Evening Star Newspaper, September 2, 1929, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR — With Sunday Morning Editien. WASHINGTON, D. C MONDAY......September 2, 1929 THEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor R ab ety . The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office: 11th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. New York ice: 11 Chicago Office: Lake Michigan Building. : ‘14 Resent St.. London. Ensland, European Office: Rate by Carrier Within the City. e Evening St ... ...48¢ per month e Evening and Sunday Star 60¢ per month (when 4 Sundays) . The Evening and Suni 85¢ per month r copy (when 5 Sundavs) month. ‘The Sunday Star AT S oSoliction made s ihe end of cach ‘ s me Qrders ma¥ he sent in by mall or telephone Rate bv Man—Payable in Marviand and Virgis Dafly snd Sunday....1 yr.. $10. Dailv only . 1 yr. Sunday only Advance. ia. All Other Sta Dajly rnd Sunday..] Daily only Sunday only Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Preas is exclusivaly entitisd 1o the use for republication of all rews dis- at-hes credited to it or not otherw!: ted in this paper and aiso the lacal res published herein. All rights of publication special dispatches herein a: Teserved. tes and Canada. .. 312.00; 1 me Labor and Leisure. ‘There are changes in the observance of Labor day that are symbolic of the times. Some of them are demonstrated here in Washington. On Saturday night the Secretary of Labor, for in- stance, sat before a microphone in The Star Bullding and addressed an audi- ence of millions. There were no cheers, but before his speech was over the speaker was receiving telegrams of con- gratulation from members of his audi- ence thousands of miles away. Yester- day, the Sunday before Labor day, Washington's downtown district in theory should have been deserted, ex- cept for an occasional and lonesome policeman, watching an equally lone- some newsboy. But yesterday down- town Washington swarmed with a crowd that jammed the sidewalks and formed lines in front of restaurants and theaters. The streets were blocked with heavy traffic. The parks were full to overflowing. The traffic officers were harassed and perspiring. Today there are no parading Knights of Labor: with flaring banners. The Knights of Labor are standing on the curb with little Johnnie watching the firemen cavort, and they hope to get him home soon enough to pack the rest of the family in the car and go fifty miles or so for a picnic, getting back in time for a movie. Leisure—time to loaf, to play and to enjoy life—forms the main topic of addresses and statements from the leaders and the friends of labor on this Labor day. Science and invention have brought undreamed-of leisure to mil- lions. But there are two sorts of leisure. There is the restful leisure that breaks the monotony of work. There is the leisure enforced by lack of work. Speakers, on this Labor day, are emphasizing the former as a goal that has been almost reached after many years of arduous toil. But they are giv- ing increasing, if grudging, attention to the latter. Secretary of Labor Davis emphasizes as one of the blessings won in the last half century the increasing time from work, made possible by labor-saving devices, shorter work days and weeks and higher wages. William Green and | Matthe Woll, president and vice presi- dent, respectively, of the American Fed- eration of Labor, single out as one of labor's outstanding problems the unem- ployment that has come as an accom- paniment of the development of the machine. Secrctary of Labor Davis looks forward to what is coming in the next fifty years, when system and ma- chinery will minimize the labor involved in turning out the day's work to| the pressing of a button or the pull of a lever. Mr. Woll, praising the gains registered by science and the machine, Ppoints out “aat there is always & man betweep - &placement and replacement and ¥4 “masses of men and women . moving from security and comfort | out into uncertainty and thence down to lower levels of life. Because the tide has just begun to run heavy in this direction, the floating mass has not yet begun to be startlingly visible, but + .« . the current is running strong and something must be done.” We have more leisure on our hands today than ever before. The dividing line between labor and capital has be- come less pronounced. The two are merging and there is little conflict, for both work toward the same end. Their greatest problem today is to find & way to use their hard-won leisure. Between them they must prevent its degenera- tion into idleness. They must discover new and broad channels into which i when the pressure of the first rush of air preceding the explosion reaches them. A barrier of dust is thus auto- matically thrown in the path of the onrushing flames if they should pass beyond the scene of the explosion. The principle of rock-dusting is pure- ly physical. The stone, being non-in- flammable and also a ready conductor of Heat, absorbs from the burning gascs at the scene of the explosion much of their heat and by this means reduces the temperature below the ignition point of the coal dust. It has the effect of throwing water on the blaze and ex- tinguishes it almost as effectively. The rock-dusting practice has not bes come as general as the Bureau of Mines officials wish, many mine owners still hesitating to take up the new methods, but results such as Saturday at Renton go far toward making their argumenis effectiv e St The League of Nations Assembly. Although the United States remains on the outside looking in, the pro- ceedings of the League of Nations can never be matters of indifference to the American Government and people. The deliberations of the annual assembly of the League, which opened at Geneva today, are of uncommon interest to this country. They will be distin- guished, above all, by the participation of Prime Minister MacDonald and the ! | tariff law would be the talking points announcement heé is