Evening Star Newspaper, October 29, 1929, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR !2n entirely unofcial body and essays ay Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, b. C. NUESDAY.......October 29, 1020 ;;IONII W. NOYES. ... Editor i USSR pet Company 11th St. and Pennsylvania Ave Rew York Omce: 110 East ¢Ind g: igs: Lake Blichigan Buil ng. Can Oice: 14 Resont: Sh~ Oarrier Within the City. m:'l Siar ; 4c ver month ina " 60c per month a5 per month inday Star leetion mrade at lh‘.nd cf ueh m "l prders maz Te sent i by mail or teleghone n Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Vlrrll:h. A Meémber M the Aml ul Press. rtd u‘ l I M,flfl"il! clrd & (s Baper nni ws iered har s Al Honts of Bublicarion of Al dispatches herein are also reserv Theodore E. Burton. A Senator of the United States is ad and the ccuntry mourns. Theodore Bufton of Ohio possessed in marked the qualities that make for statesmanship. He had a mind capable of grasping, dissecting and solving qfestions of national interest and im- tance. He was an indefatigable W . As a public speaker he had dw equals. In debate he was convince g, He was a master of sarcasm when odeasion arose. He was honest and his miéntal processes were honest. He was ceutious, but once he had taken a stand ufon & public question, particularly if ‘piinciple were involved, he could not be shaken from it. ler Burton first came to Congress 1@1& years ago, in ‘1680, He had been elacted to the House in 1888 for the term beginning March 4 the following ynr Twenty years later, after tan con- jsctutive terms in the House, Senator ‘Burton entered the Senate. He served for one term and then voluntarily re- tifed, not seeking renomination. , For six years Mr. Button was out of Con- griss, and theén he was nominated again fof the House in his home district and elfeted. He returned to the Houss with the Harding administration, almost immediately following the World War, ard he continued to serve in the House urtll he was elected last year to the Sepate t fill the vacancy caused by the death of the late Senator Frank B. ‘Willis. Few men have ever staged a political comeback such as that of Senator Burton. However, had he not determined to retire from public life in 1914, he doubtless would have been re- elected to the Senate and continued in that body until today, without the sixe yegr hiatus, from 1915 to 1921, when he wag Out of Congress. Ohio Senator had the affection ar.] esteem of his colleagues both in the and in the Senate in a marked de’ree His passing brings real sorrow to ‘those with whom he was associated. A *indly, sympathetic man, Theodore Burton went his way, with a host of friénds and comparatively few enemies, iniview of the long array of political battles in which he engaged. Senator Burton will be remembered parlicularly for his devotion to the of world peace. Me was a student of gnternational affairs and had been lor& 2 member of the Interparliamentary Urlon, attending its sessions in many ‘tals. He stood squarely with former ident Coolidge in his opposition to lation requiring the Executive to go &hf with the construction of addi-! 1 cruisers for the Navy. That was 26. The President and Mr. Burton in _this fight, but the plea which Ohio Senator, then a Representa- tivgg made in the House in the cause of ce will be long remembered. His death comes at a time when the cause for“which he labored is gaining. He was a! freat bellever in the Kellogg treaty rénuncing war. He strongly urged lim- ithip»n and reduction of armaments. ‘Thf;coming London conference on naval tion, growing out of the negotia- between President Hoover and y Macdonald, British prime min- might well have seen Mr. Burton resentative of this Government at the Ronference had his health permitted. other cause for which the Ohio tor labored was that of the de- veidment of the inland waterways of | thefcountry. During his first twenty | yed’s in the House he became a leader in_ fhis movement. He was chairman of e Inland Waterways Commission appjnted by President Roosevelt in 190°'@and of the National Waterways Combhission created by Congress the follo§ing year. Sedator Burton played a prominent part the presidential campaign last year.i He became convinced early that the Hepublican party should naminate Herbext Hoover. His work in the in- terestd of Mr. Hoover among his col- leagujs in the House was of marked value“to the candidate. Later he en- tered the lists in the Ohio presidential primsry, heading the slate of Hoover delegztes and helping greatly to win for Iyr. Hoover a majority of the Onio | delegy uon to the Republican national | conviation. The country owes Senator Burton a deb:gf gratitude for his long and faith- ful blic service. His standard was alwa"s‘ high and his example one which |, younger men in public life may follew * withjprofit to themselves and to their Staidh and Nation . Spsaking of famous utility players, | M. Btiand plays any position or adorns the Yench with equal facility and the most accommodating spirit. —————voe < Pan-Pacific Relations. In, ancient Kioto, Japan, yesterday '.hertnpened a conference designed to tios in Tos! demghstrate afresh that Rudyard Kip- as wrong when he lilted that is East, and’ West is West, and ‘% the twain shall meet.” For, in the fhird meeting of the Institut> of Paci§jc Relaticns, Americans and Eu- ropefns are gathered in conclave with Astaiics to discuss problems geographi- cally: Oriental, for the most part, but probyoms in which Occidentals have ecmg to heve a vital interest. study the conditions of the Pa- ition whenever appropriate groups are | three crossings should receive the same i recurring tragedies have brought senti- no part as mediator Between govern- ments. It has no mandate except that which 1§ derived from public opinion. It is made up of historians, economists, bankers, educators, labor leaders and diplomatists. Participation, as ffr as the United States is concerned, springs from the American Council of the Institute of Pacific Relatisns. Great Britaln is rep- resented by the Royal Institute of In- ternational Affairs. Corresponding or- ganieations are now recogniged in other countries exercising sovereignty in the Pacific area, including China, Ji Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Other countries eligible for representa- formed