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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-28
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRAcEWELL.

| a reckless mood. 1t must be admitted
| that these two vivid flowers combine
poorly, If at all, with other garden
denizens, they are so bright, so filled
with the red rays of the sun.
| Among the roses the best red climb
er is Paul's Scarlet. the best red bush
rose perhaps the Red Radiance! al
though there are many others. There
are scores of fine red tulips and gladi-
| oil, some of them so deep and intense
| that they give the impression of fame
when one looks at them for any length
| of time.
The main point to be watched in
| 1t the pink tintS, which tend to spoil
the effect of the red flowers; at the
same time they appear pale and life
less themselves.
Any one who has seen blue and yell
| low flowers in vase knows that there
is scarcely better combination.
| The blue-and-yelloV garden likewise
is good. The yellows, If not too vivid.
offer a perfect foil to the blue, which
may run the gamut from deep to pale.
1t is a question whether the yellow
| blossoms do not offer better blend
with blue than white would.
| White often is used in the garden
simply to accent other flowers. In the
best planned settings there will be
found paintings of white flowers at
| intervals along borders, not so much
| for themselves as for the contrast
which they make with the bulk of the
flowers in the garden.
Blue always has been favorite foil
| flower with discriminating amateurs.
Some say that a blue better accents
other colors. The danger OF white is
that it may be too white, as 1t were,
too lacking in the subtle thing known
| as character.
The vogue of tan and buff tlnts in
| clothing, and now even In the human
skin, was preceded by the growing of
like shades in the garden.
One Of the most effective zinnias
for contrast planting, especially IN a
| small garden, is the variety 1Sabelina.
This is a neutral buff of so perfect a
character that it goes" with almost
any other flower.
AS a table decoration the Isabelina
blends with almost all backgrounds,
especially in the way of wallpaper.
The touch of accent. which seems
! to be so necessary to satisfy the hu-
man mind and eye. may be given with
g. few snapdragons. say the compare
lively new variety Pink Perfection.
/
| The question still remains Is a gar
den Of one prevailing or predominant
ing tone better garden than one in
which all colors are mixed indiscrimi-
nately?
| When one sees perfect garden.
such as the blue one near Warrenton,
! he is inclined TO feel that such treat
ment is the best-until he next sees a
garden of more mixed planting.
Then he will realize that it is not
so much the color which counts as the
| effect secured, and that this effect
may be achieved with almost any
| plants or flowers, of almost any hues or
! shades, so long as the gardener is a
| res one and knows what he is doing.
| This means that he must have an
| eye to beauty not possessed by every
/ one. Like a good dentist, he not only
rlust be skilled workman, but he
must use intelligence and discretion
! The gardener who works with his head
! as we'll as with his hand can get beauty
! anywhere and with anything.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-28
Alphabet Reforms.

Mustapha Renal Pasha, the ruler of
Turkey, has, through his complacent
legislative body at Angora, prohibited
the further use of the Arabic alphabet
and decreed the use of the Roman. He
gave the Turkish people warning Of
this action to enable them to learn the
new symbols of communication and
establish schools for their teaching.
The transition was apparently effected
with little difficulty. But it now appears
that the Turkish people are not uni
formly obedient to the decree and arc
in effect "bootlegging" Arabic despite
the law. Here is another case where
prohibition is not prohibiting with full
effect. A dispatch from Adapazar states
that an old woman and three Moham-
medan priests have been jailed to await
trial for clandestinely teaching the old
alphabet. The woman it is stated, had
sixty pupils in the cellar of her house,
while the priests were teaching divin-
ity students in the Mosque of Mohammed
the Conqueror at STEAMBOAT. The dis
patch further states that no edition Of
the Koran in the new alphabet has yet
been published.
Thus it appears that Kemals highly
lauded stroke of changing the basis Of
the Turkish language has not been as
successful as heretofore believed. Per-
haps the fact that the Koran has not
been printed in the new alphabet may
hove something to do with the surrepti-
tious teaching of Arabic. Literacy ir
Turkey is at low point, being confined
mainly to the mercantile and priestlJ
classes. 1t was to have been expected
that the former would for business rea'
sons comply with the new order and &C.
quire the Roman alphabet. But the
others we're certain to be more con-
sentative and to cling to the old form
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-28
Search for Noah's Ark
Nav Encourage Others

