Evening Star Newspaper, May 14, 1930, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR e With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. WEDNESDAY......May 14, 1830 THEODORE W. NOYES. ...Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company iness Office: Bus! o4 11ty 8t and Pennivivania ave Rork Shice: 110 East taid e aflQ!' Lake Michigan Building Wean Ofice; 14, Regent'St.. Londom: England. Carrier Within the City. Blars oy ey ¢ VT mOBLR and Binday ‘Stai > 60c per month Sunday’ Siar ) 65¢ per month Sc per copy ch mouth. telephone The Sunday St ago o Collection made at the end of ea ders may be sent in by mail of jAtional 5000, Rate by Mali—Payable in Advance. Maryland and_Virgi ily and 8 o iy only junday only All Other States and Canada. E}}y and sunday. fvr.l|.’§g. jmo das o0y " e R Member of the Assoiated Press. The Associated Press Is exclusively entitied %0 the ‘use for republication of all news dis- tehes credited o it or not otherwise cred- tea in_thi: Iso the local ) ews publishe ts of publication of special dispatches hei are also reserved. Washington's Petition. The petition and argument delivered | to Congress today by representatives of the Citizens’ Joint Committee on Dis- trict of Columbia Fiscal Relations, texts of which appear elsewhere in today's Star, represent the plea of a united ‘Washiagton for fair treatment at the hands of its legislature, possessed of exclusive governing power over this community of taxpayers. . ‘The petition sets forth that while Congress has refused all propositions to amend the definite proportionate con- tribution provision of the law of 1922, and while the sixty-forty provision is the existing substantive law, Congress provided as a temporary provision of the appropriation act of 1925 a lump sum payment and has renewed this ex- ception to the provisions of substantive law in each annual appropriation since that date. As long as this lump sum remains in effect, Congress should cor- rect some of its grosser and more ob- vious injustices by (1) “increasing substantially, both on general and spe- cific grounds, the basic lump sum pay- ment; (2) exclude great national or semi-national projects from the Dis~ trict bill and finance them on some other supply bill, so wording the items thus excluded as to set forth the exact method of financing in relation to the amounts of contribution by Nation and Capital that is thought to be just, or (3) provide for a local as well as na- tional maximum of contribution, on the assumption that it is the impotent loeal partner who alone needs this protec- tion, or (4) by referendum or other- ‘wise permit the local taxpayers to have some effective say in regard to the amount of local taxes and the purposes for which the tax money is to be ex- The Senate this year has increased the lump sum payment. The retention of that increase depends upon the con- ferees, and for this current District bill it 15 the only equitable action that is left open to them. ‘The members of Congress, anxious to hear the volce of united Washington, have before them a petition, signed by the representatives of the city's civic organizations. The right of petition is the only one Jeft to them as Ameri- cans who are denied partieipation in their Government or & yoice in the coun- sels of those who govern them, tax them and expend the revenues from their taxes. It is & petition that justice, logic and fair dealing demand; that cannot be denied without denying that justice, zc and fair dealing enter the equa- ———— It 15 not to be assumed thet the guilty person in the Baker homicide case can go uppunished. If still alive, the police have the satisfaction of knowing that he must be haunted by a guilty conscience. ——ee A naval ratio is an abstruse proposi- tion combining ethical delicacies with the higher mathematics. ——a———— A Race for Publicity. Not satisfied with the hearings on the London naval treaty conducted by the foreign relations committee of the Benate, Chairman Hale of the naval affairs committee 15 launching today p hearings before his own committee, It 18 well undarstood that Mr. Hale is not friendly . the limitation treaty. The supporiers of the treaty have been able to obtain favorable publicity on a large scale throughout the country by the presentation of their case to the foreign relations committee by Secretary Stim- son, head of the American delegation to the London Conference. With possibly a few exceptions, the members of the foreign relations committee look upon the treaty with a friendly eye. ‘To walt until the foreign relations committee has completed its hearings on the treaty before opening a barrage on the pact through hearings of their own apparently has become too much for the opponents of the treaty to| endure. Hence the insistence by Benator Hale that his committee go ahead with its inquiry into how the Navy will be left by the terms of the treaty. The insistence that the Secretary of the Navy come before the naval affairs committee of the Senate before the foreign relations committee, | which actually has the treaty before it, has had an opportunity to interrogate Secretary Adams is scarcely a curteous | proceeding. However, the opponents of the treaty are faced with the necessity of bullding, if they can, sentiment against the treaty as rapidly as possible. ‘They have sought in every way possible | to have the consideration of the treaty | in the Senate postponed until next ‘Winter. Having failed in that attempt, they are unwilling to let the grass grow | under their feet before they open fire | on the London pact. \ Senator Hale might, if he wished, bave sat with the foreign relations | committee at the hearings which it is oconducting on the treaty. As & matter of courtesy he might have asked questions of the witnesses himself under such conditions. But the ob- Ject of the naval affairs hearings on the ticaty is to bring as much evidence into foreground as possible which may be unfavorable to the treaty. Two - members of the naval affairs committee are members of the foreign relations committee. They are Senator Robinson B¢ | has predicted that each step, however, | conventence and efficiency, should have the Senate and a member of the Ameri- can delegation to the London Con- ference, and Senator Swanson of Vir- ginia, the ranking Democrat on both committees. Senator Robinson is a strong advocate of the treaty and Sén- ator Swanson has not indicated op- position to the paect up to this time. It will be interesting to see which of the committee