Evening Star Newspaper, October 7, 1929, Page 8

THE EVEN STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. more serious and more gratifying is the recent slaughter of a ‘Chicago theater bandit almost immediately following THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1929 THIS AND THAT plan is in seme respects similar to the events preceding the abattoir fight. ‘The ofl company sought a permit for the eréction of a serles of tanks, with his robbery of $4,500 from the house ! 29 | freasurer. He took the money and, at | —— | the point of a gun. ordered the three .. Editor "mployes present into sn adjoining | | chamber, locking the door: then strode [ serenely out. He had not counted, | however, on & small hole in that same femporary prison chamber, bored ta command the verv lobby through which he was passing. The assistant Rate by Carrler Within the City, | MAnager took careful ajm through the ;gn Evening Star . . 45¢ per month | aperture and the thief fell dend at the i Evening wnd Bunday Stas (when 4 Sundays) 80¢ per month | iTst shot, The Evening and Sunday &tar No respectabl wt i o ey | IMin piece of suceesaful stratexy with- | gectsions st wil. nt 10 b3 Mall of telephons | out a grunt of sstisfaction. More and | The county authorities make the | more are banks, theaters and similar | poine that the county needs the addi- j Institutions becoming equipped with | tional revenue that would come from | devices and observation and protection | taxing such commercial enterprises as | Posts of which robbers are entirely un- | Lanrasented by the ofl company. ! conscions. The time will come When | contend further that the Washington- (all the odds are against such, 50 much ' pount Vernon Boulevard will take the {50 that one will be taking his very lfe | pounty's water front south of Key {In it hands when he SHEmMPIS & pridge snd there is no good resson | crime of this nature. be the premises wpy the county should surrender its { occupied or unoceupied. And When | remaining rights above Key Bridge. this near-millennium shall have arrived | ©p the other hand, It it to be re- it may become almost impossible 10 |yambered that the Federal Govern- | obtain expert demonstrators of eriminal | v one jurisdiction extends to the high- skl 10 instruet the law. On the ofher | yuiar mark on the Virginta side of the i hand. 1t will not be nearly s0 essential | o Tne Government. presumably re- i to'have them, [tatns authority as to what docking fa- TR cilities may be constructed. I the Gov- Italy and Japan fo attend a conference ! More Court Operatives Needed. }-rnmmv, declines to permit the erec- on naval limitation. The fAinal decision | Seven vears ago Congress snacted a | tion of ach docks or orher equipment nn longer fo delar these invitations was ' law which provided for the holding an- needed to pump oil from barges into reached at a conference between Presi- | nually in this eity of & fudiclal confer- | the storage tanks ashore, the ofl com- dent Hoover and Ramsay Macdanald, | ence, to be attended by the fudges of | pany probably conld find another loca- prime minkter of Great Britgin, held | (he ten senior Cirenit Federal Courts. | tion than that chosen and lose nothing vesterday in the fastnesses of the Blue | ynder the chajrmanshin of the Chisf | thereby. Ridge Mountams of Virginia. The fact | Justice. That conference for 1920 has| While the fight now seems fa be that the invitations now o forward is | just heen held, Tts sescjons were. as|drawn between commerce and esthei- taken as an indieation that the efforts panal. exeentive. and no public attention !ies, and due recognition is made of the to reconelle the differences hetwaen the | was ealled tn it. There was no “news” | fact that man eannot Jive on esthetics governments nf the Tnited States and in ita sittings: its proceedings and de- | slone. the Virginians will hear in mind Greet Britain aver erujser tonnage | liherations developed no sensations. Ft= | that Washington's future ts their future have, in the broadest sense, heen wiped | purpose was fo disenss the eondition of |and that the heauty and earefully away [ the Federal dorkets, Tt was a husiness [planned growth of the American Cap- The conference hetwean the Chiel| meating, held to ascertain whether the | ital are potentielly more valuable than Pxecutive and the Britizh prime mi.nJ.-m,rs.- are keeping np to the work im-|a series of off tanks upon the river's ister in the Virginia hills. where MT.! pacad npon them by the litigants of the | shore, Hocver's camp {s lneated, | some wharfage facilities, The permit was fought by ecitizens before county Zoning Commission, and the commission turned down the applica- tion. The oll company then earried its fight before the Board of County Su- pervisors, who, in the face of many protests, granted the necessary permis- sion. One of the Interesting features of the affair Is that the county's zoning body is obviously impotent and clothed ! with enly’ a semblance of suthority. citizen will read of | The county supervisors ean override it MONDAY. . .October 7, 19 THEODORF W. NOYECL The Evening Star Newspaper Company 114 se. A4 Fenririvanis ave low York Office: 110 Bast 47nd Office: Lake Michigan Bullding 74 Regent St.. Londen | a5e 5c 00: 1 mo.. 40c mo., ailv enly nio.. unday only . ANl Other States and Canada. Dails and Bunday..) yr.$1200: 1 mo. 8 Daily orly . 