Evening Star Newspaper, May 20, 1929, Page 8

THE FEVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, TH EVENING STAR __ Wiih Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON. D. C. MONDAY. . May 20, 1929 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor The Evening Star Newsp: Bustaess O 1 a Ave. New York Ofice: 110 East 42nd ‘St Chicago Office: Lake Michigan Building. European Office; 14 Rexent, St.. London, n aper Company | ! | rrier Within the City. ‘] .. 452 per month | 60c per month | [titerally from coast to const. as evi- | denced by shoals of commendatory let- | |ters and newspaper articles. Crime, because of its “human inter- | est” appeal. peculiarly lends itseif to | radio discussion. A radio speaker must | humanize both himself and his theme to grip th> attention of the air audience. Crime, as an absiract subject, can be handled- fascinatingly over the wave lengths. It need not be glorifizd, of course, it will not be, nor preached against too vocifcrously as a purely morzl proposition. Mr. Hoover's inau- gural address and his Assoclated Press | speech supply the keynote for the Na- | 65c per month 5c_per copy | e eril of (ach menth. | by mail or telepnone 1 made at de at ih or be sent in Main 5000, I—Payable in Advance. vland and Virginia. Uyr. 10001 mo.. M s + $400] 1 mo.. Rate by M. Ma Daily and Sunday pail o 25c e Sundar only 40¢ ANl Other States and v aud Sundas..1yr. 812 Canada. n: 0: 1 mo | 1 1 Member of the Asso The Associated Prass is e ion of iated Press. oly entitled w ts of publicarion of | e also reserved. | “Benefit" Assessments. i After planning the step for fourteen ! years the Disirict government is pre- | paring to widen Benning road morth- | cect from Fifteenth and H streets to | Oklehoma avenue, condemning some ' land to increass the width of the thor- | oughfare from ' forty-five to one hun- | dred and ten feet and levying benefit | nents @eainst other parcels to pay | t for #1o condemnation. o road, overtaxed by heavy traffic. should enod. In addition, the project is in accordance with the high- District. ! led benefit assessments | in a storm of protests | from property owners in the wide area | thet is affected. They will take the ! matter into court, and while the prin- | ciple of the law is against them, the merits in the case are vet to be argued. | Public sentiment undoubtedly will sup- | the property owners. The lag should be changed. | These are facts in the case: ! The property to be condemned for th: widening has been valued by & con- | demnation jury at $196,142. | Benefit assessments, or assessments | levied against property owners in a large | area contiguous to Benning road for the | alleged benefits accruing to these prop- erty owners from the widening of Ben- | ning road, will produce $113.243. | The balance of $82,899 will be paid ! out of general revenue of the District | and appropriations for that purpose | may be asked in the 1931 estimates. | The weakness of the law, in these | modern days. is the assumption that | any real benefits are going to accrue to | the owners of property in an arbitrarily fixed assessment area, simply because | the street-widening project will increase | the use of the street as a traffic artery— which is the case on Benning road. In letters to The Star, written by property owners against whom special assess- ments have been levied, the fact is de- veloped that some of the property is | as much as six blocks away from Ben- ning road. One cass mentioned is the | Resurrection Chapel, which must pay a special assessment of $93.42 for widening Benning road, a block distant. How can it reasonably be argued that these property owners are to reap any more benefit from the widening of Benning road than property owners in | the downtown area, for instance, who might be merchants shipping or receiv- ing produce over this road? Why is the property owner, two or more blocks away from Benning road, whose prop- erty lies on an unpaved street and who | does not own an automobile, to be aseessed speclal costs for a street-widen- | ing project that has as its general pur- pose the better accommodation of | through traffic? On the other hand, is there not strength in the argument that an owner of a residence along a traffic artery is actually damaged by a project to send more traffic along that artery? The noise, the smoke and the elimination of | the street from all considerations except those demanded by trafic undoubtedly lessen the value of the property for residence purposes, a loss that may or may not be offset later by increase in commercial value. As Benning road is by no means an important residential street, the argument may not directly apply. But the principle remajns. ‘The Benning road ‘case will be watched | with interest. If the property owners | lose. attention should be directed to modernizing an antiqugted law. If they win, the District government should in some manner be enabled to proceed to the completion of a necessary project without calling on a group of disinter- | esied property owners to bear the major | part of the cost. Smaller currency will save time in meeting expenses inasmuch as it can be couned out a little faste —— et e n of Radio and Crime. It would he difficult to conceive of | & greater practical use for radio than | that to which the magic medium of the air is about to be put in aid of President Hoover's crusade against | erime. William 8. Paley, president of the Columbia Broadcasting System, has offered the full facilities of the Colum- bia’s country-wide network in the drive | the administration projects against law- lessness in the United States Mr. Hoover turned the proposal over to the Department of Justice, where- upon Attorney General Mitchell noti- fled the Columbia organization of his readiness “to take advantage of so pub- lic-spirited an offer.” The plan is to present over a network of broadeasting atations each week a prominent and authoritative speaker on crime. who will relate to the radio audience “the true | facts regarding the sordidness and | bestiality of erime.” Mr. Paley correctly states that “radio has long since proved its effective- ness as a medium for creating pub- lic consciousness of any subjeft thus brought before the people.” The Star's own experience during the past two months with the Saturday night Na- tional Radio Forum corroborates the Columbia executive’s view. The speak- ers of national distinction. who have keen discussing from week to week the | the underworl | Philippines and the other island