Evening Star Newspaper, February 13, 1929, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR __ _With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. ‘WEDNESDAY . . February 13, 1920 THEODORF W. NOYES....Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company X Chicago Of Tower Buildine. European Office; 14 Regent St.. London, nglan Rate by Carrier Within the City. 45¢ per month 60c per month 65¢ per month when 4 Bunda: The Evening and (when 5 Sunda: The Sunday Star 5c_per copy Collection mad each month. Orders may oe sent in by mall or telephone Main 5600. y5) Sunday Star 55).. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunday....1 Dally only . Sunday only All Other States and Canada. Dafly cnd Sunday..l yr, $12.00: 1 mo. $1.00 Daily only ¥i 00; 1 mo., 73¢ Sunday only .. $500; 1 mo.. 50c Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republization of all news dis- atches credited to it or not otherwise cred- ted in this paper and also the local news published hereln. All rights of publication of Spegial dispatches herein are also reserved. = Mr. Hoover Is Elected. In conformity with the provisions of law the vote for President and Vice President cast by the electoral college was formally canvassed by the two houses of Congress, meeting in joint gewmion today. It occasioned no sur- prise when the count of the vote showed that Herbert Hoover had been elected President and Charles Curtis had been elected Vice President. The Constitution of the United States provides that each State of the Union @hall choose presidential and vice presidential electors, equal to the num- ber of Senators and Representatives in Congress. Members of Congress and persons holding office under the Fed- eral Government are not eligible for cholce as electors. To Congress the Constitution Bssigns the duty of select- ing the day on which these electors shall be chosen, and to the Legislatures of the States the manner of “appointing” the electors. Tha original conception of the Con- stitution was that the final selection of a President and Vice President should be vested in electors chosen by the States; that the electors would use their own judgment in picking the Chief Executive. With the advent of political leanings and political parties, which were unavoidable, the opposing candidates and their friends placed in the field candidates for electors, pledged to vote for the respective candidates. In consequence, the action of the electors—the electoral college is the collective term—is a foregone conclu- sion, known as soon as the results of the election in November have been ascertained. | The canvass of the electoral votes| east by the electors in the various States, which was made by Congress k y, is in effect the formal act of gdt:rmhflng the result of the general Felection. Tt is one of those forms which necessary to the conduct of the “Government in an orderly manner. “Furthermore, it is necessary so that it “may be determined that a candidate for the presidency shall have received g. majority of the electoral votes, It is gonceivable that no candidate, with ithree in the field, shall receive a} smajority of the electoral votes. In “guch event the duty of selecting a President is thrown into the House of Representatives and the duty of select- ing a Vice President into the Senate. " During. the campaign of 1924, with “President Coolidge, the late Senator La “Follette of Wisconsin and John W. Davis in the field as major candidates for the presidency, some of the opponents of Mr.' Coolidge openly were urging that the division of strength be made 80 as to throw the election into the House, and it was urged on the other kide that Mr. Coolidge should be elected #0 as to prevent such a “chaotic” con- dition. ‘The duty of the joint session of Con- gress today was merely formal. Only two candidates for President, Herbert Hoover and Alfred E. Smith, received electoral votes of the States, and Mr. Hoover had 444 to 87 for Mr. Smith. ‘There was no betting on the result of the canvass. It was known in advance. 1In the end, however, the Vice President, presiding over the joint session of the two houses, formally declared that Mr. Hoover had been chosen President and Senator Curtis Vice President, and his was the official pronouncement to the country of the fact. r—ors. An unconquerable element of the frivolous in the human mind creates as much temporary interest in St. Valen- tine poetry as in the memorable words of Abraham Lincoln. ————————— “Legitimate Marriage Licenses.” Russell*Sage Foundation investigators have found fifty-seven “marriage mar- ket” towns in twenty-nine American ! States “These are communities some of swhose inhabitants are engaged in selling mat- rimontal rites purely as a business prop- osition. Clergymen, magistrates and taxi drivers conspire and co-operate in this Joathsome business, taking advan- tage ¢f some peculiarly favorable geo- graph'cal location with reference to State poundaries or some defect in local atatutes. Apparently the business is not looked upon with much disfavor in the towns where it thrives. The chamber of com- merce in one of these communities printed circulars describing the advan- tages offered and expressing its desire for “legitimate resort marriage busi- ness.” The leading jeweler in another “marriage mart” town obtained a war- rant as a justice of the peace and ad- vertised in the local newspapers. “A wedding free with the purchase of & ring.” The expression “marriage market towns” seems particularly happy in ref- erence to such places. It is much more appropriate than the threadbare “Gretna Green,” with its romantic associations of stage coaches, duels at dawn, veiled ladies and silk-trousered gallants out of the literature of eighteenth century England. Too often the twentieth cen- tury American picture is of two light- Just what is this “marriage market business”? It is exactly the sordid thing the name implies—a bartering of a sac- rament for money. Matrimony cannot be sold. What passes over the counter of the sagacious jeweler or the money- grasping clergyman is, at the best, the cheapest sort of imitation. ‘We are reminded, unescapably, of the money changers in the temple. The ministers and magistrates engaged in such business make a stock in trade of a holy thing—just as if it were pepper, sugar or bootleg whisky. Doubtless happy and permanent life partnerships sometimes result from such ceremonies. This happens often enough | so that they still keep the romantic at- mosphere to which they have no right. | It is well that the general public