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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-28

Few things attest the standardiza-
ton Of Americans more than the ga
rage.
This automobile house Is so common
in modern back yards that the home
without one attracts attention.
Yet there are to be seen yards here
and there free from the squat little
houses wherein family cars are kept
when owners are not too lazy to put
them away.
No doubt the owners of some Of these
garage-free back yards are independent
souls who refuse to purchase car on
account of the necessity for housing It.
They simply do not want a garage,
that is all. Let others have their ga
RACES, is their attitude; such buildings
are utilitarian and may be designed
not unfree from a certain amount Of
appropriateness, If not actual beauty.
The brave man here and there, how
ever. who wants his grounds free from
membranes has a right to do as he
pleaSeS in the matter. So far as Is
known. there has been no case of neigh
bors kicking before citizens assocla-
tions because certain residents did not
build garages.
The garage as a garden occupant has
certain good and bad points. 1t has
long been commonplace among land
scape artists that some one center Of
interest should break up the rear view.
Some specialists in the landscaping
of small properties-and this is the
kind we are considering, Of course-in-
sist on a tea house.
The ordinary form, with peaked
roof. gives a distinct point of interest,
they assert. especially when located I'M
dar tho sho RE of ua11 fNlaPcd tree
Some of us are not quite able to
see what advantage this has over well
proportioned garage. There is no par
ticular reason, except cost, why garage
need be so squat, so lacking in beauty,
as most Of them are.
With some attention given to the ga
rage from the standpoint Of the garden,
as a whole, as we'll as a unitarian
automobile stable, this little house seen
so often on the modern alley landscape
might even aspire to esthetic aspects.
A stone terrace on the near or house
side. edged with shrubbery. might give
all the possibilities of tea house. In
closely built communities the garage
gives protection from the alley side
and a great deal of privacy, especially
on such narrow lots as prevail in city
limits.
The garage has It's most determined
foe in the ardent gardener who resents
the loss of so many square feet from
his estate.
Especially is his heart torn when the
purchase Of car necessitates the
building Of one in a position occupied
by shrubs or flowers.
Such tearing up and out becomes,
to him. a dissertation. Those althea
bushes, so tall and sturdy, must be up
rooted and set elsewhere.
And every gardener knows that even
the sturdy althea gets the wrench of
its life when 1t is transplanted. Per-
haps professional gardeners can trans
plant with nothing but benefit to a
shrub, but the average home gardener
has no such magic.
Transplantingl What crimes are
committed in thy name! transplant
ing makes a plant stronger and
healthier, gives greater root growth"
etc. So say the garden books.
Most home gardeners, however. know
that ordinary everyday TRANSFORMING
only slows plant up, holding it back
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-28

travel. A blanketlike fog, q mountain
peak shooting its way UP toward the
sky for ten thousand feet, a crash, and
the snufing out of eight lives! Nature
again proved her superiority over those
who defy her laws.
Even with these accidents, however
and many others like them In the future,
man has made such progress in the
new-found art Of flying that millions Of
safe miles have been put hnelind the
whirring propellers Of thousands Of
fleet ships Of the ether. Tragedies will
occur on the water, under the water, on
the land and in the air, but with the
world demanding speed and more speed
there will be no cessation Of travel in
carriers that can balance the annihila-
ton Of distance against possible hazard.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-28
Defense UP to Date
Cuisines of Congress"