are Russia, France, the Nether- lands and the Latin Amcrican repub- lics, whese shores are washed by the waters Balboa discovered. A mere tabulation of the issues over which this unofficlal Pacific League of Nations fanges gives a graphi¢ idea of the scope of its purpores. Among the “eonditions” of “mutual interest” to be discussed at Kioto duting the next couple of weeks, with a view to their improvement,” are Manchuria, the food and population problem, diplo- matic machinery in the Pacific, press cqmmunications, cultural eontacts, in- dustrialization of the Orfent with the related questions of trade and finance, of Western methods of manufacture, and Pacific dependencies. As far as America’s relations with the Far Eastérn peoples of the Pacific are concernied, and theirs with us—for radio and cable companies of the United | States have just made a significont announcement. They have reduced by fifty pér eént the raté for transmission of préss communications between San Francisco and Oriental points. It is a happy augury for & successful Pan- Pacific Institute at Kioto. Information is the mother of under- standing among nations. Increase the volume of news beiween the East and the West and the “twain” shall not only “meet” but meet daily, even hourly, amid that mutually intelligent knowledge, one of the other, frem which international friendship will sprout and flourish. —vee Remove the Grade Crossings! The shocking tragedy of Saturday night in which two women were killed and one was injured at the Chestnut street grade crossing of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad in Takoma Park has the sottal ccnsequences of the adoption | branches. She un;k-. yawns, md' throws aside the green covers. Then, slowly and maternally, she rises, gath- nut trees, the mountain pines, ths oaks in their autumnal scatrlet, th: corn patches and tiny leg ¢abins, the wistful, ragged chiléren and the bare, frowning crags. And as she rises she enfolds the minds of men and makes them a part ot her mystical, drifting, floating, flut« tering substance. What weird concepts | rea] which through the centuries have bee come a part of the pattern of human consciousness have been created in that envelopment of the human mind hollows? Out of the caverns shs brings the creatures of ths darkness—the vague, gray shapes which under the proper stimulus become distinct as ghosts, ogres and witches. Thus superstitions are born in the mountains. Out of the enchantment of the dusk they evolve t0 become part of ths heritage which the mountain pecple bsstow upon hu- manity. valley looks up to the lingering sunset and the rising sters. The mountaineer looks down into the unearthly beauty of the rising dusk, with the familiar trees and crags growing mcre and more indistinct until they become fluttering phantoms. fit forms for the incarnation of yearnings and fears. The October dusk is gentle and moth- erly. The phantoms which it creates are ethereal forms fit for the nursery. of which arise far different forms which remain to haunt the race. The student of human superstitue tions can ill afford to overlook this phenomenon of the heights and the hollows in his search for the primal substance of delusions which become a part of culture patterns. Where night rises from the depths instead of fall- ing from above, strange and appealing concepts arise. There is little in com- mon between dusk in the mountains and dusk in the valleys. oo ‘Washington may not have as many church poor-box robbers as New York, or as many predatory racketeers as Chi- cago, but when it comes to desecrators of memorials to World War veterans we District people need bow our heads to no one. ——ow o Everything in life is 80 much A mat- ter of proportion that an announcement that fourteen billions in stock values been characterized as “accidental” by the coroner's jury. Testimony at the inquest was adduced to show that the signal lights and the bells warning of the approach of the train were working faultlessly and that in all probability the driver of the car became confused in the darkness. Additional safeguards at the erossing were recommended by the jury to prevent further accidents. Regardless of the correctness of the verdiet in this deplorable affair the jury in its recommendation did not go nearly far enough. Only one way exists to pre- vent g.ade crossing accidents and that is the entire elimination of grade cross- ings. Signal lights, bells, gates and other warning devices are not effective. Case after case is on record where mo- torists have either tried to beat the bells or gates or ignored them altogether. In addition to the motorists’ attitude toward grade crossings is the possible human and mechanical failure at these points. Watchmen and gatemen have Dbeen known to be derelict in their duties and electric ‘signals have in some cases not operated when a train has entered a block. Human nature, being what it is, pre- cludes the possibility that the motoring public will ever learn that carelessness at crossings has strewn the tracks at every point where rails and roads inter- sect with the bodies of victims and the wreckage of cars. The railroads, safety.| agencies and automobile clubs have plas- tered the country for years with educa- tional literature, in picture and print, but to no avail. The public still dashes on, eager to save a minute, even when the saving of it risks the complete over~ balancing of safety and danger and death under grinding wheels is a prob- ability rather than a possibility. It 18 obvious, therefore, that there is | only one alternative. Despite the cost grade crossings must become an evil of the past. The National Capital has made much progress in the removal of this type of death trap, but as was shown by Saturday night's tragedy this progress has not prevented loss of lite nor will it do so until no single crossing remains to contribute its bit to the mounting fatality toll of the city and Nation. Washington still hzs four grade crossings, the one at Chestnut street, ! which claimed the lives of two victims and possibly a third so recently; the Michigan avenue crossing, the Bates road crossing, both in Brookland, and | the Quarles street crcssing in Kenil- worth. In the 1931 budget for the District is street crossing. Fern street is to be cut through and & viaduct