Evening Star Newspaper, March 13, 1928, Page 8

8 {THE :EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY.......March 13, 1928 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor usiness Ofh v . and Pennsylvania Ave. rk Office: 110 East 42nd St w0 Oftice: Tower Buildine. Office: 14 Regent St., London, England The Errnlngfis‘lar Newspaper Company 111h New Yo Chi, Chic European Rate by Carrier Within the City. The Evening Star . 150 per month The Eveming and Sun, (when 4 Sundays) The Evemag and (when 3 ar 60¢ ver merth ar . .83c per month The Sunday cSacin e aoBE T CONY Collection made at the end of each month, Orders may be sent 1o by mail or telephone, Namn 5000, Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. .\’;nr_vlmtl and Virginia. Daily and Suadas. Daily oniy Sunday only . All Other S Datly and Sunds Daily only _......1%r. Sunday only .....1yr. Member of the . ted Press. The Associated Press 1s exclusively entitled 0 the use for republication of all news patches credited 10 1t or not otherise Jted in this papar and also the local new published herein. Al rishts of publieation ©f special dispatches herein are aleo reserved = - The Feather Duster Legislature. It is sometimes suggested that the ghame and scandal of the Feather Duster Legislature, in the seventies of the last century, should prohibit forever any thought of voting at elections for any purpose in the District. But the eonditions have no relevancy nor per- tinent bearing of any sort upon the eonstitutional amendment issue in 1928, the issue of national representation for the District. Like “the flowers which bloom In the Spring, tra-la.” they have nothing to do with the case. : If there is & warning in the terri- torial experiment of 1871-4, it is against the kind of voting which then pre- walled, & voting not for American representation in House, Senate and Electoral College, but for members o one branch of a so-called territorial Jegislature and for a voteless delegate in the House. Our contention is that only full voting representation in Congress and the Electoral College, with per- manency guaranteed by constitutional suthorization, will attract District resi- dents with votes in the States to transfer their votes to the District, and that nothing less than such represen- tation es the result of such votes should be desired or accepted. The warning of 1871-4 is against the delusive representation by a vote- Jess delegate in the House and through one branch of a “territorial” legisla- ture, which, in the last analysis, has only the power of legislative petition to Congress, since Congress can only to s limited extent delegate its exclusive power of District legislation. There is also the warning that local self-government is impossible for us| clared that Congress had no power to delegate to anybody its constitutional But while a territorial form of gov- ernment is obviously inadequate and unfit for the District of today, and we miliation, of shame, of injury and dis- tress. But it had also its benefifs. It developed into & positive force the na- tional sense of obligation and duty in derfully and justly prospered. Nation is now revising its rela- financial and political, with the and public-spirited population than seven of the States. paying more na- ure proposed by Representative Davis of Tennessee, to apportion broadcasting power on a population basis within the i political divisions of the five radio zones into which the country is divided, it |retained all the bad features of the original Davis measure in so far as ef- fective reception is concerned. The !dmm of the high-powered station is {spelled by the measure passed by the House if the Scnate concurs, for, under the terms of the House bill, the State of New Jersey, which now has 49,000 watts of power, largely concentrated in the superpower station WJZ, will have only 16,000 watts, scattered through sta- tions now existing. New Jersey is but an exemple. For the bill also provides {that the existing station arrangement { b2 not disturbed. To bring the matter (more closcly home to Washington, it jalso means that under the proposed |legislation Station WRC, in Washington, .| will be cut from its present rating down i 3:0 less than 100 watts, placing it in the j class of some small-town operator who does not expect to reach out to any ) | more than a narrowly limited group of listeners. The thickly populated Eastern section iof the country is the chief sufferer from ! this legislation. In the East are con- centrated the four high-power stations— KDKA. WEAF, WGY and WJZ. Al |these would sufier drastic cuts under | the bill as passed by the House. The | smaller stations, rating down to 100 | watts, and WRC. with its 500 watts, would virtually lose their identities. | The bl has at teast one good fea- ture. It extends the life of the harrassed { Federal Radio Commission for a vear. But it places on the commission another well-nigh insuperable task. that of again arranging the radio spectrum so that power will be distributed equi- ably. The sole effect of such a measure 1as the bill passed by the House would | seem to be to cripple the advance of | radio. ] The Welch Bill. Next week hearings will begin before the House committee on civil service | lon the measure known as the Welch Ibill, which proposes a changs in the salary scale of the Government. This | {bill, proposed in an earlier Congress by |the late Representative Nolan of Cali- fornia. 1s intended to revise the pay rolls of the Federal forces to correct the inadequacies left by the reclassi- fication act of 1923, which was the first general revision in the Govern- ment’s system of compensations for more than half a century. The act of 1923, when put into effect, afforded only slight relief to the departmental jworkers in a large majority of cases. It actually, in some instances, as a re- sult of the reclassification of positions and allocation to grades, brought about losses of income to the workers. Ever since the reclassification act was put into effect efforts have been made | to secure relief from the conditions, in part resulting from that enactment, under which the Government employes have been suffering. The Nolan, now the Weich, bill proposes a new scale of pay, which. adding some millions an- nually to the Government's pay roll, | .ymds a scale that is more nearly equi- ! | table to the employes. It starts by bring- {ing the lowest pay in the “custodial service” from $600 to $780 a year. In |the clerical, administrative and fiscal iservice, which embraces the largest |number of the Federal