Evening Star Newspaper, May 2, 1929, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, MAY 2, 1929. THE EVENING STAR < With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY........May 2, 1920 THEODORE W. NOYES. ...Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company using i 11th 8o, "84 Pennasivania Ave. New York Office: ast 3 icago Office: Lake Michigan Building. urovean Office, 14 Regent St.. London; Ensland, Rate by Carrier Within the City. he iv-mu urar . 45e per month he wem-s and Sunday Star (when 4 Sun ) 60c per month The lven‘ns ai (when 85¢ per month The Sunday ......5¢ per eopy | Collect o1 e end of each manth Orders ma: by mall or telephone Main 5000, Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Marviand and Virginia. Daily ard Sunday... 1 yr. 31000 1 mo. ghe $4.00; 1 mo. 40c T Sunday Star B h ent in Daily only. 1yr. $600: 1 mo. Sunday only 191 All Other States and Canada. Daily and Sunday..1 yr.$1200: 1 mo. $1 Daily only .. yr., 1800: 1 mo., Bunday only ' ) §5.00; 1 mo., 00 8¢ | 80c ‘Member of the Associated Press. The Associnted Press is exclusively entit] to the use for republication of all news di Patches credited fo it or not otherwise cred- ited in this paper and also the publighed herein Al i #pecial dispatches her — ein are also reserved. Communism's Bloody Trail. It any American has doubts of the determination of Communism to impose the “dictatorship of the proletariat” at all costs, however sanguinary, May day news from Europe ghould clear them up. In Berlin eight persons were killed and seventy-eight were seriously wound- ed as red agitators ran amuck in the streets. In Kovno, capital of Lithuania, a casualty list of slightly smaller di- mensions is recorded. Hungary's prin- cipal citles were turned into armed camps to protect law-abiding citizens from Communist attack. In Paris the police made more than three thousand two hundred arrests of reds bent on trouble-making. In Warsaw police swords and sabers had to be used freely to disperse Communist mobs, with a resultant crop of forty or fifty broken heads. In Moscow and other Soviet- controlled centers in Russia armed| forees numbering many tens of thou- sands paraded behind flaunting banners attesting Communism’s devotion to “world revolution.” Even in our own part of the world—at Mexico City—red May day demonstrations assumed more or less menacing proportions, including assemblage before the American em- bassy. Communism’s annual orgy of blood- shed and riot in Europe synchronized, almost to the day, with a gratifying pronouncement from the Department of State in Washington: “I may say,” said Henry L. Stimson, Secretary of State, in a terse communication to Matthew Woell, vice president of the American Pederation of Labor, “that no change is under contemplation in the policy of this Government with regard to the recognition of the present regime in Russia.” Col. Stimson's terse declaration means that the program of diplomatic boycott of Moscow, instituted in the Wilson ad- ministration and sustained by the Hard- ing and Coolidge administrations, is to be perpetuated by the Hoover adminis- tration. There is, of course, always the open door of possibility that a “change,” not now “under contemplation,” may some day take place. But it will have to be preceded by a change in Moscow before there is any in Washington. High up on the list of conditions precedent to any alteration of American policy is the demand that the Soviet solemnly pledge—and by its continuous works in this country carry out the pledge—that there shall be no san- guinary May days of Communist insti- gation on American soil. To date the red masters of Russia have resolutely vefused to commit themselves to such s compact. It is the sine qua non to American recognition of the Soviet system. o Having had abundant sky experience, Lindbergh turns his attention to terra firma and studies landing fields. The coionel is not only one of the most intrepid of mankind, but also ome of the most versatile. ———r———————— School fraternities cause teachers snxieties that might be avolded if the young brethren would get together and ‘make the association a means of mutual helpfulness in study. ————————— Re-election for a three-year term econfirms a general impression that Dr. |is bound to record that the extraordi- | lines in all directions last year were not ~)are to obliterate the old and m-cn]lod} % | dication it is the Republican and Dem- | turn to Democratic advantage every opening the Hoover administration and the Republican-controlled Seventy-first Congress afford. That is an opposi- tion's privilege. It is the Democratic party’s opportunity. Only superficial students of politics would assume that the G. O. P. tidal wave of 1928 swept the Democratic hosts of the Nation into oblivion. A party that polls fifteen and a half million popular votes out of a grand total of thirty- seven million is down, but not out, even though by the Electoral College system and eighty-seven out of four hundred and forty-four electoral votes. History nary conditions which wrecked party a fair barometer of normal political relativity in the United States. The American system rests as surely the written Constitution. Third-party movements are doomed to impotency under that system. Ever and anon the country hears of “realignments” which great parties. But by every visible in-| ocratic parties which are going to en- dure, though their leaders and funda- mental issues may change. The decision of the Democracy to re- main an embattled organization is a healthy and a welcome devalopm:nt.‘ That it will induce the G. O. P. to watch its step all along the line is a wholesome certainty. —o— Glorious Gardens. During the period from April 29 to May 10 many District of Columbia cars, laden with happily anticipatory pas- sengers, are heading south into adj: cent Virginia. These people are avail- ing themselves of an annual opportunity, becoming yearly better known and more highly appreciated, of seeing famoust and beautiful gardens, the majority of which are closed to the public at all other periods. “Historic Garden Week” is the title given this event by the Garden Club of Virginia, which is the sponsor thereof and which arranges with owners of the many historic mansions and plantations in every section of the Old Dominion for the public to get these instructive and inspiring views. A nominal charge is made to each visitor, proceeds of which are worthily and wisely applied. This year, for example, the Garden Club is co-operating with the Kenmore Asso- clation, pledged to the restoration of Betty Washington's home in Fredericks- burg, and has assumed as its part of the program the re-establishment of the pre-Revolutionary