Evening Star Newspaper, April 15, 1929, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR Wit Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY. .April 15, 1929 THEODORF W. NOYES....Editor 3 .85¢ per month 8¢ A Ty Sunday Sia liection made at ihe end of ea Orders may be sent in by mail or telephone Main 5000. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. d and Virginia. 00; 1 mo., % 4« .00; 1 mo., $4.00; 1 mo. AD Other States and Canada. yr. $12. m Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is cxclusively entitled to the use for republication of ell news dis- rnxehu credited to it or not otherwise ercd- ted in this paper and also the local news sutlished herein. Al fhu of publication of special dispatches n are also reserved. Mr. Hoover's First Congress. To “get along with Congress” is, under our system of government, & paramount necessity for a President, if his administration and its policies are to have smooth sailing. Detached and distinct as the executive and legislative branches are, there is, nevertheless, an interdependency without which the ship of state would face rough going and stormy seas. Herbert Hoover today is on the threshold of his maiden experience with & Congress. Some of his predecessors have spoken more or less despairingly of having Congress “on .their hands.” Their inference was that Capitol Hill and the White House are more or less natural rivals, if not- foes, and that discord, rather than harmony, is the normal state of their relations. There is no reason why President Hoover should contemplate a season of | stress and strife with the Seventy-first Congress, which convenes today in spe- cial session at his summons. The Re- publican party is overwhelmingly in the saddle in both branches. In the House of Representatives Speaker Longworth and Leader Tilson marshal a G. O. P. host which counts a majority of nearly one hundred. In the Senate Vice Pres- ident Curtis and Leader Watson survey a Republican fold which, on paper at least, registers a majority of sixteen over all. It is true that this double octet embraces Republican Progressives of mercurial party loyalty, but there is at this writing no reason to suppose that the group will provide serious de- fections from a vote necessary to sup- port administration policies. This strongly Republican Congress was swept into office on the Hoover landslide of 1928. The President is en- titled, by all the rules of the political game, to its aid and backing. It is not to be expected that the support will be of the thick-and-thin character. But an electorate which sent Herbert Hoo- ver and the Seventy-first Congress into power jointly on the Republican na- tional platform will reasonably look to genuine teamwork between the two headquarters on Pennsylvania avenue. Happily the President has given nu- merous concrete indications of his de- termination to “get glong with Con- gress.” He has signale® fhat he will brandish no Rooseveltian or Wilsonian big stick. He has established a close lisison with responsible Republican leaders. He has revealed an apparently invineible resolve to let Congress be master in its own houses. ‘The stage seems set for a happy union between the two constructive ‘wings of the Federal organism. —_— e An assemblage of the D. A. R. is picturesque and enlightening. Its pur- pose is purely patriotic and it has none of the motives of private advantage often to be suspected in & political convention. Again the women of the Nation take precedence. —.e—s Making War Difficult. Representative Hamilton Fish of New ‘York is seeking a new formula to make war more difficult for the belligerently inclined. In the House he sponsored the Capper resolution at the last ses- sion of Congress. That resolution sought to prevent the export of any war muni- tions from the United States to any nation which violated the Kellogg mul- tilateral treaty renouncing war. The objection ruised to the Capper plan was that the duty of determining which of the belligerents had violated the treaty was placed upon the shoulders of the President of the United States. It was argued that such a determination would merely result in aligning the United States with one of the warring nations and against the other. Mr. Pish now comes forward with a resclution which would halt the ship- ment of arms and munitions from this eountry to any nation engaged in war, in which the United States declares its neutrality, except with the consent of Congress. No mention is made in his resolution ;of the Kellogg treaty. Mr. Fish has shifted from the President to Congress the burden of determining what nations if any shall purchase arms and munitions from the Unit- ed States. It is clear, however, that Congress, if it desires, may pass resolu- tions permitting the shipment of arms to all the belligerents in such a war, if 1t desires, thereby relieving the United States from the attitude of supporting one side against the other. Or, if the Congress so determine, it may place a ban upon the shipment of arms to any of the belligerents. But that might merely -become another means of aid- ing one nation or group of nations against another, for one might need arms and the other might not. ‘There is still another difficulty. Fre- whether arms should be sold to bel- ligerents in a war which broke out dur- it make it advisable to do so. | treaty has declared a great prineiple— S PUTCoBY | ful means. The great nations of the or jointly that no Arms should be ship- ped from one to the other during war- time, the result would be to force all nations to build up great stores of arms and munitions against a day of storm and stress. This might—doubtless would —wark to the advantage of the arms and munitions manufacturers everywhere, but it would scarcely be an effective weapon against international conflict. There is no doubt tha: efforts will continue to devise methods of lessening the possibility of war, The Kellogg that war shall not be an instrumental- ity of settling disputes between nations, but that they shall be settled