Evening Star Newspaper, March 6, 1930, Page 8

WASHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY.......March 6, 1030 THEODORE W. NOYES. ... Editor Rate by Carrier Within the City. The Evenine Star_.. - 48 per month Tenen .‘x‘“lllggll"u mlay ke, o vonth The Evening and Sundiy Star . o Ty B "Tosg por month Collection ml;fl at the end of !lnh’: l’l‘h'. '.l: be sent in by mail or tel one Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. fly and Sundi 1yr..$10.00: 1 mo.. 8¢ i 1r 1 mo. 80 REHR R #o the use for republication of ull nows dis- Maryland and Virginia. ily only ’ nday’ only 1¥es 1 mo’; 406 All Other States and Canada. Ly and Sunday. ) #r. $§2.00: 1 mo. 1,60 ily only ..ot nday only "l Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press 1s exclusively entitled Patches credited (o it t ‘otherwi - ited in’ this paper .nfi'.’i& ';n-"x"fi Sew Buplstied verely " All"iehS of Pusficatsen ef clal dispatches herein are also reserved. Britain's New Party. From London The Star's naval con- ference staff correspondent reports that the British public seems far more in- terested in the efforts to launch the “United Empire party” than in the at- tempts of the sea powers to bring about limitation of armaments. That may be, the correspondent points out, & purely external manifestation, for the new political movement is being fomented by stentorian brass-band methods of unusual din. Britain's powerful twin ‘“newspaper peers"—Viscount Rothermere and Lord Beaverbrook—are beating the bassdrums. ‘Through their far-flung chains of widely circulated daily papers in Lon- don and the provinces they are able to erusade for protective tariffs within the empire on a prodigiously resounding scale. It is not difficult, with such in- struments at their command, to drown out all other movements, even if these eonhcern a matter of so vital importance to Britannia as her navy. ‘The Rothermere-Beaverbrook drive for a fresh political alignnient has two acknowledged purposes—to put the empire on a protection basls and to blast the Conservative party either into Action along that line or out of ex- istence. The United Empire party is thus a movement of both program and protest. Its promoteérs contend that five years of the late Baldwin regime were marked by indefensible apathy, that eonservatism fiddled while Britain burned, and that nothing but a raging stream directed against-old shibboleths and old leaders will put out the fires of ‘economic distress and decay. Lord Beaverbrook and Viscount Roth- ermere do not see eye to eye in all re- 8pects. Beaverbrook advocates a vast system of British imperial tariff feder- &tlon, which would make the empire & self-contained protection entity like the United States. Rothermere insists chiefly upon full national protection for Oreat Britain and a total break with free imports. The British today afe the only industrial people admitting foreign eompetition free, while denied equal ac- ess to the markets of their competitors. Viscount Rothermeie bélieves this state ©f affairs is mainly responsible for the post-war paralysis which has been ereeping over British industry. It decidedly remains to be seen, de- Spite the undoubtéd appeal of the United Empire patty to the man and Wwoman in the street—espécially the tnemployed man and woman—whether Britain is prépared to turn its back on her anciént faith in free trade. Oonservatism is taking the Rother- mere-Beaverbrook big noise with char- acteristic stolidity. It is convineed that the self-governing dominions like Can- @da and Australia will never concede free trade to the mother countty. In- dia, by hardly any possibility, would ever in an imperial sollverein, The present British democracy, its most feliable paladins, the Labor party, as- sert, cannot be induced to put tariffs on imported foodstuffs. All in all, much water will flow be- neath the bridges of the Thames before the London newspaper peers propagan- dise John Bull away from his age-old fiseal moorings. Yet it is impossible to dismiss their campaign, as some of its foes do, as a purely persofial and selfish vendetta. Britain’s econotnic plight is real and grave. It may not be remedied By Rothermeres and Beaverbrooks, or by the methods they now are so vociferously advocating. But that relief somehow, sothe time, must be evolved, unless eon- ditions, now merely distressing, to become disastrous, is plain to all dis- passionate students of present-hour British conditions. ———————————— Once an ardent fisherman, Calvin Ooolidge no longer figures in prominent prowess with rod and line. Pishing is courteously recognized as the publicity prerogative of an incumbent adminis- tration. —————— Reduction of income tax is a sign of prosperity prompting hope of a return t0 days before the war when there was no income tax at all. et e A Protection to Agriculture. The fining of the Pennsylvania Rail- road for transporting soil from the Menlo Park laboratory of Thomas A. Edison to Dearborn, Mich, for Henry Ford, which was found to contain the larvae of the Japanese and Adriatic beetles, stresses again the vigorous efforts of} State and Federal authorities to stamp out the various pests that have men- aced the agricultural products of this country in the past few years. The Buropean cornborer, the Japanese beetle and other insects that are inimical to 82 35 utmost degree. The Federal Govern- ment and the States have performed & notable service to the people of this country and it # for the people’s bene- fit that the campaigns are undertaken, It is a singular aspect of the fly inspec- tions that much fruit is confiscated from travelers who know beforehand that it will be confiscated if found. | Guardsmen have found oranges packed in the tool boxes and under the seats of automobiles, while in other cases bags of frult have been discovered under clothes in suit cases. What possible ob- fect these would-be smugglers hope to accomplish by carrying with them fruit that may be infected is beyond the un« derstanding of the average person. This is the type, though, that the inspections are designed for. The others, those who are public spirited enough to appreciate the