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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-28
Tells Why Women
Won't Ride Together

To the Editor OF The Star:
A week or so ago read an editorial OF
yours about having separate cars fol
women on city transportation lines. This
has been tried in this country and
found to be failure.
The Hudson Manhattan Railroad
connecting Manhattan Island with Jer-
sey City and Hoboken tried putting a
special car on ruSh-hour trains for
women in the center of each train. ]
do not remember the year, but think 1t
was about 1908 or later.
I have stood on the Hudson & Man
haitian platform at Jersey City and
have seen trains pull in with every other
car crowded with men and women and
not more than two or three women in
the car set aside for them.
About SO per cent of women like to
hang around men. Hating each other as
women do, it's not strange that they re-
fuse 20 ride together. The only women
/ remember riding in the separate car
were very old ones
The general offices of the Hudson &
Manhattan Railroad are at No. 80
Church street. New York City. I have
no doubt they will gladly give you fig
ures about the separate cars for women.
LOUIS H. SCHNEIDER.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-28
Urges Half Holidays
To Relieve MOnOtOny
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor of The Star:
If President Coolidge and congress-
men could look into the homes of many
Government employees and see how very
much they need the Saturday half holi-
days am sure it would be granted.
Why should human being be re-
ouired to work six days out of seven,
thereby compelling him to work on the
seventh day also? 1t makes of life one
monotonous grind.
President Coolidge has said: ut is
needed to put more effort into translat-
ing art into the daily lives of the peo-
pie. If we could surround ourselves with
forms of beauty the evil things of life
would tend to disappear"
Is not time an essential element in
the effort to surround ourselves with
forms of beauty? If we had Saturday
holiday we would then have an oppor-
tunity to brighten and beautify 1.-The
corner where we are" And the more
attractive homes would add to the
beauty of our city.
If it is important that art be trans
lated into our daily lives, is it not
equally important that our drab daily
thoughts be transmitted into ones of
beauty and inspiration by sitting oc-
casionally chad we the timel at the
feet of those alchemists-the poets. the
seers, the thinkers, the inspired of the
earth? PAULINE WOOSTER.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-28
UNITED STATES
in WORLD WAR
Ten Years Ago Today

Marshal Foch's plan of campaign IS
now in full development. and both
wings Of the vast battle front are afiame
between the sea and st. Quentin,
Champagne and Verdun. In the great
est struggle in the worlds history Foch
is repeating on gigantic scale the
same tactics that proved SO successful
in his recent reduction of different sa-
lients. Today's advance brings
the American forces almost in touch
with the German Kriemhilde line at
BrieulleS, gain of 3 miles, bring
ing the total number Of villages occu-
pied to 20. Nothing stops the Ameri-
cans. The appearance of the best Ger
man troops in line is signal for even
greater efforts by the youthful Amerl-
cans, fighting through seas of mud and
in cold rain. Belgian forces
join in the drive with British troops
on a front north of Ypres, advancing
more than 3 miles, the Belgians
alone capturing more than 1000 pris-
oners. The French under
Gen. Mangin capture Fort Malmaison.
one of the strongholds southeast OF
Laon and dominating the Chemin des
Danes. Gen. Gouraud's forces advance
4 miles on the Champagne front.
The Bulgarian Minister In
Washington says Bulgaria is practically
out of the war. Great masses OF Ger
man troops pass through Sofia on way
to Bulgaria as Germany tries to keep
that country from quitting the war;
Four hundred and one casu-
alties on list released today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-28

followed and the girl slumped in her
seat.
The enforcement officers who particle
pated in both of these outrages should
be treated as ordinary criminals. They
have prostituted the authority which
they were given and have dealt the
cause of justice staggering blow. Even
If both the Hanson and the Haywood
cars were transporting liquor. which
they were not. it did not constitute the
commission OF felony which would
furnish the only possible excuse for
the drastic method employed by the
dry agents to stop them.
1t has often been said that a men
tally illequipped person is more dan
gerous to society with the law behind
him than against him. These two
cases have assuredly proved the truth
of the statement. One of the funda-
mentals of a policeman's knowledge
should be the proper use of the weapons
which the law allows him to carry. If
this simple regulation is too complicat-
ed for his understanding he should
never be given the shield which desig-
mates him as a guardian of society.
1t is high time that the prohibition
enforcement agencies. both local and
national. should secure competent
and uniformed personnel to carry on
the work No sane person, especially at
night, will stop at the command OF
men attired as civilians. 1t has been
done too often with fatal results to the
motorist. The Government or the
State or the city can no longer afford
to place itself in the position Of con-
doning such affairs as the shooting Of
Hanson and Miss Haywood, or even OF
making possible, by lack of uniforms
and competent enforcement officers
such outrages Reform is needed and
at once.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-28
Another Prohibition Outrage.

