Evening Star Newspaper, January 15, 1930, Page 8

A—S8 THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. WEDNESDAY. .January 15, 1830 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company B Office: 1th St New Yorl icago juropean Rate by Carrier Within the City. e Frenine Star.............45¢ Ler month @ Evening and Sunday Star (when 4 Sundays) . . . .60c per month The !\'mm&-nd Sunday’ 8t P hen 5 fundays) ... nday Collection m Orders may be NAtional 5000. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. E: 1 mo., 85c unc r.s b mo.. 80 fly and Bund E:J o begran: ey’ only exclusively entitled ni di 10.00; 1 . $6.00: 1 + $4.00: 1 mo.. & ‘The Associated to the use for republ on of ail ncws dis- atches credited to it or not otherwise cred- special .&‘p-uhu herein also reserved. A Lot of Wasted Sugar. Study of the Senate committee’s re- port on sugar lobbying invites the natural conclusion that the so-called hard-headed business men who shelled out a total of approximately $400,000 to promote or defeat a higher tariff on sugar are in reality a bunch of saps. For they apparently wrote their checks and made them payable to willing workers on the unfounded claims of what these willing workers could do. ‘The contingencies received small con- sideration. Hard cash was paid for claims and, in the light of searching investigation, some of the claims were empty gestures. But, after all, were the lobby hirers such saps? It would be foolish to claim that legislation has never been influ- enced by lobbying. It would be foolish to claim that no lobbyist was ever worthy of his hire. It would be foolish to believe that skilled presentation of facts to members of Congress, great gobs of propaganda and floods of organ- ised publicity have never helped to grease the ways for legislation. And if these things are granted, and they must be, the Cuban sugar grower is not to be called a sap because he was willing to risk several thousand dollars in combating of the work of the beet sugar grower, who, in turn, was willing to risk several thousand dollars in com- bating the work of the Cuban sugar grower. They would more likely deserve the title of saps if they were not willing to risk the money, for the stakes are high. As for the methods of the lobbyists themselves—their high-sounding claims of acquaintance with the President of the United States and the implication that this acquaintance was worth money; their willingness to go to the extreme of fostering hostility to the United Stats by friendly countries to bring pressure on pending legislation; their tall talk regarding the possession s0c ous reflections on business ideals and an enlightening commentary upon the at- titude of business, some business, toward the sanctity of government in Wash- And it is the exposition of these methods and these claims that has made the investigations of the Caraway lobbying committee so valuable. The facts revealed concerning the high prices paid for lobbying are not ex- traordinary. Successful lobbying is worth a high price to the beneficiaries. Paying the price demanded is merely a good gamble. But it is 0 be doubted 1t any professional lobbyist in Washing- ton is going to write any more letters within the near future regarding his In- timacy with the President of the United i st 3 Congress Must 9 |steadily increasing demands of air what was formerly a road of torture d danger a broad, smooth, safe highway. But at the District line the condition changes abruptly and ‘for the remainder of the distance to Bethesda the road remains a puzzle and a peril., Now the Montgomery County people are asking for a con- tinuation of the improvement, instituted by the District. The corrections are easily made, as was shown below the District line. When these are con- tinued and the road is made smooth and clear and safe throughout it will be a credit to Maryland. It is today a discredit. ¢ T — ; Washington Cannot, Alrport night at the Board of* Trade on Monday was & great success. Mem- bers of the board and their guests were stirred to enthusiasm by addresses of prominent speakers on the National Capital's need for an adequate mu- nicipal landing field to care for the travel. Each speaker stressed the im- portance of work and more work on the part of Washingtonians in order that this desired project may be car- ried out and every Washingtonian at the meeting was imbued anew with flaming civic spirit. But, despite the success of the meet- ing, just where does it leave the problem of securing an airport for Washington? Is the enthusiasm, not by any manner of means aroused for the first time on Monday night, all that is needed to carry the project through? Or is the enthusiasm of politically impotent ~Washingtonians for & municipal need merely a futile thing? If hearty indorsement of & project by a united community is all that is necessary Washington would long since have had an airport, but the THE EVENING subterfuges have been employed. Men and women of culture and refinement have been forced in their latter days to accept the most menial, most hu- miliating and difficult tasks in order to make a bare living. This is not a pleasant story. Not all of it has been told. Not all of it can ever be told because the sufférers have made little complaint as a rule, realizing the uselessness of protest and petition. Their friends, seeking their aid through a liberalization of the scale, have done their best to get amelioratory legislation. Now some success is in sight. In the name of mercy, in the name of justice and in the name of national self-respect this measure of relief, slight as it is, should become law. ———— Re-Enter the Fiacre. Readers of French fiction are familiar with the fiacre, or hackney coach. Be- fore the advent of the automobile the flacre was the ultimate in public per- sonal vehicles in Paris. ‘The hero hailed a flacre when he took the heroine to the opera. The villain hopped into one as he set out on his