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Evening star., 1928-04-22
FIRM GIVES S12.5O0 PRIZE.
American Company Makes First
Award TO Bremen's Designer.

NEW YORK. April 2i.-Prof. Junkerx,
designer Of the Bremen. received the
first material reward OF the Bremen'S
success when the ElectrolErx Co paid
him $4,000 marks fsi3.50ol. which the
concern offered for the first sirplane
1lght TO reach America from Europe.
The prize win be devoted to the uses
OF the Junkers Research Institution.
One Of the first uses the Junkerx CON-
uanv will make of the experience gained
in the Bremen fight viii be IN path
finding expedition across Asia this SIM
ner by two sister ships Of the BremFf
This expedition viii map out rcu.s
for the establishment Of regular air
plane service between England afi
India. Fer . long time il has been
known that such route would be mos
nroHtable. because the immense saving
in time on the delivery Of mail fTcra
England and which would justify high
postal fees.
Evening star., 1928-04-22
Broker Files a. Bankrupt.

Edward r. Dove, a broker, In q peli-
lion 10 be adludsea q voluntary hank
lalpt, tells the District Supreme Court
that he owes sih.dae and has no aasetH
Ne h represented by Attorney Leonard
A. Block.
Evening star., 1928-04-22

A pentagon Is a figure having re
sides and ave angles. SAYS the LlocrSg
Magazine.
Evening star., 1928-04-22
.STEF FANSSON lAUDS'
WILKINS JOURNEY.
Declares Explorer Has Open
ed Northwest Route,
Dream of Ages.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
NEW YORK. April 21.--A dream of
the ages--a northwest passage across
the world-has been brought nearer
practical achievement through the
pioneering OF Capt. George H. wilkins,
who today completed a 2.10o-mile flight
across the Arctic region. Valhialmur
Stefansson, veteran Arctic explorer, said
tonight
The fight OF Capt. Wilkins--the first
airplane journey from America to
Europe over the polar area-was over
a course that will shorten by hundreds
of miles the distances between con-
tinents, StefansSon pointed out. He
pictured the North Pole as the new
crossroads of the world when air cara
vans Of the future will meet In their
journeys from continent to continent,
Early Work Important.
While Stefansson voiced great praise
for the latest achievement Of wilkins
and his pilot. Ben Eielson. he declared
his work preliminary TO the flight was
Of far more importance to the develop
inent Of air transportation In the Arctic
region.
In support OF wilkins belief that
landing places exist about every miles
in the Arctic. StefansSon told Of three
forced landings that wilkins and Eiei-
son made far north OF Point Barrow
year ago Each time the landing was
made without injury to the occupants
of the plane, and when a wing VAS
damaged on the last forced descent
wilkins and Eielson dismantled their
= l. -~ET
ment with which they treked back to
civilization, meanwhile living on wild
game.
These adventures. coupled with the
aerial conquest Of the Arctic. tend to
prove the greater safety of transpolaT
fight oger transoceanic fight between
continents. StefansSon believes.
Flying conditions In the Arctic gem
orally are far more favorable than those
over the North Atlantic. he said, and
air travellers in the event OF forced
landing have an obviously greater
chance of surviving.
Achieves Dream of Ages.
Stefansson summarized wilkins
work: He has at last achieved the
northwest passage that the Elizabeth
ans dreamed of-the short route to
India"
Capt wilkins was second in command
of Stefanssons Arctic expedition OF
l9i3-is Referring to his five-year adj
venture in the Arctic with wilkins.
StefanSson secuted the legend Of a "lost
continent" In the Arctic. He indicated
In the section Of the Arctic still unex-
plored there is not room for land the
size OF Cuba or Labrador. He added
nothing but deep sea had been found
by his expedition in the area where the
lost continent" was supposed TO lie.
During the time Of his iai3-l6 ex-
pedition Stefansson said wilkins be-
came the 6rst aviator to study the float
Ing ice pack. making observations far
from land and securing data from which
he evolved his theory that safe land
ings could be made in the Arctic.
wilkins expedition was known as the
Detroit NewS-Wilkins Arctic expedi-
tion. Of which Stefansson Is director.
The scientific side of the expedition
was under the ausnices Of the American
Geographical Society Of New York.
BYRD PRAISES WILKINS.
Evening star., 1928-11-04
Airplane Speed Competition.

