Evening Star Newspaper, May 30, 1929, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY.......May 30, 1929 THEODORE W. NOYES. ...Editor The Evening Star Ne:éplpfl Company Business Office: 11th 8. and Pennsylvania Ave. York Office: 110 East 42nd ‘St. en Office: Laie Michigan Building. European Office, 14 Regent St., London, Englan —e Rate by Carrier. Within the City. The Evenine Star . 452 per month 80¢ per month 85¢ per month Sc per copy 2 end of cach mcnth. s o » el estsions ain Rate .i; Mail—Payable in Advance. 4 and Virginia. 40c Daily only mo.s 1 yrs $400; 1 mo. Sunday only All Other States and Canads. V 18e 800 Press, The Associated Press is exclusively eniitled h repuclication of cil Tews cls- ire phper published hersin ‘pecial dispatches herein are also reserved. . Decoration Day—1929. Decoration day s undergoing a process of evolution. It was established after the Civil War as a specific occa- sion for paying tribute to the Northern #oldiers who had fallen in that struggle. ‘Then the wounds of war still were bleeding. The armed clashes below the Potomac had brought heartbreaks into thousands of homes. The pictures of the dead husbands, sons and brothers were fresh in the minds of their loved ones. Their graves still were barren mounds of clay unfound by the Spring flowers. But the specific occasion that gave birth to the holiday is receding into the mists of history. During the inter- vening half century there have been tendencies ' in two directions—one toward a festival of patriotism and one toward an occasion of general memorial for all the dead. It is this latter tendency which is Hkely to conquer in the end. It seems probable that gradually the occasion will attain the status of All Souls’ day in some of the European countries. It will be one day in the year given over entirely to the memoty of all those who have fallen on the battlefields of life and gone before us on that mysterious pligrimage into the dark. But it will come in the high tide of the month of flowers, symbols of ever-recurring life ‘and hope, rather than in the melan- choly mists of Autumn, when contem- plation of death is most natural. A people has need of such a day. The tctual observance of Memorial day long has transcended the specific purpose The bill has been bitterly opposed by & number of the Middle Western and Northwestern Republicans and by some of the Southern Democrats. The reap- portionment is to be made in accord- ance with the decennial census of 1930, provision for which is made in the same bill which declares for reappor- tionment. The reapportionment bill seeks as far as it can to make it impossible for Congress again to disregard the plain intent of the Constitution that there shall be a reapportionment of the House membership in accordance with the population of the States every ten years. No Congress is able to bind a future Congress so far as the enactment, of laws is concerned. However, it is provided in this bill that if Congress ttself does not make provision for a re- apportionment, after an enumeration of the people has been made, the executive department of the Government shall put into effect a reapportionment fol- lowing the lines laid down by Congress in this bill. In other words, if the Con- gress which expires March 4, 1931, takes no further action in the matter imme- diately thereafter the reapportionment will be carried out. ey Reparations Peace. Patience plus compromise has finally won the day in Paris. Germany and her reparations creditors yesterday, after nearly four months of negotiation, finally reached agreement. i is a per- sonal victory for the American chair-| man of the experts’ commission, Owen D. Young, whose proposals, formulated a month ago, when the conference was virtually on the rocks, were at length accepted as a basis on which all con- cerned found it possible to get together. Thus the Young plan supplants the Dawes plan, which it revises, and be- comes Europe’s new charter of eco- nomic hope. ‘The fundamental feature of the ac- cepted arrangement is the fixing of Germany’s obligation to pay annuities of 2,050,000,000 gold marks, or, roughly, a yearly installment of $512,500,000 on account of her reparations obligations. In arriving at that basic figure both sides made concessions. The Germans sgreed to pay more than they at first were willing to do, and their creditors accept less than they originally were ready to consider. Give and take—the principle that governs every day in the business relations of individuale the world over—has prevailed on the oc- casion of the biggest financial “deal” in history. The Paris experts — European and American alike—are a unit in feeling that their laborious efforts are crowned by & conclusion of vital influence upon the course of Old World affairs. For ten years, ever since the so-called peace of Versailles, Europe has been in tur- moil over reparations. The Dawes plan brought to an end the provocative for which it was established, It has become a time of family mourning, not alone for soldiers who died for their country, but for mothers and fathers, sisters, brothers, husbands, wives and children. They are all gone as com- Tades in the one great war which en- compasses all other wars—that of the ‘weak, helpless mortal against the forces of fate and nature. The day cannot logically be dismissed by a patriotic address in the cemetery in the morning and s ball game in the afternoon. Patriotic addresses are ex- cellent in that they serve to recall the sacrifice of those who died for country. But they form only & part of the ob- servance of a day that recalls the pres- ence of this great, unescapable fact of death which encompasseth all nations ‘and all causes. ‘The time may come when May 30 will be the most profoundly religious occasion of the year, when the relations of men with each other, whi¢h result in states and.cults and wars, will be buried temporarily in contemplation of the relations of all men with the powers Which rule the waves of the great ocean of time and space upon which our little world is tossed through the great dark- ness. 4 ————— Col. Lindbergh has aceomplished so many unusual results that there are now cordially earnest predictions that he will live happy ever after, 1" Reapportionment at Last. The Senate has finally performed a constitutional duty which it has