Evening Star Newspaper, May 30, 1930, Page 8

A-8 THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WABHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY..........May 30, 1830 THEODORE W. NOYES. ...Editor oo Boeie Sar Newmapes Compeny mln‘.::: Nm_)u Company 11th 8t. and isylvania Ave. rew 0 e S 5 Rate by Carrier Within the City. ening Star... ... 45¢per month The Evening ane sunday Star en 4 Sundays) . .......60c per month The Evening and Sunday siaf (when § iays) . .......68¢ per month The Sunday Star : .- B¢ rer copy Collectjon made at the end of each month. Orders riay Be senlt tn by mall of Lelepnone NAtional 5000 Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland lllld Virginia, iy U Eunguu"only All Other States and Canada. fly and day. aily only ur.day only 1yr. $5.00: 1mo. Member of the Associated Press. ‘The Associated Press is exclusively entitted o the use for repudlication of all news dis- 50c b right; ecial dispatches hereln Memorial Day. America pauses reverently on these fecurring Memorial days to do homage to the Republic's heroic and honored dead. In an age of intensive competi- tive demands, a people may seem to forget the idealism of the past, which made possible the prosperous ma- terialism of the present. Yet, once a year at leas!, a busy Nation does take stock of the spirfiual values which, after all, give it mcre of substance than trade balances. In laying wreaths of gratitude on the graves of the sol- diers and sailors who went to the coun- try’'s wars, we pay annual tribute to the gallant men who gave their all for us, privileged to survive because of their sacrifice. The national calendar contains no day of nobler sentiment. | slow or too fast, and does it meet the At Gettysburg, symbol of the Union's preservation, President Hoover, follow- ing precedents observed by many of his predecessors, is speaking from the spot hallowed by Lincoln's presence in the harrowing midst of the Civil War. Though the day and the place inev- #tably conjure up martial memories of imperishable glory, the President's theme is a theme of peace. So, indeed, was the Gettysburg Address. When Lincoln, in immortal words, declared “that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain,” he bad peace, not war, in mind. He en- visaged a reunited United States, “dedi- cated to the great task remaining before us"—the task of perpetuating in unity and tranquillity the Republic saved on the batilefields of land and sea. Quaker and humanitarian though he be, peace-minded to-his marrow as the eountry knows that he is, Herbert Hoo- ver is, nevertheless, a practical idealist. ‘Within the brief span of his presidency he has moved constructively toward that millennial day when wars shall have vanished from the face of this troubled earth. But as he surveys the serried Tows of hero tombs at Gettysburg—as on occasion he contemplates a similar scene at Arlington—the President can- not fall to reflect that all of America’s wars have been unnecessarily costly in life and treasure because they caught us inadequately prepared. It peace is our “task,” and the pres- ent Chiet Executive subscribes to the theory that there is no greater, we can never hope to absolve it effectually and completely without the power to safe- guard peace when it is endangered. The &inews of wer are the sinews of peace, when they are maintained, as the United States maintains them, purely for defensive purposes. The men who paid with their lives in * the Civil War, the Spanish War and the World War will have “died in vain,” in the sense of the Gettysburg Address, unless we, “the living,” see grimly to it that never again, in so far as in our power lies, shall America be found un- ready for a crucial national or interna- tional emergency. We shall best carry out the spirit and exemplify the lesson ©f Memorial day by keeping ever green in our national consciousness the reason why s0 many men fill warriors’ graves. ‘That would be their wish, and we shall fall in our sacred duty to them and to ourselves if we disrespect it. ——— Those who complain that traditions ©of the theater are fading should be pleased to note that motion picture stars have even more expensive jewel robberies than the old-time prima donnas. The Traffic Study. While a traffic coramission, such as suggested by Corporation Counsel Bride, might go far in clearing up disputed and overlapping sections of the code now in use in this city, it must delve still deeper into underlying causes for the pitiful congestion here if Wash- ington is to become known as a well regulated community from a trafic standpoint. Conflict of authority be- tween the Public Utilitles Commission, " the Police Department and the director of traffic in regard to control of taxi- cabs, street cars and busses is simply one phase of the situation which must be ironed out. The other phases, which have given Washington a none-too-en- viable reputation as a center of conges- tion despite its wide streets, are con- cerned with the proper education of motorists themselves and certain regu- lations now in effect which need either revision or elimination. These are just as important, if not more so, as any squabble over authority between re- sponsible officials. In the first place, Washington motor- ists do not make full use of the ex- traordinary amount of street space in the Capital. They appear to believe that the only lane of traffic that it is proper to drive upon is in the middle of the street, and the one or two lanes near the curb are seldom used. One reason for this is undoubtedly that despite accepted practices in New York, Philadelphia, Chicago and other large cities passing to the right is not per- mitted in Washington. This rule could ‘well be eliminated. Because of the fact that under the present regulations he cannot be passed on the right the motorist of Washing- turn. With the Hoover system in effect here and two-way passing permitted, ‘Washingtonians would soon learn that deviation from the straight line will have a sorrowful effect on fenders and bumpers. ‘Whether it is on account of Wash- ington's salubrious climate or not, local drivers are sluggish in getting started on light signals or at the wave of a policeman's hand. In the case of the lights this is a large contribution to congestion, inasmuch as the National Capital has synchronization of its au- tomatic signals and failure to keep the necessary speed results in