Evening Star Newspaper, April 30, 1929, Page 8

ki THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, APRIL 1929.° 20, e —— e THE EVENING STAR ___ With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C TUESDAY... . .Lpril 30, 1920 THEODORE W. NOYES. . . Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company isiness Offc Rate by Carvier Within the City. The Evenine S 45¢ per menth | The & | Th The Sunday Star .. .., .. i Collection made at ihe #nd of each monti ©Orders may be sent in L. mail or telephon Maia 5000. | r Sunday Star ¥8) . 60c per month Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. | Capital. Any one familiar with the ap- carance of what Mr. Tinkham cails the “storage warchouse” in the Capitol will agree that such a hall is not only Cesirable but Is becoming a necessity In the first place, the Capitol's Statuary Hall was never iatended nor design for the purpose it now Even the best of sculpture will lose its good polnts through Improper surroundings, and all of the statues in Slatuary Hall do not by any dogree of the imagination rcp- resent the best. There should be a real Hall of Fame in Washington, properly placed and de- gned. The exi ting Sf ves. the reverent regard that its symbolism demands .- Potential Murderers. Marviand and Virginia. v ard Sunday 1 ¥r.,$16.60: 1 mo.. 85¢ | . 1 yr., $6.00: 1 o, 50c | 1 ¥r, $4.00; 1 mo., 40 s i AN Other States and Canada. J and Sunday..1 sr.$1700: 1 mo-. $1.00 niy Lo YE, S500: 1 mon dhe | 151 00, 1 mo., 5S¢ . | ssociated Press, | is exclysivaly enfitled | W dis- | Member of the A Pr atlon of ahl 1 10 it or not olherw paper and alto the in. All Tiehts of publication o 1 ere also reserved again this weel 1 m of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States— | guardian-in-chief of the Nation's busi- | ness. The magnificent marble temple which the chamber inhabits in th Capital—a worthy link in Washington's splendid architectural scheme—is of it- | «elf a living symbol of the importance | of commerce in national affatrs. When | that temple is the scen of the year] ave of the chamber's | vast membership, the country is im-| pressively reminded alike of the dignity of its commerce and of the high calibe; of the men who have its welfare in their keeping. The chamber’s 1929 meeting synchro- nizes with events abroad which lend | gpecial significance to it. Last night authoritative spokesmen like Dr. Julius | Klein and Julius H. Barnes told of the | economic recovery of Europe and of the | inevitable and substantial effect of such | conditions upon the export trade of me{ United States. They recorded, too, the | censtructive roles being played at this | moment in Old World rehabilitation by | Americans like Messrs. Owen D. Young. | J. P. Morgan, Thomas W. Lamont and Themes N. Perkins. 1t will not be the | fault of these captains of Yanmkeo| inance and industry if the reparations | N at Paris is doomed for the | scks and Europe rehcaded for economic | depression and despair. It would be impossible to overes! mate the value of the Chamber of Com- | merce movement as a factor in making the United States the foremost trading | Naticn on earth. If Uncle Sam has wrested from John Bull the title of “shopkeeper of the world” our Cham- bers of ‘Commerce—whether here and | there they may be called boards of | trade or merchants’ associations or| what not, for their purposes are co- ordinate—are mainly entitled to the credit for that achievement. Today hardly an American city with a popula- tion running to five figures i without its Chamber of Commerce or the coun- terpart thereof. These tireless cru- saders in communel and civic advance- | ment do not cower under the taunts of | self-anointed paladins of the intelli- | gentsia, who lose no opportunity to hurl | shafts of alleged wit at their “boosting” | proclivities. As generators of public wel- fare they far outrank their high-browed detractors. | The Chamber of Commerce of the | United States, though barely sixteen vears oid, has grown from fewer than one hundred organization members in 1913 to some sixteen hundred today. This membership, broadly democratic in character, represents at present roundly 900,000 business firms and in- ¢ividuals—a mighty phalanx of modern commerce without parallel anywhere in the world. Our country is proud of its business and of the Nation-wide federation that speaks in its united name. It recog- nizes in the Chamber of Commerce of the United States an institution which | knows neither section mor selfish in- terest; which is sleepless in the pursuit | of better relations between capital and | labor; which recognizes the equality of | all branches of American commerce, agricultural as well as industrial, and | which strives incessantly to elovate the | business of a great business Nation to | an even higher level both at home and | abroad. & o In estimating the cost of living, | statisticians do not undertake to show how much a sportsman’s breakfast of fresh fish, figuring in time and tackle, actually costs. as it now is cor nce e Stataary Hall. The imposing $tatue of the late Ben- ator Robert M. La Follette placed in Statuary Hall at the Capitol brings the number of distinguished men and women 80 honored to fifty-five and raises the Interesting question of where the re- maining forty-one statues can be placed when each of the States takes advan- tage of its privilege to commemorate two of its sons or daughters. The fig- ures in bronze and marble which now stand in such imposing array around| the walls of Statuary Hall are t0o close | together for comfort. The effect is ex- tremely depressing. The casual visitor feels himself in the middle of an fm- pregnable circle of the great and near- great who surrender