Evening Star Newspaper, May 9, 1929, Page 8

2 THE EVENING STAR WASBSHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY. . THEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor hin the City. vening Star 45¢ per month and Sunday Star undass and 8 Ei] (whea 4 ‘The Evening (when S Eundavs)..... 65¢ per month Bundav S'ar per copr liection made at the end of each month Grgers may be sent in by mall or telenhone Main 5000. ay Star Rate bv Mail—Pavable in Advance. Virginia. onle eilr Sunday only Dajls and Sunday Ir only ndas only 1 Member of the Assoclated Press. valy entitied The reten’ion of the deben in the farm oill b, e S-nate is hal widsly not es a viciory for the farmers. ! but as a blow for President Hoover. ‘Therein lies the socret of the situation 28 it exicted in {h~ SPnate—an open se- eret, s 2 matter of fact. Thirty-five | Democrats voted for debeniure. Msany of th 1d their noses” while they cast their votss. The debenture, a etralght-out subsidy, is In violation of all the principles of the Demoeraiic party. It is economically unsound. Yet | tie perty leaders were able to rally all but four of the entire Democratic mem- ] bership in the Senate to support this, propeszl. This is politics. r good or had poliiics the future If thore were any real J ths ¢ebonture plan being finally enzcted into lew, it is likely that | the votss cast in faver of the plan yes- terday by a number of these Demo- crats would b2 their political death knell. But ihrse Democrats, sseking to embarrass a Repubiican President, did £0 In the hope and knowledge that in | the end debenture would not become | would miss the responsi- | bility for making it a law. | .May 0, 1920 60¢ per month | THE EVENING Gibson in the name of the United |pharmacists' assoclations, appeering be- States will eventually be translated into | fore the House military affairs commit- action. tee, urged the establishment of a phar- Last night in Tondon Charles Evans|macy corps in the Army. They told that Iinghes spoke before the British Pil-|commiitee that sometimes soldiers un- | grims, en route fo his post at The traiced in tne pharmaceutical profes- | Hague as a member of the World Court. | sion had to be intrusted with Alling im- The former Secretary of State becomes portant prascriptions, some of them a judge of the international arbitration |even containing narcotics, and they tribunal of the League in his private | urged passags of leglslation creating the capacity, as the United States has not | needed corps of aceurately trained, men. vet assonted to the court protocol. But|some of them to hold commissioned | Mr. Hughss declared unequivoeally that | rank. This is logical. The work of the he considers it “the highest privilege” [best army surgeon in the world can be of his lifs “to have & here in the labor nullified by a well meaning but igno-| of one of the insiiiutions escential to|rant and untrained pharmacist. ! pence.” His sourd fudgment at The| A day or two ago the American Phar- ! Hague will bs Amerira’s eontribuiion :nfmarflmrl! Ascociation asked President ! the conrt’s achievements. | Hoover for r2cognition, through appoint- |- Verilv, Uncle Sam is pulling a strong ' ment of an eminent pharmacist, to a | [oar in the internationel boat, detached, place on the Chief Executive's law- | automatieally resto | pay which ceased when he was sus- | pended. after a coroner’s jury held him "1 mo. 8sc | isa'ated and unentangled as we are’ enforcement, ves from Mother | In truth, we. too, are doing the world's work. - Officer Rouse's Vindication. The grand jury’s failure to indiet Poiiceman Clyde O. Rouse, who on April | | 24 last shot and killed a suspected rum runner trying to escape through a smoke screen. exonerat < him to duty. TI | for action of the grand jury, will be restored. He loses, through the trans- action, fifty dollers in cash, representing | the premium on the one-thousand-dol- lar bond posted following his holding by | the eoroner’s jury. It is believed that the grand jury's action represents the sentiment of a eommunity that is anxious to support| its Jaw-enforeement officers in the per-| formance of their duty. It would not | be too much to say that Officer Rouse was vindicated, in the minds of the. | community, even before the grand jury | jgnored his case. That he was perform- | ing his duty was clear. That he used| nis pistol, not to kill a man, but to| stop & dangerously sp-eding automobile | using a felonious emoke screen was well | supported by tangible evidence. That the unfortunate death of the young man driving the car was the result of an accident, and not of premeditation on the part of the officer, was obvious. Officer Rouse is restored to duty with public confidence in his fitness to be | an officer unshaken. That confidence Joined With the Democrats in_sup- | port of the debenture plan were thir- | tesn Renublican Senators and °"'i Perme' f bor Senztor frem Minnesota, | Mr. (% _stead. Included in the list of | Republicans who voted in opposition to | the recommendations of the President were Borzh of Idaho, Brookhart of | Tows, Ny~ and Frasier of North Da- | kota and Johnson of California, all of whom supported Mr. Honver during the in him and in his brother officers will remain as long as their exercise of | sound judgment and faithfulness to duty is demonstrated. But sound judg- ment is assential. Officer Ro was not | vindicated because he used a pistol and | killed 2 man. He was vindicated in spite | of the fact that he used a pistol and killed a man. ———- Privacy at the Jail. campaign a rear egs. All of them must | The rule barring newspaper men !mm: have known during that campaign that | the District Jail and prohibiting even | Mr. Hoover would not approve & de- benture plan such as is now written into the Senate farm bill. Ceriainly, all of them knew his opposition before the vote was taken yesterday. It was Sen- ator Borah who prevailed upon Mr. Hoover, during the compaign last Fail, to promise he would call & special ses- sion of the new Congress to deal with the farm problem. The Idaho Senztor was one of the most effective, if not the most effective campaigner for Mr. Hoo- ver in the whole Republican party. Yet Mr. Borah must have known thar Mr. Hoover did not look with approval upon such nostrums as the debenture farm rellef plan. The President may well be puzzled by the attitude of Senator Borah and