constructed over the tracks at this point. If 1031 is as soon as-the improvement can be effected, so be it; but in the meantime a study should be made in order that the othcr remedial treatment. In most agitation | for public improvements a lull generally occurs after a shocking accident has been forgotten. Washingtonians, how- ever, do not have a chance to forget. The picture is always before them and ment for removal of all grade crossing: to 8 high pitch. This sentiment should be heeded by the legislators of the Na- tional Capital. S Another mail plane is reported lost in Arizona, closely following a fatal grade crossing accident near Washington. of transportation continue to take toll in human lives. e Dusk in the Mountains. Warm October dusk, crooning gra mother of dreams, flutters upward from | the hemlock twilights of deep Blue Ridge hollows. folds the pastel-hued clcud phantasies gering at their mystical play between the mountain tops and the sky. All day the spirit of dusk has dozed an item for the removal of the Chestnut | Thus do the old and the new modes | In her arms she en-| of sunset which have fallen asleep lin- | | literature,” were lost in the market yesterday does not cause more than a flutter of inter- est—save to those who contributed to that loss. ——aen At the present rate the local police tangle will become 80 involved that it will a2fter all be necessary to engage the services of a superdetective of the fiction type just to get things straightened out for public understand. ing. ——— ‘The senior class at Wellesley has made Comdr. Byrd an hanorary member. No one who has ever met the gallant avia- tor-explorer could doubt his ability to make such membership in any class at any feminine institution of learning at any time. ————e Earnest-minded Washingtonians have at least the privilege of attending the sessions of the Senate to listen to speeches on District affairs, even if they have no representative in that body competent to speak for them. o From London comes word of the lat- est thing in wall-papers—newspaper clippings covered with amber varnish, and railway posters similarly treated. | Those handsomely engraved stock cer- tificates also have their esthetic uses. ———tee SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Violatien of Rules. “They have expelled my favorite waliter from his brotherhood,” said one hotel patron. “Yes,” replied the other. “He acel- dentally smiled and said ‘Thank you' a dollar’s werth for a fifty-cent tip.” “Another trouble with some thin- skinned people,” said Uncle Eben, “is dat dey's thick-headed at de same time.” Utilitarian. The Autumn leaves are falling now Froem boughs all tremulous; But why look on with wrinkled brow? ‘They’re no more good to us. Surpassed. “You are building a very handscme house,” said the admiring friend. “Yes,” replled Mr. Dustin Stax, “but you ought to see the one the contractor s going to build with the profits.” Twisted. “What we want,” sald the magazine editor, “Is a story that reflects real lite.” “That's the trouble with our current replied the harsh critle. “We are getting too much fact in our efforts for fiction, and too much fiction in our alleged facts.” The Terror of the Hour. De doctor where I janitors he lectures every day. I mos’ turns pale while listenin’ to de things he has to say. An’ even all dem students stops delr Jokin' an’ deir larks, | He telis you dat what makes you sick is punctuation marks. jDar's commas, and dar’s periods. specks deé achin’ joints Dat comes from rheumatiz is due to exclamation points. Dey's mighty small an’ sneakin’. can't see 'em wif yoh eye, But dey’s jes’ as full 0’ meanness as a bulldog two feet high. I You |1 ain’t afeard o' lions, ner of tigers, ner of b'ar. 'Cause if you sees 'em 'tain’t no call foh stayin’ where you are. . | But dem all critters, when dey gils deir minds made up to prowl, Ain't even got politeness to lay back deir ears an’ growl. |T'd face a whole menagerie, an’ it I had a gun, I'd take a shot or two befo’ dey got me in her cool chambers of everlasting twilight under the arching hemlocks in | eificgieoples with a view to the improve- the depths of th: hollows, her rest| on de run. " ing on yoh wolves, af’ ‘rang-o-tangs, an’ walruses an’ sharks, men® of their mutuel rela‘ions” is the distubed only by prankish waifs of But I don’ want no doln‘t‘ wvif dem It is R ey object of the institute. sunbeams stegling slyly through the punctuation marks. ering to her bosom the pale, sick chest- | in the rising dusk of the mountain | yO! In the gloaming the person in the |p] But there is also the storm-torn dusk | these relations are intérdependent—the | cf shricking winds and driving rain out D. C., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29, n THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. L€ 1929, S ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS ; THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. PRABE “Dear Bir: Whether I shall run the risk of belng classed by you as & ‘nut, a crank, I shall have to take that chance by steKing ycur friendly counsel in rea“m to a hunch which I am unable to eliminate from my system. "E\e evening I look forward with yment to reading the philoso- phy 1n your attieles, and wh'le reading them I have mentally a friend who would guide one secking enlightenment. “So lay aside any suspicions which u may have and accept me as the pupil quizzing the teacher. “From a youngster, writing composi- tions and letters, on up to manhood I have been mpple.n when us.ng’the pen, trying to express myself in worde— {drawing word pictures to give the other fellow the vision which was in my own mind, whether a simple description, a sketch or a beautiful setting with the colors of sunrise and suntet. “The ‘hankering’ to write has re- mained with me in my working hours in the banking business, retail business, outside selling and in clerktng for the Government. Perhaps it was in the lood, because my father, a preacher, expressed himself in word and print very ably, and fortunate were those folks who received a letter from my ;\mther. She was gifted in letter writ- ng. “In college I was never more delighted or more fascinated than when I was writing, rewriting, boiling down or try- ing to dig out some little sketch, essay or smn on tflgl with my characters in story. ( my