Evening Star Newspaper, December 25, 1929, Page 8

‘was poor. The it’s retrench- ‘T%E‘ EEVENE !IEN._.G! flk ment policy let out 30,000 civil service employes. Industrial unemployment is widespread. The anti-Irigoyen party expects to capitalize all these conditions at the polls. Yesterday's near-tragedy in Buenos Alres was undoubtedly an expression per Company | of the sullen discontent which perme- : atés wide sections of Argentina. But the world at large is glad that the ef- fort to eradicate political woes by the bullet once again failed of its mad pur- WASHINGTON, D. C. WEDNESDAY . December 25, 1920 THEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor The Evening Star N 11 st %*Il' New York <TI0 East 4204 Bt. e R Christmas—and the Child. The star the wise men followed led b | them to a child, and down through the m‘?w sent in by mail or telephone ages the child has become the symbol — and the embodiment of the spirit of Christmas. Observance of the sweet old customs revolves above the child. Unless jthere are children the day is hollow and disturbed by restless memories that nada. oo |become mocking echoes of other Christ- imo: " isc | mases now gone. " The day is appropriate for reminder of the sacred trust imposed upon the Nation in its obligation to the child nm“l;sn"nm'du Bia B Bp e ol 5 g S 40 clidhoed Dublished herein. - All riehts of publication of | In this country the last quarter of special dispatcnés herein are also reserved. [ century has brought a renewed con- sciousness of this responsibility, and efforts made to fulfill it have been grati- fying. But there is always danger lest we take it too much for granted that the American child, born into a world that offers boundless opportunities, has come into an inheritance that cannot be en- riched and that little remains to be done for him that has not been done. We congratulate ourselves upon the The Assoctated o the use for patches credited The “White House” Fire. It was a striking coincidence that ‘within about three hours from the time that President Hoover turned on the lights at the community Christmas tree in Sherman Square, just east of the ‘White House, flames should break out in the Executive offices, to the west of mmmnmsz‘.hfir e e e | 1act that sctence has reduced the odds Fortunately, the structure that was at- | 262i0st survival that faced the new- tacked by the fire was not the his- | PO Child & few years ago, noting the toric home of the Presidents, which is ;m“;:u‘;::& h‘;;?;;fl;f;flui‘?‘nw rom o "'m"“dgmmkf“;:'m“fi 86.6 1n 1919 to 68.7 in 1928, figures that building was that erected about twenty- | S8l 8dded significance from the fact eight years ago to provide adequate | that the percentage of population con- ‘sccommodations for the transaction | Sidered in 1918 was 58.6, while today it of the Executive business. is nearly 95. And there is more en- By a merciful dispensation the fire | COuragement still in the knowledge that occurred at night, after the work of | SfOrts to reduce this rate were never the day was finished, when the building | 50 intelligently directed than they are was unoccupled save by the caretakers, | today; that funds to finance research And by an equally fortunate chance it | Were never so large, while the public's was discovered at & sufficiently early | interest and familiarity with its task stage to permit the salvage of most of | are indicated by the strength and able the important papers, documents, rec- |leadership of numerous organizations ords and correspondence filed there, | dedicating themselves to child welfare. The damage that has been done is| The National Child Labor Committee, therefore comparatively slight. A ver- | 1tself a ploneer in agitation against the itable disaster might easily have re-|national evil of child labor, celebrating sulted from the blaze. its twenty-fifth anniversary in New THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. oppose.” To what extent certain Demo- cratic opposition tactics of the mo- ment are warranted is another question. ‘They are confined for the most part to the sugar lobby and in particular to the activities of Edwin F. Shattuck, New York lawyer, in behalf of Cuban sugar interests in quest of low tariffs, | That the employment of an acknowl- !edged personal friend and close. war- time associate of President Hoover to influence tariff legislation in Congress was ethically reprehensible is open to little doubt. That Mr. Shattuck’s ac- ceptance of a retainer for such services was, to say the least, in poor taste is perhaps open to even less doubt. But the legitimacy of the Democratic effort to place blame for the Shattuck affair on the President is the most question- able of all. To date, as far as the public record discloses, there is no evidence that Law- yer-lobbyist Shattuck sought or ob- tained any aid, comfort or succor for Cuban sugar from Mr. Hoover. He “saw” Mr. Newton, the President’s po- litical-legislative secretary, who is the official link between the White House and Capitol Hill. Secretary Newton “sees” many persons who have business with Congress. That is his job, appar- ently. Access to his ear is not limited to men or women who once served un- der *“the chief” at home or abroad— a grand army of tens of thousands. To seek to fasten on the President responsibility for the ineptitude of a single member of that army, no matter what his one-time personal relations with Mr. Hoover in the long ago may have been, will strike the average fair- minded American as a blow below the belt. The Democrats need strain their memory no further back than 1924 for a case in point, which comes home to their own camp. Certain leaders fa- vored concentrating the Democratic fire in that campaign on Calvin Coolidge because hg had been the second rank- ing member of “the Teapot Dome ad- ministration.” It was always under- stood that plans to that end were ditched at the instigation of John W. Davis, Mr. Coolidge’s Democratic op- ponent for the presidency. The West Virginian, it was said, declined to drag his rival into the oil