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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-11
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

J walton today. Commercially ire
mendous business in these bulbs mas
been built up between this country
and Holland
| Every flower lover dreams of the
! time when he may journey to the
! land of bikes, and see the Hoiiahd
| tulip fields in bloom.
I Surely that must be sight worth
crossing several oceans 10 see! Acres
! upon acres of these flowers, In sun
| rows. bringing forth the essence Oh
! their mathema teal beauty, thelF al
most chemical colorings.
] Once in the hands of the breeders
/ a distinct race of men the world over
natient plodding, loving men. of
| whom the late Luther Burbank was
| the highest type, the wild growing
| tulins came to have names ana ms
| tories of their own
II is not generally realized TO-DAY
| by the average gardener. that the tuilp
! Tr,IIina1 is of a genus of dubious herbs.
| We are not accustomed TO regarding
| the tulip as an herb, any more tiiah
| ordinarily we think of the rose aS u
! shrub. e.,,,.
! Tulips belong to the lily family
| Giliaceae), that wonderful group tiIat
| gives the world some of it's grandest
| flowers. Today the original species
are almost forgotten, or so crossed
and recrossed, by the hybridizers, that
| they are lost.
| Those who grow tulips merely Tor
| their authentic touch of Spring, their
beautiful colors, care little about the
careful, laborious work OF the oreeo-
| ers. They are only known TO us
through one strain listed in the cata-
logues, the Breeder tulips, once
more coming into favor. after the
vogue Of the Darwins.
X * + +
The florists have common-sense
way of looking at tulips. To them,
| tulip is either good or bad, in form,
and pure or stained, in color Inc
| good and pure are the breeders, the
ones that are put into commerce.
From these nearly perfect ones have
| developed many bizarres, as they are
called. hecked with contrasting colors.
One group is sometimes called par
rot" from their variegated petals.
| Some go by the name of "serpentS.
There is always a taste for novel
| ties, and after one has glorified in the
standard varieties some of these queer
ones may be tried.
The double tulips. which look more
| like water lilies than tulips, are IA
vored by some, but most enthusiasts re-
main true to the cup-shaped single
varieties, either in the perfect form
| or with the refiexed petals.
Perhaps the most satisfactory
method of planting tulips is in orderly
rows. to bloom together, preferably of
| the same variety. The stiff grace of
| the tulips, if one may call it So shows
| to perfection from this method of
planting
Despite the favor in which the 30
| inch Darwins are held, the shorter
"early tulips" are regarded with af-
| lection by many These are often
seen growing in porch boxes, on the
sunny side of houses.
AS one goes around Washington
| late in April. and during May, he
should keep his eyes open for the
| blooming of the tulips, among the
most beautiful and interesting of
flowers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-11

