Evening Star Newspaper, August 4, 1929, Page 30

| t THE EVENING STAR —_With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. SUNDAY.........August 4, 1920 ~ THEODORE W. NOYES. <Editor ' The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Of ate ee: 11tp St. and Pennsylvanis wev''§ : East 43nd ew York Offce: 110 East 4ind st Londen, NAtional 5000, Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily only Sunday only . All Other States and Canada. ¥ Dally and Sunday, .l ¥r., $12.00: Dallr only ‘1 31, 18,00 Surday only 13r, #5.00; 1 me Member of the Associated Press. Patches credited to it o tted in this paper and sise the published Rerein. All rights of publicat apecial dispatches herein are a —_— A Republican Moses. The Republicahs are taking time by the forelock. The personnel of the Re- publican senatorial campaign committee was announced yesterday, although the campaign for Senate seats is & year in the future. Senator George H. Moses of New Hampshire has been selected to head the committee and his associates in the conduct of the campaign will be Senators Patterson, Missouri; Vanden- berg, Michigan; Hebert, Rhode Island: Norbeck, South Dakota; Steiwer, Ore- gon, and Hatfleld, West Virginia. Under the provisions of the Constitu- tion, one-third of the membership of the Senate comes up for election every two years. One-third of the Senate membership is thirty-two. But as a rule the number is increased because of the necessity of filling vacancies created by death or resignation. For example, thirty-three Senators will be elecled next year, as the count now stands: Kansas will be called upon to choose two Senators. Senator Capper's term expires and he will stand for re-elec- tion. Senator Allen is serving under appointment to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Vice President Curtis from the Senate last Spring. Senator Allen, too, will seek re-election. Of the thirty-three seats to be con- tested for next year, twenty are now occupied by Republicans and thirteen by Democrats.” The Republicans have such a margin of control in the Senate today that it is virtually impossible for the Democrats 'to overcome it in the elections next year, however. The pres- ent political complexion of the Senate is fifty-six Republicans (including Sena- tor-elect William S. Vare of Pennsyl- | vania), thirty-nine Democrats and one Farmer-Labor Senator, The Democrats must capture nine seats now held by ' Republicans and also must retain all that are occupied by Democrats in order to have a' majority of the Senate. Any such result from the elections next year is entirely improbable. Whether the Republicans will emerge from the cam- paign next year with the same margin of control in the Upper House, however, ' is a.different matter. There will be & number of contested senatorial elections | n all probability, among them the elec- tions in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, ! Kentucky and Oklahoma, where the sit- ting Senators are Republicans. The Democrats are almost sure to lose the seat now held by Senator Steck of Jowa, a strongly Republican State, and will have to fight to retain the seat, held by Senator Walsh of Montana. | Senator Moses is a veteran political } strategist. ‘He has headed the Republi- can senatorial campaign committee in the past. Last year he was prominently identified with Republican high com- mand in the national campaign, and had charge, in a measure, of the cam- | paign in the East. Although two New England States were lost to the Re- publicans in that election, Massachu- setts and Rhode Island, both of which have gone Republican regularly in the past, there were influences at work out- side of the usual political issues which | contributed largely to this change. It is likely the Democtats will make a strong bid for the Senate seats now held by Gillett of Massachusetts and Metealf of Rhode -Island, but the Re- publicans have more than an ‘equal chance, judging from present condi- tions, of holding on to them. v The inventor of. the “death ray” is the proper successor of the man who years ago invented “perpetual motion. The “death ray” has killed nobody and | perpetual motion still depends on some one to wind up the machinery before it runs down. ‘There have been many hoaxes all dependent.on the human principle: that with many people the appeal to imagination is stronger than | the appeal to common sense. Men re- spectfully follow Thomas Edison, but they never quite get away from Hans Christian Andersen, e mema The Greatest Man-Killer. Heart disease again heads the list ©f the great killers of mankind and the Public Health Service, announcing that in 1928, 228 persons out of every 100, 000 in the registration area died from this cause, calls attention to the fact that while the population increased | about one-third from 1917 to 1925, deaths from heart disease practically doubled: while the number of deaths from all causes increased only about one-seventh, death -from causes of which heart disease was & contributing factor increased 81 per cent. ‘The Public Health Service ‘does not | discus: what might be construed as & mitigating factor: that more persons are living longer lives than formerly, | that more are escaping death from . other causes than heart disease and | that more are living to enter that life period when heart diséase claims the greatest number -of vietims. But it stresses a fact ‘that 'is more important because it is contrary to the views .generally held by laymen, to wit, that heart disease is a disease that usually strikes down the aged. On the other “ hand, the Public.Health Service places i the children, for upon them depend the , &s compared to about 12 per cent persons over 40 years of age. Another striking point made by the report is the fact that movements for health promotion are handicapped by the psychological reaction of persons to- new and startling events. and the tendency to overlook and underrate more aserious conditions that develop over long periods of time. For instance, a death from smallpox in a community is apt to result in s wholesale and rather frenzied demand for vaccina- tion as & preventive measure, but the by far greater number of deaths from other preventaole causes creates ‘little or no comment. Few persons realize, the report says, that heart disease is a greater public health problem, and more important, than cancer and tu- berculosis. ' ‘The statistics are used as adding em- phasis to the desirability of periodic examinations, of children .especially, that may reveal sources of infection, such as diseased tonsils, adenoids and decayed teeth, together with the pre- cautionary measures that consist of care in diet and proper rest and exer- cise