Evening Star Newspaper, June 6, 1930, Page 8

+ THE EVENING STAR - —_With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY...........June 8, 1830 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Busly Office: Litg &t gnd Fenns fhce 110 ghicaso Office: Lake Mi uropean Office: 14 Reg Englana Rate by Carrier Within the City. Evenine Star 48¢ oer month Evening and Sunday Star (when 4 Sundavs) 60¢ ser month Evening ana Sunday star “when 5 Mupdave) . .. .. vy Sunday Star -ilection made at th @ers mas be sent in fAtional 5000 Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. nia_Ave chity n“‘fu"iu Shi"e0. London: '+ month Sc per copy end of each ront y mail or tele, hone o All Other States and Canada. s and Sunday. 1yr.$)200: 1 mo.. $100 5 1yl 5800 1mo. 15 1yrl 8500.1mos soc Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exciusively vntitied fo the use for republication of #1l news ais atches credited to it or ted in ihis paper and ublished herein. Al t pecial disoatches herein Facts for Mr. Simmons. Representative Simmons is quoted "as saying that the House, meaning Mr. Stmmons, will stick to the $9.000,000 lump sum until there are facts pre- sented to warrant a change. The infer- ence here is that the Senate, which increased the lump sum to $12,000,000, ‘wes in possession of no facts at the time and based its action on empty sentiment. Mr. Simmons knows it is & fact that substantive law, never repealed by Con- gress, provides that appropriations shal! be shared between the District and ths Federal Government on the basis of 60 per cent and 40 per cent, respectively, while the current bill, as passed by the House, divides these appropriations on the basis of 78.5 per cent for the Dis- trict and 21.5 per cent for the United States. Mr. Simmons knows it is a fact that 4, in 1825, the lump sum payment of $8,000,000 represent-d equitable partici- pation in District financing by the Fed- eral Government, it does not continue %o represent equitable participation when set up against the amount of the District bill in 1931, which carries $12,000000 more, in the so-called “divisible appropriations,” than the 1925 bil. Mr. Simmons knows it is a fact that when, at the instance of the House, the Bureau of Efficiency made an exhaus- tive inquiry into the question of fiscal relations between the District and Fed- eral Governments, it found that Uncle Sam as a municipal taxpayer, whose in- tangible personal property value can be computeéd only. on a conjectural and ]nrmd as usual and the price was six thousand dollars apiece. The distance covered was approximately eighteen thousand miles, and the trip occupied, imcludm; stops, twelve days. Even to lighter-than-air skeptics the Graf Zeppelin has proved itself, and Dr. Eckener probably need have no fears as to the success of the projected commercial airship line to be estab- lished In the next few years across the Atlantic. With the improvements in ships that are bound to come by that time and the confidence that has been inspired by the feats of the Graf, pat- ronage should readily be found among those adventurous persons to whom time is money. Of course, Dr. Eckener cannot pilot more than one ship, but Eckener-trained men are among the world's experts in controlling ships of { this character, and the new line should | prosper. Closing the Loopholes. An exchange of notes between the United States, Great Britain and Japa dealing with the so-called *loophole” in the London Naval Treaty through which it wes contended by the General | Board of the Navy Britain might, in its | repiacements, construct a greater num- ber of 8-inch gun cruisers than the | eighteen alloted to the United States, | has been effected by this Government. | The understanding reached is said to | be entirely satisfactory and to have ef- fectually sealed the “loophole.” The clarification of the agreement in regard to the replacements was necessary, in the opinion of treaty supporters. The exchange of notes in all probability will make unnecessary now a reservation dealing with this point, President Hoover has made it entirely clear that the naval treaty should be THE EVENING STAR, In one of these cases, the terminus of the Key Bridge, it is possible to make an appropriate entrance setting without much further delay, for the Government owns the land that is necessary for the construc- tion of a circle and the elimination of the present car terminal buildings. This is one of the most obnoxious points on the periphery of the Capital, and it is greatly reassuring to learn that a project for its development is in hand and will probably soon be executed. . ' ‘The District terminal of Connecticut avenue at Chevy Chase Circle has been under study for a long time. It is now re announced that plans for its treatment, with a fountain as the central feature, have been completed and now await appropriations for its execution. The south end of the Highway Bridge is one of the least attractive of all of the approaches. But this is now under| treatment in connection with the development of the Mount Vernon Boulevard and in & comparatively short | time will be one of the really attractive entrances to the District. ‘Thus the prospect is bright for a series of artistic thresholds for Wash- ington. The tide of road travel into the | Capital is great and growing. In another | decade probably many people will enter the Distriet by highway in half a year as now enter it by train in five years, If in that time the gateway plans now in view are fully executed, the Nation's city will indeed be seen by its visitors, especially those who approach it for the first time, in a way to impress them deeply with its beauty and its significance. —————re—. A New York detective, posing as Al Capone's brother, so successfully im- personates a dashing gangster that he traps an important underworld lady acted upon by the Senate without un- due delay. Treaty opponents have played for delay ever since the treaty was first sent to the Senate. The cards have been played shrewdly. Under the guise of a demand for more and more information regard- ing the treaty, the action of the Senate foreign relations committee on the pact has been postponed. The fullest information should be given to the Senate and to the country regard- ing the naval treaty. There should be ample time for debate when the treaty is taken up for consideration in the Senate. But an effort to delay con- sideration of the treaty merely for the purpose of defeating the treaty in the end may be good tactics for those who wish its defeat, but scarcely for those who are in favor of ratification. Senator Borah, chairman of the for- eign