Evening Star Newspaper, June 9, 1929, Page 30

o THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON, THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Mornisg Editten. WASHINGTON, D. C. SUNDAY... «.June 9, 1029 THEODORE W. NOYES. .Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company ‘Business Office: 1h st w Yo e: 110 East 42nd W Chicago Office: Lake Michigan Buflding. European Office 14 8t.. London. Engian Rate by Carrier Within the City. r rermonth | Sunday Star | 80c per month | | 85¢ per mont hdas Brar S per eony eciion mate at the end of cach menth | The Coll Orders may be sent {n by mail or telepnone Sunday only States and Canada. 7.1 57, $1200: 1 mo.. $1.00 sr., $800; 1 mo. T8¢ yr. $500: 1 wmo. 80c | All Other unda; i1 i ‘Member of the Associated Press. The Arancimted Pres iy exciusively entitied to the bee for repunlication of cil rews dix- 1atches cradited 1o it or not otherwize cred- | ited in this paper and aiso the loeal news published hersin. All mehts of pubhieatian of epecial Atgpatches herein are miso reserved. A Needed Reform. The crusade against “lame duek” ses- sions of Congress refuses to down. For the fifth time the Senate yesterday put through the resolution of Senator Nnr-I ris of Nebraska proposing a comstitu- tiona! amendment which would do away | with the present short sesstons of Con- gress ‘and bring into action both the newly elected Legislature and Chief | Executive in January, following their victories at the polis. The vote in the Senate was 64 to 0, far more than the necessary two-thirds vote for the adop- tipn of a resolution proposing a consti- tutional amendment. Although the Bemate has five times | approved this change in the Censtitu- tion the House has never yet taken fa- vorable action on it. Some day, how- ever, the lower house will come to it. The proposal has merit, otherwise it could not command the huge vote, en- tirely mon-partisan, which it has re- ceived on ‘every occasion it has come before the Benate for action. The House leadership has been hostile to it in the past. Under existing eonditions a newly | elected Congress usually does mot begin to function until thirteen months after | it has been chosen by the peopte. Only in the event Congress is called into special session. as in the case of the present Congress, i5 this not so. Fur- thermore, the old Congress continues to | legislate in the so-called short session even though a change of party control may have been made at the polls. The short session, which begins in Decem- |the same time he drops in the social | seale. Naturally he does not like it. He | that he learned very little. Thousands | eersthing. This applies to the hunted | of Gthers must make the same confes- as well;as the hunter. sion. The scientific detective works with There is another phase which he did ijminute differences not visible to the not mention, although it may have |naked eyve. In his special field such been in his mind, This is the acquire- | fine bits of evidence as excited the read- mhent of the “poor-but-homest-and- | ing public when attributed to such a gritty-college-boy complex, than | cheracter as Sherlock Holmes probabi- which there are few greater obstacles|wowld be passed over as insignificant to success. The college community is | erwdities. He deals with measurements inclined fo make much of tife penny- | as .delicate as a thousandth part of an less student. Easy jobs are thrown |inch. To these he applies the mathe-| his Way. He is patted on the shoulder | matical laws of probability. No crim- and assured that he is the type from | nali possibly can conceal every possi-| whom the world will hear Iater on, He | ble sdetail visibie under the microscope. enjoys an artificial social position. Hiskcause is hopeless from the start. Then he leaves the sheltered atmos-| Deubtless the field of the specialists rhere of the college for the real world | in various phases of criminal practice wh*> he must make his living without | will' become broader and broader ns favor--a reml world which may demane | mone men are developed. But no single more of him than the school curriculum | linei of identification procedure can be and the outeide work combined. At |maslered by a few months’ course in a | { correspondence school. The individual | mus, devote a lifetime to his speciality. | { tries to be the “poor-but-honest-fel- | He will not emerge from his study of | tow-determined-to-make-good” in the | his specislity a glamorous, romantic real world and expeets the same sym- | man-hunter, but a gray-haired, modest pathetic understanding he got in col- | scholar. lege. But he gets a kick instead of &, The supereriminal, ambitious pat on the shoulder. The world places | commit the “perfect crime,” littte value on the “poor-but-deter- | ford to laugh at the scientific detective | mined” blfl. Tt wants results. It |of fiction. He knows he is a charlatmn. | makes mo allowances for handieape | But there is a noose around his neck | such as arc made in the educationel | when his path crosses that of the,un- institutions. {romantic man of the laboratory. . Sometimes a man is unable to under- .. stand this and spends the rest of his| Juvenile Lawlessness. life in this ineffective pose, Womdering | There are many phases to Mawless- why riches are mot placed at his feet| ness, as the President’s commission | and confident that the world is not ['will discover after it gets down to work. | giving him a square: deal. One of these is that of juvenile delin- Generally speaking, the world can | quency. Two facets of this phase are | afford to be supremely wnconcerned | cruelty to animals and disregard for over a delay of four or five years in ['the property of others. the process of an individual's education. | An intetesting attempt to mitigate | Better wait than recelve a half edu-[ithese evils in Washington has been | cated product from the hale of learn- [imade with the recent formation of the ing. Youth is impatient, but art is(ICrusaders, which is intended to teach | long. children in all sections of the city a | {twofold practical {Golden Rule. Children are asked to:pledge them- | jelves “to champion the cause of all| ianimals, to protect and treat them al- | {ways with kindness, and to defend fthem from cruelty by others;” and “to iconsider the property of others, to| {avold thoughtless, willful, or malicious | to | can af-| application of the | —_p—— Much-Moved Tree Nurseries. The Capital's tree nurseries have been moved and removed so often in the past that the Bureau of Efficiency’s recommendation for another moving day fafls to arouse that imtense en- thusiasm at the District Buffding, which | “If we let Him alone, all men will be | nation perish not.” | “1t is not expedient for us.” Bishop of Text: “It is expedient for us” (St. John 2i.50). “It is & question of expediency” often we hear this said! In the vast majority of cases it represents an effort to avoid responsibility or to evade the high claims of conscience. When the high priests, who held their office at re of the Roman government, sed the growing popularity of they determined to put Him the way. Their conclusion was. lieve on Him: and the Romans shall come and take away both our place and nation.” In response to this observation their craity leader declared, “Y nothing at all. nor consider that it is cxpedient for us. that one man should die for the people and that the whole Jealous of his place of power and conacious that the prac- sociates were condemned. he would de- whose Jife and teaching were wholly in- imical to the common practice. It was tices of the ruling class that ultimately brought about His crucifixion. is governed by the rule of expediency. We are perfectly willing to recognize ideal, to follow a great conyiction until selfish aims. incomparable teachings of Christ, we dictates we recognize our obligations as Christians. a system. as the conserver of a whole- some domestic and social life, togethe with its poetic and esthetic appeal. quite generally acceded to. All goes well_until we discover that obedience to the teachings of Christ cuts across | our so-called self-interests or interferes with what we are pleased to describe as “personal liberty.” Then we find The shrine of expediency has many devotees. We recall the incident of a distinguished English barrister who declared, on hearing_one of the strong sermons preached in St. Paul's, London, “to| think of the impertinence of it, the | preacher actually sought to_interfere with our private habits” This is no cxtreme citation. To recognize Christ as the sovereign Teacher and Savior of men and to as- tices indulged in by himself and his as- | stroy one, however sinless he might be, | this conflict of the high ideals of the | | Master with the seifish habits and prac- Much, too much, of our world today | the transcendence and power of an| it runs counter to our own conceits or | embarrasses us in the pursuit of our | We readily recognize the | hold in reverence sacred uses and | sacred buildings, and as convenience | The Christian religion as | | to live like & pagan on another. otherwise might be expesied. The nurseries have always been rquatters on land belonging to some one eise. They have never had a permanent home. No coomer has money been well spent in preparing land for a tree nursery than orders have come to get up an get— the land being needed for some other sdestruction of property, thereby help- dng to make our city beautiful” ithe pet animals of others and the de- istruction of property- is closer than it might seem. A boy who will capture jsome one's pet cat and subject it to ‘torture ix likely to be/the same boy who The relationship between cruelty to | Farm Agreement Held sume an attitude of reverence in wor- ship, and then in our daily habit and b €, JUNE g 1 929—PART 2. “A Dangerous Rule” BY THE RIGHT REV. JAMES E. FREEMAN, D. D, LL. D., W ashington | practice to deny His authority and to | disobey His specific_teaching. is to do how | Yiolence to our so-called Christian faith We call this by the stern name “hy- ' Christian conviction sets 8o lightly upon us that we easily displace | it as convenience and caprice dictate. | It is demonstrably true, if business and religion cannot mix re with the pro- n faith, the lat- ter is valueless and the former is im-| periled. If social practice is not af- fected by what we hold of Christian conviction, then it is only an adorn- ment_and nothing more. The cause of the Christian religion and reverence for its_sanctities are imperiled by those who, adhering to the rule of expediency, deny the high claims of the Master. Our age is witnessing, even in the churches themselves in some places, the secularization of its sacred aims and purposes. The employment of any method inconsistent with the dignity and spiritual ends of the church is! not only a recognition of failure to hold the favor and adherence of its people. but it is a willful vioiation of the high and holy ends for which it stands. Too frequently today we find the church setting forth its appeal in terms of secular_entertainment of one kind and another, testifying thereby to its im- potence’ and subjecting itself to the stern and just criticism of Christian and un-Christian alike. Either Christianity means a regu-| lated and disciplined life in accordance with the teachings of Christ, rendering those who believe it different from those who do not, or else it is only an_expression of admiration for that which appeals to the artistic and esthetic. ~To find it expedient to be Christian on one day and expedient is to piay the role of the hypocrite. It was of such that St. Paul wrote, “They crucify the Son of God afresh and put Him to open shame.” The relaxing of the disciplines of religion, indiffer- ence to its claim to that which is heroic, has deprived it of the adherence of those who love consistency. The appeal of the manly man, Christ Je<us, has Jost none of its force; it is only where it i diluted by our mistaken methods and still more mistaken yvield- ing to the rule of expediency that it proves futile and unavailing. When the Christian Church stands inflexibly for & rule of life in harmony with the teachings of its professed Master, it will once again make its universal ap- peal to those who honor consistency of profession and practice. f the habits of | purpose, i\vrnk.x windows or enters empty houses A few vears ago Conmgress specifically’| ifor the purposes of theft. set aside Jand at Poplar Peint for a tree. Such cruelty and depredation, how- nursery ‘and from fifteen to twenty: jever, often are the result, not so much thousand dollars have been spant inj4of inherent vicious traits as of the well developing ‘a good nursery. According | known desie “to do something” which rking, Mr. Lanham, the nursery there [fthere is no man alive, who, as a boy, to the superintendent of trees ‘and |/assafls most healthy boys. Perhaps BY WILLIAM HARD. through co-operative societier. In the : case of wheat, w] the urgent, prob- The President has won his first great | jom there are some 4.000 co-operative | legisiative political victory and i about sncieties owning country-town whest to face his sdministrative test. | cjevators. These institutions are scat- | “conference” between ationrl association. They remain, how- Victory for President Capital Sidelights | BY WILL P. KE| DY. | Strenuous and rugged John Q. Tilson, House