Evening Star Newspaper, December 11, 1929, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C WEDNESDAY . December 11, 1020 THEODORE W. NOYES. ...Editor P N — The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office: 11th 8t. and Pennsyivania A New York Sftice, 110 East 42nd 8t mcuo fice: Lake Michigan Bullding. opean Office: Regent 8t.. London, nd. Rate by Carrier Within the City. T Frenjor star . .45 Ler month 8 Evenin nd 3 (when 4 Sundass) . 60c per month and Su indavs) ..++.65¢ per month c Collection made o the €nd of eac] ay n ders may be sent in by mail or tel jAtional 5000. Rate by Mail—Pa ryland mon*h. ephoné yable in Advance. d_Virgin 1yr.. $10 00: 1 mo. 83 |mo'g3§§ Sl i1 R gt Iy and Bunday..]s ly only Sooo il ay only . Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled o the use for republication of all news Gis- Patches credited to it or not otherwise cred- ited in this paper and also .he local rews published heremn. Al rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. e The District Court Vacancy. In filling the vacancy on the District Supreme Court created by the resigna- tion of Chief Justice McCoy, the Presi- dent undoubtedly will take into con- sideration the fact that of the six Justices who now constitute the court, three of them are from the States and three from the District of Columbia. It s to be hoped that the forthcoming appointment of a successor to Chief Justice McCoy or of an associate justice, in case the elevation of the chief Jjusticeship is made a deserved reward to one of the incumbents, will confer the balance of representation upon the people of Washington and that the new justice will be selected from among them. When the additional judgeship was suthorized for the District Supreme Court early in this year, representation on the court was evenly divided between the District and the States. Chief Justice McCoy was from New Jersey, Justice Stafford from Vermont and Justice Bailey from Tennessee. The then recently created vacancy occurring through the resignation of former Justice Hoehling had been filled by the appointment of Justice Gordon, and Justice Hitz and Justice Siddons were both District of Columbia appointees. While Justice Wheat, by reason of his residence here in connection with his work in the Department of Justice, was to all intents and purposes a Washing- tonian, his appointment was credited to the State of New York. The ma- Jority of the court, therefore, has been representative not of Washington, but of the country at large. As far as concerns the respect and affection of the local community, all of | the members of the District Supreme Court have become, by right of adop- tion, Washingtonians. But here in Washington we are to a great extent deprived of those rewards| for public service and ability that so * often are conferred upon the fully Americanized residents of the States in the form of political favors or in the payment of political debts. In the case of the judiciary especially the President has shown a fine determination to select the men who possess the highest quali- flcations, regardless of their political affliations or party services. For that reason®particularly Washington invites the ati-ntion of the President to the number of qualified and deserving mem- bers of the local bar and trusts that he ‘will not find it necessary to go far afield in making his selection. ———- A tranquil life might have been en- Joyed by Mr. Vare if he had not gotten the United States Senate on his mind to the exclusion of almost every other interest. ————— . Big business needs big brains and in “Wgldition to that a certain amount of ; big-heartedness is now regarded as im- portant. o . The Federal Farm Board. In Washington and in Chicago the other day—respectively, at the seat of agricultural legislation and of agricul- tural speculation—the newly created Federal Farm Board held the center of the stage. In the Senate, the some- what startling statement was forth- coming from Senator Nye, Republican Progressive, of North Dakota, that the board is making a life-and-death fight sgainst the ‘“leeches and pirates” threatening to sap its usefulness. Addressing the American Farm Bureau Federation's annual convention within the shadow of the Chicago wheat pit, Alexander Legge, chairman of the Farm Board, discussed the trials and tribulations which it faces in the course of an honest effort to carry out the complex provisions of the agricultural marketing act. Senator Nye intimated that the *“leeches and parasites” who are alleged to have designs on the life-blood of the Farm Board are grain commission men. ‘This long recognized group of price- manipulating middlemen naturally is no longer in the privileged position it used to be, with the Federal Government taking over the “orderly marketing” of agricultural produce through farmer- controlled co-operative associations. Chairman Legge concedes that he and his colleagues find themselves between the Scylla of the grain-grower and the Charybdis of the grain-specu- lator. “The Farm Board he said at Chicago, “Is getting a lot of criticism. The legislative fellows tell us we are too slow, and grain men say we are red, red radical. Some place between the two extremes is the fact.” It must have afforded the Farm Boa:d chairman some solace to hear the body acclaimed in his presence by Sam H. Thompson, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation. For years Mr. Thompson was one of the spear- heads of the McNary-Haugen drive for surplus and equalization-fee legislation at Washington. “Members of the Farm Board,” said Mr. Thompson in his presidential address, “are men of proven ability, They are sincere in their ef- forts to secure equality for agriculture under the terms of the marketing act. The policy declared in that act is suf- ficiently broad and fully meets the de- mands o earnestly voiced by the Amer- jean Farm Bureau Federation during the past seven years.” Mr. Legge, plaintively hinting at the attacks, overt and under-cover, to which the Federal Farm Board is subjected. told his Chicago audience that “I may be kicked out, and probably will be.” If he is, the country may be sure of one | thing—that is, that it has been de- prived of as competent services of the sort as it is within Uncle Sam's power to command. The country may rely upon something else, if Chairman Legge is “kicked out.” It will be a heavy task for President Hoover to find another. measuring up to Mr. Legge's stature, to fill & job which will have been demon- strated to be so prodigiously thankless. . Order Ignored, Ten Dead. Last May the chief of the Bureau of Fire Prevention, in New York