Evening Star Newspaper, May 26, 1930, Page 8

A-8 {THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY.........May 26, 1830 YTHEODORE W. NOYES. ... Editor DT SO AR S The Evening B!“tu Nm:'w Company iness 11th St. id Pennsylvania Ave. wow Yotk Sftce: ‘190 East 4280 Bt. e: Lake Michigan Building. an ice: 14 Mgenl 8t.. London, gland. Rate by Carrier Within the City. !::llnl Star. .45¢ per month nln! and Sunday s Bundays) - 5 B - Star 'Qm B 60c per month - 85 e r : SOTer copy ra miay Be sent i b5 mall oF (ElepNIRS Ational 5000 i per month Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. uaryl:nl “x‘ All Other States and Canada. fly and Sundsy. jo-8 .. ily only .. Jdyr lay only 17 Member of the Associated Press. Associated Press is exclusively entitied e use for republication of all news dis- es credited o it or not othermise cred- atche SLR s ot Bl 20 pecial dispatches herein are also reserved. It Can Be Done. ‘The Commissioners will not have to submit their 1932 estimates, upon which Shey begin their serious work today, until July 15. In the meantime Con- grees will have disposed of the 1931 bill and settled the policy, for the time be- #ng, of the amount of Federal contribu- tion. That question is in the hands of the conferees now and the outcome re- mains a matter of conjecture. ‘Without anticipating the action of the conferees, however, the Commission- ers would do well to establish now their policy concerning the amount of the mext budget. For several years past the policy has been to compute the revenue avallability for the next fiscal year on the basis of the existing lump sum and tax rate. The budget figures have been Xkept within that total. But this year there is talk at the District Building ©f the necessity for a higher tax rate in 1933, provided, of course, that Congress does not increase the Federal contribu- tion. The assumption is that to~main- tain the District and to allow for a normal amount of improvement in 1932 the necessary funds will exceed the amount to be produced by the current tax rate and the $9,000,000 lump sum. ‘That may be perfectly true. But in framing their 1933 budget the Com- missioners should stick to the former Policy of confining thelr needs to the revenue that will be produced by the eurrent tax rate, plus whatever sum Congress allots for the 1931 budget. If the needs of the District exceed that sum, the needs should be curtailed. The tax rate should not be increased to en- compass them. There is no more logic in anticipating a raise in the tax rate to meet expenses than there is in antici- pating an increase in the Federal con- tribution. Neither the Commissioners nor the Budget Bureau has ever done the latter. . ‘The actual setting of the tax rate, of course, does not accompany the sub- mission of the budget. The size of the tax rate is based on the appropriations, ot the budget. The tax rate is fixed &t the beginning of the fiscal year, and the tax rate for the 1932 appropriations ‘will not be fixed until some time in June, " | Mussolini's outbursts are held in France | dethroned and discredited swashbuckler | had learned his lesson. It was the Hohenzollern who fanned imperial Germany’s naval ambitions with the slogan “Our future lies upon the water.” A fortnight ago Mussolini fulminated at Leghorn, “Italians, the sea is your future!” During one of the periodic Balkan crises in Central Eu- rope the Kaiser assured Austria that he was ready to take his place at her side “in shining armor.” Mussolini at Flor- ence last week proclaimed the doctrine that “right without might is vain” and adjured Fascist Italy to renew its faith in warships and machine guns. At Milan, with apparent reference to French alarms over his recent outgiv- |ings, the dictator warned Italians not to be upset by “the bleatings of foreign climax of his oratorical campaign in the northern provinces, Mussolini warned his hearers and all whom it might con- cern that his previous speeches were no impromptu affairs, but had been care- fully prepared in advance. They are, in other words, expressions of policy, 20t ebullitions of impulse. This morning's Paris dispatches re- port that while comment is restrained, to be ‘“extremely dangerous.” His Milanese peroration alone deserves that description: “We came back from Ver- sailles with a mutilated victory, but vic- tory is still within our grasp.” ‘The New York Times correspondent at Paris says, significantly, that “words like these will, it is felt, have an exciting influ- ence on others than the Italian people.” 1t is idle to prophesy to what dread lengths such talk will lead in Europe. But it is easy to understand that its continuance means a perpetuation of the old fears, the old animosities, the old perils, which precipitated the trage- dy of 1914. Against such a menace a Kellogg pact for the renunciation of war has gn uphill fight. e Uncle Sam’s Moving Day. 'This is Uncle Sam'’s moving day. He is moving into the first of his new houses, built to accommodate his busi- ness establishment, not of course the first of all he has provided, but the first of the great group that has been in the making for a,good many years and that when complete will at last give him an adequate equipment. The Internal Revenue structure is being oc- cupied today, and the occasion fis worthy of note, because of the long per- spective of the years for which the Government service has awaited proper accommodations. Never since the United States was organized has the Federal administra- tion had a proper home. It had only makeshift quarters before it moved to Washington, the Capital which was created for it, and it has to a greater or less degree had makeshift quarters ever since. Structures were erected in the early Washington days and were outgrown as soon as finished, and the overflow of the Government service was accommodated in privately owned build- ings. Branches of the Government were doubled up with others in incongruous combinations. When the plan to take the whole of the Mall-Avenue triangle for Government constructions was ad- vanced more than thirty years ago about twenty-five per cent of the Gov- ernment work was conducted in either rented or privately bullt and Govern- ment-owned structures poorly adapted 3031. Rut the duty of the Commission- ers is clear. Their own budget should eontemplate