pos- | producers of sugar because there s no tional radlo discussion of crime. The President assails crime from the stand- woint of its destructive influence upon the foundations of government. Para- phrasing Lincoln, Mr. Hoover might well say that the United States cannot exiat haif-lawless and half-law-abiding. | With the Depariment of Justice, the | National Crime Commission, an unoffi- cial but highly influenial body. i to | co-oprrate in portraying to the country | by radio the necessity for public war- | fare on crime. Speaking as a lawyer, Newion D. Baker, an active member of the comm: on, points out that the Columbia Broadcasting System essays a highly constructive enterprise because, “to aid the States in revising their now highly complicated criminal codes, it is necessary to educate the public as to tize needs of such revision.” Radio, infan® of the arts, clears for action in its swaddling clothes in as splendid a ficld of public endeavor as it has vet tackled. Bootleggers, racket- eers, thugs and crocks of all descrip- tion—capitalistic as well as denizens of e face to face with a new and deadly, fos. will out. { | The microphone | “iefch” them, if they don't watch e Sugar Duties. Sugar dyties in the new tarift bill, in- | creasing the rate of the existing law, have caused an uproar. The opposition to the increases comes mainly from the sugar producers of Cuba and from large consumers of sugar in the United States. The demand for the increases is made by the producers of sugar beets and | rane sugar within the boundaries of continental United States. The situation with regard to the tariff on sugar is perhaps the most com- plicated which confronts the legislators. In 1928, Continental United States pro- duced 20.82 per cent of the sugar used in th's country. Hawali, Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands supplied 23.1 per cent; the Philippine Islands 8.59 per cent. Cuba supplied us with 47.05 per cent, and foreign sugar made up the re- | maining .53 per cent. Sugar from Ha- | wall, the Philippines and other island possessions of the United States come | into this country duty free. Sugar from Cuba, while it pays duty, has a prefer- ential rate grewing out of the reciproc- ity agreement entered into between the United States and Cuba after the Spanish-American War, in which Cuba obtained its freedom with the ald of | the United States. ‘The domestic producers of sugar not only have to meet the competition of Cuban sugar, which has preferential status so far as the duty is concerned, but they have also to meet the com- petition of sugar fromt Hawaii, the | | sessions of this country which pay no duty. On the one hand are the farm- ers in America, who produce sugar beets and cane sugar in Louisiana and Florida. On the other hand is the great consuming American public, which | must have sugar for its coffee every day. | ‘The question arises whether the con- sumers of sugar, including the farmers as well as the rest of the population, are 10 be asked to pay more for their sugar or whether the producers of sugar in | ihe United States are to be given a| price for their sugar which will enable | them, not only to earn a fairer re- | turn, but also encourage them to in- crease their production. The new tariff bill as drafted by the Republican members of the ways and means committee of the House grants an increase in the duty on sugar. It does not, however, impose any duty on sugar which comes in from the Philippines and Hawaii, nor does it restrict the amount which may be ship- ped In duty free from thosc islands. | The American beet and cane producers will have to meet the Hawalian and | Philippine competition just as under | on sugar, therefore, is likely to aid the | sugar producers in both the Philippines | and Hawali, giving them a still greater | preference over the sugar producers in Cuba. | It has been variously estimated that | the proposed increase on sugar will add | to the sugar bill of the American public something between $100,000.- | 000 and $150000,000 annually. At the same time ft is urged that, the increased duty will not benefit to any very great extent the American | | restriction on the flood of Philippine, | Hawaiian and Porto Rican sugar. Cuban suger in the last ten years has constituted from @643 to 58.18 per cent of the sugar comeumed in the United States. About 75 per cent of the Cuban sugar crop is marketed in this country, and about $750,000000 of American capital 1s invested in the Cuban sugar industry. Under the conditions outlined it is clear tnat there will be a real battle | in Congress over this proposed increase in sugar duties. Indeed the sugar sched- ule as written in the Hawley tariff bill tands in greater danger of amendment, | perhaps. than other features of the bill. | i When a gunman goes to jail he iA} naturally inclined to go as far as possi- [ble in selecting & solid structure with | | plenty of guards to prevent intrusion by | old-time acquaintances. ———— A Songbird Takes Flight. Two generations of American music lovers will mourn the passing at Berlin on Priday of Mme. Lilli Lehmann, aged | eighty ycars. Like so many brother land sister artists, Mme. Lehmann, | [though born and cducated abroad, ! | achleved the pinnacle of her fame on | our soil. She made her first appear- | | ance at the Metropolitan Opera Housc in New York on November 25, 1885. On the third night of her engagement it became amply apparent that a voice of magnificent prowess had come to us from across the sea. Mme. Lehmann’s | inging of Brunhilde in “Die Walkure” | | burning issues of the day. have aroused 'n that occasion established a fame both in the United States ahd through- out the world. All over this country she was in in- cessant demand. years, almost without interruption, Mme! Lehmann delighted great audi- cnces in Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Buf- falo, Boston, Chicago, St. Louis and other centers of American musical cul- ture. We almost adopted the German songbird as our own. On her part Mme. Lehmann revealed a deep fondness for and appreciation of American life. “I am bound to my friends here,” she once said, “by tles of sympathy and gratitude. How can I express ell I feel for the endless kindness lavished upon me?"” Mme. Lehmann's artistic career rami- fied back to the active days of Richard Wagner, whom the great soprzno met for the first time at his home in Bay- reuth in 1875. During the next vear she was privileged to sing in the “Nibe- Only six years previous she made her debut