Evening Star Newspaper, June 19, 1930, Page 8

A-8 THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY. ......June 19, 1830 THEODORE W. NOYES. The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office: {itn St. and Pennsyvania Ave. New York Office: 110 East 42nd N | Chicago Office: Lake Michigan Buildini European Ofice 4 Regent 8., Londo l;u by (‘;rrler Within I? City. i e Evenine Star. +4: .. 45¢ per mont! T BURng S8 sunaay siis ‘when 4 days) . 60c per month Sunday Star el h Sc rer copy n made at the end of exch month. Orders may be sent 1 Qaders may & n by mail or telephons Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunday.....131. in 1mo.. S0c Daily only .. D13 r600! Sunday cnly "1 131 3400 1 mo. 40c All Other States and Canada. Daily and Sunday. 1yr.112.00:1mo. 1100 Sindey onty vt 00 1Ee: 48 Member of the Associaled Press. Associnted Press is exclusively entitled e for republication of all news di Ralebes credited 1o it or not otherwise cre tod Daper ana also the local re All richts of publication herein are Al ervey this Dublished herein special dispatchés A Threatened National Disgrace. Failure by Congress to function legis- latively in its exclusive government of the American Capital has brought the politically impotent taxpayers of the District face to face with an emergency that threatens disaster. Helpless vletims of conditions over which they have no control, defamed with ignorant or malicious abuse as tax- dodgers or mendicants when they pro- test, their dependence upon the Na- tional Legislature to legislate is com- plete; governed without a voice in their Government, they pay the penalty when this Government fails, and they pay it without appeal. Throughout the period during which the Senate and the House have been deadlocked on the District supply bill the attitude of the House has impaled the District upon the horns of a di- lemma from which there was appar- ently no chance of escape. It was & human voice or of any sound or noise, in any public or private place in such & manner that the peace and good order of the neighborhood is disturbed.” The penalty for violation will be a fine of not to exceed $40, in default of which defendant m: go to jail for not to T | exceed 364 days. Now will come a test of the regula- tion. It will be up to any person who suffers from an excessively loud speaker in his neighborhood, whether a business or a residential section, to make com- plaint, whereupon the offending owner or operator of the radio may be taken to court for trial. There is no defini- tion of what constitutes an -offense against the “peace and good order” of the neighborhood. But a radio the sound of which passes beyond the walls of the building in which it is located and reaches the ears of those living elsewhere may be a nuisance. If a radio can be heard across the street and is an annoyance, it is a nuisance under the regulation. If it pentrates through the walls of a building as in an apartment house and causes annoy- ance, it may be likewise rated as a nuisance. This is a reasonable regulation, en- forcement of which will bring great re- lief to a multitude of sufferers from the neediess noises that this wonderful de- vice for public inctruction and enter- tainment emits beyond the range of immediate “consumption.” It is such a regulation as should be adopted and enforced in the counties adjacent to Washington in the States of Maryland and Virginia, the suburban areas of the metropolitan district where resi- dences are sufficiently close together to make loud speakers an unbearable nuisance when not held within restraint. ——————— Commencement. This week brings to an end the pe- riod of annual commencements at col- leges and universities throughout the United States. From their halls and campuses thousands of young men and women go forth, sheepskins in hand, to navigate the uncharted seas of practi- cal life. All that the so-called higher education can do for them lies behind them. They are now, in the graphic vernacular, up against the real thing. Question either of being hooked into the frying pan or into the fire, with no preference as to punishment left to the condemned. If the Senate conferees had yielded, the residents of the District were faced with the disaster that lies in uncondi- tional surrender .to an obnoxious prin- ciple endangering the few remaining rights they still possess as American citizens—destruction of that one safe- guard against whimsical or abusive tax- ation by an alien and changing taxing body remaining to them in the form of recognition by Congress of the Federal Government's obligation to share in the What is the real thing? President Hibben of Princeton told his graduating class on Sunday that the real thing is for university graduates to “think for themselves.” He preached the bacca- laureate sermon on a passage from Romans, xil.2, “And be not conformed to this world, but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind.” Senator Borah not long ago preached virtually the identical doctrine in a radio address to college graduates everywhere, The burden of the Idahoan’s admonition was “dare to be radical mean that university-trained young Americans should go radical purely for increasing expenses of its Capital City. Had the Senate yielded it would have stamped that body's tacit .approval upon & vicious system, intolerable In its conception and execution, and would have withdrawn the single bar- rier that heretofore has withstood ef- forts originating in the Lower House to extend the evils of this system beyond what they now are. ‘The Senate has refused to yield, and rightly so. The threatened alternative promises to become an accomplished fact. The District bill is stricken—life- less almost beyond the chance of recov- ery. Taxes will be collected as usual, but the money collected for purposes other than mere maintenance will lie {dle in the Federal Treasury. Improve- ments and repairs to streets will halt. The school building program will come to an abrupt end, and the so-called “five-year” plan of providing Washing- ton school children with adequate edu- cational facilites will exist only to mock them. Needed public projects, such as libraries, extension of sewers, extension of water mains, purchase of parks, purchase of .land, traffic control extension, grade crossing elimination, bridge replacement, public welfare and institutional plant enlargement, the reclamation of Anacostia flats and other undertakings will be temporarily aban- doned. The Nation's Capital will be | fessional theater for the