Evening Star Newspaper, June 10, 1930, Page 8

A5 THE EVENING STAR ‘With Sunday Morning Editlon. WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY.........June 10, 1930 e Y THEODORE W. NOYES. ...Editor ‘The Evening Star l'glfl’l'fl Company 11tp, ot "aad Pennevivanta Ave York Office: 110 East 43nd @ ;hfc".'n ifice Lake memnn"fiuu!&'u uropean Office: 14 Regent St.. London. Ensland. Rate by the City. e Evenine 45c per mont! arrier Within tar. . i 1) .60c per month ar ..88¢ per month ..5¢ per copy ' each month. day St 4 ail or telephone ar o Collection made at the end ders may be sent in by m: NAtional 5000. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. & ry) aily and Sunds ily oniy unday only All Other States and Canada. fly and Sund iy ooly . unday only :0.00: 1 mo.. $6.00: 1 mo.. 1yrl $4.00: 1moll RIS Sifs Daper and' aleo She Ioca] ne ] published herein. All rigl publication #ecial dispatches herein also reserted. Deadlock on the D. C. Bill. If the size of the' lurnp &um in the pending District of Columbta’ appropria- tion bill was based on the principle of adequate development of the American Capital, with due consideration of the responsibilities of the United States and the rights of the local taxpayers, the Senate’s recommended $12,000,000 would be carried, representing a fair compro- mise between the inadequacy of the $9,000,000 lump sum and the amount legally due the District under exist- ing substantive law. The statement of the Senate conferees yesterday, sup- ported by the Senate, outlines a position that would be impregnable if the assaults upon it were confined to Teasonable objection. Unfortunately for the District, the size of the lump sum for the last six fiscal years has not been based on &ny- thing but the arbitrary decision of & few members of the House. It has never been subjected to any fair or impartial analysis. Its only defense has been the strategic position of the House, which has enabled its leaders to dictate to the Senate on the theory that the lump sum will be what they want or nothing. The victories of the House have been won by an obstinate disregard of the rights of others. It is unthinkable that the able lead- ers in Congress will continue to allow the present deadlock between House and Senate on the District bill to con- tinue indefinitely; that each year's consideration of the appropriation bill, symbolizing the exclusive power of gov- ernment by Congress over a commu- nity of half a million voteless Amer- icans, will be marked by a sharp dis- agreement between House and Senate over a fundamental issue involving the rights of these Americans as well as the efficiency of Congress to govern. ‘The accepted and the reasonable way of ending this controversy is, for the time being, a compromise. The second step is to provide for an investigation of the facts, such as that outlined in respect no boundaries. They may af any moment cross the line between in ternecine warfare and depredation upon society at large. The killing of Lingle is & symptom of a desperately danger- ous disposition on the part of the un- derworld of America's second largest city. Orime commission work has not ac- complished anything of value in Chi- cago. Direct police enterprise has not made headway against the rackets and the murders. Now this single slaying, for the solution and punishment of which rich rewards have been offered, may arouse the community to an ef- fective campaign that will free Chicago from the scourge of blackmail and slaughter that has made it an object of scorn in the eyes of the country. ———e———— The Red Trail. In its long and unending list of in- quisitorial activities Congress has un- dertaken no investigation more useful than the one inaugurated yesterday by the House of Representatives into Com- | munist activities in the United States. Various Government departments con- - | cerned with them are entirely familiar with these machinations. But a com- placent public is not. The House in- quiry is designed to bring to the people’s notice the length and breadth of the red trail in this country. That Com- munist propaganda will be exposed as| an insidious and industrious system in our unsuspecting midst is confidently foreshadowed by authorities acquainted with its far-flung scope. One of those authorities, & highly re- spected resident of Washington, was the first witness before the House commit- tee, the Rev. Edmund A. Walsh of Georgetown University. Father Walsh was & member, of the Hoover famine relief mission to Russia in 1921. Few Americans know conditions there better. He has no hesitation in charging that the Soviet government ‘“has declared war against all humanity,” and plans to oyerthrow all other existing govern- mental systems. For the achievement of that object, the priest-scholar said, the Moscow government, the Russian Com- munis fparty and the red world-propa- gandas machine, the Third Interna- tionale, are leagued in an offensive al- liance. In our own country, the congressional probers were told, regular training| camps for the communization of chil- dren are maintained. Concerns masked | as trading companies, particularly the “Amtorg” at New York, Dr. Walsh tes- tified, are utilized for propaganda pur- poses, as Soviet officials in foreign countries likewise are. The stirring up of racial strife, especially among South- ern Negroes, was described as another form of subversive activity in the United States. Dr. Walsh asserts that Soviet government diplomatic pouches are used for carrying propaganda. Through their own subsidized news- papers, like the Daily Worker of New York, the witness informed the com- mittee, Communists publicly preach the doctrine of world revolution. Father ‘Walsh outlined the Moscow plan of tak- ing groups of twenty to thirty American citizens to Russia, at* Soviet expense, to be trained in Communist gospel and sent back to America to spread it. At a time when American devotees of Sovietism were driving at Washing- the now dormant Moore bill for & com- mission on fiscal relations. The Moore bill has been consigned for the time being to the limbo of those “contro- versial” measures toward which the House leaders entertain such fear when they affect the politically impotent District of Columbia. If there is any sound reason why this procedure should not be followed, it has not been stated. Arrogant re- fusal to compromise or listen to reason is not an attitude on the part of our * all-powerful rulers in the House