Evening Star Newspaper, August 3, 1929, Page 6

WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY......August 3, 1929 THEODORE W. NOYES,...Editor Rn!m.!t.- London, Rate by Carrier Within the City. The Evening Sta: - 49 per month r .60c per month l r er mont| Ratz by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sun: Daily only Sunday only All Other States and Canada. Drfly and Sunday Daily only Sunday only 1yr. 36, 1yl Member of the Associated Press. “The Assoctated Press is exciu e tiled to the use for republication of all news dis- patches credited to it or not otherwise cred- ited in this paper and also the iocal rews putlished herein. All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are re: Sliding Scale of Sugar Duties. Senator Smoot’s sliding scale of sugar duties is a new wrinkle in tariff making. Under the Smoot plan, when the price of sugar goes up in this country, the duty will go down, thereby bringing, about a condition aiding importations which in turn should force the price of sugar to a lower level. On the other hand, when the price of sugar is down, threatening the American producers with possible ruin; the duty on sugar would, under the Smoot plan, be raised, thereby limiting importations and rais- ing the price of sugar in this country. In effect the Smoot sliding scale of sugar duties is a compromise between the rates in the Hawley tariff bill, passed by the House, and the present | tariff duties on that commodity. It ! gives the sugar producers in this coun- try more protection than they now have, | but not as much as they demand. At the same time it is so framed as to make an appeal to the sugar consumers in this country. Frankly the aim is to keep the price of sugar at about 6 cents a pound. At present, according to Sen- | world, where there is good fishing for mud road and he should suffer injury it would constitute an internatiorial calamity. The roads to Hoover Camp must be made safe for the President. Further than this these same roads are eventually to be an important part of the system of roads for the Shenan- doah National Park, fér accommodation of tourist traffic. The Army Engineers are being taught road-building as an essential part of their training at Fort Humphreys, and they inust have practi- cal experience. It is the best practical experience for the engineers to do real road-building that can be of service. They can put extra pride and zest into their work if it is to be for the safety and comfort of the President, who is Commander-in- Chief of their forces. It is seasonally healthy and wholesome for them to be living in the open, in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, in the Shenan- doah National Park, surrounded by some of the most beautiful scenery in the their hours of relaxation and cool bath- ing in the mountain streams. It szems a happy assignment—all of the way around—and the administra- tion is to be congratulated on putting the engineers to practical work. Let the roads be bullt adequate in every way to Hoover Camp, but let it be a one-way traffic. The President of the United States should not be dis- turbed in his brief hours of relaxation. More power to the road-bullding Army Enginecrs. ) Mr. Edison's Heir-App;Tent. the Germans were more progressive than the French—so much so that in all .the towns there were real “drug stores”—not uninviting doctor’s offices, but actual establishments dealing in sodas and ice creams. So when the troops arrived the drab small-town pharmacies of the Rhine- land were beseiged with excited men in olive drab sought out the puzgled proprietors in vain effort to m-ke them produce, pharmaceutical commodities of which they never had heard. “Drug stores without soda fountains—-" It seemed like another German atrocity. But the soldiers had to accept the situation as it was. So the Germans were classified along with the French as a “dumb,” backward, uncivilized people. By this time the proprietor of the world’s oldest pharmacy may be in a position to understand some of the uncomplimentary opinions of his countrymen expressed by the “soldaten.” 1t all depends upon the point of view. i — The Pay Board Findings. A sequence of events, but mothing eise, serves to link President Hoover's plans for reduction of Army outlays with the recommendations of the In- terdepartmenial Pay Board for in- creases in pay to personnel in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Coast and Geodetic Survey and Public Health Service. For these recommendations for increases in pay, recognizing the lowered purchasing power of the doller since the last general increase in 1808, should not be construed as affecting in any way the Nation's program of eco- | | | Whether Thomas A. Edison has picked a genius in naming Wilbur B. Huston of Seattle as the heir-apparent to his greatness depends upon tims alone. But, judging by those “little things” that, taken together, give us a key to character, Mr. Edison has chosen a rather normal, straight-thinking and likable sort of voung fellow who should do well in this world with the oppertunities that have been dropped at his door. He believes a Me is justified when “it will save the person lied to any grief, trouble or sorrow and mot benefit yourself,” which, it seems, is a rather sound answer and more con- vincing than if it had stuck to erbi- trary fundamentals and been “Never. If he was on a desert isiand and had to move a three-ton boulder, he said he would try it with a lever and an i the gauntlet through Congress, | Inclined plane, “provided I attempted nomical spending. No economy is ef- fected by pauperizing personnel, and personnel in the services named have already been "tut down by advancing standards to a point whers mere ex- istence on service pay is e difficult prob- lem. The Interdepartmental Pay Board has been working on pay revision since last April. It undertook the work at the direction of the heads of th2 services included. The recommendations, which are yet to name the total expenditures necessary to meet them, must now run Only an optimist would predict immediate and satisfactory results. But the be- ginning has been made in correcting a condition that must be remedied. One of the interesting features of the pay recommendations is the proposal to make future pay inclusive and allow | i ator Smoot the price averages 5.75 cents a pound. He does not belleve that the increase to 6-cent sugar will be a hard- ship on the American consumers—hold- ing that 6-cent sugar is entirely reason- able. He does believe that the sugar producers are entitled to this price, which he says will make it possible for them to continue in the business and make a return on their investment and labor. Furthermore, the