Evening Star Newspaper, January 30, 1930, Page 8

EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. THURSDAY, JANUARY' 30, 1930 % e ‘ ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. tain THE EVENING STAR iy - —ML “ Jtions. ‘Thus no tax bills can WASHINGTONW, D. C. out for revenues two years THURSDAY....January S0, 1930 |the present reassessment is completed. Not only are the salary pay THEODORE W. NOYES. ...Editor |atrears, but there is no cash in han to meet the requirements of the pension The Evening Star Company nz‘%%g list. These disbursements are due Feb- 3 ‘Tuary 6, to the amount of $97,000, to ko) meet which the county board has only Repent don, | $60,000 in hand. Rate by Carrier Within the City. cents on the dollar on that date. They ‘staroC YT OO0tE | are Jucky to get as much as that, being i“;.“'m sixty per cent better off than the peo- s - -g;:'nfiphonmwum.mmmg b nal S An effort is to be made to get money from New York, and yet there is no reason for hope that the bankers there will take a risk that the Chicago bankers refuse. This is decidedly a case where charity must begin at home. oo| Danger arises now in Chicago from m the reactions of the sufferers and their sympathizers. Communists are threat- Member of ‘he Associated Press. ening to conduct a march on the City uanm Sxclusively entitled ) Hall, 15 demonstrate against the inef- ‘&?{-3‘7’»«“&'“ & %%2{&'&;’ fed: ( fctency that has bought ths city to its DubiiaBed beretie” Al 18his of publicatics of | Present plight and caused thousands to dlspatchs herein are aiso reserved. | suffer and to be exposed to deadly dis- = ease through lack of food and shelter. ibitis i In the highly wrought state of nerves The ::Tnzlt;::.i[:;::g;m are | 0 that community Chicago may experi- 1o be given another airing before a con- | ¢ ® shocking explosion of public gressional committee. The House judi- | " 20 ciary committee will hold hearings on P N various proposals of the “wets,” ranging mm' Congestion. from modification of the Volstead act| The main point of interest for the to repeal of the eighteenth amend- | ity 85 & whole in the controversy over ment. The decision of the chairman | transfer of seventh and eighth grade of the House committee, Mr. Graham |PuPlls from the Burroughs School, of Pennsylvania, and presumably of the | Dorth of Rhode Island avenue, to the ttee also, to grant these hear- | Langdon School, south of Rhode Island to the wets has been hailed far | 8venue, is that the case becomes typical wide as a great concession to the |Of the problem facing school authori- cause. It has even been published | ties when they go about relieving con- these coming hearings | gestion. “first hearings on wet pro-| One of the striking points brought posals to modify the national prohibi- [out in the series of articles on the the eighteenth | schools now running in The Star is the the eighteenth | contrast between crowded schools in went into effect.” How [one neighborhood and schools with 'ame and how brief is | many more seats than pupils in another memory! On April 5, 1926, & subcom- | neighborhood. The natural way to go mittee of the Senate judiciary com- |about relieving such congestion is by mittee began a serles of hearings on | transferring pupils from the crowded eight bills and four joint resolutions, {to the uncrowded school buildings. But all proposing some amendment of the | here, as in the case of the Burroughs national prohibition laws. It was a |School, the school authorities imme- hearing granted in particular to the | ditely become faced with the wrath of that their children should be the ones For days former Senator James A.|transferred. Reed of Missourl, the great inquisitor,| There is more than this, of course, in- 8s a member of the subcommittee, | volved in the transfer of Burroughs undertook to lay bare, through the School pupils to the new Langdon. The testimony of witnesses, wet and dry, the | Burroughs parents believe that relief in iniquities of prohibition. Indeed, thes | that school could be effected otherwise eighth grade students to a building and two volumes of testl- | that seems to need “filling up” and they were taken and are now part of | do not take kindly to the sehool board's perishable record, if any one policy of forming the nucleus for a new examine them. The hearings | junior high at Langdon. But the opened, quite naturally, by the|Rhode Island Avenue Citizens’ Associa- since it was their plea for a hear- | tion approves the board's policy and is that had been granted. The Senate | prepared to back it to the limit, committee had before it officials of the | The board, in the meantime, has al- Government, including former Prohibi- | ready considered the merits of the case, tion Czar Gen. Lincoln