Evening Star Newspaper, November 30, 1929, Page 6

6 ¢ THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY...November 30, 1029 THEODORE W. NOYES. . ..Editor The Evening Star N!';’l)el’ Company Business Office. 1ith St. and Pennsylvania Ave. York Office. 110 East 42nd 8t. Lake Michigan Building. e Repent 8t.. London, England. City. ver month Rate by Carrier Within :lslce Sinday ‘Siai -.85¢ per month Sc_per copy | h month. | phone | flflo"ll | Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia H nig lfl? Sund; F"J only .. junday only " All Other States and Canada. ily and Sunday..} yr.. $12.00; 1 mo.. $1. E"S only 8.00° indsy only . yr, S8 mo.. ¥r., $5.00: 1mo.. Member of the Associated Press. ‘The Associated Press is exclusively entitled o the use for republication of all news cis- patches credi T ted in this nd also .he local rews published herein. All rights of publication of special dispatches nerein are also reserved. A Modern Explorer. ‘While the world is today acclaiming Comdr. Richard E. Byrd for his latest achievement in flying over the South Pole and mapping the contiguous terri- tory, it is likewise lauding the gallant 41-year-old naval officer for his other remarkable feats in the realm of mod- ern scientific investigation. No one can forget that Comdr. Byrd was also the first man to fly over the North Pole, and | that that historic flight of 1,600 miles from Spitzbergen to the Pole and, back was made in a little more than fifteen hours, or that a year later, in 1927, with the South Pole project just form- ing in his mind, Byrd and three com- panions set out to cross the Atlantic in & three-motored plane. It was on this flight that Byrd experienced his first accident on a major undertaking, but the accident was of the most trivial nature and nene of the party was badly hurt. Reaching France, after the long voyage in the clouds over the ocean wastes, Byrd encountered a dense fog that nullified even his expert navigation ability, and the plane ‘was forced to land in the water on the coast. With the exception of this minor! accident, therefore, this modern ex- plorer has completed without mishap, three of the most difficult undertakings known to man. It is a fine tribute to the keen yet methodical mind of this scion of a noted Virginia family. Par- ticularly in his polar fiights Byrd has been faced with almost insurmountable difficulties, the transportation and as- sembling of the big plane alone being an accomplishment of rare merit, but with the aid of his brave and skillful companions every difficulty was met and conquered. Over the North Pole, over the South Pole and over the Atlantic Ocean! What mare is there for this enterprising explorer to do? Perhaps, now that he | has accomplished the South Pole flight he is already busy on another project. The world anxiously awaits its details with a confidence born of experience that if Byrd attempts it, it will be done | in & workmanlike and skillful manner. | e — Forecast and Faith. Skepticism sometimes costs heavily. It does not always pay to be credulous, but it surely does not always pay to be | & doubter. ‘Take the case of the weather report that a sharp drop of ' temperature was due within a few hours during November 29. It was broadly proclaimed that the thermometer would fall precipitately and far, and warning ‘was given, not officially, but based upon official information, that motorists should take care of their radiatogs and dose them with anti-freezing fluids. Now that was a kindly admonition, de- signed to help. Yet so ingrained is the doubt of many persons as to the ac- curacy of weather forecasts that they disregarded the warning altogether, laughed perhaps at the idea that their motors were in danger. Came the dawn, as the movie titles used to say, before the talkies came. Came streams 3t short and ugly words from the mouths | of the doubters as they tried to start their engines. Came steam forth from radiator caps as cars were started and began to boil a few blocks down the street. Came realization that there is some truth in weather predictions and anti-freeze warnings. But will it last, this belated faith in forecasts? It probably will not. It is too ingrained in human nature. And the radiators con- tinue to boil and their owners continue to fume, and—well, that is the way of the world, which is a pretty good world after all. et Communism founded on theories looks to the same old assumption by temporary power of the right to loot the weak. oo Time to Settle. The case of Willilam 8. Vare, Senator- elect from Pennsylvania, which has been hanging fire since he presented hlmultl in March, 1927, to take the oath of office, i8 to be pressed to a final conclusion soon after the Senate meets next week, according to the present plans of the Senate. It is high time. For the entire period of one Congress, the Seventieth, and for the special session of the pres- ent Congress, Pennsylvania has been in effect denied its full representation in the Senate. Undoubtedly the iliness of Mr. Vare has been in large part re-| sponsible for the failure of the Senate | to dispose of this case for so long a period. The Sciators who do not be- lieve that Mr. Vare is entitled to be seated have on that account hesitated to press for early action on his case. How long Pennsylvania would have been willing to let the Vare case remain suspended in air, with its Senate representation cut in half, is doubtful. Even now, it appears, the Vare forces are to seek further postponement. Ac- | cording to reports Mr. Vare will de- mand that no action be taken on the Norris resolution to deny him his seat because of the report of the Reed slush an encouraging index to the continued | Prosperity of the community. The funds six Washingtonians, a higher propor- tion, by the way, than in any other city of the country. A savings account con- but a surplus that can be saved. counts comes from the fact that many depositors who otherwise would never have begun to save have acquired the habit through the appeal to their dividends that the Christmas Savings Clubs pay, its popularity is assured. nored by the planners of peace. | prosequtor on the staff of the State's attorney. Mr. Loesch recently resigned and in turn to a subcommittee, headed by Senator Waterman of Colorado. This subcommittee has never yet submitted Its report to the full committee. Further, Mr. Vare nas asked that the ballots be counted in some thirty more counties before the Wilson contest is voted upon in the committee and in the Senate, Vare defeated Wilson by approxi- mately 200,000 votes in