Evening Star Newspaper, March 9, 1928, Page 8

B FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 1928 THE EVENING STAR, WASTINGTON, D. C. ST AR |rangements are kept guessing and wait- [ tive” attitude would, as’ the phrase THE EVENING With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D.C. FRIDAY..........March 8, 1828 ing for him. A few months ago he went abroad and hit the Zuropean high spots, made, In fact, the veritable royal tour, and his batting average in meeting en- | sagements was barely that of the bush leaguer breaking into big-time base iball. A few weeks ago he went on a {tour of the Southern States, and his {punctuality record was even more sketchy. A few days ago he came to Washington on an official errand to talk about public building matters with the Federal administration, and while he kept every engagement he also kept A number of eminent oifictal Washing- tonians waiting for protracted periods. He was, it is sald, tardy at a rendezvous with the Sccretary of the Treasury. He kept the President’s calling list snarled : ap because he was late in getting to the | White House to pay his respects to the Chiel Exccutive. He even kept the train | waiting on his dash back to Manhattan v his return to New York Mayor asked about this Washing- ce. His explanation was simple, and. from his point of view, quite sufficient. stent, he said, jwere the newspaper reporters and the | press photegraphers for interviews and poses that he was blocked all along (h\’! ton | N in hus progress. It is always the| served | same he says, or implies. Wher- {ever he goes there is a publicity hold- {up. He simply cannot get anywhere on t se he is delayed by the de- THEODORE W. NOYES The Evening Star Newspaper Company Riwiness Ofice stoand N Otie i Enciand by Carrier Within the City. ning Star 45¢ ver month emng and Sy Rate The mdas Star o 4 S ' The Evening 3 d he H0c per month Star 68 per owonth be sent i by mail or e So in Member of the Asso The Asenc e the use I Patches crediied Subventions and the District. During hearings beca mands of the press. Of course, the im- cation is that the first cuty of the| received ce or of a great city like New York i the Federsl Govern- !0 the public. Pictures must be pro-) 30,000 ®ided. Interviews must be furnished.; The demand of the people for verbal | and pictorial information about him| ral| WSt be satisfied | o tha Mavor Jimmy is good “c wrpius material | WGty and clever 1 District has | He is good h under the pittless fire of publicity pro-| eral land which might | MOters. What if a few cabinet members | yield an an 42.000, and ©F even a President is kept waiting Federal officers who devote their 7ull | While the cameras click and the pencils time to the District of Columbia are|&re pushed? paid salaries amounting to $30.000 a/ — year. The total amounjs to somet Tussolini and the Drug Evil. | over half a million d and the im-| Acceptance by Premier Mussolini of | pression is left that Uncle Sam is far qualy to attend a meeting in this coun- more liberal to the haned District ¢ of the World Anti-Narcotic League than to his legitimate nephews. the|nromises a visit to America of one of Btates. most interesting personsges in the Is he? For the fiscal year 1025—the |world today. In a letier addressed to! Jatest period covered—the Ce: Bu-onz of the promoters of the proposed | feau lists the subventions and grants | conference of women on the drug traf- to the District of Columbia from the | fic he makes the explicit statement that Pederal Government at §9.000.000. For ! if that gathering is held he will “come the same year the Census Bureau lists | in person.” He accompanies his state- the subventions and granis to the States | ment to this effect with the expression: 8t $115473.805. New York, with $9,- “I have always enjoyed working with | 242,001, and Pennsylvaniz, with $9.334.- | America, and wish to continue to throw €61, received more from the Federal all my force against this great ev! Government than the District 'of Co-|which threatens the world." umbia. But the real point of interest| There are two reasons for hoping that Bes in the policy of the Federal Gov- | this conference will be held: First, to emment in the last few years of in-|make advance in a campaign against ereasing its gifts, bounties, or whatever one of the most insidious enemies of | one chooses 10 call them, to the States. | human soclety, and sccond, to assure | The short table which follows chows | the presence tn America of this extraor- | the subventions reccived by the District | ¢inary man. Mussolini is casily today government from the Federal Govern.the cutstanding individual figure in Oid | ment and those received by the States; World affairs. His achievements vm Italy from the same source in the years in-,have been extraordinary. Whatever Gicated: {may be the eventual outcome of his g Received by Received by | poiicles and performances in that, the District. the States. | country, he stands forth as a great force $6.118.016 $5.356.790 | iy not only national but international a3 94322280 jairs. His personality is decidedly in- Pede at £307.104: occupied. for muni . {be open and above board and let the iaffection for its poets and musicians runs, get him nowhere. A campaign of this character has its perils. It is calculated to evpke fac- tional friction in the party and to create an opposition that, while at the cutset scattered, may at the convention combine to blockade a mafjority vote. But that is the risk that the favorite in the fleld must always take. Hoover is being gulded in his decision by well qualified advisers who know State conditions. course that is now being pursued in his behalf is adding greatly to the live- liness of the pre-convention campaign. | e Let the Best Man Win. Policeman Tom Gaston of Woodruff, 8. C., has just figured in a unique case. Gaston recelved what he characterized as a private fnsult from a citizen of M. | o At all events, the| He was a small, thin little fellow, with a startling tie around his neck and an earnest look in his cool blue es. J yM first it was the cravat that at- tracted the attention. It