Andrews; repre- according to its own point of view, de- sentatives of wet and dry organisations, | spite the complaints of the Burroughs professors, students, | parents that they have been denied a clergymen and lay citizens. The sub- | fair hearing. What the merits are must committes labored mightily. Senator |be decided By the comstituted suthori- Reed even set up a still in the com- L3 pleasing to note that officlals of Burroughs Citizens’ Association re- substantiate'rumors that a “paf- strike” would follow fatlure to win case. Such “strikes,” in addition rather poor examples to the themselves, accomplish no good the end and are more colorful than ible as means of protest. ————— Derfection required of law ent officers should commend of wings with a harp and s design for a badge. ——— Clean the Walks! time for all good men to ald of humanity. The covered the sidewalks as the pavements. It is an un- heavy fall, one of the rare visi- lons that give Washington thrills and sniffies and other troubles. t government, barely able, at WOITy the snow off the middle streets, without the funds to tters, i powerless to com- lders to clean their walks. law to that effect, but it is Even now an attempt is being made to work out an effective statute that will yleld results in this di- rection. But this present snow finds the municipal government helpless in respect to the sidewalks. And it is to be feared that they will remain so for a long time. ‘Therefore it is the duty of the house- holder to clean the walks himself, the more 50 because there is no way to com- domestic employment merely puts a|Pel him to clean them. In those “good new complication tnto the already aim- | 0ld davs” of thirty ears ago or 8o, be- cult servant problem. =~ fore apartments were the rule, when al- =% . most all Washingtonians lived in their ‘When & tariff is under consideration | OWn individual homes, there was a cer- there is no greater injustice.than the | tain community spirit that impelled the that every man concerned | householder to get out with his shovel in national legislation is enjoying s |and broom immediately after the snow- fsll had ceased and push and scrape and brush away the white incumbrance, at least to the width of a footway. The resident who failed to do this or to have it done felt declassed. ‘Those were other days. Now there is much less individualism about the site uation. There are more apartment houses and many more apartment dwellers, who have no responsibility whatever for the state of the sidewalks after storm in Winter. The community spirit has flagged, in this respect. Side- walks are neglected without shame and without peril of the law. The snow packs down into hard masses, that be- come ice in the later stages, to cause the greatest discomfort and the most serious peril of crippling falls. ‘There is & decided sense of well-doing in a vigorous hout with & snowfall. It i?gg E: i 3 i1 il T | ] ¥ H £ i ow is i P to snowfall us 3 Eé L4 tive safety-valve for overwrought n and feelings. The country is still intent upon giving prohibition & chance to be effective. A program to strengthen the enforcement of the laws is already be- fore Congress, and a start has been made toward carrying out the program. ‘The wets insist that the law can never, never be enforced. And in consequence they are demanding repeal and modi- fication. No one can object in the slightest to & full presentation of facts. But it is possible that the fact that there i E : 7 § i i g | 2 E i over prohibition enforcement. ————— A violently resentful attitude on the An Acute Crisis in Chicago. With & heavy fall of snow in *his city the people of Washington are able to lor several weeks. Num- of them are being evicted from for fajlure to pay rent. daily taking more and court on this score, and families are being put into the street, ‘This, in Chicago has failed to clear up for the better, despite the efforts of citizens of influence to secure|of fingers, the sloshing of feet. The s large losn based on tax-anticipation |exercise of a sidewalk clearance is val- warrants. Bankers and wealthy in-|uable in itself. A snow shovel is better dividuals will not sdvance the money|than any mechanical “reducer” for the inasmuch as there is no security what- | preservation of that youthful figure ever. TFor the overdue taxes cannot|which middle age hopes for and often pending the revision of!fails to attain, s State Su- But whatever the motive, civic duty, is worth the endeavor, the brief nipping | baro: self—if there be one, which is not as- sured—is not the element of danger. It, whatever it may be, has supposedly destroyed some live stock, particularly Pigs. It has not attacked humans. It has most particularly avoided encoun- tering humans. It is & most elusive