Evening Star Newspaper, June 14, 1929, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Motning Ediien. WASHINGTON, D. C to be beyond the means of the ordinary self-taxing city, then the Government should participate liberally :in meeting this additional cost. fertile field for national discord. In the case of a creed with the far-flung rami- fications of the Church of Rome, na- tional discord might easily become in- FRIDAY..........June 14, 1929| The Star has heartily approved Mr. | ternational. THEODORE W. NOYES. ...Editor iper Company 4 8t The Evening sl-:“l.! ned e B Ensl ‘Rate by Carrier Within the City. enine Star_...........453 cer month ening and Sunday Star 4 Rundays) iy 20¢ PeT month 88¢ per month ....8c per coby end of each month. 1o by mall or telepnone Rate by Mall—Payable in Advance. nd irgi fly and Sunda: 00 1 mo., 83c E'::a‘: Shly e 1 mo. S0c ay only All Other States lrd Canada. Member of the Assoclated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of cll rews dls- es cradited to it or not othetwise cred- ted in this paper and also the local new: in. All rights of oublication cf tthes hereln are also reserved. The Clash of Statistics. Representative Simmons vigorously denounces The Star as a falsifier for differing from him concerning the per- centage relation of the National Gov- ernment contribution to the total Dis- trict budget and concerning the num- ber of Treasury dollars, if any, in the District'’s accumulated surplus. The Star has said that according to Auditor Donovan's estimates the nine millions lump sum payment of the| Nation will for 1930 be twenty plus per | cent of the total budget. Mr. Simmons declares that the pnly true statement of this percentage is approximately 28 per cent. Thomas Walker Page of the Institute of Economics, after thorough and intelligent study, says that the Federal Government ac- tually pays less than 20 per cent of the budget of the District and that with in- creasing property values here it will soon be paying much less than 20 per cent unless the annual appropriation by Congress of nine millions is increased. Though Economist Page and Mr. Sim- mons both differ from The Star con- cerning the percentage of Government contribution to the District's total budget The Star will not permit itsell to indulge in denunciation of the veracity of lack of veracity of its fel- low statisticians. ‘When statisticians differ in their con- elusions the natural assumption is not that one of them is a liar, but that there is a difference of opinion between them concerning the premises upon which the contradictory conclusions are Simmons’ announced intention to gaeure payment to the District of five million dollars for its legal and equitable rights in the present District bullding. The Star still approves this wise and liberal suggestion tending to correct in part the inequities of the transaction. And The Star will applaud with even greater vigor and enthustasm when in response to Mr. Simmons' influential advocacy Congress shall enact into law Mr. Sim- mons’ recommendation, e The House Has Voted. For a month or more a coalition of Republican, Insurgent and Democratic Senators insisted day in and day out 40c | that the House vote on the debenture export plan in the farm relief bill, The House has voted. It has snowed under the debenture plan by more than two to one votes. Coalition Senators who sup-| ported the debenture plan were crest- fallen, but they continued to assert a victory because the House in the end had been compelled to take a vote li- rectly on debenture. Indeed, some of them assert “it was a famous vietory.” But they may have difficulty in ex- plaining to the country what it was all about. As the matter stands the American farmer and President Hoover —not to mention the House—have won in this contest. The Senate coalition, by its action, has delayed for weeks a final enactment of a farm relief law, the establishment of & Federal farm board, with wide powers to ald the farmers, and the creation of a $500,000,000 fund to help the orderly marketing of erops. This delay may require some explain- ing on the part of the Senators who were responsible, If the coalition Sen- ators live up to the statements which they have made in the last week or two, the House having voted decisively on debenture, they will no longer hold up the farm bl . The insistence of the Senate coalition upon & vote in the House on the de- benture plan and the result of tha#vote have deflated debenture as a political issue. When the roll was called in the House yesterday 34 Democrats cast their votes against debenture and only 13 Republicans were reported in favor of it. The vote was 250 against de- benture to 113 for it Yet the de- benture Senators professed to see in it an issue which may wreck the Repub- lican party and bring about the estab- lishment of a controlling third party. Should a third party grow out of the debenture fight, where, by the way, will it leave the Democrats of the Senate who stoutly fought for debenture dur- ing the consideration of the farm bill? based. In the present case, if we figure the ‘percentage relation of the nine millions Jump sum contribution to the District’s “general fund” (839,864,000 plus), we eonclude that the answer is 22 plus per cent. If veracity is involved in these calculations, and 22 plus is the correct percentage, then all three of the differ- ing statisticians are falsifiers, The Star the least of the lot, since its percentage most closely approximates 22 per cent. Analysis of ‘the conflieting figures shows that Mr. Page and The Star have ealeulated the percentage relation of the nine millions lump sum payment to the total revenue of the District, while My, Simmons has increased the nine President Hoover and the House have prevafled in this contest. It is proper that they should have done so. The establishment of debenture could have had but one result—an increase in over- production, already too great. There is grave doubt, too, that debenture would have reached the pockets of the producing farmers. More likely it would have helped line those of exporters and speculators. 