dangers of infectinig néw aréas with obnoxious pests, must do their part by cheerful asquiescence and helpful co- operation when they are stopped for search. New Anti-Gambling Laws. Granting that lax enforcement of the laws is often excused on the ground that stricter laws are needed, thus creating the tendency to look for more laws instead of zealously concentrating upon those already on the statute books, it will at the same time be admitted that if a erimihal ean flout the police and defy the law by barricading a room with an iron door and an electric lock and get away with it, it 18 time for & new deal. In their discussion of ways and means to combat the operation of gambling establishments in the Districs, the police have suggested that a law might be enacted under which the of a bullding with special doors and electric locking devices be considered posés. Upon this assumption a search warrant might lssue on thé sworn state- ments of complatnants that the bulld- ing was 8o equipped. Generally speaking, it is doubtful if such a statute could be framed to stand up in court. But it would be a rél- atively simple matter to govern by speeial permit the installation of the devices complained of, and to provide that ifispections shall be made at any time of the premises whereini the de- vices have been lawfully installed. It may be taken for granted that & land. lord or lessee who equips his premises with heavy iron doors, provided with peepholes and electric locks, 16 taking these precautions with intent to defy the law. But the use of iron doors and other such paraphernalia, unless specifically allowed, should be banned by the law instead o6f endeavoring legally to construe theéir existente as evidence of violation of other laws. As ope understands thé situation now, polié who have establishea the proof necessary for a search warrant arrive at the suspected premises with their warrant and in the interval re- quired for getting past the armored barricade the évidénce of law violation on the other side of the door 18 destroyed. These difficulties wotld in part bé removed by prohibiting the use of the barricades. They undoubtedly constitute a fire menace, if nothing else. the gems, but the purchaser, it is understood, intends to break up the necklace for the sake of the stories. Perhaps he has already done so, and in that évetit the celebrated Napoleonic £ift t6 his wife, mother of L'Aiglon, ceases to be and 18 but a memory. But that shrinkage from $400,000 to $7,200 is a severe blow to the great archducal expectations. This is not the first in- stance of heirlooms failing in a pinch. S —— It Was a Dog, Says the Law. Legally, the mystery of the Prince George County panther solved. There was no panther that preyed upon live stock and frightened folks and drew the attention of many hunters There was, however, a dog, probably a big dog, and a fierce dog and a hungry one. How does the law know that it was a dog that did the misehief? 1t does not know, precisely or surely. It has to call the thing a dog or a claiant for reimbursement from the live stock recovery fund would be unable to récoup his losses. For the fund is specifically provided to relieve farmers whosé stock animals are at- tacked by dogs. So a dog it must be. But this deeision will not assuredly settle the matter in the minds of many people, including the hunters who fared forth with weapons and trailing hounds and peéered into the night and fired now and then at dark spots and at gleaming eyes and at slinking forms. To be sure, the huntérs saw several kinds of animals, panthers of a wide range of variation, wild cats, lynxes, pumas, even Indian servals. They are agreed only upon the hypothesis that it was not a dog. So for them the law has erred, grievously. ‘There should be some amendment of the law to cover such & contingeney in the future. Who knows but what the niext hog killing by othér than human agency will be feline rather than canine. . | Nobody ean guarantee against panthers. The live stock fecovery provision should be broadened to guarantee reimburse- ment for lossés from ‘“dogs or cats.” Theén when the next big “critter” goes hog hunting in Maryland and pigs fall vietim to its hunger, nobody will be em- barrassed for a proper classification and the law will n6t have to take a chance in otdering recovery. e ——e——————— Soviets must be prepared to fece a géneral impression that the Russlan ballet has reached a state of perfeetion which the Russian ballyhoo canniot hope o equal. ————t Radio enables the wotld to know ex- actly where members of a polar expedi- tion are located. Whether they can be reached punctually by & relief expedition in an emergency is another matter. ot ‘While Prench fashion hds not gained | i entite obedience to the demand for longer skirts, it has at least been en- courdged in seeking to require longer conférence speeches. —_——tat—— —— — Every time the Government announces & liberal policy of expenditure millions of volees are raised to offer suggestions a5 to what to do with every available dollar, ——— e A Communist demands an equal dis« ttibution of asséts with nothing to con- tribute on his own account, except a The use of padlock injunctions, ap- | loud noise. plied to gambling establishments, would undoubtedly assist in enforeing the law against gambling. But none of the new expedients proposed will be so ef- fectivé as strict and continued war against suspects by the police and quick and détermined action in the courts. One of the points brought out in the polemical discussion. of conditions around the Govérnment Printing Office is the fact that two men, Arrested re- peatedly by police, were allowed to go free ofi the forfeitute of collateral not much larger than that demanded from an occasional speéder of Overtime parker, while jail sentences were evaded or escaped by the payment of & rela- tively small alternative fine. ° Conviction and sentence to jail of a few gamblers will aédomplish more than new laws. More stringent statutes will of coufse help. 2 e Enthusiasm on Hoover's inauguration anniversary makes it elear that the Republican party expects to find no hesitation