished to the 16 National Army
environments is issued by Secretary
Baker; shows that 12.97l,111 articles
have been distributed to the 431,1S0
soldiers who were in camp up to Oc-
tober q. Following this
country's embargo on shipments into
Holland to cut of German supplies
Great Britain shuts OF all trade
cables to Holland and insists the
Dutch must stop the transit of Ger
man war materials going by Dutch
waterways. Treasury De.
partment issues statement regarding
the second Liberty loan. Warns Ma
ton to speed up lean and shows sub.
scrfptions are far below estimate, with
just about one.tenth Of the quota thus
Car In hand. -.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-10-11
Middle Glass Life in Egypt
Is Revealed I'm Excavations

To break entirely with the old re.
gime Akhn-At0n jOurneyed down the
Nile from Thebes to new site and
built capital on virgin soil, which
he called the Horizon of Aton--the
place now known as Tell.el-Amarna.
Here, a palace, temples to Atom,
homes and many fine tomb.chaDels
for wealthy followers of the king were
erected by armies Of workmen.
The Sun Disk was worshipped
throughout the city officially, as
the discovery of numerous small
shrines shows These shrines, bear.
ing the effigies of the royal family
engaged in worshiping Atom. are
scattered at points along the roadside
and in courtyards. But despite the
Pharaoh's decree. in their homes, the
common people chung to the familiar
deities to whom they appealed in the
distresses of daily life-the god Bes.
patron Of pleasure: the Cow-eared
Hathor, and the Hippopotamus Tau
ert. guardian of mothers.
Akhn-Aton's religious revolution
was doomed to failure. At his death
his daughters husband. Tut.Ankh.
Atom. succeeded to the throne But
the power and plotting of dissatisfied
priests and officials who preferred
the old regime were too much for the
young pharaoh. He went back to the
worship of Anon and the rest OF the
gods, changed his name to Tut.Ankh.
Anon, and finally abandoned the
beautiful new capital and returned to
Thebes with his court.
Discovery OF a red crystalline sand.
stone head of the youngest of Akin.
Atoms daughters shows the same
peculiar shape which has become
familiar in portraits and the mummy
of her father. The view that this
peculiarly shaped head was not due to
disease, as was at first suggested In
the case OF Animation. but that 1t
was family haracteristic. is sup.
ported by the new find. and also by
the fact that the head OF Tut.Ankh.
Anon is similar. SO close Is the re.
semblance that it is considered pos
sible that -Ankh.Amon was not
only the son-in.law, but alst the son
Of Akhn-Aton.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-10-11
Exit-"Abie's Irish Rose. "

The evening Of October % will mark
the end of q woodworking run Of
more than i've years on Broadway for
'tAbie's Irish Rose" play that
brought fortune to its author, Anne
Nichols, and throaty sobs of despair
from a large class of dramatic critics
who maintained stoutly to the end that
it was no good; an insult to intelligent
theatergoers, q blot upon the escutch.
con Of the stage and something ought
to be done about it. In closing its
2,327th performance in New York,
however, this comedy will have demon
strated again the hazardous task con-
fronting those professional diagnosti-
clans Of entertainment who set them
selves UP as judges of what the public
wants, or should want. The critics,
for the most part, did not like "Abie's
Irish Rose" They said so at first as
q matter Of perfunctory duty. When
the public refused to agree with them
they maintained their stand as a mat
ter OF principle. In the end they al.
ways mentioned "Abie's Irish Rose"
with an accompanying gesture of i'm
potence, figuratively throwing up their
hands as much as to say: well, such
is life! Don't blame US for it!'
There was nothing deep, nothing
subtle, about "Abie'S Irish Rose" Nor
was there a moral, unless 1t be that
true love never runs smooth and will
triumph in the end. There was some
humor in it's lines, though most of
them expressed that type Of hur1or
exhibited on the silver screen by Gus
tard pies and missiles of crockery.
There was nothing inspiring about
"Abie's Irish Rose" to lift men Up
and bid them do bigger and better
things. But there Is no mystery about
it's success. The people liked 1t. They
went to see 1t twice. They laughed
at 1t and they applauded it. 1t was
written with the hope for that result
only in mind. To what higher hope
does any author aspire?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-10-11
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

