Evening Star Newspaper, March 20, 1930, Page 8

{THE EVENING STAR e WHh Ouniay Morning S@ithn. WASHINGTON, D. C QREURSDAY......March 20, 1030 THEEODORE W. NOYES....EBditor P-e--; As LR 8t s 4 Sinday 'ltu“‘ 4 Qundey Siarse . per month evctl monty e : R or telephone Rate by Mall—Payable in Advance. gfl!hli and B AL B Al Other a ni B e Member of the Associated Press. 3 sxelusively enti ise wil news ¥ not otherw: 50 the local news s ey Congress and the Distriot. ‘The House in committee of the whole begins consideration today of the 1831 District appropriation bill. The mess- ure that comes before it from commit- tee represents a careful and searching consideration of its items by the sub- committee that conducted the hearings. Economies have been stretched. Pro- | posed expenditures have experienced the embarrassment common to camels | in passing through the eyes of needles and with few exceptions they represent actual needs that cannot be denied. The interest of the taxpayers, how- ever—who must furnish the money for almost 80 per cent of the general reve- nues appropristed, and a much higher percentage of the total funds that go fnto the District bill, including water taxes and gasoline taxes—is more con- ecerned with what the bill indicates as to their ability longer to progress while bearing an undue preportion of Capital e-penses at cugrent high tax rates than with what the bill actually allows them. For this year’s bill, where economy has been the keynote, carries about $2,000,000 more than will be available for expenditure, under current tax yates, in the 1932 bill next year. If it had not been for the surplus of unex- pended District revenues, the bill now under consideration in the House would have required s tax rate of $1.90 to support it. As it is, the proposed ex- penditures in this bill reduce the free surplus of the District to about $1,260,- 000. If the police and firemen pay bill s passed this surplus will be reduced to sbout $500,000. Next year's bill, with about $2,000,000 | Jess avallable than this year, can be youghly computed now on a list of items that does not include such pressing projects as the airport, the proposed pew Center Market, the children’s tuber- culosis sanatorium, new bathing pools suthorized in 1929, further elimination of grade crossings, new branch libraries and library sites, Key Bridge approach tmprovements, the District’s share of widening B street, improvement of the water front, new buildings for the jail and growth of the city. It has seen District's annual contribution to doubled increased by more than 150 per cent. And while in 1924 Congress con- sidered it fair and equitable to con- tribute 40 per cent to District expenses, the current bill calls for an appropria- tion of sbout 21.51 per cent. Everything n connection with District appropria- tions has been increasing except the Fed- . eral Government’s contribution, which in percentage and in actual amount has been steadily decreasing in the one ease and remaining virtually stationary in the other. Much has been made of the relatively fe'/ instances, as brought to light in the | hearings, of so-called "extuvnnnee”' and “squandering” of public funds in municipal purchasing, especially on the part of the schools. There have been cases where zeal to obtain the best, in- stead of medium or second-best mate- 7ial, led to purchase of equipment that | might have been bought for less. That | such cases should be carefully scru- tinized is agreed; that a man who; spends one cent of public funds fool- ' ishly should be called to “ook is ad- mitted. But instances of possibly poor Judgment in making purchases must not be used as red herring drawn across the real trail. The District is not in want now because somebody bought a $1,000 plano when a $200 piano could have played the tune, or purchased plated | silverware at $22.50 when aluminum might have done. ‘The District is in want now because of a continued policy of placing an undue and unfair burden of maintain- ing this Capital, with all of its many semi-national projects, on the shoulders of a heavily burdened group of unrep- Tesented taxpayers; of persisting in that policy in the face of all that represents Feason, feirness and an American’s con- eeption of the Federal City. Congress must correct this. Approach- ng the matter fairly, it will. e 0 Paris says that skirts will be longer, and so will conference speeches. ———— Anonymous Slander. ‘The experience of a Washingtonian ‘who recently made a statement before & | public meeting reflecting upon un- named Senators on the score of thelr alleged financial interest in the prop- | erty proposed for the District airport slon the statement was tantamount to & charge of the promotion of the airport site selection for pecuniary advantage. ‘When the speaker was summoned before s committee of the Senate he first that the information. upon which he based his statement had resched hima “in confidence,” and that he could not tell the names of either his informant or of the Senators alleged to be financially interested in the site. This, of course, was an untenable posi- tion. If information or accusation is conveyed “in confidence” it must not be bruited about in public, and the source or authority kept hidden. Later the speaker acknowledged that he was prob- ably mistaken as to the identities of the supposed part owners of the land; they were perhaps ex-Senators, or relatives of ex-Senators. At any rate, he repu- diated the charge, and the incident was closed with a reprimand, which was fully deserved. Loose talk makes mischief. Hearsay information is often inaccurate. “I have heard hints that So-and-So is crooked” when passed along is likely to become “So-and-So is & crook.” And then de- talls may be supplied, from the imagi- nation, until So-and-So is specified in his iniquity. Slander is committed con- stantly as a result of this process of amplification. The evil aspect of this deplorable tendency is that the sinister suggestion endures in the minds of all who receive it. However pure of motive