Evening Star Newspaper, May 12, 1930, Page 8

NG STAR, WASHINGTO. D. C., MONDAY, MAY 12, 1930. A-8 - THE EVEN - ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN, THE EVENIN With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY. .May 12, 1830 THEODORE W. NOYES. ... Editor 0 East 4. ke Michigan Regent 8t 20d nd B8t. Biudtie. London, .lnh E Carrier Within I.E: City. 2 BVCRIAE Sha" sinany staitoe o o Fondng 352 Bur W 5 d e Bindar it e oy B et 1 by ] oF LBV fimmx “Dfl 4 % Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. ly and Sun only - junday only All Other States and Canada. | Mly and Sunday.. ] yr. $12.60; 1 mo. $1.00 | iy only .. 1yr. lg.(vl‘l 1mo. T8¢ ay only $5.00; 1 mo., 50c Member of the Associated Press. The, Associated Press is exclusively entitled %o the use for republication of ail news dig- patehes credited 1o it or not otherwise cred- tea in this paper and also the local rews Bublished herein; "All rights of pubication of ial dispatchés herein are also reserved. 80c per month 85¢ cer month c per copy Italy Seeks Naval Peace. With the London treaty npw under- golng consideration in the United States Senate, preparatory to ratification, it/ is encouraging to observe that- efforts @re in progress in Europe to patdh up the differences left behind by the five- power conference. These grow out of the fallure of Italy and France to join in the quintuple pact for limitation of wuxiliary craft. They were specifically the consequence of the Italian demand for parity with France and of the French refusal to grant it. The Rome government, has taken the initiative to end the resultant impasse. In his malden discussion of the confer- ence before the Chamber of Deputies at the end of last week, Signor Grandi, Premier Mussolini’s principal spokesman n London, expressed the full willingness of the Italian government to take up conversations with France and Great Britain where they were left off last month. “We are ready at a moment’s notice,” the Fascist foreign minis- ter said, “to resume the interrupted negotiations.” Signor Grandi conspicuously omitted all reference to the 20-ship naval pro- gram just promulgated by Italy and which the French interpret as an ef- fort to browbeat them into ylelding parity. Nor did he deal with the various political problems which Al Franco-Italian relations with strain. But the Mussolini government's readi- ness to sit around another conference table with the French in an effort to extract the gunpowder from the sit- uation is a commendably conciliatory gesture. It will not be easy for the French to refect it without subjecting themselves to the suspicion of pursuing & dog-in-the-manger policy. The Italian foreign minister levels a significant accusation at France on the score of her alleged disinclination to face Franco-Italian problems in ad- vance of the London conference. Had there been somewhere near the Seine or the Tiber, Signor Grandi suggests, such & preliminary confabulation as President Hoover and Premier Macdon- #1d held on the Rapidan, the five-power. parley might have been able to detour around the blind alley into which it ran. Documentary evidence was pre- sented to the Itallan Parliament on Friday. purporting to show that the French government did not meet any pre-conference advances from Rome. Yesterday at Leghorn Mussolini di- wested himself of a characteristic pro- nunciamento on Italy’s naval ambitions. “Before our revolution,” he thundered, *you not only had hunger for bread, but for glory. Livourense, the sea is your fortune!” Whether this fulmination, uttered on the anniversary gf Leghorn’ heroic resistance to the besieging of Austgian army in 1849, is calculated to impress the French with the innocence ©f Pascist naval plans is open to some doubt. A hopeful sign is that Great Britain 15 actively engaged in the movement to achieve an accord between the conti- nental Latin powers. Foreign Secretary Henderson was laboring with M. Briand in Paris at the same hour Signor Grandl was proclaiming Italy's anxiety %0 & rapprochement in Rome. The position in the Mediterranean is the erux of the whole matter. British in- Serests in those waters are always great end, in view of pending turmoil in In- ¢ia and Egypt, were never more vital than now. London for the moment re- mains adamant to suggestions of new British “commitments” to insure peace in the Mediterranean region. But it may well be found that a four-power Sreaty applicable to it—among Britain, Prance, Italy and Spain—will turn out %0 be the only solution of the Franco- Ttalian naval deadlock. —————. - Public questions have become in some espects 20 baffiing that the June com- mencement essayists will be pardoned §f they do not fully succeed in solving $hem, Bcrambled War News From China. ‘The Chinese campalign is being re- Ported with the usual contradictions in Che dispatches. This is not to the dis- Bredit of the correspondents at the polit- fcal fronts—none is permitted at the -gnilitary front—but rather is due to the $onflict of the interests and viewpoints ®f those who keep them informed. WNews in China is on a somewhat dif- ferent scale than in this country, or in Rurcpe. It is usually relative. Thus, $here are now two wholly variant reports ©f the first major encounter at arms be- $ween the Northern and the Nanking governments. A dispatch from Shang- Bai states that according to the Kuomin, or Nanking government news agency, She insurgents or Northerners were souted. At the same time a dispatch grom Peking—which may as well be the present spelling of the former Northern eapital inasmuch as it has been changed back sgain from Peiping by the new ‘Yen administration—states that rebel forces commanded by Gens. Sun Tien- ying and Wan Hsuan-tal annihilated & Nationalist division. Aeccording tora Peking dispatch to the London Daily Bxpress 10,000 Nanking troops had been killed and 15,000 captured in the heavy fighting of the past few days. Thus numerically the dispatches favor a Northern victory. But it all depends upon the source of the information. Facts get strangely distorted in the political yamens through which they are issued as news. 