relations committee and in charge of the treaty, believes that now the treaty has been sent to his committee it should be disposed of before the Senate finally leaves Washington for the Summer holiday and for the com- ing campaign. That has been his posi- tion from the start. It is immaterial debatable basis, would have owed the District for the fiscal year 1928 a tax of $7,440,939 and that this amount does not include Uncle.Sam’s liability on account of loss of revenue to the Dis- trict or on account of extraordinary ex- penditures demanded from the District oceasioned by the fact that Washington is the National Capital. Mr. Simmons knows it is a fact that the balance between the $7,440,939 (which, by the way, does not take into sccount the vast acquisitions of taxable property by the United States or the improvements built and bullding on sccount of the Federal housing pro- gram) and the $9,000,000 lump sum, amounting to $1,569,061, cannot be con- ceived by any reasonable’ person as cov- ering this liability, and that any in- telligent attempt to convert this lia- bility into dollars and cents would per- force increase the $9,000,000 lump sum by millions. Mr. Simmons knows it is a fact that 8t least two great semi-national projects (the Cramton park bill and the Muniei- pal Center), costing in the neighborhood ©f $38,000,000 as at present estimated, are being financed through the District bill; that these two items alone repre- sent financial burdens in addition to the growing expenses of Capital mainte- pance and normal development; that peither of them was represented in the Bscal year 1925 when the $9,000,000 Jump sum was first devised, and that fallure to increase the lump sum in geality means both must be financed by the unrepresented taxpayers of the District alone. Mr. Simmons knows it is a fact that @very increase in the expenses of run- ping the District since 1925 has been met from the pockets of the taxpayers ©f the District, who have no rights to a voice in the expenditure of their money; that his argument for continuing the Jump sum at $9,000,000 merely becomes sn argument for increasing the local tax burden, as the District is now committed by Congress to a program of expendi- Sures that demands either the increase ©f revenue availability or the drastic surtailment of the program. Mr. Simmons knows it is & fact that faxation without representation is alien 0 American principles; that it imposes & special and peculiar obligation upon Congress that does not elsewhere exist, and that the Jump-sum practice, adopt- ed by legislative evasion of the law, removes the last vestige of protection against excessive taxation left to un- yepresented taxpayers in the District. TFallure to recognize the necessity for an increase in the lump sum is a fail- ure to recognize the just obligations assumed by Congress in its exclusive government of the District of Columbia. It is not a lack of facts that bothers Mr. Simmons. But it is the fallure by Mr. Simmons and a few controlling members of the House to deal squarely with the facts that lowers considera- tion of equitable financial dealing with to him, he says, whether the treaty be considered in the present regular ses- sion or in & special session called by the President immediately upon the ad- journment of Congress after it has completed its legislative work. The Republican members of the Senate ap- pear to be divided over the question of taking the treaty up in a special session or tackling it at the present n. As & matter of fact, it makes little difference, as Senator Borah says, whether the treaty is disposed of dur- ing the regular session or at a special session, just so it is acted upon. No one has the slightest doubt that more than the necessary two-thirds of the Senate will vote ratification of the treaty. The fact that the treaty has more than enough votes for ratification is what is making the opposition strive so0 desperately to postpone action until next Fall. If the postponement can be achieved, the opposition, like Mr. Mi- cawber, will hope that “something will turn up” which can be used to advan- tage against the treaty next December. It remains to be seen whether “the tail will be permitted to wag the dog” in this matter of postponing the treaty action. ‘The hope has heen expressed in treaty opposition quarters that if a special session be called the Senators will not stick, and that a quorum will not remain in Washington. appears certain, however, and that is that the opponents of the treaty will have to remain on the job. It does not ap- pear possible, however, that members of the Senate, charged with performing an important duty, will undertake to absent themselves, as has been sug- gested. The proof of the pudding is in the eating. Let the President call a special seSsion and the country will see whether the Senators can be relied upon to attend to their duties here or not. B ] It is a perpetual pity that the erim- inal who goes bravely and serenely to his death did not use some of that self- control when confronted with his great temptation. et The Thresholds of Washington. Discussion of the development of sultable gateways to the Capital, which marked & meeting held in this city the other day, under the auspices of the Garden Club of Americ: that progress has been made toward the adoption of plans for these points and that there is prospect of their comparatively early execution. It has been a slow process thus to establish suitable settings for the principal gate- ways of Washington. Years ago atten- tion was called to the unlovely aspect of these points of entrance, but nothing practical was done until the National Capital Park and Planning Commis- sion got into action in the development of projects for the proper setting of the Capital. Now there is reasonable as- the District to a plane of personal prejudice. s ‘The Senate passes fifty-five bills in thirty minutes. Too late, boys; you are €0 be kept after school just the same! Another Trip Ended. With another air triumph added to §ts spectacular list of honors, the Graf Zeppelin is back again at its home base, and Dr. Hugo Eckener, the peer of all lighter-than-air experts, is busily con- Memplating other worlds to “conquer Prom Friedrichshafen to Friedrichs- hafen by way of South America and North America is the latest accom- surance that the points through which travel chiefly flows by highway into Washington will in a few years be cleared of the conditions that now dis- figure them and will be given in all cases, if not monumental, at least some distinguishing treatment to mark them as befits their character. o In two cases these approaches