the election in 1926. He rolled up his lead principally in Philadelphia, where he is regarded as the Republican overlord. It is ex- ceedingly doubtful that the Senate com- mittee or the Senate itself would throw out sufficient ballots, even though many irregularities have been shown in the investigation, to seat Mr. Wilson. The suggestion has been madg that the Senate “coalition,” composed of Demo- crats and Republican Progressives whe have joined together to amend the tariff bill, would act to seat the Democrat Wilson. But the members of the coali- tion, when they sit as judges in the Vare-Wilson contest, will necessarily be governed by the facts rather than their inclinations regarding tariff making. To do otherwise would be to stultify the Senate itself and to bring that body into disrepute. The Senate, under the Con- stitution, is the final judge of the elec- tions, returns and qualifications of its members, The contention is made in some quar- ters that the Wilson contest against Vare must be settled before the Senate acts on the Norris resolution declaring Vare not entitled 1o be seated. Other- wise, it is argued, it will be impossiblc for the Governor of Pennsylvania to fili the Vare vacancy should Vare be denied I's seat. But many of the Senators take a different view. They contend that the Wilson contest can be settled afterward, and Wilson, if found elected, could then be seated, displacing any appointee who may be named by the governor. The Senate privileges and elections committee should make its report with as little delay as possible in the Wilson contest. Already it has permitted the case to drag along far too long. To permit further delay would only draw upon the committee the suspicion that it was playing a game of delay for the benefit of Vare and his friends. 1t is, of course, of grave importance to settle any case correctly rather than speedily. But there is a limit. ——— The Savings Clubs. The Christmas Savings Club, or- ganized a few years ago by banks as an attractive method of teaching the principles of thrift and saving, has assumed real proportions in the economic life of the community. Toda 3 for instance, Washington banks are malling checks to 87,000 Christmas Savings Club “members,” whose total savings will amount to about $7,500,000, A large proportion of this cash will be spent in preparation for Christmas in the twenty shopping days that remain before the holiday, while much of it will find its way back into banks as the nucleus for new savings accounts. Each year since their inauguration the Christmas Savings Clubs have 8TOwn in membership and the money saved during the year has increased. During the year 1924, 49,000 depositors saved $3,000,000. In 1925 the amount saved increased & million and a half dollars and in 1927 the savings club fund amounted to nearly six million dollars. Last year there were 83,000 subscribers and a fund of $7,035,000. This year the clubs have increased their membership by 4,000 subscribers and the fund has srown by $465,000. This steady annual increase not only shows the growth in popularity of the Christmas savings idea, but comes as released this year go to one in every notes not only the willingness to save, From the point of view of the banks, their gain in the Christmas savings ac- imagination that lies in “joining” some- thing. “Joining” is an American trait, and when the membership pays the o Warfare in Manchuria cannot be ig- War anywhere is an infection that holds danger of spreading indefinitely. e e Chicago’s Judicial “Racket.” Evidence of the desperately corrupt conditions from which Chicago is suffer- ing is afforded by the resignation of Frank J. Loesch as special assistant | a lucrative law practice to join that staff as a ‘means of advancing the cause of justice in Chicago. He was also named as a member of the President's crime commission. For some months he has been engaged in the preparation of the case against nine men accused of complicity in the slaying of a Negro politician at the primaries in 1928, five of them members of the Police Depart- ment. When the case was brought to trial, with Mr. Loesch conducting the prosecution, the court manifested a partisan disposition that immediately militated against success. From day to day the presiding judge evidenced such hostility toward the prosecutor that finally, after a bitter exchange of per- sonal criticism which would in any sther situation have resulted in the cita- tion of the attorney for contempt of court, the prosecutor quit the case and resigned his office. The indictments were thereupon withdrawn, thus free- ing all the defendants and leading to the reinstatement of the accused po- licemen who had, of course, been sus- pended pending trial. Now Mr. Loesch declares that he will reveal in a public statement the facts about the partisan- ship of the court and bring to light an amazing state of official sympathy with and support of crime in Chicago. If such a situation should be demon- fund committee, which declared that Vare’s nomination and election had been tainted with fraud and alleg>d excessive ‘expenditures of money, until after the contest brought by William B. Wilson, Vare’s Democratic opponent in the elec- tion, has been finally ‘disposed of by the Senate. The Wilson contest dgainst Vare was referred to the Senate ¥ committee on privileges and elections strated it would naturally be expected that disclosure would lead to reforma- tion. But this is not necessarily the case with Chicago, where corrupt con- ditions have been exposed again and again, sufficiently to evoke intense pub- lic indignation but not leading to cor- rection. It is always claimed, for Chi- cago, that gonditions there are not worse than®¥n other large American THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, cities, that crime is not more prevalent, | that police protection of criminals and lawbreakers is not more flagrant than elsewhere, that elections are not more corrupt than in other communities. That, of course, is the poorest of de- fenses. It is virtually confession. The point that concerns the country is not that Chicagu is worse in these respects than other cities, but that it is as bad as it is. ‘There is altogether too much evidence of a state of official laxity and pre-, sumptive corrupt toleration of crime in) that city for the charge to be set aside with the plea of comparison. The actual murder record stands as proof | of at least a state of lawlessness, whn-' ever may be the vigilance and the | fidelity of the police and the courts. The “rackets” or blackmail