'mlwuenmpu.mmtkd Ihe would support Nanking. It all de- played a strictly waiting game in the pre-hostilities campaign. From one of the Peking English-language papers is quoted & statement to the effect that the “young general,” as the son of Chang-Tso-lin is called in Manchuria, has agreed to furnish to the Northern coalition reinforcement to the maxi- mum of 80,000 men, if required, as well as all the heavy artillery at the Muk- den arsenal. On the other hand, a rep- resentative of Chang who recently vis- ited Shanghai assured an American correspondent that the marshal would take no active part in the present war- | fare unless the insurgents should form a provisional government, in which case pends upon which tale is true, whether the Manchurian war lord sides with the Northerners, who have in effect set up their own government, or with the Nanking government. The map shows that the fighting is taking place on a seventy-mile front about 200 miles northwest of Nanking and twice that distance south of Pe- king. If the Northerners win this en- gagement they will control the only East-West railroad in China, the Lung- hai line. This would compel a retire- ment of the Nanking forces and the adoption of practically a defensive campaign on the part of Chiang Kai- shek, who must eventually prosecute a vigorous offensive or concede Yen a victory. What Is It For? Now that Senate and House both have included an item in the District bill apptapriating $25,000—“For the pur- pose of making a study of the power needs of ¥he District of Columbia with a view to establishing a municipally owned and’operated service therefor; including the employment, by contract or otherwise, of cuch expert and other personal services as shall be approved by the Commissioners, without reference tc the classification act of 1923, as amended, and incidental necessary ex- penses”"—will some one please inform the residents of the District where it came from, and what it all means? When the bill was passed by the House energetic reporters sought in vain through the hearings for light on the power survey. They also sought informa- tion at the District Building where, un- fortunately, no one seemed to know what it was all about, but the assump- tion there was that the '“municipally owned and operated service” referred to some plant that would supply light and power for street lighting and other such municipal functions. In the Senate committee, after Mr. Ham, as a voluntary witness, had spoken glowing words about the general excellence of the Potomac Electric Power Co. the House provision was striken out. Nobody in the Senate com- mittee seemed to know where it orig- inated or what it was for. But when the bill reached the Senate floor Sena- tor Norris, like a war horse scenting battle from afar, went to it. He put the power trust through the jumps, de- scribed the amount of water that goes under the bridges without producing a kilowatt of electricity, spoke eloquently of “Government ownership and de- manded that the item be reinstated in the bill, which was done. Senator Nor- ris told of past investigations of the same sort that have come to nothing, but hagzarded the opinion that, even if the present investigation came to noth- ing, the Senate could not gracefully turn down a request of the sort that originated in the House; in other words, when the House shows signs of taking an interest in municipally owned power plants it should be given every encour- agement. Senator Norris is of the definite opin- fon that the investigation has do with & real municipal power plant—not a mere municipal affair to light the streets or run the elevators in the Dis- trict Bullding. It embraces everything, including development of Great Falls for power. ‘The information will be valuable. The chief difficulty faced by the investi- gators will doubtless be finding e way to justify the expenditure of the $25,000. ———————— ‘The discovery of a planet seems of little practical benefit at present. Most discoveries have at the outset appeared to offer little prospect of anything that would affect the world's workaday life. Indefatigable science may eventually find use even for a new planet. ————— In some political circles a contender is supposed to show the courage of his convictions by the amount of money with which he is willing to back his chances. e The Buelow Memoirs. Although the world is approaching the eleventh anniversary of the so-called Peace of Versallles, war memoirs are still with us. None emitted in recent times excels in interest the first volume of Prince von Buelow's recollections, just published posthumously. The German chancellor, who served Willlam II and the Fatherland in the critical pre-war years, writes in obvious self-justification. He is mainly concerned with arguing the thesis that it was the inept diplo- macy of his ponderous successor, Von Bethmann Hollweg, rather than the Von Buelow statesmanship, which led to the World War and Germany's in- glorious emergence from it. Historlans will differ on that score. They will be inclined particularly w question the wisdom of Prince von Bue- low's celebrated rejection of “Chamber- lain’s deceptive blandishments,” which looked to an Anglo-German entente and the prevention of the “inevitable” clash between the rival European sea and commercial powers. But the Von Buelow memoirs make one revelation over which there is no room for