oth- er Republicans who worked and voted for him last Fall. It may appear to him that he has been attacked in the very house of his friends. That Norris of Nebraska, Blaine and La Follette of ‘Wisconsin should be found now aligned against the President on the first im- portant vote in the Semate since the rew administration took office was to be expected. Norris and Blaine openly supperted Al Smith for President, and La Follette'’s comment, such as it was, could only be considered more pro- Smith than pro-Hoover. A “blow” of the character dealt Mr. Hoover yesterday by the Senate is likely to prove a boomerang. The Senate had s practice of dealing similar “blows” against former President Coolidge, kut it is not on record that Mr. Coolidge lost any support in the country. Rather he gained. If the Senate undertakes to attack Mr. Hoover through the sup- port of debentures, bounties, subsidies, or whet you will, which must he paid at the erpense of the people, with every prospect of increased Federal taxation if they are put into effect, Mr. Hoover need have little to fear. ——— et Disarmament negotiations would be simpler if it were as easy to dispose of a bat‘leship 25 It wss to retire the Mayfower. | —— Doing the World's Work. Absorbed, as we Americans are, in momentous domestic affairs like farm | relisf and tariff revision—to say noth- ing of the base ball and racing seasons, the felonies of ofl millionaires and the folbles of Hollywood—we are prone to| disregard the role we are playing in great events beyond our shores. Never, as a matter of fact, have we enacted a more important part at any | person of importance. time since the World War than at the present hour. It is worthy of narration | their telephone intercourse with officials | there regarding the health, state of | mind or actions of Harry Sinclair is| unfertunate, in that it owes its origin to Mr. Sinclair's presence as a prisoner. If that were not so, the rule, modified to a reasonable degree, might be a good | one. Mawkish curiosity regarding pris- oners is undesirable and should be dis- ccuraged. The jail is run as & penal in- stitution for the incarccration, and pos- sibly the reformation, of human dere- Mcts. It was never built to inspire hu- man interest stories for the newspapers. The rule is now put into effect and enforced because the great public in- terest regarding the jail's most distin- guished prisoner threatened, according to Mr. Wilson’s statement, the routine at the jail. A score or so of newspaper reporters and photographers hanging | around the warden's office and asking questions about what Mr. Sinciair was doing, what he ate for breakfast, how he slept last night and what he said during the process of compounding &, capsule or relling a pill did nothing to | improve the atmosphere and threatened | the equilibrium of the personnel. But that could have been prevented by barring the jail to all but one or two | reporters, selected by their fellows and standing guard against eventualities. The curiosity over Mr. Sincleir's daily dozen would have waned in a day or so. The public would have soon tired of hearing how many cups of coffee he drapk or the number of eggs he ate. And there would have been no sus- picion, no matter how ill-founded, that Mr. Binclair was being accorded favors and privileges because of his relatively high standing in the community of prisoners. f Now those suspicions will rise and will not down. Censorship and other forms of muzeling the press are always dangerous. In this case the effect is more to be feared than the rule itse!f. ———rt— A New York night club hires a hostess who says, “Hello, Sucker!” and makesa hit. A pretty poll parrot would be cheaper, et Pleasant impressions are strongest. We remember the Japanese cherry tree and forget about the Japanese beetle, B Persevering Pharmacists. After all is said and done, nothwith- standing the present bumper crop of jests and gibes at the expense of the modern drug store, the pharmacist is a His place of business, be it his own enterprise or be it a link in a Nation-wide chain owned and record. In no fewer than three different fields of international activity America is po- tently engaged. Since eerly February eur financial experts — Messrs. Young, by a department-store-minded corpora- tion, may be a combination restaurant, | beauty parlor, toy shop, booksellers’, to- | | bacconists' and sporting goods em- | portum. None the less, medicines, pro- Morgan, Lamont and Perkins — have | prietery and compounded, are still sold bren immersed in the maelstrom of the | there and nowhere els> and are, in the reparations problem at Paris. At this|final analysis, the germ of the establish- very moment the fate of the experts’ ment. Somewhere back of a partition conference rests largely in American | a careful eye, a steady hand and an hands, for it has fallen to the lot of | educated brain are skilifully concocting Mr. Young as chairman, to undertake | mixtures which, to him who puts them the herculean task of snatching a com- | in his insides, are of an importance of promise victory out of what a day es the highest order. two ago seemed the inoscapable defeat| The pharmacist once was a pretty of the experts' plan. The Young pro- | important person in a community or & posals may be headed for the rocks.|neighborhood. His activities have so But if the cause of European peace is | widened that customers are apt to drop correspendingly damaged, the blamein on his premises as naturally and as will not lie at the feet of the American | thoughtlessly as on those of a ten-cent delegation. store. But let there bc a physiological For nearly a month American influ- | emergency, internal or external, and he ence has been paramount in the Pre- | who is concerned therewith is consclous fact-finding commission. This, too, appears logical, because of the and narcotics and intoxicants. In olden times the druggist was more apt to be | called an apothecary and did a lot ul‘! perfectly permissible doctoring of a minor sort. To this day he is called a “chemist” in the British Isles. A prac- tical chemist is really what he is, if he!