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Speeder's Originality Wins Release
Through Officer He Claimed to Know

Policeman K. P. Greenlow of the
Traf1c Bureau arrested resident of
Tenleytown for speeding on Wisconsin
avenue yesterday afternoon.
Would it be all right If spoke to
Of1cer Greenlow about this2" asked the
arrested one.
Sure" replied the surprised police
man. do you know Officer Greenlow?"
Certainly know him, know him
very well. I know his wife, too. My
wife and I visit the Greenlows almost
every night. He has two fine children,
too. Why, they come over to my house
and play with my children. There is
no doubt that 'Sparky' Greenlow will
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-25
FIRE HITS CANDY SHOP.
Store Is Filled With Smoke in
Morning Blaze.

An overheated oil burner caught fire
in the basement of the Velati candy
shop at $40 Ninth street early today.
damaging the heating plant and filling
TT interior of the store with smoke.
A water pipe burst during the course
of the FIRE, filling the cellar with water.
Firemen Of No. II Engine Company
rugged up an improvised stphon and
bailed Il out.
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RUSSELL WILL SPEAK
AT JEWISH CENTER
English Philosopher Will Deliver
Address Under National
Forums Auspices,

Bertrand Russell, English philosopher
and humanitarian, will speak at the
Jewish Community Center at SIS p. m
Sunday under auspices of the National
Forum. His appearance will make the
fourth event in a series arranged by the
Forum.
Mr.. Russell is a leading advocate of
with bringing about a recognition of
China's rights in international affairs.
After long experience in lecturing at
Cambridge and Harvard Universities,
Mr.. Russell now is attached to the
lecture star of the British Institute Of
Philosophical Studies.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-25
LOOT FROM PITNEY
HOME is IDENTIFIED
Articles Valued at $500 Were
Recovered With Arrest of
Hyattsville Man.

Part Of the property recovered with
the arrest of Joseph MCGOWAN Daniels
Of Hyattsville in September was identi-
fed yesterday as that stolen from the
home of Mrs. Florence Pitney of 1868
r street, widow of Chief Justice Mahlon
Pitney of the United States Supreme
Court. The theft from Mrs. Pitney's
home was discovered when servants
came to Washington Saturday to open
the house for the Winter. Daniels is
faced with more than 80 charges Of
HOUSEKEEPING.
Yesterday the servants came to police
headquarters and identified rugs and
chinaware as the property of Mrs.
Pitney. The articles are valued at
$1,000.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-25
TWO ESCAPE PLUNGE.

Rev. H. L. Shoup of Takoma Park,
Md, a professor in the Washington
Missionary College, and his daughter,
Eunice, II, are reported to have had
a narrow escape yesterday, when their
automobile skidded on ice on the Sligo
Bridge and was prevented from drop
ping to the creek below by a rear
fender caught on severed bridge
railing.
DR.. Shoup escaped uninjured, but
his daughter was reported to have SUI
fered cuts about the head from glass.
Both were shaken up by the accident.
Or. Shoup and his family reside &c
223 Greenwood avenue,
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ACCUSED OF THEFT.

Duvall English, colored, of the 800
block Of Missouri avenue, was arrested
Yesterday morning and is being held at
the sixth precinct station on a charge
of theft of clothes valued at about $500.
The man was caught when he ran into
q blind alley Of Washington street.
after Headquarters Detective William
Messer fred f1ye shots in his direction.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-25
UNIVERSITY WOMEN
PLAN STUDY PROGRAM
League of Women Voters and Wv.
c. A. Cooperate in Arrang-
ing Group.

The international relations commit
tee. American Association of University
Women, is working out a study groun
in cooperation with the League of
Women Voters and the Y. w. C. A.. for
the purpose of informing its members
concerning the World Court, tariff as
1T affects international questions ana
current world events.
The first meeting will be held at
IL O'Clock tomorrow at the Y. w.
G. A., Seventeenth and K streets. L. ].
Ragatz, assistant professor of history
at George Washington University, will
talk on THE Background of the World
Court
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-25
MRS. LINTHICUM DIES
AT HOME OF GRANDSON
Resident of National Capital More
Than Half a Century Was
o5 Years Old.

