Evening Star Newspaper, March 31, 1930, Page 8

{THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. ! WASBHINGTON, D. C. BMONDAY . cevwes - March 31, 1830 WHEODORE W. NOYES.... nomination? The Democrats, it is said, ‘would be much chagrined if the veteran Pennsylvania manufacturer were out of the picture in the coming congressional campaign. President Harding, the records reveal, 1921, the nomination of “James J. \ THE is gathering data of the utmost value in his researches in the upper strata. ‘That, however, and the gliding that has been done in America is not comparable to Hawks’ present flight, and while he is demonstrating that an airplane is mwrdldl!ndhflulenlfeflml’chl, capable of towing a glider his trip to earth after he cuts loose from the plane Company | Davis of Illinois” to be Secretary of |is simply the prosaic landing of & Rate by Carrier Within the ] and Sunday Siar Biar per month c per copy ach month. sent in by mail or telephone o NAtional 5000. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. E:’ and Sunday.....1yr. $10.00: 1mo. 88 i1y only 1yr. §6.00: 1 mo. ay only (1¥rl $4.00: 1 mo.. 40c All Othq fly and Sun iy only junday only ‘Member of the Assoclated The Associated Press is exclusive the use for cepublication of all atches credited to it or not othe ered- n this d_also wise 1 Daper an 1 new: published herein All of special disp Press. iy entitled 1l pews dis- ipe: the loce! in rights of publication "es herein are also reserved. — ‘Why “Buy” This Merger? Reduced fares for school children, wholly desirable, may yet be written down on the books as another item to be charged against the people for granting the railway corporations the privilege of merging. From the point of view of the cor- porations, merger is a step that if not necessary today will be tomorrow. They cannot escape it indefinitely. There is no reason why they should be paid to merge. But already the charges for merger, to be assessed against the taxpayers, have been computed as ranging be- tween $250,000 and $300,000 & year. They are the savings to the new com- that lie in relief from payment f crossing policemen and paving be- tween the tracks, costs to be borne by the District. In ten years the price of merger would amount to $2,500,000 or $3,000,000. That is enough to buy the airport. At the same time the merged com- pany would save an additional $140,000 & year as soon as it assumed operation of the traction lines, Ninety thousand dollars of this amount would represent saving in power, the balance a saving in overhead expenses. The immediate loss to the company ‘would be about $60,000, this item rep- Labor. And Mr. Davis was confirmed in accordance with that appointment. Mr. Davis was & founder of the Moose- heart Home and School of the Loyal Order of Moose, located in Illinols. He pointments to the cabinet, probably decided that it made for better balance | geographically to put Mr. Davis down from Illinols. He had selected Mr. Mellon of Pennsylvania to be Secretary of the Treasury. In any event, that was the designation given Mr. Davis by the late President in March, 1921. However, in the Congressional Direc- tory published December, 1921, in the biography of the Secretary of Labor, Mr. Davis is set down in the first line as “James John Davis of Pittsburgh, Pa. And in every succeeding directory he has been so listed. Furthermore, for the last twenty-two years Mr. Davis has been a registered voter in Pittsburgh and has cast his vote in elections there. His home is Pittsburgh. In the light of this last fact, it does not seem likely that the effort to upset his Pennsyl- vania citizenship will come to much. It casts, however, an interesting light on the subtleties of Pennsylvania politics. e r——————— Great Britain Says “No.” Franco-British attempts to pave the way to a five-power naval agreement at London have apparently gone on the rocks. Great Britain refuses to pay the price demanded by France as a quid pro quo for reduction of French ton- nage figures, The price Was some new form of guarantee that, in case of emergency, the armed support of Great Britain would be at France's disposal. “Any further military commitments are impossible,” says the official state- ment issued by the British government at the end of a week's intensive effort to find a way out of the conference im- passe. “For Great Britain to attempt any more of these,” the communique continues, “would be tantamount to tying her down to engage in military operations without being able to con- trol the situation from which they have arisen.” Then follows the concluding and all-illuminating thrust in this his- toric manifesto: “No British govern- ment could undertake such commit- ments. It would be contrary to the resenting revenue from pay transfers. TUniversal free transfers are provided in the merger. Other savings to the new company, to take effect eventually, but not im- mediately after consummation of the merger agreement, would lie in cen- tralizing and eliminating duplicated car barns and shops and rerouting the cars. The value of this saving has not been computed. On the other ‘hand, the enticement held out to the public lies in the promise of free transfers, which is defi- nite, and more convenient service, which is indefinite but probable. The pending agreement guarantees the re- tention of the present rate of fare for two years. But the companies are balking at that. About all they are willing to grant concerning street car fares is speculation to the effect that the higher fare “necessary” under merger would not be as high as the “necessary” without merger. From these facts it is seen thut as soon as the merger takes effect the taxpayers will lose from $190,000 to $240,000 & year and the companies Wil gain about $380,000 & year, considering 1in both cases the free transfer item and leaving out entirely the conjectural say- ings to the company through elminat- ing duplication of car barns, shops, etc. The proposal for reduced fare for school children, which every one favors in the sense that every one favors good ‘weather, can be looked at in two ways. It can be regarded as another and desirable feature of free education, such 2 free text books. But when text books were made free to school children, the Government, and not the text book manufacturers, assumed the burden of paying for them. If reduced fare for #chool children is to be regarded as a necessary adjunct to the free public schools, the people, as Gen. Patrick said the other