efforts were rewarded with an appreciative grin or #a mnderstand- ing facial expression, I gt a real kick out of it. Even though aficrward the scent led to nowhere, I liked the experi- ment. “I like to wonder about humans, all created things, each with his little allotted scheme of life to work out. “Understand me, I have no illusions as to the ‘bed of roses’ of writing. Like everything else worth while, it requires hard work, study and practice, observa- tion, wide reading of books and man- kind, coupled with a God-given talent to write. If the would-be writer lacks this knack or ability of expression or creativeness, he should just as well be planting corn or doing that which he was created for. “For every created thing there is a special job. To find this job and do it well means success or failure. God help those who just drift and never find the allotted work! The round pegs in square holes! Mr. Clarence Buddington Kelland said that he was a round peg in a square hole, a failure at everything until he wrote, and seemed then to find himself. Heretofore my career has been the round-peg, square-hole affair. “My acquaintances are unanimous in the opinion that I shall be no different to the end of my days. I want to fool them, spring the big surprise, snap out of this old easy rut, hit the reverse of the heretofore. This little whisper of all these years has become a roar, but I want to know my direction before I start running. To get the right direce tion I have headed for you to give me the rl.hl direction with your advice. blowing away all the smoke and renav{n. you of that ‘why-pick-on-me?* feeling, I ask you for a man-to-man opinion, some suggested test, some line of work which should show me whether this lifelong urge or hunch is a snare and a delusion, or whether it should be given a trial. “Sincerely yours, E.L.G” * ok ok % With the' aid of the gentleman who wrote the above interesting letter, we happily were able to give him a few suggestions which, we hope, put him in the way of solving his problem. It was only the other day that this ictured you as|to column considered the gfxn.n <’>‘1 v\t:: mx sing driver who pind of the legitimate drami who wanted to be an architect, but we t to iriclude the clerk who wanted a writer. As a matter of fact, in this age seems as if every one wants to wrlu. 'rhe universal education upon which country was founded has bred a race of ready readers and almost as ready writers. The same is true, of course, the world around. At no other time in world huwry were there 50 many men and women who could write well. Any one ci | ctring words together, but real writing, of whatever degree, means something more. It means saying what one wants to say in such a way that the reader will get exactly those ideas, It a plece of writing also makes a reader think for himself, it has achieved the plnmele n an -mnle, OF An essay, or a story, ol gives & reader a bit of emuuon in addition, Il!.h!mlh it may last hm a brief while, it is great, or lnnroach greatness. 6 of the nelt faults of the ama- eeur writer are diffuseness and a cer- tain inability to say what he wants to say. Only those who have had some experience in handling the *composi- tions” of such aspirants can realize to lh: tmn the truth of the above state- ment. Instead of getting right down to the point and say.ng in as few words as possible what he has in mind, such a man or woman beats around the ousn— often, it would seem, for the sheer pleasure of beating arcund the bush. No doubt he has become confused by his lessons in school feels that “description” must be attended to at all costs, instead of permitting deserip- tion to take care of itself, which it often does by completely eliminating itself, * ok % x ‘The ability of the amateur writer to string words after words is nothing less than awe-inspiring. Newspapers throughout the land daily receive masses of amateur writing for consid- eration which are marvels of word- weaving—marvelous, that is, that any one should require so many words to say 80 little. All such material, if the facts are worth using, must be “rewritten” by an experienced hand who understands the necessity for condensation. Often such a “rewrits man” is required to take a fact from the last sentence and com- bine it with one from the first senténce. When he gets through he has written what the original wrlur meant to write in the first place. The aspir! ama- teur must know, first of -ll at he wants to say, and then to say it as directly as possible. He must not make the mistake, how- ever, of thinki that cunnm of ex- pressicn is the desired thing. hmx be further from the :ruth of 100,000 words may be so well done that it is perfect, but a brochure of 600 words may be redundant. The way to write, after all, is to write. This has been said so many times that it ?mn trite, but it is the fundamental advice which must be given | o the amateur, There is fno other way. The greatest eurse to the uplrlu amateur is home praise. There is noth- ing which seems so sweet to him, but also there is nothing which will so lull his ability to sleep. If a man such as our correspondent longs to write, we wish_him , but we would also say beware his friends! Let him take his work to an enemy rather, and he may hear the truth about it. Continued Senate Coalition Will Result in Two Rival Tariff Bills BY MARK SULLIVAN. Assuming the Democratic-Progressive Republican coalition retains control of the tariff bill in the Senate, the course of the legislation, up to a certain point, can be outlined fairly clearly. Each House will pass a bill of its own. The Senate will pass a_version of the bill which, auted roughly, will have four characteristics. As respects rates, the ltwo characteristics of the Senate bill will be, first, very high rates on agri- cultural crops and, second, relatively quite low rates on manufactured prod- ucts. The rates on manufactured products will be in the Senate bill, in many cases, lower than the rates which have been in existence since 1922. characteristic of the Senate bill under the control of the coaljtion is quite new. Their intentiop to practice, as respects many industrial rates, downward revi- sion below the rates of the past seven years is expressed by their leaders fre- quently. Those are the two characteristics of the Senate bill as