scandals issue on the simple ground that Mr. Coolidge had nothing to do with them. Herbert Hoover has had just about as much to do with the egregious ac- tivities of an erstwhile “personal at- torney” in the current tariff business. To create a contrary impression re- Announcement is made that the Ex- | York last week, took a justified pride in ecutive offices will be at once trans-|Tecording the fact that every State now P d to the tri-departmental building has some form of fourteen-year age across the street. A survey will, of|limit for industry and that nearly all course, be instituted to determine the ex- | States have an eight-hour day for chil- tent of the damage done to the burned | dren under sixteen; that night work is building, and this survey may be car-|Testricted and that educational and ried to the point of determining as |health requirements are general. ‘well whether it is advisable or desirable | In its annual report for the year just to restore the damaged structure.|closing the Children's Bureau of the It may be that decision will be reached | Department of Labor notes that laws not to replace it, or perhaps merely to |advancing the educational standards recondition it for provisional use|for a child obtaining employment have pending the construction of s truly been enacted in 1920 in Maryland, Illi- adequate sccommodation for the Ex- |nois and Missouri, Maryland raising the standard to completion of the sixth Some years ago a plan was considered | grade, Illinois raising its standard from for the erection in the square west of | the sixth to the eighth grade and Mis- Lafayette Park of a building for the |souri making the standard, for the first accommodation of the Executive offices | time, completion of the sixth grade, And and the Department of State. That|the action of the States is significant, was put aside, however, in favor of the | because they reflect a national trend. taking of the space known as the| No State now is without a com- Mall-Avenue triangle as a general site | pulsory education law, requiring chil- for needed Government buildings. Now |dren from seven to eighteen in a few that the program of construction in the | States and from eight to fourteen in latter area is under way it becomes more | the majority of States to attend school. evident than ever that there will not | With compulsory education laws be a suitable site within it for the new | have been those raising the age minima home of the Department of State, if | for workingechildren, a gradual process one i5 to be created. that began timidly with ten years, in- Artistic considerations call for the | creased to twelve and fourteen and in remodeling, if not the complete replace- | a few States to fifteen and sixteen. But ment, of ti#¥ building that for many | the national objective now is a mini- years housed the departments of State, | mum age limit of fifteen and sixteen ‘War and Navy. Long since outgrown | for all children who must work. by all three of these branches of the| Best of all is the fact that the once ‘Government, it stands as an inadequate | familiar pictures of pitifully young chil- snd unattractive unit of the public |dren, with the pale and lined faces of ‘Bousing equipment. A definite plan is | premature age, working in the cotton 4n hand for a new home for the War (mills and the coal mines, are regarded ‘Department. No specific provision 18 | now more as relics of barbarity than as made for the Navy Department in the | propaganda of reformers, present program. ‘The State Department | But there is much to be done. The 1s yet to be allocated. last census, 1920, showed a decrease A combination of Executive offices and | of 47.5 per cent in the number of gain- Department of State would be con-|fully employed children between the sistent and convenient. A site im-|gges of ten and fifteen. But the number mediately adjacent to the White House | of guch children was 1,060,858—a large would be desirable. Eventually it Will grmy indeed—and they were protected be in order, will indeed be necessary in | when the 1920 Federal census was taken order to develop a consistent andlpy o peqeral child-labor restricting harmonious plan, to include the square | 1o syheequently declared unconstitu- muu&mfimtmnmm tional. ment’s lay-out of constructions. Recent studles show that the per- Christmas Eve fire, fortunately 80 In- contage of children in the pup;u Bocuous, suggests that the tme 5 &% | gonools 15 827 in the cities and 752 hand for & move to the end Of|pner cent gy the country; that the per- accomplishing both purposes. * |centage of illiterate children between S o e the ages of ten and twenty years is .87 Chinese and Soviets have demon-mm‘m’ 4 , but it 1s 4.3 in the country. strated how difficult it 18 to run 8 rall-| o o o igh schools are road whose object is private advantage ot 1o crow rerflowing, but only 40 per and not genuine public service. onit of e, ahil - ki centers complete high school and only calls a celebrated maxim of Napoleonic origin. One of the Little Corsican’s marshals had executed for the Em- peror’s delectation a spectacular maneu- ver against a sham foe, which resulted in the attacker’s annihilation. “It is magnificent, but it is not war,” was the comment of a distinguished soldier ‘whose opinion of the assault was sought. THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. ‘The Water Girl, standing today on her pedestal in the home of Templeton Jones, smiles a bronze smile, happy in her Christmas romance. It is not every statuette that is loved, nor every one that manages to find its true destiny. Yes, inanimate things have destinies, too. The fate of the Water Girl was to repose in the home of Templeton Jones, connoisseur. When the unknown crafts- man in Germany was fashioning her, he was making her for Jones. ‘When she was put aboard a great steamer, and brought across the sea to America, she was taking the trip solely to make one Templeton Jones happy. Neither her maker, nor the steamship company, nor the pretty little Water Girl herself knew a thing about