Summer. The| The New York stock market still thrown a full year behind in its im- | amateur theater will assert itself in the | holds out inducements to the intelligent mrovements at a time when it should be | endeavor to prove that the theater is|investor, though continuing to place moving at full speed ahead. Men Will | gti)) o means of popular expression, |discouragements in the way of the be forced out of work who have the| nart from commercial considerations, | imaginative speculator. to work. Hardships will result of wiich there now is no accounting. Chaos will be substituted for orderly de- velopment and progress in municipal affairs. Responsibility for this shameful dis- grace lies with the Legislature that re- fuses to legislate. The innocent suffer- ers are the men, women and children of the city; taxpayers of the community who have no voice in the amount of their taxes, the source of their taxes or the expenditure of their taxes. It is futile for them to make sugges- tions, to present demands. They are unrepresented and without power. But time yet remains for a compro- mise, the terms of which the respon- sible leaders of Congress must decide in order to prevent the dangers now . threatened. The Senate has offered to : eompromise. Its terms have been fair enough. Tt has been willing to give | something. But if the House persists in its refusal of these offers, are all the doors closed? Allusions made in the House on Tuesday to the proposed fact-inding commis- sion and the objections thereto cannot It is impossible to believe that they were made seriously. It is impossible to believe that the in- telligent members of the House could object to linking. with ‘the passage of a District bill, some resolution binding them to seek the facts, to acknowledge that there must be a deep and under- lying evil that has brought about this pitiful flasco by the American Congress, and to approach its discovery and cure, not as heated partisans of a cause, but as calm and thoughtful statesmen who havq the welfare of their Capital and ité ®Mtizens at heart. - A few remarks from Hiram Johnson serve to indicate that only a small radicalism’s sake in any spirit of revo- lutionary doctrinarianism. Senator Borah, choosing an idiom different from the biblical text invoked by Dr. Hibben, gave the season’s cap and gown brigade the same counsel. They should form opinions, not take them, ready made from others. They should eschew the herd mind. They should not permit the mass-production idea now character- istic of American industry to take root in their mental processes. They should be intellectual individualists, Except for the college men and women who go in for professional ca- reers, university graduates take away He did not | THE EVENING masses themselves are only ways of describing space. Mathematical con- cepts of space are “eating up” mathe- matical concepts of matter. It is notable that among primitive peoples—splendid examples were dis- covered by recent psychological tests on certain communities of Virginia mountaineers who have been cut off for generations from the culture of the outside world—space and time have much less reality than among those whose minds have been disciplined by education. They stand bewildered when examiners speak of hours, minutes, feet and miles. There is almost as great a gulf between them and these ordinary concepts as between the average in- telligent citizen and the concepts of Dr. Einstein, We may expect that another genera- tion, disciplined in other ways of think- ing, will comprehend much more clear- ly the fundamental reality of space and the secondary nature of matter than | is possible today even for Prof. Einstein himself. P Dogs, Men and Disease. There seems to be a determined effort under way to secure legislation against “viviseetion” in the District of Columbia. It would be a notable victory for opponents of experiments with living animals if these could be prohibited in Government laboratories. Attention has been called to the pitiable plight of the dog—the animal with the greatest num- ber of sentimental associations—when used to further the ends of science. It is emphasized that frequently such experiments do not bring worthwhile results and hence are wasted. Without entering the argument as to the value of “vivisection” for the advancement of both pure and applied biological sciences one observation may be pertinent. The Government sclen- tists who experiment on animals gen- erally do not hesitate to experiment on themselves. ‘To this the classics of American science bear witness, In the study of some diseases dogs, rats and rabbits are not good laboratory material since the human organism reacts quite differently. The tests must be made with men. Such a disease was yellow fever. The annals of the Army contain no finer instances of heroism than the voluntary “vivisection” of the officers and men who, by experimenting with themselves, finally conquered this epidemic malady. Both the Public STAR, WASHINGTON, B ., THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. ‘The question of proper play spaces for children becomes more important as cities are bullt up. Those of us who are not so very old, but who are growing older, can easily remember when there were enough vacant lots in Washington jfor all the children to play on. That happy state of Aaffairs was helped, we like to believe, by a different frame of mind among the children, who found their amusement in “playing In- dian: base ball, foot ball and similar sports which demanded the vacant lot. ‘Today the boys seem satisfled to bat tennis balls from one to another in the street, to throw and catch base balis in the same, or just to wander up and down the sidewalks. One may wonder where the young- sters practice to form all the “insect” nines which readers of the sports pages find mentioned dally. There a name for you! The term “insect,” applied to boys around 9 to 12 vears of age, is a happy Americanism which always brings & smile. Apartmen, houses seem to have taken the places formerly occupied by the im- promptu play spaces—the vacant lots. Much has been done in the way of school playgrounds, but we always have wondered whether the children utilize them as much as they might. There can be no question, however, that the properly supervised playground is an essential part of the equipment of modern educational institutions. Health the cry of the hour, and much and vigorous exercise in the open air is one of the means of attaining it. * ok % % Boys still play on such vacant lots