Evening Star Newspaper, September 26, 1929, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR With Sundsy Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY...September 26, 1020 THEODORE W. NOYEE....Editor The !venlnlnsur Newspaper Company ce Y S iings, Rate by Carrler Within vening 8t # ing and Sunday Star ndays) the City. 48c per month 80c per month when ‘he Evening and B r T ren s Bundass 8¢ per month 5¢ per copy The Sunday Star Collection made at'ihe end of each month. ©Orders may be sent in by mail or telephone NAtional 5000. Rate by Mafl—| ble In Advance. Maryland and Vlr!lnln. 1 yr., $10.00. 1 mo. All Other States and Canada. 1y ‘and Sunday..l yr.$1200: 1 mo., 9100 Fll_v only . 1yr. $AC0: 1 mal iSc unday only yr., $5.00; 1 mo. 50c Member of the Associated Press. Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of al atches credited to it or not otherwise cred- in this paper and alto the Iocal rews published h!l!lg All rht publication of ecial d L il served. e A Connecticut Innocent. The employment of Charles I.. Eyan- son, assistant to the president of the ‘Manufacturers’ Association of Connec- ticut, by Benator Hiram Bingham to aid the Senator in his work on the tarift bill while the measure was before the | Senate finance committee is the latest point of Democratic attack on the Re- publican tariff bill. The defense of the Senator from Connecticut is that he wes unfamiliar with the hundreds of items in the tariff bill and that he went to a source for information upon which he could rely, particularly with regard to the tariff duties on the products of his own BState. It appears that Mr. Eyanson was first paid by Senator Bing- ham out of his own pocket and that later he was put on the Government pay roll as his secretary. It further ap- pears that Mr. Eyanson, as secretary to Senator Bingham, attended sessions of the committee when it was drafting the bill. Granting that the reasons of Sena- tor Bingham for the employment of Eyansen are of the best. the Connect- fcut Senator was at least placing him- gelf in & position by the employment of this official of the manufacturers’ assoclation where an attack upon him and the tariff bill was practically cer- tain, once it became publicly known that Eyanson had the position. The Senator from Connecticut, from his own statement, seems strangely in- nocent and unfamiliar with the dark ways of his Democratic opponents. Had he sought the advice of some of his more seasoned colleagues before he un- dertook to bring Mr. Eyanson into the tarift plcture he might have spared himeelf whatever embarrassment, i any, he is now suffering. From the re- ports of Senator Bingham's own story of this employment, it appears that the attendance of Mr. Eyanson upon the meetings of the finance committee was stopped. matter did come to the attention of other members of the committee, who disagreed with Senator Bingham in re- gard to the wisdom, if not the pro- priety, 6f Mr. Eyanson’s employment to ald Senator Bingham in connection with the framing of the tariff bill. When tariff bills are under consider- ation by Congress, charges commonly fly thick and fast regarding the lobbies of the manufacturers in Washington, seek- ing to influence the writing of the measur~. The investigation by Con- gress iseif of “tariff lobbies” has occurred more than once in the past. The course pursued by Senator Bing- ham in connection with the hiring of an officlal of the Connecticut Manu- facturers’ Assoclation, innocent as it may be in fact, merely places in the hands of opponents of the tariff bill a weapon with which to attack the bill, the manufacturers and the Senator himself. Senator Bingham's employment of Eyanson was defended in the Senate yesterday by Senator Watson, Republi- can’ leader and a member of the finance committee, and by Senator Smoot, chairman of that committee. They “defled” the Democrats to place their fingers upon a single item in the bill that Mr. Eyanson had written or of which e had influenced the writing. But, say the attackers, for what con- ceivable purpose was Mr. Eyanson eme ployed in connection with the tariff : bill if not to have some hand in the writing of the bill, or at least of having some influence upon the Senator from Connecticut in this activity? Senator Bingham insists that Eyanson was there merely to give him information. To the Democrats, however, there appears little difference between giving information upon which Mr. Bingham was to act and “influence” in connection with the drafting of the bill. Senator Bingham lacks some of the shrewdness for which the Connecticut Yankee has been cele- brated in the past. o The big Fokker plane, a modern marvel of the sky, is only a transient visitor at the Capital City, which still lacks & proper airport. ————————— A Leader Passes. In the death of Miller J. Huggins is an illustration of the strange ways of fate. This man was famous. He will long be remembered and he will be loudly praised for his abilitles and his achievements. But his fame rests largely - upon the accomplishments of others, those whose energies end skill and tal- ents he directed. It is one of the oddi- tles of life that Huggins did not achieve sxceptional distinction in his own chosen line of endeavor, that of playing base bell. He was better than a good player. He was in the “star” class for a while. But he did not shine out as supreme, and when he began to falter, as all ball players do after a time, he was due to slip back into the obscurity of the “minors” when his real ability was dis- covered and developed, as the manager of other men. Huggins, conspicuous among ball players for his small stature and frail frame, was of the precise proportions for & leader. He had the peculiar tem- perament to fit him for that role, to- gether with the knowledge of the game. He was no theorist, but he knew every quirk and curve of the sport, every trick and device. He was an excellent judge of abilities. He knew how to get the most' eut of his players. He was not a susve manager, placotory and assuaging. Zather to the contrary. He had his 1) 1 ews dis- | The inference is that the; battles with the stars who composed his team—royal battles, some of them—and being manager he always won, f8r he possessed the confidence of the owners of the club, and his decisions were always sustained. Manager for twelve years of the New ankees,” Huggins in that period made the remarkable record of bringing the American League pennant to-that club's park six times, and three times winning the world championship em- blem. It is known that he wanted to break the records of the sport by win- ning four league champlonships in se- quence, and rumor says that his dis- appointment this year was one of the causes of his physical decline. That, however, does