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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-23
Lime Held Not Needed
in Purely Grassy Lawn

To the Editor Of The Star:
1t would be fine If Mr.. Gauss let
ter in The Star Thursday could be i'm.
pressed on every lawn owner and also
on the parks management. Seed and
Feed" should be the slogan of every
man who wants good lawn.
Another important fact in lawn
management is that the use of lime
is an illusion-if one wants a purely
grassy lawn which. in the opinion of
the writer. Is much more beautiful
than mixed lawn of clover. grass and
weeds.
Grass needs no lime. The investi-
cations of the U. S. Department OF
Agriculture and various State DEPART
ments proved this to be true and they
are SO reported to the golf associations.
Lime Is supposed to sweeten the soil.
but wherever you find q lush grass
pasture You also will find that the soil
below Is more or less sour. On the
other hand. clover and weeds cannot
endure sour soil. Hence. II you must
have clover. you must apply lime-and
you'll be sure to have plenty of weeds
with the clover
the soil and only few applications
will make 1t sandlike in nature.
When the earth is light. especially on
q slope, every rainstorm causes it to
run. This exposes the roots of the
grass, with the speedy result that the
sod dies. This erosion is what has
caused the nude and SCARED terraces
we see in front of thousands of homes
in Washington.
For grass, these terraces need a
heavy, non porous soil that will not run
every time few drops of rain fall.
Out In the fiat Middle West. lime may
be all right-except as to weeds-but
in hilly Washington every man should
strive to increase, rather than diminish,
the holding quality of his slope.
8. T. HUGHES.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-23
Chemists Learn Secret
Of Chocolate Cakes Tint
BY E. e. FREE, FIJI. ID.

The rich brown color Of Grand
mothers chocolate jumbles was not due
to better chocolate or to any mysteri-
Gus lost art Of cookery, but merely to
colloid chemistry, although that science
had not much more than been invented
when Grandmother learned to cook.
The application Of its principles by old
time cooks was accidental and uncon-
scious, but none the less effective. 80
it appears from a scientific study Of the
Emily Grewe and DIR. z. o. Whittier of
the United States Department Of Agri-
culture and reported at the recent
meeting Of the American Chemical So
ciety. Noting that homemade choco-
late cakes often vary in color almost as
much as do the hundreds OF kinds of
chocolate favored cakes and cookies
made in factories. these chemists made
experimental chocolate cakes according
to scores OF different formulas, includ-
ing varying amounts and varieties of
chocolate, -four, milk. salt, baking pow
der and other ingredients. The milk,
salt and baking powder were found to
have little effect on the color OF the
cake. Most effective In producing the
desirable deep, rich brown was baking
soda. Too-acid milk, on the other hand,
tended to make the color dull. These
facts are the colloid chemists clues,
for baking soda tends, in the language
Of that science, to "disperse" the tiny
particles of brown chocolate into still
finer particles and to distribute these
colored particles more uniformly through
the dough. On the ether hand, acid
tends to make the particles gather to-
gether into groups or "flocks," which
have less coloring effect. The practical
rule, therefore. is to use baking soda
and no acid when rich brown chocolate
cake Is wanted.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-23
Borah and the Stock Market.

Yesterdays crash on the New York
Stock Exchange-the most costly in five
years-coincides with some pertinent
suggestions from Senator Borah. The
foreign relations chairman. in an edi-
torial contributed to the June number
Of Worlds Work, predicts a world
wide money panic unless loans made to
spectators in stocks are drastically
curbed. without specifically identifying
himself with recent policies of the Fed
ersl Reserve Board, Senator Borah, in
effect, supports its program for curtail-
ing brokers' loans.
The Idaho statesman calls upon the
Federal Reserve Board to consider an
other scheme for arresting speculation
He would abolish the daily settlement
plan now In vogue on American stock
exchanges, and substitute the weekly OF
fortnightly system used In Europe. III
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-23
Fighting the Loan Shark.

