Evening Star Newspaper, June 21, 1929, Page 8

s THE EVENING STAR o D Suniey Moruing Sétthen. WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY..........June 21, 1020 THEODORE W. NOYES. . ..Editor The Evening Star per Company &%hfi%&fi'& Pally and Sunday. aily only . Bunday only . Member of ‘The Associated to the use for it ‘or P\ Tente of es F-rein are = Debenture Redivivus. The debenture plan seems to have almost as many lives as a cat. At any rate, it quite apparently will not down. On the eve of Congress’ recent recess Senator Norris, Republican progressive of Nebraska, proposed that the famous export bounty scheme, alreally rejected by both houses and the President as an integral portion of the farm relief bill, should be affixed as a rider to the impending new tariff law. Senator Borah, Republican progressive of Ida- ho, long ago said that was where de- ‘benture belongs. % Yesterday the National Grange, chief sponsor of the proposition, formally revived it by asking the Senate finance committee to incorporate an export de- benture clause in the tariff bill now being fashioned by Chairman Smoot and his perspiring colleagues on Capitol Hill. Mr. Taber, the seasoned master of the Grange, in placing the proposal before the committee, used somewhat ominous language. He asserted that the local ublication of ica t Dublidhed e » ublished her pecial dispa also | Driving |and Italy and west of a line drawn form Trieste to Danzig, with all the be o |other sections of the earth seitled by requiring | peoples from this area. In all these countries Harland suggests few minutes each day spent in warnings are not always effective. Re- peating them, however, is a precaution not to be neglected. The time may come in Washington when portions of some streets will have to be roped off in congested sections as playgrounds for children, That time, ‘happlly, has not come. But children are ————— An Official Affair. When Mrs. Hoover, as wife of the President of the United States, enter- tained the wives of the Illinois delega- tion of Congress at a tea on June 13 Ssec. :She was performing a purely official function. Included in the list of guests on that occasion was Mrs. Oscar De Priest, wife of the colored Repre- sentative from a Chicago district. She was included because she was the wife of & Congressman. In recent years the teas given by the wife of the President to the wives of members of Congress have become a recognized part of official entertainment at the White House, just as much so as the congressional recep- tons, given once a year, to which the President and his wife invite all mem- bers of Congress and their wives, to- gether with a number of other citizens, some of them in official and some of them in private life. When it comes time for the congressional reception to be givcn next Winter, Mr. and Mrs. De Priest, assuming that Mr. De Priest remains in Congress, will be included in the list of guests. Had a Democrat been President of the United States instead of Mr. Hoover exactly the same course would necessarily have been fol- lowed in regard to the official enter- tainment of Mr. and Mrs, De Priest. It was a foregone conclusion that Democratic newspapers and Democratic ‘The Hawley-Smoot bill is sure grant the farmer far-reaching tariff concessions in the way of higher rates cn foreign produce, no matter what is cone, or not done, for industry. But finance for art. Duty in public life often compels the sacrifice of the ideal to the practical. ‘The public has delivered Col. Lind- bergh to the camera man and left. him perpetually “on location.” Protect the Children! Mr. Harland has timed his plea for protection of children against the dangers of street traffic with the clos- ing of the school year, when thousands of boys and girls, heretofore busy at their desks, will find their playground during Summer vacation on the side- ‘walks and in the streets. He asks the drivers of automobiles to be doubly cautious in keeping with the greater hazard. But great responsibility falls upon the parents. Their failure to prevent their own children from habitu- ally running in the streets; a lack of emphasis, on their part, of the dangers of running across the streets, will re- sult in more tragedies. There have been an alarming number of them al- ready. During the calendar year 1928 six- teen children were killed in trafic accl- dents. This year there have been fifteen already, with nearly five and a half months to go before the year is out. If the death rate among children con- tinues for the rest of the year at the pace already set there will have been an increase of nearly a hundred per cent over last year. No greater indict- ment exists of the public's failure to solve a traffic problem that apparently politicians in the South would en- deavor to make political capital of the official entertainment of Mr. and Mrs. De Priest at the White House. The race issue has been used for years to keep the South solidly Democratic. It was a terrible awakening for many of the Southern Democratic leaders when four of the States of the so-called Dem- ocratic solid South gave their electoral votes to a Republican candidate for President last year. Throughout the South efforts were made during the campaign to hold the voters in line with the familiar argument that the Demo- cratic party was the white man's party. They failed. Ever since the election of Representa- tive De Priest, Democratic politicians in the South have been on the qui vive to see what the White House would do in the matter of entertainment of the colored member of Congress and his wife. They knew 1t was inevitable that official recognition would be accorded them as members of the congressional circle. The intemperate tirades against Mr. and Mrs. Hoover because they have carried out their official duties are al- most beyond belief. They are all based upon the incorrect hypothesis that the entertainment of Congressmen and their wives at the White House is a social affair. The assumption is entirely in- correct. These entertainments are pure- ly official. Representative De Priest, himself, in & public statement, has call- ed attention to this fact. He said: “It’s all & lot of moonshine for