Evening Star Newspaper, June 29, 1930, Page 26

WASHINGTON, D. C. BUNDAY..........Jube 29, 1030 WHEODORE W. NOYES. .. . Bditor The Eveting m’g:m?& Coinpany litn 8t and P ‘nulvlm:fi' i st B, ter, greater guiet in thé More opén spaces and the voice of the radio carries far- ther there, and In the Jummer, with windows open day and night, the high-pitched loud speaker chb rack the nerves of people Hlving hundréds of yards dwiy. dériul Gévice dhould fiot be the community, It is a thosé who like it and & tor- > {kept within bounds. It must be kept ily an aily only unday ouly THE EVENING STARI ‘With Sundsy k, .'lthlnhwndluritbeoomulpubnc futsinice afid its opérator may sufter in costly and humiliating punishment. ‘The District radio tisers have thirty days in which to leirn how to tune their instruments down to safe pitch. The Maryland and Virginia operators should not require county or State regulations to cause them to be considerate of their _ | nelghbors. Understanding Would Help. It is 1o refléction upon the Many .| tair-minded members of the House to | - Ah Impénding Catastrophe. _Should the House of Répresentatives rétusé to yleld on the District appro- priation Bl w the proposal of the Senate for & compromise amount of the lump-sum contribition, and should the Setlate refuse to adopt the “continuing resolution” extending the appropriations of the present and soon ended fscal Yeéar periding a new appropriative enact- ment, the District would be left without any funds whatever ‘on Tuésdiy morn- ing, July 1. This contingency was sug- gested as possible in the course of a discussion of the question in the Senate on Priday. 1f the Senate should refuse to consent fo an adjournment in order to bring the House to the point of passing the appropriation bill in terms of & eompromise and meanwhile Tefuse to accept a continuing resolution—which would be on the $9,000,000 basis of Federal funds—this very situation would arlse. ‘The prospect of a District govern- ment #ithout funds 18 a staggering one. ‘There is no parallel for it. The District . government has been short of funds now and again foward the end of a fiscal year as appropriations have be- come exhausted with no replenish- ments, but never has &4 fical year be- gun without cash in the Treasury for the payment of salaries, the purchase of supplies and the financing of public works. If this situation should arise—and it i mot beyond conception—Washington would be in & fAr worse state than Chi- cago a few months ago when the mu- nicipal revenues fell to the vanishing point &nd obligations piled up and pay Tolls were in deficit. for weeks, In Chicago's case aid was rendered by the citizens, Who bought tax-due certificates in sufficient volume to tide over the emergency. But here, in the event sug- gested, there 18 no absolute guarantee of appropriation for nearly six months. How could the District possibly raise sufficient funds by public subscription on terms satisfactory to both Borrower and lender with essurance of prompt Tepayment %o the latfer? The District bill 2s it now stands in the deadlock between the Houses carries & total of $45,000,000. If Congress should ad- Journ without action and no extra ses- sion of the full Congress should be called meanwhile, appropriations could nét be made by act of Congress before the middle of December, a period of five and & half months at the least. It would be necessary to find somewhere by public subscription, or by unauthor- ized Treasury loan, no less than $20,- 000,000 to cover this period. The Dis- trict people themselves could not pos- sibly supply one-fifth of this amount out of private funds. Such is the situation. The fact is thit if the District Bill 1s hot passed i some form before Tuesday morning, or & continuing résolution adopted, prac- tically every service in the Capital mu- nicipality must cease. Every police- man, every fireman must leave his post; every contract laborer on public work must lay down his tools; the streets could not be cleaned; the garbage could not be collected, and it is even possible the water supply could not be This may be_unthinkable. But it is & pPossibifiity neverthieless. And 1t is to be hoped that this possibility will be studied by members of House and Sen- ate, on this day, the next to the last of the ¥elir, &t the end of which