as the First Boy in “The Magic Flute.” London acclzimed her as Vio- letta, and later as Mignon. Her vocal vigor was prodigious. She was singing gloriously through her sixties, and was teaching effectively until within a few | months of her death. Friends frequent- ly spoke of Mme. Lehmann as “elghty years young,” so rich and brilliant were the soprano tones which her golden throat was still capable of producing. On the occasion of reaching the oc- togenarian’s allotted span, last Novem- ber, the President of the Austrian Re- public, Dr. Hainisch, conferred upon Mme. Lehmann the coveted and dis- tinguished title of Professor, in token of | her many and well remembered per- |} formances at the Viennese Imperial Opera and at the famous Mozart fes- tivals in Salzburg. ‘The name of Lehmann takes honored place in the scroll of American mem- ories alongside those of Patti, Caruso, de Reszke, Eames, Calve, Nordica and the other luminaries of the divine art they adorned and enriched. ——— The terrific explosion in Cleveland, ©Ohio, which liberated deadly gases has brought forward much serious and in- telligent comment on the havoc that may be wrought in the next war—com- ment which gives point to the asser- tions of many wise men to the effect that there is not going to be any next war. Even war becomcs recognizable as an impractical folly. ———— A sapient opinion is attributed to Mayor Jimmy Walker to the effect that after-dinner speeches are not likely to elect a man to public office. In a few practical political circles the before- election speech is not regarded as hav- ing much influence, either. e A Clyde Van Dusen, the Kentucky Derby winner, is the son of Man o' War. Any good horseman will tell you that heredity means more than environment: et the protection and development of | good environment means much. o~ Harry Sinclair is working at his old business of pharmacist, but not the kind of pharmacist who may have to let a prescription wait while hs sells rouge or confectionery. — et An extra session extending into next December may permit hopes that old friend Santa Claus will find a way to contribute something special. —easea. ‘The old romantic songs beginning, ‘Come, Fly With Me,” take on new significance when Col. Lindbergh goes a-courting. ——ome. Manufacture of a silk substitute from plants has caused strikes and given the | vegetarians something new about. to worry — As yet there are not enough guaran- ees of durability available to create much of a demand for “used” dirigibles e SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. TImported Climate. Prom Little America comes the great thrill, As Byrd sends us word from a snow- field so still. the present law. The increased duty A spot that of yore seemed so far, far | away, Sends radio speech in an instapt, toda: And even of weather that they have down there, | They've sent us enough and a little to spare, While birds of the May with skill, From Little America comes Chill! time are warbling the Big Indiscriminate Candor, “Ought you not to express yourself with absolule frankness on all occa- sions?™ “I can't feel that way about the mat- ter,” answered Senator Sorghum. “Tell- ing every one you talk to exactly what you think is merely a persistent and needless way of looking for trouble.” Jud Tunkins says when you think maybe you're a little overworked, it migh: be a good idea to go to the nearest fountain and see how the soda water clerks have to keep up speed. Speed Dream Fulfilled. He 100k a reckless driving chance. It cheered him not at ail, they say, To travel in an ambulance At speed that claimed all rights of way. Foreword and Afterthought. “Why don't you marry?” “Because,” answered Miss Cayenne, “I would rather go on hating friends say ‘Why don't you?' than take the usual chance on their saying, ‘Why did you?' " “Wickedness is nothing new,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown. “History is, in large measure, composed of th2 chionicles of crime waves.” Alphabeticism. The Alphabet will ever be A problem somewhat new. Hard was the childhood ABC, And worse is IOU. “Dancin’ is mo’ polite dan =cme ~{ de 2in’,” said Uncle Eben, *'caq: d don’t have to be no rough wouds (O §° 4o them a papular interesy apreaging which was to soar to dazzling helghts with " v | For four successive | BY “Ta, ta!” said she, with her brig smile. T usually don't rezq 'y column because it is so domestic, but I like the book articles.” Well, well, well! nature of these, our daily writings, just because one wise-cracking maid might lize them beiter some other wa We know thousands of nice young ladies, and nice middic-aged ladies, and nice old ladies, like us just as we are, without one plea. | have thousands of male readers who ‘take an iaterest in what may be termed, for want of a better word, things domestic. It is to be suspected that our gay young friend has a rather too broad for the word. To her, it means everything away from the bright lights of downtown and | lungenring,” under Wagner’s own baton. | night clubs and “wise-cracking.” The term and focuses all | enter into such a ! ception of happy 1 the views of tho: life. A quiet life—a domestic, life if you will—is an ideal with thousands of people, as little as our bright maid might_ believe it. Such know where they can get all the noise and confusion any one might wish. They, too, find a place in their lives for such things, but it is not a large place. It must be admitted that smart- rleck conversation, bright lights, “parties,” jazz music, etc., do not weigh much on their minds. ‘They do not personally care very “wild party” gathers up the elements which ‘OuUNg person’s con. ving, as opposad to who prefer a quint in them is purely academic. book is more to be preferred, accord- ing to their way of thinking, than all he “shows” in the world. They had rather hear Fritz Kreisler play one number than listen to even the best {dance orchestra from now until | doomsday. * ¥ % X | The reactions of domestically in- | clined men and women are based rather ‘on the likes and dislikes of maturity | than on the preferences of youth. | "There ir a time in every person’s life | when he sincerely believes that youth should control the world. Youth! Poets have sung of it; Conrad, the novelist, wrote & story about it. It is the fashion to laud youth as if no other time of life had any merit in it. Even Sir James Barrie in one of his whimsical essays intimated that the | governments of the world should be put under the control of young men. Youth itself often