The fruits of the new Pandora
box are just beginning to snow. Ii
arrived last Autumn just before the
cold weather sets in.
Instead of ills flying forth when
the lid was raised we saw only neat
rows of shiny. light tan bulbs.
Tulips,
This was our new Pandora's box.
destined TO bring forth. in the Spring
of 1927, dec Volente. rows of bright
blooms. best of Vernal flowers
What queer brown gnomes they
were, the bulbs, cleaned. shining
with natures protective coats, within
which resided the flower itself. For
the tulip. unlike most bulbs, holds
the veritable blossom, not just the
possibilities of bloom.
A bulb IL. If possible, more mys-
terious than seed. although the lat
ter Is as mystic n creation as this
world knows. in the last analysis,
holding. the spark of life and growth
dormant, yet ready to come into
being at the touch of moisture and
soil, followed by sunlight and fresh
air.
Either a box of bulbs. or "a box
of seed, In bright packets, is Il box
of beauty. a treasure chest Of tints
and tones, waiting. as the song says
we all are. for the sunrise"
+ X
Only the promise of color is held
out so far. Even the Springlike days
of February and early March have
pushed the tulips but half an inch
above the soil.
Let this weather continue. how
ever. and beds will burst into bloom
before their time. red, white, yellow.
pink the so~called early varieties
leading the procession.
The stately Darwins and Cottage
varieties will come next, these in
May, sometimes blooming even into
June.
Between come those called Breeder,
with many varieties, and the queer
little botanical tulips. as some call
them, important among these latter
being the kauffmannia or water
lily" tulip.
Tulips for several centuries have
held the affection of men, previous
TO which time they grew wild in
various parts of the world, notably
on the north shore of the Mediter-
ranean, in the Levant, Armenia. the
Caucasus, North Africa (home of the
gladiolus), Persia. Asia and Japan.
The romance of the tulip struck
a high point in the tulip mania" of
the sixteenth century, centering in
Holland. Some idea of 1T may be
gathered from Alexandra Dumas
BLACK Tulip" a romance of those
days.
The "tulipomania.' however. was
merely a form of gambling. so we
need not get excited about it now
adays. Those who mortgaged their
homes lands and future for a few
new bulbs did it as speculation, not
for love of the flowers, or peculiar
interest in their cultivation,
Tulip lovers in the background. in
many nations, were those who made
the mania" possible, since the spec
ulators saw, in the ardor of the
fans" a sure revenue for them, If
the particular bulb on which they
plunged" caught the public fancy.
X X
The clear colors of the tulip are not
surpassed in any other flower in cult
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-11
Dogs Kept in Cities
Regarded as Menac,
flo the Editor of The Star

Io the Editor of The Star:
In your editorial entitled "A Mvs.
terry IN the issue of March z YOU
nave, in the argot of the day. "said a
Inouthfui. You treat the subject of
the marking dog in a facetious vein.
which | do not seek to criticize. though
II does seem TO me that the whole sub
Ject OF keeping dogs in cities is neither
humorous nor mystery
am taking the opportunity afforded
Dy your editorialFto offer the opinion
that 1t is time people of common sense
In apartment houses. in block houses
Indeed, in the whole crowded areas
OF our big cities--to revise their no
tons about keeping dogs. 1t does not
appear to have occurred to the aver
age man and woman that keeping a
dog under the restraint necessary in
the city is not fair to the dog He is
an animal that Graves movement
over a wide area. He does not take
kindly to the back yard, to being
cooped up inside the house or other
wise restrained as an animal in the
Zoo. No dog so confined can be either
healthy or happy or indulge his nat
ural habits. The fact is. putting the
restraint upon the dog required in the
city is species of torture that ought
" diOuS6 dcCIylLIGS OF humane
societies everywhere.
But your editorial hits at something
which has not, so far as | know. been
called to public attention before. II
is that people who keep dogs in cities
are not at all careful about placing
them under much restraint The
owners OF dogs seem to act on the pre-
sumption that they must have the
pleasure of keeping their pets and the
neighbors must stand all the annoy
ance. Up in our corner of Georgetown
one family keeps a wolfhound as a sort
of protection to the small boy of the
| family. This dog several months age
formed the habit of rushing out al
passing automobiles and barking
loudly at them. Latterly other dogs
emboldened by his example, join in the
chase, and now it is a pack of dogs
that keep the streets resonant hours on
a stretch with their raucous barking
Nuisance? Yes, nuisance to every
body except the owner of the dog and
the policeman on the beat. Neither
of them has, SO far as is known, tried
to stop a growing public menace, for
the dogs are beginning to chase chill
dren about and set timid women run.
ming in their pursuit of canine sport.
In observations about Washington
extending over a period of % years !
have never known man who owns a
dog who was entirely willing to keen
him within the bounds of order or to
accept the fact that the animal was a
nuisance to his neighbors.
l repeat, it is time for people OF
good, common sense to revise their
notions about the propriety of keeping
dogs in cities. j. G. RANSOM.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-11
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

