Evening Star Newspaper, February 8, 1929, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR o With Sunday Morning Edition. " WABHINGTON, D. C. SRIDAY. .February 8, 1920 THEODORF W. NOYES....Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company 11n ot "and Pennirivanta Ave ."and Penns: 3 i New ¥ork Office: 110 East iind 8t. f Chicago_Offi 80 : Tower Buildine. European Office;, 14 Regent 8., London, England. Rate by Carrier Within the City. ening Star.. ..45c per month and Sunday Star 60c per month 65¢ per month Sc per copy ach month. tion mad h month. telephone Orders may pe sent in by mail or Main 8000. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland a i1y and Sund: .1 ily only Sinday only All Other States and Canada. 1 yr., $13.00: .00; 1 mo., 1 $500; 1 mo., S0c Member of tRE Associated Press. gntitled | Shd B B this paper and als | .".l‘bqlllll‘"ed h:rl’ln’..AH rl‘hls of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. = The Cramton Bill. The Cramton park bill has received witle indorsement from the citizens’ or- ganizations in Washington, the Com- missioners have added their approval and the measure now goes to the Bud- get Bureau. While it is not to be mis- takenly regarded as a legislative wind- fall for the taxpayers of the District, nor even as a blessing in disguise, the Cramton bill does contain certain cor- rective and economic features which undoubtedly are sound. Its chief fault lies in the inequitable provision for re- paying the Treasury advance from District revenues without binding the Federal Government to any fixed con- tribution. The Federal Government's proportionate share will depend upon the relative amount of the lump sum in the annual District appropriation bill. The fault found here is not con- fined, of course, to Mr. Cramton’s park bill. Whatever remedy Congress applies to the existing unsettled state of finan- cial relations between the District and Uncle Sam will also apply to the Cram- | ton bill. The advantages of the bill are found in the section which provides for ex- penditure of District revenue within the District only, thus preventing out- lays of District revenue for acquisition of land in Maryland and Virginia, now ‘permissible under existing legislation; the fact that it makes available at one time as much money for park acquisi- tion in the District as can be used, thus enabling the park commission to buy land in advance of natural increases in land value, and in the Treasury ad- vance, to be repaid without interest and without an exorbitant annual increase in the money already made available each year to the Park and Planning Commission. As a park measure, the Cramton bill s excellent, although its efficacy as a means of extending the Capital's park system into Maryland and Virginia is yet to be tested in the Legislatures of those States. But no amount of eulo- gistic praise can remove it from that class of obnoxious legislation which in _effect will folst upon the shoulders of the local community the lion’s share of the cost of developing the Federal City in accordance with Federal plans, executed and supervised by Federal officials. ——————————— Governors and Inauguration. Participation of governors of the Btates in the inaugural proceedings in ‘Washington on the 4th of March, which was formerly a striking feature of the ceremontal, will be resumed next month when President Hoover takes office. This is the consequence of a re- turn to the more elaborate program of inauguration. According to latest re- turns, twenty-two governors will be present and will have places in the parade to escort the new President to the White House. This is a significant showing of State participation in the affair. Others will join the line from time to time "untfl on' inauguration day, 4t is now expected, nearly three-fourths of the States will be thus represented. In earlier times, before the inaugural proceedings were modified, the gover- nors of the States and their staffs came 40 Washington in. large numbers on the 4th of March. Their presence in the parade gave additional color to the ceremonial and greatly heightened the interest in it on the part of the attend- ing thousands of citizens. These repre- sentations directly symbolize the States of the Union, by the votes of which the President is elected. A sure-thing position in finance appears to be occupled by those who .. manufacture fireworks for patriots and {_@irearms for the underworld. Community Chest Insurance. Not the least cause of gratification 4 for the success of the Community Chest | “drive is the fact that the oversubscrip- tion of the fund means that during the coming year all of the agencies included will be relieved of financial concern and free to conduct their good works with- out impairment of efficlency incident to the raising of money for mainte~ .nance. The community has by its gen- " erous subscription to the fund under- written all these works for the year. ‘This means a great saving of energy. for thoge who are charged with the duty of carrying through these impor- 'Y #ant and valuable endeavors for the benefit of the people. Now that the Community Chest fund has been more than fully subscribed the ndvantage of this method of Srancing the welfare organizations and agencies becomes more apparent than ever. This money was raised in ten days by highly eoncentrated push and effective organg- ration. Washington turned in nearly a million and a half of dollars to carry on its works of succor and comfort, as- sistance and redemption for the year. It thereby relieved itself. It guaranteed at a minimum of trouble and with an economy of expense that all of these works would continue at full efficiency. This initial success demonstrates that ‘Washington can maintain a Community Chest. The benefits of this concentra- tion of financial programs and appeals have been so clearly demonstrated dur- 5 ing the past fortnight that the task " ,next year and in the years to follow | evacuated in March, according to ar- 3¢ | ing its bombardment by Japanese ar- will be much easier. From time to tim during the year Washingtonians should recall the fact that they have sub- scribed to these funds, and should ap- preciate the fact that they are not being importuned and solicited in be- half of any of the fifty-seven organiza- tions and agencies. This reflection should cause them to be grateful for the institution of the Community Chest, and this gratitude should be manifested next season in a prompt and adequate subscription to gontinue the good works. In short, this year's success should mean an assurance of unabated success here- after. ——.