and coercion systems conducted in Chicago, costing the people hundreds of millions of dol- lars annually in increased prices for commodities and services, are too well known to be shrugged off as gossip and slander. The evidence of official negli- gence if not of actual partnership in crime is too positive to be rated as partisan exaggeration. Now comes this case, which may re- sult in a revelation of actual, direct | Judicial protection of erime. The tale Mr. Loesch has to tell will undoubtedly be given keen attention. Whether it will lead’ to action that will result in reform awaits answer. The pity of it all is that there is every reason in established facts to justify public belfef. Srmoe e ST i Road improvement means more work, which means more money to be ex- pended by the public, with the certain result that business will be active. Money must keep moving. It needs the exercise. e A half-million-dollar poker game in the underworld does not differ mate- rially from card playing in the old “Wild West” where the man who was the quickest on the trigger was the sure winner. The death of Father Torndorf re- moves & man whose studious researches concerning earthquakes will cause his name to live long in memory. He se- lected his task and performed it well. —————————— A quick drop in temperature always takes the public by surprise, regardless of the fact that it is to be expected at certain seasons of the year. ———— ‘The weather man is reminding the small boy not to forget the sled and skates when writing his letter ,smu v mon Claus. Warnings are issued by motor ex- perts against carbon monoxide. It is the sheerest carelessness to be gassed in time of peace. ——————_ An exhibition of bootleg equipment will not be complete unless the sawed- off shotgun is included. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Temporary Absence. When the wintry winds are prowling Where the breezes once were soft, And the icy skies are scowling From the storm eloud there aloft, Let us not for any reason Be resentful of our lot— This is only just a season That the Summer time forgot. The flowers must grow weary And the birds must cease to sing When the days are dull and dreary For a little while, till Spring. And the Summer time's elation Can't endure throughout the year— This is just a short vacation In the work of bringing cheer. Perplexity. “How will you pass your vacation?” “I've got to do something,” said Senator Sorghum, “to get my mind off the tariff. I think I shmll spend the time on cross-word puzzles.” Jud Tunkins says he once talked back to his wife. It was years ago, and her answer is running as & serial to this day. Foolish Lamb. Mary had a little lJamb ‘Whose ways were rather strange. 1t wandered off one day and got Into the stock exchange. “I'm sorry,” said the lamb, “I quit At a reception cool— I wish that I had persevered And learned some sense at school.” Compelling Esteem. “How does your boy Josh stand in his classes?” “Fine,” answered Farmer Corntossel. “Even if he don't do so much with study, everybody has to take off his hat to Josh's foot ball game.” “Great riches sought in hope of pleasure,” said Iii Ho, the sage of Chiratown, “may bring only grave responsibilities.” Responsibility. We're disappointed now because ‘We learn there is no Santa Claus. | 8o we must toil with proper grace | And all join hands to take his place. ' “I likes de big outdoors better dan de | town,” sald Uncle Eben. “In town de shootin’ is liable to be mostly too close range.” ——— Long Skirts Protested, But Tone Unconvincing Prom the New York Times. Six thousand girls at Hunter College have talked over the new long-skirted styles, and nearly three-fourths of the total made a formal protest against the innovation. Almost every day some one becomes violent over the new fashions. Many women who knew the discom- forts of stays and voluminous gowns get excited at the unhappy prospect of returning to that hampering clutch. They are the women who shared or at least saw the successful battle for wom- en's freedom In politics and economics as_well as clothes, It is really not at all surprising that they should object to something that reminds them of the old days preceding their emancipation. Long skirts look to them like a drag on their stride and they mean it figuratively as well as physically. The young things who rebel seem less credible. Little girls have always lovei to dress up in mother’s clothes and the college girls of today have been | se) deprived of that privilege. At least, if they did put on a grown-up frock, it was just like their own in its straight lines and short skirts. Now they have a chance to swish about haughtily in flowing silks and if they exclaim that they dznt want to, it is o believe them. are making a jgt of clamor about it, but they “protest much.” THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. “I have read your articles about Epictetus,” he said, “but what I want to know is what is a Stoic?” ‘We could sympathize with our friend, because that is exactly what we have been trying to find out ourself for a good many years. Somehow the ancient Stoic philosophy has made an appeal to us, as it has to 50 many throught the centuries, by rea- son of its honest comnion sense as con- tained in high ideals. These ideals are easier to approxi- mate than those contained in any other Pphilosophy, ancient or modern; in fact, every living human being of any worth at all practices them. Thus our inquiring friend is a Stoir | as all of us are Stoics, when he uses his | mind to make the best of things. Stoicism was simply the first of the mind philosophies. That is as simple as we know how to put the matter. ‘The statement is open to dispute, but we _believe it will hang together. Stoicism is using the mind, and a Stoic is one who does use it in regard to his acceptance of' life as he meets it. * X % K The world has long forgotten about | Chri the phyasical theories of Stoicism, as ;;gpg%n&d by Zeno, the founder, about What it is not willing to forget is the underlying idea that man has it in his power to think for himself. The glory of Stoicism was that it took an idealistic type of morality into prac- tical life, and so stated it that the average man finds it workable. WIll, or purpose, these philosophers sald, is the only thing that is really our own. We are not responsible for thoughts that come to us, but the way we use them is another matter. ‘That is where man shines, as a think- ing animal. “Apart from the will there is nothing 800d or bad.” So declared ictetus, gone 2,000 .y:las 2go, but