veteran chair- man of the Senate finance committee believes that the sliding scale will tend 30 stabilize the price of sugar—at around 6 cents—in this country, and that such stabilization will be of assistance in the end to the sugar business, both produc- S o~ it.” When a newspaper syndicate tried | 1, ypecial allowances for dependents | paper .reporters who sought to inter- to sign up the boys in advance for an article, to be written by the winner, only Wilbur and one other boy de- clined. When he did write the article, after winning the test, he refused to take any pay for it. And when Wilbur | was surrounded by an army of news- view him, he weighed the questions carefully and replied “Nothing doing” to those he refused to answer, with the result that his interviewers failed to make a monkey out of him—something that interviewers are apt to do with the least of encouragement. Wilbur has declined to show great { tion and manufacture. | interest in the classics, much fo the or for expenses involved in lease of quarters, All officers would be on the same footing, with deductions made in salary for officers living in Government- owned bulldings. Pay is based funda- mentally on the grade held, with in. creases for length of commissioned service. The board points out that in recent | vears other Government services have | recelved increases in pay, while the | scale in the Army and Navy has been actually cut 3 per cent. The foreign service has been increased 175 per per cent; assistant departmental uc-i The sliding-scale plan has its appeal Indeed, under the theory of the protec- tive tariff, duties are levied or raised on various commodities produced in this | country so as to give the American pro- i ducer a reasonable profit and to enable him to compete with foreign producers who seek the American market ‘or their wares. If the sliding scale is adopted in connection with sugar, a demand may be made that similar plans for tariff duties on other commodities be worked out. When jt became known that the House committee on ways and means, in its consideration of the tariff bill, bad Increased the duty on sugar, there was & howl raised in many quarters. The housewife and the candy manufacturer, the producer of sugar in Cuba and the sugar refiner were up in arms immedi- ately. But the sugar duty increase was retained in the tariff bill when 1he measure passed the House and the Sen- ate finance committee has been deluged with propaganda against the increase. ‘The sliding scale is a compromise plan, designed if possible to please both the | sugar consumers and the sugar produc- | ers—a hard job. Even if the sliding | scale is adopted, there is nothing to make it irrevocable. It could be amend- ed or discarded by new legislation. It may work well. Certainly it is seem- ingly based on an element of ice. The sugar schedule has alwoys been one of the most troublfsome to deal with in a tariff bill—troublesome for | Songress. Sugar Is regarded as a neces- sity of life in America today. The Na- tion pays a huge sugar bill each year. ! Changes in the tariff may affect this sugar bill materially. About one-third of the sugar consumed in the country is produced here. The American pro- ducers insist that they cannot live with- out the protective duty; that Cuban sugar would soon run them out'of busi- | ness if the duty were removed, and that once the American producers were elim- inated the American sugar consumers ' would be at the mercy of the foreign producers. - - A news note tays that Dr. Snook, charged with co-ed homicide, while in court at Columbus, Ohio, reclined in a beach chair with orange awning stripes, ©Ohio, having developed a great deal of drama, is now paying attention to the acenery. —————— e The Roads to Hoover Camp. President Hoover's camp is nine miles in the mountains from the nearest backwoods town. The rugged, tortuous road is dangerous, especially in wet weather. There has been much comment about the fact that Marines were set to work | retaries, 111 per cent; post office in- chagrin of his father. the hishop, and has had more fun playing with chemi- cals, making radio sets and fishing around on the beach of Puget Sound for shells for his collection. He laughs at the suggestion that he is to “suc- ceed” Mr. Edison: Mis ambition is to study chemistry and work in a labora- spectors, 92 per cent: the judiciary, 62 | per cent: members of Congress, 33 per | cent, and members of the cabinet, 25 | per cent. Since 1908, when the last | general pay increase was put into ef- fect, the purchasing power of the dol- Jar has shrunk to 49 cents. The pay board seeks to bring it back to par. tory and if he had a million dollars left to him within the mext year he | and to Teadjust salaries on the basis of THIS AND THAT America's automobiles have- trans- formed the citizens of the United States mto a Nation of early risers, as tourists get up in the so-called ‘“‘wee small hours” to gain time on the open road. Benjamin Franklin, who °counseled the Nation to rise early, would rejoice 1o see the way automobilists arise be- fore daybreak, to go hustling down the road to greet the rising sun. This 18 the season of the tourist. At front gates throughout the Nation famiiles gather at 3 or 4 or maybe 5 a.m.,, intent on putting a hundred miles or 50 between them and home before the heavy traffic begins. This sensible action does more than give them & good start, however. It gives them a taste of getting up ecarly, puts ihem in touch with the daw: d does something to their minds which i they never wholly recover from. | The lure of the covers is one which most people have to fight their whole life long. Sometimes it seems as if school children and adults are equally divided in their allegiance to sleep. Small boys 5 and 6 yeers old want to rise at 5 o'clock, as every parent knows, and, what is more. they want to make a lot of noise at about the same time. Once they get a little older, this desire largely vanishes. “Henry, it s time to get up!” Henry hears, but_something in his | brain tells him to roll over and pretend he does not hear. “Henry, if you don't get up this min- ute, you will miss your breakfast!" ‘The alarm clock has such a hold on people because it is such a necessity. ‘Without the rat-tat-tat of the alarm countless grown-up Henrys would be late to office or at the golf course. They must fight the lure of the covers all life long. * ok kX The desire to go somewhere handily takes a man out from between covers and puts him on National Road 40 be- fore he has t'me to blink his eyes. He begins days, perhaps weeks, ahead of time. Maps are to be secured, plans made, articles purchased. There must be endless discussion before the delllu‘ of