, close, for the time being Mt least, for
| there were more important things to
| do.
Ensconced behind a large biIl.of-fare.
| Bernice Immediately read several OF
| the largest letters, after which she
entertained the gathering with the fol.
lowing song, done in treble monotone:
"A, B, C, D, E. F, g,
II, /, J, K-L. NJ, N. Q, P!
Q. r, s, T, u and V,
| w and X and Y and 4!
| Oh how happy will you be
When you learn your A-B.C!'
| Amid the applause of the assembled
| guests, Miss Bernice forced herself to
the prosaic but interesting task of
telling the waitress what was what.
| Il want" she said. some ice cream,
and some matted milk
What kind of ice cream"
ooh, some of the white kind;
and"
Luncheon was quickly served. The
| honor guest had very large plate,
with nothing on it, while beside the
plate reposed in gentle dignity a ire
mendous beaker of matted tactical
fluid.
Shortly, then, from the plate of
My Goodness came portion of praised
beef, crinkly potato and other vege.
| tables.
"And what did you do in kinder
garten yesterday. Bernice?"
oh. 1 pasted things, and
drawed-"
Drew"
"And drew things, and learned a
poem"
Can you say it,"
| at was about the leaves falling
down, all around, Polly on the
| ground"
Polly on the ground?"
Polly on the ground, Polly on the
ground"
What teacher had said. of course.
was "Piling on the ground" Int
Bernice had heard it Polly" and so
Polly it was.
How would you like to be a school
teacher?
when Is that old girl going to
bring me my ice cream?" inquired
Bernice, casting suspicious chances
northward.
The "old girl" who really was a
young girl, luckily was not within
hearing distance
And at last 1t came, the white
kind indeed, the standard and orig
lnal vanilla ice cream, beloved of old
ana young alike, which today holds
us own well, however keen the com.
petition from peach, chocolate, etc.
| And then it was ''all gone" to use
chlldhood's expressive phrase, accom-
panied by the age-old sign language
OF small and widely opened hands.
Flngerbowls brought a very pleas.
ant time to close. Even this shall
pass away" said the writing on the
old ring.
Bernice cast an ecstatic look at a
! Meeting shadow on the glass above
her, the while waggling her fingers in
the water.
oh see my fingers swimming" she
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-10-11
Fort Washington as a School.

Fort Washington, declared surplus
by the War Department and sought
as part Of the Greater Washington
park syster" in the environs Of Mount
Vernon. q low likely to be taken FOR
4 new and important, ideal use.
Part Of the Industrial preparedness
program OF the War Department in
obedience to specific mandate in the
new Army act. IL the operation Of an
industrial college in the Munitions
building to train Army officers for
kew positions in industrial procure
nnent. and the institution of "Muni'
+ions Battalion" Of college men who
are destined to be industrial leaders
FOR special intensive training in Army
needs
The idea is to take 400 care
fully selected men at the end OF
their junior year in college and send
them to a modern "Plattsburg" for
three months, then back to finish their
4 nenior year in college and get their de.
gree. then into camp again for six
months, and then turn them loose to
rise in Industrial life, and be ready. to
lnerye al a civilian industrial reserve
IN time of the Nations need.
It ID planned to operate this camp
FOR ut least 10 years to build up the
eaicient industrial reserve, and 1t is
MANNED to take Fort Washington for
this purpose because Of its ideal situa'
1aion near Washington.
No better use could be made OF this
historic old fort. 1t would give it ad-
dstional historic value. It would not
interfere in the least with the plans tc
Eventually include this site in the
great Capital park system. because
probably little would be done in the
way Of connecting up this link in the
mark chain for at least a decade. In
the meantime it would remove that
Army reservation from the possibility
Cg its being taken over for private
development.
The purpose OF tne schoVt "a eAS0'
TENT, not only to help build up a wall
Icf preparedness for the Nation, but 20
bring the picked, educated men from
an sections Of the country into q
Ieloser touch with their Government.
preparing them to love and serve 1t.
making them realize more closely and
personally the horrors and burden OF
war.
/ Their training in the school at Fort
washington is destined to discourage
any Nation planning to bring war to
}Amsrica, a''4 to shorten ar. II any,
swnsn IL comes, and to miAimize the
waste Of resources. money land the
precious lives Of American y&ith.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-10-11
The Oil Decision.