was long and wide, its main Jutwrn being alternate squares of vivid orange and brightest blue, but this was not all, for there were any number of colors wandering around in it. On T street, the natural habitat of this_little man; that tie could be seen casily a block away, in a crowd, so it was no wonder we were nonplussed by it at close range. When we had somewhat accustomed ourself to the glare of this masterpiece we began to suspect that we rather liked those cool blue eyes. Woodruff. Being a two-fisted sort of a person he considered that the only way he could obtain satisfaction was inea physical encounter, but when he ap- pealed to the city council he was told that his cath as an officer forbade such retaliation. Gaston promptly resigned from the force and had it out with his adversary. Thereupon the city council reinstated him in the department. Although physicel violence is to be heartily frowned upon, it must be con- ceded that Gaston took the honorable course. It is too often the case that a man clothed by law with the authority of a policeman will settle private griev- ances while still in this habiliment. Either that or a subtle frame-up which results in the victim of the policeman’s wrath spending a term in the peniten- tiary. Gaston at least took off his uni- form and fought man to man, with no subterfuge and with no one but himself to whom he had to account for his acts, U fighting must be indulged in let it best man win. ———— “The Bootlegger's Bride” might be a zood title for a novel involving ele- ments of interest relating to & wedding ceremony, a divorce court and a coro- ner’s jur ———— A construodlve statesman may find it proper to indicate his opinion that there is much debiis to be cleared away be- fore practical rebuilding can be under- | aken. A “grip” epidemic is world wide. There are pernicious little thoughts eir- culating as dangerous to cconomic health as the insidious germ. e The first robia will soon draw near to sing; without any assurance, however, that his concert is conducted under the auspices of the Weather Bureau. ———te — | Bostowal of “ihe keys of the city” is a generous formality. Keys to the padlocked night clubs may require a little more influence e Affairs of Nicaragua call for com- parison of amateur local military talent with the efforts of professionals. 2 —rmtema Vienna continues to command more than for its politicians. —— A talkative juror may be a fearfully expensive, and, after all, not very in- 9000000 115473305 A s FrhebAtiarican tpaale Hiow < ¢ resting. ; % Subventions received by the District | ver they have regarded him from a po- from the Federal Government increased | v ki | | litizal point of view, have been keen to | forty-seven per cent for 1926 over the 1915 figure Subventions received by the States from the Federal Govern- ment increased in the same period more than two thousand per cent. In 1815, the first year that the Census Bureau {know all about him, have read avidiy all | | descriptions of him. Should he come | ihere he will have a reception such as | | bas been given to few visitors to these | | shores. ! Mussolini's in the interest fight | undertook the compilation of such sta- | gainst the drug evil is an invaiuable istics, all of the States combined were | ggset to the cause. There is today no receiving less from the Federal Gov-|more important problem before the na- ermment than the District of Columbia. | tions than the suppression of the. drug Now they are receiving more than|pabit. It is debasing great numbers twelve times as much. And it must be | of people, especially the younger ones. | Temembered that a citizen of the Dis-|J¢ §s contributing to the crime records. | trict of Columbia contributes every bit Owing to the relatively small bulk of | s much 1 these subventions, lh:ough‘lhe product, it can be easily smuggled bis Federal taxes, as the citizen who | and distributed. Safeguards against its lives in a State. Yet he does not en- distribution are relatively inefective. oy, though no reduction is made in|The cure of this evil lies at its root, in | kis Federal taxes on that account, lhe regulation, if not the suppression, of many of these subventions that are!the manufacture. That is an interna- Teceived by the States. tiona! problem, and for its solution the But the Census Bureau lists! hearty geod will and sincere co-opera- it is 15 be doubted whether |Uon of all the governments of the world the lump sum of $5,000,000 contributed ace essential. by the Federal Governmen the Dis-| In such a fight for such a cause Mus- trict appropriation bill can be regarded ' olini's aid and influence will be most (AD the strict sense 25 a subyention, | valuzble. A visit o the United States compzrable o those Pederal aid acts|f0F the purpose of participating in con- | " which benefit the States. A Govern- | ference on this subject will place hl:rh ment aid, or bounty. or subsidy, 4 |8 ® poition of command which cou.d; sibvention. But should the contripu. | N0V but Fesult in a great gain lrmlrd‘ \ maintaining | the objective, the supprescion of thus | 6 0wn Capital be calied an act of | DideOUs U tance, or a bounty, or a subsidy? = lump eum s what the Pederal Government chooses 10%spend in main- 2 and improving the Federal City, it own cit frer local taxpayers | kave paid their municipal taxes. It but only in the Offie Department R — . | Wnen decides 10 take & s rest the gencral public finds it- | 1! with en unused ovation on hand. | It sometimes falls to the lot of a hero to inquire “Why pick on me?” % B - Hoover and the Hoosiers. Mr. Hoover is now entered in two Stale primaries in circumstances to pit fim directly ugainst favorite sons. | | Having already entered the Oblo flel | U Benator Willls, he is now en- opriations to the | ¥7ed in Indinna ugainst Senutor Wat-| #d us & subvention, |#P- OB the oulcome of these two) Leressed 4 accordance | PYimaties will in some measure depend | liberality in | Bis swength st the Kansas City con- vention in June. ‘The decision to enter ndlana field, Just reached, 15 es- . Lhe | DoLt gnificant of the conditions | upkeep and weltare | the Huover candidacy. Bimultane- | e of fixed ratio, Unuy ! 