Evening Star Newspaper, March 13, 1930, Page 8

"*THE EVENING With Sunda; WASHINGTON, D. C. "THURSDAY......March 13, 1930 THEODORE W. NOYES. ... Editor &.& io‘{l"l:h imhfi. ing. : ol Regent” B Londos: Rate by Carrier Within the City. 3 " . .45¢ per month STAR Edition. oo e Rate by Mall—Payable in Advance. Hogent S Vel St rein. 4 mfl' The Tocl new e Ml ustaush o Developments in Haiti. Secured by American support in his dictatorship since his first election, in 1932, President Borno's obvious lack of enthusiasm for the plan of the Forbes ‘Commission to set up a provisional gov- ernment in Haiti pending the holding of legislative elections is readily under- stoed. The question now is whether the President, whose record for co- operation with Amerjcan policies is practically unmarked by opposition, will allow his political supporters to per- susde him to adopt a positive stand against the Forbes Commission’s recom- mendations or whether, realizing the eventual futility of such a gesture, he will give the commission his full sup- port in laying the foundations for with- drawal of American participation in Haitian affairs. ‘The Haitian President has everything 0 gain by taking this latter course, He retires in May and he has announced HH ’;;§§§§5 ig with little interruption. But it is also admitted generally that small ‘progress indeed has been accom- through béen in office since 19 in 1926 by a Council of State, members were ap- President shortly be- themselves present prima facie evidence of the lack of self-governing ability. sionsl government until such time as regular elective processes can be set in motion. Dr. A. C. Millspaugh, former financial adviser, has argued that while it is true that stable government has been established in Haiti by the Amer- jean occupation, it is a stability which is not tooted in the institutions of the country, but on the contrary is imposed by the force of the United States. These institutions could never take root under a perpetuated dictatorship, which the Forbes Commission now plans to end. P Diplomacy is often required to deal with s well meaning nation that is willing to “compromise,” provided it can have entirely its own way: Lessons in Fire Prevention. Senator Copeland of New York has inserted in the Record, as extension of remarks, an article by Willam H. Rodds, member of the National Fire Prevention Association, Underwriters’ Association of the District, which deals with the cause of the White House fire on Christmas Eve and suggests steps that should be taken in preven- tion of fire in other public buildings. Mr. Rodda states the cause of the fire as follows: The cause of the fire was clearly indicated to be faulty construction of the fireplace. Wood studs and furring strips were in direct contact with & four-inch fireplace and chimney, which is, of course, absolutely contrary to accepted rules of fire protection. ‘The fire once more demonstrates very clearly the folly of combustible con- struction for important buil ), espes= elally when they house operations and ents valuable as THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTO the horse has gone, it is to be taken | the enemy, but from the possibility that for granted that full inquiry has been made to determine responsibility for construction that is thus put down as “absolutely contrary to the accepted rules of fire protection.” But what is of more interest now is the desirability of taking some of the steps that Mr. Rodda suggests toward prevention of future fires and fire losses in Government bujidings. The new building$ now in the Process of con- struction doubtless will represent all the knowledge and means at hand for fireproofing and minimizing the danger of fire. But other Government build- ings, constructed long before the execu~ tive offices at the White House, no doubt contain fire hazards due to build- ing practice and materials long since regarded as archaic and out-of-date. While it may be impossible now to “house all important operations, con- tents and records in buildings of fire- resistive construction,” as Mr. Rodda recommends, it is not impossible nor impractical to initiate surveys that will assure regularity of inspections by watchmen recording their rounds on approved clocks; the installation of modern and efficient fire alarm systems in all public buildings and the storage of all important papers and documents in safes and vaults. Worthless docu- ments, as in the case of the executive offices fire, added to the difficulty of extinguishing the flames. Such worth- less documents should not be allowed to accumulate in huge bales in dusty corners of the public buildings, where many of them no doubt are at present. The erection