no increased taxes, and if thers are increases in the budget that will demand more revenue the Commis- sioners should leave the business of in- serting them to Congresa. ‘The revenues of the District, under the present fiscal arrangement, merely ©over the expense of maintaining the eity. Auditor Donovan Las shown that for the fiscal year 1931 maintenance and operation expenses amount to $30,- 200,000. Improvements, including the 93,000,000 Municipal Center item as carried in the House bill, amount to 612,086,000. Take out the Municipal Center item—paid for by the District surplus—and there is left $9,086,000. So the Federal Government contribution of $9,000,000 just about takes care of the normal annual improvements. Of course, District dollars and Fed- eral dollars are not earmarked for use, and it could as easily be said that the Federal Government allows $9,000,000 for maintenance and the District makes up the balance of the maintenance charge and finances the improvements. But the place to cut the 1932 budget now being framed, if Congress fails to increase the Federal sum, is in improve- ments, beginning with the elimination of any money for continuing work on the Municipal Center and the Zoo's building program. District taxes are high enough. If they fall to produce the balance be- tween the lump sum and the cost of normal improvements, the latter should be curtalled and the responsibility placed squarely where it belongs—on the inadequacy of the lump sum. e Texas will not entirely lose its old reputation as a fighting State so long as Thomas L. Blanton retains his de- termination to be & member of Con- gress. Mussolini. It is well for the peace of mind—if not the peace of Europe—that Signor Mussolini has ended his speechmaking expedition through Northern Italy. A few more demonstrations like that in the Piaszi del Duomo at Milan on Satur- day and no one could guarantee what might happen on a continent which, ever sinee Fascism ascended the throne &t Rome, has lived as if atop a powder barrel. Addressing a fervid throng of 125,000 in the Cathedral City which | ranks as the cradle of his creed, Musso- Uni stirred it to such e pitch of frenzy that shouts of “Down With France!” echoed thunderously into his ears as he exhorted his black shirts to “let fly your fags and muskets The world will make full allowance for the invincible exuberance of El Duce’s temperament, as it ungrudging- ly acknowledges all that Fascism has done to revivify Italy and galvanize her national spirit into a new life of con- structive nationalism. But the world, stumbling haitingly and laboriously to- ‘ward international peace, and bending every effort at statesmen's command to progress in that direction, is dismayed, to the transaction of public business. When the Great War came and the Government’s housing needs were im- mensely increased, the Capital’s equip- ment was so wholly inadequate that dozens of temporary buildings had to be erected, some of flimsy and some of durable materials. This experience brought about the final action on a gen- eral building plan under which for the first time the Government is to have a complete structural outfit. The war actually delayed the beginning on this work, but that delay was of advantage in that it permitted the preparation of the best possible plans for the new work. Now the first unit of this housing sys- tem is completed and is today being occupled. It is not, structurally speak- ing, complete inasmuch as it is only & part of the ultimate edifice that is to occupy its allotted section of the tri- angle. What is known as the Inter- nal Revenue Building will later, upon the razing of the Post Office Depart- ment Building, when that in turn is replaced by a new structure immediate- ly to the west, be continued around the great rectangle to form one of the mon- umental structures of the Government group. A little to the west of this first oc- cupied unit is rising the Commerce Bullding, itself a triple structure, the center section of which will, it is now computed, be ready for occupancy in aboyt seven months, the wings to the south and the north following soon after. In the meantime probably other structures will have been started as conditions permit, with a clearance of the land by the present private oceu- pants. And so by a series of impulses this great program will be developgd, the Justice Department probably fol- lowing in short order and the Labor Department and Archives Buildings and Internal Revenue structure and the Post Office Department making a steady sequence of undertakings. It is most gratifying to those who have been working for years for the adoption and completion of this great plan to see the moving vans at work now in the shift of Uncle S8am's equipment to the first of his new official homes of the group that when completed will make Washington truly a great Capital City. [ Further questioning is to be under- taken regarding campaign funds to de- feat Al Smith. By this time Mr. Smith himself has probably forgotten that | there was any campaign. ———g Bricks 0ld and New. Man has been making bricks for euilding houses for so many centuries that the origin of the art is Jost in the perspective of time. From the ground clay has been taken, kneaded into a soft mass, perhaps mixed Wwith straw,, baked in the sun and laid in mits together to form walls. Some~ times the bricks have been given form by being pressed into molds before hardening. The earliest bricks, how- ever, were hand shaped and crudely formed. Modern brickmaking has been to put it mildly, at these sword flashes, saber rattlings and gun detonations from Mussolini. It is bound to consider them provocative, as they indubitably sre. It is painfully reminded of their slmost textual resemblance to explosive Ullerances of Willlam II before that improved, speeded and perfected, it would seem, until the ancient art has been forgotten. It has been taken for granted for some time, in these days of concrete construction, that brick- making has reached its peak. But brickmakers have not completed thelr course, by any means. At & ¢ THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, MAY 26, 1930. THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. meeting of the American Cerami® Society, held at Toromto, announe™ ment has recently