Strongly reminiscent of the Jacob
Hanson case last Summer, when this
prominent business man of Niagara
Falls was fatally shot by ununiformed
Coast Guardsmen when he failed t.
stop at their command on lonely
country road, is the wounding yestel =
day of Twenty-Five year-old girl nea"
Lorain, Ohio, by dry agents, presumably
without uniforms, when her father and
party of friends, believing that q
hold-up was being attempted. refused
to stop their automobile. The young
woman was rushed to hospital, where
it was found that the bullet had entered
the back Of her neck and she was SAL
to be In a serious condition. The
three dry agents, who fired without
justification or probable cause upon an
automobile containing women and chill
dren, have been suspended.
Country wide indignation was aroused
by the case of Mr.. Hanson. who was
shot in the head and blinded. Three
months later he died from the effects
of the wound. No less indignation will
probably be the result of this latest
case of attempted murder. The girl
Miss Betty Haywood; her father and
Charles Edwards, his wife and baby
were in the Haywood car when the
shooting took place. The enforcement
officers are alleged to have appeared at
bridge approach and ordered the car
to stop. Believing it to be a hold-up
Mr.. Edwards, who was driving, in
creased his speed. A rattle of bullets
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-28

crown. Acclaimed as the heart and soul
Of the Mexican revolution, he yet pre-
ferred to make way for a man whose
laurels have been achieved exclusively
in the paths of education, jurisprudence
and peace.
Turbulent and incalculable Mexico
has ridden the storm that Jared up
with menacing suddenness when Ohre-
gon was dispatch : She has brought
about a change {, 1vernment with a
promptness and a G,corum that may
we'll stand as an example for free peo-
Piles everywhere. For US Of America,
who so long have craved the arrival ut
conditions conducive to economic and
political stability across the Rio Grande,
President-designate Gil's accession to
authority is an augury Of good hope.
His administration will be observed in
the United States with sympathetic in
terest and boundless wishes for its sue
cess.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-28
Amusement Marks Comment
On Missing Baptist Treasurer

tainly not to be held against his obtain
ing new employment. but might have
suggested a closer supervision. APP
parently neither his employers nor the
bonding company knew his record.
In these days, when thor
oughly bonded trust companies and
amply secured financial institutions are
equipped to handle such operations at
minimum of cost, the turning over
of such vast sums to any individual.
whatever his record or standing. may
well be questioned" The Columbia
Record asks: why wasn't there gen.
cral. systematic audit of the books when
that feat would have done some good?"
x x
ut has been said by many persons
many times" according to the Birming-
ham News, that to trust q convicted
criminal-that is to say. make a real
'trusty' of him-is to take broad step
toward making him a better man, by
supplying a motive that changes his
mental and diSpositional attitude to-
ward his kind. And, undoubtedly, that
has frequently proved true. But with
this man. now under indictment, it does
not seem to have worked out" The
News adds: THE Board of Missions de-
serves credit for the promptitude and
dispatch with which it has met this
unexpected emergency 1t Is gratifying
to note that voluntary contributions,
even before the call for help was made,
have been impressive"
Disappearance of men with money
entrusted to their care is nothing new"
suggests the Ann Arbor Daily News. 1T
happens every now and then. But,
somehow, it seems worse when church
official yields to temptation and
church organization is the victim. Men
who hold responsible positions in church
associations usually are regarded as not
susceptible to the allurementS Of fraud
as a means to personal gain. Perhaps
they are trusted more than men sim
ilarly employed in business life. At any
rate. more is expected Of them.
A million dollars would be lot to steal
from a big corporation. 1t is a lot
more wheE purloined from a church.
The church has not erred.
except, perhaps, in trusting the treas
urer too much. Religion cannot lose
its uplifting influence because one
man has cheated religion and himself"
THE Southern BaptiStS," remarks the
New Orleans Item, seem peculiarly I'M
fortunate in their selection of men to
handle their funds. One abSconded two
years or more ago with a large sum.
Now a shortage approximating ST.
5000 is reported in the accounts Of
the treasurer. He was bonded for only
$4,000. The ENLIGHTENMENT seriously
embarraSSes the board" The Lynch
burg Advance also refers to the previous
case, and suggests: Where more than
one man has to pass on all borrowings,
expenditures, or the like, before they
can be made. the opportunity for theft
Is tremendously reduced"
The Charlotte News points out that
there are 100000 members In the
church and that their numerical
strength coupled with the average ma
terial prosperity which they are enjoy
ing, added to their UNCONVENTIONAL
loyalty, will bring them swiftly into &C
ton to wipe out the deficit."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-28
PHILOSOPHERS
BY
GLENN FRANK