by peace- world have agreed to this principle. It is distinctly a step in advance—a step in the effort to educate the world away | from war. But when any effort is made to make this treaty “enforceable” then, indeed. difficuity arises and there lurk in such efforts the germs of war them- selves, —— e Joseph Weldon Bailey. The sudden death of Joseph Weldon Bailey al Sherman, Tex., in the midst of the trial of & lawsuit, calls back to memory a man who but for a misad- venture would probably have carried on in public life to this day. He was still in his twenties when he was elected to the House of Representatives, and he| immediately attracted and held atten- | tion. He was ardent, and eloquent, and fearless; representing an absolutely as- sured Democratic district and State, he was elected successively for five terms in the House and then gained two elec- tions to the Senate, resigning toward the close of his second term in the Up- per House because of embarrassments arising in connection with professional relations with corporations just then under severe public criticism. It was a pity that he left public life, because he would have been in later years a valuable member of the Senate. He was clear-minded and candid, and easily one of the forensic leaders of Congress. A debate in which “Joe” Bailey figured was certain to draw a large audience to the galleries. The an- nouncement of & set speech by him drew a capacity crowd. His sonorous voice, nis wealth of words, his gift of apposite expression and, above all, his tremendous earnestness made him a na- tional figure. ‘Then, too, there was the fact of his adherence to a picturesque form of at- tire, to give him' a certain prestige. He wore invariably what used to be called the “statesman’s” coat, the old-style “Prince Albert,” with flowing skirts. He preferred the broad-brimmed, high- crowned soft hat that has somehow been the hall mark of the Southern statesman for several generations and is even now occasionally in evidence. But particularly notable was the young Texan's refusal to conform to the usages of official society in the matter of eve- ning costume. Perhaps after he left Washington he weakened from this self-denial, but so far as known the| form of Joseph Weldon Bailey was never after dark draped with the “dress suit” that has long been the order of the evening. But these eccentricities were only superficial, and were not essential to a conspicuous position by Bailey in the public eye. He would have won and held attention without them because of his high merits, his vigor of thought and expression and his intrepidity of attack. He was not a mere thunderer. His speeches were meritorious in mat- ter. His vision was clear, and though he was & partisan and at times attacked in a partisan spirit he was more nearly the statesman than many who for their brief periods hold the rostrum with bril- liant phrasemaking. When misfor- tune came through his association with a corporation that was “poison” to a politician, he took his medicine without a grimace and went back to the prac- tice of law, in which he shone with bril- Hancy to the very hour of his death. - aon o So much doubt as to the date of Col. Lindbergh's wedding may result in leaving the general public uninterested, with the society editors left to do the worrying. ————————— In the effort at friendliness among nations the Japanese cherry tree in Potomac Park asserts itself as one of the strongest of diplomatic influences. s The College Boy. We have in our midst the profession- al college boy. The type is familiar on the streets of Washington. The other day were noted a couple of con- spicuous examples—two callow youths wearing bright red hats and socks, in & battered flivver chalked with antique witticisms, The car was parked on a busy downtown street, where its occu- oants could ogle the girls as they passed. They were trying to give the impres- sion that they were college students. They were “made up” according to the popular idea of the collegiate gleaned from comic magazines and vaudeville skits, Many who passed them with contemptuous smiles probably thought that they actually were what they pre- tended to be. It is unfortunate that such a plcture has been stamped in the popular mind. It is a false and grotesque representa- tion of the real college student. It gub- Jjects the quiet, earnest, ambitious, hard- working, inconspicuous young men who make up the bulk of the university classes to a degree of contempt which they have done nothing to deserve. The sophisticated, conspicuously attired, flask-toting fellows are few and far be- tween on any campus in the city. Dean Henry Grattan Doyle of George Washington University has rendered a real service to the college world by his study of the actual college type, con- ducted by means of a questionnaire sent to four hundred American institu- tions of learning. He finds that the tra- ditional “collegiate” actually makes up less than two per cent of the student population, enjoys no prestige with his fellows, stands low in his classes, makes no progress in sports, and is looked upon as a “curiosity.” : True enough, the type does exist at the colleges. Generally, however, this twentieth century phenomenon is & rank outsider trying desperately to attract at~ The difficulty of making a hard and college. He get through high school. them before they actually an stitution of higher leatning,’ if ever do, 3 Rl Many of these blatant “collegians” not only are rank frauds but they are psychopathic borderline cases, youths with pronounced inferiority complexes which drive the unfortunate into mak- ing themselves conspicuous &t any price. A few weeks ago a youth with a characteristicaily decorated fllvver was brought into Trafic Court. “I guess I'm crazy,” he told the judge, with a strained effort at sophisticated witticism. ) : His Honor took the youth at his word and ordered him held for a mental ex- amination. That judge had some real understanding of human nature, ‘The professional college boy is about as far from the