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Evening star., 1928-03-23
International Sports
Program Endorsed

From the Nashville Banner.
Just at present the powers that be
In athletics out at Vanderbilt are stag
Ing an energetic and intelligent cam
paign 10 populari1e comprehensive
program OF intramural sports among
the students, The ideal In to have
every able bodied student playing some
sort OF game for the pure fun aud
beneflt he may get out OF II. and moth
ing could be more commendahlc. The
most valid criticism Of the athletic SyS.
tenn generally In vogue In American
colleges Is that which charges that the
tendency Is To develop few stars and
neglect the average individual who Is
not endowed with SUFFICIENT physical
prowess To make any varsity team. In
another manner OF speaking, the Ameri-
can college Is too apt Ia have a few stu
dents playing and great many looking
ON and cheering obviously the great
est benefit for the greatest number
cannot be derived from any such inter-
pretation OF the purpose of athletics IN
college, and the leading Institutions IN
all sections Of the country are getting
away from Il by means similar 10 those
Vanderbilt Is employing
Quite Incidentally. too. the colleges
which have put into operation sane
and inclusive system ot intramural
sports have never failed 10 develop IN
that way number OF athletes whose
skill was eventually sutflctent to make
them valued members OF varsity teams
uhquestlonahly good many varsity
stars OF purest ray serene are wasting
their light In a darkness that can he
and Is dlspelled by ntramural sports
The Important thing about intramural
Apotts, however. Il the fact that more
students are induced 10 play, and thus
get the exercise that Is 80 essential e.
COLLEGIATE success and the possession OF
an efficient body atterward
Evening star., 1928-03-23
Bon Voyage.

Who would care to sail the Atlantic
in a twenty-foot boat even IL the craft
was guaranteed unsinkable? Ofhand.
there would be few who would wish for
the prospect. but strange as 1t may seem
il is actually being done by four hardy
mariners who started yesterday from
England for New York with high hopes.
To many the idea Of crossing the ocean
even In a modern liner is distressing. but
TO these hardy sons OF the sea two
months or so OF buffeting mean nothing
They are seeking 10 demonstrate the
practicability Of twenty-foot lifeboat
and the sixty-eight-year-o inventor.
Jacob Schuttevaer. Is the master on the
long and arduous trip.
Whatever else may be said OF the un-
oertaking. il must be admitted that the
inventor Of the non-sinkable craft has
the courage of his convictions The
Atlantic in storm Is not to be trined
with. and If this boat lives 10 reach TIRE
American shore il will surely have DEM
onstrated It's worth. Such strenuous
test. however. seems unnecessary II
would appear that some other means
could be czYised TO attain the same end.
inssmtsch as the trip is already under
way, the best that can be done is 10
wish the adventurous quartet bon
yoys2e.
Evening star., 1928-03-23
The President Says NO" Again.

While il is probably fiattering TO
President Coolidge that his L do not
choose" statement of last August con-
tinues TO be regarded in some quarters
ss perhaps PicEwickian. and from timc
30 time intimations are expressed that
he may be persuaded 10 change his
mind and become a receptive candidate
for the nomination to be made next
June st Kansas City. there is neverthe-
less q suggestion Of inSincerity In the
activities Of his admirers that must be
seriously annoying to him. The latest
manifestation Of desire for him TO adopt
the permissive role occurred III Wyom
ing. The chairman of the Republican
State committee asked that he allow
the use of his name in the preferential
primaries there. In reply the President
has stated. through his secretary. that
he must decline the request of the
committee
This would seem to be sufficiently eX-
plicit. In the first place the President
said that he did not choose" to serve
another term. In December he remind
ed the Republican national committee
Of his August statement. and asked tina;
his decision be respected. He now. in
answer 70 the Wyoming request, says
mo" as emphaticaliy as possible.
II should by now be plain to all that
Mr. Coolidge does not wish to run for
aaoth-r term. Eis wishes should be
respected He has specifically asked
this. He cannot take cognizance of al,
the gossip regarding his intentions that
arises In connection with the pre-
convention maneuvers for candidates
for the nomination. He cannot in dig
nifty recognize that for factional pur-
poses The possibility Of a change of
mind on his part is being from time to
time br7Iited- Only II and when di-
rect appeal is made to him, as in the
Wyoming case. is there occasion for
him to repeat his decision
This should end the process, which Is
President The chances of persuasion
are TOO remote for consideration. Ii
Mr.. Coolidge should be placed in nom
nation at Kansas City it win be. the
country should by this time know,
against his viii In such circumstances
ne would be justified in demanding the
withdrawal Of his name. indeed he
would be warranted in refusing to ac-
'ceps 9 nomination IL the convention, ir
the face OF his repeated refuSais 10
permit the use Of his name, should vote
to place him On the Republican ticket
The fact that an actual nomination has
never heretofore been refused does moi
signify that Mr.. Coolidge would not make
precedent by carrying his i do not
choose" statement Of August into fun
and final effect in June In such con-
tsngencF.
Evening star., 1928-03-23
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEW ELL.