City, learning that an old motion picture studio, long vacant, had been reopened pictures, ordered the installation of automatic sprinklers as a safeguard against disaster. The owners of the oo | Studio, however, refused to obey the order, taking advantage of the fact that not more than five reels of film were kept in the studio at one time. This limitation in the law enabled them to evade the obviously justified order of precaution, for which evasion there was no provided-penalty. Yesterday, however, the penalty for disobedience was paid. Unfortunately it was not paid by the owners of the studio, but by their employes, members of the motion picture company engaged in making films. Ten of them were killed in a fire that swept the premises, a fire that could certainly have been held in ckeck by a sprinkler system long enough to permit every occupant of the premises to leave in safety. Now it is proposed to amend the rule s0 as to meke the installation of | sprinklers compulsory whenever the Bureau of Fire Prevention orders, re- gardless of the number of films or other combustible materials kept on the premises. This is just another case of locking the stable door after the theft number of such instances in the history of municipal regulations for the preven- tion of disaster. The absurdity of putting a limit to the number of films carried in a highly combustible establishment, below which the law cannot compel the adoption of safety measures, is so evident that it is difficult to see how the rule ever came to be written as it was. In this case the fire was not started by film or spread by it. It originated in the draperies hung for making the “sets” soundproof. 1In other words, the place was a fire-trap, regardless of the in- flammable character of the photograph material. Every possible precaution against the swift spread of flames should have been taken, should indeed have been adopted by the owners of the establishment whether the law com- pelied or not. But no, they took a chance, as the owners of properties have taken chances and continue to take chances indefinitely. And the people they hire for their services pay the price. There should surely be pun- ishment for such thriftiness. B ) Survey of Illiteracy. An extensive survey of illiteracy in the United States soon will be under way. A distinguished committee, ap- pointed by the Secretary of the Interior and headed by the Commissioner of Edu- cation, has completed its preliminary or- ganization, Previous to the war the very suggestion of Such a survey probably would have been considered ridiculous. Everybody knew that the United States was the most literate Nation on earth, its political and social structure resting upon the solid foundation stones of uni- versal free education. There might be persons here and there who, through some strange twist of circumstances could not read and write. But, leaving out of consideration the first generation immigrants, such individuals were con- sidered so rare as to be curlosities. With the application of the draft act came a great and discomforting revela- tion. However inexplicable it might be, many thousands of young men born in the United States could not read nor write. For the first time an actual test of literacy had been applied to a cross- section of the population. The honest pride of the Fourth of July orator tot- tered and crashed. There the matter has been allowed to rest. It has not been followed with additional surveys to determine the real condition among great masses of the American people. It is essential to have a realistic picture before remedial meas- ures can be suggested and applied with much hope of bettering the situation. ‘This is what Secretary Wilbur's com- mittee will seek to obtain. It is almost certain to uncover some conditions which will be a source of deep shame to patriotic Americans—but it is bet- ter to bring these out now than to al- low them to flourish in the darkness, like malignant tumors in the body of the Nation's social structure. It may be that the completed picture will not be 80 bad as might be inferred from the | draft statistics. Then again it may be much worse, for the draft Army con- stituted, after all, a highly selective group. ‘When the illiteracy statistics are all compiled will come the problem of remedying the situation brought to light. Here the Federal Government will be on difficult ground, for education has been looked upon as almost ex- clusively a function of the State and local governments. But the committee can walt to cross this bridge until it comes to it, . A program for smaller taxes and bet- ter business could not be surpassed as a New Year greeting for 1930. oo Charles Williamson Richardson. A man who devoted his natural | talents and acquired experiencs to the alleviation of human suffering, who may almost be said to have consecrated his ilfe to medical science, was justly eulogized last Sunday here in Wash- ingten by a group of speakers from any one of whom praise is high praise. His career was not only one of con- stant application and constant activity, but also of a marked austerity, self- imposed that he might more efficacicusly practice his proudly chosen profession. That the man in question, Charles Williamson Richardson, was a native of the National Capital, lived and worked here all his Jife and sent hence invalu- able contributions to the sum total of knowledge of the healing art every- where 1s a cause for self-congratulation to the many Washingtonians who knew him and to whom he ministered, and and was in use for the making of sounc-. of the horse, the latest of an infinite THE EVENING ST to the many more who realized his reputation. Physician, scientist, investigator, author, educator, churchman, occupant of many positions of honor and trust, such an individual is always an asset to the community in which he moves and labors. The great and the un- known alike mourned his passing; testi- fled tc his abllity and his zealous devotion to his profession and to its ethics. They offered this testimony by spoken word, by resolutions, by piles of letters in which there lay, side by side, the condolences of high Govern- ment officials and of their wives and those of colored janitors and of humble folk from far away, and particularly of his fellow practitioners whose own careers had been made more fruitful through his writings and his personal help. And on Sunday, thronging to the joint memorial service held in his honor, they renewed their testimony. Dr. Richardson held many honors, many interests and many convictions. Outstanding among the last mentioned was one to the effect that what aspiring | doctors need most