still the friend of man- kind. * Kk ok % Many men and women today find, as of yore, that what happens in their minds is their real life. Try as they may, they cannot get away from this—what shall we call it — feeling. belief, certainty? “I think, therefore I am,” said Des- cartes, The cult of the mind is one of the two_everlasting beliefs of man. thThe other is in the power of physical ings. Forgetting for the time being all re- Hrions. philosophies, ethics, morals, plans and schemes of living, we can say that every human being leans definitely toward one or the other of these cults. Either he is an idealist or a ma- terialist, at bottom. He may give his assent openly to somg religious system, but _secretly in the “back -of his mind"” he holds onto what he thinks, * X % % Epictetus, better than any of his fel- low Stoics, we-think, expressed once and for all the truth of things for those | who feel that there is a strange dig- (mity in the human mind. The | Stoic phumoghy. as expressed | by him, in his ourses,” is the learning of virtue by exercise, effort and training, by means of the mind. As it happens, this is exactly what Christianity offers the world, with an overlay of doctrines. Epictetus has no doctrines, He tells us to be good because it is in our power to be good. God and man_compose one great system, he said, and the will of God is closely rellk‘d t‘o :he‘wu.l in man. Christianity accepted the cream of Stoicism, as preached by such mighty anclents as Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, Plutarch, Epictetus, Cicero. The grave earnestness of the Roman character at its hest had its counter- part in the undying fidelity of the early Christians, ‘The “best Romans” were Stoics. St. Paul probably was largely influenced by Stoicism, and drew from it some- thing of his ability. St. Augustine spoke of “the book of the noble Stoic Epictetus.” Pronounced, by the way, Eplc-tee-tus, with the ac- cent on the “tee.”) The sublime indifference of the early istian martyrs had great aid, no doubt, from the wide general accept- ance of the old Stoical beliefs that pain, injury, death wére not among those things which belong:d to man, that his mind, part of the divine, was his oni‘)vl real hposumalrll. en who so belleved easily became Christians. They found in the human- divine love of Jesus, their brother on f”fl“ .i :r':rm ’gumnnlty which was lacking in the cold precepts of Epictet, and the other Stoics. = = * kX% Stoicism is cold. . Intellect knows love only by means of thought, ‘Thought can hearth of love, The emotions, where love resides, are seen to be somethi greater, even, than intellect. This the stumbling block of the modern “intellectuals,” Wwho seem to believe that emotions are so:mthln% :a b!duhln}!d of. careful reading of Epictetus will show that the ofd slave was not ashamed of emotions, but did his best to hold them in leash, just as any one must do, if he does not want them to run away with him. Stolcism is held by some to have been a renunciation of the world. but the” best and most celebrated Stoics took the most :.ctive parts in real life. So, today, & modern Stoic is not one who is apparently indifferent to pleas- ure or pain, but rather is he who knows that his own thought tastes and meas- ures all things. As he measures, so shall it be meas- ured unto him. This {s the old-new doctrine of Epictetus, amazingly modern, endear- be warmed only at the SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1929. THE LIBRARY TABLE By the Booklover The Hohenzollerns, whose dynasty ended with the World War, traced their ancestry to the Margraves and Electors of the Mark of Brandenburg, in North Germany. Prederick I, first Hohenzol- lern elector, was descended from the Von Zollerns, old Swabian nobility. The history of this family, which is to a large extent the history of Germany, is traced in outline by Herbert Eulen- berg, a German author of democratic outlook, in his book *“The Hohenzol- lerns.” ~ Of the earliest count of these Swabian Zollerns, Herr Eulenberg says, “who is said to have fallen in battle in 1061—an end in which, by the way, no very great number of his Hohenzol- lern descendants have emulated him.” It was in 1417 that Frederick I, one of & long line of Margraves of Branden- bul Constance as the first elector. Branden- burg and all other parts of the territory later organized as modern G:rmany were at_this time a part of the Holy Roman Empire. Following Frederick I, nine electors led up to Frederick Wil- liam I, the Great Elector, whose passive concurrence, says Herr Eulenberg, “en- abled Louis XIV to take and hold Strassburg and the greater part of Alsace-Lorraine.” Then ruled Frederick III, as elector, but Frederick I as King of Prussia. He was crowned King of Prussia in return for the hordes of soldiers whom he furnished to the Em- peror. The second King of Prussia was FPrederick Willlam I, and he was suc- ceeded by Frederick II, the Great, * ok koK Frederick the Great was hardened in youth by the brutal treatment of his father, whose one object was to train his son for a warlike career. The father could not foresee how dominant a con- queror that son was to be when he sneeringly told the boy's mother, “If there were any good in your son, he would die, but I am quife certain he will not—weeds never do.” Frederick Willlam’s brutality toward his son was accompanied by continual taunts that “had his father treated him with such contumely, he would have run away a thousand times over.” When Fred- erick, goaded beyond endurable limits, did l",emfit to escape from his father’s tyranny, he was arrested, imprisoned, tried by court-martial, and was saved from the death sentence demanded by his father only by the determined op- position of the court. But Frederick ‘William could not live forever, and it is probable that his heir shed no very bitter tears over his grave. Personally Frederick the Great was all that his father was not—unusually cultured for his time, romantic, devoted to friends, humorous, suave, diplomatic—but. polit- ically he might be called ruthless. At any rate, he wrested Silesia from the umu: Maria Theresa, invaded Saxony without the least valid excuse, and em- barked upon the Seven Years' War, which, the “most costly and useless of all his wars,” left him “shrunken.and bowed, a poor invalid, as grey as his pet donkeys at Potsdam.” ~ Culturally, ingly old. With the yardstick of Stoicism we may keep a firm grip on that mighty civilization of old, Rome, and at the same time better understand. and use our own age. If you want to know “what is a