de- layed for the last eight years. By a vote of 57 to 26 it put through a bill for the reapportionment of the repre- sentation of the various States in the House, in accordance with the changes in population which have occurred #ince the deeennial census of 1910. The Constitution contemplates reappor- tionment of the House membership after the enumeration of the people made every ten years. Already almost a score of years have passed since the last Teapportionment. Twice in past Con- gresses the House put through reappor- tionment biils, only to have them die in the Senate. The last effort to reappor- tion the House membership which failed took place in the Congress which closed March 4, when the Fenn bill was lost in the legislative jam of the short ses- sion. When the special session of Congress met in April it was determined by the leaders to bring about consideration of a reapportionment bill in the Senate with as little delay as possible. Opponents of reapportionment, halling from those States which will lose part of their rep- resentation in the House, raised their hands in horror that the Senate should #0 affront the House. However, it was & mere gesture and the House appears quite willing and able to swallow the “affront.” Indeed, it is the plan of the House leaders to take up and dis- pose of the reapportionment bill, just passed by the Senate, by the first of next week. The difficulty over reapportionment jn the House has arisen from the fact that the leaders believed there should be no further increase in the membership; that it should remain at 435. With great shifts in centers of population it was obvious that those sections of the coun- try which had failed to keep pace with the growth of population in other sec- tions necessarily would lose seats in the House, No State wishes to have its representation in the National Legisla- ture eut down. Under the reapportion- ment bill which will be effective for the Seventy-second Congress, agricultural French occupation of the Ruhr Valley, but it did not wipe out the animosities that existed before and after that ill- starred venture. European reconstruc- tion limped forward haltingly while the reparations specter stalked across the continent. America’s interest in the banishment of the reparations ghost far outstrips our immediate financial participa- tion in the Young plan. The costs of our military occupation on the Rhine are adequately cared for. They are but a flea bite against the background of the reparations grand total. Where the United States really comes in is with respect to the European economic sta- bilization which is bound to be pro- moted by yesterday's decisions at Paris. A Europe with restored confidence means a Europe with enhanced pur- chasing power for American goods and a Europe made more -capable of meet- ing her heavy loan obligation to the United States Treasury. It is only a pity that so pleasing a propect is marred by the rancors which the proposed new American tariffs are arousing throughout the world, espe- cially in Continental Europe. We are destined, it appears, to hear more, and o hear vociferously, on that score ere many moons. —————— A dollar bill will soon be smaller, corresponding in size to the value of & bushel of wheat, once the standard by which farm prosperity was meas- ured. ‘When German dyestuffs get to- gether with American automobiles, some highly influential peace under- standings may be looked for. —— e The Benning Road Case. ‘The old Benning road case, which has been resurrected through condemnation proceedings and the levying of benefit assessments for the proposed widening of that thoroughfare, is due for an airing and a thorough discussion in the 8 THE E‘}ENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, ¥ . ; _— ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS area assessed. ‘They extend to parts of the city. But assessing parts of the city is impractical and would be a difficult as well as a foolish proceeding. The District is now preparing to open for development the area south of Walter Reed Hospital. For that purpose it will assess property owners in the area affected, and this assess- ment is logical. The benefits accruing to owners of property by making their property available for development are readily understood. And in this case there ‘cannot be well grounded opposi- tion to the principle of the law. But the Benning road case is entirely different. The law should be more elastic in order to be applied with fair- ness in these modern days when through traffic arteries or high-speed highways bring benefits, not to a part of the community which in reality may be damaged, but to the community at large, which does derive a widespread benefit. [, Foolhardy Flights. Again and again is the folly of trans- atlantic flight attempts in overloaded land planes being demonstrated. Yes- terday the Green Flash and the Yellow Bird started off on the long ocean trip, the former bound for Rome and the latter for Paris. Two accidents re- sulted, neither serious, but the very kind of mishaps that can confidently be expected in the perils of the take-off and the first few hours of flying when airplanes are forced beyond the limits of safety. ‘The Green Flash, an American plane with a crew of two, never got off the ground despite & run of nearly two miles at Old Orchard Beach. One of the wheels sank deep into the shifting sand, spokes were broken as if they were matches, and a ground loop occurred which nearly wrecked the plane, The Yellow Bird, overloaded to the breaking point with fuel for its six-hundred- horsepower motor, staggered drunkenly into the air at the very end of the long natural runway, and, with a Coast Guard plane as escort, wavered out to sea. Within a few miles, however, it slowly began to settle, and, in order to avert a tragedy, gasoline was dumped and the plane returned to its starting point. And so the first two lessons of the transatlantic 1929 season are ended. These lessons, despite their plain warn- ing of danger, will probably never be learned. The desperate search for fame, in life or death, will continue. Nothing can be accomplishéd, nothing can be proved, by an Atlantic flight in a land plane. It has been done and there is no need to do it again, or even to attempt it. “What fools we mortals be!” may well be