Evening Star Newspaper, March 23, 1930, Page 30

WASHINGTON, D. C. SUNDAY........March 23, 1830 THEODORE W. NOYES, ...Editor The Evening Star NW oiog. A 2:‘%’2‘ d!:,‘md:yll SHEFRE RS All Other States and Canada. E’}.fisfi Bunday..} yr. $13.00; 1 mo. nzfi oy d e BR08: R Member of the Associated From. X e AT ! baf ad’ 2180 SBinen) Sews 2ad Rt Nearing the End of the 0il Trail. With the acquittal yesterday of Ed- ward L. Doheny of & charge of bribery, the cases arising out of the oil leases by the Government to private corpora- tions are brought near to an end. There Interior, from his conviction of bribery, the appeal of H. M. Blackmer from his fine for ‘comtempt of court and two suits “brought by the United States, one to set aside certain leases in the Elk Hills region and another brought against the Sinclair Co. for ofl bought of 5 fugitive, self-exiled in France; Stewart has been acquitted of Senate contempt, Sinclair has been convicted of Senate contempt and of court contempt’ in Jusyrshadowing and has seryed & con- ferm of sentence. 8 iy i FEj i 8 g8 g i i i 1 3 IF ! £ §EE i g5E: BT ‘54 i ] 3 it if 44 : f § F i il e I H T £ ; E ; 18 i g&8 2 to stand up to give a woman in & street car and shudder at punishment for fem- At present men are i places in street cars, but chajr avallgble highly expensive to regather this talent. Only a week ago the ancient ship, carried on the roster of the Navy for one hundred and thirty-two years, again rode the waves, transformed from the moribynd hulk of » few years ago. Her sleek black-and-white hull, thoroughly rebuyilt mecording to the original plans and specifications, can still cleave the water as well as ever, provided that proper masts, rigging and other fittings are forthcoming. The acene of her re- launching, accomplished by the intake of water to & concrete drydock, and applauded by a crowd of several thou- sand children, occurred but a mile from her original laupching. Old Ironsides, as has been often ] pointed out, is the only existing link connecting us with the glories of the early American Navy. She can be, and, it the Senate does its part, will be, shortly remade into an adequate, perma- nent and mobile memorial to instruct and to inspire unborn generations, An I1-Timed Threat. So many fine words have - been freshing and a reassuring one, and is worthy of close attention by builders of similar great sanctuaries. ———r——— Kentucky’s New Elegtion Law. A new law has just been enacted in Kentucky which effects a decided in- novation in election procedure. signed for the purpose of reducing fraud at the polls, it provides that the ballot boxes, immediately upon the lapse of the legal hours for voting, will be cured with three locks spoken and written about the desira- tal bility of developing the metropolitan area around Washington as befits the American Capital that it is difi- cult to understand the action of the Board of County Supervisors of Ar- lington County last week in riding roughshod over the decision of the county zoning commission and chang- ing the zoning of the water front between Highway Bridge and a point a little beyond Arlington Memorial Bridge. This area was zoned “Residential B,” possibly to encourage apartment house development, but actually to conserve the land for future park treatment. The Board of County Supervisors last week rezoned it to “Light Industrial,” and offered no explanation for its action. A possible explanation lies in the fact that the area in guestion now is occu- pled by the Washington Airport and the Hoover Field, hoth of which weuld be taken over by the District as part of the proposed municipal airport outlined in the Bingham bill. Action of the supervisors_therefore becomes a threat- ening gesture, devised perhaps to speed up the purchase of these areas by the District by interposing the possibility of fnroads by heauty-destroying com- mercial activities. The answer to that threat is that L i vote in national elections. It may be the tum of the unfaithfyl male office- holder to be tied in a sack and thrown into the Bosporus. ——t e European politics is concerned not only with floating battleships, but also with floating bond issues. ————— Oll has created many big industries in an incidental way, senatorial inves- tigation among them. ——————— A Children’s Altar, A feature certainly rare, if not unique in this country, has been noted in eon- nection with the great Cathedral of St. . | John the Divine, now approaching ma- tions, and doubtless the will be similarly