1 mo. Sunday oniy ¥r. $5.00: 1 mo. Member of the Associated Press. The Ageociated Press is exclusively entitled te the Be for repunlicarion of all 1 ews dis- atches cradited to e ted in rhis paper 1 nublished herein. All rights af pubitratton #peacial dispatches herein are also reservs The London Conference. Tormal invitations go from London foday to the United States, Prance, voteo R Tape for Rase Rall. . Tape were sounded on the local base hall season vesterday and while they were of alightly mourntul character, | dua to the fact that the proud cham- | plons of 1924 and 1928 had sitd down | the ladder to a barelv held fifth plaee. next year i another vear. and the | sorraws of today may be the fova of tekes on ! aoyntry and the vinlaters of the Federal | 2dded significance hacause of the an-|jame | nouncement now made, The executive| According to an annmuncement jus! heads of the twa governments h | made hy the Chisf Iustice coneerning agreed om the launching of an Interna- | the aiteome of the ronference, the Fed- tional confegence which is likely '0 DAvE | ara] rourts sre mat anite keeping b, the most far-resching affects an the | nqing ta the fact that in most rate- peace of the world, 1f the conference | garise more cazer were pending on the proves successful, it will put an end 10| 30th ot June, 1978, than ware of record 2 race in navy building. Navies have | on the anme date the year hefore. More been the aggressive forces in manv of | cazes were Aled and initiated in 1998 | o \qu All syse, aven Washington great wars of the world, While #n ypan in 1928, For instance, 2,928 eivil e, are naw turned toward ths Werld ent limiting armaments will N0t cpepe wara commenced n 1978 Mnder | oy when the battering Philadelphis the prohibition act and 55272 erimingl | ‘s piaries rake on the Chicage Cubs in . while in 1970 there were 11.227] Aght to the fint But it la a ser- And 38786 eriminel cases under yiio inae ar this time many a loeal There were increases it | .ogiqont harks back four and fAive years Meanwhile there | 100 4y the days of Washington'd base in the iudieial ;) giory and to the epic battles that to handle t i) the same aet. nther sl i has hean no ineresze organization pdequate y that the world at least i inded” and the o ae well, be presumed that the Presi- They | edonald have €are- ', 4e4 pye | ' In one respeet the eonferance makes direct and specific recommendations that should meet with auecess ai orce. many parts of * country cv of the courts making prompt disoosition of the Tnited States husiness is substantislly Impedad by the lack of sufcient and competent help in the nfces of the clerks, marshals and distriet attornevs. It notes further that the Atiorney Gen- eral i submitting to the Burean of ¢ Budget estimates for 1031 which “we sonsider not more than reasonably suf- ficent tn cover the expenditures which | sught to e made to hring these officer | up to the proper standard.” The con- ference therefore recommends tn the Bureau of the Budget and the Congress that these estimates he approved and the requested appropriations made for | in the future. The ”k"w"’- le h"'d":f the remainder of the current fscal vear | various governments, However, gre cof 0 that this necessary improvement pelled to look forward to contingeneiss | " "o Bi0 Recesery BnF that may arise requiring srmed acton . L oon e the Gireuit Court eon- in national defente, No nation feels |, . iashee a point of possible’ that it can throw down its arms unless |y o0y yinat has for & lang time required | ;" ":‘"{5 do' the 5‘”‘"h out :f“':; attention, Much of the eonrt eonges-| R e . tion has heen due to the inadeauacy of !"“ demand for "’“";;‘;’"‘ "‘; ;‘;’:;;“"’y: | the nperative forees fn the judicial o n & sane manner. The o 3 TS gl belical of @ mental attitude that in the | hersome, 1t fs possible that it sould be | b O e ey atniude that | Simplified. - But the process of simpli- | Much has heen accomptished in the Jast | AT Involves TEvIon deel decade. Among the important steps waz governing procedure. While ':w" "“1 the Wlxmn'xtcn ronference on naval ar- : that process of clearing away '.e c;‘:; ! saments and! the problems of the Pa- | DIing Toutne of Judlt:n!“p'uz.i'ce 5 cific and the treaties growing out of TSt P »”""’d;;:::‘ !:J’“‘:! e that conference. Tt blazed the wey, It el '“m.'”f i el de'mgndlrm !"‘ !\c | should be increpsed and made more| ;Cmt::;ml:‘:r::::;':vs c:”“ i Ke‘l-i Meient through larger appropriations. 1ofE, multlateral treaty renouncing war | CPef Justice Taft bas during b 45 /4R LiRsirumant’ of settling interna- | T OF serviceiefccted prAptics. cleA tional disputes, which has heen signed |27 of the Supreme Court calendar. i S i ging the business of that rourt < 1 eat nations of ! ey Zatified by Al the rent nations o | virtually up to date. But the reform | roced to effeet ¢ A lmitation of naval armaments, if |In Judiciel procedure it 18 ae plished as a result of the speedisr disposition of cases properly projected conference, will be concrete | D8INS in the lower ranges of ! evidence that the nations are becoming | judiciery svstem. This immediate rec- more and more peace-minded. The peo- | ommendation of the conference of cir- | Tle of America, peace-loving as they | CUlt fudges 1s a step in that direction. | , Will wish their British friends across | T TR the Atlantic all suceess in this great | undertaking—an undertaking in wifich | '0 the imagmation than that of ti this Government has heen readv to |McPherson case. Vet so-called metropoli- | meet the British government more than | tan journalizm gives up nothing like the | Bl way. | attention accorded a night club trageds | P [in New York City or a homicidal ren- So many problems are being agitated | desyous in a New Jerser rornfield, that Premier Macdonald must be! =t aStes ! pardened if he finds himeelf with ¢! 0il Tanks in Arlington. | old-time English impression ‘that thei po) y 5 Grane, 3d, exsontive offcer T. 8. A. politieal situation is not alwave of the Nations] Capital Park and Plan- easy to understand. ning Commission, hopes to accomplish | T | through friendly negotistion with the The _stock }’:’“,‘f‘" b:"“::: ;;‘""'flnmam of an ol company what the muttons. T i “’d'" ost of the real | DIOteSt Of organized citizens in Arling- dspended on to provide most of the ton County so far has failed to accom- | money. plish. In an interviety with officials of the oil company he will ask them te change their plans regarding erection | of a series of ofl tanks and wherf fa- | cilities on the Virginia side of the river| directly north of Key Bridge. Carried | out, this econatruction work would de- stroy, or drastically revize, the Govern. | ment's scheme for future heautifica- tion of the Virginia side of thé river north of Key Bridge. The schsme in-| eludes parking and a riverside drive, be- ginning at Rosslyn. It is to be hoped that Col. Grants eftorts will be successful. If the difeul- ties can be settled through friendly ne- gotiation, so much the hetter. The gen-' cover a wide area—as wide almost as the world itself, A fatlure of accom-, plishment at such a conference would be little