been,made of & ReW process of brick manufacture that transcends anything history records, anything that modern metnods have produced. A means has been developed to make bricks twenty feet square, to reinforce them with steel, t0 make them 80 hard that they casfot be broken by any known method of destruction, to “pour” them into for! 8 veneer for the surfaces of structures, like concrete. This is brickmaking indeed. The process, it appears, consists of treating the 7&W material with heat first, instead of 8t the final stage. The slay, after puddling, is made white hot, at about 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit, and in a virtually molten state it is wolves in sheeps’ clothing.” To cap the | susceptible of being cast into any form or applied under pressure to any surface. It is contemplated that this material will be available for road construction as well as for walls and floors. In short, a new form of what is generally styled concrete is promised. ‘This new process may revolutionize bullding. Already there have been several “revolutions” in the construction ut. New materials have been developed, steel and plastic substances, in the application of which strange new forms have taken their place in the world. Now perhaps the molten brick, product of the same sort of clay that earliest man used for his rude structures, will effect another turnover in methods and result in still newer forms. —_———————— Constitutional Orators. For the first time in the history of the National Oratorical Contest Wash- ington wins. A District youth, Edmund A. Gullion, on Saturday night scored first place in the field of seven con- testants at Constitution Hall, with an oration and an impromptu speech that gave him premier rank and the national championship. For this distinction the Capital is enthusiastically grateful. On two other occasions the District has taken second place, its representative in the first contest indeed being tied for highest rank in the first scorjng of the Jjudges, only to receive secon ting on a revision of the tally. ‘The seventh competition has been more difficult than the others, for the reason that the element of impromptu speaking has been added. Those who were present on Saturday night at the contest finals could not fail to be deeply impressed with the ability c the seven young men and women who represented the country at large in their treatment of the topics that were handed to them immediately on completing their ora- tions. They had only forty-five minutes each for the consideration of these ques- tions and their four-minute discourses displayed a remarkable degree of acquaintance with the whole subject of constitutional history. ‘The preparation of the school pupils throughout the country for these com- petitions, especially on the latest lines with impromptu speaking added as part of the test, is highly educative. It is to be doubted if an equal number of grown-ups could upon the same notice have so effectively discussed the topics that were treated fluently, intelligently and understandingly by these young people Saturday night. . —_— e A United States Senator seeking re- election is just mow desirous of sus- pending his national "or international responsibilities long enough to attend to his own business. o Like many another energetic citizen, Grover Whalen has learned to contem- plate politics as a means of relief for the tired business man. .SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Gardening. We have heard with some depression there may be an Extra Session. In the good old Summertime when all is fair, When the butterfiles dash gayly through the fashion pages daily And the busy bees are bussing through the air, We may hear still further chatter over many a mystic matter As we carefully take note of public schemes. Each will be a faithful neighbor to the statesman at his labor, As we cultivate the garden of our dreams. As the days roll on before us, we will hear the murmuring chorus In the blossoming fields afar and in the trees. Great Ideas gathered slowly from the lofty and the lowly Will be offered as they irritate or please. And the flowery rhetoriclan will as- sume a proud position Where Fancy's beauty radiantly gleams. And for fruits we've earned so0 dearly we'll keep hoping all sincerely, As we cultivate the garden of our dreams. Prineiples and Policies. “In order to succeed, a ecandidate must think right.” “There is a delicate distinction .in- volved,” answered Senator Sorghum. “Whether he thinks ‘right or mot, he must be careful no# to guess wrpng.” Jud Tunkins says a man ghould tell his wife all about his business. She'll find it out anyhow. Abundant Interest. Oh, who will fear another war To pain a peaceful Nation, When there is such materis! for Still further conversation? Collections. “Were you never tempted to become a great art eollector?” “No,” answered Mr. Dustin Stax. “It means hard work with uncertain re- sults,” “Yet you are very fond of pictures.” “I am very fond of dogs. That fact doesn't mske me want te be & dog cateher,” “To think quickly,” sajd Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “is valusble. To spesk slowly is more so.” Seeking Solitude, Now do the famous fishermen ‘Toward shaded streams go hurrying, And say they have gone fishing, when She turned, and waved her hand to one window out of a thousand windows. ‘We who were passing car could not tell which window, and it made no difference; she knew, and that was all that counted. The huge barracks known as an apartment threw up before her and us rows upon rows of windows, all alike, all dark, although a bright morning sun was shining. ‘There was no cross ventilation there, and 30 no way for the outsiders to look ! and see things which perhaps they had no business of seeing. The child, turning on her way to school, or wherever she was going, waved an aloft-held hand to a window. It was not difficult to see, at least in imagination, the mother standing there, who had been waiting for the little one to get down in the elevator, and appear at last at the point from which she could wave her hand. This was the morning ceremonial of love. ok * Life is a battery of windows, out of which only a few are lighted for each one of us. The rest belong to everybody else. And everybody else constitutes such . bulk of humanity! Even the busiest little “joiner” that ever was knows only & tiny fraction of L g‘fl' centum. he remainder of us, who do not jolly ourselves intq & comfortless bellef that we know mankind in the raw, rough and altogether, realize full well that the more people we know the more there will remain to know. his is the curious mathematical progression of life. Perhaps no man knows fewer geog}e than the census taker, although he in- vades a thousand homes, and asks some of the most personal questions. He realizes that entry does not rake knowledge, that homes are opened him only because of one of two things, a desire to co-operate, or a respect for law. (Or fear of law, which is the same thing with Aom: ?