of an adequate archives building will improve Government stor- age methods and facilities greatly. In the meantime the White House and the Capitol fires teach valuable lessons that should be heeded. —— e The Tenth-Amendment Argument. With astonishing persistence some opponents of prohibition continue to pitch their tune in the key of the proposition that the eighteenth amend- ment is invalid, for one reason or an- other. Some aver that it was never properly ratified. Some declare that it was improperly and illegally phrased in the inclusion of the time-limit pro- vision. Now comes a special commit- tee of the New York County Lawyers' Association, which for two years has been studying the question, and de- clares, by & vote of 6 to 1, that the eighteenth amendment was illegally adopted and ratified. The ground for ‘This, say the six members of the committee just reporting, was a per- petual guarantee against the delegation of powers to the National Government not already by the Constitution so granted. “Without the promise that the sacred and inviolate rights would be 80 safeguarded by immediate amend- ment, the Constitution would never have been adopted.” It is almost as idle to wrestle with this strange perversion of logic as it is for its entertainers to propouind it. The Supreme Court has, in the light of this and other arguments against the valid- ity of the eighteenth amendment, upheld it as a part of the fundamental law, properly written, adopted and ratified. So the question really is a moot one, however it is framed. Yet it is per- haps interesting to point out the in- consistency and absurdity of the con- tention that the eighteenth amendment is invalid because of the implied pledge of the tenth amendment to restrain the Federal Government from any further assumptions of power. An amendment could have been adopted at any time legally and with full effect, after the tenth amendment was proposed, adopted and ratified, re- pealing that amendment, and without any breach of pledge. In other words, the right to amend the Constitution in any respect by the regularly prescribed methods is inherent and invioldble. The thirteenth amendment prohib- ited slavery or involuntary servitude within the United States. That was not one of the powers already given to the Federal Government by the pre-tenth amendment Constitution, The sixteenth amendment empowered the Congress to lay and collect taxes on incomes, which was not one of the powers possessed by Congress under the Constitution prior to the adoption of the tenth amend- ment. The nineteenth amendment guaranteed the right of suffrige to all citizens regardless of sex. And this was not a power already possessed by Con- gress or the Federal Government when the original Constitution was written. Invalidity on the score of the viola- tion of the tenth amendment pledge or guarantee has not, been seriously charged in the cases of the thirteenth, sixteenth and nineteenth amendments. All three of those, and the eighteenth as well were adopted and ratified by the regular procedure. The New York County law- yers' committee makes its final stand upon the proposition that the eight- eenth amendment ‘“can confer no sowers on the National Government over the people or their individual rights un- til ratified by the people themselves, as- sembled in constitutional conventions in their several States.” It is in vain that one seeks in the body of the Constitution for any clause which requires such a method of rati- fication. ] An ideal system of legislation might be more easily attained if the fair and disinterested people would go to as much trouble to inform themselves as to details as the professional lobbyist. . s The Death of an Ace. Canada is mourning the loss of one of its greatest war-time air fighters and the United States joins with its sister nation in the sense of bereavement. Col. William George Barker was un- officially creditsd with bringing down sixty-eight enemy planes and received official credit for fifty-two. He was one of the great aces of the war, and ‘was the holder of the coveted Victoria Cross f8r his extraordinary valor in crashing six German planes in one engagement, although himself badly wounded. He was also awarded decora- tions by other governments. But such is the irony of fate! This man who had lived through the inferno of the gra war in history, who had faced for months, rot caly from his own ships of war-time models could not withstand the terrific strain put upon them and would disintegrate in the alr, was killed in a crash while flying one of the most modern com- mercial planes manufactured today, with weather conditions perfect and a land- ing field within a short distance of