Evening Star Newspaper, October 25, 1929, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Merning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY........October 25, 1920 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office: ‘Rate by Carrier Within the City. m Ewnml Btar. i5c per month vening and Su s et ndays) . per m and Sunday Star hen 5 da; 85¢ per menth The Sunday : Sc ner eopy Collection made at th { each month. Jers may Fe sent in by mall or telephone Ationa) 5000. All Other States and Canada. 7 ‘ana Sunday..1 yr. ik 1 yr. $8.00; E}l.'flflc"‘ ’; .~ $5.00; 1 Member of the Associated Press. The, t bl 0 e ® Assoctated Preps 1a exclysivaly e use for republication of L es cradited to it or ot otherwi in this paper and slso the local news tshed herein. All s of publica*ion of ial teh re also reserved. A Wholesome Readjustment. While it is unsafe to forecast any stock market movements, it would seem that the downward slide of prices which yesterday developed into a veritable panic has been checked, and that re- covery of stable conditions i5 at hand. The situation is still delicate. The fac- gors making for decline remain as pos- sibilitles of sudden revival. Still, there are evidences that the shaking-down process has been about completed. This decline has been long coming. The market has been boomed up and up for months, with only occasional and slight setbacks, until prices have gone beyond their legitimate range, as meas- ured by the investment yardstick. Se- curities that have paid small, if any, dividends have been rolled up to record prices, under the influence of specula- tive competition. In such conditions the break, making for the restoration of a sounder level of prices, more nearly co- incident with actual values, is to be re- garded as a wholesome corrective. There have been some heavy losses to speculative stock buyers in this col- lapse. Those who bought late on the rise, on margins, or who bought earlier and held too long, were caught in the avalanche of precipitously falling prices. They had to sell or be sold, their mar- gins wiped out, their stock swept away. Nobody will ever know how much money has been thus lost in the bear market of these past few days. But as far as today is known there have been no business failures directly attributable to this “panic.” Brokerags houses have evidently been well pro- tected by the margins of customers, and have been able to secure thsmselves Irom losses by timely action in defense. Banks have not been strained to .the breaking point, although credits have been severely extended, A peculiar feature of this collapse of market prices has been that it has come in a series of slips and bumps, each one carrying the general level below that of the preceding one, with alternating recoveries temporarily easing the strain. Perhaps this phenomenon has been a saving factor against a really disastrous panic. Had the slip occurred without any tem- porary recoveries, carrying prices down the whole distance from the peak to yesterday's low points, the country would perhaps have been actually harmed. As it is, only those who have been gambling with stocks, on margins, have in the main suffered. Market prices will probably now be Testored in terms of intrinsic values. It the bottom of this movement has been reached and the present check is not merely another breathing spell to be followed by another bump, there will be a steady, perhaps an increasing, flow of buying orders, from those who believe that the “Street” is full of bar- gains, and who are taking them for either investment or for speculation. Such a concerted buying movement al- most inevitably results in a steady upward tendency. If it is not carried too far the reaction will for the present definitely restors equilibrium. 8o long as confidence in the basic eonditions of the country is not dis- turbed such a “panic” as that which has just swept through Wall Street is not unwholesome. It is rather a de- sirable readjustment. —————————— A six-million-dollar conflagration Buggests the need in Hollywood of fire- ‘men as well as screen artists. ———— “Joe” Grundy, Lobbyist. A senatorial investigation was not meeded to learn that Joseph R. Grundy, president of the Pennsylvania Manufac- turers’ Association, has lobbjed in Washington for the protective tariff. Mr. Grundy, indeed, is the veteran lobbyist of them all. He makes no bones about it. In his statement to the Sen- ate lobby committee yesterday he frank- ly said that he had been in Washing- ton during the consideration of tariff legislation since the days of the Ding- ley bill in 1897. He has never missed a tarift bill since that time. When the Democrats were in power with danger of low tariff duties, Mr. Grundy was here to fight to prevent as far as possi- ble reduction in the schedules. When the Republicans were in power, as now, he was here to fight for higher duties. Mr. Grundy's appearance in Wash- ington when tariff bills are under con- sideration bv congressional committees and by Congress has become as natural as that a sunflower turns toward the sun. There has been no more secret about what Mr. Grundy has been here seeking than there has been about what the legislative committees and officials of the Anti-Saloon League, the Amer~ ican Legion and American Federation of Labor have been after in the way of legislation. The interests Mr. Grundy has represented, in the minds of many, have been more selfish. That seems to ‘be about the only distinction. But Mr. Grundy takes the protective tariff theory seriously. He has admitted that 1t amounts practically to a religion with him. He attributes to it the great bulld- ing up of industry in this country. Mr. Grundy does not appear in the guise of a paid lobbyist—that is,a man outside of the business for which he is lobbying, and for pay. He is a manu- facturer himself. He is reputed to be wealthy even as wealth goes in this while in Washington and expects no return except such as comes from his success in his efforts to convince Con- gress that tariffs should be kept up or inereased. But apparently Mr. Grundy thinks that the rewards of his labor have been sufficient. Tariff and politics are Mr. Grundy's hobbles, er avocations, along with his vocation of manufacturing. closely allied in Mr. Grundy's mind. He is not one, apparently, who thinks that tariff has been taken out of politics or ever will be. Mr. Grundy labors in the vineyard during the political cam- paigns in his State and in