have | a different picture of this business—a picture calculated to arouse disgust rather than memories of young love. Stripped of all its romantic decorations, the situation painted by the Sage Foun- dation workers seems repulsive indeed. | “Lindy” Takes the Leap. All the world loves a lover, and when | the lover is Lindbergh its interest waxes to the zenith. So today with a joy that | is personal to millions, an admiring | American universe greets the news— official at last—that the colonel is be- trothed to Anne Spencer Morrow, daugh. ter of the Ambassador to Mexico. They are a worthy couple—worthy of each other and wholesome types of the spirit of American youth. “Lindy” flew into the hearts of all { womankind when he effected the con- | quest of the Atlantic. The range of | his matrimonial possibilities since fame anointed him has probably exceeded that of any man of his day and gen- eration. His choice of a sweetheart has fallen upon a young American woman, who, on her part, because of her own charm, wealth and social opportunities, cannot have lacked for suitors. Col. Lindbergh and Miss Morrow have selected each other. The compliment is mutual. Mother America smiles and approves & happy union. May it be vouchsafed the fair weather that has so often waited upon “Lindy” in his ad- ventures into less romantic heights than those Miss Morrow and he are about to scale! e A Place to Whittle. For the time being, at least, Mr. Cool- idge intends to do his whittling as e: President of the United States in the two-family frame house on a quiet street in Northampton—the home he | left eight years ago to conmie to Wash- ington as Vice President-elect. And as | a whittling place, the site that he has| selected may e satisfactory. But one wonders whether Mr. Coolidge still looks forward, as he did some time ago, to mere whittling. As ex-President, Mr. Coolidge will not leave the White House the same man that Washington welcomed at Union Station on the evening of February 28, 1921. Our ex-President-to-be has learn- ed many things that the occupancy of the White House is not supposed to teach. He has learned the joy of cast- ing for trout in dark pools. He has ex- perienced the thrill of watching a clay pigeon leave the trap, to float away to sudden death. He has heard the thun- der of a covey of birds, and he has| knocked down a pheasant in flight. To whittle now? Even an ex-President should be spared the dismal experience | of such contrast. It was not long ago that Mr. Cool- idge gallantly suggested, in behalf of | those who-are to succeed him in the White House, that the Government should furnish the President with a Summer home near Washington. When he enters the White House Mr. Hoover will have an excellent opportunity to return the favor by recommending that the Government reward its faithful ex- Presidents with a home—and in the case of Mr. Coolidge it should be a home equipped with the means to en- able Mr. Coolidge to experience the joys | of his newly discovered sports, unham- | pered by photographers, reporters and | critical essays on his skill. o leges are forbidden to discuss “evolu: tion.” Belief in witchcraft is boldly as- serted. Even that literary and pictorial monstrosity, the “comic valentine” is still in circulation. Lighter Tile and Higher Buildings. At a meeting in Chicago of the Struc- tural Tile Association announcement has just been made of the invention of a tile that is so light, yet strong, that it will permit the erection of buildings one hundred stories in height. This tile, it is stated, weighs only twenty pounds to the cubic foot, whereas most materials used in building construction weigh one hundred and twenty pounds. The prospect of hundred-story build- ings is not pleasing. It is, indeed, dis- tinctly disturbing. Already the height of structures in concentrated city areas has reached the point of causing ap- prehension. What if they be doubled? Even with the recessing procedure, which permits heights previously rc-'[ garded as impracticable, the attainment of the hundred-story mark would throw the street surfaces into depths in which life would be sadly depressed. But it does not necessarily follos. that the intention of this lighter tile, with all the strength of the heavier one, will lead to a doubling of building heights. For there are other factors in construc- tion than that of wall and floor weight that enter into the equation of safety. The structural steel frame must be strong enough, and if it is pushed up a hundred per cent it is Subjected to strains that are not now to be calcu- lated. Then there is the foundation to be considered. There is also the ques- tion of wind pressure. b But most of all, apart from the mat- ter of the safety of the structure itself, is the question of human congestion. Piling story upon story, in the attain- ment of enormous heights for the sake of a greater concentration of rental space upon a given ground area, means the assemblage during working hours— in the case of hotels, which are now being shot up to skyscraper heights, during all hours—of immense numbers of people within a restricted space. This means a strain that reacts with serious effects upon the street space and upon transportation facilifies. Already the street spaces and the witted fools, barely conscious after a bibulous night with bootleg liquor, ro- mantic enough in sentiment, but both rathotic and dism transportation facilities of the large cities are taxed to the utmost. With | Walker did not step in from time to | Shall we “lose out” or else “make a Intelligence progresses slowly. Cal-|' THE EVENING § TAR, WASHINGTON, D. €., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 19%9.’ utilize heights rather than ground space for accommodation of workers and dwellers the human transit problem becomes much more grave than the bullding problems themselves. It may be perfectly safe to erect hundred- story structures, as far as the construc- tions are concerned, but how will the occupants of those buildings, placed close together as they are prone to be in the modern city arrangement, get to and fro without desperately dangerous congestion? Far better than twenty-pound tiles and hundred-story buildings will be the invention of methods of moving the people safely and without crushing crowds, or methods of transport which will permit and encourage the spread- ing of business out upon larger spaces. The city of the future should not be one of aititude and choking congestion, | but of latitude and comfort. - The New York theater would be a gloomy institution if Mayor Jimmy time, to officiate at weddings and other affairs, in an impromptu manner, to cheer it up. e — Price of a seat on the New York Stock Exchange is such as {g make a stout old “grandfather chair” appear, in this instance, to be the most valuable ‘ece of furniture on record. e Wall Street speculation may be curhed by legislators. Yet a legislator may, in the course of his career, take chances which mean more than mere financial isk. ———— Ttalian government still has need of delicate diplomacy in its internal af- fairs; some of the diplomacy, perhaps, which arose when dominant thought “regarded all the world as Italy.” ——e— Numerous reviewing stands indicate that there will be a sufficiently large and enthusiastic assemblage to prevent it from being entirely a “quiet inaugu- ration.” oo ‘While Owen Young has not been the figure of sole prominence in reparations discussion, he steps into attention as a figure of much responsibility on the subject. r———— Washington, D. C,, has a drop in tem- | perature. Nothing sufficient, however, to | dispose of a promise of genial relief from blizzards raging elsewhere. e No great eloquence is wasted in In- diana Standard Ofl affairs. Proxies speak louder than words. v SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Mathematicality. There are problems of market finances ‘That puzzle us day after day; And problems of hoss racing chances That bring betting sinners dismay. Comparisons make our lives thrilling. Relativity's way we pursue. killing”? ‘We leave it, Doc Einstein, to you. Then why should we argue of morals, And why should we quibble and rave, Indulging in ill-advised quarrels Regarding how each should behave, Relationships well should be stated. Devise us a formula true For a lifetime that’s fair or ill-fated— We leave it, Doc Einstein, to you, Fellow Feeling. “Are you fond of music?” “Very,” answered Senator Sorghum. “A musician and a politician® seem to me to have much in commen. Both may be compelled by force of circum- stances to march in all kinds of pa- rades.” Jud Tunkins says kind words in this life should not be monopolized by the high-power salesman. Deciding Voice. The Robin we ere long will hear ‘Mongst songbirds in majority. Meanwhile the Snow Bird will appear Chirping with much authority. Hamlet and the Players. “What is your favorite play?” “Hamlet.” ” “But nobody is playing it!” “As a library student, that makes it all the more enjoyable.” “If no one talked of what he does not understand,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “life would become most lonely and uncommunicative.” On Her Own Resources. Since talking pictures are made known, A movle actress is forgot. ‘They could not use a megaphone ‘To holler at her 'round the lot. “It takes a fine financier,” said Uncle Eben, “to get two dollars’ worth of ‘Thank you, suh,’ f'um a waiter foh a ten-cent tip.” Radiotorials. It's wrong to wager precious gold. Let morals show decision! Firancial conscience, we are told, Needs Scnate supervision. ‘With gambling we may soon be done, And Wall Street speculations ‘Will see that money’s lost or won— With Federal reservations. Langtry has left this mortal scene, Life loses one that heart desired; A woman graceful and serene, So well beloved, so much admired. A P Nothing's Impossible in N. Y. From the Syracuse Herald. Racing men will have to get an act of the Legislature before they can operate in New York State. You can't very well bootleg a horse race. — Yup! Just Thas. From the Detroit News. Does the suggested women's bloc mean that eventually Congress will con- sist of a majority, a minority and a sorority? o Well, That’s Something. From the Dayton Daily News. Announcement that “Bathhouse John” is to run again seems to be as far as Chicago has gotten in its widely advertised clean-up. o Or to the Grocery Store. From the Oklehoma City Daily Oklahoman. Formerly it was necessary to go to How many absolutely honest remarks does one hear in the course of an aver- age day? Probably about one. Come to think it over, if one hears just one really honest remark a day he is doing pretty good. Civilization 1s not civilized just in its clothes alone, but even more in regard to the words with which it clothes its real thoughts. We read a story somewhere years ago, as no doubt many a reader here did, too, in which the hero attempted to speak Tonestly for just 24 hours. By the time he went to bed he had lost all his friends, was threatened with divorce, and was entirely cured of his mad ambition. w ok ok What one really thinks about any- thing. and what one usually says about it are two entirely ‘different things. Often an honest man will fall to wondering with himself over some re- mark which he has “sprung” upon an assoclate, which both he and the friend realize is a plain lie. Yet neither shows the slightest sign on the surface of resenting the state- ment, each openly takes it for its face value, neither shows by the slightest wrinkle that he realizes that it does not embody the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Often enough these remarks, and the conditions which led to them, are es- sentially comical in intent and results. ‘While the two men are solemnly mak- ing and accepting the statement, the maker is saying to himself, “Lord, what a lie! But what else can I say?” And the other, while pleasantly smiling as if in hearty agreement with what was said, “Lord, what a liar!” A man spends the first six years of his life being honest, and the next six learning how to lie. The following 18 years or so he falls a ready victim to his civilization and cillates between telling th uth sometimes and nice “white lics” all the time. ‘When he reaches the magic age of 30, or thereabouts, especially if he is by nature a writer (no matter if he do no more than write letters), he comes to the inevitable conclusion that honesty s, after all, the best policy. Think over all the writers you have read and You will discover that they are interesting in proportion to their honesty. They may deal with affairs of state, foreign policy, rabbits, cats, men and women, books, etc.—it makes no difference—what attracts you, in the final analvsis, is that they are giving you the honest thoughts of an honest fellow. 