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(THE EVENING STAR o 2ith Sundsy Morning Edition, . WASHINGTON, D. C. SVEDNESDAY......July 2, 1930 FazovorE w. NovEs... .Edjtor Evening Star Newspaper Company 8t S e T unin, ave New York Office: 110 East 42nd 8t H cay ce: Lake Michigan Building. robean Ofce 14 egent St.. Londoh. H Ensland. e St 45¢ rer month an 1d. 60c per month Hon 5 d: "rGSED T month i I nday: Sc per mon #n0 Binday Brar funday St S¢Ter copy llection made at the end of each morth. r jers may be sent in by mall or telephone Ational 5000. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. ily "r‘& Sunday. ... l!r.bum 1 mo.. 85c iy oniy ! i lay only . 0 1 mo’. Shc All Other States and Canada. Ml and Bunday..1yr.$13.00: 1 mo. £1.00 Iy only 4 ndsy only . 0. 1 mo.. Member of the The A ar. g d_Sunday Star avs) e in this paper and also the local r1ews Bublished herein. "All Fights of publication of el dispatches herein are also recerved —— Whose Ox Is Gored? In naval limitation, as in other fields | ©®f human activity, it would appear.| everything depends on whese ox is| @ored. For many weeks past officers ©f the United States General Navy| Board, in response to questions directed @t them by Senate committees, have been airing their objections to the | probably will be inevitable. 151 3400: 1 mo.. 40c | a0 | TeMAIns significant, so long as medicines | {ic |depend for their potency not alone on ¥ which the individuality ef the physician is important enly as & spur to aecol plishment. Medicine is half a seience and half an art. At the present stage of its his- tory it cagnot depend entirely en objec- tive technigye. Bodily ills are both mental and physical with a constant interplay hetween these fields. A great part of successful medical practice still | depends on the intensive study of one | individual by gnother individual. 3 A widening area of the medical field now is throughly objective with tech- niques which can be applied coldly and impersonally by any adequately trained and technieally competent person. Such is the administration of the various specifics. These still are lamentably few. Eventually this eircumscribed area may widen 0 as to include the greater | part of medjeal service, . When that day comes the socialization of medicine | I But so long as the subjective element their own qualities but on xomethin:} puts into them, the relegation of the profession to public employes is a dangerous procedure. The physician must combine the qualities of & selentist and an artist, of a technician and a priest. These quali~ ties can be appropriately balanced. The danger in private practice lies in the occasional tendency to subordinate both of them to the entirely different quali~ ties of the business man. ——— Boosting the Pensions. The Senate has gone and done it london treaty. They declared it in many respects injuricus to the interests @f the country. | A few weeks ago a high officer of the | Japanese admiralty staff committed | bara-kiri in protest against the pact, | en the ground that it seriously im- periled the national security of Japan. Now come Great Britain’s principal maval dignitaries, Admiral Esrl Beatty end Admiral Viscount Jellicoe—heroes ©f Jutland—and assall the Lendon @greement hip and thigh from Britan- mia’s standpoint. The one-time mistress ©f the seas, say Beatty and Jellicoe, is * Bopelessly compromised by the treaty. The basis of this allegation, they ¢laim, is that Britain is the one treaty power which undertakes any disarma- ment or reduction, while the United States gets an ingrease of 233,000 tons, Japan’s strength is sugmented ten per eent, and France is left without limita- tion of any kind. Earl Beatty and Viscount Jellicoe particularly lament the injustice done to the British Neet because, they contend, it is mow in- adequate for the proper protection of the empire’s interests in the Far East »-presumably a referenee to India. It will occur to a good many Amer- feans, wWho are neither blind partisans Bor unreasoning epponents of the London treaty, that, under the cir- bumstances, it must be a pretty good treaty after all. eontracting parties to a bargain feels that the other fellows have “trimmed” Rim, the law of average—applied to Such a situation—is that fairly even- Banded justice has been deme all around. That is the purpose of an fnternational conference, ————et e And Now fdr Compromise. Resumption of conferences between fhe House and Senate on those items in e Distriet bill, other than the amount disagreement is the most ful sign yet given that the bill will be passed and the penniless Dis- be able to look back over the weeks as a sort of nightmare vanished with the dawn. 15 high time that the job be done. not be & complete job if the important differences between House and Senate versions of the bill were not ironed out and in advance of the last tussle the lump sum. A day or so of work will recover in some degree #he ground already lost. Action of the Senate Appropriations Committee yesterday in killing the House continuing resolution, substitut- dng the District bill and putting the machinery in motion that will bring the measure right back to where it started, Wwill in all probability be upheld by the Benate. With the Senate's action the House leaders, exercising the sound fudgment of which they are capable, should move speedily to agreement by ®ompromise. A further fight by the House at this late date would make its position wholly untenable, if not absurd. he Senate is not goling to yleld, for the prineiple it is now fighting to maintain involves its self-respect and dignity and 3t holds the strategic position of being #ble to fight it out along that line if it takes all Summer. The sensible thing for the House to do, leaving the gues- ion of equity entirely aside, is to yield to compromise as quickly and as grace- Bully as it can. ————ree—. In order that public guestions may Be publicly discussed, there must be points of disagregment between the President and the Congress of the U. 8. A. They seem serious for the moment, but they are, after all, only gncidental to the best system of govern- uent the world has yet seen. N A Chicago reporter, involved in un- Perworld life, gets no credit for pro- widing the city desk with one of the (reatest of gangland stories. ) ’5§=§§§5{ § Socialization of Medicine. 