Evening Star Newspaper, November 25, 1929, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Moraing Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY.. November 25, 1920 THEODORE W. NOYES The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office: nd 8t e Michigan Ruildi] uropean Office: 14 Recent SL.. Lond Fngland. Rate by Carrier Within the City. enine Star... ... .. 45c)er month ening and_Sunda v 60c per month nln&llnd Sunda Collection made at the end of each IAtions Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and_Virginia. 1 E;x_v And_Sunday.....1yr.$10.00: 1 mo.. 85c | ily only .. . 1yr., $6.00° 1 mo.. 50c day only "Ll 177 34.00; 1 mo. 40e All Other States and Canad; il and Sunday..l £12.00: 1 aily only P | nday only mon’a. 8e 50¢ 00" 1 mo.. 3k 1vrl $5.00: 1 mo.. Member of the Associated Press. | The Associnted Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republicaion of ail news cic- patches credited (o it or not otherwice cred- ited in this paper and also «he local nLews published herein. Al rights of publication cf apecial dispatches herein are also reserved A Trumpet Call to Arms. Senator Capper, in addressing the | voteless District League of Women | Voters on Saturday night, sounded a ringing and inspiring call to battle in #he campaign for national representa- ‘ton for the people of the District. He traced from the records the rea- sons for the exclusive legislation provi- | sion of the Constitution, and point.d | out that neither in letter nor in spirit did ' this constitutional provision forbid nn- tional representation for the half mil- lion District residents of today. He emphasized that in war and peace the residents of the District had borne cheerfully every national burden in money sacrifice and blood sacrifice upon the Nation's altar and were in. conse- quence entitled to share in ths national rights and powers which in a repre- sentative democracy are with obliga- tions inseparably coupled. Since the half million Americans of the District pay nationzl texes, obsy national laws and go to war in the Na- tion’s defense, they are entitled on American principles to be represented in the National Government, which taxes them, which makes all laws for them and which sends them to war. Senator Capper's clarion call con- €ludes: “In waging this commendable war against a form of autocracy peculiarly Tepugnant to patriotic Americans you Will find that our greatest enémy is in- difference. Therefore I charge you never cease fo agitate your cause— spread the fire of your zeal throughout the city and kindle the dormant senti- ment of the Nation. If anything ever was worth fighting for, it is*national representation for the District of Co- lJumbia. And I am confident that finally your campaign will be victorious, as it | well deserves to be.” What words could be more hearten- | ing than these to the audience which | Senator Capper address'd? The women of the Nation, including those of the District, who have won the na- tional franchise for themselves every- where, exc:pt in the District, will never permit this exception and this dis- erimination to continue to exist. The hideous mockery of a voteless “Dis- trict League of Women Voters” will not be perpetuated. The woman organ- izations of America, national and local, who are fighting for our amendment have made it clear that they will never rest until this slurring inconsistency is Temoved. Senator Capper's words appeai to the men as well as the women, to the men and women not only of the Distriet but of all America. They arouse to redoubled effort the long list #f local citizens’ organizations, including the Board of Trade, the Chamber of Commerce, the Merchants and Manufacturers' Association, the | Federation of Citizens' Associations and the Central Labor Union, which have been and are now effectively co-operat- sent in'by mail or telephone | £1.00 | in the Holy Land. | during were des'ined te be spent in almost unbearable anguish. Having suifered 50 much of physical distress throughout | his tempestuous public life, Clemenceau | met the final ordeal as he might have | been expected to do. It found him dogg-d, tenacious and hopeful to the bitter end. France can never forget the “Father of Victory.” The Pantheon will shel- | ter no ashes of more precious memory than his. He won a decisive war for the wvorld, as well as for his beloved country. The world Clemenceau helped to keep free stands at his bier, sorrcw- | ing, grateful and revererft. - The Future of Palestine. It was not to be expected that a movement with the idealism behind it which bulwarks the Jewish national home project, would be checked or discouraged by last Summer's disorders Last night's meet- Ing of Amorican Jewish leadeérs in Washingion seems to make certain that, in addition to ssntimental determina- tion, more practical sinews of war are to be devotsd to the realization of the Zionist goal. “An American business corporation,” to be liberally endowed with funds and practically managed, will presently be organized “with a view to the further economic develop- ment of Palestine.” By a somewhat tragic coincidence this announcement parallels the day’s latest news from Jerusalem. Yesterday. at almos: the same hour spokesmen of American Zicnist Jewry were resolving Mattos Eentwich, attorney gen-ral of Palectine, the only Jew holding & high official post in the country, was shot and dangerously wounded in the gov- ernment offices by a young Arab employe of the police and prison de- partment. The motive for thesattack is not disguised. The Arab Executive Council in Jerusalem recently demanded the attorney general's removal from office because of his vigorous prosecu- tion of cases arising out of the August anti-Jewish riots. Two weeks ago an- other prominent Palestinian Jew, Dr. Ticho, wes all but murdered in the st of Jerusalem. The Associated Press reports & “theory” that Attorney Gencral Bentwich’s assailant was the tool of a terrorist group bent upon ridding Palestine of all Jews in high places. ‘Those who yesterday in Washington paved the way for American Jews to renew their feaith in the future of Zionism are, of course, wholly aware to intznsily their efforts, Norman de | THE EVENING STAR the iliness that Iaid him low, | gressional Medn of Honor, most highly | ,prizsed of all the country’s military! honors. After the war Senator Warren re- turned to his native State and engaged in farming and stockraising. The call cf the West, however, lured him as it did many