feels the same way about it, but the truth is that only a few young people are capable of doing things in a big way. Maybe the fault lies in the slow edu- cation of the human young. Of recent years there has been an unmistakable movement afoot in all parts of the world to shorten the preparatory period of youth and plunge young men and ‘women into actual life upon their own resources years before such participa- tion was thought possible a decade ago. Youth itself often mistrusts its own abilities. Honesty is high with high- minded youth. The precious art of {blufing has not yet Dbeen learned, or only in part. Many a young man or woman would be the first to say if offered a great position of responsibility, “No, I am not fit for it—yet.” * ok ok % Maturity comes to one at eme age, As children of the wilderness, Demo- crats in these times must extract joy out of life wherever they can find it. Especially the Wilsonians among them find comfort in the fact that the three Federal agencies now in the limelight are each and all the creations of Demo- | cratic Congresses during the first Wil- | son administration. They are the Fed- | eral Reserve Board, the Federal Trade | Commission and the United States Tariff Commission. Every one of them is functioning full might at this witch- ing hour. The Reserve Board is the St. George that is grappling with the | | dragon of speculation. The Trade Com- | mission, with its sweeping survey of the activities of power interests, is giving one of the most effective accounts of | itself ever rendered. The Tariff Com- | mission, thanks to recommendations by President Hoover, is on the thresh- {old of a new and more useful sphere of accomplishment. Democrats point with pride to this trinity of legislative | progeny and dare the Republican foe to match it with constructive achieve- ments bearing the G. O. P. hallmark. k. ‘William M. Jardine, former Secretary ' of Agriculture, isn't allowing any alfalfa 1o grow under his feet. Not satisfied with being general counsel of the Fed- erated Fruit and Vegctable Growers and chairman of the board of a banking and trust company, Jardine has now invaded radio. He has become president of the Radlo Service Bureau, which is about to pioneer in a brand-new fleld— that of providing experienced technical, as well as legal, assistance to the ever- increasing army of broadcasting sta- tions and communication companies. With Dr. Jardine will be assoclated C. M. Jansky of Minnesota, an eminent radio engineer, whom President Cool- idge appointed a Federal radio com- missioner, but whom the Senate did not get around té confirming. Theé purpose of the Jardine organization is to render first aid to the entire radio industry in its relations with the Federal Radio | Commissicn and other governmental agencies. ““Bill" Jardine, jr., is active in his father's new venture. The former Secretary of Agriculture put radio on | the map as far as the farmers are con- | cerned. * ok K % Former Senator James D. Phclan of California 1s a visitor to Washington, | and renewing memories of the days, | during the war and after, when he was | one of the powers in the Senate and | | the Democratic party. The San Fran-| ciscan is sure to pay his respects at the | | White House before leaving town. Per- { haps Mr. Phelan will recall to the brother Calif¢rnian who now occupies | the presidential chair the scheme with which he (Phelan) w. for President i which that | have just, crumbled—the | | the Democratic candid that year. The walls wit histcric plan was h like the plan itself di old Shoreham Hotel in Washington. There in a private suite Democratic power wielders sat one night at dinner, i Midwinter 1919-20, and highly re- | solved that the former fogd adminis- | trator was the party’s winning card for | 1920. But (he card turned up in the| other deck. Timeliness is given a Lindbergh story. | not widely known. by the misfortune: of the Graf Zeppelin. “Lindy” was sit. ting in a New York movie house one night a vear or so ago looking at the news-reel pictures of the Zeppelin that { flew to America and along the Atlantic | seaboard at about that time. ‘Gee.” the ! colonel ejaculated to a couple of young men in his party, “I'd hate to travel in anything like that!” : * ok ok %k i Robert P. Lamont, Secretary of Com- | merce, has decided to become a house- holder in Washington, and to that end | has just purchased a beautiful home | on the outskirts of Rock Creek Park. He becomes a next-door neighbor of John Hays Hammond on Kalorama Irond in a section that long has been | filling up with notables. Nearby Her- bert Hoover lived for seven years. Just arcund the corner, on Wyoming aveaue, too. all of whom | We take pride in the fact that we evi- ¢ imuch for such things. Their interest | i A good | | eeive. THIS AND THAT ARLES E. TRACEWELL. { to another at another age, so that there our | is no precise point which may be spoken | | of 1 As near as we may come, in figures, 1t is about 30 years old. There is a sobering influence in that | got there. When one was 28 and 29 !years old he thought nothing of it. | He wondered why so many elderly per- sons did not like to be reminded of their birthdays. “What difference does it make?” he thought. But that was when he was ‘The morning of his thirtieth birth- somchow s:emed sei apart. hy, he was getting old! And this too. derpitc the preach- | ments of the busy optimists. who b; mere words would hold back the over- whelming fiood of the years. With years comes wisdom, however; ot jeast some approach to it. The deroga- tory inflections sometimes included by vyouth in the word “domestic” give place fo the sensible definition as applied to ths anim: “Living by habit or special training in association with man.” 