Evening Star Newspaper, April 2, 1930, Page 8

P i THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 1930. i TH doctors of laws and doctors of philoso- { race which has held Palestine for a : & EVENING STAR phy, though the latter rarely. Doctors | thousand years is the issue which Great of military sclence are something dif-| Britain has to face. It must be met, in ferent. There is a connotation about |light of the Balfour declaration of 1917. the title of “doctor” that does not al- | Two years later, after the peace of together harmonize with military | Versailles, Britain was given the League science. If the world were in a state)|of Nations’ mandate over Palestine. of profound and lasting peace and!Declaration and mandate, the Shaw there were no wars or threats of war|commission holds, are in palpable con- military sclence might be academic |flict and conjure up “Inherent difficul- With Sunda; Edition. /. WASHINGTON, D. C. ‘WEDNESDAY......April 2, 1030 R R S S | | THEODORE W. NOYES. ... Editor 97 the sciences. The great conflict of [ British government to state 1914-18 involved the services of chem- Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia, mo.. 3 400 1“3215 17r. $10.00: 00: All Other States and Canada. EP and Sunda 3 il day onty* Member of the Associated Press. toTh, Associated Press is exclusively enti (e use for republication of all news dis- Roiies rpdited to It or not otherwise cred. ted in this paper and siso the loe: rewy shed herein. All rights of publicatior Special dispatches herein are also reserved A Hundred Million Dollars. One hundred million dollars is a good, round sum. Sock the average citizen between the eyes with the mention of one hundred million dollars and he be- comes dazed, his head goes into the clouds and he experiences some diffi- culty in seeing because of the fog. For those who write their income tax in two figures and a decimal point, one hundred million dollars becomes one of those things that people know exists because they have been told it exists, like the Einstein theory or the new planet. They reverence it accordingly. The power interests, therefore, have disclosed their ace in the hole in the testimony from the United States engi- neer for this district, Maj. Brehon Somervell, that by permitting power de- velopment of the Potomac at and below Great Falls the more or less downtrod- den taxpayers will save themselves one hundred million dollars. The sum is staggering and the Engineer Corps of the Army is accurate and impartial. This saving has been mentioned be- ! fore, in a report from a former Chief of Engineers of the Army, in this case the minority member of the National the majority view of the ten other members of the commission, Gen. Jad- win favored power development as against park development of the upper Potomac, setting forth with other ‘The issue that divides opponents and proponents of the Cramton bill, which @eeks to save Great Falls and the Poto- mac for park development, is whether the river should be given over now to private power development by private + interests or whether it should be held by the people against the time that they may see fit to undertake this development of a great source of power and profit themselves. The Cramton bill does not.shut out the possibility of future development of the river for power and navigation purposes. It proposes the purchase of the river shores for a natural park and the retention of river rights until neces- sity demands their commercialization. If the power interests are willing to present the people of the United States with a park, bridges, roads and other embellishments in return for the use of the Potomac, it is obvious that their own “savings” from such use will far outweigh the mere bauble that will con- sist of the artificial park. The Potomac is a birthright and the $100,000,000 “savings” a mess of pot- tidge. ———— Compliments to Gen. Crosby’s char- acter and ability are s0 numerous that it would need an exceptional civilian to take the place to which his right has been challenged. “Doctor” Pershing. If an example set by New York Uni- versity is to be followed generally in the future, traditional military titles will be put into the discard and acs- demic designations of rank will suc- ceed, to denote soldiers of fame. Chan- cellor Brown of that institutien of learning has announced that on the John J. Pershing. This will be the first time in the history of that uni- versity that such a title has been enough to justify the bestowal of a|ties” title indicating a scholarly mastery of | aside as a Jewish national home. an abstract theorem. ‘The declaration sets Palestine The mandate specifies that the civil and It is not to be suggested that there religious rights of non-Jewish commu- is no such thing as military “science.” | nities should not be invaded. The com- War has been reduced to a scientific| mission of inquiry does not call the basis in that it employs virtually all | mandate into question, but it urges the —ith unequivocal clearness” how it interprets ists, physicists, mathematicians, geolo- | its double responsibility. gists, meteorologists, naturalists, in fact “In the interests alike of all sections all the whole range of the physical|of the people of Palestine and of the sclences, And the commander-in-chief | local administration,” the commission of an army must utilize all the sciences | suggests, as well as that