Evening Star Newspaper, May 17, 1929, Page 8

THE EVENING R iR day Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C FRIDAY... May 17, 1920 THEODORE W. NOYES. ...Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office: 11th St. and Pennsyivania Ave. New York Office: 110 East 42nd St Chicago Office: Lake Michigan Building European Office. 14 Resent St., Londo: England. Rate by Carrier Within t The Evenine Star o he Evening and Sunday Star (when 4 Sundays) Sunday Star he City. 52 per month 60c per month The Evening and (when 5 Sundays).. 65c per month The Sunday Star Sc per copy Collec'icn made at the end of cach menth Orders may be sent in by mall or telephone Main 5000. ble in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. 1 sr.$1000: 1 mo. 85 600 1 mo. 50 Sunday only ... $4.00; 1 mo.. 40c | All Other States and Canada. Daily and Sunday..l yr,$1200: 1 mo.$1% aily only 1vr. $800: 1 mo) 75c unday only . §5.00; 1ino.; Soc Ry [ember of the Associated Press. Associated Press-is exclusively e Ve for repunlication of &l E s credited to it or not otherise cre fted in this paper and also the Incal news published herein. All rights of publiceifon of cial dispatchas herein are also reserved. itled The Bus Terminal Impasse. The new Public Utilities Commission will inherit the problem of secing to the | establishment of a centrally located bus | terminal for Washington. It is to be hoped that it will find a solution. The matter, so far, has been allowed to take | care of itself. The Public Utilities Com- mission has conducted two trips of in- spection to other citles far ahead of Washington in the matter of bus| terminals, and while these trips have produced interesting information regard- ing the efficiency and general utility of bue terminals they have apparently done nothing to expedite the building of & terminal here. The result is that the bus-riding public is inconvenienced and the public in general loses the use of a generous portion of the streets upon which the bus companies enjoy free parking privileges. A recent hearing before the commis- glon developed several suggestions from real estat= men as to the location of & bus terminal. The rcal estate men were present as interested parties with prop- erty to sell. The bus companies were interested spectators, but apparently are not in the market for downtown real estate. The Public Utilities Commission, of course, cannot buy the property and erect a terminal. There the matter ended and there it stands. The Public Utilities €ommission has ken the attitude from the beginning that its authority in the matter is re- stricted to its right to order busses to make use of a terminal, if and when it is buflt. It has left the construction of such a terminal to private interests which might find the venture commer- clally attractive. As no such interests have presented themselves the terminal remains unbuilt. How long can such a condition be allowed to continue? Do the bus com- panies bear no responsibility? Increas- ing in numbers and in use, paying noth- ing above a nominal license fee for their use of the streets, but competing with other transportation lines that do, they are permitted to sit idly by while the publis and the Public Utilities Commis- sion hopefully await the appearance of . some third party who may went to build a terminal and rent it to the companies. 1f this problem does not solve itself, Washington wants a Public Utilities Commission that will solve it. ————— One Field First. Representative Frederick Zihiman, chairman of the House District com- mittee, predicted at a meeting of the Board of Trade that recommendations would be made soon by the joint con- gressional airport ccmmittee for two fields for Washington, the largest to be a model for the world and located in the suburbs, and the smaller as near the city as possible. This prediction is doubtless predicated upon Col. Charles A. Lindbergh's advice to the committee when he appeared before it to point out | that Washington was the only city of | its size in the United States which did not possess adequate airport facilities. All Washingtonians hope that Mr. Zihiman's prophecy will be fulfilled. | The National Capital in the not too dis- tant future will probably need two air- ports, and perhaps three or four. The | immediate concern, however, is not with two or more fields. It is with only one. It may be all very well to talk of the time when this area will be completely equipped with airports, but as long as such flights of fancy are substituted for action little progress will be made in| securing what Washington needs most, a single adequate airport. There should | be no dilution of the effort to require a model municipal fleld, situated as near the city as possible. After that has besn done, then talk of suburban fields or supplementary airports will be in order, ) Rome is a famous end revered old | city which may prove content to hold | conference should be convened. |are, cut its visa tax because the United States declines to exempt British immi- grants from passport fees. We appear to draw a distinction between visitors and fmmigrants. John Bull thinks they should be treated allke, as far as an entry head tax is concerned. Denmark, Belgium, Esthonia, Finland, German: Italy and Sweden have abolished visa charges. Other countries, like France and the United States, have made sub- stantial reductions. Why passports at all in piping times of peace? They had their virtues in useless. Prior to 1914 only Russia and Turkey required them from foreigners. An international passport disarmament Its agenda should call for gradual limita- tion, steady reduction and eventual obliteration of the pretty parchments which have ceased to be of any practi- except to make dents in the family's budget and cramp its style when on mi- gratory missions beyond the immediate family circle. e Universal Draft. Unless there is a great change of sentiment amcng members of Congress no bill for universal draft of men to | serve in the armed forces of the United States during war-time can be enacted unless the same measure contains some provision for drafting the remainder of the male population for work at home and for drafting “capital.” The subject has been brought before the Senate in recent days by the introduction of a bill | prepared by the War Department which seeks to write into the permanent statutes a draft law similar to that which was put through at the time of the World War. The purpose apparent- ly is to prepare for war in. time of peace; to make it possi¥ for the President to put into effect a draft call- ing men to the colors