employes, it raises the minimum in the lowest grade from $1,140 to $1,500. In the pro- fessional and scientific service, which | has always been subjected to a lower | scale than the high requirements of the ‘;war‘( Justify, the minimum is increased i from $1,860 to $2,200 While the policy of administrative | economy, established as the governing | principle of the Pederal service, re- quires the closest watchfulness over all proposals for increased expenditures, this is a measure that commands the sympathetic support of those who know | the condition of the Government’s op- | erating force. The average of pay in| | the Federal service is low, actually lower | than in the skilled trades and in many of the private business ocoupations. The United States requires its opera. j tives, custodial, clerical and technical, i tional taxes ring soldlers | t0 serve at compensations that would and sailors ':’nd n::: the :?:l;n'; bat- | not be tolerated in other lines, where | cultivate THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, !of such installations cite the fact that traffic density varies during the day to a degree that makes it impossible prop- erly to synchronize the system to meet the best needs of the situation. Pro- ponents hold, on the other hand, that congested slow-moving traffic exactly fits Into the scheme of automatic regu- Jation, which is'sharper and more de- cisive than manual control, and for this reaso is more effective in dissipating potential jams. In most cities the congosted sections are the first to be treated with auto- matic lights based on the theory that where policemen formerly were needed to direct trafMe. lights should logically be placed. Washington, however, at- tacked the problem from the other end and two of its main thoroughfares, ex- tending well into -the residential dis- tricts, were the first to have automatic signal lights. Following a period of ex- perimentation, the Massachusetts ave- nue and Sixteenth street systems were so synchronized that it is now possible to drive from one end to the other with- out a stop—a condition much to be de- sired. It may not be feasible in down- town installations to carry out the same plan, owing to the varied speed of vehicles, but Washingtonians are now thoroughly accustomed to mechan- ical regulation and should welcome modern and progressive steps designed for the promotion of safe motoring. Mr. Harland's experiments, therefore, will be awaited with interest. D —— Reports of new Paris revues indicate that they have fallen into a rut and neglected to get the latest American ideas. B Investigation leaves the possibility open that Rockefeller millions may be | philanthropically applied to the refor- | mation of ofl speculators. ——————— There is an evident desire to call everybody “on location” to show just how the present dictator of the moving pictures handled certain funds for cam- paign purposes. ————— A refusal to exploit criminals in print may prove a deterrent of ‘crime. The morbid mind covets the spotlight at any cost. | B nature cause a loss of life that should | prevent thought of a risk of war leading to further sacrifice. — e Candidates who say they are “too old" overlook Hindenburg, who, . though no romping youth, is regarded as a pretty good president. ) An income tax return leaves the aver- age citizen regretful because he was not born with the gifts of an expert ac- countant. ———— ‘The March climate has been com- paratively moderate. Only an inaugu- ration year brings out its most energetic demonstrations. e b While Vice President Dawes favors an unusual pipe, it is Senator Borah who raises the big smoke. ————————— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON, Days. Old days and new days. Winter, with its snow, Brought us a few days Of trouble long ago. New days and old days— When the Summer's warm, We'll wish for the cold days And for the sleety storm. Those days and these days, As they come and go— Some-that-will-please days— Others fraught with woe. Smile days and' tear days, As we face the strife; Hope days and fear days, Make the span of life. Off With the Dance. Accidents in traffic and the havoc of |y, | frame an agreement in advance for the | borough—but | first congressional session of the next | seems bent on demonstrating that it is “Why don't you learn to dance?” “I was a very good dancer,” answered Senator Sorghum. the accomplishment. It ties than many of the States. There is no ground whatever, in jus tice or decency, or in accord with Ame: fean fundamental principles, on whicl the Nation can refuse the half million District residents national representa- tion. ——— A Quake-Wrecked Dam. Prom Los Angeles todsy comes word of & disaster by water unique in his- tory. A dam containing, it is estimated, more than three billion cubic feet of water was broken by en earthquake at an early hour this morning and a flood swept Gown @ narrow valley with a loss of life that is estimated between three hundred and five hundred, Heretotore dams have broken through structural Gefects or under excessive flood pres- sures. This one. it would seem, wa wrecked by an earthshock such #s that |an excuse for non-enactment at this | teach the civilized world to play mah- | regim occasionally experiences. No element of human negligence or insde- quacy en'ers intn this tragedy. It was an act of nature and humanity pays a beavy toll This dam was part of the water sup- ply system of Lot Angeles, contribuling tn the grest feeder aqueducts leading ¥ that city. A lively warfare has been waged sgainst the system hy ranchers wiho have resented the deflection of wa- | ter needed by them for irrigation, and rumerous conflicts have occurred siong the condyit lines, has now taken pert with & ehocking result R ] in this warfare Gitie showered on Lindbergh Jeave bim tne pomessor of one of the finest museume on esrth. He prefers fiying | with the mail to lecturing for the bene- h {the workers have greater freedom of | |action. Heads of familles are com- | pelled to maintain themselves on sal- | aries that are insufficiont to meet the obligations incident to a decent scale lo! living. There is no margin for emer- | gencies, none for even small luzuries. | | Yet these people are required to live in | keeping with a high standard. They | i have few opportunities to earn addi- | tional sums from “outside work.” They | | are tax=d a percentage of their pay for | | the retirement fund. ! The Welch bill has been carefully | prepared, with due regard for the Gov- ernment’s interests as well as for those | lof the workers of the Federal