Evening Star Newspaper, March 25, 1929, Page 8

e iy E—— e rd o THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C MONDAY........March 25, 1820 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company o ‘Business Office: 11th 8t. and Pennsyivania Ave. New York Office: 110 East 42nd 8t Chicago Office: Lake Michigan Building. European Office; 14 Regent St.. London. England. Rate by Carrier Within the City. Star. .. .. _...45¢ ter month v .. 60c per month . > Collection made at the’ each menth: Seders may be sent tn by mall or telephone ain 5000. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. i mo.. ily and Sunday ...1 yr.. $10:00; 1 i1y oniy yr.. $6.00: 1 mo. unday only . yr. $4.00: 1 mo. 4Gc All Other States and Canada. fly end Sunday..] yr..$12.00: 1 mo., $100 s:ny only . . 8 1 mo. 78¢ junday only 271yl $5.00: 1 mo. Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitied to the use for reoublication of all rews afg- atches credited 1o It or not otherwise cred. d in this paper and aiso the iocal news published herein. Al rights of publication of rights special dispatches herain are also reserve - e A Five-Year Budget. Auditor Donovan has prepared, and | the Commissioners now are studying. a | five-year financial program for the Dis- | trict which budgots the anticipated | revenues and expenditures of the mu- nicipality beginning July, 1930. Taking the prcbable income from taxation, based on the existing rate cf $1.70, and anticipating a continuance for the next | five years of the nine-million-dollar lump-sum policy, Auditor Donovan bal- ances this amount against a list of need- | ed improvements, expansions and the annua! maintenance cost of the munici- pal establishment. By judicious use of the surplus revenues accumulated to the credit of the District in the Treasury, the auditor is of the opinion that the | pressing needs of the District can be cared for without an increase in the tax rate. The community will take much in- terest in this program, and it is to be hoped that the Commissioners will make it available for public examination soon. Before it is put into final form for sub- mission to Congress the various eivic organizations which represent the voice- less residents of the Capital, but which in recent years have been invited by the ’ Commissioners to examine and com- ment upon the annual budgets, should be consulted and requested to submit their views. As much interest will at- tach to what the program fails to in- clude as to what it does include, and a great ceal of interest will center on whether the five-year program contem- plates using a large proportion of local revenue and a decreasingly small pro- portion of Federal revenue upon those national or semi-national projects which shculd be considered as separate and distinct from the purely local undertak- ings of the District government. It is premature to conjecture upon the nature of the items included in Mr. Donovan’s program. But there should be two separate lists of items. One list should set forth the needs of the Dis- trict, in terms of maintenance and capital outlays, while a second list should itemise those national or semi- national projects which should be financed cutside of the District’s annual supply bills, ©One of the most iniquitous aspects of the nine-million-doliar lump-sum policy has besn the practice of appropriating for semi-national projects through the regular District appropriation bills. As long as the District and the Federal Government shared between them the cost of maintaining and improving the Capital this was the logical method. Since this lawful and equitable arrange- ment was conveniently discarded, proj- ects which are Federal from the stage of their conception to the time of their completicn are lumped into the District bill, with the residents of the District paying the piper and witnessing more important projects, from the local standpoint, discarded and left to be taken care of later. The result is that such important local expansion pro- grams as concern the schools, libraries and sewerage system are bchind, while enticing pictures are being painted of a municipal center that will cost millions and a park program to cost more mil- lions, The five-year financial plen is excel- lent. The year-to-year method of bud- geting and planning for the develop- ment of the American Capital is short- sighted: The whole machinery for ap- propriating for the Capital is inade- quate, as far as seeing ahead is con- cerned, with the result that annual ap- propriation bills have a restricted and curtailed outlook. Whether or not Con- gress chocses to adopt & modified five- year budget for the District, a statement covering the revenues and the needs of | the District for the next five years should prove of invaluable assistance in i drawing up the year-to-year appropria- | tions. — e Discoveries in the Antarctic regions rescmble those at the North Pole in demonstrating that the carth has a, large amount of Summer refrigeration not accurately distributed. i ————ate Myron M, Parker. A resident of Washington for nearly sigty-five years, Myron M. Parker, who | died yesterday at the age of eighty-two, was one of the most valuable citizens of the Capital. He came here shortl: after the close of the Civil War, il which he had served with valor ans distinction, and from then on he wa: identified with Washington ip all of its interests. He gained a legal education while holding & position in the Govern- ment service. He was made assistant postmaster of Washington, but after two years of that duty he left to or- ganize a business in which he prospered | talk about the Tammany leadership. The ! and which did much for the develop- ment of the Capital. In 1892 he was appointed one of the District Commis sioners and in that office he displayed was enabled to carry forward the work of Capital development, in which he | had become deeply interested. One of | his most important contributions to the | welfare of the Capital community was his participation in the organization of the Washington Board of Trade, of which he was the first president. With tireless energy and with loyal devotion | today. One is Chief Justice Taft. It|season should to the District, he aséociated himself is not conceivable, however, that all headerq "m.h many public and semi-public en- ferprises. He was for a long period one of the Washingtonians regularly called upon for service in emergencies and in special undertzkings of a community character, and he always responded {with his fullest energy and with en- thusiasm to these demands upon his time. For a number of years Col Parker has been in retirement from all activities, but until a few months ago his health was good. He lived to see the fruition of many of the plans for the betterment of Washington that he had conceived and nurtured years be- fore. He had hoped to survive to wit- George Washington. His years, how- ever, had taken too heavy a toll and he has now passed, at eighty-two, most highly respected, most sincerely mourned by the community of which he was for so long a memb: ———— Secretary Stimson's Tasks. Col. Henry L. Stimson is on his way | to Washington to assume office as Sec- | retary of State in President Hoover's cabinet. He will take charge of our | foreign affairs at a moment when they are serious, though not critical, in more than cne direction. The sinking of an alleged British rum-running schooner by a United States Cozst Guard patrol boat off the Louisiana shore has become a first-class diplomatic incident within the past forty-eight hours. One British life was lost and a crew of British seamen, ianded at New Orleans in irons, is now under Federal arrest there. Ticklish issues are here Involved. Secretary Stimson will be called upon to show his diplomatic mettle literally before the ink on his commission is dry. The Mexican revolution remeins lo-| calized within its own turbulent area, but the proximity of American territory conjures up the incessant peril of bor- der claches which might lead to com- plications. Rebel bands have already taken refuge on Texas soil. American arms, under Government license, are reaching the Mexican authorities. Citi- zens of the United States, official and private, are domiciled at numerous points within the embattled region. Damage to their property and endan- gering of their lives are almost inevita- ble. An American aviator in the Mex- ican government's service has becn cap- tured by the rebels. There is no end to the number of possibilities which might suddenly compel the United States to abandon the role of a disin- terested bystander in Mexico's civil war. As to FEuropean affairs, Secretary Stimson prospectively will shortly have to mold the American attitude toward the decisions taken by the German rep- | aration experts, now winding up their deliberations in Paris. They have pro- posed a “Bank of Nations” for the han- dling of “the great new international | movement of funds created by repara- tion and war debts” The American members of the experts’ commission, Messrs. Young and Morgan, joined in submitting the bank project to the world’s judgment. The views of this country, as Europe's mortgagee, will, of course, be of paramount influence not only with regard to the “Bank of Na- tions” scheme, but all other plans aris- ing from the experts’ deliberations. Reparations on their face may be a purely European complication. They are, in fact, no less of an American entariglement. Secretary Stimson comes directly to Washington from the Far East. His knowledge of our Philippine problem is personal, first-hand and up-to-date. He is an avowed apostle of the Philip- pines” right to a square tariff deal at the United States’ hands, and said so, bluntly, on his arrival at San Franeisco last week. Just before sailing for America, Col. Stimson tarried in Japan for informal conference with Premier Tanaka and other Tokio authorities. Japan has an | enduring grievance against this coun- try—our so-called exclusion law against her nationals. Only on March 22 Mr. Tsurumi, a Japanese statesman weil known in the United States, made a formal demand in the Tokio Diet that the Tanaka government showld no longer delay seeking the abolition of ‘the ban against Japanese immigrants in America. Secretary Stimson brings to the State Department the wisdom of a deep stu- dent of international law coupled with practical experience in administration and diplomacy. That he will need to draw heavily and promptly on both his knowledge and his capacity is a cer- tainty. The country welcomes him to his burdensome tasks in confidence and wishes him good fortune in the shoul- dering of them. e Mount Weather and the yacht May- flower are not objects of present solici- | tude. However, as the season advances nothing will prevent the band from playing “The Good Old Summer Time.” e Executives in Retirement. Two of America’s most accustomed and prominent office holders are today cut of office—Calvin Coolidge of North- ampton, Mass., and Alfred E. Smith of | New York. Both have been office hold- ers since their youthful days, although Gov. Smith was out of office during the two-year period from 1921 to 1923, after he had been defeated for re- election as governor in 1920. But al- | ready there is talk of drafting them again for public service. A Boston ! newspaper, the Transcript, has sug- | "usud editorially that Mr. Coolidge run for the Senate in 1930, to succeed Jen- tor Gillett. In New York, Tammany, in ts failure to agree on a leader of the rganization, is seeking Mr. Smith's | advice. ! out of office less than a month, is not | commenting upon the Boston cditortal | urging him to enter the race for the | Senate. Nor is Mr. Smith ready yet to question, however, is how long either :or both of these distingulshed gentie- {men will be able to dissoclate them- | celves from the affalrs that have held exceptional administrative ability and | their interest during their mature years | | and from the “game” which both have | piayed so long and so successfully. What shall be dene with or for for- mor Presidents of the United States has been discussed many, many times. | As » matter of fact, the group of for- | mer Presidents has always been small. There are two living former Presidents ness the celebration in 1932 of the two | Y | hundredth anniversary of the birth of The former President, who has heen | !