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Inter.American Travel.

There is sense as well as sentiment in
the slogan: See the Other Americas
First Citizens of the United States,
mindful Of their cultural inheritance.
always will be interested in travel in the
British Isles and on the Continent of
Europe, but with the passing of time it
Is inevitable that they also will develop
a Keen enthusiasm for better acquaint-
ance with the republics of the southern
half of the Western Hemisphere.
Many reasons exist for closer and
friendlier relations with Latin America.
Benefit for all concerned is involved in
more sympathetic understanding of the
1ndian-spanish-P Portuguese peoples of
the nations embraced within the Monroe
Doctrine. Indeed, the survival and
practical utility Of the principle Of that
Arbitrary animation" depend upon
mutually and goodwill as active, not
merely passive, forces.
Wise statesmen on both sides of the
Equator have urged for years the efi-
cheney Of stronger bonds of appreciation
and affection. The Pan-American Union
came into being to make a dream an
established fact. But it cannot, 1t does
not, It never will serve as perfect sub
stitute for the ties which normally are
created by personal knowledge based on
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use Of normal accents in ordered se-
quence.
There Is nothing in the world to get
scared about, in reading poetry, unless
the reader has the secret conviction that
something extraordinary Is expected Of
him.
A strained, artificial effect ensues.
Some readers even making an ordinary
letter, written in the plainest of prose,
sound altogether different from what 1t
really Is, by using q raised, monotonous
tone.
Lack Of proper accent, in such reading.
Is the secret Of the monotone. It is
almost always possible, listening to some
one read letter to another, to catch
the very first sentence Of the reading.
There Is no particular reason why
reading should be different from ordi-
nary speaking. Probably 1t comes about
because Of the famous inferiority COM
plex. q hardening back to school days,
when there was some one present to
listen to and catch mistakes, also to
point them out.
The study Of accents in words helps
overcome careless monotone in
reading.
The person who loves music will find
the study Of accents very much akin
to the study Of beats in music.
All sentences, whether in prose or
poetry. have beat, but in the former the
beat is irregular. whereas in poetry 1t
is regular.
The important fact is that it is there.
In both, and that it is an important
factor in the music of speech.
Proper accent, according to derivation,
Is often overlooked, with far sadder re-
suits. in ordinary everyday talk, than
any number OF split infinitives-which
many great writer's have used-or slang
usages. After all, it is impossible to be
sure which slang words will find their
way into the dictionaries, at last. and
which Will not; in the meantime, We
need not be ashamed to adopt them as
they arise. provided they are used with
some discretion.
~
In the proper placing Of accents in
talking. both main and secondary ac-
cents. we must keep in mind not only
the origin OF the word, but also its usage
as English.
The latter takes precedence, and
rightly so, for it is English, or American
if one chooses, We are speaking. and not
Persian, or Greek. or Latin, or Cherokee
The purist is not the man he thinks
he Is. either here or in other depart
ments of our tongue.
The accent must be a natural accent
and 1t can be that only when it is an
infection placed with due regard to the
living. speaking man.
II this is kept in mind. the spoken
word. even as regards trivial matters,
can be musical word. based solidly on
centuries of speech, but as new as today
and tomorrow.
Remember that rhythm. with its COM
ponent accent. is the basic essential of
all music. and that 1t is one of the i'm
portant factors in speech. so that prop
erly accented speech Is musical speech.
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Shooting Stars.
By PHILANDER JOHNSON.
FaMaA

Escaped Supervision.
My grandsire is husky chap, his age is
eighty-flve.
He has a CHEEKY smile and thinks It's
good to be alive.
He does not claim perfection when the
New Year comes again.
He makes his resolutions Just the same
as other men.
He started on life's journey on unfavor-
able terms.
His family didn't know q thing about
these wicked germs
They let him travel barefoot and he ate
green fruit by stealth.
I very often wonder how my grandsire
kept his health.
He ate his bread and marmalade and
didn't care q straw
About the labels that are recommended
by the law,
And when cut or bruise unto his care
less lot befell
He tied 4 rag around it and then left
it to get well.
He tried to love his neighbor, and he
didn't yearn for pelf.
He did the best he could and then forgot
about himself.
1t is . mystery how to keep his health
he would contrive.
My grandsire was 4 wonder at the age
Of eighty-five.
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A Natural DEVELOPMENT.