garden of that vener- able mansion. In addition to all these ancient plantings, the best in modern Virginia gardening will also be thrown open to the travelers. In some cases descendants of the original builders still occupy the manor houses; in others the occupants are re- cent purchasers who cherish and main- tain their homes with the same senti- ment that actuated the pioneers. The roster of the names of the old places now being inspected is an' impressive one. Some of them like Monticello, Gunston Hall, Montpelier, Westover, Carter Hall, Appomattox Manor and Oatlands have a nation-wide reputa- tion and & number of veritable na- tional shrines. Included in the list are quaint names—names with an Old it contrived to carry but eight States| on the two-party system as it does on | schools or Chairman Gibson's investigating sub- | committee of the House District com- mittee? If he did none of these things, how is he to know? How can one know anything these days without taking at least one of the steps suggested above? And if his conclusion is arrived at through mere conjecture, should con- jecture ever be made the basis for such a serious charge? But never mind about the postage stamps, Mr. Postmaster General. How about the old pen points in post office pens? What sort of mucilage is used to glue them in? And why, when they were licked, were they also chewed? Answer us that, Mr. Postmaster Gen- eral, about the stamps. e iy Dr. Ballou Is Reappointed. In beginning his fourth term yester- day as Washington's superintendent of Dr. Frank W. Ballou was lauded by the members of the Board of Education for his skill as an admin- istrator, his fair and fearless adher- ence to duty and for the respect that he has won from his fellow educators throughout the country. But the great- est compliment to Dr. Ballou lies in the fact that he has been reappointed for a thir® time, and that there was so little discussion preceding the board's cheice that it could almost have passed as a routine proceeding. Dr. Ballou made passing reference yesterday to the fact that the superintendency of schools in any city is a hazardous position, and the trend of his remarks indicated that he considers the position in Wash- ington extraordinarily so. And so it is.| The superintendent here is an admin- istrative official as well as an educator, and his responsibility is divided between an appointed Board of Education, an appointed Board of Commissioners, a community of voteless citizens and a Congress elected by a constituency that has no direct interest in the public schools of the Capital. Between the cross-fires from these elements he must wither or survive, and it is to the credit of any superintendent that he sur- vives and, surviving, continues to hold the respect and the confidence of those whom he serves. ‘- No great gift of prophecy is needed to foretell that Washington, D. C., the | capital of the world's greatest Nation, will eventually have the world's great- | est airport facilities. The planning may seem slow, because it must be cautious as it looks into a future of magnificent possibilities, as yet only partially de- fined. —————.— ‘There never was a time when a spec- ulative mania was not likely to seize upon the popular imagination. There is no reliable method of restraining people who are bent on making a choice that means sudden wealth or financial suicide. e When President Hoover goes fishing | he probably shares a common experi- | ence. The average man does not go| fishing for the sake of the fish, but | because he wants the solitude that will give him a chance to be quiet and think. | —————— ‘When a resignation is requested, the fact of the matter usually is that it is not “requested,” but demanded. High authority is often most compulsory when it adopts polite formality. o Although he did not go the distance ‘World flavor or reminiscent of some event or characteristic of the long ago. Examples taken at random include En- niscorthy, Violet Banks, Shoal Bay, Brandon, Folly Farm, Morven, Rokeby, Horse-Shoe, Federal Hill, Sabine Hall, Reveille, Frascati, Saratoga. In addi- tion to the gardens of these manor houses, those of taverns, schools and other institutions are hospitably avail- able for inspection. One who has been fortunate enough to walk through, and to see and to smell the fragrance of even one of these ancient tracts can realize the treat in store for those who, embarking on a two or three day tour, will view a dozen or two. Growing within the warm red brick walls cr the clipped box or yew hedges are flowers which Queen Elizabeth ad- mired and which are the descendants of plants whose seeds were brought to the New World by courtiers of the Virgin Queen. Shakespeare loved these Eng- lish flowers and his works abound in allusions to them. The gardens of the Southern Colonies, with their milder temperatures, played a prominent part in the lives of their owners. In many in the recent campaign, John J. Raskob does not hesitate to make it clear that as far as he has gone, he likes politics first rate. ———— None of the manufacturers, however enterprising in producing new models, ventures to advertise a modern smoke screen device as a special inducement. U AR R R T An innocent bystander runs a great deal of risk in rum-running traffic. Now is the time for the prudent citizen to stay home and' play solitaire. —a——— Conferences may be doubtful in their results. Yet one conference after an- other indicates a peace inclination that must eventually be beneflclhl. e It remains for diplomacy to disclose what a long and complicated argument may arise from a little thing like an L O U ——— “Wizard of finance” is a term much less used than formerly. Nevertheless, there are still wizards. et A popular hero is liable to be judged, Prank Ballou is one of the best school | nctances the size of the mansion house | ©VePtUAILLY, by the kind of “ghost writer” superintendents in the history of the | yas necessarily limited because of lack | ©°™P3nY he keeps. District of Columbia. ] Democracy Redivivus. Bix months after the avalanche of No- vember, 1928, the Democratic party is | by way of assembling its shattered rem- nants and returning to the firing line. ‘The advent of May is marked by a full- dress announcement to that effect from Chairman Raskob of the national committee. Choosing Washington as a sounding- board for the proclamation, Mr. Raskob states that new party headquarters will be established and maintained in the National Capital. An executive commit- tee will be intrusted with the conduct of the headquarters and all thereto ap- pertaining. A Democrat from the Eouthwest—W. Jouett Shouse of Mis- souri and Kansas by way of Kentucky— will be