any one to suggest that a question of social equality was involved in my wife'’s go- ing to a White House tea. My wife was invited, not because she was white or black, Republican or Democrat—she was invited because she happened to be the wife of a man who is a member of Congress.” The same distinction between the en- tertainment of a wife of a member of Congress at the White House on official grounds and a social entertainment, not involving official relations, is made by many Southern Democrats who sup- ported President Hoover in the last campaign. The distinction between purely official relations and social re- lations between the white and black races is clearly covered in the plat- form recently adopted by the anti- Smith Democrats at their convention in Roanoke. Sensible people throughout the coun- try will take a sensible view of the so- called De Priest incident. There will be many, however, who seek to make a race issue of it. Many of them have selfish ends of their own to serve by doing so. They can only intensify race feeling and stir up hatred through such a course, ————— Conflerences are reassuring. However intricate their reasonings may be, they convey the assurance that nobody de- sires any more wal The Growth of Peoples. ‘The ratio of birth rates to death rates is a fundamental factor in human rela- tions. Perhaps it is the most fundamental of all factors. It determines the trends of populations. It usually can be found 2t the bottom of all the great elemental human divisions, of which wars are the more or less superficial phenomena. Presumably it is impossible to strike a balance between populations and re- sources. This being the case, for cen- turles to come, great masses of people will suffer from time to time from hun- becomes more intricate despite the money and time spent in its study. There are significant factors in the nature of casualties among children this year. In the first place, not a single driver of a death-dealing vehicle could be held accountable to the law. All of the children have been under fourteen years old. One of them was under ger or threats of hunger. Consequent- ly, since self-preservation is the first law of nature, they will attempt to seize upon the resources of their more for- tunate neighbors. This may take any number of forms—war, peaceful pene- tration, mutual agreement. It is im- possible to make definite prophecies. The fact remains that no people will three years old; three of them were three. Their ages alone offer eloquent testimony of how such accidents are possible. Mr. Harland advises caution to the motorists and this is 8 necessary warn- ing, to be duly heeded. Fast driv- ing on narrow streets or through resi- dential neighborhoods where cars are parked on both sides of the thorough- fare is an invitation to some form of disaster. Careless driving, at slow speed, is another. mmw- driver may move his eyes road thl‘.lemwfllmthllfl- starve if it can help it. The American Sociological Associa- of Spain if you di medical science has enor- mously decreased the death rate, but not sufficiently to catch up with the de- clining birth rate. For example, the birth rate in England and Wales in 1927 was only 40 per cent of the rate from 1908 to 1913. In Germany it was only 48 per cent. These people own the greater part of the undeveloped lands of the world. The second group includes Spain, Italy and the Slavic peoples of Central Europe. Both death rates and birth rates among them are falling, but the former faster than the latter. The in- dications are, however, that they even- tually will strice a balance between the two rates. The third group includes Russia, Japan, China and India, with a total of 1,250 million out of the 1,730 million total human population of the earth. The ratio of the birth and death rates is varied only by famines, pestilences and wars. These naturally intervene | when a population becomes too large for its resources. They can be de- pended on to keep down the popula- tions of India and China. Russia alone still has breathing space. Even under the present unsatisfactory economic conditions it is adding 3,000, 000 yearly to its population. It has room for them. It presumably will double its population in about 35 years and by 2,000 AD. will rival China or |India. It is the only country left with much expansive power combined with the territory in which to expand. Such are the trends. They afford the basic data upon which any predic- tions of future history must bs based. ———— Capt. Klotz’ Letter. ‘The most generous attitude to take toward the action of Capt. R. G. Klotz, engineer for the Public Utllities Com- mission, in writing a letter to the peo- ple’s counsel prejudging the merits of the case for higher carfare now before the commission and outlining a method for settlement is that Capt. Klotz has allowed his personal opinions to carry him beyond the point of ordinary dis- cretion. What attitude the Public Utili- tles Commission will take remains to be seen. Capt. Klotz presents the view that the companies need more money and that they should receive it through a 10-cent cash fare and three tokens for 25 cents, with lower rates for school children and universal bus and street railway transfers. He is not culpable for holding such views; any more so, in fact, than had he proclaimed his opin- don that the street car companies were overvalued and that car fares should be reduced. His culpability lies in speak- ing out of turn. As an official of the Public Utilities Commission, which now has the case before it and has ar- ranged for public hearings next month, his attitude should be one of stony si- lence. His outbreak, in the form of an open letter, renders without value the testimony he might have been called upon to submit at the proper time and in the proper place. ————— A social invitation in Washington, D. C, may involve so much discussion as to contradict the customary assump- tion that “a pleasant time was had by all.” s Hindenberg is old and Germany is a republic. History must accord generous comment on Hindenberg as a man who worked faithfully for a variety of ideals. ————— Statesmen who denounce the cigar- ette are helpless. A page in the