or square of performance a public man, he may be secretly condemned as venal and the story of his corruption, wholly imaginary, spread far and wide with successive amplifications. It is well to call to account those who thus repeat, in public or in private, hints or positive statements reflecting upon the honesty and the honor of pub~ lic men. Only by so doing will the pdr- | veyor of slander be cured of a very bad habit. ‘Washington’s Evolution. Already the Spring invasion of Wash- ington has begun. Visitors ‘rom all parts of the country are dropping in dally, in steadlly increasing numbers. Many of these are wayfar making homeward progress from .the South. Others are definitely Washington-bound travelers, with the Capital as their ob- jective. In a fortnight the inflow will be much heavier, and by Easter it will be in full tide, with thousands entering the city daily. These visitors will all doubtless have heard or read of the plans for the de- velopment of the Capital, mainly through the erection of public buildings. They will perhaps have seen pictures of the proposed constructions and of the revision of street and park lines. They will look for signs of this work, and will see but little evidence of the progress that has actually been made. Some ex- planation will be forthcoming, and it is to be hoped that the friends here whom they visit or the guides on the sight- seeing busses and the citizens generally with whom they come in contact will explain the status of the work. " There are at present in evidence only three actual constructions of the series | that has been planned and provided for in authorizing legislation. These are the Commerce Department, the central section of the Department of Agricul- ture and the southern half of the In- ternal Revenue Building. To the eye of the newcomer and, indeed, to the eye of many & Washingtonian who is not fully acquainted with the situation, there is no further evidence of progress. Yet it is the fact that a considerable part of the land within the Mall-Avenue tri- angle, where the constructions are chief- |1y to be placed, has been acquired by Government purchase or condemnation, and that the sites for the second group of structures to arise have been thus se- cured. Only a few hours ago a con- | demnation jury was organized to proceed to secure the lands lying within the bounds of the site for the Archives Building, just west of Center Market. By another Spring many of the now unsightly structures occupying the Mall-Avenue triangle will have been razed, in preparation for the next units of the program. Indeed, at the present rate of progress in condemnation and purchase and plan drawing and fund providing little will be left of the old occupancy of the great building space. Shortly after the first of July work will start on the razing of the structures standing in the square just north of the Commerce Building, that space to be transformed into a park. Meanwhile purchase and condemna- tion work is proceeding apace within the area designated for the municipal center, bounded by Pennsylvania, In- diana and Louisiana avenues and Third and Sixth streets. Funds for the prose- cution of this work are carried in the newly reported District appropriation bill. It is quite likely that before the close of this calendar year much of that space will have been cleared, in prepara- tion for the beginning of construction. And the Federal Government will be proceeding with the clearance of the land required for the laying out of a boulevard linking the Union Station Plaza with the Mall, to reach the latter #t Third street. This, together with the municipal center clearances, will rid the north side of Pennsylvania avenue of 1ts now disfiguring relics of the past. It is thus altogether probable that th- 3pring visitors of next year will see a great change in the aspect of the Capital. Several great structures will be rising to completion. Unloveliness will have been removed, to make way for works that will a few months later give substantial form to the plans for the Washington of the country's dreams. And by 1932, when the Nation will cele- brate the bicentennial of the birth of George Washington, the city bearing his name will be, indeed, worthy of it, though perhaps not quite finished in detall These facts should be made plain tc all who come this Spring to pay their respects to the Capital, r—ers Farmers are still awaiting the jeader- ship of a Cincinnatus equally skilled at the plow or in politics. e e Tunes for Traffic. ‘The shrill of the locomotive whistle is to give way to the com- paratively—only comparatively--sweet- voiced calliope on the Memphis divie sion of the Southern Railway because of the complaints of dwellers along the right of way that their slumbers have beerl disturbed by the orthodox whistle. should serve to admonish all persons against the spreading of gossip. As The future possibilities of this sub-| stitution are intriguing. Consider s THE EVENING hausted approaching s ‘tank playing “Hpw Dry 1 Am,” instead of announcing the fact with the usual curt blasts. ‘Think how far less offensive it would be to the driver of a horse-drawn vehicle lasily ambling over a cfossing to substitute for the present shriek: of warning & gentle note of raillery by playing “Giddsp, Napoleon, It Looks Like Rain”! And if Napoleon fails to giddap fast enough, what more touching parting note than “The old gray mare, she ain’t what she used to be"? What & boon it would be for wives if along about midnight the engineer would oblige by summoning wandering husbands home with the well known “Father, Dear Pather, Come Home With Me Now"! ‘What bride and bridegroom would fail to thrill to the strains of the “Wedding March” played with just the right note of feeling by a romantic engineer a5 they boarded his train to start the honeymoon trip! What a touching tribute to a returning celebrity bearing freshly won laurels if the engineer an- nounced his approach with “Hail! The Conquering Hero Comes”! An engineer with a military turn of mind would