Evening Star Newspaper, May 19, 1930, Page 8

WTHE EVENING STAR e Wiih Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. BLONDAY.........May 19, 1930 THEODORE W. NOYES. ...Editor The Evening Star Ne per Company ivanta_Ave. ser month c per copy eacn mouth, sent in or telephons Rate by Maifl—Payable in Advance. and Vi Sunday. B All Other States and Canada. » and Sundsy (vr mo.. 8! flku oty Ll TE 884 Member of the Assouiated Press. E':'.‘“‘.'."I&“‘ unfiation o tches credited to it or not ot in paper and also t| Tew R e The New Zoning Proposdl. With his usual good judgment, Ms Donald A. Davison, senior Assistant En- gineer Commissioner and executive of- ficer of the Zoning Commission, is ob- faining the reaction of representative etvic organisations concerning sn im- portant amendment to the soning regu- lations to create & new “use district” in sections now zoned as residential. The proposal should awaken wide inter- @st. Its possible application in the case of Sixteenth street alone is enough to develop valuable discussion. Briefly, Maj. Davison's suggestion is $hat something should be done in the ©ase of those streets or sections of the eity which new conditions have made undesirable for residential use, but the The case of Sixteenth street is well known. On lower Sixteenth, from H street to Scott Circle, traffic congestion, proximity to downtown business and new frontier were created by the treaty of Versailles, with & corresponding new complex of customs complications all the way across the continent in every direction. Acting in close liaison with the League, M. Briand belleves that a “European committee” has it in its p.wer, by meeting at stated intervals, to iron out customs difficulties to the common benefit. Its eventual mission would be to lower tariffs among the European states themselves. Bhould so millennial a result some pllot can walk away from, regardiess of the condition of the , day ensue, the effect on the United | jump. States could be nothing but beneficial, for the purpose of a European customs entente would be to improve the eco- nomic status of each participating na- tion. A Europe of incteased buying power, consequent upon economic sta- bilisation, is a Europe which can never menace, but only advantage, the United States. It would be a Europe in whose markets our trade opportunities would automatically be wider, not shrunken. Much water will flow beneath the bridges of the Thames, the Seine, the Tiber, the Spree, the Rhine and the Danube before Europe buries the eco- nomic hatchet. No American export or shipping knees have need to quake over it for some time to come. With Signor Mussolini preaching the doctrine that right is vain without might, and talking about the Fascist legions who “stand waiting at the firing post,” there is am- ple reason for believing that M. Briand has had a dream destined to be irides- cent and probably doomed to become evanescent. ——e Less Than Half a Million. Disappointment over the Capital's census showing, as indicated by the pre- liminary report of an enumeration of 485,716, is tempered by the reflection that what Washington has failed to gain during the past ten years has been prob- ably more than compensated for by the increase in the population of the metro- politan area, adjacent to the Capital, in Maryland and Virginia. No census fig- ures covering those sections are as yet announced, but it is evident to the eye of any visitor to those parts of the two adjacent States which lie within the environs of Washington that they have grown greatly in population in recent years, and this growth has been to some extent at the expense of the District. ‘The figure announced for the District, 486,716, has evoked challenge. The as- sertion is made that the count could not possibly have been complete. A call for a re-enumeration has been sounded by some. It is, however, to be doubted whether such a recount will take place. If evidence can be presented that there was & considerable overlooking or ignor- ing of residents on the part of the enumerators a case may be made fof another tally. But it is to be borne in mind that there is no conceivable in- centive for & slighting of the count by the fleld operatives of the Census Bu- reau. Their compensation is scaled by their returns. A slack count is to the distinct disadvantage of the enumerator. Certain unofficial estimates had been made prior to the official count, based upon the city directory and the tele- phone directory. These indicated that the half-million point would be passed. ‘There were some expectations of 550,000. million people for the District was some extent inspired by the showing in 1920, when the census figures at 437,571, an increase from 1910 about thirty-two per cent. That