day, may expect to as- sume the cost, either by paying a flat Tate to the companies or proportionately reducing their corporation taxes. But one may also regard reduced fare for school children as a relatively small concession from the street railway com- panies in exchange for the concessions already demanded from the public as accompaniments to merger, Mr. Keech takes this attitude and is prepared to fight for it. Certainly the street railway companies are not the only ones able to bargain over merger. The public should not be asking, “How much will it cost us?” but #What will you give?” —————— A name for the newly discovered planet is a matter for very serious con- sideration in spite of the fact that the new planet will probably never know a thing about it. ———ee e Russian Communists do not approve ©of churches. This attitude is consistent with a determination to approve of no social influence at present in existence. ——v— Mr. Davis of Pennsylvania. The Democrats of Pennsylvania are asking now “how come” James J. Davis, Secretary of Labor, is eligible to be nominated and elected to the Senate if he was appointed to his present posi- tion in 1921 by the late President Hard- ing as “James J. Davis of Illinois”. Bedgwick Kistler, who is seeking the Democratic nomination for the Senate, has called the matter to the attention of Jouett Shouse, chairman of the Democratic national executive commit- tee, with the understanding, it is said, that in the event of Mr. Davis' elec- tion to the Senate next Fall, the Demo- crats may undertake a contest against his seating. It must be admitted that it seems strange that such a charge should come @t this particular time from the Demo- feeling of the whole British people.” ‘Time, and probably hours, will tell whether this British plain-speaking to France has pronounced the doom of a quintuple naval treaty. The London conference has been on the brink of collapse so often, only to avert it, that this newest crisis in its checkered for- tunes may also be surmounted. But there is now no escaping the definite conclusion that French hopes of “se- curity guarantees” from Great Britain are ended. With their disappearance sutomatically vanishes the “entire open-mindedness” of the American del- egation to consider a consultative pact. Secretary Stimson’s platonic suggestions on that score last week were carefully predicated on the possibility that France’s demand for security “could be satisfled in some other way.” That way is now barred. The Labor government's declination to give the French a blank check on British blood and treasure springs from a variety of causes. It is on all fours with Mr. Snowden's attitude at The Hague reparations conference last Sum- mer, when the chancellor of the ex- chequer proclaimed British unwilling- ness to dance endlessly to the Prench tune in Europe. The British people are thoroughly sick and tired of war. They have incessant and burdensome re- minders of it in their crushing income tax. They are resolved to have no more of it, as far as it can humanly be warded off. They are adamant in their determination, at any rate, not to mort- gage the future by pledging themselves to fight other people's battles. Last night's pronunciamento from No. 10 Downing street contains a direct, though veiled, reminder to France of the “security guarantees” she already has. Britain declares that she will not consider “further” military commit- ments. The implication, which the French will not misunderstand, refers to the bulwarks France possesses in the League covenant and the Locarno treaty. Both of these pacts impose upon Great Britain obligations of which France would be the beneficiary in cer- tain contingencies. Paris is no longer in any doubt that John Bull has de- cided not to add to these obligations. pURS——— Somewhere Trotsky continues to tap the typewriter keys in hope of discov- ering another Lenin competent to carry plodding literary ideas into spotlight prominence. ———————————— A Coast-to-Coast Glide. Just what Capt. Prank Hawks hopes to accomplish by his ploneer “glide” across the country is a matter of con- { jecture, but at all events it is an in-| teresting experiment. Hawks, holder of the transcontinental speed record for airplanes—from San Diego to New York and back again in slightly more than thirty-six hours, at an average pace of better than one hundred and fifty miles an hour—seated himself securely in the first “limousine” glider ever manufac- tured, yesterday and, towed by an air- plane, made the four-hundred-mile jump from San Diego to Tucson. Above that city he cut loose from his “engine” and spiraled gently to earth . His plan is to make eight successive daily glides until New York is reached. The Wright brothers made their first strides toward man’s conquest of the air by glider experiments, but at that time it was simply a case of lack of of power would do to the flimsy con- traption. In the present day the capa- bilities of engines and their use in air- planes are fully recognized and much progress is being made to develop motor, reliabllity. To the average person, that the glider is drawing more and cratic opposition. Do the Democrats desire to put the Republicans on guard more- attention in the aviation world. Gliding received its first impetus in knowledge as to what the application | therefore, it may seem a trifie MMJ skilled pilot and nothing more. Hawks' coast-to-coast glider flight is probably an attempt to stimulate in- terest in the motorless plane and in this he will undoubtedly succeed. He could City. permenth | was director general of the order in |accomplish much more, it Wwould seem, ‘60c per month | 1906. Mr. Harding, in making his ap- |if he abandoned his “engine” at varying altitudes over cities where he intended to land and attempt to stay aloft as long as possible. The result of these studies might well contribute something of value to aviation. Monaco Remains Royalis Some time ago a republican move- ment came into evidence in the prin- cipality of Monaco. Things had been going rather badly in the little country and the reigning prince, Louis II, was inclined to quit the throne and let matters take their course. Troubles had developed in the domestic affairs of members of his family, his eldest son and his consort separating. Party |did bickerings and casino quarrels had caused Prince Louis in February to de- cide virtually to abdicate. The French government, however, intervened and dissuaded him from this purpose, and