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monthly acquisitions require 1867, 083. SO.
His duty it has been to summons all
witnesses and handle all cash for COM
mittees. Twice this task has taken him
to Europe.
Also Served Conventions.
When prominent men die, it has been
his job to organize funeral arrange
mentS. President Wilson, President
Hsrding and Speaker Longworth have
been among the $50 persons for whom
he has performed this offie.
AS side line Rodgers has enjoyed
serving as sergeant at arms at many a
Republican convention.
In that capacity he was in Penrose's
rooms in the Congress Hotel in Chicago
when Harding was picked as presi-
dental candidate.
Rodgers came to Capitol Hill 40 years
ago as a doorkeeper and worked his
way up through clerkships to his pres
ent position
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WILLIAM J. COLLINS
SENATE PRESS HEAD
Succeeds James D. Preston
as Upper House Gallery
Superintendent.

William j. Collins is in charge today
of the Senate Press Gallery, after 35
years at the Capitol. He was selected
yesterday afternoon by the Standing
Committee of Correspondents to sue
coed James D. Preston, who resigned
recently as superintendent of the gal
lery to become Senate librarian.
Preston, who won the esteem and
friendship of hundreds Of newspaper
men and members of the Senate during
his long service as head of the gal
lery. entered yesterday upon his new
position as librarian, where he will
still be in close touch with the prog
ress of legislation.
Collins began as a newspaper mes
senger, later became Senate employee
in the press gallery and since 1918
has been assistant superintendent Of
the gallery under Preston. Like his
predecessor, Collins has a wide &C
quaintancc on Capitol Hill.
The new superintendent Is SO years
old and native of Washington. AS
a youth he carried copy from the House
and Senate for The Evening Star and
later was Office boy for the old New
York World. In 1909, while the Payne
Aldrich tariff hearings were in prog
ress, Collins was placed in charge of
a press room which had been set up
in the Senate ONCE Building. The
following year he became messenger
on the Senate staff and has been Jim
Preston's aide for the past 20 years.
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ESKImos about now. This mornings
wireless reports Mix better, which
is good news he has given many
grown up and all kids thrill.
In 1905 at Madison Square Gar
den Tom and made our New York
horseback debut with lack Null
halls wild west.
Sure glad Charley Dawes has
stopped this war and I can change
it into kimono shopping tour of
Japan and China.
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Sentenced by Irish Court.

DUBLIN, Irish Free State, December
2 R).-A sentence of three months i'm
prisonment for contempt of court was
imposed today on Richard Stephens
by the military tribunal established
under the new public safety act.
Stephens had declined to plead In an
swer to a charge of membership in a
Republican organization, illegal under
the new act.
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! o W e d t h e
great circle
route and swung
away UP north.
If we had gone
ashore I would
have been tell
ing my Repub-
lican jokes to
an Eskimo and
! expect the
r e pu b ! | cans
w / S h t h e y
was with the
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FAMOUS PAINTER HERE
TO PORTRAY PRESIDENT
Philip A. De Laszlo Calls on Hoo
yer With Ex-Secretary Kellogg,
but Fails to See Him.

Philip A. de Laszlo, famous British
dent Hoover for the engineer societies
of the United States, called at the
White House yesterday with former
Secretary Of State Frank B. kellogg.
The President was in session with his
cabinet, however, SO they did not see
him. On leaving the White House, Mr..
de Baszlo said the President probably
would sit for his portrait early in Janu-
airy, after the first rush of official bust
ness connected with the opening of
Congress is over.
The portrait painter, whose home is
In London, painted portraits of Presi-
dent Coolidge and Mrs. Harding wife
of the late President Harding. He also
has painted two portraits of Mr.
Kellogg.
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Portugal Feels Quake.

ALVITO, Portugal, December 2 P).-
A sharp earthquake shock was felt here
yesterday, but there were no casualties
or material damage
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Will Rogers
Says: ~

ABOARD s. S. EMPRESS OF
RUSSIA-This ocean Is just as in
nocent looking today, lust like it
hadn't done a thing. We have fol-
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Northern Rhodesia is preparing to
move its capital from Livingstone to
Lusaka.
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SPECIAL NOTICES.

THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE STOCK
holders of the Columbia Permanent Build
ing Association of the District of Columbia
for the election IF three directors Can
be voted on) will be held on Tuesday. De-
cember 8. 1881 at 7:30 pm, at the once
OF the association. No. 1913 18th st. NV
Washington, D. c.
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AUTO DOOR GLASS (NEWJ INSTALLED.
GLAssERS. INC I55 Fla. ave RE- g.
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Well Knosvn Buildings Heated BY
Petroleum Heat g Power Co.
Our equipment is now heating hundreds of
such large buildings as John Wanamakers;
Standard Oil Building. rs Broadway, New
York City; Harvard Medical Group, Boston;
Balaban & Katz Theatres, Chicago; Hearst
Building, San Francisco; Ritz Carlton Hotels
in New York, Boston and Montreal, Canada;
as well as leading schools, churches, apart
ment buildings, laundries, bakeries, etc, etc
AS public service enterprise, we make
good oil burners cooperate on low price fud
oil in every state In the Union, and we sell
low price fuel oil to operate in good oil
burners In Boston, Providence, Stamford,
Westchester County, Metropolitan NewYork,
Long Island, Newark and northern New
Jersey, Camden, Philadelphia, Baltimore,
Washington, Detroit and Chicago. In this
way, you arc assured of the right burner for
your home and the right oil for your burner.
800 PetTolexm Heat g Power Co.
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WANT TO HAUL FULL OR PART LOAD
p 81 fSm n New Xrk
NATIONAL DELIVERY ASSN, INC, 1917
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1000 NEW FOLDING CHAIRS FOR RENT
for all occasions Prompt service. Call Dis
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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE
Rosslyps Steel and Cement Company first
mortgage bonds Nos. 49,. SO, ITO, l22. lat,
1884 will be redeemed at los at the Federal
American National Bank and Trust Com
pany, Washington, D. c., on February /,
1892, from which time interest on said bonds
will cease.
! WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE POR ANY
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DR.. KEENAN, OF BRENTWOOD, LATE
medical referee, Pension Once. having quit
the service, will specialize on NON-SURG-
1CAL treatment Of sinus disease, gall stones,
gastric ulcer and ailments of childhood.
Once hours 9 to daily.
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TRUCK MAKING WEEKLY TRIPS TO OR
1ando. Fla; return loads wanted for any
point. Call GIBSON, District 43le. 327
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PERSONS WITNESSING COLLISION OF
two automobiles, one Of which was parked
at curb, shortly after midnight Monday
November 80, on Arkansas ave. at Farragut
st. NV, or having any information, please
notify T. WALTER JONES, 4el7 Arkansas
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GRAPE JUICE

for sale at Terminal Refrigerating Corpo-
ration, llth and SITS sW
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"Somehow He Got a Gun"