the trip can be worked out. 1t would be possible, of course, to get up at the normal hour. say 6 a.m., eat a leisurely breakfast and start on the journey at 7 or 8 o'clock. Who, however, can resist the oppor- tunity of securing such a big leeway s is involved in starting out at 5 am.? An hour earlier is even better, but 5 o'clock will do very nicely. This will give the party 2 or 3 hours of compara- tively free roads. And one can cover a lot of ground when he has the open road. So the family sets the alarm clock for 4 o'clock. This allows plenty of time for going back to get everything that has been forgotten and to turn off the gas and turn off the water. An additional 10 or 15 minutes lly is secured. since it is not so 'y fo set an alarm clock exactly a: one might think to look at the ap- paratus. In most cases the clock will g0 _off at 3:45 o'clock. Every one in the house is awake when the clock rings, anyway, since every one was excited over the pros- pects of the trip. It is good to hear it ring. however. The clock gives an au- thoritative air to the proceedings. ) ‘Under the stimulus of the alarm, the family arises to its task, sleepily blink- ing in the unusual light given by the electric lamps at this time of the day. when there is so little demand upon the | cent; sections of the Civil Service, 153 | current. Trcaiy Describe In Preparedness for Peace A treaty which depends upon world opinion for its enforcement is welcomed step ever taken in the direction of per- BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL, ‘The suit cases must be put in, and the plllows included for the back, for a long trip sometimes becomes quite tiring in that region. Then there is the matter of extra coats. One never can tell how cold it is going to be up In dem moun- tains! Everybody wants a cup of coffee. | Yes, & little toast will taste good, too. | 1t will be possible to get breakfast any | place along the road, but every one | should have something hot before | starting. It 15 derk at 4 o'clock, even in Sum- mer. Autumn comes on quickly. Do you remember how light it was at 4 o'clock on the morning of July 4? This morning there are few stars, and the air is filled with the magical cool- ness which visits the city even on the | hottest. nights. | To get the full measure of that magic | it 1s necessary to go out into the open. Even the best ventilated room will not do. A sleeping porch is better, but it will not do. One must go forth bereath the stars, when the dew is on the ground, in order to know the full magic guality of morn- ing air. The sun, and the stir of peo- ple, the rising of dust and its settling back again, all cause something to be lost from the freshness of air. £ Humanity, with all its hopes and has gotten out of it! Tt is be- cause man, in the mass, has been asleep ihat the earth has been given time to breathe, and has renewed herself with the inexhaustible sweetness which | dwells in the oxygep layers. * ok K X And now we are to plunge down the road, and speedily help to kick up dust, i i | | fears, THE LIBRARY TABLE By the Booklover Three ideas about the World War run_ through, the novel “All Quiet on the Westes Front,” by Erich Maria : the rigidity and harshness rman drill system, the com- radeship developed in the trenches, and the severance of the young men of the war from their youth. The novel is autoblographical and the author repre- sents his comrades as feeling as he does. He describes the disillusionment following enlistment: “When we went to the district commandant to enlist, we were a class of 20 young men, many of whom proudly shaved for the first time before going to the barracks. We had no definite plans for our future. Our thoughts of a career and occupa- tion were yet of too unpractical a character to furnish any scheme of life. We were still crammed full of vague ideas which gave to life, and to the war also, an ideal and almost romantic character. We were trained in the army for 10 weeks and in this time more profoundly influenced than by 10 yvears at school. We learned that a bright button is weightier than four volumes of Schopenhauer. At first Astonished, then embittered and finally indifferent, we ized that what Tecogn| | matters is not the mind but the boot brush, not intelligence but the system, not freedom but drill. We became soldiers with eagerness and enthusiasm, but they have done everything to knock that out of us. After three weeks it was no longer incomprehensible to us that a braided postman should have more authority over us than had for- merly our parents, our teachers, and the whole gamut of culture from Plato to Goethe. With our young, awakened eyes we saw that the classical concep- tion of the Patherland held by our teachers resolved itself here into a re- l ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERI ‘This is a special department devoted to the handling of inquirier. You have at your disposal an extensive organiza- tion in Washington to serve you in any | capacity that relates to information. { Write your question your name, and i your address clearly, and inclose 2 cents {in “coin or stamps for reply. Send to | The Evening Star Information Burea Prederic_J. Haskin, diréctor, Washing- ton, D. C. Q. Does Russia extend as far to the east as China does?—M. L. A. The Union of Soviet Republics ex- tends much farther to the east than China ¢oes. The Russian port, Vladivo=- | tok; 13 practically as far east as the easiernmost part of China. Much of {“old Siberja” lies north and east of Viadivostok. Q. In what countries are cashew nuts ative?—T. D. A. Central and South America are the homes of cashew nuts. They are originally American, but were carried to many parts of the world by the Portuguese in the fifteenth and six- | teenth centuries. Q. How many spes there?—W. J. H. s of monkeys are species of monkeys. arlo make an enor- bling?—H. B ublished som n a report e time eraged around 6 or 8 per cent a year. Q. What is the difference between a Stock ‘exchange and a curb market? — W. D. R. A. A stock exchange, as generally un- derstood, need not, necessarily, be a | A. There are 550 species and eup- | ago it was stated that Monte Carlo av- | C J. NASKIN. Q. Please give an instance of moving of a very large building—E. H. W A. The Engineering News Record of September 13, 1928, describes the mov= ing of the old San Pedro Hotel at San Pedro, Calif., a large frame structure. The knoll on’ which the hotel stood was removed and the building lowered 36 feet to the new street level. Q. What Jetter in the English alpha- | bet. is used most frequently and what one Jeast frequently?