Evening Star Newspaper, May 29, 1930, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR WASHINGTON, D. C PHURSDAY.......May 20, 1830 THEODORE W. NOYES. ... Editor The Evening Star N-g-nt Company ce: ivania Ave. 11tn, ot “Nad Pengar) » o gl D, by Carrier Within the City. e .. .48c per month Siar LIk 5 daye) ... ng.and, Suidi g fundsy .:‘!‘-’k RS gaders oD B i by el of teithine tional 5000 Rate Mail—Payable in Advance. 4 land and Virginia, Maryl di . 00; 1 mo.. m .0‘:)?7’“." -~ £6.00: 1 mo. sy only $4.00: 1 mal. All Other States and Canada. &nd Sunday. 1sr.312.00: 1me.. % .8 mo.. Enniu“o’nlv i 00 1 men Member of the Associated Press. Associated Press is exclusively Jepublication of wil it or mot otherwise cred- T and also Ghe Ipcal new hed herein. All rights of publicatien sl dispatcheés herein are also reserved. Uncle Sam’s Intangibles. In s letter to the editor a correspondent of The Star, George B. Kennedy, makes the point that while it is absurd to construe the Federal obligation to Capital maintenance on the basis of Unele Sam as a municipal taxpayer, “please be governed by the whole tax law and include in the estimate intan- gible personsl property.”, Instead of the seven on eight millions estimated by Mr. Simmons, the corre- spondent writes, there would be “ap- proximately $55.000,000 additional an- nually. The Federal Government owns and holds in the District of Columbia securities covering the funded debts of foreign governments approximating $11,000,000,000, besides other securities which, under the law, would be taxable f owned by the eitisens of the"District of Columbia.” This, says Mr. Kennedy, should close all argument with respect to using the taxable values of the Fed- wral Government in the District as a basis for its contribution “or else open up & new fleld for thought and argu- ments which seems to have been en- tirely overlooked by the Bureau of Efficiency, Mr. Simmons and The Star Of course, the matter of arriving at & valuation of Uncle Sam’'s taxable .. 60¢ per month L 0 the use f¢ vul debt as & taxpayer, but that the estimate is on & basis that causes the theoretical valuation to be an insignifi- cant fraction of Uncle S8am’s actual in- tangibles and “millions less than the probable intangibles of the owners of grzot industries (like the automobile in- dustzy of Detroit) whem Uncle Sam in this hypothesis represents. The only Teasonable criticism of the bureau’s esti- mate of Uncle Sam's equitably taxable intangibles is that it is too low.” ‘The part of the bureau report that usually is overlooked in the House, how- ever, in discussing the basis of comput- ing the Federal Government's obligation to the District is that after suggesting & rough estimate of the taxable prop- erty held by Uncle Sam the bureau coupled with this first liability a second Hability “on account of the loss of reve- nue and on account of extraordinary expenditures occasioned by the fact that ‘Washington is the National Capital.” ‘The bureau made no attempt to fix the amount «? this second obligation. The District has merely asked that if the first is emphasized as amounting to a mere’ $7,440,939, the second item be given its due emphasis and made the subject of careful and intelligent in- quiry. If this were done, the lump sum wouid exceed even the $12,000,000 that the Senate has recommended. Like other historic dictators, Mus- eolini, in order to satisfy his audience, may feel called upon to step out and Pprofess a readiness to whip all the rest of the world put together. The Beginning of the End. It is doubtless gratifying to many ‘Washingtonians that the traffic office is at last beginning t» waver in its steadfast support of the unorthodox and oonfusing rotary left-hand turn for sutomobiles. For more than two years motorists of this city and visitors have been forced to struggle with an im- portant traffic maneuver that is funda- mentally wrong in conception and at variance with the turn used in every other community in the country ex- cept Cleveland. Despite the fact that the studied judgment of traffic experts proclaim the Washington turn to be confusing, of bad driving habits, the traffic otfice has persistently championed it. But now there appears to be a change and Director Harland is reported to be con- sidering the adoption of the Hoover turn, which is in universal use, to bring the National Capital to the forefront in uniformity. ‘There is still one point, however, on which the traffic office appears to be Setting up a “smoke screen.” With the intimation that a change is being con- sidered traffic officials have in effect confused the issue by claiming that the Hoover turn prescribed by the Hoover Conference on Street and Highway Safety, which is meeting again in this city this week, contains two separate pro- visions for the left-hand turn, but that if the conforence would adopt one or the other of these turas, the tiafic of- $1.00 3% ! street, where only the lane of traffic entitled | ¥ rui- { ington is fundamentally wrong. By the .