Evening Star Newspaper, April 30, 1930, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR With Sundsy Morning Fdition. WASHINGTON, D. C. ‘WEDNESDAY.....April 30, 1830 THEODORE W. NOYES. ...Editor vening Star Newspaper Compa: ke Ry gl 2 te by Carrier Wflhlll !lll City. ter month 85¢ per month rer copy liection mad of each mont] Qiders max be sent in by mail or telephone Ationa) 8000, Bate by Mail—_Payable in Advance. ryland and Virginia. E.IV :nfl' !“ndl’ l Yl' only 1 "n lt .00: All on-r Shhl and Canada. ¥r., $12.00: 1 mo.. $1.00 J only 197, "$8.00: 1 mo.. n ay only yr. $5.00: 1 mo. lflnber of the .issociated Press. e Associated Press is exclusively gntitled e ‘e ToF repunfication of ail Be atches credtied To it or not otherwise ered- this paper sud n. 'lll."lhld th:oo{nmlh‘ll ." " 4 S0 oectal ‘dispatchen herein are’ wiso serarved Welcome, and Well Done. Not quite so high-hearted as when he quit the Capital scene three months 8go, Secretary Stimson is back at his desk in Washington today after the strenuous and trying experience of the London Naval Conference. Mr. Adams, the Secretary of the Navy; Senator Robinson of Arkansas and Ambassador Morrow reached New York with him yesterday. Senator Reed of Pennsyl- vania tarries in Europe for a vacation, and Ambassadors Dawes and Gibson are sticking to their diplomatic knitting, re- spectively, at London and Brussels. ‘The American delegation’s work is done. The rest is on the knees of the senatorial gods. Presently there will be deposited in that somewhat incalcula- ble lap the treaty which Mr. Stimson and his colleagues have brought home with them. It bears their signatures and carries their approval. But under the justly celebrated system of constitu- tional checks and balances, which the high school orators of the land are just now so eloquently acclaiming, the Sen- ate has the last word. Happily, the early rancors which the London pact aroused in this country have softened. The prospects for rela- tively rapid ratification have corre- spondingly improved. Such opposition as was at first manifested sprang mainly from disappointment over the treaty's acknowledged deficiencies. Americans had hoped, above all, for a five-power agreement. France and Italy’s absten- tion made necessary a three-power ac- eord, or none at all. The Senate committees on foreign relatjons and naval affairs propose to hold more or less exhaustive hearings on the London treaty. These are ‘wholly unobjectionable. They are de- signed to throw light on phases of the pact’s negotiations, which, in the con- fusing mass of information reaching this country while they were in progress, ‘were necessarily obscure. When the whys and wherefores of Secretary Stimson’s diplomacy at the conference are revealed it may be fore- shadowed with reasonable assurance that, while the American delegates were destined to become disillusioned idealists, they achieved the maximum attainable. Angels, it has been truly sald, could do no more. Our spokesmen at the conference, in other words, did the best that circum- stances allowed. They are entitled to & grateful welcome home and to their countrymen’s appreciation of work well done. They have advanced us another milepost down the long, long traill to peace. Scoffers to the contrary not- withstanding, that is a genuine, a gon- erete and an indubitably worthwhile achievement. ————————— It would not be unreasonable for Mr. Grundy to wonder why Pennsylvania should deprive the Nation of a fine, ex- perienced cabinet official in order to send Mr. Davis to learn the ways of the Senate. —————— Although the figure of greatest sig- nificance in the Senate discussion, cir- cumstances prevent Judge J. J. Parker from making any effort to take the spotlight away from Mr. Borah. ——— e —————— Mr. Morrow in Demand. ‘With Ambassador Dwight W. Mor- Tow it is just one thing after another. Having returned yesterday from Lon- . don, where he played an important role at the Naval Limitation Conference as one of the principal delegates repre- senting the United States, he is sched- uled now to wind up his duties as the dipl:matic representative of the United States in Mexico, be appointed a Sen- ator from the State of New Jersey and then leap into a campaign for the Re- publican senatorial nomination, which culminates June 17 with the primary election. Mr. Morrow has too often demon- strated his ability in the services of his country to need any introduction to the people either of his State or of the rest of the country. There can be no question that New Jersey will have an outstanding representative in the Senate should he be successful at the polls. Heretofore, however, Mr. Mor- row has not been compelled to engage in a political campaign. Politics is, after all, a vastly different affair from the conduct of a business, however great. Some men have a flair for poli- tics and some have not. It may be that Mr. Morrow will have a rough path ahead of him. On the other hand, the Ambassador to Mexico is no novice in dealing with public matters, although they have had to do rather with the foreign relations of the United States than with domes- tic policies. Up in New Jersey the voters are waiting to see what, for example, Mr. Morrow is going to say about the eighteenth amendment and the Volstead act. His chief opponent for the Republican senatorial nomina- tion, former Senator Joseph Freling- huysen, has recently turned from the dry side of the question to the wet. supporters there and a decision in necessarily ticklish for political office. it time Mr. Morrow own counsel in regard to {ssue, notwithstanding of his friends }mmmmmznm-m will straddle the issue. The straddlers on prohibition have had little success at the polls in recent years. The Democratic nominee for Senator, it has been confidently predicted, will be “wet.” The last Democratic Senator elected from New Jersey was the wettest of the wet, Edward I. Edwards, and the Democrats are pinning their hopes to the wet cause this year as well as to the fact that there has been unemploy- ment on a considerable scale. ‘The Republican party admittedly took the dry side of the prohibition issue in the national campaign of 1928. The Republican administration is seeking to enforce the dry laws and to strengthen the enforcement laws and agencies. When Republican candidates for the Senate announce themselves “wet” it creates a mixed situation. Prohibition has cut like a knife across both the major political parties, however, and until one or