other New Englanders. He went, | in 1868, to Wyoming, then a part of the ‘Territory of Dakota, and began the long, upward career which saw him a member of the Legislature of Wyoming, its gov- ernor, first by appointment of the Presi- dent when Wyoming was still a Téerritory and then by electicn, and finally United States Senator. He was a pioneer in the development of the great Northwest. Senator Warren quite naturally took & keen interest in military affairs after he came to the Senate. He represented what was then a frontier State. He had himself seen long service in the Army. He became eventually chairman of the military affairs committee, a chairmanship which he relinquished finally to take that of the committee on: | Appropriaticns. The Capital community especially mourns the passing of Senator Warren, who has during his many years of service been a steadfast friend of ‘Washington, its supporter in contro- versy between the two houses of Con- gress regarding the basis of appropria- tions for District maintenance, and the advocate of a liberal policy in its de- velopment and maintenance. In all questions of moment to the District, he stood in the Senate stanchly in its behalf, in speech and in action. His {interest in Washington was the keener | because of his long residence here. He was always a stanch Republican. yHe had the interests of the Western | section of the country and his State by adoption clove at heart. But he aid not find that they conflicted with his Republicanism. He was a party man, | Senator Warren's death will WASHINGTON, BY CHARLES Penrod must have been something ot a neighborhood nuisance. As much as we love to read Booth | Tarkington's books about him, we find it a solemn duty to admit as much as above stated. One may rather suspect, too, that Toma Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn | weré rather more pleasant on the printed pagé than in real life. Then there was that extreme exam- ple, George W. Peck's ‘“bad boy,” whose name we cannot remember, or even if he ever had one. That young man, of course, never had the dignity nor restraint of any one of the big trio. His tricks were more on the “practical joke" order, whereas both Penrod and Tom Sawyer :;Jopply & certain amount of sophistica- n. Almost half a century separates those two young men, but their actions are surprisingly alike, for “boys will be | boys,” especially Américan boys. * % ok % ‘Tarkington's latest book, “Penrod Jashber,” the first in 14 years, is dedi- cated to Dr. Wilmer, former Washing- | tonian, at whose Baltimore institution he wrate the manuscript while recover- ing from an eye ailment. ‘While many will think it not quite up to the standard set by ‘“Penrod” and “Penrod and Sam,” the new book picks up amazingly about half way through, after a rather slow start. The old Penrod is very much there, this time in the guise of a detective. It is from this vocation that Penrod gets his last name, as given, and from | which the book gets its title. The average reader wili feel that perhaps “Penrod, Detecatif,” would have been a better title. ‘Tiiles, however, make little difference, when one is dealing with eternal youth. And such Tom Sawyer and Penrod may be considered. Our personal favorite is Tom, and we have often wondered why. It i8 true that the name of Mark Twain looms larger in world literature than that of Tarkington. believing in party government. be mourned by his colleagues because of genuine affection for him. He was a kindly man, & pleasant companion al- ways, and, despite difference in age, & warm friend of many of the Senators who remain. His earlier friends have all preceded him, B — For a considerable space of time Alexandria was not as prominent in general attention as it deserved to be. The proposal by Henry Ford to buy a& Colonial mansion to be placed in his Dearborn museum is a reminder of the beautiful homes that so picturesquely recall bygone days. It is not strange that Alexandria citizens should oppose of the bitter racial conflict which smolders in Palestine like a sullen Ve- suviug, rcady with little provocation, or none ai all, to erupt with calamitous resulls. The history of the .Jevrnt throughout the centuries is the history of a race “carrying on” in the teeth of obstacles which a less tenacious people might find both heart-breaking and in- surmountable. There is thus the quiet dignity, the unshakable r1esolve, of the Hebrew patriarchs in the preamble of the Wash- ington Zionist resolution. “This con- ference is of the firm belief,” it says, “that funds may be invested in Pales- tine on a business basis, and the con- ference has received reports indicating the practical possibility and need for increasing the amount of such invest- ments.” In other words, it is not charity which is asked for Palestine. It is “investments” which are sought. Re- sponsible American Jewish representa- tives call upon their coreligionists of Zionist sympathies to have unalloyed confidence in the National Home's pos- sibilities and to come to its aid in a spirit of practical idealism. Perhaps—it would almost seem in- evitable—men like Associate Justice Brandeis, Felix M. Warburg, Dr. Lee K. Frankel and Bernard Flexner, who spoke in Washington last evening, have assured themselves that late sanguinary events in Palestine were but flashes in the pan. Perhaps they are in possession of facts which guarantee & more rigorous suppression of racial animosities by the British mandate au- thorities than has hitherto been wit- ing in the Citizens’ Joint Committee for District National Representation. These associations and clubs of the District and our ex-soldler and patriotic erganizations, with powerful national afiliations, are successfully sending out an S O S call to their voting associates to rescue them from the shameful po- litical isolation of the lunatic and the convict. Surely every red-blooded American everywhere will respond helpfully and vigorously to the District’s appeal for political equity. ————t ‘One peculiarity about a police mystery is its durability. After the lapse of months and even years it is likely to turn up again in popular interest, al- most as good as new. ———— *Only all-conquering Death eould con- quer Clemenceau. And even as he passes the thoughts and ideals invoked by his name proclaim him still a victor. — e Litigation has become szo crowded that it is now as difficult to keep up with business in the courts as on the | Btock Exchange. B The Tiger's Last Fight. “The Tiger” has