Though fortunately harmless, the es-
capade in this city the other day Of
a young man when, paroled from st.
Elizabeth's Hospital for the Insane, he
obtained a pistol and in terror of being
retaken to the institution fired at a
citizen, affords shocking reminder Of
the peril involved in the lax supervi-
sion over the traffic in deadly weapons
in this city. 1t is not yet disclosed
where the young man got the gun. He
did not possess one of his own, so far
as known, and had no money with
which to buy one. His mothers theory
is that another paroled st. Elizabeth's
patient must have purchased it for
him" Somehow or other, however, he
got possession of q revolver, and but for
the barest chance he would have taken
life.
Under the law as 1t stands now in the
District anybody can get gun, at a
small cost and with no delay and no
other formality than the giving Of a
name and an address There is no re-
sponsibility upon the vendor Of the
weapon. A crazy man, drunken man.
a man wild with rage, can arm himself
within a few minutes if he has the
price. Later. when tragedy occurs, the
gun may b Traced 70 tho shop from
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tea party, too, though on q far more
violent scale. They burned the British
governors residence, raided stores and
destroyed automobiles. In populous
communities all over the island riotous
mobs have committed excuses, causing
the authorities to evacuate women and
children in order that British troops
might clear for action without en-
dangering civilian lives. From Egypt
soldiers and guns have been rushed by
airplane. The British Navy has sent
warships to support the island forces
available for defensive purposes.
Cyprus conjures up host Of classical
and NEUROLOGICAL memories. Pitched
picturesquely in the Mediterranean
some forty miles of the coast of Asia
Minor, the island was regarded as the
true home of the goddess Aphrodite by
the ancient Greeks. Settled by Phoe-
nicianS and Greeks, it was ruled sue
cessively by Persia, Macedonia, Egypt,
Rome, the Byzantine Empire, the Sara
Gems, Venice and the Turks. Christian
ity was preached in Cyprus by st. Paul,
st. Barnabas, a native of the island,
and st. Mark. Most of the present.
day inhabitants are Greeks and Turks.
The total population Is In the neigh
borhood of $4,000.
No international complications are
expected as a consequence Of the
olo onpovofinn GSrapna
Throughout the agitation to that end
the attitude of the Athens government
has been scrupulously correct. Premier
Venizelos does not look upon union OF
the island with Greece as political
issue. The British, on their part, con-
slider that the revolution lacks any de-
feasible basis because the promoters
are seeking the surrender Of Cyprus to
country which has not asked for it.
Great Britain offered Cyprus to
Greece in 1915 as a reward for the lat
ter's military support against the Ger
man Austrian-Tu Turkish Bulgarian allies,
but the offer lapsed when King
Constantine, actuated by his pro-Ger-
man proclivities, decided to remain
neutral.
Cyprus came under British admins
tration in 1878 by virtue of the treaty
of BERN. The Greek malcontents can
ksrdly hope to throw of the British
yoke Ynaided. With Greece hesitant to
throw fIer lot in with them, the Cypriotes
are fairy certain to continue to yield
allegiance, however sullenly. to the i'm
perial crown Of Britain.
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ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN.

