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THE EVENING STAR|“wisecracking” He is quick With Sunday Morning Edition. trigger. Usually his scarcasm b — |ing characterizations raise a WASHINGTON, D. C. among his colleagues and are not long MONDAY.....November 11, 1920 | remembered—certainly not against the Senator from New Hampshire. Probably .Editor | his “sons of wild jackasses” would have created little stir had it not come as a sequel to other remarks about the pro- gressive Republicans of the West in re- cent weeks which have stirred these Western Republicans and their con- stituents to considerable bitterness. Rate by Carrier Within the City. Senator David A. Reed of Pennsylvania The Evenine Star ... cii; 45 Permonth | gnd Joseph R. Grundy, president of the T,f.'“.',‘:n‘,nl“::d"gl D 60¢ per month | Pennsylvania Manufacturers’ - Assocla- men 8" Sg:‘-a-m 65c per month | tion, in particular, have expressed their Goleciion mada st {ha' s 5 sacl mortr, | opinions of the Western Republicans in Qrders may be sent in by mail or ielephone | terms which have rankled. So Senator Bate by Mall-—Payasle In Ad Moses’ reference to the coalition mem- Y iy vanee. | bers has merely added fuel to fire al- Duiy et e ready started, which may make cam- | e paigning by the Republicans in the West more of a task next year than it All Other has been since 1916. z There is room in the Republican party for men of progressive thought as well as for those of conservative ten- dencies. If the Republican party is to continue to hold the reins of adminis- THEODOR® W. NOYES. The Evening Star Newspaper Company in g Rt‘{mt'a&. London: Stat hSE Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled 0 the use for republication of all rews dis- patches credited to it or not otherwise cred. ted in this paper and aiso the local 1ews ALl Fights of publication of special dispatches herein are aiso reserved. ot tration its leaders must recognize that fact. A split party usually gives its political opponent opportunity to seize the control of governmental affairs. The Democrats naturally are well pleased with the evidences of bitter- ness growing in Republican ranks over the pending tariff bill, with Eastern Senators flailing their Western brethren because they will not stand for the in- “Cease Firing!” At 11 o'clock in the morning of Ne- vember 11, 1918, there thundered along the far-flung allied battle line, on land and sea and in the air, the order which brought to & close the most terrible holocaust in human history. “Cease firing!” Men knew it not in that hour | creases in duties on industrial tarift of tragic joy, for thelr hearts were |Fates desired by the Eastern manufac- bowed down with contemplation of the turers. It was such a split twenty years past and concentrated upon the realiza- | 380 over the tariff, with Dolliver of tion that it suddenly had passed, like | 1OW® leading the revolt of the West, some harrowing nightmare. Yet “Cease that gave the Democrats an opportunity firing!” had & meaning outstripping the | 18teT to win control of the Government. immediate significance of the signal, |It 1S such a condition among the Re- beyond any imaginings mankind had. publicans that the Democrats have The armistice’s tangible purpose was to | loPed for these many years. If they end the World War. Its intangible, | 8D, they will foster such a break now. but underlying and overshadowing, ob- | Instead of playing the game and try- Ject was to end war for the world, not | In8 to bring about compromise tarift only then, but thenceforward. e LIl WM ekrly ap These ' recurring anniversaries of |PToach the <limited tariff revision” Armistice day are our annual oppor- recommended by the President, the tunities for taking stock of the success|E83%rn Republicans have taken to with which the nations are meeting in e Y the endeavor to abolish war. Never|¥ill Pot get them very far. since November, 1918, were they able to —— make that inventory with greater satis- Valuation and Return, faction. Peace is steadily on the march.| ‘The proposal that the Washington No twelvemonth in all the Intervening | water plant should be valued by some eleven years has recorded so substantial | disinterested agency has been made progress toward the appointed objective. | more than once by those who realize the ‘The Kellogg pact is the logical conse- | part that a point of view may play in quence of the armistice we this day |setting down the respective investments gratefully commemorate. It carries|in the plant by the United States and out, in covenanted words, to which the |the District of Columbia and the amount whole civilized universe has subscribed, | of return received by each. “the big idea” which inspired the Amer-| Such a valuation, based on recognized ican doughboy and gob to cross the | procedure, might have the beneficial re- Atlantic on fighting business. In ser-|sult of providing a foundation for a ried ranks, they bared their breasts to | more equitable system of financing the the foe not in any vainglorious spirit | water plan than now exists. As it is, we of conquest, but in order that the peo- | are presented with a set of figures that, ples of the earth should cease firing at | accepted on their face value, prove tha one another in the future, as a means | the United States has invested more of composing international differences. | money in constructing and maintaining ‘The sacrifice of American blood and |the plant than the District of Columbia; treasure “over there” meant that, or it | yet the District of Columbia receives a meant nothing. return on its investment that is pic- Statesmen of both hemispheres have | tured as far in excess of that received bent their backs and their brains un-|by the United States. Thus there is ceasingly in the decade following the | given a plausible reason for the lack of limit debate on many of the sections of -h[ and bit- | the bill that still awaits discussion &nd laugh