Evening Star Newspaper, March 18, 1928, Page 30

o JHE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition, WASHINGTON, D. C. SUNDAY. March 18, 1928 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Offe: usines . 11th St. and Pennayivania Ave, New York Office: 110 East 42nd St. Chicago Office: Tower Building. European Office: 14 Regent St.. London, England Rate by Carrier Within The Evening Star ... The Evening and Sundar ‘when 4 Sundays) The kvenag_and o iwhen 5 Sunda; -6 The Sunday Stas Collection made at the end of each month. Onders may be sent in by mail or telephone. Main 5000 City. 43¢ per month G0e ver merth © per month per copy Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. laryland ] and_ Sunday ooty ay only’ All Other States and Canada. a0d Sunday..] yr. $12.00: 1 mo., $1.00 only T1yel $800: tmol” Tde ndax only | $4001 1m0l 85¢ Daiix T Member of the Associated Pre: The Associated Preas is exclusively entitled 10 the use for republication of all news d Patches craditad o it 0 not otherwise cred. Jtad in this paper and also the local news published hercin. All rights of publication ot special dispatehes herein are also resarved. No One Should Oppose. The District today. with fts mnl million = Americans, is in resources, THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MARCH 18, 1928 -PART cup comes over the side of the Royal Oak from a bumboat. But ther¢ are still the makings of a wonderful story in the situation and it would not be stirprising to find some followers In the footsteps of the late-Victorian immor- tals to send the name of the Royal Oak lilting down through time to the ac- companiment of deathiess melodies. “England expects every man to do his duty.” said Nelson 'just before the battle of Trafalgar. The British Navy is proud of its performance in that emergency. It has done its duty on many an occasion in keeping with the spirit of the great admiral's injunction. The question that is now agitating the Brit- ish public is whether every bandsman wearing his majesty’s uniform on board ship should do his duty even'to the point of playing jazz for an admiral's guests. - s The Government's Pay Scale. When the House committee on civil service tomorrow opens the hearings on the Welch bill providing for a general increase in the salary scale in the Ied- eral service, it will have laid before it incontestable evidence of the urgent need of relief for the Government's workers in Washington and elsewhere. Demonstration will be given of the fact that in a great number of cases, actually, and relatively throughout the entire range of service personnel there is grievous hardship in the endeavor to maintain self and family on the | compensation granted by the United States. population. intelligence and patriotic | Americanism so well equipped that if | Congress had now the power which we ask for it to grant District national | representation, it could safely and | wisely exercise that power at once. i But assuming that there are some Representatives or some Senators who are not yet convinced, who are not en- tirely satisfied that in resources and in population the District is today fully fit for national representation, they ought not on that account to vote against our 2mendment, for it is to be noted that they are not asked in voting for the amendment to declare that the District is now fit for such representation, but only that they empower themselves to | grant such representation when in their Judgment the District has become thus fitted. To deny or vote against our amend- ment is to declare not merely that the District is not now fit for representa- | tion, but that the defective and delinquent residents of the District will never become thus fitted, though the 1t is convinced of the fitness of the | District multiply its resources and a population of a million or more be cal- Jected in it. To vote against this amend- | ment is & denial of the possibility of District representation, even though the District * attain the resources and population and the other requisites of statehood which make it surpass a| dozen of the States. So even those who doubt whether the District will ever be fit for national representation should not vote against this amendment. Give the District a sporting, fighting, American chance at national representation. In our Republic majorities govern. Amend the Constitu- tion so that a majority of Congress may, if it wishes, in the future, when it is convinced of the fitness of the District, give national representation to the District Yesidents. Give the people of the seat’' of Government the same possibility of national r@gresentation that Hawall and Alaska ngW possess. Why should any Repmmentative or Senator vote against an amendment which merely enlarges an existing power of Congress on equitable and ‘wholesome lines, and which simply em- powers Congress to remedy a political inequity whenever, if ever, it is Gisposed to do s0? Why should Congress oppose the grant to itself of any new eonstitu- tional power with which those affected ‘Were this a wage scale arbitration in | one of the industrial trades there could | | be no doudbt as to the outcome, for it will be shown inescapably that the present rate of pay granted by the em- ployer does not suffice to permit a right standard of living on the part of the employe. But this is not an arbitra- tion. It is an appeal to the eonsclence of the Government as represented by the collective deputies of the people sit- ting as th> Congress to fix the scale of “wages,” without the possibility of appeal to a higher court or in practice to the remedy of the strike, which is the ultimate weapon of organized labor. | In this appeal to reason and to the | sense of justice of the Nation as rep- resented by Congress it can and will be shown that for many decades the United States has been the poorest of all American paymasters; that even with the adjustment of the reclassification act of 1923, which was supposed to establish the Government's pay scale on an equitable and a generous basis, the resulting range of compensation was inadequate. In the course of the long lapse of time, when the Government stood still | in the matter of the pay of its de- partmental workers, every otfier occu. pation in this country was being steadi- ly more highly rewarded. Had the Government pay scale risen during | those years in keeping with those ob- taining in the industries and trades and in business the readjustment of 1923 | would perhaps have been adequate. But actually in relation to all other work- ers, clerical and technical, skilled and unskilied, the Government employes had gone back during that period and the act of 1923 