any individual character they may possess to become merely parts of a formidable picture. Statuary Hall has long since taken on | the appearance of a small room packed | full of huge bric-a-brac. When this “old hall” of the House of Representatives was set aside in 1864 | to receive from cach of the States two statues of famous citizens, it was evi- dently far from the thoughts of the legisiators that the States would so quickly make their decisions, and that 0 many famous men and women would have been henored by 1929. But more than half of the Slates have already filled their quotas. Future arrivals must either be placed behind pillars, well out of sight, or advance boldly toward the center of the room. Representative George Holden Tink- ham of M husetts has introduced a i appropriations for the prepa- | plain in its restatement of the commor | revolver, | aw | b2en savagely denounced by his ! The action of the coroner’s jury in hold- | | intended to restrict further immigra- | The District code is unmistakably law principle that one who causes death during the perpetration ¢f a felony com- mits murder in the first degree. Tk is not only reasonable, but essential to of the community, to regard using the smoke screen as :\1 murderer. If, in his use of a| een he confuses and blinds a officer, causing the offi th by going over an em- | the safety the man pursuin ride to his de; bankment or crashing against some ob- ject, or brings about the death of passing motorist under similar cireum stances, the smoke-screen user is guilty of murder in the first degrec as the burglar who, caught in the act of | burglary and cortered by a man with 2! shoots in defense of his own ays his pursuer. other hand, Officer Rot spension without pay Ly the grand jur by o life and s On the now und: it aiting action critics as & murderer. But it is difficult to d cover murder in homicide by a police- man who fired. 2s he says, at the tires of an automobiie during the height of the chase and half-blinded by a hostile | moke screen kilied by chance a rum- | runner. Poor judgment or lack of dis- cretion in the performance of duty, re- sulting, at the worst, in manslaughter with mitigating circumstances, seems (o constitute the maximum of his offense. | And it is yet to be decided by any au- | thority that Officer Rouse used either | poor judgment or lacked discretion. ing him can be regarded as a mere formality, passing to higher authority the task of weighing the elements in- volved in his case. Hesitancy on the part of policemen | to effect by any means the capture of felons using smoke screens following the holding of Officer Rouse and the public humiliation he has suffered renders the forces of law and order practically im- potent in their war on armed and| smoke-screened criminals, and shelters with relative safety the criminals. Upon i the premise that the policeman is guilty of murder or manslaughter who kills a smoke-screen user in attempting to ap- prehend him rests the inescapable con- clusion that an armed, high-powered automobile, laden with unlawful whisky and equipped with an unlawful smoke- screen device, can speed at will and with impunity through the city, endlngermgi the lives cf automobilists or pedestrians | in the way and running down or blind- | ing and choking with smoke and gas the motor cycle policeman who in the name of the law attempts to stop it. ——rat———— ‘Tammany does not expect a leader to brandish a big stick. The handling of a night club may be more or less important. R ] The Immigration Row. “National origins” runs trippingly from the tongue these days. It has to do with immigration. That much, at least, is known to the man in the street, just as he knows the equaliza- tion fee had to do with farm relief in the last Congress and that the de- benture plan has to do with the same subject i the present Congress. The impression has been advanced by sup- porters of “national origins” that it is tion into the United States and that there is to be a material reduction in | the present annual immigration per- mitted. They urge, too, that the “na- tional origins” clause of the present | immigration law was adopted to bring about further restriction. ‘The national origins plan of fixing the immigration quotas from the various foreign countries takes into account the blood of the early settlers of this coun- try. seeking to give the grealer per- centages of admission to the countries of that blood. The fact of the mattgr is that when it was placed in the im- migration law, it was for.the purpose of reaching a different basis for fixing the immigration quotas rather than with any idea of materially reducing further immigration. Immigration. by the existing law, with quotas based on a later census of the people of America, has been limited to approximately 164,- 000 admissions of immigrants to the United States each year. In the years before the World War, immigration fig- ures were in the neighborhood of a) million immigrants annually. The | present restriction, therefore, is mo in- considerable matter. Furthermore, the estimates of the effect of the national origins clause, if it becomes effective, place the prospective immigration at 153,000 a year. This is a difference of 11,000 immigrants a year, which, after all is said and done, docs not appear a very vital issue. ‘The real fight over the national origins lies between groups of Ameri- cans of foreign bleod—all in the begin- ning of this country were of foreign blood. The opposition to the national origins clause comes strongly from the Americans in whose veins runs the blood of Scandinavian ancestors—ancestors from Northern Europe, Germany and Ircland. ‘The claim has been made, it is stated by Senator Nye of North