| problematical. congesting and promotive | 22 the “two” turns are one and except that it is left to local option whether the turn should be made around the button in the middle of the street or in front of it. Both are iden- tical in fundamentals, but no general conference on traffic rules can evolve & turn that in its entirety will fit every intersection in every city in the United States. General principles only can be laid down, and these principles must be used as the basis for regulations ac- cording to a ecity’s requirements. The general principle of the correct left-hand turn, a principle that is never confusing and is always right, whether trafic is uncontrolled or is handled by policemen or automatic lights, is that it shall be made from the center of the | facing the driver shall be crossed. That is why the rotary turn used in Wash- ! local Tule now in force motorists eross not only the lane of traffic facing them, but that which s in their rear. Of course, the national conference will not take action again on the left- hand-turn question. The left-hand turn as preseribed by the conference is in its model traffic code, and there is no occasion for reiteration. It is Wash- ington, however, that must bring the 1 question up again and must recede from its untenable position regarding a vitally important phase of traffic control. Macdonald Survives Again. Once again, and for the fourth or fitth time since it resumed office a year ago, the British Labor government has survived a trial of strength. Challenged in the House of Commons last night on its unemployment policy, the Macdonald ministry beat back an attack on its Labor member, J. H. Thomas, in charge of labor problems. ‘The government survived by a vote of 270 to 241. As has happened before, its victory was of negative rather than positive character, for it was won by the abstention of practically the entire Liberal bloc. If Mr. Lloyd George had voted any considerable portion of his parliamentary strength the govern- ment’s overthrow would have been easy and altogether probable. As it is, Mac- donald is saved once more. How long it will survive is highly Labor lives a tenuous existence in Downing street. It can be turned out whenever the Cqnservatives and the Liberals care to cast it into the outer darkness. They have refrained from doing so thus far for the acknowl- edged reason that another general elec- tion would not be popular in Great Brit- ain so soon after the 1929 campaign, and, if precipitated now, might redound more to Labor’s benefit than to its hurt. Mr. Macdonald on his part professes zest for another fray at the polls. But he must have one serious mental reser- vation about going to the country, and that is the growing volume of Labor's “left wing,” with its radical program and sullen dissatisfaction with Mac- donald’s conservatism. ‘The prime minister convinced a ma- Jority of the House of Commons last night that “world conditions” rather than any shortcomings on the part of the Britlsh government are re- tarding John Bull’s industrial recovery and are stabilizsing unemployment. Mr. Macdonald pointed across the Atlantic and referred to the gravity of the une empleyment problem in the United States. Until international economics permit Britain to retrieve some of its lost trade overseas, the Labor govern- ment seeks to perpetuate the workers' pension system and to carry out other emergency relief. The prime minister seems to have taken a leaf from the Hoover notebook in announcing the holding of a conference to see if mu- nicipalities cannot co-operate with the government in public works designed to supply work on a broad scale. Unemployment remains the Labor ad- ministration's overtowering issue. When it took office in May, 1929, there were 1,132,000 persons in receipt of the dole. The total is now 1,739,600. If there is a proportionate increase this year Brit- ain will be headed toward the distress- ing figures of “Black May” in 1921, when 23 per cent of British workers walked the streets jobless. Already the prediction is made there will be 2,000, 000 unemployed by next Winter. | It may be that Conservatism and Liberalism shrink from dethroning-La- | bor because of the realization that un- | employment presents a problem of baf- |fing magnitude. If a Baldwin or a Lloyd George ministry were to inherit office on a platform pledging a panacea and falled to make good, Labor could legitimately and certainly aspire to come back from Elba, and doubtless would, e Thorough observation of the earth's | surface being made by Dr. Eckener | should leave him personally acquainted | with all areas that may be suitable for | i landing flelds of the future. —e— Republics are proverblally ungrateful and most lacking in gratitude toward those who give their lives and reputa- | tions to the task of tariff making. <o~ “Gaming Table” Defined. The casual reader of the latest bill ‘o tighten up the anti-gambling laws | of the District, introduced recently in the Sel will discover that section 865 of the Code is amended as follows: Whoever shall in the District operate | any gaming table. or any house, vessel, | or place, on land or water, for the | purpose of gaming, or gambling device | ccmmonly called ABC, faro bank, EO, roulette, equality keno, thimbles, or little joker, or any kind of gaming | ble or gambling device adapted, de- | vised, and designed for the purpose of playing any game of chance for money or_ property, or shall induce, entice and permit any person to bet or play at or upon any such gaming table or gambling device, or on the side of or against the keeper thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment for a | term of not more than five years, and | fined not more than $10,000. And, having perused this section, the | jcasual reader who believes that the gambling evil can at least be curbed by drastic legislation will applaud the measure and regard with satisfaction | the heavy penalties of imprisonment and fine that await the malefactor. But, continuing the study of the bill, the casual reader will discover | with some emoton akin to nervous- ness that section 868 defines & “gaming table” as follows: Al mes, devices, contrivances, or plans at vhici: money or 3 Can it be that the hostess of the Fri- day Afternoen Bridge Club, whose mem- bers devilishly wager a tenth of a cent a point, is culpable under this act and liable to a fine of $10,000 plus a jall term of five years or less? And if the courts construe “liberally” the provisions of the act, is it possible that the bridge prize—oh, what prizes!