(otmer Presidents should become mem- bers of the Supreme bench. The late President Roosevelt, after he left the ‘White House, traveled and hunted and then tried his hand at a return to the national convention in 1920, Roosevelt doubtless would have been the party's! nominee for President. Mr. Coolidge has a precedent from his own State of Massachusetts if he should finally entertain the idea of secking election to Congress, either as Senator or as Representative. John Quincy Adams, after he had served as President, was elected to the House and continued a member of that body until his death. Mr. Smith, who has been out of office | since the first of the year, when his successor, Pranklin D. Roosevelt, was sworn in as governor, is about to bel pitchforked back into the political arena merely by the resignation of Judge George W. Olvany as Tammany lcader. In its hour of need Tammany is sceking to enlist the advice of the former governor. There arc those who say that the former governor is by no means unwilling to take again an active as well as a prominent place in the po- ltical picture in his own Stry2. The fact that New York State went against Mr. €mith in the presidential election, although it elected another Democrat to succeed him as governor, has not been a pleasant matter to contemplate. ‘The old urge to battle is apparently on the former governor. It is possible that | it may have eventually a similar appeal to the former President. e 2s in the police force of Wash- ington, D. C., are in accordance with the adage that history repeats itself. The policeman’s lot has never been a| happy one. { e If everybody stopped “speculating,” | the New York Stock Exchange, coura- geously opposed to gambling, might pause to wonder as to just what hap- pened. e — Olvany may have been a good Tam- many chief, but other members of the old organization have bzen batter spot- light grabbers. e —— Accounts of his expedition by Nobile | give him credit for being an expert and caugous typewriter skipper. o Japanese cherry trees are about to bloom. Their beauty gives them influ- ential rank as silent diplomats. e Nature again proves superior to art. A Mississippi flood proves more terrify- ing even than a Chicago crime wave. ——ons Mexican courtesy accords to a cap- tured rcbel all the honors of being field of polities and public service. If| he had not died before the Republicen | THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. One can find all sorts of interesting things in the small items tucked away at the bottom of columns of news and other matter In newspapers. These notes are called “fillers,” a s2lf-explana- tory title. Here is one we ran into the other day at the end of a news story in this paper: “All carnivorous animals kept in cap- tivity, such as lions and tigers, must fast one day out of seven if they are to remain in health.” If lions and tigers, why not dogs and cats? And if these houschold pets, why untamen and women beyond a certain age? If there is any animal “kept in cap- tivity” it is an office or business bound man, or a houscwife who really indulges in her occupation. Office and home thus become the cages of thousands of men and women who are not used to regarding such places in such a light. There is, of course, such a thing as a beneficent captivity, a falling into a wholesome routine which constitutes a check upon too widespread activity, such as may be indulged in by persens ol wilder temperament. * K K K Yet the beneficent pricon of home of work may be a sort of cavtivity, the less, and require some such ab- stinonce as quoted above. Why check up on {he Zoo to see if those in charge of such “gardens” real- ly do withhold food from the lons and tigers once a week? Let us accept the dictum, for there is a great deal of common sense in any statement which advises human beings to eat less than they do. The increasing tendency toward fat which one sees on thousands and thousands of men and women shows beyend dispute that they cat_too much, ‘There may be some m-odical cases in which food plays no part in excess flesh, but with the majority of pcople fat m:lns just cne thing! Too much to eat. It is difficult to convince many upon this score, They like to eat, and they intend to eat. Appetite with them seems to have notbing to do with actual supply and demand. but to depend en- tirely upon the customary. It has become custcmary for them to eat heartily, therefore they large breakfasts, lunches and after they have reached the age such plenty is no longer needed. R Perhaps there can be no hard and fast rule as to what this age is, since no two persons are exactly alike. It is somewhat true that “what is one man’s meat is another man’s poison.” The common mistake is made, we believe, in overestimating the amount of food necessary to an average human being after the growth of the individual has been established. Most people eat “because it tastes good,” or “{o keep up their strength.” hen The idea of eating because it is neces- | sary has never occurred to them, for if it had they would go to some trouble to find out how much is necessary. Any individual who makes a per- sonal investigation of his real food needs will stand a very large chance—he may call it risk—of discovering that he needs surprisingly little. * * * * Right here we hear some one chime thorough'y photographed. —_— et SHOOTING STARS, BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. March and April. March as a lamb is kind. March is a lion bold. It is for flowers designed, Or for a blizzard cold. Let the War Month go his way, As we wait the April day. April to laughter turns ‘When storms are through, 8o this Existence earns Smiling anew. After every time of stress Comes the hour of loveliness, Oratorical Psychology. “How do you manage to be sure of applause when you make a spesch?” “I simply stop,” answered Senator Sorghum, “and let my auditors sense the fact that if they want the exercises | to go on they've got to do something.” Jud Tunkins says a man who knows what he is talking about is lizble to have studied so hard that he is too | tired to talk. Extremes. My Radio! My Radio! The programs you pursue Bring music of too long ago, Or tunes by far too new. The Big Consideration. “Are you in favor of prohibition en- forcement?” “Every time,” answered Uncle Bill Bottletop. “I was once 2 stagehand in a vaudeville theater, and 1 have heard many a performer say, ‘It's a good trick if you can do it.’ " “Laughter,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “is a gift from the gods, which wise men enjoy but seldom and ! fools continually.” Faithful Robin Bird. I heard the good old robin bird, ‘Who sang out on the lawn At early dawn With glad acclaim. His message still my heart has stirred. the joys of seasons gone, From memory drawn, Prove just the same, “Dar would be many a Sunday dinner spoiled,” said Uncle Eben, “if chickens could talk, same as parrots.” e Medal Suggested. From the Akron Beacon-Journal. A Cleveland Heights policeman, hid- den behind a steel grill, shot a bur- glar who was rifling a cash register. Inasmuch as discretion is the better part of valor, we suggest he be given a Carnegie medal. ——— et New Procedure in Order. Fiom the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel. If Dawes becomes Ambassador to Great Britain, then Parliament might just as well get ready for some instruc- tions on the necessary revisicns in its procedure. Shouldn’t Be Discouraged. From the South Bend Tribune. Mr. Coolidge is through writing, ac- cording to rerom from Northampton, | He shouldn’t let one rejection slip dis- courage him. e — Message From the Dead. From the Toledo Blade. Sir Oliver Lodge says he has received a characteristic message from his dead wife, but doesn't say what she asked him to bring home. ——— an Double-Headers. Triom the Daston Daily News. The way those Mexican battles are being postponed, the latter part of the witness a flock of double- ‘. in, “Oh, but I need a whole lot of food!” The reply must still be, “The chances consume | are that you do not need a haif of what you eat. And. besides, how do you know, because you have never tried eating to ses how little you could get along on?” We know a man in this town who has discovered that a frugal diet is best for him, and he made the discov- ery in a most unusual way. His wife paying a visit “back home™ for a month, this gentleman was thrown upon his own culinary devices. Being lazy by nature, he shortly gave up cooking his own meals. Disliking restaurant cooking, he won- |dered how and where he would eat! |1t scemed thet he must go foodless, | until he finally hit upon the plan of {living ons ginger ale and buttered crackers. * ok K ¥ His breakfast consisted of half a | dozen buttercd crackers and a giass of ginger ale. His lunch, of cou he ate downtown. one course, six more crackers, accom- panied by a glass of ginger ale. The trick, you may say, came in the lunch? Nothing of the sort! This gentleman ate nothing more than a glass of iced coffee and a couple of doughnuts, or a piece of pie. On this sparse diet he proved to him- 1f that the ancient Venetian, Louis Cornaro, was right, for his ming never felt clearer. He was a bit hungry, at times, but it did him no harm. The point that it did him good, {and a similar diet—perhaps not speci ically, but in a general sense—would be a good thing for most city-bound human beings. S, After all, what is a city but a sort of cage? | Although the motor car has removed something of the bondage, much of it still remains. Most of us do not feel it because we are used to it, and never complain because city life has its un- | doubted good points. The restrictions of the city, however, are felt by every one at times. That is why the “Summer vacation” is so much in vogue, why men want to go camping | and let their whiskers grow, why city men and women are So res . May we not be human tigers and lions, with wiiom rushing here and there has taken the place of the cease- less tread of the creatures in their | cages? You have stood at the Zoo and for back and forth, and you have wondered, perhaps, what went on in | that brain behind those eyes. “Poor fellows!” you may have re- marked. Zoo authorities say, however, | that the caged creatures are really not | unhappy behind the bars, but come to look upon their dens with affection, | and really want to get back to them | if they get out by chance. With food and protection given them, their basic | needs are met. They do not ask for | more. We have always wondered if the tigers and lions take their captivity | so philosophically; at any rate, they | scem to keep in pretty good health. Maybe the one day a- week without | grub accounts for it. |~ And if lions and tigers are the bet- | ter for fasting at least once a weel why wouldn't all of us two-legged brothers bz the better for a similar ab- | stinence? Then perhaps there wouldn't | be so many fat fellows walking around. | nor so many of these “larger women" one reads abgut. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC Little birds in Washington can heard whispering that President Hoov is wielding too_vigorous a broom at the White House. Innovations are acknowl- edged to be all very well in their way, the critics say, but they shouldn't be ict down on the country in one fell swoop. Abolition of daily handshaking bees, annihilation of oil leases, side- tracking of professional job hunters, reversal of Mellon policies and now the laying up of the Mayflower—all this (and more) in three brief, breathless wecks seems to be too much of a good thing for conservative souls who think haste in the White House, like every-| where else, should be made slowly. A Weshington dowager of social power and long experience in the Capital la- ments that there are “traditions” at No. 1600 Pennsylvania avenue which even the Chief Engineer ought to re- spect. She thinks Hoover cannot con- tinuously go on hitting on all sixes. * K % % TLieut. Col. Campbell B. Hodges, newly appointed White House military alde, 2dds one more to the formidable list of official bachelors in Washington—and an uncommonly good-looking one, let fond mammas take note. The selection | of Hodges as first gentleman of the goid braid is another Hoover gesture to Dixie, for the colonel is a son of Louisiana. He is also the duly elected president of the University of Louisiana, although the War Department has never released him for duty at Baton Rouge. The place, meantime, is kept open for him, though it's now more improbable than ever that Hodges will ever assume the office. The colonel made a notable record as American military attache in Spain. King Alfonso was immensely fond of him, admiring in particular the American’s skill as 2 horseman. * koK K One of the reasons the President issued the immigration quota procla tion with a wry face is his belief that “natianal origins” are very uncertain quantities. Once upon a time they puz- zled a famous New York after-dinner wit, Patrick Francis Murphy, when he was interrogated about his own “na- tional origin” on arriving in England. “That sure is a poser.,” he said, “for I'm American by birth, English by Irish by extraction and S d-soda by cholce!