Evening Star Newspaper, April 28, 1929, Page 26

2 THE ' EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Editle WASHINGTON, D. C. SUNDAY THEODORF W. NOYES.. 111 u.'lllah.’ll Office: i chiceo Ofce uiu"fi,fi"n . I“l.m Sher T S R S s The Evening an when 4 Sundass) ‘The Evenin: 5¢ per month inday per ion made at'the'end of each month. Orders may be sent in by mail or telephone Main 5000, Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Dally and Sunday....1 yr..$1000: 1 mo., 88c ily only 170078000 1 mo.l b0 Bihday oty ¥r. $4.00: 1 mo. nly . lay only ., 80c Member of the Associated Press. Associated Press is exclusively entitled ited s paper and al published herein. All riehts of publication Epecial dispatches herein are also reserv Financing Municipal Center. Prospects of an early start on build- ing the new Municipal Center were brightened by a conference Wednesday between Chairman Simmons of the sub- committee on the District budget of the House appropriations committee and | Secretary Mellon, chief of the Pederal | Building Commission. If it is wise to devote all our accumu- lated resources to this one project the District now has to its credit in the Pederal Treasury sufficient funds to aecquire all of the property in the four squares desired for -the new Municipal Center, lying on both sides of John Mershall place, north of Penn- sylvania avenue to the Courthouse Square, between Third and Sixth streets, and south of Indiana and Louisiana avenues. ‘This "acquisition has already been authorized by act of Congress. The new Municipal Center will be the first step to dominate the improvement of the north side of Pennsylvania ave- nue, the south side being improved by the Federal buiiding program. This new Municipal Center is one of the out- standing features of the Capital de- velopment program which calls for a April 28, 1929 Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company . | into the United States.” e, | & Problem bristling with ticklish points Hon. Vincent Massey, promptly quiesced. The whole dispute will now be submitted to two arbitrators, one nominated by each government. If they fail to agree it will be referred, under the claims commission agree- ment of 1910, to three arbitrators, in- cluding one neutral. Canada in the ar- bitration seeks redress for the sinking of the ship, even though the Dominion government admits that the I'm Alone “had unquestionably been engaged for A number of years, under various own- | ers, in endeavoring to smuggle liquor | Canada and this Government differ primarily, according to the diplomatic | exchanges between them, as to where | American territorial waters begin and jend, in the case of an attempted pur- “-un of & rum runner. The Dominion | insists that the I'm Alone was not | within the search and seizure limit of | “one hour's sailing distance” from the { American coast when hailed nor at any |time during the “hot pursuit” which | ended with her sinking. Our position 1"“ diametrically opposed to Canada’s | affirmation on that score. It will be for | the arbitrators to decide which conten- tion is sound, based alike on the facts and international law. They confront and complicated by widely divergent statements of what actually happened on that fateful day in March off the Louisiana coast. o The Capital City Airport. That Washington is destined to be one of the great airports of the world is one of the oustanding conclu- sions from the hearings that have been in progress before the special Joint Alrport Commission headed by Senator Bingham of Connecticut. Vir- tually all of the expert witnesses, es- pecially those from the Department of Commerce, who are making an intensive study of developments all over the country, and the trend in this new science and transportation possibilities, have s0 testified. Assurance has been given that just as soon as adequate air- port facilities are afforded . here Was}: ington will be conspicuous on the air map and a considerable volume of busi- nzas will be observable. The commission has until December to make its report to Congress. The| hearings are practically closed. Tech- nical data is being prepared for the commission, and conferences with Gov- ernment efigineers will econtinue for some time. There is a serious intention vista up John Marshall place to the chastely classical courthouse, which was | originally the City Hall of Washington. This vista is to be one of the two im- portant cross-axes of the Mall, the other being at the new Department of Justice Building, where Center Mar- ket now stands. The Municipal Center will be at the convergence of three of the most important streets in the Capital, Pennsylvania avenue, B street, which is to be straightened and im- proved from the Lincoln Memorial past the Capitol Grounds, and the new ave- nue from Union Station to Pennsylvania avenue at Second street. The Municl- pal Center will face into Union Square, which 1s an important landscaping in the Mall where the Botanic is now. ‘The problem has been to finance ‘who has made an intensive study of the District budget and requirements for public improvements, has, he thinks, found & way. After conferences with the District officials and with the city buflders he proposed to Secretary Mellon that—sinee the Federal Gov- ernment contemplates taking over the present Municipal Building eventually, and since it is the Federal bullding pro- gram crowding around the present Municipal Building that forces the Dis- triet government to move instead of expanding on that location—the Federal Government should buy at once the District Bullding. This will be no hardship or addi- tional expense to the Federal Govern- ment. It is really in the nature of a book transaction, which gives the Dis- triet government a credit in the Treas- ury of sufficient funds to start the erection of the first unit in the pro- Jected Municipal Center, which will be the administration building. It is proper that all the land in- tonded to be used eventually for the Municipal Center should be bought at once, so that the District may not he raising the price of this property against itself—and the money is already avail- able for this purpose. In this connection it has been pointed out that while the present Dis- trict Building will make an ideal home for some of the smaller units of the Federal Government, it is not structur- ally of the proper type for best use for District offices and does not allow best use of floor space. In the new building this can be corrected. In the meantime, Chairman Sim- mons proposes that