Evening Star Newspaper, October 14, 1929, Page 8

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All riehts of publication of #pecial dispatches herein are also reserved. —_———— Japan Favors a Naval Cut. Japan desires not only naval limi- tation, but actual naval reduction, ac- cording to a statement made by Pre- mier Hamaguchi. That puts three of the nations invited to the five-powe! naval conference in London next Jan: uary on record through their govern- mental spokesmen as favorable to the proposed cuts in naval armaments. President Hoover and Ramsay Macdon- ald, prime minister of Great Britain, in their joint statement issued prior to Mr. Macdonald's departure from ‘Washington, committed themselves to such a program. The word coming now frem the Far East gives added hope of an accord. The world is waiting anx- fously to know the attitude of the French and Italian governments, as it will be expressed in their replies to the British invitation. The French cabinet is slated to consider the invi- tation today. The Japanese premier voices the view not alone of his own political party, but of the overwhelming sentiment of his people today. The Japanese, Pre- mier Hamaguchi asserts, do not resent the assignment of Japan to a naval ratio inferior to that of the United States and Great Britain, But that ratio, he says, must not fall below the minimum requirements for the safety of the empire. The qualifying statement is natural. It is the desire of all the nations to take proper steps for safeguarding their peoples, the United States and Britain along with the rest. The Japanese premier, how- ever, takes a view of the armament ! eituation much like that of the execu- tive heads of the United States and British governments when he says: We are hopeful that the disarma- ment problem is entering a brigater phase, We hope to see this intensified as the result of the five-power con-‘ ference that is to assemble in London next January. Japan’s attitude at the Washington conference on naval limitation and the problems of the Pacific in 1921-22 was helpful. In the naval limitation treaty that emanated from that conference Japan accepted the ratio of three, as compared to the ratio of five-five agr to for America and Britain. That ratio was for battleships and airplane carriers. Whether the same ratio will be acceptable in all categories of mvllI vessels, the Japanese delegation at the coming conference will make clear. ‘The Washington conference, whatever else it accomplished, settled a number of questions of great importance in re- lation to the affairs of the Pacific. As the years have progressed talk of pos- sible conflict between Japan and the United States has faded so far into the background that the voice of the jingoes n either country has become less than & whisper. Japan occupies a position of great importance in the affairs of the East. Her strength has been dem- vn?trlb!fl again and again in that area, It is quite evident, however, that a supernavy is not Japan's need, so far as her Eastern neighbors, China and Russia, are concerned. The policy of the present Japanese government hes been one of retrench- ment and of industrial development and the fostering of Japanese trade. The tremendous burden of taxation which falls on any people when their govern- ment bullds and carries in commission & huge navy does not appeal to the Jap- anese. It is a burden which they as well as other peoples would gladly see reduced. The statement of the Jap- anese premier, therefore, is such as may well have been expected. — vt Henry Ford desires to manufacture | in Europe. The English sense of humor has always been deferential and re- strained. It may be interesting to see what the “flivver” can be called upon to provide British Jaughs. - Political Wickedness in Gotham. Whether in important or unimportant ecampaigns, in presidential, mayoralty contests, New York City al- ‘ways produces some oddment or unique situation. This year, with munieipal offices at stake in a three-cornered fight, in which Tammany is as usual on the defensive, is no exception to this rule. The eccentricity is that right in the middle of the contest, long after nominations, comes the charge from the Tammany organization that the petitions for the naming of one of the independent tickets, that of the so- styled Square Deal party, headed by former Police Commissioner Enright as candidate for mayor, are invalid be- cause they contain numerous forgeries and fake names. The charge of forged petitions is not altogether novel in itself. But the sequel to the accusation is particular- ly interesting. The fact that genuine names werg included in the petitions without authority and that other names, of persons non-existent, were also inscribed and filed developed speed- ily. Then came th: man who had charge of the work of eirculating the Enright papers for signature, described in one of the newspaper ac- counts of the cese as a professional petition-maker. There are some strange “professions” in Gotham. Well, his ex- planation of the inclusion of false names, or of real names without war- rant, was that some of his signature hunters, ‘dcor-to-deor canvassers, were ‘Tammany agents in disguise, who de- | been made public, it evidently will form State or | He 1| be challenged and the right of the “Square Deal” candidates for municipal offices to stand in the campaign queered. ‘What a wicked world this is! Here is an honest citizen secking office for the sake of public morals, for the bene- fit of the downtrodden taxpayer, an | altruist willing to sacrifice himselt on | the altar of his city. He has no regu- | larly organized political party behind | yhim. He has to go out and ask the | people to ask for his nomination: in | order that his name may be placed be- fore the voters on the official ballot. ! He hires a professional petitioner, who | in turn hires name-getters. The crafty | { “machine” interfects its tricksters into the ranks of the signature hunters and they write all sorts of fake names on | the papers, and then, at the well known | psychological moment, they slip the | word acrcss and the works are blown. | It 18 a poor campaign manager who ! cannot tum a scandal sprung in his | disinterest to his own edvantege. So [ Enright is now broadcasting the wicked- {ness of Tammany—with which, by the way, he was once rather closcly asso- ciated —as exemplified by the scoun- drelly trick of smearing his petitions with false and fraudulent signatures. | The election is only about four weeks | off. There is time to spring seme new | sensations. But this one serves for a while. - | 2 ———— | A Court Test Needed. 