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Evening star., 1928-04-27

BENEFITS shall reach those II Is intended
to succor. on that score the Red Cross
cherishes grave doubts with regard to
present-hour China. Distress il the
most acute in the Province of Shan
tung. Shanttng is now roaring bat~
tlefield. 1t could easily become q
shambles.
Meantime. China famine relief
committee, under distinguished denom~
national auspices. has been formed at
New York. BY Nationwide drive II
plans to raise $io.000,o00. 1t purposes
not only to relieve immediate physical
distress In Shantung and adjacent ter
ritory, but also to undertake public
work which would give employment to
starving Chinese peasants.
The Red Cross. 1t goes without say
ing. will place no obstacles in the path
Of the China famine relief committees
well-intentioned program, But until
generous American donors can be guar
anteed that their bounty will reach
destination, and not find its way into
the already swollen private treasures
OF power drunk Tuchu1s, it would not
seem amiss to suggest that the commit
tees eleemoSynary activities should be
marked by extreme circumspection.
The American people wish the Chinese
nation we'll The latter is not likely to
mistake the attitude of the Red Cross
for any lack Of good will upon the part
of country justly known as "China's
best friend" American money and
Red Gross direction relieved the great
Shantung famine Of 1s20-2l. They
would not fail the Chinese in any other
emergency that justified a similar inter
vention.
Evening star., 1928-04-27
Explains Early Poem
BY Payne on Home

TO the Editor OF The Star:
am grateful for the notice given by
you in The Star Wednesday OF my re-
marks before the Columbia Historical
Society last night on the life and career
of John Howard Payne Permit me.
however. to call your attention 10 mis-
leading statement in regard 10 the
publication in Scribner's Magazine of
an earlier poem on Home" than the
Home, Sweet Home" Familiarity known
This earlier poem was written by Mr..
Payne at the age OF l5 when a student
at Union College, Schenectady. N Y
1t was published for the first time In
Scrihners for December. 1915. by MIR
Payne's grandnephew. Col Thatcher
+. p. Luquer 100 years after ii was
written. Your mention of 1t might lead
one TO think that Mr. Payne himself
published 1t In ScribnerS when first
written. which would have been i'm
possible.
do not think that the genesis of
Home. Sweet Home" can be traced 10
this poem. written at such an immature
age. but, taken together. the two may
indicate that the authors thoughts
dwelt much upon the theme OF home.
Mr., Payne returned to this country
In 1882. He died in 1882, after being
twice consul TO Tunis.
l> ROSA PENDLETON CHIIES.
Evening star., 1928-04-27
pettiShneSs.

For sheer narrowness and pettiShness
nothing probably has ever approached
the statements attributed to prominent
Canadians in connection with the gall
liant and desperate trip Of Col. Charles
A. Lindbereh when he carried pneu-
monia serum from New York to Quebec
to the bedside of Floyd Bennett. While
the flying ace himself is not accused of
knowingly participating in the huge
bluff" these Canadians charge that un-
named persons used the colonel TO fur
ther their selfish aims in a vulgar pub.
hcity stunt" And II cannot stomach
this way of taking profit of a tragic
situation under the mask of charity.
Here We have everything that is neces-
Sary, and We do not need them TO come
from the United States to bring us
serum. We can also get along without
American doctors. be they the most ac-
complished specialists of that great
country"
Well. well, well Canada should cer-
as these spread about the world. and
that they viii be is surety. The death
of Floyd Bennett was an international
tragedy, and international attention has
been focused on the brave fight for his
life. No one doubts but that Canada
possesses pneumonia serum and ample
facilities Of the most modern kind TO
combat all the diseases TO which hui
mans fall heir. but 1t remains a fact
that so great was the interest and con-
cern in Bennett's illness among his own
countrymen that no effort and no ex-
pense was spared in the vain effort to
save his life.
Whether the particular serum that
was desired was available In Canada is
a moot question. The specialist on, the
case asked particularly for serum pre-
pared by the Rockefeller Institute, and
II is assumed that he believed this type
best suited 10 his purpose. If he could
have procured the identical serum In
Montreal then he obviously was not
looking after the best interests OF his
patient. but this thought Is so far-fetch-
ed that no one would seriously con-
slider IL.
Criticism of the strenuous attempt to
save Bennett's life does not sit well in
this country. Even the most rabid anti
American would find 1t difflcuIt. nay.
impossible. TO discover wherein lay
prof: for any of those who turned time,
money and energy to the task. The
Rockefeller Institute does not need pub
licity, neither does Lindbergh, and the
Guggenheim Foundation for the Pro-
motion OF Aeronautics can hardly be
accused Of being profit-making or
ganization. As Or. W. II. Delaney, SUI
perintendent OF the jeffrey Hale Hos
pitai Of Quebec so aptly says, The
world Of medicine has no border line" I"
1t Is a pity, therefore. that iil-advised
Canadians viii. IN jealousy and bad
taste attempt to make an issue out OF
country's love and affection for one
Of It's foremost heroes Of the air.
Evening star., 1928-04-27
Coolidge Talk on States
Rights Stirs Animated Debate

