Evening Star Newspaper, September 15, 1929, Page 42

THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C SUNDAY.. September 15, 1920 THEODORE W. NOYES Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office: lll; St. and Pennsyivania Ave. New York Office: 110 East 42nd St Chicago Office: k European oM te by . Ra Carrier Within the City. he Star, .. 48¢ per month and Sunday Star days) ... 60c per month 65¢ per month y Star .. Sc per copy | Céllection mide at the end of ench rionth. | rders be sent in by mail or telephone Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. | Dally and Sunday....1 yr. $10.0C: 1 mo., Daily only $6.00: 1 mo.. Sunday only . $4.00; 1 mo.. 40c i 1r sesRipEs Daily only . Sundas only Patch ived in this paper an ublished herein. All ri ion o special dispatches herein also reserved. —————— s The Naval “Observer” Inquiry. This week begins the inquiry by a subcommittee of the Senate committee on naval affairs into the activities of the so-called naval expert who claims to have acted at the naval limitation | conference at Geneva in behalf of | shipbullding corporations of this coun- | try, to the end of causing the break- | down of that conference and the defeat | of the American plan for an interna- | tional agreement in further limitation of armaments, | Nothing quite like this situation has ever been brought before a congres- sional investigating committee hereto- fore. In effect, the defendant, if he may be so styled, is his own accuser, for it was he who brought out the fact of his relationship with the shipbuild- ing corporations, in a suit for compen- sation claimed by him and denied by the companies for the services rendered. Had he not brought that suit it may be doubted whether the case would ever have come to the point of public knowl- | edge requiring immediate inquiry. In this case the sclf-styled naval ex- | pert contends that he was rendering | legitimate services and that there was nothing unpatriotic in his endeavors to prevent the United States from contin- uing the reduction of its naval arma- ment. He holds that it is the right of any American citizen to oppose reduc- tions, to advocate and to work for a larger rather than a smaller naval | establishment. On the other hand, it | is felt and urged by many Amerlclm' that, granting this right of the citizen | to strive for the development rather than the depletion of American naval forces, it is decidedly improper, indeed it is almost treasonable, for any citizen | to hire himself out to work against the | adoption of policies sought by the Gov- i ernment to be put into effect through international agreement. It is one thing for an American citizen in his own right as such to argue and to work for the adoption of & naval armament policy by the Con- gress of the United States, and quite another thing for such a citisen to work against the endeavors of his | Government before an international | conference. What may be perfectly ‘ Ambassador at the Court of 8t. James, Charles G. Dawes, and of Premier Ram- say MacDonald have been successful in bringing about a preliminary under- standing with regard to cruisers and to the question of naval parity between the two countries. ‘The announcement of an appraaching acvcord between America and Britain and of a call for a new conference, probably to be held in December, has been welcomed in official circles in PFrance, Italy and Japan, where satis- faction is expressed at the progress made. Doubtless these nations will accept an invitation to meet with the United States and Great Britain in a naval conference. It remains.to be seen whether the old questions of adequate national defense, which occu- pied the minds of the French delega- tion to the Washington conference seven years ago, have been solved or softened by time, - It is one thing to get‘an accord between the British and the mericans on cruisers and other naval craft. It is another to bring all five of these nations into line. The influence of world opinion, the desire to make peace permanent, will doubtless have their bearing on what happens after the nations go into con- ference, None will relish a charge that its attitude has brought another failure. ‘The groundwork for the naval eon- ference, which must be laid long in advance of the meeting of the delegates, is of tremendous importance. It is & matter of congratulation that so much along this line has already been accom- plished between the British and the American governments. But the others and their attitude must be considered with equal seriousness, if there is to be final accord, and the work which was launched first in Washington in 1921-22 shall finally be accomplished. Washington was the host of the nations at the first naval limitation conference. The Capital of the United States would gladly welcome them again to another and supplementary conference. In some quarters, however, it has been suggested that Londor should be the acene for the coming meeting of the nations on naval limita- tion. In a measure, London is entitled to the conference, both because of the favorable attitude early sassumed by the present British government and because—as it was in the case of the United States in 1921—it is Britain which is now ealled upon to make concessions in the matter of naval | armament. e The Traffic Report. In his annual report as director of traffic, Mr. Harland reiterates a demand for additional laws to guarantee fi- nancial responsibility of some sort on the part of automobile drivers and to make a certificate of title necessary to | establish ownership of an automobile. He also questions again the feasibility | of & law which imposes a mandatory jail sentence for third offenses and wants a revision of the traffic code to enable him to bar from Washington streets drivers whose local permits have been revoked, but who obtain permits to drive in other jurisdictions. These recommendations for new laws and re- visions are sound and it is to be hoped that the Commissioners and Congress will find time to act upon them. Mr. Harland also wants $5,000 a year for an annual traffic survey, maintain- ing that it would help his office and the various organizations concerned with THE SUNDAY cleverly manipulated expense accounts to folst a burden, in which it should share, to the shoulders of water con- sumers in the District. It started by building and- . maintaining the | first water