Evening Star Newspaper, June 4, 1930, Page 8

With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. WEDNESDAY......June 4, 1980 THEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor The Evening Star News, Company gy T i New York mlu- lby Carrier l:'flln al (whe: l By X (when ndays) e Sunday Sta PO L T K 8 S RationaT ¥ood Rate by Mall—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. T8 iy %%‘ Sunday. . : &Lv only . |3 Other States and Canada. d s All Yl and Sunda iy only - sy only Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively « $0' the ‘Uite for republication of a1l news. dip: atches credited £o it or not others iss cred- in inis paper and alto She' local Bew Dot Gisdeiches B lso reserved. Mussolini’s Naval Offer. While naval frreconcilables in the: United States Senate are engaged in their favorite pastime of snag-strewing, and at the same moment the House of Commons was refusing to impede Brit- ish ratification of the London treaty, Italy has made a significant proposal to France. Signor Grandi, foreign min- fster and chief Italian delegate at the Five-Power Conference, announced at Rome yesterday that his government is yeady to suspend naval construction planned for 1930 if France is willing to follow guit. Italy recently promulgated ® 42,000-ton building scheme for this year, which roundly matches French projects for the same period. Addressing the Roman Senate, Signor Grandi declared that the Mussolini naval formvla comprises two funda- mental principles—‘equivalence and re- duction.” It is in pursuit thereof that the Itallans now come forward with an offer, which is an effort to carry on where matters left off at London. The offer, too. Signor Grandi discloses, 4s the result of unsuccessful attempts by Italy at Geneva last month to bring about a special Franco-Italian meeting to discuss the question of naval parity. France demurred, Insisting that the fasue should be thrashed out through regular channels by Ambassadors. Beyond a doubt, unless there is a eatch in it not yet apparent from this long range, Mussolini has put over a diplomatic fast one in M. Tardieu's direction. It places France on the horns of an immediate dilemma, because the proposition implies, on its face, the right of Italy to parity with the French fleet. To date, Prance has resolutely vejected that pretension. The Musso- publican leader, sought unanimous con- sent to bring this part of the report to a vote at 4 p.m. today. He was willing to accept a later date. But Demo- cralic opposition, backed by that of in- surgent Republicans, made an agree- ment impossible. The plea was made that Senators were not prepared to speak on the report. Probably the country might reply that it could very well do with action and less talk at this particular stage of the proceedings. The unanimous consent route is the only practicable manner of reaching an agreement in the Senate to ter- minate debate and fix a time for vot- ing. Perhaps it may be possible today to bring forth an agreement for a vote, provided the desires of each in- dividual Senator can be satisfled. Despite the refusal to agree to a time to vote so that Senators could debate the tariff conference, it developed early yesterday afternoon that no Senators, not even those who apparently are so anxious to discuss the tariff, were ready or desirous of speaking. The Senate finally adjourned at 4:15 o'clock, following the discussion of other mat- ters than the tariff. The tariff bill will pass or it will not pass. Why are the opponents of the measure not willing to put it to the test? The business of the country and the farmers have been waiting for this measure for a year and a half. Many of the attacks upon it now made are mere attacks without basis of fact. The bill does benefit agriculture, as an examination of it should show the most skeptical. But the opposition con- tinues to deny this flatly. Why not let the farmers try it out? The “Gag-Rule” Controversy. There is nothing particularly new in the current discussion over a so-called “gag rule” as applied against teachers in the public school system. The clash between disciplinary regulations and the right to speak one’s mind freely is as old as the hills. And in the present instance there is enough exaggeration over the issue involved to give it more importance than it deserves. Existing regulations, interpreted as “gagging” the teachers, are innocuous enough. An old rule of the Board of Education declares that the board will “look with disfavor” on agitation by teachers and groups of teachers in con- nection ‘with legislation. That can be interpreted in many ways, and it is not established that being regarded with disfavor by the Board of Education is 2 penalty, the fear of which paralyzes the vocal chords of school teachers and renders them speechless. On the other hand, 1t s not certain that to lift this rule would mean that every teacher, ipso facto, would become an ardent lobbyist. One prefers to believe that the school teachers possess ordinary professional pride. Debate over the rule itself is a tempest that very easily may be confined to a teapot. The root of the controversy, in this Nni offer, too, is undeniably designed %0 sustain the theory that Italy’s naval plans are non-provocative in nature. Signor Grand! points out that the pro- posal means more for Italy than it does for PFrance, because the Italian Navy 4 #0 much inferior to the French at this time. i Some eighteen or twenty years ago, when Europe saw the World War re- morselessly coming on, owing to Anglo- German naval and commercial rivalry, smong other causes, Great Britain made her famous “naval holiday” proposal to Germany. Both countries, it was sug- gested, should down tools in their warship yards