the other nails the wet standard nationally to its flagstaff, the situation is likely to continue mixed. ‘Water-Plant Financing. Elimination of the House water rate increases by the Senate’s subcommittee on District appropriations should be upheld by the Senate and sent to con- ference in an effort to arrive at a more equitable solution of the problem of water-plant financing than that which lies merely in boosting the cost of water and of main assessments to local con- sumers. As Senator QGlass suggested during the hearings on the appropria- tions bill, “water ought to be the freest thing in the world except air,” and the efforts of those with exclusive power of legislation over the District should be directed to Jowering the cost of water rather than increasing it. Senator Howell's interest in the water rate question here, derived from his own experience as a former water com- missioner of Omaha, is valuable, but his suggested hydrant or fire protection tax as an alternative to raising rates for water consumption should not be accepted. Members of the subcommit- tee pointed out that there are many factors to be considered before attempt- ing to apply such a principle in the District. One of the most important of these is that it would merely estab- lish another special tax as an additional burden on real estate owners, in which the Government, one of the chief prop- erty owners in the District, would not directly participate. The expenses of water-plant exten- sion should be met by the general fund of the District as a capital expenditure directly benefiting property. Such ex- penses should not be met by revenues from the increased cost of water. The Federal Government now receives, free of charge, water that costs $276,000 a year. The PFederal Government, according to Senator Howell's computation, has in- vested about $11,000,000 in the water plant, and Senator Howell contends that this $276,000 worth of water used by the Government represents less than half of what might be construed as a fair return at 4 per cent upon this in- vestment. In this connection, however, it is also to be remembered that the District government, the Federal agency for governing the municipality, uses water free that costs the District con- sumers $738,000 a year, and the com- bined return to the Federal Government and its agent, the District government, computed on & valuation of $24,000,000 for the water plant, is in excess of 4 per cent. Extensions to the water plant, which must be financed, are brought about by growth of the Federal Capital, and the Federal Government is committed by law to the policy of bearing a fair pro- portion of the expenses of capital im- provements that accompany this growth. In the case of the water plant, the Fed- eral Government now escapes & propor- tionate contribution, for water plant improvement and maintenance are paid for by local consumers and real estate owne The costs of extensions and lmpmvmu should ycome from the District general fund, to which the Fed- eral Government contributes, and not from water revenues, to which the Fed- eral Government has ceased to con- tribute. ——rw————— Little fear is entertained of demon- strations on May day. Thanks to the wisdom with which the American politi- cal system is organized, there is al- ways an election near enough ahead to take care of controversial agitations. —_———————— Missour! used to have a song of pro- test against “kickin’ my houn’ dog around.” North Carolina is concerned with the attentions paid to the “yellow dog.” e — It is expected that the International Bank will do a great public service in taking the matter of reparations away from the debaters and turning it over to the bookkeepers. ————— Eight Straight. Shades of 1924! Eight straight and ten wins out of the twelve games played in the infant 1930 season! That is the record of this year's Washington base ball team, and optimism for the outcome of the American League race rides high in local breasts. So high, in fact, that more than two hundred ap- plications have already been made for world series tickets, with Washington participating, of course, next Fall. Cast for the seventh place in league standings by the majority of so-called base ball experts, the Nationals are confounding the prognosticators and are sitting on top of the base ball world. There is no reason to decry local enthusiasm over the performance of the team. While it cannot be expected that such a pace can be maintained, there has been nothing fluky about its string of victories. The team has played “heads-up” base ball, presented a strong defense and a timely batting punch that have brought it in a winner ‘The spirit has been particularly good, save for onc instance, and the harmony which makes nine individuals play as one apparently is an integral factor of the present aggregption. Washington may finish seventh this year as has been predicted. On the contrary, it is just as likely to conclude the season in the first division, and its chances for the pennant, while remote, are not to be’ altogether discounted. During the last month or so of the 1929 campaign Washington, with practically the same team that it has on the field today, played as good as or better base ball than any other in the league. This year it apparently has picked vp where it left off and, with good pitching, a BRS a ae ee RE EVN EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNE THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. mflmcalmuuddmclyhmn should go far. A slump in the fast pace that it has set 50 far must be expected. It is then that fans must be as vociferous in their support as they are at the present time. Even in the two weeks of this season the Nationals have proved themselves a fighting outfit. This spirit was evi- denced yesterday when they scored sev- en runs in one inning to tie up the score after the game appeared hope- lessly lost. It is up to the fans to give them encouragement for ‘better or worse” and if this is done the result mlybeummmn.ulthmfim “The Bnuty of Today.” It has been often sald that the Japanese are an imitative people, $hat they adopt the manners and uses #nd customs of the western world avidiy. It would be well if the American people were to adopt some of the Japanese customs and ideas, especially the idea of respect for nature and love of the beauties of nature. Japanese do not break flowering branches from trees or otherwise mutilate natural growths. Americans are prone to commit such