that invites respect for their decision. ——————— History may comfort Carol of Ru- mania by its many reminders of instances in which success in public life did not insure domestic tranquillity. It may also give him an interesting sug- gestion to the effect that the queen is often the most influential figure on the political chessboard. ——— e Chicago Gangsters Break Bounds. While Chicago gangsters have been ruthless in their murderous enterprise for several years, and particularly recently, some degree of consolation was occasioned by the fact that they preyed upon one enother, and that the honest, law-abiding members of the community were not made victims of | their crimes. So long as the mortality occurred within the limits of gangland no very grave concern was felt on the score of the public safety. But now comes a new element in the case, the murder of &n “outsider,” a newspaper man being shot down in the street by & gunman who escaped. No crime has 8o aroused and outraged Chicago since the slaying of Willlam McSwiggin, as- sistant State's attorney, in 1927, his murder being an act of vengeance for his prosecution of the gangs. “Jake” Lingle, the latest victim of Chicago gunmen, was a veteran re- porter for the Chicago Tribune. He specialized in news of crime. He was thoroughly familiar with the personnel of gangland. He knew the ins and outs of the gacketeering game. He was rated as thoroughly honest, a man who kept his word with those who gave him news, playing no favorites, respect- ed by the gangsters and trusted by the police. His was a dangerous posi- tion, but he had occupied it in security for years and evidently had no fears for his safety. There is a report that he had recently incurred the bitter enmity of a crooked operator who sought the privilege of resuming a gambling game and used Lingle as & *sounder” respecting the police attitude toward him. Lingle reported to him that there was no chance and the gambler, it is sald, accused him of “double-crossing” and threatened to #get even” This report has caused the detention of the gambler as a suspect. Now war has been declared by the Chicago authorities on gangland, and s determination to purge the city of the evil of racketeering gunmen has been expressed. It does seem a bit anomalous that, after a long series of unpunished crimes, the victims of which were eriminals themselves, the death of & single citizen, who lived and worked in the twilight zone of crime ir the pursuit of news, should arouse such a ton for recognition of the Moscow gov- ernment and stressing the trade ad- vantages that would accrue, President Coolidge uttered a worthy lphori.smA‘ “We will not barter American prin- ciples for business profit,” said the President. It will be well if the House contrives to turn the searchlight on the sinister and sleepless plot to undermine those principles. It will be especially wholesome if resultant revelations damp the ardor of those who, holding that the Soviet is more sinned against than sinning, would give it free and unre- strained right to pull down the Ameri- can system and substitute for it the sutocracy of Communism. ———————— Nothing is being heard from the wise gentry who said after Lindbergh's flight to Paris that in a few years the latter would be forgotten. Lindbergh won the center of the stage fairly and squarely, and he knows how to manage his spot- light. : ——— e 1In spite of the police records, it may be fairly doubted whether even the underworld is as bad as the pictorial publications represent it. ————— Round Robins. The round robin season has arrived. Opponents of immediate consideration by the Benate of the London naval treaty started the game when they undertook to sign up Senators who would pledge themselves to a proposal to adjourn the Senate if after a week of debate in the prospective special ses- sion to be called by President Hoover there was no prospect of action on the treaty. Such an agreement would | be tantamount te a compact not to deal with the treaty until next Fall, for no one expects the Senate to con- clude its debate on the treaty within a week, especially if the opponents have notice of the fact that an adjournment would be taken at the conclusion of that time. And now the supporters of the treaty, taking & leaf out of the book of the faction seeking delay, have circulated a round robin pledging Senators to stay on the job during the extra sessibn until the treaty shall have been acted upon. In some quarters it is claimed that the proponents already have 48 Senators either signed up or pledged to such a course of action, with others coming into their camp rapidly. Forty- eight is one-half of the entire mem- bership of the Benate. A motion to ad- Jjourn would have to be supported by a majority in order to carry. Once the Senate has been assembled in special session to deal with the Lon- don treaty, however, it is not likely that round robins will be necessary to keep the Senators from either voting an adjournment or slipping away to break & quorum. The attention of the entire country will be centered on the Senate and on individual Senators. ‘Those who undertake to abandon their jobs will find the spotlight turned full upon them. The belief is expressed by Senator Borah, chairman of the foreign relations committee and in charge of the treaty, that Senators will not under- take to run away from their duty when there is a demand for their presence THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, JUNE 10, 1930. show-down is to come in the committee in a short time and that the treaty will be voted out overwhelmingly when it does come. The long fight over the tariff bill and the conference report on that measure has been an aid to the treaty opponents. There is expectation, however, that the tariff bill will finally be disposed of before the close of this week and the way opened for an adjourn- ment of the regular session within a few days thereafter. . As the special session is to be called immediately on the heels of the adjournment of the regular session, the treaty fight in the Senate 1itself cannot, it seems, be stalled off much longer. A New Altitude Record. The new airplane altitude record Just secured for the United States by Lieut. Apollo Soucek, U. 8. N, is the result of a combination of determina- tion and skill. More than a year ago Soucek, one of the outstanding pilots in the Navy, ascended to a trifie more than thirty-nine thousand feet. This mark at the time