about selecting a candidate for the next presidential campaign. S, Napoleon's Wife's Necklace. Many things that were done by Napoléeon Bonaparte duting the héyday of his career had their repercussions in history of which he had, indeed could have had, no conception. He swept along with & supreme indiffer- ence to the thereafter, save that he desired most ardently to leave & son to carry on his name and his self-bestowed imperial title. When a son was born, the poor little fellow who was to be known for his brief life as “L'Aiglon,” Napoleon was so delighted that he gave to his consort, mother of the chlid, & diamond necklace. It was & beautiful bauble, worth & good many dollars. ‘When Napoleon was deposed and exiled to St. Helena, the Empress kept the Jjewel, and it passed along in the family untll it reached the hands of the Archduchess Maria Theresa. The Gtreat ‘War came, and the once powerful Haps- burg family fell upon hard times, Pov- erty succeeded to riches. Even ar¢h- dukes @nd archduchesses were nipped by the pinches of adversity. The Arch- duchess Maria Theresa, her resources spent, dug the Napoleonic necklace out of its coffer and put it on the market. She valued it at $400,000, American the crops of the country have received much attention from Government and State agencies, but none of the other éampaigns has been as severe as the attempt to eradicate the Mediterranean frult fiy menace now going on in Florida. style. It was sent over here for sale, An agent was given authority to dispose of it. Time passed, and the descéndant lol Austrian royalty became anxious. There was correspondence, and, accord- ing to thé archduchess, the agency of e Big business has shown what a gen- ish tlemen’s agreement can accomplish. Peace-demanding nations shotild be able to do the same. e SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. ‘The Opéra. TO hear ah opera we went. The music was sublime, And yet a certain discontent Was with me all the time. ‘While the soprano we'd admire For graces of her own, ‘We knew the tenor would expire, Slain by the baritone. Our setitiments were far from glad As we exclaimed, “It's Just Too Bad!” ‘The diamonds were shining bright. The costumes, works of aft, Made glorious the passing night Where song came from the heart. | But in that tragedy complete Which so relentless seemed, ‘We missed impressions blithely neat Of which we'd fondly dreamed. And as we closed the evening sad, ‘We merely said, “It's Just Too Badl” Estimating Compensations. “Some statesmen draw entirely in- adequate salaries!” “Bome do,” agreed Senator Sorghum. | ¢! “And others draw salaries which, howa ever small, merely represent money ob- tained under false pretenses.” Jud Tunkins says when he's lookin’ for farm felief he takes down the al- manac which gets Away from his ideas and falks mostly about the same old patent medicines. Early Robin. ‘The early robin came along And sought to sing his little song. He sighed, “I tried to pipe my lay And to be seasonably gay. I'll need a plumber, I suppose. It's very clear my pipes are froze!” Loyal Confidence. “Aren't you afraid of the burning pit of future punishment?” “No,” answered the defiant young man. “I belong to a volunteer fire de- partment that can put out any blaze we #6¢, in at least twenty minutes.” “Disconitent,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “is natural to humanity. The Government is most complained of All travelers in that Staté must un-|the New York representative was ean. |10 Buman affairs because it is most dergo the most thorough of inspections— | eled. But undeterred by symptoms of | CONSPIeUOUS.” N0t once, but many times. As soon &8 the quarantined area is reached south ot Jacksonville and north of Miami the motorist or the passenger on trains finds National Guardsmen waiting to inspect all baggage. For the motorist especially this procedure at times becomes slightly annoying, inasmuch as he is stopped for examination on entering the area near renuneciation the agent recently sold the neckiace. For $400,0002 By no means. For a paltry $60,000. And it is now asserted by the representative of the archduchess that all she got for her necklace was a check for $7,200, the rémalifider being charged to expenses and commission. And so there are now loud protestations, and there is even a Power of Humor. OR, how can intéllectuals réach The heights concerning which they teach, ‘When what the big applause will feteh 18 just & simple comic-sketch? “Tain’ no use tryin’ to explain,” said Uncle Eben, “why & man would rather foh dollars in a crap game dan de money by yesulsr work.” has been |0, BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. ‘The theater is something like food and sleep—it is in the blood of the race, and the man who thinks that He can get along without it entirely is mistaken. He may stay away from the stage for as lon, he pleases; he will go back to it again with a sigh of relief. for it meets a fundamental human need. The recalcitrant playgoer who has been away at other things for half a | dozen years finds upon his return that the play is not the thing at all. is the theater itself, with all its petty perplexities, its seats, its lights, its crowds, its curtain, its very mock- believe, which enthralls him as it used do. ‘The lure begins long before he enters the lobby. It starts with the selection of the play. Just how one selects a play to sée is never entirely definite.