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8 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGION, D. C, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1929. O ATy e ey o e e — {THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Merning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY.......November 1, 1929 THEODORE W. NOYES. Ave. 110 Ea: d . i e ection made at the end of each month. m.l’l ‘may te sent in by mail or telephone tonal 6000. Rate by Mafl- Payable in Advance. Maryla:€ and Virginia. * fl! n'nnf Sunday ...1 sr., $10. y : § mos gfig a7 only’ 35 1005 1 me: 4 All Other States and Canada. Sunday..} yr. $12.00; 1 mo., $1.00 fi‘ijx’ ’ 1 Hi: 8¢ only .... Member of the Associated Press. Associated Press is exclusivel fo the use for rl!llbllenlon of all re eredited to it or not otherwise c1 o4, In, this peper and eiso the local news hereln. All rishts of publicaion of pecial dispatches herein also reserved. The President’s Call for Action. As the regular session of Congress is dated only a little more than four weeks hence, the extra session called by Pres- ident Hoover is soon to lapse, with one of the two chief objects of that summons unaccomplished unless a leg- islative miracle is performed. Ths Con- gress has enacted a farm relie! law and it is now in operation. It has failed to enact a tariff revision law designed to ald the agricultural interests of the country. The House of Representatives has passed a bill of that character and the Senate has had that measure before 1t since June, nearly five months. Now the chances for the completion of the process before the end of the special session appear to be 5o slender that fail- ure seems to be inevitable. Adjourn- ment of the special session at the beginning of the regular session does not entail the “death” of the pending bill, as the same Congr: continues in operation. But such & lapse as appears now to e inevitable will nevertheless be regarded by the country as a complete failure of Con- gress, particularly of the Senate, to function. President Hoover now calls for ac- tion that will send the bill to confer- ence within two weeks, to complete the | work for which Congrezs was summoned in special session. He knows, as does everybody else, that this cannot be ac- complithed unless the coelition of Democrats and Progressive Republicans that has thus far dominated in the writing of the bill- in the Senate dis- solves, in the interest of legislative ac- tion. There is no present evidence of & disposition on ghe part of those form- ing this coalition to yield, to the end that a bill may. be enacted into law. Some members of the coplition are opposed to the bill on the ground that it does not specifically render assistance to the farmers, but is a general up- ‘ward revision of the tariff rates, to the advantage of the industrial interests and actually to the disadvantage of the agricultural. Others, the Democratic members in the main, are seeking to prevent enactment in order that the Republican party may fail of per- formance in fulfillment of its pledge to the farmers. Thus because of partisan blockading and factional disputation over details the Senate is headed for a faflure. The record of inaction is inexcusable. * The Upper House has had the bill for five . Edllorl man must be able to wield actual power in the French Parliament. He must cn all occasions possess and control a majority of votes in the lower house, the Chamber of Deputies. The moment he is unable to muster such a majority, even on the most trifling of questions, the prime minister's official usefulness is at an end. He is down and he is out. A successor must take his plac The presidency of the United States is not exactly analogous to the pre- miership in a parliamentary govern- ment such as rules France or Great Britain, but for most practical pur- poses they are similar offices. The vast power of filling public positions resides in both of them. In both, too, reposes the prerogative of molding national policy. Doubtless Herbert Hoover re- Joices today that he is not the kind of a ruler that a French prime minister is. If he were, he would bs writing out his resignation and preparing to move back to Palo Alto, for the ma- jority he needs to carry out his tariff policy has vanished. The S O S which has reached M. Tardleu is significant because it marks a decided drift in the French parlia- mentary situation. Messrs. Daladier and Clementel, had either of them taken the premiership, would have headed a Radical Socialist government. It would have been a cabinet of the Left. M. Tardieu is on the opposite side of the French political fence. If he contrives to form a cabinet it wil list strongly to the Right, or Conserva- tive, side, M. Briand continues to bs the one apparent indispensakle in the compli- cated situation. Like Mesers. Daladler and. Clementsl, M. Tardieu has begun his government-making operations by consulting ‘Briand. It is comforting for the outside world and the cause of international peace that the veteran Moderate Socialist statesman seems certaih, in almost any eventuality, to resume the heim at the French foreign office. Stranger things have happened than that the way out of current topsy- turvydom on the Quai d'Orsay should prove to be another Briand cabinet, s oo Virginia's Bridge Approach. Gov. Byrd of Virginia, in announcing the forthcoming conference in his office at Richmond over the approaches to the Arlington Memorial Bridge on the virginia side of the river, is taking the shortest cut to the solution of a prob- lem that is of great interest and im- portance not only to Virginia but to the pecple of the Nation. Plans for the Virginia approach, or approaches, to the Arlington Memorial Bridge have been largely visionary. Nothing definite has been decided about them. Two years before the bridge is to be open to traffic, Virginia's plans for the con- necting highways remain a matter of conjecture and debate. No blame for this situation should be laid at the door of the proponents of the various schemes, as much as they may disegree about what is best. The fault lies in the delay in taking the positive action that, now is necessary, end Gov. Byrd's conference should result in removing that fault. While there have been disagreements and debates over the best route to the bridge, with both routes receiving in- dorsements, and while Virginia highway officials have reiterated the fact that the State plans to do its part toward the construction of a suitable approach, there has been no definite action. Through the Arlington County Cham- ber of Commerce, Gov. Byrd