real student as the pro- fessional artist, who' dresses grotesquely and cuts queer capers to demonstrate artistic temperament, is from the real artist; as the professional Southerner who hammers out in New York songs about his “rose-covered home in Dixie” is from the real Southerner; as the man in the cowboy hat riding across the country on & bet is from the real cow- boy. Every type to which there is any glamour attached in the public mind has its imitators who, lacking understand- ing and common sense, carry the char- acteristic mannerisms to a degree so ridiculous that they reflect discredit on the type ftself. e At least no one connected with an embassy will be expected to ride for- ward on the hood of the beverage truck, in order to insure public recognition of soclal precedence over the chauffeur, “ ST Solicitude about possible land dis- coverles may leave polar investigators, at one end of the earth or the other, in doubt whether to consider them- selves explorers or realtors. b moes Germany proceeds with a program of thrift and industry which might be difficult if she devoted too much time to walking the floor because of her debts. ——————————— ‘Washington witnesses many banquets, but none of them appears to have as much real influence on naticnal affairs as a simple White House breakfast, —— e . It is firmly believed that the police can be provided with facilities for scien- tific research without risk of develop- ing more evolution argument. - After some rather rough experiences, Aimee McPherson has, at least, the sat- isfaction of a pretty liberal estimate of the publicity profits. ——— e Anxiety has spolled many an appetite. Good digestion does not necessarily wait on social precedence. California is being called upon to compile statistics and take its grape Juice seriously. A Mexican bandit lives in hopes of promotion to the title of revolutionist. ¥ SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Journeying Along. Going along on the way— Journeying, day after day; Sunshine and smile, For many & mile— Going along on the way. Hours may seem splendidly gay. Then, hopes will be going astray, And only the song ‘Wil be helping along, As we travel the world-weary way. The Sagacious Smile. “Whenever you speak, you smile?” “Yes,” answered Benator Sorghum. “A smile: doesn’t commit & speaker to any political policy.” Jud Tunkins says he wishes some fairy would grant him three wishes, but he'd rather tell his troubles to a friendly president of & bank. Laws of Chance. I do not seek to understand The various laws which I obey. Luck bids me pause to throw my hand Into the discard, day by day. According to Custom. “Does your wife drive from the back seat?” “Yes,” answered Mr. Chuggins. “Don’t you object?” “Not at all. If anything goes wrong I have become accustomed to letting friend wife take the blame.” “Sentiment,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “is commercialized. A gate- keeper made me pay money for the privilege of weeping at the tombs of my ancestors.” Robot. My Radio! My Radio! ‘You give me many & thrill. ‘Your song is rendered swift or slow By mechanistic lk?ll. “I don’t ask no favors,” said. Uncle Eben, “but I would like some kind of.a prohibition law dat would pervide agin’ & marked deck en’ loaded dice.” o No Leaking Books. Prom the Lowel] Evening Leader. Incidentally the activities of the cus- toms officers in New York t that tourists about to return from Cuba will have to be more careful in the ‘selection of their souvenirs. e ree There’s No Danger of It. From the Butte, Mont., Standard. Pre-eminent in the slaughtering busi- ness as she has been for many years, Chicago has no intention of relinquish-~ ing her prestige to any competitor. - No Taker. Prom the Lynchburg News. We don't know which faction Col. Lindbergh favors, but we are willing to wager that he hvfin the Mexican revolution will keep the limelight until after he is married. +They'll Attack at Midnight. BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL, finds something that works himself he is inclined fo believe that will equally benefit all mankind. has the first The years without catching bad cold, and with the enthusiasm f all such discoveries would pass his “discovery” on to others, ‘While knocking vigorously on wood, he is willing to set down for the bene- fit of all the ways and means whereby he has achieved this miracle. Those who catch cold easily, as it is sald, will admit that such a feat takes on all the aspects of a miracle, a stupendous achievement which would seem untrue without faith and works, kxR ‘The average cold-catching reader will be more interested in the works than in_the faith. The writer is most interested in hav- ing the reader accept what is to come as the honest efforts of one human being to help his fellow men. So many times one's fellow men look sneeringly or indifferently at those who would attempt to benefit them, much as if to say, “What do you know about it, anyway?” Especially is this hostile attitude ap- parent when the layman steps into the realms of medicine. Not only does he have to fight the so-called man on the street, but he must run the gantlet of the physiclans. Moved by our personal enthusiasm for our personal combinations and ef- forts toward cold (coryza) mastery, we last Winter put into print a few ob- servations on the benefits to be deriv- ed from the swallowing of heroic doses of lemon-and-soda, only to be bombard- ed for days afterward by those who de- clare that our pronouncements were ex- actly on a par with “The Heavenly Friend” of the York witch doctors. * kK However that may be, we point with considerable pride to our record: An Autumn and a Winter passed without one single common cold of any severity, in contrast to past seasons filled with one bad cold after another, In the face of such a record, let the sneerers sneer, and the jeerers jeer: We have found something that “works” on us, and naturally harbor the human belief that it will work on others, too. The keystone of our private cold- fighting system