is not more imple- ments, more appliances—invaluable as these adjuncts are—but more applica- tion, more study, more knowledge. His own career offered a striking example of what persistent eager studiousness and activity may accomplish. In a letter written from Vienna when, as & youthful graduate in medicine, he was a disciple of the many noted specialists to be found in that capital, he said, with no thought of self-praise but only of self-satisfaction, “During the past year I honestly believe I have not wasted more than ten minutes of time.” During the ensuing forty-odd full years of his life it is doubtful if he wastea many more than that. ——— Banditry Here and Elsewhere. | Pasquale Ortiz Rubio, the President- | elect of Mexico, is in this country on a visit. Yesterday he was in New York for conference with former President Plutarco Calles. He recelved some newspaper men and in the course of one of the interviews, when he was speaking of the conditions in his coun- try, the following exchange of remarks occurred: “Mexico is the most peaceful, the safest country in the world today,” he said. “I went alone, unguarded, some- times on_ horseback, through isolated villages during the presidential cam- ign, and I was in no danger. Am- or Morrow, Col. Lindbergh and Will Rogers all can testify to the quiet of the country.” “You mean that banditry is under control?” he was asked. An aide broke in: “Is it under con- trol in Chicago?” he ref d. ‘Well, there is nothing more to be said, unless the question of the justifiably aroused alde to Senor Rublo were to be extended to include New York and some other large American cities. Banditry is certainly not under control in the centers of population in this country. The “isolated villages” are indeed much safer for travelers and for their own in- habitants than are the cities. Why, just the other night a band of seven men held up a dinner party right in the heart of New York and got away with $4,000 worth of cash and jewelry. Those who interview celebrities from other countries should be more circum- spect in their questions. References to banditry, disorder, lawlessness, are likely to have a boomerang effect. Our own house is not so well ordered that we can eriticize our neighbors on the score of peace and security. men A man of revolutionary mind is Rep- resentative Vestal of Indiana. ,He de- mands that the composer of good music shall receive as much in royalties as the producer of jazz. This is entirely con- trary to & rule that has held, with few exceptions, through centuries. e Quiet has been restored in Haiti. Dis- turbances have been largely tempera- mental and not the expression of a well calculated design for economic change. A small nation is often likely to ‘become irritable on small provocation. —_—————————— ‘The stock market tipster is asserting renewed activity. The human desire for leadership is such that many persons are willing to risk the money and allow some one else to do the guessing. o SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. The Old-Time Bill. So tiny seems the money now That lies within the till; In vain I try to tell you how I miss the old-time bill. A chest protector T may need ‘To ward the wintry chill. And so I murmur, “Yes, indeed, I miss that old-time bill.” T used to wave it like a flag ‘With calculated skill— T pause in sorrow as I brag About the old-time bill, Kindly Consideration. “Why did you vote to keep that con- testant from being admitted to the Sen- ate “Out of sympathy,” answered Senator | Sorghum. “Being a statesman has be- come one of the hardest jobs on earth and he has had trouble snough.” Jud Tunkins says the man who makes a great deal of noise isn't much more real help than a cheer leader at a foot ball game. Radio Jazz. The statesman sighed, “It's rather sad! As I speak on, from day to day, The audience, with taste so bad, ‘Would rather hear the music play.” Promising Linguist. “So the baby is learning to talk?” “Yes,” answered the proud father | “He is going to be a great linguist. What he says already sounds a little like Eng- lish and rather more like Chinese.” “One who has never known sorrow,” sald Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “cannot sympathize with others, and must lead a lonely life.” Holiday Business, Said Santa Claus, “A saint am I, But you must also keep in view This fact, as holidays draw nigh— I am a high-power salesman, too!" “Dar is two ways of readin’ de Bible,” said Uncle Eben. “One way foh de sake of comfort an’ de other foh de sake of argument” AR, . WASHINGTO! i DECEMBER 11, 192 BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Since there seem to be temptations in everything, the reader may wonder what is the one which lies in ihe path- way of him who wields a knife on the uncut pages of nev' books. The great temptation of those who linger over the pages is to read too | much as they go along. This is the one danger which lurks in this otherwise peaceful pleasure of the genuine Booklover. If he can !'resist this temptation, he will find his predilection one of genuine happiness and some profit. ‘We would not say that he must not read at all. That would be asking too much. How is it ble as one goes leisurely through the pages to resist reading a bit now and then? Certain sentences seem to stand out. Here is a description of the heroine which no man could resist. Here he comes across sounds of mighty deeds. Lurid phrases float in the wind. He would not be human if he did not sample the delighis which are in store for him, but he must do it in the spirit of the connoisseur, not of the sneak who takes an unfair advantage of books. Yes, one may take unfair advan of books. One of them is proverbial, and usually attributed to women. It is the habit of reading tr. last chapter or page first. Experience proves that quite as many men thus sneak up on a plot as do women, but the truth is that very few readers indulge in this deception. What holds them back is simply that they are afraid they will not get their money's worth by such a method. d they are right. The one best way in the world of killing one's pleas- ure in a book, especially a work of fic- tion, is to read the last chapter first. There are some mental temperaments, of course, which are able to forget what they have read and take pleasure in & story of which they already know the end, but the great bulk of readers want to get some sort of surprise. To read the last first is to practice a sort of clairvoyance. Life—of which most books are reflections—does not reveal events until they happen, or at most only a few hints and clues. A book similarly progresses in or- derly fashion. It