most distinguished members of that
honorable political fraternity fol-
lowed precedent and hung out their
shingles as local attorneys-at law.
They are Irvine l.. Lenroot of Wis
consin and John Philip Hill of Mary
land. Huston Thompson of Colorado.
though not a lame duck. opened a
Washington law Office earlier in the
Winter, following his retirement from
the Federal Trade Commission.
Eminent lame ducks of earlier days
now in lucrative legal practice on the
Potomac include Frank w. MondeIl OF
Wyoming, Philip p. Campbell of
Kansas, A. Owsley Stanley of Ken
tucky. Porter j. McCumber of North
Dakota, George E. Chamberlain OF
Oregon and Thomas p. Gore OF
Oklahoma. A former Secretary oil
State, Robert Lansing, and two for
mer assistants to the President
Joseph r. Tumulty and G. Bascom
Slemp-are also Washington lawyers
John Coolidge is being advertised
by promoters of the citizens military
training camp movement as a sample
of what Army camp life can do for ar
outstanding American boy like the
Presidents son. The other night in a
radio address broadcast from New
York City, Col. Peter e. Traub, chief
OF stan of the 18th Division, said
we sent John Coolidge back home
from three citizens military training
camps better citizen and a better
man, and we have done the same for
every other young man of good moral
character who has come to us" Col
Traub called the camps bridge
builders of democracy" because, he
SAID, their aim was ito build a bridge
Tor the youth of America to cross
In safety In any future grave
emergency confronting our beloved
country"
x x 4
Col Thomas Edward Lawrence.
the brilliant young British officer
author whose amazing war expert
ences In Arabia have just been pub
llshed in limited American edition
OF 10 purchasable copies at $4,000
apiece, was one of the picturesque
figures at the Paris peace confer
ence. This observer had the dis
tinction, while attending that con-
clave, of bringing Col. Lawrence
into personal contact with the latters
brother-colonel from Texas-Edward
~A~Ho~' A<t1WlCICe, WHO llNeu the
life and dressed the part of an Arab
sheik during the World War, came
to Paris mainly as the emissary of
the Emir Feisul, who aspired to be
King Of the Hejaz. They were the
days, early in the conference. when
Woodrow Wilson seemed monarch of
all he surveyed, and all roads in
Paris led to the door of Col. House
who was still his prophet.
X X X *
One of the stories being told of
Associate Justice Oliver Wendell
Holmes of the United States Supreme
Court, apropos his recent eighty-sixtb
birthday anniversary, is that each
year he engages as a secretary some
new graduate of the Harvard Law
School. According to the story,
Holmes insists that the youngster
must promise not to get engaged dur.
ing his twelvemonth of service. But
reserve the right" the merry old
juriSt simultaneously observes. ito
die or resign" The dean of the SIN
preme bench is said to favor youth :
full legal minds as those with which
he can most usefully become dispu-
tatious or from whom constructive
criticism can most effectively be
sought.
tCopyright. 1922
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-11
The Yielding Yaquis.

When the Yaqui Indians of north
ern Mexico go on the warpath it is
now the custom of the authorities of
the sister republic to send out bombing
planes wherewith to chasten them.
The military comnnandant of the State
of Sonora recently reported that some
three hundred rebellious Yaquis who
attacked q ranch were first severely
punished and next dispersed by air.
craft.
No longer are columns of plodding
soldiers or rurales compelled to toll
onward and upward into the almost
inaccessible spots used as bases of
operations by these redskins, liable,
as often as not, to eventual failure. If
not actual defeats The Yaauis haYe
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-11

Edison has attained ripe old age.
Counting the hours he has refused to
sauander in sleep, his share of actual
living would far exceed that of the
average person.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-11
Benefit of Experience.

You have made Crimson Gulch one
of the model communities of the coun.
tryn' said the travelling man.
1--WE have done our best" an.
swered Cactus Joe, modestly. 1.-THE old
Gulch has had enough experience
with boss thieves an hold-uppers to
know how to treat all kinds of law.
breakers rough"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-11
SHOOTING STARS.
BY pHILANDER JOHNSON.
Appeal to Friends.