2 ‘The debenture fight, sécording to its supporters in the Senate, will be carried on in connection with the™tariff bill whieh is to come before the Senate as soon as the finance committee has completed work on that measure, @'he Senate coalition may again be able to 7 millions lump sum by the addition of | ;ster & majority to insert debenture wvarjous disputed items and has cut down as an amendment in the tariff bill, al- For many reasons the United States rejoices that a long-smoldering cause of domestic unrest in Mexico has been obliterated in honor to all concerned great neighbors to the south. — b Written Examinations. Northwestern University, it is an- nounced, plans to abandon written ex- aminations to as great an extent as pos- sible. This, we assume, means the old-fash- foned sort of written examination, call- | ing for the “essay” type of answer. | Who was Christopher Columbus? the | student is asked. He is supposed to write all he knows about the discoverer of the New World. If he knows nothing he writes something anyway, trying to make it as obscure and general as pos- sible, so that it will apply equally well to an Arctio explorer or a Chinese poet. The fallacy of this type of examina- tion long has been recognized. It is not a test of the mastery of the sub- ject. The grading may be conscien- tious, but it is highly subjective, de- pending on the temporary state of mind of the marker. Experiments have dem- onstrated that the same instructer's marks on the same papers vary greatly from day to day. vary according to his state of They may vary according to what he eats for din- ner. There is no mathematical standard which he can apply. . A new sort of examination which eliminates most of these conditions is advancing rapidly in favor. Questions are formulated so that they can be an- swered in a single word. The answer is either right or wrong. It counts all or nothing. The personality or the state of mind of the person marking the pa- pers does not enter into the result. There 15 no room for personal judg- ment. This relieves faculty members of an enormous amount of labor. It affords a more comprehensive measure of the student's mastery of the subject. Every one must stand on his own feet. In adopting this procedure North. western is following the lead of many other progressive colleges which have become disgusted with the old alip-shod method by which the mark might be influenced by whether or not the in- structor liked the color of the student's hair, Eventually, it is likely, the system will be extended to high and elementary schools. It marks one of the real ad- Vances madé by the sclence of eduea- tion in recent years. The time may come when every school in the country will give exactly the same examinations, marked in exactly the same way. Then there will be a real measure of every school's accomplishment—a measure open to only one interpretation. o A seat on the New York Stock Ex- change has become so expensive as to create apprehenaion that ticket specu- lators are extemding their activities. ——————————— It is the privilege of Mr. Coolidge to refer to the fact that, although he ‘worked the veto pretty hard, he did not/ exhaust its possibilities of service, ————r———— and to the indubitable benefit of our | that th BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. India has its “untoychables,” America 1ts “uncriticables. Almost_every one who reads knows former are men and women of the lower castes whose very touch is believed to render a man of higher caste ure. “‘uncriticable” is our word for the increasing number of Americans who cannot bear to be criticized. At first blush it might seem absurd to put one's self in the position of being beyond the realm of rebuke, censure,|has eriticiam. Only God ought to be immune from criticism, and even He has been cen- sured by certain du'lnf ones. His world, they say, is not what it ought to be. That an ordinary American human being should arrogate to himself in- fallibility in word, deed and thought would be unthinkable, unless he were such a common phenomenon through- out the land. He is met in all walks of soclety; every business is full of him; he is in every home. Sometimes he manifests himself in the pure state, at other times he is more or less covered up. ‘Wherever he is found, and whoever he is, his personal creed includes the following implied tenets: “I am above criticism. “Call my attention to a fault at your peril. “No matter how gently you do it, I will resent it as if it were a matéeer of life and death. “It touches my pride, and my pride is untouchable, except it be stroked gently by a pleasing applicdtion of ap- ple sauce.” * ok % X It is a curious mental trait of the average American that, although he talks loudly of “freedom of speech,” and might even go to the extent of dying for it he does not care for it when applied to himself. We refer here not to mean personal remarks, but to ordinary criticism which comes about through a difference of opinion, and especially when such dif- ferences involve a pointing out of errors of others. No one is perfect. ‘Then why will we pretend to act as if we were? Any resentment of criticism implies that he who resents fancies himself im- mun7e to criticism, else why such tender- ness Give and take is of the essence of America. Tolerance is something which has a wider application than to religious mat- ters only, every-day living is something, too, and in its many fields toleration perhaps comes more nearly into its own. Above all, one should be tolerant of other people’s criticisms, for one not only learns a great deal that way, but he is in essence being fair to himself. How many thousands of persons each day do themselves an injustice when they become angry at the criticisms of others made against themselves! Instead of feeling that malice led to the opinions which they do not like, they should give the other fellow credit for having any opinions at all. ‘What difference does it make if they are leveled at some one? Any one? One's self? The interesting thing is that the other holds an opinion of some sort. When one stops to think of the thou- sands of men and women who have no ideas at all about anything, it is easily seen tha positive thoughts, whether regarded as good or evil, are to be wel- comed if for no other reason than for | us to understand the essential wisdom the good of that intangible thing or quality loosely called the soul. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Herbert Hoover is the author of a compact little volume entitled “Ameri- As a violinist Einstein challenges no rivalries.. He is content with being held superior, as a mathematician, to Prita Kreisler. The Prince of Wales will be married. Lindbergh will not be permitted to the -total revenue figures by the SUb-|4nough that is not certain. .But what- monopolize world romance. traction of several large items of spe- eial revenue, the propriety of the sub- traction of which in this connection is disputed. Since the premises differ the conclusions of necessity differ also. Whether the national contribution is 20, 32 or 28 per cent of the total “cost of running the municipal government” the figure violates the substantive law, whieh has resisted repeated attempts to amend it and which self-imposes upon the Nation the obligation to contribute 40 per cent. Mr. Simmons also differs from The Star in opinlon concerning the presence of any but District dollars in the Dis- triet's surplus. So far as this surplus consists of money in undefined and naturally increasing amount, set apart by the law of 1922 to put the Distric upon & pay-as-you-go basis, all of dollars are distinctly District dollars. If there are other dollars in the surplus resulting from the failure of Congress to appropriate to meet the District's urgent need of all of the tax money which it has exacted from local tax- payers the fair presumption is that these unspent dollars are also District dollars. The nine-million-dollar lump sum does not fluctuate and by law is “to be ad- wanced” on the first day of the fiscal year, and is thus available from the very beginning of the year. The tax revenues do fluctuste. If there had been failure in the District tax dollars to make up with the lump sum the smount required in the opinion of Con- gress to meet the municipal needs the deficit would be in District dollars, and #0 if Congress exacted in local taxes ‘more dollars than in eombination with the fixed lump sum were required to meet the congressional decision of the Distriet's needs the surplus thus created would also, it seems, be wholly District dollars. There is something abhorrent in the theory that the injection of a small and steadily decreasing percentage of Treasury dollars into the total District revenues so permeates the whole mass #s to render equitable treatment of the slightly affected District dollars as na- tional or semi-national dollars in appro- priations by Congress. Mr. Simmons makes unkind imputa- tions of a change of front by The Star in respect to the civic center. The Star always has been and is now in favor of the quick purchase of land for the civic center and of the building at the Na- tional Capital of model, magnificent municipal structures, not unworthy to Fepresent the great Capital of the ®world's greatest Republic. The Star at ihe same time has always been and is now the advocate of equity in apportion- ing the expense of this grand semi- mational project. Congress as the Dis- triet's legislature will naturally and ‘wisely impose upon the District the cost of municipal buildings of the type which purpose. If Congress expends mil- more of doliars upon such struce ever the Senate coalition may do in connection with the tariff bill and debenture, it i5 quite clear that it has succeeded in placing the House on record as overwhelmingly opposed to debenture. And having once taken such a position, there is grave doubt that the House will ever be persuaded to change it. v ———————— ‘The cordfal democratic manner of the Prince of Wales offers suggestions to any oné who seeks to be popular in governmental affairs. A monarchy is genuinely republican in spirit than many republics, ———————— ‘What is known as the “Young” plan s in essential substance a good old- timer, introduced to diplomatic sbelety under the tutelage of Mr. Dawes. It is a wise little international idea that knows its own father. ———— Many prizes are continually offered. Anybody with a good idea should be cheered to note that in providing re- ward, money will be no object. And yet truly good ideas remain curiously scarce. - Church Peace in Mexico. ‘There seems little reason to doubt that religious peace in Mexico is now assured, and that only the formal sanc- tion of the Pope is required to give ef- fect to the pact sealed between Presi- dent Emilio Portes Gil and the Roman Catholic prelates. Their agreement is the amicable outcome of many months of negotiation, during which matters more than once threatened to go from bad to worse. i In that spirit of compromise, of which the recent reparations settlement at Paris is 80 noble an exemplar, the fex- iean and papal authorities found & way to end their bitter differences. The government does not repeal any of the religious laws, the drastic enforcement of which led to the Episcopate's ac- tion in withdrawing priests from the churches in 1926. But the laws hence- forward are to be more broadly inter- preted. That means a liberal and con- ciliatory enforcement of them along lines to whieh the Pope's representa- tives will make no objections. The church, on its part, is apparently to re- frain from ecertain activitles which in the past occasioned the protests of the government. The detalls of the Mexican-papal concordat are of minor consequence. The major importance sttaches to the basic fact that religious rancor beyond the Rio Grande has given way to an entente cordiale. Mexico is-one of the world's great Roman Catholic countries. The church has rights, born of that circumstance, which no government