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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-03-19
STALEMATE SEEN
ON SHIPPING BILLS
House Committee Drafting
Measure to Provide
Federal Aid.

By She Associated Press.
A stslenate between the Senate and
the House on the enactment of ship
ping legislation at this session is IN
prospect, in the opinion Of number OF
members of Congress who are interested
IN the question,
The Senate has passed the Jones bill
which would continue the Shipping
Boards operation of its fleet, But III
the House a contrary view seems to
prevail that the American merchant
marine can be built up best by meth
cos of governmental aid TO stimulate
the private purchase and operation OF
the entire Government fleet
With this aim III view the House
merchant marine committee today
called an executive session TO draft q
bill and submit it 10 the House within
s week or so. The committee apparently
will disregard the Jones measure. For
the past three weeks it has been study
ms In public hearings bills by Chair
man White Of Maine. and by Repre-
sentative Weed. Republican. Indiana.
Both of these measures map out
methods of governmental aid to private
shipping lines. The White bill proposes
that this aid include 20-year loans from
the Shipping Boards Si25, 600. 900 con-
struction loan fund at a low rate of
interest. but not less than 2i5 per cent.
TO private concerns, up to three-Quarters
OF the cost of the ship to be built This
would be done to increase American
shipbuilding. 1t also provides for the
opening of bids by the Shipping Board
on its trade routes. liberalizing Of for
eign mail contracts. placing of the
merchant marine officers and crews
under the Naval Reserve to increase
their nav standards and per a fliSlo,,,ns,t
Of Government fund for reinsurinr of
merchant vessels at lower rates,
The Wood measure embraces similar
policies in general. but also would
classify the Shipping Board feet into
three groups with the third class to be
CONSIDERED as ''unserviceable and obso-
lete and to be withdrawn from service ]"
Members of the committee have indi-
Gated that they are not content with
either measure alone. but expect a COM
oination Of the two in the final draft.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-03-19
WOMAN LOSES $500
DIAMOND STlCKPIN
Pickpocket Victim Seeks to Re-
cover $12s-Tourist Robbed
at Capitol

Loss of stickpin set with diamonds
valued at 5000, was reported to the po-
ice by Mrs. Benjamin Livingston
apartment 202, 47ol Connecticut ave-
nue., yesterday .
Clarence A. Kelly. 906 G street. ap-
pealed 70 the police early last night to
make an effort to recover si2S that
was picked from his pocket. He was
IN the rest room Of an r street theater.
he stated. when robbed.
Theft of cash box containing $50
vas reported by Elizabeth Holmes. 1925
Seventeenth street. She said the box
was taken from 3 table In the living
room Of her home.
John Morris. Woonsocket. r. l., told
the police of the loss of a suit case con-
tSintng wearing apparel, books and pa
pers. valued at $50. The suit case
was taken from his automobile, parked
b front Of the Capitol. yesterday morn
ing. -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-03-19

Mcdowell, directors of the Girl Re-
serve department, and Miss Imogene B.
Ireland, music secretary of the local
association. The judges will include
DR.. Charles Farnsworth. Miss Alice Ed
wards and Miss Edith B. Athey.
The winning club will appear Friday
THE Pied Piper The children of the
Central Union Mission and the Gospel
Mission will be guests at Saturdays
performance of the operetta.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-03-19
RUTGERS DEBATES HERE.
Colonial Team of G. W. U. Meets
Visitors Tonight on U. S. Policy.

Rutgers College debaters OF New
Brunswick. N. J.. viii meet the Colonial
team az ais O'Clock tonight in Stock
ton Hall. Georges Washington University
The question is. Resolved. That the
United States should cease to protect
By arms capital invested In foreign
lands. except after actual war is de-
clared."
While George Washington is meeting
Rutgers here, another team Is engaging
the New York University team In New
York. Debates are scheduled here with
Ohio Wesleyan Friday and with Colgate
College Saturday night
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-03-19
ARTS CLUB TO ENTERTAIN.
Concert by Guitarist, Singer and
Pianist Announced.

Sophocles Papas. guitarist; Miss
Dorothy Sherman Pierson. singer, and
Eveline Monica Papas, pianist all OF
Washington, will appear at the concert
of the Arts Club of Washington tomor-
row night. The concert will be under
the direction of Miss Sheldon Jackson.
Miss Helen McGraw, youthful pianist,
will give recital before the club
Thursday evening. Her program will
include numbers by Dcpussy, Ravel,
Chopin and Scriabine and Beethoven
sonata. The recital will be under the
direction of j. Rowland Bobbins
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-03-19
Woman FLYER Reaches Cairo.