can be treated without the handicap of bad nresent conditions. These are the Vir- ginia end of the Arlhgton Memorial Bridge and the point at which Sixteenth street touches the Maryland boundary. These are both new stations, as it were, and they can be developed without needed as a material murder witness. The softer sex used to fall for waxed mustachios, glossy riding boots and silk toppers. Now the bait used is & family scar. N — Gen. Ludendorff lays all Germany's troubles to switching from heathen Wotan to Christian God back in the dark ages. Others disagree with the eminent quartermaster general and con- tend that her ills may be aseribed to a much later and reverse switch. It is probable that neither is anywhere near right. —_————— Few can view photographs of modern organization officials placing memorial wreaths against great statues of great men gone before without a feeling of the contrast not only of size but of caliber. The reflected glory involved might well give rise to the simple but proud caption, “This is Me.” ————— Down at Annapolis the scene shifts rapidly, Hymen chasing Mars and Nep- tune from the stage. Immediately fol- lowing the graduation exercises sixteen blushing young iadies are united in mat- rimony to newly fledged ensigns, with more to follow in the near future. ——— e There is one thing to be noted in connection with the controversy be- tween the august Senate and the new phones. No one has yet pulled a wheeze which involves the name of the late g‘::xemnn from South Carolina, Mr. e We will all believe those long-prom- ised showers only when ourselves and our lawns are thoroughly soaked. It has gotten lately so that citisens scan the newspapers to see if they were among those prostrated the day before. ——— If the Kiwanis Club never did any- thing else—and it does plenty—its exist- ence would be more than justified by the affectionate and generous care it gives to more than a hundred of the OCapital's little crippled children, —————— ‘The situation of the local merchant whose batch of ostrich eggs has been discovered to be fully fertile may shortly be reminiscent of the Oriental courtier who was given a white elephant by his revered sovereign. - ———— No creelful of speckled trout that President Hoover ever enticed from the Rapidan will hold the public in- terest’ that Mrs. Hoover's hoped-for progress at that restful and secluded spot shall arouse. e SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Destination. I am going away, where the flowers bloom, Or the sunlight gilds the foam, Where the waves of the ocean hoarsely boom— And then I am coming home— Home where the twilight shadows fall And the flowers their perfumes blend. ‘We journey afar. But, after all, Home is the journey's end. Leave to Print. “Some of the things you have printed in the Congressional Record,” sald the psychoanalyst, ‘“indicate exaggerated personality.” “That is what pursles me,” answered Senator Sorghum. “I am often at a loss to decide whether history will rate me as a statesman or a columnist.” Jud Tunkins says he can't help feelin’ blue when folks can't pick dandelions without bein’ suspected of a home brew conspiracy to violate the prohibition aw. Selectivity. The honest watchdog barks at night ‘To warn us of our dangers. He chooses friends for ways polite, But doesn't care for strangers. Upward Impulse. “I told you to go West and grow up with the country.” “I did just that,” answered Cactus Joe. “But the gang boys beat me to the once happy home. It's & case of g0 West and get shot up with the country.” “A patriot,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “loves his country and asks ter reward than a monument to {rritate the art critics.” Getting ghe Low-Down. The census taker as he brings compromise or adjustment with long- plishment of the German designer and | standing obstacles. But at the Virginia his gigantic gas bag. Por this little| end of the Key Bridge—as well as the jaunt, almost commonplace now to the| Washington end—and at the Maryland Graf Zeppelin after its many crossings' boundary on Georgis avenue, Wisconsin ' like a good man: Doin’ his honest best of the Atlantic and its epoch-making avenue and the Baltimore Boulevard, wifout mo selfish interest in de betiin' pound-the-world flight, passengers were there are conditions that require lnlflz odda" ‘The quest of governmental elves Reminds us of a lot of things We didn't know about ourselves. “A good hoss,” said Uncle Eben, “is A e i WASHINGTO! THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. A yoyng man rushed into our office. “Give me he asked, or rather or- dered, “a list of the world’s best books.” “¥oung man,” best' serious look, “there have been at least a sand euch lists offered the public in the last hundred years.” “I want to read something worth while,” he went on. “To draw up such a list for any given rson is quite a task,” we resumed. “What might be a good selection for one reader might not be for another.” ‘We went on to explain that u literary adviser, if he took his gratuitous task seriously, would find it necessary to study his man-just as a doctor would a patient. There would be no use in recom- mending certain novels to certain per- sons, we explained, because they would not. could not, be interested in them. If one seriously intended to make such recommendations, we insinuated, we | wguld have to have the life history of wit the man, with his likes, dislikes, and 20 _on. Even then no doubt we would make some vast mistakes, and, all in all, it was a serious proposition—one which every man ought to settle for himself in the last analysis. * ok “Why not get a copy of the May num- ber of the ‘Golden Book' and read their list, as selected by the editors, of “The 100 Books Most Worth Reading’?” we asked. : ?” he exclaimed im horror. “Spend a quarter?” We need not enter into a discussion here of the attitude shown by the above remark, whether made in jest or all seriousness. The point is rather the list itself, which is the latest attempt on the part of educated men to evaluate the millions of books which have been written since writing began. Truly it is a gigantic task, but one which men who love books are glad to| undertake. After all, such selections are only opinions, but they are opinions based on acquaintance with the world's t ‘Therefore, it may be said that all of these lists (and the interested person will find many of them) are helpful and interesting. They are most interesting, of course, to him or her who is in some position to pass judgment upon them. No such list should be taken as final. ‘There are too many factors involved, both personal and literary, to