's greatest task, in the art of liv- iving in association with man. He can get along with the trees, and with the winds, and with the rivers, and {even with the beasts of the field. buf not always can he get along with his fellow men. Nations with nations, races with races, neighbors with neighbors—each and every one often makes lamentable failure of associations. Great wars speak volumes of the inabllity of man to get along with man. One may readily believe that certain of the animals, such as dogs and cats, | and even cows, have learned the lesson better than man himself. Yet every residence neighborhood in every city, small town and hamlet gives hope to those who believe in human nature, It is the domestic life, wherein man lives amicably with man, “by habit or special training.” which enables the believer in the human species to point with pride. ‘The “wild party” may end in a fight, and often does. but home life—and we speak of the rigit sort of home life, of cour: is its antithesis, Love and affection are more to be desired by the average human being at maturity than “pep.” | Decent, sane conversation is better, 1o those of normal rearing, than any amount of flip repartee based on in- civility and lack of respect for others ‘The small things of life, which make up the victorious progress of domes- ticity, are known by their devotees actually to be better and more worth while than much of that which passes as “snappy” in the so-called bright lexicon of youth. ‘The trouble with youth's far-famed lexicon is that it is too bright. It re- serves no place for suffering and sor- row; if all is not gay and happy, it tries to forget, and thus makes others suffer. Champions of the domestic life, such are the makers of American homes, such are the great proportion of those who read This and That, It is at once our pride and distinc- tion that we have appealed to such We ask no better audience, nt no other. Such people find in the simple things of | a swester melody than “I'm Cr-a-azy for You.” They know that the word “domestic” comes from the Latin “do- mus,” & house, and has come to mean with English-speaking _people—home, the most beautiful word in , any language. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE is Chief Justice Taft's home. A block away is Justice Harlan F. Stone's resi: dence. W n G. Harding moved out of his private dwelling in the same re- gion to enter the White House. It's just leaked out why President Hoover made the Chicagoan Secretary of Commerce. Lamont’s a Scotchman only once re- moved—his father was a Highlander. iy v Official Washington's bible—the Con- gressional Directory—is out in the first edition issued during the Seventy-first Congress. One of the Senate's wise- crackers insists that the joint commit- tee on printing has paid a delicate trib- ,ute to the Vice President by publish- ing the volume “in the official color of the new administration—Gann green.” Inspection indicates that the longest autobiography is contributed by a new Senator—Frederic C. Walcott, Republi- can, of Connecticut, who takes more than half a page to narrate his various claims to fame. They include “close as- sociation with Mr. Hoover” in Belgian and Polish relief work. Senator Walcott also reveals that when the Polish Re- public was formed, M. Paderewski of- | fered to make him Polish minister of finance. * % ¥ Congress’ threat to fight it out on the farm relief and tariff lines, if it takes all Summer, knocked the plans of many foreign Ambassadors and Ministers at Washington into a cocked | hat. Ordinarily they hie themselves to salubrious Summer embassies and le- gations on the seashore, or to other cooler parts. This year several of them | expect to remain on their jobs at the Capital because of their respective coun- tries’ abiding interest in legislative ael-‘, velopments, _especially the _tariff. group of prominent Senators, too, in- stead of vacationing in customary haunts, has arranged to establish & bachelors’ hall in a suburb of Washing- ton, and camp out until certain dies are cast on Capitol Hill. The words “special | session” are beginning to be used by | statesmen in unparliamentary accents. (Copyright, 1929.) Friendship of Sha And Tunney Is Topic| From the Atlanta Journal. 1f we may accept unqualified the ob- | servations of numerous foreign corre- spondents, nothing but Providence can hercafter separate George Bernard Shaw and Gene Tunney. Their inti- macy, any way it is regarded, secms rc- markable. Of course, the meeting has been talked of for months and many have found time to wonder rather idly what Shaw and Tunney would think of | cach other, what they would talk about | and what the news writers would be able to make of it. But no one expected such immediate and apparently profound friendship. We fecl now as if we should avert our eyes, rather than stare too curiously at this queer spiritual union between an aged aramatist and a young Olympian hero. Periaps each has found in the other omething the world has failed, for all steady, unblinking regard, to per- haw, of cowse, is an inveterate showman, but he never before professed uch genuine e: 'm for a fellow human imply (o beguile the curious and Tun- for his part, has thoroughly demon- trated a scorn for what is thought of him by any one. So ihoy sit together of an evening. Lis oddly attracied pair, utider the ‘ear Ttalian sky. and talk of philosophy and tie stars and the roar of the crowd, perfectly muted by distance. They have found their mulual delight, it appears, in the surf. “A favorite turn to their excrise s to cease all muscular effort and float, faces upturned to the warm sun, life as easily and placidly iself.” Tt is all a bit incon- ‘nks whimsically of the | haw haard. i b of bl » n. Even a sage eannol maintain | L dignity in the waler. | Exprosse | For German Nation To the Fu.ior cf The Star: In considering certain _ assertions made by Dr. Schacht and Dr. Voegler t the experts’ conference in Paris, it {is merely fair to ‘state that, a year jago, when I was in Berlin, I was in- formed that Germany had only been We stubbornly refuse to change the | age which cvery onc has felt when he |able to pay her reparations with the .slance of mcney borrowed abroad, an expadient which must inevitably |lead to national bankruptey. It was further implied by my in- formant that. in her despair, Germany | might be driven into an allicace with Soviet Russia—an alliance which_all law-abiding Germans would ceplore, !and which would be disastrous to both Germany and ber_aliied adversari nd quite possibly fatal to the Britis smpire. | "The " menace of this world-wide | calamity should make us all doubly | anxious for a satisfactory {of the reparations question. One of the most massive and im- posing buildings on “Unter den Lin- den” in Berlin, fs the Russian Em- ba the relgn of Frederick the Great. BERTRAND SHADWELL. Tammany Seen Acting Up to Its Real Nature From the Albany Evening New Tammany is Tammany. It will stay Tammany. It may have taken an up- | ward leap and under new management | put some new goods on the counter— goods that were all wool and a yard wide—but it is going to bid for the trade and the trade comes from the braves. Tammany has gone back to ! its old ways, taken down its preten- tious store front and put up the old sign. | For eight years