does not take time by surgriu or enable its readers, any more than its characters, to know what is coming, except by the same sort of indirection which life uses. * ok ok ok ‘There is a vast difference, therefore, between plunging headlong into the words of & book as one is cutting its pages and leisurely reading a paragraph on various pages as one cuts his way through from first to last pnfi It might seem that all chances of misusing the fueu before reading would be averted if the cutter began :t the back and worked forward. We know one man who cuts thus, but we belleve he is in error. We are not Chinamen. The proper way to cut the pages of a book, as to read them, is to begin at the first page and end at the last. Proper cutting demands that the work be done slowly. Yesterday we discussed the dangers of the too sharp or too dull knife for this work. There is yet an- other danger—that of too fast cutting. But we suppose that no one who is im- &:mm will purchase a book with uncut in his hand and a good book with pages uncut knows by the fact of these pos: sessions to proceed in the main. There may come a time, however, when he cuts in & hurry or is so anxious to Not often, if ever, in the history of th: Republic has it fallen to the lot of a 33-year-old American to sign his country’s name to so important a docu- ment as the World Court protocol. That was the rare distinction which came to Jay Pierrepont Moffat, American cha d’affaires at Bern, Switzerland, on ‘mber 9. Mr. Moffat is complet- ing his tenth year in the foreign serv- ice, though, before formally entering it, he was doing private secretarial work for the United States Minister to the Netherlands. The young New Yorker of distinguished ancestry has crowded several major diplomatic duties into his decade of official life. Harvard by edu- cation, Moffat has served Poland, Turkey and Canada. While in the State Department at Washington, between 1925 and 1027, he was the State Depart- ment’s protocol officer at the White House, his job there including the mo- mentous matters of precedence and ceremonial. At Geneva, Moffat func- tioned as an American representative on both the 1927 preliminary disarma- ment commission ‘and the subsequent oplum conference. Ha recently married the daughter of Joseph C. Grew, Am- dor to Turkey. * ok ok ok Senator Pat Harrison, Democrat, of Mississippi (whose given name is Byron Patton, not Patrick) is no longer the only who adorns the Federal scene. ast week has brought two more prominently into the picture. One is “Pat’’ Hurley, the new Secretary of ‘War. The other is “Pat” Sullivan, the new Senator from Wyoming. They are honest-to-goodness _ Patricks. Senator Sullivan comes to Washington with as widespread an acquaintance and popu- larity in national politics as any man who ever entered the Senate, though he has never held public cffice. “Pat” has been a Republican wheelhorse ever since he could vote, and that covers the better part of the Fut half century. ‘The lanky Irishman from the sheep and oil country, whose brogue is a thing of beauty and a joy forever, has four pas- sionate devotions—his country, his fam- ily, his party and his church. Senator Sullivan believes to his marrow that the G. O. P. is the foundation of all good and that the protective tariff, in par- ticular, is one of God's gifts to men. To know “Pat” is to love him. He is a tower of strength in the Republican national committee. Yet another Wash- ington “Pat” is McKenna, chief usher of the White House offices. * koK K Willlam P. MacCracken, jr, former Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics, follows Mabel Walker Wil- lebrandt into the specialty of aviation law practice. Although “Bill” as all Washington knows him, says he isn't going to kick any good case out of his office, he expects his duties as general counsel for three of the country's greatest aviation transport corporations to keep him, so to speak, ufi in the air most of the time. MacCracken will re- tain the secretaryship of the American Bar Association, & $1-a-year office. His headquarters will be in New York, but the lure of Washington is strong both for him and his wife—one of the nu- merous Texas beauties in Capital society —and their friends hope to see much of them on the Potomac. * K ok K Senator Arthur Capper, Republican, of Kansas was invited not long ago to speak in the Middle West and name his own subject. He chose “Senators I Have Known. ‘When he reached the banquet table and scanned the pro- gram Capper was flabbergasted to ob- serve that through a telegraphic trans- misson error the title of his talk had reached the committee of arrange- ments as “Sinners I Have Kiown,” and was 80 printed. P Prime Minister Ramsay Macdonald seems to _have caught the commission fever in Wash'ngton and on the Rapi- dan. At any rate, the Labor chiet- tain is under fire in London for in- dulging in the Hoover penchant for commissions. Under the caption of “Commissions Galore,” Macdonald 15 assailed in the London Sunday T.mes as follows: “Within six months, as Mr. Macdonald himself reminds us, his government has set up 3 royal com- m'ssions and 15 committees of inquiry, no less. Those who wield new brooms ges. He who has a knife of the proper sort | him. read that impatience overcomes him. He may give in to the temptation to cut quickly, in which event he probably will be recalled to sense by mutilating sev- eral pages. It is needless to say that we speak here only of those men and women who like books as things. We have no quar- | & | rel with those who do not. It takes all sorts of human beings to make up the world of readers, just as it does to fill the real world of light and action. There are readers who do not glgoe a whoop for the appearance of ks, and there are others who care mightily whether their new book is bound in leather or cloth, and whether its pages are clean and its type clear and its corners square. These are finicky, as the saying is. They prefer their own books to library books, new books to old ones, clean books to dirty books. These are the Booklovers who delight in ing volumes with uncut The preliminary cutting, so necessary to reading, since the task otherwise is 2 Yhy!lcs impossibility, lures them not only by reason of the feel of the book pages in their hands, but becsuse it allows them peeps at treasures. ‘These readers surely will not find the temptation to read too much a real one. Impatience plays a part with them, too. They want to read at their best, and in order to do this they realize that only so much may be tasted in advance. * ok kK ‘This preliminary reading is not so much res sampling. It is as if a cook presiding