Evening Star Newspaper, November 29, 1929, Page 8

’ WASHINGTON, D C. FRIDAY......November 29, 1029 THEODORE W. NOYES. .. . Bditor ’ itar Ne The Even!qc'!“ Qo';'::-’" Company nsvivania Ave. a; fenigam Bull st.. Lon wew Fork Shicaro Ofer: @ pean Office: 14 &l Eni I:fl““ Rate by (;:;rflfl Within l:lt City. r e Evenine- Stav. 45c Ler mont e Evening snd Sinany (when 4 Sundass) . 60c per month The Evening and Suniday Siar (when 3 Sundass) ...... . 85¢ per mon‘h The Sunday Star ........." . Sc per copy Collection made at thi¥ énd of each mon’h. Qeders maz be sent in by mail or telephone on al’ 5000. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. L Murriege is such =h. eséy provedure nowadavs that it has lost’ much’ of its significance,, as a performesnce. The couple who step into the office of & magistrate and depart in five minutes | with a’certificate declaring them hus- band and wife are no less united in fhe eves of the law than those who go through protracted rites or brave perils or incur—usually for some one else— heavy expenses of afrangement and accompaniment. In any event, there is no use in las menting. the tendeney toward freakish- ness in this respect. As times advance and’ facllities for sensationalism are developed they will' be utillzed; to- sat- isfy the' eraving for attemtion, which is another word for publicity. And the 85c | marriages thus effected will be no more d Duily onie inday only All Ot ily and” Sundey. tly only .. inday only Member of the Associated Press. ‘The Assoclated Presy {s exclusively entitled to the uce for republication of all news cis- o .he Iocal rews published herein. All' rights of publieation cf special dispatches rerein are miss reserved. A Plea for Armament Reduction. Senator William E. Borah, chairman ©of the Senate forefgn relations commit- tee, pleads brilliently snd convineingly for actual reduction of armaments at the coming London conference, in an article published in the current Coflier's, under the title of “Bigger Guns or; Better Homes.” In the opinion of the chairmen of the forefgm refations com- mittee, the great powers which will as- semble st the conference table next January have the opportunity to dem- onstrate to the world their sincerity by | bringing about not mierely & limitation | of naval srmaments, but a real redue- tion. The Idaho Senator hag been & pioneer in the movement for limitation and re- and no less successfl and enduring; | tRaty those that ate’in sccord with the conventions” that sre observed' by th majority. B ) Over the South Fole. They're off! After many weary months of prepa- | ration and waiting, the dramatic snd- denn-ss of Byrd's start on his dash across the South Pole rivals the spec- tacular aspects of the flight itself. Down there at the other end of the world, literally the loneliest place on th> face of the earth, men have been work- | ing to assure the sucerss of the ven- | ture that began about half past t™n | o'clock last evening, when many Wash- ingtonians were seeking the safety of sleep and rest after the hazards of a | modern Thanksgiving day. Radio | stories of their adv-mtures have givew| us & picture of their daily existence that | familiarity has made almost proseic. | Now the time of waiting hms' passed. At 3:29 o'cloek yesterday afternoon— 10:29 pm. our time—under weather conditions that were perfect, the big three-motored plane carrying Byrd, Bal- duction of armaments. He was the father of the plan for the Washington | conference on naval limitation whieh | was held here in 1921-22. It was his | resolution, added as an amendment to | the naval sppropriation bill im 1921,! that gave authority for the call of the | conference, and under which President | Hardjng actually called the conference imto being. No one has bren more de- voted to tie cause of armament reduc- tion. .Senator Borah expresses wonder, however, that the great naticns, espe- cially the United States and Great Eritain, while professing fidelity to the | cause of peace and an earnest desire for reduction of armaments, should continue to expend billions of dollars | annually for armament. With all the| instrumentalities set up looking to peaceful adjustment of lntemlmmll: differences, i the. opinion of Senator Borah, the time has come definitely to take a stand for the reduction of the huge expenditures made for armies and | for navies throughout the world. Sepator Beralt i3 never more con- vincing than when he is speaking in tHe cause of peace. Imternational peace is the hope of the world. It s the hope of the civilization of today, built up through centuries of suffering end trisl. The burd®ns whiclt prepara- tions for war, offemsive or defensive, place upon the peoples of the world | are not only tremendously but also in- credibly heavy. “The marvel of all Mistory,” says Senator Borzh, “is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily .laid upon them by their governments.” He places among these burdens the pay- mhent of t-xes to meet the military and naval ¢ ablishments of the world today. which, he points out, are Higher than they were before the World War. Public sentiment, he says, wat responsible for the negotiation and retification of the treaty remouncing war, by which practically all the na- tions are now bound. That same pub- lic sentiment, he insists, must approve the reduction of s¥rmaments. The great dificulty—a diffienity which is admitted by Senator Borah—is to bring public sentiment to function in such a way that it will force a real| reduction of srmaments and thereby | 1ift the burden which falls upon the taxpayers, making it possible for them | to have “better homes” instzad of “big- ger guns.” If at the London confer- | ence, set for January 21, the powers there gathered do not make some strides toward an actual reduction of naval armament, the world may well despair of real, effective accomplish- ment looking teward permanent inter- national peace, with peaceful mezns | substituted for wer in the settlement | of intermational disputes. Senator | Borah may well atk why it Is tml‘" public zentiment which demands inter- | national peace and brings about a| treaty by the nations remouncing war | cannot function #lso in the interest of | reduetion of armaments. —ome A number of ladies are expected to, geek pldees