‘oople;: It is a living wonder that many men and women do not go plain daffy on the subject of lonesomeness. Perhaps they do, and the asylums are full of em. Think of the lonesomeness of a human being, from the proverbial cradle to the proverbial end! The more he is surrounded by other human beings, the more lonesome he is. A man who keeps control of his own brain is at the peak of lonesomeness in the midst of a mob of which his reason will not permit him to be a part. The young man or woman who comes to & great city to make a fortune is for many days dying of lonesomeness, al- though surrounded by more people than they know what to do with. of laughirg, talking s whom such newcomers see impresses them as a dir.st slap at their own solitary position. Even Emerson, born phii..opher though he was, in his youth could not stand the sense of lonesomeness which came to him in the city. ‘“Farewell, proud city, I'm going home,” he said, in effect. * ok * % Mankind has built up many and mighty bulwarks against awareness of the solitary position in life. We have theaters, where strangers sit cheelk by J(;;zl, with only a polite glance at each other e ventions and so on. A convention is meeting at which men deliver so many znpers that the only way the delegates now about them is to read reports in on the street | ing, the daily papers. A secret society is & club which one finds out, after join- , has few, if any, it secrets, after all. A club is a place where men fake comradeship in the name of hu- manity. All of these devices are good in tha they help cover up, in the hu:;i"; urly of life, the battery of staring dows, in only one or two of which waving hands appear for each one of us. the expeditious use of these devices, one at a time or all together, a man may build up for himself a certain be- lief that he is widely known. “Call me Bill,” “Call me Jim"—that is all very well, and if it soothes it is excellent, but if one cannot fool himself by such sentiments, he should not worry about it at all. ‘There are plenty of things to worry about. & & ‘When one faces the thousand win- dows of life, hopelessly shut, the most of them, the fact to keep in mind is not that bright eyes do not gleam from the 999 windows, but that a pair of bright eyes, or several pairs of the one window. The little girl who knew her window and waved to it was a philosopher of sorts. She did not waste her time con- sidering the other windows. She did not lament the fact of silence from the majority, but rejoiced in the silent ap- plause from the one. is the correct attitude toward life, if life may be dogmatized. One has but to think over the persons one knows | ¢ to realize that far too often the oppo- site attitude is being taken, with sorry results for all concerned, and often for those not concerned. In many a community throughout the United States, especially where families are crowded too many in & given area, a sterile, negative attitude toward life is being taken unconscious- to | 1y, owing to force of circumstances. of such a com- | A psychological maj munity would show family A at odds with family B over exactly nothing at all; family A at odds with family C over exactly nothing at all; family B at war with family C, family C cast- ing assorted glares at family A, family D angry at family E, family X with ¥, and so on. All of these people have lost, among other precious jons, their sense of humor. They need a new mentality, s fresh way of looking at life and each other. They need to realize that no one is perfect and that the great- est mistake any human being can make 15 to concentrate on the faults of others and to refuse persistently to see the good sides. They ought to “snap out of it” for their own good, io that ,some future biographer of human nature will not use them for material for a new “Spoon River Anthology.” Many opti- mistic readers belleved that Masters had been too hard on human nature with his revealing hlosr-phlel, self- written by the departed residents of the town. Experience shows that al- most any community, especially where crowding prevails, could write its own “anthology,” and that it would be sur- prisingly like that of Spoon River. For one’s own sake as well as the sak- of others, there is but one atti- tude to take, and that is the tolerant, good-humored, square-deal attitude, give and take in its better aspects. ‘When you wave your hand to the one window out of a thousand windows remember that the other 999 windows harbor life and love, too, and that the best philosopher is he who combines the simplicity of the child with the mature attitude of tolerance, good will and good humor. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. How to get the best of those trou- blesome prohibition twins, Straddle and Trim, has just been shown out in Indi- ana, where, as “Jim" Watson ef can tell you, they know a thing or two about politics. Down in the Ohio River end of the State, at Madison—where Presi- dent Hoover set foot last Fall—the Hon. “Joe” N. Cravens was campal for the State senatorial nomination. A heckler broke in at one of Cravens' meetings with this leading question, “Will you vote dry in the Legislature?” The would-be Senator braced himself and replied, “I will.” There was only the faintest ripple of applausc. There- upon he added, “Not.” That didn't go | figh 50 big, either, and then the Hon. “Joe” neatly supplemented, “Commit myself | Lodg a t e.” That brought down the house. Indiana’s prohibition policy is, apparently, “Wait and see.” * k% America's present-hour favorite pas- time—roas the United States Sen- ate—lends timely