Evening Star Newspaper, December 16, 1929, Page 8

8 THE EVENING STAR | With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C MONDAY.....December 16, 1929 THEODORE W. NOYES. ...Editor The lv:nlngashr Newspaper Company usiness Office: 11th Bt. and Pennsylvania Ave, New York Office: 110 East 42nd 8t. Chicago Oftice: Lake Michigan Bullding. European Office; 14 Regent St.. London. England. Rate by Carrier Within the City. ;. .45¢ Ler month Star .60c per month T when .65¢ per month ! The Sunday Star ... .3c per copy Collection made nt the end of each mon’h, Orders may be sent in by mail or telephone NAtional 5000. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advancé. Maryland and Virginia, .1 yr., £10 00: 1 mo., 85¢ 1yr. $3.00: 1 mo.. 50¢ 1yr. $4.00: 1 mo. 4Cc All Other States ai Dally and Sunday..l Dally only B Sunday only only . Sunday only " nd Canada. £12. nio., § isc T Member of the Associated Press. The Assoclated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news cis- patehes credited fo it or not otherwise cred- ited in this paper and rlso lie local news published herein. All rights of publication of | special dispatches herein aré also reserved. Tea, Taxes and Tyranny. ©One hundred and fifty-six years ago today the most historic tea party of all time was given. Its cups, like the shot fired at Lexington, rattled round the world. The “Indians,” who “mas- sacred” the cargoes of the ships m Boston Harbor and dumped their fra- grant remains in its murky waters till, as one chronicler put it, “the tea lay like seaweed on the beach,” struck picturesquely the first blow for Ameri- | can freedom. Three years later came the Dec- Jaration of Independence. The Boston ‘Tea Party was its forerunner. It dem- onstrated to the British crown that the Colonists held taxation without rep- resentation to be tyranny, and that they were ready to say it, so to speak, noc with flowers, but with tea leaves. The “Mohawks” who made a tea- pot out of Boston Harbor did more than scuttle a cargo. They sank an anachronism. A happy and prosperous | United States, lulled into complacency in so many respects, is today content ‘with nothing so incongruous with the principles of American liberty as tae toleration of ‘political discrimination at the seat of Pederal Government. The continued denial of national representation to the citizens of the District of Columbia is a downright negation of everything for which the Boston Tea Party is famed in song and story.” It mocks that bold deflance of eighteenth century autocracy. It is an indictment of American consistency. It entitles Washingtonians to ask this day, and ask with a vehement insistence, why if taxation without representation was tyranny in 1773 it is not equally tyrannous in 1929, In these times, a century and a half after, Boston Tea Party methods are es- chewed, though ever and anon the American people writhe under condi- tions which cause them to yearn for a recrudescence of the spirit which in- spired Joseph Warren, John Hancock and Paul Revere to indulge in spectac- ular demands of their rights. The dis- franchisement of the District of Co- lumbia is as foul a blot on the Ameri- can body politic as King George III's implous imposts on the American Colon- ists of 1773. It is unjust and unjustified. It is in- defensible. It is senseless. It is un- necessary. It is a wrong, the righting of which can injure none. On the con- trary, it is a grievance to remedy which ‘will notonly do justice to the aggrieved, but honor the Nation which sees jus- tice done. Before the Congress of the United States there now lles the resolution sponsored by Senator Wesley L. Jones of Washington providing national rep- resentation for the District of Colum- bia, The present session of Congress has it in its power to speec it on the way to its required goal—submission of the appropriate constitutional amend- ment to the sovereign States for ratifi- cation. ‘With the people of the enfranchised Unlon Washingtonians are more than content to rest their case. It is an un- answerably lcgitimate case. Whenever it 1s presented to them, in unofficial form, it unfailingly evokes approval, tinctured with amazement—amazement that so elementary, so fundamental, so wholly American a proposal is not writ- ten promptly and unguestionably into the law of the land. e Washington, D. C., theaters are not especially active. It may be necessary to depend on Christmas trees for spectacu- lar effects and on the carols for the music. RSSS———— More Technicalities. Georgg Wharton Pepper, former Sena- tor fr Pennsylvania, is one of those who do not believe that the so-called Root formula, written into the revised statutes of the World Court, is an ade- quate substitute for the fifth reserva- tion adopted by the Senate when it agreed three years ago to American ad- herence to the court, with reservations. Mr. Pepper has written his opinions to Chairman Borah of the Scnate foreign relations committee, who has been an | “irreconcilable” in his opposition in the past to the entry of the United States into the World Court. Senator Pepper's opinion is of inter- est because it is one of the early evi- dences of the fight which seems sure to be made against the ratification of the | protocol, which President Hoover Will‘ ~ad to the Senate, at an opportune | time, providing for adnherence to the! court without the Senate reservations, says, for any good reason why ‘White House, President Hoover, whose terse statement of a majority of the Senate. With the reservations, the protocol was finally agreed to by a large vote of the Senate. But the irreconcilables had included one reservation which provided that the court should hand down no advisory opinfons in any case in which the United States had or claimed to have {an interest, without the consent of the United States. This reservation many of the member nations of the court were unwilling to accept, and so entry of this country into the court has been delayed. The Root formula was de- signed to make possible entry into the court without giving up the measure of protection to the Tnited States provided in reservation five of the Senate. Elihu Root, former Secretary of State, believes that the formula accomplishes that end. President Hoover also believes that to be the case. Senator Swanson of Vir- ginia, the author of reservation five, has | accepted the Root formula. The Root formula in effect provides for a series of inquires and recommen- dations from this country before the ®|court shall hand down an advisory opinfon in any case in which the United States has or claims to have an interest, and finally, for the withdrawal of the United States from