he decided to await the results of the election, The balloting took place yes- terday and was overwhelmingly favor- able to the maintenance of the present dynasty. The republicans were routed, so that it is to be expected that Prince Louis will hold the title, but will turn {over the regency to his son, Prince Pierre, for the benefit of his own son, Prince Reynier. Monaco, with an area of a little over twenty-one square kilometers, or eight square miles, has a population as of the census of 1913 of about 23,000. The principality has been in existence since about 968 A.D. It was abolished under the French Revolution and the First Empire; it was re-established in 1814 and in 1815 was placed under the protection of the Kingdom of Sardinia. In 1848 Mentone and Roccabruna as- serted their independence and in 1861 they were formally transferred to France, of which country Monaco then became an “enclave,” or an inclosed independency. The principal resource of Monaco is the profit of the casino, Europe'’s most frequented gambling re-~ sort. A large percentage of the in- come of this establishment is paid to the reigning prince, who has been in consequence traditionally one of the richest monarchs in the world. ———rae— Diplomats will not attempt to discuss the question of liquor in the home. They have many matters demanding attention without seeking to regulate details of prohibition. Discipline in American politics is rigid. From Springtime till Autumn is a long time for a candidate to wear a halo with becoming grace. ——— An income tax refund to Henry Ford of $53,005 should cheer the humble citi- zen. Even the greatest of accounting experts may make slight mistakes. ——————— Discussion of highways suggests s modern form of an old axiom, to the effect that all roads lead to Washing- ton, D. C. ————— The London Conference has consist- ently adhered to one determination ex- pressed at the outset—to do. nothing hasty. —ae— Carnera, the Italian pugllist, whips his foes s0 easily as to make Mussolini glad he fights with brains and not with fists. _— e ————— SHOOTING STARS, BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. The Pace That Thrills, Sometimes this old world hits a terri- ble pace. Old manners by new ones it seeks to replace. The robin bird vainly is trying to sing As the seasons now substitute Winter for Spring. You start in an auto forgetful of cares lAnd land in a shop that will manage Tepairs. You seek with an airship a landing so | neat And a farmer comes yelling, “Get off'n that wheat!” We mention the tariff with sorrowing deep. What we buy is too dear; what we | sell is to cheap— But history shows this was always the case; The world has gone on at a terrible pace, Demand for Comedy. “Do you object to humorous pictures of yourself?” “No,” answered Senator Sorghum.| “What the public desires is comedy. If I could really be as funny as depicted | by some of these boys, I'd be sure of election every time!” Jud Tunkins says there is no man who isn't anxious about having some, law passed. We're all more or less lobbyists. Corn. The gentle farmer raises corn. His product he will lug; Sometimes in wagon loads each morn, | And sometimes in a jug. Mental Improvements. “Are you fond of cards?” “Very,” answered Miss Cayenne. | they continue to introduce complica- tions in bidding and scoring, I expect to qualify as an expert accountant and eventually be able to make out my own income tax return.” .t “We are generous to the faults of a friend,” said Hi Ho, the sage of China- town, “only when they chance to be the same as our own.” The Melancholy Wag. He spoke of a financial loss THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Recently we wrote here an article up- fiold.lnl one may pul 3 . But there is the other side of the question, of course, as there always is. It was brought strikingly to our atten- tion the other day while traveling along in a public conveyance. The poor grammar involved will be so terrible that the reader may think it preposterous, so all we can do is to assure him that the constructions given are what were heard. It is with some hesitancy that we set down that the young men involved were evidently law students. They were eager, somewhat wild, young men, as Joung students the world over are and ought to be. They were talking about their “exams.” One evidently had not done as well in the tests as he would have liked, be- cause he was loud in claims of inno- cence. One of his mates was even louder, however. “You'd 'a’ got through,” he an- nounced, you'd 'a’ do the work he told you to did.” * ok ok ok If you'd have do what he told you to id! For prize poor grammar that beats anything we ever had heard, and if any reader here knows of an authentic case of a worse we would be pleased to hear about it. Even if one were making ’em up, he would find it difficult to create a worse example. The above specimen is in the class known as hopeless. The speaker had no right to be studying law or any- thing else except grammar. Now, there are plenty of legitimate grammatical mistakes made every day by educated men and women. Who is there who can say in his heart that he really has mastered all the intricacies of “who” and “whom”? It would take a man a lifetime, and even then he would wonder if correctness was (or should it be “were?”") worth the trouble. But there is no excuse whatever for any grown person—or even a child— using such constructions as “you would have do” and “he tdld you to did.” These are masterpieces, indeed, before which the average mind will stand in awe. If one purposely, for illustration of poor grammar—or total lack of it— should attempt to excel them, he would find himself hard put to equal them. BN As a product of the public school sys- tem of the District of Columbia, with additional flourishes put on at one of the Midwestern colleges, we feel safe in assuring the world that no locally educated boy talks as in the instance quoted. Private and other institutions will have to share the blame. Better than that, let us assume that the young man in question came from some other city. Even in such a benighted city which we here postulate it is impossible for educators to check up on such lack of grammar, for most puplls have enough sense of self-protection to extend their migds a bit when talki before Teacher. They know exactly what repri- mand they will receive for such talk. In their hours of ease, however, no doubt they allow their inventive genius in poor grammatical constructions