the scene of the crash. Col. Barker had been in the air but ten minutes on a test flight of the mew plane when in a steep climb upward, while still close [to the ground, his plane went into & stall and nose-dived to earth, killing the famous flyer instantly. That a man of Col. Barker's ex- perience should meet death in this manner does not necessarily imply that the modern airplane is a hasardous vehicle. He is said never to have flown this particular type of ship before, and untll he had gained the “feel” of it, it would appear to be an error of judg- ment to perform vers so close to the ground, where the slightest mis- calculation is almost certain to end fatally. The planes of today are infinitely better than those used during the war. But the human element unfortunately remains the same. ————— The Progress of Radio. ‘The progress in the development of communications was most strikingly il- lustrated Tuesday when the entire United States heard the voice of Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, 10,000 miles away in Dunedin, New Zealand, the outpost of civilization which welcomed {him on his return from the conquest of the frosen Antarctic. ‘Telephone lines, undersea cables and long and short wave radio stations were linked together for this epoch-making event, the significance of which is les- sened only by the success of recent re- breadcasts from Germany, England and Holland. Static and magnetic disturbances, which have long been the bugaboo of radio broadcasting, again illustrated their supremacy over science by making the words of Admiral Byrd inaudible at times. But science is struggling hard to conquer these foes, and when it does, round-the-world communication will be a reality. The experiment was a success, how- ever, despite the interference. Admiral Byrd's voice was heard distinctly sev- eral times, and his cheery “Ha, ha!” resounded through millions of loud speakers. There is every reason to be- lieve that when another explorer goes into the Antarctic enterprising Ameri- can broadcasting stations will have an announcer with him to give the country a daily jump-by-jump description of the expedition, ———————— By remaining in office in spite of defeat in & vote relating to coal mines, Ramsay Macdonald calls attention to an element of “relativity” in the sclence of politics. The wise states- man is the one who preserves a sense of proportion in differentiating be- tween the small forces behind public opinion and the great ones. A defeat may be only & minor incident, not worthy of being magnified in attention as an event. ——————— Great confidence is felt in the out- come of peace negotiations in London in spite of the interruptions in the flow of thought necessitated by home politics. However great and far-reach- ing a subject under discussion may be, it 1s a rule of the ages that home poli- tics must come first. ————— Fiction does not monopolize interest in mysterious disappearances, among the most remarkable of which are still to be noted those of Gaston B. Means, professional underworld spy, and Grover Bergdoll, who devoted the effort of a lifetime to rounding out a successtul career as a slacker. —_———— Interest will be revived in the Doheny transactions, although the accounts are liable to look a little like the stories on the bargain counter that have passed their heyday of sensational publicity. ———————— Fear of causing a sensation restrains Admiral Byrd from discussing his plans for the future. He is a fine explorer, but a not very enterprising publicity expert. R ] SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNEON. The Sad Scholar. The teacher used to say to me That two and two make four. Alas, it doesn’t seem to be The answer any morel ‘When I fill out my income tax, ‘With pious, painful care, The rules seem strangely to relax That once seemed strict and fair. My efforts never quite agree, However I contrive, For two and two sometimes make three, And sometimes they make five. If my arithmetic should fail, I fear the law’s grim rule. Perhaps I'll have to go to jail Or be kept after school! Relaxations. “Do you think a man of great public responsibility ought to permit himself the diversions of ordinary humanity?” “Certainly,” replied Senator Sorghum. “There is nothing more sensible than & little nonsense at the right time and place.” Jud Tunkins says the first robin isn't near as satisfactory a sign of Spring as the strictly fresh egg. Obstruction. You'll always find & faction ‘That is hard to understand, ‘Who critizes action ‘When it ought to lend a hand. What Price Beauty? “Good looks are of little value.” “Quite true,” rejoined Miss Cayenne. “Take dogs, for instance. The uglier one | I is the more it seems