membership in the court if it is not satisfied with a decision of the court to go ahead with an advisory opinion. Mr. Pepper has a legalistic mind, and his reasons for opposing the Root for-; mula are technical. He is at a loss, he the United States should give up reserva- tlon five. ‘The reason seems clear | enough. The United States, in the in-| terests of peace, to which this country has frequently dedicated itself, should become & member of the Permanent Court of International Justice, the World Court. Now that the nations of the world, under the leadership of this country, have ratified the Kellogg treaty renouncing war as an instrument of settling international disputes, the need of such a tribunal is all the more re- quired, if the Kellogg treaty is to be observed. The Root formula amply safeguards the !nterests of the ecountry. It is always possible, however, to find lawyers to argue on any side of a ques- tion. - The Young Communists. By far the happiest and most effective treatment of the youthful Communists who, on Saturday, essayed to stage & demonstration in this city near the was that accorded by put them and their silly performance in the proper category: The ‘President considers that the mis- guided youths calling themselves Com- munists who have been arrested for demonstrating in front of the executive offices should be released and sent to their parents. He does not believe that any such dlscfluflcs‘hurmusly endangers the Republic and that 4 night in jail is omy doing them the favor of cheap martyrdom. Evidence that they were being prop- erly treated was afforded later Satur- day evening when some of them under- took to hold a street-corner meeting at which they denounced the President— but in discreet terms. He had grievously offended them by treating them as chil- dren. He had wounded their sensibili- ties by refusing to take them seriously, by calling their melodrama of protest merel¥ & discourtesy to the presidential office and by refusing to consider it as in any degree inimical to the security of the Republic. This ridiculous performance of the youngsters s not, however, to be dis- | missed altogether Small though the numbers of the Satur- day delegation may be, it is known that as Insignificant. there are rather long ranks of young; Communists in the industrial centers and the larger areas of population in this country. There are schools of Communism, at which the boys and ! girls are being trained, taught the) perniclous principles of this dangerous political cult, instructed in ways and means of harmful propaganda. The children of workers, mostly of foreign origin, are in considerable numbers being seduced from good citizenship by agents of the Russian organization that has its branches in all parts of the world. It is just as well to note this condi- tion, even though the treatment given to the demonstrators of Saturday was precisely the right way to deal with the foolish manifestation. Perhaps the parents, to whose care the President commends the thwarted callers of the other day, are themselves in neced of admonitory attention. ———— Juvenile “Communists” were told to find a large vacant space where they could raise as much disturbance as they | liked without disturbing any neighbors. ‘It was a considerate arrangement all around. —_— b Good will is an important asset, but any little prejudice created by Harry Sinclair is not reported to have injured the oil business in the slightest. ——— a———————— A prison aims to please. If one war- den cannot keep orde, another is tried. e Sirens. Just why the Emergency Hospital finds it necessary to mute its ambu- lance sirens is still a mystery to those who belleve that both ambulances and fire apparatus should not only have un- disputed right-of-way, but the means of obtaiming it over the din of eity traffic. It has been forcibly demon- strated time and again that the prompt arrival of ambulances on emergency runs has been the means of saving human lives, and it would appear-that any action calculated to retard the al- ready slow progress of these vehicles, due to congested conditioi~ of traffic, would, in many cases, defeat the pur- pose of mobile hospital attendance. This is espectally true in Washington, now that the Root formula has been in- | where motor-car drivers have cultivated cluded in the statutes of the court. S 5 e ’ “,a singular deafness at the sound of a en, during the administration of | iren. Observation of a fire run or a President Coolidge, the Senate was call- | trip of an ambulance will readily con- ed upon to ratify a protocol bringing this | country into adherence with the World Court, the majority of the Senate and the sentiment of the country were over- whelmingly in favor of American ad- herence. The group of irreconcilables in the Senate which had effectually prevented the ratification of the treaty of Versail- les and the League Covenant, somewhat firm this fact. Little, if any, heed is | paid to the emergency vehicles, and local motorists have much to answer for in their persistent and flagrant violation of the regulation which provides “that upon the sound of the siren all motor- ists must pull up to the right-hand curb and stop.” As for ordinary horns, which, of course, do not’mean anything, it is the reduced in number, immediately organ- ized an attack on American entry into the World Court, charging that it was “the League Court,” and adherence by ihis country constituted a backdoor en- try into the League itself. Reservations were offered ang commanded the support rare driver, indeed, who will abandon his gy chines in the hope that some progress can be made through the ranks of in- different motorists. Obviously, there is no excuse for the unnecessary use of a siren, whether it is on a police motor cycle, fire apparatus or an ambulance, but observations of abuse have been few and far between. The remedy for this unnecessary noise would seem to lie in rigid discipline of personnel. The “smart aleck” operator of emergency vehicles should immedi- ately be forced to look for another job. So, in view of the simple corrective measures necessary to prevent abuse and the importance of obtaining right of way for vehicles of this type, it would seem that the call should be for bigger and better sirens rather than smaller and more fecble ones. The authorities of Emergency Hospital might well re- consider their decision. ————ro— The Christmas Greeting to Byrd. Saturday night The Star sent a Christmas greeting to Comdr. Byrd and his associates at Camp Little America, in the South Polar region. There were messages from Secretary Adams and Rear Admiral Willard and representa- tives of The Star. There