Evening Star Newspaper, May 11, 1930, Page 36

THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. { WASHINGTON, D. C. BUNDAY.... ..May 11, 1930 THEODORE W. NOYES. ...Editor Yhe Evening Star Newspaper Company usiness Ofice. f:' 0 fllc.: k e |th.|. II‘I:‘AII ce: Il‘lsl l'a Flll' Rate by Carrier Within the City. Shing, AR, sy Biarsee o ol n 1 M.lsl . 60¢ per month ‘ening and Sun j) ndays) . per month ‘The Sund: ic_per copy Collection made al o m‘fl" may be sent lonal 5000, Rate by Mail—-Payable in Advance. Maryland and_Virginia, 1 mo., 85¢ b §050; 1 man g8 All Other States and Canada. Eilx only .. l: ay enly Member of the Associated Press. o Associated Press Is exclusiyely entitied ihe use for republication of sil news die- tehes credited lo it or not ‘othervine oied: ere B0 e tod ol The Farmers’ Produce Market. ‘The $300,000 appropriation for & so- ealled farmers' produce market in Southwest Washington created more de- bate than any other single item when the District bill passed the House, Sen- ator Onpper will speak against the pro- visien tomorrow, when the Senate re- sumes eonsideration of the District bill. As this project has been controversial from the beginning, it will doubtless cause further prolonged discussion in the Senate. The House subcommittee which han- dled the District bill was overridden by the full eommittee and the item was in- cluded in the bill, The House approved 46 It also has been placed in the bil s reported from the Senate committee. But the objections raised ageinst it certainly raise serious doubts as to the edvisabllity of the appropriation. It has been denounced by its opponents ' in extraordinarily strong language. It has been called indeféicible, & real es- tate deal, & rallroad ytheme and & sop ' to the farmegs, many of whom will not use it. Mr. Simmons of Nebrasks, speaking against it in the House, sum- marized the debate pretty accurately when he declared that “We have talked about the farmers of the South and the farmers of the North, and sins have been committed in thelr name before this day, and we have talked about the railroads, but there is no one here who has mentioned any obligation to the taxpayers of the City of Washington te furnish this market.” ‘The Commissioners, reporting on the legisiation, recommended delay, There have been new and unexpected develop- ments since the Mgislation was enacted. Tha site of the proposed substitute for the old Center Market—the choice of Which will have important bearing on the Jocation of produce stalls—is still in the air. No one has come forward with any definite proof of the fact that when the market is located in Southwest ihe en n by mail or te to at Maryland will flock thither, or housewives of Washington will ‘The best argument n behalf of the legislation was Chairfian Wood of the House appropriations cémmittee, who said that Congress would be gullty of & breach of faith if, after authorizing the market, it turned about face and changed its mind. Money was invested on the strength of the decision of Congress two years ago to bulld the market, and Congress eannot now go back on its deoision, ‘That argument may hold water, pro- vided the Congress is willing to share in some equitable proportion the in- creased demand upon local revenues §ress of this, that and the other proposition that they find attractive. The District taxpayers can economize on and do without & number of the projects included in the District bill, provided Congress is willing for them to economize. ‘The importance of every item in the bill is relative. As long as the taxpayers cannot specify the economies, Congress should Tealize its obligation to participate equitably in the expenses. ‘The example set by President Hoover might easily suggest to Judge J. J. Parker that, with so much material for refiection available, the present is a #ood time to go fishing and think things over. D A flock of airplanes gave an impres- #ive demonstration of theoretical bomb- ing. In cases like this, theory is bet- ter than practice, ———————— Foot Ball Soldiers. ‘There are bound to be many head- shakings over the wisdom of the War Department in permitting “Red” Cagle, ‘West Point foot ball star, to quit the Army in order to take a high-salaried Job as a foot ball coach. The episode inevitably will raise the question of what the United States Military Academy is for. Is it maintained to breed soldiers or gridiron stars? 1Is the Cagle incident to become a precedent? If West Point develops other ball-carry- ing heroes in days to come, will they, graduation. But the ‘War Department, feeling it has no right to stand in the way of the young officer, will let him abrogate his agreement and accept the financial Inducements. According to & statement issued by himself and authorized by Maj. Gen. Willlam R. Smith, commandant of cadets at West Point, the two offers of which Cagle has decided to avall himself mean “con- siderably more than the pay of a major general, even if I were fortunate enough to attain that rank after thirty or thirty-five years of service.” Purely materialistic minds doubtless will justify the action of Cagle and his superiors. - In an age tending steadily away from the military arts, they will argue that he is taking time by the forelock and sensibly providing for his future. But as long as the United States Government at heavy cost and vast solicitude maintains the system of training young men for high command in the cause of National Defense, it is mtitled to expect that they will respect the conditions under which they ac- cept free education—education as fine as any in the world. “Red” Cagle is & gallant and skillful foot ball player. His country had rea- son to anticipate that he would prove no less outstanding in the military serv- ice. He has chosen to desert the field in which he undoubtedly would have shone, as he shone on the gridiron. That is not & very inspiring example to leave behind for those who will fol- low him on the palisades of the Hudson. e o Spring, Radio, Torment! Spring is come and with it has re- curred the nuisance of the radio loud speaker that blares forth through open windows and doors to reach the ears of those who are distraught by din. One wonders how the families