Temple- ton Jones, any more than Jones did about them, but fortune sometimes works to happy ends. ‘Therefore it is pleasing, and true, to believe that from the beginning the Water Girl was destined for Templeton Jones, and Jones for her. * ok ok K ‘The Water Girl stood exactly a foot tall, fashioned of bronze, ~holding in each pretty hand a water jug or jar of the classical pattern. Aside from these jars, the Water Girl wore nothing, nor needed she anything, such is the virginity of art. Her little hands and feet were ex- quisite, make the monstrosities given to mml:y figurines which pose as “art work.” Distinet in a world of bright green, clumsily executed figures, she lived atop a lamp of blended marbles, beneath which the light shone. Jones first saw her in a store window where she stood amid an assortment of pottery, lamps, door stops, and other articles from foreign countries. - With~ out the tiny electric light she far out- shone the collection. ‘When Jones inquired the price of the Water Girl lamp, he was somewhat non- plussed. Like most would-be purchasers, he had placed a figure upon the article beyond which he did not care to go. The price, alas, was far above his maximum! Jones reluctantly went away, after admiring the balanced little fllg‘u;e, standing bravely in a strange d, carrying her empty water jars to an unknown demTu:n.* & Several times at the office that day the worthy Jones found himself recall- ing her. Every now and then her finely cut face would come to mind. Not every statuette has a pretty face. Mostly they are pie-faced, or have blunt noses, or their hair is done too high in a so-called Grecian knot. Greclan knots, Jones thought, do very well for Venus, but the styles have chan, ce then, and modern ladies in marble or bronze ought to be more up-to-date in their hair dressing. ‘What Jones liked particularly about his —he had got as far as regarding her as indubitably his—was the appear- ance of bobbed hair, which she pre- sented. A close inspection showed him that her hair really was not bobbed, but drawn around her forehead to re- semble a bob. She even had a modifled knot, but so small that it did not detract from me. general appearance of her shapely d. Templeton Jones resolutely put her ‘The Democrats’ Shattuck-sugar drive on President Hoover may be politics, but it is not magnificent. —_————— Flying might be safer if a man who knows the game as well as Lindbergh does could be required to pass upon the qualifications of all aviators and the conditions under which they are to ‘work. ————— It is regarded by some observers as more reprehensible for a man to foot the entire bill himself than it is to obtain by multitudinous subscriptions campaign money personally admin- istered. & —_— e Even communism has some standards. A man should not be permitted to classify himself as a Communist merely | of. because he feels a constant and im- petuous inclination to toss a bomb. —————————— ‘The literary demonstrations of Gene Tunney have not yet affected the free and direct style of expression that has long constituted one of the quaint charms of pugilism. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. As Time Passes. Fair Spring drew near with light and dainty pace And rainbow colors to enhance her grace. Timid, she shrank from the approach- ing show’r And paused to greet again some friendly flow'r. And next she said, as birds would boldly sing, Spring. Arrayed I am in raiment rich and fair, ‘Woven by Nature’s hand with cunning care. Again I say, “I am Dame Autumn now, A thrifty influence, as all folk vow, And gather, as I smile with prosperous charm, ‘The treasure to be found in fleld and farm.” President Irigoyen’s Escape. 18 per cent continue beyond high Americans, who have mourned at the |5chool. In the rural districts only 16 blers of three martyred Presidents of | Per cent of the children complete high the United States, will not fail to extend | 5chool and only 7.2 of them go beyond sympathetic congratulations to Presi- | high school dent Irigoyen of Argentina on his for- | The last twenty-five years have been tultous escape from assassination yes- Mmarked by legislation to protect the terday. Satisfaction over his good luck child against commercial exploitation, 15 heightened by the circumstance that | to give him the education and the en- his would-be murderer, thanks to ex-|Vironment that a Nation spending four ceedingly effective action by the Presi-|billion dollars a year on Federal Gov- dent’s body-guard, was promptly dis-|ernment alone can afford. The next patched. Senor Irigoyen is spared to|twenty-five years should see the complete his second six-year term as|broadening of necessary legislation, the great La Plata republic's chief|but, what is more important, a general Imagistrate. acceptance of the spirit that prompted The sttempt on the President’s life | this legislation, in order that the well- was political in motive. He has been a | being and safety of the American child stormy petrel in Argentine public life | Will depend upon the intelligence of the for many years. First elected in 1916, | community and not upon it- laws alone. 2. B z T;;:d h:n 'u:: ::;:,m:n f{,d“z,. The lobbyist is generous with gifts, elected by & two-to-one majority, | Put no one mistakes him for a Santa Argentinians rejolce in President | C18us influenced by sheer benevolence. Irogoyen's personality and even in his A e idosyncrasies. ‘There is something of Business as Usual. the Roosevelt about him and his occa-| Although the Christmas season is at sional political explosions. The Iri- [hand, with its sentiment of good will, goyenistas, as the President’s faithful | the politiclans are doing business as party adherents are known, are not al- | usual. Congress is in recess, but there From the White|run higher, or politicians been readier House yesterday & warm message of | to pick flaws and exploit them ruth- felicitation on his preservation was | lessly. Now come the icicles with frosty gleam, 'Mid myriad gems fit for a fairy dream. ‘The smile is gone; the silence is austere; And