has be- come interested in tying together the loose ends of the varicus plans and mak- ing something tangible out of them. months. It will take, at the present rate, two or three months longer to finish its part of the task of legislation. ‘That those who now control, through combination, do not want any bill at all pessed is the prevalent bellef. If the speciel session should end without ac- tion of some sort the country will fix the responsibility, variably according to partisanship. Democrats will declare that the burden of the blame rests*upon the Republican party for its inability to agree upon a measure. Regular or ad- ministration Republicans ‘will visit the responsibility upon the Democrats for blockading the bill for ‘party advan- tage and upon the Progressives for join- ing with the Democrats for the sake of possibly getting a more specific meas- ure of agricultural relief than this measure promises. If the special session ends without ac- ition and the bill carries over into the regular session the legisiative program of the Seventy-first Congress will be un- favorably affected. The calendars will be congested. The regulsr session may be protracted for many months. The country will be given a shocking demon- stration of the ill effects of factional coalition. The bloc system of legisla~ tion has proved its inadequacy in other countries. It seems now to be demon- strating in America to the same effect. —o———— Miami is busy proposing namss for the baby that was born in an airplane over its skyscraper tops. Probably the stork story is now being extensively altered for the benefit of Floridien youth. o ‘When Office Seeks the Man. France at the moment is reversing en aneient political axiom. It presents the picture of its highest office, the premiership of the republic, seeking the man, instead of men seecing the office. Two parliamentary leaders, Messrs. Daladier and Clementel, refused it in succession, consequent upon their inability to form cabin:te which could havé hoped for working majoritiss in the Chamber of Deputles. Now President Doumergue is tempting & third politiclan, M. Andre Tardieu, to essay the task in which Messrs. Daladier and Clementel failed, when the Briand ministry ten days ago was toppled from power. A government headed by M. Tardieu would have special interest for the United States, pecause that journalist-statesman was French high commissionsr to this country in the ciosing years of the World War. President Doumergue's invitation to M. Tardieu to composs a cabinet is a desperate attempt to unscremble one of the most chaotic political situations which have ever upset France, accus- tomed as the republiz is to chronic cabinet crises. Such conditions ns now prevail in Parls remind us of what might be at this moment in Washing- ton, if parliamentary government gxisted in the United States. To be prime minister of France, & Within the near future he plans to call a ccnference in Richmond of all the interested parties. There, one feels cer- tain, any pstty differences of opinicn which may exist between them will be ironed away, and out of the conference there should come announcement of a definite program. Whatever route is decided upon will be chosen with the idea in mind of conforming to the plans of the Federal Government, in its conception of the Arlington Memorial Bridge, and in meet- ing the demands of a great tide of suto- mebile trafic that in future years will pass in and out of this most beautiful gateway to the National Capital. Con- formity to the Federal Government's plans for the bridge itself will be attain- ed through the co-operation, with Vir- ginia authorities, of Col. U. 8. Grant, 3d. As for the most feasible route of the new highway and the type of con- struction to be employed, Virginia's own highway experts, with the help of those who have so generously given of their time and efforts to propaganda in behalf of the project, should find little difficulty in eliminating the conflicting issues and adopting a definite course of action. a Gov. Byrd has won an enviable repu- tation as & man of action. Action is needed now on Virginia's approach to the bridge—one that will be a fitting companion to the Mount Vernon high- wey and a credit to the State. ————ee A veteran seaman has quit the life because, he declares, security and me- chanical perfection have made :alling too menotonous, and the sallor hes to resort to fancy for diversion and excite- ment. Why not stick on the job and take aboard a collection of good sea stories? ) He Who Got Slapped. An American actress has stirred things up in London, where she is per- forming, by slapping the face of a critic who wrote and whose paper printed some harsh comments on her work. Thus does the artistic temperament manifest itself in a somewhat new man- ner. It is hardly in all politeness to be suspected that the young woman was seeking sensational publicity for the advancement of her prestige as a draw- ing card, though her action mmay have that effect. It would, without doubt, in this country. British curiosity re- garding tempéramental actresses may be less keen than American. But that is quite beside the point,. which is whether a public performer really ought to chastise a critic, who is assuredly entitled by virtue of his position to express his judgment of her work on the stage. ! In this case the critic took excep- tions to the voice of the actress, which e likened to that of a ventriloquist's doll, and which, he declared, irritated him to the point where he was disposed to “rush out of the theater had there been any show outside.” Then he mentioned her “tricks “Oh, how tiresome they became!" Now as a matter of fact that hardly seems like a face-slapping offense. Ac- tresses’ voices are legitimate subjects of comment. If a vofce is harsh, may it not be so classified? If it is affected and “babyish,” as this critic said this voice was, may he not so describe it without risking public chastisement? “Equity,” the organization of actors which protects their interests and at the same time enforces regulations to insure proper conduct on their part, might well take a hand in this matter | and, even though the incident occurred | pverseas, administer a rebuke, at least, to the actress who has, by her silly conduct, discredited American stage performers before the British public. —_——ee. ! Aftermath, | Now that Halloween is over, what real excuse 18 there for its features of street rowdyism, after all? i Many time-honored apologies. may be presented, but the truth seems to be that mischief has no place in a modern city. There is enough