who now share their radio vibrations with thelr nelghbors have withstood the eclamor and crash and roar of Winter if the radio has been kept going at the present rate through the months of closed por- tals. Have they really been living with all this clangor for the past five or six months, day and night? But that is, of course, their business and if they can stand it they are welcome to the experi- ence. The point of moment is that now they are thrusting their pleasures upon others, and they are not altogether un- mixed blessings, There s at present no law or enforce- ment of law to prevent this grievous nuisance. The people in the apart- ment next door or overhead can turn on their radio at the highest pitch and no hand is ralsed to stay them, though the sound billows into all other apartments, ranges far up the street into other bulldings, joins the shouts and rasps and squawks of other radios to form & tumult of sound. And no one can stem this horrid tide of cacophony. A protesting telephone call may be sent to the owner or operator of & widely broadcasting radio that dins the ears of scores or hundreds beyond its confin- ing walls, But the average result of such & ples for peace is an angry retort or perhaps another twist of the dial to make the sound even greater and more hideous, For the truth, sad to say, is that there are many, many people who are utterly lacking in consideration, in regard for the feelings of others, in thoughtfulness for even the physical sufferings of their nearby kind. Then there are children who love the blare of the radio at its loudest and over whom their parents have no control and who set the plaything going early and leave it running at highest pitch until bedtime. ‘The radio is & wonderful mechanism, capable of giving entertainment, in- struction and pleasure. But it should be restrained to the needs and modest tastes of its owners and not amplified to the point of outraging the sensibilities of those within the range of its high- est vibrations. Is soclety to be classified into two groups, those who enjoy their radio for themselves alone and those who want to thrust it upon everybody else regardless of sensibilities and suf- ferings? If 30, means must be found through the law to restrain the latter in the Interest of public sanity. —— e Statesmen of the very old school who knew the Potomac Flats before they were transformed into parks and gar- dens would be hard to convince that such mosquitoes as now manage to invade Washington, D. C., amount to anything whatever, ————— In bullfighting the United States has the better of the argument. An Am ican cowboy can qualify as a toreador, but no toreador has gver attempted to make & record as & cowboy. ————— e It has been the distinguished privi- lege of Judge J. J. Parker to give the United States Senate something even harder to think about than the tariff. ———t—. Play Royalties, Btatements made before the House committee on patents by a New York theatrical producer, in a hearing on the so-called automatic copyright bill, throw light upon the question of the emoluments of dramatic writers, at least to the extent of disclosing some of the successes in that line. This is nteresting in view of the general com- plaint that the American dramatic out put has of late been poor and un- profitable. It appears that the pro- ducers of plays are opposed to the en- actment of the measure, which would permit authors to dispose separately of like the redoubtable “Red,” be able to | book, play, motion picture and radio claim “unusual circumstances, & fat coaching offer, and secure release from the obligations they incurred when Uncle Sam undertook to give them an Army education? Cagle, who hails from Louisiana, will be graduated next month after the statutory four years of training at the Military Academy. Since 1926 he has been a national foot ball hero. Army's traditional foes, Navy and Notre Dame, more than once have experienced, to their undoing, the irresistible impact of , Cagle's line-plunging. More than once _ the Bailors and the “Irish” have bullt ‘ their annual defensive scheme against Army around Cagle—a tremendous tribute to his prowess. He played his last game for the Soldiers in 1929 in the capacity of captain, On the eve of quitling West Point, Cagle recelved from Mississippi Agri- cultural and Mechanical College & proposition to become its foot ball coach. A business opportunity appears to be connected with the proposal, too, Cagle signed the usual agreement, when en- tering the Academy, to serfe at least Wour yoars in the Regular Army after such %s | Tights. Under the present law an au- thor gets full rights to a play that does not run for twenty-eight successive per- formances. Over that number the pro- ducer has & half share in all rights in addition to those of stage production, Royalties that have been'paid in re- cent times to dramatic authors have ranged from $100,000 to $573,000, the former for “Beggar on Horseback,” and the latter for “The Desert Song,” one & dramatic offering and the other a musical presentation. “The Trial of Mary Dugan” earned its author $312,650 in stage royalties, “The Shang- hat Gesture” netted $128,000 to its cre- ator; “The Green Hat,” $236,000; “June Moon,” $262,000; “Broadway,” $300,000; “The Bat,” & like amount, and to date “Journey’s End” has in this country drawn $131,000 in royalties. ‘These are large figures and they are likely, when widely known, to stimulate playwriting in the hope of hitting & profitable success. But for every suc- cess there are dozens, scores, even hun- dreds of fallures, Every season in New York finds plays going on and off the stage in swift succession, with an aver- THE SUNDAY age of less than & fortnight of produe- tion for each. It is rather the excep- tional dramatic offering that makes the grade of twenty-eight successive per- formances, which is the present legal limit of the author's exclusive royalty rights. The nine plays enumerated in the statement made to the House commit- tee have thus far earned for their.au- thors $2,342,650. It s fairly safe to say that in the course of the runs ef these nine plays fully nine hundred plays have been presented on the New York boards that have altogether brought