Winter wears the jewels of the year. Undelivered Goods. “Is there much money used in poli- ties?"” “Comparatively little,” answered Sen- ator Sorghum. “But there is a scanda- lous amount of it wasted.” Jud Tunkins says he knows of no fashion that changes so fast as that of Santa Claus whiskers, Heart and Voice. He sang a carol from the heart; His heart was quite O. K. Friends said, who criticized his art, His voice was not that way. Not Interfering. “Does your wife still buy your neck- tles?” “No. The designs have become so grotesquely extraordinary that she is perfectly willing for me to select my own.” “I am obsequious at certain times” sald Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatoyn. “It is proper that as a well bred man I should prove that I know when it is “I am the Summertime who once was| the out of his head for the remainder of the day, but the next noon, on an impulse, he went in and told sales ] to “wrap up the lamp, he would take it with him.” * HE® In the Jones home that evening the ‘Water Girl shone silently on top of an end table by the fireplace. She was the admired belle, the favorite ‘of Jones, Mrs. Jones, Jones' mother, and visitors. Everybody loved her. As for the Water Girl, by which name she was dubbed by universal consen she never relaxed her slight, pleasant, bronzed smile, but continued to balance herself with a jug in either hand as if her very life depended upon the exercise. Pale llow, green, blue and pink shone the variegated marble, casting | high lights over her. entranced. “Did you ever see anything prettier than that?” he kept repeating. In the back of his mind, however, hovered a terrible thought: He had pald too much! It was a pretty thing, but it wasn't worth it. And you would have to come from generations of people in moderate circumstances to know how Jones felt about the entire matter. ‘The next day at breakfast he electri- fied the table by declaring that he was “going to take her back.” “What! Take her back?” “Yes, she isn’t worth it. It's too much money for & trick lamp.” * K K K 8o Templeton Jones took her back, and once more she went into the shop window, to be gazed at by passing eyes, and mentally priced by inquiring minds, and as firmly rejected at the counter by persons of economical turns of mind. Occasionally Jones would take a turn by the shop to see if the Water Girl was still there. “She’s still there,” he would say, on his return home in the evening. One day she was gone, and heart stood still. Boldly invading the store, he asked for her, and the sales girl immediately pointed her out on a shelf, where she had been placed for safe keeping. Yes, several people had asked about Jones was her, but no one had taken her home. | f Oh, yes, some one would buy the lamp, it was too pretty a thing to be left un- sold at Christmas time! Since Jones thought so, too, he gave her up forever, and thought no_more about her until just a few days before Christmas, when he happened to men- tion that she was still in the store, * Kk X X As a matter of fact, the Water Girl had gone out to two other homes in the meantime, but once she was brought back on account of being too expensive, and the second time she was returned because the purchaser had no place exactly suited for her. to collect on her t was ing bronzed bobbemld by this time, but she was as perfect, as immaculate, as beautiful as ever. And the heart of one who knew that Jones loved her was moved, and a trip was made to the store. “Why, it's a regular romance!” said the sales girl. “Just like being divorced and married again.” And that was how the Water Girl came to stand today in a multi-colored glow in the home of Templeton Jones, her first and only beau. WASHINGTON. OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. ‘Washington members of the A. R. A. Association—the merger of the Hoover overseas and war service organizations— received & Christmas invitation from New York headquarters to grace the next issue of the A. R. A. Review with contributions. To stimulate their re- spective muses the editors, evidently taking a leaf from “the chief’s” passio: for dealing with social trends et al., sug- gest “a few widely divergent topics” upon which the Hooverians may p]eueg to dliscouru. Here's t.,!ha mel}u: 1. Suggest a good, new slogan for either of two well known political par- tes, “We Kept You Out 2. Have you ever attemptéd to recon- cile the chain-store movement with a recent famous variant of the best known and most ambi line in our Constitution? 3. Do you find any_significance in the spread of the Yo-Yo in the same connection? 4. Are you still convinced that Mr. Alexander Hamilton was right? 5. Got any ideas as to the future ef- fect on culture of the latest canned- exportations from California? 6. Could you give any legitimate rea- son why the great, gun-tot American public is so concerned with international disarmament, or vice versa? 7. Would you recommend any changes in future editions of Webster’s because of a recently une: definition of the word “felon”? * % k% Mrs. Vernon Kellogg, wife of the per- manent secretary of the Natlonal search Council at Washington, is sall ing for Europe in January on an un- commonly interesting_literary mission. For some time Mrs. Kellogg, who saw Hoover relief service in Poland during and after the war, has had in the hopper a hloanhy of Queen Jadwiga, famous Polish sovereign who was enthroned from 1384 to 1399. Though she passed away at the age of 28, Jad~ wiga (Hedwig, in German, and Edvige, in French) lived and reigned long and gloriously enou to leave behind a an almost holy reverence. Mrs. Kellogg encountered it when working in the war canteens and refugee cam| 8he de- cided one day to bring the story of Queen Jadwiga to English readers. The opening chapters are complete and now Mrs. Kellogg is going to Poland, Hun- gary, Lithuania and Austria in search of supglementury material. She will cross the Atlantic with the American naval conference delegation aboard the 8. 