not ring true. Huggins was too good a sport to let the failure of his team for a single season, due in some measure to the flinesses that [ afflicted some of his best players, affect j his own spirit. | The truth is that this little man, never really satrong, always fighting | ageinst some aiiment, had reached his limit. Yet he was at work on plans {for the coming season. True to his trust, he was scouting for talent, to strengthen the ranks of his team, & wonderful organization that had been weakened by too much success, too much star work. The “Yankees” had won too many pennants in a row. Per- haps some day the record will be broken. It will take another Huggins, aided and abetted by A group of “Babe’ Ruths and Gehrigs and other brilliant performers, to accomplish the feat. —_— vt Mr. Atkins Departs. One of the many phenomena of pas- sion generated during the World War was Lissauer's celebrated “Hymn of Hate Against England.” For a while, in Germany, it almost supplanied “Deutschland, Deutschland Uber Al- les” as the national anthem. Ran the concluding stanzas: . . You will we hate with a lest- ing hate, ‘We will never -forego our hate, Hate by water and hate by land, Hate of the head and hate of the hand. Hate of the hammer and hate of the crown, Hate of seventy millions, choking down, We love as one, we hate as one, We have one foe, and one alone— England! ‘This week the British Army is evac- uating the Rhineland, vanguard of the allied forces pledged to leave the occupied area of Germany under the terms of the Dawes-Young plans. Tom- my Atkins and_his mates are quitting the acene of a ten-year sojourn on the | Rhine amid vastly different Germsan | emotions than Lissauer hissed in his “Hymn of Hate.” | “Practically the entire nopula‘ion (of Koenigstein),” says an Associated Press | dispatch, “turned out in a drenching | downpour of rain to wish the Eritish | soldiers Godspeed. Thousands of Ger- mans under a sea of umbrellas joined iln singing British popular songs played by the Leicestershire regimental band. | As the train steamed out, the Germans | lifted a rousing chorus of ‘Auld Lang Syne.’ An advance detachment of the Eighth Hussars sang out ‘Auf Wieder~ | sehen,' as they disappezred from the Germans’ gaze.” Evacuation of the Rhineland is not itself, but an augury of future tran- quillity as significant in its way as leagues, Locarnos and ententes cordiale. Anglo-German relations, if the manner of Tommy Atkins' leave-taking is any criterfon, have been strengthened, not impaired, by a British military rule in Germany's beloved river province. “You have been good lads,” said Maj. Gen. Sir William Thwaites, command- | er-in-chief of the British forces, yester- day as he bade good-by at Wiesbaden to the latest detachment of the King's troopers to entrain for home, Yes, the British soldler in Germany this past troubled decade has been ex- actly what Rudyard Kipling described him to be a quarter of a century ago: Here's to you, Tommy Atkins, You're a brave 'un, heart and hand. You're a credit to your ecalling And to all your native land v ———— Railways are combining =with air routes. It may be found eventually that the “metal horse” will be retired that cargoes and passengers will be carried only in sky ships. e 1t is & great deal to expect when a President of the U. 8. A. is requested to divert attention from affairs of di- plomacy and finance in order to deliver temperance lcctures. i e ate - | No one except himself scems capable of carrying on Mussolini's policies. ‘The dread of an understudy sometimes closcs the show. e - Financ> is often uneasy. Many a seat in the Stock Exchange feels as if there were & tack in it. et — 5 Night Club Safety. Following closely upon the Detroit dleaster, New York had a night club fire early Sunday morning which completely gutted the establishment, but instead of | loss of twenty human lives the total | sacrifice in Manhattan was one dog. For the New York night club was vacant. It was closed last Spring for renovation and was to have reopened in about a fortnight. Had it been in full operation the chances are that, despite the existence of better facilittes for exit, the holocaust of Detroit would have been repeated in’ some degree. For the flames swept through the building swiftly and furiously owing to the char- acter of the furnishings, designed for showiness rather than for safety. This [was & fully licensed place of public entertainment and a permit for its re- opening had been granted, probably with the approval of all the city de- partm-nts having jurisdiction over it in various respects. Now will the municipal authorities make & survey of the night clubs, not for the purpose of raiding them for (llquor law violations or other forms of {lawlessness, but to ascertain whether they comply with the laws of public safety? This question may with con- | fidence be answered in the negative. A few places will perhaps be overhauled as a gesture of precaution, but it is “dollars to doughnuts” that nothing like a complete sweep will be made to insure against conditions meking for a tregedy like that just enacted in Detroit. For that is the way of the world in large | clties, and especially in New York, where the experiences of other com- munities are not accepted as warnings and guides. , Incidentally, it may be sugg-si=l that M only a momentous European eévent in| along with the canal-boat mule ln.’l| it would be well for the District author- ities to look into this matter of the places of public amusement to see whether dangerous eonditions exist in any of them. They may all be one hun- dred per cent law-abiding in their physical eircumstances, but it would be the part of official prudence to make sure, % ot Florida's Alarm. Having been savagely hurt by hurri- canes in the Fall of 1926 and 1928, the people of Southeast Florida ar: quite naturally alarmed by the report of a violent storm in the neighborhood of Nassau, moving in their direction. They have every reason to do all that is pos- sible to protect themselves from the fury of the elements that may burst upon them in a few hours, So they are moving back from the coast seeking places of comparative safety, snywhere but on the shore of the sea, from the violence of which they have on these two reécent occasions so terribly suf- fered. Dispatches from that region today tell of almost a panic stampede from the coast to the interior, from the cene ters of population to the open spaces. There is not much high land in ‘hat part of Florida and in truth there is but little chance of security from floods. But the people may find some protec- tion & few miles back from the coast. At least there will be less danger of In- jury from flying fragments of wrecked buildings and less peril from a