Evening Star Newspaper, September 22, 1929, Page 34

H JHE EVEN * fSTAR |in quieter, regions, where dwellings L . | detached liberal spaces pre! __'"“‘_'.L!Jg“‘_“"'_ e u‘"‘l sk’ d WASHINGTON, D. C. SUNDAY.....September'22, 1920 |yond the limits of the sounds are emitted. Z{.noy ... .Editor | the radio is turned on THEODORE, rES. . . . Edito! Tk The Evening Star Newspaper Company | day. regardless of Pt Avs. quality of the “entertainm ‘Busin, 11th St.-apd fln % gt R G, | smoiner 1 tuned up o ¢ b M lrere : i 55 M| 25§ i Gakses < pitch of intensity, The forth in'a volume to reach 2 of a great multitude. There bfiz{%fim%«%&m lliness near at hand, but the oy ‘80¢ por month | Operator cares nothing for the possible “&‘”, month | harm that 1s done to the sufferer. per coBY | Individual protests are difficult to aig gl EB plaints are usually unavalling, for the lack of rules regarding such nuisances. For the loud speaker is a comparatively new instrument of public torment and the tortoise of regulation has not caught up with it. The only recourse the suf- ferer has, in many cases, is to the closing of windows, which in warm weather is merely & change of evils. The rule proposed in New York should be adopted, and similar rules should be put upon the municipal books cisewhere. Washington needs such an amendment to its code, and needs strict him | enforcement, and also the adjacent States, to insure suburban as well as urban relief from this evil. 411 Other States and Canada. iy ‘and Sundey..1 yr. $13.00; i BERTE R : Member of the Annelllhll ?-il to the ’t.'.‘."'fir"r‘-fi?f&.‘ha'.‘.“d'.“ iy atches crediied o it or not etherw! B et pofllo B et o e e Sehes "hereln aro as0 Fesorved. ere John Bull Helps Himself. It has been said that God helps who helps himself. If the proverb ap- plies to nations and governments, as well as to men, Great Britain seems to' be assuring herselt af providential Detroit's Death Trap. aid in the domain of world trade. “Thorough investigation” into the ‘Current events in that field are of spe- | circumstances of the holocaust at De- cial interest to the United States. troit has been promised by the city Since Congress began the fashioning authorities, in accordance with the of the Hawley-Smoot tarift bill; coun- | usual fule in such cases, the rule that tries in all parts of the globe have requives the post-tragedy ascertainment rained remonstrances and protests on | of fatts that should have been known ‘Washington. The Secretary of State before the happening. Four different has brought them officially to the at-| city departments are affected by this tentlon of the Senate. They are not | inquiry, which is designed to disclose Iabeled complaints, but “representa- | the conditions in which & cabaret was tions.” But lsmentations, couched in l burned with the destruction of a score more or less bitter terms, they are, for | Of lives. These are the police depart- all that. ment, which granted the restaurant Our British cousins have joined this | license to the promoter of the establish- chorus of international indignation, | ment; the recreation department, which yet have not contented themselves with | granted the license for dancing; the such steps. They have moved in a | building department, which approved more constructive direction and in an |the permit for the remodeling of the immensely more practical one. Threat- | place when it was opened last year, ened, as they fear, with a considerable | and the fire commission, which per- Joss of business in the United States by | mitted the bullding to open after its higher duties on a number of staple investigation was supposed to have imports like worsteds, the British have | proved that the place was safe. promptly set about to compensate them- It would seem from all descriptions selves in two other rich American |of the establishment that it was about markets, North and South. They have | as unsafe a place of public assemblage sealed an uncommonly fine business |and entertainment as could possibly be bargain with Osnada and laid the | imagined. The means of exit were foundations of a closer commercial and | totally inadequate in the event of & financial entente with Argentina. sudden general movement for the The irony of these twin deals lies | doors. There were no fire escapes. The in the circumstance that Canads and | materials of construction were highly Argentina happen to be the two coun- | inflammable and the decorations were tries which are hardest hit by the pro- | especially 80, consisting of flimsy mate- posed new United States tariff. Al-|rials coated with wax to cause them most completely ignoring President | to glisten. The windows were boarded Hoover’s admonition to the special ses- | up to prevent daylight from entering so sion of Congress, that it should have | as to heighten the fllusion of “night a decent regard for the interests of [ life” within. It has been indicated that foreign nations in revising our tariff, [ the electric wiring was defective and the rates which affect Canadian and|that for some time previous to the Argentinian exports to our shores have | catastrophe smoke, or rather an odor been shoved up to points which menace | of burning insulation, filled the place, that trade with destruction. That the | indicating that there was a slow burn- Dominion is our biggest customer and |ing of