as are available. Passing along near one such recently, we were pleased to hear two small boys “playing Tarzan.” “Wait till I find a place to hide” said_ Tarzan, “You can't hide!” exclaimed the other—Jimmie, no doubt. “You are ‘Tarzan, the mightiest hunter of the jungle, ‘and you can't hide!” The mightiest hunter, therefore. was reduced to standing in the middle of the “jungle” in full sight of the en- emy—to wit, Jimmie. So Tarzan has taken the place of the Indians! Yes, we all “grow up,” and the times do change, and with them the reading habits of the boys. ‘The boys of & past day were brought up on the stories of Fenimore Cooper. Today they read Edgar Rice Burroughs, evidently. Buffalo Bill helped in the “Indian complex” of the small boys of past generations. That handsome, debon- naire old scout and showman held first place in the affections of thousands of small boys. It was no wonder that they all insisted on “playing Indian” when they found a vacant lot to suit. It is no secret, either, nowadays, that Health Service and the Department of Agriculture can furnish almost com- parable instances. Experiments with animals are car- ried out with definite ends in view. Sometimes these ends do not appear immediately practical. Described un- sympathetically to those unfamiliar with the methods of science it might seem that the only purpose was to satisfy the experimenter's curiosity. There is often a long road between theory and practical result. But usually it is the only road. It would be unfortunate should Con- gress see fit to handicap in the slight- est way the efforts of the men and women who, by painfully slow degrees, are bringing about & better under- standing of the human body and its reactions, lengthening human life and increasing human happiness. ‘These experimenters do met ask of dogs and rats what, when necessary, they do not ask of themselves. As to the campus nothing but well ordered thinking apparatus. ‘They have learned, or should have learned, to co-ordinate knowledge for general cul- tural purposes. They have had oppor- tunity to know what joy of living can come from a mind trained to appreciate the higher things of human life. A love of reading is perhaps foremost among these. College boys and girls who come home this month, whether a fraternity pin accompany them or not, bring much if it consists only of a passion for good ks. “Books are & powerful aid in helping men and women to think for them- selves, e Washington, D. C., will have no pro- o Lindbergh is personally “dry” with- out being politically “wet.” Mr. Mor- row is in a fortunate position. Not every man finds his family relations in 80 helpful an attitude. ———————— Ideas of Space. The normal, unanalyzed concept of space is that of intervals of nothing separating masses. This concept is protected by an al- most impassable psychological barrier. Only properties of masses act as sen- sory stimuli, and hence become factors in brajn processes. So masses alone appear to exist. Space and time seem to be secondary derivatives. They can be described only in terms of “some- things.” Thus we speak of the space between the four walls of a room, the space inclosed in the boundary lines of a county, the space between the earth and the moon, the space between the sun and the recently discovered island universes countless billions of billions of miles distant. And we speak of time only as the interval of nothing- ness between two events, or movements of masses, such as the creation of the world and the inauguration of Presi- dent’ Hoover, fhe assassination of the Archduke Perdinand and the signing of the armistice, the birth and the death of a human being. Neither space nor time has meaning except as they are expressed in such terms. It is & limitation not alone of lan- guage, but of the conceptual capacity of the cerebral mechanism. The barrier can be surmounted, if at all, only by intensive intellectual discipline. Con- sequently world-famous physicists and engineers gathered from many nations at the International Power Conference ocean separates Japan from California. Loud-Speaker Relief at Last. A long-suffering public has at last been granted relief in prospect from the intolerable nuisance of excessively loud radio noises. A regulation has been drafted and adopted by the Commis- sioners which, after the thirty days of notice required by the law, will go into effect to permit the prosecution of any “person, partnership, association, firm|only as a convenience in describing the in Berlin the other day listened, accord- ing to press dispatches, with politely con- cealed confusion while Prof. Albert Ein- stein, attempting a semi-popular expo- sition for the first time, described his latest theory of the fundamental reality of space itself with masses existing only as derivatives from it. He spoke of ace eating up matter”—that is, so far as the human mind is concerned, space has been called into existence the worthwhileness of any particular experiment—that is & matter to be determined by experts.and not by an uninformed public swayed by false sentiment and unfamiliar with the actual methods of “vivisection.” —_— e Opinion has been gexpressed by Charles Dawes that newspaper work is highly competitive. In Chicago it ap- pears to resolve itself into a matter of life and death. —oare. A leadership implies difficult assump- tions of responsibility. A large element of Mussolini’s support looks to him for & resolute assertion of ability to whip all comers. ——————— ———— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Tides of Thought. The words will come; the words will go, Like mighty ocean tides that flow In irresistible display— And then they turn the other way. Our customs change. What once seemed | ‘wrong Is hailed in speeches, jest and song, And, like the market going g: Our morals turn the other way. There is no well established bliss. What has been “That" will next be “This." And all the records plainly show, The words will come; the words will go. Something to Say. “What did you tell that intruder?” | asked Senator Sorghum. “That you had nothing to answered the secretary. “Did that silence him?” | say,” the fact, and, being a good scout, he was prepared to help you make up something.” Jud Tunkins says an old joke be- comes go irritating that instead of being a faithful friend it becomes an ancient enemy. Overwhelmed. My Radio! My Radio! You should provide a bouncer. ‘The speaker cannot get a show Because of the announcer, Beauty Contests. “We Thold beauty contests Summer.” “They don’t mean anything” an- swered