the District gov- ernment remain where it is, occupying the building that it will have sold to the Pederal Government until the new administration bullding has been com- pleted. This would mean only one moving for the District offices. It is & well thought-out program. It i+ apparently in the interest of economy and efficiency and of Capital development, of advantage to the Ped- eral Government and to the District to do the job here right. The decision will be one of equal importance to the Fecderal Government in economic, effi- cient and expeditious transaction of its business as to the commercial interests | of the local municipality. While the wording ‘of the act directing this in- vestigation. specifically directs attention to the requirements of the departments of War, Navy and Commerce and the Postal Service, practically all Govern- ment departments are now using air- planes, and the value of an adequate airport here to the Federal Government is inestimable. To meet the commercial needs of the local municipality the Gravelly Point site, on the water front, is recommended by the District Commissioners. Several witnesses before the commis- sion, which has been conducting the air- port hearings, have stressed the desira- bility of having two airports here—one, & centrally located landing field for de- livery of mail and letting off passen- gers, and the other in the suburbs, which would be much larger and where would be located hangars, repair shops, oppor- tunity for student flying and all the ap- purtenances of a great airport for na- tional and international service. Of course, the essential point on which the commission is focusing its attention is to get one field first and to get that in operation as soon as possible, with due consideration of all the interests in- volved. ‘The commission has detailed estimates on the Gravelly Point site and is col- lecting all the information readily ob- tainable on other sites suggested in the outskirts of the city. It has been stressed that at Gravelly Point it will not be necessary to buy any land, and that the field will be built up by dredg- ing the channel, grading and filing. ‘The commission is weighing this argu- ment against the length of time it will take to make Gravelly Point suitable for an airport in comparison with the pos- sibility of buying a flat area that could | be used at an earlier date. t The commission is also making & spe- clal study of fog and weather condi- tions to be expected at Gravelly Point to see if they would be & serious handi- cap to an airport as against some more | inland location on higher ground. Fly- ers who have testified have not agreed a5 {0 the influence of fog or weather in | the location of such sn airport. The| Weather Bureau has compiled techni-| cal information for the commission after | a study of the weather conditions to be expected at the various sites sug-, gested. | Still another problem on which the | commission has been seeking expert ad- airport—whether it should be con- structed with runways or whether it should be an all-ways field, on which landings could be made from any di- rection, and whether it should have a cinder or & sod surfacing. It will be readily seen that the com- mission is making a very careful study. Its recommendations should have great weight with Congress. Since it is im- taxpayers. R st The Prince of Waleé uses an airplane frequently and finds it rather safer than a horse. e The I'm Alone Arbitration. There will be mutual satisfaction on both sides of the border that Canada and the United States have agreed to arbitrate the I'm Alone affair. Having been unable o agree as to the facts or the law in econnection with the sink- ing of the Canadian rum-running schooner by the American Coast Guard, the machinery of diplomacy provided to meet just such emergencies is now to be invoked Great Britain and this country in 1924 signed a ship liquor treaty, whereby controversies thereunder arising are to be subjected to international arbitra- tion. Seeretary Stimson suggested such action as soon as it became apparent that Canada's contentions were irrec- onellable with our position, and the Dominion’s Minister at Washington, the Over any '.w?'e-momh period tempera- would possible to get any decision on this matter of extrsordinary interest to the Government itself and to the local mu- nicipality before the December session of Congress, evervthing possible in & preliminary way should be done: the individual members of Congress should be fully advised, so that this measure | may be one of the very first to be con- {sidered in the first regular session of the present Congress, ‘There is no difference of opiniop that | ‘Washington should, just as soon &s pos- sible, have a first-class airport. —reos A private car will convey Harry Sin- clair to the gateway. But even opu- lence such as his cannot provide him with a private jail. ———— Long-Range Foreca: Does the weather, or any single ele- ment of it, follow periodic cycles? We know one meteorological eyele by which . we ean make predictions with reason- | able Assurance—that of the solar year. vice is regarding the surfacing of the | THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON. D. C. APRIL 28 1929 _PART 2. tures can be plotted in a fairly smooth curve. It is as certain as anything on this earth that any January in the tem- perate zone will be considerably colder, on the average. than any July. But is there a similar cycle extending over years instead of months? Let us assume such a cycle of twelve years cor- responding roughly in meteorological phenomena with the twelve-month cycle that we know. Then there would be a January year, a February year, a May year, a July year and & December year, We could predict with assurance that the November year would be colder than the May year. It is upon such assumptions as this that most long-range forecasting sys- tems have been worked out. If the cycles actually ' existed the work of ‘weather forecasting, one of the most es- sential of human -activities, would be simplified, agriculture and industry would benefit greatly and enormous sav- ings would be made possible. None would welcome information of such a cycle more than she professional meteorologists—the staff of the United States Weather Bureau and the official forecasters of other nations. Their work would be easier. Their services would be of more value. Frequently, however, they have been accused of an extreme degree of con- servatism in refusing to make predic- tions on the basis of cycles alleged to exist