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Evening star., 1928-12-15

Use of first names by slight acquain-
tances is cheap familiarity OF sopnlS-
| tication disliked by sensitive persons.
Ones name ought to stand for some
| thing.
If 1t does, it should not be banded
about by every Tom, Dick and Harry
one happens to know.
This is the way those with proper
| sensitiveneSs in such matters feel about
! it, and due consideration of the ques-
ton will lead almost any one to agree
that they are right.
Just because some one knows who you
are is not real reason for his glad-hand-
| ing you upon the first occasion with
cries of your given name.
Such Christian name was given you
| for a purpose, which purpose was to
enable you to be called differently from
| others of your tribe by members of the
tribe.
Those who know the tribe only slight
ly have little, if any. business being SO
familiar as to attempt to distinguish
! individual members thereof.
x X X x
1t all boils down to the family.
Read Freud if you want to see the
part family life has played in the
world
The German professor, however, was
obsessed with one relationship of fam
lily life.
He may have been right in his main
contention, but the Anglo-SaXon world
has chosen to minimize his thesis, and
to concentrate on the broader aspects
of the matter
These declare in positive terms that
f1ntIV infnUritxy hoe occorti11 ~
to play in family life as sex; that ones
good name is to be cherished more than
the family jewels; that the dignity of
the family name must be upheld.
Every one alive has some sort of
family" back of him; the difference be-
tween these essential groups is that
some have made more of theirs than
others. The records have been better
kept. Perhaps the means for keeping
such histories we're more ample. This
is matter with which the outside his
torian has nothing to do.
What matters is that every person
of ordinary discrimination feels that
he Is, indeed, descendant of thousands
OF years, that somehow he got here, that
somehow he is here, and that to achieve
this result, no matter what may be his
status in life, decidedly vigorous ances-
tors must have been responsible for the
happy result
This rosy way of looking at life is
vitiated, alas, by all the crime, poverty
and unhappiness of mankind, so that
even as one writes it he knows it must
be taken with several decidedly large
grains of salt! Rich families have crime
and unhappiness in their annals, poor
people live lives of Righteousness. Be-
tween the extremes there are all gra-
dations of families and the lives of
families.
The only sure thing about every hu-
man being is that, given the oppor-
tunity, he will take certain pride in
his name and the name of his family
He may not consciously put it exactly
that way, but down in his heart and
mind he believes in himself He likes
his own name.
X X X 4
1t will be discovered that those who
indulge in the use of other peoples first
names upon slight acquaintance are in
sensible to the claims of family in
tegrity.
They simply lack the sense.
They are like street urchinS who worm
their way into 5-and-10 cent stores at
Evening star., 1928-12-15
Stage, Overhead"

Mr.. Gilbert Miller, son of the late
Henry Miller and heir to an honored
stage name, is abandoning New York
as a theatrical producing center and
will hereafter offer all his plays in Lon
don before they are presented in the
United States. His decision is of more
than ordinary Importance because Mr..
Miller is managing director of Charles
Frohman, Inc, an organization which
has for several years past carried on
the business and traditions of the the
atrical genius whose title it bears.
Theatergoers who have become ac-
customed to paying New York box Of
fees and spectators SIS, So, 81 and
more for single seats at popular at
tractions-approxima figures are not
unknown in Westinghouse told that
stage overhead" requires famine prices
for tickets. Mr.. Miller's motives for
turning biz back ea Manhattan 1slsaa
Evening star., 1928-12-15