beast. But the panther hunters are them- selves the source of danger. They are shooting promiscuously and rather wildly. Already two casualties are at- tributed to panther hunters, fortunate- 1y neither very grave, though one might have been a fatality but for the slender- est margin of space in the direction of the shot. Inexperienced gunmen are out on the panther trall, with pistols and larger Weapons, some old guns, some new. Inasmuch as the panther is, in its real character, a rather awesome beast, the hunting of this particular “critter” is calculated to try the nerves of those who go forth on the trail, especially as most of them have never had any experience whatever in the pursuit of feline game. In such conditions guns are likely to be prematurely fired, or recklessly aimed. With a “jumpy” gunner anything may happen, in the dark. It is really- about time to ecall off the hunt. It has been a provokingly unproductive one. It has ylelded noth- ing in results, save disappointments. It has come close to taking two human | 9. Nature’s (Church (The Smoky Mountain National Park) (Dedicated to the Wild Flower Preservation Soclety) In prayer. The fragrance His hands in prayer. The air. Tall cohosh candles gleaming white Give light. The orchestra, a brook whose bed Has stones and moss on lichen covered rocks. The stringed instruments are fiddleheads And briar harps. A thrush, the soloist. Into the contribution box a red Squirrel drops a hickory nut then kneels and folds God must be everywhere. When weary and worn in body and mind, I go To church to recuperate. The floor of the church Is carpeted with ferns, the maidenhair And woodsia, make beautiful designs. The blossoms of the spotted wintergreen And Prince’s pine, pipsissewa, are bowed of wood incense fills BLANCHE C. HOWLETT. "THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL, ‘While book buyers, book sellers and book publishers have gone off in full cry after the glittering hound of sales, “Here is something new,” many a read- er, wearied with the attempt to keep up with the procession, gives it over and goes back to the good old things. While so engaged he comes upon the following magic words: “Human lite may be painted according to two meth- . There is the stage method. Ac- cording to that, each character is duly lives. Let those who have poultry and stock to lose to the night prowler safe- guard their property. Panthers can- not perform miracles of breaking and entering, as the indictments say. But even 20 it is far better to lose & few chickens or even pigs than to have to hold inquests over dead people, slain in the hunt of something that may after all be only visionary, the creature of an inflamed imagination. ———— Many a good town demands a sym- phony orchestra or & grand opers com- pany without knowing exactly how to penundeuuvubuctaaa]qmowor- tunities offered. Good salesmanship satisfles customers and is needed in art 2s well as in manufacture, ———— A sportsmanlike interest in the prize ring survives in spite of doubts occa- sionally wtn.uwvhmr.mm hnwreunxnmtunmmorn financier. ——t— Newspapers are to be Tepresented without restraint at the London confer- ence. The way to enable reporters to be accurate 15 to keep them fully in- formed. ————— Everybody wants to contribute with intelligent discrimination to the rellet of misfortune. The Community Chest glves everybody that opportunity, ———— SHOOTING STARS. —e BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. The Telephone Dial, O, lady of the telephones, ‘When we the dial use, Your customary gentle tones Tt will seem sad to lose! Our taste no more you can refine With “fife” instead of “five.” For “nigh-yon,” meaning merely “nine,” No longer will we strive. No more will we with sudden glee Try to attain your skill In uttering the number “thr-r-res” With an ecstatic tril, The dial figures, mute as stones, Wil cause us many a sigh— Oh, lady of the telephones, We'll hate to say “Good-byl” Introduction, "Domfillnkthhlmuonmm proposing will improve your political prospects?” “Of course,” answered Senator Sor- ghum. “Whenever a statesman intro- duces a measure in Congress, he does %0 in the hope that it will prove the life of the party.” Jud Tunkins says a gangster who re- formed got & job as & taxidriver. But he insisted on a car that backfired so the explosions would sound natural and homelike, The Wicked Thermom. To higher things my hopes aspire. The mercury flouts my desire And, like the market, breaks my heart, Backsliding with each upward start. Severe Test. “The man I marry must be a model of propriety.” “That's right,” answered Miss Cayenne, “Before you think of accepting any suitor, require him to pass a rigid examination as a prohibition agent.” “I never seek to punish or upbraid