short of disastrous. It eonld only leave sore spots, But enly through actual effort will the nations of the world be ahle to hring about agreements limiting armaments. All the talk in the world about the henefits that would ac- crue from agreements to limit and to ' eut down armaments can be of educa- | tienal value alone. In ti nd the na- tione must sit at the conference table. This fs the step which is now to be | taken. i Ever since the World War there has been a demand from the peoples of the wor" ‘or some assurance of peace I No mvstery has been more fascinating i P Sykes and Fagin in a New Role. Reminiscent of Jimmy Valentine is/ recent news to the effect that former safecrackers and pickpockets are (o) form a section of the faculty ot at; the University of Chicago's School of ! Police Administration. There is no! doubt that they know their stuff and should be able to impert at least a portion of their knowledge to ! l ficers of the law, with consequent hene- At to society. Whether the emoluments that seceompany these lecturing -posi- | tions will suffiee the specialists pro- cured, or whether they will eke out the | were then staged. jthet it will not hev Washington waited o long time for ite Arst pennant. Tt 13 to be hoped to wait as leng again. The maneger wha brought the teem home in first place s now i | with another elub, He was succeeded this yesr by the beloved Walter Johnsen, who esn probably g2t smell satiafaction frem the fact that his elub heat sut Bucky Harris and his Tigers for ffth place. Johnson ie bitterly disappoint- | od in the showing of his tesm, but Wil | redouble his efforts to produce a win- | ner next year. A hundred reasons might he advanced for the 1929 failure anA sech of them will probably be dis- | cussed over the Winter Stove league. Base ball now gives way to foot hall.| May 1930 mark an npward climb in the fortunes of the Washington tesm! —r—t—— Airplane accidents tend to make the locomotive appear like & good and reliable old friend, who is warranted in being cautious about sslecting new associntes. e i A stunt fiver, enjoys himself im- | menrely, It may be quéstioned whether | his startling exploite renresent practieal | publieity at a time when manufacturers | #re urging evervbody to own his private airplane. e SHOOTING STAR| 1 BY PHILANDER JORNSON. { Parsuit of Knowledge. 1 Pursuit of Knowledge often brings A certain share of woe. Since we must keep an learning things We don’t quite wish to knew. This “Bvolution” eguses shock— Te our sncestral pride— A trusted youth may pick the loek Where cash and bonds ahide, In history we often find— At pages grow prelix— Some hero we thought pure in mind | Had quite & bag of tricks, The friend s0 poliched and so bland, Whose words vou can't resist, You are compelled to understand I but a lobbyiat. And thus we find from vesr to year As Knowledge we pursue, That facts must frequently appeir Which we eould wish untrue. Playing Rough. | “Don't you get tired of running for | office?” | “No,” answered Senator Sorghum, “I | like the game.” ! | “But it js sometimes kind o' rough.” | he “80 fs foot ball. That's why it is | fascinating.” Jud Tunkine say a great man may have to sacrifice & lot of preeious time shaking hands with people who merely wish to g6 home and brag {0 the neighbors, i Literary Renaissance, ‘The magazines o splendid bluff At wise sincerity reveal And pay the biggest for the “stuff” With no pretense at “‘sex appéal.” ‘Ol Boys Taking the Jumps. “The older generation is showing a Jot of ‘pep,’ " said Miss: Cayenne, “What reminds you of it?” “The Prince of Wales has quit horse- | baek riding end King George has taken it up.” “An honest doctor,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “thinks first of a cure. A worldly-wise physician sweetens his medicine.” | the customarily slender academic salaries by pinching a few electric light hulbs and artieles of ‘police eauipment, re- meins to be seen. The tenor of crime news has changed quite recently for the more interesting. Al sorts of odd angles and accurrences, | some of them tregic and some ‘laugh- | peaceful methods are more éftective | able, are involved with all sorts of 'than spsctacular, but futile, fireworks, to go shead an’ erous action of a Washington concern some time ago in surrendering to pub- lie sentiment and giving up dte ‘an- nounced plans for erection of an abat- toir in Arlington County, despite the faet that it had obtained permission from the county authorities, shows that - Aceording to Cirenmstances. A el on the police s made By gentlemen and ladies; Sometimes it is to ask their aid— Sometimes to give ‘ém Hades. “A camp meetin’,” said Uncle Even, “ia a big success if it persuades folks act in de future as faloniss. Que of the more jmportant, ’l'hlnfy behind the oil company's mum!«hma.\w&u&" 1t was an atrocious fiim, in which the novel of a great French master had bzen butchered beyond recognition. The | intent of the story wa lesaly lost, | while the heroine—or chief female char acter perhaps—no more resembled the | ®itl in the book than a rabbit. Yet we came ont of that theater | buoyed up, impressed as never hefore | with the superiority of the printed word | | to the impressions produced by shadows on_an {lluminated screen. | Even had the picturization been ade- quate, it could not have had the life. Tike quality of the book, the keen inter- | est produced in an active mind by the reading of a atory of a master novelist. | k by advantage which no | | flm can have, and that is to make the mind work. When one is reading his {brain is active, wher the eater of | emotions through the eyes merely sits | and s 3 ‘This requirement which a book makes of a reader is the fundamental differ-/ jence between a novel and a dramatiza- | | tion. It may be questioned whether a legitimate drama on the boards is mich different from a motion picture. but that 18 not the question under di: sion here and now. The present idea is to point out the | superiority of book to film. We believe | {1t 18 always 50, and muat remain so in | ithe very nature of things. This is & laige world, with something in it to | sult every one. Let no film addict think | we are attacking a favorite indoor sport. {, We are upholding our own, that i |all. Book-lovers