permi any one list to be regarded as the dic- tum of fate. Even time, that relentless old literary judge, cannot totally exclude a book from the world if it have in it certain merits which may appeal to certain temperaments. i * Not every book, no matter how good, can lrpnl to every reader. Many who may fairly claim to be experts do not like Dante's “Divine Comedy,” and if they do not that settles it for them. For them it is not a great book. ma; prefer “Alice in Wonderland.” The writer here does. The editors of the “Golden Book” say of their 100 books, “Here are the low- est common denominators of the litera- ture that is a part of the truly edu- cated man's life today.” They speak of these a8 “‘the common {:erlule of human soclety.” They say further: “Here is the greatest human wisdom, the deepest understanding, the highest and bravest flights of man's imagina- tion. Here are ‘Odysseus’ ‘Don Quixote, ‘Mr. Pickwick,’ ‘Huck Finn,’ to act as a bond between you and every one else, living or dead—and not yet we replied with our| born. | Now, we like that way of putting it. They recall to us Carlyle’s brave words: “Of the things which can do or make here below, by far the most mo- mentous, wonderful and worthy are the things we call Books.” Carlyle, of course, was an interested party; he wrote books; the inventor of some great machine which gives thousands of men employment, might disagree with him, and properly, perhaps. We do not know. It is a_great question. ‘We have not compared the “Golden Book's” selections with those of Sir John Lubbock, made many years ago, but have no doubt that it will be found to contain many of the works which appeared in the previous list. Many of them, such as the Bible, the “Iliad,” the “Odyssey,” “Plutarch’s Lives” Marcus Aurelius’’ “Meditations,” are inevitable. One would not dare to leave them out, no matter what one’s personal tastes were. | The Bible, for instance. Whether one | believes, with the editors of the “Golden | Book,” that “it is the most inspirin, and the most beautiful collection of prose and poetry in the heritage of our race,” or not, there would be no ques- tion with any cultured person in put- ting it in l\lch.l *lui * ‘We recommend to our readers, as we did to the young man, that they look lup the May rumber of the magazine and go over the list for themselves. An intereatlng hour may be spent in noting Just which cnes of the books the reader | has himself read. | ~Let no one be chagrined to discover | that he has not read every book in the | list. Probably no one has. Why should one? Dante Alighieri’s masterpiece, for | instance. We have been reading it for | a lifetime, but we do not like it, and do not mind sayin, so at all. To us it is outworn, uninteresting and unin- spiring. We have read at it (notice the “at”) since we were 8 years old, and can say truthfully ly this time that “The Divine Comedy” is not for us. Every reader will find several books, perhaps many books, which fall into the same category. An individual rejection, it must be borne in mind, is by no means a judgment. One may not care for a book, and still pass no judgment on it for others, or even upon it for | itself. One may admit, theoretically, that “The Divine Comedy” is a great | human effort. | In the “Golden Book's"” list the reader will find such old favorites as Cervantes’ “Don Quixote,” which perhaps holds the | record for being mispronounced. He | will find Montaigne's “Essays,” Pepys’ “Diary” and Le Sage's “Gil Blas. Every ane ought to read “Gil Blas,” of course, but many have not. And every one ought to have read, too, Henry Fielding's “Tom Jones.” Here we have the poetry of Byron, | Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, Browning, ‘Tennyson, Arniold, Walt Whitman; the y | “essays” of Hawthorne and the “Scarlet Letter” of Ralph Waldo Emerson! This, of course, is a slip-up, and should sim- ply be reversed. We believe that every serious reader will be interested and helped by this list. No reader, reader he is, can have “read every- thin In looking over the “Golden Book’s” list he will no doubt see sev- eral titles which he realizes that he | should read, which he must read, to be the man he fancies himself to be. Such selections serve a most useful purpose, WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Chief Justice and Mrs. Charles Evans Hughes are sailing for Europe next week on their annual vacation. For the Jurist-statesman it will be a combina- tion of business and pleasure. One of the duties Mr. Hughes has to absolve “over there” is to take formal leave of the World Court, from which he re- signed when he went to the Supreme Court. The Chief Justice for many ears has included the Old World in Summer holiday {llns. ‘The Eng- lish countryside and the Alps are h favorite haunts. He has a considerable mountain-climbing record to his credit. Mr. Hughes plans to return to the United States in August, in time for the annual meeting of the American Bar Association at Chicago, which he will address. He hopes to travel home with the distinguis] delegation of British judges and lawyers who will be the association’s guests of honor. The Chief Justite visited England in 1924 at the head of the bar association. * Kk % % “Ready money is Aladdin's lamp"” is the line from Byron incorporated in the citation read at Columbia this week when Charles Sumner Hamlin, a vice governor of the Federal Reserve Board, received the university’s honorary de- gree of doctor of laws. “An honored son of Harvard,” the citation narrates, “who at all times and in many ways has served the people of his city, his State and the United States; profoundly Interested in all that concerns the bet- terment of international relations and the firm establishment of international ace; whose work as member of the ‘ederal Reserve Board from the time of its institution has shown that he knows well the application to the American people of Byron's historic aphorism.” kL Senator Clarence C. Dill, Democrat, of Washington, leaves home every mo: ing for the Capitol nowadays by a Grandfather Dill's clock. Mrs. Dill was recently motoring through that section of Pennsylvania whence the Senator's progenitors trekked into the Middle West, and, in the old town of Dillsburg, ran across a grandfather’s clock, vintage 1830, or thereabouts, which once told the time in the farm home of a Dill ancestor. The young_statesman from Spokane, who is the Senate’s foremost authority on radio, has his whole apart- ment in the Capital filled with receiving sets. When the census taker turned up there last month, the Senator answered the question about radios by confessing that his household