hearings they will at- tend today. Opponents of the Lendon naval treaty are exercised net so much over the pending treaty as they are over what may happen in the future. They fear that it may be a step toward much greater reduction in naval strength when the next naval conference is held in 1935, for example. They represent the school which believes in a big navy and in no reduction. Secretary Stim- son has emphasized in his statement before the foreign relations committee the fact that naval reduction is a mate ter which must come by degrees. He will make the next step easler to take. He has not suggested that there should be no navy to guard the ocoasts of America and its far-flung commerce. But he represents the idea that there should be a reasonable limit to the size of all navies, both in the interests of international peace and in order to lessen the tax burden on the peoples of the world. A reduction in naval strength, Mr. Stimson belleves, must result in lessening fear and suspicion and in building up confidence necessary to stable peace. The pending naval limitation treaty will give to the United States a astrong, well-balanced navy, on & parity in strength with the navy of Great Britain and of a ratio with the navy of Japan somewhere between 10—6 and 10—7. But it is not this treaty so much as it is fear of other treaties in the future that gives the big navy group eause for worry, r—o—s. * The Park Bill Passes. The Senate's quick passage of the Capper-Cramton park bill yesterday in effect assures the enactment of this im- portant legislation at this session of Congress and constitutes one of the greatest steps ever taken for adequate park and parkwey development in and near the American Capital. The power issue, which threatened for a time to produce sparks in the Senate, melted away unnoticed. Signature of the bill by the President will set up an effective safeguard against power development of the Potomac by private interests and the irretrievable loss of a beautiful area, now to be held in trust by the people against the time that demand and necessity may force them to develop it themselves. The effect of the bill upon park de- velopment in Washington will be to place in the hands of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission a large sum of money for immediate acquisition and development of available ar which, if left open to commercial devel- opment or to uncertain yearly appropri- ations, might have been destroyed. The bill places upon the taxpayers of this community an unequal and inequit- able burden in financing a park de- velopment that is broadly national in its scope and purpose. But the actual cost, to them, of repaying the adyance granted in the bill is no greater than the current cost of annually financing the work of the National Oapital Park and Planning Commission, and the remedy for the ‘evils in the park bill should be applied through return to the fixed ratio system of appropriating for the Capital, or, in leu of that, by materially increasing the lump sum. ‘The measure goes now to conference over a few changes written by the Senate. With its final enactment will come the test of its efficacy in develop- ing park areas outside of Washington, & test depending for its suceess upon the amount of financial responsibility the voters of Maryland and Virginia are willing to assume. That remains an open question. ————— A poet laureate is not expected to write much. The salary is so small that if there were a poets’ union he would not be permitted to compose more than one or two lines a year. By making a record flight over the land instead of the sea, Lindbergh makes it & little safer for those who seek to duplicate or surpass his achieve- ments. ————e——— The New Supreme Court. Decision by the commission in charge of the project for a building for the Supreme Court to proceed at once with the preparation of the site, the drawing of plans and the construction itself as- sures an early beginning on this long delayed project. The site chosen, the block between Maryland avenue and East Capitol, First and Second streets, corresponding in part to that occupled by the Library of Congress, is that which has been favored for many years for this purpose, Its suitdbility was recognized almost immediately after the extension of the Capitol grounds to the present dimensions. It was especially advocated when the Library of Con- gress was placed across the street to the south. A sentimental objection that the use of this space for a Supreme Court structure would involve ‘he raz- ing of a bullding of some historic note, that which served as the meeting | place for the Congress when the Capi- | tol was burned by the British in 1814, was ignored in the interest of the proper placement of the chief court of the Nation. For a long period, when the need of a separate home for the Supreme Court was acknowledged, objections were raised by the justices themselves against the removal of the court from the Capi- tol. They did not want to leave the precincts hallowed by the presence of the court for many decades. There was a certain convenience, too, in the im- mediate proximity of Congress, mem- bers of which occasionally appeared before the court in cases of importance, However, this objection was pvercome through the influence of the late Chief Justice Taft, who recognized that the court, in justice to its own dignity and a separate and adequate housing. He was the chairman of the commission for the construction of the building and now in his stead is Chief Justice Hughes, who is an ardent advocate of a Supreme Court structure separated from the legislative unit of the Govern- ment. Sufficlent funds have been already appropriated to permit the immediate A8 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 1930. ——— e e e —————— —— THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. of the working plan and also an actual atart upon the eonstruction. The pend- ing legislative appropriation bill con- tains an additional fund of a million dollars to carry forward the work in the next fiscal year. By the Autumn, it is now expected, the site will have been cleared and the foundation werk will have been started, thus soon presenting tangible evidence of an enterprise that has been nearly half a century in the making. N Fridtjof Nansen, Explorers of a later day were destined to penetrate deeper into the unknown | book. polar region, but it is with Fridtjof Nan- sen that the world for many years as- sociated the term and idea of “farthest North.” Dr. Nansen's urtimely death at Oslo, at the age of sixty-eight, takes his friends and admirers by surprise, for they had no intimation that the Viking of the Arctic was in failing health. Indeed, when recently in the United States Dr. Nansen disclosed his plans for an invasion of the North Polar Basin in the great German dirigible Graf Zeppelin. Age did not wither his zest for new achievement in the domain with which his name will forever be honerably and conspicuously identified. Nansen was known to most of his cotemporaries as an explorer. But he was scholar, scientist, humanitarian and statesman begides. He played a decisive part in effecting the separation of Norway from Sweden in 1905. The Norwegian people held his services in that bloodless revolution in such high esteem that there was a strong move- ment to make him the first king of modern Norway. It was in 1888 that Nansen carried out the famous Arctic expedition that was to take him to the latitude of 86 degrees and 14 minutes—the then “farthest North.” Five years later, with Nansen at the head of another company of gallant Norsemen, the second expe- dition, aboard the Fram, set out on & venture lasting three years, filled with peril and hardships, and destined to be rich in polar achievement, Nansen takes his place among the immortals of the Arctic. Peary and Amundsen, Greely and Byrd, are names which Americans will always bracket in reverential pride. R Statistics are always valuable. The present census may be relied on to pro- duce information of considerably more importance than the naturai increase of population in thriving communities. The citizen should co-operate and not fall into the error of regarding the census taken as representing & spirit more or less related to idle curiosity. B e India is still the land of mysterious knowledge. Gandhi is making it the scene of strange disclosures in rudi- mentary polities. e e A tariff war will not involve any loss of life, but it will call for a surrender of treasure by persons who cannot resist the temptation to reach for the profits offered by smuggling. = ———— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Investigation. ‘We hear anew the wise men state: “Once more we must investigate! 80 bring the magnifying glass To trace the wonders as they pass, For planets new we'll search the sky, Or deeper into atoms pry. ‘What's more, we're trying to prepare For safer transit through the air, And when to go or when to stop ‘To satisfy the traffic cop. We're reading wicked literature To tear away each page impure. Above, below, from dawn till late, We're called on to investigate!” No Objection. “Don't you object to the enormous campaign fund your antagonist is using?” “No,” answered Senator Sorghum. “I am confident of my own suceess, and if the other fellow insists on wasting his money, it serves him right.” Jud Tunkins says “when daylight sav- ing arrives out his way one man's opinion is as good as another’s, even about the time of day.” Discreet Hesitation. I'd like to sing & bit of rhyme To tell the beauty of a flow'r ‘That smiles at me from time to time In sunshine or a passing show'r. But now its smile shows gentle cheer. With never an unfriendly hint. Should I rhyme on, it might, I e Disclose a slight sarcastic glint, Fortune Telling. “Do you believe in fortune telling?" “Implicitly,” answered Miss Cayenne. “When I feel interested in knowing what any one’s fortune is, I go to the most reliable of all fortune tellers, the publications on file in father's office that list financial ratings.” “Some of us,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, ‘respect our ancestors too much and ourselves too little.” Historic Incident, One of the people boldly came And rose to a dictator's fame. And, with his rule established, he Put on more airs than royalty. “I don't believe in ghoses,” said Uncle Eben, “but I ain’ puttin’ up no argument on de subject, cause I don' want to take any chance of bein' con- vinced.” oo Some Day He May. From the Bioux Falls Daily Argus-Leader. Some day Lindbergh will do some- thing risky, such as driving an auto- mobile. —rat— Sharp Seasoning in India. From the Omahs World-Herald. Some of them over there in India are putting a sharper sezsoning than salt into the situation. e Best Way to Preserve Fruit. From the Loutsville Times. Household hint: The best way to pre- serve fruit is to keep it locked up if there are children around the home. e Gets Somewhere by Pull. Prom the Harttord Daily Tim A man has glided from the West to New York with no power except a pull. Usually the destination is Washington. From the Grand Rapids Press. ‘Women occupy & wider sphere than formerly, but doing their best to of Arkansas, the Democratic leader of clearing of the site and the preparation reduce i “Dear Sir: Some day won't you write an article on procrastination to make some of us so ashamed of this sin that we never will be ity of it again. I've been putting for a whole year writing to you and thanking you for an article you had on good diction in sing- ing. 1 clipped it and loaned it, and it Was never returned (you might write something on that subject, too). I'm very anxious to have this for my scrap- . From a voice teacher's point of view, it was invaluable, and I have used it with many of my pupils. “Sineerely, H.T.” Knowing nothing technically of dic- tion in singing, we were rather pleased that common sense, as applied to this art could win the approval of a teacher. Common sense is like procrastination —a thoroughly human thing. By using it candidly, not being afraid of it, one often may achieve results beyond the reach of mere mind. . Procrastination is in a class with insomnia. If one lies awake and wor- ries about lying awake, he is far worse off than if he just lies awake. Eminent medical men agree (and this seems to be one thing on which they do agree) that there is no particular hurt from insomnia if one can keep from thinking about it. They point out the plain fact that few persons who complain of not sleep- ing seem to be injured much by it. Even those who assert that they “didn’t sl & wink last night” get along pretty probably is, doctors say, oh cases the victims actually sleep a great deal more than they think they do, and that in any case the hu- man system needs rest, and that appre- ciable benefit is derived from relaxa- tion, whether there be sleep attending or not. E R kX Procrastination is the thief of time, the poet Young said in his “Night Thoughts.” The following lines, sel- dom quoted, are: “Year after year it steals, till all are And to the mercies of & moment leave The vast concerns of an eternal scene.” 