— Peace in Shantung. China and Japan are composing their differences. Tsinan, the capital of Shantung, which has been occupied by the Japanese for nearly a year, is to be rangemenss just effected. Japanese troops took possession of Tsinan follow- tillery in May, 1928. Undertaken in alleged defense of imperiled Japanese | lives, the Chinese branded the attack a “massacre,” and the gravest strain inj Sino-Japanese diplomatic relations has prevailed ever since. Upon the outside world an impression hardly less unfortunate was ceused. It| looked as if Nippon had seized upon a pretext to re-occupy China’s richest province, from which she retired, largely at American insistence, following the Washington Conference in 1922. The garrisoning of Shantung with thousands of Japanese troops seemed an unneces- sarily exhaustive measure, and as their sojourn was prolonged it developed into a potential bone of contention hot only with Nationalist China but with foreign powers. The particular region of the occupation lay athwart the path to Manchuria. It cut China off from the north, much as the Polish corridor di- vides Western Germany from the east- ern section of the Reich. Tokio and Nanking have now reached an accord over the Tsinan episode and its aftermath. Details remain to be completed, but all basic differences have been ironed out. The Shantung railway is to be handed back to the Chinese. Anti-Japanese agitation, especially the trade boycott, is to be abandoned. Mu- tual expressions of regret are to be ex- changed over the loss of Chinese and Japanese lives during a hectic twelve- month, which has often resembled a state of war. A claims commission will investigate and assess damages. Pres- ently normalcy will mark the relations between the two great’Asiatic states. Japan has not yet brbught herself to recognize the new China, as the United States, Great Britain and others have done. The Tsinan affair blocked the way. Now that it has become a closed incident there is every reason to hope that Japan, facing stern realities, will come to terms with China along gen- eral lines. Their relations are peculiarly interdependent. They are bound to be closer than those which subsist between China and any non-Asiatic powcr.] ‘Tokio statesmanship is fully conscious of that obvious fact. The settlement of the Tsinan imbroglio is destined to be the forerunner of a Sino-Japanese rap- prochement of far-reaching magnitude. —————————— Are We Mice? Herr Einstein of Berlin has let the cat out of the bag at last. A close read- ing of the text of his latest theory reveals the fact that he deliberately used the symbols which Herr Weitzen- broeck recently proposed. For instance, he blatantly declares that “The v-com- ponents of the s-th leg of the n-leg will accordingly be labeled as sub- script s raised to the power of v, while the appertaining fixed lower determi- nants will be labeled as superscript s h subscript v.” But that might be excused were it not for Herr Einstein's final declara- tion, to the effeet that “The last: mem- ber on the right side is missing if the disarrangement law is symmetrical. It is itself tenser closeness. just as the other members of the right side to- gether which we in accordance with the usual method of naming, label as divergence of tenser closeness, Gothic T, and will write—Gothic T sigma.. oblique sigma.” Such methods are inexcusable. Such statements are insulting. Whither are we heading? Is it not time to pause, to think, to ask those who have strong arms and cool heads to take charge? Is this thing to be allowed to go un- THE EVENING has been dragged through the courts and before Congress so many times that it is now & butt for humor, to which the aged Indian himself contributes. It is no small matter, however, to make an Indian or a tribe of Indians wealthy overnight. White men of con- siderable intelligence have been known to be victimized by swindlers on their accession to sudden wealth. And what of the untutored Indian of the older generation, who knows little of money or its value, suddenly endowed with unlimited money to spend? It is almost a foregone conclusion tha$ he and his fellows will become the prey of self- seeking individuals, willing to go to any length to secure a part of this golden flood. The crux of the matter is not so much the Indians themselves as it is their guardians, for their affairs are administered by Government agents, who must approve any considerable ex- penditure of their money. In the Bar- nett case a “donation” of more than half a million dollars was approved by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, along with a similar donation to his wife. The first half of the milllon and more was to be used at a college in Okla- homa. Records of the Indian Bureau are crammed with queer instances of the ways Indians have used their suddenly begotten wealth. Much of the money has gone into expensive motor cars, and stories of Indians spending as much as $75,000 for houses, leaving them un- STAR, WASH Sets of books slowly are being pushed out of the book stores into the adver- tisements and canvassers’ hands. “People don't buy sets any more,” one busy head of a book shop declared. ‘The public is supposed to be more discriminating, refusing to swallow any author whole, but selecting carefully the greatest of his books. In several stores visited recently, shops where once the booklover found & dozen or more sets of favorite au- thors, remained only one or two com- plete collections. * ok X K ‘The book-buying public, as any othe‘r group, is very contradictory; whitle it has been educated, on the one hand, to purchase moderately expensive bi- owraglhles and other non-fiction works, on the other, it has shown an unmis- takable liking for dollar books. ‘Thus the production of low-priced books in good bindings, with good pa- per and readable type, is one of the outstanding trends in present-day book- dom. Lord Charnwood’s “Lincoln,” for instance, may be purchased for a dollar in an edition good enough