an abnormal growth, due chiefly quently the drawing to Washington of large numbers of people from other Civil War. The population in 1860 was 175,080, and in 1870 it was 131,709, an increase of more than seventy-five per until the Great War, being slightly under thirty-five per cent between 1870 and 1880, a little less than thirty per cent between 1880 and 1800, slightly under twenty-ome per cent between 1890 and 1900, and about nineteen per cent between 1900 and 1910. ‘The indicated increase of eleven per cent between 1920 and 1930 is regarded as & wholesome growth, perhaps slightly , | smaller than was to have been expected, Toad from Eighteenth to Sixteenth Street and residential portions of M from the celebrities of hom- feide and even from the somewhat mo- {otonous array of beauty prise winners. The U. 8. of Europe. M. Briand's “United States of Eu- Bope,” hatched at Geneva last year “be- Sween a pear and a piece of cheese,” Bas at length emerged in the form of & memorandum to the twenty-six Eu- Bopean states concerned with France in the plan. Simultaneous with its gromulgation in Europe, the French charge d'affaires at Washington on Saturday called at the State Depart- it ! -3 ¥ I | EE!? % § ¢ ! but possibly lessened by the reaction from the abnormal increase of war time., The reaction from the Civil War increase of seventy-five per cent brought the Capital’s growth during the next decade to a percentage less than half as great. This latest percentage of increase, about eleven, is a little more than a third as great as that of the preceding decade, itself an abnormal and somewhat temporary growth. —_— e Fame Hag fts’ permities.” For what is now a cansiderable time Charles Lind- bergh has been obliged to pay storage on the immense number of valuable gifts showered upon him by sincere ad- mirers. American literature is regarded as on the threshold of a bright future. ‘The’ spelling bee 15 @ -step beyond-the .cross- word puzzle in demonstrating a readi- ness to start from & rudiféntary basis. —_———t————— A Mass Jump. ‘This parachuting seems likely to be- come & popular pastime, although te the average person the prospect of step- ping out of a plane two thousand or more feet in the air is not caloulated to increase the appetite. Yesterday, over Roosevelt Pleld, New York, twenty-one - | men went aloft in a huge passenger plane and twenty of them, just for the fun of it, hopped out to float gracefully to earth, secure beneath the bellying folds of their silken life preservers. The pilot, the twenty-first man, would prob- ably have jumped also, since it seemed to be all the style, but there was noth- ing the matter with the plane and he the jump made several years ago by Lieut. John A. MacReady, famous transcontinental fiyer, over Dayton, Ohlo, in the dead of night. MacReady ran out of gas, and realizsing that the situation, in so far as the landing was concerned, was hopeless, deliberately stepped out. Whether MacReady was scared has never been ascertained, but it is certain that he was no more frightened than an unnamed resident of Dayton who was walking calmly along the street only to be hailed by the fiyer who was stuck high up in a tree over his head. It was a comic ending to a near tragedy. Bince that night hundreds and per- haps thousands of parachute jumps have been made and there is yet to be recorded a single failure of a chute to open if given the proper amount of distance, which is from one hundred to five hundred feet. Verily, “take me up with your parachute” may become the song of the day. ———t— Ball Park Pests. It is refreshing to the many thou- sands of Washingtonians who patronize Clark Griffith’s base ball team stadium t learn of police activity to quell the small army of young pests who extort varying sums from them for allegedly *watching” their cars. One such youth- ful “racketeer” found himself in court yesterday for indulging in this practice and although the judge merely took his personal bond for the offense his arrest and court appearance should be & salutary lesson to others of his ilk. ‘Why this method of bleeding the pub- lic has been permitted for so many years is a mystery. The boys, except in rare cases, do not actually guard the cars and even if they did their guard- ianship would do no good provided a thief decided to make away with either the vehicles or the property contained therein. In such a contingency they are too small to be of any use to the owners. As a matter of fact, they gen- erally disappear from the scene imme diately after they have made a “con- tract” with the motorist, only to be on hand at the ending of the game. the motorist who incurs their youthful wrath by underpaying them is likely | fright to find damage to his tires or car when