8. George Washington. * kK % ‘When the late James W. Good left the scene in November, the War De- partment sent to all United States Army posts throughout the world the follow- ing general order: “During a mourning period of 30 days ending December 18, all national and regimental colors will be draped with crepe.” Last week the Quartermaster’s Department in Wash- ington received a voucher from Fort D. A. Russell, Cheyenne, Wyo., calling for $100 “for draping post mules with crepe in memory of Secretary Good.” Investigation ensued forthwith. It ap- pears that the order to drape “national and regimental colors” reached Fort Russell reading: “animals and regi- mental colors.” * Kk * About the time the delegates of the five big naval powers are putting their heads together in London, a Chinese naval mission will arrive in the United States. It's headed’ by Admiral Tu Hsi-kuel, former premier under the old Peking regime and who now holds his commission under the Nationalist gov- ernment of Nanking. After visiting the principal American naval stations, the Chinese will proceed to Eul . |stated purpose of the mission is to | 'search for information which will help build up the Chinese Republic’s navy.” Admiral Tu Hsi-kuei and his colleagues have just spent six weeks in Japan. China’s navy at present is nothing to Calvin Coolidge has written the pref- ace for the latest American itical cabled to President Irigoyen. As in the United States, & 1930 con lography to leave the l'-l—'P: - g:gute Patriot,” being the life of PO‘:I. be | during the World War, tradition still cggflshed in Poland with | Presse or an enemy to be feared,” and that “if he sometimes appeared to be fluenced by pe likes and dis- likes, it was always with a clear pur- pose in view.” * kK Kk Gen. Jan Christian Smuts, South African statesman, who will shortly visit Washington, was commander-in- chief of the British forces which ex- pelled Germany from East Africa The German commander, Gen. Von Lettow-Vorbeck, has just disclosed an act of mag- nanimity on Gen. Smuts’ to find the parallel of which one to recall some of the knightly episodes of his- tory, such as Yorktown and Appomat- tox. “I had won the Iron Cross earlier in the war,” Gen. Von Lettow-Vorbeck narrates, “but by some ill luck during the East African operations the trcph fell into the hands of Gen. Smuts. During our retreat before the advanc- ing British forces several chosen of- ficers and I buried two chests, one containing the head of a record buf- falo we had shot and the other filled with diaries, war decorations and other valuables. Among them was the Iron Cross, which Smuts in the most chiv- alro had previously sent No Man’s Land. There I recovered it. Long after the war our secretly hidden chests were found and sent to the London war office at Gen. Smuts’ order. Now the contents, in- cluding my Iron Cross, have been re- stored to " * kX ¥ ‘When the “Canadian” rum runner I'm Alone figures in forthcoming Canadian-American arbitration pro- ceedings, it seems that the craft which the American Coast Guard sent to the bottom waters last out to be American-owned. day an American citizen, named Daniel Hogan, was arraigned before the United States commissioner in New York, fol- lowing his arrest several weeks previous on the charge of being the proprietor of the I'm Alone. It was revealed that @ secret search for Hogan had been ed by Federal agents all over the country after the sinking off Louisiana’s coast. Not even Hogan's name was known when the search began, and even after his arrest his connection with the rum runner a care- fully guarded secret. American ship may vitally affect Canada's in the arbitration. (Copyright, 1929 New Steel Combine May Stabilize Price Prom the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. The first reaction to the news of the formation of another big steel combina- tion with Republic Iron and Steel, Cen- tral Alloy Steel, the Bourne-Fuller Co. and Donner Steel as the chief com- ponents is that it should help toward the price stabilization of which the steel industry has I appeared to be in need. Pittsburgh a direct in- terest in the merger through its in- clusion of the Witherow Steel Corpora- tion, a concern of city. Generally the move is simply of the modern business trend toward grou in the interest of co-ordinated activities, It will make the new Republic Co. the third largest steel combination of the country, exceeded only by United States Steel and the Bethlehem. Should fur- ther merging contemplated be achieved, however, the Republic would be second. Cyrus E. Eaton, a Cleveland capitalist, is credited with being the organizing genius behind the new merger. It is assumed that Cleveland will be the headquarters of the combination. Pitts- burgh, however, cannot be expected to owner- claims take seriously the 8mflcmm of those who see Northern Ohio destined to be- come the center of the country's industry. The truth is that, with of industry ane more rapid facilities of tnnlpor‘t‘..'l industrial districts are wider and wider lines. Probably Pre-Hospital, Too, That $4000 batch of Tiquor 'was not mm—?;nfi upon —_————— Gold Bricks in the Basement. Investments.” Il;t‘ be m“.“.f'n Edge sell to the sucker, they WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 25, steel the = th tion, | the 1929. Politics at Large By G. Gould Lincoln. ‘The Senate lobby investigat com- mittee, ostensibly designed to protect & mhbw m from the wiles of wiles—is being used as a political organization. ‘This, however, does not occasion surprise. From the time lobby committee was constituted and ‘work there was little doubt of the use to which the investigation be put. First, it was evident, lobby committee was to be used to hammer the Hawley-Smoot tariff bill. The Democrats have been particularly anxious to have the tariff an issue in the coming congressional campaign. ‘There are some of the insurgent Re- blicans from the West—those who joined the Democratic coalition—who also are counting on the tariff as an issue. As the majority of the lobby committee is made up of Democrats and insurgent Republicans, it can be