did not close the gap that had been opened between them and the employes of private business in this country. ‘The Welch bill will cost the Govern- ment, it is computed, between $30,000,000 and $40,000,000 annually in addition to the present appropriations for personnel. Considering the volume cases to despair on the score of the this is not a large addition. Consider- ing the encouragement and stimulus on the part of the personnel which the enactment of this bill will yleld, §t will be a good investment for the United States. For there is at present through- out the Government service a feeling of despondency amounting in some cases to despair on the score of the It was not so long ago that a Parlsian stage actress came here equipped with what were invariably referred to as “mil- lion-dollar legs.” Following her first ap- pearance the dramatic crities stated hand, all right, but were in the chorus and only indirectly supported the lead- ing lady. In any event. the public cannot lose through such a boast as this young lady utters before even leaving her steamship The public is “sitting pretty.” If her legs prove inferior to the most beautiful 1imbs of American young womanhood, it can cheerfully chirp, "I told you so!" If they are as good as she says they are, it can flock joyfully to any films she makes. - ———— Liberty. ‘The right of the house cat to roam at will has been upheld by the Virginia Lesislature in refusing to restrict the ar‘mal to a radius of five hundred yards from its master's home. This 1s & wholesome precedont, upholding a similar decision made by threc English furists last year. Felis domesticus is thus. seen to be not without friends in high places, ai- though the casual observer might think otherwise, sometimes, after listening to the animadversions of those who “do not like cats.” The domestic cat Is no half-way creature; one either likes it or does not like it. It may be pointed out in behalf of the cat that it strictly minds its own business: that it so seldom bites a human being that when it does the action becomes “news”; that it is uni- versally beloved of those flowers of the human race, the children, and that it has been a friend of man for at least 3000 years, sharing his home and board. Even the dog, that more easily un- derstood friead, has no more ancient lineage of friendliness than the house cat, whose very name indicates his claim upon the affections of humanity. His utilitarian service against rodents |has been a large and important one. He admits no one as master, however, but lives with all on terms of equality. In a world where independence fis so highly prized, the house cat might well be adopted as a symbol of free- dom: and to restrict its roamings in any way would be to put a bar sinister across the fair name of liberty. If one wakes at night because of the clamor of two fighting tomcats, let him re- member that it will cease presently and that it is the voice of creatures that mind their own business and be- lieve in letting others do likewise. ——— et ‘There is nothing more exhilarating than a hop-off which succeeds; noth- ing more saddening than one that does not. Aviation tends to figure in public like that of the old Roman games. The tendency is not consistent with present civilization and is being resisted by in- telligent discussion, which refuses to permit without protest that the death penalty be self-inflicted for failure. et Water is one of the most patient, Insidious apd tremendous of natural forces. A new system of dam structure should be studled to meet the moment of emergency that must sooner or later come to the water barrier, however stanchly reared. B If & “next war” should be as terrific as threatened, it may be seriously doubted whether another war can be waged for long years to come, owing to the utter destruction of man power and machinery. [NEAPE - It is freely admitted that even the game of politics may be spoiled by es- tablishing $100,000 as the value of & that the million-dollar legs were ony| interest with a background of cruelty | ! i Rishop of “That not unto men."—St. thou Matt. appear vi.18. “Appearances.” “Appearances are deceftful.” @& common phrase with which we are All familiar. When we come to note our judgments concerning men and things, it 1s amazing to discover how much we are governed by external appearances. What men are on the outside affe side. Very frequently the man in homespun goes unnoticed while the man in broavcloth wins our confidence and respect. The first may be a man of high virtus and splendid moral char- acter; the second may be a liberiine and & villain. When Lincoln came (o New York to make his famous Cooper Union specch, the press and the public generally noted his ungainly figure and his ill-fitting clothes, the early portions of his speech were treated with disre- spect and Indifference, but before he had progressed far men began to forget the stooping figure and the homely gar- ments. _‘They discovered that behind the ruflé exterior resided a great soul Our generation very largely estimates the man by the measure of his success or the extent of his wealth. Little in- quiry is made as to how he gained either. A good appearance is reckoned an indispensable asset, and a glib tongue often hides the densest igno- rance. The fact that a man does not wear his heart upon his sleeve is no evidence that he lacks emotion or the finer things of sentiment. When the great Master of men sought to teach the principles of religion, He insisted that they should not disclose themselves in an ostentatious or vulgar | way. On one occasion He said, “The | kingdom of God cometh not with | observation.” Speaking of the finer | aspeets of generosity, He maintained that its great virtues were humility and self-effacement. He would admonish men who had generous impulses “not to do their alms before men to be seen of them.” Showy and ostentatious giv- ing was repellent and unworthy. The reward of generosity was to be found in the inner satisfactiorr it gave, to- gether with the consclousness that it was approved of God. He applied the same principles to the devotional habit | BY FREDERI In the eight years since they were giver Federal suffrage women have held almost all the offices formerly monopo- lized by men, the notable cxceptions being the Presidency, the Vice dency, justices of the United | Supreme Court ‘They have held all the different kinds :1! office—executive, judicial and legis- a States ‘The first woman to be a presidential | candidate was Mrs, Victoria Woodhull { Martin. In 1872, almost half a century before Federal woman suffrage became effective, she was the nominee of the Equal Rights party and made the race against