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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-13

Just what Is this marriage market
business? 1t is exactly the sordid thing
the name implies-a bartering of a sac
rament for money. Matrimony cannot
be sold. What passes over the counter
Of the sagacious jeweler or the money
grasping clergyman is, at the best, the
cheapest sort of imitation.
We are reminded, unescapably, of the
money changers in the temple. The
ministers and magistrates engaged in
such business make a stock in trade of
holy tfing-just as If it were pepper,
sugar or bootleg whisky.
Doubtless happy and permanent life
partnerships sometimes result from such
ceremonies. This happens often enough
so that they still keep the romantic at
mosphere to which they have no right.
1t is well that the general public have
a different picture of this business-a
picture calculated to arouse disgust
rather than memories of young love.
Stripped of all its romantic decorations.
the situation painted by the Sage F'oun-
dation workers seems repulsive indeed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-13
Legitimate Marriage Licenses"

{ Russell>Sage Foundation investigators
have found f1fty-seven marriage mar
ket" towns in twenty-nine American
States.
These are communities some Of whose
inhabitants are engaged in selling mat
rimonial rites purely as business prop
osition. Clergymen, magistrates and
taxi drivers conspire and cooperate in
this loathsome business, taking advan-
tage Of some peculiarly favorable geo.
graphical location with reference to
State boundaries or some defect in local
statutes.
Apparently the business is not looked
upon with much disfavor in the towns
where it thrives. The chamber of COM
merce in one of these communities
printed circulars describing the advan-
tages offered and expressing its desire
for legitimate resort marriage busi-
ness" The leading ieweler in another
marriage mart" town obtained war
rant as a justice of the peace and ad-
VertlSed IN the local newspapers. "A
wedding free with the purchase Of a
ring"
The expression marriage market
towns" seems particularly happy in ref
erence to such places. 1t is much more
appropriate than the threadbare "Gretna
Green" with its romantic associations
of stage coaches. duels at dawn, yelled
ladies and silk-trousered gallants out
of the literature of eighteenth century
England. Too often the twentieth CEN
tury American picture is of two light
witted fools, barely conscious after a
bibulous night with bootleg liquor, ro-
mantle enough in sentiment, but both
rathetic and dieg'refi'g in appearance
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-13
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE

opened with a biographical sketch of
Mrs. Borah herself. She was Graded
in politics, having been born Mamie
Mcconnell, the daughter of the late
William j. Mcconnell who was one of
ldaho's first two United States Sena-
tors.
The first member of the Coolidge
White House official family to an
nounce his occupation after March 4
Is F. Stuart Crawford. who has been
one OF the Presidents assistants for
the past four years. Mr. Crawford. a
newspaper man by profession, will re-
join the staff of the New York Herald
Tribune In May, following a vacation
trip to Europe. He is an Iowan and
like the President, an Amherst man.
For many years he was one of the star
political writer's on the New York
press. Crawford's activities on the
Herald Tribune are to be those of a
political adviser and editorial writer.
just before coming to the White House
he was assistant to Charles D. HilleS
of New York, first vice chairman of
the Republican national committee.
One of Crawford's jobs in the Coolidge
establishment has been to keep his ear
to the ground and listen to the re-
verberations of Vox Populi as reflected
in the newspapers of the Nation. Mr.
Coolidges friends know that he holds
Crawford's talents and judgment in the
highest regard and drew upon them
habitually.|
X X X X
Senator Vandenberg, Republican, of
Michigan, who is making a valiant
fight for House reapportionment, has
just been called upon to take up the
cudgels on behalf of Selfridge Field,
the well known Army aviation post in
his State. It appears there have been
efforts to transfer its activities to
another region. Vandenberg presented
the Senate this week with some telling
testimony from F. Trubee Dawson,
Assistant Secretary of War for Avia-
ton: Mai. Gen. Fechet, chief of the
Army Air Corps; Maj. F. G.. Lamphier,
commandant of the field, and E. v.
Rickenbacker, famous World War fly
ing ace. All of them agreed that 1t
would be highly iniudicious to ADAM
don Selfridge Field. Gen. Fechet point
ed out that its advantages are unique
because the air troops stationed there
are within easy flying distance from
all three of our coasts.
Copyright, 1920
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-13
A Place TO WhittIe.