is primarily to erect for the national onsmentel BuIdIngs £ S0ty A5 wisest when it seeks to make itself more |. ——— vt Germany talks in language’of states- manship, but continues to think care- fully in terms of finance. ——— . SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Unforgotten Friend. We say that we cannot forget The faithful favors of a friend— But new ones easily are met Before we find the journey’s end. And as we go along the way ‘Where hope is mingled with regret ‘We find a friend 'most every day— One whom “we never shall forget.” It is the friend whose “salesmanship” 1s managed with exceeding skill. His “firm” a date will never skip ‘When it is due to send a bill. Study in Leadership. your way of thinking?" “No,” answered Senstor Sorghum. “Public opinion is something like a mule I owned when I was & boy. In order to keep up the appearance of being driver 1 had to watch the way he was going and follow on behind.,” * Jud Tunkins says the billboards are responsible for the ideas of so many people that all they have te do te solve their family troubles is to run away from home and get a job in the movies, Benevolent Machine, The Robot gives the world a chanee Which fondest hopes are bringing. No one need work. We'll learn to dance Or make & bluff at singing. Beauty Contest. “Did you win the beauty eontest?” “I did not enter,” sald Miss Cayenne, “In this changeable and ehilly weather 1 preferred to retain s reasonable amount of clothing.” “Perils increase,” said Hi Ho, the sage “Have you brought many people to | iN& of Chinatown. “In youth I was content to fly a kite. Now I feel a strange incli- nation to run an airplane Debenture Securities. The farmer said, “I may seem rash; And yet just this is so. Somehow, I'd rather take the cash And let the credit go.” “Everything seems harmonious,” sald Uncle Eben. “A dollar bill is gineter be smaller an’ so is de market basket.” Might Work Too Well. Prom the Lynchburs News. Most, of the t o complaint heard about the can Individualism.” It is a glorifica- tion of the quality of individuality, as applied to the American system of glving every man and woman the maximum of oppertunity in private enterprise, as OW to paternalism in government. he dictionary defines individualism as “personal independ- ence of action, character or interest.” One of the best minds in the Senate deposes to this observer and says that President Hoover has forgotten that | Congress consists of 531 individual- ists (1. e, “those given to independent thought and actien"), who are just as much addicted to such mental process- es as he is. These representatives and Senators, besides being indiviualists— the political psychologist in question ints out—have also a vast array of ocal, or even selfish, interests to pro- mote. They grant President Hoover the right to be individualistic, but, he says, they demand equal rights for themselves. The senatorial philoso- pher believes that a broader concep- tien of these considerations at the White House “might help some.” W Jouett Shouse, the new Demoecratic executive committes chairman, made a favorable impression at the recent hope- and-harmony. dinner in Washingten. His address was concise, constructive and conservative. It was conspicuously devold of clap-trap and chockful of common sense. If Shouse should con- trive to organize victory for his party in the 1930 conj ional elections—the immediate task ahead of him—he may find himself in grave danger of becom- a Democratic white hope in 1932. He is still six months on the sunny side of 50; has unique politico-geographical cquipment, through Kentucky birth and Tesidence in issouri and Kansas, and has served in both the legislative and executive branches of the Federal Government. Newspaper man, horse breeder, stock raiser, banker and lawyer in his day, Shouse has had an unusually diversified career. Undoubtedly the Democrats are going to keep their eye on him for future emergencies, * k% ¥ If America is once more to be made safe for the Democracy a veteran news- paper man is cast for a stellar role in that achievement. He is Charles Michel- son, who is about to quit the post of chief Washington correspondent of the New York World for Democratic publicity _directorship. ~ Since 1917 Michelson has been one of the outstand- ing figures in the Capital press nlleri'. Many consider him its shining intel- lectual light. His whole family is satu- rated with brilllancy. The oldest broth- er, Prof. Albert A. Michelson, scientist, is, as all the world knows, the Ameri- can Einstein. A sister, Miriam Michel- son, is a well known novelist and play- wright. The Michelsons are Westerners. Charles is a Nevadan by birth. He once was managing editor of the San Fran- cisco Examiner, It is to be hoped that the conductor of the Democrats' new campaign of education will not degen- erate into a mere executive. If he does, the American press will be robbed of one of its maev.‘rs:mh;n‘t pens. n of the Wllhlnrfln bar is back &t offices after a long tour of duty in Los Angeles in con- nection with the $15.000,000 estate of the late Edward L. Doheny, jr. He will presently return to California on the same mission. When it is com- leted Hogan is going to pursue Gifford ;mca:{ mmhthe ‘Bogah Bel.a’:bol;;g the 1af acht of Edward eny, Eh J r has used once or nlayo before in getting to and from the West Coast. Doheny counsel says he has nothing on Pinchot, but merely thinks the former Pennsylvania gov- ernor has chosen an ideal place for a vacation, far from the maddening crowd of litigants. A PR Like the brides, the roses and the coi- lege graduates, the ehautauqua is with Frank J. H | famous Suppose some one does point out tol K:“ an error, or let it be known that thinks you were uncouth under cer- tain circumstances? ‘There is not the slightest doubt that all men make errors from time to time, and there is more than a suspicion that even the best bred gentlemen say and do things at times which are uncouth go:\‘ma standpoint of perfect deport- o) The liability of human beings to err been