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Evening star., 1928-04-09
Wasted Energy.

Col Charles A. Lindbergh has set
many a feminine heart fiutteripg in an
unaccustomed way. but 30 far the ny
ing hero has given no indication Of
reciprocsting the multitudinous affec-
tons that could be- his for the asking.
Consequently, he viii probably be not
in the least perlurbed about the re-
suits N the idiotic questionnaire
which Was distributed among hundred
and fltty girls at Stephens College ia
Columbia. Mo. Out of the one hundred
and my near ~GaDpeFs. naDpefs and
never -wili-be -fisppers. only twenly-nine
answered that they would gladly we'd
II given the chance. the outstanding
aviator ~ the age. As mentioned be-
tore, however. the small percentage oi
taiT naidens anxious ~ make match
viii not concern LiBdbergh AT all, bat
the fact that his name is being banded
about IN such manner will probably
give him a feeling ~ jnstifiabIe irFi'
tatioD.
Columbia is Oh The main highWsj
/ bet Ween st. Louis sud Kansas City and
! is famous sE d coIlege town IN that sec
/ ton III the country. n Is presumed
/ that 1t attained It's reputation througi
| he excelience u its educational fseili'
J ties, but II the students are allowed u
engage Ia filing out questionnsires re-
Evening star., 1928-04-09

amount uncertain and fiuctuating, on
the same basis as before 1873, Il should
in equity restore to the District its
power which existed before 1878 OF fix-
ing through self-taxation the amount
of its own Capital contribution.
If the Nation is not TO share in def
mite ratio in municipal tax paying It
ought not In eaNity to Ak the amount
Of local taxati>a II the local COM
munity is to raise substantially all of
the local revenue with the Nation as a
fluctuating and uncertain donor) the
Capital must on American principles be
permitted to tax itself. and to de-
termine for itself how much shall be
raised. and by what methods of taxa
ton. and for what purposes the tax
money shall be expended.
Obligation follows power. Financial
obligation is coupled with political
power. If the nation controls IL pays,
and TO the extent that 1t controls 1t
pays. Washington is the only Capital In
the world in which IL certain policies
prevail the Nation would do all of the
and none of the paying.
Evening star., 1928-04-09
The Test in Chicago.

Murders, bombingS, machine gun
warfare between rival bootleg factions
protected vice and gambling-all OF
these manifestations of chaos and evil
have combined to place Chicago before
the country as n modern Sodom or
Gomorrah. And one might expect that
the fire from heaven, which in an
earlier day destroyed these two citadelS
OF the devil, will take form tomorrow
in blast of ballots in the Illinois State
primary. sweeping into outer darkness
those who by liberation or misgovern-
ment have permitted conditions in Chi
cago to become what they are today.
VIII there be such blast? viii the
Republican primaries serve as a demon
Stration of how an aroused populace
may strike?
There is interest from the country in
the results of the primary as far as
they concern the State at large. But
there is much more interest in watch
ing the way the wind will blow in Cook
County. There the fight narrows to q
battle between States Attorney Robert
E. Grove, who is running for renom-
ination against a candidate for that
Office, John A. Swanson. Grove is
backed by the Thompson faction In
Chicago, and Swanson has the support
Of the faction headed by United States
Senator Charles S. Deneen. So thick
and fast have the charges and counter
charges flown back and forth between
these factions that the poor voter must
be left in a maze. indeed. when he at
temptS to choose between them on the
basis OF their claims or promises. But
the voter should have no great diff
ficulty in concluding that the Grove
Thompson crowd represents the govern
ment Of Chicago today; the Deneen-
Swanson faction represents a change,
and q change at least connotes the pos
sibility of improvement.
Dispatches from Chicago indicate
that the good people of that city are
aroused to the point of wanting to kick
somebody out. They have good reason
to be. The name OF the city has be-
come synonymous throughout the land
with crime and crookedness. If such
things are cause for laughter, Chicago
has become the country's laughing
stock. But while these good people may
be highly indignant, the question re-
mains of whether their indignation is
stronger than the tie that binds the
voters Of such efficient organizations as
those controlled by Mr.. Grove and Mr..
Thompson. That is where the interest
lies in the Illinois primaries tomorrow
Mayor Thompson is not personally con-
cerned, as there is no mayoralty con-
test involved. But the mayors regime
Is being put to a test. If 1t Is over
thrown to the extent Of defeat Of his
political allies, the overthrow may be
interpreted as the result Of an aroused
and indignant electorate. II his regime
Is Endorsed, the result will be an en-
tightening commentary upon the futility
Of popular indignation when 1t is OPP
posed TO well oiled political machinery.
Evening star., 1928-04-09
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

