Evening Star Newspaper, September 8, 1929, Page 30

THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Mg Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. SUNDAY......September 8, 1920 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor The Evening Star Ne-np-.m Company ess Office: 11th 8t. and Pennsylvania Ave New York Sifice: 110 East 43nd St. icago Lake Michigan Buildine. opean e: 14 Rerent St.. London, England. Rate by Carrier Within the City. & Star.... . .45¢ per month and Sunday Star ndays) . .60c per month ing and Sunday Star undays) 85¢ per month e Sunday Sta per copy Collection made at ihe end of bach month. Orders may be sent In by mail or telephone | 5000, x NAtional Rate by Mail—Payable in Advan Maryland and Virginia. aily and Sunday....1 yr.$10.00 aily only Sunday only . All Other States and Canada. Dafly-end 8 1 3r.512.00: 1 m ¥ oniy nday only Member of the Associated Press. ‘The Associated Press is cxclusively entit! to the uze for republicat'on of all ie DPatehes credited to it or not otherwis ited in this paper and also the local rews cublished herein. All riehts of publication of special dispatches herein eserved. ————— Inseparable Issues. Merger, as much as operations costs and the growth in the number of au- tomobiles, is an integral part of the fare question. High operations costs, the companies say, demand higher fares. Lower operations costs, brought , by merger, lessen that demand. From the standpoint of the public the questions of ' fare and merger cannot be divorced. ‘The public pays the fares. A method of reducing costs is as germane to the fare question as a method of increas- ing fares, The Capital Traction Co., formally replying to the Public Utilities Com- mission’s merger proposal, in de- clares that merget cannot be discussed as a part of the fare question. ‘That has been the attitude of the cor- porations from the start. They also have contended that the rate of fare must be unifdrm. They will not en- tertain the possibility of granting an increase to, the Capital Traction Co., which voluntarily petitioned for it, with- out granting a like increase to the ‘Washington Rallway & Electric Co., which became a petitioner on orders from the Public Utilities Commission. Nor will the corporations discuss plans for joint use of equipment, rerouting, ete., which might reduce their opera- | tions costs. Nor: will they guarantee any better service, better equipment or greater convenience to the public with & higher rate of fare than they now offer with the existing rate. Prom the standpoint of the corpora- tions, there is only one issue. They are not receiving what they conceive to be an adequate return upon an investment, the fair value of which is questionable. There is one and only one way to remedy this difficulty. That is to in- crease the cost of an essential public service by raising fares and thus to solve their problem by the simple ex- pedient of extracting more pennies from the public. But the Capital Traction Co., reiterat- ing its desire for merger, is willing to consider. the Public Utilities Commis- sion’s proposed unification agreement “to the end that necessary modifica- tions protective of its interests may ‘be arrived at through propef negotiations. Provided that such ‘consideration shall not delay the completion and final de- termination of the pending proceeding for increase of fare.” It is highly proper that these nego- | tiations should begin, and at once. It ! is as natural for the companies to seek adequate protection of their interests | as it is for the public to seek the same thing. While the companies are con- testing certain ‘provisions of the com- mission’s proposal for merger, the public may wish to examine other features, such as the plan to shift the cost of car-track paving to the shoulders of the taxpayers, a revenue burden amounting to about $200,000 a year. The com- mission’s revised merger plan is, on the whole, sound, but there are debat- able features that can be made gen- erally acceptable only through nego- tiation. Nor is there any reason ‘why con- sideration of the commission’s merger pian should “delay the completion and final determination of the pending pro- ceeding for increase of fare.” The commission would do well to expedite | the remaining proceedings and reach its final determination of the fare-in- crease question as quickly as possible. This final determination rests with the commission. In reaching it the commission will weigh the interrelated issues of the fare question, of which merger is one, and base a decision on fair appraisal of a problem that is. capable of other solutions than that proposed by the corporations. ————s Old ideas continue to prove impor- tant. The idea of rotation in office is now asserting itself among United States attorneys as well as in other affairs of the Government. s September is supposed to open the oyster season. Its temperature would | make it seem more favorable to the heat-resisting salamander. ————— - Amgging Air Speed. ‘While it is a}yays to be expected that «speed records may be broken in any competition, the new air record estab- lished in the Schneider Cup race at the Isle of Wight yesterday exceeds all reasonable anticipation. The jump from 251.49 miles an hour to 328.63 miles is pltogether out of proportion to the successive advances in aerial speed heretofore accomplished. The thought imimediately occurs that this new record may stand for some time, that the “gelling” of aerial speed has been reached. But that fs urisafe deduction i view of extraordinary happenings in the recent past. ' ‘The development of heavier-than-air michines has been remarkably rapld during the past half decade. This is beeause of a flerce competition in all countries for aerial supremacy. The best mechanical minds are at ‘work upon aviation, upon the construction of plsities, the improvement of motors and the manipulation of machines of all types. “But- the race is not altogether to the syitt, Mere speed is not what the . wonld -chiefly wishes foday. It wants 'lmuneu, are to the end of mflngmcl | the physfcal durability of planes and motors as well as the capacity of the pllots to endure long strains. For an example, the continuous performance