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2 THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C 5 MARCH 2, 1930—PART _TWO, -_ - e THE EVENING STAR With Sundsy Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. SUNDAY...... THEODORE W. NOYES. ...Editor The E: Ni C e Evening Star Newspaper Company Bu o RS .'.':'g;m‘mn':\- e chicage % ke h:efi:in"-“u" Be. European -l: Regent St.. Lol Carrier Within fl:‘e City, - ha Winday Siar o o o 4 Sundary) 60¢ ter month ening and Sunday Star !‘m.‘d.-nb 6! T < pe ‘made af the snd ¥ montn: s ettt b mal S huTiiere Rate by 5 Mafl—Payable in Advance. aryland and Virginia. 19r Datly and_ Sus mo.. 85¢ aily only - unday only ;e d6e All Other States and Canada. y and & 3.2 R e r 1 herettr AL richts of patches herein o pecial A Matter of Procedure. Commenting upon the Bureau of Efficiency’s report that drew attention to the admittedly inadequate inspection services maintained by the District, Maj. Donald A. Davison, senior Assistant Engineer Commissioner, hits the nail on «March 2, 1930 ers in the world, is building another boat is & tribute to her courage, inas- much as she nearly lost her life a few months ago when her boat overturned and sank while doing better than sixty- five milas an hour. So with these two skilled English drivers seeking to wrest from America one of its few remaining world records all prospects would seem to point to an exciting Summer in the realm of speed- boating. The Wood brothers have had more experience and more success than either Maj. Segrave or Miss Carstairs, but the recently knighted Britisher has proved his mettle beyond question of doubt while the English girl has shown determination and courage of a high order. Consequently, neither of the challenges can be accepted without seri- ousness and a stirring race is likely to ensue. And it will assuredly be a race in which the great English-speaking countries will have an intense interest. Leagues of the Godless. All Christendom is rising in righteous protest against Russian Communism's reputed contemptuous prosecution of religion. On one of the few occasions since the Reformation the major divisions of the church seem to be uniting in a common cause against a common enemy. For the bolshevik leaders, it is reported, are striving to blot out in the blood of martyrs, not particular dogmas, but those fundamental prin- ciples of the Christian faith upon which there never has been any essential the head when he says We are not trying to hide anything. T venture to say that we are far more | interested in giving the city a good | job of inspecting its buildings than is | the Bureau of Efficiency. I do not think it is altogether fair for the bureau to spring these facts in a re- new, whereas they are things about | which we told them eight months ago | and which we are trying to correct. It is -undoubtedly true that ill feel- ing against the Bureau of Efficiency is fostered when that agency's investi- gators, with the help' of those under investigation, learn of conditions that ought to be remedied and use this in- formation as the basis of a report which is given to and received by the public | in the light of an exposure. It is true, in the case of the building inspector’s office, that some of the ‘Wweaknesses pointed out in the Bureau of Efficiency report have been known | by the officials themselves and that| remedies have been sought by them even before the bureau undertook its investigations. But the other side of the matter is| this: The officials responsible for the various municipal activities at the Dis- | trict Bullding have allowed the Bureau of Efficiency to steai their ammunition and, indirectly, use it against them. It ®pparently would be an obviously sim- ple matter for District officials under investigation by the Bureau of EM- clency to investigate themselves, and make their own report, pointing out cases of their inability to function as! they should function and explaining| why. They assuredly must know these things better than the Bureau of Efi- Cleney investigators. They certainly must see . the opportunity for better work as clearly as the Bureau of Effi- ciency investigators. But instead of anticipating the Bureau of Efficiency, under their present mode of procedure, building, inspector made public, through. proper channels, a statement eondemning in strong language the same weaknesses in the inspection serv- dces pointed out by the Bureau of Ef- eiency and demanding that they be remedied, such a statement would un- doubtedly carry more weight than the PBureau of Efciency report. The latter would be confirmation. ‘There dees not seem to be much argu- ment over the facts, The matter re- solves itself into a method of getting the facts before the public and develop- ing sympathy and understanding from the public. The Bureau of Efficiency method is highly efficlent. The Dis- trict authorities might use it to ad- vantage. p —————— Prance is compelled, just at a time ‘when Paris is filled with distinguished visitors, to take up the eares of political ‘housecléaning. A Challenge to America. ‘The Wood brothers, Gar and George, famous exponents of motor-boat racing, ‘will have to look to their laurels as holders of world records on the water for America, if the plans of two noted British pilots reach a successful culmi- nation. Advices from England state that two fast boats are now being con- strueted, one for Maj. Sir Henry Segrave and the other for Miss Betty Carstairs to