Evening Star Newspaper, June 10, 1929, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR‘MM' Coolidge left & _____With Sunday Morning Editien. WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY.........June 10, 1920 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Off n Ave. New York Office: t ond e cago Office: Lake Michigan Buildins. pean Office; t St.. London. it Rate by Carrier Within the City. The Evening Star ... 45 per month The Evening and Sunday Star days) . ... 60c per month The Sunday Star -Sc_per copy Collec'ion made at’fhe end af cach menth. Orders may be sent in by mail or telepnone Main 5000. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. day....1 yr., $10.00; 1 mo., 85c mo., S6c All Other States and Canada. d Sunday..1 yr. $12.00; 1 mo. $1.00 1r . mo.. T5c 1 yr. $5.00; 1 wo. 50c Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of cll Tews al Jalches credited to it or not otherwise cr ted in this paper and also the local news ublished herein. All rights of publicarion of pecinl dispatches herein are also reserved. Threats to the District. The way has been prepared for ap- propriations at this session of Congress ot $500,000 out of the Federal Treasury to start acquisition of land for the Capital airport and of $3,000,000 out of unappropriated funds to the credit of the District in the Treasury for the yr.. 36 1 yrll $400: 1 moll 40c | heritage of good will to his successor which the latter is intent upon augmenting. In this country and in Great Britain there is a desire for continued amicable relations between the two great English- speaking nations. Unfortunately, two years ago an effort to reach a further agreement on naval limitation failed. The representatives of the two nations were unable to see the problem in the same light. This fallure was responsible for a measure of coolness which sprang up between the two. There ensued talk of & naval building race. The United States made it clear, indeed, that if no agreement in regard to naval respect could be entered into, it did not pro- pose io permit itself to be shouldered | aside. The Washington Conference on Naval | Limitation in 1922, resulting in s limita- tion in capital ships, is to have its sequel | at the close of the ten-year period. At ! that time, unless the nations signa- | toried to the Washington treaty seek an | | earlier opportunity, the whole subject of naval limitation probably will be gone info again. The agreement reach- ed in Washington by the great naval powers was hailed as a real step in the interest of world peace. Any backward | step would be regarded as sinister. | Both President Hoover and the Brit- ish prime minister have the cause of naval limitation at heart. Both would like to see an end of technical ohjec- | tions raised to a real limitation of lr-‘ maments, A conference between the | two, entered into in that spirit, could scarcely fail to have important results. ently viclous; second, they are thrown with criminal associates who exercise & bad influence over their plastic char- acters. It is doubtful if either of these ex- planations for the fallure of the reform school system has much validity. The ! reasons must be sought much deeper among the tangled roots of human ex- perience. Modern psychology has discarded almost entirelv the concept of inborn viciousness. The effect of bad asso- ciates might be eliminated by a re- arrangement of the institutional system. But the real problem is to get at the underlying Teasons for the criminal tendencies. So long as they remain untouched, dsicipline. hygiene and char- acter training are not likely to have a marked effect. We might state the basic problem quite simply. Many child criminals are the victims of overactive imaginations. Few children steal for greed. They steal for the adventure of stealing. They | steal because imaginatively they have identificd themselves with colorful thieves, The reform procedure should be to turn it into worthier channels of iden- tification. What actually happens is quite differ- ent. nary system which, however judiciously and kindly it is administered, is calcu- Jated mot to sublimify the imagination but merely to wall it off from overt manifestations. is untouched. soon as the restrictions are removed. sublimate this imagination—to | The child is placed in a disctpli- | ‘The root of the trouble | It will sprout again as | 1t | will gather strength during the long | ! BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL,, ‘There seems to be a growing tendency jon the part of young business men to| talk about nothing in particular when | they get together at lunch. Incessant discussions of business and its problems have given way to & more general conversation, summed up in| the phrase used above. | When one says he has talked about “nothing in particular,” it usually means ihat he has been discussing very heavy toplcs. 1t Is a way Americans have of belit- | tling great things, a somewhat ashamed | attitude in the face of matters intel- | lectual. | When one stops to think of it, it is curious that along with a general men- tal culture has run a counter feeling against the “highbrow.” In institutions of higher learning, where young men go to study, there is A distinct feeling against the ‘grind,” or the “shark,” as the vltra-intensive | scholar is sometimes called. The pure student, for a variety of | Teasons, is held in open or covert scorn. | Perhaps the generality of feeling against | him is due to the jnnate common sense | of the people, who realize down in their | i heart of hearts that emotions occupy a far greater part in the average life thar intellectuality. In most scholastic bodies the hoy or girl who gets high grades must temper it with a dash of “outside activities.” If the Atudent geis high grades alone he is regarded askance, but if he is cap- tain of the foot ball team to boot he | is a “fine fellow.” ¥ ok ok o ‘This same attitude carries over into | other turn of it on the part of enough people to make it profitable for purveyors. T Serjous consideration about what may be termed high things, such as life, immortality, religion, is gaining new life in this country as the result of the interplay of the factors which we have named. The cycle of cynicism is coming to an end, and is being replaced by an- e wheel. The lure of novelties in amusement is somewhat palling; we are getting back once more to the ancient idea that there is noth- ing more interesting under the sun than a human being, and that a pre- rogative of human beings is serious dis- cussion. If you will keep an ear wide open in restaurants, hotels and other eating places, where men gather for luncheon, You no doubt will hear evidence of this