| be properly trained. He does a good st sell drugs already prepared. Perhaps if people of the United States used that name his status might be more widely recognized. — o Big play is said to have been diverted from Monte Carlo. The press agent of this famous resort may have been remiss in not supplementing the illus- trations of the game with pictorial dis- p'ay of beach pajamas. Befors attending a banquet the dis- | criminating social leader looks at the | seating coupon, and if it indicates an unsatisfactory location turns it back into the box cffice. ——r———— European affairs still present elements of disagreement which cause a con- scientious diffidence about stepping into a situation’ which might appear to call for a referee. PRI~ > R T, A clerk in a “chain store” claims respret for his effort to preserve a | mann-r of polite interest, even though he does not know whom he is actually | working for. - e Only a short time will elapse b2fore | ihe marriage of Lindbergh, which will | columns | | remove him from the societs into the practical discussion”of aviation. —————— Fhctographers should not worry. The next time Harry Sinclair brings winning horse, they will find it enough to taks his picture. .o Dollar bills will soon be smaller. lti remains with the individual economist | to see whether their actual purchasing power will be larger. e e Photographers are not welcome at a jail. Circumstances there are not favor- able to a request to hold up the chin | and look pleasant. —— A yacht cruise on the Mediterranean ' has its effect in leaving it to be decided who else should do the disarmament worrying. ————r—e—y SHOOTING STARS, | easy BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Mechanical Man, I'm only a cog in a wheel, Devised in Efficiency’s plan— Ambition I do not conceal To become a Mechanical Man. The Doctors deny me the food Which once I awaited with zest. The threats of starvation intrude, ‘With hints that it's all for the best. | I'm looking for oil and for gas As Efficiency’s future I scan, And hope it may yet come to pass ‘That I'll be & Mechanical Man, Passing of the Boss. “I used to think you were a political “I was,” answered Senator Sorghum. “But I accepted a fairly good job. And anybody who accepts a political job ceases to be a political boss, right there.” o Jud Tunkins says he wants farm re- lef, but he can't decide which particu- lar kind o' trouble he'd like to have at- tended to first. Soclal Precedence. ‘The birds perceive a worm immense. ‘To rule they do not trust. ‘The one with "social precedence Is he who “gits thar fu'st.” Fortune Hunting. “Isn't that young man a fortune hunter?” “I think s0,” answered Miss Cay- enne. “You have no fortune.” “It will serve him right when he dis- covers that the joke's on him.” “Our ancestors spoke wisely,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown. “It is not to them, but to their great-grand- children, that we must appe: Extremist. “Are you a prohibitionist?” “I am,” answered Uncle Bil] Bottle- | top. “I am uncompromisingly in favor ' of some form of prohibition which will actually prohibit.” “When you lends an umbrella to a friend,” said Uncle Eben, “it's mebbe a case of good-by to both friend and umbrella.” vaves He Beats Many Humans, Prom the Columbis (8. C.) SBundsy Record. An Oklahoma mule has a bank ac- | count, according to the dispatches, but he has nothing on the jackass with bucketshop accounts. r——e— Rebels’ Future Suggested. From the Terre Haute Sunday Star. ‘The situation down in Mexico indi- cates that the rebels might as well de- vote their time to laying plans for the next revolution. ] He Struck a Bun Vein. From the Butte Dally Post. Doubtless the drunk who told Judge Shea in court that he was a “pros- pector” had in mind something or other in quarts that would lead to a lode. oo ———— paratery Commission on Disarmament | instantly of the difference between the in Geneva. President Hoover has just|drug and all other stores. There are re- prociaimed that the results are “greatly | cent indications that the professional gratifying. There is every prospect|importance of the pharmacist is receiv- that the formula for naval limitation—|ing more marked attention. Not long - adugionrRsaaniad by AMBMANGQE ag0 Tepreseatatives of druggists snd Tt Goes on Forever. From the Springfield, Mass., Da'ly Republican. The wet and dry quarrel long since | the key. in a m; st | STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C., "THURSDAY, THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Dr. Samuel Johnson once said to James Boswell: “In the last age, when my mother lived in London, there were two sets of people—those who gave the wall and those who took it; the peace- ab’e and the quarrelsome.’ The world of men is still divided be- tween these two classes. There is. of course, no precise point of cleavege, but. in the main, most people may be down as either quarrelsome or peace- able by disposition. One or the other of these character- istics seems to be bern with ‘every hu- man being, as a sort of gift which is as much a part of him as his hair, or his eyes, or his hands. Just as no one can escape the color | of his eves. 50 no man can ever quite et away from his innate disposition in his respect. This does not mean that A man is forever quarrelsome or in- variably modest and shrinking. It is imposcible for the most choleric person to invariably in an angry mood. A little sunshine will creep into even the gioomiest life; even the cheer- fest person will sometimes be angry. No: only general tendencies can be considered. It is enough if every one may be placed into one or the other of these two lists, Once having put him in, you may better know how to handle him thercafter. o ‘This rough classification of mankind is easiest made when sirangers are being considerad, for then one is not hampered by too much knowledge. Let so much be admitted. A thorough knowledge of some one will often make one hesitate, because usually there are good points and bad mixed in such confusion that it is difficult for the honest observer to separate them. A mean man will some- times turn around and display a good heart and a natura'ly peaceful charac- ter suddenly borcme enraged over something to which cthers do not have With utter strangers, however, the matter is easier. The thing is then brought down to the elemental pro- | portions which Johnson's mother gave it. “those who give the wall, and those who take it.” ‘This homely illustration arose from the habit of those who insisted on walk- ing next the wall when once they started out. It could have arisen only in a eountry of walls and men inclined | to be churlish. Onee a London pedestrian got the wall, whether it was on the left or right . he kept it against all ept it, that is, > peaceful. t | life, | frankly pleasant, and little men who | clous person in | such circumstances. * ¥ %k % Almost always it is possible for the d'seerning to tell the difference between | e two fundamentally different per- ons at a glance. Much has been made of the thought that what a man is shows in his face What he does, we are told, will finally come out in his countenance. “As a an thinkest in hys heart. so is he.” While this doctrine may be earried to the point of absurdity. there undoubt- edly is a great deal of truth in it, in the main, and in no wav is it better shown than in the question under con- sideration. Peaceable people may be rich or poor, high barn or low born. literate or illite ate. They may be found in city, town wherever they are ound. they will be alike in this: thet | they rather shrink from a quarrel of ' any kind. Not that they will not quarrel! long as human beings are basically animals, the animal passions will at times get the better of even the Best of them. No one can quite be an angel n this world. 1 Peaceable folk prefer not to enter Mr. Daniel Willard, the well known president of the Baltimore & Ohio Raflroad, addressed the National Insti- tute of Social Sciences last Saturday in New York and announced that whi all the statistics of the Department Labor, regardin employment, ~ are “fragmentary and inconclusive,”_ he is “convinced" that “there are more men and wemen at present out of work in this country than the public generally is aware of.” The question is as to what “con- vinced" him, since the statistics are so “inconclusive.” A mer> hynch, even to a railroad president, i not In itself very conclusive. * kX x i The Department of Labor makes no F nses at guossing how many are dle throughout ihe country, although it does take limited regions for inves- tigation, and arrives at some judgment cL the whole by comparison of a “cross- section” or single cily or some master lines of industry. To make any in- vestigation that would be final and comprehensive would require a censu of all workers for gainful wages, and that would cost mcre than $4,000,000 each time it was undertaken. Congress has made no such an appropriation. In the acknowledged absence of tual daia of unemployment it is “open season” for all sorts of guessers to an- nounce hunchgs, ranging from one mil- lion to eight million idle wage earners. When the guesser happens to belong to an opposition political party the guess comes near 8,000,000, whirh is nearly one-third of all the waga earners in America—an absurd guess, of course. * ok K % ‘There is one line of remedy for un- employment in industry which is urged by Mr. Willard, but which, in reve must add to the demand for more de- bentures, or other farmer relief. It is the project to “make life on the farm more attractive and more satisfying, to the end that a larger percentage of our people may wish to avail themselves of the advantages and opportunities en- joyed by the independent and prosper- ous farmer who lives on and cultivates his own soil.” Would Willard say that, if he read today's Congressional Record and discovered the crying need of more “rellef” for the farmers? Why, then, does the Senate vote a bonus on the export of farm surpluses, 5o as to main- tain artificially the farm prices and cost of food, to the American consumer, for the support and ‘relief” farmers at the expe including_wage earners who rent their homes? What is, then, the logic of in- creasing the number of farmers and | farm surpluses? I1f and when, ar the supporters of administration poli- cles, the proposed debentures are neces- ary for the present farmers, will their addition to farm rewards not stimulate increased surpl Then will not the Willard proposition to induce more in- dustrial workers to hie them to the | “‘prosnerous tional farms, country. to create addi- ot still further add fo “farm distress” and increase the de- mand for debentures, and add a tax- supported class to America similar to the dole-supported in England? * k% ¥ While Mr. Willard disavows knowl- edge of what (he solution of unemploy- ment really §s, he urges development of our foreign trade to increase foreign demands for our products, and also he urges “stabilization of private industry,” and the planning of public works by both State and Federal governments so as to form a reserve of work gainst times of depression. That idea has often been urged, yet it I not always feasible, say its critics, to adjust public works to the con- venience of the wage earner. For ex- ample, today, the Government needs a number of new buildings to house arious departments, Their con- struction at any time will give employ- ment to mechanics in all the building Government | of present | se_of taxpayers, | |cent in March, 1929, as compared with | 1928, hi; trades. Should they be postponed now to an indefinite future, because it is reached leviathan dimensions, but now 1t happens to be capitslized on a ton- feund that the building mechanics do Dot st pregent sufier from aboormal into disputes. In families such persons are often ed on” and lives | made miserable by members of the quarrelsome class. They seldom retali- ate, however, but “give the wall” as/ gracefully as possible. * ok % Kk Pugnacity in the everyday walks of especially in urban districts, is more often shown by mental rather than by physical manifestations. A stiff right to the jaw is not so much to be feared as the retort nasty. Hundreds of men who would scarcely | dare to sock one in the eye will think | nothing at all ‘of handing him what is called in the vernacular a “mean line of chatter.” The mentally mean and quarrelsome range from the man who speaks only when he gets ready to the individual who brings the quarrels of home out into the world with him. In between there are all gradations of quarrelsome individuals. Some men seem to be quarrelsome on general principles. These are the ones who are spoken of as bearing “chips” on their shoulders. What they really bear is a great burden of mean- ness. There can be little question that such dispositions react upon and against their possessors even more harshly than they impress others. The surly man who is forever in a grouch has a great deal to bear and others should feel sorry