chairman of the executive com- mittee, whose other members consist of seasoned warriors like Senators Pat Harrison of Mississippl, Key Pittman of Nevada, Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York and former Senator Peter G. Gerry of Rhode Island. The com- mittee comprises an exceptionally strong cross-section of the youth and militancy of the national minority party, assuring its activities a vitality bound to com- mand the unremitting respect of the Republicans now intrenched in power at Washington. In the British House of Commons the principal minority group is traditionally known as “His Majesty's Loyal Opposi- tion.” One of its distinguished leaders afirmed on an historic occasion that “it 1s the duty of an opposition to oppose.” During the perennial seasons of its consignment to the political wilderness the Democratic party in the United States has never falled to live up to tiie British conception of an opposition’s task. Between the lines of the Raskob- Shouse announcement is plainly to be read & determination to leave no stone untyrned between now and the “off- year” congressional elections of 1930 of means, but in gardening the early settlers could go as far as their taste and their energies permitted. The old garden was the resort of members of the whole household from infancy to old age. Some have disappeared, claimed either by wilderness or by arable lands. In others the glory sur- vives and has even been enhanced by modern wealth and modern methods. Fortunate are those privileged to go among them today and to catch some- thing of the inspiration granted to their ‘happy planners. —————— Fears that freedom of speech may be imperiled are being expressed. So long as the United States Senate continues to assemble fts varied personnel, there will be freedom of speech and plenty of it. e ‘The only possible excuse for permit- | ting & smoke screen device would be a | reasonable explanation as to what was | wanted with it: and that no motor | driver could possibly give, i v ‘Who Cannot Lick a Stamp? 1t is, of course, permissible for a Post- | master General of the United States to |defend the mucilage on his postags stamps. In fact, one cannot but won- der what sort of Postmaster General he would be who deserted the mucilage when the stamps began to fall. But by what authority does the Postmaster General turn around and indict the American people as a Nation that can- not lick a postage stamp? Who licked the Indians? Who licked the British? ‘Who licked the Spaniards? Who licked the Germans? Who licked Sandino? ‘Who cannot lick a pastage stamp? Fie! For shame! Before reaching his conclusion that the Americans can no longer lick & postage stamp, did the Postmaster Gen- eral send out a questionnaire? Did he r—.—s SHOOTING STARS, BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Homely Recipe. When you're kind o’ lonely An’ you're gettin’ sort o’ blue, An’ you think that life is only A great blunder through and through, Don't rely on publications Full o’ philosophic dreams, Or on novels or orations Bullt on soclalistic schemes. If you're threatened with “conniptions” Of a violence intense, Just obtain a few prescriptions From old Doctor Commonsense, He'll advise a little laughter, Just as much as life can spare, To be followed quickly after ‘With some sunshine and fresh air. Autocrat Ignored. Oh, wherefoye yearn for power vast? The umpire’s word is always last; And yet, amid the strife so grim, Nobody says “Hooray” for him. Odious Comparison. The man who always knows it all And tells it with persistence— He is admired by great and small, But only at a distance. For when you strive to make a bluff And show superior knowledge, He brings a store of highbrow stuff Enough to start a college! He doesn’t mean to be unkind. He's really very gentle. ‘With good intentions he'll unwind His vast equipment mental. He doesn't know the wounded pride ‘Which comes in every station, ‘When gems of thought are placed beside The empty imitation. 7 and take back what you said | ‘The art of pleasing! Some people have it, and some haven't it; not always are these who have it the best people, nor those who have it not the worst. There is no phase of life in which motives count so strongly as this, be- cause the intent is the whole thing. Thus many a man who is poor in the art of pleasing will be discovered to be a strictly honest man who has never learned how to be other than he is. We were reminded of this matter the other day, when reading in James Boswell's “Life of Samuel Johnson.” Seeing the fat Oxford edition on a bookshelf, we purchased it, much to the disgust of a f d, who pointed out that for the same money we could get one of the “new biographies” of King Henry VIIL Our_statement that we had never read Boswell's classic left him cold. Neither had he, he said, nor did he ever propose to, He wanted something “peppy,” something modern, he said. One must admit, of course, that James Boswell’s “Life of Samuel John- son” did not come off the presses yes- terday, but that it may still be found in_bookstores alongside the latest “best sellers” speaks wonders for it. There must be something perennially “mod- ern” about a book that can hang on like that. Nearly 150 years! How many of the so-called ‘“new biogra- phies” will last that long? “The Life of Samuel Johnson” is still printed because it stirs thought. A | book which does that is worth printing until the crack of doom, and most probably will be. No reader can pick up Boswell's tour de force without find- |ing on every page statements which make him think, which cause him to reach for an underlining pencil, or to stop reading for.a space, as he thinks over what has been said. In this respect a fine work of biography is entirely different from a great novel. The latter is read through as quickly as possible, so that the sense of narrative, the action, will be heightened, whereas a biography must be tasted &s one goes along. e It was while tasting some of the good things of Boswell and his old friend Johnson that we were struck by a line in Johnson’s memorable letter to Lord Chesterfield. Every one has heard of Lord Chesterfield. Even today over- coats and cigarettes are named after him. He was the personification of courtesy and grace, and yet when Johnson called upon him, hoping to get his favor for his new dictionary, Lord Chesterfield practically snubbed him. When it comes to snubbing, no one can do it quite so well as the ultra- courteous. There are some folks who can thank you in a way to make one fighting mad. ‘When Johnson was about ready to publish his long expected work, the first of its kind, Lord Chesterfield had a change of heart. Evidently he thought 1t would be a good