fought and lost his last fight. M. Clemenceau is no more. After battling to the last against excruci- ating physical pain, the “Father of Vic- tory” has given up the ghost. France 18 plunged in grief over the loss of the republic’s most towering political per- sonality. It was the pollu and the spirit of Verdun which conquered on the battlefield. But it was the iron will of Clemenceau which overcame de- featism at home. Between the valor of the army and the determination of the people, Prance was saved. Clemenceau’s eighty-seven years were scarred with the wounds of political battle. He was as relentless in attack on the Quai d'Orsay as Marshal Foch was on the western front. “The Tiger” seldom gave or asked quarter. His od- versaries always knew they were in for a fight to the finish, and the finish was most commonly theirs. ‘The judgment of history on Clemen- ceau’s peace-time politics will probably be presented in both lights and shadows. Its account of his war-time leadership nessed. In face of all that has gone before, Justice Brandeis declared his conviction “that a group of American business men of proven ability and loyalty to the Jewich cause can, co- operating under Mr, Warburg, assure a Jewish Palestine.” v It is perhaps impossible at any time to regard a tariff as a completed work. ‘There is always a reminder that there is room for improvement. e Francis Emroy Warren. The Senate and the country™ will mourn the passing of Senator Francis Emroy Warren of Wyoming. For years he has towered among his fellows in the Senate, a sturdy oak. His death brings to an end the era in which many Senators were former soldiers in the ‘War between the States. Senator War- ren was the last of them, on either side of the chamber. He outlived his gen- eration, but not his usefulness. Wise in counsel, firm in his convictions, Senator Warren was an indefatigable worker, even to the day of his last illness. He was in his seat in the Senate frequently at night sessions when younger men were absent. It is many years since he became chairman of the important com- mittee on appropriations of the Senate, and in that position has directed in large part the measures supplying the funds required to meet the ever-expand- ing needs of the governmental ma- chinery. Senator Warren entered the Senate first on December 1, 1890, almost, thirty- nine years ago to a day. He was out of the Senate from 1893 to 1895. From the latter date, however, until the pres- ent he was continuously a member of the Upper House. Senator Simmons of North Carolina, the nmext to Senator Warren in length of service, did not enter the Senate until eleven years after Senator Warren had first been sworn in, Senator Reed Smoot of Utah, another veteran, was thirteen years after Mr. Warren in entering the Senate, and Senator Norris of Nebraska, Senate until twenty-three years later. The senior Senator from Wyoming was born in Hinsdale, Mass., eighty-five years ago. His first service for his country was as a private in the Forty- ninth Regiment, Massachusetts Volun- of the French nation can only reveal him, if it be a faithful narration, as the incarnation of the Gallic soul, fired to its invincible zenith in its most glorious, though tragic, *Whe Tigers” waning eiDecially 1862. reckoned a veteran, did not reach the teer Infantry, in which he enlisted in He served throughout the re- mainder of the Clvil War, as private and non-commissioned officer, until his regiment was mustered out. For gal- lantzy in action he pecetved the Con- howt & plan, complimentary in its intention, for a transfer of its dignities. ——————————— Senator Capper's advice to D. C. women to fight for the vote should in- terest women all over the country as they recall their own fight for privileges of full citizenship. This is & matter in which District women, their brothers, sons and husbands, should reasonably expect many a helping hand. —— e It is an exceedingly enterprising group of professors who manage to make their names as well kmown as those of the foot ball stars with whom they have the honor to be more or less directly associated. Appropriations for road bullding will need some supervision to prevent the same kind of enthusiasm from arising that used to assert itself occasionally in connection with rivers and harbors. As President Hoover takes the matter up, the solution of an unemployment problem apbears simplicity itself. The way to dispose of unemployment is to provide employment. ———— Without directly queting the Scrip- tures, Henry Ford makes clear his be- lief that the laborer is worthy of his hire. SHOOTING STARS. BY PRILANDER JOHNSON. Good Times. There are good times coming! ‘Though we miss the birds and bees, There are echoes humming, Christmas carols in the breeze, There are bright stars beaming In the heavens up above; There are home lights gleamipg On the faces that we love. As the hours go straying, We are talking cheer anew. We'll be holidaying Gayly, as we always do! No Lobbyist. “Isn't the man you were talking to a lobbyist?” “No,” answered Senator Sorghum. “He's one of those chaps who sell in- fluence they ean't deliver. He's no lobbyist. He's a short-change per- former.” Jud Tunking says he always hopes for the best, but' never succeeds in being the fellow who grabs it for himself. Obsolete Fireplace. When warmth was all aglow, ©Old Santa once would loiter, While stockings in a row Called him to reconnoiter. Demands upon his time Are yearly growing greater. He couldn't wait to climb ‘Through yonder radiator! He Who Laughs Last. “Henry Ford is going to raise the pay of his great army of workmen.” “Yes,” sald the wage earner. “And that shows Henry has a sense of humor. He has now turned the laugh on a large number of people who used to enjoy a daily laugh at his expense.” “He who cheats at gaming,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “gains a lit- tle money and loses everything in self- respect.” Unanimity, ‘Throughout this mighty Nation Common privilege we claim. Congress takes a brief vacation And plain folks will do the same. “A razor,” said Uncle Eben, “needs 2ood management to keep it busy in de barber shop instead of leadin' to de hospital.” [ — Maybe He Brought His Own. Prom the Port Wayne News-Sentinel. A new York man was ejected from & ety S et A whole cult of modern critics has arisen which takes keen pleasure in regarding Mr. Tarkington as a minor writer, Others, naturally, do not agree with this smug verdict. Yet it is perhaps true that most readers will