Evening Star Newspaper, January 18, 1929, Page 8

8 THE EVENING STAR ____With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY.......January 18, 1920 THEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor .The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office: 11th 8t. and Pennsylvania Ave. New York Office: 110 East 42nd St. Chicagg Office: Tower Building. Zuropean Office: 14 Reent St.. London. England. Rate by Carrier Within the City. Eo Evening Star..... .......45¢oer ronth e Evening and Sunday Star (when 4 Sundays) .. . 60c per month ‘The Evening and Sunday Star (whi Sunday. ..85¢ per month The Sunday Star ... ... per copy Collection made at’ the end of each month. Orders may be sent in by mail or telephone Bain 5000. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. flv and Sunday....1 sr. $10.00: 1 mo.. 8% T an ORIy Lo, 7. $6.00: 1 mo.. 50c junday only ¢ 4.00; 1 wo.. 40¢ All q'thrr States and Canada. ily and Sunday..1 yr. aily only . 1yr., $800: 1 mo. Sunday only .1 yr., $5.00; 1 mo. Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively cntitled o the use for republization of all rews dis- atches credited to it or not otherwise cred- ted in this paper and also the local licws published herein. All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. Congress by April 1. Senator Shortridge of California has | urged Mr. Hoover to call the proposed special session of Congress at the ear- liest possible date this Spring. This is | sound advice. If the session can be opened April 1, with the House ways and means committee ready to report & tariff bill at that time, why not open it then? Why wait until April 15, as has been suggested? Those who are to be members of the new Congress will have had from March 4, the close of the present session, until April 1 for & rest. A call issued by Mr. Hoover immedi- ately after he becomes President will give more than three weeks' notice to the Senators and Representatives—suf- ficient time in which to reach Wash- ington from the farthest parts of the country. Already the fact that there is to be a special session has been broadcast throughout the Nation. Newly elected ‘members of Congress, who are not now members and have not vet come to ‘Washington, have the information that they will be called to the Capital in the Spring. The House ways and means com- | mittee began its hearings on the pro- posed fariff bill January 7. It does seem that practically three months in which to hold hearings and prepare a bill for submission to the House should be sufficient, although a tariff revision 18 & big job, with many interests to be considered. However, in this particular case a Republican Congress is to re- write a Republican tariff measure. In @ degree, the tariff revision is to be merely supplementary to the present law. There will be no complete change of the tariff schedules. No effort is to be made to change the principle of the | existing tariff law. Urgent demands are being made for greatly increased duties on many articles, it is true. But the Republican party leaders will scarcely fall into the error of acceding to any increases unless it can be shown that they are really needed. The consuming public must be considered, particularly with & congressional election in the The Republican leaders expect to have the farm relief bill dealt with in the Senate while the House is working on the tariff, -Senator McNary, chair- man of the committee on agriculture, has done a vast amount of- work on farm bills. He will have before him, if he has not already, Mr. Hoover's views on farm legislation. It is expected that he will be able to whip a bill into shape by April 1 for introduction in the Benate. ‘The new Congress will have two big Jobs on its hands, farm -relief and a new tariff bill. The sooner it can get @own to work and pass them, the sooner the country will have an opportunity to ®djust itself to these proposed new laws. ———— ‘There 18 no great luxury in expecto- mmlonthaudewuxlomntlm may be carried on shoe soles into homes. “The regulations against such a practice favolve no_ hardship and should not be ll:duce« to the obsolescence of “blue — e Aviation can accomplish wonders in Peace. The terrors of its possibilities in war diminish as the world-wids inclina- tion toward cordial understanding dncreases. service with radio from the days when it was known as “wireless,” and Mr. Caldwell points out that about eighty- five per cent of the work of the com- mission has been completed. President-elect Hoover, as Secretary of Commerce, expressed opposition to the permanent establishment of another commission to handle radio, and urged that after a year its powers lapse back to the radlo division of his department, but he has not made any recent pro- nouncement on the matter, and it is not known whether his views have changed. Meanwhile, a bigger and broader solution of the whole matter seems to be approaching, in what Rep- resentative Davis refers to as the “In- evitable” formation of a communica- all wireless and wired communication systems. Mr. Caldwell's viewpoint is refreshing to those who listen to pleas for exten- sion of existing agencies, whether he wants to get back to private life or not. —— st — Europe’s Powder Barrel. It savors of the fronical that on the very day President Coolidge signed the document attesting American ratifica- tion of the Kellogg pact the cables brought news from Europe's ever-smol- dering powder barrel. The news con- cerns the new “Alsace-Lorraine” which the peace of Versailles set up when it allocated the former Prussian province of Posen to the newly created state of Poland. In particular, the information relates to Germany's well known, though not officially acknowledged, de- termination not to permit “the Polish corridor” permanently to cut off East Prussia from the rest of the Reich. The light has been suddenly and sen- | sationally turned on the German-Pol- ish situation by disclosures in the Eng- lish Review of Reviews. A day or two ago that magazine published a secret memorandum of Gen. Groener, the German minister of defense. It was prepared in November for the con- fidential use of members of the Ger- man cabinet, influential Reichstag dep- uties and representatives of the Ger- man federal states. The memorandum exposes in detail the Reich’s extensive plans for a war of defense against Poland. Its cutstanding feature is an | outline of military tactics designed to | keep the Poles from taking more Mi Upper Silesian territory or a portion of East Prussia. | Although Poland and the Reich are | land neighbors, the Groener scheme contemplates German naval operations