have a wide fleld for his music. A stirring Reveille, a softly whispered Taps, an inviting Mess Call and an arousing Fire Call 3l would be in his repertoire. Think of the possibilities of announe- ing the geographical progress of a train with “Maryland, My Maryland,” “Carry Me Back to Ole Virginny,” “Way Down Upon the Swanee River,” “Old Man River” and scores of other songs! Then finally, with the end of the run in sight, the weary engine could warble “Home, Sweet Home,” or if it was still full of pep “Hail! Hail! The Gang's All Here!" | “All this might interfere somewhat with the running of the engine, but, then, the engineer might turn this duty over to the fireman, or perhaps an organist might be added to the crew. . It is said that Secretary Davis will not resign from the cabinet until after the primaries. Objections to a man's being a candidate while holding high office are clearly understood. However, it needs the primaries to decide whether or not & man is actually a candidate. o Scrubwomen's pay has come into such prominence that Harvard might be persuaded to establish a chair for the promotion of lknowledge concerning ‘wage scales for obscure but arduous em- ployment. ————— At the age of eighty-two the late Lord Balfour was like other great men—still admitting that he was finding much to learn about the mighty tasks in which his efforts were concerned. ———————— Parrots are now referred to by scien- tists as ranking among those whose ex- tended conversational powers do not prevent them from being poor company. ——————— The existence of a lobby committee should not encourage the idea that there is a legislative demand for more and better lobbies. » ———— Garden catalogues are being circu- lated ir reminder that the man who is trying to raise flowers on a city lot has his problems as well as the farmer. Peace negotiations are frequently complicated by the statesmanship that regards diplomacy as & highly refined game of freeze-out. ———s- A straw vote on prohibition affords especial relief to the class of citizen- ship that is willing to vote any way once. 2 —_————— Censored literature may be provided for, but it will arrive too late. The worst possible has already been written and printed. — e When politically purified, Atlantic City should provide a set of city offi- cials worthy to grace the Boardwalk in a parade of moral beauty. oo Only {dle curiosity would prompt an effort to raise the question of who i paying Trotsky’'s traveling expenses. s — SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Says Uncle Jake. My Uncle Jake is wide-awake In every time o' year. He says the chill makes him feel 1l A cherished friend will point the end Of a persistent gloom, . And life again seems better, when The dandelions bloom. When all too slow the lingering snow Its course consents to run, [ This yellow disk will face the risk With greetings from the sun. It bids us all obey the-call Life’s pleasures to resume— Like other men, I'm happier when The dandelions bloom. 0ld and New Standards. “You never tell any more funny stories in your speeches.” “No,” answered Senator Sorghum. “To tell what is now considered a funny story is likely to leave youi audience divided in opinion as to whether you are a wit or merely an improper person.” Jud Tunkins says he likes to play the kind of whist in which his wife can oc- casionally refer to him as “dummy” without meaning anything personal. Substitute for War. ©Oh, let us have no further fight To cause so great a discontent! Let diplomats in terms polite Arrange an endless argument. More Leisure Required. “How are you getting along with your farm hands?" ““They want still shorter hours,” an- swered Farmer Corntossel. “What for?’ . “8o as to have more leisure to argue about unemployment.” “Ambitious wealth,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “st last turns to honest philanthropy and finds its high- est reward in the grateful praises of _ Barricaded. ‘The gangster when he fears the worst May still arrange for safety first, A term in prison he'll begin ‘Where other gangsters can't break in. “You is doin’ fairly well dese da said Uncle Eben, “if you kin git by wif tellin’ yoh troubles to a policeman 'stid made to the organization then in ses- locomotive with its water about ex- o' 'splainin’ ‘em to a grand jury.” ’ 'STAR, WASHINGTON, DG, THUL THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL, The Cherub in art is the winged head of & beautiful and innocent child. 80 it was & Cherub, nothing less, who looked at us as we sat on the stone wall at Twentieth street and Massachu- avenue. o child, gasing from the car which had been stopped by the lights, was merely a head. dTm rest of her was lost beneath the door. u;he had a beautiful head, crowned with thick, wavy, dark-brown hair. She was about 5 years old, but had a serious look far beyond her age. There could’ be no question that she nodded her head. She not only did it once but three times in a dignified, old-fashioned way, yet touched with a bit of coquetry. “She is nodding to you!” came the thought. * ok ok Now, it was Sunday afternoon, & beautiful Sunday afternoon, when one could not have been blamed for flirting with the devil, let alone a Cherub— and a beautiful Cherub, at that, one who insisted on nodding. 