Evening Star Newspaper, May 5, 1929, Page 30

o D e S D R THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €. MAY 5. 1920 -PART 9 THE EV o _With Sunday Morning Edition. __ WASHINGTON, D. C. SUNDAY. THEODORE W. NOYES. ...Editor May 5, 1929i | and Geodetic Burvey out of the Gov- | ernment-owned buildings on this site | The other parcel of land, just west across South Capitol street, 15 practi- cally aill vacant land, which the Gov- | ernment desires to ecquire now for | future expansion and to prevent the EX‘L\‘G STAR ’Public Health Bureau and the Coast ! of these great and lasting edifices, Cer- tainly most persons are 'interested in the identity of the designer of & beau- tiful building and certainly most per- sons are excusably vague on the subject. In this connection it may be said that, if such a custom obtains, the per- petrators of some of the public strue- The Evening_Star Newspaper Company | Drice being raised by the Government's tures which, situated in the National ‘Business OfMice. A1th St. and Pennsylvania Av New York Office: 110 East 42nd 8t Chicago Office: Lake Michigan Building. Euronean Office: 14 Rerent St.. London, England. Rate by Carrier Within the City. e Evenin: Star 45¢ per month e Evceing and Sundey Star (whea 4 Sundars) The Evening and Sunday Star days) 85c per month Star 5c per cops n made at the end of each mantii sent in by mail or telephone . B8 i + 50c 1 $400: 1 ma. 40c All Oth and fer States and Canada. 1531700 1 mo yr. :8.00: 1 5T, $3.00. 1 mo. 100 3¢ s0c NIV v il ay only L1001 Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled 10 the use for republication of all news Datches credited to it or not otherwise cred. ited in this paper and also the local niws publiched hersin All rights of publicatinn ef | own building operations. i l The architect of the Capitol, David | | Lynn, has invited the private property | owners in these two parcels to make { offers of prices for which they would ! rell to the Government. The total ack- appropriation. The average of the ask- | | iz~ »nrice in both squares is 147'z per | | eent -ove assessed valuation. | | Ti- £900,000 appropriation was based an architect’s name, but also the chis- | on estimates 65 per cent above the as- | sessed valuation on all the property in | both parcels. The highest price asked | ! was on a piece of vacant land and was | | 407 per cent above pscessed valuation. | | Another property owner asked 144 per | cent above assessed valuation. The low- | | est asking price was on an individual | parcel and was 115 per cent zhove as- | sessed valuation. ! The House Office Building Commis- Capital, are local and national eyesores may be thankful that the idea was not pushed in the past. A poor book is soon forgotten; a poor picture is seen} . 50, F0S ipon that which concerns | by comparatively few or can be removed from sight or destroyed, but a poor 80c per month | ing price is $443.952 above the $900,000 \building usually remains for long a prominent horrible example. In New York here and there one finds a corner stone bearing not only eled sign-manual of the building con- cern. That idea, too, has its good points, for the skilled builder's honor is only less in degree than the archi- tect's. When it comes to adding the name and title of the Government of- ficial most directly responsible for the erection of a Federal or municipal structure, it is probable that with the example of the War Risk Building and the prominent name of William Gibbs #pecial dispatches herein are also reseried. | gion has decided that some of these | McAdoo in mind, opinion will be di- e Alexandria's Victory. Alexandria has won the right to ex-! . tend its boundaries into the adjoining counties of Arlington and Fairfax and * to assume jurisdiction over fifteen hun- dred acres, tax revenue from which has previously gone into the treasuries of these two counties. which loses through the decision the greater part of the territory involved, including the revenue-producing Po- tomac freight yards, is hardest hit. One immediate effect of the decision, pro- vided it is upheld by the courts to which an appeal may be carried, will be that about ninety thousand dollars in taxes from the freight yards, which, in turn, required little from the county in the way of improvement, will now be lost to the county and gained by the munieipality. Naturally, there is keen disappointment felt in Arlington County and great rejoicing in the city of Alex- andria. As the matter was studied by a !Y""i clally appointed court. which under Vir- "ginla laws sits on the appeal of a city to extend its boundaries into adjoining counties, disinterested parties are left without ground either to praise or con- .demn the court's decision. Alexandria’s contention was that county boundary »lines left it no room for further expan .slon. With Fairfax only passively in- terested, Arlington fought the case strenuously, contending that the county _was becoming thickly populated and already beginning to assume some of the physical characteristics of a city. ‘The county sought to show that Alex- ,andria’s fight was aimed more at ob- taining the railroad yards than to ex- pand.- How, it was asked, could the city expand into the railroad yards? The decision probably will be ap- pealed, but precedent favors Alexandria. Arlington County taxpayers are now woridering’ whether they will be called upon, through an increased county tax rate, to make up the deficit incurred through loss of the freight yard tax revenue, which formerly has been ap- portioned. equally to the three districts of -Arlington, Jeffersén and Washing- .ton. Some revenue will probably accrue to the eoiinty'as indemnity for the loss of improvements put in the disputed territory at the county’s expense. But the interesting problem now re- “lates to the future of Aflington County, ! the smallest county, by the way, in the | United States. A few years ago the| county sought an enabling act from the | State Legislature authorizing the voters| in the county to decide upon the ques- tion of incorporation as a municipality. .The enabling act was defeated. Alex-! "andria fought it hard. Will the attempt | now be repeated? Incorporated, thei‘ ,county would have the benefits of a +more firmly knit system of government than the -existing loose and mmewhltl “archaic form of county administration. | Likewise, there would probably be more | expense and higher taxes. But higher| _taxes are apparently in prospect no| matter what the county does. Regardless of where one's sympntmesi’ may lie, the deeision in this case merely | ,reflects the march of progress. County | :lines and county governments every- | where are rapidly losing their