—would be con- sidered as ‘“property” make the doner of the prize equally culpable? Or are the members of the Piker Poker Players, an amateur or- ganisation that gathers around a dining room table once a month and bets a limit of ten cents, with cheese sand- wiches and near beer waiting in the ice box for the stroke of twelve, to face arrest if its members are caught? It is possible, but, of course, highly improbable. The professional gamblers have been able so successfully to evade the law that the law must be written to plug- every loophole. But it remains that the definition of & gaming table could apply to the dining room table, or the old bridge table, and “whoever” is & term that embraces a large propor- tion of humanity. Like other laws, the mitigating circumstances are left for determination by the application of common sense. —t—. Theories of evolution are applied to legislation as well as to biology. Only social scientists of the future can define the results of an unlimited number of amendments of the eighteenth amend- ment. —— Prohibition is a subject of deep do- mestic concern. The tariff, the League of Nations and the naval ratio come | as reminders that world politics must still be considered. e Jay-walkers are objects of metro- politan disapproval. The sidewalks of New York are still regarded as areas of refuge which should be abandoned only by persons of alert experience. - By way of ‘calling attention to the welcome news of King George's general recovery, the royal physicians find nothing more important to talk about than a passing touch of rheumatism. o Strong belief is expressed on high intellectual authority that great wars have become impossible. Ome or two nations are apparently unable to credit the good news. ) The law of supply and demand as- serts itself on simple lines. Tariffs may confuse its operation temporarily, but eventually all trading must comply with its authority. e ‘Tariff problems assume new and ex- traordinary complications. Even so ap- parently simple a matter 2s the salt tax in India is a case in poin'. . Campaign funds have become so large that in order to supervise the ballot, expert accountants as well as election judges are needed. ———————— Many important points of public dis- cussion arise, but at present the great | question before the American publi- appears to be the campaign fund. ——— o SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. The World and Its Weather. As June draws near, The farmer man, With eye severe, ‘The clouds will scan. The long hours through He'll grimly sigh, “Oh, say, will you Be wet or dry?" As talk resumes, Both North and South, A freshet looms Or else s drouth. The vote 45 due. And so we cry; “Oh, say, will you Be wet or dry?” Wealth in Polities. “Do you object to a rich man in olities?” “It depends,” answered Senator Sor- ghum, “on what kind of a rich man you refer to. I'd feel safer with a candidate and therefore | THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Necessity may be the mother of in- vention, but it does not necessarily produce the best workers. ' There is & business man in this town who declares that young boys who seek after-school work for the fun and ex- perience of the thing prove steadier employes than boys who say they must work to help support the family. | This rather upsets the general notion but it points once more to the supreme part that sports play in this Nation. Ours is an amateur country. The United States is very young, as nations go, and its inhabitants are in- | clined, as a group, to adopt as a motto | the old saying, “All work and no play | makes Jack a dull boy.” | __In other words, the play-boy attitude 1s carried not only into business, but into all the departments of living. { We no longer believe that earth is a { desert drear, no matter how much we may hope Heaven will be our home. We like the earth, especially in the Springtime, when roses bloom, flaming youth streaks down the road at 50 miles an hour and Dan Cupid strings up his ready bow. * ok ok ok agreeable necessity, either primarily or incidentally. Life, in its various departments, i !lllgedy a state of mind. { ing created as we are, men can do nothing without thinking about it. This thinking may not be either deep or long, but thinking it is, no matter what its depth or length. The old sad, solemn attitude is being given up for a more sprightly outlook. Fathers no longer send their sons out to seek their fortunes with a purse of |gold and a lecture filled with maxims and rules of conduct. Instead, the modern daddy begins in the child’s infancy to lay away a sum sufficient to send. him (hrcu{h college Iby which time the young fellow will ‘awe made his own rules and