change. Let it be stated that the thing is as yet not rampant. There are many who are tentatively feeling their way, as it were, into less selfish topics of general conversation. It does not take much discussion of the marvels of aviation to lead a group to a consideration of what is above the ceiling,” and of how it got there, and of who or what put it there in the first place. Nor must the mistake be mede of re- garding this new seriousness as having been unknown before. Of course, there always have been men who delighted in just such topies of conversation. Certain lines of activity made it cer- tain that dollars and cents would not be the sole topic of discussion with all men. What is significant. it seems to us, is | ONDAY JUN THIS AND THAT 1 1929 |Looks Tnto Patient’s Eye for Bad Teeth | BY E. E. FREE. Ph. D. ! An eye for a tooth and a tooth for an | eve is the revision threatened by mod- ern medical science of the ancient Bib- lical maxim. At the recent interna- | tional congress of military medicine and | pharmacy, held in London and atiended by delegates from the majority of the European army medical corps, Maj. A. F. MacCallen of the British Army called atlention to what he bslieves to be the intimate relation between infected teeth and disorders of the eye. Every case of ulceration of the front membrane of the eye which he has seen could be traced, the major asserted, to teeth with | infected roots.” More than four-fiths of the army offisers found on examination to be in need of glasses were also found 10 have tooth abscesses. Young people who get a cataract may usually blame this misfortune, he believes, on some kind of tooth infection. Even the mild disorder of the mouth evidenced by the accumulation of tartar on the teeth may be sufficient, Maj. MacCallan be- lieves, to cause troublesome inflamma- tion of the membrane that surrounds the pupil of the eye. Looking into a patient’s eye, indeed, may be an easier way to diagnose tooth infections than examination of the teeth. The links be- tween teeth and eyes are believed to be poisonous substances produced by the { infected teeth and discharged into the blood, the eye tissues being apparently especially sensitive to these poisons. Oklaboma Reform by Legislation | From the Oklahoma City Times. | Impeachment trials of the three Su- | preme Court justices in Oklahoma are ended and the three jurists involved are cleared by the Senate court of im-| - Seeks Court Take advantage of this free service. 1t you are one of the thousands who have patronized the bureau, write us again. If you have never used the service, begin now. It is maintained for your benefit. Be sure to send your name and address with your question, | and inclose 2 eents in coin or stamps | for return postage. Address The Eve- | ning Star Information Bureau. Frederic | J. Haskin, director, Washington, D. C. Q. Where is the buslest corner in the United States with regard to ve- hicular traffic>—G. T. B. | A. The National Automobile Cham- ber of Commerce savs Fifty-seventh street and Fifth avenue is the busiest trafic corner in New York City. It believes, however, that it is practically impossible to give a categorical answer. ‘What i& meant—the maximum number of cars which have ever passed a cor- ner—or A Summer average—or an all- year average? If the last, it would gue: that possibly some Washington, D. C., corner might be the busiest because it has a more open Winter than New York. On the other hand, the citizens of New York City stay up later. If the busiest, corner at any one moment is meant, it would hazard a guess that this would be the corner of Boston Post. Road and Pelham Parkway some Sun- day afternoon. No one knows. Q. What is meant by a “debenture” as the term is used in considering farm relief?—M. H. B. A. The word “debenture” means & customhouse certificate given to an i ANSWERS TO QUESTION BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN. difficult to concentrate. Children get. into a condition of malnutrition because their growth is not watched. To grow in height and gain regularly in weight is just as mica & sign of health in a boy or girl of 8 or 10 as in a baby. Q. What States l-ndclanllrying and itry industry?—J. C. PO Wisconsin_ is the leading dairy State and Iowa leads in poultry. Q. What Indians were moved to In- dian Territory by the Government? HAI.{'From 1840, | Southern tribes of Indians were re- | moved to the Indian Territory from Georgia. Alabama, Florida and Missis 1817 to the great. 4| sippi. These tribes were the Cherokees, Choctaws, Chickasaws, Creeks an Seminolt These Indians held slaves and during the Civil War all of these | tribes jmrfed the Confederacy. They were compelled by the treaties of 1865 [to cede to the United States much of ] tern lands upon which they | their had established no settlements, as a home for friendly Indians of other | tribes. Q. Are seedlcss watermelons & pos- sibility?>—F. W. A. Seedless watermelons have nevdr been produced in sufficient quantities [0 be of commerelal value. Horti- culturists and persons with a gardening hobby have been able to grow them for thelr own pleasure. Q. What disposition is made of tha porter—or in the present case an ex- porter—of goods to the effect that he is entitled to a drawback on the duty a: sessed. Q. What is the difference between an ox and & steer?—C. B. H. copies of books which are sent to ‘he Coppyrlzm Office at Washington with applications for copyright registration? | —T. W. A. A first selection is made from among them by the Librarian of Cong ress for the Library of Congress Eoples remaining are distributed among other libraries in the District of Co- lumbia. Q. Why did the Government discon~ tinue the practice of laundering fhe paper money?—E. McC. peachment. It would be foolish o as- | sume that public confidence in that tribunal was restored by these trials, Justice Clark escaped ouster by a mi- nority vote, and now there is talk of perjury proceedings against witnesses in the case of Chief Justice Mason. Many | people are still dissatisfied with the | the everyday attitude of young business and professional men. Perhaps it is just another case of “‘All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.” Our country is a voung country, after all. Tis different periods of growth have gone more rapidly than in perhaps anv other nation in history. We are | that men have reached the point of | sophistication where they are turning | back in conversation to the great stand- | ard subjects of life and living, just as | families, having gone through the phase of giving their children fancy | names, come back to plain Sarah Jane. . A. The difference between an ox and | a steer is one of age, both being the | castrated males of the bovine species, | Q. What species was the Charter | Oak?