Some men are interested in nothing
in the world except their work. Others
only In their play. Some will sparkle at
the ewes when YOU mention motor cars.
They will listen politely at luncheon
while the conversation is OF affairs OF
state or gardens, or what not, but the
moment some one mentions tire their
cars prick up visibly and they are eager
to take part In the conversation.
X u ~
ITO be actually interested in one
thing. to be mentally interested is an
other. To be interested in motor cars
because one sells them is not the same
as to be interested because one loves
the surge of the country side as he goes
rolling down the road.
so. 1t seems to me. some men legltl-
mately lay claim to a larger general IN
terest than many of their associates:
They may have delved into realms OF
knowledge totally outside the uses OF
every day
Their companions express astonish-
ment when these curious minded men
bring to the surface one bit OF their ac-
quired knowledge. What do you know
about It?' they will ask.
THE happy part of such general
flowing to the surface when needed
A word suggests something else--and
the first thing one knows fact which
has lain dormant for a quarter OF a
century surges to the top and presents
itself. smiling. for the immediate use
of the speaker or writer.
Some men are particularly apt at
quotations. They have general stock
of them: but If you asked them to
tell YOU what they knew from Shake
speares Julius Caesar for instance,
they would not be able to quote sin
gle line.
Let the need for one arise. how
ever, Immediately it pops into the
head Investigation Of this phenomenon
helps but little. There Is sort OF men
tai magic to 1t, perhaps as near to real
magic as there is in everyday life.
advice such AS I hand out, IL 1t does
no good. at least does no harm. II lit
mains. so that I never have any heSi-
fancy about giving it again.
From the common cold. to where one
should go on his vacation. am ready
TO give my opinion. My cold remedy
works on me and / do not see why 1t
will not on the next fellow.
II present all this advice In an or
hand manner, because from experience
I have learned that no one will take 1t,
/ thus am happily free from any re-
elimination.
II do not feel that any one will come
back TO me and declare. On such-and-
such day you told me to take old Doc
Dopems cold medicine, and I did so,
and now my cold Is worse than ever
mo. sir, by carefully refraining from
taking that medicine. the man gets we'll
through the healing power OF Nature.
His experience will do him no good. In
all likelihood. though. because he will
not give Nature any credit for his re-
covery.
I'm the most bland manner. there
fore. continue TO hand out advice.
secure in the feeling that advice Is.
after all. the only free thing in the
world and the least harmless.
1T is the one perfect knowledge. the
spring at which Alexander Pope advised
the world to taste deep or not at all.
Advice. possessing the power of aiding
him who advises. Is thus a mental
boomerang. helping most the one who
gives 1t but who forever retains It,"
Evening star., 1928-03-23

for a goodly time, And the members
of House and Senate do not object to
this playful representation of them, Nor
does the Senate itself demur 10 the spe-
cihc characterization of that chamber
as -whiSkered person of the af-
fluent banker type of long ago,
SO far as known the farmers of Amer
ica DO not protest the cartoon styles in
which they are shown to the millions of
newspaper readers. Some of thN art
lists are not rs kindly to them III line
md shade as Mr. Bergman has been
consistently during the many years of
his service It is at least to be urged
That the farmer type presented to the
readers of Tha Star is calculated to
evoke sympathetic reaction, and most
aSSGre3ly the farmers Of this country
ere Just now in the market for public
svmpathy.
Evening star., 1928-03-23