40550l In the everyday affairs of everyday life it is surprising how seldom one hears the plain truth about anything. ‘The other day we heard a woman speaking of her preference in regard to theater seats. “I like the gallery seats the best,” she declared. And then came the surprise. Instead of saying that she liked it from the high seats best because the “music sounded better from there” or some other such blah-blah, she admitted that in the past she had not had enough money to buy more expensive scats. “And now I really feel more at home there,” she said. BY FREDERIC “JIm” Reed is going to take one pleasant lttle memento with him when consists' of a handsomely bound copy of ashington’s Farewell _Address, which the eloquent Missouri Democrat has been chosen to read to the Senate on February 22. selected for the honor by Vice Pr nt Dawes in token of the Scnator's impending departure from the scene he has adorned since March, 1911. On the flyleaf 1s printed an extract from the Journal of the Senate, dated January 24, 1901, when the custom of reading the Farewell Address was originated. The extract is attested by the auto- graphed signature of Vice President Dawes, followed by an autographed certificate from Edwin P. Thayer, sec- retary of the Senate. When Reed de- claims the address, it may be his own farewell to the Senate. Few men in that body have escaped the Mis- sourian’s rarier thrusts at one time , yet no man has left the 3 in years whose disappear- ance is so genuinely regretted. * ok k ok Recent rotogravure sections of the newspapers contained a photograph of the President and Mr. and Mrs. Ed- wark W. Bok taken when Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge were in Florida the other day for the dedication of the Bok bird sanctuary and singing tower. The picture showed the President and his hosts laughing heartily. Since her re- turn to Washington Mrs. Coolidge has been telling friends what caused the glee. She saw her husband grinning Just as the camera men ‘“shot” the group, and later asked him what it was all about. “Mrs. Bok wanted to know,” replied Calvin, “whether it was true that the University of Edinburgh had offered me the chair of thrift after March 4.” * koK % It has just been stated at the White House that the United States Govern- ment does not feel itself called upon as yet to take any position with regard to the creation of the new Papal State in Italy. This observer hears of an Ameri- can citizen who is about to attempt to confront the State Department with the necessity of adopting an attitude, He's going to Europe this Summer and has conceived the idea of asking Secretary Kellogg’s passport division to issue one of Uncle Sam's parchments so as to include the “State of the Vatican City.” Whether this ruse will clarify matters remains to be seen. TR Here's a story vouched for by an ear- witness: A South American diplomat, recently arrived to begin his tour of duty in Washington, came here with the intention of comporting himself in accordance with the laws of the coun- try, especially the Volstead act. He de- cided to serve no strong drink at his official establishment. The Latin Amer- jcan had mot been here many weeks before he discovered that cocktails and other alcoholic refreshments were being offered regularly in the homes of many Americans of official rank. Thereupon he determined to scrap his inhibitions and henceforward, here in Rome, do as the Romans do. * k% ok Col. H. L. Gilchrist, Medical Corps, United States Army, chicf of the Medi- cal Division, Chemical Warfare Service, has just published an informative little volume, entitled “A Comparative Study of World War Casualties From Gas and Other Weapons.” The avowed purpose of the booklet fs to clear up certain mis- understandings and prejudices against the use of chemicals in warf: sed upon the World War records of all armies, Col. Gilchrist declares, “The large number of casualties prodiiced by chemicals compared with the low death rate from them is striking and brings up the question as to the military im- portance of a weapon which wounds but does not kill.” * ok Kk Kk Mary McConnell Borah, wife of the United States Senator from Idaho, has joined the knights and ladies of the pen. She is about to produce for a newspaper syndicate a series of five articles dealing with her experiences in Washington during the past 22 years, Mrs. Borah will discuss White House society, compare Mrs. Coolidge and Mrs. Hoover as “first ladies,” de- the Far West in search of adventurc, scribe Washington etiquette and tell the tendency to concentrate business in!Now it is necessary to go only as far ! how royalty is entertained in this dem- tng in appearance, comparatively restrieted areas and to as the nearest filling station, . - ceratic Capital, - The series will be he leaves the Senate on March 4. ,It| THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL, ‘We felt as Diogenes must have felt if he had found his honest man. * ok ok ok Mostly people find it necessary to be terribly honest about others, when they feel the hypacrisy of their daily actions too keenly. Instead of confining themselves to ‘abstract topics, of which there are a million, or to themselves, they prefer to_practice on some one else. How wonderfully easy it is' for some people to be honest about others! One would think that there were no such qualities in the world as hypocrisy, subterfuge, innuendo, make - believe, simple dishonesty and plain lying. ‘When these kind folk are being hon- est with you-—about yourself — their eyes glisten, and their comments bristle with wit and humor. It is easy to be clever—at the other fellow's expense! It will be found that most sheer cleverness is nasty in character. Decency goes at a more sober pace; it flashes no more than a good woman. * ok ok ok ‘These same folk who never spare any one else are the very first to wall them- selves around with protections. In their best solemn manner they will lie about themselves, relying on their hearer’s clvilized qualities to keep his mouth shut. If he refrains from contradicting them, they have won their point. Now it is easy for them to go on to the next one, secure in the knowledge that the other is going to swallow all of it. If, by any chance, he calls their bluff, they instantly become models of out- raged virtue. Lie calls for lie, bluff for bluff, so that the only way to argue with them is with the fist or a club. Since both fists and clubs are not estecmed everyday weapons in civili- zation, but are to be used only in emer- gencies) the vast majority of people prefer not to become involved in such “arguments.” And that, alas, is the way the other gets away with it! * k k% In apology for this trait of mankind, much may be said, and we would not be_the last to say it. It smooths the path of everyday liv- ing l;.s perhaps nothing else could or would. Without the so-called “white les,” the