sig-| nificance. Washington can wish for its| neighbor, Alexandria, success and pros- | perity in its new and larger field of op- portunity; for Arlington County there is the hope that what may seem now | ~as 8 setback will eventually prove a blessing in disguise, and, united in a| common effort, the people of the county | will quicken their progress through friendly, but keen, competition with the new City of Alexandria. The la t job Al Smith ever under- | took was that of reforming Tammany. " Fears are already entertained that t old “wigwam” 15 on the verge of a +backslide. ———— New House Offi~e Building. One of the long-contemplated and most important d-velopment projects in the vicinity of the Capitol is being delayed and the entire improvement “imperiled by the action of certain prop- erty owners, who are asking high prices | for the land which the Government de- | taires as a site for the new House Office | Bullding. - With funds available to acquire this| land and to start work at once on this structure, badiy needed so that mem- | bers of the House may efficiently per-| form their duties as national legislators, it would be most regrettable were this | project unduly delaved. By act of Congress $7.500,000 has been authorized for construction of the | building on the land between Squth| Capitol street and New Jersey avenue, B and C streets southeast. and $900,000 | suthorized for acquisition of all pri- vately owned Jand in the two parcels | to the east and west of South Capitol street between Delaware and New Jer- sey avenues, B and C streets. In the deficiency appropriation bill $2,100,000 was appropriated, of which §900,000 is for acquisition of this land. So that the funds are immediately available. The Government already owns about two-thirds of the land in the site be- twesn South Capital strest and New - Jersey avenue on which it is proposed to build now, and the greater part of Arlington County, | | cars ‘of bootleggers. The longer and asking prices are extortionate, especially | since condemnation awards are invari- | ably less than 100 per cent above the | | assessed value. They point out that in | the desirable property recently uquh'odi {for a site for the Supreme Court be-: tween East Capitol street and Maryland | avenue and between First and Second | streets northeast (one of the most m- | | portant parcels of which the Women's Party desired to hold for historic in- | terest). the condemnation uward was | | only 100 per cent. The architect of the Capitol has been {instructed to continue his negotiations | with the private property owners. ! The proposed important building de- velopment should not be unduly de- 1layed by excessive demands. The pub- | lic interest demands that an agreement | should be reached as soon as possible or the matter be turned in to the De- | partment of Justice for condermation | proceedings. e —— Rum-Running Casualtics. Analysis of Maj. Pratt's #cport to | | Representative Simmons on the number | |of casualties and deaths suffered by | police or innocent eivilians during th ;I‘lr on rum runners is interesting for its emrhasis upon the automobile as| the most dangerous weapon. Bullets | i.nd smoke screens have played a rela- | tively minor part in causing death or |injury, And while the nature of Mr. {Simmons’ request for information did | {not call for a comparison between the | | number of law officers or innocent by- | | standers and the number of bootleggers or suspected bootleggers killed or in- |jured in the battles, the report does | show that the lawbreaker is not always the one who pays the penalty for law i.enhrcemem. | Of the four deaths cited in the re- | port, a bullet from a revolver held by a | bootlegger caused one, the victim being | | policeman on his way to investigate |a complaint against his assailant. The | | three other deaths were caused by auto- %mcbtle collisions, rum runners trytnl‘ fo escape pursuing .officers, crashing into the cars or persons of those in no way involved in the chase. Of lhel thirteen police injured, nine of them were hurt in automobile actidents: two of them fell down while chasing suspects on foot and two of them were injured by the effects of smoke screen. All of the five “innocent bystanders” mentioned in the report were injured in automobile accidents caused by boot- | legger cars trying to escape pursuing | policemen. ’ If the complaint against the police- man who fired and accidentally killed | a rum runner is based on the conten- | tion that the bullets endangered the lives of innocent bystanders, the com- plaint would logically hold even [l'!lur‘) weight against the policemen who pur- sue, without shooting, the suspected more speedy the chase the greater chance of injury to the policeman or the innocent citizen who unfortunately gets in the way. And if the police are not to pursue the fleeing cars of crim- inals, or suspected criminals, the sooner that fact becomes known the better. There will be less danger of injury either to citizens, police officers or boot- leggers. There is always tragedy in death and injury. - There was tragedy in the death of the one hundred and sixty-seven | persons killed in the last two years in automobile accidents in the District, and there was tragedy in the injury to | five thousand four hundred and fifty | persons in the same period and from the same cause. The tragedy was more poignant by reason of the fact that many of those who suffered were in no way to blame, But those who countenance defiance of law on the grounds that enforcement of the law threatens death and injury | to innocent persons could more reason- | ably argue against the use of the auto- mobile on the same ground. Preserva- | tion of the law is more valuable than the automobile in a country whose citizens make, and may lawfully repeal, their own laws. | ——— i Attention still turns to expressions from ex-President Coolidge, although “I do not choose” is a phrase naturally fraught with more immediate interest than “T did not choos: e On Signing a Building. Signatures of designing architects on buildings has been recommended by a prominent member of the American Institute of Architects, whose annual convention was recently held in Wash- ington. Paintings are signed by artists and books by authors—unless a nom | de plume be used or some good reason for secrecy exists—and this architect, sees no reason why the man or the| firm designing a beautiful and impres- | sive structure of brick, marble or other | material should not with propriety and all due modesty attach a signature | thereto. | Work has already begun in the Na-' tional Capital on an elaborate and| monumental Federal building program, results of which, if not constructed