by other meteorologists. As a mat- ter of fact, it is reveasled by Prof. Charles F. Marvin, director of the United States Weather Bureau, thers is nothing they would welcome more than knowledge of a stable cycle. They have examined most of the alleged cir- cular periods and found that they simply do not exist. Belief in them is based on observations which have not been subjectrd to rigid mathematical analysis. ‘The meteorologists devote much effort to examining the evidence for such cycles, but they are unwilling to inflict them upon the public without some mathematical probability that the fore- casts will mean something. The Weather Bureau is not spurning the evidence, as its detractors sometimes charge. It simply is demanding that the evi- dence be valid—and thus far this de- mand has not been met. ——ratee New discoveries are constantly being made that promise to change the entire aspect of aeronautics. There have been interesting comparisons to show which enterprise is entitled to rank as the leading industry. When aviation gets well under way there will be one con- spicuous “leading industry,” with the others trafling at a considerable dis- tance. ——rat All will be well if Aimee McPherson can be as successful in keeping mortals out of trouble in the eternal future as she is in getting them into trouble here below. et If it could be foretold when the Louisiana Legislature would be ready | for picturesque combat, there might be a lucrative demand for ringside seats. — 1t is now hoped that the apple blos- EVERYDAY RELIGION Bishop of “Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness” (Psalm, xcvil). “Worship.” What some one has called, “public meeting religion,” finds many interpre- tations in our day and generation. From the quiet and simplicity of a Quaker Mee House to the ornate and color- ful ritual of the Catholic Church there is presented for our adoption and prac- tice a choice covering & wides range. It has become increasingly true of late years that there is a definite and per- sistent call for more of dignity and more of beauty in the public sorvices of the churches. The Psalmist speaks of “the beauty of holiness”: beauty that is appealing, satisfying and inspiring. Worship to be stimulating must express itself in terms of beauty. It must be 30 designed as to inspire the worshiper with a sense of awe as he beholds the majesty and glory of God. The prophet Isaiah in his fine vision declares, “I saw the Lord, high and lifted up, and train filled the temple.” It was this apprehension of the majesty of God at filled him with humility and the sense of insufficlency. The beaufy of worship must also arouse in the worshiper a tranquillity and peace of mind indispensable to a well ordered life. Guy Allen Tawney declares that: “Worship is like a breathing spell in a long and arduous foot race, or the hour of roll call in a prolonged and hard-fought battle: * * * it is alto- gether indispensable to sane and whole- some living—it is important enough in life to warrant the erection of classical | temples and Gothic cathedrals. It is, indeed, so important that one finds one’s self sometimes wondering how any of us can afford to do anything but educate ourselves in this art. * * * To be effectively a person and thereby help others to be persons is the sum of the abiding satisfactions of life. Worship in the sense of this aim is natural and | necessary, and in the great community all mature men worship. Its objectives are not absolutely fixed as to their content.” upon the disciplinary value of worship. It is too generally thought of in terms {lege. Our youth in particular think of the services on Sunday as a hardship to be endured, not as a spiritual we meet men who tell us that, in their early life an excess of church attend- ance effected a revulsion of feeling and Too much emphasis today is placed | of duty rather than in terms of priv- | corpol recreation to be enjoyed. Frequently | / BY THE RIGHT REV. JAMES E. FREEMAN, D. D., LL. D., Washington issued in protrected absence from all forms of public worship in later life. this respect has been fully discharged. | They could not look upon & Sunday service as other than a stern and for- bidding discipline. _In some instances such a view is justified by the barreness and coldness of the churches. The reformations doubtless made distinct contributions and gave a finer under- standing of some of the fundamental truths of the Christian faith. On the other hand, they subtracted from the conception of that faith much of the element of joy, and robbed its expres- sion of much of its beauty, rendering {1t dull and unappealing. A coldly in- tellectual interpretation of the Christian religion makes an appeal to certain types of minds, but has in it nothing of a universal appeal. The story of the New Testament, notably that of the Gospels, is drama- tically fascinating. It appeals to the finer instincts of our nature, notably the heroic and the esthetic. We at- tempt to make our homes attractive, as well as our places of recreation and amusement, by adorning them with things that are beautiful and appeal- ing. We are greatly affected by color and symbol in all the relationships of |life. When it comes to that which has to do with soul culture and enrich- ment we meed that which is appealing | to the eye as well as to the head and | heart. Where worship is subordinated to the office of preaching it fails to fulfill that for which it is designed. |Preaching has its distinct and im- | portant place, and it needs in our day to be more widely recognized and more effectively discharged. On the other hand, if the church is to serve the high end for which it was intended worship | must be so ordered as to be symphonic in character. There is no evidence, so far as we can discover it, of unrespon- siveness to the appeal of beauty. As | & matter of fact, the present age is given more largely to the consideration of grace and symmetry and color than any that has gone before. If the church is to fulfill its large part it must employ all its genlus in making rate worship s0 appealing, 80 | fascinating and so satisfying that it shall meet the demands of an age that craves beauty. The hunger of the soul is as great today as it has ever been, but it is & hunger that demands satis- faction, and it will rapidly respond to the beauty of holiness. Brookhart’s Bre BY WILLIAM HARD. The saddest sight in town is the es- trangement between Smith Wildman Brookhart of Jowa and Herbert Hoover { of California. Senator Brookhart, con- templating Herbert Hoover's rejection of the export debenture plan for the relief of agriculture, feels that all his trust in Herbert Hoover as a progressive has been betrayed. For many months Senator Brookhart has been telling his essive and radical colleagues in the Senate and rokretatve. "He has oen asturing sl P ives. He assuring 2] “:Rfl:’ that Herbert Hoover concealed wi his mh :erinl le‘x‘!