full sway, and perhaps offer prizes among themselves for the finest examples. If such a city exists and records are kept, we enter the example given above for first prize. The boys will know who he is—there only ?uld be Sne. . % Perfect grammar too long has been | held up as an ideal, but perhaps it is/ necessary in the light of what we have given above. The ‘results in mathe- matics are perfect. Why should not the products of talk be similarly ideal? Grammar becomes & bughear only when it is pressed too stubbornly upon WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC-WILLIAM WILE. Herbert Hoover is not nearly so worry- proof as his predecessor in White House tribulations, Calvin Coolidge, but the Californian shows few signs that his woes are unnerving him. The Presi- dent's medical advisers are authority for the statement that no Chief Execu- tive in recent years was ever in better shape than Mr. Hoover today. That he has traveled an unusually rocky road during the past six months is every- body's secret. As a supersensitive man, he finds the going pretty hard. The administration is reaping far more than the usual crop of bad breaks which are harvested by a new regime. Some of them—Ilike the Wall Street crash—were entirely beyond Hoover’s control, even though under the American political system he cannot escape popular re- sponsibility for them. The President’s philosophical bent is standing him in stead amid the encircling gloom. His friends represent him as feeling that, on the whole, things are happening just about as they normally do, and confi- dent that sooner or later the White House heavens will be cloudless—or as cloudless as they ever can be. * ok ok ok C. Basconr Slemp, just nominated for Congress by his old “lily white” ninth Vh’lfl‘“& district for the eleventh time, is en route to California on an inter- legal expedition. He was drafted to e charge of the ill-starred fortunes of Alexander Pantages, the Los Angeles theatrical magnate who is maneuvering to secure his liberation from a long prison sentence. Mr. Slemp has hitherto not been active in practice of criminal law, but his fame as a peculiarly shrewd counsel and adviser long ago spread across the country, and the Pantages interests have commissioned him to handle the appeal proceedings looking to a retrial. Ever since Slemp Jeft the Coolidge private secretaryship in 1925, the Virginian has maintained law offices in Washington, while retain- ing his residence in the Old Dominion. x ok * K Representative William J. Granfield, Democrat, of Massachusetts, who re- cently captured the Republican strong- hold of Northampton, is an alumnus of Notre Dame. The current number of the Irish campus monthly gives the place of honor to “Peaches” Granfield, LL. B, '13. He's remembered at Notre Dame as a crack base ball player and basket ball captain. The Cincinnati Reds signed him at graduation, but he decided to prefer the law as a career. Granfield was a star in Knute Rockne's undergraduate days and shared athletic honors with thai great gridiron hero. The new member for Northampton ac- quired his Notre Dame nickname of “Peaches” from a maiden indulgence in a brand of chewingstobacto known on the campus as “Peachey Scrap.” The cud sent Granfield to hospi for re- arrangement of his interior decorations and with “Peaches” wished onto him for the rest of his college days. * ok kK Arthur Bliss Lane, just named as counselor and charge d'affaires of the American embassy in Mexico, pending the return of Ambassador Morrow, is considered more than a likely perma- nent _successor of the Jersey diplomat and Senator-designate. Mr. Lane quali- fies in the particular which President Hoover recently stressed as an essential in our envoys to Latin countries, name~ ly, the ability to talk their languages. Spanish is as easy for him as English. He is, moreover, a specialist in Mexican and Central American affairs. All the ins and outs of our two decades of tur- moil with the republic beyond the Rio Grande are at Lane's fingertips. Un- less, as in the case of the Paris and ‘When stocks had failed to come across. against a serlous mistake that, if made, | Germany immediately after the war|ge made a melancholy joke: “might jeopardize their control of the|and through skillful piloting and close | “Even the law,” sald he, “is broke.” Senate? Or are the Democrats subtly | study the Germans have added much to “geeking to advance the candidacy of |the knowledge of the air. When it is “De only citizen I ever knowed,” sald Joseph Grundy, the sitting Senator and | realized that a motorless plane in Ger- | Uncle Eben, “dat tried sho ‘nuft to do “king of the lobbylsts,” who is Davis' many has been kept aloft for fifteen two men's work was one datqallus voted hours it can readily be seen that man twice at an election.” L 2 & % t for the Republican Berlin embassies, itical exigencies re- uire the appointment of a deserving lican, Lane 'is the logical Ambas- for Mexico City. Rk ok % " One of Senator “Dave” Reed's laments over the prolongation of the agony at London is his enforced absence the senatorial and guber- a reluctant world. We would guarantee that there isn't a book in print in which a discerning grammarian could not find one or more—mostly more—mistakes, ranging all the way from the forgiv- able to the unforgivable. Always there are these two sorts, but no one man can be in a position to judge surely into which classification an error goes, because no man can know all the circumstances in a_ given case. There are men who speak and write well, and yet who have favorite grammatical mistakes (a misnomer in a sense, for a mistake cannot be gram- matical), just as they use certain pro- nounciations which stréke others as queer. ‘The nearly half million words in the great dictionaries are so replete with| curious twists of language that he would be a bold man indeed who would set himself up as master of them all. ‘We have never heard any one, no matter how well educated, who did not have at least one wrong pronunciation in his repertoire. A curious fact in human nature is that sometimes he who makes the most mistakes himself is the first to call attention to other people’s errors. Often the man who puts thought first is too busy to worry about perfection, either in grammar or specch. He knows that grammar s, after all, the mechanics of language. It is possible for his publisher to see to such things if necessary. Some men are gifted with positive genius when it comes to