of refueling from the air in the case of the St. Louls Robin, which a few weeks ago was kept aloft for seventeen and a half days, put an airplane to the severest test of strength ever- made. It is now universally accepted that the airplane or the dirigible will be the principal means of transport of the fu- ture, perhaps only ten years hence. Such competitions as the Schneider Cup race, putting a high premium on speed, are of great value in stimulating re- {search and practice in the develop- ment of the fastest possible fying motor. Unfortunately America has been barred from this competition recently through a series of mishaps. Other- wise this country might have been “in the flying” at Ryde and perhaps the 5 { victor with, it is possible, an even high- er record than the amazing one scored by Flying Officer Waghorn, who has just held this great blue ribbon trophy for (Onlt Britain, ———————— Tweedledum and Tweedledee. The 'Democratic national committee has sent broadcast over the land a mil- lion speeches made by a Republican Senator, criticizing the Hoover admin- istration. The speech not only was made by a Republican Senator, but I\ was distributed under his frank, there- by going free through the mails. This is a tidy saving to the Democratic na- tional committee of $20,000 or so. The copies of the speech, however, were not printed at Government expense, but presumably the Government Printing iOlI'Ice, which turns these things out at jcost, was paid for them by the Demo- cratic committee. The speech was delivered by Senator William E. Borah of Idaho in the Sen- ate last June, defending the so-called debenture amendment to the farm re- 1 | opposed. Another fight is coming over the debenture plan when an amend- ment to put it into effect is offered to the tariff bill in the Senate. But no one believes that the debenture plan is going to be written finally into the tariff bill any more than it was writtea into the farm bill. 1t is obvious, there- fore, that the Democratic national committee is making use of the Borah speech as campaign material for the congressional elections which come next year, and possibly with the idea of stirring up the farmers of the West | against the Republicans in the next presidential campaign in 1932, when it is expected Mr. Hoover will be a can- didate to succeed himself. Anyway, a Democrat would quite naturally de- light to attack a Republican President through the mouth of a Republican Senator, especially a Senator so widely known as Mr. Borah. Mr. Borah ad- mits that he gave permission to some jof his Democratic colleagues in the | Senate to make use of his speech and | of his frank to send it out over the | West. While the Democratic organisation is making use of the address delivered by Senator Borah, for campaign pur- poses, along comes Senator David I. Walsh, stalwart Democrat of Massa- chusetts, with a smashing attack on the attitude of his Democratic colleagues in the Senate toward the tariff bill. formal statement the * Massachusetts Senator declared that he ‘did not in- tend to support the resolution to be offered by Senator Thomas of Okla- homa, confining the tariff revisions to the farm and related schedules. Thic ‘Thomas resolution is similar to one Senate took fts recess last June. The Borah resolution was defeated by a sin- gle vote. Senator Walsh insists that some of the industries of the country need fur- ther protection from the tariff as well as does the farmer. It will be re- called also that Senator Walsh was one of the Democratic Senators who did not believe in the debenture plan of farm relief and said so frankly. He voted for the debenture amendment in- the Senate during consideration of the farm relief bill, it is true, but he did so be- cause he was opposed' to the entire amendment. He would help to kill the bill through the veto of the President.. It would not be at all surprising if the Republican congressional committee or the Republican national committee should undertake to broadcast in Mas- sachusetts, Rhode Island, New York and other Eastern and industrial States the statement and speeches made by the Democratic Senator from Massa- chusetts. The Republicans might have | some difficulty getting from Senator Walsh permission to use his frank o send the speeches free through the malls, for Senator Walsh is a strong party man and he might not be so will- ing to lend ald and comfort to the enemy as apparently Senator Borah has been. With the Democratic organization using Republican materia] in opposition to the Hoover administration and the Republican ' organisation sending out Democratic attacks on the attitude of the Democratic leaders of the Senate, it would be another case of Tweedle- dim and Tweedledee. ——————— e There is a lingering attachment in the popular mind for a long established favorite in the world of sport. The present golf champion will for some time be identified in the public mind as the man who managed to beat Bobby Jones, —ora Reports of snowfall in Nebraska vary the old advice to read “Go West and cool off with the country.” PRSP v R Sauce for the Gander. If there is anything at all in the old saying about sauce for the goose -and the gander, it is exemplified in & suit Just brought by a Chicago man against a young woman for breach of promise. He asks for $250,000 as solace for his wounded affections as his one-time flancee has ref to marry him after formally accepting his pro- posal of marriage. He js described in the news. report as a local manufac- turer and she as former entertainer at a Chicago club. Well, why not? ‘Women have sued for breach of promise countless times. Some of them have recovered damages. Some of them have falled of their suits. Occasionally one of these to trial, though most of them tled out > |In the eyes of the law, indeed, lief bill, which the President strongly | offered by Senator. Borah before the | public who like revelations of intimate personalities. There is, of course, no law* {a man suing for breach of inst ise. s as vulnerable to the wounds of fickle- ness as & woman and as fully entitled to compensation. Of course, nobody ever takes much stock in the “lacer- ated heart” hypothesis of the breach of promise suit. A heart that can