—O. M. J. | A According to printers’ experiences | the letter “e” is the most frequently used of the alphabet, and the letter “2” the least frequently occurring. Q. Is the ouija board supposed to have supernatural power?—M. McC. | A. The manufacturers of the onija board have stated that it is made mere- ly as a toy. They do not claim any | supernatural powers for it. | Q. Are the camphor trees in the | United States of any commercial value? —D. F. B. i A. The Bureau of Plant Industry savs that. camphor trees growing in this country have no commereial value. Q. What is e vivarium?—S. G. A. It is a place arranged for keeping |or raising ahimals. more usually one for terrestrial or partly terrestrial ani- mals, a5 distinguished from sn aqua- | rium, Q. Ts there an aluminized steel?— |D.J. P. A. The Bureau of Standards says that fhere are steels of high aluminum con- tent which are used in the nitriding process. Q. _How many Confederate soldiers | nunciation of personality such as one bullding’ where securities are bOUEDt |are buried in Arlingions - Who erected putting back foreign matter into the velvety air, which seems so cool at this hour. We do not think of this at the time. We are intent on getting started. | “Henry, did you lock the front door? | Are you sure?” Henry opens the door, gets out, plods back to the entrance, glves the door a shake. “It's locked, all right.” he asserts, shaking the doorknob visibly, so that all may see. The family across the street hegrs, too. but contents itself with | hoping that the departure will come 5001 ht, has anybody forgotten any- thing?" ~ For a moment it appears that no one has. Then somebody pipes up with a foreboding, “Why. 1 believe I left the water running in the bathtub!" That's a puzzler. One would not will- ingly go away and leave the bathtub to take care of itself. Visions of flooded Jiving room and paper peeling off walls | come to the timid. 0 | “Maybe I'd better go back and sre. Once more the door is open, once more | n. “All rig] | | 1 | would not ask of the meanest servant -—salutes, springing to attention, pa- ade marches, rraunnng srms, right wheel, left wheel, clicking the heels, in- sults, and a thousand pettifogging de- tails. We had fancied our task would be different, only to find we were to be trained for heroism as though we were circus ponies. But we soon ac- customed ourselves to it. We learned in fact that some part of these things was necessary. but the rest merely show. Soldiers have a fine nose for such distinctions. | * ok | Bitterness over the loss of youth and | | connection with any previous life is ex- pressed over and over again: “Our early life is cut. off from the moment. we came | | here, and that without our Iifting a | hand. We often try to look back on it and to find an_explanation, but never quite succeed. For us young men of 20 everything is extraordinarily vagus, for Kropp, Muller, Leer and me, for all of i us whom Kantorek (their teacher) ealls the “Iron Youth.” All the older men and sold, but any place, even in th open air, as, for instance, “curb” stock | | the monument?—W. A. W. A. There are 415 Confederate soldiers exchanges. Securitles which are not | pyried in Arlington Cemetery. Th | . The Con- upon the large stock exchanges, or e | federate monument there was erected by securities, which have nof. as vet. been listed upon such exchanges, are handled | in what is known as the curb market. The reason nowadays for the existence | of curb markets in the open rather | than in some bullding is that, if the | latter plan were pursued. there wouid | exist, another exchange and it would not be permissible for a member of the regular exchange of the city o be rep- resented thereon, as he frequently now is on the curb. Q. Why is this season of the year called dog davs?—F. F. D. A. Dog days comprise the hot, sultry season of Summer during parts of July and August, so called from the fact that the rising of the dog star Sirius, the brightest star in the heavens, is coincident with the rising of the sun. The ancients thought this eonjunction | caused the instense heat of Summer and the maladies which then pre- extracting _coins at Tel Aviv, the 191 Daughters of the Confederacy, June, . Does New York professional beggars?—L. B. A. John D. Godfrey of the Brooklyn Bureau of Charities. recently stated that these professional mendicants levy a tribute of $125000 daily on New Yorkers and visitors. Mr. Godfrey ea- timates that there are between 6.000 and 7.000 of them and that they suc- cessfully utilize a variety of tricks in from _tender-hearted people. The most. profitable spots are in the subway stations. Q. 1= there an agricultural experi- ment station in Palestine?—S. G. A. One of the most- important phases of the work conducted by the World Zoinist Organization in Palestine is the Agricultural Experiment Station with_its branch in th This scientific insti- L City have many L B. B | the trip to the entrance is made. i | are linked up with their previous life. door opens with a mighty screech, as | loud #s a siren—at 4:45 a.m. | Minutes pass: a form emerges. “It was all Tight.” There is a general sigh of relief. Hoorav! Now we can start! Sh! Don't make so much noise! Do vou want to wake the whoie neighbor- hood? *All right, are we ready?” The motor | whirs, then dies down, as some one s. serts that the second burner from the | left on the gas stove is still burning. The victim knows that it isn't. but there is nothing 1o do but go back and take a look. to be on the safe side. Again the procession. again the wait. Ah, let's go! This time it is sure-fire, and the party is off down the road, in the cool of the morning. away on Amer- ica’s greatest outdoor sport. | | ‘They have wives, children, occupations and interests, they have a background which is 50 sirong that the war cannot obliterate it. We young men of 20, how- ever, have only our parents, and some, perhaps, & girl—that is not much—for at our age the influence of parents is at its weakest and girls have not vet got A hold over us. Besides this there was littl2 else—some enthusiasm, a few hob- bies and our school. Beyond this our life did not extend. And of this noth- ing remains. Kanforek would say that we stood on the threshold of life. And 50 it would seem. We had as yet taken no root. The war swept us away. For the others, the older men. it is but an interruption. They are able to think bayond it. We, however, have been gripped by it and do not know what | the end may be. We know only that | vailed—hence the popular supposition | Vale of Jezreel. that dogs are likely to go mad at this | tute is revolutionizing agricultural season It was by mere accident that | practice there. Among the experimenis the rising of the star coincided with [undertaken, with results which have the hottest season of the year, in the |passed permanently into good farming times and countries of the old astron- | practice in Palestine. may be mentioned omers. 