Evening Star Newspaper, July 17, 1929, Page 8

8 ® THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON. D. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 1929. THE EVENING STAR| With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. ‘WEDNESDAY......July 17, 1920 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Compan Business Office: 11th St. and Pennsyivanis Ave. New York Office: 110 East 4ind Chicago Office: Lake Michigan Building. European Ofice: 14 Regent 8t., Lov.dons . Englan Rate by Carrier Within the City. The Evening Star.... ..45¢ per month The Evening and Sunday Star P en l‘ nnfldlyé) . 60c per month e Evening and Su (when 5 Sundays) 85¢ per month The Sunday Sta r 5c per copy Collection made at’ihe'end of each month. Orders may be sent in by mail or {elephone NAtional 5000. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Dally and Sunday....1 yr. $10 mo., 85¢ | Daily only . mo.. 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That paragraph states: “If the National Government were to attend to preventing importation, man- | ufacture and shipment in interstate | commerce of intoxicants, the States undertaking internal police regulations to prevent sale, saloons, speakeasies| and so forth, the national and State laws might be modified so as to become reasonably enforcible and one great source of demoralizing and pecuniarily profitable crime removed.” Mr. Wickersham infers that the na- tional and State laws now are in need of modification to make them “reason- ably enforcible,” but in what direction is the modification to proceed? Again, if the Federal Government is to with- draw its support from what Mr. Wick- ersham calls the “retail” enforcement of the Voistead act and make the mat- ter of enforcement a question for the Statw to decide, what co-operation is to be expected from such States as New York, Maryland and Wisconsin? And in the lack of any co-operation, what program aoes the Federal Govern- ment expect to follow? Mr. Wickersham's letter to the gov- ernors’ conference can be interpreted broadly as favoring the policy of leav- ing to the States the local enforcement of the Volstead act, a policy that is in keeping with the fundamental theory of government in this country. For that reason it will be widely applauded. But will the States take the cue and, as Mr. Wickersham suggests, outline their part of the task and the amount of responsibility they are willing to assume? The primary explanation of gradual encroachment by the Federal Govern- ment upon the rights of. the State has been the passive indifference of the States themselves. When George is willing to do it, they have been willing to let George do it. Enforcement of the Volstead act has come to be re- garded as a duty of the Federal Gov- ernment, and as it is an onerous duty, there has been no exceptional rivalry on the part of the States to outdo the Federal Government in enforcement. Mr. Wickersham has merely thrown out a suggestion, but it has the potcn- talities of a bombshell, #he explosion of which will echo for many months. His suggestion is made directly to the States, The duty of the States is to make a candid and full response. The former Kaiser of Germany is | represented as one of the richest men in Europe; one who, heeding his Omar Khayam, “took the cash and let the credit go.” — e While in sympathy with the working- man, Mussolini has never thought of limiting his own energles to an eight- hour day or a five-day week. —re——————— A clash between Russia and China would represent a supreme example of the danger of reckless political driving. ! o M. Poincare Winning. Premier Poincare yesterday took hand- somely the first hurdles in the stubborn contest he is waging in the French Chamber for ‘ratification of the Mel- lon-Berenger debt settlement. Ably and unexpectedly seconded by an eloquent appeal from Foreign Minister Briand, who paid a glowing tribute to America’s timely war effort in the liberation of France, the premier overwhelmed the anti-ratificationists in two successive test votes. Their rout was decisive and complete. It is now indicated that the govern- ment’s motion in favor of ratification can be passed at M. Poincare’s will. Unconditional approval of ‘the Mellon- Berenger pact—the government’s pro- gram—is foreshadowed as a practical certainty when it is submitted for final approval next Friday. The American people appreciate the tenacity with which the French cabinet has insistently pushed forward to the victory which now beckons. It is fully understood in Washington what partisan opposition, fomented for selfish political purposes, is capable of accomplishing on occasion. M. Poincare's trials in the ratification controversy were of far more delicate character than those which tying to the debt ratification of any reservation strings which would be found objectionable by the Congress of the United States, which in turn must give official American approval to the Mellon.Berenger agreement. The res- ervations in question concern France's right to interrupt the annuities pay- able to this country, should Germany ever default on the obligations she assumes under the Young plan. In such & contingency, there can be little doubt that Washington and Paris would invoke the rule of resson. At any rate, France is about to take the honorable step which alone could Justify such a prospect. R Up to the Budget Bureau. Held responsible in the past for Dis- trict budgets that amassed a surplus and called for expenditures far below available revenues, the Commissioners this year have placed the issue squarely up to the Budget Bureau, departed from customary procedure and publicly urged | the budget officials to approve a bud- get that local revenues can support, re- gardless of the fact that it is the larg- est ever to be submitted. Accompany- ing the budget the District Commission- ers sent a carefully drawn explanation of every new item of expenditure rec- ommended, and Auditor Donovan's let- ter, which followed submission of the budget, has gone into detail regarding the sources ‘and amounts of available revenue. ‘The House appropriations subcom- mittee last year was unable to under- stand why it received from the Budget Bureau a budget that left District funds unspent in the Treasury, while there were actual needs