be healed by a financial compensation is not to be regarded as tender enough to be so torn and then cured, Wh not & male heart? i R 1t is frankly recognized that in prac- | tically every breach of promise case { the plaintiff sues for compensation in | Meu of the maintenance afforded by matrimony. This is a sordid basis for such a sentimental procedure, but it is nevertheless the actual motive in the majority if not all the actions. In the Chicago case, of course, the man cannot .be considered as a suitor for mlnu-l nance. He would be the last to permit the suggestion. Nevertheless, a com- mercial influence will be suspected by the skeptical who take little stock in the wounded-feelings theory of breach of promise procedure. —————— ‘Washington as an'Air Terminal. Just before leaving this country for Germany, Dr. Hugo Eckener, skipper of the Graf Zeppelin, which sailed for home without him the other day on the last lap of its epochal round-the- world flight, stated in New York that when a regular transatlantic service ul established the American terminal is: likely to be near a city south of Balti- more, probably at Washington or Richmond. It appears that a “weather | shift line” runs east and west im- mediately north of Baltimore, making the section to the south more desirable for landing than points farther north. This statement naturally intensifies local interest in the matter of the de- velopment of an airport at or in the immediate neighborhood of the Capital. While various projects have been pro- |poud, little actual advance has been | made toward the provision of landing flelds for Washington outside of the Government fields on the "Anacostia. Much time has been lost in considera- tion of sites, and the projects them- selves have gone forward slowly. Private enterprise has established a fleld in the Maryland suburbs which is capable of expansion - to the point at which a dirigible of the Graf Zeppelin size could be handled. So it Is feasible to propose ‘Washington as the American terminal for the projected transatiantic Zeppelin service, ‘There is perhaps more than a merely meteorological factor in the suggestion of this city for the American landing point for a transatlantic dirigible line. It would be quite impressive to have this German-American route end on this side at the Capital City. A Wash- ington-to-Berlin flight on regulay | schedule within a little more than a decade after the close of, the Great ‘er ‘would be highly interesting and | significant. oot 1t was stated not long ago. that air- craft needs moré work and study to make it an absolutely dependable means with his new cares, and is too con- siderate to Interrupt Wis present duties ‘when a new disaster might easily tempt hjm to remark, “I told you so.” ——— An airplane is perfectly safe, up to a certain point. It has become doubtful whether railroads, which have hazards of their own, ought to undertake under- writing sky transportation as-one of the legitimate risks of travel. ————— Henry Pord threatens to manufacture in Europe. It may be respectfully doubled whether any town in Eurcpe can provide the reliable “f.0b.” fa- cilities of Detroit, Mich. ——— e, /) One of the irritating features of a warm September night is the phono- graph in & nearby flat that is kept playing “Good-by, Summer.” ———s While not reliable for profit, the one tule invariably observed m the stock market is “Guess Again.” ————— Amount of acreage required for s landing field makes it plain that & prac- tical aerialist must be a realtor as well as an aviator. ——o———— e SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSCN. Sweetness. If poets who each day will meet To sing a strain surpassing sweet Could quite convince us, one and all, Grief would be small! In an environment we'd dwell ©Of chocolate and caramel. Life would seem this, and nothing more— A candy store. Pertinent Inquiry. “Are you & wet or a dry?” “Let's. understand each other,” said | ta Senator Sorghum. “Are: you talking politics or sentiment?” Jud Tunkins -mn are two kinds of farmers. One kind wants to make hay and the other wants to make politi- cal trouble, ‘Withholding Applause. Two motion picture stars were wed, And an admiring public said, | “The wedding’s not so much, of course— But we will walt for the divoroe.” Front and Back. “Didn’t you tell your wife to quit try- in’ to drive from the back seat?” “Only once,” sald Mr. Chuggins, “She immedintely notified me not to keep tryin’ to drive from the front seat.” “Travel in foreign lands,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “teaches ts that we know even less about other countries than we know about’our own.” Good-by, Summer. Some day we will view ‘The weather maps with figures new; ‘The kiosk on the Avenue We'll pass and mérely say “Pooh pooh!” Justity it. But if a female heart can ! Pe “WORDS 'BY THE RIGHT REV. JAMES E. FREEMAN, D. D, LL. P. Bishop of Washington. Text: “The words that I speak unto you, they are life.”—St. John, vi.63. 4 ‘When we come to trace the inluences that shape the course of our life we al- most. lnvlfllbl{ discover that the most conspicuous of these is some striking rsonality. Not infrequently the courre of life is changed as the result of read- ing some s arly ive book, the phi hy of which changes the whole tenor of our thinki and living. teacher has ever made bold to say that the he utters have in them life. Like many of His strikingly original utterances, this word of the Master is both daring and unique. Short as the narrative of His life is, few as are His utterances when com; with other great leaders, no words that have been spoken to mankind have left a more enduring impression or been more uni- versally accepted. Beyond the fact that they constitute the inspiration of the Christian Church and that & mighty religious system has been builded upon them, they have affected the course of human history and given color and character to recu terms and sys- tems of civilization. read the story the world's development without izing the formative influence the of Jesus have had upon it would mean to leave out of reckoning the most potential force that has played uj it. great teachers have uttered wise and weighty words that have given direction and