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The Washington times., 1929-07-10

BEGINNING next Sunday, the greatest
story Of the World War IL told In The
WashingtOn Herald. Here you win learn
the truth Of the war--that truth which
your soldier hero never would tell.
Of every nationals story, barring al
war Of the RO-eaIled Rl0Ry--sh0Wfng tbs.
terror and h0rFor sadused By sasH ~
the name Of patriotasm. Read at-and
AaAsa the 4utility Of %as.
The Washington times., 1929-07-10
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I'VE" WING FROM COAST TO COAST
COL CHARLES "A. LINDBERGH and his wife, the
former Anne Spencer Morrow shown above as they
arrived at Los Angeles after the air king had made
inspection the arpors of the Transcontnena Air Line
across the continent, While in Los Angeles Lindy
pressed button that started the first passengers the
combined trainair line from New York to the Pacific
Coast.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-14
Sees Wagner Genius
As That of Superman
TO the Editor Of The Star:

TO the Editor Of The Star:
The Wagner cycle of 1.-THE Ring" has
just been given in Washington with a
success that might suggest speedy re-
turn. Wagner arouses the imagination
of his audiences and carries them to the
very gates of Walhalla. His power lies
in such stimulation.
Wagner's genius is that of the super
man, and with incisive stroke 1t news
its way ever to increased acceptance.
An iconoclast, overthrowing smaller
forms, superficialities and shams, he re-
creates noble and massive structure
on intellectual and seething emotional
values.
He makes the orchestra, in its kalei-
doScopic possibilities of dynamics and
tonal coloring, the vehicle for emotional
stress and appeal. He discards foolish
and sentimental texts and weaves from
Scandinavian mythology a literary
alone would have given him unique
distinction. He dismisses the chorus as
conventional and unnecessary. takes
from the singer his tuneful aria, de-
thrones him from his peak of vanity,
and after such exciSion surrounds him
with a greater and real personality
through the leitmotif. Minute in his
description of scenic effects. rarely
realized, these seem in their reading to
stimulate more as subtle incense than
something to be painted on wood and
canvas.
Wagner, then, as supergenius and
artist, chooses to depict the loves, ex-
hilaration, sorrows, tragedies of the
gods and surcharges these with super
human emotion. It was his wisdom and
gift. And from this came a precious
overflow, given to the human lovers in
Tristan and Isolde. Yet with all his
seething passion he wrote serene and
beautiful things with muted strings, as
it were: and none lovelier than Lohen-
grin, the chivalrous knight Of the swan.
1t Is in his "MeisterSinger" that he
glorif1es pure art and heralds this as the
great element for spiritual stimulation
and regeneration. He sends out in the
noblest of all chorals, tempered by
gentle suavity, this clarion call:
Awake! The dawn of day is near.
I hear singing so loud and clear
A wondrous throated nightingale,
Whose song fills every hill and vale.
The night sinks to the Occident.
The day breaks from the Orient,
And morn's purple glories loom
From the realm Of night and gloom"
OTTO T. SIMON.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-14

charged with the everlasting peril Of
conflict. Once the rights Of neutrals
and belligerents are defined by hard
and-fast Anglo-American understanding,
or by a multilateral pact as world
wide as the Kellogg treaty, 1t is we'll
nigh impossible to conceive of a casus
belli between Uncle Sam and john Bull
Common sense is the most Wanted
quality of the peoples who nowadays
claim Lincoln and Shakespeare as mu-
tual traditions. Is there any reason
able ground for doubling that Ameri-
cans of the caliber of William E. Borah,
James A. Reed and Charles Evans
Hughes and Englishmen of the caliber
of Stanley Baldwin, Lord Robert Cecil
and Lord Lee of Fareham could get to-
gether and evolve sea-law code &C
ceptable to their respective peace-crav-
ing countries? The admirals would
have their places in such deliberations,
but they would have to be secondary
places. The people whose lives and
statesmen to dominate and predomi-
nate. The bringing about OF a COM
nonsense discussion of maritime law
is the highest practical ideal to which
American and British leaders can at
this hour devote themselves. They are
assured immortality if, daring to
achieve, they do so.
Meantime, in deciding upon cruiser
building program designed to bring us
to the level of the 5-5-3 ratio con-
templated, though not expressly speci-
fed, by the Washington treaty, the
United States has done the only logi-
cal thing we could do. Tt is at once a
measure of self-defense and a gesture to
the world which will not be misunder-
stood overseas. The debates in Con-
gress showed clearly why the United
States requires an armada of fast,
high powered cruisers. Once remove
the necessity for maintaining such a
1eet-a necessity of which We, of
course, have no monopoly-and the
heavy burden of modern naval arma-
ment will become superf1uous.
What the Congress and the President
of the United States this month have
done, then, is to say to hesitant
world beyond our shores that if sea law
Is not so ordered as to afford our COM
merce that protection to which it is
entitled, we shall provide that protection
in terms of ships and guns.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-14
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