for those who are affiicted with chronic. heart trouble. The Child Welfare Conference. President Hoover, addressing the planning committee for & Child Welfare Conference to be held at the White House & year hence, declared that: “The greatest of a race is its children. No one will deny the truth of the President’s statement. He might have gone further and said that the greatest asset of the family—as a social unit—is i's children. Both the Nation and the family should safeguard these assetz— 2 in fortunes and the fate of the Nation and family, 1t is toward the adoption of sane and common-sense plans for the proper care and upbringing of the chil- dren that the Child Welfare Conference is to be held. It is proper for the Federal Government to take the lead in such a matter, involving as it does the Natlon as & whole. But in the end it is the loval governments . and the parents themselves who must put into exeeution the plans for the development of the children along proper lines. ‘The conference now called will be the third of its kind. The first was held during the administration of Presi- dent . Roosevell. . Out of it grew the establishment of the Children’s Bureau in the Department of Labor, which has done & most valuable work for the children of the country, through re- search and advice and actual assistance along certain lines. The second of these conferences took place while Woodrow Wilson was President and gave further impetus to the work and development of the Children's Bureau. President Hoover, long before he entered the White House, was keenly interested in child welfare and has given much time and study to the problems invoived in ! the proper handling of ehildr It is time, the President holds, thal | the country as & whole, took stock of the progress and present situation \w(1 the children in the United States. 1t 1s | his hope that out of this stock-taking ' will come recommendations which w.ill | inure to the benefit of the children of | the country as & whole. The planning | committee which is now in session will | o all of the preliminary work for the | conference. Experts will be cngaged on. this work for a year and will make, exhaustive studies In all parts of.the country, so that the conference, when it meets, will have the facts as nearly complete. as possible. The work Wil be | divided among a score of committees, each. with expert assistance, upder the direction of Dr. H. E. Barnard of Indianapolis, executive secretary of the planning committee. Much has been done to improve the health conditions of the children of the country in the past. Much has been done to protect children from the flls vhich follow child labor, and much has been done along educational and secial lines. But there is Toom for further progress and it i8 to that progress the conference will devote its attention. st i Confiscation of improper books be- :omes a difficult matter. A customs offi- cer is not always informed as to the minute distinction which may exist be- tween “a common tale” and a classic. The family or mother of the family re- mains the literary censor most to be relied upon. — e No doubt our Ambassador Dawes would have looked as well in clinging silken attire as anybody. But he in- sisted on regarding the court occasion | as & serious ceremonial and not as ! beauty contest. i e Swindling the Kaiser. ‘The former kaiser has been swindled, to the exlent of thirty thousand dollars. by an Austrian “magician” with & scheme for “uniting the earth and the cosmos”—whatever that means, Such an incident reveals the former German war lord, siripped of his plumes and medals, as a rather stupid, common piace old gentleman—merely another of the vast army of men and women everywhere, ranging in rank from emperors to washerwomen, who are silly enough to invest actual cash in promised miracles. The claims of the “magician” were | ludicrous—but the general rule seems to be that the more extravagant the prompises the greater the effect upon the dupes. The experience of the Eng- lish swindler who actually advertised and sold stock: in a scheme which promised immense profits, “the nature of which will be revealed hereafter,” is by no means unprecedented. And we have the recent experiment of a Cleve- land bank which sought to promote sound investment by advertising = scheme 50 ludicrous that it would be apparent to the worst simpleton, ‘The bank placed in ils window a highly. colored poster adveriising stock for selé in a fur farm to be operated without cost—the fur to be obtained from cats, who fed on rats, who fed on the skinned carcasses of the cats. At the end was a warning that this ab- surdity was no greater than the aver- age get-rich-quick scheme.s But the bank had to remove the poster because,’ despite the warning, so many persens asked to buy some of the stoek. The- dupes by no means are confined to persons mentally incompelent or lacking in experience with the ways| of the world. The former Kalser, for | example, is & man of ordinary intelli- heart disease as the third largest causé of death among children from 8 to 19 years of age. Practically 75 per cent of all cases of heart discase develop in children under 10 years of - gence. and very considerable contacts with men and women of all sorts. Yet he becomes an easy victim of & scheme to harness. the stars to fumnish energy ' THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, to run human machinery. He deserves about as much sympathy as he is likely to get. He can afford such lessons— even at thirty thousand dollars each. 1t is far different with many of the other victims who refuse to believe that there are swindlers in the world or that all products of the printing press are not gospel. It would not be sur- prising to learn that many in the United States also have been vietimized by the Austrian swindler, Nor would it be surprising if, even after the swin- dle had been exposed, he still ‘Will be able to sell stock -to simple, trustful persons who_will be willing to believe his assertions that & cruel government has made him a martyr to his altruism. B Keeping Cool in the Senate. All excuse for heated séssions in’the Senate is about to he removed, Me- chanical refrigeration will keep the Senators coo! in the Senate chamber, even on the hottest days. has jusf been completed and when the Senate reconvenes August 19 should be working smoothly, It is similar to that installed earller this year in the House chamber. Keeping cool in the Senate may be a mixed blessing. Heat has been one of the factors in the past which have finally brought the Senate to a vote on impor- tant measures, when it seemed that nothing could break = filibuster, On the other hand, an even temperature may be conducive