Miss Cayenne. “No' elephant 1= beautiful. Vet it is the big feature of every circus.” “Hatreds,” sald Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “are only imaginary—the results of a conflict of self-interests.” every Unified Impression. I lingered by the bounding sea, With clothes the gals dispense; various 5-cent publications, = widely known as “dime novels.” contributed largely to the Buffalo Bill and Indian proclivities of the youth of 20 to 30 years ago. ‘There was one “nickel novel,” which may be published even today, for all we know, called by the name of Amer- ica’s most famous scout. In it were depicted the heroic hunting, trailing, Indian fighting of prior generations, when the buffaloes roamed the plains and the red men resented the invasion of their hunting ground: “Bang! You're dead!" Such was the mystic formula which rang through the jungle of the lot on the corner. And it was a jungle, almost, with its tangle of high-growing weeds, often crowned with pretty pur- ple flowers in July and August, amid which great spiders took their ease. ‘There was always a well beaten path through such a lot. Human beings are born short-cutters. If there is any Excerpts From Newsp TAR-BULLETIN, Honolulu—The fact that Connie Mack, manager of the Philadelphia American League base ball club, has been given the $10,000 Edward W. Bok award, for “having rendered the most outstanding service to Philadel- phia” during 1929, opens the way for a bit_of meditation. Rendering a service to your home town can be done in lots of ways, and probably there is no reason why a base ball pilot isn't just as eligible as any one else. Yet one cannot help wonder- ing just what sort of service did Phila- delphia’s people give their city during 1929 if, at the close of the year, a com- mittee of serious, intelligent men found that the victory of a professional base ball club was the most noteworthy of the lot? ‘There is just a little bit more to this than you may think. We get a little confused in our sense of values every 50 often, and this Philadelphia incident illustrates it perfectly. Opportunities for improvement in every American city are numerous. A judge could make law more respected. A politician could make the city government more responsible to the people. A police official could make the city safer for honest men and women. A school official could give children better preparation for the life ahead of them. A business man could make industry more stable and effi- clent. An artist could add to the beauty and color of a city. The press could support and encourage the better tend- encies of the times, instead of criticiz- ing or deriding different movements of reform. When an American city names a pro- fessional athlete as the man who served it best through an entire year, it is quite obvious that either performance of judgment has gone slightly askew. Either way, the situation is a trifie discouraging. Replacements Discouraging to Police. El Telegrafo, Guayaquil.—It has been * % of some of our commissioners of police that immediately upon assuming office they effect the removal of some who have shown themselves faithful and energetic in the service on the pretext of filling their places with others, 'in whom they assert still greater confi- dence. Such action is very disturbing force, who feel little incentive to work for promotion if they can be summarily dispossessed of their positions upon the entrance of a new commissioner upon his functions. While officers who have shown themselves incompetent or un- scrupulous should be removed in every case, those against whom such defects of character cannot be alleged should be retained in their positions as long as they desire them. Too often it a pears that commissioners relieve val able men of their places to fill the va- cancies with personal friends or rela- tives not nearly so competent. How can such an important organization be sub- jected to such constant uneasiness re- garding the tenure of their office and still operate for the public good? Chiefs in other departments too often show the same sort of partiality, but the ef- fects are evidenced to the greatest det- riment of the public in the police de- partment. These subalterns should feel | secure in their employment, for the bet- terment of the service. ok ok K Scratching of Horse ! Part of Risk, Court Rules. Neues Wiener Tagblatt, Vienna.—A court in Budapest has just handed down an interesting decision in con- nection with a race-track bet. A fol- lower of the turf brought sult against a bookmaker for the restitution of the “Not, quite. He said he was awars of |and discouraging to members of the| i ap And they all look alike to me, 8o, what's the difference? or corporation” who uses or operates| relationships of masses which seem to or causes to be operated “any mechan- exist of their own right. Recent physi- “A good hoss,” said Uncle Eben, “does ical device, machine or apparatus or in- cal theory, says Prof. Einstein, is ad- his best an’ shows ljis hoss sense by sument for the intensificétion of the vancing more and more the ides that leavin' us humam folis to WorTg.” amount he had wagered upon a horse, upon the complaint that this horse did not start in the race. The court dis- missed the plea on the grounds that ibets made on race horses whether the animals participate in the running or not. It is sufficient that a horse be to take part. an unsatisfactory procedure on the plfl‘ are valid | way to get from one street to another without going around, they will take it, no matter how tortuous it is, or how much trespassing is involved. There were few lots then, or now, in which the path was not well defined. The weeds might grow to six or seven feet in height, but the path would be as clear cut as if just made by the ;‘.e?d‘ of men, rather than by their eet. The earth, in these narrow trails, was beaten so firm by the daily passing of feet that even the weeds, which usurped the remainder of the land, were unable to get a foothold, and had to be content with growing lux- uriantly on all sides, as if flaunting their leaves and small flowers in the face of the deflant clay of the path- way. These paths, usually straight across, reminded one of the old cow trails which mysteriously wind through the meadows of upper New York State. To the juveniles they took on all the might and power of the Roman road to_the Romans. that a party s, as the case might be, eould advance secretly, with- out so much as a twig moving. The danger, of course, lay in meeting the enemy attempting to