CAIRO. Egypt. March 10 H).--Lady
Mary Bailey, now on solo flight from
England to Cape Town, South Africa,
arrived today from Aboukir, near Alex
andria
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GIRL RESERVE CLUBS
TO HAVE SONG CONTEST

Organizations of Y. w. C. A. Com
prising roo Members Meet in
Competition Tomorrow.
Eighteen Girl Reserve clubs of the
Y. w. C. A.. comprising almost 700
girls of the city's Junior high schools,
the DenniSon Vocational School and
The Fillmore Graded School will meet
in song contest tomorrow afternoon
at 4 o'clock at Barker Hail, in the X
street Y. w. c. A. Building.
The contest will be under the direc-
ton of Miss Mabel r. Cook and Miss
Evening star., 1928-11-18
Fascist Inventive
In Filling Prisons

Fascist authorities have found new
uses for the lonely prison islands of
the coasts OF Sicily and Sardinia, to
which political opponents are sent when
their views or activities prove ANNOYING.
The nuE.ber Of political exiles has fallen
OH lately. The commission which Sc
lects Italian citizens for confinement on
the Islands and determines the length
OF their isolation is receiving much
praise from the Fascist press for send
ing other persons deemed undesirable.
For example, three mill3snaireS from
the town of Bari have been condemned
TO eX1les OF one year each because they
Jailed to use their wealth for the ad-
varcement of national enterprises" A
bus driver from Northern italy Who
persist. In u"iying at what was con-
sidered an excessive speed got two years
confinement. A podesta whose concep-
ton of Fascism deviated markedly from
the generally accepted version got a
year. The same sentence was given
an cutspoken anti-Fascist priest.
Doctors and midwives accused Of ille-
gal operations, and white slavers, and
dope peddlers are being sent to these
islands. but with longer terms of con-
finement. This new activity Of the
Fascist tribunal has evoked enthusiastic
commendation from the press.
Evening star., 1928-11-18

barrels which the island race man.
aged to drink during the year.
Whisky consumption may have
dropped from 32,000O0O gallons in 1900
to 22,000,000 gallons in 1913-at
trif1e over So quart it is an expensive
drink for a people who are mulcted
in income tax at the rate of 81 in every
SIS on incomes in excess of $3.50 and
whose workers think themselves pros
porous if they pull down SIS week
regularly-but between 100000 and
100000 gallons of the spirit still flows
down thirsty English throats.
$2O,0OO,OOO Drop in Sales.
A drop of $2o,Ooo,Ooo on drink sales
in the year sounds pretty big, but meas
ure it against the aggregate sum spent
on drink annually and 1t looks like a
pea on drum. The national drink
bill stands today at $500, 100000. That
is considered a low record. 1t COM
pareS we'll enough with the figure of
2,345, 100000 for the boom year of
1920, but it remains by far the largest
single item of national expenditure.
Take saloons. The drys claim to have
pruned them by 1000 since 1914, but
10000 still do roaring trade, apart
from thousands of wine and spirit shops
and store departments selling bottled
alcoholic liquor of all descriptions for
consumption off the premises.
Finally, despite considerable efforts
to arrest the increase, clubs are multi
plying fast, and the amount of drinking
that goes on in these clubs is terrific.
Certainly the dry beavers have done
considerable work in damming the al
coholic flood. But the stream still flows
wide and strong. What hope, then,
have the drys of turning the island
bone dry in the near future?
A national majority will not, in any
measurable length of time, vote for pro-
hibition on clean-cut wet or dry
issue, but measure to bring in local
Evening star., 1928-11-18

