Evening Star Newspaper, June 9, 1930, Page 8

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The Associated Press is exclusively entitled | %o the use for republication of il news dis- | atches credited (0 it oF ot otherwie cred. | ted 1n this paper and also local riews | wublished herein Al riehts of publication of ‘he f pul special dispatches heiein are also reserved. Back From Elba. Amid the strictly modern trappings of aircraft and radio, a King is come to Rumania today, as the result of a coup accomplished with spectacular! suddenress. Carol II. scion of his house, exiled for more than four years, ascends the throne of his fathers, de- posing by the came token his own scn, | Michael, created King under a regency when the Rumanian Parliament de- | prived Carol of his royal rights. Carol, | hailed unanimously 2nd enthusiastical- 1y by his loyal and forgiving subjects, yesumes the crown and scepter. Michael goes back to his hoops, his ponles and his sand box. The father is King; the son becomes a boy again. No Viennese operetta librettist, with a penchant for Balkan themes, could wish for a plot #0 rich in romance. Though the restoration of King| ©arol took Europe, and probably most | of Rumania itself, by surprise, there can be no doubt that it eventuated in eonsequence of long and carefully pre- pered plans. Equally certain is it that the wayward prince, despite his matri- monial ecentricities, never forfeited the affection of his people. Yesterday, ‘when the National Assembly at Bucha- rest voted on the formal proclamation of Carol II as King, 486 ayes were con- fronted by a single nay—that of the unrelenting anti-Carolist, M. Bratianu, the once all-potent Liberal leader. Throughout the week end the new King was the object of fervid demon- strations of devotion. He has no rea- son to question the wholeheartedness with which Rumania welcomes him back from Elba. Dynastic and political issues—the ab- olition of the regency, the abdication of the boy King, the annulment of Carol's divorce from his wife, Princess Helen, and the creation of a government sym- pathetic with the new regime—will in due course find speedy adjustment. They are minor in import compared to the underlying significance of Carol's enthronement. The paramount impor- tance of ihat event lies in its promise of domestic tranquillity in Rumania. Monarchial to the core as her people are, there has been no internal peace in the country since the death of King Ferdinand and the renunciation of the succession by Carol, his son. Party strife thrived on the dynastic chaos that ensued. Carolists and anti- Carolists planned and plotted. National unity remained an unattainable objec- tive as long as the anomalous situation lasted. On the surface, King Carol's accession may look like the realization of a mere princeling’s ambition. It is, in fact, a development of the widest political magnitude. ‘The new King is a young, handsome, dashing prince, modern in his ideas, beloved in the army, and, doubtless, chastened and sobered by the adven- turous experiences he has weathered at home and abroad. He enters upon grave responsibilities and a fleld of high opportunity. To some observers remote from Rumania’s boundaries there may be an ominous note in his statement that his first effort as King| will be to develop an army “capable of maintaining Rumania’s frontiers.” Both Soviet Russia and Hungary dream of “rectifying” Rumania’s frontiers in! their own favor. Whether the emphasis King Carol lays on his military pro- gram is conducive to peace-mindedness in Central Europe, time will tell. - It might be possible even for Ambas- sador Dawes to admit that social climb- ing is an interesting and harmless pur- suit. It occupies time in a manner that has caused more sleepless nights than some of the greatest inventions. - — Education's Values. The season of commencement ad- dresses and baccalaureate sermons is upon the land. There is much platitudinous moral- {3ing and ignoring of realities in pious conformity to the pattern established by generations of speakers to gradu- mting classes; But occasionally a bit of original thought breaks the bonds of the pattern. Such was voiced yester- day by President Nicholas Murray But- ler of Columbia University in defining the purpose of higher education. He said: “Narrowness of knowledge, harrowness of sympathy, narrowness of Inderstanding and narrowness of con- Vietion are the marks of that insulated life from which there is no escape save over the bridge which liberal education builds. That bridge leads to those fields ©f perennial wisdom which are the eoveted resting place of the thoughtful In every age. It leaves behind the world of illusions which the insulated man calls facts while so often entirely and blissfully unconscious of that world of realities which he derides as ideas.” ‘There is not necessarily any economic value to liberal education. Only inci- dentally, if at all, is it a road to “suc- cess.” But it is essentially a bridge by ‘which one may escape from the illusory prison of conformity—of thinking as other men think and doing as other men do—to tte mountaintop of ideas which towers high over the present and eommands far views of the past and the fpture. It provides an advantage in- dependent of fortune. " The student who has pass-d over this Bridge of liberal education with the Proper spirit already has achieved suc- ‘cess. So there is no purposs in advising demonstrated in Washington. If it s hoss kin go on steppin’ Bim how to achisve jt. He has m'o’uumd & true index of American taste per- all de big races.” th | i that he declined to support the Demo- {50 with the aid of a large number of a world rather than a tool for acquir- ing an insignificant portion of the old world which before had bounded his vision and which Dr. Butler calls the +world of {llusions. This new world which college education gives is as boundless as the id-as of the individual. It has no geographic or economic barriers. The limit of the poss:ssions of the liberally educated is sct only by the human po- tentiality for thinking. Dr. Butler's hearcrs will corte to ap- preciete more and more this philcsophy as their university degrees are further behind them and the illusion of th> ma- terial pattern of things more obvious to their understandings. College has not insured them success. Rather it has placed them in a position where they have no great need of success—where it is a matter of only incidental im- portance in the scheme of things. ———— Simmons Defeated. Furnifold M. Simmons, for nearly thirty years Senator from North Caro- lina, has