supply system and selle ing surplus water to imdividual users in the District. Then it improved and extended this system, calling upon realty and personalty taxpay- ers in the District to share equally in the expens: of the riew plant. Finally, it decreased its own proportionate con- tributions, increased District realty and personalty taxpayers' contributions in building the supply system and shoved the entire burden of maintaining both supply and distribution systems, and of Improving and extending the latter, to the shoulders of water taxpayers. ‘These water taxpayers now pay the cost of water delivered in their homes. But in addition they pay the cost of the water supplied to the Federal and mu- nicipal governments, and they pay the { cost of laying new trunk lines needed with the growth of the Federal city. ‘The cost of water-plant extensions and development has been shifted from a national charge, with the District as a small contributor, to & District general tax charge, with the Nation a small contributor, and finally to a District water tax and assessment charge, with free water for the National Govern- ment. The cost of plant extensions and wider water distribution should be borne primarily by the new users of water for whose benefit the extensions are made, Whenever ‘additional contributions are | necessary, the cost of water-plant ex- | tension should be paid from the gen- eral fund—taxes on reaity and per- sonalty—with the Nation contributing, and should not be thrown wholly or in part upon the present water taxpayers. | The tendency of greater use of the water plant, of wider distribftion and of increased numbers of water taxpay- ers should be to decrease and not to increase the cost of water. ‘The Commissioners should make their proposed five-year extension program an occasion to emphasize the need of correcting an unfair and illogically con- ceived financial policy. They should use | their influence to change it. | R Gamblers are not regarded as good neighbors. Yet when rejected from one place they always ind another to which they can go. The gambler depends on the “broad-minded” person who refuses | to learn by anything except experience. o Peace sentiment is permitted to de- rive & slight satisfaction from & dis- tinction in definition which prevents a | massacre from being regarded as a war. | o In public affairs the question “What shall we do next?” is partly over- { whelmed by the question “What shall next be investigated?” - ] ‘The hit made abroad by the Dawes melody might tempt more diplomats to condense speeches and take more time | to practice violin. — e Gastonia affords another example of | the fact that men who have decided to {80 on strike may find themselves working harder than ever. ———— An official career is now recognized a8 a means of escaping the magazine editorial waste basket. K R STAR. WASHINGTON, D. €., SEPTEMBER BEHOLDING WONDER BY THE RIGHT REV. JAMES E. FREEMAN, D. D, LL. D, Bishop of Text: “We all, with open face, be- holding as in a glass, the glory of rht I.ordl.'au changed 'znw li" '"'f e from 1, Inthions, llf’ i One of America's greatest scientists | has taken the above text as the inspi- iTation of a remarkable book. His con- | tention is that 40 years of work in his Aboratory has been the unfolding to his vision of the glory of the Lord. Microscope and telescope, reflection and research, all reveal to his consclousness the nr!endon of creative genius as dis- cll in nature. He would say with | Addison— “The spacious firmament on high, ‘With all the blue ethereal gky And spangled heavens, a shining frame, ‘Their great Original proclaim, ‘The unwearied sun from day to day Does his Creator's power display, And publishes to every land ‘The work of an Almighty Hand.” It seems .incredible that one could walk abroad during these guwlnl Au- tumnal days without catching reflec- tions of the glory ‘and goodness of Him who has made “everything beautiful in its time.” A friend of mine who had l&"dulnuuenc:ml dlkmesu::.el in his reli- ex] noe as| rector to rec- S Y prove hel n g & clearer vision of God and truth. With wisdom and discrimination, his suggested that he read John T little book _entitled ““Through Nature to God.” It was the rector's Judgment that if his questioner could once be brought to study nature with this end in view, it would dissipate his doubts and fears. The result proved al- | together satisfactory. Robert Louls Stevenson once sald, “There is & mani- fest God in the world for those who care (o look for Him,” and & German philosopher declares, “I find within me the God whom I find everywhere about me.” The more one studies, even su- perficially, the mysteries of nature, the more one realizes that behind it all ge- (sides a Creative Genius who speaks'to Washington the world in terms of beauty. To the mind of St. Paul, the beholding of God's glory effected in us not only reverence for the Creator, but & gradual change our own nature “from glory to glory.” To contemplate that which is beautiful must, little by little, produce in us some of the splendor of that which we. behold. Our minds are like the sensitive plates in a camera. We expose them to that which is fine and beautiful and we come at length to have within us permanent impressions that transform and enrich our lives, After all, “open-face-beholding,” which impliés an open and receptive mind, is utterly indispensable to a right appre- hension of 's designs and purposes. ‘There are those who pass through life with closed minds. They refuse to ac- knowledge fresh disclosures of truth and beauty; they literally close the doors of the soul against new revela- tions of God's goodness. To keep the mind open and sensitive to each new manifestation of God means to renew life and deepen— faith. To acquire knowledge, to gain distinction, wealth or power, all this may be laudable, but to gain these at the expense of the soul is to miss life's highest fulfillment. Those are pregnant words of the Mas- ter, “What shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own ul."” .olomt one has well said that the chief end of life is to “grow a soul.” To “grow a soul” demands that we shall cultivate. in our natures that which is beautiful, that which refines and ennobles us. To live in this world of wonder and see in it nothing more than that which appeals to the senses means. to miss its large significance and |to fail of the