to be worth.” “He who learns to control himself,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “may find at least that he has conquered his own worst enemy.” An Egotistic Inquiry. Why is it what I have to sa; Seems such a serious matter, ‘While thoughts of others on display Appear but idle chatter? “De worst kind of & haunted house I knows about,” said Eben, “is de one where de lan comin’ ‘round for de overdue D. C, THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 1930. BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL, find in Robert Bridges' poem, “The Testament of Beauty,’ startling, either in thought or treatment but simply ':h i;whle tradition upheld. ‘That is somt¢ 8- Poeuz’ creates excitement and exal- tation in the mind of the reader, and if it secures neither of these effects, it 18 either poor poetry or the reader is not fitted for poems. There is no escaping this diagnosis. The trouble comes when standardized educational processes insist on pourin poetry unrestrainedly into all types of minds, into those unfitted to receive it as well as those which naturally have & a sense, is an unnat- . One does not often stop ize this, read! and wrif are :g firmly fixed in Qh%humht hal of | know the civilized world. ‘hf'hynlcu.léy lpe:lln Ing most unnal hearty, meat-eal animal, sl in a chair, a small book clasped paws, or_hands. From time to during this silent, almost motionless rocess, & smile may light the face of f'.’he reader, and occasionally an involun- tary exclamation may escape him. He is the reader, a sight so common in the world that no one stops to realize that it is the result of scores of years of training, education, if you will. Sav- do not read; even hundreds of thousands of persons subjected to civili- zation do not read & line. Tlliteracy is much more common than many people like to think. Added to the iarge numbers of those who cannot read is the annual list of those who give up reading, except on the most desul- scale. =y * kX K Give up reading? Surely. There are thousands of per- sons every year who calmly and unin- tentionally release themselves from the bonds fastened upon them by their days of enforced compulsory schooling. Reading was the thing to do, they were taught, but when manhood or woman- hood came, with its trials and tribula- tions, its own problems, they found that books were not necessary, per se, in the tasks which they faced. Gradually they gave them up, until by the age of 30 or 35 years they find themselves in an almost non-reading state, especially in comparison with their school days. Many of them would be astounded at the accusation that ) accepted & release from & thing which they belleved they liked. ‘They had been pressed for time, they would declare; they had been very busy, and the new books were so many, they found it difficult to ‘“keep up with them.” They surely had as much ap- reciation for a good book as ever, but K(a has a strange way of making one do what one does not like, and preventing one from doing what he cares for. And so on and so on, but whatever the reasons, and whatever the cause, the net result is that many thousands of persons every year, or over a period of years, give over the serlous reading of books, and sit for the reml{ntd;r of the f their lives far from the it bubbles literary sea which seethes around the world. LR broad way. Yet even here it is significant that the two latest issues of the Modern Library—that good collection of mod- erately priced books instituted to please the sophisticated taste—are Homer's “Iilad” and “Odyssey.” Here is much hope for those who may be bemoaning the hll’bfl“‘fhl‘e M‘ ?h“tt try. The canny pul jers of o ry]" series o(’booh have a repu- tation for issuing widely read books. It is llldu;hlt fle;“}lonkdwl ‘nhi fl’lfi Modern rary lon does not sel well, it is withdrawn. It will be inter- esting to know the fate of Homer, but et aifhcult of a put into words. If one remembers the ‘“definitions of try” which he Matthew ‘Arnoid shd e atthew Arnold an Tk ists, he will recall vividiy that no two writ- ers gave a similar definition, and that no_one of them did, in fact, give any defllnri’uzn l: ';u'b!hl‘ a real sense; for not lum) off in & few ':m or described np.:ne would an ::mz-nehennne or the latest type of sel Poetry is not something easily de- fined, easily produced or easily read. While its essence must be beauty, there is plenty of beautiful prose in the world f bool that has two qualities, however, which are peculiarly its own—excitement and ex- altation. The first is a part of the lat- ter. The excitement of which we speak is not a sical stirring, in any but simply the mental reaction which comes with the reading of all