unfilled by failure to spend them. After a great deal of ques- | tioning the committee developed that the Commissioners’ original estimates had been returned by the Budget Bu- reau; that the Commissioners had trimmed them in accordance with Bud- get Bureau demands, and that the bu- reau, after its own trimming down proc- ess, had forwarded them to the Capitol. Nevertheless, the Commissioners were criticized for having failed to give the Budget Bureau a list of supplemental estimates, or alternative estimates, that the Budget Bureau might have seen fit to substitute for the items stricken out. ‘The Commissioners have guarded as: “If this person has a job is he on layoff or on leave without pay?” “Is he actively looking for a job?” “How long has he been without a job of any kind?” “If he has no job is he physical- ly able to work?” ‘This shows that in adopting a formula of questions extreme care must be used to ask general questions that will bring out the essential facts—disclosing the real reasons behind unemployment. 1t was decided to omit from the cen- sus young people who are just seeking their first job and to include in the unemployment only those who have been at work. Careful preparation of the ques- tionnaire will facllitate the collection and compilation of information regarding unemployment and make the statistics a true'basis for corrective measures and industrial computations. —r———— War Medals. Secretary Good disapproves any fur- ther extension of the time limit for granting World War decorations. His objections seem sound. Times and standards of conduct have changed in the past ten years. Judgments of heroism have changed with them. Then heroism and self-sacrifice were commonplace. Only extreme examples were sufficiently outstanding to attract attention. As these came to light they were rewarded with military decora- tions according to their due. A high standard was maintained. The man entitled to wear a D. 8. C. was one who had rendered extraordinary service. But conduct which seemed ordinary then would be considered extraordinary now. Recommendations for decora- tions, however unconsciously, would be judged according to lower standards. The halo of war memories surrounds all war acts. This is a progressively increasing halo. Half a century hence, if the time limit for the bestowing of medals wfre continued indefinitely, it is likely that almost any overseas vet- eran left alive would be favorably con- sidered for any decoration whatsoever. It is not improbable that some acts of extraordinary heroism have been over- looked, due either to the modesty of the men concerned or to unfortunate com- binations of circumstances. Some vet- erans may be wearing decorations they do not deserve and others, who deserve Medals of Honor, have nothing. Such against a repetition of such ecriticism this year by emphasizing not only the nature of new items of expenditure, but by giving the Budget Bureau a clear picture of the District’s §nancial con- a condition is inevitable in any distribu- tion of awards. Special means may be found to correct outstanding mistakes. ‘The fact remains that to continue in- dition, to show that a cerfain number of dollars will be raised by taxation and available for spending. If the Budget Bureau chooses to cut this years list of estimates it will not be cutting down the number of these dollars. It will merely be delaying their expenditure. There are several arguments against the accumulation of a surplus of Dis- trict revenues in the Treasury above the ordinary requirements of a surplus to maintain the municipality on a cash- paying basis. The greatest argument is that there is a real need for spending the money, and beginning the expendi- ture immediately. Another argument is that a surplus constitutes a temptation to some of our legislators, and it is likely to be spent according to their whims and not as the politically im- potent taxpayers would have it spent. And if a surplus is accumulated there should be a reciprocal reduction in tax- ation. The District pays as it goes. If it is not permitted to go as far as de- sirable, the payment should be reduced. oo A Summer Warning. ‘The news story of the local resident who went away on a day's outing, to return in the evening to find his home on fire from an electric.iron which had been left on, should carry s warning to every reader. No one means to leave gas heaters lighted, or electric lights turned on, or water boiling on the gas range, but the fact is that these things are done scores of time every Summer. Often the oversight is thought of by some one in the party, and often the car must turn around and many miles be retraced to turn off the gas or attend to some other such thing which should have been done before. Inconvenience, however, is the small- est factor. Real danger to property, especially from fire, results from such carelessness. In the hurry and bustie of a departure it is easy to forget. No one is to be blamed—but it is not a case of blame. It is simply a case of forethought. How much more pleasant a vacation is it the householders concerned never have to spend a second worrying over something which they fear they had left undone at home! An excellent method of being sure that everything is all right is mentally to check over all lights, electric fixtures, gas appliances and spigots before leav- ing the house. If there is the slightest doubt in any one’s mind, as the list is gone over, an inspection should be made. There is no situation in which “haste makes waste” more than this. A little fore- thought will not only insure a care- free vacation, but may save a great deal of money and sorrow. —————————— A grand opera singer went back to the farm. The demand for farm relief persists, nevertheless. The Census Questionnaire. When is a person unemployed—and how do you word questions that will draw out the fact? ‘This is the problem considered by an advisory committee conferring on a questionnaire to be used by Federal census takers. Secretary Lamont of the Department of Commerce stressed the importance of Uncle Sam having the co-operation of those intimately familiar with and di- rectly concerned in this enumeration. President Hoover, for example, recently | ynqusirial leaders and research special- definitely the open season for. medals only