11, as reported, Corporaticn Counsel Bride plans to take the gas company deal into court and test its validity| there he will at icast serve the useful purpose of throwing the light of pub- licity not only upon the identity and connections of the purci L upon loopholes in a law that obviously has failed to serve the purpose for which it | was enacted. It is doubtful if there has been any \vlolnflun of the leiter of the ia Follette lnnn-mer:«r act in the sale of the Washington Gas Light Co. In the first place, the purchasers of the 110,000 shares of stock are not the sort of gen- tlemen who would blindiv butt their heads agalnst the stone wall of the law and expect to get away with it. They | would naturally resort o the wiser and | less painful method of ecxamining the | law from a distance and circumspectly | walking arpund it. One does not blame them for this. The blame rests upon, a good law gone wrong. The La Foliette anti-merger act was | aimed at the pgevention of the purchase | of more than twenty per cent of the stock m any Washington utility cor- poration by foreign holding or utility corporations. In the gas company deal the purchase was made by the Seaboard Investment Trust, which is not & hold- ing or a utility corporation and appar- ently does not come within the purview of the law. The Seaboard Investment Trust, organized for the purpose, bought its stock for five .halding corporations of banks, none of which now holds more than the legally permissible twenty per cent. If he goes jnto court, Mr. Bride may be able to trace the connections of these five holding corporations a step further back. As far as the public is concerned, that has not been done up to this time. Following the sale of the gas com- pany stock to out-of-town individuals and concerns, Mr. Bride called upon the Department of Justice to make a thorough examination of the connec- tions of those involved. This examina- tion was made and a report was sub- mitted; and while the report has never the basis for the suit now contemplated. ‘The dangers inherent in the passing from local control of a local utility are well known and require little discus- sion. Mr. Bride can do no less than take those steps that will serve at once to test fully the validity of the gas | company transaction and at the same | time supply the Public Utilities Com- mission and Congress with information upon which to erect more formidable barriers against such sales in the future. —— et The plain citizen used to be advised to tell his troubles to a policeman. It {now appears that the police have troubles enough of their own. et China Faces Civil War Again. From China comes word of a condi- tion of ferment and unrest that gives ground for anxiety on the part of the ! sincere well-wishers for that unhappy land. This anxliety, it appears, is even more keenly evident in Nanking, the seat of government, headquarters of the Nationalist administration and of the Kuomintang party, which is in effect the Chinese government. Recently & manifesto was published by the generals attached to Feng Yu-hsiang, the so- | called Christian General, reiterating | certain charges against the Chiang | Kai-shek regime, comprising corruption, illegal assumption of dictatorship, nepo- tism, the foiling of the purposes of the | | revolution, and especially failure to af- | | ford reltef to the twenty million people said to be starving in the northwestern provinces. Not very lcng ago an attempt to| | assassinate the President was foiled at | Shanghai, and a number of plotters were captured and put to the question. { It is now indicated that they confessed | to knowledge of a combination to over- turn the Kuomintang government. Cer- tain of the “armies” not absolutely con- trolled by the Nanking administration were to be maneuvered into positions to | effect the setzure of Nanking, Hankow and Canton. Then the Nanking govern- ment began to move and to effect dispo- sitions of froops calculated to break up the revolutionary combination. Armies | {ot doubtful loyalty were shifted, divi- sions were ordered to new assignments, and soon the interior of China was aswarm with troops, moving here and there, But the anxisty at Nanking was not allayed, for scme of the doubtful divi- sions and the known hostiles refused to be transferred as directed, Meanwhile a consiierable “disbandment” of the organized military forces has been sup- posedly in progress, and large sums had been raised by bond issues for this pur~ pose. But it is alleged by Chiang Kal- shek’s critics that much of the money thus raised from loans has found its way into private pockets, and disband- ment has been a faflure. A spokesman for the Nationalist gov- ernment at Nanking has just admitted in a statement to press representatives the seriousness of the situation. “Let us be done -with fairy tales,” he said “There is denying the gravity of exias.” But, he added, the cessfully meeting every move of the in- surgents. There is no fighting, as far as can be discerned through the murk caused by the strict censorship over news frym the interior of China. The “campaign,” it would seem, consists chiefly of troop movements, by train and by foot. These movements of the troops add to the misery of the people, for they cause heavy drains upon the food supplies, already desperately low. They also retard the distribution of relief supplies, which, as the Red Cross commission recently pointed out, lie neglected on raflroad platforms until they rot. friends of China can render no assist- =nce. It is impossible to go to the re- lief of the stricken milllons suffering from lack of subsistence. It is impos- sible to advance funds to the Nation- alist government, which ean give no guarantees of repayment or dependable securities. Loans may be squeezed from the merchants and bankers of the large commercial centers—such loans have lately been “requested”—but they will not suffice to satisfy the rapacity of the blackmailing “war lords” and their subordinates, or to provide the means of raising and equipping & de- pendable army sufficient to enforce the ! authority of the central administration. It is, taken altogether, about as difficult A problem as ever was encountered