in the Senate. Time may| disclose the stact exehange and the | foot ball field as the only scenes of a regular rough man’s gzme. { N Marriage and Publicity. From the cave-man’s procedure of knocking a woman over the head with 2 stone club, thus making her his mate, to the modern, up-to-date weddng in | an airplane follcwed by parachute | | from chen, June and McKinley swept across the snow of the airport st “Little America” and took the alr. Before the adventure lay a course of mbout 80 miles to the South Pele, then 800 miles back again, a course of at least 1,600 miles to fiy over the silent, icy peaks and valleys of the Antarctic. As The Star goes to press th» bul- | fetins frem the radio of the plane indi- cate that the goal has been reached, the South Pole crossed, and the plane is winning its way back to the relatively populous settlem-mt of Little Amferfca. Another cHapter has been written in the history of world conquests. Byrd's expedition, the most care- fully planned and adequately equipped of any previous expedition, has had more tangible aims than those that lie in fiying an airplane over the mystical spot that designates the bottom of the world. Men have reached that spot before under far more Nazardous snd difficult conditions tham those en- ¢tountered by Byrd and his etml;:fnla.mxsI today. The flight of the airplane has| come merely &s & picturesque and strik- f ing climax to the less glamorons but more valuable work of mapping and scientific research that has accom- | panied preparations for the take-off. | But in winging his way over the Sonth Pole Byrd and his companions are doing ! more than establishing another record. ‘They are making a photegraphic record of his undertaking. They are attempt- ing to find out more concerning the extent of mountain ranges seen by Capt. Roald Amundsen, running toward the Weddell Sea; to' learn whetHer m‘hi Iand can be seen on the other side of the Pole, and to make surveys with the | aerial camera of unknown territory. Coming back from the Pole the plen is now to land at the airplane base pre- viously established at the southern front of the berrier and to refuel before re- turning to Little Ameries. { ‘We cannot weigh the full value of this | epic flight today. Time will write it down as a melodramatic lark, or as the | disappearance of the last frontier. . Bigness brings a sense of seeurity. Yet the larger the aivplane the greater the destruction in the event of & crash.( - b The Riddle of the East. The Rutsia-China imbroglio may possibly Bs beconting less camplex by | recent, happenings, but understamding | of the situation is growing more difficult, | through suceessive asnotncements that | come from the Far Bast. A few days ago it was stated With evidently sound authority that Mukden, meaning the government of the three Eastern prev- inees known collectively #s Mancharia, had made overturrs to Russia for a “separate peace™ following som idesl Russian successes I thef Teld. is proposal involyed the re-rstablishment of the status quo ante, or condition prior to the break, particularly the res- toration of the Russan gensral man- ager of the Chinese Fastern Railvay. New comes word from Nanking that the Nationalist government of China— whi¢h evidently wes taken by surprise by Mukden's action—has forwardxd to Moscow a proposal for settling the dis- | pute. On examination this proposal, n in out'ine In an official statement | ths Nationalist forelgn office, | does not go very far. It is in alterna- tive form: First. that a Sino-Russian joint commission be formed composed of equal numbers of Chinese and Rus- sians with a nentral as cha'rman, to investieats eonditfons on the borders; { Jumps o earth by bride and groom 15 | o 4oy poth sides witheraw thelr troops & far cry. Yet the barbarism of the | latter is evident, though perhaps some- | what refined. The cave-man formmla was in accord with the times, and so is the airpléne wedding in tune with the period. » The girplane wedding performed yes- terday over Roosevelt Ficld, near New Yorkz, was staged with full regard for publicity. Camera men were at hand to take countless photographs, “still” and motion, of the take-off and the successive landings by parachute of the bride, the groom and the b2:t man. The “stunt” was well done, without a hitch. There was just ore flaw in the program. The wedding ceremeny was not broadcast from the air by radio. Had that been done no detail of mo- dernity would have been missing. To those who deplore this sort of thing, this utilization of marriage rites for sensationalsm and publicity, it may be said that it has been going on for a long, long time. Elaborate cercmonies with lavish displays of flowers and gowns dnd long lines of attendants and squads of clergy are of the attenfion- thirty miles from the border to await a settlement of the issues, { ment is appended fhat the aéceptance ! of either proposal “will be taken to M- dicate that the Soviet government has #dopted & praceful poliey toward China, while rejsetion will indicats that Rus- sia eptertains warlike ambitioas toward | China.” Then follows this suggestive | senitemice: “The Natiomalist government {/will be prepared to meéct Soviet moves accordingly.” Meanwhile, certdin moves whielt are not particularly clear are being made in behalf of China, or by China, to in- voke international intercession with Russia. One plan is that the League of Nations takz a Hhand, although neither Russia nor tie United States is a member of ths Leagne. Another plan is that Russia be summoned under the | Kellogg treaty to submit the ease to arbi- tration. Another is for direct inter- vention by the United States and Ger- |many to bring Russia to the point of reasonab’e seftlément without war. Nothing is clearly defined respecting attracting charactér, just as the fréak perfermances of weddings in strangs Places, on great helghts or in extreme this espect of the situation. The prop-zal of tHe Nanking govern- ment m-ku;no mention, it is to be A state- | THE EVENING noted, of restoration of the status quo; which has beén Russia’s contention fronm.the outset. Inasmuch ss Mukden Ims w0 propoged, it is to be expeoted that Moscow will lean toward the Manchu- rfan rather than the Nationalist prop- osition, Then comes the question of '“who's' who in China." Is Manchuria China, or is Manchuria a separate en- tistion? Can Nanking speak for Man- churia effectively? Has Nanking the actusl available military force capable of enabling it “to meet Soviet moves accordingly” if the Nationalist govern- ment’s proposal to Moscow is rejected? In this connection it is interesting to note that a few days ago it was stated that in consequenice of certain liberal disbursemients among the warlords of Central ‘China—totaling according to onz dispatch to more than $8,000,000 gold—danger of further civil war had Bern” averfed. Now comes the state- nient that Nationalist forces are still oe- cupled in active operations in Kwangsi province, and that severe hostilities are feared elsewhere in the snpposedly paei- fledd Chiness areas. All of which sorves | K ke the pumzle that is China still lifffcuit of solution. RS- John D. Rockefeller, jr.,, will restore by Henry Ford's example to the cxtent tecture. e ‘The Puritan Fathers managad to en- not featuve & foot ball game. In reading of early days it is remarkable to note how rauch happiness was avallable even in the absence of our modern improve- ments. ————t—— The underworld used to be content | to evade the police. It now assumes an | sggressive attitude and seeks, aside| from its ordinary pursuit of profit, to | make as much trouble for them as pos- sible. ————— A prosperous country can find no bet: monstration of its prosperity than anihdustrious and well paid general citizenship. Wise money does not grudge time spent in learning what is best to dz-_rlth itself. ++Big motion picture firms are-assumed to have violated the law by merging. The “talkies” have become popular gnough to hold their own, even while the great modern industry calls on lawyers to do most of the talking. e T e L K reduction of armaments is confi- dently expected by Premier Macdonald. | This is especially assuring because of | the reputation he enjoys as & far- sighted, level-headed ma: —————— Russian Communists have protested against cruelties, but have no time to listen to similar protests from the Chinese. ———vwo—— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Still Here. Upont Thanksgiving dey we did "Most everything we shouldn't. Some things the doctor had forbid; He told us that we couldm't Bt pie or ewke, snd turkey, too, Seid he, “will wait for you'— And still we're here! And just like that we go our way. The traffic’s warning Helps us escape from day to day. . And yet, next morning W= look on the aceustomed scene With an increasing cheer., We say with confidence serene, “And still we're here!” Silent Helpfulness. “You have boen re-elected many | timés " “Yes,” answered Senator Sorghum. “¥ou must heve served your country ! well.” “T tried to-do , while I can't claim to have been brilliantly aggressive. But when anybody came along with wht looked Jike a good idea, I at least refrained from getting in the way.” Jud Tunkins says the unsuccessful speeulator puts it most of his life play- | g turkey to somebody else’s Thanis- giving. Diserepancy in Sive, OH, Hunting's & habit. It loses its fun .With such a small rabbit And such a big gun! Claiming No Responsibi “What did your wife sey when you skidded?” “Not tuch,” answered Mr. Chuggins. “Shé merely remarked that this was | one time she wasn't driving from the | bBack seat” o man despises flattery,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatowm. “Even when compliments are undeserved, they assure him that his power is feared.” Modern Vocalization. The tenor's voiee was trying, He simply wafled along. 1 said, “Why is he crying?” They answered, “That's a song!"” “I's goin’ to git myse'f a radio,” said Unele Eben, “so's I'l have some excuse besides personal worry foh stayin’ awake nights.” v Wouldn't Know Bootlegger. Prem the Duluth Herald. Senator Smoot says he would not know a bootlegger i ‘he saw one. Some ]Mk‘!m!n are like that, i e N SO RO Pharmacist Sinclair. Prom the Ashevilie Times, robably will be a long time before the vernment will get another phar- maeist of Harry Sinclair’s ear¥ing power simply for his room and board. P v | " 100 Per Cent Cleancd. | Prom the Detroit News. A local stock market casualty has had his last Winter's hat cleaned, 100, mak- ing him 100 per cent in that respect. 2 T e 3 Topsy-Turvy Painting. From (he Terre Haute £tar. ‘That pain‘ing which won seccnd prize while hanging on its stde might have taken first plaee if hung upside down. i v—.— Room for M ore Radio Stations, Prom the Des Moines Tribune-Capital. room for more sadio tity with power of international nego- Williamsburg, but will not be influenced | of trying to place it in & private mu- | seunt. The topography of a historic | town is interesting as well as its archi- | 'STAR, WASHINGTON, Borah and Hiram Johnson are strangely linked in & new book, “Love the Law of Life” by Toy Kagawa, just issued C. Winston Co. of Philadel- by the John | phia. Lamenting the “femine of love,” which he sees everywhere, the Japanese author, said to be the outstanding Jap- anese Christian, scorns both the sword and money as means for the regenera- tiow of ghe world. “Look” at the faces of those United | States Senators,” he declared, in the prologue to his book. “How eloguent sound Borzh's ‘Justice’ and Hiram Johnson's ‘Patriotism’'! When men live next door to hell, it is true, I suppose, that hate and disdain sound like justice and patriotism. “Clans mistreat one another; races | slaughter one another. Where they live close by the door to hell their eyes are scorched and blinded by the flames of hate, which ere blown out. Ameri- cans are blinded in this way.” This authentic voice, proclaiming a return to the pure love of Jesus Christ, comes ip this book from across the Pacific, ¥Héi¢ the author is well known for his simple life among the: poor, his Interest in social service and his work for Christianity. Immediately after voicing his wonder S0 naively over Senators Borah and Johnson, the author proceeds with the following invocation: “My soul, whither wilt thou flee, and find an oasis in this parched, loveless waste? Where wilt thou find a foun- | tain of love? “Child, rch not for springs of love in the deep valleys, nor yet in th= bosom jov Thanksgiving day although it did | oy sroiner being. The spring