tidal wave from the seca. Today's news indicates that the hLur- ricane, the full force of which Las not yet been measured, has not progiessed at its former rate of speed, its cernter remaining almost stationary sime- where between Nassau and Miami. There is hope that it may be dissipated itself,” as has been said of cyclonic storms, while still at sea. But experi- ence does not warrant much confidence on that score. These tornado storms that originate somewhere in the West Indies, or below them in the Caribbean, usually endure until some time after they have hit the Florida coast and passed inland. There is nothing at sea to obstruct them or deflect them. Trey do, however, occasionally change their paces in their advancing movements, the cyclonic winds forming the vortex. Should this storm <trike Florida with the fury of that of three years ago, or even that of a year ago, less violent, it would do serious damage, which the State could ill afford to suf- fer. The hope is that the forecasts will fail on this occasion. e ———— of Germany are enormous. Having lapsed as an Emperor, he may still triumph as a reaitor. SRS A number of States are particularly an interest in water power, 273 s a propagandist is defined only by a few additional syllables in the title. — bt Fashions for men are now suspected of including boot legs along with dress suits at & banquet. — e Harry Sinclair says he is not really sick, only homesick. EE—. HOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. 1 Oyster and the R. | When the katydids are calling, when the yellow leaves are falling And the roses fair are withering eway, ! There's a faint and frosty tingle, as the breezes bring a jingle Of September and the oystcrn( in the bay. Autumn days, called “melancholy,” in reality are jolly, As life looks forward to & holiday. And we join a glad reunion while ob- serving the communion Of September 2nd the oysters in the bay. Office Exclusiveness. “I'm going back,” said Senator Sor- ghum, “to the old-fashioned statesman- ship. If any bona fide constituents call, show them in.” “The whole crowd?” atked the secre- I'm tired of the idea of ex- clusiveness that prevents you from talk- ing to anybody except a lubbyist cr a bootlegger.” Jud Tunkins says egotism is a uni- versal instinct. Every flea thinks he owns the entire dog. The Ancient God of Wine. When Bacchus boldly roamed the earth In ancient days of classic mirth— “There are,” said he, “I'm glad tc hear, No phohibition agents near.” Always Economy. “Do you approve of companionate marriage?” “Yes,” answered Miss Cayenne. “They are more economical than those which involve the expense of divorce pro- cedure.” “He who deems himself fit to rule many people,”. sald Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “may nevertheless be ruled by only one—a woman.” The Wearisome Loaf. I weary of the toil I face Each day, as life goes on apace— I'd weary more if days came through With nothing left for me to do. , “I calls my chicken coop a night club,” sald Uncle Eben. “I has to go to a heap o' trouble to keep it padlocked.” ————— Closing of Erin’s Jails. Fiom the New York Evening World. “They locked the prids of Erin’s Isle In the dark Kilmainham Jail.’ So ran the song heard in the streets and highways of Ireland when Charles Stewart Parnell was imprisoned in the famous jail because of th: activities of “Capt. Moonlight.” Dark, indeed, that jail has seemed at times throughout the generations of Ireland's struggle for the right to rule herself. Perhaps it szems less dark in connection with Parnell's incarceration, since it was from hl.;l‘ cell there that “the pride of Erin’s Isle’ dictated terms to London. Now this old prison, recking with tragedy, is closed, and closed too the equally famous ptison of Kilkenny, for political erimes are of the past and common criminals are growing scarce. Indeed, the prisons are gradually out- living their usefulncss, the number of prisoners today but 50 per cent as many as in 1914. Fewer jails are needed, and a number have converted - into radio station® by its own fury, that it may “swallow | which are governed by the velocity of | which was | Land holdings of the former Kaiser | in favor of the kind of wet who takes | The difference between a lobbyist and | WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1929. THIS BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. What to do with the disagreeable people one meets every day? In anclent times one simply hit them on the head with a broadax or club and had them carried out the nearest exit. L ‘There was a finality to the process which was satisfying to all concerned, with the exception of the victim. He, poor fellow, never knew what hit him! ‘The merciful attitude has so far triumphed that it is no longer fashion- able, feasible or even possible to treat disagreeable persons so, although they perhaps deserve it just as much as ever. ‘Today one must resort to devious methods to get rid of the man or woman who strikes one as disagreeable. In using the word one must recognize that it includes a great deal. He who strikes one rson as dis- pleasing may be eminently agreeable to another. In the main, however, the truly disagreeable person may be recog- nized by several earmarks. In the first place, he is always ready to criticize adversely everything that any one else says, does or purchases. ‘These are the three main divisions, but he is by no means limited. He always can think up other spheres for criticism. In the second place, he is a nasty talker, in that his tone is contentious, filled with sarcasm, and his manner intensely antagonistic. In the third place, almost always he has a chip on the shoulder, as the say- ing is—that is, unless he has one on both shoulders, which is most often the case. * ok % % Those whose business requires them to come into contact with the general public know this character, who may be _either male or female. They know that there is no pleasing them, whatever one does: so that the best. way to treat them, for the sake of all concerned, is to get rid of them as quickly as_possible. This, often means that they are treated even better than the first-class folk who are kindly, cordial and helpful. ‘The big idea, as may be seen, is to get rid of them as speedily as possible. An_experienced worker often can tell such people by looking at them. erhaps it is a querulous look in their s or a mean twist to their mouth. Maybe their lips are drawn up thin or their noses a bit too sharp for good | will. Whatever the physical signs which lend confirmation to the three broad characteristics outlined, the old hand at the window sizes them up the mo- ment they appear. He knows from long experience that the best way to handle them is to get rid of them as fast as possible, and that this means to treat them even nicer than usual. It is worth real money to hear a vet eran explaining this subtle method to a new hand. Young assistants, vexed with the problem. come to him with | spleen in their voices. ‘They have been outraged by the man- ners of So-and-so, who has resisted all | reason, common sense and decency The fool wouldn't even believe them when he was shown the thing in black and white, They felt like hitting him one in the jaw. The old hand soothes their ire, point- ing out to them that there always will be a certain number of these pecrle to be met and that the proper handling of them, both from the personal stand-' point and that of the firm, demands real Mndwork.