their authors not more than, if as much as, one-tenth of that amount. e Georgetown’s Gardens. Those fortunate individuals who take the “pilgrimage” next week to some of Georgetown's lovely gardens have in prospect not only a treat. for the eyes and the soul, but the satisfaction as well of lending their aid to & new plan, for Washington, to take form in an ex- periment in child welfare work and guidance. For Georgetown's “Garden week” is not held in the interest of bigger and better gardens, as laudable & motive s that may be, but for hap- pier and healthier children. The pro- ceeds of the pilgrimage—for each pil- grim will pay & mominal fee for the privilege of treading the sacred ground of some one's private garden—will go into & fund for the salary of & trained worker in child welfare. The organization sponsoring the ex- periment will take form shortly as the | Georgetown Child Welfare Conference. During the Summer it intends to begin work with pre-school children in families that need outside assistance. The children are to be gathered during the mornings and afternoons in one of the parish halls of Georgetown, and cared for during the day by & trained worker, There will be no overhead to carry, nor expensive equipment to pur- chase. From the lessons learned this Summer & program for next Winter will be formulated. ‘The work, which is to depend upon receipts from the garden pilgrimage, in no way duplicates or interferes with the work carried on by the Associated Charities, the Visiting Nurses or like welfare agencies deriving their support from the Community Chest. The plan is to co-operate with these organiza- tions, but to concentrate upon & fleld that is just beginning to receive the at- tention it deserves. Much is now done by the community for the child of school age, and especially for those over ten years old who are eligible for mem- bership in the Boy Scouts or Girl Scouts or other such organization. But the smaller youngsters are somewhat neg- lected and the care of those whose parents must leave them during the working day is a problem of no small proportions. Georgetown's experiment, undertaken with all the independence and spirit that has salways character- ized this indissoluble community, will be watched with interest by all of Washington and the opportunity to trespass behind the alluring walls of some of the old Georgetown homes is not to be overlooked. e ‘The fact that John Masefield, now England’s poet laureate, once performed humble service as & cleaner should not be too generally accepted as evidence that the scrub brush normally con- stitutes the scepter of genius. The case | of Masefield shows that great ability arises in spite of adverse beginnings and not because of them, o g No mother really needs to have a day set apart in reminder of her noble place in life. The chief happiness it affords is the opportunity which affec- tion finds for active expression of an abiding sentiment. r——————— It is Charles M. Schwab's bellef that the 1930 record will be one of notable prosperity. When Mr. Schwab makes & comment on financial affairs, it is invariably accepted as the opinion of an expert. e ‘The hard-working census taker is wondering what has become of the old days when a person in Government service was congratulated by friends on having an easy job. R SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Lonely Opinion. 1f folks with you do not agree, Endeavor still of cheer to be. Think of the lonely sage profound Who boldly said the world was round, In spite of the opiions that The world was obviously flat. Think of the flerce and ancient will That held that might had right to kill, And of the superstitions queer ‘That held mankind in childish fear. So maybe you're right-minded, too, ‘When folks do not agree with you, Outfitting a Campalign. “You have never tried to accumulate an extraordinary campaign fund.” “No,” answered Senator Sorghum. “If your campaign fund is too large some sarcastic citizen is sure to start the comment that it has more money than brains,” Jud Tunkins says reminding a friend that his trouble’s his own fault only makes the trouble more unpleasant. Study in Manufacture. Though manufacturers disclose Great works we marvel to recall, The mischief-maker always shows ‘The most production of them all. Perilous Treasure. “Mrs. Dustin Stax never wears all her diamonds when she goes on an ocean voyage.” “No,” answered Miss Cayenne, “If by any accident she fell overboard with all those jewels she knows she'd sink and be lost forever.” “Government,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “should be like the wise physician who in healing one malady is careful not to make way for another.” Self-deception. Perhaps you cynically sigh, “In vain to get the truth I try!” ‘Yet most of what is told to you Is what you like to listen to. “Two things,” said Incle Eben, “ain’® wuth complainin’ ‘what you kain' help sn' what you kin." . STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MAY 11, “LIFE’S BACKGROUNDS” BY THE RIGHT REV. JAMES E. FREEMAN, D. D, LL, D, Bishop of Washington. Lite's backgrounds determine its fore- goumu Heredity may do much to de- rmine the trends of life, but ealy en- vironment more, The things that are taught and exemplified in the home have & determining effect upon char- acter. The world has yet to find satis- factory substitutes for the father and mother. All kinds of experiments have been tried, but they give no demonstri tion of their efficiency. It is demo: strably true that most of the miscas riages in life are directly traceable to & bad home atmosphere. A wholesome sentiment has prompted us to set apart this Sunday and give it the high distinction of “Mother’s Sun- day.” Surely no one is more worthy of such distinction than a wholesome, high-minded Christian mother. As a matter of fact, when we trace the genius and qualities of leadership of our most outstanding men and women to their source, we inevitably find that they had their early development and enrich- ment in ‘a finely consistent home at- mosphere, generated by God-fearing parents. We like to feel that the father occupies as large a place in the processes of character building as does the mother, but experience and