From the Charleston, 8. c., Evening Post.
It is possible to call for q revision Of
the Nations defense program as Repre-
sentative James of Michigan does, with
out coming under suspicion Of being an
alarmist or q lingo. and common sense
is on the side of the acting chairman
of the House military committee when
he points out. that program mapped
out at time when military men deemed
it an impoSsibility for airships or planes
to cross the ocean needs to be brought
up to date. The average American has
no doubt taken 1t for granted that his
Army and Navy kept its defense plans
up with the times and that the exploit
tation of important new inventions was
automatically followed by changes in
the defense program to make allow
ances for them, but to judge from the
CongreSsmans remarks that is not the
case.
A hundred years ago a plan for de-
Tending the Nation could safely be
worked out by war strategists and put
on ice to use when occasion required
and it would probably have kept I'M
spoiled for years. There was not much
in 1885 that would make 1925 war plans
out Of date. Consider the difference
today, however. In 1889 the war plans
that could be worked out this year
would probably look ike antiques. new
developments in aviation, war chemistry,
radio, television and a half dozen other
fields are certain to make even the new
methods of today obsolete. To the
layman 1t is incredible that the Nations
military should pursue any other course
than to keep in touch with such de-
velopments and work them into the
defense scheme and that is probably
Just what it does, despite the impression
given by Mr.. James in his request for
probe.
One air bomb. as he points out,
dropped on New York City's water
supply might make 100000 people
clamor for peace. Then, again, 1t might
not. STRANGELY enough. the people who
are always visualizing the horrible de-
struction that would ensue from the
dropping of a bomb on or near New
York seem to forget that the Germans
dropped countless bombs on London
and Paris with amazingly little large
scale effect. Somehow or other. the
new inventions usually fall short Of the
destruction they are expected to do,
which is a very good thing, too. Never
theless. the military strategists have to
take them into account and make their
plans accordingly. and II 1t is true that
the national program needs revision. it
is the business Of Congress to see that
it gets it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-28
Our Navy.

With no other phase of the strenuous
public life which ne so long adorned would
Theodore Roosevelt have preferred to
have his name perpetuated than in con-
nection with the United States Navy.
ct. r." was born on this day seventy
one years ago. Recurring 27ths Of Oc-
tober, since the American scene was
bereft Of his stimulating presence, have
appropriately been dedicated to his
memory Again we celebrate Navy day
and attune our thoughts to the national
defense ideals to which Roosevelt was
incorrigibiy and passionately devoted.
The United States Government, under
the leadership of President Hoover, is
now engaged in negotiating another
naval limitation agreement among the
i've sea powers signatory to the Wash
ington treaty. Americans do well at
this Roosevelt anniversary hour to re-
mind themselves that the President
seeks limitation and reduction Of arnla-
ment, not disarmament.
Mr.. Hoover does not believe in dis
armament in the literal sense Of that
term, which denotes abolition of de-
fensive weapons. He Is for peace, but
he Is not paciflst He doubtless longs
for the day when all Of Americas
swords" can be beaten into "plow-
shares" an inspiration at which he hint
ed in his Louisville address last week.
But until the mind" Of the world, in
Ramsay Macdonald's idiom, has been re
furnished" until the world is thoroughly
ready to take what the prime minister
calls "the risks Of peace" President
Hoover is thoroughly conscious Of the
necessity to keep the United States on
that respectable defensive posture" rec
commended by that other engineer-Pres-
ident, George washington, in the Fare
well Address.
Great Britain's navy Is Great Britain
ITSELF" exclaimed Mr.. Macdonald in his
memorable speech before the Council on
Foreign Relations in New York on oc-
tober II. I'VE are q people Of the sea-
and the sea is our security and our
safety" he added. Those afirmations
apply TO the United States with no less
force. We have vast coast lines on two
9cean fronts. We have, In the Panama
Canal, Q jugular vein as vital to national
security as Britain's Suez route to In
dia. We have far-fiung overseas posses
sions. We have developed a mighty
foreign commerce. We are creating a
great merchant marine. We do not yet
inhabit o world In which we are uni
versally and consistently beloved. We
hold a $40, 000, OoO, 900 mortgage on Eu-
rope. We possess nearly half Of all the
gold in the world.
These are some Of Americas reasons
for building and maintaining a feet
second to none anoat. Happily, there is
every prospect that the impending parity
agreement with Great Britain will as
sure US such a navy. With nothing less
viii the American people be content.
To nothing more do they aspire.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-28
The Water Renort.