through lazineSs and ncentiousneSS
The Green Bay PreSS-Gazette tinde-
pendertl adds that when the national
government finishes performing purely
national functions IL has finished IT'S
work. To give II more Is not only 20
have the work performed in poorer
fashion. but, as the President said, tt IS
bartering away ones freedom"
This country must keep away from
any oaternaliStic tendency. either In
business or in other matters" advises
the Albany Evening News independent
Republican,. and the Altoona MIrEer
independently atfrnlS that the Pyssi-
dent lis quite right when he commences
individual independence and State as
sumption OF authority IN all local mat
terS." The Syracuse Herald (independ-
entl holds that he said enough %
measure his understandings Of the Ma
tion'S divergence from the standards
and aims Of the founders Of the Repue-
lie" The Youngstown Vindlcator Dem
ocraticl contends that our forefatAsrs.
could they look IN on conditions today.
would be amazed 10 see how far w
have drlfted from their ideals" The
Columbus Ohio state Journal (Repue-
ltcanl AYERS that 1t Is time 70 eal
halt" The Richmond News Leader
independent Democraticl IS convinced
that the ideal government IS the one
that has the least 20 do, the worst
government Is the busiest"
Nevertheless. the Utica ohSeryeT-pis-
patch independently asserts that MI
Coolidge'S emphasis on indivtGuallSra
can he carried too far, II Is an ines
capable fact" continues the paper, that
there are more and mere services which
everybody today considers 10 hs paolic
services, IL Is equally clear that
goYernmentS work OF protecting che
weak against the strong must inevitably
grow IN scope as oar civilization be-
comes more complex The Santa RAr-
hara Daily News tnemocEaticN believes
that when q Job becomes too big for
local control, Il is rigAt and proper for
the people 60 look 60 the national goy~
ernment for aid
MIR. Coolidge Is appealing tc enc
country 70 deliver itself from the eoase-
lueneeS OF his own acts and the acts
OF statesmen who have acted as he has
aetea. SAYS the DAYTON Daily News
tladenendent pemOcTaticl. and tAs
Houston Chronicle lremoerattcN offers
the colameat President Ceolsdgs, as
sumlng that things as they new stand
and the SYSTEM as Il Is now operated
are 1uSt and right, saws that, on thts
basis. We viii he fair 81 everybody AMI
play no eNOartteS IL all reminds Us Of
the tgite story VI the yeungster who eats
half his apple ana then plays tatr' ~
glviag half OF the remainder g. hts
brother"
His ntteFance en government Hgey~
terence IN private business" IN the
Judgment Of the chicagQ Daily TTtolae
,Repuhlteanl, ''is sound, Wholesome, and
ttnely IN the face of = popular willing
ness 60 eentraltse power In Washing
ton aud let WASHINGTON run the eauae
try Hut his willingness and the move
ment that takes advantage az It does
not ecnSine itself 10 economic life lt
has extended over every part and phase
al life, What the country needs II q
~ rerhet who han denotnee goNeFn-
Ment centred af every personal activity
as well A. eontrVl ef business aleae,
Evening star., 1928-04-27
PHILOSOPHERS
BY
GLENN FRANK