a new record outlay since 1923 of
S3,612OOO,O0O, despite saving of S35,-
100000 in interest charges on the pub
| lie debt"
"a balanced budget is the only pole
which protects against increase in Fed
eral taxation and contains promise CT
further tax reduction" asserts the De-
troit Free Press. I'VE can think of
only one condition where expenditure
is OF more importance than a balanced
budget, and that is where it is neces-
Sary to the security or ultimate pres
perlty of the Nation. For example.
neither cruiser building nor farm relief
ought to suffer under any circum-
stances
On this same phase of the matter th7
Cleveland Plain Dealer raised the o,les-
tlon, If the millions of dollars neces-
sary to any effective program of acrj-
cultural relief are set aside, and if The
new cruiser construction program is
taken up In earnest, to say nothing OF
other fields of expenditure where in
creaseS will be sought, it will be diff
cult to live up to the commitment madc
oy President Coolidge that the ONLY
revision OF our tax laws which will b.,
considered Is revision downward"
x X x
Mr.. Coolidge wisely urges" saws the
Newark Evening News, that the Con-
greSS apply to further debt reduction
the S406,000,000 which will become
available next August if France then
pays her bill for surplus war material
bought from us in France after the
armistice. Should the French war debt
arrangement be ratified before then
tniS sum VIII go into the greater item,
10 De paid over 81 years at lower inter-
est rates. If not, it is too much idle
money to be placed within the erasp of
a congress forced upon short appropria-
ton rations."
The prospects in this direction are
discussed by the Hartford Courant. with
the statement: French officials have
peen giving consideration to the proh-
lem created by the maturity of these
obligations. Many of them believe thai
IL would be better for France to ratifv
the agreement and begin paving the
lnStallmentS called for rather than 10
make this huge expenditure next wear
,Ihe budget message should st miIlate
French minds to tackle this problem
Squarely."
A plea for greater simplicity in pre-
senting the budget to the public" is
made by the Richmond News-Leader
winch declares that ''if it is to be
document about which the average tax
payer Is to know anything, It must be
accompanied every year by an A-B-C
explanation OF its scope and contents"
Evening star., 1928-12-15

| and spinal meningitis, which are fatal.
1t Is especially fatal to patients be-
tween Is and 35 years of age.
To an uncertain degree, one attack
of influenza renders the victim immune
for while, but not permanently.
X X X x
The cause of influenza is recognized
to be parasite or germ, but the germ
has never been isolated. 1t is believed
to be so small as to be able to pass
through a surgeons unglazed filter.
Says bulletin of the United States
Public Health Service:
mo matter what particular kind of
germ causes the epidemic, it is now
known that influenza is spread directly
from person to person. Moreover, judg-
ing from experience in other diseases,
it is probable that the germ, whatever
its nature, is carried about not only by
those who are Ill with influenza, but by
persons who may be entirely we'll.
Everything which increases personal
as factor in spreading influenza"
X X X x
While the doctors insist upon special
care in maintaining general vitality
full living is not proof against attack
Quoting again from Gill's "The Genesis
of Epidemics":
1T is a matter of common knowledge
that the pandemic (meaning disease
that appears all over the world) of
1918-19 affected all classes irrespective
of their social and economic status, or
even their personal vigor or physique" ;"
X * * *
Weather has a great deal to do with
the spread of influenza. Yesterdays
cold drizzle may have been about ideal
for that purpose. Says DR.. Gill:
Numerous facts have been brought
to light tending to show that certain
atmospheric conditions, by reason of
their influence upon the transmission
of infection, are intimately concerned
In determining the indigenous home of
the disease, the site of its pandemics,
their time OF emergence and their di-
rection of dispersal. But, although
it is held highly suggestive, evidence
has been deduced of the intimate man
aer in which the atmospheric states
are involved in the mechanism of in
nuenZa, the precise significance of this
relationship has not been established. y
Thus, with the caution of scientist,
he takes both sides of the weather hy-
pothesis and the layman can keep up
ms umbrella or go to bed and send
for doctor.
The home of the germ is supposed to
be In Central Asia. When it spread
into Russia and thence came to other
parts of Europe and to America, it was
known as Russian influenza; when it
first appeared in its pandemic form in
Spain and then spread everywhere, it
was called the Spanish f1u." It is all
the same disease.
1t has been known and recorded since
the days of Hippocrates and Livius, Alp
BIC, and there have been such pam
denies throughout the centuries. There
were serious outbreaks in America in
1887, 1881, 1888, 1887, 18z7-48 and in
1889-90. The most deadly of all was
that of 1918, with its half million ia
talities in a few months.
Copyright. 1923, by Paul v. collins)
Evening star., 1928-12-15
Regal decentralization.