Enforcement of an act of Congress
passed in 1913 successfully rid the Dis
trict Of the loan sharks who. conducting
their operation as pawnbrokers, ex-
acted exorbitant interest from small
borrowers in need Of ready cash. But
in the place of the pawnbrokers there
has developed class of loan sharks
whose methods, conducted in the name
of small finance or loan companies,
make the pawnbrokers look like rank
amateurs In the art of growing two
pennies where one grew before. BY
means OF various fees and excessive
service charges the legitimate rate of
interest is doubled and trebled and the
law regarding legal interest Is easily
lodged.
United States Attorney Rover has
decided to put the matter before the
grand jury. in the hope of developing
enough information to show the need
of new legislation. The loan shark
statute is q purely local law, and places
prosecutions for its violations in the
hands Of the corporation counsel. Mr..
Rover believes that making the exact:on
of illegal interest O Federal offense
would enable his ONCE to seek indict-
ments for conspiracy where officers Of
corporations are involved.
While there have been plenty Of COM
plants against the various finance
charges which victimize the ignorant
borrower, the corporation counsefs Of
fee has always found difficulty in Sc
curing the sort of evidence that will
warrant prosecution in court. The wit
nesses are not easy to And. And no
matter how extortionate may he the in
terest, there are undoubtedly many bor-
rowers willing to pay it as long as they
can get the cash and get 1t quickly.
The result is that the loan sharks do a
thriving business. They are in undis-
puted possession of profitable field, in
which there Is practically no legitimate
competition. The banks and other rep
utable houses which loan money are
not equipped to answer the small but
numerous demands Of needy persons
who want cash but have no financial
standing, no bank account and whose
available collateral Is Of questionable
| worth.
While the loan sharks should be
driven out of business, the question al
| ways remains of finding a legitimate
substitute for them. There should be
q substitute. In New York City, par
TALLY as the result Of concerted Drive
| against loan sharks, the National City
Bank made the experiment Of entering
the small loan field and offering its
services and vast resources to borrow
ers who could offer no security except
{ good character and steady work. A
years trial has proved the success of
the experiment. Millions Of dollars
have been loaned, the losses have been
negligible and thousands Of borrowers
have learned, through practical expert
ence, the habit Of saving money and
establishing . bank account to repay
their loans.
! The National City Bank idea will no
doubt spread. When it does 1t will &C
complish more to put the loan shark
out of business than all the legislation
ever framed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-23
Trees in District
Explained in Book

rc the Editor OF The Star
have before me a copy of the MAY
IS issue of The Star which contained
a letter, signed L. w. Maynard, dis
cussing the various oak trees In nearby
Maryland. Your letter by Mr.. May
nard says: "Since writing the above
I have been given a delightful and VAL
liable little book, Forest Trees of the
District of Columbia It is to be had
almost for the asking. from the For
estry Association on F street.
The U. 8. Forest Service Is co-operat-
ing with the American Forestry Asso-
citation. the publishers of Forest Trees
of the District of Columbia" but we
would like to tell the residents of
Washington that these booklets may be
ordered from the associations Office.
1928 L street northwest. There Is a
nominal charge OF 80 cents with a
school rate Of Is cents.
wish 1t were possible to put this
book into the hands of each school
child of Washington because it is very
careful description Of the trees within
the District of Columbia. how to know
them and where to see them
FRED E. HORNADAY,
Business Manager,
American Forestry Association.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-23
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

! Such things were as near heirloom:
as the family knew Maybe some oi
them would have brought big prices
with collectors, but John Cheyne never
thought of parting with them.
They were part Of the family.
This hero of the everyday life grew
up through young manhood to early
middle age without once giving in to the
desire to assail vase.
| All those years he had felt the urge
| however, steadily boring from within
him. Sometimes he had caught himself
smiling when, upon viewing q particu-
larly fine specimen In a friends home
he had felt the old desire creeping
over him.
Once he even dreamed of walking
through a gallery filled with rows upon
rows of vases. There were little vases
and big vases, thin vases and fat vases
vases of blue and red and green, vases
for every cont eivable situation.
He had picked up great ak which
he found there. and had gone blithely
about the work which Nature had cut
him out to do.
He was Vase Destroyer.
Smash, bang, crash!
Fragments of china, glass. pottery
rained around him. as he hewed his
way from aisle to aisle, smashing with
f1endish energy.
When he woke up he grinned to him
self to think of the interpretation
which the solemn DR.. Freud would have
put upon his dream.
Such an Interpretation would have
been the veriest bunk
He wanted to smash vases, that
was all.
One day Cheyne. in the peaceful desk
job where he was growing old, con-
ceived the idea of Frightening Office
life with flowers.
So he went to store and bought
cheap vase Of pleasant design and
coloring one At to hold roses without
attracting attention to itself.
Such vase is the only sort for roses.
The next day Cheyne brought down
some flowers from his fragrant gar
den. John Cheyne grew roses while
the rest of the world wrestled with
debentures, the Graf Zeppelin and the
reparations.
He read good books while troops
guarded the border. and listened to
good music while others tried to stay
aloft i'm the sky q few hours longer
than somebody else.
Maybe in the long run John Cheyne
had the best of 1t. after all. However
that may be, when he filled his rose
vase with water, he discovered that 1t
leaked
Too far to take 1t back" he said.
ut didn't cost enough Too much
trouble to attempt to mend 1t. It
shouldn't have leaked"
Then a bright idea came to him. All
these years he had been wanting to
smash a vase-here was his chance
He called his mates to witness the
execution.
IAN these years I have been wanting
to do this he said. and he held the
vase high in the air-and let 1t drop.
Bang!
The leaky vase hit the floor. bounced
couple Of times. and clattered to rest.
It was not even cracked.
IT waited too long" said John
Cheyne, with a smile. II should have
done 1t when was q kid"
And he picked up the vase and gently
placed 1t in the waste paper basket.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-23