for any one. ‘We have a hunch that it was not so much the discriminating taste of the average bookbuyer as it was the high cost of sets of books which drove or is driving the latter from the average book store. ‘Your average lover of books is by no necessity a man of wealth; often enough he is a comparatively poor man who simply gets his greatest enjoy- occupied to live in the chicken house, or in a shack on the prairie, are in the files of the bureau. The Commis- sionér of Indian Affairs has been asked to approve the most bizarre purchases by his Indian wards, ranging from grand pianos; which were never used, to expensive coffins to be held against the passing of the Indian. The gullibility of the wealthy Indians should be more completely encompassed by regulations which will protect their pat- rimony. ———— Social precedence figures in the political picture. Even when success- fully asserted, it is a consideration often more likely to lose votes than to win them. —_— et ‘Wagnerian opera maintains its fasci- nation even though none of its heroes affords any suggestion of solution for the human problems now under considera- tion. — St. Petersburg’s name was changed to “Petrograd” and then to “Leningrad.” The possibility of another change to “Trotskygrad” is stil in the very remote future. — e American patriotism is such that an unlimited amount of unrequited advice is available with reference to the selec- tion of a Hoover cabinet. ——ee— Einstein is a wonderful mathematician, yet there is no apparent possibility of his being any help in calculating repara- tions problems. ——————— A temporary disappearance never pre- vents Trotsky from re-asserting himself as the possessor of a typewriting machine | and a fountain pen. ————— Dayton, Tenn., made evolution cur- rently famous and York, Pa, kas managed to do the same for witchcratf. ot Paris styles in clothes have lost their prestige, but Paris fashions in divorces still hold their influence. R ] SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON, The Catalogue. When the snow and the sleet are abroad in the land, A garden of blooming comes gayly to hand. We sit by the fireside and study with cheer The catalogue sent by the Seedsman each year. Here is a Zinnia—there is a Rose, Or Mignonette waiting in dainty repose. The wind that is bitter a challenge will fling. The catalogue heralds the Triumph of Spring. The drawings are fine and the colors are fair— A wandering song bird has warbled out there! The story's made clear by the song he checked? Should it not be investigated? Ought there not to be some law? Consider this statement: “The prin- cipal difference between the current formulae of absolute differential cal- culus which the introduction of the unsymmetrical disarrangement law brings with it lies in the divergency formation. Take T”..sigma as tensor according to wish with upper index sigma.” Who allowed Herr Einstein ‘to take T"..sigma? Despite the German agita- tion against reparation costs, Herr Ein- stein blandly commands us to “Take ‘T'..sigma_as tensor” and purposely avoids mention of the proposed twenty- five million dollars for additional pro- hibition enforcement, Are we to forget Valley Forge? Are we to forget the Alamo? In short, are we mice or are we men? —— et Money talks; but it is hard to secure an appropriation big enough to deliver a convineing temperance lecture. —— vt Lo, the Poor Rich Indian! Another chapter in the lengthy in- quiry into the marital and financial status of Jackson Barnett, wealthy Creeck Indian, was written recently before a Senate committee when the owner of an Oklahoma oil well, already judged incompetent, admitted his wife had asked him to marry her. Further invertigation developed that she had been married twice before. . Barnett, who has been the subject of several investigations by the Senate and by the Commissioner of Indian Af- fairs, appears in the role of a victimized incompetent, whose money has been the goal of unscrupulous individuals. The present inquiry is to establish whether Barnett’s wife literally “kid- naped” the wealthy Indian. The native Americans of Oklahoma and other parts of the Southwest have “gone queer” on many occasions when they found themselves made wealthy overnight by finds of oil on their tribal lands. One hears little of the eccen- tricities of the Osages, who have a yearly income of about $20,000 each from their of) Toyalties. Bamett's casp will sing As the catalogue carries the promise of Spring. Animal Wise-Crackers. “Do you favor the donkey or the ele- phant as a party emblem?” “Neither,” answered Senator Sor- ghum. “Politics is rapidly becoming too serious to permit animal wise-crackers to be credited with responsible argu- ment.” ] Jud Tunkins says the spirit of democ- racy goes too far when it admits the high-power crapshooter to every social gathering. Patriotic Procession. The fourth of March will bring in line A band of patriots so fine, And bid us confidently wait For other patriots in debate, Unwedded Heroine. “‘Are you not afraid of being called an ‘old maid'?” “Afraid!” exclaimed Miss Cayenne, “Not at all! I regard myself as a hero- ine who has survived numerous jazz parties!” “Kiteflying,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “was once a gentle amuse- ment. The aeroplane has made it seri- ous business.” Cuties. The dramas we cannot enjoy, ‘With lines of ill-repute, Remind us of some naughty boy ‘Who thinks that he is cute. “Dar is g'inter be labor discontent,” sald Uncle Eben, “so long as a boy can git mo’ money foh plunkin’ & fool tune on & uke dan he kin foh tendin’ a garden.” Probably a Misprint. From the Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch. “The average flapper is aficted with nerves,” according to a medical publica- tion, Probably a misprint for nerve. Rubber Trade Elastic. Prom the San Bernardino Sun. Since British restriction has been ge- the rubber trade it has moved from proyed to be more elastie, - ment in life out of books. * K K ok ‘This average book purchaser, this moderately well-off booklover, was not able to “loosen up,” as the expressive vernacular has it, for a complete set of Dickens or of Thackeray. Maybe as a young man he had his eyes on some particular set of his favorite author only to find the price beyond his reach at that time. Later, when