Dispatches describing the elaborate
and painstaking equipment of suite of
rooms adjacent to King Georges sick
chamber in Buckingham Palace as a
complete miniature hospital made a
story Of widespread interest Nothing
that science can invent or fore
thought and ingenuity can devise
seems to be lacking. When Sir Hugh
Rigby arrived to perform the rib-and-
lung operation he did not even have to
bring his own instruments. Anesthetic
apparatus. ozone lamps, special bac-
THEOLOGICAL library, nurses and doctors
quarters-everything has been installed
and arranged. 1t all sounds quite won-
derful, and so it is.
The wonderful thing about it, in
reality, is not so much that King can
thus enjoy something special, but some
thing quite ordinary. Time once was
when the best was reserved for the
sovereign, from fresh-caught sturgeon
to special medical treatment and crea-
ture comforts. Now the best ruler
can hope for is that he may, with the
single difference of not having to be
transported bodily to hospital, enjoy
when ailing what not only his well-to-
do but even his poorer subjects can.
In hospital after hospital of the first
class in the British Isles, in the United
States, in many other lands, right here
in Washington, plain John Smith can
benefit by almost every item used to
restore George Windsor to health. The
single difference is that the monarch
has brought to him what the commoner
must enter an institution to obtain.
1t is a striking commentary on the
manner in which medical science Ia
bors on behalf, not of the King who
can knight physician, but on behalf
of the plain citizen who often cannot
pay one cent for the benefit of restora-
tive agencies which minister to him.
That King may share In these bene-
fits is cause for qualification, but they
were not, as in ancient times, devised
solely for him and his royal relatives.
Evening star., 1928-12-15

nately, is too little employed In mu-
sical endeavors of this nature.
Washington musicians are ready and
eager to give of their best to place Their
city in the front ranks of the Nation
musically. They have demonstrated
this frequently in the past by their
devotion to former undertakings on a
grand scale. They stand ready to DEM
onstrate it in the future, but nothing is
so discouraging to effort as to find, aft
er months of work. a comparatively
small support in the audience. The
public would do we'll to give to this
performance of THE Messiah" the sup
port that it deserves and to the mu-
sicians behind it the support they
should have that they may be encour-
aged to go forward until Washington
reaches the position in music for which
1t is so well fitted.
Evening star., 1928-12-15
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Almanac.

Almanac.
Good old-fashioned almanac,
Hanging by the chimney place;
1t will help you to keep track
OF our world, and worlds in space.
When you tire of statesmen's lore,
When you've read the novel strange
Here it comes, just as of yore,
To provide cheerful change.
For little while we'll stray
Through the paths in skies afar,
Leading past the Milky Way;
Making friends with every star.
Greeting with familiar smile
Comrades round the zodiac
Glad to welcome you awhile,
Good and faithful almanacl
Evening star., 1928-12-15

The resources of our free Information
Bureau are at your service. You are
invited to call upon it as often as you
please. 1t is being maintained solely
to serve you. What question can we
answer for you? There is no charge
at all except cents in coin or stamps
for return postage. Address your letter
to The Evening Star Information Bu-
reau, Frederic j. Haskin, director, Wash
ington, D. c..
O. When will the dog-sled derby be
held at Quebec?-N. C. L.
A. The Eastern International Dog
Sled Derby is announced for February
II to %, inclusive.
@. How much light do dirty windows
cut offs. P.
A. Lewis Carris of the National So
ciety for the Prevention of Blindness
cut down one-quarter because the WIN
dows are not washed regularly.
@. How many miles of canals has
Venice?-W. B. r.
A. 1t has $50 canals and 378 bridges.
The city is built upon IS islands.
@. What is the term applied to a
large outdoor cage where birds are
kept?-A. P.
A. Such cage or inclosure is called
an "aviary."
@. When did a submarine first sink
a Warship?-J. H. F
A. The Confederate Hundley was a
true diving craft. On February II,
1864, she blew up the United States
steamship Housatonic. The Hundley
went down with her victim. This was
the first success of a submarines ac-
tion with warship and the only one
until the World War.
@. Please name some of the song hits
of 1866. 3.
A. "A Hot Time in the Old Town
Tonight" Kentucky Babe" and Sweet
Rosy O'Grady'' came out in 1896. Two
songs made famous by May Irwin
THE Bully. Song" and Frog Song
were published that year.
@. What was the religion of the Ro-
mans at the time that Jesus Christ
lived?-R. H.
A. The Roman belief was pagan
Jove, or Jupiter, was the supreme god
and there were ipnumerable lesser gods
@. Was Virginia Dare born in Vir-
ginia or North Carolina?-L. B. C.
A. Virginia Dare. the first child born
in America of English parents, was
born on Roanoke Island, then Vir-
ginia, but now North Carolina, in 1887
@. Is the "x" in luxury given the
sound of "g"?-K. E. N.
A. Not properly. 1t retains its nor
NAL sound.
@. Is the aqueduct of Sac Paulc
completed?-L. F. S.
A. An aqueduct large enough to ad-
NIT an individual is being built tt
bring water to Sac Paulo from the
mountains, 45 miles away This pipe
line will supply 66 gallons of water q
day for each of the $1,000 inhabitant.
and provide for a future growth equa
to the present population. The draw
of the bridge is SO inches for a distance
CT miles. There are Is miles of pipe
with a diameter of II inches. There
are $4,000 tons of metal being used fol
this work. The chief dam is the Casa
Grande, and smaller one at PocC
Preto, on the Rio Claro River. Twenty.
three per cent of the aqueduct will bt
elevated to an average height of Il
meters. The pipes are all made of pure
iron. The work, which was started
eight years ago, is about completed.
@. What is the origin of the name
''Listerine," and what does it contain:
IT. N.
! A. Listerine is a trade name of ar
Evening star., 1928-12-15
"Wireless War" Next.