Withdrawal by the Delaware and
Hudson Railroad of its financial support
for group insurance of its employees re-
calls the warnings that were given at
the time of enactment of the Federal
social security program.
1t was pointed out then that many
employers, large and small, for many
years had been assuming insurance and
retirement pension responsibilities to-
ward their employees. Obviously, such
q policy was a costly one in dollars and
cents although of recognized value in
terms of good will and better service
rendered the employer.
Imposition Of . blanket social security
system which took no recognition Of
these privately supported welfare plans
increased the liability Of such firms to
a point where they cannot logically be
criticized for discontinuing this added
protection 10 their employees. Although
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comparatively few o. yet have taken
this step. the steady increase of tax
rates for various parts Of the social se-
curity program undoubtedly will bring
m increasing number Of such discon-
tinuances.
Apparently, public responsibility, both
State and Federal. has become a perma-
nent factor in our social scheme. Ger
tainly there can be no turning back as
conditions force elimination of the in
strumentalities of private social con-
sciousness. In the last analysis perhaps
1t Will be found that all of this is a
salutary development, but 1t is regrettable
indeed that more positive efforts were
not made to devise a system Of exemp-
tions by which recognition Of the mutu.
ality OF interests between employer and
employe could have been continued and
expanded.
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New Bankruptcy Act.
From the Newark Evening News.

From the Newark Evening News
The country now has fully modern
lied bankruptcy act. The bill Just
signed by the President was the out
standing accomplishment Of the last
Congress in legislation affecting the
practice of law. It constitutes the first
total revision in 40 years.
Few laws have been enacted with
more deliberate study. A survey by
the Department Of Justice under the
direction of Thomas D. Thatcher, when
Solicitor General, assisted by Lloyd K.
Garrison, present dean of the Wiscon-
sin University Law School, was the
genesis of the revision. This was fol-
lowed by six years consideration by
the National Bankruptcy Conference, the
National Association of Referees in
Bankruptcy and the National Association
of Credit Men.
Passed by the House last year, the
bill did not receive Senate approval
until shortly before adjournment It
amends most Of the provisions Of the
1898 act, although 1t does not, as stated
by the House Judiciary Committee,
chanse the existing system I'm any Of it,
&uDdnmantalks
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First Summer Concert.

To say that the first summer concert
OF 1898 brought new laurels to DR.. Hans
Kinder and the National Symphony
orchestra Is to be guilty Of under state
ment. In sober truth 1t has been q long
time since Washington has enjoyed a
musical occasion Of greater import than
last evenings presentation at the Water
Gate. With sixteen thousand persons
assembled within sight of the shell pro-
vided through the w. p. A. and perhaps
millions. certainly hundreds of thou
sands. listening to the broadcast ar
ranged by Station WMAL, the event
passed into history surrounded by an
aura of charm dificult to over praise.
Nor should there be omission of tho
contributing good humor and charm of
the conductor. DR.. Kinder BROUGHT
with him to America q personality in
which the ready wit Of his Dutch ances-
tors is included. His final words to his
audience at the close of the initial
program illustrate his love of harmless
fun. DO you want more?" he shouted.
Yes" came the answer in q roar of
happy voices. Then" returned the
maestro, come back on Wednesday,"
The crowd applauded in appreciation
and went home.
But the memory, lingering in every
bodys heart, will guarantee the pros
perity Of the whole series of summer
concerts. So much seems indicated
abundantly. In other words, great music
Is living force in the Nations CAPITAL
all the year around. not exempting what
commonly is known as hot weather"
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THIS AND THAT
By CHARLES &. TRAcEWELL.