service. At the hearings soon to begin the equi- | tes of this proposed scale will be fully | | demonsirated. Only a positive, psremp- !tory refusal on the score of administra- ! tive economy can effectively be cited as sessfon. All who know the straits of | the Government workers, who appreci- ate the Inadequacy of the reclassifica- {tion act which, after more than fifty {years of neglect, was passed to correct | the pay seale, will wish for favorable {action by the House committee followed | by the passage of the bill through the | House P Handbook gamblers have been oblects | of poiice attention for many years. They are perhaps less prosperous than the The unstable eartih bootleggers, but are as hard 1o get rid of. | . -omo Downtown Signals. Traffic Director Harland hus recom- | looked to me as if 1 was planning to | than in an election | Summer of '28, ‘The candidates are all in line To meet a mighty test, And ready for the fray so fine, ‘To show which man is best. The pugilist, though wide-awake, In strife should not engage. It would not be polite to take ‘The center of the stage, Jud Tunkins rays & mummy sure rounded by treasure looks to him lke tome one who had been evading the tax mssessor, “The ancient wisdom of China," sal Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “has, alas, effected little so far, except to | Jong!” i Delinquent Muse, Of poets we find little need, Where once there were 5o many. From poetry life must be freed-- Because there isn't any. “Religlon,” sald Uneéle Eben, comfort unless you let it git yo up in some kind of & quarr " The Double Bantlefield, War i e What makes It worse s that every batle in Micaragun has to be fought Lover sgain in the United States Henate, oL and Arction, iy mixed From the Onia mended 1o the Commissioners that | From tie Sioux Ciy Daily Tribune work be stared on & modined system | There are fuelless motors and fuelless of sutomatic trafc control in the cons | fIINACES, but W get action out of them |18 quite another matter gested section. Differing’ widely from i e 5 Bt of vourist visitors PSS s — A Radio-Crippling Measure. The end of satisfactory radio broad- ceating i in sight, The “revised” Davis bk, which will bripg brosdeasting power | oue and independent signals st the In- sl wones down W the level of the tersection of Bixth, Tenth wnd Thir- Lowest. power wne, has prssed the House | teenth strests on F and G streets, In | ond now gore 1o the Senste for consid- | outlining his plan 0 the Commiscioners. eration of the Mouse reviston. 1t eon- | Mr Hariand pointe out that a good dew) | curred 1n by the Senate, I means that (15 yel 1o be lewrned shout the merits the day of high-power broadeaciing and [ or demerita of signal lght stallation satisfactory reception of distant stations | in congested sections and for (hat rea- by other 1hen the highest-powered sets | son lie prefers v make haste slowly 1 et an end | Bome aifference of opinlon exisle us the original plan which was W blankel ldnwhll:wn Washington with electrical {stgnale, the proposed Harland tnstalla- tion takes i only Thirteenth street from B street 1o Massachuselts ave- 0! Buck to Re From he Sloux City Joupnal Real estate ought 1o go up agatn n Reno. Parls divorces are not so easy now, ) Ultew Wisdom. From the Taleds Blade Add similes: As wise as the woman who tries {0 back oul of & revolving [ door P Hdeal Jurors, From the Seattle Daily Times It that mechanical man, demon- Altiough the House, acting in oom- L1 the eMclency of automatie sighals mittee uf e wiwle, revised \he mess- in rlov-moving Ueffic. The opponents siyated recently New York, does sl (hat 1A dnventor elaims. 1t could he sold In doses Jots for Jury servic | only go to work on a future duty. | logle " of “I decided not to | admired " get more votes in a stepping contest | reqylar reapportionment was |larceny by trick.” q | enrlier Houses of Representatives would | { | | O, THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Looking over the garden records of last year, one finds that he sowed grass seed in the back yard on March 15. 8o it Is not too carly, then, to be thinking about the garden, after all! The seasons have a way of catching one by surprise. The first thing one knows Spring is here, close enough to flirt with anyway. Many days of nasty weather may in- tervene, but so long as the authentic touch of the season is in the air grass seed may be sown with benefit. This is one garden operation that may be done very early, there being every reason to hope that the new grass may thus get a good start. With anything resembling normal weather the gar- dener thus gets a month or two jump upon the season. Suppose the seed does no good? It will not be much of a less, and there will be plenty of time to put In more if one confines his March sowing to bare spots. A general recanditioning of the yard is perhaps not to be desired o early; but it is possible to touch up the bare spots by putting some seed here and there. This will do a great deal to- ward givinz one a good lawn, despite the thoughtless tramping and scuffing of children's feet. Washouts by rain constitute the greatest handicap. If one is lucky, however, he plants his sced in dry weather, so that the plants begin to grow and thrive before a heavy rain comes along. This is another chance he must take. ‘The best way to plant grass seed this month, according to the experience of many, is simply to rough up the bare spot and throw in the seed with a generous hand, then trample it down with the feet, pressing it in firmly. Over this put a thin sprinkling of bone meal. trampling this down, too. ‘Then send up a prayer that children, dogs and rains will hold off for at least | & week. o e This is the month for spraying and pruning the rosebushes. Both of these essential garden opera- tions too often are put off until April, by which time the plant lice, or aphis, have been allowed to breed, .to sa: nothing of other rose pests which may similarly have become difficult to control. Some of this increase of aphis has been on canes which should have been pruned away, therefore the first essen- tial is to prune. After this is done, the spraying may be attended to. Pruning of roses is looked upon b; ny amateurs as a mysterious task, but it is comparatively simple, if one will remember that only the so-called hybrid tea roses are to be pruned a this time of vear. These include most of the popular roses, with the exceps tion the climbers and the ‘“June ' Aas some varieties are called which bloom only once. Remember that these latter bloom on last vear's growth, so