he next attends a ball game. A few more arrests and perhaps a few stiff fines should impress these lads with the necessity of seeking other occupa- tions. The police and the courts should co-operate to relieve a long-suffering publie. ———— A United States of Europe may be un- dertaken without carrying out the pre- cise ideas of our own republic. The name “United States” has become & valuable quantity and America holds no copyright on it. ——ee— Having comfortably settled himself in o congenial home, Calvin Coolidge shows no inclination to allow politics to con- template Washington, D. C.,, with ideas of another moving day. ——— e Several Senators have become 80 sus- picious of balloting that they believe in starting the investigation ahead of the election. As & maritime expert, Josephus Daniels is convinced that prohibition is even more at sea than when he demand- ed total abstinence for the Navy. B o — SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Lay of the Modern Mariner, He sailed on high with purpose fair, ‘The North Pole to explore. He says what he discovered there ‘Was water—nothing more. He sought the equatorial ses To find ‘s tropic shore. All that about him seemed to be Was water—nothing more. Upon the stock exchange he sought His fortunes to restore, And found that most of what he'd bought ‘Was water—nothing more. Then into politics he went " And helped the drys to score; And even here the argument ‘Was water—nothing more Discreet Dullness. “Your recent remarks have been rather dull.” “Intentionelly so0,” answered Senator Sorghum. “A statesinin has to be care- ! ful of his record. I don't want to make the mistake of saying anything so epi- grammatic and apropos that it will be remembered against me in case I choose to change my mind.” Jud Tunkins says you can't keep up with Summier boarders. One of the city gals thinks a spelling bee is & new kind of trained insect. New Friendships. From time-tried friends he turned away, ‘To them he would not stick. Each handsome stranger, so they say, Oould sell him a gold brick. Indifference to Siumber. “Thomas Edison says he can do with- out sleep.” “So can & great many persons,” an- swered Miss Cayenne. “You may meet them any night. The remarkable fea- ture of Edison’s case is that he isn't & dancing man.” “To rejoice at another’s misfortune,” sald Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “is & method of so influencing your sur- roundings as to make happiness a little And | °8%. A Gold Star Mother Speaks My little lad of other days sleeps there. He bore the brunt of battle; I must bear The agonizing loneliness of years. He played his part. Shall I give way to tears? He loved tall fragrant lilies, and they grew In our old-fashioned garden, bright with dew. I'm taking these; their beauty shields my loss; They’ll guard his grave, and bloom about his cross. —VIRGINIA A. NELSON. THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. ‘Walking, looking and reading—have {ofiever topped to think how much of tving consists of these? And the latter is, in a sense, a form of the second. There are many men and women to whom these acts constitute the finest recreation. ‘They have got past the time of life when the deeds of so-called “flaming Louth" appeal. Talk about “one mad our,” as the movies put it, leaves them merely amused. They have come to that saner view- point which consists of regarding the world of llvln,il things with one-half mty. one-fourth tolerance and one- One may nr;lt-hese proportions, ac- cording to the individual temperament. ‘There is no written law in the matter, unl'l: perhaps no two would agree upon Propos anyway. Incidents such as the following have given these good people pause: To call a boy & lout because he was clumsy, a fool because he was dumb, to learn afterward that he was suffering from & curvature of the spine. After one such mistake, human as it is to be intolerant, without knowing the facts, the people of whom we write are willing to suspend judgment. They no longer jump to conclusions R R A wi -cracl sneer e ‘who know it l:.l . ¥ : * ok It is this class of persons who find more than ordinary pleasure in walk- g. alking, to them, is at once the easiest exercise, because it is the most natural, and the most necessary, even in an automobile age. ‘The spice of danger is added through the necessity for expert dodging. Those who have grown up with the cities tend to forget just what a trial g & street is nowadays. es_one’s life in one's very block, and must dodge to There are many traps, t0o, such as be::g caught between traffic lanes or lus to Step off a street car platform directly into the path of an onrushing had white with ident in which is left limp on a curb, with a realisation that one came