Evening Star Newspaper, April 26, 1930, Page 6

A6 THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Fdition. WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY......April 26, 1030 THEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company 11un ot d Fenparivinia Ave wew Yotk Shce: 110 East a2nd Bt 80 ¢ ke Michisan Bulidiie. Engtand. Rate by Carrier Within the City. e Frenine ‘fli Star_. 45¢ per month indays) % | bustible. of cach moni end Tl oF Teicphons :flo Teat (' by el Rate by Hlll—hylble in Advance. Marviand and Virginia, v A 1 fifl onl nday | Sunday. only " All Other States and E&u and Sunday. 1yr. Sl a5 onty " Mmm ol the Amellw Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled o Thte e s epasiication of ail news dis- atches credited to it or not otherwis ited {n paper and local news this also the Bublished hereln. "All Tights of publication of special dispatches herein are also rererved. Still a Friend in Need. Inspector Shelby's philosophy, as ex- pressed before a House subcommittee conducting hearings on a bill to estab- lish a national training school for po- licemen in Washington, seems to be that the policeman has become a sort of goat for a public that is fed up on having to abide by so many laws and regulations. Once looked upon as @ friend and protector of the good citizen, he now is regarded as a zealot with an overtime parking ticket in his hand, bent on placing the civilian behind the bars. His popularity, in consequence, has received a telling blow. Mr. Shelby is sincere and conscien- tlous—so much so, in fact, that cne fears he has assumed an all too gloomy view of the situation. One who has spent as many years as he has as a public officer—and, like other public of- ficers, has received more brickbats than bouquets from those whom he serves— is apt to fall into such a frame of mind and feei that all is lost, As a matter of fact, Mr. Shelby and his fellow officers on the force should find comfort in the thought that the average citizen merely takes it out on the Police Department, just as he takes| it out on the base ball team and the weather. The Police Department is one of the handiest things to kick around and kick about that we have. The citizen who is caught for overtime park- ing knows deep down in his heart that parking regulations are necessary and he had no business parking overtime. ‘But when he is caught he is always sure of a receptive and sympathetic audience to hear his tale of woe and to appiaud him when he belabors the police for trifling with “his” automobile, when they should be spending their time ar-; resting the other fellow who also parked overtime and got away with it. Citizens have not lost their respect for and reliance upon the police. They become righteously impatient with dis- courteous, bullying, officious and stupid members of the force and they become suspicious and indignant when an offi- cer disgraces his uniform by breaking the Jaw. Butithese are ailments to be contended with in any large body of men, and they can be fought, if not compietely cured. Cheer up, inspector! You and your . men still remain the first on the help- wanted list when there is a strange noise in the basement or trouble is in the wind. ——— et “Who's Hoodlum jn’ Chicago.” In a land where the libel laws are + still on the books, the Chicago Crime Commission hes selected twenty-eight men for listing under the caption “Who's Hoodlum in Chicago” and has branded them as “public enemies,” who “should be treated accordingly.” Yet the action of the Crime Commission, taken against citizens presumably innocent under the law, will be accepted as merely another interesting if unimportant development in a city that recently gave to the world the news that its leading gangsters, following the industrial trend, had de- cided upon a merger in the interest of peace, bigger and better crime and vice. No one suspects that “Scarface Al" Capone, “Eugs” Moran, “Polack Joe" Saltis, Terry Druggan or Joe Alello, solid citizons in this land of the free and the brave, will resent the publica- tion of their names, virtually listing {hem as outlaws with a price upon their heads, to the extent of going to court and asking that something be done about it. To them the Crime Commis- sion is merely another “racket” in a world of rackets. They probably ask, “Well, what of it?” And so do we all. “Who's hoodlum” in OChicago has been known so well and so long that the Crime Commission's confirmation of the candidates becomes a picturesque but futile gesture unless it is to be fol- lowed up with unceasing barrages of publicity that note the comings and goings of the members and the activi- ties of their clans, with a sharp contrast developed against a background of in- activity and disinterestedness on the part of the people and the. law. If the Crime Commission can make goldfish of these fellows by putting them in an aquarium of publicity, something may be done after all. ———r—t——————— Doubt exists as to whether it will be possible to show the Antarctic explorexs a climate here preferable to the one they left behind. et A genuine mystery is distinguished usually not by the absence of clues, but by the presence of a superabundance. —— o A Floating Tinder Box. A marine disaster that will probably never rate with the great horrors of the sea occurred the other night in. Long Island Sound. Yet it was one of the most tragic of happenings, no less terrible because of its comparatively smaller scale