would cheapen the decorations themselves. They would tend to be- | come more and more mere designations of World War service rather than marks of extraordinary heroism above and beyond the demands of duty. J Memory is tricky. Already we are drifting into the days of war legends. What once was routine now seems heroic to the actors. Their imagina- tions are laying the foundations of the tales they will tell their grandchildren a few fleeting years hence. They are connecting what happened to them with what happened to other people into single incidents in which they them- selves are the central figures, It is not dishonesty. Nobody would accuse the Civil War veteran sitting in the sun and spinning his impossible yarns of dishonesty. It is simply the way the human mind works. This phase of human nature certainly would enter into the granting of war decorations for a much longer period, ————— It has become a custom to depict President Hoover as a man with 2 num- ber of things to worry about. He has evolved an interesting system of ap- pointing commissions and letting others do the worrying, o In ecriticlzing a reluctance on the part of Lindbergh to be indiscriminately photoed, it should not be forgotten that he frankly disavowed, from the very first, any desire to be & “popular idol,” —————— A gangman makes a contribution to charity. The sum, however large, is'a small percentage of profit to pay for the hope of forgiveness. ———— Stores are made so comfortable for workers that the vacation season is likely to seem more or less a delusion that involves comparatively hard living. ————— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON, Uniformed Politeness. She tells us that she does not know Why cows give milk or cream. The worm which causes silk to grow, She says would make her scream! The mechanician’s overalls Wil cause aversion great. Unloved, the locomotive calls While bringing loads of freight. Oh, will some sage superior tell To the inquiring mind Why we in ignorance must dwell, That we may seem ‘“refined”? Getting Into Accord. “What are your views on the tariff?” asked the influential worker. “Same as yours,” answered Senator Sorghum. “What are they?” Jud Tunkins says & bunch of money sometimes makes such a wreck of a young person's life that it makes an inheritance resemble a collision. Lengthy Mongolian Drama. In fear we'll have to grovel, For long years, if some day, They turn a Russian novel Into & Chinese play. Luck. “Do you believe In. Juck?” “Absolutely,” answéred Mr. Chug- gins, “every time I accomplish a trip through trafic without being smashed up or arrested.” THIS AND THAT lt BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Jane Austen is a particularly profit- able author for moderns to read, since interest of which we speak is a ver: real one, displaying itself by the verg she shows better than almost an; e | 11 of thousands of persons to break how inf and alive or ry | up what they call the monotony of the everyday living may be if rightly seen. | average life. mflure can be little ;:n‘.ut‘hx‘\mm:: h: many persons nowadays the slant on life which is essential ,:r true hlpflnlfl obsessed with an idea, o the unun: is interest! or s 5 Interest is the keynote of life, and in saying this one does not have to rele- fnte more im it qualities in the least. The point is that even morality is _helped if made interesting. it as one may, interest is the great promoter of life and happiness. The most unhappy man is he who has lost interest. ictions of one sort and enother often are not so harassing a a mind at war with itself. Every one has seen some hopeless cripple, as the phrase has it, who was far from hopeless. His eyes were bright, his mind active. He was not hopeless because he was interested in life—not she flamboyant life of so-called flam- ing youth, but the less exciting life of everyday living. * ok ok ‘To know vivid people is not the only happiness salvation. To see unusual places is not essential P — 0 icipal s even not the only sort of action. Vivid le form perhaps 2 per cent of the total ‘acquaintance of any one. Just how much of what one sees nway be termed unusual depends too much on other factors to be ascertained. 's;-rmn; events happen only now and en. ‘The great bulk of persons, places and events must be termed commonplace— unless one is able to view them all with a never-failing - interest built surely on a comprehension of the fasci- nation ofdife-in-itself. Many men and women are born with this knowledge. They are interested in everything, from the moon as a baby | to birds and birds' eggs when grown. | Although they may know nothing about | a subject, they want to know. ‘They inquire about everything and find it -expedient to talk with other people about everything. They ask questions with the best will in world. What if they do not understand or remember one-half or one-fourth of what they hear? Their unconscious object is not to make walking encycl ias of them- selves, but only to builld up and keep alive a consuming interest, which is one of their preclous possessions, although they may not realize it themselves. But suppose one is not born with this interest—and thousands are not—what then? The first step is to\convince one’s self that the every-day life is worth looking into, worth becoming in- terested in. It may have little vivid- ness, yet still possess a beauty all its own. It may show few unusual places, being mostly composed of well known routes, buildings, scenes, but still be able to convince. Life of the every- day may be far from startling, yet not !heret(ou without its own kind of in- terest. One of the best ways of convincing one’s self of these things, we suppose, is to read the novels of Jane Austen. ‘There he will find nothing that is not in the life of the average mrwn. yet nothing that is not of great interest. If interesting in a book, why not in one’s own life? * x % % We hope that no one will think we are setting up a straw man merely for the pleasure of knocking him over with many words. The condition of non- BY FREDERIC ‘War in Manchuria this Summer would be an ill wind which would blow professional good to at least one group of people, 1. e., the party of American newspaper men now touring China. It's the ambition of the average scribe to be a war correspondent, even