That intense rivalry exists between
the nations of the world is again
demonstrated in the strenuous efforts
being made by England to take from
Italy the world speed crown for air.
planes. Despite the fact that only a
short time ago one of Britain's FORE
most pilots OF fast seaplanes was killed
when his ship dove into the water at
a speed of 300 miles an hour, no let up
has taken place in Englands efforts
TO produce the fastest machine Of the
air. Lieut.. Darcy Grieg, in a flight
yesterday with supermarine Napier
plane, reached an estimated pace of
nearly three hundred and fifty miles
an hour, and after a few more try-outs
intends to ask the British air ministry
for permission to make an oficial at
tempt to break the record which is
held by Maj. Mario de Barnardi Of
Italy at 3l8 miles an hour.
Since Lieut.. ZAP Williams made his
vain attempt to get his privately built
speed plane in shape for the last
Schneider Cup races in Italy, America
seems to have dropped entirely out oi
competition for one Of the most coveted
titles in aviation. When Williams, a
noted Navy pilot. and his hackers de-
cided to build plane for the blue
ribbon event of flying the United States
Government had already signifed Its
intention not to enter. Williams, in
the trials, attained high speed in his
small ship, but owing to necessary ex-
periments with the pontoons, he could
not get it in condition in time fol
transportation to Italy. The Italians
with true sportsmanship, requested
England to consent to postponemen
until Williams and his racing PLAN
Evening star., 1928-11-04
Philadelphia's Purging.

Whatever may be thought Of the ex-
tent and character of the corruption Of
the officials of Philadelphia that has
recently been brought to light through
investigation, it must be said that pun
ishments have been prompt, and, SO far
as the matter has gone, adequate. The
city is evidently bent upon thorough
purging of the rolls, and the application
Of such penalties as will serve to estab-
lish high standard of conduct In the
future.
Yesterday member Of the Pennsyl-
vania Legislature and one Of the Re-
publican ward leaders Of Philadelphia
was sentenced to five years imprison-
ment in the county prison and to pay
a fine of $1,000 for the offense of taking
bribe money from saloon keepers. A
former police captain got sentence of
four years and a fine of $4,000; an
other captain got three years and the
same fine; special policeman got three
years and $4,000 fine; another special
eighteen months and $4,000 fine; a
third special six months and $4,000
fine.
These sentences were severe in that,
If they are confirmed and served, the
men will not be hereafter eligible to Of
fee Of any kind in the State of Penn
sylvania. The fines may be considered
as of little moment. in view of the i'm
mense sums that have been employed IN
bribery and corruption. None of the
defendants In this batch of cases would
in all likelihood, complain If fines alone
were imposed. 5.-.
There have thus far been no slips in
the prosecutions in Philadelphia. The
cases have been speedily prepared and
presented and tried. The investigation
was so thorough and successful in the
revelation of the facts that the grafters
were literally caught with the goods.
Their crooked relations with the boot
leggers, ther marked affiuence. the
Evening star., 1928-11-04
UNITED STATES
In WORLD WAR
Ten Years Ago Today.