Prom the Spokane Spokesman Review
1t ought to cheer the fundamentalists
and confound the modernists to learn
that Noah's ark has become a subject
of diplomatic negotiation. An Ameri-
can citizen has asked the State Depart
ment to get the Turkish governments
permission for an expedition to find the
ark. Mount Ararat, where the ark
landed when it stopped raining, is in
Armenia, which is Turkish territory.
If the ark is still there it is Turkish
property but it is not thought the Turks
will bubble over the ownership, as Noah
does not figure in their theology.
To Americans it would mean a great
deal to recover the ark. or even such
parts of 1t as may have survived the
ravages of time and controversy If
the expedition (Which. by the way.
will start from Chicago finds the ark,
other explorers will be encouraged to
look for Jonah's ship, Goliath's armor
and the broken shardS that we're the
pitchers of Gideon. We have sacked
the tombs of the Pharaohs and sent
deep-sea divers after the galleys of
Caligula, and retrieved Persian relics
from the plain of Marathon. There is
no reason why Old Testament memo
rabilia should not be as ardently
sought.
Noah's ark rightly comes first. be-
cause it is especially dear to our hearts.
Partly because it is one of the darling
stories of childhood, and partly because
its dramatic structure satisfies even the
adult mind We want to see the tale
solidly Substantiated. Even those who
do not pretend to be "kiver to kiver''
believers of Holy Writ have a soft
spot in their hearts for the Noah fam
lily and the animals that went in two
by two. If the Turkish government
can be made to realize how much Noah
means to us. it will make no difficul-
ties about the expedition from Chicago
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-28

ghanistan rugs, and he tried to import
western customs and styles. His sub
Jects threw him out, just for that, and
we go on using Afghanistan rugs as if
he we're still reigning, while he shivers
as he looks into the show windows, like
any poor fish out OF job and of a
home. He may meet Manuel of Portugal
and compare notes on the decline of the
King trade. What's this world coming
to? Thrones are not what they used
to be in the good old days before the
war when Kings were Kings! The
modern thrones are not Steady-they
are on rollers or skids. They are mail
order seconds or hand-me-down
Hoch der King George Two Eyes OF
Greece! They put the skids under his
royal highness. too, ana now his rolled
loWnesS no longer has a roof over his
head that he can call his own. He is a
travelling man, whose route covers from
London to Bucharest and around. He
has been on that route for four years
and wishes he could settle down.
Prince Carol Of Rumania sold his
birthright for a boulevard lunch of spin
ach, and it upset his stomach. He was
elected from the Rumania tenant house
and his kid now holds Daddy's job, but
has never even heard that pathetic song
of our early days:
20 father, dear father, come home
with me now,
The clock in the Steeple strikes ten!"
Carol hears no such Christmas carols,
and never goes home until morning.
and even then not TO Rumania, his own
dear home land.
Deposed Kings cumming around Paris
are as thick as lobbyists in the Capt.
tol. There is the Indian prince. Aga
Khan, whose name sounds like kitchen
vegetable. There is the Shah of Persia
who has made more francs as stock
market Spectator than his salary as
ruler of Persia. Just across the Alps,
famous because Napoleon and others
have climbed them, lives the former
Sultan of Turkey. gobbling still but
listening to the warning:
Turkey, turkey I will eat you
If I'm hungry when meet you"
But where is safe roost for such a
turk?
So We see the vast difference between
a homeless monarch wandering around,
all dressed up and no place to go, and
a happy contented American who has a
home to which to return when the frost
is on the punkin. Let US be thankful
for our mercieS and blessings, lest we
One might as well be a Democrat in
Pennsylvania as homeless King in Eu-
rope or Asia. It's lonesome little boy
in China who used to be Emperor, where
pigtails grew on scaffolds, and Sun Vat
Sen decided to overhaul the palace and
fumigate it of bugs and Emperors. Now
alice samee like Melikan man, or the
iobless Democrats of Europe and our
Southern States, that Chinese Emperor
boy has no home and no James," nor
even Ford.
Of course, when fellow has Ford
he doesn't miss home-until pune
ture or something comes-but 1t is tough
to be Fordless and homeless, at the
same time One might as we'll go to Elba
and ST. Helena and talk it out with
Bonaparte, about how to live without a
home with three bathrooms and electric
lights, or Lizzie with four brakes.
(Copyright, 1929 by Paul v. collns)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-28
Rothstein Case "Politics."