com- for having passed the measure luced by Representative French of wppropriating the comparatively sum of three hundred thousand dollars needed to complete the rehabili- tafion of the United Sfates Frigate Constifution, Several years ago Con- gress authorized this piece of worthy work but neglected to make available money wherewith to perform It appears that this oversight wijl fully remedied in the near future and 3 will be the gainers Congratulstions are also due the persons and organizations that have labored faithfully money to complete the failed is not their estimate of cost had 10 be revised upwerd more than once, while many people con- sidered that the whole thing was a y to be attended to by y raised some four hun- dollars, mostly from and college students, has been well expended. It is sincerely to be hoped that the aste will not linger behind the House this matter. At present nearly & undred expert workmen qualified to do ntricate remainder of the restora- work are being held at the Boston vy Yard. Omce scattered on other 1t ‘would be difficult, tedlous and Jestic completion on Morningside Heights, New York. This is a speela) children’s altar, which is ready for ded- ication, if, indeed, such ceremony has not already been performed. The phrase “cosy corner” in this day of “modernism” has certain unpleasing implications, but the corner set aside exclusively for youngsters in this great, aspiring structure of ornate stone ‘s really cosy. In the little niche whither small hoys and small girls will be encouraged to kneel and to commune with the Giver of All Good, is a little altar, with friendly candles, low prayer-desk and kneeling pad. Appealing Bible stories are close at hand and sprays of flowers, too, while the Qhrist Child in His moth- er's arms, as depicted by Raphael in one of his most famous paintings, smiles benignly down at them. The deathless Infant and those born but a years ago can confront each con« fidence, and to a small who has lost & mother the wise of the gentle Virgin must prove & comfort also. In great eathedrals in the Old and New Worlds there are plenty of places for grown-ups to humble themselves for a8 moment and commune with God. But such are often conspicuous; rails are high, and floors aré hard and spaces are vast and somewhat overpowering. It may be that abroad and in South America children have the habit of dropping into sanctuaries and kneeling in adoration or in the expression of their desires, but in tiss country it cer- tainly is not common. The Divine Child, grown to manhood, welcomed children to His arms and announced to thet He did so. In this way paratively early hour, so that it has been one of the first States to report its re- sults. Now it will be one of the last. the Kentucky example would mate- rially affect the public interest in the “returns” from & national election on ‘To show prosperity, or fade Less than they started from-— And while the splendid game is played We watch the old thermom. Unchanged. “What are your views on the tari?” “Same as they always were,” answered ) | day the REAL ATTAINMENT BY THE RIGHT REV. JAMES E. FREEMAN, D. D, EL. D., Bishep o, Text: “Work out your own salva- tion.”—Philippians, #.12. Nothing that is worth while comes by chance. There is no royal road to knowledge, it is a hard road and ealls for persistent application. easy road to attainment of any kind. It is the result of long and arduous effort, 1t s the ne'er-do-well and t-bs indolent who affirm that the worl owes them a living. »Shortly before his serious fliness, in an extended inter- the former Chief Justice Taft was asked the question, you be- lieve that we get out of life very largely what we put into it?” He readily re- that he certainly did believe this old maxim; he had never found that success of any kind came to men sim- ply because they wished for it. TFhere may be some men and women of rare genius who now and again come to & of large advantage under the Ezl:lau.mu of fortuitous circumstances, but they are unusual exceptigns. The evolutionist tells us that our physical life, as we know it today, is the result of long processes that have witnessed to certain steady and definite changes. We know this to be true in our mental life. “The heights by great men gained and ‘Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.” What s true of our physical and mental development is eminently true of our spiritual growth. Some one has wisely &emd: “Sow & thought and you reap an Sow an act and you