interest to a new Roosevelt utterance, for which Owen ‘Wister, novelist and historian, assumes responsibility. In the June Harpers, in a chapter on Roosevelt and the World ‘War, Mr. Wister tells of oncc remind- ing “T. R.” what the Senate chaplain is supposed to say every morning: “God bless the Senate! God save the people!” ‘Wister says that “Teddy” retorted: “This is a democracy, and you mustn't be of those who always see the worst of it, instead of trying to make the best of it. It's a democracy; 't be lse, and we a plece n}’" we elect are merel, selves, who elect them. You can't expect them to be superior to the average. A stream cannot rise higher than its source.” ] Lady Lindsay, charming consort of the newly accredited British Ambassa- dor at Washi, n, 8ir Ronald Lindsay, gave a diverting exhibition the other day of her demoeracy and resourceful- ness. She was shopping on Connecticut avenue in her town car—one of those de luxe autos in which the chauffeur sits outside in splendid isolation. en Lady Lindsay emerged from a shop she found her driver missing. As she hadn’t any time to spare, on account of an engagement at her hotel apartments, she Alm‘rly hopped into the chauffeur's seat and piloted her car through Wash- ington’s busy little “Fifth avenue” her- self. Sometimes a town car is called a “to-hell-with-the-chauffeur” car. Lady Lindsay has Ju:mled*!.h: nickname. ~ There's a German proverb, of which “Joe" Frelinghausen may have heard when he was a boy, which says that when the devil i hungry, he'll eat files. At any rate Frelinghuysen, hard put to it for arguments against his fellow wet rival for the New Jersey senatorial nomination, has just thought up an idea for pestering Dwight Morrow. Freling- huysen is now on the stump lustily call- ing upon Morrow to make clear his stand on the London naval treaty. “Let my worthy opponent who helped to frame that pact,” the former ruddy- | faced Senator is thundering, “‘speak out | and inform the people of New Jersey about its provisions. The people want an adequate Navy, not large enough to threaten, but bi‘ :m‘;ll‘tl to protect.” Alexander Legge of Chicago, hard- hitting chairman of the Federal Farm Board, who's g to stick on that thankiess job next month, though | in 1920 he agreed to stay onl once refused a $50,000 “raise.” Lej had been ‘president of the Internatiol Harvester Co. at $50,000 a zeur only & couple of years wh di s de- eided to advance his salary to $100,000. The offer was declined. The Harvester Wgflntlfln ‘was embroiled in some liti- on with Uncle Sam, and Legge, :G;mywsc::. dlA'!:\'t '.hIn.k’ l: was thech e gel 50 fat & pay check. The board voulflum the extra money ‘They're thinking hard and worrying. “Good looks ain't allus popular,” said Uncle Eben. “De elephant dat attracts most attention in de parade never yet om mlpd.lnlhuuv’nm" :evertha‘hu, h}:r‘m.‘fl‘ “‘t into an en- lowment fund “Katherine Legge Memorial Country Club,” which he had Speaking of prohibition, as everybody does, didn't some distinguished Ameri- can ask on a historic occasion, “What's the Constitution among friends?” Per- haps Mr. Hoover, with friends Morrow and Fort differing about the Constitu- tion in New Jersey this Spring, is ask- ing himself the question. * xR % Representative Albert Johnson, Re- publican, of Washington State, who proposes to give Japan a long-delayed square deal on immigration, is about the only man left in active publie life | who was associated with the 1024 ex- clusion e He led the House t for the anti-Oriental ban in the immigration act of that year. Senator e, who spurred the Senate into voting Japanese exclusion after the Hanihara “grave consequences” out- burst, is gone. President Coolidge, who Shizen, “Becreiary. Hugnes: 8o "whorm citizen. Uy ‘whom the Hanihara “veiled J\"lt" was ad- dressed, presides over the non-political Supreme Court. Representative John- son declares that ess will gnlfy ublic sentiment al ng the Pacific oast by placing the Japanese on the quota basis. It should have been done long ago, veteran immigration chairman says. * % % Ever since Arthur Capper became a Ifer it was bound to come to this. congressional candiflate in Iowa says he has a simple platform for farm relief—a golf course for every farm. A double would be served, he argues. The land required for links, diverted from productive use, would eliminate surplus crops. At the same time the farmer woul provided with new recreation facllities. * ok Glenh H. Curtiss, developer of the Navy-Curtiss flying boat, has come to the conclusion” he’s & hoodoo. Last Baturday he arrived in Washington to witness for the first time the annual Curtiss Marine Trophy race, inaugurated d1 years ago under his auspices. The famed =~ American aircraft ploneer thought he'd like to see somebody Win— once at least—the magnificent prize he bestowed. That 45-mile gale blew up the day's events. Curtiss doesn't know now whether he ought to come back next Saturday and risk jinxing the postponed program or not. (Copyright, 1930.) ——or— New Indian Policy. Prom the Ban Antonio Evening News. England has a new policy for India, but probably it's just another varlety of muddling through. v Enemies of China Lucky, Prom the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, ‘The silver slump in China has not reached the point where it is heard that the metal is being used for am- munition by the armies. oo Or Even Further. Prom the Haverhill Gazette An Army photographer has taken & picture 270 ‘miles from his subject, which is just about the distance that many subjects we have seen should keep from the camera. . Higher Mathematics, From the Miami Daily News. To call oft floor numbers in that proposed 105-story building in New York, an elevator boy will have to be up in higher mathematics. o Then He Sometimes Misses. Prom the Toledo Blade. ‘We have reached the period of the year when the lmmurwuluothm swings at & cool-wave prediction Be hits 1t. e by e What Does Siberia Sell? ¥rom the Tulss Daily Reeord. Siberia is looking to America as the establighed in honor of his late wife, md lgayc“th- hmdflu'h?l !