thing to get on the Johnsonian band wagon. So heb wrote several laudatory pre- reviews 8f the new dictionary before he or any one else had seen it, hoping that THIS AND THAT BY CHARPES E. TRACEWELL, Johnson would be flattered and dedi- cate the work to him. But Johrson didn't flatter worth a cent. In a manly letter to the great ‘lord he told him to “go chase him- self,” or words to that effect. “When I had once addressed your Lordship in publick I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had | done all that I could.” And out of the past there rushes a picture of & man with courage enough to reject the condescensions of one who thought that all he had to do was to speak a few kind words and then watch the other roll over and play dead for his benefit. He was mistaken, however, for Samuel Johnson wasn't that sort. Instead, he told Lord Chesterfield | “where to get off,” as the phrase has it—and his lordship got off. * ok % * Johnson left a word, too, for all the | centuries of readers who have, decade | after decade, dipped into Boswell's | book. He pointed out, once and for all, that in the art of pleasing there are two sorts of practitioners. One class | can do it and the other can't, even if | it tries. While the latter class admits | the desirability of pleasing others as a theoretic propositicn, its members are constitutionally averse to putting into practice the true arts of the pleaser. | It is not in their nature to fawn uver those in place and power. If they have to succeed by truckling and bending the knee, they had rather not succeed. | They do not know how to lick any- | body’s boots, they shortly exhaust all | the art of pleasing which they possess, and it wasn't very much to start with. | There is no office in the land where both types are mot found. There are | many degrees of each, from the abject lackey-type of fawner to the man who simply “cultivates” those in power, from the man who doesn’t know how to flat- ter and must let his work speak for him to the man who actually “leans over backwards” in his efforts to pre- serve his ideas of personal integrity. | Here are four men, and you can take your choice. Every executive has to make it. Every worker. more or less fits into one of the four types or their variations. The first man never misses a chance to make himself conspicuous, the second takes advantage of every legitimate opportunity, the third sim- ply minds his own business and refrains from pushing himself in, the fourth tends to be suspicious and difficult to handle. The art of pleasing, indeed! It is & great art, and those who have it nat- urally shall inherit the earth and the good things thereof. So Chicot the Jester managed to please Henri IIT of France and had the honor of being the King's confidant, simply through the art of pleasing, whereas no doubt many an honest subject equally devoted to his majesty never was known to the royal eye and ear. In a co-operative world every one should practice the art of pleasing, but if it should not come natural, never worry, but recall the brave example of old Samuel Johnson, who easily ex- hausted so much of the art as he knew | and so remained himself. It is some- | thing to be one’s self. ‘There seems to be little sympathy in American editorial sanctums for Ger- many’s viewpoint in regard to repara- tion payments. While there is in some places a feeling that reductions must come eventually, most commentators appear convinced that politics and not economics are dictating Germany's demands. Speaking of the position taken by Dr. Schacht, banker, who represented the German government at the confer- ence, the Newark Evening News voices the judgment: “Expectation that pay- ments would be continued through three generations grows weaker every year. Dr. Schacht's request that Ger- many be given greater access to raw materials is by no means new. Many, in fact, have expected something would have to be done in this direction sooner or later, just 2s many people believe territorial changes in Germany's interest will have to come before her status is finally settled. Whether this is another question. If it was the time, it was not the place.” The Evening News concludes: . Schacht has given the impression that he is playing the German Nationalists’ hand, either for their aggrandizement or his own political preferment. If that is the case, republican Germany should he heard from speedily.” The Louisville Courier-Journal also concludes that “each side has been affected by pressure from the various governments. Nationalism made the original claims,” continues that paper, “and nationalism countered with the unacceptable terms. The result is due to the circumstances surrounding the task rather than the actual difficulties of it.” The Hartford Times is con- vinced that “it is not within the realm of possibility that the former allies will consent to rewrite the treaty of Ver- sailles. What the outcome of the effort to agree on reparations may be no one is wise enough to predict. As to the treaty, the issue is closed before it is even opened.” “The experts’ conference was no place at which to open a coffin and call forth that sinister ghost,” declares the New York Herald Tribune, as it analyzes Dr. Schacht’s view; “It is probably that of only a minority of his countrymen. But he was unfortunately put in a position in which he appeared to speak for the whole of the new Germany. Instead, he has spoken for the old Germany, both in manner and matter. The Reich is paying reparations for the sins of Hohenzollernism.” * kK % “He is probably to be pardoned,” says the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel, “for some impatience in seeking the evacua- tion of certain occupied areas in the fatherland, but he was not so smooth 2s he might have been in undertaking to drive an economic bargain by politi- cal methods. Germany been em- barrassed, and settlement of the repa- rations question, not to mention the Komounn of increased good will, has en serfously delayed by an attitude which smacked a little too strongly of pre-war junkerism.” More positive is the New York Eve- ning Post, with the statement that “Dr. Schacht is pursuing the old diplomatic policy of junkerism. He makes his statements,” adds that paper, “so that their real meaning is deducible, but words them so deviously as to feel free seems convenient. him.” The San Bernardino Sun sees “defi- ance of the power of the allies to enforce payment of a larger sum than the Germans are willing to agree to pay,” and asserts: “Obviously it was only a short time until Germany would feel strong enough to endure no longer the heel of a conqueror and dictator on her neck and would seek to throw it off. This was sure