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Women's Jury Report Tomorrow.

Mrs. Jennie Berliner, Mrs. Wymond
Bradbury, Miss Grace Osgood and
other members of the committee for
the passage of the woman's jury serv-
ice bin will make their report to the
District Of Columbia branch of the
Woman's Party, at national headquar-
tiers, 81 First street northeast, tomor-
row evening. A dinner for officers
and committee members will precede
the meeting. Mrs. Emile Berliner will
preside.
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HIGHWAY PLAN ENDORSED.

Creation Of a Pan-American Peo-
pies Great Highway Commission to
plan for the construction of a high
way from Detroit to South America
Is provided in the Cameron bill passed
last night by the Senate.
The measure, which now goes to
the House; stipulates that the commits
sion shall be composed of members Of
the Presidents cabinet and the direc-
tor general of the Pan-American
Union.
An appropriation of 100000 is pro-
vided
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Lecture Tour Anticipated.

The understanding here is that
Alexander Kerensky expects to de-
liver some lectures during his visit
to the United States, but no details
Of his plans are available.
He Is believed to have relatives in
New York and will spend some time
there.
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Text Books to Be Inspected.

Acting Supt. of Schools S. E. Kra.
mer today advised supervising prin-
cipals that condemnation of text books
should be begun today and summar.
ICED report of the books condemned
should be submitted by each principal
not later than April /. T
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on making sick man well. There
was warning of this in the recent
medical congress at Washington. A
physician who spoke as though his
mind was in good order, and who
seemed to have the combination Of
technical knowledge and common
sense, warned against the food faddist
who would treat all ills with a regimen
like this: mot only do not eat too
much, but be careful not to eat
enough! Go to bed hungry, and IL you
must have breakfast take little warm
water, a spoonful of spinach and a
leaf Of lettuce. There are vitamins in
meal like that! Beware of taking
nutritious food on an empty stomach!
Bacon. eggs, fried potatoes, corn cakes
with butter and cane strip and aafc=-
with two Jumps Of sugar and pot OF
cream are baneful to health. You
should leave the breakfast table feel.
ing faint, and at noon, IL you are
wabbly in the legs and sick at the
stomach, take q little warm water and
spinach. If you are not too weak to
go to dinner you might take a cup of
chicken broth without any chicken in
1t and a lettuce leaf without oil and
lemon Juice on 1t. Do not touch rare
roast beef. mashed potatoes and gravy.
A dish Of rice pudding for dessert
would be too filling. Leave the table
feeling hungry. You should not dig
YOUR grave with your teeth! People
cat too much.'
The note sounded at the medical
congress was that too many food fad
dists are teaching people to live one
hundred and fifty years by sending
them to premature graves by starva-
ton.
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AIR MAIL FLYING POPULAR
BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN.

year ago, but 1t is assumed that the
| proportion Of accidents to miles flown
| will be approximately the same.
An Extraordinary Record.
But that some of the pilots are
either lucky or able to handle their
ships in such way as to minimize
| flying hazards Is shown by the ex
| traordinary record reported for Capt
Maurice Graham, who is rated as the
champion pilot of the air mail route
| between Salt Lake City and Los An
geles.
In the past Is months Capt. Ora.
ham has flown total of 125, 000 miles
| which Is believed to- be q record for
that period of time, and in all that
flying he has never been forced down,
has never defaulted a trip and has
never started off behind his scheduled
time, no matter what the condition of
the weather. The record Is all the
| more notable, 1t is to be remembered.
because it was made for the most part
in dangerous mountain flying. Lind.
bergh in flying from Los Angeles to
st. Louis over the same mountains
that Graham negotiates regularly had
more than sNven hours nf nighttime
flying, when he was compelled to
make an altitude of 1000 feet or more.
His maximum altitude was 1880
feet, which he had to make in passing
over a mountain of $4,000 feet.
What can happen, however, to the
pilot who does mountain flying is illus
trated by the experience of Paul P.
Scott in flying from Salt Lake City to
Elko, New. Snow was falling, there
was heavy fog near the ground and
clouds hung low overhead.
Scott crashed among the trees on
mountain top at an elevation of
5000 feet. Mechanics later reported
it one Of the worst wrecks they had
ever seen, the plane having cut a
swath of so yards through the trees
and was literally scrambled mass of
fabric, wires, broken wings, motor,
radiator and batteries. The mail
pouch was about the only thing left
| intact.
The pilot suffered dislocated
shoulder and was almost frozen before
he regained consciousness. Then he
had to walk IL miles through the
snow down the mountain before he
| reached a railroad track where he
could flag a passenger train and get
himself carried to the nearest town
where he could secure medical atten-
ton. s~.
The first plane to hook up the
Northwest with air mail routes crash.
ed at Pasco, Wash, and landed abso.
lutely upside down. But neither of its
occupants was injured.
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A Great Change.