applied to those who par- ticipate in these ill-advised and danger- ous flights. ——————— An airplane honeymoon recalls the time that has elapsed since the lad assured his “Daisy,” “You'll look sweet on the seat of a bicycle built for two.” A tandem bicycle was rather prosaic. Sky transportation has intensified ro- mance. R Statesmen should not be required to display unlimited enthusiasm sbout angling. Even the most devoted sports- man may eventually grow a little tired of fish for breakfast. r—oes ‘The annual effort is made to draw a line of propriety regarding bathing sults, As usual the officer in charge will learn to look the other way and avoid an argument in which he has no chance. small other other Gambling is & vice. The Stock Ex- may discover the same old un- reljability in the adage to the effect that the way to eradicate vice is to make it expensive. The moit prosper- ous night clubs are those that have, the heaviest cover charges. ————— As & pHarmacist Harry Sinclair is showing a proper disposition to “take his medicine gracefully.” ————— Mabel Willebrandt is heroic; but there are phases of prohibition en- forcement that render the work a trifle too rough even for the most resolute woman, i sy §¢ SHOOTING STARS. This is the Day when flowers tell A thought that words could never frame— A thought of memories that must - dwell Torever in the loftiest fame. The perfume softly seeks the skies, ‘We find anew, who linger here, A subtle incense that we prize, Sweet with remembrances so dear, Federation of Citizens’ Associations. The Trinided Citizens’ ~Aséociation, which covers much of the territory affected by the assessments, has in- structed its delegates to bring the mat- ter before the federation and other associations have already made known ftheir decision to join with Trinidad in the fight. There will result some bene- ficial publicity, throwing additional light on a law that needs amending. But the proper place to seek the remedy lies at | the Capitol. For many years the law worked a hardship on the municipal government as well as property owners who may have been unduly assessed. It was only possible to open new territory and im- prove highways when the benefit assessments equaled the damages. The law was amended in 1926 to provide that wheri the assessments do not equal the damages, the deficit can be made up by special appropriation. This principle should be even further extended. In the Benning road case the pro- testing property -owners will go into court and contest the assessments. If they win, the casé will be dropped and the road will not be widened. Under such circumstances Congress should provide for appropriations out of the general revenues of the District to pay the cost of damages. Benning road's widening is, according to the highway plan of the District and the increasing demands of traffic, a necessary project. ‘The District should not be estopped from carrying to completion such necessary Political Economy. “T suppose you have read a great deal about political economy.” ° “No,” answered Senator Sorghum. “But out where I come from there is 80 much graft that politics and econ- omy can't pomsibly seem to get to- gether.” Jud Tunkins says he had a heap more kind consideration in those old days when his wife had to request him to hook her up the back. Back to Washington, D. C. The Congressman exclaimed with glee, “As soon 85 my oonstituents see S0 much unfinished business, They'll have to send me back, I guess.” Synchronized. “Your wife is as pretty as a picture.” “Yes,” answered Mr. Meekton pa- tiently; “but she's a talking picture,” “He who makes us laugh” sald Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “is a bene- factor who turns the shadow into sun- shine and the sneer into a smile.” Need of a Billion-Dollar Brain. Pinancial figures mount. ‘To Billions now they soar. 8o much I cannot count. I'm glad they are not more. “’Tain’ no use hatin’ nobody,” said Uncle Eben, “cause a hate is a kind o’ \worry dat ain’ g'ineter make any ¢ne suffer, ‘ceppin’ yohse'f.” projects because it cannot prove that property owners in the vicinity owe a debt for benefits to sccrue thereby. regions of the country will lose a score *@r more seats in the House and indus- 1 centers and other large centers of | the widening @f Benning road. Butlyet learned to have decent «DAPUlation Will_gain & simlisr number. they ave 3ot congRed 1o the Zelalyely the eosasion, Benefits undoubtedly will result from Weather Judgment Bad. Prom the Charleston Evening Post. ‘With all the experience it has had with tnaugurations, Washingtog-hs not or THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. It any one doubts our claim that the Red Radiance rose is the best in the world, everything taken into con- sideration, we refer him to the rose gardens in Potomac Park. There he will see one of the most beautiful sights in the District of Co- lumbia, with this favorite rose doing the lion's share of beautification. Rose for rose, bush for bush, Red Radience makes those low-lying gar- dens what they are today, with their reat beds flushed with color, beneath he brighter sky of the parkway. Somehow the sky seems brighter there, when it is bright, darker when it is dark, owing to the presence of water, which exerts a magnifying effect. 1t takes no water, however, to make a Red Radiance a satisfactory rose, as visitors to the park realize.” The big beds filled with this bush outdo in sheer beauty, it seems to us, any other beds in the gardens. Close inspection of the various plant- ings, which include Radiance, Red Radiance, Sunburst, Ophelia, Premier and Columbia, will show that the red member of the Radiance pair is not only a sturdy and harmonious grower, but also is practically free from disease. * % % Amateur rose growers will notice that when Uncle Sam plants roses he puts just one variety to a bed. ‘That s the way to do it in any sort of garden, whether professional or ama- teur, private or public. To plant more than one variety in the same bed is to lose something in beauty of growth, as well as beauty-of coloring. These points may be noticed ;-.si;y in the rose gardens in Potomac ark. ‘There it will be seen that each big bed is & unit, with its bushes all grow- ing the same way—that is, having the same habits of growth—giving a sym- metry which would not be