to happen long before the term of payments would expire. Apparently it is beginning to happen now.” “One has the right at least to raise the question,” according to the Cleve- land News, “whether moral support is not being accorded Berlin by Moscow, and if it is not the Soviet government which looks with particular delight at Candor is not in Art and Nature. The comic picture cheers our eyes make a survey? Did he appoint a fact- finding commission? Did he consult With quaint contortions, day by day. And yet how we would sympathize and the presidential election of m»w Gep. McCarl, the Buresu of Efclency If anybody grew that wazl.: the failure of negotiations in Paris.” The Philadelphia Record exclaims: “He called for a showdown! And the war will not be over till we have it.” e Charlotte Observer holds that rmany has made & mistake in peace was the time to inject these suggestions | to twist or deny them if such a course | it. Sentiment Opposed to Schacht Generally Noted in U. S. Press |somewhat comparable to the mistake she made in war.” * ko ¥ The San Antonio Express suggests that “Germany may find it difficult to negotiate further loans abroad until it shall reach a better understanding with its creditors.” With a more favorable attitude, the Seattle Daily Times offers the view that “readjustment of reparations is as desirable in the interest of world com- merce and finance as it is essential to the proper progress of Germany as a readmitted member of the world family. And while Germany is not in position to deliver ultimatums and dictate terms on which reparations will be paid, the republic now is far removed from the state of desperation and helplessness in which there was no room for argumen or protest.” The Little Rock Arkansas Democrat comments, “The German stand has been that the Dawes plan provided specifically for guarding against repa- rations payments in excess of Ger- many’s capacity to pay, and it is upon this stand that Germany has centered her claim.” Conditions encountered impel the Topeka Daily Capital to state: “It is seen that indemnification for war is im- cticable. The major part of the losses must be borne even by the vic- tors. Guilt has little to do with the uestion. * * * In the end the raction of their losses that the vic- torious countries will obtain from .Ger- many will probably not be great.” ‘The Fort Worth Record-Telegram asks: “Is it better for the human race to exact a penalty of money by a de- liberate ‘throw back’ to the primeval or to swallow the chagrin of admitting that we are being outwitted? Most evidently the Germans are giving us that question to answer. It will prove to be the most momentous decision of the century.” Emotions As Factor In Stomach Upsets BY E. E. FREE, PH. D. ‘That some individuals may blush or grow pale internally and get indiges- tion, just as there are some who do so externally when they get embarrassed, is suggested by Dr. Walter C. Alvarez, distinguished physician formerly of San PFrancisco but now at the Mayo Clinic, Rachester, Minn,, in a recent communi- cation to the American Medical Asso- clation. Modern ¥medical experience supports, that pleasant or unpleasant emotions may affect the production of gastric juice in the stomach, the normal work- ings of the intestines and many other features of man's digestive system. Not only do anger and fear alter di- gestion, but it is wise for physicians to jwarn their patients, Dr. Alvarez be- J lieves “against eating when absent- minded, mentally upset or greatly fatigued.” “Not infrequently,” he con- tinues, “some article of food gets the blame for an attack of in ion when the trouble was really due to the fact that a large meal was put into a sn?'mlch that was not ready to receive One of the things that make a stomach thus unready or incompetent may be, he suggests, either too much or too little blood in its lining mem- branes, precisely as a pale face has too little of the vital fluld or a blushing face too much. Such changes in the blood supply of the internal organs are known to happen and to be affected, if not controlled, by emotions, just as ordinary blushes are. bably only a relatively few per- sons are sensitive enough to have one of these pale-faced or easy-blushing stomachs, but for those few the altera- tlon of internal blood supply, whether toward too much blood or toward too little, may easily upset the whole di- gestive system, Dr. Alvarez suspects, and especially the mechanism which pre- vents the accumulation of gas. per- gon who often develops a case of gas ous indigestion when mentally upset may be the internal equivalent of the oversensitive schoolgirl who dissolves in blushes whenever her, 1 t | is a great group of Demograts still in Dr. Alvarez says, the time-honored idea | 24Y Politics at Large By G. Gould Lincoln. More business in polities and less poli- tics in business appears to be the slogan of the Democratic organization under the direction of Chairman John J, Ras- kob of General Motors fame. Mr. Ras- kob has just steod sponsor for the de- velopment of a plan which will estab- lish a businesslike Democratic organi- zation in the National Capital, working 365 days in the year, under the direc- tion of Jouett Shouse of Kansas City, former member of the House and for- mer Assistant Secretary of the Treas- ury. Mr. Shouse has an undeniable flair for politics. He may do much to weld the Democrats of the country to- gether. For he has been regular as a clock, a supporter of McAdoo and a suporter of Smith, He was born in Ken- tucky and hails from the Middle West. He labored in the vineyard for Al Smith last year and has hosts of friends in both wings of the party. L ‘There has been a demand for several years that the Democrats step out and maintain a permanent national organi- zation that functions every year and every month in the year. The Republi- cans saw the light some time ago and undertook to carry on a more perma- nent organization, both as a matter of efficiency dnd economy. In the past it had been the practice of both old par- ties to keep up their national organi- zation on a working basis only in the years that presidential elections oc- curred. This meant it was necessary to do over a great deal of work every fourth year. During the last four years there was complaint from many Demo- | H. §. cratic sources because the former chair- man of the Democratic national com- mittee did not branch out and main- taln a headquarters in Washington which could in some measure offset the work which was done by the Republi- can outfit. Mr. Shaver, however, was faced with a deficit of some $300,000 coming from the 1924 campaign and he did not feel the party could make a great outlay with its debts