de- tecting errors in’diction, choice of words, grammar, punctuation, and so on. | There has just come on the market an | interesting book in which the suthor shows a complete lack of knowledge of what the mark known as the “dash” is for. It is used between 10 and 20 times on every page. Scarcely once in a hun- dred times is it used correctly, for the dash is one of the most misused marks of punctuation, and its proper use re- quires intuition, rather than knowl- edge, unless one cares to call intuition a superknowledge, which perhaps it is. ; * K ok k | | Our point is that this needless mis- take, as heavy as it is, in no sense takes away from the suspense of the narra-{ tive, although one finds it rather bohh-! ersome at times. This points to the plain truth, as we see it, that grammar must never be taken too seriously; and we belleve it never will, so long as a reader or fellow human being is willing to admit all-knowledge is the province of God alone, and that even faulty human beings may make mistakes with calm disregard of error, since in the eternal width of things it is small, after all, One cannot look upon the funda-| ‘mlnuls. however, in any such tolerant light. A young man who has come to | the dignity of studying law should pos- | sess the basis of grammatical speech, If | he does not have it, his teachers should be the first to make him retrace his educational steps and catch up with his own procession. ‘Would not judge and jury, and even his client, laugh him to scorn if he addressed the bar in any such terms as he used to his companion in the bus that beautiful Spring day of the year of our Lord 19302 All of them would be suspicious of his legal knowledge if he could set it forth in no better terms. They would feel | that a man who could be so faulty in | his grammar might be equally in error |in his citations. And what would he |do to the classic Latin tongue, whose }rrms still form so large a part of legal | ore? ‘We hope we have said enough to show | the desirability of the application of | common sense and the golden mean to speech, grammar, law and whatnot. Without the one, we may frown too| heavily on errors or excuse them too| freely; without the other, we run the great danger of speaking either out of the book or from the gutter. | | 1 natorial primary melee in Pennsylvania. The senior Keystone solon would, of course, be in the thick of the fray if he were in the country. Where his per- sonal preferences lie in the senatorial squabble, as between Grundy and Davis, is not publicly known. The supposition is that Reed, a potent cog in the Mellon machine, would cast his influence on whichever side is favored by t Frankenstein of Penn politics. * % K Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, recently re- signed president of the German Reichs- bank, may shortly be invited to join a prominent New York international banking house. Reports to that effect are, at any rate, current in foreign quarters at Washington. Schacht quit the Reichsbank because of his refusal to sanction the Young plan reparations settlement. Though he was opposed by practically the united financial world of Germany in assuming that attitude, his capacities as an economist and banker are acknowledged on all hands. ‘The American financiers who are said | to be thinking of offering Dr. Schacht employment believe he would be a tower of advisory strength at a time when capital from the United States is streaming so steadily into European en- terprises, both governmental and in- dustrial. R Young men and women employed in the State Department are busy at final rehearsals of their annual show, which consists for the most part of good- natured but pointed skits on current in- ternational events in the department. ‘The show is scheduled for production in April. The London Navai Confer- ence is expected to provide material for several star numbers. The havoc which has been wrought among “career men"” in the Foreign Service during the past year is also likely to come in for piquant treatment. (Copyright, 1930.) R “Good Fellowship” Declared Misnomer | From the Chicago Daily News. A former alderman, departing from Chicago to serve a sentence in a Fed- eral penitentiary for his participation in a conspiracy to violate the prohibi- tion law, explained with becoming resig- nation that he had got into trouble by being a good fellow. A police magistrate in a Western sub- urb, arrested the other day for having misappropriated and spent some thou- sands of dollars belonging to the village that elected him to office, attributed his plight to the fact that he had been a good fellow, throwing his—that is, the };fllm’s—money around with a lavish and. > ‘The president of a bank in another ‘Western suburb, now under heavy bond on account of & shortage in the bank’s funds that exceeds $100,000, lays claim to having been a good fellow so long as the stolen money lasted. How much sympathy is gained by men who pleaded that they were just being good fellows when caught in flagrant betrayals of trust! There are some persons so illiberal that they do not regard embezzlement of bank deposits, misappropriation of municipal funds or conspiracies to vio- late the law as ennobling proofs of good fellowship. In their opinion there other and shorter terms than * fellow” that are much more fitting to be applied In such cases. ———— et Sure Method of Contact. From the Buffalo Evening News. 'One way to keep In touch with distant relatives is to live in a convention city and have a spare room. r———- Wooden Fish Boom. From the Buffalo Evening News. t card photos from friends in Florida indicate the catch of fish is up to Before the Republicans and Demo- crats Jock horns in the congressional campaign next Fall there are a num- ber of intra-party rows which will hold the center of the stage. For the most part. And, generally speaking, these sonalities, In some of the contests the wet, and dry issue plays an important part. And gener: speaking, these intra-party rows are the result of the desire of some candidates for office to get in and others to retain their seats in the saddle. Both the major parties have their intra-party contests over nominations, and the leaders are en- deavoring to cast oil on troubled waters in the interest of party harmony. Sen- ator George H. Moses of New Hamp- shire, chairman of. the Republican sen- atorial committee, is credited with activ- ity in the direction of harmonizing these difficulties. He has tried his hand up in Pennsylvania