Dakota, an opponent of the national origins clause, that the impression has been formed that this clause would further restrict immigration from Southeastern Eu- rope. This Senator Nye denies flatly, I-swrthn( that immigration from the countries of Southeastern Europe would be just as great under national origins as it Is under the existing law. The national origins plan, if it finally he- comes effective, would increase the quota of immigrants from England. A vast amount of pro and con propa- uary Hall lends | !itself more readily to ridicule than to | vania, 1 | tion of the national origins claus: | commiltee on immig { has zligned hims:] | pension of the 5 N of the | for instance, | receiving delegations of citizens, nection with this contest over the na- tional orizins clause. The American Legion and a number of other patriotie nizations bave backed th» national 15 pla But ther. ¢ many men wmd women who insi would b: sn injusiice to descendants it some of the b which ‘eme to seltle in America. President Hoover has taken a inst the nationcl origins clau recent raecsame to Congre: vocated Unles: . In . he a ts suse Congres end or repeal the naticnal origins clause, it bacomes ¢ at that time, ped in the Senate d of Pennsyl- regular of regulars, iting shoulder to shou Heflin and other Dem tors in favor of the reten- Sen- of over his m: Republican is shown fi with Ee cratic ator Ser ator Hiram Joh chairman fon. who b “political pari on the other hand, The immig ver, has declined nat bills ¢ n, scribed himsel, with President Hoover, tion committee, he to report to the any resolutions before it for repeal or national erigins clause Norih I ta has of- nator Nye of { fered a rosolution to discharge the tee from consl repeal the clause directly before the S tion. The tactics of the suppc o is for dek to prevent a vote on the question after July 1. Unless they become con- vinced tl they have a majority cir which they are not tod [, Talkies in the White House. Insialiation of apparatus at the White House for reproduction of sound pic tures contains unlimited possibilitic censerving the President’s healt taining his merale and saving his time, provided the most practical us of th kies.” It is a well kn that much of the Presi dent’s valuable time is now taken up m come ther to demand something, protest against something cr merely to acqus the President with a variety of subjec ranging from the superiority te for con: io 2ins side nary prolificness and acute hunger of trout in mountain streams of the Blue Ridge. Why nct allew these delegations, tpon reaching the White House, to do | r expounding to a microphone, thus | ting the President to hear their | thet permi messages at his lelsure? Arranged systematicaily, such & pro- cedure would undoubtedly work cnly to the advantage of the President but of the country. It is an unwritten rule now that those who see the Presi- | dent are not allowed afterward to make public what took place during their audience. But infringement of this rule is no uncommion thing. It is done either deliberately or through ignorance. The gentleman who icomes to tell the Presi- dent of the advantages of Mukwonago, | Wis., as a Summer resort may receive from him merely a dly nod in ac- knowledgment of the suggestion, but | upon leaving the President this gentle- man's imagination may have been so fired that he will dwell at length upon the President’s unbounded enthusiasm, thus inflicting upon the good people of Mukwonago the evil effects of a boom in real estate. One may almost visualize the Presi- dent after a busy day and a comfortable dinner hearing and watching at his ease the proponents or the opponents of one thing and another who called upon him during the day. The prospect is made even more inviting by the realization that by a wave of his hand or the pres- sure of a button he could eliminate from his vision and his thoughts the group of vociferous ladies and gentlemen on the screen—and no one would be the wiser, There were no talkies in the White House during the last administration. But science marches onward. —r———— In public affairs a man who, like Mr, Mellon, makes a success of his own business is sure to be popularly re- garded as competent to assist in making a success of the Nation's business, - R SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. A Dog’s Life. | “Been a-workin’ like a dog!” - Heard a white man say— Ef it's jes’ de same to you, Lemme work dat way! Lemme find & quiet spot, Where de sunshine gleams, Doin’ nothin’ all day long, 'Cep’ a-dreamin’ dreams. Lemme make arrangements for Several meals a day, In exchange foh friendliness An’ not a cent to pay. ‘Though sometimes he wanders off, "Tain’ no harm to roam; Allus has a place to sleep An’ a welcome home, Lots o' time foh settin’ round, Plenty mo’ foh play— If it's jes' de same to you, Lemme work dat way! The Lawn, The little patch of grass looks small, As over it your eye you cast; But when you come to mow it all, It seems like a plantation vast. The Man Who Laughed. Somebody told him if he laughed The world with him would smile. So he undertook to chaff In a persistent style. He laughed when on the street you slipped And saw great painful stars; He laughed when scared pedestrians | skipped In front of trolley cars. He laughed to hear each tale of woe, E'en though your tears might fall; He laughed at folks who couldn't go To see a game of ball; Until at last his friends broke in Upon his manners lax And every time he dared to grin “They hit him with an ax! Auticipation. The gilded hopes of youth prized, Are fairer than ambitions realized. ‘There never was a circus so immense fancy ration of plans and estimates for a new and real Hall of Fame io5 the Baioed B