been defeated for renomina- tion and defeated on one issue alone, cratic national tickeet in 1928 headed by Alfred E. Smith. Although North Carolina in 1928 was carried by Presi- dent Hoover with a lead of approxi- mately 60,000 votes, Senator Simmons bas now been defeated in the Demo- cratic primary by Josiah W. Bailey, who remained faithful to the Smith ticket two years ago. When Mr. Hoover car- ried Ncrth Carolina, however, he did Republican votes as well as with the ald of the anti-Smith Democrats, while Senator Simmons on Saturday was battling again the element in his own party which stood by Smith in 1928. He was without the Republican support which made the Hoover victory possible in North Carodma. It has been obvious that if all, or a good share, of the Democrats who voted for Smith in 1928 should vote for Bailey this year, Bailey would win and Sim- mons would be defeated. The Simmons-Bailey contest was watched with interest throughout the country. Senator Simmons was one of the few outstanding Democratic leaders in the South or eisewhere who declined flatly to support the Smith ticket two years ago. It was believed that his leadership in this matter had much to do with the failure of Smith to carry North Carolina. The pro-Smith Dem- ocrats have been bitter in their de- nunciation of Mr. Simmons. The pres- ent defeat of Senator Simmons will raise the hope in certain quarters that possibly there may be change In senti- ment in North Carolina and other parts of the country which would make pos- sible the election of their idol, former Gov. Smith, in the event of his nomi- nation again by the Democrats. Also there was a question in many minds as to whether the break in the “solid South” made when President Hoover carried four States—North Car- olina, Virginia, Texas and Florida—was an indication of probable Republican success in those States in the future. The defeat of Senator Simmons, how- ever, has encouraged the Democrats in the belief that the whole South is safely Democratic again. A year ago the anti- Smith Democrats, in alliance with the Republicans in Virginia, went down to defeat in the gubernatorial election. There have been other happenings which indicated that Republican victory in these States of the South was a mere fleeting incident. And now the su- premacy of the “regular Democrats” in North Carolina has been re-established. The outlook for Republican success south of the Mason and Dixon line has become more and more clouded. Bailey's chances for election in November are accounted more than good. Senator Simmons has been a promi- {haps 1t would be better to have no memorials at all, for such an object is ‘worth while only as it contains values | which self-obviously transcend money and size values. It will be the duty of education to inculcate appreciation of a higher order of values. | 'The visitor is to be congratulated for calling attention to this crude vulgarity. i The guides cannot be blamed. They, for the most part, merely are reciting something composed in accordance with | public demand. Certainly a few indi- viduals among the numerous parties of ‘Washington visitors are above listening to the stock-in-trade talks and receive real inspiration from the memorials of | the Capital City holding in sculptured stone the spirit and glory of the Na- tion's past. If there is one such indi- vidual in a hundred the memorials are well worth while. Otherwise we only can hope that the standard of values of another generation will be on a dif- ferent level—that they will be values of mind and soul rather than values of the bank account. The visitor’s com- plaint is a sad commentary on the present state of American appreciation. ) The Service Pay Measure. A session of Congress iz nearing its close with a disappointing lack of any progress by the Joint Pay Committee on the question of readjusting com- pensation of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps. Coast Guard, Coast and Geo- d-tic Survey and Public Health Service. The proposal for general revision up- ward in pay for these services has no outspoken opposition, as far as fis known. The necessity exists for relief and there is evidence aplenty to sup- port it. The matter is a complicated one, however, requiring intense study by the legislative committee that will have it in charge. Senator David Reed of Pennsylvania, who, in addition to being chairman of the committee on military affairs, is a member of the STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, JUNE 9, 1930. Now that the honeysuckle is in bloom, it is well to stop for a few moments to consider this hardiest of vines, this most_sterling weed. Any caprifoliaceous shrub of the ge- nus Lonicera earns the name of “honey- suckle,” a favorite in the minds of mil- licns throughout the world. ‘The above mouth-filling designation everyday ‘“honeysuckle,” of children and their elders. No flower that grows receives quite the attention the honeysuckle does from the hands—and even the lips—of the youngsters. No sooner do the yellow blossoms be- gin to appear on the vines, twining over I(tnccs‘ old trees and posts everywhere, than the boys and girls gather, one or two together. Like humming birds searching for nectar, the children apply their lips to the tubelike flowers, extracting there- from one of Nature's sweets. * * Older admirers of the honeysuckle are content with sniffing the fragrant beloved afr. What odor, unless it be the lilac, is more appreciated? Especially during such weather as the Natfonal Capital has enjoyed now for many weeks does the fragrant flower of this vine win its way into the appreci- ation of mankind. It has added to the charm of early morning, scenting the air with a fra- grance at once spicy, interesting and enioyable. Odors may be interesting, of course, just as sights may be, or sounds. To many the fragrance of lilacs, dew-cov- ered, is one of the most interesting in the world. That of the common honey- suckle is another, better than that of roses or other too-heavy scents. ok ok ok The commonness of this vine i what endears it to many. Tropical crecpers have their place, but their place is not the nearby vacant lot or yonder ugly line of board fences. It is in such places that the honey- suckle comes into its own. It is called a vine, but practically it is Joint Pay Committee and is personally interested in the proposed legislation, has devoted most of his time this session to the naval treaty. His ab- sence in London and his dutles in connection with the pending treaty have contributed to delay by the Joint Pay Committee in getting down to