reap a habif Sow & habit and you reap a character; Sow 8 character and you reap & destiny.” It is thus that the finer qualities of our nature are evolved. The old con- ception that the best gifts of life are inberited or conferred is a mistaken one. We used to hear much of “im- puted righteousness,” & righteousness conferred upon us without the exercise f Washin, gton. indeed, any act on our ‘There is certainly nothing in the teaching of the Great Master to unwor recipients o t to us. Sn thf other hand, we aré not in the role of mendicants, nor does He desire us so to be. ge developmept of the strong thi of character certainly requires as myus persistent application as eny of the other talents we seek to possess. To grow a soul, to come to have the con- sciousness t we are “heirs of God, joint-heirs with Christ,” and, therefore, inheritors of the kingdom of Heaven, lies something more than the mere affirmation of it in terms of a creed. | A passive belief in the redemptive work of Christ is unworthy of us. We are compelled to work out our own salva- tion and to work it out reverently and with a fine econsciousness of its value. nmubeuutmmdlgnhm acquire material gifts and blessings inheritance. It may be that we find ourselves the of luxuries that eost us mnm Nof the strong qualities of character. Not so ‘the saving power that enables us to resist evil forces that play about us or to win ultimately eternal salva- tion. If health and strength call for our unfailing attention, reasonable ex- ercise and the tion of the laws of nature, surely development of our character and the development of the fine things of the soul eall for like consideration. We have made the . | tainment of these things of spiritual growth and enrichment that our youth in particular have come to. regard Christian faith and practice as quite unworthy of their consideration or effort. If salvation with all its implica- tions is worthy of attainment, let us be clear about it, it calls for real effort, definitely imposed discipline and a life in harmony with the teachings of the great Master, “Work out your own salvation.” LONDON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Contemporary British politics has Aot A X us the fill..!nmtl a'.;""’" party” has given ient set going in February such B Drodigious thumping of tubs by Lon- don’s two great chain newspaper tes, the street z-v«bmok All seemed to be go in June—accord! bombastic bleats of om Wi - tism’s ranks and disrupting the party. Returned to power, the former premier pledged, the Conservatives would leave no stone unturned to explore the sibility of improving interempire relations. Baldwin even espoused referendum to let Britons decide wheth~ B0t eeTnced o plow the Beaver- Hi sul - M“ I-l::;w' schism into smith- ereens. * ok k¥ ‘This observer lost a notable “eont £ of prewar days in Germany ml rand Admiral G Alfred von Tirpitz struck his flag and joined the great majority on March 6. As the Jin correspondent of Northcliffe’s Lopdon Daily 1, the writer had co int ogeasion to deal with “Tirpits the Eternal’—so dubbed because for the better part of a quarter of a century he remained ;t ‘helloe"l?om ldmlrlbl:gé ywer no chancellor, wever T "other directions, cotld ever rse. Willlam II deposed reichskanzler after reichskanzler — Bismarck, Hoheplohe, Buelow, rest of them—but Von Tirpitz, like time, went on forever. It was of his Innmlut: demand for an ever bigger naj g famous ldcu'“ t- Buelow in & expansion of the German fleet ¢an only haye one result—pressure, counter~ pressure and explosion.” The explosion came in 101¢. it 3 bassador Walter E. , our new m?.';’, to Prance, &r:!ad 'n‘l:tnd‘nn l: during val conferent g by ;:;m He lived " wi tated :?:m% famous West End hotels. Somebody tried El;::" and asked for nymph in rejoinder, “Don't you Benator ldu’?" ‘The Jersey politician~ diplomat couldn’t account for the Two Senator Sorghum. “I want a tariff that | SOmpen! will make what my constituents have poleon of women' to buy, cheap; and what they have to sell, expensive.” Jud Tunkins says some folks honestly suffer from unemployment and others #eem to enjoy it. Precious Playthings, King Tut when but a little boy Could play with many a gelden toy, Where other children only could Pind playthings made of clay or wood. But the expression of his face Of youthful glee presents no trace. And 50, when all is said and done, He didn’t seem to have much fun! Slight Monotony. “Do you still enjoy travel?” “Not so much,” answered