dis- pute, the disclosure of the Emperor Wil- liam's cold-blooded plan to snuff out Belgian independence in the event of a Eurcpean conflict in which Germany was engaged. Von Buelow narrates a visit paid to Berlin in 1904 by Leopold, King of the Belgians. The King seized an opportu- nity to whisper to the chancellor that the Kaiser had just sald “appalling things” to him. Leopold begged Von G STAR 'm attitude of Marshal Chang Hl\leh-'lhn would be against her and “must liang of Manchuria, who has heretofore | ook -out.” When Von Buelow said he would never consent to such a “mon- strous error,” the Kaiser thundered that in that event he would have need of another reichskanzler when war came. Tep years later war did come, and another chancellor, Von Bethmann Hollweg, was in office. He it was who stood up in the Reichstag on August 4, 1914, and proclaimed the Hohenzol- lern doctrine that “necessity knows no law” and that Germany, in case of need, must “hack her way through Bel- glum.” The Kaiser's threat to King Leopold was made good. In the light of all that was doomed to happen, especially the wave of hor-|ing Tor and resentment which spread over the whole non-German world as the result of the invasion of Belgium, many moderns will be inclined to view sympa- thetically Von Buelow's analysis of William II. He plllories the deposed monarch as & man of “unstable psychic equilibrium,” which is the longer and less ugly term. Von Buelow protests that his own peace policy was based largely on the conviction that the Kaiser “would not be equal to bearing the burden of a great war.” There is much in the opening segment of the fourth chancellor's memoirs to bolster up that characterization of the prisoner of Doorn. Reference is made by Justice Stone of Minnesota to the profession of law as now being held in scant respect. The law is always respected. Citizens have made history in defending the purity of legal principle. The greatest menace to the law is the unscrupulous client who brings temptation. . —oe Columbus discovered America, but might have declined the honor of hav- ing Columbus, Ohio, named after him if he could have foreseen the publicity to be attained by the State penitentiary in that city. / — e Positive assurance that business wal be good should not be interpreted as a promise that the stock market will change its ancient custom and make a practice of providing sure things for|gn4 speculators. —_———— Frignds of Senator Hiram Johnson are hoping he may eventually find that the disturbances among his personal papers are caused by nothing more seri- ous than the employment of new help by the janitor. The astonishing amount of politics that concentrates around Philadelphia has not yet deprived that community of its time-honored right to sincere recognition of its title, City of Brotherly Love. “Mimic warfare” is picturesquely im- pressive. Peace-loving citizens are hope- ful that it will have no more real sig- nificance for the future than a Fourth of July celebration. —————.—— Appointment of & Supreme Court jus- tice calls for a study of his opinions on & number of questions which may never come under his consideration if he is chosen. ———ro—s. Facilitles for travel have become so abundantly.available that an enterpris- ing_homicide suspect can easily scatter hisclues over a large section of the map. e e As an economist, James Hamilton Lewis can point to his campaign fund as evidence that he practices what he preaches. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Same Old Earth, Same old toplcs—same old news. Same old pictures—same old clues, Same contentions bring surprise; Same old wets and same old drys. Motors spin and make a dash. For a trilumph or a smash. Pictures gay delight the eye; Same old things you'd like to buy. Science shows the same old terms; Same old atoms; same old germs. Same discoveries we view, Each with names both long and new. Same old struggles for release, ‘Threats of war and plans for peace. Same old market on the jump— Sanfe old profit; same old slump. ‘Though confusion we may find In a changeful state of mind, With new themes of grief or mirth, It 14 still the Same Old Earth. Ingratitudes. “You think republics are ungrateful?” “As ungrateful now,” answered Sena- tor Sorghum, “as in classical days. I have known candidates to spend money in lavish generosity and still fail to land the desired office.” Jud Tunkins says he gets fine exercise on the golf links, bein’ one of the men who get pald for keepin' the grass in order. There's social precedence in erime, ‘The true philosopher believes. Some rogues steal fortunes at a time And some are merely chicken thieves. Advice Questioned. “We are taught to love our enemies.” “In doin’ 80,” answered Farmer Corn- tossel, “I have made my mistake. Every man who sold me a gold brick made himself so agreeable I thought he was due for my undying affection.” “Every man,” sald Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “claims to be laboring - the good of humanity; even the clever artisan who devises instruments for swifter war killing.” ‘Winning Applause. Vhy shouldn’t politicians quit ‘The effort vain to make a hit, And nominate the wags who go 8o well across the radio? “Experience,” said Uncle Eben, “is liable to teach you mighty little, ‘ceppin’ dat yoh own common sense was right in de fust place.” —————————— Acme of Gloom. From the Detroit News. The month’s award for manufactured Buelow to bend every effort to ward oft “great misfortunes.” The attempt was made. Willlam's reply was to utter “imprecations” upon his Belgian fel- low monarch, to avow himself a soldier of the school of PFrederick the Great and Napoleon, “who always got in the first blow at the enemy,” and to bluster that if Belgium was not with Germany gloom