without waiting for further action by Congress. If there be war, admittedly the uni- versal draft for military service is the fairest method of recruiting the forces. The whole citizenry owes the country military service in time of emergency. There are other kinds of service in war- time that are necessary to the welfare of the country. To put millions of men under arms and into the fleld at a daily stipend which in no measure compensates them for their service, and at the same time permit those who re- main at home to obtain wages vastly In excess of peace-time wages, is not a fair prcposition on its face. But prof- war, but nowadays they are practically | cal importance to the family of nations | TH state that it has been for some time privately known that their donor had offered them to Columbia University on the assumption that this great insti- tution would provide a bulding there- for. The inference, later verified through faculty members, is that Co- lumbia had encountered difficulties which prevented her acceptance of the gift. New York's loss is, however, the Nation's gain. Things are as they should be. The assembler of the collection spent half & century and several million dol- lars in bringing it together. Only as recently as last May numerous items of great beauty and value were added to it. That it compares favorably with any other in the country seems an admitted fact. The most superficial catalogue of its items and their authors is high- ly impressive. The thanks of the Na- tion to which Mr. Gellatly desires to become benefactor should be amply, en- thusiastically and promptly expressed by the earliest possible co-operative ac- tion on the part of the legislative body which is selected to govern that Nation. The Senate has already done its part. There is little likelihood that, long be- fore the expiration of the four years for which the collection must yet re- main housed in New York, the House will have failed to function similarly. - Senator Blaine's Quest. As chairman of the subcommittee on banks and insurance of the Senate Dis- trict committee, Senator Blaine of Wis- consin will seek the advice of Corporation Counsel Bride as to the drafting of necessary legislation covering the sale of securities, regulation of the real estate business and procedure in mortgage foreclosures. This step is evidently con- templated for the purpose of securing such legislation for the District of Co- lumbla. One wishes Senator Blaine all possible good fortune in the task he has under- taken. A great deal of water has flowed under all the bridges across the Potomac since the beginning of discussion in Congress as to the need here of that tvpe of legislation generally referred to as “blue sky” laws. But while the water has reached the ocean the discussion has come to nothing. Washington's brokers and bankers have been con- sulted, and with their help bills have been drafted which would provide a curb, at least, upon the sale of worth- less or fraudulent securities in the Dis- trict. The real estate men have been consulted and have given their help in iteering by capital in time of war is less justifiable than profiteering by labor. Enormous prices charged the Government for materials and sup- plies needed for prosecuting a war must in the end be pald by the people through taxation. It is a practice which makes millionaires at the ex- pense of the muititude. The next draft law—4f there be one —will provide for a measure of reliel from the conditions which arose in this country during the World War; condi- tions which sent prices of material soaring and wages for necessary labor to unprecedented heights. Making money out of the blood and sufferings of nations is as old as war itself. The stay-at-home profiteers have been found in every country that has been at war. The American Legion has gone on rec- ord in this matter forcibly. Senator Reed of Pennsylvania, chair- man of the military affairs committee, who Introduced the bill in the Senate at the requast of the War Department, served overseas in the Army during the ‘World War. He is in full accord with the American Leglon's position that there shall be no such profiteering at home in the event of another war in- volving the United States, and has so announced in the Senate. The next draft bill which is put through Con- gress will provide not merely for con- scripting men in time of war, but for conscripting material resources, includ- ing labor and capital. When such a measure is taken up for consideration Congress should have plenty of time to deal with it, for there is likely to be a roar from & number of quarters re- garding it. e “Dpn’t gamble,” unless, of course, you can afford a broker's margin, and re- main immune to disciplinary interfer- ence with a penny ante game. e i L A Sixth Great Art Treasure. In the history of the Capital to date, without taking into account any physi- { cal municipal developments, such as es- | tablishment or revision of parking and | other plans and the construction of | handsome and monumental buildings, there have occurred five outstanding events having to do with the world of These are the establishment here of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Na- tional Gallery of Art, the Freer Gallery of Art and of the Phillips Memorial Gallery, and the acquisition of the W. A. Clark art collection. Today there is every reasonable pros- pect that the Nation, through its Na- { tional Capital, will acquire within a few years a further famed collection, its own without depending on Mussolini | to restore ancient grandeurs. |that assembled by John Gellatly of e r—e— | New York. This public-spirited citizen has offered to turn over to the Govern- Mitigating Passport Nuisances. Reduction from ten to two dollars of paseport fees for Americans visiting France and for Frenchmen visiting the | United States is an act of practical in- ternational amity. It strikes at a nui- #ance which has been both costly and irritating to the ever-growing commu- nity of globe-trctters. The French treasury surrenders an estimated annual revenue of some two million dollars, while Mr. Mellon’s in- come will be beggared to the extent of a relatively paitry one hundred thou- gand. In what nations call comity. and in direct financial return—in this cas particularly, to the French tourist in- dustry—the alash in passport costs is cestined to be worth many times its 2ctuel extent in money. ‘To the individual Yankce innocent abroad a State Department tax of ten dollars is not a considerable item. But as nowad he usually takes his family with him to foreign parts, passport fees mount