Evening Star Newspaper, November 4, 1929, Page 8

HE EVENING ' STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY......November 4, 1920 THEODORE W. NOYES. The Everilng Star N ipet Comipany Busp 7 1ty & and Fentavivania Ave New York 1 Eaat end o ago chigan Building. St.. London. « Editor nfleni Rate by Carrier Within the City. Fho Evenine Star.. .. 45¢ per month he Evening and Sunday Star (when 4 Sundays) 60¢ per month The Evening and Sun E (when 5 Sundays). 85¢ per month The Sunday ent 1n by mall or telephone Rate by Mail—Payable In Advance. Maryland and Virginia. 7 and Sunday....1 7. $1000: 1 mo. 88 1y 3 1 m on only . All Other States and Canada. {ly and Sunday..l yr.$12.00: 1 mo. § ily only - BE o me. usday onls 1yl $5.00{ 1 mo. 80 Member of the Associated Press. ociated Press s cxclusively entitiea to the use for republication of &ll rews dis- oublish All riehts of publica epecial herein are also reserved. The Young Plan in Germany. Germany's nationalist anti-Young plan party “has won its first battle” as the Kreuz-Zeitung exults at Berlin, hav- ing on Saturday rolled up the registra- tion requisite for holding a nation-wide plebiscite to approve or disapprove the new reparations agreement. The referendum proposal needed a total of ten per cent of the registered electorate, In order to place it on a constitutional basis. The electorate numbers 41,019,181, and a tctal of 4,- 136,384 persons asked for the plebiscite, representing a fraction of one per cent over and above the necéssary poll. The margin is not as deep as a well or as wide as a church door, but it suffices. ‘The German enemies of an orderly, fair adjustment of the reparations contro- versy will now have the demanded op- portunity of reviewing the Reichstag’s prespective ratification of “the Young plan. Saturdey's vote, it appears, calls upon the Reich government to submit to the Reichstag the . so-called “liberty bill” sponsored by the East Prussian and Pomeranian junkers who would ditch the reparations agreement. The bill, which is strongly opposed by the .gov-! ernment, would compel notification to the cther signatories of the treaty of Versailles that Germany rejects the celebrated “war guilt” theory. It insists upon unconditional evacuation of Ger- man territory by allied troops and te- nounces any further financial obliga- tions on Germany's part, including those embraced in the Young plan. It would render liable for prosecution for high treason any ministers of the Reich who sign any agreement growing out ©f the reparations settlement. Happily there is slim hope that this peace-menacing Nationalist program will secure a majority either in the Reichstag or later in the country, to which the Young plan eventually will now be presented for ratification, or rejection, by popular vote. Four million German voters declared thémselves op- ed herein. dispatche- 3 i ver ai {he éhd of rach month. | i 1 mo.. 40c | | fter confessing the crime | , denies it in court, and after taking the stand in his own defense the lights go out and the jury sees and hears the defendant detalling the story of his own crime. Would the showing of the film be interpreted as forcing the man to testify against himself? Could it be challengsd and suppressed on that ground? If admitted, would the evi- dence be challenged on the ground that the picture was “framed” and the voice in the film is not the voice of the de- murder, the pol play the part that handwriting and fingerprint experts and alienists have I played in past trials? Perhaps we have merely scratched { the surface in our ability to use sclence and invention in the conviction of criminals. And perhaps our rules of | evidence may be facing as thorough a {renovation as are our accepted police methods in the detection of crime. e eee Limited Revision. The outlook for & “limited” revision of the tariff is brightening. The coali- tion in the Senate has the whip hand, strengthened just now by the Senate investigation. Joseph R. Grundy, presfdent of the Pennsylvanis Manu- facturers’ Association, whe. prastically declaved that he weuld rewrite the Constitution of the United States and eut off the power of Senators from smaller States in order to assure the passage of such a tariff bill as the manufacturers desire, has made the passage of the bill in the form in which it was put through the House or re- ported to the Senate out of the ques- tion. Nothing could happen which would have mor> solidified the coalition; made it more difficult for the high pro- tectionists in the Old Guard to pick off votes here and there when néeded. The consequence has been that the West and the South have taken com- mand in the Senate, so far as tariff writing is concerned. This may bé a bitter pill to the East and North, but is one which the representatives of | those séctions have largely forced upon themselves. President Hoover meant what he said in his message to Congress when he recommended a limited revision of the tariff, to aid the farmers and such industries as have been hard pressed by . foreign compé- tition in recent years. It is no secrét that the general re- vision contained in the House bill was not satisfactory to him. After the House had put through such a bill, the Senate bécame the only hope for a limited revision. The Western Repub- licans, many of them stanch friends of thé President, have taken the lead in demanding lower rates on many manufactured products. That is the position taken by Capper and Allen of fendant? Will “voice” experts come to | énormous amount of research. The na. ture of these infinitely little atomic sys. temns which are at the base of matter is only vaguely understocd. They are outside the perception of the senses, mechanisms which the scientific imag- ination has found necessary to explain the behavior of matter. For all practical purposes, they now represent the end of the road for physi- cal experimentation. This, of course, may not always be the case. It is very likely that in a fow years science will have come to a profounder reality which may be interpreted, still temporarily, as “the mother stuff