feel this supremacy. but not always do they realize just what it Is which makes their own preference 80 much worth while. It is only now |and then when they see a good hook | mangled to make a film that the thing comes home to them * | 1 | - Often the book-lover feelx that if pro- ducers did not go to such evident lengths to change the novel around so. the resulting fiim would be different. Often it serms as if directors and others take keen delight in distorting an au- thor's atory. The exigencies of film work make it necessary. it iz said. te twist and turn the plot until even the ! anthor wonld not recognize it. metimes sheer perversity seems tn dictatad the production of the acenario from which the severa) thon- send feet of Alm has heen made. else how can one explain the telescoping of | two or three characters to nne, the ab- solute and nnnecessary change made in the ending. the inclusion of scenes not in_the novel? Thesze are matters which everv reader resenta. hecause he has heen brought up with a reverence for great writers, Their hooke are jewels of the mind. Once 'rrnvrd ther stand firm for all time. ! Bven expurgated” edition strikes them as literary saerilege. And what shall thay sar now tn the !irreverent flend, with hiz rap turmed backward. who dares fo mutilate the work of the master? Surelv there it only ane thing ther ran sar. and that ‘s fhat he is all wrong. He mav know hit public. but the book-lover knows hie author. He knows that no sum in the eash register can mitigats the of- fense. It stinks before high heaven ‘The reader of books. after seeing hix | faverite butchered to meke an Ameri- ~an holidar, returns to the library with greater appreciation than ever of his beloved volumes. He knows that they hold something which few Alme get. and that ia a grand effect which romes not snly through the flaw of emotion. but aiso because he. the resder, i* made 4o something, too. ¥ o e 1t is a_eurious commentary on humen nature that only in so far as one enters inta a thing himself and doez some actus] work doea s matter take on real- ity. become m'eresu#z‘g, amusing and full of honest calye, hs average ‘com- BY CHARLES F. TRACEWELL, mittee” consists of half a dozen per- sons, of whom only the chairman doex any work, The chairman, therefore, Is the only man who gets anything out of the meeting. Great conventions, held nowadays on_every subject. under the sun. draw their thousands, but only those acorer or hundreds wha deliver addresses profit much, Children who are to be taught wisdom in any of its various directions are put in the way of actually making physical motions toward the coveted knowledge. | In the psychology of everyday life it is & trulsm that if you like some one and want to get that some one to like you, the thing to do is not to do some- | thing for him—or her—but to so con- trive that he—or she—does something for_you, Drop your_handkerchief and let him pick it up. Even 20 elementary a phys- ical action is toward you. He has been placed in the position of exerting him- self in your direction. The egotism of the human spirit goes forth toward those helped. It is not what some one se does that counts, but what one does one’s self. In the motion picture theater the tor does nothing at all but look. not be sald to think. in the best se. Of course, he uses his brain in the primitive processes of understand- ing, but only as a S-year-old child does, and little more, uses one of his natural senses, that of seeing. in order to complete for himself the fllusion of emotions. 1f one comprehended a pic- ture hy smelling it. there would be none 50 brave as to assert that the mind plaved anv but an elementary role in the procers, o ‘When one reads a book. however, he has fo do some work. He eannot im- bibe It i were. with his physical eyes. He must bring Into nse the sves of the mind: he must go right along with the auther, down the flowery. thorne path the writer has chosen for them both. He ean close his eves if he wishes. hut the impact of the tale is atfll on him. If he zhutz his eves in the motion picture. az many do to rest them, or when the so-called action is dull, he drops out of the tale. While he it reading a novel a thou- sand images pase before hit mind. As we said here the nther dav. when the | writer shows him a barn he immedi- ately sees cows coming out of it, al- though the word “eow” ia to he found nowhere in the text. And why is this? How does the reader come o see cows when none is mentioned? He pute in_cows because he himself e working. He has eaught the spirit. the plain intent. of the author. and is willing to help the man sut. A harn means a cow, and the author ran leave the ereature out if he wants to. Hir faithful reader will put it into the pic- ture for him. So it goes all through the hook. He iz haraseed here hy no flitting images, changing _momentarilv. drawing his mind off the plain intent f the writer. but keepe into the flowery path or the thorny path which the writer has rhogen for them both. The author hes . ehosen the path (the storv) for himself alone or for the reader slone, but for both of them. and especially for | his charscters. A novel iz a road 'n which ane walke from beginning o end without the e barrassment of being required to draw n one's knees averv few minutes. with- out being under the necessity of at- tempting not to hear that fellow cough- ing hack there. A book is a beau- tifu) path in which we walk when we are tired or vigorous, sad or glad. h or miserable. but in which. wha r mond, we do at least walk. exert ourzelf in behalf of aurself. and 20 draw unto ourself the rewards which a strange fate has given to ¢ premelr zelfich human mind. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS RY FREDERIC It's & matter of historicallr justifiable interest to know what was the first hing Ramsay Macdonald and Herbert Hoover talked about. The prime min- ister has lst the eat out of the bag “The first thing I want to do when 1 sse Mr. Hoover.” the British her leader explained in London the othe day. “is to finish a sentence in which 1 was interrupted when we first met many vears ago.” This {s what hap- pened. Some time prior to 1914 when the present President of the United States was a London mining engineer in the heart of “the City” and Ramsay Macdonald was a mere Labor member nt Parligment. they came rasually to- gether at the home of mutual friends. They were toasting themselves before an npen-grate fire, talking about things in general. “Presentl: Az Mr. Mae- donald tells the story. “nne of those unbearahle bores sauntered up and in- terrupted nur conversation in the mid- dle of a sentence nf something I was saying to Mr. Hoover.” As soon es prime minister decided to come ‘o Ameries. he declared, with & twinkle in his kindly brown eves, that he in- tended !0 * the President where they 0dd years 2g§o. P Most people speak and think of Mr Macdonald ar a tall. rangr Scot. He ls. on the contrary. not a man of great height, though perhape an inch or two above medium. He does net measure up to President Hoover's & feet of atat- ure. Many Washingtoniens remark the prime minister's facial resemblance ‘o Senstor Walsh of Montana. Shaggy | eyebrows, closs-cropped mustache (th upper-1ip adornments once upon a time were more of the wnl'nu( vn';’letn :::‘d‘ bushr gray hair accentuste the gens nmmn‘{y. Mr. Macdonald's highland burr is Jess pronounced than Americans expected. When he says “wurreld” for “world,” it erops out most conspieu- ously. Men snd women meeting the British statesman for the first time are shocked a hit when they realize thaV all his life Macdonald has been a Laborite and a radice] Socialist. In aspect, man- ner and temperament, he’s about as far removad from the Ty on” wit left off 18- | his political ilk as day from night. R Distinguiched British and American journalists crossed the Atlantic with t} e minister. Those of hiz own are headed by Sir John ser and Norman Angell. epresents the London Daily nationalits Foster Fraser T | Telegraph and its allied group of provin- | cial newspapers. He has lectured in the United States and “covered” many including th; S 3 i e's in the lsan and slippered years, is going t0 look like John Bull. PFraser s a Scot, faméd for his humer. Asked onee upon | a time for his impression of American small-town audiences, Sir John replied | that they presented “a sea of faces flushed with soft drink and stuffed with suceotash.” sional name is Ralph Lane) is the su- thor of a famous anti-war book called | “The Great Nlusior He has long | been an intimate friend of Ramsa I\ghu-dgmld. Angell was brought up in “ithe 3 *For X Of the great German field marshal, von Moltke, 1t is related that a day or two after the Franco-Prussian War wroke out friends encountered him, clad in civilian garb and armed with fishing tackle, in a Berlin railway station. bound for the country. They marveled | that Moltke should have chosen such hour for taking a vacation, “Why not?” ;u rejoined. m'lg“wflk is m‘o He had prepared t ssian army for war. Last Friday afternoon, just as the Iast caisson of field artillery had rattled away from Union Station Plaza 4t the tail-énd of the Macdonald motor eaval to the British em! , & handsome young American, faultiessly attired in top hat, morning coat, striped trousers. vellow gioves and all the rest of it, stood lighting a cigarette. lar eonception of | {0¢ AACE) CATORIRION, | concoetion euphoniously labeled ‘Angell (whose non-profes- | h WILLIAM WILE. He watched the parade get awar in ac. cordence with schedule and without a | hiteh. 1t wes hs who'd arranged all ‘he multifariouz details of Macdonald arrival, He 12 ‘Jimmie” Dunn, ech of the international conferences divi- gion of {| State Department. His work, like Moltke's, was done, R Senators Moses (Republican. New Hampshire) and Ashurst (Demoerst. Arizona) have just funetionad prize award eommittes on wisecracks. Their selection for jury service wa: eourse. due to their swn eminence the wiseeracking field. The Pathfinder. the winning quip. This fs ¢ s and Ashurst picked eut of thousands of entriee: “ Do my eves deceive me?’ said the Senator. as thage who had pledged to support him voted aga n Ml." The champion wisecracke: e ry A. Courtney of Atlanta. Ga. * o ow ox Prinee Albert de Ligne, Belgian Am- bassedor to the United States, har ¥ returned to Washingten from an inter- esting, though non-diplomatie, mission He journeved to Waterloo, Iowa (King Albert's envor must have thought the pretty Hawkeve city had s familiar name t0 attend the National Belgian Horse S8how and Dairy Cattle Congress The Ambassador’s e was to pre- sent the Hynderick Cup offered by the Societe de Cheval de Trait Belge to the exhibitor of the best Belgian draft stallion or mare shoamn at Waterloo. * A % ok “Bill" Schilling of Minnesota, husky 3pokssman of the dairy industry on the Federal Farm Board, writes for his heme-town paper. the Northfield News, in spare moments, This cheerver has Jjust come into possession of a eclassic which Schilling _g!’pet!‘lkd a_couple of years ago—"A Treatise on Bull.” He defines the “bull” best known in Wash- | ington as “a spontaneous eombustion ot discordant mental gymnaztics, It comes when the brain cells do not eon- vey the proper amount of horse sense to the vocal carburetor, causing the lrenker an unba r}lcpd Copori m—— Courage of Policeman In Murder Quiz Lauded From the Columhus. Ohin, Dispatch. It requires considerable nerve for a policeman to stend up and tell the world that his superiors have bungled A murder investigation and failed to | bring sl] the facts before fthe coroner’s jury. Vet a Washington policeman, suspended for his courage,. has “done just that, with the result that a grand returned a murder indictment case that had been declared a sul- t of a Senator also and pressure is being 0 clean up the matter an may be right wrong. At any rate. we are gratified to note that his immediate superior has promised he shall be pro- moted if he is right. He also has nsserted: that the cop's ‘“goose eooked” if he is wrong. That's fair enough. T Fighting Mal de Mer. Prom the New York Sun. Those German physicians who are making frequent trips on the Baltic in the hope of discovering a cure for seasickness must be wishing that they had devoted their time to X-ray experi- ments, oo Cause and Effect. Prom the Morence (Ala.) Herald. Dr. Cunliffe of Columbia University wants the publication af crime news restristed by law. It would also be fine it erime C%ll be restristed by