when the grammatical order is upset
under the emotion Of the orator than
in series of well balanced and muSi-
cally prepared periods"
The deep faith of Aristl6e BRAND In
the supreme necessity OF peace for
France and for the world is beyond
doubt He may compromise on almost
everything, but he will never compro-
mise on this point-which. after all, Is
the point that matters for humanity.
I never doubted it, not even for a
moment. during the two CT three dark
days of last September. when, after his
unusually hard speech at Geneva. in
answer to the German chancellor. Null
Ter. many believed that BRAND had
turned his back upon the Iocarno read.
The Geneva speech seemed an event;
III reality 1t was simply tactical move.
Had the German audience been less
emotional it would have been clear. even
at the very moment when the French
statesman. his finger pointed at the
German chancellor sitting in front of
him. addressed a flood of approaches to
Germany-it would have been clear, I
say, that, in spite of the speech, nay,
because of the speech, the Franco-Ger-
man relations we're at that very moment
advancing rather than retreating. Is
this not true. even i'll private relations,
when certain grudges. certain suSpi-
cions. burst suddenly into rough words
instead of slowly poisoning the hearts?
Speech a Photograph.
The last Geneva speech was a per-
feet photograph of BRAND. On one
side he seemed to give way to certain
objections by which he was confronted
evcn among some of his colleagues of
the cabinet and naturally enough, after
the terrible trial of the war and of the
invasion, among important circles of
French public opinion. Cu the other,
while he knew that he was undergoing
risk. he v0S preparing the way to a
new diplomatic situation. IN which the
most delicate question-Frcnch evacua-
ton of the Rhineland ana final settle
ment of German war indemnities-wer
TO come out of the field OF generalities
ana become an actual argument for
immediate negotiation.
A committee of experts is working.
since Brands fiery speech. On that
committee French and German dele
gates are studying together, ir a friend
ly manner. the best ways in which to
reach final practical settlement.
tCopyrlght, 1929
Evening star., 1928-11-18

which were primarily responsible for
the fall of the government of National
Union-namely, those proposing return
of some small parcels of property to
religious missionary orders and estab-
lishment of headquarters in France
for foreign missions-are to be deleted
from the budget and inserted in a
supplementary credits bill which will
not come up for discussion for some
weeks.
Probably Poincare was moved to turn
the finance ministry over to M. Cheron
instead of resuming it himself by the
consideration that NJ Cheron could
make concessions which he could not
himself make without fatal "loss OF
face"
1t is satisfactory to note that in form
ing the new Senate finance committee
M Gaillaux was turned down by an
overwhelming vote, this by way of re-
buke for his behavior at Anglers. He
had, I believe, throughout his service
in the Senate been a member OF the
committee.
X x x x
Germany.-The Reichstag. reassen-
bled on November H. 1t has many
matters to consider, as whether or not
Evening star., 1928-11-18

the present government of personali-
ties" the members of which have no
mandates from their respective parties
and which, has generally been regarded
as mere stop-gap, is to be confined in
office; relations between labor and cap
ital, in view especially of lockout of
upward of two hundred thousand metal
workers in the Ruhr now In process;
the reparations question, and the issue
of states rights VS.. the central au-
thority.
On November 9 Germany took some
notice of the tenth anniversary of the
birth of the republic. On November
9, 1918, Philip Scheidemann proclaim
ed the republic from the balcony of the
Reichstag. DR.. StreSemann wrote a spe-
cial article for the anniversary In 1t
he quoted Bismarck's prophecy of a re-
public to follow an unsuccessful war. a
republic destined to greatness.
x X X x
Italy.-On November IS the good
news arrived that the flow of lava from
Mount Etna had ceased almost COM
pletely. The material damage Is esti-
mated at about $4,000 900.
| We should be brushing up on the
Evening star., 1928-11-18
Do You Dream Enough?
BY BRUCE BARTON.

of iron and concrete and brick
and mortar, all built on-what?
On nothing but one mans ideas
and faith and dreams.
Most of the work Of carrying
on the world is necessarily hard
and dull and routine in charac-
ter, and for it the world needs
us men and women who can steel
our souls against WEAKNESS and
ronotony and press forward
with good cheer.
We cannot by the mere wish
ing become Edisons or Watts.
1t would be worse than folly for
us to pile our feet upon the desk
and say: "Go to, now; will not
work any longer. ! will dream a
dream"
But almost any one Of us
could vastly increase the amount
Of imagination that he uses in
his daily life. The faculty Of
vision, like any other faculty,
grows through exercise.
Il is easy to become so en-
crossed with the mere mechanics
Of business as to lose the habit
Of thought. Easy to say, "Yours
received and contents noted" a
certain number of times during
the day and 90 home with the
notion that one has done a good
days work. When the really
valuable work Of the day could
have been and should have been
done under the shower bath in
the morning or in the 15-minute
walk across the park to the
Office.
One man in a million wakes
up, like Lord Byron, to "find
himself famous"
But the majority Of famous
men are not taken unawares by
fame.
On the wall Of their minds
hangs their own vision Of what
they ought to be and can be.
They are not surprised by Sue
cess when il comes, because they
have seen it coming and planned
out it's coming in their dreams.
1927
Evening star., 1928-11-18