of the universe.” But it seems safe to assume that Mr. Rollins meant his phraseology to be in- terpreted in the terms of the practical physicist. Considered in this light, he could hardly have found an institution better advantaged to carry out the pur- pose of his bequest and possibly bring results of great practical importance to science. Speculators may go far be- yond the electrons and protons, but when they do so they are venturing, for the present, far beyond the borders of the knowable into the tangled ways of philosophical mysticism. The Federation's Unanimity. Acting 8s a clearing house of local public epinion and serving 85 an influ- ential faetor in behalf of the welfare of the cemmunity, the Fedsration of Citigens' Associations has comple another year of its existence and has| marked its milestone with the re-elec-| tion of its officers in a most gratifying spirit of unanimity. This organization, which is composed of delegates from the numerous and widely inclusive as- sociations that represent the neighbor- hoods and sections of the Distriet, has | demonstrat=d its value as a fapto? in | the municipal administration by afford- ing a concentrated reflection of the judgment and desires of the gtherwice unrepresented citizens of the Capital. To some degree, as it has been indi* cated in the past, its strength and in- fluence for good depend upon the sup- part given to the officers by the dele- gate body. Division has not worked for the prestige of the federation, und now that a satisfactory combination of officers has been given undivided sup- port for another period of usefulness it may be expected that the federation will continue its excellent service, with even greater zeal and efficiency, for ‘Washington. The growth in numbers ang in strength of the eitizens' associations has been a matter of the greatest gratification to The Star, which has from the beginning fostered the de- vélopment of this form of local ex- pression of opinion. From & small start the system of neighborhood groups, each devoted to the welfare of the im- Kansas, for example. It is true that the extremists from the West went fur- ther and .in a combination with the Democrats struck from the bill the flexible provisions, which give the Presi- dent powér to raise or lower rates by fifty per cent, after investigation and recommendation by the Tariff Commis- sion. In that respect they have meodi- fied the bill in opposition to the wishés of the President. They alto, through the same coalition, put into the bill the debenture plan for aiding the farthers, mediaté vicinage, has now hecome a far-flung and, through the federation, well co-ordinated organization of citi- zens. Through the federation™tha slight sectional differences are ad- Justed. Through it the constituent units gain strength from dne another. —————— The members of the stff of the New York Stock Eichange and the forces of the brokers aré disposed, it would seem, to be a bit sképtical about the ‘three-Gdy holiday” that has just been posed to it~—or were coerced, in part, into doing 8o, for the cables bring re- ports of terrorism against tenant farm- ers in ‘the Prussian junker provinces. But more than 37,000,000 veters by ab- stention from the polls gave powerful evidence that in their overwhelming majority the German people espouse a course of sanity in their present-day international relations. That they will finally reflect that view in stentorian tone at the forthcoming plebiscite is now hardly to be doubted. Germany is “coming back” so fast, is giving so creditable an account of herself all along the line, that it would shock the world if the Reich were to turn its back, at this stage, on the policies which the lamented Stresemann promoted and which President Hindenburg is so cour- ageously supporting. Every dictate of German self-interest, to put it on no higher plane, clamors for the eatliest possible indorsement of the Young plan by the German people. Perhaps Dr. Alfred Hugenberg, boss of the Nationalist wrecking crew, sees the handwriting on the wall in the cir- cumstance that his party on November 2 contrived to poll only four-sevenths of its nominal vote in Reichstag elec- tions. Even junkerdom seems to recog- nize that the German jingo jig is up. ——oaa ‘Though New York has four mayoral- ity candidates to vote for tomorrow, it will probably not find itself in the plight of France in working out a min- istry from numerous divergent factions. Pliey ~— The Modern “Third Degree.” An alleged murderer has volintarily taken the leading role in a “talkie” film made for experimental purposes by Philadelphia police. Brought into the presence of detectives and sitting before ! & sound-recording camera, a police in- spector asked him: “You understand why you are here?” | ‘The man nodded his head. “I have told you that everything you say Tmay be used against you,” contin- ued the inspector. “Yes, you did.” “Why are you here?"” “For murder, I guess. killed a girl last night.” ‘Then, according to the reports, the man proceeded to tell why he killed the girl and of the manner in which she died. Thus there comes into being the modern procedure in obtaining “third degree” confessions, Imagine the possi- bilities! In place of the stenographical~ ly recorded confessions introduced in court, always open to attack from de- fense counsel on the ground that they ‘were obtained through intimidating tac- tics, future juries may see a sound pic- ture recording the prisoner in the act of making a verbal statement confessing his crime. In the place of witnesses who give incomplete and conflicting ac- counts of what they found on the scene of murder, our prosecuting attorneys of the future may darken the courtroom and reveal to the jury the “talkies” taken on the day the body was found, I shot and to which the Président is strongly op- posed. Nevertheless, the coalition is now apparently il & position to make possible the limited révision of the tirisf which the President recommended. There are some members of the coali- tion who believe that if the rates of the tariff bill cdn be réwrittén 