he was able to buy, he found the set gone and none taking its place. ‘This seems to be the situation exist- ing today and one which many a book- lover will regret, for nothing quite takes the place of a complete set, if one hap- pens to be a real bookman. There was once in a certain local store a beautiful set of Voltaire, in bright red binding with pasted labels in white and black, 22 volumes, as we recall, for the extremely reasonable price of $15—or maybe it was 15 vol- umes for $22. At any rate, it was a fine set, printed in England, where they use such light paper that the bigger a book is the lighter it seems in the hand. At the time, however, the price looked ex- tremely large. This particular set sat on the shelves year after year without any takers. The price was a good one for the day, and Voltaire had not, along with many an- other famous man, undergone rebirth for this generation at the hands of some shrewd biographer. Now, if one tries to find that set, it is’ like looklna for a needle in a hay- stack. So it is with many others. Not 50 many years ago one could get a com- plete Plutarch, including the “Morals” as well as the more famous “Lives,” for a few dollars—not more than $5 at the most. The booklovers could get Plato, and Emerson, Montaigne, Dick- ens, Thackeray, Stevenson, etc. It was an era of sets. It was re- garded as fashionable to have the “com- plete works” of an author. It was held D. C, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY . THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. able to produce everything a man wrote, & his good with his medium good, and his excellent along with his poor work. ERE O Surely a great deal may be said for getting & “crush” on an author. There is a time in every man’s life, for in- stance, if he has a ceain temperament, when Edgar Alan Poe will make a great appeal. Most readers go throui it, just as this nation went through it, and just as France went through it. One will not know Poe, or get the gist of him, even, if he does not read the lyrical poems, which, slight though they may be, have never been excelled in their manner. His literary criticism, which may be found in his collected works, had a certain frankness, an al- most French directness, which every lover of this strange genius should read. To be content with “The Raven,” among the poems, and a dozen or so selected tales is unthinkable to the enthusiast. One of the supreme heights of book enjoyment is enthusiasm for certain au- thors. This is a reading peak which those will never know who are content to remain on the lowlands of another’s selection. When one becomes enamored of a certaln author, whether at the age of 10 years, or 20 years, or 30 years, or 60 years, he wants “the whole hog or none,” if one may apply such a homely expression in this connection. Thus the boy who reads “With Clive in India” wants all of Henty. Small girls want more of Elsie Dinsmore. At a later date they will take with equal enthusiasm to the so-called standard English authors. Later in life they may work up enthusiasms for the French authors. e R ‘These literary enthusiasms 'are no whit less entertaining to the booklover than the fever which the golfer works up for trying all the types of clubs on the market. ‘The automotive “bug” would like to make a collection of all the better cars, if he could, and the radio “fan” al- ways has a secret hankering to own at least a dozen of the latest sets. In a similar way the booklover longs for the legacy of great minds left in sets of great books. Who that comes under the spell of Emile Zola, who has read ahout him in Matthew Joseph- son’s masterly biography, would be con- tent with reading only “L’Assommoir,” “Germinal” and “Nana”? These may be “high spots,” as they are, but the rest must be good, too! To wake up, as it were, to the merits of any author, as one travels through the years, is to come under a living spell. We defy any lover of books to read Guy de Maupassant’s “Mme. Tel- lier's Establishment” and not wish to read more Maupassant. This master- plece, with “Tallow-Ball,” “Fifi” and “The Olive Orchard,” are his best among the short stories—but the rest of them are entertaining! ‘The true booklover is an omniverous creature. His appetitie is gigantic. Re- call how Theodore Roosevelt read hun. dreds and hundreds of books a_ year. That many-sided man was a Booklover with a capital “B.” The ideal of dis- crimination is fine, but our personal belief is that the ideal of reading every- thing a favorite author wrote is better. It is not wasting one's time. It is the only way to understand your author, it is the only way to do him justice. One who likes sets of good books works with Time in doing justice to great intel- to be a mark of distinction to be |lectual creations. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE Herbert Hoover's fellow alumni of Stanford, in Washington and elsewhere, are wondering how the inaugural com- mittee came to commit the terrible faux of choosing the University of Cali- }’D‘:fl\l'l colors as the official hues for March 4. They are gold and blue. Stanford’s color is cardinal. The Presi- dent-elect’s alma mater, since time im- memorial, has looked upon tHe Univer- sity of California as its hereditary enemy in the field of athletics—a sort of Yale-Harvard and Army-Navy rivalry of the Pacific Coast. The only ‘expla- nation Stanford men have for the choice of the hated gold and blue for inauguration day is that the committee in charge recognizes that Hoover be- longs to the whole State of California and not merely to a campus. They are, nevertheless, in high dudgeon. No son or daughter of the cardinal, they de- clare, would stoop so low as to do rever- ence to the gold and blue on inaugura- tion or any other day. * ok kK A certain Capital hostess who de- ended upon the scene this Winter af- fluent and ambitious gave a splendif- erous dinner party the other night in honor of the Vice President-elect. She hails from his neck of the woods. Asa special tribute to Senator Curtis’ Indian ancestry the piece de resistance was the ice cream course, which was served in the form of an Indian chief’s head, feathers and all. As the waiters entered the room the feathers were set aglow with tiny multi-colored electric lights. A woman guest's explanation of the