| Civil litigation over the leasing of
the Governments naval oil reserves,
after three years of battle. was yester'
day terminated. In a unanimous de-
cision of the Supreme Court, delivered
by Associate Justice Butler, and in a
victory no less sweeping than that un
der which the Elk Hills naval reserve
was recently Cancelled, the Government
regaiped unqualified possession Of the
Teapot Dome reserve; the words
"faithless public officer" were pro-
nounced against eX-Secretary of the
Interior Albert B. Fall, and "ffnis"
was written to the non-criminal phases
of one of the most sordid incidents in
American political history.
The extent of the governmental vic
tory may be briefly indicated as fol-
lows: The Sinclair interests today oc.
cupying the reserve were pronounced
to be trespassers in bad faith. Com
pensation for such expenditures as
they have made in the development
of the illegally occupied premises was
refused by the court, which held that
they must go to Congress for relief.
The lease and contract made by Fail
TO Sinclair were declared to be with
out authority of law and fraud and
corruption in the transaction held as
proved by the evidence.
Justice Buffers decision dealt at
length with the Governments conten'
ton that $230,5O0 in Liberty bonds
found their way to Fall from Sinclair
after the former had resigned from
the cabinet. "There is nothing in the
record that tends to mitigate the sin
lister significance of that enrichment"
he said. And later, taken in connec-
ton with other circumstances dis
closed, it is persuasive evidence of
such a conspiracy between him FalD
and Sinclair"
The significance of the Supreme
Courts opinion is, in view of the cir
cumstances. very grave. On Monday
Fall and Sinclair go on trial here on
criminal charge of conspiracy to de-
fraud the Government in connection
with the leasing of Teapot Dome.
Yet evidence in a civil action which
strengthens and confirms the infer
ence" of a willingness to conspire and
persuasive evidence" of a conspiracy
are not, 1t should be recognized. neces'
sarfly sufficient to win convic-
ton upon a criminal charge. That
charge Sinclair and Fall must now
meet. They go as men who are,
In the eyes Of the law, innocent until
proved guilty. Upon the ability of
the Government to prove beyond the
shadow of doubt the shameful charge
for which the highest court OF the
land finds persuasive evidence" will
depend whether the physical punish
ment of a prison sentence shall be
imposed upon the defendants. Yet to
men who once stood high in the public
confidence 1t cannot be that the an
swer matters much. For in the meas
ured and unqualified scorn Of the
greatest court in the world they have
heard the opinion Of their fellow citi-
zeng.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-10-11

west universities And 1t is well 1t
should be so. American college foot
ball today Is the zenith in clean sport.
played solely for glory. 1t b not
exclusively brawn.building. for it
fosters courage and molds character
as well. A gridiron star with merely
bulk and muscle is not worth his train.
ing table salt to a team. He must
have a head to go with his iron arms,
feet legs and stout body. Above all,
he must be a gentleman, and, in
those institutions with genuine AGA.
demic requirements for teams. he
must be a scholar besides.
This Nation of idolators of manly
and womanly-arts welcomes King
Foot Ball to his realm. Long may he
score!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-10-11