The most interesting feature Of the
proposed expansion program for the
Water Department is the recommended
ton that the capital expenditures,
amounting to about $1.287,000. be
drawn from the general fund Of the
District instead of from water revenues.
The report states that the money
needed to make certain major addi-
tions and improvements to the distri-
button system, If drawn from the Water
Department revenues, would necessitate
an increase in water rates. Therefore,
it is suggested. the money should come
instead from the general fund of the
District, thus permitting water rates to
remain stationary.
That Is a good argument, for water
rates here are too high now. But the
argument could as well have been based
upon equity alone, without taking into
consideration the effect of large ex-
penditures upon the existing scale Of
water rents. Water users in the Dis
trict should pay only for the cost Of
maintaining the system. AS 1t is, they
are called upon to pay for the main
tenance of the supply and distribution
systems, which furnish the Municipal
and Federal Governments with free
water, and for extending and improving
the distribution system. Capital ex-
penditures on the water system should
be drawn entirely from main assess
ments and from the general fund Of
the District, the latter representing
funds contributed by District property
taxpayers and by the Federal Govern
ment.
It is to be hoped that the report on
the water extension program, concurred
in by Mai. Breton Somervell, the United
States Engineer for this district, and by
officers Of the supply as well as the
distribution systems, will receive the
approval of Engineer Commissioner
Ladue and the Board of Commissioners.
The report should be made the entering
wedge for a revision Of the whole
financial system which supports the
Water Department. The Water De-
partment should be self-supporting, as
far as maintenance is concerned. The
water rates should represent merely the
per capita cost of delivering water in
Washington homes. Capital investment
in plant should be drawn from the
funds contributed by property tax pay
ers and the Federal Government. AS
this investment in plant increases and
the number Of water users increases,
water rates should decrease toward that
ultimate desideratum Of free and plenti-
full water for all who can use 1t.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-28
THIS AND THAT
BY CHAPLES E. TRACEWELL.

several weeks from its normal growth.
Even zinnia seedlings seem to suffer
from this operation. We speak of
careful transplanting, too, done by a
KNOWN, hand, the seedlings we'll
watered, and protected from the sun
for several days.
The preferred placing Of a garage
by experts in home grounds planning
is about 90 feet behind the house and
slightly to one side, in communities
street.
Where there are rear alleys. the
garage is commonly and properly placed
on the rear Of the property, with It's
entrance on the alley. In either DO
sition some consideration should be
given to the building as a part of the
property design as whole.
AS ordinarily constructed a garage
Is not thing of beauty, being basically
box for a car. Even a peaked roof
Will not take away from this rectangu-
lar look,
Rose vines, tall growing shrubs and
other plants offer material with which
to disguise a garage. After a certain
number Of years have gone by, such a
place becomes fairly integral with the
remainder Of the landscape.
From the strictly garden standpoint
however, the property without garage
has the best Of it.
Not only is so much land-and by
no means negligible plot-saved for
garden purposes, but the grounds are
free from an element which has no
particular place in garden composition.
One would not be too esthetic about
this matter. There are beautiful gar
dens both with and without garages,
and there are very ugly ones both with
and without.
1t takes more than any one element
to make back yard either pleasing or
displeasing, SO that the garage as a
disturbing element may be overac-
centuated; there is little doubt, how
ever, that the really beautiful gardens
are minus then-and still we speak of
comparatively small places. True es-
tates, holding their many acres with
that dignity which size alone gives in
this world. solve the garage problem
easily enough.
With the smaller and small place the
garage becomes something of a prob
lem to the home owner who prefers
his garden above automobiling. Ardent
motorists may believe that no such per-
son exists, but we could show him
scores of small properties where the
garage mas found no entrance, simply
because the owners value their gar
dens above motor cars.
\
The smallest type Of city back yard
becomes particularly cut up by the ad-
dition Of a garage. When these little
houses are as alike as peas in a pod
for an entire row, and the row is
duplicated on the other side of the
alley, an element Of similarity Is intro
duced which but adds to a plethora of
the same thing already in existence, in
all likelihood
Some writer's upon this subject have
put the home garage in the category
Of necessary evil" and let 1t 60 at
that Perhaps they are right. Our de-
sire here has been to point out to those
who love their gardens best that one
may do the brave and unusual thing
and dispense with the garage.
1t may be added that the unusual
thing, in such day and age as this,
is often enough the brave thing. There
are heroics of the everyday as well as
Of the exceptional occasion. One would
not stress the point, but it exists.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-28
High License Adopted
To Curb Gypsy Tribes