nefarious work. No French writer of fiction, whether of the short story or of the novel, could get along without this convenient vehicle. Since the taxicab usurped the scene there has been, to many readers, a de- cline in French fiction. Certainly there is nothing particularly romantic about taxis. The heroic role which they played in conveying French soldiers to the front during the march on Paris helped give them charm to the world- wide general reader, but it was not suf- ficlent to make them a true literary vehicle, Now comes news from Paris of a strike of taxi drivers, with the subse- quent reappearance on the streets of actual fact appears to be that despite Monday night's meeting the airport situation is precisely in the same shape as it was before. It is Congress that must work and legislate for an airport. District cit- izens by the very fact that they are District citizens can do neither. It is indubitably up to Congress to work to set the wheels going for the establish- ment of a landing fleld at the Nation's Capital. It is Congress that must de- cide where the fleld is to be, that must appropriate money for its construction and see to it that work on a four or five year project be.started at the ear- llest opportunity. Congress must do all of these things; the citizens of Washington cannot. And after Congress, as it only has the power to do, has pushed forward to completion & badly needed Federal and civic airport, then the question of pay- ment can be settled between the Federal Government and the municipality. That is the only way that an airport can be secured for the city. This question has been agitated for more than two years by Washingtonians who felt that the National Capital was being grossly discriminated against in the rapidly expanding chain of mu- nicipal atrports. And because it had no adequate fleld Washington nearly lost its chance to be identified with the North and South airmail route. Only through the courtesy of the War De- partment have mail planes been able to utilize temporarily the Army base at Bolling Field, and there is no telling how long this permission will be con- tinued. So that despite two years or more of agitation and work on the part of Washingtonians the airport project is almost in the same condition as when it was begun. Congress, which must decide, has not decided on a site, on the size of the fleld, on how much it 1 to cost, or how soon it is to be started, on the approximate length of time for completion or on the equitable method for sharing the costs between the Federal and local governments. None of these things has been decided and it is obvious that nothing can be done until all of them are. Washington is Btates, his ability to obtain inside in- formation regarding the plans of the Government or his access to the secret files of Government establishments. Buch letters have become boomerangs with a nasty sting. It is one thing to boast in private of one’s influence. It s another to have the boast exposed. Out of these lobby hearings there may come the passage of legislation, futilely sought in former sessions, pro- viding for the proper registration of lobbyists and tending to encourage open lobbying, openly arrived at. Such legisla- tion may help. But it might be better policy to have a lobbying investigation committee sitting throughout the ses- slons of Congress, before which lobby- ists would be invited to appear and de- clare themselves. Such a committee would provide the lobbyists with fine publicity. And it would assist the em- ployers of the lobbyists to test their tlaims before writing out the checks. ———— New copy books should be devised for young students who, when they are grown, will be expected to write clearly in the small open spaces of income tax blanks. - Homicide proceeds with no trace of eonsideration for the hard-working police who are already overwhelmed with unfinished business. — o Wisconsin Avenue. At a meeting of the Montgomery County Civic Federation the other night attention was given to the mat- ter of the improvement of Wisconsin avenue from the District boundary to the Old Georgetown road junction in anxious for an airport and is willing to pay its equitable share, but further than that Washington cannot go. ————— Bandits who robbed a grocery store of $80 would have shown more discern- ment of values if they had stolen the groceries. P Air travel is to be made less expen- sive. Timid passengers find the price of & ticket the least of their worries. —————————— Pass the Dale Bill. Hope is entertained that the Dale bill, which has passed the Senate four times and the House once, and which was pocket-vetoed by President Cool- idge on the 4th of March last, will be passed by the House at this session, and, the Senate having already acted, will thus go to the President for his approval. This measure liberalizes the Federal retirement act, particularly in increasing the maximum of annuities from $1,000 to $1,200 and the average from $741 to $860. Certain changes are proposed in the retirement ages. While this measure is not entirely satisfactory to the Government em- ployes, who are paying monthly from their salaries into a retirement fund, which now amounts to $145,000,000, it is probebly the utmost that can be ob- tained at this time in the way of a more liberal :scale of annuities. Those who are pressing for this legislation on behalf of present and prospective an- nuitants feel that it is far better to ac- cept the possible than to seek for the ideal legislation for which there 1s little chance of enactment now. The present annuity scale is cruelly low. It was established experimentally Bethesda. The matter was referred to a committee for consideration and re- port, and it is probable that at the next meeting steps will be taken to bring the situation to the point of cor- rection. Wisconsin avenue has for a good many years been in a deplorable condition. Originally one of-the main arteries of approach