For the time being, at least, Mr.. Cool
idge intends to do his whiting as eX-
President of the United States in the
two-family frame house on quiet
street in Northampton-the home he
left eight years ago to come to Wash
ington as Vice President-elect And as
a whiting place, the site that he has
selected may oe satisfactory. But one
wonders whether Mr.. Coolidge still looks
forward, as he did some time ago, to
mere whiting.
AS ex-President, Mr.. Coolidge will not
leave the White House the same man
that Washington welcomed at Union
Station on the evening of February %,
1921. Our ex-President-to-b has learn
ed many things that the occupancy Of
the White House is not supposed to
teach. He has learned the joy of cast
ing for trout in dark pools. He has ex-
perienced the thrill of watching a clay
pigeon leave the trap, to float away to
sudden death. He has heard the thun-
der of covey OF birds, and he has
knocked down pheasant in fight. To
whittle now? Even an ex-President
should be spared the dismal experience
of such contrast
1t was not long ago that Mr.. Cool
idge calamity suggested in behalf of
those who are to succeed him in the
White House, that the Government
should furnish the President with a
Summer home near Washington. When
he enters the White House Mr.. Hoover
will have an excellent opportunity to
return the favor by recommending that
the Government reward its faithful ex-
Presidents with a home-and in the
case of Mr.. Coolidge it should be a
home equipped with the means to en-
able Mr.. Coolidge to experience the joys
of his newly discovered sports, unham-
pered by photographers, reporters and
critical essays on his skill.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-13

utilize heights rather than ground
space for accommodation of workers
and jewellers the human transit
problem becomes much more grave than
the building problems themselves. It
may be perfectly safe to erect hundred
story structures, as far as the construc-
lions are concerned, but how will the
occupants of those buildings, placed
close together as they are prone to be
in the modern city arrangement. get to
and fro without desperately dangerous
congestion?
Far better than twenty-pound tiles
and hundred-story buildings will be the
invention of methods of moving the
people safely and without crushing
crowds, or methods of transport which
will permit and encourage the spread
ing of business out upon larger spaces
The city of the future should not be
one of altitude and choking congestion,
but of latitude and comfort.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-13
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

How many absolutely honest remarks
does one hear in the course OF an aver
age day?
Probably about one.
Come to think it over, If one hears
just one really honest remark day he
is doing pretty good.
Civilization Is not civilized just in its
clothes alone, but even more in regard
to the words with which it clothes its
real thoughts.
We read a story somewhere years ago
as no doubt many reader here did, too
in which the hero attempted to speak
honestly for just "a hours.
BY the time he went to bed he had
lost all his friends, was threatened with
divorce, and was entirely cured of his
mad ambition.
What one really thinks about any
thing. and what one usually says about
1t are two entirely different things
Often an honest man will fall to
wondering with himself over some re-
mark which he has sprung" upon an
associate, which both he and the friend
realize is plain lie.
Yet neither shows the slightest sign
on the surface of resenting the state
ment, each openly takes it for its face
value, neither shows by the slightest
wrinkle that he realizes that it does not
embody the truth, the whole truth and
nothing but the truth.
Often enough these remarks, and the
conditions which led to them, are es-
sentially comical in intent and results.
While the two men are solemnly MAX
ing and accepting the statement, the
maker IS saying to himself. Lord, what
a lie! But what else can say?" And
the other, while pleasantly smiling as
if in hearty agreement with what was
said, Lord, what a liar"
x x * X
A man spends the first six years of
his life being honest, and the next six
learning how to lie. The following 18
years or so he falls a ready victim to
his civilization and vacillates between
telling the truth sometimes and nice
white lies" all the time.
When he reaches the magic age of
3d. or thereabouts, especially If he is
by nature writer (no matter if he do
no more than write letters, he comes
to the inevitable conclusion that
honesty is, after ALL the best policy.
Think over all the writer's you have
read and you will discover that they
are interesting in proportion to their
honesty. They may deal with affairs
of state. foreign policy, rabbits, cats,
men and women, books, etc.--it makes
no difference-what attracts you, in the
final analysis. is that they are giving
you the honest thoughts of an honest
fellow.
X x X *
In the everyday affairs of everyday
life it is surprising how seldom one
hears the plain truth about anything.
The other day we heard a woman
speaking of her preference in regard to
theater seats.
IT like the gallery seats the best, )"
she declared
And then came the surprise. Instead
of saying that she liked it from the
high seats best because the music
sounded better from there" or some
other such blah-blah, she admitted
that in the past she had not had enough
money to buy more expensive seats.
"And now I really feel more at home
there" she said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-13
We felt as Diogenes must have felt
If he had found his honest man.