action. Admittedly there are several items in the bill which will and should lead to debate, among them the sugar sched- ule. But there are few speeches an hour in length which could not be just as ef- fectively delivered in ten minutes. Speeches more than an hour in length, even in the Senate, become a bore and are utterly ineffective, as a rule, on legis- Iation. ‘The country is entitled to action on the tariff bill, just as it was entitled to action on the farm-relief bill. Obstruc- tive tactics in the Senate generally bring that body into discredit in the country. Earlier in the consideration of the tariff bill the report was to the effect that the Democrats and Progressive Republicans were seeking to delay. Certainly they occupled far more of the time of the Senate in the debate. More recently the rumor has been to the effect that so- called “standpat” Republican Senators would be glad to see the bill fail, and that they did not care if it were never passed by the Senate. The country js not so much interested in political spa ring as it is in constructive legislation. One suggestion now advanced is that the members of the Senate coalition are seeking to build up & similar coalition in the House to deal with the tariff bill. If that be the case, delay on the tariff bill in the Senate may be a nec- essary concomitant in the opinion of coalitionists. Whatever the facts may be regarding this suggestion, the country, which has been waiting for ‘months for disposition of the tariff revi- sion, would be glad to see a bill put through without further delay. If no bill can be put through, the country should know it with as little delay as possible. If eventually, why not now? e When & man with as many friends as James J. Riordan commits sui- cide he shows an excess of pride which prevents him from frankly stating his circumstances to those who would, no doubt, be willing to help. R Control of the D. C. water supplh becomes a matter of especial responsi- bility when water sparkling pure from the hydrant is nearly the only beverage that can be taken without encountering suspicion. —o—s Art critics are mystified by some of the futuristic creations. Many of the plctures prove so puzzling to the ven- turesome brain as to lead to the con- clusion that, after all, cross-word puz- zles are safer. B The figures of stock fluctuations are still being discussed. But there is likely to be little friendly enthusiasm for the man who comes forward with a confi- dential tip on the market. —— The tariff bill will be & fine article when completed, but is causing a great deal of wear and tear on the rewrite men. —e o t—e———e. 1f numbers can help in getting at the truth, the many witnesses in the Mc- ‘Pherson case should eventually bring to light some decisive information. SHOOTING STARS. BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. A nameless world would be interest- ing at least. Think of living in a state of soclety in which nothing had a name! The tyranny of names has caused us to wonder, to become slightly bored, even afraid at times. Consider the fate of the average per- son's surname. Let us take a hypo- thetical Brown. When first he becomes known to one he is always Mr. Brpwn, scrupulously Mr. Brown. One would no more think of ad- dressing him any other way than he would of poking the new acquaintance in the ribs. ‘The next stage in the lamentable progression is a mere Brown. The “Mr.” disappears, no one knows exactly where, but simply goes. In the next step a new name en- tirely comes on the scene. It is “Brownie.” This addition of the di- minutive is supposed, according to ordi- to represent good fellow- p. ‘Whether it does or not depends large- ly upon the man who uses it. e people possess the ability of thanking one in a murderous tone. One would prefer to be damned by a polite man. ‘The unexplainable thing 88 that this hypothetical Brown can never be sure of just what he will be called. If he offends one who has been calling him “Brownie,” he finds himself suddenly transformed to a very severe “Mr. Brown" again. He never is quite sure just what his name is, or what it will be tomorrow, since its form depends upon so many outside factors over which he has no control. * K K % A name, then, is seen to be simply a handy designation of varying utility, which may or may not have a peculiar form all its own. A good name is sup- posed to be greater than much treas- ure; maybe that is why men strive so valiantly to achieve one by dropping their first names and using initials merely. Proper names of all kinds might be omitted from life without any particu- lar loss, except in the making of more cumbersome descriptives, which would be nacessary then on account of the handy signs readily given by the old names. A name is a sign, that is all. Instead of speaking of “that man with the big nose” we say “that man Smith,” or whatever his name may happen to be. It is our present contention that the longer phrase would do just as well and might even cause men to think more than they do. Since it seems to be the secret ambi- tion of every modern-minded person to be a writer, our plan of abolishing names of all types would be helpful, since it would cause closer observation, and demand that every one select the salient features or points of avery one and everything. Flaubert told Maupassant, it will be remembered, to concentrate on some one trait for every character, scene or whatnot he described. “Select some one feature that is commonly overlooked and so use it that the reader gets an uaforgettable picture 4n his head.” So he advised the young French govern- mental clerk, with the result that later the stories of Guy de Maupassant had a “certain something” which distin- guished them. “He was the kind of a man who al- ways entered a door first.” 