Gen. Grant and Horace Greeley. Mrs. Belva Lockwood was the candidate of the same party in 1854 and 1888, The story of the progress women have made in practical politics is told in an interesting summary of the status prepared by the National League of Women Voters. It shows that at pres. ent there are at least 25 women in re. sponsible executive positions in the Federal Government, Mrs, Mabel Walker Willebrandt hcading the list as the anly woman to serve as Assistant United States Attorney General. Others high in the Federal service are Miss Grace Abbott, chief of the Children’s Bureau; Miss Jessie Dell, th+ only woman member of the Civil Serv- ice Commission: Miss Mary Anderson, director of the Women’s Bureau; Miss Bessie P. Brueggeman, chairman of th» United States Employes’ Compensation Commission; Dr. Louise Stanley, chief of the Bureau of Home Economics: Maj. Julia Stimson, head of the Army Nurse Corps, and the only woman with the EVERYDAY RELIGION BY THE RIGHT REV. JAMES E. FREEMAN, D. D., LL. D, This Is | | s us more than what they are on the in- | IN PUBLIC OFFICE Presi- | and cabinet portfolios. | of women fn public office that has been | W ashington when He sald, “When thou prayest thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are; they pray that they may be seen of men.” The finer expressions of the devotional life were to be in secret. atisfaction was to be found in sclousness of communion with The same thing applied to self- mposed discipline or fasting. It must not disclose itself in some external display of melancholy. Of such He said, “They disfigure their faces that they may appear unto men to . This outward exhibition had n+thing in it of merit; it was essentiall super- ficial, unworthy and valucless. In all these things He was simply seeking to emphasize the decper, finer realities of religious habit and practice. There i$ a noisy, boisterous form of religious expression that is utterly re- cllant and that, according to Jesus, has { ts own kind of reward. We are dis- posed to be distrustful of those who boast unduly of their virtues and are voluble concerning their religious feel- Ings and emotions. The season of Lent is not so much a season of self-expres- slon as of self-repression. It Is a period designed for deep reflection and medi- tation—a period for stock-taking and the rediscovery of soul values. The evidences of our moral and spiritual worth will not disclose themselves in petty acts of self-sacrifice—sacrifice that involves little or nothing of ncon- venience—but rather in the cullivae tion of a finer understanding of our relationship to God and His relation- ship to us. To appear less and be more, to substitute the real for the superficial, to make practice take the place of profession—in fine, to do away with the mere appearances of goodness | and to seck to be really good, whole- some and virtwous, this, in the lan- guage of Jesus, means to win the favor of Him who gives His rewards in secret. “Oh, Master, let me walk with Thee In lowly paths of service free; Tell me Thy secret; help me bear The strain of toll, the fret of care. ‘Teach me Thy patfence; still with ‘Thee In closer, dearer company; In work that keeps faith sweet and strong, | In trust th hat triumphs over wrong.” C J. HASKIN. | council, composed of eight members, | with unusual executive powers to check up on the actions of the governor in Slate expenditures, appointments, clem- ency and other matters of administra- tion. As chairman of the State Civil Service Commission, Mxs. C. B. Smith |is a member of.the “governor’s cabi- | net” in New York, but this position does |not carry any of the prerogatives or | responsibilities of the one in Massa- | chusetts. i Six States—Texas, New Mexico, Ken- | | tucky, South Dakota, New York and ' Delaware—have had woman secre- | | taries of State, and on the first of this | | year women were holding down that | job fn the first four States named. Wis- | consin has a woman assistant secretary |of State. In 1926 Indiana elected the first woman State treasurer .in the | country, Wisconsin has a woman as- sistant State treasurer. Arizona and | Mississippl have woman State auditors, |and there are woman State superin- | endents of public Instruction In several | States. Indlana has a_woman reporter | of the State Supreme Court and several | women are serving as clerks of Supreme | Courts. Judge Florence E. Allen of the Ohio | Supreme Court holds the highest Jjudicial position ever held by a wom- an, but there are many woman judges | in' municipal, juvenile and probate | courts, Ohlo has 4 woman probate judges and Kansas 11. Wcemen have held all the various county offices there are, including those of sheriff and coroner. County super- intendent of public instruction seems to be the most popular one with them Colorado having women in 52 out of 63 | | |'a little pond near the village. rank, insignia and rights of a major | counties in that position, Idaho in 36 i | in the United States Army, and Mrs. |out of 44 counties and other States in | revenue at Chicago. Four women fill the posts of United States customs collectors—Mrs. Nellie Mabel Reinecke, collector of internal | almost equal proportions. ] white chip and setting the blfle sky as | G. Tomlnson. at Des Moine: Mrs. | hopelessness of an improved condition, The chances of promotion from grade to grade are slight. In the average when anaiysed, sre invarisbly individual case the outlook is gloomy. @iscovered to be af upon some The percentage runs against the em- bt sibetis '“"'” evil which the | PIoYe. He has 1o contribute to the re- emendment has carefully avolded. tirement fund. . He can look forward to s - his retirement with no degree of happi- Independence is a fine aspiration for | D% f0r With the annuity scale stand- a small country, but a good friend to | \P8 28 it does, or even as it may be fall back on in an emergency is not to | revised by pending legisiation, the pros- be dismissed without long and serious | PECt 13 one of penury and privation. consideration. It will be worth thirty milllons or —— e | forty milifons spent in an Increase of Elections are supposed to accomplish | Federal service pay scale to change this reform. In some of the smaller coun- | *Pirit to one of satisfaction, of optimism tries they create still further need of | Every private employer doing business political regeneration. on a large scale knows this truth, that | he must maintain the morale of his | working force just as he maintains the i hfl" Uutiny at Malta. | efetency of his mechanical plant if he 8 pity that Glbert and BUllvan | y,u1q gueceed in business. And it i are dead. Were they living they could | .0 | point of view that Congress should turn out & comie opera rivaling, perhaps | 1y take 1n considering this measure. n’w:eemg ln:ppul, thelr great sUCCESS | 1y 4y 45 taken, the result will be the of “Pinsfore”” The inspiration for this | enactment of this measure of justice. opus is at hand in the naval “mutiny’t R are ready to trust jt? Surely Congress does not mistrust tself. The objections to our amendment, the limit. 