real crime with- out a playtime indulgence in pretense. “Boys will be boys" it may be said. The curious thing is that it is the boy | himself who is knocking the old-fash- foned rowdy idea of Halloween higher than a cocked hat. Any one who watched the boys at work last night must have noticed that | they indulged in their gate-lifting and | garbage-can upsetting without any real interest in it. The only reason they were in the alleys at all was because they had not received an invitation to a Halloween party. Their luckier com- rades, by the thousands, and of all ages, were enjoying an evening more in line with the sophisticated urbanization of America. Halloween “pranks” are dying of their own momentum, because they have outlived their use and no longer fill a real need. There may be some to lament this passing, but as a general proposition a great modern city can but be the gainer by any change which sub- stitutes law and order for mischief and real or make-believe rowdyism. P More than 1,600 boys are enrolled in the schoolboy trafic patrols of Wash- ington and its immediate vicinity. If each is obeyed by only one motorist a day. their existence is well worth while. But the actual figure is far higher than that, and is steadily growing. The obedience ehcwn to these cross-belted, lads should be precisely the same as that accorded a uniformed policeman. o Julius Rosenwald protects with his personal fortune those of his employes who have become involved in the stock market crisis. There is no doubt that peace of mind makes for business effi- ciency, but not every chief executive would go as far as the eminent Chi- cagoan to insure this quality in his hired help. i e Equestrian fox-hunters are looking forward eagerly to the coming Winter sport. So are the foxes; they get splen- did exercise and lots of fun out of it, and the proportion cf casualties is in favor of the vulpine rather than the human group. - His physicians have criticized Cle- menceau for keeping up his daily dozen. Eight or ten repetitions of an exercise ought to be enough for a man in his ninetieth year, and not feeling top- hole, at that. —— . ‘Three respectable Kansas City femilies have been charged with “fight- ing with garbage.” Possibly they got the idea from the United States Senate. oot SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOENSON. Not Betting. 5 “I ain't made electicn bets,” sald Uncl Ezra Marsh; “The chances zin't wuth takin' When you're feelin' purty harsh Because a landslide didn't slide the way it ought to do, It's enough’to be indignant, without losin’ money, too. It makes me smile to see the fuss that's made by sportin’ men About the little risks that they takin' now an’ then, While the various conditions of this swiftly chengeful clime Has got your uncle guessin’ an’ a-gam- blin’ all the time. “I'm bettin’ on the sunshine, and I'm bettin’ ‘gainst the frost. I'm bettin’ that this year meakes up the carnin’s last year lost. I'm bettin’ on potatoes, and I'm bettin' on the corn; Sometimes I'm right successful, and at others I'm forlorn. I can't sit down at ease and wait for news that they proclaim; I've got to keep a-hustlin’, and I've got to watch the game. My life is filled with bigger joys an’ Ditterer regrets Than I could find by foolin’ with them | small election bets.” are The Cempositor. “So,” said the author, “you read every word of my book?" “Yes." “With appreciation, I trust.” “Entirely so. I got paid for setting 1t up.” An Old-Time Manager. “You will admit,” zaid the Baconian, “that Shakespeare's autographs prove him to have been a very slow, laborious writer.” “Perhaps,” replied Mr. Stormington Barnes, “but my private opinion is that he developed that tedious and tremulous style to discourage people who wanted him to write passes.” % g Getting to Business. You wants to try to ahgufy De same way dat you eat De turkey. Lay de feathers by © An’ carve into de meat. Reminiscence. “There are no pirates now to make | vou walk the plank.” “No, but a few got me last Summer -n the boardwalk at a seaside resort.” oot Make It a Six-Power Parley. From the Ann Arbor Daily News. A sixth power that should be invited to that naval disarmament conference 18 the New Jersey rum-running syndi- cate. THIS AND THAT 'BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. In the main, tfiere may be said to| be two classes of people in the United States today—thoge who were brought up in the traditior! of patchwork quilts and those who wei's rot. ‘Those who ha: lept under a quilt, incomparable coveding for Spring &nd | Autumn, feel sorry; for those who have not. Something Las been missed out | of their lives. Men as well a5 women may krow and appreciate the quiit, although perhaps no man ever madg one. _quilt is one article that was and ever has been and ever will be stzictly feminine. Even today, when few who plece them ever quilt tham, quilt making is a patient, tedious process utterly be- yond the mind or ‘hands of any but » womar. Men may admife beauty, however, and pay tribute to labor, and so come to appreciate the patchwork quilt 2s one of the true antlques of America, “one of the most picturesque of i American folks arts.” So says Ruth E. Finley in her new book, “Old Patchwark Quilts and the Women Who Madé Them,” published by the J. B. Lippincott Company ot Philadelphia. Unlike many volimes written as an aid to the collecter, “Old_Patchwork Quilts” will prove of interest to the neral reader, for the writer not oniy fiowa how to write (truly an indis- pensable quality!), but also shc has humarized her book to an unusual point, This men as well as women may read | about 2 definitely feminin: -ccomphsh-l ment, and come not only a better | understanding of a graoafwl and useful work, but also to a saner eamception of Colonial days, ways and people. There a great deal here about history 2s well as the patchwork quilt. . P Miss Finley's easy prose style we quote the following from her | foreword: “Today we admire the beauty | of a wingchalr, little thinking that its, inclosed fuck 'was originally designed | to cut off the drafts of the illy hea houses of our ancestors, Such creations do more than serve the purpose for which they were intended: they re- main as aids to understanding of the long since past. “!,\'h!re 15 perhaps np more faithful record of bygone days in America then patchwork quilts, both because they represent a craft practiced exclusively in the home for more than two cen- turies-and because their designers gave them symbolic meaning. There never was a quilt pieced that did not bear a name, and these names are vividly sig- nificant. Quilt