challenge American suprem- acy in the next British international trophy race, one of the blue-ribbon events of boating. Each craft will have two specially designed airplane engines of enormous hersepower and a speed of one hundred miles an hour has been set as ‘the goal. The present record is held by Gar Wood with Miss America VII at slightly more than ninety-two miles an hour. ‘This is interesting news from the British Isles, especially in view of the fact that Maj. Segrave, in spite of heavy obstacles, successfully challenged the American-held automobile speed record only a year ago at Daytona Beach, Fla. ‘When Maj. Segrave arrived in this country with his monster creation of one thousand horsepower the record was two hundred and seven miles an bour. When he left the glistening white smooth beach at Daytona the record had been boosted to more than two hundred and thirty-one miles an hour. ©On the same trip the Britisher brought with him a sleek speed boat powered with the same motor as his automobile. It was his aim to carry both land and ‘water records back with him to Eng- land; but in this he was frustrated. At Miam! after he had concluded his sen- sational automobile run he was forced to bow to Gar Wood in the world’s champion boat, which again reached a speed of better than ninety miles an | selves and the logical procedure based division. They are chopping at the roots, not trimming the branches, of Christianity. Even liberal thinkers, who have look- ed with some satisfaction on Com. they hoped it would shed on the true nature of the social structure in gen- eral, are turning away in disgust at the apparent stupidity of this latest development. Few will deny that the protest has a very considerable degree of justifica- tion. But the situation is delicate. The basis of any successful counter- effort should be analysis and under- standing. The present religious prose- cution is not an isolated phenomenon in Russian life, The Communist lead- ers, it is fair to assume, are acting reasonably, according to their lights, however stupid may be their conclu- sions to the rest of the world, The in- mates of an insane hospital act rea- sonably, according to their lights. Christendom’s point of attack then should be not the conclusions them- upon them, but the defects in the rea- soning process by which men have arrived at them. Doubtless some of the Communist leaders are conscious charlatans and scoundrels, Perhaps the present Russian officialdom contains more men of this type than most gov- ernments. But it is foolish, in the light of history, to proceed on the theory that the majority of them are such. The majority are honest men, according to their process of reasoning. ‘The celebrated “Leagues of the God- less” can hardly be considered other- ‘wise than as units of a religion of nega. cisely the same emotional camplexes @s the older forms of worship. tion—a new religion operated by pre- k Pierson was arrested for the crime. The sallor was about to leave for France on the ship employing him. A magis- trate directed his detention as a mste- rial witness, as he was unable tp furnish the necessary bond to appear in prose- | cution. He was committed April 25, 1927, and was held as a material wit- | mess until January 4, 1928, mere than eight months. Unfortunately, the Panel |article does not relate the disposi- tion of the case, whether Barboza got !his pilfered cash or Plerson was con- victedl and punished. A notorious person named Marlow was murdered in New York City. Ignace Coppa, who owned a restaurant, Tequiring his personal attention, was tained from June 26, 1929, to July 30, {1929, more than a month. For lack of | his personal eversight, his business was i seriously damaged. “The Marlow case | had not been tried when the Panel was printed. Nor is there any record or suggestion to show that Coppa recovered from the State any part of his losses in business. These are but incidental instances of | the flagrant injustice done by the law in some of tu: jurisdictions in this country. There are repeated cases of witnesses compelled to go day after day to courts, awaiting the call of the cases in which they are summoned, losing time from business, losing heavily in money, and not in any degree compen- sated by the trifing fees they draw as witnesses. There are countless cases of Jjurers entangled in the meshes of the law in long-drawn-out trials and suits, serving at pittances for months while their affairs go all awry. ‘This is an aspect of the law's delays - | that is not often mentioned when the | munism’s titanic experiment in sociol- | indictment against the system of Amer- port as though they were something |O0gY and political economy for the light | ican eriminal jurisprudence is recited. ‘The cost of justice in the United States is & heavy one. The cost of injustice is even heavier, ————————— Criminologists assert that a eon- demned man enjoys the attention he attracts. If notoriety can be regarded as & reward for a guilty man, Dr. Sneok, Wwho has at last made his final exit, had his full reward. The unbroken nerve so often referred to when a man faces ex- ecution is likely to be only the vanity of unconquerable egoism. ————— ‘With all kinds of agitations going on in the oil business John D. Rockefeller, the most eminent of oil men, continues to say nothing and play gelf. No busi- ness is better organized on the lines ad- vocated by efficiency experts than the oil business, vt Russia, eager to assume