ganda Is filtering through and about the halls of Congress in con= the mails ! ‘That it could beat the pictures on the Sences ) & . B ¢ its adoption | has | A very pretty | on | greater of llh" Georgia wetermelon to the extraordi- | not | THIS AND THAT ! BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL, | findings. There remarks of childhood are to speak about such 1d unkindly on: rward and without guile. One | are Kindiy children y ever in doubt as to what a | gentle and cruel et e courteous and those wially rude, Most childien will stare a ties, but only the totally untrained wil seream remar haps enly a fe ctness of d oy did one, “Bi The ; who are es- v afternoon Junior and hi were walking down the ame @eross The ot M deforn | Sidey I Johnny S Johnny,” sai " go with us, i ny. rudeness of B many_children. the boy or girl who on down the walk and thoy de- | manifests a perfuct courtesy to eld parted the following conversation waft=d | is_outsianding. In contact with n children over a period of years, | éan recall but = single little girl seemed o be totally good in kindne We may call her Mary child in every respect play. yet ¢t in all She could thank 2 rose with all the wh the a let me : ordinary y mo:her won't Junior and his grandmother went ot her—Johnny minds well, got a mother. have got unior —Yes \amother—So der e gift of princess mingly Johnny’s mother § d mother— Weil, why don't A your mother? “Junior—'Cause she ain't that kind.” | from good parents, { What can be done or said in the ) Without a word. She fa sim ¢ of such logic? mong as ouree AL who 1 s discourt into the thelr pl o ‘o mi s from this dialogue, we leave to cure in the 1l make the best of onee, mother s vledge that they wi of them ‘What interests us i h from Their minds, 0 bent on enjc ir time in find m out not the guidance the lips of their y the words which id lips an honest o S at all t o inhere lot of curi v kid starls going is never precisel nd_this to th fter ten he children with gue: lite, but the wh means fu ad existed in a | Biven to respect. own, in which miay be 11l bl This bo In school I vs that there is a center of attraction, Teacher, and that cach one of his small com: a sart cf e The individual | discovers that | Shaw. pep” and 1 A boy too respectful ittle +23 th insisted on menopol boys h to do, until Fa a hand him to * other words, not the: Whole born silence form s0n shen you're You told me ther, rmed y to “Why don't you an: ken 102" to spe with all the aforen ble logic of childhood. g . st preschool child, | frank and honest to | brutality. { She will climb upon your lap with the best grace in the werld, throw her vingly around your neck, and | hat is all thal dust in your is of The however, the point Such written anecdotes con history of thou: titute the nds of ation ion to their we un- fami- nimals, children are quick to mote deviati from the {normal, and almost as rcady to poi | them cut | id that the weak or crippled i diately spotted, but espectaily . and often etting its the crippl ail little friends in pre is ings how 3! amily and often them. There will be a polite smile and a slight “Ha-ha!” greet the narative of the proud parent, but the real appreci- ation comes in the home, The little girl who has just learned to speak and who rom the L from | share of dinner. Often | animal is killed. |~ Human little ones, of course, go to | “just found a b | ts, but they almost infalli- | of getting a great | bly not deviations, and, as stated, |and Mamma. - | are se chary about calling at-| Little John, tossing around in sicl ention 0 them. ness, cries, “I don't know what to do; ot |1 don't know what to do!” thereby strik- | According to the possession or lack |ing the home chords mighilly, so that of what might be termed innate sweet- | forever afterward his simple { ness of disposition, a child is disposed | tion becomes a household word ; Ovpi | no such and from Daddy nions Diff;r Eli;pllati( all; ‘ heme | 0 Farm legislation is discussed by the | part of the farm bill it would “mean a press with the hope that out of the | long and a bitter fight over that meas maneuvering at the Capitol will come |ure. with the strong likelihood of its |a practicable measure to which Pr veto in case Congress insisted upon it. | dent Hoover will give his signature. Em- | “Senators representing |phatic differences of opinion are ap- [tural interest,” according to the parent as to the “export debenture” | dianapolis News, “are known to favor plan proposed by the Senate commit- | the debenture pian. How far they will tee, but opposed by the President and | go in their support of it is yet to be re- ‘:!‘:lx,nummu by the House in passing the " The Nashville Banner, how- | . \ Protective tariffs are used as the chief | r |argument for the dcbenture plan by those papers which speak favorably of this form of farm relief. The New |Bloomington Pantagraph expresses the York Times, conceding powerful argu- | view, “Responsible leaders in both {ments by the President. suggests: “The | houses of Congress would likely line up economic and political logic behind the | behind any measure which is definite debenture plan is almost exaclly the |and has the known indorsement of the | same as that behind the system of pro- | President and his avowal that he will |tective tariffs, If the former is re- | do his best to meke it work.” jected as harmful to the true national| A different view is held by the Flint interests, the lalter ought to be. But | Daily Journal, which concludes: “Pre it won't be. A little thing like glaring | dent Hoover assumes leadership of leg- inconsistency never yet overturned a |islation by warning Congress that a di- party policy.” This contention is up- | vision over the manner