A reader of this column. who had
heard that I have managed to read
virtually a book a day for the last Is
years despite rather crowded schedule
of work, writes to ask some advice on
the art of reading good books.
Some day I shall try to set down an
ANALYSIS of the habits I have more or
less unconsciously developed as I have
followed a natural love Of reading. but
today I want to pass on the advice
given by the late Lord Morley.
knowledge Is worth little" said Nor
lev. until you have made it so perfectly
YOUR own as to be capable of reproduc-
ing 1t in precise and definite form.
Goethe said that in the end we only
retain of our studies. after all, what we
practically employ of them. No
body can be sure that he has got clear
ideas on a subject unless he has tried
to put them down on a piece of paper
in Independent words of his own. 1t is
an excellent plan. therefore, when you
have read good book, to sit down and
write a short abstract Of what you can
remember of it,
This is also an excellent method of
arriving at a clear Judgment of the
worth of the ideas in a book.
I once asked James Harvey Robin
son, as I met him at dinner party,
what he had been doing lately that in
terested him.
"Oh, today" he said, 1--WE been trying
to see whetherI could put all of George
Santayana'S book on 'SkepticiSm and
Animal Faith on the back of a post
card
When you do that to book you have
to strip it to the bone, and its reality
or unhealthy stands naked before you.
One other suggestion of MorleyS is
important.
Its almost always worth while" he
said, ito read thing twice over to
make sure that nothing has been missed
or dropped on the way or wrongly con-
ceived or interpreted. And if the sub
ject be serious, it is often we'll to let an
interval lapse. Ideas. relation. state
ments of fact, are not to be taken by
storm. We have to steep them in the
mind, in the hope Of thus extracting
their Utmost essence and significance
If one let's an interval pass, and then
returns to it, IL is surprising how clear
and ripe that has become which, when
he left it, seemed crude, obscure, full of
perplexity."
These two suggestions make reading a
little harder than swinging in a ham,
mock, but then, as Morley said, ''it will
not do to deal with ideas that we find
in books or elsewhere as a certain bird
does with its eggs-leave them in the
sand for the sun to hatch and chance
to rear"
Copyright. Mcclure Newspaper syndicate.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-28
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