respects rates. It will have two further important character- istics. The Senate bill will include the debenture ‘plan for giving an_export bounty on farm crops. The fourth im- portant characteristic of the Senate bill is that it will take away the power now possessed by the President to put into effect recommendations for changes in rates from time to time by the Tariff Commission. The Senate bill will take away this wer from the President and give it to Congress. This has to do with what is called the “flexible provi- sion.” The Senate bill will not, is widely assumed, do away with the flex- | ible provision. It will merely ‘anster | the operation of that provision from the President, where it now is, to Congress. * %0k % So much for the four outstanding characteristics of the Senate bill. To turn now to the House bill: It also will have four outstanding characteristics One of these characteristics will be the same as in the Senate bill. The House bill will make high rates in favor of agricultural crops. This is one aspect of the tariff legislation to which there is universal assent. From this point on, however, the other three characteristics of the House bill will be the opposite of the characteristics of the !enlu bill. ‘The House bill will Ji\le fairly high rates to manufacture ucts. The House bill will exclude the debenmre plan. Finally, the House bill will retain the present provision under which the President has the power to put into ef- fect recommendations for changes in the tariff from time to time by the Tariff Commission. At the end of the session, or when- ever the tariff situation comes to a climax, there will be two bills huvinx c ree outstanding differences. The nex| step will be a conference between & committee of the House and a commit- tee of the Senate to smooth out these differences and make a bill which both Houses will approve. It is at this point that the strain will come. What nor- mally happens is that !ne two houses make mutual concessions. In the termi- nology of politics, they “tnfle » In the s:esem case, however, the differences tween the two chambers are so con- trasting that compromise will be diffi- cult There i8 80 much feeling, Re clally on the part of the senm.e. that there will be no disposition to trade. The practically universal expectation is that compromise will be impossible. Presumably the conference will be pro- longed for a sufficiently long time to make it clear that there can be no compromise. What will happen then 1s difficult to foretell. No such situation ever arose before with respect to a tariff biil. The normal outcome would be for each house to throw up its hands and announce that lesislatmn is impossible. In the present case, however, feflln‘ s g0 strong, especially among 'the coali- tion in control of the senm. mt 'M outcome may be that. Some of the collmnn hlden ll they will compel tariff legislation, um they will keep the subject before the Senate until the bill is enacted. Just how the Senate can do this does not want to do it is a question that may become concrete in a few weeks. * ¥ % o The whole situaticn is made even more intricate by th: fact that this special session will come automatically to an end on December 2. On that day the regular session bey For the regular session there will be a program of other legislation sufficiently long to engage all its energies. At the same time there is nothing to prevent the regular session from continuing to work on the tariff. Coalition leaders in the Senate say they will insist that the ses- sion shall continue with the tariff. It the Senate should continue with m tariff, and the House should tarift’ and g0 to work on the r¢ egulu program of other lzmmm, that m would become one of the possible in- u&mm. butcomes of the whole situ- ation All that is here sald goes on the pre. sumption that the Demmluc-hmu sive Republican coalition will be ed hold their greunt mljorlty and control. ‘The probal they will. At the sameé time th!re are not infrequent signs of rift. Some Denocrns. . Sape- cially from Eastern States, a ing to go s far in reducing inGustrial rates as the Western Progressive Re- publicans would like. As it was put by Insurgena Republican Norris of Ne- braska, complaining of Democrat Cope- land of New York, “I am sorry that when we * * * became good Democrats the Senator from New York immediate- 1y deserts us and goes into the high pro- tective camp.” Three Qualities Plac:d Edison Above His Age From the New York Evening Post. Fifty years ago a young inventor r‘rleczed the incandescent lamp. More an this, he clearly foresaw the day tehien hik mew davide: wonia: be aey to illuminate cities, homes, offices, fac- tories and workshops throughout the world. Finally he had the ound com- mon gense to undertake th® installa tion of his incandescent lanps and to develop them in the most practical way. It is the possession of the three qualities of inventiveness, vision and practicality that has marke:l Thomas Alva Edison as a man unigue in the whole history of invention. Other men have made revolutionary inventions or brought to final perfection the experi- mental work of their predecessors. Many of them, with absolute confi- dence in the significance of what they had done, dreamed of a future which their contemporaries could not imagine as actual. But hone have themselves successfully applied their ideas, carried on their work, followed one invention with a dozen others and lived to see o world in whwh all their promises had been fulfilled honoring them with gen- eral acclaim. America_has always been errcufl of It always wlll be. ‘There is uestion of his being one of the ntry’s truly great men. Presidént Hoover in voicing the tribute of the Nation to his genius is but echom, a universal sentiment. Perhaps we feel especially proud of him because he ex- emplifies in his inventiveness, his vis- fon and s practicality three qualities which are so typically American. We regard as a symbol of America 8t 1ts very best. ——oe-. Patient Gets Impatient. Prom the Ann Arbor Daily News. A Kansas City woman leaped out of a window while awaiting burn in dentist’s chair. Our whatever to get unmuznl About. Blue Sky Aid leen Bank. From the Dayton Daily News Fhowing 'the advantages of & biue department, - ." no \ ] NEW BOOKS AT RANDOM L G M wcx \;gur Silent Partner. Lothrop