up, especially when, as hitherto, th: cost was doubled as soon as appli- cation to enter France was sought. The United States for five years has been trying to reduce the high cost of travel by bringing about lower prices passports. Nct every country is illing to concede th>m. because of the consequent loss of revenue. Another kind of hindrance was raised by the British government, which refuses o iment of the United States his art | treasures, culled from many parts of the world and representative of many ! periods and phases of art, the National Gallery, acting under the Smithsonian | Institution, to serve as custodian of the | collection. Officials of the Smithsonian Institu- tion, of which the National Gallery is a component part, are quoted as being highly enthusiastic over | that this assemblage of priceless paint- ings, sculptures, prints, tapestries, jew- jels, glass and woodwork will even- tually be permanently exhibited here. They may well be enthusiastic and Washingtonians generally should be and will ve, correspondingly so. Wash- |ington will one day be the acknowi- | edged art center of the Nation, just as |1t is the administrative center. Every- | thing, including this la generous | gift, points steadily to that fact. The | Capital will rejoice, with justice, not | only in the possession, or trusteeship, of |such an egeregation of collections of | the excellence of the Corcoran, Freer, National Gallery’s, the Phillips and the | Gellatly, but will rejoice doubly in the | propriety of their being here of all othe: | places. Evidence is apparent that, as in the e of th> Clark collection, New Vork might have retained these Gellatly Areasures, . Metropolitan .newspapers the prospect | the drafting of legislation relating to licensure of real estate salesmen and brokers. But the District remains with- out such protection, although the ad- Jjoining States have long since put gen- erally similar laws into effect. Congress is the judge of what type of legislation is found most effective in the States and best suited for the Dis- trict: ‘The opinions of those to be af- fected by the legislation should be sought and their co-operation pledged in draft- ing the laws. But if these opinions dif- fer and controversies arise, Congress is the court of last resort, which should make its own decision. It should make a decision, however, instead of merely planning to do something some day. No one questions the need of legislation in the matter. e Social recognition has become so highly valued that even the law may be invoked to straighten out its complica- tions. The simple, friendly gathering where “a good time was had by all” is evidently a thing of the past. e It may be found that Al Smith is hopeful of leading the country into paths of righteousness while leaving Tammany to its own wicked ways. e ‘The cameraman deserves more wel- come. The report of a fishing catch should not be left merely to idle gossip. s ranlai ot ity It has been said that Senator Borah is a politician every four years. He may have to extend the time limit. - ‘The tariff runs true to form in developing & new question every time 1t assumes to settle an old one. ———— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Learning. Traveler, have you learned to Laugh ‘While journeying on your way? Do you go leaning on a staff, Or is your footstep gay? Say, Do you bring smiling to relieve Misfortune's cruel gaff? 'Most any fool can learn to grieve— But have you learned to Laugh? Visitors. “Do you wish to see any visitors?” asked the secretary. “Of course,” answered Senator Sor- ghum. “In public life when visitors cease to arrive, a man may decide that his influence is about gone.” 1 Jud Tunkins says his troubles used to keep him awake at nights, Now it's the radio. Habituation. | The World has sung the same old song, On “Culture” still intent. We say that something must be wrong, Because it's different. ' Herolsm. “Why have you never married?” “I wanted a hero,” answered Miss Cayenne. “And you could not find one?” | “None who was brave enough to pro- | pose.” “Our ancestors,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “with all their wisdom, leave us to meet new conditions. They thought demons of unrest could be eliminated by the crackers,"” Fish. The Pish 1s served up in a dish; And with a flippancy so gay, We say, “Poor fish!” The Man The rainy skies will scan; And fish that may in safely stray Wil say, “Poor mani” “Dar Is two kinds of voters out our wey,” sald Uncle Eben; “dem dat votes how dey thinks an' dem dat votes how dey talig" EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, .. O; FRIDAY, THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Professional and amateur patronizers of art in its various forms are neces- sary adjuncts of the body politic. If it were not for the dear lady who thinks she must see every opera that comes to town there probably wouldn't be any opera at all. It it were not for the blithe young man who simply must read every new | book that comes out there might not be such a mighty stir among the pub- lishers. In all branches of artistic en- deavor these trusting persons comprise the shock battalions, upon whose ac- tions the success or failure of any ven- ture depends. There is something mighty comical, however, in their sublime falth in themselves without _their aid somehow everything good would go to pot. Take the stirring Mrs. Chester- ton Claverhouse Cheyne. | Mrs. Cheyne makes it a point—a very large point—to attend every opera, dramatic performance, lecture, etc., | which permits the community to at- tend. Mrs. Cheyne is bound and de- | termined to be a part of the attend- ing_community. To her vivacious mind, the urban population is divided into two parts, | those who go and those who do not go. The first comprise God's elect, if you | want her real opinion. The second | really do not count. ® | She will not put it so bluntly, of | course; the proprieties must be fol- | lowed, after & fashion. She does not mind in the least letting the crude ¢ that her honest belief is| not see how any one could | sit at home reading when the opera | is in town. The opera! Why, the| opera is the opera! There is a divine | necessity that compels ~attendance. What If you have seen “Carmen” on | 13 different occasions, and are rather tired of hearing the dark-eved ciga- rette girl sing about love and its crass| resemblance to a wild bird? | Mrs, Chesterton Claverhouse Cheyne | puts 1o stock in another’s having seen | anything. She has witnessed this par- | ticular opera but once before, and | honestly does not comprehend how | any one could have outdistanced her| in_such a cultural matter. | Frankly, she rather disbelieves you.