work. Prose, whether novel, blography, or whatnot, possesses this quality a degree. In the non-poetic mind it may reside fully as much as in the poetic. But when the tically inclined reader gets true exaltation from a poem must possess a degree of mental excite- ment which no reader of prose alone knows. Perhaps the only person who can be sure of this as a fact is he who reacts equally well both to words in the prose forms and the poetic forms. That is why only this type of reader is willing to admit that the gigantic word masses of such a writer as Wal Whitman are essentially poetry, even though the bulk of readers insist on withholding from Whitman's work the sacred name of the muse. ‘The poetically inclined reader, who is by nature fitted to read poems. knows that some of the prose of Emile Zola, especially in his descriptions of mass movements of men, such as the march e N e poetry in prose form—might, in- deed. be broken into short lines, if one cared to do so. The o mn( Maeter- minded reader. The gist of this is that only a cer- tain percentage of readers ought to read poems, in any form, and that of this number only a lesser number will care for such & poet’s poem a8 “The Testa- ment of Beauty.” Such will enjoy it for itself, not as a oentury-beating world the poetic tradition of gre: verse, poetry which stimulates the minds of ly inclined men to exalta- tion, containing @ large, or unusually large. portion of intellectual excitement as its sure sign of worth. Highlights on the Wide World Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands L_UNIVERSAL, Mexico City— Many epigrams and lots of excuses have always been showered upon the woman who kills. In‘enl%:l wr{'en l.nves; all such tragedies with & glamour an Juluflelthnmmt does not truly helofi to them. many _cases, , if in apology for conditions which seem to force women to take the law into their own hands, in dt justice in the courts (or owe them most), they acquitted, but are applauded, honored with flowers, and all other sorts of donations and notices, which furnish a valuable advertisement for them in the continuance of their “career.” Our first impulse is to blame every crime on the masculine element. Even when a woman is caught with a smoking revolver in her hand and the victim at her feet, the feeling is not so much antagonistic to her as reproachful to the man who obliged her to resort to such a desperate remedy. Woman alone seems to have the paradoxical right to kill to show her affection. When they murder somebody, for “love,” or in ‘brought on by a jealous it, they simply appear to us as heroines who keep allve within our hearts and minds the eternal romance of life. This charming philosophy of ours, it can be well understood, tends to en- courage, rather than to diminish, the revalence of the No. 45 among the emininity of this city. Englishman's Home Is ‘His Castle. Manchester Guardian. — The age-old dictum that an Englishman's house is his_castle was established by a statute of Richard II, and is in force today as much as ever. No one can break into a man’s house, not even the owner him- self, if somebody else is in temporary possession. The reason is that such action would occasion a breach of the peace, and breach of the peace is abhorrent to the law. A man may defend the sanctity of his house even to the point of killing the intruder, but it is seldom, however, that such action finds sympathy in & modern court of law. A man also has the right to set traps for burglars in his house or garden, but is generally held responsible when an innocent person is injured. A tenant has the right of removing his temporary fixtures if done before the termination of tenancy. Celebrate Eightieth Wedding Anniversary. Cork Examiner.—Probably the oldest married couple in the British Isles ar Mr. and Mrs. Michael Coughlan of Rapp House, Tullamore, 109 and 106 years, respectively. They have just celebrated the eightieth anniversary of their marriage. During this long period they have taken only one holiday, on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary the Main street, which was a mass of ruins. I was out all that night helping to release the many victims trapped bes neath the debris.” The famine of 1847 is another of his many recollections. Mr. Coughlan works each in his little gfin for exercise. It is 102 years since had his first drive in the “old mlsume coach” that ran from Cork '49. 