the Nation. He has raised great sums of money for Republican campaigns. And he has en- deavored to see to it that the Repub- lican party platforms shall always be “right” on the tariff question. After an election Mr. Grundy has come to Washington to see that these platform as the tariff is concerned. Possibly he and other members of the party may differ in the degree of tariff protection which the party has pledged to the in- dustries, But, if possible, Mr. Grundy brings the others— particularly the members of Congress—to his point of view. He does not regard the House tariff bill or the Senate bill, now pend- ing, as a “general revision of the tariff.” He does not think that it goes far enough. That is Mr. Grundy's position, | and the lobby committee will have to make the best it can of it. Mr. Grundy's activities as a lobbyist have been rather successful, even he ad- mits, with due regard for his natural modesty. But he maintains stoutly that he is entitled to appear here and to argue with members of Congress in the interest of the manufacturers. It is only when or if his activities have a | sinister side, either through the use of too much money or the misuse of in- fluence or the use of threats with re- gard to future political campaigns, that Mr. Grundy or any other lobbyist be- comes a menace. Every interest in the country has a right to present its case when tariff legislation is under consid- | eration. But none has a right to pre- sent it unfairly or to seek to influence legislation by corrupt methods. ) Another Royal Romance. Thrones, crowns and dynasties were toppled right and left by the World War, but royal matchmakers are still doing business at the old stand. Their latest achievement is the engagement, an- nounced at Brussels yesterday, of Prin- cess Marie Jose, daughter of the King and Queen of the Belgians, to Crown Prince Humbert, heir to the Italian throne. Prince Humbert journeyed to Belgium this wgek, formally to plead for the hand of the fair princess whose heart he had already won. It is made known that King Victor Emmanuel’s heir proposed to Marie Jose, and was accepted, in the garden of the royal palace at Venice during a recent visit of King Albert, with his daughter, to Northern Italy. Once upon a time these matrimonial alliances among European royal houses generally represanted marriages of political convenience. Today, as in the case of Prince Humbert and his flancee, they are more likely to be love affairs, Queen Victoria’s numerous progeny, di- rect and indirect, sat on many Old ‘World thrones. King Christian of Den- mark became known as the grandfather of Europe. Daughters of his were at the same period empresses, respectively, of Russia and India. Today Queen Marie of Rumania is the mother of other queens. The world's most marriageable royal person of the male persuasion is the Prince of Wales. He is the catch of all seasons. The aspiring crowned papa or mamma who can land “Wales” will make rival kings and queens as green- eyed with envy as the emeralds in their diadems. The prince's engagement is rumored almost incessantly. Some who claim to know avow and affirm that he means to live and die a bachelor mon- arch. Perhaps a song of other days in this country, “Every American Girl Is a Queen,” may give the prince an idea, rorms It has not infrequently happened that the affairs of the District of Co- Jumbis have been the means of making Congressmen famous. B s The Panic as a Spectacle. To many thousands of people who/ have been playing the “margin game” the stock market collapse has been a tragedy. To multitudes in New York yesterday, however, it was an entertain- ment spectacle. Great throngs jammed | into Wall street and the other narrow | thoroughfares of the financial district | to watch what they conceived to be a thow. There was really nothing to see. There were no definite outward evi- dences of the flerce turmoil of stock selling going on inside of the exchange. Only a few scores could be admitted to the “strangers’ gallery” of the ex- change, and they saw the milling of the brokers on the floor without really un- derstanding what was happening. After a time during the day admission to the gallery was denied. A placard was posted on the outer doors to that ex.i fect. 1t started a rumor, spread first by an excited messenger boy, that the exchange itself had been closed. | Just what the crowd expected to see is beyond easy understanding. There were, it is true, rumors of brokers com- mitting suicide by leaping from the windows of the skyscraper buildings. There were reports of desperate physical | encounters within the exchange and within brokers' offices. These reports spread swiftly and caused thrills, and the crowd magnified the rumors into even graver happenings. As a matter of fact, there were no suicides, there were no fights; there was nothing but a lot of anxious, tired, heriied men buy- ing and selling stocks on the exchange flcors, & volume of telephoning prob- ably exceeding all records, a vast mass of torn paper memoranda and ticker tape. All the casualties were financial all the excitement was in terms of in- tense physical activity in the trans- action of an unprecedented volume of business. But the crowds in the streets were having & wonderful time. Were they not present on an historical occasion? “I stood right across the street from the Stock Exchange while the great panic of 1929 was in progress” some will ssy in years to come, long-memoried veterans trying to revive the thrills of the past. Asked what happened within the scops of their vision, and they will They are! pledges shall be written into law, so far/ ordinary, save big crowds, of which they were part, and much hurrying about, in large part caused by their own blocking of the passageways. ‘The disposition to be “on the scene” is due to nauve curosity. It is in- stinctive and uncontrolisble. Only the strong arm of the law can keep order when the mob becomes inquisitive and looks for excitement. Yesterday in Wall Street was a striking example of this | peculiar human trait. JESE The Lure of the Big Machines. Little Tommy Bailey, aged four and a half, is so devoted to steam shovels that he literally follows them around Washington. So ardent is his love of the big machines that he leaves home whenever he hears one throbbing and hunts it up, or if he hears of one some- where in the offing, he traces it to its pit. His mother, distracted by this trait of her small son, has now adopted the