for the ages, at least should certainly last for centuries. These structures will all be highly impressive and architecturally | handsome. It might be well if this| the remainder is occupied by two hotels. point, recently brought up, should be vided. e Hold Alarm in Leash. The ways and means committee is in the final throes over the new tariff bill, which is to be reported on Mon- day. Alarming stories are started by par- ticular interests. American industry is nervous. Whatever affects large indus- trial establishments affects very direct- Iv the working people. Wild yumors and half truths can do a great deal of damage on the stock market. Republican members of the ways and means commjttee have been much dis- turbed because some of their colleagues have endeavored to intimidate special- ists from the Federal Tariff Commis- sion who have been making studies for the House committee in an effort to get better rates and advance informa- tion for industries in their districts. This condition always exists when a new tariff bill is coming out. There is too much nervousness and too great a rush to get “tips,” which are usually found to be worse than worthless. The history of tariff legislation has invari- bly been that the bill was never as bad as it had been painted in advance, and that while certain industries got much lower rates than they had asked for, they usually asked for more than was fair and more than they expected to get. The net result has been that after the bill went into effect conditions were better than had been forecast. Now is the time when sensible men. will hold their alarm in leash. e Uncle Sam has plenty of business of his own. A part of that business has come to relate to enterprises and ideas promoted abroad with a view to inter- esting him in outside affairs. A diplo- mat is expected to know how to draw the line between a dignified reserve and entire isolation. - A number of Maryland police are commanded to take off weight. The increasing traffic complications should make this easy if there is anything in the theory that worry makes people thin, —_— e As an expert lyricist himself, Mayor Walker as town boss may yet find a way to bring some of the “tin pan alley” poetry to terms of reasonable prosperity. ——— ‘Withdrawal of “freedom of the port” privilege is likely to bring pathetig in- quiry from old-timers as to whether we are nearing a system where there will never be any more perquisites. ————— An accurate Congressional Record may have to concentrate on the bracketed word “Applause” and make known a vote to show just who ap- plauded and who did not. ————— Inquiry concerning the ill-fated Ves- tris indicates some overloaded con- sciences that needed unburdening long since. ——————— In Berlin the “Queen of the May” had to run to cover to escape stray bullets. e e In any discussion looking to disarma- ment, the supplementary question, “If s0, how much?” always intrudes. —————— ‘The farmer is not reported well sat- isfled by the large crop of interesting speeches he has succeeded in producing. R — SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Impenitence. It's kinder awful when I think Of hours I've fooled away, A-lingerin’ on the river's brink To watch the ripples play; A-watchin’ silvery clouds that float Acrost the crystal sky, Or stoppin’ by the hour to note The dancin’ butterfiies! I might have been a-savin' coin An’ pilin’ bricks on stone, An’ findin’ easy folks to join Their money with my own; An’ yet, whene'er I think of it, My heart grows warm an’ gay. T somehow don't begrudge a bit ‘The hours I've fooled awa Delayed. Bpring is an exposition great That's offered every year. It's frequently a little late, But all right when it's here. A Disappearance. Miss Spring, she come a-smilin’, But de Northwind was so cross Her Sunday clo'es was all mussed up An’ some o’ dem got los'! He holler at her all day long, She jes’ s down to cry; Her bonnet ....s' blowed off her head An' de trimmin’s all awry! We've missed her sadly, but she ain't To blame foh what she did. he got so scart an’ flustified She went somewhah an’ hid! The Partisan’s Profession, I love the right. With courage & Tl ever battle ‘gainst the wrong. And they are always right, you see, Government is already moving the considered by the authorities in charge Who in thelr vigws agree with me. ame ¢ ' EVERYDAY RELIGION Bishop of “In Him was life; and the life was the light of men” (St. John, 1.6). “Life.” The whole emphasis of the ministry life itself. In all His utterances He emphasizes its transcendence. A few of His striking passages will llustrate this. “The life is more than meat and the | body then raiment.” Again, “A man’s the things which he possesset “I_am come that they might i and that they might have it more | abundantly.” In all these passages He in its fullness and in its | Repeatedly He spea giver of life.” Y of Himself as e declares Himself |10 be its author. “I am the way, the | truth, and the life,” He affirms, and in | His great word to sorrowing women He states, “I am the resurrection and the { life.” " He does mot recognize death or | its power. and invariably He speaks of it as “sleep.” To Him it was only a transition from life to life. ‘““The maid sorrowing mourners. Of Lazarus He declares, “our friend Lazarus sleepeth: 1 go that I may awake him out of his sleep.” To Him life is not meat and drink, satisfaciton, acquisition, or the esteem of men: it is something in- finitely creater, it is fulfillment. He took ignoble men and made them noble, selfish men and made them self- less, impure men and made them pure, weak and vacillating men and made them strong and stable. His whole ef- ifort was to invest life with a new meaning, to give it & new purpose and outlook. He was the discoverer and re- desmer of seemingly lost potentialities, t refiner of base metals. Nothing more precious to Him than life, in His contacts with men He was ever hopeful and expectant. “I am come to seek and to save that which was lost.” this was His unfailing atti- tude. To make men see the infinite ssibilities of life, to give them a right eption of its essential values, to reveal to them powers of which they were apparently uncon- | scious, this He did in all His relations h wa: Al | life consisteth not in the abundance of | [1s not dead but sleepeth,” He says to| BY THE RIGHT REV. JAMES E. FREEMAN, D. D, LL. D., W ashington with men. Life to Him was the most precious thing in the world. He would | humanity in the building of this great | two months in advance of the opening expand it. enrich it, enoble it, make Nation, and adequate to accommodate | of the first camp. While this does not life present and life to come a complete and