a piling up of trafic. This evil can be remedied only by thé motorists themselves. Next comes the question of the lights. Are there too many of them? Have they been placed intelligently? Are lights needed at intersections where for perhaps only an hour or so a day there is an appreciable volume of travel? Is the timing of certain sets of lights too average traffic needs at a particular point? These ere questions deserving of the most intensive and painstaking stud; Improvements after this study is made can doubtless be effected, and while there should be no hesitation in removing signals that are not needed, the greatest hesitation should accompany the installation of others until their utility is definitely established. These are some of the causes of Washington's congestion. There are many others. PFerheps nothing can be done about it, but other cities, larger and with more traffic, have successfully attacked these specific problems, and their experience could well be utilized in the Natlonal Capital. e The War Memorial. More than eleven years after the end of the World War in which 26,000 of her sons fought and 258 gave their lives, Washington, the Capital of our Nation, stands in one unhappy respect unique among cities of approximately similar stature in the country as far as is known. Washington alone has so far failed, in one adequate form or another, to memoralize those who fought and died as her representatives in the last war. The circumstances which account for this fact are, happily, such as to re- lieve Washingtonians as a whole of any just charge of ingratitude toward her war heroes. In 1926 a general pub- lic insistence for an adequate memorial resulted in the appointment by Con- gress of ‘a commission of Washing- tonians to evolve ways and means whereby & proper memorial might be erected. Plans for a beautiful structure were drafted and approved by the proper authorities, and a financial cam- paign was launched which, terminating in 1927, showed subscriptions to the memorial project of upward of $130,000. With the minimum cost of the se- lected memorial set at $155,000, the Since the giving of that assurance there has been no slightest disposition of those who made it to e good their pledge. Yet itions have obtained which, opinién of those upon whom task of raising the necessary funds rendered it impracticable from year to year to undertake the . And as a result, with none to blame, Washington still lacks the memorial which every instinct of Happily as Decoration day again is upon us the period of waiting seems sure shortly to be terminated. Inspired by & new and strong appeal from President Green of the American Fed- eration of Labor, the Central Labor Union is launching forth into the final effort, which cannot but result in full success. That there are many Wash- ingtonians outside of the ranks of or- ganized labor who, having faled for one reason or another previously to sub- scribe, will now wish to participate in the privilege and duty of completing the fund, is to be confidently antici- pated. And if this be true it will not be many months before the city, with pride and gratitude, may stand before & shrine to the memory of those whose service to the Nation we can never forget. ———— Tariffs develop a conflict between theory and practice. Even though a statesman may disagree with the gen- eral principles of a tax schedule, he wants his constituents to derive as much benefit from it as possible. e Telephone interests are rich and in- fluential. But it would take some ex- pert lobbying to make several distin- guished gentlemen in the Capitol en- thusiastic concerning the dial system. ———— A Senate Comedy. The latest political comedy has been played out with the Senate chamber as its setting. It revolved around the much-dscussed flexible provision of the tariff bill. President Hoover was rep- resented by the Democrats and insur- gent Progressives to be the villain of the piece. He, they said, was merely an- other and & modern Caesar, grasping for power and more power. And so the Democrats and Progressives, forming an anti-Hoover coalition, struck from the bill all powers of the President under the flexible tariff. Proudly they claimed that the people should suffer wrong no more. That was the first act, in brief, though it was far from brief in the playing. The second act took place not in the Senate chamber, but in the conference committee room, after the House had overwhelmingly rejected the proposal of the Senate to strike down the flexible tariff, under which the Chief Executive, after full investigation by the United States Tariff Commission, has been en- abled to change tariff rates by 50 per cent to meet changing conditions of competition from abroad. In confer- ence the flexible provision was rewrit- THE EVlaiag of the commission becomes the law. Here, indeed, is something new. Again the scene shifted to the Senate chamber. Chairman Smoot of the finance committee submitted the new flexible plan, Whereupon up rose Sen- ator Barkley of Kentucky. He leaped into the breach with a point of order against the new agreement. He was for striking out the flexible provision entirely, the House and the President to the contrary notwithstanding. The Vice President, Mr, Curtis, obligingly sustained the point of order, while the Republicans looked on in amazement. So back the ieasure went to confer- ence. Brought once more into the Senate yesterday, the tariff bill carried a new agreement on the flexible provision, an agreement which differs little from the existing law, which, according to the Democrats and Progressives, is anathema. Yet it had been drafted by the conferees to meet the objections raised by Senator Barkley when he made his point of order. And now came the tragic Harrison of Mississippl to thunder at this monstrosity, to in- veigh against the President and his de- mand for unlimited power over the tariff as exemplified in the new agree- ment. Invectives fell from his lips that fairly scorched the paper as the official reporters took them down. It remained for Senator “Jim" Wat- son, the Republican leader, to place the seal of humor on the play. Replying to the diatribe of the Mississippi Senator, the Republican leader declared that, far from reaching out for more power, as his enemies have pictured him, Presi- dent Hoover’s only thought in the whole matter of the flexible tariff has been to “take the tariff out