50 as to aid the farmers and at the same time not give so many and such large increases to the manufacturers of goods the farmers must buy, the effort i Kill | the flexible provisions of the tariff and | to enact into law the debentufe clause may be abandoned. ‘The situation is not yet straightened out by any means. The House must be considered. The large Republican majority in that body may make a vigorous fight against the rates of the bill as they will come from the Senate coalition. It is even possible that the House majority might sacrifice the flex- ible provisions and permit the deben- ture plan to be writteri into tie meass ure in order to win cohcesslons on some of the rates in the bill. A bill passed by both houses and sent to the President under such conditions would place Mr. Hoover ih 4 position wheré he would have to take debenture or a bill minus the fibxible provision, ifi which he believes, of kill the measuré by a veto. There is a good deal of politics in the maneuvering of the Sen- ate coalition, as well a8 & desire w5 rewrite rates so as to benefit the farm- ers and the consumers of manufacture articles. It is anti-Hoover politics, de- signed to put the President in a hole it it can be doné. e 5 It is reported that Theodore Roose- ‘velt, the new d_ovemor ot Porto Rico, has learned and is speaking Spanish at his post. He probably is stil] both- ered a bit by the ovis poli accent he acquired in Asia. N The Mother Stuff. A singular bequest has come to the Smithsonian Institution — $100,000 for the study of “the mother stuft of the universe and to find out how to mgke use of its manifestations for the benefit of man” * Unless the purpose is more specifically defined in the will of the late Willlam H. Rollins of Boston, this phraseology opens. inviting avenues for the philo- sophical imagination. Science still is afar off from the fundamental reality of which even the most intricate phe- nomena of nature may be only super- ficlal manifestations. Back of the atom, the smallest division of mintter, aré the presumably immaterial particles of neg- ative and positive electricity. -Matter is held. They worked long overtime from the closing of business on Thursday until the opening this morning clear- ing up the debris of the storm, ~o— With s0 many sidelines out at once, in the way of investigations, scandal hunts, censures and excursions into va- tious flelds of research, the original purpose of this present special session of the Senate appears to be somewhat obscured. ] With characteristic confidence the Tammany leaders are awaiting tomor- fow's election in & merely mathemati- cal mood, simply wondering just how big Mayor Jimmy Walker's majority is WASHINGLUN, J THIS The close packing of human belnfi in cities would seem to require a who new approach to the matter of thoughtfuiness in regard to others. As urban noises increase in number and variety, and as the trend of the {age is toward sophistication, there. comes a new requirement for the con- sideration of others by all of us. There was a time when it didn't make much difference if one’s neigh- bor stayed ‘up all night. He was merely reading, or arguing religion {with a friend, and usually he was far ienough away to make his noise neg- ligible. Today all that is changed. Not only has t real estate created a closely situation, physically and actually, but the strides of mod- ern invention have brought about masterpieces of noise making. In the forefront of these devices must be placed the automobile and the radio. Both can be operated with a minimum of noise, but too often each 15 handled in the one precise way to make it annoy-as many persons as ssible. Po¥ike the barking dog, neither the aytomobile nor ths radio is to blame. The old human factor is st fault. Not nnl{ pride of possession steps in to make a man toot his fancy autemobile horn at 2 am. but his pride in the wer of his new radio set compels rll!l—ll he is of that temperament—to keep it running at full blast long after every other person in the neighbor- hood has gone to bed. * % K * a whole city full of noire aud indiffer- ence, not only to the rights of others, but to their peace, health and happi- ness. Lack of consideration of others has a much mere hurtful effect on the minds of men snd women than upen their ears. It i§ net the grating sound made by the deg left in the backyard, byt the impaet ef the listeners’ own d upen his entire dispesition. may net be very sclentific, but it will be understood by every ope who has been kept awake at night by a neighbor’s barking dog while the afore- mentioned neighbor drowned out the barking of his four-legged possession by running his radio loud enough to sup- ply a large concert hall with music. It is not so much the actual noises involved, as the fuming and fretting in which they put the sensitive. And let it be said that every one is sensitive to something or other; what annoys one will not annoy another, and so on. “Why, I never mind the noise,” said one head of a family. “I stay up until it is all over.” Others. however, were not in a situation which would enable them to act in a similar manner if they had wished to, which they did not. It was necessary for them to be at work from two to three hours earl than the man who “did not mine There is little question that if he had suddenly b;enn ;rqulm;dfig change his reporting time he woul ave been as keen as the next one for peact .:3 quiet in his neighborhood. * ok kK Such essentially selfish attitudes are based on a lack of consideration for others, and even more upon a lack of realization of the conditions under which people live today in great cities. The noise question is be consid- ered everywhere throughout the world, but all the governmental and scientific action in the world cannot take the place of common sense ‘and elemental decency. One would like to say that the Gold- en Rule, if applied, would take .care of the Situation. The truth is, alas, that peopde no more will follow the Golden Rule in this regard than in any other. That is why we_have police regulations, which have been