When Virgil got to the next town he
was beginning to take on society airs.
| Travel broadens one so! The boys
came from the train with their various
musical instruments swung across their
backs, and their clothes full of cinders.
| 1t had been a hot, dirty ride, and every
| one wanted bath.
We trust no one will be offended by
these details. People do take baths, just
as they run up against the insect pre-
viously mentioned. Whatever is hui
man is not distasteful to me-" said some
great somebody or other, and these
things are essentially human.
| So the boys were longing for baths.
Virgil's buddie jumped squarely into
, the tub, and when he emerged the
water was tinged with coal SCOT.
Wait a minute" said he. I'll clean
out the tub for you"
Virgil'S answer was classic.
| 1t went ringing down the classic
halls on a certain campus from then
"Oh, that's all right" said Virgil.
ooh, that's all right"
| And before the other could prevent
him he leaped into the same tubful of
water. He was economical, was Virgil.
We could give endless stories about
Virgil-particularly those about his first
meeting with a grapefruit, thing that
had never been seen in his home town,
and his surprise at the sight of a
| poached egg-but we prefer to tell about
some other unusual musicians.
There was George, the mandolin
player, who happened to be left-handed,
and so strung his instrument up back
ward. He held the pick sometimes
fancily called the plectrum) with his
left thumb and forefnger, and fingered
the strings with his right hand
He was a Sicilian barber, who not only
prided himself on being able to play a
mandolin backward but with three fin
gers, at that, as the last two were miss
ing on his right hand
He cut hair with his trio of fingers,
as strange as 1t may sound-he was left
handed unsteady but right-handed in
heads of customers with such speed
that often he got their hair entirely
lopsided.
If his attention was called to this
deviation, he would insist that the GUS
toner had moved or he would attempt
to divert their attention from their new
popularity to the difficulties of playing
the mandolin when the G. string was
where the E string ought to have been.
Tom was either expert. This Is the
national instrument of Switzerland, and
real expert can make real music on
one. But Tom was butcher bv pro-
fession. His repertoire was limited to
''Swanee River" and "Old Black Joe. p"
When he got tired of playing "Old
Black Joe" he simply played WAY
Down Upon the Swanee Ribber" He
never permitted music to worry him
much.
Bill and his ocarina occupy a sepa-
rate place in memory A man who can
make music on one of those clay sweet
potatoes may not exactly be musician,
but he is something or other, and no
mistake about it.
Bill played the thing with both hands
folded over. so. He might have done
better by throwing it away entirely
and simply whistling, but the lingering
would have been missing in such an
event, and no doubt the lingering is
half of music to a musician.
Virgil, George, Tom, Bill-there is a
quartet fit to rank with Mr.. Kieran's
musical rookie.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-14
Cooperation Needed.