utilize the same easy means of progression. ‘Then what a banging and popping of “cap pistols’, there was as the two op- posing forces met in the depths of the Jjungle! Each party might consist of no more than one man, but it made no difference—the imagination of the | American small boy is able to make | twenty out of one, any day. | * k% ok From our chance observation of the mighty Tarzan at work we would say that the small boy of today has quite as good an imagination as the boy of yesteryear. Perhaps every adult secretly hugs the delusion that he was the proud posses- sor, as a boy, of the best little imagina- tion that ever was. There was a tend- ency on the part of what we may call the old-fashioned parent to believe that a display of imagination was a rather fine trait in his offspring. It gave promise of a novelist, at. the least. We do not know what the psycholo- gists would say, but it is questionable whether the boys of two or three tens of years ago had any better, any more vivid, imaginations, than do the small boys of 1930. It is true that a close acquaintance with intriguing inventions may have dulled, to some extent, the sense of wonder of the modern child. But no doubt there is enough of it left | to permit the modern boy a full ad- mittance at the gates of Wonderland. R ‘The lots are vanishing. Indian trails are being wiped out. as |city growth continues decade after | decade. Many of us who are compara- | tively young can remember easily when there were scarcely anything but vacant tracts of land, with the exception of | Henderson's Castle, above Sixteenth and U atreets. A favorite play place of the boys of | several generations ago were the steep clay banks—or precipices, rather—which now gleam in concrete on the west side of Meridian Park. It was possible for bold and intrepid invaders to climb those bluffs, but for small boys of 8 and 9 years of age the job took on all the aspects of a feat. No climber of the Alps ever stood more triumphantly on the summit of some mighty peak than did the small boy of the Washington of yesterday when he scaled that bank, and looked down upon the city to the south. After all, conquest is conquest. Highlights on the Wide World apers of Other Lands. |actual participation is part of the risk which the bettor assumes, * ok % % Early Vaccination | of Children Desired. Imparcial, Montevideo.— All school children in Paraguay must be vacci- nated before beginning their courses. This inoculation should take place some time before the child is admitted to school, rather than just previously, as the vaccination process sometimes occasions slight illness or tenderness of the part affected. For this reason some people are reluctant to have their chil- dren vaccinated, regardless of the fact | that this method is the only one known to medical science that is a sure im- munity against the terrible scourge of smallpox or variola. Indeed, the earlier a child is vaccinated the better, for | smallpox is generally fatal at an early age of life. The protective effects of vaccination are only temporary. Three years is the shortest period of immunity after the treatment, so one is assured for at least that period. After three years, to be certain of not contracting the disease, one should have further vaccinations, ‘Those who become the victims of smallpox are those who have never had employed upon them the beneficent measures of vaceination. The whole world testifies to the efficacy of this discovery in preventing the terrible dis- ease. * ok kX Shaw Play Banned In Saxony. Morning Post, London.—Mr. Bernard Shaw has always been a favorite in Germany—at least as long as he was not a favorite in this country! But now the position is reversed. While we are all—except the Soclalists—enjoying | “The Apple Cart,” that pleasant play has been banned by the State of Sax- ony. It is not to be allowed at the State Theater (the Saxon minister of culture has decreed it), because it attempts to satirize the idea of democracy! Now, the play not only attempts, it achieves this profane task. And it goes further—it portrays the personnel of a Socialist government very much like our own as “something like an over- crowded third-class carriage” More- over, it defends the institution of roy- alty, which Germany has temporarily and, no doubt., unwillingly abandoned. | Mr. Bernard Shaw has, in fact, become | & reactionary, with leanings to medi- | evalism. But the full explanation was rent_to the minister of culture in Saxony. It is only made clear in | Mr. Bernard Shaw's attack on the So- | claiist musical copyright bill. Royalty and royalties stand together, as so shrewd a student of politics clearly per- ceives, so Mr. Bernard Shaw is prepared |to die in the last ditch in defense of Bird Lovers Regret Heath Hen’s Passing From the Zanesville Times-Signsl. Bird lovers will read with regret of | the passing of another specimen of American wild life, the heath hen. A recent survey revealed that there is but a single heath hen—a male, in existence. iTh(' heath hen, a smaller and ruddier ‘repllm of the prairie chicken of the | Western plains, once was so common in the East that laborers and servants stipulated in their contracts that it was neB to be served at meals more often than twice & week. The State of Mas- sachusetts has spent more than $100,000 in its fight to save the bird, but has lost its fight, for the bird has passed in spite of all that human agencies could do in its behalf. The passing of the heath hen is declared to be one of the greatest tragedies of American wild life. ——————— Hick Town Definition. Prom the Port Worth Record-Telegram, THURSDAY, About the only remnant of the old definition of a hick town is one which imperted schogl teachers enter chant- ing, "All hoj don we who enter JUNE . 