recently, according to reports, and in some quarters it is said that the withdrawal of Samuel 8. Lewis from the gubernatorial race was engineered largely by Mr. Moses. Mr. Lewis, who was the running mate of Senator Grundy, issued a statement declaring - that he was quitting in the interest of party <harmony. Perhaps Mr. Moses believed that if one member of the Grundy ticket twould quit then the Vare faction in Philadelphia would be willing to have one end of their ticket, the Davis-Brown ticket, quit too. But if the chairman of the Republican senatorial committee was looking to see Mr. Davis withdraw from the senatorial race he has been dissapointed. IR Mr, Davis insists he is in the race to stay. His papers are being filed to- day In_accordance with the primary law of Pennsylvania. Today is the last day for filing. It's no secret that pres- sure from many directions was brought to bear on Mr. Davis to get out of the senatorial contest and to stick on in the cabinet as Secretary of Labor. Grundy apparently is determined to remain in the race. So the effort for party harmony in Pennsylvania has failed for the time being. Mr. Grundy and the leaders of the Philadelphia organization are saying nasty things about each other for pub- lication just now, so nasty, in fact, that it leaves doubt in the mind that these astute Pennsylvania politicians will go into a deal after all. Mr. Grundy is assailing the Phila-|g, delphia leaders and Gen. W. W. Atter- bury, Republican national committee- man and president of the Pennsylvania Rallroad, charging them with plotting to debauch the State treasury. It is quite likely that the organization and Mr. Atterbury will have something spicy to say about the “king of the lobbyists” before very long. X ok ok x David Kistler of Lock Haven, Pa. Democratic candidate for the Senate, is seeking to raise the question of Mr. Davis’ citizenship in Pennsylvania, on the theory that he was appointed Sec- retary of Labor from Illinois. Mr. Kistler's contention, if sustained, would make Mr, Davis_ineligible for election as Senator from Pennsylvania. But Mr. Davis comes back with a public state- ment to the effect that he went to Pennsylvania when he was 7 years old; that Pennsylvania has been his home for 40 years and that for the last 22 years he has voted regularly in the city of Pittsburgh. This last fact seems to make the Kistler suggestion merely idle talk. The Davis supporters charge that Kistler is putting out the assertion that Davis is not a citizen of Pennsylvania to help out Mr. Grundy. They go fur- ther and say that Kistler is a Grundy handpicked Democrat, engaged in the tanning business and stands with Grundy on the tariff. Mr. Grundy, the Davis people say, has been seeking to line up the Democratic organization in his favor as well as Republicans, in his efforts to obtain the senatorial nom- The Republican organizations in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Harris- burg are lining up for the Secretary of Labor, according to all rej , which is likely to make things rather difficult for Mr. Grundy. He has started out to lambaste the city organizations and to charge them with corruption. For- mer Goy. Pinchot, who is seeking the gubernatorial nomination, is engaged in the same pastime, The suggestion keeps bobbing up that sooner or later Grundy and Pinchot will become running mates. And the old story is revived that in 1922, when Pinchot was elected gov- ernor, Grundy threw his support to him in the end. * Ok ok ok Both Davis and Grundy have opposi- tion in the senatorial race from another quarter. A wet, Francis H. Bohlen, a member of the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania, is seeking the Repub- lican nomination, too. He is a s stantial citizen. How much he wil fect the so-called major candidat in this race remains to be seen. He may succeed in bringing onme or both of them into the nxi)en on the prohibition question. It is likely, however, that he will draw as much strength from one candidate as from the other. Before very long, if both Mr. Grundy and Mr. Davis continue in this race, Secretary Mellon will have to come out for one. or the other, or declare neu- trality. He has been lined up with the Grundy-Fisher faction, and it has gen- erally been supposed that he would back the Grundy-Lewis ticket. Prob- ably he will do g0. It is not likely that Senator David A. Reed, strongly aligned with the Mellons, will relish particularly the election of Secretary Davis to the Senate. Both hail from the western end of the State and in the future this might weigh against Senator Reed. However, . Mellon backs Mr. Grundy “in the senatorial fight and Davis wins, what happens to the po- litical prestige of the Mellons in Penn- sylvania? Here and there it has been reported that the Mellons were draw- ing out of the political picture of their own preference. If that be the case it is rather too bed for Mr. Grundy at this particular juncture. Davis has the Philadelphia organization and he widely popular in Allegheny County. The mayor of Pittsburgh is one of the important Republican leaders in that section who has just come out strongly far the Secretaty of Labor. * ok kK ‘The campaign in Illinois for the Re- publican senatorial nomination is on its last lap. A week from Tuesday either Senator Deneen or Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick will be the party nominee. Both are in the State and extremely active. Mrs, McCormick has seized upon the World Court issue and has endeavored to doll it up anew and make it do for her what it did for Frank L. Smith four years ago when he beat the late Senator Willlam B. McKinley in the senatorial primary. McKinley {md voted for American adherence to he court, urged upon the Senate by former President Coolidge. Deneen also voted for the court, and it is on that vote that Mrs.