to Washington from the North, it suffered from suc- cessive changes that instead of im- proving caused a deterioration of sur- face and of alignment. Street railway tracks were laid, now on the sifle, again in the center. ‘To traverse the road for | ings that have been endured by the s dozen miles from its Georgetown | annuitants who have been forced out terminal outward meant constant twist- when there was no assurance of the way in which the sustaininc fund would develop. It is' now evident that ac- tuarial errors or miscalculations were made at the outset in respect to this fund, which has increased beyond ex- pectations and is now adequate to care for even more than the proposed in- creases in annuities. But again con- servatism prevalls and the proposal is for only a part of the differential be- tween the existing and the equitable scales. No one will ever know all the suffer- the French capital of antiquated horse cabs, with great success. It is an il wind, indeed, which blows no one good. Here, at one and the same time, the horse comes into its own again, and, it portents are not mistaken, French fic- tion immediately will take on new life. De Maupassant made one of his most engaging heroes throw himself beneath the wheels of a cab, which was as good a way as any, perhaps, of helping a novelist solve an unsolvable situation. He could not have done it with a taxi- cab. The strike of the Parisian taxi drivers may lead to great things again. Assurances that he has been enjoying every minute of his American visit prove that Gen. Smuts is equipped to meet tests not only of diplomacy, but of physical endurance. The enthusiasm of hospitality is as inexorable as it is gratifying in its demands on a hero of the hour. ————————— Every great conference is, strangely enough, preceded by announcements by eminent personages of things they will never agree to. — . Aviation experts insist that Washing- ton, D. C, cannot be a model city unless it has a model dirport. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. The Smile Perfunctory. "Most every day I hear a song ‘Which says: No matter what goes wrong, All will be well, you'll surely find, If you will speak a word that’s kind, And all the world will be & hit If you will smile and never quit. And s0, true happiness to win, I have arranged a careful grin Whose permanence awakes my pride. It now seems almost petrified. In truth, I am compelled to say, My friends begin to turn away And intimate in language rough My kindliness is all a bluff. They say my superficial style Is proved by this incessant smile, And so myself I'd better be, With utterances frank and free, ‘Than try to pose as what I ain't And be an imitation Saint. - Best Possible Influence. “Washington, D. C., is rapidly be- coming a model city.” “It could not be otherwise,” an- swered Senator Sorghum, “with so many of us statesmen concentrating on it.” Jud Tunkins says every once in a while some ailment suddenly becomes so famous that you don’t feel sure whether it's & malady or a fad. Universal Talents. My radio! My radio! I hear you night and day, And all the people here below Spend life at song or play. Suspicious Nature. “He is so kind!” said the lady who has long remained unmarried. “In what way?” asked Miss Cayenne. “He has spent hours assisting me with my income tax return.” “Are you sure whether he is trying to be helpful, or looking for informa- tlon.” “Gold is fortunate,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “so long as it re- mains a load in the purse and not a weight on the conscience.” High Cost of Reform. Prosperity has grown 8o great That figures grow immense. Our morals now we cultivate And stop at no expensel “If you makes trouble for others,” sald Uncle Eben, 'you’s gineter find every time dat you has a heap left over ¢ for yohse'f.” ) Sigh of Relief Traced. Prom the Akron Beacon Journal. The sigh of relief you hear indicates that the last toy fails to squeak when it is squeezed. ——o—————— Settling Affairs of Honor. From the Haverhill Gazette. ‘The abolition by Virginia of the leg islators’ oath against fighting duels may be a 1 for a revival of an ancient and t custom of settling affairs of honor. ——— et Crisis in China, of active service under the operations Prom the Duluth Herald. ing and shifting with narrowings of | of the retirement law, compelled to| To China every crisis is just another roadway causing dangerous congestion, | drop from bare living compensation | milepost on the road to nowhere in par- in places impassable barriers in the; to pittances. Unquestionably lives have center of the highway in the form of | been shortened through sheer lack of unpaved and off-grade tracks. Recently the District has improved | shelter and clothing in the straitened | From circumstances into which the United | Mo ‘Wisconsin avenue to widening the traffic way ‘g the center trolley pol the boundary, clearing States forced its faithful workers after of many years of service. nutrition, through the 'need of proper Shameful o Benefits of Hard Work. the Fort Wayne News-Sentirel. be hard work never harmed any one, but we've never noticed any very benefits frogk carrying out a couple of tubs full <. THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES B. TRACEWELL, ‘The age at which men cease to be friendly conatitutes an lntrl'u\nr sub- ject. It varies with the individual temperament, of course, but in general it may be sald to come when three things happen 1. When he sees that no one is going to help him except himself. 