The next great advance Of the human
spirit will come when we discover the
secret of harnessing for daylight uses
the serenity and swiftness OF mental
operations that take place in our
dreams.
Maurice Maeterlinck once said that
every man is a Shakespeare in his
dreams.
/ remembered today the story Of the
Frenchman who became student OF
the mind of dreamland
He was ever trying to find ways and
means of waking suddenly enough 10
catch his mind in the dream process.
He arranged that his little daughter
should, when she found him asleep,
waken him by some unusual means
Finding her father doing in his chalr
after the midday meal, his head thrown
back in his chair, the little glrl quickly
drew her fingernail across his throat.
He wakened instantly with dream
fresh in his mind.
He had dreamed that he was in the
midst of the French Revolution; that
he was suspected of royalist tendencies
that enraged the passion-frenzieo
French democrats Of the time: that ne
was arrested after long and tedious ana
terror struck attempts to evade the pur-
suers: that he was brought before the
tribunal: that long and dramatic trlai
ensued: that he was finally sentenced
to death by the guillotine, and he had
awakened just as the knife had touched
his throat.
All this had obviously happened IN
dreamland in the instant following the
sharp Journey of his little daughter S
fingernail across his throat.
DAYS of sights and sounds. OF oDser-
vations and experiences had been
crowded into a flashing instant
1t staggers the imagination TO try 10
think what we might be and do II we
could contrive to achieve in daylight
this mental sWiftness of dreamland.
Even the genius Of daylight IS but
a plodding pIowboy compared with the
magical scope and speed of the dream
mind.
If we could harness the swiftnesS OF
the dream mind for the mastery OF the
problems of daylight. reality would make
romance a dull and dreary business IN
comparison.
Copyright. Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate
Evening star., 1928-04-27
The Red Cross in China.

Eews Just published In The star sfat
the Eed Grass Is disineiineo 10 call upon
ejae American people W contribute "
famine reiief in China coineadss with
tragic ttdlpgs from THAI distracted
saagntry. f. famous American medical
missionary, Dr. Walter r Eeymour. has
been murdered by Nationalist solder
a. Teluin2. IN southeastern Sbanting
There sre BHconhfnaed FeD0rts oi out
RACES UPON other AMERICANS IN Cbina,
EgsAheru and northern forces, res'Hn~
sgag fhesf Spring campaign" iof dDfn"
,ostloa of Bar-racked China, are now
"o0erag!ng' on characterHtic8lly ruth
Less llueg War" as ~aged by the
kan.1lt IN lltsTisl& cUgt0BiaTily does more
violence ~ the neipisss civilian poDu~
lstagn than " eCpbat2nts. Apparently
tie attacks on foreign missions aTe IN"
eaGental ~ the resumed drive VI lDf
RuouiIatang armies against Peking.
The ked Cfoss lllsiifles Us reluctance
as ssk for American dollars for Cblns
famine relief 0n tae ground tflsl "tiis
tswlees conditions prevail there is M
warrant for q charitable appeal " tnf
s,eoggle Of the United States, The tteG
Cross is tns grand aim0neT u the Re
ugl2gse. II bolee . responsible tr1istSe'
siglo from the Nation. When u ask
that purse ~stTtags Et 0nlgosec, the heE
Gross warts ~ be sure that tna cans'
f. not only Individually Just, bilt ths
.thers il no lsss certainty tiast feslltAB
Evening star., 1928-04-27
BRAND Asks for an Offer.

-Frnsl the brooklyn Daily EAGLE
With Berlin expressing satisfaction
with Brands speech ON Rhineland
evacuation the way is cleared for some
concrete proposal in the course of the
present year. The treaty of Versailles
provides for occupation until 1895.
Having ftilfilled the treatyS terms. Ger
many declares that since the purpose Of
the occupation Is to assure fultillment
the French should now withdraw from
German soil.
Very well," says BRAND we are
ready To withdraw. What have you 10
offer as a quid pro quo FOR being saved
the cost and humiliation of another
seven years Of armed oceupation9"
This puts the matter on financial
basis. 1t tells Germany In SO many
words that If she can md some way of
liduidating her reparation debt in one
lump France viii get out of Germany
How can Germany do thtsP There
Is only one way; by floating an inter-
national commercial loan to cover what
she owes France. II the worlds money
markets arc willing to accept German
securities In sufficient amounts To en-
able France ta pay her debts to Eng
land and the United States, the whole
matter might be cleared up this year
OF course. the total sum Germany
owes must first he iiXed at a reasonable
figure, say eight billions, Germany
VIII have 10 accept some kind OF mill
ltary control OF the Rhineland at least
until 1898. French Natiunalists will
insist OH more money than Germany
can pay and German Nationalists win
inaist upon less control than France
can ooneede II viii require all tho
persuasive powers OF BRAND and Strcse~
mann to force a successful issue.
Evening star., 1928-04-27
Book Prices.

