Evening Star Newspaper, June 19, 1929, Page 8

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All Tiants of publieation special dispatches herein are also reservi = ik Ambassador Dawes’ Salutatory. Gen, Dawes sprang no surprises at the Pilgrtms’ dinner in London last night when he celebrated his debut in that role traditionally Assigned to Ameri- can Ambassadors to Great Britain, vie, that of A speechmaker. Yet as a key- note address on Anglo-American rela< tions in general, and naval questions in particular, his remarks were important and impressive. a In essence they went no farther than the President’s Arlington address on Memorial day. Mr. Hoover told of the “yardstick of relativity,” which the “AmericAn program” for further naval limitation would apply, and Gen. Dawes dwelt in general terms with the same theme. He emphasized the United Btates’ belief that the underlying prin- eiple for . distributing naval strength equitaBly is An Attainable plan, granted that there are “statesmen” with willing- ness to find the way. ‘Unquestionably the outstanding note in Ambassador Dawes’ London speech is this underlined reference to ‘“states- men” as the atbiters of the naval differ- ences between John Bull and Uncle Sam. He is pointedness itself on that score. He differentiates sharply between the task of the “naval experts” and the prerogative o6f statesmanship in the arduous problem of an Anglo-American understanding. “If the naval experts rise to & proper sense of thelr responsibility,” Gen. Dawes says in words that were obvioukly chosen with Are, “the use Dby states- men of their yardstick will not be one which will invite peril from those ex- treme pacifists and extreme militarists who form the lunatie fringe.” In thus interpreting the Hoover naval- limitation policy to our British friends Gen. Dawes means that rica favors rational strength &t sea, 1.6, & naval es- tablishmeht that shall not, on the one hand, be whittled down to the danger- | diagonally from the station to Penn- Iuylvlnh avenue. Of course, the elearing of two squares this Summer is but a smaill part of the elaborate project and will not open up an unobstructed visien of the Capitol. {But it is & beginning, and aftet &0 many years of delay Washington re- joiees that a start is being made. The Ihope of those who are interested in the improvement of appearance of the National Oapital now is that the rasing of the remainder of the dormitories | north of C street will not be deferred longer than is hecessary. Congress has authorized expenditure of néarly 85,000,000 for the improvement of the plaza, to be appropriated gradually @us- ing the next few years. It would be appropriate and fitting to aim at com- pletion of the project in time for the | celebration of the 200th anniversary of the birth of George Washington in 1932. e Perpetuating the Split. The anti-Smith Democrats of Vir- ginia have definitely established them- selves as a political organization. At their convention in Roanoke vestetday they cast the die which will either make them a real, permanent power | in the State and perhaps an important influence in national politics or lead them finally into oblivion. They have nominated candidates for governor and for Attorney general; they have goné on record Agaln as opposed to the nh- tional leadership of the Democratic party and to the State leadership which adhered to Alffed £. Bmith in the last campaign. And finally they have de- clared their satisfaction with the sup- port which they gave to President | Hoover Jn the last campaign and cons | gratulated the President upon his stand | for prohibition and 1aw enforcement. Many predictions have been made since the last campalgn that the Demo- | erats who broke away in Vitginia and other Southern States would soon drift | back to their old party allegiance.” But the convention in Roanoke gives a very different impression of the situation. There were evidences that the organiza- tion of the “antis” is strongly knit, and, furthérmore, that the regular Demo: cratic leaders have been able to do little #0 far to win them back to regularity. The Virginia anti-Smith Democtats | have planned a campaign that is wider | in scope than the. State boundafies. They propose to set up in Washington & committes to act with similar com- mittees representing anti-Smith Demo- crats in other States in A general drive to remove all wets from the leadership of the Demotratic national party. It is A drive that may be potent in some of the States, particulatly those which broke away Irom Smith and the na- tional tieket Mt year. But it is clear it will not make for harmony, generally speaking, in the party throughout the Nation. There i8 admittedly a wide cleavage in the Democratic party over the wet and dry issue. The traditionally Democratic South is “dry.” The States in the North and East where the Dem- ocratic party has been strong are wet in sentiment. ‘Whether the efforts of the drys to dry up the Democratic party entirely, and of some of the Republicans to do the ously slender dimensions advocated by chicken-hearted “prevention of war” groups, or, on the other hand, be ex- panded to that swollen and provocative extent demanded by our “big Navy” gealots in moments of exuberant jingo- ism. ~Ar dor Dawes rightly called, for an “early” adjustment of naval differ- ences with Britain as & matter of “out- standing importatice,” He @id not sug- gest any intention upof the part of the Hoover administration to convene an international conference to deal with limitation. Gen. Dawes is apparently under directions from Washington to Jet the League of Nations' preliminary commission on disarmament pursue its quiet, exhaustive study of the intricate technical problems involved. In that inquiry the United States is Actively participating. The Dawes mission to the Court of St. James opens auspiciously. It be- gins with the laying of practical Ameri- can cards on the table. It is & fortuitous eircumstance that Britain's pacifically minded new premier, Mr, Ramsay Mac- Donald, is ready to take & hand in the game—not as & rival player, but as a partner, and bent upon eapturing the same stakes. No higher stakes can be played for by statesmen. Both Ambassador Dawes and Premier MacDonald made it plain, in their respective utterances yesterday, that with Anglo-American naval discord abolished the foundations of world peace will be laid. The peychology of politics is strange. The early opposition to Al Smith for a repeat candidate may enhance his chances