day only twenty-four hours will remain in which Congress can act to avert such & catastrophe from the Capital. A murder mystery grows deeper as the evidence increases., Too many clues become entanigled. It was a single thread that guided the hero of old out of the Minotaur’s labyrinth. g i vantage of being able to hear good point out that ‘their greater intérest in 1égislation more directly affecting taetr own constituents has deprived them of the time and study hecessary to make théth fhmiliar with the oot of theé con- troversy over Distiict flscal Affatrs which h&s o far resulted in con- fusich over the fate of the 1931 Dis- trict b, This general lack of understanding becorhes obvious on the rare occasions wheh the Housé grants & relatively few minutes for debate ori some of the con= troversial issues that Hesét considera- tiori of District afféirs. A unigue fea- ture of these debates is the répeated admission, by aistinguished members, that while they themselves have not had time to study the Question, they know gererally what it is &ll dbout and rest confidence in those who have studied it. And when all is said and 'done, one finds that only a handful of Representatives have studied it. But one of these 18 Representative AntHony Griffin of New York. In &l sincerity The Star commends to the membership of the Houle & reading of his remarks, inserted in the Congres- sional Record of Thursday, Jurie 26. Mr. Griffin’s conclusions are his own. One does not have to agree with them. But his statément should be studied s an example of fair and dignified ap- proach to & problem, the solution of which he does not atfempt to suggest in its entirety. Hven thie most bitter enemies of fixed ratio or increase in the jump sum will 8dmit that their own formulde for settlement are inade- quate. The only result of their insist- ent application of arbitrary theories has been to tie legislation for the Capi- tal info a Gordian knot and to throw affairs at the Distriet Buflding into confusion and threaten the city’s nor- mal progress, not to mention the very tangible hardships on dependent men, women and children that now are threateried. ‘Their plan Will not work. It is self-evident that some other plan must be tried. Why not try to find it? Mr. Griffin points out that “where knowledge is absent, thers is the Mevithble tempta. tion to make up for the Iack of infor- mation by a resort to passion and prejudice.” As in exAmple of where knowledge is lacking, Mr. Griffin refers to the chariicterizations by some of his fellow members of the Federal contri- butlon as & “gratulty” a “gift” or a “lollypop,” He also dlscusses the fre- quent references to the $1.70 tax rate as something for which the taxed but unrepresented people of the District are responsible and for which they are heartily eondemned by those Who con- trol not only the levying, but the spend- ing of thx money. “AMide from that, however,” Mr. Griffin says, “it is not the tax we pay, but what we get that counts. The people of the District get no more than they pay for,” and that is getting down to the realities. . Griffin Points out as one of the evils of the present system the fact that residents of the District in the “favored” sections get more for thelr tax money than those in the “neglected” sections. This may be true, and it may not. It is & fact that in some parts of town the residents are furnished with parks and playgrounds and fine streets, and in others they still lack sewerage facllities. And it 1 a fact that the Dis trict has been committed to building a $25,000,000 group of municipal buildings and {3 being taxed for & $16,000,000 seats in the schools to go around and nearly &5 many portable shicks ure used in 1ieu of permanent school bulldings now 48 there weré during the War emergency, when the portables were adopted s & “temporary” expedient. amazing thing sbout Mr. Griffin's speech. is that he does not at- tack the defenseless people of thie Dis- trict for thede shortcomings, nor abuse music-and Mteresting speeches and en- | 5 livesing dramatic sketches snd infor- ball - | the until & big lead had been ; while Dave has been belting thé sa enough 1 b6 cofisidéred team's regular right-flélder, The only one of the thrée trddés over which there Whs skepticiar wat | that of Braxton and Tate for Shires but there was one angle to it that has beén genérally appreciated. _Washing- ton was in dire need of & first baséman of known quality. Judge had- been stricken with cnarley horse, an aflment “WATCHMEN ON THE WALLS” BY THE RICHT !