exceeded all others for both seaplanes and land planes. Shortly afterward, however, a German, Willi Neuenhofen, pushed the land plane mark up to 41,795, and while the American still held the seaplane title he was dismayed to lose one of the major records of aviation to another country. Accordingly, Lieut. Soucek set out to regain the twin honors. With his brother Zeus he designed new electri- cally heated goggles. He co-operated with engineers of the company which manufactured the motor in his plane to give it effectiveness at high altitudes, and with propeller experts he studied pitches in order that a grip could be had by the whirring blades on the rarefied air of the upper strata. These experiments took more than a year, but they were at last completed and it was up to the plilot to do the rest. And so with only a few days left before reporting for sea duty aboard the Lexington Soucek had his tiny plane made ready and, dressed like a polar explorer, he started aloft. When he returned to earth some two hours later he was disappointed. With the altmeter needle trembling around the forty-two-thousand mark his ship had refused to go higher and every time he tried to push it onward it would flop over on one wing nearly ready to spin. The temperature was eighty- nine degrees below zero and it was only by a generous use of oxygen that he kept himself from losing conscious- ness. But the altmeter was wrong and calibration of the two barographs on the plane by the Bureau of Stand- THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Mispronunciation of flower names is not a crime, it simply is unnecessary, that is all. It is just as easy to pronounce them , but one would never know it from listening to flower lovers. Probably 50 per cent of those who grow hydrangeas miscall them ‘hyge- ranium.” They take the “hy” from hydrangea | and the “geranjum” from that word and put the two together in sublime indiffer- ence to right or wrong. Not one out of ten would think of | tripping up on geranium, yet that is not & particularly easy word, and the flower itself is scarcely more popular. | Surely it is just as easy to say hy-| drangea as “hygeranium.” | * % % % Hearing a gentleman once speak of his “magnolium” bulbs, we could not figure out what he meant, but at last discovered that he was speaking of gladioll. An even commoner mistake is “gladi- ola” for gladiolus, but there is some excuse for this, as the proper name is| a hard one. { Even the fanciers are split on ',h!i proper pronunciation. We will not go into this matter again, ha treated | it at length upon several occasions. | It is enough to say that the accent goes either on “i” or on the “o0,” as one| that refers to pronounce according to the tin or the English (or American, which is still another thing). If the “glad fans” themselves can come to no agreement upon the word, perhaps it is no wonder that the general public gives the matter up in despair and invents pronunciations of its own, “Gladiola” is so widespread that we have noted it in catalogues which other- wise adhered strictly to the best scien- tific and pwul:r JDpames, * % Many a person calls the iris by the wrong title of “irish.” | irish,” especially when spelled capital, is a good word, but it| would nearer fit the shamrock perhaps. It gets this application to a flower solely through slovenly mental habits. One heard the word “Irish” so| often that when he becomes interested in the beautiful irls he immediately takes the line of least resistance. Flower names are peculiar, no doubt of it. They are different, and for that very reason must be looked at carefully, especially when one first makes their acquaintance. There is a first time with flowers, just| as with people. We may live 20 years| or so without having a real speaking| acquaintance with the rose. ‘We all know roses, of course, but not | until we grow & bush or two of our own | can we be said to have met “the queen | of flowers.” * % ok * | Every one knows that it is necessary to get a fellow human being’s name right, in order to avold future embar-| rassment. Mr. Jones will not thank you for calling him Mr. Smith the next time| you meet, nor will Mr. Paddington be| enthralled with the title of “Whadding- ards showed that the naval aviator | ton. had reachéd a higher “ceiling” than any other human in the history of mankind, the tiny line showing a re- corded height of. 43,166 feet. It is particularly gratifying to Amer- icans to have regained the record. Other nations have consistently been taking away our titles in the air. The speed record belongs to England ard the non-refueling duration and dis- tance records to Italy. It is high time for other fiyers to emulate Lieut. Soucek so that America can once more take its rightful place in the world of aviation. it L Germany is said to be making a bid for American tourists. Having settled down to business, the thriftiest and most hospitable of nations is not neglecting details in the great enter- prise of keeping the cash register in action. [ ——— As the Nation's Capital Washington, D. C, is entitled to & fine system of parks, and also parking facilities for motorists who come in increasing num- bers on patriotic pilgrimage. —————— One of the great intellectual philan- thropists is Einstein, who enables the average mind to get out into the universe and for a while forget the perplexities of this particular planet, Beer whs once regarded as a beverage which promoted a dull amiability. That was before gangsters fought for the territorial rights of distribution. e SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. An Old Friend Disappoints. When other topics could not please, We used to get together For conversation at our ease And telk about the weather, But even that theme brings regret As the report grows bolder; We hear it will be still more wet And, maybe, even colder. Unto the tariff we must turn, Or airships bravely landing. The weather, we are pained to In talk has lost its standing. Time Saving. “Do you approve of the primary. sys- tem?” “It saves time,” answered Senator Sorghum. “If you are slated for de- feat, it enables you to get the bad news early and go on about your other business.” Jud Tunkins says the only hope he has of farm rellef is to chop the dear old home into building lots and turn it over to a realtor. Guesswork. In politics finality is met That often causes pain. If you guess wrong, you very seldom get A chance to guess again. A Haughty