| his Winter -whitened skin, limbers up
his knee joints, makes the small bones
| in the soles Of his feet ache with a
surprising aching.
| Gardening, like fishing and hunting,
goes back to the long-lost. even forgot
| ten, days of man. These activities,
however, have come down in all their
glory, although the ancient men who
| founded them are only memory, or
scarcely more than queer name which
they themselves never would have rec
ognized.
| n X X
The tragedy of staying in an office
on such days is a real one to some
natures.
These, in excuse for themselves, may
feel (and no doubt rightly that they
are in exquisite harmony with the
season.
| CraSser souls, these may believe, may
| do very well within four walls, but those
whom the Spring has marked for its
own will have none Of walls except upon
compulSion.
It is a sorry fact to them that COM
pulSion is so all-fired compulsive. A
| job has to be done. Something or other
has to be written. So-and-So work
must be gotten out, such-and-su
/
While all this Is going on the sun Is
shining and the birds are singing their
fool heads off, and the white clouds are
scudding through the sky as lightly as
any Lindbergh.
X n X
If one were only out there In that
sunshine, soon the delicious glow of
| Springs first sunburn would begin TO
steal over the face.
| The Winter has been combining, its
| sunbeams too anemic Out there at
| last gleam real sunbeams. hot off the
| immortal griddle called the sun.
| One stands in a window high in the
| air, allowing those sunny particles to
! flow over and into one, each tiny ele-
ment bringing its quota of health and
| happiness.
| There Is no cat or dog that has not
| got enough sense to bathe in the sun
| shine every day, but there are innumer-
able men and women who seem to have
| forgotten their birthright.
| Flowers are children of the light"
said the sage. but mankind Is no less a
child OF the sun. When life first quick
ened on the borders of the salt marshes
and came to earth with sprawly feet it
was the rank sunshine of hotter day
than ours that guided those stumbling
paws.
| X X X X
| Down through the ages the great
sun, now thing TO worship, now some
thing TO be investigated in a scientific
| spirit, has cleaned in the heavens away
from our earth. warming revivifying,
expanding.
One sympathizes with De Maupas-
SAINT. the sick man. who fed to Africa
| that he might bask IN hotter rays than
| ours. We, however. who are under no
such necessity ought to make the most
of the more equitable beams we possess.
The rays of the sun are mighty, the
rays Of the sun are benign. Like
Portals quality of mercy, they descend
upon the just and the unjust, and do
1t without fear or favor.
He Judges as the sun judges" said
Walt Whitman, paying tribute both to
| the perfect jurist and the solar orb
Since Spring SO tempts us out. We
| would do well to give in to the urge as
often and for so long as possible in the
flrm belief that sunshine and fresh air
constitute the best tonic in the world for
those who need 1t most--the moderately
healthy.
Evening star., 1928-04-09
UNITED STATES
IN WORLD WAR
Ten Years Ago To-day

American railway engineers who
helped stem the tide of the onrushing
Germans during the opening days oE
the present drive are highly praised by
British officers for their bravery and
stamina. Acting ON cahled in
structlons from Secretary Baker, the
War Department tonight resumed nuhli-
cation of daily casualty lists OF the
A. IL, r. Names of 4a1 Americans
included In list covering six days, with
la for April 5. the heaviest of amy
single day since American troops landed
in France, beginning with u bom~
hardmcnt of great Intensity, German
troops this morning delivered heavy at
taCks upon British and Portuguese lines
from the La RasSee Canal to neighhor~
hood of Armentierea, Il distance of about
II miles Battle lasts all day and the
allied center IL forced back ON River
tys, but the British slanks hold Fog
helped the enemy, Germans used
poison gas IN immense quantities and
II Is estimated that % 900 gas shells
were used In an attempt 20 gas allied
troops, Prisoners captured on the
Oise front say that the German staif
fully expected % reach their ohtectives
on the morning ot April Il. counting on
their superior numbers 60 overWhelm
the French and cause general with
drawal all along the 'front.'
Evening star., 1928-04-09
Prospects of Presidential Veto
Of Farm Relief Bill Discussed