against the Poles. Germany, above all, it is pointed out, must take such meas- ures as will enable her to combat the danger she would face if Poland, hav- ing attacked, were to throw troops into the corridor and thus detach the easternmost territory from the remain- der of the Reich. Germany’s only means of communi- cation with an East Prussia thus cut off would be by sea. To maintain it, Gen. Groener's strategic plan sets forth, Germany must possess a larger fleet than Poland. Superiority at sea now rests with the Reich, but France is Poland’s ally, and a French fleet suddenly rushed to the Baltic would promptly transfer the advantage to Germany’s foes. The Germans must, therefore, proceed to construct a navy which will enable them to hold the Skagerrak in any emergency. Other- wise, Gen. Groener's memorandum argues, the Polish menace can never | be effectually met. Far from proving the uselessness of such covenants as the Kellogg pact, the German-Polish situation vindicates their grim necessity. Both Germany and Poland are signatories to the pact. nounce war as an instrument of na- tional policy. The Gen. Groeners and other hotspurs in both countries to the contrary mnotwithstanding, the world must continue to persuade itself that the Polish corridor will not be per- mitted to plunge Europe into the halo- osust of another war. —— e ‘The recovery of King George scores an incontrovertible -point in favor of science. After all, science means only knowing. Many of its investigations are incomplete and its only danger is in assuming to know too much. ———— Pictures and type persist in glorifying | the American criminal. Cold analysis may become compelled to rate crime as | one of our best advertised industries. | B { Human nature remains the same. Even so whole-hearted a philanthropic organization as the Salvation Army has | its personal rivalries. e Standard Ofl of Indiana is preparing %0 prove that the decree which severed the Rockefeller interests into distinct companies really meant something. e — An Unusual Condition. An unusual condition was unfolded before a congressional committee the other day when Orestes H. Caldwell, & member of the Federal Radio Commis- slon since its organization nearly two1 years ago, recommended that the ad- ministrative life of the commission be cut off in a few weeks. Mr. Caldwell's | plea is unusual, at least, for Congress has heard many items of testimony | from experts of all branches of the | ‘Government for many vears, but almost | always on the other side of the picture. | ©rdinarily the Government expert, tes- | tifying before a committee of either | house, appeals not for abolishment of | the commission or agency with which he is identified, but for its continuance, and frequently urges broadening of its powers. Mr. Caldwell’s background, however, s different from that of the usual Gov- @rnment expert. Brought to Washing- ton two years ago from civilian life, to take a place on one of the most highly #echnical commissions through which the Federal Government functions, he had no glittering illusions about the sacredness of Federal control. Nor does he believe that the commission form of radio control is a matter of good ad- ministration. He holds that the radio eommission, having successfully piloted the bark of Federal radio administra- tion through the troubled waters of legal entanglements and through the shoals of “public interest” and benefit; should now permit control of radio to lapse back to the Commerce Depart- ‘ment’s radio division, from which it was taken to find a way out of the chaos of 1826. ‘The inherently technical nature of the task of radio control should properly rest wiih the highly skilled P who grew wp i the Government W Wuw{wuuw's forces. It is gone broke.” Whalen’s Hard Job. New York's new commissioner of po- lice, Grover Whalen, who has under- | taken this job at the special urging of Mayor Walker as a means of curing the | crime conditions from which the big city is suffering, passes from one comi- plication and problem to another. Pirst he had the Rothstein murder to solve. Indeed, it was primarily on account of that clouded crime that a change in the commissionership was effected. But the Rothstein case did not solve speed- ily, and while it was working out the commissioner went after the polson- liquor question and started a series of ralds on booze joints and spread terror among the illicit distillers and vendors. to the traffic question, and was about to institute a new system of control over the night crowds in the streets when his mind was deflected by a daring most perfectly executed coup of its sort New York has ever known. Five cor- rectly dressed young men drove up to one of the most exclusive of the Park avenue shops just before noon, and en- tering held up the establishment, roping the manager and all his aides and then turning out the safe and receptacles. ‘They scoured the place for gems, leav- ing only one jewel, too big and too well known to be reckoned as safe loot. They got away quickly, leaving not a trace or a finger print. The police com- missioner was on the job in short order, in person, and has charge of the in- vestigation. Police commissionerships in New York are not sinecures. They are ardu- ous assignments. They are especially difficult when they run acrcss the lines of political privilege and immunity. Too much thoroughness is not always desirable. Take the matter of the speak- easies and night clubs that were raided Having thus stirred things up pretty ef- | fectually, Commissioner Whalen turned | jewelry crime, which is described as the | THE EVENING STAR, WAS THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. all well enough to pull a few dozen small opcrators, make & show of en- forcement and then pass on to other things. But there must be some discre- tion in the raiding, some restraint in the enforcement. The whole thing is a matter of well adjusted balance. These five well dressed crooks may be fair prey for the police. If so they have left precious little in the way of clues by which they can be pursued. It is all so provoking. When the crime is really and truly beyond the pale it proves to be undetectable. Just such happenings are calculated to make Commissioner Whalen pine for the good old days 1 When his official job in New York con- sisted in welcoming aviators and Chan-~ nel swimmers and foreign dignitaries tions commission, with authority over:and celebrities. ————— The Democracy's Souvenir. Judging from the manner in which response has already been made to Gov. Smith's appeal for funds to pay the Democratic party’s deficit of a million and & half