ference Of press experts. The
president of the Associated Press of
America, Mr. Frank B. Noyes, and the
president of the board of directors of
the United Press, Mr.. Roy w. Howard
also intimated that, in their opinion, the
conference Of press experts should deal
with this question.
I'm these conditions. the question is
whether 1t would not be better, in the
first place, to persuade the greatest pos
sible number of States to introduce into
their legislation measures to secure the
protection of press information. This
done, the adoption Of an international
convention would be simple matter.
The question will be examined by the
conference, though the draft is based
upon the conception of protection af-
forded by national law"
It Is noteworthy that the whole OBJ
jective OF the League Of Nations is pro-
lection Of the press. not the protection
of statemen from the press. Senatorial
tylers will take due notice and keep off
all eavesdroppers. They may be armed
with a sword, but the press is mightier
than the sword.
Copyright, 1929 By Paul v. coliins)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-23
Careful Consideration Time,

AS regards legislation for the National
Capital, Congress is in one of those
rare periods when legislative proposals
are held in allegiance and the finger of
time and thoughtful mind are allowed
to work out a program that appears
most beneficial and carefully co-or-
dinated.
During the present extraordinary seS-
sion. when House committees have not
been organized, relatively few District
bills have been introduced because
members know that they will not be
acted upon before the first regular ses-
sion in December. Some of the old
hangover measures that have been
thrAshed out and rethrashed out be-
fore the House for years have been re-
introduced-just to keep them alive.
In the meantime, those who have the
best interests of the Nations Capital at
heart are giving careful, mature con-
sideration to what the real needs of the
District are and how legislation can
best help the public welfare. They are
visioning the needs for years to come.
They are studying how old proposals
can be worked over in the light of more
recent developments into constructive
legislation. They are marveling at the
wonders time has wrought here, and
are taking counsel as to what can best
be done for the future.
Out of this think -it-over" period the
most sincere friends Of the District in
Congress hope to bring out a construc-
tive program Of essential legislation.
forward-looking legislation, lesisla ton
that will stand all tests. They EXPECT
to make the December session one Of
historic value to the National Capital.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-23

John Cheyne had been waiting al
his life to break a vase.
Ever since childhood he had strug-
gled with an intense desire to smasf
a china vase into bits.
Never once had he succumbed.
The longing had come to him al
various times and in devious places
but never had he given in to It,
Some one in his early childhood had
said, Naughty, naughty" when he had
tiptoed over to the big Chinese vase
which stood in the fireplace in lieu
of logs.
What a temptation it had been!
1t was higher than he. and twice
as big around. especially In the mid.
section, where it resembled some gen.
tleman who had eaten well over q
period of years.
There were all sorts of traceries ir
yellow, red and blue winding here and
there over the surface. The inside
did duty as "catch-all" for papers and
other materials.
y **
II Johnny Cheyne had been per
mitted to tip that vase over no doubt
he would have gotten the thing Out
Of his system.
His life would have been free ever
afterward from a mad desire to break
vases.
He could have looked at vases calmly
freely. seeing in them nothing but what
they were-vaSeS.
Instead OF that, a vase became to
him symbol, standing for something
conclusively destructible.
Even at the So-called destructive age
however. John Cheyne never broke
one. BY the age of IL years he had
been thoroughly drilled in the subject
Of property.
Articles of all sorts meant things
to conserve, to cherish, to take care
of. Perhaps his ancestors we're speak
ing through him. Ancestors have such
habits.
Young Cheyne found, for instance
that he disliked paying out money for
clothes. but not for food. He would
willingly pay for theater party but
shrank from similar expenditure on
books.
When he attempted to analyze him
self he came to the conclusion that he
was niggardly in regard to those ne
cessities which his ancestors had to
buy, but a free spender for such things
as his forbears knew nothing about.
He hated to buy clothes because his
aIlCCsJOlS ulu IiOt nave enough money
to purchase them. He willingly bought
radio. there being nothing in his
descent with which to compare radio
sets.
k* 4 4
Destruction of property was one OF
the pet dislikes of his whole line.
Conservation was the pet hobby.
AS firmly as the French poor cling
to the family clocks, so Cheyne and
his people held onto anything which
they had purchased.
Friends would find their attics Allied
with piles Of old magazines, dating
back to the early years of the Atlantic
Monthly and the North American Re-
view.
Huge stacks of old St. Nicholas were
gathering dust and piles of the Youth
Companion went back for decades.
Their living rooms and "parlors" held
queer pieces not to be found in shops
any more. There were old chairs with
deliberately carved backs. and little
cages filled with chalk birds" gayly
adorned with multi-colored feathers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-23
SHOOTING STARS.
NJ PHILANDER JOHNSON,