was then a program of entertainment of exceptional quality. The words and the music flowed through the ether over a distance of more than nine thousand miles. This morning came a message from Comdr. Byrd expressing his thanks for | himself and the members of the expedi- tion for the Christmas grectings and entertainment, Every word, he said, had come through clearly and distinctly. The “show” was a perfect success. Here is one of the real marvels of modern science. The little colony of American explorers and sclentific adven- turers, separated from home by an immense distance, are linked up with their friends and relatives by a definite tie. Conversation, in effect, is carried on between them and Washington. Music flows down to them in their Antarctic headquarters in a stream of sound undimmed by the distance. The Star i proud to be essociated with such an enterprise as that which, urider the leadership of Comdr. Byrd, is engaged in a work of supreme im- portance. The men composing the expedition have eil proved themselves to be of the quality and character re- quired for heroic endeavor. Their leader, who has in his previous enterprises won the affection and the confidence of not only his fellow Americans but all other people, meets modestly the acclaim of his friends and admirers, Before another Yuletide comes, Comdr., Byrd and his men will have returned home and received their. re- wards for the great achievement which they, are now concluding. But it is sa(e\io say that no message or greeting they may receive will have quite the heart-warming quality of the Christmas message sent them Saturday night. Any one who questions the industrial activity of the Germans need only look at the “made in Germany” mark on any toy he may chance to be pur- chasing. > e There is little use of rushing to the defense of George Washington's personal character. A man of so conspicuous a reputation is inevitably the subject of irresponsible gossip. - —o—————— In his natural fearlessness Gen. Smedley Butler occasionally invites re- minder that he is relied on as a man of action rather than of words. e s The flurry in the stock market has proved a valuable experience by proving that business is basically sound in spite of reckless demonstrations. - wor—. Coalition is & word which usually in- dicates the prospect of a new kind of political complication. " - A penitentiary is too often remarkable for its disclosures of impenitence. - oo SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Seeking an Average. There's & whistle or a hammer that will agitate the nerves. There are microbes in the breezes. There are ptomaines in preserves. ‘There are cruel cops to grab us for slight fractures of the laws. When so many threats draw near us, sure we need a Santa Claus. We need some kindly spirit who will take away the sting That the ordinary day may be relied upon to bring—— S0 let us seek an average and smile our best, because, To keep the world in balance, we re- quire a Santa Claus. The Perilous Ink Well. “This anonymous letter warns me of a dastardly plot,” said Senator Sorghum. “Dynamite may be surreptitiously in- troduced into our ink.” “Can’t see how it could make a dif- ference.” “Think of what may happen if we ge! excited and begin throwing ink wells at one another.” Jud Tunkins says one of the reasons crime flourishes is that it gets so much free advertising. Entertainments Compared. Comdr. Byrd said to his band, “What though the mercury has shrunk, Down here the scenery is grand. Up there, I'm told, the shows arc punk!” Entertaining. “Does she try to keep you entertained when you call?” “Does her best,” said the youth whose self-esteem never wavers. “She imme- diately procfeds to turn on the radio.” “Laughter,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “sometimes drives away sorrow and sometimes only conceals it.” Not Letting Well Enough Alone. day Were shattered soon and thrown away. ‘We don’t deserve our luck, that's clea ‘We'll buy a whole lot more this year. “Experience,” said Uncle Eben, “ain’ much good to de kind of man dat puts in most of his life guessin’ wrong on i leisurely pace in the middle of the street to give way for an overtaking vehicle. In fact, motor cycle policemen, who have to makc emergency runs in a des- perate attempt to apprehend criminals before they make a getaway, have been hoss races.” eem They Can Be Tuned Out. From the Toledo Blade. Even television, when it is perfected, will t make it possible to hit the croonxi:?; tenor with a gipe tomato. | HE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. [foreed to nstanl sirens on thetr ma- C., MONDAY, DEC THIS AND THAT Literary censorship is no new thing in_the world. It is as old as the hills. ‘Those who wonder over the stringent regulations at Boston, who deprecate the use of customs officials as bool critics, should go to Plutarch’s “Lives.” That great repository of ancient gos- sip and wisdom, in the section devoted to Numa, one of the legendary kings of Rome, furnishes a striking instance of literary censorship. ‘When the time came for the old king to die he had two stone coffins made, in one of which his body was laid, and in the other his sacred books, which he had written out for himself. Plutarch says that Valerius Antias, an ancient historian, wrote that the books which were buried in the chest of stone “were twelve volumes of holy writ_and twelve others of Greek phil- osophy. It is needless to say that the first dozen books were not our Holy Writ, since the death of Numa preceded the Christian era by many centuries. The term was used by the English trans- lator as the best to express what he found in the Greek text. Plutarch continues: “About 400 years afterwards whenP. Cornelius and M. Baebius were consuls, lin'a time of heavy rains, a violent tor- rent washed away the earth and dis- lodged the chests of stone; and their covers falling off, one of them was found wholly empty, without the least relic of any human body; in the other were the books before mentioned, which the Praetor Petilius, having read and rused, made oath in the Senate, that, n his opinion, it was not fit for their contents to be made public to the peo- ple; whereupon the volumes were all carried to the Comitium, and there burnt.” s R A praetor was a Roman maf#fistrate next to the consu! in rank. He dealt with both civil and criminal cases. It is no wonder, therefore, that Petilius was authorized to look over the books so strangely recovered, and pronounced Judgment upon them. ‘The queer thing is just what is queer today in all similar cases, that the opinion of one man should be accepted. If the Praetor Petilius had called in a group of