3 - - 4 - An acute conscience is attributed to Mr. Sinclair when Senator Borah as- sumes that the oll magnate’s feelings will be hurt by giving him his money back. — et SHOOTING STARS. DER JORNSON, BY PHILA Weather Report. ‘That ground hog has a strong appeal, His Influences still we feel He saw his shadow weeks ago, Then hid and sald, “I've got no show!” ‘The frogs tuned up the other night, And sang of blossoming delight. The north wind brought a load of fce. The frogs inquired, “Now was th nice!” But now snd then & mockingbird To melody again is stirred. The April skies must sure reply With smiles for songsters, by and by! Measuring Influence, in the Mediterranean. They would not | have 10 wait for the findings of a court of inquiry or & court-martial, for the | stage iz all se* with the facts that have ; Bwitzerland s one country that not | only harbors the world’s talk of peace, | but succeeds in preserving peace within its own borders. Being a “playground” “Are you an idealist? “Haver't looked into the matter very deeply,” answered Senator Sorghum, Jeaneite A. Hyde, at Honolulu: Mrs. ‘Jennie P. Musser, at Salt Lake City, and Mrs, Eddie McCall Priest. at Mom- phis—and Mrs. Anna C. M. Tillinghast, | whose headquarters are in Boston, the distinetion of being the only woman commissioner of anmigration in the | United States. | Three women have been appointed to the diplometic or consular sevice—-Miss Luclle Atcherson, who W 1922 and resigned In 19: Fleld, who was appointed vice consul at Amsterdam in 1925, and Miss Frances Willis, who passed her ¢ xaminations last Spring and Is now vice consul at Val- paraiso, Chile. Miss Elizabeth Humes is assistant trade commissioner at Rome, and Miss A. Viola 8mith holds a similar position at Shanghal. Six women are acting as secretaries or clerks to trade commissioners or commerclal altaches in Parls, Madrid, S8antiago, Ottawa and Havana, Nine Members of Congress. Nine women have been or are mem- bers of Congress, one of them —Mrs. Rebecea Latimer Felton of Georgla— tion a United Stales Senator for a day. No woman has ever been elected to the Senate, Of the elght woman Repre- sentatives, four succeeded their hus- tands and one her father, and seven have been Repubiicans Miss Jeannette A, Rankin, Republican, Montana, was not only the first woman elected to Congress, but she hus the | added distinction of having been elected | before the adoption of the Federal suf« named in | Miss Pattic | | having been by gubernatorial designa- “but 1 have an impression that thelg,,." ynondment. She was n one- 1 i ‘:"n‘”’:" .:’“m:’“;'::"':::“:" :nh: | as mot robbea Switseriand of a fret- rate 3 Sl SRk sense of order and good business First we have as 3 figure well worthy . of Gilbert's lyrics and Bullivan's appo- Shr site melodies Rear Admiral Coilard,| o . 0:,0":’(" Su;;por!l.l eommanding the battleship squadron | s«.mmfi.»'. i ;;" & fall. Likewlse, et Malta. Once upon & time Collard lot & o ulll"l:l 24 Hdll'IVl'l'lhlt ‘l’“‘“" 82 & junior officer, achieved an unpleas- | o * n‘:; erendum and also ant distinction by giving an order thet | o A Mtiae Judgment. - B ] { | | i 1l stokers epproaching him for speech shoyld kneel Needless W0 say, this did not ecome the standard of obeisance Gue 1o renk Now that Coliard hus be- come sn sdmirsl he has developed o fordness for jezz. Recently he planned 0 “throw & party” st Msits, 1o which whose name 15 Lucia Deraine has brought W America what she claims are | Germany's most beautiful legs. This {pair i worth two milllon pre-war marks, she tells us, and has captivated film fans throughout the German re- ! publie. b invited the elite of the island. He anuounced thet the band of the Roysl Gik would furnish the music, There. | ' Hollywood, “where I have no fear of upon, up spoke Capt, Dewsr, in com. | CYmDELILon.” That s going & bit mand of the Roysl Ok, and declared |S¥ONE A few short years sgo slegs thet if the sdmiral wanted 1 give a | ¥67® NoL discussed verbally or in the fence on board ship he would “ave o {PUDIIC Drin. Changes in fashion have bring s band from the shore. His |“mBlelely upset that prohibition, or in- sandsmen, be seid, had Wwe much to dg | NIPIton, and lower limbs are now as during the dsy and he would be horn. | f1#¢ly mentioned, complimented and ed if he made them blow and “9mpared ss they are exposed, 1 a1 bang sll night 0 entertain the | N0 @oubt the imported screen star wiests Comdr, Daniel, Cagl | #€8 87¢ A-No, 1, but when, without hay- Dewar's first aide, seconded the motlon | 10 even visited Hollywood, not to men- Wihereupon they were urdered betore o | Won oher centers of American civiliza- court. of inquiry snd suspended. ‘fhe | Hon. ehe snnounces that she fears no court, W Gemonstrate 18 impartislity | Compeution, she 1s advised that W un- on the woore of Jery music, suspended | Gerestimste one's dversary, I sny e wdmirel sx well The caplain and | *port or along eny line, 18 & ot dan- Vi commender went W London, but | Berous procesdlpg. Her legs may he the The ndmire) stayed at Malta, Now the | best iu thie German Relch, but how does samizalty 18 husy with the cese |she know but what we over hiere have Thus fer oo Dick Desdeye has ap- |slightly different ideals? And Hollywood potred i (e put snd no litle Butter- 18 not L be sucered 8t 68 8 leg center, ] | Praulein Derslne goes on to snnounce | the! she is taking her high-priced legs | idealist vote isn’t sufclently numerous At the present moment to bhe worth woing after.” The Skyward Gaze, looking for the uplift with ever-hopetul eye-- |1 gaze at every alship that comes traveling on high, In looking for that uplift—my experi- | ence thus far [ Resulted 1n & bumping from a speedy motor cur. I'm an | Jud ‘Tunkins suys the man who talked loud shout betng his own hoss 1s likely to be quick In blaming others for self- | mude disappaintments Soclal Distinetions. “Do you undertake to make soclal distinctions?” “Yes,” answered Miss Cayenne, “But in & Nmited way. 1 recognize two dis- tinct soclal classéspeople who are sctually Invited W & party and those who crash In’” “IU vequires w man of tare intelii- gence,” suid Hi Ho, the sage of China- town, “to select the ideals which he con follow with practieal cansistency.” Fublleity Competition, The talk of politics sounds wise