792ly with the announcement that Mr, + 10 tiis Jewful eystem, | HOOVEr's name will go before the| csse the Jump sum s 1906l Republicans, Jt s stated that| sl experses mnd the local tax | BX-Gov. Lowden of Liinols will not| burden have incressed. As for sup. €0ter the Indians primaries. This| ventlons, the Listrict ed, noy|leaves the Beld 1o Hoover and Wateon } favored, by Uncie Barm | The tmplication is that the lovien| . v : streng'n in Indiana will at the pri-| His plane for repuilaing Jwume have | maries go W Wateon 1ather than u.‘ made Muroling the hope of the resltors | Hoover 85 well ax the pelriot: It Wi Ghio and Indiana Mr B R — makes a falr showlng sgainst the two D tavorite sonx, he will be matertally Yorkpis | Srengthened for the Kanses City fght i Jimmy | BY ® 16l showiug 16 meant the carry- He fs e country's| 8 of, 1 may be suggested, approxis oherpion officil spnnwer. Ever sinee |matly & third of the delegation of ®¢ Uk office he Les beeu “on the | €ach Btate. On the other hand, & Sump,” deshing ebout from one en. |SOwing of & low es w quarter of & Regement v wnother, receiving nota- | delegution would be generally regarded bles, welcoming distinguished guests, k& & slgn of weakness. Anything helow Nolding hearings 60 the City Hall, argu- | et would be & virtual defeat in those ing with delegations and generally n-iflllht tending W the business of the big wwn | Mr Hoover must lake there chances Woen he leeves New York he is nlways Me 18 today spparently the leading on the rush. He keepe & full sehedule— | candidate in the Republican field. Me el fe W eey, e keeps JU in his own |musl atsume the offensive, He mus! 990 is not ! be found al bounties e ma s receive Federa] ere cle Ul e e policy of grester 4 lles In MGV""! : is Hoover | Jumping Jimmy Mayor , Walker fellow townsme ~18 & busy man of Ne tongly cait w forming person. -t SHOOTING STARS. BY PHIL, DER JOHNSON, Art. Tried to sing a little song. Somehow went astray with it. Now for music I'm not strong. Ought to do away with ft! Tried to paint a picture fine. Labored many a day with it. Peint is not a friend of mine. We should do away with it. Poems neat and essays new— Print—1 sought to play with ft. Literature proved futile, too. Ought to do away with it! Since I've tried my very best With art, getting gay with it, Why prolong art's futile test? Let us do away with it, When we seek artistic grace, Carrying display with it, Let the ad man set the pace— He can get away with ft. Myth. “Some people say you are only a! myth." “I am," answered Senator Sorghum, H “Out home, office-seekers regard me as A& year-round substitute for Santa ' Claus.” Reliable Transportation. Old steam engine, Bingin' down the line; I surely am a friend of yours And you're a friend of min®. Airships and autes, Hoppin' on thelr way— 0ld steam engine ‘What you gotta say? Old steam engine, Shoutin' down the road— You keep the good news comin’ As you bear a precious load Bwit ideas Burprise the nefghborhoods. Old steam engine, You're the one that brings the goods, Jud Tunkins says when you try to do & man a favor he may cease to be & friend and become a critie, Joy of Living. “What's your idea of the joy of llv- ng?" “Abllity 1o work all day and then stay ewake 1l 4 o'clock In the morning.” Popular Acclaim. “My hoy Jush stands higher than his teachers, right now,” sald Farmer Corne« torsel “How do you know?" “When hie plays foot ball all faculty spplauds. Nobody says rubil’ at & college Jecture,” the ‘rah! “He who forgets & friendship,” sald | Hi Mo, “suffers by proclaiming o the world that he has proved unworthy of faith" No Blizzard, #nowflake trembles avmy, ‘Then murmurs, quite eontent to dia- appear, “rhough this is March, why should 1 longer slay, Bince this is no insuguration yeary" The yonder, far Earnestness is a tangible, good qual- ity in man or beast. Perhaps the great appeal of animals for some of us Is their tremendous seriousness. Our caller, we knew at a glance, was of the dancing type. That thin. wiry build, those large, dextrous feet (and one certainly may be handy with his fect, of course). that slight sway of the shoulder as he walked — these bespoke the dancing man, one of those young fellows some- where between youth and maturity whose blg interest in life is tripping it to the sounds of jazz music. ) What a wonderful thing it is to have & sole and compelling interest in life! Sometimes one, in a philosophical mood, is inclined to belleve that it does not make the slightest bit of difference what this interest is — within certain limits, of course—just so long as it L intense enough. It may be books, or automobiles, or dogs, or cats, or music, or aviation. or business, or bass drums, or motorcycles, or swimming, or base ball, or etchings or radio, or mathematics, or danc- ing— 5 Just so long as it occupies the center of the individual thought, it is the one big topic of life around which politics, nations. universes revolve. Somctimes one has to lauzh up his slecve at the politicians, they are so earnest in their own preoccupation, while millions of their fellow citizens are 1ot caring a hang about them, whether they are elected or not. It is true that these same millions will go to the polls and vote for one or the other of them, but if you want to bring the keen sparkle of genuine in- terest to those millions of pairs of eyes you will have to touch upon their own particular central subject of interest. This toplc, to our visitor, was danc- ing. He wanted us to go with him some evening on a round of the dance halls, and “write it up.” He assurad us that we would meet therein a whole new world, especially a new brand of human being, a “sot” of boys and girls who went from place to place from night to night, lving th2ir own life, speaking their own jargon. He thouzht it would do us good. and them good, he went on, if we would consent to make this personally con- ducted tour under his supervision. and be introduced to the galaxy of twinkle- | toes and nimble-footed lads who sling a mean hoof. “Why, we have a language all of our own.” he kept on insisting. “Nobody outside would know what we are talk- ing about. Suppose you heard one of us saying. ‘That big brute is a flop. You wouldn't know what that meant." l'Sur(‘ I would." id we, rather net- tied “Well, you might,” he admitted. “You seem to understand a lot of things. But I mean just average persons.” LR He leaned forward in the attitude of BY FREDERIC WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. 