we 1elt as D10geneS must nave 1elt
II he had found his honest man.
X X X y
Mostly people find it necessary to be
| terribly honest about others, when they
| feel the hypocrisy of their daily actions
| too keenly.
| Instead of combining themselves to
abstract topics, of which there are.
| million, or to themselves, they prefer
| to practice on some one else.
How wonderfully easy it is for some
| people to be honest about others!
One would think that there were no
such qualities in the world as hypocrisy
subterfuge, innuendo, make believe,
| simple dishonesty and plain lying.
When these kind folk are being hon.
est with you - about yourself - their
eyes glisten, and their comments briStle
with wit and humor.
| It is easy to be clever-at the other
fellows expense! It will be found that
most sheer cleverness is somewhat
nasty in character. Decency goes at a
more sober pace; it flashes no more
than a good woman.
| X X X \
These same folk who never spare any
one else are the very first to wall them
selves around with projections.
In their best solemn manner they will
| lie about themselves, relying on their
hearers civilized qualities to keep his
| mouth shut.
If he refrains from contradicting
them, they have won their point. Now
| it is easy for them to go on to the next
one, secure in the knowledge that the
other is going to swallow all of it.
IF hu o,v ohonpo ha coils their hJIff
they instantly become models of out
ragged virtue. Lie calls for lie, bluff for
bluff, SO that the only way to argue
with them is with the fist or club.
Since both fists and clubs are not
esteemed everyday weapons in civili-
cation. but are to be used only in emer-
genciesy the vast majority of people
prefer not to become involved in such
arguments"
And that, alas, is the way the other
gets away with it!
In apology for this trait Of mankind,
much may be said, and we would not
be the last to say it..
1t smooths the path of everyday liv-
ing as perhaps nothing else could or
would.
Without the so-called white lies"
the halfway lying, and the out-and-
out falsehoods of humanity, men and
women would be at eternal loggerheads,
whereas with them they fight and
quarrel only half of the time.
If it were not for this universal
countenancing on the part of every
body of deviations from the strict truth
on the part of everybody else, life in
| civilization would scarcely be possible.
Perhaps this is not stating it too
! strongly. Nine-tenths of every ones
conversation in the course of day is
more or less persifage. 1t is not meant
seriously and should not be taken seri-
ously.
This is the great excuse which makes
our strange everyday dishonesty a
species of honesty. after all, in that
there is often no need for honesty, but
direct and plain need for It's opposite.
After all, the truth is that human
beings are very queer creatures, are
| they not?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-13
Ancient Indians Obeyed
sB.O.' Ads to Catch Eagles
BY E. E. FREE, PHI. d.