depredations. Just now the dogwood is blossom- ing and the Judas tree i§ aflame and fruit trees are making the landscape lovely with their -blooms. And the vandals are ripping off boughs of blos- | the soms with no regard for property rights and no respect for the higher law of natural beauty in its own place. In Japan the children do not have to be trained to respect the trees and shrubs. They are born with the love of the natural growth that manifests itself by keeping it in its rightful situ- ation. When the cherry trees are in bloom the whole nation makes festival. Pllgrimages are conducted to places celebrated for numbers of trees or for the delicacy of coloring. The older the trees the more they are admired and revered. To break a flowering branch from one of them is akin to sacrilege. It is unthinkable. What a differenice, in America! The roadsides are strewn with broken boughs plucked from flowering trees and shrubs by motorists and other wayfarers, and, when wilted, thrown away. Houses are stuffed with the drooping branches that have survived the homeward jour- neys of vandals, to be found the day following in trash cans or, with less regard for cleanliness, in the streets. There is some vandalism in Japan, committed by strangers and by a few of the ultra-westernized Japanese. As warning safeguards against these thoughtless ones metal disks are hung from the trees in the national forests and other groves, along the roadsides, bearing these words: “Protect the trees! ‘The beauty of today is due to the love of the trees last year.” ‘Would that all Americans could grasp that truth, that today's beauty results from last year's care and thoughtful- ness and consideration for the growths of nature! Would that they all were able to understand that the beauty of the blossoms exists only where it grows and not in the place to which it is taken with ruthless hand for a few hours of withering ugliness! —_————— — Cedar trees are now accused of de- veloping a blight that attacks apple trees, Even the vegetable kingdom is experiencing a condition of dangerous intolerances. P Even when convicts find peace re- stored in the Ohio Penitentiary, all hope of its ever seeming homelike will have been entirely dispelled. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. The ln.ll.nz- Life. A poet by his due bills scared To a musician once declared: “As my affairs I pause to scan, I claim to be a business man. And so will you, If you speak true. “I figure on my rent, with dread, And other forms of overhead; Although that overhead may show An attic roof, by far too low; And more expense ‘That seems immense. “And, Friend Musician, when you quote My rhymed indorsement of your note— Although, like me, you never tell Of millions managed ill or well, You can’t digress From business.” Selecting a New Issue. “I have decided,” remarked Senator | his Sorghum, “that I will have to look for a nev issue on which to go before the people.” “Have you selected one?"” “Yes. I shall make a stand for less but better weather.” “You can't possibly control the weather. “That's nothing. Many statesmen put in their lives arguing about things they can’t possibly control.” Jud Tunkins says he’s astonished by the ease with which a hen can manage a big family of chicks. But then chicks don’t know anything about automobiles and night clubs. Pursuit of Place. If for the place of precedence Our fashion leaders still compete, Why can’t we show plain business sense And sell it like a ringside seat? Insuring Peace. “Are there any bad men left in Crim- son Gulch?” “No,” answered Cactus Joe. “They scared the populace into electing them all to office. Now they run the town thcmsclvrs and have no excuse what- : for getting peevish.” “A vain man,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “is not easily flattered None can invent compliments that will rival his own self-praise.” Easy Argument. When anybody tries a trick That contradicts me flat, I say he is a “Bolshevik,” And let it go at that. “De gemman wif de big talk,” said Uncle Eben, “is sure to git me so en- thused 'bout work dat I has to sympa- thise when I sees him in a rockin’ chair wif a pllmlnl lln!’ Woman Re-eleclerl at 94. Prom the Pittsburgh Post-Gaszette. ‘The Wisconsin woman of 94 who has been re-elected as chairman of the health association of her home town seems to have natural aptitude for the ) 1 I There is one thlfl&‘m life emlmnfly worth while, and respond kindly to kindness. Just as men often fail to love those women who palpably love them, so all of us at times are unable to respond to kindness in kind. There we make a mistake, however. Here is the one simple, easy way in which mankind might live up to the en Rule without bother, worry or much thought. It is our one chance to be better than we are—a chance which we too often throw away for some pertectly silly Teason Or no reason a Pride, prejudice, :nlcuxy'theu and a dozen other emotions stand in the way of us being at our best. We become less than we ought to be because we are less than we are in all reality. EE It is impossible to believe that the men and women of this present civili- zation are as indifferent, hard-hearted and thoughtless of others as they some- times appear to be. There must be a mistake somewhere, and probably the fault may be divided between the eye that sees and the eye which does not respond, the mind which criticizes and the brain which does not do what it knows it ought to do. Too much criticism teams up with sophistication to make a bad pair in race of life along a hard and rocky road which all must travel, and which would be made easier and more com- fortable for all if every one would re- spond kindly to kindness. If we would accept a simple kindness done in the spirit in which it should have been done, without being sus- picious of its motive, would not this very act make the kindness such in fact, at least in our own minds? Thus even crooked motives might become straight some place. * K % x ‘To respond kindly to kindness is so easy that often it is overlooked, just as one may look in vain for some mis- placed article which is right under the nose all the time. The pity is that so many thousands of persons do not find this easy and pleasant remedy for much of the heart- mhs which they now endure because they do not know the remedy. ‘This cure is the universal remedy for grouches, worry and “the blues,” all of which are induced in the majority of cases by fallures to accept kindness from others. On