is the aforementioned | lemon-and-soda. This time we propose | to leave out all reference to what this | dosing does to the human system. Previous mentions oof alkalinity and acidity of the system are carefully ob-| literated here and now; we don't care| what happens when one takes lemon- | soda; all we are interested in is that we have escaped colds. We suppose that the average dear reader will feel exactly the same way about it. Nor do we mind if any reader inclines to the belief that we are bocsting the | game of the lemon growers. The lemon growers can get along very well, evi- dently, without our assistance. * ok ok % The first thing to do, then, when you feel a cold coming on, is to resolve to | take lemon-and-soda, in the dosage to | be outlined. i Place a level teaspoonful of bicarbo- nate of soda (ordinary baking soda) in 8 glass of water, then stir up the same. Then pour in the juice of half a lemon. Usually the mixture will foam up something terrible, but not always. The WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Many politiclans think President | Hoover is practicing “bad psychology” in not delivering his maiden message to Congress tomorrow in person, instead of by proxy. The periodical appear- ances of Presidents Wilson, Harding and Coolidge on Capitol Hill for message- reading purposes were always events and invariably created good impressions. In Hoover's case, congressional old hands think he would have got off on the right foot with his first Congress if he’d hon- ored the House and Senate with his presence at the opening of the special session. There are one or two factors which governed the President’s decision to send his message up to be read for him. Probably the principal reason is his desire, at least at the outset of the administration, to avoid big-stick meth- ods, or anything faintly resembling them. Another reason is Hoover's well known aversion to public speaking where he has to face an audience. The President vastly prefers the microphone to the platform. He has perfected his “radio style” during the past few years, until he is today one of the real stars of the air, * k% % Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, Secretary of the Interior, as nearly everybody knows, is a physiclan by profession. One of the side-lines, which he’s taken into the Hoover cabinet with him, is the chairmanship of the “Committee on the Cost of Medical Care.” It was organized ‘Washington a couple of years ago, carry on a five-year study of the economic aspects of the care and prevention of illness. Dr. Wilbur con- siders that proposition almost as im- portant a public issue as oil tonserva- tion—and then some. He's going to Boston on Wednesday, to address the Hub Chamber of Commerce at lunch- eon on the cost of medical care. While there is no direct relation between Wilbur's Boston address and the medi- cal-cost row which has just broken out in Chicago, it is an interesting coincidence. ~The national . committeg which Secretary Wilbur heads is giving the most serious and comprehensive thought to the vital question of the high price of keeping well. * Kok X Dr. James N. Doran, the prohibition commissioner, who's going to investi- gate California grape production and the cause of its fabulous prosperity, is a brave man. He's not only moving against what has become ome of the basic industries of the Hoover adminis- tration’s home State, but against inter- ests captained by one of the President’s bosom friends. The friend is Capt. Thomas C. C. Gregory, San Francisco lawyer, and for many years, according to popular report, Mr. Hoover’s personal counsel. Capt. Gregory is general coun- sel for the California Grape- 4 Assoctation, the organization of ers” who have so vastly increased their acreage, output and profits since en- actment of the eighteenth amendment. like to |in | the House or the Senate. The Demo- | temporary history is here to tell us that APRIE 15, 1929 THIS AND THAT | lemon cuts down on the bitter taste of e of soda a half. ¥ No sugar is to be used. The mixture is not unpalatable, but had best be swallowed as quickly as possible, By the time the hour is up, you will have had all the lemon-and-soda you want for one day. * ok ok % The first effect of this is to make the drinker very hungry, but a light diet is the second step of this cold- fighting system. ‘The third step—and all of them thould be taken as simultaneously as possible—is the use of an inhalant which one simply breathes up the nos- | trils. We wish we could give its name here, but circumstances make that im- possible. It should be breathed for 15 minutes to a half hour without interruption. Just a few whiffs won't do. The fourth step is to take a two- grain capsule of quinine, the beneficent alkaloid extracted from the bark of the cinchona. This has been declared to be one of the five or six medicines which really do any good in the world. It is a febrifuge, or fever fighter, and need not be taken in five-grain doses, since two grains seem to do just as much good. One capsule is enough. * ok % ¥ ‘The fifth step, of course, is to keep warm. In other words, one should not attempt to follow out this regimen and g0 to a dance. It may be n an hour after dinner, but it should con- tinue in the house and end in bed. This brings us to the sixth step, which is nothing more nor less than an old-fashioned sweat. The incipient cold and the quinine will take care of that, if sligh more than the usual amount of covering is used. Gather the draperies of your couch around you, as the poet Bryrnt advised, and lie down to pleasant dreams, secure in the belief it if these measures have been carried out, you will feel better the next morning. Any other measures, such as a ca- thartic, may be combined, but these six are the corner stones and should be followed scrupulously. * ok ok % Now let the critics rave. We content ourself with pointing to | an entire Aufumn and Winter, a sea- | son filled with colds, influenza and the grip, during which no cold of ours got beyond the beginning