by getting him on people’s minds. [ Some cases of so-called incompatibil- ity arise from the mere fact that a husband and wife do not happen to enjoy ‘he same night club. ———— {. Beautification at Last. An important and long delayed step in the beautification of Washington will get under way within two weeks when workmen begin tearing down some of the temporary Government hotels, erected on Union Station Plaza more than ten years ago to house the war workérs who were brought to the Cape ital in large numbers at that time. | 'The architect of the Capitol has ealled for bids, to be opened June 25, for the demolition of fourteen of the ‘war-time dormitories after July 1. The structures to be taken down at this time are in the two squares bounded by B and C streets, Delaware and New Jersey avenues, and as soon as these groups are razed the two squares will be grafied off. v ‘The clearing of these two squares is the first move toward vonverting the area between Union Station and the Capitol ifto & parkway in keeping with the position this space occupies as the main gateway to the National Capital. ‘This plaza, stretching from Union Sta- tion to the Capitol, is the first glimpse the visitor gets of his Nation's Capital when he &téps from the train. Today it is not an imposing glimpse, with the Capitol obscured behind the temporary dormitory atfuctures. But when the project Which gets under way next month is completed, the vista from the depot will be worthy of & great Cape same for the Q. O. P., will eventually divide the country along wet and dry lines only the future can tell. Prohi- bition i still an issue. It is still in the experimental stage so far as en- T relegated in Washington to the limbo of | the little red schoolhouse that stood on the hill. The erection of more junior high schools, to add to the twelve now in operation. will establish the 8-3-8 sys- tem entirely. An age of specialization will enable a sixth-year student to begin thinking about his specialty in his seventh year at achool and by the time he leaves. junior high he will, in theory, have begun his sérious prepara- tion for what he wants to do in the world. May all of them know what they want to do in the world and, closing thelr books with & bang, go ahead and do it! - ———————— Anticipating the Fourth, More than two weeks before the Fourth of July the town is resounding to the explokion of torpedoes, fireerackers and other instruments of tofture dan- | ned by the police but easily obtainable by the Ambitious youngster or fond parent who I8 willing to go beyond the borders of the Distriet. A torpedo hurl- ed through & window and exploding against the back of a peaceful citisen, happlly without serfous damage either to the window of the eitinen, is a fore- runner of the usual number of su¢h episodes which mark the “safe and sane” observance of Independence Day. While the poliee eannot be expected to restrict or prevent the importation of illegal firecrackers, torpedoes and other such parapherhalia, the police can begin now an inténsive crusade against their use after they are imported. The first few years after the adoption of wise regulations against dangerous fireworks there was & lessening in the annual casualty list among children and an altogether more serene and peaceful Capital city. But in recent years the use of fireworks, forbidden by law, has | increased. ‘The Fourth of July has again begun to sound like the Baitle of Belleau Wo0d. The list of injured 18 again on the upgrade. Maj. Pratt intends to issue the usual bulletin later in the week calling to the attention of the force the existing regu- lations against fireworks. He might supplement it with strong language or- dering every policeman to be on the lookout for infraction of these regula- tions. It is not necesssary to launch a campalgn to bring into court every youthful violator of the regulations. But it is necessary to confiscate unlawful goods wherever found, and personally to warn the parents of erring youngsters that another offense will lead to serious results. ——— In studying measurements of stréngth, the “yardstick” comes into atténtion as a pleasing successor to that once célebrated instrument of discipline, the “big #tick.” = ————— ‘The Weather Bureau makes no claim to political impoftance. Yet & hot wave 18 & strong influence in creating demand for a recess. ————— It would be regrettable, indeed, if the matter of a few drinks should cause a disturbance in the timé-honored cor dialities of Canada and the U. 8. A. ————— Germafily 18 & republic, but it still shows evidence of what Freud might call & subconscious aristocraey. It is &t least conceded in temperance discussion that the sawed-off shotgun forcement 18 concerned. It is a subject on which millions of Americans differ violently. It is an issue which has suc« ceeded in splitting the Democratic party wide open, and to some extent it has split the Republicans. The anti-Smith Democrats in Vir- ginia declare that they see no change in the national leadership of the Dém- ocratic party. They point to the faet that Mr. Raskob, a wet, is still chair- man of the national committee And that he has sald' distinctly he is to re- taln his chairmanship. This apparently i8 enough for them to go on. If they, succeed in electing their candidate for governor this year, with Republican support, the old Democratic organiza- tion in the State will have been well smashed. The political complexion of | the Btate may, in that event, be per- manently changed. The eyes of the Nation will be on the gubernatorial campaign in Virgihia this Summer and Fall. It will be the first State-wide test since the 1928 cam- paign of the alignment formed then between dry, anti-8mith Democrats and the Republicans. —————————— With all his agreeable light-heart- | edness, Mayor Jimmy Walker finds | Himself compelled to be serious even when playing if the game happens to be New York politics. | —————————— “Dont's” for hot weather have al- ways stressed abstinence from alcohol. And bootleg alcohol is & more urgent invitation to sunstroke than the old kind. ] School Is Over. This is a big day in a big week for somtie seventy thousand boys and girls of | the city's public schools. It is a day of | glad refoléing for the thousands of them who today have completed one tiny step in their advance toward life’s battle front; a day of sorrow, no one knows how poignant, for those whose steps have not been far enough or fast | enough, who must turn back next year and do it all over again. To these, one’s sympathies naturally turn. The boys and gifls who, basking in the proud light of accomplishment and beaming in the resplendent glory of Bunday elothes and scrubbed faces, re- ceive the praisds of proud teachers and fond parents ate all fight. They have done the task set before them and are stepping up in the world. Encomiums, for therp, merely gild the lily. But there should be eloquent words for the little boys and little girls who are not #tepping up in the world, who must sit silent with their own thoughts toay and watch their comrades go ahead while they stahd still. ‘Their tragedy lies not sb6 much in actual failure, but in the failure they magnify in their own minds. Graduation day is becoming a more complicated process in Washington every year, This year there are fewer pupils advancing across that great gulf from the eighth grade to first-year high. More than éver are leaving the | | i unsportsmanlike. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Sky Blossoms. There are fireworks fit and ready ‘Where the shops make fine display— The bird song sounds unsteady And the flowers fade away. Other beauty will draw near us ‘When, as we look up on high, Pretty pyrotechnies cheer us ‘With their blossoming in the sky! It's a form of Summer dreaming That will make us rather proud When the fiery roses gleaming Scatter petals from the cloud. Though the garden spot may wither And the air be still and dry, Gayety will still come hither ‘With the blossoming in the tky. Looking Ahead. “A statefman ought to be far-seein, “A number of us are trying to answered Senator Sorghum. “We're thinking even more of the 1930 cam- paign than we are of present legisla- tion.¥ Jud Tunkins says he's glad to hear that & professor of psychology is going to run for office. If it could become & custom to have every candidate psycho~ analyzed, politics might be easier, A Detroit Ditty. It's a mistaken sense of fun And times grow impolite ‘When everybody packs a gun Ahd wants to shoot on sight! Lonely Life. “Wouldn't you, like to be a great movie star?” “Perhaps I would,” answered Miss Cayenne. “And yet from a distance it looks like a lonely life compelling a pop- ular pet to remain in seclusion so as not to destroy the highly imaginative fic- tions of the press agent.” “To speak unkindly,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “is to releAse & thought which may cause regret with- out ¢arrying any hope of usefulness.” Ups and Downs. “This life is most surprising,” He murmured with a frown. “The old thermom keeps risin| My favorite stock goes down.” “If you tells yoh troubles to a friend,” said Uncle Eben, “you is mo' liable to keep deé troubles dan to hold on to de friend. - e Sticky Stamps Needed. From the Toledo Blade. What is needed is a postage stamp that will stick like a union suit in a temperature of 95 in the shade. o il e niter They Last a Long Time. From the Ann Arbor Daily News. Pigeons were beaten by an airplane in a thee from Chicago to Detroit, but they etill hold the long-distance record | for silent motors. elementary schools at the sixth grade and entering junior high, or leaving Junior high and entering high as ital. Trees, shrubbery and velvet lawns ‘will replace the war-time bulldings, With & wide bruleverd extending out sophisticated second-year studehts. Within a few years—three, perhapb— the old eighfh grade will have been and Other Names. Prom _the Eyracuse Herald. portrait A British t is fow lll% oems, m’;‘nn been made a long fime’ i, afy egiiey undet the name e es STAR. BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. 1t a flower show mlw considered as A kind of natural library in which & r{ blossom & & book, so the living, moving world of people becomes to a booklover & collection of volumes in which each person 18, too. He sees a novel in every man, woman and child, it only ha eouid get it out of them. It is a commonplace saying that there 18 at least one novel in every hu- mAn being. erhaps this is 80, in a sense, but only in a sense. Most lives are free from the ‘com- plexity which is necessary fot a good story plot. The orbits of the average human being run too smooth & course for suspénse. Such little uncertainty as develops in such lives makes poor fietioh material, exeept in the one case in 100,000, when there happens to be a novelist around with what may be called the secing eye. ere is not the slightest chance in the world for the normal person to get out of himself the novel which is sup- posed to b ih him. A great emotional crisis might give him the utge, but un- | less he were peculiarly fitted for the task he would make a failure of it, in all_likelihood. Novelists are not normal persons in Any sense of the word. On the other | hand, it must not be supposed, as it too often ik, that there iz a taint to abe normality. Let the word be expanded, rather, in order to bring in those ab- normal in the combination of two gifts —the gift of seeing and the gift of put- ting what they see into words. Thousands see, hence the prevalent idea that there is & novel in every one. The world feels this, but it knows at the same time that the other half of the equation is of equal importance. Jane Austen happenedl to be a mild person who lived a quiet life, but who not only saw the novels that reposed unwrittén in her mind, but who had also the power to bring them into the lite of print. Her material was slight, but she knew how to make the most of it. What she handies is done deftly, whereas her themes, such as they are, would make an unreadable stretch of dullness from the pen of the average man or woman. * xR x Yet every human being is a book. The inimpottant details of his daily life, if they could be caught with facil- ity, would read better than the swiftest moving talé of events on end. The real life of man is in his mind and heart—that is why the great novels depict spiritual rather than physica adventures, Every living person is living every d: as Atrénge as it sometimes seems, $0 absurdly has mankind come under the clutches of the future, causing him to whisper. “I will be happy tomorrow—I will reaily begin to live next year!" All there is, however; is foday, and he is wise who knows it. One need not discount either the past or the future to put a proper valuation on the ever- living present, in which we move and breathe and have our béing. It is_béautiful to dream, it 18 well to | hope, but it is essential to take the hére And now as it presents itself. Neither a faolish distegard for the past nor a blin@ indifference 1o the future, but a wholesome knowledge that the days to come will not be much differ- | ent, When he gets there, from this very day of days which after all these cén- turies now has pierced the mystery of time to stand forth in splendor all around. * k x % Every man is a bobk, Whether he gets into print or not. He had a beginning, WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC Undoubf it's the Weather Man who induced motiths and thus assure & Sumther vacatioh fof both houses. The mid- June hot &pell caused all concerned to Agree that they néed a rest. Congress earned a recess. President Hoover deserves it. 