for him as much as possible. L Physical characteristics have little to do with it. Every one knows big men who are pieasantly great, big men who are meanly littie; little 'men who are are snariingly small. There are some men more to be feared when they smile than others with weapons in their handz. It often seems that quarrelsome peo- ple get along better in life. Other peo- ple are afraid of them and let them have their way. This is strikingly mani- , where the most pugna- ariably gets to & point | of vantage quicker than the polite man. Sometimes even a peaceful person will| be inclined to alter his manner under He finds that quarrelsomeness works. The peaceable person, however, al- though he may not make quite the ma- terial progress that a more unre- strained “pusl " does, in the long run will have less resentment clinging to mm and probably will enjoy a happler e. If it be said that the quarrelsome en joy their quarrelsomeness, so much may be admitted without destroying the probability that their surliness—and we know no better name for it—will react 2gainst themselves They act sour, and look sour—they must be sour. The worst point of these surly feliows is how they never keep it to th-mseives, but perpetually spill it on others. The peaceable, on the other hand. are more inclined to live within themselves | and to permit others to mind their busi- | ness, even as they mind their own. From | such na‘ures one will never get any ef- fusions, either good or bad. Since, however, their contacts are | cheerful, they do a great deal of good in the world, not only in themselves, but also by force of example. not se much a matter of optimism as of peacefulness—not peacefulness in the enti-military sense, but simply in the individual. Army men, as a class, are | among the most peaceful individi E | Yes, those who give the wall d those who take it, “the peaceable and the quarrelsome,” are still very much! in the world, to be found on every street, with or without a wall. It is | ; depression, or should the Government | consider mzinly i's own need of the new | buildings, to sgve .rentals, to privat: owners of buildings and to enhance de pariment efficiency? ok oA In spite of the doles in England—or pcrhaps partly because of that system | {of alleviating the disiress of the un- | empioyed by government aid—the sit- | uation there has not improved in the last five years. There are, according to | | official reports, 1,500,000 unemployed | wage earners today in England, aside from striking miners. | . The percentage of unemployed among insured working people in England av eraged in 1924, for the whole year, 10.4 | | per cent; for 1925, it was 11.3 per cent; for 1926. 12.5 per cent; 1927, down to | 9.7 per cent, and through 1928, 109 | per cent. That is the outstanding issue | ;‘.hel‘e in the present political campaign. | _ The Liberal party, headed by Lloyd George, promises, if elected, to put into | effect “schemes of work, which,” they | declare, they “can put immediately into | operation—work of a kind ti not merely useful in itself, but essential to | the well-being of the nation. | work put in hand,” they promise, | reduce tha terrible figures of the work- less in the course of a single year, to normal proportions, and will, when com- | pleted, enrich- the nation, and equip it | for competing successfully with 4 | rivals in the business of the world. | Even without that extra employment throngh. public,wotks, as pledged. by Llovd George, the government s | habitually expending about £50,000,000 ($250,000,000) & year in doles to the Jobless of the 12,000,000 workers covered by the unemployment insurance act, and even the employed receive but a fraction of America's scale of wages. In the Uniied States we have some | 25,000,000 wage earners, so'if our Gov- | ernment were in the hands of Lloyd | George, in place of the party of Pro- tection to Home Industry, we should be supporting our jobless to the number of at least 3000,000 or 4,000,000 with a tax-raised dole to the amount of about $500,000,000 or $600,000,000 a year. In place of that condition, the American policy is to find prosperous home in- dustry and to develop foreign as well as domestic markets for the products of our laborers, skilled and unskilled. The prosperity of the home market is counted as 10 times the importance of our possible export market. ® oK x % In a bulletin published for March, 1929, by the Department of Labor, it is siated, “Employment increased 0.8 per February, and pay rolls increased 1 per cent. as shown by reports made to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.” | _This report is based upon data from 112,151 manufacturing establishments, 8,870 public utilities enterprises, and v rious other branches of industry and business, to a total of 27425 establish. ments. In all of these branches, excent mining. an increase of business and em- ployment is manifested. It coversd 6,400.000 employes (about a quarter of all wage earners in America), whose wages approximated $185,000.000 a week, 50 1t is a falr “cross-section” of thy in- dustrial trend for the whole country. * ok ok % Furthermore, “the level of employ- ment in manufacturing in March, 1920, was 5.2 per cent higher than in March, nndgv y rolls were 9.1 per cent igher.” S0 the wage earner is get- ting more than an equal benefit from the increased activity of business. In 118 establishments of 21 manufac- turing indust ages of 24,000 em- ployes are 7.1 per cent higher than a year tgo. For peace time, our his- tory has no precedent of present wage prosperity. In 9.503 establishmoents, in 54 indu: tries, there was 92 per cent of a full normal force of employes, who were working (ths h March) 98 per cent of full time. Surely, the country is close to Dormalcy! When have industrial con- MAY 9, 1929. Distemper Vaccine ! For Canines Is Near| To the Editor of The Star: | Dogdom is about on the threshold of relief from its age-long scourge of dis- temper; and the news comes simultane- ously, as it happens, with the announce- ment of the death of President Hoover's beautiful Irish wolf-hound, the lovable puppy, Pat, from that dread disease at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington. According to announcement today by Charles H. Tyler of Boston, secretary- treasurer of the American distemper committee, the Lederle Antitoxin Lab- oratories at Pearl River, New