tribute to the Kansas statesman’s Kaw origin was that the dessert course rep- resented “Tammany on ice.” * ok k% ‘When Calvin _Coolidge leaves the ‘White House on March 4, it will be ex- actly 100 years to the day since the last previous President of the United States elected from Massachusetts took his departure from the Executive Man- sion, He was John Quincy Adams, sixth President of the United States, who as- sumed office on March 4, 1825, and left it on March 4, 1829. Interesting tradi- tions also adhere to the visit which President Coolidge will make to George ‘Washington Unlversity on February 22. At the first commencement of the uni- versity, then called “The Columbian College,” held on December +15, 1824, the President of the United States, James Monroe, was present with his cabinet and the Marquis de Lafayette, who was visiting America. * ok kK Mrs. George Higgins Moses, wife of the senior Senator from New Hamp- shire, who has just been elected presi- dent of the social organization known as the “Ladles of the Senate,” is a typis cal New England woman. She is a graduate of Bradford Academy and lived abroad during the Taft adminis- tration while her husband was Ameri- can Minister to Greece and Montenegro. The brilliant Senator from the Granite State has fought his way to most of his distinctions, but honors have been | pg, thrust upon Mrs. Moses. She twice de- clined to be a candidate for the posi- tion to which the “Ladies of the Sen- ate” elected her by acclamation. Ac- cording to.the constitution of the so- rority, the wife of the Vice President is ipso facto its president. But as Sen- ator Curtis is a widower it became nec- essary to elect a presiding officer to serve during the next four years. Since Senator Moses is president pro tempore of the Senate, it was in tune with the eternal fitness of things that his con- sort should succeed to the presidency of the Senate ladies’ club, which lives mainly Yo lunch and render the works of mercy. * k ok X Next Sunday will mark the most notable wedding anniversary Mr. and Mrs. Hoover have ever celebrated. It is their thirtieth and finds the 1] threshold of the White House. They were married at Monterey, Calif., on February 10, 1899. The day afterward they sailed away to China for the young mining engineer’s first important com- mission abroad. Lou Henry—the First -to-be’s maiden name—was looking, athletic, scholarly and under: stood the lang of geology, in which | “The i bad majored aé SiaRjord, ke her,| adinc husband. They hadn’t been man and wife but a year or two before they joint- ly produced a translation in of otk of Georgins Agricol onthe. g worl on o ging and smelting of metals, entitled “De Re Metallica.” * ok ok * Col. Edwin P. Thayer of Indiana, the secretary of the Senate, has dug up an interesting bit of history in connection with the pending project to modetnize the ventilating system of the chamber. 1t is contained in a work called “Docu- mentary History of the Capitol.” On March 5, 1862, a certain Mr. Hale wrote: “When this Capitol was commenced a decent Christian plan of bullding a house was devised. Then Mr. Plerce came in, with Mr. Davis as Secretary of War, and he thought the arrangement of the Almighty for supplying light and air was not quite as good as he could devise and he moved it into the center of the building, like a mouse trap in a pot, so that no air could come in it, and went to work, at an immense cost, pumping air up from the cellar. That is the way we get our air here—by.a steam engine that is constantly at work.” That's the system in vogue .in AD. 1929. s * ok ok ok . . One of the great journalists of Can- ada and a real power in. Dominion affairs—John W. Dafoe, editor of the Winnipeg Free Press—is a visitor ‘to Washington. He dropped into town during the closing days of the cruiser debate in the Senate and listened with abiding interest to the frequent ref- erences to Britannia. Mr. Dafoe saw editorial service in Montreal and Ottawa before going West to grow up with the country in Manitoba. There, amid the | the great agrarian regions of Canada, he has been molding public opinion for the better part of 30 years. Dafoe was the official representative of the Cana- dian department of public information at the Paris peace conference. He s the biographer of Sir Wilfred Laurier and has written a volume on Canadian policies. * Kk K % ‘Washington diplomatic circles are busily discussing the effect upon the United States of the creation of the new “Vatican state.” They’re wonder- ing whether Uncle Sam will give serious | the consideration to the question of sending a minister-to the Holy See and receiv- ing an envoy of the Pope with diplo- matic status. Before the Church of Rome was divested of temporal power in 1871 such relations were maintained between Washington and St. Peter's. (Copyright, 1920.) i Proposed Location Of Farm Market Hit To the Editor of The Star: This letter is being sent to you to so- licit the aid of your newsp: to assist in stopping the passage House bill H. R. 8298, providing for a wholesale rmers’ Market in the Southwest sec- tion of this city. ‘This bill is probably the most flagrant legislation against the wishes of the people of Washington that has come up before Congress. Yet, with the very strong lobby at work on Capitol Hill the bill has a fair chance of passage. Nearly every citizens' association of the city has opposed the passage of this bill. The Chamber of Commerce, the National Capital Park and Planning Commission, the Federation of Women's Clubs and the Bureau of Efficiency have gohe on record in favor of a Farmers’ Market north of Pennsylvania avenue, and yet, with all this opposition to the ill, represented by this great number of citizens, Congress is about to pass this legislation forcing these citizens, our taxpayers, to pay approximately $400,- 000 for something they obviously do not he | want, and moreover will not use. N. J. WARD, President National League of Com- mission Merchants, ——————— But He Hasn't Tried That. From the New: York Sun. Probably Jackson Barnett's version is 2 safe Indian is & dead Air Corps Promotion Measure Called Unfair To the Editor of The Star: In the edition of The Washington Star of Sunday, February 3, there ap) an article on aviation written by Joseph . Edgerton. The article, while