Con- gressional Record cannot achieve the in- fluence of a magazine advertisement. —————— Landing a bootleg person in jail may leave him grateful that he has escaped the attentions of a sawed-off shotgun. ‘Talking pictures need only one little thing to render them complete; a line of talk that can compel attention. ——————————— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Farmers and Politicans. The farmer is a happy elf. We think that he enjoys himself By getting up at break of day To frolic in the new-mown hay. But Politics will deal a hand Which offers luck or threatens harm And bring of chances an array For folks who never saw a farm. Lame Pucks. lame” duck?” “Perhaps,” answered Senator Sor- ghum. “But don't forget that a lame duck may carry with him a very large Kick.” “Are you Jud Tunkins says a camera man tried to take his picture while he was engaged in farming. Seeing himself on the screen will appeal to the ar- tistic sense and afford him a certajn amount of farm relief. Aviation. To earth we fearfully draw nigh In terror of a slump. We ride on high into the sky— ‘ And then there comes the bump! Hard Part of the Trip. “Are you going up in an airplane?” “No,” answered Miss Cayenne, “Go- ing up seems easy enough. But getting back to earth creates a lot of talk.” “To seek revenge,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “.; only to assure an enemy that he has'power worth your consideration. Here Comes July 4. Explosives soon will decorate the sky. Plain citizens agree as time goes by, A sawed-off shot gun's not appropriate As anything with which to celebrate. “When campaignin’ was on,” said Uncle Eben, “I was scared to put my hand out of my flivver as a signal foh fear some campaignin’ politician would step up and shake it.” ——————————— There’s a Difference. Prom the Ottaws, Canada, Journal. Most girls would like to marry a shrifty man, but no one is enthusiastic about being engaged to one. ———m————— l Wear a Blindfold. From the Indianapolis Ne Glaring headlights wo 't look at 'em. t blind you y, TS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. ‘The futility of trying to “keep up with new books” is best shown, we be- lieve, by a consideration of the plain fact that every book is a new book—if you haven't read it. It makes no difference to a reader whether a book was printed yesterday or today, so long as it is new to him. ‘The personal equation thus takes an important place—indeed, the foremost position—in book discussions. Writers, publishers, editions, all fall behind the reader, for whom books are written, for whom they are published, for whom editions are manufactured. Without the so-called gentle reader there would be no writers, no need for publishers, no necessity for presses turn- ing out their beautifully printed sheets. All the ardor of men and women who design covers and end papers, who labor for a fetching “jacket,” who sweat blood trying to write appealing “blurbs™ for the aforementioned jackets, all would be wasted on worse than the| desert air if there were not thousands and hundreds of thousands of dear readers in the offing. For the reader, composite, erudite, the writer brings forth in the light of manuscript his brain children. For the reader, gentle and otherwise, he makes a neat, fair copy to send to the pub- lisher, with high hopes. For the reader the publisher calls many conferences, listens to the advice of his professional “readers,” suggests the changing of the title, maybe, or demands the elimination of certain paragraphs, or whole chap- ters, even. The dear reader seldom stops to think of all this work which has been put forth for his amusement and edifica- tion. He pays his money and he takes his choice, not exactly in the same fashion as he orders a ton of coal, but something along the same order. Just as he seldom stops to think of the grimy men in the mines, so he often fails to picture in his mind's eye the author toiling into the night. * ok ¥ * Trying to keep up with the new books ought to give way to a determination on the part of those who love them to keep up with books. To *“keep up with books” would be all-embracing, giving a much better idea of what the average man or woman who loves books is trying to do with his time and money. Time and money are what the book- lover spends, after all; it is up to him, in the best sense, to see to it that his effort is not wasted. It is significant that the phrase “try- ing to keep up with the new books” signifies the almost uftter impossibility of doing it. There have been all sorts of “clubs” and “leagues” and “guilds” formed to assist him in his task, but the striking thing, apparent to any one who stops to consider the matter, is that every such organization selects a different book. To secure the benefit which such clubs may bring it would be necessary for the ambitious reader to join them ali, and cven then there would remain scores of volumes every month which he had not considered at all. “Futile” is the word for it. Happily, however, there is a master hand whose touch is never failing—it is none other than Time itself. ‘While it is almost impossible to keep up with the new books, it is easier to keep up with books, because time plays no favorites. High pressure sales methods may secure a wonderful edition for some one new book, but in 5 years the matter is different. Vogues come and go; there are styles in reading as in everything else, and only the foolish try to keep up with them. WASHINGTON OBSERVATION BY FREDERIC Heat to the contrary notwithstand- ing, Senator Reed Smoot’s finance com- mittee is driving ahead to its appointed | goal, vz, of completing tariff hearings by July 10. That is why the committee has segregated itself into four subcom- | mittees, each charged with a different set of schedules, instead of holding hearings en bloc, as Chairman Hawley's | ways and means committee did on the House side. By July 10 the finance committee hopes to be able to have suf- ficlent data in hand to finish its task in executive session during the rest of the Summer up to August 19, when the Scnate reconvenes. Smoot is the man of the hour for the business in hand. He has long ranked as the hardest worker in the Senate