specifically of combat. Even so, the identification of warfare | ing it attaches to the Balfour declara- with the learned sciences by conferring | tion as a whole, and it should state with docterates causes somewhat of & jolt | equal clarity the course of the policy to the sense of fitness. The purpose of | it intends to pursue in that country the New York University is, of course, to grant a high honor upon Gen. Pershing, but it may be doubted whether | greatly enhanced if, in it, the govern- he will wear his doctor’s title as proud- | ment were to define more clearly and 1y as that which specifically denotes his | in positive terms the meaning it at- great accomplishment. Mr. Raskob to Testify. The sctivities in the interest of the|months ago, repeal of the eighteenth amendment of | bluntly concludes, owing to Arab mis- John J. Raskob, chairman of the Demo- | givings over wholesale Jewish immigra- cratic national committee, are to be in- quired into by the Senate lobby com- mittee. On the face of it, the inquiry | Arabs some day may become landless seems rather idle. Mr. Raskob is a known “wet.” He has never made any secret of that fact. And if further evidence were needed, reference could|graye one, as problems always are which be made to the fact that he did his best in 1928 to put a wet candidate for President into the White House. The Senate lobby committee, however, has been dedicated to the investigation of lobbying in general, whether it has to do with Muscle Shoals, the sugar tariff, or prohibition. If the committee has undertaken to use its powers, or indi- divual members of the committee have done so, to make political capital, that naturally must be foregiven because of the glare of publicity which has been turned on the activities of the lobbyists. It Mr. Raskob has been & “lobbyist” in sense of contributing money to the of the repeal or modification of laws, and of working for such repeal, he must take his questioning with Mr. Huston, chairman of Muscle Shoals. Mr. Raskob's political scalp has been sought for a long time by dry members of his own party. Some of the members of Congress from the South have been particularly active in their demand that Mr. Raskob must quit as chair- man of the Democratic national com- mittes in order to permit a greater de- gres of harmony. Within a week Josephus Daniels, Secretary of the Navy during the Wilson administration, has written in his own newspaper, the Raleigh, N. C., News and Observer, call- ing upon Mr. Raskob to pay up the debts of the party incurred in the last tial campaign and then to quit. At present the Smith Democrats in North Carolina are engaged in an ef- fort to defeat Senator Simmons for re- nomination to the Senate, because Mr. Stmmons Wwould not suppert Alfred E. Smith for President two years ago. Mr. Daniels’ criticisms of Mr. Raskob at this time are not calculated to aid the Smith Democrats in their “punitive expedition,” as their attack on Mr. Simmons has been called. ‘The public has not generally been in- formed in detail what the activities of Mr. Raskob have been in the cause of repeal of the eighteenth amendment or the modification of the dry laws, Mr. Raskob, in telegraphing his willingness to appear before the lobby committee, suggests that politics may have had sqmething to do with his being called before the committee. There does not seem to be the slightest doubt that his appearance before the committee and his testimony will have some effect po- litically. If he appears and details his activities in favor of the wet cause, it is not unlikely that the dry Democrats will agitate again in favor of the elim- ination of Mr. Raskob. The charge has been made frequently that he is holding on to the national Democratic organization so that a wet candidate for President may again be put forward ! .,ione mean something. in 1932, If the Republicans are guilty of seeking to embarrass their Demo- cratic friends by summoning Mr. Ras- kob at this particular time, why should the Democrats raise their voices in anguished protest? The Democrats have certainly not neglected to make use of the lobby committee when its use could aid them politically. ———— Having decided to take a 16-room house with a little land, ex-President Coolidge may as well reconcile himselt to intimations that he is preparing to conduct a front porch campaign. —e— The Crisis in Palestine. Sir Walter Shaw's commission of in- quiry into the causes of last Summer’s | garded as one of the best ‘bad men’ in riots in Palestine, which has just sub-| the movies.” mitted its report to the British govern- ment, goes straight to the heart of the |y, your class.” Arab-Jewish controversy. A number of ¥ contributory factors is cited. The Jewish community in the United | oy 45 56 gtrictly moral that I got my- Btates and elsewhere is Jusfiably| o)y pneq twice by the directors for gratified that the Zionists are effectual- 1y vindicated by the commission's find- ings of any immediate responsibility for the savage outbreaks which shocked the world. But apart from, and beyond,| ¢ jeast that, whatever our merits may “we would urge that his majesty’s government define the mean- in the future. Whatever form that statement may take, its value would be taches to passages in the mandate which provide for the safeguarding of the rights of non-Jewish communities.” Moslem hatred ran amuck seven the Shaw commission tion and land purchase. Out of these