names tell the story of both the inner and outer life of many generations of American womanhood. For it was women, and women only, who made quilts and named them. “While the present-day vogue for patchwork is due primarily to a deeply stimulated interest in all things his- torically expressive of our national background and growth, the wide and | varied use of old quilts undoubtedly has | been greatly furthered by the modern- jstic trend in every branch of decor: tion toward brilliance of color and bol ness of line. Today's taste is mnot shocked by such antique combinations as purple and cerise, nor by composi- tion so stark as to be geometrical. “The curious result is that the older quilt patterns, particularly those that are of geometrical design, are as much at home among the angles and straight lines of the most severe futuristic fur- nishings as they are when surrounded by the graceful curves of Queen Anne or the elaborate carvings of Victoria. Indeed, many of the modernistic fabric designs are so nearly duplicates of an- tique quilt patterns as to appear plagia- ristic.” The author points out that while the early women of America were the cus- todians of the furniture, brass, china, ete., which filled Colonial homes, they themselves did not make ary of these things. In needlework only did women hold full sway. * ok k% Women a5’ well as men, we have dis- covered, mey have woefully inadequate Asa sample of ted | space ideas as to who and what really went into the upbuilding of this great country of ours. In talking to a young girl recently we stated that we had always been struck with some of the things that women can do better than men, and gave as a homely example the ability of women to tear a plece of cloth as straight as an arrow, as an ordinary part of every day sewing. i “Why, a man can do that, toa" said the girl; but if we did not miss our guess she would have torn a woefully crooked strip herself. She simply did not grasp the idea at all; to her men and women are exactly the same. As a matter of fact, women are no more like men than rabbits. What man who ever lived would have had the patience to put some 3,000 yards of fine Zuilting in a patchwork which for all practical purposes would have done as well with 1,500 yards of it? And this, keep in mind, after some 1,500 yards of fine sewing in putting the blocks into the top of the quilt. No, women are not men, and Miss Finley succeeds in_bringind® this out very well, in her infcgmative, chatty book, sprinkled with human ings equally with patchwork quilts. This is the distinguishing mark of this book, that it keeps to its title so completely, being ml:edp with anecdotes of human beings who lived long ago. The author, speaking of the wearing out through wlshln% and service of everyday articles, such as sheets, said: “yet now and then evervday fabrics did survive. Witness my Aunt Thankful's never-used linen sheets. There is scat- tered among the members of my family a set of 24 sheets, discolored but un- worn, spun and woven from flax grown in the Connecticut hills. —The pair that belongs to me is marked No. 12. Under the numbers are embroidered a heart and the initials T. 8. The whole marking is so delicate that it covers, in the upper right-hand corner of each cheet, Ki. than a square haif-inch of It is execu}::t‘i in cross-stitch done in a woman's hair. “Thankful Smith was the twin sister of a greatly removed grandmother. The two girls each spun, wove and marked for their dower chests 12 KII\'A of linen sheets while waiting for their lovers to come back from war. The betrothed of the twin who was my ancestress came home. She was married, and her chil- dren and her children’s children wore out her dower sheets. But Thankful's Inver never returned. Visiting among the family households as the patient drudge—that was the role of the spin- sters of her dav. Thankful had no need for the domestic linen of a home. The dower sheets she had marked with bridal herrts in h own hair were never used. They are today as smooth and fine and strong as the day they left her looms.” * ok kK In “Old Patchwork Quilts” one is brought face to face with such old songs as "1 Was Seeing hNem!utfhm;n;u vas from Aunt Dinah’s quilting ¥, by one knows—and “Go Tell Aunt abb; The writer here had not heard the tune since very early childhood, but when he read the lines he instinctively hummed the tune—correctly: “Go tell Aunt Nabby, Go tell Aunt Nabby, Go tell Aunt Nabby = Her old gray goose is dead. At Only we were brought up on Aunt Rhou{\'. 1t is such interesting Ameri- cana as this, Xnn of the bone and blood of native dn;;r{‘um. which makes this book a goo ok. Musculmesr!nders will not be inter- ested particularly in such chapters as those devoted to “Cutting the Patches' and “Sete, Borders and Wadding,” but the real humen material incorporated throughout will carry them over. Every one will be interested in this book, we believe, except the young girl instanced above, who could see no_dif- ference between men and women. Even she, it she would read “Old Patchwork Quilts,” might be enlightened. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. President Hoover and Senator Wat- son may have differed once upon a time about the advisability of any “butting in” by the White House, as far as the tarift situation in Congress is con- cerned. But the heart¢ of the Call- fornian and the Indianian appear to be beating as one just now. Whether the Fresident inspired the Senate ma- jority leader, or whether it was the other way about, the Hoover appeal for a tariff bill “within the next two weeks” synchronized, afmost ta the exact hour, with the delivery of Wat-| son’s impassioned demand for acticn in the Senate itse!f on Thursday. As they had had their heads together the evening before, it is plain there was at least a meeting of their minds—the exact kind of a get-together for which Senator Watson pleaded in his tem- porary valedictory address. Mr. Hoover's reiterited requesi for the flexible tariff blasts all prospects of a compromise, as far as the Democrats are concerned. Watson's words had hardly died down before Senator Simmons of North Caro- lina, ranking Democratic tariff spokes- man, prociaimed that his branch of the Senste coalition would never climb down either on the flexible plan or the | farm-debenture scheme. % ok «Jim" Watson can join the Flofida alligators confident of the unalloyed esteem of his Senate colleagues, tariff or no tariff. There was the ring of real affection and sincerity in the handclapping evoked by Hiram John- son's tribute to the Hoosier veteran, fol- lowing