'l!',hn was the way Maupassant intro- duced one of his characters—a red- headed man, by the way—and genera- tions of readers have admitted that it was apt, unique. Every one knows such a man, and every one can picture him perfectly. What need is there to call him J. Light- food Mellingforth? Would such & com- of syllables, or similar ones, make us see the red-headed man any better? * ok ok X Sometimes we have wondered if the problem of divorce has not been in- tensified by the tyranny of names. A woman seems to be fickle, as she mar- vies and divorces one man after an- :‘Lher. ?1‘!“ r;lerha[;se ls.h:“n’g be a sensi- ive soul who rel t the harsh prison of a single name. “What!” she says to herself. “Must 1 go through life known as Mrs. Blubber? Can I never be free from it? When 1 married him I did not realize how it would sound, but now that I meet it everywhere I can stand it no longer.” Picture the sensitive woman, greeted everywhere as “Mrs. Blubber.” There is no escape. She is willing to put up with the way her husband eats poached egg. she long ago gave up hoping that he would eat them in any other way. She had shut her eyes to all that. She knew every motion of the egg from plate to mouth. It was terrible, but it could be endured. ;:l[hr:. B'}:dbl;ler“‘ however! unt er day and night. There was no possibility now, forever, of her ever being called by a nice, fresh name, such as Jones, or Smith, or Gray, or ‘White, or Smitherington, or Heywoodie, or Doolittle, or Golliackova or Natlje- It was Blubber, from now on an forever more. Blubber, Blubber, Blub- i, With a loud shriek she reached for the phone, and called up her lawyer, * ok ok K As an experiment in humanity, it might be well to abolish all sorts of names, and thus put mankind on its own again in reference to this vast universe, filled with galaxies, and gal- axies of galaxies, and maybe even gal- axies of galaxies of galaxies. ‘When a taxicab driver leamed out to berate a man driving a nobby $5,000 roadster, he would not be able to say, as he does now, “Say, get that tin can out of the road.” Under the new system of nomencla- ture—or, rather, the lack of it—he would be forced to address the other in the following chaste language: “Say, get that conglomeration of things that go round, softly ded, affixed to & mass of a hard substance and various softer substances, whose object is to carry one from place to place, out of the straight line in which I am now traveling.” ‘The necessity for such an avoldance of names would cause any one to think a bit. Take any fleld of human en- deavor, Take diplomacy. Suppose one whose function it was to consider the ways of nations should take it into his head to designdte France. He could not say “France,” under our rules, but would be forced to convey his idea in terms which would be ap- plicable to that country, and to that country alone. How could he do 1t? He might say, and we suppose it would be as good & way as any, “Where Alexandre Dumas wrote,” but even the peerless author of “The Three Musketeers” would be barred. Certainly it would be an exer- cise in ingenuity, o say nothing of patience and a few other virtues. _ Names are too much with us; late and soon we are surrounded by a hedge of them, preventing us from getting real ideas of anything. A friend would be a friend just the same without a name. As a maiter of fact, where love resides there is no need for names. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS Approve Federal Aid In Education Matters To the Editor of The Star: Your recent editorial entitled, “Fed- eral Aid in Education” was read with much interest. We were especially glad to note that The Evening Star indorses this policy. In 1785 the Continental Congress Yn.md a land grant act which provided hat lot No. 16 in every township of the Northwest Territory be set aside for public schools. The preamble to this act reads in part: “Knowledge, being ever necessary to good govern- ment and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education should be forever encouraged.” The principle of Federal aid in_education was urged by all the early Presidents, some of whom sat in the Constitu- tional Convention, 1787-1789. Among these Presidents were Washington, the s, Jefferson, Madison and Mon- roe. Application of this principle began with Jefferson’s first administration and by generous donations of land the Fed- eral Government laid the foundation for the public school systems of more than three-fourths of the States. The total acreage for this gurpose to date exceeds three times the area of the State of Pennsylvania, - Congress com- menced appropriating money for edu- cational purposes early in the history of the Federal Government. It passed an act June 23, 1836, loani twenty- eight million dollars to the States for internal improvements, education and other purposes. This money was never finold back. New York received four mil- n dollars of this amount. Aside from laying the foundations of the public school systems of more than three-fourths of the States the Fed- eral Government founded the various States universities and has for years ap- propriated more than two million dollars annually to their maintenance. In ad- dition to this amount the Federal Gov- ernment PrO] tes many millions more anni t goes directly to the education of the youth of our Nation. ‘The bureau known as the “Office of Education” was created to be a research agency as stated in your editorial on the 27th ultimo. The only class- room work which it performed was the maintenance and operation of schools for the education of the native Indians in Alaska. This work could well have been performed along with other functions of the Office of Indian Affairs. ‘We quite agree with you that “it is a strict rule of the Federal agency not to press its attentions upon any public school agency or private institutions,” nor to dictate methods to be pursued in education. The reorganization of the bureau called the “Office of Educa- tion” with enlarged facilities and with emphasis placed on its research func- tions should, as you t, remove much of