inspiration -to new systems and new philosophies, but in due course they have been super- seded by others, who in their time and place caught a new vision and inter- preted it in terms that were more ap- pealing and more satisfying. The unique thing about the words of Jesus is their increasing power and their wider acceptance with the passage of time. Entirely apart from their recognized influence upon the concerns of our cor- porate life, their most vital effect is dis- covered in what they produce in indi- vidual lives. They have literally trans- No | OF LIFE” formed men, changing the whole course of their lives, effecting reforms in habit and practice that were little short of the miraculous. However one may view the divine authority of Christ, one can- not reverently read His recorded words without a profound sense of admiration and_wonderment. They literally seem to have such vitality that they re- interpret the purm of life and give it freshened significance. What deep | meaning resides in such utterances as. these: “Whosoever shall drink of ihe water that I shall give them, shall never thirst”; “Because I live, ye shall live also”; “I am the resurrection and the life; he that believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live.” What teacher of men, what philosopher, has ever dared to arrogate to himself such power? Little wonder is it that these words of life have constituted the source of genius, the inspiration of artist, post lng musician the world over. Take from the annal of human history that which the words of Jesus have inspired | and we-cast a shadow upon it and dwarf its accomplishments, The words of Jesus are as potential today in effecting far-reaching changes in human thought and practice as they ever were. miracle of transformed lives, of “twice born men,” repeats itself day by day. Scholars, scientists, men of affairs, the high and the lowly, listen to Him “who spake as never man' spake,” and from His inspired lips they still hear Him uylnfi. “The words that I speak unto you, they are life.” “Lord, Thy word abideth, And our footsteps guideth; ‘Who its truth E:uwun Light and poy receiveth, “Word of mercy, giving Succor to the living; Word of life, supplyin; Comfort to the. dying! “O that we discerning Its most holy learning, Lord, may love and fear Theel Evermore be near Thee!” Senate Democrats Seeking Fourteen Republican Votes to Beat Tariff Bill BY WILLIAM HARD. The Democrats today need 14 Re- publican votes in the Senate to de- feat the present tariff bill on the final roll call, and by a most remarkable coincidence the number of Republican Senators thought capable of voting ulti- | mately with the Democrats, in certain | circumstances, is exactly 14. It is today a neck-and-neck race, as many observers here view it, between the bill's passage and the bill's defeat. The Democrats are reconciled to los- | ing five of their own number to the Republicans. These five are the two sugar and red pepper Senators from Louisiana, Mr. Ransdell and Mr. Brous- sard; the two citrus fruits and spring vegetable Senators from Florida, Mr. Fletcher and Mr. Trammell; and the live stock Senator from Wyoming, Mr. Kendrick. ‘The total number of Democrats in the Senate is 39. Thirty-nine minus 5 is 34. Thirty-four is the presumed total of first-line, last-ditch, high-power, low-tariff Democrats on the final roll | * X ok % call. ‘The total number of all Senators of all complexions, Jeffersonian Demo- cratic, Hamiltonian Democratic, regular everyday Republican, Progressive elec- tion - day Republican, and Farmer - Laborite, is 95. It should be 96; but the sovereign State of Pennsylvania, In consequence of a censorship exercised over its political morals by the Senators from other States, is getting along without the presence of Mr. Willlam 8. Vare in the Senate and is obliged to content itself there with the multiple talents but single vote of Mr. David A. of transportation. Lindbergh goes on| Reed. A majority in a Senate of 96 would be 49. A majority in a Senate of 95, however, is only 48. With Mr. Vare excluded from ‘the Senate floor, the Democrats need only 48 votes in order to bring the present tariff bill to re- Jection. e We thus arrive at their need of 14 Republicans. Retaining possession of 34 of themselves, and acquiring posses- sion of 14 of tifir hereditary enemies, they would arrive at the perfect figure of 48 and would present Mr. Herbert Hoover with a senatorial death scene which they sometimes believe would cause him great perplexity and annoy- ance. In these calculations the Farmer-Laborite Senator, Mr. Henrik Shipstead, of Minnesota, is counted as a Republican. Mr. Shipstead, like Mr. Borah, has voted with the Republicans in/matters connected with the organi- zation of the Senate. defined in military language as a Re- publican A. W. O. L.—that is, absent without leave. The only difference be- tween him and Mr. Borah is jocularly stated as being that he is absent on election _day as well as on ‘the other % 364. This slight distinction between Mr. Shipstead and an ordinary Progres- sive Republican is not thought seriously to impair his senatorial Republican as illustratea and confirmed Yy lendid committee assi ents and by the personal aftection lavished upon him by that granite statesman, M-, George Higgins Moses of New Hampshire, chairman of the Republican senatorial campaign committee. Just the same, and in spite of the fact that all Republicans, like all Dem- ts, are Pouonllly fond of Mr. Ship- stead, it is democratically—and, in- deed, generally—thought that the pres- ent tariff bill, if it retains its present form and balance, will -find Mr. Ship- stead ultimately democratically voting “nay.” This would give the Democrats 1 of their 14 l;eeged.n:pnhuun allies. think they will pick uj \n-mgn circumstances in North Dakota —Mr. Pragier and Mr. Nye. P They hope to glean 2 morg out ‘of Wisconsin—Mr. La Follette and Mr. ng an addi- Bl ey anticipate ‘gathert n| T¥ 2 on. the politically fire-swept a—Mr. Norris and tional 2 on Mr. Howell ‘They hold out confident arms to Mr. Borah of Idaho. ‘They have accommodations all re- served for Mr. Brockhart of Towa. They feel certain that they are the destined Tiff home, this trip, of Mr. McMaster of South Dakota. Less certainly they feel that they are also journey’s end, on this occasion, for Mr. McMaster’s South Dakota sen- atorial colleague, Mr. Norbeck. Still less certainly, and yet with a strong pulse, they surmise that a vote their way may be forthcoming from Mr. Cutting of New Mexico. Do e age agaan sotme. CRbep aga. tonally wealthy and exceptionally irri- tating beneficiaries of the tariff system may give them the vote of that coura- geous and choleric character, Mr. Cou: ens of Michigan. Finally they become s0 opunlmbh; t}\‘lt r. occuples _t! lon of being the on!