‘lhl;.. :Azzts. FREEMAN, D. D, LL. D, Text, Isaiah, lzil8: “I have set watchinen upon thy walls * ¢ ¢ which shall never hold their peace, day noF night.” .| ever been.those. who, “Arthur the Gréat.” the point, before the club would con- sent to lose Braxton, a capable finisher of games, it had secured Crowder, a more than capable starter and finisher of gAmés. 8o, theé et result is that while no pitcher figured in the Shires trade save Braxton the Nationals had alréady replaced him with a man whc - | causes that have best in base ball. Its outfleld, with MahusH, West and Rice or with West replaced by either Loepp or Harris, will bat well above three hundred and fleld in An acceptable manner. In pitchers it 18 bspecially well fortified, Liska hav- ing shown that his sensational debut of a year ago was not a flash in the pan and Hadley finally beginring to dis- cover that With his raré assortment of| to “$uft” He can Start 8§ well a3 fintah well pitched games. The catching staft has been Weakened by the ldss of Tate, but He saw little service anyway except in the “bull pen” and another catcher for this diity can readily be found. Taken all in &l there is really no oc- casion for-surprise that the Nationals are battling for the lead. They may not win the pennant, but from all indi- cations they should finish the season well up in the front ranks. At least, that 18 every fan's hope. —r————————— A Real Long-Distance Call. ‘The wonders of the radiotelephone have again been demonstrated and this time In particularly romantic and anner. For from New York Friday Maj. Kingsford-Smith, con- queror 6f the east-to-west Atlantic air- plirie crossing, talked with his flancee, Marie Powell, twelve thousand miles away, their volces, even to the “honeys” and “darlingsl’ being perfectly audible to each other. It was five-twenty yester- day afternoon when the gallant major secured the connection from his suite in a New York hotel and it was six- fifteen when the final “‘good-bys” were said; truly a lovers’ conversation in length, but just as truly a remarkable example of what modern science has wrought. Efforts to manipulate & market used to be a little safer than they are now, “Seéing far dn end subl o B the i oF o AR '0 hol 2 e Against the spirit of the time.” ‘With penetrative vision these men look down the avenues of the future, | Dim bears and what they say and do today not only upon t, but upon the future. Thelr oWn generatioh may have failed to recognize their trans- cendent worth, but a has given them their d o 5 It s &4 pathetic and tragic fact that all too frequently these seers and states- mén have passed from “unwept, unhotioied and unsuny 0 one can stutly the brief history of this Republic without fact that Mmmhlvebunwrepflmm under their dance we have been saved 2 anniversaries, such dependence diy, afford further hu:uy for evalual ent e: as In- oppor- , not only our ru. duot it. 0: ki uced it. horizons of our mr! we discovered p of men of such commanding genius ot b R g Bt more rue propos and their -muylnl ts. They were the arly watchmen w{g envisioned 8 na- | probl tion of vast proportions and of incal- culable genius, wealth and power. The foundations they laid ‘Were 50 conceiyed as to bear upon them a structiire the likk of which the world hid never mov religlous con ideals is ‘1’ ardent desire and purpose. oot e of them possessed udl qualities Congress Nears End fhat | ey from misfortune and | o | u:d' ':‘ made m .W wnmwm which commonly strove. % had Had come to be a8 a X one who .outstand- his study of rises himn to a new level of distinction and gives liarly his own. His stat ittératices atill constitute theummmbywmch'eqh‘gewr caurse. {l were well to nml& our- selves y of one sentence that fell from his gifted ljps, “Let us with cau- tion indulge the sapposition that moral- gg e&: be maintained without religion.” e mind_of n_rel Totogih fir iadayen fn, Mhich of a Pad T aarity R Stody of tho e of gréat mu} nor, indeed, of v Ays when Nation was in t! n{x fct £ tor 0 ity ‘Washington' 1?hn Lu from ot :l’;! relate to Christian faith 'l;lllt erfcd will