point. We put these observations into print with some fear nad trembling, for Fate has a sad habit of knocking down those who seem to boast. Yet facts are stubborn things and do not constitute boasts. To go for a whole season—and a hard one, at that —without a real cold, is a real achieve- ment to the writer here. From the number of sneezes heard | on public vehicles, he is inclined to believe that such a record would be a signal feat for thousands of more per- sons. Accordingly he has put his system down in black and whr'-‘rl. signed with | his name, in the genuine hope tha o;h‘ers may benefit from it, not shoot at it yours was the last voice Mr. —— heard on earth. He was listening to your| weekly political review one night last | month, and in the midst of your talk he died.” * % %% Bronson Rea, veteran Ameri- can newspaper man, now publisher of the Far Eastern Review at Shanghai, happens to be in Washington this Spring. He says he had an experience that beats the one just narrated. Rea wrote & book, 30 years ago, entitled “Facts and Fakes About Cuba.” A Chi- cago newspaper, reviewing the book, said: “Its title indicates the scope of the work. Oddly enough, though, after an elaborate frontispiece entitled ‘Gomez Threatening ‘to Shoot the Author,’ the book shows no good reason why Gomez didn't do it.” Rea is in this country rep- resenting the Chinese Nationalist min- istry of rallways, which has vast plans for modernizing China’s transportation system. * % k% ‘Though they rule the Seventy-first Congress by substantial majorities, the Republicans are not going to be al- lowed to trcad paths of roses in either crats are firepnring to strew monkey wrenches all through the G. O. P. ma- chl:\&ry, anhth‘en theo{y that it is an op- Pposition’s business to .oppose. In the House the Republicans have a majority of 80-odd. In the Senate the count is 56 Republicans, 39 Democrats and 1 Farmer-Labor (Shipstead). But co- even G. O. P. majorities are slender reeds on which an administration of that complexion may find itself lean- ing. The Republican 56 in the Senate, for example, includes temperamental statesmen like Nortis, Borah, Johnson, La Follette, Couzens, Howell, Blaine, Schall, McMaster, Norbeck, Frazler, Nye et al. Take them, or any considerable number of them, away on & given oc- ! caslon, and White House plans can easily assume the aspect of a cocked hat. It is an open secret that certain Republican progressives have rods in pickle for Hoover policies. * kK X Nobody in the United States, as far as is publicly known, seems to have discovered the high spot in President Hoover’s inaugural address. A firm of bankers in London has done so0. In the latest issue of their monthly publica- tion entitled Casual Letters 'y _Te- print the full text of the address, pre- ceded by this comment: Mr. Hoover's inauguration to the presidency is so generally regarded throughout the British Empire as an event of the first concern that we have obtained from Washington an official copy of the new President's address to his countrymen. Whether it is significant that Mr. Hoover him- self used the explicit word “country- men" without reference to the tra- Gregory happens also to be the Presi- dmefi next-door neighbor at Palo Alto. Their palatial homes there back on to each other. Gregory ranks with Rick- ard, Wilbur, Kellogg and Requa as one of the “Big Five” of the Hoover Old Guard. He was one of “the Chlef’s” prineipal post-war adjutants in Europe. 3 * Kk X Secretary Stimson thiriks that one of his assets as a diplomat is his lack of a “poker face.” en his classmates of Yale '88 gave him & farewell dinner two years ago, on the eve of his de- for Manila, Col. Stimson re- enougl Becretary of ':o':::' 'i!‘-lm nl' G ace,” specl his cards on the table. Que- zon, and the other Filipino polit- icos ‘met_him in kind, and the result was that*the American governor :lfl’l‘ them, * observer has to record the ban- This “radio fan” experience of his broad- | tertains :lg:t!nl hea: lifetime. A widow in ditionally fair and tly nu- merous section of his electorate, may or may not possess a ificance, which may or may not be visible in the outcome. At all events, this ad-. dress, more most others, seems worthy of preservation. (Copyright, ) Poincare’s Secret. From the Saginaw Dally News. When Premier Poincare writes his book he should give the world at least one chapter on the art of getting votes of confidence. Spade May Be Heart. From the Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch. “A spade is a spade,” asserts & dog matic writer. Folks who have drawn four of them say it is generally a heart, a club or a dlamond. Maybe That's True. Prom the Columbus, Ohio, State Journal. en- film 1ot e Legislatures Urged To Fight Monopolies To the Editor of The Star: & The Supreme Court has recently heard arguments in a case which will test the validity of a law passed by the State of New York which prohibits the sale of eyeglasses in any store where an optometrist is not present. ‘The '10-cent stores have been selling | epeglasses; they have recognized the those well recognized princip and designed to correct defective vision, varying types. I have, upon my esk, two pairs of glasses; one bought at a cost of 25 cents from the 10-cent | store, and the other secured at a cost of about $10 from an optometrist. The 10-cent stores glasses- I find to be far superior, as far us rellef from eyestrain is concerned, to the $10 glasses. The possibility of purchasing these glasses at a small cost has been a godsend to thousands of poor people, who could not afford to ‘chase the high-priced article, and who otherwise would have had to go without glasses. The pessage of the law was, theo- retically, designed for the protection of the public. Practically, its operation is | to tax the public for the benefit of the optometrists. It is the tmrpoue of this letter to direet your attention to the widespread tendency, upon the part of special groups, to secure the enactment of legislation under the plea that it is; for the benefit