half-way lying, and the out-and- out falsehoods of humanity, men and women would be at eternal loggerheads, whereas with them they fight and quarrel only half of the time. If it were not for this universal countenancing on the part of every- body of deviations from the strict truth on the part of everybody else, life in civilization would scarcely be possible. Perhaps this is not stating it too strongly. Nine-tenths of every one's conversation in the course of a day is more or less persiflage. It is not meant seriously and should not be taken seri- ously. This is the great excuse which makes our strange everyday dishonesty a species of honesty, after all, in that there is often no need for hozesty, but a direct and plain need for its opposite. After all, the truth is that human beings are very queer creatures, are they not? WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS WILLIAM WILE opened with a biographical sketch of Mrs. Borah herself. She was cradled in politics, having been born Mamie McConnell, the daughter of the late William J. McConnell, who was one of .'Ig:\ho‘s first two United States Sena- TS, * Xk X The first member of the Coolidge White House official family to an- nounce his occupation after March 4 is F. Stuart Crawford, who has been one of the President’s assistants for the past four years. Mr. Crawford, a newspaper man by profession, will re- join the staff of the New York Herald Tribune in May, following a vacation trip to Europe. He is an Iowan and, like the President, an Amherst man. For many years he was one of the star political writers on the New York press. Crawford’s activities on the Herald Tribune are to be those of a political adviser and editorial writer. Just before coming to the White House he was assistant to Charles D. Hilles of New York, first vice chairman of the Republican national committee. One of Crawford's jobs in the Coolidge establishment has been to keep his ear to the ground and listen to the re- verberations of Vox Populi as reflected in the newspapers of the Nation. Mr. Coolidge's friends know that he holds Crawford's talents and judgment in the highest regard and drew upon them habitually. IR Senator Vandenberg, Republican, of Michigan, who is making a valiant fight for House reapportionment, -has just been called upon to take up the cudgels on behalf of Selfridge Field, the well known Army aviation post in his State. It appears there have been efforts to transfer its activitles to another region. Vandenberg presented the Senate this week with some telling testimony from F. Trubee Davison, Assistant Secretary of War for Avia- tion; Maj. Gen. Fechet, chief of the Army Air Corps; Maj. F. G. Lamphier, commandant of the field, and E. V. Rickenbacker, famous World War fly- ing ace. All of them agreed that it would be highly injudicious to aban- don Selfridge Field. Gen. Fechet point- ed out that its advantages are unique because the air troops stationed there are within easy flying distance from all three of our coasts. (Copyright, 1929.) | Ancient Indians Obeyed ‘B.0.’ Ads to Catch Eagles BY E. E. FREE, PH. D. Instinctive knowledge by American Indians of the modern science of os- mics, the science of smells, is indicat- ed by a curious aboriginal record of how to catch eagles, recounted by Dr. Melvin R. Gilmore of the Heye Museum of the American Indian, in New York City, in a recent announcement of that institution, The instructions occur in an ancient myth of how the Indians of the Arikara tribe first got tobacco, an event with which a mythical eagle is concerned and in celebration of which eagle feathers were used. Al- though described by Dr. Gilmore's na- tive_informants as’directions supposed to have been told the tribe by the original mythical eagle, the eagle- catching system presumably represents a method actually used by the an- cestral Arikaras and developed by ex- perience through generations of skill- ful hunters. The eagle hunter is to seat himself, the instructions say, in a covered pit with meat bait nearby. When the eagle comes to seize the bait the hunter jumps up and seizes the eagle. Where the sclence of smells enters is in three specific_instructions given the hunter. One is to take a cermonial steam bath, not unlike & modern Turkish bath, before going to the plt. The second is to wear cloth- ing not worn the preceding day. The third is to carry in his hand branches of wild sage, a plant of powerful odor. Modern students of osmics will see in these ancient instructions a reasonable intention, its reasons long forgotten by tellers and followers-of the myth, ‘0 remove body odors as perfectly as possible and to neutralize whatever remained by the strong smell of the sage, somewhat | Politics at Large By G. Gould Lincoln. Herbert Hoover of California and Charles Curtis of Kansas today were officially “counted in” to office as Presi- dent and Vice President, respectively. The Senate and House met solemnly in joint conclave to canvass the returns from the electoral college, in accord- ance with the provisions of the Con- | stitution and of law. It was a safe bet that the Republican ticket, Curtis and Hoover, would be elected, however, be- fore ever a ballot from the electors had {been opened. Originally it was the ! plan to choose foremost citizens of the i various States as presidential electors ond to give them a free rein, in the clectoral college, to pick the President and Vice President of the United States. | This plan, however, has fallen into in- , nocuous desuetude. If any member of | the electoral college, which is made up of the presidential electors chosen last November in the general election, failed to vote for the candidate on Whose ticket he had been named as an elector, there would be a real commotion. The ceremony in the House of Representa- tives today, therefore, was merely a formal step, making a final record of the election of Mr. Hoover and Senator Curtis. It was not strange that when all the ballots had been canvassed it was ijound that 444 electoral votes had been cast for Herbert Hoover and Charles Curtis, and 87 had been cast| for Alfred E. Smith and Joseph T. Robinson, their Democratic opponean.I *k R x It happened that both Republican and Democratic candidates for Vice President, Curtls and Robinson, both members of the Senate, are in Wash- ington today for this ceremony of can- vassing the vote of the elecioral col- lege. They are the leaders, respec- tively, of the Republican and Demo- | cratic hosts in the Senate. No provision is made in the Consti- tution or by-laws for the formal noti- fication of President-elect Hoover and Vice President-elect Curtis of the re- sults of the canvass made of the elec- toral vote by the joint session of Con- gress. It is generally supposed, how- ever, that both Mr. Hoover and Sen- ator Curtis will take cognizance of their election and will be on hand for the inaugural proceedings on March 4. The counting of the electoral votes by Congress showed that Hoover car- ried 40 States and Smith. 