From the Seattle Daily Times.
The storm of criticism which has
beat about the heads of the Federal
radio commissioners doubtless con-
vinces them that there is lot in the
prediction that the next war will be
fought with wireless.
Evening star., 1928-12-15

Some Of the most profound thinkers
have discussed Socialism of one kind or
another. Any irresponsible moron who
can make bomb thinks he sees way
to promote himself into decent intellec-
tual company.
Evening star., 1928-12-15

A "fiu" epidemic defies science. and
impudently asserts itself in opposition to
modern improvements. Efficiency can
bring the human element into proper
cooperation. But the germ element
has not yet been conquered
Evening star., 1928-12-15
Amt Winter Wonderful? I?

From the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel.
When you get up late and find the
furnace has gone out, and you can't
find your gloves, and the car won't
start. and you miss one. street car and
the next one Is late gsa, amt Winter
MRAasEsAA -= $ &zsaaa..-asszsz,
Evening star., 1928-12-15

Communism roams the earth. causing
small scares, but always showing that 1t
has no real home. No nation is willing
to accept Communism frankly as a
dominating economic principle.
Evening star., 1928-12-15
Where Is 1t Coming From?

From the Des Moines Tribune-Capital.
Since there is little or no prosperity
among the farmers, we are burning up
with curiosity as to who is sending those
Iowa millions to Wall Street for invest
ment in loans.
Evening star., 1928-12-15
Right and Might.

Right and Might.
A Politician impolite,
And of self-glory full,
Remarked, "You see I'm Always Right
Because I have PULL.
"And so, call on you to 'shush!'
OF worth your plans are full
But it's no use for you to Push
While have got the PULL"
Trouble" said Uncle Eben, "is easy
to make. But I amt never seen any
profit yet in runnin' trouble fac
tory"
Evening star., 1928-12-15

As presiding officer of the Senate the
Vice President may have to hear a
number of speeches he might be frankly
inclined to classify as beautiful, but
dumb"
Evening star., 1928-12-15
Chew on This One.

From the Springfield Daily News.
Georgetown. Pa, man was given
five years for biting policeman, which
shows what can be done when we put
teeth in the law, !.
Evening star., 1928-12-15
Influenza Poll Suggested.

From the Pasadena Star-News.
The Literary Digest might take poll
to determine the number of persons who
are destined to have the "flu" before
this SneeZe wave subsidies.
Evening star., 1928-12-15

London is showing an interest in
American blackface comedians. 1t does
not yet equal the interest shown here in
reyivals of the old English plays.
Evening star., 1928-12-15

France should be wiped out as great
power. (5) We cannot allow Germany
to use the Channel as a hostile base
(6) We have obligations to Belgium
to prevent it being utilized and abb
sorbed BIZ Germany
Evening star., 1928-12-15
Why Bring That Up Now?

From the Des Moines Tribune-Capital
The approaching New Year will prob
ABLY break the country's record for un-
PAID ollis II one may judge by the rate
the shopping is now going on.
Evening star., 1928-12-15
Much Applesauce.