over a big kettle dips in a spoon every now and then to see how the stew is coming along. Nothing is teken because so much is Jeft. The precise state of the whole is judged by the sample. bits, taken from page to page, are only peeps through a garden gate. The garden still remains. Some books are better by reason of their bulk for real cutting. Such a work as Gibbon's “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” 18 admirably sul for the purpose. This gigantic history, it secured with uncut pages, leaves the Bookloyer fairly reveling in good things. The history of Rome is s0 packed with action that it is impossible to spoil the interest of the whole by dipping into facts here and there. There are so many facts—the history is so “factual,” to use the old word which is so mysteriously coming into vogue at the present time—that thou- sands and tens of thousands of them are left unseen. ‘The page-cutter may read whole pages as_he goes along without the slightest risk of detracting from his sul ent reading. Even several p-g:: will do no hurt. In fact, if one s special interest in any character or period he may read it entire, so magnificent aewo is this memorable work. ith the average run of books, how- ever, these foretastes must be achieved with discrimination, unless the reader is willing to lose a part of that new- ness which every unread book has as its written right. It is possible to become. 50 absorbed in & certain part of a novel as he cuts the ages that when he comes to it in the ubsequent reading it is “old stuff” to Such a result shows, of course, that the Booklover has failed to cut paj with that nice discrimination which makes this task a supreme pleasure in the gentle art of handling books. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. may be expected to be up and doing, and in this instance a sifting of the dust before sweeping it away may be statesmanlike prelude of a no too confident grip on the weapon. In any case, the number of corners that are being investigated is rather large. There seems to be no subject on the study of which the government is not pr?lred to spend the nation’s time and money. Commissions and com- mittees as a means of shelving incon- venient questions of policy or holding off the demands of impatient followers are no new device.” That sounds almost like a Democratic speech in the Unitea States Senate. * ok ox Will H. Hays made some uncom- monly interesting revelations sbout the movies when he attended the recent Hoover prosperity conference in Wash- ington. ~ Attendance in American pic- ture houses, Hays sald, has increased 15,000,000 a week compared to a year lro. or approximately 15 per cent. All along the line, the screen boss told the conference, the motion picture industry has definite expansion programs. In 1930 there are to be more employes, greater production, wider distribution and bigger theater operation. Altera- tions and repairs to existing theaters will be 10%; per cent more extensive than in 1929, with corresponding addi- tions and betterments in studios and studio equipment. The “talkies” the czar of the movies foreshadows, will make 1930 another attendance record breaker. * K ok ok Aux Cayes, Haiti, scene of the recent recrudescence of trouble in the Negro republic, is pronounced as if it were spelled “O-Ki." A State Department wag pronounced it “O-Kay"” after hear- ing that the Marines had the situation in hand. (Copyright, 1929.) ) Extermination Plan Strongly Denounced From the Balt Lake City Deseret News. Organization of a volunteer army. of avengers from border regions of Mexico and Southwestern United States, with the avowed purpose of “exterminating a band of 15 Apache braves and their women,” does not sound as though law and civilization had made as much gmcuu in that region as has been oped. The marauding redskins have no doubt been troublesome and murder- ous. In fact, they are directly guilty of mutilating and killing the wife of a Mexican rancher and kidnoping his son in 1926, In other ways they have been a thorn in the side of the govern- ment both south and north of the bor- der. They have been hunted for years, and in spite of the most relentless pur- suit they have managed always to elude capture. Now they are understood to have gone into Winter quarters in a canyon from which they cannot emerge until warm weather returns, and a force of 600 men is being made available to see that they do not emerge even then. If the purpose of the expedition is merely to effect the capture of the 15 renegades at all costs, its plans will not be disapproved, even though the women and children in the band are involved in the punishment. But if the object is, as the dispatches express it, the “extermination” of the entire group. then the work of the punitive force de- serves scarcely less censure than the operations of the outlaws themselves. Civilization ought to be able to set a better example to savagery. The day has long since passed when only the dead Indian was held to be a good In- dian. Even among living Apaches there are admittedly some good specimens. And certainly in the case of the squaws and papooses it can no longer be held warrantable to shoot them down like wild beasts in order to make them “good” according to white men's stand- ards. ] Afraid of a Rush. Fiom the Canton Daily News. Thousands of plum puddings were brought from England on the liner Ma- Jestic, but they didn't mention the name of the boat that carried the brandy sauce, fted | which he should not again in | President, Politics at Large By G. Gould Lincoln. Former President Calvin coondfimfi find himself in a position where Wi have to issue another “I do not choose to run” statement or admit that he will be a candidate for the Republican sena- torial nomination in Massachusetts next year. Two elements are workng to bring bout the nomination of the former that it will take Mr. Ccolidge to unite the Republican party in the Bay State again and put it back on the map as a fighting and well organized body. The other element is anxious to forestall the nomination of former Gov. Fuller for the Senate. Mr. Fuller has never been loved by the regular Republican organi- zation in his State, and his successes at the polls have been won in spite of the organization in the past. Certainly, if the former President does not make an announcement he may at least be ex- pected to let the leaders of the G. O. P. know whether he would or would not accept the nomination if it came to him. B Mr. Coolidge has given no sign that he would accept the nomination for the Senate. Many of his friends insist he would not, do so. But many of his friends also