of politics” and place it in the hands of non-partisan experts. The Republican Senator even undertook to quote the President on this matter, to make the case more understandable, The President, he said, was entirely satisfied with the earlier conference agreement on the flexible provision of the tariff, the agreement which Pat Harrison was applauding, but which had been stricken down by the point of order made by Senator Barkley, another Democrat. If the Democrats, said Senator Watson, are not now sat- isfied with the situation, they have only one of their own number to blame. As for the Republicans and President Hoover, he said, they were entirely blameless. Seemingly the Democrats have slipped badly in their attempt to place Presi- dent Hoover in an awkward position in regard to the flexible tariff. By the latest maneuver in the Senate they are in the position of forcing more power upon him. The President stands re- vealed, far from a glution for power, as an earnest friend of the proposition that the tariff be as far removed from politics as possible, and that it be placed on an economic and sound basis. The Chief Executive wishes this result to be obtained in a constitutional way, through the exercise of the flexible pro- vision of the tariff law. Surely the President may be excused if he chuckles at the situation in which his opponents in the Senate now find themselves. ———— . Having called in & doctor, Mussolinl is compelled to admit that there is at least one person who can assert su- periority—so long as he keeps away from politics. e Clergymen who deem it their duty to deliver sermons on the tariff add new responsibilities to the already heavy task of bringing enlightenment to much that is obscure in modern interpretation. ————————— By seeking to make his own salt out of sea water Gandhi comes into a Clash with the English assertion of traditional right to control the ocehns of the world. ———e—s. Gettysburg agein reminds the world that it is possible for & community to be historically great without ranking as & commercial metropolis. Having introduced a new disease, the parrot lapses into silence and . allows science to do the talking. ———— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. From a Scrapbook. A paper, yellowing with the years— ‘With type so clear, though quaint— With earnest thoughtfulness appears,| ‘While modern print grows faint. And here a bit of verse I find, Unsigned by any name; A gentle song for all mankind, ‘Too proud to bid for fame. Perhaps the sentiment so fine i ‘Was to the singer's heart As close as now it is to mine, As recollections start. g Perhaps an idle, questioning thing Held no reward so good As that of one who loved the song Because he understood. Credit or Blame. “Politics is very uncertain.” “Very,” agreed Senator Sorghum. elected, he doesn't know whether he's going to take credit for what happens or whether he'’s going to get the blame.” Jud Tunkins says too many farmers want to quit raisin’ crops and try to be- come realtors. The"Polar Lure. He's going back to seek the ice Where boatmen bold are ‘wrecked. Although the climate isn't nice, At least he’ll know what to expect. often Censorship. “Do you think moving pictures ought to be censored?” “Of course,” answered Miss Cayenne. “There is a general effort to censor every other form of expression. Why omit the movies?” ““Most, enemies,” sald Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “are only persons seeking to protect interests which happen to be opposed to our own.” ten. The President was shorn of some of his present powers, Under the agree- ment arrived at in conference, the ton almost invariably drives a zig-zag course. Plenty of room must be allowed ‘when overtaking a local car operator. He may swerve at the most unexpected moment. Part of this bad driving has President had either to accept the find- ings and recommendations of the Tariff Commission or veto them. He could not deviate from the new rate laid down by the commissiom; as he can under exist- ing law., Purther, he must accept or reject the recommendation of the com- ‘mission within 60 days, or the proposal Inexcusable Occurrence. I had a Bible printed clear, . Through which I liked to look. Religion seems to lapse right here. Somebody Stole the Book. “A good boss,” said Uncle Eben, “is & man dat de trouble to know what he's talkin befo' he gits en- largement of de voloe givin' orders” 5 “Even after a man succeeds in being | Siak, WASL s &) siN THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Solemn people suit us better than Jolly ones. That i4, those whose normal saluta- |flon is pleasantly conservative rather than jocular. One can be solemn but not lugubri- ous, staid but not sad. ‘The trouble with most of the jollyrl boys is that they others, Almost invariably their greetings are indirect slaps at the ones they meet. | lack respect for ‘They cover up in the name of good | nature an essential ill nature. They snap like dogs, but would have us call them good fellows. | e Rk Of course, what they suffer from is a gr!’-sem" , and an incurable malady, at at. ‘The young man who starts on a career of hilarious greetings normally ends his life in the same manner. Now, even the most conservative per: son may be willing to forgive the hila- rious young man who slaps him on the back and asks him about the health of | his grandmother. ‘When the waggish old party with 2y hair, however, insists on greeting im in the same fulsome manner, he resents it; and he resents it heartily, without equivecation, although he may | not say so. N Hotel “greeters” are pleasant young men who specialize in welcoming the incoming guests. Their manner of ap- proach might well be studied by all and | sundry, for greeting others forms a no :inconaldenbe portion of every man's ay. A greeting even in passing oft reveals the man. How you speak to acquaint- ances, friends, employes, employers, ’“’i | periors, inferiors, more or less reveals you to the discriminating. The hotel greeter, with an eye to business, tries to temper his “glad hand” to the per- son he addresses. In all cases, how- ever, it will be found that he preserves the essential attitude of respect for human character. It is amazing how many otherwise decent human beings somehow feel that only those who possess vast wealth or have distinguished themselves to the point of having received much valuable publicity deserve the essential