noted over the centuries, but modern man affects to profess himself something else again. Standardization has poked its ugly, inhuman head into this matter, I-l‘lil g::; o:.hel'l,;llzh the result that too ot us ¢ out (at which the angels laugh) that we are perfect. “To err is human; to forgive divine.” Such was the line ltmc{ off b who was called “the ape of T'M:i‘!n- ham.” It is not on reeord whether Pw- resented that gibe too strenuously. ‘e rather think that he did not, for the man who could sum up so much in so little had, despite his many faults, & soul above the petty and the mean. Physical disabllities and in were what made Pope what he xv’:u: they brought about words and actions which people did not like, but also they gave rise to the divine truth in him. Man in his heart of hearts reveres the truth. He knows, if he knows any- thing, that the search for the truth is as near to divinity as he can come in this world. ‘What t is the truth no man knows, for sure, every man admits. * kK ¥ ‘The truth shall set you free. By the truth no man is harmed. These are two of the aphorisms which come down to us concerning the truth. Now there is enough of the philosopher in all of embodied in, these and similar maxims. One does not have to be Dr. Will Durant to love philosophy or to benefit from a calm consideration of essential matters involved in its study. Every man who expresses his opin- fon, although it may be haltingly and perhaps poorly enough, is a seeker after truth, and to that extent as much of a philosopher as Socrates. ‘This world is filled with philosophers— every man and woman of us, many chil- dren, too—each seeking for the best for himself and his loved ones. If he pos- sesses a shred of human kindness, he will be willing that others should seek for thelr happiness. If he have a whit of common sense in his mental make-up, he will realize that, no matter how much it hurts, the opinion of some other truth-seeker is valuable. In fact, one is inclined to believe that the more it hurts, in any given case, the more valuable such an opinion is. . ‘Therefore, when a criticlsm from some one, either to your face or behind your back, sets up a mental stinging, be not like the foolish criticables,” who try to make themsel' believe that they are never wrong and would bulldcze every one else into the same belief, but be ye like brave men, who know that it is impossible for any one person to know it all, who realize that one often errs, often makes mistakes in thoughts, expressions and conduct and who are willing to overlook the criticism and to forgive the originator, provided that :" the criticism and its maker are onest. the Swarthmore chautauqua in central Pennsylvania this week, speaking on “The Revolution in " Another aker, who follows in paternal foot- steps, is Representative Ruth Bryan Owen, who also_talks under Swarth- more banners. Two Wi Am- bassadors, Senor Davila of Chile and Senor Ferrara of Cuba, will be heard on the same platform during the Summer. ok xw There seems to be no end to this business of daughters or widows of men aspiring to ancestral careers. Now comes the suggestion from Boston that Woodrow \lson's daughter, Mrs. Jessie Wilson Sayre, may run for the Senate on the Democratic ticket in Massachusetts in 1930. Her nomination is being openly .advocated by Larue Brown, president of the Jeffer- son Boclety of Massachusetts, which is next week giving a public dinner in honor of Gov. Roosevelt of New York. Mrs. Sayre is to be one of the three speakers at the banquet. Her candidacy is sald to enjoy the favor of Senator David 1. Walsh, mocrat, of Massa- chusetts, who is credited with looking with disfavor upon the senatorial am- bitions of “Honey” Fitzgerald, former mayor of Bostan. Mrs. Sayre spoke on the same platform with Gov. 8mith in the 1928 campaign at Boston. * ok ok Paul Segal, young Denver lawyer, is the first “ham”—amateur brosdcaster— to reach the highest rung of the official wave-length world, the Federal Radio Commission. 1 was recently ap- pointed assistant general counsel of the commission, under Bethuel M. Webster, chief counsel, who is also from the Denver bar, When radio was in its swaddling clothes, 1 was one of the myriad of American youngsters who toyed with it. Herbert Hoover, jr., was another. Segal joined the American Radio Relay League, the “ham” organ- ization, and wound up by becoming its counsel. A couple of years ago when the Federal Radio Commission was con« ducting hearings in Colorado, Segal ap- peared before it on behalf of the ama- t:udrl. )‘m lut‘::lnl l.n radio law made leep impression. t his legal lore at onunfllbll. —w o (Copyright, 1929.) ) Freedom of Life Seen In Need of Salvation From the Philadelphia Record. The Moorestown, N. J, murder and suieide case must have some suggestion for those who are at grips with the problem of bringing up young people to happy and useful lives. What is back of the tragedy? Is the social system to blame? Such tragedies were not wholly un- known in the so-called Vietorian days when young men and women did not mingle so freely and with so little restraint—the days of chaperonage. And there are many, many young men and women in these days of com- paratively unrestrained association, who get along withoyut heartbreak, without cause for self-pity or the pity of others ~—without & thought of tragedy. ‘The inevitable conclusion is that the system is not wholly responsible. That individual responsibility ~ exists under any social system. That parents must be ever wise, knowing when to keep still, when to speak up—and what to say when they do speak up, so that the impulsive, impetuous nature of youth may make its necessary adjust- ments to life the more easily and satis- actorily. tragie occurrence must eause many conservative elders to long for & return to the ways ofh.u i & Ung persons were tether of “the propristies”—more o¥ less. But the wise parent sees further than that. The father or mother best fitted for parenthood must perceive the fact that, whatever the system, paren- tal direction is