19, 1930. The Political Mill By G. Gould Lincoln. ‘The Anti-Saioon League, bone dry Senators and Representatives take the position that the victory of Dwight W. Morrow for the Republican senatorial nomination is of no particular moment. “Just another wet from New Jersey" is the way they put the nomination of the Ambassador to Mexico. But there are reasons to believe that the drys were considerably shaken by the tre- mendous sweep which Mr. Morrow made in the primary contest on Tues- day, carrying as he did territory that was supposed to be very dry in senti- ment. Mr. Morrow, to any one who gives the matter consideration, is not “just another wet from New Jersey.” Mr. Morrow, by the stand he has taken on the prohibition issue, appeals to many of those who sympathize with prohibi- tion and what it has sought to accom- plish, but who feel, like Mr. Morrow, that conditions under national prohibi- tjon have grown so evil that there must be a readjustment. The ultra drys, represented by the Anti-Saloon Leagiic, see only one angle to the Morrow decla- ration regarding liquor. They see only that he is opposed to a continuance of national prohibition as it now exists, and that he proposes to return to the States the control of the liquor traffic. They do not apparently give attention to those parts of Mr. Morrow’s address in which he declared that the prohibi- tion of the use of intoxicating beverages is a right of government, and the im- plication that he believes that in the States where the sentiment for prohi- bition is the dominant sentiment, there should be prohibition. Further, Mr. Morrow proposes to amend the Consti- tution so that the Federal Government shall be committed to preventing the introduction of liquor into those States which go “dry,” if his plan is adopted. Such a program will please many of the more moderate drys, who have been looking for some way out of a situation in this country that has aronsed the people as no other issue has for years. * X % % Mr. Morrow's position on the liquor question will not please the wringing wets, either, who contend that the right to drink is a personal right which Gov- ernment. has no right to seek to control, ‘These “personal liberty” enthusiasts can get little encouragement from Mr. Mor- row’s position. At present, however, the wets generally are nurrahing over the Morrow victory, since it is the victory of a candidate who does not believe in & continuance of natioral prohibition. Mr. Morrow's position, as explained in his address at the outset of his cam- paign, is that the Federal Government is not the proper agency to deal with prohibition and that the State gov- ernments are the proper agency. Quite naturally this attitude makes the Anti- Saloon League, which fought for years to bring about national prohibition and liquor control by the Federal Govern- ment, see red. But the Anti-Saloon League is fooling iiself if it believes that Mr. Morrow “is just another wet from Mew Jersey,” or that he has not advanced a program that will make its appeal to thousands of persons who are keenly interested in temperance and even in prohibition who have been dis- gusted with the way national prohibi- tion has worked out. * ok ok x The huge vote in the New Jersey senatorial primary indicates the great interest which the campaign waged by Mr. Morrow aroused. When all the figures are in, it will be found that about 580,000 votes were cast in the Republican senatorial primary, or nearly 100,000 more votes than were cast in the 1928 primary, when three contest- ants, Kean, Frelinghuysen and Stokes, and several other minor candidates were straining every nerve to get out the vote. This big turnout of the voters was partly due to the great enthusiasm for Mr. Morrow personally and partly due to the interjection of the prohibi- tion issue. * ok ok Lk The Morrow victory in New Jersey already has set tongues wagging regard- ing the possibility of Mr. Morrow's be- coming a presidential nominee of the Republican party in the future. Mr. Morrow has a long way to go, however, before thmt contingency could arise. He has to be nominated by the Republican national convention, composed of dele- gates from all the States of the Union, not to mention the District of Columbia and the possessions of the United States. It 1s a little too early today to predict that & majority of the delegates to such a convention would vote for the nomi- nation of a man who has declared him- self opposed to national prohibition. ‘The suggestion two years ago that a candidate for the Republican presi. dential nomination held such views would have caused him to be laughed out of court. The anti-prohibition cause must gain much more ground than it has today before the Republican dele- gates to a national convention may be expected to support an opponent of na- tion prohibition. Mr. Morrow's chance for such preferment will depend upon how well his program of modification of the eighteenth amendment is re- ceived generally throughout the coun- try, and not merely upon what New Jer- sey and New York may think of it. The Republican State convention of New Jersey is to meet in Trenton next ‘Tuesday. What the convention will do about a prohibition or anti-prohibition plank remains to be seen, There is not the slightest doubt that New Jersey contains a large number of Republicans who are dry, despite the Morrow vote. Will they go along with a platform in conformity with the Morrow declara- tion regarding prohibition? If the Re- publican State convention does mnot adopt the Morrow idea in regard to prohibition, meeting within a few days after his sweeping victory in the State, what chance is there of the adoption of his idea by a Republican national con- vention two ye:r!'or‘fiwr years hence? * One thing which the Jersey primary will do is to enhance the interest in the final report of President Hoover's Law Enforcement Commission. That com- mission so far has contented itself with making recommendations looking to better enforcement of the prohibition laws as they stand. The opponents of prohibition have strongly urged the commission to report on the advisability of continulng national prohibition as| it now exists. * ok ok ok Representative Franklin W. Fort. who leaped into the New Jersey senatorial primary as a supporter of the eighteenth dme ter Mr. Morrow had made his declaration in regard to prohibition, is being mentioned as a possible selec~ tion by President Hoover for the chair manship of the Republican national committee, provided that Claudius H. Huston steps out of that office in the near future. Mr. Fort served as secre- tary of the national committee all during the Hoover presidential cam- paign. He submitted his resignation several months ago, but it has never yet beeh acted upon by the committee or the executive committee thereof. Mr. Fort is a strong personal supporter of the President. He was one of his pre-convention campaign managers in 1928. He would fit admirably into the picture as chairman of the national committee, although some of the wets might not take kindly to the selection of Mr. Fort as national chairman of the G. O. P. Up in Mr. Fort's district in New Jer- sey, which he has represented in Con- gress for the last six years, a wet was nominated by the Republicans to succeed him on Tuesday. s Following close on the