unbroken whole. Our poor and - much in terms of the limitations and restrictions of life, We emphasize too largely the disciplines rather than the privileges of our Christian faith. We ck the breadth of His vision and charity in dealing with those whose lives have suffered serious impairment through frailty, or loss of confidence in the outworking of its plan. We fail to see the relation that life here bears to that future which stretches on beyond | the grave. We siill unduly magnify | the power of dcath. His whole | conception was that life present | was but a preparat.cn for life future To fulfill the highest purposes of bein | to be conscious of the deep and deat] |less values of Ilife, to live today with | the clear vision of its relation to to- | morrow, this was to approximate the | highest " ideal of being. not so much a fact as a possibility. }uum Christ's conception; et. who declared, “Man is eternt | becoming,” had a like perception. The thing we witness in men is their failure to discover their own ties. To their limited vision ife is largely meat and drink, a little success, a few rewards, the gratification desire, and nothing more. When |once a man holds the deep conviction | that what he is now, what he makes of himself now, has a bearing upon his | future, it chan, his whole outlook as well as his whole habit. We cannot think of those great qualities that have distinguished men and women who have enriched the world with their geniu: as suffering eclipse or cessation. We | often speak of them as “‘the immortals. | No more can we think of those, who, in a lesser sphere, have cultivated the | rich qualities and gifts of life, as ceas- |ing to be. The interpretation of life, which we have of Christ as expressed f | in the words of the text, is, “In Him was life; and the life was the light of men.” ) Eugene Meyer’s BY WILLIAM HARD. ‘The most human situation in Wash- ington at this week end is the one that revolves about Eugene Meyer. Mr. Meyer’s resignation from the managing headship of the Federal Farm Loan Board opens up the whole subject of Federal farm relief and Federal farm finance from the standpoint of the personal character and personal capac- ity of the men available to the Fed- eral Government for such tesks. The Federal Government presently, under the new farm relief bill, will be seeking men qualified to inister financing fund of half a billion dol- lars. The qualifications manifestly needed are non-political independence and strength of will, knowledge and vision, sound and suc- cessful financial experience, and a special acquaintance, not with the growing crops. but with the technical processes, national and international, through which crops are marketed. The political pressure, on the other hand, is for the naming of men who are what is called “farm-minded"—a polite term for the description of the mental condition of persons who sym- pathize strongly and sincerely with the farmer on the farm and who can pre- sumably milk & cow without getting kicked by her, but who do not neces- sarily any acquaintance whate soever with the successful and profit- .l‘:l: marketing of milk or of anything else. Problem Delicate and Difficult. ‘The problem thus brought before the President is perhaps as delicate and difficult as any that he will face in his whole presidential career. The de- arture of Eugene Meyer from public ':’Ie“flval a dramatic and ironic point For two years Mr. Meyer has been engaged in eliminating from our Federal Farm Loan system the inefficiencies and the delinquencies created and per- mitted there by a merely “farm-minded" ‘ederal Farm Loan Board. When Mr. Meyer and his associates, Mr. Floyd R. Harrison and Mr. George R. Cooksey, were put into the board by President Coolidge to reform and reno- vate it, they were instantly attacked by “friends of the farmer” in the Senate. The board, in the view of these Sen- ators, was and should be a “farm- institution. Job is to super banks—Federal land banks, joint stock land banks, Federal intermediate credit banks. It seemed a scandal to certain Senators that ‘money-minded” men should be ap- ointed to manage the Government's terest in banks when those banks were lending money to farmers. Actually Gets Money Back. It was even urged against Mr. Meyer that in lending money for agricultural &lrpflul. as managing director of the ar Finance Carporation, he so lent it as actually to get it back—and with interest. The charge was well grounded. Mr. Meyer, as managing director of the War Finance Corporation, lent some $500,000,000 of Federal money. Through lending it he so stabllized the market- ing of numerous agricultural commod- ities as to raise their price leveis from abnormal depression to a considerably closer correspondence with the price levels of cammodities in general. "The sudacity, and at the same time the adroitness and sureness, of his methods won commendation then which today, when th2 circumstances are obscured by time, seems extravagant. Carl Wil- liams, editor of the Oklahoma Farmer Stockman, speaking as the president of the American Cotton Growers' Ex- chndn[e, with 200,000 farmer members, said: “The War Finance Corporation, under the direction of Eugene Meyer, through its financiel aid to co-operative marketing associations and its assist- ance to country banks in agricultural communities, has performed, in my judgment, the greatest single service ever rendered to the American people by any administrative division of the Government.” Mr. Meyer rendered that service, however, in a manner which certain that of a “Shy- Lending $500,000,000 out of the the United States Treasury $500,000,000 and also some $50,000,000 more as in- terest on the taxpayers’ money. It was accordingly gravely feared that such a man would Introduce “mo principles into the operations of the Federal Farm Loan Board. Fears Painfuiiy Justified. The fears have been painfully justified. Senators have found that no amount of political influence could keep their inefficient political friends in the Federal Farm Loan Bureau under the Meyer management. On one classic occasion five United States Senators and several members of the House appeared in the bureau to protect the Job of one incompetent stenographer. He nevertheless was discharged. In two years the whole supervision given by the Federal Farm Loan Board to our 12 Federal land banks, our 50 joint stock land banks and our 12 Federal intermediate credit banks, has been changed from being a prey of politics to being an engine of utterly non- political governmental business, Officers of the banks have been in many instances resplaced. cers have been indicted for crimes. broad economic | Record as Head Of Farm Loan Board