than some of the catas- trophes that have made history. A the Thames, running from New York to New London, caught fire in the night when off Stamford and within & few minutes she was a roaring furnace, aflame throughout. She was headed shore and grounded qn a reef. twenty-six men aboard, crew, were saved. The ther sixteen are missing, propiably all are dead. A stff wind prevailed at the time and the Small “lifeboats” put swamped. Men who donned life pre. servers hastlly, and evidently without any knowledge of how to fasten them securely, found them useless when they were in the water, the belts slipping off ‘and letting them sink. This steamer was built forty-seven years ago in Brooklyn—one report puts her age at thirty-seven—and has been in service sinte her launching. She was a tinder box, her structure being en- tirely of wood. Her upper works and cabins were almost explosively com- She went into a complete flame within five minutes from the first puft of smoke. Yet she was passed by inspectors a short time ago for con- tinued service. She evidently carried a highly dangerous cargo, for there is mention of gasoline that “let go” while the fire was raging, completing the de- struction. Inasmuch as this was a freight and not a passenger carrying vessel, the fact that she was passed for service may not call for inquiry. It is not con- templated by the law governing steam- boat service that every ship should be of metal construction. The day of wood afloat has not passed. Yet there is surely some limit to the permissible use of firetraps at sea. Rules for the protection of passengers should apply to the protection of seamen. ——ee China Gains Tariff Freedom. In announcing before the special session of the Diet at Tokio the con- clusion of a tarift esreement between China and Japan, Baron Shidehara, Japanese foreign minister, makes known an event of surpassing jmportance in the Far East. Japan is the last of the old “treaty powers” to come to terms with China in the field of customs du- ties. Chinese tariff sutonomy is now an accomplished fact. The United States and Great Britain more than a year ago took the lead in recognizing the Nanking government's demand for untremmeled fiscal sovereignty. As long as Japan failed to acknowledge it China’s new status in the world was seriously impaired. Because of their geographical prox- imity and racial nropinquity the eco- nomic relations between China and Japan are peculiarly close. The Chinese market is & correspondingly vital factor in Japanese export trade. How it ean be affected to Japan's disadvantage was, vividly demonstrated during the existerice of the long and enstly toy- cott on Japanese goods which the Chi- nese imposed as a reprisal for Japan's military reoccupation of Shantung two years ago. ‘The Sino-Japanese treaty now ready for signature is the outcome of the in- ternational tariff conference at Peiping in 1925. That conference on its part was the result of the steps initiated at the Washington conference of 1922, when China fought so valiantly for ‘re- lief from the burdens of both extrater- ritoriality and foreign tariff domina- tion. Now that she has recovcred her tariff freedom’ China’s efforts to secure her liberty of action in the fleld of Jegal administration will doubtless be re- doubled. ‘The powers have repeatedly expressed their readiness to relinquish their ex- traterritorial rights when the Chinese system of justice permits them to do 30 with safety to the interests of their nationals. That time is still remote, if the civil unrest and military disorder, which sre once more widely prevalent in many provinces, continue to paralyze the normal development of the new China. The legal rights of foreigners, to say nothing of their physical secu- rity, will remain in ¢hronic jeopardy as long as the Nanking authorities prove incapable of holding the rapacious and rebellious war lords in check. — The Prohibition party, once so fa- mous, s still in existence. It suffered | the fate that so often awaits initiative thought and drepped out of sight when the idea it advocated became big enough to be taken up in real politics. — Shorter working hours for members of Congress cannot be hoped for at present. Such a suggestion is imprac- tical s0 long as Congress is expected to know everything that is going on and to supervise all the details, ST s Less Time Between Bites. Anglers may not have known it, but Thursday, April 17, was a red-letter day for them. Their bodies may have been far from stream or lake and their minds uncrossed by even a thought of fishing; nevertheless that date was noteworthy in the angling records of them all, for on that oceasion the House of Representatives passed a meas- ure, already passed by the BSenate, | which provides for a five-year con- struction, maintenance and expansion program for the United States Bureau of Pisheries and which carries appro- priations therefor totaling $3,335,000. Under this measure, known as the White bill, a total of thirty new fish- cultural stations, substations and labora- tories are to be established costing in all $1,735,000, no fewer than twenty- seven of which are either exclusively or primarily for the propagation and con- servation of game fish, while authori- zation to acquire several additional steel fish-distribution cars, costing $75,- 000 apiece, is also provided. Such cars {are used almost entirely for the trans- portation of game fish. Substantially the same bill pdssed both