'The country says A hearty amen, The #pecial session has been About as hectic a 60 days as Capitol Hill has known in moons. Despite the roaring, the l'nng of logs, the Seventy-first Congress dur- ing ils maiden weeks has given a con- structive account of itself. but the Agricultural Marketing act (of- ficial name of the farm relief baby) had been enacted, that alone would entitle the session to renown. It accomplished within two months a piece of legislation over which two preceding administra- tions and four different Congresses stewed to no purpose. The House passed | & new tarif? bill. Both branches adopted the 1930 census and reapportionment law. The Hoover administration was set ing without any semblance of a con- rmation fight. The White House lost out on but a single issue—repeal of the national origins clause in the immigra- tion law, * ¥ X ¥ 11l be opportunity during the find out whether Herbert Hoover is as strong with the country as he was when he took office three an 2 NAlf months ago. The first impres. slons which a new President makes usually take deep root. There is some difference of opinion about Mr. Hoo- ver's status at the end of his first quar- ter in the White House. Thick-and- thin administrationists insist he emerges from the noneymoon period with en- hanced prestige. A record embracing farm relief, the oil conservation pro- gram, appointment of the National Law Enforcement Commission, practical steps toward naval limitation and & ros- ter of unchallenged appointments is one of whieh Any President—sa verites—might well be proud. * Xk ok X That's the administration view. The other view is exuded by certain Repub- lican leaders, or those who rank, pose or strut as such. The burden of their song is pitched in a decidedly minor key. They are disgruntled with Hoover. They find him forgetful of the niceties and the loyalties of practical politics. Some of them go the harsh length of calling the President an ingrate. They resent his systematie disinclina- tion to ask for their advice. They even deplore his unwillingness to give advice. The farm relief muddle, they claim, was exclusively of Hoover'’s making, be- cause he deciined to damn debenture in advanee, A year ago yesterday the RepublicAn party, at Kansas Gity, anointed the Californian its official leadér and then proceeded to elect him President. But where, 'tis mournfully asked, are the pampered paladins of yesteryear? Where are the Works, the Donovans, the Slemps, the Wille- brandts, the. Blairs and all the other satellites who organized victory? They are on the cold outside, the G. O. P. anvil chorus retorts. Hence the tears and the lamentations. The malcontents assert their grief and their grouch will be cartied to the country by homecom- ing members of Congress and tafnish Herbert's escutcheon with the people. L ‘There wi recess o Capt. Navy baek in ington froim the anhual directors’ meeting in New York with a brand-rew Dewey story. It was narrated there by a retired officer Who served with Dewey in the old erulser Juniata ‘way back 1887. ‘The vietor of MA- nila was taking his ship to China through the Suez. En route he was seized with the liver complaint, which came near depriving America ‘of an- Sther NALIONAT hero. The Juniata put in at Malta, where Capt. Dewey was treat- ed at the British naval hospital. A couple of his officers, including 8 commander named Belden, called on the skipper in the hospital, finding him in apparently desperate shape. Dewey's eyes were closed and he seemed unable to recog- nize his visitors. In the corner of the patient’s room stood a treasured walk- ing !““'M"hyk:‘ Dewey lm °'c“ur:ed for years. INg '8 toed out of the robm maen carried os th B b ] o SR “Bill" Galvin, !e(‘retlg of the of the United States, WASHINGTON, Senate to quit for two | ling and the rolling | If nothing | the Hoo- | 18 | grims D. C, WEDN he moves along, and he comes to an apparent end, alter which there may or may not be another edition, as Jn- min Franklin phrased it. Life doesn't much care whether you break into print. With life the impor- tant thing is to live, and to live is to be a story of some sort. Maybe you think your life is not much of a story, but it makes no dif- ferenice, perhaps the seeing eye and understanding heart could do marv with you. If such & man as Dickens, or he who wrote “Sorrel and B8on," could get ahold of you, the printy re- fult would surprise you as much as your friends. Then the least romantic person might be amaged to note the romance inhgr- ent in just living. He who had |lamented the fact that he wAs not a boy when Oaetar was in his would discover that 1920 18 not s6 bhd. He who had paused to t his slim | chanee of seeing what the world would |be 100 years from now might sleep | casier if he knew definitely that ma. ichinezs and their resulting minds are going to ruin it. ‘These are probabilities, The sure | thing s that the first step of the novelist is what the average person | needs. What 18 this step? It is simply the realization that the interest of life, with all ita wealth of romance, is éverywhere. Even the burdens and pains of life have their interesting aspects. Some | men ean see vividly in their own mind’s r¥e. as it is called, the healing power of Nature at work in évery ailment. They get a genuine “kick” out of the | contemplation of a healing wound. | Every surgeon, every dentist, knows | that if the Lord build not the house, he who builds it labors in vain. Wounds, sores, scabs—these becomé to such a | man ‘not so much loathsome terms s | Indications of healing, which is a beau- | tiful, ~intensely romantic _ process. | Viewed from this standpoint, the art of the doctor, the surgeon and the dentist | is the mosi ennobling in the world. Just as land is called 'real estate,” so the | accomplishments of such men ought to | be called real work. 1If this is a ros mantic way of looking at it, 0 much is admitted without argument, R Men are books walking. Therée goes & vulgar story as suré | as he is alive. The binding of his face denotes an evil way of looking &t the essential facts of life. His bad “humor,” as they said in old times, has seeped out of his mind into | his skin, so that all who pass may read. | There goes a beautiful book! One | enses, rather than sees, a quiet story |of moving power, which might disap- | point some, but would éxalt most. ‘There is & gay, frivolous stoty, of the sort commonly ‘called “light Summer | reading.” Her life iA given over to non- | essentials, but she handles them deftly | enough. 