Instructive knowledge by American
Indians of the modern science OF os-
mics. the science of smells, is indicat-
ed by a curious aboriginal record of
how to catch eagles, recounted by DR..
Melvin r. Gilmore of the Heye Museum
of the American Indian, in New York
City, in recent announcement OF that
institution. The instructions occur in
an ancient myth of how the Indians
of the Arikara tribe first got tobacco,
an event with which mythical eagle
is concerned and in celebration OF
which eagle feathers were used. Al
though described by DR.. Gilmore's ma
tive informants as directions supposed
to have been told the tribe by the
original mythical eagle. the eagle
catching system presumably represents
method actually used by the an
ceStral ArikaraS and developed by eX-
perience through generations OF Skill
full hunters. The eagle hunter Is TO
seat himself, the instructions say, In
covered pit with meat bait nearby.
When the eagle comes to seize the
bait the hunter jumps up and seizes
the eagle. Where the science OF smells
enters is In three specific. instructions
given the hunter. One is to take
ceremonial steam bath, not unlike a
modern Turkish bath, before going to
the pit. The second is to wear cloth
ing not worn the preceding day. The
third is to carry in his hand branches
of wild sage, plant of powerful odor.
Modern students of osmics will see in
these ancient instructions a reasonable
intention, its reasons long forgotten
by tellers and followers of the myth,
20 remove body odors as perfectly as
possible and to neutralize whatever
remained by the strong smell Of the
sage.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-13
Lighter Tile and Higher Buildings

At meeting in Chicago of the Struc-
tural Tile Association announcement
has just been made of the invention OF
tile that is so light, yet strong, that
it will permit the erection of buildings
one hundred stories in height. This
tile, it is stated, weighs only twenty
pounds to the cubic foot, whereas most
materials used in building construction
weigh one hundred and twenty pounds.
The prospect Of hundred-story build
ings is not pleasing. 1t is, indeed, dis
tinctly disturbing. Already the height
of structures in concentrated city areas
has reached the point Of causing ap-
prehension. What if they be doubled?
Even with the recessing procedure,
which permits heights previously re-
garded as impracticable, the attainment
of the hundred-story mark would throw
the street surfaces into depths In
which life would be sadly depressed.
But it does not necessarily folloy. that
the intention of this lighter tile, with
all the strength of the heavier one, will
lead to doubling Of building heights.
For there are other factors in construc-
ton than that of wall and floor weight
that enter into the equation of safety.
The structural steel frame must be
strong enough, and if it is pushed up a
| hundred per cent it is subjected to
strains that are not now to be calcu-
lated. Then there is the foundation to
be considered. There is also the ques-
ton Of wind pressure.
But most of all, apart from the mat
ter Of the safety Of the structure itself,
Is the question of human congestion.
Piling story upon story, in the attain
ment of enormous heights for the sake
of a greater concentration of rental
space upon given ground area, means
the assemblage during working hours
in the case Of hotels, which are now
being shot up to skyscraper heights,
during all hours-of immense numbers
of people within a restricted space. This
means a strain that reacts with serious
effects upon the street space and upon
transportation facilities.
Already the street spaces and the
transportation facilities Of the large
cities are taxed to the utmost. With
the tendency to concentrate business ir
comparatively restricted areas and tt
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-13
Prince Attains New Stature
LIN Eyes Of American Public