™ “The International Society of Daugh- ters of the Barons of Runnemede” is holding its annual festivities at Wash- ington in mid-April. The founder and present president is Mrs. Robert G. Hogan of Catonsville, Md. The objects of the society, which was instituted in Washington in 1921, is to perpetuate the memory of the barons who extorted the Magna Charta from King John in June, 1215, and to observe the anni- versary of that momentous event “in the meadow which is called Runne- mede.” The official badge of the Daughters of Runnemede is a seal of red and gold, the colors of the Army of the Barons. To be a D. B. R., a woman has to establish lineal descent from one or more of the 25 barons who signed the Magna Charta or of those barons who helped to secure it. X k% ¥ A demon Democrat, who thinks that, with the exception of Attorney General Mitehell, Hoover has failed to surround himself with a strong cabinet, calls it “a billion-dollar cabinet—one figure and | nine ciphers.” | * ok % % It fsn't quite clear v.iether Senator | Wesley L. Jones of Washington wants to sidestep exclusive responsibility for the “five-and-ten” prohibition enforce- ment law, or would generously share its glory with Representative Gale H. Stalker of New York, its co-author. Af any rate, Jones modestly says it isn't entlrely his baby, being entitled to the | double-barrcled name of the Jones- Stalker law. The Volstead act, which was passed by Congress in October, | 1919, came over from the House, and was duly enacted by the Senate, but no Senator sought immortality by intro- ducing a concurring measure. That frequently happens in the case of House-to-Senate bills, and vice vers: Many measures become law under double title, but tariff bills are about the only ones that invariably do. The WILLIAM WILE was called the Willis-Campbell act | when passed in 1921. | SeiiT e One of Chief Justice Taft's admirers rises to remark that, unfortunate as his slip of the tongue may have been when ' | he administered the “presidential oath | on March 4, it wasn't a tithe as serious i Vice President Curtis’ break a few | minutes previous. When Curtis admin- | istered the oath to one group of new | Senators he said, “Do you take this | oath freely, without any mental obliga- | tion or purpose of evasion?” What the | vice President should have said was, “Do you take this obligation freely, : without any mental reservation or pul pose of evasion?” The microphone was Ipramdlngs in the Senate and millions | of listeners must have heard the new | Vice Presicent ask in a stage whispery when somebody calied attention to his mistake, “Did I leave out something?"” N Madison, Ind., will be the scene on May 7, 8 and 9 of the ninth annual meeting of the National Conference on State Parks. Stephen T. Mather, for- mer director of the National Park Serv: ice, is chairman of the organization. This year's meeting place is one of the most attractive in the park system maintained by “Jim” Watson's fellow Hooslers. Clifty Falls Park, containing 570 acres, is an unusually rugged piece of Midwestern country, embraces some splendid forest areas and has as its out- standing scenic feature Clifty Falls, a 90-foot cataract of spectacular beaut: The outstanding event of the year | the domain of State parks is California voters' approval of a $6,000.000 bond issue, which, with an equal amount from other sources, will be spent on the purchase of new park areas. The na- tional conference's purpose is to pro- mote the creation of State parks, for- ests and game preserves. (Copyright, 1929) —o—e Exclusion of Veteran From U. S. Explained To the Editor of The Star: In a recent issue of your paper there appeared a story and an editorial caj tioned, “When a Law Goes Wrong, obviously predicated upon a story printed in the New York Times under date of the 17th instant, entitled “American-born World War Veteran Deported; Lost Citizenship in Joining British Army at 18.” The stories and editorial dealt with the case of one | George Young, now 32 years of age and a native of the United States, who was excluded on the 16th instant at | New York upon applying for admission | from Belfast, Ireland. It was made to | appear in these newspaper stories and your editorial that Young had served with the British- forces during the ‘World War and had sustained grievous wounds. The statements in this re- spect are so- utterly at variance with the real facts that I am sure you will be glad to correct them. The real facts are: George Young had no shrapnel splinters in his body: he did not participate in the Battle of the Somme, nor in any other battle of the World War; in fact, he did not rve in any military force during the World War, but on the contrary he evaded military service by remaining abroad during the entire period of the world conflict; during the year 1921, when it was all over “over there,” enlisted in the British alr forces for two years, during which he worked as a laborer in the shops at Shrewsbury, England; his action in swearing all glance to the King of England cost him his American citizenship and upon his return to the United States recently, being without qucta papers as an alien, {he was excluded as would have been any other alien in such circumstances. It may be added that this young man a re- | sorved a term of two years in form school for stealing. A sympathy which your story and | editorial may have aroused for this | young man is entirely misplaced. His own sworn statements made to our officers ot the port of New York prove conclusively that the story given by him to the press is a fabrication of forthcoming new tariff law will be the Hawley-Smoot act. The first law de- sigued to strengthen the Volstead act falsehoods. HARRY E. HULL, joner General, % of Immigration. Dinner was served in watched the lions pacing back and; working relentlessly at that stage of | Jefferson Quotation Is Declared in Error To the Editor of The Star: I trust I will be pardoned for calling attention to a mistake in a quotation in an editorial in a recent issue of your worthy journal, which I h: o ing and reading a2lmost constantly now for nearly 25 years. i 1In this editorial Thomas Jeffersen, as you will see from the marked copy in: closed, is twice represented as having used the expression, “All men are born frez and equal,” in the Declaration of Independence. 