2. en he definitely, although with Ir;kr.:.t. glves up most of his youthful eals. 3. When he ceases to belleve in miracles, ‘This phenomenon is to be observed in any business establishment in any city in our broad land. We would not say that it is an urban disease, or that it exists not in the country; it is simply more prevalent in towns, and much more easily observed there. Men have taken all sorts of precau- tlons against it. The tremendous in- creases in luncheon clubs, given over to good works and cheerful words, are un- consclous anecdotes, helping largely to contradict this plain condition. Another method to checkmate the enemy is to deny his very existence. Thus many will refuse to admit that any such thing happens at all. will say that introspection has found evils which do not exist, and will de- clare heatedly that men, as a class, be- come more friendly as the years go by, as they come individually nearer the great parting. Yet nothing is surer, in a world which is inhabited by so many millions of men, and which has been the tempo- rary homes of £0 many billions, that all of them are and have been strangely alike in basic mental characteristics. We were reading recently in a book by & Russian mystic, a novel laid in the days of Akhnaton, Egyptian sun worshiper. The conversation, the very thought patterns, might have been out of a novel about twentieth century folk. Was this right? Should the reader not have been given a quantity of “thees” and “thous”? Second thought convinced us that the writer was right: expres- sions which would have convinced the reader as Egyptian would have over- thrown the sense of reality which the author wished to create. Just as the conversation of far-off times was essentially like that of today, 80 most characteristics of mankind have changed little over the centuries, in the great basic details. That is why one who observes that there is an age at which men tend to become unfriendly need not be afraid of stating his obser- vations. What he has seen in himself and others he may feel sure others have noticed in themselves, too. * ok K K ‘The unfriendly attitude mostly arises between the ages of 30 and 40 years. The victim may be totally unconscious of it. He is hurt at mankind, and turns in on himself. He gives I:E his fellow men, and shows it outwardly in many ways. For just one, the old- time cheery greeting to assoclates dis- appears. It is the great, unspoken renunciation, all the more terrible because men do not speak of it. Great ideals, such as ro- mantic love, are seen to be nine-tenths imagination, the product of the one ro- mantic ereature in the wide world, the male of the human species. It is the age when men begin to buckle down to life in earnest. They put off the playboy attitude, at times trying to make up for it by a consclous approximation of the old splendor. Have you ever seen a typical business man who hasn't taken a vacation in 10 years attempting to enjoy himself on a fishing expedition? No boy acls more foolish—and yet there is something hol- Jow about it. He is conscious the time that his heart is not in it. The next day the “boys” talk it all over, and he is the object of wonder. A drop o0 much out of & certain bottle, it is held, was partly responsible for his gayety. They do not know that it was the dark drops out of the bottle of time which ‘They ing had got into his ing up his heels for a sion, before ‘worn world of He was kick- last fling at illu- wolidly into the dle age. * ok k x A man becomes unfriendly, alt] h he may make some effort to col it, or even when he knows it not, when he sees that no one is going to help him except himself. In the world of business, that important sphere which engulfs most of America, there should be two ways of treatment, one for young men, and one for middle- aged, but in the vast majority of cases no distinction is made. youn, who is breaking into the game has high hopes, illusions, the desire to * good” to buoy him up, but the older man, who has achieved some measure of making good, is left to his own de- vices. The thrill of achievement is not as keen as it once was, although the achlevements themselves may be twice as solid. The only method which would put the old-time “kick” back into the lives of millions of workers would be some system of stated rewards follow- on the accomplishments of loyalty, sincerity and trueness to institution. It is vastly to the credit of the United States Government that this is exactly what _has been attempted in the re- classification system. The realization that one is forgotten is @ disaster, all the more so because it 1s s0 common. It is & youthful ideal, that cause and effect follow remorse- lessly; the acceptance of the idea that no one is w-whln‘a'mn to help him, or even care if he fails or succeeds, is t| loss of a tremendously helpful idea of youth. The Father and Mother com- plex lasts a great deal farther into some lives than into others. When it goes, however, something precious goes with it, and the man tightens up his soul, an outward manifestation being a desire to shrink from further contacts with his fellows. * ok % % He becomes unfriendly, most of all, when he ceases to believe in miracles. We do not mean biblical miracles, of course, but solely that great urge in every young man worth while which makes him feel that somewhere just around the corner Lady Luck is wait- ing to bestow upon him her sweetest smiles. Napoleon believed in his star until middle age kicked his precious faith out of his hands, and after that there was nothing for it but Waterloo and St. Helena. When a man discovers at last that Lady Luck even isn't looking in his di- rection, he tends to curse her kind and to take it out on his own. Hence he ceases smiling as broadly as he once did; he shrinks within himself, hoping inst hope to be permitted to dream about her. He may dream, but in his dreams the lady has become ugly and inimical, and he knows that he elf is just as old and twice as ugly. And that is where middle age plays its_helpless votaries a sorry trick, for unless they consciously use their minés and hearts to overcome themselves, it makes them as the great mass of men, unable mnd with courtesy ‘to a chance made by an unknown on the street, unable even to smile in return when an associate, not yet sunk beneath the tide, attempts to back from the depths into W] have sunk. ‘The