8o we waved back. ‘We waved boldly, openly, caring noth- ing for Father and Mother, sitting in the front seat, nor for Big Sister—in all_probability—in the back. By this time the amber light was showing in the traffic control. Our Cherub smiled quizzically. We waved again, and thought we got an answering wave, although we could not be sure, our head was in such & whirl by this time. The green light flashed and the car leaped away. The Cherub, turning to the back window, looked back at us and this time she did wave. And we swear we saw wings. * ok %k Children are so much more naive about their likes and dislikes. “I don't like you,” they will say, very plainly, if they do not. If they do, they will look at you with eyes which say as plainly, “I think you are pretty nice, I do.” There usually is no half way with the kids. ‘They have not learned to dissimulate. Walt Whitman, something of a child himself, put their unspoken attitude into waflss for the:xfn:x i “Stranger, if I, g you, see you An’dllk'm.whymauldxmmlm Well, there are many reasons why one cannot be so outspoken, but chief of these are common sense and the dan- ger that one may be mistaken. Too often a passing liking is based on nothing more than a pretty face, or nice hair, or a smile, or two violet eyes shadowed by long lashes. * ¥ ok Yet sometimes liking is instinctive, is | it not? faces linger in memory, and whom it is always a regret we did not somehow manage to speak to. These one’s Unknown Friends, those similar souls, throughout time and space, who lhguld be known but unfortunately are not. Life plays many a sorry trick on the average human being, but none worse than this—that it often presents him and deprives him of the friends he would have liked to have had. Mankind has tried to decry this position, using such pretty senti- ments as the one much in vogue a few years ago, “You will find the same kind All of us have seen persons whose ple undoubtedly constitute | with acquaintances he does not want| of people everywhere,” as if friendship Wwas to be purchased in stores by the o doubt a vke‘? good substitute for it may be worl up by fair dealing, right talking, right smiling, a willing- ness to “give and take,” as the saying is. This is the friendship that most people know, but compared unreasoning, instinctive friendships it is a false quantity. * Ok ok % ‘The safest of the Unknown Friends are the great writers of times past, who somehow managed to express for us so many of our own thoughts. A reader has a right to regard writers a8 his friends. Surely each one of them | wrote 8olely for him, because writing is | something between one and one, not | between one and a mob. The piling up of readers may make for popularity, but in the last analysis a book is a thing between one man and one man—the writer and the reader. the great books. A symphony is scarcely better understood than a novel, al- though it dpes not have to be trans- lated, of course, into another tongue. Given a good translation, however, a great book is as at home in Russian as in English. The stories of Mark Twain entertain in a score of lands. The novels of eminent French, German and Scandinavian authors know no bound- ary lines. A e It is solacing to understand that the Unknown Friend one sometimes on the street, or sees in railroad sta- tions, theaters, or other public places, already has demonstrated the one mark of a real friend. He has not eriticized. Perhaps he deserves little credit for this, since he has not gpoken; but the fact remains that he "has found no fault, the common vice of humanity, the great blot on friendship. No doubt he would recognize this essential if he were to become known. At least let us give him credit for it. Fault-finding is so0 common among all ranks and classes of human beings that most of us have forgotten just how ugly and ungracious it is. From the so-called personal remparks to queries 8s to “Why don’t you do this?” and “Why did you do that?” criticism is too much with us. Late and scon every Tom, Dick and Harry. to say nothing of every Mary, Jane and Ann, thinks that he (or she) must superintend the life of his (or her) friends. T The two things that human beings mostly crave, although many of them are never aware of it, are dignity and freedom from unnecessary criticism. In fact, the former involves the lat- ter, because it cannot exist where the latter functions. If you will look into the life habits of great and prominent men, particularly in industry, you will see clearly that their offices are so or- ganized that their dignity is preserved by safeguarding them from the un- thinking familiarity and resultant fault- finding of the mob. The Unknown Friend, never coming close enough to be lured by the unthink- ing urge to eriticism which results in broken friendships, stays a friend, not being subjected to the ordinary wear and tear of life. . So our Cherub will remain forever our OCherub, sweet, uncritical, a ic; | whereas if we came to know each other |she might end up by asking Sflvely, | “Why have you got all that dust in | your "hair?” Future of U. S. One vacancy on the United States | Supreme Court. created by the death of | Justice Edward T. Sanford, and possible vacancies in the near future, have turned the eyes of the country on the fleld of candidates for membership in the tribunal. It is pointed out generally that President Hoover may ve an exceptional opportunity to create a better balance between conservative and liberal groups and to recognize the South, although there is much argu- ment in favor of basing appointments on ability, regardless of economic or political questions. Viewing the “temper and outlook of the new men who are to go on the bench” as of “very great importance,” and holding that “on these qualities will depend in large measure whether the Constitution shall e a strait- jacket on legislation, or shall be so interpreted as to permit the social and industrial experimentation that is so essential in the modern world,” the Kan- sas City Star adds the opinio: experiments have been essen to American progress. Periods of great un- rest have come when a strict construc- tionist Supreme Court has prevented those experiments from being made. Such a perlod evoked Roosevelt’s pro- posal for the ‘recall of judicial deci- sions.” Fortunately in most times of crisis the court has been disposed to a liberal construction—as, for instance, in the famous ‘insular decisions’ of nearly 30 years ago, that made it possible to retain the Philippines. President Hoover will do the country a vital serv- ice if he sees to it that in reconstruct- ing the Supreme Court the liberal point of view is given due representation.” A “The attack upon the appointment of Chief Justice Hughes, it is generally agreed.” according to the Charleston Evening Post, w88 not so much