learned men, and asked thelr opinions, or submitted the question to a vote, he might not have destroyed the lost booke of Numa, Picture the scene in the Senate, as Praetor Petilius arose to make his re- rt. Around him stretched the rows of LV seats, holding the venerable mem- bers of the legislative body, clad in their purple-bordered togas of gleaming white. “I have read the books of Numa, O Senators,” declared Petilius, “and swear to you that, in my opinion, it is not fit that their contents be made public to the people.” ‘That was all there was to it. Prob- ably no one asked to see the books for themselves. Many scores of years had gone by, and the subject of government was_growing more difficult every day. The people, the people, the le! What a burden they are to legisiators in every age! The dear people cannot be trusted to take care of themselves, but care must be taken of them. ‘The Praetor Petilius undoubtedly was sincere in his opinion. Having plunged headlong into the reading of volumes ot anclent philosophy and *holy writ,” he found neither to his liking. Let us admit that Petillus. was an honest man, the chances are that he ‘Washington’s honored guests—Reijiro Wakatsuki and Takeshi Takerabe— typify the very best foot Nippon can put forward for the London naval con- ference. Mr. Wakatsuki is a former prime minister of the Island Empire. Admiral Takerabe is now naval minister st Tokio. Between them they represent, respectively, the shrewdest brains in Japanese statecraft and seamanship. At London they will be joined by Japan's third delegate, Ambassador Matsudaira, envoy to the Court of St. James', who incarnates the highest standards of Japanese diplomaty. The Mikado's Big Three will be about as formidable a combinaion of talent as any country will command at the conference. Suave and conciliatory, when useful, silent and un- large long ago acquired an abiding spect for Japanese negotiators on crif cal occasions. Messrs. Wakatsuki, Take- rabe and Matsudaira are certain to be impressive figures at London next month. This observer is informed that ‘Wakatsuki is pronounced as if the name | were spelled “Wakatski,” the “u” appa ently being silent, while Admiral Take- rabe’s name is accented on the final syllable and pronounced as if it were written “Tah-ke-rah-bay.” * ok ok % Now that the decks are cleared for resumption of the tariff debate in the Senate, predictions are current as to when the boys on Capitol Hill will be out of the Hawley-Smoot trenches. Miracles sometimes come to pass even in politics, and sunny optimists can be heard lilting that the Senate may send the biM to the House for conference by the time Congress adjourns for the hol- idays on December 21. It should not, in any event, be many days or weeks after January 1 before the measure goes to conference. A Republican Senator in position to know is willing to risk his reputation as a prophet in saying that March 4 at the latest will see the Hawley-Smoot patchwork at the White House ready for the President’s signa- ture. It will be a bill—the same sooth- sayer opines—minus debenture, inclu- sive of a ‘*“‘modified” flexible provision approve. * ok ok ok Probably because it has so well ofled a parliamentary machine, including rigid rules for harnessing debate, the Housz of Representatives embarks on the regular session of Congress with “Full steam ahead!” as its slogan. Cer- tainly the branch which “Nick” Long- worth rules and “Jack” Tilson runs is nowadays built for a speed which the Senate never tries, and can hardly ever hope, to approximate. House leaders of both parties resent a little the superem- hasis which the press and the public abitually bestow upon proceedings in the more talkative wing of the Capitol. ‘They think it is a quaint comment on the country’s interest in public affairs that the House, which does business quickly, seldom gets the headlines and the front page, while the Senate, just because it is addicted to the habits of the snail, gets preferred position in the pa- pers and with the people on that ac- count. * kK ok Senator Smoot, Republican, of Utah jumps from the tariff frying pan into the French war debt fire. As chair- man of the finance committee, he has just asked the Senate to ratify the Mellon-Berenger funding settlement of the $4,625,000,000 ($3,340,000,008 prin- cipal and $685,000,000 accrued interest). Although the settlement was made more than three years ago, the French Parliament approved it only last Sum- mer. Approval of the United States Congress, which is also necessary, was deferred until after France had acted. agreement with Uncle Sam) the pay- ment of several hundred additional mil- lion dollars which France owes us on account of surplus war stocks which she took over after the armistice. As soon as the Mellon-Berenger agreement takes effect, France will have to pay the United States annuities commencing with $30,000,000 for the first two years, increasing to $125,000,000 in the seven- | teen th year and continuing at that fi ure until the last payment in the sixty- second year, which is $117,675,000. * ok kK It seems to be settled that the Ameri- can delegation to London naval pow-wow will cross the Atlantic, after all, under the Stars and Stripes, S. 8. BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. was likewise a plodding fellow, without a trace of interest in anclent things. He neither had the mind nor the disposition to find anything worth pre- serving. And, above all, he saw him- self as the guardians of the ever-dear “peepul.” The people were such fools—in his opinion—that if they were allowed to read Numa's sacred books they would get only harm from their reading. The people were not to be trusted. They had such unusual ways of seeing the wrong things in what they read, at least wrong according to the ideas of Petilius and his friends, The people, in plain words, were fools, and the best thing to do was to take the books away and destroy them so that they would never be tempted by them. “Whereupon the volumes were all carried to the Comitium and there burnt. Ay he joke of the matter was, as is theTj:kg of all similar cases, that there wasn't a word in the 12 volumes of re- ligious books and the 12 volumes of Greek philosophy which would have harmed any one. Unbumt.ythose books would have been consulted by perhaps as many as two or three persons a year, after their novelty had worn off.” OL the three genuine readers, two would have read them merely out of real interest in ancient things. The other would have found solace in them, inspiration. If he had dis- covered any wisdom which would have been inimical to the Roman state, he might have kicked up a