respect which every human being ought to have for almost every other person. R B Daily greetings, since ordinarily they are so simple, surely ought to pre- serve for every one of us the funda- mental respect for humanity which hu- manity ought to feel for itself. The animals as a class have a better attitude in this manner than thousands ‘e found some real reason for biting. ou do not see cats sneering at each other. No, when animals approach ea other they look with their bright eyes as if saying to themselves, “What man- ner of interesting creature is this?” While they are giving each other the old “once over” their very attitude is Tespectful, as if each recognized that the other, no less than himself, was a child of the true God. * ok % It might seem that human beings could far outdo the animals in this essential respect which every human be- ing craves. No doubt most of them do, for this is an unspoken craving, of hyman beings. You never see two ’io.vu;ll‘lflnz at each other until they | ing matter. | say, but there are yet which has its roots in every mind and heart. There are many men and a few women, however, who insist on too literally the old couplet, “Life's & Joke, and all things show it; I thought 50 once, and now I know it.” As a matter of solemn truth, no one knows sometimes it just Certainly it cannot be called a laugh- Wherefore these fools who greet one in elevators and elsewhere |as if they had c>veral huge jokes in mind, and the liiest person they meet quite the biggest joke of all, tend to make one rather tired. A e e These clowns of the everyday, whether their hair be whitened or black, their baeks bowed or straight, insist on for- getting the essential respect due every other human being. They are forever “wise-cracking” when a_simple “Good-morning” is in ,order. How can they knew what the state of mind of their acquaintance is? For all they know, he may be suffering from a toothache or something. One suspects that they rather hope he is, and therefore théy get an added delight in slapping him on the shoulder, especially if they know from past ex- perience that he does not like it, and in addressing him with unseemly familiarity. . Familiarity breeds contempt, they persons whose nat- ural state of mind is contempt for every one except their precious selves. You can tell them usually by an unholy glint in their eyes. They call it “high spirits,” but its proper name is “bad disposition.” It is a fundemental lack of applied decency for others. It is one thing to know theoretically how to treat others, and often quite another matter to so treat them, * o % % . One constantly meets in all walks of life men who have the highest regard for ethics—in talk—but who in its ap- plication commonly will not shrink from what are known as ‘sharp practices, utterly unworthy of gentlemen. It-is the same with so simple a mat- ter as greeting those one knows. Per- haps no other action, and certainly no other one of such simplicity and ease, shows up the real man as well. It 1s quite possible to tell whether a man has the instincts of a gentleman by the way in which he geeu others. Almost invariably it will discovered that his habitual greeiing of others, no matter what their shtion in life, is reserved yet cordial and friendly. Above all, it has about it a certain solemnity which says better than words, “I realize that you are a comrade with me in the great adventure of life. Our wolks may take us far apart, but we are one in the Great Mystery. I trust you and respect you until I find out I cannot.” It may be advanced here that we take the frivolous greeter too seriously. Perhaps so. But it is our experience that this type of person “gets away” | with his nastiness often on that precise plea—that he means nothing by it. We say that he does mean something by it, and that he means too much by it. He ought to give over his jocu- larity, his unwanted back-slapping, both physical and mental, and put on a help- ful smile, whether he means it or not. Life is not such a bed of roses for any of us that we can willingly dispense with all the help we can get. Hardy Sons of Win Praise f Man’s suffering from too heavy clothes is the cause, perhaps, of the widespread interest expressed in the in- novation at Dartmouth, when hundreds of the students appeared in ‘“shorts,” dubbed the ideal costume for warm Weather. Although cold weather met the inauguration of the custom, the idea is warmly received. “Thousands of tailors must be hope- fully sharpening their needles, while guardians of other pecple’s morals must be distressed, on reading that a num- ber of Dartmouth students have decided to defy the conventions and expose their knees to the civic and academic eye,” is the comment of the New York Times, and it prognosticates that “out- side Dartmouth an overpanted human- ity (male mostly, married and helpless) will watch with fevered eagerness the progress of this audacious deflance of sacred customs.” The Manchester Union reasons that “any such change in the mode as this will command considera- tion from two points of view—the utili- tarian and the esthetic. The arguments | under the former head have been indi-| cated,” says the paper. “As for the latter class of considerations, one must depend upon the testimony of the cam- era. Press pictures of students in shorts leave the question open,” the Union suggests. R That the day when the adherents to the new style were to fare forth turned maliclously chilly, and yet they were not deterred, speaks well for their de- termination, according to several - pers, among them the Springfield Union, which remarks: “The characteristic in- dependence and individualism of his- toric Dartmouth have found joint ex- pression—knee-joint expression, to be specific—for approximately a thousand classmen are exposing their knees to the breezes as the result of an emanci- pation proclamation. Unfortunately, the day of independence turned cold, but Dartmouth students have never been , known to turn yellow, and the anatomical display took place per schedule. * * * They are a hardy race, those Dartmouth students,” concludes this paper. ‘The Hartford Daily Times is amused that “the Dartmouth students break forth on the campus with short trousers as a protest af t the supposed dis- comfort of the long ones on a day when the near-freezing temperature made the latter extremely comfortable. Student crusaders have a way of disregarding