Mrs. Sophronia Linthicum, IS, a
Washington resident for more than. SO
years, died at the home of her, grand
son, David F. Linthicum, 1912 Eighth
street northeast, today after a short
illness. She was the widow of Hamil-
ton S. Linthicum. She came to this
city from Frederick County. Md.
Mrs. Linthicum is survived by three
sons, Richard, Benjamin and Hamilton;
two grandsons and four great-grand-
children.
the residence Wednesday afternoon at
2:30 O'Clock. Interment will be in
Congressional Cemetery.
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FIREMEN RESCUE MAN
TRAPPED IN COAL BIN
John Martin Steele Treated at Hos
pital for Sprained Ankle
and Bruised Leg.

Nearly buried by sliding coal, John
Martin Steele. rs, Of 1921 M street was
rescued by firemen today at the power
plant of the Capitol, First and E streets
southeast. The coal caught Steele while
he was working in large bin.
Steele was removed to Casualty Hos
pital by Fire Rescue Squad No. / and
treated for sprained ankle and bruised
leg
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-25
RED CROSS DRIVE
TO END THURSDAY
Workers Enthusiasm Is Re-
vived as Hope of Reaching
Quota Brightens.

With enthusiasm revived by last
minute flows of contributions, which
have advanced the annual drive of the
American Red Cross to a point that
gives prospect Of the realization of the
quota of $4,000 allotted to the local
chapter in the roll call membership,
volunteer workers set out today on the
last stretch of the 16-day campaign.
Thanksgiving day viii terminate the
drive, which began on Armistice day.
Mrs. Harry C. Barnes, director of the
local chapter, announced today receipt
of the following contributions.
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MEETING POSTPONED.
Minnesota State Society Pays Re
spect to Late Secretary Good.

The reception and dance Of the Min
nesota State Society, planned for to-
night at the Willard Hotel in honor of
newly appointed Government officials
from that State, has been postponed
until some time in January out of re-
Spect to the memory OF the late James
w. Good Secretary of War,
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The Story the Week Has Told

and will use its best endeavors to ia
cilitate the achievement of that object
1t being understood that nothing shall
be done which may prejudice the civil
and religious rights of existing nom
Jewish communities in Palestine or the
rights and political status enjoyed by
the Jews in any other country"
The Cave Machpelan, reputed place
of burial Of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob,
Is at Hebron, where occurred the most
bloody incident of the recent horrors
a delightful place in the mountains.
X
CHINA AND RUSSIA.-Dispatches
of September 9 told of Russian attacks
on Chinese positions in the vicinities of
Manchuli and Pogranichnaya, of de-
structive and bloody bombardment by
artillery of the Chinese sections of the
latter town and of bombing from air.
planes of the railroad in its vicinity,
the last involving destruction of a sec
ton Of the road and of two planes, with
some casualties, the Chinese troops,
however, holding their positions. These
dispatches also stated shat the Nam
king government had been informed,
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matte channels the British government
has suggested to the Soviet Russian
government resumption of negotiations
looking to resumption of Russo British
diplomatic relations. We are told, how
ever, that Moscow still insists that re-
sumption of diplomatic relations be I'M
conditional, while London still insists
that 1t must be preceded by an ac-
ceptable pledge of Muscovite abstention
from communistic propaganda on terri
tories of the British commonwealth of
nations and by substantial assurances
concerning Russian Indebtedness to the
British government and to subjects of
the British crown. According to a state
ment made by Mr.. Macdonald to the
House of Commons in July. 1924, the
Russian Indebtedness totals the equiva-
lent Of about $1,500,000, 900.
y
PALESTINE.-Perhap the reader
will be glad to con again the Balfour
declaration. issued in November, 1917.
It Is as follows:
His majesty's government views with
favor the esta Adjustment In Palestine of
a national home for the Jewish people
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most impressive mementos Of China's
regal past
In the buildings OF this group and in
the articles contained in them are ex-
pressed much of the individuality of the
cultural attainments Of Chinese civiliza-
ton for several recent centuries. Per-
haps here is the peak the most superb
zenith of Chinese artistic accomplish
ment. There are vases of green jade.
fiawless in coloring; ivory screens carved
with exquisite result and infinite
patience; -crusted thrones: lacquer
chests inlaid with ebony; bronzes and
porcelains, cloisonne and damascene, all
worked by artisans whose secrets Of skill
have been long since forgotten
Most impressive of all are the build
ings Notwithstanding pavilions,
shattered shrines, throne rooms and
audience halls and countless chambers
dedicated for such varied employments
as could occur only to Dragon En-
peror. And yet over the whole scene
there is today a sadness, for the fingers
Of dilapidation slowly are spreading over
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totaled around 100000. Declaring that
he was depressed by the signs Of mat
tention, Chang added that he felt the
people would approve Of an appropria-
ton for that amount. Accordingly. he
personally pledged the sum, much to
the satisfaction Of the society.
1t was noble gesture. Unfortunately
there were some who raised their eye
brows and commented that the Nation
alist general (concurrently chairman)
was merely making bid for popularity
in the north. But then there always are
those unreasonable cynics who refuse
to believe it is possible for Chinese
general to be sentimental.
There were many who regretted that
Chang did not also visit the Summer
palace, where scenes of the mischief of
time and the elements are even more
painful to wistful souls who still believe
that a thing of beauty, even though it
was created for royal tyrant, ought to
be preserved as long as possible. Rest
ing in the lap of the western hills, few
miles outside Picking, the celebrated
Summer palace grounds are perhaps the
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tories. Unemployment will not be toll
Grated, for this Is believed by German
prison authorities to be the cause OF dis
content
Replying to a charge that prison labor
would unfairly compete with free work
men, Minister Of Prison Labor Polentz
has shown that this competition Is
negligible. There are in Prussia, Tor
instance, $4,000 free carpenters TO
1,O55 prisoner carpenters; 100000 IN
tailoring and only 1887 prisoners IN
the same field. Similar ratios hold IN
other trades. Modern machines vii! be
installed in all prisons despite objec-
lions among the reformers that ma.
chine labor fosters monotony and Will
breed discomfort.
Germany has no acute crime problem
today. It's prisons are comparatively
empty, having only one-third as many
inmates this year as they had In 1873,
when the imitation did much to bring
criminality to the surface. But mo-
mentum was given to the reform pro-
gram by the conviction that the prison
population contains latent economic
power. A scientific treatment Of the
prisoners personality was found to be
the only way to release this power.
Hairbreadth crime categories and Q
CONTINUED en- Fourth Page.)
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BY HENRY w. BUM.