York, to which institution was intrusted the delicate task of translating the British experiments to discover a preventive for distemper into a system of prac- tical relfef, report that they have been | ~orking on_the product ever since the return of Dr. Adolph Eichhorn from England, and in a very short time, probably two or three weeks, will be able to offer virug and vaccine for sale, so that purchasers can have the com- piete Laidlaw ani Dunkin treatment at hand in this country. Medical scientists interested in the prevention of distemper agree that such & consummation represents the most advanced step for the protection of dog life and health yet undertaken. treatment is not a cure for the disease and will not be distributed a. such. The British researches have demon- sirated, however, that it is a depend- able preventive, and that dogs inocu- lated with the new product have proved almost 100 per cent immune. Distemper attacks young rather than older dogs, as a rule, and with the new product in cemmon use, as eventually it prom- iscs to be, it will be possible for dog owners so to immunize their pets as practically to remove any fear .of an attack. Such an accomplishment means the saving of life or health for about alf the dogs that come into the world. With the Lederle Laboratories already producing, the further announcement is made that the Mulford Laboratories of Philadelphia have sent Dr. H. K. Wright, representing their concern and also the American Veterinary Medical Association, to England to obtain all the information so generously supplied to Dr. Eichharn by the British scientists upon his recent trip which led to the activities of the Lederle Laboratories. Dr. Wright has been supplied with sut- ble credentials by the American com- mittee and his establishment hopes in due time to master the techniue and produce the prophylactic. But even these gratifying develop- | ments do not exhaust the giad tidings | for the dogs. Mr. Tyler announces also that the will of the late Mrs. Grace Veilie Harris of Altadena. Calif., be- | queaths to the American distemper | committee one-twelfth of her residuary | estate, and in a letter from Theodore Martin of Los Angeles, executor of the will, it Is stated that while the exact enount to be realized cannot be figured out yet, it will amount to at least $50,- 000. This amount, however, will not be available for a year, more or less, and meantime the need of funds to coniinue the work of discovery, produc- tion and distribution will " continu: acute. It has besn decided by the | Americen distemper committee to re- quest_the English committee, of which Mr. Tyle: an_ Mr. Hobart Ames are members, as, well as membors of ths American ccmmittee, to go on with the work until 1930, and all the money pro- | ;gr:l:;e will be needed through this riod. = It is the hope of Messrs. Tyler and | | sects?—L. 8. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. This newspaper puts at your disposal | Thebes by Rameses II in honor of his a corps of trained researchers in Wash- | father, Seti I, the Osymandias of Di- ngton, who will answer questions for | odorus. Another great library existed at you. They have access to the Govern- |an early date at Memphis. Layard dis- ment departments, the libraries, mu-\covcnfl in the ruins of the. palace of seums, galleries and public buildings | Koyunjik the library of the Ninevite and to the numerous associations which | Kings, consisting of & large number of maintain dquarters in the Nation's tablets of clay, impressed before burn- Capital. If they can be of assistance |ing with inseriptions In cuneiform to you, write your question plainly and | characters. They had -originally been send with 2 cents in coin or stamps paged and preserved-in eases. to The Evening Star Information | o . Bureau, Prederic J. Haskin, director,! Q. Is murder by poisoning on the in- Washington, D. C. crease’—J. C.-N. A. As far as information can be ob- Q. Which of the common birds sub- | tained, it is reasanably certain that sist almost entirely on a diet of in-| deaths by poison are not, proportionate | to population, on the increass. . A. The yellow warbler, American red- ot start and nighthawk partake, of food | Q. How can a valuation be fixed upon | management and the training is, which is practically 100 cent in- | sects: barn swallows, little less than | 100 per cent: Baltimore orioles, 80 per | cent. Dbluebirds, 78 per cent, and meadow larks, 75 per cent. Q. Is there any difference in the training received in a Governmeht hos- | pital and in a private hospital?>—B. L. A. The A";Il'elflc.n Medical Associa- “Theoretically, there should be little difference in the technical! training received in Government hos- rlmh as compared with that received | in other hospitals. Practically, how- | ever, there is a difference. The Gov- | ernment hospitals are under unified first of all, uniform—we ht say, | uniformly thorough. Sk prlv.lut:i hospitals each hospital is a unit to itself and must be jud uj - vidusi rnerlu:" ged upon fts indi. Q. What is the story of a tariff act| in which the misplacing of a comma | cost the Government thousands of dol- lars?—B. G. A. The blunder to which you refer occurred in a tariff bill about 38 years ago. There was a section enumerating what articles should be admitted free of duty. Among those specified were “all foreign fruit-plants, etc.’—that is, plants for transplanting. propagation or experiment. The enrolling clerk in copying the bill accidentally changed the hyphen to & comma, making it read “all foreign fruit, plants, etc.” In con- sequence, for a year, until Congress could remedy the mistake, all oranges, lemons, bananas, grapes and other for- cign fruits were admitted free of duty. The misplacement of the comma in this place cost the Government about $2,000,000. Q. When was the first library col- lected?—M. B. A. A. Libraries are probably nearly coeval | dignitaries who ma gullt‘ trees that have been destroyed™— A. The Department of Agriculture says that it is almost impossible to fix a valuation on friit trees destroyed. In the first place, the fruit crop 1§ al- | ways an uncertainty depending not only upon weather conditions but also on the peculiarities of the markef. One method that has been recommended, which is purely academic but is the valuation used by the Vermont Home Horticulture Society, is that a tree less than one year old is worth £1 and in- creases in value at the rate of $1 a year thereafter. Q. When was shorthand first used?