high purpose of life. | Experjence and observation have made | clear to us that those natures that the most beautiful and the most pealing are inevitably those that, holding the glory of the Lord.” come to reflect in their own lives that which suggests the divine. There are natures that are truly Godlike, that year by year grow in beauty and loveliness. New Republican Chairman Huston A Hustling, Harmonizing Leader BY WILLIAM HARD. ‘The election of Mr. Claudius Huston of Indiana and of Tennessee and of New York City to be chairman of the Republican national committee is the largest purely political event of the moment on the natlonal scene, and -containg an immense meaning of the vastest importance to both political parties in th> United States. That meaning is that “Hooverism” and “reg- ularism” have found the means of get- ting along togeth® §n a considerable state of “normalcy” tvithin the Repub- lican party organization. Some such “harmonizing” among the Republicans was eminently desirable in view of the remarable talents for devastating polit'~-1_warfare exhibited on behalf r’ Democrats and of their noti 5 i committee by the suave but sav.ge Mr. Jewett Shouse and the smiling but smiting Mr. Charles Michel- son. From now forward the country is going to be blessed—or cursed—with mittees, both In continuous active oper- ation. The motto of every wary citizen must presently be: “Look out or either Mr. ouse or Mr. Huston will ‘organize’ you and get ¥you to wearing a button.” * % ox x Mr. Huston, in his private business, is a financial physician and health trainer to alling corporations. He seems to play no favorites in his dealings with different sorts of business undertak- ings. He seems to cure them all, no matter what line of commercial activ- ity they represent, and no matter what troubles them. The trouble with the Republican national committee was the opossum, which consists of pl: Y d. . _Huston's predecessor as chi two alive and alert party national com- | publican party of the North. Those rivalries and conflicts between different colors and different faiths do the Re- | publican party in the North no good | whatever. If Mr. Huston should take | Col. Mann into the employ of the Re- | publican national committee he would !be reviving racial and religious feuds | within the Republican party and he | would be sacrificing Northern Repub- | lican fortresses for Southern Republican | phantoms. It is manifest, therefore, | that he will not do it. * ook x Mr. Huston has himself retired from all active participation in politics o Tennessee. He is “credited” in Re. publican thought here not to Tennessee, but to Indiana. The President is known t0 be wholly uninfected by the idea that | the South is dangling coyly from the plum tree to fall into the Republican |lap. He is confloing himself to his | decent duty of trying to see to it that the Federal officeholders in the South are respectable. He does not dream that | Southerners are so weak-witted that the | mere sight of respectable Federal office- | holders will turn them into Republicans. The drive to “capture the South” is a | great big myth. The moment when it could seem to be a reality is over. The realization now is that if the South | goes Republican it will go so by South- | |ern rule and not by Northern manipu- lation. Mr. Huston takes office in the Re- publican tional committee not as & Southern “volunteer,” but as a national “regular.’ He beams. Mr. Hoover beams. Senator James E. Watson of | Indiana beams and beams. 'is a Hooverite. Everybody is a “regu- Iar.” The elephant is flapping both his ears in unison again. That ‘nor- Everybody | 15, 1929—PART 9. Capital Sidelights tBY WILL P. KENNEDY, profect of & new House tion fathered ;'":;hmm h ()flP'A'etll:g 8 resentative - erlck W. Dallinger of Massermvcetites rogressing, and this progress is forc~ g many veteran members ot Con- gress who have for years had apart- ments:‘n Congress Hall Hotel. on this site, to seek new abodes. There are two hotels un the land on which the new House Office Building is to be erected, and the razing of these struc- tures revives the long contemplated plan of building a model apartment hotel on the square directly south of the pres- ent House Office Bullding. This under- taking has been postponed from time to time because of the fact that the Penn- sylvania Railroad Tunnel, which carries trains into the Union ' Station, runs under a corner of this lot, . Congress has authorized the purchase of two lots, east and west of South Capitol street, and lying between Dela- ware and New Jersey avenues and B and C streets, as the site for the House Office Bullding annex, which is to be erected on the easterly of these two lots, Just across New Jersey avenue from the present House Office Buildh , the other lot, on the west side of South Capitol street, to be held in reserve for future expansion. These lots are direct- ly south of the Capitol grounds. ut]\:l of the land on ti to bulld has been pur- cl by the architect of the c-pml. David Lynn, with the exception of the old Potomac Hotel at New Jersey ave- nue and C street southeast, for which recourse must be had to condemnation iy originally & range mac was ally & of three dwellings, bullt by Thzmu Law, son of the Lord Bishop of Carlisle, who | was brother of Baron Ellenborough. Mr. Law was a talented but eccentric {man and a ruler of a populous district |in East India. He married Elizabetn 11;,!::':"%!&;:‘ dluddlu'hler of Martha , and inve | ¥hllhln[h)n lots l'n.sed B e corner dwelling was Co McMunn's tavern when the uav::r.xgerfi moved to Washington in 1800, There Thomas Jefferson, Vice President, and Albert Gallatin, ‘famous Secretaty of one of the e By s S Sechme e / Capitoliars. lle’s Hotels about the exodus from the Con, Hotel, which has for yun':‘:n“t;g principal rendezvous for Benators and Representatives, throws attention to the quaint colonial hotel just across C strect—the George Washington Inn— :!r;ll:)lx“;u eomnruc;td largely from ma- urchased by Geos 5 htng‘nmm’lnnkm build l'lrls.e e of brick and stone for th ter- talnment of members of Con, reu:n:r’;d other notables during the w’snm 50- clal season. Washington died before that house was completed, and it sur- vived him for more than a century, It was located on the north “side of the Capitol on North Capitol street be- tween B and C strests. It is thus de- s"'"b.