't"l:: man who s trying to sell some- g. 'Most people wouldn't know, though, and most people would do 't ulvul good by watching us for awhile.” He said it so earnestly that one could not take exception to a single word of it. Somehow or other it carrled con- viction. No doubt every single person in the world would be benefited by go~ ing around to the dancing places and watching and listening to this group of gay young fellows who took themselves so_seriously. We gathered that these were not lounge lizards, as they were called at one time, but boys who had a mission in life, and that mission consisted in learning and executing the dance steps —with varfations. Our visitor exhibited his left foot-—we believe it was his left. Maybe it was his right. To one not versed in the art, the difference between left and right is not so easy. “See that foot?" he asked. Suspecting some catch, we did not know whether to admit that we saw it or not. Since it was so evident, how- | ever, we did not see how we could get |out of it. So the answer was in the affirmative. “Well, you have to bring vour right foot. down over it, and give it § tap as you do, and—-' “You slifiped, or something,” we hazarded. “Exactly,” he replied, hugely grati- “I hit it too hard, that was all.” xactly,” repiled we, quick'on the trigger. “You hit it too hard.” Nk ok Somehow all this about feet seemed to put the conversation on an ex- | tremely friendly footing. Before long | We began to think that, after all, we | had been missing something by not vis- iting these intercsting people. But | pretty soon we began to think that we | had not seen the Hottentots, either, and [ the Hottentots are a very Interesting people. from all accounts. ~ NeitHer had we visited the kindly Samoyed people, Wwhose dogs are not supposed to bite inl\\l';)nd,\‘, and we had got along fairly well, ; Afier our visitor had gone we de- | cided against the popular instruction ‘\l'hk‘h he so kindly offered. It would do us no good to renew the days of our youth in this fashion. Youth for- ever thinks it is “pulling” something surprisingly new when it takes to queer |dress, strange dances and queerer |slang. The slang of today varies con- | siderably from that of 20 years ago, | | as that did from the popular patols of a score of ycars before that, but it is all allke in basic construction, prin- | ciple, application. | It'our earnest young friend in the | bright tie would read his Theophile | Gautier he would discover that the | Ray young bloods of Paris many years 1ago went in for bushy hair and huge | neck cowerings. and that one (Gautler | himself) almost broke up the first per- formance of Victor Hugo's “Ernanie” |with a vivid bright red waistcoat. | Those boys of long ago were interested | in play writing rather than dancing, | but the spirit of their revolt was ex- { actly the same. They, too, thought that they comprised an exelusive *gang.” as no doubt tiey did in the last analysis. | Youth does indecd run to extrem | but time has a way of cutting down | | the edgcs. so that by the age of 30 or | | more years a human being begins to sec that much that he may have re- | garded os essential in lfe is only so much flubdub. If he can come to this | realization without breaking too many | {1dols, and can keep with him the carnestness which made even his| | foolishness worth while. he will have | done a areat thing for himself and for " his world. WILLIAM WILE. | understand ‘There's more than meets the.eye In | Nicaragua, that, “officially or not, the | the full-dress announcement that the | United States is at war, with the same Democratic national committee has | harvest of horror, death and desolation™ wiped out its entire indebtedness from |Wwhich the armistice of November, 1918, within the regular party ranks. It i is supposed to have ended. Written in means that the Democrats are propar- | the lurid terms in which the critics of ing to make campaign funds a pi mount issue in the 1928 presidential contest. What it particularly denotes ir that the Democrats !ntend cemparing their financial purity with recent reve- lations before the Senate ofl committee as to the source of the Republicans' sinews. Teapot Dome was at the Demo- crats’ disposal in 1924 as fighting wa- teriz]l, but John W. Davis, their presi- dential nomince, declined to exploit it on the ground that his Repbublican op- ponent, Calvin Coolidge, was not con- nected with the ol scandais. Bu nee Will H. Hays recently disclosed the ac- ceptance of huge contributions to the official Republican party organization from Harry F. Sinclair, many Demn- cratic leaders have concluded there's full warrant in 1928 for capitalizing a situation of which the party fafled to take complete advantage in 1024, e * Once again there's proof that big business plays no political favorites. Silas H. Strawn, eminent Chicago cor- poration lawyer and President Cool- 1 recent special commissicner to has just been revealed as a hutor to both the Republican and Democratic campalgn funds. Strawn declined appointment as government counsel in the ofl scandals three years ago because of professtonal relations with banks Interested in petroleum. Al the ofl quiz before the Senate public lands committee it was brought out that Strawn gave $1,000 to the G. O. P, when Will Hays and Fred Upham were wiping out thé 1920 campalgn deficit. On the #ame day Chairman Clem Shaver listed Strawn for $1,000 among the angels Wwho turned the Demccratic defleit into W bulging surplus. Strawn's business partnerships have been as bi-partisan as his campaign contributions. John Barton Payne, Democrat, was head of Strawn's law firm before becoming Sec- ry of the Interior, and one of the Chicagoan’s present partners is Gareard B. Winston, lately Mr. Mellon's under- secretary of the Treasury. * oo, “Lindy” 1 all vight.