lttle fuss, but in all probability he would but have added strength to the government. ‘The trouble with most book censor- ships, as seen by average readers, is that they are done without a grain of_humor. Mankind always has revered the re- sult of placing little black marks on white paper. Even the least discrimi- nating of men reallze that something has been added to life by books. Even ]tlhe most wlfi{h men shr£1é from uting paper a pervel nn‘sngpeoment o‘} pihese little black marks, There are, of course, vulgar books, but when their number is con- trasted with the number of good books the former fall away to nothing. Book censorship today is sporadic. A book here and thege ic held up by some Government offfiial, only to be released for general circulation again shortly thereafter. It always is a noteworthy fact that such books are no worse, in any way, than scores of others which are per- mitted general circulation at the same time. ‘The happy thing is that decent- minded people maintain their own cen- sorship, and that what they read may be accepted as a_more reliable judg- ment_than the rulings of any number of individual “censors.” If there is to be Government cen- sorship of books, it should be placed on a scientific basis, with the control lodged in a committee of intellectual men and women who are in a position to have real ideas about the worth of books, and to make judgments which will compel the inteliectual regard of the .great body of intelligent readers. Any censorship of less quality i1s mere- ly playing at hide and seek. The cen- sors hide, and the readers seek, and ylelding, when necessary, the world at | S. and containing rates, both for agricul- | th ture and industry, which Hoover can|Th there is a great deal more fing it ding than WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. George Washington of the United States Lines having been selected for the pur- pose. There was a merry mess behind the scenes at Washington before it was decided to book Secretary Stimson and his colleagues aboard the fine former German liner which carried President Wilson to the peace conference. At first the White Star liner Olympic was considered. Then from superpatriotic (and ultra-dry) quarters a howl went up about the iniquity of an official American mission using a non-Ameri- can ship. Then S. S. Leviathan was discussed, but it proved impossible for her owners to alter her mid-January sailing date to suit the convenience of the naval conference delegation. There- upon there was some thought of using . S. Bremen, the new queen of the seas. But that project, somewhat to the dismay of all concerned, also had to be dropped. Finally the George Wash- ington was chosen. Practically all of her choice accommodations have been put at the disposal of the State Depart- ment. - b atrick J. Hurley, Secretary of War, was invited to be & guest of honor ai tomorrow night's foot ball victors din- ner which the Notre Dame Ciub of Washington is holding. The new chief of the Republic's military department of peace had to decline, because the period of mourning for his predecessor, James W. Good, would not be entirely over. 3 am for the Irish,” Col. Hurley g;r%ffié "!;?Im the tflrsl?1 juml)l) to the end » except when they a - ing against the Army.” WSy = * Ok k * eorge P. La Vatta, an Idaho Indian boy, who has become’an official of the United States Government, with the title of overseer of Indian employment, is in Washington in consultation on the problem of finding suitable places in industry for the Indian wards of the Nation. La Vatta grew up on the Fort Hall Reservation in Idaho. He went away to the Indian boarding schools, but returned to the Teservation, where he lived in idleness for severai years. Tiring of this, he applied for work at e Union Pacific shops in Pocatello, e foreman refused to give him a chance, saying that Indians are lazy and will not work. La Vatta came back ¢yery morning to ask for a job. Finally "l;]e foreman handed him a mop and d him to prove he wasn't afraid of }vork. It wasn't long before the young ndian became a helper on a machine. Three years later he was operating it. For 10" years he drew the pay of a skilled ‘machinist. ‘Then he began training other Indian boys for the za{ntl’e‘::r‘l’: ;lxl:d "tndny there are about 30 loing it, not one of who failed to make good. S (Copyright, 1929.) — Small Change ‘Given Church by Members From the Ithaca Journal-News. It is interesting to note that in spite of the increased standard of living gnd the general lift in the level of wages during the past decade, the church still gets the pennies. A Montclair, N, J., congregation recently made :. survey of ltfinvoluntary income and discovered Five families pledge per week the cost of two packages of chewing gum; Seven families contributed the equiva- lent of one soda; Twenty-two families gave per week the cost of the average smoker's daily investment in tobacco; Twenty-eight families gave as much per week as each member would pay to attend the movies in one night; Forty-nine families came down as handsomely as they have to pay for a The horns and drums last Christmas|She did so just in time to avoid (by | luncheon at a moderatel - priced ' res- | taurant; | lorty'six families made a weekly | church rledve equal to the price of a pound of fair-to-middling candy; | Forty families pledged per year the ! equivalent of a set of automobile tires: | One hundred and nineteen families gave each year a sum equal to the price ' of two tires; One hundred and forty-five families | pledged nothing. ‘With all the complaining about the church not being on the job, these fig- ures (which are a fair reflection of church support everywhere) excite won- derment, not that the church does so Xlttle‘."but that with so little it does so much! EMBER 16, 1929. Christmas Is Held Aid To Child Mind Growth To_the Editor of The Star: The child and Christmas are so close- ly associated that I like to think of the terms as being synonymous. In fact, it would be a dull and colorless Christmas without children. For the past few days I have in- terrogated many children about their desires for Christmas. Some few I knew and others I did not. But their sparkling eyes and bright faces all spoke that each was living in a world of great expectation. And, too, the many answers were as varied as the number questioned. No two gave an identical reply. They replied as they should, as it proved that in each child there was being developed individualism. During these past weeks in which the child has been looking forward with much enthusiasm and anticipation, no mental process of its little mind has been more active than the