to calm debate, a desideratum even in the greatest de- liberative body in the world. The me- chanical refrigeration provided for the Senate chamber is sald to be equiva- lent to melting 350,000 pounds of ice daily. This is 3,500 pounds of ice to a single Senator, if the Senators alone are in the chamber, or 350 pounds of ice if the galleries are occupled. A Sen- ator packed in 3,500 or 350 pounds of ice, as the case may be, should be able to keep cool, whether he does or not. And those who must listen to the Sen- ate debates at least will be able to do 80 in comfort. ‘The installation of the Senate cooling plant comes at an opportune time. It will be more appreciated than had the Seuate met in December for the first lime after the completion of the plant, ‘The Upper Hause of Congress is looking forward with some trepidation to weeks of debate on the tariff bill, when Sena tors may be expected to call & potato & potato and & duty on shingles the iniquity of the age and the G. O, P. Discussion of the sliding scale on sugar, now proposed by Chairman Smoot of the finance committee, and even dis- cussion of the flexible provisions of the tarift bill, may become both cool and calm under the influence of refrigera- tion. Perhaps the duty on furs may be cut under the chilling drafts of mechanically cooled air. Summer sessions of the Senate, which in the last score of years have been fre- quent, led to the adoption of a resolu- tion a year or more ago for the re- vamping of the Senate chamber, so that the “lobby"” would be eliminated and the north wall of the chamber become the north wall of the Senate wing of the Capitol. The latent idea was to bring about some connection with the great outdoors. Plans have been drawn for such s change in the chamber. But these may now be abandoned, saving the taxpayers half a million or more dollars and’ preserving the historic old Senate chamber in its original shape. 1t was found not to be practical to have windows opening directly into the The plant | “LIFE'S ULTIMATE” BY THE RIGHT REV, JAME D. €., AUGUST 4. E. FREEMAN, D. D, LL. D., Bishop of Washington. - Text: Acts, 19—"A cloud received Him out of their sight.” The climax of the narrative that records the short story of the life of Christ is His ascension. No matter what interpretation we may put upon 1t the logic of 1t is irresistible. It would dificult to think of the passing of Christ from the vision of men in any other way. From the beginning to the end His whole life was ascent, and what in others might seem miraculous jand well h impossible, in His life | seems normal and naturs - There is that in this narrative of the ascent of Christ that is stimulating and inspiring. - It suggests the highest ex- ression of life's truest fulfiliment, its jogical and reasonable climax. That c{rm designed His life to be the true symbol of all life is clearly evident. ‘While we may not approximate it, there it stands, the incomparable example of what life was designed to be and may ultimately become. Christianity is not & formula, it is more than a system, it is a life. The Master, Himself, de- clared: “If any man willeth to do My will, he shall know of My teaching.” To His mind the proof of His method of living was disclosed in the actual demonstration of its value. Life on ascending scale is the for men. The old hymn that and again sing expresses accurately the habit of most of us: “See how we grovel here below, Fond of these earthly toys; Our souls how heavily they go To reach eternal joys.” It is inconceivable that one should accept the teachings of Christ, make earnest endeavor to develop life after His pattern and not be conscious of growth and enrichment, and the attain- ment of a higher vision of its mean- | Ing. There may be no yardstick by which we can measure spiritual growth, but at least we may from time to time discover to ourselves, whether we stand on_ higher levels and have a broader vision of life’s meaning than we did | when we began our ascent. That is & fine inscription that marks the resting place of an Alpine climber in the little village of Chamounix. It records a tragic ippening in. which an in- trepld mountaineer lost his life on the bleak sides of Mont Blanc. Under name are these words: “He died climbing. It was in an upward ascent with his face toward the of the lofty mountain' that hé met his death. Better to die climbing than to die descending; better to live climb- ing, seeking new heights from whence to secure extended vision, than to live forever'in the lowlands. 2 ‘The late Bishop Brent has a delight- ful volume entitled “The Mount, of Vision.” It represents in picturesque language his finer understanding of the meaning of life and its pu , as he ascended step by step on his pllgrim- age, which brought him ever to higher levels. That splendid soul, Henry Drum- mond, wrote & notable book, “The As- cent of M in which he sought 1o gradual development or he progressed in an as- cending scale to a finer uglvrehemlon of the purpose and mean! of life. The book is more compelling Dar- win's “Descent of Man.” Life’s ultimate is the attainment not only of a finer vision of the meaning and purpose of being, but a finer visior cf the part God has designed for us in His eternal scheme of things. To come to maturity or old age and not to feel that we have played, in part at least, the role God designed for us o partnership with Him in the outwork- ing of His mighty scheme, is to fail of true attainment and to find ourselves at the end of the way on the lower levels when we might have stood witih glowing satisfaction upon some lofty eminence. One of the finest prayers of which we have knowledge expresses a.nol aspiratiol ‘Grant, we beseech Thee, Almighty God, that like as we do believe Thy only-begotten Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, to have ascended into the heavens, 50 we may also in heart and mind thither ascend, and with Himn continually dwell who liveth and reign- eth with Thee and the Holy Ghost, one God, world without end. Amen.” BY WILLIAM HARD. It is & new world of its own that stands revealed at this week end in the current sessions of the American In- stitute of Co-operation at Baton Rouge, La., where four members of the Fed- eral Farm Board—Mr. Legge, Mr. ‘Teague, Mr. Williams and Secretary of Agriciilture Hyde—have mingled for in- struction and for acquaintance with the outstanding executive managers of the American agricultural co-operative movement. The labors and careers of in American business. ‘The personal records of a few of them, picked out al- most at random, will indicate the type of experience and of accomplishments which they exhibit. ‘There is, for instance, C. O. Moser of Institute of Co-operation