do its full and equitable share in helping to sol: wornld ems been repeatedl; on- strated; that she will stand before the werld 88 the representative of moral and lpl:&ul_l ideals may at times be questioned and dnllenn‘ The watch- ril:‘e.n 'n: our walls ‘:hn are g m:é ve greater permanpence a i bl Rl ot ”!’MM Christian !:m In the prosperit T '.y nu:‘" again Yo be that “righteousness exalteth & nation.” With Much Lively Political Campaign Material on Hand BY WILLIAM HARD. ‘The Republican and Democratic par- ties now face the final elections with prospects of a more vigorous fight than had at one time been anticipated. This is because of various developments, among which may be mentioned a more combative attitude on the part of the R M 2 e week W just recorded in Sydney, Australia, |his neck, to litical method o and puzzle him by nose with brass kn The President this last week, in the matter of the bill for the further rellef of orld War veterans, knuckles for the first time banging him on the uckles. and it is rejection of the whole scheme by the White House. The scheme PART TWO. Capital Sidelights 8y Wity P, KENNEDY. of the Congressional w! it d of the A B ke mmor‘e cnan th‘-‘:. wrmna ational rnal,” is sougl e iehtafive Jolin 3. Soylan: Betoerats ol T ot 1 s t R e s W s lor & study of proposed changes in printing of the Congressional which he said “as nmumwd does not present a fair; or complete pieture of the procéedings of the Con- " thing thet s groposal 1s “revd- Iu tative Boylan con- tends’ that “there is more wit and dom in many a cartoon without or even in a comic stri) o e congressioral orations the Record.” The New York Representative, who is not! R mégflm‘g m ch:hl: the mal record, is incensed beuu: he was thought, } dod o o % P ' - sentative Boylan. “To s n of the hmll'Q. rs it should flm‘mfl; terial by ich he can reconstruct t great American scene and All the fig- ures who play their parts thereon—the Presidents, .membe‘rkol Congress, phi- losophets, poets, sts, lxrln fightets and athletes. There should be room for Babe Ruth as well s & Speaker Long- , for nd d, 88 well 88 for President We. do RiioW How history Will Judge U8 of Where the hand of the hist will place us. Let us not ni‘i. pflfl‘flnfim"m and confine the Congressional Record to a mere museum of our oratorieal achieve- ments; let us have our country 0 oo i was there- | corlt ufilon discarded by the committee. The bill which passed the Senate was sub- stituted. Yet now, in order that the veto of that bill may be succ tmnr e _positive o veterans, it is the basic principle of | . 2 Walsh and Connally general disability allowance %hh:h has be'e’n pressed * % % % Almdst dally some member of Con- through the House of resentatives Rty oreas, s by, the adm or b the To try to snatch victory out of the jaws of defeat in this matter, the Pres ident has been obliged to walk opt into the open field and bulld lEzbuc t- works and discharge public barrages in tardy replacement of the ferred practice of catacom! pers. The chances now jon of open-field administration as a habit. naval uses brass| the Senate falrly reliably reported that he has gotie| in the into training for learning more about them and for being able to exercise with them daily. He p) , it 1s sald, to roposes, change the Republican national com-| pocks mittee from a cemetery into a gym- * ok x k chatrman of the Repub- ‘The present lican national committee, Mr. Claudius THe vélume of business 1s so great and | diate the public o rapid in action that a momentam may be developed that quickly goes beyond the control even |} of expert finance. ————————— One of the advantages of our form of government Is that some statesman may from time to time have the word “dietator” hurled at him. The excite- ment spon passes. [Experience has shown that the title can be held for only a brief period of time. —————— It is not easy to break up gambling in Washington. It mgy be that the habit grows strong because every elec- tion calls on & number of residents to take chiinces of one kind or another. When a hot wave arrives, the states- man studlies his prospect for a Summer vacation just like the working- man., SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNBQN. The Great Human Inquiry. The great philosophers have tried To make mankind forget'its pride, And think of ethics and of health As more o be esteemed than wealth. Manking exclaims, “What is the use Of giving thought to themes sbstruse? THe thing we reslly want to know s how the market next Wil go?” Discreet Frugality. “Do you intend to use much money in your nekt cAmpaign?” 