Many readers send in questions signed
| only with initials, asking that the an
swers appear In the newspaper. The
space Is limited and would not ac-
commodate a fraction of such requests.
The answers published are ones that
may interest many readers, rather than
the one who asks the question only.
All questions should be accompanied by
the writer's name and address and
cents in coin or stamps for reply. Send
your question to The Evening Star In
formation Bureau, Frederic j. Haskin,
Director, Washington, D. c.
O. Can a run be scored in base ball
after three men are out?-L. S. r.
A. Under the following circumstances
run can be scored after three outs
have been made: Bases full-two out.
A walks, forcing runner B home to the
pIate-but B walks slowly to the plate.
Meanwhile A is carelessly caught off
f1rst-making three outs before B scores
at plate.
q. How much did Sir Hubert wilkins
pay our Government for the use of the
submarine. Nautilus?-S. j. M.
A. The Nautilus was one Of the sub
marines to be scrapped under the Lon
don Naval Treaty. Sir Hubert wilkins
paid the United States Government a
dollar a year for its use.
@. II cash Is deposited in a post Office
as postal savings, can the depositor get
his money back any time he wants it?
w. o. w.
A. Yes, the deposit is absolutely safe.
1t is an obligation Of the United States
Government. The certificate of de-
post is just as good and just as safe
as the deposited currency. The certi-
ficate is payable on demand. but only
and only at the post ONCE where it
was deposited.
@. How deep is the ocean where the
Titanic sank?-J. B. j.
A. The depth is estimated at 1880
feet.
O. What word appears but once in
the Bible?-T. T.
A. There are a great many words
which occur only once. Perhaps the
most important word occurring but
once is eternity" Isaiah WILLS.
Q. Does champagne contain more
alcO.2ol than port w1ne?-C. S.
A. 1t contains about the same
champagne, II to IS per cent alcohol
and port, IA to II per cent.
@. How long does 1t take each planet
to go around the sun?-E. c.
A. Mercury, SO days; Venus, 225
days; Earth, 365 days; Mars, 687 days;
Jupiter, 1l7s years; Saturn, 29l2 years;
Uranus, "a years; Neptune, 165 years.
@. am in possession Of postage
stamp from Republique Libanaise and
I am very DESTROYS of learning just
where this republic is-R. S. S.
A. Republique Libanaise is the
French name Of the Republic of Lee
banon, a French mandate in Northern
Africa which extends along the Medi-
terranean coast from the Palestine
frontier to Nahr Ell Kebir, Is miles
north Of Tripoli.
@. Why are there more delegates
from a State like Alabama to a Demo-
cratic national convention than to a
Republican national conventional.
K. l..
A. Because the basis Of representa-
ton Is not the same. In 1928 the
Democrats had 100 national delegates
and the Republicans 1889. Alabama
had "a Democratic national delegates
| and Is Republican.
@. Which city of Europe was the first
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A. jack-knife for youth, o pair Of
scissors for middle age.
Every man past 80 years old ought to
carry small, blunt-ended shears, instead
Of the traditional pocket knife.
There are hundred more uses for
scissors than for knife, with the aver
age adult. ~
The jack-knife, as it Is called, Is ira
ditional. rather than essential.
A knife is like a dog.
Most people seem to think they must
profess a great regard for dogs, not
always because they do, but because 1t
Is the thing to do.
A boy and a dog. now-how many
persons there are to exclaim In ecstasies
over such a grouping, when all the time
the kid would prefer nice cat.
X X X X
There never was a boy, when he got
to the mature age of years, who did
not pine for a knife.
Often he wishes in vain, % obdurate
are parents when it comes to furnishing
their offspring with implem ents with
which they might hurt them. elves.
Yet many boys are a great deal more
careful about such things than their
elders are likely to give them credit for
Children early imbibe the idea of self
protection. Despite their limited ex-
perience. they are not dummies when it
comes to conservatism.
Many youngster In Knockers Is q
conservative, born and bred. Such
young man will be as careful with a
knife as any one could wish.
y r
The uses Of the knife by q boy run
into the hundreds. Among the most
prominent Of these are whiting and
.mumblety-peg.
Perhaps boys no longer whittle with
a knife as much as they once did. In
boy stories of the old days sailors were
forever whiting out whistles and the
like, until every small reader thought
that no one could be man without an
indulgence in that occupation.
Calvin Coolidge Is among the worlds
most prominent whittlers. But other
famous men have been addicted to this
art. Say what one pleases, there Is q
certain pleasure in selling bit of wood
in the left hand, and q jack-knife In
the right, and carving out from the
combination a thing of utility.
Maybe boys whittle as much as they
ever did, but to the man going about
the streets it scarcely seems SO. But
then, whiting is fine Job for odd
moments, sure to occur in the life OF
the most active boy, when there Is
nothing much else to do.
Such occupations. in youth. seem
large to the boy, but when he becomes
a man he Is so eager to whittle dollars
from a reluctant world that he fails to
see the boys on the side lines whiting
away for dear life.
X X
Mumblety-peg is a game dear to the
heart of every child.
These certain tricks with knife, '
as the dictionary says, are known to
every boy. and to many girls.
The tricks often obscure the point
Of the game from which it got its
name.
The loser has to pull out with his
teeth peg driven into the ground by
the winner.
Hence he must humble the peg, as
1t were, mutter with lips partly closed
as he bends over the deep-driven piece
Of wood.
While kitchen fork may be used, In
emergencies, there is nothing like a
good jack knife for this ancient small
game of childhood. Its only counter
part among men is the dangerous dag
ger throwing of certain races.
The clean blade of the knife enters
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Cyprus in Revolution.

In the week that marked the 150th
anniversary of the termination of the
greatest revolution in the annals of the
British Empire. the fires Of revolt have
broken out unexpectedly in Cyprus, the
Mediterranean island Of ancient origin
and stirring history, anc, since 1914, a
"crown colony" of Great Britain. The
revolution originated with the Greek
majority Of Cypriotes, wko demand
union with their ancestral Greece.
Resentment of British rule was
famed into the present fury by the en-
actment of a tariff law which the local
legislative council had. previously re-
jected Cyprus it would appear, is fired
with "the spirit of '7e." 1t objects to
taxation without representations The
GQpeiates have indnleed IN their Boston
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which 1t was bought, but the seller Of
it Is entirely within the Law If his book
shows record Of the sale, with name
and address, which may be fictitious.
Repeatedly this danger has been IL
Illustrated by actual crimes or by mar
row escapes from crime, as In this
latest case. Repeatedly tho proposal
has been made, in remedy, that it shall
by statute, be declared unlawful for
any person to sell weapon to another
without the presentation Of o permit to
buy, issued by a competent public Au-
thority, before whom the would-be pur-
chaser has appeared and demonstrated
his need and established his character
as sober, sane and law-abiding citizen.
The penalty upon the vendor of the
weapon who sells without such warrant
should be severe. The penalty upon
the purchaser of the weapon without a
permit to buy should be likewise severe,
whatever use he may make Of it.
This is simple remedy, certain to
effect at least the exercise of greater
care on the part of the vendors of
weapons, who now are under virtually
no restraint whatever in the dealing
out Of murderous arms to all and sun
dry who call for them, with sufficient
cash. Yet 1t Is resisted by the law
makers, for some strange reason. Rec
concentrations have been made by the
District Commissioners for some such
enactment for the protection Of life in
the Capital, but never with effect. The
cause Of this failure remains a mystery
If there Is doubt as to the "constitu-
tionality" Of such q law 1t should be
put to the test of enactment and trial
in court. Hesitation lest the law, thus
framed and enacted. may be voided by
judicial opinion has cost many lives in
Washington, and will cost many more
until the blockade, which would be RI
diculous If it were not tragic, is broken
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Labor's Action Against Dole
Credited to Sound Policies