1 always ‘Barly to bed and ald the modern amusements— life—while it the | lasts! ashions. ‘The couple's descendants number threescore. I am not in love with her Ji Leave Country Because of Depression. Japan Advertiser, Tokio. — Japanese emigrants up to the end of November, since the beginning of 1929, as investi~ gated by the Overseas Industrial Co., reached 15,616 in number, of whom 13,613 crossed over to Brazil, in South Amm.nu. compnnd’ mwfl,h thtg corre- 5) flgru or the previous year this is an increase of 6,366 emigrants. xmm exodus is due to the busi- ness dep! on in Japan, and also the policy of the government in facilitating the d?lrture of any. who wish to try their fortunes in other lands. Emigration. to Brazil has been encouraged by the establishment of a Japanese colony in that country. The Brazilian government has granted a large tract of land to Japanese gr - moters in the northwestern part of their territory, and over 25,000 Japanese have taken root in this new environment. Similarity of climate and agricultural opportunities have made this concession m agreeable to Japanese emigrants, much_hitherto unoccupled land is | being developed. Outcasts Forgotten in ‘Whirl of Festivities. Diario del Comercio, Barranquilla.— Poor little outcast boy—who has not seen him lurking in the gloomy recess of a doorway, illumined late at night by the rays of a single star? His delicate uanflh- without a better shelter, cold and SUfT; comforter! Poor eyes dim wi as those of the little dog thine only friend! Thy trembling hands implore ald with the shrinking gestures of lous mryl ‘What desolation must relgn wit thy breast, which should at thy infant age be filled only with the happy sports and loves of childhood? For what fault of thine has Fate overwhelmed thee with these cru- elties? How can any of us be happy, though surrounded by friends and resources; how can we be hll?Y- with all our wants anticipated and lavishly fulfilled, when there are presented to us such tragedies of infancy for which we offer no relief, or think that we can offer no relief? Charity—what a mockery we make of thy name! We attend bril- |liant balls, festivals and banquets—we salve our conaciences by pitiful offerings for the poor, but we shut them out from that ln.rrt holier charity, the charity of Christ that would e ourselves a part of the gift to these unfortunates. Celebrate Founding of | Republic of Paraguay. atltne mm-gn' aTers, in i oiy e cele- brated the -ninth anni A of the founding of the Republic of guay. There was a general assembly at the Empire Theater in which two films were shown, and various musical numbers rendered, as well as the “execution” of the Paraguayan and A;Se:une n.tl.m;ll hymns. The Whicl Pendence. and atler which 'the ‘pro- claimed the gr‘nunc republic was in reality & ic victory for her van- 3 after five years of war ly was invaded and lald waste allled forces of Brazil, Uruguay ntina, but they could not agree lvulng. so Paraguayan autonomy How Times Have Changed. Prom the Louisville Times. ‘The good old days were those when foung st home even be- ore. married. sense, | province of 8ood | Mellons, tender dnv.m.l forlorn without & | o The Political Mill governor. Will he be able still to retain his grip on the thlfhh organisa- tion or will his influence fade out? The profess to believe Grundy.' But Mayor Mackey quit the Vare camp months ago and backed & ticket in the city election last Fall, put & slate in the fleld himself. * ok X % the Vare function effectively in Philadelphia, even though Mr. Vare is not a member of the Senate or the House, or a candi- date for either. That is the dislike of the City of Philadelphia to be a mere the Republican org built up in Pittsburgh, headed by the with Senator Grundy now aspiring_to l"duj'gh.‘x also. PFurthe: more, the Vare lership in Phil delphia has become a tradition. Willia: 8. is the third Vare to hold that leader- ship. When it seemed that the attack on Vare in the Senate, which resulted paralysis, there alignment in Philadelphia. But none of the lesser leaders was strong enough to seize the reins. Mayor Mackey de- sired the leadership. But so far he has t| not been able to gain control of the Republican organization. * ¥ % = It is conceivable that the Philadelphia ol ization may not be interested primarily in the election to the Senate of Secretary Davis. He halls from the western part of the But it is interested in the election of & candidate of its own choice, and, further still, in the election of a governor. It is no secret that the desire to control in & measure the of governor means far more to the tion than to have a Senator of its choice. But in the factional fights whieh have de- veloped in Pennsylvania in recent years It has become the custom to place whole tickets in the field, headed by candidates for governor and Senator. With Vare out of the picture, the Philadelphia organization swung to Davis in its contest with the upstate organization. The decision of Mr. Vare and his