misgivings springs the fear that the paupers under Jewish political domina- tion. That is the Palestinian problem in a nutshell. It is an uncommonly are aggravated by racial and religious acrimony. It will tax the ingenuity of British statesmanship. Unless and until it is settled, the seeds of enduring trouble in Palestine will not be uprooted. oo One or two sed suspicions might have been averted if Will H. Hays could have been persuaded to clean up politics as industriously as he has cleaned up the motion pictures, —_————— A two-cent fare for a school child represents an expenditure the equiv- alone of which has been wasted in the of a stamp for an inconse- quential letter. The pretense of legal authority is now avallable to any one who chooses to| ring a doorbell or halt an automobile. Residents in the neighborhood of an Oklahoma oil area can understand the constant uncertainty as to the future experienced by dwellers on the slopes of | Fage0! Mount Vesuvius. ———— While waiting for development as practical power, Muscle Shoals continues to present a picture of swift and tur- bulent finance. ———— A conference announcement often seems plain and straightforward enough until the time comes for discussing the reservations, —te. Moral protest has not yet controvert- ed the fact that horses like to run in public and that overoptimistic human beings enjoy betting on them, SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Follies of the Year, “Oh, April Fool was April First!” A jay bird seemed to say. “Perhaps you'll find what seems the ‘worst. Is ‘So's the First of May!’” And other PFirst Days may appear To jar a sense serene— As foolish days; and through the year, The days that come between. There is no cause for dull dismay As seasons come and go, Since every day's a Foolish day For those who make it so. A Term Taboo. “What is your idea of a lame duck?” “I never use the expression,” answered Senator Sorghum., “A lame parrot But I can't imagine a duck hanging around in the hope of having the last word.” Jud Tunkins says maybe we're goin’ along too fast, discoverin’ more planets before we iiuve found out just how to manage this one, Immortal—Still Democratic. Doc Eckener a medal got By his transcendent worth. He is Immertalized—but not Too good for this old earth. Moralizing the Films. “You look terrible grief struck?” “I am,” answered Cactus Joe. “I try to be conscientious in my art, but my mind is becomin’ confused. I'm re- “No doubt about your being a leader “But how can I go on cultivatin’ the character type when the motion pic- missing my Sunday school lesson?” “We love flattery,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “because it proves the sparks which directly kindled the | pe our favor is worth having.” fires of excess in August, 1929, lie embers doomed to smolder into a con- flagration unless ways and means can be evolved for extinguishing them betimes. ‘The Shaw report points specifically to War of Words. ‘The Dove of Peace in accents low ‘Once more benevolently brags— “Let fighting be forever slow, ‘While conversation never lags!” - THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL, ‘Thanks for an interesting journey, my friend. If I had not gone with you, I would have lost the opportunity of mak- ing a store full of women happy. And we like to please the ladies. It is remarkable how little it takes to make women smile. This is 50, not only because they are more easily pleased. but because they have a better sense of humor than men. Persons of the masculine persuasion often require to be slapped in the face with heavy comedy, but women ordi- gufly possess a more delicate sense of u; mor. Perhaps the best way to illustrate is to say that men are addicted to the American sense of humor, women to the British, ‘Those who are familiar with Punch, the dean of humorous periodicals, wiil understand this readily. One would not say that there are not }nenty of men with the same sense of fun, but surely there are more women who smile readily at the light touch of comedy. As we recall it, we had made half the trip in your new car (and a very nice one it is, t00), when we recalled the fact mwehldmhbfluttmmhh us. Now, a thimble is something we do not buy every day. In fact, this was the first one we had ever bought, or probably ever will. To the average man a thimble is a mysterious article, part and parcel of femininity. It arrives with the woman, and is never far away from her. * K ok “Stop!” we commanded, with the air of a man who has forgotten to mail a letter handed him in the morning. “What's the matter?>” inquired our friend, anxiously, putting on all four brakes at once. (In our ignorance of the mysteries of automobile lore and lingo we are not quite sure whether it | q is possible to put one brake on at a time or not, but in this case it made no dif- ference, since a capable hand was at :‘hed;\'hecl, backed by an intelligent ead. “Have you lost something?” he con- tinued. +I've got to buy a thimble.” “There is the very shop for you.” Sure enough, there it was, one of these small “ goods stores,” as they used to be cailed, which one finds tucked away in small streets in large cities. There were several dresses displayed in the window on severe dummies, an array of assorted dress goods, and vari- ous undergarments, which once were things of mystery, but which modern advertising has made as plain as day- light to the wide, wide world. * ok