st. John, ix,9-25-"One thing ]
know: whereas / was blind, now ]
see."
Some of the deeper facts of life we
may not be able to define or explain;
we can only state them. The great
changes that take place in our mental
outlook, in our evaluation of men, and
in our affections and in our religious
life do not lend themselves readily to
the precise terms of definition or ex-
position. We cannot give a reason
for the deep emotions which surge up
from within us, nor can we explain the
precise reasons why certain influ-
ences warm or chill us. There are
people like Henry Amiel, who. NOR.
bidly interpretive, are ever trying to
analyze and weigh their feelings. They
are seeking to discover the reason or
their manifestations of anger or at
lection, and the warmth or GOODNESS OF
their spiritual nature. There are
those who repress their emotions
until at length they refuse to respond.
They grow cold and Indifferent to the
emotional or spiritual appeal. One
reason why an entire chapter in a
comparatively short gospel is given
over to a description of the healing
of the blind man by Jesus Is that it
illustrates in a striking way the
tendency Of men to seek for causes
rather than to recognize effects.
When Jesus healed this man and
restored his sight, He provoked the
critical tendencies in those who were
utterly opposed to Him and His be-
neficent work. They used every en-
deavor to discount the testimony OF
the man who had been healed. They
sought to contradict him and even
called in question his kinship with his
father and mother. The fact that the
man was able to see. that a new world
was opened to his vision, was clearly
obvious. That his restoration was due
to the ministry of Jesus they sought
to dispute. Irritated and angered by
their persistent endeavors to contra
dict his testimony, the healed man
submitted his final argument: zone
thing / know; whereas l was blind,
now 1 see" There he left the
case, he would not argue further. He
would simply submit in evidence the
eyes once blind that now were able
to see. He was looking out upon a
new world and he gloried in his new
vision.
AS long as religion has been OPP
erative in the world there have been
those who have refused to recognize
it's power unless 1t subjected itself
to critical analysis. No matter what
it's results may be, it has no valid
place. That it's effect upon human
life can be disclosed in regenerated
men and women, to the controversial
list matters little. He is more inter-
ested in causes than he Is in results.
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words. the standing patron should not
be the profit payer. In the case of
buses a capacity load should be al.
ways a profitable one. There should
be a profit even upon a less.than-
capacity carriage. Just where the di.
viding line occurs is a matter Of
actuarial determination.
Higher fares are surely not the
remedy for failure Of patronage. The
public will invariably compare the bus
fare with the street railway fare, and
IL 1t pays more for the former, 1t will
expect more in terms Of service and
facility OF transport. To look for a
larger patronage on the basis Of a
higher fare without any change in the
quality OF service is to show an un.
usual optimism which experience
hardly justifies.
In these circumstances It would be
best to investigate fully the circum.
stances attending bus transportation
in Washington before acceding to the
proposal for higher fare even for
limited period.
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EVERYDAY RELIGION
BY THE RIGHT REV. JAMES E. FREEMAN, D. D. LII. D.
Bishop OF Washington.