leader. added a couple more | | laurel leaves to his wreath as majority | leader during the past week. A big man, who for half a century has been ! able to take care of himself on any | oceasion, and who on occasion can be | right quick-tempered, took with a ' | smile—a__characteristic ~smile—rather bitter criticisms of his officlal pro. | cedure from two smaller ma@. Thereby | he won the higher regard of his col- | | leagues than if he had amused the | | injudicious by taking offense and allow- | ing his official duties and conduct to be | | morred by hard feelings. | | When the House got itself into a snarl | over the census reapportionment bill { s & result of group fecling supporting amendments that would vex antagon- | istic interests, and with the big ma- | jority of members anxious to avoid a record vote and in desperation that such a vote was inevitable, it was up | to Tilson to try to find A way out. | First of all, after consulting with the Speaker and other responsible leaders, he sprang a surprise on the House 0 | as to allow time for bitter feelings to | cool off and & compromise to be worked | out. Then with a very small group of | tactical advisers he worked out a way to_avoid the record vote. Before he could Spring this new coup he was publicly taken to task by Rep- resentative Beedy of Maine for not having taken his colleagues into his confidence about the jump adjourn- ment, Mr. Beedy resenting being placed in the attitude of being a “rubber stamp.” When the Speaker offered him an opportunity to reply Mr. Tilson brushed the incident away with a chuckle, saying: “The gentleman from Maine has scolded the House for its action. I hope that he is satisfied. I do not see that what he says hurts the House at all.” Then when Leader Tilson had made his second surprise move to avoid the record vote by striking out of the bill the entire section on reapportionment containing the two feared amendments and then reinserting other language, with the amendments omitted, Repre- sentative Hoch of Kansas, advocate of one of the amendments, objected “if any strong-arm methods are to be used to prevent the House from passing on this amendment.” Still preserving the integrity of his position as leader, with the counsel of his party advisers, and maintaining his unruffied demeanor, he | arose and registered objection “to the gentleman's statement as to strong-arm methods.” He had previously explained the matter frankly to his colleagues, saying: [ i re is no need to dodge the ques- tion. The principal thing it does is to eliminate the two provisions that were put into the bill the other day.” Here he was interrupted by applause. “That is the effect, frankly stated. and th: is the object of the amendment.” He proved himself a real leader in an emergency and won the higher re- . gard of his colleagues. i | Representative Tinkham of Massa | chusetts waited 14 years for his_hes | day in the House when by the “Negro | disenfranchisement amendment” he |achieved what Reprecentative Whi tington of Mississippi called “a boom- erang—a phyrde victory.” When first clected to Congress and New Map of Chicago’s Loop Distri ct BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN. What might be described as a war a s gunmen has _just the of the United s Geologiral Survey, one of Uncle am's chief cartographers. It is a de- | tailed map of the famous Loop District | of the Windy City on which the atten- tion of the entire Nation has been con- | centrated frequently in the past few vears because of the many killings by Tevolvers, mechine guns and’ bombs in the hands of gangsters whose activities have been stimulated by the beer war When one thinks of a map, the normal mental picture is of the school geography book type—a map showing | cceans, islands and continents, lakes and rivers. with cities dotted here and there. When the Geological Survey makes a map, however, it goes into greater detail and for this reason it is suggested that this new map might be called & gunman's guide. Every bullding in the Chicago Loop district is faithfully shown on the map Not, of course, a pictorial representa- tion of every building. but a blacked-in space which shows the precise amount of ground covered. In the more con- gested sections the structures make | almost solid black masses. Where thess appear the observer can be certain that the space indicat~d actually is entirely | covered by a building, for every allev and rven the most insignificant court, i revealed. Reference to the map will show whether an alley is a thoroughfare opening or a street in the next block or whether it is in fact a treacherous cul- de-sac with but a single entrance. the twistings and turnings of the nar- row by-ways hidden behind the walls of the skyscrapers facing the main streets ence of small structures within court- yards, such as garages. toolhouses, store- houses and the like is shown. No Strueture Unmarked. The most unfamiliar person. after { stidying a given section as shown by | chiefly this map. could not fairly say that he did not know that a given spot was occupied by some sort of structure: nn one desiring to take a short cut through an alley could justifiably be surprised at finding himself confronted by high | walls instead of an exit. Another intricate detail has to do with railroads. Twenty-six railroads | | have terminals in Chicago and mest of them penetrate this Loop district. Every railroad track is shown on the map. The | switching yards actually showing the number of tracks are revealed, the sheds, repair shops, signal towers, round houses. freight houses and passenger stations are clearly indicated. shown and all the wharves, docks ar warehouses are indicated: similarly th- features on the Lake Michigan water- front for a distance of 5 miles. Within this Loop district are to b~ found 10 parks and the boundaries of these are shown as well as the drive- ways through them, ponds and euch features. Four bathing beaches aionc the Ilake front arc indicated and th- three golf courses to be found in the district. Nor can mention of the fact that six cemrteries are precis located be omitted. Flyers and Engineers Assisted. . While this map was prepared unde: the direction of the Geolozical Burvey, it had other expert assistance. One rea- son why it is so accurate in detail i that the Air Oorps of the United State Army assisted by taking aerial pho- tographs from Army planes. Further, the work of the United States Lake Sur- vey was utilized and also that done by engineers and surveyors of the City of Chicago. For exact details concerning the railrond tracks and their buildings. surveys prepared in connection with t phrsical valuation of railroads. being ted by the Interstate