Stolc,” look at any decent, sensible man. Failure of Special Session - Widely Criticized by Press Adjournment of the special session of Congress without tariff action is accept- ed by the country generally as evidence of failure, but there are many different verdicts as to responsibility for the re- sult. In some quarters it is pointed out that lack of tariff legislation is not vitally imj int, while the country may be satisfled With the creation of a Farm Board. “As & whole, the failure of the Sen- ate to come to a final decision for or against a definite plan has been dis- heartening,” according to the New York Sun. “The bloc system has become more firmly fastened upon a chamber of Congress. The ancient two-party system has been disrupted, for the time being at least. for another which has produced nothing but futility.” The Seattle Daily Times concludes: “Th outlook is not very propitious. Of re- cent years the Senate has shown an in- creasing propensity for wasting time, but in a country so hlpgfly addicted to hopefulness it would be useless to gszlé the chance of a change for the “The Senal * ok * % must answer to the peo- ple,” In the j ent of the Kansas City Journal-Post, “for its waste of the pub- lic money and whatever incidental losses may come from its failure to pass a tariff measure and get the subject out of the way before the regular session. ‘There is nothing it can say about its critics that will in any way relieve it of the responsibility it owes the people, no matter how undeserving of popular respect any of its critics may be.” The Columbus Ohio State Journal charges that the Senate “has indulged in futile oratory and purely sectional debate,” and that “it is not too far from the truth to say that no special session in years has n so little productive of constructive effort.” “There is undogbted irony,” suggests the Roanoke World-News, “in the fact that Borah, who was chiefly responsible for the special session, insisting before the election that Mr. Hoover pledge himself to call one for the purpose of enacting farm relief legislation and re- writing the tariff, is as much responsi- ble as any other one individual for the failure to accomplish the second of the objectives.” * ok % % An attack upon the motives in the tariff fight is made by the Buffalo Eve- ning News. “All the time which should have been given to a sensible revision of the tariff, and which would have been ample to effect the object,” asserts the paper, “was devoted to repudiating the President by re ling the flexible clause and by adding the debenture rider. The debenture, in particular, was wholly foreign to a tariff bill. It was adopted with full knowledge that, if it ever reached the President, he would veto it. The Senators were not trying to legislate for the country, but to ma- neuver the President into a veto, of which they expected to make some demagogic capital.” “The principal agendum of the ses- sion,” thinks the Hartford Times, “was accomplished by the passage of the Farm Board bill. The fallure of tariff legislation, while on some accounts de- plorable, cannot be regarded as a major national misfortune. In fact the tariff bill, as plotted, mangled, distorted and warped into & misshapen monstrosity, can be mourned by very few as it de- scends into shadow from which it may never in ln{ form emerge.” ‘The Topeka Daily Capital points out that “one-half of the Hoover program for the special session was accomplished, and the most important half, in the Federal Farm Board act. The new board,” continues that paper, “promptly got down to work and is in harmonious co-operation with farm organization, developing the administration plan of a new marketing system for farm prod- ucts. This is more fundamental than changes 1n tariffl rates and strikes di- rectly at the main trouble in agricul- ture.” * K K ok “Will Congress be able to enact a tariff measure during the Winter?” asks the Butte Daily Post. “It's anybody's guess,” continues that paper. “There are no precedents for the situation. But on general principles it ought to do the nators and Representatives good to talk to the folks at home. In the present business situation, perhaps the country can do without new tariff legislation, as well as it can do without anything. Many will say that income tax reduc- is more important now. And it tion isn't like that will into -] The San x:tonln handling & deadlock on that.” Express is convinced that “the of this legislation at the extra session emphasizes the futility of fi gressional attempts at revision, and again proves the need of a flexible gmvulon. made flexible in fact, as the __em sy in his special mes- sage. E In the new session, it is held bysthe. Birmingham News, Con “should be under a moral ition to complete the tariff revision with as little debate as possible. That profitless row should not be carried into the new year,” con- | cludes the News. The Youngstown Vindicator comments: “Whether any | one could drive the Senate is to | doubted. 'There are too many men in | it politically op to the President | to allow themselves to he driven.” The | Flint Daily Journal predicts better leadership in the new session, while the New Orleans Item holds the President responsible for the inaction, “because | he would not make his desires on the | tariff heard, and his leadership felt.” i oo | Dinosaur Footprinu Stir Arizona Interest From the Omaha World-Herald. One day a young Arizona dinosaur who had evidently been reading inspi- rational poetry went out and made a lot of footprints on the sands of time. Ordinarily the first rain that came along would have washed these foot- prints out, but they weren't the ordi- nary kind. They were fotprints with a purpose. And so they just stuck there in the sand and petrified. That of course was several millenniums ago. And all this long time they have just been lying out there under the Arizona sun and getting petrified harder and | | harder. They lay out there petrifying and waiting for the right man to come along and make them famous. That man showed up just the other day, a wandering scientist prospecting for dinosaur footsteps or what have you. | He got as excited over his discovery as | day’s footprint. He went rushing about “undlng telegrams and telling what he | was going to do about it. He was going | to dig 'em up and take 'em home to | show t hildren. | He was, but he isn't. The common- | wealth of Arizona heard about :t and | immediately put an embargo in the export of dinosaur footprints. It never had any interest in footprints before and doesn't seem to know what