if any is cut off at this time, the possibilities of roses are pruned just that much, too. The hybrid teas, however, bloom on new growth, so they may be cut back more, although we do not advocate th ruthless pruning which some person: Indulge in. General directions usually given for this operation say to “cut off above an outside bud. An “outside bud" is any old bud growing on a cane or branch toward the cutter, not on the inside of th: bush. This is just common sense: there Is nothing magical or mysterious about it. No one is expected to emulate the man who jumped into a bramble bush. The pruner is supposed to leave at least 4 to 6 “eyes” on a branch, and always to cut with a slanting stroke about half on inch above a bud or eye. All this is to be done on a cloudy day, preferably, In order not to permit the sun to “overstimulate” the cut portion. All dead wood must be cut back to live wood. In other words, the object of pruning is to Increase the growth, to make for larger flowers, and to im- prove the appearance of the bush. Some of the most popular varieties. such as the Radiance and Red Radiance, make such an enormous growth that | they are soon out of hand unless cut | back scverely. koK No sooner has the pruning been at- | tended to, which may be any time now, the sooner the better (unless a drastic change in the weather takes place), | than spraying ought to be done. The first spraying should be with nlcotine solution, in order to subdue and climinate these little green bits of life which shortly otherwise would cover every twig and bud, every leaf. Spraying is by all odds the most try- ing of garden operations. A man may | dig all day with less muscular exer- | tion than it takes to operate the aver- age small hand spray one finds in the | hands of most gardeners. The sprayer that works on the com- pressed air principle is the one to get results, but most persons who have only |a small garden shy at the price. And the smallest size available is the three- {gallon one. Offhand, this seems to {be a lot of nicotine solution to make lup for a dozen or so rosebushes! It | probably will be discovered, however, that the large amount of solution lures Lon to bigger and better spraying, which is exactly what is needed in ninety-nine gardens out of every hundred. |" This first spraying of the season should always be made prior to the ap- pearance of the aphids. This, we be~ | lieve. is where the average home gar- dener falls down. He waits for the cvidence of his eyes. when he should | plunge in at the first signs of growth jon the rose stems. This first Spring | spraying probably would avert many a | later one.” In case it should not, how- | ever. all one has to do is spray again |1t the aphids should appear. Every spraying should b> made complete—that | is. twiee as much fluid should be used |as one thinks necessary. Complete spraying is more than haif of the bat- tle. Aphids are endowed with the or- | dinary intelligence of created thing: | when a spray hits them, they instinc- | tively run around to the under side of |a leaf or twig, there to remain pro- | tected from the inimical rain unless the ardener realizes their strategy. Let there be a complete spraying with nicotine some time this month. and { again not later than April 15. are, of course, many other rose ene- | mies; these must be met with powder or liquid sprayings suited to the emer- | gencies as they arise. The control of | the plant lice, however, is the neces- | sary preliminary for further battles for {the possession of one's rosebushes. | Either the owner “runs” them or “bug: | of various descriptions take over the management! These two operations— pruning and spraying—with a third, fertilization, ought to give any one good roses, provided he purchased good stock | to begin with. March is a good month, Iby the way, for the first fertilizing. | Stir in a handful of sheep manure and bone meal not too close to the roots. By the time the bone meal is ready for | assimilation by the rootlets, real grow- | ing weather will be here. House Criticized by Press For Reappor Newspaper comment on the con- gressional reapportionment measure proposed by the House census commit- tee is devoted largely to condemnation of the House for its failure to re. apportion its membership on the basis tionment Delay |ductions bevond the number which would have been imposed by reappor- tionment accordine to the enumeration of 1020, That situation will create a vociferous protest from the affected States.” The Star concludes that “the ‘There | of the 1020 census as required by the members have simply avolded a dis- Constitution. | agreeable task because no large body “With but two years of the decade | of citizens has been insisting upon this left,” the "Houston Chronicle | particular type of law observance.” (Democratic), “the lower house of Con-|" “Never until the present decade.” gress might, indeed, be excused for !states the Brooklyn Datly Engle (inde- getting in haste about the matter, ex- | pendent), “has Congtess failed in any cept—except—that the bill now before | decade of our constitutional system to the House has nothing to do with |make a reasonably prompt apportion- redigtricting in this decade, but has to|ment according to the census. The do solely with redistricting after the | duty has been thought unavoidable next census. Having falled to reach | That duty may scem fundamental—to any agreement during the present |slight it is to start our representative decade, evidently Congress thinks it will | system toward the goal of dhe rotten the census committee decade. Having falled to attend to a|violable. Hitherto we have had only very urgent and admitted duty of th= | postponement of reapportionment under present, it sesms to think it can be par- | the 1920 census. The committee's plan doned for that faflure, if it will now | would for the first time formally essay The | skipping a census altogether.” this view is hardly “You will find,” advises the Detroft to be| “Estimates of the result (of reappor- tionment) if the House is left at its present size.” savs the Omaha World- | tion, { rrcommendations News (Independent), “that the funda- mental purpose in providing for this 1o save this Republic from disaster. Nothing else, And when Congress ignores this vital safeguard and substitutes for the p'ain command of the Constitution a specious promise meant meraly to carry the members past an election, it is auilty of an offense which, If success- ful, will be recorded at its worst as treason, and by the most charitable as {Herald «independent), “indicate