its traditions are the traditions Of
America" The Duluth Herald remarks
that organized labor again shows it
self a real bulwark of sanity and reason
and order" The Oshkosh Daily
Northwestern asserts: ut may prove, in
the future writing Of history. that this
action of the federation was paramount
in Importance to any vote on the rec
ords of organized labor" The SPRING
field (MasS.) Republican finds that "the
federation's unwavering opposition to
revolutionary radicalism has been
thoroughly established"
4
"This does not mean" according to
the Manchester Union, that some pro-
vision should not be made in our in
dustrial economy to safeguard the
worker against enforced idleness. That
such a safeguard is necessary is the
opinion today Of most American econ
omists. One proposal for meeting this
need Is a program of economic planning
whereby industry will be able to fore
cast the approach of depression and
make adjustments in advance to pre-
vent reduced employment. The other
is system of unemployment insurance.
such as has been introduced by the
General Electric Company, which would
NC DlOAOduNCd Wy CdSAA 4OOoA 4hduobl '
and supported solely by that industry
and its employees. This system has
much to commend it. 1t is probable
that any adequate scheme for meeting
the unemployment problem should in
clude both of these proposals. In any
event, the leaders of the federation are
correct in their inSistence that 1t is
work and not relief that the American
worker wants"
Advising that at Is folly to hire a
man unless he Is doing useful work, -
the Wheeling Intelligencer advises:
THE idle and needy Of this country
must be taken care of, of course. But
let's not fool ourselves. Let's find out
first if they can be put to work pro-
ductively before taking a laborious,
circuitous and expensive route to what
might be reached more simply and
honestly by that which the English, call
the dole"
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1881 Is Seen as End
OF Decade Campus Era

From the New York Herald Tribune.
Those familiar with the American
undergraduate scene and with trends
and tendencies among students, both at
mems and at women's colleges, will see
in the assertion made in a recent is
sue of the Barnard Bulletin the record
of the end of q campus era.
Shiny sophistication," said the edi-
tors of the Bulletin, lis a sure sign of
the freshman. 1t must be remembered
that the senior has spent four years in
acquiring an accomplished naivete."
The article continues with special rules
of conduct for the guidance of Barnard
young ladies, but in its generality it
has acknowledged a complete and far
reaching metamorphosis in student ideas
and standards.
The decade which practically ended
with the advent of 1881 was q decade
of campus sophistication embracing
sophomore and senior alike. 1t began
with the era of the great tea dance,
the sweetheart cocktail, the four button
suit and Scott Fitzgerald, progressed
through the period of Proust, the
WhoopS Sisters and annual pilgrimages
to the Ritz bar at Paris, and came to
a conclusion in returning sanity, self
analysis and the rejection Of the Eu-
genie hat by the fastidious. It was q
complete 10-year cycle which will prob
ably be provocative to novelists, his
torians and students of social institu-
lions, but it is a good thing it is over,
and 1t was a strain on all who par
ticipated in it.
It is not either to be expected or
hoped that the tumult and the shout
ing among our undergraduates will ever
die. but a curb on the famboyant ges-
ture and extravaganza of attitude of the
recent era Is devoutly to be wished for.
All welcome to an age which may be
characterized amongaour colleges by the
nhrase "accomn1ishaA naiHetel"