brass tacks. It is improbable that any action will be taken at this session, unless there is approval of some measure carrying temporary relief. But House leaders early in the session stated in inter- views for The Star that if the joint committe: were able to have a measure ready at the beginning of the next session it would be put through. By meeting several weeks in advance of the convening of Congress in Decem- ber the joint committee could have the first draft of its proposed bill in shape, and with suci an early beginning the chances would be bright for passage. The “Army-Navy pay bill,” so called, although it includes the other services, demands action. Another session of Congress must not be allowed to pass without it. ——e—ee— Anti-prohibitionists claim a prepon- derance of influence, observing that a weed. A “weed,’ bered, is merely some plant which grows where it is not wanted. Sturdy things which insist on grow- ing in lawn grass, such as dandelions, are called weeds by indignant home owners. Yet actually they are plants, no dif- ferent in their growing essence from grass plants. If grass prefers to come up between bricks or in other places where it is not wanted, it in its turn is treated as a weed and eradicated. Honeysuckle is fine where wanted, a nuisance where not, but every one loves it when it is in bloom. Sometimes it manifests a strange per- sistence in failing to flower. Then it is reduced to a mere coverage. It is said that the ruby-throated humming bird, common to these parts, loves the honeysuckle, and certainly the bees are vastly fond of it. * *x The Hawalians, among their appeal- ing melodies, have one called “Honey- sakala,” praising the sweet climber. Shakespeare antedated them by a couple of centuries at least when he ‘Wru}e in his “Much Ado About Noth- ing”: bower, Where honeysuckles, ripened by the sun, Forbid the sun to enter, like favorites while & number of “drys” are charged with entertaining sentiments that are secretly “wet,” no “wet” is ever desig- nated as secretly “dry.” o Henry Ford is in New York looking over the market for antiques. He is a little too late to gather in one of the horse cars that used to ply downtown streets long after steam and electricity became fully recognized. o ‘Willingness of the Senate foreign re- lations committee to lend a helping hand in treaty making is creating the disturbances that friendly relations oc- nent figure in his party for years. It was he who defeated Marion Butler, & Populist Senator, in 1900. Butler af- filiated with the Republican party thereafter. During his long service in the Senate, Mr. Simmons has been popular with his colleagues, and his retirement at the close of the present | Congress will be a matter of regret to men on koth sides of the chamber. The North Carolinian has always been known as a man of the word. He has been for years the chairman or ranking Democratic member of the Senate finance committee and a recognized ex- pert on tariff and revenue matters. In his opposition to the candidacy of Gov. Smith for the presidency Senator Sim- mons had no thought of shifting to the Republican party, It was merely the status of Smith as national leader of his party and candidate for the office of Chief Executive against which Sen- ator Simmons rebelled. He abandoned his old principle of party regularity, and his action in 1928 has come back to plague him. r—e—— - A radio mix-up compelled a few lis- teners to miss part of the radio speech recently made by Reed of Missouri. Whether approving or not, they are likely to agree that the part they did succeed in hearing was a plenty. - Statesmen who resent the dial phone may possibly be realizing by this time that the interesting little mechanism may be of value in affording momen- tary relief from numerous serious cases. e et Washington’s Memorials, Valuation of the Lincoln Memorial as one would value a carload of pots casionally suffer when advice is insist- ently offered. — e Some disappointment may be felt by Bishop Cannon in finding himself obliged to disappoint the Senators who constituted one of the most interested audiences that ever assembled to hear him. ———v SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Traffic Signals. ‘The insects now come on display ‘With joy in their gyrations, And even they sometimes obey ‘The traffic regulations. ‘The firefly's travel does not scorn ‘To show a light to cheer us. The locust's horn sounds loud to warn ‘The world that he draws near us. And thus the honey bee will find Safe journey for his shipment, ‘With Fate inclined to be so kind With natural equipment. Natural Gift. “I recall,” sald the old college friend, “that you were considered a very prom- ising youth.” “I am holding my own,” answered Senator Sorghum. “Some of my con- stituents say I can promise more than anybody else before the public except a eircus ad writer.” Jud Tunkins says Einstein s one of the emartest men he ever heard of, He not only tells you what you don't un- derstand but gets you so interested that you go to the book store and buy it. toes—in terms of size or money—is evidence of a vulgar mind. It is easy to appreciate the senti- ments of a recent Washington visitor after hearing a guide inform his pa- trons of the money value of the vi rious monuments in the National Capi- tal. His complaint has just come to the Board of Trade. The guides say in defense that this question is most frequently asked by tourists. Many are interested only secondarily in the Campaign Promise. The apple or the peach may fail In some unfavored regions. One grand abundance will prevail To cheer the waiting legions. Our statesmen once again draw nigh With words exceeding clever. The oratorical supply Will be as fine as ever. Intellectual Diversion. “Do you enjoy base ball?"” beauty or sentimental associations of a memorial. They think mostly in the relatively low plane of money values. The same frequently has been re- marked of American tourists in Europe. It is a favorite theme of those Euro- pean satirists who would stress the vulgarity of visitors from this side of the Atlantic. Art and sentiment, it would seem, do not exist for them un- less they can be expressed in terms of money. A building or a monument im- presses them by being the biggest or most costly object of its kind in the world, not by being the loveliest or the most hallowed by the lives of those as- sociated with it. Now we sce this lamentable attitude “Very much,” answered Miss Cayenne, “I thought you favored intellectual entertainment. You must not forget that some of the radio announcers are among our wittiest people.” “War can be abolished,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown. “The first step in that direction will be for n-uhbonf to cease quarreling.’ Varying the News. And still we sing a little song For hope we never lose. ‘The world has never gone along ‘With nothing but good news. “I don't see how we's gineter stop monopoly,” said Uncle Eben, “if one og; an' winnin' Beyond all doubt the 1930 primaries are no_respecters of senatorial persons. First Deneen of Illinois, then Grundy of Pennsylvania and now Simmons of North Carolina, The Tar Heel Demo- crat's defeat is the most sensational, as | it is the most sgnificant, of them all. If there's any Republican left in Wash- ington who still believes seriously that ) the G. O. P. has a “future” in Dixie he's keeping himself out of sight and incommunicado. The vengeance that has overtaken Senator Simmons for his faithlessness to the Smith cause in 1928 is universally looked upon as hand- writing on th: wall for Tom Heflin. The senior Senator from Alabama faces the primary guns on August 12. He is under indictment for the same political misdemeanor charged against Simmons, Democratic sentiment in the South, authorities say, runs pretty true to form on these occasions. If Heflin es- capes Simmons’ fate he’ll be a miracle man. The Big Noise from Alabam’ has been called many names in his day, but nobody ever dubbed him a worker of wonders. L It's a tragi-comic coincidence that President Hoover should find himself under fire at the same moment from the two men who rank as his archfoes in American politics—Senator Hiram Johnson, Republican, of California and former Senator “Jim” Reed, Democrat, of Missouri. On the very day that Johnson was blistering the administra- tion for refusing to divulge confidential London conference data Reed was broadcasting a Nation-wide attack on Hoover, which reeked with personal rancor. Early in the present White House regime there were signs of a Johnson-Hoover rapprochement. The California congressional delegation dined with the President and the Sen- ator was among those present. Then came the foreign relations committee dinner of painful memory, from which Jchnson was omitted by what was offi- clally described as an inadvertence. ‘Things have never been the same "twixt Herbert and Hiram since that mys- tericus mishap. i * ok ok x Everybody in Washington who listened in on “Jim" Reed’s radio speech from Sedalia Saturday night marveled over it as an oratorical performance, what- ever anybody thought of it in other re- spects. ~ It flamed with the old-time Reed fire, and indicated that the Mis- sourfan still wags a silver tongue. The blue-eyed “Jim” considers it almost libelous to mention that he’ll be 69 years old in November. Now that some folks believe he's flirting with a Demo- cratic presidential bee for 1932—when Reed will be 71—this observer recalls what the Kansas City statesman said a year or two ago when it was suggested that he is too old to run for President. “Helll" retorted “Jim,” as he scored a bull's-eye on a spittoon 10 feet away, “all my ancestors lived to be a hun- dred!” Xy ‘When Prof. Max Schmeling of Ger- many meets Prof. Jack Sharkey of Bos- ton, in Yanke: Stadium next Thursday evening, to decide the heavyweight championship of the world, a distin- guished compatriot of the challenger will be at the ringside. He is Dr. Fried- rich Wilhelm von Prittwitz, the accom- plished German Ambassador to the United States. Dr. von Prittwitz has been invited to be a guest of honor in the box of Mayor “Jimmic” Walker of New York city, and expscts to be on hand when time is called. Schmeling— | whose name, by the way, is pronounced ; in German eas if it were spclled Schmay- ling—once paid his respects at the Ger- man embassy in Washington. Naturally : the ambassadorial staff is pinning pa- triotic hopes on the mighty Max, even ! though the diplomatic code doesn't per- mit them to be backed in cash. ok ok ok Senator Key Pittman, Democrat, of Nevada, had a snappy come-back the other day for a press gallery denizen who was inquiring about the progress Pittman is making in rebuilding his suburban home, destroyed by fire last Winter. The Nevadan said work was goin , but proceeding rather slowly. “Well,” wisecracked the reporter, “that’s in accordance with senatorial tradition, isn’t it?” Quoth Pittman, like o flash, “Yes, you see we believe m doing things deliberately in order to avoid mis- takes of newspaper men.” THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. has not the sweetness about it of plain, | it must be remem- | “And bid her steal into the pleached | | Made proud by princes, that advance their pride Against the pride that bred it.” To save the reader the disagreeable | necessity of looking up in the diction- ary the meaning of that interesting | word, “pleached,” we have done it for him, and present the following, from Webster: | " “Intertwined; formed by pleaching of branches; fenced or covered over by | intertwined boughs.” | sir Walter Scott, in his “Marmion,” | remembered our vine in the following: “And honeysuckle loved to crawl Up the low crag and ruined wall.” One of the most famous references to | the honeysuckle (often called Lonicera) |1s from Milton's “Comus”: “I sat me down to watch upon a bank, With ivy canopied and interwove With flaunting honeysuckle.” As far as we know, Rossetti is the only poet who devoted an’entire poem to this vine. One verse goes: “I plucked a honeysuckle where The hedge on high is thick with thorn, And, climbing for the prize, was torn, And fouled my feet in quag-water; And by the thorns and by the wind The blossom that, I took was thinn'd, And yet I found it sweet and fair.” We cannot commend these verses of Rossetti's. Such phrases as “climbing for the prize” in relation to honey- suckle, are stilted and typically “poetic,” of the type which long ago disgusted many an honest man with poetry. One has the feeling that the word “thinn'd” | would not have been there had it not been necessary to find a rhyme for “wind.” At any rate, we like the poet's con- clusion that he found it sweet and fair. In the garden the honeysuckle, ex- | cept in some of its related forms, has | little place, unless the place be so large that a rankly growing vine is not out of place. Some of its relations, however, such as the bush honeysuckle and the be. loved columbine (Aquilegia), are gar- den favorites everywhere. It is easy to see the relation between the honeysuckle and the columbine, when one stands over a fine row of the latter. There is the same form of flower, in & measure, although