5 “No,” @&nswered Senator Sorghum. “The iskties Are Already varied and per- plexirig. What's the use. of draging in the expert accountants to make the Argument still more complicated?” Jud Tunking ssys the man With the annoyed by the ;&e‘céuie of m? contalning dats for ical acious purg-n. ex- ressed a dislike for data and for the urling of informational missiles, =He was the embodiment Wt Which till now has broadly led the mosphere of the whole Hoover era. He strove to create for the Republican party on the national fleld a cleared empty space occugled by himself and the Barr Bullding, holding his tongue, and, by the President in the White House, keep- his own L. t was digni , but the public did not know it. Thy m&houm it was only Indecisive. ds of reports have rought here nmw the atti- ministration. They have indicated for many months a widely prevalent tend- ency toward dissatisfaction and dis- affection., They base of, that tendency, a bewil as to the administration’s specific gem and concrete intentions. and leavors. be- * ok ok X With the greatest good will, Mr. Jouett. Shouse and Mr. Charles Michel- son of the Democratic national com- mittee for many months have pub- licly pointed out to the President that hi$ main troubie has been that the peo- ple did not know what he was thinking ries o transe the flexible . - the executive to of the Govern- out sim| versal ultimate. control of sidns of the tariff from the Tegislative branch ment. efim had ci their efforts—both .in Jaw and in the tariff Jaw—to introduce into our national policy the idea of farm relfef throu%a C deben! g imost, Teltions gets the most yotes, but| 5 make him the star performer in & fam- 1ly quirrel. Mental Utemployient. Fosslp chuses much distress As unemployment proves unkind, For who ¢An mind his bustness Who had no bustness to mind? “You Tke 3 motor car better than have. indicat at the ted, #| that the en- | to The Republicans, it e Repul 3 suffer 8 lot of casualties at the poils in November. A month ago it was likely that those cisualties would be shot in the back in flight. ltllltkmmg:l: now with & band. . (Copyright, 1830.) Better Maker-Dealer Relations in Motors BY HARDEN COLFAX. New automobile models will make their appearance in the shows and show tocne wmnn! the L 1117:: v“sieyekx. P-ca s are at presen ngage: in the preparal of these moiela an the production of sufficient units lcnn:e for immediate delivery to custo- TS, Th\feemm offices of mmwm Prod TS 8re even more e n‘ ';orkml out goltlclu m!‘or Mfi with deplers snd for of tems f b situation. Manufacturers. have come to realize is one of the most es- sential factors ,in the automobile in- dustry. It is of no avail for producers turn out cars efMclently and cheaply in mass production if the dealers are not willing and. able to put those into the hands of consumers and get the money for then:. g 4 ‘The situation of the automobile dealer involves business in general w“eig\ :l:- g3z i 25, B2 gi 2 : 5 P, 8 8 E‘ * g miadaen of The Armny War. OotRt 0 in ument to_commemo= Tu part, in settling the Confederate BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN, 15 it posibié i tHEAS tees to FARID: | 1ALEAL, 1t 18 848y to prove almost any- ulate the stock market? In view of the fact that 1t 1 sati- | Fhen mated that one-fifth of the .Amlan tative than in somé | thal i e & £ : cam) W For whatever is made, it is of prime in cover whether it 18 times rortn‘nuy group to manipulate the in s market oot 10 v the stock mirket, an slumj Taders, 14rge 10" R chalinas of 156 Republicen congressional p committee, Rep- | divided up ‘s interest has been A the chrge | oaders discredi new such an inquiry o, dis- in thésé t, thing by study of the behavior of socks 80 eren it panic f was & period of ‘rm uum'; there were Lot us sbe. What. shs " sinsetion . Fl WaS, were only 374 listed stocks which fhe market uia ‘e gt d ar] coul ven its tone by,.the lével of imposed fr:r lud:r‘x‘:‘ mwuy securities, N"m a » 5 trasted wit ::é"o” stocks Av":fléu%:b%zmm in there are today 1,177 