it is going to do with them now. But it finds that they are worth something to somebody and so it isn't going to let anybody lug them off. And that's Arizona all over. It has an interest in the waters of the Colo- | rado River that it doesn't know defi- nitely just what it wants to do with, but it feels certain it is going to want to employ that interest at some future time. Therefore it has regularly op- Pposed exploitation of the interests which other States have in the stream and which threatens permanently to alien- ate water that Arizona might later find ent con- | willia, | story of his dismi: | his coming under tin order to convince us of this. Robinson Crusoe, when he lit on Fri- | Frederick had ‘aversion for, active hatred of, all things German.” This was perhaps due to the influence of his friend, Voltaire, “with whom he was altogether enchanted on first ac- Quaintance.” He abominated the “Nibelungenlied,” saw in Hans Sachs no beyond an ignorant shoemaker, had no admiration for the paintings of Durer, and said that Goethe's “Gotz von Berlichingen” made him feel sick. He died at his favorite rlu‘e of Sans Souci and, contrary to his wish to be buried in a grave prepared there, was buried, ironically, by the side of the father, whom he had llw:z: with such 800d reason hated. Succeeding Prederick the Great came, Frederick William I, Frederick Willlam III and Frederick m 1IV. The period of the modern German Empire is v William 1. P! now reached, with an AL William I, grandfather of the former Kaiser, William II, was opposed to the idea of a German Empire. He pre- ferred the title “King of Prussia,” To him the name “Emperor” lordship; the Kings of Prussia had for generations been openly or secretly Emperors_of the Holy hostile to the Roman Empire. It was Bismarck who be | brought about the unification and the new title. “Only after long and earnest prayer to God.” the first Emperor wrote to his wife, “did I obtain self-command and strength to endure the pain of seeing the Prussian title supplanted.” Herr Eulenberg remarks that “as years went on, Willlam got used, nevertheless, to the new armngements, particularly as Bismarck relieved him of the chief part of the work and of the whole dis- 8 annoyance of dealing with the Reichstag. The result was that as Em- peror he could devote himself as zeal- ously to military matters as he d’ dons as King, and those were the things he chiefly cared about.” Frederick III, son of William I and \ father of the former Kalser William ot lived but 99 days after his accession. He was a dying man when the old Em- peror fing died at the age of 91. “After all, T cannot do away with my- self to please my son!" Emperor Wil- liam used to say to his wife, and all attempts to induce him to ‘abdicate were tutile. At the death of his father, after his brief, shadowy reign, Willism IT became Emperor of Germany. The 5&:] :léflfl]slnlrck. ot e uence of the Prussian military machine, and of his part in the World War, his flight and exile are all recent history. Herr Eulen- berg says of him: “There can be no reasonable doubt that at the bottom of his not very courageous soul he was a lover of peace, and he need not have written as many books as he has done What he lacked was the r<pose of spirit which the brave posses as a matter of course, the composure of the man who has strength within himself.” One of the last chapters of the book is given to the man who would some time have been Willlam III, if the World War had not happened—the former Crown Prince of Germany. Of him Herr Eulenberg says, “The Crown Prince was not a personal coward,” and explgins his flight to Holland as due to “an in- superable weariness of spirit that rendered him listless, ready to drift ef- fortlessly across the frontier.” * X % x “‘Weathergoose—Woo!" is the enigmatic title of Percy Mackaye's recent b%!:k of stories and studies of the people of the Kentucky mountains. The title story centers about the superstition of exert- ing an influence, good or evil, upon another person by means of a puppet or symbolic figure. Another story, “Henty's Hant,” recalls various news- paper accounts during the past year or use for. One can see a long way in the desert and-Arizona looks a long way into the future. It is A canny State witk vision and imagination. It will get ahead. —_— e—— Coal Makes Good Loot. From the Indianapolis Star. The yeggmen who were frightened away while trying to open a safe in a coal-yard office may have decided that they could do about as well with an au- tomobile full of coal. ———— When to Be Worried. From the Oakland Tribune. A woman charged with murder wor- ries most because hers is her attorney’s thirteenth murder case and there are 13 on the jury. More than any one else, perhaps, the superstitious should be careful with firearms. ——— Where Special Session Failed. From the Charleston (3. C.) Evening Poat. The special sessicn of Congress could have redeemed itself from uselessness by | passing a resolution against the new styles for women. o - Moving Over for Borah Peak. From the Toledo Blade. Mountains in California are shiff ting. Perhi to maki er] tnmflvluu h{' l,mum for the 80 of witcheraft practices among peo- ple of low-grade Intelligence, in con- nection with whieh persons b:lieved to have “hexed” or to have “put a hex" upon others, were murdered. In the story a ncw-born child is changed by a spell to a monstrosity and the man ;luag_ll the spell to be pjaced is mur- lere * ok ok ok “Long Island’s Story,” by Jacqueline Overton, children's librarian at West- bury, Long Island, is a book written for the children of Long Island, but is not exactly a juvenile book. The story be- gins with the casual landing of the crew of the Half Moon on the beach of what is now Coney Island, in Septem- ber, 1609. Before that time Indians, Al- gonquins, occupled the island, but they left no written records. Such names as Montauk and Amagansett are relics of the Indian period. Later the Dutch and the English divided Long Island, the former settling in the western part and the latter in the eastern. The progress of L:m Island is traced through the Colol period, the Revolution and the Civil War, down to the preseni time. * kK w “‘A Variety of Things,” by Max Beer- bohm, is a volume of essays and tales, with a parody and a one-act play. The writing of these pieces extended from 1897 to 1927, so that one interested in ;o:";gl{m of l{‘y’u develogm-b\:t of Max Tl 's 8 wouls re find laborat Oony was invested at the Council of | T ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Take advantage of this free service. If you are one of the thousands who have patronized the bureau, write us again. If you have never used the service, begin now. It is maintained for your benefit. Be sure to send your name and address with your question, and inclose 2 cents in coin or stamps for return postage. Address The Eve- ning Star Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, director ashington, D. C. Q. Has any other Secretary of War died in ofMice?