‘, m\lh' Wal 2 more tration. . Having thus counted up to 14 on the ublican Democrats today and can count lost. th need 14, and they can- lves getting more he | fined to agricultural products and it will not demand that any bill advancing in- ! dustrial products as well as agricultural products be sent to defeat. Now the prime reason in the minds of Progressive Republican Senators for possibly voting against the whole bill is that the farmers are supposed at this time to want revision upward for them- selves but npt for the manufacturers. ‘That idea will receive a distinct shock when it appears, as it will appear, that certain of the most influential of our agricultural authorized spckesmen in Washington are quite willing to see some | considerable concessions made to the manufacturers and to the wage earners, provided the agricultural duties are lift- ed to what they regard as the necessary | protective ievel, A safe prophecy is that the final fate of this present tariff bill is now largely in the hands of the organized farmers and their highly intelligent and effec- tive lobbyists in the National Capital. If they ruthlessly reject all advances for industrial products. the Democrats may conceivably get their ne Republican farmer-following “nays.” If, on the other hand, they continue to show, as some of them are now showing, a tendency to compromise with the in- dustrialists, the Democrats will have great difficulty in acquiring as many as 14 Republican agrarian revolters, anc the bill would then probably get passec and signed in November. (Copyright. 1929.) - | Profit and Loss Income: Tax Figures Desired BY HARDEN COLFAX. Uneasiness may have marked recep- tion by some business men of news that the Senate Monday will be asked to consider a resolution calling for infor- mation regarding certain details of Federal income tax returns, but the fact is that while tax publicity usually is resisted in specific cases the rev- enue act itself provides that commit- tees of Congress shall have access to such information. It is for the purpose of essisting debate on the pending tariff bill that Senator Simmons, the veteran ranking Democratic member of the finance com- mittee, has proposed a resolution to di- rect the finance committee to ask the Treasury for profit and loss items of taxpayers, to named either by the majority or the minority of the com- mittee, as flled with the Internal Revenue Bureau during the life of the Fordney-McCumber tariff act. A more broad ‘Tesolution, proposed by Senator Blaine of Wisconsin, would require joint action by the u{o houses of Congress and probably will give way temporarily Simmons resolution, which would necessitate action by the Senate alone. ‘What the Democratic members expect to develop by the information they want to ure from tax returns is that some 1 yers who have sought increases in tasiff protection or would benefit by increases carried in the pending bill| have made comfortable net mmmsi i | since the 1922 act was passed. ition may be expected to wide. spread publicity as to the financial statements of tions or individuals | nd there probably will be opposition to the proposal on other grounds. L No one is in a better position than the astute Senator Simmons to realize that income tax statistics are as full of pitfalls as a recently shelled battle- fleld. The published records establish | me (:: that business mdmlndl.\ls:;; ve been more prosperous since than in the few years immediately pre- ceding_enactment of the nt tariff law. But the Democrats are not likely to admit that this happy condition is due to the tariff. All recall that 1920 and 1921 were fly.nrl of depression due to post-war defiation. Assum! that ‘the information on profits and losses as disclosed by in- come tax returns will be given Senators for the {ariff debate, a fine argument | ich weighty sub- rginal” lines of com- | merce and industry, for a hundred cor- {pnmlom may make a small profit | Where one in exactly the same line of | business enjoys large returns. Indeed, that is exactly what the | analysis ‘of income tax returns shows from year to year. Less than 60 per cent of the corporations which filed Federal income tax returns enjoy any | net income. In the preliminary sta « ment of returns filed year for 1927 | business operations, 249,847 corporatiqns |Teported net incomes aggregating | $8,068,200,000, while 203,006 corpora- { tlons reported no net income, but defi- cits aggregating $2,311,433,000. For 1921 operations, the last dull ‘year be- fore enactment of the present tariff, | 171,239 corporations ' reported net in- comes aggregating $4,336,047,000, and reported no net incomed and ' deficits which totaled $2, ”,42’,000./ net incomes ,000, while only 3.11 per incomes in excess .of ‘The | dow Capital Sidelights | [Rubbe BY WILL P. KENNEDY. Following . the recent furore over radium paint poisoning and the warn- ing just issued by the Surgeon General, H. 8. Cumming of the Public Health Service, that lead poisoning is one of the great problems of industrial hygiene, it 1s interesting to find in that world's rreutm treasury of incunabula, AE:"-;'! ‘olt thell Surgeon General of the 4 reatise on this subject, pub- lished in 1700 Morbis _ Artifi- clum Diatriba”—written by Bernardino | Ramazzini, the iirst physician to realize the widespread hazards of industrial emplcyment, Ramaszini comments tha ] sordid profit that's accompany'd® with | the destruction of health,” and Secre- tary Davis of the United States Depart- ment of Labor, after reviewing this! treatise, comments that Ramazzini's conclusions reached 230 years ago “might well be taken to heart by some