for one year, in the hope of relieving international tension and their respective taxpayers. It was the time. when Admiral von Tirpitz and the German war party were in the ascendant at Berlin, and Germany's enswer to Britain was a stentorian “Nol” Armageddon ensued in due course—the “explosion” which Prince von Buelow once predicted was sure to follow “pressure and counter-pressure” 85 between Germany and Britain. It 8 highly probable that, when France is ready to take notice of the Italian offer, M. Tardieu will plead that the Prench are merely engaged in the execution of their “statut naval,” or navy law. That law was laid down in 1924 and provides for systematic expansion of the French fieet over a period ending in 1943. France may say that Mussolini’s “holiday” scheme cannot be entertained because it would interfere with her building program, which is fixed by law. It that is the position the French assume and maintain, they will run the risk of shifting from Italy’s shoul- ders the blame for European naval com- petition and all the dread possibilities which He therein. o Batisfaction is expressed by Eckener in looking forward to the day when air ships of the Zeppelin kind are so numerous as to attract little attention. A great invention is never truly .suc- cessful until it finds the comparative obscurity of acceptance as a matter of course. ————. Delay. The spirit of delay and further delay en matters of vital importance to the American people appears to permeate the Senate. Efforts by the leaders to get action on the tariff bill, which has been pending in the Senate itself since last September, have been balked by demands for more and more debate. President Hoover is urged by some of the Republican leaders to postpone call- ing a special session of the Senate until next November to deal with the London naval treaty. Mr. Hoover, however, has very properly turned down this advice. A handful of Senators are opposed to action on the treaty. They are anxlous to have the debate on the treaty put off until next Fall, hoping that senti- ment, which 1s strongly supporting the treaty today, may change by that time. ‘There is a suspleton, too, that opponents of the administration, some of them prepared to vote for the treaty when the show-down comes, are not averse to forcing a postponement now merely for the sake of embarrassing the Presi- dent. The effort of the anti-adminis- tration forces has been to make it ap- pear that the administration is futile and unable to prevail upon Congress, or rather the Senate, to deal with these problems of importance. ‘The conference report on the tariff bill now before the Senate is in two instance, however, penetrates deeper than the rule supposedly “gagging” the teachers. Much of it is traced to the fact that the school officials and some members of the Board of Education committed themselves, before the House subcommittee on appropriations for the District, to a policy regarding kinder- gartens upon which there is a striking and fundamental difference of opinion. And after thus committing themselves there was too obvious an effort on their part to hush up the natural and healthy discussion of a decision that affects so many parents of children as well as It is one thing for the Board of THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTH THE EVENING STAR |terdsy senstor McNary, assutant Re-{turn was put into eftect here. With & very apparent change of attitude on the part of the traffic office regarding this question ,it is quite likely that the substitute the Hoover turn. ‘There has been a growing feeling on the part of Washingtonians as new lights spring up seemingly at every intersection that perhaps the city is being oversupplied with automatic signals. Lights are undeniably useful at certain points, but these points should be selected with great care and no light should be installed without a close study which demonstrates an actual need. There can be no smooth flow of traffic if stops must be made without cause. Many of the “Stop” signs originally installed have already been discarded, but there are probably many more which should suffer the same treatment. Any motorist who has driven across the city knows the number of totally un- necessary “stops” that must be made. The same sort of study should be given the installation of “Stop” signs as that accorded the necessity for new lights. The Capper-McLeod bill for safety responsibility on the part of those who arereckless and insolvent and judgment- proof has already passed the House, and the Senate District committee re- THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. ‘What is finer in fiction than the march the striking miners in Emile Zola’s “Germinal”? Or the feast of the goose in his “L'Assommoir”? Or the description of the burning of Paris in “The Downfall”? ‘The horse race scene from “Nana” is held by many to be the finest thing of its kind. These are four unforgettable situ- ations from four novels too little known to_the nt generation of lers. We know many honest readers who pant in pursuit of the newest novels, in the fond belief that they are “keeping up with books,” when all the time they had better be getting acquainted with some of the good old ones. One is far behind, indeed, if he does not know at least one of the above , for they are timeless, and will have the same appeal 50 years hence that they have for discriminating read- ers now. * ok ok ok ‘The discriminating reader of fiction, according to our ideas, is he or she who is not satisfied just to keep in the ever- moving stream. He has a curiosity to go back and to see what the stream was like half a century ago, a hundred years back. The literary brook had this advantage over other streams: that, although