accurately reciting the slowness of .promotion of Air Corps officers, contains several statements which may give the kindly disposed public an erroneous impression. Mr. Edgerton urges the passage of the Furlow bill, saying that it is the only measure pending which will meet the situation to the satisfaction of the Air Corps people. Admittedly it satisfles the Alr Corps, but is it satisfactory to officers of other branches of the Army? ‘Unquestionably it is not. It is the most unfair proposition the Air Corps people have attempted thus far to impose on their brother officers. The bill in ques- tion would promote Air Corps officers over those in other branches who have had from 5 to 10 years greater commis- sioned service in the Regular Army. Many majors of the Air Corps would be- come colonels and jump some 575 lieu- tenant colonels of other branches. Mr. Edgerton gives three horrible ex- amples of Air Corps officers who are suffering through lack of promotion, namely, Lieuts. Doolittle, Hegenberger and Maitland. It is true that they have served 10 years without reaching the grade of captain, but he has failed to state that Lieut. Louis B. Knight of the Infantry, who stands just above Doo- little on the promotion list, has had more commissioned service than the latter and, also, that Knight had five years' experience as a National Guard officer before he joined the Regular Army. Knight is 37 years of age, Doo- little is 33. It was not shown that Lieut. Roy T. McLamore of the Infantry, who is the first officer of another branch ahead of Hegenberger on the promo- tion list, has had more corhmissioned service than the Air Corps officer just mentioned, and both officers are the same age. The readers were not told that Lieut. Robért W. Burke of the In- fantry, and just above Maitland on the | ing promotion list, has had more service than Maitland and that he was mus- tered out of the service at the end of the war as a first lieutenant and is older than Maitland. Nor did Mr. Edgerton explain that the three Air Corps officers each receive more than $90 per month more pay than the Infantry officers just ahead of them on the promotion list. We are told that many of the finest pilots are resigning from the service be- cause of slowness in promotion. Inves- tigation will disclose the fact that many Medical officers also are - ing from the service. The real reason is the insufficlency of pay, and Air Corps officers receive 50 per cent more pay than the medical officers. Mr. Edgerton states that the situation in the Air Corps Reserve is just as bad and for the same reason. The real rea- son for practically all the withdrawals of Reserve Air Corps officers is that they are getting too old to fly, and the Air Corps is quite willing for them to quit. It might be mentioned at this moment that the older “birds” of the regular Air Corps are drawing flying pay amounting to from $150 to $250 per month for riding in the back seat for four hours each month. It's a y man’s game, and the old timers have lost their keen eyesight, sense of bal- ance and, naturally, not a little of their confldence. The article in question advances the idea that the Air Corps needs more rank by reason of important commands exercised. Not so, for a captain of In- fantry commands 250 men, while the Air Corps squadron commander has 12 to 15 officers and about 160 men under him. And the enlisted men are located .| well behind the front lines. The trou- ble may be that we have given the alr- plane pilot too much rank already. In the French army the pilots are cadets. ‘We have not given the actual pilots too much pay. Speaking of pay and who deserves it, etc., should we not give the lieutenants of Infantry more dollars than the pilots? Who is it that must live in the mud, without food and sleep, among the dead and in the hell of thousands of noises le by all sorts of weapons? It is not airship; it.is the Infant Now, please don’t assume from all this that the officers of the other combatant branches have a grudge against the Air Corps. So far as I have been able to learn, they simply desire fair play—they are willing that those who do the pilot- ing get the extra pay in time, but they cannot see the justice of being out- ranked by officers who have had 10 years less service. I might add that the January, 1929, promo list shows Lieut. Doolittle 592 files from his captaincy, and not about 100 as given by Mr. mamn. WILBUR H. JONES. Answers Defenders Of Tennessee Girl To the Editor of The Star: You and many of your readers will recall re) a few days ago concern- ing a girl who was arrested at the Unlon Station and who stated that she l:g mm “!ghnnnwdn Cit; ,h'l'enn‘. and had re ere and also find her brother here. e Her story was put into such form as to-arouse sympathy. One or two letters to newspapers criticized the police for being harsh with a simple mountain girl. My sympathies were aroused in thi un;e way. g sent a newspaper clipp! concern- ing that case to an acquaintance in Johnson City. From i I have now recglved a letter containing the follow- “I took this case up with the judge of our Juvetg: &m and am told that case n Ve thoroughly in- vestigated. The xlrl“i: question is a delinquent pure and simple. She is 21 years of age, and not 17. She has run away from home on other occasions, and the story which she gave to the reporter in' W is almost wholly gx‘:g;inge-m very glad you sent me the Does not this give the case a different color, and does not this indicate that glux: n“e:er -m; 5‘{1: Police Court weg: ‘ong' leé newspaper repol here mentioned that this gl.rr volver in a handbag and that was made basis for arrest. A few days later & woman in a corridor at the Police Court also had a revolver in a handbag, and with that she fired three bullets into her husband. CYRUS KEHR. ——— Explanation Is Asked . . Of Valuation Practice To the Editor of The Star: 2 ‘The accepted basis of valuation for public utilities and other corporations seems to be “reproduction cost.” I gather from the current news that when it comes to selling the public's property there must be an entirely dif- ferent basis of valuation. ‘The Shipping Board proposes to sell our public steamships for $16,000,000. replacement cost of these vessels h.