1s the private practitioner of medicine # passing figure in this age? Dr. Malcolm L. Harris, retiring presi- Ment of the American Medical Associa- Blon, warned that body meeting this Week in Detroit that there is a world- wide trend, already felt in the United (Btates, to make the physician an em- ploye of the State with his services, {paid for from the public funds, free to pvery one. Here is one of the most vexing prob- fems in present-day sociology. Its roots @re deep in the evolutionary history of the medical profession out of which has emerged the present relation of the to the public. The cost of medic: 1 services appears to be dispro- tely increasing while the in- dividual human organism, geared in more and miore complicated fashion to tne social machine, has greater and wivater need of them. Conservation of the public health is again. Despite the fact that the Ameri- can Legion through its head gave its approval to the Johnson World War veterans' pension bill, a majority of the Senate has amended the mcasure by increasing the rates of pension and decreasing the amount of disability necessary to obtain & pension to a de- gree which may bring a presidential veto of the measure if it reaches the White House in its present form. Pen- sions to men who have served their country in war time and emergencies arising eut of extraordinary conditions are fair and just. They are a means of expressing a country's gratitude to its defenders. Quite naturally the peo- ple would desire to make th'se pen- sions as high as they are able to make them. But tHere is & limit. War veter- ans’ pensions are not a novelty. The country has had some experience and knows to what proportions pensions may be swelled. It knows, too, that pensions go to those who descrve them and some- times to those who may not. The Senate, by its action yesterday, boosted the rates of pension to the World War veterans to the same level as those recently provided for Spanish War veterans. The World War vet- errans are on an average far younger than are the veterans of the Spanish- American War. Nearly a score of years separated the one war from the other. President Hooyer vetoed the bill increas- ing pensions for Spanish War veterans for reasons which he presented cogently to the Congress. But that body put the bill through over his veto. The Spanish War veterans' bill meant, it is true, only an additional annual cost of $11,000,000 to the Government. The World War veterans' blll, however, is & different proposition when it comes to cost—reaching, in the form it passed the Senate, to $58,000,000 in the first year of operation and to $160,000,000 in the next five or six years. The bill is intended to benefit vet- erans who are unable to trace their disability to military service. In other words, their disabllities have arisen, not 88 a result of their war service, but from causes which affected them after they bad lett the military service. The war veterans who can trace their disabili- tles to their military service will con- tinue to benefit under the compensa- tion legislation, which gives them much higher rates. The new bill is to care for those who eannot so trace their disabilities. The Senate went ahead and placed in the bill it passed yester- day a provision that veterans suffering from disabilities growing out of their own willful misconduct also are to re- ceive a pension. This is a provision to which President Hoover has repeatedly | objected in his dealing with veteran legislation, The action in the Benate yesterday was that body's snswer to the House, which sustained the President's veto of the original World War veterans' bill. The House now must consider the Sen- ate's answer. If it continues to back up the President in this matter, the Senate in the end may be compelled to yield. If the House should permit the bill as amended by the Senate to pass and President Hoover should veto it, as he might be expected to do, the end- | less chain of ineffective legisiative effort may have been set in motion, providing that a sufficient number of House mem- bers may be found to sustain the Presi- dent’s veto. The bill launches the country upon a system of pensions for World War veterans that have nothing to do with their actual military service except that they are a gift, a recognition | |of the service. The country will watch | the progress of this system with a great | !deal of interest. The people, -mon;; | whom are the veterans themselves, must |in the end pay for these pensions. Naturally they will desire to see that | the pensions are well applied and just. | B | Peace would be assured for a lonll time if preparation for future war could | be postponed by unanimous consent until all demands for pensions resulting from previous wars have been fully dis- :pnnfl of. i SR L% Lingle Merely an “Exhibit.” Inquiry into the circumstances of “Jake” Lingle, the Chicago reporter, | Who was recently killed in a subway in | that <ity, is bringing to light evidence of questionable financial activities on his part. Indeed, it is coming to be be- lieved that Lingle had relations with the underworld that made him in ef- fect & member of it, and that his death was due to an order of execution issued by the leader of the gang whose in- terests he betrayed. This is mot as- suredly the fact, but it is now coming to be the belief of the community. Lingle’s murder shocked Chicago into action. It was regarded as an invasion by the gangs, theretofore engaged in mutual reprisals. So long as the gun- men were killing one another Chicago was not greatly concerned. But to slay | criminality of the gangs. 'The victims crooks by ereoks and the taking of| “honest” lives. and the lawless vietims of the rack- eteers as & measure of their crime and menace to soclety does no eredit to Chicago. Indeed, it shows a miscon- eeption of the duty of the munieipal government In dealing with lawbreak- ers, The gang murders heretofore have, it is true, removed undesirable people end have cost the ‘eemmunity mething in the way of valuable lives. But these have been merely evidences, by-prod- ucts as it were, of the terribly costly were executed because of jealousies arising from comflicting grafts. The lack of gang murders simply meant that the racketeers were working har- moniously in pursuit of their extortions and blackmail enterprises. It is of no moment at all, in fact, whether Lingle was himself invelved in relations with the crooks. His murder grew out of the demoralization from which Chicago has been suffering for a number of years, the breakdown ef law enforcement, the incompetence or werse of police, the inefficiency of the eourts. Honest citizen or ally of the criminal gangs, he was the victim of the lawless- ness that has made Chieago a mockery before the world. 