The following is a brief summary OF
the most important news OF the Wor!o
for the seven days ended September IA:
THE BRITISH COMMONWEALTH
OF NATIONS.-On September 2 Flying
Officer Henry C. D. Waghorn OF Great
Britain, in a supermarine Seaplane, with
Rolls Royce engine, won the Schnel.
der Cup race, with an average speed
around the 31-mile course at Calshot OF
32864 miles per hour. At times the
speed was 375 miles. About mnlon
persons witnessed the race.
On the 18th Squadron Leader Angus
tus H. Orlebar established new speed
record of 1851 miles per hour. this
being the average speed of four flights
over a 3-kilometer course. He uSeo
the plane which won the Schneider
Cup, or a sister plane.
Sir Eric Geddes assures us that reg
ular London and LONDON
Cape Town airplane service Will be es-
tablished within two years. The Lon
Australia flight will involve land
inps at Genoa, Naples. Athens. Crete,
Alexandria, Karachi and other points In
India. and Singapore. From Singapore
the planes will fly over Sumatra to Port
Darwin, Australia. Land planes will be
used over land and seaplanes over large
bodies of water The London-Cape
Town flight will involve landings at the
airports of Alexandria, Khartum, Lake
Tanganyika and johannesburg.
Sir Gilbert Clayton, British high COM
missioner in Iraq, Is dead. He was one
of the ablest of British administrators
and his loss Is especially to be deploreo
at this crisis of British relations with
the Near East, for very few men possess
his knowledge of the Near East and
still fewer his sagacity in dealing with
Near East problems. AS head OF the
British intelligence department at Cairo
during the World War he was largely
instrumental in the organization OF the
Arab uprising against the Turks.
Owing TO defeat by one vote OF
measure submitted by 1t to the Can
berra Parliament, the Australian gov
eminent, headed by Premier Bruce, has
resigned General elections Will prop
ably be held in october.
ITALY.-Premier Mussolini has re-
organized the Italian cabinet, appoint
ing nine new members, seven of them
promoted from the post OF undersecre-
tary; turning over seven OF the eight
portfolios previously held by himself,
retaining only the portfolio OF the In
terror. Previous to the advent Of fascism
it was customary for the premier to hold
that portfolio. The new caplneC IN
cludes three of the four leaders VINO
Conducted the march on Rome in Oc-
tober, 1922, viz, Gems. Debono, BaIbo
and Bianchi. The fourth, namely, the
Count de Cecchi, was recently appointed
the first italian Ambassador to the
Holy See. The Duce has acted wisely.
+ y
RUSSIA-We hear that in note
forwarded through Norwegian diplo-
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A Letter to a Young Man
BY BRUCE BARTON.