And 5o 10 1, In fact "I always pays W advertise,” Tt sayn, to be exact ‘A good worker,” sald Uncle Ebe “suys his prayer foh dally bread an den mukes his own actlons support his petition,” [ | i e ~ termer, 1919-19, Miss Alice Robert- ron, Republican, Oklahoma, served in the Sixty-seventh Congress. Mrs. Wini- fred Mason Huck, Republican, linols, was elected tn 1922 to Il the vacancy caused by the death of her husband, | William E. Mason, Mis, Mae Nolan, Republicar Salifornia, clected to Ol the vacaney served from 1923 to 1925, Mrs. Mary Norton of New Jersey, s the lone Democrat among the women wha have been eleclod o the House She was elected Lo the Beventieth Congress, s were Mrs Florence P, Kahn, Re- publicon, Californta, and Mrs. Edith Nourse Rogers, Republican, Muassa- hushands. Mrs. John W. Langley, Re publican, Kentucky, elected (o present Congress, holds the seat held for muny years by her husband AL the present time there ave 126 woman members of State Leglslatures, with party affiliations as follows: Re- publicans, 86; Democrats, 34; no parly destgnation, on-partisan, 1; in- dependent, 1 Mirteon Htates have no womun legislators, and Wyoming, the first State Lo recognize equal suf- frage vights as fur back as 1869, hay but one. Connectieut, w Hinle w up 1o the very Iast steadfastly opposed woman sutfrage, tops the 1t with 16 woman loglislators Tust year there were woman leglslutors, and W 1020 and 1026 there were ) Women I State Governm, Twice women have heen chosen (o the highest State office within the gift of thelr constituencies, — Mis. Nellle Tayloe Ross uhd Mra. M. A Forguson hoth Democrats, huve bren governo of thelr respective States, and Texas No woman has | el n lentenant governor, and Musan chusetts In snld fo be the only Hiate W have & voman on the governor's aused by the death of her hushanad, | No one knows how many cities, | towns and villages are governed by | women, but there are woman mayors in at least ten communities, Mrs. Bertha | K. Landes of Seattle heading the list, and there are scores of women in minor municipal offices. In appointive offices in State, city and | county governments women are gaining | ground rapidly. Miss Frances Perkins | heads the State Industrial Commission [iIn New York and draws a salary of 1$8,000. Miss Isabel Larwill is State la- | bor_commissioner in Michigan. Oklahoma has the first woman warden of a penal institution for men and South Dakota has the only woman deputy State game warden. Connecti- cut has a woman secretary of the State Board of Fisherles and Game and also of its State Athletic Commission. city and town of importance in the country. er Employment For Higl BY HARDEN COLFAX. Discussion of the degree of unem- | ployment has served to focus attention }upon the interdependence of industry and to stimulate a quiet movement, un- der way for some time, to exchange | formation which will enable all bus | ness to move In a common direction. | The problem of the wuge earner s | much more complex than the mere mat- ter of employment or unemployment of | the individual, however acutely the in- dividunl may be affected by his condi- tion wt the moment onomists, in- dustrlalists _and Government offictals are glving thought to the cyele that is started by even local unemployment For the first thme in several months, the February ceport of the Bureau of | Labor Statisties on employment in se- [lected manufacturing Industries, which { wis made public Friday, showed an up- | ward trend, the weighted average be- Ing higher than since November and puy 1oll totals being higher than since Inst October. While the reversal of the tendency disclosed I this report ts favorable, the pleture 15 not complete, for this iy taken from n selected Jat. IU affords a basis | for comparative purposes, but not an in- dex of a comprehensive situation. It is chusetts, both of whom suceeeded thelt | 3 pathod of obtaining the Iatter that s | { baek of the Senate tesolution calling e | for w spectal survey by the Department | L of Labor and a report us to methods followed TR he Department of Labor, in its athly repo through its Bureau of Htatisties, uses nformation od by some 10,800 establishmen representative lines of Industry, One of the weaknesies of using this system 15 the natural decline of certain old extablishments and inability to nclude new ones. It has beer. demonstrated 1 by atudies of figures disclosed in the b dnl cenais of manufactures in relas ton o the monthly employment ves wls of the Burewu of Labor atatistien hat the tatter have a @clintng ervor Lol about 2 per cent w oyear. On this | bmsts, A (he caleulations be aceurate and they were mude by atatisticlans of the Foderal Reserve Board - the employ | ment sioiation e the o4 major iidus- tes Included I the Labor Departs Fment's monthly veport ure always sitne- what higher than the figures reported; not ws (o the eatablishments actually ve | porting, but as to the lines of Industry represented Whe spectal survey made by the Des ’ | pli Capital Sidelights [MEXICAN ARCHEOLOGY OFFERS One of the picturesque characters in the House is making one of the most picturesque campalgns. for re-election— Representative Richard Yates of Illinois, descended from_chivalrous Irish stock, through “the Valllants of Virginia,” whose father was born in a log cabin in Kentucky and later was war Gnvemor{ of Illinois while Lincoln was President. Himself one of the small score of men who served his State as governor, | Representative Yates is making an au- tographed photo-post card visit to the home of every voter in the State. As his proudest boast of service he says: “I have never let the sun go down upon | an unanswered letter, or appeal, from any soldier, widow, farmer, wage earner, business man or any other citizen suf- fering from any injustice or delay.” Four idealistic sentiments regarding public office and the service of repre- senting fellow men in the making of the laws that govern them are empha- sized by Mr. Yates, who puts them as red-letter memorabilia on his cards. They are. “Time was when to grow up and serve the Republic was the fondest and dearest aspiration of the American 1 confess I have always hadi s aspiration. It thrills me still.” ‘Nothing so qualifies for Congress as experience. Uncle Joe Cannon once | said to me, ‘Richard, in Congress, mediocrity, industry and the hang of the shop are worth all the brilliance in the world."” “The splendid honors of the Ameri- can people should go only to those ready to help both the Nation in its perplexities and the citizen in his neces- sities. I have never let the sun go down on an unanswered letter or an appeal from any soldier, or widow, or wage earner, or farmer, or