1t ia only after some acquaint- |ance with this flip volumeé that one realizes that thefe is not much to it, after all. There goes a Bible, an old ma: freighted with years bearing the wis- dom of a patriarchal beard. The light in his faded blue eyes is a beacon to | those with eyes to see. These are a few of the books which }wnlk. the talking books of the great human library, which eéxtends from ‘Washington to Sudan and all the way around again, constituting a Stupen- dous circulating library of an evil books, so many and & varied that {only the Great Librarian can read them all aright. -1 3 WILLIAM WILE. par later, at the Russo-Japanese ace Conference in Portsmouth, Ad- miral Dewev. present as President Roosevelt's special _observer, encoun- | tered one of the officers who had vis- ited him that dhy in Malia. “Got a good joke on Belden,” ¢huckled Dewey. “T've just helped bury him down Soutl and got my cane back!” X X % Fred K. Nielsen, former solicitor of the State Department and one of the country's recognized international law authorities. has just recelved an hon- orary LL. D. from his alma mater, the University of Nebraska. Nielsen is at present commissioner in the American Mexican claims arbitration under ap- pointment by President Coolidge. Presi- dent Harding named him to function in the American-British claims arbi- tration. Secretary Kell chose him to represent the United Btates in the Island of Palmas arbitration at The Hague. Nielsen drafted the original treaties of peacé with Germany and Austria-Hungary and the agreement with Germany for adjustment of war claims. During the World War he was a major judge advoeate, In 1921-22 Nielsen was on duty as a technical ad- viser at the Washington Armament Con- ference. Oncé upon a time this sea- soned jurisconsult of Danish viking ancestry was a foot ball star at Nebraska, * ok ok ok Calvin Coolidge is looking for a painter—not a house_decorator, but a portrait artist. The State of Vermont has authorized a picture of the former President’s induction into office, show= ing him being sworn in by lamplight on the memorable occasion. in" Blymouth siX_years ago. one under consideration for the job, but has not yet decided the artist. Bitt! for the historic.canvas will be given in the old family home where the oath was administered. Perhaps Senator Potter H. Dale of Vermont, an eyewitness will pose for it, too. | A il | The National Woman's Party is to the front with the annountement that | "Maggie” Bondfield’s rise to cabinet | rank in Great Britain, while establish- ing a record, does not exhaust the re- cent list of feminist political triumphs in Burope. Belgium has just elected its first woman member of Parliament. Mile. Lucie dé Jardin, a Soeialist. Her vietory is described as all the more re- matkable because women don't vote in Belglum—yet Mile. JArdin was elect- ed exclusively by man voters. Mme. Golde Liss, a Ukrainian (the Pauline Sisters on Capitol Hill further an- nounced), has been made a member of the Central Executive Committee, the Soverning body, of the Russian Soviet system. (Copyright, 1929.) .. Sloop’s Ocean ;’;yage Importance Questioned From the San Francisco Bulletin. Paul Muller, Berlin sailor, is resting at Miami after conquering the Atlantic in an 18-foot sloop. One may not ques- tion the bravery of the man who, alone and unafraid, wrestled with the waves and the wind for 10 weary months. His biood is of the same’ redness thdt swelled the veins of Vikings and Pil- a few centuries back. But one may question the importance and the significance of his feat. The fact that man is able to cross the ocean in 10 months or less in a tin; plasterer apparently is going to win out in his vallant battlé to push a peanut to the top of Pikes Peak. 1t is useless to hope that all of our braver-hearted adventurers might strive for a goal that counts for something d0 the spectacular to accomplish many of the things that are really great and ¢ | Last year Walter Newton, running on d depth of the rift in the G. O. P. conse- Mr. Coolidge has some | had are of lasting importance. —— o Sadly Handicapped. Prom Colorado Springs Gazstte-Telegraph. [0S Vol Bae g et BV ESDAY, JUNE 19, 1929. . i e e e "ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Politics at Large By G. Gould Lincoln, Up in rock-ribbed Republican Min- neapolis the Repiiblicans on Monda: elected Lieut. Gov, W. I Nolan to fill | the vacancy in the House which is #oon to be created by the resignation of Walter Newton, one of the secre- taries to President Hoover. This was no surprise, But the closeness of the vote in the fifth Minnesola congres- sional district has stirred the politicians and many explanations are put forward for the showing made by the respective candidates. olan received 23,336 votes, according to the dispatches; Einar Holdale, Democrat, 19,755, and Ernest Lundeen, Farmer-Labor, 6,533. ‘The margin of publican victory over the Democratic candidate was about 3,500 votes. And the combined Demo- tic and Farmer-Labor vote was greater than the Republican vote, which makes Nolan a minority victor. the Republican ticket in this district, received 80,068 votes. His Democratic opponent had 31,538 and the Farmer- Labor candidate 24,000 plus. That election, however, was abnormal in the number of voters which it brought to the polls. 