a mat- ter of hostility to that distinguished jurist and statesman as of dissatisfac- tion with the court itself and with the course ¢ jurisprudence, How far this without serious consequence may depend largely on the court's personnel—that is, upon the interpreters of the laws affecting economic and social problems cal scene. A broader reasoning and a more liberal construction of the funda- mental law may sufficiently relax the tension which is growing apace, and to this end there is certain to be a closer and a more critical scrutiny of the nom- inations made for the Supreme Court.” “There would be general approval of the President’s action,” says the Chat- tanooga Times, “if he were to go first to the Federal circuit and district branches. The people like to see faith. fulness and ability in these courts re- warded, as it was in the case of Jucdge Sanford, and it is altogether proper that recognition should be forthcoming when vacancies oceur in the S8upreme Court.” * ok ¥ On another phase of the matter of “The circumstance that one of the habitually dissenting minority of three on the court, Justice Holmes, has just celebrated his eighty-ninth birth- day anniversary, while another, Jus- tice Brandeis, has reached the seventies, may be used as an argu- ment for the appointment at this time of one who might be expected to identify himself with them. Such considerations may not be wholly disre~ garded, vet members of the Supreme Court should under no circumstances be chosen by methods or for reasons similar to those followed in the selec- tion, say, of members of Congress. The Supreme Court is not a part of the rep- resentative branch of the Government: it 18 a separate, judicial agency. It should be kept so if it is to continue to fulfili its useful function in the life and progress of the Nation.” ‘President Hoove suggests the Cleveland Plain Dealer, “may have al- most as much rebuilding of the court on his hands as did President Herding. We are confident that he appreciates the importance of creating in it a better balance of liberal and conservative opinion.” The Asheville Times predicts that his action “will have to meet the test of the most searchi; Richmond News-Leader ds that “the is wholesome and how far it may go| which are looming large upon the politi- | fitness the Hartford Courant argues:; inquiry.” The: Supreme Court Is Made Outstanding Issue | country is watching him” and asks, “Does he foresee the certainty of politi- cal rebellion against his own party if{ be that con- | v | he ‘proclaims to the world | servatism and sympathy with wealth are | the n;!'z requirements for the Supreme * ok ok X “National solidarity and national in- terests.” in the judgment of the Raleigh |News and Observer, “demand that, as | both rmel and all sections are repre- |sented on the Interstate Commerce Commission, the Federal Trade Com- mission and other important ncies of government at Washington, there is all | the more reason why there should be party and geographical representation | lsnume_l Supreme Court of the United “‘Sectionalism should not be encour- aged,” advises the Houston Chronicle, “but the President would do well to re- member that the States below the Ma- son and Dixon line have many attorneys ing the qualifications necessary |for successful service on the Supreme | Court.” A similar view is held by the | Memphis Commercial Appeal, and the Lyncl liberal. “Primarily comes the question of fit- | ness,” states the New York Times. | “But custom, policy and geography have | such prominence ‘that the jurist who seems to the President most ideally fit- ting for the vacancy may not necessa- rily be the one selected.” The Springfield Republican concludes: | “In recent years, due largely to appoint- | ments by President Harding, the Su- preme Court has become too little re- sponsive to the liberalism of the coun- iry. A Southern jurist, competently trained for the highest judicial service and blessed with progressive sympathies, as well as a judicial temperament, would make an admirable successor of Justice Sanford of Tennessee.” - P Still an Experiment. | Prom the Oakland Tribune. If the San Francisco experiments in the treatment of cancer justify even a | small part of the hopes of those who (are making them, a large and impor- tant a ce will have been made in a fleld of research which is occupying | the attention of medical scientists the | world over. It remains a public duty to call at- tention to the fact that the San Fran- cisco doctors call their work buf an ex- periment and say they have no evidence to support the claim their preparation can cure or prevent cancer. That being 5o, great harm may come vith the holding out of false hopes to sufferers, particularly to those in places | far removed. If ple are to sacri- : fice their-money, give up the treatment | they have been undergoing, and trave! long distances on a promise not it authenticated, the costs may run | in money, suffering and death. | Medical annals reveal many discov- ries reported to be of utmost impor- ance: there have been numerous waves {of hysteria occasioned by the sudden offering of false hopes, and there have been heavy penalties to pay. An experiment is under way by men who did not’ wish to make it public at so early a date. It is being watched and studied by medical science the world over, and it has not had time to demonstrate its worth. A public hold- ing the hlfheflt hopes for its ultimate success will do well to heed the words of the doctors concerned, the American xedlclltA‘lh"afi:"‘on'nln? the ]:mnzt:: e pas! efrain from attribuf to that which has been done more than the discoverers themselves would dare venture. - More to Be Peeved About. From the Des Moines Tribune-Capital. ‘With his pay raised to $80,000 a year, Babe Ruth may display a bit more chagrin every time he strikes out. Brevity Not Soul of Law. From the Indianapolis Star. As usual, the law doesn't mean what it says. The Pantages lawyers filed & “brief” of 1,132 pages. Even more universal than music are| passes | economic