expected to make on the subject of Anglo-American naval negotiations. Apparently an understanding has been reached between Washington and London, whereby Geneva shall be the forum In which the impending limita- tion entente is first to be proclaimed. The purpose seems unmistakable, The two great English-speaking powers are bent not only upon effecting disar- mament as between themselves, but upon setting an example for international disarmament. Their naval accord aims at world peace, and not merely at laying deeper the foundations of peace between the United States and Great Britaln. What more appropriate forum for the announcement of their far-reaching purpose than the League Assembly, wherein eight premiers and twenty-two forelgn ministers are par- ticipating? This September conclave of the League is convened amid more propitious circumstances than Europe and the world have experienced since the treaty of Versailles. Within the span of six weeks two portentous events have occurred. The Kellogg pact for re- nuncifation of war has come into force and the Young plan has been all but formally ratified by Germany and the alliled powers which are her creditors. Thus, as far as the ingenuity and gcod intentions of statesmanship can go, taken, on the one hand, to- abolish war, and, on the other, to liquidate the consequences of the latest mad venture of nations to settle international dif- lferences by force. In the presence of so recent and so tremendous a combination of accom- plishments on behalf of peace, the 1£29 League Assembly takes up its work under favorable skies. While the United States resolutely maintains its absten- tion from membership in the League, the organization’s power for good, es- pecially in European affairs, is not chal- lenged in this country. America in numerous directions co-operates in League activities, notably in the studies of its “preliminary commissions™ look- ing to disarmament and to various humanitarian and economic develop- ments. Our readiness to join the World Court is on the eve of final dis- cussion, But the time is no nearer than it has ever been when the United States is prepared to renounce its fundamental objections to becoming a full-fledged member of the League. Meantime, in our own way and time, we are march- ing steadily and effectively toward the League's basic and all-pervading ob- jective—peace. As the Geneva As- sembly swings into action this weck the American people from the side- lines have no cause to blush. With Jjustifiable pride they point to the Kel- logg pact and to the naval agreement with Great Britain. With correspond- ing equanimity we are content to let the nations federated under the Ge- neva covenant judge whether or not Uncle Sam is pulling his weight in the boat which carries the burdens of this troubled world. ——— e, Politiclans have proved disappointing in one respect. None of them films as well as a qualified motion picture star. Getting the troops out of the Rhine- 1and will disappoint many a trooper who has been having a jolly time. that growing current of the displaced and shifting masses, described by Mr. *.1, may be directed. They must take care lest this current become a flood. ————————— In assuming his proper duty in keep- ing order among fiyers, Ool. Lindbergh may be compelled to forget that he was once a stunt performer himself. S ———— Rock-Dusting Saves Lives. ‘When an explosion occurred with three hundred men working five hun- dred feet down in a mine at Renton, Pa., the stage was all set for another heartrending story of disaster. But Saturday the three hundred men came walking out to safety with only twelve of their number injured and these suf- fering merely from burns. The explanation lles in the fact that the operators of the mine were pro- gressive and, heeding the advice of ex- perts of the Bureau of Mines, had rock- dusted theis workings 1t has been proved beyond a doubt that most of the major mine disasters come from the explosion of the coal dust which usually lines the sidewalls and cetlings of the mines. The original blast is generally local in nature and would, under normal conditions, be limited to the immediate vicinity in which it oc- curred. Where coal dust has accumu- lated, however, a great progressive ex- plosion races its devastating way through the various galleries of the ' mine, killing and maiming as it passes ' and leaving the dread afterdamp in frequent intervals, hinged shelves loaded ‘with the dust are placed along the gal- The 1930 Campaign. Congressional elections coming in the middle of the presidential four-year term have been disastrous in the past for both Republican and Democratic administrations. In these midterm elections, if they may be s0 called, the incentive of the national presidential election is absent. Fuithermore, the party in power has been under fire of the opposition; it may not have suc- ceeded in carrying out pledges made during the presidential campaign two vears earlier. Failure of State political leaders to obtain the patronage which they have demanded—in the shape of high Pederal office—may have les- sened their enthusiasm. All these may be contributing factors to a political upset for the party in power. There- fore, wise party leaders redouble their efforts, in the “off-year” elections, to hold their strength in' Senate and House, and, if possible, to gain. Sena- tor George H. Moses of New Hampshire, newly appointed chairman of the Re- publican senatorial campaign commit- tee, is already making plans for the campaign next year—for the election of one-third of the Senate. He will go West to confer with Republican leaders, practical and tangible steps have been | THE EVENING STAR, House. A group of Republican Senators from the Middle West delights to throw a monkey-wrench into the administra- tion's legislative plans far too often to be comfortable for the administration. A case in point was the yote in the Senate 6n the farm rellef bill last Spring. This group of insurgent