industries today.” Surgeon General Cumming lists some fi :'l:‘cfinnclpknl industries and wtudel workers are exposed lead poisoning—lead mining and smelting, white or red lead, the manu- facture of paint, storage batteries, glazes, enamels, pottery and most lead objects, painting, brass founding and the | r Production and Consumption BY FREDERIC J]. HASKIN. For nearly a year, trade in rubber has been unrestricted and it is possible to take & view of the effects which artificlal governmental measures have jpon an economic situation. In 1922 the British government put into effect the Stevenson plan, which restricted exports of rubber from British Malaya to only 60 fnr cent of what they had been normally. In conformity with the | natural law of supply and demand uw! price of rubber rose so high that it was | estimated by the Department of Com- | merce that the Stevenson plan cost the | American people half a billion dollars a year over and above what they had been accustomed to paying for crude rubber. ‘This country is the world's largest | consumer of rubber and the largest ex- porter of and manufacturer of rubber. Not a pound of rubber is raised in the United States because the rubber plants which one sees occasionally standing | in the corner of a sitting room near the parrot’s cage is scarcely to be considered as a rmdum of latex in the com- mercial sense. ! The reason for the introduction of the polishing cut glass and brass, and even such diverse things as putty and win- shades. i Ramazzini, after expressing the belief that occupational diseases were caused mainly by the noxious quality of the material used or by imj T re while working, am(’?.?‘m of the diseases prevalent among miners, gold- smiths, potters, copper and tin workers, glass makers and gl grinders, pamt- ers, workers in lime and plaster of paris, tobacco and snuff workers, bakers and millers, starch makers, masons and bricklayers, laundresses and washer- women, agricultural workers and mem- bers of different professions. This Ramazzini was born in northern Italy in 1633, and received his doctor’s diploma at the age of 26. His book was translated from the Latin into Eng- lish in 1705 under the title—"A Treatise of the Diseases of Tradesmen.” Dr. Thomas Legge in a Lowell Insti- tute lecture on industrial diseases de- livered in Boston, Mass, November 24, 91 tated that “the value of Ramasz- zini's book lies in the fact that it was written just at the time of the part- ing of the ways in industry and medi- cine when both were about to make greater strides in the next fifty years than they had done in the preceding 500 years.” * % % % Representative J. D. Craddock of Munfordville, Ky., who has a background of wide and romantic experience during the Philippine insurrection, in China during the Boxer uprising for six years with the Isthmian Canal Commis- sion in the Canal Zone, is proud of a gift of some 13,100 acres of forest land in his district which a resident of that region for fourscore years has just made to the State of Kentucky for a public recreation park and demonstra- tion area. ‘The gift was made by Isaac W. Bernheim, 84 years of age, who was born in Baden-Badén, Germany, at the edge of the famous Black Forest, which has been regularly producing timber crops under forestry management for seven centuries. Representative Craddock explains that plans are being pushed for resto- ration of this forest through intensive management for the maintenance of & wild-life . sanctuary, and an endow- ment provides for this work and for free distribution throughout the State of trees for reforestation purposes. Ronald B. Craig of the United States Forest Service has been appointed chief ranger in charge of the forest and a fire-protection system has been put in operation as a first step in the conser- vation program. s M thesé Summer days and the vaca ton periods it is interesting to note the new .mwdz“’ of ou:'mtg. [Mulneu which official T t recrea- Ton e an asset—and broadcasts the message: “The future of the United States” | says William Butterworth, president of the' Chamber of Commerce of the United States, “as of any country, i§ dependent upon the younger generation and those generations which are to come. A responsibility, therefore, is placed upon those of mature judgment s to develop our facilities for educa- tion, health and well being that those who follow will be able to carry on where we have left off. “The per use of leisure, through the development of adequate recreation, Is one of the most efficient means of securing the country's future. Well directed play strikes at the root of all child EVKI. It makes for healt raises the moral standard; it develops leadership and fair play; it creates a proper sense of relfona\bfllty and re- spect for authority; it makes for happl- n;‘u, general welfare and citizen- )gn' don't you owe yourself and family a nice long vacation this Summer? LI That the supreme sacrifice at Bunker Hill and other great battles of Amer- lcan history is fed by the death toll at Savannah is em| by sentative Edwards of Georgia in calling attention of his colleagues to ‘he commemoration next T of the 150th anniversary of the death of Brig. Gen. Casimir Pulaski, who died from wounds received at the siege of Savannah. “Within a half circle extending & half mile from the City Hall of Sa- vannah,” Representative Edwards re- minds_us, “there was more fighting, more lives lost and more wounded on the side of the patriots than in any similar area ol‘rnd in any of the ‘Thirteen Origini Colonies. ~ In the capture of Savannah by the British in 1778 patriotic soldiers were shot down or bayonetted to death within a few hundred yards of the site of the City Hall | today. “For bgm battles of Savannah the list of dead and wounded on the Amer- ican side totaled over 1,300, At Bunker Hill the American losses were 453. At Princeton they were 100. At Mon- mouth they were 130, At Germantown they were 1,200. “Savannah has never commercial- tzed any of the wonderful, outstanding features of its historical past. It has never converted into a money-making proposition the heroism and romances of its forefathers.' . “You Might Say——" From the Canton Daily News. Regarding that young woman who has_just been given a new palate, you might say she has an acquired taste. Jumps 150 Pounds. Prom the Hamilton Evenine Journal, t potato grown in the e fi.”'x’..".':.fi!