imagination. Each child has built up a mental pic- ture of Santa Claus and his toyland. The picture of Santa has been very much the same, but the picture of toy- land has varied according to its stock of mental images. Naturally, the younger children and those living in some remote part of the globe will not have as complex a picture as the older ones and those living in some great metropolis. Imagination plays an important part in the life of the child. Though com- monplace as the process may seem, the future destiny of the child is de- termined by it. As the lights of a moving automobile light up the way, so does the imagination illuminate the pathway of life. Great caution and skill are used to gujde the eutomobile. Far greater care, of pavents, teachers and all, should be used to direct and to guide the imaginative child to a noble and useful purpose. I am sorry to say that some few teach the child that no Santa Claus exists and they do not want the child to read mythical storie I were develo) ne same, P only hard, cold and concrete facts as they appear to one of the senses, this would be a desolate and drab world. There would be no civilization, with its inventions, art, literature and music. ;IIVE would be living extremely primitive ves, I push a button and my room be- comes an effulgence of light, verse a swiich, turn a knob and the same room is filled with the harmonious cound of sweet muslc. Likewise I can see a beautiful painting or read some lovely poem. Each is a product of an imaginative mind. Some inventor or artist, believing in a Santa Claus and having a strong imagination, through careful training of this precious gift, has enabled me and the inhabitants of the world, after wrestling all day with t}(xe al:ué‘al:u;s, to be lifted to a realm of celestial beauty, throu po inations. > S “ Sclence has proved that there are certain “ripe times” or “nascent stages” in the career of all living things— plants, animals and people; that things can be done at certain times better than ever before or at future .periods. Therefore, at this season, when the child’s imagination is at “white heat’,'" let us “strike while the iron is hot,” emulating Christ, the greatest Philosopher, whose birth we soon shall commemorate. He knew and under- stood childhood when He said, “Suf- fer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto Me, for such is the king- “om of heaven.” OSCAR M. MILLER. o Vare Rejection Held As Wholly Deserved From the Atlanta Journal. i Willlam S. Vare of Pennsylvania a seat in that body, is a severe an ‘wholly deserved condemnation of the tactics employed for his election. For threc years his case has been searched and sifted, with the result that the Repub- lican machine centered in Philadelphia stands exposed as probably the most corrupt and the most arrogant known ;:‘Amertcnn politics within the last 50 rs. In May, 1926, Vare won his party's nomination in the Pennsylvania sena- torial primary over Gifford Pinchot and George Wharton Pepper. The funds spent for him in that contest were so extraordinary as not only to arouse public suspicion, but also to start an investigation by the Senate itself. Nevertheless, he went forward with the campaign, his Democratic opponent be- ing William B. Wilson, formerly Secre- tary of Labor, and in the ensuing No- vember election Vare was declared the winner, So narrow, however, was the margin of victory claimed for him and so pronounced was his defeat outside of Philadelphia that the Senate refused to accept the credentials issued to him by the Governor of Pennsylvania, and, instead, ordered another investigation. The disclosures which followed would make profitable reading for those who, when casting about for a convenient ex- ample of political crimes, conjure up the ghost of an old Tammany from an era long dead. * * * That some $2,- 000,000 were expended in Vare's behalf, that there were “widespread frauds in Philadelphia and_Pittsburgh,” that in the former city 22,572 votes were “il- legally cast on the basis of tax receipts not paid for by the voters to whom they were issued”; that in 151 divisions were found as many as 1,547 “fraudulent reg- istrations,” and in 116 divisions as many as 471 “signatures illegally inserted,” and that in a thousand other divisions there were upward of 9,500 “registra- tions of alleged illiterates, which lacked the support of afidavits and which therefore were illegal and possibly fraudulent”—these are random sam- ples of what the investigating commit- tee found. “The recount showed,” says a summary by the Washington corre- spondent of the Boston Transeript, “that more than 2,000 persons distributed over more than half the city (of Philadel- phia) voted without having registered; that 635 names were repeated two or more times in the lists of the voters; that 5,254 ballots were found on which there were fraudulent erasures and al- terations, and that 1,231 ballots which had never been touched by a bona-fide voter had been marked by small groups of ‘handy men.’ Of interest, too, the committee ascertained that 18,954 bal- lots had been distributed over 144 divi- sions which could not be accounted for.” . One Nurse for Quake { And Tidal Wave Stricken From the Portland Oregon Daily Journal. Again a nurse has lived up to the fine traditions of her calling. She is iden- tified in a special dispatch to the New York Times as Nurse D. Cherry of the Ninia Center at Lamaline, Newfound- land, Outport Nursing Industrial As- sociation, The report said that Nurse Cherry, the only nurse in the entire area devas- tated by the recent earthquake and tidal wave on_ the Burin Peninsula, Newfoundland, had known no rest day or night, nor assistance of any kind, from the day the tidal wave struck until she was taken aboard a relief steamer & week later. Nurse Cherry made her way on foot all through the stricken area, a distance of 20 miles. Roads and bridges were Swept away. She had to wade many streams en route. The weather was intensely cold, with snow falling most of the time. Relief workers who ar- rived later said her ministrations proved nothing less than providential to the terror-stricken women and children. They call Nurse Cherry “the Flor- ence Nightingale of the fishermen.” ‘The story of her heroism, love and de- votion to duty is heartening. ———r——————— When to Climb Aboard. from the Lynchburg News. ) i€ | does not ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. ‘There is no other agency in the world that can answer as many legitimate questions as our free Information Bu- reau in Washington, D. C. This highly organized institution has been built up and is under the personal direction of Frederic J. Haskin. By keeping in con- stant touch with Federal bureaus and other educational enterprises it is in a position to pass on to you authoritative inforMation of the highest order. Sub- mit your queries to the staff of experts, . whose services are put at your free dis- posal. There is no charge except 2 cents in coin or stamps for return postage. Address The Evening Star Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, director, Washington, D. C. Q. Who is the author of the verse used as the inscription at the entrance of the Bok Sanctuary in Florida?