the conducting cord. Argentina our largest in Latin America | This place had been in operation for is a factor which the tariff makers|a number of months without any inter- brushed aside as if it were a bagatelle. | ference by the police on the score of So Britannia proceeded to fend for |the safety of the establishment. None itselt—in Canada and Argentina, for|of the city departments appear to have choice. To her great North Ameriéan | made a sufficiently thorough investi- “colony” she dispatched a distinguished | gation of the enterprise and the ‘member of the MacDonald government, | premises. Naturally the suspicion arises Mr. J. H. Thomas, lord privy seal. To | that there was some influential “rea- Buenos Alres went Lord D'Abernon, | son” for such immunity from super- eminent diplomatist and first post-war | vision and check. Now, with at the British Ambassador to Germany. With |latest count nineteen dead and thirteen both countries valuable reciprocal busi- | others likely to die from the hideous ness engagements have just been ‘en- | happening of early Friday morning, tered into, involving exports and |everybody in Detroit wants to know imports, shipping and credits, and|why the-law and the regulations were other far-reaching facilities. It cannot |so slighted. be doubted that both emissaries found| Responsibility for such hideous occur~ particularly fertile sofl for efforts bound | rences rests squarely upon the muni- to work to the disadvantage of Ameri- | cipal authorities allowing the main- can commerce. tenance of places of public resort and “The net effect—the avowed purpose, | entertainment under license in which at any rate—is to displace the United | conditions are permitted that would not States in both Canada and Asgentina | be tolérated elsewhere. There are thou- from the premier economic position it | sands of these night clubs in operation has occupled in those markets. Ameri- | in this country at present, many of can enterprise. doubtless will continue | them in transformed dwelling houses. to hold its own, both in the Dominion | Most of them are more or less beyond and in the great La Plata republic. | the line of legality of procedure and But it will not be due to the myopic | operation, being resorts of & shady conception of international trade which | character, where lawbreaking is com- has inspired our tariff statesmen, nor [ man—places, indeed, maintained for can American business there hence- | the very purpose of lawbreaking. Prob- forward expect to tread a path strewn | ably” the majority of them are fire- with roses. traps just like that in Detroit. If the NS S ordinary rules of safety were enforoed Detroit night club fire is said to have | by city governments, there would be no been caused by & gasoline bomb thrown | difficulty whatever about closing these by an unidentified person.: The idea|dens of death. . that trash accumulated during repairs —_——————— was ignited by a cigarette is opposed. The - lessen responsibility when questions of | gje, Mr. Shearer appears to have ot succeeded only in Tendering himself “The Blowsof Sound.” - |V ROTR In the belief that needless loud noises | parry Sinclair naturally considers it constitute a serious menace to health, | ynfortunate that circumstances have a group of New York citizens have or- | compelled him to miss some of the best ganized for thé purpose of combating |days of the racing season. the evil, securing statutery enact- —_— e ments and administrative corrections to Chicago Is Hard Up. lessen the din that constantly assails . . A dispatch from Chicago states that the ears and rasps the nerves of city 5 o dwellers. They have made s specific the “muddled” finances of Cook County start ageinst the radio loud-speaker |#nd the municipality may necessitate nuisance, sending a petition to the|® reduction of the municipal working Board of Health asking an addition to [ force by thirty-two per cent. There is the sanitary code to abate radio noise, | Simply not enough money in the treas- They suggest the following amiendment | Ury to meet the pay-roll checks for the to the code: first half of September. Some one No person owning, occupying or hav- thousand -county workers and nearly lnhglfhk:rn of any - or w&mlul five thousand city employes must be 8l eep or allow thereon or therein . any radio loud speaker or any mechanical AEoppsd ‘Ginlsey -8'fkos) Irkcli W Des device, machine or apparatus or instru- ment for the reproduction, the - ficat or the amplification of music, | that in all probability these nearly six the human voice or other sounds What | 40000 county and municipal 5 inerein, which shall disturb the any person therein |ers can be dropped without material in , to the detriment | loss to the community of ob the life or health of such person. honest. valuable all There can ke no question of the nui- | has been sance quality of the loud speaker, es- | County and pecially in a largu city or 1ated suburb. “The noise from instrument carries for & long and in the warm weather, when win- i £ RiH ik i i than is in the least needful for ment by those in the immediate prem- ises, it becomes & positive others who perhaps have no ‘the quality of the “entertainment” %fed. -or who, regardless. of wish quiet to preval. - | i § i ¥3% E 2 H i H i in truth been given & bad name, per- haps unjustly. " It would