essential, and the task is to reduce its irksomeness to a mlnlu:r : 4 % but that it is worth while |that It means that she must, Glover Park Entrance Is Seen as Death Trap %o the Editor of Tha Star: The sad event which culminated in the death of the small child at the corner of Connecticut avenue and Albe- marle street Tuesday evening is liable to be duplicated at the entrance to Glover Park at minute, The entrance to Glover Park is by an alleyway from Thirty-seventh street, known as Snyder's lane, and is used by hundreds of men, women and children, who are compelled to use this death trap in goiig to and from their homes, and who in constant danger from the numerous machines and trucks that tear through the lane at full For & number of years it was said that Spyder's lane would be by Calvert street. A condem- nation jury was llwolnted. but for some reason their findings were thrown out and nothing further was done in the matter. The District Commissioners were petitioned to run a sidewalk through the alleyway, so as to protect the walking public, and the¥ replied that‘the lane was only twenty feet wide, and therefore not wide enough to guz the sidewalk in, The Glover Park Cit- izens' Association then asked that Cal-| H. vert street be completed for the one square from Thirty-seventh street to Tunlaw road, thereby doing away with the death trap. The only response was that the Commissioners were studying some plan to relleve us, but the death trap still survives. We have a nice subdivision, with concrete streets and high taxes, and something surely must be arranged so as to protect the liveg and limbs of our residents. The im- provement of the one square would be worthy if it only saves one life, but it seems hard to get the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to see it Way. BEN C. McQUAY," Becretary Glover Park Citizens’ Association. e Reduced Fares Seen Great Boon to Poor To. the Editor of The Star: Please let me express my appreciation of the splendid story in your Saturday edition on reduced fares for school children. Such space devoted to the story shows the importance you attach to a subject near to the hearts of thou- sands of your readers. As we all know, a reduction in street car fares for chil- dren would prove exceedingly beneficial to o many poor parents unable now to defray the adult fare demanded for children going to and fro. The desire to educate little ones properly cauwses many parents to make sacrifices. Personally, I know woman who, unable to send her chil dren to school on the cars, purchase an old automobile, of pre-war vintage, and with this as a conveyance she takes her five children to school each day. perforce, neglect some houschold duties at certain hours. But she gets the children to school—her own way of reducing the fare. Cages like thif are innumerable. ‘Washington is the only city in the United States, to my knowledge, which charges more than G-cent fare for school children. —Other citles, in a list complled for me by an authority, charge only from 5 cents down to 2 cents. Some day, I am sure, there will be jus- tice done the school children and their parents in the Nation's Capital. The best aign P:lncln‘ toward this boon is the attention accorded the subject by one of the outstanding newspapers of the city, The Star. Repayment will come to you in the united gratitude of the younger genera- tion enjoying the supreme privilege of attaining education without draining the family finanees. JOHN J. NOONAN. Lloyd George Livened Campaign in Britain From the San Francisco Chronicle. It has been Lloyd George who put the vim, vigor and vinegar into the Brit- ish campaign with his plan to meet the unemployment situation. When canvass opened, it lokoed like a routine debate between the Tories and the Laborites with the Liberal party play- ing the role of the innocent bystander. The Liberals have turned out to be anything but bystanders and their dear- est enemy wouldn't concede a vestige of innocence. By what magic has the astute little Welshman galvanized his supposedly moribund party into life and set the British electorate by the ears? What is his plan to meet the harrow- ing problem of the workless? ‘The main feature of the Lloyd George i lon is to spend $725,000,000 for & great system of roads and cognate publie improvements. Such a system, when completed, would be, the Liberals contend, a valuable instrument of na- tional prosperity. The plan from their point of view is not merely the spend- ing of money to give temporary em- plomem {o the workers, but the pro- vidl of adequate transport facilities essential to the industrial life and 'r(’)wthd%f’"Grell PBritain. n a on to the tremendous real improvement, Lloyd George proposes extension of housing projects under government_subsidy, intensive develop- ment of the government-owned tele- n, an land reclamation projects. ¥ i ——— Memorial Would Honor Knox the Artillerist l‘r;l;:h. Buffslo Evening News. movement that is under way Thomaston, Me,, to erect & memorial g Gen. Henry Knox directs attention to the fact that one of the leading figures in the American Revolution has been well-nigh unhonored. His name ap- in in the record of ) _Was chief of artillery in “l .:IT and éhe first Seere- avy, but even in native State it is found necessary 'ha’f d-r to invoke unusual methods of pub- licity to awaken interest in his memory. So an old bell that was cast by the better known Paul Revere in 1798 and purchased By Gen. Knox for a church in Thomaston will be sent on a pilgrim. age throughout New England. 