Bitter fighting develops between the
Americans and Germans along the
Meuse, south of Stenay, where the Ger
man 5th Army sent up heavy re-
inforcements to prevent at all costs our
crossing the river. Despite stub
born resistance our men pushed ahead,
reaching the southern edge Of Beau
mont. Haig's forces win on a
30-mile line and advance everywhere
from the Scheldt to the Disc, with an
average gain of miles. Many towns
and half the formidable Normal Forest
is carried by storm. " I" French forces
advance farther south and supplement
the British operations by 2-mile dash
across the Sambre Canal. When
the Austrian armistice went into effect
this afternoon the Italian army had
captured q total of 100000 Austrians
and at least 5000 guns. Sixty-three Of
their divisions have been defeated.
Secretary Lansing issues a statement at
8 o'clock tonight that the allies have
agreed upon the terms of the armiStice
to be offered Germany. The allied de-
mands are said to be as severe as those
accepted by Austria. Nine hun
dred and fifty-three names are on the
casualty list given out by the War De-
partment today, including 348 dead and
killed In action, SIT wounded and 28
missing. Grand total to dafe is 65,09l.
Evening star., 1928-11-04

grotesque disproportion OF their legiti-
mate incomes and their bank deposits
all were matters Of specific evidence.
The prosecutions were aided by confess
sions by some of the less stout-hearted
members of the gang of grafters. But
the chief element of success in this
procedure lay in the speed with which
the cases were prepared and presented
and prosecuted. There was no time for
them to grow cold for witnesses to be
seduced and spirited away, for financial
accounts to be smeared with becloud-
ing entries. --'-
1t is possible to clean up even the
dirtiest of cities. New York has been
cleaned on more than one occasion in
the past. Chicago has had some spas
modic and partially successful purgings.
Philadelphia is now going through the
process. The real trouble lies not in the
securing out of the corners but in keep
ing them clean. After these efforts at
publication there come relapses. 1t is
always harder to keep clean than to
get rid of the dirt.
Evening star., 1928-11-04

could be taken across the ocean and
the Navy Department offered the use of
a fast cruiser for the purpose. but the
English weIr a~amdnU in their refusal
to brook delay in holding the event.
1t is unfortunate that the United
States Is content to sit idly by and let
both Italy and England experiment in
this most important feature of flying
The present high-speed ships, OF course,
are good for nothing but speed. They
carry only a single person and are ex-
tremely treacherous in their operation.
But a planes ability to withstand the
strain of being pulled through the air
at five miles minute, pilots ability
to retain consciousness at such speed,
and an engines ability to keep running
despite the tearing force of friction.
furnish information to science the
value of which cannot be denied and
tell story that goes a long way to
promote the development of better
planes. better pilots and better engines.
1t may be argued that such speed
will never be needed and that it is
futile to risk the lives of airmen 10
with it. That argument,
however, will not hold water, as there
is no one wise enough or bold enough
to attempt to say where mans in
vasion of the skies will end. Aviation
is in its infancy. The know-it-all about
the air is q fool. America should not
allow itself even to be remotely classed
In that category.
Evening star., 1928-11-04
"Our Greatest Problem"

A letter from the head of one of the
greatest women's organizations in the
country has the following striking SEN
tence: I'm my opinion, no other prob
lem that faces the American people to-
day is of more vital importance than
that of religious training in the home"
In the course of her striking letter she
speaks of the cultivation of the soul of
the home" We believe that the concern
felt by this woman is widely shared by
the multitude.
The pressure of life today, its swift
currents, its colorful and well-nigh ir-
reSiStible appeals, and its larger free
dom, all conspire to make more dlfncult
than ever the consideration of those
things that constitute the foundation OF
character building. Some one facetiously
observes that we are running about
with our souls in our satchelS." Even
those of us who seek to maintain the
old habits of devotional practice and
the setting apart of definite times for
quiet and reflection are finding 1t diff
cult to do so. The calls Of modern life
are so clamorous and persistent that
they seem to shut out those Quieter
voices that can be heard only by the
inner ear of the soul. More and more
we are being confronted with the ques..
ton as to the economy and wisdom OF
our present course. We are all agreed
that education is designed to fit our
children for the strenuous battle Of life.
We are all agreed that the advantages
that lie before them are greater today
than they have ever been. In our better
hours we maintain that education with
out adequate training in those things
that contribute To moral character Is OF
little worth 1t would be difficult to find
father or mother who would venture
to maintain that the only requisite for
fitness is the training of brain and
hand. We all believe that religious
training of some kind is indispensable
and that without it chaos lies ahead.
We once depended solely upon the or
ganized agencies of the church for
such training; we felt that brief hour
in the Sunday school constituted all
that our children needed to give them
a right outlook upon life and to fix IN
them their moral and ethical ideals. We
sent our children to the Sunday school
Evening star., 1928-11-04
Student Rowdyism.