leadership in world affairs, would be more convineing if less inclined to employ force, and more willing to proceed patiently with the building of a government worthy to serve as a historic model. oo ‘The veteran Hindenburg continues to maintain an attitude of ealm construc~ tive authority, reflecting now and then on the examples of youthful impetuosity in European politics, — e The idea of a tariff favoring oil did not appeal strongly to Senators who have been educated to a belief that the Christendom may be considered as buckling on its armor against a new ‘and threatening rival, just as it did ‘against Mohammedanism in the Middle During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries approximately a half mil- lion persons—this is a conservative es- timate—were executed in Western Eu- Tope upon conviction of practieing witcheraft. Now it is generally admitted that one of the predominant elements in the witcheraft proseeution was the effort, largely unconscious, of Chris- tianity to blot out, once and for all, the “old religion” of pre-Christian Eu- rope, with its disgusting phallic rites, which had persisted under the surface through the centuries. Are not the Leagues of the Godless, units of the new religion which has fastened itself on Russia, trying to do the same to persistently surviving Christianity and Judaism? Can we afford to ignore the light which these two past situations shed upon the present? What lessons they teach can be found only by close and unemotional study. Such a study might enable Christendom in the present crisis to avoid some of the terrible and costly blunders of the past. For it must be remembered that, in the end, the Moslem remained itf control of the holy places and lord over a Christian population. And in the end witcheraft survived even into our own day. The situation in Russia demands action, but it demands well considered oil business can take care of itself, SHOOTING STARS. / BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. 1. e T Indomitable Hez. % “I won't forget the little song ‘That Springtime always brings, Though lots of things seem going | Since wrong,” Said Hezekiah Bings. “I know the snow will help the wheat And youth will stiil be gay, And hasten to greet with dancing feet The beauty of the May. “The blizzard may again draw near And overcast the skies And every hope of blossoming cheer May seem & bit unwise. Yet, as each sorrow frets the throng ‘Where apprehension clings, T'll bring along my little song,” Said Hezekiah Bings. Groping. “A number of constituents are wait- ing to see you,” said the able and dis- creet secretary. “What do they say?” asked Senator Sorghum. “That something is wrong.” pi “What do they want me to do about it “They don't know. That's what they want you to tell them.” Jud Tunkins says he never wavers in action. It would be well to formulate this action with all the help that can be obtained from the experience of the past rather than consider it falsely as something entirely new under the sun. ——————————— An election in Santo Domingo is re- garded as a success if it results in & state of affairs that can be construed as a truce. U The Cost of Injustice. Researches now in progress by the President’s Crime Commission will pre- sumably bring to light ways and means of improving judicial practices, to the end of expediting justice and giving more certain effect to the laws. It is patent that the prevalence of crime in this country is due in large measure to the ineffectiveness of the courts, through faults of prosecution, through leisurely proceedings, and through the granting of every possible chance to the accused to escape upon technicality. On the other hand, in some jurisdic- tions positive injustice and injury are inflicted upon those who are not even suspect, those who are themselves com- plainants against lawbreakers. The de- lays of justice not only deny them their rights of restitution but actually impose penalties upon them. Tllustrative cases of this sort are cited hour. Miss England, the British craft, did not perform up to expectations and was easily outdistanced by the veteran American racer in his seventh Miss America. The next challenge to American ‘water supremacy was made by Miss Car- _stairs at Detroit in the Harnesworth Tace last Summer; but the Wood broth- ers were successful in holding the championship. That Miss Carstairs, = of the most skillful woman driv- in the “Panel,” a publication of the As- sociation of Grand Jurors of New York County, devoted to the exchange of views of public officials and citizens “in the effort to prevent crime and secure the true administration of justice.” Brief recital of two of these cases will perhaps afford an illustration of the perversity of the law, or rather of the manner in which the law is applied. A French sailor named Jules Bar- boza was robbed at the New York water front of:ten or fifteen dollars. Oscar his feith in George Washington. A man who ean make his picture on a postage stamp do business in spite of competi- tion has real authority, Why Begrudge Them? Policemen must be very brave, And teach rough persons to behave, Exploring many a dangerous way— 8o, why begrudge them liberal pay? In a Minute. “Would you marry an aviator?” “In a minute,” said Miss Cayenne, “Why do you say ‘in & minute'?” “Because & minute is about all the time a modern aviator appears to have available for a little thing like getting married.” “Obey your superiors,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “but exercise as much care as conditions will permit in selecting them. No Cabinet Shortage. As cabinets go drifting by In many a distant land, ‘They always find a new supply To meet a fresh demand. “A man dat allus thinks he's right,” sald Uncle Eben, “may make big mis- takes. But a man dat allus thinks he’s wrong ain’ got no chance in life what- ever.” Rotating Ministries. From the Asheville Times. It may be all flal‘:: fo ‘practice rota- tion in office for French premiers, but just now the London ith some the prospect of iRy oo I the Faris ToWting. Strange Findings. From the Muskegon Chronicle. 