'Ph- idea recalls the first triumphal trip of the Liberty bell, to the Chicago exposition in 1893. the journey of the Knox bell serves to bring into belated relief the story of the Boston bookseller, who b{ study became an artillerist, worth; of the praise of the seasoned Frenc officers during the trapping of Corn- wallis at Yorktown, le man who brought the first cannon to the colonial forces from Fort Ticonderoga, who was one of Washington's mainstays in the fleld and at Vll:edy Forge—well, it will wrve”ll & needed lesson in American Well, What Next? Prom the Cleveland Plain Dealer. New York sclentist discovers that insects live most happily in. uses. Now that we know ‘;'5,3 }hgwfl Y‘;. L hepy among the bugs and mfi the mosquitoes, what Bexth q! do we It Has to Be Very Funny! From the Detroit News. As & rule, a lo) llect tels , nl' colles hm sent ass 1 A Joke, has to be very funny Exposed at Last. n-mm Muntington Advertiser. United States Treast e o y Voltaire, s after its publ:uunn. Aha! voxum’" i diseov- A Prize-Winning Plan. From the Terre Haute Siar. - =l one | the | and omissions excepted.’ ANSWERS TO QUESTIO BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Stop & minute snd think about this fact. You can ask our Information e ey phiy s personal jetter answe! a . It r t educational idea intro- can newspa of that service. cents in coin or stamps for return tage. Get the habit of asking ques. m.m. Address your letter to The Evening Star Information Bureau, | Prederic J. Haskin, director, Washing- ton, D. C. Q. _How much does it cost to bulld a golf course?—H. A. A. The cost of a osull course varies from $8,000 to $50,000, depending on the improvements and other factors. Q. What is the electric power rate in Ontario, Canada? What is the av- ertga !nu in the United States?— A. For the last 20 years Ontario, Canada, has had & m!mmentcgud electric light system. It started a very small way, but grown until it takes in practically all of Ontario. The average rate for domestic con- sumers last year was less than 2 cents @ kilowatt hour. The average rate for domestic _consumers in ‘the United States last year was 7 cents. . How large a burden can an elephant carry?—C. J. A. A. An elephant can carry about a ton's weight at the rate of 4 miles an hour in a climate where horses could not be used for beasts of burden. . From what language does the name “Ruth” come?—A. 8. 1 word meaning Q. Why was the the_year of confusion?—E. B. R. A" The year 47 B.C. was known as the year of confusion on account of the necessity of changing the dates of the months and the positions of the months in the year, to revise the ancient calendar and make it conform with the Julian calendar. Q. Are the Ozark Mountains the oldest mountains in the world?—W. L. L. A. The Ozark Mountains, or Oszark Plateau, belong with the oldest moun- tain regions of the world, and de- nudation is slowly and surely removing the last remains of once lofty moun- tains. A small area of pre-Cambrian rocks is exposed in the St. Francois. Mountains. The remainder of the plateau consists of Cambrian ana Ordovician Age. Q. Is the White House proper cov- ered with stucco?—E. E. M. A. It is not stuccoed. It inted with a special paint made of white lead, French white zinc and raw lin- seed oil. Q. What is the feminine form of “vlilain"?—W. T. F. A. Tt is now customary to use the form “villain.” The feminine suffix “ess” has been dropped from many nouns. Q. What is the total cost of such a hook-up as that used for President Hoover’s inauguration?—S. L. P. A. The National Broadeasting Co. says that & national hook-up such as was used for the Hoover inaugural cere- monies costs in the neighborhood of $25,000. Q. What continent has the greatest population?—F. C. A. Asia leads with an estimated pop- ulation of 950,000,000; Europe is second with 480,000,000; then comes rica with 145,000,000, North Ameriea with 138,000,000, South America with 66, 000,000 and Australia with 10,000,000. The polar regions contribute 50,000,000 and 167,000,000 is added as miscellane- ous. . What is meant by “E. & O, E"?— A F.G. A. The abbreviation ,means “errors Q. What procedure is necessary in order to take an automobile to Cubs TR € TIN to tour the island? Are there tourish camps?—J. J. E. A. The Arriving in n is for the traveler to sign a declaration upon landing, to the effect that the car is his personal property and that he intends to use it exclu- sively for his private business and that he intends to return to the United States with his & e with- in 90 days. A traveler should bring proof of cwnership of his car and if his State requires a driver's license he should bring it along. There are no tourist camps in Cubs, so far. Of course, for years Cuba has had very ew It is only recently vana to traffic. In a Liahway To’ Ained,” possinly sourist \way , camps will be developed. Q. Where was the Edison stamp first put on sale?—G. M. A. A. The first sale of the light's Tnldm jubilee 2-cent stamp was held at Menlo Park, N. J. The stamp was struck by the Government to com- memorate the fiftieth anniversary of Edison’s perfecting of the incandescent lamp. It is the first time a living man has had his nai on an ordinary post- age stamp. The only other case was that of Lindbergh, who had his name on an air mail stamp. Q Why was the B. & O. selected as the railroad with which the Monon should be m ?—H. D. K. A. One of the principal reasons was that, for more than 30 years, the Monon has maintdined a joint through service with the Baltimore & Ohio be- tween Cincinnati and Chicago. There- fore, in the scheme for railroad con- solidation, it was a logical resuit. Q. Please tell something of the be- lief of Swedenbot —¥. P. A. Followers of Swedenborg believe in a doctrine which is called “corre- spondence” snd see a relation instead of a difference between matters on several planes of life, natural, spiritual and divine, saying that every spiritual conception has a counterpart in ob- jective reality. One of their princ tenets is the “doctrine of use” by which Swedenborg first emphasized usefulness as a primary religious requirement. Q. What kind of a celebration will Boston have:on June 17?—M. F; A. This is Bunker Hill day‘and is devoted to a patriotic celebration. wih Buckingm Sainger o1 Wk e?—T. W. L. A. The garden of the prises acres, 3. Of what a&er name is “Buddy” a derfvative?