law. |Veteran Asks Nation To Preserve Relics ANSWERS TO To the Bditor of The Star: ‘Newspaper accounta of eoflection of relics of the War Between the States containing more than 60,000 seperate ! [ itams took me to Fredericksburg, Va., | the other day. where I saw for myself | how one with infinite patience, time | | and expense had assembled under one ! iroof a collection of this magnitude— ! the largest. of its kind in America. The | Fredericksburg _Bsttlefield Museum, 1owned by W. Jefiries Chewning, M, D. 1 of that city, should be of great. interes to the people of the whole Nation. It contains objects of such value and v i riety and so intimately related to the Iate conflict that 1. as one who fought | in (he Union Army, felt when merely | | reading about it that time had rolled back to bare the story of those fright- ful days, fraught with pathos and pain | and redolent with grandeur and glory. It is fitting that these mute memen- toes of dark and dreadful days should {fnd a resting place in the battle- | searred city of Fredericksburg, whose | | atreets and flelds were seared with shot and shell and reddened with the blood | {of the Nation's best, and it is to be | hoped that they will remain forever | ireasures of a common eoun- | { try knitted unbreakable bonds of | jty. But the eollection, being as rare and valuable as it is, should belong to the Nation rather than to an indi- dual. While in safe and reverent | ands now, who knows what the years | may bring? Tt would be a great mis- | tortune to have the collection broken | ior pass into the hands of private col | leetors, who would give almost any | price for a aingle piece. Perhaps the State of Virginia might purc nd present. it 10 the Nation as | added memorial to the Blue and Gray #s its contripution ta the Battlefield Park. If not ifeasible, then Congress | should secure it and place it in inde- | struetible vauits. thus assuring its preservation for all time. 1t is unfortunate that thiz museum of indeseribable things cannot be aeen by 2ll Americans. to whom it shonld ' belong.” They are rare treasures. | E. A KNIGHT. | Approves Hoover's Effort | | In World Disarmament | ] | To the Fditer of The Star: But a few vears sgo our national e: penditure was well under $1.000.000.000 annually. Now billions are taiked nt and lightly voted by eur Representa tives at Washington. Are we getting our moner's worth? | | If 80, how? Moarsover, who foots the bill” In 1917 we tnok & very active and | costly part in a “war to and war." To- | day President Hoover tells we we are spending more for warlike purposes than any Puropean eountry. He adds that unless disarmament parlevs realize their miseion we shall in 1933 be sad- | i dled with an outlay of £303.000.000, as against $266.000.000 hefare Aghting that fight. to “end war." Moreover, this ia | | In addition to some annual $800,000.000 ,In ecaring for war veterans, facts become very interesting when only source of Gov- v is the ritizens' pockst; s nn mysterious, inexhaustible ! supnly elsewhere. What does the man in the st | for his moner® Simpilr an aggr: of life’s twe certain T death and heavier taxzes: also his ecus- romers killed nff. He is told these $4 000.000 battleships are to “police the sees.” Are there anv villainous Alge- rian or Chinese pirates making the ceac perilous for passengers® Or is it sim £uspicion, engendering among natione” At ver, cannot we realize the utter impotence of these ships confronted by air fleets dropping bombs, with 4.000 pounds of high expl: , from 20.000 feet altitude? Whr rannot world states- men accept wisely Gen. Grant's dictum There never was a time when. in my opinion, some war eould not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword"? hurrsh for Hoover and world | disarmament! FDWARD BERWICK. Policy on Compulsory Auto Insurance Lauded | To the Baster of The &tar I was groloundly impressed with the |letter published in The Star recently | pointing out the n for compul automobile insurance in the United | States. 1 happen to know s hing |of the incident Mr. Miller described QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC }. HASKIN. — is a special department, devoted | not permissible 1o send information con- This solely to the handling of queries. This paper puts st your disposal the services | of an - extensive organization in Wash- n to serve you in any capacity tha relates to information. This service is free, Failure to make use of it deprives you of benefits to which you are en- titled. Your obligation is only 2 eents in coin or. stamps, inclosed with yonur inquiry for direet reply. Address The Evening Star Information Bureau. Pred- eric J. Haskin, director, Washington, Q. Is the greater per cent of fire loss in buildings due to many small fires or to a few big ones?—A. M. A. Statisties of the National Boaréd of Pire Underwriters show that 1 per eent. of the number of fires cause 68 2-3 per cent of our total fire loases. Obvi- ously such fires are in buildings where large concentrations of wealth are stored. such as stores, factories, ware- houses. theaters. office lmfld(n{& efe. This leaves one-third of the fire loss for fires in all types of small buildings. Q. What kind of quall are being im- ported into Virginia?—H. T. A. The hobwhite of Virginia is being s0 dangerously depleted that 10,000 Mexiean quail have been imported. How should houses be built in order to receive the most sunlight—di Iy north, south, ete., or on a disgo- nal?—W, M. 5 A. Their orjentation should be north and zouth, east and west, Q. Who first had a roinage spstem’— E.C. C. A. The rubes of gold smploved by the Chinese may have heen the earliest coins. Modern authorities. howsver, ac- cept the view of Herodotus—that gold and silver coins were first used by the Lydians abont the sixth centurv B.C. . How many stones were there in the Pyramid of Gizeh>—1. 1. G. A. In the Great Pyramid there are 2.300.000 stones. Their average weight 32 tons each. but some of them weigh 0 tons sach. The bullders displayed an accuracy almost equal fo opticians work, but on a scale of acres instead of inches. The blocks were fitted and souared with an asccuracy seldom equaled in building aperations today. Q. Ie i r %0 ast the garnish- m;_ SR erved with salads and cocktailr? A. It is quite proper to eat such gar- nishments. Ther are ususlly especiallr elected hecause of the flavor therehy dded to the food or drink which accompans. Q. Who built the Alamo?