possible with a mixture of roses, some tall growing, some growing more luxuriantly at the base, others with sprawling habits. A rosebush is none too symmetrical a grower at the best. It is not for its bush but for its flower that the world loves the rose. Many plants far excel it in beauty of foliage, character of growth and in what may be termed plant architecture. A tree, for instance, is really a beau- tiful aggregation of units, fitting to- ether from trunk to outmost limb and ranch. The hang of leaves, their shapes and the intermixing of branches constitute an ensemble no less pleasing to the eye than efficient in function. The rosebush, on the other hand, has a scraggly, uneven way of growing, especially when not properly pruned, which may have something to do with the fact that it is an inefficient plant. Yes, an “efficlency expert,” were he turned loose in a garden (which God forbid!), would brand the rose as in- efficlent and point to its many diseases and pests as proof of what he was saying. The rose is uncertain, fickle, subject to weather changes, un- reliable, needs constant coddling—such might be some of the charges against it. ek ok The symmelri beds in the park gardens will be recog- nized instantly by every observer. This result is due not only to the fact that these bushes had the right sort of pruning at the right time, but also because the variety incorporates in itself, through its parentage, the de- sired’ quality of sightly growth. of the Red Radiancg | The other varieties make fine beds, | as an inspection of the gardens wili | show, but to our way of thinking they | do not equal Red Radiance. The other flowers in Potomac Park ere becoming more interesting every day. The peonles are now in full bloom, fine pink, white and red speci- mens which line the driveway around the Basin. These grow with many varieties of flowers unknown to the average passer- by. In particular there are several freak plants, one arising on a tall stalk, the flower head curving at the top like a serpent. This plant, silhouetted against the water, is almost repulsive in appearance, but it constitutes an oddity worth journeying to see. The ever-ready hibiscus is growing up now. This is the rank, almost weed- like plant often called “marshmallow,” which Is to be found growing along the roads back of Chesapeake and North Beaches, and in swampy places all along the Atlantic Coast. ‘The cheracteristic of the hibiscus is its dainty though huge flower. Usually mere ‘"tfmm makes for coarseness, both in flowers and human beings, but the bloom of the hibiscus is both large and beautiful. As home garden speci- mens they are interesting, but' we have come to belleve that they should not be so used except in a place where many of them can be grown together, emulat- ing their natural location. As spectmen plants they need staking against sud- den Summer thunderstorms, R Japanese beetle traps throughout Po- tomac Park are a recent addition, in line with the determination of the agricultural authorities of the country to nip this pest in the bud, if possible. These traps hang on tall stakes and look for all the world like charming green lanterns with glass bottoms, some- thing in the colonial manner. We were too lazy to get out of the car to attempt to fathom their construction—probably couldn’t have done it if we had—but imagine the unsuspecting beetle is lured with a bait to the top container, whence he falls into the glass jar be- low, which may or may not be filled with kerosene. The invasion of the Japanese beetle calls renewed attention to the menace to humanity from the insect world. ‘The insects, although they have intelligence, have no love in their make-up. From the human standpoint they are cruel ;‘!lh the utter cruelness of heartless- ess. The bugs of the world know nothin of kindliness, but, are terrible lmrdesl. driven on desperately by blind instincts which never, by any chance, take cn aspects of humanity, but remain cold, unseeing, heartless, ready to devour & world as remorselessly as a single plant. These beetle traps wave aloft genily in the wind as so many symbols of man’s love to man, through the use of his intelligence. We hear much of his inhumanity to his fellow creatures, but his love is something, too, and it is symbolized there in Potomac Park in waving green contalners and crystal clear jars. ‘Who knows but what the Japanese bectles would build man-traps, if they knew how, and catch all the motorists who come to Potomac Park? Let us thank Heaven that beetles, no more than other “bugs,” go to college, or take university courses, or have any inventors in their ranks. If God ever endows the insect world with an Edison, woe to humanity! BACKGROUND OF EVENTS g Says a professor of one of our very modernistic universities (which has never itself subscribed to the Presby- terlan doctrine of predestination): “Normal parents, attention! If your son is normal you can never make a criminal out of him.” Obversely, if your son is abnormal, he must develop into a gangster, for, says the learned psychiatrist, “the gangster's defect, is physical and hereditary. The emotional part of the brain stopped its development in infancy, a matter which is traceable directly to ancestral de- fects. He is constitutionally incapable of refraining from crime.” ‘The professor claims to have ex- amined 40,000 criminals during the past 12 rs, That is an average of more than 10 per day, or one and a fraction every working hour. Time and time again his laboratory “has labeled youths as killers only to have the prophecy fulfilled.” “These gangsters,” he adds, “should be taken from the schools before they get old enough to be gangsters, segre- gated on State farms, not punitive, until they are pronounced cured. In nearly every case that would mean life segre- gation. Commitment should be made after examination by a commission, which would report to the courts on just what type each criminal is—and 1 before the crime. Segregation should keep them from both crime and propagation.” In view of the fact that the Consti- tution of the United States forbids in- voluntary servitude, except for punish- ment for crime, and that the law as- sumes every man guiltless of crime until such be proved against him, let the segregation begin upon crazy or con- stitutionally deformed college faddists. ‘They