1Its rising depends on the lati- | those relating to crop roiation, Summer tude of the place and is later and later | fallowing and the introduction of sujt- every vear in all latitudes, owing to | able grasses and various types of wheat, precession. In time the star may rise | barley and maize. in the dead of Winter. Obviously there | - i variation in the limits of the dog | Q. Has California’s old age pénsion days, although they are usually counted | bill become a law?—P. N. from July 3 to August 11—that i, 20| A. The bill was signed bv Gov. days before and 20 days after the | Young on Mayv 28, 1929. California i rising in unison of the dog star snd | the tenth State to provide a pension the sun. The date given by Roger | system, Minnesota, Uiah and Wyoming Lang as the beginning of dog days in ' having established such pensions during sbout 735 AD. is July 14. 1929, BACKGROUND OF EVENTS in some strange and melanchol we have become a waste land.” o ow % | _The Comtesse de Noailles, e of the | leading poets of France tod: named | Anna de Brancovan before her mar- i riage, is Rumanian on her father's side and Greek on her mother's. - Her hus- those who were responsible for the band is French, and French is the lan- treaty. guage of her choice—a language which y way | d Aé Unique The crystallization of world opinion, she uses with great skill and subtlety by the press as perhaps the greatest | with statesmen indorsing the views of in her poet She i a member of the Belgian Academy. but not of the Prench BY PAUL V. COLLI. The hand of Communism is against wholly non-partisan or non-ceciarianm everybody who refuses to join in the de- | Pirit. moand fa scrap arderly overnment and | o X% United delegation was headed by pool all essets and rights of the individ- | lined the situation and proposed that ual. In the great cities of Europe, it was | when the names of boys inm need of seriously feared that August 1, “Red|guidance ere submitted by the police day.” would bring communistic Tiots: | they should be referred to the case workers 1o visit the parents of the de- would give some of it to his family value received for services rendered. — manent peace. When President Hoover ' the people, is lauded by the Omaha in the presence of the diplomats of the | World-Herald, the Schenectady Gazette Academy, which dces not admit women. X e consequently great militaristic precau. tions were taken in Paris and Berlin, | linquents—or, as they are termed. the parish, “because it is poor.” and some 1o his father and mother. He reads the Literary Digest, the Atlantic Monthly, the Sclentific American and the Read- er's Digest. It is related that Aimee McPherson asked every one who would contribute | one dollar to her funds to stand. Then | she had the band play “The Star As we commonly accept the meaning of “genius” there is nothing in any of these answers or exhibitions of con- duct that would class young Wilbur among them, unless the exercise of ordinary, common sense and good taste is a stamp of genius. Perhaps it is, and perhaps that explains the rarity of genius, o Mr, Edison neglects the left-hand turn in his questionnaire, assuming Spangled Banner” and every one cam: to his‘feet. It is a good trick: just as | good now as when Al Jolson utilized it | in selling Liberty bonds, | - Mayor “Jimmie"” Walker of New York | is attacked politically becauss of his gayety. There is so much in affairs at present implying solemnity that a little comedy relief appears absolutely essen- tial. TR - perhaps that it calls, not for “genius,” but only for common sens>. o Hunting a Drug Store. | The world’s oldest drug store is in | Berlin. 1t was opened for business | four years hefore Columbus started on | his first voyage and has remained ' open ever since. | The present propriefor, Dr. George Cohen, now is a visitor in America. He | wants to observe American methods in | the drug business and, with this end | n view, set out the other day to visit | some of the New York establishments. At the end of the day he returned to his hotel tired and puzzled. He had wandered all over the great city and | failed to find a drug store. Is it possible, Dr. Cohen asked, that New York's six million are so healthy that they will not support a drug store? Or is there some special condition <which forces American druggists to keep their establishments hidden? 1t was with some difficulty that the German pharmacist was made to un- derstand that the innumerable stores selling soft drinks, light Junches, toilel. articles, books and golf balls actually were drug stores, He had, in fact, been inside several of them during the day without a suspicion as to their real nature. For Dr. Cohen's ancient establish- ment sells only drugs. It has no side- lines. Much the same bewilderment might be the lot of many a European pharmacist in America. He would be forced to hunt long and wearily before finding an establishment which cor- responded in any recognizable way to improving the Hoover camp site and its environs. A company of Army Engi- neers from the school at Fort Hum- phreys are now building a proper ap- proach to the camp. There should be no adverse criticiem. ‘The President is entitled to any re- laxation he cen get during the trying Summer days. He has sacrificed him- self for public service. If he chooses LG live in a camp within easy access of his duties in the Caplital City to be always ready for whatever may demand his at- tention, the Nation benefits. No one in the entire. country should object to providing every proper facility and comfort for the high office of Chief Executive, the greatest office in the gift of a free people. Aside from this disposition not tc stint the President in every convenicnce he should have—he should not un- necezsarlly be thrown intg danaer. If als autom-~hiln - % o~ ey the pharmacy with which he was fa- miliar, ¥ A somewhat similar expefience fell to the lot of many American soldiers in Europe during the war. After ar- riving in France they were restrained for a time n camps, hungering for the sodas and sundaes of home. But in a few days it was possible to get leave to visit nearby towns and there was an immediate search for the local “drug stores.”” The soldlers eould not find any an® wondered how any com- | munity of the twentieth century could be so backward and uncivilized as to allow such a condition. A town of several thousand population without “drug stores.” It was unthinkable. After the armistice a welcome rumor spread among those units destined for the army of occupation, perhaps clever. ly design:d to reduce the