houses 6f Congress two years ago, but died through a pocket veto. Now ;nm the matter is settled everybody is iin for congratulations—the Bureau of ! Pisheries which collaborated in its framing, the Congress that wisely passed it, the Izaak Walton League of America which sponsored it, and, last but not least, the patient angler who has been suffering for & long while from what the Master Angler of the Nation has characterized as “too long & time between bites.” The legislation came before the House with the ap- proval, not only of the President him- self, but of the Bureau of the Budget and of the United States Commissioner of Pisheries. In the language of one of its congressional sponsors, “it is a great plece of legislation and means much to our whole country. It is one thing that we can all get together on regardless of politics.” Nor is Uncle Sam to do it all; during the past few years most of the States have been passing laws helpful to the carrying out of the plans of the Federal Goverpment for. the protection of both THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. food and game fish. In this aspect ot} tection of the oyster industry; m by BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL, “Every person has his memory flowers. the time they did there were few oysters; Perhaps the most universal of these left and that the District, by dumping its sewage into the Potomac, is gradually destroying .even those. Representative | 0% Linthicum of Maryland in this con- nection sald: “I have been bringing it to the attention of Congress for many years and am told there is a move- ment in the right direction now. It is & most important matter to Maryland and to Virginia, and especially to the District of Columbia.” By the time the five-year period con- templated has expired and the last of the generous appropriation of nearly more than three millions of dollars is exhaust- ed, it behooves every State and every territory so to have purged itself of wasteful conditions and practices and archaic or inquitous laws that the suc- cess of this long-anticipated and long- desired Federal legislation shall attain the one hundred per cent that it deserves, —————. Hole-in-One Hospitality. In Wallingford, Conn., a small city noted as a silver manufacturing center, there is a long-established company making sterling and plated silverware which specializes in trophies, athletic and otherwise. As a means of gaining good will and advertising its excellent products it presents small appropriate prize cups to golfers throughout the United States who perform the envied and attested feat of accomplishing a “hole in one.” Officialsof this concern are authority for the tact that during 1929 no fewer than two thousand eight hundred such cups were distributed to happy golfers, ranging from those who patronize the most exclusive country ciubs to those who go “sun-downing” around munici- pal and other public courses. On the Long Island estate of a popu- lar and wealthy stage comedian, whose whimsicalities transcend the footlights, is a private golf course for his legion of friends, almost every hole of which 15 in some way unusual, if not unique. The green on one in particular, a short one, is at the apex of a mound of such a decided rise that it might almost be termed & pyramid. He who shoots short for this green is unfortunate, for his ball rolls briskly backward a long way. He whose shot, however, lands on top is in high good fortune, for the summit is entirely concave and the hole is at the bottom, so that any ball land- ing within the rim automatically even- tually reaches the cup. ‘This is not the only curiosity. The ball, once in the cup, travels by a sub- terranean runway to the interior of a wooden desk. When its 1id s lifted the player findg not only his ball, but pen and ink and official blanks wherewith to fill out his hole-in-one certificate or attest. There may not be any connec- tion between this triumpk of the golf engineer’s art and the astounding num- ber of cups for which the New England concern is called upon. ot Sensational writers who love to dwell on the fact that a famous author served a prison sentence for an offense of which many believed him innocent should not encourage any impression that underworld magazines regard a | penitentiary as a hopeful training school for good literature. o Itallans are still stronger in their love of music than in their admiration for politics. Much as they respect Mussolini’s authority, few of them will admit that he is in reality as great a man as Verdl. R An appropriation bill sometimes has to be looked at twice before it can be decided whether it will bring new hap- piness or cause more Worry. ————————— As accomplished arboriculturists the Japanese would confer a great favor by inventing an anti-freeze mixture for fruit trees. . "SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Memorable Journey. A plcture of & distant day That Recollection brings Tells of a blossom sweetly gay And of a bird that sings. The old canal boat made a start— I should have been at school. The Cap'n had & kindly heart And let me ride the mule. I've traveled in & motor car Luxurious and swift, Palatial ships that sailed afar Have given me a lift. New friends and pleasures I have met Where lavish fancies rule, And yet I never shall forget The Cap'n and the mule. Status Positively Defined. “You enjoy aviation?” es,” declared Senator Sorghum. 