fitted yourself for il, then be
careful Of your letter Of appliea-
ton.
Your letter 10 your representa-
tive. For heavens sake, IL you
have in you any spark Of orig
inaIity that other men have not,
make your letter a tiny bit diff
ferent from the other letters that
the other men will write.
Fourth: I receive many letters
Of application. In one form or
another. they usually say some
thing like this: ~ want a better
job: ! am thinking Of getting
married.; or, "a have a mother
to support; or, ~ have been
three years in this place without
q raise and see no future"
All of which interests me not
at all.
For when il comes to spending
my GHVPsOyVT HFVfGy -"
fundamentally selfish.
Much as ! should like to give
jobs to all the young men who
have mothers to support, or who
see no future where they are,
cannot do it.
The only letter that ! read
with interest 10 the letter of the
young man who has studied my
business and who points out to
me how can make more money
for my employer by employing
him.
One Of the biggest business
men know said to me: ~ have
private secretaries to relieve me
Of many details; but one detail !
never delegate:
81 make it q rule to see all
applicants for positions"
Why did he have that rule?
Because his business, and
every business in America, 10
built on youth, enthusiasm and
ideas. And any applicant may
bring him an idea that would be
worth thousands of dollars.
Ideas are the keys that unlock
big mems doors.
When you have fitted yourself
for the better job, let your letter
Of application contain an IDEA.
1927
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Y you ask me how you can
" get a better job.
Ny answer 10 that you
can't.
All over the country are mil
lions Of young men who, in
vague sort of way, want a better
job; and here and there among
them are the worth while few
who want the better job.
And the millions wonder why
the few move on, while they
stand stationary year after year.
You must, first of all, pick out
the better job-some particular
job that 10 better than yours.
Then train your guns on that
and capture it.
You tell me that you are a
bookkeepsr and that you earn
$25 q week.
know certified public aecoun-
tants who earn $4,000 q year
and more.
If were a bookkeeper earn
ing $25 4 week, should 90 out
for a public accountants job. I
might die on the road, but who
ever found my body would notice
that my face was toward the
summit.
Second: You can never make
anybody pay you more money
until you have more to sell.
can advertise in q newspaper
tomorrow morning and have
hundred bright young men here
at 8 o'clock. Each one will have
just az much to offer me as you
have; the same two years Of
high school; the same expert.
enes in keeping books; the same
good record. Every one Of them
will be willing to work for $25,
and some of them for sis.
The only way you can lift
yourself out Of that SIS class 10
by giving yourself an equipment
that the rest Of the fellows in
that class do not have. In other
words, by study-by education
by specialized training.
Third: When you have picked
out the one particular better job
that you want, when you have
(Copyri
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PICKING" Is obsolete. The city which
for SO long guarded with its intricate
system Of stout walls the rulers Of i'm
perial China, and until recently Graded
the leaders of its republican" sue
cessor, now Is known as "Peiping," the
title bestowed upon 1t last year when
the Nationalist, after their successful
unification campaign, took the capital
from there down to the Yangtse port
of Marking.
Among Chinese in the central and
southern provinces the new name grad
ually is replacing the old. Newspapers
have been ordered to use only pei
ping" and the ministry of education
is supposed to have had the more an
Gent cognomen scratched from all text
books in public and private schools.
Only in North China, where Manchu
blood is strong and the Chinese bitterly
resent the removal Of the capital to
the south, does one still hear that name
which had come to be symbolic Of every
thing exotic, romantic and alluring IN
the East Picking! And the for
eign tourist, too. finds it difficult to get
used to the sound of Peiping, which is
pronounced "Bay-bing" and means
northern peace"
Not, of course. as a result Of the
change of name, but coincident with 1t,
mystic splendor of Picking. Like many
another time-great capital, its glory has
begun to lose its glow and its beauty
to languish as 1t enters the inevitable
period of decadence.
Regrets Decay of Palace.
When Chang Kai-shek, chairman OF
the national government, recently was
in the ex-capital for conferences with
the military leaders of the northwest,
he escaped from his duties for few
hours to visit the old imperial palace
grounds, in the once Forbidden City.
Upon noting numerous indications OF
decay, the chairman expressed regret
that such neglect should have been al
lowed. He asked why the broken tiles
had not been replaced on the throne
room roofs, why the grass had been al
lowed to grow between the marble
PLAGUED pavilions, and why the once
richly lacquered pillars, of fine old tim
bers. were rotting for lack OF Few
square rods of paint. Representatives
of the Society for the Preservation OF
Ancient Chinese objects Of Art, who
were accompanying Chang on his tour,
are said to have shufded their feet,
pressed their thumbs together and an
swered, somewhat hesitantly:
cit used to be saying that within
Peking's walls no one ever starved. This
is no longer true. The 'Peiping' OF today
is not the prosperous city for which that
aphorism was made. And our organiza-
ton has no funds for the upkeep OF the
precious and historical buildings and
articles left in our trust"
Personally Pledges Sum Required.
Chang, according to Chinese friend
of mine who happened to be member
of the party, then asked how much
money would be needed to ef1ect the
rehabilitation. The caretakers busted
themselves and presently handed him q
statement. listing various items which
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Pekingg---A Ghost of Glory