grumbling 2t the prospects of a leng stay = the Rhi This was i~ % | | In spite of the activities of street rail- way sccountants, the motorman and the conductor appear to continue doing the 1eally hard work on a Summer day. e Trotsky is still regarded ss a man who can take hold of a bad politicai situation and make it worse. s SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNEON. An Ancient Poetess. , “Sing a song o’ sixpence! A pocket full o' rye!” It was a gentle ditty Of good old days gone by. A little thing like sixpence We view with great disdain: It wouldn't buy in days like these A pocket full of grain. “Four and twenty blackbirds Tt's an order big: You're rather lucky if you get A little slice of pig. Old Mother Goose was singing In a very reckless mood. And had but faint ideas on The future price of food. Consistency. The katydid again will raise The customary Autumn screech, And never win a word of praise For such consistency of specch. ‘Modern Improvements. Every kind of argument, On every sort of thing! Every kind of discontent. ‘That argument can bring! Once we had a pleasant dream: “Do the hard work all by steam! It the lamp ain’t workin® right, Turn on the electric light. Everything we have to do Will be done by methods new. Even music, without feil Will be boxed and sent by mail. Earth will roll all smooth and neat Oiled by luxury complete”— Yet we try in Vain to find People peacefully inclined. Tvery time we turn around We are getting more evolved, At somebody says he's found New problems to be solved! ‘Unenlightenment. The heathen said, “It's very clear That efvilized T cannot be, 7 T ksep Sghting with 8 spear « -n(nlb' NT” world proclaimed the Kellogg-Briand pact American observers hailed a de- parture from historic precedents, in that the document represents preparedness for peace rather than for war. “The world is moving toward per- petual peace.” declares the Milwaukee Journal. “Time alone will tell whether the move is to be sudden and complete or slow and gradual. In either case, the plenipotentiaries of the 46 powers represented in Washington may be sat- isfied with their day's work.” The Roanoke World-News says that “the cause of world peace seems to have been measurably advanced, not only by the formal proclaiming of the Kellogg pact for the renunciation of war as an in- strument of national policy. but by the spirit in which several of the larger na- tions are approaching questions of in- ternational amity and disarmament.” “‘One feels that for the first time in history there now exist definite method: of ‘making peace,’ as always in the p: there have been methods of making war,” according to the Wilmington Delmarvia Star, which feels aiso that “it against war had suddenly been pro- vided with a loud speaker.” The Bir- mingham News thinks that “history written ages hence may take notice of it as the beginning of the dawn of a day destined to lift much of the burden of war making and war preparedness from the backs of mankind.” “Its significance.” as viewed by the Atlanta Journal, “lies not so much in what it is as in what it may become in the trend of thought it reveals rather than in the terms it prescribes. * * * Alliances and leagues there have been well nigh without number, but here we | have a world-wide circle of governments and of peoples professing abhorrence their differences and devotion to the instruments as well as the ends of rea- son and justice.” “Experience has shown,” testifies the Cleveland News. “that placing an indi- vidual or a nation on its honor wiil often accomplish more in the interest of good behavior than the watchfulness of & uniformed policeman or of a nation acting-in the irritating capacity of a big brother.” The St. Louls Times ad- vises: “It would be a Teckless signatory power which violated **~ compact to be good. Forty-six banded powers are an impressive moral and phvsical force on 1his small earth.” The Asheville Times holds that “such marhinery of prolest against war probably would have pre- vented the outbreak of the world con- flict’in 1914.” “It is not unwholesome,” in the opinion of the Charleston Evening Post, “that the universal peace pact should be pro- claimed while there are rumors of war and marshaling of armies between two natfons adheri-z to it, for that in real- ity serves to o'~ » steadiness and sobriety, even solemnity, to the world’s view of the treaty, rather than that it should be accepted and celebrated in an estatic spirit which mlght immediately be transformed into dismay and despair. “A most remarkable evolution in in- ternational politics” "is seen by the Champaign News-Gazette, - while the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel recognizes “a powerful check, an unprecedented check, which requires only the continu- ance and development of public opinion throughout the civilized world to be- come an even larger force for good.” ‘The Oklahoma City Times points to the event as “an admission that most wars may be avolced by arbitration, an appli- cation of common sense to the diplo- matic relations of the world.” “It is in order,” avers the Pasadena Star-News, “to encircle on every cal- endar in the land with red, white and blue the date July 24, 1929. Ages hence the date will be remembered with grate- ful appreciation. A new Magna Cl has come to the world.” The Youngs- town Vindicator proclaims “one of the greatest advances in civilization in all recorded history,” as a result of which the Salt Leke Deseret News and the Port'and Oregon Journal would place « on the roll of immortals the names of |and the H iiton (Ontario) Spectator. | The Richmond News-Leadcr describes | | the treat + as one which “will attaint as outlaw any country that is not willing | “gprin ox of ; g Plowing.” recefved the Rhodes to submit its claims fo the calm judg- | scholarship appointment for the State ment of mankind, and such punishment | ot Vermont and. is studying English The young Vermont poet, Charles | Malam. ‘author of the volume of verse. | especially, to forestall any demonstra- | maledjusted boys—for the purpose of tion. | seeking a remedy or them. The bovs *x %% i should be persuaded to join young An abortive attempt was made in| men's organizations, where good in- Washington to hold a demonstration of | fluences are in the air—always joining Communism at. the corner of Pennsyl- | an organization of their own faith or 13 as if the mighty force of world opinion | of brute force as a means of settling | | even the most warlike will not desire to | incur.” The Columbus Ohio State Journal savs: “The ~Teat nations have | been the principal suTerers from war in the past. For that reason and be- cause they must bear undue burdens it is probable they