be an interesting experiment possibly valuable, to & thirty-twd per cent cut in munie the plea of economy and see whether the remaining sixty-efght per cent could not do the city’s work quite as well. City administrators have a way of mak- ing two jobs grow where there was ome before, while the work does not increase at the same ratio. Maybe that is why Chicago's finances are now “muddled,” ———— e A Correction. A Stareditorial discussing the adop~ tion of the proposed amendment fo the soning regulations that would give the ‘Ccmmissioners undisputed authority to locate fire engine houses in residential districts inadvertently failed to qualify the statement: “The municipality is now exempt from regulations.” ‘The statement is incorrect and The Star acknowledges the error, which has been called to its attention from several sources. While the courts have held that the municipality is amenable to zoning restrictions, the question remains unsettled as to the municipality’s right to locate its agencies in restricted dis- tricts when Congress has made specific appropriations therefor and specified the site, which, after all, is the funda- mental issue in connection with the controversy over locating fire engine houses in residential districts. ‘The Star does not grant that it will ever be necessary or advisable to locate fire engine houses or pumping stations in residential areas, and The Star has consistently held that the soning regu- | B: Jations should protect the property holder against encroachment by the municipality as much as against the action of individuals. In the case of the amendment proposed to the sontng | BY. It regulations, The Star believes, with the Commissioners and their advisers, that the interests of the community are best protected by & compromise which grants that circumstances and public necessity may force the location of a fire engine house I a residential district, but at the same time clarifies the soning regu- lations and sets up precautions against n:ng‘u Ull-advised action on the part o Commissioners. A German “Traffie Protector.” A Berlin inventor has evolved & de- vice to catch “hit and run” drivers of motor cars. It is described as “an auto- matic traflic protector.” The apparatus is adjustable under the chassis and at the instant of any impact automatically raises a white plate with a winking red light above the car's license tag, at the same time registering the speed of the car at the moment of collision. This device is locked and the key is to be kept by the police. It is reasoned that any car that hits and runs is thus marked for observation and investiga- tion. 1 This is ingenious, but riot necessarily correctively helpful. Motor cars are con- stantly getting all kinds of bumps and jolts and jars in traffic that are in no wise due to recklessness on the part of | the the driver. IFrequently bumpers are touched in the course of parking ma- neuvers. It is a question whether this Berlin device would assuredly identify an offending car as distinguished from & victim car. Of course, in the case of a car hitting a pedestrian the bump would probably tell the tale. Imagine the plight of & perfectly in- nocent driver who has accidentally con- tacted his bumper With & pole in park- ing and finds that the white disk has flashed into view and the red light is blinking. He cannot stop this telltale demonstration withotit going headquarters or the getting his key and: mechanism. Motor driving cated enough now without a difficulty. There is no need 6f limiting peace discussions to any one city. Repre- sentatives of various. nations should have an opportunity to' travel and see It is intimated by President Hoover that, in addition to taking up prohibi- tion in political campaigns, there should be a campaign of education. SHOOTING STARS. BY PRILANDER JOHNSON. Commen Humanity. ‘We breathe the same air And we love the same sky, ‘The same ills we dare As the seasons roll by. In the same words we grieve As life’s story extends. 8o it's hard to perceive ‘Why we shouldn't be friends. And it's hard to perceive ‘Why we shouldn’t be: friends. The Personal Angle. “Are: you in favor of women in politics?” “My anxiety at present,” said Senator Sorghum, “relates to whether women in politics are in faver of me.” Jud & trouble-maker that didn't have to hold on to a lot of his own product. fodces on |’ Tunkins says he never yet saw | SEPTEMBER 22; “EXPERIENCE AND HOPE” Bishop of Text: 'E: worketh hope” (Roman, v.4). iid experiences. I able ‘malady which hindered every step he had prosecuted , “None of these things The inevitable end of his rse meant martyrdom. As a Roman citizen ‘and an acknowledged scholar, he had ryn counter to the public opinion of his . He had espoused the cause of the pised Nazarene and with flaming zeal was preaching His gospel. In the face of all the contending forces that yed about his life he dared to maintain that “Experience worketh hope.” F: is an outstanding statement, and one that on first reflection seems highly improbable. To most of us the stern experiences of lge dm g'izuluslnnlna, disa) an artening. We ru&&o “:mve the mm and profit- able experiences, but that bring sorTOW ‘And defeat w: luk:h:mh T grace. fhuuophy of life that reckons each hard experience as an open door to larger opportunities, ling us with fresh hope of better things to