friends to back Secretary Davis makes the coming fight for the nomination all the more intense. Mr. Davis will have m friends of his own in the State. it hitherto he has lacked organization support. The Philadelphia organization, it gets back of him, with its ramifications and es in other counties, is likely to be a powerful factor. ! * Ok k¥ ‘The contest between Grundy and Davis, if it comes, is likely to find manufacturing interests aligned with speaking, supporting Davis. Both men have so far dodged the wet and dry issue, Mr. Grundy’s only comment to date being that “we believe in Pennsyl- vania in supporting the Constitution.” That does not commit him to much in Mr. quarters it has been pi W~ ever, that Mr. Davis has been able to satisfy Mr. Vare on this subject. Mr. Vare ran ing-wet candidate and won over former Senator Pepper, who, for the most part, was rather indefinite about the whole matter, It is reported h desires and intends to remain in the cabinet while he is making his cam- for the senatorial nomination. He strong precedent for such action. Both President Hoover and the late j President and Chief Justice Taft were members of the cabinet when they were candidates for the Republican nomina- tion for President. * ok ok ok ‘The formal withdrawal of Mr. Vare from the senatorial race brings to an end the contests which grew out of the Senate slush fund committee’s in- vestigations in 1926. Prank L. Smith of Illinois and Mr. Vare, victors in the elections in that year, were both under fire. The contests before the Senate itself dragged for months and years. The issue of State's rights was made, the right of the people of a State to elect and send to the Senate any man they desired, But the ma- { jority of the Senate turned a deaf ear to such pleas. Neither Smith nor Vare was permitted to be seated. And so the issue closes for the time being, at all events. A new slush fund commit- tee is soon to be appointed, under a resolution offered by Senator Norris of ebraska, Progressive Republican. With the record made in the Vare and Smith 8| cases, it is likely that contestants for Senate honors this year will be very careful what is done by and for them. * ok ok ok Appointment of Judge William S. Kenyon of the eighth judicial circuit to be an associate justice of the Su- reme Court, to flll the vacancy caused y the death of Justice Sanford, would be a popular appointment in the West. This is the judgment of men who know the sentiment of the people in that sec- tion of the countr{ It is not concely- able, rermpc, that a President should be guided by merely the mwm-n.y of a choice in selecting men sit on the Supreme Court. But Judge Kenyon has more to recommend him than his popularity in Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota and other States of the West, He has been an assistant.to the Attorney Gen- eral during the Taft administration, Senator from Iowa, elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Sena- tor iver, and was appointed judge of the United States O t Court of Appeals President gal now a member of the ly inferior to the Supreme Court. Judge Kenyon was to leave the bench and make the race for the in Iowa this year. But There is not the slightest lends , that he could S presen! serve the Law Enfo! ent_Co! - President Hoover. In , put forward prominently for the vice presi- . jeaders, memun’ ing former Be : m o e Loy Moot tor Wadsworth of New York and Sena- tor David A. Reed of Pennsylvania, or- ganized & opposition to the nomination and the movement for Ken- yon failed. Doubtless the same lu- ences which the nomination of Judge Kenyon at that time will be exerted now against his appointment to the Supreme Court. But the very fact that such influences were against would make it all which failed to win because Mr. Vare | di One reason exists for a feeling that | USiNg inization will_continue to | °0 .“‘f b ::M ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. be the Ambassadc to assume his duties in that capital. ‘What is the name of Ri allee’ h&' thflulthlmuu 1v—l.l. A foreword to this particular subject.” Q. What is the cost per to go through the Suez c-nul‘—w. G A. Fitty dollars, to advertising was awarded recently Cyrus H. K. Curtis, publisher, because of the strict adherence throughout istinguished has | $175 annually. ranean sallors, who regard mflnmmlb}e sign of his guardian- Q. Who was the first man “shipped” the Mayflower ?—P. N. A. The pilot, John e. Q. How old were the Wright brothers when they first started .experiment- ing?—T. B. A. According to the first blng:‘yhy of the inventors, “The Wright thers: Fathers of Flight” by John R. Mc- showed their inventive . When Orville d ld a bicycle inner tube. Orville had previously concluded that lateral balance would be necessary As his brother .. Where is the st post office in the ?