College boy celebrations are tradi-
tionally rough affairs. Seized appar-
emily with an exuberance and mob
spirit which cannot be squelched, uni
versity students make merry over the
winning of an important sports contest
or the ending of term. College towns
recognize this spirit and are inclined
to sympathize as long as the fun stays
within reasonable bounds. Occasional
ly. however, these celebrations take on
the aspect of a serious and unrea-
sonable disturbance against the public
peace. Such was the case in New
York recently, when several hundred
Columbia University boys, after a
pep" rally over foot ball game. de-
scended into subway, vaulted the
turnstiles, surged aboard an express
train, extingulshed the lights in seven
of the ten cars, ripped off the adver-
tising signs, and terrorized the passen-
gers, including women and children.
There is no excuse for such an &C.
currence. Rowdyism and vandalism
have no place in the American educa-
tional system and there should be a
Tightening of the reins all along the
line. Students should be no more i'm
mune to prosecution than any other
class or individual A few expulsions
from college or a few fines in Police
Court might well have a dampening
effect on the distorted conception of
college spirit which manifests itself in
such affairs.
Evening star., 1928-11-04
EVERYDAY RELIGION
BY THE RIGHT REV. JAMES E. FREEMAN D. d., Ii. D.,
Bishop of Washington

for spiritual instruction as we sent them
to the day school for their mental de-
velopment That the Sunday school has
done much and must continue to do so
goes without saying, but it is a wholly
inadequate preparation for the stern
battle of life.
Precept and example in the home are
worth more than precept and example
in any other place. There are strong
men and women today whose religious
impulses we're born and stimulated at
the family altar. They caught their
first real vision of the meaning of re-
ligion in it's relation to life from the
lips of minded, consecrated fathers
and mothers. The practice of grace at
meal they came to regard as the con-
sistent recognition of Him who is the
giver of every good and perfect gift. In
fine, they came to associate the whole
some things of home with the deep prin-
ciples of religion. What they received
when minds and hearts were plastic
and receptive has become fixed in the
form Of definite convictions that have
served to strengthen and stabilize them
in meeting the exigencies and emer-
gencies Of their more mature life. Such
men and women constitute our greatest
security in days of stress and storm
they are the prepared ones.
A Goddess home, home that lacks
reverence and respect for sacred things,
is a menace to the community in which
it is placed. No amount Of so-called
culture or prosperity or refinement OF
environment can serve as a substitute
for that which develops and enriches
character and breeds in our youth the
spirit of reverence for things that are
holy. We cannot effect moral worth
through legal processes. Laws may re-
strain; they do not produce moral char
acter. We may trace much of our pres
ent dereliction as a people, together
with our disrespect and disregard OF
laws, to our moral supineness, the di'
rect product of our indifference to the
high claims of religion Laws without
ideals are imperative, If we could in
duce parents to recognize more fully
their moral obligations to their children
we could relieve our legislative bodies
of law-making and our courts OF then
overloaded calendars. The ancient wore
still holds true: Bring up child In
the way he should 60 and when he II
old he will not depart from II"
Evening star., 1928-11-04