if he has to realize it while enjoying the hospitality of the Carnegie Endowment for Inter- national Peace. Some of the men who' may find themselves in journalistic clover in the Far East have had war- writing experience, but most of them have such reportorial thrills to look for- ward to. In any event, if the dragon and the bear have at each other, the American press should be in incom- parably fine position to get the news hot off the griddle. As far as can be gured out from their correspondence, the Carnegle tourists are in or close to the very seat of Russo-Chinese trouble at this time. They are under the chaperonage of the Japanese gov- emment, while in Manchuria, which might mean that they’d only see and hear the side of the picture that is pleasing to their hospitable, but ex- pert, hosts, * ok ok Still another group of Americans— in their case, on an official mission— finds itself in China at this witching hour, _It consists of the trio of Ameri- can Red Cross commissioners, who went to the Far East at President Hoover's _instigation, to investigate famine conditions in China. The :rl,y is made up of Col. Ernest P. Bicknell, vice chairman of the Red Cross in charge of foreign operations; his sistant, Ernest J. Swift, and William M. Baxter, ir., of the St. Louis branch. They left Vancouver for Shanghai on May. 30, so they have been in China roundly about a month. When the Red Cross a year or two ago was asked to mobilize American ~dollars for Chinese famine relief. it decided not to do so because of the prevalence of civil war. Perhaps if China were em- broiled in a great international war, it might not be deemed feasible to put the Red Cross’ facilities to work until peace was restored. PEER Germany is not on the list of the 25 or 30 foreign governments which have transmitted tariff protests to the United States, but the Fatherland is hard hit by the Hawley schedules. is not putting up any formal roar at , and even her accomplished Aml , Dr. von Prittwitz, unlike most ollul:ls eolle':,nlu in '.l’m - itic corps, gone to Europe for um- mer, instead of staying here and keep- ing ‘an eye on Capitol Hill. German goods are seriously affected by the pro- ers, pencils and gree . The Germans have long had a mmu against us, which they term * inis- trative protection.” It consists of a Treasury g that even so tiny an article as a label (for garments) shall have woven into it legend “Made in Germany.” As a consequence, the entire label industry of at least one German industrial community, Crefeld, has been put out of business. Five factories there formerly did an immense label business in United ‘This state of mind is not confined to {gnunl people alone. The attacks upon morals of the youngsters died a natural death, when the discussions clarified the 'situation to the point where every one saw that “what was wrong with the younger generation” was equally at work with their elders. Dissatisfaction with life was and is the root cause of much that is harmful and inimical in modern-day living, and this dissatisfaction is based upon an even deeper cause, lack of interest in the very comedy and drama of life. The five or six novels by Jane Austen will awaken true interest in the small things of life in the minds of all but | ht‘)fie lessly lost readers. Such, of course, | will not. take the trouble to read Jane | Austen or anybody else. It is too much | trouble. One would not hold out the hope that there is any magic in these stories. They are in no sense a correspondenge | course™in happiness. They are not guaranteed by any one to enliven your dinner conversation or help you get through a meeting of the board of di-| rectors. They merely interest an average reader, and, in so doing, show him be- :ro;\dt all doull:t that life, :; lived by the 'at mass of average, ordinary human beings, in its daily ramifications of eat- ing, drinking, breathing, laughing, is an interesting process. * ok ok X God moved on the face of the waters no more surely than placidity floats over the Jane Austen novels. The| most thrilling event is an elopement, | the most startling happening a fall from a bridge. The real excitement comes in the play and interplay of | hopes, desires, aspirations. ‘The plots are not complicated, in the | sense of being interwoven by an author ! clever in doing that sort of thing, but | are complex in the same way that everyday life is complex, often without any one realizing it. If the ideas of lovers could be | charted, or graphs made of the break- | fast table thoughts of the married, no doubt. such a complicated map would be more perplexing to the student than a chart of the heavens. In a Jane Austen novel the reader follows discreetly in the tracks of lov- ers, and in this respect Miss Austen, a clergyman’s daughter, antedated Prof. ' Sigmund Preud. The English spinster, | however, had a more wholesome, out- look. There is something essentially unhealthy in the whole trend of mod- New Angle of Crime Tendency Discussed To the Editor of The Star: It appears that in 1929 the crime fad has become so glaring that our President has found it necessary to set in motion a cause-finding com- mission. In reading the editorials of a vast number of news editions throughout the country I note that the mind of the public at once focuses itself on the eighteenth amendment as the great cause and feel that the commission will spend much time on this angle. May 1 suggest that beneath the dis- regard for this law and many other laws O our land and many laws of conventional nature as well there is! an underlying trouble that has per- haps been overlooked. It has always been strange ®o the writer that truths taught in our school books as-axioms for right action should" 50 easily be forgotten by statesmen. One of these axioms was that “if you wished to clean a stream, begin at the head rather than the mouth.” Most of our so-called cleaning-up operations { on the part of governmental bodies seem to be mere mouth baths. It is safe to say that most grand- fathers should be whipped for the sins of the grandchildren. In the case of the present crime condition, I believe | this to be true. ‘Too much good creates evil. This may sound like a paradox, but if you will note the days that followed any eat reformation or the years that fol- lowed any overzealous age, you will discover the truth in this statement. ‘We have been building two powerful Stop, a minute and think about this fact. You can ask our information bu- reau any question of fact and get the answer back in a personal letter. It is a great educational idea introduced into the lives of the most intelligent people in the world—American news- g:'per readers. It is a part of that it purpose of a newspaper service. There is no charge except 2 cents in coin or stamps for return postage. Get the habit of asking questions. Address your lettey to The Evening Star In- formation Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, Director, Washington, D. C. Q. Is it true that the Lindbergh beacon in Chicago will be visible for 500 miles?