dollars, that financial opera~ tion may soon be completed and the organization given fiscal clearance. Let- ters and telegrams are now being received from all parts of the country ordering copies of the book of campaign speeches, which is offered as a premium to subscribers. Some of the contribu- tors ask for as many as one hundred coples each. No report is made of the total amount of the first day’s subscrip- tions, but the financial officers of the Democratic committee are highly en- couraged by the immediate reaction to the candidate’s plea. Some question has been raised regard- ing the book that is to be given in re- turn for each two-dollar subscription to the fund. Will it comprise the speeches as written or the speeches as spoken? There were differences between the two forms, material differences in some re- spects. Stenographic reports were made of the speeches as they were broadcast, and so a presumably perfect copy is kept of the actual utterances of the campaign. The chances are that the souvenir edition, however, will be in the form of written speeches, and that no attempt will be made to preserve the moods of the moment that swayed the candidate from his prepared lines of comment. Another question arises. Is the book of speeches to be established and recog- nized as the Democratic scripture? Is it to be the declaration of principles and of faith upon which the party is to pro- ceed to regeneration and ultimate vic- tory? The governor-candidate, who is by every tradition still the head of the party, calls for discussion, for frequent and continuous activity in debate and propaganda. Is it to be accepted that this discussion, all this recreative prop- aganda, will be along the lines of the late campaign? There are some Demo- crats—indeed, the returns of November 6 indicated a good many—who do not altogether hold with the Smith formula of Democratic faith, and if the forth- coming book of speeches is to be put forth and accepted as the fundamental law of Democracy, there may be some continued demur and some difficulty in consequence. So it would seem that this is not al- together a matter of dollars and cents. The coupling up of the Democracy’s debt with the campaign speeches may be effective financially, but embarrass- ing politically. —_————— A great deal of psychoanalytic litera- ture suggests that the human race may as well dismiss old standards and put up with what it cannot avoid. ———— The book agent will undertake to demonstrate that the masterful speeches T i5asa ives to re- |©f Al Smith are as popular now as when ks = he delivered them. ——————— The fourth of March will be a day of general rejoicing, regardless of the political controversies which may follow. e ‘The Antarctic traveler represents a climate chaser who is anxlous to get the worst of it. T — SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Art and Nature. Airplane hurrying past a cloud Seems a creature strong and proud., It reflects the sunset sky Like a giant butterfly. Bwiftly, in majestic flight, It will fade away from sight, Secrets of the air to learn— Sometimes, never to return, Waiting, as the months go by, For the real butterfly Where the sunbeams, day by day, 'Mongs} the perfumed blossoms stray. Better than yon work of art, With an engine for a heart, Seems this being, I confess, Born of Nature’s loveliness. Neglected Economy. “Statesmen should set the people an example in practical economy.” “They won’t do it,” answered Senator Sorghum. “A political campaign almost invariably winds up with a deficit.” Jud Tunkins says he never wishes he were “a child again.” A lot of things he is inclined to do now would make his parents feel compelled to give him a good licking. By Way of Relaxation. When psychoanalysis fills us with doubt And crime assumes aspects of glory, Up there in the attic, I wander about In quest of an honest old story. T turn to adventure of long, long ago. It is with relief that I do so. I feel much indebted to Daniel Defoe For giving us Robinson Crusoe. Stagger Hours. “I understand they are introducing stagger hours to lessen the theater con- gestion.” “I always knew,” answered Uncle Bill Bottletop, “that this here prohibi- tion wasn't working so good in some parts of New York.” “Do not resent your creditors,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown. “Be proud of them. They prove that some one hl‘-! been willing to trust you.” Intellectual Economy. Ecpnomy of thought and word 1Is congtantly on view. ‘The old ideas may be heard And seem as good as new. “A gambler,” said- Uncle Eben, “Is likely to reform automatically. Sooner or later he has to reform ’cause he's T i We see by the paper that the garaen clubs already have begun to make their i plans for the Spring. It is well. No matter how cold the weather is now, it is safe to say that it will not always be so; it is pretty safe to predict that balmy weather is closer now than at any other time this year. One is reminded—we hope not irrev- erently—of that lugubrious and great that simple yet beautiful hymn of one of the sisters Carey in which she speaks of being closer to the Father's mansions than she ever was before. In that triumphant and essentially brave declaration, filled with divine faith, the lover of gardens recognizes his own simple faith in the soil trans- figured. The forests were man's first temples, said Bryant; surely farms and garden plots were the second, where man worshiped unknowingly, and there- fore truthfully, with his labor. Dr. Van Dyke has a beautiful poem on the sub- Ject. The gardener at this time of the year needs all the poetry, all the faith, all the faithful work of the clubs, to keep him from forgetting his rightful herit- age. The lover of theatricals will have little sympathy for him; the theater is open and no day or night is too cold for a presentation. The amateur gardener, on the other hand, finds his garden stage bare and empty. Winter has pulled down a bleak, bare curtain, or, rather, Winter keeps down what Autumn brought to view with its frosty snuffer, turning green leaves into brown and gold and reds, and transforming glowing branches into lifeless sticks. That was what Autumn did, such was the poor trick played by the buffoon of the sea- sons, the pitiless Fall, which wears ils motley for all the world as if drunk and reeling. The true April Fool's day comes on Halloween. ¥k The light is ahead, however. No matter how filled with colds and coughs, the Winter cannot last forever. The time will come, and perhaps not so many months now, when out of the very old but still unfathomable mystery called Nature will start up in all its splendor the most