observation make us doubt-it. That there are fa- thers whose rarg consistency and high sense of stewardship make them ex- amples to their children in all that is fine and noble is quite true, but in the main we are persuaded that the bread- winner does not excel the mother of the household in these particulars. It has been said that daughters yield more readily to the paternal than to the maternal influence, and that the oppo- site 1s true of sons, This may be partly true, but reading and observation lead us to the conclusion that, as a stabiliz- ing moral force, God has dowered the mother of the household with singularly rare and unique gifts. Lincoln's mem- ory of his mother, although she passed away when he was but a child, was & compelling force in his life. While man may come to great distinction and be the admiration and envy of the world, and assume & bearing that is somewhat artificial, when he comes once again to deal with the intimate and sacred things of his home life, and more rticularly with his mother, he finds imself following the simple and wholesome habits of his youth. Presi- dent Garfield's first thought on being elevated to_the supremest place in the Nlllon"rromv!ld him to turn and greet his mother with & kiss. ‘The pre-eminence of motherhood is strongly illustrated in art. The greatest paint] the world contains is that of & mother and her child, Raphael’s “Sis- tine Madonna.” Most of the great art- ists have attempted the same theme and in each instance they have em- bodied in the portrait of the mother the distinctive qualities of their own race and kind. Shelley's choicest poem was written on the receipt of his mother’s portrait. Thus, into music, art and literature the immortal theme has been woven in glowing phrases. Anything that threatens the citadel 1930—PART TWO. Capital Sidelights BY WILL P. KENNEDY. The unique place in national politics held by Johu Quincy Adams, sixth President of the United States and son of the second President, and his two distinct, separate and unrelated claims to a place in the American Hall of Fame, where his bust was unveiled last ‘Thursday, are emphasized by Senator Frederick H. Gillett of Massachusetts, who has served longer than any present member of Congress. By distinguished public service up to the time he left the White House at the age of 61, John Quincy Adams earned first claim to .fame. Nearly sll of his life had been spent in public office. As a precocious lad of 14 he was taken to Russia as secretary by the American Minister, who was a friend of the lad’s father. With but brief inter- ruptions, he was successively Minister to various countries and, with an inter- mission of six years in the Senate, finally attained the topmost legation, in London. From there he was sum- moned to be Secretary of State for eight years and then was promoted into of the home or that impalrs its security | the presidency. is & blow at an institution that is funda- mental and indispensable to our life. | tellectual ™ Any attack, from whatever source made | 0f polluc-md In every office l‘ni: displayed an ':n- and power, a mastery diplomatie” problems, a upon this sacred institution, menaces|high and even austere standard of the truest and sweetest things we pos- sess. Any lowering of the standards of home life, any abdication of parental responsibility in the interests social indulgence or occupational service im- perils that which secures to us life, lib- erty and the pursuit of happiness. A world propaganda is abroad today that 1is designed to do these very things. is viclous and malevolent, and should be met with stern resistance. We are being admonished that out of the World ‘War & new conception of domestic life issued. We are also told that the in- dulgence of women in various forms of occupstion has rendered them less re- sponsive to the high and holy ideals of motherhood. The sacred tles of domes- tic Jife are held so indifferently by cer- tain modern cults that they may be dis- solved by caprice and fancy. Mother's Sunday might with propriety be ex- tended into & mother's year, and all the agencies that are engaged in promoti: laws might with infinite profit give to fundam ipl those ent principles secure the integrity of the home and ‘motherhood. Psychological Aspects of the Present " Political Situation in Washington BY WILLIAM HARD. The psychoiogies of politics are/often as welr'ofl.h reporting as its events. ‘That depression characterizes the Re- publican rarks and elation the Demo. cratic in national political circles is un doubted. The Democrats are so confi- dent that they even dream, for instance, of carrying all 13 Indiana congressional districts next Fall. They now have 3 of the 13, A few weeks ago the wisest of the Democrats were hoping that they would make great gains in the next House of Representatives, but would be able to miss getting & majority in it. They wished to keep legislative responsibility still loaded upon the Republicans. Now their leaders in that respect seem to have given up hope. They declare with sad resignation that they simply cannot help getting & majority in the House next time. They have gloomily recon- ciled themselves to what they regard as their inevitable triumph, In this spirit the Democratic floor leader in the House of Representatives, Mr, John N, Garner of Texas, has ceased to refer to Speaker Longworth's official automobile as “our” sutomobile. For many months he has called it “our” automobile in tribute to his supposed even chance of taking it away from Mr. Longworth In the next session, Now he has abandoned equality in this matter with Mr. Longworth and calls it out- rightly “my” automobile, * k% One of the fundamental reasons for Democratic elation is that the President allows himself to seem so depressed and discouraged under accumulating blows and woes, The psychological truth is that he has looked depressed and dis- couraged ever since he came to Wash- ington to be food administrator in 1917, Nobody yet has ever seen Mr. Hoover spend a whole day here without -seem- ing at many moments to be on the verge of despair, For 13 years in this city he has been a picture of perplexity, dublety, puzzlement, distress, anxiety, pessimism, fatigue and hopelessness— that