accord Tom Bawyer a larger vote than Penrod, despite the nearness of the latter to their own age and boys. And again, we say, we wonder why, Is it, indeed, because the man whose real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens was a better writer? Were the adventures of Tom and Huckleberry nearer to the universal desire? ‘Was that startling bit of pre-vision, “Tom Sawyer Abroad,” in which Mark Twain” pictured a flight of an Mirship around the world, more up-to-date than the modern dectective even? * ok ok ¥ ‘This question may be left to the critics, who know, or who pretend that they know everything. What interests us today is the peren- nial boy. Twain's boy, Tarkington's boy and Peck’s “bad boy” form a Iliterary trio. The latter never was entirely re- spectable. Fond mammas found the WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Unknown to fame, there’s a respected attache of the White House named “Charlie” Williams, messenger by night and asbestos worker by day. “Charlie’s” Government pay is exclusively for mes- senger service. His asbestos income is derived in private life. Asbestos, as every one knows, is chiéfly noted for its Incombustible qualities. When wrapped around other objects it also has the capacity of preserving heat and warmth. The relations existing between the White House and the Senate suggest to innocent bystand-rs that President Hoo- ver might do worse than to give his nighttime messenger a daytime job and put him to work on fireproofing the pipe line between 1600 Pennsylvania avenue and Capitol Hill. The week be- tween now and the assembling of Con- gress for the regular session would be an ideal time for some political asbestos work. “Charlie” Williams hasn't any experience along that particular lne, but he might have some useful hints about how to warm up things in gen- eral and keep them at an even tem- perature. Unless this is to be a Win- ter of perpetual discontent in Washing- ton, something of the sort is called for. * k. % % Rtmmor is not included among Senator Reed Smoot’s numerous qualitites—or apparently is not. At the close of the special sescion the corner of the Senate chamber back of the Republican side was occupied by a big table loaded with a variety "of objects affected by the tari” bill. Among the toys displayed was a band wagon, probably made in Germany. 8moot, being in charge of the bill, also had supervision over the table. When the solemn and lanky Utahan wasn't looking, some wag of & colleague hung onto the band wagon | Tre; & sign reading, “Boy Scouts.” This is the appellagion given to the amateur politicians who hover around the Hoo- ver throne, Senator Moses being credit- ed with its authorship. Another West- ern Senator happened to be standing at the table with Smoot a day or two before the adjournment and asked him, in all_seriousness, if he had put the “Boy Scouts” label on the band wagon. “I certainly did not,” the ranking apos- tle of the Mormon Church replied, as he jerked down the sign. * ok % % At a recent public meeting in Wash- ington Mabel Walker Willebrandt de- livered an address on the efforts of the Department of Justice to humanize conditions in Federal prisons. She wound up by apologizing to her audi- 'h was deeply interested in talk, for having been “so When the time came for the chairman of the meeting to make the closing remarks, he got a rise out of the prohibition Joan of Arc by turning to her and asking if she thought anybody ever suspected her of being anything but “dry.” ok During th: late unpleasantness in ‘Wall Street and all points North, South, East and West a great many people have gone to the public libraries and asked for & book called “Other People's Money.” The author is Louis D, Bran- deis, associate justice of the United Btates Supreme Court. Judge Brandeis wrote the book in 1912, four years be- fore President Wilson appointed him to the Supreme Court. The volume is based to a considerable extent on the revelations of American financial con- ditions, as developed before the ccle- brated Pujo “money trust” investigation In the House of Representatives. Bran- deis was @t that time at the head of his own law firm in Boston. A couple of years later he was special counsel for the United States Government in the al:n National Bank case at Washing- * ok ok K Constitutional lawyers in and out of are tremendously interested in & case just reported by one of the na- tional law 1s. In a certain juris- diction not far from the District of Co- lumbia & court issued a decree of divorce in favor of a woman suing for detach- ment from her husband, but divorced her son instead. By the same erior the woman was given the custody of the husband. As the court had adjourned for a protracted period, the authorities ruled that the error could only be recti- fled at the succeeding term, probably by institution of new proceedings after the wife had consented to relinquish her husband from c: ‘The position of the son BO THIS AND THAT ‘meantime is not clear, as there | will D. C, MONDAY, | E. TRACEWELL. ] somewhat ribald laughter which his antics threw their boys into rather herd on the home nerves. ‘The fat réd book in which he came | enshrined usually disappeared about a [ month after Christmas, and was seen | no_more. | Maybe it was the title which did it.| | If Gov. Peck’s literary offspring had not | been defii ly labeled he might have got off bet! As he was, he had the mark of Cain {on him in so many letters, and mothers | everywhere shrank from permitting their own spns to run the risk of imitat- ing his splendors. Most of his jokes, as we recall, were played on his father, a slow-witted German gentleman, who invariably | found bees in his liver pad, or soap on the stairwi Tom Sawyer had less of this prac- tical joking in his make-up. Perhaps that is why he lasts better, why Pen- | rod remains a favorite. . | _Real boys are too preoccupied with | their own affairs to pay very much at- | tention to their elders. At times their affairs may impinge upon their own and other families, but this is simply through inadvertence. Neither Tom, Huckleberry nor Penrod made a business of tripping up their | fathers, or causing their mothers. to run squawking with fright. They do not sneak up to the grocery and place a sign on the strawberries, ‘Ten Cents a_Smell, and One Smell | Enough,” as Mr. Peck's irrepressible | youngster was represented doing. ‘The average boy, in his ordinary | daily life, does not indulge in such tricks, and that is one reason why | Twain and Tarkington books about | them may be bought at any book store, whereas one who asks for “Peck’s Bad Boy” will find that modern clerks know him not. * ok kX Yet we may believe that even Pen- rod and his faithful Sam, and Tom and his Huck, than they we eality. Real live boys sometimes make nui- sances of themselves, in ways that they do not know of, and have no way of knowing about until they “grow up.’ Consider the tin can. Is there any boy in the world who can resist kicking one when he finds it lying temptingly on its side in the alley? ‘What are tin cans made for, indeed, except to kick? Fathers who growl about the shoe bills could save themselves much money by seeing to it that no tin can any- where is permitted to remain at large in an elley. The merry clatter of kicked tin cans resounds through the land, and, as they clank on concrete, thousands of sensi- tive persons, startled from rest or medi- ation, shrink inwardly, and outwardly, , for that matter. And shall not Penrod kick tin cans, or put ter in the minister's hat, if he wishes? Surely Penrod shall! All the shrinking of older nerves will restrain him not a whit. But facts, after all, have nothing to do with our thesis, that Penrod, and maybe Tom and Huck, must have been neighborhood nuisances, pleasanter to read aboutl than live near. We are not sure about Tom and Huckleberry, but we know Penrod. ‘Washington has just had a visit from one of the most popular foreign diplo- mats_stationed here in recent times, Mr. Setsuzo Sawada of Japan. Up to last year Mr. Sawada was counselor of the Japanese embassy. He was trans- ferred to service in the foreign office at ‘Tokio, but his knowledge of American conditions is so profound that it was decided to send him back to the United States to become Japanese consul gen- eral at New York. Sawada has just taken up his duties there, after paying his respects to Ambassador Debuchi in Washington. The brilliant young Nipponese diplomat is of President Hoover’s faith, having been converted to Q@ rism by American missionaries in Japan. Mme. Sawada is also a con- vert, but she embraced Roman Catholi- cism. G N 2.0 Senator Duncan U. PFletcher, Demo- crat, has filed h the commissioner of pensions a_ declaration for pension exe- cuted by Mrs, Abigail Barrs of Jack: sonville, Fla., who recently celebrated her hundredth birthday. In her appli- cation Mrs. Barrs, widow of William Etheldred Barrs, who saw service in Florida during the campaign against the Seminole Indians, affirms that she was born July 15, 1829, and was mar- ried to Mr. Barrs under the name of Abigail Shattuck at Colleton District, 8. C, Squire Broxton. Senator Fletcher numbers Mrs. Barrs among his oldest friends and has requested the commisioner to give her application his personal attention. Floridians think it’s nothing strange for folks to reach a century of age in the land of sunshine and orange juice. ey * K ok K rthur M. Hyde, Secretary of Agri- culture, slipped into his old home wfn 'nton, Mo, not long ago unan- nounced and went to his office early in the forenoon, only to find that the lock had been changed and that his key wouldn’t work. Commentators on the incident out in the corn belt say that Hyde apparently needs a personal pub- licity agent, because if he had one the Secretary would have “issued a state- ment” before leaving Washington, in time to have the Trenton band out to meet him at the station and his old of- fice waiting to welcome him. (Copyrisht, 1929 ———s Cities Urged to Keep Bond Issues Down From the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, The danger of a city bonding itself too heavily, alluded to frequently prior to the recenteschool bond election, is | illustrated in a case close to home. Dal- las municipal bonds have been dropped from the Banking Commission of Con- necticut’s new list of bonds legal for savings banks in that State. The rea- son given was that Dallas, by voting its most recent issue, brought its munic- ipal debt beyond the legal limit in Connecticut. Since Connecticut, New York and Massachusetts are the three leading bond-buying States, it is easy to see the importance of Connecticut's action. It was to avoid just such a situation that caused so pronounced oppcsition to the recent proposed school issue here. The proposed issue was for $4.000,000, | and that would“have brought the city within $1,800,000 of its “dead line” for bond indebtedness. Fort Worth at pres- ent is $5£00,000 away from that “dead line” margin, enough to carry out any pressing needs. If the School Board had set its issue at $2,000,000 instead of $4,000,000, there still would have been a wide enough margin. But $4,000,000 would have brought the city too near its “dead line.” That was one reason the issue was overwhelmingly defeated. No one would deny that a Dallas municipal bond is or tha is a solvent city. Nevertheless, action like that in Connecticut on the part of bond buyers makes.a weak market for bonds thus affected and results in a higher interest rate. It pays cities to watch their b oks closely when discuss- ing bond issu- ;. . ——— t 3 A.M. Silence. ster Democrat and Chronicle. New York ys are to be invited to select the worst noise in a list of 26 that plague city dwellers. Our choice be noise that ensues when city t0 decide upon mjuatmnn:'.humlln!or'mtn &lwb Republican leaders in NOVEMBER 25, 19%9. Wilson Peace Efforts Are Held Neglected To_the Editor of The Stur: I was much gratified to read the splendid letter of Mr. John Kendall in A recent issue of your paper, Evi- dently his mind has been running in the same channel as my own. I have | spoken to several of my friends about the same thing and have heard others commenting on it through the week. I fail to understant how any man can make an address on Armistice day and not mention the name of Woodrow Wil- son. It seems to me the very word “armistice” leads me to think of him. Certainly no other man has been more instrumental in trying to bring about a world peace, and certainly no man has been more successful than he. He gave his life for this cause and was willing to die that it might be achieved. We who stood before his door on S street the last time h» ap- peared on Armistice day can never for- get that sad occasion. His frail form, broken in health and almost unable to walk, yet hoping for his dream of peace {and with tears in his eyes expressing his assurance that it was as suré to prevail as time itself. Even those who may not like him for partisan