II have lot OF advice to, give" ex-
planned j. Henry Gearshift. mainly
because nobody ever takes any of It
Thus, always have a supply on tap.
I am adept at advising any one or
anybody, on any matter whatsoever
because, like most persons, l believe
am right about everything.
These pleasant assumptions Of mine
ere based upon the belief that l know
everything. Perhaps am the only man
III the world to admit as much. although
this is the private conviction of millions
of men.
In my sancr moments realize that
this is the one gigantic fallacy Of life,
that any one knows everything. The
ramificationS of knowledge are too wide
spread to allow it.
The case with which one may have
an opinion is what fools us convic-
lion Is one thing. a fact another. Per-
Sonally. / am amazcd at the ease wl,h
which l can change my opinions.
If other men were as honest with
themselves as l am with myself, they
would admit as much. but too many
choose to fool themselves with the fine
feeling that, after all, they are pretty
smart fellows.
Education of the masses has led TO
the universal belaf that eve/y man
should know everything, a rather false
premise. since education can do no such
thing for any man.
"All that formal schooling can do Is
to put boy or young man into touch
with knowledge So much of ii as be-
longs to him will take the remainder
will roll off his mental back like Sum-
mer showers off an automobile top.
Have you ever stood in a window on
the seventh floor OF some Office build
ing, and watched the rain swishing
across the tops of the parked cars?
Il imagine teachers must have some
such reaction as that as they watch
the outlines of knowledge which they
are trying to impart to their pupils go
Swirling along. striking the tops of hui
man heads, but most of 1t gliding off
into space
The reason why so many men COM
monty know 1t all as the popular
phrasing has 1t. is simply because they
were led to believe that an educated
person ought to know a great deal.
When a question is fired at them. in
adult life. not one In a hundred will
admit point blank that he does not
hem and haw over 1t. but never say
definitely I don't know
1t follows as the night the day. there
fore. that man vino really believes
he knows ii all. or who holds fast to the
fallacy that he must make out that he
does, will find it necessary TO offer ad-
vice to others at every turn
Il find myself ready at all times to
advise others. My brain seems to go
through regular program. not only
when advice is asked, but also when ii
is not asked. more Is the pity of it.
Nothing can be said or done in my
presence that i do not have an idea
about 1t, one way or the other Just as
the old fellows sitting on cracker bar
rels back at the country store do not
hesitate to discuss the way the Nation
ought To be ruled, SO find myself ready
at all times TO express an opinion on
anything
Il particularly shine at giving advice
My ratiocination Is as good as the next
mans and ! believe ! am more. inter-
cSted In life than most men. Perhaps
every one feels the same way. but lit
tie observation will show any one that
the circle OF interests OF many men Is
an absurdly narrow one.
Evening star., 1928-03-23
Holds Church Voters
Can Swamp Craft

From the Pasadena Star.News.
Religious folk OF Chicago have been
sending up special prayers that terror
be struck TO the agents OF darkness
and political corruption" A day OF
prayer was designated In the hope OF
bringing about the selection of men foI
public Office In the April 10 primary
who will be governed by an honest
conscience and who will keep their oath
of Office when they take their seats of
authority" Nearly 500 clergymen Of
all creeds responded to the call for
prayers The Chicago Church Fedora
ton adopted resolution which de-
clared that crime, graft and corruption
are increasingly besmrching the good
name of our city" and the evidence
seems clear that there iS n partnership
between criminals and some officials
That the fight for good government
IN Chicago Is not divided on lines o!
religious creed Is shown by news reports
that In many localities throughout the
city meetings were held In which the
congregations OF half dozen creed
were addressed from one pulpit
Rev. John Thompson. speaking from
the pulpit 0f Chicago Temple, struck
the keynote of the situation when he
said that dod can aid In Kidding the
rity's ballot boxes oi fraud and Corrip-
tion, but that the cittaen must also aid
with honest and conscientious vatea
II is the supreme obligation that every
citizen exercise his right OF citizenship
at the ballot box and elect men of I'm.
questioned honesty and unsuliled In
tegrity."
II may be said, with due reverence,
that God can and does aid In these
things but that lie expects voters 10
do their part, und should not be en-
pected % do for man that which man
can and should do for himself, There
ARE enough good eltiaena Ia Chicago
and In every ather large city In the
land 10 overcome the forces nf evil, II
the good oitiaans exMt themselves IN
paltias, a. they shsyfld aud II lhes
ynle anilniy and r0iiarlentlnualy Oh AlVr
Evening star., 1928-03-23
Another Rich Gift to the Capital.