and has a capacity for infecting his colleagues with a passion for zeal and industry. Senate tariff-making this time is no young man's job. Smoot is in his sixty- eighth year and Senator Simmons, ranking Hoovercrat on the finance com- mittee, was 75 last January. R One of the diverting features of current tariff log-rolling on Capitol Hill is the reappearance there of former Senator Porter J. McCumber of North Dakota, who now practices law in Washington. The co-author of the Fordney-McCum- ber bill, now undergoing revision, came before the committee of which he was once chairman this week on behalf of the bentwood furniture manufacturers. | Previously McCumber represented the same interests before the ways and means committee. He also had some- thing to say in the name of the plate glass industry. Former Representative “Joe” Fordney of Michigan turned up at the Capitol last Winter and poured sweet nothings into the ears of one- time House colleagues about lumber, in which he is now heavily interested, but did not enter any official appearance. Fordney devotes most of his attention nowadays to his model dairy farm near Saginaw. The dairy trade is not en- tirely unconcerned with the Hawley- Smoot bill. * Here's the latest from the diplomatic liquor front in the District of Colum- bia: Sir Esme Howard's failure to in- duce any other embassy or legation in ‘Washington to mount the water wagon has given the British embassy a new name. It's now known as the “I'm Alone.” R These Californiars seem determined to keep the lion's share of the honors within the family circle. Now comes the revelation that Helen Wills is about to become a cousin by marriage, once removed, of Herbert Hoover, jr. The tennis queen's fiance, Fred Moody, ir. is a_ first cousin of the President's daughter-in-law—1. e., of young Mrs. Hoover. * ok ok ok It was bound to come sooner or’ later. Now the woman flyers—or at least some of them—want “equal rights” in the air with men. The particular bone of con- tention concerns records. As is not altogether surprising, too, the ladies of the sky are not a unit on the question. Their opinions differ. Marjorie Stinson, first woman licensed as a pilot in the District of Columbia and a member of a whole family which flies (she taught her famous brother Eddie), thinks woman aviators should try on even terms for the same records as men and take their medicine regardiess of their own sex—in other words, that they should be just aviators. not women. “Equal rights and equal flights” is Miss Stinson’s slogan. Amelia Earhart takes the other side of the fence. * ok ok ® The fight for creation of a depart- ment of education has not ended. Many authorities thought it had col- lapsed, n’: far as the Hoover adminis- project last month. The numerous na- tional organizations which have so long been crusading for the department are still in battle array. Dr. Wilbur's re- ‘cently formed Advisory Commission on Education has just held its maiden ses- slon in Washington and gone home with s to give & Summer’s study to Time, however, has a way of put- ting everything into its place, books, men, inventions, f¢ . The common sense of the people prevails in the long run. They may be fooled for a month, but not for 5 years, Any book which still lingers in pub- lic approval at the end of that time, which appears with fair regularity in library lists, and still is spoken of in general conversation, may adjudged a good book. * ok ok Let us define a bit more closely | the term “a good book.” For a good book is, after all, what every one wants to read. One man’s idea of a g | book may differ from another person’s, |but perhaps all would agree that a ! good book is one which possesses merit above a certain superficial smoothness. It is to the credit—or maybe the shame—of modern education that it has been able to turn forth a large number of wriiers, who have learned all the tricks of the trade. Their short stories, for instance, are perfect, from the standpoint of short-story mecha. | nism. Even the least critical reader | feels, however, that something is lack- iny g. Many a short story is more perfect, technically, than anything Maupassant or Poe ever did, but scores of them every year, despite their glitter, lack a certain something which it is diffi- cult to define, but which is known al- most by instinct to those who have been brought up in a literary tradi- tion. Stch stories no more pass muster, with the knowing, than do snobs, who pose as gentlemen. Despite their cool | , almost too perfect, they lack divine spark. They are Shake- | speare with the “purple patches” left out, left out necessarily because their | writers did not possess the genius to put_them in. These books which possess this divine something, which places them squarely in the literary tradition down_the years, are the books to keep up with, and happy is the reader who ‘concentrates on them. There are thousands of them. too— | s0o many that no one reader will ever | be able to read them all. The wise booklover will make no such attempt. Foregoing the task of trying to “keep up with the new books,” he will con- centrate on certain aspects of litera- ture which appeal to him. He will turn over to the publishers and their best friends (the thousands | who clamor after “new” books because they are new) the task of winnowing the wheat from the chaff. After the bright boys and girls get done with them, the ones which stand the gaff of time, which last through edition after edition, and which finally find their way into the conversations of the many, will come down to him with the sure approval of Father Time. oing gayly about his self-appointed | Bleasant task of Teading some of the | old good books. He will always be years | behind the procession, but it is a pro- cession with which he does not choose 0 associate himself. Let those who will parade—he sticks to his own way of reading, knowing that every book is a new book, if you haven't read it. How can one come to a book with greater interest than to Lucretius’ “Of the Nature of Things.” It was written 2,000 years ago, but | what difference does that make? It l!" just as new, just as fresh as if it had been printed yesterday. To read