the antagonism to the “pro- posal for a Department of Education,” an agency which should be created to embrace all of the educational activi- ties of the Federal Government. Since Federal aid and encouragement of edu- cation are well determined, & depart- ment for this purpose is long past due. Therefore, let us face these facts reso- lutely and act according to our ancient practices with respect to education, ;l;:ll::l may be stated in the following Co-ordinate with the inviolable - ers of the States to determine, and otherwise control education within their respective boundaries is the in- violable power of the Federal Govern- ment to pursue such methods ‘as it may choose to conserve its national integ- rity and national sovereignty. National integrity and national sovereignty of the Federal Government can be conserved best by a broad national vigilance in matters of education. Such a national interest of education has been the pol- tchy o{lutht Mh’ r;}c Eowrnmene and is e philosophy w) has supported the principle of aiding and encouraging education in the several States. ELMER E. ROGERS. Farmer Seeks Relief ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. ‘This is & e ent devoted solely to the dling of queries. This paper puts at your disposal the serv- ices of an extensive orgnlx;llnt[nn in ashington to serve you any ca- ;?;cl(y that relates to information. This service is free. Fallure to make use of it deprives you of benefits to which you are entitied. Your obligation is only 2 cents in coin or stamps inclosed with your inquiry for direct reply. Ad- dress The Evening Star Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, director, ‘Washington, D. C. Q. How many airships has England had?—R. H. 8. A. England has had four, two of them still in existence. Q. Why is the foot ball fleld at Georgia Tech sometimes called the Flats?—E. R. A. Originally Georgia Tech was lo- cated on a small hilltop, about which there was a bit of low ground, which was used for athletic purposes. In the early days this low ground got the name of the Flats, meaning flat or level ground. The present stadium was built on this location. Sometimes sporting writers use the old name. Q Is the transatlantic telephone much used?—B. A. B. A. Its use is steadily increasing. About 50 per cent of all the communication is with London, 25 per cent with Paris, and between 5 and 10 per cent with Berlin, Q. How did the trade mark, 4711, originate?—V. N, A. The firm of Muhlens & Kroff began using 4711 as a trade mark in 1792 to designate cologne water made from a family recipe. Its address at the time was 4711 Glockenstrasse, Cologne, Germany. Q. What is a plaice?—E. M. A. It is a European flounder or flat fish which grows to a weight of 8 or 10 pounds and is & good food fish. In America the name is applied to Sum- mer flounder and some other fat fish. Q. Who was known as the Lady of Fears?—F. E. N. A. This was a name used in reference to the late Empress Marie Feodorovna, Dowager Empress of Russia, because of her numerous tragic experiences begin- ning with the assassination of her father-in-law and ending with that of her son, Nicholas II, and his family. Q. How much did tge expedition of Columbus cost, and how it com~ pare with modern expeditions?—C. H. A. Fitzhugh Green calculated that it t backers of Columbus about $2,115 discover America in 1492. The Scott Antarctic Expedition cost $500,000; the Amundsen-Ellsworth Expedition about $200,000; the Nobile “Italia” Expedi- tion, $300,000, while the cost of Byrd's Antarctic Expedition will probably be $1,000,000. Q. _How much daylight is lost in New York due to smoke?—A. G. T. A.In lower Manhattan the loss of daylight due to smoke was in 1927 es- timated to be 42 per cent at 8 am. and 18 per cent at noon on & sunny day in January, and 33 per cent at 8 a.m. and 6 per cent at noon in June. On foggy days the loss is much greater. Q. Do you know of an award given for a _good speech?—M. E, N. A. You probably refer to the gold medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters for excellence in diction. ‘The 1928 medal was awarded to Otis Skinner. Others who have recelved E. gvlun was stenography invented? A. The early history of shorthand is closely allled with phy and it has been traced into the mists of an- tiquity. Antiquarians have tried to connect it with hieroglyphies and to show that it was used more than 1,000 years B.C. by the Persians, Egyptians and Hebrews. The first modern short- hand work was printed in London in 1588 and dedicated by its author, Dr. Timothy ht, to Queen beth. Gurney’s is the oldest living system of English shorthand. It was first issued by Mason in 1672 and improved by Thomas Gurney in 1750. Q. Why are joints put in concrete pavements?—N. A. L. A. Highway engineers are not in com- plete agreement in the matter of pro- viding longitudinal and tranverse joints in concrete pavements, but in all except 4 States longitudinal center joints are provided, and in all but 12 States, trans- verse expansion joints are provided. The longitudinal joints are to prevent irregular center cracking due to the warping of the slab, and the transverse joints are designed to prevent trans- verse cracking and blow-up due to the contraction and expansion of the slab with chan, of temperat; Pt S ges perature and Q. How did La death?—J. A. B. N S A. Sieur de La Salle, the early exe plorer, while endeavoring to discover the w%rce of the Mississippi, experienced ;rgx_‘:nmybnnk:lor;’z his meln u.:nd was shot ambus| one of the; - ber 19, 1687, 4 S Q. How long do grasshoppers live the ‘tropics where thete 16 o Cold. le:-n son to destroy them?