Re- publicans, joining with the majority of the Democrats, voted into the bill the so-called debenture clause, which was anathema to the administration. This . group, in which are found Norris of Nebraska, La Follette and Blaine of ‘Wisconsin, Brookhart of Iowa and four or five more, may kick over the traces at any time. It is not difficult to see, therefore, that the aim of the Republi- can scnatorial campaign committee is 10 lose no seats in the coming election end to fight tooth and toenail for ad- ditional Republican members of the Senate. Senator Moses has announced that the slogan of the coming campaign will be “the constructive policies of the Hoover administration.” In other words the Hoover administration is to be the issue of the campaign. Under such cir- cumstance the Senatorial and House elections next year may have a great bearing on the national campaign. Par- ticularly the preconvention campaign, in 1932 Mr. Moses said further that the new farm relief law and the prospective l of the Republicans, They doubtless will be talking points of the Democrats, judging from the criticisms which have Senators. The Republicans have a really safe working majority in the House of just about one hundred. The congres- sional senatorial committee, under the leadership of Representative Will Wood of Indiana, will soon follow the sena- torial committee into action. Its task, however, probably will be simpler than that of the Senate committee. ‘Twenty years ago following the re- vision of a tariff law during the Taft administration, the congressional elec- tions were a great disappointment to the Republicans. Indeed, they were merely an augury of what was to come in the natfonal election of 1912. In more recent years, 1918 for example, the Democrats were trounced in congres- sional elections, and the last two years of President Wilson'’s administration were rendered futlle. It is when the party in control of the National Gov- ernment is overthrown in these mid- presidential term congressional tions that the machinery of the Ameri- can Government seems not only to be out of gear, but, in a measure, mistaken in theory. The executive and the legis- immediately at loggerheads and noth- ing constructive is possible of accom- plishment. —— It would be a triumph indeed if Ambassador Dawes could start a fashionable vogue at one and the same time in pants and pipes. b —————— ‘Wall Street boosts the price of money. The speculator, like the horse gambler, takes the gate fee and the commission as matters of course. ———————— Washington, D. C., was not visited by Eckener's dirigible. The United States Capital is a great city, but not yet & great airport. —— - ‘The “Wailing Wall” is a sad reminder that while triumphs sink into oblivion, nations never forget their sorrows. JEE———-— Snowden has his British public and, as a wise actor, believes in giving his public what it wants. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Singin’ Along. Robin bird was snappy, Singin’ on his way. Mockin’ bird was happy With the same old lay. s And the world keeps goin' strong— We're singin’ along! Airplane seems erratic Travelin® through the sky. Still we gaze, ecstatic, As it goes on high. While it's humming “Nothing Wrong, We're singin’ along!” Precaution. “A group of constituents awaits to call on you,” said the secretary. “Show them in,” answered Senator Sorghum. “But before doing so make sure they are constituents and not gun men.” Jud Tunkins says “the new dollar bill not only looks smaller, but in purchas- ing capacity it I8.” Threats of War. Whenever war is hailed as due, We ask of every voter, Just who, with profit come in view, Should be the “Fight Promoter.” Horizontal and Vertical. “Are you interested in aviation?" “Very much,” answered Mr. Chuggins. “For many years I have faced road dangers horizontally, but I confess I am confused by the danger of being tacked vertically. “An anclent tomb,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “will reveal splendid wealth and leave a sigh of regret be- ause it has had no'good night club promotors.” y Fish Stories. I went a-fishin' long ago, And saw the waters ebb and flow. The catch was small, not like the tale Of dear Old Jonah and the Whale, “A lazy man,” said Uncle Eben, “goes fishin’. An’ he ain’ got no proper com- plaint it de fish ain’t industrious enough to bite.” Sad, But How True. the Albany Evening News. d h int y up a new excuse for being late. been heaped upon both by Democratic | « elec | preg lative branches of the Government are | pel THIS BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. ‘When an author falls in love with his| the heroine, especially if she happens to have been a real woman, the reader may expect to get an almost impossible creature. Such is the Adah Menken of Fulton Oursler’s “The World's Delight.” pub- lished recently by Harper & Bros. Mr. Ousler is so “sold” on his heroine that her half-dozen marriages, her bobbed hair and cigarettes—in 1850—and" her all to him. He has worked up such an admiration for the girl who handed herself from one man to another that the reader is very likely to be sympathetic, too, espe- cially if he has known some similar young woman in his own life. In a postiude to his story (which he is very careful to label “story, not biog- raphy”) the author harbors a private opinion that “The World's Delight” is “an authentic biography of a nature, a spirit that was Adah Isaacs Menken.” ‘Those who have known women of ab- solute physical perfection so great that i1t sets the average man, who is at heart a romantic creature, to dreaming of spiritual perfection will understand what Mr. Oursler means. No doubt most woman readers will. To the rest the heroine of this tale will appear a peculiar, astonishing crea- ture, nine-tenths flesh and one-tenth spirit, who_indulged in a capriclous, self-willed life, and whose early death was a kind of judgment on herself and her kind. * K ok ok ‘Those who have read Emile Zola's ana,” with its