“i. in Washington's will, dated July, 1779: “Original lots numbered 10 and 13 | in square 634,” which were purchased i by him for $963 with the condition that he “should build two brick houses, three stories high each,” on them. One of these houses he intended for his Winter residence. These houses were subsequently reconstructed as a hotel and known first as the Hillman Later the name was changed to “Wash- ington Inn,” which was demolished in 1913 when the square on which it stood, with others in the vicinity, were ggqulre:i ?y fli! Govu;nment for devel- ment of a plaza parkway between the Capitol and Union Su“’;n On this land during and since the World War stood what were known as “the Gov- ernment Hotels,” in which hundreds of war workers from all parts of the which are now being torn down ;::kf way for the parkway develop- nt, In the reconstructed George Wash- |ington Inn are’ two marble mantel- | pieces which weré a gift to Washing- chiseled marble desk which did duty in the original Washington Inn, and for il’hi(‘h prominent metropolitan hotels have offered fabulous prices. On the corner of B street and New improvements. | own town ! ton from Lafayette, and the beautifully | England Reviving Econom ‘There are strong indications that the turn in the economic affairs of Great Britain has come and that she is on the road to regaining her world pres- tige as a manufacturing and trading nation. i ordinarily It s Even in the leisurely times before the World War, nearly. everybody stopped work and went on holiday. It was a period of slack industrial activity and slack trade, ‘This yeaf, for the first time in & very long while, production and trade not only have not slumped but in some lines actually show improvement over preceding months. The. earlier part of the year showed fair activity and now, Instead of becoming depressed, as has been usual, fally since the (war, the activity has increased. There is an air of briskness about the big centers, and the industries have kept busy in order to meet the demand for s. This is a matter of more than pass- ing importance. When the World War was over, England was prostrated. Un- employment set in so seriously that the dole had to be voted by the gov- ernment. Taxes were onerously op- pressive. Out of evéry dollar & man earned he émthg give il&oenn to t‘;u overnmen! 0se with higher in- gvmumwtumwcrnmuehun cents out of every dollar of income. But the worl le were only too glad to pay a fifth of their earned income if only they could get jobs. Men who had been captains, ma- ]m colonels in the war and were cov- with decorations were glad to take jobs as bus drivers, janitors, waiters— the most menial sorts of work. The result of such a situation was that the world, seeing how things were, | said . that although technically Eng- {1and was one of the victors in the war, ctually she was defeated. What was more important, they declared she was defeated for all time. The passing of great power of Rome and then its fall, the world-wide empire of Spain and than its fall, the dominance of the Holy Roman Empire and its collapse were referred to as certain indica- ol D‘Denln[ to Eng: land before the eyes of the world. It was freely- predicted that in 10 years, possibly 25, England would be a sec- ond or third rate nation, no longer a power. British Stubbornness Shown. There was plenty of reason to Sup- port such a theory; all the reason in | the world save, perhaps, a forgetful- | ness of the indomitable stubbornness | of the British people. They hung on ! through a poverty which was the more | insupportable because of past wealth {and world domination, Great strikes paralyzed the mills. Many great | estates were broken up. Taxes Te- mained high and still do, for that matter. ish shipping, its great pride and source | of wealth and power, dr 'd to the very depths. But the Engl held on | and worked as Jrob-bly few people | have ever worked before, counted as { & nation. | w, for the first time in more than a decade, has come to the Bureau of House. ' Foreijgn and Dcmestic Commerce news | 'of the turn of fortune and the revival of business. What makes the news of special interest here is that many an American manufacturer, many an ex- porter, was so sure that England was definitely on the decline that they felt they already had pocketed the world trade that once was hers. Germany, who made a much more rapid remver{. thought the same thing. It was felt by thousands of business men that country found comfortable homes and | Great Britain soon would be out of |to alter their beliefs. 5 o i all the great empires was cited. The | But the people hung on. Brit- | cally BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Bt England appeaps 1o have fooled 3 a) tc_have them all. "It is not ‘ikely that this new showing merely Tepresents & spurt. a bit of tempora:y good fortune, because it is the result of 10 years’ building on a foundation that originally was very strong, although badly battered by the war. And it is not a s>nsational spurt; it merely is a final emergence above the tide, a gradual rising out of the very depths of economic adversity. A year ago the number of workers Aactually ‘registered as unemployed and seeking work was 1,308,000. Today that number has declined to' 1,162,000, In & year 146,000 workers have found jobs and are keeping them in this dullest of seasons. Most of those drew the government dole, merely enough to keep body and soul together and & little strength left over to continue hunting for work. ‘The lockout in the Lancashire cote ton mills which has kept many out of work has come to an end with a com ‘pmmlse settlement reached by arbi tion. The mills are busy and have plans for a thorough reorganization whlt:hf| will put them on a more efficient Buying Power Returning. Railway receipts and shipping freights yea ‘indicating m:‘n‘:znlmmp Tave ear, ave heavier, this indicating a heavier movement of goods—always a sure in- dex of better times. Foreign trade, on which England has so long depended and which has been much depressed, is getting back toward its old strong basis. ‘What is particularly remarkable is that | retail trade has greatly improved. This | could not occur, obviously, without a | strong buying power. The people have | money with which to buy long-needed | things and so the mills must keep busy | to supply the goods. | The iron and steel industry ic satis- | factory, completely passing