Mun-, roe's translation is to keep up with| books. WILLIAM WILE. the various questions involved. The particular task assigned it is to| weigh the advisability of bringing all | the educational forces of the Govern- ment under an assistant secretary or | undersecretary of education, to fune- | tion in one of the existing executive departments. Some of the boosters of a separate department of education | think the undersecretaryship idea is at | least an entering wedge and should be | acccpted as such. Others, of die-hard tendencies, say “department cr nothing.” * Kok % Yale alumni are no respecters of Hoover administration sensibilities— perhaps because Harvard is bagging so many major appointments at Washing- ton. Be that as it may, old grads at the New Haven commencement on June 18 made mercilessly merry over pro. hibition, with Secretary of State Stim- son, Secretary of the Treasury Mellon and Attorney General Mitchell looking on. From the side lines, they saw 2,000 former Yale classmen executing high jinks of which ruthless ridicule of pro- hibition was the feature. Placards making fun of the eighteenth amend- ment and the Volstead law were car- ried in a procession. The climax of the alumni frolic was reached when a mock speakeasy was set up in the dis- tant right fleld of the base ball grounds and emblazoned with appropriate signs. One read: “Push 'Em Up, Tony,” and anothe 908 to 1928—Twenty Beers Later.” * k% % Washington's happiest daddy at this commencement season is Joseph P. | Tumulty, President Wilson's famous secretary, whose son, “Joe,” junior, has just been graduated No. 4 out of the Harvard Law School’s class of 400, with the rating of maxima cum laude. Young “Joe” got his A. B. at Princeton three years ago, after making Phi Beta Kappa and winning one of the senior class honors, the James Gordon Bennett prize, with an essay on “The Democrati- zation of American Politics.” At Har- vard during the past vear Tumulty was made an editor of the Harvard Law Review, an outstanding distinction. (Copyright, 1929.) Harvard Asks Public For Records of Stars BY E. E. FREE, PH. D. People who have access to files of old newspapers, letters or family records are urged to search these documents for news of shooting stars, falls of meteors or fireballs in the heavens and to report anything that they find to Dr. Willard J. Pisher at the Harvard College Ob- servatory, Cambridge, Mass, The branch of astronomy which deals with these celestial objects has made great strides in recent years through the study of meteor statistics, much as safety experts study the statistics of highway acci- dents to discover at what hours of the day or week or month such misfor- tunes are most common. Nowadays astronomers at the professional ob- ervatories and the numerous amateur observers who have been organized by the American Meteor Society and simi- lar organizations abroad keep reason- Ihlly‘ good watch of the sky for fire- balls and shooting stars. Also, pres- ent-day remarkable appearances are usually reported in the newspapers and come to the attention of experts. In former decades, however, this wide- spread_interest in meteors did not ex- ist. Only the most unusual events, like the great showers of shooting stars in 1799 and 1833, were recorded widely and remembered. It would be a help in formulating theories of where me- teors come from and of how they travel through , Dr. Fisher states, if the many earlier meteor falls which must have been noted in local newspa items, in family diaries and the I could be recovered. To search the country’s store of such documents es- pecially for this purpose would be expensive, so that the meteor scien- tist's is to induce everybody to ‘be on the lookouf for such items and to send in any that are found. | Russia and the Scandinavian countries | | Commerce. too | reached San Antonio, after a three-year 21, © 192! Plans of MacDonald Called Cheering News To the Editor of The Star: Sir: Your columns have just given readers the most cheering news item that has even been printed. Two men , known and trusted by earth’s leading nations are to meet in friendly fashion, without any diplomatic flummery or rubbishy rodomontade and discuss definite plans for real and present dis- armament. Small hope was there when milita- rists and navalists foregathered at Geneva, os'ensibly for that purpose, that any real advance would be made in such a cause. Admirals and gen- erals could hardly be expected to com- mit professional hari-kari; nor could foreign offices and departments of state dare to outstep their dyed-in-the- wool traditional policies. But now we learn that Britain’s foremost man, Premier Ramsay Mac- | Donald, is coming to Washington to ! meet the chosen man of America, Pres- ident Herbert C. Hoover, and, if pos- sible, arrange for an actual experiment | in real disarmament; a permanent and progressive decrease in the world naval and military establishments. Not only have expressed their desire for such a move, but the plan has been more than once tried and proved its entire pos- sibility, its lasting success. One might 2lmost call it the “Monroe Doctrine”; for it was on Monroe's birthday, 'April 28, 1818, that he an- ( nounced to the American Nation the | signing of the Rush-Bagot arrange- ment, by which Richard Rush for the U. S. A and Sir Charles Bagot for Great Britain agreed, instead of preparing for the next war, as Brit- ain was proposing to do, by putting a more powerful navy on the Great Lakes, which are part of our Northern | frontier, neither party should in future have a 'single warship on those lakes; and, by a further tacit understanding, | no additional forts or garrisons on the | 3,000-mile boundary line running west- | ward from those lakes. Every one knows the success that bas attended this total disarmament No shot fired or sword drawn in 110 years! A more modern success has been scored by Sweden and Norway, who fol- lowed the same course in 1905. Thy privilege now presents itself to Presi- | dent Hoover and Premier MacDonald | to pursue the same method on the oth- | |20. The Beta Chapter ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Any reader can get the answer to any question by writing to our infor- mation bureau in Washington, D. C.