éab:e;'l esu‘nnud .pll ‘tl:‘lo.ot;o,ooo. ou please ex; to fare payers and taxpayers why there should be one basis of valuation for rates which the public has to pay and another basis of valuation for the sale of the public's property? ~ WILLIS J. RUTLEDGE. ———— A Little Learning. From the Springfleld (Mass.) Sunday Repub- One of the funny things about Ein- stein is that so many people who never tudied mathematics think it fanny that they can’t understand him. oo While There's Life. Prom th ‘&n THiriols man's Tite was saved when & patent cigarette lighter deflected a let. We always felt that those things must be good for something. —te. 'Tt Might Be a Good Idea! From the Charlotte News. A cooking expert tells us to cook left- over meat with scrambled eggs. Let's see, what was that old i pilot of the | ft had a re-| island ANSWERS TO QUESTION BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN, ‘What do you need to know? Is there some point about your business or g:r- sonal life that puzzles you? 1Is there something you want to know without delay? Submit your question to Fred- eric J. Haskin, director of our Washing- ton Information Bureau. He ‘is em- ployed to help you. Address your in- quiry to The Evening Star Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, director, Washington, D. C., and inclose 2 cents in coin or stamps for return postage. Q. Are there bears in the Dismal Swamp region?—A. N. B. A. Black bears, deer are found. About 200 bears are taken by hunters annually, while deer and smaller game are reasonably plentiful. Q. Is Lilli Lehmann still teaching?— A. 8. S. A. The Musician says that Lilli Leh- mann is probably the most celebrated of living vocal teachers. At the age of 80 she is still teaching and when neces- s-lrly illustrating a point by singing her- self. Q. How many bills are printed by the Government Printing Office during one session of Congress?—R. M. . During the first session of the Seventieth Congress the total of all kinds of prints of bills and resolutions was 29,022, or an average of 220 a day. Q. How many Americans went to Canada to spend Labor day?—G. T. A. More than 1,000,000 Americans grlussed the Canadian border for Labor y. Q. When was “Peter Pan” first pro- duced in this country? —S. W. A. It had its premiere at the Duke of York’s Theater in London, The Lon- don success was repeated in America in 1905, when Charles Frohman produced the play at the Empire Theater, New York, leu: Maude Adams in the lead- role. Q. What is meant by the “Gaeltacht” in the Irish Free State?—Q. C. F. A. The word “Gaeltacht” refers to a district in Ireland where the Gaelic lan- guage is spoken. This is a seaboard district on the south coast of Ireland and includes the counties of Donegal, Mayo, Galway and Kerry. Q. Why aren’t automobile mufflers used on airplanes?—F. W. A. The reasons given are that they add too much weight and cut down the power of the motor. Q. Please tell something about the ancient city of Utica.—J. O. R. A. The ancient city of Utica occu- i pled & location in Africa on the north- western extremity of the Guif of Tunis, 20 miles from Tunis. It was one of the oldest Phoenician_settlements—accord- ing to tradition, about 1100 B.C. Utica played an important part in the Punic wars and submitted to Rome in the third war. It was destroyed by Arabs about the seventh century. Excavations among its ruins revealed an amphithe- ater seating 20,000 people. Q. When a locomotive starts, why does the smoke rise from the smoke- stack in puffs?—A. H. O. A. On a locomotive the exhaust steam is used for the draught on the fire. Thus the smoke is bound to come out of the smokestack in puffs as the exhaust valve opens for the steam. Q. What is the largest Protestant church in England?—J. A. P. A. St. Paul’s Cathedral is the largest and most magnificent of Protestant churches in England. It was built orig- inally in 610°' AD., by fire in 1087, rebuilt and partially destroyed in 1139. In 1666 it was destroyed in the it London fire and was rebuilt from ts foundations. Sir Christopher Wren was the architect from 1675 to 1710. 1t is famous for the beauty of its dome Piace"of ity of the prons e sl of greal , par- lcularly military and naval hmw Lord Nelson and the Duke of Wellington are both buried here. Its is 490 eet. ' The dome is 370 feet high. The width of the transepts is 240 feet. Q. Which State received the greatest variety of early immigrants?—J. L. A. No other colony had 50 many im- migrants of different races and religions as Pennsylvania. There were Dutch, %gqemg?hhgemms. Welsh and Dk, byterians, Catholics, known in Q. When was the period times as “Twelve Days”?—S8, C. R. directly old A. It commenced after Christmas and extended to the 6th of January, that is, from Christmas to %’%fi!’fefly celebrated ":f:mmd";' as day of the Christmas festivitis e “und_wildcats | P. Q. How AT theiidg ple . In modern Ol a PR e Tt ey ! on umul{y) is called a Mmmofle. Q. Was “Marching Through pia” a wartime long?—oa. E. M.‘ S A. It was not written until the clos- ing days of the Civil War and was not sung by the soldiers. Q. What city in North called the “Gibraltar of Am?—u "A." This title is given to - cause of its polltlon“lnd lom?l%:?l‘aeml.” Q. Why is the South American tea called “mate”?—C. F. McD. A. The term “mate,” which has by usage become attached to this material, belongs originally to the vessels in which it was infused for desinking; these were usually made of gourds or calabashes, often trained into curious forms during their growth. Into the hollow vessels thus formed a small quantity of the ma- terial is put, and boiling water is added. 1t is extremely unpleasant to Europeans at the high temperatures at which it is usually drunk. The effect of mate is much the same as that of tea, stimu- lating and restorative, owing to the presence of a lgrge proportion of caffein. The collection ahd preparation of mate is a large industrial occupation in Para- guay and Brazl, upward of 5,000,000 })ounds of mate being annually exported rom Paraguay to other parts of South America, but is not yet an important article of export to of ¢ atd po] ther quarters of mh-mmm;im Q. How did the term “Old Glory” originate?