or more it has been | under a different kind of leadership. : Now it has selected as its chieftain | John F. Curry. He is a district leader, an old-fashioned Tammany man, a { hard fighter who knows district politics. | It has not listened to Senator Wagner | or Surrogate Foley and former Gov. | Smith had no voice in the selection. | Tammany evidently is tired of talk of | statesmanship and would keep to its | role of politics and see that its war- riors get the scalps. It expects to re-elect Mayor Walker on the 5-cent-fare decision. It will, however, alienate some of the n*w sup- port that it has had. Democratic pa- pers in New York do not take kindly to the naming of Mr. Curry. For few years Tammany basked in the name of a “New Tammany.” But if it was new it was only outward- 1y new. Evidently it could not keep to the new ways. It longed for the old war paint and the old headgear. It did not feel comfortable in the silk hat or even in the brown derby of the later vintage. So Tammany is now frankly Tam- many, choosing & leadership that will live up to the old traditions that will | campfire hot. e {Unredeemed War Loans ! Benefit Uncle Sam €rom the Boston Evening Transcript. When the Liberty bonds were being marketed and quickly snapped up, for | patriotic and other reasons, it was said of the enormous distribution of these secutities, reaching as it did into the humblest homes, that it would provide a liberal education for the peopl would teach them the convenience and safety of investment in Government se- | curities, and generally would familiarize them with financial transactions in | which they never had participated be- {fore. It would train them also, it was asserted, to look after their money and to keep an cye on their investments. This was a good doctrine, and we would not controvert it. Nevertheless, we are moved to a word of comment over the announcement from Washing- on that, notwithstanding all the Lib- riy loans and Victory notes have ma- tured and no longer draw interos some $40,000,000 worth of them remain outstanding. In other words, this is to much money loaned to the Governmant without interest; a most altruistic bro- ceeding, if handed over to Uncle Sam exactly businesslike as a matter of pe:- sonal financing. Of course, death and many ohter factors have contributed to this conditicn of seeming national care- lessness; but we imagine that scorss of our citizens, not the least intelligent of them either, might dip into their safe deposit vaults, and their desks and bu- | reau_drawers, and find a great many | hundreds, if not thousands of dollars |tucked away in wartime paper, | which they have only to ask for the cash to get it. White Clothing More Visible to Car Driver From the Des Moines Tribune-Capital. ‘The General Electric Co., which may be suspected of having a little inteiest in the matter, but which is perfectly frank about that part of it, has con- ducted a series of tests to find out what chance a pedestrian has of being seen by the driver of an approaching au- tomobile in an unlighted street and also in a lighted gne. ¥ On an unlighted street a pedestrian dressed in dark clothes was barely vi: ible 100 feet from camera and automo- bile, the auto’s headlights being high. On an unlighted street a man dressed in gray clothes was partly visible under the same conditions as above. On an, “adequately lighted” street the pedestrian, of course, was much more visible regardless of the color of his clothes. But in any of the tests clothes ap- proaching white greatly increased vis- ibility. On one test a man in all white with a white handkerchief in his hand was satisfactorily visible at 100 feet without street lighting. So the lesson is either to light streets adequaely or to put men in white suits. Or perhaps it is to stay off unlighted strects. or to keep a sharp eye out for B.!pprttmchml autos when on such a street. e ———— ! Indians Fooled Whiu;s With Imitation Ship BY E. E. FREE, PH. D. How a tribe of clever Indians in Briuish Columbia once astonished Euro- pean visitors by constructing what was perhaps the most remarkable imitation steamship ever built was described re- | cently by F. A. Pauline, agent gencral | of British Columbia in London, in an | address at the Imperial Institute in | that city. In 183G, Mr. Pauline said, what is beleved to have been the first steam- | ship_ever used on the Pacific Ocea ihe Thames-built Beaver, rounded Cap Horn rigged as a sailing chip, was re fitted at Vancouver with paddle wheels and entered a long and well remem- the Hudson Bay Co. On one of her trading trips up and down the coast the Beaver put in at a group of Indian villages, where she aroused extreme in- terest among the natives. On rcturning some months later to these same villages, crew of the Beaver were astonished to see approaching them over th> water what seemed to be a small but per- fect copy of their own ship. Paddle wheels beat the water, a sleersman stood at the wheel, even a thick cloud of wood smoke rolled out of a minla- ture smokestack. What had happened, Mr. Pauline explained, was that the and white man’s contrivance, had copied And World Welfare, settlement | —a former palace dating from | bring_home the bacon and keep '.h“i There is no other agency in the world | {that can answer as many legitimate | auestions as our Free Information Bu- | reau in Washington, D. C. highly | organized institution has been built up | |and is under the personal direction of | Frederic J. Haskin. By keeping in con- {stant touch with Federal bureaus and other educational enterprices it is in | | bosition to pass on to you authoritative | information of the highest order. Sub- | mit your queries to the staff of experts whose services are put at vour free dis- | posal. ~ There is no charge except 2 | conts’in coin or stamps for return post- age. Address The Evening Star Infor- mation Bureau. Frederic J. Haskin, di- i rector, Washington, D. C. | Q. How many acres of made land are there along the lake front in Chicago? | Where was the dirt obiained’—E. H. A. The Chicago Chamber of Com- | meree says that there is a total of 783 acres of made land along the wa! ont. The South Park Board has filled {in 600 acres and the Lincoln Park Board 183 acres. The material used for this filling in has been obtained from various places—dredging of the Chicago {R.ver in straightening and widening | projects. dredging of Lake Michigan {and general city waste. The top layer of soil is obtained from farm lands. | Q. What is the food value of whisky? —A. A H. A. The only food value in whisky is {in the alcohol which it contains. If a small quantity of whisky is ingested, the alcohol probably will be burned and converted into heat and energy before it does much harm to the organs of the body. As a rule the harm done by whisky to body functions far over- balances any food value which the al- cohol therein contains. 