against him. Nabbed early in Septem-
Der for embezzlement in Salt Lake City.
Over is ready to plead guilty and take
the medicine Uncle Sam has ready for
| him. There's a Hoover-J. Edgar-ln
charge of the Sherlock Holmes branch
of the Justice Department nowadays.
one of the keenest young minds in the
| Federal service.
F.. NJ Russell, former Iowa news
paper man, who is one OF Secretary Jar.
| dimes assistants at the Department OF
Agriculture, functioned as, pinch-hitter
| for Mr.. Coolidge under amusing circum-
stances the other day. There arrived at
the department by express, at the out
set of National Grape Week." crate
of grapes addressed: THE President OF
| the United States, care OF the Depart
ment of Agriculture, Washington. d. c.
Having duly delivered it at that address,
| the eXpreSsman insisted upon CORE
| spending signature in his receipt book:
Obligingly and unabashed, Russeli
wrote: THE President of the United
States, F.. M Russell" The 1oWans
nickname is SCOOP" He admits he
never scored a bigger one than the
scrawl that flabbergasted certain eX-
presSman.
X X X X
observation-disclosures, as we'll as visiting
motorists, for whom life nowadays Is a
detouring burden, may take heart OF
grace from the prospect that by the emo
of 1929 the city is destined to De the
best paved capital in the world. Inc
extensive resurfacing operations now In
progress have that end in view. CeSsa-
| ton of construction during the war and
Coolidge economy meantime combined
! to let Washingtons streets fall into
sad state of disrepair. approximately w
miles of asphalt streets more than 81
years old needed to have their faces
| lifted. Congress granted the initial ap-
preparation and the money is now being
spent Thus far, 1913 asphalt streets
have been. or are being, put in first
class condition. Many have been
widened and 81 provided with entirely
new roadways. About 10 streets are
scheduled for new pavement or resur-
facing next year. One asphalt street,
! Vermont avenue, Is 40 years old ana
still giving good service.
Setsu Matsudaira, Japans imperial
bride, who today was married to Prince
ChlcHlDu, helr 10 the MlkaQOS tIlToile'
received an affectionate congratulatory
| cablegram from her former teacher and
schoolmates at Friends School in Wash
| ngton She was graduated there last
June Here's tribute paid to her by
DR.. SidWell, headmaster of the school, IN
an address apropos Setsu's wedding:
The Japanese people have been
very exclusive They have much that
| is remarkable and commendable.
Those Of you who associated with
| Setsu and had an opportunity to
| know her during the past three years
| observed certain characteristics
| which are striking among the Jap
anese-a reserve a great capacity for
enduring work. persistency In COM
| pleting a task in a most satisfactory
| way, a courtesy most refreshing and
| manners that were charming. All OF
| these qualities won for her the re-
spect, admiration and friendship OF
| everybody.
| The schools cablegram to SetSu ended
up: please come back to see u.s."
(Copyright. 1927
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-28

Amusement at the revelation that a
man twice sent to prison for fraud
| should have been placed in a position
% steal a million dollars from religious
organization marks most of the news
paper comment on the disappearance
Vt Clinton S. Carnes. treasurer of the
Board of Home Missions of the South
ern Baptist Convention.
THAT an expert in finance and ac-
counting, endowed with such facilities
of credit, should have found 1t possible
to perpetrate a huge robbery of the
funds in his charge is understandable.
observes the Charleston Evening Post,
but less so is the fact that man
with criminal record, who had served
two terms in prison on conviction of
fraud, should have attained to posi-
ton of such opportunity. Investigation
Of his qualification for the office in
trusted to him must have been of the
most casual sort for him to have sue
ceeded in establishing himself In the
complete confidence of the board"
THE average man Is aStounded." de-
clareS the Greensboro Daily Record,
when he learns that the board in
stalled man as treasurer, handling
millions of dollars. within short time
after he was released from the peni-
Tertiary. Said average man is left
speechleSS when he is told further that
the treasurer was allowed such wide
powers he was able. in few years. to
steal a million dollars by the simple
expedient of signing notes with the
boards name. there being no require
ment for a counter signature"
The st. Louis Times also emphasizes
the statement that 1.-The absent treaSur-
er did as he pleased with the money
he was supposed to guard: that he
made deposits in his own name, bor-
roWed on the credit of the board. spec
ulated in realty and in business and in
the stock market No one checked
him." continues the Times, land after
the search for him began 1t was re-
vealed he had served a term as con-
vict.'
x X X X
Can the confirmed crook come
back'?" asks the Springfield Republican.
as it proceeds with the statement: THE
cynical Baumes law in New York is
based on the theory that he cannot; at
least that the chances against 1t are
so great that society is justified in
keeping such offenders permanently In
custody. This attitude. rejecting
large volume of police opinion, has often
been REGARDED as an important factor
in practice CarneS, according
to the Atlanta Journal, kept secret files
to hide his manipulation of the ac-
counts. and it was the finding of these
files that led to the discovery of the
shortage. 1t seems to have been
a simple case of judging by appearances.
which were those of eminent reSpecta-
bility as we'll as competence. Carnes
had his new chance: there was no
bounding by the police. Under the
same name which he took with him to
prison. he attained a position of high
honor and responsibility unchallenged.
And he got awav with it-tor awhile
The moral--cynical, perhaps-is that
YOU never can tell. but that 1t Is just as
wen to wetch out"
'Thpt he served term in prison"
says the Roanoke Times, ought GER
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-28
Mexinn's New President.