— . M. A. The origin of brief writing is clouded in mystery. No authentic rec- ord exists establishing its practical use much before the first century B.C. From that period until about 300 A.D. the art flourished throughout the Ro- man Empire. The secretary and libre- rian of Cicero, Marcus Tullius Tiro, was the ploneer of Roman shorthand. 'The chief use of shorthand in Roman times was made by thé Jeaders in church and by mvmmen&‘oqu. Church copspicuous use of shorthand were St. tine, Ori- gen and St. Jerome. the Roman emperors employed - shorthand secre- ;ulea] Several emperors attempted to earn it. Q. When was the steam vessel first used in warfare?—S8. 8. A. Rear Admirai’ George Wallace Melville says that when the British admiral, 8ir John B. Warren, ascended the Potomac in 1812 his expedition was reconnoitered by an American steamer. Q. How many printed books are there in existence that were made before 1500?—L. L. A. It is thought that there are but with the art of writing. The oldest of which there is record is probably that of Ramesseum. a femple founded in 101. Nearly one-third of these rare books are owned by the Library of Con- gress. ‘Bitter Controve rsy Follows Fatal Shooting of Bootlegger A country-wide lg‘mnvnt started with the applause which greeted a ref- erence in the House of Representatives to the fatal shooting of a bootlegger, who loosed a smoke screen against a ursuing policeman on the streets of ‘Washingion. Bitter criticiem of the Ames that now that the experiments | House for its attitude in some quarters have emerged from the vague realm of | i8 answered in others by explanations research into the fleld of practical ac- |that the epplause was for the police ‘In spite of all lanations of every sort,” asserts the troit Pree Press, it remains deplorably true that the sp- plauding drys disgraced themselves, body of which they are membe: the country to wi they belong. e Lynchburg News proclaims that “until there is a return of sanity, things are going from bad to worse,” although conced! that “none of those lau | ington, where I lived for 27 vears. cemplishment, American dog lovers will | come quickly to thelr su pogc. for every H dollar received helps to hasten the day, already in sight, -when dog distemper, like yellow fever in Cuba, will be a "‘f{lge"' the &umfld'r American com- mi may be addressed at th Building, Boston, Mass. B T C. H. TYLER. AN Pastor’s Mesmerism Recalled by Cartoon! To_the Editar of The S Mr. Berryman’s cartoon in The Star of Monday, April 29, in regard to Presi. deni Hoover's lack of response to hyp- rotism recalls an interesting fact in nnection with the great Stonewall Jackson in the days before the Civil War, when he was simply “Maj. Jack- son,” & professor in the Virginia Mili- tary Insiitute at Lexington. Maj. Jack- son had a habit af being so overcome drowsiness in church that he almost invariably went to sleep during the ser- mon, though he had an excellent pastor, Rev. Dr. White. Maj. Jackson strug- gled hard (and nodded hard, too) against this infirmity, but all to no pur- pose. WeH, there came to Lexington during those days a hypnotist, or mes- merist, who gave a public lecture on the subject and at the close invited some one from the audience to come up on the platform and let the lecturer show his power by putting him to sleep. Jack- son went un and the hypnotist tried his best. but all in vain. Jackson was im- mune. Then some lady in the audience | sald in a loud whisper, “Nobody can, cl to sleep except Dr.| I have heard this told in Lex- ADDISON HOGUE. Hoover’s Persuasive Method Is Approved | From the Richmond News-Leader. | Hoover's criticism of the de- | benture plan of farm relief exhibits a | new variant of the presidential method of dealing with congressional opposi- tion. The traditional way of arguing with the country over the head of the Senate is, of course, to make a speech, | or to give out an Interview. or to write | a letter to A member of Congress. Mr. | Hover did the last named, but, instead of writing a, lengthy argumesnt in cloud: detail, he summed up the principal di ts of the plan in ten numbered para graphs. Listing each “weakness” of the | proposal, he riddled the bill in 1,000 | words and did it so aptlv that even the | reader of casual interest will be dis- posed to scan the whole of the letter. Is it too much to hope that Mr. Hoover intends to basz all his public ap- peals on logic of like clarity. succinetlv | out? Roosevelt spouted columns; Taft | talked confidentially to far too many people; Wilson injected into his a dresses a certain exalted emotionalism | that was attuned to the times; Hard ing floundered through a bog of words Coolidge said nothing very sourly. Hoover to act on the principle that the American people are reasoning mortals, capable of deciding questions on their merits, and willing to do so? His analy- sis of the debenture scheme left no aspect untouched. Is like thoroughness to mark all his public utterances of this sort? “It is a_ccnsummation * * ditions been better? Under what policy of low tariffs? In Mr. Willard’s own city of Balti- more a house-to-house canvass by the police disclosed In February, 1928, 15473 men and women who were usu- ally gainfully employed out of work. A similar canvass this year found the idle reduced to 13,177. ‘The Labor Department bulletin says: “Of the 13,177 persons (in Baltimore) found unemployed in 1929, 11,244 were men and 1,933 were women: 9 190 were white and 3,987 were colored. Although more than 22 per cent of these unem- ployed persons had been engaged in manufacturing industries, the largest number of persons charged to an in- dividual industry was reported for the bullding industry. About one-third of the total number of persons who had been connected with manufacturing in- dustries, had worked in establishments engeged in the production of textiles and their products, and food products, the number divided almost equally be- tween the two industries. The clothing industry was by far the most severely affected of the textile industries.” This shows a 15 per cent improve- ment. as compared Wwith a year ago, and Baltimore is taken as index of the rest of the country. (Copyright, 1038 by Paw V. Collins.) the Washington police officer who di he killing