3 e Lead, Maid of Orleans! Joam of Arc has been holding aloft her sword and urging the people of ‘Washington to do something about that clay bank in Meridian Hill Park for such a long time now that her silent and devout pleading has become down- right pitiful and somebody ought to feel uncomfortable. Bravely surviving the bitter winds that sweep in Winter and This distinetion between the lawful | | Man in Summer is man intensate.” BY CHARLES wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journal, ur‘:’der di of June 10, 1838. “Rivers of heat, yea, a circumambient | sea. Welcome as truly as finer and | coarser influences to this mystic, soli- tary ‘purple island’ that I am! I cele- brate the holy hour at church amud | these fine creative deluges of light and heat which evoke so many gentle traits —gentle and bold—in man and woman. “Mereury 80 That is the way a philosopher looked at hot weather. Because he was a philosopher he used the word ‘“in- tensate,” which is marked in the mod- ern dictionary as “rare.” It is a good word, however, and one must thank Emerson for bringing it to one’s atten- | Lo t, the human bient sea” or not, the :‘kxhlm.!':whmll “feels” the heat. It is true that this, in turn, may have some effec on the internal organs, but, in the main, it is the large area of skin sur- face which makes Summer disagreeable te so many persons. The bes{ gl)\ then, to circumvent $hg effects of hot weather is to wear as lit- tle clothing as possible, especially at | night. There is inherent in Americans | a iarge streak of native modesty, which | prevents them from entirely divesting | themselves of clothing, even while sleep- ‘"“ms is & mistake, especially in really | hot weather. When the official thermom- | eters register around 90 degrees, the | difference between interior blood hea | and the outside air heat is reduced to a | minimum. The chief function of cloth-i ing, therefore, is done away with. One | needs no clothes to prevent the dissipa- | tion of bodily heat: indeed, one shou:d | wear as little clothing as possible, ia | the pitiless sun that beats down in Summer, she has bheen sitting on her horse for several years now surveying one of the ugliest hillsides that cor- roding streams of rain water ever carved. Her uncomplaining and noble attitude should spur somebody into ac- tion. While the unveiling of the Buchanan statue and the parking around the base of that memorial has brightened her prospect some, one feels that the Maid of Orleans will never be completely satisfied until that hillside is done away with. A sum, about one hundred thousand dollars, has been authorized for a cas- cade that will spring from a noble foun- tain somewhere near Joan's feet and sparkle down the hillside to a shim- mering pool of water near the Buchanan statue. There will also be steps and green grass, and the architect's concep- tion of improving the landscape and completing the park is fine. But the money with which to do all this is tied up with other funds now awaiting re- lease from the eonference room on the District bill at the Capitol. If the members of the House who have been holding up the District bill will forget all about their views en the lump sum and take an afternoon off to visit the Buchanan statue, then gaze up the heights of the clay bank in Meridian HIll at the forlorn Joan of Are, they will relent and hasten back and agree | to anything, If the pitiful sight does | not inspire them, nothing will, - Prohibition enforcement calls for many energetic citizens willing to ac- cept salaried responsibilities. The eold free-lunch counter is gone forever, but the political pie counter is still in ex- istence. ————— Italy does not desire American auto- moblles, because new duties are consid- ered prohibitive. In addition to being a political dictator, Mussolini comes into evidence as something of a traffic cop. - —————— o Stock tickers are consistent reporters, They have always brought apprehensjon to reckless speculators and encourage- ment to straightforward investors, ) Innumerable tests are possible with airplanes. The sky as & race eourse has more complicated handicaps than the turf. —te The question of “wet” or “dry” has been asserted not only as a test of abstemiousness but of vote-getting. e SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON, Human Constancy. I am going away, some day, some day, To the land of the midnight sun And learn how those others work or play Or rest when a task s done. Yet the breezes sing low; so low— 50 low Men fight for the babes and wives, And mortals, you'll find, where'er you 80, Are leading the selfsame lives. Discouraged Investigator. “Why do you insist on holding in- vestigations?” . “I don't,” answered Senator Sorghum. “I do my best to hold an investigation. But it always breaks loose and gets away from me.” Jud Tunkins says if you tell all you | know, it's a sign that nobody is going to be confidential and let you know very much, Retaliations Among Natlons. Oh, let’s be generous and kind! Yet tariff figures vex us. One schedule prompts a punch designed To reach our solar plexus, Helpfulness. “What do you understand by ‘farm reliet'?” “It's a system,” answered Farmer Corntossel, “by which the farmer keeps hoping to be helped, while the politictan is helping himself.” “To have no enemies,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “is & misfor- tune, since it proves that you have at- tained nothing worthy of envy.” Sympathy. I do not like the man who sympathizes Too much with grief he does not understand. Too often he in envy analyzes Misfortunes, with a satisfaction bland. “De hard-luck story,” said Uncle Eben, “ain’ worth de trouble of tellin’. Every. body kmows it by personal experience.” B 2 reputable, law-abiding citizen was a different matter. A judge of the # matter of paramount importance. The problem is as to the best way of achiev- ing this end, The prosperity of the physician, of course, is incidental. It Criminal Qourt, in charging a special grand jury to investigate gang crimes, differentiated between the slaughter of A Fine for Wrong Guess. From the Savannah Morning News. You “h(.mm Q: n:fl.lzt‘me young man Wi paren! object to his going into aviation. order that the inner heat may be se’\t; forth as nnmly as possible. | Even a slight layer of clothing, such | as a nightgown or pajamas, will cause an unnecessary and very much un- wanted accumulation of heat on the surface of the skin. In hot weather the only hygienic way of sleep is in the nude. Those who have not tried it, held bac! old-fashioned ideas of mod- esty, will be amazed at the relief it gives on a real Summer night, when the air is warm and dull, and one experiences difficulty in brulhlng. Children, especially, should be di- | vested of all night