regula- lons. Bruce Barton, in one of his religious books, tells an anecdote which striking- ly shows the new attitude toward seri- ous things. Answering a letter from a priest, he did not argue, but asked the question, “Father, what I am interested in is whether there will be any golf courses in Heaven?" ‘The father replied, in equal spirit, “My son, I am sure that there will be, land 1 hope to meet you there,” * X % X% Modern business can be and often is. an adventure, and it is a happy sign of the times that youngsters are learning to look upon it in this light. ‘To countless men the daily labor is as exciting a proposition as going to the i South Pole with Byrd, and a great deal { more comfortable. | Man must earn his daily bread in the sweat of his brow, but that is no reason| why he cannot use any one of the many excellent soaps advertised and keep himself sweet and clean about it. So the very attitude with which one approaches work may be kept clean and sweet, in the best senses of those words, if one possesses the ability to apply the soap of intelligence with the water of the lmuuur-a&ortsrnan attitude. * Not every one, it may be argued, is in a position to apply this attitude. { Long hours. low pay, nasty tempers all i along the line, tedious work—these but a few of the problems which thou | sands of workers face. | It is right here that the amateur, rather than the professional, attitude is morrow’s sunrise. Highlights on the Wide World Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands. L DICTAMEN, Vera Cruz.—They are bullding a Spanish house for the students in New York City. This edifice is a project of Barnard College, the depart- ment for women of Columbia University, and be for the exclusive use of woman students of America who are in-, terested in Spanish literature and cul- ture, as well as in the acquisition of the Spanish language. This residence of Spanish life and thought will be erected among the other buildings of Barnard College, on the domain of Columbia University, and will be intimately asso- clated with the activities of the Spanish colony in New York. An immense Spanish library, comprising the most important books in the glorious annals of Spain, will be one of the more val- uable adjuncts of the institution. The movers in the enterprise hope that this “House of Spain” will prove the centef of a new and fuller understanding that will bring the young womanhood of North and South America into mutual love and fellowship. 3 * ok k% Better to Take Precautions Than to Cherish Regrets. Le Matin, Paris.—President Hoover ‘W. Mellen, the Secretary of the as- the number of detectives responsible for his safety. The personnel of the secret service, which now numbers 35 men, will probably be augmented by three officers and eight agents. Better to ‘Work should not be a matter of dis-| | e| and experience of the thing may be judges himself insufficiently protected. Consclence Holds He has requested, through Monsieur A. Individuals From Excesses, ury, lupglemeuury credits to increase who came into politics with money | take precautions than to cherish vain| than with one who planned to take money out.” Jud Tunkins says he'll bet the prod- igal son put on airs over the rest of the family, because he had such a good appetite. I think the bird tha' sings at morn Surpassing fin ‘The sweetest songster ever born, Because it's mine. And when the dog and cat I see Prepared to dine, I do not ask for pedigree, Because they're mine. The Deluge Should Have Been Postponed Noah had driven all the animals on board the ark. “It's a pity” he said, “that we're obliged to use this primitive transporta- tion. If we could have waited for blimps and airplanes we could travel fast and :ee where we are going.” “Laws that forbid,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “bestow dangerous power on unscrupulous authority that assumes the right to permit.” Enlightening Essays. It's sad that each successive year Should place new problems in life’s way. ‘When all things had been made so clear By essays on Commencement Day. “Riches hab wings,” said Uncle Eben. If you doubt it look at de costliness of deshere airyplanes.” $ Doesn’t Know When Well Off. From the Buffalo Evening News. Queer man! Place him where he has no installment payments, no taxes, no loss on stocks, and still he saws the bars to get out. - —o—s Bravo! Prom the Cleveland News. Capture of a Chicago taurants and beer refused to such re! whose ket fits y blacl | ves that - regrets! Credits vity To Lack of Motor Cars. Evening Times, Glasgow.—A centena- rian of Glasgpw attributes his great age to the fact t for the first 70 years of his life there were no motor cars and for the last 30 he has been confined to the house. * ok ok % e Lead Pencils “Just Plain Timber.” tor: “My school-going daughter brought home a packet of lead pencils promi- nently marked “Made in Japan.” I started to sharpen them for her, and discovered they contain half an’ inch of lead at each end. The rest of the pencil was just plain timber.” * ok ko Government Employes Must Contribute to Relief. North China Standard, Peiping.—Re. sponding to the several urgent requests for famine relief in Suiyuan and Shens!, the Tientsin municipal government re. solved that every member of the govern- | ment, or governmental employe, receiv- ing above $250 salary a month will give 10 per cent of his salary and those re- ceiving $250 salary a month will give 5 per cent toward the relief fund. X Ok ko | Carrying Cross-Word Puzzle Craze Too Far. Manchester Guardian.