| if she pays any attention at all to your | slatement. For the most part she is| 100 busy outlining the plot to listen. | To be familiar with opera plots is a great sign of culture in itself. Huge! | What an advantage it is to know how Alfredo bit Tonio on the ear, and | how Tonio flew into a noble rage, and | how Santuzzi nearly sang her head off | in_despair! | How charming to realize that Um-| Dberto stabbed his best. friend in the back because the aforesaid best friend | attempted to prevent him from run- ning away with his best girl! | Speaking from a common-sense | American standpoint, the plots of most of the operas are the veriest rot. It is mothing but preposterous to imag- ine Egyptians posturing around as Verdi has them do in “Aida." The blame, of course, cannot rightly be| put on that great music master: it be- | longs to a French writer by the name | of Locle, whose libretto was translated | by an Italian gentleman by the name | of Ghislanzoni. Candid judgment of the opera plots tells any one that they are reeking | with blood, that such “action” as they | possess is of the old-fashioned melo- | ype, and that the words are . Cheyne thinks all opera “grand,” in both senses of the adjec- | tive, She is determined to like it, and she does like it. so great is her own trust and confidence in herself. “Oh, I am going to the opera!” she gurgles. “I wouldn't miss it for any- | thing. " Any one who would be willing to miss it well, perhaps I had better not express my opinion too frankly.” Mrs. Cheyne only says the first two sentences. of course. The remainder of | her dialogue is what she thinks, but | she puts the first two sentences pointedly that any one can see the gist | of the rest of it without half trying. * ok Kk Then there is Duddington St. John Beauchamp, a fine fellow who just | wouldn't miss a new Galsworthy novel for anything. Mercy, no! Galsworthy | somehow depends a great deal on Dud- dington St. John Beauchamp. ‘To hear the latter tell about it, no| sooner does a new Galsworthy appear | on the tables at the book stores than he must straightway hie himself there and get_himself a neat copy. The reading thereof need not be done so precipitately. Once Beauchamp gets the book home, he can take his time | about it. ‘The main thing, it seems, is to actually get possession of the novel. This permits one to ask others, “Have you read Galsworthy’s new one? No? You should. I got it the other day.” There is a wealth of meaning in that questioning “No?” Even he of the toughest epidermis understands that what Mr. Beauchamp says is as follows: “I did not expect that you would have read il. You are essentially a crude ellow, one to whom the best literature is @ stranger. “No_doubt you have read ‘Grimms’ Fairy Tales, and ‘Alice in Wonderland," and maybe ‘Robinson Crusoe,’ but your education along strictly literary lines has been sadly neglected “I merely asked you if you had read it to see if you Would attempt to throw a bluff. I am glad, at least, that you are honest. and admit to the world your ignorance.” The comical thing about this lady and this gentleman, it seems to us, is their intense belief that in some mysterious manner they are the guardians of culture. Neither one of them—nor any one of their scores of brothers and sisters the world over—ever gives the other fellow credit for having seen anything, or heard anything, or read anything. They do not know, and do not want to find out, whether another has read a new book, or heard an old opera, or been to Europe, too. All these things may be old stories to him, but not to them. They are so new to them that they cannot resist talking about them, and so they give themselves away. It is an axiom of human conduct that most conversation is about the new. Men and women everywhere are in the same boat with the men of Athens, who Paul found did nothing but dis- cuss new things. Wienever you hear somebody stating that they “would not miss the opera for anything” you can set it down for a fact that this same somebody is a newcomer to the cultural fields. ‘Whereas the truly cultured take their culture with a grain of salt, and are willing to miss any opera performances, having heard many as good or better in the past, the new- comer to the medium finds himself or herself engrossed. This wholesome interest, let us be quick to say, is their good point. They are to be commended for having if. We wish, however. that they wonld not be 50 quick to look sneeringly at those who for one reason or another do not feel as heatedly about it as they do. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS + BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. One encounters a pretty general im-| pression on_Capitol Hill that President | Hoover is the architect of his own troubles in connection with the farm relief mess. Politicians, including those who are friendly as well as others who are hostile to the White House, say all the existing turmoil would have been avoided If the President had indicated | at the outset exactly the kind of bill he wanted. Mr. Hoover took the other turning. He decided to do nothing that would savor of big-stick tactics. The result was that both houses of Congress ran wild and mapped out the kind of agricultural legislation they respective- ly pref rly everybody beneath the dome believes that the Chief Engi- neer could have killed the debenture plan in advance by proclaiming his op- position to it. Administration spokes- men argue that Hoover's position on farm rellef was made sufficiently clear, both in the St. Louls campaign speech and in the message to the special ses- son last month. But this contention is denled on the hill. Here and there the President’s alleged lack of leadership is bitterly assalled, even in the quarters where his friends predominate. * ok K ok Presidential proclamation of increased duty on flaxseed is an ill wind which blows no good to Argentina. but is & 7ephyr that breezes agreeably across North Dakota. The commonwealth of Prazier and Nye produces about 65 per cent of all the flax grown in the United States. This vear. in order to combat surplus production of wheat, North Dakota farmers planted 20 or 30 per cent less wheat than ever before. In- stead, they sowed flax. Now, with| Argentinian flaxseed practically shut | out by the higher American tariff, | North Dakota farmers are assured of a | full and profitable market for their flax. | Hitherto this country's flax require- | ments, including the by-product of lin- | seed oil—essential to the paint