beautiful flower of all, Spring herself. Is not Spring the most beautiful flower? Where is there a rose so beau- tiful, a violet so sweet, a perfume so delightful as the very Spring hersclf as she comes wrapped in her mantle of morning dew and chilly evenings, redo- lent of earth and things earthy, yet not ashamed of them, but unabashed in the viger of her quenchless immortality? All the wayside flowers, from trillium to the jack-in-the-pulpit, the early-blooming shrubs, the Forsythia, the ‘lovely lilac, all the roses, all the glory of tulip and narcissus, of hya- cinth and "the little crocus and snow- drops that nestle in the grass, all of these are but the jewels which Spring wears, She has a silk scarf of fantastic de- sign thrown over her beautiful shoul- ders and we are so in love with the variegated ¢olors that we forget to ad- mire the I#dy herself. This is the dan- ger of the amateur gardener, that he WASHINGTON BY FREDERIC Charles Evans Hughes, who has just left Washington after arguing the New York City Interborough Railway fare case before the Supreme Court, is to go on the air the night of Washington's birthday under interesting auspices. On a network of stations which will carry his sonorous voice from coast to coast Mr. Hughes will broadcast an address on the proposed George Washington memorial to be erected at the National Capital in commemoration of the 200tk anniversary of the first President's birth. The project is eight or ten years old. The corner stone of the memorial was lald in Washington in 1921 on a magnificent block of land adjacent to Pennsylvania avenue, the dedicatory address having been delivered by Presi- dent Harding. Congress voted the prop- erty on which the memorial one day is to be reared, but popular subscriptions will have to build it. The prime mover in the George Washington memorial en- terprise is Mrs, Henry F. Dimock, one of the Capital’s great social leaders and & sister of William C. Whitney, Presi- dent Cleveland’s Secretary of the Navy. Mr. Hughes, on February 22, will sound as his keynote the well known wish of George Washington that the republic some day should erect at the seat of the Federal Government a worthy struc- ture of the contemplated character. * ok kK Count Chinda, the distinguished Jap- anese diplomat and statesman who has just passed away in Tokio, is well re- membered by Washingtonians, who knew him as Nippon’s Ambassador here during the first Wilson administration. Chinda had cordial ties with this coun- try, because he was a graduate of De Pauw University, where he was a classmate and fraternity brother of the late Albert Jeremiah Beveridge, Senator and historian. This observer, when on duty in Berlin before the war, met Count Chinda at an American embassy reception. The Japanese asked the writer what part of the United States he hailed from. “From Indiana,” was the reply. “Then you and I are both Hoosfers,” Chinda retorted with a broad grin, recalling his college days on the banks of the Wabash, far away. Chinda ::nresenbed Japan at three great capi- in succession, Berlin, Washington and London. * ok ok % Senator David A. Reed, Republican, of Pennsylvania has revived the project first formulated by the late Representa- tive “Tom” Butler of the same State to enable the mothers and unmarried widows of deceased American service men to make a pilgrimage to their graves in France. The Reed bill pro- vides for the establishment of an in- dependent bureau, to be known as the United States Gold Star Pilgrimage Bu- reau, the director of which would be appointed by the President and receive a salary of $12,000 a year. Uncle Sam would furnish free transportation, living accommodations in France, meals and other necessities connected with the pilgrimage to all women entitled to par- ticipate in it. They would go to France in relays between July 1, 1929, and June 30, 1932, * ok ok ok “The Order of Ahepa,” an American fraternal organization composed of American citizens of Greek descent, is to hold its first national banquet in Washington on February 6. Altogether Ahepa has 210 chapters throughout the United States, with an approximate membership of 20,000. The order is fraternal and educational in purpose. It has given more than 25 university scholarships, bequeathed more than $250,000 to charity and bent its efforts toward a better understanding of Greece in America and of America in Greece. Through its various agencies Ahepa has brought about the naturali- zation of approximately one-fourth of the present naturalized American citi- zens of Greek origin. Last August it presented to the city of Ypsilanti, Mich., a statue of the Greek Revolutionary hero, Gen. Demetrios Ypsilanti, in whose honor the town so well known to all Ann Arbor men was named. Ahepa is now taking steps to honor appropriately the Graeco-American, George Dilboy, in whose honor a congressional medai for herolsm was posthumously awarded. * ok ok ok Now that it can be told without any suspicion of gunning for the farm vote, it is of interest to narrate that Her- bert Hoover is an _honest-to-goodness dirt agriculturist. The President-elect has owned a 1,313-acre farm in Cali- fornia since 1920 and has operated it not only as a business enterprise, but also as a base for practical agricultural experiments. The Hoover farm is an QPject lesson in diversification of crops. | HINGTON; D. €., the | will put too much stress on the orna- ments of Spring and not enough on Spring. In all our planning for the future, there should be some thought given to the desirability of celebrating Spring. The early church wrested Na- ture’s holidays away from her and util- ized one for Christmas and the other for Easter, leaving poor Pan bereft. All that he has left is that foolish April's fool! * ok ok x Let us recall in our hearts the fair praise of Spring ralsed by the first and perhaps the last scientific poet, Lucretius, who, 2,000 years ago, painted a living picture of green grass and bleating lambs, soft winds and gentle temperatures. Above all he spoke of the grass being “enameled with flow- ers.” The garden lover in Winter will do well to keep in mind the flowers, which, with the green of grass and trees, give Spring its peculiar colors not exactly counterparted in any other time of the year, For the beauty of annuals and many perennials one must wait for Summer, but the Spring flowers have a luster all their own. Just how much of this comes from the eyes that see and the hearts that love one would not be too hard in pressing. It is enough that climbing roses bloom in the Spring. Then, if ever, come great sheets of climbing American Beauty, Silver Moon, Dr. Van