Reviewed! ' Some have been convicted and sen- | tenced to the penitentiary. Some have | avoided exposure incompetency—or of worse—by reulgn tion. Stricter ac- counting systems have been introduced. The total of bonds and debentures is- | sued by the banks in our Federal Farm | Loan system and dependent for their | safety upon the honest and effective | management of that system is now in the neighborhood of two billion dollars. A merely “farm-minded” Federal Farm Loan Board, through ignorance and | through slackness, allowed that system to become permeated with corrupt and incompetent dangers not only to the system itself, but to the whole reputa- tion and prospect of Federal financial assistance to agriculture. (Copyrisht, 1920.) B { Origins Row Flares Into Sharp Contests BY HARDEN COLFAX. Unless Congress acts speedily on sus- pension or retention of the national origins clause of the immigration act, nance with His teaching, We think 0 | * t The Scotchman who wrote, “Man fis | of mail carriers who serve members of | it may be necessary to double the force | sta Capital Sidelights | BY WILL P. KENNEDY. Establishment of a real American | | Hall of Fame in the National Capilal. | | specially designed to visualize to future | generations the mien and physical pro- | rtions of the men and women who ave done most for the couniry and all who are found deserving of a place there, is now proposed as an addition to the Federal building program now in rogress. | Not only the Capital builders and | members of both houses of Congress, | | but the country as a whole has enth | slastically welcomed this legislative sug | gestion by Representative George Hols en Tinkham. Republican, of Massachu- | | setts, for a new monumental structure i to replace the present “Statuary Hall” | | in the Capitol, which was the original | Hall of Representatives, and which is aiready overcrowded by 57 statues, con- | tributed by 33 of the 48 States, so that it has long since taken on the appear- ance of a small room packed full of huge bric-a-brac. It 1s contemplated that the Hall of | Fame would be a loadstone to attract | | the attention and fire the ambition and | patriotism of young and old from all| |parts of the country. The Tinkham | resolution calls for a careful study by he 'al commissions who are most ely associated in the develop- ment of the Capital and for early pres- | entation of definite plans to Congress. | He calls the present Statuary Hall the | “storay in the Capitol, | and as a matter of fact there has been considerable discussion for several years as to where a more suitable place could be provided for placing these statues, mindful of the fact that| the States still have a right to con- | tribute 39 more statues in response to | the invitation extended 65 years ago. * ko ¥ By act of July 2, 1864, Congress set | aside the old Hall of Representatives as Statuary Hall and the President was | authorized to invite each of the States to present two statues, either in marble | or bronze, “of men who have been cit- | izens thereof and fllustrious for their historlc renown or from distinguished civic or military services, such as each State shall determine to be worthy of this national commemoration.” statue in 1870, that of Nathanael Greene, and when a resolution was offered in the Senate directing formal acceptance by Congress, it was Mr. Wison of Massachusetts who emphasized that “the law as it now stands is complete in fitself and requires no legislation whatever,” s0 that the absolute right of the States to place 39 additional statues in Statuary Hall is absolute by th> records. It was evidently far from the thoughts | of the legislators at that time that the States would so quickly make their deci- sions and that so many famous men | and women would have been honored | by 1929. In 1889 there were but 18 statues in the hall and in 1895 there | were but 21 in place. The latest to be iunvflled was a particularly impressive | representation of the late Senator Rob- ert M. La Follette of Wisconsin. As a matter of fact, some of the States were hasty and precipitate in making | their _selections, and that time will bring | contests over removing some of these | States to make place for others is shown by the proposal in Boston a few months 8go to remove one of the Massachusetts statues to make way for one of the late Senator Henry Cabot Lodge. Representative Tinkham in explainin, his proposal for a specially constructs Hall of Fame, of adequate size and so arranged as to give each piece of sculp- | ture the best possible setting in which it may be seen by the hundreds of | thousands of patriotic persons who visit the Capital each year, calls attention that the 57 statues already in place so | | crowd the hall “that not only is there | | one complete circle, with no more avail- i able space in the circle, but there are ! two statues back of this circle in a very | bad light, and a second circle has been “It follows that when the remaining Rhode Island presented the first | certain of the outstanding specialized | United States Treasury, he returned to | " | necezsaril; Some offi- | inf the House and Senate. Judging from reports, more than a ton of letters, printed * forms, circulars and petitions bearing on this subject were delivered to Senators alone this week. That not only one sharp contest, but 8 series of them, looms in the Senate over the &mpunl to suspend for anoth- er year the operations of national origins clause appears certain. Although President Hoover, in com- pliance with the law, has issued a proclamation making the national ori- gins clause operative on and after July 1, he has recommended its suspension by legislative act. The fight over a resolution for such sus) jon waxes warm in the Senate, and the House is awaiting its turn for ould the matter come before it. In enacting temporary restrictive im- migration in 1921, Congress based quotas on the proportion of foreign born in the United States according to the | census of 1910, When permanent immi- | gration legislation was passed in 1924, the quotas were based upon the 1890 census proportions and provided that effective July 1, 1927, the basis should be chai to national origins. The effective date was later postponed by later amendment to July 1, 1929, in order to give more time to work up data on national origins. The heart of the national origins clause, and the explanation of what that system of quota immigration means, reads: “The annual quota of any national ity * * * shall be a number which bears the same ratio to 150,000 as the number of inhabitants in continental United States in 1920, having that . national origin * * * bears to the number of inhabitants in