oom.hu;:mz, whuadl:::ltw: e pmc'ma nevertheless pensable. hold that life is the sport of chance or the victim of fortuitous cir- cumstances renders us cold and stoical and compels us to believe that the race is ever to the swift and the battle to the strong. Rightly considered, experi- ence ought to work in us zew hope and hened courage. As the poet puts it: 'e.grow by the things that are under our feet, ’ulh'“ we have mastered of good or Physical strength may suffer im- mlnmm or depletion as the result of rd experience, but moral strength and moral cour.l!e should be enriched Every advance that has been made in science and other departments of human knowledge has been effected Every “Lobby” in lll’ THE RIGHT REV. JAMES E. FREEMAN, D. D, LL. D, Washington through the e of one who re- fused to recognize defeat. The world's real masters are ever those who are made strong by adversity. G we sailed westward,” was the inevitable record written daily by the explorer in his log, even while sailors mutinied. “There shall be no A!r." was the deflance hurled at the im- passable heights and snows as the ad- vancing army of the little Corsican marched forward. “I'll fight it out on this line if it takes all Summer,” was the bold challenge offered by an un- conguerable leader. These all illustrate the dictum, “Experience worketh hofi." In each instance experience worked new hope and fresh expectation. The most perfect example recorded in his- tory of one who contended against awful odds and refused to acknowledge defeat is to be found in the Supreme Master. He would go up to Jerusalem knowing that a conspiracy to destroy Him awaited Him. Abandoned by com- rades and nailed to a cross, He saw the consummation of the work He came to accomplish. Down through the ages the story of His incomparable heroism has chailenged and fascinated men the world over. “Despised and rejected of men,” He '}’lnned from His earthly ex- perience the assurance of the utmost triumph of that for which He came to earth. If we believe that life has plan and purpose, and that in some way we co- operate with God in its outworking, we must from every experience, however stern and exacting it may be, take fresh courage and new hope and belleve that out of all the bitterness of struggle and Sseming defeat we shall ultimately come to & new day, when our happiest hopes and expectations shaii find fulfillment. “O God, our help in ages past, Our hopes for years to come, Our shelter from the stormy blast And our eternal home. Under the shadow of Thy throne Thy saints have dwelt secure; Sufficient is Thine arm alone, And our defense is sure.” Washington May Have Its “Counter-Lobby” BY WILLIAM HARD. narysd “with ‘aperating a “iobure on char, g & ‘“lobby” on Behalf of certain shipbullding - com- panies at the Geneva Naval Confe ":u in 1927, is Faw not only providing e the whole of Washington with a cen- tral theme of talk and controversy, but i aum.u-, attention to the more ic of the livelihood of that considerable proportion of the Wash. ulation which earns its living by I " and “proj ndizing.” The m:”gopuhmn of Washington has incres immensely faster n can be explained by any actual en- largement of the Government itselr. Somewhat jocularly, but also some- what seriously, it is widely maintained that this otherwise mysterious growth is largely occasioned by the influx here of & vast and embattled array of gen- tlemen representing ‘“interests” and “causes” before the various executive g:rmnmu of the Government anc ore Congress and its committees. * R ok % ‘There are two views taken of the activities of these gentlemen. One 18 view which is often expressed by certain bureau chiefs and by certain members of the House of Representa- tives and of the Senate, who say: “Let these gentlemen stay at home. Let them give up their houses ana apartments in Washington and return to the towns whence they came. We know what we are doing and we can do_it without their help.” ‘The other view is one that is main- tained by mnn% business men’ and by many associations of reformers and anti-reformers, who say: “Congress and the executive depart- ments now insist on dealing with almost every phase of business ana with almost every phase of uplift or alleged uplift. We certainly have the right to inform and to tion Con- g::ll and the executive departments fore our businesses are destroyed and before legislation for improving or de- grading the personal morale of all the inhabitants of this country is adopted or rejected. The only way in which we can exercise this right of petition effectively in these days is by keeping nz-uennum in Washington, and we intend to do so0.” An almost perfect concrete illustra- tion of the whole matter can be seen ben’l"t this time in the so-called “sugar In the mouths of some of our states- lol certed effort by “the sugar interest” to sway our Government against “the pub- lic_interest.” In fact, the “sugar lobby” consists of several separate conflicting “sugar in- terests,” which between them represent virtually every conceivable attitude to- ward “the public interest” and the na- tional welfare. The information which between them they pour out upon the Congress and upon the press amounts in the end 3 :lfmnpleuly balanced en- There_is, to begin gie s e in Cuba. uously in Washington rly statisticlan Mr. It "contends that a the sugar United States. It contends also at , through some of its members, Taisin serious bl i it ggge Hle £ of great val statesmen and to Republican in- statesmen who are assalling blican proposed sugar duty in- * ok kX ‘Then there &m '.