—T. G. A. The nickname “Buddy* is not an abbreviation or diminutive of a proper name, but to be the diminutive of the term “brother.” It was much used among _the soldiers during the World Wni-, It has the meaning of the term Q. Was the Dixmude lost en her first mR7—-L C. B. . The L-72, or Dixmude, had been almost completed by the Germans when the war was concluded. She was turned over to France under ths terms of the peace treaty and in September, 1923, broke all distance and endurance records when she landed at her air- drome at Marseille after a flight of 4,500 miles during which he been in the air 118 hours and 41 minutes. In that flight she erossed the Mediterranean and cruised over la, Tunisia and the Sahars, re- turning su ully to France. On December 18, 1923, the Dixmude left Pranee on a similar cruise. On Decem- ber 20 she was over Biskra. On Decem- ber 31 at 3 o'clock she communicated by radio that she was in & storm area and was returning to France. She was Century-Old Dispute Settled By Upholding of Pocket Veto Bettlement of the ancient controversy over the “pocket veto” by the Supreme Court deeision upholding the power of the President to kill legislation by this method meets with the approval of the press generally, although some of the comment reflects a feeling that fre- quent use of the power should be aveld- ed by the Executive. “The court's decision was unanimous and may be accepted as correctly in- rpreting the intent of the Constitu- ," is the conclusion of the Water- bury Republican, and the Wheeling In- telligencer notes that the decision “gives sanction to a practice that has mglwod for many years.” The ‘Topeka Daily Capital is glad that “un- der the decision a mooted question of many years' standing, even from the beginnings of the Government, is finally settled.” That the Supreme Court “has brushed aside another of the many vex- atious. questions which periodically rise up to confound students of the Consti- tution” is the way the Yakima Morn- \ng Herald E:u it. tating that “it may seem strange that the question had not before been tested before the Supreme Court,” the Springfield Union explains the under- lying cause of its action at this time: “In the last hours of the first session of the last Congre a Muscle 'Shoals bill sponsored by Senator Norris was passed. As it was not among the bill signed by President Coolidge in the final hours of the session, nor afterward, Senator Norris and others claimed that the Muscle Shoals bill was a law be- cause it had not been returned as dis- im, the Union adds, ;ournmmc of & Congress and adjournment of a first session,” a con- tentlon which the cqurt overruled. It was not the Muscle however, that was used for the test case, but tively unimportant bill sent to President Coolidge in June, 1026, au- thorizing some Indian tribes in the State of Washi to file suit in the Court of Claims for compensation for lands. “The Constitution vides _that a the President w by their bill retained 10 days becomes law, ‘unless Congress adjournment prevent its nm.' Shoals bl | Poc which he does not act,’ ” notes the Fort Worth Reeord-Telegram, which sue- ests that “if Congress wants to thl buek’ it will have to eonvene daily for 10 days after the last batch of bills has been sent to the ent. Then he will be compelled to ‘fish or eut bait’ litically—which, it is well to remem- r, is one cf the. constant embattle- ments between the Executive and the legisiative.” In this manner, too, speaks the Bangor Dally Chronicle, saying, “Congress, by remaining in session, has the power to compel the return of the measure, or, if it is not returned within the d time, the congressional ac- tion becomes law. Is the pocket veto » valuable provi- sion? Diametrically opposed opinions on this' question are expressed by the Pasadena Star-News and the Haverhill Evening Gazette, the former saying, “The veto power is a salutary preroga- should be retained for the fails of juste disposi lation. The fact that it is used and is valld,” the Gazette contends, “in- dicates & defect in our legislative sys- tem. ‘That such disadvantages as are in the pocket veto are lessened by its in- frequent use is the burden of some of the comment. Says the ton Evening Transcript on this point: “As a matter of fact, the pocket veto is a device rarely used by Presidents and employed, as a rule, enly under such c m- stances that the country clearly com- grnhend; the reason for its employment. t is to be hoped and expected that, notwithstanding the decision of the Su- preme Court, our Presidents will make no use of the pocket veto privilege As to uum"mn f the origin of the pocket veto, the Oakland Tribune points out, e ket veto was Invented by a stalwart mocrat, Andrew Jackson, who firsu used it at the close of the 1829-30 ses- sion on two bills for public improve- ments which had been Jpassed in the last 10 days of Congress. ——s Image of St. Paul’s “Unknown God” Faceless BY E, E. FREE, Ph. D. A portrait of that “unknown god” to| to | whom St. Paul observed that the Athe-| Congress as not in and that sending it to an employe Oo’g{uu would not be a It return, e Louisville Courier: al the “evident intention of Constitution” as being “to give ident time to study measures, Kentucky daily thinks it amply the legislative rtment, definite limit on 0." “Here was the situstion,” says the flnehhuu News. “The Muscle Shoals 1l was passed by ing advan urmment. of the Con| fl'.g insured the 's defeat keting it. As it so happened, ad- ournment did come before expira ion of his constitutional 10 days and the bill was killed, The consequence, of course, is that b; mansuver the Con- was prevented from m&gommny 53 g‘evlrrm the President's *wEw ‘“The recent decision further favors v mmcufi'v'}hymuu bluntly that = t give the President the bill 10 ‘pssume nians had erected an altar has been| found near the town of Gir-:ati, the] ancient Agrigentum, on the southern coast of Sicily. This part of Sicily was| once & colony of Greek traders and farmers, to which came also rich m and de) politiclans, fleein; Athens much as modern embezzlers are imaginative. two faceless ears on the little column may have intended worshipers from :g:nn countries to supply in each ene the face of his own di~ listen