an enemy,” sald Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown; “why should I do him the inestimable favor of trying to reform him?" i Home Product. Why greet with an unfriendly frown What is produced in our home town? ‘Why travel to a polar zone ‘When we have snowdrifts of our own? “Some folks,” sald Uncle Eben, “jest natchelly don’t want to be happy. Dat's why ghost stories was invented.” ——t e That’s True Enough. Prom the Boston Transeript. One of the effects of the publication of schemes for consolidation is to con- vince the average man that the country contains & great which he novl:: Mfiw eV Make It Unanimous. From the Columbis (Mo.) Daily Tribune. News dispatches from Canada an- nounce “tight” times for the rum ns, & condition they have been la- boring to create here for the last 10 years. B Where Are They? Prom the Detroit News. At 8 time when the existing f trafic movement is almost more than we can marshalled at first and ticketed; we know with an immuitable certainty that at the right crises each one will re- murmdmhhmn,md.whm curtain falls, all will stand before it bowing. There is a sense of satis- faction in this, and of completeness. “But there is another method—the method of the life we all lead. Here nothing can be prophesied. There is a strange coming and going of feet. Men appear, act and react upon each other pass away. When the crisis comes, the man who would fit it does not re- turn. When the curtain falls, no one is ready. When the footlights are brightest, they are blown out; and what the name of the play is no cne knows. If there sits a spectator who knows, he sits so high that the players in the gaslight cannot hear his breath- ing. Life may be painted according to either method; but the methods are different. The canons of criticism that bear upon the one cut cruelly upon the other.” ‘We recommend the above, not cnly, to the tribe of novelists, but to those scores of would-be novelists who care- fully, fearfully hide manuscripts from the vrylnf eyes of the home folks. It is a terrible thing to be an embryo novelist. A novel—any novel—demands the truth, and how few are fitted to receive it! The man or woman who has achieved the dignity cf a published work, by that very fact has taken on with the home folks aspects of peculiar- ity. They are not as other men or women. Much may be forgiven them. But the unwary, ambitious person who has no name on a title page needs must suffer if he unguardedly exposes the first fruits of his genius to the ungentle eyes of the mob. Why, is this character sup- maled to be me? Do you have reference Uncle Ben in the picture here? Surely {ou should never have dreamed such & hing, etc., etc. e The lines quoted above were written by & young Englishwoman, in the to the second edition of her first published work, “The Story of An African Farm.” It was in the year 1883, when Emile Zola, in France, was in the height of his naturalistic career, Probably Olive Schreiner had been influenced by the French writer, or at least his reputation. At any rate, she had his same methods, with varia- tions. The lines quoted were her reply to those critics who had d introduction of a new character half way through her book. She had no sympathy with the demand that her book had no right to be as she wrote it, but should have been otherwise, in order to better suit the ideas of those Wwho had not written it. She belonged to the innumerable tribe of writers who resent the critics, and no doubt she was right, as they all are. “Should one sit down to paint the seenes among which he has grown, he Wwill find that the facts creep upon him. brilliant phases and shapes which imagination sees in far-off lands are not for him to portray. Sadly he must guu- the color from his brush and p it into the gray pigments around hlmn He must paint what lies before Such was her stern message to the world, as of June, 1883. She had writ- ten two novels previously, but neither was to see the light of day until many years after her death. “The Story of An African Farm,” however, was to go on to a triumph around the world wherever readers valued picturesque character study, written with true grace and in- herent style, valued above all by those readers who appreciated honesty which yet held firm to the sane decencies of life. This is where a book such as “The Story of An African Farm” breaks sharply with many of the indecencies in book form which have been published during the past 10 years. The writer's common sense was able to keep clear and clean the essential elements of a tale which in other hands would have g‘uenmud into crudeness or mere * ok ok ok Several well known novels have been labeled, at various times, “the saddest story in the world,” but Olive Schrein- er's epic of the