and| varnish industries—have been in excess of the domestic supply. With North | Dakota and other Northwestern farmers | “diversifying” their crops so as to grow more flax, they expect to be able to ful- fill the home demand in future. P There drifts into Washington from Minnesota a report that Walter H. New ton of Minpeapolis, President Hoover' man Friday in connection with con- gressional and departmental affairs, has senatorial ambitions. Newton has' just | resigned from his seat in the House, in | order to devote himself exclusively to | his secretarial duties at .the White | House. The story goes that he may contest next year's Republican sen-| atorial nomination with the present in- | cumbent, Senator Thomas D. Schall, the blind member of the Upper House. | Schall was one of the troublesome 13 who voted the debenture plan into the Senate farm bill ten days ago. It has been understood in Washington that it | is Gov. Theodore Christianson, not Secretary Newton, who intends to fight | Schall in the 1930 Minnesota primaries. Mabel Walker Willebrandt has joined the other ladies who want to banish booze from private social affairs. The | Portia of prohibition has just sent a letter to the Republican Women of | Pennsylvania—the militant organization use of fire- | headed by Mrs. George Horace Lorimer | of Philadelphia — commending women | who entertain without dispensing liquor. “They set standards of social habits, said Mrs. Willebrandt, “and are doing a thing fundamental to prohibition en forcement. They are relieving some of the economic pressure that produces bootlegging by taking away much of the profit and alleged respectability of the trade. President Hoover has un- dertaken to reduce crime, Women refuse to patronize the fruils of N are rendering sportsmanlike alleglance tn the President which true patriotism dictates,” * ok Kk F. Trubee Davison, Assistant Secre- tary of War, is in the midst of a cross- country inspection frip by airplane which ‘will have covered approximately 7.000 miles by the time he returns to hington. He has been gone since May 8 and expects to Oy 25 In Afald as Spokane, Wash. Secretary Davison is flying in the new Army C-5 transport, piloted by Lieut. Lester J. Maitland. one of the heroes of the Hawailan flight, who is Davison's executive officer at the War Department. Almost with- out exception the Assistant Secretary, who has Army Air Corps affairs in charge, travels by plane when making inspection trips. Since his appointment in July, 1926, he has flown something over 50,000 miles, visiting or flying over nearly every State in the Union. Dur- ing March, 1928, Davison made an in- spection trip by air to the Canal Zone and return via Central America, He frequently breaks the monotony of long flights by taking his turn at the con- trols. *x %k k K Former Representative Meyer Jacob- stein, Democrat, of New York, was in town’ this week seeing the Treasury in connection with the banking affairs at Rochester, which now engage his_at- tention. He was calling on J. W. Pole. controlier of the currency, and had turned up somewhat out of breath. hav- ing run the length of a corridor in | order to be on time for an appointment. As Dr. Jacobstein bolted through the controller’s swinging door, he ran plumb into J. W. MecIntosh, former controller, who ejaculated: ou must want a charter for a branch national bank.” | Permits for such institutions, let it be explained, are in keen demand and hard to get. * k % kx “Kansas avenue” is the name mnow applied to a corridor on_the second floor of the Senate Office Building. IU'S been so christened because along it, in almost uninterrupted proximity, are the offices of Vice President Curtis and of Senators Capper and Allen of the Sun- flower State. Mr. Curtis’ palatial suite —by far the most stunning official quar- 1s numbered A few yar the corridor is suite 206, occupied by Senator Cap- per. and the next suite, 210, is the habitat of Senator Allen. Kansas ave- nue is one of the swagger residential streets of Topeka, the home town of Curtis and Capper. (Copyris Noise As Noise Cure Is Novel Prescription BY E. E. FREE, PH. D. Making more noise to cure the nerv- ous effects of some noise is the para- doxical prescription offered by Dr. L. Carowzi in a report on the harmfulness and control of noises in offices or fz i resented recently to the League ions in Geneva, Switzer Carozzi agrees with other experts that the harmful effects of noise on human beings are complex and are not meas- urable by the mere intensity of the noise. Monotonous noise may do harm, he belleves, by its deadening effect on the persons who work in it. On the other hand. loud noises which burst out suddenly at irregular inter- vals may have even more disagrecable and disturbing effects. The most dis- turbing of all noises, Dr. Carozzi also agrees. are apt to be those which in- sistently attract attention and which thus prevent mental concentration on anything else. When such distracting ses cannot be prevented. it may be ble, he suggests, to cre more nearly continuous noise in same neighborhood; for example, by placing a revolving electric motor on & resonant box like the sounding board of a piano. This will produce & more harmonious and agreeable noise and may drown out the disturbing one or counteract its effects. Similarly, the nervous effects of monotonous noise may be counter- acted, Dr. Carozzi suggests, by placing close at hand some machine which pe- riodically makes a much louder, bang- ing noise. Although this increases the total amount of noise, the monotony is lessened and the harmful nervous effect ey b SWEde 1929.) numbea of fine | Assessment on Benning Road Is Protested To the Editor of The Star: In regard to the widening of Benning road, I think the assessment unjust and unreasonable, I live three blocks from | the road and am assessed $16, and all | | on our side of F street about the same, | but nobody on the opposite side of the | street has received a notice of such an | | assessment. I cannot see where T will reap any greater advantage from the improv {ment of Benning road than my neigh- | bor acros the street or those North- {west. or any other part of the city. Neither can I see why I should be assessed for thai road, when my own | street is unpaved; I am more interested in having my s paved than the i widening of a distant road. Resurrection Chapel, two old frame | houses on the corner of Fifteenth and | Gales, is assessed $93.42 for this road. | We have just paid $130 for the paving| of Gales street, a hold-up in the long struggle to get money to build the church, and are still a long way