will give it far more | than passing support.” | _Lauding the spirit of the days of | Woodrow = Wilson, the Fort Worth | Record-Telegram continues: “If it | proves to be as universally .sincere as | were the adherents of the man whose { name alone adorns the corner stone of | the permanent home of the League of Nations, the ceremony will go into his- | tory as the greatest step upward in all of “the climb of civilization.” The Lynchburg News urges that “the next step for the United States is to affiliate |ifself with the World Court and the | League of Nations.” Inadequacy in the provisions of the | treaty to meet the demand for enforce- ment is charged by the Norfolk Ledge | Dispatch, while thé Cincinnati Time: | Star contends: “These arrangements to maintain peace among the nations {tend to stereotype the status quo, to | keep things just as they are, no matter | how far from right things may be.” The | Little Rock Arkansas Democrat s.i- | larly observes: “We wish we could be- |lleve, but we don't. We have not for- | gotten the famous ‘Washington disar- | mament conference' in Harding's day. | W2 wish we could forget it. Therefore, | we refuse elther to acceot or reject as true the news that all is well with 46 | nations.” “All pro-ress is slow and difficult. | argues the Manchester Union, however, | “and it is r=t unliel” that in the near future this treaty will be broadened. | cither intentionally or by precedent. to | include some machinery for reaching & | settlement of the difficulties that come | | Witk its scope.” |Sees Naval Disarming World Peace Menace To the Editor of The Star: The proposal for:a reduction of all naval armaments would appear to have originated with the United States of America. I shall endeavor to show that, in the true interests of world peace, a reduc- tion of the United States Navy would be unwise and dangerous. To_ reduce defense is to facilitate attack. If America after reducing its naval defenses should be attacked the attack would be made by a number of foreign naval powers in combination. Their main object would be to annul their war debts to the United States. An excuse for such a war would be easy to invent—an excuse which would appear to put America in the wrong— and one of the first American citles to be attacked and quite possibly destroyed would be Washington. In Europe it would be a very popular war. The weight of the war debts presses heavily there upon every indi- vidual taxpayer among the debtor na- tions. Approximately one-fifth of every income is paid in income tax, and the people are told that this hardly earned money goes to the already enormously rich United States of America to pay the interest upon the war debt owed tc that country. They are also told that this almost intolerable burden must be borne for 62 years—that is to say, by their children’s children. It may be dishonest, but it is quite natural, that they should seek for an escape from this crushing load of debt. ‘There is, probably, no moral, legal or financial reason why America should reconsider the guestion of these debts, but such sction might be diplomatically | zdvisable. BERTRAND | Vienna, Austria, July 21, 1929, | ——one {to look at him as he slept. { fell on the floor through the open win- . of literature at Oxford. He was also awarded a fellowship for foreign study by Middlebury College, from which he was graduated a year ago. * x % % Mrs. Julia Peterkin, author of “Scar- let Sister Mary,” the Pulitzer prize novel for 1928, lives on a South Caro- lina plantation and knows the Negroes of that part of the South as well as Du Bose Heywood does. The novel is full of the atmosphere of cotton fields, swamps, pine woods, the sluggish river, Negro cabins, heat and sudden storms. ‘There are many such vivid p<stures as the followin, The Quarter street was quiet, except for the children playing around Maum Hannah's door, while their mothers were in the field pioking the first cotton that was opening. The stillness was peaceful except when merry laugher drifted in from the cot-' ton pickers. Contentment filled the world as Mary went about her tasks. humming low to herself so as not to wake the baby, stopping now and then Sunshine dow, making the room look cheerful and bright. Outside in the yard, the clean clothes were hanging on the line, drying. Inside, all the pots on the hearth steamed merrily, the possum was roasting, new potatoes were soften- ing in the ashes. When the rooster hopped up on the doorstep, flapped his wings three times and crowed, Mary stopped to listen, for that rooster had sense. He always knew when somebody was coming and gave her notice.” * x x ok Senor Salvador de Madariaga, for- merly director of disarmament in the League of Nations Secretariat, now professor of Spanish studies at Oxford, has put some of his ideas about na tional psychologies into a book, “Eng: lishmen, Frenchmen, Spaniards.” Many of these ideas are already femiliar to us from his magazine articles and his talks here in Washington not very long ago. In some of the articles our own psychology here in the, United States is the subject of not altogether flatter- ing comment, but we are not included in this book. Senor Madariaga has a theory that in each national group there is a psychological “center of gravity.” In the En it is in the body-will; in the French in the intel- lect; in the Spaniards in the soul. Cor- respondingly, the English keynote is action; the French, thought; the Span- ish, passion. The political institutions of each nation reflect the national psychology. It would not be desirable, it possible, that all nations should have the same manner of thinking. “The admirable variety of national characters is one of the manifestations of the wealth of creation.” b * X kK A modern biography of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, the lovers, is entitled “The Brownings—A Vic- torian Idyl” by David Loth. It is romantic_without being unduly sensa- tional. The marriage of the popular poet and 1dol of drawing rooms, Robert Browning, to the plain, invalid Eliza- beth Barrett, six years his senior, startled cciety and more than startled the father of Elizabeth Barrett, who had devoted hims:1f for years to his invalid daughter, not at all to her benefit. For her the marriage was & revivifying influence and was responsi- for her best poetry—“Casa Guidi “Sonnets From the L Sigrid Undset, winner of the Nobel , “Kristin Lavrans- L prize for her ti datter,” lives in Lillehammer Va not very accessible part of Norway, in an old timber house dating back to 1590. Aside from her writing, her in- terests are her children, her house and her garden, Her fame has caused her vania avenue and Eighth street, Thurs- | day evening. but