1In_ addition, the edi- torial itself is headed, it quotes, “Frec 2nd Equal.” - I would suggest that whoever wrote this editorial get a capy of the Declara- tion of Independence itself and read carefully the second sentence of that immortal document. I think he will discover that in this Jefferson used neither the word “born” nor “free” in this passage. Correctly quoted, the complete passage reads: “We hold these truths to be self- evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable righ that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. This passage says nothing about men being “born,” nor anything about their being “born free.” Jefierson surely was not so ignorant as not to know that millions of men had been born slaves. He was not dealing with birth or how men were born when he wrote that im- mortal charter of our rights and lib- erties which gave birth to a new na- tion, founded on “a mnew order of things.” He was dealing with crea- tion and how the Creator created men. And when Jefferson used the word “equal” he surely did not mean that God had made all men equal in,height, strength or mental capacity. He was talking about “rights” and “unalien- able rights” And he went on to specify three of the most important of these “unallenable rights,” “life. liberty and the pursuit of happiness. In these things he maintained that God had created all men equal: that one man had &5 much right to these rights, and to enjoy these rights, as another: and he was ri this standpoint he | did not * matters, nor maks any too a statement, Ho simply gave expression to a truth the world had been waiting for ages to hear. It is only when he is misquoted. as in this editorial. or misinterpreted, or misunderstood, that men who be- lieve in ths equality of human rights take exception to what he wrote. Based upon this doctrine of the ! equality of human rights, to which Jefferson gave such terse and elegant expression. is that other American doctrine that all men should stand upon an equality before the law. One of these doctrines is no more “extrav- agant” or “overstated” than the other. Both are fundamental principles of the Government of the United States. It is a greet mistake, tI fore, in my judgment, to have Jefferson, the author of the Declaration of Inde- pendence, thus misquoted and misin- terpreted in one of the leading dailies of the Capital of the Nation, and this editorially. It does not seem that such a misrepresentation of him and the | Declaration should be permitted to pass without_correction. I consider this is one of the greatest “breaks” I have ever seen in an editorial in The Evening Star. It gives a wrong impression to every reader who reads it, excepting those who know just how the Declara- tion of Independence reads, and. de snite such teaching and such observa- tions, still hold to the equality of human rights. It makes a governmental extremist out of Thomas Jefferson. when he was nothing of the kind. It casts reflection upon the Declaration of Independence and upon every one of the 56 noble patriots who signed it. | This is poor reading and poor instruc- tion to put before the youth and school | children of this Capital City and Na- tion. Its natural tendency will be to create disrespect for the fathers and founders of the Nation, and to ques- tion the soundness of the principles and constitutional documents upon which our Nation is founded. When Jawlessness and disrespect for law is so rampant, this is a poor time to do any- | thing like that. Far better would it be | to dig deep and get hold of a correct | understanding of the fundamental prin- i ciples of the founding fathers and ex- pound them and maintain them. WILLARD A. COLCORD. |Root’s Amendment To the Editor of The Star: In regard to the proposed suit by | Rhode Island to challenge the validity ground that it was not submitted to the people at constitutional conventions, the press of March 22 quotes Senator Borah | as saying that such a contention is absurd, and that the wets ought to have based their challenge on Con- \. | gress' overstepping of the Constitution | by imposing the seven-year limii when no limit is ailowed under the Cons! tution, and also expressing surprise that so eminent a wet as Elihu Root had not raised it instead of attacking on other lines. A moment’s consideration will show | Legislature of Rhode Island in indicat- ing the line of attack in the bill author- | tzing the suit. 8 The Supreme Court has held in many cases involving the issuance of bonds by municipalities that when such bonds are issued under a constitutional law and the power to issue is unquestionable the bflm}n will not be invalidated be- cause of any irregularities in comply- ing with the law under which they are issued, but where there is a want of power in the municipality to issue at amount of regularity in compliance Wit the law can validate them. Speaking the law by the Supreme Court in a case involving bonds of the town of Evanston, Ind., and also in the case.of Union Bank of Richmond vs. Town of Oxford. Senator Borah doubtless overlooked the fact that the Supreme Court has already upheld the power of Congre: to attach a time limit for the rati tion of an amendment to the Constitu- tion in the cas> of Dillon V. Glos: U. S. 368, in which it heid tha soven-year limit within which 5 eighteenth amendment must be ratified was reasonable. Applying this by analogy to the eight- eenth amendment, if it was a proper amendment and within the power of the Congress to submit to the States for ratification, and was ratified by three-fourths of the States, no amount of irregularity in its submission would affect its validity, and all irregularities would be cured by the ratification. Mr. Root was too sound and able & lawyer to have overlooked any prac- ticable line of attack in the suit brought by him to test the validity of the eight- eenth amendment. He doubtless con- sldered this point and discarded it as not only futile, but as one calculated to injure his case rather than help it, | bacause of its utter triviality. ‘The contention of Mr. Root in a nut- shell, which was perfectly sound, and the only possible ground of valid attack upon the amendment, was that the amendment was attempted legislation under the guise of a constitutional amendment, and was therefore not properly an amendment of the Consti- tution, and also that it deprived those | States that refused to ratify it of | powers they never delegated to the eral Government and which they e: pressly reserved to themselves in the Constltution, and which were never to be taken away from them and with their consent. If this con- tention is sound, and there is no doubt of it, in my own mind, there is then but one way by which the Federal Go ernment can rightly acquire these re. served rights of all the States and that is by a surrender of them by all of the States in a constitutional conven- tion called for the pu and attended by all the States, and in which all the ! Position Held Sound ‘ | of the eightecenth amendment on the| that the absurdity of position belongs | to Borah, and not to Root. and the; all such bonds are invalid, and no| from memory, this was declared to be | he | ough examination of the alumni lists cept by | ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. The resources of our free Information Bureau are at your service. You are in- vited to_call upon it as often as please. It is being maintained solely serve you. What question can we an- swer for you? There is no charge at| all except 2 cents in coin or stamps for | return postage. Address your letter to The Evening Star Information Bureau, | Prederic J. Haskin, director, Washing- ton, D. C. Q. What was considered the best of the Roman wines?