by a national government. PV The Lure of the Unknown. It is not at all a matter of wonder that President Hoover, who is an ardent base ball “fan,” suddenly determined, while listening to the veport of the astounding game in Philadelphia on Saturday, to attend today's contest there. It was not alone that this fifth engagement may be the final, deciding game of the world series, and therefore worth watching from an historical point of view. There was coubtless in the President’s mind the thought that per- haps he might be so favored by the fortune of base ball as to witness an- other spectacular sensational uprising of batsmen, such as that which Satur- day brought the apparently beaten Athletics from far behind to far enough ahead to win the game But that is one of the peculiar fea- tures of the national sport of America. One can never foresee the nature of the play. Twenty games may be played in succession without a single outstand- ing feature, without one remarkable play, or sensational hit or rally. Then the twenty-first may develop “one for the book,” some freak situation that goes into the records and arouses the spectators to frenzies of resentment or rejoicing. And the twenty-second may yield something even more astonishing, or may be as tame and uneventful as a game of “rounders” or “two-old-cat” on the back lots of & generation or two aj P ) ‘Thomas Edison is referred to as & genius. So is Edgar Allan Poe. They were not at all alike. The designation “genius,” bestowed in all admiration, must be interpreted with a certain amount of elasticity. r—e—e Old Maya citles were sighted by Charles Lindbergh from an airplane. The glimpse was too swift to afford any practical suggestions for parking and planning. e Some important ideas may be ex- pected from the interviews of Mr. Hoover and Mr. Macdonald. It was a long journey to make merely for th sake of a fishing trip. % ———— Mussolini has announced new ideas in political affairs. An astute states- man may have to prove himself a dili- gent salesman who finds it no trouble to show goods. —————— Macdonald is referred to as a “self- educated” man—which is & mistake. No person in search of enlightenment can deny obligation to the thoughtful books so abundantly available, e Of Ramsay Macdonald's agreeable visit it may be said, “He came, he saw, he concurred.” et SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. The Singer, Out from the shadows of distress Which every night must know, I heard a voice of loveliness Across the radio. And poems that were humbly wrought A message new will bring; For poets old must still be taught, And learn the way to sing. Salesmanship. “Didn’t I tell you to admit no stran- gers to my office?” asked Senator Sor- ghum, “You did,” answered the secretary. “But the high-power boy that got past me pretended that he cared nothing about politics and was trying to seil your wife a new line of household conveniences.” Jud Tunkins says agricultural profits are mostly imaginary. A farmer who wants to be happy should not keep books. Pursuit of the Impractieal. Some statesmen have a threatening way Of talking “war” from day to day. And yet “war” never makes & hit— We ask, “What would you do with it?” Excuse. “What did you say when the prince asked you to dance with him?" “I sald,” confided Miss Cayenne, “‘Excuse me, please’ I had already seen him dance with somebody else.” Ways to Eminence. One day I went a fishing, For 1 was hopeful that It might assist my wishing To be & diplomat. “He who pretends to" be ever wise,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “is at last revealed as one who has been always foolish.” No Use Kicking. . The Philistines brave Samson slew. An ass's jawbone carried through. The ass declares, and stands aloof, “The head is mightier than the hoof.” “De camp meetin’,” said Uncle Eben, “was & success foh de congfegation, but ;g_-gm»«wwa—v gt s This is a situation in which the true | Persons who sit and stare at nne are obnoxious anywhere, but particuiarly so in_office. When a man is trying to do some work, he resents it keenly if a stranger takes a seat nearby and proceeds to give him the “once over” with too great per- sistency. In the street or in restaurants or other places these long-distance lookers may be accepted as rt of the scene. Boors are to be met with everywher maybe they are some of thoss “‘snobs” the professor advised his young men to become. Sometimes a fist fight results whern too much staring is indulged in, but ordinarily all that is caused is annoy- ance. We recall a young man seated in a restaurant with a friend. A man at another table insisted on staring at him. Finally the young man turned on him sharply and blurted out, “Well, sir?” The starer instantly lost his pose‘and never again looked in the young fellow’s direction. * K k% Those who come into offices, however, and insist on staring workers out of countenance should be thrown out on ;.‘heh-“nuks. as the popular expression as it. Ordinarily both business and courtesy forbid this plain necessity. Men feel at home in their offices and ordinarily do their best to treat strangers with po- liteness. There are some exceptions, of course. The one big exception ought to come when a visitor persistently keeds his eyes glued on those who are working. Not every one, of course, is affected by the stares of others. A small minor- ity of people really like it. As children, no doubt, they enjoyéd “showing off” “afore company, and now that they are coniined to offices they revel in attract- ing such stray attention as comes their WAY. The majority of workers, however, prefer to be let alone. They ask nothing better than to work free from annoy- ance, either from mates or outsiders. ‘The one pet nuisance is the man or woman who enters an office and is told to wait for somebody. This process is called “cooling one's heels.” Some of- fices have it down to a sclence. You wait whether there is any one to wait for or not. The theory seems to be that such a period of bation inln] resses the visitor as nothing else will. Make him cool his heels, while he looks at the mahogany furniture and the permanent wave in the typist's hair. The girl may or may not like it, but the furniture is guaranteed not to bat an eye. " * kX % ‘Those who visit offices ought to think about what they are doing there. Often they have an “ax to grind.” You have heard about those axes—every one has. Some