Fleet shedding their radiance over many an ugly fence or uklier garage, making beauty come dwell with galvanized iron and unpainted wood. Then come the gay, flashing colors of the lordly Darwin tulips, great glob- ules of color (every color except yel- low) borne on stems 30 inches high, making a veritable fairyland of what before was only a back yard. There are the so-called early single tulips, which are ideal for making neat, stiff rows in beds, although the space may better be given to the Darwins. They come early, however, they have that merit, they give splotches of color. This is true particularly of the early double tulips and especially of the pink ones, which look for all the world like water Iilies floating there on the ground. Then come the lilac blossoms of in- comparable fragrance and later the great heads of the peony, unrivaled among them all for sheer beauty. Beauty in little is easily understood, but large beauty is more difficult. When art objects grow big they become ma- Jjestic or stupendous or spectacular, but not all of them are beautiful. The gigantic blossoms of the magnolia { are striking enough, but one would | hardly say they were beautiful any more than he would call their odor dainty. The peony blossom is at once big and lovely. These are but a few of the unrivaled adornments of Spring, which seen in prospect gleam no brighter than they will in actuality. There is enough in the vision, however, to inspire garden clubs to go to work at plans and to make gardeners everywhere long for the first authentic touches of the Sprin; to be, when there will be less need o writing than of digging and more need of sowing seed than of distributing | words. OBSERVATIONS WILLIAM WILE It contains vineyards producing 10 varieties of table grapes with a yearly output of 600,000 unds; some 300 acres in cotton; 200 acres in alfalfa; 150 acres in potatoes; 100-odd acres in corn; 130 acres in peaches; 90-odd acres in watermelons and muskmelons; 90 acres in Spanish onions; 50 or 60 acres in sweet potatoes, and 70 acres in apricots. In addition the Hoover farm contains 2,500 laying hens, 200 sows and 150 cows. During peak har- vesting seasons as many as 200 hands are employed and the annual payroll is about $75,000. * ok ok Louis Ludlow, the Hoosier-Washing- ton newspaper man, who is about to degenerate from a member of the press gallery into a member of the House of Representatives from the Indianapolis district, hasn’t waited till the special session to deliver what he calls his “maiden speech as a statesman.” He sprang it at the Jackson .day dinner in ‘Wooster, Ohio, the other night. It was devoted to an effort to point the way out of the wilderness for the Demo- cratic party, which Ludlow adorns. “But whether the donkey will see the rolnter. or not, is a question,” the au- hor of “From Cornfield to Press Gal- lery” sagely remarks. There be those out in the grass roots whence “Jim” Watson and Everett Sanders spring who think that Indiana politics holds big- ger things in store for Ludlow. He has the quaint humor and genial graces of ‘Tom Marshall. * Kk kX Washington politicians found Al Smith in old-time fighti form and voice when he broadcast appeal for Democratic party funds on the night of January 16. Most of them were disap- pointed that the late standard-bearer didn't give some indication of his own intentions in the: continuing battle he urged Democrats to wage. Smith did say that he will “be heard from time to time on the radio”—he's pronounc- ing it “radio” now—but he completely ignored the subject of party leadership. National Democratic leaders at the Capital think Smith's “high spot” was his hint that prohibition is not a closed incident. (Copyright. 1929.) Large Donations Aid Shenandoah Park Fund From the Roanoke World-News. Two gifts, amounting to $550,000, have been made by wealthy persons living outside of the State of Virginia toward the Shenandoah National Park, it is announced by the Secretary of the Interior, Roy O. West. Toward the acquisition of 327,000 acres of park lands the people of Virginia have subscribed $1,200,000, of which $1,000,000 has been paid in. The State of Virginia has ap- propriated $1,000,000. Probably a mil- lion to a million and a half more dol- lars will be necessary to complete the purchase. The names of the out-of- State contributors to the park, fund were not made public. Definite surveys of the park area are now being completed and offices will be opened shortly at Front Royal and other points to begin definite negotia- tions with the landowners. With $2,- 750,000 out of a possible $4,000,000 npw in sight, it is believed- that the rest of the money needed can be raised in and out of Virginia as soon as the exact price of the land needed can be estab- lished. Preliminary estimates of this price place the land needed from ‘Waynesboro to Front Royal at from $3.500,000 to $4,000,000. The average assessment of the land for taxation is $2 an acre, the park lines including 327,000 acres. ‘The problem in Virginia is somewhat different from that in the Great Smoky area of North Carolina and Tennessee, where a gift of $5,000,000 from the Laura Spelman Rockefeller fund has béen made available to sup- plement the funds provided by the two States. Tennessee ‘and North Caro- lina have already raised through sub- scription and State bond issues enough to match the donation of the Rockefel- ler fund. The matter of acquisition of property has been temporarily halted by suits brought over timber rights in the Federal courts. In acquiring the Shenandoah Na- tional Park, Virginia will have to deal with some 3,000 separate landowners, while the chief owners of the Great Smoky regions are about 40 great lum- ber companies. The lines of the Shen- andoah Park have been redrawn to ex- empt from the park area some valuable oK 1 and graging -lands, l FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 1929. Mysterious ‘Tidal Wave’ Puzzles Ship Captains BY E. E. FREE, PH. D. Another of the mysterious “tidal waves,” which seamen dread and which sclentists cannot understand, was en- countered by the American steamship i Santa Maria on December 8, 1928, while proceeding northward off the coast of the Carolinas. A few hours earller, Capt. E. N. Parker reports, the ship met with brisk wind, but this had died down and the sea was calm. Suddenly a single great wave rushed past the -vessel, pouring tons of water over her decks and injuring several of the crew. Only one wave was seen, the sea remaining calm thereafter for several hours. Like many previous reports from ships’ captains, the incident is a puz- zle. Such waves are certainly