From the Baltimore Evening Sun.
At the behest of that large and i'm
portant body, the Association of Com
merce, backed by the Baltimore Fedora
ton of Labor, an ordinance was intro
duced in the City Council recently to
require gypsies and other nomadic bands
having no permanent place of abode In
Maryland" to pay an annual license fee
of $1,000 for the privilege of camping
within the city limits, and engaging in
industrial pursuits. Thus two power
full organizations direct their heavy ar
tillery at handful of gypsies who, pre-
sllmably, are placing organized labor in
jeopardy by repairing copper kettles
and water spouts.
In connection with the proposal two
thoughts come to mind. The first is the
ease with which the gypsies may avoid
the penalties of the ordinance by rent
ing an abode" at considerably less than
81 900.
The second and more compelling
thought is how the Association of Com
merce and the Federation of Labor who
we have been led to believe, are con-
tinually occupied with vital matters per-
tanning to the industrial progress of q
city Of over SOC, 900 souls can engage In
such trining schemes. Surely they must
attach serna yalra 70 THAR time.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-28
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN.

@. When was silver luster made In
England?-A. A. w.
A. Adams Tl1nstall of England and
Greengates and Greenfield potteries
made luster. They have been rnanufac-
turers for almost 500 years. The Josiah
Wedgwoods were tenants of the Green
gates Potteries. They made good silver
luster. Established in 1857.
@. Where is the largest automobile
track in the United States?-W. H.
A. The American Automobile Asso-
citation says that the largest automobile
race track is the Speedway in Indian
apolis, Ind, which is 2iz miles IN length.
@. Please give some information re-
garding stretches of railway without
curve.-W. C. P.
A. Two of the longest stretches Of
railroad without a curve are: The r.
mile stretch on the Rock Island lines
from Guynon. Okla. to Dalhart. Tex.
At Dalhart there is quarter-degree
curve and then 1t goes on for Is miles
farther without curve. The Seaboard
Airline in Florida has 8 curves in
zoo miles. 1t is said that on the Argen-
tine-Pacific Railway to the foot of the
Andes. there is a stretch of 200 miles
without a curve or cutting or an
enbankment deeper than feet.
On The 1EdIlS~SOIIIultIltd
Railway crossing the Nullarbor Plain,
there is a straight-away of 300 miles.
@. What is the French naval build
ing program for this year?-J. w. F.
A. For the year. 1929. the building
program Is: One 10,000-ton cruiser, six
large submarines and five small sub
marines.
@. Is It against the law to shoot
birds from automobiles?-C.M M.
A. There Is Federal regulation
which makes it unlawful to hunt MI
gratory birds from automobiles.
O. When was the first national con-
vention held by the National League OF
Women Voters?-M. S.
A. 1t was held February 1918, 1920.
in Chicago.
@. What word in the English Ian
guage has the most different mean
ingS?-E. P. S.
A. While It may not have the most,
the word set" ranks among words with
many meanings and uses.
O. What is meant by production or
selling cartel in Europe?-E. A. G.
A. Cartel Is a name applied to prac-
ticallv all forms of industrial conlbina-
lions in Europe Production cartels aim
primarily at joint regulation or control
of production Their main purpose Is
to prevent overproductton. The selling
cartel is one in which a single sales
agency handles all or part of the output
of the individual member plants.
rice-fixing is generally included In its
activities.
@. Was Continental currency redeem
ed by the United States?-N. L. G.
A. The various issues of Continental
currency were never redeemable by the
United States as reorganized under the
Constitution. BY the act Of August 4,
1870. it was redeemable at the Treas
ury in subscriptions to loan at the rate
of 500 in Continental money for 81 in
specie. BY the act of March 8, 1897,
1t was declared that said money should
be receivable as above until December
81, 1897, and no longer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-28
Judges of Antiques
Urged Against Fakes
From the Grand Rapids Press.