8. This, too, is no news, but merely serves to bring to mind again the result of the election in November. * K K K ‘There is talk of a compromise whlch, may lead to the passage finally of the | deficlency bill, which has been “hung up” for some time because of the so- called Harris amendment, proposing an additional appropriation of $24,000,000 for prohibition enforcement. Senator Harris of Georgia, author of the now famous amendment, has been charged with offering the amendment merely for the purpose of playing politics and putting the Republicans in a hole, while at the same time making political capi- tal for the Southern Democrats who followed Al Smith into the wet camp last Fall. Although there is no doubt that the amendment has been used as a vehicle for political discussion by both {the Repujlicans and Democrats, it is unfair tedenator Harris to charge him with offering the amendment merely as a politieal move. Senator Harris comes up for re-election in Georgia in 1930, next year. Those who are well informed regarding Georgia politics in- sist that there is not the slightest danger of his being defeated for re-election. Indeed, there is no opposition to him at all that has manifested itself, and none is expected. The Democratic nomina- tlon in Georgia is tantzmount to elec- tion. The senatorial primary will set- tle the matter. Geprgia was one of those Southern States vahich stuck fast to the Democratic traditicq in the last | clection, casting its eleatoral vote for Gov. Smith, although fo® of the “solid ' South” States fell away. | * ok ok X Senator Harrls, when the deficiency bill was in committee, suggested to Senator Wesley L. Jones of Washing- ton, Republican dry, that it would be advisable to tack a $50,000,000 item on the bill for prohibition enforcement. Senator Jones, it is reported, replied that he would meet the Democratic Senator half way and make it $25,000,- 000. The Harris amendment sprung to life, it is said, in that way. When the administration, particularly Secretary Mellon and President Coolidge, turned their backs on. the proposal, on the ground it would upset the budget and also that the money could not be prop- erly expended, the Republican end of the Harris-Jones combination fell away, and Senator Jones voted against the amendment when it was finally brought up in the Senate. Republican drys who are now oppos- ing the adoption of the Harris amend- ment insist that President-elect Herbert Hoover be given a chance to work out | the prohibition problem. It is now well understood that the President-elect will appoint a commission to go thoroughly into the question ofprohibition enforce- ment. In fact, the deficiency bill, which has been tled up in the row over the Harris amendment, also carries a Senate | amendment providing $250,000 to per- mit the President to make an investi- gation of law enforcement in the country, | | I} 1 * ok kK One of the combinations set up for the Hoover cabinet by those who pro- fess to be “in the know” places Stuart W. Cramer of North Carolina in the office of Secretary of the Navy. This particular combination presupposes that Secretary Wilbur of the Navy is to re- tire forthwith in order, it is said, to be appointed to a Federal judgeship, and that his brother, Ray Lyman Wil- bur, president of Stanford University in California, is to be made Secretary of the Interior. Mr. Cramer is a grad- uate of the Naval Academy, in the same class, indeed, as that of Secre- tary Wilbur. After he left the Navy Mr. Cramer went into business in New England, but eventually he returned to his native State, North Carolina, and finally into the cotton mill business, in which he has made a great success. He has always been a Republican and was a delegate to the Kansas City con- vention last June and a strong sup- porter of Mr. Hoover for the presiden- tial nomination. During the campaign Mr, Cramer was active in the fight which finally landed North Carolina in the Republican column. His appoint- ment to the cabinet, it is urged, would give recognition to the South, help to retain a Republican grip on the Tar Heel State, and would place a man of large executive ability, who also has knowledge of naval affairs, at the head of the Navy Department. The Repub- lican organization of North Carolina hut indorsed Mr. Cramer for a cabinet post. * ok kX One of the latest of the cabinet ru- mors is that Thomas Campbell of Mon- tana, one of the biggest wheat growers in the country, is to become Secretary of Agriculture. Mr. Campbell was an- other Hoover supporter during the pre- convention campaign. Mr. Campbell's name has been mentioned at times for the post of Secretary of Agriculture since the country began its guessing contest over the Hoover cabinet. But more recently there has been insistance that Secretary Jardine was to be re- tained in the Hoover cabinet and that gon was settled. The cabinet market fluctuating again, and the guessers are having another guess. There are still prominent Republicans, however, who insist that Mr. Jardine will con- tinue to head the Department of Agri- culture, * ok k¥ ‘The proposal to “put teeth” into the Kellogg multilateral treaty renouncing war by means of the Capper resolution, under which the President would be au- thorized to issue a proclamation declar- ing a country had violated the treaty and declare an embargo on the ship- ment of war supplies to that country - from the United States, has stirrad some ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN. Any reader can get the answer to any question by writing to our Infor- mation Bureau in Washington, D. C. This offer applies strictly to informa- tion. The bureau cannot give .advice on legal, medical and financial mat- ters. It does not attempt to settle do- mestic troubles, nor undertake exhaus- tive research on any subject. Write your question plainly and briefly. Give full name and address and inclose 2 cents in coin or stamps for return postage. ‘The reply is sent direct to the inquirer. Address The Evening Star Information Bureau, Frederic J. Has- kin, director, Washington, D. C. Q. How far down do divers work, and how long do they stay under water?