as its chali man. Mr. Moser used to be an agent or expert in the United States Depart- ment of Agriculture. He was sent to Texas to open the first Federal dairy demonstration station in that State. He was. subsequently employed by Dallas County to be a “county agent” in the service of local agriculture and in the encouragement of progressive agricul- tural methods. At about that time the cotton growers began to organize them- selves into co- tive groups. There these managers constitute a new note | Dallas, Tex., who this year serves the ! New Note in American Business Seen in Co-operation Institute toward trade problems and toward | legislative policies. | Mr. Holman conspicuously illustrates |the truth that in the American agri- cultural co-operative movement of today {there is abundant opportunity for s | career of distinction and of soclal public service, (Copyright, 1929. — oo {U. S. Tourist Harvest Bright for Canada BY HARDEN COLFAX. Although drought is menacing the returns from Canada’s greatest source of income, agriculture, the harvest from its second major wealth-producer, the | tourist traffic, promises to be greater this year than ever before. | August is the peak month of tourist travel in the Dominion, and Monday will see the beginning of the movement in strength. The Dominion and provin- | cial governments and municipal bodies I have put special emphasis upon their advertising campaigns this year, hav- | ing in mind the steadily “increasing business brought by visitors from the States since 1924, when the first or- | ganized efforts to attract tourists were | launched. Prospects are that the official budgets for next year will | appropriations for the publication and | distribution of booklets. maps and other | descriptive matter.: Despite the in- | crease this year in_the printing appro-| priation for the Dominion's nationar pe Senate chamber, Drafts probably would | Was formed ultimately a central body | resources intelligent service. -which is have increased the mortality rate of Vice Presidents, whose backs would have been turned to any north windows. The new refrigeration plant, which promises to give the Senate not only cool but well cleaned air, is expected to result in finally placing the plans for rearrang- ing the Senate chamber “on’ ice.” — r—————— = There would be gratitude to Mr. Smoot if, after thinking the matter over, he should relinquish his idea of annihi- lating tobacco and be content to im- prove the quality. San Domingo is frank in indicat- ing that it would like to use the finan- cial talents of some of its eminent friends in straightening out its fiscal affairs, el A Los Angeles man left among his effects an illicit still. A considerate husband leaves his wife real estate and securities. PR T Zeppelins are confidently éxpected to attain & perfection which will. prevent their trips from being matters of daily public suspense. e SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Realms of Pérfection. Some day the telephone will give, First-off, the number we Tequest. Some day the family will live At lowest prices for the best. Some day no glass strewn in the street Will cut the tires on which we roll. Some day no arguments we'll meet ©On methods for the world control. But when that day arrives we'll find No need of words one’s thoughts to tell; And it will need no daily grind To buy what earthly venders sell. The streets of gold will brightly shine, And wings will bear us forth to roam. When that day comes, oh, friend of ‘mine, We'll find that heaven is our home. Sineere Approval. ; Out yonder where the breakers whirl Was Gladys, dressed so neat. A shark drew near and said, “That girl We've scarce completed Sunday's rest Before we pause to view The calendar and find it blest With blissful days anew. 5 And so we hail in accents gay ‘The time that we foresee. When every day's & holiday, How happy we shall bet As we behold, with gathering cheer, Incraase at such a rate; Perhaps we will enlarge the yeat For room to celebrate. We'll hold parades and shout, “Heorayi” From care forever free. When every day’s & heliday 4 How happy we shall bel Selfishness. wonder why my woes 8o very serious to me, ¢ While: such as other -people bear. ‘should be called the American Cotton Growers' Exchange. Its president was Carl Wil- liams of Oklahoma, now & member of the Federal Farm Board. Mr. Moser became its secretary. He. then, after Mr. Williams' retirement, was advanced to being its president. Now from a start as an expert, he is an_extremely considerable business man. The cotton handled this year through the Ameri- can Cotton Growers' Exchange will amount probably to approximately one million bales—which is a vast-lotal of commercial transactions. Again, there is 8. D. Sanders of | Seattle, Wash. He moved into the State of Washington from the South and after a time became a large force in the organizing of local branches of the Farmers' Union. He then helped eatly to promote the organizing of the local wheat growers into the co-ope: tive undertaking called the Tri-State Grain Co. It went down With the sink- ing of the Sapiro wheat pool of .the Northwest. Mr, Sanders survived to become quite prosperous as a farmer nd as a*small-town business man and became interested in poultry. He re- tains at the same time his interest in co-operation. He helped to lead in the organization of the Washington Egg and Poultry Exchange, & co-operative institution, " and became its president and business manager. 1t operates ex- tensive plants and now sells in the neighborhood of eighteen million dol- lars’ worth of poultry products annually. ‘There is also John Brandt of Minne- sota. He was & farmey of no commer- cial business experience in_the region of the town of Litchfield. He observed the scatlered creamery establishments owned co-operatively. by farmers. ‘Their disunion impeded them from having any collective effective weight in the hey presently were put to- al hundred of them. a great corporate union. Mr. Brandt was made its president. It proceeded to Install a progranf of development based on quality. It took advantage of | strict governmental inspection _and added to that inspection a national | advertising promotion of its own brands. It _became, and it continues to be, the Iargest single markeling agency of sweet cream butter in the world. Most interesting of all the characters in the meetings at Baton Rouge, how- ever, is Charles W. Holman, one of the originators of the Institute of Co-opera- tion and its managing secretary. Mr. Holman began his working life as a newspaper reporter in Texas, but soon became & reporter: not for .the daily press, but for the journalism of agri- culture. At the age of 26 he conducted a