reasons should recall that a great many of the most eminent men in the opposing par- ty stood four-square with him on this issue. I recall so well the death of Presi- dent McKinley when I was a boy. How his sad and untimely death brought tears to my eyes, and how memorial services were held all through the South as well as the North. His favorite hymns were sung and sorrow was in every home. There was no party in our thoughts. He was our beloved President. I have often wondered why we do not hear Wilson'’s name more frequently in our pulpits. Other ministers have spoken to me about it. His life was a beautiful example of gacrifice and, as| Dr. Freeman so well said on last Mon- . “Woodrow Wilson died as hero- fcally for the same world peace and lib- erty as any soldier who fell on the fiei of battle. JOHN P. WAGER. R Northwest Awaits New River Routes Prom the 8t. Paul Pioneer Press. For several years the Great Lakes States, including Minnesota, have been associated in litigation against Chicago for the protection of lake levels against undue diversion of water down the Chi- cago sanitary canal for sewage disposal. The case has been carried to the United States Supreme Court and won. Chicago is spending $100,000,000 for sewage re- duction piants, and, under War De- partment regulation, is frldually o abandon this drainage of the Great Lakes system. President Hoover's comprehensive program for inland waterways, with the lllinois River and the sanitary canal to Chicago as an obviously necessary and valuable tributary to the Missis- sippi trunk system, has created a new situation which received attention at the meeting of the Mississippi Valley Association at St. Louis recently. ‘The Illinois River, pius the sanitary canal, when properly developed, not only would provide a standard barge route from Mississippi points to Chi- cago, but would link the two greatest American waterway systems, the Great Lakes and the Mississippl. The valley assoclation in its resolutions makes the canal and the Illinois River integral parts of its program. It folows that the association approves whatever di- version of water may be necessary to make channels us:ful once they are completed. Chicago doubtless has a double mo- tive of water transportation and use of the waterway as an auxiliary means of sew! disposal along with the reduc- tion plants now being built. The Mis- sissf] Valley, however, is interested only in the transportation feature. Tied up with this purpose and an essential part with it, is the requirement that such compensating dams be bullt in the connecting lake channels as will make up for the diversion and maintain water levels for shipping. ‘There seems to be little doubt among engineers that stabilizing dams at the outlets of Lakes Huron and Erie can easily compensate the levels for what- ever diversion may be necessary for transportation purposes at Chicago. In that case the only set of interests that can be adversely affected in the slight- est would be the power companies at Niagara, which at present are them- selves diverting enormous quantities of water through' their generating plants. Stabilizing dams may protect lake levels, but they cannot put back water that has been taken away and volume of power is affected by volume of water. The force of objections from power companies is not great. The first use of waterways is for transportation. It is from this aspect that the Federal Government derives its authority over them. Power development is only sec- ondary and incidental. When power can be produced as a sort of by-product to transportation it has a legitimate place, but it hes no claim for priority and may not b permitted to over- shadow the use of the waterways for navigation. ‘The volume of water being taken for power at Niagara is many times over what would probably be needed for transportation uses at Chicago. ‘The reduction in volume would be of no consequence for the power companies in times of high water such as at pres- ent, and the effect at any time is highly speculative and certainly not serious. But the power companies, however that may be, have no vested rights in the di- version of water for their purpose that can run against the legitimate trans- portation use of the water at Chicago. ‘The Northwest looks forward to the day when it will be connected by stand- ard river channels with President Hoover said Louisville speech, the tributaries of the Mississippi and the Great Lakes com- ‘);rlu “a single great transportation sys- m."” e Increase in Lakes Of Nation Is Sought From the Cincinnati Times-Star. Americans are becoming lake-minded, pond-minded, pool-minded. Noteworthy is the multiplication of public swim- ming pools and small private ponds. Some parts of the country, like Min- nesota, Michigan and New York, are well equipped” with lakes. Others are supplementing the defl- ciencies of nature by the resources of art. Ohio has several decent lakes, created or enlarged for reservoir pur- poses at the time that the two big canals were put through from Ohio to Lake Erie. In Reelfoot Lake, Kentucky has a considerable body of water on its southern border, the gift of the New Madrid earthquake. In general, the Southern States, being below the line of the glacier deposits that dammed so many Northern streams, are scantily supplied with lakes, and they have wel- comed the big power dams in their river gorges, behind which long bodles of water have collected. Because lakes mean fishing, boating and bathing, as well as places of shelter, and congregation for the migratory flocks, the Western States are doing something toward establishing them by building dams. In Scott County, Kansas has developed a canyon region of 1,260 acres; in the Crawford Preserve it has an area of 420 acres devel from abandoned coal pits, filled with water and so connected by canals as to form a canoe waterway; even buffalo wallows have been flooded, extended and con- nected for pleasure park purposes. Since there is nof g quite s0 easy to create as lakes, and few things so grateful to man, the number of them is country is going to be much enlarged. —— Elephants? Tsk! Tsk! From the Topeka Daily Cabital. A London veterinarian has learned how to cure stomacl ele) ts. | The answers to questions printed here each day are specimens picked from the mass of inquiries handled by our great Information Buréau main- tained in Washington, D. C. This val- uable service is for the free use of the public. Ask any question of fact you may want to know and you will get an immediate reply. Write plainly, enclose 2 cents in coin or stamps for return postage, and address The !Evening Star Information Bureau, | Frederic Haskin, director, Wash- {ington, D. C. Q. What player has lost the mgst weight_in an American game of foot ball?