first thought, one might think that nothing could be more natural or normll than to accept a pleasant smile experience shows that many persons find this a terribly difficult feat. They ver that an answering smile is too much trouble. Or they wonder “what is up.” Or they are so busy thinking about themselves that they fail to perceive that some one else is thinking about them. Or if they do notice it '.hey wonder why he is think- iny ". never enters their head to match smile for smile, cheerful greeting for cheerful greetin ‘g good deed for good deed, although these things are at once e readiest coin of payment and the mont appreciated. *x % % ‘The wonderful pm about such pay- ments is that they can be made with- out _depleting the sto As a matter of fact, such withdrawals rather build Crowded galleries have listened all week to the Senate debate on the Parker nomination to the supreme Court, but if they expected be thrilled by humry-mlklng ornwry they were disappointed. Barring Borah's opening speech, and a brief but telling interlude by Senator Ashurst, Democrat, of "Arizona, anticipated fireworks were consplcuuux by their absence. Most of the talk, both in offense and defense, was desultory, dull and dreary. Nelther | thal of Judge Parker’s principal protagonists —Overman, Democrat, of North Caro- lina, and Fess, Republlcln, of Ohio— has the gift of eloquence. Even Sen- ator Borah's silver tongue did not wag with its accustomed fire until he quit discussing the l})urely legalistic aspects of Plrkerl “Yellow Dog” decision in the West Virginia miners” case and dealt with the broad moral issues involved. When Borah lets himself go on the eternal verities, especially i volve the constitutional rights of the Senate, the Idahoan has few peers and no suverlom Most observers felt that the Parker debate degenerated into the commonplace the moment Borah sat lown. i * ok ok ok nator Ashurst put his finger on a point in the Parker case ol;‘\e which more has been said in private on Cap- itol Hill than in public. The Arizona Democrat explained that, other disquali- fications apart, he poses the North Carolinian’s elevation to the Supreme Court bench because Ashurst considers Parker a mediocrity. The Senator read off the names of a group of assoclate j\utlce& of the Supreme Court, for whom has _had opportunity to ‘cast votes o( confirmation—Taft, Brandeis, Mc- Reynolds, Sutherland, Sanford, Butler and Stone among them. They enlisted support, Ashurst declared, becnuu each and all of them measured up the high standards of “capability, lntel- ligence, courage, character, experience, intellect and statesmanship” with which the American people believe the judges of their court of highest resort should be endowed. Parker, bluntly asserted Ashurst, lacks those virtues, The Sen- ltor described the North Carolinian a_“weakling” whom the Senate nhmud refuse to “swallow.” * ok kK How many votes for or against Par- ker were created by the conspicuous presence on_the Senate floor of Rep- rellenutlve Oscar De Priest of Illinois, Chicago colored Representative, during the early hours of the confirmation debate? The question was eagerly can- vassed in the Senate. Some thought his appearance, presumably due to the National Association for the Advance- ment of Colored People fight against Parker, would create sentiment in the Judzes favor among Southern Demo- cratic Senators. De Priest, whose snow-white hair atop his swarthy face gives him a not und'stinguished aspect. occupled a Senator's seat in the rear row on the Republican side, directly behind Mr. Borah and bstween Sena- tors Waterman of Colorado and Blajne of Wisconsin. * kK % North Carolina figured in another sensational Supreme Court confirma- tion contest in 1853, at the tail end of the Fllmore administration. The retiring President had appointed a sitting Tarheel United States Senator, George Badger, to a vacancy on the bench. As Badger was a Whig and the Franklin Pierce administration was about to take office, the Democrat- controlled Senate withheld confirma- tion of Badger in the knowledge that the incom‘'ng President would appoint a Democrat to Supreme Court. Such a nomination duly ensued and John A. Campbell of Alabama was named by President Plerce. He was promptly confirmed and served until he resigned owing to Alabama's secession from the Union on the eve of the Civil War. * ok ok w Alexander Legge, chairman of the Federal Farm Board, didn't mince words in his address before the United States Chamber of Commerce in Washington. The Nation's business leaders have seldom heard a ‘“guest !flelk!r" talk plainer turkey to them an Legge did, when he taunted them for pretending to know more nbcut farm problenu than the nine good m and true now grappling vm.h it 'l.:-n Unclo Sam’s name. Legge's f¢ the chamber is really a v!udflh between himself and Julius H. Barnes, chairman by paying another back in kind, but|P! it up than ofihml.u such is the mar- velous economy of the spirit. The next happy feature of all such responses is that they may be made instantly at the time and place where one is, and, above all, that they may be made by any one, no matter how much money he possesses or does not possess. or whether his skin be white, black or yellow. Thus in a true and wonderful sense all men of good will are brothers, and may so manifest themselves day by day without waiting for the supreme mo- ments of life, which come seldom enough to most and not at all to some. Yet the sad truth must be gotten back to at whatever risk that such re- sponses are so easily made that some scorn to make them, so susceptible of the sneer discourteous that many hesi- tate to make them, so misunderstood that some will not make them. * % ok “Brighten up the corner where you are” was a if somewhat hectic admonition. It asked for the pleasant response, and it plainly pointed out the one peculiar place of its performance. It asked for personal responsibility. One was not asked to “let George do it,” but to be this well known George himself, and to act accordingly, since action seems to be George's middle( m name, If one feels the need to respond kindly to kindness, instead of turning a deaf ear to it, he will be cheered to know that he does not have to go to Europe about it. He need not make himself exotic or garb himself in queer costumes as char- acters in operas are required to do. It is not necessary to climb mountains or g0 above them in speeding planes. All the candidate is required to do is keep his