Boers must be awarded that dublous laurel. It is not so much that it ends in death and defeat, as life often d'g‘:,. bmth:;nt‘mt l:: en- compasses a beauty of prose style almost biblical in char- acter. Say what one will, there is a divine something in style which no amount of narrative skill can render Wi And this style is not one but many, flow once as Shakespeare, again ; Dreiser, again as little Olive er, Consider those sentences, previously quoted, setting forth the method of the novelist who would attempt to follow the everyday life of human beings. We will place it in single sentences, since by so doing the beauty of the writing is _more easily apprehended: “Here nothing can be prophesied. (';l'.:nten 1s a strange coming and going of 3 “Men appear, act and react upon each other, and pass away. “When the crisis comes, the man who would fit it does not return. “When the falls, no one is ‘When the footlights are brightest, they are blown out; and what the name of the play is, no one knows. “If there sits a spectator who knows, he sits so high that the players in the gaslight cannot hear his breathing.” And these sad thoughts are summed up in the book, where appear two of gx‘ most mournful lines ever penned y man: “And it was all play, and no one could tell what it lived and worked striving, and No matter what one's personal be- liefs may be, the reader of “The Story of An African Farm” cannot help sym- pathizing with the struggles of the spirit which go on therein. “Lord, help thou mine unbellef.” ‘The majestic struggles of a good woman are here set forth with stirring validity. We would not give 10 pages of this book for the whole bulk of Heming- way's “A Farewell to Arms,” because the African mnhn something in it which the It {resco has not—a gentle, human sympathy, kept alive and vital with the saving grace of humor. Let the clever ones of earth turn out their “valid pictures” of real life, 80 well done that no one can brand them as false. Let the publishers issue a new one of these every day, until no man could read the tenth of them in two lifetimes even. When the presses and the stores and the home tables are crowded with them, in the high and holy name of Literature, now somewhat in disrepute, some of us will g0 back as gracefully as we may to the good old books, among which “The Story of An African Farm” holds an honored place. Highlights on the Wide World Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands AILY HERALD, London—It really is true that American workingmen go to work in their own motor cars. We sent a special correspondent to Amer- dca to find out if this report was really & fact. Not all of them, perhaps, go to work this way, but nearly all of them, for when you pass in the train through big manufacturing cities like Philadel- hia and Baltimore, you see not only undreds but often thousands of motor cars parked outside every factory along e line. Still, too much ought not to be deduced from this concerning the much-bruited g’rupemy of the American workingmas ‘ou can easily buy a second-hand & “used car,” they call it—for a matter of from 10 to 25 pounds in the States (850 to $126). For every car you see in England, however, there are 10 or more over there. No matter what town you visit, you see cars parked every- where along the by-streets, almost all day long. me people leave their cars out in the street all night—there is no law against it so long as the street does not carry the notice, “No Parking Here.” And, as for theft, most le would be only too glad to get the ‘insurance money in exchange for their ca: cause the dispesal of “used cars” is one of the burning problems of present-day ica, Road drivers in the Btates, despite the fact that traffic there is far greater, manage to drive faster than ours do, and without the fuss ours make. American drivers are more considerate of each other. Above all, they do not practice that irritating habit, so common in England, of sounding their horns on the slightest provocation. The innumer- able motor cars in the States are gen- erally kept in the back yard, so there 1s no space left for gardens, because of the corrugated iron shelter or other shack that covers the vehicle. * ok k% Dogs Ald Police In Quelling Rioters. Neues Wiener Tageblatt, Vienna.— A dispatch from Bucharest, Rumania, informs us that striking workmen of a match factory in the clty of Temesvar | ey Trgwiimic des fought a pitched battle with the police, who tried to disperse them and prevent damage to the property. g;!;n out of their maneuvers, and were overcome only when the police used their trained dogs as confederates. This was the first time the dogs of the {oun have been used in Bucharest and he assistance rendered was very grati- fying, many arrests being made and the rest of the rioters fleeing in panic. * k% English Firm Is Pald For War Act. Cologne Gazette, Cologne.