it is endless, one may dip into it at any time past. Thus the book stream partakes some- ported it out yesterday. It appears quite likely that it will become a law before the end of the present session of Con- gress. ‘The program of the trade automotive association is sound in every particular and striking benefits to the city will be the result if Commissioner Crosby approves it. ——————— Having served faithfully as an official, Calvin Ooolidge apparently finds com- fort in reverting to type as a plain American citizen who aspires to own his home and get an occasional piece accepted by a magazine. r-oe—s. Speculators in land cannot fail to de- rive encouragement from the historic imputations that George Washington was & bit of a realtor on his own ac- count. o Europe has learned to like American Cheese and is even beginning to nibble at corn bread. To write the songs of a nation is important. It is, perhaps, no less important to write the menu. -t Reminder is offered that “wars are fought by boys.” The idea presents a suggestion of grim responsibility for the wise elders who undertake to regulate international conditions. —— e Beer was once & simple beverage. Gangsters have made it deadlier than the hemlock that finished Socrates. r—————————— Political measurements now contem- plate beverages in terms of alcoholic discontent. —————————— The ratio 5—8—38 in plain figures adds up to 18. Fortunately, superstition has no place in diplomacy. o SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Preoccupation. I know full well that I should do The task the day has set, As I have done the long year through ‘With hope and no regret. Now, when you speak of work to me, ‘With June just in its prime, Industrious I should like to be— Education to adopt a policy after hold- ing hearings, summoning those inter- ested and qualified to speak and allow- ing the public, which owns' the school system, to speak its mind. And after adopting the policy, it is proper that the board should look with disfavor and even consider disciplinary steps against teachers who refuse to abide by it and g0 about attempting to undermine faith in the board or the policy. But it is an altogether different thing for the Board of Education and the of- ficlals of the school tacitly to approve a policy, arrived at in the secret commit- tee rooms of Congress, and then at- tempt to halt all further discussion of the subject and to discourage sugges- tions from the teachers. Neither the school officials nor the Board of Edu- cation should attempt to place their allegiance to Congress on a higher plane than their allegiance to the people of Washington. Once they do, the people are going to protest, and there exist no earthly means to prevent it. As for the failure of letters directed to the Board of Education to reach the board, that is matter into which the board may well inquire. Every teacher should have the privilege of directing such requests and having them reach their destination through proper chan- nels. Teachers or school officials who appeared before the committees of Congress without the knowledge of the superintendent or the board doubtless did so at the request of the members of Congress. Those who sought the committee’s ears without such an in- vitation are guilty of a possible im- propriety that the board can afford to overlook, in order not to overemphasize their importance. Such things usually take care of themselves. ——— One of the theories of constitutional procedure is that an amendment should be sufficiently independent of the original text to carTy & series of amend- ments on its own account. ——— A Sound Program. No better platform for traffic reform in the National Capital could be adopted than that recommended by the ‘Washington Automotive Trade Assocla- tion to Commissioner Crosby. It nov only goes to the very heart of traffic congestion but sponsors relief for the innocent victim of a driver’s recklessness. The program mapped out by the trade association has four main points and each one is worthy of study by the commissioner. These points are: Aboli- tion of the present rotary left-hand turn and substitution of the universally used Hoover turn; close study of the trafiic light- situation before making new in- stallations; the discarding of many use- less “Stop” signs and support of the Capper-McLeod bill for safety responsi- bility on the part of those who have shown by their recklessness that they sections. That which has been laid before the Senate for immediate con- sideration is the report dealing with should furnish financial protection to the public. The first of these recommendations I haven't got the time. Amid the bowers of blossoming grace Here comes the butterfly, Who valiantly attempts to race Yon airplane in the sky. The daylight goes in sprightly prose Or ripples into rhyme. For toll that interrupts repose— I haven't got the time. Back to Uncle Sam. “Your campaign fund was rather large.” to help the Government's business,” answered Senator Sorghum. “I used it for postage.” Jud Tunkins says he’s glad he doesn’t live in Chicago. He'd rather stay home where people are satisfied to gossip in- MRALLDE DRty cne hanother Son i b spot. Customary Experience. As each election time draws near, We feel again a sense of fear. Here is another crucial test To ascertain just what is best! And when election leads at last Unto serenity so vast, We smile with confidence and say, “Elections all are just that wayl” Loss of Figure. “Why did you jiit him?” “He lost his figure,” answered Miss Cayenne. “He was never an Adonis.” “I refer to the figure at which he was commescially rated before the Stock Exchange slump.” “A will of iron,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “should be carefully managed lest it weaken by rusting in indolence.” Tangible Assets. My confidence will not relax, ‘Though rumors are misunderstood. Each time I pay my income tax, I'm sure that business must be good. “It's a duty,” sald Uncle Eben, “to love yoh fellowman, But how kin you when you keeps missin’ chickens.” ————————— Bring the Soup. From the Milwaukee Sentinel. Hollywood advertises “Public to see stars eating.” With sound effects? M Maybe He'll Get an Opponent. From the Detroit News. for a President, but it is shadow boxing that keeps . Mussolinl where he 15 He Ought To. Prom the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. It s probable that the British artist who has painted his wife's portrait 55 times can choose his own dinner menus. But Chicago Gets Monopoly. From the Bay City Daily News. ‘I spent most of the money in & Way | dra, The medicine ball is all well and Kuofl’ what of the naturc of time, being regarded by the scientist who ?du propounded the “two-way” time ea. Certain books may disappear, almost, from the book stores, even from the second-hand stalls, where all good books go at last. It may require re- search to find a particular novel. If one knows what he wants, how- ever, and genuinely wants it, no doubt he will find it, for the printing of books has been heavy, since printing was discovered. There is another fac- tor, too, which makes almost certain the discovery of what one wants. This is the plain fact that no one book can appeal to every one. hus any given novel, of any given master of the past, will exist in enough numbers to permit the genuine seeker to get a copy. It is thus with Zola. Go to any book store and the pro- prietor will be unable to supply you with an English translation of more than half a dozen of his 40 and more novels. These six, however, will include the best. * ok ok x Our_experience in urging friends to read Zola has been interesting, if not illuminating. “Germinal,” for instance, has long been regarded throughout the world as the finest labor novel ever written. Conditions in the coal mines have changed considerably since Zola wrote, but basically human beings are much the same, and their reactions to such things as wages, hunger, kind treat- ment or the reverse are very much alike the world over. 1t is impossible for any one with any acquaintance at all with business to read “Germinal” without seeing at once the merit of the work. Although the conditions of living may be at wide variance, is a sure relationship between the life led by French miners of long ago and all ranks of workers, even in prosperous America today. This work is shot through with strokes based solidly on human nature. Yet when we recommended this novel to as it is | |F & gentleman who had inves- tigated conditions in mm coal flelds, we discovered that he was neither impressed nor interested. We refused to believe that Zola was in error, but rather preferred to think that our friend had kept his mind shut to a glorious picture, & moving picture of human nature. At another time we recommended “Nana” to another, to have him tell us later that he found the lines “dull.” Now to us there isn’t a dull line in the * k%% . ‘The answer, that one must be a “realist” to like Zola, will not hold water. The writer here is far from a poetry, fairy tales and the imaginative Louts poetry which compels his interest in every sentence, despite the fact that there is, in most of those sentences, no particular grace or felicity of the thing et i this uality 1o Zola a tic ity which may be um poe‘ry? It s, it would seem, nothing more :lhm the man’s innate sense of jus- ice. Justice, as one may realize by reading in the het Isaiah, is the backbone of much of the poetry of the world. The ringing measures of that old writer (or perhaps many writers) arise, t, through the mighty sense of justice (and injustice) which rings through them. * x % % Emile Zola was a blood brother of Isalah, as strange as that may sound. Within the mind of each reigned the sense of justice and in the heart of each bolled the righteous anger which came when injustice was encountered. It may be objected that Charles Dick- ens had a like sense of great injustices and yet produced no poetry. It de- pends, of course, upon what one calls poetry. The ‘“great world of Dickens,” as Gilbert K. Chesterton calls it, is crammed with poetic characters and with mass descriptions which border, at least, on poems in motion. Poetry, as every one knows today, does not necessarily mean certain con- ventionalized words, descriptions or line terminals, generally rhyming. Poetry is a condition of mind and heart which searches for beauty. EEE Prose writers who hold aloft the twin standards of justice and beauty are likely to achieve poetry, despite themselves, and their readers to read r?;y. although they may not real- ‘Thus it is with the novels of Emile Zola, the Frenchman. His mmimm mind, after it had gone into a subject, made him identify himself with characters and situations to such an extent that he came alive to their innermost aspirations. He longed for justice to prevail throughout the world and out of this longing came & mass movement of words, which, without particular beauty of composition, nevertheless achieved a moving effect. Buch is the quality which distin- guishes the description of the march of the miners in “Germinal.” Both sides of the affair are depicted—the brutal side, the glorious side, the futile aspect, the immortal aspect. To us, we repeat, there is not & dull line in “Germinal,” and we do not be- lieve any one will find a dull line either, if he keeps in mind the consid. erations we have outlined. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. If it weren't for such diversions as base ball and the circus, the nerves of Congress would be frazzled almost be- yond endurance by the long-drawn-out tail-end bickerings of the waning ses- sion. By and large, and including the many. weeks of committee work which preceded the special session of 1929, House and Senate have been on the job for the better part of & year and a half. Statesmen of high and low degree are straining at the leash, wait- ing for adjournment. They are not only tired out, but yearn to back to their more or faithful con- stituents on account of the impendin, congressional elections. The return o hot weather whets the tnxletf of the men and women on Capitol Hill to quit Washington and leave legislative troubles behind them. House members will make for the open spaces the moment Speaker Longworth rings the bell, on or about June 2. hen the Senate will be able to get away depends on how long Senators Johnson, Hale et al. are able to maintain the fight on the naval treaty. They'll be more un- popular than they are already if they g out the special session very far into’ July. k% % Representative L. J. Dickinson, win- ner of the Republican senatorial primary in Iowa, seems to have established that the Hawley-Smoot tariff bill isn't the “monstrosity” its enemies say it is, at least in the opinion of the Corn Belt. Gov. Hammill, who succumbed to Dick- inson, made his campaij on a plat- form assailing the bill's injustice to agriculture, while the Representative strongly supported the measure. Straws like these incline Washington politicians to think that President Hoover will find in them encouragement and justifica- tion for giving his approval to the act which Congress is about to put up to him. Mr. Dickinson is expected by most authorities to have smooth sailing against Senator Steck, who will be his Democratic ogponem in November. Senator Brookhart, who records in the Congressional Directory that the Senate “disregarded the Iowa election laws"” when it seated Steck, and not himself, in 1926, may be depended upon to throw his full and powerful support to Dickin- son. * k% x Nelson T. Johnson, American Minis- ter to China, has just made a big hit with the people to whom he is ac- credited by announcing that he intends to ride in rikishas as long as he is stationed in Peiping, which is the new name of Peking. The Yankee envoy says he finds it a lot more comfortable to travel in these ancient man-drawn carts than in a modern motor moved by gas, although he's an expert driver. Mr, Johnson's fellow envoys roll along to swagger Peiping diplomatic parties in glittering limousines, but he jogs up democratically in his rikisha. The Mirister likes the conveyance all the better because he enjoys talking Chinese to the native who pulls him along at a {ly trot. Another innovation for which the American diplomat is re- sponsible at Peiping is & “black tie” kit for evening dress instead of the swal- lowtail coat outfit. To cap the climax, Johnson smokes nothing but “hatamen” cigarettes, a cheap brand sold only in China and designed for the humble purse of the coolie, o Mark Sullivan, historian and Hoover comrade, is gom& finishing the ird volume of “Our Times,” his monumental tale of Ameri- America” and deal with the country's history up to 1912. First editions of the previous two volumes—“The Turn of the Century” and “America Finding Herself” — already command fancy rices, Sullivan’s publishers inform him. nf before Mr. Hoover became Presi- dent, this observer was discussing “Our Times” with him. The Secretary of Commerce's comment was, “Mark sure hit on a million-dollar idea. * ok Prince Iyesato Tokugawa, who was last in America as chief Japanese dele- ‘The Senate passed & bill to reduce Mexican immigration. There's nothing like taking & pn“wlmhouzu\- fthe flexible provision of the 1aw. Yes- has been agitated ever since the rotary sugurations sale in future. ate to the Washington Naval Con- fennu in 1921-22, is about to cross the Pacific again en route to the United States. The of his trip is to mnmfihm’m to put in the Summer | of his only son, Iyemsa Tokugawa, Who recently became Japan's first Minister to Canada. Before going to Ottawa, Prince Tokugawa will stop off at Chi- cago to address the Rotary Interna- tional meeting at the end of this month. After leaving Canada, the prince will return to Japan via Great Britain and the Suez Canal, He is the principal su-viving scion of the Shoguns, who ruied the Japanese empire from 1603 (o 1868. Educated at English universities, he speaks our language with engaging luency. * % % All of the Coolidge boosters left in Washington and now domiciled at other points of the political compass are holding their thumbs looking for Willlam V. Hodges, who is after the blican senatori nomination in orado. Hodges was treasurer of the Republican national committee in 1924 and did a job then and ever since regarded as a ‘wonder—namely, raising over $3,000,000 and spending it in such & way that there was not a cent that wasn't ac- counted for by & voucher. Mr. Nutt of Ohio, the present watchdog of the G. O. P. treasury, wrote Hodges at the end of the Hoover campaign that the Hodges gold-digging system had been followed in all respects in 1938 with re- sults now known to all the world. Hodges hopes to renew college-day ties in the Senate with a certain Dwight W. Morrow, with whom he was at Co- lumbia Law School 31 years ago. * ok % * Arthur M. Hyde, Secretary of Agri- culture, who returned only a day or two ago from an official speech-making trip through Missouri and Texas, is spellbinding again away from Wash- ington this week. He was persuaded to go to Indianapolis by Senator “Jim” ‘Watson, Republican Senate leader, and gr!lch the gospel of farm relief, as it's eing worked out by the Federal Farm Board, to the Indiana G. O. P. Repub- lican convention. (Copyright. 