A new picture of the always-popular
Prince of Wales is seen by the Ameri-
can press in accounts of the personal
investigation made by the prince into
conditions among Britain'S poverty
stricken coal miners.
"A prince among his people, planning
to right their wrongs!" exclaims the
Atlanta Journal. This is a new and
enlightening picture of the slender
young man We have seen in so many
odd postures through the news me-
diums-a young man riding fiercely aft
er hounds. going to earth with crash
ing horses. dancing with dainty bellies
in the frivolous glitter of regal ball
rooms, trailing wild animals with a
retinue of hunters strong enough to
take all Africa. We feel. somehow,
that this new prince is the real one. +"
"a new and finer picture of the next
King of England" is seen also by the
Kansas City Times. which observes
that sit was no formal, routine call
that the prince made to those shanties
where families live in Squalor almost
beyond belief. This was no play
acting prince, idly looking over his
domain" continues the Times, "but a
young man who took his responsibilities
seriously and determined that somehow
the conditions he saw should be cor
rected or at least ameliorated. It
is fortunate for that nation that it's
heir apparent. who will be its ruler in
q few years. is a man of intelligence,
character and sympathy"
X X
"He is bound to be better ruler as
the result of his determination to bring
himself closer to the people and to gain
greater understanding of their prob
lems," declares the Columbus Dispatch
"He is bound. also, to intrench him.
self more firmly in the hearts Of his
subjects. There Is little wonder that
this modern prince enjoys the affection
of his great nation" Similarly the
PaSsaic Herald feels that "the ex-
periences of Britain's submerged tenth
on many occasions reveal the knightly
prince as the true friend of the less
fortunate element among his future
subjects"
by performing a great humanitarian
service" says the New York Evening
World. 'the prince has alarmed not
only the Tory government but the pow
erful interests behind it. Thus the
future monarch has shown that even
now royalty is sometimes aligned on
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-13

The New York theater would be a
gloomy institution if Mayor Jimmy
Walker did not step in from time to
time, to officiate at weddings and other
affairs, in an impromptu manner, to
cheer it up.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-13

Price of seat on the New York
Stock Exchange is such as to make a
stout old grandfather chair" appear in
this instance, to be the most valuable
piece of furniture on record.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-13

Italian government still has need of
delicate diplomacy in its internal af-
fairs; some of the diplomacy, perhaps.
which arose when dominant thought
regarded all the world as Italy"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-13

Intelligence progresses slowly. Col
leges are forbidden to discuss "evolu-
ton" Belief in witchcraft is boldly as
serted. Even that literary and pictorial
monstrosity. the comic valentino" is
still in circulation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-13

While Owen Young has not been the
figure of sole prominence in reparations
discussion, he steps into attention as a
figure of much responsibility on the
subject.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-13

Numerous reviewing stands indicate
that there will be a sufficiently large
and enthusiastic assemblage to prevent
it from being entirely "quiet inaugu-
ration"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-13

Wall Street speculation may be curbed
by legislators. Yet legislator may, in
the course of his career, take chances
which mean more than mere financial
risk.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-13
Well, That's Something.

From the Dayton Daily News.
Announcement that "Bathhouse
john is to run again seems to be as
far as Chicago has gotten In its widely
advertised cleanup.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-13

Washington, D. c., has drop in tenn
perature. Nothing sufficient, however, to
dispose of a promise of genial relief
from billiards raging elsewhere.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-13

An uncomfortable element of the
frivolous in the human mind creates as
much temporary interest in ST. Valen-
tine poetry as in the memorable words
of Abraham Lincoln.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-13
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Or to the Grocery Store.

From the Oklahoma City Daily oklahoman.
Formerly it was necessary to go to
the Far West in search of adventure
Now it Is necessary to go only as far
as the nearest filling station.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-13
Yup! Just ThA.

From the Detroit News.
Does the suggested wofnen's bloc
mean that eventually Congress will con-
sist of a majority, a minority and a
sorority?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-13

No great eloquence is wasted in IN
diana Standard Oil affairs. Proxies
speak louder than words.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-13
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.

Mathematicality.
There are problems of market finances
That puzzle us day after day;
And problems of boss racing chances
That bring betting sinners dismay.
Comparisons make our lives thrilling.
Relativity's way we pursue.
Shall we 'lose OUT or else make a
killing?
We leave it, Doc Einstein, to you.
Then why should we argue of morals,
And why should We bubble and rave,
INDUCING in ill-advised quarrels
Regarding how each should behave.
Relationships well should be stated.
Devise us formula true
For a lifetime that's fair or Inflated
We leave it, Doc Einstein, to you.
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