—W. 1.1, A. The Alamo is a Pranciscan mis- sion house. built about 1722. After 1722 it was used on occasions as a fort. and war renamed Fort Alamo. It consisted of an oblong plaza. some 2!, acres in area, inclosed by a wall & feet high and 33 inches thick. s church, a hoepital building. a convent and a walled con. nt vard about 100 feet square, Q. Whn first said “All good Ame: cans when ther die go to Paris"?. A, 22 Gould Applston, Q. Who ie known as the “father of vhé p‘!:;vg!':un'j movement” in Ameries? Joseoh Lee of Boston has ssrmed af Ll thletie fi: States end Cansda. | e | | sponsible for the sve- al examination nused in the | Armr ng the World War?’—M. D. P, i A. Mai. Gen. Willlam Crawford Gor- 1 Bas, a5 head of the Medical Corpe dur- ing the World War. establiched a sve- m f strict ph soldier bovs ar & means of a fit armr. and followed this with a plan of medical supervision which attracted at- tention throughout the world, U still in D, Are lottert existence?— Letteries are still in Zuropean and Seu Tn the Tinitad sxistence in American Statee it fa i that the shad Q. | Ttalia A, ical examination of cerning lotteries throught the mails, Q. Are we o have a dirigible larger| than the Los Angeles?—3. A. M. A. Twaq dirigibles are under ron- struction at Akron, Ohio. each of which) will be two and one-Walf times the siz of the Los Angeles. Q. Ts there a law specifving !h: shaaes of red and blue that zhould nd used for flags)—P. S. A. The Bureau of Navigation savd of the colorz in thd Uited States flag have n been de fined by law. The fact that flags earlier in our history are representes with a lighter blue than those in s now mav be explained by the faet tha the current dyes and buniing are nf better quality than formerlv. Former! the flag was manufactured for the Got ernment. by a number of rommercia firms. Since 1912 the United Statr Army has been making its own fage and the Navy has been making itz own flags for an even longer perind. sa tha the dark blue used by the Governmen :‘I'I now standardized the shade of th i What flowers were groan in al n gardens?_C. 4.5, e oid-fashioned 1t - 410 not Teaturs fowers The mui o Ing teature of these greenery. Either srreens tre were erected in unusual sha; y or similar plants trained. 1n rarer th solidiv. These formed a besutiful b ground for the statn Q. What causes ¢ the Arabs and J. L. A. Tt is claimad by the Arah I tion of Palestine that the mu‘y"‘:‘;‘f’ theirs br right of length of pos and occupancy eovering tho: he friction betwerd Jews in Palectine | vears, and that thev are numerically great deal Jarger than the Jewis lation. The Balfour n Pttpur?hg “hel British mandate in Palestine whic awarded by the league of Nation riefl the declaration that it wae purpese of the British government - return of the Jew o1 d. This presery larzelv br Ja agr are returning. im ,,..,,}; setting up e E of the Ar heir - frietian, Q. Who har rig of the Mo Wilton Opsers torvs e "B e d packs ! mu: anse in hea Moder ) with Q. Who war ministure 3 —0. A Maibone stan sent wi A Y Q. Where s the I !nA.& srican soe>. ale elephant !.hr.x R * 1 o 18 10 the Toleds Zoo T CaPHT- oe 41 . n the Dot oD S this cause. Lese sified in 1936 the h the fguree are av D&‘ ming ¢ ot e S Lot e Rol motor of the Bt Lout not stocped oni i hopg nee fight. Woman as Senate Candidate Turns Eyes |and with him beleve it well illustrates | | that something should be done sbout harum-searum drivers who hav | Ing behind them but notes and couldn't aid the 2 cerelessness even though ther recog- nized & moral sbligation to de s0. As a resident of Washington T re- call that about twe vears ago The Star. in & series of artic! gitated for com. pulsory insurance and had a numbsr of | favorable editorials on the subjsct. 1 hone vou haven't changed vour position. ! Yeu m ¥now that all the troubl with compulsery insurance in Massa- chusetts was and is made by the in- surance companies. aided and abstted by politicians fighting among them- selves, and that fair observers for that it will work out eventuallv. It was a pioneer effort and radical plan in the Bay State and it was to be ezpected that thers would be much confusion in getting 2 real working pla | for the State as well ae the others of | the United States. I would like to wager that within three vears Massachusette ly acclaimed for what it has J. B. THORNTON. i Development of Potomac | Forms Federal Problem | From the Buffalo Evening News The Pederal Power Commission h: difficult problem to decide— suthorize the electrical de on a large scale or to conserve the stream wholly for | scenie purposes. Thers is a conflict of opinion with regard to the question. The Nstional Park and Planning Commizsion last month made th port to the Federal power authorit; “The two objectives of economically developing power on a large scale from the Potomac River and of conserving the pecul and characteristic scenic, racreational and inspirational values of this part of the valley are so essentially in conflict that they cannot both be at- tained in a satisfactory degree.” *Thia opinion is at variance with that | of Lieut., Gen. Edgar Jadwin. former | chief of Army engineers. His last act | before retirement from active service | because of age was tn send this report | to the Federal commission: “Combined park and power develop- ment. is feasible, and the waste of more than $48,000. potential values (in water-power, navigation, ete.) for de- batshle minor scenic consideration is neither necessary, desirable nor sound. The decision lies between a plrk;rfldlgll | of the Iatent resources of the Potomac and an squally good park congerving these resources.” | Gen. Jadwin thus recommended tha { a preliminary permit be granted to the Potomac River Corporation for the de- velopment of power at Great Falls. above Washington. It may be expected that the American Civic Association will join the National Park and Plan- ning Association in opposition fo such A grant as seriously the \general scheme for providing the National Capital beautiful natural sur- roundings. 