of love, &h. it must well up in thine own heart! “I was wron; my thirst wng Jove from another. spring of love in my own breast. When I sece this drought in th land. I my own soul, hearts, shall I find the spring of love mlch can never be found on the sur- e. within me. * little by little it is growing. Yet I do hot expect it to grow without sacrifice. A cross awaits me on before. Then, let the cross. ang.death. too, come! If it e forthe sake of Love, I will gladly ok ok ok Dr. Rufus M. Jones, professor of hilosophy at Haverford College, says n a foreword: “How. feeble much of our present-day Christianity sesms spirftual energy and grlcucnl demon- o the muther of this bonk ! IF ayhons of the has been to believe that the mir- acles of the gospel have ceased or that Christianity is exhausted and bankrupt, let him read this book and feel the dynamic energy that is breaking through this organ of the Spirit.” We would like to know what Prof. Henry Elmer Barnes of Smith College | would think of this book. Prof. Barnes| has just published a work, “The Twi- light of Christianity,” largely express*s the doubts instanced above. We would like to see a review by _him of “Love the Law of Life.” Prof. Jones continu “Kagawa is one of the striking phenomena of the Christian world of today. He is not & regular session of the Seventy-first Con- gress is awsaited with breathless interest. It will_unfold for the first time the Chief Engineer's scheme for working out many of the Republic’s major proj- ‘\'&—IU; lesst, it is to & so. Hodver's one al me/sage so far was that ich he addrezsed to the special session last April. There was no surprise about t--t. hot knew he was going to submit his views 2bout farm reli and tariff revision. But it will be’ a different yarn the President will spin next week. Pre- sumably, the message will deal with “the state of the Union” as a whole and cover a corresponding multitude of Ped- eral sins whiech Hoover would like to s2¢ abolished. Reorganization of Gov- ernment departments, about which there hasn’t been much said lately, is a them# on which the President holds strong views.and for which he Is kmewr to have {nterésting plans, k ® % e Packed Senate galleries are in pros- stage as soon as it gets down to busi- ness,on Deeember 3 or 4. The Vare case will be the drawing card—the an- Pennsylvania gold dust primary centest of May, 1926, and is now in its vener- able fourth year, to have spent recklessly in the fight for nomination. Then he is charged with having been illegally elect~d. Finally filled ! » his Demoeratic opponent, for- mer Seeretary of Labor William B. Wil- son. & dozem different constitu- tional questions are involved. Have what James Montgomery Beck ealls “the van- ishing rights of the States” been so much obfiterated that they are no long- ing respeet? Should Vare be seated and cutset? Many words will be flung, much time consumecd, before thsse issues are thrashed out. L A Senate pag~, one of the fleet-footed, 2nd fro' in the ch>mbr with such nnob- | trusivem=ss. won a priz= for the Pest Thanksgiving siogam. ~ His entry was, “Let us hepe for the breast,” * x k X Fgypt's fiest eavoy to the United States, Mahmoud Samy Pasha, has just left Washington. wfter four and a half years of servics here. Polftieal exigencies at Caire—the sort with which Americans are not unfamiliar—forced Mr. Samy into retirement. A partieularly shrewd diplematist, his friends prophesy he will com~ back from Elba. Egypt wes put effectually on the map.in America dur- ing Mr. Samy’s ministership. H~ bought a beautifal Jegrtion buflding for his gov- ernment—as _handsome premises as Uncle Sam_himself occuples in any capital of the world. Thre» Egyptian consulates-general were establ Washington, New York and N-w Or- leans, An American steamship line was sengers and freicht. Mr. Samy's ambi- tion is to see Yankee business men estab- lish a great warehous+ in Egypt. as a means of distribution for Near Eastern mark~ts. Our European:trade competi- tors maintain such depots at Alexan- dria and overete tn corresponding ad- v ntaes ever us in Turk: Asia Minor and other points E-st. *oxox x Mr. Hoover's hab't of filling blotters #nd memorandum peds with geomet- bren nsyehoanalyzed. of Chieaga. who calls hims=!f a “psy- ch~pravhegist,” has it sl dop>d out. For 25 years, he savs, he's ben studv- {ing the “aimless hieroglvphies” made ,by poreons - who are telephoning or “otherwise mentally engag>d.” Presi- dent Haover. while recentlv confabulet- inm with prosperity conferees in the | White House, seribbled a comet. a enb- wrh, a ster. a trough and 8 plAnk—the latt*r & 2.bv 4. not a G, O. P. plank. Psych-granhogist York's conclnsion, from an X-rav of Hoover's peneilines. is_“generally that thix msn is highlv rffcient, bt ‘an inedde office man,’ & builder of b {iges. rather than an ex- eentive. He doesn't reach out and ex- eccute, but sits :n: fl:\l:‘! out.” Warmiv weleomed, Ssnator Henrik Shipstend, Farmer-Labor, of Minnesota when it is compared with.the glowing | in which he | pect for the big show the Senate will | cient controversy whivh began with the | It is @ many-angled | squabble. Vare, first of all, is alleged | there is the formal contest for his seat, | er vizible, to say nothing of command- | then ousted or be denied fhe oath at the | knickerboeker-trousered iads who fiit to | induced for the first time to make Al-| exandris & regular port of call for pas- | | rical and: estronomical designs has fnst | Teon F. York| The names of Senstors William E.