—M. M. A. In ‘the tropics the natural span ?!tlalsxrle bz! zrnssm;‘;;;ze? ;:g‘;lv.her insects somew] e ed by the fact that death is not hastened byy the coming of cold and fre weather as it is in temperate or frigid regions and also because the period of meta- morphosis extends over an average longer period of’time. But as a rule the life of single brooded 1s not over a year in any climate, ?a' 1‘gvhnt does Kyrie Eleison mesn»r A.'1t'is Greek and means “The Lord have mercy.” Q. Is a puncheon and a slab the nr:e:;—sA cfi J. - puncheon is a split log or slab with the face m.lgom: Ah!l‘.l is the outside piece, with or without the bark, taken from & log. In the days when floors were .made of puncheons, in some localities only in- side pleces 3! pie were designated with this Q. Was a son of Danlel ' Killed in the Mevlean Warro0, Ot © Datiel Wiehster, wras Eied dhetne ey el ", WAS Mexican War in 1848, 2 _g; Vtho was the goddess of health? m“:"mm llvu:gl a serpent drink of a saucer, the serpent bein twined around her arm. ¥ Q. What makes railway cars rock from side to side when g rapidly?—W. H. B. A. The Bureau of Standards says that unevenness of the track and poor this distinction are Walter Hampden and Edith Wynne Matheson. Victory e condition of the running cause the rocking of cars from to side. for Canadian Wets Wakes Témpered CommentHere peace of Versallles to finish the work | further responsibility on the part of the the soldiers and sailors of the allies 50 | United States in maintaining the water triumphantly inaugurated. Statesman- | plant, and strength to the argument that ship has not ceased firing. It accom- | this responsibility righttully belongs to plished Locarno. It has just achieved a | the District of Columbia. sane revision of reparations. It, this| The people of the District of Columbia year, evolved the general pact for re-| have contributed to the building and nunciation of war. It is by way of | maintenance of the water plant through bringing about a new guarantee of peace | their Federal taxes, their real estate and through extended limitation of naval|special taxes and their water taxes. armament. Statesmanship failed and | Their total investment in the plant is collapsed in 1914. But betw:on 1919 | greater than the Federal investment. and 1929 it has written a record for| The burden of maintaining s system which posterity will be eternally thank- | that supplies free water to the Federal ful. Government and its agent, the District Armistice day finds us with souls up- | Sovernment, has gradually been shifted lifted by the vision of & warless world, | 0 Water taxpayers, with the Federal yet none of its anniversaries can ever | Government contributing nothing. In discover us unmindful of the deeds of | addition, water taxpayers and property- valor which enable us, instead:of our | OWners must furnish revenue, through one-time enemy, to celebrate them in | Water taxes and assessments, for extend- pride rather than remorse. Armistice | ing the distribution system and making anniversaries should fire us with some- | those improvements and enlargements thing more than patriotic emotions | necessitated by the growth of the city. rooted in the past. They should fill| It is this latter burden that causes us with & fierce determination ever to | justifiable complaint. remain on “that respectable defensive ‘Water rents should be kept to the cost posture,” so solemnly recommended by | of maintaining the plant. There should George Washington in the Farewell Ad- | be no “profit” in the sale of water. Ex- dress. tensions and improvements should be ‘Tonight, at the national ceremonies | inanced through appropriations from of the American Legion in Washington, | the general fund of the District, to President Hoover will deliver a message | Which the Federal Government and appropriste to this hour. The com- | realty and personalty taxpayers contrib- mander-in-chief of the Republic’s armed | ute, plus assessments against those who forces may be relied upon, if his past | receive direct benefits from new ex- utterances are any criterion, to voice | tensions. clearly & view to which he frequently| “Return” on investment in the glves expression. It is the doctrine | water plant should be computed in that, crave the blessings of peace as we | terms of water, the highest return being may, the time is not yet here when the | & plentiful supply, avatlable to all at United States can afford to disregard |8 price that merely covers the cost of the admonition of that other engineer- | maintaining the system. President who was “first in peace, first —— in war and first in the hearts of his| Professional traders have had so many countrymen.” disappointing performances that invita- e tions are being frankly extended to am- Money is not & supreme topic of in- ! ateur talent, terest. Even the immense transactions on the Stock Exchange do not suffice to diminish the eager demand for foot ball news. B ) Why Not Now? Three weeks from today the regular l:nion of Congress opens. Automatically special session, called by President A Dangerous Game. Hoover last April, will come to an end ‘Why make & hard game harder? The | at that time, unless the Congress should Republican party needs the West if it | bring it to a conclusion earlier with is to retain control of the Congress|an adjournment resolution. Three weeks and, eventually, the national adminis- | is sufficlent time for the Senate to tration. It has been evident for a long | complete its consideration of the tariff time that there is a difference in the | bill, provided it wishes to complete it breed of republicanism in some of the|and pass the bill. Yet the consensus States of the West from that which is | today among the Senators appears , found in Perusylvania, New York and|to be that it is not “probable” New England, for example. It has been | the bill will come to a final vote before the practice of some Eastern Repub- | the middle of December or i..> first of licans to refer to some Republicans of | the new year. The bill has now been the West as “radicals” and the like.| before the Senate for actual discussion And Republicans of the West have| for nearly two months. Many of the dubbed the Eastern brand of Republican | most contentious provisions of . the the “standpat” and “old guard” type.