8o it goes, indeed, with the article which our correspondent desired. Al- kug_;.nuombly good index t,” we have been un- the article which was desired in this case. “‘Procrastination” is one of those in- teresting Latin words which somehow always appeal to the man or woman who speaks English. You will hear a Ic' of pother about how such words are not as good as the “simple, strong Anglo-Saxon words.” The latter are so strong, indeed, that they need no perennial defense in the shape of sneering at the many charm- ingly complex words which have come to us the Latin and the Greek. “Procrastination” is a wow, to use good slang. It comes from the Latin pro, forward, plus crastinus, of tomor- row, and means to put off till tomorrow or from day to day. Dilatoriness is an approximate synonym. ere is a curious similarity between our word of the moment and tHe name of the jolly old Greek robber of my- thology, one Procrustes, who enjoyed placing his victims on an iron bed and stretching them to fit. He was properly killed by Theseus, who thus cut short Ll:; career of the inventor of the metal i * ok % “Let us leave hurry to slaves,” said Emerson in one of his grand moments. He who never procrastinates is very much of a slave, although he may be terribly efficient, and all that. And some of the best little procras- tinators we know do manage to get a great deal done. to keep e intangible group which includes all those who, though their own or others’ are forced to be perpetual the-Spot. Procrastination often is the only means open to thousands of persons for putting themselves into the class, whether of wealth of this world’s goods or of mind, or of both, in which one may not do = thing simply because one does not choose to do & thing. Think of all the hundreds of thou- sands of persons who are forced by necessities, disagreeable or agreeable, to get up at certain fixed times every mornihg! There is no possibility for enviable procrastination there. One cannot put off that downtown journey until tomorrow or from day to day. But when it comes to bringing back that book borrowed from old Jim 8mith several months ago—ah, how pleasur- ably one may procrastinate to one's heart's content! * ok ok ok Procrastination is not something to be recommended to children or to youni mople beginning the real journey of e. One must of necessity tell them to “strike while +the iron is hot,” and ladie out the old saws about “work is the key to success,” and “I would rather be right than President.” (How about being right and being President, too?) ose who have arrived at years of discretion will be able to procrastinate with some skill and much enjoyment. Nor would we agree with our corre-| spondent that procrastination is a sin, except in certain cases, depending largely upon how well one comes out, or the reverse. Sametimes by skillful rastination the entire necessity for action is averted. The matter takes care of it- self. Had one rushed in immediately, as no doubt was proper, a grand how- dee-do would have resulted, but now the affair has smoothed itself out perfectly without the necessity for the slightest exertion on any one's part. No doubt it is the memory of such successful procrastinations, glorious rob: beries against the old fellow Time, which makes so many people put things off from day to day. In the back of the head lies a recol- lection of a time when putting some- thing or other off for & few days solved the entire problem more expeditiously :.ihln any amount of action could have one. s These are scores to the credit of a Burely little can be said in defense of that bad type of pro- crastination which so many people suf- fer from. This is one fsult, unlike the well known halitosis, which its victims read- 1 recognize as pelonging to them. “I wish I could stop putting things off,” they will say. They know that they are dilatory, and yet for the life of them they cannot help it, This attitude, when carried to an ex- treme, makes its victims helpless farers in the great rolling sea of time. Time is so interwoven with life that in some aspects it may be regarded as life itself. Therefore, various wise men of past ages went to the extreme of hoarding it, as if nothing else in life counted. It was against this attitude that Emer- son rebelled. Manners, according to him, were more valuable than safe- guarding time, Time is ple In itself; it is the in- dividual's share of it which counts. d it was a wise old book which said that neither years nor yet gray hairs are measures of a man's life, but whether he lived at peace with Ged. In relation to the verities there can be no procrastination, thank Heaven, for they are eternal, time is limitless, and we are immortai! WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. If the comparatively slim attendance at the Senate foreign relations commit- tee hearings on the naval treaty are any criterion, popular interest in it is not very intense. An oil scandal se- ance or a lobby tragi-comedy would have drawn immensely bigger crowds. Seventy-five per cent of the persons present to hear Secretary Stimson ex- plain and defend the London pact con- sisted of women. Mrs. Stimson and Mrs. David A. Reed, themselves hero- ines of the late unpleasantness on the Thames, were among them. The un- failing Alice Longworth, hatless, as usual, had a place of vantage near the head of the committee table. The Sen- ate itself is not very excited over the treaty. It will not begin to generate the passions, pro and con, which the Washington conference agreements pro- duced, to say nothing of the battle of the century over the treaty of Ver- sailles. A common obs tion on tol Hil is that, being “harmless, three-power London arrangement is as- sused of relatively rapid ratification. ] Secretary Stimson caused Senator Borah and the foreign relations chair- man's colleagues to smile over a refer- ence to the Chilean-Argentinian naval treaty of 1902, which the Secretary de- scribed as the almost forgotten fore- runner of Anglo-American ‘“parity.” The two South American republics de- cided they wanted “parity” and agreed to have it. Stimson said that the Span- ish experts of the State Department never agreed on an exact Englith trans- lation of the term employed In the Chilean-Argentinian treaty. One render- ing is “a prudent equilibrium,” while another defines parity as “a discreet equipoise.” L ‘When the treaty is under scrutiny before Senator Hale's naval affairs com- mittee, there’ll be much talk of tuns| and guns, especially og\;ns. 1t is likely to be brought out, this erver learns, that the cleavage on 6-inch and 8-inch cali- bers among our Navy Department ex- perts is a difference of opinion between the younger and older officers of the fleet. The older authorities, of whom Admiral Hilary P. Jones may be taken as a type, incline to the bellef that the higher caliber is the more valuable for combat purposes. The younger school, | robably personified by Admiral William e. Pratt, chief naval adviser at London, ! 