1!::'1‘1" Now _you ':., e g f those things you have been huu;lu housecleaning. ¢ house- held as a material witness and was de- | ! “LOWERED Bishop of Text: Philippians, iv.8, “Whatso- ever ihings are true whatsoever things are homest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, what- soever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.” It would be pertinent to ask, “Has the | period following the World War wit- | If our judgment were to be based on the so-called musical compositions of {our day. the answer would be in the | affirmative. Symphonies have given place to the jargon of jazz. That which | hitherto appealed to the deeper, finer | sensibilities of our nature has been | largely displaced by that which affects { the nervous system, rendering it sensi- tive to capricious impulses. Again, if our judgment were based upon the literature of this later period we should be compelled to say that it can hardly be compared with that produced in other periods. Much of it 1s designed to appeal to the lower and baser in- stinets. Every now and again someone says, concerning a modern salacious book: “Notwithstanding its portrayal of that which is vulgar and indecent, it is 80 finely written that it must be re- garded as good literature.” This surely is a poor defense. We can find other pieces of literature that have been re- garded as classics that are so utterly erotic, so low in moral standards that they cannot be put on sale if trans- lated into English. The fact that a book discloses some genius on the part of its author, notwithstanding its re- cital of that which is low and degrad- ing, 18 no valid reason for giving it place among the standard works of our time. ‘We certainly have enough in the dally press that depicts every form of in- dulgence in vice and crime to satisfy those who feed on such things. As for the drama, here again there are evi- dences, marked evidences, of lowered standards. That which a generation ago would mot have been tolerated flaunts itself boldly today and is ac- cepted as legitimate and worthy. An example of what we have in mind is suggested by a recent observation. A remarkable presentation of the great dramas of Shakespeare by carefully chosen players was submitied for the tronage of the public. Notwithstand- g the worthiness of the presentation, it had small audiences, largely com- posed of those who still love the beauty nessed a lowering of our standards?” | STANDARDS” BY THE RIGHT REV. JAMES E. FREEMAN, D. D.,'LL. D., Washington. and refinement of the English of the great bard of Stratford. The incom- parable beauty of Shakespeare’s dramas evidently made little or no appeal to the ear of the multitude. Over against this, as illustrating present standards, plays that betray moral degeneration or that afford opportunity for inane dialogues and scenes that are sug- gestive of that which is base and in- decent play to crowded houses. Fre- quently refined actors express their contempt for a public that demands | such things. It is within the memory |of this generation that Joseph Jeffer- |son in “Rip Van Winkle" and Lester | Wallack in “The Rivals,” laid a claim | upon public attention that made their performance an event in the life of any community. In_our effort to get away from a mid-Victorian period we have certainly traveled far. The esthetic musical and literary standards of our time are reflected in the programs on the air as well as in the presentations on the screen. The remarkable fact is that a presentation that is on a high level and appeals to the finer instincts receives a widespread measure of appreciation and :Ppmvsl. That there is a yearn- ter standards that are whole- some and refined is increasingly evi- ‘What Agnes Repellier, one of the most refined writers of our day, says about the “repeal of reticence” is strik- ingly illustrated in many phases of our modern life. One cannot believe that the present drift can long continue. One does not have to be a prude to re- gard the tendencies of our age with critical judgment. The appeal of vir- tue, of that which sets forth the noble and the herole, the pure and the good, is not lost to us. The reaction from the strain of a great World War may account in part for these later evi- dences of lowered standards. The most serious aspect of it all is its effect upon the younger generation. It has pro- duced restlessness, indifference to that which appeals to the truer and better instincts and a taste for that which for the while appeals to natures that find their satisfaction omly in the bizarre, the novel and the spectacu- lar., It is an old admonition but it certainly has application to this genera- tion: “Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatso- ever things are just, whatsoever are mwhluflvsr things are lovely, wha r things are of d(md uron: if thege be any virtue and if their be any praise, think on these things.” Economic Trend in Britain Away From Governmental Paternalism BY WILLIAM HARD. LONDON, March 1.