clothes, and per- | mitted to sleep entirely free. This method permits large areas of the skin surface to be exposed to the air at a time, thus rapidly dissipating the heat from the interior. The happy freedom which children have gained in the day- time, with the universal adoption of the “sun sult,” should be extended to the night, except that then the “sun suit” should be a veritable “birthday suit,” or moon suit. * ¥ * All tight restrictions, such as collars, | garters and so on, should be loosened during hot weather. It is amazing how many men go around complaining of the heat, when all the time they choke themselves at the neck, where some of the most im| int arteries and blood vessels congregate for important serv- ices to the brain and all way stations. ‘The American small boy does better by himeelf, in this important respect, than his dad, who still goes around with tight-fitting collar. Junior either wears his collar open, with no necktie | at all, or he has the latter tied so loosely that he has practically the same freedom. Every one at this time of the year should keep well in mind the difference between the ultra-violet, or tanning, rays of the sun and the infra-red, or heat, rays. The former are invisible. ‘The heat rays are now at their maxi- mum, and one who courts the invisible rays should beware of an overdose of the visible. This danger he may lessen | D. C, WEDNESDAY THIS AND THAT E. TRACEWELL. to a great extent by eating moderately and wearing’ as little clothing as pos- sible. The fact that thousands of per- sons go around all Summer long with- out hats proves that it is the direct rays of the sun which cause either discomfort or ‘sunstroke.” but rather the state of personal health in which the individual finds himself. It should be remembered, in fa: hot weather, that there is less si during the hot months than any other time of the year. Especially is there a slackening in the number and virility of “colds” and similar respira tional complaints. The “Summer cold is notoriously difficult to break up, and for that reason one should take pains to prevent catching one. This may be | done, to a certain extent, by not per- mitting one's self to cool off too sud- denly after sweating. “Sweat” is a word which, at least, has the merit of being honest; every one does it, to & certain extent, and it is a_healthful habit. But if one perspires freely from sitting in an uncooled theater he should not Jflve home in his car at a fast pace without taking some precaution to shield him self from the wind which his move. ment_ creates. These are merely common sense mat- ters, but it is surprising how many peo- ple never think of them. Yet healt] of interest to every one, and often it is no more than a common sense regime, based on_heredity and helped by a bit | of luck. Yes, there is fortune in health, as in other matters One's general attitude toward hot weather something to do with it. We do not mean in regard to discuss- ing it or not discussing it, but as to how one is to meet it. whether "rnrms to go” or quietly at home. Most city folk divide sharply into two schools at this point. One school acts on the theory that one should “get one's mind off the heat” by prowling through the streets, attending the movies—in fact, doing anything and everything. Every one knows how most communities become noisy on hot nights. Radios run full blast, children yell, dogs bark, motor cars toot horns. All this is caused by the men and women who try to outwit the heat by “forgetiing about it.” ‘The other school of heat defeatists works on exactly the opposite theory. ‘The members of this school believe that home is the best place for any one on really hot Summer night. If they have their choice between staying home and going somewhere. they will stay home any day in the week. This permits th'm to meet the heat in as few clothes as possible, and to get as much sleep as possible. Perhaps most of the adher- ents of this school of thought find that hot weather tends to make them sleepy. But in any event they are doing the right thing by getting as much sicep as they can. ‘We have not discussed the peculiar necessity for the bath during hot weather, for every one nowadays rcal- izes that a clean skin is a healthy skin, and that this ssity is proved by every crying baby that exists. The ex- | udation of the sweat glands is enor- mously increased in hot weather, form- ing a coating or layer on the skin. Its remqval is the only way to skin health and eomfort, thus to coolness, dur- ing hot weather. Just how many baths a day one needs will depend upon the activity of the sweat glands, and the peculiar susceptibilities of the individ- ual to heat in general. ‘The “pep” and “punch” of the av- erage radio program s very much out of harmony with a real hot night. Much modern music is figuratively and actually. Its tempo increascs the heart beat and respiration, and tends to ele- vate the temperature of the listener. Thus thousands of unfortunat> persons who work their radio sets overtime on hot nights are do!n, the worst thing they could, not oply for themselves, but for their nelghbon as well. The irrita- tion caused by barking dogs is another source of Summer heat—all of it does not come from the sun, by any means. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. President Hoover is looking for “an- other Alexander Legge” to head the reconstituted United States Tariff Com- mission. The Diogenes search' is now on full tilt, with the prospect that both the new tariff chairman and his five colleagues will be nominated in rela- tively short order, The White House | is keeping its own eounsel, but the best | bet is that at least two members of the | existing commission—Chairman Edgar | B. Brossard, Republican, of Utah, and Vice Chairman Alfred P. Dennis, Demo- crat, of Maryland—will be retained. | Whether either Brossard or Dennis will | be reperpetuated in their present com- | Hoover is intent on making the Tariff | Board as effective and utterly non- | partisan a ly as conditions permit. He is determined that its chairman, at any rate, shall be & man so impervious to politics and politiclans that the country will have instant confidence in the commission. The President is publicly pledged to Pu( teeth in the flexible tariff machinery. Hence his anxiety to find a chief machinist— preferably an outstanding business man —who see that the machinery functions. * ok ok Maj. Gen. Abel Davis of Chicago, who was a recent week end guest at the residential camp on the Rapidan, is rhe type of rul‘l'd young American with which Hoover has always liked to sur- round himself. No one in