Evening Star Newspaper, May 27, 1929, Page 8

¥ THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor The Evening Star N ‘Bust 11th 8t a New Yor! Cot an Buildine. London, higs nt Bt.. X c GO S the City. 43¢ per month 60c per month 85¢ per month d each month. t in by mail or telepnone Main 5000. Rate by Mall—Payable in Advance. Maryland and “t‘r olnlll‘. " - . . 8¢ foc 40c er States and Canada. A . 312 00: 3 mo. a0 Daily ont: e Sunday only Member of the Associat Tne Acsociated Press i exclusiy epubiication O thes S3dlied 10 It ar not otherwise crod- Tt (his paper and aiso fhe'itcal news el All rights of publical Bbecial aiSpaichas herein are aix —_—————————— A Week in the Air. Two exuberant Texans are receiving the congratulations of an amazed America today. Yesterday afternoon they brought their airplane, Fort Worth, to the ground for the first time in more than a week, and entered the names of Robbins and Kelly into the book of fame for aviation achievement. Before the flight started few people had ever heard of the two pilots. Nor did any one take seriously their attempt to break the record for sustained flight of the giant Army plane Question Mark, which, backed by all the resources of the Government and ridden by a picked crew of fiyers, soared over California for gix days. Robbins and Kelly had had little experience in the air. Ome of them had “taught himself” and the other was a transformed raflroad me- chanic. ‘Their ship was an old one. The single motor had more than five hundred hours to its credit. Yet for seven days, four hours and thirty-two minutes the Fort Worth rode through the skies, staying aloft twenty-one hours more than the Question Mark and covering approximately ten thou- sand miles at sixty miles an hour, with & total of seventecen refueling contacts. And so Robbins and Kelly now have the unique distinction of remaining in the air ionger than any other human be- ings and ef shattering every record for single-motored, dual-motored and tri- motored planes and lighter-than-air machines. How much more satisfying and val- uable is such a record compared to the attempts, whether successful ar not, to cross the ocean in land planes! Science has a direct interest in the mark set up by the two Texans. Science can learn little from a transatlantic fight. Kelly and Robbins were forced to descend be- cause their propeller had been nicked by hail. This, in itself, should be an $8.00: 1 m: $5.00; 1 mo.. ed Press. ively entitled T Tews dls- forward as “director of personnel,” who not only will arbitrate all incidents accruing from the late unpleasantness at Elizpbethton, but serve as a court grievances in the future. Mr. Willson, who has to his credit the settlement of the grave trouble in the Passaic silk industry in 1927, is apparently to be clothed with the same sort of judicial powers as are vested in Mr. Jacob Bil- likopf, arbiter in New York's great gar- ment-working industry. Upon a young woman official of the United States Conciliation Service, Miss Anna Weinstock, Elizabethton is hang- ing the laurels for bringing its rayon war to a close. She arrived in “Happy Valley,” as the Southeastern corner of the Tennessee mountain country is known, a fortnight ago, with orders from the Secretary of Labor to end the struggle. She worked in secret, and almost single-handed she succeeded in | obtaining from the mills a proffer of settlement much more conciliatory than any theretofore put forward. It was considered at a meeting of the workers at a series of week end meet- ings, and late on Sunday afternoon was accepted. White-winged peace now hovers over Happy Valley—happy, at length, in a very real sense. The lesson of Elizabethton outstrips its local significance. What has hap- ! pened there—both as to inception of the controversy and the manner of its ending—can happen elsewhere, and doubtless will. But the country has had a splendid object-lesson in the efficacy of conciliation, when it fs effectively managed. Elizabethton and Anna Weinstock are symbols which will not soon be forgotten. . The West Wins Again, Come East, young man, to win the National Oratorical Contest! For the fourth time in six events the West has triumphed over the North, the East and the South in capturing the prize for silver-tongued oratory and the words that go to make it. Ben Swofford, eighteen-year-old youth of Kansas City, awarded the victor's silver cup on Saturday right by the five dis- tinguished members of the United States Supreme Court who decided that he was the best of the eight con- testants participating, is to be con- gratulated. ‘Those who heard him Saturday night in the Auditorium .or through the millions of radio sets tuned in on Washington witnessed his final victory. But that victory becomes more sig- nificant with the realization of how great and how many have been the battles that preceded it. Those who saw and heard him Saturday night were interested merely in the efforts of the eight young men and women who spoke. Each of those had tri- umphed in previous contests which in- volved nearly two million persons— about a million and a half having actually competed in preliminary trials, and half a million more having taken part as judges. Eight schools were represented in the contest Saturday night. But those eight were the for- 8 THE FEVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €., MONDAY,” MAY 27, 1929. : _— ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS the deadlock s broken, is not particu- larly bright. By Tuesday night the House will have passed the tariff bill. The meas- ve....May 27, 1920 |0f appeals for adjudication of any|ure then goes to the Senate, where it will be referred to the finance com- mittee, That committee has not turned a wheel, although it is understood hearings will be necessary. The plan of those who support the recess of Congress is to leave the Scnate com- mittee to hold hearings ad infinitum on the tariff bill while the rest of the Senate and all of the House has its vacation during the entire Summer. This may be a pleasant program for the Congressmen. It is not likely to appeal so much to the business men and to the farmers who are looking to a revision of the tariff to aid them. Uncertainty as to the final form of the tariff bill when enacted into law has always’been unsettling to business Increases in tariff duties on farm prod- ucts have been regarded as one of the principal means of bringing a better deal to the farmers. The great mistake which this