is, he has been that sort of picture for a considerable fraction of each year and a considerable fraction of every 24 hours. Five minutes after such a fit he can look as if he had never had a care in his life and as if he were physically ready to step into a prize ring with a happy smile. he political trouble is that he does most of his smiling in the intervals be- tween interviews and that most Sen- ators and Representatives come away from seeing him on business with a frequent opportunity to say: - must be pretty bad. The President looks sunk." ‘The truth may have been that the President was not really feeling par- ticularly sunk at all, but_ was only pon- dering. His physician, Capt. Boone, it is thought, might well try to teach the President how to ler without cover- ing the whole Republican party with a dark cloud of apprehension. * ok ok * Many of the President's advisers spend their time advising him to snap out of it and look radiant and sock Mr. John N. Garrier of Texas on the politi- cal jaw the next time he seems to charge the Republican party with being responsible for having thrown a cowboy out of work in the Texas Panhandle. Other presidential advisers and intl- mates exhort the Chief Executive to keep on enduring calamities and attacks in a spirit_of unremonstrative qulk:r fortitude, 'rhe& say that he should not in brolls on Pennsylvania ave- It is & great mistake to think that the President is not listening to advice, He 1s listening to every sort of advice that could possibly exist. Part of his following wants him-to sally forth and make a loud noise and rally “the peo- ple” against a.fractious Senate. Another part of his following urges him to stay at & presidential level and not get drag- ged down by personal controversies with statesmen of lower than sidential rank. Each .sort of advice # good enough sound till the other sort of ad- vice comes along. One prediction out of it all is possible. * kK That prediction is that pretty soon the President is going to be forced not exactly into exchanging fisticuffs openly with his adversaries, but at least into standing forth publicly as the champion of some set of clearly understood poli- cies and purposes. It is basically cal- culated here by Republican objective students of public opinion throughout the country that “the le” have pretty well lost sight of Mr. Hoover's licies and purposes, while he has en en%ued incessantly in trying to further them through his favorite meth- of personal private negotiations. Some time soon, it is fairly safe to su mise, he will emerge from those neg: tiations long enough to let “the peopls know what he thinks he has been do- ing and what he intends to do, in full and intelligible form, This will be necessary and inevitable, it is believed here, because otherwise ali initiative in national issues will have passed largely away from the glrly in power, where in principle it ought to be, over to the party in opposition. Things like the defeat of Judge Parker in the Senate for confirmation to the Supreme Court, on the ground of his having been an “injunction judge,” provide instances of this truth, * ok X % . ‘The Republican national platform of 1928, on which President Hoover was elected, said: “We believe that injunctions in labor disputes have in some instance been abused and have questi egis made virtually no effort to redeem that pledge. Now the irregular Republicans forth and the main body of Democrats in the Senate, through a coalition inst an injunction judge,” have taken the injunction issue into their camp and away from the regular Republican reser- vation. Similarly the regular Republican reser- vation, though there has been a Federal Power Commission here in Washington under three successive Republican Presi- dents, has lost the leadership in the electric light and power issues and has been obliged to surrender it to Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Democratic Governor of New York, K x % ‘The deepest of national political psy- chological facts at the present moment is that, after a period of prosperity and contentment and quiescence, we now, in the opinion of the acutest onlookers here, are entering into a period of de- cllninf prices and rising discontents and mounting issues. On these issues the Democrats in the Congress are moving faster than the regular Republicans. ‘That is their instant mental advantage and gives them their sense of elation and victory. ‘To prevent them from riding into the White House on thc tides of a sort of irresistible psychologi- cal supremacy, the present occupant of the te vi ically obliged to start some counter-tides of positive proposals running and roaring on his own account. Necessity is the great changer of the characters of poli- ticians and tatesmen, and it is a good bet today that the uncommunicative and burrowing Republican President of 1929 and 1930 may be the speech-re- leasing and issue-waving Republican President of 1931 and 1932. (Copyright, 1930.) . Investigation Is Now The Order of the Day BY HARDEN COLFAX. The investigation habit seems to have & firm hold at present on official Washington., Business men, who have been called here in connection with these activities of Congress and various governmental bureaus and agencles, are distinctly not afraid of investigation, 80 far as the facts that may de- veloped are concerned, but they express more a little anxiety as to the effects that continuous probing over long periods may have on investment trends among the American people. Business financing is a continuous program. There is no line of activity that does not have to money periodically to keep itself abreast of modern conditions. The raising of this money, business men declare, is de- pendent upon the absorption of invest- ment securities. Unwarrantable doubts cast on any certain kind of security, they declare, might have the same dis- astrous effects as rumors concerning the stability of banks. The latter is prohibited law, but that has not sufficed to keep the hnkln{e industry out of the list of those to investi- gated. * K Kk On the other hand Congressmen and Government officials assert that con- stant watchfulness is the only guar- antee of industrial and commercial