Washington has whispered a word on the subject, but Davis in many respects measures | up exactly to the tariff chairmanship | specifications the President has laid | down. The Illinoisan 'came out of the ‘World War with one of the finest rec-i ords achieved by any civillan soldier. He commanded the gallant 33d Division on the British front in one of the black- est weeks of 1918. A lawyer and banker by profession, Gen. Davis now heads lfil important Chicago Title & Trust Co., biggest of its kind in the West, Except for lotal office in Cook County, he has never aspired to public prefer- ment. As far as known, President Hoover summoned Davis to Washington | merely for the purpose of orientating himsel! about Midwest conditions. * ok x | ‘Washington is full of high Federal officials who'll be sending wedding con- | gratulations to Salt Lake City's newest and most eminent bridegroom. Sen- ator Reed Smoot has long rated as one of the Capital's champlon go-getters where juicy jobs for useful Utahans are concerned. A few of the plums credited to him in recent years are the director- ship of the Veterans' Bureau (Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines), the chairmal ship of the United States Tariff Co: mission (Edgar B. Brossard), the chair- | manship of the Board of Tax Appeals (Logan Morris), an associate justiceship of the United States Supreme Court (George Butherland), a Federal radio commissionership (Hatold A. Lefount), chief reviewing appraisership of the Federal Farm Loan Bureau (Ariel F. Cardon), chiefship of bureau of publi- cations, Department of Agriculture (Dr. Melvin' C. Merrill) and the newly created commissionership of customs in.| the Treasury Department (Capt. F. X. | A. Eble). Once upon # time when it | was suggested at a Mormon conference that Senator Smoot would one day enter upon his active duties as first apostle, a brother pillar of the Latter Day Saints ejaculated that he hoped the| time would never come “when the church would cease to have an am- bassador at Washington.” | * %k ok * | Just before salling back to England the other day Ambassador Dawes took time to visit at the bedside of Capt. Francis J. Kilkenny, the Illinojsan's leng-time and faithful aide-de-camp in Prance and in Washington. Kilkenny recently suffered a stroke and is now in hospital at Milwaukee. He left Dawes' ‘when the Iatter became Vice President, Kilkenny’s last duty being to find and equip the house which Gen. and Mrs. Dawes inhabited durine their four yet at the Capital. After a bril- liant fighting record at the American front, the breezy young Irishman be- came attached to Dawes' purchasing agency headquarters in Paris. During Dawes' budget-directorship days. Kil- kenny was an indispensable member of his staff and won many friendships in ‘Washington. * K% Bince the inception of the Wicker- sham Law Enforcement Commission's financial troubles on Capitol Hill, sym- pathizing citizens (evidently drys) have | Th mission ranks is another question. Mr. | been sending in contributions. A pro- hibition patriot forwarded a dollar bill one day this week. * ook % Onward, ever onward, the march of the conquering sex. For the first time & woman, Dr. Laura Martin of Wash- | ington, D. ©., will preside over a round table at the Willlamstown Institute of Politics, in August. She will have charge of the discussion of “Arctic and Antarctic Questions.” Mrs. Martin who took her Ph. D. in geography, is the wife of Col. Lawrence Martin, former apher of the State Department and now chief of the division of maps n the Library of Congress. * K K % The latest Washington diplomat to blossom out as an author is Dr. Orestes Ferrara, Ambassador of Cuba, who has published in Spanish at Paris a work entitled “Pan Americanism and Euro- pean Opinion.” The book is destined rrlmlflly for a European audience and s & temperate defense of Pan Amer- icanism, American foreign investments and the Monroe Doctrine. Senor Fer- rara’s thesis is that Europe has noth- ing to fear from Pan Americanism, and t Latin America has as little to be afrald of at the hands of the Colossus of the North. Though long and thoroughly identified with Cuba, Ambassador Ferrara is a native of Italy. He fought in the island’s war of in- dependence against Spain in 1898, (Copyright, 1930.) o | Traffic Signs Conflict At Seventh and F Sts, To the Editor of The Star: There are four traffic lights at Seventh and F streets northwest. strcet between Seventh and Ninth A one-way street, going west being pro- hibited. Many autoists do not seem to know this, and the small weather- beaten sign on the northw:at corner of Seventh and F streets is often unob- served when the green light flashes. Of course, when a fellow is told both to “go” and “stop,” it would puzzle a Police Court lawyer to decide which order to obey and this accounts for many going the wrong way on this one- way.street. The TrafMc Bureau should put & more conspicuous sign on this corner, hang a red lantern on the one- way sign, or detail a traffic cop to handle the job. The four street-car tracks at this corner make it an impor- tant section for both vehicles and pedestrians, and neglect to remedy the defect complained of may result in a serious accident some day. H. T. McCONVEY. ———— Probably Both. From the Milwaukee Sentinel, Once in a while when we see an ex- pensive car in front of a modest home we wonder which carries the larger | mortgage. ——eate—e Like to Spend. Prom the Elmira Star-Gazette. ‘There are & surprising lot of people in the worldwho never want to buy mln' until it gets expensive. Espe- stocks, not solely | f i | | JULY 2, 1930. Are Pedestrians to Become Extinct? To the Editor of The Btar: ‘Wil the pedestrian, as its relatives of the mammal specie, follow the path to extinetion? According to the sclentific theory of specie lominance, are we destined. as the dinosaur and the horse, to pass into oblivion? I must say existent signs point that way. For instance, the officers of the law used to hold up vehicles in order to allow us to by; now they hold up cars to allow other cars to get by: and us! why, we just get across the best way we can! Then, since science is wont to progress and man to loiter, the law innoval traffic signal, even using the word “trafie” which pertains only to the congested vehicles. When this light first began to operate we were given one minute to cross and the other mechanical devices received one min- ute, which I call an even break. But somehow the light mechanism grad- ually altered, until now we have one minute to flee across, then have to toe the curb for the next two or three min- utes. Besides, we can cross only on the red light—and then not always— while the new robot can race around on the amber, seemingly, and the green also. Then, too, vehicles have to move only 20 miles per hour—“m. p. h."