Unself.
The Martyr we must all admire.
Who hoped for Goodness Great;
Who scorned each personal desire
And feared no adverse fate.
We hail Dull Toll, a. forth Il sets
Upon the daily grind
But Heaven help the man who gets
Himself upon his mind!
Dearly We love to sympathize
With life's unhappy elves,
And learn that kindness is wise
Toward others than ourselves.
We silence personal regrets
In thought for human kind
But Heaven help the man who gets
Himself upon his mindl
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-23

At present there is no new grand
opera. II there were any the threat
to kidnap Anne Morrow. the aviator's
bride. would make q magnificent plot.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-23

As Maytime melts into June the
weather man may utilize the formula
fair and warmer" in . manner to
inspire more seasonable confidence and
help to rescue q belated straw hat
market
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-23

In discussing debentures many bank
ing experts frankly express incertitude
as to what may have to be done with
a new kind of negotiable paper.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-23

theoretical warfare destroys" New
York. The metropolis remains serene
in contemplation of the vast difference
that has always existed between theory
and practice.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-23

Many underworldlings have been
angered by Mabel willebrandt but
none of them has had the nerve to
pick on her as victim Of q kidna ping
plot.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-23

Washington. D. c.. needs airports,
and as the greatest Capital of the
world will demand the worlds greatest
airports.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-23
Some Persons Can't!

From the Ottawa (Canada) Journal
A fashion writer says mustacheS Will
be more popular this Summer for smart
men, You can always get one on the
installment plan-a little Hpwn each
week.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-23

The once is not so very large, but
with II goes an amount of fame that
Judge Lenroot probably did not antici-
pate.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-23
Alibi.

did you tell what was said In execu-
tive session."
NO" answered Senator Sorghum. "I
can prove was sound asleep, as usual.
and did not hear a word"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-23

Jud Tunkins says q man who tells
you what he thinks lis liable to stop
thinkin' an keep on tellin'.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-23

Nights Filled with Music.
I strive to be a radio fan.
My admiration deep
Is not so powerful that can
Survive the loss Of sleep.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-23
Cool Calculation,

Cool Calculation.
Have you never had a romance?"
"Never!" declared Miss Cayenne.
Have no men asked you to marry
them"
Several have made the suggestion
But I decided that what they wanted
was not so much for me to marry them
as for father to finance them"
"A wise thought" said Hi Ho, the sage
Of Chinatown, Lives forever; though
most while In obscurity."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-23
The Wedding

We say, with joyous laughter,
They will. this Handsome Two,
Live Happy Ever After
And yet, they seldom dol
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-23

"If you believes everything you hears"
said Uncle Eben, you gifts relief FUN
jazz band dat lets you 60 on listenin'
an don't tell you nuffin."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-23

@. How many Canadian soldiers were
killed in the World War?-A. o. H.
A. Canada lost between $1,000 and
$4,000 men.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-23

@. What may be used to remove dye
from the hAir7--G. r. :4a
A. To remove the old dye, olive oil
and kerosene, mixed in equal portions
may be applied to the hair from roots
to ends This is done at night. and the
head Is Wrapped in q towel. Then
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-13
Outside LOOKING In.

"SHow PEOPLE," a film of life in
~ the movies. made by Metro
Goldwyn- Mayer, has one scene in
which Marion Davies and William
Haines, co-stars Of the piece, are helped
out by William S. Hart, Douglas Fair
banks, Norma Talmadge, John Gilbert,
Mae Murray, Rod La ROGUE, Renee
Adoree, I,eatrice Joy, George K. Arthur,
Karl Dane, Aileen Pringle, Claire
Windsor. Estelle Taylor, Dorothy Sebas-
tan and Polly Moran.
There's another sequence in which
Charlie Chaplin does his bit in max
ing realistic this peep into the inner
circles of cinemaland. Lew Cody and
Elinor Glyn also are among the atmos-
phere players.
In her role as an actress in the
movies Miss Davies watches John Gil
bert and her real self arrive at the
studio for work. King Vidor, who di-
rected, also is shown directing a film
within Aim.
In the picture, Miss Davies, as
Peggy Pepper. a Southern girl, got
her start in the movies through the
aid of William Haines, as Billy Boone,
in an old-time. pie-tossing, Seltzer-
squirting comedian. Miss Davies
lodged the pie but caught her share
of the seltzer.
The picture then shows Miss Davies
translated from comedy into feature
pictures, where, as star, she becomes
most insufferably superior, and turns
down Billy Boone" until he finds a
comedy method of restoring her equilib-
rum.
Lots of fun Is said to have been got
ten out of the making of the picture
by the players and technical workers
who Satirized their own business.