goes to an Indianapolis writer who points out that a cyclone cellar may cave in. An Opportunity. From the San Antonio Evening Ne When their diplomatic mission be finished, Japan's “Thank should have no trouble ge telephone operators, BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Despite the sun cult throughout the Unlte'd States, 99 out of a h:)ndv\“l?l street car passengers hasten down the shades by the seats in which they sit their way around town. This is lamentable. ‘The very persons who ought to leave them up, the pale-faced, anemic ones, who lack good red corpuscles in their blood, yank down thbe shades the mo- ment they take their seats. If some one more progressive per: son, who understands and values sun. shine at its real worth, insists on leav- his shade high, or even puts it higher, the fearers of sunshine glare at him ominously. They are mistaken. Street car and bus companies would help their passengers to better health and render their vehicles more sani- tary by removing all pull-down blinds or shades from all windows. Especially would this be of mutual benefit in Summer, when windows are up. It is now generally known to most ple that ordinary window glass locks out the ultra-violet rays of the sun, the rays that are good for you. In the good old Summertime fresh, sweet air sweeps through vehicles through opened windows, and since the glass is up the full power of the sun rays comes in, t0o. ‘What of a little heat? The moving air tends to cut this down to a mini- mum, anyway. As for the sunshine ft- self, it is invaluable, although all too many persons do not recognize this simple fact. AR Mental cheeriness is perhaps the greatest gift of the sunshine. While the ultra-violet rays are no general cure-all for grouchy disposi- tions, it is incontestable that adequate exposure of the human cuticle to the sunshine for requisite periods evi day tends to warm up the so-called cockles of the heart, mend the “blues” and in other ways cheer up the mind. Now if this is so—and we assert that it is—in sunshine mankind has some- t.hln'!l even better than a fountain of youth. The greatest curse of humanity, next to sickness and death, is the irri- table disposition. In many instances the man is not to blame. "Thousands of mentative, ill-tem) wa heart and d. 5 i To be happy and cheerful while one lives is better, one may submit, than to live longer and yet be grouchy, mean verse. Ponce de n sought a fount from which & man might walk in the image of perpetual youth; mod- ern experimenters with the sun’s ultra- violet, in the quiet manner of modern scientists, have found a fountain of cheerfulness. * %k X ‘Think over your list of acquaintances and see if the majority of the sun- tanned are not more cheerful, as a rule, than the pale-faced men and women you know. There will be exceptions, of course. Even God could not change some surly dispositions. It may be laid down as a general proposition, however, that in proportion as sunshine helps the physi- cal health, it tends mightily to %etur the mental health. But this is not all. h some obscure workings, per- haps in blood stream itself, “the ultra-violet rays do have a distinct ef- Lfi:m o:x h'.'l;e a;lengm and heart, entirely C! m rovement of physi- u.lneundm%l:.mt :'n inf . may troduction of the vitamin D into the blood achieves this. It may be that there is some abso- lute connection between purity of blood and tissue and cheerfulness of dispo- sition. It may be that sunshine rai the blood pressure slightly, at least enough to cause that feeling of well- ery | this should not be necessary, be! which is so apparent in certain dhemt.ul in which high blood pressure is ptom. 'hatever the cause, or however the ultra-violet rays operate in the mys- terious economy of God, Nature or Cre- ator, as one chooses, the fact would seem to remain that something does, in- deed, happen, not only to the cuticle, as shown in the tanning process, but also in a brighter mind and happier heart. e In the modern home the introduc- tion of many more windows has been partially offset by the use of more shades, awnings and curtains, Many householders are still living in the so-called mauve decade of the 1880’s and forward, when the parlor shades were kept drawn and no ray of sun- shine was permitted to gain entrance except dm'ln1I the few days of the an- nual Spring housecleaning. Even motor cars often show minia- ture awnings hung at the windows to keep glare out of the driver's eyes, it is said, but more often than-not, in reality, to give him that feeling of semi-shade or complete shade which he_craves. This craving often is habit merely, and has no basis in the real desires of those who so assiduously seek the shade. When they are on a fishing expedition they revel in the full sunshine, but when they return home they shrink from even a sunbeam’s caress. Nature has so tempered the sunshine to our earth that in most places in the Temperate Zone most persons can stand a great deal more exposure to the rays than they imagine they can. It is mostly a matter of accustoming the mind to a new‘hnblt, * * One might say that such a lecture as but one has only to look at the scores of pale people ons meets gvery day to realise hat this is a good propaganda. One has but to mention the subject of the ultra-violet ray llmPl for home use, and watch the expressions of utter ignorance, and even contemp$, which creep over the faces of far too many, to realize that much ploneering work has yet to be done before the people, as a whole, are “sold” on the subject of more and better sunshine, especi as np?llld to the individual life, mental as " "l “matter, as tn many others, matter, as rany science is away ahead of the “man in the street.” latter, as a rule, rather ides himself on not