—V. K. A. Louise Imogen Guiney is the au- thor. The verSe is: “The kiss of the sun for pardon, ‘The song of the birds for mirth; ‘You are nearer God's heart in a garden Than anywhere else on earth.” Q. Is there a home anywhere for the care of widows of Confederate soldiers? —M. G. G. A. South Carolina was the first to establish a home for Confederate women, and it is located in Charleston. In Richmond, Va., there is also a homé for Confederate women. In some of the other Southern States Confederate widows are admitted to the Confederate homes established originally to take care of Confederate veterans. This plan is especially in force in Mississipp! at the Beauvolr Confederate Home, where will be found not only Confederate widows \;'l:t Confederate veterans and their ves. Q. How soon after hatching does a house fly reach its fuil size?—L. L. B. grow an s hern it hatches it is distorted and it takes from 15 to 30 minutes to stralghten out. ‘The fly is not sexually mature until from I re-| The Senate's vote of 58 to 22, denying ; three to five days after it hatches. Q.. Is the Okefinoke Swamp as large as the Dismal Swamp?—S. E. E. A. The area of the Dismal Swamp in Virginia &nd North Carolina is 750 square miles. The area of the Okefi- noke Swamp in Southeastern Georgia Is about €00 square miles. Q. How many employes are there in the New York City post office, including every one?—M. W. A. In the New York, N. Y., post office there are the following empioyes: Mo~ tor vehicle service, 632; cleaners, jani- tors, etc., 219; city lettercarriers, 3,681; clerks, supervisors, etc., 10,334; watch- men, messengers and laborers, 1,367; total, 16,233. Q. How long have cement blocks been known to last?—H. E. C. A. Cement blocks are of early an- tiquity, cement being used in the Egyp- tian labyrinth, at least 3,600 years ago. It is still' in preservation. Q. What were the years of the Russo-Japanese War?—B. L. A. It was fought in 1904-05. Q. What distinguishes an orchestra from a band?—G. S. A. An orchestra is distinguished by the prominence of instruments of the vjol class. Q. Who was the first Inca of Peru?— H.T. A who founded Cuzco, is called the first inca. Q. What is the special name given to the ram-headed sphinx?—F. E. 8. A. It is the criosphinx. The man- headed sphinx is androsphinx, or usu- ally simply sphinx. Q why is finnan haddock so named? A. It is named for the town of Fin- 1, Scotland, where haddock was orig- nally cured in peat smoke. Q. For what period of time was a Roman dictator appointed?—E. W. A. In ancient Rome a dictator was a chief magistrate, with supreme author- ity, appointed by the Senate for a term of about six months. Q. Was Herbert Hoover married be- fore he went to China as a mining engineer?—R. E. M. A. Herbert Hoover went to Australia in 1897 as a mining engineer. Late in 1898 he accepted a position in China. On his way he stopped in California and was married to Miss Lou Henr™ February 10, 1899. Q. Do many drugs communicate their odor to the breath?—M. A. 8. A. Many drugs do communicate their odor to the breath. Familiar examples are ether, chloroform and alcohol. The heavy narcotic smell of opium, the gar- licky ordor of phosphorus poisoning and the smell of peach kernels in hydro- cyanic acid poisoning are well known to physicians. Negroes operate or own L. There ave 1,000,000 Negroes i the United States who own or operate farms and 1,178,000 Negroes engaged in ordi- nary farm labor. Q. How long has Mendel's plant b boer, E . }'aw of Prodl o5 yorics Las Mendel’s law, first published but passed unnoticed until about 1901. Q. When a few views are shown of a motion picture which is to be fea~ tured the next week, what are these views called?—M. J. A. They are called trailers, Q. How is Christmas observed in Chile?—N. B. P A. Christmas in Latin America is & religious or a secular festival. It is not a day of gift-giving. In Chile it comes in the early Summertime. The day is celebrated with old mystery and miracle plays by those religiously inclined and by merrymaking by the rest of the pop~ ulace. Good will seems to be the key~ note of the observance. Q. How accurate must a railroad man’s watch be?>—H. D. T. A. The requirements of railroads which maintain time inspection are that /atches must run within 30 seconds’ variation a week. Q. How many foreign college' stu- dents are there in the United States? Is the number increasing to any great extent?—G. H. _A. In 1928-29 there were 9,685 for- eign students in American colleges. In 1921-22 there were 6,488. Q. How much does a gallon of water weigh and how much a gallon of alco- hol?—T. J. E. A. A standard gallon of distilled water weighs 8.3372 pounds at 60 de- grees Fahrenheit and one gallon of ab- 'A." Manco Capac, who lived in the latter part of the eleventh century and solute alcohol weighs 6.6188 pounds at 60 degrees Fahrenheit. Mention in Massachusetts of Calvin Coolidge as a possible candidate for Senator offers a theme for country-wide comment, though many, reflecting the ex-President’s quoted sentiment, feel that he would hardly choose to run. The majority of those who speak be- lieve that Mr. Coolidge would serve in the Senate chamber as faithfully and as efficiently as they consider he did in the White House. “We believe that the Senate needs the kind of Senator Mr. Coolidge would make and that Massachusetts needs the prestige his election would give it,” says the Boston Transcript (independent), with the conclusion that “there is a dis- tinct and special field of service open in the Senate to a man of Mr. Cool- idge’s ability, attainments and public record.” The Transcript also believes that “in the United States Senate, Cal- spect of the members of both parties, just as he commanded respect and sup- port in his campaign for the presidency and in the presidency itself.” * ok ok ok “Mr. Coolidge is not among the de- tractors of the Senate; he has recently, in speaking of his term as its presid- ing officer, paid high tribute to its leg- islative quality,” recalls the Philadel- phia Evening Bulletin (independent Re- publican), which also voices the com: mendation of