Assumption. “Are you anxious to be presented at court?” “Not very,” answered Miss Cayenne. “I have a certain family pride of my own. Some of those anclent lincages developed situations that mother does not consider quite proper.” sald Hi Ho, the sage is no greater than the who influences his “A great ma) of Chinatown, trusted adviser words.” Theoretical Information. This Einstein has a wondrous brain, As men’s mysterious motives mix. I sometimes wish he would explain The theory of politics. here in Washington. The opposition to the treaty in the feeling. Yet there is a decided differ- ence between gang killings, where law- breakers alone are slain, and the mur- der of an honest citizen. The gangs Senate, twisting and turning, has suc- ceeded in keeping the treaty in the foreign relations committee for weeks. But there are indications that the “A man who loses & fortune in de stock market,” said Uncle Eben, “gits mo' notice dan one dat loses his wages in a crap game. But one is jes’' as broke as de ether.” l These are little things in life, yet | large in everyday conduct. Pronunciation of flower names fis easy enough if one will take the time | and trouble on first reading them or hearing them to actually become ac-| quainted with them. But there is a tendency in human na- ture, especially adult human nature, to shy from this slight amount of work. of his-school days. He resents being forced to work over words. He wants life—in respect to words— to be free, open and easy, and he will make it 50, even if he does run the risk of being adjudged an ignoramus by his more critical eona-n:ona. * * “I have some ivory climbing up the side of my house,” one gentleman was heard to remark. Good old English ivy would shudder. “There is a beautiful popular tree on our grounds,” said another. Even the youngest poplar would hang its head in humiliation. Let it be said again that these are not major crimes, even in pronuncia- tion. Too, they add to the gayety of nations. Life is the richer for them, but who wants to be in the position of making the contribution? It is just as easy, we say again, to pronounce most words correctly as to mispronounce them. ere are a few words, of course, in every family which are called wrongly, either by reason of location or some peculiarity or other. Those who openly and orally disap- prove wrong pronunciations of others ought not to take the matter so seri- ously. No one cares to be reminded of & fault in public. Often it will be found the pronunciation in question is one common to a whole section of the country. Sometimes it belongs with | certain professions or trades. | whi Certain mispronunciations one ma: sympathize with. There is “clematis,’ with the accent on the “a,” as in “hat. Now, that is wrong, but it is universal. The dictionarfes say ‘“clematis” with the accent on the first syllable, “‘clem.” ;I“; emm-.y that will sound stilted, we are ‘The old-fashioned pronunciation of “paeony,” it used to be written, was plain “piney,” and one may sympathize with that, too, since the diphthongs are difficult. Time changes the pronuncia- tion of words as it changes many things. Today we say “peony” as written. Mem- bers of Greek letter fraternities in the seventies and eighties ke of their organization as “Beeta eeta Pi” or ":2 De'})t; 'fik‘l:eu.“ for instance, whereas totiay they se: Thayta Pi” or “Phi Delta Thl;fl . a; speak any name y (or any word at all, for that matter) is to look at it carefully, spell- ing out every syllable, especially mark- ing the vowels. The vowels are the secret of correct pronunciation, next to accent. One may slide over the con- sonants, but the vowels will out; and if they are out improperly there is no escaping it. One may be sure that others will note it. Perhaps the real secret of glaring faulty pronunciation lles in a contempt which many persons seem to have for the small affairs of everyday life. Usu- ally men and women are able to do what they want to do, and if they do not do a thing, therefore, often it shows that they do not want to do it. Unless one wants to pronounce words correctly, the chances are that it will make little difference to him whether he does or not. Therefore, he will make no effort to take a good look at a word or to split it into its syllables. Words are things, and deserve the same respect which good materials al- ways deserve; for out of them have been built many of the most sublime masterpieces of mankind. The flower names are uniformly beautiful, and de- | serve the simple dignity of correct spell- Perhaps it reminds one too forcibly ing and pronunciation. the Wide World Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands Highlight L TELEGRAFO, Guayaquil—The Commission of Health has sued orders to the agents oper- ating under its authority to & vestigate all the sellers of pre- pared food perambulating through the city with.the object of committing to prison those whose offerings are not up to the standards set by the commission. In this way it is hoped to eliminate the evil that comes from eating prod- ucts that are prepared in unsanitary surroundings or composed of contam- inated ingredients. Most of the re- freshments sold on the streets are com- ?osed of decomposed or adulterated foodstuffs, and many cases of alimen- tary intoxication have been traced to these sources. It is hoped to abolish completely by these vigorous measures what has been a serious menace to pub- lic hygiene. * x4 ¥ Steel Ties Lack Elasticity of Wood. Sydney Bulletin.—Steel sleepers (rall- road ties), recently suggested in Aus- tralia as a substitute for wood sleepers, were tried in South Africa during the Boer War and after. The purpose was to baffie the white ants. The ants were baffled all right, but the people who traveled over the steel sleepers were se- verely buffeted. They lack the elas- ticity of wooden sleepers, and produce an uncomfortable amount of vibration and noise. E Tokio’s Fire Tower Will Be Replaced by Alarm. Japan Advertiser, Tokio.