not “tidal” in the usual sense, for the daily ebb and flow of the tides is a gradual process, due to the bulge in the ocean's water created by the gravitational ac- tion of the moon. Submarine earthquakes are some- times blamed for these waves. Earth shocks along coastlines have been known to produce similar waves near- by. However, the experience of the Santa Maria resembles many similar reports in that no severe earth shock was recorded by continental seismo- graphs at a time corresgondlng with !hemwave. .Accordingly the puzzle re- mains. ] Greene Appointment Pleases New Yorkers From the Schenectady Gazette. Selections made to appointive State officers by Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt appear to be meetipg with much ap- proval on the part of the people. One which wins emphatic indorsement from the riding public—in other words, the automobilists—is that of Col. Frederick 8. Greene to the position of State superintendent of public works, which place he has held for years, It is as commissioner of highways that Col. Greene is perhaps best known. He assumed that office at the time Gov. Smith was first elected, and has held it continually, or a supervisory post, ever since, with the exception of the two years of the Miller administra- tion. Superintendent Greene might well be called the father of the modern system of highways in New York State. He inaugurated and carried out to a suc- cessful conclusion the method of con- crete road bullding, supplanting the macadam highways that could not stand up under today's traffic demands. ‘Whereas in the past, roads had been built and then, going to pieces, had to be reconstructed within a year or two, with inevitable delays and detours. U der Col. Greene they were built to last; they were widened and detours became almost a thing of the past. A notable feature of his administra- tion has been the abandonment of political highways. Customs had de- creed that in State, counties and towns roads should be built to please the politicians. Big sums were spent run- ning an improved thoroughfare to some supervisor’s or justice’s front door, end- ing there, just so he might have a good surface to travel on. Other roads, where traffic was heavy, were neglected. Commissioner Greene put road building on a businesslike basis. He refused to listen to the pleas of petty office holders, or even of more influential ones. He saw that dead end roads were connected, that no more of that kind were built, and that impor- tance, not the buying of votes, was the | way to judge whether a highway should be improved. Politicians of both parties frankly do not like Col. Greene. He has refused to play with them. But he has served the absence of scandal has marked his con- duct of office. The roads he has bullt stand as & monument to his efforts— and as & constant source of satisfaction to the riding public. = When Franklin D. Roosevelt was nominated he declared it to be the duty of a governor to represent all of the citizens, not party. He promised to be guided by that principle. Already he has given evidence of a determination to carry out this idea. French Sportswoman Defends Her Language From the Memphis Commercial-Appeal. Mille. Violette Morris has been barred trom the French Federation of Femi- 1ine Sports because of her culottes and her language and an inability to win the grazes of the sports writers. She is aggrieved. She is distraught, she has been pilloried. Mlle. Morris is known throughout sportsdom as an automobile racing driver. She will prob- ably hecome better known as a result of -the French sports federations, and what did she do? She wore the panta- lons and she cussed in beautiful French. What immodesty! And in reply, mademoiselle says: “Immodest; look about you—not that you have not— consider the so-crossed limbs of the ladies. Are they of such modesty more than my pantalons? No. no, mademoi- selle; they are not. The condemnation ees terrible.” Bad language! “In the name of lib- erty, in the name of La Patrie, my father was a general,” replied Mile. Morris. “About the camps they did use some of the language of the picturesque. Do you bar the daughter of a patriot?” Dear ‘mademoiselle, no wonder you seek the redress of 100,000 francs You say, look about you—am I more im- modest than these? Mademoiselle, we ride the Madison Avenue car line and we have become quite blinded. France objecting to the ntalons, France objecting to the beautiful invec- tive of mademoiselle’s pater, the lan- guage of the tented clmr. Pantalons! Rather nice things, Mlle. Violette, so much better than the bare knees of the American street car line. One hopes mademoiselle gets the francs and that the language is forgiven. Mile. Morris, come to America, where lan- n"ulfi and pantalons are quite appre- ciated. Sheep Raisers Report [ Unusually Good Year Prom the Cincinnati Times-Star. may be the biggest sheep year in the history of the country. For six years things have gone well with the flocks, and the wool clip of 1927, which was 328,000,000 pounds, has been equaled only three times before. In three years of this period, as we learn from the Commerce Monthly, the pur- chasing power of wool and lambs was 20 per cent above the pre-war level, where the purchasing power of cattle and the principal grains was 25 per cent below that level. One sees little evidence of this while driving around in Ohio, but in the Ken- tucky Blue Grass sheep are again a common sight, and more slowly they are coming back into the Kentucky mountains. A flock is always a prob- lem; on the Western ranges the saying is that anybody can raise cattle, but sheep are more trouble and a bigger gamble. One difficulty is the destruc- tion that their close nibbling works to pasturage. Another is their suscepti- bility to parasites. A third is the sheep-killing dog; a proverb has it that no township can raise both sheep and dogs. Yet England is the land of dogs and sheep; there they know how to train the one to let the other alone. ‘We should like to see flocks of sheep on the roads become as common a sight here ‘as in England, however incon- venient tourists might find them; and we should like’to hear the bleat of lambs on the wild lands and unutilized Jpastures of this part of the country ‘as well as on the slopes of the Rockies. They have a larger place in the folk- lore and poetry of men than any other domestic animal, their min- public faithfully and continually. An [D. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS The resources of our free informa- tlon bureau are at your service. You are invited to call upon it as often as you please. It is being maintained solely to serve you. What question can we answer for you? There is no charge at return postage. Address your letter to The Evening Star Information Bureau, ‘P:edglcc.'