the resemblance may not go much farther. There are many such obscure relationships among flowers; an interesting book might be written upon them. Xk ok By reason of its intense root growth ordinary honeysuckle is a rampant feeder, and should not be grown in gardens near other flowers, as it will steal their nourishment, if given a chance. For the same reason it is scarcely practical to permit it to grow near con- crete walks, as there is some danger of its_splitting them. If it is to be extirpated, the job must be done thoroughly, or it will grow up egain. Few vines grow more rapidly after being trimmed. New shoots are sent out immediately, and those that touch the ground will take root and grow entirely new plants therefrom. Honeysuckle, then, partakes of a dual nature: it is a beautiful, interesting vine, in its place, or in moderation, out of its place; but when permitted to usurp the landscape becomes consider- able of a nuisance. Yet, even as a nui- sance it may be tolerated for its fresn | fragrance in early Summer, After that it must be kept cut back. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Rear Admiral Walter R. Gherardi of the General Navy Board, who has just been given admiral’s rank by President Hceover, has an eminent record of pre- war and war service. When things broke loose in 1914, Gherardi was Amer- ican naval atlache in Germany. He was_on es?cclally important duty at Berlin until the United States entered the fray and then became captain of a uans%mrz which was engaged contin- ueusly for a year and a half in landing Yankee troops in France. After the armistice Capt. Gherardi functioned on the international commission con- cerned with exchange of war prisoners. He became naval aide to Curtis D. Wilbur, Secretary of the Navy, in 1925. While on that assignment Gher- ardi was struck on the head by an air- plane propeller on the Pacific Coast, suffering injuries that threatened to in- capacitate him. Rear Admiral Gher- ardi is a full-fledged naval aviator and once commanded the aircraft scouting squadron. He comes from distinguished naval stock. * ok % % Calvin Coolidge’s $32-a-month fa- mous half-house at 21 Massasoit street, Northampton, Mass,, has been rented by a couple of New Jersey sisters who will turn it into a homemade candy store. A local paper suggests that the girls specialize in “Calvin Caramels—Choose to Chew One n:ld Enjoy Silence.” C White House and State Department declare that Ambassador Dawes explod- ed about something that's exclusively his own business when he recently flayed Americans who yearn to curtsey before British royalty. - Would-be pres- entees at foreign courts must apply to the respective ambassadors and minis- ters. Washington resolutely washes its hands of the most pestiferous breed of favor-askers our political system has ever developed. (Copyright, 1930.) s | North America Good To Anthropologists From the New York Sun. To anthropologists the North Ameri- can continent is almost a virgin fleld; what has been found here gives but a hint of the relics of humanity awaiting searchers. Finds in the United States in the past few months have added a few more pages to the history of ancient man on this continent. The most recent discovery is one of the richest in several years. Last week Dr. Mark Harrington uncovered in Gyp- sum_Cave, Nev., some 900 implements and household objects used by men who inhabited that section of the country probably 20,000 years ago. The collec- tion contains a unique find, a necklace of centipede joints strung on fiber. The Holmes-Moore expedition pursued its search for relics near Sarasota, Fla. A skull and bones dug up there indicate that men inhabited the everglades 23 centuries ago and that in the Pleisto- cene period herds of mammoths lived on the Florida flatlands. A party of scientists from the Smithsonian Insti- tution also visited Florida in February to excavate systematically for prehis- toric fossils. As for the animal life that anciently inhabited this country, New Jersey yielded a fine set of dinosaur tracks in blue clay when pits were opened near Woodbridge in March. About the same time a man in Union dug up in his back yard a fossilized tooth identified at the Newark Museum as once used by & mastodon. - Base Ball Resistance Not Passive. From the Detroit News. The passive resistance idea may be well suited to India, but it doesn't get our boys ahead in the American League. —or—. Americans “Cold and Sour.” From the Roanoke Times. The average American eats 23 pints of ice cream and 25 pickles in a year. Perhaps that's what makes him such & cold, sour proposition. High Blood Pressure Shown. From the New York Evening Post. Medical men will note how well India is proving their theory that salt brings high urey blood press: The Political Mill By G. Gould Lincoln. ‘The Democrats of the South are more efficient at disciplining “bolters” than | are the Republicans in other parts of the country. When the Democrats of North Carolina on Saturday turned down Senator Furnifold M. Simmons,) veteran party leader and a member of the Senate for nearly 30 years, it was for one reason alone—he bolted the Democratic national ticket, headed by Al Smith, in 1928. In some quarters efforts will be made to interpret thei victory of Josiah W. Bailey and the de- | feai of Senator Simmons as a “‘wet” victory, because Bailey supported the Smith ticket in 1928. But Bailey has| been reputed a dry for years. Although many wets followed Bailey, Senator Simmons owed his defeat to just one thing—failure to observe party re larity and the victory of the republicans in North Carolina in the last presiden- tial election. The Democrats of the South just can't stand Republican vic- tories at the polls. Lurking back of such victories lies the shadow of reconstruc- tion days and the possible political dominance of the Negro. In 1928, urged by religious prejudice and by anti-wet sentiment, four States of the “solid South” broke away from the Smith ticket and went for Hoover. For a sea- son, the old race issue was laid aside. But in North Carolina, with Simmons and Bailey running for the senatorial romination and without the two main issues which carried the State for Hoover and against Smith being in- volved, fear and hatred of Republican victory and of the man who made such & victory possible in '28, had its effect. B W el ‘The Republicans have not been so effective in dealing with party bolters. Back in 1924, it is true, Senator Brookhart, who supported La Follette for President instead of Coolidge in that year, was turned down by a combined vote of regular