national investigation of agricultural jmarketing methods on behalf of the ,,u-rlculmnl magazine called Farm and Ranch. He was, and is, like George Russell of Ireland, a curious combining of the temperament of the literary man and of the temperament of the reformer dedicated to agricultural human progress. He pursued his studies of that prog- ress, and of the means necessary o it, in Britain, in Ireland, in Japan, in Manchuria, in Siberia. He served the food administration &t Washington He established himselt agricultural magazines and as an organ- izer and_ secretary of agricultural so- cieties. He inhabits offices in an im. pressive old residential edifice now am- bitiously labeled a “Temple of Agricul- ture.” There he labors as secretary of the National Co-operative Milk Produc- ers’ Federation and as eccretary of the National Board of Farm Organizations, He probably, on behalf of the co-opera- tive milk producers of the United States, has becnt more persuasive and successful in the halls of Congress than almost any other Jegislative representative of social causes in the Capital City. He is now undertaking, without any abandonment of the American Insti- tute of Co-operation, which is a body for conference and for ote the o prome | Chamber of | which shall be a. sort trade league .of. ‘llfl for 3 &nmm “tive associations m&ulmmeflm-em | into the Dominion is s | under the department of the interior, | with headquarters at Ottawa, the of- | ficials in charge report the demand in | excess of the supply of matter for | prospective visitors. ' $300, 000 Spent in Year. Canadian officials estimate that tour- ists from the United States spent $300.000,000 in the Dominion last year, an income second only to that from the vast grain and fruit belts and charged to agriculture. The traffic by | motor, rail and water has been heavier this year than last. Recognizing the value of the auto- mobile traffic. provincial governments are expediting widening of roadways on the principal arteries, thus augment- ing the already excellent system of paved highways, ‘The effects of the motor traffic may be seen in increasing measure in vil- lages as well as cities—tourist camps and the gasoline and service stations are being built with almost frantic haste. Canada has been favorably known for its hotels for yea: ‘These accommodations are being increased to care for tourist business, which, while heaviest in the Summer, is also not a factor to be ignored in the Winter. ‘The railroads contribute heavily to the increase in $)urist traffic in Can- ada, which is not by any means con- fined to automobile parties. One rail- road company opened the largest hotet lin Canada here in Toronto less than {wo_months aen: another is completing in Ottawa an addition to its hatel, and the combined investment represented by these two projects alone is more than $18,000,000. Canada’ is seeking tourists not only because of the money visitors spend in the Dominion, but because of the op- portunities thus afforded for advertising her wealth of resources and opportuni- tles for investment and for profitable residence. Distribution of Money. The gold which tourists are pouring ead about in proportion to the population—that is, it is heaviest in the more thickly set- tled central provinces of Ontario and Quebec. This is particularly true of the automobile traffic across the border, these two provinces being closest to the congested areas of the United States. ‘The American Automobile Association estimates that before the present season closes, 12,000,000 United States motor- ists in more than 3,700,000 cars will have entered Canada this year, leaving in the Dominion some $187,000,000, as contrasted with $167,000,000 which the organization estimates such tourists spent north of the border in 1928. Canadian figures of tourist expendi- re somewhat in excess of those United States, where the De- estimates $237,- tures in the partment of Comms 000,000 was _expent north of the border in 1928. Thi fima derll’lmtnt estimates that Canadlans visiting the United States spent $86,000.000 in this country last year. In order to arrive at some basis of accuracy in the estimates, both governments issued questionnaires to a cross-section of tourists last year. ‘The Dominion Bureau of Statistics is polling & greater number of tourists crossing to visit the United States this year in order to try to get more exact calculations. It is known definitely that 3,645,000 United States automobiles entered Can- ada during 1928 for pleasure purposes, this being the number of permits issued. The number this year probably wili be greater than the A. A. A. estimate of 2,700,000 (Copyright. 1929.) ) A Sure Thing. From the Toledo Blade. 1If all the automobiles in this country were placed end to end, the last driver in the line would wear out his horn. — et . Too Much Indorsement." Fiom the Terre Haute Star. The Wickersham -prohibition plan w; worked if sides hadn’t have_even larger | -1929—PART 2. Capital Sidelights I, WILL P. KENNEDY. Blue Ridge Mountains, in the Shenandoah Nation- al Park, where the President is thrash- ing out tariff problems with Senator Smoot, and where the immediate ap- the | Proaches are being improved by Com- pany A, 13th Engineers, lies through historic reglon .with many_shrines of patriotlsm marked for ‘the tourist. This route is becoming much traveled ince the President pitched his camp, andis to be one of the mala entrances to_the natlonal park. From the Lincoln Memorial and the ‘Washington ' Monument in the Na- tional Capital the route lies across the “historic. Potomac”—soon possible by the new Arlington Memorial Bridge— past Arlington National Cemetery and the Tomb of ‘the “Unknown Hero to Alexandria, quaint old town with a varled history. This neighborhood was first settled in 1695, long before there Wwas such a place as Washington. In the early days of the Republic it was a busy ‘port and paid a ransom of $100.000 to the British in 1814 to avoid bombardment. From 1790 to 1846 Alexandria was part of the District of Columbi: which it was given back to Virginia, From 1863 to 1865 Alexandria was the seat of government of those countles of Virginia which remained within the Federal lines, Here are preserved many relics of Wi and on the outskirts of the city the tourist passes the Masonic Memorial to Washington being erected by the Masonic orders of America. Braddock and after him ‘Washington made history at the old Carlisle House, dating from 1752, At Christ Church Washington was a ves- 'fl:ymu:;‘ and Robert E. Lee was con- rmed. ‘Then on to Fairfax—where Mosby made his midnight raid on March 8, 1863, and captured the Union Gen. Stoughton. Six miles west of Fairfax were fought two battles of