of agricultural held also by the Raleigh News and Ob- | relief is likely to imperil relief in any server and Canton Daily News. The[form. * * * Without entering into Houston Chronicle declares that “for a | the merits or demerits of any particular hundred years Southern agriculture has | plan for agricultural relief, it was clear~ been taxed to pay for industrial devel- | Iy the duty of the President to take the opment in other sections.” helm in this situation. * * * One is “The same Senators and Representa- | quite likely to find a different brand of tives who are demanding general leadership from that which was dis- creaces in the tariff to benefit all played by Mr. Coolidge. It is likely to of manufacture in_this_countr be more vigorous and expressive.” the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, o most vociferous in opposing any attempt 2 fs g Ancient Mexican God’s to ‘tax the whole country for the ben- efit of a special class,’ when that spe- = D R Statue Put in Museum BY E. E. FRE stepped to the center of the ¢ the National Capital and is in to hold it for some time.” The cial class is agriculture.” ‘The Philadelphia Record argues: “The Interstate Commerce Commission PH. D. ven, children who | e and, i say- | leclara- | the agricul- | In- ds that “it is evident that farm | *OLICE AREI)EFENDEDE | ; | This is a speelal to she handling of in your _disposal ex " in Washington v capacity that re it r Public A<ked to Give Them, Not Criminals, Sympath f The € r not to shoc i the of s the ques- | minds of a Washington's | at portion ted shot 1d bids as been a nd ct well as m ed. ish to fall in lin I feel confident is of my brother v opi press hat r ROUSe's smoke-screen A thorough | ped to think just how they would if they themselves re chasing a um runner d he were sud- to turin a blinding cloud of foul and gas on them. £ us are prone (o re in the other fello Id have done much better > often underestimate the upon some of s only, ratir 4 seconds p yachis in above ine th s place, | we diffi- rrors afterw: 3 iting_ this I f at T spes hority, due to the fact st rm ¢ nber of the local | force and, 1. T bave ch r at break-neck speed, only | > him turn a smok en loose | \4” me, forcing me to give up the chase, third, T am at present under sen- 1 from the police force | hot a coloted youth in the whom I suspected of having com- mpicd a murder. irness to a policeman, it be admitted that he is confronted i end hazardous task. a certain portion of ssigned to his care. His is for e and metimes a trifle his efforts to protect uphold the law he H who can blame hi . in the heat of a life gle or in a time of great makes a mistake, is he to judged? never lose sight of the here IS a_vast_difference ceman who deliberately { dces some wrong act for a seifish r on and one who accidentaliy com- | mits cne while striving to perform his duty. About two years ago, while assigned for duty to the very section of the city near where the aforementioned killing took place, I was a participant in an le chase of a suspected rum It occurred about 12:30 cne morning shortly after I had left the station house subsequent to my tour of dity. On the night in question I wa: driving a new, or almost new, straig eight, which the property of a friend of mine. I had volunteered to drive one of my brother officers to his in Maryland. We had just got- started and were approaching Penn- | sylvania Avenue Bridge southeast when a large touring car passed us traveling | fast and headed toward town. It was | unmistakably 2 rum runner and loaded at that, so we decided to pursue it. ¥ companion, Bill K——, thought hc zod the driver of the liquor car, | had s ¢ turned and started to overhaul them when they recognized | ?\‘l”i m(bn‘;mn 1:nd immediately put on ' Bhaviley Hobevers Shdthe o Fretty | tained some larvae. It was fruit which driving’ just purred a pieasing song gy | he bad had on hand since March 30. 60 or better, so we began to draw up | He sent that infected fruit by airmail on them. They kept constantly look- |0 the Bureau of Entomology, Wash- ing back, and when we had reached a | ington; it arrived April 10, and the about 30 feet behind them. I|larvae were identified as the dreaded one of them bend over, and | Mediterranean fruit fly, called by sc smoke began. o roi | entists “Ceratitis capitati-Wied.” The exhaust, Almost impre- | “Wied” is in recognition of Wiedeman, gan to smart my eyes and | the entomologist who ifentified and de- e i Pl {seribed it a_century ago. It is a sub- D close to the other car | tropical pest of great importance, but to use it for & guide, but it was|While it has at times invaded the I applicd my brakes, but be- | United States it has never been able I could stop I narrowly missed |to become a serious pest here. However. g a milk truck, In avoiding the | its Tecord in other countries throughout uck I swerved and finally ¢ame | the world is so bad that on the day 1o rest between two houses after jump- | after its identification at the Depart- 1 a I awn, a » i3y o + I then glanced in the little windshield | to Orlando, Fia., for personal inspec- mirror to see if my hair had turned | tion and conference with the | white yet--well, my hair hadn't, but my | thorities. He returned in a few d | face had. 1t was as white as the | scare Congress, and within half an hour proverbial ghost, I turned to Bill to see how he was taking it, and Bill said, ou know when we were crossing that lawn, I hing I hadn't hid my insurance paper under that bunca of papers in the desk. My wife vould never have found it there. I am going to leave it on the mantelpiece from now on.” If the citizens who delight in criticiz- ing the methods of police officers in |€ ol P D e o lits | is under