's a comfort to have it perfectly understood that the pilot is the boss and that there is mno question of social d preceden Jud Tunkins says he knows all about farming, but to make the old place pay, he's got to start over and learn to be a | I financier, 'The Study of Crime. Oh, cruel gangster, have a heart And cease to play a sinful part! 1f you from morals claim release— Oh, think of those of the policel Preference for Home Talent. “Would you like to be a motion picture star?” “No” answered Miss Oayenne. “Mother is 8o old-fashioned that she thinks local gossips can get one talked about sufficiently without hiring a press agent.” ’ “If you think not of the future,” said HI Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “be not surprised if the future takes no care of you.” Sympathetic Impulse. Enough of trouble I can't find. 8o to grand opera I am inclined, ‘To hear of some poor luckless churl ‘Who had a quarrel with his girl. “When you has work to do,” said Uncle Eben, “don’ act like you thought | (et - it was an enemy, Treat it like a friend these as br“dhl fl!hbluhmoly%“ is the llac, which now is in full bloom, peff\lm the air with its inimitable Itlln“w-y (MQWMMR the llac brings back memm'lu childhood, “when hearts ymml What a clean, delightful, delicate scent the lilac has, one which never yet h;zmnb%ttu:hd with all aue Te- Sosct v the e perfumer masters IQ that sort ol thnu have failed to get the exact pungent daintiness of their fa- mous “lilas.” But _how, indeed, can any one hope to catth Spring in a bottle? * ok k% No doubt some scientist has analyzed the perfume of the lilac, and can ac- count for its exact dsflmnu from the odor of the rose, or of the violet, or the honey smell of sweet alyssum. Most of us are wi to call it dis- tinctive and let it go at that. There is no other nce in the world exactly like it. Truly, it may be called unlque The lily of the valley is violent, in com- parison. [Even the delicate odor of certain varieties of the iris possesses a musklike tone. The lilac is one of the few flowers which carry their dewlike character from the garden into the house, bring- ing there something of the mnny character of the out of doors, & the ozone which springs up lmund wing thin l’“l,n Ts t does not become over- wenn as does the hyacinth, but und.l !mh its delicate trends to calm and soothe the olfactory nerves and charm the mind through subtle ways as yet unknown to science. * ok kK The lilac has never taken its right- ful place in literature, but no doubt a great poet shall yet arise who will sing lts beauty in masterful verse. To date Walt Whitman’s elegy on President Lincoln is the only master work m which the lilac plays an im- portant part. But “When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloom'd” is too mournful, by reason of its theme, to make it the perfect ode on the lilac. Surely the lilac is the flower of hope and love, of childhood and happy memorics; its true poem at last must incorporate these thoughts. From this standpoint the selection of the lllac as a theme or motif for a threnody was mildly deplorable—yet | Go who would ask that Whitman had done otherwise? “When lllnu last in the ‘bloom’ And the ‘relt star enly dmop'd in the western sky in the ht, I mourn’d—and yet amn mourn with ever-returning Spring. “In the door-yard fronting an old farm the whitewash'd palings, !flnfll the lilac bush, tall- with heart-shaped leaves of With_ many & pointed blossom, rising, deumr.e with the perfume strong wma every leaf & miracle—and from this bush in the door-yard, wfl.h delicate-colored blossoms, and eart-shaped leaves of rich [mn, A I'Dfll. with its flowers, I x X K X One of the finest things ever written about_the lilac is by Prof. Frank A. door-yard | Waugh, in his book on “Hardy Shrubs.” We quoted it in t.hl.s column a year ago, but it so expressed the character of this flower that we are glad of the oppor- tunity of giving it again: it of | dow. necessary open L about lbuadaned farms, bnt at_infre- quent intervals there are the indubitable remains of what once were homes. Sometimes are are timbers nding; oftener there are only the stones of the cellar walls; but always there are t.he huzy spreading clumps of lilac "Yeu after year, without a human care, they thrive and spread, and with each returning May they publish to the sky and to the .quiet roadway the homely but exquisite beauty of their generous blossoms. Their heavy fra- grance weighs down the evening air. They tell, more intelligibly than any other language, the story of the homes that once dotted . these hills and held the human ambitions of living men and women. “Those men and women opened farms, now grown up in to trees. built roads, now terated in the brush. They made houses and lived in them. but the houses and barns and every other material e1ulpm:nt has vanished away. Last of all, as the one touch of beauty in their pioneer lives, they plant- ed lilac bushes by the sitting room win- “And now, after a century of shift and change, nothing remains of all their effort save only that one touch of beauty in their lives. That one meager wish for a sweeter and kindlier home has outlived all the struggle for more geres of tillage and more barns for &ops. "g"he blossoming llacs are the last and most durable monument in com- memoration of the nrulde that used to be. May the reason be perhaps that they represemefl precisely the most essential, spiritual and eternal element in those lonx-forgatten homes?” Alfred Noyzs the younu English