1930.) o Federal Movie Control Proposal Is Assailed From the Milwaukee Journal. Dr. Fred Eastman, professor of re- ligious literature and drama at the Chi- cago Theological Seminary, speaking before a Wauwatosa church group, pro- poses & Federal motion picture com- mission to regulate the movie industry in about the same way the Radio Com- mission regulates radio. ‘That is one thing we ought not to |want. In the first place there is no analogy between the radio, with its problems of wave lengths, station power and control of the air, and the movie industry, which has none of these ele- ments present. In the second place, such & motion picture commission is just & disguise for Federal censorship. It would, in fact, have to become & cen- sor to accomplish ‘anything at all. And censorship is rejected in this country. But Dr. Eastman is on solid ground when he points out the need of Federal legislation, such as some sections em- bodied in the Brookhart bill, to break up block booking and blind booking of pictures and the domination exercised by great chains of theaters owned by producers. All these things are harm- ful to the movies. Block booking is a device by which producers force upon the exhibitors all their produotions, ‘The exhibi- ndence. He, pictures for good, bad or indifferent. tor today has lost his indej to be sure, wants the go his own community. To get them he has to take a lot of “potboilers” and worse. Some producers have said they would stop_this practice, but it appar- ently is still in existence. And in the background, if the exhibi- tor is inclined to show any independ- ence, is the threat of the powerful chains of theaters controlled by the producers themselves. It is not un- reasonable to say that today they can break any exhibitor they really want to break. ‘This is not a healthy condi- tion from the standpoint of the movie art. And it is not healthy from the standpoint of the patrons, 'ho:lwm children, Whatever that is. He likes | oo EP. eagle scream.” Now are, in fact, the most powerful the world we no longer need tinually reminded that ours is land on God's green foot- clans who used to indulge L L L gflggfi i i § ; | £ L3 trying to make up in spirit for its inferior material resources. Mussolini includes among his mani- fold duties that of national cheer lead. He calls his agree: were attempted at the London Arms Conference. A flve-power treaty was made impossible at London largely by Italy’s demand for parity with France. To bring these two nations into agreement and thus stabilize the entire naval situation it is necessary, first of , for Italy to recede from her posi- tion. Apparently we must wait for Mhum"um‘:l( dw:fimenu until Mus- sol ys le megaphone and S e long run e Italian money, not the Italian statesman, that mey Pollution of Water Dealt Blow by Court From the Buffalo Evening News. The movement against pollution of ‘water courses ',eu impetus from the ruling of the United States Circuit y Court of Apfim upholding conviction | be and penalty in the case of a steamship company, one of whose vessels per- mitted the escape of several barrels of ofl into the waters of New York Harbor. The statute under which the com- pany was haled to court was passed by the Legislature more than 40 years ago. 1t forbids the discharge of “refuse, dirt, ashes, cinders, mud, sand, g8 and sludge.” At that time ships did not use oil-burning engines, but the trial court and the jury assumed that the intent of the statute was to prevent the discharge of any and all kinds of pol- lu lwunnf the legislation, the Federal court also acce] this view of the matter. If this is good ation for New York Harbor, it sh ld be good for all his | Other water courses, which as popula- tion increases tend to_become more and more contaminated. Largely the water courses are used as open sewers. Such an order of things cannot go on in- definitely without endangering the pub- lic health. For instance, Buffalo can- not hope that the practice of discharg- ing sewage into the Niagara River will much longer be countenanced. The eity now and again considers plans for the construction of disposal works, but it does nothing to carry them out. The wise course is to proceed with the work while as yet the city may choose its time, rather than to wait for orders to proceed. The difficulties in which Chi- cago now finds itself eloquently attest the distress that attends a policy of tem- porizing. The decision of the Federal court in the New York Harbor case is likely to lead to a demand for action to protect all water courses. Buffalo would do well to anticipate legislation of this character. Girl’s Flight Wins Title Of ““Queen of the Air” From the New York Times. A letter addressed to Miss Amy John- son as “Queen of the Air” at the Sydney post office bestowed on her a title which she has a right to wear. This York- shire girl, using a Moth plane from Croydon, has achieved per) the greatest individual feat in aviation by flying 10,000 miles to Australia over desert, jungle and sea. But for a mis- hap at Insein, near Rangoon, when the propeller of the plane and & wing were damaged and repairs me necessary, she might have beaten Bert Hinkler's time from London to Port Darwin, pilot, mechanic and navigator all the way. When she made a forced landing in a clearing at ‘Tjomeal, Java, on account of lack of fuel the wings of her plane were per- forated by bamboo poles. She plugged them with plaster and started Once she was 15 hours overdue and at &% another time 24, The Timor Sea, in- fested with sharks, did not daunt this girl of 23, although she admitted: “I know full well that the stretch above the Timor Sea (400 