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THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRAcEWELL.

There are many graveyards in and
around Baltimore.
Japanese lanterns hang from strings
across several front porches. There is
an old boat sunk in front yard and
filled with blooming petunias. A novel
flower pot
In one front yard is large round
glass bowl, shaped like a washtub,
sitting on stump. 1t is filled with
goldfish: An old, plump man with bald
head and white mustache is putter-
ing around.
There is a little white house with
clapboards running up and down. 1t
appears to be at least 100 years old,
but flaunts modern awnings at all its
windows.
AS we, go along the roads we see
no horses or cows but plenty of mules.
We cross the Susquehanna on the
dam, which most people have seen, so
we enter into no description OF 1t, as
interesting as it is, with its power
plant queer r?acSSinery, high-voltage
wires and supporting towers like the
radio towers at Arlington.
x * X
Crossing the Pennsylvania State line
at $40 am, we come into a great
agricultural State. Wheat is being
shocked in the fields. Back in the
Middle West wheat hasn't been cut yet.
Yuccas are plentiful and in full
bloom. Lemon lilies blossom in waves
along the roadside, where they nave
spread from farmlands.
This is a land of nurseries, and here
is one of the countrys largest growers
OF rose bushes. West Grove. the rose
town. One notes with interest that the
acres of bushes have been sprayed with
what appears to be copper, II one may
Judge from the blue tinge it gives the
foliage Across the road is the tourist
camp, with a monkey in a cage. The
ape mot in an apiaryl chatters
menacingly. Along the road are more
nurseries Thirty or forty carloads OF
OF every greenhouse is great square
bed of manure. probably rs feet square
and feet high.
Our memory of Kennett Square is
chiefly Of an old colored woman, all
dressed up in black, who stood in a
gutter washing off her shoes in small
flow of water.
A large wheat field. waving in the
sunlit breeze, is pretty enough to stir
one to poetical musings. Now comes
Brandywine Creek. The houses are
u.
There is one burned to the ground,
but with chimneys standing intact at
either end. There are many picnic
parties along the road outside Media.
So we roll along. In the late after
noon the road is reversed. Honeysuckle
covers high banks along the roadside.
Old stone houses sit on hillsides. They
appear to be falling down hill. but prob
ably have looked that way for a CEN
fury.
At Susquehanna a sign is seen: "All
cars must stop for inspection" 1t is
japanese beetles, not liquor. But we
/ have no beetles, so are allowed to pass
on. There are dead snakes along the
road. which is now filled with traffic.
/ In Baltimore we see every one sitting
out on those white doorstepS which they
we're 3crubbing in the morning. An l8-
year-old boy throws lighted f1cecrackers
at mate A gaunt man amuses him
self by throwing crackers at passing au-
tomobiles.
Solid lines OF cars going both ways
between Baltimore and Washington
make the trip take three hours. But
home is worth every minute Of it.
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A Hero in Our Midst.

! A bearded, one armed hero of France,
"the Lion of Champagne"-Gen. Henri
j. E. Gouraud, commander of his coun-
| tryS first army in the World Warts
/ Washington's honored guest today. He
is en- route to tomorrow's reunion of the
Rainbow (42d) Division of the Amer
/ lean expeditionary forces in Baltimore
tho gallant force which fought under
| Gouraud during the crucial weeks of
the drive to victory in the Summer of
| 1918.
The officers and men of the Rainbow
are privileged to be the spokesman of
all America in greeting and receiving
| this seasoned warrior and courtly gen
| tieman. He belongs to France, but
| America claims him, too, in recollection
! of her own sons who barred their breasts
| to the foe ucda- his inspiring command
! eleven :<.s.. ago this week.
| The Germans launched their last vast
and valiant effort in mid-July, 1918,
finding athwart the path of their So
called peace assault" grim resistance
offered by a determined Franco-Amer-
| lean Army. In supreme charge Of this
stern line of defense along the Marine
was Gen. Gouraud, battle-scarred and
! laurel-crowned from earlier campaigns
/ in the Sudan, Morocco and Gallipoli.
On the eve of battle, on July 16, in q
general order rcdolent Of Napoleon's
N fYnnnc q
the zero hour, Gouraud issued the fol-
lowing Official Appeal to the French
and American Soldiers of the Army:
We may be attacked from one mo-
nent to another. You all feel that
defensive battle was never engaged
in under more favorable conditions
We are warned, and we are on our
guard. We have received strong re-
Endorsements of infantry and ar
tillery. You will fight on ground
which by your assiduous labor you
have transformed into formidable
fortress. into a fortress which is in
vincible if the passages are well
guarded
The bombardment will be terrible.
You will endure it without weakness.
The attack in a cloud of dust and
gas will be fierce, but your positions
and your armament are formidable.
The strong and brave hearts Of
free men beat in your breasts. None
will look behind, none will give way.
Every man will have but one thought
Kill them, kill them in album
dance. until they have had enough"
And therefore your general tells you
it will be glorious day.
The rest is history. Hindenbrg's
vaunted Friedensturm-the peace at
tack" which was to smash the enemy's
resistance beyond repair-crashed and
broke against 1.-THE strong and brave
hearts" which Gouraud had fired with
unquenchable will to conquer. Neither
the Rainbow Division nor the American
people can ever forget him or the shin
ing qualities that sprang from his in
trepid leadership.
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Interest in Railroad Mergers
Stirred Anew by Wabash Plans