never-to-be-forgotten description of the heroine's effect upon mankind, wil] inevitably be reminded of it when rea Mr. Oursler's paean of praise. “The musicians were playing as softly and dreamily as they knew how when Doiores’ (afterward Adah Menken) “entered the ring, riding on Billy. At the first sight of her the audience gasped. So it was always when Dolores rode out before the people. The mag- netism of her physical strength and grace made itself felt instantly and im- peratively upon all her audiences. Beauty and power seemed to come from her like a wild, sweet odor. The people breathed deeply, as if she gave forth incense. Talk ceased at their first sight of this young horsewoman. Men and ‘women stare ware of old stirrings in themselves of shivery, guilty delights. Desire tingled sinfully once more, even in the gaunt es of settler women, when they considered this strange sis- ter, erect upon her stallion. The men leaned forward with jaws dropped hun- grily. For a little while one could hear nothing but the thin music of the band. ‘The people sat with widened nostrils, as if scenting the tang of an old jungle eze. What was it? -What was the strange mystery that Dolores brought with her into the arena? Later these good wives would revile the girl rider as a shameless slut, and the men—their husbands—would agree for the family ce. What was it that now charmed and tempted them L Having thus presented the problem. Mr. Oursler proceeds to answer it, and every reader must be thankful to him for refraining modern slang word, “it." This is the way he explains his hero- ine’s “devastating effect,” as he calis it: “In all, some ancient racial mem- ories stirred to life in a moment's ephem- eral resurrection: trembling and a hoarseness and a wish. Such was the power of Dolores upon all who watched her ride in the ring. She was the human animal, natural, lovely, informed with young, ungarnished fire. Through her the flesh and its pleasures found an about to make the welkin ring on Capi- | tol Hill, will promptly and graphically disclose the complete chaos into which present-day American Y‘nly lines: have been thrown. Republicans, or men labeled as such, are both for the G. O. P. tariffl measure and against it, while Democrats, or men so tagged, are likewise against the Hawley-Smoot bill (or what's left of it), and for it. Roll call after roll call will reveal this criss-cross state of affairs. At this hour neither Republican Leader Watson nor Democratic Leader Robinson has a glimmer of & notion as to how many of his so-called followers are going to be for this, or against that. provision of the tariff legislation. The whole business is a mess and a muddle al- most without parallel. With industry arrayed against agriculture and section against section, and with special in- terests of all sorts scheming and clam- oring for advantage, it is the open season for la,-romng. ‘There’ll be a plenty of it before many Autumn leaves have fallen. * ok ok X As far as ";.eh Whlt!‘e“:lo\mteh;s lblet:; check up on these gs, coun! at laj ep isn't wildly excited over the tariff fracas. There has not been an administration in many years with so many and so expert mechanisms for keeping the presidential ear to the und as the regime now in power.. Its gfoomltlon is that the people are only mildly interested in the terif as a general proposition, and far less inter- ested in the bickerings and bargainings over it. Even the suggestion that such things as sugar, shingles and shoes may cost a bit more, if the projected new tariff becomes law, doesn’t seem capable of rousing the citizenry to any very emotjonal extent. A well known political psychoanalyst says there's so much money about in America now- adays—broadly e?e king—and people are so accustom high prices that the slapping of extra cent or two, or even dollar or two, onto this or that commodity has ceased to mean any- thing. * koK X ‘What's in a name? President Hoover is said to be considering a Connecticut lawyer named Alcorn for the prohibi- tion-enforcement assistant '"”m’%‘ gen= 2! eralship _recently v ‘Walker Willebrandt. Nationalist China is trying to bottle up a very vocal statesman named Shih, which al- most spells “hush,” Speaking of names, this observer has solved the mystery of the “D” in Owen D. Young’s name. ‘The patentee of the Young reparations an has no middle name at all. He only a middle initial. How he J:" it not even some of his closest rela= tives are able to * ok ok X Apropos the Arab-Jewish war in Palestine, few know the circumstances under which the British mandate over the Holy Land came into being. The generally credited with its achieve- ls‘ Dr. Chaim Weizmann, n::v man ment zation. gln, ‘Weizmann oft thelr mwvg“ end"m day generally wild carebr mean nothing at| from the use of the | for a little holiday out of Paris?* unconscious and inflaming prophet. In ' bool WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WIL Tariff debate in the Senate, which is|of War, spearhead of the organized vel| Men Who Learn Trade 5 rounded smoothness of her bosom and her thigh there was asserted some ancient and imperioys dominion of the flesh over all other mortal things. bare shoulders were like the twin bal- ance of some primitive and outlasting and unarguable justice. * * ¢ Do- lores was unaware of the curious quality of this nightly reception. There was always quiet when she rode into the, ring. She knew ti\ey w‘e;.e‘ lnht:ra!:dn :‘1 her graceful physique, [ suspect her devastating effect upon ora." Such is the heroine and such the; author’s excuse for her, and the strange thing s that perhaps the average reader be perfectly willing -to accept it. Mr. Oursler makes such a good job of his physical-spiritual lady. that he bears rather lightly on one or two marriages, and throughout uses no word which would offend, but’he suc- ceeds in giving a picture of a good woman handled roughly by life. Whether one agrees with the portrait must depend in the last analysis upon his own