grind them industriously, others not so keenly, but they get there just the same. Mostly people visit offices to get something or other. In plain words, they want something. Often they are in the role of supplicator ot one who Surely it does not behoove such to stare those present out of counte- BAnes. - i man in an office presumably has a right to be there. is his ao:mwwn home, as it were. The visitor should feel that he, the said visitor, comes as an_interloper. Few business offices are fixed as well in this regard as a dentist's offce. Every one knows the little antecham- ber, with last month's magazines, where President Hoover's impending swing into the Middle West, while not quite “around the circle,” is going to give him occasion for important speeches at an uncommonly witching hour. It.is| altogether improbable that he will con- fine himself Detroit, Cincinnati and Louisville to glorification of Thomas A. Edison and Ohlo River affairs—the im- mediate purpose of his trip and his talks. With the Senate defying Hoover on the tariff, with the whole United States eager for the “low-down” on the Macdonald negotiations and with a vast array of other domestic and foreign problems engrossing national attention, the President is not likely to miss the chance for public discussion of them. Mr. Hoover also will have opportunity of seeing and hearing just how high his stock is with the “folks back home.” Crowds and their demeanor, when a President goes trlve".n‘. are always a yardstick of -his popularity. Barring Hoover's speech before the Assoclated Press in New York last April and his fishing sermon on the Rapidan during the Summer, he has not"addressed a visible audience anywhere in the coun- try since he took office in March. If the President finds he has a large balance in the Bank of Midwestern Pop- ularity—particularly if he talks tariff and it evokes an unmistakable re- lgnnlh—. the guess on Capitol Hill is thas he will take another hand in the Hewley-Smoot imbroglio and that it will be a bold hand. His reception in the heart of the industrial-agricultural belt which lies between the Alleghenies and Lake Michigan will be a fair ba- rometer of how that typical cross-sec- tion of the country feels. The admin- istration’s supporters are confident that Hoover is far stronger out there than the Senate and that if he Hoes any- thing designed to elicit the facts he will discover that he can risk a fight to the finish. Whether the President hankers for a “moral victory” on the tariff, while suffering an actual defeat, is something else again. The Midwestern | welkin may ring in unalloyed acclaim, {but the Democratic-Republican Pro- | gressive bloc will still be there. e Americans don't ordinarily look to New Mexico for cultural leadership, yef Senator Bronson M. Cutting, Repub- lican, of that State, who has just in- duced the Senate to lift the ancient embargo on obscene foreign literature, alifies as one of the pundits of Con- gress. Some of Cutting’s colleagues say he has inherited the mantle of Henry Cabot Lodge as the scholar in polities. Senator Cutting is only New Mexican by adoption. He's a New Yorker by birth, Harvard by education (Phi Beta Kap- pa), editor by grouulnn and arch- eologist and anthropologist by choice. Also he's a youngster—just turned 41. Cutting has spent 20 years in New Mexico. During the World War he was an assistant American military attache in London. The effect of the Cutting amendment to the tariff law would be to permit entry of any literature from abroad and determine its fitness afterward. For years the law has empowered customs officials, who are not all Harvard men, to ban bad books at the water's edge. * ok K K Evangeline Booth, in command of the Ealvation Army in the United States since 1904, is about to embark upon an extensive expedition to the Far East. It will be her first campaign on the other side of the globe, Japan and China are Miss Booth's principal ob- jectives. She is an accomplished ora- tor—a Booth family failing. Since 1919 the daughter of “General” Booth has worn the Distinguished Service Medal of the United States for her work on behalf of the American Fxpeditionary Force in France. Pershing's doughboys and the Salvation Army's doughnuts made an Iirresistible combination “over there.” * kK ok President Hoover, who is an hono- rary citizen of Belgium, is on record in connection with the now fantous scription proposed for the balustrade of the resiored Louvain University li- i brary. Architec New York, has won his ian courts to inscribe the text Allielt liquor, it THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL, patients sit solemnly trying to be amused until their turn comes. Imagine a dentist cheerfully boring away while the other patlents sat in rows in front of him. It would be un- psychological, to say the least. * ook % Sometimes workers in various lines feel similarly on parade, as a visitor waiting for audience or for some as- sociate sits solemnly staring them out of their right to unharassed thought. Not all visitors are malicious in this regard, but some of them are. Let us consider them first. Their discretion is on a par with their boorish attitude, for they can never be sure when they may have to deal with the one they stare at so hard. One is reminded of a recent Mutt and Jefl cartoon. A long-whiskered | gentleman was shown leaning out of his apartment window pleading de- cently with Jeff to turn off his radio, which was going loudly at 3 a.m. Jeff told the old party to mind his own business, but the next day when ge :lttle (ello;’ was haled into traffic urt on a charge of passing a light he found himself confronting 8l,l’m lllsne old party—the judge! “Twenty years!” chortled the judge. “Play that on your radio, kid!” The Justice’s remark might be made only in a-comic page, but it aptly expressed the belief of thousands of harassed would- be sleepers in this land of the brave and the nofsy. * Kk ok ‘Those who object to Bim who stares— for men offend in this\particular more than women, for obvious reasons—are willing to belleve that most offenders do_what they do in embarrassment. ‘They come into an office and, being forced to sit for a _time, become ill at ease. After they have looked at the tips of their shoes for the tenth time and have examined with care the moldings on all the- pictures on the | wall, they fall back on a first-hand examination of human faces. Now, faces