Watson's announcement of his trip South in quest of health. No Sen- ator ever stays “mad” at the G. O. P. leader very long. The glad-hending, elbow-greasing and shoulder-slapping, to *which the Indianian is addicted, sometimes don't mean anything when they emahate from the average poii- ticlan, When Watgon indulges in them, he somehow contrives to convey the impression that he means it all. Cer- tainly there's no more beloved man on either side of the Senate aisle. “Jim” may. command G. O. P. “followers” who go not whither he leads, but wherever they please, yet Republican regular, Western Insurgent or just plain Democrat, all and sundry, are ! unanimous in their personal affection for the seasoned old political hand | from the banks of the Wabash, far; away. * ok kK Ambassador Dawes is due in Wash- ington in a day or two, on the eve of his departure for England after a hurry- up trip to the United States ‘The general has spent all of his time in Chicago so far, but arrangsd to be in| the Nattonal Capitel for the last 48 hours of his stay in this country. Prob- ably he and Mrs. Dawes will be guests at the White House. Prospectively, also, President Hoover will take occasion at | that time officlally to announce the Ambassador’s inclusion in the Ameri- can delegation at the London naval con- ference. Dawes may count upon a cor- dial reception from his Washington chiefs—the President and the Secretary or State. Both Messrs. Hoover and Stimson think he did as clean-cut and repid-fire a piece of diplomacy in Lon- don I Summer, i paving the way to a naval egreement with John Bull, as | Uncle Sam'’s diplomatic annals rccordv; i PR Saying the wrong thing over the radio | is no laughing matter in Ji even if you say it over a stafion whose call letters are JOAK. That's the principal broadceasting station in Tokio. Accurfla ing to Japanese hewspapers just arrive in Waehington, that station’s announc- ers early in October sent out over the vag:aneu wave lengths the false tidings that the newly arrivel baby in the Im- erial household was a boy. There were corresponding, but premature, rejoicings all over the island because of popular longings for & male heir to the throne. When it was discovered that the little stranger had been converted, by, radio, from a girl into a boy, an investigation ensued. The managing director and news-manager ef Station JOAK were severely reprimanded. The head of the broadcasting department had his salary reduced, and two other employes, including the announcer of the inac- curate report, were “warned.” *x k% As hes been pointed out on previous occasions, the Heover administration is largely a Harvardized affair with a reasonable sprinkling of Stanfordiza- tion. Now a distinguished son of Princeton has bzen brought into the picture. Walter Ewing Hope of New York, who has just been appointed As- sistant Secretary of the Treasury in charge of the fiscal offices, is a son of Old Nassau, class of '01. From 1914 to 1917 Mr. Hope was chairman of the Princeton Graduate Council and he is now a life trustee of the university, besides being a member of its admin- istrative committee and chairman of the library ccmmittee. Hope became & great authority on fuel during the war. As a dollar-a-year man he had charge of conservation organizations in the 43 States. In 1918 he was sent abroad to survey fuel conditions in Great Britain, France and Italy. * kK K Nearly everybody in official Washing- ton believes that the executive or legis- lative branch of the Federal Govern- ment sooner. or later is going to have to_tackle the “supercorporation” de- velopment now so conspicuous & feature of American high finance. Senator Frederic M. Sackett, Republican, of Kentucky, is believed to have touched the thing off in his speech at Louisville last night. He charged that the new wealth of the country “has turned the flank of the protective barriers” pro- vided by existing national Irgislation. To such an extent has this bren done, Sackett declares, that the enti-trust laws, banking laws and transportation laws have been virtually nullifed. He thinks the time has come to curb these “‘supercorporate structures.” Other- wise, holding companies, chain banking organizations and investment trusts may become “dangerous creatures of our new wealth.” Significantly Senator Sackett concluded: “We in Washing- ton are mulling over these changes. We want the country to think of them and to us will drift the meat of its discussions. With all our future before us, it is up to the men of this day to preserve that basic American principle of ‘equality of opportunity’ that was the foundation-stone of the republic.” * % %k Have vou played “the money game"? That doesn't mean the New York stock market. It means & game invented by one of Premier Ramsay Macdonald’s closest friends, the English economist, Norman Angell, who accompanied him to America last month. Angell has been at work on the game for some 20 years. His idea is to make it possible, through the graphic medium of a fasci- nating game, for the average man or woman to understand such baffling things as the gold standard, inflation, deflation, the fluctuation of bond and stock prices, and rates of exchange. “The Money Game,” when learned and properly played, is sa'd by its inventor to give not only an intelligent, but an amusing and entertaining, insight into the mysteries of finance, A number of Washingtonians aye now engaged in mastering its fine points. It's played with cards and tokens symbolical of currency. (Copyright, 1929.) Woman to Try Air Trip Over Mount Huascaran From the Detrolt Free Press. Annie Smith Peck sails for the tenth time from New York for South America, where she plans to make an lane trip over the summit of Mount Huas- caran in Peru. Twenty-one years 20 September 2 Miss Peck and two Swiss guides reached Huascaran's north peak, 21,812 feet above sea level. a point 1,500 feet higher than Mount McKinley and the highest point on this continent at- tained by an American. In recognition of the feat the Lima Geographical So- clety named the north peak “Cumbre Ana Peck” and presented Miss Peck with a pair of silver stirrups. The go/= ernénfm of Peru also gave her a gold medal. Annie Smith Peck is a graduate of the University of Michigan. She re- ceived the degree of bachelor of arts | in 1878 and was given her master's de- gree in 1881, She went to study music in Germany, end in 1885-36 was the first woman to be enrolled at the American Schocl of Classical Studies at Athens, where she specialized in Greek and archeology. She reiurned to the United States to enter what was then the