heart and mind, then, stand out in this field as they do in all the others of this life. There is no escaping the heart and mind. We put the emotions first because we believe them to be the most important. The mind has been overtrained, the emotions have gone their own wild, natural way. With the aid of properly controlled mind and emotions a man may postpone or even prevent the formation of the age at which he ceases to be friendly. It will be hard work, though, and there is little doubt that he will never get to finish it. 1l them they WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS raged by the success which at- tended :‘ha ’non.ug?fimg‘mmd'l:m authorization for pul en- acted before Christmas, House commit~ tee hearings now in progress on $100,000,000 rivers and harbors bill are being expedited with a view to speed- ing the bill to safe and early passage. Congress has responded with alacrity the ident’s tion that one way e Tment's ‘own. publc 5] ernment’s works. House and Senate are waiting for no second invitation nor stan on ceremony. Post offices, roads, bri rivers, harbors and canals, monuments, barracks, hospitals, any and every project under the sun which involves the spending of money anywhere within recinct is being rushed for- 4 1t is a policy the Republicans, Democrats and insurgents, the Old Guard and the Young Turks, the East and the West and the South are all in accord. It is a glorious opportunity for service, doubly welcome after the lean years for rk barrel under the stern Mr. Cool= fifn. who was forever preaching econ- omy and budgets, and forever frowning upon raids on the Treasury. E To those persons who are still fol- lowing the tariff bill, fairly well blotted from sight by the welter of prohibition discussion, it may be of interest to note that with the completion of the' sugar schedule there still remain three sched- ules, paper, sundries and the free list, be disposed of in the order named. many other things, categories. It will be Febru 1 at the earliest before the Senate have completed the first reading of the bill for committee amendments. After that the Senate goes back to the and starts on the bill all over again for individual amendments from the floor. One Senator is reported to have 87 such amendments in his coat pocket. Many members have a dozen or two aplece, so the end is as yet scarcely within hailing distance. * ok ko The Anti-Saloon League executive committee, meeting this week in De- troit, heard from Dr. Ernest H. Cher- rington, thelr managing director, that “the present critical period makes im- perative a new edutational campaign.” He estimated that $50,000,000 would be required by the league to finance the “adequate program” which he outlined. Contributions for the cause of alcohol- free America will be welcome. Coinci- dentally, Bishop Cannon, the leader of the Southern Methodists, says the issue is no longer prohibition enforcement but the maintenance of constitutional government, and suggests to Congress that dollars do not count when “sup- pression of anarchy” is required, and alludes to $200,000,000 as a possible re. Encou: * K ok K Dame Rumor having failed to entice Calvin Coolidge into the Senate is now toying with his name for the United States Supreme Court. It is easy to theorize that vacancies on the court are apt to occur before 1932 rolls around, and that our only\ ex-President in private life could with dignity ac- ccfi such a place, and that his pointment would be hailed by "KE country as icularly lp&r;, riate. Such speculations ignore Mr. Ym:e's mfl(‘mll taste or the fact that, though i8 a lawyer by profession, he no claims to being a jurist. i sequent events demonstrate that quit public life for all time to come, then it is much more likely that after completing his present nl‘rprm"tuhlp he will graduate into a full-fledged life insurance company president. * ok ok % ‘Though the Radio Commission as a Federal agency has received a new lease of life, the terms of the entire it board e: by limitation on February 23, and President has given no sign yet as to what course he proposes to follow, whether he will reappoint all F b he has the present commissioners, or make up s new slate. When Thad H. Brown, the | ago, was moved over vision of the Federal Power Commis- sion to the post of chief counsel for the Radio Commission, the first of the year, reports were current that he was being groomed for a radio commissionership. * ok WA Mrs. Edith Nourse Rogers, Massachu- setts Representative, has been inter- viewed on & multiplicity of subjects in the course of her busy Winters and Summers in Washington, but no one has asked her why she wears a corsage bouquet of orchids or of gardenias every day that Congress is in session, and where she gets her never-failing supply of these very beautiful and costly blossoms. Or if they have asked her they have not found out. * ok w oK Echoes of the 1928 presidential cam- were heard here this week in con- with the candidacy of Oliver D. Street, Republican national committee- man from Alabama, for the vacant Fed- eral l“fll“h? in the middle district of that State formerly held by the late Henry D. Clayton, author of the anti- trust act which his name. In the height of the 1928 battle Mr. Street was charged with the circulation of anti-Smith propaganda which directly brought in the religlous issue, for which indiscretion he drew a_well mannered letter of protest from Republican Na. tional Chairman Work. This incident is now being re-e: bar to his availability for the judgeship and according to reports has put Mr. Hoover in a quandary. (Copyrisht, 1930.) % | Improved Roads Take Mudsock Out of Mud From the Columbus Ohto State Journal. Mudsock has lost its reputation as the muddiest place on any highway in PFranklin County and will need to have & new name given it. For years it has been Mudsock by name and mudsock in fact. The cross-road section was a place to be avoided by drivers when there had been rain. The ground in the highway was soft. Tt was a mixture of clay of that clinging kind that would fill a wagon wheel and stop the team; that would let an suto down in the mud to the hub and leave it there until a team was hired to pull it out. Drivers had many grievous experiences in trying to haul light loads over the roads in the Mudsock neighborhood. Now it has been changed. The cross- road section has been improved, There is still some finishing work to be done, but the hard-surface paving is in place for use and the people who use the roads are enjoying from mud that is new and welcome. The flelds in the Mudsock neighborhood are fertile. ‘There are good farmers in charge. Fine crops are grown, meadows yleld abun- dantly, the dairy herds are valuable and bring large sums of money to the farmers each month. With good roads these people have been taken out of the .