Mexico has given the world pledge
of its desire to supplant the rule OF the
bullet with the sway of the ballot She
has turned her back on the SEMI
militaristic terrorism which prevailed
throughout the storm and stress OF the
Oregon Gales administrations, and
installed as provisional President cul-
tured civilian.
Senior Portes Gil, who has just been
selected by the Mexican Congress TO
take Office on December / and to hold
It until the election of a full-term
President in November, 1929, is lawyer
by profession. He is translated by vote
of the Congress from the Supreme
Court bench in Sonora to the executive
mansion at Mexico City. Previously
Senior Gil was governor of the state OF
Tamau!!pas. A man of distinguished
abilities he certainly must be, for all
these honors have come to him early,
finding him today only at the age OF
thirty-seven.
The significance of Senior CHS tempo
rary succession to the presidency lies In
the circumstance that it was easily
within the power of Senior Gales to
succeed himself. When the late Gen
Obregon fell at the hands Of an as
sassin, on the eve of his own re-entry
into the chief magistracy of Mexico
there was an almost violent demand that
the iron hand of retribution should be
invoked against the forces of revolution
by the perpetuation Of Senior Gales IN
office.
An act amending the Mexican consti-
tuition would have been required. But
the temper of the nation was such that
1t could undoubtedly have been accom-
plshed. Senior Gales put await the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-28
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.

Relief.
The Campaign Speaker comes along,
With methods brisk and breezy.
This world again is going strong
And everything seems easy.
He solves the problems in an hour
Which have for years been vexing,
And battles predatory power -...
Which might have proved perplexing
And so, with comfort, we attend
Each generous grafton,
Thankful to one who can extend
An hour of relaxation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-28

Some Of the Democratic talks refer
ring to the manner in which Gov Al
Smith has over-topped his ticket in New
York, sound as If Republican votes were
relied on for his election to the presi-
dency.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-28

Many New York theater men are en-
Enthusiastically for Gov. AL Smith. 1t is
but natural for the stage-trained mind
to hold a certain admiration for the
man who knows how to hold his own
before any kind of audience.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-28

Every efficiency expert knows that
the untrammeled efforts of individual
ism must sometimes be utilized. The
personally conducted campaign of Mrs
Willebrandt can scarcely fail to have
its influence.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-28

The election in Maine was an en-
phatic Republican declaration. Never
theless Democrats continue to assume
that there is hope.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-28
Fine Art Of Heckling.

Fine Art OF HeckIing.
II was glad to observe that you were
in no way annoyed by that man who
heckled."
He is what I call good heckler,"
answered Senator Sorghum. II carry
him with the campaign company"
HE is a friend?"
More. A faithful servitor. I tell
him exactly what to say when he
heckles, and then we put our heads
together to determine how I shall reply
with a stroke of smashing repartee."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-28
We Hope Not.

From the New York Evening Post.
A Bohemian student at Neo-bydsovo
ate 101 dumplings or "zwetchenknoe-
DEL" at one sitting. It Is to be hoped
that he doesn't have to eat his words.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-28

Every community is eager to hear the
presidential candidates. In order to &C
commodate everybody the speaking
should have started back in June.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-28

Chicago gunner send flowers to the
funeral of a pal. A lover of flowers,
however sincere, may doubt the desira-
bility of earning them at so much risk.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-28

A style that has smash and appeal
enables Mabel Willebrandt to assert
herself as a sort of campaign "colum-
mist" who defies managing editors.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-28

European politicians are still inclined,
in their deliberations, to transplant this
countrys favorite slogan, See America
First"