Manassas or Bull Run. At the first battle Mc- Dowell gathered his forces there July 18, 1861, to attack Beauregard. who lay west of Bull Run. A part of the Union Army moved north to cross Bull Run and turn the Confederate left wing, July 21, 1861. This movement brought on the battle. Preceding the second battle Pope gathered his forces there, August 30-31, 1862. He detached troops to check Jackson at Ox Hill, while the Union Army retreated to the defense at Alexandria. ‘Here also Joseph Johnston built fortifications in the Win- ter of 1861-62, while the Confederate Aimy was camped at Centerville, It was these strong works that led Mc- Clellan in the Spring of 1862 to attack Richmond from the York-James Penin- sula, instead of from the North. It was at Bull Run that Gen. Jackson was given his sobriquet of “Stonewall. From here began McDowell's retre: that ended at Washington. ‘Then on to Warrenton, 6 miles south- east of which is the first blockhouse in this part of Virginia, for protection 2gainst the Indians, which was built about 1683. The town was named for George Brent, engaged in a scheme for bringing Huguenots here to settle. About 2 miles north of Warrenton stood George Neavil's Ordinary, built at an early date and in existence as late as 1792. George Washington and George Willlam Fairfax. on their way to the f_mundonh Valley, stopped here in Five miles west of Warrenton, Stuart, starting with his cavalry on August 22, 1862, Tode around Pope’s army to Ca lett Station. He destroyed supplies and other materials and captured Pope's headquarters wagons. Nine miles west of Warrenton, “Stonewall” Jackson in the campaign of second Manassas, on his march around Pope’s army by way of Jeffersonton to Bristoe Station, turned north, August 25, 1862. Three miles west of Buckland, Gen. McClellan issued his farewell orders to the Army of the Potomac, November 7, 1862. At Sperryville, some 15 miles due north of Criglersville, which is the nearest town to Hoover's camp. an engagement took place between Robertson's brigade and the 1st Maine Cavalry, July 5, 1862. Eight_miles southwest of Warrenton. i in the campaign of second Manassas. Here, August 24, 1862, they formed the plan 1o attack Pope’s line of supply and bring him to battle before Mc- Clellan could join him. ‘Then on to Culpeper—just north of which place is buried Gen. Edward Stevens, who served at Brandywine, Camden, Guilford Courthouse and Yorktown. He died on August 17. 1820. At the southern entrance to Culpeper is Greenwood, the home of Judge John Williams Green, where Lafayette was entertained on August 22, 1825. Just & little northeast of Culpeper, at Kellys Ford, Maj. John, Pelham, com- manding Stuart's horse artillery, was mortally wounded, March 17, 1863, Between Culpeper and Brandy was staged the opening of the Gettysburg campaign. On this plain Lee reviewed his cavalry, June 8, 1863. The next day the cavalry battle of Brandy Station was fought. On June 11 Ewell's Corps, from its camp nearby, began the march to Pennsylvania. At Inlet is the grave of Betty Lewis, sister of George Washington. She died March 31, 1797. Two miles south of Culpeper, the lone peak to the northeast, Mount Poney, was used by Pope as a signal station 862. in . A:HAcxDI ..(k. X—DbkHEshshss Some 10 miles south of Culpeper is Clarks Mountain, behind which Lee's was_gathered August 17, 1862 From a signal station on the mou tain top Lee looked down on Pope's army, which he wished to attack. Pope, realizing his danger, retired northward. Nine miles south of Culpeper, “Stone- wall" Jackson halted his advance late in the afternoon of August 9, 1862, | having driven Banks back from Cedar Mountain, It was approximately 16 miles south of Culpeper -that Jackson formed his line of battle and received the attack of Banks' corps of Pope's army. From there he attacked in turn, ving the Union forces northwest. It was some few miles north of Warrenton that John Marshall, the great interpreter of the Constitution, had_his home. The land was bought by Thomas Marshall, the Chief Justice's father, who built the old part of the house in 1773. John Marshall lived there until he entered the Army in 1775. Years later he built a new house for his eldest son. It was near here that “Stonewall” Jackson, after a march of 26 miles on his way to Bristoe Station, halted for a few hours to rest his men on August 25-26, 1862. On_the hill on the western outskirts of Culpeper the famous Culpeper Minute Men were organized in 1775, John Marshall, later Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, was a lieutenant in this outfit. Coles Hill is some 10 miles north- west of Lignum and east of Mount Poney. Both were used by Pope as signal stations in 1862. Brandy Station was the scene of many cavalry actions. A great cavalry battle took place there on June 9, 1863, between Stuart, screening Lee's move to Gettysburg, and the cavalry of Hooker's army. “In Sperryville was: organized from troops of Fremont, Banks and McDow- ell th':zl)nlon Army of Virginia, June 26, 1862. - Another Form of Relief. From the New Bedford Evening Standard. In this: part of the world the farm relief most needed is a couple of days of steady rain. ————— o He Deserves a Bust, From the Bay City Daily Times. ‘Whoever wrote that line about “car- riages without horses shall go and ac- cidents fill the world with woe” ought to have a bust in the Hall of Fame. R A Different’ Matter. From the Roanoke Times. People who have children are always just a bit uncertain about the right way to raise them... Bus childless people have no such.feeling of uncertainty on. Sound Pictures Interest Italians BY FREDERIC J. HASKI! No one ever has figured out precisel: why it is that grand opera hl.!vllwly: flourished more luxuriantly in Italy than anywhere else. The climate has been cited as a cause, the brilliant sun- shine being credited with keeping the geople 30 intensely happy that they urst into song at the slightest provo- cation. Of course, after O Sole sets ;m.u_ lrlm:nd dewenl:x the hlmbcmn- inaie use of daggers is a popular sport. Perhaps the overdose of sunshine dur- ing the daylight hours has the effect of concentrating operation of the darker passions during the hours of the night. Whatever the cause, the fact remains that the Italian will sing—and prefer- ably opera. So it is with considerable interest that the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic . Commerce at Washington learns.that. there is a scheme afoot to make sound motion picture operas in Italy. The development, it would seem, was inevitable. $ Italy first heard sound pictures in April of this year. April is decidedly a Spring month in Milan, where the initial presentation of a sound. picture (American, by