1s sald to belleve that in & modern fleet action 6-inch weapons would have a distinct advantage. The smaller guns | appear, if this technical proposition is | here hbeing correctly stated, to lend| themselves to more rapid fire then 8- inch guns. * ok k% Veraciously it is reported that when a friend and admirer “razzed” Repre-| sentative Ruth Hanna McCormick about | her $250,000 Illinois senatorial primary expense account and asked how she ex- pected to get away with it, she replied, “Isn't it the womap, who pays and pays and pays?” * ook ow Frank Morrison, veteran secretary of the American Federation of Labor, rates high on Capitol Hill these days as a political prophet. On the day before the recent vote on Judge Parker's nomina- tion to the Supreme Court, Morrison showed a reporter for Labor, the rail- waymen'’s alért official organ in Wash- ington, a Senate telly sheet on which the Federation official had checked off each of the 96 Senators. When the roll was caljed 24 hours later, the votes for and against, including the pairs, were in the exact order Morrison foreshad-: owe4, without a single miss, Frelinghuysen boosters in the New Jersey Republican primary contest have captured a Dawes—Carlos Dawes of Columbus, Ohio—as a recruit for their cause, He is a nephew of Ambassador Charles G. Dawes, of whom Rival Can- didate Dwight W. Morrow was recently a naval conference colleague in London. Frelinghuysen g\lbllcl!y gloats: “Young Mr, Dawes, who is now speaking for Mr. Frelinghuysen, states that after he and Gen. Dawes had encountered our candidate in Dublin last year the Am- bassador lauded Mr. Prelinghuysen and cited him to the young man as a per- son ‘whose footsteps you should follow.’ . * ok ok % Thirteen has no terrors for Repre- sentative Louis Ludlow, Democrat, of Indiana. In fact, ever since the recent Indiana primary, he has decided to adopt 13 as his faverite number, Lud- low was No. 13 on the ballot and the official returns show that he recelved about 13 times as many votes as his opponent for the congressional nomina- tion from the big Indianapolis district, The lanky Hoosier was a member of the press gallery of Congress for 28 years prior to degenerating into a successful politician, * ok ok o , One of the numerous distinguished jurists recently attending law o':nven- | tons in Washington teok occasion to make public protest against the modern abuse of the word ‘reaction” in the American language. He pointed out that most people, when they ask a men’s “reaction” to this or that, actu- ally want his “opinion.” Quoth the Jurist: “Why they don't say ‘opinion’ instead of ‘reaction’ has always passed my comprehension. What would people think if they read, in connection wft.h a Supreme Court decree, that Holmes, Brandeis and Stone had rendered dis- senting ‘reactions’?” L Coming events in politics have a habit of casting their shadow a long time before, sometimes. Of such kidney is the report circulating in Washington that when Senator Thaddeus H. Cara- way, Democrat, of Arkansas, aspires to succeed himself in 1932, he’ll find ar- rayed against him in the Democratic party Maj. O. L. Bodenhamer, Little Rock banker and now national com- mander of the American Legion. The Senate lobby chairman, who has been in the Upper House since 1921, is sald bv his friends to be lostn{ no sleep over the Bodenhamer prospect. (Copyright. 1030.) ———or—e. Separate Government For Moros Championed From the New York Herald-Tribune. Every now and then we hear of the Moros, but American indifference to their fate is so overwhelming that even death, that usual attractor of public at- tention, falls to move us. The Moros are the Mahometan peo&lzs living in the southern islands of the Philippine Archipelago. Our representatives gave them to understand some years ago that if they handed in their arms they would be governed by us. Instead we have sub- Jected them to the cruel and inefficient government of the Filipinos—a a)elwle the Moros have always despised and which, before Americans disarmed them, they were ll“fl able to defeat. Not for nothing is the Moro problem referred to as “America’s shame.” A bill has been pending for a long time to make a separate province for the Moros and to give them their own American governor, to be appointed by the Governor Generai of the Philippines without the consent of the Manila Sen- ate. There is no good reason why this should not be done, and there is every reason, moral and otherwisé, why we should even at this late date thus keep faith with the Moros. alien rule have created a set of outlaws in the Moro country who are ready to do almost anything rather than submit to the Manila politico. Every now and then these unfortunates come into con- tact with the constabulary and there is a fight. If enough persons are injured we hear about it. tl) stabulary officer and 3 killed and 3 officers and 15 privates were wounded. When the Moros fight they do so with all the r bred of desperation. Why will not Congress do its plain duty to these poor le and give them the regional status they de. sire and desqrve? ‘The horrors of | twice Writer Would Locate ‘Wheaton College Students the Bditer of The Star: I am trying to locate the present whereabouts or date of death of the following former Wheaton College (Seminary) students, who attended at the date mentioned: Lillian 8. Aldrich, 1873-7 Harriet Louise Collins, 1890-91. Sabra B. Ellis, 1841. Hattle E. Jordan, 1881-82. Mrs. G. G. Lindstrom (Beatrice Hoxie Sawin), 1913-14, formerly 212 Insurance Building. Mrs. Robert Morrison (Idella Make- peace), 1870-71. Ethel A. Nye, 1893-94. Mrs. Richard Rathburn Augusta Hume), 1866-68. Fanny Steele, 1859-60. Fannic A. Waters, 1870-71. Sarah Elizabeth Hitchcock, born April 15, 1833, daughter of Asa and Lucy M. She had brothers, Asa Morse Hitchcock, Dr. Jeremiah E. Hitehcock (wife, Harriet E. Bush) and Joseph Vail Hitchcock, who died April 11, 1862, in Washington, and a sister, Harrie Keep Hitchcoek. ‘The information s desired for the college register. (Mrs) F. B. MATTHEWS. 