formu- lated to take care of people who will Minnesota—there she stands, grow- ing fatter and fatter at the Hoover ple counter. Appointment of Attorney General G. Aaron_Youngquist to b2 Assistant Attorney General of the Unit- ed States in charge of prohibition and taxation raises the Gopher State al- most to the pinnacle in the present Federal picture in Washington, For a commonwealth, repfesénted in the Sen- ate by a Farmer-Labor man and a Republican Progressive, it's doing pretty going to be. —_———ee Rescue by a British ship of three naval aviators from their fuelless drift- ing plane at Sea buggests that surface eraft will continue to be usetul for some time to come, for salvage pur- poses if for nothing else. ] AS the skirts grow shortér, it appears from a recent trade report, the earn- ings of the hosiery makers grow larger. Thus it is. again demonstrated that there is no waste in Nature. —— Treasury summaries disclose that 200 Americans had million-dollar incomes in 1927. The figures for 1929, which will appear later, may show some reflex of the recent stock market gyrations. ———— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. The Huntsman, well in the patronage patch, In the Hoover cabinet sits Attorney General Mitchell of St. Paul. Dr. James M. Doran, the prohibition commissioner, is credited to St. Paul. At the White House two-thirds of the President’s secretaridl staff — George Akerson and Walter H. Newton—come from Minne- apolis. Roy A. Young, governor of the Federal Reserve Board, is a Minneap- olis banker in his grlvne capacity. William F. Schilling, the dairy indus- try's spokesman on the new Federal Farm Board, hails from Northfield. Arch Coleman, First Assistant Postmas- tet General, was until recéntly post- master of Minneapolls. Charles H. March, member of the Federal Trade Commission, is from Litchfield. Edgar Markham, assistant to the thairman of the Federal Farm Board, calls St. Paul his home town. Dr. Shipstead is chairman of the Senate committee on printing. ke John V. A. MacMurray's 1esignation as American Minister to China and his incidental departure from diplomacy constitute an acknowledged loss to th2 United States foreign service. He is the finest type of “career man” Uncle Sam has developed, entering the inter- national field immediately after leaving Squirrel in de chestnut tree i+ ‘Peskin’ erost de limb, He looks mighty good to me An’ I looks queer to him. Keep a'walkin’ keerful, son. Don’ have much to say. . ‘Watch yoh uncle point de gun— An keep dat dog away. Whut were dat jes’ hit me, son? Who done heave a brick? Don’ tell me did pore ol' gun Done it wiv a kiek! Squirrel in de chestnut tree Peekin’ crost de limb. He ain’t no account to me An’ I won't notice him. “Figures won't lie,” said the emphatic person. “That depends,” replied Miss Cay- enne, “on whether you are talking about mathematics or millinery.” Chastisement. “What has become of that political leader who used to threaten us with all sorts of things if we didn't behave,” a menifestation comprehensible to the human senses of the behavior of these particles. But what lies beyond the electricity? Mathematical analysis al- ready has provided some intricate con- cepts. And what is beyond these—pre- suming that they are valid? 5 It is a long, mystical road back to the “mother stuff” of creation, the nature of which so long has intrigued scientists, with investigating detectives pointing out and explaining the significant de- tatis. "Within & few years our court- philosophers and theologians. Smithsonian scientists, however, are likely to stop within the realms of the The | 4° not approve in the slightest.” asked one voter. “I don't know,” replied the other. “I suspect he is giving us the sllence discipline.” Exclusi “Don't you desire to b famous?” “No,” replied Mr. Groucher. “I don't care to have my name in the en- cyclopedia along with those of whom I The Timid Soul. “Well,” -said . the cheery citigen, houses will probably be equipped with | practical and devote their efforts to| Thanksgiving day. will soon be here.” projection rooms, while movie directors further determination of the natural “Yes,” replied the apprehensive man; and their corps of skilled photographers | laws which govern the behavior of the|“It's going to be the same old struggle and “sound” operators will be members | measurablé protons and electrons. All | with mince ple and turkey and sage and of every bureau of crime investigation. that lies beyond is immeasurable, and, onion and things. Couldn't we start No man can be made to testify against consequently, outside the field of exact & movement to make Thanksgiving Bimself. Suppose a man charged with asclence. AL the best, these call for an onie of the safe and sane holidays?” Princeton and devonn’ his entire life to it.. Few diplomats of any nalionality know the Far East as MacMurray does. His two volumes on China’s foreign treaties were official text books at the Washington conference on Pacific af- fairs in 1921-22. Just what prompted MacMurray to relinquish an appar- ently distinguished future is not quite clear. Some of his friends allege he is @isappointed over the thwarting of his smbition to become American Ambas- sador to Japan. There have been ir- responsible reports that the Tokio gov- ernment intimated that MacMurray would not be persona grata to it, be- cause of reputed pro-Chinese and anti- Japanese sentiments. Johns Hopkins University, in which he is to have an important post, is taking front rank as a specialist in world politics. Perhaps MacMurray will head its department of Far Eastern affairs. 