ok X Into this shop we advanced gayly on search of a thimble. store was filled with women in- dustriously bu! . ‘There were yards and yards of it un- furled, and it seemed to us as if & dosen women had hold of the far end of as meny bolts, and each one threatening to dart away with it. This threat was an awful one, for if it should be carried into effect, we thought, what a_tangle of prints there would be right there in the store! As we looked at so much stuff we grew ashamed of the smallness of our contemplated purchase. Couldn’t we think somethi larger to buy? A thimble is an out- usly small article, after all. Even those with outriggers, or hooks and eyes, or whatever thimbles have on 'em, are as nothing compared with & bolt of this | purchase. We ing | imp! it in ? “I want a thimble,” we said, plung- ing in boldly. Every woman in the, store turned around. li‘lvery last girl alive there began to smile. Our_declaration had been made out of a clear sky. We hated to do it, but there was no other course. Judging from the clutches those ladies had on the goods, they would have been there yet, with us cooling our heels for a lit- tle thimble. “What size?” asked a clerk, calmly, as if there could be no more reasonable uwmc fit to make explanation. “Our thimble disappeared,” we said. It was a good start, but not clear enough. “The thimble at our house disap- ned to declare, ~We peared,” we think the cat swallowed it.” * Kk K K Every lady in the shop by this time was a broad smile. We got quite a glow of satisfaction, to have brought so much happiness out of nof to 50 many ladies. Here their whole day was cheered up by the vision of a cat swallowing a thimble. Is goner ah there 15 5 postiiey Thas gone, ai ere is & possi the cat might have gotten it.” o “What size did you say?” Ab, relentless lady! “Do they come in sizes?” All the customers looked at ingly, Did they come in sizes of course they came in sizes! ever heard of :uc:: I,ngunee? ‘Who “Has she large fingers or small ones?” “Why—er—just regular fingers.” “You want either 8 or 9, I guess,” said the clerk, hopelessly, yet with firm lecision. “Eight will do,” we declared with sudden dignity. “Yes, I think size 8 will be just right.” “Here- is one for 5 cents and here is one for 10,” said the clerk. “Ten,” we decided, loftily. Had she said a dollar, we would have handed it over cheerfully. We had a hazy idea that one could purchase gold thimbles for almost any "grloe. but unless they had one set wil we would stick to aluminum. X HR After we had made our exit, followed Iaaies buying dress Goods—simles Which u; les W] we liked to think had some approval in them—we got to wondering about thimbles in general. In the old days, now definitely labeled Middle English, the word was spelled, with sterling honesty, “thimbil.” It came from the Anglo-Saxon for thumb. We knew that there are thimble- weeds (cousins of the nopuur garden Rudbeckias), and_thimbleberries. but it wasn't until we looked the matter up in the dictionary that we discovered that the old “shell game” so at_country fairs is ed thimb! X Usu: the time-honored ‘“shell game” played with three walnut shells and & pea, but evidently in the beginning they used either thimbles or small cups s like them. ‘Well, who would have thought that there is any relation between a gam- bm- and the small but essential used by millions of women fSueh ?i‘e “'A:nh:um(m‘u&. “dn'_‘h-g of our mother e, way, the cat hadn't swall the thimble. It was found the next day beneath a sofa cushion.) WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. If and when the time comes for the Republican national committee to name a successor to Claudius H. Huston, Bownd to fgure prominentiy n 18 caleu: promi ly caleu- lations. A wheelhorse of the G. O. for more than 30 years, he is widely considered the best timber available. Recently become a widower and bereft of his aged father about the same time, “Dave” Mulvane is thought to have more inclination to throw himself into active pan{'vmrk than might have been the case before. He is an ‘“o Hoover man” and, while nominally iden- tified with the Curtis-for-President movement in Kansas in 1928, always looked upon the Californian as the Republicans’ best bet. Mulvane is & Yale graduate, A. B., 1885. He's a lawyer by profession, who was born in Illinois, t grew up in Kansas. His 63 years sit very lightly upon him and he plays the game of politics with youthful vigor. Few men understand it so well or have a wider acquaintance among party leaders. * K ok % Senator James E. Watson of Indiana, Republican leader in the Senate, is re earning his nickname of “Sunny Jim" these days by his optimism over the course of the tariff bill. He is quoted as The predicting that the Hawley-Smoot patch- | Staged in Wi work will be out of conference between the two houses of Congress in two weeks, | 3dvisab: By just what magical process this record is to be achieved, the Hoosler statesman doesn't disclose. But he radiates con- fidence that the job will be tackled and settled before April is ended. Few of his comrades on Capitol Hill go along with Watson in beluvlng the conference capable of such speed. 