from| our goal. I think the assessment on | that property is highway robbery, and cannot see what benefit will be derived by the church for the widening of the road. a block distant. I do not see any justice in assessing some people in the neighborhood who are not on the rcad for what either the Government or the whole city should pay. The people from Maryland | using the road to Maryland se located on the road are the only ones in my estimation who will benefit by the improvement. VIRGINIA D. FITZH - UGH. Gibson’s Speech Held Tine Start for Peace From the St Louis Post-Dispatch. The preparatory disarmament com- mission has made an impressive start by reason of the address of our Ameri- can Ambassador to Belgium, Hugh Gibson. As Mr. Hoover's spokesman, Mr. Gib- son made it plain that the United States was ready for drastic reductions, ( that it was wedded to no particular formula, but was prepared whole- heartedly to enter into any equitable program. Substantial results are what are wanted. Methods are secondary. The old notion of “gun-for-gun and ton-for-ton” is discarded. The special necessities of different nations are to be recognized. Within the tonnages agreed upon the signatories are to be allowed broad freedom of judgment as to the size and number of units in| the various categories. _ Mr. Gibson's address was a declara- “tion of peace. Reference was made to the Kellogg pact. The renunciation of war as a national policy has, it was argued, cleared the atmosphere and made effective accomplishment possible. The nations can now undertake dis- armament on the basis of prospective | friendliness rather than of prospective | | hostility. Old fears and suspicions may be junked. ‘The most striking para- | §iaph in the American's speech was 57 e f we are honest, if the solemn promise of our pact means anything, | | there is no justification for a continu- ance of a war-taxed peace. Great armaments are but the relic of another age, but they will remain a necessary jrelic until the present deadlock is broken, and that can be accomplished only by a decision of the powers pos- sessing the greatest armaments to initiate measures of reduction.” There is sincere good will in Mr. Gibson's words. Optimism is war- ranted. The cause of disarmament has gim given momentum. The dream of ace has taken on th RS e outlines of s Canadians Make Good In U. S. and Elsewhere From the Ottawa Journal. Many epic tales have been penned about men who came to Canada as penniless immigrants and proceeded to reach the summits in politics and fi- nance. Less has been told of Cana- { dians who, lured to other lands, have risen to great eminence in their adopt- ed countries. ~Yet innumerable cases ! jcould be cited. ~Recently, for example, the press carried an announcement that James Couzens, senior United States Senator from Michigan, had given $10,000,000 for the promotion of child welfare, _How many know that he is a Cana- dian—a preduct of Chatham, Ontario? Then there is Arthur Cutten, Chicago wheat king. Cutten was born and reared | in Guelph, his father being a law part- | ner of the father of Hon. Hugh Guthfla‘ And only a few weeks ago Ottawa en- tertained Prof. Shotwell, the man who wrote the Kellogg peace pact and a dis- tinguished son of Ontario. The truth is that United States uni- versitles and finance teem with Gana- dians. You will find them holding chairs in the republic's. great seats of learning, as captains of industry, as masters of finance. Some—as witness the late Pranklin Lane—have risen to eminence in politics. And as in the United States, so in Britain. Very few Canadians have emi- grated to the British Isles, but the pro- portion’ of that few to achieve success has been extraordinary. In politics, in | journalism, in finance; in all of these walks and in others, Canadians in England have been a brilliant success. Some time, perhaps, when we again come to commemorate some anniver- ry of confederation, we should have an Old Home week for the whole of Canada—a weck when all our exiles | abread might return for a visit to the land of their birth. It would be a memorable, an illustrious gathering. r———s Tennessean Strike Significant in North/| From the Utica Observer-Dispatch. There is significance for New York and New England in the strike of 2,000 men and women in a rayon corporation at Elizabethton, Tenn. The strike is for an increase in wages ranging from 15 to 30 per cent. ‘This is significant because textile mills have been moving or establishing | branch plants in the South where labor | conditions, it has been explained, are more favorable than in the North, These favorable conditions include lower wages, longer hours, lack of State laws designed to protect workers from fire hazards, unhealthy working condi- tions and other evils, Some of the labor laws of the North are reasonable and some of them are needlessly ex- pensive and unjust, but the South is notable for the lack of laws of either kind, 8o the mills have been moving South. This strike is one indication that the history of the rise of industry in the South” will repcat the history of the North. If wages are decidedly lower in the South than'in the North, it is nat- ural to expect that the workers will seek to bring them up comparably with those of the North. Reports from the South indicate also that labor legislation, such as work- men’s compensation. laws, is bein, agitated. Probaibly such legislation wifi come much quicker in the Soutl than it did in the North, because of the ex- perience and example of the North Factories and mills had no such legis- lation of consequence in the North for many years. It will probably be differ- ent in the South. It need not be surprising, therefore, if the labor advantage of the South will be wiped out within a rather short period of years. If the South can still talk of its nearness to the raw product, the North can speak of its presence at the great markets. As for power rates, the North, with the St. Lawrence and with coal, need not be at any great disad- vaniage. Morcover. the history of man has al- ways said that the most and best work is done in climates which are not too ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDER This is a_special department devoted to the handling of inquiries. You have at your disposal an extensive organiza- tion in Washington to serve you in any capacity that relates to information. Write your question, your name and your address clearly and inclose 2 cents in coin or stamps for reply. Send to the Evening Star Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, director, Washing- ton, D. C * Q. What is the national anthem of Russia?