—A. O. A. Horace said that Falernian, a fa- vorite wine of the Romans, surpassed all wines. Q Do animals distinguish colors? | For instance, can a bull tell red from | any other color?>—D. §. A. With the exception of birds the eyesight of animals is poorer than that | of man, and most of them in the or-| dinary course of life do not make much | use of color vision. In the case of the bull, any conspicuous object waved in | of him would have ths same effect | of attracting his attention. | @ How long has canned pineapple | been used in this country>—B. E. A. The canning of pineapple began | !'in this country about the early 80s, the | i supply of fruit being brought chiefly | from the West Indies and delivered in | Baltimore, where, for the most part, | the canning was done. The canning| of pineapple in the Hawaiian Islands| Q. Does the solar system as a whole | have a motion?—A. N. | A. Astronomers agree on the fact that the sun is moving through space to-| ward a point in Lyra with a velocity | of ebout 12 miles a second. The whole solar system Is necessarily involved 1n | this motion. 3 Q. What is the difference between denatured alcohol and wood alcohol?— C. O'B. 'A. Denatured alcohol is a grain alco- hol to which some poisonous substance has been added to prevent its use as & beverage, but not to interfere with its commercial use. Wood alcohol is ob- tained by distillation of wood. It is highly poissnous and is entirely sepa- rate and distinct from grain alcohol. Q. How far did the Question Mark fiy while being refueled and at what speed?—E. N. K. A. The approximate flying distance of the Question Mark while refueling was going on was 220,000 feet. It required three minutes for the transfer of ofl and gasoline. The planes were fiying at approximately 85 miles an hour. Q. How much cgeys did Judas get for betraying Christ>—E. G. A ‘The 30 pleces of silver for which Judas betrayed Jesus Christ in our money would be about $11. Q. What is meant by catting the an- chor?—F. W. - 'A. It means bringing it up to the cat- head. The cathead is a piece of tim- ber or iron near the bow of a vessel, to which the anchor is fastened. Q. When was Texas first known as 2 republic’—L. G. A. Texas won her independence from Mexico and became known as the “Re- public of Texas” in 1836. In the years immediately following there were re- peated invasions and massacres by the Mexicans, who never abandoned their claims to the Texas territory. They advanced three times as far as San An- tonio, but in each case were repelled. Statehood was offered to Texas, but the | question of annexation brought up the difficulties of the slave question, which | became the national issue of the Polk cempaign. However, he won the pres- jdency by favoring the annexation of Texas. Before he took the oath of| office, Congress passed a joint resolu- tion again offering statehood to Texas, which she accepted and the territory ‘became a part of the United States in 1845. Q. What is meant by coup de grace? —P. E. G. A. It means a finishing strcke. Gen- | erally the term is applied to the thrust | {of the dagger which kills. . began about 10 years later. le Q. Upon what day of the week George Washingion born?—C. E. L. C. was born on Friday. Q. What i world?—B. M. A. Probably the roughest bodies water in the world are the Bay of cay and the waters immedia rounding Cape Horn. Some roughest and highest breakers are fc off the coast of Guinea. the roughest water in tha Q. Are Army officers allowed to c: guns?—C. S. | Army is allowed to carry a gun w on military post or on military ¢ While off the military reservation or not on military duty, civil laws govern Q. What part of the atmosp! carbon dioxid?—E. B A. It forms 1-2500 of the atmc Q. Does the new Madison Squa Garden seat as many people as the old one?—J. E. B. A. The seating capacity of the o Madison Square Gards 2 The present Garden seats Q. How many cows are there in United States now gi A. On January 1, 21,520,000 cows over 2 ably 90 per cent of t “ever have a tropleal e?—J. L. L. . Geologists are of the opinion that| the ice peri have c sisted of at least four epoc interglacial epochs, during during these int mate of Alaska ar regions was decicedly Q. What do the initials “O. N. T.” on thread mean?—A. T. S. A. “O. N. T.” on Clark’s cotton is a trade mark which means “Our New Thread.” Q. How deep arc submarines sub- merged?—B. C. A. Two hundred feet is the usual safe depth at which submarines are sub-| merged. They have gone as far below| as 300 to 340 feat. Q. Does a deer have a gall bladder, and if not, what takes its place?—| L G. I A. Deer and elk are characterized by)| the absence of the gall bladder. There| is no special organ which takes its| place. Q. What is the gross tormage of the| American merchant marine?—A. W. D, A. The gross tonnage in the fiscal year 1927 was 16,888,000. Q. When was a comet last visible i the United States?—J. S. A. The last comet visible in th United States was Encke’s comet, whic! appeared in September, 1924, Qs. ont what metal are bells made?—| A. The various proportioned bells re-| quire different compositions of bell metal: these compositions vary but slightly. There are but two metals| used—copper in the proportions of 77 to 80 per cent, and tin, 20 to 23 per cent. This proportion is calculated to give the most resonant tone. Bell metal is sometimes called “bell bronze.” This differs, however, from ordinary statu- ary bronze in that the latter has a greater percentage of copper, a per- centage of lead, zinc and a small per- centage of tin. warm. Q. How long was the Mississippi River above 20 feet on the gauge at Cairo, 11, last year>—L. O. R. A. It was above 20 feet on 283 cays in 1928. Q. Has Yellowstone *Park a petrified forest?