continental United States in 1920, but the minimum quota of any nationality shall be 100. ¢ ¢ * National origin shall be ascer- tained by determining as nearly as may be, in respect of each ‘aphical area WINCH ¢ ¢ 'S iy "ig treated as a separate country, ®* * * the number of inhabitants in continental United States in 1920 whose origin by birth or ancestry is attributable to such geo- graphical area.” Congress has the report of the com- mission of experts named to ascertain these national origins, Members of the commission say further time for study might change their conclusions some- what, but that the resultant change in quota figures would be small. The change in quotas July 1, unless Congress intervenes, will be material as to some countries, which may explain some of the agitation over the subject. Under the present arrangement, for ex- ample, an inhabitant of the Irish Free State has nearly 13 times as many chances of obtaining an immigration visa to enter the United States as an inhabitant of England has: under the national_origins quotas as promulgated ih,v the President, this ratio will be re- | duced to four to one. At present, a | German has a better chance than an Englishman to be admitted here as an immigrant; under the national origins quota the German would have one-third or one-fourth the chance of the Briton. Opponents of the national origins clause assert there is much guesswork involved in arriving at fig- ures, particularly in regard to Europe, where approximately one-seventh of the population has changed sovereign- ties since 1918, and that there are other elements of uncertainty as to na- | tional origins, which make the plan un- ight, 1929.) e Poison Coffers Full. From the Adrian Daily Telesram. A Kansas City court tried to give 263 pints of confiscated whisky to a hos- pital, but it was refused. Probably the hospital had a sufficient supply of an- esthetic on hand. it Boiled i From the Nashv A Georgi brimstone hell (Cop: n Banne stor scouts the fire-and- idea, and we would be terested to know what final disposal he'd make of hit-and-run drivers. 39 statues have been received they | would have to be placed so close to- gether that the hall would have the | appearance of a storage' warehouse. This condition in Statuary Hall has been a source of ridicule and contempt for America's lack of dignity and cul- ture for some years. The receipt of the remaining statues yet to come will a3d to this criticism. Statuary Hall nas served its day. It has been a symool with a noble and inspiring sentiment back of it.” * ok ok x Representative Tinkham, who for twoscore years has been an almost con- stant voyageur, visiting as a sudent the countries of the Old World and the far corners of the globe, points out that the old world has more than one pal- ace of fame. There are Pantheons in both Rome and Paris. The word “Pantheon” is Greek, yet Greece had no building specifically dedicated “counterfeit presentments’ mous citizens. What appears to have been the closest approach to such a hall of fame was a “Treasure House,” erected in Delphi by the different states of Greece. Statues of heroes, rulers and distinguished men were placed there as gifts, usually dedicated to Apollo. The Temple to Hera, at Olympia, ac- cording to Representative Tinkham, had somewhat the same function, and clas- sic precedents for halls of fame are not lacking. Even before the days of clas- sic Greece, nations commemoratsd their leaders by placing effigies of them along with their gods in sacred places. The visitors to the Sieges-Allee, in Ber- lin, see a series of statues of Kings and Emperors of the House of Hohenzollern, Southern Germany had its own Hall of Fame. Ludwig I erected the German “Walhalla,” at Regensburg, on the Danube. Great Britain has Westmin- ster Abbey and £t. Paul's, in Londo: “It 15 plain enough with regard to Halls of Fame,” said an article in the Art World 13 years ago, which Rep- resentative Tinkham’s research has dis- closed, “that there is little to see in Europe which can be taken as prece- dent fit for our institution. Prone as our architects and artists generally are to lean hard upon some European orig- inal, no matter how unsuited it may be to our needs, habits and climate, there is nothing in Pantheon's Walhalla for us. One may say that to a sensitive lover of art a visit to the Regensburg paradise for the famous is distinctly depressing, while the Pantheon at Paris is hardly better. “An American building which may serve to recall our departed great must start from a different attitude of mind. Neither royalties, nor men of rank, nor statesmen, nor officers of the Army and Navy can have precedence; ancestry, wealth, race or nationality are equally immaterial. The only general rule for admission to American Halls of Fame will be character. Naturally enough, there will be many mistakes which later generations will have to correct.” * % % % It is to have a careful study made, to design something decidedly new, essen- tially American, that Representative Tinkham suggests an architectural and | landscape design should be prepared for the proposed American National Hall of Fame. He suggests that the National Capital Park and Planning Commission and the Commission of Fine Arts in consultation with other specified Government officials should consider this matter most carefully and make a report to Congress. The individual State is left free to select its candidates for Statuary Hall. The deceased citizens to be thus honored should be illustrious for historic renown or for distinguished civic or military service. The individual State passes upon these qualifications. After the State has made its selection of the rson it desires to honor and the State islature has p: a resolution authorizing the erection of the statue, a commission is usually selected to act as the business representative of the State. This commission selects the rice to be paid, etc., and anges wltfi the architect of the apitol for an exact location for the statue. | e | Again on April 22 Parol Citizens Military Training Camps BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Applications for admission to the, Citizens Military Training Camps for 1929 passed the 100 per cent of possible enrollment figure on April 20 this year, ut a stop to applications, since not Sy applicants are accepted, it does demonstrate an interest in the work of these camps which is highly encouraging to the Department of War. It is a forecast that every training cam| will not only have its full quota of citizen trainees, but that there will be sufficient applicants to allow a careful selection of men for this free Govern- ment camp and training privilege. Just as much