—K. A, A. Among the national airs of various countries is listed “The Hymn of Frec Rus published by the State Pub- lishing House, Moscow, Russia. Q. What is the tallest building in the British Empire?—C. T. A. The 23-story Royal York Hotel, in Toronto, Canada, is said to be the tall- est. Prince Henry is to be present at its official opening in June. | Q. What purpose do eyebrows serve? ~R. K. | A They prevent perspiration from | falling into the eyes | Q. What per cent of the money spent in maintaining a college is paid out in salaries?—D. K. A. Expenditures for solaries of teach- ers amount to approximately 75 per cent of the total current expenditure | for elementary and sccondary schools In colleges and universities it consti- tutes a somewhat smaller part. or ap- proximately 60 per cent of the total spent for operation and maintenance. Q. What boundaries were given in the treaty with France when the Loulsiana Purchase was made?—A. C A. In the treaty providing for the Louisiana Purchase there was no defi nition of the boundaries of the terri tory. When the American commission- ers insisted upon a definition of the extent, they were informed that the boundaries were the same as they had been when the land was in the hands of the French, that is, according to Barthier's original treaty of retroces- | sion. It included Louisiana west of the Mississippl, Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa. Minnesota west of the Mississippi, the Dakotas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Montana, most of Kansas, Indian Territory and Colorado east of the Rocky Mountains. Q. Ts emery cut from stone or is it a manufactured product?—C. W. A. Emery is a mineral. It is a com- mon dark granular variety of corundum, | containing more or less magnetite or | hematite. On account of its great| hardness, it is used in the form of pow- | der, greins or larger masses for grind- | ing and polishing. } | | Why Is it not practicable to Tun automobiles with natural gas?—M. T. . The Bureau of Standards savs that automobiles could be run succ: fully on natural gas, but the gas wou'd have to be compressed into steel cvl- inders which would add considerable weight. The amount of .natural gas ecquivalent to five gallons of gasoline would require enormous containers if it | were not compressed | Q. How fast does the brain grow? | —W. J. A. At birth the brain weight is about one-third of the weight at m: turity. The increase is very rapid dus the first year; i after this it becomes very slow. maximum weight is attained in man between the fiftieth and sixtieth years | \ and in woman between the fortieth ! Lessons Drawn by Press From | Mongolian ancestry?—C. & {golian_or Tartar ancestry. | tanks and 30 smaller tanks. IC J. HASKIN. ,and_fiftieth years. A premaximum lof 13 to 15 for males and of about |14 for females indicating a too vig- |orous growth seems to be the most |important _ccrise of death at this age. At the end of the eighth year when the braii has almost completed its | growth, the body has reached to a third of its mature weirht. At birth the brain forms 12 per cent of the total weight of the body, while in the adult it forms 2 per cent or less. Q wmtnis “the largest city in . with a population of about the largest city in Africa. here was Tara?—4. P. ra is the name of & hill in Meath, Ireland. It was here t triennial convention of the ! Irish s was established by Oilam | Fodlah, about 900 B. C. According to tray on the palace of Tara was 900 feet, square. containing 150 apartments and 0 dormitories. The early kings of Ireland were said to be crowned here and tradition further states that Tara at the time of the advent of St Patrick to Ireland was the principnl seat of Druidism in Ircland. It is said to have been abandoned through the curse of St. Ruadan, 450, on account of its idolatry. Q. Are the people of Finland of ir 800,000, is | Q wi A Coun| b M. What are popularly called the Finnish people are actually three divi- sions of & mixed race, the eastern Finns inhabiting parts of Russia and Asia exhibiting strong Mongolian traits. The western Finns appear almost entirely “aucasian with slight traits of Mon- The Finns of Finland show a mixture of Caucasian nd Mongolian blood. All Finns are classed as white people. Q. How many tanks ere there in the New York Aquarium?—D. H. A. This aquarium in Battery Park has 7 large floor pools, 89 large wall There are also 26 reserve tanks containing speci- mens not on exhibition. Q. What is the weight of the Statue | of Freedom which tops the Capitol at | Washington, D. C.?—D. G T. A. This statue weighs 14,985 pounds. Q. Was Pocahontas baptized into the Christian religion?—S. M. E. A. She was baptized in the Episcops! Church at Jamestown some time befor> she became the wife of John Rolfe. Q. When the subject of & sentencs tains two pronouns such as “He or 1" what should the verb be?—F. P. A. When two nouns or pronouns conneeted by a disjunctive pronoun (or) form the subject of a verb, the English idiom requires sgreement with the sec- ond or last. Such constructions aro awlward and can often be avoided. Q. How high can a boy pole vault?— T. M. A. It devends on his ability and The record of pole vaulting collegiate athletics is 13 feet 6 The junior outdoor champion- ship pole vault is feet 3% inches. Q. Is it difficult to send a boy to Elon?—L. M. A. Boys in England are registered for Eton almost from the date of their birth, and the registration is usually full for years in advance. Q. Is Avery Hopwood living?—B. A. A. This American playwright died Frence, July 1, 1928, at the age of 6. in inf inches. Picture of Sinclair in Prison Since Harry F. Sinclair began serv- ing 90 days in the District of Columbia jail for contempt of the Senate the press again has reflected the satisfac- tion of the public over finding that “a hundred million dollars actually can be locked up.” Through the comment, too, run suggestions that the oil magnate has done himself no harm by the way in which he is taking his punishment. “In an era when we fear a rot at the roots of character,” says the Detroit News, “it is encouraging that the Harry Sinclair of today feels the abasement. Probably he would trade it all in— power in the oil world and the $100,- 000,000—to be the old Harry again, young, free and clean. As to the public side, the time to be vindictive about it has passed. Not only a million, a hun- dred million, has been convicted in this country! Let it go at that.” 7 “When he arrived at the District of Columbia jail,” the Kansas City Journal- Post observes, “he rode in a limousine, preceded