are interesting. One of jor indoor sports consists in ::v:rgr.l n office and giving the boys s the “once over,” but i be done with discretion. b There is a great gap between such an inspection, made in the interest of character study, and the wide, goggle- eyed stare indulged in by thoughtiess visitors who have nothing better to do and an almost total lack of manners. Every visitor should bring with him or newspaper, and rud‘ vigorously, :.’heheurz‘m wbll:lrriy away with him ken lessings “of * leaves »&‘:u. ¥ o L i Astuta office inmates make a practice of praffering a morning newnpl: T to visifors. This gesture first of all gets one a reputation for being polite, but even more it makes the visitor courte- ous, even against his will. And that is something. With some chronic gawk- ers it is a great deal. Strangling is_the least they deserve, and they get off with a morning paper fresh from New York! Offices might profitably install a collection of nerve- racking puzeles so that those who cool their heels might heat their nerves. We saw one the other day that would keep the eyes of any visitor ofl the office force and permit them to do their daily chores without feeling ill at ease. This contraption had a small steel ball running in grooves to a pin- nacle. The idea was to put the ball on the crest of the wave. In the pursuit of this goal the most persistent starer who ever stared would find something else to do with his eyes than glare steadily at modest executives. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WIL| rebuilt by American generosity.” Lon, before he became President, and whel'l the controversy was bolling: up, Mr, Hoover wrote Dr. Labeuze, rector of Louvain, that, in his (Hoover's) opinion, the university should be allowed to de- cide the squabble, but he indicated his feeling that the inscri~ on ought to be deodorized. * K % ok Uncle Sam prefers bourbon to rye. At least, the Treasury Department indi- cates he does, for the Government's whisky-distilling program provides that 70 per cent of the 2,000,000 gallons of medicinal spirits to be produced in 1930 shall be bourbon. Only 30 per cent, or 600,000 gallons, will {e rye. All of the legalized booze will be made in Kentucky, The Government supply of medicinal whisky is rapidly disappear- Present stocks total only 8,500.000 These are expected to meet all legitimate needs until the first batch of authorized new whisky is available. The best estimates are that, beginning next year, 2,000,000 galions will have to be distilléd annually. The prohibition law requires the Treasury to assure an ade- quate medicinal supply. The whisky will be aged in wood for at least four years befor® being put in trade. Evapo- ration will account for 400,000 gallons, {lhlevl.nl 1.620.000 x‘l'}‘l‘on!. ‘which is about mount now withdrawn annually f medicinal distribution. e * koK % Nobile Giacomo de Martino, Italy's accomplished Ambassador to the United States, contemplates an early trip home on leave of absence. He had expected to sail this month, but international de- velopments, of which Washington is momentarily the center, determined him to postpone his departure a few weeks. Mussolini’s envoy, like the rest of the ‘Washington ambassadorial eolony, was deprived of his ordinary Summer vaca- t'on by the necessity to stand by while the Hawley-Smoot tarfff was in the making. Italy is hard hit by some of the proposed agricultural schedules. (Copyright, 1929.) Gastonia, Charlotte and Marion. From the Birmingham News. Latest intelligence from Marion, a manufacturing town in th> western portion of North Carolina, se"ms to be one answer, if not a conclusiie answer, to Gov. Gardiner’s recent none-too- forthright statement respecting lawless- ness in that State. At Marion, five citi- zens have been done to death, These citizens happen to be textile workers. ‘Their occupation is not the pcint. The point is that their lives have been snuffed out. It is a tremendously impor- tant point. Evidence thus far presented indicates that these lives have been taken by sworn officers of the Jaw. Here is one phase of the case that would make the whole country shudder if the whole country had not already been tempted to become inured to this life- taking habit by law enforcement offi- cers. ‘The cry, “Down with Commu- nism!” does not satisfactorily explain this tragedy away, any more than similar cries explain away “Gastonia” or “Charlotte.” Hee: bloodletting more—and more heedless—let- ting of blood. Anarchy, committed by sworn officers of the law, slays the thing it feeds on. Gastonia, Charlotte, Maz- lon—are not these three all in one direct and inevitable line? More—where is this line to end? Gov. Gardiner should reflect upon the question— "Where is this line to end?” — e Fire Has Its Uses. From the Arn Arbor Daily News. An Arizona dance marathon was stoppad when fire razed the dance hail, Fire can be useful as well as destructive, oo War of Blin8ifolds. From the Saginaw Daily Ner It is reported that the “cigarette war ends.” Only war in history that was fought blindfolded. 'Sufii nt Punishment. f | Prom the Toledo Blade. is aimed to punish the consumer of consumption is in- MONDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1929. Liquor Issue Before Ontario Voters Soon Prom the St. Louis Daily Globe-Democrat. The people of Ontario will go to the polls in a general election October 30, the first opportunity for an expression they have had since the institution of | the plan for taking the private profit out of the liquor traffic and providing a solution designed to improve on the prohibition law, long in force. Premier Perguson, father of the gov- ernment sale plan in this particular prov- ince, is conducting his campaign witha | 1show of much confidence, which, from | indications, is not misplaced. At any | rate, one of the two opposition groups, government sale of liquors will be a heavy party liability just now and are urging that it should be kept out of this campaign and dealt with subsequently in a special referendum. Liberal Leader Sinclair pleads that the liquor question should be divorced from politics. H However, opportunity for pronouncing on the jssue will not be lacking to the voters. The Progressive group, of pro- | hibition principle, will have a provincial ticket in the field, and their leader, J. | G. Lethbridge, denounces government sale and is running on & bone-dry | platform. If