experience with life. The world is full of beautiful women, but in any age there are pnly & comparatively few who possess this intangible magnetism which exalts on the one hand or de- grades on the other. * Rk K “The World's Delight,” with its remi- niscences of such great literary names as Swirburne (who treated Adah rather meanly). Dickens, Alexandre Dumas. Walt Whitman, Charles Reade and 1 memories of old wagon-show days, be- fore the Civil War theatrical perform- ances in New Yoek and London, will appeal to all who like a good story well told. Here is the fictionized story of the first girl in America to wear bobbed hair, to smoke ci ttes, live her own life in her' own in an age when women’s place was supposed to be in the home and when women's actions, and even thoughts, were carefully mapped out for her to follow. Dolores McCord (a much better name than Adah Menken, one may think, and more indicative of the spirit of the girl) was a strange cross between intellec- tuality and the things of the flesh. In her eyes was “a tenderness once supplicating, unearthly and defenseless.” (The author forpives her in.) She wanted to write great poems and treasured her verse until the last, dying in Paris with the proofs of her first— and last—book held against her breast. Now, there is pathos in this, and the author brings it out with restraint. There are several passages in the novel —for such it is—which are greater than | the book {tself. The cumulative effect. too, is strangely disquieting. You can- not forget the Dolores McCord, the Adah Menken of this book, any more than those who knew her in real life forgot her. Her last performance in Paris was a fort of triumph. Her dressing room was filled with guests, but she was-tired and {ll. “One suggestion did bring a wistful smile to her mouth. It came from an American lady, Mrs. Eliza Riges, wife of a banker in Washing- ton, whom she had never met before, but who had written her about her poems. ‘You must be tired after such a strenuous season,’ whispered Mrs. Riggs to Dolores, taking possession of her. ‘Why don’t you run off with me “‘Ah, that does sound sweet to me!’ exclaimed Dolores with a touched and grateful glance up into the mothering face of this American woman. Since Swinburne had unreeled his stanzas there were not many proper ladies who cared to have Adah Menken as their guest. The two women looked at each other and both understood.” It is the und;rstandmz reader who will enjoy this pacifist movement, has just wrung a prized concession from the Post Office Department. Postmaster General Brown has authorized the council to display a red-white-and-blue poster, about 1 by 113 feet in dimensions, in all United States post offices. It reproduces the full text of the “General Pact for the Renunciation of War” and is signed, at the foot, “Walter F. Brown, Post- master General.” §o nowadays alluring appeals to “Join the Marines and See the World” and Uncle Sam'’s invitation to become a rookie jn khaki hang cheek by jowl alongside the literature of the organization which would like to put both the Navy and the Army out of business. * ok ok x The following notice, posted to a tree, was recently discovered by a Washin, ton fisherman who was trying to “spot” a good location on the lower Potomac: “I hereby notifie all trespasser that they will be delt with to the fulest extent of two mungrel dogs wich ain't never been over sochibil to strangers, and one dubbel barl shot gun wich ain’t loaded with no sofy pillars. Dam if I ain't tire of all this helraisin on my property.” The finder of this word to the wise thinks 1t might be well to bring it to the attention of Hoover week end campers on the Rapidan in case they mcé)me afflicted with piscatorial wander- st. * ok ok % Senator Arthur Capper's friends in Washington are just in receipt of No. 1 of Capper’s, which is described as “a magazine of today with an eye on tomorrow.” Somewhere else it's called the magazine without a continuation line.” The senior solon from Kansas thinks the periodical market is far from flutud, for his autographed greeting the maiden (September) issue of Capper's (formerly Public Affairs) says, ‘For the busy man without time to dig thru all the reading matter placed before him there is need of a_magazine of brief comment on selected facts of interest and importance to him.” The publication is a monthly and is printed in Topeka. (Copyright, 1929.) o Seldom in Trouble | From the Danbury Evening News. A veteran desk lieutenant of police in a large city was talking with a group of newspaper men early one morning, after “business” had slackened a bit “Do you know,” he mused, “after ail the years I have spent as a cop I don't believe I have seen a dozen normal young men who knew some trade thor- gglhl ever "";'fl nccusegme of cn.r?.e 's the fters, - around cfl“"&,mm the ‘drug store cowboys,’ as they call 'em, that get into trouble. ' The steady young felier who s i toade'ts hardy ever W stioke e e - anything like up man, that.” ¢ '» - | Igfl e i1 £ h £ zg i i g i § i i i -5 b3 WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1929, AND THAT ish Statesmanship At Its Best in Egypt From the Chicago Daily Tribune. ‘The British proposals to t reve British diplomacy and unpmnm lfl'::z manship at their best, and that is the best in world. ~Americans must read them with admiration mingled with envy, for when will the United States in its important and often deli- cate relations have the benefit of so much tact, skill. and sane judgmen: as Mr. Henderson's proFoa s display? As Mr. Stecle points out, the status prt')'E)aed recognizes in the tian natlon as much of the rights and privi- leges of independence as is compatible with vital British interests, and, we would add, as much as is compatible 1s or even the interests of th people themselves, e deypuin It is the duty of the British govern- ment, not only to Britain’s own great concerns, but to the general interest of the civilized world in peace and in iree communication, that the Suez Canal shall be protected at all times, and that a region like Egypt on the flank of the world’s thoroughfare shall nou be | mfun?