unpaid. Chalrman Raskob, who has been hooked up with big business and per- haps more used to present-day methods, is undismayed by the fact that the Democratic national committee had a debt on its hands of more than $1,- 550,000 at the close of the last cam- palgn. Already he has reduced this debt to $800,000 and expects to lop an- other $300.000 off it in the next two weeks. Within a year he plans to have the Democratic party out of debt, in- stead of dragging along, as it has in the past, from one campaign vear to the next, with a big debt hanging over it. If Mr. Raskob is successful in his present plans, he will have established a new modus vivendi for the Democrats. * K ok K “Business” in this country has been supposed generally in the past to be aligned with the Republican party. Mr. Raskob believes that business can thrive just as well under Democratic leader- ship. He may have a mental reserva- tion that the Democrats must become more businesslike. At any rate, that is what he is seeking to have the Demo- | cratic party do. So. Mr. Raskob would | have business less hide-bound in its affections, more willing to support the Democratic party, or at least to divide between the Republican and Democrat- ie parties. In some quarters, the idea is ad- vanced that Mr. Rasko¥ is gradually to retire from the picture as Democratic chieftain: that as soon as he has paid off the debt, he will ease himself out of the chairmanship of the national committee, leaving perhaps, Mr. Shouse as his successor until a presidential candidate is chosen in 1932 and the candidate picks his own campaign man- | C: to the ancient custom. | Dal ager, according Why it has been considered necessary to shift chairmen at the time of going into political battle is one of the mys- teries. It would occur to many. persons that a chai who had experience oand kneéWw all' the party le: the country-over, would be of great value in the opening of a campaign. * ok ok Mr. Raskob himself, however, has so far given no indication he is to quit the chairmanship, even after he has paid off the debt. There are plenty of Democrats in the South who have urged that he be eliminated, both be- cause he is & wet and because he is the selection of Al Smith for chairman, and they do not like Al Smith. There this country, notwiths g the de- feat which their wet candidate sus- tained last November, who believe that the prohibition question is the ques- tion of the future and will figure promi- nently in the next campaign. They are against prohibition, and they believe that the efforts of the present admin- istration to bring about law enforce- ment will fall. They think the coun- try will turn to them then for a change in the laws. Mr. Raskob is one of the sincerest anti-prohibitionists. ‘When Mr. Raskob announced his plans for a permanent Democratic or- ization in Washington, at a con- erence with newspaper men, he was drawn into a discussion of the condi- tion of business in the country. He said that he believed conditions in the country good. Without entering into any criticlsm of the activities of the Federal Reserve Board, Mr. Raskob said he did not believe there had been an “unhealthy amount of gambling” on the Stock Exchange. He differentiated between “gambling” and what he called legitimate speculation after a study of the prospects of industrial concerns. He predicted this would be a banner year in the manufacture of automobiles in this country. In the last few years, he sald, corporations have listed about five billions of dollars of new securities on the Stock Exchange. That alone would result in a iremendous increase in the trading on the exchange, he said. R i |of Harvard University, who is credited ‘as a pebble dropped into ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. ‘This is a special department devoted solely to the handling of queries. This paper ruu at your disposal the serv- ices of an -extensive organization in ‘Washington to serve you in any ca- pacity that relates to information. This service is free. Failure to make use of it deprives you of benefits to which you are entitled. Your obligation is only 2 cents in coin or stamps inclosed with your inquiry for direct reply. Ad- dress The Evening Star Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, director, ‘Washington, D. C Q. Are girls allowed to play on the Jjunior base ball teams in the American Legion games and junior world series? —G. E. A. Girls were not barred under the rules of the junior world series and pie- | liminary games in 1928, and in at least one city a girl did play on one of the teams which won several games. Under the rules adopted for 1929, girls may | not play. | —_ | Q. In playing cribbage the cards fell in this manner: 4, 5, 3, 6, 2, 4. Does the person who plays the last 4 score| & run?—G. A. T. | A. He scores a run of five. Q. Who is called the “man with a thousand faces"?—J. G. G. A. Lon Chaney, the movie actor, is| given this sobriquet. He is a master of the art of make-up. | Q. How many representatives has| Ireland in the British Parliament?— 'A. The House of Lords consists of 736 members. There are 28 Irish peers. The membership of the House | trol, ‘There of Comnmions is at present 615, are 13 members from Ireland. Q. When was the upright piano first made?—M. P. A In the year 1300 John Isaac Hawkins, an Englishman, living in Philadelphia, Pa., invented the first genuine upright piano and patented it in the United States and England. IQ. évhen was radium discovered? A. This important element was dis- covered by M. and Mme. Curie in 1898. Q. What is meant by a separate es- tate?—H. E. P. A. A separate estate is the real or personal property of a married woman over which her husband has no con- and_which his ereditors cannot attach. In most of the United Staies, this property does not include savings of a wife from money provided by a husband for household expenses. Q. When will the commission for settling Mexican claims meet again? M. G. A. The secretary of ‘the Mexican Claims Commission says that there are two different commissions. The one con- sidering general claims covers all claims between the United States and Mexico from 1868 to 1925 with the exception of Revolutionary ones. This commission is meeting now in Washington and the du- ration of its session is indefinite. The special commission meets to consider only claims arising out of the Revolution and only those of dates between 1910 and 1920. This commission meets in Mexico City and the date of its next meeting has not yet been determined. BACKGROUND OF EVENTS BY PAUL V. COLLINS. ‘The above heading might be changed to fit today's topic so as to make it read “Underground of Events’ for the subject is the declaration