1In fact, the| food value of whisky is nil. As whisky | has no food value except in the oxida- tion of the alcohol, the number of | calories arising from this oxidation is| s0 small as to be negligible. | —_— | ©. When did France finish paying! her war indemnity?—M. L. B. | A. According _to a treaty of peace| ending the Franco-Prussian War. | France was to pay to Germany a war | indemnity of 5.000,000.000 francs ($1.- 000,000,000). The last installment of lih'l ‘a_;;r indemnity was paid Soplember‘ Q Hog old is the art of engraving A Engraving dates back to the an-| | clents, but the first authentic engraving {of which there is any record was that of St. Christopher, 1423. Reiffenberg claims to have found an| earlier one, dat>d 1418, and a manu- script discovered in the middle of the eighteenth century gives reason for be- | lieving that the art was known as early | as 1306 in England, but there has been | too much controversy concerning those | | prior to St. Christopher to accredit the | earlier ones. Q. Who dis | Islands>—A. B. | A. The Philippine Islands were dis- icovered in 1521 by Ferdinand Magal- | haes, | Q. Are there any famous Rus:ian, Japanese or Chinese violin makers?— {C. M. B. A. The C. H. Ditson Co. says: “We | have never teen any celebrated Rus | slan, Japanese or Chinese violin makers. | We have no record of ever having heard {of the Chinese making a violin, and| the instruments made by the Japs are of the very cheap commercial quality. | The violin took root in Japan during | the late war. However, since peace was | declared Germany and France have Baron de. covered the phmppmcf.mn' ‘sheepmen in parts of th ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. are some good makers there. None them. however, seems to have been out standing. " Q. For drip coffes how finely should the coffee be ground?—R. O. J. A. Coffee for it should be ground the same texture as fine cornmeal. chould feel a bit gritty when rul between the fingers. Pulverized coffs ground as fine as fiour is too fine. nrats together and prevents the fri penetration of water to extract flavor. Q. How may coral beads be cleaned{ “ga A Coral beads may be cleaned dissolving a teaspoonful of borax in pint of warm water. Dip the coral ang When clean put through tepid water. Q. When was the lighting of streety inaugurated?—A. M. A. Some form of artificial light mus have been in use for domestic purpe from the very earliest times, but thoug! large cities and a high state of rivil zation existed among the Egyptian: Greeks and Romans, the systemati lighting_of streets Wwas unknown them. From the writings of Libanius, however, who lived in the beginning structed in R and _perhaps moa the fourth century after Christ, may conclude that the streets of native city, Antioch, were lighted by lamps, and Edessa, in Syria, was simi. larly illuminated about A.D. 500. modern cities Paris was the first tfi light its streets. In the beginning of the sixteenth century it was much in. fested with robbers and incendiaries, that the inhabitants were ordered .| 1524 to keep lights burning after o'clock in the evening before all fronting a street. Q. When were roller skates inventedd —F. P. A. The roller skate was patented 1 Tance as early as 1819, but it was perfected in its present form until 1874 Q. Is “The End of the Trail” availy able in bronze?—S. A. H. A. The American Magazine of says: “Mr. Fraser's widely known ‘En of the Trail, designed for the Panam Pacific Exposition of 1915 (and_sin that date continually pirated in shame less commercial brigandage). is now last being put into permanent shape bronze at the behest of an Ameri connoisseur.” Q. When is the National Spelling Contest to be held?—M. B. A. It will be held in the auditori of the New National Museum May 21 2 o'clock. Q. How are the sizes of Women's stockings determined?—A. M. A. Size 8 is 8 inches from top off the toe to end of the heel. Each larges size is a half inch longer. Men's hose are measured in the same way. Q. Why are a few goats kept with g flock of sheep?—W. W. A. It has been a common practice e Wesl to keep goats among the sheep on the | assumption that they would be more aggressive in driving off dogs or preda~ |tory animals. They are also useful as leaders of the sheep. Just how suce cessful this practice is. is not known, so far as the goats’ ability to drive off dogs or predatory animals is concerned. | It is known that losses from this source joccur in herds where these animals are | kept with the flock. | Q. _What is the new plan of the Ital- lan Red Cross for raising money?— W. W. T. A. The Italian government has au- ihorized the inauguration of & Red Cross day. It will be celebrated for the | furnished practically all of the cheap | first time on June 15. On this day a instruments for America, and the Japs | tax of 5 per cent will be levied on rafl- at present are out of the picture. We |road tickets, theater and movie admis- have no records of any well known |sions, sports meetings and other publia on | bered career as a trading steamer for | the captain and | village Indians, not to be outdone by | an extremely popular instrument all; through Eastern Europe, and doubtless thousands of them have been con-' Russian makers. However, the violin is | functions. The proceeds resulting from Cross the tax will be given to the Red for peace-time activities, particularly health and welfare work. 5 | Notwithstanding the action of the | ratlroads in making a temporary redur- i tion of freight rafes on wheat at Presi- | dent Hoover's suggestion, the press re- ' of | |flects a gencrally pessimistic view | the outlook for satisfactory disposal of the new American crop and the great surplus carried oyer from last year. As explained by the St. Louis Globe | Democrat, “as soon as the railroads’| | decision was known in Liverpool and reports were printed ates on grain, already lower than ours, | might be further decreased, that city reduced its offers for wheat by just about the amount of the rate reduction, and the St. Louis and Chicago quota- tion went down in proportion to Liver- pool's. However, other factors than the freight rates are found. On farms and in elevators