expedient of tagging Tommy with name and address, with a request to the finder tor return “property.” Tommy's obsession is not extraordi- nary. Almost every child, especially every boy child, loves the monaters that plunge their jaws into the earth and lift them laden, to drop into waiting trucks the masses of material that must be moved to make reom for improve- ments. And this fondness for the dirt diggers is not limited to the juveniles. Elders have been known to stand along- side and watch them for long p-riods, fascinated by their maneuvers, their strength, their flexibility. Machinery exerts a charm upon most people, especially machinery that does complex, humanlike things, There is a machine that has come into public notice during recent years that removes old asphalt pavement, a modification or elaboration of the “steam shovel.” It scrapes up the layers of once plastic material, shoves its teeth around and under and even over stubl bits, rolls them up, turns them over, slides them along, lifts them, all with the nicety of 8 human hand. Of course, the machine is but an extension or mag- nification of the human hand, and the hand of man manipulates it. The mar- vel of the thing is the cleverness with which the museular reactions and the transformed into mechanieal power. Then there are the hoisting devices, intelligent direction of the operator are | ¢y THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGYLON, D. C, FRIDAY, OC1TOBER 25 1929. - —_— e ———_—_ e ——— ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS- THIS AND THAT Maybe you have wondered why it is :a.t only elderly women give money to reet begga: 8top any time on one of the down- town streets where mendicants stand, holding their hats for charity, and you will see that young people pass them by. It is only elderly women who stop, fumble in their purses and take out a ;:1{1 or two to drop in the blind man’s Often we have wondered at this phenomenen. Is it that old pesple only are kind? Is it that yuutg begets a certain harshness with the unfortunate? Once we were inclined to favor the latter theory. Many a gay and pranc- ln!htlrl who no doubt classed herself with the fashionable passed by without 80 much as a glance, affecting neither to see nor hear the crippled man on the sidewalk. Yet he was so much in the center of the walk that the girl had to go around him deliberately, and his cry would have pierced ears of stone—"Don't pass me by! Don't pass me by!” A It is age, and age alone, which can give a man or woman those graces of sweet charity which willingly step aside in the flutter of daily life to help the poor and the downtrodden. | Experience is a dear teacher, but it teaches nothing unless it teaches kind- ness. And kindness is applied many ways in the daily life, from the plessant word of help to some one who needs it to the penny placed in the beggar's | cup. Experience of life brings gaany a sad realisation to the mind n“ heart of middle age, and so into old age, which never once chanced to dim the passing radiance of youth. This is where youth m_;nh down. i o e present vogue of the young, W its glamour of health and “sun-tan,” its interest in sports and glittering amuse- ments, its bowing at the shrine of child- hood, is but a knowing in part. No one would gainsay the manifest advantages of being young and healthy, but that this xnwmi’.e 15 all that there is to know, or all that is worth while knowing, seems like: so much foolish- ness to those who have been given the tunity to see but a little way into the avenues where middle age and old age reside. Books cannot hold but a tithe of the full wisdom of experience and its flower—kindness. These are things which cannot be passed on by one hav- ing them to one who does not have em. The possessors of this holy wisdom may be able to point out the way that in use on large new bujlding works. There is nothing especially spectacular about them, yet they rarely fail to draw an audience, keenly interested in their operation. They work so surely, so pre- cisely, so easily, that the people on the ground marve] at them and spend many minutes each gazing at them. Another machine that lures the “Tom- mies” of all ages is the steam roller that packs down the newly laid asphalt in the streets. Even in these days of motorized transportation these clatter- ing juggernauts draw their audiences. They are not as big and mastodonic as once they were, but they have thcir charm nevertheless even now. 1f every person in this eity who yields to the lure of the big machines were to be tagged like Tommy Bailey in order to assure home contact, there would be a great fluttering of labels here. it Edison has said he needs no sleep. After the splendid demonstrations in his honor, he may admit & certain amount of natural human fatigue and consent to baving the old alarm tlock thrown out of the window. ——— e Prices tumble in the Stock Exchange. Original and reliable values are undis- turbed. The speculator is often a per- son who allows his imagination to run away with his judgment. ——— A good airplane pllot is willing to keep a crash secret. What the true aviator looks for is applause and not sympathy. ———— Washington, D. C., as a recognized metropolis must expect the anxieties which all big cities experience in reg- ulating police affairs. e A good pacifist may be regarded as impractical; yet no more impractical than a man who demands war as 8 solution of world misunderstanding. . o A lobbylst is now recognised as the most modernly developed example of the high-power salesman. ————— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Night Before Christmas. “The Night before Christmas!” But, in the big town, The house of the poet is being torn down. The Santa Claus reindeer are bidden to roam Afgr from the spot which they once thought was home. “The Night before Christmas!” We'll hear the old rhyme In future Decembers for many a time. And the house of the poet forever will stand A palace for children in Memor} Land. Not Running. “Are you still running for Congress?” “Running?” repeated Senator Sor- ghum, “Not at all. I have matters so srranged that I can depend on winning in a walk.” Jud Tunkins says he reformed and quit playing the horses, but somehow he th» young muat travel, but they cannot put them l-ct{;ully in possession of the and. Every man must find it for himself, * k% % ‘The trouble with youth, viewed from a larger viewpoint, is that it lacks that fine pathy, that ready heart under- stant , which sorrow alone gives and brings fruition, It is easy to look at life through rose- colored spectacles as long as the sun is shining, and only life and good health. well in one. When iliness and sorrow come, however, thex must be faced. If it can be done with courage and love, 80 much the better. Out of that ex- perience will come a ready ithy with the unfortunate and a desire to BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL, ‘The present preoccupatien with youth and health is not eug; benumbing in e ay life; it farther and tends to stifie the gentle, kind things of life which blossom in_interest, mercy, kind- liness and love. It is responsible for an lnflfltre,r‘\u -n!mntlnl lul)“cruelly in many phases of personal life. We live in lu’:h a_ hurly-burly of noise and confusion, filled with cheer- ing and plaudits, that the feeble cries of those asking ald are drowned out. The old adage, “What you don’t know won't hurt you,” has been applied too widely, with the result that, despite the many noble charities on every hand, far too many individuals are living crass, selfish "lives, not only without heartache for others, but even without a mental regret. oW This mental indifference, distinct from the suffering of the heart, is the low-water mark of the human soul. It can be noted in the eyes, and clg:‘ clally the mouths, of many human be- ings who have substituted impatience for love and have unconselously adopted the notorious sentence, “After me, the deluge.” Many men and women would be shocked at themselves if they would | stop in their mad fleeing from the truth and discover that their whole life's mo- tive was based on no higher or nobler phrase. “After me, the deluge.” So why be interested in others, why try to help them, why attempt to cheer them up, why go out of one’s way to give a beg- gar a dime? ok ok Patience is one of the divine gifts. It is safe to say that only age brings this heavenly virtue. Youth is too eager, too ready for suc- cess, to be interested in a virtue which demands everlasting kindness, unceas- ing burden bearing, uncomplslnlns drudgery, though the heart ache ant the hands tire and the eyes go to sleep. Nor is youth to be blamed. It is only out of failure that divine patience comes into being. It is only regret that causes this fine flower of the spirit to blossom, This is why elderly people, and espe- cially women, have something about them which young people do not have and cannot have until they, too, have gone through the fire of life. The solemn lines of elderly faces are not there entirely because age the mon- ster has torn away from them their precious youth, but largely because age the refiner has ruthlessly, and it may be cruelly, eliminated from their lives much of the old silly fodlishness. There is no doubt that many an in- quiring young man or woman, watching the fsces of older people in public vehicles, has wondered at the apparent sourness of disposition as pictured forth in unlovely lines. Those lines, young friends, are only unlovely as contrasted on the physical lane with the curving lines of youth, gulth——:nd crude inexperience. - You, too, are but a young animal, with much to learn. ‘When yourstime comes to give up the delusions of youth snd face life as God has made it. may you bear upon your brow the noble creases put there by tears, by honest effort to understand; may your face be drawn by sorrow from the fatuity of youth; may it reflect loving-kindness and patience, gathered help. out of the mistakes of your youth! WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Tt will not be surprising if President Hoover's dash into the Middle West this week turns out to be his last ex- tensive trip away from Washington for the next six or eight months. pub- lic addresses in meantime are more than likely to be confined to the radio. He may even determine in future to eschew platform appesrances and d his ulkln‘,rlrem his study in the White House. . Hoover, in the vernacular of the day, is thoroughly “sold” on the advantages of radio. No possible audi- ence that could be provided for a Presi- dent of the United States—even if it were of modern foot ball game propor- tions—would be anything but a flea bite compared to the listening myriads servec by the coast-to-coast radio net- works. The prospect, at any rate, for ;hetmlg'flmu future Ls—-blr{li.lnl Pn:‘i; lent Hoover's appearance rcm st the Armistice day celebration in Washington—that when he has a mes- sage for the Nation, he’ll broadcast it. * ok % & Louisville appears to be Herbert Hoo- ver's weather hoodoo. When he spoke there during the 1928 presidential cam- it rained cats and dogs. Ken- uckians were so wrought up over the election, however, that the Louisville armory was packed to suffocation for the Republican * nominee's speech. were different last Wednesda) . Rain had fallen in sheets all day long and was still coming down when it came time for Hoover to speak in the evening. The result was the un- precedented spectacle of a President of the United States talking in an im- mense hall hardly two-thirds full. A number of extraordinary circumstances were responsible. The main reason was that the arrangement to hold the meet- ing indoors instead of at the riverside was made so suddenly that Louisvillians as a whole knew nothing about it. The strangest absentees from the makeshift affair were the President's own hosts— 700 members of the Board of Trads who'd just entertained him at dinner. Hoover's speech was timed to begin so mptly that the diners couldn’t reach m auditorium beforehand. Twenty rows of seats reserved for them stared blank and empty in Hoover's face, * k ok * During the ride of the old-fashioned Grand Trunk train, vintage of 1879, aboard which Henry Ford transported President Hoover, Thomas A. Edison and his other guests last Monday at Dearborn, Mich., Edison re-enacted his youthful role of a ‘“news butcher.” Charles M. Schwab bought an lrple of him. Later in the day the steel mag- nate told Ford he'd like to preserve the ple. “T'll tell you how to do it,” said rd. “Cut the apple in two. Take out the seeds. t apple, plant the seeds, and you'll preserve the apple.” * ok ok ok Joseph R. Grundy of Philadelphia, president of the Pennsylvania Manu- facturers’ Assoclation,’ top-liner of the senatorial lobby investigation this week, has now and then harbored ambi- tions to be in the Senate himself, On several of the occasions during the past manages to go broke, just the same, ‘Welcome, Realism! I went to see the movies! 