effort to stir up interest in the camps will w on between now and camp time as has been put forth in other years, but the early response, considerably greater than in 1928, indi- cates that the country is thoroughly sold on_the Citizens Military Training Camp plan. and that probably the next problem will be to secure authority and funds to hold more camps for more men in 1930. With that thought in| mind. the officers in charge of the camp | program will be glad if the application | list becomes double the possible accep- tances. Some men will be disappointed, but the possibility of training all appli- cants in future years will be greater. The 51 camps to be held this year will provide for 37,500 citizen trainees. Agpl jcation on April 20 totaled 37,918. The Department of War had accepted only 20,670 of these applications, and anticipated at least a total of 50,000 ap- plications from which the 37,500 will be chosen for the camps. It is therefore not too late to apply for the camps, with reasonable prospect of acceptance. Men from 17 to 31 years of age are eligible, and the requirements are simply a desire on the part of the applicant to enjoy a month in camp at Government expense. No obligation to | future military service is involved. ‘The military purpose of the camp is to instruct men in the elements of mili- tary pursuits, with a view to having a | large reserve power of men in the Ni tion at all times who have the basic knowledge suitable to making officers l;ld non-commissioned officers in case war. ‘The civil purposes of the camp In- clude affording opportunity for men to spend a month in healthful surround- ings with excellent physical training, to give practical experience in athletics and the essential: ship, and to inculcate the spirit of co- operative effort, good citizenship, and to mutual respect which comes from camp assoclations. Men are brought together under ideal outdoors conditions, with a reasonable modicum of work and play, | under conditions which enable men from all pursuits in life to get ac-| quainted and broaden their outlook and experience. Camps Vary in Instruction. In two of the nl:\‘: col nm of the Army the applications for year's camps have already reached the full quota expected, and are still coming in. This quota means not the number to be trained, but the number from which selection was expected to be made. These are the 2d Corps Area of New York, New Jersey and Delaware, and the 4th Corps Area of North and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Ala- bama, Tennessee, Mississippi and Louls- fana. The last-named State was the first to have its full quota of applicants. eld, opening Jun 13 at Camp McClellan, Ala.;: Fort Ba: rancas, Fla.; Fort Bragg. N. C: Moultrie, 8. C., and Forts Oglethorp® and Screven, Ga. ‘The camp at Fort Sam Houston, Tex., opens June 14, those st Forts Lewis and Wright, Wash, a few days later and others on later dates in July and early August. All last for one month. are in The military instruction is in a basic course of soldiering, with instruction at different camps in the various btanches s of good sportsman- |ing, of the military service. At 36 camps there will be Infantry courses. Field Artillery instruction will be given at 12 camps, Cavalry courses at nine, Coast Artillery at six and Signal Corps in- struction at four. This diversity of instruction means that, while the number of applications in total is already large. there remains plenty of openings in all branches of instruction, because many of the appli- | cants cannot find places in the line of nstruction wheih they desire. The big gun work of the Coast Artillery, for ex- | ample, is only available at Fort Adams. |R. I; Fort Hancock, N. J.; Fort Mon- |roe, "Va: Fort Barrancas. Fla. and Forts Scott and MacArthur, Calif. | Many men who would like this work. which is valuable as mathematical and engineering training entirely aside from gunnery, cannot afford to iravel to the camps where it is available. Cavaly instruction will be available in every corps area except the second, and Cavalry trainees from that area will be accepted in limited number in camps in the 1st and 3d Areas, at Fort Ethan Allen, Vt., and Fort Myer, Va. Other centers for Cavalry training will be Fort_ Oglethorpe, Ga.; Knox, Ky.; Fort Sheridan, Il. Des Moines, Iowa; Fort Bliss, Tex., and the Presidio of Monterey, Calif. Signal Corps courses will be held at Fort Monmouth, N. J.: Fort Benjamin Harrison, Ind., and Forts Bliss and Sam Houston, Tex. Where to Make Application. Enrollment for the Summer training camps are made through the nine corps headquarters of the Army, which are located as follows: p & 3d Corps, District of 311 st. Paul 4th Co Georgia, | Florida, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippt and Louisiana, Oakland City station, | Atlanta, Ga.; 5th Corps, Indiana, | Ohlo, West Virginia and Kentucky, Fort Hayes, Columbus, Ohio; 6th Corps, Tllinots, Michigan and Wisconsin, 1819 West Pershing road, Chicago, Ill.; 7th Corps, North and South Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri d Arkansas, Army Build- , Omaha, Nebr.;, 8th Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado, New Me: and Arizona, Fort S8am Houston. Tex.: 9th Corps, Washington, Oregon, Idaho. Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada and California, the Presidio. S8an Francisco. Some of the C. M. T. C.'s this vea will be held in conjunction with Reserve Officers’ Training Camps, or with National Guard Training Camps. or both. Regular and Reserve Officers for the instruction work are being designated, and at many of the camps and forts the trainees will 8. Aviation instruction for Reserve &: lots is given at specially designa centers and there continues to be a fmm list of applicants for this, as for regular cadet tral 3 | military and naval. Aside from the fun of camp life and the general benefits derived from the free Government cam| military ex- perts calculate that the free instruc- tion courses at the C. M. T. C.'s would cost about $150 per man for_tuition at private military schools. It does not cost the Army that much directly for instruction, although the whole siderable, and Congre: kept a limit on the number of men who | may be trained annually. The De- partment of War authorities who are in- terested in the growth of these camps that the increasing volume of applications will tend to persuade Congress to allow more and larger camps in future years. Fifty Years Ago In The‘Star Fifty years ago an American horse | was creating a sensation on the Eng- | Success of Parole m{:fl w::ur::‘é“ in England. of several horses hipped to Engl dlal«'hnsegn-nd ship, gland for the rac- ing meeting by