A CERTAIN man went to
" work for John D. Rookie
~ feller in the early days.
4 n After he had been there
a couple Of weeks, Rockefeller
dropped into his office one after
noon and said:
"Just as soon as you get this
job organized | want you to
look around for some one to turn
it over to. Then you put your
feet on the desk and dream out
some way Of making more money
for the Standard Oil Co."
It was a rather startling order
for new man to receive from
his boss. Apparently it violated
all the timeworn preeepts OF
business progress.
Here was an employer willing
to pay only small salaries to the
kind Of men who keep their
heads forever bent over the
desk and reserving his big sal
aries for the kind Of men who sit
with their feet piled on the dcsk.
A curious contradiction Of all
First Reader stories.
Vet there must be something
in it, for on the foundation of
that philosophy Rockefeller built
the biggest fortune in the world.
The world would not have ad-
vanced very far had it not been
for the contributions Of its
dreamers.
Over in West Orange, NJ. j.,
stood one day in Mr.. Edison's
laboratory, talking with him.
And as we talked | looked out
across the huge expanse Of con-
crete factories stretching all
around US. Shop after shop, all
full Of men and machines, all
turning out their special part Of
the product.
And a certain sense Of awe
came over me. To think, said
to myself. that all this huge pile
Of factories should have been
spun out Of one single little hu-
man brain. Thousands of tons
fConvrit
Evening star., 1928-11-18
Drawn by S. ]. Woolf }

option might very we'll slip through a
new Parliament-one is due next year
and after that the drys would have all
the advantage in the fight which would
ensue in every provincial area.
The liquor interest is in politics up to
the eyebrows to prevent the vast mar
ket's drying up piecemeal. But already
restrictive legislation has made deep in
roads. The hours of sale have been
hammered down from "a 70 in the
provinces and 9 in London. There is
Sunday closing in Scotland and Wales.
drink. Lady Astor pushed that bill
through, thereby earning the undying
enmity of the vets. Scotland has a
system of local option and many many dry
areas under it. More than 5000 par
ishes are dry in the kingdom by the
will of the landlord. who has refused
permission to sell alcoholic liquors in
those areas.
Another Side Of Case.
But that Is the dark side of wet
picture which has many bright spots.
The brightest spot at the moment is
the rapid increase of clubs (many of
| which are camouflaged saloons) and the
panic into which even a dry politician
gets when pressed to attack the clubs
along with the pubs A lecent incident
in the House of Lords serves to illumi-
nate this phenomenon.
Another liquor control hill was up for
debate. Lord Buckmaster, one of the
chief law peers. was supporting 1t elo-
quently. He told the chamber that last
Good Friday evening he per etrated to
slum and found himself in one of
inhabitants earn more than a precari-
Gus $40 week. Yet there we're two sa-
looms on either side of that slum street
and both we're filled with noisy and
disorderly throng. The s!ums and the
Evening star., 1928-11-18
BY HENRY w. BUM.

. HE following Is brief summary
l of the most important news OF
/ the world for the seven days
ended November II:
Evening star., 1928-11-18
SOVIET RUSSIA AMAZES
BY ITS MERE EXISTENCE
Western Expectations Upset by Peasant
Class Failing to Fit Academic
Standards.
BY JOSEPH BARNES.

w WITHOUT exception, the most
n amazing thing about Soviet
Nv Russia is that it exists.
Eleven years after the re-
ic cti h.
Evening star., 1928-11-18
Older Ores Obey.

Older Ores Obey.
These men in plain. white-plastnred
room build the future Of Russia, what
ever that may be. The young man
ager had been to an agricultural
school; he is a trained farmer The
olde@ pcasants curse him and his ideas
soltW. but they obay implicitly. and
Evening star., 1928-11-18

A CERTAIN man went to
" work for John D. Rookie
~ felier in the early days.
n After he had been there
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-02-20
MAN DEMANDS TRIAL
ON ASSAULT CHARGE
Arrest Follows Street Battle Be-
tween Two-Hammer Used.
Police Say.

Arrested late last night and charged
with assaulting Edwin r. ODonnell.
80 years old, of the Racquet Club with
hammer. Jack O'Hearne. 20 years
old. 1886 Connecticut avenue. pleaded
not guilty and demanded jury trial
when arraigned before Judge John P.
Mcmahon in Police Court today.
The fight is said TO have resulted
from dispute over debt. Police say
that about 1870 O'Clock yesterday eve
ming O'Hearne, driving his car along
NJ street, saw O'Donnell near the In
tersection of Sixteenth street. He Is
alleged to have jumped from his au-
tomobile with a hammer in his hand
and to have struck ODonnell on the
head with 1t.
ODonnell dashed out with his fist.
knocking OHearne TO the ground. He
Jumped on top of the fallen man and
wrested the hammer from him, Po-
liceman George w. Cook Of the third
precinct. who investigated the affair.
declared
ODonnell telephoned No. station
house and Cook was detailed to find
and arrest O'Hearne.
O'Hearne gives a slightly different
account of the matter. He says that
ODonnell struck the first blow. after
the two had disputed with consider
able heat over the payment OF debt
for $40. which he alleges O'Donneil
owes him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-02-20