Republicans and the Democrats, and Senator Steck was elected. But that was in a general election, not in a party primary, and Brookhart’s disciplining was accom- plished only with Democratic aid. In another two years Brookhart, in party primary, was again triumphant and still insurgent. Senator Frazier of North Dakota, the late Senator Ladd of that State and the senior La Follette, all bolted the re‘iuhr party ticket in 1924, but none of them felt the party lash in their States. In 1928 Senator George W. Norris came out flatly for Al Smith for President, and Blaine did the same in Wisconsin. Norris is up for renomi- nation this year and there appears to be no one among the regulars who rel- ishes an attempt to defeat him in the primary, despite his bolting the Re- rubhcan ticket two years ago. Perhaps f Nebraska had foliowed Senator Nor- ris' lead and gone Democratic that year the Republicans might have been & little more sore with him and might have regarded his renomination with more opposition. But Nebraska rolled up a big ma]orit{; for Hoover and did not pay the slightest bit of attention to what Mr. Norris had to say on that matter. Nor did Wisconsin turn to Smith at the instance of Senator Blaine. ¥ & % Now that the regular Democrats have successfully disciplined party bolters in North Carolina, Virginia and elsewhere in the South, attention is centering on the race which Senator Heflin of Ala- bama is making for re-election. He is having trouble keeping his head above the flood of “regular” opposition which has developed in his own State. This regular opposition will receive added momentum from the defeat which the Democrats have administered to Sen- ator Simmons, beyond a doubt. Fur- thermore, it appears that Senator Heflin is about to head an entire independent ticket in the State this Fall, with many candidates for State office and possibly for membership in the House, if the House members do not line up for him. This may be a bold stroke, but it is re- arded some quarters - as litical lindness. It is calculated to line up solidly all the friends of the many can- didates who will run as regular Demo- cratic nominees for these offices and cause them to vote against Heflin and all his ticket. 4 1# reports be true, the Democrats are 50 intent upon having the Smoot-Haw- ley tariff bill as an issue in the coming campaign that they just can't bear to let the measure be defeated in the Sen- ate finally. The rumor is going the rounds that if necessary a Democratic vote or two can be registered for the bill in addition to those of the Senators from Louisiana, Wyoming and another State or two where the tariff needs are so strong that these Democrats would Senate, is expected back this week, in time to play a part in bringing the tariff bill finally to a vote. Senator Robinson has been out in Arkansas, where Thomas W. Campbell, a former State chairman, is trying to win the senatorial nomination of the Democrats this year against the Senator. For 17 years Senator Robinson has been a member of the Senate, and for a decade or more he was a member of the House before that. For a few months between his service in the House and his service in the Senate he was governor. And two years ago he put Arkansas still fur- ther on the political map by capturing the Democratic nomination for Vice President. During the last six years Senator Robinson has been his party’s leader in the Senate. Much of that time his leadership has been the only effective leadership in the Senats on either side. The Republicans, with their insurgent group ready to kick over the traces at any time, have been in a bad way for leadership. PR ‘The tariff bill as it is coming out of conference finally is criticized by Re- publican Senators from the farm States on_ the theory that it gives too much aid to the manufacturers and not enough to the farmers. On the other hand, some of the Senators from the industrial States, particularly Reed and Grundy of Pennsylvania, take unkindly to the measure because they feel it does not do enough for the manufacturers and does too much for the farmers. Some one must be wrong. Senator “Jim” Reed of Missouri, who has been out of the political limelight since he was defeated for the presi- dential nomination in Houston in 1928, is planning to stage a comeback and win the Democratic nomination for Chief Executive in 1932, it is now re- ported. He is talking to the Democrats nationally over the radio and “burning up” President Hoover, the London naval treaty, prohibition, Bishop Cannon, ete., etc. It all has a familiar ring. But Senator Reed disgusted many of his supporters at Houston two years ago when he in a measure compromised his views on the wet and dry issue in order to win, if he could, the support of the dry delegations to the convention, who were strongly opposed to the nomina- tion of Al Smith. It is not likely that his wet admirers will forget what hap- pened in Texas at that time. ik A With the presidential election still two years away there is beginning to be a lot of talk of presidential candi- dates. Should the Democrats win con- trol of either House of Congress in the coming election there is bound to be discussion of possible Republican suc- cessors of President Hoover. The word will go out that his administration has been repudiated. If anything like that should happen it will be due to the Re- fubncnn opposition to the administra- don itself, not to the Democrats. The Democrats are talking of Gov. Roosevelt of New York, Senator Rob- inson of Arkensas, and not a few of them of Al Smith himself, as possible candidates for the presidency. They, as well as the Republicans, will have to make up their minds whether they are to nominate a man who is willing to go forward with prohibition modi- fication or repeal. at issue, the wet and dry, is likely to be as potent an issue in 1932 as it was in 1928, althougi with the wets in somewhat stronger position, judging by the increase in Have we had the pleasure of serving you through our Washington Informa- tion Bureau? Can't we be of some help to you in your problems? Our business | is €5 furnish you with authoritative in- formation, and we invite you to ask us any question of fact in which you are | interested. Send your inquiry to The Evening Star Information Bureau, Fred- eric J. Haskin, director, Washington, D. C. Inclose 2 cents in coin or stamps | for return postage. ‘What are the sources, proportion=- ately, of the money expended for road building in the United States?>—B. V. S. | A. General taxes furnish 27.4 per | cent, motor vehicle fees, 20 per cent; gasoline tax, 18 per cent: bonds. 