| mud. ~There is no other place in the good county where the advantages of roads are more clearly in evidence, no place where highways were more sadly needed. There should be a home- coming celebration arranged to give fitting observance to the important fact fit Mdudmk has been taken out of ‘mud. o Phone Companies Suspected. From the Hamilton, Ontario, Spectator. More than a million poles were erect- ed by telephone companies in the last mr. ‘The suspicion will not down that i has scouts out all lawns to dig up: e | seat Senator Dene u STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15 1930. Politics at Large Hanna McCormick, Representative at large from Illinois, daughter of the late Mark Hanna, one-time boss of the Re- publican party in national affairs, and widow of Senator Medill McCormick. Senator McCormick was defeated for renomination in 1924 by Senator De- ter | neen, which adds point to the contest by Mrs, McCormick to un- , The Illinois pri- mary date is April 8. Both of the can- didates are engaged in an active drive for the nomination, which is considered tantamount to election in the Repub- lican State of Illinois, which has had no Democratic representative in the Upper House since Senator “J, W Lewis, who came to the top of the heap during the Bull Moose split of the Re- publican p‘l’f-}'“ . No other primaries are held this year in April. May has a list of five pri- maries fixed by law, including those in Alabama and Pennsylvania. Ructions of major proportion are already - ised in those two primaries, Alabama to the determination of the Democrats who followed Al Smith in 1928 to keep Senator “Tom” Heflin out of the primary. In Pennsylvania, Wil- llam S. Vare, Philadelphia Republican boss, who was denied a seat in the Senate recently because of excessive ex- penditures and fraud in the 1926 pri- mary, has insisted he will seek vindica- tion at the hands of the people of his State, notwithstanding the fact that the Republican organization, outside of Philadelphia, is bent on nominating “Old Joe” Grundy, the sitting Senator under appointment by Gov. Fisher to fill the vacancy caused by the ommnfntl) Vare. If Vare sticks to his determina- tion to be a candidate for the senatorial nomination, former Gov. Pinchot, ardent dry, progressive and reformer generally, may make it a three-cornered race, be- lieving that there are enough Pennsyl- d to both Vare and Grundy who support him. He won his way into the gubernatorial chair some years -50 because there was a row between two factions of the regular Re- publican organization. * ok kX Gov. Pinchot, who has recently re- turned from a seven-month trip in the South Seas, is keeping close tabs on the Pennsylvania situation. There is not the slightest doubt but that he would be glad to get into the race, if the situation develops which may give him a chance. The former governor believes vania voters op] that the political stable in Pennsyl- vania needs a cleaning. His decision in this matter, however, is likely to walt until after the organization picked its candidate for governor, which may take place at an early ‘There is always the possibility Mr. Vare may receive some - be content to date. that tion in this matter and sen: primary, lflmufiw (3"&;‘;‘r . the : behind enator Grundy, as power the throne in Pennsylvania politics; president of the Pennsylvania Manu- facturers’ Association, eomuunu‘ op- posed labor legislation, woman and other measures in which the pro- gressives have been interested, it is said. If Gov. Pinchot into the race, prohibition is likely to be a major issue in the campaign for the sena- torial nomination, along with a de- mand that Pn,:ns‘ylvmm. clean house. * x Forty-two of the 48 States of the Union hold nominating primaries for col al and senatorial elec- tions, and many of them nominate for governor by the primary route. Six of the, States nominate by party conven- tion. They are Idaho, Connecticut, Delaware, New Mexico, Rhode Island and Utah. So far the only date fixed for the party convention is in Idaho, where Senator Borah must stand for renomination. No one has the slightest doubt that the distinguished Senator from Idaho will be renominated and re-elected. The convention in comes on August 26. which hold primaries, Georgia has no day fixed by law for “Lhn ev;x;&mbulmyflm be declg;: ipon e tion. ;:ll list of primary dates for the States in éuua newspaper on oast?—B. L. oldest ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. ‘There is no other agency in the world that can answer as many te questions as our free Information Bu- reau in Washington, D. O. This high- Iy organized institution has been bulilt up and is under the direction of Frederic J. Haskin. By in constant touch with Federal bureaus and other educational enterprises it is in a position to pass on to authori- tative information of the highest order. Sybmit your queries to the staff of ex- ts wi services are put at your disposal, ‘There is no charge ex- cept 2 cents in coin or stamps for re- turn postage. Address The Evening Star Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, director, Washington, D. C. Q. When will the new part of the Dej ent of Agriculture Building be O ork s progressing well and 1t . or] P is planned to have it completed by the end of March, 1930. Q. Why were the members of the d of the King of England called beef eaters?