| measure have been passed upon. A During the last presidential campaign, | coalition of Progressive Republican Sen- however, the Progressives and the|ators and Democrats has demonstrated standpatters in the West and in the| its ability to amend the bill at will. East buried the hatchet and worked | The “regulars” of the Senate finance together to elect President Hoover and | committee have admitted this. Why are PHILANDER JOHNSON. Time to Be Good, It's generally understood Unless some persons mend their ways, Developing intentions good, Surprise will mark the holidays. ‘We've heard a most distressing noise, And harsh words often made us pause. Unless they change, we warn the boys, There won't be any Santa Claus. ‘This is the season of the year ‘When best behavior should be shown; ‘When every conscience should be clear And simple truth should be made known. 8o folks both big and little try, ‘When studying books or making laws, For fear you'll find, when weeks pass by, ‘There isn't any Santa Claus. Dutles. “What is your idea of your chief duty as a statesman?” “Things don't seem like they used to,” sald Senator Sorghum. “My idea once was that it was a statesman's duty to solve problems. My present duties seem to consist largely in asking questions for others to answer.” Jud Tunkins says if we get shorter working hours everybody will have more time to read love stories and detective novels. Echo of the Stock Exchange. There is & Taurus in the sky; is an Ursus, too. I wish some place far off on high Each Bull and Bear were due. Misleading Comparison. “Didn’t I tell you not to play the stock market?” said the father. “Yes,” sald the willful but sad youth. “But I knew men who had gained con- siderable sums by playing it and I never could @ee that you made & nickel by letting it alone.” “We honor our ancestors,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “yet we who shall be ancestors in turn show far too little respect for one another.” Regular Employment. Nobody gets & chance to shirk, And life has lost its beauty, For nearly half the town’s at work, Engaged on jury duty. “Don’t tell & man dat needs consola- tion,” saild Uncle Eben, “his troubles is his own fault. Dat only makes him feel worse.” e “Signs” of the Times. From the Tulsa Daily World. The leaves will not take on a deal of color this Autumn, but it is understood the billboard men are trying to remedy the deficiency. " v Mature Lawyers Favored. Prom the Janesville Dally Gazette. A Boston lawyer writes to the Tran- o\laht to practice of la ho waited that h'mn;" Datore wyers who wal fore they had practice. How About Saxophones? ’!‘ the Utica Observer-Dispa! a recent customs ukuleles are classed as musical instru- ‘Well, well, how about that? aiisindisteaadi’ Seven Points Enough. Prom the Detroit News, ‘We never saw & team that could make seven its farther, from week to BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. ‘There is no sign of an armistice day between the Hoover administration and the Senate, or, more accurately speaks ing, between the White House and the Republican insurgents. The war, in other words, is going on. The Western Progressive group has tasted so much blood in its various bites at the tariff bill that it is licking its chops and thirsting for more. Sideline observers are amazed that neither the President nor the Republican regular organization seems to be agitated about the situa- tion in the slightest degree. They are apparently resigned to taking their dis- comfiture lylng down. National Chair- man Huston can be observed ambling in and out of the White House offices and Capitol corridors as if all were rosy in the best of Republcan worlds. Com- posure is apparently the only fighting policy to whiich the G. O. P. intends to resort. Perhaps it thinks, in light of Bingham, Grundy and Virginia, that discretion is Lh: b:tee'r ;‘Ilfl of valer. M. Andre Tardieu, the new premier of France, is well remembered in Wash- ington from his service as French high commissioner to the United States. He was here from April, 1917, until November, 1918. All French war-time agencies in this country were under M. Tardieu's direction. At one time he commanded a working force of several hundred men and women. The diplo- mat-journalist-statesman now intrusted with France’s political destinies enjoyed wide ularity in Washington. He peaks lish fluently, was a great “mixer” and made countless friends on all hands. Tardieu’s official duties brought him mostly in contact with Becretary of the Treasury McAdoo and with Bernard M. Baruch, chairman of the War Industries Board. Oscar T. Crosby, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in charge of fiscal bureaus, also had much to do with him. As the long-time director of Le Temps' forelgn department, the French high commissioner liked especially to talk shop with Washington newspaper men. ‘Tardieu is a bachel He quit the high commissionership at Washington to accept appointment on the French peace conference dele- gation. Tardieu eventually was desig- nated to write the text of the treaty of Versailles. In 1921 he published a book called “The Truth About the Treaty,” * ok k% At the New York dock, where an incoming European liner tied up the other day, there was a tragi-comic ) echo of the Shenandoah airship disas- ter of September, a naval attache at Paris, and Mrs. Steele, Capt. Steele was commander of the Lakehurst dirigible station, whence the Shenandoah set forth on its fatal i . As the result of the ensuing naval court of inquiry, at which Capt. Paul Foley, U. 8. N., presided as judge advocate, Foley sued a New York newspaper organization for $200,000 libel damages. ~Mrs, Steele was an intimate friend of Mrs. Lansdowne (now ' Mrs. John Caswell, jr.), beau- teous widow of the gallant skipper who crashed to his doom with the Shenan- doah. ‘The former’s testimony is ap- parently desired by the defense