Close cooperation between the forces
that fight to expose and punish
gambling, bootlegging. bribery and graft
In Washington should bring wholesome
results. Bitter wrangling, accompanied
by angry recrimination, between these
forces can only help the guilty to
escape. Fire should be concentrated
upon the common enemy.
The Commissioners, representing the
President and the local community, are,
the people of washington believe,
honestly endeavoring to separate the
guilty from the innocent in the police
force and to punish to the limit those
convicted of criminality. They have
sought in this campaign to observe the
constitutional provisions which protect
the accused against injustice. Their in
by the witnesses against him should not
be denounced. 1t is in the interest of
the community and not merely Of the
accused It tends to avoid miscarriage
Of justice by failure of proof even when
the accused is guilty or by conviction
on insufficient evidence which will not
stand the test of appeal.
In this campaign the Commissioners,
representing the President, cooperate
with the Attorney General, also repre-
senting the President, and with Repre-
sentatives and Senators, representing
the legislative branch of the National
Government. which makes our laws and
controls the Nations purse-strings.
Let us hope that all these powerful
agencies will heartily cooperate to give
our police force a thorough cleansing
from corruption, carefully separating
the guilty from the innocent, and
relentlessly Furnishing the former, on
conviction.
This combined campaign does not, of
course, stop short with the conviction
or accuittal Of Capt. Burlingame. That
event will doubtless be merely the be-
ginning and not the termination of the
battle. The whole police force is to
be cleansed from corruption and the
guiltless are to be relieved from the
suspicion of corruption.
To this end the presence here Of
the prosecuting witness in the Bur-
lingame case should be persuaded or
compelled. If she is telling the truth
and bribery Is disclosed there are
bribers as well as bribed to be punished.
Let no guilty man escape!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-14
Why the World Loves Indy.

When Lindbergh was asked by news
paper men about his engagement to
Miss Morrow, he said:
II viii confine my remarks to avia-
ton"
He might have said:
You may tell my public that this is
the supremely happy moment Of my
life. Our betrothal Is the elimination
of romance that began when I was
mere lad of ten and she lass Of five.
was even then interested In aviation
and she used to mend my toy planes
You ask me whether our marriage will
interfere with my flying. You may tell
my public that my art-for one may
refer to flying as an art, may one not?-
will not suffer by my taking a pilot on
board Except to repeat that / count
myself the happiest and the luckiest
man in the world today, that is all
that can say at this time. I wish to
thank my public for its sincere good
wishes.
But he did not say that. And that Is
why the world loves Indy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-14

pass next Monday reopening the door
for veterans life insurance.
The national commander, Col. Paul
v. McNutt, is recognized as one OF the
most eloquent orators in America and
a powerful influence in developing the
highest ideals of the Legion, and he is
devoting his full time to stimulating
the Legion all over the country.
y X y X
In addition to the special drive for
new members, to begin next Tuesday
through personal canvassing and post
activity, Comdr. Wood has announced
mass meeting at D. A. r. Continental
Hall next Monday evening. Another
meeting of national import will be held
in the same hall March z in celebrating
the tenth birthday of the John j.
Pershing, alias George Washington. Post.
No. l, and of the whole American
Legion. On that occasion there will be
speakers of national standing and a
most unusual program, including music
by the entire United States Marine
Band.
AS Comdr. Wood has expressed 1t, "if
the Legion in the District has ever been
given an anesthetic, 1t is now receiving
a full dose of belladonna."
(copyEisht, 1929. By Pau! v. collins.>
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-14
The Summer White House.

The Summer White House, on beauti-
full Mount Weather, Va, seems assured.
President Coolidge took the most direct
short cut late yesterday by sending to
Congress supplemental estimate for
putting in proper shape the buildings
on most desirable site which the
Government already owns.
Just as he Is about to leave the White
House, it was q most gracious act for
President Coolidge to go to the limit
of executive authority to provide suit
able Summer White House that he will
probably never occupy. An incoming
President would hesitate to appear to
be "feathering his own nest" and Mr..
Coolidge has done a really worthwhile
action for the future conduct Of the
Office of Chief Executive.
Mount Weather is an ideal place for
q Summer White House, only so miles
from the Capital City, an hour-and-a-
half easy run. 1t is 1900 feet above sea
Level, with wonderful temperature. 1t
Is some three or four miles off the thor
oughfare, which is a desirable feature,
giving that exclusiveness SO essential for
the President.
AS regards recreational features. there
are three golf courses nearby--at Berry,
vile, Purcellville and Middleburg. It is
adjacent to the fox-hunting section just
south. There is abundant fishing in
the Shenandoah and Potomac Rivers
close by.
The area of the property is 80 acres.
The view of the valley and of the BLUE
Hills Of Virginia" Is superb and unsur-
passed in this part of the world. Four
counties are visible from this vantage
point. The property itself laps into two
counties, Clarke and Loudoun.
Mount Weather was the Presidents
own selection. He had this particular
place in mind when he made his nrst
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-14