and followed by a retinue in tomobiles. But he could not hire anybody to do his bit in jail. For once there was no substitute who would be | acceptable to the authorities, altheugh there were doubtless persons Wl would willingly have offered them: selves, either for hire or out of ‘pure spirit of toadyism. But for once the | doctrine of equal rights to all and special privileges to none withstood in- sidious assaults. Harry F. Sinclair and he alone must serve in jail. * * * He was assigned to assist the jail druggist. There is no elaborate soda fountain, and the serving of refreshments is no part of the duty of the jail druggist. It is an old-fashioned sort of place, which dispenses simple but effective drugs to jailbirds. But it beats a rock pile as a means of spending 90 days. Harry Sinclair is lucky, even in the hour of his gloom.” * ok K K | little notice. serves. At 50 he finally reaches his place on a prison cot. It is a sad re- flection on the legal machinery of the United States that it should require more than half a decade to bring the termination of a case of this sort.” The Anniston Star wonders whether Sinclair will get out before the 90 days have e pired and whether “his ‘stay there be made comparatively easy?” However. the Utica Observer Dispatch remarks that “his punishment is the disgrace that attaches to his imprisonment.” Survey of War Gains Made on Anniversary From the Terre Haute Star. The twelfth anniversary of America’s entry into the World War passed with Among_the references to the date down at Washington were assertions by two members of Congress that the great conflict was fought in vain. George W. Norris. Senator {rom Nebraska, was one of the La Follette group which voted against the declara- tion of war. He is the lone Senate urvivor of that band. He stated that he had no regrets over his attitude in 1917 and that he would adopt the same course again. Representative * Britten of Tllinois, airman of the House naval commit- tee, said that the war had been fought in vain, since the world had not been made safe for democracy. He predicted that it will require 500 years to over- come the disaster of the war. ‘That estimate, of course, is nothing more than one man’s guess. Mr. Britten, it will be recalled. sought to ignore diplo- matic_precedent by writing directly to the British premier about naval arma- ment. Many attempts have been made to gauge the results of the war in the light of world peace and a permanent “But Mr. Sinclalr,” advises the Hart- | ford Times, “is not a prisoner like John | Bunyan, exactly, or the ‘Man in the | Iron Mask’ There Is a disgrace con- | nected with his plight, which weighs | heavily upon him and ahways will. He | feels it keenly, and the country thinks | the better of him because he does.” The | Chattanooga Times, viewing the 0"1 case as & whole, suggests: “Whether the | result of the criminal trial would have been different if he had not defied the Senate committee can never be known. But it may be reasonably assumed that Harry F. Sinclair, as he lies upon his cot or walks the floor of his cell, spends much time trying -0 anderstand how it happens that he zlone of all that oily | bunch happens to be in prison. 1t may | also be assumed that a great many other people are thinking simiar thoughts and are coming to th con: clusion that the Government luburl'd‘ and brought forth & mouse. * K K “In the public min by the Buffalo CourierEx S| clair has come to be a symbol rather | than a man—a symbol of corrupt rela- | tions between big business and polities, | a symbol of arrogant confidence in the power of money to prevail over law and justice.” The Little Rock Arkansas Democrat, addressing the prisoner from its editorial page, says: “Maybe, when you get out you will have learned that | there is just a bit of justice left in this | world, If you have learned that. then | your ‘martyrdom’ will not have been in | 1 | vain.” “It is not always, perhaps not often, declares the Omaha World-Herald, “that the sms of powerful and promi- | nent people are so severely punished and the public right and interest 5o | handsomely served. | But there does come a time, now andthen, when Truth | is saved from the scaffold and Vice is kicked off the throne, Such occasions, especially when they are so notable as this one, bring encouragement to old- fashioned folk who retain their faith in the theory that crime is crime, no mat- ter who commits it, and that govern- ment is dedicated to honest and faith- ful service.” “Sinclair was 44,” recalls the Santa Rarbara Daily News, “when he defled the Senatg's authority, to p.otect him- sell und&hers who, like him, had a hand in tR: grab ab the Naton's oll 1e- | nations where popu order of self-governing states rescued from the patctiwork of Europe’s auto- cratic regime. The conflict was not a success if weighed by the assurances of guaranteed peace, or gauged by the number of men now under arms or the cost of armament budgets. It was not successful in automatically assuring | the full rights of citizenship, of free speech and religious worship to all minorities. On the other side of the ledger, how- ever, are movements toward the goal | of peace scarcely dreamed of before | the guns began to roar in the late | Summer of 1914. The League and the | World Court may be controversial sub- jeets in the political fleld. but they mark a step never attempted before. International hatreds and jealousies may remain, but experience has dem- onstrated the terrible price of war. and thus the world conflict acts as a partial eterrent, The will for peace exists now as never before, and it must be respected in those opinion still finds ips of the type rns Italy may create p to peace, but they will pass. tion of armament is discu progress has been achieved. Science has made the prospect of another war so terrible that countries must pause to weigh the possibilities of arbitration. The pessimist can find arguments to support his contention that the same hatreds are sowing the seeds of the next war. The last one left its fail- ures. But it was by no means entirely utile. et He Almost Has 1 Cup! From the Toronto, Canada, Daily Star. Sir Thomas Lipton again challenges for the America’s Cup, but whether this denotes courage or mereiy & habit firmly acquired s & matter of opinion. v — Nature’s Laws Have Teeth, From the Long Beach Sun. Explosion of a still wrecked a fine home in Hollywood. The laws of nature, as well as the Jones law, have teeth. o Talking Movics St expression. Dictato l" Young. From the Halamazoo Gazette. The talking movies are still in thele Pes) haps that is Wy they lspy