—H. W. R. A. Secretary Good's death is the nmrn"nnce that of Secretary Rawlings Q. Why have the early forms of animal and vegetable life survived lnngr in Australia than elsewhere?— A. Australia’s isolation has had this result. Now that plants and animals are being brought across the water from other countries, the original forms of life are being destroyed or crowded out. Q. What is the record crop of pota- toes?—L. M. A. An officially recorded crop of 1,145.17 bushels per acre is the present record. The average crop per acre for the United States is 115 bushels, Q. Was a man ever blown through the top of the tube and the bed of the river ‘and came out alive during the bullding of one of the tunnels under the New York rivers>—M. L. A. The tunnel engineers say that such an occurrence took place twice under the East River; the first time in 1905 while boring the tunnel from the Battery to Joralemon street, Brooklyn, and another time in 1916 while boring the tunnel from Whitehall street at the Battery to Montague street, across the river in Brooklyn. In the 1906 incident the tunnel worker was recov- ered and as far as is known is still alive, In the 1916 mishap three sand- hogs were blown through the heldé:a where a soft spot in the river opened up and permitted the air pres- sure to escape; one came out alive, the second man was found dead in the river, and the body of the third man was never recovered. Q. Is there any law which compels a married woman to use her husband's name?—C. M. A. Actually there is no Federal nor, g0 far as we can ascertain, State law which arbitrarily compels a woman to bear her husband's surname unless she wishes to do 8o, Recently the United States Controller McCarl {ssued an order that married women in the Gov- ernment employ should sign their hus- b-lrlld'l surname when signing the pay roll, = Q. What is a camel-back chair?— B. ‘A" This nickname has been given to the demi-shield-back chair of the Heppelwhite period. ern Coast are there no thunder- storms?—W. 8. A. The thunderstorm is owing to the rapid vertical convection of air con- taining a large amount of water vapor. The lower air must, therefore, be rather warm, say 70 degrees F. or over, else of water vapor, and the temperature must decrease rather rapidly with in- crease of height, else there would be but little or no convection. Now, in the Summer time the humidity in | Oregon and Washington is rather low. Hence thunderstorms generally are im- probable. In the Winter time, when | most of the rains come, the surface commonly is too cool to set up vigorous vertical convection. Hence thunder- storms are not likely. are not frequent in Q In what States along the West- % it would not carry the requisite amount | for Q. Is & butternut the same as & Brazil nut?>—A. C. H. A. Brazil nuts and butternuts are not the same. The Brazil nut is na- tive to Brazil. On the tree the nuts form a bowllike pod containing six or eight nuts. The butternut is a species of American white walnut, and grows one nut to the pod. Q. For whom was Phillips Exeter Academy named?—J. T. A. It takes its name from John Phillips, its founder, and the name of thé\jown, Exeter. It was founded in 1781 and was the first educational in- stitution’ incorporated by the Legisla- ture of Hampshire. . What is a pendative in archi- tecture?—F. C. A. It is a structure in masonry de- signed to support a domical vault over four or more isolated piers. Its de velopment by Byzantine architects of the sixth century made it possible to erect domes above interiors of any de- sired plan, and was one of the greatest acquisitions in the history of archi- tecture, Q. 1Is lead used in lead pencils?— A8 N A. Black-lead pencils are made of graphite or plumbago, which coatains no lead iIn its composition, but s in reality almost pure carbon. The name is due to the fact that lead was used until some time ih the nineteenth cen- tury. Clay is mixed with ground aphite and water. The more, clay gmt is used, the harder will be the pencil, e Q When was the first pantomime produced in England?—R. N. B. A. The first one produced in Eng- land was at Drury Lane in 1702, was called “The Tavern Builders.” was not untli 1723, however, that the noted harlequin, John Rich, estab- lished the Christmas pantomime. This form of entertainment had long been pular, having been at its height in g::me in the time of Nero. Q. What are Willle Hoppe and Jake Schaefer , now that they are not defendl.nfl their titles?<F. O'K. A. Willle Hoppe is totwing the coun- try on an exhibition tour. Jake Schae- fer, jr., at present is in New York making arrangements for several exhi- bition games. 3 Q What is meant when a hlack triangular flag is displayed above® & square blue one?—J. V. E. . These are weather forecast flags. The blue flag signifies rain or snow, while the m‘nézul-r one l‘:) t.henI un.quen- ture . T layed above the square .‘1‘:‘ 5 ‘Kv’nmn; 1 below, colder. Its absence indicates no change in temperature. Q _What is meant by ground game? P. A. In English law this applies to hares and rabbits, which are subject to extinction by the occupants of lands to protect their from injury and loss. This removes these animals from the protection which, in the interest of the English law throws Sestion of sport. Ordinarily the of land confers no right to kill or snare game found thereon, but it is not un- common in England to provide in a lease for the keeping down of ground game, " Q. Who was the first man to take a plane from ship to shore?—G. D. A. Eugene Ely first accomplished this feat. In 1010 he flew from the deck of the cruiser Birmingham and landed near Norfolk. In 1911 he landed a plane aboard ship for the first time. A platform was built over the deck of the cruiser Pennsylvanis'and the trial was made at San-Francisco. 