|man behind | when 1 tried to quench | prefixed. written by Eleanor M. Hinder I |and Helen F. Topping. This is a neees- should have sought for the healing|sity, for Toyohiko Kagawa is just be- “1 do not lose hope, nor do I fear | The late Emile Coue was known and shall dig down deeper, still deeper, into | the average person in the United States , and there, in my heart of | had even heard his name. 1 shall dig down to God who is | presented enough of his words to show The Kingdom of | the reader here, we believe, that this Love has begun in my own soul; and 'man has & message for those who are WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. President Hoover's message to the | is back on the job after eight months | | t | Partment fight out their differences be- | | God: should love. | how to embrace, but not to differentiate. |in the average acceptance of | as politicians go, for Shipstead is still | official verdiet | quire into alleged anti-trust law viola- | mirals of opposing fleets sit down at a |out by sending both the head of ‘the | State Department and the head of the D. C, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29, AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. it; he is. a: demon- Sirator & Inboreta He | i 5 s showing, ‘omce more, that Christianity is not talk, it i metion: it is mob werds, it is-) H: exhibits it as soul-force, creative encrgy, redemptive might. We see at once how little is expressed: by & census of church membership or by an array of numbers. What counts is unquench- able prrsonal conviction, invineible faith, an uncenquerable spirit of ad- venture and demcnstration. And here they are revealed in this man.” * Kk Ok “Love alone understands love,” de- clares Toyohiko Kagawa. re- | \-wlln Himself' to me cnly when I will to love. “Apart from Love there is no revela- tion. ~ Seek mot for Ged: in boeks, nor within the structure of matter. “God I8, indeed, not to be sought for: He is to be loved. . “He who would hear the voice of n Love only do I worship Ged. “All forms are but appendages. Tem- ples, shrines, churches; creeds, baptism, the holy communion, the Seriptures, the hymns—all thesa circie about Love. are not God. Love alone is dhist, Mohammedan, Christian—these are not Love's divisions. Love kmows “Love removes ail the dross from man, and saves all. Love is the ulti- mate religion. “Classify me nst by creed; I belong to nothing but Love: “Jesus it was who taught that it should b> so.” * ok ok K A 40-page sketch of the author is ginning to be publicized in America. loved throughout France years before Perhaps the same: fate is in store for Kagawa, we do not know. We have willing to receive it. If he shall not convince others, this, is nothing new, for that is the fate of | all men and books with messages. But | there is something craven, cowardly, Chris- tianity. We are afraid to speak the word “Love,” and that is the fine thing about this Japanese. He not only is not afraid, he 15 proud to utter it. To him | it means nothing namby-pamby, but something. virile, alive, adventurous: This curious book considers love in all its phases, from the lowest to .the highest; it revels in ecomomics, - ogy aud soeial service; 1t into rhapsody at the end of every chapter. is is its strength. Whatever one may think of it, ome must feel, at the end, that he has met ® man. The man may be right or wrong, but his convic- tion is tremendous. On the mechanical side, “Love the Law of Life’ is tastefully bound, and well printed in the size of type which we would like to see' made standard by law. We are getting tired of paying $5 for a book; here is & good one for $2, and as such we commend it to sil readers who want their money’s worth in more ways than one. of distressing illness. The dentist- o m is is sbout the last man in the world one would| suspect of even knowing the of the word “sickness,” for he’s physically the embodiment of a Greek god—im- mensely tall, husky and a babe in arms, & few weeks on the sunny side of 40. He says he’s “fit as a fiddie.” Dr. Ship- stead is on the foreign reiations com- mittee—blue ribbormr body of the Sen- ate. He was put there by the late Sen- ator Henry Cabot Ledge, who early in the Minnesotan’s career formed s high opinion. of his qualities. * ok ko Along with lobbying, peanuts are now being. investigated at Washington, with | the Federal de Commission—not the | Senate—doing the probing. It's the price of peanuts that's under serutiny. Ultimately the public shouid have an rom the Trade Com- mission as to just how many peanuts make “a niekel's worth.” The peamut inquisition resulted from a Semate res- olution ordering the commirsion to in- tions by venders of America’s favorite munch. (Copyrisht. 1920.) . Hoover Peace Strategy Is Seen in Delegation From the Milwaukes Journwl, The extent of the battle that has been going on at Washington between the navslists and the diplomats over preparations for the London ce con- ference is revealed by the mnmtl of the Secretary of the Navy, Charles | Francis Adams, to the officiel delega- tion. He, wi'h Ambassador Dawes and Ambassador Morrow, the list of seven. The other four, Secretary of State Stimson, Ambassador G'bson anc Senators Reed snd Robmsom, wére | named some time ago. It is a strong delegation, with a gocd balance of mental outlook and tempera- ment, but certainly the preponderance of power lies with the diplomrais, That is what has been irking the Navy. Ad- miral Jones gave velee to it when he let it be known he was seriously eon- “d"lnfl A declination of the President’s invita to go as a technieal adviser. He felt that the Navy would not be in # position to voice ifs protests, if pro- tests were needed. It was a good point, within limitations. But the history of naval eenferences shows pretty clearly that when the ad- table, they get nowhere. Geneva was an example. So, some months ago, President Hoover, as is shown by the most recent speech of Ambassadcr Dawes, adopted the plan of leting the State Department and the Navy Do- fore they crossed the water. That also led to difficulties. The Navy was willing to proceed in that manner and then let the diplomats carry the agree- ment to London, provided it be mad-| iuto a hard-and-fast sct of proposals from which there was to be no de- parture. The State Department dc- clined, on the ground that there must be_freedom for adjustments. Mr. Hoover thus found himself the center of a storm that threatened to wreck his delogation. He takes a way Navy Department to London, but with Mr. Siimson in the place of honor, with three diplomats to back him up.’ The Navy will have a voice, but it will be the voice of its civilian’ head, not that of an admiral. To that extent the President avoids eriticism which might later arise that the Navy was ignored. and elco mimimizes ths dangers of a conference failura because of irrecon- cilabl> naval opinions. — et Really Down and Out. Prom the Lynchburg News. The man who is down is always out— when the bill collector calls. o '+ Overlooked by Mussolini. From the San Antonio Evening New: Why hasn't Mussolini straightened Fise's leaning tower and rebuilt the Forum ai Ealbeuuz o the ! | Sofer Whitburn, Walter Langmead and L. Clemenceaw’s . Aetions ! From the Baltimore Eventme Sunm. ' Patriotism is the answer to all ques- tions about Georges Clemenceau. It is the reason why he did not dic a minor the confines of his own department. Perhaps it is also the reason why he did not become the greatest statesman of the modern world. It is the ex- lanation of his selfless devotion to one deal. Tt is the excuse for his ruthless disregard of all other ideals. It is the keystone of his career, and the keynote of his character. It was obviously his motivating force at that great moment soon after his assumption of power when he submitted | & himself to the questioning of all fac~ tions, and returned to all their ques- 1 __BY FREDERIC ). HASKIN. & 'ab d| pute ‘4t your' djss lons which the Nation's Capital. If be of assistance to you, write . question plainly, and send 2 rmummlnersfimmwmlvml? Star Information Bureau, Prederie J. | Huskin, director, Washingion, D. C. Q. Did Houdini appear in motion { pictures?—P. A. A. Mrs. H?udml says that he made tions one answer, “I would go on with | Pr the war.” What would he do if Verdun surrendered? If Paris fell? If the silies’ western front broke? If the British quit? That monotoncigs reit- eration, “I would go on with the war,” became at last impressive, then tre- mendous. France began to realize that this man would surrender only when he had been driven to the Pyrenees; and the realization gave her a strength beyond comprehension. Patriotism of this type is supremely valuable only in & supreme crisis. at Clemenceau had done for France prior to 1914 is of highly dubious value. He had filled the land with strife. He had gone on with the war throughout his career in politics, for making war was s . and he knew no other, Violence was ever his technique, and it wes his good fortune, rather than his merit, that the moment came when violence alone could save France. But come it did, and that moment made Clemenceau immortal. But if his statecraft is remarkable only in its single-minded devotion to force as the only argument, the man himself possessed qualities which, while they did not make him great, adorned-| him after he had become great. The clear vision, the blistering wit, the in- credible mental agility and the broad range of interests which were his gave his personality & saltiness which occu- Q. What causes twitching of the 3 ids?—N. L. T. A. Overwork, particularly overstudy, is frequently the cause. Errors in re- fraction cause eye strain that results in twitching, and inflammation of the eyes may cause it. Q. Where is Innisfail’>—K. C. A. Innisfail literally mesns Isle of Destiny. It is a name that was fre- | quently mlud to Ireland by the an- clent bards. Q. In & school publication I observ- ed “John Smith, c;-'!l." What does 4 refers to his ctass in | college or school. “Ex” indicates that | he ‘was not gradu “the word “Kohinoor” A. Tt is derived from the Persian Koh-i-nur, meaning literally “moun- tain of light.” Q. Who sterted the Moonlight Schools?—I. H. A. The Moonlight Schools in the mountains of Kentue and Tennessee were established by Mrs. Cora Wilson Stewart. They have done much to re- duce illiteracy among the adults of that ples the minds of many men to the | region. exelusion of his weightler qualities. Baltimore, for example, remembers Clemenceau the man much more clearly than Clemenceau the statesman: and all the world remembers his championship of the impressionists as evidence that he could peep into the world of art, and his championship of Dreyfus as evidence that he loved justice. A man of science, vet cultivated enough to have an intelligent opinion of painting; a patriot, yet not chauvinistic enough to endure the mockery of fustice; essen- tially brutal, yet capable of charming soctal contaets, Clemenceau captured the fancy of the world by his modi- fleations. It is not beyond belief that our en may regard as enviable’ tfl generation that knew him. e — iRoyally Bred Sheep Imported by Kentucky _From ihe Lexington Leader. Kentucky is already out in front as a roducer of the best lambs. Her pres- will be much increased by the im- ition of royally bred stock from land, which is now taking place. R. C. Miller of the College of Agriculture has recently returned to this country after purchasing some of the choicest specimens from the best flocks in that country. These have been chosen from the King's Sandringham flock, the flocks. or Lady Ludlow, Lord Derby, Sir Jere- miah Coleman, Lady Fitzgerald, Col. others. Among the individuals selected in or- der to improve Kentucky's stock were some from pens which won firs‘, third, fourth and fifth prizes at the English Royal Show. Choice ewe and ram lambs were chosen in #ll cases. This new infusion of the best blood will have & decided effect. The fi on the various farms to which these animels go will be improved, and gradually this biue blood will infiltrate into other| flocks thraughout the State. The fact that Mr. Camden, Mr. Hin- ton, Mr. Gaines, Mr. Belknap and other breeders of fine sheep have taken this step will influence others to follow their example. Blood counts. It pays to have only the best animals that can be ob- tained in starting a flock or in improv- ing its quality. Low-grade sheep and | cattle are not sound investments. The best is. none mc%:od for Kentucky. ‘This State should become a leader in live stock breeding. No other region is | better suited to the industry so far as climate snd soil and water are con- cerned. -—o— Hazardeus Occupations Find Plenty of Werkers! From the Utics Opserver Dispatch. The window washers of New York City went on strike, and again one is reminded. not that workingmen still strike, but that they are willing to work at the most hazardous occupations for a livelinood. It is only when they strike that one hears much about win- dow washers. So one is startled to learn that in the last 10 years 78 win- dow washers have been killed in New York City while working at their jobs, Plve who were killed in the last year left families that are now in want. One was killed only a weck before the walk~ out, leaving a wife and three children. Yet