contains seven— practically one for every room. * Everybody on Capitol Hill is waiting to see what Senator Brookhart of Towa will have to say when Col. Hanford MacNider's yme is sent up for con- firmation as American Minister to Can- ada. The two Hawkeye Republicans are about as fond of each other as the devil is of holy water. Sometimes senatorial courtesy—when one member of the chamber has a personal objection to a nominee—has kept the iatter out of office. Brookhart, himself, during his famous feud with the late Senator Cummins of Towa, whom the rifleman- politician displaced, prevented the con- firmation in _his own home town of ‘Washington, Iowa, of a postmaster ap- pointed at Cummins’ instigation. Old senatorial hands are of opinion that the “courtesy” tradition doesn’t extend to & presidential nominee for a foreign ot * % ok k Word reaches’ the War Department that all France is eagerly awaiting the publication of Gen. Pershing’s war mem- oirs. The commander-in-chief of the A. E. T. is expected to settle the bitter uabble between the rtisans of enceau and Foch which 'w_out of the recent appearance of the rival “recollections” of the principal two French war-time leaders. Controversy in Prance—about which Pershing should be able to divulge the unvarnished truth—ranges around the question of the employment of the American Army in 1918. " Clemenceau criticized Foch scathingly for falling to make earlier use of Pershing's forces, which were landing at the rate of 50,000 a week. The American general, as all the world knows, was intent upon building a eom- self-contained American Army be- its substance on Fren wgflanmuu that he had no right ‘order” Per- shing to split up his arriving divisions among the French and British armies &5 mere replacement units. ok % Robe C. White, Assistant Secretary of Labor, is being boomed by fellow Indi- anians for the cabinet portfolio to be vacated by “Jim” Davis. A lawyer by profession, White has been an organiza- tion Republican in the Hoosler State for many years. He was postmaster of Muncie during the Taft. administration and came to Washington in 1922 as chairman of the board of revieyfof the Bureau of Immigration. Follo two years of service as Second Assistant Becretary of Labor in Charge of Immi- gration he became Assistant Secretary six years ago. He's almost as much of a “jolner” as “Jim” Davis himself, con- fessing to membership in the Masons, the Elks, the Moose, the Red Men and the Woodmen. Nobody in America knows his immigration onions as well as_White, -9 &% Donald R. Richberg, Chicago lawyer end chief counsel for the railroad broth- erhoods, has just written ‘another book, “Tents of the Mighty” is its name and it deals with organized labor's. unend- ing fight for its rights at Washington and elsewhere throughout the politico- capitalistic universe. Richberg was one of Roosevelt's Progressive young guard in 1912. Later he enlisted under La Follette's banner. Always the Chicagoan has battled for the workers, and es- pecially for the rail workers, who idolize him and have deep respect for his legalistic attainments. Richberg is a familiar figure before the Supreme Court and committees of Congress. He won his latest laurels at the end of last month, when Chief Justice Hughes handed down a sweeping decision in favor of the Southern Pacific railway clerks, whose case against “company unionism” Richberg had ably argued. Once upon a time, in college days, Rich- berg was a “letter” athletic star. Con- freres say he got his spirit on the diron. * ok ¥ % Former Ambassador Henry P. Fletch- er of Pennsylvania, who's being men- tioned as our next envoy to Japan, has just sprung a brand-new idea for eligi- bility to Congress. On receiving an honorary LL. D. at Juniata College, Hun- tington, Pa., Fletcher suggetsted that men and women should be sent to the House and Senate on an economic or oc- cupational basis, in place of the present system of mere geographical origin. He thinks such a system “might work for a stronger democracy.” Contending that he is neither a radical nor an alarmist, Fletcher added: “My study and experi- ence tell me that methods of govern- ment must keep orderly pace with the general advances of science and knowl- Colored Art Exhibit At National Museum 'To the Editor of The Btar: May I call the attention of your read- ers to the exhibit of modern Negro art now being held in the foyer of the United States National Museum at the foot of Tenth street northwest. I think that it would interest many Washing- ton citizens to know that there are colored men and women in this country who are doing very creditable work as painters and sculptors. There are in the collection certain Negro scenes, portraits, landscapes and some pieces of sculpture that show real talent and technical skill. Here is a fleld of Negro achievement where no controversial social or political questions are involved and where it is believed that Negroes will be able to make a distinctive contribution just as 'they have in the field of music. ‘hese paintings were brought together in connection with the competition held for the Harmon prize in the fine arts, and are exhibited in Washington through the courtesy of the United States National Museum under arrange- ments made by the committee on race relations of the Federation of Churches. An illustrated catalogue of the exhibit may be obtained at the entrance. The exhibit is €‘|‘>:n daily from 9 a.m. to 4:30 pm. for remainder of this week, aiso next Sunday from 1:30 p.m. to vfx“ .m, It is believed that those who visit (il o e however mighty a |1 D. C., FRIDAY, JUNE 6, 1930. Writer Sees Injustice In Dog-Muzzling Order To the Bditor of The In a recent issue of The Evening Star there a an editorial under the caption, " lems of the Pound- master.” If I mistake not, this is an annual war cry, and, notwithstanding the very obvious solution of the so- called “problem,” nothing is ever done about it except to muzzle the dogs dur- ing the hot months of the year. 1 have no desire to bring down on me the wrath and condemnation of a vast number of our citizens by inadvisedly protesting against the muzaling of dogs, but I ask to be permitted to call attention to the trite fact that the best way to remedy an evil is to strike at its roots and, as in this instance, not, year after year, inflict unnecessary hardship on animals when the real and only remedy lies with us humans. Dogs do not go mad, are not danger- ous to be allowed at large, simply because they go unmuzzled during hot weather. Intelligently speaking, the one and only reason why dogs and cats go mad, or are dangerous during hot weather, is because they are neglected and mis- treated. I would defy any one to cite one single instance in which a child has been bitten by a dog or cat that was not a “stray,” or had received the care and attention an animal should receive, The cruelties that are practiced by undisciplined children on defenseless animals are almost unbelievable. My attention was called during the past week to a 5-year-old boy who has a kit- ten which he drags around by the neck morning until night; swings it around by its tail, and generally sub- Jects it to the most inhuman treatment —and the mother of this child is & teacher i one of our public schools! May I quote from your editerial? “Little attention is paid by the average reader to the almost daily small news items headed, ‘Dog Attacks Five-Yea Old,’ :‘Dogs Bite Four Children,’ or ‘Boy in Hospital After Attack by Rabid Dog.’ All three of these headlines, by the way, appeared last month, and there will be a good many more of them later. It is a mighty serious matter, however, for the parents of these youngsters.” You are quite right, it is “a mighty serious matter for the parents of these youngsters,” especially because your article does not give the slightest clue as to why the dog attacked the 5-year- old, or what made the dog rabid that bit the boy seriously enough to be taken to a hospital? Is the public to suppose that the boys were offering the poor creatures a much-wanted drink of fresh water, or a bite to eat when they were so viciously attacked? Perhaps the previously mentioned boy with the Kkit- ten could most satisfactorily answer our questions. You say further, “There is just one way to prevent it and that is by constant and consistent muzzling.” I beg, most emphatically, to differ with you by saying, “There is just one way to prevent it and that is by teaching un- thinking parents how to properly train and rear their children! Show me a vicious, cruel, undisciplined child and I will show you the embryo criminal! Rear Admiral Byrd has been awarded a gold medal for the humane way in which he treated the dogs under his care while on his polar expedition, No- body was in the least surprised at this. One look at this man's face and bear- ing, aside from his heroic action, 8hows | peoaq what he is—a gentleman; one who, un- questionably, was taught from his in- flnfncy the fineness and sacredness of all e. ‘Teach the mothers the greatness of their, responsibilities and there will be no need to muzzle the dogs. ANNE N. CULLEN. e 22 Speeches by Radio President Hoover’s Score From the Ann Arbor Datly News. President Hoover has made 22 radio speeches during his 14 months in office. It is said that he “has used the broad- cast chain more than any other Presi- dent.” But that is not remarkable, for only three White House executives have had “mike"” privileges available, and the Nation-wide hook-up has become the usual thing only within the past few years, We have had other speechmaking Presidents. Indeed, the public demands that its Chief Executive speak fre- quently in public. But it seems rea- sonable to su that Mr. Hoover, in :‘ny one of his Nation-wide broadcasts, as Presidents of 50 years ago addressed during their entire tenures of office. But some of those Presidents would not have found the radio an advantage. Those who depended upon their stage resence or gestures of emphasis would ave lost by the broadcast method. Probably the radio was a doubtful asset to Mr. Coolidge, because his voice was not suitable for radio transmission. Mr. Hoover, however, has an excellent “mike” voice. - His concise speech makes for favorable reception. The fact that he 1s not a professional orator re- acts in his favor. Radio is apt to cramp the style of spellbinders. It is a help to the straight-from-the-shoulder, plain facts, common sense speaker, So the “mike” may be considered the mouthpiece of the White In the next presidential campaign it likely to play an important part, as in the last. That means, or should mean, that the leaders of both parties will pick men with considerable attention to voice qualities, because it is conceivable that broadeasting might make or break a nominee, But, of course, there is television to reckon with. If personality as well as voice s to be broadcast, maybe the man with stage presence will come back be- fore the next election. Politics may have to borrow experts from the Holly- wood studios for screen and voice tests of all the possibilities before the na- tional conventions are called to order. A man's deeds should be considered more important than his speech and his | gestures while speaking, but with the whole world listening and Wlwhlnz. it will not pay any political party to take | chances, either before or after election. Imperial Free Trade Sentiment Changes From the Houston Chronicle. For years the people of Great Brit- ain have looked askance at pro- tective tariffs. The free trade slogan has been one to conjure with since the days of John Bright, a catchy phrase with which to corral the votes of the | masses. The recent victory of a Con- servative candidate in a bye election to Parliament shows that the cleverly worded “imperial fres trade” idea is beginning to percolate through the con- sciousness of the average Briton. ‘The conversion of the English people to protection will of necessity be | gradual. But the triumph of Lord Beaverbrook’s policy may not be far distant, since the Censervatives seem | to have gone for it, hook, line and | sinker, as a powerful campaign issue. | The seat now held by Sir Cyril Cobb | is the first one the Labor party has lost in a year, The Liberal candidate with- drew, asking his followers to oppose the | Conservative, but apparently his appeal | fell on deaf ears. Evidently there has been a great change of sentiment on the subject of free trade, A large and ever-growing body of public opinion is for it—within the empire. They seek to make the British Isles and the various domin- fons a separate economic unit, with tariff barriers raised against the rest of the world. ‘The new tariff laws of the United States make it increasingly difficult for Conadians to sell their raw products south of the border. The government of Ottawa has recently provided in its budget a basis for tariff reprisals agains this Nation, extending preferential rates for members of the British Empire. That shows, however, one impediment to “imperial free trade.” Each domin- jon has the right to make its own tariffs, to raise the rates even against the mother country. Ontario, in addressed more citizens than the | D ouse today. | by | challenging them to prove that there | statue and a bronze tablet to the 150- |y | or somebody,” but that paper “thanks ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC ‘This is & ial department, devoted solely o the mandling of Queries. This| paper puts at your nmmz services of an extensive orgal n in Wash- ington to serve you in any capacity that relates to information. This service is| free. Your obligation is only 2 cents in | coln or stamps, inclosed with your in-| quiry, for direct reply. Address The Evening Star Information Bureau, | Pfedex;icc.’