—I. F. A. The Chicago Association of Com- merce says that the beacon about which you have inquired is said to have a ray of light that can be seen for 500 miles. At the time that Elmer Sperry made a gift of this light to Chicago it was decided that the Chicago Aero Commission should de- cide upon the best location for it. Tha Morrison Hotel was chosen, inasmuch as it was centrally located and of prom- inence in Chicago’s skyline. However, nothing definite toward the ultimate erection of this beacon has been done Lindbergh beacon has not been installed in Chicago. Can the salary of an employe Q of the Government be garnisheed?— | systems of crime-fostering ideas during | J. D. the past 50 years, and today we are reaping from ‘our sowing. First—Our public school system has been advanced to the position where it is greater than the American home. The luxury of the modern school building and the atmosphere surround- ing the modern child during the school | age is so far in excess of that of the home from which he comes that the child very naturally is living a double life during the time of his or her en- rollment. ‘This has a tendency to weaken the respect for the less luxurious home and teach a desire for greater comforts and ease than the home can afford. ! The intervening years between the | leaving of the schoolroom 4nd the ob- taining of conditions equal to that of the school life seem to be the years, from which our State prisons recruft their vast registration. The zeal of educational enthusiasm has standardized education to the de- teriorating of the needs of the Nation. They appear to have forgotten that, while all men .may be born equal in governmental and political phraseology, yet it is not so in matters of mental capacity or natural and inbred talent. The result is that while our profes- sions are overcrowded, our artisan oc- cupations fail of recruits. While our Government sets the age of citizenship at what it calls the ma- ture age for man—21 years. our public school system is turning out a product ern psychology. Jane Austen made no such mistake. She gave us life “as is,” in exactly the way that the person of average tem- perament and position in civilized Mfe WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS ing the victorious She | offensive in July, 1918, seve: takes it. S8he proves it interesting with- out finding it necessary to rename emotions with fancy sounding “scien- tific” nomenclature which really adds little to knowledge, after all. ‘Why men and women act as they do is not one-tenth as interesting as what they do and how they do ii. The “what” and “how” make life interest- ing, not so much the “why.” life is inexplicable, so its component parts are not to be explained. Its manifestations, however, are interest- ing in all their phases—that is why the person is happy who can be as delighted with & new book as with a new auto- mobile, as pleased with a sunset as with | & Turner, as interested in a table con- | versation as in the talk of some cele- brated lecturer. He has come as near | to solving the problem of life as any | one ever will. Even as WILLIAM WILE. Warner, vice consul at Geneva, and| Miss Nelle B. Stogsdell, vice consul at, Beirut. * ok ok X The junior Senator from Arkansas,| who still immortalizes himself in thel Congressional Directory merely as “T. | H. Caraway, Democrat, Jonesboro,” and lets it go at that, is certainiy the busiest bee now buzzing on Capitol Hill. The| cynical “Thad” had been back in Wash- | ington from a brief vacation less than) 24 hours this week before he cleared for | action in the following fields: (1) Con- sideration of a policeman's flimsy ac- cusation of graft among his fellow blue- coats; (2) recall of foreign diplomats who “intentionally” violate the traffic laws in Washington; (3) investigation | of the lobbies and lobbyists who are “swarming” in the Capitol, and (4) a! blast, through the Democratic national | committee, on the subject of President | Hoover's alleged tariff wiggling and wabbling. * k ok x Chairman Legge of the Federal Farm is looking for somebody in Wash- ington who put an “H” in his name, as the first letter of a sllgpos!d middle name, but for which, the Chicagoan says, there’s no foundation whatever. Being of Scotch, and not English, ex- traction, Legge adds that he'd have no occasion to drop his “H,” even if he'd ever had one. An unrflnud yarn about the Farm Board chief executive con- cerns his intervention in the surplus corn crisis of 1925. At this instigation, the International Harvester Co. offered to exchange agricultural machinery for corn at $1 a bushel—at a time when corn was selling on the farm at from 50 to 60 cents a bushel. The Harvester company eventually took delivery of tens of thousands of bushels. Its action prevented corn prices from tumbling still lower, because of the tremendous surplus. The company’s purchases were held until they could be marketed at a fairly remunerative rate. Legge won his spurs in the corn belt for all time. * * ok * Ambassador Claudel told a delightful story about Gen. Gouraud, one-armed French war hero, at this week’s reunion the Rainbow (42nd) Division in In the midst of battle dur- re:l-Ammnn flying _the thickest resolutely refused to desert their posts. After the war Gen. Gouraud told the women that he had recom- mended them for the Croix de Guerre. “The ladies declined the honor,” said Ambassador Claudel, “insisting that none but, soldiers deserved so high a distinction.” . (Copyright, 1929.) Suggests Replacing : Small Pipes Now To the Editor of The Star: | endar, with the possible exception of wiser in education than some of our aged statesmen. And at 16 aud 18 years. When we wake up as a Nation to this fact, and pay more attention to vocational training and less to training for cabinet positions, there will be less crime and less office seekers. Second—Another serious cause for crime is the forcing of the child to a matured condition before the play spell has had its full quota of years. For some years past there has been a steady movement to curb the outlets | of the child’s playful and play-loving | nature. As an illustration let me sug- gest the present-day name for the greatest day in American history—a sane Fourth of July. Perhaps there is no day on the cal- Christmas, that is looked forward to with as great anticipation as the Fourth of July. It used to be a day for noise and bombast, but some of our reformers were out of work. So they thought out the idea of making it a day of puffs and saints. True, there were many folks hurt on that day, but where one was injured by fireworks, thousands are injured by au- tomobiles. If you take the time to run over your boyhood days you will wonder how you could have grown to manhood without the chance to open your throttle and let your engine have its_wildest speed once in a while. ‘Today our young people are expected to be matured before they have got over their babyhood. It is the wrong method to tie down the safety valve and let the steam have no vent. Between our present day educational ideas and our overworked gloom agents the boy and girl of the future will be- come a highly educated robot—that is, if e succeeds in keeping out of jail. C. W. ARTHUR. Protests Sunday Acts Called “Recreational” To the Editor of The Star: Permit me to raise a humble protest against the phrase “blue laws” as ap- A. The Civil Service Commission says it appears that under a decision of the United States Supreme Court in the case of Buchanan v. Alexander (45 U. S. 20), and under a decision of the controller of the Treasury of January 19, 1895 (1 Comp. Dec. 171), an attachment cannot be enforced against public money in the hands of a disbursing officer of the Government and he is authorized to pay an em- ploye’s salary without regard to such attempted levy. Q. What can be used on radio storage battery cells to keep the salts { frqm corroding the connecting strips?— W. W. B A. The Loomis Radio College savs that wiping tops of cells with solution of ammonia or of bicarbonate of soda should help. It can tell you of no coating to put on top of cells to pre- vent creeping salts. If continual clean. ing with ammonia or soda does not overcome the trouble it suggests that you empty the cells, rinse out and refill with saturated solution of bicarbonate of soda, specific gravity about 1210 or a trifle more. Q. When did the United States use a half-cent postage stamp with Nathan Hale's picture on it?>—F. H. A. The one-half cent Nathan Hale postage stamps were first placed on sale me 4, 1925. These are still being issued. Q. How much does Mayor Jimmy ‘Walker weigh?—M. M. A. Mayor Walker's 125 pounds. Q. How old was Robert Louis Steven- son at the time of his death?>—A. V. A. He died at the age of 43. normal weight is Q. What can be used to deodorize gasoline?>—L. P. D, A. The Bureau of Mines says that there is no substance which can be used at_home in order to deodorize gas- oline. This i done on a large scale with sulphuric acid and later washing ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. | up to the present time. At any rate the | with an alkali. ‘The resulting com- pound is filtered through fuller’s earth. ‘When were Harvard and William and Mary established?—M. C. A. In 1636 the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony voted £400 {for establishing an institution of learn- ing. The first building was erected in 1637. This became Harvard University. The College of William and Mary and- its antecedents reach back to the effort begun in 1617 to establish in Virginia the University of Henricopolis. The Indian massacre of 1622 brought this effort to naught. The charter for the College of Willlam and Mary was issued in 1673 by the English King and Queen for whom it was named. . Was the word ye, meaning the, pronounced with the sound of y?—J. T. A. Ye was an old method of print- ing the article the. It is sometimes in- | correctly pronounced ve. | Q. How many stars are visible? | “A. The number of stars visible that can be seen by a person of average eye- sight is only about 7.000. The number visible through the telescope has been estimated by J. E. Gore at 70,000,000 and by Profs. Newcomb and Young at | 100,000,000. i Q. Should white lacquer, or enamel | be put on steam radiators?—J. K. A. White lacquer or enamel may be | applied to steam radiators without im- | pairing the efficlency. The Bureau of | Standards says that any good interior paint or enamel may be used. Bronze or gold should be avoided. Q. Will there be a new Waldorf-As- toria?—H. N. A. A new hotel with the same name | will be erected on the block bounded by Park and Lexington avenues, Forty- | ninth and Fiftieth streets, New York City. It will be 40 stories in height. contain more than 2,000 rooms and baths and cost $40,000,000. Q. How many missionaries have the Protestant churches in foreign fields? \.E. N b Protestant mission A, The total forces are about 34g800. North America in the past has furnished more than half. About 1,500 new missionaries are needed annually for ‘replacement of those retiring. In the last few vears North America has not furnished her usual quota, in 1928 sending 667. Q. How is San “Luis Rey pronounced? —E. 8. A. San has a broad a sound. Luit is pronounced 1oo es, with long e. accent on second syllable. Rey is pronounced as if spelled ray. Q. What would happen if the earth stopped suddenly?