Horace Liveright. whn is Luck? Who is this unscen one to whom all pay cautious due in Some! like & complete ritual of observances on the one¢ hand, of avoidances on the other? Yes, in effect, everybody. To tew—ln an itch to appear waywise—rep! Luck in the n while secretly they, too, concede magic of the horseshoe and the four-leaf clover, the efficacy of the lucky number or day, the sinister im- plications of the black cat, the good or ill influence sent out on a simple sneeze, the potency of this invisible 1 attendant upon the ways of man = { innumerable_situations. What is the origin of Luck? What { his forbears? Certein it is that he antedates our own era. In all likeli- hood hs stood ready to wait upon the cave man himself. ~Probably in pagan days Luck was one of the innumerable minor , those companionable and beloved overpowers that looked after me daily iife of the people—super- vising seed ume and harvest, the care of flock erd, the flpenln. of the vine to a rl:h vintage. A good omy plan this, leaving the gre free to their prime business of cir- cumventing overproud man in his am- bitious schemes of supersession. When the pagan world gave way to the new order Luck, of all the many old gods, found himself still useful, therefore becoming a part of the changed direction of men's thoughts and activities. Today he is a silently ccepted partner in pretty much ail of the undertakings in which this highly active world engages. ere, for the first time, Luck comes into the open for a measure of exam- ination as to { a large number of people whose are well known to all, whose chievements are matters of public re- 1 commendation. plan inaugurated this umn of puhlmlty for thlt erstwhile niofl of men. They were ulklng mge her—Horace Liveright and Lothrop Stoddard. Luck chanced to be the topic. Both agreed that it had not yet received the attention it duervedfl‘rh;dn clknd there u:tarl:cd the ve Luck a genuine mediately the projegt took smp:nfl: collecting material wherever this could be found. Nothing much came from the libraries and old newspaper files— obviously the subject had not come manded anything like a considerable study. Th: next move was to send out a questionnaire to several hundred Frnmln t mon and women in various lieve in lck? endenw‘:lr.‘ ?fty . e uck?” was the chisf quer: From r cent came cq % " From these rnurns e this book—hundreds of personal “luck" stories, items, incidents. Organized, the book gives a bit ol setting in a sketch of “The Lottery Life,” to which are added touchcs ln evidence of the belief in luck through- out the past. From this introduetion the recorJ follows Luck in its contacts and effects with the different branches of human activity—in its service to ideas of religion, in its bearing upon discovery and progress in science, in the conduct of business, in politics, in n rts—including the sport of gambling every brand. “Lucky Stars” and luck in daily life reaching out into a survey of luck as the universal element—these are the headings under which the whole is organized to clear unity of conflT ideration. i bR purpose and scheme of the in mi 1, an orderly reading of it is quite out of the question. Anticipation ukes possession of the reader, causing im to work in large measure ‘trom the | mdex. seeking out this one and that ! wone of lpecm appeal to him—folks nearby in time at first, like Edison, Ford, Llnflbenh La Pollette, Charles Schwab, successful business women, movie stars—to mention only a few of the hundreds who come forward here to & debt of their “silent " Luck. Now and then one of ung and a shade arrogant— esitates to scale off from his own superpower by granting more than a gesture eonrd the mute pariner peeping over his shoulder—but, in the main, the acknowle !nu are spon- taneous, sincere and heart; ‘The effect of the study u 8 whole is primarily that of a rich store of per- -unll anecdotes about the kind of suc- cessful men and women over whom curlosity is ever keen. Incidentally, one nmeru tribute to the efficacy of the w hom every one tacitly ac- m Alice nm?'u-mun You know her, that successful woman, owner of a chain of coffee houses and _ distributor of a ial branc of coffee. “Luck enters in most evérything in life. * * * Luck led me to give away a batch qf batter to & hungry crowd in the Grand Central Terminal one stormy day and the $5,000,000 bu:lmu I 51&;1' upente re. ted therefrom.” Macdougall adds, be in lflt ot Elzv.y. certainly in a ln(er autmeh mere chance can command, “But no thinking individual could really at- tribute these things to chance—to luck. Some deeper, as yet not understcod, current lies behind the action of each individual.” Many of the contributors to this book take a similar attitude. After giving hearty and positive testi- man to their belief in luck they feel pelled to explain themselves in terms perh-ps of early teachings as if there is an_element of irreligion in their ac- knowledgment of luck-as their mystic coadjutor in affairs. 86 we go on reading, in fascination, over the strange interferences of chance, lifting one here, overthrowing one there—all true human stories drawn off frora the personal testimony of the hundreds summoned here to give evi- dence. uck plays some part in every one’s life"—Mr. Stoddard talking now. “And how! What a pageant of chances have here marched before our eyes! We have viewed this mysterious factor in a myriad phases. From the Stone Age to the latest newspaper, from the em- ror’s palace to the laborer's cottage, Fck plays it§ eternal role. Kings and presidents, bankers and inventors, film stars md night club hostesses, gam- blers and gay ladies, horse jockeys and ball pllyers. ‘bums and yeggs, policemen and bricklayers, housewives and flap- ys and new-born infants. d the folks next door—we lucky ‘break,’ and we all both wise some people are luckier than others. but luck, joyfully grasped, spells op- portunity. And _opportunity, taken, spells—success.” Here are hindreds of anecdotes in proof thereof—and most enjoyable reading does it make; profit- able reading besides. “Give your silent partner a chance and he'll give you one. This skittish fellow may (and often does) ‘get your gon‘ Just when you need him most off on a vacation and leaves no lurwnrdinx address. But quite as often he returns unexpectedly and in sure, swift strokes winds up the whole busi- ness that you have been wrestling with for weeks, perhaps months, or éven years. Sometimes your silent er seems to have completely dese: you— and suddenly you discover that he has been on the job all the time, turnin trick you didn't have agination enough to see for yourself. “And so, to all those who have read thus far, we say: “Here's luck! you!” ‘Tomorrow it may be P World to Go on 18-Year Diet. From the Terre Haute Star. With all this naval reduction talk the world a) on an 18-year diet. oaen o Distribution “Greatest Problem.” From the Loutsville Times. Thl ‘reltelt world &nhhn is said to lhfl no m»un.hn his place in the affairs tlz is meplrlu to start | BY FREDERIC ). HASKIN: r in the world s 8 o gbie ems 8 S T0H muuom a8 our rm information bureau B D R e m‘.fl‘m II direction of Prederic J. Hlll constant touch with mn be sure, a{andq | rector, Washington, D. C. Q. What is 'nwmu A. Edison's fa- vorite flower?