‘enor 'l¢ pro- gressive punch of superlative potency. In a word, Senator Brookhart staked his whole reputation as a student of human nature upon Herbert Hoover’s hidden appetite for progressivism as understood and as defined by the I som queen will have enough gentle and mysterious suthority to prevent the fruit crop from being a falure. HAAER L SHOOTING STARS. BY PNILANDER JOHNSON. The Merry Robin. A robin sat upon & limb, A-singin’ very jolly. “Oh, bird,” sez 1, 1 sez to him, “You should be melancholy! “You haven't any children small, No friends nor no relations; You've got no certainty at all Of lodgin’ or of rations. “You haven't got no place to went, ‘You loafer in a tree, you! Or, if you have, I bet a cent No one is glad to see you.” The robin stopped his song and said: “Excuse me while I snicker. It is the narrow life you've led That makes you such & kicker. “This limb I sit on ain’t so fine, And scant is my apparel; A simple sort o' feed is mine. And yet I love to carol. “While thinkin' on my state of ease My soul in song relaxes. 1 go an’ come just when I please, An’ never pay no taxes.” N Very Simple. To tell & mushroom, merely eat The specimen that you may meet, And note, next day, with studious care If you've stayed here or gone elsewhere. On Second Thought. I have kicked about the taxes, as & lot of people do; 1 have often said . wondered what our land is coming to. I have kicked sbout the railroads and bewalled the reckless way The cash is sometimes handled, which commuters have to pay. But in spite of my misgiving About arbitrary rates, I'm mighty glad I'm living In these old United States. I've bewalled the tipping evil in pathetic flights. of song; And expressed the sad opinion that all graft is very wrong. From gunman to philanthropist I've scanned the social scale And criticized my country in & melan- choly wail. Yet my joy I can't be hiding, As afar strange terror walt ‘That T chance to be residing In these old United States, | | Willing to Yield. The man who says he likes to work 1s courteous through and through. When toil looms up he’ll bow and smirk And murmur, “After you!" N And the Golf Vs. Lawn Issue. Prom the Port Worth Star-Telegram. Among the other things that usually come up in the Spring are the newly F.ved streets under which they neg- ected to lay all the pipes needed. e Many in Dutch Over It. Prom the Lansing State Journal, wing of the Republican party in the Upper House o.l (:on‘ne‘n Now comes the painful process of disillusionment. the first test— namely, the export debenture Hoover thrusts the progressive Herbert cup from his lips. The human ques- | Did 8mith Wildman Brookhart mis- understand and misinte: Herbert Hoover, or did Hi ver delude and deceive Smith Wi Brookhart? Smith Wildman Brookhart is in no doubt. He feels wholly certain. His ;Peechu against Herbert Hoover on the loor of the Senate are in the tone of a lady conscious of the full justice of her oreach of promise suit. Smith Wildman Brookhart is sure that Herbert Hoover intended marriage and intimated it. He is sure that he had absolutely adequate grounds for looking forward to an altar and to a ring and to seeing the progressive ele- ments in the Republican party installed as the political “officigl hostess” of the ‘White House. - Now he finds himself merely part of the segregated spinsterhood of the Re- publican progressive convent in the Sen- ate wing of the Capitol. * kok % His complaints extend ing creatures who, in hi stolen his Herbert from to the design- is view, have him. As the chief among them he sees Eugene Meyer, jr. Mr, Meyer is the head of the Federal Farm Loan Board. Mr. Meyer is & multi-millionaire. Mr. Meyer 1s & New Yorker. Mr. Meyer is a Man- hattan Islander. Mr. Meyer owns large blocks of stock in corporations which manufacture things which are sold to our whole population, including farmers. Mr., Meyer, as Smith Wildman Brook- hart sesms him, thinks that he can ad- vantage himself by preventing relief and prosperity from reaching farmers who are his customers, Mr, Meyer, ac- cording to Smith Wildman Brookhart, has such a desire to spite his own face that he does virtually nothing but try to cut off his own nose day and night. ““Co-operation” would help Mr. Meyer's farm customers and increase their* buy- ing power. Therefore Mr. Meyer op- poses it. Mr. Meyer, as Smith Wildman Brookhart sa; “a Judas Iscariot to co: ation.’ Rich men who sell the products of their factories to their fellow citizens would naturally be extraordinary men it they sought to increase, their ulm by reducing their fellow citizens destitution. Such an extraordinai however, according to Smith Wild- Brookhart, is Eugene Meyer, jr. ‘The poorer his customers get the richer Mr. Meyer gets, and if his cus- tomers never had a cent with which to buy anything from him, why, then Mr. Meyer would have all the money !in the world, Clearly, therefore, if Smith Wildman Brookhart is correct in | his diagnosis of the economic views and of the economic capabilities of Mr. | Meyer, 1t follows beyond all doubt that . Meyer is not merely a Judas Iscariot, but a wizard and s sorcerer and & necromancer, com) with whom the man who could square the circle or invent tual motion or make gold out or {hpl'n air would be * % k¥ nothing at all. Against such a man, in the struggle for the affections of Herbert, Hoover, a normal solid character like Smith Wild- man Brookhart would obviously, it would seem, have little chance. ,What pleture of connublal bilas could Bmith lldman Brookhart -paint for Herbert Hoover that would compare for seduc- tive beauty and for magical charm with the picture that could be painted by a man whose recipe for prosperity for himself and for all concerned is a population writhing in the mire of penury and sleeping at night only on a deflated and empty purse? The explanation then of the break between Mr. Brookhart and Mr. Hoover is simple. Mr. Meyer, i{ Mr. Brook- hart’s account of him may be trusted, had wonderful and more stunning than Mr. ‘They claim golf really originated in the Netherlands, where it got its name, t the position of others is that any smaliest ' R wins ' small Brookhart’s own. Mr, Brookhart mere- ly proposes lzm ‘waste the Treasury. That is a matter. Mr. Meyer, in Mr. Brookhurt's view of him, proposes to in the corn and wheat belts that Her- | eft | an economic system even more | 3 to enrich the farmer by | ak With Hoo_ver Called Saddest Sight in Town enrich Wall Street by laying waste the whole of every rural region in the United States. That would be a wed- dle present of some size. r. Hoover, then, choosing between Mr. Brookhart and Mr. Meyer, chose, as men will, the siren who sang the wildest song. According to Mr. Brook- hart, himself, that certainly was Mr. Meyer. Whereupon, nevertheless. as is usual, Mr. Brookhart solaces himself with a suit for breach of promise and | & suit for alienation of affections com- | bined. | 1929.) 