the area, and apparently none Is capa-
BILE of combating the deterioration.
The famous marble boat, that is sup
pose to have cost several million dol
lars and incidentally lost China a war
because 1t was made with money appro-
priated to build Chinese navy for use
In the Japanese conflict OF 1894,
is today sagging rooted, broken-balus-
traded, crumbling- corniced edifice. al
ready robbed by decay of much Of its
original beauty and now being used as
quartered nearby. Elsewhere on the
grounds tiles In the pavilions are
broken, sprouting weeds have parted the
stones in the courtyards, and there are
numerous evidences of the need for a
troop Of repairmen.
Stairway to Summit Of Long Life"
Leading to the Summit of Long Life"
is double stairway, flanked with
balustrades Of imperial yellow hue. It's
tiles are Of an especially smooth, satiny
texture and many Of them are beauti-
fully embossed. Along this stairway, for
almost its entire length, these tiles have
fallen and broken to bits, or have been
removed by curio seekers. One notices
a number Of them offered for sale by
the Peking art dealers. How did they
get them? The answer is plainly in the
hundreds of coolie soldiers who are al
lowed to flood into what, ironically, once
was the forbidden villa.
Within the Winter and Summer pal
aces many objects are disintegrating.
Others have disappeared from them en-
tirely. Unfortunately, the Society for
the Preservation of Ancient Chinese OBJ
jectS of Art, which also Is called the
Palace Museum Association, is not all
that such body should be. Its men,
bers' interest in art is something less
than academic. All of them being pure
ly political appointees of the Hopei Pro-
vincial Kuomintang, one is not surprised
to learn that many Of them do not know
Ching vase from one produced In the
Tang period, which Is a very deplorable
state Of affairs indeed.
More depressing is the museums Gus
tom Of withdrawing" articles from time
to time as these become unfit for dis
play" There are stores in Peiping,
Shanghai and Tientsin at which such
manipulated treasures now are offered
for sale at fancy prices, but most of
them have found their way to America,
particularly to New York, where all the
worlds best dreams are being collected
for the Fifth avenue menage. Proceeds
from the museums sale of such articles
are supposed to provide funds for the
upkeep of the palaces"
Halls Of the Manchus Neglected.
Alas, one looks in vain through the
azure-tinted halls of the Manchus; there
are no indications of efforts at main
tenance. One cannot but be skeptical
of the museums success at preserving
things as they are-or used to be. True.
at frequent intervals around the palaces
one notices large signboards listing the
various endeavorS of the Palace Museum
Society," But 1t Is common knowledge
that the Chinese reaction to a statement
of intention usually is equivalent to the
approval given an actual performance.
And the Chinese have rather a passion
for signs. Every one knows that they
seldom mean anything. but every one IS
Continued on Fourth Page.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-15
BY EDGAR SNOW.

~ EKING 1t is a name which
now officially has been dropped
from usage for a little more than
a year. In government circles,
in official, language everywhere,