private profit has been cut out of the liquor business, barring sporadic bootlegger gains, a handsome public | profit has resulted, which is likely to continue. Dominion Premier Mac- kenzie King has lately explained that, without specific legislation by the Fed- eral Plrlm'cnmt‘ liquor exports to the United States cannot be prevented. In part, because of taking oVer the “pri- vate profit,” the finances of this great Canadian commonwealth, Ontario being | nearly three times as large as Texas, | have never been in & more satisfactory | condition. Accounts are balanced with surpluses and public debt has been re- duced. The provinclally owned system of distributing current from Niagara Falls is supplying electricity at cheap- er than e average rates to an unusual percentage of the population and a rapid extension of the system to all_the farms is promised. For a further and special reason this campaign commands interest. When- ever license fees for automobiles have figured in elections on this side of the line, it has invariably been on pla! forms either specifically pledging 1 crease in the fees or calling for higl way improvements under ‘which in- crease was implied. Premier Ferguson has so completely reversed the universal tendency that he is campaigning on a pledge to cut auto license fees one- 1f. This plank, which is not at all un- popular with' the Ontario people, m: not mark the beginning of a general re- cession from present peak points, but it is evident that the piling of ever- increasing taxation on motor vehicles cannot continue indefinitely. Farm Owners Pay Half Of Proceeds in Taxes From the Utica Observer-Dispatch. The New Jersey Agricultural Experi- ment Station, after a three-year study of 79 farms in 15 countries, finds that| owners of rented farms pay half of their farm's net income to the tax col- Jector. To be exact, 47.8 per cent. The State tax commissioner of New York has reported figures which look a good deal like those in New Jersey. i This situation upon the farms didn't come about all at once. It was & rowth, The causes are numerous, aggl t wasn't all a case of other groups Joading taxes upon the farmer. There | is no doubt a degree of contributory negligence, such as voting the straight n:iet regardless of candidates and causes. And then one reason the bulk of the tax looms so large is that the | value of the product and the income is s0 low. As county and other local govern- ment takes a large proportion of the farmer’s tax dollar in this State, the farmer should be in the front ranks in the State demanding a more simple and effective local government. Vari- ous reforms, such as the merger of counties, corresponding to the combi- nations of corporations, centralized tax collections in the county treasurer and county managers and small boards of supervisors instead of large ones, have been some of the improvements sug-| gested. | Any such changes would involve a cut in the income of many of those who hold office; consefiluently. there is | much opposition in political circles to | a change. But farmers and other tax- payers can redice their taxes by ir-. sisting upon the reforms. Gun and Ballot Box Are Linked in Killing | From the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel. It is not likely that Sam Goldberg, East Chicago grocer, shot through the breast because he was regarded as the possessor of too much im t_evi- | | dence for the Government in the Calu- met scandals, was dreaded so much for what he might know about prohibition law violations as for what he might be ready to “spill” about election frauds. Everybody knows a little something about prohibition law violations. Many know a great deal. But Goldberg seems to have been too close to the manipu- lators of ballot boxes. So somebody gof scared and plugged him. In the first place, there is a direct connection be- tween almost all election frauds and bootlegging. Goldberg probably “knew a lot.” He wasn't just the sweetest person to have running around talking about big politicians’ d)lou and plans and turning over to Uncle Sam a set of blueprints of this, that or the other machin2, He had already given the Government some important informa- tion. Some politicians probably felt that he had given too much. So—bang! Mr. Bowers' “Tragic Era” tells of that sort of bad business in the days of re- construction. Some day somebody will write 'a great and impressive " story about anather reign of terror—the pres- ent period o(_lg:'ohibmon and the pol- itics 1t soils. ere are probably a good many prominent Indiana politicians Wno know why Sam Goldberg was shot, and who don't feel any too comfortable over the promise of resultant prospects. Just what did Goldberg know? — e British Recognition of Russia Held Foreseen Prom the Lincoln Nebraska State Journal. Great Britain's decision to resume diplomatic relations with Russia was received without much protest. Eng- land has been carrying on a backdoor conversation with Russia almost from the time relations were severed. The continued expansion of trade between the two countries made this a neces- sity. It was but a matter of form to resume diplomatic negotiations. Eng- land was forced to bow to Russia in this maneuver, but the government did arrange for & definite debt agreement to be put into effect in the near future. ‘The new move may take some strength from. the laborites, but it is generally recognized that it was an inevitable outgrowth of the Anglo-Russian trade. R Galling to Shearer. From the Memphis Commercial Appeal. T must be gajling o Mr. Shearer to think that he has to start all over again as Ramsay Macdonald leaves. e — New Mode of Death. From the Ashland (Ky.) Daily Independent. Planes just more _dangerous than automobiles because we haven't yet got used to dying that way. oot Migrating Humanity. From the Saline Journal. ‘When airplane becomes more Wuhr, and cheaper, and safer, what 1 thers be to prevent people, like the birds, migrating with the seasons? Hard One to Answery From the Fort Warne News-Sentinel. Can Congress find out s much about the lobbyists as the lobbyists know about Congress? " . : paper believes that ‘“the ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. 