—Important as the naval conference is, the economic and trade developments of the British Empire, underlying the British naval demands, are still more important and revolutionary. Great Britain really sus- tains the whole burden of the naval defense of the empire, and yet cannot command or control the trade of the dominions, or even the crown colonies. ‘The most remarkable spectacle in the history of any empire is the new polit- ical party formed here by Lord Rother- mere and Lord Beaverbrook to unite all of the British Empire inside a tariff wall against the imports of non-British goods. The party seems destined to be a total failure at the present time, be- cause even the crown colonies in Africa, Asia and the West Indies have Legis- latures which insist on raising their revenues through import taxes on Brit- ish as well as non-British commodities. I in particular, which is the tial market for British f”" within the British Empire, has ts own tariff system, which it uses to promote and develop Indian manufac- tures and not British. * ok ok % The cotton mills of Lancashire today arg suffering from a bad depression and are keenlf lesirous of the Indian trade, but simuitaneously the cotton mills of India are demanding additional tariff E‘ou:tlon against any and all cotton ports into India and are likely to get it from the Indian government. e the conclusion of the war the average of tariff duties against British goods in non-British countries has not advanced, on the whole, but within the British Empire tariff duties imposed by the dominions and the crown colonies against British goods have advanced an average of 60 per cent. These dominions and crown colonies, by and large, contribute nothing to the cost of the British fleet, and, in addi- tion, most of them decline to give any decisive preference to British goods. inful questions have been asked in House Col rican government railroad administration is ordering locomotives not from Britain, but from ?«any Replying to such 5] questis enum:\?ln the House of Commons point out that London cannot hope to control 4 Jamaica or South Africa. * ok ok X All immediate hope, therefore, of re- viving British cal method of wels ire b; growing sentiment here to put a tarift wali around Britain itself in respect to certain industries. This is l\rllflg effected in rd to motor cars, wit apparent results. dustry is active and exports of Brit cars are increasing. ‘The present Labor government, how- Highlights on t ].F’k"m"‘ of the gov-| The motor in- | tions with ever, is generally hostile to the tariff | system, which, nevertheless, is more and | more advocated by the Conservative | party. The Tories hope soon to return to power, since the Labor government has been unable to prevent the steady increase in unemployment and at the same time has encountered a considerab! demand from labor union circles for new scheme called the “family allow- ance” which would give each family, out of government funds, an aliowance for each child and which would cest the British treasury $700,000,000 a year, ‘This general method to solve economie difficulties by more governmental pa- ternalism and achieve prosperity through increased taxation may per- haps have had its day in Britain and 'van‘:y pass gradually into decline and use. * ok ok * ‘The most remarkable feature in the British situation to American eyes is the tenor of the speeches of the Socialist | minister of employment, J. H. Thomas, | who-enjoys the title of lord g’r.lvy seal. His experience in attacking the unem- loyment mobkm seems to be convert- ng him into a strong anti-Soclalix, Speaking at Birmingham lately, he said, “One has on?nr visit the British in- dustries fair see the skilled genius exhibited there to realize how is the theory unfortunately held by a large number of people in this ceuntry that the government can solve the prob- lem of unemployment.” Also, speaking at London, he said, “There is nothing I deplore more than the modern tendency of all classes to look always to the gov- ernment for help.” Finally, speaking to the Pottery and Glass Trade Benevolent Institution, this spokesman for & list class war government, said, “If we are to main- tein the social standards of this coun- do so only by a clear lines of de- marcation between labor and capital must disappear and all classes must f Capital Sidelights BY WILL P. KENNEDY, ‘Two' letters' written from Stratford, England, by Joseph Ball, uncle of George Washington—one dated May 19, 1747, when Washington was 15 years old, with reference to the boy's gestion of enlisting in the British Navy; the other dated September 5, 1755, re- ferring to the participation of Wash- ington, who wés then 23 years old, in the Braddock campaign—have been brought to our attention by Representa- tive R. Walton Moore of Virginia, in whose district Washington lived and is buried, and who is a member of the Bicentennial Commission arranging for | the big celebration in 1932. ‘The first letter is written to Wash- ington's mother as follows: “I under- stand you are advised and have some thought of putting your son George to sea. I think he hls better be put ap- prentice to a tinker—for a common sailor before the mast has by no means the common liberty of the subject, for they will press him from a ship where he has 50 shillings & month and make