—to catch all the “on” lights, while think how fast we have to step in proportion or stand on the corner in a most pleas- and state of mind! Of course, all of us do not stand and wait. We 'pavement pounders aufo- is | matically segregate into the more-active and less-active types. The more active has defiance in his eyes, determination on his lips, aggressiveness with his feet, but a mark of indifference in general appearance. On the left hand, the less active has hate in her eyes, movements of her lips, doubt with her feet, but unbelievable nervous celerity in gen- orm re for himself, though we lose many of them daily, but it 1s th ter which causes me to be- lieve that we are the less predom! of the present generation of mam I have seen many older men and women stand on a corner. Then the green light flashes, the cars aash up to the “safe” (?) lane creaking and screeching. The followers of Pedes- trianism, uncertain as to whether it be sa(;‘nor‘ no, step Iruén 't.}:';‘ :urm cars change gears, an ex g swiftness me" less fortunate of this generation scamper back to the side- walk. ‘Turning and seel the cars still there, they advance , but, alas, the light is on, the cars off ard the breathless pedal operators pant on the curb side. Thus the performance is re- peated, until deflance moves forward and misplaces caution. ‘That is the reason old people are so cranky now, They are afraid to ven- ture forth to the corner store, fearing that some jay-walking auto, not neces- sarily a taxi, might try to monopolize the sidewalks, too, and therefore remair. at home. They read newspaper head lines and begin to use their im 1101:. and there you have started some: thing. Now to get back off the subject, what we need s an equivalent to the A. A. A. May I suggest a P. P. P.—Perambulat- ing Pedestrians’ Partnership—the motto being “Self-defense for the Pedestrian"? ‘This society should furnish information as to the t way to dodge certain types of cars—special treatment for taxis—also how to treat drivers who even swear at us because we were not hit; and the quickest way to tell when & woman driver is approaching. This organization should give circles special study, that a less roundabout way might be found to cross them. Places of safety might be established in areas most _thickly inhabited by Fords—the Rough Riders. In general, offensive and defensive data should be furnished for the benefit of us of the passing corps. Onee it used to be punishable by a fine for a driver to run over a domestic animal; now if a driver stops to pick up a run-down person, he is fined for blocking traffic. What we need is lead- ership and group centralization of stamina and effort. You might not:ce that at any corner you will find more than one car turning and if the lead- ing car should slow up the driver is given confidence by a loud and con- secutive blast of tantalizing horn toots, frightening our followers, whereas the estrians are fewer in number and ave no leader. Note how much more successful we are on the main streets than on the less-main streets. Surely you will give this article the interest that was shown toward the starling cause, for this is a danger that jeopardizes our health at ';ve corner. o 3 ——— . Drunken Drivers Should Be Drastically Punished To the Editor of The Star: Drunken and reckless automobile drivers are literally getting by with murder. They speed over the road with wild abandon, and deliberately, with ¢ fearful gesture, disregard human life e drunken driver often leaves a gory trail eolored with innocent blood— the lves, often as not, escaping in- Ju m%.h drunkard’s luck. bered by shock, they blubber their remorse in the hysterical aftermath and their punishment—insufficiently severe—is forgotten in the lapse of time. Their selfish lnd\ll!tnfl, in all probability, has cost the lives of per- sons whose existence in this world was far more desirable than their own. Is it not clear that a man or a Wom- an who drives a car while the senses; are dulled by intoxicants is a deadly menace to society? Should not the &ur;nhment of such a person be dras- c 1, for .my part, can find no room in my' make-up for pity of any one who is so low as to risk’ human’ life while indulging In their lust for strong drink. I have witnessed accidents caused by just that kind of a brute, and it has left indelible impressions my mind as awful results of drunken folly. Give the drunken driver his just deserts and he will be seen less.ofien in the hor- | rible pictures of bitter tragedies. WM. T. W. GRAVES. ] Wear Cotton and Help The Textile Workers! To the Editor of The Star: I do wish I could arouse Washing- ton's interest in the textile business. Several firms have failed and others have laid off 50 many men. I suppose it is overproduction. could work five days a week and em- ployers would do away with the effi- clency experts, who work plece-work and hog practically all the work, and all employes were on living salaries, conditions would be greatly improved. Do, please, make a plea for people to wear more cotton. If the men would only wear cotfon suits! They are so easily mussed that the men are afrald to give their valets too much work in pressing. A checkered navy blue cotton suit would look good, comfortable and practical. A honeydew rayon suit with robin’s-egg-blue tie and socks would be_cool and smart. Ladies should wear lots of white. White pique hand embroidered makes 2 smart tailormade suit. Two cotton dmu-_rh a day! ere are so many out of employ- ment here. They take their uvlntz. g0 away to look for employment, come back disappointed and disgruntled. The use of cotton draperies, curtains, ete, would help. The tariff ‘will help, but not enough. The five-day week will help most, for employes under high lemlol:n m.vam two or _rest and recreation. out hat has v.hnl mmu: e s America mus its own le first. GERTRU%I muum New Bedford, Mass, ————ratee. And What a Stop! From the Florence (Ala.) Herald. Anyway Darius Green made the first non-flight stop, i A True Remark, #rom the Toledo Blade. Confession may be good for the soul, but not for the defendants wyer. 1 ;lony—oumh and Fifty-first streets and If the employes | ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC ‘Thousands of Gevernment 'Tu are working constantly for the benefit of all citizens of H\O'Unlhd“l'l'..'u’ll'heyu"\ll work directly for you call for the fruits of mom-m through our Washington bureau. State your in- quiry briefly, write clearly and, inclos- ing 2-cent stamp for a personal letter | in reply, address The Evening Star In- formation Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, | director, Washington, D. C, Q. How wide is the brick pavement of the Indianapolis Speedway?