Plans for a fifth great trunk line
railroad, with Kansas City as its West
ern terminal. as disclosed in petition
to the Interstate Commerce Commission
by the Wabash, have revived public in
terest in the general subject on railroad
consultations. 1t is assumed that the
Wabash program will meet with Strenu-
Gus opposition and that other roads
will press proposals Of their own before
the Interstate Commerce Commission
acts.
The Kansas City Journal-Post refers
to the development as "a somewhat
startling proposal of consolidation of II
railroads providing trunk line eX-
tending from the Atlantic Coasts to
Kansas City and also embracing some
rich agricultural country in Iowa"
That paper suggests that "the coura-
geous independence of this course is
the more evident in light of the large
ownership of the Wabash by the Penn
sylvania. one of the four trunk lines"
The Journal-Post concludes that "the
Wabash proposal will affect so many
other roads and such vast sections as
to force the subject on the attention of
the Interstate Commerce Commission
and of the public"
THE Wabash officials offer one ar
gument," according to the Detroit News,
that must have occurred often to many
travellers. Their scheme offers terminals
as far west as Kansas City DeS Moines
and Omaha The other big systems ter
inmate at Chicago. Why must all rail-
roads end at Chicago? Why must the
entire country change cars at the foot
of Lake Michigan? There is no natu-
raj obstacle to be overcome at Chicago.
There is no good physical reason why
cars can't be run from San Francisco
to New York, or from Baltimore to
Seattle, or from Philadelphia to Los
Angeles But they don't. They turn
around at Chicago. Some day our rail-
roads will run from coast to coast and
people in hurry will not be routed
through an intricate railroad center"
What the attitude of the Pennsyl-
vania, the New York Central and other
existing trunk lines will be in the cir
cumstances," says the Chicago Daily
News, "is easy to guess. That they will
fight the petition of the Wabash may
be taken for granted. Some persons
think that they will suggest alternative
consolidation plans instead of merely
opposing the Wabash application. thus,
incidentally, helping to clear up the
whole consolidation question, which too
long has been enveloped in fog. In
view of the widely recognized need of
railroad consolidation, it is to be hoped
that the move of the Wabash will pre-
cipitate speedy action beneficial to the
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| Those white doorsteps of Baltimore
washed and scrubbed until they gleam
! fascinate the automobile tourist beyond
anything els:.
He mRJ forget the monkey in the
cage by the roadside, or those acres Of
rose b;S>es1. stretching away to thr
horizon, Or We sight of the old man
puttering around big bowl Of gold fish
in the front yard.
1t is sure bet, however. that he viii
| never forget Baltimore's doorsteps as
! they shone under the ministratlons Of
| thousands of women.
He came into the city very early In
! the morning, after run along the
Bladensburg road and It's integral Balti-
| more pike.
There before him were the rows and
rows of houses, all Just alike. front walls
flush with sidewalks. adorned with
white steps, wooden or concrete.
And they were all being scrubbed
There was such sloshing OF soapsuds
as might have been heard back In
Washington, If ears were oencately
enough atuned.
After the doorstep additions the pail:
Of water were emptied into the gutter
| Talk not of hygiene. Cleanliness comes
before hygiene any day, especially Oh
the Fourth of July!
X 4 *
The early morning start from the
historic old city OF Georgetown had re-
vealed nothing more startling than
business establishments unopened. Only
a few men are waiting for street cars
for this is holiday. and Government
employees are off duty.
At the Capitol grounds, green and
! white in the glow Of the morning, a LEFT
1off O \
allowed, but the police are not in sight
so who should worry?
Now we come into Touristana. Ever
house has its sign. One says Tourist
| Accommodated another Tourists
Guests Welcomed" a third that we
Entertain Tourists" Yonder is bar
becue stand, with hams turning slowly
before naked flames
The eve catches telephone poles. tres
trunks and rocks painted white from
the ground up to three or four feet
/ The usual set of warning signals nash
or point out ravines, etc.
This early in the day the traffic con-
sists mostly of Washington-bo bound
trucks. The old familiar ham that
am" sign is succeeded by eggs that Is.
and both give way to table filled with
huge glass jars Of honey.
The morning sun, striking ashanti
through those sweetly laden jars. takes
on aspects of amber. How does one
pronounce "apiary"?
Watch out! There goes black cat
souarely across the road. The super
stitious sigh with relief when the cat
turns out to be brown-and-nlack
calico variety.
So far not a firecracker has been
heard. although this is the day that we
and all the others celebrate. Well, that
will begin later. ION second thought. II
began a week ago-maybe the boys have
shot off all their crackers)
y 4 +
More cars are on the road now. all
| going toward Washington. There is
| Laurel and it's racetrack and grand
stand. Roadside lunch stands crop UP
! at every turn. Hot dogs, hot cohee
| fried chicken
! A row of hollyhocks blooming along
/ an old, implanted shed makes a pretty
! picture. And then Baltimore and those
white doorsteps. famous in history ano
| today. A mother cat and kittens sit
ting on one white step are very thin
and dirty.
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Oceans Salt Attributed
To Action of VOlcanOe
BY e. E., FREE, PHI. ID