3 * ok ok k “Bill” Borah is at least one prophet not without honor in own land. Idaho, through its State Geographic Soclety, has adopted a suggestion to name the highest mountain in the Stats “Mount Boerah.,” Perhaps subtle compliment, the peak is described as “a hard old eminence.” It is part of the Pahsimerel Rang> and “has with- stood the shock of many centuries of storms, resisting u-'lgh.elementa wit adamantins vigor.” t might almos! be a citation of Borah's record in the Senate. Commenting on Mount Borah’s weather-defying qualities, the Pocatello Tribune remari ‘But there’s a limit even to shock absorbers, and it is doubt- ful whether the old mountain will ever feel the same after a bottle of cider is dropped onto it from an airplane in a cg:islenlnl ceremony. Thus to be baptized is nothing short of a hard blow. However, it may be hard cider, without the Senator's knowledge.” * %k X A ch ambassador M c"wwfln add to his many distinctions that of ha one of his vruyl produced for the firs! time in uhln,wn It is & prose tragedy, entitled “The Tldlng to ry,” translated from tI French into English by Louise Sill, American poetess. The h There are but two con: Terations in | WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. not think of others until they are forced to do so. do so. ‘The hope is, however, that the gréat bulk of city residents have become thoroughly urban conscious. They realize that few today live in mansions in their own grounds. They know that walls between houses in rows are not as thick nor as soundproof as they once were. They know that different people have different kinds of work, that they work during different times, and that they do entirely different types of work. They know these things; it remains for them to be brought to their atten- tion often enough to make them reakze | that there is a very satisfactory solu- tion of city living for every one if every one ‘will co-operate for the bene- fit of every one else. Co-operation, then, must stand as the common sense solution of city liv- ing, especially from the angles of peace and quiet, and their opposites, noise and hurly-burly. It is impossible to believe that there are more than one or two families in any given neighbor- hood who would deliberately keep a man awgke until 3 or 4 am. I&m they know that he must report at his place of business at 8 o'clock, or maybe 7 or 6 o'clagk. We are convinced that all who "throw wild parties,” if they onge stopped to think the matter over. would attempt to | make thm less wild they really thought t they were preventing & neighbor from earning his bread and butter. It is because they have never put such matters upon ‘a common - sense, personal basis that they mostly are thoughtless of the rights of others, and indifferent, to their weifare, R s “Campaigns” are started with many different aims; we are convineed that a fine one could be undertaken with the eimple objective of a square deal for every city resident in the matter of living congditions to his liking. No modern man or woman, we are mvmcu, could withstand the logie of campa which would be ene of education réughout, witheut penalty or fine. ‘The net result of it would be that all sorts of common nuisances and annoy- ances would be ended by the co-opera- tion of the very people who create them or permit them to go on. The'term “community living,” instead of being just a phrase, as it so often is now, weuld become a real matter of concern to every man, woman and child who wanted to get the most out of life. Instead of a pretty phrase, “‘com- munity living” would become just that —community living, with the rights of every one safeguarded for the benefit of -every one, Citizens’ associations might funttion as courts of complaint, where infractions might be aired and the light of decent opinion placed squarely upon them. Out of this enforced turning of the gaze, mental and actual, upon the ques- tion of consideration of others, would come a personal interest in what others want in the way of everyday lving. The trouble today is that so many never once stop to think. The growth of large cities, and what may be called the “city complex,” have come about so gradually that the average city resi- dent finds a cruel selfishness stealing over him. It takes real resolution, true determi- nation, to realize that the man next door whom we do not know is never- theless a human being like unto our- self, with a perfect right to want to go to at 9 o'clock if he wants to, or if he has a headache, or if his job demands it. Yet this is the need of modern eity living, without which those who live in the smallest hamlets enjoy better living, in a great many ways, than we who so proudly think of our- selves as “city people.” be given Christmas éve at chev{ Chase School by that brilliart galaxy of Washington profession~: and amateurs known as the Chevy Chase Players. M. Claudel has promised to take an active part in superintending the production. M. Jules Jusserand, long-time and well remembered French envoy in Washing- ton, has written & stirring article in the November National Geographic Magazine on “Armistice Day and the American Battle Fields.” It is richly illustrated with colored photographs of the terrain on which the doughboy im- mortalized himself 11 years ago. * k ok X Eric H. Louw (pronounced Low), who is about to assume his duties as the first Minister of the Union of South Africa to the United Btates, is a young statesman of old Dutch T stock. Born and raised in the Orange Free State whiie it and the Trinsvaal Re- public were still under ths British yoke, Mr. Louw has bsen highly honored in the public service of his country. Until a year or two ago he was South African consul general at New York. Then he was promoted to be high commissioner in London. Now he is assigned to the first of the three foreign legations South Africa is establishing. The others are in the Netherlands and Italy. John Bull's genius for compromise with his “daughter nations” and dependencies is classically exen‘lglllfled by Britain's acquiescence in ir diplomatic sover- eignty. Since the World War, Canada, Ircland, Egypt and now South Africa have set up their own legations in Washingten. Australia and India prob- ably are next on the list. B8 % w An historic battle flag—the banner of purple, white and green which was the militant emblem that won suffrage for English women—will short'y be un- furled in Washington. It is to lead the procession to the memorial service which the National Woman's Party will hold on_December 8 in honor of Bm- meline Pankhurst. The flag 15 