poet, has praised the lilac in his poem be- to | ginning: “Go down to Kew in llac-time, in lilac-time, in lilac-time, Go down to Kew in lilac-time (it isn't far from London). And you shall wander hand in hand wlm love in 's wonder- land; Go down to Kew in lilac-time (it isn't far from London).” The lilac goes by the scientific name of Syringa, and must not be confused ty‘:lh the mock-orange, commonly called 8 The word comes to us trom the Ara- bian “lilak,” througl Persian “1{laj,” meaning “hlulsh > lhowlnx that the flower was named from its color. The word itself is somehow beautiful. An English herbalist first described the shrub, calling it the “blue pipe privet.” In old times it was sometimes named the “pipe tree,” although just why we don’t know. t yringa m]mh is the old-fashioned gllrple lilac which most people think ol tinctively when they think of t bush, and no doubt it is the most nm- factory from & nnerll lundpol.nt. espe- clally on account its memory asso- ciations. ‘There are many fine hybrids, how- ever, and we have selected the follow-| ing named varieties from those given Prof. Waugh: Belle de Nancy (one the best, he says); Dr. Bretschneider, ! Ellen Wilimott, - Frau Bertha Dam- | mann, Ludwig Spaeth, Mme. Lemoine, President Grevy, and Vestale. Wickersham Talk Held Due To New Interest in Dry Law| Prohibition is declared to have be- come the chief topic of interest through- out the United States, and this fact is believed to have inspired the address of George W. Wickersham before the American Soclety of Newspaper Editors. The speaker’s position as chairman of the President’s Law Enforcement Com- mission draws attention to his words in- dlufln{ rofllblllty of modification in the interest of mnlmum respect {or law and the success of the temperance movement. His implied crmctlm of the nen apers is assailed as unfounded. ln‘ up the remarks on modifica- ‘hicago Daily News states uuv. he “made a parenthetical admis- sion that was bound to start another lume ccm.rovemy" ‘That paper con- : “Mr. Wickersham deems it’im- mper and inexpedient, because of his official position, to say exactly what he thinks of modification. In the circum- stances he does well, of course, in re- fraining_from ventilating his personal views. 3\“ it was not consistent on his part to make an admission that was certain to be misconstrued and resented, on one side, and welcomed and misin- terpreted, on the other.” The Daily News emphasizes the scientific task of Mr., Wukersmm'l commission and its ence of all citizens o n nce, Whether dry, wet or neutral.” ® ¥ More favorable to the ohairman is the comment of the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, which feels that ‘“he ap- roaches the whole problem, not with le mind of the dry propagandist, who shuts his eyes to unpleasant facts or unwise policies, but 'Iltah the larger view of the disinterested, public-spirited man who can see all sides of the ques- tlon. All the more then,” continues the Bulletin, ‘uught the great mass of citi- zens of rate views, committed to partisanship on neither side of the question, seriously consider their duty in the light of the warning so forcefully uttered by the former Attorney General s to the menace of fundamental injury to- American institutions in the "as- sumption that an; is at liberty to nnut apy laws he dislikes. The future holdl many possibilities as to changes in public sentiment and in public policies on liquor control, and any citizen has the right to work for such modifications of Constitution and laws as he desires. But the presem. holds one unescapable for all, to obey the law of !.hz land discourage the spirit of anarchic chousi ;‘l’lg picking which statutes one shal lt 1s s Pol:f:utcd the New York Eve- ) Wickersham has lnin given us, with the gay detachment of a legal mind, in a moot court, a lec- ture on prohibition.” The Post quotes his statement as lo moflme-dnn "l express no opl.nk) int. Opin lons differ. That lfl a (lir fleld for dll- cussion.” The Post holds that “the final admission is a vast forward, and that “Mr. Wickersham is evidently following the Digest poll.” ok ok * “On which side?” asks the Memphis Commercial Appeal, demanding an ex- pression_of opinion from Mr. Wicker- sham. Further eansldznn. the matter, the Memphis paper says: “One cannot escape tne suspicion that an element of political y Has entered into the t.mnklng ot Mr. Wickersham and the wm Both wets and drys -u.-mm the recommendations for the strengthening of the enforcement ma- chl.nery and the assurances that things going_well with prohibition. The mwncmmuunmuuum ernors' conference and the broad int in the recent lddreu to the editors that modification is . ei:m‘;.uln nimmmh- sion presumably is not in pol The mflnfi are free to express disguised op! ‘With severe crmmm of some promi- nent pemnl ‘who favor breaking ol the dry law, the Arkansas Gazette “Mr. chhn.h-m was mh‘ whm inst such_ utterances as ehy and e-lua _on the American press to bring thelr | ful harmfulness to the American people.” The Gazette takes exception to his ad- vice to the press to exercise its power “in behalf, not of unrestricted license, but of observance of the iaw,” and makes the statement: “It is true that & considerable portion of the daily press of the country is not dry. This is par- tieularly true of the press of the larger cities. But there is a vast difference between lack of l';:!pl'.hy with and argument against hibition laws and such doctrines as