'World Watches U. S. Tariff Revision Steps (Copyright, —ce—s BY HARDEN COLFAX. More words will pour out of Wash- |Ington by telephone, telegraph, cable- gram and radio this week when the new tariff bill is introduced in the House than have marked the appear- ance in the legislative hopper other legislative measure in years. |” Not only has interest in the revision of the tariff been stirred to a fine froth in this country, but the subject carries deep concern to all foreign gov- ernments, naturally, but to some in particular. |~ While admitting that the adjustment | of the United States customs rates and regulations is a domestic affair, some half dozen foreign governments have made formal representations as to their interests in this matter, and others have made their interests known by more in- direct means. Prance, Australia, Cuba, Persia and Bermuda have transmitted to the ways and means committee, through the State Department, communications set- ting forth views as to United States cus- toms duties affecting products of their countries, while the British Ambassador also transmitted a non-governmental communication from a group of cham- bers of commerce in England. | Canada Interested Keenly. In the Argentine Republic and in Canada statesmen have been discussing the impending revision of the tariff in this country with the keenest interest and concern. é France's note deals with tapestry, an industry in which that government is interested financially and artistically, but beyond the narrow scope of this communication laid before the House committee, there has been for months an exchange of notes between the State Department and the foreign ministry regarding & much more broad question of tariff policy—that affecting regula- tions, especially the manner of ascer- taining corect value of imports. Australia Sends Threat. ‘The Australidn communication deals with the balance of trade between the dominion and the United States and points out that higher rates affecting imports from Australia might have a tendency there to force preference for British products’ over the American Cuba's concern, naturally, is over sugar and alternative proposals for greater preference are made. Persia is Interested In rugs; Bermuda in prod- uce. Besides these cases, the Philippines, neither a foreign country nor United States territory, was well represented in the hearings held by the ways and means committee in regard to limita- tion of ’mfli'.'" of duty-free sugar. In_considering this new tarift bill the Republican members of the ways and means committee (the Democratic any recent the actual drafting of the measure) have much more to consider than what they should decide to be the proper tective rates on the thousands of items in the bill. There is plenty of potential dynamite in this tariff re- vision in an international sense. Many Changes Predicted. If the revision ves to be “limited,” as has been Ind! , it may be ex- pected at the sai time that many changes will have been made in the agricultural schedule, for the admin- istration stands committed to farm relief not only through stabilization machinery but through the tariff. And it is in the agricultural schedules, in- cluding sugar, that many of the inter- national questions occur. ‘Take Canada, for striking illustration. ‘The Dominion has gone to first place within the last year as a customer for the exports of the United States. Its shipments to this country are mostly of the agricultural class. If the new tariff hits Canadian exports to this country, trade complications may be foreseen. The latest figures of the De- rtment of Commerce show that the nited, States supplies 64.9 per cent | of Canada’s total imports, while it takes per cent of Canada's exports. Argentina Watches Meat and Corn. Argentina is especially interested in meat and corn—again the agricultural i takes 24.7 per cent of its total im They seem to feel that their duty in. members have been excluded durmgl schedule. The South American republic ' o, ports Capital Sidelights ! p— | BY WILL P. KENNEDY. | Like a clarion call from a glorious, | storied elder day comes a powerful plea |to Congress for the early completion | {of the St. Lawrence waterway plan, in' | which industrial New England and the | ports have a vital interest. The appeal comes from J. Adlmi Bede, now a publisher in Duluth, Minn. | Let Representative William A. Pittinger | of Minnesota introduce him as he did o his colleagues: “He is a national in-| | stitution. His fame has traveled all| over the North American continent. | He is a former member of Congress | | from my district. Many of you know | | him, love him and respect him. H | | served in Congress from March 4, 1903, | | to March 3, 1909, and during that time | he achieved a reputation as a lt‘m-} man and orator of the highest type. No | | man in America is better equipped to | discuss the St Lawrence waterway proj- ect.” Adam Bede was one of the most pic- turesque characters of his day in| | Congress. Of particular interest to | New England industry. he points out | that the Anaconda Copper Co. of Mon- tana is now shipping its products to Seattle and by way of the Panama Canal to the consuming factories in New England, where several dollars a ton could be saved by shipping over the proj St. Lawrence waterway | lion dollars a year on the products of that one company. He emphasizes that one of the N tion's greatest statesmen more than a century ago urged use of this glant : waterway. In our treaty of peace with navigation of the St. Lawrence, but our request was rejected. The request was [renewed in 1825 by John Quincy Adams, but was not then accepted. Not until 1871, under President Grant, did we gain this right by treaty. Having should any one object to the exercise of the right now? J. Adam Bede asks. ko