“m?.’ém a weight of 150 nds, but we suppose in the seed catalogues it is represented as a good 300, at least. of 1921, even agricultural corporations show a hlgllur percentage of tax returns with net incomes, 43.96 per cent, com- pared to 36.06 per cent. ‘Taking mmunc:mmu ST 0.58, 4 Food 48.86, Stevenson plan for restricted exports was that the price of rubber had fallen too low and the planters were facing bankruptcy. The plan worked well enough from that point of view, the price soaring several hundred per cent. But it had another, and perhaps un- foreseen, effect. Even while the restric- tion was effective there deve the greatest expansion in demand for rub- ber the world had ever known, especially from thi; country. The automobile fac- tories began pouring cars out at a 1 tastic rate, and it is probable that even without the Stevenson restriction the price of rubber would quickly have risen | because of the increased demand. | This heavy demand resulted in a tremendous rise in the exports of Dutch | Malaya, the principal competitor of | the British colonies. Before 1922 Brit- ish Malaya had supplied two-thirds of the world's total of rubber in crude form. Under the restriction plan British exports were curtailed and Dutch exports were stimulated, with the result that the British share in the business fell to only half the total. The opportunity was a bonanza for the Dutch, who grew rich. Their rubber exports increased 145 per cent between 1922 and 1928, when the restriction on British exports came to an end. There was smuggling out of rubber, as was to be expected, but this did not | 1 | borhood of | this figure rising each year. The | the nected in ln‘b:-y with automebiles to see the rubber problem solved. It may be remembered that in 1922 Wies had only about one-third the life they have now. A certain company st that time made what some companies re- ga as a preposterous guarantee. It guaranteed its tire for §,000 miles. To- day a tire that is not good for from 10,000 to 15,000 miles as a matter of course has very little place on the market. One of the interesting results of the restriction was the accumulation of rub- ber in British Malaya. Rubber comes from two sources. One is the planta- tions, great farms planted wi Tub- ber trees, which are carefully tended like orchards. other source is wild rubber. The natives go into the jungles and tap the trees, bringing out the rub- ber and selling it to traders. This wild rubber supply makes up a large propor- tion of the total output. Of course, the restriction related to wild rupber as well as to the plantation variety. Only & portion could bs exported. The na- tives continued tapping trees, however, smuggling out what they could over and above the restriction limit and hoarding the rest. Present Rubber Consumption Enormous. 8o when the restriction was removed last November there was loosed upon the world a vast quantity of stored-up raw rubber. Every ship from the Indies brought rubber. The price from 32 cents to 19 cents, and while the American imports rose tremendous. ly, the value of the total volume of the last six months was below a compara- tive six months under the Stevenson plan. American rubber consumption continued to increase despite the re- striction. The price seemed to -have made relatively little difference on the whole. In 1922 rubber consumption in the United States amounted to 276.- 285 tons. In 1928 the consumption was 442,220 tons. The figures for 1929 will show a big increase over the latter fig- ure. We consume two-thirds of the world's supply of rubber and lead all other nations in exports of rubber . Canada is second, but largely because of Canadian branches of Amer- ican rubber companies. It is all really American -business. In fact, the Amer- ican rubber manufacturing industry is greater than that of all other nations combined. American leadership in automobiles is responsible primarily. Two-thirds of the crude rubber brought into the country goes into tires. Fifteen per cent goes into inner tubes. Exports of rubber Pmduch are in the neigh- $70,000,000 a year, with For the first seven months of this year Ameri- can rubber consumption amounted to 310,843 long tons, or considerably more than any whole year's consumption under the Stevenson plan. - The rubber market now has become somewhat stable. Last Winter it was erratic, as might be expected right after the lifting of the restriction. Prices naturally sank, and stocks ace cumulated. Now the distribution has been about completed, good-sized stocks are held in all consuming countries and prices are ruling steadily. ‘The business is seasonal, but balances nicely. The Spring and Summer are the big months for the tire sales, as in those months more automobiles are more constantly on the roads. With coming of Autumn and Winter, tire sales fall off, but there is an in- creased demand for rubber footwear, raincoats and the like. | i This and That By Charles E. Traceweil, Establishment of a school to teach cats how to catch birds would prove an interesting educational experiment. It is commonly believed that the do- ‘menlc cat is an expert in the art, but observation shows that it is noth- ing of the sort. | The average house cat is altogether | too wary in 1ts approach. Its cunning is S0 extreme that in ninefyenine cases out | of & hundred the bird has plenty of time |to fly away before the stalker gets | within striking distance. The cat's caution gets the better of {it; its stealth is much too large for the good of its own stomach. In other words, if it would rush the bird, the chances are it would catch it, but with its exaggerated system of creep- ing it permits the feathered creature to get wise to its coming. Creeping. we would point out, is most a fallure, as employed by the run of house cats in a city. We would not say as much of their country cousins, for town and farm cats possess better creeping environments. jere there are plenty of bushes, trees and long grass a cat has every opportunity of making good use of its manifest creeping abilities. Creep- ing