Con- j gress has made, apparently, is delay. Obviously, the Congress was called in special session to deal with matters of immediate importance to the country. Otherwise these matters could and should have been left until the open- ing of the regular session next Decem- | ber. ‘The program of legislation has been allowed to fall behind schedule. This is due partly to political maneu- vering and partly to a failure of the Republican majority to recognize its party responsibilities. Had there been no procrastination and no political maneuvering Congress might well have completed its labors by July 1 and gone on its vacation with the knowl- edge that it had accomplished the work for which it was called in session. If Congress finds that it must re- main in Washington through the Summer months when the rest of the world is taking a vacation, it has itself to blame. Certainly it will receive little sympathy from a country which has been promised prompt remedial legis- lation, - Aviation will, according to Henry Ford, be impossible if laws cannot be so enforced as to prevent the risk of drunken pilots, A true airman does not care for drink. The immediate problem is to keep bootleg addicts from trying to manage the steering gear of a flivver. ———— Chinese women are no longer com- pelled to squeeze their feet in order to be identified with aristocracy. In this country women are no longer expected to pinch their waists. Civilization pro- ceeds on anatomical as well as inteilec- tual lines. oo There is no limit to what may be done with poison gas—except the limit which common sense must impose on riotous imaginations bent on spectacula. destruction. Camera men are not welcomed by Harry Sinclair. Not being in the mo- important lesson to the manufacturers | tunate ones emerging from & hard- |on picture business, he has no use for of propellers. The Question Mark came | fought battle in which nearly twenty- | the pupiicity. down because the rocker arms on the valves wore out. Profiting by this ex- perience, Robbins and Kelly ingeniously fashioned a “cat walk,” probably first of ifs kind, around their single motor so that the valves could be prop- erly greased. When they landed the engine was humming as sweetly as it ‘was when they soared aloft and is good for many more hours of flying. So the epochal flight of the Fort ‘Worth has taught valuable lessons, be- sides being the kind of a test that in- spires confidence in aviation. It showed that refueling ships in the air is emi- nently practical, even without the elab- orate equipment used by the Army with the, Question Mark. Only five gallons of the seventeen hundred or more were gpllled in the contacts. It showed that the engine trouble encountered by the Question Mark can be overcome by the exercise of a little ingenuity. And final- 1y it demonstrated that propellers must be constructed of sturdier material if they are to withstand the bulletlike impacts of hail, rain and particles of dirt, The Question Mark descended be- cause of engine trouble. The Fort Worth came down because of propeller trouble. The next attempt to break the record may show some other defect, but a defect that can be remedied as easily as the fiyers of the Fort Worth greased the rocker arms on their motor. It is well within the bounds of rea- son that within a comparatively short time a monstop round-the-world flight may be made. The Fort Worth covered almost half the distance in flying over Texas and while, of course, the weather variations were not as severe as they would be in circling the globe, the ship easily rode through them. Several proj- ects of this nature are already on foot and the plaudits of all civilized people are awaiting the first to achieve it. r——— The Senate is being urged to candor in facing the fact that none of its sessions has been and probably never will be genuinely secret. B A Victory for Conciliation. In the Department of Labor at ‘Washington there is a subdivision im- mediately under the Secretary of Labor's jurisdiction called the United States Conclliation Service. As its name implies, its functions are those of a peacemsker. Its aspiration is to compose labor differences, without re- sort either to strikes or lockouts, and, where these occur, speedily and as amicably as possible. At Elizabethton, Tenn., the concilia- tion service has just achieved one of the most notable successes in its whole career. It has brought to a clcse 2 long-smoldering ‘and bitter controversy in the rayon industry. For several months two thousand man and woman workers have been on strike. At times matters assumed critical aspects. For some weeks units of the Tennessee Na- tional Guard were on duty to preserve a peace incessantly threatened by the acrimonious difference between the war- ring forces of workers and employers. On Saturday these differences were settled and the old employes of the Glanzstoff textile mills today are back on their officially declared the peace terms is the installation by the mill- n im- partial nerson,” to be knowa hence- The .prospect for the farmers, unless call it sweet somow. American Bemberz and the strike Outstanding among fobs, off. owners of Mr. E. T. Willson, Y to end them as one thousand schools had been entered. Young Swofford is a victor among vie- tors. He 'wears a laurel crown, but more honors than usually fall to the lot of one man, or woman, in a life- time. Mr. Swofford has upheld the honor and renown of his sex. Only once, in the five previous contests, has woman triumphed. And while it would be ungallant ‘to say that this proves any- thing, it is at least comforting to a world of men who constantly are re- minded that woman's place is in the home—and out of the home and any- where else she chooses to go. Twice the oratory champlonship went to the Far West, twice it has gone to Kansas City, which is out where the West be- gins, and twice it has gone to the South. Shades of Daniel Webster! ‘What have become of our orators of the North and East? But let that pass. Mr. Swofford no longer Tepresents a section of the United States. He becomes America’s defender in the international contest to be held in the Fall, for which some twenty-two nations are now preparing their representatives. May this be only the beginning of the triumphs that lie ahead! 