e individualistic taste in the adornment of their offices. Some make of them veritable museums, some have on dis- play the leading products of their dis- tricts, be it soaps ard tollet waters, as in the office of Representative Luce of Massachusetts, or sponges and cigars, as in the case of Drane of Florida. Some have pictures of great industrial plants, as has Stobbs of Massachusetts; some have Indian blankets, or replicas samples of other fabrics. Representative Louis Ludlow, veteran ‘Washington correspondent and former president of the National Press Club, who is just entering upon his dutles as a legislator, is displaying some of the t ies of his newspaper career, in a decidedly non-partisan array, which reflects the kindly esteem in which he is held by leaders of both parties. A pen-and-ink drawing of Woodrow Wilson by Clifford K. Berryman, car- toonist of The Washington Star, shows the War President reading a message to Congress. Nearby Calvin Coolidge smo);‘esdl glebehn ;mne. A large auto- graphed photograph of the late Charles W, Fairbanks is placed mext to a lar autographed photograph of Thomas Riley Marshaill—both of them were Vice Presidents from Indiana. There is a collection of cartoons by Berryman cov- ering activities of all the Presidents since McKinley came into office. In another drawing of a group of ante- bellum journalists are seen the great men of the profession—Henry Watter- son. Horace Greeley, Murat Halstead l:.:nd others too numerous to mention ere. In a corner of Representative Lud- low’s office is & bust of Senator Daniel W. Voorhees of Indiana, which has an interesting history, It is the work of James Paxton Voorhees, the Senator's son, who presented it to Ludlow many years after Paell 1t 10 Congress mad feteer Pt © i- * ok K X Congress paused during the past wi in its legislative rush to pay mmm"uk: the great American poet, yet Ii Edwin Markham, on his seventy-seven birthday anniversary. A letter from Ar- thur Charles Jackson, president of the International Longfellow Soclety, was printed in the Congressional Record, as lolll;:l‘; & more than an interestin, - incidence that this 23d of April l: ::'. only the birthday of Shakespeare, by most authorities acknowledged the world’s greatest poet, but also the birthday of Edwin Markham, by many lcclalmetd as the world's greatest liv- poet. “My friend Markham, now\a resident of New York, was born 77 years a in the far Northwest, ‘where rolls the Oregon and hears no sound save its own dashings.’ For 30 years his ‘The Man With the Hole' has challenged the admiration of mankind. It has been translated into 30 languages ana called the battle cry of the next thou- nngwh years,” “What more appropriate than having this great literary product of America | read into the Congressional Record, wrether with Shakespeare’s famous lloquy from ‘Hamlet’!” . * ok ok ¥ Members of Congress are being be- sieged by officeseekers, mostly women who are after jobs during the census enumeration, the report having been spread broadcast that Uncle Sam is :111{1“2‘ v;l'thoueq it referehx‘\’c; to clvlll service | one wl out of a job. Which isn't at all true. : In fact, Uncle Sam isn't doing any hiring just yet because the Senate has not yet passed legislation fixing the date for the enumeration, and funds are not available for paying salaries until after July 1. For the actual taking of the census throughout the States a civil service status is not necessary. But some 5,000 to 6,000 employes will be put on the pay roll in Washington to handle and systematize and tabulate the returns as they come in. All of these must be taken from the tivil service lists. That means that practically all eligi- | bles on the present waiting list will be called in. It also means that a special civil service examination, much easier than the ordinary civil service exam- ination, will be held particularly for census jobs. Those who get employ- ment temporarily will not be eligible to remain in the civil service and get transferred to work in some other de- partment. The special examination mlmk them eligible only for the census worl 0; the Anti-Pistol League. From the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel. The Chicago Community Chest has sent back Al Capone’s $1,000 check, and we wonder whether Al has tried the Anti-Saloon League. from this country and ships here 9.1 per cent of its total exports. Australia is essentially interested in wool, which is listed in a separate sched- ule, but, neverthless, is a product of agriculture and hence in the farm pic- ture. It takes from the United States 253 per cent of its total imports and lunds here 6.5 of its general exports. Cuba Holds Balance. Cuba, with its heavy production of sugar and enjoying a preferential @ms- toms duty over all other nations, re- verses the picture, having a heavy bal- ance of trade against the United States and taking 62 per cent of its imports {from this country while shipping here 79 per cent of its exports. Among the gloomy forebodings which have been voiced regarding this new tariff about to be written by Congress is that unless most delicately handled it nu{ invite reprisals abroad. Just how those who have been working on this revision have attempted to satisfy demands here at home and at the same lfime avoid complications which might injure foreign trade will be known in a W more 3 pyright, 1029.§ with a saving of at least a half mil-| England in 1783, we asked for free striven for such right for 100 years, why | Members of Congress have decidedly | of ofl wells, or bales of cotton, or |, DID CLEMENCEAU SEEK ‘PERSHING’S REMOVAL? BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Did Premier Clemenceau of France actually scek the removal of Gen.