>—L. J. | A, American Automobile Asso- | clation says that the brickwork of the Indianapolis race track is 50 feet all round, except at the corners, where it | is widened to 60 feet. The track meas- | ures 2%, miles. Q. When will the DO-X come to the United States? Who will pilot her?— W. W A. Present plans are for the German | ship to leave Lake Constance during| the early part of August, touch st sev- el luroazln ports and in the transatlantic flight about August9. The pllot will be Lieut. C. H. Schildhauer, formerly an officer in the United States Navy and once holder of the flight en- durance record. The ship will ci 14 ngers and 8 pay load of ut | 5o.ooo pounds. The cost of flying her | has been estimated at from $5.78 to| $6.94 & mile. Q. What is the “radio_eity” that is| planned for New York’—W. A. Looking ahead to television and the vast possibilities of radio as a me- dium of entertainment, John D. Rocke- feller, jr., and & mup led by the Radio tion of erica will erect an o building and & 60-story skyscraper covering three square blocks at & cost of $250,000,000. The site is between fth and BSixth avenues, New York | City. The opening is expected to be in | about 1933. This radio center is to| house four large theaters, one seating 7,000 a motion picture auditorium seat- ing 5000, another for musical comedy, one for legitimate drama and possibly a large symphony hall. The enmfi is to do much toward prom: ing all the arts in the range of elec- trical en . Where did Sidney Lanier die?— L% A. The Southern t died in the mountains of North Carolina, where he had gone for his health. A bronze tal let, perpetuating his memory, is to be placed on the house at Tryon, N. C., where he died on S:ptember 7, 1881. Q. What do the abbreviations ex ¢, ex d and ex { meari when following the price of stocks?—F. H. A. They mean without coupon, with- out dividend and without ini t, re- spectively, . How far is it from Detroit to alo by automoblle, going across Canada?—G. B. . Windsor is across the Detroit | River from Detroit and is reached by 8 ferry trip of about 1 mil m Windsor to Erie is 271 miles. The Peace Bridge from Fort Erie to Buffalo is about eight-tenths of s mile in length. The road from Windsor to Fort Erie is an excellent paved one. Q. Does the mahogany tree grow in & forest of its own d or scattered IIIIAM’I' other species of trees?—W. M. J. RASKIN. ln‘! n'dhl'::t - the m.‘# appearance on —A. T. H. A. John Drew made his first appeare ance on the stage in his mother’s thee ater, in Philadelphia, in 1873, when he Wwas 20, and his last in San Francisco 54 years later. g. ’wgm was Max Schmeling born? A He was born in Prenzlau, Ger- many, in 1908. Q. Are there many mountains in the Philippines?>—N. P. A. The extensive mountain syst of the Philj) es belongs to the . cession of volcanie ranges. There are 20 or more active volcanoes. . How did the phrase, a “Pyrrhic ry,” origini —L. M, . _This phrase is used to denote & victory won at tremendous cost and refers to the battle of Asculum, in which Pyrrhus, King of Epirus, won a victory over the Romans while sustain- ing such heavy losses that he is said to have exclaimed, “Another such vic tory and Pyrrhus is destroyed!™ Q. What is meant by being tongue- tled?—K. W. A. Tongue-tied is defined as impeded motion of the tongue due to shortness of the fraenum, or+its adhesion to the gums. When a child is said to be tongue-tied, recourse must be then had to division of the fraenum. The ex- Vief A | pression is often used in a figurative sense. A person is said to be tongue- tied when he is speechless from em- barrassment or fright. Q. When and why was Emma Gold- man de 7—S. K. o he was tried for conspiracy against the draft law in 1017. She was sentenced to serve two years in a Fed- eral prison and was fined $10,000. Upon her release from prison she was de- ported to Russia in January, 1920. Q. What is meant by being buried with full military honors?—A. M. C. A. It rgeans with the honors suitable to one's rank and depends on the rank held by the mfla‘dl{:‘l at the time of Q. What foods should be included and avoided in planning Summer meals? A. It is wise to avold rich pastries and desserts and to limit meat to one eal & day. Fewer fat foods should be eaten. Otherwise choose a ration with plenty of vegetables, greens, salads and fruits in season. It is best to cut out stimulants and depend upon whole milk, buttermilk, water, ginger ale and fruit juices to quench thirst. Q. How many veterans of the Civil ;v.rr fre now on the pension roli?— A On May 31 there were 49,804 veterans of the Civil War and 168,538 dependents on the pension roll. Q. Please tell me the names of some stories dealing with movie people.—C. D. Such a list would include: “Mer- ton of the Movies"” by Harry Leon Wilson; “Love Nest,” by Ring Lardner; “Spider Boy,” by Carl Van Vechten; ‘Hollywood ' Girl,” by J. P. McEvoy; n," by Jim Tully, and “Queer ," by Carroll and Garrett Gra- his connection rvice. Q. What substance is it that is called the ‘“chemical Dr. Jekyll and M, Hyde"?—A. 8, C. . ny trees are generally scattered among other trees. A. Alcohol has been 8o described. In Flight of Herolc qualities are found by the coun in the enterprise of 'Capt. xlng ord-Smith, whose flight with the Bouthern Cross from Ireland to New- foundland fell short of reaching the goal at New York. The hasardous na- ture of the westward journey across the Atlantic is demonstrated once more, and much of the comment is in recog- nition of the part that radio played in s g the lives of the air navigators. “The successful flight,” according to the Atlanta Journal, “is a triumph for skill of Capt. Charles Kingsford-Smith and his three comrades on the great adventure. * * * Fiying helplessly, hopelessly in the black heavens, they at last picked ug a ‘beam wireless' as cheering a harbinger to them as the re- turnlnfi dove to the flood-tossed Ark of | old. (ave them their bearings, it! guided them through the elsewhere pathless and fatal night, it crowned their heroism with victory. Thus the sclentist and the inventor, hidden away from the world, patiently bemt upon their quiet quests, without the spur of & splendid hazard and without the mul- tude’s applause, share the glory of those who conquer the sky. It is the man of thought who prepares the way for the man of action, and a great thought is w‘l A great