2 x % ‘The election Monday was a special election for & single office. It came a week after a primary in which Nolan defeated two other candidates for the Republican nomination by a4 narrow margin, only 182 votes over former Postmaster Coleman. ‘The Republicans admit their surprise At the narrow margin of their vietory. They see in it & protest against the | tariff bill 48 it passed the House. There has been a howl Against the measure in Minnesota because of the increases given on materials which the farmers have to buy, offsetting in contiderable measure the incteases which are given on the produce of the farmers. The results in the elections in the fitth Minnesota district in 1926 showed that Newton received 65 per cent of the total vote cast; in 1928 he received 58 per cent, and Nolan on Monday received only 47 per cent. In 1926 Newton received 47,182 votes to 19,647 for the Farmer-Labor eandi- date and 5,942 for the Democrat, The combined Democratic and Farmer-Labor vote in that {nr. an “off year,” with no presidential election, was about what it was last Monday. This indicates that the big slump in the.vote cast is on the Republican side. Lack of interest or soreness over the recent :Hmlry may be some explanation for the fall- ing off of this vote. The Inmesunf thing to the Demo- erats 18 found in the fact that they have onte more become the real opfo- sition 'r‘my in this Minnesota district, with the Farmer-Labor frailing, The Farmer-Labor party for a number of years has publican op] been the backbone of Re- position in the State. * x x ¥ Jouett Bhouse, the newly appointed chairman of the Demotratic executive committee, ‘sees in the Minnesota elec- tion much eomfort for the Demoerats. He issued a statement today in which he said: “By graee of a third candidate, put in to deflect progressive votes from the Democratic aspirant for Walter New- ton’s seat in Congress, the fifth district of Minnesota was saved to the Repub- lican rncy—hut by 50 narrow a margin that it conetitutes a moral victory for the Democrats, and exemplifies the uent on the farm relief struggle and resentment roused by the proposed tarift bill. “The 'fifth is a Minneapolis district and has always been a banner Repub- lican stronghold. Lundeen, who was a Republican until he joined the Farmer- Laborites, carried it ‘a dozen yeats ago by 11,000. “It is generally estimated as safely Republican by 25,000. When such a majority 18 wiped out, for—counting Lundéen's voté—Nolan has fewer than half the votes east, some idea is ob- tainable of what the Republican party 1 ffering in the Northwest. oreover, yesterday's ‘election was T zed as a test. The first election in the farm section kince the defeat of the debenture and the imminence of the threat of the home-wrecking tariff, yesterday’s contest was hoped by the administration to be a vote of confi- dence in the Hoover farm orogram. The {urty leaders out there campaigned on hat issue, and their orators, includin; Nolan, emphasized the necessity of holding up the President’s hand in his effort to help the farmer.” % ooy While the anti-Smith Democrats in Virginia are organising to take Alfred E. Smith and John J. Raskob out of party leadership, nationally speaking, some of the Democrats still farther South are turning longing eyes to an- other New Yorker in the hope that he may be the Moses to lead them out of the wilderness in 1932. He is Owen D. Youmg. Mr. Young has recently re- turned to this country after doing what has been called & great piece of work in aiding the foreign nations to han- dle debts and reparations growing out of the World War. This is not the first time he has demonstrated his abil- ity in Europe and he has made him- self ‘a national figure both by his work abroad and at home, although he has not engaged to any great ex- tent in politics nor run for public office. He had the earnest backing of some of the leading Democrats in Ala~ bama last year for the presidential fomination, and the support of the This is a special department devoted to the hmmu‘\’:c of inquiries. You have At your disposal an extensive organiza- tion in Washington to serve you in any relates to information. | Write your question, your name and your address clearly, and inclose 2 cents ih coin or in stamps for reply. Send | to The Evening Star. Information Bu- | reau, Frederic J. Heskin, director, | Washington, D. C. | @ When did David Warfleld make his last appearance on the stage?— cpacity that D. M. W. ‘A. David Warfleld last appeared on the stage April 28, 1924. Q. What are old line insurance com- panies?—F. A. P. A. Old line insurance companies are life insurance companies which do not write fraternal insurance. @ When did circuses cease traveling by wagon and take to rallroad cars?— L@ A. Between 1850 and 1860 most of them took to the rails. Q. Does _the sun rotate upon its axis?—A. R. H. A. The sun rotates upon -its axis from west to east. It is inclined to an nn*le of 7 degrees to the plane of the eeliptic. Q. Who was the first Enfiush painter granted a peerage?—D. A. N. A. Fréederick Leighton was the first. He was a distinguished artist, who be- came président of the Royal Academy. In 1886 he was made baronet, and on January 24, 1896, he was raised to the rage as Baron Leighton of Stretton. | died ‘on the following day and was | buried in 8t. Paul's Cathedral. Q. How mary people go to prison every year’—M. G. A 1t is estimated that 400,000 enter and leave our penal institutions each year. . Please define ‘“communion close and open” and “communion in place.”— 8. F. E. A. The Encyclopedia of Church His- tory defines “‘open éommunion” as the service of the holy communion of saints which is n to all who apply, itre- spective of ereed. In “closed com- munion” the service is confined to the members of a single society or at least to the members of a denomination who are baptized. By “communion of place” is meant the edministration of the cacrament in a consscrated building. It also refers to the retention of the host. Q. What is & heather besom?— E. N. M. A. Besom is the old English name for broom, and brooms manufactured from the heather which covers many of the moots of Yorkshire, England, having been a thriving industry for many cen- turies, Yorkshire besoms being sold throughout England. Frequently a whole cottage family engage in the manufacture of the brooms in the Win- ter months. Q. Who was called the “Last of the Tribunes.”—N. C. A. The title was applied to Cola di Riengi. Bulwer's novel, “Rienzi, the Last of the Tribunes,” treats of brief term of office. Q. What was the spesch made by the “mechanical man"?—P. J. N. A. According to newspaper accounts of the invention of dne mechanical man known as “Eric Robot,” he made a speech at his’American debut at the John Goldéen Theater in New :ori: e en a8 /8: “Ladies and gentlemen, I am Eric the Robot, the man without a soul. It gives me great _pleasuré to be here with you in New Yt;'rnk He rmed'du'fi’ 'l,nulfirer;x':xr. “1 am pressed by your g8 and compressed by your subways and the more 1 think of prohibition the less I think of it.” ‘apt. Richards, who invented Eric, explained that he is made of aluminum, copper, steel, is manipulated by anything outside his interior, Q. How ‘many military schools are there in the United States>—J. H. C. A. There are 128 military schools in the United States distributed among 34 States. Q. What is of Texas?