1 heard the talkies new— A cop drew near with human cheer ‘With a harsh word or two. Annoyances. “Do the children annoy you?”" asked the aunt who came a-visiting. “No,” answered the anxious parent. “We desire sleep and turn off the radio 5o often that we fear we annoy the children.” " sald Hi Ho, the sage of ‘attains wealth sufficlent to withstand assemblages of money that assert superior power. Fair Enough. New aspirations seem but fair As thoughtful nations persevere, ‘We wish to guide them over there— ‘They seck to guide us, over here. “‘Lead us not into temptation,’ " said Uncle Eben. “An’ dat is why I is gettin country. He pays all his own expenses be unable to 3mn anything out of the rid of my chicken coop.” A ears, when deaths gave Pennsyl: pgrr;\ors opportunities to fill v: ndy has figured among the ligibles. He has the senatorial look and manner. Thirty-threc years of in- cessant labor in the high tariff vineyard have failed to wither Grundy’ rgy. If appearances count for anythin be on the job in Washington w] the successor to the Hawley-Smoot bill is in the making. Somebody once defined the Capitol lobby as & body of men who know exactly what they want and how to get it. Grundy's testimony before the Caraway committee creates the im- pression that he exactly personifies that description of :cn:riulsnnl log rollers. Thmillnbemlnlwlookuu you just couldn’t keep a Stanford man down. Now come the organizers of the Bank of International Settlements, the creation of the Young plan, and select lackson E. Reynolds, president of the First National Bank of New York, as the head of the new institution. Rey- nolds was in college with Herbert Hoo- ver, but did not take his A, B. at Stan- ford until 1896, the year following the President's graduation. Like Owen D. Young, Reynolds i~ a Democrat. He's a native of Ilinois and in his fifty- seventh year. Once he taught at Co- lumbia University under Harlan F. Stone, then dean of the law school and now an te Justice of the United o | He proposes States Supreme Court. Members of Congress aren't often ac- cused of :utcumblni modesty, but Representative 8ol B , Democrat, of New York, seems to be entitled to th Nobel prige for self-effacement. Here' how: George Eastman, the camera king, ;anu 1‘.1 ‘c ndar re'cf;stme':: 50 as to provide for a year of 13 mon! 5 that the new additional month shall be called “Sol.” But th most vigorous opposition to the East man calendar reform, as far as the United States Congress is concerned, emanates from Sol Bloom himself. As a devout spokesman of 1 ; faith, Rep- resentative Bloom lezc. the fight on Capitol Hill against any tinkering with time which would bring about h ot ru$u°ely terms “a floating Sal guh r the time being, it is an in- surmountable stumbling block for the Eastman scheme. Bloom prefers the chronological status quo even to a cal- endar which'd immortalize “Sol.” * x ok % . ‘This is the season of the year when the great and the near-great in Wash- ington are pestered endlessly from all parts of the country with invitations to speak hers, there and everywhere “Chairmen of program committees” of women's clubs are conspicuous hunters of oratorical lions. rah probably gets more bids than anybody else, but lesser spellbinders are in active demand. Statesmen nowadays expect and receive svl;bsun;ktl‘} hono;:rlul;; Er eut-o“t- ashington speeches. Borah can eas) command anything from $500 upwul Rates for others scale from $500 down- ward. _Until the tariff is out of the way, Capitol Hill stars as a rule sre declining to twinkle in any other firmament. (Copyright, 1920.) South America Awake To Aerial Possibilities From the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin. Openi of the Buenos Aires-Miami alr mail service, cutting down the tims of communication between the Argen- tinian capital and New York from an average of 21 days to 11, means some- thing more than a new facility for stimulating our trade with South Amer- ica. It signalizes also the awakening of the southern republics to air-con- sciousness, for on the eve of the de- parture of the first morthbound mail | jp, plane announcement was made of the signing of a 10-year contract for sir mail service between Argentina and 21 | pym other Latin American countries. The service thus contemplated will make the Miami-Buenos Aives route the backbone of a system establishing connection with practically all of Ccn- tral and South erica and the West Indies, including 12 countries on the main line. And since the saving of time is the main obilae(. the nine now required for tht between the terminals will presently be cut to six distance is 7,100 miles; from Miami to New York, 1,600. The bridging of such & gap h{ the longest air mail route in the world is an achievement warrant. ing a cordial exchange of felicitations s; ;e-.n the countries which will profit oot Another Endurance Contest. From the Bansor Daily Commercial. Even the man who watches the clock dose _more work than the man who watches the thermometer. P 2 Rather Risky. Prum the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, We will go so far 85 to say that we shall not aspire to & job as sky traffe cop when the rocket becomes a frequent transport vehicl Sl In Chicago, It Happen: Prom the Iilinols Btate Register (Springfield). Monotony of doing the same thing all the time is wearisome. Chi bandit_fell asleep while in the nem: of a robbery. An “Airy” Suggestion. From the Dayton Daily News. Now that ine mergers are bel reported, let'slrgopo they get wntll::r’ on the ground. Identifies the Lanier Who Made Gift to Union To_the Editor of The Star: For one who is himself a Hoosler and generally so sccurate, I was surprised to note an error on the part of Mr. Wile in his “Washington Obssrvations” of Wednesday in regard to a fellow| Hoosier. Writing of the visit of Presi- | w, dent Hoover to Madison, Ind, he states, among other things, that “Sidney” La- nier, broker and merchant, was the town's richest man, who immortalized himself by turning over to the Civil War Gov. Morton his entire fortune that the State might do its full duty by the Union cause. It was not “Sidney,” who was our great Southern poet, but J. D. F. Lanier, who gave to Gov. Morton $1,600,000 to equip the Indisna troops after the Leg- | isiature had refused or failed to make the necessary appropriations for that purpose. He was inspired to this by his uncompromising Union sympathies and faith t the State