—w. 0. H a prey to anarchy or a victim of inter- national rivalry.” Egypt's international status should be as stable ditions permit, and England is :ml gudmium.lt With this major iss ssumed, as must be by all save doctrinaires and t mentalists, the propos: both sound and considerate of reason: able Egyptian susceptibilities, The de- fense of the canal is provided for and assured by British occupation of the adjoining district and of strategic posi~ tions to be u,recd upon. Egypt to avail herself of British military training and to employ British officials, if any foreigners at all. There is offered an alliance for mutual defense, with ex- change of ambassadors, and a pledge that neither country will follow policies creative of difficulties for | thy Mllitary occupation, except above, will be terminated. The proposed status is ccnsistent with Egyptian self-respect and is, in fact, the best she could hope for in the situation she inevitably holds in the world, while Great Britain retains such measure of control as her owi rights, and also international conditicns em- phatically justify. The diplomacy of the United States has much to iearn from this settle- ment. We, too, have problems of deal- ing with weaker or backward peoples, involving factors of premature rational aspiration, political ?neomperznca eco- nomic and social instability and back- wardness. Our own diplomacy, invari- ably well intentioned as it been, has often been inconsistent, tardy of resolute action, without grasp of essen- tial American interests and lacking in tact. We have sometimes been able to accomplish important benefits, but with little credit and at unnecessary cost. British imperial statesmanship makes its mistakes, but is easily the most judi- cious and efficlent in the world today, and we should study it. to to 1, tri of of is Sun Parlors in Rear Replace Front Porch | From the St Paul Pioneer Press. ‘The front porch is going out of sty A Teport by the Department of Com- | merce covering the new architecture of homes in 38 American cities an- | nounces that the front porch is dis- appearing. The trend now runs to a sun parlor in the rear of the housc | and a bullt-in garage, neither of which at first sight appears to perform the | function of the time-honored {froni | porch. | It is only nine years ago that Presi- dent Harding waged what was prob- ably the last front-porch election cam- | paign. It was an institution handed | down from that hlflpy era of American life when the family gathered on the | porch in Summer as it did around the base burner in Winter. The elders occupied the rocking chairs and dis- | cussed affairs of state and of the reighborhood with becoming _gravity. The younger members found the ham- mock, well hidden behind the trelils | and screen, & nook built for confi- dences, which -in extreme form were scornfully termed spooning. The chil- dren made the porch steps a coign of vantage of prisoner's base or a haven of refuge when pursued. All this is to go, the architects say. Even the rocking chairs are disappear- ing, and who would swing in a ham- mock when the motor seats are handy? The family councils are on wheels and have taken to the road for the needed evening air. But the repose of a peace- ful pipe, the quietude broken only by an occasional word, the steady creai of the rockers breaking the hush of the half light are ‘vanishing. The front porch is on its way to enter the limbo of forgotten things, shed, the back stoop, /the Summer kitchen and the Summer house of the garde: Azores “Goat” Island For Atlantic Flyers From the Sioux City Tribune. They “ain’t done right” by the Azores. Or, maybe, it's the other way. At any rate, the Azores have become | the “dud” spot in transatlantic flights. It seems that whenever the Azores are mentioned in connection with an ocean hop, the flyers have come down, intend to come down, crashed or turned back. In other words, the Azores in aviation too many times stand for failure and blah. Whenever flyers announce they are going by way of the Azores, the “kick” is taken out of the flight. The airminded public wants its trans- ocean flights risky and full of uncer- tainty. It doesn’t want any stepping stones. What if somebody does jump to the Azores and then to New York? The Azores took the edge off the thfill. Ten years ago comparatively few per- sons knew anything about the Azores. All the newspaper readers know about those islands now. Yes, but what an opinion! A place for timid aviators to hesitate and change their minds about hoppirig the Atlantic. eally the Azore authorities should do something about it. Their land is being maligned by “flopping” fiyers. So, if some mother's daughter wants to fly the Atlantic, here’s what mother ought to tell her: “Load your plane with -gasoline. But don't go near the Azores.” — e teee Refuse to See Light In Tariff Drafting From the Chicago Daily News. In dealing with the administrative features of the Hawley tariff bill the Republican majority of the Senate finance committee has proposed some desirable improvements. On the other fact. You can bureau any question of fact and get the answer back in a personal letter. into people in the world—American news- g:flper readers. There is no charge except 2 cents in coin or stamps for return postage. the habit of asking questions. | mation Buresu, Frederic J. Haskin, with the interests of the civilized world, { director, Washington, D. C. record made?—. March 23, 1929. His Miss America VII | averaged 93.123 miles per hour. speed was made in mile trials, which | is an average of six one-mile dashes. | tance on the island. One of the larger has Science Monitor been published?—O. 8. | Its first issue was dated November 2i 1908, States?—L. P. United States in which tin is found. gests that one should grasp the glasscs | and not the noseplece when cleaning eyeglasses. the noseplece are not loosened. the term does it mean?