near getting “knocked for a goal.” Yet these perils do not_destroy the charm of city walking. It is still so &nnmu that nothing invented by man harm it. 1In addition to those who love walking for itself, there are scores of men and women who have realized that inces- sant riding is bad for the general health. There are walking clubs. The real walkers are those who walk for the recreation of the thing. Some find that being out in the open air with the large leg muscles actively at work increases their power of thinking. Many great men, Charles ong whom was ickens, k long hikes, as walks over 5 miles are called, in order to “pep up” their thinking, especially ;}Ilen they had some knotty problem to ve. Others are 8o interested in what they See as they walk that problem think- % is practically at a ‘standstill. In , a5 in other affairs of life, there is no hard and fast rule; what is good for one is bad f*or‘m:th:r, and so on. Walking unconsciously runs into looking. ‘This is one of the unconscious amuse- ments of life which mankind shares with the animals. stands with his forepaws shield or door, looking the rushing in_the face? ‘Who gets more real “kick’ ing things than honest Tom, 5 way, to draw conclusions, which may help him with time and eternity, or which may not, according to the way his mind contacts or fails to contact with life and living, * k% % Reading is so natural to millions that ;:(n‘et cmm“t“ mnum actions, as were not a artificial luct of civilization. peod Yet regarded as an attempt at think- ing, or statement of ts, reading is as nat as and . ‘The reader reads without much. con: sclous effort. Indeed, some writers ha claimed that too much reading is a waste of time, or merely another form of laziness. ‘We have never been able to with this dictum. 18 roper amusement and instruction, and lew have the right to set themselves up as judges in the matter of where another man’s amusement ends pnd his instruction begins. One may sympathise with the slogan of a national magazine, that it is something of a distinction to be its import of those words is to think of the hun- of iliiterates in every country in the world to realise as never before that reading is very much worth while, no matter how one reads, or when, or where. (And we almost said “or what.”) Reading is a form of mental walk- ing, of intellectual looking. When the physical legs are tired, the nnm saw on land or sea. ‘This ess is reading, a ‘which can be taken exactly nelf by walking nor nor any other matter. better by exercise of the imagination, all the nations of the world could show the most ced travel traveler. In addition to these practical bene- fits, reading gives the reader benefits of heart and mind which it alone can work up in curiously formed creatures whose oine great law is that “nothing uellwt.:\??dfl‘bld but thinking Men give this statement lip service in youth, but as they grow older they begin to see that it is nfl.\x{ true, and that in this completer knowledge read- ing stands next to experience master teacher, b WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Naval officers, geese and golden eggs are not often associated, but current comment on Capitol Hill indicates that if certain sailors don't trim their sails, m'fl be in grave danger of killing the that lays the golden egg of naval appropriations. In straight English, the attack launched by the General Navy Board against the London treaty can easily produce the exact reverse of the purpose i is intended to accomplish. of Congress into building ships beyond the treaty pro- visions, the Joneses and the Bristols may goad Congress into building below those ons. When Senator “Joe” Rob- exclaimed at the foreign relations committee hearing that “I shall have ething to say about the General Navy Board later on,” he hinted Fretty plain- ly that the American conference dele- knockdown and Reed signaled his ess to j the fray. As the London delegates who have the ear of the Senate, Robinson and Reed do not intend lying down un- der the Navy men's innuendoes that our spokesmen “sold out” and ‘“sur- rendered.” e s ) Congressional and naval boosters of | tel superpreparedness will do well to re- member that there is a deep substratum of “Little Navy” sentiment in both houses, which has proved the undoin of big building programs. y nee only recall what pened & couple of years ago to the Coolidge-Wilbur 71- ship project. It was blown into smith- ereens as the result of the most deadly drive, Congress ever knew up to that time, The pacifist crusaders who won that victory all but duplicated it last ;ur in the fight for the 15-cruiser bill. 'hey do not conceal thelr purpose of op- posing the expansion contemplated un- der the London treaty. If men in and out of Congress, and in and out of the Navy, keep up the talk about the perils of war with Japan and about the grim ::onnee.