—] . Wini- fred Cullis of Salford University said: “I often wonder whether the eraze for spirit of investigation which lies deep in every human being. The following cident shows what I mean. protection from the rain recently, 1 used the shelter under the Metropole Hotel, Blackpool. With the Guardian lying by my side, I was reading a book, when a well dressed man approached and avked ian and whether I would allow him a sight of it. I handed him the paper, but imagine my surprise when I heard it being torn and noticed that he had removed the cross-word puzzle form. He returned the rest of the paper, but I reminded him that he had spotled my copy. He res marked, causal “Have I? I'm sorry} Good mornin, It seems to me very -{wrepfllte that in this particular puz zle one of the clues inviting selution was “pestiferous insects.’ “The answer ought to have been the name of the mutilator of aper!” man who ey paper! charged $100 apiece for bombing re:; Pretty ,‘_Vq_lpm Sidney Bulletin—Letter to the Edi-| 1if my paper was the Manchester Guard- | | trusted to lead humanity eventually to of Columbia. |sylvania is not included i to _be recommended to the worker. The L3 iR lose his seriously. We mean that he tends to sense of humor. Now there is no walk! of life in which a sense of humor is more to be prized than a Almost any young lady secretary to & Big Business Man will tell you (pro- vided she is sure that you not talk out of season, that a ‘saving sense of humor is necessary in her work. The may have an appendix for & favorite topic of conversation. of the Secretary's duties is to take a tremendous interest—a real, motherly interest—in that appendix. She can tell just when it is bothering him and why it should come out. When it does come out she sends flowers, and, to her eternal credit, does not expect a “raise” for them. | * % x i Such things demand a keen sense of humor, of course, and the emplaye in any walk of business who is able to see the fun as he goes along has a better chmuo!belnfhwwmm‘vhe solemnly views life as a Straight Road strewn with carpet tacks. Here is & true experience in a local firm which shows what we mean: A young man, one of the firm's best work- ers, stopped in to have a little chat with ;u";en girl secretary (also one of the it). The door between the antechamber and the main office was open. The Chiet was holding an informal confer- ence with a caller. The youns man and the Secretary talked in modulated voices, both realizing that loud talk or laughter would be out of place. Both were surprised, therefore, when the Chief arose, walked over, and, with- out a word or glance, shut the door. Now, here is where the difference in attitude comes in. The Secretary was offended. She felt, perhaps with some Justice, that the action was a direct and undeserved criticism of her. The young man, who possessed a keen sense of the humor in all situations and who had had many more years of business experience, felt neither rebuffed, hurt nor displeased in II'?’ way. The hap- pening left him cold, or perhaps cool would be a better word. It actually meant nothing in his life. He knew thntmmn:.gl’m,d:gd.hlnl a good sport, prol ‘woul willing Ho Simeetr” from e o oy Dusiness e self, from pure] e8s standpoint, had no business mixing so- clety with business. He also knew that the chances were at least eight to twe that the Chief wanted to talk over something privately, that was all. * ok ok Little incidents such as this come up every day in all sorts of businesses, and the best way to meet them is with an open mind, a heart not too easily hurt, and the saving grace of good humor. He who can work for the fun of it, or who can kid himself into the belief that he is working for the sport of it, stands a better chance of getting some- where than the man or woman who assumes a wrinkled brow and talks all the time of life being earnest. Of course, it is earnest! But there is & frelt deal of fun in it, too. The very fact that one is alive and breathing is a great deal, is it not? As long as the}'e'l life there's hope, says the old saying. ‘The boys who want work for the fun preaching sermons to all of us. And they are not dull sermons, either, but lively, “peppy” ones, as modern as to- a pretty and elegantly dressed woman in the Police Court, while not an un- precedented event, is sufficiehtly rare to cause the complete transformation of that apartment. Melancholy in- dividuals, who a moment before showed by their faces how surely theg Beheld stonewalls confronting them, ®right- ened up and smiled. Even the judge upon his eminence is not immune to | the presence of the bewildering appari- | tion, and as for the court stenographers, th:lv omit from their notes five interro- fl lons and six answers. Lawyers who lose hours every day in the week in the ho}n of getting a case from one of the defendants arraigned before the tri- bunal forget all their disappointments when a young and pretty woman enters the court room. Then the next day you can hear them inquire of their col- | leagues: “Were you here yesterday? No—? Bah!!! You don't” know what you missed!! Just a little before the judge was concluding the hearings, a most enchanting woman came in! You should have seen her!” Carmencita the Marvelous!! Too bad that Beauty is not always Good.| * ok ok % El Comercio, Lima.