only “respectable” profession for women, school teaching. But the spirit of adventure was strong within the woman. By 1895 she had become & devotee of Alpinism, begin- ning her conquests with the ascent of the Matterhorn. In the Tyrol, in Mex- ico, in Bolivia she added mountain after mountain to her record. Her attention turned definitely to South America, where she explored the source of the Amazon and climbed several mountains, at least one of them namelsss. At a sclentific congress in Lima she was the only American delegate to read a paper in Spanish. Much later she lectured .n Spanish and Fortuguese throughout South America on the educational and industrial institutions of the United States. Now, at an age approaching three- score and ten, Miss Peck will return tc look from an airplane upon once famil- jar vistas without having to repeat the glllglg:ea and dangers of the upward Advocates Elimination Of Duplicate Efforts From the Schenectady Gazette. Out of the recent conference in Wash- ington between representatives of New York State and of the Federal Census Bureau in regard to the enuberation in this commonwealth may come much . The New Yorkers were directed the Legislature to attend the mest- ing as a prelimin: to abolish the State census. The more deegly we go into govern- mental affairs, the more waste and ex- travagance we find, to mention nothing worse. An important part of this waste comes through duplication of offices and of work. For instance, we find county, city, village and town officials doing the same thing and being paid for it, while in many cases one set of officers would accomplish as much at less expense to | the taxpayers. Again, we find both the Federal and State Governments taking enumerations of the inhabitants, duplicating the work at a heavy and unnecessary expenditure of public funds. There are, it is true, technical dif- ferences in the work—in the informa- tion sought. But there is no reason why the Federal Government cannot obtain such statistics as are vitally needed by the State—and make it un- necessary for the latter to take a cen- sus. o Sandwiches Advance Beyond Meat Eating From the Omaha World-Herald. W. B. Tagg notes that while the per capita meat consumption of the coun- try has been decreasing people are eat- ing more sandwiches than ever before This seems like a contradiction and would have been a contradiction before the.sandwich took on the multiform varfety that characterizes it today. The sandwich of yore was essentially a meat affair, It was constructed to satisfy a he-man appetite with a gen- erous piece of meat between two good slices of bread—none of thin, waferlike slices of meat, either, but a regular slab calculated to allay genuine hunger. Today meat is only &n inei- dental ingredient of the sandwich. The covers remain essentially the same. They differ a little in form, but con. tain the same old bread material. An: thing goes for the filling, a leaf of let- tuce, a slice of tomato, jelly, peanut butter, & chopped olive or what have you. The same change that has been wrought in the sandwich has been wrought generally in our diet. It has become immensely more varied. The sandwich is a symbel of our food hab- its. We are no longer restricted either to seasonable foods or to indigenous foods. Fopds produced almost any- where are 2.ailable for us at almost any time. Rapid transportation, refrigera- tion, the canner, the drier and ths meat packer have made this variety possible. Reveals Drab Side of Banker’s Case From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. A few weeks ago a number of per- sons were laughing at the worldly-wise financiers of New York who had been fleeced to the extent of $500,000 by a small-town banker of Colorado. What that man now has to contemplate is far from amusing; adjudged of “normal mentally and supernormal intelli- gence,” he will serve 15 years in the Federal Penitentiary at Atlanta. The smart man, who heard applauding laughter because he “put it over on™ some of the country's shrewdest bank- ers, passes into the nameless shadow of a cell. Here is the drab side of his exploit. While the merriment over the feat was at its height, a good many other persons did not appreciate the humor of the situation. ey realized that the attack was not on the individual bank- ers who suffered money losses, but against the system on which modern business is founded. Credit, the confl- dence which business men in one part of the country repose in the honor and integrity of those of another, was really the “victim. The Coloradoan simply took advantage of «this confidence through misuse of the mails. The Jjustice will give general satisfaction. s Film Eloquence Faces Disturbing Consequence ¥rom the New Castle News. It seemed not long ago that teaching the films to talk promised just another vein of public ‘entertainment, which would be ingeniously worked and de- veloped for the good of all concerned. But it is in an industrial law that no revolution in a single enterprise can be in other quarters are inevitable largely unforeseen in the flush of enthusiasm for the novelty that causes them. example, the talkies have not benefited theater musicians or organ manufac- turers, ‘The present is frankly a period of experiment with the articulate celluloid, and out of it the talking film will achieve its destiny, exactly as the mo- tion Jalctures themselves won their place beside the legitimate drama in the - ness of public entertainment. A more disturbing consequence of this sudden eloquence of the screen is concerned with ungulfi Hollywood products may cease to be popular the world over w] their exhibitors in non- English-speaking countries install the talkies. Only lovers of grand opera can enjoy listening to words they cannot translate. B ] Where Does King Stand? From the Akron Beacon Journ Meanwhile where does King George stand on this disarmament business? ary to a movement ! gomptnesx with which he was brought | For | can tal !State is paid by the Oakland Tril ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. ‘What do you need to know? I8 some point about your business or sonal life that pussles you? Is there mething you want to know without delay? Submit your question to Fred- eric J. Haskin, director of our Wash- ington Information Bureau. He is em- ployed to hel% you. Address your in- quiry to The Evening Star Information Bureau, PFrederic J. Haskin, director, Washington, D. C., and inclose 2 cents in coin or stamps for return postage. Q. How large is the electric sign which is to be used on the Warner Brothers’ Hollywood Theater, in New k C B. W. A, to be used on this new thea 1 require 20,000 bulbs. The steel structure for this sif Pifty-first to Fifty-second streets. 