no surprise, therefore, that the in- vestigating committee should be used to call attention to the evils of the tariff bill. * ok k% But now, apparently, the lobby com- mittee is to Be used to smear as far as possible the President of the United States. Because an attorney employed by the Cuban sugar interests hap- pens to be a personal frlend of the President and also to have acted as attorney for Mr. Hoover in drawing up a lease for Mr. Hoover's house, and because one of the heads of the sugar lobby said that this attorney was hired because of his supposed influence with Mr. Hoover to work on the sugar tariff, an effort is now being made to sew Mr. Hoover up with the sugar lobby- ists. ‘The lobby committee, headed by Senator Caraway of Arkansas, Demo- crat, has no charge so far that the President has been involved. But now it is intimated that the commit- tee would be willing to receive from an official source, presumably President Hoover, a disavowal of any connection with the sugar lobby, which, after all, has been only insinuated and not charged. The committee has made_no suggestion that it will summon Mr. Hoover to appear before it, it is true. But anti-administration agencies put orward the word that the committee would be glad to hear from the Presi- dent. Further, Representative John Garner of Texas, the Democratic leader of the House, and the Democratic na- tional committee, through its publicity bureau, insist that the President should come forward and say that he has nothing to do with the sugar lobby. * ok K K ‘The general impression about the country, judging from editorial com- ment, is that an effort to involve Mr. Hoover is ridiculous. It is looked upon merely as a political move and dis- carded as such. The New York Times, editorially, has been particularly un- kind in its comment. It referred to the demand of Mr. Garner that President Hoover issue a.denial to the “tale of the saccharine romanticist,” and also to the statement by Garner that if Al Smith had been elected President and was in the White House and such re- ports had gained publicity, impeach- ment proceedings would have been dis- cussed in the House of Representatives belnfoull.w:il the | {5 employed to help you, Address your t to Mr. Garner,” , “with whose sorrows when the hounds of print are on states- men’s traces it is easy to sympathize, this suggestion of impeachment is multi- tudinously ‘2 Mutch.’ Only the spell- of A.rtem(l us &e:uh ls notion u:o and grotesque. Suppose the liberal Lakinese talk were Bible truth ;}::d not the airy im: called upon to verify his promises. What would the President have been trying to do? To influence tariff legislation. ‘When did it become a high crime and misdemeanor for a President to try to influence legislation? How many Presi. dents have not tried, in various man- ners, to influence Congress in particular legislation, by much stronger and more concrete means than advice to Congress and recommendation of measures?” * Kk ok ok ‘The latest report from Massachu- setts, where a senatorial nomination has become a fair target for any Re- publican who wishes to enter the race, is that former President Calvin Cool- idge has informed Republican leaders in the State definitely that he would not run for the Senate. The report does not say whether he said he did " to run for the Senate, but that he would not run. That's that, if the rt be true. However, there has President’s old friends that he would not consent to run for the Senate, so the report does not come as a surprise. The surprise would be found only in the event of Mr. Coolidge’s entering the senatorial . ‘There were a great many of the former President’s friends, however, who were intensely surprised when he issued his famous statément in the Black Hills of South Dakota, saying he did not choose to run for President in 1928. * % % % ‘Will the Democratic executive com- mittee of Alabama be able to stand out against the pressure which is being brought to bear on it to rescind the stand it took when it declared that Democrats who voted against Smith or opposed him in the presidential cam- paign may vote in the Democratic pri- maries next August, but may not be candidates for nominations in those les? Senator Hugo Black, the colleague of Senator “Tom” Heflin, who has been denied the right to enter the primary as a candidate for renomina- tion for the Senate, has issued a state- ment insisting that the committee ex- ceeded its authority when it sought to set up a class of persons who could vote in the Democratic primary, but who could not offer themselves as can- didates. The law of the State, Senator Black said, does not permit the com- mittee to do any such thing. Further- more, the attorney general of the State and his assistants have been set to work to ferret out the legality or lack of le- gality of the act of the committee. ‘Whether it is legal or not, it seems ut- terly mgniallxswnt to say Lh;t. n'mm: may vof a primary and yet no stand for election in that primary. Most of the members of the House fro; Alabama feel, as does Senator Black, that the committee should have taken | no such action. If the committee's de- cision stands, the fur will fly in the Alabama elections next year. * ok ok X ‘The Republican committee on af ! of 3 meet the day M‘{ga Senate reassembles, ac- to present plans, to take action man t ttee va- leaths of Senators and ition of Edge of New Jersey, Ambassador to France. ‘There has been an insistent demand that Senator Robert M. La Follette of ‘Wisconsin, one of the “coalition” Re- publicans, be given a place on the com- mittee on finance, which handles all tariff and revenue legislation. There ha;‘a‘ been dire unn&umr:m Lhehl‘!l;a‘l publican Progressives place shot not be given to La Follette. None of the group are now members of the finance committee. Ordinarily it might that the “old guard” would Y of a commit would give some of the old line Repub- cold shivers up lngomn the if an octopus has| g, Tepo been a distinct belief among the former | Argu: €| Telegram, and the Salina Journal load ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. ‘What do you need to know? Is there some point about your business or per- sonal life that puzzles you? 1Is there something you want to know without lay? Submit your question to Frederic J. Haskin, director of our W gton Information. Bureau. He inquiry to The Evening Star Informa- tion Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, director, Washington, D. C., and inclose 2 cents in coin or stamps for return postage, Q. Has George Arliss appeared on th;{ sireen as Disraell before this year? A. There was a silent version of Disraeli, with Mr. George Arliss play- ing the title role, released a number of ggarls“slgo. It was first shown August . How much ticker tape is used in Wall Street?