must be eating too much phos- rus. o ook A “And His disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man or his parents, that he is born blind?” “Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned nor his parents.” * k% x Now that modernistic science knows so much, it should get together its learned spokesmen and demonstrate the predestination of the poor, innocent gangster, and then shoot him, instead of “segregating him for life” contrary to the thirteenth amendment and other provisions made and provided in the Constitution. Why board a hopeless pervert who might escape and do mis- chief of various kinds before appre- hended? Let a college clinic settle him forever, before he has a chance in a country where all men are created equal before the law. ) ‘Then when the learned psychiatrist ‘comes inst & complicated case, like that of Dr. Jeky! and Mr. Hyde, he may arrange to let Mr. Hyde out on leash, like exercising a pet dog, but confine, incarcerate and segregate Dr. Jel until death doth him part, for better or for worse. ¥ % A convict who has served three years in the Eastern Penitentiary of Pennsyl- vania as a felon has so redeemed his name that he is appointed a member of the State Board of Control of ,that same institution of punishment. He became a leader, for good, of his fellow convicts within a fortnight of the beginning of his incarceration, yet there is no ques- tion of his guilt as charged. A child of 6 years has been sentenced to serve in the reformatory until he becomes 21 years of age, on a confessed act of fatally shooting a playmate in anger. A higher court, not having had the advice of the professor above re- ferred to, has overruled the sentence, but the original sentence was in accord with the science just announced. At what age will the psychiatrist take a child from school to segregate him for life because he was “born a gangster?” How long belor: o‘ye:rs‘ol age? ‘What becomes of all the influences of environment and teaching, as the years develop the characters of us all? Where is the character not complex? Who has not a dual nature, each tendency tually combating the other ten- les? Wh‘ltwl:l I;.he ':nlvol%sjblet rl; sponsibility o ety 50 adjust influences that the best qualifications that are born in every man and woman shall be encou: and developed? Bhall soglely be permitted to BY PAUL V. COLLINS. i| phorus builds the brain. But it is not MAY 30. 1929. Not an Anarchist. To the Editor of The Star: Mr. Paul V. Collins in Saturday's Evening Star says, “Within less than one mile from our Capitol and Supreme Court there is tolerated a book store devoted exclusively to the sale of anar- chistic, communistic and socialistic literature.” Isn't that too bad? Why should any book store be “tolerated” here or else- where that is devoted to the sale of anything of which Mr. Collins disap- proves? Why should not everybody in the United States whose political, eco- nomie, philosophical or other opinions differ with those of Mr. Collins be *jailed, tarred and feathered, mutilated or_assassinated? Mr. Collins’ phraseology betrays with perfect candor his own psychology and is thoroughly representative of the psy- chology of all reactionaries. The con- sistent reactionary believes that those who dare to differ with him should re- ceive swift and summary punishment. ‘They should not be “tolerated. The spirit of Mr. Collins’ casual re- mark is the spirit of the hard-boiled, superefficient personification of bru- tality who said, “If you don't think you've got freedom, I'll prove it to you —T'll smash your head for you!” As a matter of fact, the Gale Book Shop, since its proprietor is an anti- anarchist, does not specialize in the sale of anarchistic literature. On the contrary, I consistently recommend literature advocating more government instead of less government—government in the interest of the working class in- stead of the interest of the parasitic class. Nor does the store sell “exclusively” literature of a radical nature—unless Mr. Collins regards literature dealing with blue laws, prohibition, radio, evo- lution, current fiction, etc, as “radi- cal.” Neither did T tell Mr. Collins that I “hoped the day would come when all law would be abolished and everybody might do just according to his own ideas of right.” But apparently a little matter of ac- curacy is of no moment to Mr. Collins. If the facts do not serve the purposes of an attack, so much the worse for the facts! Reaction knows neither accuracy nor tolerance. Mr. Collins, once again, has proved himself typically reactionary. LINN A. E. GALE, Dune Bares V’ifiage Swallowed Years Ago BY E. E. FREE, PH. D. Recalling the stories of men who perished by falling into cracks in slow- moving Alpine glaciers, to have their perfectly preserved bodies recovered years later by relatives waiting at the glacier’s end, a German fisher village of nearly 400 years ago is now emerging from another kind of natural burial, Pomerania, in what is now Germany. & village called Lonzke. Between the village and the sea was a great sand dune, advancing slowly over the land, as such dunes often do. As the years went by the sand crept slowly across the vill gardens and dooryards, and finally it piled itself against the houses. Unable to fight the dune’s inexorable advance, the fisher folk gave in, aban- doned their houses and set up homes elsewhere. Pfesenn}y‘ the remains of the village were hidden altogether. After nearly four centuries the onward motion of the dune is now carrying it beyond the village site. Seaward from the creeping sand heap German anti- quarians are now finding bits of tim- ber, household utensils, coins of Ger- man princelings of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and other relics of the village that once existed. Human remains are not likely to be discovered, s and evade and auo'u ghost: id 1t?"