insisted he would permit him- self to be nominated for President in 1928, before he issued his “I do not choose to run” statement out in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Predicting what Mr. Coolidge will or will not do in the fleld of politics has not proved to be the easiest task for the politicians. The former President keeps his own counsel. Several months ago when Mr. Cool- idge’s name was brought into the pic- ture as a possible senatorial candidate by the insistence of the Boston Tran- script very largely, Senator Gillett de- clared that any Massachusetts Republi- can would gladly step aside to permit the nomination of the former Presi- dent. Mr. Gillett has taken himself out of the race for the Senate, announcing that he never intended to be a candi- date to succeed himself and that he considered he had reached :;k ag! e at whother Yerrs i elected to six-year the Senate. Gov. Fuller has flirted with the ibility of becoming 8 senatorial candidate ever since last Summer. He has made no_definite announcement, however, that he will seek the nomina- tion. Possibly Mr. Fuller is waiting also for the former President to make it clear whether he will enter the pri- maries. The Massachusetts primary for the senatorial nomination does not take lace until September, 1930, and there Fs plenty of time for the maneuvering of the possible candidates, The Republi- cans have a real need of leadership in the Bay State. While they have a gov- ernor and a majority in the State legis- lature and of the delegation in the House here in Washington, they lost the State to the Democratic nominee for Al Smith, last_year and lost the statewide fight for United States Senator. ks ‘There have'been efforts in some quar- ters to make it appear that Gov. Fuller, one of the original Hoover men in the Bay State, and the President have fallen out. But Gov. Fuller has hasten- ed to announce publicly that if he runs for the senatorial nomination he will have but one plank in his platform— support of President Hoover and his pofme- In Bome quarters, mostly Democratic, the rumor has been circu- lated that President Hoover is not fa- vorable to having Gov. Fuller come to the Senate. But there has been absolutely nothing to show that the President is mixing up with the selec- tion of the Republicans for senatorial nominations in Massachusetts next year. * K ok In Maine, the three men mentioned in connection with the Republican sen- atorial nomination next year for the seat now held by Senator Gould are former Gov. Ralph O. Brewster, Rep- resentative Wallace H. White and Gould Limself. Senator Gould has made no announcement, but it is said that he is not likely to be a candidate. Mr. White, who is a grandson of the late Senator Frye, long a power in Maine politics, has announced himself. Gov. Brew- ster is expected to get into the race. He has been active in the State in re- cent months, but so far has made no formal announcement of his candidacy. The Maine situation has been compli- cated by the water power question. On! the statute books of the State is a law which forbids the export of water power, called the Fernald through a number of years ago. the back of the law was that in- dus would hurry into the State to make use of the water power of its streams if it was not possible to ex- port the power. Now there has been a demand that the State be permitted to export surplus power and obtain a revenue therefrom, making it possible to reduce taxes. * ok kK The shadow of the Power Trust, how- ever, has fallen athwart the State and there has been a movement to prevent the export of power on the ground that the Power Trust might obtain a strangle- hold on affairs in Maine. A referendum vote last September showed a majority of the people o] to the bill to per- mit the export of water power. Gov. Brewster personally and in his news- paper attacked the plan for water power export. The old Republican organiza- tion, generally speaking, has been in favor of the export bill. It is not likely that Representative White will under- take to out-Brewster Brewster in the campaign which culminates next June in the primary election. may be forced into a position where he must align himself with the supporters of the water power export bill. Another factor in the Maine situation is a move- ment among the younger Republicans, who are demanding greater recognition and a greater measure of control in politics. Brewster is said to be an able campaigner and if he goes into the fight, will cover the State in vigorous {nh,nn. * ok ok % Down_in Alabama, where Senator “Tom"” Heflin comes up for re-election next year, the Democratic executive committee has been considering whether it shall or shall not exclude from the Democratic primaries any candidates who last year did not support the Democratic national ticket. Senator Heflin was outspoken against Al Smith. John H. Bankhead, a candidate for the senatorial nomination against Heflin, believes that all Democrats should be permitted to go into the Democratic primaries next year, whether as voters or candidates, and whether they voted for Al Smith last year or not. If the Democratic executive committee should undertake to keep Senator Heflin out of the g:rimnry next year, the old issue of Al Smith will have been effectually cast into the campaign. Heflin, it is believed, would run as an independent, and political observers there believe he would win without a doubt under such conditions. If Mr. Bankhead is to have a chance to defeat Heflin, it is sald, Heflin must be admittéd to the Demo- cratic primary. In such a contest, Bankhead's friends belleve, he may de- feat Heflin, although the Heflin people deny this flatly. A e ‘The Senate, having just voted to deny a seat to Willlam S. Vare as Sena- tor from Pennsylvania, is not consider- ing whether it should undertake to block the seating of Joseph R. Grundy, dubbed king of the lobbyists and for many years president of the Pennsyl- vania Manufacturers’ Association, should Gov. John S. Fisher appoint Grundy to fill the vacancy, The prob- abilities are that Grundy w1 if he is appointed, notwithstanding the report of the Senate lobby committee, submitted to the Senate yesterday. in which it v:as charged that Grundy is an arch lobbyist and also that he contrib- uted very largely to the campail which elected Fisher governor. The Senate took a step when it denied Vare his seat which some of the Senators are now wondenn* privately, where it will lead them. here is, indeed, a revul- sion of feeling which would make these President for the Senate. One, believes | Mr. White | ro 1 be seated | fills ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS ‘What do you need to know? 1Is there some point about your business or per- sonal life that puzzles you? Is there something you want to know without delay? Submit your question to Fred- eric J. Haskin, director of our Wash- ington Information Bureau. He is em- ployed to help you. Address your in- uiry to The Evening Star Infor- mation Bureau, Prederic J. Haskin, di- rector, Washington, D. C., and inclose 2 cents in coin or stamps for return Ppostage. Q. Do many people listen in on ra- dios_during daytime broadcasting?