Commerce ‘Commision, were consulted. Another ‘advantage to the man who wants to know every physical feature of the Loap district is the topographical information which the map affords. The Geological Survey concerns itself with every rise and fall of the ground and these are chown by markings on the map. So, the wanderer jn can know in ac “nce whetl have level going over a certain route or will encounter inclines. However. Chi- | are faithfully revealed. Even the pres- cago is a very level city compared with most. The mean elevation of the sur- face_of Lake Michigan above sea level is 578 feet and the est ground in the whole Loop district is only & little over 600 feet and such ground rising 25 fect above the lake is to be found in the parks and cemeteries. Graceland Cemeters has a pesk 607 fret above sea level or 20 foet above the Iake Jevel. Many of the park knolls district is not are artificial. B the Tnet davs Geologically, the Loo) especially interesting. of the last ice age, glaciers occupied the Lake Michigan Basin and impounded the melted ice so that the surface of the lake was some 60 feet higher than at present. So the mndern Chi- capo_stands on the old lake bottom, merely a sandy floor, somewhat serried by sand bars. No unusual minerals underlay the city. This new map of the Chicago Loop is but one of a series which, when fin- 5 | are emphasized in red, while If one is in & hurry to get across the i ished, will fit together making one huge Leop or, perhaps, get out of it and out ' map of the Chicago district and show- of town, the map helps. The streets ing in great detail all the physical fes- which constitute through, direct routes | tures, natural and artificial. over an the sec- | area of a thousand equare miles. The ondary routes are shown by broken red | aerial photographing, leveling, survey- lines. For example, if you start West | ing. etc., has been e and the other along Diversey avenue and turn up Mil- | sections will be published as soon as waukee avenue (a through route). ¥ know that you can find Wheeling 15 miles ahead, because at the edge of the map are Jettered the names of the neighboring towns to which the route will take you and the distance thereto. The meanderings of the Chicago River k;o e;grnv-lng and printing can be com- pleted. The Geological Survey constantly is preparing maps of various localities and it has many hundreds of thousands on hand, all available at low prices. The Chicago Loop map, for instance, can be {and the Chicago Drainage Canal are purchased for 10 cents. er and ‘ends on the foillowing fourth of March, is notoriously futile. Rarely is | any legisiation of importance possible in such a session, partly due to the| lack of time and not infrequently due to obstruetive tactics. Under the Nor-| ris resolution Congress would meet onee | yropaply sooner or later find the land | every year in January and continue In | gecupied needed for other purposes, ictions of otber boys who would at- | A nursery used for older trees and |:tempt to hurt his four-legged friend. 1t {lis remarkable how quickly a boy be- | sesston as long as it was mecessary to, accomplish the work before it. There ‘would be no session in which a menber of the House or a member of the Ben- ate would continue to act as a legisla- is the most satisfactory the District has ever had. The Bureau of Eficiency transfer the nursery to Lorton. But, if the nursery were established there, the Board of Public Welfare would for varieties not suited to the low. Iying land at Poplar Poinfi is now maintained at Fort Dupogt. That land 1s occupied mow because W Park and idid net throw stones at cats. The purpose of the new organization belteves it would be good policy to fis to ecapture the fancy of boys by | ienlisting them in work which puts them fin the roie of crusaders in the eause of fkindmess and property conservation. Every boy with a dog would resent the jcomes interested in keeping terraces in seondition and lawns and flowers ia good jshape when he becomes the master of tor ‘after he had been defeated at the | py oo o o “Goes not, for the [N 0N lawn, terfase and flower beds. polls. Instead of compelling the newly elected President of the United Btates to wait four months before taking offtee and putting into effect the policies for which he stood during the campaign, under the Norris plan the President ‘would take office the middle of January following his election. The proposed change is in the in- terest of efficlent Government. In the early days of the country, communiea- tion and ravel were slow. It took weeks or even months for a man to go | from ome part of the country to| another. That appears to have been the reason for sdopting the present system, which delays executive and legislative offices in the assumption of their duties. Today, however, the sttuation is vastly changed. It is pos- stble for & member of Congress from the most distant Btate to reach Wash- ington within a few days. The country knows how the election has gone the night of election day. Certainly if the Government is to be responsive to the will of the people, it is not sensible | to retain in office men and women who have been defeated at the polis for so long a period as is now the practice, —_————— The reparations experts succeeded in putting into sction the famous advice of Mr. Dawes, “Lat's get together and get somewhere ———— Colleges and Complexes. “Don't work your way through col- | lege.” Buch is the contribution of Robert M. Hutchins, new and youthful presi- | dent of the University of Chicago, to | the showers of good advice on matters | sctolastic deluging the press these June | daye. With certain noteworthy exceptions this wamning, so strangely different from the traditional American philos- | ophy of higher education, seems sofind. | Working one’s way through college | long has been considered as valuable character tramning. Commencement | orators have declared that the average | student learns more from his fluuide‘ activittes than from the curriculum. He becomes familiar with hardship, disci- | plined to deprivation, and appreciative of the value of time and money. We are all familiar with the character of | the rich man who forces his son to go | through college without & cent from the parental purse for the moral value of the experience. | But the true picture never has been | exactly as it was painted. There has | ! been too frequently a reversal of values. | The =cjuirement of an education in | letters and sciences. the primary rea- | son for going to college at all, becomes | eecondary to the necessary outside ac- tivities. The main business is that of earning a living. The student acquires not onl” the discipline of hardship