—N. R. A. The American Magazine says that 4,500,000 feet of ticker tape is used each day. Q. How fast are messages sent by cable?—F. E. B, The newest cable has a speed of | A. 2,500 letters a minute. . When and where was the in- stallment system of buying and selling s'-aAl‘Led?—H. T. installment plan can be traced back to antiquity, Crassus, a contemporary of Julius Caesar, is sald to have made a fortune by building houses outside of Rome and selling them on the install~ ment plan. The present system is known to have existed a century ago. It was during the last decade that tremendous expansion in sales and in- dustries in installment buying occurred. Q. What is th ulation of the capital of Bohvln?—g.o‘.’& . _Sucre is the capital of Bolivia, but this city has a population of 16,000, and most of the official government business is carried on at La,Paz, which has a population of 109,000. Q. Who painted the picture of the Revolution that has three figures, one playing a fife, one a drum, and one carrying a flag?—J. C. A. This picture, entitled “The Spirit of "16,” was painted by A. M. Willard. Q. What does the word “depose” mean which appears on some French china?—C. G. A. The word “depose,” used on articles of French manufacture, means the trade mark has been registered. Q. What is the width of Market street in San Prancisco? How many étrel&c scu' tracks does it carry?— A, Market street, San Francisco, is 76 feet in width from curb to curb, with a 22-foot sidewalk on each side. There a{e lgur street railway tracks on Market street. Q. How many square miles are there in the Sahara Desert?—O. O. !‘l“ Its area is over 3,500,000 square miles. Q. What year was electricity first used to light the headlights on loco- motives?—A. S. A. Electric headlights on locomotives were first used early in 1886. Q. Why is the Chinese and Japa- nese dragon such an unusual-looking creature?—E. R. A. Maud Rex Allen says: “As known in Japan, the conception is undoubtedly derived from the products of the imag- ination of the early Chinese, who were especially fond of evolving supernatural forms by combining parts of various The system of purchasing on the | animals, It is essentially with horns of a deer, the horse, eyes like a devil, snake, belly like that of a scales like those of a carp, cow, paws like a tiger and claws like an eagle. It has flamelike a on shoulders and . On el foot are three, four or five claws—the im- perial dragon of China has five; that of Japan three.” Q. How much cotton does a person sk in & day?—G. K. A. The amount of cotton one can pick a day depends upon the kind of cotton, whether or not the fleld has been picked before, the weather and a person’s natural speed. It is possible to pick from 150 to 500 pounds per day. Q. What was the play in which Rob- son and Crane made their last appear- mfie t’ofi::rn‘r?-t—m H. M. . last joint product Stuart Robson and W. H. wav:: ;Thed I-{anr}l{en-."" w{:lch was first pro- uced in New York at September 26,.1887. Ry Q. What game bird is most eastl raised in captivity?—A. ¥, D, % A. Mor= pheasants are raised | than any other kind of game , and probaply nine-tenths or more of the total number of pheasants reared in his country are ringnecks. Q. What qualifications are necessary | to become an interne?—L. A. I. A. The American Medical Associa- tion says: “Before a student is qualified to serve an internship in New York or any other State he must show comple- tion of his medical course. A few schools, however, grant a certificate upon completion of a four-year course and require the completion of a year’s internship before granting the 3 Hospitals, of course, are at liberty to accept such students.” Q. How is Christmas cel Sp:.ln?A—B. - mas celebrated in Spanish authority whom we have consulted says that in Spain there is no character similar to Santa Claus. On the 6th of January there is, how- ever, a fista during which the Three Wise Men are supposed to offer gifts. xheralchfiamflnu““ eve comes in Spaln, 0 3 commences. o'clock, all Taborers leave their ‘work lights, ribbons and streamers, with tempting fare of sweets and sausages, with red and yellow serge to make warm petticoats, with cymbals, drums and zambombas. The chief sweetmeats, peculiar to Christmas, and bought alike by rich and E)or. are the various kinds of preserved fruits, incrusted with sugar and the famous turrui, This last, which is of four kinds, and may be uueq in English phraseology, “almond rock,” is brought to your door, and buy you must. Before the Noche-buena "on gl‘nlx;x:t;‘nas eg'eeé orée or two good deeds ave n done the civil military authorities. ks o Q. What words in the En SR The "igtit wards 5 e WOl 08t used in English are nd the, to, will and you. Q. Can ret: tra; bring ;202- w’?nh ot ‘Emrl’xl‘mch‘uu ;reel:rzl dfltfls ‘A The customs service states that no change has K been made in the $1 lan- ?