—Four years after the matter was first presented to Anglo-German Reparations Court at |la London, the firm of John Fowler & Co. of Leeds, England, manufacturers of power machinery for farms, was grant- ed the sum of £423,000 against the Ger- man national government. During the war the company's German factory at Magdeburg, in Sachsen, was seized by the German government, and later sold to a German firm in the same business, Herren R. Wulf Gesellschaft. The price was arrived at through the court’s appraisal «;t gjlf‘d!'bwler wfnpm{'s l‘:x: ventory o ings, equipmen :l':k at the commencement of hostill- * ok ok % U. 8. a Land Of Shirt-Sleeved Men. Le Point, Paris—France, as a whole, knows America only through the mov- ies. It 15 & country where men go in shirt-sleeves all the time and keep tele- fil:onlnz—. strange land where they wve canned macaronl. French people believe every American house is & sky- scraper, every boy a Lindbergh, every {lxl & movie star. Lots of Frenchmen the Americans made Niagara Falls, just the same as they dug the Panama Canal and constructed the Roosevelt Dam, * ok ok ok Roosevelt’s Spanish Lacks Something. El Universal, :‘e’xlg cltx—'n;ny dtl;.- courses pronoun: , _Theodore of Puerto Roosevelt (the son), have rather gotten wing to his lim- of beauty and his. speaks one ToF S'and economic and how much more is it one | Haskin, icent opportunities for music and its sister arts! ‘There is scarcely a human being from the lowest to the highest for whom some chord of music does not bring mnlx’r‘n -tm% memory or stir some poignant emotion. Are we to forever look beautiful architecture which hzs called “frozen music”? But that is not real music, for music never is static. It is atmosphere in its finest and most vibrant form. It begins where speech ends and carries us to indescribable heights of sublime feeling. It steps on the heels of love and leas all the other inspiral 'ln'.- merely at some one jure | brown hair music. Here in this divine cil portuned by God and man thmllht{f‘?oflh and lan we seem truly to sleep bullding at future generations may touch into life these cold forms. No bullding in this planning of our lovely city should be without its spe- cific corner for music. Every civie or economic group should have its own orchestra or chorus and each month = woek o day an opportunity to ear voice. Cultural growths are gradual, work- ing like leaven, in human flour, and on!y thus does it become a part of our national life. As time goes on we as a people and a Nation will reach to mfi:r levels, bringing mr&\;‘dflz existence a sense of propor value which will be expressed in com- parative beauty. ‘Washington is on the threshold of a new era in music. Two important ven- tures mnue:;mb" and m‘:flcfl. et ups are presen mloonk, ‘t;u ‘:.mm- during National Music weel y. It is a duty as well as a privilege for the residents of Washington to en- noun'g their attendance and sup- port the National Symphony Orchestra, which nobl plan of co been organized on a le -operation by its member musiclans and which gives its first con- cert on Friday afternoon. Also thi week the announcement comes of the organization of the Washington Choral Festival Association for the purpose of groduclnl the finest master eomposi- lons in choral work for mixed voices under nal leadership. . d dl.l here of incom- paral uty and scope; sicians are here with & spirit loyalty and interest; & dtl-uhs above the average city in intellectu: and cultural appreciation, due to its residential qualities and governmental pursuits, is here; it only needs a realization that these elements must be concentrated in presence and in thought to make Washington an outsta: city worthy of a national as well as art- centered capital. NELLIE F. D. STODDARD, President of the District of Columbia Federation of Music Clubs. “Sane Crossing Laws” To Curb Crashes Urged To the Editor of The Star: Many of our great statesmen are over- come with f because a few smugglers have lost their lives in the deflance of Government and demand an amendment to the Constitution making it conform to the wishes of such men. These same men are utterly uncon- ferneg‘ d:bmxfid:.'h; edw of law-al ing ns every year and the greater number injured in auto- mobile accidents, most of which could be avolded by framing and enforcing a few sane laws. The accident at Berea, Ohio, recently, th like thousands similar, would have been avoided the simple means of requir- ing the locomotive engineer to sound his whistle three or four times at in- tervals all within hnrln! from the crossing, instead of sounding it four short blasts a Tumr of a mile away, where it is not