—Toklo's pic- turesque fire watch towers 1 soon be replaced by modern fire alarms, if city officials are successful in their plan for a campaign to reduce the capital's an- nual damage from flames. A remark- able decrease in the number of fires in Tokio and its suburbs has been report- ed since the iatter part of November. This decrease is attributed to the gen- eral uncertainty and cautiousness of the people during the present acute finan- clal and business depression, necessi- tating frugality and retrenchment. According to statistics, fires in Tokio and the suburbs during last month totaled 59 and 51, as against 117 in the city and 88 in the suburbs during the same period last year. This period is regarded as the worst for fires in the | ear. 4 The fire department s planning to replace watch towers in the city and its suburbs with 3,200 fire alarms. This is due to the fact that the rapid in- crease in the number of tall concrete buildings in all parts of the city has greatly reduced the efficiency of the towers, At present there are 449 fire alarms in Toklo, of which about 300 are installed in large buildings, while the rest are where they can be used by the general public. With the abolition of the old- fashioned fire towers, the fire watch- men, who sit in these towers and focus their gaze upon every bit of smoke or flame, e doomed. Tokio has jpending the amount of 1,000,000 $500,000—every Winter for night fire watchmen. During the Summer their services are dispensed with, as there is not nearly so much danger of conflagrations. * ok ok Hospital Replaces Bull Ring of Madrid. El Comercio, Lima.—No more will the magnificent gutomobile of the op- ulent Alfonso roll up to the palatial entrance of the celebrated Bull Ring of Madrid! No more will that historic plaza resound with the clamorous ova- tions to the famous exponents of the taurine art, for this ancient and glorious amphitheater is being demolished! On the spot where the Bull Ring of Madrid has reared its stately pinnacles and balconies for so many centuries, the new municipal hospital is to be raised. Sirange conversion, from & place of blood and death to a haven of gentle- ness and mercy! Instead of thunderous plaudits, hailing the illustrious matador, or the frenzied outcries when one of these heroes is trampled in the san- guinary dust by bulls of the Duke of Veragua, or of Don Antonio Hernandez, will be heard only the moans of those been yen—i who toss upon a bed of sickness, or the soothing murmur of the voices of the nuns, * K ¥ x High Tariff Suggested for Britain. Daily Mail, London—This country is leading the world, not in mass produc- tion, but in doles. And 60 por cent of the enormous amount spent in doles goes into buying imported goods and s0 stimulates the import of foreign wares. The burden of providing these doles falls on British industry, and makes it increasingly difficult for that industry to export. Owing, therefore, to our exports not keeping pace with our imports, there is growing difficulty in keeping gold in London, as payment has always to be made, at some for- eign point, in gold for any great excess of smports. For this grave state of affairs the problem is ta find a remedy. There is no other remedy on the horizon but that proposed by Viscount Rothermere, in the shape of a high tariff against all manufactured articles entering this country. On such articles he favors such duties as will be almost prohibi- tive. For, as he points out, “in an industrial country like Britain, it no more than elementary self-preserva- tion to impose import duties upon the products of foreign competitors.” * % ok X Prefers Canadian College to Those of U. 8. El Nuevo Diario, Caracas.—Our cor- respondent in New York, Senor Nemesio Garcia Naranjo, says many people ask him why, living in the United States, with all its good schools, he sends his children to Canada to be educated. His reply is {lluminating. “There are two reasons,” he says, “for preferring a Canadian college to an American col- lege. In the first place, Canada is the Joint product of tgvo most noble civili- zations, the French and the English. In the schools of that country one is educated up to all the capability and vigor of the Anglo-Saxon, and at the same time has all the primitiveness and bluntness of those traits moderated with the grace and charm of the Latin civilization. Canadian colleges. culti- vate the classic seriousness of European institutions and yet possess all the youth and enterprise of institutions living and acting in the ideals of America, In my humble opinion Yankee educators are becoming little less than crazy. Their institutes are colleges of charlatans, Many schools and colleges which enjoy an ancient, and hitherto enviable, reputation are deplorably deficlent from a moral standpoint. Even women’s colleges have deteriorated from the high standards that formerly governed them. Week ends are at the disposal of all feminine students. ! They can do what they please from Friday night to Monday morning with- out losing caste or friends. Smoking is considered a necessary evil. All such colleges have smoking rooms. Religion is of an intellectual, modernistic type. Latin and mathematics are studied perfunctorily, The conquest of tobacco and an occasional frolic with the in- spirational aid of illicit liquor, the pur- suit of ‘pleasure ’is more important. Is it any wonder such imperfectly cul- tured and incipiently depraved persons are turned out of American colleges? My sons and daughters go to Canada.” ————— Jaywalkers Home Folks. From the St. Louls Po ‘They're arresting ja: York now, and, just as expected, they all turn out to be home folks, o Lie Detector Disqualified. From the Des Moines Tribune-Capital. That lie detector would be just about wrecked at a convention of ardent fishermen. - Fountain Pen for Summer. From the Indianapolis News. It's getting close to the time of the ear when the heavy fountain pen will ave to be placed aside to make way for one of Summer weight, NEW BOOKS AT RANDOM 1 G. M. GRANDEUR AND MISERY OF VIC- TORY. Georges Clemenceau. Har- court, Brace & Co. “Jaccuse!” You recall, maybe, this flaming headline by Georges Clemen- ceau, whose charge of forgery and con- spiracy in the Dreyfus case so roused France as to bring about a new trial and the final release of the “martyr of Devil's Island.” In the main, “J'accuse!” is the motif of “Grandeur and Misery of Victory.” To be sure, there are interludes of pure praise and exaltation, of homage to the martial spirit of the common soldiery. But, upon the whole, there is more lamentation than of commendation for the leaders in that cataclysmic event of war. International duplicities amon; the allles, national greed and self-seek- ing, vicious diplomacy, criminal military incompetency, covenants neither open nor openly arrived at, smell intrigues, huge conspiracies—these assemble here under passionate accusation-or recrimi- natory reference on the writer's