would ultimately reimburse him, which it did. His ily | went o first to Kentucky, and finally settled in Madison, . Unlike their Southern kin of the same name, they all were in- tensely Union. Mr. Lanier foresaw the possibilities of the great Southwest and promoted the buil of most of the railroads in that He finally located in New York d founded the banking firm of and it was this firm that sold the first rafirond bonds ever floated in the city f New York. His son, Charles Lanier, head of this firm, died about two years ago, above the age of 80. Mr. inier, request of the Secretary of the Treasury, represented our Government at a monetary conference at Brussels ally from New Berne, N. C., | § The answers to questions printed hers each day are lmctmm picked from the mass of irnquiries handled by W:dfltl': information bureau, maintain n nhtn,;nn. This valuable service is for the free use of the public. Ask any question of fact you may want to know and. you will get an immediate reply. Write plainly, inclose 2 cents in coin or stamps for return pestage, and ad- dress 'x%'e Even| Star Infarmation Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, director, Washington, B. C. Q. When did Theodore Roosevelt say that we must speak softly and carry & big_stick?—F. L. A. In his address at the Minnesota State Fair, September 32, 1901, Roose velt spoke as follows: “There is & homely old adage which runs, ‘Speak softly and carry a big stick. You will go far’ If the American Nation will peak softly and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a - oughly eficient Navy, the Monroe Doc- trine will go far.” Q. What is the weight of the rain and snow fall for a year?—H. N. < A. The precipitation of snow and rain over the entire world averages 16,000,- 000 tons & second. ' Q. When are I:enaul visiting days at 8ing Sing?—A. H. C. A. The warden says that all general visiting has been discontinued, due to overcrowded conditions and the new building program. . When was cluulmoo!n -mqplnyvd in treatment of lej ofl first prosy?— and traveled throughout Europe imme- | E, G. diately following the Civil War, under authority of the Government, to confer with European leaders in an effort to restore the confidence of Europe in the future and financial responsibility of the United States. ALEXANDER SIDNEY LANIER. Miss Macdonald Classed ‘All-Around Good Sport’ *rom the Schenectady Gazstte. The impression left upon the minds of the American people by their recent honored guest, Miss Ishbel Mscdonald, is that of an all-around good sport of the finest type. ‘Whether Miss Macdonald is a typi- cally English, or more correctly Scotch, girl, at all events she has proved an at- tractive change from the American tyPe, which, if we may believe the fashion magazines and many of our shop win- dows, is the accepted ideal in this coun- try of the beautiful feminine. Thin almost to emaciation is the goal sought the average American gir! under 25. Willowy, non- chalant, with all this accentuated by the newly adopted ‘silhouette” our own girls of the same class and rela- Miss Macdonald offer a sharp contrast to the ruddy-cheeked Scotch gir], with her lack of make-up and very apparent curves. Nor is contrast altogether exter- nal, Then mental attitudes of the daughter of Great Britain and of the daughters of America differ as greatly. Miss Macdonald absolutely refused, for instance, to discuss clothes, that topic lax;‘pc:aadly dear to every feminine in- stinct. Her own garments were of the rough- and-ready kind, or of the plain and simple, according to the occasion for wearing them. There was no attempt to follow the latest dictates of fashion, nor any indication that their wearer gave them a thought after putting them on. They suited her and they became her, and that was all there was to it. They did not interest her particularly, nor did they interest those who were so: fortunate as to come in contact with her during her visit to this country. What did affect her deeply were the affairs in which her distinguished father and his hosts were engrossed. What drew her attention as nothing else was the people of the country she was visiting. ‘Wha’ attracted her new friends and acquaintances here was her reaction to these things, her genuine interest in vitdl works, particularly as they concerned women and girls and children. * * * One of Miss Macdonald's most de- lightful characteristics is her ise in the face of public scrutiny. ile not unconscious of it, she is apparently un- touched by it. She is a very natural sort of girl, simple and unaffected, yet deeply sincere and devoted to the cause she champlions, be it what it may. R Banking Transgressor Finds Way Is Hard From the Pertland Oregon Daily Journal. He was head of a bank. It was a position of trust. A bank president is supposedly the symbol of all that is dependable.” He reflects the stability and substantiality of the com- munity, He typifies finance in all its Integrity, business in all its accentuated respectability, This banker was sentenced in a New York court to 15 years at hard labor in the luntl.ur% It is not the first case of its kind. The tref of presidents and cashiers in banks to the peniten- tiaries or to foreign parts is one of the big parades. They depart from their high pcsitions to other and less-sought fleids so often that it is taken as a matter of course. This man sentenced in New York is} ‘Waggoner, who victimized Gotham banks to the tune of $500,000. His ex- ploit startled the country. He flung a new coup into the realm of skul- duggery. It paid him nothing. It yielded him no_dividends. Scarcely was his scheme effective, when it put him in flight. He ran away from his community, from his family, from his friends. Detectives and police pursued. His flight was along through strange country and all hands raised against him. At a prisoner's dock in New York he heard a judge mete out his reckon- g. A sentence of 15 years at hard labor in prison stripes was what his fiing as a cheat and a crook brought And it is very much the kind of ex- perience that awaits every bank presi- dent and bank official who plays the banking game with loaded dice or marked cards. o Florida Wins Battle A. Chaulmoogra oil has been in use for hundreds of years by the natives of India in the treatment of lv{roly. It is only recently, however, thaf eneral public interest has been aroused in it. This is due to the successful treatment of the disease with this oil by Drs. Holl- man, Dean and McDonald in the Ha- waijan Islands. Q. What is the largest privately owned yacht in the world>—V. W. A. 1t is the 3,400-ton Orion, owned by J. Forstmann of New York. Q. Where is the best specimen of the mound builders’ work?