lwlnd and weather, also common sense,” t avers. * ok ok & “Perhaps we have taken our college youth too ‘casually,” suggests the Wor- cester Evening Gazette. “Sturdy hearts may beat beneath those coonskin coats. ! Lofty thoughts of regeneration and re- form may be sizzling beneath the dumo 1 masks of those unhatted heads. We are ;lmo-t impelled to give the boys a and.” ‘The fact that just as knees are dis- appearing from public view in the fem- inine world they are to appear in the | masculine realm is cause for many edi- torial chuckl Says the Cleveland Plain Dealer: “Fashion, having ruth- lessly banished the feminine knee, now brazenly orders the unveiling of the | masculine. Shorts, terminating four |inches above the knee, are taking the | place of plus fours ana long trousers. Now the percentage of feminine knees worth a second or even a third glance is relatively large,” gallantly asserts the Plain Dealer, “but who will say that even 10 per cent of the masculine in- tersections of lower leg and thigh can pass muster, under moderate esthetic standards? The Highland Scots, it is true, have long favored pitiless patella pubiicity, but y always wear a garish E:“d to guide the eye away from the ee’s windswept knobs,” contends this | Los Ang paper. Registering its objection both to ex- posed suspenders and ex) knees, the New Orleans Item says: “We hold, despite all wanton changes of the times, 'to two simple tenets of our fathers' Puritan faith. They found the ‘gallus’ upornamental. It still is. And they thought the male knee positively ugly. So do wr And the Butte Daily Post Bt e any man who doubts this | an honest look at his own.” ! * ok ok % But is this it Dartmouth or Baring Shins confess to a_wee small doubt whether Dartmouth has actually done much more than provide a Roman holiday for the moving picture photographers.” One participant in the parade called the innovation “the most logicslly radi- cal movement since males first stepped out of armored vests and trousers.” And on this point the Erie Dispatch-Herald quizzically asks, “But what permanent hope is there for any ‘logical’ fashion, masculine or feminine?” And this pa- per suggests that “if logic ruled this realm, even more startling transfor- mations might be seen upon our streets.” “American women have the courage of their convictions that what is shock- ing is chic,” declares the Lousville Times, but “men are base cowards in matters of dress. A Chinese mandarin in his wife's party pajamas would feel no more uncomfortable than a Chicago broker in shorts. In them a bank clerk would probably be asked to resign.” The Birmingham News asks, “Is it conceivable that men of the South would stick together on this proposition?” The News emphasizes the possibility that the men will be more generous in. their response to the demands of the cotton situation than have the women. It refers to the crusade in that direc- tion of the League of Women Voters, with the conclusion that “there has been no widespread response,” and that “the prayer for relief of the Southern cotton farmer has not apparently stirred the women of this country like a prairie fire.” It adds that.in recent suggestions by a manufacturers’ associa- tion “there is tremendous opportunity for radical action by forthright he-men the country over,” and argues: “So long the male of the tribe has suffered terribly by reason of his heavy clothes. Normally man is the conservative in these matters of dress; woman, the rad- lcal. But is there not in this hint of the world's drapers and clothiers a challenge to the male to leap out of his hot woolens into something cool, porous and comfortable—in fine, cute little cot- ton suits from the neck to the ‘knees, with sheer cotton stockings?” ) Bus Playing Big Part In U. S. Transportation From the New York Times. Before this session of Congress is over the Interstate Commerce Commis- sion is likely to see added to its duties regulation of interstate motor bus traffic. It has lately become an important part of the country’s Lun:gonnuon system. The Parker bill, authorizing Federal regulation, passed the House some time ago and is now before the Senate. As if in anticipation of these new responsi- bilities, the commission has just or- dered an exhdaustive invesf motor transportation gen c] Ing both passengers and freight. conducted a sl r inquiry some years 8go, but events have moved n&ldly since then,” and the present one to be more searching. A chart published in one of the Cleveland Trust Co.'s recent bulletins, comparing volume of manufactures and volume of freight loadings on the rail- roads, threw an interesting sidelight on the way in which the busses have been invading the transportation fleld in recent years. In the old days the two curves rose and fell in close harmony, | but about 1920 they began to diverge, and freight loadings have now fallen far behind. Waterways may have had something to do with this , but its {rflnclpn) cause must be the motor uck. As for the busses, they have cast a net over the entire country in recent years, and it is a compara- tively simj matter nowadays for a resident of land, Me., to travel to eles “with a minimum number of changes and on one ticket.” first transcontinental bus arrived in New York less than two years d there are now something like 14 de- B T ing special busses has become established in many parts of the country, and it is possible to reach practically every city in the country, using the bus as the sole means of transportation. es Hoover Will Sign. World-Herald. At Dartmouth mg{ynm‘:?‘&uunr As the New York Evening Post puts it, “we must that the President will sign the bill for new flshery stationa, IFive-Cent Fare Zones As Traction Trouble Cure To the Editor of The Star: The Capital Traction Co. is in & hole. Its are not sufficient to pay 6 per cent dividends on its stock, and they are rapidly becoming less, due probably to the 35-cent taxicabs, It has asked for permission to increase its fares to 10 cents cash or four tokens for 30 cents. It is very doubtful that such higher fares would increase revenues enough to pay & 7 or 6 per cent dividend. 