| Autumn of 1918? When the report that such an inci- | dent took place was cabled to the| States from Paris a few weeks after the death of Marshal Foch, a prompt search of the records of the Army War College in Washington was made to reveal all official records bearing on such an episode. Officials of the Army | already knew the answer, but news- o | PApers and other interested parties | were quick to seek all of the available facts. The report, sensational in the form in which it appeared in print, re- | veals so much of the history of our | greatest military exploit that it Is| worth while examining exactly what | the records reveal. ‘The mere answer to the question of whether or not Clemenceau sought Pershing's removal is only a fragment of the story, but it is the fragment which brings the whole story to light, and may be considered first. The answer is'in two parts: Pirst—Clemenceau never _actually sought the removal of Gen. Pershing. Second—Clemenceau probably did discuss with Marshal Foch the possi- bility of seeking Pershing's removal, and Foch probably advised against such a procedure. ‘The mere possibility, or probability, | that the premier of France talked about | trying to remove the American general our great expeditionary force and its achievements which is new to the minds of many Americans. Most of us have merely accepted the basic fact that our Army won a great victory and that the war was brought to a prompt conclu- sion. It is a shock to our ideas to learn that anybody in high and responsible authority was ever seriously dissatisfled with what the A. . was doing. Rela- tively few’ Americans know just what that A, E. F. was doing on any especial day in any especial place. We. knew, and still know, that it was winning the war. That it was not winning it at a isfactory to all concerned, or that it was in danger of not winning it at all, is startling news. We must appreciate our own general lack of detailed knowl- edge of the war history to understand why the headlines, “Clemenceau Want- ed to Remove Pershing,” are a shock us. That Clemenceau never sought to get Pershing replaced is easily proved. Newton D. Baker, war-time Secretary of War, hastened to deny it. Clemen- ceau_has not bothered to deny it, nor has Pershing. An examination of the basis of the recent reports from Paris reveals that Raymond Recouly, the French writer, whose forthcoming book, “A Memorial of Foch,” is authority for the tale, does not say that Clemenceau ever asked Pershing’s removal. He says only that Clemenceau talked about such & move with Marshal Foch. No Actual Steps Taken. Thus we quickly conclude that no actual steps were taken. Our second conclusion, that Clemenceau probal did think about and talk about such & step, is based not on the new report from M. Recouly’s forthcoming book, but on & much earlier rej by the same writer to the same effect, and by other writers since then. Recouly wrote, in substance, the same story in a book published iat after the Itis de Foch,” and is not well known in America. When Marshal Foch was in this country in 1921, both he and mem- bers of his party frequently referred to “La Bataille de Foch” as the best and most. unmnu:h:cmm of the final lied forces until the day of the Armis- tice. Recouly, in fact, was for years the one journalistic intimate of Mar- shal Foch, and remained so to the day of the marshal's death. The best basis for saying that Clem- enceau probably spoke to h, in the Fall of 1918, about seeking Pershing removal, is that Recouly wrote this as coming from Foch within two years after the war, and that the statement remained unchallenged, and was gen- throws a light on the whole history of | time or in a place or by a method sat- | erally read n France, and Recouly, who wrote it, remained the friend and con- | shipping interests of the North Atiantic 'persning as commander of the Amer- fidant of the marshal. ~The revival of | ican Expeditionary Forces during -the|the story in 1929, and its publication in America as startiing news, is due merely to the fact that the death of Foch served to reawaken interest in the detailed history of the war and its winning. and that correspondents who never read, or at least never analyzed.., the earlier Recouly book, have hastened to read and analyze his new work. It is dangerous to print, pieeemeal, the accounts of military operations The statement, by itself, that Clemen- ceau talked about seeking to have Pershing replaced, is utterly misleading Also it is utterly unfair to Clemenceau to Pershing and to Foch, not to men- tion the many other statesmen and generals who had a responsible part in the concluding events of the 1918 cam- paign. M. Clemenceau himself is so im- patient of the public habit of seizing one detail and overlooking the rest of the facts of history that he has refused to discuss the episode. He has merely said, “I will not engage in debate over a coffin. Gen. Pershing and I are good friends.” Cause of Dissatisfaction. ‘To grasp the sallent facts surround- ing the dissatisfaction with Gen. Per- shing and with our whole war effort which prevailed in many quarters, both English and French, in 1918, requires a very wide knowledge of the whole cam- paign and the whole American war effort. At the risk of incompleteness we may try to summarize them in this and a following article. Pirst let us consider the Clemenceau-Pershing epi- sode as first related by Recouly and later by the American correspondent, Thomas M. Johnson, and to some ex- tent by Gens. Liggett and Harbord and other writers. The tale goes that about the end of September, 1918, four or five days after the American 1st Army started its greatest and final battle in the Meuse- Argonne sector, Premier Clemenceau started to visit the American front. On this visit his automobile was caught in a traffic jam close to the American lines near the town of Varennes. This was on one of the few roads leading into our sector, and certainly those roads were terribly overcrowded. Allied military men had a good deal of criti- cism to offer about our transport sys- m.nlml ‘Ml’t thg :’er.: "l'l;ht. We lenty of trouble with it, plenty of m)l e cjlm occurred. o . Clemenceau, like most responsible officials in both France and England, had never wanted America to organize and operate a separate army in France. The allied wish had been for us to supply regiments and divisions of troops which should t with the French and British armies, under their high command. Gen. Pershing had insisted on the American Army plan, and the American 1st Army was the result of his insistence. These facts made criti- cism of our inexperience in detall, such as our traffic jams, the more vigorous. It is told that M. Clemenceau, the day after his delay near Varennes, told Marshal Foch at the latter's headquar- | | | bly | ters that the Americans were making a mess of things. They were not advanc- ing fast enough. They would never break through in time to coordinate with the Foch offensive plans. Should not he, Clemenceau, apj to Presi- dent Wilson to name an American com- mander who would handle his army as the allies wanted it handled? To all of which Marshal Foch is said to have replied that it would be unwise to seek to replace Pershing, first because if President Wilson refused, the effort would become known to Pershing and would be most unfavorable in its reac- tion; sscond. because