—J. W. N. A. The Forest Service says that it was'a white oak. purchase of part of the site for the | The subject of naval limitation reaches municipal center. | bevond the United States and Great After the long delay on starting the | Britain, of course. There are other | Thus the short-sizhted methods of airport, the suggested appropriation of | maritime nations with powerful navies | the reformatory institution so often fail. the half-million-dollar fund ean be | which must assent (o the proposed | On the other hand, ill-considered dis- vears when it must remain buried in the warm darkness of the child-soul, construed As an emergency appropria- tion just as the authorization to spend the three million dollars of surplus rev- enue for immediate purchase of sites for the municipal center can be construed as an emergency appropriation. Delay in starting either or both of these projects can be figured in dollars | and cents as long as the delay con- | tinues, With that argument there is, not mow and there never has bsen logical cause for difference, 1 But the insertion in the le(illfirioni for airpori purchase of the clause— “that any further appropriations for the asquisition of Jand or options to | purchase land or for the development | of such airport or airports shall be paid | out of the revenue of the District of Columbia and the Treasury of the United States in the manner prescribed | for defraying the expenses of the Dis- ! triet of Columbia by the District of | Columbia appropriation acts for the fiscal years for which such sppropria- tions are made’—conveys a potent warning to the District of what it may expect in future steps toward airport building. The Federal Government, which in | 1921 decided that forty per cent consti- tuted its fair share in District appro- priation bills, will be econtributing | approximately twenty per cent plus in the 1930 appropriations; about eighteen ‘per cent plus in the 1931 appropriations, and about twenty per cent plus in the | 1932, 1933 and 1934 appropriations, | provided Auditor Donovan's five-year | financial program is followed generally | and Congress continues the nine-million- | agreement. However, if the difficulties | which have delayed so {#% an accord | cipline may kill the imagination slto- | gether. The result is an ineffective, | between this country and England on |aimless, commonplace individual doomed this subject can be wiped out, it will g0 | to remain forever submerged in the far toward making possible a general | crovd. { reduction of armament. { = ————— - Europeans who demand a boycott on A Gallant Company. | American movies will spoil the enter- Two Americans will pass each other in Midatlantic this week—Chbarles G.!?Droad fo enjoy pleasures that were Dawes and Owen D. Young—whose |OFi8inally available at home. names will illumine & bright page ln‘ e illustrate the potency the history of their dav. Gen. Dawes! .. of “group psychology.” Competit is en route 1o his ambassadorial post, at g 0 it g s assarts jlself between proprietary com- London and Mr. Young is on his Way | pynaions insiead of between individual home, laurel-crowned, from the repara- ; | storekeepers. tions conference in Paris. Six vears ago Messrs, Dawes and Young ml]lbn»{ A few Senators would be willing to | rated in laving the foundations of the | face the Summer thermometer in | Teparations settlement. From it emerged | herojc desire fo signify readiness to the Dawes plan. Last week the Dawes |sacrifice personal comfort for plan, revised, gave way to the Young principle, plan. - - It is a gallani company, larger than most of their compatriots realize, which | campaign, it would seem only patural is headed by these two outstanding Te- | for Dr. Work to be willing to let another constructors of a war-maimed Europe.|take up the burden of responsibility. Aloof from the specific maladies which | .- - - were bred by the armistice and the| Washingion, D. C., will require sev- Versallles treaty, it vet fell to dlslllt?r-|!l'l| airports, with expansive acreage. ested America’s lot to supply the physi-| Now is the time for every good resltor cians who were to heal them. It is|to come to the aid of his country, hardly going too far to say that without R e - the detached services which Gen. Dlwu: and his colleagues rendered on the first | COntent to be regarded as an easy would never have worked out of the A1 “easy mark” chaos there menacing it. With Gen.! = . ——— o Dawes and Mr. Young, on that occasion, | MUCh war might have been averted rerved, Henry M. Robinson of 1084, w4 o put,up collateral to gusrantee | tainment. of many Americans who go | In world negotiations Uncle Sam is | reparations commission in 1923, Europe ' creditor, though perhaps not alwavs as | {if an aggressive nation could be re- | Avngeles and Leonard P. Avres of Cleve- dollar lump-sum principle of the last five fiscal years, Estimates for an sirport range as | high as $6,000,000, is spent, the FPederal Government' 500,000 appropriation at this session of Congress will be followed by appropria- tions of approximately $700,000, while the District will be called upon to pay 4,800,000 toward construction of the | Federal airport. If the airport is to cost $4,000,000, the Federal Govern-| ‘ment’s original $500,000 will be followed | by an appropriation of $300,000 addi- tional, while the District must make up | the balance of $3,200,000 for the airport. | The cost of the municipal center is | set at about $11,000,000. Of this cost | the District i now paying $3,000,000 | outright, taken from its tax-raised Tevenue and representing not one penny of Federal money. If the pernicious Jump-sum principle is followed in, build- ing the municipal center, the District | can expect from the Federal Govern= ment approximately $2,200,000, leaving | #t with a balance to pay, after this| $3.000,000 appropriation, ‘of $5,800,000. | These rough calcuiations are made | on the basis of the “manner presmbed"' now, by a small and determined group in the House, “for defraying the ex-! penses of the District of Columbia.” The manner prescribed, actually. | legally and never lawfully changed, s for the Federal Government to pay | forty per cent of these expenses and | the District sixty per cent. The next step in providing for financing hoth airport and municipal center i= to return to the fixed ratio policy of appropriation. Un! there is & return to this principle, or unless the intent of that principle is accom- plished by generously increasing the Jump sum, this Federal airport now about. | to be authorized will represent a grossly untair burden, resulting from tyrannieal | treatment of unrepresented taxpayers; | Thomas W. land. They formed & potent guarfet. | During the recent conference of | creditor and debtor experts, under Mr. | It this maximum | young's chairmanship, three other pairs | evitable |of American shoulders were valiantly ! opconon put to the wheel—those of J. P. Morgan, | Lamont and Thomss N. Perkins. In the final stages of long- | ican played an effective role, David Sarnoff, the genlus of the radio industry. 