and othcr storage 461,000,- 000 bushels of wheat gre now held in | the United States, 91,000,000 bushels more than last year, and Canada holds | more than 160,000,000, and the new harvest is not far a { with its harvest just o | large quanti r, is offering | Who knows but what without the freight decrcases?” “[f rival export countries counter | with similar shiping concessions,” sug- | | gests the Indianapolis News, “the prac- | tical influence of the plan is far from | certain. | gions, like our own. has a larger ca |over of the grain than usual. * * 1t is too soon to forecast what is going to happen in the Argentine acreage in 1929, but the American and Canadian outlook is good. The surplus problem | consequently deserves all the atention it is receiving. If untoward climatic developments in Europe affect produc- | tion there and raise the import demand. | the pressure of this issue will become less. That was the case in 1924." * x ¥ X | Sharp criticism of the growers comes | from the Providence Bulletin, with the | advice: “Despite plain warning to the | contrary, the wheat growers go right| ehead overproducing and putting tm-| plicit faith in the capacity of Europe | | to absorb their surplus. For 25 years— | with the exception of the abnormal war | years—Europe has shown increasing in- | | dependence of our wheal growers' ef- | forts. In 1927, wheat production there | was within 80,000,000 bushels of what |it was before the war. Last vear gentina. Australia and Canada raised {880,000.000 bushels. Russia, China, In- |dia” are increasing their output. A! European countries are expanding their | fields to meet their domestic demands. nothing daunted. the American rower continues to raise more than he ows what o do with " Because prices were not high last year." recalls the Grand Rapids Press “farmers and middlemen preferred to | hold and warehouse the surplus, hoping {for better luck this vear. But instead the surpluses from other wheat-produc- ing countries have been piling into the | foreign ports in record quantities. With the freight handicaps of American Midwest farmers, it has seemed suicidal to attempt moving wheat into this{ glutted foreign market. The railroads. | appreciating _ this despair. have at-| | tempted to reduce freight costs and en- | | courage shipping. The continued drop | |in prics measures their success.” ““Holders of surpluses in Canada. Aus- | tralia, Argentina and the United States are in a panic.” the Spokane Spokes- | man-Review declares. “and are engaged | in the ruinous game of underbidding | each other in the European markets.| It is not vet demonstrated that the wheat growers will receive much benefit | | | | |er | the Beaver in every possible detail, even 15 the smoke produced by burning leaves | freight rates to Lai i at the bottom of a bark smokestack. Indian powe 3 diove the miridture poddle wheels in- stead of sieam power, from the temporary reductions in . Guif and Atlantic | inty that our pro- ¢ Northwe't, who| corrésponding” re-- _injured. For the | It is a g aci ¢ not bees ductions, have Argentina, | _ wheat would have gone much lower %1 Each of these producing re- ! Ar-| d | talkies will ?Freight Rate Reduction Helps, :But Wheat Problem Not Solved to help him prosccute a war, but not | | present at least they are holding the¢ | wheat sack.” The Philadelphia Evening Bulletin concludes that “the one fact that stands out of the complex situation like a sore thumb is that the bounty of nature has not simplified the task of the Hooves administration in redeeming its prome ises to the farmer.” % X ‘The present wheat emergency is § that Canadian | 800d illustration of the defects of graim marketing facilities which do not proe vide against the seasonal or annual upe and downs due to the grower’s necessity of marketing his crop regardless of mariceling conditions,” contends the Topeka Daily Capital, and this paper points out that “if lower transportation costs result only in similar reductions in Canada and correspondingly lowes price offerings from Argentine sellers, the only immediate benefits will go to foreign ~consumers at the expense of raflroads rather than sellers.” “The slash in rates comes at a time,® ys the Sioux City Daily Tribune, ‘'when the terminal elevators are loaded with farm products owned wholly by e big buvers and speculators. The individual farmers have little of their own crops at this time. However, % did not take Liverpool purchasers long to absorb almost the entire cut tm freight rat It is a great gante and s a timely warning to the individual farmers that the ultimate buyers wilt absorb the entire freight savings if the farmers are not organized to properly market their products.” Epr. “Talkies’ Are Described As Aid to Stage Growth From the Louissille Courier-Journal. Amid all the volume of controversial opinion about the “talkies,” what ape pears to be a clear and sensible view cmanates from Al Woods, the veteran theatrical producer. “What the talkies or sound pictures will eventually come to.” Woods believes, “is that there will = spoken parts for the important xes, while the remainder of the cture will be silent.” he sourd picture, of course. is in ita infancy and it is not fair to be unduly the product of the new in=- s admittedly crude in <" Scme “falkies.” indeed, have hown themselves to be works of art, often understandabie in their entirety. But even if all the now apparent flaws eventually were removed. the third di- mension " and the lifelike convincing quality of the material semblance atill would be lacking. Until the art of sound reproduction is revolutionized, the scenes of the be mainly confined to & Studio, and the public, having become accustomed to beautiful outdoor pho= tography. will not readily give it up. Not the finest “sets” can iake the place of natural scencry. Indeed. the beauti= ful silent motion picture is an article much to be preferred to the finest “all= talkie " As the sound films are perfected and interjected dialogue becomes more popu= lar, theatrical producers need not fear that these productions will altogether supplant the offerings of the legitimate stage. “The talkies are sure o educate many milllons to the fact that the hu- man voice is of tital entertainment value.” says Al Woods. Naturally, that will mean” mors patrons for the spoken drama. — - Where “Ignorance Is Bl From the Winona Republican{Herald. Tt's just as well that th> amateuy gardener, laboring with his spading and planting. doesn't know how all the bugs and worms ars laughing at hixe