Though the bringing up of the Roth
stein case in New York by anti-Tam-
many candidates for mayor has been
ridiculed as Gust politics. it is evident
that the move is pretty good politics
at that. For District Attorney Banton,
who is one of the objects of attack by
Candidate Enright, after poohpoohing the
former police commissioners assertions,
has suddenly decided to bring to i'm
mediate trial one of the two men under
indictment for the killing of the gam
bier, without waiting for the capture
of his associate, now fugitive. He is
tc ask on Monday for special panel
of talesmen from which to select jury
for the trial of McManus, and states
that he will press action with all expedl-
ton He expects to get the trial started
the second week in october, which
would make possible a verdict before
election.
Heretofore the district attorney has
justified the delaying of the trial OF
McManus on the ground that it would
be impossible to obtain a conviction If
he were tried alone and that it was nee
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-28
Soft Coal Industry
Reported Recovering

From the Wheeling Intelligencer.
At last the soft coal industry seems
to be making steady recovery. Produce
ton for the last three weeks of July
was respectively, s.432.oOo, 100000 and
9,4s1, 900 tons. This compares with an
average weekly production of only
8,059,0 tons for the second quarter
of 1928. At the same time average
weekly production for the first quar-
ter OF 1929 was 10756,00 tons, con-
siderably better than the average of
100000 for the like period of last
year.
With Fall approaching and all indus
try running at near capacity, with con-
tinuance of industrial prosperity prom
Used indefinitely, the production of
bituminous for the balance of the year
should be exceptionally good and 1929
should show the best soft coal sales
since 1919, with the possible exception
Of 1926-an abnormal year, because Of
the strike In the hard coal fields.
Already the coal business in Eastern
Ohio and Northwestern West Virginia
has picked up considerably. 1t is still
far short of what it ought to be, but 1t
is not, as it long was, virtually pros
trate. Some operations long held in
were very hard hit by the slump, are
being resumed. Orders entailing some
degree of profit are being booked in the
best measure of the last five years
The operators are in nothing like the
position they were in before the ILL
| advised Jacksonville agreement, but
there seems TO be some light and hope
ahead.
Painful and costly as this retrench-
ment of the soft coal industry has been.
it has had one great benefit: It has
tended to place bituminous on a sound
supply-and- demand basis, an economic
basis that had to come and which is
much different from the wild over
production system which the war Gre
ated. Gradually, in the last five years
consultations have become effective
which eliminate many of the weaker
companies. The more expensive work.
| ings have been abandoned. In the long
run, this retrenchment will be good for
the industry, as well as for the con-
sumner in obtaining lower prices.
And, while present facilities are not
yet anything like what they will be, the
coal by-product industry is becoming a.
real factor, opening a vast new market
Tor Goals. More and more, coal will be
burned at the mouth of the mine. con-
verted into electrical energy by steam
plants and transmitted long distances.
with the innumerable by-products
worth 10 times the fuel value of the
coal, captured and commerciaIized
Also, several very successful expert
ments have been made lately with the
use OF pulverized coal as a substitute
fuel for oil-burning ships. With the
oil stores declining and conservation
necessary. another large new outlet for
the practically boundless coal deposits
seems certain.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-28
The Relentless Duce.