safety, and that if wrong policies are adopted in basic industries they must react to the detriment of the entire industrial body. They justify the in- vestigations on those grounds. Perhaps the most widespread investl- tion that will be undertaken has just en authorized by the Senate, which provided means by which the bankin, Structure of the country is to be thor- oughly scrutinized. The scope Senate resolution is extremel, taking in national, State II'II rivate banks, banking chains and branch banks, It also provides for an inquiry into what are known in senatorial parlance as “superbanks.” The latter, the Senate fears, might become an outgrowth of the bank holding com- panies now in existence and in process of formation. ‘The Federal Reserve System will be thoroughly inspected, but it is & notable fact that Treasury officials are eager and anxious to lay the cards of the national banks and the Federal Re- serve banks on the table face up. e s It seems as though the words “hold- ing com " cannot be tioned on Capitol Hill without causing a shudder to pass down legislative spines. Men closely identified with these companies openly declare that this is because Senators and Representatives are un- able to distinguish between the various types of holding companies. They say much the same condition exists as was the case with the investment trusts. The word “trust” in previous years was firmly established as meaning monopoly, whereas investment trusts lll'e lllr Temoved from that stigma, at east. Rallroad executives cite the difference between rallroad holding companies and between utility holding and manage- ment corporations, The Chesapeake ation, the main holding corpora- tion for the Van Sweringen interests, 1s sald to be in effect merely a stock- holder of the roads in which it possesses &n interest and all it can do is to vote its stock. It has nothing whatsoever to do with management. !‘m.dcl-nnot to transfer operation of one t cannot even shift an ex- broad, another. ecutive from one road to another with- out the consent of the Interstate Com- merce Comm! . None the less, the Nevertheless the regular Republicans | rallroad given rise to a serious on for legislation.” in the two houses of Congress have it | plon of duty, & rare independence of views and an unswerving obedience to the voice of his conscience, which marked him as an eminent and pure statesman. When he left the presidency he had earned universal respect, and every one, including himself, supposed that a dis- tinguished career was ended. Then be- gan a new pl of public service in a new fleld, perhaps as useful and cer- tainly far more dramatic and us 1ar than his previous long cal e of public offices. His neighbors somewhat difidently asked him if he would be willing after his experience in more ex- alted stations to represent them in Congress, and he characteristically re- plied that any service the Pwple desired of him he would consider it an honor to render, And then & new life, lasting 16 years, In which he became the storm center of as turbulent, as pas- slonate, as unsparing and as relentiess ggle as has ever distracted a par- lament r?ht of petition and free discussion, and against him for years the arrogant and desperate slave mfl' concentrated its bitter and vin ve enmity, Politl ostrac table old man, with watery eyes and cracked voice and limbs, day after day, met their f us asy saults with unflinching courage, and in interminable and heated debates poured tream of fundamental princi- ples Telentless logic, spiced with acrimonious sarcasm and personal re- flections, never ylelding an inch of the und he had taken, and with inex- grlollll.lble labor strengthening his de- fenses and extending his attacks. Alone at first, he had the satisfaction of seeing gradually friends and supporters accu- mulate about him, a great popular sen- timent which was ]ll’re.lx due to his educating influence rallied behind him, and finally his cause, which was so lowly and ?‘floxt'n, btlc:;{x; the dominant triumphant majority. m:mi theg—hu second life work com- leted—at the age of 80 he was merci- rully stricken with death in the Capitol, which had been the scene of his grievous trials and his n'nnl'n;d l‘lorimu triumph, Con by Representative 'gwu of Tennessee, who claims the credit for making the first suggestion for Maj. Gen. Braxton Bragg in an official _dispatch from his own home town, c'g‘lllllhbml, ‘Tenn., on February 23, 1863. ‘“Most of the nations who engaged in the World War have each erected a moriument to one of their unknown soldiers, as a tribute to the valor and patriotism of the private soldlers who made the supreme sacrifice in World War,” Representative Davis re- minded his colleagues. “There has been more or less discus- sion as to the origin of the idea. In this connection one of my old friends, A. Y. Smith, sr, has called my atten- tion to an official report to the Con- federate government at Richmond, dis- patched by Gen. Bragg. After pll}'lnl high tribute to his officers killed, wounded and present, Gen. Bragg eulo- Fud the valor of the private soldierpas ws: ‘However much of credit and ?m may be given, and probably justly given, to the leaders in our struggle, history will yet award the main honor where it is"due—to the private soldier, who, without hope of reward and with no other incentive than & consciousness of rectitude, has encountered all the hard- ships and suffered all the privations. ‘Well has it been said: “The first monu- ment our Confederacy rears should be & lofty shaft, pure and spotless, bear- ing this inscription: * ¢ “To the Unknown and ‘Unrecorded “Another interesting coincidence,” to which Representative Davis calls atten- tion, “is that the American Unknown Soldier was laid to rest in the former home of Gen. Robert E. Lee, who was the commanding eral under whom Gen. Bragg aerxel&' il v The death of Hugh Anderson Dins- more, who was appointed by President Cleveland as ister resident and consul general to the Kingdom of Korea, and who later served 12 years in Congress, 'dll';ln‘ ‘which ;.lm he“w: et e board of regen fhe "Smitns o ';nnltul‘;hyn.mhtl ted a tribute to him pre- gfi?