In connection with favorable action
by the House committee on the Library
on bill for the acquisition of n site
for q building auxiliary to the Library
OF Congress. announcement is made Of
the gif; of the famous Folger collection
Of Sha&cSpearesaa TO Washington. TO be
housed III a separate structure erected by
the donor. Henry c. Folger Of New
ditioa 10 thc literary and historical ma
terial assembled at the Capital Mr
Folgsr has been at work for years AS
sombling the 10000 volumes at pres
ent constituting his library of the edi-
tions Of ShaSeSpeare's works and those
Of his Elizabethan contemporaries and
other matters pertaining to the drama
Of that period. The library Is the equal
in quantity and quality of that of the
British Museum. and is the largest and
most important in the Western Hcmi-
sphere It's donation. TO become virtual
ly part Of the Library of Congress,
though housed separately, will bring 10
Washington a store Of incalcuab.c
value to students and historians.
The process of making Washington
literary. scientific and artistic center
is now under full Roadway In increas-
ing degree the Capital is being enriched
by collections and institutions of stud?
and research. Only recently a rich ar;
collection was added to the city'.s
wealth in the opening of the Clark
wing OF the Corcoran. A few years ago
Mrs Coolidge OF Boston gave music
auditorium to the Library of Congress.
in which chamber music concerts o.
the highest grade of artistry are given
to the public Valuable collections of
Americana have been donated 10 the
Library and have been placed on ex
hibition and made available for refer
ence and study. The addition of th2
Folger library of Sha&espeareana viii
constitute a most useful annex Of the
great institution. which has developed
:nto one of the richest literary store
houses in the world.
It is especially gratifying that this
collection Is to have its own housing,
and that the structure in which 1t viii
be placed will conform to the general
plans for the development OF the build
ing group to the east of the Capitol
Further Library facilities are to be pro-
vided in this expansion. and new
home for the Supreme Court OF the
United States Is shortly to be erected
to the north of the Library, carrying
out a project long in contemplation.
Thus the Capitals structural extension
viii be carried TO the east, while 1t Is
being developed in the mid-section be-
tween the Capitol and the Treasury.
1t Is impossible to estimate the value
to Washington OF these successive ad-
ditions to its equipment for study and
research. all serving to develop the cul-
tural life not only OF the immediate
community, but of the people OF the
entire country. who are rapidly coming
TO seek here the inspiration for ad-
vancement of thought.
Evening star., 1928-03-23

A. correspondent Of The Star writes
70 eal6e the csYtoonast whose name has
been identified with this newspaper fof
q good rs1sny years. Clifford X. Berry
nzan, 3ws his oep.ction Ia recent
drawing of ar American farmer. Tnls
figure. says the correSpondent-reader
II nos true 70 life The farmer Is not
tsae decrep.t. aged. tattsred and beorag-
sled creature that is shown in the car
toon.
That Is quite correct. The average
farmer of today is not tsfterdenAlion.
Ee is not me 'alc1" d former days
He il a vel dressed. even spruce per-
ser. x.ho puts On i.s WORKING clothes
with dignity and VINO employs nsciaia-
cry 70 1o sii the work that Is possible
anro4g}g q mechanical seTsfoe. he
drives has motor car. often nig1~gTaoe
one lie has his telephone and MS
ys6te HIS farmhouse Is usually heated
b. q furnace and Is often illuminated
b. electYaciFy. Fe Is s'IDscrlbsf "
newspapers ana magazines. He senos
MS sons snd daughters 70 college.
That is the present status OF greai
many u the American farmers t0day
There are sonae others VINO are not -
fortunate. some vino have llttle or no
help IN their fields. from human hands
or ffon machinery. VINO must toll long
hours 10 wrest 9 living oiit ~ the soil
Whose clothes are worn ane even
ragged whose motor cars. II any are
ancient wrecks. VINO sre ceeply IN debt
sfpd have only fsina s9pe 0f ever get
ting bseE 10 SolYency.
b. thf type figure representing the
farmer used by the esrtOofist neFerthe~
aese stands - sn established institution
,lst as The JollB Bull figure stands
even Though the BristsheT whom he en-
emplihes long ago ceased 10 wear the
email clothes u the conlG prints And
Dlst ss the Uncle Sam, 80 beloved oj
ali. wears garments that have not beer
seen saYs ia pageants and psfades, f0I
many decades
Mr Bergman draws Congress a. .
short, STOCK ehiny ywhiskered nciyAlis
eAfhs ike 81 whom has not been seg n IN
Aa1 hali6 af tha hstloaal legislature
Evening star., 1928-03-23
PHILOSOPHERS
GLENN FRANK