It is an interesting but striking fact
that In the whole ministry of jesus
He uses little. IL anything OF argu-
ment. He seeks to persuade men, not
SO much by the methods He uses as
by the results He produces. To
change vacillating Peter and a
doubling Thomas into men who will
go to martyrdom for the thing they be-
lieve is more supreme accomplish
ment than the multiplication OF loaVes
and fishes, or, indeed, the calling OF
Lazarus from the sleep of death. The
miracle of changed lives is witnessed
daily. The turning of men from life
of vice to q life of virtue as the re-
suit of their recognition of Christ as
their Savior is a finer demonstra-
ton Of His power than all the creeds
we utter concerning Him. Men are
not saved by organizations, essential
as they may be.
We have lost today the emphasis
formerly placed upon what was COM
monty called conversion. Somehow
or other we have come to think OF
it as the expression Of emotional
religion, a superficial and ephemeral
experience witnessed largely in those
who are weak intellectually. 1t is
not so. Wilfred Grenfell, the hero
Of the Labrador Coast, relates with
convincing persuasion the great
transition in his life. Nominally a
Christian, but Indifferent to it's
higher call, he fell under the spell
of the great evangelist Moody. He
tells how he entered the hall in which
Moody was preaching, largely out of
curiosity, and before he left 1t he
had such a new conviction concern
ing the meaning Of life and it's great
purpose that it impelled him to give
all that he had to serving those who
were living under conditions that
were hard and difficult, quite I'M
friendly and forgotten. The great
apostle to the fisher folk of Labrador
presents unanswerable argument in
Il changed life and a changed out
look. We are less concerned as to
his church utilization or the organiza-
ton he serves than we are about the
incontrovertible fact that he is a
living witness of Christ's power.
Horace Bushnell. the intellectual
genius of Yale. unresponsive to the
Christian appeal, is aroused from his
deep slumber in the night, only to
experience a change within him that
resulted in his conservation to the
ministry, in which he became one of
the masters of his age. The rejuve-
mating and regenerating power of
Christ is as demonstrate in the
world today as when He walked
among men, and there is no more
valid argument that may be had for
His power and teaching than the tes-
timony of one who says: "One thing
/ know; whereas T was blind, now
! GOO -
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depreciation of land values, has
brought about bank failures and dis
tress not only to agriculture, but to
general business. Only the extraordi-
mar activity of the manufacturing in
dustrv and of merchandising over the
country as a whole during the last
three years has prevented greater
suffering.
organizing and successfully operating
a corporation to take over from banks
in the Northwest farms on which
they have been obliged to foreclose
mortgages, the result will be the
thawing of frozen assets and an i'm
nor+ant secondary influence of inspir-
ing confidence and stopping move
ment toward further distress mort
cages.
The money supporting the proposed
CORPORATION is to come from the East,
it is indicated. This plan is modl-
fication of one suggested a year ago
by Eastern financiers as a means 10
keep down mortgage foreclosures and
hence sustain farm land values.
Agriculture as a whole is improv-
ing it's condition. This is not because
farm prices have advanced, although
they have in some commodities, as 1t
is because wholesale prices of nom
agricultural products have been de-
clining steadily. In other words, the
margin between agricultural and non-
agricultural prices Is becoming more
narrow with the result that the
farmers dollar Is acquiring greater
purchasing power. The Department
of Labor wholesale price index for
May stood 1874 for farm products
compared to 144.2 in May of last year,
a decrease of 6.S points in the year,
while for all commodities it was 144.l
last month contrasted with 15l.7
twelve months previously. decrease
of 7.6 points.
What the present year holds for
agricultural prices is difficult to fore
cast and will depend largely upon the
size Of the crops yet to be harvested.
But at the moment. the situation or
agriculture is definitely better than
year ago, all factors considered.
Clearing. up the distress mortgage
situation should have a bolstering eff
feet upon agriculture generally and
undoubtedly also will be helpful to the
general business situation. The plan
of the Northwestern States contem-
plates not only transfer of fore
closed farms to new financial inter-
ests, but rehabilitation of these farms
in the hands of owners on terms
which will enable them to complete
their purchases and at the same time
make decent living:
------ tCoDyyight. 1927.l -4as.aaGiAiia
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Food and Health.