™ Yet when society encourages ‘“re- spectable folks to scoff at law enforce- ment, concerning one law or two or three, what right has society to “segre- gate” the man, boy or woman whose inherent weakness may be cultivated in such poisonous atmosphere? ~Why not _segregate “soclety”? Such is the retallatory theory of the layman not yet expert in the science of picking out the other fellow for segregation. lle we judge others, and sentence infants to life doom, is there not a re- sponsibility to be ‘mt on soclety itself, and its educational and moral institu- tions, which responsibility it must bear, without attemp! to shunt that duty? ‘The unfair part of the new sclence of psychiatry is its precocious presump- tion that it has solved the intricate problems of character and has shut the door to life, with a few superficial years of cloister smugness, though phrenol- ogy and c gazing are not yet be- yond questioning. * K K x Now comes another scientist with the conclusion that we are what we eat. ‘We are chemical compounds, made up on the prescription combining carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, phos- phorus, sulphur, silicon, fluorin, sodium, chiorin, magnesium, cal- clum, potassium, iron and iodine. “For the sake of clearness it will be necessary,” says this scientist, “for me to remind you that the bulk of man’s weight is due to hydrogen, carbon, oxy- gen, nitrogen and phosphorus. These, with the remaining 11 elements, are di- rectly responsible for each and every individual having his particular likes and dislikes, emotions and reactions, talents, abilities and vocations. People differ in mind, will, emotions and pro- pensities—all because of the difference in their chemical makeups.” Not ;::HI.M‘Y' not environment—just chem- lay the role of Ban- u canst not say I * K ok X Somehow that sounds like a recipe for m:lug biscuits. Maybe the paranolac 8o was baked too fast. The soft of char- acter has been overkneaded. ‘The author tells us that “the carbon type of man is successful in executive positions because he has the faculty of getting other people to work.” Maybe he “roasts” his vietims with his supply of carbon. The oxygen type has a large nose and consumes a lot of oxygen from the air as well as assimulating it from foods; he is blustery, like an invigor- ating breeze—enthusiastic and pro- gressive. Excess of nitrogen makes artistic dec- orators; excess of sulphur causes ce and beauty, but temperamental di - sitions. But—here is where we hunger and manifest chemical affinity—phos- wise to diet too exclusively on matches for the sake of their phosphorus—ex- cept such matches as are surely made in heaven. A few tons a day should make a balanced ration. * ok k% Robert Sidney Ellis, Ph. D, professor of psychology of Colorado University, comments on these phenomena in his book, “The Psychology of Individual Differences,” and he says: “One of thg greatest difficulties in the way of acceptance of the principles of mental inheritance lies in the gen- eral ignorance among professional psy- ::mloflflu of the mechanism of inheri- nce.” In discussing the comparative impor- tance of heredity and environment, Dr. Ellis says: “We have already pointed out the fact that eminent men and women are from superior families. It might, of course, be urged that this is proof that environment, - rather than heredity, is the determining factor in the causation of greatness. Evidence against this is offered by Galton in the fact that the adopted sons of the Popes have not compared at all with the true sons of eminent men. Presumably they have had excellent opportunities, at least for eminence in the church, but they have not shown themselves able to profit by them.” * %k ‘That brings up!the question as to what is the en 'nmznqzu of adopted sops of the Popes’ Shat sbewd ¥ng 1o for the creep of the dune was slow enough to permit every one to save both life and property. . But other debris of t;:;l:flll:de. hur;:g l':d pr!ser\ll;d by the , expec rove interestin, to ucheclo?c-l M:lence;.’ * Valley Forge College Is Seen as Memorial Prom the Rock Island Argus. Action is being taken by the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania to locate a college of liberal arts and a school of history o;; a 325-acre tract of land in Valley e. 0 announcement is made of in- tention to make the lmututlon:n{om- memorative of the heroes of the Ameri- can Revolution, but they will neverthe- less memoralize those patriots, because they will call to mind what Valley P’orfihfll always represented. The Nation’s soul might be said to have been born at Valley Forge. It was during the darkest hour of the Revolu- tion when the army of Washington, made up of “ragged continentals,” oc- cupled miserable huts there, They suf- fered from the cold and were poorly clad and miserably fed. A conspiracy was formed among dissatisfled officers to bring about Washington’s removal {rom supreme command. The new Na- seemed threatened with extinction, Valley Forge looked like the end. ‘The soldiers must have thought they were fighting for a lost cause. Was it worth their while to endure? The col- lege to be erected there answers that question. The ghosts of the soldiers Who passed that mournful Winter there hover still about the site If these dis- embodied spirits can rejoice, they will hold a celebration when the college walls'are reared. They will know that t.h;g.x; :ug;r!n :fi-e not. filn vain, of “All's well!” will from ghostly sentinels. R ——or—. Only Two? n;;e the ’:mmm- Times. re is no reason at all wi . ‘Ehlns'fln mld produce mywn‘ag'e eories. now - rest of humanity. ekl —————— Be Sure You're Right. From the Louisville Times. A 100-year-old Chicago woman sa laughter will keep a person from grozf ing old. It probably will, provided you don't laugh at the wrong persons. How Many Pass? Prom lm- Sprinefield (Ohio) Daily News. University of Utah professor says :!;l:ng‘ .rfiunc n!’w:lhe! students cheit lons. At surprises us is :{::diynumuuon that 50 per crepm. of them ] Not That Bad. Prom the Tthaca Journal-News. If your brother-in-law, or son-in-law, or any other in-law is thinking of going to Congress, e outlevcry kind of in- mmuthmkorw!lz develop their strength of character. Do they not lean too languidly upon the softness of their surroundings, which obviates the necessity to struggle? ‘Would Herbert Hoover, if he had n adopted by an indulgent multimil- lionaire (or a Pope), have developed his rugged self-rellance and energy? Environment, which must logically be expected to make for hardiness and self-reliance, is not necessarily luxury and ease. Nine out of ten of the “successful men” in business, science or art are what the world calls “self- made” who have overcome great ob- stacles to success. Herbert Hoover, the orphan, worked his way through col- lege, n, after graduating, worked underground as a miner. Would he have done s0 if he had been adopted %hl'Pope or & Rockefeller? Soft en- nment kills more victims than it develops into success. About 1540 there stood on the coast of | J. The answers to questions printed here each dey are specimens picked from the mass of inquiries handled by our great information bureau maintained in Washington, D. C. This valuable service is for the free use of the public. Ask any question of fact you may want to know and you will get an immediate reply. Write plainly, inclose 2 cents in coin or stamps for return postage, and address The Evening Star Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, director, ‘Washington, D. C. Q. Where is the longest lighted air- way in the world?