any citizen suffer- Ing from injustice or delay “The American Republic has a| destiny divine; it is dcsined to be the | Heir of the Ages and ihe Child of thel Centuries, the Beacon Light of Liberty | and the Last Hope of Humanity. ‘Therefore, I am for ‘America First.'” * ok Kk Representative Howard of Nebraska, of the flowing locks and melodious voice, | who used to be secretary to the silver- tongued orator Willlam Jennings Bryan, addressed the House the other day to exculpate himself from the charge made by former Representative and former Senator Lenroot that Mr. Howard had Mr. Lenroot in mind in introducing his resolution to discourage the practice of ex-members of Congress lobbying on the floor of either house. In a pub- lished interview Mr. Lenroot had de- scribed himself as a rather corpulent, blond-haired gentleman. Representative Howard sald he could best illustrate Mr. Lenroot’s attitude by narrating an experience in his own boyhood, which he did as follows: “I had been permitted to have a new shotgun, and I got up very early one morning and hastened out with it, be- cause I had been told by some other boys that very early in the morning I might get a shot at some wild ducllu on | ar- rived at the pond before daylight and waited patiently for the coming of the ducks. Just as day was breaking a couple of wild ducks circled over me and lighted on the pond. I could not see distinctly from my hiding place, but I sneaked around to a point where I} came into good shooting distance. I | had seen only two ducks, but now I saw three of them on the pond, so I just | blazed away at the flock, first with one barrel and then with the other. I killed every duck on the pond. “I ran down to the water to pick up my prize, and there 1 found three dead ducks, two of them dark-colored wild ducks, and one of them a large blond-colored duck. A few days later | one of our neighbors brought suit | against my father for the value of the blond tame duck which I had killed. “Father was neither a lawyer nor a lobbyist, but he pleaded with the judge that it was not my fault that the large blond tame duck had been killed, be- cause I did not know the blond tame duck was on the pond. my only desire being to shoot wild ducks. “My father further argued to the court that it was not my fault that the large blond tame duck was killed, for, indeed, no large blond tame duck had any business sporting with wild ducks. The learned judge was profound in the law and in knowledge of ducks. and promptly he decided that I might go hence® without day.” In the recent death of former Repre- sentative William Kent of California, the poor lost a wealthy friend. Mr. Kent loved nature and the serenity of | the forests himself and his most en- REAL PROBLEM TO S BY EMMA REH STEVENSON. In Mexico, where archeology is not at all a dead thing, the sclentist rmfn often cope with the passions of the liv. ing as well as with the ruins and relic: of the dead. In the Zapotec village of Zaachila in the valley of Oaxaca, where religious fee)ing runs high, a number of im- portant prehistoric stone carvings have been found incorporated in a four-cen- tury-old Christian church. The position they oceupy suggests that they must have been of great importance to the Indians in pre-Colonial times, and the director of archeology of the Mexican Department of Public Education {s plan- ning to remove them to the city of Oaxaca where their significance may be studied. The ten-foot doorstep of the church of Stnta Maria of Zaachila, is a single monolith which still shows the signs of ancient carvings in spite of the wear and tear of four centuries of footsteps. But a smaller slab, apparently of much harder stone, has resisted the years much better and shows beautiful carv- ings of a style that indicate strong Maya influence. This slab is the first stone of the floor just insidz the door- step. Maya God Depicted. It is divided into three segments, framed by grooved lines. The first seg- ment represents a god similar to the famous Maya “Diving God,” so called because he is always found in the act of descending from heaven in a jack- knife dive. In the case of the Zaachila stone, the god appears to be dropping from a sort of a vault which looks like a symbolized upper jaw with all it teeth. The god wears plumes in his hair and the “languag= sign” comes | He has with him | from his mouth. his “penache,” the label by which one who is skille¢ sign language could tell his name. A necklace hangs from his hands, and | i3 probably meant to represent the well known collars of jadeite pebbles so popular with ancient Zapotecs and Mixtecs, and for which Oaxaca is fam- ous. Recelving the god on the ground be- low, seated cross-legged on either side and facing the center, are two other human figures, probably beating drums, and wearing curious crown-like head- gear. They are not dressed alike, in spite of their symmetrical position, and they may represent different sexes. The language sign also comes from their mouths. The second and third segments of the slabs are similar to the first, except that the figure of the Diving God is found only in the latter. The figures are likewise seated cross-legged, the soles of their feet turned out, and they are occupied with drum-shaped objects. The | spaces are filled with scrolls whose meaning has not been studied. The faces of some of the seated fig- ures are completely obliterated, while others are only partly destroyed so that faces concavities. At first appear- ance it might seem that the position of the slab at the first step down from the threshhold explains the destruction, but on reconsideration it is evident that if it were only the natural wear of feet, the destruction would be uniform and not just in spots. , Attempt at Conversion. The fact that the slab Is laid down on the most stepped-on place on the floor | makes it appear deliberate, and it was probably done to demonstrate to the | They early Indian converts the impotency of | museu; in reading the Maya | | | | | f IENTIS' their native gods. In tne National Museum at Mexico City there are a number of wooden “huehuetls,” ancient drums used by the Indians, carved in numerous figures of gods and priests, 1so with their faces scratched out. The fact that these two stones, the doorstep and the siab on the floor just inside, were singled out for the most stepped-on position in the church, sug- gests that they were important, symbols in the prehistoric religion whose in- fluence the early missionaries attemptea to destroy. ‘The church itself is built near the largest of a number of prehistorie mounads wnich were probably the sum- structures of old Zapotec or Mixtec temples, no relics of which