—H. s A. Texas has fo official Btate motto. Nelthet has Indians nor New Hamp- shire. the motto of the State C. B . What kind of paint will reflect ;‘MLmut light in & dark room?— A. The Bureau of Standards says to reflect the most light, paint the walis and cellings with & flat white. Q. How old is the New York Hos- pital?—H. W. A. It recelved its charter on June 13, 1771, during the. reign of King Qeorge 111, 50 is 158 years old. Q. What will it cost to put in first- class condition the roéads ‘%d trails of A. The road system 15,068 miles of forest higl X of fordst -development roads. Of the former 75 per cent of the mileage is located within the forest boundaries; 5084 miles of the forest highways are now in satisfactory con- dition, 8,687 miles are passable, but unsatistactory, and 1297 miles are non- existing. To reconstruct and complete the unsatisfactory and build the pro- posed forest highways there will be required a total of $123,016,067, or_an expenditure of $12.411 Per mile. The Forest Trail system is at nt com- posed of 73,431 miles 6f tralls con- structed to & uuslaemry standard, 12,461 miles of unsatisfactory trails, and 24,493 miles of proposed. - A further P expenditure of $5679,991, representing an average of $154 pet mile, will be required to complete the construction of the entire trail system as now plan- | ned. ‘The total amount required for the construction work as proj upon both foads and tralls is $191,124,616. . What is meant by the teaching load?—B. . B. . 'The teaching load refers to four factors conditioning the efficiency of instruction and are: (1) The pupil- teacher ratio, as shown by the average daily attendance; (2) the number of classes taught by the teachérs; (3) the number of student hours per teacher; (4) the number of students in a class The North Central Association of Col leges and Secondary Schools recom- mends the following as normal: (1) Pupil-teacher ratio, 28; (2) the num- | ber of classes taught by the teacher, 5 daily; (3) the number of st t hours B teacher, 150 per day: (4) the num. r of students in & class, 25. Q. Of what is the moon made?— 8. C. C. A. The measured cooling rate of the moon suggests that its surface is largely pumice, or a material with similar ra- diational properties. Pettit and Nichol- son's measurements of the moon’s tem- perature show that it reaches 265 de- | grees Fahrenheit over 1,600 miles square sunlight and -108 degrees on the dark sides. Q. What are the colored glowing ad- | vertising signs now seen so frequently? —H. T. [ ik The use of neon fubes in sign writing is a recent deve t. e | cigns are made in the form of long itubee twisted into the shapes of let- | ters and figures. They may be given various colofs by the admixture of other gases. e iy scim ‘Carmen,” “Temptation,” “Maria "Joan the _W;Pm-n." . Turn of the Wheel. Cat,” “Shadows,” * ‘The !W Vow,” “The World and Its Woman,” “Flame of the Desert.” “The Woman and the » 5 wire and dynamos, and moved by elec- tricity. Oapt. Richards denied that he Puppet” and “The Riddle Woman.” Professor’s Advice to Students Starts Debate on Word “Snob” It is not often that an address to A graduating class gets more than per- functory attention, but Prof. Robert E. Rogers of the English department of the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- nology broke into the newspaper front pages with his remarks to the class receiving degrees at that institution with three words as his battering ram— “Be a snob.” The repercussion is still going on. “We take the broad position that Prof. Rogers needs to look up the definition of the word ‘suob,’ " says the Kansas City Times, suggesting that a new dictionary “is an enlightening volume.” The Chicago Daily News agrees with this advice, saying: “Had this professor of English consulted one of the dictionaries he lumably uses in his courses he would have learned that a snob is & vulgar pretender, a mean and ignoble fellow, a person who does not belong to any superior element of society. but who affects vir- tues or attainments which he does not Birmingham ~News-Age-Herald. But last year the only New Yorker who & chance for the Democratic nomi- :?mn Was Allred'. E. Smith. Now labamans are getting ready to put forward again for 1932, el * ko % ‘Whether Mr. Young would enter the race for the presidential nomination 8 something else It does not ap) like- ly he would care to do so unl there were evidences that the entire party would back him. The Democrats have been so widely split since 1924 that it will take much work and real leadership to bring them together again. Mr. Young might provide that leadership. There is another New Yorker, how= ever, already in the political limelight, who' is talked of widely a8 & possible the | the pronounced snob is suffering greatly possess.” Bringing the definition to date with modern terms, the Flint Dally Journal says: “As & matter of fact, from an inferiority complex, e com- pensates himself by seeking to appear superior to those around him. he rson who has ability doesn’t need to g: & snob to call attention to ‘the fact.” To the Elkhart Truth “the snob is a selfish person masquerading under false colors. He has & very small soul and is not the génuine sort that all of us admire moat.” The use of this word “snob” and the advice that followed it, which had to do with dressing and acting like “gentlemen,” cause the Wheeling In- telligencer to say: “One cannot be a snob and a gentleman at the same time. nominee for President on the Demo- cratic ticket, Gov. Franklin D. Roose- velt. Gov. Roosevelt will be up for re- election next year. If he wins he will go into the next Dembcratic national convention with a great deal of back- ing for the presidential nomination. Much nds upon the governor's health, which has been improving in retent years. Farther in the back- ground, of eourse, is former Gov. Smith. While some of his friends and ardent .admirers insist that he will stage & “come-back” and be nominated and elected in 1932, there is no sign of such thing happening so far. Indeed, Mr. mith appears to have lost ground in the political picture to some éxtent. He did not fare well in