\ve Claude A. Fuller of Arkansas as an ideal type of old Southern gentle- man, as follow: “He to an extraordinary degree, the characteristics of the old- | essary in the time Southern gentlemen, who have shown to the world a chivalry which esteemed stainless Lonor as & priceless heritage—ea chivalry which taught the Southern youth to esteem life worth nothing where honor was at stake—a chivalry which taught that the highest, neblest and most exalted privilege of man was & defense of womanhood, fam- ily and country. His life was the em- bodiment of honor, honesty and loyalty to his party, his friends and his coun- 1 — dergo close examination by govern- mental agencles. The latest development in the investi. gation fleld is the plan of the Inter- state Commerce Commission to delve deep into the activities of freight for- warding companies and to determine whether these concerns, which gather freight in less than carload lots and ship it in carload lots, making a profit on the difference of rates, are in vio- body. He become the cham- | yalets, A CRUISE OF THE ACACIA BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. there is no keeper on Navassa. There formerly were two who dwelt there like Crusoes, six months at a time, their only visitors being the erew of the tender twice & year and, perhaps, an occasional native fisherman from the coast of Hait!, 30 miles away. Now, however, the light operates by itself. ‘The crew of the tender climb to light and make an First they must supply & new ch: of the illuminati loyed to the beacon aglow. They must see %o it that the mechanism which kegl a steady flow of fuel for the light is working properly and, if it is not, must repair it, replacing worn parts where necessary. Although high on the Tocks, the sea spray constantly is being dashed over the light, and this has a rapid corrosive effect upon the steel. Then, too, the whole thing must be b to retard wear as much as e. pospamm Navassa the Acacia will steam to Guantanamo Bay, on the coast of Cuba. Under special treaty visions drawn because of the use of the bay as an American naval maneuvering ground, the United States has the re- sponsibility of maintaining some 10 lights in this region. They are of im- portance to commercial navigators, but rtance to The work of Government employes is not all humdrum labor in offices from 9 o'clock until 4:30, mulling over papers, typing endless documents, and keeping files. Nor do the Army, the Navy, the Coast Guard, Secret Service and other such branches have & monopoly on the adventurous public dutles. Take, for instance, the Light House Service. Just. now the light tender Acacia is at sea on a voyage which holds all sorts of opportunities for adventure. It is down in the Cari’bean Sea on a semi-annual visit to what are described by the Light House Service as the most inaccessible lights under American ju- liction. The Clfih}flln Sea a‘dd; of~ fers many chances of unexpec ap- penings. For one thing, it E' visited gy those sudden West Indlan hurricanes which come up like thunder and turn the sea into a waste of tumbling waters. It is the sea chiefly haunted by the pirate ships of two and three centuries ago. Such mighty icaptains of Great Britain as Sir Francis Drake, Lord Nel- son and Admiral Hood navigated its waters and were familiar with its va- garies. 8hips of England, ships of Spain and pirate m;r gathered to careen at the inlets. Still earlier Columbus him- self plowed ‘can?mm 'lterr“:gd lflc‘; uistadores o P e e of the utmost impor the ‘mil- pain, R is n a trip ef | lions of doliars’ worth of ships of war, m?p’:tizfnndg LAhc:c]uh’:l,o'hlch ave | which, if not properly guided, H"‘;I: been established on small islands which, | crash on the rocky reefs. rhe‘ Aca . although of no particular value as dots [ will service these lights in ti l.\:n sam of land, still constitute serious menaces | manner, These, however, to navigation. The United States has have keepers, but they must be part established lights upon them to warn |supplied with ir parts and such mariners a -‘y‘tmfieinmum other articles as they need. e cacia sailed recently bt '.,.mu. proceed to the vassa | Thence the A will ?.‘:fia,“?nffl" .&"‘;‘k"mwd'.i '&f.:, lles | tiny islands which have no other names - | than the Caribbean Sea . They B ot raund ot | are uninhabited save by sea birds, but the Atlantic fleet. The island is, roughly, o automatic beacons because they th of steamshi) between Haiti, famous for politics, and ectly in the pa the British island of m..fi.. famous from American ports to lg: ‘There is a beach on groes, who come to New York in large numbers to run elevators and become Must Seale a Cuff. Right there at Navassa Acacia's ‘will encount m“ scale the cliff like an Alpine climbe: or a Scots deerstalker, his life limb in danger every moment until he top. Pirst, with a light line he draws up a heavier one and, finally, pulls to top a fresh chain der. To use g but chains Now these been of the un'uwm-uc type—that is, Failure of Egyptian Settlement a Setback Fifty Years Ago LONDON, May 10—Troubles thicken| garely in this country has & pre-con= about the path of Ramsay Macdonald’s | yention political situstion been so com- government. While the cloud that hangs plicated as that which over India darkens, warning of & storm | Sorambled [ ovaed 80 years ago, gt e gy Politics. on the eve of the presi- ‘The down after six weeks of ne- dential campaign. In The okiations between Jomeien Minkter | Star of Muy. 81000, under thé head “A Terrible Mix,” conditions are de- after an almost uninterruj i for 19 hours, and, though m of the | scribed as follows: ment. the | Conservatives cheered the announce-| “The political situation, as it becomes ment of the fact in the House of Com-~ teresting. mons, Tesponsible opinion here deplores | TIOr Mixed, becomes more in the failure, which threatens to delay the | 1t 18 only three weeks until the Chicago withdrawal of the British w:up-mn o; convention meets, and as yet the prob- n'iy_gt. e terms of that withdrawal, toward which Liberal opinion in England has long been moving, seemed assured of acceptance, but the vietory of the Ex-|conventions and elected their delegates, tremist party at Cairo resulted in new|and yet the situation is as viewed demands, which Nahas Pasha declined | through a