— R. W. ‘A. Orie station has made a test re- cently and found that the listener in- terest was surprisingly high. Q. What country has a custom of toedlmxfl the birds at Christmas time?— A. It is said that no peasant in Sweden will sit down with his children to Christmas dinner until he has pro- vided food for the birds. The farmers erect poles in their doo: sheafs of grain are bound, to provide for birds through the season when vegeta- tion is cqvered with snow and ice. Q. Which profession is claiming the most students today?—L. M. A. According to recent statistics 43,000 students are studying law and 67,000 are studying engineering. Q. How old is the Marble Collegiaf Church on Fifth avenue?—N. A. L. - A. The Collegiate Church of New York began its meetings in the Colony of New Amsterdsm in 1626, the congre- gation gathering in the loft over the | horse mill on the site of the present No. 20 South Willlam street, formerly Mill street. Its succession of ministers has been unbroken since 1628. The first church edifice, erected in 1633, stood on the site of the present Nos. 37 and 39 Pearl. The second, built in 1642, was the “Church in the Fort,” which stood within the stockade of Fort Amsterdam at the Battery and was known as the Church of St. Nicholas. After the passe ing of the colony from the flag of Hol- land to that of Great Britain, a char- ter was granted the church 1696, during the reign of William and Mary, under the seal of the Province of New York and over the signature of Gov. Fletcher. When purchased, the present site of the Marble Church was on the outskirts of the city. was constructed of Hast! , first called the Fifth Avenue Church or the Twenty-ninth Street Church. In 1806 the consistory officially designated it as the Marble Collegiate Church. Q. Were Dorothy Donnelly’s parents in the theatrical pm!eulon?y—D, L. A. She was the daughter of Lester Donnelly, man: Opera House, New York City, and S8arah Willlams Donnelly, an actress. Doro- thy Donnelly, who died in January, 1928, at the age of 48, was & known actress, and had achieved cess as & playwright. Q. How thick 1s the trea au- w:ubflAe 'alre:l?—-omw 8. o ah % er in a popular well known make of tire ng that tgademh of tread on a balloon tire of one par- ticular size is 15/32 of an inch. ?hfl average life of a balloon tire is about care, the tire ht from (8060 mils® might last 10,000 to Q. s an, found £ Ha: intact?—E. A. . The tomb of Qu I, mother of Cheops, c. 3000 B.C., was tx;’n:: whe= é:;‘\:n ulfl: March, 1935, by e Harvar iversity Museum of Fin Arts Expedition. " Q. How many United States patents tomh been tep Heres | The spirited manner in which adults of this generation have sprung to the | defense of the old-time fairy tales { :xltuke‘l”tt seem far from likely that there these classics, even though Miss Marie Duggan of the bureau of educational service of the Teachers’ College of Co- {lumbia University brands them as full iof “mawkish sentimentality.” From the same college comes a_stanch de- render of the storles—Prof. Annie Moore, who teaches children’s courses in literature. And it seems that she has th: majority opinion on her side. As the Albany Evening News states the case, “Miss Duggan banis| Mother Goose and fflry tales and have come sort of simplified S| re and about the real world and about boys and glfla who eat spinach and grow strong.” he News thinks otherwise: “Certainly there’s no harm in fairy stories. Even we grown-ups like to read fairy stories of a sort, although we no longer believe in fairies. There is no reason why we should take Santa Claus and the fairies away from the little ones. Anything that makes childhood happier ought to remain. It is not necessary to make this hard, factual world any harder,” concludes the NEW‘B. . * After considering some of the “mod- ernized” material s ted—the story of Junior's pajamas, for instance, start- with the picking of the cotton and gol on through the various processes till the pajamas land in Junior’s ward- and the new alphabet books, with “A” standing for adding machine, “B” for bank and “C” for cheque—the Bu: falo Evening News ironically says: “Why not come down to stern matter of fact with Junior right at the start? On Saturday morn! why not take him around to the counting houses for in- spiration? * * * By doing a weekly + | round of the counting houses Junior will develop a spirit so happy and a sense of values so true that he will m’“e a source of sweetness and ght." In a similar vein the Des Moines Tribune-Capital suggests: “If the idea is that Jack the Giant Killer and kin- dred tales are too gory,” that Jack “might be metamorphosed from a slayer, dripped with blood. into perhaps a tariff reformer. Under this plan LME ‘Tommy ‘Tittlemouse, who fished in other men’s preserves, and Tom the Piper's Son, the eminent pig thief, would be changed into honest little men who fished in legiti- mate waters to feed a widowed mother, or who joined the Meredith Pig Club with great profit to themselves and their families. Absurd and uninforma- tive poems like the discussion of the garden of Mary Quite Contrary would be so changed as to inculcate construc- tive information about the cultivation of radishes or brussels sprouts.” * K % % The Detrolt News asks a practical question: “Before making up a read- ing program for children, why not con- sult the children?” And answers it with the observation that “the aver: child will put up with just so muc ‘improvement’ and then is likely to l'ebfie.d d all the good effects are spo! “In this machine age, that thinks so muchmin te:mt ho.tt wheels nl;:d motors, may it nof tou much emphasis has already been placed on &'mlw things in the education of the very young &nd too little on the things that are purely fanciful?” inquires the St. Senators hesitate a long time before declining to seat any appointee, who the constitutional requirements and who comes to the Senate with his cre- dentials in !:od form. ‘Th tment of Grundy to the e a Senate, while it may satisfy the man- ufacturers of Pennsylvania, if the - pointment is made, is not likely to lgd to the harmony of the Republican side of the Senate chamber. Mr. Grundy, if he sits in the Senate and votes on tariff rates, is likely to be to the Re- publicans of the West just about what a red flag is to & bull. BY FREDERIC ). HASKIN. to which | Qu from 8,000 to 10,000 miles, but, with |by good any wholesale tampering with | will ha: informational and inspirational tales did Emile Berliner take out?