and deprivetion but the art of simulating successfully @ mastery of the curricu- lum which he does not possess. He sets up as an objective the passing of ex- aminations rather than the accumula- tion of knowledge. Getting a high mark in French i quite a different matter from knowing anything about Prench. We are not sure that there 1 much relation between the two ac- ‘complishments. time being, meed it for park develop- ment. Eventually it must be given up. And one suggestion has been that a nureery in place of the one at Fort Dupont be established tn part of the territory to be developed as an ar- boretum. Nothing definite his ma- terialized from that -suggestion. There is no good reason why the nursery at Poplar Point should be moved now. But if it is to be moved the transfer should not take place until some location is chosen that will possess & degree of permanency. The Capital's trees are great mssets, and the ‘ad- vantages of obtaining them from a municipal nursery outweigh the ad- vantages of buying them eltewhere. ‘The maintenance and development of sultable nurseries are important parts of the program for continued develop- ment of the Capital as the world's greatest tree city. If the nurseries must be moved, due thought should be di- rected to finding the best location avall- able and one that will not be changed by whim or fancy. It s a question whether Lorton meets such require- ments. ] Many & deserving young aviator would be thankful for a slight share in the superabundance of attentions etill showered on Lindbergh. A man seldom finds it genuinely easy to get his pieture into the papers until he has become tired of it. s It is, of eourse, universally admitted that the value of & diplomat s regu- lated by what he thinks rather than by what he drinks e The Scientific Detective. One of the most colorful characters in modern fiction is the sctentific de- tective. When the actual man himself steps occasionally into murder trials with his prosaic details of technical evidence the jurors yawn and the gen- eral public does not recognize him. In- only qualifications are his make-up. He provides the glamour which news- paper readers have come to ‘expect in the supersieuth. But the sclentific detective is a factor between soctety and the criminal Fventually his microscopes, his stand- ards of comparicon, his precision in- of the past. Btandards. day to the delegates of the National Conference on Weights and Measures. uncanny powers. He is not a mind- reader or a fortune-teller. He is simply training and infinite patience who has been willing to devote years to the mastery of one specific subfect. Ome tndividual may have spent a lifetime mastering the identification marks of typewriters. Another has devoted the stead, 1t turns to the charlatan whose| of increasing fmportanee in the war struments and his higher mathematics may make the unsolved crime a thing ‘Much of his work now is centered at the ‘National Bureau of It was explained the other He is no superman. He possesses no a man of normal intelligence, scientific Reports of cruelty to ankmals, in- vdlved in the lassoing of oats and dogs, anel their subsequent torture in empty ganages, have led to the formation of the \new organization. The @ifficulties of this work are manifest, but even the reclamation of a few boys will be emi- nently worth while: and #f the organ- izers could receive the co-operation of every one interested in its objects there is little doubt that it would do a great deal toward breaking up juvenile law- fessness in the National Capital. S e Detalled and comprehensive crime survey will provide more thrills than any detective story that whiled sway an hour or %o for an eminent tofl-worn public dMetal. e It is predicted that railroad rates will be higher. i There is some consolation in the preparation under way for a greatly fmproved service, —— - With no new penalties recently an- nouneed, Harry Sinclair possibly re- gards himself @s having had several Iueky days. | | { | s SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Bunkwome May Days. Straw hats are due, And vet it’s true We do not, know How low The mercury may go! That Maytime tune Sounded by far too soom; It was not gay! Il say; “Oh, what a bunk was Ma “Didn't I tell you not to bother me about trifles?” asked Senator Sorghum. “I'm sorry,” sald the seoretary, “but you have lately drifted so far out of the political pleture I thought maybe you'd be glad to see anybody who wanted to talk to you about anything.” Jud Tunkins says a good cow is worth a couple o' hundred dollars. A mikin’ stool ain’t worth as much as & seat on the stock exchange. But it's more safe.” Auditorial Oharm. My radio! My radio! T listen and rejoice. Your thought may be a trifle slow, But still T love your voice. Demand for Unanimity. “Are you in favor of prohibition?” “Every time!" answered Uncle Bill Bottletop. “What I'm hopin' for is (that the entire populace will combine | to make it unantmous. “We ‘are willing to forgive our ene- mies,” sald Hi Ho, the sage of China- town, “but not until we have renderec { them powerless.” Alcoholic Tmmunities. same attention to guns and bullets. Btill another has solved all the twistc of handwriting. No one mmn is com- petent in all these felds. The value ©f the sctentific detective ltes partly A diplomatic figure I may be; | Tt I have proper luck | I shall climb up and let the nations see { How I can driwe a truck. “Playin’ de races,” said Uncle Eben, President Hutchins himself worked in the very narrowmess of his fleld. The “encourages many a long-shot hope of his way through coliege. He sumis individual TARROL be wn expert i bemn' lucky, though foolish.” ° | to be accepted by both, is in stric { harmony. on all main points, with the | | President's preference. The proponents of the debenture plan will have suc- {ceeded only in the negative achieve- | | ment of delaying farm relief by ap- | | proximately five weeks. One other plan | | inserted into the bill by the Senate 'and quietlv resisted by the President and now climinated by the “conference” has been almost universally overlooked. The Senate provided that the new | Farm Board might not only Jend money to “stabilization corpora- tions,” but might also buy stock in them and become thus & part owner of them. The United States Govern- | ment would thercby have been taken | directly into the business of buving and | selling farm commodities. The United States Government would have been made into 8 merchant and a trader. This provision was wholly contrary to the President's known views of the | proper functions of government. He made no outward move against it. but advised against it strongly in private | conversation when