. Haskin, director, Washing- | ton, : Q. How long must a start'ng pitcher stay in & fnme in order to get credit for a base ball game?—K. McN. A. American League rules e that a starting pitcher must work four full innings before receiving credit for a game, while National League rules specify that he must pitch five innings. However, in the case of & pitcher's leav- ing the game before the minimum in. nings, it still may be arbitrary with the official scorer, according to the rules, as to whether he should receive credit for & victory if his team wins. If, in the opinion of the official scorer, the start- ing pitcher had a commanding lead when withdrawn ne still could be cred- ited with the victory. Q. What is a good definition of a lyrie?—T. F. . is & short poem, musical in A. A lyric style and personal in tone. Q. How fast does the average child learn to talk?—B. R. A. Elizabeth Cleveland says that the child ns to use single words at 10 months to & year old. At 23 months he should be using simple phrases. By the time he is 3 he has a large vocabu- lary (500 to 1,500 words), and can con- verse well enough for his own prac- tical purpcses. Q. What is meant by letting ice cream ripen?—L. K. A. After ice cream is frozen the water in the freezer is drained off, fresh ice and salt added and the freezer covered. The ice cream then “ripens”— that is, becomes smooth and creamy. Q. What was the Bannatype Club?— P. G A. It was a Scottish literary club, named from Ge Bannatype, founded under the presidency of "Sir Walter Scott in 1823 and dissolved in 1859. It was devoted to the publication of works on Scottish history and literature. Q. What was the date of the last continual burnt offering made by the Jews in Jerusalem?—T. W. ‘A. The last continual burnt offering ‘was probably made by the Jews A.D. 71, since which time no such offering has been made. Q. How many species of ants are there?—A. P. M. There are more than 3,500 species| stage of ants. Q. Did the broad originate with the Irish? A. Prof. Grandgent of Harvard Unl- versity says that the earlier English “ah” " became short “a” by the six- teenth century. Until 1780 or there- abouts the standard language had no Benjamin Franklin, who recorded 1768 the pronunciation of his day, knew no “ah.” Evidence indi- cates that it appeared again in London speech between 1780 and 1790. There is no basis for the statement that it originated with the Irish. Q. Oan the weight of ice be deter- mined by measuring the size of the plece?—/. B. A. The Bureau of Standards says of the English -A. W. from | Flora lived. J. HASKIN. of ice weight approximately 1 d. ‘These equivalents may be uud.z“:e- termining by measurement the W- mate weight of a piece of ice. . Is the Cathedral of St. Jo the Dl?me in New York City a Cs c o Episcopal church?—F. E. H A. This is an Episcopal which was planned and started the efforts of Bishop Henry Cofiman Potter. :Vhfin were monograms first Yised? A. The Greeks are supposed to. have been the first to use monograms.; ‘They ! are found on old Greek coins and Fings. The Romans, however, made the more personal application to family names. Q. I see that a Mme. Naidu is asso- ciated with Mahatma Gandhi. How i her name pronounced?—W. W. : A. The name of the great poet and feminist of India is pronounced “Ni- doo,” long “L” accent on first syllable. . What is'the incident of Flora antDomld ll;;i Prince Charlie of Scot- l.nA(?zl'lorn MacDonald was a Scottisk woman_ of the MacDonald clan, born 1720, died 1790. Like r?‘!hent oP'fl:cc: clan, she was a supporter o Charles. After the battle of Culloden, 1746, in which the Scottish troops were defeated, Charles was obliged and took refuge at Benbecula, where A as a maid servany to , and trave eled ondhombuk and passed n;r X: many dangers, finally reachin Ia!lnyd of Skye in safety, from which the prince made his éscape. Flora was tried and imprisoned for assisting him in his escape, but was finally releaseq |in 1747. In 1750 she married Allen | MacDonald. a kinsman, and came e | America, 1774. She died in 1790, and | the Flora MacDonald College was or« ganized as a memorial in 1896. What writer_wa Q —G. s known as the Q. Dickens of France?—K. L. '.hAf Alphonse Daudet has been called at. . What does the Dutch word “Boer”, Q. mean?—A. R. G. A. It means farmer or husbandman, Q What is the flower that outlines the hedges around the Pan-American Building in Washin; , D.C.?2—A.D. H, A. It is Phlox sublata. Q. Is it true that the acoustics are 80 good in the Hollywood Bowl that one can hear a pin drop?—G. A. L. A. An even more delicate test has been made on its acoustic properties, When engineers were trying out the audibility of the sound reflector on the of the Hollywood Bowl they dropped one No. 10 bird shot (weighin; slightly more than one-thousandth an ounce) 8 inches on a kettledrum. The sound was heard throughout the bowl. When drup&:;i only one-quarter inch listeners in bowl heard the shot fall. The reflector is the half shell of a huge cone, 45 feel at the front of the stage and 18 feet high at the rear. It is made of 36 tons of structural steel, padded inside and out with asbestos sheets. No electrical amplifiers are necessary. Q. Do watermelons contain vitamins? -—P. 8. A. Ripe watermelons supply two vi- tamins abundantly and contain two others in detectable quantities. that 1 cubic foot of ice weighs ap-|C. proximately 57 pounds, 30 cubic inches Q. How much do magpies weigh?