| It may be that it is selected for one. A friend calls up. “How would you like to go to the So-and-So Theater to- night?” he inquires. Usually one would like very much to go, and says as much. The invitation, freeing one from all regrets, is thus the method of beginning to go to the theater. No matter how bad the play may turn out to be, it cost nothing, and therefore deserves no adverse criticism. The theater becomes the play itself, and often proves the most entertaining production. * * K K ‘There is a little stir in life caused by buying tickets for the theater, or in accepting an invitation to go with a the habitual theatergoer. The latter is like the man who eats too mucth. and Wwho theréfore misses the greatest joy which hunger knows— a keen appetite. The jadéd theatrical taste is a sad thing to acquire, since there is no known cure for it except to absent one's self from the scene of the boards fof many a long day, week, month or year. The cure may take a in some cases. The man who does not go to the theater much finds his life quite wu a sudden decision to an He finds self recalling it all day long, in strange wonder at himself and his temerity. ‘The fact that he is going to & play :flln weighs upon d his inner hour. It does not upset his digestion, but rather makes him én- uralfi conscious of himself. All the way downtown he is struck At the novelty which he constitutes in himself and for himself. He passes thousands of people, all theater botnd, but who get no distinction out of it, for with thém it is the usual thing. He alone of all that crowd is unique. * ok k% ‘The theater becomes real for him only when he comes into the very block in which the building is situated. The moment he steps up on its eurb the whole ry’ of the drama com upon theatergoers who in Paris, London, Beflin, New York, and the other great cities of the world, gave the stage the prestige which it enjoys. He recalls the great Mcll;'r’e. in_the days when actors were réfused holy burial. He becomes one with Shake- speare and his band. ‘The second he comes into that last block, with the lights of the lobby gleaming in his eyes, he is & victim to .l very old and very delightful tradi- on. He looks around covertly. Other peo- ple are hurrying along, all going to the same place, He is glad of it. He needs company. L The new-born theatergoer stops in the lobby, not becausé he is waiting for any one, or becduse he wants to, but because he realizes it is the thing to do. ‘There is the old group of ladies in opera cloaks. He wonders if they have been standing there all these years, waiting for him to return. He is sure he recognizes the girl. the young lady with the dark hair and eyes. And the elderly woman with the lorgnette! She was standing right there by the door that last night, waiting for the same immaculate gentleman in tuxedo—and here he comes now! The just-born theatergoer would not be surprised to see Rip Van Winkle come in at any minute. Anything may happen in a lobby. A ‘With what assumed nonchalance one hands his tickets to the thick-set ticket- taker! There is a technique here. Never yet have we seen a person with tickets look the man in the eye. The man does not expect to be looked in the eye. He does not want to be looked in the eye. He would drop the tickets in amazement if any one should say to him pleasantly, “Good evening, sir; how are you?” Once through the little entrance— one may go into an Ark two by two, but into a theater only one by one—the interesting passage is made from the door to the back of the auditorium. ‘The orchestra is tuning up. crairs are mostly filled. One stands as conchalantly as possible until a_girl friend, a commotion scarcely known by | . in an absurd costUme appears. s, one knows, is the usher. Yet the cos- tume is a shame. A girl ought to be able to be an usher without looking 80. ‘We give her our stubs and are shown to our_sea’y. Now we are in at last. Carefu'ly se arrange our coat, our hat, pull up pur trousers so they will not wrinkle too much, and prepare to en- Joy the play. bt But the play is terrible. It is so dull that it buckles in the middle act, and never comes to itself again until curtain goes down for good. |} ‘What do we care? ‘The theater is the show for us. The audience is the show. The fat lady in the box i the show. The lights are the show. The little concertmeister is the show. He plays well. One tries to read the program at last, there being nothing else much to do except look at the tiresome play and listen to the exceedingly dull lines. The program tells about the play of next week, and one wonders anxiously if it is going to be a8 bad as this. One casts surreptitious glances up and down the aisle. Maybe there is a pretty 1 to look at. When one used to go the theater ustially there was at least one pretty girl to look at. Yes, there is. She is across the aisle, sitting with her husband, who pays no ar attention to her. One resents the hus- band’s attitude. The sap, why does he not whisper sweet nothings into her pretty ear? She looks up. Maybe she is bored, too. Her eyes are blue—cornflower blue, One pretends to become terribly interested in the program, but when ohe looks up again the blue eyes are gone. ‘They never come back in. One knew that they would not. They were not that sort of eyss. Ah, welll The people, and the lights, and the curtain, and the program, and the fat lady in the box, the fat lady with the meaty shoulders—and the cornflower blue eyes. And suddenly one remembers—those eyes were there 10 years ago. LONDON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Lotd Ashfield, British-born but American-trained, is the able and pop- ular head of London's great system of bus, tram and underground transpor- tation. He learned the traction game 4s & young man in Detroit, 'way back in the gay 90s, where a boyhood friend was a lad named Edwin Denby. Together they enlisted for service in the United States Navy during the Span- rican War as gunners’ mates . 