— A, H. A. Without diving suits the best divers are able to remain under water about one and one-third minutes. There have been exceptional cases in which the diver has remained two minutes. ‘When wearing a diver’s dress, the diver is able to work under the water from five to six hours, the actual time de- pending upon the physique of the in- dividual. In diving, depths greater than 200 feet have been reached when wearing the diving dress. Thirty-five fathoms, equal to a pressure of about a hundred pounds, is regarded as an average depth for divers of experience. Q. Why are “grandfather clocks” so called?—E. C. A. The “grandfather’s clock” is so called after the chorus of a popular song entitled “My Grandfather’s Clock.” Q. What years are considered middle age?—M. Z. A. Government physicians say that generaly they consider the middle age of a person from 40 to 60 years. Q. Is Brooklyn under the same gov- ernment as New York proper?>—H. W. A. Brooklyn is one of five boroughs of New York City. The president of the borough is James J. Byrne, and the commissioner of public works is Henry Hesterberg. These men have offices in the Brooklyn Borough Hall. The mayor of New York City is over these men. Q. What religion predominates in France and in Germany?—C. B. C. A. Neither country has a state reli- gion. A great majority of the people of Prance are Roman Catholics. In Germany the Lutheran Church has about twice the membership of any other denomination. Q. When and by whom was the game of chess invented?—A. W. S. A. The origin of chess, the most in- tellectual of all games of skill, has been much disputed, but it is"safe to say that under the Sanskrit name of chaturanga, consisting of four mem- bers, a game essentially the same as modern chess, was played in Hindustan in very remote ages. Marked traces of its early Asiatic origin may still be discerned in its nomenclature and other characteristics. From Hindustan chess spread into Persia and thence into Arabia. The Arabs, it would appear, in- troduced it into Spain in the eighth century, though it may have been im- ported still earlier into Constantinople and probably some other cities of East- ern Europe. Q. Are foreign mail services operated by the government?—B. L. A. In most countries of the world the postal service is operated by the gov- ernment. In Peru, however, it is oper- ated by the Marocni Co., and in France and Spain the parcel post service is operated by railroad companies, the regular mail service in those two coun- tries being operated by the government. Q. How many Jews have returned to Palestine?—E. R. A. Following the World War, the nopulation of Palestine was 60,000. The present population is about 160.000. About 10,000 ate due to births and 90,- 000 to outsiders coming in to settle. Q. What is the meaning of the word “whoopee”?—G. G. S. A. In modern slang it conveys the idea of hilarity and excitement. Q. What are the duties of a - ess?—M. A. D. - A. A governess is employed to train and instruct children and frequently to assist in light household dutles. Formerly a governess was primaril; teacher, but with the increase in number of good schools the office has changed to a great extent. When chil- dren are attending school the duty of the governess is to accompany them to and from classes, assist in the prep- aration of lessons and the care of their wardrobe. In a home where there are children of pre-school age, the governess dresses and feeds the children and supervises their exercise in parks or playgrounds. Q. What part of the sun’s heat does the earth receive?—M. P. A. Less than one two-billionth of the sun’s energy is intercepted by the earth, i‘i:ce its energy radiates in all direc~ ns. Q. How many labor banks are there In this country?—R. L. A. As of June 30, 1928, there were 25. ‘They had a total capitalization of $7,437,500; surplus and undivided prof- its, $3,606,614; deposits, $98,165,834; total resources, $114,717,673. Q. How many people are killed in India by wild animals?—B. E. A. In 1927, 24,000 persons were killed by wild animals. Of these 90 per cent died from snakebites. Tigers, wolves, leopards, bears, elephants, hyenas, crocodiles, wild boars and pigs, and Jackals account for the rest. Q. Please give the history of the de- velopment of candy-making.—J. G. A. Until the beginning of the nine- teenth century the art of making sweet= meats was practiced chiefly by. physi- cians and apothecaries, who used sugar and honey to conceal the taste of their medicines. During the earlier half of the nineteenth century the art of candy- making was an English specialty. In 1851 an international exhibition was held in London, and the unique collec~ tion of candies there exhibited attract- 2d to this industry the attention of other nations, especially Germany and France. The latter soon excelled all other coun- tries in the art of making chocolate bon- bons. In the United States, as early as 1816, there were 20 candy factories in the city of Philadelphia and probably as many ig New York. Previous to 1845 each candy dealer made his own goods by hand, the assortment being limited to stick and molasses candy, sugar plums, and a few imported fancy can- dies. In 1845 the first machinery, in the form of a revolving steam pan, was introduced by Sebastian Chauveau of Philadelphia, and the following year a lozenge-making machine was invented by Oliver Chase of Boston. Q. About how many American Le- glon posts are there?—M. S. C. A. There are between 10,000 and 11,000. Q. Who was President when the Cl’andR‘ Duke Alexis visited this country? A The Grand Duke Alexis of Russia visited the United States in 1872. ggssu S. Grant was President at this e. Q. Please give the origin of the terms :;P?,rlsflgreen" and “London purple.”