1If it cannot be made to pay, it must go out of business. Can you imagine Washington without a street car system? And yet that is a certainty unless it earns enough to pay dividends. Obviously the trouble now is that the fare is s0 high that enough of our people will not patronize it. They often prefer to walk certain distances rather than pay 6%, cents or 8 cents fare, but would ride such distances on a 5-cent fare. There is magic in a 5- cent fare. A it majority of our people have 1 incomes. The street car service should be adapted to their needs. Therein lies the only hope for the street railways. Otherwise they are doomed. A 5-cent fare from the wharyes or Eastern Branch to Georgetown or Rock Creek Bridge or, say, Park road, and another 5-cent fare to the District line, would probably solve the problem, by inducing a hundred thousand to be- come riders who now seldom or never ride, another hundred thousand to ride half a mile to a mile where they now always walk, and providing an increased fare only for very long-distance riders who ought to be willing to pay it. Such a “zoning system” is not sub- ject to the objections heretofore urged against zoning, and would be very ac- ceptable to the very great majority and to the stockholders who want dividends. Capital Traction could double its revenue in this way, if it would supply enough cars to seat all its passengers. C. B. HEMINGWAY. R Sclicoll GhildrentDiffer As to Immorality To the Editor of The Star: ‘Washington school children are dif- fering about what constitutes im- morality! Is it any wonder that there are these individual differences, since their ideas and impressions of the world are sum total of their education and train- ing, their experience and local environ- ment? Graded and high school pupils represent different rates and degrees of mental achievement. Therefore, they must decide their moral and ethical problems differently. Even in the same families, no two children have the same degree of education and training, or ex- perience with life, and so no two ‘can be expected to hold the same views and opinions about social matters, nor can we expect them to behave exactly in the same way. Then, too, when parents, relatives, friends are governed by ex- actly the same social resent Pramully the same differences of opinion, how can children help hav- Ing such marked intellectual differences? There never has been any marked general agreement about social affairs and problems among boys and girls of school age and, doubtless, there never will be. How can we expect mere chil- dren and adolescents to have the same ideas about such questions as planting trees along United States highways, the city of Washington, educating school children of Washing- ton, working out a new system of traf- fic control, or about many other local and national problems? Clearly, we cannot when their “grown-ups,” for the very same social reasons, differ about the tariff, the next United States Sen- ator or governor, or perhaps about the moon. VERNER M. HOLSTON. e Pronunciation in Spelling Match Hit To the Editor of The Star: It seems to one who loves to hear English correctly spoken that if the last 15 minutes of the national spelling contest recently held here are a fair sample, the whole proceeding ap- proached the nature of a farce. I tuned in my radio to the contest in that period to hear the master of cere- monies pronouncing a word to the meek young victim: “A’cumen!” Pause. No wonder. Who ever heard it that way? Then timidly, “Is sometimes pro- nounced ‘scu’men’?” “Ye-es—acu'men!” Ah, youth, we elders bow to your re- straint and modesty. Twenty years later, when you too-hold the whiphand by reason of your years (and no other), you would say: “Of course you mean ‘acu'men’?” The master again intones, “Con-fli-gra-tion!” Again bewildered youth, trustful, confiding. “‘Con-fli-gra- tion?” “Hem—means a fire,” is the answer—while honest men sit by and let this pass. To cap the climax, the last word rings out: “Al'bumen!” Shades of Webster! But no, this must have been a guessing contest, as most of one's high school and college courses are, anyway. “Guess what I mean and teacher'll let you go to the head of the class"—or win the spelling contest. ELIZABETH G. THOMSON. British Peer Has Right Idea About Americans From the Houston Chronicle. It is indeed refreshing to listen to a foreigner who understands us. The Marquis of Lothian is a Briton and, presumably, is llable to interpret America to Americans more accurately than those lecturers from the Con- tinent who have to acquire a back- ground of philosophy totally foreign to their preconceived ideas of life on this side of the Atlantic. ‘The Marquis of Lothian, formerly Philip Kerr, for years David Lloyd George's secretary, spoke recently in London in an address radiced to all parts of the English-speaking world. An outstanding friend of the United States, a frequent visitor to this coun- try, he combated the view hitherto current in England that America is a land of money-grabbers, Shylocks who_demand their pound of flesh in all European debt settlements, shirkers who refused to co-operate with the League of Nations in stabilizing civ- ilization after the World War. This distorted vision of America is false, and the marquis insists that this Nation deserves due credit for the ac- complishments the United States has to its credit. And he emphasized the fact that this country has always been reluctant to enter into the discussions and dissensions of Europe for the very good reason that our forefathers had settled in a savage wilderness to escape the brawls of Old World monarchies. And that American public opinion would in_ time be convinced that the Europe of today was a new Europe of democratic instincts. “The epic of America is the epic of the plain man and woman.” Thus the marquis sees a Nation which has given to the world the gift of representative government in its most effective form. This British statesman sees the United States a Nation of boundless energy, a place where the humblest can rise to the highest position without facing the Inevi barriers of cux'la ?l'l;xl:rhe d.e’-‘ ss the average Euro) . cf 10 doubt that he reflects the opinion of a lu-g“ and in ng body of Eng] m c opinion which feels that t.hem methods and the social we! ves of the fact that America has risen to supreme rank smong the na- tions of the world. Probably. Prom’the Fort Wayne -Sentinel. S If Mr. Ghandi had been over we luppo?e he would have started blowing his own bottles and coopering his own kegs. —————— Sunshine Thought. From the Cincinnati Times-Star. its {and is under the personal direction of actors, and rep- | g, ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FRBDIR_IC ‘There is no other agency in the world that can answer as many legitimate questions as our free Information Bu- reau in Washington, D. C. This highly organized institution has been built ug! Frederic J. Haskin. By keeping in con-| stant touch with Federal bureaus a other educational enterprises it is in a tion to pass on to you authoritative formation of the highest order. Sub- mit your queries to the staff of experts whose services are put at your free dis- posal. There is no charge except 2 cents in coin or stamps for return post- age. Address The Evening Star Infor- mation Bureau, Prederic J. Haskin, dl- rector, Washington, D. C. Q. How far does the IV!l’Ifi good swimmer go under water?