| This offer applies strictly to information. | The bureau cannot give advice on legal, medical and financial matters. | erally run into the lighter, making the design blurred. If the rug has been very much bleached, the colors on the sur- face of the pile will be soft and dull, while by separating the threads and looking closely the colors at the base It does not attempt to settle domestic | will be found to be clear and bright. troubles nor undertake exhaustive re-| search on any subject. Write your questions plainly and briefly. Give full name and address and inclose 2 cents in coin or stamps for return postage. The reply is sent direct to the inquirer. Address The Star Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, director, Washing- ton, D. Q. What States manufacture the most airplanes?—M. C. A. Of the 25 States producing air- | planes, Kansas and Ohio lead in the production of planes for civil aero- nautics. New York makes 63 per cent of the planes used for military pur- poses. Q. Who is the president of the So- clety of American Magigians?’—A. W. A. C. O. Hardeen, a brother of the late Houdini, was elected president of the society in May. Q. How old was Clarence Darrow when he was admitted to the bar?— F. R. A.'He wes 21. He was born in 1857 and was admitted to the bar in 1878. Q. Is there a college Greek letter fra- ternity to which only men of Italian parentage belong?—P. A. C. A. There is an Alpha Phi Delta fra- ternity, the membership to which is limited entirely to young men of Ital- fan parentage. The first chapter was establiched at the University of Syra- cuse about 1912 and since that time th number of chapters has grown to abou is locatéd at Columbia_University. This is probably the only Italian Greek letter fraternity in any of the colleges of the United States. Q. What are the sequence of foot- falls of a horse doing the running,walk gait>—J. H. P. A. Right fore, left hind, left fore, right hind. This is the same sequence Rubbing the surface briskly with a damp cloth will bring out the odor of chloride of lime with which the rug has been bleached, and very often the cloth will be stained with the colors. As & general rule, it is safe to buy Oriental rugs only from reliable dealers. Q. What will keep the horns of cat- tle from growing?—K. K. | 'A. To prevent the hors of cattle from growing, caustic potash should be applied from time to time. Q. Where are the Thousand Islands? —R. G. | A" %fhe Thousand Tstands are located |in the St. Lawrence River. They run ! from Clayton down approximately to | Cape Vincent, N. Y. The islands ob- | tain their name from the fact that there | are &5 many tiny islets dotting the river. | Sssaxd Q. What right would a British ex- | service man have to treatment in American hospitals if he resides in the | United States>—W. F. R. A._ Under a reciprocal agreement now in effect between the United States Vet~ | erans’ Bureau and the British ministry of pensions, imperial or British ex-serv- ice men residing in the United States or its' insular possessions are admitted to United States veterans' hospitals and contract hospitals only on authority, in each case, from the British ministry | office, and’such service is extended only | to pensioners suffering from a World | War service-connected disability. _Any | expense incident to such service is reim- | bursed by the British ministry office to the Veterans' Bureau. | Q. How much money do college stu- | dents earn?—G. L. | A. The Bureau of Education has re- cently made a survey with regard to | the amount of money earned by stu- | dents. In 763 colleges 84 per cent of the | students were earning part or all of j their expenses. In 315 co-educational | schools 134,716 men earned $23,000,000 or $169 each. The women earned only er wide world waters that has proved | a8 in a walk. The only difference is in one-fifth of this amount, but then there itself not only possible but mutually | profitable_on the Great Lakes. | 1f the Kellogg peace pact means what | it says, let our faith in it be proved by our works. ~ EDWARD BERWICK. i Fhbriomet . Streets | Objects to D. C i As Automobile Garngri To tive Editor of Th~ Star: Why should auto owners be per-| mitted to use the streets for night ga- rages? And why should they park their | cars In front of other people’s property? If they can't afford a garage, then they | can't afford an automobile. As our, an eyesore to the city. I have often| wondered what visitors and tourists | convenience of railroads or to meet the | must think when they see autos parked at night in every available spot, from | one end of this city to the otber— Tim] City Beautiful.” It would be just like penetrating a jungle for a fire engine or a patrol to get through some of the streets at night. If we have a few disastrous fires or similar calamities, the Commissioners will probably awaken to the seriousness of the situation. ‘There is no necessity for this night parking and the men, who have it in their power to do so, should stop it. I understand it is not permitted in any other city in the United States. BERTHA CUSTER. ) the speed. Q. Can the Prince of Wales become King of England if he is unmarried when the King dies?—0. M. A. The marriage of the Prince of Wales is not necessary to insure his succession to the throne. There have been unmarried Kings of England. If the Prince of Wales should die without issue the Duke of York would become King. Q. Why arc the lines dividing the time zones so irregular?—F. J. H. A. The Interstate Commerce Commis- sion fixes the boundaries between these zonec. Often they are made to depart In the meantime he will have been!friend, Mr. O. M. Blundon, said, it is | from the half-way position between the | standard meridians in order to sult t! demands of certain communities af- fected. Q. How may one determine whether Oriental rugs have been bleached and treated with chemicals?