of a learned scientist that we are all living on, though not in, a glass house. The in- terior of the earth is made of glass, ac- cording to Dr. Reginald Aldworth Daly by leading scientists of Washington as the foremost geologist of America. He | is reported as declaring to the Seismo- | logical Society of America, in session in | New York, that the very center of the | earth is molten glass contained within a hollow iron ball, which in turn is surrounded by a cover of basalt. Basalt forms the crust of the earth beneath the oceans, but under the continents is granite, which is much lighter than basalt, hence to balance the basalt of the ocean depths the granite must pile up into mountain ranges and conti- nental plateaus some miles higher than the ocean beds. * ¥ Kk ok Sometimes ultra-scientists scorn the inaccuracies of newspaper reporters in telling what the technicians really un- dertook to say. Even the general trend of the report of Dr. Daly’s pronounce- ment of his ‘“glass nouse,” wherein stones are often cast by earthquakes contrary to the human proverb, is de- cidedly loose, for it implies that the glass theory is “news” even to science, whereas it is half » century old in theory, and Dr. Daly’s pronouncement— ancient as the hills to technical science —is challenged by other scientists, ‘whether “from Missouri” or the Geo- physical Laboratory and Coast and Geo- detic Survey, located in the National ital. Besides, it looks as though Dr. himself might claim an alibi, at least as to the “news” of his glass theory. * k¥ % news column described the st's statement as follows: “In_advancing his lanation of what lies below the shallow skin of the earth, long a scientific riddle, Dr. Daly said his theory of a liquid giass interior is based on a study of ‘X-raying the earth’ He suggested that his theory may bring disagreement from some sci- entists who still adhere to the thought | that the earth is ‘a molten ball of fiery | material with only a very thin crust be- tween man and realistic hellfire’ But, | he asserted, it is the most logical ex- | planation that geology can offer.” * ok kX The impression which that language implies is that the scientist has become able to visualize the interior of the earth clear to its center, like “X-raying” a layer of flesh to discover the condition of the bones or of teeth within. Noth- ing quite so lucid as that is possible, of course. All the “visibility” of the sub- stance of the earth is found by meas- | uring the speed of “waves” through the arcs of the globe, when earthquakes send such waves in all directions, just & _pool sends | out its ripples and waves. It is known | that earthquake waves travel at varying | speeds, according to the substance through which they are paSsing, hence the speed indicates what substance lies in the paths. The assumption that any scientist holds such a childish theory of “hell-| fire” beneath a thin shell of earth is nonsense. Science advanced far beyond | such puerility many decades ago. ! B Scientists have not agreed that the core of the globe is “molten” glass re- sembling lava. Until a few years ago scholars of the Geophysical Laboratory accepted Dr. Washington’s theory, based upon density due to gravitational pres- sure of the mass of earth toward the center, that no metal except gold, the heaviest metal could give the mani- festations as were recognized and com- puted. Hence it was assumed that the world was on a “gold standard” literally. ‘That has been disproved by certain ex- Mr. Raskob sought to make clear the difference between stock gambling and speculation. He said that a man who studied, for example, the automobile industry thoroughly, learned what it was doing and what its prospects were for the coming years, and decided to purchase stock in one of the big co cerns he thoufi:c was doing well, per- haps General Motors, was not gambling, but ting. On the other hand, if the man had a “tip” from a friend to motor stock, without knowing an; thing himself about the business and followed the tip, he was gambling. “Mr. kob,” asked Carter Fi: the New York Herald-Tribune, heard that you were buying General Motors stock and bought some myself, would that be speculating?” (Laughter): * * kX Mark W. Woods of Lincoln, Nebr., bank- er and farmer and reported to have been much interested in the pre-convention Republican campaign last year as a friend of former Vice President Charles G. Dawes and Mr. Bowden, takes a slant on the farm surplus problem which is different from that of many of the farm doctors. He holds that a surplus is necessary, an important bit of insur- ance for the consumers. He also believes that the House farm bill, without the debenture plan, will help the farm sit- uation greatly. He says: “While we are considering the farm problem of surplus crops we need to remember the story of Joseph and the seven years of famine, as described in Holy Writ. “Living from hand to mouth appears always to have been a specialty of the Far East. Egypt, Palestine and the countries of Asia Minor, India and China have always lived with the spectre face. d of ‘Ao 3 of famine staring them in the e “It would be the same in Europe and Americs if there were no surpluses car- mfl over as reserves. Suppose that we could control production so nicely that surpluses were not produced and that we consumed each year what was pro- duced. We would then be in the sames ition as the le living in tbe nd-to-mouth countries, . “If this is true a certain surplué is Decessary as insurarte agains) famine, i {:flments made at the Geophysical boratory as to possible pressures of | rock, and today the generally accepted | theory is that the center is solid iron and nickel, with a radius of some 2,000 miles from the center, or a ball of 4,000 miles diameter. The pressure at the center must be at least 50,000,000 pounds per square inch. * ok ok ok In a book by Dr. Daly entitled “Our Mobile Earth,” published less than three years ago, the writer describes the chief inds of rocks in the earth and includes his “glass.” He says: “The most voluminous of all are the | so-called igneous rocks. Granite itself | is an example. Each mass of granite | was once molten. At that time it was | so0 hot that no crystals could form. The | glass cooled: crystals began to form | and_interlock each other. Finally. the | whole became converted into a mass of interlocking crystals. which was so firmly knit together that the weak, hot, glassy liquid was all converted into a strong, cold. crystalline rock * * * When still more This is in the case of wheat somewhere | around 500,000,000 bushels of 3,500,- 000,000 world production, counting Rus- sia out for the present, “That reserve is not carried in the| interest