there appears to be no searcity of {window washers. Althouzh men maykbe killed at the trade, others are ready to step into their places. For & wage they will stand on a precal.ous perch high above the street and gambie with'the law of gravity. Painters work- ing under the very eaves of high build- ings, riveters balaneing on steel beams at diazy heights, labovers working un- gfl' shelving sand pits, or “sand hogs” u a living in the very jaws of death. They cannot do these things for money alone. A few days ago ti ere wi a moving picture stunt man who si to his death down a rop> from a 20~ story building; he was working without pay. And there are the flagpole sitters and the parschute jumpers and the high divers and all the others who Gews a thrill in thrilling others. How shall this strange zest for taking chamces, which is so mueh a part of soms tem- peraments, be explained. ———— Wines and Beer Pla;l i Cited for its “Novelty” | From the Arkansas Democrat. A Dbill to legalize 12 per cent wine and 3 per cent beer and a resolution moviding for seevet ballots on the maeasure in the House and Scnate have been introduced by Representative Bloom, Democrat, of New York City. The proposal for-light wines and beer would amend the Vo'stead act bv de- fining the suggested percentages as being nen-intoxicating. Mr. Bloom's epochal idea springs from the belief that “no one who is upon a footing of personal acquaintance with any number of Scnators and Repre- Sentatives can be ignorant of the faet that many of them, perhaps a majerity, vote diametrically the opposite of their convietions” on liquor questions, This to piease their constituents. Mr. Bloom doesn't dispute the obli- gation of solons to their constituents, but he believes that this duty is rather negatived Ihnr: ohserved byt;lh'm- e uugm«m deserves the atten- tlon which its novelty will win. But| that is its principal virtue. We are, not so sure that a majority of Con- gress favors modification of the Vol- stead act. In fact, the majority prob- ably believes as many millions of Amer- icans believe—prohibition is a fine thing for the other fellow. FPurther- more, secrecy is repugnant to John Smith, Ameriean, when it is praeticed wing through th= earth, all mlls! Q. What are the Egyptian symbols otAlm;nmllt‘yh.';—M. ML.. ot b . Among Bgyptian signs - mortality are the circle foom two sides of which wings extend, the cross which ends in a ring at the top of the up- right beam, and the delta. Q. What causes the pallor which is in prison>—B, M. A. Prison pallor is a condition which is arousing the interest of icians. pIt is probably caused by a tion of food lacking in vitamins and lack of reise and sunshine. exel w‘lskmmmymm tives, and their mental attitude toward Iife is so different that they do not take on this institutional blight. Q. Was Washington consulted offt- cially as to whether he would serve as President? Who notified him of his election?--J. H. O. A. The Congress in notifying George ‘Washington of his eleetion to the - g’flwy’ hlu!{\:rbedw l;;"i:r to be written john Langdon ew Hampshire, President of the Senate pro tempore, an. this letter was carried to Mount Ver- non by Charles Thomson, & member of he Congress. Mr. Thomson rode 260 llr&lelle‘u. arriving at Mount Vernon on the Continental Congress, serving from 1774 to 1779. Washington was not officially consulted as to whether he would serve, “ ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS the desire for his election being prac- tically unanimous. . He 52| weive on the supject, to CobHemry, Lat: to| Marquis de Lafevette, Alexander Ham. ilton and Gov. Trumbul 1L When was introduced into mgw#m mmmey—n. E. B.y : £ - abo year 1 ‘part of his supply of rinking water in order to keep the little g);nt alive on the long voyage nee, the glove, on the surface But ‘:\ & little heavier sounded in the s ' —H. B. It is not. The word iz pro- nounced as if spelled “mackinaw.” Q. How do Chinese women dress who are of the class of coolies?—S. A. The dress of the Chiness coolles is & costumte very stmilar to pu)ama: They wear large straw hats. The women of the same class wear tunies with a it similar to a pajama top with " at the hem. These tunics are worn over skirts. Q. Does Spain rule part of Mo- rocco?—A. B. A. Morocco is divided into three pro- tectorates: French (200, uare miles); Spanish (18,300 square es) ; ‘Tangier (225 square miles), Q. Can any one who has served as a soidier fn,l' hphls country be buried in A. Any persen who has served in the Army, Navy or Marine Corps. and, if no longer has an honorable discharge, is entitled to burial at Ar- lingbon, Q. Is the image of Guy Fawkes still in England?—B. W. & the effigy of Guy Pawkes on the 5th of November, Guy Fawkes day. Q. What clothes should & woman wear who is going to travel by air- plane’—E. A, M. A. A woman wears exactly the same clothes she would for a train trip. The cabin planes are heated in cold weather, %0 it is merely a question of prefemsnce. A tallored suit. sport clothes or dress color weight will be the general rule among: peopie confimed | satisfs Q. Please give some facts ‘about the Worsted Church at Canterbury, New Hampshire.—A. G. P, A. The church in A comgregationntits an gregation 3 much 1 distress. estion was com- will tists It suf pastor and officiated for nearly eight Secorations Wi consit prineipaly of ecorations wI incipally o rel] ‘mottoes. % i d published and sold a booklet for 25 cents in the town, entitled “Living on d | Half a Dime & Day,” which she clal was an actual experience of her own, He was secretary of the | make it bubbles. Ringing tribute for the versatile “Tay Pay” O'Connor is sounded in the s jon this side of the Atlantie as death 1+ comes to the famous “Father of the | House cf Commons.” who was also a {popular hero and brilliant journalist. { Much comment is devoted to his uncems- ing labor in the cause of Ireland. “He seemed almost as much a part of the House of Commons as the speaker's. chair,” says the Richmond News Leader. “Visitors gazed on him with much the | same interest as on Westminster Hall Abbey across the way. To read that he is dead is almost as startling as it word end of town had suddenly toppled over in the Thames.” The Dayton Daily News calls him “one of the world's busy, scholarly, practical, human