II Duce has just shown for the hun
dredth time that the way of the anti
Mussolini transgressor is indeed hard.
Caesare Rossi, once a power in the
Fascist organization and chief of its
press bureau when the Black Shirts
seized Rome seven years ago, was yes
terday sentenced to thirty years i'm
prisonment. He was convicted of con-
spiracy to overthrow the Fascist regime
,, in Italy.
A phrase in the cable dispatch re-
porting Rossi's sentence conveys more
than meets the eye. THE special tri-
bunal before which offenses against the
state are tried" it says, presided over
by Gen. Cristini, took only half an hour
to reach its verdict" The ways OF
italian justice, where the state" Is
Mussolini, are thus seen to be swift
ness personified. "L'etat c'est moi!'
said King of France on an immortal
occasion. History repeats itself in the
Eternal City.
Mussolini, as dictators are bound to
do, has quarreled internationally with
many once-trusted lieutenants. Most
of them have gone the way independent
spirits are frequently condemned to
tread in such circumstances-to OBJ
livion or worse. Rossi's chief crime
against the Fascist car was his accu-
sation, made on the exile soil of France,
that MusSolini himself was responsible
for the murder of Matteotti, the first
of the anti-Fascist Italian politicians
vigorously to challenge the Duces auto
cratic power.
Matteotti was done to death in the
streets of Rome in the Spring of 1924
after being kidnapped from his home.
Arrests were made trial ensued, and
convictions were decreed; but the guilty
were mere stoolpigeons and regained their
liberty after short prison terms for "un-
intentional homicide" Rossi himself,
indicted as ringleader of the Matteotti
conspiracy, was imprisoned for eighteen
decree of amnesty.
Rossi, as claimed at his recent trial,
was spirited into Italy from his foreign
refuge in order that the Fascists might
seize and try him for his pernicious
anti-Mussolini activities abroad. The
prosecution admitted the interception
of coded correspondence showing that
Rossi had been in constant correspond
ence with foes of Fascism in Italy and
abroad.
1t is difficult to doubt that in putting
Caesare Rossi behind the bars for the
rest of his natural life, Mussolini has
done anything but rid himself forever
of yet another implacable foe. Once
again Italy and the world at large have
proof of the iron grip which he retains
upon his countrys government. 1t
bears increasing evidence of being a
stranglehold. Like the Russian Soviet,
the Mussolini autocracy is periodically
condemned by political prophets to ig-
nominious collapse, but the Rossi affair
proves that the hand of the dictator is
not yet palsied.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-28

Some Washingtonians were down In
Virginia, looking at beautiful garden
near Warrenton.
There was fiagstone walk and q
lily pool, with goldfish and that SORT
of thing, but what attracted the most
attention was the predominating color
1t was blue garden" There not
only was ageratum, the standard gar
den blue, but all sorts of flowers OF
Particularly noticeable was the blue
variety of saliva, which, in the normal
red form, is a universal garden IA
vorite.
Two huge garden vases of blue pot
terry helped out the predominatinp
color scheme. Accent notes were flow
ers, white and pink.
X X X
The average amateur gardener, when
told of a blue garden, is likely to
reply, "Oh, wouldn't like it. am
surel"
One can never be sure. however, until
he sees such garden actually worked
out by skilled gardener before his
eyes.
The chances are 10 to l that he will
like it, and like it very much. The
variety of blue toned blossoms is amaz-
ing to one who looks into the matter
for the first time.
Not only are there all types of peren-
NAL and annual flowers, there even are
blue spruces and other evergreenS of a
blush tinge.
These perhaps "go" better in the all
blue garden than in the average home
planting, where their different charac-
ter is too striking for the best effect.
Use of a single predominating hue
in garden is very old, the favorite
being pink. which also seems to be
Natures particular darling.
+ There are more pink flowers than
of any other one color. These range
in shades from salmon to ones sus-
piciously near red. In all the varia-
tons, however, the flowers are unmis-
takably pink.
One has but to recall the favorite
rose of the world to realize that nothing
quite takes the place of pink in flower
colors.
Pink combines both feminine dainti-
ness and masculine sturdiness. Glaring
red flowers. such as the usual saliva
and some of the more red gladioli, arc
bit too masculine in effect for cult
waited gardens.
Pink is a peculiarly fortunate out
door color, in that it loses in the gar
den all pink tea" aspects and becomes
perfect mate for green grass.
One does not have to make tech
nical study of color to know that there
is something appropriate in the COM
bination of pink and green in the gar
den. Paintings of different pink va
rieties of plain and ruffled gladioli stand
out gloriously against backgrounds of
shrubbery.
If one is seeking a pleasing bit of
indoor decoration he can do little bet
ter than group pink roses and gladiolI
in blue vase.
X X
A red garden makes what is COM
monty called knockout" Here the
home owner may go as far as he
pleases, because if there is one color
Nature likes better than pink it is
plain, unadulterated red.
The old-faShioned saliva. the only
kind most people seem to know about,
often furnishes the mainstay of the
ALFRED garden.
The "red-hot poker plant" is another
glowing creation of Mother Nature in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-28
AerOnautics for
Alabama Students
From the Admission Star.