—L. McC. A. The distance which a person may swim under water varies as to condi- tions. Probably an aves swimmer in a pool can swim 30 feet under water.| M. Pauliquen, in Paris, Prance, on No-, vember '3, 1012, remained under water! 6 minutes 204-5 seconds. Jack Tri-| villa of Avalon, Calif., swam under water | 126.41 yards in 2 minutes 13 3-5 seconds at the Salt Water Natatorium in Seattle, Wash., July 25, 1912, Q. What is the area of the North Magnetic Pole?—J. E. A. It has no area. It is merely a peint upon the earth's surface. ; Q. Where are the people in peniten- tiaries counted in the census?—S. W. A. They are counted in the peniten- tiaries, jails .and prisons in which they are when the census enumeration is made and added to the population of the cities in which the institutions are | located. | Q. What, are the most popular colors | for the new bath room fixtures and| kitchen sinks?—H. P. A. Colored plumbing fixtures are| growing in popularitv. In 1929 their| sale increased 200 per cent over 1928. The most popular colors are green, lav- ender, orchid, ivory and brown. Q. What proportion of the members of Phi Beta Kappa is found in “Who's ‘Who"?—F. C. A. The Phi Beta Kappa Key states that 19 per cent of all the names in “Who's Who” are members of Phi Beta Kappa. About 10 per cent of all Phi ‘l:;hu Kappa members are in “Who's o Q. Werc the members of the mer- chant marine a part of the Navy dur- ing the war?—D. D. B. A. They were part of the Naval Auxiliary Reserve, and were later placed in class three of the Naval Reserve. They wore naval uniforms and received Navy pay. The last of these were re- leased in June, 1922. Qi] What is a “dead language”?— 'A. It is one which is no longer used as a means of communication by any peoples. Q. How long has dentistry been| taught in special schools?—H. N. 8. | A. Among the ancients the desire to preserve teeth, to retain and to disguise dental disfigurement gave birth to the art of dentistry. Un-| til well into the nineteenth century ap- prenticeship afforded the only means of acquiring a knowledge of dentistry, but in November, 184Q, the Baltimore Col- lege of Dentistry was established. This was the first college in, the world for| the systematic education of dentists. The charter of the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery specified that there should be at least one annual term of instruction of not less than four months in length. The first academic year opened on November 3, 1840, with five students. Instruction was continued J. HASKIN. the first class of two ated on March 9, 184 Q. How long has Mound Bayou, Miss,, been ruled by Negroes?—T. B. L. A. The town was founded about 48 Jears ago by two former Negro slaves, ah T. Montgomery and Benjamin lltudmu gradu- d| T. Greene. The population of the town and all its officials are Negroes. The town is a model, and while it is not one of the largest Negro towns, it is one of the most celebrated. . What mathematical _problem tlmeg tlfie epithet of “pons asinorum™? A. “Pons asinorum” is Latin, and means “asses’ bridge.” It is the name given to the fifth proposition of the first Book of Euclid, in which it is required to prove that the angles at the base of an isosceles triangle are equal to one another. Q. When was “Madame Butterfly" first produced?—O. T. A. Puccini’s lovely opera was pro- duced at La Scala PFebruary 17, 1904, and seemed an utter fallure. Three months later it was given at Brescia, and Milan's disapproval was not upheld. It started on a career of world-wide production, and is one of the most pop- ular operas known. Q. Who invented linoleum?—A. R. A. Linoleum was first produced in England, where the earliest patent was granted in 1636—"“painting with oyle cullers uj ‘woolen cloath.” was followed by various mixtures of olls and resins, and in 1751 by the incorpora- tion of india rubber or elastic. In 1844 Elijah Galloway softened the india rubber by heating and incorporating it with cork dust. This was rolled into sheets and marketed as “hamptulicon.” Owing to the high price of rubber, it did not prove profitable to produce this article. In 1860 Frederick Walton in- vented a process for oxidizing linseed ofl to produce a cheap rubberlike sub- stitute. The word “linoleum” was orig- inally colned by Mr. Walton. Q. Are the hours before midnight better for sleeping, or those after mid- night?>—R. F. G. A. The time of day appears to have little importance in influencing sleep, except that persons trying to sleep & the day are more frequently upset by noise and light. Professors of psy- chology who have conducted tests per- taining to sleep have found that per- sons sleep more soundly when they first 80 to sleep than they do in the latter part of sleep. Q. Is the money invested in machin- ery fl'kl Jflcmfy called working capital? A. The money invested in machine; is called fixed or permanent capital, while that called working capital is the money required to meet current ex- gemu of industry—salaries, wages, mar- eting costs, rent, light, heat and raw materials. g. ghg sald “Paris is worth a mass"? A. Henry of Navarre, the first Bour- bon King, who was crowned as a Hu- guenot, used the expression when he returned to Catholicism. Q. Can Hindu widows take part in any festive ceremonials?—A. T. T. A. Sarojini Naidu says that they cannot. “Their portion is sorrow and austerity. Q. Was John Calvin an Englishman? —P. D. 8. s Al John Calvin was a Frenchman, Q. Why do so news rs bear the name “MM"?EJ. C. o A. The first Itallan newspaper was Sold for a gazetta, a small Italian coin, and it is generally supposed thet the name “‘gazette” is an application of the until the latter part of February, and Pprice of the paper to the paper itself. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. R President Hoover never fishes on Sun- day. That's news, because it's up- usual. Probably more fish have been caught on the Sabbath than on all other days put together, for it's the only time in the week the average man has for fishing. Because Mr. Hoover wends his way so often to his Rapidan trout camp over week ends, a wide- spread impression exists that he puts in a couple of days with rod and reel. But he never casts a fly after sun- down on Saturday. Men who have re- cently been on Rapidan with the President are enthusiastic over his fisherman's skill. They say they've never seen more expert casting for trout or more aptitude in landing that pesky breed that Hoover displays. Long ago the chief engineer won one of the rized buttons of a Florida fishing club or his prowess in landing a 67-pound amberjack. When his admiring compa- triots hear that Hoover has gone fish- ing, let nobody run away with the idea that the President is wasting time. He is on record as saying that fishing and praying are the only things a man can do and be assured he'll left alone with his thoughts. Probably many a Hoover commission been born amid trout angling in the Rapidan. * ok ok % Senator Borah, Republican, of Idaho, was asked what he would do if the Re- publicans of his State, in convention assembled, were to declare against pro- hibition and Idaho in a referendum were to follow suit. “I'd vote accord- ing to my conscience, and not accord- ing to the referendum,” he said. Borah is up for re-election this year. Per- haps he’ll have to face the issue. If he does, he'll face it bone dry, Morrows, Joneses and straw votes to the contral notwithstanding. Borah considers Pin- chot's recent victory in Pennsylvania outstanding and conclusive proof of how the political wind is blowing, even in the moist and thirsty East. * ok kX Wade H. Ellis, former attorney gen- eral of Ohio and now a member of the District of Columbia bar, owns one of the historic colonial homes of Virginia —Rippon Lodge, on the banks of Potomac below Mount Vernon. At garden party the other day one of Mr. and Mrs. Ellis' visitors, surveying the trim, white bungalowlike mansion that adorns the estate, asked the lord of the manor if he'd built it. After re- covering consciousness, Mr. Ellis im- parted that the house was constructed seven years before George Washington was born, viz., in 1725, Ellis is a Ken- tuckian of Blackburn ancestry on his mother's side, and got his law at Wash- ington and Lee University. * oK K X Senator Reed Smoot’s people, em- bracing three generations, have trekked across the country by all the means of communication yet devised by man. ‘The tariff chairman's father, Abraham, went west to Utah in a covered wagon drawn by oxen. Reed himself has traveled back and forth in trains. The Senator's oldest son, Harold, now a Washington business man, is accus- tomed to make the journey to ancestral heath by automobile, and _recently Smoot's second son, Harlow Eldredge, began cruising to Utah and return in his own airplane. * k% ¥ of the recent hot days in n a White House newspaper to the President how On one Wi the veracious reporter, retorted that there is a surplus of hot air outside, and that far too much of it gets on the telegraph wires. ® Wk All m;ndshi appears to have ceased ew imbroglio. tore them down. Former Senator Pre- linghuysen and Representative Fort, Who are after Morrow’s scalp, are prom- inent members of the commission. Whether the banishment of the Am- bassador's mho'nghs had political or esthetic motives has not been offi- clally disclosed. But Morrow at any rate {,tz'tl,m" that he barked up the wrong » * k% % Information has just been received at the Department of Justice regarding Mr. and Mrs. Ying Kao and Suen Foon, who were connected with the Chinese consulate at San PFrancisco and were implicated in the smuggling of large guantities of opfum into this country. They were released to the Chinese au- thorities for prosecution in China. In the trial court some time ago Mr. and Mrs. Ying Kao were convicted, but Suen Foon was acquitted. On the ap- peal of the cases to the Soochow High Court the sentence of Mr. Kao was changed from seven years' impris- onment and a fine of 36,666 to six Ym and a fine of $6,000. The appel- late court reduced Mrs, Kao's fine from $5,000 to $4,000. Suen Foon's acquittal by the trial court was reversed, the High Court finding him gullty and sen- tencing him to five years’ imprisonment and a fine of $5,000. The defendants still have the right of appeal to the Supreme Court at Nanking, and the report is that t:ny‘ lntelld to exercise ft. * It appears that Senator “Joe” Rob- inson is to be opposed in the Democratic Arkansas senatorial primary by a young Little Rock attorney ed Tom Camp- bell. Not that the brilliant minority leader is in the slightest danger, but, because his Arkansas congressional col- leagues in Washington-love him so, the entire delegation has offered—if neces- sary or desired—to stump the State on his behal? during the primary cam- paign. The last time Robinson ran for the Senate, in 1924, he trimmed his Republican opponent about 3 to 1. Campbell's primary chances against ‘'Joe” aren’t rated any better than that, if they are as B (Copyright. 1930.) Home Owner’s Taxes ' Are High Enough To the Editor of The Star: I wish to commend the editorial “It Can Be Done"” in your paper of May 26. 1t certainly seems that it is time to call :hfill:"nn mx;.her increases in taxes in and your statement of th propoalbzm is timely. i In 1918 I bought a.small, unpreten- tlous place in the Northeast suburbs in ord.eil"!t}:n ’I lnl'h}l' live within my Gov- ernment salary. No improvements have been made on this place, except to erect & small garage, and yet the taxes have more than doubled. "The followiny of taxes is based on this same pla Fiscal year. Tax. cal year, 1919 $36.05 1925 In addition to the above there has been one special assessment of $140.21 Asschamnt 1 soor to e e o e m cu ’n's .nld th .':’xn't‘xn :““" urely, the been suficiently to be a real hurdm’n R. D. BROWN. ———t e Offers Lindy a Job. From the Canton Dally News. The way Col. Lindbergh ki his schedule we can't h:lpx‘ u'uh:’m & motorman on our street car line. Sarcastic Film Crack. Prom ‘he Albany Evening News. that. the Now & it movies keep folks sane. zfl.‘ seeing them he decides it keep sane.