31 Herrick street, Beverly, Mass. ——— et (Caroline Make the Safety Zones At Car Stops Really Safe To the Editor of The Star: Observation of traffic conditions ex- | gy, isting on Connecticut avenue, relative to the safety of street car patrons, prompts me to offer a suggestion to im- prove that condition. Although safety zones have been painted at car stops, these lines mean very little in the life of many motor- l;fis. who deliberately drive through them. After observing the effect of placing three silent cops at the entrance of safety zones located at Upton street and also at the Bureau of Standards, and the zealous manner in which these particular zones are avoided by all motorists, I am convinced that the em- ployment of a row of three silents at each gone would provide the desired remedy. This added protection would speed uP street car transportation, for instead of standing on the curb and frantically waving to the approaching n, the passengers would occupy the zones, if given a fair chance for safety. AUGUSTUS 8. NESS. A Motion Made for an American Laureate To the Editor of The Why does not the U. S. A. have a poet laureate? Are we to continue let- ting kingdoms at least Ap:m to be more civilized and cultured than our Republic? “Poets are the unacknowi- edged legislators of the world,” and the amount of appreciation shown them by a nation is a measure of that land’s in- tellectual capacity. I move that a poet laureate be ap- pointed for the United States of Amer- ics, and, inasmuch as the United States Treasury is richer than that of ‘most countries, I further move that the United States Government appropriate $1,000 per annum for said poet laureate. ‘Who will second the motion? One thousand dollars is the approxi- mate cost of cne shell shot from a naval cannon. If such a high tribute can continually be paid to Mars, cannot a few scattered coins be handed to the Muse, jyst once a year? ED. JAS. IRVINE. e Prefers Bird Notes > To Radio Squawks To the Editor of The Star: 1 have just read your editorial, “Spring Radio Torment,” and I heartily concur with every word of it. I would like to get out in the woods where al! 1 would hear would be birds. N. E. LYONS. College Honor System Has One Big Weakness Prom the Columbus Ohle State Journal. From Ohio Wflle‘ynn ;on:u wordn' t.l:‘:t the honor system in effect amo: > dents there is about to be abandoned because it has not worked. This mere bald statement of the situation would seem to indicate that so many of Ohio Wesleyan students are dishonest that such a system cannot be effective. The Teal weakness of the system, however, lies in the fact that it depends for its successful operation upon the willing- ness of all students to report others whq are cheating in examinations. Students as a whole realize that they have come to college for their own profit. They cannot be aroused over the fact that a few of their number, for some unknown reason, try to beat a pleasant system of acquiring knowledge and of stimulating the desire for wisdom. If some of their fellows see reason to cheat, it is no concern of the main body. It is not their loss, nor the faculty's loss. No one loses but the cheater. Colleges are not primarily institu- tions to enforce discipline. No one is forced to attend college. To enroll is a voluntary act and is done by the in. dividual because he belleves he will en- Joy college life and a close contact with learning, and in the belief that his mind will be stimulated and he himself will benefit. If some -of his neighbors, by some peculiar twist of mind, will insist upon attending classes even though he despises them, #hd then will cheat to in examination, it is not his worry. m should he run to the faculty with tales? It would do him no good, the faculty would be no better off, and the cheater still would be a cheater. ————————— Economic Conditions In Mexico Improving Prom the Long Beach Press-Telegram. On the basis of returns on United States investments in Mexico, it may be sald that economic conditions in that country are improving. ‘The Southern Pacific’s extension into Mexico reports a net operating income of $1,004,606 for 1929. This is particu- larly encouraging in view of the handi- caps and losses that have been faced by that company almost from the first year of its venture below the border. Travelers in the fertile but largely un- developed west coast of the Mexican Republic, the Southern Pacific’s line from Nogales to Guadalajara has been the special objective of revolutionary attack whenever such uprisings have oc- curred. Even during the brief rebel- lion which sprang up on the day when Herbert Hoover was inaugurated Presi- dent of the United States, 199 trestles on this raflroad line were destroyegd, and serious damage inflicted on. steel viaducts and other properties. "The prompt quelling of that attack on the Gil administration has had much to do with the introduction of an era of comparative peace for Mexico. Gil's successor has announced policies that invite development of latent re- sources. The results show in the a hual report of “Sud Pacific de Mexico,’ and in other balance sheets. Mexico's west coast, where fewer than a million ple now.reside in an area as e as California and con- taining a much more extensive tillable acreage, is capable of supporting a larger population than is found in the entire nation, Governors of the various western states of Mexico are, as a rule, rolruslvl, and they are by he prosperity that has come to Cali- lom& This wide-awake Interest is displayed also by the business leaders of the west coast. There is a general feeling that revolution is & plague to be avoided; and while it may be un- reasonable to predict that Mexico has seen its last civil war, there are many indications that point to greater secur- 44y henceforth. ANSWERS TO This great service is maintained by The Evening Star for the benefit of its readers, who may use it every day with- out eost to themselves. to do is ask for any information de- sired and they will receive prompt an- swers by mail. Questions must be clearly written and stated as briefly as ible. lncloud 2-cent lt'?