—There is an es- hetic instinct in human nature which is the safeguard of the race. Regards less of our individual opinions, desires and struggles, thdre is a directing force and plan in life which makes for unity and progress. The race does not ad- | Je! vance all in one direction, but all the myriad impulses, good and bad, which mean so much to individual elements, are moderated until, if we do not make as rapid progress as we should toward what is good, at least we do not drift more rapidly, in the final analysis, to what is Few are the men, indeed, Wwho do not have within them a spark of compunction or of conscience, which holds them individually from the worst excesses, even if they do not contribute to the spiritual development of society. At least this tardy check upon them- selves raises the average accomplish- ment of those whose lives are spent in service and self-sacrifice. The com. posite conscience of the race may be g:u towering heights of purity and D. C. and Most States Show Wedding Growth | From the New Castle Ne Reports from one-third of the 48 States show that the marriage rate in- creased for 1929 in a dozen and declined four. It gained, too, in the District In nine Sta and the District divorce also Increased. Penn=~ the prel: ni nary returns; but telaware and Ne Jersey both registered marriage gains and divorce recessions. Until a complete summary is available | @ ittle can be definitely told about the trend in the whole couniry. Local con= ditions which operate favorably in one ence on neighbo: ring territory. The One | insist emphatically The Political Mill By G. Gould Lincoln. Senators Jones of Wi ‘Walsh of Montana, who strong supporters of on repealed or amended th for a resolution in the Senal the proposed constitutional amend- ment to the States fYor ratification. Senator Morris Sheppard of Texas, co- author of the eighteenth amendment, has indicated that he would follow suit in the event his le made a_similar demand. All of these dry Senators they have mnot ol in their adherence to prohi- bition.- Mr. Sheppard doubtless believes that there is not the slightest chance that the people of Texas would vote “wet.” Senator Jones has said in his statement he does not believe the Deogllc of Washington would agree to the repeal of the eighteenth amendment or its amendment. LI Nevertheless, these gentlemen have agreed to vote for a resolution in the Senate to repeal or amend the prohibi- tion amendment to the Constitution, provided their people back home by s m‘{:m vote signify their desire for such a change. They have, in effect, promised to vote “wet” on a resolution to amend the Constitution, under cer- tain circumstances. They talk about voting for the “submission™ of the pro- posed amendment to the Constitution to the States. But the vote on the Senate resolution is the only opportu- nity '.heg. a5 Sepators, would have to deal with this amendment. When the eighteenth amendment resolution was before the Senate, there was no ques- tion as to whether a Senator was voting merely for a submission of this matter to the States. They were counted as voting “wet” or voting “dry.” * k% % ‘Whatever may be the situation in Texas, there seems to be a swing to the wet cause in the Northwest. e Re- publican State convention held a few days ago in Bellingham adopted wet resolutions. That is Senator Jones' own party. Furthermore, the State is re- f:rded as'a Republican State, althoug! has today one Democratic Senator and one Democratic member of the question under these circum- stances might turn out to be wet in the State of Washington. * ok k¥ Senator Walsh's home State, Mon- tana, has twice in the last four years indicated a majority for the wet cause. ! In 1026 the State voted for the re- peal of the State prohibition I wets cast 83,231 votes in that referen- dum and the drys, 72,982, giving a wet lead of 10,249. Two years later State enforcement of the prohibition laws again lost by approximately 12,000 votes. From the record to date, it looks very much as though Senator Walsh might find himself in a position where, if he follows the wishes of his people as ex- pressed by a majority, he 1 have to vote for repeal or amendment of the amendment. Incidentally, the blicans are likely to put up a wet cendidate for the Senate against Senator Walsh this coming November when he must stand for re-election. ‘There has been talk, too, of his being opposed by a wet candidate in the | Democratic primary for the senatorial nomination. Bruce Kremer, the Demo- cratic national committeeman for Mon- | tana, has been suggested as a possible contestant for the nomination. A de- feat of Senator Walsh would be re- garded as a distinct misfortune many members of the Senate, Republi- can as well as Democratic, because of his recognized ability and service. * x ox % ‘The ‘momentum of the wet cause has increased greatly in the last year. Eventually the issue will have to be settled at the polls. It has cut across both political parties. Further, it has caused a disregard of party lines in recent elections that is to party leaders. The fact that dry Sena- tors now are stating that they will be guided by the referendum vote of their people on this issue is at least & new . It has been generally supposed that any one wuh!ns to retain his po- litical position in Congress would be guided by the wish of his constituents or would be prepared to transfer his activities to another field, whatever the lssue coming between him and his peo~ ple. But apparently the wets are giving the drys cause for some serious N ing right now. The Association Against the Prohibition Amendment is beginning to loom in proportions. It can command large funds. This was demonstrated recently in the Pennsylvania primary when the association sent into that State $100,000 to aid in the campaign of the wet ticket there for Senate and gubernatorial nominations. * ok ok ox The drys are waging a desperate battle in New Jersey today over the Republican senatorial nomination. They hope to win with Representative Fort over the wet Ambassador Dwight W. Mumwh and the w‘fi' Io;ne{ enator Freling! i M y do, it will be because ‘3.'