‘l:rvuler ‘women el . The Hinsdale, near chxan. great future market, What does Biberia l'eu—cu,unuu, bridge sets, radio or em, do shine | the 1 The Political Mill By G. Gould Lincoln, Public utilities tions were & target for Gov. Pinchot in his cam- for the Republican nominstion or governor in Pennsylvania. Mr. Pinchot claimed that these public serv. ice corporations were feeding too greed. ily off the people and that the com mission which was set of rates charged by the c tions and the amount of taxes le upon these companies was playing into the hands of the corporations. In New Jersey, neighboring State, former Sena- tor Joseph 8. Frelinghuysen, who is campaigning tor the Republican sena- torial nomination against Dwight W. Morrow and Representative Franklin Fort, is seeking to make the same kind of issue against the public utilities, naming Pfinmul-rly the Public Service Corporation. That is the corporation which controls many of the public util- itles of Jersey. Prelinghuysen insists that the “political power of the Public Service Corporation of New Jersey has become notorious.” * k% % ‘This demand for greater regulation of public service corporations by the State and by the Federal Government is the main issue stressed by the for- mer Senator in his effort to 2 comeback. Along with it he is the issue that the “machine” in New Jersey is seeking to name the United States Senators instead of permitting the rank and file of the voters of the Republican party to pick their own candidates. In this latter attack upon he Republican powers in his State he is paralleling also the campaign of Gov. Pinchot, which recently ended successfully with his nominatign over the Vare organization candidate, Fran- cis Shunk Brown. But, while Gov. Pin- chot has stuck to the dry side of the prohibition issue, Mr. Frelinghuysen has ne over to the wets. As a matter of fact, he is not doing a great deal of talking about prohibition in his cam- paign, nor did Gov. Pinchot. * k¥ X Mr. PFrelinghuysen is seeking to hook up with the public service corporations his opponent, Mr. Morrow, formerly a member of the firm of J. P. Morgan & Co. For example, here is a paragraph from one of his speeches: ““There is now in process of develop- antic power combination or aims to set up & monopoly of the power and light business of the country, one of the most powerful factors in which is the Public Service Corporation of New Jersey, through ownership or control of its stock by the firm of J. P. Morgan & Co, and its affiliated interests.” ‘Whether the people of New Jersey are sufficiently interested in the public use to see that 't | the people had a fair dealin the matter service issue to swing the nomination to Mr, Frelinghuysen remains to be | bral seen. There is one issue, however, in which they seem greatly interested— the prohibition issue. Mr. Morrow has gone the whole way and proposed the repeal of the eighteenth amendment, or its amendment so_that it practically amounts to repeal, leaving the States free again to decide for themselves just what shall be done about prohibition. Mr. Frelinghuysen has declared-against the existing order of dry laws. And Mr. Fort, hugging prohibition to his bosom as the real issue in this cam- Dpaign, has jumped into the ring to carry the fight to the wets. If Mr. Fart can' succeed in dividing the wet vote be- tween his two opponents he may slip into the nomination. After that he cwpi:l"hlve t:’;ec':cn twlg‘x the wet Demo- c candidate af e eral elec- tion in November. L e * K k¥ “kM]r. J‘ort, lccmidlnx to , ely prove a formidable can T e ve the sentiment c- tically solidly back of him. mm;n been a member of the House for a number of sut:d at one ncl:’n.e.w nered race, d, an ma happen. It is quite clear m drys will do their best to bring about the nomination of Mr. Fort. are out to get the political scalp of Mr, Morrow if they can, for they see in the Am- bassador to Mexico s formidable leader of the wet cause should he be success- ful in his eampaign for nomination and election to the Senate. *His defeat in the pri to an early and, from their view, a nmzli end to wet aspirations for national leadership. There is not the slightest doubt that some of Mr Morrow's friends are looking forward to a possible nomination for him for President as & champlon of the wet cause. * k% National Association Against the Prohibition Amendment BA%l’lnchlnl out. Itis fi: ting out its own campaign Questionnaire, and has sent it to the members of the House and Senate who are up for re-election this year, sayin; ‘Do you favor the repeal of the eigh centh amendment to the Constitution of the United States?” It will be in- teresting to see how many of the mem- bers send in replies. e assoclation plans also to rn similar questionnaires to every candidate for the Senate and House who may not be members of the three-cor- en greatly encouraged effort has been been in reality the in the East as well as in the West, is about to abandon the dry cause, at least in the East.. How- ever, up to the present time there have been no triumphs of Republican wets at the polls which would warrant such Aan assumption. In Pennsylvania the bone-dry Mr. Pinchot apparently has won the gubernatorial nomination and Secretary Davis, who won the senatorial nomination, announced he was backing the Hoover administration on the pro- hibition issue. U& in Massachusetts there have been loud rumblings over the wet and dry issue, but nevertheless the leading candidate for the sena- torial nomination among the Repub- licans, William M. Butler, has come out dry, and so has the candidate for gov- ernor. It is quite true, however, that if Mr. Morrow wins the senatorial nomination in New Jersey the wets will have something to cheer about. S e s ‘The action of the Republican State Convention in the State of Washingten on Saturday, when it adopted s wet plank in the party platform, has been a sad blow to the drys. Senator Wesley L. Jones, ardent “dry* and co-author of the “five-and-ten” law, was admittedly surprised that such action should ha been taken in his home State. How- ever, there is strong wet sentiment in Beattle, Tacoma and Bellingham, where the convention was held, and these cities are strongly represented in the State conventions. In addition, there have been rows recently over prohibition enforcement, indictments of officials for violating the dry laws and contests over patronage, all of which may have been contributing factors in the right about-face of the convention on the pro- hibition issue. LR In a