and protection of the ublic, when, as & matter of fact, it is ntended to create a monopoly in favor of the group fathering the legislation. Th> Congress of 1927-1928 passed an employers’ liability law, for the District of Columbia. They included, in its operation, stenographers in offices hav- ing but & single employe. It is doubtful whether any person of this class has ever been injured in the line of his, or her, employment in the District of Columbia, and yet the people of the District are being forced to pay thou- sands»of dollars to give a protection that is not needed. I have a single employe in my office. The annual charge under the employers’ liability law is $11; $1 of this is for the cost of the insurance, and $10 for what the insurance companies call “constant”— that is to say, $10 is the insurance company's charge for handling th insurance, and $1 is the cost of the insurance. Next week the Commissioners: of the | District of Columbia are to consideri whether they will amend the regule-| tions to require persons having electric refrigerators, etc., to pay an inspection | fee, when these appliances are installed. It is clear that if the device merely plugs in, like many other electrical ap- pliances, there is no reason whatever | for subjecting the householder to the cost of an inspection fee. The last session of Congress had be- fore it a proposed bill to license realy estate dealers, and to create a real estate commission which would see that | no unethical practices were indulged in by the persons licensed. Theoretically, the act is for the protection of the publie. Practically, it operates either to drive the small fellow out of business or else to force him to work as a subordinate, and, consequently, to share his earnings with the man who has “arrived” and who can afford to pay the license fees provided by the act. Recent sessions of Congress have witnessed the attempt, upon the part of the medical profession, to restrict the operators of Christian Scientists and osteopaths. Theoretically, this is for the benefit of the public, but the| countless thousands who have been | benefited by Christian Science and ! osteopathy know that, practically, aims to force them into the hands of; the M.Ds. Only the perton of small means, who, under. modern medical practice, is sent from specialist to spe- cialist, with each making his guess and taking his toll, can appreciate how un- fortunate it would be for these sources of help to be denied to the public. 1 Another serious phase of the matter is the extent to which the passage of legislation of this sort closes the door of opportunity to the young men and voung women of the Nation who seek to find their niche in the world's work, after they finish school, and turn, with high-hearted enthusiasm, toward their | life’s work. It is a shock to them to find that the labor unions have restrict- ed the number of apprentices in the various trades; that the restaurant business is in the hands of one racial group; that the fruit business is in the | hands of another racial group: that the theatrical and amusements field is in the hands of still another racial group, and that the selfishness of those that have gone before them has suc- ceeded in bringing about the passage of these various laws, to which I have referred, so that, no matter which way they turn, they find that they must be repared to produce a considerable icense, in order to engage in almost any kind of business. They can “jerk” soda water at a drug store fountain without a license, and that is about all, and yet we wonder at the increase of crime among the youth of the Nation. It is high time for Congress, and all other legislative bodies, to scrutinize, with great care, legislation which hampers a man in engaging in business, and when it is found that legislation is being fathered by a group in behalf of whom the proposed legislation will create a monopoly, the legislation should be refused, as a matter of principle. FRANK G. CAMPBELL. Lauds Move to Improve City Architecture To the Editor of The Star: | I was greatly interested in the story in last Saturday’s Star of the buildings selected for awards for meritorious de- sign and desire to warmly commend The Star as well as the Board of Trade for this recognition and encouragement | of architectural development “in keep- ing with the dignity and (potential) beauty of the Capital.” And, most of all, I desire to congratulate and thank the architects for their admirable con- tributions to the city’s beauty. When nations become & little mpre civilized I think we shall erect monuments to architects who create buildings instead of to generals who destroy them, for in my estimation a good architect is one of the greatest and noblest of men. W will not be a really beau- tiful city, comparable to Paris or Madrid or other handsome, finished Eu- ropean capitals, until we have long vistas of bufldings like these instead of only an occasional one. At present, except in spots, we still present very much the appearance of a _frontier town, with two-story tobacco shacks on our most prominent corners, a filling station opposite, and alongside this a painted-front chain store, too often, alas, the mutilated remains of a once fine old residence! So any encouragement of the preser- vation of old or the construction of new, appropriate and excellent archi< tecture is highly commendable and will be found in the long run the best in- vestment that can be made, for Wash- ington’s greatest industry is its visitors, ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN, o Ads‘gmu. He h‘ emvwn‘g N ress your inquiry ning Star mlemnlo:%umu eric J. Haskin, director, Wasl ton, D. C., and inclose 2 cents ir col return postage. or stamps for Q. Do Americans eat as much meat as the English do?—E. F. A. The per capita consumption of dressed meat in United States in 1027 was lSlmnd!: that of the Unfted Kingdom, es ted, was 130 pounds, Q. When will the Atlantic fleet sail again for tropical waters?