amounts to something under such circumstances, but we ask city cats | what ordinary, plain everyday creeping amounts to in a metropolis? ®EE ‘Take Boggs, doglike kitten, who has been after birds ever since he could walk. Some may say that Boggs is not a good example, but to that reply that Boggs would have caught a hyn- dred. birds by now if it were not for his_unfortunate addiction to creeping. Creeping proclivities seem born in the breed. Probably every house cat feels at heart that it is a full-fledged tiger. Boggsie, we feel sure. prides himself on his tigerlike trea To see him creep- ing along. the after a flock of sparrows is to see a slow motion picture of steaith in operation. The spectator does not have to go to the dictionary to look up the meaning of the word. “To creep” means tc raise a it forepaw from the ground and to ad- vance it at the rate of an inch every 1§ seconds. It can be lized that this motion is by no means speedy. It gives greatly affect the tonnage figures. Some natives and traders made large profits | in this way, but at considerable risk. { Necessity Brings Inventions. ‘The pinch.in the United States was felt very keenly, but Yankee ingenuity rose the occasion by perfecting processes for reclaiming rubber. Old | tires, old rubber boots, garden hose— | anything containing rubber—were put | through the process and the ra: ! extracted. In 1922 reclamation of rub- | ber amounted to about 19 per cent of | the total of rubber consumed. By 1927, | when the Stevenson plan was in opera- tion, this proportion of reclaimed rubber had risen to 51 per cent. ‘The effect of the plan was good in another direction. It caused auto- moblle tire companies to improve their product and turn out a longer-wearing tire. The price of rubber was too high to permit people to go on buying tires at the artificlally inflated prices. high price slowed up tire sales and also | slowed up sales of automobiles. It was to the interest of every business con- Fifty Years Ago| 1 ears Ago v o In The Star | “Hard money,” meaning the silver | dollar, has never been very popular in sil this part of the country as 1lver . h::nma:lh meghmln of “ex- change, though always in Dollars. favor in the Western part of the country. Fifty years ago an at- tempt was made to put silver dollars into circulation here, as thus told in ‘The Star of September 1, 1879: “Since the recent order of Secretary Sherman requiring payments in silver to be made to all employes of the United States in an amount equal to 10 per cent of the monthly salary of each, it is noticeabie that the ‘dollar of our dads’ is fast coming into general circulation and is a good deal of a nuisance to business men. The order is executed with strict impartiality, af- fecting not only the clerks, but the President, his cabinet and members of Congress, who all receive their 10 per cent allowance of the silver coin. A day or two ago a check was sent to the sergeant-at-arms of the House by Hon. John T. Harris of Virginia for $200. ‘The messenger who bore it demurred to receiving $20 of the amount in silver, but the cashier told the young man to tell Mr. Harris he had voted for the bill which made the coin and that not suly he, but all members of Congress, will be id 10 per cent in_silver on their salaries hereafter, as the - ury made the sergeant-at-arms take it, and there was no other course, left him than to pay it out. “Judge Richardson, ex-Secretary of | the Treasury and now a judge of | the Court of Claims, says that Secre. tary Sherman is right_is pushing the coin into circulation. He predicts, foo, that it will not be long before the very men who voted for the silver dollar will be the most violent opponents of the coin as & circulating medium. The judge says that in China, which is & silver country entirely, as its circulat- ing medium is all silver, the coin is not used at all in the ordinary details of trade, but that nearly all merchants have checkbooks, and a purchaser of any commodity, instead of paying for it directly in the coin of the country, gives his check for the amount of , and the settlements are de- ferred until there is some large pay- ment to be made by those holding such checks. He says it took nearly a half- bushel basket of silver to pay the - sage money of himself and family from Hong Kong to San Francisco and that it was placed in such a basket and towed out to the ship in a small boat. The judge says, as a matter of fact, that China, an absolute silver country, is disgusted with its own circulating medium, and that the American people will soon become disgusted with the so-called ‘dollar of our dads.’” * * % A local iffstitution, regarding which great expectations were entertained Ground Broken for e tury ago, National Race Track. was inaugu- rated on the 2d of September, 1879, when d s for a race track and othe: improvements to constitute a national air grounds in the northeastern out- skirts of Washington, the site of which is now oceupled by the roundhouse and railroad tracks of thbe Washington ter- minal east of Eckington. The Star of September 3, 1879, describes the cere- mony, which was participated in by t Hayes, District Dent and Twining, tative (later Senator) J. C. S. kburn of Kentucky and olhltml &m in local T | the fly on a screen ft is the birds plenty of time to smell cat, or to see cat, whichever system they use. ‘When Boggs is let out of the house, the first thing he does is to look around for birds, As a fly catcher, he is an expert, and he thinks that birds ought to prove similarly easy prey. The birds, however, do no‘t ntgre‘e :Ilh him. e would employ the same technique against birds he uses against files, he would enjoy & bird every day. He is particularly nst™ the larger varieties, such as rse and le. nce Boggs sees a fly, he keeps right after it until his lnmnxup:v floors it. Never for a second he give it Test. With bounds of his long he leaps hither and , on sofas, chairs and windowsills. Once he trees A ‘goner, as the vernacular has it. Flies_have little, if any, brains; dut- ting against the screen, they remain there until the mighty paw of brings them down. We have not decided whether likes taste of flies, to-do over them, smacking l‘1! we are Vi g;%s & it § L