>—H. C. A. The transcontinental air-mail route between New York and San Fran- cisco is sald to be the longest. Q. Please name some buildings in Engiand which are said to be haunted. C. W. A. Some well known buildings in England that are reputed to be haunted are the Tower, Windsor Castle, Cam- bridge University and Oxford Univer- sity, Hampton Court, St. James' Palace, Bisham Abbey, Corby Castle, Rainham, Hilton Castle, Lambton Castle, Lowther Hall, Newstead Abbey, Peele Castle, Bolling Hall and Ince Hall. Q. What does a double pair royal count in cribbage?—A. P. A. A double pair royal counts 12, be- cause it contains six pairs. Q. What kind of quarantine applied to Florida fruit?—N. D. A. On account of the appearance of the Mediterranean fruit fly in Florida a stringent quarantine became effective May 1, 1929. Strenuous efforts are being made to éliminate this pest before it makes headway in this frult belt. Fruit 15 inspected and shipped under permit. Q. How do grand, light and comic opera differ?—H. K. A. Grove's Dictionary of Music gives the following information concerning the difference between certain types of opera: Comic opera—a term used indis- criminately to denote a musico-dramatic work of an amusing nature. It is not the English equivalent to the French opera-comique, for that term includes works into which seriousness and even tragedy may enter; the type is rather the opera bouffe. Light opera is a term often employed for works in which sentiment counts for more than high spirits, although the latter is not neces- sarily absent. Grand opera is an opera with continuous music and of a serious nature. Q. Are there killer whales in the Antarctic?—T. O. L. A. They are found in the Antarctic. ‘They are about 30 feet long and are flerce fighters. Q. When was March considered the first month of the year in England?— . T. O. A. The English legal year commenced in March previous to 1752. Q. Why did Charles Lind re- celve such high praise for his flight to Paris?>—D, D. A. Two reasons Col. Lindbergh re- celved more recognition for his trans- atlantic flight were because he was is now President Hoover's Law Enforcement Commission is welcomed hopefully by the press, with approving estimates of the personnel and a general recognition of the magnitude of the problem ahead. “It is the organization of crime and its connection with political action, its position under ‘government and in it, which has given the United States rcblenh" de&‘“;o:hi Chlvalg'gn Eflbum. n greeting the rd, an paper raakes the further comment: “If the commi is to do the American people & service, it will present them with a survey and review of their laws and their attitude toward them, of their processes and the uses made of them, of their political action and its relation to criminal organization which will be his- toric and complete. It will present a full picture of government. It may not b2 a lovely picture, but it will be a valuable one. Then the chastened and sober mind may find the way out.” “The main function of the commis- sion is to find the missing bolts, apply the monkey wrench and get the wheels into working order again,” the Houston Chronicle, while the Hartford Times, accepting the new body as in- spired by the presidential p , B8= sumes thaf it will “investigate the whole subject of law enforcement, including its involutions of jurisprudence, police, sociology and the quality of the law it- self, in order that from an authorita- tive research a program for effective reformation might be devised, recom- mended and- undertaken.” “It is the President’s hope,” as under- stood by the Lexington Leader, “that Jjustice can be made more swift and sure, and that the laws can be so framed and so enforced that the old respect for law and the old confidence in the agencies of enforcement and in the courts, including the jury system, can be restored.” The Jersey City Journal that “it is even pos- sible to hope that some practical sug- gestions may be forthcoming before Congress adjourns which would tend to expedite the administration of jus- tice.” “Wherefore this criminal degradation our cities?” asks the Cincinnati Times-Star. “What differentiates us from the people of other nations? It is for the commission to determine. And momentous will be its answer.” It is “no small demand” that is made of the commission, in the opinion of the in Forum, task as “a sweeping and searching probe into all enforcement, into the rea- ‘sons for the b':tkt)l‘owl‘:l hc:! o\:r l;ul machinery in e han g of crime cases; mfi the reasons for the spread of crime; into the ways to set up correc- tive methods.” “It t;'nnotbt;‘e too ;gm&xll"y ol‘l:ll‘preued u c m coun- Lr';m:s !wu‘s’: a decidedly’ serious situa- tion at this time,” advises the Altoona Mirror, while the Wheeling Intelligencer asserts that “the justice of American written law has not been questioned, but the enforcement has 1 & na- tional disgrace.” “It may not solve the prohibition which looks upon the | Staf BY FREDERIC J]. HASKIN. the first man to make this flight alone and because he was the frat n to use a land plane for this flight. All the others had used hydroplanes whica could make a safe landing on the sea if necessary. Q. Have scientists ever proved that such combinations of food as milk and fruit, oysters and sweet foods. c:-bs and milk, etc., are dangerous?—N. D. A. According to Dr. E. V. McCollum, in his book, “Food, Nutrition and Health,” there is no evidence whatever that there is anything harmful about eating these foods at the same meal. Q. Did the, United States purchase the Los Angeles from Germany?