measure, the wet and dry issue has cropped up in the senatoria] pri- mary in North Carolina, where Senator Simmons, Who opposed the Democrats’ candidate for = President in 1928 because he was a wet and a Tammany man, is fighting for re- nomination” on the Democratic ticket. It is quite true that his opponent is also a dry, But the Smith Democrats, many of them wets, in the Tar Hee) State are rallying to the suppart o Senator Simmons’ opponent. If Sena- tor Simmons should be defeated, the wets would crow, halling the failure of the veteran dry leader of his State a5 @ victory for their cause. Down in Alabama the wi re dolr best to defeat Senator “Tom' another candidate for renomination who op) ths.:lecmn of Al lmm gn. wl:“ ;n.d‘ a‘:‘y issue seems to more_widespre these congres- sional primaries and elections than has b::uhu the eighteenth amend- ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC l!m{flnumhm. who can get you any information on any subject, are at your command, without charge to you. A 2-cent stamp will bring you a personal answer to any inquiry of fact you may make. Thousands of per readers X Haskin, director, Washington, Q. What is the song so often broad- cast which is known as the “Home, Sweet Home” of Mexico?>—C. H. 8. A. It is “La Golondrina,” by Sarra- dell. The transiation of this is “The Swallow,” and it is one of the most mullr songs on the air today. It has n sung for many years, and it is referred to as the “Home, Sweet Home" of Mexico, as it is generally played as the concluding ni r of & dance or other festivity, . Q. Is it true that a Gold Star Mother who does not take the trip to Prance to visit her son’s grave will be awarded the cgst of the trip>—J. A. M. A It is neoesurg for the mother or widow of & soldier buried in France ac- tually to make the pilgrimage to the A. E. F. Cemetery in France in order to take advantage of the Government's offer. No monetary substitute for this pil can be considered. Q. What :alary does the chaplain of the Senate receive the chaplain of the House of Representatives?—M. H. A. Each receives $1,680 per annum, . Why are many English names hy;hemud?—d. P, C. . When two family names are united to form one family name, the union is indicated by the use of the hen. This is & custom preserved through the centuries by the English. Q. Can a bill which has been par- tially destroyed be redeemed?—M. B. A. In order to redeem currency which has been burned, it is necessary that three-fifths of the bill be sent to the Redemption Division of the Treasury Department, Washington, D. C Q. In what parts of the United States is interneship required of doc- tors?—S. M. 'A. The American Medical Association | says that a hospital interneship is an essential qualification for a license in J. HASKIN. Indian mother then straps to cafter i W er papoose reposes is called & baby carrier or Indian cradle. The exact Indian words for these pl would vary with each laces her and er back?—J. - y | language. old was Willlam J. Locke .| Q. How when he died?—A. L. T. A. The English novelist died on May 15, at the age of 67. Much of his life he spent in travel or lived in Paris, . When was coke first malle in the United States?—E. J. P. A. The Bureau of Mines says that the first bituminous coal was coked in the United States in 1816 and was prob- ably used for smelting iron. . 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The wearing of caps and gowns in American schools was comparatively rare until the last quarter of the nine- teenth century. A movement toward a general adoption of a uniform system resulted in the calling of an intercol- legiate commissio: 894 at Columbia Universit; ir- manship of President , Yale, Prince- ton and New York University being ‘represented. Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Alaska, Rhode | o)., Island, North Dakota, Washin h Michigan, Illinois, Delaware, South Dakota, Utah, Wisconsin and the District of Columbia. Q. When was Christianity introduced into Norway?—T. M. L. A. This Summer the 900th anniver- sary of its introduction will be cele- ted at Trondhjem. Q. What is wood wool?>—W. D. B. A. 1t is the designation given to the finer grades of excelsior and is some- times used as a substitute for absorbent lint in surgery, for filtration purposes, and for other uses where fine stock is desirable. Q. Who was the last prisoner in the dungeon at Chillon?—R. C. A. The last inmate of the dungeon was Bonivard, prior of St. Victor at Geneva, held captive by the Duke of Savoy in 1530. He is the hero of Byron’s “Prisoner of Chillon.” Q. When is it possible to hear carillon concerts in Bruges, Belgium?—T. G. A. They begin in June, and are given every Monday and Wednesday until Q. What is the derivation of the word “filibuster”?—A. E. E. A. It is an English adaptation of the Spanish fillbustero, meaning a free- booter or buccaneer. The term was ap- plied to a buccaneer, npecunfl one of those infesf the West n_and Spanish American coasts in the seven- teenth century. Q. What is a baby whale called?— ATt 1s called a calf. . Where did the custom of having ?\%lc played for dancing originate?— A. The origin of dancing may be traced to & universal desire of express- i emotion by action. As far into -‘;&qulw as history reaches, dance, 7 or sava was accompanied music or by beats of dfums, shells, rattles, sticks or by clapping the hands. Records show in a general way that in the very earliest people danced and sang at the same time; afterward some danced while others sang an accompaniment, and finally September 15. Q. What is the name of the thing an musical instruments took the place cf voice accompaniment. Morrow’s Wet Declaration Suggested as National Issue Dwight W. Morrow's plea for tepeal of the eighteenth amendment sni for a new amendment which “will restore to the States the cfuwtr to determine their policy toward the liquor traffic and vest in the Federal Government power to give protection and assistance” to the States has created wide com- ment. In his candidacy for the Re- publican nomination for Senator from New Jersey his statement has so im- pressed the country with its sincerity that many feel that the issue raised has become national. Various predictions are made as to his three-cornered fight. “In effect, Mr. Morrow put the ques- tion to the country—for