8. S. Yosemite. Lord ain Albert Stanley then. He returned to Great Britain some 20 years ago to embark upon a career |with which was destin®d to carry him far. During the World War Stanley, who had already been knighted for or- ganization of motor transport in France, was made president of the board of trade in the Lloyd George coalition cabinet, the post corresponding to our | Wintei Secretaryship of Commerce. He ac- quitted himself so_brilliantly in that portfolio that the King elevated him to the peerage in 1920. Lady Stanley was | Staf Woodruft Grace Lowry of New York. The London General Omnibus Co. and the varfous “tube” subway lines which stream beneath the great metropolitan area in all directions are under one central control, and the Yankee-bred Eer is their reme directing chief. rd Ashfield still speaks the American language. * x % ¥ Our naval conference delegates have hot confined their communings in Lon- don to the Macdonald government and its leaders. They have seen much of Mr. Baldwin, the Conservative chief, and of Mr. Lloyd George, the Liberal boss, who, with his band of 40 or 50 followers in the House of Commons, ranks as the man who holds the des- tinies of the Labor regime in the palm of his cunning hand. By combination with the OConservatives, the Liberals have it in theif power at almost any time to turn out the Macdonaldites. Most politicians think that “L. G.” wil move relentlessly in that direction when- ever he thinks the going is good. At the moment, it suits the Liberal book let Labor live, Secretary Stimson and his colleagues find Messrs, Baldwin, Lloyd George and prominent men and women in all walks of political life as “keen” about a naval agreement with the United States as Prime Minister Macdonald is. They are throwing no monkey-wrenches into the conference tachinery and will not begrudge Mac- donald a successful outcome. * k% % ‘The Earl of Birkenhead, who once n_a time was popularly known as ugo E.” his -peerage name having been Frederick E. Smith, is the latest noble of the realm to enter the once despised field of trade. Though Birk- enhead has not ranked as particularly Americanophile, he lately accepted the chairmanship of the board of a huge British investment trust which is domi- nated by American capital. Lord Birk- enhead was lord chancellor of Great Britain in one of the post-war cabjnets. He is one of the acknowledged legal best minds in the country. Did tradi- tion not forbid an ex-chancellor from rn\unlht law practice after sitting on the woolsack, Birkenhead might com- mand an income akin to those which the foremost American corporation law- yers earn. A lord chancellor retires on a life pension of $25000 a year. He never goes to private practice, but, as Birkenhead Jjust exemplified, there seems to be no objection to his going into non-legal business. * ok kX Not long ago there was offered for Ermu in the English law courts what said to be the shortést will in the English language. fi oconsisted of three words, “All for mother.” The question atose as to whether so simple a testa- ment, which was a deathbed produc- tion, outranked an earlier will made b; the testator. The courts ruled that il did and an estate of over £10,000 was probated under it. The will whs proved and defended by a well known London solicitor, Harvey Clifton, who specializes in guiding American clients through the mazes of British law. * % % ¥ Our British cousins are making & brave effort o produce moving pic of their own worthy of ranking with the best that Holl, Outside of London is John Bull’s Holly- wood, a movie colony called Elstree. has made some creditable talkies, for some teason which English actors and directors themselves are unable to | of explain Elstree doesn’t seem able to at- the standards which are assoclated Ametican pictures. Our screen stars are as well known in London as in any American éity, and quite as pop- ular. George Arliss in “Disraeli,” Har- old ugfl in “Weleome Danger” and Janet Gaynor in “Sunny Side Up” are among the reigning favorites here this T, * * x % Sir Ronald Lindsay, G. C. M. G., the new British Ambassador to the United tes, expects to nt his credentials to President Hoover soon after arriving in the Unitéd States on March 18. He and Lady Lindsay have been busy for a month uylnfl good-by to British friends and closing up their home in Eaton Bquare. They do not expect to find the magnificent new British em- bassy on Massachusetts avenue ready for occupancy until much later in the Spring. Meantime Sir Ronald and his consort will camp out in a hotel—an entirely novel experience for his Britan- nic majesty’s envoys to America. The rambling old brick mansion on Con- necticut avenue, soon to be demolished has been home to two generations of Ministers and Ambassadors from islands. 8ir Ronald will be in one respect the “biggest” diplomat in Wash- ington. He towers e 6 feet 4 u;ch;u into space and g.m 35‘:- u;. -u:: of ugeness. Lady Y, Ameflc‘:{. Both she and her dis- tinguished husband confess to a great enthusiasm for the task upon which an:ny are about to embark on the Po- ac. L Britain's unemployed on February 3—the latest statistics available—to- taled 1508,000—17,081 more than & week before and 139,126 more than a year preVious. The jobless army com- prised 1,108,700 meén. 43,400 boys, 310,- 400 women and 46,100 girls. About the same day these depressing figures were published the board of trade announced a pronounced slump in the nation’s trade. Compated to the corresponding month (January) of last year, there were falls of £14,693,030 in_ imports, £8,617,120 in exports and £1,636,783 in re-exports. Trade was thus down b a total of £24,945042, compared wi January, 1939—or & slump, in our money, of roundly $125,000,000. The figures show that the textile and metal industries were hardest hit. One bright feature is an dncrease in the export of coal. (Copyright, 1930.) Dodging Warrants, Not Heat. From the Boston Evening Transcript. It appears that two men in Somerville who took refuge in an ice chest were trying to escape arrest rather than to find refuge from the February heat wave. ——r——————— Some Good Substitutes. From the Detrolt News. Even if the Chicago explorer fails in his effort to locate the remains of Noah's Ark, we have no doubt the Shipping Board would be able to offer him the equivalent. An Assured Phase. From the St. Louls Post-Dispatch. Senator Walsh of Massachusetts com- plains that the log rolling stage has been reached on the lumber tariff. Could anything be more natural? ——————— Four-Tenths of One Per Cent. From the Louisville Times. Another failure of enforcement which e all respect for all laws is the news that 1 3,000 aogs in & can turn out. Crit- | peg, % but | rg The Political Mill By G. Gould Lincoln. , 1s likely to be Sugar, it now appears, phbom o s in the com! :m‘;:l . When the Senate yester- day, by a vote of 47 to 39, adopted the Smoot amendment to the tariff bill increasing the duty on importations of sugar, it practically determined that some kind