being specially sent from London for the ceremonies in (he‘cr:‘;pt* of the Capitol. * President Hoover is hard ¢t work on his Armistice day speech, which will feature the American Legion's big cele- bration in Washington. It is expected that all radio records will be smashed by the widespread domestic and over- seas networks which the Columbia and National broadcasting systems are arranging for the occasion. Mr. Hoover i§ certain to make statements of far- reaching importance on the naval situa- tion, in light of the Macdonald visit and the London conference. ° (Copyright, 1920.) Opening of New Land Bids for Population in | From the St. Louis Timés. A commission of 10 men will try and tell the Government what to do with 190,000,000 acres of land owned by the United States, the surface rights of which have not yet been appropriated. ‘Under the plan of President Hoover the surface rights to these Jands would be given to the various States in which the land lies. They could then be turned over for grazing, homesteading ahd for the other s of agriculture. Many who may be worrying about the increase in population and who may think this coun is becoming too thickly settled will be glad to know that there are some wide openings left for the pioneers. It would perhaps be worth the while of some thousands of indi- viduals packed in cities to watch this situation by getting their ears to the ground. - Distance Lends Enchantment. From the Canton Daily News. ‘What we can't understand is why so many mof drive to distant places to be ki they have all the at home. 5 dgn:mlt&mbfltmnlwdnhw Seeks Loan of Letters Of Chester A. Arthur To the Editor of The Star: I am preparing a biography of Chester A. Arthur and seek assistance in locat- ing letters written by him. Will you help me by printing this letter in an early issue among readers? }ersons who -have letters written by Gen. Arthur at any stage of his career are urged to notify me at the Univer- sity of Cincinna#, stating to whom they are addressed and the date of writing. Letters loaned to me will be promptly copled and returned. All such assistance will be acknowledged in the book. GEORGE FREDERICH HOWE. .o Ohi(—) River Project Basis of Basin Plea | From the Portland Cregon Daily Journal. Fifty-two sets of dams and locks built on the Ohio River cost $125,000,000, ‘They were built by the United Bblblsl Government and paid for by the United 1 States Government. Fifty-two dams and locks on the Ohio were a very great public undertaking. They were buiit in order to enable mod- ern,, seif-propelled barges to navigate he Ohio River. Col the 3 ress and the "United tes Governi ‘155006000 and dems and down the . .mmn't e Columbla River) Boes and the Colum! ver' not the United States Government owe to the Columbla River and the people in its vast drainage basin the same consideration that it owes to the Ohio “l}lvl;r ,;nd the people of the Ohio alley? ‘Mli Congress and the United States th provide, by the expenditure of ml of public money, for barge nlvlntlng of the Ohio, how can Con- gress and the United States Govern- ment fall or neglect or refuse to pro- vide, I{"t:e of public money, for barge nat of the upper Columbia? If of the Oregon delegation asked of and the United States Gov- the same treatment that has been given the people of the Ohio Val- ley, what could Congtess and the United States Government do but grant the request? The Washington Government financed the Mississippi-Warrior barge line, and Congress legislated for rates and ar- rangements to make that line success- ful. Could or would the Washington Government and Congress do less for the Columbia River barge line if the people of the Columbia ‘Besin and of Portland requested it? Finally, if Congress and the Federal Government thought it worth while, through large public expenditures, to establish transportation by barge on the Ohio, though railrcads line the of the Ohio, wouldn't Dengress and the Washington Government think it alse worth while, through large public ex~ gemmuru, to provide for transportation "Dia iy peaple anywhere, at any any people at any e ever have 80 good a ease with which and country as people of the Columbia Valley and Portland, Yancouver and Astoria in the matter of hr‘ufi:\ the Columbia? Did not Congress build and for 52 dams and locks on the Ohio River at a cost of $125,000,000 in public money? ) Girard’s Charity Fund Is Frozen by Progress | From the Des Moines Tribune-Capital. ‘The Stephen Girard fund is harassing those who administer it and proviag | one of the examplés of frozen charity m:hcpnumtnmpuu are now warned against. Girard died only & few years #go, leaving $8,000,000 to be used for the care of orphans in institutions. But the best research in child caré now shows that institutions are no place for chil- them out of institutions into home as as possible. ‘That is the policy everywhere now, with gaanu' homes being closed in every But the terms of the Girard are definite and the money be used, fiexibly, in any way other than that provided. To put the money where it was intended, in buildings and insti- tutions, means continuing practices that are distinctly mistaken, and it means ‘wasting the money. Men of wealth feel they have the right to say how their money shall be used, even in philanthropy. They are unwilling to leave the térms in the dis- cretion of trustees, although when that is done the bequest is likely to prove of much more value. That is the way out, of course. It remains for the ben factors to either set up such alter- natives as will always provide a useful purpose or leave the whole use to trust- ed persons and their successors. Sheriff Who Brought Bandits to Bay Lauded From the Tulsa Daily World. Newspaper readers undoubtedly gath- | er from the Lamar, Colo., reports that real progress I8 made there in cleaning up the bank robbers. The conviction of three of the principals in the Fleagle gang was, under all th: circumstances, a remarkably successful job. At the outset—the murder of the president and other officials of a Lamar bank and the subsequent murder of a doctor