being “taken in” “new-fangled gadgets,” but the man of science is wmlnf to risk being taken in, now and then, if he feels that he is progreseing toward an objective, maybe unknown. The layman who partakes, to some extent, of this wholesome, progressive attitude, also is willing to experiment with what science produces. As a re- sult many persons in this country, as well as ughout the world, dressed every morning, all Winter long, in sun- shine, and found their health improved and their hearts and minds happier and more cheerful. Now that Summer is heré they will get most of their sunshine from the great sun itself; but they will have the satisfaction of knowing that their Win- ter sunshine was not an “imitation,” :uz'v s the real thing, as far as it ent. Moderation, or the golden mean, is the great law of ultra-violet absorp- tion. The sunshine “fan” must have enough common sense to watch symp- toms and to refrain if any of them are inimical. With such common sense usage, sunshine becomes not only the neart pproach we have to a foun- tain of youth, but also is a veritable fountain of happiness. There is a com- binaton for you! WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. ‘Well, the farm bloc oughtn't to strew any thorns in the path of Owen J. Rob- erts’ confirmation, anyhow. President Hoover's latest nominee for the Supreme Court is & sure-enough dirt farmer. At Phoenixville, outside of Philadelphia, in the prettiest part of the Schuylkill Val- h‘y, Mr. Roberts owns and works a plot of several hundred acres. Ever and anon he labors on them with his own hands. Next to pléading before a_jury, farming is his pet occupation. If he “‘makes” the SBupreme Court through the advice and consent of the Senate, as nearly everybody thinks he’s sure to do, Phoenixville is likely to be Justice Roberts' Rlpldln.‘ Al * It is as & trial lawyer that the Phila- delphian has shone at the bar. For the past 10 years he has been in constant demand by big firms all over the East, which, having bullt up a case before its day in court, were anxious to engage Roberts to conduct it before bench and Jury. Like Hughes, Roberts is surren- dering a colossal income at the bar to attain the blue ribbon of his profession. s friends estimate that he has been amassing a fortune in recent times at the rate of anywhere from $100,000 to $150,000 a year. So Roberts becomes the latest of the Hoover “new patriots” begulled into Federal service at the cost of rellnquuhhu‘ fat n:rlv‘m incomes. * George W. Wickersham, chairman of the National Law Enforcement Com- mission, assumes responsibility for the only known expression of Hoover opinion about recent events in the Senate. “When the President heard about the birth of a grandson the other day,” according to Mr. Wieker- sham, “his first ejaculation was, ‘Well, he doesn’t have to be confirmed by the Senate, anyhow!'” The law enforce- ment chief sprang the White House wisecrack at last Saturday night's ban- quet of the American Law Institute, over which he presided. x ok ¥ % ‘With half a dozen State Supreme Court justices at the speakers' table of the Law Institute feast, and a score of other Federal and State judges scat- tered throughout the room, it was no- ticeable that every after-dinner thrust at the Senate evoked titters of ap- roval. Fopmer Senator Pepper of ‘ennsylvania made several jabs at the chamber he briefly adorned. In the course of his scholarly address on the restatement of the law, Pepper dis- closed to the amusement of hearers that the Emperor Justinian, in 528 AD., beat Herbert Hoover to it by 14 centuries in the field of commis- slons. The 1 Justinian code, Pepper told, was the work of a com- mission of lawyers and scholars who roduced 80 ser ect a project after only fa months’ deliberation that Justinian by the stroke of his pen made it the law. Pepper, deploring the lack of any efficient “central authority” in America qualified to recast the legal code, said that it staggers the imagination to fancy how long Congress would mill over & matter the Justinian commission tackled in & year snd two months. * ok ¥ % If President Hoover carries out his lan to swing around the circle this gummet and find out at first hand whether there's a bull or bear market in his stock in the West, his friends hope he’ll keep away from Winona, Minn. At least they're anxious that he shouldn’t make any speech at Wino- . The “Winona speech” lives in po- ltical history as the beginning of the end of Wil Howard Taft’s presi- dential career. It was delivered under circumstances not dissimilar from those which will usher in Mr, Hoover's expe- dition. into the Great Divide country. A Republican Congress had just enacted an_ unpopular tariff bill—the Payne- Aldrich act. Taft signed it, though he had once opposed many of its features. ‘The next year, in the Winona speech, the President defended the Payne-Ald- rich law as the best tariff the country ever had. The Roosevelt Progressives put on their war paint thenceforward and the is history, ‘Two United States Senators, Couzens of Michigan, Republican, and Dill of Washington, Democrat, contribute chapters to “Radio and Its Features,” Jjust off the press. The book is a com- pilation of contributions on every phase of radio, ted by Martin Codel, brilllant young specialist in the litera- ture of the air. Senator Couzens argues persuasively for the creation of a Fed- eral commission on communications, which he has proposed to Congress. He foresees in such a body an agency des- tined some day to command “the same confidence and respect which the Inter- state Commerce Commission enjoys.” Senator Dill discusses “Radio by the American Plan"—i.e. of private enterpr! and competition over the European system of govern- ment-controlled radio. R s Stanley