>—W. W. H. A. Bill Edwards, who in the Prince- ton-Navy game lost about 18 or 20 pounds, was playing on a hot day under a very hot sun. He weighed approximately 220 pounds and is about 6 ?eet 3 inches tall. This is perhaps the greatest loss of weight recorded in one foot ball game. Q. How long is the boundary line of the United States?—G. A. T. A. The Canadian boundary line is 3,986 miles, the Mexican border 1,744 miles. The Atlantic coast line is 2,026 miles, the Gulf coast 1573 miles, and the Pacific coast 1,369 miles, making a total of 10,698 miles for the boundary line. The coast line measures do not take into account the indentations of small bays and river mouths. . What is meant by senatorial courtesy?>—M. R. D. A. Senatorial courtesy is something well understood but difficult to define. One authority defined it as indulgences extended by one Senator to another. Another suggests that the term “sena- torial court:sy” is one applied to a cus- tom in the United States Senate by which the procedure of that body is based, chiefly, on the honor of Senators rather than upon strict rules. For ex- ample, it is customary (usually) when a former Senator's name is sent in for the nomination for some appointive position to confirm him as a matter of course, without going through the regu- lar routine, It is also customary for the Senate to refuse to confirm the nomina- tion of an appointment to office in any State whose Senator (or Senators) ob- jects to the person nominated, the ground that the nomination is person- ally objectionable. Q. When was standard time adopted in the United States?—K. M. R. A. Standard time was adopted in the United States in 1883 on the initiative of the American Railway Association. It appears to have been suggested first by Charles Dowd of Saratoga Springs in 1870. In 1879 the question was again Taised by Sanford Fleming, chief engi- neer of the Canadian Pacific Railway, and the plan was published in the Journal of the Canadian Institute of ‘Toronto in 1879. Q. How long ago did Pritzi_Scheft open in “Mile. Modiste”?—F. H. H. A. It is 25 years since the first pro- duction of “Mile. Modiste” and 29 years since Miss Scheff sang at the Metro- politan. Q. Do the young men in Germany have to take military training?—C. E. K. A. The German army is made up entirely of volunteers. Q. I have found from experience that metallic magnesium is tasteless. do I have a biting sensation when 1 get 2 piece of this metal in contact with a gold crown?—J. W. A. Mineral Technology says that the biting sensation which one experiences by contact of & metal with a gold tooth is due to the nerves of the mouth. They form & very delicate galvanometer which detects the slightest electrical ; ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. current set up by two metals in the mouth. Q. Wasn't George Washington & ves- tryman of the Episcopal Chutch at Falls Church?>—M. E. C. A. The records of Fairfax County, Va., show that he was a vestryman in | the Falls Church Episcopal Church of | Falls Church, Va. The old church is |still standing, and the town of Falls | Church was named after it. Christ | Church and Pohick are other Episcopal churches in which George Washington was a vestryman. Q. How many important editions of Shl:egtlfl are published now?— A. L. D. A. There ar® more than 50. More editions of Shakespeare have been com- piled than of the books of anyv other author. Since 1820 more than 100 edi- tions have been made. Q. When may a_person wear his decoration of the French Legion of Honor?—W. R. C. A. A chevalier in the French Legion of Honor wears a small narrow red rib- bon in his buttonhole at any time. With full dress alone, he may wear the ;':l." insignia at the side of the button- . Q. Who invented the railroad air brake?—F. M. C. A. George Westinghouse in the Au- tumn of 1868 completed his working model air brake. According to Scrib- ner's “History of American Invention,” the event took place in Pittsburgh. After some difficulties in putting om & demonstration, a trial was made on the Panhandle Railroad, and a dramstic | incident, which resulted in saving the | life of a drayman during this trial, as- sured success to the new device. | @ In what State has the governor no_power to veto?—C. C. P. A. The Governor of North Carolina has not the power of veto. Q. Do any other animals draw sal- ;fll‘: besides the ones in the movies?— A. An example of the kind is a cat named Fussy, which receives a salary of $100 a week for keeping the Metro- politan Opera House of rodents, It is stated that life insurance is carried on this feline. : Q. Was there a time when the Shen- andoah did not flow through the moun- tain gap at Harpers Ferry?—A. M. R. A. It has not always pursued its present course. It apparently crossed the Blue Ridge through Snickers Gap, 8 miles east of Berryville, Va., and con- tinued eastward nearly parallel to the Potomac. Q. Please publish the story of the origin of chop suey?>—J. P. F. A. Chop suey originated at a dinner that Prince Li Hung Chang gave in New York when he made his trip around the world. Prince Li carried his own chef with him, and the menu was strictly Chinese. One of the dishes especially delighted the wife of the guest of honor, and she asked Li what it was. Prince Li called in his chef, and the chef replied in Chinese, “It is a creatics of my own—a chop suey.” The words “chop suey” mean a mixture, or Pash. Prince Li said in English, “It is a chop suey.” The American woman spread the news of chop suey, the won- derful dish. The name was taken up by the Chinese restaurants in America, and today chop suey is the chief concoc- tion that they serve. Q. Does a cubic foot of gold weigh as much as a cubic foot of lead?—N. M. A. A cubic foot of lead weighs a little more than 707 pounds. A cubic foot of gold weighs a little more than 1,205 pounds. Death of Joseph McGinnity, base ball pitcher who was known as “the Iron Man,” and who was a partner and possibly teacher of Christy Mathewson, brings tributes from the press to | remarkable powers of endurance. He is declared to have won contests th sheer courage and to have added to the glory of the national game. His death in Brooklyn “marks the | passing of one of base ball's truly great figures,” testifies the Detroit News, with the tribute to his long career: “Youl wins, age loses, in the competitions of sport. At least that is the rule and Joe McGinnity was the exception, He was sport’s first Iron Man and her most prodigious craftsman. He entered professional base ball as a pitcher for the Van Buren, Ark., club in 1892. Thirty-three ye later he was still going strong.”