over the | usual seasonal slump. There has been |a gain in pig iron imports, steel is | being rapidly fabricated and the pro- | duction absorbed. Indications of in- jcreased sales of steel abroad are re- | ported to be improving. The sheet and tinplate trade is steady. ‘The coal trade is in the best shape it has enjoyed in a long time, and the | domestic demand is showing marked {improvement. Orders are coming in |and some very favorable Italian con- | tracts are pending. The British mine | owners are planning a sort of co-oper- ative marketing scheme which will | strengthen their position. The scheme is expected to be in operation on Oc- tober 15. Construction and the engineering trade are reported as steady, with the electrical industry working full time. Large contracts are being awarded for installation of power, and rallway elec- trification is being pushed. Sales of automobiles are well maintained. with n improvement in the demand for commercial vehicles, trucks and the lke.. i _Even Nature seems to have been on (the side of the British this year, for | weather conditions have been generally | favorable to crops, and good harvests !are being brought home, diminishing the need for imports. 80 it appears that England is com- ing back. Her natural conservatism and | the hard lessons she has learned in the | last decade will cause her to take every advantage of improving her conditions. | She will not spend her increased earn- ing in celebrations, but, with the goal of complete success in sight. will work harder than ever, and it strongly ap- pears that those who have expected to witness the early collapse of the Brit- ish Empire as a world power will have ’F ifty Years Ago In The Star Aspersions of the parts of speech, ax Mrs. Malaprop once said, is unforgiv- able. Sengitiveness i By Charles E. Tracewell. ! Capt. Boges, the kitten, finds house- ! work very entertaining. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. planning for Washington's growth, ‘This survey, it is understood, would deal In traffic counts and trends and would form the basis of decisions regarding man, Dr. Hubert Work, thought that |malcy”—and no Federal Cavalry raid | Jersey avenue, which is to be the main He seems to believe that sweeping playing dead was the best policy. Some (on Memphis—is the true meaning of >ntrance to the new House Office Build- time ago he even endeavored to disband | Mr. Huston's assumption of the Repub- | INg annex, stands- another _historic and extinguish the whole Republican |lican national party organization lead- | structure, four stories in height, built { | of gray granite; which was erected as Sections and on local prenuncia- Pronunciation, Hon - habi s was instituted for his express beneflt, e " manifested 50 Years | po¢ qusting was evolved through the 220 In the columns O e s " the | centuries to amuse him, that making legitimate at Washington is tnadmissible at Geneva, There is & sordid aspect to the ac- | September Morn. tivities of the claimant for compensa- tion by the shipbullding companies. He goes to court to collect his fees, which he claims are still unpaid. What price, then, patriotism in such a case? Let the acid test be applied. Would this American have gone to Geneva on his own, without hire, merely from patriotic motives, to prevent an international agreement in accord with this Govern- ment's desire? It may be doubted. It | may with confidence be denied. The shipbuilding companies named as defendants in the claimant’s suit deny any relationship with him beyond that of “observer.” This implies that he was hired merely as a reporter of hap~ penings. Why? Were there no news services at Geneva? Was there no Assurance of getting the truth about the situation? Or was there that to “observe” which would not bear dis- ¢losure and public report? These questions will be met and, it s hoped, fully answered by the in- vestigating committee. It has a wide field of exploration before it, and the | proceedings of this inquiry will make “mighty interesting reading.” —————— As a mere matter of abstruse inquiry, it might be asked what the Senate would do without the tariff as a per- manent topic of debate, ————t——— ‘When Five Powers Meet. Seven years ago the principal naval powers of the world agreed to the first great naval limitation treaty the world has seen. Today it is proposed that these same naval powers meet again to extend the agreement for naval limi- tation to cover all kinds of naval craft. ‘The treaty now in effect covers only capital ships—battleships and aircraft earriers—and fixes a limit for the size | and gun power of cruisers. i Here in Washington seven years ago | the American delegation to the naval limitation conference proposed that the agreement should cover not alone capi- | tal ships, but cruisers, destroyers, sub- mar! and, indeed, all the naval craft with which the coming conference is to deal. At the time one of the big stumbling blocks was the attitude of France and England toward the sub- marine. The former was disinclined to give up the construction of submarines in sufficient quantities to defend its coast. The latter, having recently experienced the effects of the undersea ‘warfare conducted by the Germans, was demanding the absoluté elimination of the submarine by all the powers. The efforts of the United States to bring traffic rule changes, the installation of signal lights and other such matters. Mr, Harland will be given an opportu- nity to explain the merits of this pro- posal to the appropriations committees, Another part of the report takes up the questions of all-night parking, park- ing in the congested area, angle park- ing and changes in the method of mak- ing left-hand turns. The sum total of the traffic director’s recommendations here is that the conditions must be studied carefully and receive continued attention before anything is done. Care- fully considering these problems is about all that the traffic director's office has been doing for several years now and a decision on some of them would be more enlightening than the informa« tion that they must be further studied. ‘The hearings before Senator Hastin| subcommittee of the District committee may give Mr. Harland a chance to tell what he has learned from his con- tinued study in the past. - An increase in water tax is perhaps only natural under the circumstances, in view of increased‘demand for the product