now re- main. The sites are stripped of even the stones which once faced the :ides of the mounds and formed ti r- ways, and ancient Zaachila was prob- ably used as building material for co- lonial Zaachfla. High up in the un- even masonry of the old church a broken stone with carved symbols stands out. The village has about 1,000 inhabi- tants. It is out of the beaten track and visitors are rare, and the hamlet has probably changed very littis in many generations. The church is a few steps from the market plaza, and the Indian in trouble comes in hetween barterings for pigs and turkeys or chili, to wail his prayer before the Black Christ on the crucifix or to the primi- tively carved and painted saints and madonnas. He kisses the floor in fron: of the statues, and as he passes o to go back to his flelds or to “puesto” in th> market, he gazes curiously, but very hurriedly, at t; carved stone slab he no longer unce stands, which was once perhaps n:s Bible, and which strangers are now going to carry away. Stones to Be Removed. The village is not a friendly place to a tactless stranger and the modern Zapotecs and Mixtees do not like strange things they do not understand to be done in their church, just as four centuries ago they resented hav- ing their original native Indian religion tampered with. In a church in the town of Oaxaca, not many miles away, there is a his- torical painting of the conversion in Zaachila in 1521, of Cosijoeza, the last native ruler in the Valley of Oaxaca, who was afterward known as Don Carlos Cosijoeza, according to the label of the picture. This suggests th: Zaachila might have been an imj center of precolonial civilization. There are other archeological relics in this village besides the ones in the town church. On another side of the plaza an old colonial house has as part of the street pavement by its door- step a large flat stone that bears what is probably a date, according to the Maya system of writing down time. The symbols consist of ths _conven- tional Maya bars, dots, and heads. In the back yard of another house nearby is another monolith covered with “carvings on two sides, which also appear to be dates. This stone, it is sald in the e, once formed the cover of a sepulcher in one of the great earth mounds outside of the village, which formed the sub- structures of temples in ancient times. Very few outsiders have seen these stones. They were first reported to the Mexican government by Senor Martin Bazan, federal archeology for the State of Oaxaca. are about to be removed to the m at the city of Oaxaca. This and That By Charles E. Tracewell. ‘Women are supposed to be the great cat fanclers, but one commonly sees a great manv more men stooping down to pet wandering felines in the street. The downtown cat especially comes in for fts share of these blandishments. There is something about the cat of | the busy sections that makes a big appeal. Usually he or she is a forlorn-looking animal, dirty as a street urchin, either | too scared to greet its human friends or pathetically grateful for any notice whatsoever. It is a far cry from these down- | | | | Fifty Years Ago In The Star Fifty yvears ago another European ongress” was B‘Cb?i:: ‘to mnssefltgb!e ;x riin to ler ad- The Congress )l:t:enu %“m‘l 0 : the Russo-Turkish War. of Berlin. 7. "Sear of March 1 1878, thus comments on the subjects: ‘Twenty-two years have 3 great changes in the relations of the. Eurgpean powers. The Coi < B Paris at the beginning and the gress of Berlin at the end of this period are the historical exponents of their respective epochs. Their very names are suggestive of the important fact trodden cats to the sleek household | that the crown of European pre-emi- pets of the residence neighborhoods. | nence has been wrested from France there are woman polfce in almost every growth, l | pay roll totals were during monuments are the tracts of | nature he dedicated to preserve a bit | of it for generatjons yet unborn. He gave Muir Woods, a large attrac- tive recreation area, convenlently ac- cessible to San Francisco, for the use of the public forever. Countless thou- sands enjoy this gift annually. He re- fused to peinat his name to be identi- fied with the name of this park. At great expense he acquired an area of magnificent redwoods in Humboldt County, Calif, to be preserved forever for th+ inspiration and enjoyment of the public. The area given is not socia d with his name, except by a small bronze tablet on the face of a And | native bowlder, screened by the under- shades and of a primeval forest. foliage partment of Labor of unemployment and part-time employment will be sub- mitted within a few days, it is expected. Secretary Davis has stated that tabula- | tions have progressed sufficiently to jus- tify the statement that unemployment has been exaggerated in the ageregate figures which have been given circula- | tion by private agencies. In the February report on selected manufacturing industries, while an up- ward tendency 18 disclosed, employment figures are shown to be 6 per cent lower than in February, 1927, while 6.6 per cent lower, per capita earnings being 6 per cent lower Of the 54 lines of industry represented, 39 had a larger number of employes in February than in Janu- ary, but only 11 had more workers | The latter are clean as pins, through | much personsl washing: their fur and now adorns the Emperor of Ger- many. The treaty of Berlin, i{ Europe fairly glistens in the sunlight. shall be favored with such a document. ‘The true house cat is fat ang Will annul the treaty of Paris. The | | than in February of st year, P ‘There are other indications that the recession In genceral business conditions has been checked. The Department of Commerce weekly report, made public | yesterday. shows wholesale prices gener- ally higher than a year ago, and that for the week ended March 10 a greater volume of checks passing through banks for payment than in the cor- responding week of 1927, department reports exports in Febru- | ary as practically the same in value | during the same month last vear,, but w $42,000,000 fncrease in the value ! of imports. Indieations are that the | bulk pf this increase on the fmport | stide will be found o be in raw ma- | terlals, whichh means that domestle in- | dustries are laying I stocks for fabri- | cation Study In several divections I8 being given to the economic waste wrought by suddenly replacing workers with machinery, Labor-saving devices make for economy of operation, but the viclous clrele of reduced demand for goods starts when income 1s out off from consumers, and faotory workers ure consumers, o related are indus- tries one (o another that & slump in one