him taki and cut and slash and use my considerable preferment ::n““ Hlv.y] it 1s not to be IIMM.'M Te are always so many grasping for t here who have interests and he has And if he should get to be of & ship, which is very difficult ; & planter who has 300 or 400 acres and three or four slaves if he is industrious lives more comfortably and leaves his family in better bread than such & master of a ship can. “‘He must not be too to be rich, but go on gently and with patience as things will naturally go. This method, without aiming to be a fine gentleman before his time, will carry a man more surely and comfortably through the world than going to sea, unless it is a great chance indeed. I pray God keep you and yours." etter is addressed to George himself and reads as follows: e It is & sensible pleasure that you behaved your- self with such a martial spirit, with ments with the French, . on as you have begun Jrosper you. We have heard of Gen. ddock’s defeat. Everyone blames his rash conduct and everyone commends the courage of the Virginia and Carolina men; which is very -T":n- able to me. I desire you, as you have opportunity, give me a short account how you proceed. I heartily wish you good success. Your loving uncle.” * k¥ ok “There cannot be found in America another bullding which has been the birthplace and the home of so many men who have written their names in & luminous light on the pages of their country’s history,” said Representative Otis Bland of Virginia in speaking of Stratford, Westmoreland County, Va., only a short automobile ride from the National Oapital, which has just been acquired by the Robert E. Lee Memo- rial Foundation. It is the birthplace of Gen. Robert E. Lee, one of the foremost military lead- ers of the world; of Richard Henry Lee, member of the Continental Con!uu from Virginia, who on June 7, 1776, moved in Congress that these colonies were and of right ought to be free and independent States; of two of the sign- ers of the Declaration of Independence —namely, Richard Henry Lee and brother, Francis u‘!‘l‘tloet Lee, who was 2150 a member of the Continental Con- gress; of Arthur Lee, who helped to of alliance with at a later tal ’ Congress:, ‘William Lee, who during the Revolution represented the Continental as fiscal agent abroad; sons of Thomas Lee, nal service in the the bench of their ni It was the home of Thomas Lee, first native-born Governor of Vi ia, and of hthorse Harry Lee, and scene of culture, refinement and triotism throughout the long period of its exist- ence. It was built by Thomas Lee, who was born at Mount Pleasant and who died at Stratford. He was of distinguished lineage, the fifth son of Richard Lee, who was educated at Oxford and con- | Da tinued his studies through life, usually writing his notes in Greek, Latin or | With Hebrew, who served as member of the council in Virginia as burgess, as colonel of the House of Westmoreland, North- umberland and Stratford Counties and as naval officer and receiver of Virginia duties for the Potomac River district. He was a large landowner, holding at his death about 20,000 acres. Thomas Lee, the builder, served as burgess Westmoreland, member of the couneil, president of the council, and at the time of his death was acting governor of the colonies, whose commi a8 governor work toge in & common purpose.” * ok ok ok This outright adoption of American ClaTlt satemart 18 porhaps the. mest o per} significant political event in Britain in recent years. an IV et o jue not wise & be certal Socialist Britain coming into as actual outcome; on the con- trary, it may be a capitalistic Briain erican model. This of any oul existence bullt on the Ami 3 litlu breaking off of rela- d would in many other ways establish identical policies in Britain and the United States. (Copyright, 1930.) he Wide World Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands L _DICTAMEN, Vers Cruz—Luls . Sotelo, the federal Deputy F. | E who introduced the resolution abolis] in the hing Republic of Mt 3 in a recent petition addressed Chambers that bullfigh is already prohibited in the federal district by a ts out to decree passed under the regime of Ve- | in, nustiano Ci Octobe . 99, vol ume 4, of the enactments of that ad- ministration, has npgrlnflzemwr been enforced. Deputy Sotelo revival of this law will be sufficient to stop these spectacies in the federal dis- trict and, by setting an example to the rest of the country, bring about a re- form without the passage of additional letmmnm Article I of this law pro- hibits bulifights not only in the federal district, but in all federal territories. Article II of the same law also prohib- ited bullfighting in the several states of the rerrubuz. except that these con- tests . could be re-established by legis- lative action. Deputy Sotelo further points out in ution that the federal district e spectatics aa. bullghts. comk eral 8 les a8 3 pittings and pugllistic combats, Thy removal of these cruel and bloody diver- sions from the every: life of the '“:oelny result in a 'd.el;r mdhn::ln umene , avers Sen 0. ‘These “sports” as at present consti- tuted serve to inflame WOrst pas- slons of our 'pevulltlon. A noticeable sentiment is m%.fi:‘ml these tra- ditions, but they die hard. * ok kX Ci h Most Perfect - ight Transmitter. El Mercurio, Santiago.