suggestion Of o Summer White House
on December 8. Following that sug-
gestion, many places were proposed and
sites offered, mostly with the view of
real estate promotion. The action of
President Coolidge clears all this away
and removes the question Of a Summer
White House from the speculative mar
ket.
The proposal is warmly welcomed by
the people OF that region. A delegation
Of $50 leading citizens from whereabouts,
under the leadership Of Robert N.
Harper, waited upon Senators Swanson
and Glass and Representative r. WAL
ton Moore about six weeks ago, recon-
mending that the Mount Weather
property be taken and expressing their
pride in the possibility that the Presi-
dent might be fellow citizen for at
least part of the year. The Senate and
House leaders have deferred action be-
cause they had no intention of doing
anything to interfere with the Presi-
dents plans.
1t is almost certain that both houses
of Congress will act promptly on the
Presidents proposal, and that the
$4S, 900 he asks for repair work on the
existing buildings will be appropriated
in the second deficiency bill now being
drafted.
Herbert Hoover, who surprised the
country by capturing the electoral vote
of Virginia, may be resident in the
Blue Hills of Virginia, within a few
months, as the first President to occupy
a aforementioned Summer White
House. 1t is "a contamination devoutly
to be wished"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-14

Leon Trotsky's exile to Turkey while
Josef Stain seeks to increase the power
of his dictatorship in Russia causes
much speculation in the rest of the
world. The consensus among American
observers is that the incident is not
closed, and that the battle of these two
former associates of the Soviet regime
is likely to result in disclosures con-
corning Russian conditions which here
tofore have been kept from the rest of
the world.
he viSualiZeS a man on horseback" in
spires the comment from the Albany
Knickerbocker Press: stain is the
algebraic * in the Russian equation.
He is hailed as a man of steel. as cold
and as heartlesS, and as genius. Once
he was quoted as saying, We are not
forgetful of oui duties abroad, but our
major task is to make the Bolshevik ex-
pertinent in Russia succeed This was
construed as meaning that he would
take no part in assisting revolutionary
movements in other lands, but it may
also mean that any opposition to the
BolShevik regime at home will be
smothered with an iron heel. Evil
IDENTIFY that is what Trotsky means in
his reference to the approaching
struggle"
Assuming that Stain fears Trotsky,
the Charleston Daily Mail points out
that IAN assassin's bullet could have
ended Trotsky's life in the Businesses of
his Russian exile and the responsibility
could have been placed upon a personal
enemy" Continuing the Mail states:
THE probability, though, is that the
Moscow authorities feared to adopt such
course. Apparently they were con-
WINGED that followers of the deposed
leader could not be fooled, and that
whatever indirect and furtive means
might be used in doing away with the
man who still is the idol of hordes of
Russians his Sympatnizers would have
placed the blame on the central gov
eminent"
"There is a kind of grim whimsical
ity," thinks the Omaha World-Herald.
about all this pothec which Is being
made over Trotsky. While the elder
statesmen all over the world raise their
voices in protest against the Soviet
because it is too radical, Trotsky has
been pin-pricking its leaders because
they aren't radical enough.
From his viewpoint the revolution has
failed from within and the government
needs an opposition. He had under
taken to fill the role of leader of that
opposition. 1t is a weakness of the
Soviet system of government that it
fears an opposition"
'Trotsky is out Stain is in Leon
of the New York school," suggests the
Oakland Tribune, insists that the early
doctrines of the Bolshevists should be
resurrected, that Stain has repudiated
them; and Stalins knowing the reason
for the changes and the necessities of
his government, is standing pat The
Providence Bulletin observes: What
the effect Of new revolution in Russia
will be on European countries that are
to recover from the effects of
the World War Is question of supreme
not only to Europe but to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-14
The Cruiser Program, and After.