in the libel action. At any rate, & subpoena- server was on the dock when Mrs, Steele stepped off the gangplank last week, and a lively time is understood to have been prsclplui:d rur‘nli concerned. * Circumstantial reports are current that President Hoover is considering the desirability of placing an embargo on giving any more Government contracts to_the three shipbuilding companies in- lved in the Shearer naval p: da No cancellation of exisf The boycott is to future busi- now y thlehem Shipbuilding Coipora- tion is completing another, As Uncle Sam is sure to carry out the bulk of the 15-cruiser program authorized - - Hoover bllhcysn Mr. ‘would events, each of the three big companies, which’ may be victims of the White House ban, would have bagged orders for several of the 10,000-tonners. * % * Rollin Kirby, brilllant cartoonist of the New York World, has just drawn & cartoon dealing with the Capital’s latest political Mgot tempest. The picture is entitled “When Do We Eat?” summons from the 3 won last year’s Pulitzer prize with his epochal cartoon called “Tammany.” It showed the well known G. O. P. patriarch going through an agony of horror over the Smith presidential can- didacy and deriving comfort from & choir of haloed “angels” labeled Forl Miller, McCray, Sinclair, Fall, Daug] t al. T * K K K As the Vare senatorial seat is on the eve of being formally and finally va- cated by Senate action, Gov. Fisher of Pennsylvania is busily canvassing the list of availables, from among whom an appointed successor will be chosen. ‘Whoever it is will hold office only until his own successor can be elected in No- vember, 1930, but the is no_less coveted on that account. Owen J. Rob- erts of the Philadelphia bar and Fed- eral Government counsel in the oil cases, is in the running. So are Representa- tive C, Graham, chairman of the House judiciary committee; Judge Robert Von Moschzisker, chief justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, and Henry P.\ Fletcher, late Ambassador to Ttaly. B Revelatory rumblings in Washington this Fall and Winter will bulk largely at the “Institute of Statesmanship” at Rollins College, Winter Park, Fla, in January. The institute was founded two years ago by endowment of the late Representative Cornelius A.: Pugs- ley of New York. It is sponsored by & national council which includes Senator Fletcher and _Representative Ruth Bryan Owen of Florida, John W. Davis, Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt, George W. Wickersham and other dignitaries. The January program will concern itself with “the formation of public opinion” mainly in light of recent lobby, aopn ganda and tariff developments in Wash- ington. It happens that the chairman of the institute is Hamilton Holt, presi- dent of Rollins College, whom Hiram Bingham worsted for the Senate in Connecticut four years ago. (Copyright, 1929.) ———————————— Add Similes. | From the Buffalo Evening News. Simile for today: As futile as & mar- ried man on the witness stand telling lies to female jurors. t depicts | mineral For Handling Surplus To the Editor of The Star: A few days ago The Star published under the heading, "Backzr%uund of Events,” by Paul V. Collins, & most interesting short statement of the prob- lem confronting Congress concerning President Hoover to to State administration all Government lands (reserving parks and rights). May I add to that outline of this important project a word in regard to what Mr. Collins suggests will possibly be argued in op- tion to further opening of any farm d in competition with that already in production? He says: “We have heard much of the need of ‘farm rellef,’ and to some observers the objection to developing more farm land will arise against adding produc- tive acres where, it is complained, we already have overcompetition. But modern inventions of labor-saving ma- chinery for farming, together with the lncrnaln& demands from world mar- kg%tvu ly change the situation over- night.” Mr. Collins is right, and I merely want to hasize the truth of that statement. lends of agriculture are S the dopton. of broader’ machingsy on loption o! ler macl for the handling of the surplus and getting this surplus into the v;o-fi: markets, President Hoover's recent ap- pointment of a special board for that urpose carries hopes of a new era marketing farm surpluses, and that success will not be hampered by pro- ducing a liberal surplus to be so mar- keted abroad. Nor should such an exportable surplus affect the prosperity of the home market, but it should make for broad plans for exporting, which will not easily be disconcerted when local conditions vary the harvests. My own State of Minnesota is greatly in- terested in the development of its un- used resources of all 3 ‘THOS. D. SCHALL. —— e Often Not Even That. From the Detroft Pree Press. ‘Those who insist that home should be more than a parking place seem to be losing sight of the fact that often it isn't even that. One Difficult Problem. From the Eimira Star-Gazette. We can’t see how the colles it they are truly in touch with the%el. will be able to hold out against a foot- ball merger. —————— Women Have Next Say. From the Asbury Park Evening Press. An anclent prejudice has been re- vived! mayor of Lynn, Mass., has forbidden women to smoke upon the stage or in the movies. i He lies asleep beneath a covering stone, His hours measured by a sentry’s feet; Lovingly-known, yet awfully unknown, To those who seek him in his high retreat. * Here flower lips are pressed, white hair droops low Upon cold marble; trembling hands betray The sterner heartbreak. Nations come and go, 0Old feuds forgotten as they bend to pray. This is the altar of a country’s grief: Here, from Death’s little victory, arise (Bafe from the spoiling breath of Time, the thief) The steady flames of deathless sacrifice; Here hate is purged, love finds a healing meed, Valour is consecrated to its deed. Comment in America on the demand for