Evening Star Newspaper, May 2, 1930, Page 31

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, P. €. FRIDAY, MAY 2. 1930. PEIPING T0 BECOME PEKING AS CAPITAL Northern Conquerors Will At- tempt to Restore Lost Glories. Br the Associated Press. PEIPING, China, May 2.—Peiping, 80 named by its Nanking conquerors, who divested it of its centurles-old | glory, once again will be called Peking this time by its new and Northern con- querors, who established themselves there recently without shedding a drop of blood. Dr. Tchou Gao Hsiang, commissioner of foreign affairs for Yen Hsi sometimes known as the “Model” gov- +| are arriving ernor of Shansi Province, announced | |the change today in Yen's behalf and | | said that Peking, Peiping or Peping, as | lt nuw is variously known, will resume tial of United Cl Chin: Yen has called a PenplPl Congress,” | which will meet here within the month | to establish a new government, which Yen will head and umch wm hnvr it was announced, Mar: Yu | Hsiang_as commander n! thc mmtnry Wang Chin Wei, leader of the left wing of the Kuomintang, or People’s party of the Nanking government, arrive | here from the north within a week to become head of the political party which will sponsor the new government. The new regime will have the name “National _Government of China,” which, oddly enough, is the name { usually applied to the government at Nanking which Chiang Kai Shek heads Tchou, in making his_announcement, made it plain that Yen considered | Chiang’s government entirely illegal. Delegates for Yen's congress already in Peiping or Peking. Tchou explained that probably only 14 including Mongolia and Tibet 2 Chinese provinces—would be represented. Soon after the congress, it was said, Yen will issue a manifesto to the world explaining the purpose of his move and asking recognition of for- eign powers. 'ENUMERATOR WORN BY 9 CALLS AND 10 RINGS FOR ONE HOUSE Stanton Park Experience Tells on Census Man, Who Says “Folks Are Queer.” Means Work for Clean-Up Specialist. A disconsolate, completely worn cen- | sus enumerator, who for two weeks has | drawn on his patience, diplomacy and | hous affability to the straining point, paused | he in a hallway in the Census Bureau and without any notice bared his soul. “Folks are queer people,” he said. ve got about 20 persons I could en- | ter for the world championship for perversity, indifference and plain and fancy spitefulness. I'm not sure that the championship couldn't be claimed by any native-born American who de- cides to be cute.” Ever since April 18 the enumerator had been working on one house in Stan- his reservoir of disgust, one got the im- sion that there were any number of | in Stanton Park and elsewhere like to padlock. son and phoned 10 times,” he said. “ left the proper papers. daughter said she had delivered ‘em to the head of the house and every time T've called the answer has been ‘too busy, come tomorrow. Low Average Intelligence. “You can't tell me,” the man sighed “The average intelligence is far below the average. Some people who are ton Park, and as he tore the covers off among the first to shout patriotism when “I've called there nine times in per- | Twice the | trouble starts act as if this census-tak- ing was a game of tag.” If the weary enumerator doesn't get his man in Stanton Park, T. J. Farrell will get him. Farrell has emerged from the 1930 census-taking in Washington as the champion clean-up man of the staff. Three days after one enumerator canvassed Anacostia and turned up only 11 names, Farrell cleaned up the ter | ritory in 35 working hours and averaged | |$10.30 a day, better than 280 names in each eight-hour working period. Assigned as a special clerk to J Sterling Moran, census supervisor for the District, Farrell, who lives with his family at 3520 Fourteenth street, has |taken over the job of cleaning up all | incomplete districts. Up to_yesterday he had only 29 incomplete districts out | of 404, and he and Mr. Moran estimated that the whole task of counting the population would be completed this wek and results announced soon thereafter. The tabulation has disclosed, among | other things, that families are smaller and that some sections of Washington are much more thickly populated than had been supposed. District’s Big Yield. One district to which an enumerator | was assigned on the basis of an estimat- d 1,800 population turned in more than 000 names, and a check of the places of residence in the area showed the size of individual famllies to average two persons. In a district between the Petworth and Brightwood sections, in Northwest mated at 2,000, One enumerator has accounted for 4,565 residents and the complete tabulation is expected to show more than 6,000. Detailed information on the total population will not be available until the complete reports have been checked | and tabulated, but Mr. Moran said that indications were the total would ap- proximate the 580,000 claimed in pre- census estimates. The distribution cen- | sus of the District is about three-quar- | ters complete and the manufacturing | census well in hand. The co-operation of newspapers was lauded by Mr. Moran as of inestimable |aid in locating all residents. Sugges- tions of possible prosecution contained in letters sent out over the name of Leo A. Rover, United States attorney, {have had a salutary effect and t supervisor is receiving letters from res! dents who were overlooked by enumer- ators or were not at home. There have not threats of arrest, M arrests or | Germany’s foreign trade llsl Vear was the greatest since the World Wi Washington, the population was esti- | B_1S YALE PROFESSOR URGES |REECE SHOALS LEASE SOCIAL QUESTION STUDY{ PLAN GETS APPROVAI | Holds Panorama of Growth of House Military cOmmm.. 0.K.'s American Business Is Found in Records of La®. | By the Associated Press. CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., May 2— Dr. Walton Hale Hamilton of the Yale University Law School faculty Wednes- day night delivered to the University of Chattancoga’s Institute of Justice a | plea for a study of the questions of social importance as they find expres- sion in the law. “My plea is not for a study of law | as ngainst a study of society.” he said. Law is not and never has been & thing part. It is and must remain the first of humanities. “In the records of the law the whole | panorama of the growth of American | business 1s to be found. “The development of the corporation, | the rise of public utilities, the creation | |of regulstion for railwaye, the emef- |gence of a scheme of control for b | “business are to be found ther Proposal for Operation by Private Corporations. | By the Associated Press The House military committee yester- day approved the Reece plan to provide for the leasing of Muscle Shoals to private corporations and made plans {o_seek early House action. The committee practically has com- pleted the draft of a report to the House urging adoption of the Reece plan, It is to be submitted in a few days and special legislative preference will be requested. Representative Reece, Republican. of Tennessee, said the measure undoubt- edly wouid meet executive Approval. since it was along the lines suggested by President Hoover in his annual mes- sage to Congress. 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