The old question of who put the salt
in the sea has new answer. In so far
as the sea is salty instead Of tasting
like I've or baking soda. the responsible
parties are the worlds volcanoes. So
says DR.. T. A. Jaggar, foremost Ameri-
can volcano expert in the latest of his
weekly bulletins to the Hawaiian Vol
cano Research Association. The sea
contains, biologists compute, more than
1000, 900 cubic miles of common salt.
Part of this comes from rivers, for the
tiny amounts of chemicals in each days
river water are left in the sea when the
water itself evaporates, so that these
river-borne materials gradually accumu-
late. But the chemicals in river water
are not chiefly common salt. Instead
they are mostly carbonate compounds,
like I've. or sulphate ones, like EPSON
salts. If these remained unaltered in
sea water. creatures like fish and oyS-
tiers would be most uncomfortable. To
change them into the more wholesome
common salt nature needs continual
supplies of hydrochloric acid, the same
acid that plumbers use to make solder
ing fluid. That is tie duty, DR.. Jaggar
concludes of the volcanoes. One hun
bred million tons of this acid are
necessary every year. he computes, to
keep the sea salty instead of alkaline
enough acid to supply all the worlds
plumbers for the rest of history. Yet
gases of a single volcanic area--that of
Katmai, Alaska-supply nearly per
cent of this total. DR.. Jaggar finds, each
year. Remembering that there are un-
doubtedly many active volcanoes at the
bottom of the sea, there is small doubt,
he believes, that the volcanic acid fac
tories are ample to keep the ocean
pleasantly salty.
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WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