of an increased duty is going to become the law. House has raised the duty even higher than the Senate and the conferees must include some measure of increased duty in the bill. . The Demom: lr;l Gt;:‘ %or:n:;u‘: campal will ring the chani sugar flty, asserting that it has in- creased the annual sugar bill of the American consumers by $30,000,000 to $50,000,000, depending upon the final measure of the increase in conference bill. This is an issue which may go well in the industrial centers of the East. Out in the sugar-beet-producing States of the West, however, ‘e may be another story. But, whatever the effect of an increase in the sugar duty, the Republican party will be held re- sponsible, notwithstanding the fact that nine Democrats suf the increase. Incidentally, it may be mentioned that several of the Republican Progressives from the West were lined up for the increased duty, including Nye and Frasier of North Dakota, Howell of Nebraska, Pine of Oklahoma and John- son of California. After all, sugar, though it is in a schedule all by itself, is an agriculfural product, and the Benators from the West belleve they can advance good reasons for voting for it. * Kk k¥ What the Senate will do with other important items in the tariff bill, now that the “coalition” wall has been breached by the increased duty on sugar, s still only a matter of conjecture. There is t0 be a drive for a duty on lumber, for a duty on ofl and for a duty on hides with compensatory duties on boots and shoes and leather, all of which are now on the free list. The vote on the proposed lumber duty was close when it came up in the Senate when the bill was in committee of the It lost by the narrow margin . A of 3 votes would Ol lost much more decisively. these duties, which are popular throughout the country, are placed in the bill, the pro- | for a “limited revision” of the riff will again have been discarded, just a8 it was in the House, Placing building materials on the dutiable list, oil and boots and shoes, and increasin, the duty on sugar will have the effect of giving the Democrats a real tariff issue. 1If enough of the Democrats see this, what 18 to hinder them from al- lowing the increases to be made? All they have to do is to stay away when the votes are taken. But that would be laying down on the Republican Progressives, who have been the heart and soul of the “coalition.” The Democrats may reply, however, that Some of the Republican Progressives failed to stand hitched when the vote On sugar was taken. The coalition has been effective in the Senaté up to the resent time, but its weakness after all les in the fact that the Progressive publicans are wedded to the idea of | V. placing the Democrats in power, nor ;re l{‘l:e %mocnlumnngum e::‘erely to me of the ressive wi of the Republican pnny.w e * ok ok ¥ Unless all signs fail, Secref James J. Davis of the Department mlbor 15 to resign his cabinet job and enter the face for the Republican senatorial iomi- nation in Pennsylvania against Senator oseph R. Grundy. This means that ident Hoover will have to find a New Secretary of Labor who is satis- factory to all ‘branches of labor. That's & tough job. Indeed, the administra- tlon may be sorry to undertake it just fiow. If Mr. Davis retires from the ¢abinet, it will be the first break in the Hoover cabinet except that caused by the death of the late Seeretary Good of the War Department. There . seems no doubt that Mr. Davis is anxious to get into the race. His supporters believe that he can capitalize the friendship which labor rs him in this particular contest, for Mr. Grundy has been the target many times of attacks by labor and as presie dent of the Pennsylvania Manufacs turers’ Association he is charged vfith having been hostile to legislation sought by labor in the Keystone State. rts from Pl iphia are to the ect that Davis will have the backing ‘William 8. Vare, veteran boss of the Republican organisation there. Mr, Vare himself is entered in the senatorial race. He is in PFlorida. His lieutenants have ht to speak for him in the past, particularly suc- cessful in doing so. 'There is still con- siderable skepticism that Vare will with- draw and throw his influence behind the candidacy of Davis and of Francis Shunk Brown, who is seeking the guber- natorial nomination. If Vare should follow this course, Mr. Grundy will have 4 real fight on his hands. He has never run for before, although he has backed many candidates for office. Grundy is expected to have the Mellon ,_although Mr, Mellon sits in the cabinet along with Mr, Davis, But, notwithstanding that fact, the Davis- Brown ticket, if it i8 put forward, will have support ih Allegheny County as well as in Philadelphia. it has been reported from Pittsburgh it Jo- seph G. Armstrong, chairman of the Republican county committee, has an- nounced his nllrpm't of the Davis can- didacy. It will be remembered that notwithstanding the _strong support iven former Benator Pepper by Tes Mellon in the 1026 campaign Vare received a very large number of votes in Allegheny County. L ‘There is a brisk contest on in Towa for the Republican senatorial nomina- tion, where John Hammill, present gov- ernor, 18 opposed to Representative L. J. Dickinson. They are scrapping for the seat now held by Senator Steck, & Democrat, who is likely to be th Democrati¢ nominee to succeed self. Iowh is considered an pasture, even in fluctuating advantage by the LB and the Republican nomination is re- garded as pretty much the same thing as a Democratic nomination in Ala- bama. Steck was elected—which is still disputed by Senator Brookhart—because Brookhart left the Republican national ticket in 1924 and supported the late Senator Robert M. La Follette for Presi- dent. The State Republican organiza- hind Steck and e ot ok g s a. te de- cided the contest against hlns:“rnmrly‘ * Xk % % Senator Brookhart is taking no sides in this senatorial primary, lt' least not gt. There is suspicion, however, that favors the causeé of Representative Dickinson. He recently gave out a state- ment in which he assailed Senator Steck and Hanford MacNider, former Assist- ant Secretary of War and former com- mander of the American Legion. MacNider is a Republican, but does not belong to the same group as Mr. Brook~ hart. The sum and substance of the statement was to the effect that Mac- Nider, who had backed Steck against Brookhart, was favoring the nomina- a ch in s which he mucmammm Hoover for permitting Brookhart to handie “pat- statement was for the Sacty "Gt Sropably would.amount 1 ly Wi amoul little more «K:?. ) t{mfi. The Iowa pri- mary falls on June 2 this year. In 1926 Brookhart defeated the "late Senator Cummins handily, much to the surprise :{‘ & wood many Republicans in the senatorial nominati 0t * ok ok % ‘The row between the La Follette Re- publicans and the stalwatts continues in Wisconsin without letup -r:lrem- ly. The La Follette faction doing Gov. Walter J. Kohler, remo farm States of the |C. V. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Have we had the pleasure of serving | m through our Wi Informa- Bureau? Can't we be of som= help to you in your problems? Our busi- | ness is to furnish you with authoritative information, and we invite you to ask | us any question of fact in which you are | interested. Send your mfl’l.ry to The Evening _Star Informat j Prederic J Haskin, director, Washing- . C. Inclose 2 cents in coin or stamps for return postage. Q. What are the three occasions upon which the biggest hook-ups of radio stations have been made?—T. A. F. A. The largest was the broadcast of the acceptance of the Democratic can- didate for the nomination for the presi- denc{. Seventy-three stations were in this hook-up, August 32, 1928. Second was the Dempsey-Tunney fight, tember 23, 1927, with 68 stations. was October 1929, broadcast from Dearborn during the Lights Golden Jubilee. Sixty-seven stations carried the voices of President Hoover, Henry Ford and Thomas A. Edison. Q. What soaps are made from min- eral ofls?—O. E. H. A. The Department of says oil. are Q. What was Greta Garbo's tion u’f‘m she went into the mevies e ture minéral A. Greta Garbo left school when 15 and worked in & department store, sell- ing hats. She played minor parts in the movies, and was recommended for & scholarship in the Dramatic School in | Stockholm. She studied for six months, and later came to Hollywood in 1935. . Q. Are rubber articles made by pour- ing melted rubber into molds?—F. J. A. Contrary to what seems to be the quite common impression, rubber goods are not cast by gourlnl the melted ma- terial into molds, Instead the crude rubber is worked between steam-heated rolls and at the same time the sulphur and other ingredients are mixed in. The warm, plastic mixture is then molded and heated to vulcanize the rubber—that is, to cause the sulphur to combine with it. Q. Was Cyrano de Bergerac & real pewrgon orl merely a character in fiction? exploits that were to make him a hero of romance. After 10 years of this life Cyrano left the service and began to write dies, Oyrano's ingenious mixture of science and romance fur- nished a model for many writers, such as Swift and Poe. He died in Paris in September, 1655. M. Edmond Rostand's romantic play, ‘I 0 de " (189%), revived interest in him, Q. Is there a difference between ece d-éllflw Latin and classical Latin?— A. Ecclesiastical Latin differs from classical Latin in various ways, these changes being due Pflnlflb‘“]! to the origin and derivation of ecclesiastical Latin. the Romans s the old tongue of Latin known as the prisca_latinitas. B.C., Ennjus and a few other trained in the schools of the made certain cl by the cultured classes, thus developed the classical Latin. The mass of the Roman people, however, continued to lgeo.k the old tongue, and after the third century there were two fim . The necessary contact betwe e two classes produced still a third. When the church developed a Latin it Was necessary to employ a language which would appeal to the masses a8 well as to the literary class; hence some of the factors of each idiom were used. St. Augustine says: “I often employ iters Greeks and, encouraged | sidered ,, Sep- Third | ¢, that no soaps are made Only vegetable and animal fats|or In the third centuty | h, 30 that you understand me. Bet- ter that I should incur the blame of the grammarians than not to be un by the people.” Q. What is the flower of the District of Columbia?—N. M. A. The American Beauty rose. Q. Doml?mkhmcommlt suicide?—E. K. A, In 1929 there were 1745 at- tempted sufcides in Paris, 1,351 of which were successful. Most of these persons drowned in the Seine. . What suggestion won the prize in tbeq contest conducted w the executors of C. Harold Smith?—W. W. A. The winning estion for a Q. How do some of the most popular furs rank as to durability?>—N. 8. G. A. It is said that if otter, the strong- dyed muskrat, 35, . What was the epitaph Thoma Jefferson wrote for himself?>—T. A. C. ‘Here was buried Thomas Jeffer. son,” the third President wrote for hit own tombstone, “author of the Declara« tion of American Independence and ot the statute of Virginia for religious freedom, and father of the University of Virginia.” Q. How long have steeplechases been run in the United Sta M. W. A. The first steeplechase was run at Paterson, N. J., June 7, 1865, a three- mfle r‘n‘:‘nmclp. &" 27 jumps, thgun: a beginning was an_extra day's megl:rchxl.a.lix‘ at Jerome Park in a'u vember, 1869, Q, of what class is the “fellah”?— D.8. e wi Arabic is spoken, and Byria, the term peasant, a laborer or a fle] Q. What is an “epergne”?—L. E. A. It is an ornamental centerpiece of silver and glass for a din table. 1t holds flowers or bonbons 3 Q. Did Thaddeus Stevens receive a college education?—V. S. A. He attended Dartmouth, and was graduated from that college in 1814. Q. Who introduced tapestry weaving into land?—P. B. !flfilfld 1¢ : et h“ti b‘l‘l’;plg m“i or generations, Wwas nof until the mlfih of the nth looms were set up in War- by William Sheldon. Q. What is monkey bread? Where does it come from?—R. MoG. A. Monkey bread is also known as baobab, adansonia and digitata. It comes from Africa, and grows on trees that usually stand from 40 to 70 feet 00dy fruit, fm'm' 18 inches in length. The . :orvem‘nnmndmml nrwpler-l 68, an used in treating tropical fever. 