Mr. Chug- gins. “We are getting so that all gas filling stations look pretty much alike to us” “To remember an injury,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “is to cherish bygone shadows and shut out the sun- shine of today." Turn About, A man attained success immense On the whole, . | seem, it 1 the London “"Tain' no use hollerin’ at de dice,” said Uncle Eben, “but if dey happens to roll yoh way you wants de pleasure of actin’ like you was bass.” Neither Helped by Scratching. ;.lmrfly equals that achieve~ ment, Every one was able to talk to her heart's nm*{mt. Not one man was al- lowed in the room. The dinner was served exclusively by waitresses. There were only two -pcec"l:u '!‘mM Ao s Eden was arranged in honor tain’ woman members of Parliament. Band, Dame Ethel , an all-men’s o rganization, yth at the unveiling , | ceremony in Victoria Tower Gardens. 8| led the bandsmen through s pro- Borothy rothy highways, impeding ing fashion, but yet given every lege by London’s incomparable bies.” 'No Rolls- ce can get by nag has l'yht of of the be seen in holidays, , like - drawn vehieles, are the pet aversions of e eaGvian panacga cab plies an an luvian its tradedn London. A w_ twoswheeled Victorian era has a niche the British Museum. : * ok kK Admiral Wilfred Hendergon, Navy, retired, fully p e R R limitation treaty will ever be Bethmann Hollweg and all the | son declares ; i £ X 152 § B i i i E a %E -é E‘Es, iR -2 33 £ : o §§s§§g g g (Copyright, 1930.) Relations of the London Conferees BY WILLIAM HARD. Upon returning from the London Naval Conferénce to the United States and upon contemplating the conference tenderly and compassionately in retro- spect, the writer is especially im| with fllm. troubles of m’m?m and it accordingly deserves some frank and faithful explanation in comment in conne with present London eir- cumstances, L and as it that has exceeded all delegations in timorousness press. It has been, on the whole, the most Teticent, the most tongue-tied. Some of its members, indeed, have béen bolder than others and have been will- ing to hand out considerable occasional news sustenance to famishing corre- spondents. Ol:ll'umly J’:lml. however, d‘:ll::. mains true American . tion, coming from the classic land of ne publicity regarding its aims and fup:li!nm. It weor:im(ly has reaped the larges ne tion , is . It is immensely less disposed to accept governmental seerets d the forwarding of . ‘The natural l%hhmonm Capital Sidelights BY WILL P, KENNEDY. out that, while we are ac- to speak of the Western Hemisphere as the New World, there are evidences and reminders that “America is no longer young,” Post- master General Walter F. Brown illus- trates his point by displaying the .de- Extent of Our National Wealth BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. sign for the special stamp he has just (& debunking authorized commemorative of the 3 annjversary of the founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The stal uction’ of -the orae is to bear a re) “the seal of colony. _“Designs with the primitive artistry of the ea: Colonial days, ‘when men were more skilled in drawing swords than in draw- ing pictures,” the Postmaster Genergl explains, “The seal consists of the crudely fashioned figure of an Indiam, ing & bow in one hand and arrow on the’ other, flanked on either side by @ dwarf pine tree, the whole surrounded by an inscriptic in Latin Seal of the Goverripr of usetts Bay COIDnyLv in New 3 mnu.lu, o) n e e o of ou great unjversities for the unmom of 2 special < sf commemorating e ersary of the birth of the 2,000th Vergll. Ha far 80 of & stamp, the asked @ member of Congress, rmd into his office, what the laf s of stam) Brown narrates, the Boston. al, Mr. Brown ran that has furnished him with an excellent anecdote. The department was receiving numerous complaints concerning the postage & . . One woman in particular o longer Bresident. sun we oncloy s nt, can we not have enough mueilage lied that he belleved | g an eetimate e 8) and = "‘:o’a z flm“:"mmul T comment 3 vflug'umm much as with - eake—one cannot have it it it too, numrumrnpm.m'mm Wl:rmw,"zhvlmmmnehu ::ot’l: ith your stamps--you stick at 8o th Postmaster of the manu- of & few “the essential m;: understood. ‘The mere statement of e R llue!;u we have changed the ¢ were dev i the i | Iack te say that | the people may better know where they stand. 