nevertheless. could apparently be bought
in Washington, because he'd just seen
a sign In front of the handsome Cuban
embassy on Sixteenth street reading:
"Chancery at the rear" Let uniniti-
ated know that "chancery" is the Ian
guage of diplomacy for offices"
The Davilas or the Davillas are soon
going 10 be as numerous in Washing
ton as the Hoovers. We already have
Ambassador Don Carlos Davila of Chile
and Representative Felix Cordova Davila
of Porto Rico. Now comes Carol A.
Davilla as the newly accredited Min
ister of Rumania to add TO the Official
confusion. The Chilean and Porto
Rican emissaries accent their names on
the "a in the first syllable of their
names. If Minister Davilla accents the
~ in his name. perhaps thatll help
straighten matters out. He also in
dulges In an extra Il" in~his surname.
A*
Postmaster General Walter F. Brown
has Just presented his rs per cent new
official staff to President Hoover. 1t
includes First Assistant Arch Coleman.
former postmaster of Minneapolis
Third Assistant Frederic A. Tilton of
Detroit, the accountant of the Post Of
fee family. and Fourth Assistant John
w Philip, former postmaster of Dallas.
The appointment of two outstanding
postmasters brings new blood into the
department fresh from the field, where
the heavy work is done. The one hold
over is Second Assistant Postmaster
General w. Irving Glover of New Jer-
5ey. who is now the veteran of baby
cabinet" members. He is the only man
left in this circle who was appointed
by President Harding, continued through
the Coolidge administration and was
retained by President Hoover. Glover
has charge of the air mail and all
forms of transportation of the mails.
Postmaster General Brown says he now
bosses a we'll balanced staff and is ready
for all corners who want to give the
Post Office Department the once-over.
Copyright. 1920
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-12
School Snobbery.

The dean of the Graduate School of
Education at Harvard University, Henry
W. Holmes, has declared that "Ameri-
can education is deeply affected with
snobbery." He criticizes the use of edu-
cational institutions, particularly private
schools, for social advancement. He
objects to schooling being used for ul-
terror purposcs-"for getting ahead in
the world" The dean may be right,
but he seems to have made poor Sc
lection of words. Schooling, for most
young men and women in America
means an opportunity to get ahead in
the world" 1t means improvement in
mental training, knowledge as basis
upon which to build experience in
actual contact with the world. II
means friendships which endure through
life, and perhaps an improvement OF
manners because of contact with others
1t was not long ago that Prof. Robert
Emmons Rogers at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology talked to. his
class about 1.-THE necessity of being a
snob." Immediately there followed a
wide discussion, in which the attitude
Of Prof. Rogers was largely condemned
But he, too, had been unfortunate in
his selection of words, rather than in
what he intended to say.
Dean Holmes indicted the parents
of the country in his talk, declaring
that even parents who sent their chill
dren to the public schools were actu-
ated by the same motives as those who
sent their children to private schools
that If the former had the means tc
do 50. they would send. them to pay
schools. Doubtless in sense he i
rnrrnrt fer There are very few narent,
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Christianity in America.