7 ‘The victorious candidate is the son of a real estate man and he wants to be a newspaper man. His knowledge of the Constitution will serve him well if his hopes materialize and he be- comes & member of the Fourth Estate. That document needs strong and virile defenders. Welcome to the fold, young Swofford! May printer's ink flow long and free to catch and hold your words! ——oe—s. All England is congratulating itself on the fact that the Prince of Wales is luckier with airplanes than he is with horses. e Costly Delay. Congress is talking about shutting up shop for a three-month recess this Summer. The tentative program, if such & recess is adopted, calls for a return of Congress about September 15. It postpones the passage of the tariff bill until an even later date, perhaps in November. The legislators, includ- ing both Senators and Representatives, feel the call of home, of forest and stream. In other words, they want a vacation. ‘Whether they have earned a vaca- tion is a matter that the country will decide for itself. The Congress was called in special session April 15. It had two principal tasks to perform. One is the passage of a farm relief bill and the other a revision of the tariff. Although the session of Con- gress has lasted already six weeks, the Congress has no record of achievement of which to boast. The farm bill is deadlocked in conference. The sup- porters of the export debenture plan insist they will hold the measure up “until the snow flies” unless the House will take & vote on the debenture prop- osition. whether the House takes such a vote bill President Hoover would veto venting all farm legislation. It is well understood that or not the debenture plan is frowned upon by & majority of the House and that, if it were included in the farm the measure. The attitude of those who are demanding the debenture is un- tenable unless they are desirous of pre- . Fashion notes indicate thfit on some bathing beaches a coat of tan will be the | those whom he vanquished have won regarded as full dress. S B SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Eloquentiasis. An orator, well understood, ‘We listen to with. pride. Yet there is some one just as good Upon the other side. And while we seek a master mind Upon the waiting list The orator, we often find, Is but a vocalist. 'Mongst those for eloquence well known, No tenor wins the race, It's well to be a baritone, Or, better still, a bass. Reverberations long and deep Will lull the listening ear, And if they soothe us 'most to sleep ‘We'll still wake up and cheer, In public speaking we shall see Great intellectual gain, For those who use the voice will be Compelled to use the brain; And some day we & point shall reach ‘When all men will be taught To be expert in public speech And even more in thought. Economist. “Have you any new ideas about public economies?” “Yes,” answered Senator Sorghum. “I'm trying to figure out an efficiency scheme that will give the Government the benefit of time now being squan- dered on cross-word puzzles.” Jud Tunkins says that since a boy aviator lit on his hay rick, there's no use tryin’ to tell him there’s no such thing as luck. Impending Vacation. A statesman said, with courage strong, To work he is inclined; But when & hot wave comes along, 1 know he'll change his mind. “Parents,” sald Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “should strive to be worthy to be obeyed by their children.” “Some of us goes fishin’,” said Uncle Eben, “simply because when house cleanin' comes on, dey jes' gotta go somewhere.” raons Bad Hit, Bad Miss. From the Louisville Times. The Neighborhood Cynic says he struck at a fly with a swatter yesterday and smashed an $8 vase, which makes him wonder whether he should not be credited with a sacrifice hit at any rate. Should Know Chance. From the Detroit News. The fellow who held on too long in the bull stock market is out at the ball park these days, encouraging the run- ner to try to stretch a double into a triple. r——— e And Columbus Was Jailed. From the Seattle Daily Times. Records at Genoa indicate that it cost only $6,000 to outfit Columbus for his famous voyage of discovery. The hard part of it is that Spain has nothing to show for the investment, as small as it was, ——————————— With Enthusiasm. From the Dayton Daily New making but $000 a week now. If we could do that kind of lamentin, 1 i THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. ‘There is more than one way of being ungrateful. Perhaps the greatest ingratitude is not that for a gift or a service, as boorish as such may be, but simply the failure to be appreciative of the good points of one’s own state in life. Founders of this Nation were exceed- ingly wise when they established ‘Thanksgiving Day, when all men might pause for a few hours to think of the gratitude which they owed. Almost every one knows some person who inflicts a perpetual grouch upon the world, largely because he has never reflected that gratitude. in order to be such, must be reflected in deeds and words. It is not enough to be secretly grate- ful if one spills a perpetual gloom upon his home, friends and office mates. There is many a business establish- ment made fretful by a churlish worker who seems to have a spleen against mankind, yet every one knows that he is one of the most fortunate of men. He may be a successful young man who has gotten ahead, in the popular sense, years in advance of his age— that is, he has got to a point reached ordinarily only by much older men. He has a beautiful wife, splendid children, nice home, car, radio—in fact, all the establishment which modern Americans have combined to think es- sential for a successful and happy life. He may be admired by all his friends and associates, stand high in the com- munity, be marked out for further ad- vances, yet all these advantages and advances do not prevent him from being gloomy. * K K % Such distillation of cheerlessness upon others marks an ungrateful man. Perhaps it is not customary to look upon such a person in such a light, but we are convinced that it is the only fair way. Oyne does not have to be either a communist or a soclalist to feel sure that one owes a debt to society, and { that he especially owes it to those with whom he normally comes in contact. Clownishness is not here considered. The false merriment which perpetually “pokes fun" at others .is not real cheerfulness, but a spurious form of gladness benecath which thousands rankle in secret. & Between the common custom of jok- ing and gloominess the sensible man would much prefer the latter. The gloomy man at least minds his uwn business. No, it is evident that every person owes something to