- McCormick is basing her hopes. Strange as it may seem, if she should be successful in the primary election on April 8, it would be hailed as an anti-World Court victory and probably might have . its effect on the Naval Limitation Con- ference now going on in London, oo. For there is still talk of some kind of a consuitative pact involving the United States. The anti-World Courters are violently opposed to such a pact. * ok ok K The Republicans down in the ninth Virginia congressional district are bent on sending C. Bascom Slemp back to Congress. Meeting in convention Saturday they nominated him, without previously obtainnig Mr. Slemp's per- mission, ~ He is away on a business trip that will take him to the Pacific Coast and may not come to a decision until he returns to Washi: . The in- o 'hg ember of But he quit becam¢ ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDL Did you ever write a letter to Fred- eric J. Haskin? You can ask him any question olllga nn;'il get uthe :m:verd in a personal T, a great edu- cational idea mtrodlggd into_the lives of the most intelligent people in the world—American newspaper readers. It is a part of that best purpose of a newspaper—service. There is no charge except 3 cents in coin or stamps for return postage. Address Frederic J. Haskin, director, The Evening Star In- formation Bureau, Washington, D. C. Q. What sacred song is most often requested sung over the radio?—C. B. K. A. It is said _that “The Old Rugged Cross” leads. It was written by Rev. George Bennard, a traveling evangelist in the Methodist Church. Q. When will the National Pinals be held in the National Oratorial Contest for secondary schools?—E. O. A. The National Finals will be held in Washington, D. C., May 24. The International Finals will be held in Washington October 25. Q. Are guns fired at sunrise and sun- set at our Army posts?—I. W. P. A gun is fired at sunset at all United States military forts when the flag is lowered at retreat. No gun is fired at sunrise, Q. What is the annual discharge of water and dirt at the mouth of the Mississippi River?>—C. F. R. A. The total annual discharge at the mouth of the Mississippi is estimated at 785,190,000,000 cubic yards. The to- tal amount of sediment carried into the Gulf annually is 406,250,000 tons. Q. Who was the first to advance a plan for world peace?—A. 8. . Peace movements or efforts are alluded to in many of the writings of the early centuries of the present era. The earliest modern movement appears to be the efforts of George of Podiebrad, King of Bohemia, 1462, who advanced a plan for the Christian nations to form an international parliament and o create a tribunal, backed by interna- tional forces, if necessary, to hear and :lftermlnu all disputes between the na- ons, Q. Has Washington, D. C., as many Negroes as Atlanta, Ga.?>—R. M. A. The Negro population of Atlanta, in 1920 was 62,831. The Negro population of Washington, D. C., in 1920 was 110,711, Q. When was the first transconti- nental telephone line established across the United States?>—H. M. E. A. The American Telephone & Tele- graph Co. completed the first on Janu- ary 25, 1915. It connected New York, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Omaha, Denver, Salt Lake City and San Francisco. g. gow much does an ostrich weigh? ft;.quencly attains the A. An ostrich weight of 300 pounds. Q. What is the inscription on Keats’ tombstone?—R. S. A. It reads as follows: “This Grave Contains All That Was Mortal of a Young English Poet Who On His Death Bed In the Bitterness of His Heart, At the Malicious Power of His Enemies Desired These Wrongs To be Engraven On His Tomb Stone, ‘Here Lies One Whose Name Was Writ in Water.’ Feb. 24, 1821,” Q. Is the median age of the popula~- J. HASKIN. tion of the United States higher today than it was 50 years ?2—P. A A. The median age is that age which divides a population into two equal mups, ope-half being older and one- f younger than the median. In 1870 t | the median was 20.1 years, and in 1920 it was 25.2. Q. Of the price paid for riding in a Puliman car what part is profit to the company?—T. S. A. The report of the Pullman com- pany for 1929 shows that in that year the average net revenue per passenger was 27 cents. The company owns 9,520 cars, of which 8,842 were operated, car- rying 33,424,268 passengers in 1929, Q. How many full-blooded Indians are there in the United States?—M. R. A. In 1928 it was estimated that there were 180,000. These Indians are scl:}ter:d throughout the various reser- vations. Q. When weré stoves introduced into churches in America?—M. 8. H. A. The Franklin stoves of 1744 were the earliest modern stoves to be used for heating churches. Q. What is the Mormon cricket?— A. The Mormon cricket was so named because of its attack in 1848 on an early Mormon settlement near the pres- ent site of Salt Lake City. It threat- ened the extinction of the colony until a flight of gulls appeared from Salt Lake and exterminated the pest. Be- cause of that & monument was erected to the gulls. This insect marches in large, orderly armies, but at times will leave good feeding ground for a com- paratively barren area. Q. How much education must a per- son have to qualify as a high school or college teacher?—E. W. A. the teaching profession re- quirements are becoming more and more advanced. It is practically impossible to obtain a position in high schools and colleges with less than the A. B. degree. In some cases advanced d , such as the M. A. and the Ph. D. degrees, are required. Q. How many times did Anton Lang take the part of Christus in the “Pas- sion Play”?—H. L. B. A. He took the part of the Savior three times—in 1900, 1910 and 1922, Q. What does “bien joue” mean in contract bridge?—M. W. B. A. The words are French, and mean “well played.” The term is used to signify that the declarer has made his contract. Q. Was the Rhode Island Building at the Chicago World's Fair a copy of any building in Rhode Island?—P., W. W. A, Norman M. Isham, who designed the Rhode Island Building at the World's Columbia Exposition in Chi- cago in 1893, states that it is not & replica of any building in Rhode Island, but that it is in its fundamental ideas a combination of the Arcade in Provi- dence and the Old Stone Mill in New- port, with a great many A.Qi What color are sugar beets?— A." Sugar beets are white, Q. How early was Freemasonry intro- duced into this country?