—F. F. A. Chrysanthemums are Mr. Edi- son's favorite flowers. Q. What portion of Brazil's export of soffee 0 does the United States buy?— ws‘ In’ 1927, of the u.mm bl‘l of ono-hux came m the Unlted smu in{as well as million, revuleu ger ) for phnu—mdennd lom o! ferm to do away with wasteful spmdm‘. (2) A new gearless automobile whicn will use a rotary engine, go fm d king. (3) A "{' parking. (3) = proot heueomr. to lift an Tectly off the earth, ennbun. the :v\-- tor to light on ecity ‘streets and buflding roofs. (4) Gliders for children. Boys will fly around their yards as safely as they now play in thélr sandpiles. (5) A light that will pierce fog, something led in the field of air navi- (8) Talking books—thal 3 ng. (%7 Flexible, unbreakable and bulletprcof glass. (8) Cold light, to do away w.th 95 per cent of electric current now wasted on resistance to create glow. (9) Mahogany lumber from native herd- wood trees, by inoculating them with dyes and chluls t erown upon the Q. Who pl of the Kln‘ of mllnd at his coronation?—D. J. C. Q. How did me expreulon “feet of ehy" orl(l.nne '—D. !. efxpnnlon founded on & Imae in the Bisle—Danlel, 11.33. The reference concérns an idol “and the legs of iron, the feet part of iron and part of clay.” Q. Is the Jotus that gron in the Nile found elsewhere?>—B. E. It is not native only to Egypt. It has been found in other parts of the Old World and is cultivated extensively in the United States. Q. Did William Jennings Bryan leave part of his fortune to be used as a loan tund for college students?—I. C. A. He did leave money for the hel of students otherwise unable to ntund Church of Q. In what influatna is the bulk of BA‘mgm money invested ih Mexico?— A. The Department of Commerce es- timates American inves! in Mex- ico as approximately $1,195, this $475,000,000 is invested in oil prop- erty, $340,000,000 in mines, $240,080.000 in raiiroads, $200, 60 $200,000,000 in plantations and timber, 000,000 in mlnu(lcmr- ing and e uiities, 25,000,000 in merncanfl e Inel un 000,000 in banking. hat has become of Fritai Scheff, ate gfdl mlllh:.mu represents Engiand. college. This was in. connection with the foundation of the Fundamentalist College, at Dlmh. which is to be called the Memorial Colli llege. Q. What is the apj awroxlmnu nrvlce of a general service radl it welr out when not in ufie?—R C The service of a radio tube is lbout 1,000 hours. Radio tubes wear gradually. A tube will not deteriorate when not in use. Q. When did the American settlers begin to use maple sugar?—M. M. A. The early settlers did not make the sugar until the early part of the elghteenth century. Q. ant fire losses decreased since 1924?—R. D. A. The flre losses of the United States in 1924 amounted to $549,062,124. In 1028 the fire losses in the United States amounted Mly to $301,267,560. Q. Where is Flanders?>—D. A. 5. A. PFlanders was a former tountry (or district) of Europe now included in the Holland province of Zeeland, the Belgian provinces of East and West Finnders and French Flanders, compris- the Department of the Nord and Ardennea Q. When did Quukers settle in Penn- sylvania?—C. 8. L. A. Between 1650 and 1660 George Fox a1d a few prominent members of the umleby of Friends had begun to urge the establishment of a colony in America to serve as a refuge for Quak- f\:&th Wl’l.lhm Penln becllsmae interested e plan as early as 1666. However, :‘c‘iomn were not granted until “one invent to make Q. Wi lhe actress?—W., D. Pritei Scheff is appeating in New Y(#k in & nvivll of the Victor Herbert musieal play, “Mile. Modiste.” a, How can a waterscope be made? A, ‘ro make & materscope take a wooden pail, punch the bottom out and reph ce with window glass. Then dower the pail into the water. This quiets the ‘water 80 that it is easy to look through. Q. Did Premier Macdonald ever work in the coal mines? If not, what kind of manual labor did he perform?—A. D. A. Ramsay Macdonald, premier of Great Britain, did not ‘-'Ol‘k in the coal mines. He was born and spent his early dng Losstemouth, Scotland, which is hing and agricultural village. He did the ul\lll wotk of a boy of poer clr- cumstances until 12 years of age, taining a fairly m educamm at '.he district school. r that he went to London and did any work which he could secure until obtaining a clerk- ship which finally resulted in his en- tering politics. Q. What kind of money dld the Amerlrnn colonies use?—J. W. P. . During the colonial perind the colonists used the same 'y as the mother country, designat E pounds, shillings and pence. Whlle the money of account was for each colony a colo- nial pound, the actual money in circula- tion was a varied collection of coins of English, French, Ponngxeee and Span- |ish origin. The Spanish dollar was the most widely known and circulated, and it thus became the term by which the currencies of the colonies were most readily compared. The Spanish dollar was common to all the cclonies, and it wes the term in which leter the com- mon obligations were expresnd by the Q. What a million aomn’—-x E. 8. A. Among the 20 ways of making & Continental Congress, and thus became the basis of our national coinage. Arguments Show Big Demand For Annual Army-Navy Tllt ——— Renewed indications that it will not be long before West Point and Annapo- lis egain meet on the foot ball field are | im) zcoomgmleq by enthusiastic statements that the old sports