Appeal to Friends.
I've made my income tax return.
Through hours of discomfort
I tried to show what | could earn
And also what / spent.
Ny brain becomes trifie stiff
When figures / assail.
Old Friend, please come and see me il
They throw me into Jail,
Bring oranges and cigarettes
And also magazines,
And marigolds or mignonettes
To cheer the prison scenes.
Should T be found nickel shy,
My lesson 1 must learn.
Please do not let me suffer by
My income tax return.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-11

fields and hills and trees--Pattersoh
tract should be acquired now
But Congress has fixed it so that
the Government will not he held up
for an excessive price,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-11

The corner saloon has disappeared
and nobody wants it back. The ques-
ton now is radiance of the gentleman
ly bootlegger who rejects the uniform
of the white apron.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-11

One of the popular songs cites the
early patriots as saying, Give me
liberty or give me black bottom. a
censorship even for tinpan alley pay
vet be considered
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-11

Delicate questions arise in the dis
cussion of whether certain groups of
citizens shall be allowed to vote and,
if so, how much?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-11

An effort is being made in New
York to prevent the volunteer play
censor from becoming an unsalaried
press agent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-11
Physical Contest.

Oh, Congress came and Congress went
We ask in tones polite
Not who excelled in argument"
But who has won the fight?"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-11

Radio makes it possible for eminent
personages to talk over thousands of
miles. What is actually said apparent
ly does not yet much matter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-11

1t becomes a question whether
European music and dancing can senu
over a sufficient supply of art to keep
up with the supply of American
money.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-11
A Timely Tip.

From the Lynchburg News.
Anybody looking for the years prize
for nerve can win it by approaching
sam sInsull just before the next po-
IiticaT campaign ana asking him for
= cor1krihuti0n.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-11
All Attended To.

Jud Tunkins says asking rich
man how he got his money is merely
trivial effort to interfere with the
income tax collector
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-11
In EXnIanafinIl.

your constituents say you do not
speak as well as you used to-
II was engaged in filibuster," an
swered Senator Sorghum. MY re.
marks were not supposed to represent
intellectual enlightenment, but physi-
cal endurance"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-11

Chinese deserters go from one army
to the other. The successful general
will establish a system of one-way
traffic.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-11
The New Music.

From the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.
The auto horn having broken into
opera, some venturesome impresario
will next try a locomotive whistle.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-11
A Golf Warning.

From the New York Herald Tribune.
Mr.. Rockefeller was a millionaire
before he was 80, but it took him
| 30 years more to break hundred
| ON a. golf course.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-11
Cutting Corners.

The corner barroom is no more.
New methods Time reveals.
The bootleg fiivver we deplore--
1t has been put on wheels.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-11

Whatever may be the economic con-
siderations involved, geology con-
tinues to assert itself as the para
mount issue in Japan.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-11
Selfish Attitude.

Evolution may be all right" said
Uncle Eben. but dem monkey an
cestors amt done nothin' WATSON.
ever foh me.i
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-11
A Line From Home.

From the Waco (Tex.) Times-Herald
It seems to be Tom BlantonR idea
to gnsh tha growlerA
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-11

Our invention of gunpowder," said
HI Ho, the sage of Chinatown, proved
like the idle word whose consequences
we cannot measure"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-11
Bucolic Computations.

From the Omaha World-H Herald.
Farmers are doing some figuring
and their favorite figures are 1928.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-11

The Evening Star. with the sunday morn,
inE edition. lie delivered by carriers wltn1.h
She city az 60 cents per month, dalSS cents cents
per month Orders NAV he sent by mau on
telephone Main 5000, Collection Is maze W
carrier at end of each month.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-11
Musical Setting,

When legislators disappear
We listen for the news,
And every night expect TO hear
The Senatorial Blues"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-11

Q, What Is a moron?-L. b. F.
A. A moron is an individual with ar
rested intellectual development whose
mentality corresponds to that of a
normal child from to IL years of
age.
@. Did BALTIC, the dog who carried
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-11

O. Why does fire give light?-F.
u. G.
A. The light of an ordinary yellow
flame is due chiefly to incandescent
particles of carbon suspended in the
gas.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-11