ideas should be appointed to ngelic; | o duty on Jumber during _n:‘l:e considera- burg News advocates a Southern | Di Dakota primary takes place May 6 and Senator McMaster is up this year for renomination and re-election. George R. Danforth, an attorney of Sioux Falls, will oppose McMaster. He has announced himself a regular Republi- can, ready to support the Hoover ad- ministration on all issues that come before the Senate. The Senator from South Dakota, however, does not ap- pear terrified at the prospect. He u| going out to his State the end of fh§l week to start his campaign for re- nomination and will speak in many citjes and towns before the primary election takes place. Danforth has strong backing from certain quarters, aceording to reports, and Senator Mc-+ Master does not minimize the fight which will be' made on him. Never- theless, he believes the people of the State will support him and the position which he has taken when questions of particular interest to South Dakota have come before the Senate. He was one of those who voted against the con- firmation of Chief Jus hes on the ground that men of more liberal the highest tribunal. * ok k% Of the Progreasive Republicans who have been coalitionists, only four or five are up for re-election this year, and some of them have not always re- mained with the coalition. Senator Borah of Idaho, Senator Norris of Ne- braska, Senator Schall of Minnesota and Senator Couzens of Michigan are on the list. The renomination of Sen- ator Borah is taken as a matter of course. be absolutely assursd of renomination and re-election. Indeed, some of the Democrats have urged that their party indorse him for the senatorial nomina. tion and election, as well as the Re- blicans. They 1 be & wise gesture of friendship to the Pro- gressives of the West. t in Michi- gan and Minnesota there is talk of op- position to the renomination of the Sen- ators who must run re-election. chances favor the re: itting Senators, and their * k k¥ Attempts are being made in certain ition to the renomination of Senator McNary of Oregon. But the likelihood of such opposition seriously threate: the continuance of Senator McNary the Senate seems infinitesimal. So far the only candidate to come out against Senator McNary for the senat nomination is & “wet,” L. N. Sandblast. He ran fourth in the contest which nominated Senator Steiwer in 1926 and el o ' furey ih Ofegon this year mueh of a flurry ‘egon 3 So far the interests which are opposing McNary have not succeeded in getting a candidate to come forward. Efforts have been made, however, to make it appear that Senator McNary has not been sufficiently interested in obtaining tion of the tariff bill. seems par- ticularly silly to those who have watched the course of the tariff bill in Washington. Senator McNary worked hard in the interest of such a_duty. He has been a member of the Senate since 1918, when he was tppolnudd 't‘: an He is at present chairman the committee on agriculture and assistant _Republican leader of the Sehate. He is regarded hers as one of the most efficlent members of the Senate. He had charge of the farm | marketing bill, now a law, when it was the Senate and steered it to dgtory there, despite the opposition of | Oregon primary takes place May 16. | * ok x x ! The Montana primary does not take place until July 15. Senator Thomas J. h, Democrat, who lifted the lid off Teapot Dome, is up for renomination. | There has been talk of some opposition to his renomination, but he is regarded as certain of being the choice of his party for the Senate. Republicans are planning a real campaign to defeat him | it they can in the general election in November. Several possible candidates the nomination have been men- tioned. O. H. P. Shelly, former Repub- | can national committeeman, already has announced a candidate. Judge Galen of the State Supreme Court has a considerable backing. He is re- le Senator Walsh s a dry. teeman Snitzler and Joseph M. Dixon, | First Assistant Secretary of the Interior, are also talked of as possible candidates. | ixon ran against Senator Wh i 1928, but was defeated. | * k ok x The poll of the Literary Digest on the subject of prohibition is creating as much interest as its presidential polls in the past, perhaps more, as a matter of fact. The interest is not confined either to the wets or the drys. Less than a million returned ballots have been tabulated and the total poll is ex- pected to show the sentiments of 30,- 000,000 voters. Nevertheless the tabu- lation now published shows a decided list to the wet side of the question. Ab- solute repeal of the eighteenth amend- ment is favored by an astonishingly large nuniber of voters in the 20 States and the District of Columbia which so far'have been included in the published list. Of a total of 703,395 ballots recorded, 287,885 favor repeal of the amendment, 224,141 favor modification of the law to permit light wines and beer and 191909 favor retention nndl enforcement of the eighteenth amend- | ment and the Volstead law. * ok ok K In the District of Columbia, the seat of the National Government, the senti- ment so far recorded is strongly for re- peal of the dry amendment to’ the Con- stitution, Of the 20 States from which returns are now published only two, Georgia and Kansas, show those favor- ing enforcement of the existing law out- numbering the combined vote for re- peal and modification. Even in these States, the combined vote against the existing law almost equals the vote sup- porting it. In Indiana, Nebraska, Iowa, Ohio. South Dakota, all reputed to be dry, the combined votes of the repealists and modificationists outnumber those of the supporters of the existing laws. In Ohio, for example, the number vot- ing for repeal of the eighteenth amend- ment is a few votes greater than those voting for enforcement, and the num- ber of those voting for modification is slightly greater than the number favor- ing repeal. It is true that the poll is still “young” and that later returns may show a decided swing to the dry side. But as a rule these national polls conducted by the Literary Digest on volitical issues, and prohibition is cer- tainly still in politics, have not veered greatly after the first two or three weeks, There still are, however, 28 Statés which have not yet been heard from at all, and Alat many of these are in the !ren dry belts | of the South and the Middle West. | * % ¥ % The State Supreme Court of Alabama is wrestling with the problem whether Senator “Tom” Heflin shall be per- mitted to run for renomination in the Democratic primary which will be held August 12. The State_committee has ailed 10" support the_Smith-Robinson a. sup) e Smith- ticket in the last idential election may vote in the 'mocratic vflm‘ but none of them may stand for - nation by the urm.m office. ‘The rul- ing of the committee, which would bar Heflin from the rnm-ry. has b% ried to the , Where it was yesterday. 