—E. R. A. Yellowstone Park has a petrified forest having very small acreage. It is exposed on a vertical cliff. It is in several layers separated by lava. The trees are of the sequoia variety. There is now pending a bill providing for the extension of the park. This extension will include additional types of these exposures. Education both as a source of happi- ness and well-being to its possessor and as equipment for business success is up- | held by the press in discussing recent remarks by Dr. Harold F. Clark, a New | | York educator, who questioned the value of college courses to money-makers. Believing that the professor has been | misinterpreted, the Binghamton Press offers the opinion that “what he was driving at was that the prime objective | of the average college is not to teac boy or girl merely how to make money, but to equip him or her for better liv- ing.” The Press continues: “The mate- rialist will at cnce inquire. ‘But how can they live better unless they learn {how to carn more?’ He forgets that Diogenes in his tub was really a richer | man than his more materially afMuent | men: that Steinmetz, wizard of the | General Electric Co., driving his sec- ond-hand car and smoking bargain ojgar: s better off than the biggest shareholder in G. E. College men are just like other men. Some of them are financial successes and some are not. Put a stone in the hand of one man and he will make of it a hammer; another will find in it a poem or & battle-ax with which to smash down the gates of walled cities. And still another will | grind it and polish it until it becomes a thing of beauty.” “A generation ago, when the men now at the head of business in this country were starting in,” says the Detroit Free Press, “a college education was sought by comparatively few youths who in- tended to go into counting houses. The consequence is that business is stiil manned to a large extent men who | did not attend college. Among them a | i college man may find himself a little 1 hesitant and occasionally stumped for a | quick answer; but the proportion of | these old-timers is rapidly decreasing. | | The outlook is for a new order in busi. ness, when more men who enter it will | | have npassed through college and | emerged with the ability to make sounder decisions and in whom daring | will have been replaced by enlightened conservatism.” 1‘ * ok Kok \ As evidence of weakness in the argu- ment against the college, the Asheville Times reminds its readers that “this is | the season when scouts from great industrial corporations visit the big col- leges and universities. looking for prom- ising recruits for positions in the variou: | departments of their companie 1 | There is no despairing ! earning power,” the Times adds, *'s as the big corporatio: mebody 1o g0 out and sign up w | “In_educational research, as _in any, other,” advises the Columbus Evening | Dispatch, “one who would startle the | public th sensational conclusions should be certain that such conclusions | have a valid logical relation to well cstablished premises The paper also | argues: “Coliege education needs no | defense against such attacks. A thor- of any of our colleges of reputabls | standing will show that graduate: nd | even the most schelarly among them-— | States must ratify the proposal for it ' | to be binding upon all of them, To ad- | mit the contrery would make it pos- bla for three-fourths of the States {10 charge our whole form of Govern | ment, and strip the other fourth o! every vestige of their reserved right: and powers regardless of their will and consent. 2 SIDNEY LANIER. A T S 'Educator’s Remarks Stir Debate Over Value of College Course are able to take successful care of themselves in the realm of money- making, if they-choose to enter that realm rather than to look for ‘the durable satisfactions of life’ some- where else.” “Dr. Clark is not convincing when he places so small a value on educa- tion.” decla: the Lincoln State Jour- nal, adding: “Education is not a com- modity. A degree may be regarded as a commodity representing a certain amount of work and money and de- grees may be governed by laws of economics, but education something other than holding one. * % %% “The ability to make money is not only not the only thing which justifies education, but it is not the greatest thing,” insists the Charleston Daily Mail, while the Buffalo Evening News makes the further point that Dr. Clark’s s wholly materialistic,” and fter all. education should be oncerned with enriching life by providing a cuitural background.” The Indianapolis Star cbserv “There is no prospect that a proposal of this character would be indorsed by more than a meager minority. The thought fs interesting, hawever, in view of the mass movement toward the col- leges. It is made more complex because of the percentage of the students who regard their higher educational course as little more than a fcur-year lar! “When a prize fighter can make more money than a President, and an automobile mechanic can draw higher pay than a professor, it is evident that the purpose of higher education is not to insure fuller purses, but fuller lives,” asserts the Dallas Journal. The Co- lumbia State, referring to the d corporations to get college men, marks that “the employ important “for e tort from the college or university the sort of education that is fit for him- an education of his mind that will teach him how to think and solve problems of life and toil for himself, and not clutter his brain with dust-bin facts.” o e T “The success of the college man in business probably is due in ar measure to his energy and determina- tion which took him through college than to his education,” s: niston Star, with the conclusion: will be hard to convince man: education is the financial handics Dr. Clark says it is. If he is cor his views, we shall have to char whole system of education.” The Tren- ton Evening Times halds that “if Dr. Clark's statistics withstand areful serutiny, one of our most imposing idols is due to be shattered.” “Material for a pretty contro- sy” is seen by the Fort Wayne News- Sentinel, which tes in an analysis of the matter, “On the one hand ft is contended that more education is the salvation of free government, while on the other appears the statement that it tends to reduce the earnin power and to weaken the professions. “As long as the fees for professional service are attractive—and it is Dr. Clark’s purpose to keep them so always ~just so long will young men incline 7 collect them,” believes the Baltimore un, while the Providence Bulletin com= 'nts: “He implies that each inal- .dual has a certain capacity beyond stlemiph 1o dicate him, “The SToRk 0 a e im. % em is to find that