the attendance was so small and the oratory so inane that no interest, much less excitement, de- | veloped. i { In New York City, upon Union Square, | there was held for two hours a speak- | I fest and waving of red flags, tolerated by | the police. At times, there seemed to be | deliberate attempts to create a riot. led by* some hundreds of youths and chil- | dren, but only two or three arrests were made. The Communist candidate for mavor of New York sat conspicuously in | |a third-story window singing commu- | nistic songs, applauding revolution and | encouraging the youngsters on the street. | to go on with their disturbances of the peace. The Communists present num- | bered upward of 5,000. besides several | thousand “innocent. bystanders” looking on for curiosity. Nobody hurt. | e It was this same organization of | communistic youths who attacked the | Boy Scouts a few days ago, at the pier, | when the Scouts were embarking for England to atiend the great jamboree there. The Scouts, numbering over 1.300 | had already gotten aboardship before | the rioters got up sufficient courage for | a demonstration, so there was no per- sonal clash, but the spirit of the event | siderable difficulty (without hitting any jof the misguided children) in quelling the disturbance, ‘The patience of the American au- thorities under such provocation is amazing. but it seems the rioters in the belief that they will never be repressed, but will be given all the immunity they desire to defy re- straint. So they not only hooted and jeered, but waved banners with insur- rectionary inscriptions. In the Thursday affair, dangerous missiles were thrown from the upper windows at the police, in some cases barely results. * ok x % Optimistically we trust that the “ris- Ing generation” really is no wilder than former youth. But the youth of a gen- eration ago did not leadership that confronts today's com- munistic elements of boys and girls— for this intrigues young girls as well as boys. In many States, there are, today, camps for boys and girls—mixed camps —whzre Communism and “world revolu- tion” are being taught and received with enthusiasm as leading to unbridled license, and the despising of the “old. fashioned” restraints of ‘“‘out-of-date morality. The children are being taught prejudice against the established gov- ernments of all the world except Russia. In California, at Healdsburg, last week, the local post of the American Legion appealed to the county attorney to break up such a children's nest of treason, but up to date no success has been reported. In New York City last week Chief of Police Whalen met & delegation rep senting 40 branches of the Y. M. C. A. the Y. M. H. A. and the K. of f C. in behalf of the saving of youth from the demoralizing influences leading to crime. Chief Whalen proposed to in- stall & new method of reform by re- quiring all precinct commanders of the in their districts who might be aided by social welfare workers to steer them away from their criminal tendencies. \ * % ok ok Surely, when organizations of Jews, Catholics and ‘Protestants can combine in one movement to accomplish any urlm. it is'a sign of a grave crisis and of broad patriotism to meet it, in a — e to be sought by frequen! vislitors, who 80 interfere with her work that she |’ often runs away into the neighbor'-~ mounigins to Aind solitude. was 50 nasty that the police had con- | to encourage | missing serious | have the false | re- | police to compile lists of boys and girls | sect or race. In the course of the conference, several speakers referred to the recent outbreaks of prisoners in the peniten- tiaries, and blame was laid on the Baumes law. because of its extreme severity in requiring life_sentences in case of a third felony. It is asserted that it robs the prisoners of hope, and makes them desperate. There was no attempt to check up that plea for softening the punish- ments of habitual criminals by ascer- taining whether the riots in the three prisons concerned had really been led by the sufferers of the Baumes law or not. No report has given any such data. but the idea is easily caught up, sentimentally, for many people are in- clined to heroize prisoners, regardless | of their crimes. PR What & grand contrast between the conditions and atmosphere surrounding the communstic roisterers of New York with the scenes in London connected with the arrival and marching of 50,- 000 Boy Scouts, sent there from 46 countries spread throughout the world! Boy Scouts are not militarists, they receive no military training. They re- ceive no spirit of destruction, but only | the spirit of unselfish helpfulness and | usefulness whenever opportunity offers. | In contrast with that spirit, there is absolutely nothing taught the com- | munistic youth except envy. destruc- | tion of order, arousing of class hate and disorder and ultimate crime. * ok ox % In the jamboree of Bov Scouts in England, where 50.000 Scouts from 42 countries are in friendly competition, every boy is a “first-class Scout"—which | means that he has shown application in learning and had done the required stunts for promotion. That sort of training preparcs him for “the capacity for infinite painstaking.” and compels admiration ot all observers. | In the Janguage of Wordsworth: | “Heaven lies about us in our infanc: | Shades of the prison house begin 10 close upon the growing boy.’ Has that truth ever been more tragic- | ally illustrated than in the casz of & Iife prisoner in Massachusetts who wes transferred last week from a peniten- tiary, where he has been for 54 years, to another prison. He was 17 vears old when he nad a mania for murdering children. He killed four. He was prob- ably mentally diseased. He is now 71 years of age, and in all thos> interven- ing years he had never seen outside the prison walls, until he was transferred in an automobile, last week, He beheld & world which did not exist when he left, it. He had lost all the development of modern invention and the opportunities of glorious life. He is now too old to | crave a pardon, for he could not support himself. But he is a 17-year-old boy, in a 71-year-qld body. What a pathetic | tragedy! 1 once say a 19-year-old boy hanged for murder. (Copvright. 1929, by Paul V. Collins.) —r—— As She Ts Spoke. from the Charleston. W. Va., Daily Mall More people speak English than any other language. Or, at least, more try to speak it. o Polities Without Science. Prom the Muncie SBunday Sta: ‘We study a lot about political science, but few can recall ever seeing any of it in office. —— Another Ford Wisecrack. Prom the New York Evening Post. 4 Henry Ford's ultimatum that he no one who drinks has not| employ | to do with autointoxication. | | | |