—F. L. A A. The late Camille Flammarion, the noted French astronomer. has expressed his opinion as follows: “Were the earth suddenly stopped in its course, the shock would be transmitted by recoil, 50 to say, to all the constituent mole- cules of the terrestrial globe, as if each received a stunning blow: the | whole earth would be instantly lumi- nous and burning, and an immense co; | flagration would devour the world.” Q. Why are bulldogs so called>—C. D. A. Bull baiting, a sport once pop- ular in England, but declared illegal, consisted in attacking bulls with dogs especially trained for that purpose. The bulldog seems to have been developed for this sport from a short-eared mastiff called “alaunt.” Foreign Protest Debated by A s on Tariff merican Editors Foreign protests against duties pro posed in the tariff bill pending be. fore Congress are viewed by the Ame: ican press with varying reactions. The are some emphatic objections to per- mitting outside influences to shape the country's tariff policy and the St. Paul Pioneer Presg, (independent) declares that “unwa ted meddling in the domestic affairs of the United States will do more than all the speeches of Congressmen to make the Hawley bill popular.” On the other hand a strong and widespread sentiment prevails against precipitating a tariff war that might have a serious effect upon the world in general and upon American trade in particular. “It is & serious matter.” in the opin- ion of the Chicago Daily News (inde- pendent), “when so sober and respon- sible a newspaper as the London Times, which discourages the idea of an all- Furopean customs union against the United States, affirms that Great Brit- | ain and its dependencies well might confer on common measures to be adopted in economic self-defense to counteract American tariff proposals now under consideration.” plied to the pending Sunday rest bill. The matter of “innocent recreations” While expressing the judgment that “the idea of a Britisn customs union may be debatable; but the query imme- diately arises as to what recreations are is beset with obstacles,” the Rochester Times-Union (independent) warns that innocent. Who is to be the judge? One might refer to the time-honored conception of the first day of the week as the “Lord’s day” and declare that only such activities should be publicly recognized_as are consistent with that thought. Whatever may be claimed for the movies, base ball surely is not in- cluded in that category. The writer en- Jjoys base ball and has noticed that un- testrained excitement is an essential concomitant of the game and Sunday games are no exception. Several times it has been my lot to return home on Sunday afternoon via Wisconsin avenue, passing two games of this kind, and each time unrestrained hilarity was a conspicuous_feature of the game. But the heart of the matter is the labor question. It is not necessary to confuse the issue by introducing the question of necessary toil. It is acknowl- edged by most people that six days of physical exertion in any vocation should be the maximum. After visiting sev- eral of our large cities I unhesitatingly declare Washington to be the worst in this respect of any city I have seen. Drug stores and a few lines of speclal favorites may be seen open universally: but never elsewhere have I seen car tracks repaired and public bufldl:nn in process of erection on the Lord’s day. How these activities can be included in the list of “innocent recreations” passes my understanding and remains to be proved blm the opposers of the Sunday rest bill. WILLIAM J. SEELYE, Teachers of Nation Have Difficult Task “it is on the Continent, not England, that this country has most to fear from a retaliatory and extreme tariff policy.” ‘The Hartford Times (independent Dem- ocratic) advises: “We do not have to abandon our protective policy. It is es- sential, however, that it should be carried out with reason rather than with avarice as its motivating polic: Wise men know that the individu: cannot afford to be callous to the col munity estimate of him. We are com- ing to see that a nation can no more afford to be callous of its standing in the society of nations.” “The tariff is a weapon.” according | Mil to the Charleston Evening Post (in- dependent Democratic), “which may be wielded by other governments than the Government of the United States. The next step may go beyond the field of protest into the fleld of reprisals, and that would be more than serious. It might even prove to be disastrous to our swelling prosperity.” Dr. Butler of Columbia University is quoted by the Indianapolis Star (in- dependent Republican) as having de- nounced “pharisaical nationalism,” and as having stated that “the sagacious and constructive economic policy” of Hamilton, Clay, Lincoln, Blaine, Gar- field and McKinley “has now been superseded by the doctrine that the Government must assure a profitable domestic market to every producer with political influence enough to insist upon having it provided for him, regardless of anything else.” The Star adds its opinion: “The- sort of nationalism which Dr. Butler calls ‘pharisaical’ in Just phrase is not only so—it is stupid. In the end it defeats its purpose. It is the deyotion of a mother who hugs her child until it is blue in the face.” From the San Francisco Bulletin. -aph from the code of ethics iopted this week by the National Edu- “It is the duty of Congress to write a tariff for the American people” in- Now that certain of our streets undergoing adopted are | Cation Assoc iation, meeting in Atlanta, contained the following sentence: A sists the Kansas City Journ: s however. does not mean that reason should’be thrown to the winds. the fact that the gas compan That would not really ‘promote the teacher's own life should show that water department are at replacing or causing to be replaced the small, worn-out gas and water service pipes, preparatory to the widening education does enough.” At another convention in Chicago the American Federation of Teachers opened a nation-wide campaign to safeguard general welfare' of America. But cer- tainly no heed should be given to alarmist talk from persons eager to get their wares into the richest market of the world, crowding out those under American standards of living. It posed rates that have no genuine eco- nomic justification.” “The American tariff has been the butt of foreign criticism for a long | period. If it were feasible for foreign | countries to take reprisal they would | have done so long since,” avers the Worcester Evening Gazette (inde- pendent), while the Wheeling Intel- ligencer (Republican) contends that “Congress may be safely trusted to fix schedules that equalize foreign produc- | ticn costs with our own in essential industries. Anything more than