2,000,000, all Negroes, about 20,000 Afro-Americans. is the official language. ). What is the plural of “sum. mons”?—M. B Q. Why are regulations so strict in Pennsylvania concerning the stamping and selling of oleomargarine? Is it harmful in any way?—H. H. T. A. The regulations 6f Pennsylvania in regard to the handling of eleomar- garine are not different from those of other States, since this -is controlled by the Federal Government. For some time thers was much difficulty experienced in this particular product, due to the fact that dishonest merchants passed it for real creamery butter. As far as being harmful is concerned, it is not. It is considered a very healthful prod- uct, and is recommended by physicians and used by households throughout the United States. The pure food and drug laws of this country are very strict in regard to labeling products as exactly what they are. The same regulations apply to creamery butter. Creameries are likewise under Federal supervision in order to insure that the products wmi“? the required percentage of but- ter fat. . Why do the schoolgirls in Buda- pest wear uniforms?—B. R. T, A. The Hungarian ministry of cul- ture has carried into effect a regulation 1which prescribes sailor blouses as class: room attire for schoolgirls. Q. Is the dark part of Mars supposed to be water?>—A. M. J. A. The Naval Observatory says that the theory that the darker areas of the surface of Mars are covered by water has long been given up. Mars is all land. . Is it true that the American Philosophical Society owns millions of dollars’ worth of antiques?—C. C. A. The value of the treasures owned by this organization cannot be estimated in dollars. It is said that 78 per cent 3f the Franklin manuscripts is in posses- sion of this soclety. Among its other possessions which cannot be duplicated are a Gilbert Stuart portrait of Wash- ington, Benjamin Franklin's stepladder chair, and Jefferson’s chair in which he penned the Declaration of Independ- ence, Q. What amount of tin is used in a tin can’—N. B. A. One-sixtisth of the weight of each can is tin. The rest is steel. Q. When was the grapefruit tree dis- covered?—M. R. R. A. Columbpus found grapefruit grow: ing in the West Indies. Despite the fact that it has been known for so long, its popularity is comparatively recent. In the United States it has enjoyed great vogue for the past 20 years. Eng. ‘There is much satisfaction expressed over the selection of Senator David A. Reed of Pennsylvania and Senator Joseph T. Robinson of Arkansas as delegates to the coming conference on naval armament. . Many writers believe that such representation from the Sen- ate, representing, as it does, both parties, will have a tendency to remove such antagonisms as have existed in the Eln, One cbjection, however, is raised y the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, which points to the fact that Pennsyl- vania now has but one Senator because of the Vare hard for the State to re its remain- ing Senator for other duties. The Bulle- tin adds: ‘Certainly if Senator Reed is to be absent any considerable time the Senate should lose no time in ending the injustice to this State incident to its delay in handling the Vare case. For that reason, it is generally accepted that his consent to take the post is based on assurance that the matter of the senatorial vacancy will be disposed of early in the regular session.” ‘The policy involved is questioned by the New York Evening World in the statement: “Whether Senators who pass on a treaty should ever be members of such a delegation has long been the subject of hot debate, but we have ap- parently decided in favor of the policy. The objection is illustrated in the story that Senator Robinson is a powerful man in the Senate and will be ‘a tower of strength in advocating Senate ratifi- 'utlon of any naval disarmament treaty concluded in London. It is possible that he may not approve of some fea- tures of the treaty, but will sign as a minority member. Then, in his capacity as Senator, passing on the treaty, he will be embarrassed by the action of the de]esnnom He may have to subordinate his duty as a Senator to his obligation as & member of the delegation.” Many papers give chief attention to the advantages of having these Senators on the delegation. “Certainly with men of such caliber and with such truly Tepresentative qualities in attendance at the London meeting,” says the Provi- dence Journal, “no Senator of either party can claim during ratification pro- ceedings—which are inevitabls if the conferenc: produces a treaty—that President Hoover has not taken the Upper House into his confidence in at- tempting to execute one of his major foreign policies.” The Anniston, Ala. Star also feels that the Senate repre- sentation will “greatly strengthen his appeal to the country in behalf of rati- |“°:"°‘.2'."m lection of Secre s e selection of ta State Stimson to head the del r{loga’. the Houston Chronicle declares that it reassures us that the Government will leave no stone unturned to make the conference a eum‘glm success.” paper points out the difficulties in con- nection with the matter of dealing with Japan, France and Italy, and com- ments: “In view of such knotty prob- lems and so much political antagonism, kept a private matter.. Reverberations | it would be foolish to be sanguine as to | &: the outcome. Nevertheless, the appoint- ment of Mr. Stimson to Jead the Ameri- effort ngu us high hopes.” The Chattanooga Times is convinced that “the outlook for worth-while achievement is bright,” and the Tim pays the tribute: “It is altogeth rhmper that Mr. Stimson should head e commission. In addition to being head of the department of the Govern- ment which deals with foreign powers, he is also understood to be in thorough accord with President Hoover, both as to the advisability of naval reduction and as to the President's’ method of ap- ymaeh to the subject.” Representation for the Senate impresses the Times as wisely provided by Mr. Hoover. | Further tribute to Secretary ibune there [land has lately become a good r- | for grapefruit, while France is beginning towers 80 feet above the roof of the | building and covers the full block from | A. The plural form is “summonses.” | ot} market to use it to some extent. Q. Do high school students grzfcr | men or women as teachers>—W. B. A. Such a question is controversial, but in a survey conducted at a large high school in Chicago it was found that girls prefer as instructors and boys would rather be taught by women.. The reasons stated for these preferences were that feminine peda- gogues, according to the boys. gere more sympathetic and understanaung, while the men were credited by the girls with greater fairness and with | teaching more from experience. Q What companies form the Bell ‘Telephone System?