-ltym 0‘1‘ an Amarl':,m fleet every tary inch, gun and ton as strong as the British fleet—well, watch the pa cifist harangue grow in volume. Wal tch Oo?fl - ments, and watch the “treaty Navy” gradually lun.*wt:aout trace. 0 and Quibbiing Benators ave n IS to T unt concede to seven other eminent Ameri- cans as much enlightenment and patri- A ek n L. Charles cls . | omnipresence of * te | Navy. The feud ber seven representatives at the conference were ng in the wood and had the wool pulled over their eyes? What justi- fles the flaw-pickers in imagining that they could have done any better? The eounu? before long is extremely likely to be found asking some or all of these questions, * % * * One of the behind-the-scenes = nations of the General Navy .B!u?l n to send a civilian- ruled delegation to London. The never gulu forgave the Commapder-in- E:;l'fi &r:h::l. It :lumd and Still fig- , tha and s with our defenses at umhamn:lcnfi :{ sne‘ne:evt:e not n;o?mm ldienne mlxy ars and fears Jeers. almost equally wide. mnent is fl:’e‘ itics” within the sween the Montagues ween val houses of Pntt‘ ll:(fl Jones. * % One of the most piquant revelations about the late Parker \?nplnnm.n- in the Senate relates to the Dixon-Newton ‘master political stroke” letter. It shows what the busy signal over the lephone can lead to. As the story goes, Assistant Becretary of the Interior Dixon called up Walter H. Newton, the Hoover_political secretary, to tell him about Judge Parker. Newton was im- mersed in a long-distance call. Dixon, it s, couldn’t wait to get thi oft chest over the wire, 50 he si himself down and writes Newton a letter. The rest is history. X * Kok X & shop Associa Justice Stone of the United sm: Supreme Court. Rugg entered the plea ocourts work even "u.klzl\p_wl o Justice, “I wrote 91.” tactics WhY | New York in 1926. bassadorships are unng - pensive Tuxuries Sor. & countes. e has allowed several Argentinian ambassa- dorahips. vari 4o in lous empty, after the ,. and 's States the power ANSWERS TO QUESTION BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN, Q. Is there a “csar” of golf as there * | is of base ball?>—H. J. D. has | of New Hampshire. It was posit | “Czar” Landis in professional base ball. iblicans fell uj platform m opposed to national prohibition-and who agree with Morrow, just as there are millions of Democrats who sided with Gov. way' ibtful, although the wets in the have been greatly Sto ranks by the declaration of Mr. to tional prohibition—if there is thing. * kxR On the wet issue Mr. Morrow might be able to command now the su) of the delegations to the Republican national convention of 10 States, New York and Pennsylvania included. But there are 38 other States. It !s pos- sible that sentiment in regard to the eighteenth amendment may switch in years to 'Mem tbepolnt course, thdt Mr. Morrow to have such a nomination. He has abandoned business and turned to pub- lic service, or rather the service of the blic, so it is to be presumed that would not be averse to the White jporary home. On the other hand, if the prohibition wave t recede, he has eliminated him- from by ‘There is not the slightest doubt that Mr. Motrow's statement in regard to national hibition has greatly heartened wets. has ore appealing. has in recent years Jro a8 2 public man until he has become an outstanding figure. He has never before made any public statement in regard to the prohibition issue and his decision in the matter was watched for with great eagerness. 1 New York, Massachuset! New Jersey, raf having the Federal Government con- tinue in the business of prohibiting the American people from ing and using alcoholic beverages has & deep impression. LR X ok right within its own borders to Q. To what Negro actor is there a memorial in the Shak are Theater at Stratford-on-Avon?—S. P. 8. A. There is a memorial window in the Shakespeare Theater to Ira Ald- ridge, who played Othello to Edmund Keane's Iago. . Is the Imperial Geyser in lm?nmne National Park n’ow in tion?—W. C. I.n“ ‘This new ,"h'l'ch has buni. vigorous eruption for two years, now quiescent. Q. What are the names of the men whose busts were unveiled recently in the Hall of Fame?—W. K. A. The most recently elected members of the Hall of Fame of New York University - were John oy Yel- erup- more ooflnr. Patrick Henry, thuedm guis] ed men were unveiled on the uni- versity campus on May 8. The bust of Adams was unveiled by Henry L. Ab. bott, great-grea n of Pres- ident; that of Bancroft by Prof. Wilder 's by Cooper, a Howes by his granddaugnte lowe's inddat T, A tice L. Hopkl:ml: uuun'n'n by Horace Mann, a grandson; Motley's John S, S e R nej i flnm ‘T. Manton; hgnm 's . Henry 3 o of Richmond, greateranddaoghier. of Q. Are women finding crews of commercial anes?