‘h: United s o ds that Cuba has es and the tion -to the recent ""’"f.“’,’ wg{ States Beet aks Mead, and the American Sugar Cane League of Louisians, which now is to be represented here regularly by Mr. Clar- ence Bourg. There is also the associa- tion of Porto Rico SBugar Producers and additionally the Associated Corn Prod- ucts Manufacturers, who have been represented here by occasional spokes- men. The last four groups mentioned, along with the United States Beet Sugar Association, are merged for certain g\:;- poses into the Domestic Sugar o4 ducers’ Association, which essays to :%uk in & broad and general way for producers raising sugar under the American flag. ‘The producers nlllnflu r under the American flag in the ippines, how- ever, are quite off by themselves in the Philippine Sugar Association, which spends its time resisting efforts to restrict the importations of Philippine sugar into the continental United States and which has been represented here by Gen. McIntyre, who used to be the head of our War Department's Bureau of Insular Affairs. Between the Philip- pine producers and the other American flag producers there is large warfare, * % % x Finally there is the organization call- ed the American Bottlers of Carbonated Beverages, represented by Mr. Junior Owens. Mr. Owens resents the of having to pay more for the sugar which he puts into his “pop” and he vigorously maintains, with statistics, that it is quite impossible for him to Tailse the price of regular straightaway “pop” to more than 5 cents and that juently the proposed increase in the sugar duty will be extremely onerous upon him and his clients and colleagues. ‘The sober fact, then, of the matter is that the “sugar lobby” is not one con- certed effort, but a violent competition in efforts and in statistics; and the same sober fact emerges out of almost any analysis of the nature of almost any other “lobby.” The ultimate gen- eralization is that no “lobby” ever finds it easy to “control” Washington because every “lobby” is always finally con- fronted with active “counter-lobbies.” (Copyright, 1920.) Government Seeks Truth In Direct-Sale Methods BY HARDEN COLFAX. Self-imposed censorship, so sweeping in scope as to shock the sensibllities of the old style alliterative sloganeers, is about to descend upon one section of familiar ads 3 At the request of the National Asso- ciation of Direct-Selling Companies, Inc., the Federal Trade Commission will hold a trade practice conference at Dayton, Ohio, October 11 to adopt standards of advertising for firms and individuals engaged in selling merchan- dise direct to consumers. Not only are the members of this as- sociation invited to attend, but all en- s;nd in this line of distribution will id the doors open to them. Invita- tions have been sent by the commissios to & list of some 1,800 firms, & list ad- mittedly incomplete and somewhat in- accurate, for here is a business regard- mni'm there is remarkably little ite information, considering its "The Jmpertance of thls cont s portance o conference difficult to overestimate. subject—truth in the Federal Trade conference the groundwork at least will be laid at Aftecting the advertsing.ased by ciser ciher methods of merchandising. o o * ok ok of being subjected to shafts of attack by competitive methods of dis- ‘mumhmr:p Mégo-mer mer- ) resent ‘national association, have determined to volun- 1929—PART 2, Capita!‘ Sidelights i ; BY P. KENNEDY. £Just now, whign there is a mad scram- ble for jobs at the Capitol, led largely by young men who hope through such work to finance their way tarougia medical or law schools or other branches of higher education, the country gets the idea that the employment service of Congress is a makeshift organization, oftentimes, helping lame ducks, and that | the work in consequence is indifferently done: ‘The key positions under Congress are held by veterans, who, by lonkl;:ln of devoted service, have made them spe- clalists on their particular jobs, so that they are kept on the job no matter what changes may come in the elec- tions, simply because they are the ones e (Who keep the mechanism of Congress running smoothly no matter what in- experienced _employes may be put on the pay iolls with changing adminis- trations or shifts in party econtrol Among_these are Willlam Tyler e, clerk of the House; Bert W. Kennedy, doorkeeper; geant-at-arms of the House: Kee, in charge of the folding room; Wwilllam (Andy) Smith, in charge of the Congressional Record; Patrick J. Halti- gan and A, R. Chaflee, reading clerks— all of whom have served the House from 20 to 50 years. And on the Senate side such men as Peter M. Wilson, in the office of the secretary of the Senate. Then Congress has a second line of defense for reliable work—men who have made successes in private business and who are giving the benefit of extensive experience paid for out of their own pockets. Such & one is Frank W. Collier, postmaster of the House, who has served 22 years, after having con- ducted 8 dm’ store of his own in La Crosse, Wis., for 10 years, and who has 50 well organized the work for efficient