* He has not suf- fered w norvous breakdown, nor does he [reveal the slightest indication of suc- cumbing to 50 fashionable a malady Storler on that acore, which spread alarm all over the country this week, are authoritatively declared to be with- out a shued of foundation. Ry Willi P MacCracken, Jr., Assiatant Secret of Commerce for Acronmuties, the ya are branded “bunk” and “applesauc MacCracken ranks as nhout the closest fitend Col. Lindbergh has in Washing- ton. - No man sees more of the fyer than Hoover's air leutenant. and the MacOracken home §5 “Lindy's” favorite retreal In the Capital. The world's most fumous alrman 15 the survivor not only of unparaticled flying feats, what i constderably more of of. roundly. 10 months of hero shiping. Hix friends know that it 1s this, rather than the wear and tear of Il trav that unnerves Lindbergh If the country would let him alone for the next 60 days, it would colebrate the Arst Anniversary of his Mew York-Paria hop in the way “Lindy” wounld lke best C Retusal of the Henate forelgn reln- Uons committee (o heed demands for withdrawal of the Marines from Nica- ragus comeldes with the publication of “Machine-Gun Diplomacy,” Just pub- lished In New York s named Jo A M Hopkins and Melinda Alexan- der nre the suthors and they appear to he sponsored by the “Commitiee of rty-elght of the National Burean of Tuformation and Education. “Machine- Gun IIplomacy” s advertised s "' volley wt frengied Anance ™ 10 purports feshion, He makee every point of con- | Eive the Fepublican voters in the Btates tact, bt bis synchronization 1e not per-len opportunity W express thelr direet fect. Commitiees of reception and ar- pieference for him. A merely “recep. / " [ YA sinner” sald Uncle Eben, “diinks #in an’ eats chicken. But he spolls his digestion by worry,” to desciiba the presant methods of Wall Hireot, alded and ahstted by Washington,” It aeserts, veleiring (o you gave me.' llh« administration’s Central American policy lagibast it, the book professes to “lift the veil that has shrouded these | fllegal and costly 3 .. Mott Gunther, who was 3 ¥ appointed American Minister to Egzypt. will assume his duties at Cairo in troublous times. Matters are | hastening to a crisis between Great | Britain and Kinz Fuad's government, | which resents John Bull's reluctance to relinquish his stranglehold on the Suez Canal” Gunther and the American Je- gation may be pitchforked into the An- | {2lo-Egyptian maelstrom, because Great ! | Pritain is claiming the United States ! |precedent i guarding the Panama | Canal as a justification for not relaxing | her grip on the vital waterway that {Unks Dritannia with India. Gunther 30es to the Nile well equipped in the fns {and outs of international politics after |20 successive years in diplomacy. His | | “earcer” service has taken him in that span to Japan, France, Nicaragua, Por- tugal, Brazil, Nor England. the | | Netherlands and Italy. Throughout the | | World War Gunther was a secretary of | the American embassy at London. Lat- | terly he has been chief of the Mexican | | Diviston in the State Department, R Washington has survived its first of- | | fietal vEt from Mayor Walker, and has | e to the conclusion that he fs w | egular fellow—a title “Jimmie" would | ather have than any degree or other | | distinetion that could be conferred upon [him. He turned up late for appoint- ments with the President and eabinet |offcers without visible indications of re- morse. But he hadn't been with theme— eventually, 1f not on time—very long before the idol of Manhattan was in ) thelr good graces. Walker's publie repu- {tatlon is that of n “wise-cracker,” and (e feels called upon to live up to'it. In private contacts and espectally {n se ous negottations, such as those which hrought him to Washington this weck, “Jimmie” can turi on a dignified and confidence-Inspiring side of himself. His friends expect him to wind up as Goy- ernor of New York, with possibilities leading to n certain point South, “oweowow Winston Churchill, the ha chancellor of the Britg the Baldwin cabinet, recently paid the following after-dinner tribute to what e called “Ameriean efficlency™. On my last visit to the United Statds 1 handed my hat to a colored attendant on duty at the door of a hotel restau- rant. As he didn't give me & check, 1 had qualims as to whether I'd get (he Hght hat baek. But, sure enough, it was duly returned. “How did you know | thin was my hat™ 1 asked my dusky friend I don't know whether if {s yo hat, boss! he replled, ‘but it's the o if-American shexchequer in 107 r——— Possibly the Reverse, From the New York sun ‘The National Qeographio Soclety he. UHeves that leap year is due to mmiumf t Wouldn't it be more accurate to put the other way round? | ...t Plenty More, From (he Detioit News ‘The discouraging note I the case of the New Haven woman who left her husband because he played a saxaphone Is that there are apparently enough saxophones to go around ) Uppers in the Alps, Fiom the Flocence. Ala . Herald Awltzeland has ite firat Pullinan tratn Those mountain elimbers should ll'\m'il It posalble W negotiats t upper eith, Attack on John J. Esch 1 Denounced as Unfair To the Editor of The Star: Your issue of March 6, 1928, carried the news that the interstate commerce committee of the Senate had by a vote of 10 to 7 rejected the nomination of Mr. John J. Esch for reappointment to the Interstate Commerce Commission. This is & most unfortunate situation and one which is of the gravest concern to those who practice before the Inter- state Commerce Commission and know by dally contact the uusually high cgnrlcur of the entire commission and its personnel. To those who know, it has always been especlally gratifying that this important department whose decislons are so enormously important has heretofore succeeded in keeping itself comparatively free of political domination; and that its cases are honestly decided upon fair considera- tion of the evidence Instead of being controlled by the political influence of great interests, Apparently the West