'y rather look for interminable delay. The majority leader. is himself one of the three Sen- ate Republican tariff conferees. Perhaps “Jim” relies upon the power of his own well known elbow grease to spur the conference into action, * ok k% William F., Schilling of Minnesota, spokesman of the dairy industry on the Federal Farm Board, has just written a preachment entitied “Speaking of Milking Cows.” He subtitles it “A confession by a confirmed advocate and practitioner of the old-fashioned hand- milking method who has recently been converted to the modern method of milking by machine,” Says Schilling: “I always liked to milk a cow. In fact, for many years, while in active service on Spring Brook farm, I was called the champion milker, But I have sur- rendered’ at last to the kind of me- chanical milker you make in a factory. Now that I am deprived of my favorite brand of exercise, I'm hunting up a new reducing prescription that's easy to taks and that I'll enjoy as much as I did the exercise of extracting the milk of human kindness from the foster mother of the race.” * k ok X A golfing companionship on the links of the Disf of Columbia and nearby courses h‘::"xlnuen w:o with t.h: Japanese-. jcan navi agreemen just consummated at London. The g:lnclp-l negotiators of the accord were mator David A. Reed of Pennsylvania for the United States and Ambassador Tsuneo Matsudaira for Japan. Reed and Matsudaira struck up a friendship in Washington while the Japanese diplomat was on ambassadorial duty here. By accident, rather than m found themselves fellow del at idon, Nothing seemed more natu- ral and M. P. | confidence in the cruise for & month or six weeks. Moses is chairman of the O sen- atorial campaign committee. He's em- barking, he says, upon a vacation trip di to give faith, hope and outcome of the 1930 congressional campaign. The champion r of Capitol Hill is persuad- ce “locking up” col Tably and that the 1930 off-year elections may turn out far better than now seems Ppossible, . ok ox ¥ mmmbmmnn(‘omer has j\:t ue an &hflnlnf experi- “nfl%.hh own voice as it Across Atlantic from the . One was picl out speaker in Washing by recording apparatus and duly wound around a wax cylinder. There it is preserved for all time. Ground out on & transcribing machine, the talk is reproduced with amazing accuracy. Even which now and then caused reception to be interlarded with the Atlantic's roar, can be faithfully detected. * ok ok X tional spelling bee recently llhlnmmgf:-udmmm Country the. of & pronunciation bee. Just as Senator Fess' rulings on spell- ings were challenged in uvenlp'ln- ‘ds. Among others, he gave a “cellulose,” “celluloid” and “frat- ernize” renderings which were queried by more than one hearer. Radio is teaching Americans more about pro- nunciation than _many of them ever knew before. But every once in a while weird words wend their way over the wave-lengths. * k¥ Patrick J. Hurley, Secretary of War, has just told the American-Irish His- torical at New York that, con- trary to ular bculoet, the Irish are e & peace-] people. “We admit they're fighters,” says the soldier-states- man, who is so proud of the Gaelic in his Oklahoma veins, “but they fight from necessity and not through choice. Ireland has never raised an army to invade another country. She hud.:'}myl fought to defend the home- (Copyright, 1930.) Radio Announcers Give Schubert Good Name Prom the Seattle Times. and for al a great deal of harm doubt- done the reputation of one 's best-beloved. The irre- on the air all his tapl 3 ubert's real and friendly originally responsible surely without inten- ly nut.hnmunm T, while once n & Vienna :?e, was seized with creative impulse and jotted down music for one of ;u ity- | Col An Airport Site on the Eastern Branch Urged To the Editor of The Star: If the committees of the House and Senate for the District of Columbia will go out East Capitol street to Twenty-first street and cast their eyes up and down the valley of the Eastern Branch of the Potomac, especially, for g:mnr. purposes, the high filled ground tween the United States Jail and the Benning road, they will see the best ace to locate the new a fot as| n, with scores of paved streets. g out to it and only 9,500 feet from the front of the Union Sta- tion, out husetts avenue to hth northeast and on out B street northeast to Twenty-first street, is only 9,500 feet—less than that—from the east steps of the United States Cap- itol. When they look over this groun and consider all of its advantages nearness to the Office, Union Sta- tion, Capitol, etc., with scores of paved streets leldlnr to it, I am sure they will forget all about other sites, espe- clally as the title to this and the 2,000 acres on up the valley which will be ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Stop a minute and think about this fact. You can ask our Information Bu- reau any question of fact and get the answer back in a personal letter. It is a great educational idea introduced into the lives of the most intelligent people in the world—American newspaper readers. It is a part of that best pur- pose of a newspaper—service. There is no charge, except 2 cents in coin or stamps for return postage. Get the habit of asl questions. Address your letter to The Evening Star Information Bu- H““' Prederic J. Haskin, director, Wash- ngton, D. C. Q. How old is Graham McNamee, is :e married and what is his salary?— . M. A. Graham McNamee is 37 years old. He is married. His salary depends on the number of programs he announces and the kind of programs they are. Q. Are colts ever white when born?