People seldom stop to realize that
one Of the important factors in music Is
also mighty in the spoken word.
Accent is really the secret Of rhythm,
as we'll as of the utmost importance In
everyday speech.
The down beat Of music, the steady
pulse of rhythm, has a place in every
word we use. Nothing spoils speech
more than wrongly placed accents.
This is a syncopation Of words. but
1t does not have the same effect Of
syncopation-the placing Of the accent
where 1t normally would not be-in
music. It is good in some music, not
good in speech.
There are two ways OF mtspronounc-
ing words by using the wrong vowel
qualities, and by putting the accent at
the wrong place.
The study of accent in word usage is
part Of the very language, 50 common
place with educated and even halfway
educated persons. that they cease to
think about 1t.
It Is there, nevertheless, and because
Of 1t we have music in word usage.
We are something in the position Of
the French comic character, who grew
suddenly rich. and started to brush up
on his culture.
WHAT he exclaimed, after q few
lessons in literature. Il have been using
prose all my life, and never knew It,"
X Il
We are all word musicians, II We try
our best to use them properly, above all
to speak them correctly.
That is why so many of the mispro-
nunciations heard everywhere not only
shock the speech OF the day beyond re-
pair but also must send shivers clear
back to the glory that was Greece and
to the grandeur that was Rome.
So many Of our words are almost pure
Latin and Greek, that some acquaint-
ance with those tongues As used in
their great days Of old, Is necessary, II
we are to preserve the accent, the time,
the rhythm of the spoken word.
For this reason. If for none other, It
would seem to be necessary to have some
acquaintance with Latin and Greek, as
we'll as q thorough grounding in our
own tongue. which incorporates them
both, as well as French and other ro-
nance languages.
Even the person with a smattering Of
these tongues, old and modern. is much
better able to put the accents where
they belong.
Many person. in everyday talk,
speaks POLITICALLY without realizing it.
Only the listener who probably in his
youth, has tried to write poetry, will
catch these rhythmical accented sen
tences as they are spoken, but to him or
her they will be an added pleasure.
Our language is poetical in its very
essence. That is why great poetry, If
read properly. will scarce strike a trained
ear as anything artificial or out of the
ordinary usage.
A great many readers, by putting too
much stress on end words, and the like,
in reading poetry. make it an artificial
word use, instead Of what it is, Just a
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Protests the President's
Speech in Kentucky.


Many Of your readers, in writing to
you, express much more ably than I the
extreme disgust they feel in regard to
every phase Of the present administra-
tion's actions; yet 50 deep Is my convic-
ton of q grave wrong having been per-
petrated against loyal-if conservative"
Americans, in this latest ugly snare of
an unwilling populace by the President,
that am moved to public utterance.
That President should dishonor his
high of1ice by Offering q smiling insult
to a man, also in high ONCE, whom he
calls. my friend" IS simply not to be
tolerated either by any right-minded
citizen Of these United States, be he q
personal friend of Gov. Chandler or
merely an adherent of decency and fair
play. have never been to Kentucky
and do not know her Governor; nor am
I = member Of any party; but my erate-
full thapks to you If you will publish this
protest against . man who lives In q
glass house and throws transparent
stones. OF course there IS always . day
of reckoning; history and wise philoso-
pliers have set down the proof for us
to read. And might add that even q
modern liberal glass house could even
tually collapse under well-directed stones
from outraged neighbors.
ISOBEL GREGORY DEXTER.
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Justice CardOzO.