his speech was too great for New Jersey alone— whether the evils of lack of confidence in the Government, of lawlessness, of bootlegging, of corruption, do not out- weigh the benefits of national prohibi- tion,” says the New York Sun, while the Rock Island Argus believes the New Jersey fight “will amount to & referen- dum,” and the Cincinnat! Times-Star sees “real p " toward “an honest and practical solution” when courage is exhibited by men “of Morrow's char- acter and ability.” The Bloomington Plnnfingh hails the bringing of the issue “ouf lnm*th: t:oe:\ Discussing the practical side of the New Jersey fight, the Newark Evening News expresses the opinion: “Freling- huysen’s position may logically be dis- e e against_ prohl effectively either for or prol bition.” Either the voter must go with the candid, undemagogic Morrow or with Pranklin Fort, who, while meeting the real issue, still may make comfort- ing reservations as to home brew that will reassure the beer lovers and en- courage the grape users. The fight is on. last, the Republican party, which has assumed responsibility for prohibition, stands face to face with that issue in an important election, an election which will have its ultimate echoes in the Nation.” ‘While contending that “present indi- cations do not encourage the prospect of an early repeal or modification of the eighteenth amendment,” the Phila- delphia Evening Bulletin, which stands for law enforcement, concludes: “There has previously been, at least from such & prominent voice, no comparably di passionate statement of the prohibition question, nor any more truly prophetic definition of the issue upon which the final determination of pelicy ultimately shall be based.” o ¥ % “Behind this definite program,” in the judgment of the Richmond News Leader, “stands & man at whom the fanatic may shoot his venomous darts in vain. In character, in courage and | in intellect, Morrow can meet all the assaults that may be made upon him. Before he has finished the campaign in New Jersey, his clear advocacy of his policy will have done more than the crime wave, more than the Jones act, more than the arrogance of Bishop Cannon, and more than the Literary Digest poll to make prohibition an im- mediate national issue.” “The wet brigade has just about picked up the biggest asset it ean boast in securing the addition of this eminent | man to the list of its leadership,” states | the Charlotte News, while the Memphis | Commercial Appeal calls his “espousal | of the wet cause a setback to the pro- hibition movement.” The Milwaukee Bentinel feels that people “ara bound to respect his forthright declaration and his clear definition of his stand” The | Chicago Daily Tribune points to his| “conspicuous place in the Republican | party” and to the fact that “he is set- | ting himself against the policy to which | his national rty management has committed itself." ;‘h Syracuse Herald concludes that he has shown “high moral courage” and that “only such in- will golve the far-reaching naf problem. * % The the the “clear-cut, candle ranks as “the first definif ment from the the " “The Rirming- who wish to register | that ¢ * * in 1032 the Republicans would advocate either modification or .” The Chicago Daily News states: “Prohibition is an experiment. In con- ducting complex and delicate social ex- periments Mr. Morrow prefers 48 labo- ratories to 1. His position cl thcught,” The Waterloo Tribune sees importance in the fact that Mr. Morrow “presents a definite plan.” That he wunu a trend is the bellef of the leveland News, the Baltimore Sun and the Charleston Evening Post. Presidential possibilities for Mr, Mor- row are mentioned by the Asheville ‘Times, the Great Falls Tribune, the Louisville Courier-Journal, the Omaha World-Herald and the Paterson Press- Guardian. The Providence Bulletin “fails to understand how the New Jer- sey Republicans can muft such s um;fi- opportunity to name a great public figure” for Senator. * ok ok ‘The division of wet votes between Mr. Morrow and Mr. Frelinghuysen in the primary, and the candidacy of Franklin Fort as a dry may give' the advantagt to the latter, as a possibility which ap- re.h to the Asbury Park Evening Press, he Brooklyn Daily Eagle, the New Or- leans Times-Picayune and the New York Times, The last mentioned says that “the reception of Mr. Morrow's speech all over the country assures him such prestige, if he is elected to the Senate, as a new Senator seldom en- " The 8t. Louls Times holds that vhe creates an issue which may give him the nomination, but make his elec- tion doubtful.” The Schenectady Ga- zette predicts “a battle royal.” Criticism of the Morrow comes from various papers. expediency” is the term ng&ud by the Walla Walla Bulletin. e Topeka Daily Capital calls his policy “wholly mgnive and destructive.” The Jersey City Journal holds that Morrow and Frelinghuysen are “promising the wets Wwhat for a long time yet will continue to be unattainable” "The San Fran- cisco Chronicle is “not at all convinced" that the “State option liquor control plan is workable.” The Little Rock Arkansas Democrat argues, “The Vol. stead act may be amended or enfor ment officers may blink at ‘mild’ vio- lations like home brewing, but talk of repealing the ufhmnth amendment is sheer bunk for the reason that the so- .c:;lvled't'd:'yl‘y M’:‘u!h :In prevent that e, and our it will prevent it.” bl i ——— If He Gets That Far, rr;;‘nm Muncie Star. American husband, who is bos in France, will have no difficulty knn\: ing when he reaches the 12-mile limi. ] The Bald Truth of It Prom the Des Moines Tribune-Capital. We doubt if there ever was a Senat that cared how many gray hairs a Pres ident ired duris ; wmum. ing his stay in th ition litical N — Maybe They Were Love Taps. Prom the Saginaw Dally News. mand a recount. How About Alphabet Soup? Prom the Cleveland Plain Dealer. We are told by the dietitians that watermelons contain vitamins A, B, C and G. Now to find something that contains D, E and F and go on a simple and inexpensive Summer diet. —————-gte: Or From Wales. Prom the Pittsburgh Post-Dispateh. in"Bolgiim, oyt Teady semvia m‘lwli-w’wa must gome Defining Cities. #:om the Buftalo Evening News. A city of fourth class is ons that tion . News recalls that the late “warned Democrats in 1938 Senator | has noeds except