The Christian Church, with its 230
denominational divisions in the United
States, is holding its own.
On the whole, it probably is making
slight advances despite the stresses and
strains to which it is subjected by pres
ent conditions.
A statistical picture Of contemporary
American Christianity has just been is
sued by the Journal of the American
Sociological Association. On the whole.
1t should be conducive to optimism
In the ten years from 1915 to 1926 the
value of church property approximately
doubled from $1,676, 60o,582 to $685.
577,133; expenditures for salaries, re-
pairs, ETC., more than doubled and the
figures for per capita giving by church
members increased Al per cent more
than the cost Of living in the same
period.
When considered In their proper re-
lations to other contemporary factors,
such as the almost universal increase in
city and town realty values, the general
advance in wages in all occupations, and
the growing gap between salaries and
the statistical cost of living, these fig-
ures certainly do not indicate any sem
sational growth. This hardly could
have been expected. A proper infer
ence, however, seems to be that Chris
tianity has not fallen behind amid the
materialistic trends and changing moral
standards Of the postwar period.
The total of recorded church. COM
municants in the country is abpsoxi-
mately $4,000. o0o--somewha les than
half Of the population. When the mem.
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producing and consuming public Of the
Middle West which in important sec
tons seriously needs simplified and I'M
proved through transportation service"
In numerous particulars" declares
the Fort Wayne NewS-Sentinel, the
Wabash has much to support its claim.
1t remains for the Interstate Commerce
Commission, after careful consideration
Of all the argument pro and con, and
after a survey of the wishes of stock
holders in the various lines affected, TO
make the decision"
IF the plan submitted by the Wabash
will make possible a better handling of
the business in the areas involved" adj
vises the indianapolis Star, sit should
be adopted. provided the commission
has nothing better to offer. The diff
Guilty up to the present has been that
the petitioners for consultations have
naturally looked to their own interest
and aroused the opposition of rivals.
1t is high time to consider the public
at large The law calls for consolida-
tons to promote efficiency and econo-
my. A delay of nine years seems suffl-
Gent"
by Wrestling the Western Maryland
from the B. & o. and the Wheeling e
Lake Erie from the Van sweringens,
as the Wabash plan proposes" the
Newark Evening News suggests, "the
consolidation projects of both the
B. & o. and the Chesapeake e. Ohio
Nickel Plate would be struck serious, if
not fatal blows The Wabash would
acquire footings in Pittsburgh and Bal
timore and the Pennsylvania could out
do the Count of Monte Cristo as
vendettist by counting as paid off all its
foes at once"
Interest in the anthracite region Is
attested by the Scranton Times. which
finds that at is disclosed in the
Wabash petition that the Pennsylvania
and Wabash already have practical
control of the Lehigh Valley. with the
major part vested in the Pennsylvania.
and that paper concludes that there
is certain to be vigorous fight against
the Wabash proposal" The Spring
field, Mass, Republican states that lit
will be noted that Chairman Williams
of the Wabash who is former vice
president Of the Delaware g. Hudson,
links that carrier with New England
in his proposals. If outside interests
were acquiring stock with the intention
of carrying out New England-Dela-
ware e. Hudson merger on the lines
proposed" adds the Republican. ''that
would. indeed, be big news. 1t is pos
sible. but very improbable
New England stands to profit by
such merger as the Wabash pro-
poses" thinks the Manchester Union.
AT present only one of the four trunk
systems comes into New England. In
many respects, this area suffers Sc
we're handicap because of its semi-iso-
lation, and any movement that will in
crease its contacts West and South
must prove advantageous. In one item
alone, the Wabash merger would be
likely to be serviceable- by creating
direct link with the coal fields Of Penn
sylvania. "
In linking the West and the East
at the Niagara frontier. Buffalo would
be the center of operations" of thesn
system, observes the Evening News of
fact that President Hoover is strongly
in favor of mergers that will contribute
to economy Of opera ton and admins
tratiof1 may be factor in the mat
ter" 8 ~. i5...ssssssses,ss
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made last year and before that If he
supported Smith he would have a hard
time being reelected to the Senate.
Gov. Bilbo, who was expected to make
a bid for the Harrison seat in the Sen
ate under these circumstances, has an
nounced that he is not going to do
any such thing and that Pat Harrison
suits him. AS a matter of fact, Senator
Harrison and his friends in Mississippi,
Notwithstanding the opposition in the
the Democratic nominee by a huge
vote, a bigger vote than has been given
to any other Democratic candidate for
President. This flattened out the pos
sible oppoakion to Senator Harrison's
renominatih and reelection with a
sickeninS thud
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-12

A little gorilla is claiming relation
ship with human kind by means OF
blood tests and still more by manifesto
tions OF natural affection. Genus Homo
is entitled to certain sense OF superb
GRITTY. But it should not assume an
utterly priggish attitude toward It's poor
relations.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-12

Washington, D. c., is never impetuous.
1t will eventually have an airport, de-
signed on we'll considered plans. worthy
of the Capital City OF the worlds great
est nation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-12

So many different kinds of aviation
records are sought that the straight
forward mail pilot who gets where he
started for and comes back in safety
becomes a figure to be depended on.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-12

Radio has serious mission in send
explorers. Its efforts at comedy re-
lief" between times are naturally liable
to miss great consideration.
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SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.

Lazy Day.
Saw wandering butterfly
A bee buzzed on his way;
The South Wind breathed a perfumed
sigh.
1t was a Lazy Day!
And after triumphs. great or small,
A lifetime may display,
Perhaps the very best Of all
Is just Lazy Day!
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Price Not Exorbitant.

From the Day New London. Conn.,.
Count Tolstoy, it has just been
learned, asked $50 fee for attending
q luncheon at the university of Chi
cago. Many travslArs will aver that
$50 is not at all an 2xorbitant price for
eating lunch in Chicago.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-12

There are turbulent social elements
in New orleans that refuse to accept
the greatly admired Mardi Gras influence
as a permanent institution.