. Haskin, director, Washing- n, 3 Q. When was the ruling made that a fighter must retire to a neutral corner é‘h::n his opponent is knocked down?— A. We are informed that the ruling was made right after the Dempsey- Firpo fight, largely at the insistence of Dempsey. . How did the rumor start that the child actor, Davy Lee, had died?—G. L F. A. The origin of the rumor has been traced to the fact that a musiclan in the Ambassador Hotel orchestra in Los Angeles, called Sonny Boyce, was a vic- tim of pneumonia. Mr. Boyce was nicknamed “Sonny Boy,” and his death started the story that it was the Sonny Boy of the Al Jolson film, “The Sing- ing Fool.” Q. What methods are being employed by Turkey for the eradication of illit- eracy?—P. M. A. A campaign to reduce Turkey's {lliteracy from 90 per cent to 10 per cent within four months was opened officially by Ghazi Mustapha Kemal on New Year day. All persons between 16 and 40 are called on to enroll in the new national schools. Kemalist law requires the illiterate to take a four- month course in the new Latin alphabet of Turkey. JQ. Ews[at is King George's full name? A. His name is George Frederick Ernest Albert Windsor. Q. In speaking of a person who is an unusually good card player should %ne say he is a “shark” or a “sharp”?— A. A “shark” is a slang term for one who excels in something. A “s] " is a term for an expert, but seems to have the idea of cheating. This idea was formerly included in the word “shark,” but that meaning has now become obsolete. Q. Ar: other suns surrounded by systems of planets?—N. E. A. It would not be possible for as- tronomers to detect them even if they exist. It is probable that double stars exception. Q. What fish swims the fastest?— . R. M A, The dolphin (coryphena hippurus) is supposed to be the fastest fish in the ocean. Q. What are the dimensions of tle clock faces on the old Post Office Build- ing in Washington, D. C.?—P. B. A. Each dial is 15 feet in diameter; the hour hand, 5!, feet long; the min- ute hand, 712 feet long, and the letiers, 2 feet high. Q. What is a “kiloparsec”?—C. C. B. A. A kiloparsec is approximately 6,200 light years, figuring the travel of light at 186,000 miles a second. Q. When was the D. A. R. founded? -G.W.8., A. The organization, Daughters of the American,Revolution, was founded in Washington, D. C., in October, 1890. Q. Why do more corporations declare stock dividends than did so formerly?— . M. A. It has been found that such divi- dends are not taxable as income. In the seven years between March, 1920, and March, 1927, 10,245 corporations have declared stock dividends. Q. What was the flag known es the Congress colors?—L. B. A. In 1775 a committee, under Ben- jamin Franklin as chairman, designed the first flag of the United Colonies. This is said to have been the first offi- cial flag, and was hoisted by Washing- ton over his camp in Cambridge and by Capt. John Paul Jones over his fleet early in 1776. It had 13 red and white stripes, representing the 13 United Col- onies, with the King's colors, the crosses of St. George and St. Andrew, in the blue canton. -The presence ,of these crosses in the blue field meant that the all except 2 cents in coin or stamps for | are the rule and planetary systems the | P BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN. colonists were fighting for their rights as Englishmen. It has been called a “flag not of separation but of protest.” In those days it was often designated as the Congress colors, or the Cambridge flag, and was officially known as the Grand Union flag, and is said to have been designed by Washington. Q. Was Lincoln in favor of woman sufirage?—W. M. A. As early as 1836 Lincoln made a speech in which he said: “1 go 1or all sharing the privilege of the Government who assist in bearing its burdens. Con- sequently I go for admitting all whites to the rights of suffrage who pay taxcs or bear arms, by no means excluding females.” Q. Which has been known longer— }-l‘fe “lnaurmce or marine insurance?—P, A. Originally life insurance was not much more than an incident of marine insurance. The master of s ship was of such importance in the success of a voyage that the owners hit upon the scheme of insuring his life for the trip, in addition to ship and cargo. Q. When was Miles Standish born and when did he die?—G. J. R. A. Miles Standish was a Mayflower fllflg‘m.nnd Igle :fi %ornbin England about e ux| ’, Mass., - ber 3, 1656. B Q. How many architects are the: America?—G. P. S A. Architecture is one of the profes- sions of the smallest membership. In 1926 the number of architects regis~ tered by the census was 18,185. Archi- tects in assistant positions, including underdraftsmen, numbered 50,380, Q. How many calories are contained in an average bottle of carbonated bev- er;gea—gv."nlnw.m 2 alf-pint bottle of the ave carbonated beverage contains emr:gsfi :\gfi ':n yltelfl z‘nbfr‘." 1{50 calories, or ic-twentieth of our require daily energy-ylelding foods. i Q. Please explain the rule for Rus- ;‘l:: :‘m&m cs. It A‘:-m. Petrovna er, Ivan, what n‘:"v?fi?—l" C. M. O e 3 e Soviet Union Information Bureau says that the masculine endings for Russian patronymics are “ovitch,” ‘evitch” or “itch,” the corresponding feminine endings being “ovna” or evna.” In the example cited Anna Ptrovna is equivalent to Anna, daugh- ter of Peter, meaning that her father's first name is Peter. Her brother, if his first name were Ivan, would be’ called Ivewr Petrovitch, meaning Ivan, son of Q. Please tell som - e s ething about beryl. 3 Bureau of Mines sa; beryllium is a rare metal and uy.to?n.g In considerable quantity only in one mineral—beryl, which contains only at the most about 5 per cent of beryllium. The process of extracting the metal is expensive and difficult. At present it Is quoted at about $200 per pound. There is no market except for experi- mental purposes. If there were a defi- nite market it is possible that it could be made for $15 or less per pound. It is not magnetic. It is a fair conductor of electricity, and is not stronger than good steel. As it is easily oxidized by heat, it would be difficult to cast. Q. When did the Supreme rt render its first decision that an ggu of Congress was unconstitutional?—T. O. A. The Marbury versus Madison case, in the United States Supreme Court, 1803, was the first decision rendered Bhets ol e Srepepmat o Son- bugnant > stitution of the United States.” o Q. How are Negroes progress| in the business world?gv. x.p =5 A. The annual volume of business done by Negroes is $100,000.000 with :5%;‘;1&1;: of 31.)