—FP. M. A. Not until January, 1930, Q. How many coples of the Bible has Ewc A];nencan Bible Society distributed? A. The American Bible Society has lately passed the seventy-fifth anniver- | sary of its occupancy of its present | headquarters in New York City, and announces the distribution of 76,000,000 ‘coples of the Scriptures in that period. Q. How long have the Egyptians made some provision for the irrigation of their flelds?—J, W. A. There is evidence to show that works for the storage and distribution A. inguished modern Swedish painter was the late Anders Zorn. Carl ‘unwn and Bruno Liljefors are also amous. WQTWIM causes splitting of hair?— A Dr. Oscar Levin says that it is caussd by excessive dryness and fragil- ity, infections, atrophies and abnormal tormations of hair. Q. What individual has had more written about him than about any one else in the world’s history?—W. A. W. A. There are said to have been pub- lished over 1,500 books about Lincoln. Lincoln, Christ and Napoleon have been the subject of probably the greatest number of books written in the field of blography. Q. What is meant by half-blood sheep and half-blood wool?—M. C. A. Half-blood sheep means half of | one breed and half of another. Half- | blood wool is the next e coarser than fine, but is commonly considered a fine wool—that is, the fibers have smaller diameters than those of the waoi which is commonly called “mediam wool.” Q. Did President Coolidge use shorter sentences than President Lincoin?— of water were constructed in Egypt as | C- B early as 2000 B.C. Q. In whose administration was the land acquired upon which Center Mar- ket in Washington was built?—L. K. 8. A. Gen. Washington, on the 2nd of March, 1797, just two days before he vacated the presidential chair, by virtue %lothe‘.lb\:lhofltybvu'f‘d l;l him and the mmissioners by acts of- Congress the deeds of trust, appropriated 17 pleces cr portions of ground to be re- served to and for the use of the United States. Square or parcel No. 7 was| designated as “the Center Market,” ';‘;:d: contained a little over 2 acres. price paid for it was at the rate of $66.50 per acre. Q. Have Austral had recent votes on prohibition?— R. M. 8. September 1, 1928, in New South Australia, a compulsory referen- ote defeated prohibition 670,178 | dum to 269,162. New Zealand, which votes on a referendum at general election every three years, voted on November 14, 1928: For continuing the licensing | system, 374,502; for prohibition, 294,453; for state control, 64,276. Qd ?nw are Orlental rugs made?— A. Oriental rugs are woven on & sin- gle frame consisting of two poles sup- porting two rollers. To the rollers is fastened a warp of strong threads, the number of which determines the width and fineness of the rug. To each thread | of the warp, short frills of colored wool, silk, or hair of camels and goats are knotted in such a way that the two ends project toward the worker. Q Do men go tiger hunting in Africa?—R. B. A. There are no tigers in Africa. Q. How long ago was Huyler’s estab- lished?—J. E. L. A. The first Huyler shop was opened at Broadway and Eighteenth street, New York City, in 1874. The formulas used then by John F. Huyler for sodas and New Zealand | A. State papers of the Presidents show that the average number of words to a sentence used by President Cool- idge was 18, while the average number used by President Lincoln was 26.6. Q. Please settle a dispute in erib- bage. A says the cards must be played in regular order, as 4, 5, 6, 7, in order to count a run. B says the order is not necessary. Who is right>—B. C. A. B is correct. The run can be counted so long as a card is not played which interferes with the run. Double ;unsd are not scored in the play of the and. Q. Please give some authenticated records of egg-laying by hens in the United States—A. E. G. A. The following are the highest rec- ords of egg-laying hens in the United States: ree_hundred and forty-one eggs laid by Rhode Island Red, at the Connecticut _Agricultural Experiment Station, Storrs, Conn.; 339 eggs, laid by White Leghorn in the Georgia egg- laying contests, Athers, Ga.; 335 eggs laid by Leghorn at Western Washing- ton egg-laying contest, experimental station, Puyallup, Wash. Q. Why does glass left in a desert | turn purple?—D. M. D. A. The Bureau of Standards says that glass frequently changes color on ex- posure to sunlight and the surface may weather or decompose slightly on ex- posure to certain tvpes of atmospheric conditions. The color change is gen- | erally from the initial color of the glass to a purplish tint. This is thought to be the result of the action of sunlight on the manganese which was used to decolorize the glass. The weathering produces a scum‘on the surface of the glass and renders it less transparent, bult does not, in general, change its | color. Q. When Lord Byron swam the Bos- |porus, where did he s:un and where | did he land?>—F. C. Bosporus, May 3, bydos. A. He swam the 1810, from Sestos to Al New Deal Planned for Indians Stirs Imagination of Nation ‘The country awaits with terest the development of nounced by Secretary Ray rofound in- plans an- Wil- Lyman | bur of the Interior Department to im- prove the status of the American In- dian. Anything that will tend to make the Indian safely independent of white exploiters will be welcomed, although from Oklahoma come warnings of dan- gers ahead if there is a too sudden with- drawal of the Federal Government's protecting hand. “Secretary Wilbur,” comments the Oklahoma City Times, “wants the In- dians made independent, self-sustaining citizens, instead of wards of the Nation. Many Indians, of course, have attained | that status, and some of these have demonstrated their ability to cope with the whites in business affairs. Dr. Edward E. Dale, professor of history at the University of Oklahoma, probably knows more about Indians than Secre- tary Wilbur. He favors an indefinite continuance cf Federal control of In- dian affairs. Without that protection, he maintains, the Indians will mulcted of many of their farms by un- scrupulous whites. Secretary