miles) will ve me the biggest fright of my life, t I am going on.” ‘When at last she came down at Port Darwin the London Daily News mgde an elaborate apology to her for dis- crediting her adventure. King and prime minister cabled congratulations, and that seasoned veteran, Sir Alan bham, declared that her flight with “nJ single-engined m: e was too marvelous for words.” Government to Aid Ships on Pacific Prom the Oregon Daily Journal. Portland. ‘Word from Washington indicates that K. D. Dawson and associates are to re- ceive the ald of the Government in constructing & fleet of five fast and modern ships and placing them in serv- ice on the Pacific, It would be remark- able if such aid were to be denied. It is the announced policy of the American Government to create and maintain a merchant marine. That K?]ley ‘was written into law by Congress 1920. Since that date the Govern- ment has gone a long way in helping in the establishment of ship lines, pro- viding ships for the trade routes, in en- couraging construction of new vessels, and in alding in keeping the vessels in operation. But most of the ships have been placed in service on the Atlantic. Much of the activity in which the Govern- ment has had a part has been on that coast. Meantime there is a heavily ex- panding trade on the Pacific. That ex- pansion will continue much faster than expansion on the Atlantic. The era of the Pacific, when the bulk of the com- merce of the Nation will be on this ocean, is approaching. There are great new markets off the Western coast of America. There are rich resources to be tapped there. There are great fields for development. What about Amer- ican ships in that commerce? Is an American merchant marine to be main- tained in that trade? ‘The speed records on the Pacific have been recently broken by new Japanese vessels. They are modern ships. They are fast. They are less costly to op- erate. than ships that have gone before them. They are on the Pacific, bidding for the Pacific trade. only way that American vessels can be expected to carry part of the huge cargoes of the future on these trade roul is.te provide vessels that can compete with foreign carriers, and to get into that trade now. Private in- terests with a record of successful op- eration are asking for the opportunity. ‘They are asking for the Government to afford them the same aid that has been afforded on the Atlantic. It is inconceivable that it could be denied. e Getting Money’s Worth. From the Loulsville Tt ‘The Yankee management should now . g: bjeulg.ha:‘ l:.c:uu its $80,000 beauty, of 80 uf recen i oo ey L T given it sev- the ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC Q. Is Babe Ruth more of an his team as & batter than he was as pitcher?—L. P. t?—G. 8. M. mumunea quotient or “T. a child is determined by multi. its mental age by 100 and divid- the actual age. Thus the intelli- tient of & normal child is 100. Qo ey & eni as normal. Q. 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In most instances the billboard ST S , 8uj : 4 "&mm. which i usually employed in a primary way. . How lot was what is known as the lmn:. A’:’—Y. R. 8. 'hmwm 2000 and 3000 B.O. 1. HASKIN. Q What do acrobats use on m_‘éo ts to make them more pliable?- e A A. The flexibility of acrobats s due to constant exercise and intense train- ing and not to any prepatration which they apply to their joints. 0% Why is fiat money so called?— “A. This name was given to irredeem- able uring the green- back agitation after the Civil War, from the claim of the Greenback partf that the flat of the Government could give value to a efrculating medium. Q. What metals does the horseshoe magnet;_attract?—R. D. A. %‘n. Bureau of 8 tandards 'm. that iron, nickel and cobalt are metals that the ordinary horseshoe magnets attract. < ). When was the last lssue of &h? lhn, u;d Stripes published A. The last issue published in France was dated June 13, 1019. °€ About how much of the United States has been mapped by soil veys?—H. W. L. o e 2 e now e of lfifflxlmlfi!ly alf of the solls the United States. . What was the first highway in the 3 mfim States?—L. O. C. A The first_important toad in_tha United States, says the Highway Edu- cation was the old York road| between New York and Philadelphia, established by the colonies in 1711. M, A. The artist contracted a cold ‘was | while stu the Vatican. Lifelong Q. How large an army did Britai %;von ;hen the Revolution began?— A, Outside of militia, the British Army consisted w 48,647 men. Mow many names do followers of ve to God?—T. H. ere ars 99 beautiful Aradle names of God so used. Q. How rapidiy does the muskrsi 18 | breed?—R. W. A. A. A female muskrat will producs from 26 to 50 young & year. Opinion Conflicts as to Goal " In Digest’s Wet-Dry Report Differing views as to the sentiments of thoss who voted for tion_in the prohibitio 1l of the u%- gest make definite conclusions it Many of the country-wide comments when it comes to actually voting for mum“ of the saloon, lose their indicate dissatisfaction with the present | Daily Oap! conditions. Others see in the Pennsyl- vania a challenge to the nfi; S jueries seem 3,-m¢ by those who voted !o:n 1: s cation? How many women gany”nt "fi plain people received bal- cas! “The poll leaves no doubt that s large portion of the population is dissatisfied with the nt _condition,” Fran wi San e, gestion that “there is danger that what good has been nlnv.fl by the present experiment will be “iost unless some workable formula be found that is gen- erally acceptable to a self-governing people.” Scranton Times finds in- dications that “sentiment is inc rate the law.” that a very hfie section of the pe'o‘p majority are dissatisfied ent conditions relative to the control of