From the Admission Star.
The announcement that a full four
year course in aeronautics is to be
offered this year at the University of
Alabama is of interest to young men
who are casting about for suitable
vocation and also gives another indi-
cation of the growing Importance of
the airplane industry in this country.
Young men planning their life's work
have the opportunity for an interest
ing and profitable career in some
branch of aviation. This field also af-
fords them the chance to have part
in developing one of the greatest in
dustries of the age. Actual flying, no
doubt holds a lure for every normal
boy of today, but that is only small
part of the work that will be opened
up to the young men as aviation ad-
vances. Young men with inclinations
in that direction might well consider
aeronautics as possible profession.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-28
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PH1LANDER JOHNSON.

Some Day Land.
We look to the West in the twilight,
With purple and gold on display,
While the sun leaves a lingering high
light
On the beautiful land of Some Day.
And westward, still hopefully turning,
We gaze on the lingering ray
Which tells of reward for our yesrning
For the beautiful land Of Some Day.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-28
The Real Winners

From the Brooklyn Daily Eagle
The dog with the most fleas won a
hundred-dollar prize at an Iowa dog
show, which seems illogical. The prize,
If awarded at all, should have gone to
the fleas.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-28

Mysteries are fascinating and, in spite
of speculations as to world politics, the
police reporter remains the dominant
figure in current journalism.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-28

Movie scenarios continue to utilize old
plays. Faith in the future relies on the
development of new material when the
old is exhausted.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-28
Let 1t Stand!

From the Cleveland News.
Buffalo effort also failed to break the
st. Louis record for endurance flying.
We might be induced to second any mo-
ton to make it permanent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-28

A gentleman who finds flask under
his chair at a dinner party is wise If
he ignores the contents and devotes
his attention to the songs and reci-
tations.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-28

1t is rapidly being made clear to the
American public that a President of
the U. S. A. has much more to do than
merely to smile and shake hands with
visitors.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-28

Horseshoe pitching is a popular form
of sport The horse has been so far
dismissed from attention that his shoes
become more considered than his hoofs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-28

Efforts are being made to prevent
banquets from undertaking to solve So
cial and political problems at the same
time.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-28

Stage hands assert the power to close
theaters. The temperamental artist is
not so hard to deal with as the tenn
peramental scene shifter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-28

Polar exploration has nothing to do
as yet with designations of industrial,
commercial or residential areas. They
are zoned once and for all as frigid.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-28

Safety first" is an obsolete motto.
When one airplane falls, there are
dozens with waiting list of passen-
gers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-28
Foot Ball Strategy.

From the Dayton Daily News
The only time foot ball coach feels
encouraged is when he thinks he's fool
ing the other coaches by saying he's
discouraged.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-28
An Open Car Advantage.

From the Louisville Courer-Journal.
One nice thing about open cars is
that when bees get in them they can
get out without making it necessary for
the driver to run up telephone pole.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-28

King George goes for ride on horse
back and has rather better equestrian
luck than his popular son.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-28

An observer" in international affairs
must regard it as fair enough If he
himself comes under observation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-28
Few Have 1t.

From the Louisville Courier journal.
Kansas horses are said to be tralneo
To stop at red lights. Perhaps what
some motorists need Is horse sense.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-28

Endless Chain.
We hold discussions from the heart
While banquets dull digestion,
And every conference we start
Brings up another question.