—T. E. B. in existence built by the mound build- ers is said to be Flint Ridge, and is just east of Newark, Ohio. Q. What can be added to brown suger so that it will not curdle milk in making eandy?—C. L. T. A. A pinch of cornstarch or flour mixed into the sugar will usually pre- vent the eurdling. The acid in the brown sugar is responsible for the urdling. Q. Does the Government employ in- spectors of income taxes?—P. D. W. A. There are no em&\lwu known as inspectors. However, there are audi- tors employed by the income tax unit. Q. May a half slice ef bread be but- m: at m;_!;b,l; gr should it be A “The correct procedure is to break from the piece of bread a single morsel, which is then buttered. Q. How does an elephant drink water?—J. B. A. An elephant's trunk is s weapon of offense and defense. The elephant drinks by means of his trunk by suck- ing up & %u-nmy of water sufficient to fill it and then disc] ing the con- tents into the mouth. which is of ‘The report made by Controller Gen- eral McCarl which eriticizes the finan- cial transactions t.hmlfh which the Government disposed of ships in its merchant fleet seems to meet with edi- torial approbation. Credit is declared to have been extended beyond the limits drawn by good business, and there is some criticism covering the whole period of Federal ownership. The Controller General is quoted by the Milwaukee Journal as saying that the affairs of the United States Ship- ping Board Merchant Fleet Corporation “demonstrate the futility of conduc public business through the medium a quasi-public organization whose trans- ?‘\nl :or‘- not lubjnatow m'deu scrutiny of s regular Government su- dit.” The Journal agrees, but points out that “there is more to it than this.” America is embarked at the present under the Jones-White act. It con- tinues “on a program of aiding our merchant marine through direct loans and mail contracts that amount to sub- sidy. We are once more in & position where we are to pay out great sums to shippls Unless this question of past derelictions is e into thoroughly and mponnbunf , there is likely to be a future laxity that will cost us millions more. We cannot safely go ahead until :e bring to light fully what has been one.” ‘“‘Members of the !hlp&ln Board are described as taking the 1l chatges lightly,” says the Columbus Ohio State Journal, “one member saying that the samae conditions had been gone over belore. The facts are not disputed, but t is explained that the Controller General has not taksn all of the eco- nomic conditions into account. The fact remains that President Hoover was prom| Mitchell to . e T study the report carefully. here is no . charge of feasance, there is an o] unit lesson so that there will be no of the present circumstances future emergency arises.” “The thing which attracted the atten- tion of Congress more than anything else in the report,” according to the Portsmouth (Ohio) Daily Times, “was Mr. McCarl's statement that one such ship sale was made for $325,000, and that after the sale a mail-carrying con- tract was awarded to the new owners of the ship scld for 10 years at such a figure as to assure them an annual in- come of $350,000 to $450,000, and the new owners paid in cash only $29,000 giving notes for the balance. The fellows who bought that ship certainly stood no chance of losing on ‘ade. tition .some Over the Fruit Fly From the Roanoke World-News. The Mediterranean fruit fly has bee; %o nearly exterminated in Florida that g::}c‘ll hlyhutfl rim whic! experiment, accord! to the chief of the Plant -nnt.‘u.;' and Control Administration of the Fed- eral Government, Dr. C. L. Marlatt. ‘The "laboratory that the Government maintains for study of this pest is to be moved from Florida to Hawail, where more flies can be had for experimental purposes, * * * Control measures have included the destruction of all fruits on gropcmu found infested and on all other pro) erties within one mile thereof, and :E;lying of such areas from 9 to 12 es with a poison spray to kill flies which escaped destruction during the clean-up measures. There is & further period of starvation during whicly an effort is made “tlo elmlmu from the known to be hosts to this 1s literally starved to death. Under the revised regulations all of Florida except 12 counties and parts of 10 additional counties are now free of restrictions. * * * The victory the Government has won over the Mediterranesn fruit fly is all the more striking when it is remem- bered that in some parts of Europe it has been fought unsuccessfully for many years and that some of the islands of the Mediterranean, once pro~ ducers of the world's best fruits, have been rendered almost uninhabitable be. esuse of the widespread infection of this pest, 4 tri ‘Why the Shipping Board could not Mave se- ‘cured these mail-carrying contracts for ships in its service is not stated by Mr. McCarl or by any one else. Incidentally 321 of these vessels were sold to private owners. They cost to build $408,082.- 000. They brought in the sale a little more than one-tenth of that amount— around $43,000,000—but so far only $15,- fgo,ooo of that has been actually paid “Mr. McCarl shows,” as viewed by the Newark Evening News, “that of out- standing ‘accounts receivable' the Fleet Corporation finds it necessary to set up as s reserve against probably un- collectable accounts 60 per cent of the total due. His figures are merely items in the detailed indictment once more officially made against the Government's attempt to operate an essentially pri- vate business as a public activity. ¢ * ¢ The Shipping Board's activi- ties were doomed to be costly failures from the start, and will continue such to the end, if the end is ever to come. The Controller General recom- mends this department be brought un- der the general auditing authority of the central Government. Surprise is occasioned to those who did not know it wasn’t so controlled, * * ¢ can there be governmental efficiel without a check on expenditures?” “At the close of the war,” recalls the New Y;r‘k xv;_gmx iV\“Iorld. % many ships. ose in our possession did not help the subsidization cause, and there was a clamor ‘Gov- ernment-owned' ships from those who want to subsidize heavily private ship owners out of the public Treasury. ® & * Tt appears that in the anxiety A. The finest specimen of earthworks | pl BY FREDERIC ). HASKIN. row form, has near the gullet & reser- voir for water umbh of containing sev- eral galions, while s peculiar muscle connecting the windpipe and gullet en- ables the animal to regurgitate tne fluid, which may then be sucked from the mouth into the trunk and squirted over the body or at some offending man or animal. Q. How large is the I it rabbitry in the United States?