others, and the easiest, cheapest and the best way, everything considered, is by being as grateful as possible and treating oth- ers as decently and as courteously as possible. In speaking of ingratitude, care must be taken not to confuse it with dissat- isfaction. It is a healthy sign of pos- sible progress to be dissatisfied. Most men are dissatisfied, take it for a fact, although perhaps not many of them will admit it. Factors over which they have no control make the success they long for impossible, or almost im- possible. They are shrewd enough to know it, but like to fool themselves as well as others with a show of satisfactiori; but if you get them by themselves in a mellow hour they will “spill the works. Often the blustery concelt which one meets in typical cases is nothing on earth but a big bluff of the person concerned to fool himself, and the world, too, if he can, into feeling that he surely will arrive at the goal which his saner judgment tells him is impos- sible. WASHIN BY FREDERIC President Hoover is maintaining & hands-off policy in the feud between the Federal Reserve Board and Wall Street. But he has a peculiarly close tle-in with the board because one of its oldest members, Adolph Caspar Miller of California, is a member of the Hoover inner circle of Washington friendships, When the President was Secretary of Commerce and lived on § street he and Miller were almost next-door neighbors. The Federal Re- serve official was appointed to the board originally by President Wilson in 1914 and reappointed for another 10- ear term in 1924 by President Cool- dge. Mr. Hoover regards his. brother Californian one of the financial best minds in the country. At innumerable breakfast parties in pre-White House days he and Miller were wont to dis- cuss the economic state of the Union as events affected it from time to time. Mr. Miller is & university profes- sor by occupation. He has taught economics, history and politics at varl- ous times at the Unversities of Call- fornia, Chicago, Harvard and Cornell! Just before going to the Federal Re- serve Board Miller was Assistant Sec- retary of the Interior under Franklin K. Lane. EE R Still another American has been drafted into the service of a European overnment. ‘The latest is. Arthur P. Bfl\'ls of California, director of the United States Reclamation Service from 1914 to 1923. Mr. Davis has been en- gaged by the Russian Soviet govern- ment to organize a reclamation service throughout the vast desert acres of Turkestan, the former Transcaspian region now known as the Turkoman Soviet Socialist Republic. The main occupation of the population is agri- culture, based mainly on irrigation. The Moscow authorities belleve that a sys- tem of irrigation such as is in opera- tion on the plains of the American West can turn Turkestan into a land flowing with milk and honey. Davis embarks upon the task with enthu- siasm, though he is in his sixty-ninth year. He explored the irrigation pos- sibilities of the country in 1911. Until recently Davis was chief engineer and general manager of the Oakland (Calif.) municipal utllity district. W Instead of belng Hooverized, the ad- ministration is being steadily Harvard- ized. On May 24, at one fell swoop, the President bestowed major appointments upon three sons of Cambridge—Joseph P. Cotton of New York, as Under- secretary of State; Col. Theodore Roose- velt of New York, as Governor of Porto Rico, and Charles P. Cisson of Rhode Island, as Assistant Attorney General. Previously three cabinet portfolios were bequeathed to Harvard men—Col. Henry L. Stimson (Harvard Law), Sec- retary of State; Charles Francis Adams, Harvard '88 and treasurer of the uni- versity, Secretary of the Navy, and ‘Walter F. Brown, Harvard '92, Post- master _General. Last month Dr. Julius Klein, Harvard '13, was named Assistant Secretary of Commerce, and a day or two ago Dwight F. Davis, Harvard '00. became governor general of the Philippines. * K K K Many Washingtonians mourn the passing of Mrs. Julius Rosenwald of Chicago, wife of the multi-millionaire mail-order merchant prince and phi- lanthropist. During the war, when Mr. Rosenwald was chairman of the com- miitee on supplies, a branch of the advisory commission of the National Defense Council, he and his wife main- taired a hospitable home in Wash- ington. Mrs. nwald herself was an indefatigable worker in all sorts of war setivities, and a generous donor of money to hosts of worthy objects. She was a lifetime coadjutor of her husband in his innumerable far-flung ghulnthroplu, especially among the egroes of the South. Her chief inter- est was the Girl Scout movement, Former screen star laments he is vice president. g we'd ' Mrs. Hoover and the Hoover home in which she actively supported for many years and of which she was national Mr. and Mrs, Rosen- intimate friends of Mr. and uently stayed at ashington, ‘wald were A joyless worker in any sort of work is a trial and a burden to the whole establishment. If he is the successful young man we have spoken of, there is nothing to do but tolerate him, but no doubt he would be surprised to know how many of his mates long to punch him in the nose. Just on general principles they would like to sock him in the snout, to re- mind him forcibly that he owes some- thing to those who work around him. ‘What right has any man in human society to walk in and out without see- ing any one? The man brought up on humani- tarian principles will resent such over- sight. It will do no good to tell such a man that the other ought to be ex- cused, that he has weighty problems on his mind and must be forgiven, or that his breakfast toast was burned and it put him in a bad humor for the day. It a faulty breakfast can do so much, Inflicting a grouch on scores of inno- cent persons, it is the man's duty to himself and others to see that his toast is properly made. i 1if he stays up too late at night and | does not get enough sleep and is forced to hurry to get to work in time, and this whole sequence of events puts him into a “terrible humor,” then it is this | man’s duty, one must insist, to see to |it that he goes to bed at a respectable hour and that he gets up early in order not to be hurried and that he arrives at his daily labors in plenty of time. One need not be hilarious to be cheerful. It is not at all necessary to get down on one’s knees in silent prayer to show a seemly gratitude for the good things which life showers upon one. ‘The deeply religious attitude comes