ultimately will touch others, even it not all others. Then, too, study {8 belng made of dislocations of Industry caused by ex- huustion of raw materials within economic (ransportation distance, ad- verse changes in the frelght vate The same | structure, shifting markets and moditied | demand Helter veports alone will nat create fdeal conditions, but they will aftord A foundation upon which to bulld, tor until aulte vecently Amerioan indusiry iy been proceeding as individual units when the fact Ia ‘wmmm. recognised that each line of induatyy must de- pend upon others for the ult te well 10y of labor and capital alike, [T TEONY | the | healthy, with a somewhat insolent look | Year 1856 saw the signature of the lat- | in his eyes, as if to say to the world, | ter. The powers, soon to reassembic | “Well, folks, I think pretty well of | then engaged to respect the independ. panyself, of course, but then |'who T am!" | en Just look | € nce of the Ottoman empire. Declara- on was made that it is clearly under- The poor wayfarer of the downtown | Stood that it cannot in any case give to usually is dirty despite his best efforts to keep himself clean. He finds it an al- | most impossible task, since too often he {is forced to seek refuge in coal cellars. | e One has to like cats, of course, to see them in the business districts, Most persons who do not care for | them will say off hand that they never | noticed one in the marts of commerce, | but the fricnds of cats will recall many | score, and will even remember the color | of their coats. One does not consclously go along {looking for cats. A cat darting be~ tween the rolling wheels of automo= biles, however, will attract his atten- !uun where it would not that of the | other type. | be included in this category. Even dogs are rarely seen on their own four feet, except in automobiles, stores on chains. ] | the sald powers the right to interferc either collectively or separately in th relations of His Majesty the Sulta with his subjects, nor in the intern: administration of his empire. By spacial agreement Gr~-t Britais France and Austria, jointl o1 sevei- ally, guaranteed the indep. 1ce and integrity of the Ottoman =& declared that any infractwon of the stipulations of the treaty of Paris would be considered by them a sufficient cause for war. All these barriers against Russian on have long been the ish, hardly obstructing s nts which they seemed powerless to prevent. The sooner they are formally tossed aside the better. “The firmness of the lish repre- sentatives at the Congress of Paris fast- ened severe terms on conquered R Come to think of It, one sees com- | which have not. however, been so ¢, | paratively few animals in the down- | gshaken off. town streets, unless human beings can | edly were,’ ‘Stringent they und: Mr. Theodore Ma in his lif of the Prince Consort, they Invoived an acknowledgment of humbling defeat {n the stipulations tha {or being dragged through department | she should thenceforth erect no m tary or naval arsenals in the Black Sea We have always felt sorry for the which was to be absolutely closed poor dogs pulled into elevatars in the big stores. Somehow or other we im- agine a dog does not like that. 1If we were a dog. we would strenuously re- | sist elevators. It 1« bad enough in an elevator for A human being, what with the crowd- Ing. and the woman who pokes you in eve with her umbrella, and the young lady who crowde Demelt up against you and then turns around and | glares as it it were your shrinking fault To be a little fellow, however, not more than a foot or so high, and to be down there somewhere on the floor, vessels of war, and that she should ¢ sent to the rectification of her frontie: with Turkey in Europe. This, Russia knew, involved the surrender of that portion of Bessarabta which borderec on the Danube, and in all her history ! Russia had never given back any terri- | tory which she had once appropriated | With Bessarabia restored to its o proportions, the last trace of Russia's | humiliations will be effaced “It remains 10 be seen whether the powers which guaranteed the Ruma- | nlans the possession of their privileges and fmmunities will permit the tnius- | tice to be done them which & robbery and to be completely surrounded. not R only on Al skdes, it from above. | bk for the e 3 oo & by large creatures milling In and out| “The assembly at Berlin will meet well, now, that would be pretty tough, | under greatly changed conditions. Rus would it not? AlA APPEATS A8 A congueror at th France has lost much of her mu prestige. Cermany, which was admit ted at Paris only by suffvance, and in % manner to humiliate her, now pre CEE Y To get back to our favorites of the animal world Friends of cats always keep a look- | out for them, at least notice them when | they run across them An inslstent meow will come to the cars. He will look around, to see a thin creature standing there, & Kitten pers haps five months old. Its coat is dap- pled white and black, not striped Tn neat patterns, but simply splotched. Added to this comical lack of design 15w coat of coal dirt, which makes the black spots rusty looking and the white places gray. The gentleman ap) rl\urhfl with out- stretehed hand, to giv ve the benediction of the gutter, this new-found friend Lihis Nttle thing that has harmed no ane n the workd The cal jumps, starts to flee, tay by experience to be afraid ht A soothing halts 1t | The pat Is bastowed for s lttlel 1t pures madly winds its solled sl mans legs. lgantioally, it around the Bta ancestors for thousands of years tenewed ’ | How' grateful the divty ereature is . Of the cat lover (o this lttle outcast | feat o cause It to recede word from the human being, Rowever, | WAY Dot prove the pre | | sides. Austria ts still the same, ‘eve strong on the strongest side’ watching an opportunity 1 do A good stroke o business, England served as a spur on the measures at Paris; she will act as ® check on those at Berlin, Mer grea Alm NOW 18 A combination with Austiia which will enable her to speak with autharity and to sustain herself i the bold pasition which she is almost cer- taln 1o assume. “Many dificulties wait upon the com Ing conference. A colliskon betwesn the Topresentatives of Kngland and Rusia seels inevitable, The former natiw has auftered o crushing wulitay de rom positiuns which 1t has before dotended by fove of wrins, and the latier, elated by I recent victory, seems disposed to carey matters with a high hand 1t 4 to de hopad that the sirugsle fu diplmacy oursar of ane of A WOre serkois nature Anew and expected that toueh of the hand. that Kind tone of va This small wall, recelving these things, 'fi?i on s dimeult way with