The question Of book prices was In
terjected into the hearing before the
Senate post office committee IN behalf
" bill for lower postal rates on books.
Senator McKellar OF Tennessee declared
that he found that novels worth two
bils" couldn't he bought for less than g.
Senator Ptipps Of Colorado charged
that book prices nowadays we're "ex-
orbitaBt"
Members VI Congress usually can be
depended upon 70 state frankly the
thoughts Of their constituents. and 1t
is interesting, therefore, 10 discover that
these Senators, and 80 the people they
represent, feel that book prices are too
high.
Perhaps not only The people Of
Tennessee and Colorado feel this way
about it.. The peoples of these United
states, ss a class, have not yet been
thoroughly "sold" on fancy prices for
bo0kE, Especially Is this true ~ novels,
Publishers gambls IN futurities wnef
putting out stories. for not even the
most ssgaeious FIRM can absolutely pre-
cict best sellers"
IL nothing DO human tastes vary
more thsn IN the matter III fiction.
What Is . good story ~ one II branded
| by Tie neat reader as mot worth two
hts." and 20 IL goes. with no snre judy
/ ueDt " he given by any one, Even Ia
the last resort, public approval, ~
manifested by hook becoming a best
seller" IL no criterion, The best
sellers" ~ 10 years ago, IN some cases
strike us NJ to-day ~ pretty poor stuff
The individual ludgmsnt of book
Evening star., 1928-04-27
UNITED STATES
IN WORLD WAR
Ten Years Ago To-day.

Allies are holding fast on KENNEL
front and around Voormezeelc, barely
, miles from Ypres. Germans under
Won Arnim are busy consolidating their
positions around Mont KENNEL and re-
organizing their forces for new drive
against the other hills held by the allies
TO the west, Germans must have fresh
troops TO continue the attack one
British brigade inflicted four times as
many losses as they themselves suffered,
French troops counterattack
successfully on their, front from La
Ciytte q miles northwest Of Kemmell
to I0cre "a miles west of kemmeD.
They recaptire Incre and repulse vio-
lent efforts OF the enemy To reach the
nearby hills. Dispatch from
Copenhagen says counter revolution
has broken out IN Petfograd, Serious
rioting there and rumof Is persistent
that Grand Duke Alexis, son OF the ex-
cgar has been proclaimed Emperor,
Russian embassy In Washington has
no news as yet, one hundred
and three casualties reported by uen
pershing, including IL commissioned
officers.
Evening star., 1928-04-27