publicans." More hopeful IS the argu-
ment OF the ST. Paul Pioneer Press
independently that III is almost in
credible, but nevertheless the fact. that
| this IS almost the first time III the
five years the NIcNary- -Haugen bill has
I been before Congress that opponents
have abandoned fiat opposition and
/ Joined III sincerely 70 help eliminate
the faults which make it objectionable
TO them"
The chances sre." predicts the
Houston Chronicle tDemOcraticl. how
ever. that the President Will again
kin the measure. The farmers know
this. Nevertheless. they propose 90
proceed on this line. Is NOS this
rather good evidence that they realize
they are striving now for = vita,
prlnciplS2" The Topeka Daily Cap
ital tRepUolic9n) also says the bill
viii be vetoed. with the added coufen-
tion that another Congress uiSy fird
President who Will agllx his SIGNATURE
to IL" The Capital believes thag "theTy
has been from the start more feelln
than science In the attack on III
farmers relief measure. and this
known TO Congress. which has hee
III the thick OF it, The oppcSl
ton has not been constructive. L -
only opposed"
OF the hope held hy the farm ln
tereStS that the President would re
train fr0m using The veto power ON tn
theory that the equalization fee. which
he holds to he unconstitutional As We
aS economically uuSound. would ne.
be reSogted to- the Newark EsyeUins
News independently observes, "Thi,
hope does not seem 20 he founded or
a rock, bQt Il ~ eNttrvSSed hy polig,
cal eNpediSucy al0Re' And the Duh,tA
Herald independent ReDubiicanN SvslS
unless these who yuGe for the b.
know something The public GceS nc.
know, IT'S passage Is mere po..tsca
gesture BY which CongreSSmen WAe
don't really believe in tire principle g.
the measure can please the farmer am
do no damage, bRcaaSe they know IN
bill viii he vetoed
The measure is described hv tAg
DAYTON Daily News iu3ependent Dem
ocraticN as "a bic az buncomee tor ~,
ltole farmers IL Is a political sriC&
continues that paper. 10 hold 81,
farmers N line tin election" The BuG-
falo Eenng News tESepUh,ieanN com
mentS, The Qrc Qt subsidy In SogG,
moye or less disguised form has eeeH
those who have undertaken t. naaS,
political capital ~ their situation. Tls
aueS tson whether this bill emb.s>iSaS q
Subsidy or mot Will be- The aNe ON whtCh
les tate Will depend"
The baltimore sun ttnaependen
hen0eraticb asks, VGranthsg AL thAj
II claimed for erect Of The biil ~
prices o1 wheat how Win IL aid the in.
eTae4Snt and htgh-cSAst producer when
promises OF higher proAgS intensity chs
competition Ae must mest9"
Prediction og a veto IS made oy tht
birmingham News tpemocFatiCl, and 1t
Is held to he pgohAole hy the san
hetnardlne sun tRepWhlicanl, while
the BoSgon Transcript independently
voices the belief that little public IN,
tereSt appears 10 attach 70 the changes.
cnce u II understood that the pro
vision fos equalization Tee rem ms in
the eiAs
Evening star., 1928-04-09

Spring is one season no one gets toe
old to enjoy.
Winters joys are in the past fol
many; Summer is simply much too hot,
Autumn is wishy- -washy, not yet Winter
nor yet Summer.
Spring, however is eternally the
same, whether 1t comes In youth or old
| age.
The exact date of It's appearance
makes little difference. nor does 1t mat
ter much that it is not In every feature
the same old sort of Spring one knew
| as q child.
Spring is a state of mind, superim-
posed on mankind by milder air, real
rains and brighter sunshine.
1t Is the sun, literally and flgura-
lively. which makes our Spring. II
causes the earth to stir with life, tender
shoots to appear. grass to green, rec
tips of peonies to come above ground.
This is the only magic.
X u X
All of us become sun worshipers al
this time of year.
To sit in n stuffy office on such day
as several experienced last week and
look out at the glorious beams playing
across the city was to become young
again In twinkling of the eye.
Those Spring smells came in at the
timidly opened window. The air was
redolent with something that the whole
of this section of the world seemed tC
be experiencing and thus exhaling fol
the benefit of mankind.
Sights. sounds, colors-theSe took or
new meanings. From the drab of Win
ter We had wakened to the glow OF
Springtime.
We had become one with grasshop-
pers and blades Of grass We felt an
urge of sympathy for the curious little
bugs that live under rocks and run as
on wheels when their cover Is disturbed
We wanted to get out and run, too.
X
This Is the authentic feeling Of true
Spring
False Spring left hope, but it was not
the real thing
Expectation often is better than real
ity. but not in the case of Spring.
Here the genuine article far surpasses
dreams.
Spring does not satiate. One may
drink deep of Spring without intoxica-
ton, revel in Spring without disorder
admire Spring without faulty.
Spring fever" is the most admirable
illness in the world, although 1t has
been held up as reprehensible and its
victims put through a course of lec-
lures, or even a dosage OF a stronger
brew.
One may now subscribe to the doc
trine that man is an outdoor animal
Even those who shrank all Winter long
from contact with cooling winds find
themselves willing to face the elements
now.
A whole city wants to walk street,
or go fishing. or rake grass in the back
yard.
There is a busy stir among amateur
horticulturists. Those who forgot to
order their seeds early. as the seedsmen
ask them to do, now excitedly make out
orders and then fervently curse fate
because they are not filled as rapidly as
they expected. But seed houses are
human organizations, and seedsmen
this month confront a deluge of orders.
No doubt they do the best they can.
Even the fisherman gets no more Joy
out of Spring than the amateur gar
dener. Whether he owns small back
yard or an estate. the home gardener
meets all the Spring there is.
The full tide of this glorious time
hits the gardener in the face. 1t tans
Evening star., 1928-04-09
Says Dupont Circle
Is Traffic Hazard
To the Editor of The stars