likely to be heard or, if heard, is known to be a false alarm. A car at or very near a crossing when uarter of a mile away may cross in perfect safety and be nearly a quarter mile away before the train ar- |y rives, while a car arri crossing after the dm‘“:flm.u At 20 miles soun: has no wlmln,. per hour a car runs 29 feet per second, .Wuilh to clear the . A train at 60 miles hour ruzs 88 feet per sec- ond. So that,to hit /he car, it must be not over 88 feet he starts the was , 400, 200 feet respectively before the cross! one or more would certainly be and any one would be in plenty of to stop. It would be heard by any one with hearing whether absent-minded, asleep or d% unless he had too much personal 1il 3 ‘The “Stop, look and listen” sl has been since rallroads first be- gan. The rapidly increasing number of accidents sh convince the most “conservative” that it is mot a success, Upon the other hand, to stop where a train could not be seen or heard by stopping would increase the risk of being hit. It takes about 10 seconds to shift' gears, start and crawl over the track. A train anywhere within 880 feet would hit you. There are many places where a frain could not be seen or heard anywhere near that distance. ‘The law requiring & car to stop at crossings where a train could readily be seen a mile away in either direction without stopping is in the same class uc!.he dmls‘um. mluue law. o rossing s which begin to op erate long before a train is near are false alarms and are ignored. If they did not operate until it was actually unsafe to cross they would be as_honest warnings and be heeded. There are thousands of common causes of accidents which could be eliminated by the enforcement of sane WS, G. M. BURBOWER. Offers Suggestion To Panther Hunters To the Editor of The Star: I just want to offer a little construc- tive criticlsm of the panther hunt, Now that the ltuli:ng question has been satisfactorily settled by the ampu- tation of the top branches of the trees, it seems to me that the panther could be chased away by the mutilation of its tracks and ibly killing off the rest of the hogs in the infested area. I noticed a few starlings roosting on the State, War and Navy Bullding the other evening and presume it will be only a matter of a few days before the columns will be d ll‘pluud. Suspects ‘Panther’ Scare May Be in Imagination To the Editor of The Star: While reading the different articles about the “prowler” that is disturb in and around Washington, I have won- smd it it might turn out to be some- somewhat, and, with a little imagina- tion, the story started. MRS. N. JACKSON. leric , director, The Evening Star Information Bnm"u. ‘Washington, D. C. How much did Sir Harry Lauder receive for singing over the radio?— 5 songs microphoned by Sir Harry Lauder each netted him $5,000. He was on the air for 15 minutes. Q. Please give a short blography of Raymond Hatton, the motion picture actor.—R. C. T. A. He was born in Red Oak, Iows, July 17, 1887, and was educated in Des Moines, Towa. He i5 5 feet 5_inches tall and weighs 133 pounds. He has and blue eyes, and has been in pictures for 15 years, between bond?— Q. What is the difference ; ’muuryn and a Liberty D Lt & 0 2 easury ai n ly to distinguish bonds that have grflerent dates of maturity. Both are Q. How far away is Antares and "a 'Antares (Alghs Scorpll) ts the N Ip] star of which we have reason- ably measurem e ameter be in volume it is 100,000,000 times as large as the sun, and 125,000,000,000,~ 000 times as large as the earth. Thi distance is probably 350 light years; this distance is 20,000,000 times as great as that of the sun from the earth. Q* !5 H. L. Mencken married?— "A. " Mr. Mencken is & bachelor. He His Biouse s ‘preided. over o1 | tion report of of Commerce, m:lfi; orchestra only. Columbia, in Massachusetts and in Virginia. Q. What State ranks first in mineral P Petnspivania fanks first. b duces 17 cent of the mng;l tatal outpuf Q. Where is the largest pipe organ?— R.W. G. A. The auditorium Atlantic 0 1 L 15eie, 2 £ . Bgiéé 5pddo B g H B : £ : its di. | edu about. 406,000,000 mites; | {0 How does the prod: Pl-;,hll”m that of ording to the snnual - Aeronautical \ber aircraft builders- increate of ‘approximately ap] over 1928. Ninety-six facturers luced a d milif planes with a total retail value, mmm{m of $44,457,300.60. 1873 and into the United States in 1877. .lhloin(fmmfiflllsfluto theqoeeunbyw-y of the St. Lawrence River what is the difference in eleva- tion?