.":..; support aplits between Morrow and Frelinghuysen and Mr. Fort slips past the post & winner. New rsey has been reckoned a wet State on & showdown on the prohibition question. Up in New Jersey there is a law which provides that candidates for nominations may not expend or have expended for them more than $50,000. This law makes a vastly different situation from that which maintained in the recent Illinois and Pennsylvania primaries when two of the candidates for Senator, one in each State, spent more than a quarter of a million dol- lars out of their own pockets in their campaigns for the nomination. Doubt- less the Senate slush fund committee will keep its eye on the Jersey primary, Just as it has done in the cases of Dllinols and Pennsylvania, R Up in Massachusetts the Democrats are atill in the air over a nominee for the Senate this year for the seat now hggea by sk:emb?r (fitlx}etlt.fl.fiepuhltun veteran. The big political ire am the Democrats of the Bay S'-Ite‘u“"s Senator David I. Walsh. signs that he may in the end be called up to settle the ver>d question of a senatclal eandidate. It is quite clear, however, that an endeavor to pick a | senatoria. candidate by Senator Walsh might not ~id Mr. Walsh himself. It has been reported that Frank J. Dona. hue, chairman of the Democratic State committee, has publicly declared in an address that Senctor Walsh should »ssume a militant I party and select_the . Senator t\fl;fllsl'h LD do his level best for his par f the eandidate selected by his party for the Senate this year. But for him to cross-words is not a satisfaction of the community may have an ad-erse influ | handpick a nominee would place him in a tion to antagonize other ean- posit it~ | marked rise in the matrimonial rate for | didates for the horor and their friends. Beeking | Nevada, for instance, which is the most | Furthermore, such © tion would virtu- i notorious divorce center in the Union, | ally set up Senator Walsh as the State- may probably be explained by the mi- gration of couples from California, Where it is now necessary to obtain a license several days in advance of the ceremony. Similarly South Carolina, which grants no divorces, has increased the burden for North Carolina and seek separation. Students of social conditions are not much encouraged at discove: 2 rise In the marriage curve if it is at the same time accompanied by a rise in the di- e Bresent statistics of & net gain. 1hat e present sf [cs of a net gain t may be later n!fleéhfl hopefully for the whole United States. A Business Periscope Needed. From the San Antonio Evening News. “Prosperity, seem eround corner.” b T Tntest 0= the business V L oe. wide Democratic boss. If there is one thing that the Democrats in Massa- chusetts resist, it is such domination by any one leader. In the past Senator Walsh has been rather apart from the Democratic machine, particularly the machine in .oston. He has condueted | Georgla, where South Carolinlans go to|his own campaigns for governor and for Senator in his own Way and has built up a strong following among voters ordinarily Republican or in- dependent. However, he has had the ted support of the Democrats in his campaigns in the past. If he under- took now fo dictate candidates for office, this willingness to follow him might be impaired. i er since the conclusion of the w:::a War, at election time, suggestions have been put forward that Gen. Jeha Pershing should be nominated for high office. His name was advanced a possible candidate for President in | There are | ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC Prederic J. gton, D. C. Haskin, director, ing been held annually since 1888. Q. About how many cats are there in New York City?—A. T. B. A. The total cat lation of New Animals at 1,500,000. q.’ ‘Where is the planet Venus now?— a. 8. 'A. The planet Venus is into TRl o s W a.nmmfimnoflnnm g: a would the people be satisfied?— . C. A. It is only s small factor in the present unrest in India, the object of the agitation Mnt an independent national government. The opinion of the Brit! vernment and of much of the world is that India is not at present sufficiently advanced or suffi- clently consolidated to render such nationalization possible. the many dialects of is the ome uyj which the language is based?—R. E. A. When Chaucer used the Midland | dialect for his “Canterbury Tales” he ¢ mfie 1t the standard for modern Eng- droplets of water fill up the De- ..23 the threads and ;mut'm.l!(ht g ‘What is u; efeller?