the way) was made. Those who heard it were immediately captivated, the bureau here is advised. But Italian national pride was roused in a curious fashion. Italy has for years enjoyed motion pictures. Indeed, that country has sent us not & few splendid screen actors, of whom the greatest was the late Ru- dolph _ Valentino. Italians, however, seemed to remain content with Amer- ican fllms, and only the most half- hearted efforts ever were made to pro- t | duce- films in the ancient Roman state. Such efforts ere fail- as were made ures. : Ttaly Ts Home of ‘Opera. - itures stirred deep feelings. The visual picture was all very well as a product of America, or any other foreign coun- try. Indeed, La Scala, the most famous opera house in the world, lent its stage to the presentation of flims, although for generations it had refused the priv- llege to legitimate stage plays. Every opera of any importance ever written has been presentec at La Scala, and the career of no opera singer is capped until an appearance on the stage of La Scala is arranged. It was a triumph, indeed, for American films to be given the La Scala presentation. But when it comes to sound pictures, pictures in which the actors sing audi- bly from the silver screen, the Italian realm is being unpardonably invaded. Sound, especially in musical fofm, is the peculiar prerogative of Italians. Why, the very first operas ever written were composed by Italians. who turned them out by the hundreds! Further- more, all subsequent operas have fol- lowed, to greater or less extent, the model first laid down for the operatic form by Ttalians. No great composer ever was 1¢2lly successful, the Romans claim, no mat‘er where he hailed from. until he spent a few years in Italy to get t)!‘le p;oper operatic germ on its na- tive heath. Italy’s chief export has always been grand opera. Of cource. when Italy | was Rome it exported lexiorns to con- quer the world, but now that have is most notably represented in other. | Occidental lands by operas. opera »ing- ers and organ grinders. Did any ore! those days long since, the Euroycan boot But the advent of the ‘sound pic-| ever see an organ grinder of any but Italian nativity or at least descent or extraction? No part of the world, in the opinion of the Italians, has a clear right to produce real gra Italy. They are willing and eager to produce it for the benefit of the world, never clinging to it or embargoing it for exclusive use in their own country; be- cause they know that, like Providence, music is something which one may take with Rim to the ends of the earth and yet leave behind. Why, “O Sole Mio" itself, was ‘composed ‘for' the ial American occasion of President Grover Cleveland's appearance at‘the World !‘lls!:, in° Chicago. - . upon - hearing sound pictures, Itallans instantly concluded thgl MAB!I had to be taken to maintain Italy's operatic place in the sole. When a be {ter method of producing grand opera was discovered.. thought Italy, Italy would produce it by that method. . - Ready to Furnish Talent. During the six months’ season at La | Scala Opera House in Milan opera is | performed practically every day. Bach year sees the presentation of new operas, but the mainstays are the old | ones hich are sung over and over again. The children in the streets of Milano, Firenze, Roma and many an- | other Italian city can sing the entire | scores “of the operas of Italian com- posers—Verdi, Donizettl, Leoncavallo, {Mucnrni. Puccini, Scarlatti and many | others. Other cities besides Milan have | noted .opera houses. Their clientele is |unlike that of, say, -the Metropalitan | Grand Opera House in New York, where as many persons go o see what jewels | their neighbors are wearing as to. hear | the music. . Prices are much lower. and | the very poorest people attend, not to compare each others’ rags,.but to listen and learn. An Italian street beggar will spend his alms on a seat at the oper: | 8o it is regarded by the Italians | the natural thing for them to make the | world opera-conscious by putting their great works on the smnging screens. There are so many- trained singers in | Italy that this will provide a new and | welcome source of employment. Hun- ]dreds of singers, with entire roles and scores well learned and rehearsed, are always ready at a nod to spring to the | boards to take any part in any oper- atic production. They are equally ready to spring before a recording machine. ‘The Italians do not lay claim to being in advance of Americans in the actual | production of sound pictures from the | technical and mechanical point of view. IWhIt they are ready to furnish is the l'.ll!nt. ‘The -Bureau of - Foreign and | Domestic Commerce here therefore | sees an excellent trade opportunity for | American producing- companies to avail | themselves of the readymade grand opera companies of the Italian cities. | 'There would be absolutely no difficulty |in getting plenty of people at relatively {low salaries capable of IW‘HJ creditable | operatic performances. Little difficulty | would be experienced, the bureau says, | in obtaining the rights to produce works | which still’ are under copyright. - The |works. of Verdl. Puccini, Mascagni, Leoncavallo, Giordano and some others are still controlled commercially, but | there are operas to be sung which were | composed long before there were such ‘!mnn as copyright laws and which ,ra;;sbeen public property for gener- 'Fifty Years Ago In The Star 1f when the First Lady of the Land of 50 years ago was indulging in her i New China for the {’,’c‘;‘,’\""me"'chf,:.' Whi which was to ite House. 7 le® the white House table ‘at functions of state she desired somethirig which would strike an extraordinarily distirictive - note, ~the following description of ‘some of the decorative designs printed in The Star Lee and ‘Jackson had their headquarters | of august 2. 