—M. G. A. In some cases Oriental rugs are bleached and treated with chemicals in order to soften the garish colors result- ing from aniline dyes and to give them out_quickly. is so skillfully done that even expert judges of rugs are deceived, but there are a few signs that even an amateur can recognize. If cheap, crude dyes have been used, the darker colors gen- | sheen, and such rugs are likely to wear Sometimes this bleaching | were only one-fifth as many employed, 50 the average was about the same. Q. What glands control the height of a person?—E. H. | A. The ductless glands which con- trol the height of man are the thyroid | and parathyroids. As far back as 1856 | the medical profession recognized the | relation of these to the growth and de- velopment of the human body. | w4 What ate “Appies of Paradise"?— oM, A. By tracing the name through the Latin “Apples of Hesperides” it has been decided that they were pomegranates. | “Hesperides” has been interpreted to mean “having the structure of an cr- ange,” but the ancient orange was not the same as the fruit which we know by | that name now. Q. What occasioned Turner's paint- | ing “Peace; Burial at Sea”’?>—M. A. W. | A. Sir David Wilkie died at sea June | 1, 1841. The Oriental, on which he was | traveling, immediately put back to Gi- | braltar. ~ Quarantine regulations pre- i vented landiny service was read and the body lowered into the sea. Q. How many acres of land land_does own?—S. F. A. He owns 49,900 acres. in Eng- Flhe young Duke of Norfolk Toy Pistol Denounce: As Starter of Crime To the Editor of The Star: “I'l kill you! Bang, hun% bang! I'll kill you!” said the tiny kid as he accosted me on the sidewalk with a cap-pistol. Later he came into my shop and repcated. Again, finding me | sitting down, he put the pistol within a few inches of my head and pulled the trigger. Here is a_job worth while for the reformers. Why don't they stop the manufacture of criminals by stopping the manufacture and sale of toy weapons for the kids? The kid just mentioned and many like him are on the way to criminal lives. They are getting their impressionable minds biased in the direction of murder with the notion that it is onlv cuteness. As a twig is bent, the tree’s inclined, is very true. ‘There is no ible benefit from the teaching of children that carrying and ! using guns is a smart thing. The | practice is senseless and vicious with- out extenuation. M. E. SLOAN. Careless Housewives of U. S. to Be Counted | From the Long Beach Press-Telegram. The American housewife is to come under critical scrutiny within the next year, as to her carefulness, or lack of carefulness, in causing accidents in the home. A ‘survey is to be conducted under auspices of the General Federa- tion of Women's Clubs, in collaboration with the United States Department of This is to call to account the housewife for accidents in the home due_directly or indirectly to the care- lessness or ignorance of women in the home. “If a woman leaves the matches where the baby can reach them and sets the house on fire, if she forgets to put | the medicine on the high shelf, it is not | an accident but a direct consequence of | failure on her part.” These are the| With his “pushing a peanut up Pikes Peak” stunt, Bill Williams of Rio interested public and may be said to hAve“wan the race for publicity “by a nose. “In vain, the waiting world has bided its time until some nose would come along to push a peanut up Pikes Peak to its highest summit. And at last that says the Portland Oregon Journal, | which expresses thankfulness “that it was vouchsafed us to live to see the real- ization of this glorious event.” The Columbus Ohio Dispatch calls attention to the fact that “many men have rolled peanuts with their noses to pay election bets or for some other purpose,” and reasons that “therefore peanut rolling scarcely is an accom- plishment deserving Nation-wide atten- tion,” the difference being that Mr. Wil- liams decided to “attempt it on a grand scale and watch results. He chose the tortuous path up Pikes Peak,” narrates rolling costume, consisting of hand and knee pads and a tin fender for his nose; tied blue ribbons on the goobers and started out,” prepared to spend three weeks on his hands and knees. “It is a most commendable undertak- ing and indicates the determined ch: acter of Mr. Williams’ nature,” remarks the Syracuse Herald, which points out, however, that “there’s a catch in it, for he doesn’t roll the same peanut. -If he loses one he takes another.” Anyway, the Herald thinks that getting the push- er's head to the peak would be the x:gur-uve equivalent of getting a peanut ere. Hondo, Tex., introduced himself to nnl nose is here. It is Billy Williams’ nose,” | this paper, “donned a special peanut- | | Concerning any anxiety shat might iPike’s Peak Peanut Pusher Wins His Race for Publicity by Nose | It's Bill's stunt, and we'll have to wish the boy luck at it,” concludes the | Journal. “Somehow or other. the man who pro- | poses to roll a peanut up Pikes Peak | with his nose strikes one as an engaging | and_ingenious person, one whom it | would be a pleasure to see in action,” | says the Fresno Bee, contending that “this man hes contrived to lend a dis- | tinct touch of individuality to & per- | formance which generally is only con- | sidered worthy of fraternity inifiations and such like childishness.” The Meridian Star notes that “Mr. | Williams® chief annoyance comes from ' squirrels, who want to eat his peanut. Possibly the squirrels are more inter- | ested in the foolish pusher than in the | lowly ‘pushee,’” suggests the Mississippi | paper, as it concludes: “At any rate, the fool-killer seems to be falling down on | his well known job.” | Statistics Disprove There Is Profit in War From the Albany Evening News. There is no .profit in war, No na- | tion gains financially by war. The re- ports, which were in substance charges, that the United States gained in wealth and in trade because of the World War have been disproved by figures. These | have been set forth by E. Dana Durand |of the Federal Department of Com- merce. He showed that no one nation |gained in money by that war. It has been said that American trade increased after the World War. Mr. words of Mrs. John F. Sippel, president | b¢ felt for Mr. Williams® nose since the | Durand shows that while this is true -t of the General Federation of Women's Clubs. Mrs. Sippel says that she feels that such a survey as is projected “will bring home to the entire country the lesson of woman's responsibility in the home.” Women are proverbially more careful than men in those things which might cause serious accidents. But there are ! too many preventable accidents in homes, just as there are too many pre- ventable mishaps out in the realm where men are chief figures. In the general movement for safety, it is well that the safety of the home be conserved, as well as the safety of the factory and the safety of traffic. In a word, the safety movement should include all places and all functions where the lives of | human beings are menaced. ———— Pan-American Highway By 1940 Being Pushed Frem the Ban Antonio Express. Pan-American Highway Association's recent convention at White Sulphur Springs (W. Va.) appealed to Congress | to appropriate funds for building the United States’ portion of a splendid boulevard from Canada to Argentina-— nking all the Americas. The association’s program calls for finishing the project within® the next 10 years. If all the work had to be done within the decade, the task would be too great; but a goodly portion of the high- way already is built. The remaining problem is to link together the loose ends of present roads. The_route across the United States from Detroit to Laredo largely is paved already. Canada has done its share and Mexico is building roads rapidly; the highway has been improved to Mon- terrey and work is béing pushed to the City of Mexico. Central American lands, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Venezu- ela, Brazil, Argentina and other South American countries also are engaged in read-building campaigns, modeled after the United States’ system. So the Pan- American Highway is far more than a dream. A little more than a year ago Alme T. ‘Tschiffiey, Argentine horseman, distance to be covered is 20 miles, the Providence Journal remarks. “He has wisely provided himself with a nose guard which will facilitate the pushing tact with a peanut and occasional bumps on the ground. We cannot be sure,” observes the Journal, “that this is not an ignoble compromise for a true sportsman, but, if protective devices are permissible in foot ball, why should they denied to peanut pushers?” it asks. Describing Mr. Willlams as “a Texas of fame along with flagpole sitters, bunion-derby artists and drugstore cowboys,’ ;':mlrks :‘h . e will have "accomplished something. ‘The world will know that goober hDund“! are not always clection bet losers,” The Albany Knickerbocker Press soeks a cause for Mr. Willlams' “choice of diversion,” although it acknowledges that “it takes all kinds of people to make a world, wherefore the world ‘would not be complete without Bill Wil- liams.” This paper wonders if plaster- ers might have some productive ideas on the subject. “They, at least,” it reasons, “could appreciate what it meant for a man compelled, during workicg hours, to keep his nose next the ceiling, to hold it to the ground for variety. Change of posture is the truest rest.” “Herculean task! Never in their wild- est fancies could Pike, Fremont or Kit Carson have conceived of conquering Pikes Peak with a nose-coaxed peanut. Peace to their perturbed ashes, and suc- cess to the indomitable Bill Williams,” exclaims the Mh’ml!lrollx Star, as, re- viewing the history of the famous sum- mit, relates how “since Pikes Peak was first sighted by Zebulon Pike back in 1806, the mountain has lured adventur- ers znd explorers. “However,” contends the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, “since it appears that freakishness is to be with us always, those who undertake to be artistic about it, as in the case of this really dese: “All Texas will jol Williams of Rio Hopdo to the top of Pikes ride from Buenos Aires, ponies from the pampas, but motor cars Irom the States, will travel the Pan- American Highway most. However, not Dallas ., “Texas would prefer to share the glory of some other type of achievement. of and relieve the strain of continuous con- | plasterer, ambitious to gain a high place | the San Francisco Bulletin | at, “if the plasterer succeeds | !did not increase in any such great |ratio as it was increasing before the | war. He shows clearly also that whils | this country holds a far higher position financially ‘than prior to the war, that | is accounted for in the fact that dur- |ing the years of war progress in the countries engaged in war was held back jand they suffered tremendously from | the setback of the tremendous expens:s | of the long struggle. | . No nation gained by war, All na- tions are still paying the cost of war and the cost of living soared and the struggle for living has been even greater | than it was in pre-war days. America is paying heavily for the war and for preparedness against war. In 10 months the cost of the Veterans' Bu- reau has been $343.000,000, and interest on the public debt, mostly war debt, was_$567,000,000 and the debt sinkig fund was $369,000,000. Total expend - {tures of the Government in these 10 [ months were $3,202,721,000, and of this | sum $1,937,821,000 was for national de- fensc and for payment of the costs of war. That is practically 60 cents of every dollar paid in taxes that goes to pay war costs and provide for defense { against war. i No nation gains by war. 2 —————— |Search for Cancer Cause Given Boost From the St. Louls Times. The United States Senate has just adopted a resolution which may lead | to- eminent results when the Senate | commerce committee begins its search for the hidden causes of cancer and | their elusive cure, and engages the aid of the Public Health Service and the National Academy of Science and the executive and independent departments of the Government in the quest which has baffled medical and surgical sci- ence. The resolution directs the sub- mission of a report to . Cancer has been a scourge of the . Medicine has found 'serums which make many thought deadly slmost cancer has baffled its art. The progress of the inquiry, which, it will 1 equipped Tor its re- be remarkably wol 2 search labors, will be followed course, bt it will have to admit that Bill is tackling something different. cager interest by the whole scientific and lay world.