to the average man only upon occa- sions, but the sensible feeling of grati- tude of which we speak may be felt by him every day. If he is sensible of it, he will show it. To do 50, a negative process of not being gloomy will suffice. * % ¥ % There has been too much propaganda against negations. ] Blithe supersalesmen of the “high- powered” variety have taught that a bold affirmative does the trick. k Optimists of the heavily optimistic school have thundered in book and magazine that pessimism, a form of ne- gation, is a crass failure before op- timism and affirmation. While it must be admitted that there is much to what they say, a suspicion is creeping over many that optimism and affirmations come natural to some peo- ple and not so much so to others. A negative statement, in other words, may be quite as much of a wonder worker as the positive form, if it is handled intelligently. There is no law which forces a per- son to say, “No, I don’t want any straw- berries,” when the huckster asks, “Don’t you want any strawberries?” To be told by a bold strawberry man, “Ah, Mister, you want some strawber- ries,” is enough to make any person re- fuse to buy. i A good form of proper negative thinking and acting is involved in showing gratitude in the everyday walks of life by being cheerful, pleasant and courteous to those with whom we come in contact, especially when they de- serve it. Many people deserve a great deal more than they get in this world, and this is especially true in relation to kind words, thoughtful encouragement, due praise and ordinary civility. Just because some one has the power to be boorish does no. make the thing right. He who would be right as well as clever ought to think twice before inflicting a grouch on his friends. GTON OBSERVATIONS WILLIAM WILE To this observer there comes from a radio constituent in Philadelphia _the suggestion that America’s surplus wheat this year, instead of being exported under any debenture plan, be donated to the famine-stricken people of China. “By so doing,” the suggestion runs, “we shall promote Christianity in China far more than all our mission- ary preaching will do.” * x ¥ ¥ Martin Codel, Washington newspa- per man and radio scribe, is the owner of a flaming new red necktie, the gift of William P. MacCracken, jr., Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics. Thereby hangs a tale of reward for meritorfous journalistic service. Codel has been advocating for some time that the numerous 400-foot wireless towers of the Radio Corporation of America, particularly the mile-long row of them that plerce the sky on the Jersey Coast, near New Brunswick, should be illumi- nated as an aid to air navigation, espe- cially to mall pilots. In fog and cloudy weather the masts are a distinct menace to aviators. The R. C. A. hitherto rejected the suggestion on legalistic and other grounds, but, in consequence of odel'’s hammering away at the proposition in newspaper articles, the company has capitulated. Its masts on both coasts are hence- forward to be signals of safety, in- stead of pillars of peril. Some $100,000 will be spent in lighting them up. Sec- retary MacCracken, just before sailing for the Paris aeronautics conference, thrust a brilliant cardinal cravat on Codel, saying it was symbolical of the red beacon soon to gleam from the R. C. A. towers. * W Senator Royal S. Copeland, Democrat, of New York, who “held his nose” when he voted for the farm debenture plan, is accused by the Democratic New York | World, which should know, of harbor- ing 1932 presidential ambitions. Cope- ilnndA having run far ahead of the Al | Smith ticket in 1928, is sald to_feel | the urge to lead the Democratic hosts | three years hence. *“But Dr. Copeland,” slams the World, “will discover that it is difficult to get into the White House | by holding your nose.” * oKk ok % Out in Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, is the celebrated Saint- Gaudens statue called “Grief,” erected by the late Henry Adams in memory of his wife, Many authorities consider it the most classic piece of sculpture ex- tant in America. Representative Wil- liam L. Nelson, Democrat, of Missouri, went to Rock Creek Cemetery on Mother's day, and next day—discussing farm re- |liet in the House—was moved to the utterance: “As I looked upon the | statue called ‘Grief,’ a weeping woman chiseled by a master hand, the thought icame to me that, unless something is { done, the time may come speedily when, sad as it may seem, grief will best symbolize the lives of those who would wrest a living from the soil.” (Copyright, 1920.) —e— Japanese Beetles Found in Cemetery | To the Editor of The Star: It may be of interest to those who are trylng to trace the Japanese beetle to know I found quite a number of them last week in Congressional Cemetery while digging up tulip bulbs in my lot. T killed all I found, but two days later when I put some plants in the same space found several more bugs and worms. At the time I did not know ‘what kind of bugs these were, but since \seeing the picture of the Japanese beetle in The Star am sure what I dug up were the same. MRS. EDWIN LEE MORGAN. No More Extra Sessions. From the Columbus (Ohio) State Journal. ‘We'll make this definite and unquali- fled prediction here and now, that the next time Mr. Hoover runs he won't promise to call an extra session of Con- ( Plea for Ex-Service Men Now Held in Asylums To the Editar of The Star: I am a daily reader of your news- paper and have been a resident of ‘Washington, D. C., for nearly three years. I will be glad if you will give a matter connected with ex-service men's legislation any possible assistance through the medium of your valuable newspaper. I have written to several members of the war veterans’ committee in regard 1o having a committee of their members investigate every World War veteran's case now in St. Elizabeth's Insane In- stitution in Washington, D. C. At the present time there are about four hundred ex-service men in this in- stitution. It will be recalled that Congress made & scathing denunciation of the system used by the Government in keep- ing war veterans for indefinite periods of time confined in Government insane institutions. This was two years ago and no change has been effected. promise was made to effect some change in the system of treating veterans with nervous disability when this scandal was aired in Congress, but the matter only went as far as the American Bar Association for them to suggest