witness—the clues were slender, but & country sherift sham all the slevths by getting his men. Only one is at large. Death penalties have been assessed against three. One of the convicted men was so certain the ver- dict would be carried out that he openly bid for a chance to escape. Two others have been moved to an irreproachably safe jall for detention until execution y. Bank robbery is a terrific evil. There have been so many unpunished bank robberies—many of them accompanied by murder—that the country was about to conclude that the robbers had the best of everything. They have not. In- telligent and unremitting man hunts and stern, matter-of-fact trials will do the work the public demands. Now let the courts and State officlals of Colo- rado maintain the record. The Lamar case is a notable one in many ways and it may well mark a turning point in law enforcament and protsction of life and propetty. Expert Airport Advice Is Offered to Cities From the Roanoke Times. The Department of Commerce has performed a useful service in the in- terests of aviation by the establishment of an airport advisory service to aid in the creation of the best ible air- port system in the United States. Com- munities contempla the establish- ment of airports will find available the se! of experts who have been istudying the practical and theoretical hases of the best existing airports. experts will be sent in.wo the com- munities that want advice on their air- port gumhle ‘They are authorized not only to give advisory servica where it is wanted, but also to grant class ratin, of existing airports on the Federal lfl map. They do not undertake to pro- vide enginering layouts or superintend the construction, but they help to select sites and indicate the best gen- eral line of development. In this way the Government hopes to enable ambi- tious communities to gt the greatest po:nlhl:o relluns" l‘runllu u“n money they into airport faci . Cit pu Pr: ities with umrt 'ms to solve will o ice & big help, W.Mly' .l“ % From the Ithaca Jourhal-Ne Now an authority on the sub; that parachut that are aviators are early infailible* how near is nearly? says for Just, the letters from your | ! f formation, and we invite you any question of fact in which you are interested. Send your inquiry to The Evening Star Information Bureau, Fred- eric J. Haskin, director, Washington, D. C. Inclose 2 cents in coin or stamps for return pcstage. Q. From what country «did Martha Norelius, the swimmer, come?—I. N. B. A. Martha Norelius is of Swedish extraction. ‘The Amateur - Athletic Union says-it believes that she was born in Sweden and came to this country when very young. Q.. How many children are actually ;tln):‘ helped by mother’s aid funds?— A. Forty-four States make some provision for public ald to mothers with dependent children and it is estimated that about 200,000 children are receiv- ing this aid in their own home. Q. What States does the Oregon | De eross?—P, N. M. A. The Oregon Trail crosses the Sta Hiis of Bouth Dakota o Socian Idaho and Washington. i Q. What is the per Taany, Prance, Tty end many, 3 er gty A: The approximate per capita con- sumption of cheese for these countries is: Great Britain, 8.9 pounds; Germany, 9.5 pounds; Prance, 13.5 pounds; Italy, 4.8 pounds; Netherlands, 13.5 pounds. g. A\WE(‘I discovered Rio de Janeiro? A. The individual who was the first European discoverer of the¢ Bay of Guanabara, upon which the city is now situated, 1s in doubdt. The bay was prob- ably discovered in 1501 or early in 1502 by an éxpedition headedl by Amerigs Véspucci. Q. Is a rainbow ever seen &t night?— M. R. A. The Weathér Bureau says that rainbow at night is an unusual but nét a rare phenoménon. It Tequires a shower with bright moonlight on it, when the moon is not tbo high in the heavens. 8 . Q. Where is theré a statu¢ called “The Hiker"?—M. H. A. Allen Newman's statue, “The Hiker,” is in Buffalo, N, Y. Q. How does one become a locomotive engineer?>—G. B. A. There is no short cut to consump- in, Ger- Nether- J. ing in spare time undér the supervision of an éer, he is {fcommded for the ation, and if hé passes fuc- eessfully he becomes An éxtra engineer. That is, he serves in this capacity oniy in_the absénce of the r e T. He is then in line for the first vacancies which oceur eauted by dismissal, re- tirement or death of the regular en- gineers. Q. Will leaves turn réd and yellow in :he ll.A‘ev‘:ni(thmhmlmmly . L. . A. Leaves change their color regard- Subsidy of Camp A, ywas the tallest. ot not they are attacked by X e brilliant mlmm of dnn‘z and partly to the exposure of pigment cells previously concealed by an abundance of chlorophyll or other feature of vital activity. The leaf drops because it no longer receives nourishment from the stem or twig. Q. Who is the organist in the Chi- cago Stadium?—F. N. A. Ralph Waldo Emerson is the or- + | ganist. Q. What is the world production of diamonds yearly?—A. D. A. It is about 500,000 Q." As the flesh of hogs is called pork, and sheep is called mutton, what goat flesh called?—J. M. C. A. It is called chevon. Q. How many Americans avent to Europe this Summer through the port of New York?—J. McC. A. In June 31,000 sailed for Euro- pom:ooin July, 43,000, and in 51,000. Q. Who was the tallest President of the United States?—A. L. 8. Abraham Lincoln, 6 feet 4 inches, ‘carats yearly. an August, Q. Why do scientists entertain the idea of a rocket flight to the moon, in- stead of an airplane?—D. 8. G. A. An' airplane would be useless without air in which to travel. In space the only kind of propulsion con- sidered practical is the kick of an ex- plosion, for the push then is against the gases formed by the explosion in- stead of the push against the air which is employed in airplanes. _ Q. Is there a city that lies within four States?—L. M. V. A. There is one place in the United States where four States come to- gether—Arizona, Utah, Colorado and New Mexico. As yet there is no town at this intersection. Q. Who is the chief of the Cherokee Indians?