the probabliity of the loss of a Congres: |man to Nebraska. Iowa would lo: two, Missour! four, Kansas one and | North Dakota one Eight of these | would go to the Pacific Coast or Moun- [tain States, California alone gaining (six. This 15 not a pleasant prospect (for the corn belt, but it is Inevitable, if congressional representation is to be distributed according to the popula- tion * ¢ All we can hope for is to the dickens during the next “The only power which prevents " Congress from making a reapportion- | ment for the elections of 1928 and 1930 Is ths unwillingness of this present Con- gress to obey the Conatitution,” de- | 1932 or 1933, or even later, The new clarcs the Worcester Telegram (Inde- | Federal census will be taken in 1930, pendent), and the New York Herald but it cannot be checked, tabulated and Tribune (Republican) describes the bill | published until at least a year later, for automatic reapportionment in the \and when this task is completed it is future as a “brond and humiliating | hardly probable that Congress will act delegation of authority—-one of which | with any special haste.” Wheeling Intelligencsr (Re- | publican) points out* “To wait for the 1030 census really means waiting until B ) never have dreamed” R The 8t Paul Ploneer Press (inde- | pendent) vays: “The opposition Comes | 1 <nevectaty Gasette from Congressmen who tolerate no talk | Wi b - of nullification. To them nullifieation | 1t comes as a shock to those who ns nuliffication of the elghteenth | have thought that Yosemite Valley trees, » nqment. The horrors of H‘m ,““".l'd‘nnr of the wonders of the world, were cpentl entlrely upon what patt of We |y yatonal praperty, to learn that Constitution is threatene MINEY | only groves here and there have been the Cinefnnat! ‘Times-& (Republi- : : L w lnequired. TU s even hinted that some cam contends: “Nullifieatton of the | (rIHEE TE0 eran hitited that some eighteenth amendment would be much | 1 TRest, Gaserament - awned - massive 5 DI y Congress | P Toud ot e e gamme of sice: | (DIOK exposure by culting protective The majority n rule only when | private forests around them. government dx truly reoresentative, | More than all this, we learn that Minority 1ule nev been popular [MANY wonderful trees famous i story among free peoples have already gone. Many more with- 4 o the natlonal park areas ave ready Though the ‘committer makes Jua |1 Ehe hotlonal park areas ace ready now,” necording o Romme hdemnd. | FIRBL to say so. Here s another big e BRlimore Hvening Buh (Hhdsy Job_for the conservationist ent Democratior, “there 1s no reason (100 0 4 o belleve that they wre not carrying on \q.“-‘.‘nl"nl:u:c‘:l) e ;‘?.'?;Vun."'...“.f‘i’.l'\'i he same whic| s alrendy got ] 3 ” BOa. mu the same biult which has already got | JAmIID freow, (e petpls mudt save them by, Bimilar secommendations | hew and - hat - prom) AL [Plea for Yosemite Conservat n Made y has e been made i the past, and, they have allowed Lo die a natural death. For, slthough the Conatitution makes reapportionment mandatory, there ure other factors working to nul- Iify the mandate. And the chief of tiene factors s (hat, under any equitn~ ble system of reapportionment, the pre- dominantly urhan seetions of the coun- try wil gain representation, and the predominantly rural se will lone.” “The close vole In the 0 COnKln committee.” however iy viewed by the Oakland Tribune dndependent Repub- I a8 ndding “strength (o the im- presslon that when the House votes on reapportionment the opponents o the constitutional demand “will be numer- ous That the bill got ot of commit- tee, even by a 10-lo-8 count, I en- couraging 1 face of what han happened o 4 hefore. =+ % 1 Gongress passes the bill, the new apportionment will be completed in 10417 The danger e 1t 1s argied by the Terre Haute Btar (ndependent Repub Heanr iy the probability that rvepre- wentation of some Btates will suffer re- Caltfornia has been almost indifierent I the past, but s waking up. Many articles and editorlals are being Iasued thronghout the country, and they all appeal for saving the trees, ‘The Government can buy the lands ontright. This will seem to many a sluggering proposition with flood bills pending. Vet this is & bid for big stakes I the same divection, and there are those Who say that timber in the Yosemite will pay for the additions without perpetrating damage. ‘The Unlted Btates Qovernment can, however, b authorised to condemn the threal d lands and take thelr thme o puy This would interfere less with tm- pending programs of national develop- ment. Auyhow it is felt such splendid Works of nature must be preserved, The Callforntn trees could not be ve- praduced In- centurles 1f ever agatn We have destroyed much that our over- annguine, tree-vandal grandfathers left We owe 1o ourselves to put & stop hothy o apendthinie foreatry and indifference to baauty, & TUESDAY, MARCH 13. 1928. NEW BOOKS . AT RANDOM LG M. ‘THE STORY OF THE SUN: 1833-1928. Er-nk M. O'Brien. D. Appleton & 0. Away back in 1832, or thereabout, Benjamin H. Day. a young printer of New York. came Into possession of a brand-new idea. And this was that a newspaper quite different from the six-cent journals then the rule would find a hearty welcome from many new readers and would thereby secure a good market right in the city. A clear innovation this new sheet was to be. It was to sell for a penny instead of six. It was to be a little paper, quickly read. It was to take inta account that the womenfolks could read, and would, it something besides politics, money and business were offered them. Young Day had obviously come into posses- sion of three vital notions respecting the press—cut rates, tabloid form and A clear bid for increased circulation by way of an appeal to the interests of women. Today these three fea- tures are commonplaces in the pur- poses of any paper. In that day they were striking noveltics, yet to be proved. Benjamin Day set about the business of translating this group of ideas into newspaper fact. Like any other new enterprise, this also was one of the up- hill variety But finally the new paper was born. ‘Then christening day came around and in a mood of high opti- mism it was named “the Sun." You cen see for yourself what it i3 today. Frank M. O'Brien, editor of the Sun. about 10 years ago wrote the history of its career. The new edition, this hook. of these recent important years. A long story—almost a century long. It steps out from the year 1833 and moved forward by way of an account- ing of the growth of the paper in cir- culation, in influence, in