How middle.class Egyptians really
lived, and how they chung privately to
the old picturesque family gods when
one pharaoh insisted that the nation
worship one god only, is shown by
excavations at Tell-el-Amarna, per-
haps the strangest city OF ancient
Egypt. RI
The Egyptian Exploration Society
excavating at Teilel-Amarna, has been
working particularly at the ruins of a
suburb once occupied by everyday
Egyptian citizens. whose customs are
still much less understood than the
glittering lives Of the kings and
mobiles.
In a report of the excavations by
Henri Frankfort, he explains that the
workmen's quarter was probably over.
crowded. 1t consisted of a mass OF
small buildings, the best Of which ran
along two main roads. While others
branched off along innumerable crook
ed pathways winding between gran
aries, chapels and others buildings.
X
The plan of the better middle-class
homes called for central room, serv-
ing as a. reception hall, and behind
this a corridor leading to the domestic
0poA tIAClAIS' 81 tAidl TIE pIINdtS lILS OL
the house was cut off from the official
or public part. In one house an excel.
lently preserved bedroom showed that
the legs of the bed stood on conical
stone supports to avoid sinking to
the stone floor. Next was bathroom
with limestone bath and a runneI for
carrying off the bath water.
The city which the suburbanites
were helping to build and beautify
was one of the most remarkable
projects of Egyptian history. About
1870 Be. the young Pharaoh Akin
Atom broke away from the traditional
religion of worshiping Anon and
many lesser deities, and declared that
Egypt should worship one god only,
Atom, the Suns Disk. The Sun God,
he maintained, gave heat and light to
the world and was the one great
creator and protector Of the earth
and all it's people. Akhn-Aton or.
dered all the temples to the old gods
closed, their priests turned out, and
the names of the gods hacked from
the splendid temples and shrines.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-10-11
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN.

Q. What has become OF Lowell
Sherman, who appeared in 1.-The
Reckless Lady" and other pictures?-
NJ. w.
A. Mr.. Sherman. according to the
latest information we have, is touring
in vaudeville.
O. I am planning a trip to Hawaii,
and want to earn enough while there
to pay my expenses. What are the
possibilities?-H. T. b.
A. We are informed that the lure
of Hawaii has become so strong that
far more people are always seeking
work there than there are positions
available. Therefore those without a
position assured before leaving home
should not make the trip unless amply
provided with funds.
Q. Where was Sir Francis Drake
huried?-S. s. n.
A. The English admiral's body was
placed in n leaden coffin and buried at
sea near Porto Cabello, Venezuela.
@. What is meant by the repro
duction new" theory?-B. NJ. T.
A. The railroad and public utility
corporations hold the view that with
the decreased value of the dollar they
based not on the original cost of pro-
duction but on what it would cost to
reproduce their properties at present.
day prices. This is called the repro
ductiOn new theory. Opposing this
contention is that of the National Con.
ference on Railroad Valuation, which
believes the fair basis for earnings
and rates is the amount of the origi-
nal investment. plus improvements
that the railroads have put into their
properties. This is known as the
original cost or prudent investment
theory.
Q. When is the transcontinental
foot race to be held?-C. p. C.
A. The one projected is to start
from Los Angeles on March 3, 1928,
finishing in New York City. 1t is
known as the international transcon-
tinental foot race, and is open to
any physically fit male athlete in the
world.
Q. How large is Bafin Land?-L. X.
A. The island has not been com
pletely explored. It's size has been
estimated at from 100000 to 800, 900
miles, but the Putnam expedition has
this Summer measured a part of the
| coast and determined that the esti-
| mates are too large, the section .eas-
ured reducing the total by about 5000
square miles.
Q. Has a person the right to make
| patented device for his own use
without the consent of the patentee?
e. NJ.
A. The grant of a patent for an
invention confers upon the patentee
the exclusive" right to make, sell,
| use the patented invention. He may
authorize other persons to do so, but
any person who makes the patented
| device without consent of the pat
entee, even for use by himself only,
is guilty of infringement and may be
| sued therefor in the United States
courts. with claim for damages in
consequence of the infringement.
@. How were the hanging gardens
of Babylon kept in place?-E. l.. B.
A. The hanging gardens were in
reality structure. upon the roof of
which were planted trees, flowers and
| shrubs.
@. What will remove pitch from