of the producer as such, but| in the interest of the wheat centers of the world. “Some plan should be devised by which it can be carried so as not to injure the man who produces it. That is one sound reason why we step in as a nation ‘and enact measures to enable the farmers’ organizations to carry this surplus with as little damage to the price of the balance of their crop as is possible. “I believe that the legislation that has been passed by the House of Representatives is a long step in this direction. It leaves the business of agriculture where it belongs—in the hands and under the control of the farmers. It provides for carrying over and disposing of surpluses without so monest of all lavas, is like granite in crystallizing completely. * * * “Naturel glass, like artificial glass, is also rigid and strong at ordinary tem- peratures; it is a fluid at high tem- peratures and at low pressures. Un- crystallized, hot rock, therefore, flows under its own weight.” The writer then describes sedimentary and metamorphic rocks, both made from the original “molten glass,” whi first, by crystallization, formed the orig- inal granite and basalt. Then he states the principle known as “isostasy”—the theory that a section of the ocean bot- tom, plus the water above it, if ex- tended to the center of the earth, weighs almost exactly the same as an equal section of the continent, whether mountain or plain, also extended to the center, for otherwise, if one part were out of balance with the other, the force of gravity would tend to cause a flow of the excess until it balanced. That is isostasy., and the most outstanding authority in America on isostasy is Dr. Willlam Bowie of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, and he differs from the argument of Dr. Daly that in order to float, the ite and basalt must be moiten to mfl Dr. Bowie points to the fact that “solids” may float or bend under long-continued greuures when they would snap and reak if the pressure were &rnt enough to overcome rigidity quickly. Hence, “solids” do run re of heat. For example, take a barrel of tar in Mid- winter, remove the staves and the tar, bel cold, will stand up, solid as a granite rock, but even if the tempe: ture is below zero and remains so, in a day or two that tar will flatten out and run. Take a stick of sealing wax; it can't be bent suddenly, but lay each end on a support, with no support in the mid- dle, and in a day or two it will be fou curved by gravity. So it is not nece: sary to agree with Dr. Daly that the basalt or granite must be molten in or- der to flow, * ok k% Dr. Bowle, in & pamphlet entitled “Possible Origin of Oceans and Ccn- | tinents,” says: “There are many speculations as to how the granites were collected into separate units, forming continents, but the one that appeals to me most, be- cause it does not violate the principle of isostasy, is that advanced by Osmond Fisher in his book entitled ‘Physics of the Earth,’ which was published about 40 years ago. Fisher suggested that Darwin's hypothesis that the moon had broken away from the earth, due to tidal action, reinforced, perhaps, by bodily oscillations of the earth, has much to commend it. Darwin's idea was that the moon was detached from the earth while the earth’s matgrad was still molten. Fisher suggested that the dis- ruption, if it occurred, was after the outer shell of the earth had solidified. “The disruption might have occurred, according to Fisher, either as a result of a tidal force or as the result of an explosion. In any event, should there have been a disruption, the material which went off would have been the outer portion of the earth, which, of course, would have been the lighter ma- terial, or what we call granite. The re- mainder of the granite shell would have been torn to pieces, leaving blocks more or less widely separated. The large blocks would be what we call continents and the smaller fragments the oceanic islands, such as Antarctica, Madagascar, New Zealand, Australia and many others of less magnitude. “The wounds made on the earth by the loss of the granitic material would have been healed by the upwelling of subcrustal, basaltic material. The basalts, being denser than the granites, would not have to rise to as great a height as the granite masses dis- placed. * * ¢ “All of this seems to be corroborative evidence in favor of the hypothesis of Osmond Fisher, but we have some other | evidence which seems to support it. This is that the density of the moon, 3.3, is Just about the density of the other por- tion of the earth down to a depth of about 60 miles. The volume of the moon is approximately the volume of the outer shell of the earth now covered by the oceans, extending to a depth of 30 or 40 miles.” * Kk K ok Ah, ha! So the Man in the Moon has been found out! He stole our “outer shell” éxtending over all that is now our oceans. According to Dr. Daly, we live on a glass house and dare not stone the thief, but it is a satisfaction to have traced the loot. Shell out, Mr. Moon! You robber behind a smoke screen like a bootlegger! What a catastrophe that must have been when the surface of the earth, equal to all that is now oceans— five-sevenths of the entire surface—was ripped off and sent flying through space! Peeled! Where is the writer who can ple- ture such an earthquake, or where the novelist who can imagine a family of human refugees carried off on that dis- rupted mass of land to take up their new abode in the moon and pecple that new world? Tell us not that Adem and Eve had not then been created. Who knows how many humans, or pre-humans, and how ~ many monsters—great sal manders of our cooling earth—were carried off in that cataclysm and are to this day building cities and mighty works or crawling as salamanders— “looney now”—on the opposite side of the moon, never daring to face the home of their earth! ancestors? Noah was a piker in comparison; the flood was but an April shower. However, these highbrows of science tell us that the world has sown its wild oats and is slowing down, so that it takes half an hour T to make one diurnal revolution on its axis than it did as a flapper, 160,000,000 years At that rate, we are going to stop giddy whirl entirely, in only 24 times 320,000,000 more years, and just stare the moon out of countenance, motion- seriously affecting the price of the part of the crop ufied for current needs. It offers no subsidy, direct or indirect. doing this we are only treating the producer fairly and looking after the Peas of the ggnsumer,” ] A less and haughty, or like a ship at a’ chor in the sea of space. Now let Mr. Einstein go on with his story; we “will swallow anything. (Copyright, 1929, by Paul V, Collin:.)