1t is reliably reported that his liaison | work between Mr. Young and Dr.| Schacht, the astute German Reichsbank | president, served in large measure to save the day when it looked the darkest. | A couple of years ago, Jeremiah Smith, jr, of Boston, funcfoning on ! behalf of the League of Nations, ac-| complished the financial reconstruction | of Hungary. It was a herculean task' brillilantly performed. Since 1925 S.| Parker Gilbert, ir. fresh from the undersecretaryship of the United States | Treasury, has been ageni general for| reparations at Berlin. If the Dawes plan operated smoothly till the moment | was ripe to supplant it with the Young ! plan, Mr. Gilbert is entitled to the lion’s share of the credit. At Warsaw, Charles S. Dewey of Chicago, also an alumnus of Mr. Mel- | lon’s institution for the higher finance, | is now fruitfully engaged in putting Poland’s national economics on & sound | basis. On the other side of the giobe, Edwin W. Kemmerer of Princeton Uni- versity is helping the young government | of Nationalist China to put its financial | house in order. | 8o it goes throughout the world. Who | shall say that it is & world from whose | concerns Uncle Sam has seifishly | isolated himself? With his sons ren i ing the valiant service which these men —and their names by no means exhaust | the list—are giving to peoples and gov- | | ernments which crave the r.omm-umlv!; American touch, it eannot be main- | its expense. - Trusts were once denounced s wicked. Mergers are recognized as in- to modern economic ad- | 1t was Mussolini’s distinguished privi- lege to bid no less eminent. a personage | drawn-out negotiations, & fourth Amer-| than the Pope himself “Welcome to m".i city!” SHOOTING STARS. T —— Check Up. This world of ours they said was round. ‘The cynics tell us that, H In modern manners, they have found ‘This world is really fat, And, measuring Present. by the Past, Men hasten to confess This world is going 'round so fast It causes dizziness! Oh, good Doc Einstein, at your esse Amid these wild events, Could you, as Business Doctor, Check up our measurements? Looking for Light. “The ffarmers in your State wani you to tell them what. to do?" “Can they reciprocate?” asked Sena- tor Sorghum. what to do!” Jud Tunkins says, in addition to the expense of a movie, you've got. to figure what It costs to park your fitvver a little | bit overtime, Deferences. The nations all rejoice * In observation that One who lifts up his voice Sometimes takes off his hat, Feminine Power. “Is your wife an office holder?” “She is,” answered Mr. Meekton, plaase | “I want Them to tell Me | only now coming to the genuine cul- tural epoch. It is perhaps true that the increase in wealth and leisure among most classes has given a more wide- | spread culture than any other nation ever enjoyed. Even in intellectual | France, the poverty of the poor is such as fo keep the higher branches of sci- { ence, literature and art something of a | | mystery to them. | | In America today general culture is| | simply & matter of genuine desire. We | have so many and varied institutions, | so many magazines, newspapers and , and so many ‘“courses” | kinds that almost any person with a | genuine desire to learn mav do so if | he have the requisite determination and | | will power. * o ox | | But just as there has been a dislike ! for the “pure student.” so there has been an inclination to avoid grave and even serious topics in conversation. | | Our mode of living has somehow | | seemed to call for light tall We strain | every nerve to be “cleve we want | our conversation to scintillate, to spar- | kle, to throw off sparks. | The phrase “wisecracking” is not so {its cracking. The idea of a whip is | ]there, Snap, sparkle, pep—these are | | the desired qualities. | ] They are in line with the greal effort of the land to amuse itself. a desire | which always exists with any nation, | but which only appears in full force | when there is enough money fo pay for | i it and enough leisure fn which to enjoy | { That mammoth pile which some day | | will surmount the corner stone which | | President Hoover is laying this after noon will be called the Department ' | of Commerce, but it's bound to be, { known in future as the Hoover | | monument. At least no one could wish | | a more impressive memento of his fame | than such a building. -Close by | there looms high above the glorious | treetops of the Mall the graceful shaft | reared to the memory of our other engi- neer President. The Washington Monu ment and the Hoover departmental palace are thus appropriate neighbors, In its magnificent dimensions the building is a_worthy companion of the Monument. 1ts length of 1,000-0dd feet | | is nearly twice the height of the world's | | most beautiful obelisk. Within the | yawning s;vee in which the Commerce | Bulldine*s joundations are being laid | the Woolworth Bullding, tower and all, could be deposited, with' plenty of room alongside for the 44-story Equitable | Building in lower Broadway and the | new Madison Square Garden. The Yale Bowl could be swallowed up, and so could the Yankee Stadium. * ook % building is the product of Herbert Hoover's vision. It was planned under | his personal direction. Hoover started | out eight years ago to make the De- | partment. of Commerce the biggest and | | busiest branch of the whole executive | ystem, and he did it. In March, 1921, | the number of daily services rendered | to American business averaged abous 700. At present these run to some 11,000 every working day. Of course, no other unit of the Government has | | undergone so fabulous an expansion | of its activities. That's why it was found necessary to put up & 1,000-by- | 400-foot, 7-story-and-basement struc- ture to house a working staff of 5000 men and women. Some of the dimen- | | _Uncle Sam's most colossal Government. ! | U1l have a cafeteria capable | of serving 3,000 persons at one time. Several courtyards within the building will be as wide as Pennsylvania avenue, The Bureau of Fisheries (always one of Hoover's pets) will install ‘the biggest | aquarium in the world, consisting of 40 | or 50 specially designed, huge tanks, filled with almost everything that swims | and has fins. Such is