Mr. P. lnflghr:. but owing to a series of misfortunes en route the stables were not received with much enthusiasm by the patrons of “the sport of kings.” When, on April 16, Parole won the handicap at New Mar- ket the English pocketbook went flat. le was an easy winner in_the City and Suburban Handi- cap at Epsom. Other laurels were added to Parole's record during the season, but these two victories had set | the racing world agog. N in this country printed det counts of Parole's ligree and on the American turf, while English | sportsmen gasped a bit and switched | from Parole to other favorites and back again before conceding the greatness of the horse from across the sea. The following extracts from British papers appear in The Star of April 28, 1879: “The London Field says: ‘Our Amer- fcan cousins have on the race course fairly taken the backbone out of us. But & few days ago, and almost to a man, we were prepared to bet our bot- tom dollar on England vs. America on the race course, but our bottom dollar would have gone, and now we fain acknowledge that we must concede the priority to the horse from over the sea, for it is more probable that at the pres- ent moment Parole is the best horse on the English turf, except, perhaps, his stable companion and fellow coun- tryman, the Duke of Magenta. “‘It is an extraordinary fact in con- nection with racing that the public will not believe their own eyesight, but prefer to depend upon the words of the man in the street. A few years ago we saw Peut Etre win a race at New Market that appeared to reduce the Cambridgeshire to a certainty. A majority of the public would not hear of his winning: consequently he started at a price. 'We have now a case in point in the victories of the Amer- ican horse Parole. On his New Mar- | ket running it was clear that he repre- | sented almost an even-money chance for the City and Suburban, but still on the morning of the race 5 to 1 could be obtained. So much for public trials. Now, had Peut Etre and Parole, re- spectively, defeated Lilly es and Isonomy in a private spin, the public racing werld would have rushed upon them at any price; therefore we say they will not believe their own eye- sight, but prefer to accept as gospel that which they only hear. Parole secured almost as easy a victory at| Epsom as at New Market. The City and Suburban rumhing so terribly frightened the owners of horses en- gaged for the Metropolitan that only Mr. Bapp could be induced to oppose the American wonder. His representa- tive, Castlereagh, might as well have remained at Middleham for any chance he possessed of clipping the wings of the American fiyer, respecting whom we | must regret that after his first season on the American turf it was found necessary to make him a gelding in consequence of ill temper. It has, how- ever, proved satisfactory, as, instead of being almost impossible to manage, a child could now ride him. He has charming manners and actions that| would cause him to be admired as a lady's hack. When standing still or walking Parole is anything but a beau- ty, but set him going and we have the perfection of motion. His hind legs ro under him in such a that the everage is tremendous; and Parole, contrary to his looks, could doubtless carry very heavy weight. There is & very prevalent impressicn that the New Market Handicap was a stolen r: To this, however, we cannot agree; and record lish This and That By Charles E. Tracewell. One which has always struck us about cal is how decent they are as a general run Of the 24 cats of all sorts and which have come to our home in the past five years, only 2 have been other than thorough gentlemen and ladies. Twenty-two were at all times well mannered and well conducted. They possessed that grave dignity which only animals seem to have, apart from those men who have something animal-like in their countenances. Let us pause long enough to remind the reader that the term “animal-like” is by no means an ical one. The brute creation has many admirable characteristics. Especially in ghynul appearence the so-called dumb crea- tures are striking. Who has not seen some fine man who reminded him of a great shaggy Newfoundland? We have seen a chow dog the exact image of a well known personage. i e ‘The 22 good cats were amazingly de- cent and well behaved, when ’t Was taken into consideration that they were simply the run of the alley. The other 2 were cats evidently without any sort of homes whatever, freehooters of the feline circles. There is a wide dif- ference between out-and-out alley cats and cats which roam the alley. Our 3 bad cats were of the former class. Their paw was raised against every man because their experience had been that way. They accepted food on sus- picion, and would not tolerate a caress because a descending hand, to them, meant only one thin blow. If one were to take the first two dozen dogs that came by into his home, how msn{; times do you suppose he would be bit? If he were to show hos- pitality to the first 24 human beings who passed his door, how many times would he be robbed or insulted? Per- haps the answers to these must depend largely upon one's tem- perament, but he who has had experi- ence with the three of them will prob- ably be willing to admit that he would keep his eve on the men and dogs. The cats are harmless. ol e By harmless we mean, of course, well behaved. Nature seems to have given them a sort of understanding of what mankind demands of them in its homes. ‘We have taken in wandering cats, as the guests of Jack srnu (much to the disgust of that striped fellow), who came in and stretched themselves out as sedately on the living room rug as if it were their own home they were in. Whether kitten or full wn cat, each one of the 22 showed full appre- clation of the hospitality granted. Such investigation as each cat was called upon to make of its surroundings, un- der the mysterious and immutable laws which govern its tribe, was carried on determinedly but modestly. ‘While a most normal and wholesome interest was shown in the good things of the t.ble, no cat jumped up thereon until taught to do so. A nice slice of beefsteak left exposed on the kitchen table is a temptation no cat has a right to resist. Few will. Such a trlnm- sion cannot be counted inst N and will not be by those who under- stand that if they, too, were cats, they would act in precisely the same man- ner. Wherefore we call our cat visitors gentlemen and ladies al ‘The brought beauty and gri with them, and have invariably taken away with them a full stomach and the memory.of sundry pats on the head. We think the exchange is even. to t this t we have seen the Parole st we are less dis] estimation now :xceumg_u