‘ N To treat & mean person nice seems to the amateur a kind of paradox, and #0 it 18, but one which works out neatly in real life, as s0 many of them do. It must be admitted that there is a great deal of injustice in it. These disagreeable persons do not deserve to be treated with the extreme courtesy which they receive. Nothing about them merits anything but a sharp rap over the head with a sledgehammer, but since this method has gone out of style, there is nothing left but to substitute stealth, craft, guile, ah;—lev‘.;dneu, Or whatever ohe Wants 10 call it The compromise method is what works best. The disagreeable person is recognized, just as thunderstorms must be recognized, just as nettles at the beach are recognized, just as mosquitoes are recognized. No one cares for nettles, or jellyfish, or mosquitoes, but every one who goes to the seashore knows that they exist. Wherefore, instead of ignoring them, people take care to keep out of their way, as much as possible, or to them out as well as they may. Letting disagreeable persons alone is the one best method, if one can af- ford it, but too often the meeting is a necessity, either of business or social life, There is no getting out of the contact. One cannot run away nor yet hide, even as much as one would like to_do either or both, ‘The disagreeable necessity must be met! The question is, then, not how to outargue him, or to outwisecrack him, or to outpunch him, but solely how to get rid of him as quickly as possible, 50 that one may the sooner lose the ba taste of him. bar * ok Kk There seems to be some injustice asso- ciated with most of the processes of everyday life. Young people, fresh from school, filled with ideals, wonder at them. They concentrate on the tinge of injustice until it fills their horizon. They fail to see, what they will realize later, that the injustice is more appar- ent {han rea). Take the ‘case of the quarrelsome, mean person who secures for himself even more courteous treatment than is accorded kindly people. He gets it be- cause those who give it to him work on the aforementioned theory of get- ting rid of him as quickly as possible. | They fairly “lean over backwards they say, in order to placate him. This explains why such persons often | seem to get the better of everything for themselves, whereas mild, honest men and women, trying their best to br polite and courteous, receive scant | attention. | _ The man with the loud. rough voice, who attracts instant attention to him. self, often gets waited on first, although others had been standing for many minutes before he came in. The fau't-finding woman who is on |a rpetual lookout for insults and | slights usually makes herself so dis- agreeable that the word goes around quietly, “Bo nicer to her than usual and get her out of the place as quickly as you can.” These disagreeable persons, greeted everywhere with smiles and attention, g0 Away felicitating themselves, where- as if they knew exactly what had hap- pened. they might be ashamed of their conduct. They are tolerated, that is all. | The “welcome” on the mat is reversed | the moment they go, and an unspoken | volley of dislike follows in their wake. | 1t 18 civilization's way of treating dis- | agreeable persons. " as Violence in North Carolina Laid Violence in connection with the strike at Gdstcnia, N. C., has awakened the conviction that efforts to control the situation were too long delayed. There 18 little sympathy for those who took il- legal measures to conquer the labor men. “Lawless acts have been committed on both sides in this labor struggle,” savs the Asheville Times. “But the so- called anti-Comnfunists, inheritors of the North Carolina tradition, are band- ing themselves in mobs, selzing men and punishing them for their opinions. Mcb terrorism, inflicted either for crimes or to crush out opinions, is the same sort of terrorism that harrics the un- fortunates within the power of the So- viet or Mussolini. Fortunately for North Carolina, the law itself still stands. a stern and impartial guardian of the rights of men. Only a minority, goaded into fanaticism by untoward incidents, encouraged by their betters to violenca, in vain assails the bulwarks of consti- tuticnal government. But the minority must be taught its lesson.” As to the gencral situation, the Al- toona Mirror expresses the opinion that | “jt is a great misfortune that employers and workmen in divers sections of the cduntry still undertake to settle differ~ ences of opinion concerning conditions of work, or daily hours of labor, or com- pensation, by strikes and violence. The evil things transpiring invariably in- crease the difficulties of the situation, making harmonious agreement much less easily brought about and leaving evil thoughts in the minds of all con- cerned, thoughts which are seldom ban- jched for many years,” concludes the Mirror. “North Carolina has permitted the Gastonia wounds to_fester,” according to the Chattancoga News. “The State, we fear, was indifferent for many months while hatreds were accumulat- ing in the strike region. and there was no central body of disinterested eitizens to help bring about a scttlement. They are now attempting to suppress the feel- ing of bitterness and hysteria. They are doing commendable work. It is regret- table, however, that the situation got so badly out of hand before the State be- came aroused to the necessity of an ad- ustment.” Jugen nief hope.” in the judgment of the Raleigh News and Observer, "“lics ia an appeal to the people of Gastonia who have made that community what it is, and who will continue to live there and who at heart wish to restore peace and order. They have permitted them- selves to be obsessed with fears of Com- munists until they have temporarily lest their direction. The Communist aims are enough to arouse condemnation, but ths mistake Gastonia leadership makes is that it has caused it to lose its poise, its mastery and to do nothing. while mobs have been as guilty of murder and assault and destruction of property as has been practiced