the house that ! Herbert bullt, 'R | Chief Justice Taft has long prepared | himself for the emergency of a sudden illness, such as the digestive attack ! which has temporarily Jald him low, He | | the delightful formal style. WASHINGTON OBSERVA BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. * ok ok % The next step in this wholesome re- turn will be to the old-fashioned letter, in which honest delight was taken in the writing of a letter for the letter's sake. We were forcibly reminded of this re- cently in picking up a volume of Ben- jamin Franklin's letters to several young women, written when he was an elderly man. Franklin had genuine style. If his fame as statesman, scientist and gen- eral man of affairs had not eclipsed his fame as a writer, no doubt he would have lingered on the American scene solely as an His letters in this inieresiing volume are of a type which no one today would think of writing, especially o young women. Tmagine one of our statesmen writing to his young lady friends about the tides, about the way to relieve thirst aboard a vessel at sea without fresh water. Letters were something of a movelty in his day, but that cannot account for Men _took themselves seriously then. The smart- aleck style had not yet become fash- ionable. The desire io impress others Having been through one 1-b0flmnTmnch significant for its wisdom as for | with one's cleverness had not taken the place of a calm, serious consideration of serious topics. The “playboy” atti- tude had yet to be born. With the return of serious topics to general conversation, there must be an increase in the serious sort of letters, for men wrole about what they think about and, above all, what they talk about. has a little account which he's trying to square with Minister Wu and which asn’'t 1o date lent itself to settlement. It concerns the paleontological expedi- tions of Ray Chapman Andrews, the American explorer who is digging his way through Far Cathay on behalf of the New York Museum of Natural History. Andrews brought 28 or 30 cases of priceless specimens out of Mongolia last vear, but has never been able to ship them to the United States because of the embargo of the Chinese government. There seems to be a very potent. institution at Peking known as the Society for the Preservation of Chinese Antiquities. It has vetoed the xportation of Andrews discoveries. Meantime he’s all dressed up to go on another expedition into Mongolia, but until the State Department can secure the release of his 1928 booty, Andrews doesn’t seem’ o be disposed to embark upon any fresh conquests. * x % % Margaret Grace Bondfield. member of Parllament, the world’s first woman cabinet member, has frequently been | in the United States as the representa- tive of British labor groups. In 1919 Miss Bondfield came to Washington to attend the international labor conven- tion in the capacity of an adviser. A year or two previous she was the official Britlsh delegate-visitor at the annual convention of the American Federation of Labor in Atlantic City. During the short-lived MacDonald ministry of 1924, 155 Bondfield was parliamentary sec- retary to the then minister of labor, 0, in succeeding to that. cabinet post now, she inheriis a portfolio which is no stranger. * ok k% Here's an instance of & missiatement leading to a fact even more interesting than the supposed fact. It was recently stated in_this column that President Hoover's 28 honorary degrees included one from the University of Virginia, The source of that information was Who's Who for 1926-27. Now comes the president of the University of Vir- ginia_Alumnl Association and deposes that Mr. Hoover can't possibly hold an LL. D. from the university which Thom as Jefferson founded, because it has never awarded an honorary degree to anybody. The alumni chief thinks Charlottesville is probably unique in that respect. (Copyright. 1929.) % [y Automobile, Amerfi-n’s Idea of Beauty in Art of ‘rivers and eanals and | Supreme Court as at present consti- | tuted, and to that feeling has been | (added disapproval of many Senators; | | particularly those of the minority thai ! made the removal of Clark impassible. | After that decision, no one seriously expected either of the other justices | would be ousted. Respect for & high court and its rul- ings must_depend largely on the per- | sonnel and conduct of that court in judicial matters. There is still need of | court reform, as suggested by the gover- | |nor. Part of it, at least, may be achieved by the Legislature, not through investigation, impeachment, or trial, but through providing a different method | {of selecting judges. If they can be { nominated at a special primary, and | elected on a non-partisan basis, it will be better for the courts of Oklahoma, and the State will have taken another | step toward that restoration of confi- dence irf Government that is one of the chief goals of the present administra- tion. ‘There is merit, too, in the measure | providipg for the removal of the Su-| preme Court commissions. That might | mesn additional work for the Supreme | | Court justices, but it will place the re- sponsibility of appealed cases where it | properly belongs, and the work of the | court can be done with greater ef- | clency, in the opinion of competent law- yers, it this change provides a compe- tent law clerk to assist each of the Su- preme Court judges. Any effort to re- | duce the present number of Supreme | Court, justices is undesirable, in view of the number of cases on the docket, but | the docket might be lightened by in- creasing the minimum amount involved in civil cases that can be appealed from | the District Courts of the State, even if | this requires a constitutional amend- This Legislature bears a large share of the responsibility of restoring public confidence in Government, and | At least part of its effort should be di- | Tected toward the courts. | Getting Out the Voie | Concerns Body Politic | Prom the Port Worth Record-Teiegram. to vote. First and last, | State Legislature and on that subject. None has had slightest effect to date. Legislature of a Western State. took on the form of a species of brib- | ery—most of them being forms of com- plilsion or cajolery. This legislator says the way to do it is to compel each and every potential voter to pay $10 on the first_day of every year, of which the | voter would receive a refund ar every election. A perfect record would rep- resent the franchise at no expense. The “slackers” partially or wholly, would be the only revenue producers by way of poll taxes or registration charges. All there is left to | do is to collect the $10 each year. The | bill doesn’t seem to provide for a stand- | ing army of collectors, nor does it so | arrange things that recalcitrant citizens | may be “by their bodies taken and in- carcerated in the common gaol” or some other prompt and efficacious pun- ishment. Evidently it contemplates the acquiescence of every male and female citizen between the ages of 21 and 65| and the line of $10 bill bearers forming | to the right bright and early each New | Year morning. We may get out the vote some day. It we can make all the people angry at one time, it can be done. If a crisp $2 bill awaited each voter at the polls. | all of us would probably be there except more than that out of their foursome | prospects for the day. Most of us will g0 to a little trouble for $2, but even | that would not make voting unanimous. ‘What trick of psychology or quirk of human nature will it take to make voters of us? The inventor of that JE will be at least another Bur- nk. { New York City are made of.