—The cinemat- the | screen in an instant. lieves that | tis some | trious sons is was on the way over the ocean. Thomas Lee was one of the commis- sioners who in 1744 treated with the Iroquois Indians for settlement of land west of the Allegheny Mountains, which resulted in a mlv whereby the In- disns ted the fans the right o sef west of mountains to the Ohio River, and he was the first mlunt of the company which under- to settle this territory. In the patriotic service of his illus- found his test dis- tinction. President John in & letter written A 11, 1819, affec- tionately described the sons of Thomas Lee as “that band of brothers, intrepid and _Blnuhmble. who, like the Greeks at iermopylae, stood in the gap in the defense of their country from the first mm of the revolution on the horizon through all its rising light to its perfect day.” e ———— e ——————— police instructions, efforts were made to verify these complaints, but * ¢ ¢ ||| Well, we did not succeed. * k¥ ¥ Dublin Teashops Get Important Additien. 8 is the most perfect instrument o’n h of &ou‘ht transmission yet devised. Volumes of description cannof convey to the mind ideas and compre- hensions that can be obtained from the How dull and difficult of understanding, for instance, to a child are the paragraphs describ- life in Africa, compared with the living, moving, teresting African the t back: ‘md‘ m.ll u'mf';n mosf War , mysf y his books and im m of his lessons, becomes eager an ion that comes to him from the scenes of life, of customs, of trade and adven- ture in the very making. There are many subjects that can be better taught by vitalized illustration than by cold type, which too often only wearies and repels the child. Geogra- &h{. htlm;yy,‘lploumw g&xflmy. m:.“fl: iology, lology, mi logy an hcmllpthl natural sciences can be acquired by the child immediately by actual vision and appreciation and with- out the intermediary of me, 4 ish vagaries, which, more often than not, obscure the conceptions of the very objects that are discussed. . * ¥ ¥ X Palestine Editors Lectured by Police. Arab Falastin, Jaffa.—A few days ago the editors of the local in - ice authori. They tine were lectured b) e Oafllll; to print ted were n any exaggeral or unverified news and to refrain from Euhl.hm.u any material of a provoca- ve nature. This was a wise step by the authorities, but * * * | Complaints were made to us that con- ditions in the Jaffa prison were very bad. We were told that while the w has a capacity of 50, n in; that sanitary t extremely poor and that there is onl; one solitary tap for 150 prisoners. According . to the ve-mentioned avid for the instruc- | 3! mea: [ wher t t-huuu‘gon w'h“u ulufaod. to describe a urant where lunches are pro shop and office workers patronize the uuho,g:‘vmeh abound in central Dube lin. taurants lupaylng full lunch and dinner to be no less numer- ou.l.bs and to ll;,:‘lnllllb.! an addition is be L It rsons, and, rej .unl:‘.r{:: m’" sl 3 mem| man; Sy A A ) may arise as e ability of the city uo"kup them all go- ing. Suel must derive the great- or aul from the visitor element, and u’ug'. r“:.ow sum;slcnt ac- commodation of racte! thousands. i haeieinss * k% % Efects to'Be Sod. Glasgow Weekly Herald.—The an- mno:;mm that d\unmmtu"r‘c. ua".:; the late Lord Blythawood, near P & ! SE £s i i a s%%%éié%a equal to that of the steel in Damascus blades. his | morasses at the head of the Adriatic o Fifty Years Ago for | stitution H Here and there one may point to in- stances where men have selected a tract of vacant land, far perhaps from any | other community, and declared that a city, perhaps a capital eity, would rise | there. Washington, the National Capi- tal of the United States, was placed m' such & manner. Washington now is a | splendid city, standing where its founders willed it should rise. This is the exception. There has been wider experience of & contrary nature, the experience of men who held the | conviction that they could cause a city | to Tise at a given place or who believed | they eould accurately foretell what de- velopment would occur. Take a notable case in point. In the | very early days of San Francisco, when it was a town of but 2,000 inhabitants, | Richard Pindell Hammond, father of | John Hays Hammond, the Pmlnenli mining engineer and capitalist, lived | there. In fact, John Hays Hamraond | was born in_the Golden Gate city in| 1855. The elder Hammond, himself a | surveyor, looked over the magnificent San PFrancisco Bay and foresaw that a great city would rise on its shores, He saw how the land lay with a surveyor's eye. He visioned a great port of the | future, mistress of the Pacific Coast. So 1 he proceeded to acquire certain hold- ings of land where he was certain the future city would stand. He surveyed it himself, laying out streets and de- tar of waiting a few vears. There in the harbor lay tall ships which brought eut gold-seekers and some ¥h ) came flo:;\ 'nni: up:m hY.n trade. e was not, far nt when ships from :{l the world would lle in that harbor, thought Hammond. ‘Today, three-quarters of a century , that carefully surveyed town- mud flat, still vacant, save for an occasional shack of a fisherman. 