service that he is :tvln’ members of Congress thoroughly satisfactory service, with six deliveries at their offices daily, from 7 a.m. until 10 p.m., with only two additional employes more than when he first took over the office, althoug] work has more_than doubled. Another fllustration is B. C. Fick, assistant to rgest dealers in horses in that part of the country. Man: Capitol visitors still remember the stal- of the macebesrer during the last decade, Col. A. C. Jordan. who besides his patriotic service at thé Capi- tol owned and ran one of the most famous mule breeding farms in the country, which won countless competi- tions. And do not overlook the present chief of pages on the Republican side of the House, even though he is of diminutive _stature—Johnny McCabe, protege of Chairman Wood of the ap- propriations committee, who used to & headliner in vaudeville, and who now ites & large turkey farm in Virginia, where he frequently employs members of Congress as post- hole diggers, and who is now raising thg pride of his flock for President Hoover's ‘Thanksgiving dinner. “Lest we forget"—the women. MTrs. Florence A. Donnelley served former Minority Leader James R. Mann as his “right hand man” for more years than it would be polite to mention publicly. He repeal said she “knew more e e Tong. ngs Baads & tpecial job not g0 for her because of her special knowl- edge and experience, 80 that she now polmmulhnwnnun.m clerk to the committee making up the slate of ts. Then visits the clent young Wwoj 3 Mil Reeves, who holds the unique distinc tion of being the only young woman who ever served as clerk to two e ers of the House—Longworth GH- lett—and who meanwhile has become an able lawyer by dint of much burn- of the midnight oil. Miss MoCon- nell' during the ‘week celebrated &n anniversary of many years' service as y to Willlam Tyler Page, clerk of the House. He gives her much credit for invaluable assistance and she 18 becomingly modest about it—as are all the clever l:fl:l !'zere mentioned. * The American home is gradually be- coming interested in educative n:dlns matter which is replacing “smart” an “snappy” lurid literature that has been r-nder g to depraved taste and emo- ionalism where it was not barred from the newsstands. Realizing the need for broadening and strengthening home reading of worth- while books among the American people, representatives from four national or- ganizations—the United States Bureau of Education, the American Library As- soclation, the National Congress of Parents and Teachers, and the National University Extension iation—met recently in the National Capital to co- te in formulating plans for fur- mg&me reading. a 3] Pprogri lduphdm and each organization assumed a definite part in its development. The Bureau of Education and the American Libi Association, separately or joint- 1y, will prepare graded, annotated read- ing courses on b!enenl t‘:dd special sub- requisite courses are not at hand, the Bureau of | in Education and the library association will secure whatever help is necessary | the ‘When these courses have been pre- pared and distributed, the American Li- brary ‘Association will notify the various m:n.rg purchasing agencies that there rrob- ly will be & demand for the books listed in these The h the | by Whaling Modernized by Electricity. BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. It seems that the most romantic of vocations sooner or later feels the touch of modernity and cothes full- circle, bereft of the ancient methods which _seemed - to give a ?eclu and different glamour. Such an industry for several generations had been that of 'hll.lnai Today the industry Is operated in ac- cordance with very up-to-date methods and & N¢ in engineer has just completed a device for killing whales by_electriclty. For many years the whaling industry was largely in the bands of Americans. “Mobey Dick,” the great classic piece of whaling literature by Herman Melville. was written concerning the whalers of New England, although it has thrilled whalers and others around the world. Next in rank doubtless should come “Two Years Before the Mast,” by R. H. Dana, jr., a New Englander who after- ward _entered the diplomatic service of lh? Ul;.ilmd sum.l n ships especially built and equipped with the latest thing in hlrpoo:ng ea?::r flung with unerring aim by experts or from guns similar to those now used to throw lifelines in the United States Coast Guard, the stanch men.of New England out _of Gloucester, Provincetown, Salem, Boston, Newport, New Haven and other famous whaling ports on their lon&voynlu It was not so many years before a scarcity of the gul sea-mammals developed in the North Atlantic and the whalers sailed around the Horn to find their prey. Customarily, they remained at sea until their casks were filled with oll and bone. These voyages frequently occupled three years and sometimes, if luck were not good, five years. Whale ofl was used as an illuminant before kerosene, or coal ofl as it used to be known, came into use. The oc- casional ambergris found was valuable s a base for perfumes. ‘While & few whalers still sail out of New England ports at long intervals, und in search of whales, the industry has fallen almost entirely into the hands of the Norwegians. Traditionally great seamen, they took to the business naturally and now several