— added to it for future expansion is in|E. A. L. the United States Government. They will, I feel sure, appropriate $500,000 for immediate use in clearing, grading and other purposes, including the erec- tion of a Zeppelin tower at the center of East Capitol street, with, a light above the tower which can be seen for a circuit of 200 miles. Then Washington will have an aviation fleld the envy of all other cities. Sewer, city water, tele- phone and electric lines are already established; also car and bus lines. The necessary money to finish the dredging out of the channel to the District of progress, should ade dvailable at once, so that Lindy can establish a glider school on one of the high points above Benning. There are so many more advan that could be added to these suggest] that you could not publish them in one issue of The Star. The cost of grading, parking, ete., need not be taken into the account, as that is -!md;' provided for in the g’n;nnt lans for the Eastern Branch. en this is done Washington will have something more real to show for the ex- penditure of the taxpayers’ money than increased tax bills. H. M. PROCTOR. Newcomer to Washington Compliments The Star To the Editor of The Star: After being an enthusiastic resident of Washington for three weeks in this beautiful Springtime, I think of our own environment, Chicago, in comparison, and The Star daily reading compared ':llh the lzh]ic:e[o newspapers. We want congratulate you upon your every- day philosophy and optimism which even your view columns and accounts of crime illustrate. It seems to me there is cause for serious thought and question today as we read many pa- [y -u) 80 l'soml.m?”fitl; 4& old:nlllf leaving so for the imagination of Joumg man who hasn't character background today and is on the dollar chase, see- ing pleasant, easy money and getting away with it in such lines, rather than in legitimate commercial activity. We like the old-time editorial slogan: “Here shall the press ‘The people’s right maintain, « Unawed. by influence, Unbribed by gain.” is the author? Where did T use feel, act, live an eloquent trusteeship of inherent virtue? Not put a halo, almost, on law violation. “I hope you sense me.” I compliment Washington on The JEROME. Lakeside, Mich. ¢ Bonus Proposed to Ease The Economic Burden | “To the Editor of The Star: Hon, William P. Connery, jr., of Lynn, Mass,, is boosting the immediate pay- ment of the soldiers’ adjusted service certificate. It has come to my atten- tion that in and about Boston veterans ~s individual :;mn. as well as sheel signatures, to their respec- tive Senators and Representatives, indi- cating their approval of this bill for various reasons, sage of this bill. of today are looked upon -by the non- veteran as well as the veteran as not quite so good. Unemployment is preva- lent. Cities n: o o burden throug! welfare " depart- ments and organizations, which, of course, is a most unwelcomed condition, particularly when we read in our annual reports. at t&! end of the year of the 5| the transoceanic static, | thousands f more money were put 5 SR e e or ‘woul . Hence more business, better conditions in general, with harmony. M. JOHN BRAZILE. ‘Worcester, Mass. The Star’s Citation of the Failures of Justice Praised To the Editor of The Star: Referring to an editorial in The Evening Star of March 28, calling at- tention to the criminal records of Guiseppe Piraino and Joseph Filorino and to others of like character, the un- dersigned members of the planning committee, National Sojourners, Wash- ington Chapter, desire to our appreciation of these editori ‘ou very justly say that these recoris clearly illustrate the inefficiency of lew enforcement in the United States out- side of any issue of prohibition, and it is our hope that you will continue to bring to the attention of the public other similar instances of flagrant mis- carriage of justice, all too common in our country, to the end that the public may come to realize the serious danger to our country of the failure of justice in cases of this kind. AMOS A. FRIES, President, National Sojourners. GEO. F. UNMACHT, Captain, U. S, A. R. P. PARROTT, EMIG. BOLIVAR J. LLOYD, Chairman, Planning Committee. Merits of Stew and Chops Basis of Prison Riot From the St. Louls Times. In State's prison at Jefferson City there has been a rebellion led to at- tack by those convicts who took oppo- site sides as to the efficacy of food com- posed upon the formula of the stew and its rival staple known as pork el A. There is no record of any colt's being born white. The white horses were gray or fawn color when colts. Some of the Spanish horses on the Western Coast have lighter colored colts than the Eastern breeds, but none is known to have been white at birth. Q. Are oil and gas considered min- erals?—P. M. A. Oll and gas are both classed as minerals. Both are non-metals. Q. What city in South America is installing elevators to carry people down a hill?—C. 8. A. Bahia, in Northern Brazil, has in- stalled an elevator tower containing two elevators to bring people from the pleateau to the level of the bay. The city is built on the two levels, and each elevator has a capacity of 27 passengers and speed of 700 feet a minute, which means that nearly 4,000 passengers an hour can be carried the distance of 195 {:let 1"hid’l separates the two parts of e city. Q. Will Ottawa and Toronto, Canada, have daylight saving this summer?— M. . G . A. Both cities will observe daylight ;lvi{\’ls ;lme from April 27 to Septeml 8, 3 Q. TIs the space between the earth and sun dark or light?