To the Editor of The Starr
In connection with your commendable
Golden Rule Safety Driving Campaign,
1t may be an opportune time TO focus at
tention upon certain dangerous points
within the District of Columbia, where
1t seems imperative that some measures
should be taken TO remedy conditions. II
Is possible that little publicity con-
cernIng such places might bring forth
favorable cooperation on the part of
drivers. and might prompt the proper
officials to effect immediate changes
without waiting for any accidents TO
occur before considering some reason
able remedies
The dangerous point TO which I refer
Is on Connecticut avenue Immediately
south of Dupont Circle, where it must
be admitted that two factors are at
once obvious as 10 why this particular
point is so unsafe. First. Connecticut
avenue Is much too narrow for such an
important thoroughfare at the converg-
ing point Of ten radial highways Second,
IL is extremely unfortunate that double
tracks Of the Washington Railway &
Electric Co. should occupy so much of
the width of the roadway, and that.
furthermore, car stops and transfer
points had to be established at this
worst possible place III the proximity of
the circle.
To try to improve the routing OF
traffic. especially on the arterial high
ways, would it not be reasonable and
wise TO require the routing of all vehicu-
lar traffic as follows.
The south-bound traffic out of Du-
pont Circle might move south on Nine
teenth street, thence eaSterly on N
street. and resume its route on Connect
cut avenue again. North-bound traffic
might be required to deviate from
Connecticut avenue on to Eighteenth
street, whence 1t would have the several
options of approaching Dupont Circle
again via Massachusetts, avenue or p
street.
Pending the inevitable necessity of
widening the roadway on Connecticut
avenue between N street and Dupont
Circle. perhaps the thousands of drivers
who daily pass this point would gladly
comply with such traffic regulation.
and certainly the hundreds who daily
use the car stop safety zones would ac-
tually feel safe.
ROBERT S. JIGGER.
Evening star., 1928-04-09

tary OF Agriculture. In recalling college
days at the Agricultural College of
Utah, wondered what had become Of a
famous Indian athlete a Cheyenne.
who manhandled the cabinet minister
to-be every time their respective teams
clashed at foot ball. Early this month
DIR. Jardine received a call from an Of
fetal spokesman of the Northern Chey-
enne tribe of Montana. The Indian had
come to urge the need of agricultural
schools for his people Immediately
the Secretary recognized In his visitor
Eugene Fisher. the redskin who used
TO tackle him in so deadly fashion on
the Far Western gridirons quarter of
century ago
Mrs. Alfred j. Brosseau, PRESIDENT
general OF the Daughters OF the Ameri-
can Revolution, with whom William
Allen White has just gone to the mat,
is herself, like the Kansas editor, a
writing person. Before d. A. r. activi-
ties absorbed her energies, Mrs. Bros
Seau was producer Of short stories. A
native daughter OF Illinois, Mrs. Bros
seau now makes her home at Green
wich. Conn. She has combativeneSs In
plenty. as becomes descendant OF the
fighting fathers, and at the forthcom-
ing ID. A, r. Congress In Washington
the preSident-general is likely to pay
her respects 10 "Bill" White and others
who aSperse the motives OF the "Daugh~
ters." one OF Mrs. Brosseau's achieve
ments in -. A, r. work is the Ellis
Island committee. which the society
maintains. AS its active director for
more than three years. Mrs. BroSSeau
made its humanitarian program n real
factor at our chief port of immigrant
entry. In the old days, during the
period OF detention, would-be candidates
for the melting pot had TO undergo de-
pressing trials Nowadays, the hours OF
waiting are pleasantly occupied.
Nearly every one OF the Easter tour
lists now filling Washington with their
all-American accents wants to shake
hands with Gal" and see Congress per-
form, but neither the President nor
House or Senate begins TO compete
with the cherry blossoms as the Capt.
tails real attraction. They have be-
come national institution. Nothing
In washington Is better advertised all
over the country, and none of the Dis
trict OF Columba's countless sights af-
fords visitors so much JOY. The one
possible exception ~ the Lincoln Me-
mortal.
tCopvhsht 10ea1
Evening star., 1928-04-09