caused by prohibition. —oe—s * Water Financing Polioy, The Water Department's five-year ex- tension program, now in course of preparation, will be incomplete and relatively of small value to the people of the District unless it contemplates s thorough a study of the financial sys- tem that supports it as it does of the number, size and location of new mains, fire hydrants and other such equipment. The five-year program is a financial program, taking into account the money that will be needed from year to year as the local distribution system is exe tended and improved. But existing law 1estricts the source of that water rev- enue to assessments for new mains and water taxes. If more money is needed the only way to raise it, under existing policy, is to increase water rents, Water rents are already too high. . ‘The Commissioners, assisted by Au- ditor “Donovan, should show in their study of the future needs of the Water Department the ultimate results to be expected through continuation of the present policy of financing Water De- partment extensions. In the past the policy has increased the cost of water as the water users’ investment in plant in- creased. The more money the water user has sunk in improving and extend- ing the water system the higher the cost of the water received through that system. The water user should be pay- Along comes September morn— You hasten to relax— ‘Then, with the figures duly sworn, You pay your income tax. And as the seasons come and §o, We read the almanacs. But this is ‘mostly what they show— “Here comes another tax.” A Werd of Terror. “To quote an ancient phrase,” sald the frank friend, “your speeches seem to smell of midnight oil!” “Olll” exclaimed Senator Sorghum. “What are you trying to do? Btait another scandal?” Jud Tunkins says women have been running the world for centuries, but are only just becoming aware of the fact. Belated Summer, “Does your neighbor high hat?” “No. He's just as uncomfortable as | the rest of us and continues to straw hat.” “A man who is content,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “to sit in idle- ness and count his money is on & fair way toward losing it.” Misieading Insect. The katydid now goes along And sounds a tune 50 bold and strong, To tell of an approaching frost, Which in a hot wave next is lost. Loftiness, “I'm going to appeal to the man higher up!” said the rough politiei “All right” said the patient voter. “Where's the nearest flag-pole sitter?” “He who tells the truth always,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “must learn to speak seldom.” . Ne Reciproeity. T tried to laugh at trouble, But met the same old rumor, ‘That Old Man Trouble never has The slightest sense of humor. “I keeps on readin’ my Bible," said Unele Eben. “an’ I still don't hope to git to a place in a religious ahgument. whur I knows persackly whut I's talkin’ "bout.” Meals Not Everything. Prom the Charleston, 8. C., Evening Post. Food com) have lagged behind ing that there are a lot of American people would rather do than others in relative profits recently, prov- | cis things the about any agreement on naval limitation | ing for water on the basis of what it | ®a% . beyond the measure of cruisers and the wmctual tonnage of battleships and afr- eraft carriers were without avail. Two or' three years ago the United Btates, Great Britain and Japan sought at Geneva to reach some common ground for a further agreement on nayal limitation. But ¢he American and. British delegations found it im- possible to reconcile their differences on cruisers. Now, apparently, the efforts of Presi- }/dent Hoover, through the American th For Congress has and their costs to maintain the system supplying that water. As it is, the water user is not only paying for maintaining both the supply and distribution systems, but i1s paying for improvements to the lat- ter, is supplying the Federal and mu- nicipal governments with free wat and faces the prospect of knowing that the more money he spends on the sys- tem the less will be his individual re- turn on his investment, These facts will not be cordially re- —e. Dictation. Prom the Savannah Morning News. The little boy’s definition ht, at that, when “dictation” is what & man takes from his wife and gives to his stenographer. ¥ —————— The New Argonauts. From the Cleveland News. l vor oftspring. { national committee working staff. He |9 emed to calculate that if the Repub- | lican party had the White House. it needed no national committee at all. That could perhaps be regarded as “Hooverism” at its highest height. It seems to have been too high for Mr. Hoover. Mr. Hoover seems to_have felt that a party, in addition to a President, would be a useful thing to have. When, therefore, Dr. Work insisted upon . Hoover cast about for the party to sit up and hr;lthihllnd znm'!.l N 'or that extremely “regular” purpose he found that his lnumel‘l: friend, Mr. Claudius Huston, was the instant recip- lent of large ‘“regular’ pport. M Huston got his training in actual tional politics largely under that su- preme architect of ‘“regularity,” Mr. John T. Adams of Iowa, when Mr. Adams was chairman of the Republican national committee under Harding and President Coolidge. Mr. Huston was Mr. Adams’' “chief of fi- nance.” ‘Then was prepared the situation which alone now makes the present situation lnull:ub‘lm. > President Harding had wanted to put { Mr. Huston into his cabinet. Failing to do so, he successfully pressed Mr. Huston_into service into the Coms- merce Department as Assistant Secre- tary under Herbert Hoover. Mr. Hus iton soon detided that the “irregul Mr. Hoover ought hdy merit some day to be Presiden. and he d to spend long laborious hours trying to break that unbelievable news to his in- Mr. became the first living link between the “irregularity” of Mr. Hoover and Mr. Hoover's present Republican presidency of the United States. Today, when Mr. Huston has to be out of Washington he puts into his place in the Republican national com- mittee headquarters, as’acting chairman, Mr. Ralph Willlams of Oregon, pne of lar” intimates. ‘The picture is one in which Mr. Huston -~ brought much of the “Old Guard,” including Mr. Adams himself, into allegiance to Mr. Hoover and in which Mr. Hoover now trust: the man: agement of the Republican national committee and of a revived Republi- can Nation-wide ization to Mr. Huston and other Old Guard or ex- .