— ‘A “Paris green” and “London purple” were so called because they were origi- ?a!ly made and popularized in these owns. 8 Prince Attains New Stature In Eyes of American ‘Public A new picture of the always-popular Prince of Wales is seen by the Ameri- can press in accounts of the personal investigation made by the prince into conditions among Britain's poverty~ stricken coal miners. “A prince among his people, planning to right their wrongs!” exclaims the Atlanta Journal. “This is a new and enlightening picture of the slender young man we have seen in so many odd postures through the news me- diums—a young man riding fiercely aft- er hounds. going to earth with crash- ing horses, dancing with dainty belles in the frivolous glitter of regal ball- rooms, trailing wild animals with a retinue of hunters strong enough to take all Africa. We feel, somehow, that this new prince is the real one.” “A new and finer picture of the next King of England” is seen also by the Kansas City Times, which observes that “it was no formal, routine call that the prince made to ities where families' live in squalor almost beyond belief. * * * This was no play- acting prince, idly looking over his | domain,” continues the Times, “but a young man who took his responsibilities ceriously and determined that somehow the conditions he saw should be cor- rected or at least ameliorated. * * * It is fortunate for that nation that its heir apparent, who will be its ruler in a few years, is a man of intelligence, character and sympathy.” * ok ok * “He is bound to be a better ruler as the result of his determination to bring himself closer to the people and to gain a greater understanding of their prob- lems,” declares the Columbus Dispatch. “He is bound, also, to intrench him- self more firmly in the hearts of his subjects. ‘There is little wonder that this’ modern prince enjoys the affection of his great nation.” Similarly the Passaic Herald feels that ‘“the ex- periences of Britain's ‘submerged tenth’ on many occasions reveal the knightly prince as the true friend of the less fortunate element among his future subjects.” “By performing a great humanitarian service,” says the New York Evening World, “the prince has alarmed not only the Tory government but the pow- erful interests behind it. * * * Thus the future monarch has shown that even now royalty is sometimes aligned on of the old irreconcilables who fought the proposal to put the United States into the League of Nations. They see in it nothing more nor less than the forma- tion of a league of nations ready to place ; | embargoes against any nation that may be declared a vioiator of the treaty re- nouncing war. This does not appeal to them. They do not like, either, the idca of placing upon the shoulders of the President the duty of determining the aggressor in an international war. President Coolidge himself, while sym- pathetic to the idea back of the Capper resolution, which is to compel an end to war, believes that the resolution may go! too far. | There is a substitute for the Capper proposal in the resolution offered by} Representative Porter of Pennsylvania, chairman of the House foreign affairs committee, which seeks to amend the law of January 31, 1922, which gives the President power to prohibit the ex- port of arms or munitions of war to any American country or to any country in which the United States has extrater- ritorial rights, when he finds that con- ditions of domestic violence exist or are threatened there. The Porter resolution would make the old law apply to all countries and to countries in which conditions international conflict as well as domestic violence. Such a proposal may have greater rt than the Capper proposal, even the support of the administration, but only after the most careful consideration. the side of the plain people when the ‘people’s government’ is found upon the other side.” The Ottawa Journal quotes him as “expressing in a practical way that deep sympathy and understanding which are the real ties between the people and the royal family. It is this | that explains why it is that while other thrones have toppled, the British mon- archy goes on, growing stronger with the years.” * ok ok X Expressing the hope that “practical good may come of the visits of the fu- ture King,” the Cleveland News con- cludes, “Americans must find it pleas- ant to reflect that, in addition to any substantial good eventually resulting, from the advertising of the pitiful suf- fering, the sufferers must have been immediately given unaccustomed hope and good cheer by the friendly visit of the tactful prince.” The Wilmington Delmarvia Star agrees that “before his words were uttered, his tour had done Immeasurable good throughout the world,” and the Danbury Evening News suggests that “quite probably he was shrewd enough to know that his trip would, of and by itself, be the means of starting ameliatory measures.” “His outspoken sympathy and con- cern with the conditions he has found cannot but serve to focus the attention of the British people and the British government on a problem that calls for statesmanship and business ability, as well as for constructive charity,” ad- vises the Roanoke World-News. The Oakland Tribune expresses the judg- ment that “what England needed was some one to bring that problem home to every man and woman on the island, in ways to shock and arouse. The Prince of Wales,” continues that paper, “has performed this service, accom- plishing more for the welfare of his fellow men in a few days than he could in years of travel in the interests of international relations.” * K Kk K “The future King of England.” ob- serves the Philadelphia Evening Bulle- tin, “has learned at first hand what ul.sem{;lcymem really means to families in which the bread winner, through no fault of his own, is deprived of his scanty wages by enforced idleness. Such bitter knowledge, properly applied, may have important results.” The Salt Lake Deseret News comments: “Government cannot cure all industrial ills by legisla- tion or by royal edicts or ministerial policies.” But government is supposed to be alert enough to see the signs of approaching trouble, and take steps to avert or minimize it.” “An aroused public opinion in Great Britain,” says the Housion Chronicle, “can force its statesmen and politicians and bankers and manufacturers to re- newed efforts for the alleviation of the miners’ sufferings.” Finding a basis for comparisons in this country, the St. Louise Globe-Democrat remarks: “Mis- sissippi flood sufferers numbered about 750,000 and for their relief about $12,- 000,000 was contributed in a few months under Red Cross auspices. English miners in need of help in greater or less degree are said to number nearly 2,000,000." “It is & situation to wring the hearts of men,” states the Nashville Banner, with the added suggestion: “It is prob- able that the prince will gladly lend his lnnu,encs and fien the force of his per- sonal _popularity to secure as s and thorough improvement as mf;cg humanly possible.” The Little Rock Arkansas Democrat thinks there “is something inténsely human and appeal- ing in that young future King or‘;@- land visiting those miners—even though gmw k. else.” The Bos . Bos- cont that “the e dence of these hardships must nm'.- in his mind and may well enough af- fect the influence which even a ki :xl:;cghm but does not govern' niz_ »