the former Presiden! “He would be an admirable representa- tive of Massachusetts and of elements in our national life of soundest tradi- tion and uniquely American quality. He would add to the high reputation ‘he gained in the presidency. There may be little likelihood of its coming to pass, but the thought of Calvin Coolidge in the Senate has a remarkable appeal.” Accepting as uncertain the prospect that Mr. Coolidge will run, the Roa- noke Times (independent Democratic) suggests that the role of United States Senator “would offer him an opportunity for useful public service,” but that “it is likely that his indecision, if there is any, arises from uncertainty as to whether he can be elected to the Sen- ate without going through a hard fight.” The Times holds that “he can't be blamed for not choosing to wind up his public career with a defeat.” The Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch (independent Democratic), on the other hand, thinks that “the administration cannot afford to take a chance on losing any seats held by the Old Guard, so the exigen- cies of the situation may demand that Mr. Coolidge come to the rescue of his successor in the White House.” * K ok % ‘That the place would have no allure for him is the opinion of the Bangor Commercial, which is inclined to be- lieve that “he is entitled to a rest after his long and extremely beneficial public service.” The New York Evening World (independent), comments: “Were it possible for a former President to enter the Senate as an ‘elder statesman,’ to be treated with unsenatorial deference a seat might be attractive; but when a former President enters the Senate, he enters as a Senator, to be treated mere- ly as a peer by his associates. It may well be doubted whether this would prove attractive to Mr. Coolidge, who no;l enjoys immunity to turmoil and debate.” “One result, and with something like configénce, could be looked for,” ac- cording to the Charleston Daily Mail (independent Republican)—“an addi- tion to the taciturn membership. Those who think the Senate garrulous would probably be satisfied that among its membership was one mdn who could say something when he did speak, but who, when he spoke, would speak di- rectly to the point and stop speaking when he had finished.” * ok ok K “While Mr. Coolidge, with a single vote in a body of 96 members, would not enjoy the same opportumity to en- force his judgments as he did in_the White House,” states the Detroit Free Press, “a few men in the Senate like Mr. Coolidge and Mr. Morrow would have a stabilizing effect on its delibera- The young guard may be new in politics, but they know one thing, which 1s how and when to climb on the band wagon. tions. They would stand out like a| rock in the sea of indecislon into which vin Coolidge would command the re- | k, Ex-President for Senator Stirs Nation’s Imagination sea might crystallize.” The Beloit Daily News (Republican) is convinced that “the rich fruits of long experience in legislative, administrative and execative office that President Coolidge has gained should stand Massachusetts in good stead, if he would consent to let his friends boom him for the Senate vacancy.” * ok ok K “One can note,” records the Man- chester Union (independent Republi- can), “that a large element of the pub- lic would be glad to see Mr. Cooflfllfl in the Senate. His services there would class as a national asset. by no means to say that the former President would care to become & Senator. Certainly he has given no hint of a wish to succeed Mr. Gillett. And, until he betrays such an inclina= tion, it will be just as well not to rec- on him among the candidates.” The judgment of the Fargo Forum (Repub- lican) is that “if Mr. Coolidge con- sulted his own wishes alone, there is doubt that he would even think of en- tering the ‘primaries,” but that “if he ;S 121;:!855!}111 with the‘ th«;l;lght that, :)’ 0 doing, he can unite the , he might be induced.” P “Mr. Coolidge would give stanch sup- port to President Hoover,” argues tge Flint Daily Journal (independent), “and would provide & strong leadership in the Upper House of Congress, which is drift- ing wide of its duty for lack of proper leadership. If for no other reason than for Mr. Coolidge’s admirable capacity for silence, the country would appre- ciate him in the Senate.” Doubt that he will be willing to be- come a candidate is expressed by the Scranton Times (Democratic), the Hart- ford Times (independent Democratic) and the Kansas City Journal-Post (in- dependent Republican). The New York Sun (independent) and New Bedford Standard (Republican) are confident that his election would be assured if he Wwere nominated. The Utica Observer~ f:::ga}?fh u(lnf‘epemilentl) understands e “is quite well please present occupation.” i Gk aa ——— Knutson Will Fight For Free Philippines From the Great Falls Tribune, Representative Harold Knutson of Minnesota has announced that he will push a bill in the present session to make the Philippines independent. He Seems not to be discouraged by the failure of a few weeks ago to have Philippine sugar taken off the free list, and possibly he intends to argue the matter frankly on business grounds, shedding no ~ oratorical tears over Filipino rights and overdue American promises, as did Senator King, repre- senting the beet sugar interests, and Senator Broussard, representing cane sugar interests. But, like them, he wants the Filipinos ot in their own to be independent, n interests, but because free Filipino Sugar, vegetable oils and tobacco in- Jb‘;:‘tm;s’y Cflfl}’lete witl'i) North Dakota ugar, nnesota butter o cor;xs&n tobacco. e idea and that of the “sugar Sen- ators” is that we ought to c‘u‘t loose from the Philippines because free im- portations thence hurt certain Amer- can interests and because of the sentiment” against taxing the goods ‘fl‘l;ogm 8 country under the American The present agitation quite reverses the arguments of those who for years opposed Philippine independence on business grounds, our tariff arrange- ments having brought to us three-fifths of the Philippine trade. i Obviously the grant of independence should be only for reasons of national policy, and there have been assurances from three of our Presidents that it will be so determined, in addition t the definite promise of the Jones Mr‘: of 1916 that the islands will be granted independence “as soon as a stable gov- ernment can be established.” RN Do That Should Prove It. the Senate has sunk, affording a point about which the bits of patriotism and statesmanship now floating on that WLl come on Decembar From the San Francisco Chronicle. 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