| Old Guard elements or graduates. ‘There will undoubtedly ensue a dras- tic abandonm-nt of some recent “fads and fancier * K %X % It has been widely stated that Mr. Huston's Appointment means & great new Republican drive to massacre & lot of local Republican politicians in Dixie and to replace them with a lot of Federally chosen noble substitutes And thus to Jeaphurs the South” for the blican Y. The p:‘nlflx llp:h“ & large Sherman’s army of Northern “patron- referees,” eon-mha: of Walter James Fran- ewton of Minnesota ane ama g’e’,’:‘ h Southland by himself mul:u'g the R etion" et promibing Al of them domination” and prom! of 40 acres of freedom and a Federal job. Col. Mann, out of the last cami his person the aroma of d religious rivairies and con- hich constitute :h. bitter ident the “regular” Mr. Adams' most “regu- | ership. (Copyright. 1929.) oL | i Move to Amend Bankruptey Laws ! BY HARDEN COLFAX. | Congress 1s to be asked to put an end | to the non-stop flight of bankruptcy | administration and order alterations in its machinery so it may proceed in ! safety at a much lower altitude. | _Having plugged up some of the holes . in the wings of the bankruptcy law | three years ago in an effort to protect | creditors against high-flying criminals, | the law makers this Winter will be pe- titioned to enact amendments to save some of the $100,000,000 which it is es- the law. The heavy cost of administering business that is distributed among the consumers of the country, as all such burdens must be borne uitimately. The problem, therefore, is one of general con- cern rather than a more or 1ess abstract case interesting only to manufacturers and wholesale and retail merchants. Scandals arising in bankruptey cases in New York last Winter have served to focus the attention of bench and bar, commerce and industry, on phases of | the whole problem. The three bar as- sociations of Greater New York engaged Col. William J. Donovan, formerly as- sistant to the Attorney General, to con- duct an inquiry of broad scope in the Federal Court there. Most of the testi- mony has dealt with suggestions for simplification of administration rather than with the huge frauds committed under the bankruptcy act by commer- cial criminals, a matter so serious in g:lf that the National Association of 1 Oredit Men is expending hundreds of { thousands of dollars, subscribed by its members, in a special drive against illegal practices. * xRk 1 pearing at this inquiry in New York last week, Charles H. Tuttle, United States district attorney for the | southern district of New York, who has blazed the way for the prosecution of | bankruptey buccaneers and has given | close study to the situation for several l¥“urs, presented his view that the three | fundamental peinciples underlying the Federal bankruptcy act have been broken down. These are administra- tion of bankruptcy estates by the court, i reliance upon active participation by creditors in liquidation of FM estate and separate administration for each estate. Administration, he believes, is essentially not a judicial function, but one for an executive branch of govern- ment; many creditors are reluctant to | send money after bad and hence take little interest in liquidations or i pass their claims to an attorney; and, as to the third point, the district attor- o ave Sa6h berkmupe et pem e est ful ovnrhntd.m b 3y ‘Wha lous organizations or credit men, trade associations and z-r as- sociations will ask to do with £l > bankruj ing to define ils, or to among conflicts of interests which will rise, will include these points: 1. Provisions for uniformity of prac- tice in all Federal jurisdictions. 2. Establishment “of simplified ma- chinery of administration with a le court representative in control instead of a costly multiplicity of receivers, trustees appraisers, custodians, ete., this single agent to be on & sslary basis, preferably. 3. bankrupt estates to be handled m::l same person in any single juris- 4. General administrative provisions which will view y as & busi- ness rather than a 'mlem: with the come some of real adminis- Department of to those inf that the tration ‘be under timated is the annual cost of operating | bankrupt estates is an indirect tax upon | P’ {a home by Gen. Benjamin F. Butler. President Arthur lived there during the early months of his administration. It has been occupied during recent years by the Public Health Service and the office of the Surgeon General, South of the Butler Building and fronting on New Jersey avenue, is one of the most' curiously constructed | buildings in the Capital City, with | more than 50 different floor levels and | an_intricate maze of passages. This | has been occupied by the Coast and | Geodetic Survey, charged with the sur- 1 vey of all coasts under jurisdiction of the United States. The Coast and Geodetic Survey has an important li- brary, founded about 1832, with a nu- cleus of technical books purchased in | 1816 by Hassler, the first superintendent | of the survey. This library has 25,000 | volumes, 35,000 maps and charts, 69,000 | fle‘ld records, 13,000 negatives and rints. Another interesting landmark in this section is one block farther south, the site of the historic Carroll Tobacco House, for 30 years the meeting house {of Christ's Church, one of the three | oldest churches in the District of Co- ,its organization dating from Presidents Jefferson and Madi- }son attended services there. — 1 He May Qualify. | From the Detroft News. If Al Smith makes a success of build- ing 80-story skyscrapers, it may be poe- sible to run him in 1932 as an engineer. o Speckled. From the Cincinnati Times-Star. Some men have what is called a spot- less reputation; in others, however, one { notices & sort of polka dot pattern, oo Insecurities. From the Loulsville Times. |, After a man has gone broke speculat- ing in them. you can’t make him believe they are really “securities.” Commerce rather than the Department | of Justice. s, ition of the “friendly ad- Jjustment” principle in the law. R ‘This last point is one long emphasized by W. Randolph Montgomery, of coun- sel for the National Association of Oredit Men, who has pointed out that as ractically all friendly adjustments are gued upon some form of a common law assignment for the benefit of creditors and the bankruptcy law defines an assignment as an act of bankruptey, the “friendly” system is at the mercy of any creditor who may throw into bankruptcy any case in which the majority of the creditors may prefer settlement out of court. 