his opinion was sought. The House members of the “conference” between the House and the Senate found themselves in agree- ment_with him. They refused to ac- cept. the provision, and the Senate con- ference vielded. The bill as reported back to both houses by the “confer- ence” confines the farm board, in its dealings with “stabilization - tioms.” to the lending of maney to them and to certain other relationships with them which fall short of ownership. Private Institutions. The “stabilization corporations,” therefore, will remain private institu- tions. The Federal Farm Board will finance them, or not finance them, in its @iscretion, accord@ing to their merits3 and according to market circumstances.! The Government already does great | deal of financing of agriculture through | its Pedernl Parm Loan Banks and its | intermediate credit banks. It will now | extend that financing through enlarged dealings with agricultural co-operative marketing societies and through wholly new dealings with groups of agricul- tural co-operative marketing societies organized into “stabilization corpor: tions,” and into “clearing house &s- sociations.” That is the essential sum of the bill, | and that is all that the President wanted it to be, and that is ell that it 15 going to be when it comes to him | for his signature. The dust having blown away, he emerges with what he wanted He owes this result to three factors besides his own desires and_expressions. | One is the sportsmanship of the | chairman of the Senate agricultural committee, Mr. McNary, who, having found that he could not get his “equali- zation fee.” gave himself patiently and persistently 10 evolving a bill that the President could sign. His spirit of con- structive accommodation brings his long labors for farm relief to & practi- cal conclusion, which, without him, could hardly have happened. The socond factor is the behavior of the Democratic members from the House of Representatives, of the “con- ference” between the two houses, Mr. | Aswell and Mr. Kincheloe. In spite of | the virtually unanimous support given | to the debenture plan by the Democrats of the Senate, the Democratic House conferees held firmly against it in order to secure farm relief legislation which would go actually into effect. House Is Uppish. The third factor is the mew uppich- | ness of the House of Representatives | toward the Senate. It i5 almost as | much as a correspondent’s life is worth | nowadays to talk to members of the House of Representatives about the Senate as the “Upper Fouse." Their uppishness Tecognizes no upperness anywhere. ‘They hold, and quite cor- to the proposition that the two houses are constitutionally co-ordinate. They despise what they regard as the legislative tediousness and tardiness of the Senate and they are only too happy to have any opportunity to evidence to | the Senate their superior cohesion and will power. It would therefore be quite untrue to say that the President’s victory in the matter of the farm reliel bill is solely his own victory. Tt is & victory coming to him in a large degree from ciroum- stances which he did not himself create. He nevertheless profits from these cir- cumstances and the ultimate outcome will mean now a great enhancement of his prestige. He asked for a certain sort of bill; he gets that sort of bill; and, roughly and politically speaking, he is on top. From that top, just the same, he looks forward to & prospect that might well daunt even the stoutest presidential heart. He must now—and_particularly in the matter of wheat—try to make this farm bill work. ‘The bill provides that he must operate | | | | | thing. ever, very independent in their manage- ment and control. They deal with small dabs of wheat. In only two directions have they moved genuinely toward any concerted selling on an extensive scale. One ment of commission terminal markets. The | other direction is the establishment of | statewide pools of grain producers. | These two developments, however, in the Jast year of record and of report to the Department of Agriculture, involved less than 150.000 wheat farmers. That is' an insignificant percentage of the to- tal number of such farmers. In a word. the co-operative move- ment among wheat farmers is diffused, on the whole, into small unfts and can- not_possibly be regarded @t this mo- ment as & truly nationafy organized Out of it nevertheless there must now be constructed, somehow. a “wheat advisory committee” chosen by the wheat co-operatives themselves; and out of it must come also some competent grouping of co-operatives which will be worthy of being recom- mended by the “advisory committee™ to the Federal Farm Board as the proper germ of a “stabilization corporation.” This preliminary labor of organizing order out of chaos among the co-opera- tives themselves must first be completed before any governmental financing of the wheat situation can even be begun. | It follows that the President. while he may rightfully rejoice in getting the | bill that he wanted, may also now | rightfully look forward to the actual! start of his real farm worries. | (Copsright, 1820, Cae Weights Session Fights Fraud and Carelessness BY HARDEN COLFAX. | Accuracy rallid its forces at the | nnual National Conference on Weights | and Measures at the Bureau of Stand- ards last week. with results which promise a fresh assault upon the | oastilles of carelessness, inefficiency and | fraud in every State and hundreds of | municipalities. Precision 1s the watchword of the | Federal, State, county and municipal | officials who compose the membership of | this National Conference. Their thought is that ignorance or carelessness makes | for much more waste in the distribution | of ecommodities sold by weight or measure than does intentional fraud. Very often the demler is deceived by faulty weights or measures into giving more than is due the purchaser; the evil of inaccuracy works costly harm | whichever w it may appl The American people consume about | 6.000.000 tons of sugar a yvear. If all this were retailed from scaies which in reality delivered only 14 ounces to the pound, and sugar were selling at 6 cents per pound, the consumer would be out the Tather meat sum of $45.