head level, his (eet on the ground, and hh henrt fll ‘The world 'fll be a bewer place to live in when right action is taken out of the books, the schools and other training places, and put squarely, calmly and simply into people's lives. We know that this has been the standard aim for centuries, but mankind has somehow bungled the thing, as it does 50 often the plainest things. Sometimes it seems as 11 the easier a thing is to do in actuality the more difficult mankind makes it {m' himself by hedging it around with rules of con- duct and the like. Perhaps this is not to be wondered at when one takes into consideration the fearfully complex na- ture of the human mind, that bit of supreme intelligence gav.hered together into a head. ‘The mind is a localized intelligence, laying on, with the ald of the nerves, the little intelligences, as some one has them, of the entire economy of cells. These cells are brothers to the far-flung celestial bodies which ex- tend into unthinkable space. Yet what man can measure is no less difficult to understand than what he cannot. And it all takes us back to & complexity from which anything may be expected and into which life often works itself. it is not to be wondered that fallible human beings often fail to respond kindly to kindli- ness, although it is their one perfect way of living up to the best in them. ‘The wonder may be that out of the sea as they have come, out of the queer beginnings, and the no less inexplicable endings to which they go, they do as they in- |, well as they do along a path so strevm with thorns and roses. s WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. of the chamber’s board. In his private capacity, Barnes happens to be the big- gest. gnnn commission man in the coun- try. His particular trade is hard hit by the Meml Farm Board's avowed pro- gram to take the grain-grower out of the commission men’s clutches. Chair- man Legge assumed officé in July, 1929, on the understanding that he'd have to serve only one year. But there's a tacit undersumdlng that he will not qulc at t time, but carry on for an indefi- nite period, until Farm Board poli- f’.u;edf-llvc become more solidly eltlh- * ok ok % - It was just like Speaker Longworth to rule that Senators have a right to razz the House of Representatives to their hearts’ content. He acted in connection with a gentle thrust by Senator George, Democrat, of Georgia that “the mem- bership of the House had broken -WIy rom its masters and expressed its re. sentment against repressive measures or House leaders.” Representative Luce, Republican, of Massachusetts, one of the scholars of the lower branch, wanted the House to get up on its hind legs and highly resolve to resent the remarks of the gentleman from Georgia. “Nick” stood by the letter of precedent in set- ting forth that the Vice President had already ruled that a Senator may speak his mind about the House. But the let- ter, in this case, happens to correspond with Speaker Longworth's spirit. The last word in good nature, good humor and good sportsmanship, he is the last man 1n public life to curb the pleasan- tries ever and anon hlndled across the floors of Congress. On contrary, “Nick” holds that they ldd inestimably to the gayety of the Nation. * K K % John Hays Hammond is back in to | Washington from ane of his periodical trots around the glol He started for South America last Flll passed several months there, and wound up in Portu- g‘l and Spain. The companion of his f century of travel and adventure, Mrs. Hammond, was with him. Mr. Hammond this time was in quest of material on a subject which has inter- ested him ever since Cecil Rhodes em- ployed the young American mining en- gineer in the Transvaal—viz,, the source of gold found in the tombs of the Pharaohs. Hammond became convinced many years ago that most of that treas- ure came from Rhodesia, South Africa, where he practiced his profession 40 years ago. * % *® Stephen T. Mather, late director of the United States National Park sys- tem, is shortly to be immortalized by New York State. Next week the Empire Commonwealth will dedicate a grove of 10,000 white pines to his memory. The site is on the Bolton road, on the west slfle of Lake George, near Tongue Moun- : (Copyright, 1930.) Foreign Criticism Seen Benefit to America From the Newark Evening News. Outspoken criticism of American for- elgn policy by Prench and British jour- nalistic representatives before the Amer- ican Soclety of Newspaper Editors in ‘Washington last week ought to do good despite the fact that there is some Il!l- tion of the good taste shown by tI visitors. They were speaking in Lhe presence of the President of the United States. It was asking a good deal to expect him to listen to their attacks upon one of his predecessors and upon administration. Whether what was sald was true and fair is not pertinent to the question of propriety and good manners. This phase of the incident is unfortunate. But what these men—Andre Geraud | W Steed—said (Pem.nnx) and Wickham rgly true. Because it is true we hear it; not from Americans— '.bey have said the same things—but spokesmen of other peo- ph‘ M. Geraud and Mr. present- ed uz to ourselves as others see us and is something we huw Not is lll.ned stuffin and refusing to llsun Thn h be\nl “isolationist” in thought, which is as futile as in deed. If it is unpleasant to hear what others think of our action in international matters, we should not be too thin-skinned to-fiear it. DAY APRIL 30, 1930. Spring Thoughts on Mercy to Animals To the Editor of The Star: day in May and Children’s day in -Yllnt. l(nn- while last week we paused to TVe Be Kind to Animals -nnlnr.ury md Humane Sunday, a week in which to turn our hts to the realization of all that the lower creation means to us. In what state would man's civiliza- tion be today without the patient toiling through the years of the so-called “beasts” of burden who have helped build his cities and plow the hard land which has produced his very food and clothing; the guardianship and friend- ship of the faithful dog; the check upon insect invasions by the feathered song- sters, and the aid of the friends among the insects, the busy bees, Who fertilize 50 many of our food plants; besides the companionship and love of many crea- tures we call just pets, and the help our souls derive from sympathetic observ- ance of the lives of wild things of forest ‘nx‘l?h! B h nally I do not consider ough persol the clothing and food products of the farmyard crenuru esseritial to man's progress, yet he has appropriated them for blnuelf and these s) less ones have humbly yielded (.flT their very bodles to those who s insist upon eating their flesh, I have not for 20 years, and never expect to again for both humane and heaith reasons, and ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC realize how much Read- free information service. greatest libraries, laboratories and ex- perimental stations are at their com- mand. Ask any question of fact, and it | will be answered free by mail direct Toviage. snd addvess The Evening S| ¥ an 3 m:‘nmntlon Bureau, Frederic J. Has- kin, director, Wuhln!wn D. C. Q. Is:there a “radio station in the new chlc-lo Civic Opera Building?