Virginia op- erators have been waging labor wars so | - long that their ethical sensibilities are dulled, for while their latest case was pending before the commission, we are Informed that they embarked on an active propaganda campaign which ripened into this viclously unfair attack on Commissioner Esch. ‘We do not belleve that some of the Senators taking part in the attack originally understood the true situation and that they must have been misled by some of their constituents. They based their attack on one or the other of two grounds (1) that the commission was unwarrantably setting itself up as an economic dictator and was making rates according to its own conceptions of the economic needs of particular sections; or (2) that political pressure had induced Commissioner Esch ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. to to change his vote to secure reappoint- | Lot bl Many readers send in questions signed only with initials, asking that the answer appear in the nswspaper. 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 that asks the question only. All questions should be accompanied with the writer’s name and address and a two-cent stamp for reply. Send your question to The Evening Star Informa- tion Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, direc- tor, Washington, D. C. . How muny_pl:yu have had more than 500 performances on Broadway?— B. T A. Up to June 15, 1927, there had been 23. They were “Able's Irish Rose,” 2,179 performances; “Lightnin’,” Tl Bat,” 867; “The “Seventh Heave! Cargo,” 702 692; “East Is West : “A Trip to Chinatown,” 637 B43; "'Is S0, 18; “ Blossom Time," 592; 571; “Sally,” 570; Master.” 540: " §22; “Sunny." 7; “The Vagabond King, | 511, and “Shuffle Along,” 504. | @ What are the av | an air mail pilot?—J. “The Music age earnings of WoF . The average pay of commercial pilots (this includes air mail pilots) ranges from $300 to $300 a month. Q. What countries other than ours raise oysters for the market?—D. C. M. A. The various countries which raise oysters for market besides ours are Germany, Holland, Spain, Italy, Australia, China, Japan, ment, On (1), the economic phase, we think some of them have really been confused, as they cannot sce the difference be- tween cause and cffect. Of course, the effect of any relative change in rates is bound to have an economic result. favorable to those getting the lowered rate and unfavorable to those who have to pay the relatively highier rates, but such a forecasted effect was not the ause of the readjustment. Those who the situation know that rates are primarily considered either under section 1, as to their reasonable- ! ness, or under section 3, as to their prejudicial nature; and in the back- ground stands section 15-a which puts a duty on the commission to fix “as nearly as maybe” an adequate level of rates. In the foreground now is the Hoch-Smith resolution which seemingly docs seek to dictate rates to meet eco- nomic considerations, but that's the handiwork of Congress itself. But even if the commission should be guilty of taking Congress seriously, why pick on any one commissioner? On (2), the matter of the so-c of that the Supreme Court has repeatedl sald that the commission must act on the evidence before it in the particnlar case which it is considering. Th: principle of “Stare Decisis™ doesn’t con- trol the commission in its function of rate making for future application, and it would be an unfortunate situation indeed if shippers who may really have great merit in their contentions, but who failed to support same with suffi- cient evidence the first time, should be | forever thereafter precluded from get- ting another consideration of the merits in a subsequent case in which they conld produce ample evidence to sustain | their plea for relief, Pennsylvania has the doudt Y tion of having been the first one guilty of trying to “pack” the commission by its attitude towards the confirmation of | Commissioner Woedlock and the nomi- | nation of Cyrus Woods. The nomina- tion of Mr. Woods was properly rejected | for that very reason, and now the West Virgina group is resorting to the same | reprehensible tactics in attacking Esch because his vote in the last case was adverse to their interests. Of course, If Mr. Esth changed his| vote for the sake of reappointment, and epecially if that vote was clearly con- trary to the evidence, he would deserve | defeat. Mr. Esch hes a long public record and the Senators who attack him are guilty of the most paradoxical inconsistency when they admit there y | Canada. Mexico and certain parts of | Bouth America and Algeria. In these | different species of oysters, {are similar in 1 of which structure to our own. {though some do not grow quite so' | Q. Should zutomobiles wait for pedes- trians or pedestrians wait for automo- | biles?>—W. P. | A. Pedestrians and motorists should | bear a considerate attitude each to the | other. ~Along rural highways, when- | ever “there are suitable sidewalks or | paths, pedestrians should use them.| | | facing the traffic, but should not force | Q. What efties in Alaska ha at | Nome, Ketchikan and Petersburg have | various countrles there are about 10 Where there is none they can generaily | walk most safely on the left-hand side, ! ism and 12 forms of Christianity. Re- liglous freedom is absolute in the empire. Q. When was Lou Gehriz born? Hn hv:l:h; and weight? 1s he left-handess A. Lou Gehrig was born in 1903. Pn. height is 6 feet, 'fl’h‘ 200 Jmfl’ldl. He bats and throws left-handed. e Q. How many versions of Bocklins “Island of Death” are thete?—M. M. A. There are extant at least six. The paintings, however, vary in composi tion and in the scheme of color. Some are light in tone, others are somber. Q. Is it correct to say “I bid him farewell,” using “bid” in the past tense, or should it be “bade™>—W. W A. “Bid” may be used as the pas* tense of the verb “to bid.” cham- ib«-n of commerce?—B. R. A. Anchorage, Cordova. Fairbanks, them. Q. From what source is the Russian alphabet derived?