1If the court turns the State committes, Heflin's name will 8o on the balla) and his renomination yeay. How- |8t nomin: eeler in ' s ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. ‘The |boy and emergency actor. . The rent of s, first-run feature motion picture depends on the size of the theater, the mfiboflmod, the clientele of the theater, the length of run, etc. ‘There is no set rental price for any picture anywhere, exce| by lfnumat between distributor and ex- hibitor. If the film is rented on a per- centage basis, that percentage is lgeed upon by the distributor and exhibitor. . _1s_Ozechoslovakia densely popu- lated?—D. C. A. The country is ul,mly larger than Wisconsin and has five and a_half times the population of that State. Villages and towns are about 2 miles apart, and cities of 15000 to 30,000 gopul.uon are encountered about every 5 miles. The average size of farms is about 25 acres. . Who discovered magnetism?— A. The magnetic properties of certain | in substances were known to the early Greeks. The earliest systematic inves- tigations of magnets were made Peter us of Maricourt, a stu- dent of Roger Bacon, and in August, 1269, he wrote a letter which was the first treatise on magnetism. It was not until 1581 that Robert Norman gives a clear statement of the fundamental laws of attraction. Q. Which is higher in rank—a duchess or a dowager empress?—A. H. A. A dowager empress has precedence over a duchess. The dowager empress Senator Norris is believed to |ranks next to the reigning empress, be- | ing the mother of the emperor. Q. Is horseshoe pitching a popul ,! lllJihEN & national organiza- A. Horseshoe pitching _tournaments were held in approximately 100 large nited States the past Summer and Fall. In many places the a: mwrll‘n..mm wluu'r.':s national horseshoe tot ent s held. The fi has a publication of its own, the W;ld. published at Lon- Ohio. The don, Nationsl Horseshoe Pitchers’ Association has its headquar- ters at St. Petersburg, Fla. The secre- tary of the association has compiled an 80-page manual on pitching, done much to standardise the game. Q. What is the white meat called “tripe”?—P. A. M. A. Tt is the lining of the stomach of the sheep. Q. Of what material are Cape Cod lighters made?—M. W. A. They are made of brass, copper or wrought iron. Q. Are parsnips poison when they come up the second year?>—F. . H. A. Parsni) not poisonous. Oc- casionally cattle, or eyen humans, mis- take water hemlock for parsnips, and ‘when the water hemlock is eaten it fre- au!ntly causes serious stomach lers. Q. Are trees being planted in Ha- wallan government forests?—S. S. A. Planting operations on the Ha- wallan forest reserves in the past two years required 418,531 trees, an increase of 200,000 over the pro two Recent increases in Hawaiian forest re- serve areas have brought the total to 980,682 acres. Q. Was the late A. L. Erlanger a self- made man?—H. N. A. The theatrical magnate got his $ | Mr. years. of olesale h annexed other duties, which included those of chief usher, ticket seller, call- important enterprise in The theatricar en eatric flel to act as advance agent for 3 Mrs. 8. Knight. He next attracted the attention of Charles B. Jefferson, who engaged him to man- age a tour of Joseph Jefferson. For this Erlanger received the largest salary —$300 & week—ever paid & manager up to that time. Q. What is the attitude of the Jap- anese toward the visit of Commodore Perry?—E. A. Prof. T. Tomoeda says that the Commodore Perry in 1853 | marked s turning point in Japanese life The event is spoken of as “The Cannon Roar of Uraga,” and is looked upon as the beginning of the age of Occidental civilization. oL ‘What "zflul:h&:.m of the super- with Orl;e mlwh';d A gthb L e originated in the Russia: - thodox Church, where it was culb:melr'y to light three candles with one taper at funerals. This led the practice to be associated with death. . When will the cherry trees bloom D. C.2—J. E. G. A. The singie .’!-& ese chen-{ blos- soms usually bloom Afun 1and April 15, and last about 10 . double blossoms usually bloom between the 15th and the 30th, and last about two weeks. Q. Where is Kodiak Island, and how | I:T is the Kodiak bear?—G. 8. . Kodiak Island is west coast of Alaska. the 154th parallel. of North America has the largest size of all bears, and is the most bulky car- nivorous specimen. While ibly it is not the heaviest, it wei in the neighborhood of 1,200 pounds. D T s gyl oy T { e m.m‘ahnnupplu are associated with the Georgian period. Q. Where is’ the biggest airport in the world?—E. B. A. Pempoehof, at Berlin, Germany, is the largest. Q. What is “afterdamp”?—C. 8. G. A. Afterdamp is a gas formed by an explosion of firedamp in a coal mine. (I‘t is & mixture of nitrogen and carbon Q. Is the widow of Johann Strauss living?>—G. L. A. Frau Strauss has just died at the age of 77. Last year she headed a deputation of Austrian authors and composers in making an appeal to save the "‘Emu- waltzes from jazz treat- men Q. Do dive for coins in the har- boi at Honolulu?—H. N. rriving w'.h a 3 | coins of to |y te value of $10,000 are thrown to these divers annually. | Q. How many rooms are there in the Palace of Versailles?