quarantine, but in zones of dif- that smoke screens endanger the lives | ferent degrees guarantine regulations | of pursuing officers and force them into | regarding the transport of fruits and submission, then the rum runners do, | vegetables are enforced by militia. or else théy wouldn't take the trouble |is recognized that the entire fruit crop | and grave risk of using them. You a, g fest assured lh:nut:ry officer who {not only of Florida, but of all the| s ever tried to pursue a rksr Lhruugl‘; Southern States, is endangered. J of those clouds of smoke realize * KK K his life was in danger. | Hawaii was infested i 1910 and the en- Rum runners and their ilk usually | tire fruit crop destroyed, except the Chi- | comprise the worst element in any | pese bananas and the pineapples. which community. ‘They are the old-fash-| are immune to the sting of the fi foned. highwaymen in modern guise. |since the disc he Gulf of Mexico indaries . The Gulf of Mexico ex proximately 1,000 miles Alabama ltar 0 for Pome- | the | the | 5 White, black, b | shaded cable, | parti-colors. {of lemon or other colors mus { In the pari-colo {be_evenly_distr | patches. ~ Breed cle | places animals not in one class, wust be free and_the We must | point that th | between a pe BY PAUL sion_of Florida by the Mediterransan fruit, fiy has not | impressed the general public as it has !the entomologis and Congress. The | fact that it took Congress only half an hour to accept the urgent appeal of Dr. | Marlatt, chief of plant quarantine and control administration, to make avail- | able $4,250,000 cash with which to com- |bat the invasion—a world record in| speed of legislation—is impressive encugh when one contemplates the | usual procrastination of statesmen | Millions to fight a tiny fly! Only a ve! | few of the insects had been discovered. | * ok ok * | It was Saturday evening, April 6— only two weeks ago last Saturday—when J. C. Goodwin, nursery inspector of the state plant board of Florida, was preparing some grapefruit for his sup- 1 the invasion. This_appropriation was more easily available because it was the surplus left over out of a large appropriation origi- | nally made to fight the boll weevil. Hundreds of experts are now on the ground secking to ascertain the e: |of the pest, up to date. All of Flo per and he cut into a fruit which con-| | after his conference with the commit-| tee of the House he got the appropria- | tion of millions with which to combat | 1t! b exists to make rates on transportation, or, in another way of saying it, to fix prices on_the sale of transportation service. But those who believe the Government should use similar meas- | ures to promote the food-producing in- | dustry and insure profits to those en- | gaged in it will have to show sirength | enough to overcome a veto.” | Severely critical are the terms ap- | debenture plan by various Among them are the fol- | Substitute nostrum for the | ioa fee of the rejected M Nary-Haug'n_ bill of last™ session”— | Charleston Evening Post. “Artificial | ald” and ‘“dangerous precedent’—In- diananolis Star. “Fallacious scheme™— Brooklyn Daily Eagle. “Fantastic and impossible economic _theory"—Provi- dence Journal. “Method of trading | stamps from which the actual farmer would get little if any benefit"—Roa- noke World-News. ~ The Louisville Courfer-Journal also assails it as a “nostrum.” “We are glad to see the President de- clare himself on this question 5o promptly and so forcefully,” says the New Bedford Evening Standard, and the Baltimore Sun comments: “We shail not deny the ‘poetic justice in the farmers’ plea, but we are glad, never- theless, that a new evil is not piled on old ones. And, ircidentally, it is diffi- cult to undersiand with what consist- ency Senators who fought for the equal- ation fee on the ground that it wa ssential to prevent overproduc now fight for a bounty whick President shows, if it should would inevitably invite the with no real check upon jt. “President Hoover, in his direct criti- cism of the methods pursued in Con- gress,” asserts the Santa Barbara Daily News, inviting a conflict. But he will have on_his side the mass of the people who desire to see some sort of legislation enacted which has a chance of success.” The Kansas Citv Journal- Post_contends that ‘“President Hoover should not hesitate to use all his pres- tige in an effort to sce that workable legislation is enacted and that obviously | vicious measures are killed in Congres; relieving him of the sad necessity o using his veto. Looking over the situation, the St Louis Times concludes: “Since the agri- cultural depression all sorts of remedics have been offered for the trouble. Some | of these have been sound and others | unsound. Perhaps the position of Presi- dent Hoover—that the solution will not { be found in any one remedy, but in sev eral—is about as sound as any that can be taken.” The Racine Journal-News fears that “a deadlock will result, with no farm relief legislation enacted.” The New Orleans Times-Picayune believes | that if the debenture plan were made a ame evil | | | | and " thej A nearly perfect statue of one of the most remarkable gods ever conceived by human imagination, a heing whose skin was supposed to har like turned-back gloves and whose gap- ing chest was laced together with a piece of rope, has been acquired by the Museum of the American Indian, in New York City. This god is the Xipe Totec, or “flayed one,” divinity of the anclent Aztecs of Mexico. The New York statue, carved from hard voleanic rock and nding nearly a not only one of the ntations of this divinity to survive the idol-breaking zeal of the Spanish missionaries, but it bears the unusual distinction of a date, carved in the Aztec system