heels of the Morrow victory on his modification of prohibition platform comes a report from New York that the Democrats, led by Gov, Roosevelt, are seriously considering just such a platform on the liquor question for campaign in the Empire Democrats are likely to rule for the States on the liquor ques- tion to suppart an amendment ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERI ‘There is no other agency in the world that ean answerVas many legitimate questions as our free Information Bu- | reau in Washington, D. C. This highly organized institution been bullt up and is under the al direction of Frederic J. Haskin. By keeping in con- stant touch with Pederal bureaus and other educational enterprises it is in a position to pass on to you authoritative information of the highest order. Sub- mit your queries to the staff af experts whose services are put at your free dis- posal. There is no charge except age. Address The Evening Star In- formation Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, director, Washington, D. C. Q. Who was awarded the gold medal for good diction on the radio this year?—F. L. A. Alwyn E. W. Bach, N. B. C. an- nouncer, was award:d the gold medal offered annually by the American Acad- emy of Arts and Letters for excellence in diction on the radio. Q. How old is Walter Winchell, the columnist?—F. C., A. Walter Winchell was born April 7, 1897, in New York City. Q. How many words a age 24-pa PADS ~T. P. A. Such a paper consists of {rom 80, 000 to 100,000 words, exclusive of ad- | vertising. Q. Is there record of the first speed ;:_wAplued in the United States?>—L. ‘A. The first speed law passed in America was drawn by the Board of | Selectmen of Boston in 1757. 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The of the 9 amous English actor is to | make his talking picture debut in the | title role of Grumpy. In 1915 he a] peared in the title part of Morosco's silent film version of “Peer Gynt." . What is the best material for making the fairways of a miniature golf course’—G. B. A. The best gresns material for a miniature golf course, in the opinion of one authority, while quite expensive, is to make a wood frame for the fair- ways and greens, cover this with tar paper, then put a layer one-half inch thick of deadening felt, then apply a special rubber matting which is being made by two of the large rubber com- panies; this matting is then applied on top of the rubber matting on which 2| j cents in coln or stamps for return post- re in an aver- | C. C J. HASKIN, | green granulated rubber is impregnated. A cheap greens material is cottonseed hulls dyed and mixed with red engine “oll. 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John Huston of New York, whose play, “Frankie and Johnny,” is soon to be published by Albert Boni, has done extensive research, which estab- lishes the fact that the originals of this popular song were Negroes from | 8t. Louts. “Prankie” Baker is still iv. ing in Portland, Oreg., and is 58 years old. The Johnnie of the ballad was: Allen Britt, who recelved Frankies bullet early on the morning of October 16, 1889, and died four days later, The “other woman" was Alice Pryor, Q. What famous picture has been glven to the Catholic University at ‘Washington by the Pope?—A, H. T, A. A full-size copy of Murillo’s “Tm- maculate Conception” in mosaics 18 to be placed n the chapel of _the Catholic University as a gift from Pope Pius XI, Three artists labored nearly four years in the Vatican mosaie studio to piece together nearly 800,000 bits of colored glass and of other min- eral compounds which form the finished picture, the original of which is pre. served in the Prado at Madrid. The mosaic 18 9, feet lnn¥ and 6 feet wide. Without a frame, it weighs 6,600 pounds. The pleces are of 20,000 dif- ferent tints and shades. . What is the oldest bank in New York City?—H. D. oAr. Thg Bank of New York and Trust Co., which is 146 years old. . Please give a biography of Knute Rockne?—S, M. T. A. The following is taken from “Who's Who in American Sports™: Born: Voss, Norway, March 4, 1888, Son , of Louis and Martha (Gjermo) Rockne. | Education: B. 8., Notre Dame. Record: 1913, captain of Notre Dame foot ball team (named on Eckersall's All-Weste ern team; named on Walter Camp's third All-American team); 1914, mem-= ber of Notre Dame track team; estab- | lished Central Indoor Amateur Athletic Union pole vault record, 12 feet 4 inches; 1914-17, coach of foot ball and track teams at Notre Dame; 1917-28, head coach of foot ball, Notre Dame. Present occupation: athletic director. Military service: Students’ Army Train- ing Corps, Fort Sheridan, 1918. Mar~ Bonnie Stiles. Children: William, Mary Jean, 7; John, 2. Gangland’s Waterloo Seen In Murder of Reporter American comment on the murder by gangsters of Alfred Lingle, Chicago reporter, reveals a settled co viction that by going outside its own ranks for a victim organized crime has been put on the defensive and that both the actual slayer and his spon- sors will be punished. ere is also a strong belief that gangland itself is in greater d-nger of having roused the indignation of the press. “If the press will pursue its anan- imously avowed course ‘to the finish,’ ‘wherever that leads,” asserts the Lou! ville Courier-Journal, “it will triumph, and it will catch a lot of people who are not gangsters.” The Seattle Times a: that the challenge “cannot and will not be ignored,” and that “the test of strength between gangland and law- abiding people is at hand.” The Omaha ‘World-Herald thinks that “if this latest murder should prove the turning peint, if decency at last gains strength io war with the gangs, then Chicago will redeem itself;” that “surely by now it has learned the costly lesson.” “Inasmuch 2s the death of Lingle has whipped the press of the city into a fighting mood,” in the judgment of the Hartford Courant, “the result may be not only the arrest and punishment of his murderers, but the extinction wholesale of the parasites who, during the last several years, have made the name of Chicago a sure-fire joki Charlotte Observer advises that i eago has the chance to redeem itself by driving out, for once and for all, the menace to free government and righteous living which its citizenship is having to put up with.” ok x k p The murder “may and should excite public wrath until the last vestige of tolerance in dealing with gunmen shall 'have been banished,” states the Phil- adelphia Evening Bulletin. That cor- rupt politics must be attacked is the advice