a remedy. A disabled war veteran myself, and one who has had experience of the un- fair working of some of the veteran's laws passed by Congress, I feel it my duty to protest against this treatment of our war veterans. It should be remembered that these men, no matter what shape their dis- abilities took, were willing to forfeit their lives to defend this country in the time of a national crisis. This mat- ter should be taken up by the war vet- erans’ committee before the extra ses- sion of Congress closes. The practical application of the Fed- eral bonus in order to aid all needy unemployed and _disabled ex-service men should also be taken up at this time by Congress. The Federal bonus insurance plan was received with dis- satisfaction by former service men for the reason that the money intended by the Government as a financial re- imbursement of the meager pay they received while in the service during the war could best be used at this time, while the veterans are attempting to overcome the handicaps caused by their service in the wi The mortality rate of ex-service men is very high among those who fought in France and elsewhere during the war. Thousands of ex-service men have al- ready passed away without receiving any or only a slight amount of this insur- ance, and it ex-service men have to wait twenty years it will mean that many more thousands of veterans will derive no benefit from this measure other than to have their funeral ex- penses paid for when they die. JOHN JONES. Sheds Light on Early Continental Congress To the Editor of The Star: In the “Answers to Questions, by Frederic J. Haskin,” in The Star of May 22, is the statement that John Hanson, President of the Continental Congress in 1781, was “the first to hold this office after the adoption of the Articles of Confederation.” I am surprised that S0 egregious an error should come from a source usually so well informed. The simple facts (easily ascertainable from the journals of the Continental Con- gress) are these: ‘The Articles of Confederation became effective March 1, 1781, upon the ratifi- cation of that instrument by the State of Maryland. At that time Samuel Huntington of Connecticut was Presi- dent of the Congress, having been elect- ed September 28, 1779, and he contin- ued to hold the office, without re-elec- tion, for more than four months. On July 6, 1781, he asked to be relieved, and on July 9 Samuel Johnston of North Carolina was chosen President. Johnston, however, declined, and on July 10 Thomas McKean of Delaware was elected. McKean resigned October 23, but was prevailed upon to continue in the chair until the first Monday in November following (the beginning, as provided by the Articles of Confedera- tion, of a new congressional year). No- vember 5, 1781, John Hanson of Mary- land was elected President of the Con- gress and held that office for one year, being succeeded November 4, 1782, by Elias Boudinot of New Jersey. It is therefore unmistakably piain that, of the numerous Presidents of the Continental Congress, Samuel Hunting- ton was the first to hold that office after the adoption of the Articles of Confed- eration, having merely continued his occupancy of the chair from the old reginfe, and that John Hanson was at best no nearer than third in the line of Presidents under the new regime. This strange error—that John Han- son was actually the first President of the United States—which appears to have sprung, full grown, only a few years ago, from an imagination untem- has | pered by information, seems destined to take rank with other more ancient and honored myths of the Revolution. have had occasion more than once to point out its falsity, and I shall no doubt have many more opportunities to do so. EDMUND C. BURNETT. Lightning “Experts” Declared in Error ‘To the Editor of The Star: I have just read an article in last night's Star (May 22), headed “Ex- plosive Lightning Again Investigated,” and I thoroughly disagree with those “experts,” that claim there -is no such thing as “ball lightning.” In the Sum- mer of 1863 I lived in the town of Hastings, Mich., and well remember about a thunderstorm that arose one day, and while my mother was standing at the front window watching the ele- ments she saw such a ball strike the tip of a lightning rod, with which the house across the street was equipped, dart down the rod and burrow in the ground. I have no way of proving this statement, as my mother, Mrs. J. F. Andrews, was the only one who saw the ball, and she has long since passed into the beyond. After the storm I speak of had passed mother went across the street and told the people that lived in the house that had come so near being struck what had taken place, and Mr. Bailey, the occu- pant, said he was sure by the flash, fol- lowed so quickly by a crash of thunder, had struck nearby. Any number of people gathered around the lightning rod to look down a hole that had been plowed at its base, where it looked for all the world as if some one had been digging with a garden trowel. FLORA A. JONES. Submetering Argument Of Attorney Answered To the Editor of The Star: The press reports that in the case before the District Supreme Court in- volving the submetering of _electric light by apartment house owners “coun- sel for the owners contended that sub- metering of electric current has been practiced since 1915, and asserted that the central meters and submeters placed in their buildings would now be ren- dered useless.” Writing from memory, this argument is about on A par with the defense made in the English courts some centuries ago by & hwayman charged with robbing a trian on Gad's Hill, in London, his conténtion being that reb- bery on Gad's Hill was no crime, the practice being firmly established by precedent, as the memory of man run- neth not to the contrary when it was not customary to rob on Gad's Hill. Let us hope that these gentlemen will ma— vrsrd\‘-—-dflm“ be no more successful in convincing the | some part of its own gains from the| court of the soundness of their conten- ‘tion than was this highwayman. * - s | Paramount, New York City; Did you ever write a letter to Fred- eric J. Haskin? You can ask him any question of fact and get the answer in a personal letter. Here is a great edu- cational idea introduced into thg lives of the most intelligent people in the wold—Americn newspaper readers. It is & part of that best purpose of a newspaper—service, ~ There is no charge except 2 cents in coin or stamps for return postage. Address PFrederic J. Haskin, director, The Evening Star Information Bureau, Washington, D. C. Q. In what American cities are the four largest and most expensive thea- ters?