. * ok k% “Memories come trooping and senti- ment lives again,” says the Cleveland News, “as word flashes over the wires that the ‘Iron Man’ is dead—the im- mortal Joe McGinnity has gone beyond. A generation that knows the stars of the diamond; that cheers for Foxx and Hornsby; to whom the crack of Babe Ruth's bat on the leather sphere is music divine, inquires a little huluntl{. ‘But who was this Iron Man?’ As if the mighty pitcher who was the peer of Christy Mathewson: the magnet that drew thousands to the base ball fleld; the player whose curves, speed and endurance inspired amazing stories of his prowess, could be unknown to any base ball fan. * * ¢ But those who were fans a score of years ago, when McGinnity was on the mound for the Giants—and who saw him play the game—will never forget him. By them he is remembered as a hero—one of the great of base ball. * * * His was a picturesque diamond career in which games which had their tense and dramatic moments were crowded through & succession of years when his name was emblazoned on every sports page. He was known to every fan from the big league to the sand lot.” ko X “Up here in Northeastern Pennsyl- vania,” remarks the Scranton Times, “there is something more than casual regret at the passing of Joe McGinnity, who, a quarter of a century ago, W&s an outstanding figure in major league base ball. Here we associate McGin- nity with the great Mathcwson and the beloved Hugh Jennings. Joe played on the Baltimore Orioles with Jennings and is credited with having taught Mathewson some of the tricks of the pitching art which were later to make ‘Big Six’ famous. In ball annals McGinnity's name will always be as- sociated with that of Mathewson. * ¢ * ‘When Joe was in his prime, he and slab every third or fourth day and if need I;e sometimes pitched three games a week.” “He pitched seven major leaguebaseball games in six days,” recalls the Newark Evening News, with the suggestion that the record “might well be his epitaph,” and that although it was “made in 1900 while with the Brooklyn team of the National League, which won the pen- nant, it still llll’ld.l;“mmblwher has still ing ball in 1925 and pitching winning games proved his ess at an age when most men are sitting on the side- lines.” 3 * x x % “The Iron Man who helped win major league pennants for Baltimore, Brooklyn and New York has passed | from life’s diamond,” remarks the Fort ‘Wayne News-Sentinel, “but he leaves a wealth of memories behind. H the discoverer of ‘Old Sal’ many regard as the most eflective ball ever pitched—a twirl which raised him from the estate of a coal r to | tant dipl Fame as Base Ball Iron Man Gave McGinnity Distinction ‘ball the qualities of character that have application in life far beyond the ball park, and insure, despite the competi- tion of another great game, that e his | ball will have an enduring popularity with the American le.” ‘The Springfield Illinois State Journal, remembering him as an inconspicuous ayer on a local team, tells of an ex- bition game_ he pitched against the champion Baltimore Orioles in that after having pitched in another ridiculed city, th | city on the same day. He was by the visiting stars at first. The State Journal continues: “Presently the levity ceased. The professional visitors had been striking out, one by one, as they faced those slow balls. Their manager was becoming annoyed. ‘Some of you,’ he said to the men on the bench, ‘get on to that fellow. e need a few hits’ g irom the plate, ‘suppose you take & crack at him. I've been trying to get & hit ever since the game opened and I can’tsconneci. He's got something.’ That game was Joe McGinnity’s intro- duction to major base ball. Baltimo: players did not f¢ that experience.” That paper concludes: “Joe McGinnity was & ball player. He would want to be known as that.” ® x ok x “Overshadowed by his teammate, Christy Mathewson,” according to the Worcester Evening Gazette, “he missed the highest honors which a joyful populace bestows. Yet at his best, in 1904, when he pitched in 51 games and won 35 and lost 8 of them, he deserved to rank with the old master, But base ball in his time was not the swift road to wealth that some find it today. And when the inevitable hour arrived for shift to the minors, McGinnity stuck to the game because he couldn't afford to quit. So it happened that he was still pitching—yes, and winning, too—at an age when most players have been long in retirement.” “Labor in an Oklahoma foundry was Joe's favorite Winter sport when he was breaking into base ball,” says the South Bend Tribune. “As a rookie pitcher in 1899 he was approached by a Brooklyn sports writer, who sought information on McGinnity’s methods of earning a living in Winter. ‘I'm an iron man in Oklahoma,’ he said. Thus he was de- scribed as the ‘Iron Man' before he demonstrated remarkable endurance as a major league pitcher. Incidentally, he married the foundry proprietor's daughter while he was a major league pitcher and later became owner of the property.” Sir Esme Howard’s Work Brings Praise other hurlers took their turn on the | from the Buffalo Evening News. Announcement of the appointment of a new British Ambassador to the United States involves the retirement of Sir Esme Howard, who has held the pet since 1924. As it has been well known that Ambassador Howard had served beyond the retirement age, regret must take the form principally of wonder that time could have flown so fast. Sir Esme Howard, nevertheless, will not be allowed to leave without receiving wide- spread tributes of admiration for the both to his own country and United States in promoting the under- standing and confidence that are the :m of lasting international friend- ‘The new Ambassador, Sir Roland Lindsay, is now undeneeut-‘{ of state for foreign affAirs in the British gov- ernment. He served in Washington in was | the Roosevelt and again in the Wilson period, and his wife is American born. He has been ambassador at Constanti- nople and Berlin and has filled impor- it lomatic posts in that of a National League star. Men mfilflu M:‘G“m:\ty keep buo' B