—W. C. 8. { _A._ The characters are derived fr i the Byzantine Greek of the ninth ce | tury. ~ To"this, “Cyril added others ‘o { cover Slavonic sounds and thus increas- ed the number to 35 letters.” . How many women are there in | State Legislatures?—L. T. | A._ Tnere are now 126. Of these, 86 are Republicans; 34, Democrats; 4, n;) }Farty aesignation; 1, non-partisan; ndependent. Q. Who are the Druses?—M. J. L. | A. The Druses form a community of Arabic-speaking mountaineers number- |ing about 150,000, scattered thr different parts of Syria.. ‘The settlement in the Jebel Hauran is the most im- portant, owing to its virtual independ- ence. The Druses are so-calied from the missionary, Dar: d the sect In the firs eleventh Christian ce Q. What is the largest section in the United States that is without a rail- road?—A. W. D. A. In the State of Texas there is a section. said to embrace 50,000 square miles, -fifth the area of the State in which there is no railroad. is the largest railroadless area in | motor traffic out of line or otherwise | impede it. In cities pedestrians should | { keep within the boundarfes of desig- { nated safety zones and crossing places | and. when there is congestion. to cross | only with ths traffic. Motorists should | be required to accord pedestrians safe and dignifled use of such safety zones and crossihg places. Q. Where is the district in London called Mimms?—A. M. M. | A. There is no district actually in ! London called Mimms. North Mimms is in Hertfordshire. The manor was | held by the Bishop of Chester as early | as the reign of Edward the Confessor. iiouth Mimms is 14!; miles from Lon- on. | Q@ was Alexander Graham Bell | born in this country?—A. T. T. A. He was born in Edinburgh. Scot- land. March 3. 1847; moved to Canada | in August. 1870. and came to Boston 1in 1871 as a teacher of deaf mutes. Q Why does a discordant note in music produce an unpleasant sensa- tion?—A. T. B. A. The Bureau of Standards says that Helmholtz's explanation of why a discordant musical note will offend the car is.as follows: The essence of dis- sonance consists merely in very rapid beats or changes in intensity of the sound. Two consonant tones flow on quietly side by side in an undisturbed stream: dissonant tones cut each other up- Into separate pulses. These pulses may be too rapid for the ear to sepa~ rateQbut their existence may be dem- onstrated. The nerves of hearing feel | these rapid beats as rough and un-! | pleasant because every intermittent e: citement of any nervous apparatus af- fects us more powerfully than one that lasts unaltered. no question but that he is a man of the | most spotless character Irrespective of any effect upon Mr Esch as an individual, the great prinei-| ple which is involved is whether orderly courses should be overthrown and losing sides be encournged to political reprisals to coerce the decisions of the commis- | sion. It is evident from the daily press re- ports that at least the newspaper corre- spondents now understand the true in wardness of the situation. and the at- tacking Senators must also know in their hearts tn what an untenable situa- | | tion they are involved. Politics and human nature being what they are, it is to be expected that the attacking Senators will press their mi take to a bitter end. but it is certainly very much ta be hoped that the Senate as & whole will rise to this opportunity | 1Countr_v Regret Over Initial Airplane Flight , to act with statesmanship. MOULTRIE HITT, CLARENCE A MILLER. S Dupont Circle Citizens Favor Midcity Market To the Editor of The Star: In the fssus of The Star Tuesday, March 6, 1928, reporting the meeting of the Dupont Circle Citizens' Assocts ation, you say, “Market Stand Upheld. adding: “No action was taken to/ chang» the association’s support of the southwest site for the Farmers' Market, although Dr. Gearge H. Richardson spoke at length in favor of the Fifth and K streets location This 1s quite erroneous, as a vote was taken and the assoclation went on | record as supporting the mideity site, | only (wo voting against it 1 MRS. WM. BARRET RIDGELY, Secretary of the Dupont Circle Citis Assoctation Lobbyist Measure Is Held From the Yakima Daily R Members of Congress are s frankly afrald of thelr own weaknesses of char- acter that they are going to protect themselves and their country by pro- | viding that all lobbvists vegister with the Senate and Houss and submit monthly accounts of themselves, thei activities and their expenies, The dafi- | nition of the term “lobbying™ under the | act gonsists of almost evervthing that | might Influence congresstonal leglsla- | tion. Under this proposed act any of | our good citisens may go to jafl if they write a letter to their Congressman or any other Congressman on a publi question unless they register under this | md-m\ report the cost of the postage | use | Lobbylng is & 'm'ulrh-us practioe in. | tended (o surreptitiously influence legise | Iative mction ov it is the necessary edu eation of our public ofictals o the needs of the people, depending alto hflmr upon whether the work iy betng lone by our opponents or ourselves Those aatute Congressmen should recos- | nige the diference and only legisla mgalnst the baneful actiittes of the position, leaving our side fiee to en- lghten the members Without embattass g questions e wked. whenevet those members ahow signs of wandering from the fold This In another case of resorting to the eany but ineffectual ethod of pass- | g A law to cure an evil. Rather than o vely an thelt own fntegrity aud fudg - ment, thesa Congressien ave trytng (o Koo from belng fluenced by the slmple act of ahutting off the argy ments The Introduetion of the faw has the one good oftect of announciog | to the world that these Qo resnmen | ave afvald of thamselves and caniet vely on el owi characters, ibterfuge | | ave now | hatitntion reflects no - glory Q. Which ratliroad has the | number of stockholders?—G. E. A. The Pennsylvania—142,622, at the Iatest report largest Q. What percentage of tha psople of Japan are literate>—A. J. C. A. The rate of literacy is extremely | high. being 98 or 99 per cent of the population. Q. Is the religion of Buddhism di vided tnto sects as is the Christian re- ligion?