8an Francisco has grown into the proud city Hammond foresaw, but on almost | every bit of ground save that he se- lected as the inevitable site. Plans Often Go Awry. ‘When the authorities of the Mary- land proprietary and leading ecolonists began to push northward and wlm that great province of the New World, they looked forward to the day when & great port would arise as the result of & teeming trade. forehand in real estate tzmtfim hey selected what they regarded as the cer- tain site of Maryland’s fuf port. They selected a site not the present location of Havre de Grace. There is a little up of buildings there to this day. It is a small town ealled Joppa, of which few people dis- 'h‘!n:‘ from the neighborhood have ever Baltimore, now one of the leading ports of the United States with not far tion, was un- ‘What causes cities to grow where they do often is an unsolved mystery. What causes the logical sites chosen {ur tmmm to be neglected a':r&h.ndufid s, aps, mys . - dnJ,K nln?: u“h- greatest cities have arisen in the mast unlikely places, Ven- ice, for example, & city which has in- fluenced the trade and culture of the world, from Venice Beach, Calif, to around the world, indeed—was built on piles by fugitives, who fled into the Sea to escape their enemies. Paris, too, was built on piles in & swamp, that being deemed a safe place where its In The Star Monday, Februsry 33, 1880, the Su- District, in general preme OCourt of the | marking town lots. It was only a mat- | Desiring to be be- | Hazard in Choosing Sites for Cities BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. founders might hide from pursuit. They little dreamed of the city they were founding. And yet, on the other hand, there is Yorktown, Va. The York River af- fords one of the finest harbors imagin- able. Whole fleets may ride there. There was established the first custom house in the American colonies. In co- lonial days people believed it was des- tined to becom reat port. Then it boasted 3,000 population. Today, al- though the harbor still is there, the population Is but 500. An occasional river steamer or fishing boat stops there, ‘The Pilgrim Fathers landed at Ply- mouth Rock, and while Plymouth is a medium sized and prosperous town, ic is not a great eity. Very shortly after that landing Salem was founded and that beeame a whalin;; port of consider- able importance and still is a pleasant town. ubtless, the Pilgrims expecttd that either or both would rise to be great cities. They did not dream of Boston, 37 miles north of Plymouth and a somewhat lesser distance south of Salem. Erratic Development Within Cities. ‘The story could be repeated endlessly. There considerable note of pathos and defeated hopes in the finding, out in the country, half-decayed markers with street names on them and little stakes denoting town lots—these telling story of how some man felt sure that there he could build a city. ‘The same uncertainty exists in re- spect to the direction which citles, once firmly established, will grow, Cer- tainly the National Capital d! its founders' expectations. The Cap! Bullding faces east; that is its prlnc_lxpu facade, its front door, so to say. The founders were certain that the ecity would lop to the eastward. Today one may go but a few blocks in that direction and find himself in the coun- try, while stretching away from the Capitol's back door the city extends for miles, its entire business and financial district, its governmental buildings and its most, lprlled residential sections hav- ing envuzod in precisely the opposite direction from that expected. It took quite a while for Washi, to cl its mind about the direction it would grow. As long after s founding of the ta) inistration of Presi- dent Grant, it still was thought that the best residential section, if not the busi- ness section, would be on Capitol Hill. ‘What was for that day the finest group of houses in the city was erected on East Capitol street, about two blocks {rom the Capitol itself, and called Grant row. This row of mansions had dwindled in rank into boarding houses by the turn of the century and now have been pulled down. the f mk%’”lw“nfil o direction of Vel b apes mn:o far as fashionable residen are eoncerned. Cleveland is & notable example. years, nearly all the fashionable residences of the ecity were built to the westward of the busi- the courts of Kubla Kahn in China— | al While only a few years ago the eastern side was a strag- le of minfled cottages and sma arms, now 1t 15 a garden spot, with ihain land so costly that few can af- United States Makes Ten Per Cent on Investment BY HARDEN COLFAX, The United States is the best run national business nurma on earth. Accaording to careful estimmtes by botdy Federal and private statisticlans swd economists, the net return on its eapital k‘lm-::‘:-vm”mfi:‘; ve income return on national or 4| only gold and processes or copyrigl As to money, it includes sllver coin and bullion, * % ¥ ¥ Officials of the Department of Com- merce and other st clans 5‘“ na- tional income at $100, 000, about 10 cent on the actual capital - per pi t. The ratio between net income and total wealth has been fairly constant in the last 12 years. One has grown at * ¥ “A horse car without horses, to be driven by what may be called bottled- vs. Horses. is about to be placed on the tical tests. The objection it, however, that it will not aceus “Graphie writers,” says The Star of February 27, 1880, b- | modity production te in , a8 some governments aver, the na- tional wealth or eapif $110,000,000,000 in wages, salaries mllonl, bnn(lng a huge increase prumnvu‘ !‘;:ymo'ourv:y“ e ‘wage o . mean .t:um .;'pc: of new. outlets fy E‘"“m“‘mm lumbermen, mine ers, manufacturers and all lines of o Not_ only are the natural resources of the countyy. simost, untouched: it the = | trend of eof near Ren- | Mr te, what Horace disseminat men i'; didn’t amount to much.” Among plants. (Coprright, 1930.)