President Coolidge, In signing the
cruiser bill, has probably affixed his
name to the last major piece of legis-
lation he will be called upon to ap-
prove before leaving Office two weeks
and half hence. Though the ship
building program carries provisions to
which he demurred, the President
should derive satisfaction from the
knowledge that, in the form in which it
now becomes law, the cruiser bill COM
mands the overwhelming support of the
country.
It was passed in both branches of
Congress by enormous majorities.
House and Senate were subjected to
terrific and organized pressure to de-
feat it. But rating the needs demon
strated Of national defense higher
than the specious arguments of the
anti-preparedness groups, Congress
voted the vessels the Navy requires.
The cruisers are indispensable if Amer
lean sea power Is to be kept common
surate with our necessities and with
our rightful ratio of strength as against
that of Great Britain and Japan.
While we proceed to lay down the
ships at the specified rate of five a
year during 1929, 1880 and 1881, it is
sincerely to be hoped by all friends of
Anglo American amity that the Borah-
Reed amendment to the cruiser bill
will not become dead letter. In the
womb of that proviso for international
agreements on sea law lies the seed of
future peace between the English
speaking nations. AS long as there Is
no genuine effort to bring 1t to life,
Anglo-AusSjcan relations will be sur
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-14
Maryland and Virginia Parks.

One of the interesting aspects OF the
Cramton park bill is the questionable
participation by the adjacent States in
carrying out their part of the proposed
creation of the memorial parkway along
the banks of the Potomac and in ex-
tending the Capitals park system into
Maryland. Speculation as to the reac-
ton of Maryland and Virginia to the
bill may be premature. as the Cramton
bill has not been passed by Congress
and each day of delay increases the
odds against its passage at this short
session of Congress. But If the bill
passes Congress, the success of the
measure in developing for park pur-
poses the borders Of the Federal Capt.
tai will be tested in communities where
the expenditure of the taxpayers money
lies with the taxpayers themselves. The
outcome of the experiment will be
watched with interest here in Wash
ington, which has no voice in the use of
its own tax-raised revenue.
AS far as Maryland and Virginia
are concerned, the Cramton bill is gen.
erous. It offers to match dollar for
dollar expenditures In Maryland and
Virginia for buying land and develop
ing the parkway along the Potomac. It
offers to spend one dollar Of Federal
funds for every two dollars spent by
Maryland in extending the Capitals
park system into that State. It offers
to advance Federal money for the cost
of the entire projects, provided the
State will refund, without interest, their
share Of this money within five years.
A suggested amendment to the Cram
ton bill would permit the Park and
Planning Commission, in cooperation
with the State authorities, to decide
upon subprojects and purchase the land
and develop them, without making the
development of the subprojects con-
tingent upon the development of the
whole. In other words, the entire bill
is designed to make the way for Mary
land and Virginia as easy and attrac-
tive as possible. The States, or the po-
litical subdivisions Of the States, may
take advantage of the Cramton bills
provisions as their budgetary needs and
their available revenue permit.
If Maryland and Virginia fail to take
advantage of the Cramton bill and ap-
propriate the necessary funds, the ex-
PLANTATION will be simple. Delegates in
the Legislatures from counties far dis
tant from Washington will not permit
the use of State funds for what they
conceive to be benefits limited to the
taxpayers Of those counties adjacent to
Washington. If the taxpayers of these
counties cannot foot the bill themselves,
the success Of the Cramton bill would
thus be endangered.
To Washington, this is a familiar
complaint. It has been raised time and
again by our legislators who have
sought to block the expenditure of Fed
eral funds for developing the National
Capital on the ground that the people
Of far-distant States will derive no di-
rect benefit therefrom. It will always
serve as a stumbling block to Capital
development until such development is
properly envisioned as a national I'M
dertaking, supported by all Americans
without regard to the benefits, real or
imaginary, accruing to those who hap
pen to be members of the Capital COM
munity.