developed policies, in the definite service of cer- itain of its owners and editors. In effect, Mr. O'Brien's story becomes a history of American journalism itself, the newspaper as one of the greatest of American Institutions. However. the story possesses neither the routine jof history nor the dry orecision of sclentific analysis and clascifieation. Rather does it run along the open highway of events as these are re- flected in the press Vivid anecdote, crucial moments in history, striking and influential personalities foin here in the offhand but - wholly interesting manner of the competent journalist. Here is the story of that acute rivalry that grew between Benjamin Day and Bennett, who also caught a vision of the penny sheet in the Herald. Here is the story of Dana and his tremendous influence in journalism. And before the story of Dana is that of Mosss Y. Beach. “New York Life in the Thir- tles” is a_striking and most enjoyable |revival. The position and influence of the Sun in both the Mexican and the Civil War is made matter. of record here. Beyond Dana and his power in national concerns is the picture of Frank A. Munsey in his ownership and management of the chain of news- papers which stood as the object of his ambition. If one is interested in the business. transaction involved in | Munsey's ambition, here is a list of prices paid by him for one and an- other of the papers included in the “chain.” A more Interesting atter to the avernge rcader is the plan of Willlam T. Dewart, present owner of the Sun, who has “mutualized” the ownership of the paper by permitting a large number of its employes to ob- tain an Interest in it. Mr. O'Brien has given to the sub- Ject of his accounting a really human personality. possessed of a defintte purpose with competent agencies to ob- lectify that purpose—a personality that has achieved greatly as every out- standing newspaper does achieve. The zest of the story, its robust and opti- mistic spirit, send it along into the reader’s interest without any delay or | hitch whatever. In addition to' the | interest of the record there is a clear value of information and illumination iabout this story of a great news- paper. * ok ox o THE GREAT AMERICAN BAND- WAGON. Charles Merz. John Day Co. Everybody is on the wagon, “there is always room for one more." So tome along over this great Ameri- can commonwealth to see what we are | all doing so strenuously about 20 hours {in every 24. Not a thing seems to have been overlooked by the driver of the wagon. Here is the endless caravan of motorists, taking in beauty contests, contests in oratory., stopping once a minute for the latest radio record, pausing for this game or that one— golf, base ball. whatnot. Armies alight from motors only to swarm the gang- ways: “Five hundred thousand Ameri- cans now tour Europe every Summer. | A sudden concerted drive upon a few favorite objectives beside which the pace of the Klondike gold rush seems |lethargic. ‘The advance guard salls in | {early May. The rear guard is still tmopping up the last | beaches and casinos in September. Figures soaring into hundreds of mil- lons of dollars for Summer tours no longer awe us. It is no longer an ad- venture for the rich alone, this touring Europe. It 1s no longer an adventure solely for the cultured. This Summer hegira across 3.000 miles of open water Is now established as an American in- stitution as popular, as widely shared and as characteristic of our own times as the round-trip outing to Niagara in {the ninet There follows an ex- planation, a Merz explanation, of this Amazing annual movement of Amerfea over across Into Furope Now he is off on the subject of golf “What golf has brought us Is a chance to play the ploneer again, and there Is no role that gives us greater satis- faction. ‘That it gives us a taste of the trontier who can doubt? This is no game that wanders aimlessly across country without a purpose. Nor is it a game vll{ed in & vard, penned up like base ball, tennis or croquet The whole countrysids 1s open to it. Yet th: whole countryside has been pre- {arranged to provide a series of new frontiers and a succession of new goals This I8 & frontler game in the best | frontler spirit of America, a game of | fording streams. climbing hills for the Iay of the land, hacking a new path, 1t need be, through the underbrush, and pushing on from goal to goal. Hidden dangers lurk along the line of march Aangers as smiling and as treacherous as the false triendship of the Black- feet on the road to the Northwest in ‘3 pits and bunkers, soft ground that gives way beneath the feet and witeh- | grass that looks hospitable, but is made o snare the unsuspecting stranger in |a grisly trap U8 all {n the game, The Indians are dead. There are no Rlackfeet 1aft to conquer. What f{s modern man o boast about it not his BOIf scores?™ “This 1o a rvestless land"— Mers talking now of our erratic departures from the common rut of things 0 the people tire of moving unadventur- ously thiough a familiar orbit. For years they packed their goods and moved again when they heard of a sun A0 kind and a sotl 30 vich that the corn grew 8 feet tall That day s gone.” They pull up thelr minds, so o apeak, nowadays instead. “The farmer'y son goes (0 colloge and bo- & mechanical engineer. The en- son goes to college und be- comes a sclentine farmer. The bank toller takes & night course I admi- ity law and the school teacher studies struetural drafting after howrs The street ear conduetor 1s golng I for veal estate when he has finished six move Tensons, and the butehet's boy s leavn- g to be a detective The night lamp burns, The colleges grow and bulld new halla and add new cougses and i vent new nees, heoause the search goes on 1 s the will of millons of Amerfoans to find the end of the rain- bow ! Ao tople after tople diawn oft from the sum of modern lite vomes 1 for but 1s brings that history up to date by way | just as it constitutes a summary of’ few bathing | ANSWERS TO QU BY FREDERI ‘There is no other agency in the world that can answer as many legiti- mate questions as our free Information Bureau in Washington, D. C. This highly organized institution has been built up and is under the personal di- rection of Frederic J. Haskin. By keeping in constant touch with Federal bureaus and other educational enter- priscs it is in a position to pass on to you authoritative information of the highest order. Submit your queries to the stafl of experts whose services are put at your free disposal. There is no charge except 2 cents in stamps for return postage. Address The Evening