by the National Tex- tile Unicn and its Communists. The time has now come for the responsib'e leadership of Gastonia to regain ifs poise and judgment, to compel its offi- cials to ferret out and punisa lawless- ness, no matter by whom committed, and to have it understood that mobs are anarchists and not entitled to any more consideration than lawless Communists.” The attitude of the workers employed in the mills is a subject of comment by the Charlotte News, which points out that “even those to whom the Com- munists appealed the more immediately are now ranked among the bitterest en- emies of these self-invited redeeme: The textile laborers of this section,” continues the News, “are American and the Communists are not. Sensing the purpose of the coming of these mischief makers among them, the operatives in the miils are releasing against them the full reaction of their distrust and their anger. The Communists are dying from the heart out and not from the outside in—they are perishing at the point where they are the rottenest.” “North Cerolina_must learn,” advises the Youngstown Vindicator, “the les- sons that the industrial regions of the Northern States learned long ago, and often at heavy cost in blood and money. But it will not learn them from persons whom it considers advocates of the devil, to Delay by Officials The workers need leaders to save them | from exploitation and to make sure | that this new industrial development | will bring with it the social well-being | they have a right to expect. But the | leaders themselves must be of a type to | |win their understanding and confi- dence.” | _*“The situation as it has developed in | this industrial scction of North Caro- ilina,” states the Charlotte Observer, | “particularly in Gaston, Mecklenburg, McDowell and other counties, where |labor disturbances have occurred, calls | for calm, sober speech and thinking on the part of the citizenship. Those who have allowed themselves to become in- | flamed in mind should be counseled to | control their passions and rely upon the issues before them. Through such a course, a_recurrence of the deplorable tragedy involving the death of Mrs. Wiggins of Bessemer City and the kill- ing of Chief of Police Aderholt of Gas- tonia may be avoided, while fll-advised and inflammatory utterances are calcu- lated to.result in further violence and possibly other grave tragedies. Gov. 3ardner may be depended upon to throw | into"the eftorts to uphold the law and to treat fairly with all jssues involved in_the present situation.” ... Believing that the local authorities are too keen to arrest every strike sympathizer,” the Charleston Evening Post advises that “violence against the strikers must be punished if violence from the strikers is to be successfully | controlled,” while th> Anniston Star comments: “The present uprising against strikers and union leaders seems. to have come as a result of the mi trial in the Aderholt case. It bears r szmblance to efforts at mob rule—an at- tempt to make all members of one side of & controversy suffer because, so far, the courts had failed to punish any one for the murder of the police chief.” Condemning “reprisals,” the New Or- leans Times-Picayune = asserts that criminal violence of this kind cannot be defended by the plea that it is done in :(rlzgnr‘tl r;l ‘énw and order.’ On the con- Yy s dangerous Ve S8 nugg betrayal of the law ———e—s Asy-lums and I_Vot Death Houses Needed 'rav;r;le Editor of The Star: en Mr. E. Roy Calve ] penologist, comes g wum?émgri:ng expresses his ideas to our public and gives studied statistics relative to the abolition of eapital punishment, it is to be hoped that the citizens of the Dis- trict of Columbia will thoughtfully angd ;l(ntnl:ll’sn::?x‘:iwmm" the true phases us procedurs de;}lng-&lmj the Erlmlnal.e s ay the judicial minds involv n the solution be open to the mm’g( ’n :\}:ghe:fi::::!l‘(:f.t which will determine m'('}lms- ent of such u[xcivmzed “Thou shalt not kill ” in one instance also bears an equaliy powerful inter- pretation in another when the crime of the criminal is reflected, but under the Elrull‘sl‘pd personification of the word - law. Perhaps too infrequently the undamental backgrounds of criminal tendencies are too slightly analyzed — and perhaps more asylums would not go amiss where these unhealthy minds could find means of Tecuperation thus supplanting the barbarous death houses which to this date exist among civilized, humane and thinking people. M. BACHE. v ——— . Vocal Souvenirs, From the Butte Daily Post. Vocal film enthusiasts predict that th> future family portrait album will talk, We have one at home that is already full of speaking likenesse! - And Telephone Books. From the Lancing State Journal. It won't be long now before the ar- rival of Ramsay MacDonald in New York. Distinguished visitors arrive about often enough to keep the ticker tape effectually unloaded into Broad- way. i courts to decide promptly and fairly the ! every possible resource at his command | Critic of Arabs in Palestine Answered To the Editor of The 8 My attention has been called to a letter from Charles W. Pafflow, pub- lished in The Star of September 12, 1029, in which he vigorously denounces the Arabs. Apparently Mr. Pafflow is an extreme Zionist and his ardor and zeal for Zionism have blinded him to the rights of others, and also to the facts of his- tory. He seems to taink that nothing should be permitted to hinder the reali- zation of his dream—not even the rights of three-quarter million people 1to_life and liberty. He demands stronger military sup- port from Great Britain to keep the Arabs down, as if all the airplanes, armoredycars and battleships sent to Palestine ‘are not enough. His demand is based on the Balfour declaration, which is the cause of these uprisings in the Holy Land. This declaration, while it favored the establishment of a Jewish national home in Palestine, also guaranteed the rights of the Arabs. It did not give the Zionists an exclu- sive right to the country. The British owe as much to the Arabs under this declaration as they do to the Jews. ‘The Arabs have certain rights which cannot be entirely ignored. They have had possession of Palestine for nearly 1,300 years, and naturally they are unwilling to surrender it to the Zionists now. As the overwhelming majority of the population, they refuse to allow the hundred thousand Jews, imported into the country since the World War, to trample upon their rights, and re- duce them to a virtual state of slavery, the Balfour declaration notwithstand- ing. Their argument is that Lord Bal- four has no right to give away a coun- try which is not his, and therefore his declarations are not binding upon them. Besides, Great Britain assured them, before and after the