1t the wer authority should grant a liminary permit the issne undoubtedly would be taken to Congress, which might prevent the grant final 3 ofs volved is of widespread e perm ‘The question in interfering with | Mre. Eug: Hanna MeCormick. seek-, ion of being the first to the United States Senate. attracts country-wide attention. gth. shewn in her e A member of the Lower se of Congress from Tllinois. is rec- ognized. while the political power of Senator Deneen, whom she will oppose. is mccepted s a promise of a vigorous | campeign. | __“Her candidscy fs something to be reckoned with in Tllinois politics.” in the | opinion af the Springfleld (N1 State Register. which says of her eampaign for R entative at large: It waz the had led the entire State ticket. Purthermore. she succeeded in building up an organization of great flexibility end power, which may be counted on ‘o work faithfullr and indefatigablv in her interest in the forthcoming cam- paign. * * = It bids fair to be a real battle from start to finish. Competition in polities. like competi- tion in business. is wholesome.” remarks | the Chicago Daily News. . McCo: I‘?“k is an interesting figure in publ life, and readily might prove a real force in national affairs, though her vice in the House of Representatives | has been tco brisf to afford a ure | | of her abil What are her claims to preference bv the voters of her party over the linoie will appear in due time. Mean- while the virile Representative at large hes an opportunity to show how woman {as o refining influerice in polities can | make a eampaign devold of sordid fea- tures such as frequently have disfigured the senatorial campaigns of men in this end other States. “Her political background.” as ob- served by the Toledo Blade, one of heredity, environment and experience. She purposes conducting s bunkless campaign. Frankly, she wants an office to which no woman has ever been' elected. There is no place in her can- didacy announcement for the usual political pother about being forced into it by friends, but she says. ‘'No candi- dacy for this high office deserves 1o sue- | ceed if it is sctuated by any purpose | invelving political reprisal or personal | reward or by any influence whatsoever | other than a genuine wish to administer a public trust honorably =znd well. There is a ring of. rightness about that | | which will win the approval of men and | 'w,t;:len‘ Republicans and Demoerats | alike.” | ‘She has underfaken a task.” thinks| the Chattancoga Times, “which few male politicians would attempt. She ! seeks to wrest the Republican senatorial nomination from the hands of the pow- | erful Deneen machine. It was Deneen who used his political steam-roller to| defeat the capable Medill McCormick in his_tace for renomination six vears ago. Deneen himself won the nomin tion, not because of ability as a state: man. but because of his abllity as a machine politician. “Even now experienced observers of Tllinois polities.” according Springfeld Union, “are a bit chary of hazarding a guess on the probable vote- getting strength of the two principals. In ordinary circumstances Senator De. neen would be assumed to be most diffi- cult to defeat for a renomination, but with Mrs. McCormick as his chief. if | not oniy ent the eircumstances are anything but ordinary, * * * ‘Meanwhile ator Deneen, realizing | that the contest before him will prob- | ably turn out to be the hardest in which Fetne g | e e mes A Tionthe are expeetea ther at ra Falls. e effort . e next six months are e HE o them har-|to witnese some very exciting campaign- always should to mak monise. The needs of industry cannct ing with the result in doubt until the o g €elose of the primary. be disregarded. interest. The decision with regard to it may have a bearing on many pend- ing applications for the development of water-powers, The issue comes down to thie: Can industrial development harmonise with scenic development? manage to go along “;"'h ‘well to- i Toward Ilinois “Dzughter of Mark Hanna »f with bec: nois Senator whom the incumbent feated for re-slectt: stetes the Lake Deseret % zcaresly less capa either of them. temerity last Fell to run for 4 :dpc ;i:rrn s%runep::u 2tive at large from ol . and wr v thy Jiol Ber st on it by a thumping A three-cornsred contest i fore by the Philadelphis Evening Bulletin referring to the candidacy for the sa nomination former State Genera) “The I Re- publican partv hss been suffering ?, too mueh. Chicago. the actimtiss of Th: "ing shed no luster organization. There iz 8 sizable Republican wing which would like to see the balance of powsr vasted in ot than Chicago hands. Tk K State have alrea esent worthy Senator from T! rge wh: auirk and turn of T ‘Mrs. MeCormick's o campaign.” in ity Journ, ost. “wou e bly be more effectual with enlf"'l genvrv Deneen as her rival. There is a strong anti-Deneen faction which would lin th almost anybody. Vet the har- element, strong in Hlin nty, would welcome a e without bitter persoml'!ml Should Mr. Brundage run, Mre, Me( mick would require great’ adroitnes: keep herself free of factional entangle ments, for Mr. Brundage is not give raking chestnuts for ofhere.” dub}e‘%np::i.ag:”l ";‘uld offer formi- L In the judgment of ths South Bend Tribune. “but ti:: blg” : would nevertheless be the race of Mre McCormick against Senator Depee The Yakima Daily Republie pays a trib- te to her “sbility to get the votes,? and sees “a prettv fight." The Annizton Star suggests that “the election of M McCormick would mark ‘another etep upward in the political ambiticns of women.” and then asks if wor will seek the presidenc: - --om o ) Dancing and Crime, Prom the Louisville Courfer-Jaurnal Ruth St. Denie believes that universal ',‘;,',‘.i"’,‘,;"’;‘;"a”’,’f“ ime, but the way o amounts 3¢ ~ bl"tll?!n s to assault N Train Them Young! Fram the Charleston (3. €.) Evening Post Now that trials are so popular, it might be well to introduce into the high school eurriculum a course in giv- ing testimony. ——at—— No lssues Remain. From the Omaha World Herald. Since the Russians have abolished Sunday they will avoid tearing up towns with quarrels over Sunday base bl?‘ and Bunday movies, Trembled a Bit. Prom th 14 (Mass.) Unian. el sohin Gldn't chooea 1o Tun, but he might have been & littls nervous.