on the back of the figure. This date itself is remarkable, for it corresponds- to the year 1507 A.D. which was the year in which the ancient American ceremony of kindling anew the sacred fire of the gods was celebrated for what proved to be the last time. Ev the Azte more” civilized predecessors, the Mayas, begin & new calendar period, like (he modern division of time into centuries, One such celebration fell in 1507. By 1559, when the date for the next cel bration had arrived, Mexico was in the hands of the Spaniards and the rule of the Aztec gods was over. The flayed god Xipe Totec was perhaps the cruelest god of any national pantheon. His wor- ship nvolved the slaughter of human victims, whose hearts were first cut out with a stone knife and whose were then completely flayed: counts both for the chest wound tied to- gether with rope and for the glovelik skin hanging from the hands, as may be seen on the image now in New York. ORI S e % When Extra Arm Is Handy. From the Detroit News. It is said a man in Catalonie, Spain, has five arms. We are positive we sat next to this chap once, at a boarding house. R Parachutes for Politicians. From the San Antonio Express, If a parachute cgn land an airplane gently in a 5000-foot drop, perh one can be devised which will do a uch for the defeated political candi- te, Mone vt and Happiness. From the Grand Rapids Press. While money may not make you happy, you can be just as unhappy without it. from his hands | ‘They are primarily unscrupulous and the Very exigencies of their work force them to be desperate. How a person can work up a case of sympathy for the people who earn their living by law breaking and violence is more than I can understan Certainly the Every time a dishonest man flourishes, it is at the expense of some honest | citizen or citizens. Leniency has never been known to act as a deterrent to- ward_crime, but rather the opposite { has been true. We hear an awful lot about the duty fof ay | how often do we hear duty towards the policeman? n that the citizen h: | to consider, necessary one as well. They should respect and obey the policeman always, and do everything in their power to| him in his sworn duty. The| attitude of certain citizens wakes a policeman’s work very unpleas- 1t is an age-old trait of human | e to resent, even if unconsciously, | nstituted authority. We find it easy to symvathizz with some wretch who | finds himself in the toils of justice, and | 1 it is seldom that we stop to think of what consequences would be if he | and his kind were leniently dealt with. The City of Washington owes a great deal to its present police force. This city is one of model cities of the United States, where organized crime is con- cerned. We have very little of it here. Most visitors to this city remark the poli of different officers they en- counter, as well as their willingness to | assist them in every way possible. i The some fourteen hundred or so0 of | us_policemen here in the District of | Columbia make it possible for the other 1 half million inhabitants to sleep tr: quilly every night, secure in the thought | that all is well without. Pcopie loc up each night their shops and banks, some of them containing countle: wealth, end walk unconcernedly awa; knowing that the chances are a thov sand or more to one that they will be safe and sound on their return. Think of the homes, the police force guard, the stores they guard, the banks and the lives they protect as well, and then | think how comparatively little crime | there is. B Let us put away maudlin sympathy for the criminal, keeping: in mind at all times that he is the natural enemy of society. Let us instead transfer this | sympathy to the bereaved relatives of officers who have given their lives in line of duty. Let us further end final- | ly resolve to give our st r liceman toward the cit: of the citizen's h a duty | | | upport to all po- ve proved them- are not entitled to it. | | the O n, but | 1 main- | | Bu and a very important and |F ladd to th | one pair very of the D most rigid inspection of all shipment | even of the immune pineapples nanas, been enforced, and all pos sible steps have been taken to bar the | Hiy | with nding the distance of 2,000 mile: veen California and I danger comes precautions at Atlantic ports, it is surprise that, in spite of inspe has st last got by all quarantine in danger of doing tods ndo disirict, in Florida, in spite of the strictest quarantine, | * % Dr. O. O. Howard, fo er chief of the u of Entomology, e ns two le ways it may have entered. One is that of bootleggers’ v from the | West Indies, The fly is known to in- fest Bermuda. The bootlegeers avoid inspection of all Kinds, for reasons o too obvious. They enter coves streams wh there are no inspectors. If they have now brought in this pe 5. in addition to liquor, it will not ¢ popularit The other way the flies may is by aviation. It Is known that fiying at a height of two miles or 1 have picked up out of the air ins which are {rail and tender, yet are able to fly more than 10,000 feet ove the | h Tt is not that the fruit files have'rid| den in on airplanes, but the fact that | airplanes have demonstrated the pres- nce of frail insects so high up sug- that the fruit fiies may have been driven across the water from th ¢ Ind in som storm or may Ve fiown that high on their own power. | . | So far as known, the pest original came from the . where it corded in 1833, and penetrated ern Africa. It has been found in Buro- pean countries as far north as Paris, and i attacks all fruits and most vegetabies, | with only a few excepted, but it cannot | survive cold or inclement, weather, nor can the female lay eggs except in fruit or vegetables that are ripening or a fully ripe. Then it drills tiny holes through the skin of the fruit and d posits therein many eggs, so small to be almost in ble to the e ! eral flies will deposit their egs same hole, and each female i good from 400 to 800 eggs in he ss than a v are from four to six generation: of flies in early Spring may become the ors of millions before Fall, one pair of parent fiies produc say, 100 the first month, each pair of | 1 produces 100 the next nth- it pos so that | y or unmindful of the blic weifare. R. J. ALLEN, pul . Member Metropolitan Police Force. 