—F. A. A. A. Space perpetual night. If “ e mnpened to be in the orbit of a heavenly body, when it occufid that lar spot, there would u&:& since the = atmosphere surroun planets and planetoids causes them to reflect the light of the sun. Q. What two States produce the most hard wood?—E. R. A. Arkansas leads and West Virginia is second. Q. Why was the leek selected as the national flower of Wales?—W. B. A. One story is that St. David, patron saint of the Welsh, on one occasion caused his countrymen under King Cadwallader to distinguish themselves from their Saxon foes by wearing leeks in their caps. ‘Q.AWSIQ caused the Galveston flood? "A."A West Indian hurricane blowing steadily for 18 hours and reaching a velocity of 135 miles per hour piled up efim‘mm waves, which swept over the city. Q. What was the costume of Queen Elena at the court ball in celebration of Prince Humberto’s marriage?—S. M. A. Her'majesty wore a magnificent costume of steel and silver with neck- lace and tlara of sapphires and dia- monds, Q. Where is Sulgrave Manor?—L. C. A. Sulgrave Manor is in Northamp- tonshire, England. It is the home of Washington's ancestors. It has been given to the peoples of the United States and the British commonwealth by a group of English people. Q. What was the first encyclopedia?— Gl A. The first encyclopedia written in English and with the articles alpha- betically arranged was a “Universal English Dictionary of Arts and Sciences,” by John Harris, a London clergyman, published in 1704. Q. Do the frosted electric light bulbs rlvaz uMmuch light as the clear ones?— 'A. The Bureau of Standards says ;Ji“ th': new line lor thlmlde-{rolud lamps gives nearly the same light output as do"e?nr lamps of the same size and efficlency rating. There is & ghot light of a little less than 2 per Q. Current Events says that William Howard Taft "m the highest in college. Who which the late Willlam was second. Mr. Kelsey is now chair- man of the board of the Title Guaran- tee & Trust Co. of New York City. Q. What is the origin of the sl phrase, “so lon;"rmv. A e A. It is said to be & corruption of the word “salaam.” Q. How long does it take an illitere ate adult to learn to write?—G. M, N. A. In the Moonlight Schools there were few mountain women who could not write a simple letter after thres weeks’ instruction. Many learned in less time. ik Wh acetylene welding domer BTG eetTiene o ‘Age‘tylen' was discovered by I: mun vy, an chemist, 1836, The cnln‘fi":lfn in France about 1895, l:'d first welding t for was introduced into the United from France in 1905. Q. What became of the Hessians w);g cnm!e over during the Revolution? A. "Of the 20,867 Hessians that came Germainy. - OF - hose. remsining, 548 Tmany. T ‘woun 3 e but & great number are known to have remained and settled; grants gl them in Nova Scotia, but many scat- Le the use tered to different parts of the country. Study of Jones Law Inspired By Wickersham’s Testimony Release by the Senate judiciary com- mittee of the statement on prohibition Chairman Wickersham of the Presi- dent's Law Enforcement Commission has inspired much public comment, particularly on that portion which deals with the severity of the Jones law and the commission chairman’s belief in a possibility of “measurable enforcement” of prohibition. “His testimony, with its matter-of- fact analysis of present conditions, suc- cess and failure up to date and means for betterment,” according to the Phil- adelphia Even! Bulletin, “went to the very point of prohibition question for a great many minds. His opinion, for which his investigation should have Eeculluly %‘IIIHM him, is that prohi- ition ‘can be reasonably enforced.” the ition that towns are carrying the | po statement of bellef by the President Hoover’s commission that the t -?zrlnmn is now to undergo its fair and complete test, and that final judgment on it cannot fairly be ren- dered until the new organization under the Department of Justice has had its opportunity.” * % ¥ % Fiint Daly Journal, “thé aiimportant it rnal, “ o angle of whether prohibition is worth keeping, in view of the tremendous crime wave in America. The prestige which has come to the opponents of prohibition recently has been largely through persons of imj ce who have been farced into changing their dry views because of the ‘offshoots’ of enforcement. The drinking side of the argument has dropped into second place with these men and women. We shall awalt a clarification of Chairman Wick- ersham'’s statement, since undoubtedly his view of the future of enforcement is important.” Giving force to his eriticism of the Jones law, the Grand Rapids Press ob- judge the right to send a petty offender g e makes further : r the 3 not & Federal ‘habitual criminal act’ for prohibition violators, reserving heavier terms for those repeatedly con- victed of commercial violations of the law and the heaviest terms for habitual violators engaged in large-scale opera- tions? Could not a scale of fine and imprisonment penalties be set up in the Federal law to render unnecessary what Mr. Wickersham regards as the present excessive judicial ‘discretion’ in ihe matter without destroying the value of the stiffer Jones punishments?” * K ok Taking the position that, as chairman of com Suspielon that Mr. Wickersham leading up to some real tions concerning the ement. crew professes to defend,” is voiced ‘World, which