—C. 8. A. The exact number isn’t a matter record. There are between 1,800 and 2,000 rooms in the palace. A Q. What is a “madrigal”?—P. J. R. A. It is a short lyric on an amatory subject. T t the finest specimens of poetry. ' Highlights on the Wide World Excerpts Fr;)m Newspapers of Other Lands HE TRANSPACIFIC, Nearly 10,000 girls in away from home last year, the number Dbe! about double the figure for year. previous Officials of the metropolitan. board say hard times is an outstanding cause of the increase. During 1928 & total of 11,967 persons ran away from home in Tokio, of whom 7,489 were men and 4.468 women. Family trouble, finan- clal difficulty: and love affairs are the three principal causes for runaways, it was explained. Next come pessimistic nature, mental derangement and th lure of the cities. T ‘Tokio. — ‘Tokio ran muggling Continues in Germany. Cologne Gagette. — Smuggling into Germany of various commodities from Belglum and Holland is continuing at | an active rate. In one instance, near | Aachen, recently a man, who professes to be a walter, was caught with 550 unds of coffee on a truck. The cof- lee was confiscated and the driver placed under 7,700 marks bond. In an- other case cigarettes and cheroots were being smuggled in. This person, who ostensibly came to make a house visit, displayed such an assortment of smok- ing material that the police heard of it, with the result that this culprit got a_two-week sentence. It was his first offense. L Gift for Prince To Be Used for Relief of Infirm. Tiempo, Bogota.—In honor of the nuptials of Prince Humbert and Princess Maria Jose, the Italian colony of this city initiated a sul tion for the rmhlu of & dznnm o be sent to the llustrious bride and . The sum collected amounted to 1,700 soles ($850), the ition of the fund to be used locally for the relief of destitute and infirm people of Italian origin. To commemorate the gracious action of the prince in this respact, an organi- zation for the control of the fund has been established under the title of the is regarded as certain as sunrise under those conditions. Even if he is denied the right to have his name placed on the ballot and is forced to run as in- dent, his chances are considered mely (eod‘!o: l;:-e‘lectlon. ‘The Democrats up in Maine, at their State convention, have adopted lat- form containing a * plank. it is not surprising in Maine, where pro- hibition has been supported by the voters for many years. But it is not in line with the sentiment in most of the other New England States. Massa- chusetts, next-door neighbor, will have a wet Democratic platform and wet Democratic candidates, for exi Representative Henry B. Steagall of a was one of the cipal speakers at the Maine Democratic State convention. He s a line of attack on the Republicans and the Hoover ad- ministration that is likely to be followed ional cam- durs the com! congress ot declared that Presi- paign. Mr. Steagal dent Hoover has turned to the conserva- | ;ionq’ tive wing of the Republican party since he has been in office. He attacked the tariff bill and the farm bill and turned his guns on Claudius H. Huston, chair~ man of the Republican national com- mittee, who has been quizzed by the Senate lobby committee on_his con- nection with the Tennessee River Im- gmvement Association, which was lob- ing in connection with Muscle Shoals. 1§ seems quite clear that Mr. Huston is to draw the fire of the Democrats for the rest of his as chairman the G. O. P. organization. ample. | G of | ference is over and then all in a row. Benevolent and Charitable Society of O ‘Who Come To City in Summer Are Martyrs. g | almost insupportable, endured in the gol home at night? Their sojourn in a cooler, fer en- vironment for a portion of the day no means compensates for the es endured getting to and from the eity. | _ What if a suburbanite does arrive at his station to return to his pleasant home at 3 or ¢ o'clock in the evening? | More often than nmot, he has to climb ‘lnm a car that has been standing on |2 side track all day with doors and win- dows hermetically sealed. The interior is a veritable furnace—the metal and wood so hot that it burns at the touch. | The air is wmul!‘i suffocating. It is dense—smoking—like a sealed oven heated to the 1 degree. There certainly should be a remedy for such conditions—so no longer need be transported to their homes packed in these incandescent caldrons. | Constant ventilation of the cars would help. - J Police Arrest Innocent Editor. El Telegrafo, omilqtul.—hum of - ficers came to our offices and arrested one of our editors, Senor Suarez Pareja. for having run over another per- son with his car. Senor Pareja pro- tested vigorously that he had not been in an accident, but police officer No. 306 was very insistent and, being a large powerful man, Senor Pareja finally per- mitted himself to go with him. It seems that in the report of the acciceént som one gave the plate number issued for Senor Pareja’s car, though he was no: implicated in the least. However, the police are handling traffic offenses in a very arbitrary manner, and ar- making many arrests, not ciring whe'her they get the real culprits or not. The gen- tleman from our office did not wish tc ! make a scene, so contented himself witt | making a report of his grievance at po lice headquarters to Col. Santos. | — - Superthieves. From the Bt Louis Post-Disgatch. We don't know what Scotland Yard thinks about it, but the-theft of ali those paintings from the Carlton House o ot B hiline Opsenhims cuper: of one of E. ps nheim's super- lative rascals. ———— A Lot of Needless Worry. Prom the Fort Worth Record-Telegram. ‘We all pass- through a stage of be- leving that the ::r’l doesn’t under- us. Then we come to the ol in which we do not understand world. But the world never has indi- cated by so much as a word that it cares a t. 19 e Easier ‘on Premiers, Too. From the Beloit Daily News. It would be so much more consid- erfis f‘or Pnnc:u llo save up her vn;lg:l cabinet crises I'W & arms = them off( Tow.