—J. F. B. LA It to the British colonies in America as early as 1730. Americans Praise Balfour As Philosopher-Statesman Glowing words of appreciation come from America in tribute to the memory of Lord Balfour. His long career in the service of his country, as well as the high qualities of his own personality, have aroused the admiration of the world. “The Earl of Balfour richly exempli- T fied the flden statesm: ,” says the Atlanta Jour-|best that nal in its ing eulogy, part of which is here quoted: “To tasks of gov- ernment he brought a mind of native distinction and ‘scholarly mold; and to the battles of politics a chivalry that ve luster to the hardest encounter. gfid he followed the bent of his youth he now would be most renowned in the republic of letters, as a r and an t of rare trenchancy and charm. Such, indeed, he was, for, in the breathing spaces which his more than half a century of arduous public duties allowed him, he produced some of the treasures of contemporary Eng- lish literature. Yet this meditative man stood alert and masterful at the helm of empire, dispatching business that called for the keenest of practical judg- ment, solving problems which only the finesse of an accomplished diploma could untangle, meeting issues and perils which were of moment to all human- kind, Three sovereigns—Victoria, Ed- ward VII and George V—valued his wise counsel, and three generations ad- mired his character, true and strong| amid shifting tides.” . “What a record of public service from Parnell's day to the second ministry of Macdonald!” exclaims the Richmond News-Leader, describing Balfour as “al- ways the gentleman in’ politics, always the great gentleman. itter partisan feeling was foreign to his nature. Yet he had a range of vision, a power of analysis, a depth of comprehension, and a skill in presentation excelled by no parliamentarian of his day,” declares this paper. The Little Rock Arkansas Demograt styles him “a real statesman of a day which is far in the past,” while the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel in its word picture of him says: “Brilliant, scholarly, impressive in appearance, shrewd, polished, of a most extraordinarily active and alert intelli- gence residing in an active body, this nephew of the great Lord Salisbury was certainly among the outstanding figures of an age which produced many an out- standing genius.” The Chicago Daily News declares that “seldom has there appeared in British public life a figure 8o generally attractive.” ‘That he was a “man of broad cul- ture and sympathies” is the statement of the Chattanooga Times, which also records that “he is sald to have pos- sessed one of the finest minds of his time and may be classed as a philoso- thr-uuwmnni‘ i The Louisville Courier-Journal also labels him the “philosopher in poli- tics,” and emphasizes the fact that “clear thinking, with a literary quality even in his casual utterances, charac- terized him.” Discussing his relations with America in the various places of high respon- sibility held by him, the Seattle Times says: “The American people remember Lord Balfour from his visits here in 1017 and .1918. As the head of thel British mission to this country he made a favorable impression. His aftractive personality, his scholarly attainments| and his understanding of the American spirit marked him as a statesman of first rank. His address before the House of Representatives in 1917 was a mas- m_g':flm." the Times concludes. Cincinnati Times-Star been for many years Republican na- tional committeeman from Vi Mr. Slemp desired to stage a come- back to the s victory in Vi 1 to alive the old rancor over ight “Smith and Jobn cam) c pu:;v‘ in o ondr J. Raskob, Mr. Smith’s , has not been suc- has been strong. House, he might have donc | lan that “he is best remembered in America as the diplomat whose collaboration with Secretary Hughes at the Wash- ington Conference was responsible for the first and thus far the most success- ful plan to limit naval armaments.” The Ann Arbor Daily News, while granting that “Balfour may have had to believe,” declares that “America never came in contact with anything but the was in him. Though he was frankly an aristocrat, the democratic Nation’s heart warmed toward him, and there was much admiration as well as fri . _His death. therefore, is a shock on this side of the Atlantic,” concludes this paper sympathetically. * X X *x Beneath his affable and polished ex- an acity of not y those who had not carefully his character. “In his public service Balfour first showed his strength and tenacity in dealing with a situation in Ireland,” says the Pittsburgh Post-Ga- 2ctte, which credits him, “as secretary for Ireland,” with having shown “both energy and determination, being cred- ited with works of a constructive na- | ture.” This paper also notes that “he attracted much attention in the after- | war settlement period through the Bal- lfour note, in which Great Britain re- nounced all post-war claims i1 Conti- nental Europe, both from her allies and Germany, beyond what was needed to pay her own debts to America. It was &lso he who declared the British policy in Palestine, by which that country was set aside as a home for repatriated Jews,” continues this paper as it re- views the statesman’s constructive acts. " remarks Providence Journal, “but of Lord B"lb&e four it may be truly said that he was more famous and perhaps more re- spected, both at home and abroad, a quarter of a century after he was prime minister than when he occupied that lofty post. His influence is al A And that, after all, is the real test of a man's career,” declares the Journal. ‘Summed up, regarded as the whole man, he was one of the greatest living Britons of his day. The complete Briton,” attests the Ottawa Evening Journal, while the San Antonio states that “Balfour’s death will be re- gretted by former opponents no less than by his countrymen who followed him in the political field for many years.” - Aviation Objectives Are Speed and Safety From the Springfield, Mass., Union. Lieut. Alford J. Willlams, jr, Na pilot, who holds the Amerk:ljn ma:c’l for airplane speed, complains that air- craft moves too slow to justify itself in an economic sense. He predicts 400 and even 600 miles an hour for transport 5’1,"’“ as an outcome of the not distant iture, and holds that racing planes are of great value in pointing the way to greater airplane efficiency in military and commercial service. Another expert, Lieut. James H. Doo- little, winner of the Schneider Cup and Pulitzer air races, declares that the air- g::l; is fdetauned wuubecomc the safest s of transportation. He regar the work of the Guggenh<im fund 2 giving strong support to this view. If the speed predicted by Lieut. Willlams can be combined with the degree of safety anticipated by Lieut. Doolittle, commercial aviation will have made great strides, and the process of circum- navigating the earth will be a compara- uv(e)ly simple matter. 1f | aviation to a these is easier, control not One of the business centers citles than at present, and the value of aviation corresponc d. Then the co-ordination of rail and air travel, which is the subject of much study and e will be made