K. Hornbeck, chief of the Far Eastern division at the State De- partment, has just been presented with 2 complete set of the books and docu- ments grepued by or for the Institute of P c Relations. The; signed for use at the third session of the institute at Kyoto, Japan, in No- ze;nber. 1929. Tl'i: auecl:mn. some 25 olumes, represen e latest work of outstanding specialists in every fleld of Pacific political, economic and social questions. The books and papers bristle With data of value to students of rela- tions among the various countries bor- dering the Pacific, including the U. 8. A. Dr. Hornbeck will turn the cellec- tion over to the State Department llbrl.l'};.n‘odth similar set ?.l.il recently com e possession b+ ol of the Library * ok ok x Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt has Just “taken off” on one of her periodi- cal transcontinental fl; . Prac- tically the whole ]yoilrxlgney between Washington and California will be made by “Portia” in Fl-nel of one of her aviation corporation clients. The former Eflnl;!l:f;l:ent of Juutgu bition lady conqueres o q 1 sense of fear (Copyright, 1930.) Squadron Reviews Would Stimulate AircraftInterest To ;h! ':mm of The Star: nstead of our inexperienced flyers trying to create interest in nvl;{lom thmughv occasional “stunt” flying, why shouldn't the Navy Department stimu- late this interest through squadron re- views over some of our princ! cities? Beginning with Washin, on, Balti- more, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and New York, the Navy might send its 10 air :}‘utdrom to Boston and other Massa- usetts, Connecticut and New York State cities of more than 100,000 popu- lation. Then they could fly over the larger cities of the Middle West and South for their air maneuvers. Think what interest would spring up in avia- tion in the cities of Buffalo, Cleveland, Toledo, Dayton, Cincinnati, Detroit, chlcl’?, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, St. , if these people, many of them for the first time, could see some of the Navy's famous fighting squadrons en- gage in battle maneuvers and tactical mfif« at several points on the Great And why not have a! euvers the Great Lakes as well et.hnl’n:x-‘ ama Canal, or in the Caribbean, the Pacific Coast, or anywhere else? Avia- tors would get the same training and alrports and stations would gét needed ppnclm:l'u in feeding crews and fueling Whay should the largest reviews air shows always be held in New Y‘o‘:-: City, except perhaps a smaller review in Washington, when the Navy Depart- ment might stimulate so muvc{a greater n’mslnnul’l 1&.@:;.“&‘;;::41:::‘!‘ squad- other populated cities also? VERNER M. HOLSTON. R Basis for Faith. From the Richmond News Leader. ‘The Jobless may have confidence in lwc ns of better times. At the bote r.mnhnanllluummll& The Political Mill By 6. Gould Lincoln. Pennsylvania is much in the limelight this week. Not only is the nomination of Owen J. Roberts to the Supreme Court before the Senate, but a member of the President’s cabinet, Secretary James J. Davis, is in the final drive for the Re- publican senatorial nomination against Senator “Joe” Grundy and Prancis H. Bohlen, the wet candidate for the nomi- nation. Mr. Davis has the backing of the Philadelphia organization, not to mention the organization out in Alle- gheny County, which is Pittsburgh. He has the indorsement of labor and, gen- erally speaking, is expected to roll up a large woman vote. Just now Mayor Mackey of Philadelphia has come out in favor of the Davis-Brown ticket, with Shunk Brown running for gov- ernor. On Tuesday the voters will go to the polls and register their desires. Unless there is something particularly “rotten in Denmark,” it looks as though Secretary Davis should come through with & win in the senatorial race. The Grundy forces have been putting for- ward the suggestion for weeks that the Philadeiphia organization is willing to trade the senatorship off to be assured of the gubernatorial nomination. If this were true, why on earth should the Grundyites shout it from the house tops? They would be party to the deal, and a deal of that kind is not regarded as particularly admirable. It looks as though Mr. Grundy had his back to the wall and was feeling a little uncomfort= able about it. 3 e New Jersey Republicans are waif today for the first political speech of Dwight W. Morrow, Ambassador to Mexico, a candidate for the Republican senatorial nomination. Mr. Morrow is expected to deliver this address Wed- nesday and to make clear his position on the issue whichr has more interest in Jersey today than any other, m& bition. If he goes “wet,” as his have insisted he will do, Representa- tive FranklineFort, one of the prom- inent members of the House and former secretary to the Republican national committee, may enter the senatorial primary as a dry. This would make a three-cornered race of it, with former Senator ‘Joe” Frelinghuysen as the third candidate. He has switched over to the wet cause and the drys have been searching for a candidate. Mr. Fort a few months ago delivered an address in the House which attracted & lot of attention. In it he declared that the prohibition amendment was directed at the liquor traffic, and that Dol the. beopls . make m their perm people make homes for their own use “home brew” and light wines. Some of the drys did not care for the suggestion. The wets ridiculed it. Nevertheless Mr. Fort has declared himself in favor of the eight- eenth amendment and ready to war on the liquor traffic and he would be much more acceptable to the drys than either Morrow or Frelinghuysen if the former declares himself for modification or repeal, > ‘There is more i this Jersey race for the senatorial nomination than meets the eye. Mr. Morrow has become