large Nor- n companies, having millions of dollars invested, control the hunting and the trade. There are several big plants in Norway and each year the specially eqi ships sail south and west, for whal now is confined al- most entirely to the Pacific Ocean and especially to the Antatetic. New Australian Company. ‘The whaling ds being relatively close to Austi , the ple of that continent have taken a hand, and just recently the Bureau of Foreign and Do- mestic Commerce at Wi has been advised of a big new concern just organized at Sydney. It has an au- thorized capital of $3,500,000, of which $2,000,000 has been offered for public subscription. It is the conémny'l plan to establish & whaling stat at Norwegian Bay, Point_Cloates, on the northwest coast of Western Australia, & wild section of the continent little explored by white men and adjacent to the Australian bush. Some operations already have begun. Further plans call for the es- tablishment of another shore station on the south coast of New South Wales. mmmumtmo{guremm- venturers, but importaat British capi- Fifty Years Ago In The Star ‘The oubreak of yellow fever at Mem- phis 50 years ago continued for sucr: a Yellow Fever . Relief Funds. public contributions were necessary for the alleviation of suffering. anm Btar of September 20, 1879, is the fol- lowing reference to this situation: “It is greatly to be regretied that for | da! want of sufficient voluntary contribu- tions to meet the wants of the sick and the crease than declining. = Yet there are a number of palpable and substantial rea- sons for this apparent indifference, and the people of Memphis, or we might say the roph of the whole section devas- tated Iast year, have only themselves to blame for the state of feeling now ex- isting with the charitably inclined of the North. They have aiso the power to remove it, if they have an earnest disposition to do so, if not in time to meet the pressing emergencies of this R eI e ney- wi may ari in the future. E , “Whether well founded or not, there is no denying the fact that a wide- spread and firmly fixed impression pre- vails among those who contribul 80 generously that there has not been a sufficiently full and straightforward and businesslike accounting for the enor- mous sums of money and the vast quantity of supplies sent South last year, nor yet reasonably satisfactory evidence ful that as & general reached those not possible to produce very many cases such vouchers and testimony as would meet exacting demands of all self-con- mhl:?‘ ;flu: :nd hnlt-n‘:derl. 1'1‘05 ought such minute precision e g’nder thnjemm. But it K ‘hflg many just and liberal ns proper effort or even & wflm!l:o disposi- tion in that direct erally shown. They maint it is'a duty to give in such cases, freely and che lly, it is equally & duty, as be a pleasure, on the other side not only to acknowledge, but also promptly and properly account for to what is received. “Then again the conviction is quite generally entertained that the le of the places afflicted last year did not it by their terrible experience and e advantage of the opportunity af- forded by the Winter season to provide t & recurrence of the disease, but is, of course, all or in services | instead sat supinely down, so that they teer specifications for advertising which | p: will establish standards that, according te Huston Thompson, special counsel in the case, will give these competitors something to think about_in their own situation. And Mr. know whereof he militant member were a little or no better prepared this were last ive again, and as year stand ready to freely as before, in all cases of unfore- Dias| seen and unsvoidable distress, and are willing always to help those who help o 3 selves exclusively Yo this means of chandising. . > - "“(Copyriant, 1920.) themselves. But they say, in action at least, that those who do not do so, or who do not earns advs of every no right to ask for aid. “Coupled with these two princi) causes for the seeming apathy w! talists have become interested. Sir Ar- thur A. C. Cocks, former treasyrer and also former agent general of New South Wales, is acting chairman of the board of directors. . . important new company has ready to hand a brand-new invention for killing whales by means of elec- tricity. ‘The device is the invention of a Norweglan engineer and has been suc~ cesstully tried out. ‘The electrical device is said to have many zdvantages over the older meth- ods. Perhaps the most important one is the instantaneous death of the whale. In using the old method much danger 1s entalled. The wounded monster is likely to thresh around in the sea with such force as to wreck dories and ca:se the death of men. They are highiy skilled in keeping out of the way, but, such is the force of the lashing tail of one of these monsters that good-sized boats are splintered by the merest touch. One advantage from the purely com- mercial point of view, but what might be looked upon as a disadvantage from the old romantic viewpoint, is that the electrical contact created causes death no matter in what spot the creature is struck. Expert harpooners used to pride themselves on the skill with which they could cast their harpoons so as to hit a vital spot, one which most quickly would silence the whale. Victims Continue Afloat. 