part. In substance, “Grandeur and Misery of Victory” is a survey of the war and the deliberations of peace that followed it. The conflict itself is compassed within the first five chapters of the book. ‘Then comes the armistice. Then, the peace conference, with its re- sulting treaties—1, 2, 3, 4. Nearly half the discussion is devoted to “Mutilations of the treaty of Ver- sailles,” in terms of “separate peace,” “financial mutilations,” “Locarno,” ‘Germany arms, France disarms,” “the organization of frontiers,” “defeatism.” The war itself is considered chiefly from the standpoint of “unity of com- mand.” This measure, not embraced heartily at first, finally demonstrated its prime business efficiency in that most momentous of erterprises, that difficult matter of preserving man-stuff and pro- moting human slaughter at one and. the same time. It is here that the writer | has biting things to say in characteristic Tiger fashion on the disposition of the American troops. The situation desper- ate without question. Need of fresh troops of the highest urgency. Be- wilderment and rage that troops from this side were not upon arrival over there slid in, plecemeal, to any com- mand already in action or ready for mno&‘ Ygu m:g be |uln l:lruf. here 8 a point where the particular tempera- ment of M. Clemenceau rises to its ut- most of individual interpretation and characteristic judgment. “Pershing with his tight-lipped smile kept putting things off” . . . “but he owed it to the romantic side of America’s intervention to form a self-contained American Army.” And so the writer goes on opening to the reader the serious dis- agreement rlgin, among all the allies on the matter of command, immediate use of troops, and so on. ‘“The true function of the American allles was first and foremost to help us make up for lost time by joining the fray as they arrived, whereas the natural vanity of the great democracy inclined her to throw in her full power for the su- preme victory on the last battlefleld.” give the character of M. Clemenceau distilled through the tragic years of suffering_and disaster that faced his beloved France. For, clearly revealing as this book is, stirring as it is by virtue of its revel wide-open as it is upon many a hidden aspect of the Great War, invaluable as it is by the frankness of its deep disclosures—yet, after all, this is not history. Rather is it the study of a temperament—of a high-geared, passionate, impulsive, hon- est, fearless, indiscreet patriot reacting in behalf of his own beloved land to the greatest common menace that the world {tself has ever known. It is in the section devoted to the various “mutilations” of the treaty that M. Clemenceau rises to his own greatest height of accusation and bitter ar- raignment. Especially in the “finan- cial multilations™ is he of a surpassing eloquence. Here he is remindful of the days long past when America might not have secured her independence had it not been for the Frenchmen, many and brave, who flew to arms in behalf of an aspiring and idealistic handful of colonies across the water. All true, too. Yet, all the incriminations of a brave and passionate man whose country is in peril. Naturally, the world is going to read this story of the war, captivated by its frank avowal and its impas- sioned presence. Individuals are go- ing to regret it. Diplomacies are going to deplore it in silence. When, how- ever, one reminds himself that this is a singularly endowed temperament, seri- ously and nobly engaged with vital mat- !ters and reflecting these through his own peculiar nature—why, then, the | great book, the truly great book, is to arrive at its own rightful place of in- formation and use. In all events, it is a new view of the world at its highest ! point of action and significance. As | such it is bound to create a whirlwind of interest—of acceptance here, of re- Jection there. LRk ko THE TIGER: Georges Clemenceau; 1841-1929. George Adam. Harcourt, Brace & Co. Born into the jungle of French poli- tics. Sired by one who spent more time in cursing Bourbons and Bonapartes than in his professional engagement of curing patients. Such “the Tiger” whose story. is so vigorously set down here. The first public appearance of this cub was on the road to jail for some youth- ful indiscretion in the field of free thought and action. A swift-moving record of activity, of advance here and defeat there. The Panama scandal, Boulanger, Dreyfus—amazing men and affairs created to the very nature of this growing Tiger that, between kill- ings on his own account and ribald baitings turned his led such a life as no mere tangle of the wild could possibly provide. It takes the human to round a funne to the uttermost of really inspired cruelty. And what- ever his occupation—writer of journal- istic persuasion, politician, statesman, premier, dictator, whatnot—the preoc- cupation of this man-tiger was the hu- man to be set free, from actual bonds or spiritual ones, the man to be cham- pioned, the counfry to. be upheld with the body and soul of each of its chil- dren. A tempest of a man. A whirl- wind of a personality. One to make enemies. One to bind friends to him with bonds of steel. Just the human- est of beings cast in the mold of temp- est and stress. With the steadiness of one trained to his own artistry of jour- nalism, George Adam follows the vicis- sitous lead of Clemanceau through his youth on to the stress and storm years that came so early to this man of France. Where all is so emphatic and stressful, & writer might be expected to turn the life of Georges Clemenceau into a pattern of pure pyrotechnics. In this case, however, no such explo- sions take place. Instead here is an orderly. but strikingly vivid picture of the man and his contribution to the life of his time—contribution not to French life alone, but to world life in- stehd. A notably fine work, calculated to engross readers in the astonishing career of the man in hand. A remark- able biography of the highest order. ‘There is just one time and one Ct for the reading of George Adam's “The Tiger.” Such time and place run be- side the readlng of “Splendor and Mis- ery of Victory.” The two go together. One is the personal, fiery output of Clemenceau himself. ‘The other is sup- plementary, explanatory, a filling in of many a neglected spot. Here is a com- prehensive and most in-seeing study of Clemenceau by a biographer of the true spirit_and finished competency. This pair of books, taken as one, makes & distinct and invaluable contribution to the current and future history of & close-knit world. - Parachute Motor Claimed. From the Dayton Daily News. A New Yorker is working on & motor for parachutes, but our private opinion ! 