t which have been prea B ‘With similar protest, the Fort Worth Record-Telegram contends that “the facts are that the American wewmpen have done more for tem and the consequent elevated standards of gen- eral morality and llvlnz ethics than any other force in exis! That ptper‘ argues further: "u rohibition is to become effective it l not arrive by any route than m own merits. News- papers are mirrors of the daily human events. All the editorialization possible cannot equal the stark illustration of the lessons taught by the ‘crime news’ col- umns. The grelult harm possible for the newspaj to perpetrate on the American pulmc would be the repression and subversion of the true news facts resulting from the actions of prohibmnn enforcement and the reactions of American The Long Beach | maintains um “the press of the Nation holds a tremendous responsibility, and in the main it is true to its trust, yet are sensational exceptions whlch well may cause alarm.” Insisting th “most of the newspapers of the wunm lent aid in advocating enrorcemant when the Constitution was cl the Green Bay Press-Gazette chnrlu' “The Government has led the proces- sion in compromising prohihmnn and %’ lacing enlorcemm repute. hen it will not do lh dluy, how can it consistently a; to the people to do theirs?” uu at paper. “The Wickersham statement may be a trial balloon,” suggests the Providence Journal, with the eonclusion that if so, “it s of greatest -unmunce, m that it is really the first break in the - mous chorus of prominent gdmlnm tion officials that there would be no change in the law.” The Flint Journal | links it with the thought that “Ameri- can citizens are trying dupenuly to view the subject in the eold, clear light of orpen day for the first time Arms and Wealth Link Is Outlined From the Chattanoosa News. “It is deplorable,” Chancellor Philip Snowden told the British House of Com- the mons Monday, “that ws and other ers should spend so large a part of cur resources on new armaments and prepa- rations for another war.” Great Britain has been -ble to Mllce its budget estimates for the army an navy only slightly, and Snowden wld the House of mons that the country | 8dm! must raise £784,145,000 (almost $4,000,- 000,000) for next year’s expenses. America can continue to spend money on the Army and Navy without actually bflnl!n‘lthe country toward bankruptcy, although the moral effect is pernicious. n.lmd however. must find a means of cutting down expenses. New income taxes are to be imposed in Great Britain. The new schedule wu.l require a married Englishman who $5,000 a year to pay approxi- mntely $527 to the government. An American with the same earning ca- pacity pays only $5.62. We admire the spirit of the vernment s} as I hold this postf pny its W:L‘Iry honest methods.” situation should be vo concern to the world. In a ordered scheme of things nations would do everything possible to help a brother nation. Those European stat a!- Dt tightenig the sevews on the Aations screws on the na whlch cannot to continue waste- expenditures Iul SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 1930. 15 | capacity that relates to troit public schools and one of schools is named for her. She was at different times a ele- mentary school, the continuation school, of education; she vu an_elementary echool principal, a supervisor of the girls” eonl uation uhool nt classes for superior children, of the parent-teach- er nizations of the clty lnd of all the girls and women's activities of the &l::llc schools. She was known by all teachers, rrenu and school chil- dren of Detroit. Her reputation as a constructive educator had 80 established that at the flme of her death she was being asked to speak before national eduuwmu and social work organizations and universities. In an ation of Elizabeth Cleve land,” Dr. Helen T. Woolley, at the end of this volume, a told which fllustrates the fame of Cleveland among school children. colored woman who cleaned Miss Cl land's spartment had a 10-year-old little girl in the public schools. One day the child said to her mother: “Mother, don't you never dare neglect Miss Cleveland’s room. Do you know who Miss Cleveland is? She's the mis- tress of the board of education.” chapters of Miss Clevelmd! book are ‘Health, Command of Tools and PFundamental’ Processes, Worthy Home Membership, Vocation, Recrea- tion, Clflunflh’p, Chlnmr At _the end ot eneh chapter are a catechism and & list of sugges - ve p.mu and sted clation lt(lvl(lel" Some of the tions in the catechisms are searci and might prove emblrruslng to care- less parents. “Are the adults in the keeping u| child psychology, so that I can ap- preciate more and more intelligently the working of the child mind?” my children enjoy their home?” they show affection for the members of the family and find pleasure in thelr company?” “Do they feel that the house is theirs?” “Are both boys and girls learning to mend, to dishes, to cook, to keep the house neat?” “Am 1 following the school lessons in home economics?” “Am I noting carefully the kinds of u:'.lvm- each of my children engages in when he is fres “Have I marked preferences or preju- dices regarding my children’s careers? Am I in danger of hampering their free choll:es?" “Are they learning to for Q.helr own m!x "Are the girls bef traine homemlunc and a deflnm my_children &leny ‘g y?" “Do they I to read? Are they learning to egjoy good books? “Am I providing enough?” *. pervade the family :unosp they learning to look out for fl’l! rights | of younfir children and protect them from or bullled?” “Do they ‘play hl.r'?" cussions of current events?” “Is my training making ‘good sports,’ who do not cry over trifles or give up easily?” “Do they regard cheerfulness as a duty?” , “Am I mrdlnc mlmt any | tendency on their part te l.