the contest in Tammany over a new leader, It 18 true he maintained he kept his hands oft this fight. But the final selection of & leader fell to a man who had not been friendly to Smith. and it was a swing back to the old Tammany and away from the “new Tammany,” which had been cultivated in the interest of the Smith cunl:llg'n lut. year, Ca Bishop James Cannon, Jr. a leader of the anti-Smith Democratie group in Rlo more eonatquence, ts the elements of romance and the ad- | Virginia and in the South, has sought venture, than the fact that a Texas|to take himself clear out of the picture as a possible candidate for any public office in Virginia. In a letter to the Roanoke convention yesterday, Bishop Oannon denied flatly he had any in- tention of becoming a didate for governor or for Senator AgAinst Sen- or the rest of the world. And so we | ator Carter Glass next vear, In many all back upon less brave—th qu efforts have bsen made to linl who d6 not seek the limelight or to|up Bishop Cannon with ambitions for political office and it has been repeat- edly published he was a dark-horee candidate for the Senate Against Sen- ator Glass next year. But whether Bishop Cannon plans to seek office of not, and from his statement he clears ly does mnot, he eontinues to be & B S sone Bal on tha I One of the essential attributes of the latter is always to ‘help the lame dog over the stil contends the Intel- ligencer further, while the snob “would to make the stile higher and thea snicker.” The Brooklyn Daily Eagle ex- plains that “histerically, the term snob sprang from Cambridge slang (Cam- bridge, England) and meant simply a okel or townsman as distinguished rom a_university man.” The Detroit News thinks “a dead set toward ‘acting’ like a gentleman scarcely will cultivate the qualities of one. We should say,” continues the News, “that the meaning of the word =1 Democratic anti-Smith party, mnow formed. His absence from the conven- tion was immaterial so far as that in- fluence is concerned. His influence was felt from beginning to end of the con- vention. There has been a great deal of talk in recent months about the Methodis! Church seeking to go into politics in this country. Charges that it maine tains & powerful lobby in Washington havé been made and been denied. But t i quite clear that the entrance of the bishop into the fight for political office would be hailed as distinct proof that the church was getting into the field of politics as never before. Bishop Cannon’s determination not to drawn into anv such position is clear. * k% % The latest reports from Pennsylvania have it that Senator-eleet Willlam 8. Vare has improved in health and 18 now able to walk a little without a cane. His friends there believe that eventually he will win his right to be seated in the Senate. They insist that the contest brought by Willlam B. Wil- remains unchanged and that has pointed the way to become, & gentleman, but the sort of person whom aspiring young éngineers should and would desire not to be.” Quoting Matthew Arnold as having said “the men of culture are the true | apostles of equality” the Philadelphia Inquirer remarks, “It would be a good motto for the classes at Tech.” The personality and life of Prof. Rogers do not agree with his address, in the opinion of the Boston E: script, which describes him as follows: “An_incurable humanitarianism resides in R. E. Rogers, an altogether uncon- trollable readiness to be useful, consid- erate and helpful to all who exist round- about him or who seek his assistance.” Some of the newspapers do not take the professor so literally. The Asheville Times states, “Prof. Rogers’ speech seems to havé been full of epigrams, and so it is not to be taken literally in all its implicatio; The Akron Beacon Journal wonders ‘if Prof. Rogers has failed to express his meaning clearly or if he is just another of those poor unfortunates who have become too much involved in that intolerant, and ;ohnem::i_{nu ignorant, Bostonian atmos- The Savannah Morning News thinks the “Harvard professor's basic advice is good, but he gave it in the wrong lan. guage. He said what he didn't mean ln:dl’n‘elnt what“h;e did not nfi" vice from the Springfield, Mass, Republican is against taking fessor literally;- as it interprets his speech, saying, “He aimed to be pro- vocative, extravagantly humorous and ‘Peppy,’ 50 &s to drive his idea aeross | to the younger generation that there is | nothing in actual superiority in intel- | lectual attainment, manners and ohar- acter to be ashamed of or to apologize for.” The New York Sun thinks it in- dicative that the “year is verging upon the silly season,” when the “most re- markable things can happen in the most ew Yorl ning World puts it, “There is certainly no ob’ecflonvu!o urging colleiev men to use thelr advan- tages in seeking public careers and eo- cial and intellectual leadership.” The Lowell Evening Leader infers that the speaker “was endeavoring to spur young men on to stand for something in the community, instead of drifting aim- lessly. And that, after all, is dem- ocratic doctrine,” concludes the Leader. Analyzing the speech, the Milwaukee Journal advises the Tech graduates to adopt just enough of its precepts to im- press an impressionable world and cou- ple them with enough sound sense and sincere good work to accomplish things —and land on top in the end.” The Springfield, Ohio, Sun finds the “real message behind the radical sounding phrases” to be that “the world accepts pretty much the value a person places upon himself.” The Worcester Daily ‘Telegram “rather gets the idea that he was merely urging them not to be afraid of having somebody sneer at them as snobs because they kept® their aspira- tions high.” The Columbus Dispatch sees in the address a “warning against the inferiority complex that has caused the failure of so many able men in the business world: 8lso an excellent bit of pgg:uulo.y" —thinking success to win success. ‘The New York Times sees irony in the professor's suggestions, and says: “All the old maxims about working and waiting, study and industry are to be thrown aeide in favor of push, impu- dence, tuft-hunting, insolence and greed. son, his Democratic opponent, will be settied in Vare's favor before iong and that then will be seated, despl the report sf the Reed slush fund mittee, are optimists, S te | it and had not m-ould“. And when challenged later about soundness of this advice Prof. - very bit of declared that he meant e 0. retract. make his circle of seem to