—W. H. C. A. The smallest post office in the United States is said be at Grim- shaw, N. C. Tt is 8 feet long and 6 feet , logs, with the inside work- ing space 6 by 815 feet. W.'S. Alex- ander is tmaster, and the business of the amounts to from $150 to Q. Why is water sometimes cl bo- | when drawn from the faucet tanical A, fiful’ QIs it aborigines and enemies! Q. the instru in the Unif A, buile vania | & Woman, but either will do, if they “Red Thursday Called Pink, demonstrations in the Thi Grundy, and organized labor, generally th himself in 1926 as a wring- | ;0 to whence they came,” this paper vises. To the Elmira Star-Gaszette nda of the Communists is “a d form of mischief making that should be set down by force, if sary.® i * R ok oK The Atlanta Journal sa; g the weak showing made b’y‘ m- munists on March 6, “Evidently the theories which have reduced Russia to to an minds.” As to tion of the people of Russia under the Soviet, the lolaf Beach Press-Telegram states: “Conditions in Russia today are many times worse than in Amer- ica. Aside from the shortage of food and shelter, the destruction of the ideals of home life, the crushing of religion and the exercise of other policies ob- noxious to American standards, Russia is in constant fear of enemies, both from within :na without. .UhAll is ar- rayed agains . system of government that can sustain itself at urnal. "onu; with the unemployed, driven to seek relief from an intolerable condi- tion, the press has keen sympathy and voices anxious interest. On this mat- ter the Youngstown Daily Vindicator is outspoken: “It is detrimental to the cause of the unemployed that their spokesmen should be Communists, for LRZ Communists admit they are acting under orders from Moscow in -umnx up demonstrations in this country an Americans are not likely to stand for anything of that sort. But,” this paper continues, “the problem of unemploy- ment troubles everybody, and it would be a mistake to let any one get the m :‘:‘#‘ we are heartless in * kX % Um loyment is “Unempl body Who suffers from it. and wherever it occurs dies should be found wit th jon of the Sa e News, “hul men do not n nuww‘g 8o, al - tators should be restrained from cai trouble, it is well to deal gently American citizens who have the mis- fortune to be unemployed,’ dymrrmhwhomyoutmnk o Clear and clear after it stands a few minutes?—J. F. A. Air in the pipes has been forced into the water by pressure. It is soon the water becomes clear. Q. How much was the housekeeper at Mount Vernon pald?—G. J. Excerpts from a letter from George to S8amuel Frauncis follow: has a good deal of company, and wishes to entertain them in a plain, but gen- mlTeIuk:meubefiyM g you, if there is any such one within could be mxdtomwmemmlue Wi I would rather have & man than can Sobriety and Knowledge of thelr peates: AN wi ol - slon; which, in one word, is to relieve Mrs. We from the drudgery of w:n‘::mudm the table rrupery ““ll be recommended i gl i i : g 2 EE ” in America Pale and Futile ist country, the Louisville coum-dgkumll rates “the red menace as no more the Manchester Union. “Our Communists are noisy, but not powerful,” as the Fort Wayne News- Sentinel puts it. “Their power is almost solely of the lung,” agrees the Dayton Daily News, wi it estimates that “there is about with all their lung power can the Com. munists enclamor the whole country.” However, notes of warning are sounded in some quarters. The Danbury News, while agreeing that “the widest freedom of speech permissible under the law has always been enjoyed here, and should be enjoyed,” still declares, “But there must be no confusion of license with liberty.” They'll See to That. From the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel. British 'K:uflchn says & man who sings at top of his voice for an hour a day will never be bothered chest complaints in his old age. Righto! Leave it to the neighbors! Both Brief and Funny. Prom the Louisville Times. ** advises this | then the Communist, in & country like | World the United States, where the average honest o ol Kaown £othe Kinga ‘of s Tow gencea of a few - tions ago, knows that he cannot anywhere unless he seizes upon unem- periods,” states State Journal, “i this & means to ances.” ‘The thought of the News is “indications that ‘would hmumm:fl A. Going 'Round in Rings. Prom the Springfleld (Mo.) News and Leader. ‘The Senate must n-v-n:omn its train- from monkeying with the revolving A Fitting Prize the Pittsburgh Post-Gasette. Maine octogenarian who has worn hat -and coat for 50 years .n.m be awarded a trip to Scotiand ss