‘uh or morbidly lnlmpcwver' liked by their mates' S Among the “si d Parent-Teacher Association activities” are the following: “Experiments in scl{:uool )unchu, milk for | underpourish dren, studies of problem children. " achool expibits of sewing aress o <hli : Taaklni, cooking. sbe.or Sonmpaianin ing cltx}ovie crmorsmp and spection lectures by experts on civic problems,” “indorsement of legislation providing better educational conditions,” L‘-nl:ledm:knpmcuu vn‘l;:!u by broad- n, social workers and court officials;” “round-table discussio; on handling of lies, sbesnn‘, crueltl? tantrums and otlwr num children. For those wl to eat Frepch cooklnl .mfon suee ’s “Where Paris Dines” is a valuable teeomn-m- ment, es chuy as it contains a gour: met vocabulary which may be inspected before entering a restaurant or while waiting for a waiter to take the order. ‘Thus, one may avoid ordering rare duck when he desires lobster, or calves’ brains when he is or the trail of a souffle. The book is a manual of Paris restaurants, with much helpful dmnp- tion. The restaurants are classified in four groups—those of the first clul than which nothing can be bette: which are merely “distinguished, restaurants of the middle class” and “lesser muuunu of the middle class.” needs to say mc in all of these places a well nuea purse is necessary. In some fng i 00 gs I these sprime s as supreme six, e " In fact, Mr. Street feels rather guilty about writing this book and tel of the good eating he has found in out-of-the- for fear tourists will flock in, ra and spoil the This is what happened to & small restaurant he dis- covered at the top of Montmartre and T e T other restaurants Mr. str:‘:r a = ellu and bnuenu—pm 8] in American food, m Jrooms wug.nllht * x x Into the heart of the Central American tropics, on an island in the Panama Canal Zone, Dr. Frank M. Chapman ha: retired to observe the wild life of the region. The cabin which he has built on thi »lflmd he calls “My Tropical Air Castle,” and in & book newly published under that title Dr. Chapman describes his adventures on the island. Dr. Chap- man has included in his book astound- ing photogray which were taken by Worked by traps sprang . the antmels e ani mselves. o clubs, * ok ok % ‘The of Alexander Pope is not usually considered to be of the msplred type, but Edith Sitwell, in her hluna 'Aleundu Pope " treats it with entl siasm. Pope's canumvotlrles. whn n-mrea hlm because they cou| pcnly beauu tthey lelred L , were not more reciati llln Sitwell. _She h‘w e poetic standards have changed for the since the time worse e of sze. and blames Matthew Arnold, with schol- n%: poetic criticism, for the change. “This lenznl blighting and withering of the poetic taste is the resul‘cl of the monuments as Matthew Arnold; is the result also of the substitution of scholar hool tor 1 rtist. teacher in an in a high school, in] the school Dol B et | Mrount _Osormo s often called | S to choose for himself?” | W "Do they hear dis- | bool convinced that | warring ‘Write your question, your your address clearly, and inclose 2 cents in coin or stamps for reply. Send to The Evening Star Information Bureau. tn-eeeslec. Haskin, director, Washing- on, D. C. . Is it considered {ll-bred to com- persist people who are talking are the ‘ones who are ill- The man- agers of many motion picture houses request the disturbers to be quiet or leave. Q. Which one of the Gilbert and Sul- livan operettas contains a song whose tune is the same as the well known “Hadl, the Gang’s All Here"?— 3 T, \ A. “The Pirates of Penzance.” The song is sung by the pirate chorus in the last act, and is called “Come, Friends, Who Plow the Sea.” It is based on an old English air. Q. Which of the Go Oolpell in the New Tuunéent are known as synoptic?— A A The synoptic Gospels are Mat- O,hew, Mark and Luke, and are so named on account of their many agreements in subject, order and language. These| ... three Gospels consist largely of facts and ehronola'g ‘The Gospel of John differs from mlnbeincglvenupw narrative and records the discourse of Christ. Q. What vitamin 15 found in yeast?-- " Yeast. is an ‘excellent source of vmi-nm B. Vitamin A also is contained in yeast. Q. Where exmm truck which. Wll ln erlc.n ‘Winter?—S. A. A. The Ameflcm Forestry Associa- tion says that it is now on a (M—mlle fo\n‘ which :&‘ tlge it !rom' ?fld.h'fia 7 way of Memphis uma mk. 8t. Louis, Chicago, after which it will be seen In the East. Equi with all the .g:.vm m’l great stress on prevention of forest Q tain What is the name of the moun- in Chile whlch resembles anuu Chile’s nulyun. Why are pheasants’ lewhedhl; mgnon n%. hens?— A Thflllflllzwfiufletthltphfl ants seem to lose their maternal stinet in uptmty. and asa cmlequence it is necuury resort to other means of hatching and retflnz Q. Is there a sale for coca-cola out- side o! the United States?—A. H. 8. A. Coca-Cola Com) that its pmdnct is umu in m; ume in 76 fonlm countries, the consumj Ufl‘l’u‘ is heavier than in ul-m. Q. How are m-numnu borrow books from | gress?—L. B. A. The nnenl ublic eumot draw ks i of Congress. 