—L. H. A. Many years ago, When brawn was prized above brains, the men compos- ing the bodyguard were selected for their great size. In order to keep them in physical trim, each was given an al- lowance of 2 pounds of beef dally. Q. What is the oldest foreign-lan- Western A. The Fren du je$ established in San Fran- cisco in 1852, Later in the same year a German m the California Demo- krat, was s 5 Q. What is polyphonic ? Was Amy Lowell the first to write it?—F. C. A. The term "pol{ghonlc prose” sometimes used as the equivalent of vers libre or free verse. Free verse was by no means originated by the late Amy Lowell. There are examples of it in an- clen:‘ literature, such as the Old Testa- men! Q. When was the first census taken In Great Britain? When will the next census be taken?—L. P. A. The first complete census in Great Britain was not taken until 1801. Be- fore that time authorities had estl: mated the English population in 1570 at 4,160,221, in 1670 at 5,773,646. The census of 1801 showed the population of the United Kingdom to be 10,500,956. Since then the census has been taken every 10 years. The next one will be made in 1931, 5 Ql Wého invented the accordion?— "A.The Etude says that s form of accordion by Damian in lishman, Sir out a patent for a concertina. Q. In the Spring of the year there is about a half-acre tract of Iwe:: in ponent when combined in a vector diagram, with the vector representin, the original velocity with the wind, Wlfi obviously give a velocity on the new course greater than that on its original course. In other words, the speed of the iceboat on & suitably chosen course, at an angle to the wind, will be greater than the speed of the iceboat when running directly before the wind if the friztion of the skate is ignored. Q. Is George Arliss & Jew?—F, J. S. A. He is not. He is the son of Wil- liam Arliss Andrews and is president of g]‘; Episcopal Actors’ Guild of Q. Why are whippets always in short races?—L. L. F. i A. A whippet can run 200 yards in 12 seconds. It is never permitted to run long races, since with its speed it would soon tire. n Q. When did Coney Island become & pleasure resort?—A. S. A. Coney Island in 173¢ came into the possession of Thomas Stilwell. The earliest known hotel was the Coney Island House, erected in 1829, It be- came an amusement center in 1844 with the erection of a pavilon. By :;:l of le‘tllhture of 192 s 9,000 feet shore frontage was made a public bathing beach. o Q. Why is & cat said to have nine lez?—AC. D. P, . An ancient Egyptian supposition :l::}ele ll}uls tol;r;he bellef that a cat has ves. e cat-headed dess Pasht was said to have nine hv!g.odshn was called the mother cat of the :,flchu ln;lhwu beg:eved by Egyptians possess the numl f 1 v tributed to the moder:'l %IB, o ustd o piten when ¢ shoula be pai when staff?>—W. L. R. o e A. The use of the term “half mast” in preference to half staff is undoubt= edly due to the fact that it was origi- nally a nautical observance. Capt. Smith’s Seaman’s Grammar as early as :fl;"mk:! hr:lr‘zrem:a to the flying of ai mast as s 4 mourning. o Q. What is the endurance record HfiAe flm“ ?——L.d l;- J. = ik . The record for endurance kite fly- ing is held by Eugene Lecky, 15 yn{l old, of Brooklyn, who has succeeded in fiying a kite for 48 consecutive hours. Q. Is there a breed of elephan is always white?—G. A. N R A. The Biological Survey says that 1l is no such breed as the white elephant. Merely an occasional albinis- tic specimen occurs as in all animals. Q. What Presidents were nominal in Baltimore?—F, J. S. = A. Presidential candidates nominated Baltimore, w! became President were .{mukugie 1“2:l 'Vslzln ml;luren. 1836; Polk, 3 ree, H coln, 1864; ‘Wilson, 1912. e Q. From whom are the Irish descended?—M. M. o A. invaded by the Ireland g the Celtic , 500 B.C. Between 300 Goidels, speakin; in about 600 or and 150 B.C. various tribes invaded the country, including the Belgae and the 3 ’s time these two tribes inhabited both Britain and Ire- tly land. ‘There were also the Iberians or Hiberians, which originally occupied is | the whole of the islands, but had been driven westward by the Goidels. . What are th bined unq le combined assets of com] ?—J. C. H. A. estimated total assets of the the | 45 largest life insurance companies of America at the close of business, De- mber 81, 1928, were over $12,000,000,~ Obstacles to Peace Obvious, But U. S. Places Hope in Parley Comment on the statement by Presi- dent Hoover on the departure of the American delegation to the London Naval Conference reveals the fact that many believe it will stand at the head of all such efforts in history. The wise choice of delegates is a subject of trib- ute, the complexity of the problem is universally recognised, and the effect of all peace endeavor on world psy- te. chology is made a major feature of xploited as & possible . *New Hampshire. *Vermont .. Washington “*Massachusetts .September 16 *New York... .September 16 *Maryland, Sq gmmber 8 to 15 inclusive. The asterisk indicates those States in which governors will be nominated and elected in 1930. * K K X ‘The entire membership of the House comes up for re-election, and one- of the Senate, plus some Senators who are filling vacancies caused by death and resignation. It is early to make predictions regtdlng the elections themselves, which do not take place until November 4. The Republicans have a huge majority in the House, with a lead over the Democrats of ap- proximately 100. The Democrats may be expected to regain a number of seats in Southern and border States which were carried by the Republicans in the landslide in 1928. But they are comparatively few, located