— T. C W'ENR has just moved into this bufldlnfl ‘The station occuples part of the forty-first floor, all of the forty- second and almost all of the forty-third floor. It is one of the finest broadcast- ing stations in the world. Q. Is the donltte:’llc plnosn included in Lhe t.erm " X e of the term common usage includeu m domestic birds raised for either eggs or flesh. Consequently pig- eons would be so included. Q Is it Do‘l-!lblz to divide Palestine according to the faith of the popula- tion—Jewish, Moslem and Christian? others are feeling the same about the|B. S. matter. We are thinking more of our animal friends and helpers than in 1866, when Henry Bergh, amid taunts and sarcasm, formed the first society in this country for the prevention of crue!ty to animals, the Amencln S. P. A., New York, d I vmw &w 1?0 nnlmals and loving their fellow men. may their narrow iainds be reminded that the above-mentioned -brave man who formed the first animal protection soclety also a few years later founded the first child protection one, inspired by the case of an abused little girl brought to his animal society for pro- tection. The hearts of real humane people are big enough for both children and animals; they follow the example of the world’s Savior and of Abraham Lin- coln. During_the last few months, the Humane Bullenn. guide for teachers, has been provided fl'le'rubflc schools up through the sixth grade donor; the.graded school children have been addressed on kindness, and just be- fore the Easter vacation thousands of both graded and high-school puplls were wld of the kindness work. Street cars bore signs proclaiming it, and on Sunday in many church schools and young people’s societies remarks were made concerning Humane Sunday and the week. Yes, we are becoming, in some re- spects, kinder every year, yet the goal is still very far away. Before it can be reached such gross cruelties as child labor and the animal torture of the auel trap, vivisection, hunting, circuses, hts, rodeos, many 2zoos, and the bloody shambles must go. The natural spark of kindness in childish and youth- ful hearts must be fanned into a flame by humane education, until finally the long prophesied millennium will dawn and a little child, through the power of love, shall lead in peace all the crea- tures, no more fearful of their enemy, man, nor of each other, for “the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the Jord, as the waters cover the sea.” VIRGINIA W. SARGENT. D Why Not Parity In Army-Navy Pay? From the Christian Science Monitor. Aside from its great impetus to peace, President Hoover confidently estimates that the treaty of London will repre- sent a saving to the United States Government of at least $1,000,000,000 in six short years. To what more de- s>rving, more useful and more appro- priate purpose could a substantial part o( these savings be devoted then to providing adequate pay for the de- fense forces of the Nation? 1t is notorious that the cofpensation of the porsonnel of the United States Navy is woefully deflcient and totally disproportionate to the dignity and re- sponsibility of its service to the Nation. There has been no substantial increase in the pay of the officors of the mmili- tary establishments of the United States for 22 years, and during this period living costs have been pyramided more than 100 per cent. There was a re-adjustment pay act of 1932, but this measure simply juggled the sal- aries slightly by reducing the pay of the lower grades and by adding an almost imperceptible increase to the higher. Surly the Army and Navy of the United States should be able to retain the services of men of a consistently high degree of intelligence and ability, and thes: men deserve compensation compatible with their loyal service and iarge obligations. The international limitation and gradual reduction of military establishments do not mean that their personnel should go under- paid and underappr:ciated. ‘The merits of the case for prompt and substantial increases in the com- pensation of the Army, Navy and allied services are too patent to require de- tailed argument. Their salaries are not only inferfor to anything which com- parable service in the industrial and business world would yi:ld, but they have been disproportionately neglected with respect to other departments of Government service. Thus th: average increase for foreign service is 175 per cent; for civil service, 153 per cent; ublic schools in the District of Co= umbia, 145 per cont; judiclary, 62 per cent; Congress, 33 per cent; cab- inet, 25 per cent; while the average increase in the Army lnd Navy hl.l bern—note the figure well—just 3 pel cent. Is it not simple justice that the pay of the defense forces of the United States, practically unadjusted since 1908, should be made commensurate with the higher cost of living? And is it not sound policy and sound man- agement. that the officers of these forces be compensated in accordance with the responsibility of their positions? The justice and the wisdom of these pay increases, too long overlooked and too long delayed, do not rest upon and should not be contingent upon the vast savings which the naval limitation and reduction of th: treaty of London will bring to the United States, but is it not highly fitting that some of these welcome savings should be devoted to this end? While we are about to real- 12> naval parity in the international fleld, let us at the same time provide something like nnunelu parity be- tween the salaries of the Government servic:s. Tricky Borno Provides Deviation in Haiti | de From the Los Angeles Express. Dusky President Borno of Haiti put over what must have seemed to him a swift one when, as soon as President Hoover's commissioners had left the island, he dismissed the Haltian Council | of State and announced his own polit- ical program, which wasn't a bit like that lefc him by the Forbes Commis- sion. But it is an easy matter these days, with all our new contraptions for travel and communication, for. Wash- ington to keep an eye on Port au Prince. Borno h‘ln‘t kept in step with the march of pi He didn't ex- t to be cmzhr. 