A man is lecturing in another city
on how to live for one hundred and
fifty years. The lecturer is conserva-
tive, for he could speak just as well
on how to live three hundred years.
It seems from the advertisement that
old age depends on certain kinds OF
food. The longevity expert does not
give away in the advertisement the
bill of fare that will make man live
a hundred and fifty years. He wants
to get the audience in the hall, and
then they will find that the wonderful
menu Is in q book which will be passed
down from the stage or which can be
bought at the door as the audience
passes out. Co.,.
There is too much unintelligent eat
ing. The relation Of food to health Is
recognized by sensible physicians and
by laymen with normal brains. II one
believe that his physician knows some
thing about food and health or food
and disease the patient will follow his
advice and generally with benefit. but
there is danger that some men may be
! misled by foal food faddists. more
stuck on theissawn theories than bent
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-26
Move to Solve Farm
Mortgage Problems
BY HARDEN COLFAX.

Plans - organize corporation to
take over nrortgage-foreclosed farm
lands Of the Northwest, which will be
discussed at conference in st. Paul
Monday, are regarded here as embrac.
ing far-reaching possibilities.
Not only does such a plan hold
promise of benefiting agricultural con-
ditiOns in the four States immediately
concerned in the conference, but It
also should have helpful effect upon
business conditions in these States and
an important reflex influence upon az
rlculture and general business in all
sections OF the country. If successful
this program Is certain to e copied in
other States where farm mortgages in
distress have frozen large bank credits.
A $4,000 mortgage on $4,000 farm
becomes a serious matter when the
farm value drops to $4,000 and the
price of the products grown on the
farm decreases also. This is exactly
what has happened in the United
States since the collapse of postwar
imitation
The 1920 census Of agriculture
showed farm mortgages aggregating
| 81 .003, 10000 on farms whose lands
and buildings were valued at $13,775,-
100000. Five years later the census
showed mortgages on these farms or
$4,517 100000, an increase, while the
value of the farms had decreased to
| S10,790, 100000. In other words, from
1920 to 1925 the ratio of mortgages to
value Of farms increased FROM 29.1 per
cent to 41.9 per cent, tremendously
heavy burden, which naturally led to
greater number Of foreclosures.
There Is an intimate relationship be.
tween frozen loans on farm mortgages
and the ability OF the banks holding
| such paper to finance temporary needs
of their farm clients for crop move.
| ments and also their ability to take
care of the financial requirements OF
the business men of t.. communities
! they serve. Foreclosures of mortgages
have put banks into the farming In
dustry when they are not organized TO
carry on ar icultural operations, and
ehch foreclosure has further unsettled
| Harket values Of land in the immedi-
| tie vicinity. ~
u This situation. awhere It has become
acute in localities experiencing sharp
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This and That
BY Charles E. Tracepeu.

Cats are honored employees in thou.
sands of Washington stores.
Every one knows the grocery cat.
His--usually her-name is legion. -
On week days she sits demufeIy at
the back of the shop to wend her way
forward to receive the pats Of favored
customers. So ~'.i -',siSi.
On Sundays she may be found
sound asleep in the window. curled
In front of the display grapefruit,
with the back of her head pressed
against the plate glass. -.
If you thump upon the window to
attract her attention, perhaps she
may favor you with glance from
half-opened eyes.
Most of the time, however. she
pays no attention whatever to the
inveigling of passersby, but remains
curled up in ball, happy for a day
of reposeful slumber.
She trusts the glass, knowing from
past experience that boys and dogt
cannot reach her, although they. ap.
pear so near. =.
**
There is a great maltese cat In an
engraving plant. as important, In his
way. as the president of the firm. ~
This cats horizon is bounded by
the four walls of the establishment.
which is on second floor. Never but
once has he been on the street. and
from all accounts he did not like his
experience.
He seems perfectly content with his
restricted life among acids and zinc
and copper plates and engravers. The
latter always have "A good word for
the cat, which is distinguished by
his size.
He has a trick Of leaping through
the arms when the latter are hooked
together by the hands. He appreci:
ates his dinner perhaps more than
anything else in his workaday life, T.
No doubt he has great sport catch.
ing mice at night, when the place
is darkened, and he is left to him:
self. -
A feed store has a big tiger cat
as trusted employee. -. y
This cat Is of an unusually solid
construction, as we learned from
picking him up the other. day. >-~
He was at the back of the place
at the time. Our advent and seizure
of him. caused him considerable sur
prise. e. = -.~
He submitted to. few pats. but,
struggled to get loose, and when We
put him down, dashed away into the
dark portion Of the store at the
rear. =
No doubt 1t was an event for n
stranger to make much Of him. PePe
haps the solid body beneath the fine
coat was caused by plentiful diet OF
fat mice. :.
This is the sort of place a mouse
would prefer" we thought to ourseR.
:.
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BUS Fares