—B. C. C. A. It was found that the process shortened the life of the money and dulled the engraving. Q. What was the date of the Bosion = Peace Jubllee about 60 years ago? - < |J. G. L. sl.qobg.;n:;' }Xé"r,';'.‘n‘rs’,’::‘éi K:ces;':l% A. The Grand Musical Peaca Julhz’l;: atier the occupancy of the Hotel Crillon | concert in which 10,371 voices and 1 s 2-— | musical instruments, with additional :y l?"g‘.dem X ek v anvils and bells, etc, took part, was held the 15th of June, 1869, in Boston, Q Does it rain often in Aleska?— C.A R ) A. The precipitation in Alaska is very great. The lightest rainfall is at Point Q. How many bi Zoo?—E. L. A. There are 2,001 birds of 804 cies, according to the are in the Bronx spe- 1927 census. | A. The Government of the United States did not pay the French govern- | ment $1,000,000 for repairs, etc., on the | hotel occupied by President Wilson dur- | ing the Paris Peace Conference. “The United States Government. paid the % o Barrow, which has sbout 5 inches French Sovernment nothing, =3 <l | rain a year, and the heaviest at Lt~ touche, which has about 175 inche: ciete de Louvre, the owners of the i i Q. Was it correct to say that Lind- ) Hotel Crillon. In Semate Document 330, Sixty-sixth Congress. third ses- | pergh's flight to Paris was the frst Sion, there is a full report of all | made in a land plane?—R. K expenditures made by the American | A This was a mistake. Capt. Alcock commission to negotiate peace. By ref- | angd Lieut. Brown flew across.the At- erence to that document it will be | jantic in 1919 in & Vickers-Vimy bomb« learned that the total amount paid for | ing piane. rent, damages, breakage, losses, etc., for e the period from December 1, 1918, to | Q. Do small cedar hedges produce the December 31, 1919, was $288,651. | same effect upon apple trees that large e cedar trees will>—L. L. Z. A. The Department of Agriculture | says that it is never wise to trl:l!e r!‘dg - | trees and apple “trees together, sin A, The choir stalls, Tising In_T0UT | (1" cambinabin frequentiy results iers on either side of the choir DroPer, | {ne req. cedar rust, regardless of the are of carved American oak. | aize of tiie cedar trees: Q. How many branches has the Bank | o yow many English, French and of Taly in California?—D. P. = | Américans were engaged in the Batile A. 1t has 291 branches in 166 citles. | o Vorkiown wdee . What is malnutrition>—C. M. | A. The Battle of Yorktown took place 2, Malnutrition is a condition of un- | on October 6, 1781. The place was drrd- dernourishment or underwelght. Chil- | fended by & British Army under Lor dren with malnutrition do not all be- (Cornwallis and was besieged by the have the same way. Some are pale, dull | alliéd forces of French and Amerlu‘r‘m and listless, with dark rings under the | under Gen. Washington and Count de eyes, tire easily and have no ambition | Rochambeau. On the 19th of October for work or play: their work in school | Cornwallis —surrendered. There were is often so poor that they must fre-|5.950 men in the British Army. and in quently repeat their grades. Others are | ihe allied forces there were 9,000 Ameri- nervous and fretful, hard to please, and | cans and 7.000 Frenchmen. The losses hard to manage; they eat and sleep | were: British 552 killed and wounded Q. Please tell what the choir stalls in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in . A Jecent attempt was made in the | nation of Mrs. Mabel Walker Wille | tion law. | heaviest responsibilities of any appoint- | ed official of the Government and has badly. Still others are overambitious, constantly active, restless: they find it {and American and Prench 300 killed and wounded. The greatest concern of the mdviMany Bouquets politic of the United States is that one | of causing-people to take the trouble ' probably every | innumerable | { Congresses have heard bills introduced ! the | ‘The keen interest taken by the coun: try in the announcement of the resig. brandt from the office of Assistant At- torney General atter an incumbency of more than seven years reveals how in- delibly she has impressed her personal- ity on the minds of her fellow country- men. Her collection of editorial bou- quets and brickbats is a sizable one. “No other woman has attained so high a place in the Federal Government as that now voluntarily relinquished by Mrs, Mabel Walker Willebrandi of Los Angeles,” says the Lon Angeles Eve- ning Express, which, reviewing her work, continues: ““As Assistant United States | Attorney General, Mrs. Willebrandt for seven years has been the active head and has had full responsibility for the prosecution of violations of the prohibi- She has carried one of the done so successfully. Her retirement will be a distinet loss to the public service.” The Kalamazoo Garette observes that “she is leaving Government service gracefully and with the assurance of President Hoover that her work was well done, despite the flood of con- demnation’ which followed her about the country during the campaign.” The volved and highly important” charac- the golfers who figure they could make | (B P Golernment work she has| the public will form its own opinion) done. and says “she has shown herself able in the discharge of her dutfes.” * k% X That “liquor law enforcement under | her has meant something more than a | that gesture” is the tribute of the Des Moines Tribune-Capital, while the Altoona Mirror credits her with having neve Spain’s Dictatorship May Leave No Mark | The Springfield, Mass, Republican pre- | dicts that “she will remal | has made an enviable record and de- flinched in_the performance of duty.” one of the otable women of America,” and the Salt Lake Deseret News declares, “She Showered on Mrs. Willebrandt and firickbaté ; haggard with lprrvhemhn. She spoke