—K. 8. s g A. The o1 of the term “Old olo'rg" in a letter written by toul, president of the Essex Institute, Salem, Mass., where tkt;;'fl.w Anhouti ivvh!l:'lz it was said is still 3 ccording & Teport ClPt Driver of Salem in 1831 5 = led the brig Charles Doggett, which sailed on its famous voyage which resulted in the rescue of the mutineers of the Brit- ish ship Bounty. A letter acknowledg- ing this service contains Driver's auto- graph, and bears the words “My ship, my country and my flag, Old Glory.” It may be fairly assumed, ore, that the phrase “Old Glory” originated e, T T e Was to him by a fri before starting on this voyage. Q. What is meant e D. H. C. Lo o beginning of 'n the sun himself had lidated from the original protyle. We require a word analogous to pro- toplasm to express the idea of original primal matter existing before the evo- lution of the chemic#l elements.” Ogéa run tlh’nl‘:gt 1 'mth st around?—L. A. T. S o According to .the report of the first ttme' st y 31, , for the on October 1, and on November 26 the entire night force was reassigned. Q. Do all Negroes_in th: same unm*‘;:r. E.Algl“ o . There are a great many hnwes of Africa. Among them are the itu, Denka, Fulah, Largo and Ternne. At g:“?mume natives living in a dialect of that sect e e Q. What were some of the events in English history that made the teenth century notable?—J. A. K. A. The industrial revolution, which occurred during the latter part of the eighteenth and the early part of the nineteenth century, caused a ?tu: change in the economic life the country with the introduction of ma- Mennonites and Moravians. | tance, 2. met makes the Red Sea red? A. “The dull red tint of the Red Sea arises from milli 0sco plants called llneom SEN B British Channel Tunnel Now Regarded as The tendency of British public opin- fon toward a favorable view of the lm- gro:ected tunnel under the English ‘hannel is watched with great interest in the United States. is believed here that the old military objections have been brushed aside and that the effect of the tunnel upon British trade and employment would be tremendous. If the British and French are now serlous in their discussion of a tunnel v.llqnder;‘fhgk Channel,” acco! ew York Sun, “it may be possible within six years or so o cross from England to France on the water, over the water and under the water. * * * The princi) objections to the con- struction of the tunnel heretofore have come from England. With revival of interest in the project for the first time in five years, it is significant that the usual argument—that the tunnel could be used for military purposes—has not been offered by whose word might count. British milif experts admit that the development of the air- plane l;lu ende_i_ih the isolation of taeir lome. ey no lony can re- gard the 21-mile stretch of ::Tur as the natural defense it - et e was in the Napole. * K ok ok “Nearly every one in England and actually every one in Prlm:e'n favora- ble to the idea of a tunnel under the Channel,” contends the Cleveland Plain Dealer, which draws the conclusion: ‘The time may be ripe. Surely, it is riper than any former time has been. The horror of the Channel may really be in a way to be abolished.” On the changed conditions, the Plain Dealer says: “The people of En have no fear of France and people of France have no fear of England. In the almost unthinkable event of war, a Channel tunnel could be closed or de- stroyed at a moment’s notice. And if France or Germany or any other na- tion really wished to invade England, the air navies of the future would sup- ply !:helmnm." “No less a personage than Premier Stanley Baldwin,” it is ted out the Nashville Banner, p.olnm mby admitted gubllcly that the idea of dig- ging a Channel tunnel has attracted large public interest, and in Parliament and out the matter is being agitated with a vigor it has never stirred be- fore. * * * If public sentiment continues to turn in favor of the tunnel, it i very likely to become a reality in the course of & few more years. One thing it rtainly do is to stimulate tour- ist traffic between England and the continental countries, and that in itself is an item of some 2 * R ok ok “Such an enterprise was more than a century and was given serlous consideration the 70s,” according to the San Antonio Express. “Lord Derby, foreign secretary from 1874 to 1878, approved the scheme. Premier Disraeli, afterward T Lord Bea. consfleld, in the former years gave the French government to un Bri would mnot “First ' bo to the | tion. Real Possibility near Folkestone and Calais.” Review- ing the subsequent progress, the g- press recalls that “in 1882 the British military authorities asserted that such & tunnel would expose England to an invlslmva_. which probably would be suc- Giving similar atfention to histo: the Santa Barbara Daily News states; “The plan wag broyght to the front in 1913 and received serious considera- . Companies were formed in both England and Prance to promote the project and if possible win government suj = for the phn.d'th;k' With ‘mode machinery an nowledge gained by the engineers in the con- mfll:n ofu tunne‘llsl.dthe "vork on this robably would not prove par- ticularly difficult.” As to zhe v‘r of invasion, the News believes that tunnel “could be a de: invaders,” and it concludes, “A tunnel under the Channel would pay for itself in a comparatively few years under a system of tolls because of the enormous traffic that such’a double-track railroad could carry under the Channel waters.” * ¥ X ¥ “It is so common sense a to do that sooner or later mt:lum mn;:fl 1:“5 g:e’udm' ghe:hm the el aul AL lbany Kglcke:gocker Press e - where the railroads are extending, im- g:vln[. constructing, without counting cost. The great, new tunnel through & mountain near Seattle, recent! opened, brought this truth home to llfl the Nation, yet that was only an in- stance of what the railroads as a whole are doing in the way of improved serv- ice. There may be important ob; to the construction of a tunnel under the English CI 1, but the possibility that it might not be used, if construct- mdmdl" ly one to be seriously con- “It would give Great Britain secure communication with the Continent of Europe,” in the opinion of the Charles- ton Evening Post, “not only opening its resources of food in time of war, but making all of its neutral or allied ports entries for cargoes from other parts of the world for supply of British needs. A .humflm eordm;n dr:!wn about the Brit- es Wi no ok ould serious effect v