A brief has been filed with the
Public Utilities Commission by COM
mittee Of the Federation Of Citizens
Associations urging that a careful
study be made Of the affairs of the
corporation which operates bus lines
In Washington and which has recent
~; made application for a ten-cent
fare. The committee offers, indeed.
the service of an organization Of spe-
cialists in case the Utilities Commits
sion does not feel justified in making
the investigation. The other day the
counsel Of the Utilities Commission
rendered an opinion on the subject OF
the application for ten-cent fares to
the effect that IL any advance in the
rate is granted, it should be for a
limited period. permitting determine
ton Of the need of such an increase,
with the understanding that the fare
should revert to the present rate If
at the end OF six months, for ex'
ample, the results of the ten-cent fare
do not justify the company's conten.
ton that the losses alleged to have
been suffered at the present rate OF
fare are due not to mismanagement
but to lack Of patronage.
It Is hard to understand how an In
crease Of fare will increase patronage
II the bus service is adequate. the
token rate will attract a sustaining
patronage. unless 1t is true that 1t IL
impossible to run fully occupied buses
at a profit. 1t used to be said that
the profits in street railway opera
ton were paid by the ''straphangers,
not by those occupying seats. THAI
standard, however. no longer prevails
A public transportation corporation
that cannot make a profit out of III
. comfortably filed cars is not justified
In continuing to do business. In othel
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with his disgrace and sought in. this
way to gain a vicarious revenge.
After his discharge from the mines he
opened a drinking shop in Summit
Hill, Carbon County. He was MARI
ried only few days before his arrest
Both Kerrigan and Boyle wished to
turn back when they saw that Yost
was not alone as usual, but Mcclellan
swore he would finish the work that
night and kept them with him., It.
was his bullet that killed Yost. .,i+
Michael J. Doyle was also young
man, being about 26. Jerry Kanes
body master of the lodge at Mount
Laffee, near Pottsville, was called etn
to furnish men to kill John p. Jones.
and the names were. selected by lote
Edward Kelly, who was year or so
younger than Doyle. was selected and
consented to serve, but the man Sc.
lected as his companion was married
and had family. 1t was not deemed
best for him to go, and Doyle volun'
teered to take his place. Both Doyle
and Kelly were youths Of kindly feel.
ings and good character, but the Molly
Maguires considered IL noble to take
life and they were ambitious for dfsss
5ttAEk444s ~
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Iowa laboratories have hopes Of de.
irving from cornstalks substitutes for
paper and wood and fiber more use
full for apparel than silk. Corn has
already been used for food, fuel and
Illicit beverage. But its versatile pos.
sibilities apparently have been but
slightly realized.
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SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Red Bird.

The Red Bird is a Soviet,
Who comes to take what he can get.
Yet furtively he hovers near,
Till he Is sure the coast Is clear.
He nips the food of patient fowl,
And near the drinking font will prowl
Believing always, more or less,
In his superior cleverness.
All, Red Bird, will you never know
That they who have, love to bestow
And that your song and beauty claim
Forbearance, and efface the blame!