an outstanding figure. First as a member of the firm of J. P. Morgan & Co., then as an adviser to his old college mate, former President Coolidge, and then as Ambassador to Mexico and finally as a member of the American delegation to the London conference. If he can be elected Senator now and render valua- ble service in that body, there are those who belleve he would shape up well for & presidential nomination in future. If anything should happen now to pre- vent his winning the Republican sena- torial nomination, these forward-lookiny friends of Mr. Morrow would be mucl disappointed. v iEiral West Virginia may come knocking at the Senate door with a woman candi- date for admission to that body. -Mrs. Lenna Lowe Yost of Hun! n, W. Va., has been urged to make race for the Republican senatorial nomination this Summer. Since the decision of Senator Goff not to be a candidate to succeed himself, the Republicans have been canvassing the situation to find the strongest candidate to put up alinlmt former Senator Neely, who is likely to be the Democratic nominee. Mrs. Yost is at present Republican na- minute and think about this fact. ;ou can ask our Information Bureau any question of the answer back L3 in great tional idea introduced fi; .t.he “';d “ucf. the most intelligent people in the world—American news- paper readers. It is a part of that best purpose of a newspaper—service. 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This piano was Germany. ; Hoover’s Business Optimism Credited With Good Effect Optimism as to improvement achieved in business conditions following the big panic in stocks, revealed by President Hoover at the meeting of the United States Chamber of Commerce, is dis- by the country in a friendly e im) of his tional committeewoman for West Vir-| ia. She has been active in politics or & number of years. She took an active part in the campaigns which brought . about the adoption of the woman sufitage and the prohibition amendments to the Constitution. Mrs. Frank N. Mann, who before the 1928 cam] was Democratic national committeewoman for West ,_has publicly announced her support of Mrs. Yost. Mrs. Mann left the Democratic party because of the nomination of a wet, for President, Alfred E. Smith, and |4y intends, she says, to stick to the Repub- lican gsfl.y now. She wants to support Mrs, Yost for the Senate. She insists that there is a rapidly growing senti- ment for the nomination of Mrs. Yost for the Senate and that it is an r- tunity which the Republicans and the women of the State should not over- were de- | look, (i Mrs. Yost, in addition to being Re- publican national committeewoman, is also a member of the State board of education and the Washington - sentative of the Women's Ol ian Temperance Union. She has not made up her mind yet, she says, just what she will do about the senatorial race. As a matter of fact, Mrs. Yost had been strongly urged to run for the House from her district to fill the vacancy on that body caused by the death of Rep- resentative Hughes not so long ago. It is possible that she will determine in the end to be a candidate for the House nomination. In the meantime, however, she is being widely discussed as a possible nominee for the Senate. Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick has al- ready won the Republican senatorial nomination in Ilinois. Mrs. MecCor- mick has rather expected to be the first woman Senator of the United States. If, however, Mrs. Yost should win the Republican nomination in West Vir- ginia and then be elected to the Senate in November, she would divide the honors with Mrs. McCormick should the latter defeat former Senator James Hamilton Lewis, the Democratic choice for Senator in Illinois. g * oK ok % Down in ooorg.: former Gov. John M. Slayton has been most anxious to get into the senatorial race, according to reports from that State. He and his friends have been canv: the situation closely to learn whether he would have a chance of defeating Sen- ator Willlam J. Harris for the Demo- cratic nomination, which is equivalent to election in Georgia. The reports as to what former Gov. Slayton finally will do are conflicting. One of the latest to reach here is that he has not been encouraged by the survey of the State and will remain out of the race. If he gets the senatorial contest he doubtless will have the -uiport of former Gov. “Tom” Hardwic Mr. Hardwick was also Senator from Geor- gia and was defeated for renomination by Senator Harris. Senator Harris beat Hardwick again six years ago and the latter has no political love for him. Mr. Hardwick, it is understood, will make no effort to win the senatorial nomination for himself this year, but he would support any one who ran against Senator Harris. Gov. Slayton was the chief executive of the State at meb “ume uofl:'r::;‘. o was in the public eye. ) m‘l.lad the death sentence of Frank, Of 3 who was afterward lynched. What bel(;lng this would have on the chances of Gov. Slayton does not appear on the surface. Senator Harris has been - nizant of the desire of Gov. Slayton get into the senatorial race. It is re- d that his friends in the State ave gone over the situation o too, and that they have concluded Har- ris would carry tzhefl elef.uon over- whelmingly. Senator Harr! has l:nm:“" of political enemies in the State. He was against the nomination of Al Smith for President at the Hous- ton convention, but after Mr. Smith was nominated he loyally supported him, teady upward swing. e News believes that "“something approaching a cure for economic de- pressions has been found,” and pays tribute to “co-operation by Government agencies, business, railways, public utili- , agriculture, the press, financial in- stitutions and public authorities.” That paper concludes: “Industry, big busi- ness, labor and various governmental agencies deserve great credit for the constructive effort they have made. And measure of commendation for stepping into the breach and harnessing the con- structive fon'-‘" A * In its agreement with the speech, the Oakland Tribune declares: “When the President says he does not accept the fatalistic view that the discovery of the means to restrain mon is beyond the genius of the n le, he hints at the possible scope of the inquiry to come. address, coming when the stabilizing program is definitely ‘over the top’ and on its way to victory, car- ries with it that sound optimism which is based on the incontrovertible fact.” While voleing its otest against ‘ballyhoo,” and contending that “telling the whole truth, painful as it may be at the moment, is the only sound for a program of business stabilization,” the Baltimore Sun makes the favorable |- comment: ‘“There is a very important Eu‘hu for co-operative efforts toward iness stabilization such as those President Hoover launched last Fall, and he is entitled to great credit for taking definite to cope serious steps with & economic crisis instead of letting it | ¢ drift along its dangerous course. Like- wise he does well to stress the desira- bility of continuing efforts in the same direction during fair weather as well as foul, and he is uliarly qualified by training to take the leadership in such & program.” * ok ok X “We feel bound to say,” remarks the use Herald, “that the pending survey, no matter how broad a range it may take, will not begin to reveal all of the diverse causes, some of them psychological, which reached their con- nt culmination in the stock slump of last Fall. But the major provoca- tions can and doubtless will be iaid bare by the commission. The resulting dis- closure will be, as the President expects, useful as a warning; but how far and how long it will serve as a specu- lative deterrent is another question.” “Some of the signs of improvement to which the President points are un- deniable,” concedes the New York Times, but that paper adds: “The question will occur to many whether a President who feels it his duty to cheer us up when bad times have come should not also have felt it his duty to warn us solemn- ly in advance when he saw the bad times coming and understood perfectly the causes which were bring them on.” ‘The Harrisburg Telegraph feels that the inquiries of the commission “ought to be broader than the mere emergency phase of business and em- loyment.” The Asheville Times offers comment on organized effort for the future: “The whole project is still in the nebulous stage. Meanwhile, the lain duty of everybody, the call of telligent self-interest, is continued co-operative action everywhere to carry every day a little farther the process of economic reo:ve*ry.: ‘The New York Sun finds it “charac- teristic of the President's attitude toward such problems that he should propose the creation of a * nd anti-Smith Democrats were because he a:u the New York governor n campaign. But, matters into consideration, Senato: ::&-nwbunuum‘:‘mmh \ mnnhun of business, economics, and .gunltun to study all avail= able roads tow: rd economic stability.” On this the Sun operation of Federal ments and private enterprise dur six months just past has accomplisked & great deal in helping the recovery of business and in providing whatever stabilization has been economically yuhnc and private, already in That _there is merit in the optimism of the President is the conclusion of the Oklahoma City Times, the Kalamagoo Gazette and the Altoona Mirror. The Jersey City Journal calis the speech “the " clearest - statement of his- own philosophy of American business and government which he has yet made,” and holds that “most le hail Mr. Hoover's phil as sincere, practical and happy.” ‘The Richmond News Leader avers: “It would be worse than ungracious to discount the substantial relief that President Hoover brought to business by the conferences he called soon after the stock smash. Beyond all doubt, he cushioned the fall. Business has picked itself up and has gone on, not very briskly, to be sure, but without crutches.” ‘The new commission “would face diffi- cult d]l:lbors. but w?ydd‘ have 3 rl:': spont opportunt for _ service,” tgglu ent of the San Antonio ress. Spokane Spokesman-Review credits the President with having “ren- dered a service to the Nation” in his the’ peat, and shorten up the period of distrust i and inactivity. And Aerial Defense. From the Bay City Dally Times. A Southern college foot ball team by airp] ‘Those boys will be or & e next Fall. mw km:‘ f course, all about expected the “fiying tackls An 0Odd Fact. From the Des Moines Tribune-Capital Seems queer that the should decrease in places, where &b~ traffic isn’t so dangerous. Opportunity Muffed. From the Hamilton, Ontario, Spectator. ‘That Buffalo patient who bit his den- tist missed a chance to immortalise himself when he forgot to say: “Now, this is going to hurt just a little bit.” ————— Phoney Old World. From the Topeka Daily Capital. First it was the telephone, then the microphone and now the iconophone is announced. This world 1s getting more phony all the time, How About Vice Versa? Prom the Little Rock Arksnsas Democrat. B ances don't have to show ‘em off. e ———— How to Fight Safely. From the Omahs World-Herald. tions dueling is not a bit dangerous. But public has observed mge“u. e ——— Taming the Wolf. Prom the Adrian Daily Telegram. 80 unsuccessful in dri from his doorstep that the animal now is practically house brokea. Large Scale Service. From the Boston Transcript. In & London house of 300 apartments a radio set has been installed to serve them fi'u ‘Whether o& not the a:nlnl meet convention select o XA i ROL Biated.