her mind and policy took to the woods.” evertheless, continues this paper, “Mrs. Willebrandt will be missed. Not many such picturesque figures sweep across the Nation's stage. Calling her a liability to her pa | to the administration, and to the cause of prohibition, the Hartford Courant | declares that “her retirement to privalg |life will be to the advantage of al | concerned.” Although the Columbus | Ohio State Journai “does not think the | country is to be commiserated under her retirement.” this paper congraiii- lates her on “her wonderfully fine op= portunity in private life.” i | The Manchester Union remarks “in= cidentally” that the “current, estimate in Washington are that Mrs. Wille: | brandt. will recelve as counsel for hef new clients about four times the amount of her salary as an Assistant Attorney General,” adding that “in spite of al | the attacks made upon her, she has re tained the confidence of the dry leader; who would have been glad to see h continue in office. | “The South Bend Tribune thinks *Mj | Willebrandt can blame nobody but hel | self if frustrated ambitions dictated h resignation.” On this _matter 1 Charlotte News says, “Regardless the official reasons which may be giv | Lincoln State Journal speaks of the “in- | for the resignation of Mabel Wal ‘Willebrandt *_ * * a large section Jof | The Charlotte daily observes fiat | “spectacularism does not wear well.” The Little Rock Arkansas ocrat .- ports that it has “a psychic hunch tfiat she quit her job because she realiped| | politics and prohibition wqn’ mix.” Butf, whatever the cause for [he| resignation, the Williamsport pun agrees with President Hoover thaf jt marks the “conclusion of seven vears of valuable service' ta the Nation ih a { very trving position,” [ - e | Dims Emotions, | has been systemati - the municipal center will represent an | serve energy lnd"ncr:l;i’, L‘&"Eiyfi,‘éu’fi. PFrom the Rochester Times-Union. 1 serves well of the Nation which she has From the Butte Daily Post. extravagance wished on these taxpavers, who must take jt as a luxury and let | their necessities slide by the board. ] - ‘The Dawes plan has< been superseded by the Young plan. There is no great significance in a nam: when negotia- tions seek to transiate obiigations into terms of real money. — A Welcome Visitor. Prime Minister J. Ramsay MacDon- ald, head of the new British govern- ment, is seriously considering a visit 0 Washington, according to dispatches from London. Report has it that Mr. MacDonald i coming here to discuss with President Hoover Anglo-American relations. More' particularly it is be- lieved he plans to take up with Mr. Hoover the matter of further naval lim- itation, a subject which was a very real issue in the recent British campaign, resulting in the election of the present House of Commons, . Should the British prime minister de- fermine to make such a visit to Wash- ington he would find a warm welcome here. The administration has given evi- tained that the United States is playing | home is more peaceful as I realize that a lone hand on God's footstool” It is, | however much she may disapprove of on the contrary, playing a very busy M€, &he wouldn't quite have the heart [ hand, and a hand distinguished for '0 80 out and have me arrested.” | effictent altruism. | “To forget a friend.” said Hi Ho the Sage of Chinatown “is an invitation to | enemies to assembie and rejoice.” New conditions call for a ‘popular study of the United States Constitu- {tion on terms of practical interpreta- tion. And there can be no possible | ! harm in that. The United States Con- stitution was intended 1o be the 1!3"‘ word of lucid simplicity in humsn | | documents, ~ - . The New Junetime. As Junetime blossoming we see, While polar crews thelr work dis- close, We fear the Tee Plani’s going fo be More influential than the Rose. The political career of Trotsky shows | “I went fishin',” said Uncle Eben, persistent determination to capitalize | “an’ has de satisfaction of knowin’ dat & hard lJuck story. | T must have provided considerable fun - - — Reform Schools. | e sos - ‘The Children's Bureau plans an in- | Ontsiders Take Heart. tensive study of the effects of institu- | From the Providence Journal. tional life on delinquent - children. beT:l:er‘:c'{I‘y f::gmm st i L Little trustworthy information is avail- | o Sae" able on this debatable subject. There i is, however, a growing conviction that the old ‘“common-sense” methods of dealing with bad boys and girls are productive of little but evil—tnat even the best regulated institutions may be - .o 2 <1t Always Rains. From the Ingianapolis Star. ‘The weather man must be given due credit, for seldom making mistakes; he merely plays sate and predicts rain. dence from its inception of a keen de- sire to strengthen the friendly relations ‘which exist between the United States |and foreign nations. During the last four years America’s relations with the . werld continued to improve and former » schools of viclousness. Few reform A 4 R > school children get into the Who's Who Forgot 10 Place Blame. 3 f them recruit the ranks | Prom the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. st “|"The Ohicago health authority who : states that 80,000,000 Americans are Two simple explanations might be going about on flat feel” negiected to offered: First, the children are inher- blame it -nuw‘-mum | find, he can successfully draw at times { like these. One of Mr. Taft’s unbreak- | able rules is not to dine out at night, | Friends who want. to entertain him must have him for luncheon. He also refrains from speeches, for which he is in inces- sant demand.’ The Chief Justice broke that rule in Washington recently when he surpriseti and delighted the Sunday school class of All Souls’ Unitarian Church, of which he is an active adhe: ent, by taking charge and conducting ' the day's lesson, Mr. Taft specializes at { the Supreme Court in assigning himself tough cases. Not even the baby of the bench, Mr. Justice Stone, outstrips him in energy and application. * ok ok o* | The State Department’s first woman | chief of division, Mrs, Ruth B. Shipley, has just celebrated the first anniversary of that distinction. Since June 1, 1928, Mrs. Shipley has been chief of the di- vision of passports, the department’s principal source of contact with the people of the country. She is one of the “‘career women” of the foreign service, dating from the days of that most fa- mous Assistant Secretary of State, Alva A. Adee, at whose right hand Mrs, Shipley sat for more years than she looks. From year to year passports, at $10 per, become an ever-increasing source of revenue to the Government, During the last fiscal year some 188,000 were