A proud father handed us the follow
ing list showing the vocabulary of his
i9-month-old son. He indicated that
the pronunciation was not precise fr
every instance, but that In none was
there any doubt of the meaning.
Every one knows how baby will cal
bunny "bun-bun," and so on. The
number of these infantile notifications
is legion. The fathers list follows:
Apple, apron. airplane, arm, air, auto
mobile.
Box, bed, broke, burn. bump. back
bath ball belt. book, better, baby, bird
bay. bread, butter. banana, bucket. bas-
ket. bell, big. beads bus, both, bean
brush breakfast. bicycle, bone. blotter
bark, bottle.
Chair, curtain. cover. cup. cellar, cat
chicken, cheek. coat clock, candy, cold
cool. COW, cloud. carrots, coffee. can
clean, car, cake. cracker, cry, coal, comb
come, card. cloth, cook, cough, close
corn. to crow. cut,
Daddy. door. dish. dog, drink. dress
dirt, dirty. down, dry, dust, duck, draw
er. dinner, doll, do
Excuse me, elephant, ears, egg, eyes
eat
Flower. face, floor. fall. fork, fire
loot. feather. fly, finger, furnace. fix, fun
Go, grandma, grandpa. gloves. gravy
good-by. glass, good gone, going, glri
House, hand hat. horse, hospital
home, hill, hair, hairpin. Humpty-
Dumpty. hurt, hot, hole, head, how-do-
you-do.
Ice, ink
Juice, Jump.
Kitchen. knife. knee, kick. key.
Leg. light lady, laundry, letter, little
Mother, mouth. moon. money, man
me. milk. meat, meet. morning. medi-
cine.
No. not, neck, night. nose.
Out. orange, other, oatmeal, outdoors
open.
Pillow. plate, pipe, pretty. pot, paper
pocketbook, pan, pocket, potato, pepper
piece, peas. please, pencil, pump, power.
picture. pull play, pin.
Room. romper. rain, roller, radio, ride
rabbit, rice. rum rng rug.
Stove. sink. saucer, spoon, smoke
stairs, shoe, sox, stomach, sweater
shirt, scarf, sky. sick. string. stone
splinter. steps. stop. sun, star, spool
shave. soup. spinach. snow. sugar, salt
skate, school, soap. slipper sore, store
screen. shovel. siren (ire), soldier
sleep. sing. see, sneeze, spit, stick. shut
stuck stool.
Tree. table. tub truck. tongue, tooth
top. toast. tomato. tear, torn, towel
toes. tower, tomorrow, telephone, throw
Umbrella, up.
Vase. vaseline.
Water, walk. window, wagon, wet.
Yes you.
Here are some 275 words which give
a cross-section of a very little child's
life
From them the curious observer
might deduct the baby's food. the loca-
ton of its home. the fathers occupa.
tion, some of his habits. baby's first
acquaintance with literary characters
A child's first observances undoubt-
edly are of food: that is why the list
of foodstuffs in the above vocabulary
is so remarkably full
We find apple. milk. bread, butter
oatmeal, cracker. banana. toast, tomato
orange, spinach. egg. carrots, coffee
cake, rice
1t might be added that from this
dietary not only babies but adults might
select foods for a lifetime. There Is
enough heat and energy units, together
with the necessary salts vitamins and
Evening star., 1928-04-27
College Figures Prove
Modern Youth Steadfast
To the EIItor al The star:

10 IDe EuitoF Vi IhF 9Fa'
Modern youth is so frivolousl So
vail the pessimists, who claim that the
breakdown of the home or the advent
of prohibition has sent the youthful
life of the Nation whizzing to hades
on a gIary toboggan slide.
But Is youth frivolous? Francis
w Lawson. who is the director Of en-
plovnent in the University of New
York. does not venture an opinion, but
he does state that of the $4,000 en-
rolled students in that university over
q. 600. or 10 per cent. earn either all
or a part of their way through the
university. Not less than 1850 OF
these do full-time work and 3.545 do
part time work. with an average per
CAPITA earning of about $500 per year
as against 81 500 per year for the stu
dents who hold full-time jobs. The
aggregate annual earnings OF these
students total the somewhat impressive
sum of $4,000. .000 Not so frivolous,
after all Even more surprising Is the
fact that in the fashionable Smith Col
lege for women almost half of the
students are earning all or a part OF
their way
Back in 1914. before the home had
lost its grip" or prohibition bad filled
the young people with deviltry. the at
tendance at the colleges and univer-
stiles totaled 274.084. while In 1924
726.l24 of the frivolous young rene
gades were enrolled. and doubtless more
of them were working their way than
the total in attendance during the
good old days" when pa and ma
we're sober-minded young folks, and
the home was "all that 1t ought TO be. /"
and smelly grog shop adorned ~
the principal street corners in village
and city, with white-aproned, red
nosed barkeepers Singing the sudS"
behind the mahogany bar with a brass
rail
Oh for khem good old. sweet old
days, Steve
CHARLES p. NELSON.
Minneapolis, MINI
Evening star., 1928-04-27
SHOOTING STARS.
BIZ PHiLANDER JOHNSON.

Old Songs.
In other days We sang song,
And let the old world drift along.
II was a simple light refrain,
Which now we hear with much dis
dain--
For we have learned TO complicate
The rhythms OF that earlier date.
Until the echo sounds so free,
That We forget the melody.
When life has danced a little while
Wen greet the sorrow or the smile.
Despite the strains this time may bring
with just the songs we used TO sing.
Evening star., 1928-04-27

then, IL practically worthless: what
should count is the quality of printing,
presswork. binding, and so on. in
relation to fair profit, Those who ex-
pect to be abreast Of the times must
pay for II. New books" always cost
more than old ones. just as new motor
cars are more expensive than old
models. The point to be determined is
not, whether any one thinks a book
good. but whether the purchaser Is
given a square deal That is all any
buyer asks, whether he buys new
novel or a ton of coal