8till another fact of great importance is that the new invention keeps the vic- tim afloat. Under the old hand-har- pooning practice the whale would sink unless quickly grappled and kept afloat with lines from the boats. This was a task Tequiring much skill and fraught with considerable danger. Cutting up the whale, taking out the oil and sal+ vaging all that was of value was a tedi- ous job, ceausing much wear and tear on tackle and hoisting machine and ex- haustion of men. With the whale float- ing as easily as the ship, the job is much simplified. It is claimed that the invention will alter the whaling industry materially. In the first place, it will be a much more economical method after the device has been installed. Original installation costs only about $700 and many boats already are being equipped in prepara- dion for the oncoming whaling season. The catch is expected to be consider- ably larger. How much more ramaly I8 larger catch will deplete the supply of the big creatures appears not to have been considered, but at least it appears that such ships as are equipped to take whales electrically will show the largest profits. A stock company has been formed to market the new invention, the board of directors being comprised of men ex- perienced in the whaling industry and whose opinion of the practicability of the device is in itself a strong recom- mendation. Eight or nine separate patents cover erent parts of the de- vice, and these are held by the new ke bis The plan of operation will be to rent the machines to any whalers who de- sire to make use of them, payment to be made to the controlling company in royaltles on each barrel of oil taken from whales killed by this new method. There seems no limit to the extension g; tlhed ‘:x:: of mchh::!ry into every line n¢ Ty, no matter how old-fash- loned it may be. - od | year-old This and That By Charles E. Tracewell. A leap of 8 feet from a standing posi- tion 1s nothing at all to one Boggs, half- kitten, he with the black and white coat and the black spot on the ity | tip of his nose. Boggs takes off as easily as if he were merely stretching out one paw, bat’ be- 10 5] realize what he is up to chair by the window to the end of the venport. He is what is slangily called a “leap- ing Lena.” Somewhere inside him there seems to be colled up a great spring, which he utilizes for his big jumps. His bounding proclivities lead him into and onto all sorts of places where kittens are not ordinarily welcomed even in households where they have the run of the house. i Entering at the dining room door, Boggs tosses himself onto the arm of another chair, swings beneath it like a monkey, and bounds to the back. His long black tail h;%‘htul"l:uhlz monkeylike appearance. of his deserves mention all by itself. ugh Boggs is but half a year old, and Jack Spratt is 6 years old, the former’s tail is 11% inches in length. as compared with 1012 for our old friend. Boggs’ brothers and sisters, with the exception of Little Nipper III, have equally long tails, a sign of alley pedi- gree, some say; of health and vigor, others declare. ) o ol As soon as Boggs has mounted to the back of the chair, he looks around wild- 1y with those beady little black eyes of his. Almost always he decides to take the path by the mantel. With a leap he goes bel d a short row of books, placed betveebr‘\h htvm images of the Egyptian cat . From past trips in these exalted re- glons he believes that in front of the books lies a trio of tiny ivory images— one a cat, and the other mice. The ivory cat is chasing one mouse; the sec- ond sits behind mocking him. Boggs rather fancies the ivory cat, about an inch long, which he grabs in his mouth. The mice are almost.too small to seize. The last time he caught the cat he broke its tail off, since when the trio has been moved to a safer retreat. * ok x % . The next leg of the journey takes Boggs behind the clock. is mechan- ism has long fascinated the kitten. Whenever it strikes the hour, he will lm“hu] ears and regard the clock at- tentively. The other evening he was behind it take advan to that end, have | Bog when it struck. He did not manifest as much surprise as we had anticipated. Cats have a way of disappointing their human friends, almost as if they refused to be put on parade. Rounding the other end of the man- tel, from behind a vase, Boggs sprang into the air, and came down on the back of the davenport, where he pro- ceeded to whet his claws with great satisfaction. His claws are so sharp that it be- comes necessary to break up these orflee. This does not worry gs in the least, however. With a bound he reaches the top of the radio, and from there he goes in a neat curve to the top of another book- case, upon which he stands on his hind legs in a vain attempt to creep behind & picture of Napoleon on the wall. At the word of admonition which this feat brlng‘ forth, Boggs regards the world with an impudent expression, after which he jumps from the of & the bookcase W’Lhewcumll thl‘-‘l’l‘pkv dow. By this time he has gone three- fourths of the way around the room ir | without once touching the floor. Reciprocity? From the Doston Ivening TTanscripe. y| -Now that an English barmaid has other | question arises smlnmronvmuw. hether or not the min- ister will return the compliment. and man the beer pump, - preached for S fore S he has cleared the distance from the .