5,000, each peir of ch pro- ! ices 100 s third month, 230,000, and 50 on ad out of our Pacific Coast ports, not- | ¥ ‘RS TO QUESTIONS ERIC J. HASKIN. s are placed on of their ratin of the rat- n: State ap affects r of cert fons in the departm ‘Washington. cendants of settl The agrieult % number of cattle. rge was the Medic r Army during the W included ab: 280.000 20,000 were doctors and were 1t ) volunteeres commissioned. Q. Ples Ethiop! something about Iso known contains 350000 square with an estimated population of | 10,000,000. The present ruler is the | Empress Waizeru Zauditu, born in 1876 now acting for the regent. born eptember 27, 1916, Education in this is for the clergy alone. The people” generally are illiterate. Aby: sinia maintains a standing army of CKGROUND OF EVENTS V. COLLINS. while the first, sccond and third gen- | erations continue to give increase as the months pile up. The egg inside of the ripe fruit pro- | duces larvae, and they cause the fruit | to drop off the tree, carrying the larvae | down to the ground, where they leave the fruit and enter the ground. There rvae are transformed into the fiy within four days of batching from the larval state begins to lay more | eggs—provided there is any ripe fruit | within reach. Without ripe fruit, it | cannot lay, but even after six mouths’ deprivation of fruit host for the eggs, as demonstrated in laboratory tests, the old fly will begin laymg immediately if she finds any fruit of proper ripeness, in spite of the fact that, by that time, she may be the ancestor of millions, produced in her gay youth. * | Now therein lies the ki ent conspiracy of the cials to kil |off the pest—perhaps. First, the cggs cannot be laid until there is ripe fruit in which to lay them. So, it is proposed not to permit any fruit to remain on the trees after it has come within a certa: stage of ripeness. Inspectors will en- force the terms of the quarantine very strictly, and heavy penalties will be inflicted on a owner of a tree who range, lemon, peach apple before it is fully ripe, and also tomatoes and certain other vegetable | “pests. | . No fruit or vegetable will be permitted to be shipped out of the guarantined | vegions between May 1 and October 30, | and even after that, all fruit or vege- tables shipped out, without canning, will be subject to rigid inspection. Then if there remain no ripe host fruit on the Florida trees, no eggs can be laid for next year's hatching. * koK K That is not the whole reliance of the pest fighters, however. There are four parasites known to prey on the fruit flies and they are to be imported. The parasites come from Africa and Aus- tralia. Only one of these naturally preys on the particular Mediterranean fruit fly; the other three prefer other v to the pres- | varieties of fruit flies, but are acquiring a taste for the Hawaii “Mediterranean” in The one is called the “Opius Silv,” because he was found 3 restri when that explorer hunted in Africa. ‘The parasites sting the larvae of the fruit fly while the larvae are still in the fruit. The parasite is a species of wasp and is capable of penetrating the thin skin of certain fruits in which the rvae lie. but the wasp sting will not reach its prey in oranges or other thick- i While the parasite will v practically all the Jarvae in a or coffe berry, it is effective to xtent of not more than 30 per cent in oranges. What is wanted is a breed with longer stingers or a parasite which ill destroy the unhatched egg. Also it red that there may develop a pars ite *ad infinitum * * rent that the danger of losses into mi s is faced not alone ow of citrus orchards: it ces all fruits and vegetables, and ay spread as far North as Canada. Though it could not survive a Northern Winte 1t cause serious damage season’s attack, and spread ain from the South each succeeding The losses affect transportation, canning interests and markets through- cut the South especially, but. under the aw of supply and demand. the prices of 11 fruits and vegetables will rise. * % % % Dr. Howard suggests that such insect epid: s account for the mysterious ances of whole taces of peoples es prehistoric, such as the Mayan: of Mexico. Insects ma the bubonic plague and death which devastated iddle Ages. Who that similar insect swarms may caused Pharaoh's distress and the death of his firstborn? Al entomolog! agree with the Prophet Joel that insect pests are a serious menace to mankind. Cried Joel Chat which the palmerworm hath left, hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left, hath the orm eaten; and that which the ¢ m hath left, hath the caterpilla e Awake, ye drunkards end weep; and howl, ail ye drinkers ot up Thus farm relief has been an fssue for east 3,000 years, ard somehow ms to have been always associated v or indirectly with bootleggers, just as suggested by the ancient ento- mologist-prophet and the more modern Dr. Howard. . “Awake, ve drunkards and weep, and howl.” yve ets. Ye are charged with the fruit fly too—from Joel to Jones! Echold! It shall sting ! pyrizht. 1929, by Pa P Roller Skates Might Do. the flic or while a vehicle 8 fect long is useamn or someihing, even used to move a man i foot thick . \7 \