Star Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, director, Washington, D. C. F.WA that generally speaking the higher the aerial the better. There are many reasons for this, some of which are easily explained and others not so well understood as yet. There should be no trees or bujldings under the aerial to get the very best results from it, but of course it is not always possible to obtain this condition in cities, so aerials on roofs are a common sight, efficiency being sacrificed to conven- ience. Two or more wires added to an aerfal will usually bring in more vol- ume, but also more static and inter- ference. One can choose between lectivity at moderate volume and less selectivity at greater volume. The mately determines its wave length, re- gardless of the parallel number of wires. One wire 75 feet long and four wires 19 feet long would give quite dif- ferent resuits, For ordinary broad- | cast receptton with a geod tube re- ceiver one wire about 60 feet long is popular. Q. Are there any negro women in the State legislatures?—H. J. Early in January, 1928, Mrs. E. Howard Harper was appointed a mem- ber of the West Virginia Legislature to first negro woman member of any Legislature in the country., | The burning question is no longer, “"Have you a little fairy in your house>" but “Has the House or Senate little ‘in- sidious lobbyists’ in the offices?” A lobbyist, like a microbe, may be in- visible to the naked eye, but whenever it gets under the skin of a statesman it bores and bhores—and bores. One can't kill a lobbyist with a window weight or hammer: it is dangerous to attempt chemical warfare upon the pests, for they thrive on gas, so that the flareback might kill the statesman. and his suc- cessor, after the congressional commit- tee attended the funeral, would be even less immune to lobby influences. The modern measure of true states- manship. according to the anti-lobby- ists, is the ability to swat lobbyism and decide all problems ‘out of one's own cunning brain without regard to facts acquired through long experience or concentrated study by specialists. In that respect, Congress differs radi- cally from a modern court of law. which persists in hearing alienists in the vin- dication of confessed murderers; Con- gress, so far as concerns the Senate. is now on record as opposed to alienistic methods. in which the blacker the crime the fuller the confession guilt, the greater the activity of an alienist in proving to the court and jury that it was justifiable homicide, and the victim is still living, while the accused has a perfect alibl. So with | the lobbyist: the bill he supports lever righteovs, his pay is too small, {how. on principle. All the splendid | dinners to members are given only for pure sociability. because the members are recognized as potential social lions | Many members confess the soft im- oeachment without resenting the lobby ! classification. % * % Biyf the Senate has passed without {opposition the Carawav anti-lobby bill. Senator Caraway s that his bill does not forbid lobbying, but simply requires it to be perpetrated in the open. an makes it “open season” all the time to shoot lobbyists of the other side. Over in the House. where the meas- ure now rests in the committee on fudiciary, a prominent member explains that the reason the “anti-constitutional ete., passed the Senate so readily is be- cause the Senate has become just one areat investizating committee. differing from the House of Representatives, which still remaind representative of {the actual sovercigns—the pae-pul. The prediction is free House that the bill will never see day- | light through ths begrimed windows of | the “judicious committee.” L ! But while the period of | keeps up the interest of the plot, it is well to complicate the incidents of | the story and hold the reader breathe | less with uncertainty as to the de- | nouement. Senatyr Caraway, without the usual forbidding against being quoted. dis- closes In & newspaper confession: o “Now the bill does not provide that & lobbyist shall not lobby ™ | _Of course not! Farthest from the Senator's thought Shall not a bird | f¥2 " Shall a law be enacted forbide jding a fish to swim® Who ever ex- pected such cruelty to animals—con- ceding that lobbyists are of the animal kingdom—as to” choke a lobbyist for exercising® his normal functions of lobbying? ‘Twere easfer. far. to choke America from the Pope, or tear the masks from & Ku Klux procession, or starve a glutton in the presence of & feast . little lobbyists, go right on lodb- | bying while the harbingers of Spring | make merry. P LR “It will be observed.” savs Senator Caraway, “that the whole purpose and | scope of the wmeasure depends on the words ‘for pay The point that under the Senator's guidance. are ie ous of the Cool slogan. “Economy The name Caraway is not Scoteh, but the Democrats, SFOr pay!™ Aye, thete’s the rub! Whether ‘twere better to legislate in Egyptian darkness than to fiv to Nght which we Kknow not of until some barve lobby glave dazales us' Down with lobbying “for pay’! The cost of lobe bies 13 hdded o the salaries of states- men and the price we challenge for ourselves a8 members s given us grudeingly. A milllonaire Senator says it's oo high .- Daes (he Senator overlook a famous | German provert that should be the Key 1o economy ? What he might have done, really, toward curtatling lobbytsm would have been o double the salaries of all lob. bylsts, for the old Cerman proverd vohsed the way: “The dearer 1t s, the cheaper to me, for 1 shall buy less ™ There's vour Democratic slogan, offset (g the Coolidge “economy ™ Ratse the e A shrewd and amusing survey at the hands of Chavies Meva, A subtitle mentions the book as a “study of exs aggerations These lle, one takes it N the faets themselves. Oertainly they do not e o the authors aps pralinls Heve s th %0 eoncentrate Ax to make it ook absurd. Diftused as WA I veallty, 1 pasaes natiee-—untit some one ke Mers ounds American fa0ts th the band-wagon of Ing, and astute, vound-up Q. How high should an_aerfal be? | How many wires should be used?— A. The Loomis Radio College says actual length of the merial approxi- | succeed her late husband. She is the | Is | gith “years"! for he is a poor but honest patriot, and | he is opposed to that measure any- | bill” forbidding the right of petition, | ¥ made m the | A Senator for attempting to detend ! Is there no Seoteh blood in his veins® | & laugh- “n ESTIONS C J. HASKIN. Q. When were the first stone pave- ments and stone sidewalks lald in this country?