—F. E. s A. The Cherokee Indians as a nation have no chief. Q. Who océupies the house that was purchased for the use of the President of the Confederacy?—R. G. T. A. The “White House of the Confed- eracy,” in Richmond, Va., is now a Con- federate museum, each of the Confed- gultt States having a memorial room Q. How should Philadelphia pepper pot be served?—L. E_M. A. This is a soup and is served just as other soups are, with or without croutons or crackers., 3 ckages delivered on Christ- mas duy? W B D A. The policy of the Post Office in recent years has been to do away with deliveries on Christmas day. This year all carrier deliveries and window service at post offices will be suspended. name the six best conduc- Q. Please tors of electricity —G. H. A. The Bureau of Standards says that the &ix best conductors of electricity are thé common metals, pure silver, pure copper, pure gold, pure zinc, Swedish iron and tin. us Sports Blt_m'l'ed on Alumni Bodies Chargés that collége athletes who a) L) u:?lg Gontebts. are becoming Y t. The and will be sanctioned. I rican foot ball—the corner stone of college sports,” says the Pittsburgh M-gl.”&,.“'hnwu ds ;nm “}{‘" ‘gate’ of aroun ) $00.000. is bfi business. By foot ball is the college advertised and kept before world. The large student b attracted in some measure to it is ocontended, b&fln . There will be ar- ‘harmful and Cetermination to abolish foot ball, and abolition of the game as it is known today would be the It of entire which the ‘Was Conference when the one-year residence rule was L” The South Bend Tribune, however, refers to the time Iowa was disciplined by the con- g‘x:a::i. md" l‘v.:wl that !;“ the Tepo accurate, the very schools that held up Towa to scorn are themselves guilty of unethical tices.” “‘Occasionally there devel cases where students are compensated in some way for their athletic services, but these exceptions are the ones that prove the rule,” avers the Texarkana 800d | Gazette. The Erie Dispatch-Herald y_be goal defense. The bulletin to become a storm center, but cannot well help but be wholesome.” “The dubious element is the colleges' inslmaee that, foot hfll J’.l:y"' are all students,” avers the ore Evening Sun, with the further query: “Why cannot that insistence be eliminated? s mmy ean out of it.” “Considerable of the objection Q':) able e might hol “it mi by Morris Gest in_collaboration with Jack D mpsey, and y some day it will be” ~ The Li Democrat states that ‘“subsidizing of college athletics has been exposed by learned men after it has been an open secret for 20 years,” &nd that paper concludes:; “S0 long &s alumni—and alumnae, too, for that matter—demand fhat their alma maters, be bigger and better, thus reflecting their own mag- nificence, we can expect subsidized athletics. Can you imagine 50,000 alumni and alumnae in a $100,000 stadium rising as one to cheer the ap- pearance of the professor of physics?’ “But what can be done about it. or what should be done?” asks the New York Sun, with the further comment: “Nobodv can imagine for a minute that the_institutions and persons indicted by Dr. Pritchett are going to disappear or even change their nature or charac- teristics. There will be no return to Acadian beginnings of American sport.” The Aberdeen, Wash., Daily World be- lieves that “intercollegiate athletics. especially foot ball, are too deeply rooted to be torn up, and as long as they con- Sibsiataing su"’rhe people demand big spectacles, patronize games where winning teams play, idolize the successful players and demand a form of entertainment that has become a huge commercial enter- prise. If people demanded reform, in- sisted that no more foot ball players be subfidized, and withheld their patronage from all except clean, amateur ath- letics,” in the opinion &f Indian- epolis N!“li “the reforrys would come so0n en 24 Junm%‘fihn for mum assistance for found by New Orleans Chi , which, however, i e better managed none—why should that same help dameld to other n:md;au i:h&‘need it, merely because they play college games?” The oni'nnd ‘Tribune is con- vinced that “so far as California and Stanford are concerned, the charges are both minor and vague,” amd it points :::!hll “in the way the two coll many others are acce ope thels books there is sssurance instead of detrac will commercialism and | holds that “the really reprehensible ctices can be suppressed, as they ve in the past, giving them otes The Carnegls report a5 Shoving rnegie re) as showin “s swing back to the ideal of mneug sport,” and the Raleigh News and Ob- server feels that “the situation as re- vealed in the investigation may call for measures certain 5 w?:l"; h“ln '"vfu‘”"'n bl:odlun and college athletics ay which professionalized sports can never com- pete with,” declares the Charlotte News, while the Lincoln £ .ate Journal predicts that “if the commercial tendency is mrmlmd to run wild, it may eventually the popular sports,” and the Sioux Falls Argus-Leader comments: “Several institutions have been inclined directly | u’xr’;:,l. %lncn‘y to subsidize athletics. not encourage good = manship. ot il R “The repo: ht affirm,” in judgment "of the Richmond Nel?v: Leader, “from the mcst notable prec- edent, that too much athletics ends in o too little. The Greek games attest this. As long as they exhibited only the fitness of the mass of people, they were. the glory of the la. 'l'heby lllrle of the le only a stern monotheist fimme ':: who would say, ‘These things do not make fat the dark corners or the city.” Soon the honors heaped on the Olympic alluring that pro- Imost ae Bricf as that al in which the games had bcmm'l‘l:ng:llst they declined to a minor piace in the Pincdar him- life of the g'tflpll. self had shaped !;'d.;.lm':)s winners, the Lrild laudits their successo: recelved in victory died out. in- fa amphitheater. The warn be more pointed. Bierce Could Have Laughed at Public From the Louisville Times. Ambrose earned only $600 a year, and kil himse| :nher than live upon chn“l!t‘y in ollé ge. ‘Of course Bierce kne trashy writing paid better wn;'m?:'-mu’ but snyway Be felt bitter,” said the Trashy e —————— Modern Widows® Weeds. Dy \&kthe' wa' l