'Thanksgiving s 4 Despite Stock Market Losses BY LEMUEL F. PARTON. NEW YORK,—If straws show which way the wind blows, the turkey in the straw may be even mote revealing. With throughout the land com- plai that their throats were slit from to ear in the stock market, the Nation sat down to its biggest turkey feed in 30 years, At the headquarters of the world's largest turkey distributing bouse, 1t was stated that never before with- !in the last three decades had there been such a demand for turkeys, and that the national Thanksgiving day consumption would far surpass that of any other year. Chain markets in large Eastern cities reported the same record demand. There was a similar unprecedented demand for the fixing to go with the turkeys. Dealers were unable to meet the demand for large turkeys and premiums were effered for birds weigh- ing more than 12 pounds. With the public having lost billions in the stock market, it is appalling to think of what the turkey demand might have been had the bull market continued. Eastern merchants did not stress Thanksgiving in any special campaign, having decided to concentrate on Christmas and start their Christmas campaign earlier than usual. In spite of this, even luxury shops handling high-priced trimmings for Thanksgiv- ing dinners, report the usual run of trade and the usual demand for food luxuries. A London newspaper re- marked last week that “America’s bloated proarerlty is having the wind let out of it. Already, a distressing money stringency is being felt and the prospect of bread lines looms ahead.” One eloquent answer is the Natlon's biggest dinner, with the pie lines, as well as the bread lines, forming in 48 States. While only one month has passed since the first big market slide, the psy- chological pressure gauge already indi~ cates that a wide-scale public adjust- ment has been made. There is plenty of evidence that thousands of market dabblers, having survived the shock, are picking up their old jobs, or the threads of a neglected business. This was cor- roborated by the head of the personnel department of a large New York mer- cantile establishment. ' “I belleve the next six months will reveal a much more healthy condition in the working personnel of the coun- try,” said this official. “I do not wish to appear to be moralizing about the gambling in which the country has been lndulfln’. a8 I have done my share of it myself, but in the persormel studies which we have made I am convinced that great popular concentration on the market has in a very real sense taken the conml mind off its work. Now We are ning to get back on the job again. “Personally, I have been intensely tn- terested in this as a supplementary fac- tor of what President Hoover and the great industrialists of the country are doing to jack up production and keep the wheels movm, at full speed. After all, the basic wealth of the country de- pends on the concentration of innumer- able people on basic money-making en- terprises. The general state of mind of the job holders and small business men is, in my view, an extermely important consideration. “I have in mind the case of a friend, an electrical engineer, who became & Jjobber in electrical apparatus. He had a sound little business and was getting along nicely. About six months ago he told me that he had sold his business— that it was just ‘a picayune affair,’ and that he had been making 10 times as much in the stock market as he made in his business in a year. I saw him again burghers aini Held Best of 30, yesterday. He had béen wiped out in b R apuin; he ik 2 o ‘worl ; . ‘T have managed to :{‘ up two part-time jobs and I am getting away to start my business . 1 am a specialist in my line and I had no trouble in getting a foothold again.’ “If you multiply this man by a few hundred thousand, you will find a com- '3 t. is sure to maintain a pretty good buy- ing power, and I happen to know that he is going to have his usual Thanks- giving dinner. “I expect to see saving accounts steadily climbing throughout the coun- try during the next six months. We have in our concern an employes' sav- ing department, and we have begun to note increasing deposits during the last two weeks. As I see it, there are two factors which will drive the country to even greater production next year. One 1s the obvious one that there is plenty of money to finance continued production and even expansion: the other, perhaps less obvious, is that the standard of living which has been built up during the !ast 10 years is even & greater incen’ive to effort than the fear of poverty. “‘Many of our employes lost their sav- ings and paper profits in the markets, I find that, almost without exception, they have mitments -for real estate or othet rty and that they are determined to work hard and hang on and pay their way out. A man will often work harder to keep what he has than to avoid an l{! rent danftr. Tak- ing the country at large, I believe that the years of conditioning in higher liv- ing standards will be a powerful force in keeping the present business mo- mentum. “I do not mean to minimize the real and tragic effects of these great losses in innumerable cases, and, as I have sald, 1 am not moralizing, but as a personnel expert I see a healthier and ”fl-':l" happler pyblic state of mind ahead.” TInspiration Is Found In Wigmore’s Career From the Chicago Daily News. There is inspiration for younger deans of law schools and professors of law in the glowing tributes paid the other evening to John H. Wigmore, retired dean of Northwestern Univer- sity Law School, by eminent represent- atives of the American bench and bar. Mr, Wigmore has devoted his life to the study, exposition and interpretation of w frém the golnu of view of history, mnflnwphy and the social sciencés. To m Jaw is much more than a set of rules, and a case at law is not some- thing to be disposed of merely by a study of precedents. His conception of law as an instru- meny of essential justice used in the light of what a at British judge called “the artificial perfection of rea son" is not only profound but thor: oughly rational and progressive. empnasized principles and has traced the origin of basic legal doctrines to conditions of life and deep-rooted tribal and national necessities. His philosophy “u{lw is dynamic, evolutionary and Great occupants of the bench now administering jusfice or writing vigor- ous dluenu% opinions that will serve as the foundation for the law of to- morrow acknowledge gratefully their debt to Mr, Wigmore's books or lec- tures. He hae worked, too, for the re- vision of criminal and procedural codes and for a rational and effective admin- istrotion of justice If he and others like him had mor~ jupfis in the various State Legislatures the sound law-reform are butchered done | bills which _are year after i .lr ulifl%f tin, iflnr lh;m-lldhud wyer-] 'ators would receive l’flpl-’ enlightened treatment. 4 (/