is bloodthirsty. They were merely hysterical,” the Virginia daily continues. “as are far too many of our people, wet and dry. in considera- tion of this grave ouestion of prohibi- tion. Nobody thinks agy more about it —-they merely ta’k rn1 shout and de- nounce and spill emotion. £ xox & Emphasizing the peint.:hat “the Jones law now makes. the franspestation; of liquor a feiony,” the Charleston ELQ- ning Post suggests that “every time.an officer kills & man in an sutomobile and can convince a jury that he had ‘reasonable suspicion’ that the car had liquor in it. which is to say reasonable suspicion of a felony. h» is putting up a technically good defense. For that matter, however,” continues the Eve- ning Post, “the law is in a denlorable state now or President Hoover is wast- lnH lot of time worrying over it.” e Springfield Union offers the ent, “There is plenty of evidence that much of the present lawlessness, which President Hoover describes as the most pressing problem before the coun- try today, has its roots in the encour- agement it receives frem @& growing public disgust for just su~h incidents of enforcement as the one app'auded in the House of Reprasen‘a » “The policeman ene-sed right.” sug- gests the Cincinneti Tim~s-Star. “unlike other officers enforcing prohibition who have shot to kill. Buti it is a serious question whether the policeman was acting within his rights. He probably ‘was not. He had no warrant of author= ity for his acts. So the policeman is to be tried for murder. But if- he is to have a trial by applause, he already has been acquitted by the House of Representatives. Even the applauders would not withdraw their acclaim. The word remains in the Record. An anti- prohibitionist in the House objected to the elimination of the word. He said that he wished future generations to know the fanaticism of the present Honse of Representatives.” “From now on,” concludes the Bing- hamton Press, “the bootlegger will know officer's performance of duty and not mere gl ng over the death of the fugitive. 2 “There are bootleggers in every city,” eclares the Richmond News lnder“ ho have become 30 steeped in la lessness that everything in them flames instantly when an honest police officer | interferes with them. If a man will| kill another for $15, which is supposed to 'he market price for assassination in Chicago, will be not slay an officer for the safety of a load of liquor? Of! ccurse he will. " To defend him is to| siultify oneself, and to present him as a hero is to let sentimentality defeat law. The courts will pass judgment on the facts; the private individual will do well not to prejudge.” “A good deal has been said about this. case, but the conclusion seemed to be that the police officer was not only legally but morally justified, and should be commended rather than criticized,” according to the Savannah Press, which also says as to the incident in Congress: “Here is a man who com- mitted two felonies and a misdemeanor. There had been much criticism of | Washington policemen because they | had not suppressed boouauln’. This was one officer who was not afraid to do his duty, and when the story was told in Congress there was applause. Every one expressed regret that th: misguided bootlegger had been killed. but the policeman was overwhelm! ly upheld for what he did. $ The Lexington Leader also contends that “the House was not cheering be-| cause & man had been killed, though he was a potential murderer and a con- firmed lawbreaker, but because the‘llv{ had not failed in the case and because | the officers had resolutely done their | duty.” The Lea avers that “from | reading the Congressional Record no | one would receive the impression that | the House cheered because a bootlegger had been killed.” * ok ko Just as positive is the Louisville Times | in condemning the econgressional ap-| as_“that of a mob, pure and | " The Times states: “The dry, officer may have done nothing more | than his duty, The Times cannot de- termine from the report whether he what to expect. He is to have no syme should be condemned for a vigorous pathy—not even from customers. Rere effort to enforce the law, or prosecuted | haps this is the beginning of the muche for murder. * * * Surely, in the words | dis~ussed ‘war of extermination.” Guns of President Hoover, our foundations|out! Tt's a war te the knife and ‘the re slipping when, under the dome of (knife to the hilt. if one is to judge the Capitol. the Nation witnesses con- | from the reaction of Congress to the duct upon the part of its commissioned | Washingion kilier. No false glamour is lawmakers which must remind it of the | to be thrown around the violator. Death antics of a wild-eyed mob. 1s his lot and Congress will cheer it.” DANTE AND BEATRICE “In their deaths, they were not divided.” He was ‘not wedded to his, heart's desire, Fate ever barred their union with her Doer, Yet, with Eollan-music for his lyre, His song united them forever more. Ve may not visicn him without her place Beside the Alpine-height of his renown; . For Fame hath woven %o, they interlace, And all his glory hath become her erown. Ome fair “Ascension,” fregrant, and supreme. Beneath the Altar-glow, her beauty shons, To be transfigured in his wondrous' dream, A glistening spirit near “Jehovah's throne.” From wordly travail would their spirits soar, To realms unshadowed by the sense of sin, Ascending ever through the sacred Door, Where moving angels lived their way within, Then, all the glory of celestial light Before their gaze in restful beauty lay; No earthly shadows mar the gleaming sight And never Night, but only perfec:‘i)ly. Immortal verse hath made them live as one, Tho' all the rest were numbered with the Desad. As some lone peak is melloved by the sun, 8She shed a halo around his lonely head. Thrc%h aisles of Memory ever seems to flow e rhythmic-musie of his haunting lays, h shady vistas steals an after glow— beatific spirit of her ways. L'envols In fair Ravenna lies the Florentine, Who visioned Paradise to all mankind. And Florence holds within her sacred shrine The inspiration of his words Divine. ‘Tho' wars have tinged the Earth incarnadine, And fouled the very currents of the wind; A breath of sweetness comes when all convene In fragrance memory, where he lies enshrined; While, still recalling her celestial mien, ansfigured by the glory of his mind. —JOHN MACKAYE DUNBAR. S —