glass darkly. The friends of 3 m&er and Henderson was unable | Gen, Grant retain the confidence which In regard to the Egyptian withdraw: ment was reached. The came on the purely external question of | nois. ator Logan tel the government of the Sudan. The |last night that the State would declare conversion of this great desert region |for Grant. The value of this predie- into the perous, well governed ter- | tion can be better after next ritory it is today is perhaps the great-|Monday. On that day Cook County will est achievement in the records of Brit-|elect 92 delegates to the State con- ish administration. The form of gov-|vention. Should Gen. Grant ernment is an Anglo-Egyptian condo- | the bulk of this delegation the claim of minium with an English executive. his friends that they will control Under this system the Sudan has be- | State convention does not seem to be settled and flourishing country, | unreasonable. condition of the fellaheen| “The fact that the Grant managers has been revolutionized. But|in Maryland oul ed the Egypt has set up claims to sovereign | men is a matter of the liveliest satis- rights and, as a condition of the accept- | faction to the third-termers. Mary. ance of the treaty, demands unre-|land the Cincinnati convention of stricted right of immigration into the | 1876 was so thoroughly loyal to Sudan and submission of the question | Blaine of the condominium to the internat court. On_both points Henderson was in- lation of law. The radio industry will be investi- gated not only by congeessional com- mittees and the Commerce Department, but by the Department of Justice. The proposed new line-up between the Radio Corporation of America, Westinghouse Electric and General Electric will not be put into_effect until the Department of Justice has opportunity to pass upon the merits and demerits of the plan from the legal standpoint. The Department of Justice also is in- vestigating the proposed merger be- tween various large units in the petro- leum industry and is looking into al- 1 price fixing among certain groups. 'g:dnmhm:lu industry prom! o come in for considerable attention, in view of the fact that a new working agreement between miners and oper- ators must be arrived at this Summer. Also the question of Russian coal im- rted into this country must be ken up. ‘Communist activities will be investi- gated, law enforcement is belng inves- tigated, lobbying activities are * vestigated, prohibition policies are bel looked into, campalgn expenditures wil be scanned closely and there is a pos- sibility that an lmmrt will be made to determine the legality of the meth- drawal and the Wafdist Extremists have aged. it have dropped the substan '.allxlr Henderson states that the door is s the be on the terms - flexible. In Tegard to unrestricted im- migration, it is pointed out that all vis- itors to th < are compelled to obtain a permi the Sudanese government. The neces- o e s abii s le mutiny wi Tresul assassination of Stack, the head of the | {00 4nd last night he and Senator Sudanese government, which was no- | n¥ torlously the work of agitators from |50 Egypt. But the restrictions, while nec- interests of a ful de- | g0 velopment of the Sudan, have never been & barrier to legitimate immigra- tion, which is increasing from the pop- ulation of Egypt and which the agri- the Sudan ion to visit Wi out by the nether milistone. The Grant men, as & net result, put down 12 of cultural requirements of Maryland's 16 votes in the Grant col- ul make advisable. mn. * K kR “Despite the disarrangement o As to the submission of the wotm‘tmm’meffle‘;& dominium rule to the judgment of an|of Senator Blaine are ful and con- international court, that never has been | fident. They have abundant reason for contemplated, though some Liberal| the belief that the great body of opinion is not unfriendly to the idea,| Republican party desires his especially in view of the fact that the!tion, and that contrast between the condition of the|an element in the contest Blaine would Sudan today and its condition when(be nominated with a unanimity more Egyptian rule reduced it to desolation | hearty than since Grant’s nomination could not fail to impress any impartial | in Philadelphia in 1872. They say that court with the wisdom of the present/Blaine was cheated out of the nomina~ administration. Certainly, the Sudanese | tion in 1876 by the very men who now themselves have too vivid a memory of | seek to again sacrifice him, bul the past to desire the return of condi-| & repetition of a successfui effort n tions when fire, slaughter and fanati-|that line they do not anti te. The cism desolated and depopulated their | friends of Blaine feel ent, too. country. that no dark horse will walk off with In any circumstances the introduc- | the honors at the Chicago convention: tion of these ls as a condition | that the race is between Blaine and with- | Grant. They do not look upon either :ll‘thawwphnuntmlflmh Sh o Bt ime wal from Egypt is entirely lrrelev-n: e nouumlblc. oy thlm!m;- man men build their faith on the be- T Wabdine: Exsremists Unet. the Tabo e Was rem! e T government is more squeezable in this|lief that there will be no dark horse. matter than that of any other party|IDey do believe that neither Grant is an entirely mistaken one. No con-|DOF Blaine can secure the nomination. ceivable government could contempla the restoring to the Sudan of the min: G gled corruption and incompetence of Egyptian misrule and the destruction of, the redemptive work of.the past 30 years. Such a betrayal of the Sudanese r«pulnlon is outside the scope of prac- ical discussion. * ok ok W But the breakdown :'(‘ the conference would be a party calamity. “The Democratic nnus{km is begin- ning to be of more interest because of the conspicuous way in s antagonisin o Tuden & antided tmammensins oo S tions. It is conceded tates where 4 ation thrown back into disorder and the with- policy suspended. Nahas Pasha the delegation now on the way home face disappointment at the fail- ure of the extravagant dreams which encour- ce. Y deaires 1o carry out | ten i thdrawal from , but it must Egypt, They say ods that maintained copper at 18 cents ' the & pound for many montha Al (Copyright, 1030.)