>—L. S. S. A. The editor of the Film Dally says that the Roxy is the largest as well as been built in the United States. The next three, not necessarily in order, are Fox, St. Louis, and Fox, Detroit. Q. How many steps are there in quick-time marching and in double- time marching?—A. A. Marine Band says that there are 128 steps to the minute in quick time, 180 steps in double time. Q. Where is the Government fox farm?>—A. C. NAi( It is located at Saratoga Springs, Q. When was preferred stock first issued by corporations as a part of their capital structures?—C. G. A. A. Preferred stocks came into exist- ence with the railroad reorganizations of the nineteenth century, and were used, as they are used today, to give investors something better than com- g’(l’o!a!shsrfls, but not quite as safe as nds. Q. How s hail formed?—W. R. L. A. The Summer hail, or true hail, is violent _thunderstorm _which _carries raindrops so high that they freeze. On freezing they fall back to a lower level, where they pick up more water, and again are caught in an upward current and carried up to the freezing levels, This is repeated several times until the through the rising air down to the earth. The Winter hail, properly called sleet, consists of frozen raindrops, the rain having fallen through a surface layer of cold air. Q. When were coaster brakes put on bicycles>—C. H. A. Coaster brakes first came into common use on bicycles about 1902, Q. Our new red brick house is be- coming covered with white streaks, ‘What can be done about it>—H. A. M. A. The Bureau of Standards says that the efflorescence, or white-looking scum, on bricks is probably composed of calcium sulphate, together with some calcium carbonate. The best known method of removing this scum is to wash it with a 10 per cent (by volume) solution of muriatic acid, followed with a washing with warm water to remove the acid solution. This should be done on & warm, dry day, when the acid solution and wash water will evaporate rather than penetrate into the struc- ture, and it will probably be necessary to repeat this procedure several times. Q. What metal is used by the Gov- ernment for boundary posts?—C. MeD. A. Many of the boundary posts are made of bronze. THe markers are often of concrete with bronze plates. Q. Please give the height of the highest. jumps in the British Grand Natior P. C. A. There are thorn fences 5 feet high and 2 feet thick. One of the fences is 4 feet 10 inches high and has a ditch on the take-off side 6 feet | wide and 4 feet deep. Becher's Brook is a thorn fence 4 feet 10 inches high and 4 feet deep. Q. Where is the largest yew tree in the world?—N. M. — A. Nature Magazine says that it is claimed locally that a giant yew in the churchyard at Selbourne, England, is the largest. It is said to have a cir- cumference of 27!; feet. Q. What kind of a dog is ? 22 & dog is a pinscher? A. Pinscher is the German word for terrier. The Doberman pinscher is a the most expensive theater that has| A. The leader of the United States F. caused by the rapid uprush of air in a | hailstone gets so heavy that it falls| with a brook on the far side 8 feet wide | BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. |terrier of fine breeding, which is usu- ally trained as a police dog. Q. Pleace give a short biography of Edwin_Booth —D. E. K. ¥ A. Edwin Booth was one of our most distinguished American actors. He was | born at Belair, Md., November 13, 1833, and brougt up to have a dramatic ca- reer by his father. He made his debut in Boston in 1849, and in 1851 took his | father's place as Richard III at the | Chatham Square Theater, New York City. His productions of “Hamlet” and other Shakes plays were suc- cessful, and he is generally regarded as the leading American tragedian. He died June 7, 1893 Q. What McD. A. Galvanized iron is iron coated | with zinc to protect it. Sometimes the {iron is first electroplated with tin and afterward immersed in melted zinc, but | ordinarily the metal is merely cleaned |and plunged into a zinc bath. | Q Did Henry VIII set the fashion | for ‘p’zJarmenu with broad shoulders?—A. is galvanized iron?—C. A. King Henry VIII, who was proud of his own broad shoulders. set the | fashion to accentuate this breadth. You | will see this indicated in the many | portraits of him by Holbein. g, wDoes a bond issue increase taxes? A. A bond issue is merely a means ;nf borrowing funds for expenditure, and the borrowed funds must sooner or later be repaid from the proceeds of taxation. It is, therefore, the expendi- ture of the funds which increases taxes and not the bond issue. The only difference in the ultimate cost in taxa- tion to the people between meeting ex- penditures from the proceeds of bond issues or from proceeds of taxation is [the amount of interest which must be paid on the borrowed money in the for mer case. Expenditures must, sooner or later, be met from taxation. Q. Please give some information i regard to the Ingersoll Educatfonal | Fund—A. W. H. |" A. The Ingersoll Watch Co. saysd “The educational foundation directed to be formed in Mr. Ingersoll's will can- not be constituted until the estate has been settled, which will probably taks another year. We regret that nothing can be done in the meanwhile.” Q. What is the origin of the nams Baton Rouge, Ln...’—-\{ms. e A. Baton Rouge is from the French, meaning “red staff.” It was s0 named, it is said, from & red boundary mark which separated the lands of the In- . dians from those of the whites, . Who is the heir apparent to the throne of Siam?—S. J. A. His royal highness, the Prince of Songkla, is the heir apparent, Q. is_the “Tus o called>—S. H. H. T Deepe A. The “Tuscarora Deep” w: named from the U. 8. 8. mpuamr:'. th'g vessel under the command of Capt. Belknap, which made an expedition to the Pacific for the purpose ®f studying the ocean bed. The maximum depth was recorded by the Tuscarora in 1874. The name itself is of Indian derivation and literally means “hemp gatherers,” Q. If a man is named “John James Jones” and his son is “John Henry Jones.” may the son use the title “ju- nior"?—W. §. P. |, A. A child whose name is not exactly that of his father does not bear the title “junior.” Q. How did the four seasons get their names?