—D. C. A. Lake Superior is about 600 m sea level. Lake Huron is 2 Bovsy ¥ § 8 E ;Ex 588 A King Speaks at the Fireside And World Sees Peace as Real A of peace hout the world has made realistic the efforts of the Naval Conference to volce & message the intim: ate circle of homes sides and to_each &f these attentive minds. * * * The fons lighten humanity's burden. This is|d the significance of broadcast with which George V opened the Naval ference as American comment sees it. A new world énvlllonb ed by the Sa- . now, as the Dayton News puts it, the conference sl "al the fresiaes” ot ‘the people. of globe. Assa; practical benefit of the phenomenon, the New Bedford Standard considers it “fair to assume that eager- ness to hear must have been accom- by attention to what was said,” hus creat the object the this sentiment, the Louisville marks, prompts listen 'm-l;a'x?n thn:r the results re: eduup:.uemmn of the burden of srmaments, with “as the English express ‘lt ‘Hear! Hear! “It is a com s - e o] onies - ence p::hld‘ have heard by any to the . e Dayton News views the conference as “sitting at the firesides of all the world.” ‘To the Buffalo Evening News, “the ad- dresses of King George and the spokes- men for the powers give hope of a real accomplishment in naval armaments,” and the St. Paul Press states: "‘A French adage Utoplan reached by the world, but the radio, by making mi&l:bor- of all nations, should do much to hasten e Fhing, significance into the fact that cance the broadcast to some came at dawn, the Richmond News Leader suggests: “One thought, as one sat in the shadows, of that le_word, ‘Dawn,’ on the statue of Edith Cavell by the side of the N-th':n"‘en{ul:ry u’: dummm. O‘ne Te- member 3 George's famous address at the Pfl;r{m. dinner in Lon- don, soon after America’s entry into the war, when he read the report of how the Canadians at Vimy Ridge had ‘at- tacked with the dawn. And as those voices continued mysterlously out of the ether, one remembered the proud affir- nation of that soldier of the Frencr Rev- olution, ‘We felt as though we were always marching into the da: Con- | the that overleap all boundaries.” The Salt 7ond Bitsan Delet: and. the Bl of ¥ o the achievement is emphasized the Hartford Times and the d Tribune. “The had his own simple faith in the ess which in theory ani- the professions of the tional le Beacon Journal, ana that simplicity of expression is the sub- Ject of comment by the Yo wa Vindicator, the Kalamazoo Gaze the Jersey City Journal. His tone is the and clear, firm Providence tively safe assump- |, % ’t'oom Mirror, A'Ed ews “voiced e up’!lr_;".bgl m:( ‘world.” i 's was 0 the” ctual wolk. of the. comterenees comments the Yakima Daily with the conclusion, “The re!fi.whln the K.lggmm Rochester ‘Union recalls the time when the same voice sounded a different message. the reduction of | years ing from a which he studied Britain’s naval needs, sounded famous call, ‘Wake up, England!’ As the whole world knows, England awoke and built the mightiest navy in history. It is of momentous im- Eorunce that the same man, who now King George V, Limitai Conference in London, g:led that the Frankenstein he built = reduced to less menacing dimen- lons.” “A good many years ago—prior to 1776 to be exact—the voice of a British monarch,” recalls the Bur] 2ette, “had plenty to do with )lvl.r'l.g.tu the 13 colonies, later to A did 8 States United States of America. not hear this Opponent of Market Denies Advantages e | To_the Editor of The Star: At dawn the gracious words of the ruler of the British Empire came to us out of the air, came to us in the living room as clearly as though the speaker ining room instead %( . May it not have been not merely the dawn of another day but the dawn of lasting world peace? Mil- lions listened, undoubtedly. And mil- lons prayed, too.” ‘That the conference had an “auspicious start” is the conviction of My letter in The Star venturing te question the necessity of a new down town central (?) market was answere recently by H. L. Walker, who sta the people prefer the central (?) man ket. No doubt H. L. W. is one of our old inhabitants, wedded to old institu~ tions. A pretty sentiment, I admit, but 112' ‘éhu instance woefully lacking in Since the present old central (?) market was established, many years 8go, Washington has grown so that it u’ x& longer oenu-u‘:’.hbu& as m"m o'l’xt of as possible, if you y the mmty in getting there, now that the residential sections are so far away ttle Daily Times and the Long Press-Telegram, while the Sa- and street congestion so potent a factor. And, as I sald in my previous letter, we have many good markets and chain stores in more convenient locations. So why should the housewife have to travel by auto or street car when her objective can be conveniently found near her home? To the question of a new down- town market, I repeat, What for? W. G. KENT. Oratory Stock Goes Up., ";'-h. the Worcester 'hllt;ln. g iana imprisoned yho ta her captors into e g T courses in our institytions of higher learning. J 1