—H. H. “and, have, it, y. each American tourist Ke United States. It has to raise this amount to change has not been g::nlnx into n proposed $200, plmc the made. Public eonfidence in prospects of fu- ture prosperity is declared to have been created by the action of the Federal | Government in reducing taxes, effective with the payments due in 1930. The value of this step in stabilizing business is emphasized, and it is also pointed out that the reduction is justified by the condition of the Treasury. Return sur- plus to the people is the best use that could have been put to it in the opinion of most commentators. | It is described by the Rock Island s as “a bit of psychological ‘sun- shine,’” and that paper feels that “we all need the sunshine.” The St. Louis Times describes it as “in line with the best policies designed to hold business on an even keel.” The Baltimore Sun sees “a certain amount of theoretical appeal as a general proposition” in Sen- ator Couzens’ contention that “it would be better to devote the money to public works which would give employment to jobless men,” but points to “the rela- tively small amount of unemployment that could be relieved with $160,000,~ 000,” and concludes that “in any event, (the general proposition advanced by Senator Couzens does not meet the major argument advanced in favor of the tax cut, that it was the best avail- able gesture to improve the general morale.” * ok ok K “It will serve to put more money into business. It is assurance also that the country is in sound condition, or the reduction could not have been made,” declares the Albany Evening News, while the Francisco Chronicle calls the “early enactment hlghly important,” pointing out that “the public now has notice that it is to recelve a $160,000,000 dividend out of surplus and, like every such dividend, this one has an added value because the participants know it is coming.” The Fort Worth Record-Telegram states that “in its entirety it is placing a vast sum of money into the more individual channels of circulation,” that it is “the shortest route to the restoration of con- fidence,” and that “the latter is all the country needs to begin a most auspicious New Year of 1930.” Its place in the “Hoover program for restoration of public confidence in the economic soundness of the country’s business” is attested by the Haverhill Gazette, and the Rochester Times- Union feels that it “should aid in the task of stabilizing business, industry, agriculture and employment.” The Tulsa ‘World, referring to other proposals for the use of the millions of surplus, says, “All these were good purposes, and the country would doubtless be benefited through any of them, but their intro- duction at the critical time of con- sideration for the tax cut was some- what confusing and a little bit unjust.” “The Treasury De] ent,” accord- ing to the Charleston Evening Post, “4s probably justified in its opposition to the Couzens proposal fo make still further reductions in income taxes. = * * One per cent on incomes of individuals and corporations all along the line is a little or a lot, according to the income that saves it, but to the Government itself it is a great deal, It means a sharp curtailment in re- turns from one of the largest sources of revenue.” “Wisdom in Government has made possible this diversion of funds back to the people,” avers the Worcester argues that “the lifting .of this I can be and must be passed on, in State Journal says: “A great It w’::edfl\;:n to mn’x to Ill!l‘ b explained, lace of a gavel, whes he is ru!dinnover the s!:uu. '.l‘hg m!enr]eo is t the Vice, President, with the skill of his Indian ancestors, may bury the hatchet in the skull of to occasion ‘Vice President Ourtis is the reciplent of a tomahawk, given him by the offending Senator when arises. His ecessor, Ambassador Charles G. gé:‘s, overlooked a bet some form, to consumers,” while the D8] Lincoln Treasury’s Timely Tax Cut " Welcomed as Ray of Sunshine majority of Nebraska income tax ers will have their tax reduced eithe: two-thirds or one-third of the amount I e o ot Bere, st & fums ‘est,, for use here, at when it is much needed.” 5 * K ok X “The Federal can the money and eerhm whom it belongs have their own proper use for it. Taxation beyond publie necessity is deliberate ression,” as- serts the CI 5 ews, with the conclusion that “to prevent te depression by remo unwarranted anxiety and fear is to demonstrate economic wisdom.” - The Oakl Tribune argues: “ statistics, the ht:c‘“-% ,, the duction cuts personal income taxes more than half for at least half of taxpayers, while the higher classes get reductions from 3 to 2 per cent and 5 to 4 per cent in the normal tax, re- spectively. The corporation levy ' will be reduced from 12 per cent to 11 per cent. It is the small-salaried man who g%m the largest relief.” The Fargo TUm also observes that “it is designed ln:w!l' ndirect beneflt to the ‘small fel- Promptness with w] acted is commended by &I:h aaa Oty gg:rg;l-l;?z as responsive to (payers.” The Phila Evening Bulletin remarks that ltd'e‘g;:lhd not profitably be used as a shuttlecock of politics.” “The New Orleans Morning Tribune sees the opposition as hay 110 more seeming excuse than poum factionalism or partisanship.” The Lex- ington Leader says that “with lower taxes and with a settlement of the tarift controversy, there is no reason for even a sllgl'_:‘t recession of the tide of pros- fil;qgne %Byl:cuu Herald rebukes agines there any party capital ‘ngln de . duction iny "It is only unfortunal tlement of ‘another tmpofhn" thl: m; problem—the tariff—cannot be reached on an equally sensible and non-partisan basis,” suggests the Kalamazoo Gazette, Its value is enhanced in the eyes of the Flint Daily Journal by the fact that it was planned “long before Wall Street took its dizzy nose dive.” The Dayton Dally News calls it “an excel- lent thing to do if the Treasury can stand it.” while the New York Evening Post emphasizes the fact that “the &rggfllid gxe mu;c::len very nearly the rece! during fiscal 12 monthll‘p i Clearing Snow Seen As Good Investment n-;_x; the Albany Evening News. 2 e American Automobile Associat Teports that 160,000 miles of highway are being kept open and free from snow this Winter in 36 Northern States, It is estimated that tae total cost this work will be $6,500,000, but :xsl;)ec;atignmbeuev{:l that for every $100 le ere least n;gall)! on the 'lngs:m‘;xt:m sciond cannof doubted. It means better business f lor uu the when he was z i g oflu-.r’o!