—E. E. P. A. There is some doubt as to how the names of the seasons originated. Spring is from the Anglo-Sazon spring,” meaning “a source of water, a springing, a rising or leaping,” probably in reference to the coming out of young shoots at this time of the year. Sum- mer is from the Sanskrit “sama,” mean- !'nl “year.” ~Autuma is from the Latin ‘autumnus” — perhaps connected with “augere,” past participle “auctus” meaning “increase,” Autumn being the acason of &rotiuce. ‘Winter is from the othic “wintris”; probably originally it meant the “snowy time.” 4 % { Why | Q. In flying a flag at half staff, should the flag be run first to the top of the flagpole?—J. P. P. | . A. It should be hoisted to full staff, | then lowered slowly to half staff. After several premature announce- ments, from unofficial sources, word from the United States Government that the dispute between Chile and Peru over the Tacna-Arica area has been settled is now accepted as a peace guaranty for South America. Although it is recognized that Bolivia's desire for a seaport is yet to be satisfied, majority opinion in this country is hopeful that this will be mollified eventually without serious friction. “It is significant that in the end,” according to the Pittsburgh Post-Ga- zette, “the settlement, as nearly always in such cases, was based upon compro- mise. The territory in dispute was di- vided, with certain concessions and a payment of $6,000,000 to Peru. It is a triumph for the diplomacy and common sense of this period.” The Binghamton Press holds that “importance of the set- tlement may not be easily overestimat- ed.” and that paper adds that it was achieved “in a fashion which will great- ly hearten the peace-loving leaders of world affairs.” = Great_significance is observed also by the Buffalo Evening News in the ability of these two for- mer foes “to reach a common basis of mutual concession.” for American diplomacy,” says the Seattle Daily Times, observing that “it was helped along by the United States Department of State,” although “brought about by direct ‘negotiations between the two countries.” That paper con- cludes: “The settlement salves Peru’s sensitive feelings and removes a possi- ble cause of war. Chile retains the best part of the disputed territory, but pays ;er;x Ennfis:mely,f looks like a fair bargain. Every- body, therefore, should be happy.” & * * ok X “Although President Hoover's ‘good- will trip’ provides the immediate and ness to settle a dispute which has been for more than 40 vears one of those non-justiciable matters involving ‘na- tional honor,” in the opinion of the Baltimore Sun, “the foundation for ac- cord was laid by former Secretary Kel- logg. It was he who succeeded in bring- ing about the renewal of diplomatic relations between Chile and Peru after years of disruption.” Triumph of the United States is emphasized also by Erie Dispatch-Herald. “The major parties to the contro- versy.” as interpreted by the Louisville Courfer-Journal, “have agreed to follow the wisdom of Solomon and divide the child, foregoing the provisions of the treaty of Ancon to determine the na- tionality of the buffer wasteland by plebiscite.” Various opinions are expressed as to the position of Bolivia, from the sug- gestion by the Chicago Daily News that “to leave that country landlocked is needlessly to maintain’ a sore spot in Seuth America,” but that “there is nothing in the settlement to prevent in due time ition of Bolivia’s claims” to the comment by the St. Louis Globe-Democrat: “It it thought that, of course, Peru will not be o in- sensible of the sacrifice in its behalf of its former ally as not to share with it compromise. Should it fail to deal i::'-l! with its former partner, the com- “It may rightfully be counted a victory | From this distance | dramatic background for this willing- | End of Tacna-Arica Dispute Believed Gain for Continent will leave a good deal to be desired, with Bolivia denied its place in the Pacific sun. That country, advancing in national wealth and rank, is not likely to remain content with the status of Cinderella in the South American household.” * K K % A hopeful view is: taken by the San Antonio Express because of the fact that “both Peru and Chile desire to maintain friendly relations with Bo- livia,” while the Lincoln State Journal feels sure that Bolivia “‘will see that the pot is kept boiling as long as there is any prospect of obtaining a right of way to the Pacific.” 'The St. Paul Pio- neer Press is convinced that “the main source of irritation has been removed and the foundations of peace in South America have been correspondingly strengthened.” The South Bend Trib- une agrees that “as. Bolivia has not ranked with Chile and Peru in the con- troversy it may be sald that the most troublesome points have been removed.” “Only time may divulge whether the general acclamation outside Bolivia and Tacna-Arica is altogether justified,” in | the opinion of the Hartford Times, i\\hfle the Cleveland News thinks that Bolivia's strongest hope undoubtedly | rests in the belief that the Government |of the United States will later employ |its good offices to secure additional concessions from Peru and Chile which will pacify the inhabitants of the land- |locked republic.” “If Chile and Peru, with this ancient quarrel adjourned, are now to devote themselves to development of their re- | sources, each with respect to the rights of the other and with mutual endeavor |to advance the interests of both, the brospect of peace and progress in South America is bright,” asserts the Charles- ton Evening Post, while the New T Sun welcomes the end of a controversy _Which “has hung like a menacing cloud over all Western Hemisphere affairs”™ and the Newark Evening News con- cludes, “Both countries seem to have learned, as the rest of the nations are learning. that quarreling doesn’t pay.” o What? No Tango. Prom the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Under a recént ruling, Cuban orches- | the | tras must play a native selection for every jazz plece on their programs. O well--that gives couples & chance. to alf out every other dance! Pl Bit What's the Difference? From the Huntington Advertiser. A poet in Cleveland slings hash for 8 living. The dispatch doesn't say uheflt—her he was a hash-slinger discov- ered as a poet or a t discovered a hash-slinger. g * —.—— And No Losses in Sight. rr ¢ p t;é"uzg‘“e‘;f“‘lt“’ ‘°:m ihe aches and of play tock market watching .na‘gfam for betur‘wumrw. Applies Here, Too. 'rom the Lowell Evening Les: te the & RS rainy 0 o use the :