_glep l‘voerml:- urn tage, and address Star mofinunlon Bureau, Frederic ! Haskin, director, Washington, D. C. Q. What city has the most interur- ban trains entering it>—J. 8. M. A. The Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce says that Indianapolis claims to be the largest interurban railway center in the world. The number of electric trains operating in and out of| the city in 24 hours is 256, 198 of which are passenger trains and 58 freight. In addition these lines operate 216 busses in and out of the city within the period mentioned. Q. Dodthe cell?; o{_ u.?e brain multiply hild grows?—T. B. uA‘. cMnn‘trnobvm with a full comple- ment of brain cells. No cells are nddr:.d cells. These fibs long, increase in number, and become more intricate in their intercommuni- cation as growth progresses. . Why is pineapple so often men- Mnaned lnhymenug for-dieting to reduce?— H. "A. Pineapple contains fewer calories pound most fruits. It contains Effz 200 calories per pound. Q. What does the education bill pro- vide for?—E. P. T. A. The education bill provide creation of a Department of Education, with a Secretary in the President's cab- inet; co-ordination within the new De- partment of Federal Agencies dealing with education; authorization for funds to enable the department to conduct research in education; creation of an advisory council of State superintend- ents of education. The bill does not provide Federal aid to the States for education; give to the department the control of education within the States; interfere with the conduct of private and parochial schools; standardise edu- cation within the States. . What are the regulations com- ;:gnnlpuufornlrllmlflm E. A. A. The Postal Laws and Regulations say that the posts or other supports upon which rural mail boxes are erected shall be of neat design, and may be of wood, metal or concrete, of suitable strength and dimensions; may be either round or square, plain or ornamental, with or without fixed or movable arm, and shall be painted white. The use of | effigies as supports or of supports in- tendéd to represent figures or mechan- ical objects, either grotesque or wise, is prohibited. \ Q. Why do people u{ it was Dives who called for a cup of water.in the Bibie when in reality the text says “a certain rich man"?—J. H. C. ' A. Dives is not a name, but an ad- Jective, meaning “rich.” Through com- mon usage it has come to be accepted as the name of the man in the parable mentioned. Q. When and whom was wood veneer first used>—W. L. D. A. In the British Museum in London there are examples of Egyptiam veneer work that are many thousand years old. Pliny ug that veneer came into general for A. | says that it QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN, Prance and England in the eighteenth century. Q. After registering s trade mark in the United States Patent Office, is it necessary to ter it in the separate States?—F. P. L. A. A trade mark registered in the United States Patent Office gives gro- tection to the registrant over ‘whole United States, and it is not necessary to register the trade mark in any indi- vidual State. The registration of & trade mark is simply notice to the pub- lic that it is the owner’s property. Q. Where is Columbus’ log book for the voyage upon which he discovered America?—W. E. K. A. It is in the Archivo de Indias, Academia de la Historia, Madrid, Spain. . When will the rajlway be finished which will connect New York and Buenos Aires?>—K. R. A. The Pan-American Union says at the it time it s possible to go by rail from the United States as far South as the Gulf of Fonseca, in Central America. Cnmlmlin the opposite direc- tion there is connection between Buenos Aires and Cuzco, Peru, via La Paz, Bolivia, and Lake Titicaca (steamer across the lake). From La Paz there is rall connection to the Peruvian coast at Mollendo. Between Cuzco and Panama there is a long stretch of country which has not yet been penetrated by a rail- rosd. Approximately speaking, the dis- tance between New York end Buenos Aires to be covered by the proposed Pan-American railroad is 10,228 miles. Of this distance there remain to be oconstructed many miles of rail. Capital hesitates to construct railways in sparsely settled regions where there is little prospect for trafic. Hence it may be many years before there is a through 1 route from New York to Buenos Alres. In fact, there is little attention being given at present to railway con- struction in Latin America. General interest in those countries centers in highway building and the extension of air Iines. Q. What is known as the golden age of Chinese poetry?—B. N. A. The eighth century AD. is so designated. It was during this time that Li Po, Tu Fu and Po Chu-{ wrote their exquisite lyrics. Q. Can you tell me an uthor of the French " that is now being produced in New York City?>—R. F. W. the work of Marcel about A. “Topaze” is Pagnol, one of the younger French dra- matists and the most successful. He is a native of Marseiile, and was a teacher in the public schools until he achieved a modest success with a war lphy a few years ago. “Topaze” was his first big , success, and it is said that his royal- ties from it have already amounted to more than 16,000,000 francs, or approxi- mately $650,000. Seventy-four ecom- panies are now producing it in various rts of the world. M. Pagnol is about 0 years old, and is unmarried. He speaks and writes English, but his plays are all written in French, and he does not translate them himself. Q. In what months of the o the most weddi! take place?—E. MoO. A. Most marriages occur during the months of Jurie and Septemben October ;::x November representing a secondary Q. How can the flavor of garlic be eliminated from milk?—D. A. The Bureau of Dairy Industry is necessary to remove cows from garlic-infested pastu four to use in Rome in his day. It obtained | great popularity in the Netherlands, Death of ‘Richard Clarke of South Dakota, known to three generations as “Deadwood Dick” and hero of “dime novels” in a former day. is accompanied by eulogies of that character of the once | wild and woolly West. A contrast be- tween his moral qualities and those of present-day gunmen is drawn by vari- ous editors. was one of those says the Little Rock Arkansas Democrat, “who took the advice to ‘est, and upon | arrival there made life a little less haz- | ardous, hence a bit more enjoyable for less militant souls by cleaning out most of the desperadoes. What literate boy | of three decades ago did not know of | ‘Deadwood Dick." u-np‘?lcr. guard, express rider! How many mil- lions of mythical redskins, bandiis and | the like have bitten the dust of back | yards when the ‘bang, bang!’ of the| trusty wooden pistols of another million {houmif\;l ‘Deadwood Dicks’ rang out on e air!” ploneers,” ‘A