—A. J. 8. A. The American Telephone & Tele- graph Co. with its 24 assoclated operat- ing companies forms the Bell Telephone System. It owns directly or indirestly the whole or the majority of the com- mon stock of 22 companies and a mi- h | nority in 2 companies. Q. Where were masks first worn at fancy dress balls?—H. W. A. The uss of masks at costume balle ated in Italy, where the domino or mask, worn by ladies, became very popular. Q. Has Vera Cruz a good harbor?— A. Although Vera z is a shallow and low harbor, it is ideally protected by small islands and also reefs. It was {one of the first places visited by the | early explorers, and one of the first settled. By means of modern engineer- |ing facilities the harbor has been dredged and made accessible for ocean- going vessels. It is one of the most im- portant ports in Mexico, if not the most important. Q. Of the per capita { meat how much is pork' A. In 1928 the per capita consump- tion of meat in the United States was 153 pounds. Of this amount 74 pounds was pork. Q. What is the new manuscript of Alexandre Dumas’ which has been dis- eoxere:?—& lr.. m’X‘, . newly discovered and unpub- listhed work by Alexandre Dumuphns been edited and trantlated by R. S. Gar- nett, English author and editor. This work, which is called “On Board the Emma,” fills a gap in Dumas’ life, which heretofore has not been explained. The manuseript is in his own handwriting, ;:s‘l,tah is described as a beautiful, clear consumption of 2—A. H. Q. What will prevent dry rot in floors>—R. F. K. A. The Forest Service says that to prevent dry rot in floors the wood ghould be treated with a preservative before it is used and there should be air vents in the foundation so that the air would not be confined beneath the floor. Q. How many acres are there in the National Soldiers’ Home grounds in Washington and_how many miles of driveway?—J. O'B. A. The home has a little over 800 acres in ground and has 9 miles of driveway. Q. How many le touring in automobiles?—C geo!p - A. The American Automobile Asso- clation says that there are no figures available on the number of estimates on the number of tourists in the entire United States. In 1927 it was _estimated that there would be 40,000,000 tourists taking the road in 10,000,000 cars and that they would spend $3,340,000,000 that year. In 1928 it estimated abou’ $3,500,000,000 would Wisdom of Picking Senat: For Arms Meeting Is Upheld proceedings, and that it is | ter of | of be spent by 44,000,000 le on vaca- tions or on automobile veomp Senators holds that “in each case fitness for the work, rather than any partisan con- sldermone.r has undeniably controlled “It seems but common sense,” advises the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, “after the pains taken to iron out differences in advance between nations, that due con- sideration should be given at the same time to the viewpoints of the parlia- mentary bodies that hold the fate finally of the pacts negotiated. In a broad sense, they reflect public opinion more accurately than any executive, no mat- how conscientiously he may seek to T e Norfol - tch empha- sizes the fact that the two Senators are “strong defenders of American rights on the high seas,” and that papsr adds that “while they are, no doubt, thor- oughly in accord with the principles that have actuated the President in en- tering the preliminary conferences with Great Britain for naval arms limitation of an effective and constructive char- acter, neither may be expected to follow blindly any propcsal that may tend to a result similar to that brought about st Washington eight years ago.” Harrisburg Telegraph avers that “Sen- ator Reed is a student of world affairs, well informed and fearless,” and that “the President's choice of Senator Rob- inson to represent the minority party is a graceful gesture.” Ballot of Labor Sweeps Australia From the Louisville Courler-Journal. In a veritable landslide the Labor y of Australia has swept the coun- . P to co-operate with the Macdonald government in the develop- ment of the empire and the of world peace, it has duplicated the performance of British labor in the general elections last May and has overthrown a ministry that has held on for the last six years. According to reports from the elec- tion, the Australian trade unionists have scored an even greater victory than the followers of Prime Minister Macdonald. Of the 75 seats in the House of Repre- sentatives they have won 44, a clear majority instead of the precarious status of the Laborites in England. So far as the lower chamber is concerned, no coalition can upset them, though at any moment British Conservatives and gtfi:“‘u mly’unlu to oust the present regime. But, despite its victory, the Australian Labor faction, which has long been feared because of its radical left wing, is not without restraint. The National- ists continue to hold a predominant majority in the Senate, which was not affected by the recent balloting. The Country coaliti>n, which has led the Dominion since 1923 unoer Prime Minister Stanley Bruce, may be xpected to be a veciferous minority in the house. Extreme Socialist legislation may therefore have hard ding if such is attempted by the new exuberant tuxde gwninu plr;y. n matter of arbitration of labor disputes the election is determinative. The Bruce government was overthrown because it advocated the elimination of the federal court, in the mafjority of such cases lea their decisions to state 1s. was urged on the ::g'un.fl; fltmt it '3:'.“: avold an unneces- costly arrangement, but Labor fought the measure tooth and neil. The ministry split over it and former Premier Hughes took sides with the opposition. It was the contention of the Laborites that the state courts arbitration could be dominated by industrials and their advocacy of in the statement that “no man has had $0 much experience in foreign lands; few have so large an understanding of | issue. international affairs,” and that “he met every task astigned him, under several Presidents, in a way to him praise.” As to the senatorial qualities represented, the Birmingham News tribunal n:'ll an kl':l::vr{:l;nm&nflug mala goverament and the promise SE Cperate with It Bowever, weré o doubh important factors in the result.