15 that when a nan gets into a para- chute he doesn't want to go any place but down, This quotation is as good as another to | . ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC ‘Washington, D. C. Q. do- the base ball clubs wear white uniforms at home and colored uniforms when playing away from home?—J. V. U. The official bese ball rules pro- vide for two uniforms. Custom has of | made it usual to wear white uniforms on the home grounds. Q. What is the average length of life in India today?—F. B. A. It is about 20 to 25 years. This was the a duration of lfe in Europe during middle ages. Q. Are residents of the District of Columbia now eligible for a Rhodes scholarship?—A. B. K. A. The District was not originally considered in the appointment of Rhodes scholarships. After years of consideration it was ruled that the Dis- trict be treated as part of Maryland, and the first election under this ar- rangement was held in December, 1924. Q. If oranges are squeezed at night is the juice good to drink at breakfast time?—O. L. T. A. The Bureau of Home Economics says that orange juice which is squeezed at night and saved for breakfast loses no food value, but due to oxidation some flavor is lost unless the juice is placed in a tightly covered container. Q. How many eyes has the bee?— HJK A. The ordinary honey bee has three simple eyes or ocelll and two large compound eyes up of innumer- able facets. In the drone these com- pound eyes may be composed of as many as 13,000 facets, while in the worker there may only be 8,000. Q. When did Rome fall?>—G. M. M. A. The fall of Rome took place : “The mind is its own place and in itself can make & hea: hell, a hell of heaven.” Q. Does the Government offer & re- ward to the parents of three sets of twins?—M. V. A. There seems to be a widespread rumor to the effect that there are Gov- ernment bonuses for twins and for un. usually large families of children. This is not true. Q. Are all suicides victims of definite over-the-line insanity?—H. A. M. A. One psychiatrist says, “Mental derangement is the cause of at least & third of the total number of suicides.” With apparently few exceptions in con- temporary America, suicide has one connotation. It is a symptom of com- plete loss of morale, & result of per- sonal disorganization. Q Please describe the secret code used in identifying the Buick car.— V. D. A. A number of years ago this com- pany oreated a secret identification code which enables the Buick factory to trace a stolen car. The system is J. HASKIN. made up of & code of numbers locate on parts of the car. As eac ;ur l-:': the memgley line at th "fl ese part numbers are recorde and records, which are positive a fingerprint, are flled in a steel vaull at the factory. The record includef the destination and the dealer ‘whom the car is shi) Sometims a stolen car is found with the moto; nd chassis numbers changed. By wir. ing the factory the cross-indexed rec. ords are obtained by the police ang disprove the changes 8o that the ez is identified. Records are on file fof every car that has left the facto since 1015. Q. Who was the al of Reynol “Strawberry Girl . R. C. A. The artist’s little niece, Theop! Palmer, was the subject. Q. What are newcomers called Hawali?—S. A. A. They are called malihinis, w] the old-timers are called kamaainas. Q When was the size of our papes money last changed?—P. W. B. A. The present change is the fi since 1861. JQ'iwahefldldNelwnlmehhlm! ‘A Admiral Nelson suffered his oniy defeat and lost an arm in an engage. ment off Santa Cruz de Santiago, o :{;;:,nmhenum shore of Teneriffe Q. Who was the richest man w;‘shg:mn, D. C, in the early 1800s A. John Tayloe was reputed to be the wealthiest. One of his farms, Petwor was bounded on the south by Ro Creek Church road and on the west b avenue. He was a breeder of omgn Q. What cities of the world have greatest number of telephones in pro. gorgolarw number of inhabitants?. A. San Francisco leads the world this respect. Next comes Stockholm Q. Is the Indianapolis Bpeed: made of brick or wooden blochrem“! is the speed requirement for entrance . The Indianapolis Speedway built of brick. The required speed to qualify for entrance in the race chang each year. For 1930 the requirement was 85 miles per hour for four com-| plete laps of track. Q. What was the French play about Lindbergh?—R. N. A. In France, Sacha Guitry wrof and produced a drama entitled simp b bergh,” epitomizing the arrival the Lone Eagle in Paris at the end his memorable transatiantic flight. the title role, a young Frenchman, w] was once mistaken for Lindbergh in Paris crowd, was located and trainéd for his stage debut. Q. Do more people visit Southern California in the Winter or in the Sum-| mer?—A. T. 8. A. Until eight or ten years 0 Southern California was considered 8| Winter resort only. Since then Sum.| mer vacationists have gone in increas-| mos numbers so that last year almost 600,000 people from other States wers| there in the Summertime, the annual :o{m of visitors being more than a million, The fact that not many- bills- ever | survive a presidential veto makes par- ticularly impressive the large .majori~ ties by which in both houses of Con- gress the pension bill for Spanish War veterans was passed over President Hoover's veto. The press of the country interestedly analyzes the event. Belleving that the President’s act in vetoing the bill “will commend itself to the country,” the Brooklyn Daily Eagle states that “in many respects it is the outstanding political act of his adminis- tration.” The Duluth Herald calls it a “sound and proper veto,” and says, “No President, dealing fairly with the veterans and with the country, co have thought of doing otherwise.” Fort Wayne News-Sentinel thinks that of a deep-measured ]l of Treasury tapping under the gilded label of ‘pen- sion’ the President was guided by the same promptings as was Abraham Lin- coln when, in his famous New York ad: dress of more than 71 years ago, urged, ‘Let us have faith that right makes right, and in that faith let us dare to do our duty as we understand it. And the News-Sentinel concludes, ‘Mr. Hoover did his duty as he under- stood it, and as (we are confident) a mnori‘ty‘ol his fellow citizens under- stan