—J. G. M. A. The first stone pavement was laiq in New York City as early as 1657 nn what s now known as Stone strret, and the first sidewalks in 1790 on the west side of Broadway. Q. When an ensign and his wife l‘flnd it necessary to leave visiting cares, | what kind should be left?>—J. B | oA When an_ensign and his wite |leave cards they should use a “Mrs, John Henry Smith” and a “John Henry |Bmith (Ensign). U. 8. N.” or a eom- | bination card, “Ensign and Mrs. John | Henry Smith" (with. of eourss, in either case, the additional man's card). | Q What 15 an espontoon’—E. B. b A. An espontoon is a half pike for- | merly carried by subaltern officers of the British Army and all commissioned {officers of the early United Btates Militia. ! Q. When was paper first made fro | wood pulp?—L. D. l(’; iy | A. The first paper was made from | wood pulp on March 5, 1867, the | mills of Interlaken, Mass. | @ When did Milton writs his - | “On t)‘;_e Morning of Christ's Nat; A" This poem was begun on Chriss. mas, 1629, i | ki :Qv'v Do birds eat mueh gram”—'. | A. The Department of Agrieultire |says that certain birds. the bobwhite, | for example. cat more or less grain. but | the grain feeding is largely in Winter and on scattered seeds left in the fields, They prefer insects in the growinz and harvesting periods. The barn owl is | highly valuable for its feeding on small rodents in the South and on pocket gophers in the West. Q. In auction bridge. what is th- ifference between the terms ‘refuse | and “renounce”?—A. B. C. A. To fail to follow suit is to “re- fuse” To refuse when able to follov Vsuit is to “renounce.” BACKGROUND OF EVENTS BY PAUL V. COLLINS. . | cost of lobbyism and turn the poor ash- i |cals out. 1It's the pay received w the confesses is the nub to the w evil; we are ruined by cheag lobb: | tor low wages. Let's have “bigger an | better lobbies.” | Some lobbyiste work for $75,000 a | year and they are not limited to eiznt- | hour days: they work ovsrtime withe |out “time and a hal What do we |labor unionists call such treachery? |Senator Caraway is right—it’s the pay which marks the evil: there should be a | minimum wage. Also cut out appren- tices, and put both sexes on the same d wage scale. | Besides, the nuisance of lobbying. a: {hedged by the Senator. is as follows | “The full force and effect of the meas- lure is not so much to rid Congress o: the paid lobbyist (even at ) Scotch rates) as it is to protect side public agaimst being fleeced by these men and associations that prey | upon the credulity of business. and ob- | tain from it large sums of money under |the pretense that they can affect or control legislation, or bring to bear tell- ing influence on some member of the Senate or House of Representatives ™ Ah, the pee-pul. after all! Plagiarism! Barnum said somet. | “They have been here a number of veal Compared with Barnum. the | Senator is slow. Compare “minutes” e = Now history shows that there have been lobbies in the halls of Congress ever since 1789. when the first session of Congress marked a project to move | the National Capitol away from Wall | Street, New York Citv—bevond tempta i tion of corruption. The diary of Sena. tor Maclay of Pennsylvania recorded “In the Senate chamber. this morning. Butler said he heard a man say he would give Vining 1,000 guineas for his vote. but added. ‘T question whether he | would do so in fact’ So do I. for he i might get it for a tenth part of the sum.” It is hard to quote rates like that without being misunderstood. Nothing {Is recorded as to how much that lobbr- ist was earning. who made such over- | bids for senatorial votes. When a project was before 5 |to follow Alexander Hamilton's plan to |redeem Government certificates at par. | oreachers and Consressmen were bu |buving up the certificates before the | bassessors could learn of their impend ing increase in value. and the Ma diary adds, “Except for the fact members of the House and Senate were. themselves engaged in the spaculation and stood to gain. it is doudtful whe Hamilton's funding plan co i been adopted.” But now look at that bronze the first Secretary of the Trea Hamilton. standing at the back doo: the Traasury! Would it have been t it the lobby and speculators had not forced his funding measure throush that noble Congress® . e w Read the history of horseback rider as seen bronze hobby horse in Ja says: “In the Bark of the U fight during the administr drew Jackson. representatives ington of ‘Czar Nicholas' B {cised dictatorial authority over bers of Congress. Various of the m Bers of both houses were in the pav the dank and others feared its pow I politics. As the campaign of 1832 Approached, Dantel Webster wrote Biddle that he had rejected a profes- slonal employment against the hank ‘T belieye.' he added. ‘that myv retainer has noi been renewed or retreshed as usuali it may be well to send me the usual retainers ' In this perfod a resolution to ex Maj. Willtlam B. Lewis. a close pe friend of the President. a membder of the “kitchen cabinet” and the “grea | tather ot wm-ruurrs from the | Decause of his lobbying was offered the House. but was defeated by the & ministration’s supporters. There was the Credit Mobilier scandsl O 1872, fn which it was shown that the [ Vice Pregident and several members of Congress accepted stock in & Penna! vania fiscal agency and the corporatic cleared $23.000.000 through s - Anowledge of lexislation afecting the bullding of the Unton Pacie Ratinad | Congress ealled the naughty dovy to the (bar and slapped thelr hands—-for they Lwere guilty of being found out. Ben iPerley Poare, n explainy that the congression, Uquiet but efieient part of sresshanal machinery.™ These things were done in the bud NOW what a datsy is our lobby! ook At the present-day lodby, which even Senator Caraway, i his severest ar Valgament, eharges with being guilty of working for pay! And it fools the pee- Pul-at least part of the people pare of the time. 1t works for pay! How |eheap and vulgar! President Wilson denounced the lobdw WOIKIng 10 save the country from the Undernood it measure, and e callad 1t names-the inskdions labby TOdAY 1t I8 estimated (between cens Suses) that we have In our micht neas Iy 3000 of these “Iskiious lobbyists.” st of whom are shosking Senatos Caraway ot al by working for pay — Same ATe JAWNEIS, Sme ate orippled canands All are working too cheaply, for ie du- Ues put awful stratms upon thelr cons selences, et all platforms demand Blgger and better lobbies at gdoubdle Vooar nane!t™ ACwRNEIERL 1028, by PaaL VL Gt that v stanch on the Park! It ed States n of Ane Washe exe ot by cans