17.4 per cent; appropriations, 8 per cent, and Federal aid, 5.2 per cent; while 4 per cent comes from miscellaneous sources. This money is expended 57.5 per cent for construction, 29.4 per cent for maintenance, 8.2 per cent for interest on bonds and 4.9 per cent on machinery and other equipment. Q. Who was the Flying Parson?— L. T M. A. His name was Belvin W. May- nard. He was born September 28, 1892. He ferved with the A. E. F,, was discharged from the Army May 3. 1920, | was appointed a reserve officer June 5, 1921. In 1924 he was killed at Rutland, Vt, in an airplane accident. Q. In what direction does a tornado travel?—N. T. H. A. Most tornadoes move toward the | northeast; a few toward the southeast; | the others in an easterly direction. Although the storm moves at:great | speed around its center, its forward | movement is from 40 to 60 miles an | hour, It is therefore often possible to avoid a tornado by driving at right an- gles to it at a high rate of speed. Q. How many Confederate soldiers are still living?—E. L. K. A. There are about 19,000, Q. What sort of music is played on the carillon at Lake Wales, Fla.— 8. R. D. A. The recitals on the Sanctuary | Bells llwn{v.s begin with “America,” which is followed by hymns, simple songs, such as “Little Gray Home in the certain operatic airs, “God's “Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes,” “Dixie”; folk songs, Bouthern airs, and often the last piece on the program is “Our United States,” the words of which are by Mr. Bok, the music having been arranged, har- monized and orchestrated by Leopold Stokowski. . Why is a black cat considered bad | Q. luck?—E. V. B. A. According to an old legend, Sa- tan’s favorite form of disguise was a black cat, and this probably gave rise to the superstition. Q. Who said “Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest”?—P. G. Odyssey.” Q. What did Kipling write which of- fended the King so that Kipling was never offered the poet laureateship?— w. T.J. A According to rumor it was Kipling's oem “The Widow at Windsor” which Jept Kipling from being appointed poet laureate. Q. How can our paper currency be kept from cracking as it grows old?— E. H . The paper is so prepared that the bills do not crack in time; old bills show wear, but not cracks. Q. What can be done to exterminate ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. | slugs which leave slimy trails in cellar and garden?>—M. F. 8. A. All decayed boards, debris, bricks and old flowerpots which serve as hid- ing places should be removed and aire slaked linie dusted lberally through- out the infested area. Moreover, & pols soned bait, such as boiled potato sprin= kled with white arsenic or Paris green, should be distributed in this area. Col- lect the masses of translucent, yellowish eggs found in dark and damp locations and destroy them. Q. How, long has Delhi been the cap= ital of India?—T. B. L. A. This has been a capital of prova inces of India almost from the begin- ning of the history of India. It was made the British capital of India by proclamation of King George V in 1911, Q. How many slaves were there in this ccuntry at the time of the Revolu- tion?>—D. C. K. A In 1760 it was estimated that there were over 300,000 slaves in the colonies. Q. Why is Priday chosen as a_day of ascembly by Mohammedans?—F. D. N, A. The observance of Priday as the Moslem day of assembly, corresponding in some respects to the Christian Sab- bath, originated in the Mohammedan revelations. According to the instruc~ | tions of the prophet, Friday was the day Adam was created, the day on which he entered Paradise, was expelled there- from, the day of his repentance, the day of his death, and it is to be the day of his resurrection. Q. When was William Howard Taft governor of the Philippines?—H. G. A. Taft was sent to the Philippines as president of the United States Philip- pine_Commission in 1900 and became the first civil governor of the islands in 1901, Q. Is there any truth in the states ment that children form 75 per cent of our motion picture audiences?>—C. H. A. As a matter of fact, only 8 per cent are children. Impartial surveys made by disinterested organizations show that in the Manhattan theater dis- trict of New York City, for instance, the proportion of the children in the audi- ence, by actual count, is as low as 3 to 4 per cent and in the residential urban districts 1t is 8 per cent. Q. Was Nevin's music for “Mighty L-kt'h’n Jnoéc" published before his A. Mrs. Nevin says that the manu- script was found on his desk after he had passed away. This has become one of the most successful songs ever written. Q. What is the Ohio Idea?—E. B. A. From 1868 to 1876 the Demo< cratic party’s demand for paper money and the taxation of Government bonds was so consistent that the inflation movement was commonly known as the 5 | Ohio Idea. A. Homer uses the expression in “The | Q. Is it not true that meteors add to the weight of the earth?—H. J. W. A. To this small extent, the weight of the earth is increased. Young esti- mates the number of meteorites that enter the atmosphere daily at from 15,000,000 to 20,000,000, and the an- nual total weight at from 5,000 to 7,000 tons. But it has an effect in slowing the rotation period of the earth by the increase in its diameter, and 8o lengthens the day, but only by less than one-theusandth' of a second in & million years. Q. How many radio sets are now in use?—W. R. B. . A. Radio Retailing estimates the number at 11,500,000 sets. Merging of Century Reminds Nation of Its Original Policy The service rendered in the develop- ment of literary quality in the United States by the old Century Magazine, which became a quarterly and is now merged with the Forum, is acknowl- edged by the country. Its original con- tribution is commended as of perma- nent value, while the later interest of the Century in new theories is a sub- ject of discussion. It is agreed that one thing for which the country is especially indebted to its distinguished line of editors is the discovery of new talent which contributed to its bril- i 0y. “It ‘may be entering upon a new period of vigor and popularity as a component part of the Forum and Century,” thinks the New York Even- ing Post, “and we feel sure that under Henry Goddard Leach’s able editorship this will prove to be true, but it will not be the old Century, which won its high repute in the early days of its more than half a century of existence.” The Memphis Commercial Appeal is con- vinced that “the editorial policy of the Forum, under the direction of Mr. Leach, will continue