of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the San Antonio Express, the St. Paul Pioneer Press, the Danbury Evening News, the Charleston Dally Mail and the Roanoke World-News. The Flint Dally Journal is impressed by the lesson that “Chicago must realize that it will have to value human life more dearly.” ‘The Dayton Daily News, whose owner has faced a simiiar tragedy in Ohio, de- clares that “if the people of the United States do not now get an idea of the alliance between crime and politics, which everywhere menaces the integrity of thelr governments, it is because they cannot or 1 not read.” That paper concludes, “To make a right-about in the direction of the American mind is the present most pressing need of American life and politics. In an attack on legal methods the Chicago Dally Tribune declares: “Ju- dicial poise is, of course, a priceless asset to the bench. Still we cannot re- gard as a virtue the turning loose of notorious killers. The tendency in this direction of many of the judges of the Municipal Court and some judges of the circuit and superior courts is in no small measure responsible for the reign of terror which has culmi- nated in the k’l.mng of Mr. Lingle." * ok % “Will the death of this reporter start ——— the eighteenth amendment rather than outright repeal. It looks as though the Democrats of New York were taking heed of the success of the Morrow idea in New Jersey, an idea which appeals to many moderate drys as well as to the wets, * ok % ¥ C. Bascom Slemp, Republican national committeeman for Virginia for years, is to make a final decision in regar to his proposed candidacy for the House from the ninth congressional district at conference of Republican leaders of the district at Big e Gap on Satur- day. Mr. Slemp formerly represented this district for a long time as a mem- ber of the House, as his father did be- fore him. In the Hoover landslide two years ago Joseph C. Schaffer, a Repub- lican, was elected Representative. Mr. Schaffer has said he will not run for re-election this year. It seems to be a question of duty versus inclination with Mr. Slemp. It is the understanding that he does not want to run and that if he is finally persuaded to make the of and that Jt is his duty to the race it will be becauss the Republicans convince him that he is the only man who might make the race successtully Pt l | & real battle of organized government against hoodlum. anarchy which will | bring triumph for decency?” asks the | Toledo Blade, adding: “Such a victory | would be of importance to the whole country as well as to Chicago. It would | establish the certainty of sovereignty of | society over any of its evil elements. | That needs to be demonstrated just How ‘A wonderful city of steel and stone, with great art museums, splendid uni- versities and one of the most mag- | nificent opera houses in the world. And | then there are the gangsters,” remarks | the Houston Chronicle, with the conclu- | sion that “the slaying of Alfred Lingle ¢ |is a challenge to the civilization Chi- | cago has bullt on the shores of Lake | Michigan.” The Chattanooga Times | believes that the city “hovers on the brink of the rough-and-ready justice of vigilantes,” while the situation is de- scribed as national menace’ |the New Castle News and the Sal | Lake Deseret News. The Asbury Park "!:vemn‘ Press views the murder as representing “solely the desire to elim- inate any factor that might expose crime and corruption,” while the Duluth Her- ald, viewing the present hunt for the criminals, holds that “there should be no spot in America where it is safe for outlaws to wait till the clouds roll by.” ‘That the murder of Alfred Lingl “may be the turning point” is the con~ clusion of the San Francisco Chronicle, pwhich argues that * is the signal for wiping out Chicago's gangland the ¢ sacrifice will not have been in vain." ‘That the newspaper man is sacrificed to the cause of decency is the opinion of the Tulsa World, while the prediction that the press will hunt down and punish the criminals is made by the Asheville Times, the Anniston Star, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle and the Okla- homa City Times. That the steps taken should bring retribution is the judg- ment of the Allentown Call. * * % % One question is raised by the Port Worth Record-Telegram with the statement: “Somebody will be convieted for the killing. The very life of the gang organization is at stake. In s few days a ‘goat’ will be brought forth for sacrifice. * * * The man selected for the emergency job of placating pub- lic opinion may easily be the one best suited to the gangster organization needs. He doubtless is process of | being ‘framed’ at this time.” | _The obligation of the press to tell the truth about such activities as these {of the Chicago criminals and the cer- | tainty that the press cannot be silenced |are attested by the Salina Journal, the ‘}Sb. Louis Globe-Democrat, the Kan-as | City Star and the Utica Observer-Dis. | patch. The Little Rock Arkansas Dem: ocrat advises that “for its own sake and | for the sake of the decent people of Chicago, the Tribune should carry on to the last ditch.” “By ng outside their own lawless class ane nrlkm*I down a member of decent society, the gangsters of Chi- cago have brought upon themselves, ai | never before, the wrath of the people. says the Albany Knickerbocker Press, | while the conviction that this crime | against the press is their undoing s voiced by thc Akron Beacon Journal, the Ann Arbor Daily News, the Louis= ville Times and the Morgantown Do minion-News, The Schenectady Ga- zette believes that “Lingle’s assassina- tion appears to have crystallized at | least an appreciable and powerful part | of public sentiment to the extent where | punishment of the slayer is demanded,” and the 8t. Louis Times maintains that | “when the citizens of Chicago Ill?efl | iron into the police and extract polities | from their control, so that the police, the prosecutors and the courts shall work in harmony. they can run the | gal into Lake Michigan.” Y s time there was a general rising of all good citizens to meet | challenge,” declares the Geneva Daily | Times, while the Cincinnati Times-’ | Star proclaims the support of i of other communities and the Souf Bend Tribune views the challenge of |the gangsters as one which “Chicago | cannot ignore.” The demand for pun- |ishment, "is upheid by the Ric | News Leader, the Columbus Ohlo State | Journal and the Fort Wayne News- Sentine! The gangster who did -the is not. » the | killing ng for this world, concludes et ' ) '