When President Herbert Hoover in
1882 appointed Benjamin Nathan Car
dozo to the Supreme Court, the entire
Nation rejoiced. Those were days when
the word liberal" still meant free from
prejudice or bigotry; broad minded;
tolerant" His scholarship, If not the
natural gentleness and kindliness of his
temperament, had made the candidate
q logical choice for the highest tribunal
OF the land. He was named with the
enthusiastic approval of all parties, all
classes. all conditions of men.
And now, after only half dozen years
OF service. Justice Cardozo dies too soon
and is mourned for the unreasonable
termination of his valued and useful
career as universally as he was appre-
ciated at the moment when it reached
Its apex. Let 1t be understood that he
was loved as deeply by conservatives as
by reformers. He never cared for par
tlsan distinctions, owed nothing Of his
fame to them. Instead, when his biog-
raphy Is written 1t must be noted that
he rose to eminence by personal effort,
not by the courtesy of political friends.
IT he found for the New Deal again and
again, the reason was his conscience
an active social instinct, humane in
telligence. generous soul. He labored
under no handicap of debt to President
Franklin D. Roosevelt. Like the second
Oliver Wendell Holmes, he was free and
independent Of expediency. The prozress
he wanted was that which is lawful and
orderly and American.
Justice Cardozo was a reader Of books
from first to last. The history of human
experience he knew with an intimate
knowledge. Thus, he visioned the whole
picture, worldwide and ages long. The
background Of the decisions he wrote was
unlimited. He was not coerced by faulty
learning: not controlled by ignorance of
principles which are possessed of
deathless vitality and therefore are apt
to repeat. Tyranny he hated because he
was familiar with the havoc 1t has
wrought In centuries past; the mob he
distrusted because he realized how often
1t has been wrong. With mind and heart
equally well-balanced, he was loyal to
all the people, not merely a minority of
them.
One further thought deserves express
sion In this hour Of sorrow: II any pessi-
mist be doubtful of the steady expansion
OF civilization, let him study the records
Of the trial of Sir Walter Raleigh and
that Of Lady Alice Lisle and, comparing
Popham and Jeffreys with Justice Car
dozo, ask himself fairly whether or not
the everlasting ticking Of the clock has
not taught humanity something worth
being happy about.
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Chronic poverty is forecast by the
National Resources Committee, and a
greater authority long ago declared that
the poor are always with us. No system
OF society ever devised has provided
riches for everybody. The nearest ap-
proach to universal prosperity has been
that achieved under hated capitalism
the only social scheme tn the history
OF the world to accomplish any democ-
ratization Of wealth worthy of the name.
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IT Smiling Jim" Farley no longer
radiates happiness. the reason may be
that he Is tired of being put on the spot
by people who have small regard for
his peace Of mind. The Postmaster
General-National Democratic Chairman
has tried to be a statesman, but the
interference with that effort has been
remorseless.
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The President fondly believes that
opponents to the Government reorgan-
ization bill were for 90 per cent of Its
rinciples and opposed to 10 per cent
OF its details" Which recalls the story
OF the doting parent who could not
understand why the young man did not
want to marry his daughter. "Why-
she's only a teeny bit leprous," he ex-
postulated.
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One Of the things the Monopoly In
vestigation Committee may discover is
that the Federal Government is 4
sleeping partner" of a lot Of wicked
trusts.
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1t used to be said that beggars would
ride on horseback II wishes were equines
The phrase now must be revised to read:
In limousines decorated with all the
latest gadgets."
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After all. our international marriages
are not invariably distinguished by sue
cess. AS has been before remarked,
wealth does not invariably bring happi-
ness even when it assumes to operate
under the most prominent patronage.
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OF course, the mound builders have
had something to do with Ohio's earliest
development. But in an historic resume
OF its greatness 1t is unreasonable to
assume an obligation to go that far back.
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COmDariSOnS.

why do 80 many Of our ablest mea
turn their backs on the public and devote
their services to large corporations?"
WELL" answered Senator Sorghum,
II shouldn't be surprised If it was be-
cause a corporation generally stands by
a man who has worked for it and the
public generally doesn't"
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What Will the President
Say in Ge0rgia?