'rom ‘This prlvflele is limited to Congress- ymuu public_office and a cer- few ged in specul runrch work. There is, however, a system interlibrary loans, whereby in dlvlduals requiring a book that be ordi- older quarters of the the demolition of mmre- in many cases it is were built. In this the photo- ickaxes of the wreckem R‘l‘ which bears the date 1617 AD upon its corner stone, is still in ex. cellent preservation, and we 'omlu it the structure which replaces it will be as firm and strong 313 years from now! * Cologne Citizens Demnl Bicycle Paths. Gazette.—Col * % % of the opinion necessary. Asnhm,lm\l.luhmo! rsons who own bicycles cannot use Eem gh.her for pleasure or for the to their mphymnl provided this year and about meters next year. L Hates Are Ruining “Holy Land.” Falastin, Jaffa.—Our readers "tw - pe; u *3ooks into rel Ve and repen! the I\Ihn’e ll{d hupu. ‘The reflections past IN ver mmm but {or the inians %mmlmy flwy are, alas, very tragic! had, dufln( iy ure of man Beings af eir worst, pw‘l?h all thl hllnd hatred lét loose and with all the worst given full made to the Library of Con- the | beef, must have | M the past five months, & | gig] fq in nhr‘ylnhro ears, while Zi nu.rl.ly laeuM can omlnw it from t.hi arrangement.. wmi e llbnrhn of their own public library. Such books cannot be taken to the home of the borrower, but must be consulted in the public library. Q What was done with the dirt taken out when the Panama Canal was dug?—K. M. A. It was used to fill in swamps for the Gatun Dam; also for building a causeway at tre Pacific end. The dtn was carried to the places desired by 300 dump trains. Q. Is the earth getting closer to the sun as Summer comes on?—E. J. G. IheA' It is & fact that the sun is nearer the Northern Hemhphen ference between the ter temperatures at a not depend upon this seen from the fact that whfle it is Win- ter ‘n the Northern Hernllphue it is Summier in the Southern. differ- ence of temperatures is due to the dif- ferent angles at which the sun’s rays strike the earth’s surface at the place in Summer and in Winter. Q Why is there so much discussion nbuut the Baumes law?—R. B. A. The Baumes law was adopted by the State Legislature of New York through recommendation of the pro difference is made in regard to the grav- ity of the offense, Q. How fast does a child gain in vo- “A. ,_Bi-l:' complete e 0 survey. has been estimated that the m‘b’nhn ag]m- have been in school two years have rocabulary of about 1,600 words. Are there many Jews in big league ball?>—A. C. There are about 10 Jews among big layers, who number more thlnefle ’fle Jews m tound in almost all lines of often very proficient, (ew of them hnw got into miajor league base Q. What is the name of the presi- dent of China?—M. A. M. A. Gen. Chiang Kai-Shek is presi- dent and chairman of the State Council of China. He was formerly the south- der of Chinl and chief retired to Japan for & unu before be- usually [ COming a member of the new Central Political Council I of Fifteen and hll' eleefionuptuldem Q. What t is the Museum of anpm Arts which is to be erected in Philadel- on the parkway in Phila olpma. A. Atwater Kent is chairman graphic arts division ot n:e how modern methods of recordlnl and transmitting information have evolved. There will be displays of the various table, original press m"nl.lm;cflpu and books whlch he mimed Highlights on the Wide World Eieeryts From Newspapcri of -Other Lands tiomal), and. recontly in London 3, sides of English beef have been sold, and more than 2,000 sides of Scotch chilled whereas earlier, 2,000 sides lish beef and 800 sides of Scotch were sold, the balarice of sales being made of chilled imported from A\un“";l- and Argentina. * ok k% Nd Suited Long-Distance Flights. sydney Bulletin.—The homing b be l\uubleh!ur cq:t:i:ly over ces, not re- liablé over long distances. In the fim season just closed Sydney ¢lubs sent out crates of valuable birds over the Bydney-Bmken Hill une. but ex- t is not likely to be repeated. Out of about 1,000 birds released at idie, 72 miles one got back, and 500 or so rele Ivanhoe were all lost. m Automatic Copyright Is Asked for Writers in Vestal “automatic” copyright bill. Dramatists’ Guild rgg::uza the meas- ure, which provides a copyright on hll -nnuncflpt automatically shall e vested in-the author without lpplle-- tion. and that in the case of playwrights it shall cover separately use in maga- zine serials, on the stage, in the movies and the over 3 'me provision would insure the play- laur different N!Iluu:ln ’pann opposi sel lnr the Shuberts DNHM lhlt th wants so many goose '.hlt It is in dlnm l the goose. k companies wuer are a mrel n( revenue for New York lucers, -nd if the movie rights are from them, he said, they all will 0 broke. He estimated that 70 per cent a! the New York productions are finan- lallures. Then he listed 30 suc- cesses which netted the nuthon trom “Whoopee.” Incidentally, he let it be known that Cantor had drawn $750,000 ‘was e&?‘;‘ n': of several mum dollars' box-office ?"e‘- poua:!as are still being do not predict peace. be none who can 4 ith to peapl& Indeed, it is s easy to spul th to the crown, but it takes mm to speak the trm.h to the There are scores of instituf Palestine whose only purpoll here is to do some service To these we would industrial world. which 8l say. “po. 4 Didn’t Even Crackle. Prom the Duluth Herald. Ihm talks. But the way those old disappeared was pathetically ———————— And Mean It. Prom the South Bend Tribune. h:mm-n&h )nn'ooum -MMN by pact” in Prench.