Practice before Government de-
partments at Washington and at the
bar of the District of Columbia con-
tinues to be the fayorite recourse of
/ lame ducks. Congress had adjourned
but q day or two before two OF the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-11

Q. How fine is gold that is .,
karats?-A. X H. !!
A. Gold 1000/l000 fine is equal "A
"a karats. Gold coins are 90O10A
fine.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-11

Q. Is there a ray shorter than H.
Gamma rays. r.
a. The Gamma raw is really a
super-X-ray, and shorter even than
this is the Millikan or COsmic ray
1t is estimated that there are 635 tril.
lion of them to the inch. Their origin
has not been established nor a use
found for them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-11

Q. Who executed the statue OF
peter Pan" and where is it?-W. A..
A. Peter Pam" by Sir George
Frampton, r. A.. is in Kensington
Gardens, London. OF it it is said
that this is the one London statue
with which Londoners are familiar.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-11

Q. How long did Lincoln live after
being shot?-W. y.
A. The President died April Is
1865, tho day following the firing OF
the fatal shot.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-11

Q. How much weight Is lost In
blood when hog Is killed.. A.
A. A 200-pound hog would lose
or pounds OF blood in killing.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-01

three successive frosts had harmed
wheat already weakened by drought.
1t was noted, however, that cold wealth.
er in Argentina is unfavorable, the
crop being late and what is needed is
warm growing conditions.
In connection with the bearish show
ing of domestic wheat visible, supply
figures, it was pointed out that the
total is now 88,29O,OO0 bushels against
72,034,O00 bushels a year ago. On the
other hand, unusual sensitiveness to
southern hemisphere weather and
crop reports today appeared ito be
partly due to word that the premier
Of New South Wales, Australia, anti
cipated a yield of only 100000
bushels in his territory, compared with
100000 bushels a year ago.
Corn prices acted heavy most of the
day. Frost shown at some points was
regarded as beneficial, and the corn
visible supply increased 1865 900
bushels, eastern shipping demand be-
ing slow Oats reacted with corn,
Provisions were easier on account of
scattered selling, which more than off
set an advance in the value of hogs.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-01
DISTRICT Cows.
CONFERS WITH
RESERVE BOARD

WASHINGTON, Oct. 81 (PO - The
federal reserve board today began a
series of conferences with governors
and agents of the II federal reserve
districts to discuss general credit con-
ditions and the revision of federal re-
serve regulations to conform with the
McFadden bill
Meetings between the board and the
agents formed today's program and
will be continued tomorrow. The
board then will meet the governors,
with, the conferences eliminating at
the end of the week with joint sessions
between the board and governors and
agents.
Each governor and agent will de-
scribe business credit conditions in
their respective districts and from
these reports the board will be able to
reach composite conclusion Of gen.
eral business conditions in the coun-.
try.
Although the board declined to give
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-01
F rockies and
His nends
By Blosser

poration, operations of which are
around 60 per cent of capacity, closed
point higher at 1925, after having
touched 1915 in the early trading.
General Motors common showed net
gain of Us at 1884, although it has
sold n points higher.
Wide fluctuations developed in some
of The pool specialties Rossia Insur-
ance broke u points Saturday and
rallied more than 10 points to 1854 to-
day, but slipped back at the close to
155. Case Threshing scared 9 points
to 26812 and then fell back to 2611a
American Tobacco issues scared 6
points each to new high records at
166, but lost part of their gain. Amer
lean Machine and Foundry, American
LinSeed preferred and Brown Shoe al
so reached a new high ground.
A violent break from 70 to TO, a new
1927 low, by American Sugar Rein
ing, featured late trading. One block
Of 2600 shares changed hands at rs,
and the next sale was a block of 1000
shares at TO- Cuban American Sugar,
Cuba Cane preferred and White Mot
orS also touched new low prices for
the year.
Some of the non-dividend paying
rails, particularly Wabash and West
ern Maryland, fluctuated rather errati-
cally but good undertone was ap-
parent for the investment issues, de-
spite the falling off of 61a per cent in
September earnings published to- date,
as compared with the same month last
year.