- 000,000 at the end of 12 months; con- versely, scales which erroneously de- livered 17-ounce pounds would mean a loss to dealers. Gasoline Pump Tests. Considerable attention was paid by the conference this year to methods of testing gasoline pumps, for motorists in various parts of the country fre- quently cry out against m short meas- ure, & matter which more often is .at- tributable to faulty devioes than to in- tentional fraud. Ldttle public notice is taken of the fact that & gasoline pump may deliver too much, rather than too little, yet this happens, too, with re- sultant loss to dealers. With the cal- culations based upon a survey conduct- ed by the American Automobile Associ- ation in variqus cities, a paper in behalf of that organization’ was read before the conference in which it was es- timated that motorists last year did not receive 100.000,000 gallons of ‘gaso- line for which they paid, or about $20,- 000,000 in terms of money. While this frankly was an estimate, it 5 obvious that if there was an error of 1 per cent in_all gasoline pumps in the United States, ft would be a loss of 120,000.000 gallons either to motorists or_dealers in a year's time. ‘What precise weighing means to a large industry is fllustrated by a paper [resented the conference on weighing the meat-packing industry. An error of 113 per cent in un hing the products of Swift & Co., for example, would have wiped out the entire profits of that corporation last year. Nor are the weights and measures officials concerned alone with those things which pass over the counter. They have their attention focused on the penny-in-the-slot weighing ma- chines which are familiar on the streets and in the stores of every city and hamlet. The citizen 15 entitled to an approximate idea of his weight, ot least, when he steps on such scales and drops in his coin, they | one had ‘given up’hope that the Gov- | before he came here for service, Mr. Tinkham, with extensive political serv- jce to city and State, carefully sur- veyed the field for an outstanding is- { sue which he would fight for as a na- tional legislator. He studied the Con- stitution and many commentaries thereon, seeking the advice of the late Senator Lodge as to the best com- mentaries. In all of these he found the comment that the great evil was the failure to enforce the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments. “Thers,” soli- loquized Mr. Tinkham, “is my issue. ought to be able to persuade the great American Congress to wipe out the on2 biot on our governmental system and to | correct the one weakness in our Consti~ tution.” So_he delivered his maiden speech in the first Republican House caucus he ever attended upon this subject and | has been harping on it ever since. His colleagues did not begrudge him this transient day of ruccess in having his amendment tentatively placed in the bill. It caused them some anxious moments and Mr. Tinkham a few glor- ioux_hours of satisfaction “Sic transit gloria mundi.” A e By his persistent, quiet, determined fight to get legislation through at this extraordinary session of Congress for establishing the National Capital air- port for Government departments and the local municipality of the District of Columbia, Representative Charles L. Underhill of Massachusetts is but con- tinuing his effective work for develop- ment of the Capital City. Some vears ago, when almost every | | | | ment would zome day take over and reclaim the disreputable area south of Pennsylvania avenue and at the very front door of the Capitol Build: which Uncle Sam had held a “dead hand” for many years, Underhill started a campaign. In several vigorous speeches he de- seribed in vivid language the outlook from the Capitol on Chinese dives,and | gvpsy fortune-telling joints and other | disreputable resorts. Then at a com- | mittee hearing he asked the engineer officer in charge of public buildings and grounds to submit an estimate of cost for cleaning up the area at the west front of the Capitol. Consequent upon this crusade, and with the hearty support of leaders and especially through the work of Chair- man Elliott of the House committee on public bufldings and grounds, who adroitly engineered the public building , we now have the entire area along Pennsylvania avenue in process of development—the most pretentious city rebuilding program ever attempted in any great city. When hope seemed darkest for early action on_the National Capital airport proposal Underhill refused to be dis- couraged. He won over the House leaders, the appropriations committee, and as a result the President has ap- | proved and the Budget Bureau sub- mitted the estimate. * % % % It's going to be pretty hard to know by just what title to address Repre- sentative Ernest W. Gibson of Ver- mont. By virtue of distinguished service in the World War he i5 a major in the Reserve Corps of the United States Army. By virtue of many years' servioe with the State militia_he is a colonel in the National Guard Reserve. By virtue of very helpful service in getting legislation put through Con- gress in which the Kentucky delega- tion was greatly interested, he has been placed on the staff of the governor of Kentucky with the rank of admiral. All of this reminds Congressman Gibson of an incident when he was a much younger man. Shortly after he became captain in the National Guard the governor appointed him a judge. A mutual friend asked the governor if it wasn't going to bother him a bit to decide by what title he would call his old friend Gibson. . n',kll .,I‘ll l’ S*Pr{d the governor, “I reckon I’ us: eep on hatlin; him ello. Gib. i . Some of these scales get out of order through mechanical effects or lack of attention. ‘The result of a three-pound over- weight erTor upon a woman who earnestly adheres to a system of diet in order to attain, and hold, a girlish form naturally is distressing the official testers are going after these This and That By Charles E. Tracewell. ‘What is left of Mrs. Blackie's famil" ; the last writing. The light gray kitten. named Miss D'Artagnan, and Alexandre Dumas, the black and white one, have . pro- fessfon gives to a kind of -cat cold, a Fifty Years Ago In The Star The crusade against unnecessary street noises, like all crusades, was siow Hawking | Hucksters. o0 variets of distemper, which is now prev- | slent in feline circles throughout the District. Tt is germ-borne, and at times reaches the epidemic stage. It is self-immuniz- ing—that is, a cat which gets it once will scarcely have it again. Miss D'Artagnan was the first of the kittens to come down with it. The initial_visible svmptom is a_swelling we don't know), combined with a tend- | eney to sneeze, from which the disease its popular name. gets A sore-eyed kitten is never an object the least among the offenders, as will be seen from the following edttorial printed in The Star of June &, 1879: “The blind old bard of Scio's rocky isle (Tliad 1.V.) says that Mars rushed | But 2 cry equal to We do not doubt it. to .see the god try {shut of the right eye (why the right | heard in the same berry peddler. There is a great deal of bosh written about the physical su- periority of those ancient Greeks. Swift-footed