issued. The annual rate of 'in- crease is about 3 per cent, so that for the’year just ending the fotal will climb toward 200,000. Passport fees already pay the full upkeep cost of the State Départment, and soon will be doing | more than that. * { | | i * % % | China and the United States are the ' to try to get him to pull your car out leave an: Spanish best of friends, but Secretary Stimson Alfred Howell, & Canadian sculptor and art director, casting a critical glance this way, observes: “The modern auto- mobile is the most complete expression of beauty combined with utility that America has produced. Mere utility is no longer enough—the American people are demanding beauty as well. nks for the kind words. They will meet with instant assent on the part of multitudes. It is probably true that the present-day motor cars are very beautiful in them- iselves, judged as mere works of art. And there'is no question how 120,000,000 of us feel about it. Take almost any American. Set before him a Greek statue, an old Italian painting, a mede- val cathedral and a 1929 sedan, and ask him which is the most beautiful. He will laugh at your simple-minded- ness—and choose the seden. . —— e California Government Costs $14.30 Per Capita From the San Francisco Call and Post. ‘The Federal Department of Commerce announces that here in California the cost of State government is $14.30 for every man, woman and child. That's not so much for government if it is useful and not too interfering— and those adjectives describe our State government, rather accurately. - e Sk Proof for Dog Figures. From the Altoona Mirror, ‘There are 7,000,000 dogs in the United States. If you don't believe it, walk Into any farmer’s yard on a dark night of a m ' After the brief flare-up of revolt a few weeks ago, Spain seems to have again settled down into stability “under the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera. From time to time the dictator indicaies hi intention to withdraw at a date fixed several years in the future, but he seems to be pretty firmly seated in the saddle, | none the less. The SElnish dictatorship had fts origins, like that of Italy, in discontent. with the pretenses and inefficiencies of parliamentary government. But unlike the Italian movement it was not a party movement. It was a personal enterprise. Mussolini was borne into power by the hordes of Fascismo. Primo de Rivera re- sorted to a military stroke of which he was the sole instigator. ‘The two dictatorshi) developed along different lines. th have accom- plished much in the way of domestic re- forms, it 1s true. In both countries the railronds e been reorganized, and in both the administrative rervices of the state have been speeded up. But in Italy there has been a com- plete reorganization of government, a whole new system set up and made to function, based upon the idea of eco- nomic representation, and expressing a new governmental method. Nothing like this has occurred in Spain. Though there is talk of an advisory body to sup=- gllment the dictatorship, there is no int of any far-reaching interference ith the economic order, mothing re- sembling the Fascist corporations, with their wide powers and large p'ace in Italian life. 0 will undoubtedly Teave ifs so excellently served.” Says the Roanoke World-News, “There will be little regret at the retirement from public life of Mrs. Mabel Walker ‘Willebrandt,” and, giving reasons for its opinion, this paper adds: “Coming into public life as a protege of Harry Daugh- erty, President Harding's Attorney Gen- eral, she defended Daugherty. In the campaign of last November she was ex- tremely offensive, engaging in improper political maneuvers under the cover of prohibition enforcement.” The Omaha World-Herald considers that “some of the laurels are tarnished which Mrs. Willebrandt will carry with her into private life,” even though she has become “one of the five or six best known women in the United States.” The World-Herald lists as among the bitter memories” her campaign speech- es “when she raised a religious issue against Gov. Smith. “‘There were sighs of relief, undoubt- edly, from Maine to Mount Wilson when the news was flashed from Washington that the resignation had been received by President Hoover and promptly ac- cepted,” remarks the Atlanta Constitu- tion, as it says of her: “She could hec- tor Harry Daugherty, hobble Harlan Stone dnd back John Garibaldi Sar- gent into any corner of his office. She could let loose gas waves in the presi- dential campaign to the consternation of Chairman Work and his committee; but there was an end of her rope and now she has t!lched.lt;' * x ‘The Newark Evening News recalls mark on Italian institutions, but ii is 1o be doubted whether a personal dictator- ship like that of Primo de Rivera will: )y _permanent marks on the state, the campaign, saying: “During the late lamented presidential eampaign Mrs. Willebrandt filled a unique place. Brave men flinched when she rose to wpeak, and mere political leaders grew Her critics speak with equal vigor.* {Drug ! Betters Self-Control Controlling rage or terror or even ex- cessive transports of love or jealousy by, doses of alkaloids, much as physicians now control pain, is the promise sug- | gested by recent experiments of Dr. T, R. Hill of the Metropolitan Asyium] | Board of London. 1n a report ta th | British medical periodical, the Lancet, | Dr. Hill describes his success in preven | Ing emotional outbursts by patients whose brains had been damaged by sleeping sickness, employing small dos«: {of the long known but seldom used plan! alkaloid called bulbocapnine. The u-) of the drug for these mentally abnorm unfortunates is less important, however,| than is Dr, Hill's theory of how the d works. It acts directly, he believes, on] the nerve centers in the lower t of] the brain which control the itive,| instinctive emotions. In apes and other| animal ancestors of mankind these emo-| tional centers control, psychologists be-| lieve, most of the animal’s actions, Fear,| rage and the like are the dominating| impulses of life. Man has developed higher brain centers which usually over- ride these lower, emotional ones. But under intense stress man’s emotional centers sometimes take charge again. That is when the victim, as people say, “loses control of himself.” Certain drugs. like alcohol, relax the usual rigidity of this control by the higher, tion of the brain, so that primitive em tions sometimes break loose and uw..i ish everybody, evennrm victim. The kaloid studied . Hill possesses, he the reverse effect. It suspects, wedse seems to depress the primitive emotional centers, so that the sell-control of the hld(vcdunl is even more perfect than nsia)