80 soon. But almost more the ink on the decree had dried his trick wu known and he heard from to the effect that his term was bout to expire and tha { would take his tial palace, by select of State, which forthwith must be re- convened. It sounds a bit high-1 hlnded but since we ass nsibility for by a_generous | —F. A._8uch a plan has been suggested. Mr. Ben Avi has proposed that 16 can- tons be tormed——a Jewish, 7 Mos- lem and 3 Christlan. The object is to place the inhabitants in congenial surroundings, each group free- dom to govern itself in accordance with hating | its own traditions. All would come un- der a central government, the manda- tory power for Palestine. Q. What is an "lmbtoty'pe"7—-w D A. It is a picture taken on a pl of prepared glass, in which the nmu are represented in silver and the shades are produced by a dark background visible through the unsilvered portions of the glass. The ambrotype was in- vented by~ James Ambrose Cutting, and used during the transition period be- tween daguerreotypes and photographs. Q. Is New Orleans on the eastern or western bank of the Mississippi River? " R. A. It is on the eastern bank of the Mississippi, a little more than 100 miles from its mouth. Q. Who negotiated for this country the treuty that ended the War of 18127 —D. A g Q Adarns, Henry Clay and Al- bert Gallatin were the American com- missioners who concluded the Treaty of Ghent in 1315‘ Q. Was the “Sistine_Madonna” ever hung in Rome?—J. A. P. A. It was painted for an order of monks whose convent was in the little town of Piacenza, Italy. From the altar of the church in this village the paint- ing was taken to Dresden, where it conm:uel to be on exhibition in the Royal GnueryA Q. was called “the wisest fool in Chrtmndnm"?—c M. Henry IV applied that characteri-| tended by Ch: zation to James V. Q. How small a a book has been pub- lished in flllfl country?—K. P. An edition of Lincoln's addresses, coumlnl 160 pages, and not so large postage stamp, is the smallest book p\lbllahed in America. Q. How long has accountancy been & profession?—H. P. A. Very little is known of the origin J. HASKIN. Venice in lnl. Professional account- ants ly in Milan at an early date, as the govemment estab- lished a scale of charges for them in 1742. The first Scotch professional ac- countant was George Watson, born in Edinburgh in 1845. In 1790 the British directory listed five. The first formal to | recognition given to accountants in the United States was in the laws of New York in April, 1890. g sHflw old is Dr. Frederick A. Cook? A. He was born in 1865, so is about 65 years old. During the time he was at Fort Leavenworth he was editor of the prison publication, the New Era. His courage and good cheer as expressed in editorials gave him a following both inside and outside the prison. Q. Who invented soda water?—K. R. A. The first use of fruit sirups with aerated water is credited to Eugene Roussel, the owner of a perfumery shop in Philadelphia, early in the nineteenth century. Q. At what age do the teeth of an infant begin to fm'm?—G E. A. When an infant is born the first teeth are practically completely formed, lying beneath the gums. In fact, the forming of the permanent teeth has begun. Q. Did Laurence sumnn really serve in the World War?—B. 8. A. A. Stallings was a captain in the M:'rlnu during the war, losing a leg in action. Q. What is the comparative produc- tion of the two la asbestos pro- ducing territories—t Domi.n(on of Canada and South Axrlu?—! C. A. In 1923 Canada produced 206,680 tons, while South Africa *.(including Rhodesia) produced 25,500 tons. Q. How many ;mxbhc schools and colleges are there ‘the District of Columbia?—M. 8. G A. There are 169 public school build- ings in the District of Columbia, be- sides 66 portable schools. Of the 169 schools 89 are elementary schools for white children, 42 elementary schools for colored, 5 for special white children and 1 for colored. There are 10 junior high schools: for white children and 6 for colored. for colored. There is 1 normal school for white and 1 for colored; 4 vocational schools for white and 2 for colored. There are 9 colleges and universities in ‘Washington for white students and 1 for colored. Q. How many Ccountries belong to the Pan-American Union?—P. N. A. This international organization is composed of the 21 republics of the v‘.:erteoré: Hemisphere. It was organized 18! Q. In what church was Ralph Waldo Emerson a pastor?—J. S. A. He was assistant and pastor in the Second Unitarian Church, in Bos- ton, 1820-32. He arrived at the con- viction that the Lm Bupper was not in- e a permanent sacrament, :nd mlred He never had charge of another parish, but he fieuhed as opportunity offered until Q. What does “Nyrba” mean?—L. A. A. It is a coined word, and is formed from the initials of the New York, Rio and Buenos Aires Line, an airplane transportation company. Where l.re the “waters of Minne- of accounting as & profession. The first association of which there is record is the Collegio dei Raxonali, founded at Q. tonka”?—J. O. A. Lake Mlnnewnh is about 10 miles west-southwest of Minneapolis, Minn.. Public Is Held The loss of more than 300 lives in the fire at the Ohio State Penitentiary in Columbus arouses much indignation over conditions that permitted such a tragedy to occur. Lack of proper ac- commodations is blamed, and a large part of the ss of the country ex- presses belief that similar conditions are to be found in many other States. Public apathy in the face of known con- ditions is charged, and it is urged that the disaster be accepted as a lesson for the future !hxougdhlmnut the United States. “Authority fi g discordant notes while a yrlmn burns is a Neroltke reck- lessness that fits info an entire scheme of irresponsibility,” declares the St. Paul Pioneer Press, with a reference to, “tragic absurdities,” as illustrated by the “point as to whether a night cnpntn could give an emergency order to a day guard,” which was “given right of way over action that would save men from a horrible death.” The Zanesville Sig- nal says “it is tragedy of the sort that sickens the heart, this