'The ashés and bark are fre- quently bolled in rancid oil and used as & kind of soap by the natives. Q Who discovered iodinie?—C. M. A. A. It was discovered in 1812 by wicl igh. we words which aré not Latin, and I do from a. President’s Economy Advice Is Defended Second thoughts throughout the coun- try are favorable to President Hoover, following his appeal for economy in the matter of mtn-imn Many who felt that the pre glu for ald in the unemployment -situation ‘was inconsistent with this latest utter- ance have modified their views. There are some, however, who maintain a critical attitude. “‘As President Hoover points out,” ac cording to the Schenec Gasette, “we cannot cut down tax levies and at the same time Buch in- consistency ible r t | sentatives. They are local or hoppe: Mr. | . Iowa, and the Brookhart made in reply. The fight | ¢jec of victory &t this | seeqd “hi more. an situa- tion. Our Senators un%uum will do well to heed his words of cau- tion. Otherwise we shall find our Ped- eral tax bill mounting, despite the fact that special war-time levies have been abandoned.” ine New-vork Evcring Fort. ity 'ew Yorl i ;H; l"u- a right to up for the udget. 1t ‘wasa littls $00 hisirionic to use a8 reaponaibl, $pécial ABproptistion bill esponsible, sp moltp%( which have mmu what- ever of passage. * * It is too bad that, with leadership 80 sorely lacking other lons, he should come to grief in -mmpnfl it where it was by no means a cm‘c ‘b: pgwln need.” “Of course, the President it to know,” advises the Lynchburg Advance, “that scores of appropriation measures before Congress haven't the remotest |89 ¢ | chance of approval. Most of them are bills which are introduced simply a8 vote-getters for and Repre- séctional bills, and go into the r for home consumption only, ‘Theé whole affair has placed the White House in a ves unpleasant position, and has further widened the gap between the legislative and executive branches of the Govern- ment.” The Worcester Gasette feels “it is too bad that the Preside; could not have been attained B conferences With congressional leader$ rather than by countrywide broadeast.” In reply to these criticisms, the Phila- delphia Evening Bulletin asserts “the fact that some of the schemes of expenditure listed by President Hoover as threatening the anced budget of the administration are pigeonholed in committees and are unlikely to come out does not detract from the force of his warning to ¢ongressional leaders.” The Kalamazoo Gazette agrees that “he voices the counsel of sound judgment,” while the Charleston Daily Mail holds dore Dammann, all belpnging to the La Fallette faction. ‘The ~ charg .{:lnst them are to the effect that the Btate election laws were violated when they were chosen. Charges of election law violations are the basis gressives are casting around for & cane didate with whom they believe e can defeat Kohler for the nomination, La Follette, s being wrecd byt ette, g Eot o PRt made by w State ofe ficlals out of office, State ko Solimon Lévitan remains free of attack, Mr. Levitan was re-elected tres 1928 by an overwhelming ends quiet | Bven Pro-| the wrong sort Antonio they mmumnmmnhammu. and Questioned that “pla; safé in government gnmmpl y\n.c & wise 5o icy,” leveland News pen in ing from uxh. count ntHl hearty use."” lh‘lg it fortunate that “we nality, not afraid to I vmw;::n vd‘t’n precision and effectiveness.” R “There is not the slightest danger, of bt Congross wil pass sl the- pendy 5 wi e pendin; appropriation bills, calling for m"ouun; of more than $1,700,000,000. -Many of the measures were introduced for no If he doesn't, who will?. But | barrassing. h any 2ation such as Mr. at his conferences with business leaders last November the prime requisite is & balanced budget. has been threat- ened h{ the drive for hew appropriations. In calling upon the country, therefore. to support in his plea for econom) in Federal expenditure the President is not turning his back on his recom. mendations of last Autumn; he is actu- ally reinforeing them.” “It would be a great aid in checl the constant increase in the cost vernment and the consequent growth of the tax burden,” remarks the Chare lotte Observer, "if we would all learn that there is no Santa Claus in govern- ment: that, if there is, Santa Claus is simply another name for the general taxpayer.” 'xga. South Bend Tribune points out Y| that “the President’s statement was addressed more to ‘the people at home’ than to Congress,” and belleves that “the caution that he suggests must be exercised by the people.” The Buffalo ing News brings out the fact that “the limitations of the public purse often must circumscribe very meritori- ous projects,” and that “a co-operative b belt(:veen the hemlu °'.a'°€¥."""’$,'fi“ working personnel an e public the “best results for all”® The Manchester Union thinks ‘it is a pretty !:lod time in both State and national ds to take care of the necessities and do without some of the trimmings.” “Those who would avoid a 40 per cent raise in Federal revenues,” in the Ju ent of the Indianapolis Star, “will back their Senators and Representa- tives in support of the President's plea for economy.” The Aahux;y Park Press argues that “in laying the facts squarely before Congress President Hoover has €8 | taken an initial step that promises ra- tional action”; that ‘“party leaders should hasten to realize the strength of his assertions and support him in guard- the Treasury against intemperate ing T | stewardship.” “What he urges upon Congress,” says the | the Dallas Journal, “doubtless would not constructive program 0 which concludes: “Mr. Hoover the Qe War veterans’ expente. AC: e Greaf 'ar veterans' ex X C- eordlml{ he recommends that oogzml. give firsi consideration to their 3 After tnnh he wm:l!\d lla to see the public works program go palted. Sound policy dictat a8 tnese expenditures would stanch follower of the La Follette, he institution in course. stimulate business generally and open mampenntm soutces of revenue. ess, then, curtail the allow- :fl for control, enforcement? The ques- 18 raised is DOL to be Ahswered