this would be sn indirect and undeserved | subsidy. Anything short of this would | be lack of needed and justifiable pro- tection to American wage and living | standards.” “The dominating consideration nat- urally is the maintenance of our own | national structure of prosperity, in- cluding the permanence of our own industrial organization and operation on a basis that will provide wages required for the continuance of the great purchasing power of this people, which is a factor in the prosperity of the whole world,” states the Phila- delphia Evening Bulletin (independent Republican). “The United States will not abandon its established policy of protection for its home industry and | set its face toward free trade, because of these protests.” The Buffalo Evening News (Repub- lican) believes that the free opening of the American market “would make mere cheapness the basis of trade, and that would require in every country the‘ lowest possible reduction of labor “Economically and politically the situation is filled with possible dyna- mite,” warns the Columbus Ohio State Journal (Republican). Pleas for a more friendly attitude toward foreign countries are made by the Richmond News-Leader (independent Democratic). ukee Journal - (independent) and Louisville Times (independent). “Farseeing manufacturers and mer- chants, as well as investment bankers,” declares the Atlanta Journal (Demo- cratic), “know that trouble is brewing and that if such schedules as those provided in the Hawley bill should be accepted by the Senate and enacted into law, world-wide resentment would be aroused. They know, too, that the isolation and self-sufficiency which once was supposed to characterize the United States no longer obtains, cer- tainly not in matters of business.” Protest against a tariff war is vojced by the Boston Transcript (independent), while the restraining influence of Pres- ident Hoover is invoked by the New York Sun (independent), Yakima Morning Herald (independent), Man- chester _ Union (independent Repub- lican), Birmingham News (Democratic) and Chattanooga Times (independent Democratic). Appreciates Attitnde On Portable Schools To the Editor of The Star: Upon the request of & number of the residents of Chevy Chase, D. C., I am writing to express to you our deep ap- Lremuon of the action of your paper bringing to the attention the public the number and condition of the Bortable school buildings in our National pital. Witk 2 the last few years the Chevy Taced when a political bloc in the United | it participated in the conference A wise man,” said Hi Ho, the bttt e yuges will require a stiffness of backbone to d 3 , the sage of American women don’t to certain States. It wps declared at (Wil Teq Chase district has increased very rapidly States Senate essayed to thwart hls| . g gteuart, director of the census, | Ghinatown, “knows two 7 when | think m'?’ are diplomats—or diplomatic this conference that “there is no group !mhtm u"w“ ‘fitbemmmlt'iloflvgutrfimh in' population and our schonis” Ve agriculfural program, emphasized that one of the main pur- | to avold a fght and when to face one? | —after all At any rale. two. of the so,rstrioted a to fts personal Iiberty as | JOICEC A3 108 KT s SO e Yena | betn and til are overerowded. Boor Under the American system of 89V- [ noses of the questions will be to distin- e feminine in the United States teachers.” rd-playing and dancing are | Welfare of the United States, e aciltion o Toop= ernment, a congressional defeat may between persons who are unem- | ;. ArEnment ‘We e T e e e3 " ‘among " teachers, ' In MNorth | tarif is for Americs unfavorable conditions in. these port- block the administration in a given|p) whether they are physically "‘U"“m e ““M""‘ of the “career~ ladder. 'The first Amer L oy ey A ublic re-|2Dles have worked real hardships on divection, Under the French system, |able to work and seeking a job, or just ulo & patns ? ican woman sent al the lier than the children’s bedtime bell 57 thinks the Pittspurgh. Post- | MaRY of our children. E In some citles teachers must wear smocks that reach the floor. In still other citles, including San Francisco, the margin between minimum and max- Whese disposition does not balk; He bears me to the end. And the experience brings a smile ‘We hope that the camj to rej these nn‘:«htly and lnzelgnu m tures may be continued until they are all replaced by modern buildings. a cabinet’s defeat in the chamber | plain chronic loafers. means the loss of its power and its| The tentative question—“Does this automatic expulsion from office. Pre-| person have & job of any kind?"—pro- Gazette (Republican) “against any tion of discrimination in the interest of a favored group. But the country is determined to increase the ‘Which true tent t lend, ries is 11 the incentive L o mier Poincare for a month has bat- | voked discussion as to how much infor-( it iy s y T acept teaching a8 & life profession | protection on sgricultural products, and President, E. ¥, Brown Home ' tled for the debt ratification from the | mation of real value this would produce, I "N'm"“‘l b N lufl-hllmm. "‘*w- Pattie Fleld, who is lomensd. to the extent that these tariff changes dizzy precipice of a parliamentdry | especially where persons might be em- P nere {riend. has just resigned from a vice con-|the The teachers should gain wide sup- | penalize manufac by raising % P eminence wherefrom, by the margin|ployed on “makeshift jobs.” A skilled| “When & man turns up as a big|sulship at Amsterdam, to en port for their umukna for edve':y“ l‘s‘l; costs ?_l.nw m':;h;-h;fly ':_n n:m_e i g of an adverse majority of a single | mechanic might temporarily be mowing | spender.” said Uncle Eben, he has & e G T U LT TRy e D votis o e A No-Limit Game. vote, he might any day have been |lawns or W&"""‘ outside work far | large following. De only trouble is dat | S BYCo n PSE adorn the foreign find 1t very @imeult to show Dby his or | of the Americgn consumer, rather than From the Ann Arbor Daily News. her own " rotests from 'abroad,. will ve .the| Stunt seems to be quite & “moved“:o: st “"“Mwhmumummwmusfim&uummfi ‘opposes This such toppled into the discard. The French government Y normal trade. some o' dem followers is labie 'to be ' Service— Miss Prances E. Willis, vice mmmjfl i consul at Valparaiso; -Miss