wholesale mas- sacre of men who hadn’t a chance to fight for themselves.” The Birmingham News comments: “Escaped prisoners can be recaptured. But life cannot be restored after the tenement in which it lives is destroyed.” * ok ok K “None of the prisoners made a break for liberty,” according to the Akron Beacon-Journal. “Their only thought was of saving the lives of others. The stories that will be told of these en- deavors will pass into the literature of the Columbus tragedy as the one factor that softens its sordid background of avoidable distress and horror. The ‘Black Hole of Calcutta’ was an example of deliberate cruelty to prisoners that has won for its authors the execration of the ages. They could plead in abate- ment of criticism the fact that what they did was justified by the exigencies of war. What shall be said in defense of modern prison management which condemns thousands of men to remain helpless under a destruction not less certain than that which claimed Cal- cutta’s victims?" “All that a penitent people can do now,” advises the Dayton Daily News, “is diligently to see what gain, here in Ohio and elsewhere, can be refined out of this miserable loss. If the 300 pris- oners who are dead through our neglecl are the means of ending that an then perhaps we can say the{sdl not die fn vain.” The Sioux Falls Argus- Leader feels that “an improvement in pruon wutlces and structures is almost tain to t,” while the Columbia (B C.) State holds that “Ohio’s experi- ence ought to cause in every State a careful scrutiny of all structures in which persons are held in restraint.” * kX % “That conditions at the Ohio Peni unfluy have not been safe has been monstrated at a frightful cost,” re- marks the Columbus Ohio State Jour- nal, and the Lexington Leader avers: “Other States may at any time experi- ence what Ohlo has fust experienced. It is a warning which comes from Colum- bus. Conditions should be changed as soon as possible.” Less optimistic is the conclusion of the Little Rock Arkansas Democrat: “After the horror of it all has passed, prisoners will be crowded back into the penitentiary and the Na- tion will rock along until another riot and more deaths bring us a new shock; e of another world, and the street have little interest in them, save l fear of being locked up in one of tl crowded fire tra) “What the State needs and its citi- zens_will demand,” in Tespo! wrmllhbdnithmhhfld some control over them. This Is Odd. From the FPort Worth Record-Telestam. Some people are born odd, some ac- quire oddities and some are willing get a little ity any old way. of ditions throughout the country impress the Green Bay Press-Gazette as creat- ing “a strange dilemma,” in which “we seem doomed to be in hot water if we he innumerable | boile d?nwhtdflm Responmble For Prison Tragedy in Oluo torney General Mitchell says that ‘fur- ther stimulation of prosecution activi- ties will result in difficulties,’ because penal institutions of the country, par- ticularly Federal and State prisons, are crowded to the danj int. This might almost be int: as meaning that it would be well to ease up a little on law enforcement in general.” e “It appears,” thinks the San Antonio Express, “that nearly all the country is sitting on a volcano. Disorders at Jef- ferson City and Providence were rum- blings; fire, mutiny and bloody battle at Leavenworth, Auburn and - Canon City were ominous sputterings. The Columbus horror is just another warn- ing of what may result from a State government’s procrastination tnd neg- lect of repeated danger . Will it suffice to arouse the responsible lut.hol'l- ties and the people generally from their lethargy?” Fallure to respond to definite warn- ings of the peril that was involved In lack of proper provision for the care of criminals i8 charged by the Cleveland News, the Morgantown Dominion-News, the Schenectady Gazette and the Tex- arkana Gazette. The Ann Arbor Daily News maintains that “savages that deliberately burmed men at the stake in an uncivilized past could commit no greater moral wrong than a society in the civilized present that locks men in cages under circum- stances that will permit them to burn.” ‘That paper also says of the prison offi- cers: “The guards knew well the mean- ing of a mob of unrestrained convicts. So some hesitation was natural. !t was a dificult decision to make. wrong' decision was made. Oonvlm running wild within a prison wall could not be at their worst half as horrible as the burning to death of one human being, convict or otherwise. Those men had transgressed the laws and forfeited their liberty, but they had not for- feited their right to live. The SM in placing them under restraint was sponsible for the safeguarding of th-lr ll{eu so long as they behaved them- selves.” Prison Holocaust Held Disgrace to Country From the Loulsville Times. ‘The holocaust at the Ohio State Pen- itentiary, on the face of the evidence in the news dispatches, is one of, and by far the most dreadful of, a series of acts of desperation by convicts in vari- ous American prisons. Only last Satur- d.\Lozhm was rioting in the State Prison at Providence. R. I Each of these attempts—the one with horror unsurpassed, and, the temptation is to say, unsurpassable—has carried with it its own lesson of folly and futility. That attempts have succeeded one another, nevertheless, is stark evidence of a mood of almost incredible reck- lessness, limited perhaps to a small proportion of the population of each Prtaon affected, but capable, as the latest instance amply demonstrates, of producing far-reaching e« ences. Remedies have, of mm.efien sug- gested, and. at least in some of the States which have experienced prison gu:urb:nceu are being, carried mw ef- i N many respects the remedies proposed differ widely in mtlll! d!- pending upon theories of which range from the excessivel iled to the exe-nmn:el‘{l soft-boiled. ut upon one can harbor 5,000 men m‘m o government an civic conscience. Such treatment is so woefully unclvul.led that when it pro- vokes. or helps to Dmvoh. acts vio- lently contrary to all conceptions of clvm-uon astonishment is scarcely as Justifiable as grief. Leadership Promised U. S. From the Charlotte News. To do not prosecute lawbreakers, and in Just as hot water if we do.” That also contends: *“The problem of pro to ing 1 and satisfactory ad- s Wu«umum an. At o :nllml Andhu';l. of eolleges answers back , from cldsses of graduaf An"r u“:wemmmes P What America needs is m, statesman.