deed.” “Brave and skilled as the captain and his three flying companions are, de- pendable as his three motors are, | stanch as his well tried ship is” in | the opinion of the Toledo Blade, “dis- aster would have been inevitable except for the messa glving location, which came uncannily, as from nowhere, out of the fog. In such emergencies the human eye and a fickle compass needle, veering with magnetic influences of the earth, are wholly undependable.” * ok x “Just as the mails in earlier days were an indispensable necessity in the slower travel of the period, and as the telegraph was made a useful servant in connection with the operation of rail- | road trains,” says the Salt Lake Deseret News, “50 now the radio, most amazing of agencies bent to the will and use of | man, has become an all-important part | of the wengdrous travel through the air.” Dependence on the radio in_this | flight is imy also on the Lan- caster Intelligencer Journal and the | Canton Dally News. The latter states that “had it not been for the use of the radio beam the Southern Cross | might have disappeared, like most of |its” predecessors,” d that “for the present, at least, game of flying the | Atlantic in heavier-than-air craft is not worth the eandle. “The Southern Cross” declares the Louisville Courier-Journal, “has accom- | plished little more than' the Bremen accomplished. It came closer to its goal and it was undamaged, but this was | due, not to the plane, but to wireless. Like the Bremen, it was lost. * * * 1t is not belittling the exploit of Capt. Kingsford-Smith to say that he has demonstrated what time and again has been demonatrated before, t the heavier-than-air machine has not yet reached a stage of perfection where it can cope with the hazards of the we rd passage.” “One of the greatest living air pilots,” is the tribute of the New York Times to the leader of the flight, with the further comment, ‘‘He a well tested plane that had been flown over the Pacific and most of the way around the world.” The Janesville Gasette calls it “another tremendous achievement of the air,” while the Roanoke Times says the names of the crew of the Southern | Cross “deserve to be added to the lengthening rall of heroes of the air; that “Kingsford-Smith s rightfully elated at hlv!n‘ crossed the Atlantic without mishap.” * ok ox X “The flight takes on an added ro- mance, in the judgment of the Chatta- nooga Times, “by reason of the age of the Southern Cross and its record of previous performances. The trimotored monoplane has been in service five years, It has flown more than 73,000 miles, and in all tivis mileage its engines have never failed onee.” mazoo Gazette znn that the pilot's “failure to reach Néw York in a single flight may dim the,luster of his triumph just a radio as well as for the courage and | would comy in handy some Triumph of Radio Acclaimed Southern Cross seriously detract from the greatness of the achlevement itself.” Notwithstanding the diffieult condi- tions of the westward pnn'f. the Charleston Evening Post holds that the Bouthern Cross “seems to have met the tests admirably,” and that “Capt. Kingsford-Smith stands out ss one of the world's greatest as iors,” They didn't quite wiake their ob- Jective, but they did fly over the Atlan- tie, and thegl lid live through the ex- perience, which, as airplanes go, is mueh,” avers the Duluth Herald, while | the Detroit News says: “How many lives have gone in the effort! But, in the end, the task is done. First the Bremen fluttered down on the fringe of Lab- rador. Now the Southern Cross comes to landing in Newfoundland. That is the story of civilization when all things can be brought into perspective. Man- kind ever {:yfl the price, be it what it may, and, in the end, wins. The steps may be slow and tragic, the time be- tween careful experiment and common practice long and discouraging. But once an advance is made, it stands as a challenge and a proof—a challenge to 80 forward from there; a proof that the quest is possible.” It is contended by the Schenectady Gazette that “ocean fiights will cone tinue to be extremely hazardous until some means is devised of carrying enough gasoline for the most severs demands, coupled with an additional sul?ly that will last for a long period. And, under Jbresent conditions, that ing the ship, which adds " eoncludes that paper. The Indianapolis Star points out that “the abbreviated flight still leaves the Eu- rope-to-New York hop as the chief goal of ambitious pilots”; that “several successful eastern dashes have been made, but wind and fog have conspired to defeat all attempts to reach the United States. Other flights will be made until some one, favored by better Wweather conditions, wins the coveted honlzr," lfdd; m'e Star. “Kingsford - Emith's at achleve- ment.” ndvises the New. York Sun, “should encourage popular hopes and expectations, the non-fulfillment of which may dampen enthusiasm for aviation. Commercial crossings of the Atlantic by airplane on regular sched- ules are not a convenience of omorrow, or even the day after.” r——— No Litter Disfigures the Public Parks in Europe To the Editor of The Star: I want to add a word of thanks for your timely editorial of June 26 in re- gard to our slovenly American habit of rulning the beauty of woodland and park—by strewing newspapers in all directions. I have just returned from a European trip, and the newspaper- covered gutters and streets of New Yotk were in such sharp contrast to the neat streets and parks I have seen in Lon- don. Of course, it is thoughtlessness —another word for “selfishness.” Is it that we are entirely lacking in national and civic pride or do you suppose we are given too much responsibility with- out being ‘“chezked up” sufficiently? Not that I bejfve in quickly addim more statutes our already overbur- dened books; 4 in London, the absence of any sign saper so impressed me —and ther @ noticed the abundant wnmlw sig1.¥ posted conspieuously with & penalty attached of 2 unds ($125) for any one leaving “litter” around. Evidently the warnings were enforced, and there are few of us who would care to forfeit $125 for carelessness—and surely not for more than once. Yours for a more beautiful world, MARGUERITE H. ——— Desk Cleaning Time, Prom the Little Rock (Ark) Democrat. This is the time of the year to throw away all that stuff you tucked away in your desk last December, knowing it day. Canada May Hurl Bricks.. - From the Louisville Courler-Journal, Canada proposes a brick-for-brick tariff wall as against that of the United States. And Canad trifle in 'his own eyes, but it cannot |0 throw in our dierie O 10 SPare our