repeats that good lawyer and he is ‘wicked revela- he the that the country is not getting meas- ure of enforcement’ today. ther it will when and if t.hsaw oposals are put into effe s to seen.” The New York Evening Post finds “a new point” in the chairman’s statement of belief that “enforcement it was before the coming of Federal prohibition, on the general belief that instead of relying upon their own efforts the States are inclined to-lie back and let the central Government do the work for them.” Comments on the effect of the Wick- ersham testimon! "The Worc news| 3 umf;p'{.'bw that “the commission’s recommendations are not likely to solve the prohibition problem, but they promise to impart an element of sanity and moderation to enforcement efforts.” ‘The Charleston Evening Post views the chairman’s “ on, he holds the only effective re- striction upon the evils of liquor drink- ing is the cultivation of temperance.” As to the discretion of the judge der the Jones law, the Baltimore Sun feels that “a discretion so alien hereto- fore to American jurisprudence had it K gl ments: “If the penalty is to fit the crime rather than to satisfy some fanatical spirit for vengeance, Mr, ‘Wickersham'’s suj , it would seem, should be adopted. Its adoption would, we _think, strengthen rather than weaken the cause of temperance as well as that of law enforcement.” “He has no faith,” according to the Asheville Times, “in extreme punish< ment for simple misdemeanors. That is sound d¢ from the head of the law commission, but not exactly in tuni with the American mood of the moment Mr. Wickersham is able, sincere open-minded. His statements, more=- over, serve well to balance the fanati« cism which marks so many of the pro= pmenulgzmmpnotmmm serves that “he would not leave to sny | the Southern Democrats Urged to Forget Split From the Charleston: 8. C.. Evening Post. ‘The announcement of Republicans in those Southern States in which they pol rge vote in 1928 that they will put tickets in the field in this year's State elections is a logical de- velopment ot the short-sighted policy of those Democrats who have insisted on party reprisals against the so-called Hoovercrats. No doubt the Republic~ ans in those States would have sought been such as to encourage 5 ‘The very fact that Hoovercrats all over South confidently ted to go into the Democratic primaries this Sum- mer proved how permanent their Re- w:l"euhmm e express regret and ipproval at man’s defection lhm “Is | Repub! these danger spots. It leaves no doubt — that the Wailing Wall dispute, the Iack | “'Tain’ allus de quantity dat counts,” of control by the Moslem Grand Mufti, | 88id Uncle Eben. “A violet gits a heap the inadequacy of the British garrison, | mo’ 'preciation dan a sunflower.” the untrustworthiness of reports ob- b tained by the Palestinian police, and| Time Changes All Things. the intemperance of Palestine news- l'nbn; ‘:&nfie hl.‘;w“ 'flyn;:‘ln & il papers, all combined to fan the flames » into an nevitable blaze. Yet 1o single | that it Wit B wn i Hian et one of these individual sets of circum- | war debts are all settled. stances was so powerful and disturbing @ reason for unrest, in the commis- granted. After the eleventh of April, therefore, the man who is known throughout the ‘world as “General” Pershing will, if his latest title is followed, have to be called “Doctor” Pershing. 1t will take some considerable explaining to identify him by this new designation. It will, if the “Doctor” persists, be almost a merger of identities. It is to be doubted whether there will be a very general response of ap- proval to the idea of giving doctorate | sion’s view, as Arab fears of the results to military men—that is to | of Jewish economic and political pene- eay, in the line of doctors of military tration in the Holy Land. Generals have w made How to calm these anxieties of the to A Wlhuus,.fl'.h‘:‘:’?wflve chiefs of the apanese S e B S e e of condu ne ions. ‘They did so through w:eh of endless posing sides. When the warden v . Wi ive :hpem a stnlshmmvnd talk, EM the kitchen would henceforward to do the best it can, \‘.h?m him :huu and a tiger an out peace- like diplomacy, here 1s mothing either in London or States’ prisons. e recalel~ portance, the doubt that menu cards Ambassador golfed together on the out- | were scattered about the cafes fre- skirts of London, preserving at all times | quented by the musical cognoscenti of [ The warden outtalked a personal entente cordiale that was | Sehubert’s day. The printed men, as|trants. There always must be spokes- proof against all conference shncks, we know it, is a comparatively modern | men for a cause. It might be a Demos- o B 0 device and to many bewildering | thenes, or a Henry y, or the warden Senator George H. Moses, Republican, present |of a criminal . But he must of New H-mg:_lée. is off this week for great “unseen audi- | lead. lhnlldn{m jpe, most of which will | ence of the air” is expected to believe | Whether Irish stew shall eventually %n afloat in the Mediterranean. | e it hears udl&ubehuwmun led e, palstial privese yacht of Freds | 1dee thas Senuber nomme &% Tacok - wen! m H. Prince, Boston banker, and |all, “?m “t hand? What and who are the favorites?” * k¥ K Reference to the Misplaced Charge. rm“l-llnl"“ erlanice i otten & bit over E St e i Where Fishing Is Risk. Prom the Toledo Blade. Brov. | might,be & Tisk 50 Nis teedom oy Cook to go fishing. 2 b ;-'