versa, prohibited as the law now reads;
and
General smoothing to remove other
administrative difficulties which have
arisen.
Congress may make other changes on
its own initiative If the subject is con-
sidered in legislative form. as there is
pending a report from a special Senate
committee.
Business men and farmers under
stand the flexible tariff fairly well now.
They look upon the commission with
increasing respect and appear before 1t
as a business agency where legal coun-
sci Is not necessary and bare facts
without establishment are sought.
The commission, as the agent of the
President, has had applications for
changes in rates on hundreds of COM
modities. from false teeth to pig iron,
and, in the agricultural schedule, every
thing from soup to nuts.
Under the rate making section, appli-
cations have been filed affecting 357
commodities, duplicate petitions being
received in regard to many Of these.
Three hundred and ten of the applica-
tions sought higher duties, and 313
asked for reductions, but among the lat
ter were 119 on the same subject, that
of game birds, in addition to which 10
applications sought readjustmentS of
rates without indicating whether an in
crease or decrease was desired. The
commission has ordered 80 inyestiga-
tions from among these applications, 20
of them in the agricultural schedule and
as being in the chemical schedule.
Under the unfair practices section, ~
applications have been received and 6
Investigations have been ordered. The
work under the discriminatory section
is conducted through the State and
Treasury Departments and Is not an
nounccd.
The President has acted on 81 reports
from the commission, increasing duties
in % cases and decreasing them on 5
commodities; he has. declined to act
one way or the other In several other
cases. while he still has before him sew
eral for consideration. The statistics
show that, in most cases, the change in
duty has affected the volume of imports
OF the commodity involved-and fire.
quently the price.
lcopyright. 1921
Evening star., 1928-11-04
Presidential Candidates Now in
Putting Match on Eighteenth Green

duct next Tuesday by only the following
contrast:
Smith is personally wet. He is per-
sonally Catholic. He personally has
had a vast and successful experience In
local and State government.
Hoover Is personally dry. He Is per-
sonally Protestant. He personally has
had great and successful experience
In Federal Government.
Smith refuses to dwell upon his i'm
personal, positive proposal for the State
sale Of liquor. That idea has not taken
hold What does take hold Is Smiths
emphatic personal opposition to the
eighteenth amendment and Hoover's
emphatic personal determination to try
1t through to defnitive experimental
conclusion.
This point of personal attitude toward
liquor will merge with confusion into
the equally wholly personal point. OF
religion. No reliable estimate gives
Smith less than 80 per cent OF the
Catholic vote. No reliable estimate
gives Hoover less than 10 per cent OF
the Protestant vote outside the Demo-
cratic party stronghold of the solid
South. The analyzers will fight for
years over whether this result was
mostly one of Catholic wetness versus
Protestant dryness or mostly one simply
of Catholicism versus Protestantlsm. In
either case, however, it will be result
flowing from the personal quallties-or
inheritanceS-of the candidates.
~ II
Smith. the wet Catholic admiflstra-
tive genius, in supreme toucn WIN tne
roots of our local lifel Hoover, the
drv Protestant administrative genius,
in supreme touch with all the out
spraadings of our Federal-and interna-
tional-life! Those two personal pic
lures will be the largest pictures IN
the minds of the independent--and de-
cisive--voters next Tuesday.
To date they have put Hoover some-
what closer to the tin cup on the eight
eenth green than Smith Is. Hence, this
campaign is ending on two notes which
the Democrats hope may repair that
inequality. One is the slashing personal
attack upon Hoover. The other Is q
prospective dazzling display OF Smiths s
personal combative charms to the last.
Hoover, Monday night. on the radio,
in the last appeal to the people, plans
to talk for Is minutes with the un-
areumentative placidity of a four-to-
one favorite and then yield the rest
of the hour to a Republican concert
Of prosperous music. Smith will sue
ceed the music--and for whole hour
will fight.
Can that personality Of his prevail?
That Is the query that still sends a
human CULVER through the electoral-vote
tabulations of the political mathema-
ticians.
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