—O. B. 8. A. The Rockefeller Family Associa~ Vindication of Gov. Walter J. Kohler of Wisconsin, after a trial expenditures to $4,000, and it was claimed that the governor spent d that limit. Some comments lcate & belief that the limit is too low. “The hours apparently wasted in the trial were well employed if they lead to an {lluminating explanation of an obscure law,” declares the New York Times, ol that “politics eools slowly, if it ever cools, in Wisconsin,” ‘The Times remarks that “for more than three weeks the trial has been m on in Sheboygan County Circult Court.” It recalls that “there was a long cession of tedious, trivial and some- times comical 4 con- | that he wishes to have the whole situation under the corrupt gu- | Hees act cleared up definitely and finally | by the State Supreme Court.” * X Kk % “Wisconsin, like Oklahoma,” says the Tulsa World, “has a silly law a means. Everybody knows no person can be nominated for governor or Semator in even an average State without spending more than the statutory limit. And in the Wisconsin case the ‘corrupt ' act was actually used by an trenched machine to w machine expenditures in an unlimited amount and to prevent the opposition from spending & " “Of course, everybody famillar with conduct of political campaigns,” ac- cording to the Baltimore that no serious candidacy ernorship in a State as I consin can be carried on with such a sum as $4,000. The uence is that the money needed is proyided by cam- paign committees and by friends of the candidate. In this instance, the gov- ernor’s family gave liberally to the fund. The jury found that the law did not prohibit such contributions. * * * Laws which will secure strict accounting of how funds are obtained and how used, {and which will prescribe the purposes | to which they may be devoted, offer mare mise than attempts at flat | limitation, and at small s.” * ok ¥ “It was obviously a farce, staged for | political effect,” in the judgment of the | South Bend Tribune, “Gov. Kohler bhe- | ing & very wealthy man, it is not diffi- cult for the La Follette organization to |obtain & hearing when it first sug- gested that the State eorrupt practices act had been violated in the 1928 cam- paign. But when the evidence was pro- duced the mey of the oase against the governor must have im- pressed even the most obtuse citisen. “The La Follettes, Philip and hia brother, the Senator,’ York Evening Post, re mlkln&ol bid for the governorship. ohler beat their forces two years - and if the La Follettes can regain it S tate ization and assure the re- election of Senator Blaine two years hence. Of course, if they had pushed would have been automatically removed from the race this Fall. But even with- out conviction they now are armed wi testimony that campaign speeches.” * ok ¥ “Too much money was spent in th | campaign,” asserts the Milwaukee Jour-| nal, with the query, “What is that can be done to preserve and defend the franchise and the right of any man, 1920, 1924 and 1928. But Gen. Pershing all such E. s in the past. Ne there is some ullmlumx that gu ;\ln !o;“t:e “!enl!z nyur in § :l ome 3 . The s in Paris. He voul'hfl‘-ve to be":m di- date for the seat in the Senate mow held by Senatar George Norriz, Progressive Republican, if he did enter the lists The to refrain straint e | in the Sun, “knows | now they will pretty well control the| O through a conviction of Gov. Kehler, he| o, 11 bolster up a lot of e 1 general has been able e has 3 is Hiee u:° contin ue to so refrain. J. HASKIN. summoned s parliament h, because it lasted unty mnlnn been called the Long Parlia~ men q. ‘What will the new Union Station t cost?—R. G. ln“ It is to cost $40,000,000. How F‘“ varieties of files are "I—I. A are more than 30,000 kinds Kohler Case Starts Debate On High Cost of Elections m-m.h%bmmm ‘That paper also commenta: “Gov. out of the trial still n. robity and high int. 80 well known as to preclu nge T'or ‘permis uhlawiul or tmprope or pe: unla or improper] practices on his behalf.” Appreval of the verdict is voiced the Davenport Democrat and the Jane ville Gazette, while the Green Ba; Press-Gasette contends that Gov. Koh: ler's “'was a marvel of re. or poverty, as the case may b use of money, when compa with the records in other States.” Madison (Wis.) State Journal looks :fif‘ to !',.hemh" wrj:u- "-nnw case—a jury com 11 the voters of the State of Wisconsin.' That the corrupt practices act “ni to be liberalised and rendered sensib and practical” is the verdict of th Beloit Daily News, which also of | the legal proceedings, “It will rfli misf and the State will suffe if this outcome is interpreted as ap-| proval for unlimited expenditure money in any future Wisconsin political campaign ————— World Court Judges Soon to Be Chosen Prom the Atlanta Journal. The problem of judiciary appoint- g:':l’::: fiTl"l‘fl eonnn::’ ?& the United g e terms e 11 judges and 4 deputies of the World Court will expire with the year 1930. Nominations {Aor '.h:lrl luo';euon will be made before ugust 1, and elections September. ‘The procedure therefor is highly in feresting. Nominations are made by the members of The Hague Court Arbitration conferring as nati groups. Each group names four sons, of whom only two ma; own nationality, and from nees the judges are elected by the Council and the Assembly of the Lelmo of Nations, “acting concurently it independently of each other.” A majority in both the Council and the Assembly fidgs 51" Sy one. Tablonmity ‘mav pe udge of any one nationality may hosen.” ‘The t: states the New | D! competence in over. “the 1t appears | gi ment as Ol of e Court of Unitcd States. [ | will be held inf |