classic between these institutions has been one of the non colorful events on the calendar. nature of the controversy over el rules is analysed, as are the rel with the colleges. “Certainly an Arm$~Navy game is one of the spectacular events of a foot nu season,” says the Manchester Union. “There has never been a time when the teams have not betn ready to battle desperately. Each institution has a lot of material w dnv upon, and in vrornoflon of athletics ranks as of much importance. The traditional ri- valry has added zest to jhe meennn making them great events for both services. Moreover, the spectators have been treated to a brilliant spectacle in the march on of the cadets and the mids] 14 the presence of gen- and mnm and department offi: dignitaries nn ed to the general eclat of the occa- tactical experience in cam- {05 zb-noflaunmdulol the Wilkes-Barre Times. per also sees it a3 ity tions paign paper offering "a del; mu and th holiday for hu ! thousands people.” T l‘fleld Tlinois State Register adds th-c ‘‘the 30 or more years of Army-Navy foot ball hav> seen su- perb contests, in which the very flower of our young manhood have competed upon an even basis of brains and brawn to the .lnrry of their respective services.” “the service schools are na- tional xnmmnons the Charleston Daily Mail advises that “athletic com- petition between them ought to be of a kind to set an example to other schools. Bickerings and strife should have no part in their relations.” The Salt Lake { Deseret News also argues along similar lines: “One can understand how col- leges in different States can disagree on eligibility rules affecting - members of their athletic teams, just as they may differ on eligibility rules for the admis- sion of students at their educationsl doors. In the main. however, institu- tions of equal rlnk though pemnu widely separated as to geographical loca tion, have not attained ru:tlcnl uni- formity in both the d ons named.” “For one thing” according to the Columbus Ohio State Journal, “the two academies have too much in com- mon to enduré a permanent rupture For another, their fine rivalry of past years is really a national tradition, and deserves to be restored.” The Harris- rg Telegraph contends that “it is of the utmost importance that friendly re- lations be maintained between the stu- dents who will one day be the backbone of the two branches of armed service on which the Nation must rely in times of stress. The whole scheme of thmn should be designed for the zncouug“! not only mensly rivllry but the of good (eelm( between the ration is cessary, but tneu wm bo little oo-operatlon where institutions and \ndlvidulh are encour- ““There is nothing eue In this country to compare exactly with the Army-Navy ame,” asserts the S rmcfleld (Ohlrn un, while the Hartford Times states that “the Autumn foot ball season loses something of its color ana interest with the Army-Navy game not in the pic- ture.” The Times feels that the event “provides these two institutions, in which Americans take a just pride, a happy sccasion for being placed before the country.” “The annual game for many years,” according to the Roanoks Times, one of the most colorful s sport, and was an event I to eagerly from year to year by Army and N!Vy omcen and Net to say that whether the fuss over, but, '.hm a thing that a big fuss is made over automatically becomes Ch*::mmg- 'e]l!tl}?u.lty rules,” nmrds the icago Daily News, “were ted the colleges .to puvent m!molgnllh‘g The | and such employment of expert players in disguise as hardly would be possible in the service schools. The Navy adopted the same rules, mlumnbly because most of its foot ball opponents are college The Army's position is that any student in standing in good 5% i entire country is interes A demand for a sporting attitude is made by the Memphis Commercial Ap- g:fl“c;hlch \k;glld:h th%fl tnhlbsenu 81 & Spi e 8] “‘ought to be abandoned entirely.” The Bnmmore sun !eeu tlut “los! this game the Fourth of July off !Iu nalenfln P e wnorhury Republican avers that ¢ i8 no question that Mr. Hnover [ 'ell as rnembon of Con= gress, would like to see the colorful évent restored,” but it concludes that tionof lr:uhc'ie o be imposta by onder ns to order of the Preside y S — Interest Shown in Byrd Plans for Polar Summer From the Texarkana Gazette. It is interesting to have some idea of what Comdr. Byrd plans to do in his second Antarctican Summer, begin- ning next December, his first Summer having besn a period of preparation for the ventures of the second, the members or the expedition through a course of trai bscoming acclimatized. Comdr. Byrd expressed the hope that his expedition would ze able to learn more of the Antarctic in two short seasons than all the brave and.able men who had suf- fered or given their lives in other ex- peditions.” What is there to be learned and what are the ventures he proposes mr now seasoned men to under- lll & published article before his de- parture he said he wanted to discover Whether a strait overlaid with ice di- vides Antarctica, whether one of the great mountain ranges is a continua- tion of the Andean cordillera (study for hil gao ists), and that he wanted to eyond the Pole to ascertain the extam of the plateau and determine Its p!xynlcul charaeteristics. He pro= poses t0 map with merial cameras all territory surveyed from the airplanes. Apparently there is much of this to be done, for it is stated that part of the interior southeast of King iward VII d 18 terra incognita. e scientific side of the Byrd ex- pedition is regarded as important as geograj &mfl discovery, and there will be study of auroral displays, earth radi- ation, radioactivity of snow and ice and glaciol nm will also be experis ;n;:a etism s et tograp! s of meteorology will be kept, fossil and rock specimeris collected, -nd the geologists will be on the lookout for minerals. With Comdr. Byrd’s aeronautic and scientific equip- ment, with his chosen men of the best type, it is reasonable to exp-ct that under his I*adership valuable data will be obtained. N Price of Liberty Higher. From the Louisville Times. Price of everything has gone up. Even eternal vigilance will not buy . | much liberty. e President to Be Different. From the Savannah Préss. he is going to make serve uu—wvcm body play e‘:eh other or do hi; appointe g ks