1 The Adjusiment oureau system of of business concerns o T R cown years; the cases which ordinarily would go through the Court and the vast saving in costs of handling assets, resulting in larger returns to creditors, forms a & contrast to cases which arg handled undz leral act. It is estimaicd that the average ocost | of administering a bankrupt estate un- | der the practice in most is | equivalent to 26 per cent of the assts. The judiclary committees of the two houses of Con, will receive volumin= reports of the New York inquiry, ! and much data ‘Win ‘Their from other sources, ne: ter. task in framing amend- ments to the bankruptcy act, however, appears certain to-be made difficult by a clash M'een“h %m the (Copyright, 1829, yolun fully |course of a series of letters to the | editor, starting with the following, Inmld “Amateur,” printed in the issue of September 9, 1879: “As the schools have just opened, and as everybody reads your paper, if you will allow me the space, I wish to call the attention of the teachers and pupils to a fault in English pronuncia- tion exceedingly common in the North, rarely heard in the South or in Eng- land, but which seems to be spreading | here. We have faults enough in the South without grafting some Northern ones upon them. I refer to the vulgar- ism—if I may so term it—of giving the |lofg ‘u’ which is in so many of our common words, the sound of ‘00’ For j ers will say ‘institoot’ instead of ‘insti- ! tute,’ ‘dooty’ instead of ‘duty,’ a perfect rhyme to the word ‘beauty.’ They will call new and news ‘noo’ and ‘noos'—a 80 on through the dozens and hundreds of similar words. Not a dictionary in the English language authorizes this. In student and stupid the ‘u’ has the same sound as in cupid, and should not be pronounced ‘stoodent’ and “stoopld,’ As 50 many teachers are in the habit of sounding them. “If it is & vulgarism to call a door 2 ‘doah.’ as we all admit, isn't it as much of a vulgarism to call a news- raper A ‘noospaper’? One vulgarism s Northern and the other Southern— that's the only difference. When the London Punch wishes.to burlesque the &mnunchmn of servants, he makes em call the duke the ‘dook,’ the tutor the ‘tooter, and a tube a ‘toob.’ You never find the best Northern speakers, such as Wendell Phillips, Charlegs Sum- ner, George William Curtis, Emerson, Holmes and men of that class, saying ‘noo’ for new, or “Toosday” for Tues- day, ‘avenoco’ for avenue, or calling & dupe a ‘doop.’ It is & fault that the Southerner also never falls into. He has slips enough of another kind, but he doesn't slip on the long ‘u.’” Immediately came the rejoinders, some in satirical misspelling, and one of considerable length, signed “C,” fully indorsing “Amateur’ ple In The Star of September 13, 1879, less than three letters on. the same sub-. Ject, one of them, signed “Medicus,” as follows: “I am sorry that ‘C’ in his pretty little disquisition on that troublesome phonetic element, ‘u,’ did not assume a more likely probable cause for the de- fective pronunciation, ‘dooty’ for ‘deuty,’ than ‘Dutch’ usage. whether this malpronunciation of ‘duty’ and similar words is not the outcome of may this ‘) pronunciation not be attributable to the influence of cli- mate, the higher altitude, which known to furnish agenciés in altering dialects? A learned professor of Gam- bridge, land, made experiments phony eceurs. “It was well for ‘C’ to discourse so ably on the comparative phonology of the elementary sign ‘v’ among the dif- ferent languages, but it was hardly necessary to account for what is at any rate a malpronunciation. Unfortu- nately for the unfortunates who thus mispronounce, there is an appearance of just cause to charge conceit when the contiguity of the organs of speech m:fm , (o‘rn there is no more utterance in pronouncing duty ‘deuty’ than ‘dooty.’ * instance, 95 out of every 100 Northern« | perfect rhyme to pew and pews—and | The question is | |beds has no other purpose than to | give him something to jump at. Boggs has two bright, beady little | eyes, which peer out from beneath the black mask closing down over his ears, Practically nothing in the way of motion escapes him. The slightest wiggling of a finger anywhere in & | room sets him to bounding forward. | The elasticity of his muscles is | equaled only by his quickness of eye. No sooner is a household task com- | menced than he is right there to make sport for himself out of the process. « e oe . | He gets in front of the broom, mop |or scrub cloth and tries to catch them | every move one makes. He gives the vacuum cleaner plenty of room, how- ever, it being the dnly appliance which frightens him. He jumps up on the furniture and tries to grab the dustcloth at every swipe. A word should be said in praise | of dustcloths. An absolutely dust-free | home is an ideal, but one would have to have & system comparable to that used in the United States Senate cham- ber before it would be practicable. Dust will collect in the cleanest homes, especially in warm weather, | when ‘doors and windows are opén. Even if a house is closed, dust still Settles on furniture. The honest, homely dustcloth then comes into its own. Nothing quite takes its place. Electric sweepers, fancy brooms and so on do the major portion of the work, but for removing the settled dust from furniture the old dustrag is still supreme. « e s o sewing is the order'of the yday in the household, Boggs gets into the laps of those at work and tries to catch the thread at every stitch, tries to carry off whatever is being sewed, and ends by making off with the se' cabinet and carrying off { the pinc sewing cabinet. The opening is just { his height, as he stands on his hind legs. Poki his nose into the box, he explores for spools or anything else loose. Regularly he finds the pincushion, which he seises in his mouth, with lendid disregard for pins, and care es across the rosm to play with. He can be lured from this somewhat | dangerous toy only by a spool. fOnee he managed to string a taut line of thread from a chair in one to another corner, the line about three feet high and as tight put there by a human being, er ring and peer out at machine is in use, {rigerator, his head in he could eat. he i bathrobs of which nnnu-." the spool and thread, or getting into. -~