Now be mighty careful-~that tooth
is worth a million dollars"
The assistant Hustered, dropped the
tooth to the tiled floor. II broke into
many pices. but these were picked up
and cemented together and the x-ray-
ing and the controversy went on.
The tooth was known as the hes
peropithecus haroldcookii. the latter
name In honor Of the geologist who
found it, The molar closely reSembled
that OF known tooth Of Pithecanthro-
pus. the Java ape man.
Religi0nists Scoffed.
Scores Of learned and popular maya
zine articles were written about IL. SER
mons were preached against the tooth
and II was an arsenal OF ammunition
for the evOlutioniSts in their war with
the fundamenta!ists CT the churches.
Rev. DR.. John Roach Straton and Billy
Sunday were among those who scoffcd
at the million-d dollar molar.
Reciting the various steps taken by
himself and others In studies of the
tooth, Prof. Gregory related the finding
OF the peccary teeth fast Summer. and
said:
Thus 1t seems to me far more prob
able that we we're formerly deceived
by the resemblance OF the much worn
type To equally worn chimpanzee molars,
than that the type is really unique
token OF the presence OF anthropoids In
North America"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-02-20
MASONIC OFFICIALS
OPEN SESSION HERE
Delegates From SO Jurisdic-
tons Attend Annual
Meeting.

With delegates from SO Masonic
Jurisdictions throughout the United
States in attendance. the second an
nual conference of grand masters of
MaSons was opened In the Willard
Hotel this morning to consider policies.
customs and problems affecting all
grand lodges.
The Grand Lodge of New York is
acting as host to the visitors, many
of whom are on their way to the meet
ing of the George Washington Masonic
National Memorial Association in Alex
andria tomorrow.
Taliaferro Speaks.
James T. Gibbs, grand master of the
District of Columbia called the meeting
to order. Invocation was given by
Rev. John G. Palmer. grand chaplain
of the District Grand Lodge.
The delegates were welcomed officially
by Commissioner Taliaferro, member
of Temple Moves Lodge.
J. Claude KEEPER. grand secretary OF
the District, called the roll, the grand
masters or deputy grand masters from
So States responding. many reporting
they were accompanied by officers of
their Grand Lodges.
Officers Are Elected.
Under Grand Master James T. Gibbs
supervision. officers for the conference
we're elected Grand Master Howard r.
Cruise of New Jersey being chosen chair
man and Mr.. KEEPER secretary.
The meeting recessed Mt IL As O'Clock
and the representatives went in body
to the White House. where they were
received by President Coolidge. They
returned to the hotel for luncheon at l
O'Clock. after which the business ses-
sion was resumed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-02-20

The foolish voter likes 10 fash roll
that well might CHOKE horse, nE likes
~ snow abundant cash. and later suffers
from renoFse. He wakes up on q vacant
lot. smong tin cans and long dead cata.
and fncs that he's beea s!ugged or shot,
Ettc nae some IL broken stats For there
are many sinful gents along lies dark
snc winding way, wflo'c slug a man for
% cents. and they watch sharply tor
thsir prey. How many men have gone
10 rest beneath the dropping church
yard tree because they pulled from c0at
or vest xa1 most wonderful " SEE
] leave my MONEY IN the bank where
bugs and c4twoTms Dc not come and
PACK q gFost, marx franc, or other
small and modest sum And when pd
buy me ehsYOot that costs z cents 81
maybe 8. hunt for pennies through
my suit, ss busy as ] we'll caB b.. And
n sHEs strong arm wights are nigh
they size nne up a. being broke. IN
wouldn't psy 10 slug that guy" they
say while ] procAed W smoke. A man
IL standing NJ my side, he buys the sort
II sraoks that kills. and with gesture
large and wide hs shows his roll Of
DOLLAR kilis This fellow ] could buy
and sell o dorm times nor mias the
n,ou: but hrs the locosd sort M swell
WHO likes 70 glitter In the sun His
Thoughts are nil on vain display. he
wildly Springs the buck and bone. and
rov the human beasts ~ prey have
avtn.ly xnarked him for their own
WALT MAk0n.
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