What Will the President
Say in Georgia?
To the Editor Of The Star:
In the Covington, KY, address the
President is reported to have used the
following language, in part:
I have no doubt that Gov. Chandler
would make q good Senator for Ken
lucky but I think he would be the f,rst
to acknowledge that as q very tunior
member of the Senate, 1t would take
many, many years to match the national
knowledge. the experience and the ac-
knowledged leadership in the affairs of
our Nation Of that son of Kentucky Of
whom the whole Nation is proud-Alben
Barley"
Ol course. the country will anxiouslv
await the language the President viii
employ when he discourses down in
Georgia.
Will he tell the people in Georgia that
Mr.. Camp, the opponent of Senator
George, would make 4 good Senator for
Georgia but that he would be the f,rst
one to acknowledge his inferiority to
tne great constitutional lawyer, the great
statesman and parliamentarian, together
with his many, many years experience
IN the greatest legislative hall in the
world-Walter George?
And will he say, Notwithstanding the
great spread between the two men with
respect to craftsmanship, leadership and
erud1tion. do know that Mr.. Camp will
eclipse Senator George when it is time
to vote on measures which I say must
be passed ignoring, as he will his own
independence and opinion with respect
tneretoY j. L. WINNSIOE.
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There may be certain arguments re-
lating to the difference between a war
and general fight. The sporting world
may be congratulated on the fact that 1t
has so far excluded them from any
respectful recognition.
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Under the Bed.

Prom the Indianapolis Star.
Those who regularly look under the
bed for burglars might now include for
eign spies.
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AT the Wheel Now.

From the Winston-SAlem Journal.
Women are no longer back-seat
drivers. Most Of them now have hold Of
the steering wheel.
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Future Solons.

Prom the Kalamasoo 0assttS.
Among the graduating classes Of 1888
are some Cougressmen, but-poor fel-
lows-they won't know It until they
read the primary or election returns.
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Easy BOrrOwina-If.

From the Lowell Courier -C1tisen.
The President having relaxed certain
banking restrictions, you can now 60 to
your bank and get all tho money you
want. That II, provided you have tho
proper collateral.
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Record READING.

Prom the Los Angeles Times,
There are rewards for the constant
reader Of the CongoMionsl nooord.
Every few sessions hs comes unrn \
remark he never noticed before.
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Unbeaten.

Prom the Indianapolis Star.
Mount Everest once more has main
tanned the record Of never having ito
goal line" crossed.
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II never wondered about why poets
wear long hair" said HI Ho, the sage of
Chinatown. THE most mysterious thing
about them to me is why they should
write poetry"
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Letters to The Star

Letters to the Editor must bear
the name and address Of the ,crtter.
although the use of pseudonyn. for
publication Il permtsstble. Please be
brtef!
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Question Of Authority.

what we want to do," said the re-
former, rs to eliminate the political
boss"
mo-" answered the other, there's al
ways got to be q boss. What we want is
to get the right kind"
"One q de drawbacks Of dis here life,"
said Uncle Eben, "is de fact dat de call
Of duty don very often sound near -
loud q u dinnee beil..
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Rate By Mail-PayabIe in Advancs

All Other States and Csnaa.
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Test Of Wisdom.

The modest sage with accents bland
A standard new Acknowledges.
He is the wisest In the land
Who goes to the most colleges.
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Abundant Variety,

So many booms just now, they say.
Are floating through the air,
We might have one for every day
And still have some to spare.
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OF existence. and there Will be no OBJ
structions IN the path Of him who
asplres to become dictator in our coun-
try. ALEXANDER SIDNEY LANIER.
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COURT WILL REVIEW
MULLEN CONVICTION
Writ of Error Granted in Case of
Lawyer Found Guilty Of
Soliciting Business.

The Court of Appeals will review
the conviction of Attorney John P.
Mullen on charges of improper legal
practice. Mr.. Mullen was found gull
ty by board of Police Court judges
and sentenced to suspension for six
months from practice in Police Court.
The Court of Appeals granted writ
Of error in the case late Friday. Will
liam E. Leahy, counsel for the de-
fense, questioned The jurisdiction of
the Police Court judges, contended
the evidence did not support the
charge and that everything brought
forth in the hearing did not consti-
tute improper or unprofessional prac-
tice.
Mr.. Mullen was accused of soliciting
business. The action of the Appeals
Court stays the sentence.