From the Louisville Times
A few of the administrations lame
ducks will get plums and the rest of
them will have to content themselves
with appleSauce.
Evening star., 1928-12-15
Nothing New Under the Sun.

From the Fort Worth Record Telegram.
Conversation is npt a lost art, as has
been asserted. Busk being able to find
something to tax ah9at probably IS = :.
Evening star., 1928-12-15

Some of the smaller countries are so
bound to tradition as to show signs of
resentment at efforts to interfere with
what might prove perfectly good war.
Evening star., 1928-12-15
Pardonable Pride.

eNA NNUNAeSWHO AANALs
"You have swayed the opinions of the
multitude!" said the admiring friend.
"I did better than that" answered
Senator Sorghum. II managed to ex-
press myself in way that secured un-
limited financial backing"
Evening star., 1928-12-15
What of the Criminals?

From the Charlotte IN. c. News.
What North Carolina needs, one ad-
viseS. sis a change in its jury system"
We doubt, however. very much whether
our criminals would consent to 1t.
Evening star., 1928-12-15

The United States Senate may forget
its points of order, but never its interro-
CATION points.
Evening star., 1928-12-15

Invention still has new worlds to
conquer. A stock ticker is needed that
can keep pace up to the minute with
the Wall Street Market.
Evening star., 1928-12-15

Jud Tunkins says man who shaves
every morning is lucky if he can look
himself in the face without blushing.
Evening star., 1928-12-15
Or Set Off a Bomb.

From the Olean Herald.
Honk, and watch pedestrian Jump.
Or better yet. slip up on a politician
and say: Equalization fee."
Evening star., 1928-12-15

why should we not worship our
ancestors?" said Hi Ho, the sage of
Chinatown. "Have they not produced
such wonderful beings as Us?"
Evening star., 1928-12-15
Implements.

implements.
Alcoholic customs have lost their
conviviality"
EYES," replied Col. Stillwell Of Ken
tucky. Anybody seriously interested
in liquor is now likely to use a gun in
stead of corkscrew."
Evening star., 1928-12-15
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Evening star., 1928-12-15
rather PLAYS Santa CLAUS

Father Plays Santa Claus.
When Santa Claus Is on the way,
He doesn't harness up a sleigh.
A street car strap he'll stoutly grab,
Or else he'll hail taxicab.
Evening star., 1928-12-15
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Evening star., 1928-12-15


dows of chain drug stores William
Beebe knows sponges in the deep re-
ceSses of their undersea homes and tell
something of their personalities an(
habits in his book, Beneath Tropit
Seas" Let us enter the realm O.
sponges," he says. with helmet, hos'
and pump in order, slip off the por
gangway. With a last blop! of air
submerge on my slim rope and Slide
gently down past the Schooner's hull
Soon he is among the spongeS, walking
around among giant blacks and sage
greens and elastic browns. Handling
Sponges in their mucilaginouS natura
state stains the fingers, because sponge'
are rich in iodine, and once upon time
were used, roasted or burnt, IN tine
treatment of goiter and Group.
Exploring one day in Sponge Alley,
Mr.. Beebe sits down upon a giant
sponge to rest and take a few notes
Then. with the assistance of three COM
panions, he cuts the huge thing, as
large as half barrel, loose from It's
moorings and pulls it to the surface OF
the water Only after several hundred
pounds of coral have been cut away
from its base is it possible to lift the
sponge into the boat, and then when
all Superf1uouS water has been ellml-
mated it weighs over $50 pounds. When
a sponge is pulled apart, it is found to
be the habitat of multitude OF
pulsating lives''-shrimps, crabs and
various little filmed fishes.
X X X X
Among other confidential extracts
from his diary quoted in his Memories
and Reflections: l852-1927," is the fol-
lowing credo written by Lord oxford
just before England declared war with
Germany: Happily I am quite clear
in my mind as to what is right and
wrong. cd We have no obligation of
any kind either to France or Russia to
give them military or naval help.
(2) The dispatch of the expeditionary
force to help France at this moment
Is out of the question and would serve
no object. CD We must not forget
the ties created by our long standing
and intimate friendship with France.
So Il IS against British Interests that