—H. D. the body. their emigration. Delagoa Bay?—P. B. eastern coast of Africa. called the Gateway to the Transveal. Q. How many buffaloes were there in | this country in the days when they | roamed the plains?—P. B. E. | given. 50,000,000 bison between Manitoba and the wood | ‘ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Stop a minute and think about this ask our information It a great educational idea introduced e lives of the most intelligent It is a part of that t purpose of & newspaper—service. Get Address your letter to The Evening Star Infor- Q. Where was G;r ‘Wood's speedboat | A. I. was made at Miami Beach, Fla., This . Does Yap belong to the United A. The Island of Yap does not belong the United States. It was awarded Japan at the peace conference May 1919. - There is no town of impor- ding settlements is at Dulukan. It no_separate governor, being part the Caroline Islands. Q. How long has the Christian | A. It was started about 21 years ago. Q. Where is tin found in the United | A. Alaska is the only portion of the Q. How should glasses be held while ey are being polished?>—W. A. T. A. A Washington cptometrist sug- In this way the screws i1 Q. In studying blood vessels I find “emigration” used. What 'A. White cells pass through the walls blood vessels and wander through | This process is usually called | e of the port in A. Lourenco Marques is the port and said to have the best harbor on the It is often Q. What is the n A. No more than an estimate can be It is belleved that there were the Staked Plains of Texas in 1850. Q Why are Zeppelins so called? | —C.J. C. A. The term “Zeppelin” refers to the | dirigibles buily at the Zeppelin factory in Germany. They are named after the inventor of this particular type oI | aircraft, Count Zeppelin. i 1 D. L. A. The Biological Survey Says that | birds cannot fly backward because the feathers of birds point backward, so that if a bird attempted to fiy back- | ward the air would force the feathers forward and resistance of the air would | be such that the bird could make no | progress. | Q. How docs the coastline of Alaska | Q Why can't birds fiy backward?— % D. compare with the Atlantic and Pacific sol;tlié\en of the United States?— A. The coastline of Alaska is longer / than the Atlantic and Pacific coast- lines of the United States put to- gether. In nautical miles they meas- Alaska, 4.123; Atlantic coastline, Pacific, 1,571. Q. What is meant_by of a cemetery lot?—F. C A. Headstones or monuments are kept straight, fences or ralls are pre- vented from sagging and grass is mowed and replanted as necessarv. One pays a luinp sum to the cemetery association, the interest on which is sufficient to provide for these services. pgrpctual care Q. Please explain the purpose of the Palals de France which is to be built in New York.—M. 8. A. The Palais de France, a 65-story hotel and office building, is to be con- structed on the Century Theater siie, |Cen2rll Park West. This building is {to be financed and operated by a ! French cdrporation, with the approval |and authorization of the French g ernment. The new building will con- stitute cultural, industrial and political center in America. Ths French consulate will have offices i it, also the Prench commercial attache and all official agencies for promotion of French interests in this country. There will be a section of the building used as an apartment hotel, space for a permanent international automobile exhibition, an Academie des Beaux Arts, with conservatories of music and drama, and a tourists’ bureau. Q. Is Elsie Ferguson now on the stage or in the movies?>—S. W. A. Miss Ferguson has returned to the legitimate drama and is soon to star in a Shipman-Hymer play, “Scarlet Pages,” to be presented by A. H. Woods. Q. What songs did Stephen Collins Foster write besides “My Old Kentucky Home"?—D. H. A. He composed a total of 164 songs. Among them were “Massa’s in de Cnl;iri Dog Tray,” My Love Lies Dreaming” Folks at Home.” Despite the fact that some of these have become known the world over, Foster died in 1864, at the early age of 38, poverty-stricken and debt-ridden. Q. What is the meaning of suttee? R A. Suttee is the self-burning of widows. The custom began in India, when one of the wives of Brahma, the son of God, -sacrificed herself at his death that she might attend him in heaven. Seventeen widows have burned themselves on a funeral pyre of & rajah, and in Bengal alone over 700 have been known to perish in this way in a vear. The English government abolished suttees in December, 1828, but they have since occasionally taken place. Q. Are there any cannibals in the 1d_today?—L. G. H. A. Cannibalism still exists in some | tropical countries but is limited to t] area comprising the country 10 degrees north and south of the Equator. It is found among isolated South American tribes. in West Equatorial and Central Africa, the Malay Archipelago. ct tain South Sea Islands, mainly in Melanesia, and in parts of Australia. Head-hunting tribes are found in Madagascar Harry F. Sinclair's plea to the Presi-, dent for freedom on the ground that jail life is impairing his health awakens ho epproving echo of public opinion. Newspaper comment generally is em phulc‘fly unfavorable, though a few| cditors lr*ue for unbiased consideration | of the application on its merits. = “Why should clemency be extended?” | asks the Louisville Times. ‘“Joe Jeffer-) son recelved a telegram from his son ‘william, according to legend, asking for | an immediate remittance of $500. ‘What | for? wired the irritated father. Came | the prompt reply, ‘For Willie.” Perhaps Harry Sinclair, if asked the question which Joe Jefferson asked his son, would say, ‘For Harry.'” Mr. Sinclair should complete his sen- tence for the good name of justice in America,” contends the Albany Evening | |News. “Three months is not a long | centence in his case. In view of the| | Supreme Court's labeling of his