Government control of liquor sales in Nova Scotia which resulted from the recent election in Canada’s “last strong- | The hold” of total aridity seems, as & whole, to be less bitterly marked with partisan- ship than usual. Opinions differ as to the significance of the step, some ob- servers explaining it is a desire to get more money for the state and attract the “dry” tourist. Others look upon it as definite proof of the growing popu- larity of the policy of restriction and fifiu ation as opposed to absolute prohi- jon. “No American, who desires to be fully informed on Canada’s attitude,” in the judgment of the Springfleld Republican, “will ignore one of the main causes of the Canadian adoption and continued support of the government dispensary system. That cause is financial and selfish. The fact that the United States 1s dry makes the government dispensary policy all the more attractive to Cana- dians. Government ownership of the liquor trade brings a large revenue to the government treasury and, to some extent, taxes are reduced on account of it * * * This profit in Canada has been greatly increased by the immense American motor tourist trade, which grows year by year * * * and there is another aspect to the situation: Exports of Canadian liquor to the United States bootleg trade also increase government revenues.” e e b e Smepre, ance o rol experimen Canada” ll'eplllo emphasized by the CI 0 Daily Tribune, and that paper : “When Quebec alone was wet, it attracted the bulk of this trade and the most of the tourist money. New Brunswick, & land of much charming scenery, went wet, with government re- strictions, and that put the equally charming land of Nova Scotia at a dis- advantage which the people have voted to remove. As is well known, none of these provinees, in giving up prohibition, has confessed that the problem of liquor is insoluble or that the use of alconolic beverages must degrade the people. The Canadian communities certainly do not suffer in com] n as to sobriety and order with American communities under prohlbm'on;'.' T “Whether Canada, in adopting gov- ernment control of liquor, has acted perance.or prohibition law, they voted dry by 61,872 to 56,024. But on the| specific issue of ent Mquor con- trol they went wet by 89,757 to 41,180, will have to make its} own interpretation.” “So complete has been the rout and so convincing the demonstration thai the Canadian public, having tried pro: hibition, will have no more of it,” de: clares f.\:m Charleston Evening Pos for strong drink.’ “It is entirely possible the Ontario people peeped over the line and saw horrible example,” remarks the Tulsa ‘World, with the conclusion to the election of Conservatives, thats “people over there are not quite so prone as we are to get excited over ond issue and forget all the others,” point. ing out that “the Ontario principle ol strict governmental control of all liquo sales is about three years old in gl;u tice” The St. Louis Times 1dg that the Canadian population, “wke: it perceives a good thing, holds to if tenaciously,” and the Green Bay Press. Gazette thinks that government control as practiced in Ontario “may not havd solved the liquor question, but it is mak. ing progress.” * K X K Interest in the outcome on this sid of the border, because of the light tha it may shed on future policies at Wash ington, Herald and the Boston Transerip! Denying that the Ontario system ha been an aid to temperance, the Sant: Barbara Daily News feels that “it will be interesting to watch the results o the further test of that system,” but ff e ol and perm pract ted buying of liquor under the permi system has done what might hav been expected—it has increased con| sumption.” ng the result in Nova Scoti the Cincinnati Times Star regalls tha this jurisdiction “is—or was—one d the last surviving strongholds of pro hibition in Canada.” The Fort Way) News-Sentinel calls the Nova Scoti the really outstanding develop in the election. The Dulu Herald emphasizes the uncertainty that province as to the mixed question on the ballot, and concludes, “As of the supporters of the present govern wisely remains for time to prove,” ac- cording to the Charlotte Observer, and per adds: to adopt g0 verdict at Vancouver is that so success- ful has the control system proved in that province that ‘its gradual exten- sion throughout the world is regarded as inevitable, British Columbia testi- fies that since government stores were opened and the thrill of secret drinking was wiped out ‘there has been a gradual return to non;ullull‘d ;hfin bz{leggers are dying out for lack of clientele.’” “Many A:;:ncun mfinmfl '.b: -adio speeches of Prem! n an W the fortitude with i bl probibition dol away with al jute prol on |ngt':um.l'y had destroyed the boot- 'S ts and the commercialized upon which they were based,” says the Akron Beacon Journal. The Allentown Morning Call points out that “today little Prince Edward Island, of all the Canadian &l:)vlnm remains the only dry spot in northern coun- “British Columbla | i ment were for government control, likely that the government read in the returns a mandate froi the people authorizing the govery ment to go into the liquor business| Comment of the Toronto Star do not indicate entire approbation of tl Canadian solution of the liquor prol lem. “The law,” it declares, “will ha to be better observed, there will have be a much lessened use of liquor—is stead tnlt Anm!ncreued one—or t! present law will not long have uli indorsement.” 5 ——— e Remains to Be Stung. From the Saginaw Sunday News. New Jersey is credited by the Dep: ment of Agriculture with having e: pirated its gypsy moth pest. But f returns on the skeeters are not yet in. ————— All Right—But How? From the Charleston (W. Va.) Dally A newspaper that 4 motorist should to the l& t { | eled roads. Where are they? Houdini and the Lobbyists. From the Bay Oity Dally Times, We no longer have Harry udi] mmmmmnmm& An Ambitious Program.