—M. B. A. Young women are now being em- ployed to act as stewardesses on air- Pplanes, o Q. When were the Federal Reserve Banks started?—S. A. o Federal reserve act was passed fll?“ and the banks were opened in Q. Please give a short biography of Willlam Mulk , boxer—P. H. A. William Muldoon was born on May 25, 1845, in what is now the village of Belfast, N. Y. His early c! was his was the stre: of a grown man and at 18 he For unteered for service Joining .the 6th Regiment, New York, he saw action ‘under Oe‘l;. Sheridan v.hraun:;go shu‘:; andoah Valley cam) on a ! paign ‘while New York City. Later became & liceman and founded the New York Police Athletic Association. He won the Greco-Roman heavyweight champlonship. For a number of years nfnn finally i tg title on to 0t Rosber. ) Bu tly he ap- ‘war he 00d passed on his father's farm. At 14 |in Hawthorne wrote the Mountains” in the White Mountains discovered in 1805 by Francis Whitcomb and Brooks while king on the nmm the chin to the top of that the forehead the vertical distance m feet. The projection is mainly of Q. How thick is the ice in the Arctic Ocean?- H. 30 feet in pi mum thi as determined from a period of 18 years at 15 different sta- tions was 76 inches. e Q. How many portraits did Sully paint?—L. L. B. A.’rhmnu'm wuon:olm‘:nwh known of early portrait pain this country. He was extremely ‘There l:' r 3,000 listed !ulg por- tralts and subject paintings. % ti.nvluq\ur be put on wall paper? ""A.'The Bureau of Standards ssys that i Iacques a glossy, water-resistant finish. usually applied with a spray gun. Q. What kind of rifies does Johnson, ; | the explorer, use?—N. . A A. Martin Johnson uses several kinds of rifies, chiefly the .405 Winchester. laces in the | shellac. E3fs Ieefivciin Many Believe Court Ruling May Hamper Home, Most of the public comment on the reme et orce! of the prohibition law indicates & be- let that it will give force to the law. Significance is found in the fact th:f import, manufacture and sell alcoholic | from the , the sale to be made only by the State itself and not for consump- tion in any public place. “There is no question here of the return of the saloon. When I stated it ‘the saloon is and ought to be & in this country’ I meant it.” Referring to the principles of Thomas Jefferson and his followers, Giov. Smith | Rovever. m“nmln that in rural and sparse. ““They knew rur: - settled districts people would develop zl.fletvnt desires and customs from those in densely gp“\l‘&d sections and that if we were to be a nation united on truly national matters, there had to be a differentiation in local laws to allow for different local habits.’ Mr. Morrow said: “1 believe that the way out of the present difficulty is to recognize clearly the fundamental between the nature of the Federal Government and the State government. I believe this involves & repeal of the eighteenth amendment and the substitution therefor of an amendment which will restore to the " “fasor. iradle, sna toward the r_traffic, an Mw\lc{n the Federal Government power to give all possible protection and as- sistance to those States that desire complete prohibition against invasion from the States that do not.” along in his ad that alcoholic beverages shall be sold only by the State. That is & matter which Mr. Morrow appar- ently would leave to the individual States, along with the decision as to whether there should be any sale of alcoholic beverages within its borders. But otherwise the proj to meet the situstion which has arisen over prohibition are very similar. TR ‘Mr. Morrow of Gov. Smith the eigh! :hwfl not now become a the United States and a further poten- tial tower of strength against the con- tinuance of national prohibition. They are eager to support Representative Franklin Fort, who has announced his candidacy for the Republican sena- torial nomination as & supporter of the eighteenth amendment. And should Mr. Morrow be nominated, or Mr. Prelinghuysen, who also is on the wet side of the prohibition issue, the drys New Jersey are likely to put into Es fleld an independent dry flwm. can to split the party vote in November and elect a Democrat. Better a wet Democrat, they say, than to lose a grip on the Republican party. Such was of the Republican violation of the N8t | geen these law-de! were a constant c! and it was time, if only bl drys in [ moonshin: As the situstion s summed up by the Miss | Sell fiasks, malt, mixtures for brews, fiance of the Brewi 'ment it drags & dandelion into ges 1t with m ]‘.ml:: w Wl rohibits even far-flung cons) violate the eighteenth amendment!’ Probably a “Catch” in This.