issuance of the Balfour declaration, that they would be given self-government, and they de- mand that this promise be kept. The Arabs are not attempting to take away anything from the Jews. Their struggle is solely for the preservation of their rights and the protection of their properties. They are not seeking 1to deprive Jews of any rights or any property that belongs to them, but they refuse to surrender their own in order to enable the Zionists to establish the Jewish state of which they dream. While we cannot say with certainty how the recent troubles, which are de- plored by all thinking people, and which caused 50 much loss of life and prop- erty on both sides, started, it is evi- dent that neither “religious frenzy” nor racial animosity on the part of the Arabs is responsible for them. The Arabs and Jews are closely related religiously and racially. Beth worship the one God, and both belong to the Semitic race. Jews have at all times lived among the Arabs in peace, not only in Palestine, but in all the Arabian countries. History does not record a single instance of an Arab massacre of Jews. When the Jews were driven out of Spain, thousands of them sought refuge among the Arabs, and were warmly received. No Jew referred to the Arabs then.as “mad dogs.” The present conflict between the two peoples is entirely due to the extreme policy of the Zionists and the arrogance of some of the more ardent supporters of the Jewish national home idea. The Arabs have no quarrel with Jews as such; That is why many Jewish newspapers and thousands of Jews have allied themselves with the Arabs. It is fortunate indeed that not all Jews—not cven all Zionist Jews—are as vehement in their denunciation of the Arabs or as extreme in their demands as the writer of the letter in question If all Jews were to adopt his ideas, something like a war of extermination between the two peoples would follow, and I do not think responsible Jews would welcome such a thing. The Arabs <hould thank him. however, for frankness in openly serting his | right “to bufld anew on the ruins of his temple” and to make Palestine a purely Jewish country, which has hitherto been denied by the Zionists. F. C. SAKRAN. ——— Motor Liability Likened To Employers’ Risk To the Editor of The Star: Not long ago two women were stand- ing at a street corner in Atlantic City. There was nothing very unusual about them, except that one was the mother of six children and the other of four. No news value here! As they stood talking two automobiles collided righ* in front of them. Seemingly that's what motor cars are for, and there’s no news in that, either. But the collision forced the cars up onto the pavement, pinned the women against a pole and killed them both. That is news—a stick at the bottom of page 4! Most peopie never saw the story, and only the im- mediate families gave it a second thought. Ten children were left motherless, and for this inestimable deprivation were one that should be told every day, un til it finally penetrates even the insen- sitive skulls of those legislators and vendors who cherish property abovc humanity and sales records above com- mon decency. Both of those cars were technically owned by finance companies, and since they were licensed by one of the great { majority of States which haven't the 'sensc to institute compulsory liability insurance, those 10 orphans have noth- ing but the memories of their motheis to get along on. | I'm not trying to pull a sob story and through your sentiments dim ~your judgment.” I am only relating a dra- matic example of that injustice which is being perpetrated every day of the year in less striking but equally revolt- ing form. We long since decided that em- plovers’ liability insurance was a legitimate tax on manufacturers. We freely conceded that the theory back of it wasn't wholly logical. Perhaps a man applying for work at a machine accepts the risks inherent in his job, just as a i man who sits in the sun has no right {to complain about sunburn. But we discovered many moons ago that social dled by cold reason. Practically, it turned out that it was wisest to protect the worker against the consequences of the medium of an infinitesimal tax upon the fruits of his labor. When firer the idea was broached, manufacturers as a class lifted up their voices in holy horror. One would have thought we had collapsed into communistic sav- agery, with barn burning, poisoning wells and the nationalization of womer as minor side shows. Well, we tried it, despite them, and it hasn’t turned out (oadly at all. Here and there it is even sible to find a manufacturer who ad- mits privately he wouldn't go back to the old plan if he could. At the very least, his office is no longer invaded by sudden pensioners who ruin his peace of mind with their tears. And now we dawdle and shake our heads in a similar fashion over this matter of automobile liability insurance, though the need is plain and the de- mnna even more justifiable. Employers used no mean argument when they claimed that a worker should assume the predictable risks of his oc- cupation. But is this true of the poor pedestrian? Has the day arrived when walking the streets entails hazards like working in a white lead factory? Must we stay in bed to be entitled to the protection of the law? Ought a man be permitted to drive an automobile at all when the presumption is that-he will claim the benefits of the bankruptey act should he drive it reck- lessly or illegally? ALPHONSE B. MILLER. ———t In Ruts. From the Des Moines Tribune-Capital. Judging from the number of auto wrecks, a lot of auto minds are running in the same they are only fighting Zionism. | what was often his own folly, through | g THE EVENING STAR, ; AND THAT ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. AASKIN. There is no other agency in the world that can answer as many legit- imate questions as our free Informa- tion Bureau in Washington, D. C. This highly organized institution has been built "up and’ is under the personal direction of Frederic J. Haskin. By kugxn' in constant touch with Feder- al bureaus and other educational en- terprises it i& in a position to pass on to you authoritative information of the highest order. Bubmit your queries to the staft of experts whose services are put at your free disposal. There is no charge except 2 cents in coin or stamps for return postage. Address The Evening 8tar, Information Bureau, c,rormel;mc"' Haskin, director, Washing- n, D. C. Q. Please describe the Damascus sword blade.—A. G. A. The Crusaders first drew attention fo Damascus :l.“l“ 'fmy were found 0 possess not_only elastricity, united with considerable ¥urdnm. 