1ASKIN. This newspaper puts at your disposal a corps of trained researchers in Wash- ington_who will answer questions for you. They have access to the Govern: ment departments, the libraries, mu- seums, galleries and public buildings, and to the numerous associations which maintain headquarters in the Nation's Capital. If they can be of assistance to you, write your question plainly, and send with 2 cents in coin or stamps to the Liberals, belleve that antagonism to | L0 reau, ‘Washington, D. C. Q. Who sponsored the first au- thorized voice advertisement by radio? When was this done?—M. E. W. A. The National Broadcasting Co. says’that to the best of its knowledge a talk on real estate, sponsored by the Queensboro Realty Corporation of Jack- son Heights, L. I, was the first spon- sored voice advertisement on the air. This was done in the latter part of 1922 over WEAF, which it believes was the first station in the United States to accept a talk for broadcast adver- tising. At that time, WEAF was owned and operated as an experimental sta- tion by the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. Q. How many people have visited the Washington Monument?—F. M. N. A. The office of the Washington Monument said that on Monday, > tember 30, 1929, the total number of visitors had been 9,153,760. Q. What are the largest the Government services—G 3 A. Among the largest are Veterans' Bureau, Bureau of Internal Revenue, Bureau of Standards, Patent Office, Bu- reau of the Census, Bureau of Plant Industry and Byreau of Animal In- dustry. Q. When it is said that the average family is 4.8, how is it possible to have a family composed of four and one-half persons?—R. W. H. A. It is not ible. This is merely a mathematical average. It might be stated in this way: If all families were divided as equally as possible, half of them would contain four members and half would contain five. Q. What caused the Liberty Bell to crack?—O. B. that the A. Independence Hall nl:n answer to this question purely a As with many peo- heredi- bureaus in . B. metallurgical one. le, a disorder might be called ry, dating from birth, so the defects in the Liberty Bell dated from the day of its casting. Metal castings are subject to strains due to natural while cooling. The original crack was probably due to cooling strains. Q. Was, Lady Astor married before she_ martied William Waldorf Astor?— A. As Nancy Langhorne, she married Robert Gould Shaw in 1897. She ob- tained a divorce in 1903, and three years later married Willlam Waldorf Astor. Q. What is the average annual mile- age of a passenger automobile?’—A. B. A. In securing the cost of operation for imaginary average automobile. thfi annual mileage is figured at 11,000 miles, Q. Should the collecting instinet in children be fostered?—W. M. J. A. Angelo Patri discusses this at length and says, in part: “This instinct to collect is the germ of his responsi. bility toward his family. He must get and keep so that others later on may have what they will need. If he does not follow this instinet and do bhis hoarding and sorting and_valuing, he will lose that valuable phase his growth. To be sure, he has no appre- clation of this. It is fun for him. But his heart is in his treasure.” Q. Why is the Butter Tower of Rouen Cathedral so called?—E. E. A. The Butter Tower, built between ted from 1485 and 1507, was construcf | funds received for dispensations for butter during Lent. Q. What is a granadilla?—W. 8. A. It is a tropical American fruit, oval shape, of a greenish yellow color. ‘The pulp is water-colored and has a sweet smell and a pleasant sweet-acid taste, but contains. many black seeds. The plant is grown in conservatories in North America and Europe for the lovely blossoms. How much money did one of the duPonts leave the University of Vir- ginla last year?>—J. T. D. A. An official of the university says: “Philip F. duPont, a member of the Wilmington duPont family, bequeathed to this university, in trust, & sum ap- flroxtmnln; six millions of dollars—one- alf of the income to be used for scholarships and fellowships—and the other half for general purposes of the university. Mr. duPont died in May, 1928, and, in accordance with the terms of his trust, we began to receive the income on said fund immediately.” Q. Why was the Colony of Georgia founded?—G. W. A. A charter for the establishment of the Colony of Georgia was obtained {rnm George II of England, June, 1732, a number of benevolent gentlemen n{ London, whose design was to fcus-: a home for the poor of Great Britain and a place of refuge for the Prot-. ants and other persecuted sects of the continent of Europe. The colony was also intended as a military settlement to protest against the encroachments of Spain upon South Carolina. Gen. Oglethorpe hrought over the first 116 immi ts. ril; Georgia was y nn a religious asylum and foun refuge. Q. Is a preservative used on the obe- lisk in Central Park?—N. W. W. A. At one time, about 15 years ago, the obelisk was treated for the purpose of preventing the obliteration of the hieroglyphics. Q. What color are bones?—V. G. A. Presh bones usually are a reddish color, Old, dry bones are usually gray or white. I;c'.lu- and stalag- A. Stalactites are pendent masses | formed where water containing mineral solutions drops very slowly. On expo- sure to the air part of the water evap- orates and a deposit of carbonate of lime ensues, and as the drop continues to fall from the same s & small column of the material forms down- ward from the cave. Conditions essen- tial to the formation of stalactites are a very slow trickle of water, regular evaporation and the absence of disturb- ances, such as currents of air. Where the water drops upon the floor of the eave, evaporation still goes on and the drop fall from the roof will always land on' the same place, 50 that the illar of deposit rises vertically. This 5 known as ite. 1In course of t'me the two mav meet and in this way a column is deposited. - . Why has a battalion of Army en- filgoer;v been sent to Central America? A It has gone to_survey" the route of the proposed Nicar: Canal. | Their work will take about two years. . 18 enger travel decreasing on | maqmmp";-n. T ahsing sisediiy, - Tne I "“3.‘...’?& o & ly. e long nrc!t'iene'n cut materially by automobiles and other modes of travel. Q. Isa ‘person'a middle name a part of his I name?—W. B. A. In Jaw the middle name or initial of a person is generally s of no importance and not s part of his legal name. Its omission is not considered an error, except in & few Jurisdictions. Q. Was Aristotle a rich man?