oil lease transaction as ‘tainted with fraud and | | corruption; Mr. Sinclair has escaped | | very lightly, inasmuch as he is pun-| +ished only for contempt of the Senate iand for jury shadowing.” The Morgan- | {town New Dominion agrees that he/ {“should serve out his term.” and that policy and against public interest.” * koK K { Referring to the prison report tha | “the applicant is in reasonably good | health and spirits and is suffering no serfous bodily or mental damage by his confinement,” the New Orleans Times- | Picayune voices the view of “most | Americans,” that “Mr. Sinclair should | be required to serve his sentence unless the warden's diagnosis is proved wholly and fatally mistaken.” That paper sees “no justification for treating him with any greater tenderness than his prison comrades enjoy, or in reducing a pun- ishment generally approved at the time| as its assessment.” It is recalled that “many felt that the oil magnate had got off lightly.” “He certainly presents an uninspiring picture as he stands with his defiance crushed asking for mercy,” in the opin- ion of the SBanta Barbara Daily News, which concedes that “to a man who for lyurs has enjoyed the good things of ife that unlimited riches can give this strain of confinement under prison dis- cipline, the routine behind stone walls and iron bars must be irksome.” The prisoner should “serve the last day of the penalty imposed” is the belief of the Hartford Times, which sees “no ex- cuse for softness,” and points out that “jt was taken for granted that Sinclair and Day, his associate, would fight as hard to get out of jail as they did to keep from landing there.” “It is said that Mr. Sinclair hasn't missed @ day at his easy job and has not spent the fraction of a day in bed,” the irmingham News observes. “Probably the truth of the matter is that Mr. Sinclair’s only inconvenience is that he is confined. * * * But, of course, he wants a pardon. Every fellow locked be- hind prison doors wants a pardon, it doesn’t matter whether he is in for 30 hand, it has rejected a genuinely pro- gressive idea for the improvement of the Tariff Commission which both Re- | classes blican and Democratic leaders have recon- 81 g{omd e Hnwle{h:ul provided for struction of ‘Tariff Commission in us showed public welfare when he was putting across days or life. The difference is that all the friendless criminal pay the penalty, but some le can’t understand why a million- aire like Mr. Sinclair should pay the price. little desire to consider the scandalous Teapot Dome deals,” remarks the Trenton Evening Times, branding him as one who “has against the law and against | is, & man not of great wealt| any other action would be “poor public | gegts Sinclair’s Plea for Freedom Awakens No Approving Echo the greater responsibility to be a law- respecting citizen.” Smc]:lg's sentence_itself is described by the Chatatnooga Times as a “slap on the wrist,” and the gppleton Post-Cres- cent advises that * to promote health and happiness.” T Little Rock Arkansas Democrat satiri- cally remarks as to the plea based on the plight of his family he state doesn't provide for a prisoner’s family. and this is a good time to establish a precedent.” In defense of the oil man's plea, how- ever, the Springfield (Ill‘!ds‘tn;e Jlou:;‘llYl. argues: “An ordinary individual—tha 15 h—might be ccorded this clemency. But because Sin- clair is a multi-millionaire the man in the street says ‘Keep him in jail” There was a demand that Sinclair be jailed as if he had no money. position or influ- ence. He should get just what any other man should get. Now it is urged that because Sinclair has wealth, posi- tion and influence he should be denied the privileges that would be granted others less blessed. Sinclair has paid as the law prescribed. Why should there be discrimination against him?” Viewing the matter in still another light, the Springfield (Mo.) Leader sug- that as “the Government has shown him who's who—and that was the point to be established—nothing is |to be gained by merely inflicting fur- ther physical discomfort on the ofl magnate. ) Clothes Made Dirtier By Too Much Washing BY E. E. FREE, Ph. D. The proper length of time to wash clothes with soap and water is 7l wminutes. If a too-industrious washer- woman keeps on washing for a longer time than that, using the same soapy water, the clothes get dirtier instead of cleaner. So find Dr. F. H. Rhodes and S. W. Brainard of the gdepart- ment of chemistry of Cornell Uni- versity, who have reduced clothes wash- ing to scientific precision and who re- port their results to the American Chemical Society. To determine just how clean a piece of standard dirty cloth becomes by so many hours or minutes of washing the Cornell chemists have devised an opti- cal instrument which measures the whiteness or grayness of the cloth more accurately than can be done by the eye. Using a standard cloth and standard conditions of soap, water, washing and so on, they find that dirt continues to be removed minute by minute up to the 7!>-minute limit. After that the grayness of the cloth begins to increase instead of decrease. If clear water is used instead of soapy water this curious reversal of the cleansing effect does mnot occur. ‘The removal of the dirt, while slower and not always so complete, proceeds regularly however long the rinsing with pure water is continued. The effect of soap in making the cleansed cloth ac- tually dirtier after the 7!> minutes is probably due, Dr. Rhodes and Mr. Brainard believe, to the action of the soapy water in slowly breaking up the particles of dirt into much smaller particles, like sand ground to dust m a mortar. Thus the mo:re finely divided dirt comes to be spread more widely over the previously cleansed cloth. - Genius and Ability Know No Borders From the St. Louis Times. ‘When genius, personality, ability are great there are no tional of the world. It ref progress of mankind. But war cannot obliterate the minds and hearts of tzunhfl 4