A The Bay City Dally Times praises the Chief Executive for having hi the ‘“‘courage to risk unpopularity in decid- ing to veto or approve the bill on its merits.” The Muncie Star is impressed by the “sound sense and aincere patriot- ism” expressed in the veto, and Cin- cinnat! Times-Star thinks that through it the “President simply put teeth in his repeated warnings to against spendthrift legislation.” The Newark Evening News advises him “to display the same firmness toward more iniquitous measures, such as the tariff, and it will win him popular support.” * ok % % 1t was cast “as a bid for soldier votes,” an opinion also expressed b New York Sun in the words, * tion coming few members Congress can be expected to vote against even when there are hy they should do so.” and hospitalization, but they have the right to expect that Congress shall be equally just and fair to them,” while the Roanoke World-News asserts nearly every Congress has extended and enlarged the pension list without much inquiry into the merits of the proposals. It seems easy for Congress- men to be generous when other people pay the bills.” ‘That “‘taxpayers and the business community will not be greatly impressed by the size of the majorities piled up against the veto in face of the Presi- cago Daily News, which thinks that intelligently by stampede.” The Louis ville Times pictures the action in the following words: “Both houses, states- men falling over one another in a craven, undignified and wholly jgnomin- ous scuffle to square themselves with all of the voting kinsmen and women of such veterans, vote down the veto by an overwhelming| » A e ‘The Dayton Daily News regards the vote as disclosing, “for one thing, the| hypothetical pretense of the regulars of | the President's party. For a mess of political pension pottage they admin- ister this kick to the President they Efl)le&s to serve.” The St. Louls Post- ispatch characterizes the bill as “one of the most daring and inexcusable raids| on the Treasury that has been perpe- ated for many years.” and thinks that soldiers and sailors honorably entitled to pensions must resent the cheapening effect this bill will have upon patriotic service.” “Will this congressional rebuff ser: ously affect Hoover's prestige?” is a| question widely asked considering tha as the Worcester Telegram puts it, “in opposing the casuistry and sophistry Congress | As to the vote in Congress overriding | the veto, the Milwaukee Journal thinks | that| dent’s criticisms of the bill's remediable | cigarette. defects,” is the contention of the Chi- | tion, the car swerved, plunged off th “questions of justice are not decided | Nation Analyzeé bverriding g Of Pension Measure Veto | “rarely has the legislative body regis- | tered itself so emphatically in dh'np- proval of administration attitude.” The| | Uniontown Morning Herald considers | that the “situation has pretty nearly| | reached the point where the Hoover| | political and economic leaderships are| |in the balance,” but the Charleston| Evening Post takes the view that “it ig| hardly correct perhaps to take a record| of this sort as signifying repudiation of| | the President’s leadership of his party,| | since pension legislation is almost irre- | sistible, but the failure of so many of| | the usually loyal Hoover following’ to| | come to the mark on this bill must be, | accounted as significant in some meas- ure. * ok ok % ’ ‘The Memphis Commercial Appeal ar- gues that the happenings in Congress| “will bring home to the President afresh| | the imperative need of somg stroke to| restore, or rather to establish, his pres- tige as a leader of men in a democracy. By now he must have come to realize that politics is conducted along lines ‘I:It_l'y different from mining engineer- ‘Reflecting over the course of this bill,” the Asheville Times reaches “the inescapable conclusion” that “President Hoover has not yet found himself as a | party leader, as a national leader,” al- | though he has ‘“‘courage, high ideals and | not a little talent for organization®in the conduct of great enterprises. As matters stand today with him, with hig |ptn{ d the country, a big question | mark stands in the margin of his ad- ministrative record,” concludes this Journal. “Neither rank nor file steod with Hoover,” comments the Lynchburg News, and the Manchester Union states that the vote must class “as a reverse for the administration.” The Baltimore | Sun thinks there was “not only a will to be generous to the veterans but a will to be mean to the Presiden On the| other hand, the Morgantown Dominion-| News is of the opinion that “this veto| will probably not hurt President Hoover, nor will its overriding hurt members of| | Congress. Rather is it one of those| congreasional phenomena which, by the| very re of its seemingly severe po-| litical aspects, is really about the nor- mal order of events.” As to the Spanish| | War veterans themselves, press opinion| | may be summed up in the words of th Atlanta Constitution: “If any soldiers| of the Republic ever deserved grateful| generosity from their Governmen!. they| | are the Spanish War veterans. But up| | to date they have been denied equal justice even’ with older and later vet- | erans of the Nation's wars.” ———— |Modern Humans Pay ‘ Heavily for Speed | From the Portland Oregon Journal Driving swiftly on a Georgla = rpad, . Stothardt attempted to light ) In the moment of inatten-| rnl'} ln"d o\:numed. His wife suffered a fractured skull and he painful bruises. i Hearing of the accident, a daughter| Mrs. Louise McCusker, chartered plane and secured the emergency serv ices of a physician, Dr. Prederick Har vey of the North Chicago Hospital. Before it had gone far on the wa: toward the bedside of the injured par| ents the hastily lifted plane plunge to the earth, killed the pilot, serious): injured the woman and gashed th physician, ‘With the inert form of Mrs. McCusk; er in his arms, the physician stagger across_flelds to a hospital in Culvers ville, Ind. There he set fractures both her legs, sewed up her cuts, a tended as best he could to her intern injuries, then washed away his owi blood, attended to his surgical ' re quirements, chartered another plan and started anew the flight to thevbed of pain in Georg ‘What could better illustrate the kind of lives we moderns live? What could better example the old fashioned heroism of doctors who to k,ecp us repaired for the inexorabld race? And what a price we pay for—speed \