'zm. their surfaces were covered with beautiful designs formed by a tissue of dark lines on & light ground, or light lines upon a dark ground, and occasionally by the inlaying of gold on the steel-blue ground. Gold and silver are inlaid in the higher class of sword blade. In genuine Damascus blades, the designs run through the substance of the blade and the watering on regular, almost symmetrical, figuring is not worn off by friction or even grinding. Q. In what city is there a restau- rant built to resemble a railway train?—J. E. H. A. Doubtless you have reference to an unusual type of restaurant at New- port, R. I. This “lunch wagon” is built to look like a railway train and en- ine and even has a cowcatcher on the ront. Q. To what college did Col. Robert Stewart present funds for a library?— J. . C. E. A. Col. Robert Stewart presented $200,000 to his aima mater, Coe College, at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to build a libra- ry in honor of his parents. Q. What is the difference between a glider and a sail plane?—W, E. A. Authorities state that a glider is a machine which, elevated a few feet in the air or launched from a hiliside, will glide steadily downward, while a sail plane is a finer and more lightly built craft which, taking advantage of {upward currents of air, will actually isafl or fly in the hands of a skilled 1 pilot. | @ Why does soda water sometimes | taste flat?>—P. E. H. |~ A. Poor tasting or “flat” soda water | indicates that there is some radical de- |fect in the functioning properties of llhe carbonating apparatus through {whose agency carbonated water is gen: erated. Q. How much should a high school student spend annually for clothes?— 18.0. M. A. A survey conducted by Marc N Goodnow of the department of journ ism, University of Southern California, The diplomatic conference which sus: pended its sessions at The Hague Au: gust 31 will reconvene next week to | make final nmnsemenu for establish- ing that giant financial organization known to its intimates as the “B. 1. As only a few of us are really intelli- gent on the Einstein theory, so even | fewer will become on a familiar footing | with the “B. I. S.,” but nevertheless we S want to talk about it among our mon- | greater sum annually than the bal |eved friends to “save our face.” for "'B. 1. 8.” means “Bank of International | Settlements,” where all depositors and | borrowers are such person as Uncle {Sam and John Bull and other national, or rather international, characters. * K * x Let an ordinary mortal walk into the { Bank of International Settlements, with ia trunk full of gold dollars, | the privilege of opening a checking ac- count and he will be stared out of countenance and haughtily directed to the exit, though he offers letters of in- troduction from the biggest bulls of Wall Street. There never was such a bank in the whole history of high finance. It's a Yankee idea, given through the Young committee to help liquidate what Ger- many owes the world for her recent { llization. When the B. I. S. opens its doors and begins to receive deposits from its one | depositor—“Deutschland ueber Alles"— that will be the signal for the end of the “Dawes plan.” as anything that could be devised by experts under existing political condi- tions—August 30, 1924. Up. to that time German reparations had become more and more entangled and inefficient each year. France's military occupation of the Ruhr Valley to enforce collections accomplished very little. While under workings of the Dawes ’plnn 2ll payments by Germany have been complete, so far as concerned Ger- many itself, when they were turned over to the American eagent general, located mn Berlin, that was only the beginning jof one part of the problem. The most i difficult problem was how to transport the payments out of Germany to the ! creditor nations without demoralizing | finances of both Germany and the sev eral creditor nations. Germany made her payments—in a Pickwickian sense, She paid in the five years a total of $1,990.000.000 by means lof borrowing from American private “shylocks” $1,179.000,000. In short, she actually paid only $811,000,000 net on her reparations, while making the bluff of paying neariy $2,000,000.000. May- be the private “shylocks” |their interest and their descendants | their principal of the “investments” in | the bonds of the republic, but that has nothing to do with the immediate in- ternational situation. * ok % % It became obvious a year ago to all not continue to find such “good fellows” as American investors in her bonds to enable her to keep up the payments by continued borrowings, and especially that the plan of transporting payments was unsatisfactory. When part of the pay first years were to be *in kine | raw materials, such as coal and iron— | which France and Belgium could use jin reconstruction of their devastated | districts, there was little difficulty in | transporting them without rousing an- | tagonism of the business interests in the | recetving countries, No eountry can | permit goods to be dumped in compe- titlon with its own labor interests. | (Congress is just now arguing over that “bromide,” but it's a_truism, neverthe- less.) So France and Belgium were glad to receive from their war enemy the raw materials useful in rebuilding the devastated homes and cities destroyed by that debtor. In addition thereto, the suffering countries advanced millions of pledged pavments. Now the rebuilding is completed; no | more raw materials are wanted, but money is demanded to enable them to meet the financing of that completed rebuilding. “C. O. D.” becomes the trade mark now of “B. I. 8.” and lest ggz] renl?‘er bexgumes l‘:'“y over the in- {itials, there another trio th: meaning “P. D. Q." s * k% ¥ Keeping in mind always how difficult it is to take out of a country a vast sum of money without creating a money stringency, which would send the high cost of living into the sky, and remem- | bering, also, how impossible it would be to carry into a country a vast quantity of manufactured goeds without throw- ing thousands of patriotic worl and ask | running amuck in the shambles of civ- | The Hell 'n' Maria | plan met the needs of its day as well | will get | problems aren't most successfully han-.; Creditor nations that Germany could | out of Germany, put upon the receivers, | !francs to rebuild for immediate occu- | | pancy, while Germany fell down in her | to establish the buying power of the secondary school market, reveals that the average expenditure per year of high school students in that section is approximately $233.52 for boys and $356.54 for girls. In addition to clothes the estimate includes such srticles as stationery, tollet goods, spo:t goods, hair cuts and shampoos. This knowl- edge of expenditures was gleaned thmush & survey of 24 representative secondary schools. Q. Has the use of radio in_police work proved practicable?’