1819, would indicate that | the lady’s wish must surely have been fully gratified, and. incidentally. that if and when used it must have rivaled the most brgllintl_v ‘m\;‘mln ted volume of nursery rhymes of the B | “Mr. Theodore R. Davis-of the stafl of Harper's Weekly has completed and sent to Haviland & "Co. in Limoges, France, over 50 designs ‘for a state | dinner ' set_of chinaware ordered for the White House. Mr. Davis gives the following account of it: ~*The set will | embrace a special design for the oyster | plate. The soup plate is modeled from the Kalmia flower. the mountain laurel, than of the narrow-based plate at present in use. It is the flower with its | natural base instead of the circular | base, and the .decoration of this series { will 'be simple, though strong in color. embracing this list of subjects: A clam bake, crab, green turtle, okra, palmetto, | cabbage, maize, potato, laurel, frog. | ““'The fish series of 12 is headed by | & platter, the decoration of which is a | magnificént shad, gilled in a golden net. The form of this fish is novel, being rectangular, with the edges rolled and tipped with' dead gold, The decorations lobsters fighting, speckleg trout, ter- rapin of Maryland, and the red snapper of the Gulf of Mexico chasing a butter- fiy-fish. The game series embraces de- | signs representing” different species of American game ~feasting or flying, | bathing. etc. *“The dinner’ serfes will consist of 12 plates, illustrating the following sub- jects: An antelope in the cactus bad- lands; a bear in & beé-tree,‘in which Mr. Bruin has got into trouble, while a comrade, ted ‘comfortably below, laughs at him, and a‘thunderstorm in the distance gives tone to the’ picture: & black-tailed bear ascending the slope of the Rocky Mountains at sunrise; a big horn or Rocky Mountain sheep; an old buffalo in-a snowstorm, surrcunded by coyotes and gray wolves: chicken a garden coon in & persimmon tree; the crane’s ‘walk around’; on the plains at night with Custer; the Mayflower; peccaries, or the wild pigs of America, l‘l’;d the Virginia deer, which is a night effect. “‘The jack-light is in gold with its reflection sparkling in the water be- neath, and its gleams tingeing the lily- pods with' gold. A noble buck stands knee-deep among. these. The dessert set will be quite simple in design, the | subjects being entirely American, and embracing among others the following ‘The pecan nut of Texas, the chincapin, the pa aw and the simmon. The last plate of the service will be of Indian design, & facsimile of an Indian | plate, artistically handled. This plate is led ‘crackers-cheese and ' cigars.’ e introduced an independent Ameri- to give & point bf color and a reflective light in the glasses. It is a pond-lily leaf, slightly curled, and upon the surface of the leaf is a drop of Havi- land's faience glaze simulating wate! ‘The after-dinner coffee cup is of a ver) novel design, and quite unlike any cup at present in use. ‘The tea-cup is a Mandarin’s hat inverted. The stem of a spray of the tea plant forms the handle. ‘The chocolate cup is also novel. Mr. Haviland writes that there will be but 25 sets designed by Haviland and my- self, -and the President’s set -will be numbered. Is Play Work? From the Butte. Mont., Daily Pos Our hardest working citizens nowa. days are those on vacation. For, as the small boy said, “Play is work you think up for yoursel 3 . R AR Was Emerion Right From the Charleston (W. Va.) Daily Mail. - Who's going to hitch his wagon to a 'star ‘when an'airplane would be mus ‘better? | erems This Answer Is Easy. From the Bay Oity Daily Times..: . :Scientists have - found a . prehistor! ways. n'l.l.l‘l old trianism, v 7. | the form being that of a bowl rather | | include a bluefish chasing a porgy, | in | can butter plate, the object of which is | This and That By Charles E. Tracewell. | | Word comes that Little Nipper and Blondy Belle are enjoying life on the Pennsylvania farm to which they were shipped recent! | Cats have neither memory nor re- {gret, in a large sense. Perhaps they have a -recollection of a sort, but not | of the human type. | 'So when Nipper -and Blondy Belle i were let-out of their crate they. teok {to_their new life like ducks to water. In & few hours they seemed per- | fectly at home. .No. doubt if they were returned to Washington and put down | ence more in the living room with their | brother, Capt. Boggs. they would find | him strange and hostile. ° . From man’s standpoint this lack of -memory is sad. but from the animal | viewpoint—at least from man's view. of the animal- viewpeint—it .is. wholesome. Brute creatures, in such a world as | this, are so much the-victims of chance, | caprice. fate—call it what you will— | that memory would but add cruelly to their burdens. ‘The power of oblivion is what they | need, and which they possess in abun- .| dance, and it is better so. * X ¥ % | The flat roof of one of the farm jbufldln‘s has been made into a roof Ig-rden. and there Nipper and Blondy Belle spent their first few days frisking around on the battlements. [ Nipper's orange eyes, large and |'bright within her concentric circles of black, gray and brown stripes, gleamed with the spirit of investigation as she leaped to the wide wall around the edge. There she sat back on her haunches, taking in with eager feline | glances the wide expanse of country- | side which lay stretched out in the July sunshine. Bathed in the glow of all the sun in our universe, Little Nipper sat on the battlement,” tiny, complete, self- lsufficlent. What now meant to her the | long. hot, .dirty ride in a crate from | the National Capital? Little Nipper knew nothing about National Capital, Pennsylvania, United | States, Europe, ' universe. Perhaps & 'kind of blur remained ih her brain ef |that long experience, her first train ride. Maybe nothing remained there | It was certain that she looked out | over that farming landscape with the | same quick Jook with which she looked down from the 3-foot eminence of the |sofa back in the Washington living room from which she came. * ok Kk A long work table graced the back porch, which was a real porch. mnot just ‘a tiny place for a few chairs to {be drawn up. “This porch was as big ias a room, built back under the house, as it were. In the table was a big drawer. One end of the drawer was broken.out. On the second day the kittens had access to the back porch they disaopeared iand could not be found until some | one thought to look into the drawer. There the two sisters lay asleep, the light gray forelegs of Blondy Belle dra gracefully around the dark tiger-striped form of Little Nipper. Since that day the big drawer has ‘been the sleeping quarters of the pair. | What more comfortable retreat could itwo cats ask? It is warm, it is dark, 1it is secluded. From it as base they n maraud to their hearts’ content. {after the natural fashion of cats, and {to it in the early morning they can return with satisfaction. Surely this will be a life which any city cat may well envy. E S | We Can Sympathize. { From the Charlotte (N. C.) News. The atmosphere of India, a foreign 1 writer comments, was' heavily ¢harged during the past year with political feel- ing, which was one time, at least,.that we, had a great deal in common. with the folks over there. - Room for a Book, * From the Helena, Mont.. Record-Herald, Some- of these modern psychologists could make & fortune by writing & book on how' ta resist a high-powered: sales man. ~ o e 3 Two Tough Jobs. Prom the Fort Wayne Ny ormn’-ngw’?:ymgmmuv'nm be toug! when you've got. ‘Doth _jobs.