—C. R. A. Mr. Berliner said that the total number was about 35 or 40. He took out his first patent in January, 1878. Q. How far from the geographical poles are the magnetic poles?>—E. M. E. A. The gon-phlcnl poles are the points at the imaginary ends earth’s axis of rotation, W% north and south latitude. The magnetic les are the points on the earth's sur- ace where the lines of magnetic forces are vertical. They are the ends of the axis of the earth’s magnetic polarity. The north magnetic pole is located in latitude 70 degrees north, longitude 97 degrees west, and the south etic r’ in latitude 72 degrees south, longi- ude 153 degrees east. Q. In & _colonial paper it says, “The * price was 20 shillings, proc.” it does proc. mean?—G. D. A. The abbreviation probably stands fot proclamation money, which was the name given to coin valued according to a table described in a proclamation of een Anne, 18th of June, 1704, in which the Spanish dollar of 17 rm'llflht was to be rated at 6 shil- ings in all the colonies. Q. Can oysters be grown on the Maine Coatt?—E. M. R. A. Oysters were formerly plentiful on the Maine Coast, as evidenced by the plles of oyster shells left by the In- dians, which were foun settlers. The natural oyster beds have, however, all been destroyed. Oysters could be planted on the coast of Maine, but they would reproduce only in ex- ceptionally warm Summers, as the water on the coast of Maine is, ordi- | narily, too cold. 1 nD poor eyesight a common fail- A. Tt is estimated that at least one rson out of four has vision defec- ive enough not to be able to do close work without serious eyestrain. Q. From what point in a city are the En‘m&e’mm of distance taken?— 'A. Many cities have zero mileston: from which the d.lm'::u to and rrom“ that city is measured. In the villages the distance is usually meas- undtothapolncwhmthet!mmm streets cross. Q. Please give a form for a will which would be holeproof.—A. V. 8. A. The will of Chief Justice White is ager of the Grand |, suc- | n %n there & national billiards as- soclation?—A. E. P. A. There is such an association with headquarters in Chicago. s . 1s it correct to say “Do like I do”s A. It is & colls ism not sanctioned usage. should say “Do as I do” Q. Why is Petersburg, Va., called the Cockade City?—W. L. §. A. In the War of 1812, the Petersburg Volunteers were so. valorous that upon their discharge lent n thanked them for their conspicuous try and assured them that they n of “The le the nion,” a title which it still bé".n Machine-Age Americans Still Want Fairy Tales Louis Globe-Democrat, as it ts that “the phrase ‘Ever let your fancy roam’ may have more direct application to the child than to older persops. Life ve become dull and prosaic, in- deed, wohden evedn fairy tales have be- come modernized and standardized,” de- clares this journal. “The urge for uplift of child minds, so curiously lacking in children them: selves, breaks forth from time to tim :l ‘co?gtm‘;:lt‘lvz‘ editing of Uncle Wig- ly, the nd Pooh, Goldilocks the Three Bears and Alice,” Newark Evening News. necessary to suj As though the philosophy of ltfin Ji losophy of the lmnenurhgmty of Alice, the nlgu' hearts of the Three Bears, did not teach truer lessons than all the ‘constructive’ balderdash ever written. Believe in fairies? Of course! As well attack the fundamental soundness of Santa Claus,” exclaims this Paper in conclusion. T ‘e‘chfldretx;“ cannot be ent to eat everything they like or to read everything they like, but we might as well expect to nourish their bodies on sawdust muffins as to starve their im- agination by depriving them of the wealth of good storles on which young- sters for generations have nourished their minds,” exclaims the Worcester Evening Gazette, as it approvingly quotes Miss Moore as saying that fairy stories “are a glorious heritage of which children must not be deprived,” and ,l;hgt if there is anything she abhors it’s stories about children accomplish- ing wonders by eating cereal and sptnl\zlcsh.“ “Miss Duggan's vegetable stories may be all right in their way,” concedes the La Crosse Tribune and Leader-Press, ‘but when we consider the fun we had wlih“Jl‘Ek the Giant Killer," ‘Cinderella,’ the ‘Oz’ books, and such catchy little rhymes as ‘Georgy Porgy’ and ‘Tom. Tom, the Piper's Son,’ we wonder that there could be a person who would want to rob the youngsters of the present generation of these now traditional Ppleasures of childhood,” this paper con- tinues. And it further argues that “if Mother Goose and her colleagues must alibl their way off the suppressed-book shelf, it might be pointed out:that to the great writers, painters and musicians of the past whose alert imaginations were probably first stirred by the very literature Miss Duggan and her cohorts would do away with, Mother Goose and the beloved creatures of the Grimm and Andersen fairy tales have probably been more important than all the spinach that was ever served them.” ———— Curtius Makes Good As Foreign Minister From the Los Angeles Evening Express. Julius Curtius, the new German foreign ter, thus far shows admirable tact and capacity in the most trying situa- tion in which a Yubuc man may be placed—that of following in an influ- ential office one who had been pro- claimed great. He succeeded the late Dr. Gustav Stresemann. That Mr. Curtlus is a worthy successor of the statesman whose work for reconcilia- tion in Europe and lasting peace won him world fame, even 5o soon is becom- ing universally recognized, and his brave declaration in the Reichstag the other day of support of the Young plan of reparation settlements will stgengthen the favorable impression he already had made upon his own people and the world at large. He spoke with the plercing force of Dr. Stresemann when denouncing as dishonest the National- ist movement to repudiate the Young p‘l-n.tmd ndltufb:led ‘the attempt to re- vive quest of war guilt. With President von Hindenburg opposed to the Nationalists’ plebiscite on the Young plan and -war guilt question, and the new foreign minister following in the steps of his illustrious predecessor, to- ward understandirg and peace, there is small cause to fear for the political fu- ture of Gexmany. \ bl d by the early 3 It s r-coat the pills of edu- ... h | cation when only the sugar . [