Wilbur will find much support for his policy. but it may not come from friends of the Indians who know them well.” “It might not be advisable,” accord- ing to the Tulsa World, “to make too sudden or too drastic a change in the present system. There are Indians, especially of the older generation, all over Oklahoma, who are as innocent as children of the value of land or | been been disclosed on sev- e guardianships, these Indians easily be- come the prey of designing white men and women and are trapped into up large_amounts of their wealth to them. The younger members of the various tribes ht, as Mr. Wilbur sug- gests, be taken in hand upon leaving chcol and trained into the white man's vocations and means of independent livelihood. But not even this holds out any great hope that the Indian is soon to be molded into the white man’s initiative, industry and thrift. That is a work to require many years and much et L8 ‘The Secretary’s vision, in the opinion Gazette, “is of the Worcester Evening likely to cause some pessimistic head- shaking, yet it calls for a policy which certainly ought not to be condemned in advance.” The Gazette belleves that “the wisdom of this program can best be judged by results.” ‘The Flint Daily Journal concedes that “the problem has been a puzzling one and has not always been to the advan- tage of the Indian,” while that paper recites the history of the attempts to solve it: “The white man took his land away from him and drove him out. When the United States became a Na- tion and the westward expansion began, the Indian was pushed farther and farther West. Then it was decided that something should be done about the: Indian. We didn’t,take the trouble to learn his desires, but put him on reser- vations and set aside certain lands for ‘The Duluth Herald records that “de- | tails relating to training and employ- ment and the disposition of Indian lands and funds have not yet been worked out,” but that paper concludes that “a definite policy has apparently been decided upon that will revolution- ize old methods and in time solve the problem. The moral support of most American citizens will be strongly be- hind Secretary Wilbur and his pro- gram,” concludes the Herald. “Ever since our own Nation was born,” says the Fort Wayne News-Sen- tinel, “the Indians have been dwelling on the same continent with us. We have gone forging ahead. They have gone far along the highway of prog- ress, but not so far as they were ca- pable of going. The Government has pursued an ultra- paternalistic course with regard to the abo; es. It has not done all that might have been done toward helping them graduate from the status of wards to that of inde- pendence and self-sufficlency. Secre= oD o hpiisebont agencis cnarged group of employment agencles with taking the Indians in hand imme- diately upon completion of their school- ing. He thinks, and rightly, that the best thing that can happen to an ed- ucated Indian is to keep him as far away from a Teservation and its influ- ence as possible.” “The 'm is & difficult one,” con- cludes the Houston Chronicle. “Until the members of the various tribes have educated to take care of what they have, it won't do any good to give them farms and expect them to settle . down and till the soil. In a short time some white man will have the farm and ving | his red brother will be wandering along the river bank with a fishing pole. But it's better to try to make ranchmen and farmers out of the Indians than fit them for industrial occupations, al- though some members of the race can accomplish anything if they receive the proper sort of education. The In- dian should be taught to help himself, no doubt about it. The process of fit- ting him into the American political and industrial scheme will take time and patience. But it can be done.” —————— Ships’ Future Secure For While at Least From the Birmingham News. This passion of ocean travelers to make haste, and the imminent menace of the dirigibles and their breed, which threaten to multiply and replenish the heavens, have caused a desperate state of mind. " Will they surrender to the air invaders? Are they discouraged? Will they take their punishment lying down or cowering in safe harbors? Not by & darned sight, the casual reader con- cludes, after seeing the Associated Press plece coming from London describing the proposed produetion of marine whippets. super-Olympics, super-Maure- tanias. whose capacity for getting across with thousands of passengers is ample his exclusive use. That was all right|assurance to manufacturers of lighter- until the enterprising white man found | than-air ships and ponderous seaplanes the land was valuable. Then the Indian was shoved somewhere else.” “A_paternalistic government,” states the New York Sun, “has so insist- ed upon doing most of the Indian's thinking for him that it has everything in its power to rob him of initiative and -confidence. Indi- ds | vidual Indians have proved themselves some and a) te buildings such as Hhoee Dituned h e Btar 'THERESA RUSSELL. e ————— Aviation’s Ups and Downs. From the Omehs Evening World-Herald. lane passenger rates capable of hard, constructive and pro- ductive work when they have felt they had something worth working for. But reservation life, with constant supervi- sion by agents, has proved deadly to the ambition of more ti one Indian- ‘The out of an ble sub- :;:ha:h mllqnnmwm will for airp! come passengers | being, 1 to down, so long as the o and planes stay up. ———————— . Well, It’s Had a Sel-l_hck. Prom the Des Moines Tribune-Capital. ptoms of our ther~ |usual that the old-fashioned way of followinj 3‘;9;"« has by no means been aban* ned. Still, for several decades at least there will be timorous ns to crowd the staterooms of these ships now building possibly pledged by their never to leave terra firma under any eir unless it is to go voyaging on an unsinkable ship. Doubtless, too, even in this air-minded *hildren of this general sea travel for the'sake of sea travel, persons who believe that the journey