Achilles never could get of beauty, any more than a human | being with bleary eves. A kitten with the “sniffles” has an exudation from the swolien eye, which, bloodshot, must be painful. P Bathing the eves with a_normal boric | acid solution (warm) is the best thing to do to combat this symptom of the disense. The major symptoms may be fought with rhinitis tablets, haif strength, Lin- coln formula, but there is a chance thar the small quantity of belladonna they contain may make the patient highiy nervous. Half a tablet is usually recommended, but our experience is that one-fourth a tablet twice a day would be enough. Certainly it would for the administrator, for there is nothing more perplexing to the home cat fancier than attempting to administer medicine to his pets. Kittens, we discovered, raise more cain about taking their medicine than full grown cats. Little Nipper, who has not vet got the disease, but to whom we gave several doses in the way of prevention, fairly frothed at the mouth each time. The kicking and wiggling which she put up at each pill was enough to have made the most hardy cat handler desist —or at least to lessen the dose. * x & & The two sick kittens so far have seemed lively enough, except for certain times, when' they were rather lethargic. All in all, however, the disease did not seem to lessen their “pep” as much as inight have been expected. o Their appetite suffered somewhat. ‘There is little doubt that they, in com- mon with most kittens, suffer from worms. Experts say to de-worm kitten or puppy several times during the first year, as this pest is almost inevitable. t is shown by harsh coat, emaciation, ravenous appetite, and an unsteadiness in the hind legs. If cats have nine lives, kittens possess half as many, and pull through under the most adverse conditions. One should be careful to wash the hands after treating the kittens and to keep the Iatter in & warm dry place. Readers may wonder what became of Little Blackie. He was taken away by a gentleman living across town, and with average | kitten behavior has found himself a splendid home for life. Small Blackie is one of the liveliest, most affectionate | and quickest to learn of the brood. He was the first out of his soap box | home, although the last to open his eyes, and the second to mount the base- ment stairs to the kitchen, having been excelled in this by A. Dumas, who beat him up by two steps. e On Map by Decision. From the Utica Observer-Dispatch. It took a decision of the Supreme Court of the United States to ,put O'Fallon, Iil. on the map. R Much Snobbery Talk. From the Trenton Evening Times. 'as one of our street ho | Stentor never would have had the cheek to lift up his little voice beside the | Hellespont if he had ever heard the bray of a perambulating huckster.” - * x Fifty years ago, and indeed from the beginning of its publication, The Star was an ardent advo- A Plea for cate of the cultivation and saving of trees. Shade Trees. 173, fotpwing 1o isay on the subject in an editorial ’pflnl(d in its issue of June 5. 1879: “The often quoted evils which follow to the neighborhood country from the | removal of forests are not the only ones for which the failure to protect or cultivate trees is responsible. In cities trees are absolutely needed to | furnish - & and to adorn the streets as well as to modify ‘the tem- | perature. The New York Tribune | complains that It seems to be nobody's business to plant or care for trees and that New York is fast becoming = | shadeless ci ‘The old trees are dying | out year by vear and few young ones | are put in their places. Many quiet by- | streets which a few years ago were in- viting avenues of verdure and coolness | are now, it says, as bare and torrid as ith! great thoroughfares. In the new streets, with few exceptions, no at- tempt has been made to secure shade, |and they resemble huge hes in & | brown stone quarry. e Tribune | urges that as it Is never too late to | mend, the city government should at | once take the necessary steps to pre- {vent New York from becoming ss sultry in Summer as an Egvptian | brickyard. Care should. and doubtless will, be taken here in Washington both | by authorities and citizens to preserve | the condition of affairs in th's respect which shall require no mending. Broad, well shaded streets are healthful as well as handsome.” * * * “The work of strengthening the foun- dation of the Washington Monument.” says_a news item | Monument in The Star of June 6, 1879, “is Work Delayed. {umtorarity — sus ended to await the arrival of an ad- | ditional supply of cement, now on its way here, Twenty-nine of the narrow trenches, previously described in The Star, have been dug under the Monu- ment and filled with cement. Thirty- nine more will need to be made and filled. ‘The placing of the large blocks of cement at the corners and buttresses will complete the work of strengthen- ing. Unless authority is given at the present session of Congress to use for this purpose more of the appropriation at the disposal of the Monument Com- mission for completing the Monument than the $36.000 provided, this fund will be exhausted, it is thought, within two months. Work of preparation ior the continuing of upg:;l work on the Snobbery is urged by a professor as a laudable virtue for college bo; The’ surprising thing is that any one had to Monument, such as ding a stair- case, cutting stone, etc., will in this case need to be carried on until au- thority is given at the regular session to use some of the money appropriated deliver a speech on the subject. ——— e Offensive to G. O. P, From the Ann Arbor Daily News “Democrats plan party offensive,’ says headline. We infer that the part) to whom they will be most offensive is the Grand Old one. { for completing the Monument and the work of strengthening its foundation. } 1f the idea would seize Congress uve | this suthaority, as it doss niot need o »| make an appropriation at the present !lentun. the work could uninter- i Z L on ruptedly and in its mmrllp order. scales with much energy. The best esti- mate appears to be that there are 65.- 000 of these person-weighing machines in operation in the country, and it has been estimated that the average revenue per machine is $15 per month: in other in‘um machine averages 1,500 weighing operations monthly, {(Copyrisht, 1929.. i -t 5 = Georges Can't Miss. Pedestrians Restricted. i e Ga Bk Teskaoe From the Springfield, Ohio, Datly News. Three members of the Lioyd George Tckio is planning 85 miles of paved | family have been elected to the British s , being enother one of those; House of Cc and they may cities which intends to restrict pedes- scmething out it in case of trians to the ali coalition.