—S. W, A. Like the Christian religion, while | fundamental principles and doctrines are usually accepted. there i1s wide di- vergence doctrine and Buddhism. In Japan there are sects of Buddhism, 1 12 be instructed. urged and required to| 3 sects of Shinto.' achusetts, Rhode Island and Delawa Q Is there such a word as “w: gan"?—H. G. A. Wangan is ‘a name applied by lumberjacks to their camps. Q. Who was Lady Hamilton?—S. D. N. A. Lady Hamilton was the wife of | the diplomat Lord Hamilton, and was famed both as the favorite of Lord Nelson, the British naval hero, and as the model of the artist Romney, who painted 30 portraits of her. Q. Does it cost much more to build a ship in this country than it does in Europe?—J. J. A. Shipping authorities say that it costs approximately 50 per cent more u;bni;fl a ship in American yards than abroad. Q. en was television first attempt- | ed?—A. G. N. A. There is no authoritative record as to when the idea was first conceived. but scientists were working toward television is carly as 1906. . Q. What method of capital puni ment is used in Utah?—A. T. C. A. Persons sentenced to death in Utah have the choice of being either shot or hung. Q. Which President attained the | greatest age?—E. L. 7 t me”mm O{ué.m:{d"m .:lohn | Adams was o President {lived to & Kredter age. Q. When are hotbeds and cold frames used?—K. C. A. A bed heated 'from the bottom by means of pipes, flues or fermenting or- ganic matter is used for seed germina- , tion and plant growing. It is used for short-season vegetables and for start- ing garden crops in order to have them mature early. An unheated frame is used to carry half-hardy plants over Winter for planting the next or when only slight protection s | needed. Q Of the gas that is consumed in the United States what proportion is natural and what proportion is artie ficial?>—S. T. K. A. Three-fourths of all the | burned n this country-is natural gas. Q. How many people are accidentale o ly drowned>—Y. E. C. A.In the United States in 1 there were 6480 accidenta! drown: in 1925 there were 6,436 and in 19: there were 7.380. s Acrimony “Compromise” is the advice of the coune try to those who have been engased the ted controversy over the respecs tive claims of tha Wright brothers and of ends of Samuel P. Langley as to priority uction of an afre is regretied that Orville ided to put his plane in the se of the attitude ation. and the possibility of salviag the problem is se- riously discussed. Both the Wrights and Mr.Langley, who was of t sontan, have their supporters claim of priority. The offy tion on (he Langley mach cause of the dispute. Trom the showing in atreraft devels opment which the Smithson nsti tion col " argues the Dayton D News, it could not be supposed t the Wright brothers had made more than subsidiary contributions to avias tion. Why is this? he present control of tv more loval to Pr never made for hims: made in hi behalf 1 the truth nstitut ¢t 10oks Nike & Proper subioct of inquiry by a distnte ested scfentifie body set to the task no other method s ests by the United States Qovernment “Whether or not the Langley chine. ‘i (he opinton of many compes tent to mudee, was the fiest capadle’ of this feat™ suggests the New York Eves ning Poat, uestton. 16 the Wrights did 1t fest, the surviving trother should not be asked (0 share that glory because of expert theory that another t could have beaten them ™ v The Wiight attitude is viewed by the New Langley fnseription, “The frst mane Cartying atrplane i the history of the world capable of sustated free fdight,” | whieh the Workd holds to be “ireeating 10 ISt 0F Us, becattye of s speculative nature.” and that paper concludes that | wmachine | “tha which et 15 that did Ay was the chime” wnd that “the belojigs I Washington * Reparter feels that the st Wright was | Wiight plane | The Abllenws the Smithsontan o lselt | Becatse M attitude has resulted in the | foss (0 Ameriea of the frst machine to ! Oritletame of My Weight's pasition | oames from the San Francies Bulletin, | Whioh states “Orville Wright s not | helping his causs by sending the origls WAl 1903 Wright atrplane (o the Buitish National Museum. — Puiting his plane | A forelan museum will not settle the dlsite as ta the credit belonging to Nl and his brother, 1t will prove onty N e conduct of the | ma- 1y MOTE OF less A abwtrack York World fn the Maht of tha | | that he is more peevish than pat otie, * * * Nevertheless, the Nation is proud of the work done by the Wright brothers; so proud that it would pre- fer to keep their plane in this cou 100 have it sent where its ex bition might be misconstrusd can neglect of pioneer sviator “Orville Wright has not elevated hir self in the good opimion of tho T2 be some comfort to the tves At the same time, it s the practically universal opinfon of men with experience that Prof. Langley was o the right track. and that fatlure imake A successtl AR wao s some minor iadvertence. *xowow “As A cliisen of the W Ar. W WY selecting t country as the rey 1O the inttial succass in {aerial navigation,” st L3 and Americans sho a w Wright that the pans here. No ald controve he way. Mere i C have a great industrial m : completed & Wil be a SO LNPOTtAN an fnends TSUpracticadle airplan { “Whatever the mer N Accanding o Pooner-Joarhal, e DIANes must accond credy Well s the Wiight b mer barely mbsed acvamp ng dream of A lieime, His wachine merged I the Potamas, he dwed n extremety s the history ot L { broken heart. But brithant sucoess thive of these ploneers, However mhohies may de ladvled at this t history will sift the truth fram the o troveray and give to each his propes Place That place and the detnite e ord af 1t oshould he establiahed i o Sreal Ametivan musem. The Lexmgton Leader also delioves that “the afforts af the Wrights will not (Al of appreciationn and Prol tangley A Ehe cone Of vears, will teceive the credit that behwgs t him * Thas PaBer honever, takes the wsition thac® Tihe pullie has 0 ARe made wp s mind, boath m America and atvoad, that the Aight At Kty Hawk was the be- RIIUNG 0f & New era. and thar the TOthers wha wade 1t are the teal - ventors of the alrplana” S - . 3