From the Grand Rapids Press.
Grand Rapids manufactures any
amount of period" furniture, excel
lently made after the best models of
the past-as we'll as combination and
modern designs Of its own. It knows
how to create the "patina" Of antiquity.
It can shoot chair full Of wormholes
if desired. And the chair will be much
more comfortable, with a far greater
wearing capacity and a generally more
substantial appearance, than the
rickety real thing culled from an
English garnet.
Moreover, 1t will not be sold as a
genuine antique. It will bring a price
commensurate with the fact that it Is
modern manufactured furniture. Its
maker will pay wages to American
workmen and taxes to local, State and
Federal treasures. The best Of our
period and modern furniture, as well as
the best of these atmosphere antiques"
have as competition today a vast
amount of stuff unloaded at American
ports as genuine antiques" but ac-
tually just as new as the latest thing
from a local factory stockroonl. This
stuff escapes customs duties because its
importers lie about its origin. 1t sells
at exorbitant prices because of the same
lie. It takes business away from
htilCI ASdlA AoIOOlACos "d6Co away AAOAA
American workmen, just taxes away
from the American treasury.
There have been several suggestions
as to ways of meeting the fake antique.
Some of them would have placed a
tariff handicap against the importation
Of real antiques except for public and
private museums. Senator Vandenberg
has had adopted In the Senate version
of the tariff bill what seems the best
plan of all-which is to appoint skilled
judges of antiques at certain ports, re-
quire that all alleged antique furniture
enter through these ports If it is desired
to escape the duty, and penalize the
importer of fakes by assessing him the
full furniture duty plus Is per cent
Of value fine.
This plan centers exclusively upon
the liar and fake, does not interfere
with furniture really more than one
hundred years old and can arouse no
objections on the ground of barring
genuine museum pieces for use in
American homes. Whether there is to
be new tariff bill or not. this
administrative provision should be
adopted.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-28
Scale of Liquor Operations
Shown by Raid Amazes Nation

bakers of bread or distributors Of any
other human necessity"
AN illegitimate trade attracted cap
ital, the owners of which were not,
finicky on the subject" states the In
dianapolis News. for the simple reason
that it held out the prospect Of big
financial returns. Furthermore, the
chance of losing, through discovery of
the business, was reduced by bribery.
Considerable good fortune was a factor
in giving the national officials a clue"
The Springfield Union offers the COM
ment on the situation, That an Illicit
business can be organized on such
large. scale in spite of the risks indi-
Gates what tremendous profits are in
volved, and measures the difficulties
facing the Government in the enforce
ment of the prohibition laws"
The threats involved in such opera
tons are viewed by the Philadelphia
Evening Bulletin as directed not only
against enforcement of the prohibition
of liquor, but against every law by
which the Government attempts to
safeguard the material or moral inter-
ests of its citizens" That paper thinks
that the situation justifies the utmost
expenditure of effort and money to
thwart the conspiracy: that ut makes
assistance by other nations not only q
matter of comfy, but of self-interest"
Referring to payments to public off,
Gals. the Lincoln State Journal re-
marks that apparently the shrewd
chaps who operate the bootlegging syn
dicates don't agree with those wet
spokesman who say that the prohibi-
ton law cannot be enforced" The As
bury Park Evening Press AYERS that
the Government has proved its ability
to cope with the situation, and, unlike
its predecessors, the present admins
tration has indicated desire to meet
problem which has long been evaded.r
The GAINESVILLE Gazette sees in the &C
ton evidence that the Government is
not fussing around about this liquor
enforcement" adding: More has been
done in the last three months than In
a year previously to get at the big rum
makers. The gangsters in Chicago have
been hard hit by the new attorney gen.
eral, and everywhere the still business
Is getting more hazardous. And this
last large news story will be a warning
that others are to follow"