5 The collapse ofsvalues on the New |the real York Stock Exchange last Autumn brought sharply home to thousands the idea that merely to ‘state 4n printed figures on a ticker that a given security was worth ‘a given amount did ‘hot magieally convey to that security any such real worth. It was found trL.at the an | very high quotations which hed been accorded certain f1vored securitics were due only to the combined beliei and hope of the buyets of them and the optimistic assurances of the sellers. Many securities which suffered severe drops in &r!cz did not - deservi wn. Others d! ing result, with bereft of all fictions, into realities. ‘The panic fear which seized so many le ted in retrenchment and & sensational drop in employment fol- lowed the market collapse, This {‘r,:du-uy is passing, but investors and public at large are much congerned to know what real values exist in the country before they start upon cycle of stock buying. - . it the country is rich beyond the bas been as 8 much intelligent iry, dreams of its founders or even W the dreams of the last generation doubt. But accurate we have in hand are it is irable to Il the | people resulted in I doubt, gbout ‘phase | 0,800 ter Gen %%, Jha hap. wealth v how. o desf ascertain. deral Trade Commission has made those m, but the National Industrial Con~ ference Board has made 8 study which ?:’n&l:'eu some highly illuminating The figure , the one, was $820,804,000,000, & net of oy ly 65 w’.f« cent le. even been estimated. Much m: and said about the mighty destructiveness of war. Without taking into consider- destruction man| | Fifty Years Ago n‘mcfll hmm'ln'_ht ing, * inest stant and 33 tion, and the masses of mankind, | red ves awakened to a knowledge and care of their own interests.” ‘Thomas Jefferson is quoted “The information of the A. Guest was que at b the two cencluding lines are: “¥ou can sum its resources again and this line. { isit sEed i with a sufficient escort of cruise: destroyers to ) all commentators and wreckers a in all directions In The Star All doubt concerning the the nominatien of Gen. U. 8, then census | If the subsequent fllu“r; show '.hnl wer | fore that The of the war was that it ‘so stimulated industry, so _enhanced power of the people with its high wages, that we came out of the war vastly richer in real prop- erty, out of debt to other nations, and ow! no one but ourselves. From 1922 onward, the National In- dustrial rence Board has projected its own estimates made with very great care; as much, doubtless, as was ex- ercised by the officials of the Census Bureau. ’:-'.“! Rapidly Recovered. 1925 the board estimates a na- tional wealth of $362,391,000,000, an in- erease of $41,587,000,000 in only ears. From then on a decline is noted. 1926 the national wealth had droj 6,540,000,000 and 1927 sho s furt oo; and figure almost back to what it was in 1926, In one year about $14,000,000,000 of the $16,000,000,000 loss of the previous had ‘The y"':r 1928 is the -latest to which Bt Ea Lt T 1037 5in. Which & drop. in-reat wealtn , In wi a real wealt! was registered, the at:ek market boona' was 4n the making. It was on in real earnest in 1928, when so much of the loss had been recovered, and probabl the figures for 1928, when compiled, wift show that there had been a further sub- stantial gain. Yet it was in the Autumn of 1920 that the stocks colla) L However, it might be o Valles 15 the period Teading up 1o the e uj boom was first downward and % :lhn o upward trend contin 920 it will be a good omen of rapi re- ‘The wealth ever of the t-war boom, and this orglou attention. In 1920 the worthy national wealth was estimated at the vast sum ef $488,602,000,000. Compar- this post-war figure with the of- ficial 1912 figure of $186,300,000,000, we find that the war had increased the national wealth about 300 per cent. Be- of 1920 was half over the great ession of 1920-21 and 1021 showed the national wealth dwindled to only $817,272,000,000, the low~ in|est in the last decade, and marking » loss of $171,500,000,000 from the peak of the year before. But the very next showed :Bsnn of 'more than $3, 000,000, the next a gain of ,000,000. show that very much dlncln1 statistics national wealth is governed by the price scale. Financiers Hold There Are Too Many Banks ‘BY HABDEN COLFAX. n | tude a8 than together on the Grant - control the State d:xunm" March T, 1680, thos die arch 19, , o by'::m 'rkl.ldm aten ':'h“m:’ Test, & which augured ill for Dvmmtfl’ufl:u':! horse, foot and dragoons, i= e S T g L eefer. shiiiehs i 3 285 gie; Eiiis i %W,n A [ ot the of sma Eggg' E§‘ B spsssnalinal 885" ot £ £ i i Ss& § .