to dominate the new publication.” generals who led them, was an early expression of journalism in magazine making.” ‘The magazine “did much to open opportunities for new writers,” agrees the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, while hold- ing that later there were “sociological enthusiasms” and that there was “too much suggestion of ‘propaganda,’ which literary people and general readers have no use for, even when they partly sympathize with its aim and Surpme," e Eagle voices its good will toward any future effort “to claim the old in- heritance of the Century’s literary prestige.” “Lovers of the old Century,” acoord- ing to the Providence Journal, “felt that it had stood for something definite, as individual as a human personality, and to change it seemed to them little short of sacrilege.” The Journal recalls “the triumphant years of the Century, when both its literary matter and its engravings attracted world-wide admira- tion. * * * The high-water mark of engraving in the Century,” continues the Journal, “is represented by the work of Timothy Cole, whose white-line en- gravings of the old masters began in 1889 and continued at intervals for half “The old Century has been a power,” says the Houston Chronicle. “In the last year it has presented some of the most worth-while scientific and philo- sophical articles which have appeared in this country. And it has given us fiction of the very highest type, albeit in small doses. It would not be entirely true * * * to say that public taste has turned from such worth-while things.” The Chronicle emphasizes the need of “sound editorial philosophy,” and con- tinues: “There is a time for probing and analyzing and weighing, that is quite true, and we have had a lot of it | in all realms of intellectual life in recent | years: but there comes a time also for decision, for adoption of a philosophy, for either a rehabilitation of old things | or a leadership toward definitely new | goals.” x9S “Efforts to change the magazine's policy were not successful,” agrees {hel Newark Evening News, while at the| same time that paper recalls achievements of the publication with | the statements that “in its 60 years of | life the roster of the Century's con-| tributors reads like a scroll of literary history,” and that under Richard Wat- | son Gilder as editor it “did a great deal for the ambitious young men and wom- | en of the South who during the '80s and '90s attacked New York en masse and for a time had a lot to say in the fiction of those decades. The News adds that “thc Century's famous stories of Civil War campaigns, penned by the wet_sent'ment in certain parts of the country. IR Gifford Pinchot, Republican nominee for governor, and Senator Grundy, de- feated candidate for the senatorial nomination, lost their fight to control | the Republican State committee of | Pennsylvania by a very decisive vote. | This looks as though Senator Grundy | were nearly “through” as an important political factor in the Keystone State. Will he contnue to be the raiser of big G. O. P. campaign funds in the future? « kiwx The House elections committee has given former Representative John Phil- | lip Hill of Maryland, one of the wet- test of the wets and a Republican, a chance to stage a comeback. It has voted 5 to 3 that Mr. Hill's Democratic | opponent in the last election is not | entitled to a seat in the House be- cause of fraud in the ‘balloting. If the House sustains the committee out goes Mr. Palmisano, Hill's opponent, and a special election probably will be held | next November to fill the vacancy. Mr. Hill has made remarkable runs in his district, ordinarily Democratic, and has had strong support. If he comes back the wets will have another insistent voice on the floor of the House. Mr. Hll doubtiess would be a candidate ay_in November for the long term. Palmisano was declared elected by less thang 400 votes two years ago. the |the Spokane Spokesman-Review, |in its day and generation it exerted an | the present da; | Mail, 2 dozen years. This may stand as the high-water mark of modern wood en- graving, the culmination of that fasci- nating art which was suddenly wrecked by the invention of the half-tone process engraving.” * * % “The Century was founded in 1870 by Dr. J. G. Holland,” says the Atlanta Journal, “and published for 11 years as Scribner’s Monthly, before the present name was adopted upon the retirement from the publishing firm of Mr. Charles Scribner. Since that time the Century has waxed steadily in editorial excel- lence, and can boast of such eminent contributors as Tennyson, Longfellow. ‘Whittier, Mark Twain, and, among the newer generation of literary ts, Joseph Hergesheimer, Amy Lowell, Zona Gale and Willa Cather.” “To the younger generation, more eager for ‘smartness’ and ‘brilliance,’ the old Century may seem ponderous, says “but educational and cultural influence that is beyond the scope of any magazine of The Charleston Daily with a similar tribute, finds that the multiplication of such publications in the United States “certainly shows that Americans are a reading people.” The Detroit Pree Press states that “the Century has enjoyed the guidance of a line of able editors and has drawn con- tributions from the most gifted writers of English from Tennyson to Sherwood Anderson.” The Canton Daily News declares that “the list of tontributors through the six decades of its existence is impressive.” The New Orleans Morn- ing Tribune recognizes “a record of sus- tained excellence which few, if any, publications in this country have equaled.” “Thus goes a name,” remarks the New York World, “which for 50 years has bean distinguished in the annals of American periodical literature. Under the editorship of Henry Goddard Leach the Century will be happily merged with the Forum, and prosperity and useful- ness for the joint venture may be hoped and expected. * * * Of the many triumphs of the Century the serial pub- lication of Nicolay and Hay's life of Lincoln and the study of the battles of the Civil War are best remembered.” ‘The Little Rock Arkansas Democrat comments: “Quite naturally it has been absorbed by such a magazine as the Forum, one whose policy is just what its name implies. It invites debate on all subjects and is prejudiced on none.” s S No Change Here. From the Des Moines Tribune-Capital The buying of liquor may not be illegal, but the obtaining of genuine stuff is going to be as hard as ever. At And Corkscrews for Pickle Jars. From the Terre Haute Star. An early industrial development may b3 the construction of substantial, non- leakable nail kegs.