— . E. H. A. Magpies weigh from 6 to 8 ounces. Public Gets a Hearty Laugh From “You Go and Fry” Hoax' Public officials who were duped into sounding high praises for the mythical pioneer, “Hugo N. Frye,” by a group of Cornell students provided the public with much merriment. Amused com- ment on the eulogies which were promptly forthcoming on the suppose anniversary of the college men's straw that it was a good lesson future. “Let no one question the alertness, the brilliant presence of mind of our statesmen, their ability to meet any situation, to rise to any emergency. says the Hartford Courant, as it takes note of the fact that “magnanimously the statesmen paused from the labor of navigating the ship of state” in making their replies. The Ithaca Journal-News suggests that “the boys had their little joke at the expense of me‘gollficilnl. and it vlls&;t a bldnt‘:n!l." ding that “perhaps these particular gentlemen will take more time for the reading of their mail in the future.” Greater care in the future is forecast the Morgantown Dominion-News, with the thought that "flthm:? the victims of the hoax are not likely to suffer, one must pity their secretaries, who probably composed the me as mere routine, just like hundr of others during the course of the year.” The Lynchburg News, quoting the stu- dent committee to the effect that Frye “has never recelved the honors due him,” s ts that “he has them now,” and concludes, “What matters it that he never existed?"” * oK K K Another point of view is represented by the St. Paul Pioneer Press in the suggestion: “After all, the hoax might be turned back upon the hoaxers by e and that he did was no Hugo N. rom which Repub- not entertain views licanism might have ywn. The time may yet come when historic halls of Cornell will provide a niche for his emory of this hypothetical gentleman.” The Worcester Telegram holds that “he is as real as a lot of other ‘founders’ in politics.” “The two bad boys,” remarks the New Orleans Morning Tribune, “may be re- buked or mme&nng by the university vear-old them for & needed snicker.” The New York Sun avers that “the Ithacans did well to blow away the mists of antiquity that so often surround a national hero in the twilight of fable.” The Memphis Commercial Appeal gives the advice to the Cornell Sun, under whose auspices the celebration was held: “Do not be discouraged. Scientific scholarship is quite often a matter of trial and error. Nothing attempted, nothing achieved. At worst, the question of the birthplace of the Republican party is back where it was before the dinner was held." “It is altogether likely,” as the matter is viewed by the Manchester Union, “that the victims of the hoax have learned a lesson in the high desirability of prudence in future responses to over- tures from the ingenuous youth of our institutions of higher learning.” The incident appears to the Louisville Cour- jer-Journal to “point a moral” on the subject of the “shallow and absurd pre- tensions of many partisans.” o . Protesting against any Awugy on the part of the students, the Buffalo Eve- ning News comments on the aituation: “If this act of abn was required by the university authorities, the situa- tion in the schools is very sad. The country a good laugh out of the hoax, and for that the pe: de- serve commendation, not censure. “A great opportunity was missed” by each of these public men, in the opinion of the Omaha World-Herald, which ex- plains: “If any one had replied, ‘Who the heck was Hl;fin N. Fyre? I never heard of him,’ his name would have been honored throughout the land.” ‘The Roanoke Times thinks the outcome Canada, will not look with favor upon the new plan, since its interests are M&mmmm ma- had never heard of MDH. %‘y‘- ‘:fi =5 “would have been different if they had " | never heard of. that “it would be far better to have | maintained silence.” | “The obligingness of distinguished folk,” concludes the Albany Evening | News, “in answering letters of this kind got them into trouble. But it only goes d | to prove that anybody and everybody can be hoaxed. The public and its leaders are just as they were in Bar- num’s time. And this is a democracy. Imagine any one daring to hoax a king in the Old Country in this way. Prob- ably, however, these distinguished folk who were hoaxed will not again pay * encomiums to the memory of those they They will be frank enough to say they never heard of Mr, Prye or whatever name may be used for another hoax. And this reminds of the old saying of Bill Nye that if some one were asked to speak on the ‘Inhumanity of Dehorning Hydraulic Rams,’ he would immediately work him- self into fury over such inhumanity to hydraulic rams.” B Capital to Reflect Prestige of Nation Prom the Kalamazoo Gazette. Far-reaching plans for enhancing the beauty of our Nation’s Capital are emBodied in the $300,000,000 building program that is being carried forward with President Hoover's approval. The program is wider in scope than any' previous undertaking of its kind. It includes the erection of a new Supreme Court Building—a project. amply jus- tified by a long-felt, practical need— and the development of a civic center for Washington's municipal government. Then there is the Arlington Memorial Bridge, which is expected to be com- pleted some time next year at a cost of about $47,000,000. The Capitol grounds are to be extended generously, enlarge- ments will be made on both the Senate and the House Office Buildings, and nearly every Government building in the District will be remodeled to a greater or lesser degree. All this, of course, will cost the Gov- , ernment a considerable sum of money, but most of the improvements contem- lated have been Jong overdue. It is, he opinion of the President and other Government officials that now is a most excellent time to undertake these vast projects, in view of the conditions revailing in the building trades and industries and the desirability of in- creasing opportunities for employment. Certain it is that the Nation can well afford to go ahead with the plans. There is no hint of extravagance in the program, but there is a clear reali- zation of the fact that the richest Na- tion in the world has a right to main- tain a Capital City in keeping with its own greatness. In a way it is perhaps unfortunate that Washington is not situated some- what closer to the geographical or population center of the country, where 8 larger portion of the people might be more {ree to visit it frequently and with ease. Yet the site of our Capital was chosen long before the Midwestern, Western and Pacific Coast sections had been developed to anything like their present importance, and there is noth- ing to do tl:out 1t now. our constant progress in transportation is helping to solve the problem. The time may come when the tvnnfinr:sidenz of the interior will think not! at to Wi to watch Uncle Sam at work and enjoy the delights of the most beautiful Capital in the world. - A Sure Test. From the Adrian Daily Telegram. The University of Michigan has dis- covered a new, powerful gasoline. It is sald to have worked very weil in, fraternity house punch bowls. e i An Idea of Pleasure. From the Charlotte News been brave enough to re) ‘whether any such person ever| The Schenectady Gazette holds Mr. and Mrs. Lindbergh took a three- hour pleasure ride in their plane, which i " much_like the who wen! to flee | ee-quarters of the