—B. T. A. He was rich in his own right and had an appropriation from Alexander the Great amounting to more than $4,000,000 to devote to research work and intellectual pursuits. Bank of Reparations Raises New Questions for America With Jackson E. Reynolds of New | York es chatrman of the committee which is meeting at Baden-Baden to nged for the creation of the Inter- national Bank for Reparations and Mel- vin A. Traylor, another American, as a colleague of Mr. Reynolds on the committee, the i are closely followed in lhlawunfid ““cmet inter- try. | est i3 centered in relations between the ro] financial institution and the League of Nations, The location of the banky as a. world influence also is dis- cussed. “The new bank will take over the work now being performed by S. Parker Gilbert, the American agent general for reparations. It will have a capital of $100,000,000, one-fourth paid in, and subscribed in al proportion by Britain, Germany, nce, Japan, Italy, Belgium and the United States,” ex- plains the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. That easy solution of controversies will probably be found by making the statutes broad enough to cover all possible functions of the new bank.” The Eagle adds: “It has been suf ted that the International Bank might even go into undeveloped portions of the earth to open up new markets for German manufactures in order that Germany might pay repara- tions without dislocating the established foreign commerce of other coun! . The chief battle connected with the initiation of the bank will be fought over its location.” “There is no reason to doubt that such an institution would be a great Improvemerft over the old reparati machinery,” in the opinion of the Kan- sas City Star, wl continues: "It should prove both simpler and more efficient. But this is not merely & bank for reparations settlements. And no sideration of the Young plan can afford to ignore the general bankin, functions for which it also provides. The Star believes that the “carries the hope of assistance for Ge: many in mee her last 22 annuities; for she would si in the profits on that institution. There seems to considerable doubt, however, :m;' ru‘ldull :':;:’:"‘l’l the profits is apt 0 be of any ince.” The sugges- tion also is made that “the proposal should do much toward satisfying Ger- man pride.” “To the general public, in all coun- tries,” according to the Atlanta Journal, “the most interesting and the most meaningful aspect of the bank is this: that it signifies a growing disposition to give economic wisdom T sway in diplomaCy and a steady trend toward liberal co-operation nmun, the govern- ments and the peoples of the earth.” The Worcester Evening Gaszette also offers the view: “We are not going to participate officially in the new bank. Yet it will clarify our thinking, and will help some of us to avold the folly of loose talk about ‘isolation,’ if we that this Nation is Intimately bound up with the political and economic affairs of Europe, and that no decision of major importance can be taken by the nations of the Old World which does not in suorr:l'e degree involve our natonal in- ““'rhm is, however, & warning from more certain than the disinclination of the American to fall in with a plan to enlist American finances based on confidence that where our money is involved our military force will also be available—unless it is the New York World, “it will have close relations with the central banks of all the important countries of the world. It will advise with them and pérhaps indicate to them from time to time desirable lines of policy.” The Great Falls Tribune views the institution as “a necessary protection to international finance,” and holds that “its successful ?fllflm will serve the best interests of all nations involved in the World Wai It says of the method of opera- tion, “The bank will know to what countries the money can be paid with- out throwing .the world's economic stability off balance.” 3 “A great future is predicted by some financiers for the new bank,” records the Chicago Daily News. “It is ex- pected to act ultimately as a great clearing house for all nations. Perhaps it will make unnecessary any interna- tional shipments of gold. It should stimulate trade and open up new op- nities to surplus capital seeking vestment. Naturally its operations continually will be under the closest serutiny by statesmen and financiers of all nations.” Selection of the place at which the bank is to be established is a matter of some discussion, the San Antonio Express reviewing the situation with the statement: “Germany and most of ague. Gr tedly is holding out for London, nulevv“oe'l lead- ing financial center. The American delegates may be called on to decide this question, which is less important than arranging for the bank’s man- agement and scope of operations. Both Holland and Switzerland are easfly ac- cessible and their governments doul less are willing to facilitate the institu- tion’s work, If power's capital, the bank's operations would be likely to arouse jel\oray else- particularly in times of sttess.” invitation extended fo Jackson Reynolds, ident of the First National Bank of New York, and Melvin Alvah Traylor, president of the Pirst National Bank of Chicago, to be- come membe‘r’: n;wl commission to draft ¢l the bank,” suggests the Cincinnati Times-Star, “reveals the careers of two men who .began as farmer boys and have become great leaders of urban finance. * * * It is the old story of up-and-at-life of two men who gave unstintingly of themselves to their careers.” Although America remains officially non-J ipant,” contends the Terre Haute Star, “America cannot keep out. We have here another illustration of how, in our modern world, the realm of political relationships is superseded by other realms. Finance, commerce, industry cannot be held within the cau- tious bounds which the old traditions and prejudices set in the sphere of politics.” R Scrubs’ Consolation. From the Bay City Daily Times. It may be hard for the scrub to sit on the sidelines, but he might console himself with the ht that the reg- ulars get all the breal R - Terrors of the Sea. is Prom the Toledo Blade. * ‘Talkies are to be installed in some of the big ocean liners. the old sailor: “God pity the folks ashore on a night L S — like A Risky Relationship. Prom the Topeks Daily Capital. A Montana man killed his' wife and three of her family, and it is 8o that marriage have classed among the