—A. N. A. According to armistice terms the United States was entitled to two rigid airships. These were destroyed by the Germans before being taken over by this Government. As the United States wanted & sample of their best work, & request was made to the Council of Am=~ bassadors, through Myron T. Herrick, United States Ambassador to France, that these two rigid airships be re- placed. We first asked for one with 100,000 cubic meters capacity, but the powers objected, so a compromise was made on one of 70,000 cubic meters, which is larger than either of the two destroyed. The ZR-3 was constructed solely for the United States and did not cost our Nation anything, except accessories, which amounted to approx- imately $50,000. Q. Why are some badgers of the same species merely hair badgers, while others are fur badgers>—C. C. L. A. It is not_definitely known why some badgers when caught have a pre- dominance of hair and others a pre- dominance of fur. The proportion of the different type of pelage varies in different parts of the year, llkewise with the habits of certain animals, under which conditions the hair or fur may be rubbed or broken off. Q. T have lost my citizenship papers. Can I get duplicates?—W. 8. A. If your citizenship papers have been lost or destroyed, you may, upon the payment to the commissioner of naturalization of a fee of $10, accom-~ panied by two photographs, make an application to the commissioner of nat- uralization, Department of Labor, Wash= ington, D. C., for a new certificate. Q. When -was “Tom Jones” pub. lished?—N. A. L. A. Henry Fielding’s novel, “The His- tory of Tom Jones, a Foundling,” was published February 28, 1749. In its original form it filled six volumes, con= taining some 350,000 words. The book has been translated into French, Dutch, German, Spanish, Italian, Polish and Russian, and has probably been re- printed in English 150 times. Q. What kind of wood is used to make toothpicks?>—A. M. E. B A. White birch is used most exten- sively. The seat of the industry is in Ji . tomlekl are made of orange wood and are smaller and tougher. Those from Japan are made from fine reeds. Law Enforcement Commission Welcomed Hopefully by Press the letors Pst-Crescent. MonAl? made by the Columbus Ohlo State Journal that “the report of its findings and deductions doubtless will exert a great influence w President Hoom'lmf;mxn poliey, r r:;;ect to oo blic sentiment on that ‘The Gagette ol made up of “citizens of sufficiently large caliber to study the liquor issue in an artial spirit' and with the single det tion to obtain the truth.” The Buffalo Evening News hopes that it “will provide the country with an unassailable statement of what prohi- bition has accomplished or failed to accomplish—with effects that it has had upon the political and social life of the Nation.” The Bay Oity Daily Times says: “The most sensible remark of the many observations coming fm- after the announcement of the commission personnel came from & wet, Senator Edge of New Jersey. He called on the extremists of both sides to let the wmmlulo& function "13::!: any campaign on the part of fldz to_influence the outcome of the inquiry.” As to the personnel of the commis- sion, the Pasadena Star-News thinks ppeal {nm’; phical section represented, eve e The Be0gT3] but so are both political parties.” selection of persons in whom the coun- try has confidence is attested by the Ann Arbor Daily News, the Morgan- town New Dominion, the Memphis Commercial Appeal, the St. Louis Times, the !lvlnnlg News, the Spokane mflpokwn-n-nevlew and the 'San Fran- Chronicle. It is hoped by the Olean Herald that “whatever the commission may decide upon as to procedure, it will permit the fullest measure of publicity possible during the S,”,E“" of the investiga- tion.” The Wayne News-Sentinel concludes that “time—much time—will be necessary for a proper investigation of the numerous perplexing angles of the problem.” ‘The Utica Observer-Dispatch state: “The inquiry is expected to take at least two years, and it is to be hoped that it will result in recommendations of such clear, concise and direct reform 8s to provide that relief of which the country at large and each separate te are so greatly in need.” The Texarkana Gazette holds that “if it brings anything like universal observ- ance of such laws as are retained, the commission will have rendered a serv- ice to the Nation of inestimable value.” A lon, road to correction of existing evils is foreseen by the Little Rock Ar- kansas Democrat. “If that commission finds that much of the crime .wave can be directly attributed to the pro- hibition laws, how many folk are going to accept' that finding?” asks the Ar- kansas pAper. “If the investigators find that crime prospers because it so often enjoys official protection, who is !!olnx to lead the ‘clean-up,’ and how? our whole system of court procedure in criminal cases is found to ‘wrong, problem, but it ought to tone down the extremists o both sides and yield sug- gestions for reducing the very obvious and alarming evils of prohibition,” says In drea Q'er all the And when, in There falls a drop of Some noted one ha After all, what of the professor who has examined a criminal every 40 min- utes for the last 12 years and has card- indexed the whole 40,000, so that he has “got their numbers” and knows hich are murderers and which saints? how can a system which has been in effect for a hundred years be reformed overnight?” His Widowed Mother Speaks My son, my son, all d"kw“ the long, long night, X irst to France; d looks Not in these ¢e'er fold a pinion. Then thro Up where the morning stars together Past hated Mars and lovely P! Thence earthward, Aeolus-born: And rests by Thg Unknown, at Arlington. des; with drooping wing, ¢ through my lonely day, balm upon my heart; 1 know a flower falls upon your grave! I've often marked the minute of the time Ticked by the elock you loved—your grandsire’s elock— And read, next day, how in that self-same hour id a wreath upon The Unknown Soldier's tomb at Arlingten. Sometimes there is no item; then I know ‘That yesterday it was an humble hand . Left tribute on your grave, peace on my heart. ‘Through all my nights T dream of you, desr son; Wil,‘om, 1 feel you're safe, in Arlington! ROSE MARY BURDICK - '