graying generation® remarks the Milwaukee Sentinel, “will remember his romanticized exploits, recorded in pa- per-covered boks. These books were | read surreptitiously, because they were supposed to be subversive to youthful discipline and morals. Nowadays they are regarded not only as harm] but | naive”” The New Bedford Standard adds: “We know nothing of the man who has identify him with the ‘Deadwood Dick’ of romance who played so gallant & part in the winning of the West, whose pony express riding across the plains and the bad lands called for just such qualities of courage and fidelity as are now ex- :nm'l)lu'nea by the daring pilots of the air- ail.” * k¥ ¥ “If boys of that day had aml become ~Indian fh?l’hfl"' fihblx‘l‘i‘:n‘th': Albany Evening News, “it was just as good an ambition as any for a boy for a time. Today we have new heroes— Lindl:lerrh and !hy‘.rd and somehow no one ‘wri of novels about them." "Then .B’x:uum g:t}é g'yq; ol that “these stories obal no harm, and in t.hey created interest S in pioneer life. There were no mnplmcn:l of ‘sound morals’ in these stories and the related plays. Virtue always went at a premium, and vice and villainy were deeply discounted in the end,” concludes that paper. “‘Deadwood Dick’ scared a mothers of boy recalls the Fort Worth Record-Telegram, “much more horrifically than he ever alarmed a sin- gle ‘road agent.’ Throughout the era of three generations of youthful Ameri- cans there easily could have been an eighteenth amendment against the man- ufacture, circulation and fon of ‘dime novels'—if somebody had only thought of it. Dime noveis and ciga- rettes, these, two—and the greatest of fi;:rsf' was the one you were caught with” | “Thus passes a link with the glorious past, and at the end a kindly old gen- tleman, living at home with his family, but with an aura of romance matched by few of his cotemporaries,” states the Newark Evening News, while the Port Huron Times-Herald “pauses a moment | to give honor to this last one of a once famous group .whose names and deeds probably will not be blazoned upon the pages of history even as much as many of those who have fhyed lesser parts in the progress of the Nation.” ~The Savannah Morning News says lived to see an Indian-infested reglon where to live was dangerous and to die with boots on was normal grow into a great region where the lestrian has to jump for his life befors high-run- ning cars and the racketeer lives in clover.” ““He scoffed,” declares the Manchester Union, “at stories of modern gunplay, such as is indulged in by Chicago rack- eteers, as the antics of amateurs and know-nothings. What were these to the exploits of a man at whose nam Indians had trembled?” The Charle: ton Daily Mail also is impressed by the fact that “he lived to see the West transformed, become civilized, and the springing up in these modern centers of ‘clvilization’ of a new, meaner and more despicablp class of gangsters than the just died, but shall forever| mained of which “Dead the Pittsburgh Post and with them their frays fortunes will be rem:bu‘d 3 he should U.8 A bile has nlzlled.lv,%e‘a e. tell thlmll the lrtgl:’ what after seven hours before milkirg to eliminat: the garlic flavor and odor from milk. Laurels for “Deadwood Dick” 7 As Dime Novel Hero Passes notorious bad men of the plains and the mountains.” * % ‘“What the old West experienced, where zettlement had rushed ahead of government,” avers the Buffalo Eve- ning News, “was less menacing than the conditi which have developed modern cities through the activities of gangsters whose conception of courage usually is to catch somebody unpre- pared and defenseless. ‘Deadwood Dick,’ , it he followed the news of the day in his later yeers, must have heard & deal that made him wonder.” The New Orleans ltem holds that the ‘“paper- backed thrillers taught protectf of other folks' property and other folks® virtue”; that “thelr readers arcse con- secrated to all sorts of chivalric ideals.” The Harrishurg Telegraph recalls that “when you had read a ‘Deadwood Dick’ story * * * you never had sn ambition less worthy than to help the helpless or to n’ht. in defense of those who needed aid.’ “May he be divested of none of his romantic trappings,” hopes the St. Paul Pioneer Press, “as he sweeps through the pearly gates on his favorite steed, and may he have no difficulty in recog- nising his old friends, whether histori- / cal, sentimental or fictional!" The Scranton Times observes that “he died with his boots off,” but that “he re- true to the old West as he knew it.” The Dayton Daily News finds it ironic that he died, “not from a bullet, but from the same disease which threat- ens the city tenderloot. “'He was not responsible for all the tales that were credited to him,” re- marks the St. Louis Times, “but he was the brave frontiersman, guide and rider the pony express whom Edward L. ler used as the basis for 64 of the thrillers. In fact, it is claimed that ‘Deadwood Dick’ took little stock in the rbacks written around his name. gult. whether or not he approved them, )‘:‘Mmgm- was something to conjure The New York Sun declares that the “halo of fame about him was so lasting that when he was 82 the enterprising 1y | folk of the Black Hills shipped him by ¢ airplane to Washington to invite Presi- dent Coolidge to spend the Summer in the peaceful shades of a land once dan- gerous.” The Racine Journal-News pays the tribute that “civilization fol- lowed the prints of his boots and the trail of his ponies’ hoofs.” ‘Something tells us,” comments the Grand Rapids @ress, “that ‘Deadwood Dick’ had more in common with the sensible present than with the sho(t~ on-sight psychol Assuming that in the late seventies.” his “resplendent figure was a sort of - sun myth _evolved by a cteri - nerate !lv:fionht.s.‘y Lhecqc g ews 18 convinced that the I yarns “did a real service to mnnkln‘;‘.’"’d Of the “hard-living, fighting fellows” e g fellow: e, S & e -Gazette gives - ance that “they will not befl‘om;?w“l‘n‘ their ,, and Mahatma and Moonshine. Prom the Butte Daily Post. If Mahatma Gandhi really wants to success of “eivil disobedience” try moonshining in the Guard Watch. From the Toledo Blade. A watch stopped a bullet and saved the life of a druggist, which proves there is one reliable stop watch. Has His Doubts. From the Bay City Daily Times. Henry Ford claims that the sutomo- ) verage intelligence one you can't cop. o s Saving Time? Prom the Lincoln, Nebr., State Journal. wont Easterners with - do day] One be ned for may be pardo; ) {)