Foch was lent that Pershing and the Americans, while undoubtedly inexperienced in many de- tails, would fight it through with as much stubbornness as Pe had displa; in insisting on fighting with American troops as an American Army under American command, and v, because any other American general worth while would probably be just as stubborn as Pershing. In another article we shall sum up what happened as a result of Pershing’s stubborn conduct and Foch's confidence in the Americans. This and That By Charles E. Tracewell. Jack Spratt sat on the edge of the basement lteg:T glaring down at Mrs. Blackie and family of five kittens L ack, he of the gooseberry-green eyes, does not like Blackie and her kittens. In fact, he detests them cordially. ‘When possible he pays no attention to them, but sometimes he has to pass Blackle, or one of the kittens becomes inquisitive. the case of the mother cat, Jack contents himself with a few good low | growls of warning, but when a kitten descends upon him he spits at it. It is comical to wa the reaction of the kittens to this manifestation of inhospitality. D'Artagnan, the light tiger striped, went tht up to Jack and touched noses with h'm. This happened jus* - . . ‘\ys after the sturdy, misch zvous D'‘rtagnan could walk. Just as the Gascon was lifting a wobbly paw to slap at Spratt, the latter fl" & mighty and took to his heel and digni- finy ‘The sEecmle of the la: fled Jack Spratt running from the D’Artagnan, just four weeks old, was amusing in the extreme. * ok k% . Athos, the black kitten, was the first to climb out of his soap box home un- llssuud, which he did when 3 weeks old. He was followed shortly by Alex- andre Dumas, the black and white kitten, and by D'Artagnan. For the next few days the kittens invariably came over the edge in the following order: 1—Alexandre Dumas. 2—D’Artagnan, Borthos: (malt orthos (maltese) and Nipper (dark tiger striped) were slower lhgfi getting out of the box, but finally negotiated it, with much dragging of the hind egs. A few days later Alexandre Du who is the {nder of the gang, dllcom.vsl ered that he could leap over the edge. His first leaps were rather one-sided, since his hind legs usually got stuck on the edge. . All the kittens took to wrestling se soon as they got their sea legs. One of Nipper's favorite sports is biting a corner of a sheet of newspaper. * ok ok ok At the mature age of 28 days the kit- tens learned to drink milk y:ut of a saucer, The three leaders of the pack, Dumas himself, D'Artagnan and Athos, learned readily, although with much snuffiing and sneezing. quickly, al ht at first he seemed to think eating e?xfxl.ncd in trying to bite pieces out of the edge of t”the saucer. White sand they tried to al e The kittens come out to caper on! when they have a human Apudlencz Their favorite time is at night. At the sound of a famillar voice they come plling out of their box with many squeals and squeaks. Athos, who is the smallest, was the first to walk and the first to climb out of the box. He seemed to like people. is the largest and most adven- turous and perhaps the smartest. D’Artagnan is full of mischief and extremely fond of wrestling. One of his favorite sports is to slap at his mother’s car, which always gets him a good smacking. Porthos is T‘xm slow, and seems the dumbest. He has a fine ition, & benign face, and the soitest cdat of all. g S Fifty Years Ago In The Star | | _ Pifty years ago Thomas A. Edison was | having a difficult timvem ml’:t': to c:ln- | ice the lic, Improvements on which bad vecome 3 D extremely skepti- Edison's Iamp. ¢\t matter of inventions, that his incandescent lamp would ever prove to be a practical util- ity or woula ever supersede gas and oil for {lluminating gourpuec After inde- fatigable efforts, however, he finally ob- tained a patent, and en the 21st day of April, 1879, a patent on an improvement was granted. The following in The Star of the next day gives the spécifica- tions covering the improvement on the invention: “The specifications of Edison's im- provement 1n electric lights, for which H""’“ was granted yesterday, is as ollo ws: “‘Blectric lights have been produced by a coll or strip of platina or other metal that requires a high temperature to melt, the electric current rendering the same incandescent. In all such lights there is danger of the metal melting and destroying the apparatus, and breaking the continuity of the cir- cuit. My improvement is made for reg- ulating the electric current passing through such incandescent conductor automatically, and preventing its tem- perature rising to the melting point, thus producing a reliable electric light by rendering conducting substances in- candescent by passing an electric cur- rent through them. In my apparatus the heat evolved or developed is made to regulate the electric current so that the heat cannot become too intense because the current is lessened by the effect of the heat when certain temperatures are reached, thereby preventing injury to the incandescent substances, by keeping the heat at all times below the melting point of the incandescent substance, Various devices for carrying my improvement into practice may be employed, and I have tested a large number. I, how- ever, have shown in the drawimgs my improvement in a convenient form, and contemplate obtaining separate patents hereafter for other and various details of construction, and I state my present invention to relate broadly to the com- bination, with an electric light produced by incandescence, of an automatic ther- mal regulator for the electric_current. The incandescent metal is to be plati- num, rhodium, iridium, titapium, or any other suitable conductor having a high fusing point, and the same is used in the form of a wire or thin plate or leaf. ‘The expansion or contraction of a suit- able material under changes of tempera- ture forms a thermostatic current regu- lator that operates automatically to pre- vent injury to the apparatus and to the body heated by the current. The electric light may be surrounded by a glas stube, or any other suitable device, such as two concentric glass tubes with the ‘intervening space filled with alum water or other conductor of heat, the object being to retain the heat of the incandescent metal and prevent loss by radiation, thus requirl current to suj the loss by ra Little Nipper doesn't pay much atten- glgcm ': ul;ul)!‘l‘:nb::{nu.dfll is fond of 'lfil or h:‘ck:vhudl. ST iy one em is afraid of k Spratt, the big fellow with u:e J::n eyes, the white face and_ shirt 1 v