?00.0]&).00&4 There are 4 legro churc] T4 Ne banks; 218,612 farms erated by Negroes, owned and operated by Ni newspapers and periodicals for Negroes. Q. How extensive is the Salvation Army organization?—T. E. J. A. According to the latest reports, the Salvation Army was operating in 81 countries and colonles and haa 14,000 corps and societies with officers and cadets numbering 22,360. This was increased from 1010, when there were 8,582 corps with 13,726 officers and cadets. Reports of reduced costs in the man- agement of certain farms in Illinois and Iowa through the adoption of the sys- tem of a single management for an en- tire group have attracted attention of every one interested in the problems of modern agriculture. Fears are express- ed that such methods might tend to de- stroy family life and independence in the country districts, but the financial phase of the plan receives serious at- tention. “Comparatively few Illinois farmers,” according to the Toledo Blade, “have been operating recently on a profit- paying basis. The little landowner is forced out and the capitalist, forced in, employs the best brains and the. most modern machinery to make his un- wanted holdings pay. Thirty-two farms, covering 7,500 acres, are operated on the chain system under general super- vision of a salaried superintendent, but each farm also has a resident tenant- manager, whose incentive for doing his level best is a share of the profit, if any. Apparently authentic report is that the chain farms have cut cost of corn pro- duction from 65 cents to 41!, cents a bushel. The saving of one-third has in some instances changed deficits to profits of 6 to 13 per cent. Experiment and research have not been pursued far enough to warrant dogmatic statement of unqualified success, but the prospect for continued profitable operation of chain farms appears ht.” The Youngstown Vindicator is im- pressege ’hy L % fact that t;n;“ t’;:::’ “are being put upon a paying s and that there hupobeen lp"nvlng of as high as a third in some instances,” and concludes: “This system of farm opera- tion on lines followed by large bysiness enterprises has not been tried long enough to demonstrate all its possi- bilities, but enough is known to show that farming is not beyond hope of re- Chain System Applied to F_ar Raises Question of Home . is the gifted and the glib organizer, with plenty of ‘pep’ and industry, who, if we do not decide to do for ourselves, is going to do all our busienss for us in all lines of endeavor. Self-reliance, in- dustry, self-discipline and the will to win by one’s own exertions seem to have become lost virtues in these days of the supereminence of legislation as the cure-all of our moral and material ills.” “Advantages are distinctly on the side of concentrated capital and manage- ment,” in the opinion of the Olean Herald, “and the soundness of the new | method lies in the fact that these ad- vantages are passed on to the buying public. If the chain farm can be added to the list of such successful products it should aid measurably toward a healthier economic adjustment. Ameri- can agriculture could adopt the plan widely without entailing an unwhole- some growth of tenantry on farms, since the method can be applied to farms operated directly by the owners. Itcan scarcely be doubted, in any event, that the chain farm will become a recognized economic factor.” Sk Quoting a prediction that “we shall see more and more instances of great businessmen-farmers assembling under their control 25 to 50 farms, putting these farms into the hands of able tenants or lieutenants who will conduct them, on a basis of profit-sharing,” the Roanoke Times holds that “this idea does not necessarily mean a future given over to a generation of great landowners surrounded by landless peasant-tenants,” and concludes: “If grocers can effect a federation, why not farmers? The ques- luon‘u an interesting one, to say the least.” Reference to an experiment of a similar character in Iowa is made by the Si. Paul Dispatch, with the com- lief through competent management.” * K X % As one objection, the San Bernardino Sun declares that “for the farm to pass from individual operation is, in one sense, unt] able, for the farm is also the home.” The Sun describes experi- ments in California: “There is in San Bernardino County what might amount to chain operation of orange groves, There are several groups of experienced growers and shippers who own many scattered groves. For their purposes it is not necessary that an orange grove be one property. They simply main- tain organizations that move from one grove to another for the purposes of both cultivation and i % e But chain operation of ?-rms generally, if it is to be on the tenant system, will not be welcomed in farming communi- ties. It would mean in the end that the owners would reside in the big cities and that their interest would be chiefly in putting on the farm a tenant who is physically ablg to work the sufficient number of hours §o make it ble for him to live on his share of crop.” The importance of selfereliance in conducting farms along present lines is upheld by the Chattanooga Times with the statement: “The seeming necessity for the development of the farming industry along profitable and successful lines appears to have come about as istry to the needs of a nation is im- Emnt—md. besides, when intelligent- Feared, they Devs most of our other misfortunes—we sim- ply will not do for ourselves what we €80 get somehody, else to do for us. It N ment: “The tenants are said to be con- tented with the novel arrangement. They are relieved of worry and much responsibility; they have comfortable homes and smartly kept buildings, fences and equipment. a certainty of income and improved living conditions. The chaln farm idea is in the experi- mental stage. It has yet to show its possibilities through a comparison of one year's results with another. As a combination of modern business with agriculture it will attract wide attention, But the chain farm idea is regarded with alarm by students of economic questions. It requires the sacrifice of the farmer’s independence. It contains & distinct threat against the national fabric.” : & logical development,” concedes the Charleston Daily n;nufl;m that paper feels that “whether it will :m-k out successfully remains to be hidden may be many disadvantages or even evils” continues the Mail, “that will not be- come evident in the early stages of the experiment. But whatever the even- tual result may be, American agricul- estined to undergo radical