garding their marriage attitude toward
famous men and this fact IL bruited
about throughout the United States.
Columbia is In a fair way to lose its
standing In the minds of thinking per-
sons. It is more or less insulting to a
man OF Lindbergh's character to tuggle
his name about In n frivolous manner.
He has earned the respect and admira-
ton of the entire world and the dis
tribution of such n QUESTIONABLE Is
probably regarded by him as de-
cidedly back-handed compliment.
Evening star., 1928-04-09
PHILOSOPHERS
by
GLENN FRANK
We are a bundle of tendencies.

We are bundle of tendencies.
In the determination of the conduct
of day or the achievement of life-
time, we play stage manager to our
intermittent impulses and our deep
seated tendencies.
we cannot begin to live and work
with maximum intelligence until we
know our particular impulses and tend
encies, until we know the tendencies
we. must foster and the ones we must
frown upon.
William McDougall, distinguished
psychologist, asserts that there are GER
tain inborn emotional tendencies that
go along with human nature. He VEN
lures to list those that seem to him
most nearly indisputable. If these
tendencies are in all or most of us, it
is important for us to know them, for
they are part of the raw materials out
Of which we must fashion our char
acters and our achievements Mr.. Nc
DOugalIs list of human tendencies runs
as follows:
In addition to the basic tendencies
OF fear, anger, curiosity and sex, ten
other tendencies are observable:
I'VE have a tendency to seek the
company of our fellows and to stay
among them when we have found them.
I'VE have tendency to display and
assert ourselves among our fellows, and
to find satisfaction in their yielding to
us their submission. Difference and ad-
miration.
eve have a contrary tendency to
yield submission and Difference to those
who are powerful. to bow down and
humble ourselves before them, to fol-
low them and trust them.
I'VE have tendency to reject, to
turn away with disgust from what
ever is foul and odous.
We have a tendency to cry aloud for
help when we are at the end of our
tether, when we find that our best
efforts avail nothing and our desire is
utterly frustrated.
I'VE have a tendency to seek and
consume food and drink.
I'VE have tendency to arrange, to
build up, to construct to bring into
some kind of order whatever we are
dealing with.
I'VE have tendency to hoard, to
store away, to preserve whatever seems
to us of value
We have a tendency to make merry,
to laugh aloud when We see others max
ing mess of things, falling, slipping,
baffled, buffeted or perplexed, acting
stupidity or clumsily.
I'VE have also very simple tend
encieS to respond appropriately to GER
tain bodily sensations announcing needs
of bodily organs that require for their
removal the cooperation of the whole
organism"
Whether these tendencies are Unborn
or of later origin. we have most of
them; l cannot, at the moment, think
Of any special tendency of any indi-
vidual that is not the child OF one of
these tendencies listed by Mr.. Nc
Dougall.
1t is worth while to study this spirit
ual table of contents of ourselves
Copyright. Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate
Evening star., 1928-04-09
Franklin's Statue
on The Avenue

- NSCULPTURED in no park
~ of shading trees,
IL But on a bit ot bare tri-
angular ground
Where many pasa, he STANDS
se~bordered round
by pavements hard and harder
deatinifs
OF men are here revealed, ana
less of ease
or life In those seen this way
daily bound.
Than are IN parks with statued
heroes found,
Aud idlera idle as the efilgies.
Ben Franklin. man Of thrifty
days. with skill
TO build stove or eaptlVate a
queen,
II suits him best 20 hold this
travelled spot
As II with busy men eommingllng
And moi some fiowery squares
inactive scene
Where Incidence repoaing labors
not.
II. J, QUINN.