sepatate issyes. in 1907 there were some 907 mum bonds, today '.hei-. are 1,534. Each year sees from 50 to 80 new stocks listed for trading on the big board of the New York Stock Exchange. Infinite Variety of Interests. of the t . B e, e TR, able whéther any group can ing to bear sufficient jure turn the market in aceord with is dcpres. ‘The repson is wth. Thi growth of the Mu‘;olr!. mmg means of the sums of money inyolved in stock market trading, and, more especially, growth in the numbe: In the T of ential manipulate the tum or, Tolatively fow's senting the to 5 éx;a Rorky Mouintain coun- | made seems. today, will | 5 they may perish in combat, | tion said that SN Shn hed - thetiseivee. th -foug Biss, between .g Unlm" ne lge;a He quotes X from. history that “this has been called t battle lo| th ni M\l'mmh he describes battles of major importane for lnd&pendence. because of its - nent effect upon the future course ;; events. “‘Measured in these term: cars | said, “Ramsours Mills deserves a promi- nent place in the true history of Ameriea.” “Ramsours Mills,” Representative Jonas u’und. “‘completely destroyed the ‘morale of the Loyalists in North Caro- lina. There was not another serious : Bolt by Jupiter. Prom the Butte Daily Post. Lightning struck and killed a. book- maker at the Royal Ascot TRce the . other A what. he Pluvius hadn't bolted. _ Something to Werry Over. Prom the Bay City Dally Times. Ford fs importing kn 5 Nation’ 188 b when & bandtul of influ- do m were te offered shires dre not concerried at all. in in bank shares may not even hear of the big coup in oil. The mar- ket has completely outgrown inside manipulation a few, and no group of men in the United States seems to be rich or powerful epough to affect all_types of issues simultaneously. r example, 370 of the issues traded in on the New York Stock Exchange are the securities of forelgn corpora- tons or governments. The interests of the people back of these securities may Be as far apait as thé poles. The variety in the way of securities the stock market of today is un:fln( comparison with the market of the old corner days. There are, for instance, now lsted on the New York Stock Ekchangs 26 separate Nfi on the amtisement industry. of these are : % in movie companies. coyps in oll or rails ps - | or copper interest the people behind the §| Rt movies not at all. There are 39 issues o{‘.l:mnmfl ©f chain stores on the ex- ¢l e. ‘There are 26 mail-order house lepArtment store listings. Ninety- product securities dre avail- 1831 that such securities &s these were en- :.lg_lly abtent from the big board in To,_give the market a definite trend, folders of securities with some commu- interest must be got to work in ‘There is such infinite variety tur\’. the interests m:x r‘:prumu‘gl that , today seems ne: impossible. mtzdk Bx has_about 1,400 members, To show how decentralized the control actually is, more than 100 of these members do_not even live in bull| New York. Stock Exchange brokers Stanley Baldwin Battles ggg?-&e; ‘There’s._na . kno b Dave won 1t Supiies a British Press Peérs hts | € % Bt et et ] A ne revedls, fuindamental iced s h’::e inore than 1,000 branch offices in , & Btuds W8 of supply and di movements in the d te 4 traders inay have all the will in 'bg.d to manipulate, but the g;kt%wo ig for them. They are like slow-paced ball player who was eaught n Attempt to steal a base. WAs bent on larceny, but his Were honest! Fifty Years Ago In The Star . oot 3R Census Figures m in p'qg.nnn‘:’:mn. Disappointing. " Cccption. The Star of June 24, 1880, says: which see) felt at not ha as 1ts ex- X le annoying, doubt- less, for any city to have to own up to this, bpt when all places are in the same t. 5o to speak, the mortifica- tion need not be very great in any case, and 1t s really A matter of small con- in It Is a 1 bitants may On the other d, 1f the the census author- ted the resplt 1§ upon which the country can be hon_gt‘ley congratulated.” * w‘u&emm Tace "The 35, 1885, Y une 25, 3 day following the close of the con- . #e'k ers Bave Been chosen and w’ o re w;mh;"be formed_for camphign will edrneat and Probably a hg.t'ed 3@ nl;su{nva‘aomtmt:d good Wi tions . ickets kre ot day Bood in & party sense, but from a patriotic may be of an ex- t adm! . Each ticket will* Every census takén in this country