—E. ! M. A. The Hillcrest Rabbitry, at Alta Lema, Calif, is the largest. This farm contains 90 acres, with 26 rabbit sheds, each housing 2,500 rabbits. These sheds are 226 feet long by 26 feet wide. Q. Which is the oldest State univer- sity?—N. T. A. The State Legislature of North Carolina provided for a State univer- sity in its constitution, . The money was not appropriated, however, until 1789, and it was opened in 1795, ‘This is believed to be the oldest. . How long did Paul Dubois work on his statue of Jeanne d'Arc, a copy of which is in Washington, D. C.>—T. §. A. Fifteen years. qi ‘Where is hellum usually found?— A.The Buresu of Mines says t helium is usually found along with n ural gas. Q. Was ugx Guest bor this country?—T. F. W. T o A. He was born in England and was brought to this country at the age of 10. Q. Does Bo McMillan prohibit pro- fanity on the Kansas Agricultural Col- lege foot ball team?—R. C. A. It is said that Bo McMillan, the former star of the “Praying Colonels” at Centre College, still abides by the strict moral rules observed at that in- stitution, and allows no profanity among the Kansas Aggies, whom he is now coaching. Q. How is lampblack made?— . 8. A. Lampblack is soot, produced on & commercial scale by the imperfect com- bustion of various materials, such as coal, tar or pitch, petroleum, rosin, ete. These substances are burned in a fire- lace, the dense smoke coming through a long brickwork flue into the cham- bers where the soot collects. The finest quality of lampblack is deposited in the last of these chambers. is portion of the soot may be used directly for mak- ing printers’ ink and for similar pur- poses, but to render it fit for making water colors the lampblack must be subjected to a process of purification. This may be effected by digesting the soot with a hot sulphuric acid, then washing with water. Q. Who was instrumental in reviving the Olympic games?—H. B. 8. A. owing ct: the efforts of the Olympian games by organizing a series of a mm.:obchelco'ncu in every four years. The first games in :!t‘xe] modern series were held in Athens Q. Is Natural Bridge, Virginia, over a river?—R. G. A. The stream under the brld{e i dignified with the name of Cedar River, h, | It is, however, for most of the year little time | the to instruct Attorney General | one. as the President said, but|ge! learn the W | one of m. ney | the o more than a rapidly flowing creei Business of Shipping Board Made Subject of Criticism thing worse than bad bergains was made. It is time to know all the detalls transactions.”. of these strange “The suditors did not.try to act as ascertain all of the possi- connection with these " declares the Sioux City ne. “They checked the ations in and out, and found startling dis- crepancies between Government investe ments and so-called liquidation of these investments. Up one side and down the other, under the mildest classification, it was a trail of waste and leakage that ran into big figures. “It is & sickening tale,” asserts the Richmond News-Leader, “replete with astounding instances of waste, haste and callous incompetence. _The relations between the m”"flg ‘Board and the Fleet_Corporation, which was known as Emergency Fleet Corporation until 1927, have defied analysis and bred con- fusion. Nobody really knows how much money has been thrown away, and _‘-_g- parently nobody ants to know. e ition of Congress and of succes- 35 Torger the whole cxpetiment n ship: to forget the whole en! ship- building as one of the worst failures of democracy.” ‘The Sants Barbara Daily News finds in the report “a suggestion that there was gross favoritism in this distribu- tion of the public’s money. The easy terms of the ‘sale’ of these ships were not generally known, so favored indi- viduals seem to have reaped the profits.” The St. Paul Ploneer Press remarks: “The efforts of the Government since the war to foster the merchant marine have been a continuing disappointment. * * * What success will attend the new program remains to be seen, but the record as a whole is not a brilliant “It is a sorry showing,” advises the Kansas City Journal-Post, “but before * tting too much exercised about it we might think about some of the other® war activities from which far less wash received as salvage.” Base Ball Fans Show Old-Time Ruggedness From the Omaha World-Herald. , Nine thousand base ball fans spent the night—a chill, raw October night— in the street outside the box office at w:‘l‘..lly Field ngfic‘re the op:’nln' mw:r!d series game on chance g & remote seat in the outfleld gl‘ucheu or even standing room at this premier sporting eTnv.. And that perhaj the question, Wha ess of the is the answer to has become of the ioneers? It hasn't on the altar of ease and comfort. It has merely been reserved for such special occasions as the world series, the home-coming foot ball game and the duck hunting season. We aren't wnflu:g %.1?: except ;&m tm‘s;.m is no neet y rugs ess. n & crisis arises, like a meeting of the Cubs Athletics, we can be tul at the movies haven't robbed us of either the spirit or the physical endur- ance to cope barehanded with the forces of nature. ‘The difference between the pioneers and us is that they endured hardship because they had to, while we do it only when we want to. You never would have caught 9,000 pioneers stay- ing up all night to see a base ball game. 'fl:{ ‘would have done it for something vital, something necessary to their ex- ing their posterity to brag about their hardihood, but they never would have done it just for the fun of the thing. But those 9,000 city-bred base ball fans, accustomed to comfort, did it for just that. They didn’t have to stay up, not ‘They could have spent night sleeping in 9.000 comfortable had they might have the bglm. can be rugged enough when flab. interferes with our' amusements. We biness Try This on Your Keys. TFrom the Buffalo Evening News. to get rid of the ships quickly some- Few writers think of the ng mm mh‘h?:: acquaintances they don’t ltke.