A certain type OF mind Is shocked
when 1t discovers that Christianity has
no copyright on the Golden Rule.
In each of the bibles Of the seven
great religions that still move and mold
mems lives in the modern world there
Is a version of the Golden Rule.
In the first issue Of provocative
little magazine called World Unity. Al
fred w. Martin lists these seven ver-
sions:
In the Bible OF the Hindu we read:
THE true rule is to guard and do by
the things Of others as you do by your
own"
In the Bible of the Buddhist we
read: "One should seek for others the
happiness one desires for oneself"
In the Bible OF the Zoroastrain we
read: do as you would be done by"
In the Bible of the Confucian VIC
read: What you do not wish done to
yourself do not to others"
In the Bible OF the Mohammedan we
read: Let none Of you treat your
brother in a way he himself would dis
like to be treated"
In the Bible of the Hebrew we read:
Whatsoever you do not wish your
neighbor to do to you do not unto him"
In the Bible Of the Christian we
read: 'All things whatsoever We would
that men should do unto you do ye
even so to them"
/ remember, as I read these seven
versions Of this immortal principle, the
comment OF an unlettered old parson
in Missouri who probably did not know
OF these seven versions, but who struck
the real meaning of the fact that this
principle was stated centuries ago be-
fore Jesus stated it.
This Is not true because 1t is in the
Bible" he said. but it is in the Bible
because it is true. This is not true be-
cause Jesus said it, but Jesus said it
because ii is true"
The truth of principle lies in its
truthfulness. not in the fact of its ap-
pearance in any particular Bible. for
even God cannot make a shaky prn-
ciple sound by giving utterance to it.
Mankind has been clutching avidly
at the skirts of truth through the GEN.
turies. and it is remarkable that on the
major principles of goodness and great
ness mankind has come to a striking
unanimity Of agreement.
The race is divided into warning
camps by thousand forms and FASH
ions. but the elemental things have
been universally senSed.
To find and TO bring into the fore
ground these things upon which the
best minds and most sensitive spirits
of all races and all religions agree is
fine sort OF fundamentalism.
Copyright. Mcclure Newspaper syndicate.l
Evening star., 1928-03-23

DR.. Julius Klein, chief of the Bu-
reau OF Domestic and Foreign Com
merce, Is telling audiences of business
men nowadays that American export
ers should rid themselves OF the idea
that Uncle Sam should try TO sell for
eigners only what they want" Ac-
cording 10 Klein. we would never have
sold the world harvesting machinery,
sewing machines, typewriters. cash reg
listers. safety raZors or any OF the other
Yankee novelties now staple through
out the universe II We had waited for
them TO be wanted. Consumers
abroad" Klein declares. never knew
they wanted these things till We let 'em
know we had 'em. The world will con-
tinue TO be receptive of the products OF
American inventive genius, as fast as
We turn them out and have the wit TO
market them"
DIR. Friedrich Wilhelm Won Prittwitz,
newly accredited German Ambassador
at Washington. is now much In demand
for public addresses. and Is delivering
some good ones His English is fault
less--probably the hangover from a
post t-graduate course at Cambridge Uni
versity after the young diplomat got his
PHI. d. at Bonn. Prittwitz usually
stresses one note which hts audiences
find particularly interesting. He tells
them that he finds universal curiosity
In the United States as TO Just what
the new Germany denotes as compared
with the Germany that was. Then the
Ambassador explains that II Is really
THE old Germany" which Is energet-
ically engaged in coming back" after
the catastrophe OF the World War,
When we began looking about uS. amid
the ruins of that tragedy" DR.. Won
Prittwitz says, I'VE decided To reach
back into the ancient past for the prin-
ciples upon which to rebuild our coun-
try. Those principles are the liberty OF
the individual and the unity OF the ma
ton
tCopyright 1897