—P. L. W. A. Radio in police work is constantly proving its practicability and reliability. In a recent address William L. Potts inspector of the Detroit Police Depart. ment and superintendent of the Police Bignal Bureau, stated that in Detrojt major erime convictions have increased 83.5 per cent in 1929 due to the fast gervice resulting from the use of radin There are 35 radio-equippes s gt quipped police cars byeén}ln: lltqr”M‘i‘u' e jce cap located mdr. MacMillan on his - pe:m;:.n?—.l. D. A. e . The ice cap described by Comdr. MacMillan is said to cover ylppmxl- mately 700 square miles and is in real- ity two caps. This is reported to be the remnant of the ice cap which once covered 4,000,000 square miles of the earth. Rock cairns will be set up next Summer to determine the rate of reces- sion of the discovery. Q. In what play did Trixie Friganza first star?—K. L. A. Trixie Friganza first starred in “The Pearl of Peking” in 1889. Q. Who carries the highest insur- ance in the United States?—A. Y. M. A. According to the Spectator, a weekly review of insurance, Pierre €. du Pont_of Wilmington, Del, chair- man of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., carries $7,000.000 worth of per- sonal insurance. Among o‘her large policy holders listed are John C. Mar- tin of Philadelphia, vice president of the Curtis-Martin Newspapers, Inc., with the sum of $6,540.000 in pertnnal ;‘nd hu‘slntslulnsurxnl‘!. and Williem ox of motion picture fame wi $6,500,000. o & Q. Is Hawaii to have a memorial to the song, “Aloha Oe"?—H. R. A. On September 16 a bronze me- | morial plaque with the words and mu. sic of “Aloha Oe" was dedicated in Hawali. The plaque bears a likeness of the late Queen Liliuokalani, last ruler of the Hawalians, who wrote the song 50 vears ago. The ceremonv took place on the sixty-seventh anni- | versary of the marriage of Liliuokalani to Gov. John Owen Dominis. Henri ! Berger, now 85 yvears old, the organ 10f the Roval Hawaiian Band and the ‘n:‘u“sl; moa.m‘r who wrote th “Aloha Oe” and many Hawalian mel ‘dles, participated in the dedlcation.w | Q. Why was Gen. Wayne call | Anthony’ A. : e [ e, (Because of his reckless courage | . Wayne received the | Anthony Wayne. i i —J. BACKGROUND OF EVENTS BY PAUL V. COLLINS. | of the country out of employment and | bringing ruin’ upon its own manufac- | tures and all kinds of business, the problem before the Young committee is to do the miracle of avoiding both ca- tastrophes, vet of carrying on the col lection of Germany's international rep. arations debt. It was recognized that out of Ger- many could not be extracted any ce }nf her exports over her imports with- ’out,encyolching on her capital to a de- | mofalizing degree. It is the same case | a8 that which is faced by a man in his {own budget—he cannot spend more |than his current income without en- croaching on his capital. So the amount to require of Germany is the net balance of exports over import: Besides, it is a great problem how purchase foreign currency sufficient to make the transfer of reichsmarks to the various creditors. | It is impossible to enhance German exports for two reasons: First, protec- tive tariffs of foreign countries in the | interest of their own laborers and en- terprises, and second, most of the Ger- man export goods are highly specialized and no adjustment of prices in compe- tition would greatly augment demand. Hence the solution of the crisis comes only through the creation in the re- spective creditor nations of new enter- prises which will be created out of the German reparations payments, without | running into competition with any ex- isting native interests. Several such “assisted schemes” have been devised and recommended in a re- port of & subcommittee of the Young committee. This subcommittee is head- |ed by BIr Josiah Stamp of England, who was a member of the Dawes com- mittee as well as of the present Young committee of experts. | The financing of these “assisted schemes” will be considered and con- trolled by the B. I. S.. much as a pri- vate firm is financed by loans from the | bank carrying its account. > x xx Already certain “assisted schemes” have been set going under the Dawes | plan. Hence the stamp report is not | too radically new in its recommenda- tions. But the Dawes agent general, with h!s Dawes plan committee of ad- visers, is too restricted for adequate functioning in a variety of enterprises involving millions of dollars in world- | wide projects. For example, the agent general's re- port of July 1, 1929, cites canalization work at Moselle, harbor work at St. Nazaire and Marseille and boring and equipping & coal mine in Lorraine, with German payments totaling 200.000,000 reichmarks to the credit of the ac- count of France alone. There are other projects which re- quire private investments, and to in- duce such France must egree to make government claims of interest second- ery to the profits of private capital; in short, the government assistance must be a subsidy in fact and the govern- ment must wait & long period before hoping to recover its own investment. Hence, counting the “present worth™” of the reparations credit which the gov- ernment invests. the more it takes of that the more the creditor government will lose. One very important enterprise in the projects of “assisted schemes” is that of building a railroad for France across the Sahara Desert by means of German labor and reparations finance. This ould be of incalculable benefit in opening up vast regions in Central Africa for the growing of fruits and vegetables, assured of an accessible European market by direct railroad con- rections with the Mediterranean coast All these “assisted schemes” must be riven expert consideration by the Bank of International Settlements. In addition. the B. I. 8. experts will be given authority to grant vertain postpenements of payments bv Ger- many, absolutely independent of polit- | ical ‘control and based wholly upon a study of economic conditions. and will otherwise exercise functions simllar to those of ordinary banks in relation to | their depositors. at is said to be the key to the whole policy is in the following para- graph of the Young reparation plan to be finally passed on next week and, as hoped. to be ratified by the nations be- fore November: transferring the payments into foreign currencies involved. besides a restric- |tlon of imports, an extension of the German export trade. we envisaged the possibility of a financial institu- tion that should be prepared to pro-» mote, particularly in undeveloped coun- tries. projects which might otherwiss not be attempted through the ordinary existing channele.” (Coprright, 4829, by Paul V. Collss.) “Moreover, in so far as the task of ’ '} ¢ v