life he led,” while im time be “fcund himself the universally loved and respected sur- vivor of the bitterness which. marked the | struggles of his prime.” e * ok ox % | “The general esteem he won and held ! unbroken.” according te the Pittsburgh | Post«Gazette, “testifies alike to valuable | eorvice to.the public and fineness of character. World titles of affection, such as that of ‘Tay Pay' are never light'y won.” The Chariotte QObserver remacks that “a picturesque figure is re- | moved frem the British pelitical fleld”; that “he lived to the age of 81 had never lost the ‘joy of life’ and had determination to figure in British politics,” avers the Cin- ! cinmati Times-Star, with the comment on his political hopes and ach! : | “The Irish Free State was a realization of “Tay Pay's’ dream. Perhaps it would have been accomplished sooner if each i side had been content to talk with the 1 other through Mr. O'Cannor instead of at the other. His eareer was an exems plification of what may be accomplished in polities by wit and humor. Yet wit | often is.an frritant. It is humecr that soothes. And in the last analysis it was doubtless ‘Tay Pay's’ humor that smoothed the frowns of Irishmen and | Bnglishmen and modulated their veiees. | To be bumorous in @ discussion of the | Irish question was to keep cne's . ‘Tay Pay’ leavened an frrital mass of | thought. and half-thought. he lived to witness what his umfailing justness of vision had foreseen.” * % % % “To- the Irish Free State, to whieh! he had dedicated a llr,lhgn of the ! most productive years of e, de- clares the Rochester Demoerat and Chronicle, “he was an ldclized hero; to those who knew him either in persan or through the printed word he sy | se to which. he had given him- ‘That paper sees in that typified an era.” “Many - an . heart,” | Madison (Wiseonsin) “‘was saddened by the news.that he had been called to his reward. Or is sorrow all theirs, for all who love Hb- erty and have gained ion the men who have fought for it e - ! where and in every cl 4 o A y Pay'—it's a strange name that ihey gave him. It is not plcturesque, but in it there is a world of sentiment, affection, and that in-; vitation to familiarity that comes to one the crowd In the street as its vtryaown b ‘lzh u'.u = it life, and long, and desp| opposition of slow-moving British states- manship, it was crowned with achieve- ments, even though mast of did not come until the prime of own | vigor had been spent in the conflict.” *x ok ok "The ‘father of the House of Com- mons,’” states the Chattancoga News, “‘besides being a lifelong ‘Irish - . 1 lor the Chapel of Henry VII in the | wrote these trifte: came that the White Tower at the other | him. grand old men,” adding that “it was a | good and mbolized or, patriotism and idealism of |~ 1, lint was ‘the | Nikolai Bucharin was expelled ['or Warm Praise for “Tay Pay” From_ Writers of America Times re- Dean of Fleet burg Te aph to him as a “good humored, hard- Iw m-orpament o the “His_supreme role,” thinks the De- troit News, “was that of the greatest gossip of his time. He accumulated vast stores of unmemorable things, and s, with an accurate instinct for timeliness, into contempo- rary hl;:olk);‘ of the personages around A prolific poured forth measureless columns of gossip about the ‘people in he boxes,' and satisfied, witn satiat- | ing. the popular passion for momen- tarily interesting trifles.” * ok k% The Hamilton (Ontario) Spectator views_ his forte as “biographical com- ment, penetrating pithy relerences to men prominent in the lic eye,” and adds that “he seemed to have met " The Elkhart Truth be- lieves that “many Americans were fcquainted with his one-man periodical, T. P.'s Weekly,” and offers the opinion that “there was no better reviewer any- where than Tay Pay.” “He was always making newspapers and newspaper men,” declares the Ot- tawa Journal. “They used to speak of Northcliffe's ‘young moen.' North- cliffe never turped out half the bril- liant journalists that came from the sehool of T. P. When he founded the Star—still one of London's cleverest Jjournals—he gathered around him per- haps the most dazzling group that ever worked on a newspaper. There was George Bernard Shaw, s‘artling Lon- don with ~his p'ponhoax musical ;:;Lfl ues; B B. Walkley (later with c8)” criticism, Robert Donald snd ] Massingham wr palitical leadets, Sidney Webb rd_Passfield) something else, 'l'lt'!tll:‘ twinkled it into fame “Humanity never fails to have a Dersonages o’lnt:: El"cmv;':; rt,)"" 41 m ‘Tay " O'Connor P lfllln.l the Fort Worth Star- “He first was & man, that foundation he erected a super- strueture of education, perspicacity, wit, human nature, understanding, legisia- uve capability and persomal charm, He might well be nominated the world's greatest Irishman.” — Mussolini and Stafi:: Methods Are Similar Prom the Kansas City Star. On the very day that Benito Musso- expotn his theories of efl- cient government in the American press, from the bureau of the cemtral commit- lee of the Communist party in Russia. The connection may net be obvious, but it is instructive. Bucharin has been one most important men Soviet regime. When Lenin retired in 1923 he Belonged to the little group of ders who took charge. Stalin was in th;:.;mwi Wwith Trotsky. Rykoff, Xa- m 2 oviefl and Tomsky. In the intervening years, however, Stalin hes gradually emerged as the Teal suecessor to Lenin. One by one his colleagues have fallen by the way, either through exile or demotion. And ‘naw‘“ !ucl&lflnfi oneb of m.n of the " has been iged from his p& in the powerful bureau of the central committee, apparenily because he differed on matters of pelicy. g policy. ly general secref of the Communist party. Aclulllyul‘;{ Nation. alist’ and & Jandmark in Parliament, was for 60 years a journalist.” The News records that after serving in the ndon Burea: of the old New Yerk by his Congressman. “Executive” ses- sicns already are too numerous to suit Loy Herald, he founded the London Zisr: that “he tried to make it vivid, ».a it was & hq;u«.u the new jornal- 2 appears to be the dietator of Russi He should subscribe to n-oolm'?—r:- marks about the futility ef opposition. Their methods in dealing with poten- tinl rivals .l:;: n;gh wmtrln The : v equally out of luek: whihy