in Kentucky, Virginia and North Carolina. The Democrats must win in many other States if they are to make a real dent in the Republican majority of the House. Their chances for a greater proportionate l:ln‘l\e. lx;v.he Senate. The Democratic national organiza- tion, through its new set-up in Wash- ington, with Jouett Shouse, former member of the House and former As- sistant Secretary of ‘Treasury, as hfl"n:lrmnn of its executive committee, polit tween tical N . It has undertaken to arouse | mi he voters against the Republican tariff. It has had wide publicity for its at- tacks upon the Republican tariff and the Republican administration. congressional and senatorial elections the Democrats have a better chance than in the presidential contests under the present set-up, its may be wet or dry and win in the various States in which they run in these con- al elections. But in a national ml?{fi‘mhp&mfim“ 8t. Louis Post- os gets the world: “gef e world, with all its fears and suspicions, its o "glfl! in that l.n'.ld ‘ht: 3 imaf relationship,” continues this paper, trust conquer distrust, as within galt“{lmlud el.rv:lfc alone can wisdom olly. Mr. Hoover sa the nations participating have the wm to bring about an end to competition in construction of naval arms and so lessen the burden of these it arma- ments upon themselves. If they per- sist in t will, they cannot - point him, however great the diffic ho tedious the and however i o ge 'l'::éko:f:" tes :lw:ge po:!lnli ?i Vaporal va) a vast hypocrisy.” The City Times concludes as to the probable naval limitation results: “Great Britain is likely to determine the minimum, but the hope is that the minimum will mean reasonable limitation and per! duction. Whatever it is, nol has followed Mr. Hoover's policy in this matter will be afraid the American dele- gation will consert to and the Senate approve any.plan that will keep the ";l‘tgd States in relatively weak posi- Emphasizing the importance of France, the Birmingham News states: “French statesmen sincerely believe that the navy should be stronger than it is, when they reflect that their country has a vast colonial empire, recently in- creased by the addition of Syria. This empire France is resolved to defend as dauntlessly as she would defend Alsace- Lorraine. Her entire history teaches her that not to be prepared to defend her territory, whether inside or outside her natural frontiers, is suicidal in that it courts the risk of war abroad an I;nv!m civil insprrection at home. . should not be coddled at London, but France should be treated there in the light of difficulties age- long in their persistence and never quite so perturbing to French states- men and the French people as these difficul * * s Amer- ties_are nowadays. ica and France have for more than importance of the mission upon which they have been sent.” “President Hoover does well to em- phasize both the mflrfine& of their mission and the ties of task,” avers the Newark Evening for, in the judgment of that ‘b%:?fi', “the conference is full of possi les, :,l‘tlllwugh no on!l_dl-l'es to predict they be real “There is truly bright t for & large measure of success in the confer ence,” asserts kong Beach Press- Telegram, assuming that the modifi French position *“means limitation.” The Ann Arbor Daily News comments, “America has set the pace by offering to ‘go the limit,’ and now it remains for the other nations to determine what that limit, by mutual ent, can be. It is dificult to see, then, how the conference can fail. How much success be e is the only serious question as the American dele= gation sails across the Atlantic “If the meeting should fail,” thinks the Providence Journal, “or even should reach inconclusive agreements, there would be as much reason—perhaps more—for apprehension as there has been in the midst of curcumstances that inspired the movement for another naval control conference.” The Madi- son Wisconsin State Journal, however, holds that while “it may take a gen- eration to work the matter out, if every year or two there continues to be sn international conference heading in the direction of permanent peace, the world will reach that destination by the sheer force that lles in the habit of thinking mr‘i‘:d peace as a thing devoutly to be “There is undoubtedly an atmosphere of tolerance which hitherto has not " says the Little Rock Arkan- sas Democrat, while the New Orleans Times-Picayune contends: “The task of meeting objections will develop in considerable part upon the American delegates. Their countrymen wish them success, but realize that their work is not going to be easy.” ‘The Kansas City Journal-Post con- cludes: “The American delegation is able and well balanced and shares the high purposes of President Hoover. But it s not so blinded by a philosophy of pacifism as not to be able to see the actualities. The best wishes of the en- lightened world are for the real suc- cess of the conference.” o Spokane Is Divided Over Change in Time Prom the Spokane Spokesman-Review. Advocates of a change to mountain time concede that, while Spokane on present Pacific time is only 10 minutes d | off sun time, a change to mountain time would throw it 50 minutes off sun time. But they counter against that with the argument that by changing to mountain time, the daylight period would be evenly divided by the noonday break of one hour. ‘The explanation is made that the customary noon hour, from 12 to 1, as measured on solar time, is entirely taken out of the latter half of the daylight period; mtllvflMHMnDWur if communities on solar time Pef- | had taken the midday hour from 11:30 1d | to_12:30. movemen the whole world; any ment on methods for con! will barriers against the fact is be considered that long before the try was divided into four zones of sta: d when communities eve were on true solar time, the rule was rsal to take the noonday hour from 12 to 1. n'.h;' blic_settled down Apparentl; to '-glt dlvhwy work da; .