alcoholic liquors.” Studying es, the Chattanooga Times remarks: “Dividing the total vote between those who do not favor & change, or the enforcers, and those who want a change, or the modificationists and repealers the result is * ¢ ¢ a dissa vote of 69.54 per cent, an uv:r:hl‘lm:nl majority.” “In an actual and unclouded con- test,” the Cincinnatl Times-Star thinks, “the drys and wets might prove almost equal in numbers. Obviously, the bal- ance of power is with the so-called damps, those for modification rather than for the present system or its re- peal.” The World advises: “A more honest alignment upon the various phases of the matter may come around very soon. its will take place. The deliberately expressed opinions of nearly 5,000,000 people form a basls for hysteria and fighting it out on the facts.” “Under wise leadership” states the Columbus Ohio State Journal, * straw vote can have a far-reaching fluence. In the picture, it is plain that wet_leaders are not in control, nor are modificationists or prohibitionists. The showing should help silence the nolsy, ranting speakers in all groups, but prob- ably it will not have that fine result.” ‘The Worcester Telegram observes: “The skeptical will point to the fact that the number of voters was but 4,000,000 More than 36,000,000 voted for Mr. Hoover and Mr. Smith.” The Waterloo Tribune concedes that “we have in the igures minority opinion,” but adds that, “after all, elections are participated in hgu. minority and won on a minority LR “Assuming that the prohibition poll is as nearly accurate as was the presi- dential poll by the Literary Digest, the country stands 40 per cent for repeal, 30 per cent for m cation and 30, per oent for prohibition ‘as is,’ but strictly enforced. And where do we get from there? Just nowhere. We stay right where we are,” concludes the Omaha World-Herald, The Milwaukee Journal offers the judgment that “one seems sure—the desire for a change in our law is not yet great enough to be a political force. * * * This poll shows, if it shows anything, that people have been movlnilout of the twilight zone in the past eight years. It also shows that they have been moving toward rather than toward enforceme: e Lynchburg News contends, ‘Prohibi- tionists will be wise if they do not at- tempt to whistle this poll down the wind, but study its ms and change their tactics.” “The wets, who have been greatly cheered by the Digest poll” says the Kansas City Star, “undoubtedly suf- fered a heavy blow in the Pennsylvania primaries. * * * Ap| nearly so reliable a political guide on the prohibition issue as it is on candi- cates for President. Possibly two con- siderations account for this. One is that women Jeunlly have strong views on prohibition, and women were hardly repeal have been as widely distributed in the smaller towns and in the rural dis- tricts as in the large citles. In the third place men and women voters should have received an equal number ently the poll isn't | wi; of ballots.” *x x ¥ ¥ “Judging from the returns, the dis- tribution ‘was very faulty,” maintains the Shreveport Journal, while the ministers’ edition of the Chattanooga ‘Eve knows that practically all the wets registered their ts, and the non-voting 15,000,000 are so satisfied with the situation that they did not care to take the slight trouble to register their attitude.” Typical of the replies to this group of arguments is the statement from the Seattie Dally Times that the majority of the American people live in or very close to the citles and towns”; that is of population,” and that “cities and towns did all the wrestling with the evils of the saloon, just as they now have practically all the trouble with the bootleggers and.moonshiners, the expensive processes of 'attempted en- forcement, and the costly congestion of the courts.” “More are in favor of outright re- peal than are in favor of continuance of present policy,” declares the Fort Wayne Nem—sentlnell. but_favorable to prohibitio) and Richmond News Leader holds that the result “is certain to encourage th who believe that prohibition is a fall- ure and that some other method of promoting temperance must be sought.” “At least & large plurality of the people, and doubtless a large majority when the modification vote is ai are opposed to prohibition and want the amendment repealed,” according the 8t. Louis Times, while the Haver- hill Gaszette views a change'as “in- evitable and not far distant,” and the New York Times suggests: “Only pro- fessional or bigoted drys deny that ! Nation-wide vote just completed by the Literary Digest showed two things plainly, One is that the majority are dissatisfled with present conditions. The other is that re?ell sentiment hay made its way powerfully into what for years has been considered securely dry territory.’ “Confirmation in statistical form of our private judgment and experience as to the ing tide of protest” is pointed out by the Providence Journal, and as to future the Syracuse Herald takesithe position: “Those op- posed to prohibition as it now op- erates must co-operate in making a new order a success; they must be quick- to condemn and fight lawlessness and corruption; they must be foremost champions of law and order. Or Hot “Wires.” Prom the Jackson Oitizen Patriot. m&h 80 many of the politicians wouldn't be continually sitting on the fence if the voters would see to it that the political fences are made of barbed ire. ‘ r———— . Or Worse, Even. From the Sprinsfield. Mass.. Union. Two students have walked 800 miles, $10 and with 18 represented in the Digest poll. r is that men who are irritated by restrictions ltke to blow aff steam on fhe of the Volstead and | ly cents; but you don't have to walk near- as far as that here to achieve tha