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pE——— THE EVENING STAR |mn points out the obvious fact that D WASHINGTON, D. C " FATURDAY «..July 5, 1930 “THEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor “The Evening Star Newspaper Company o ve. d St st 420 zan Builcing. Furopean Office;, 14 Regent St.. London. Encland. in A L tar and Sunday Star ve) a d_Sunday § davs) 45c rer month e Sunday v Sc rer copy Collection made at the and of each mowth Riders max he sent in by mail or i*lephone ‘Ations] 8000. 10.00: 1 mo.. &8¢ 56.00: 1 mo.. A | 2400; 1 mo.. 40c All Gther States and Canada. ay..19r. $12.00: 1 mo. $100 Lyl sa00’ 1mo. i isrl 3500: 1mo. S0c the Associated Press. Press is exclusively entitled republication of in. " All rights of publi ches herein are mlso ——— In the Spotlight” The Senate of the United States will be in the spotlight when it meets again Monday at the call of President Hoover. This is not unusual. But in this case it is important. The suggestion has been made that Senato:s, weary with | the work of the session of Congress| just closed, will absent themselves 1rom Washington, leaving the Senate with- out & quorum. This is more than a suggestion on the part of the opponents of the London naval treaty—it is a hope. Tiness alone should be the ex- cuse for such absence. The duty of Senators of the United States is to at- tand to the public business when the ©oall comes. This is true for both the opponents and the supporters of the pending London naval treaty. The world will watch with peculiar interest the Senate in session at this time. The business before the Senate for consideration is a matter of mo- ment, not only to the people of the United States, bui to the peoples of many other nations. The naval limita- tion treaty grows out of a desire on the part of many peoples to drop the bur- den of expenditure growing out of com- petitive naval bpilding and out of a desire for peace—a peace that will last. “The treaty itself has been the subject of criticism, not alone in the United States, but in Great Britain and in Japan. And the criticisms have come in all three countries from sources which are opposed in the main to any Hmitation of naval armament. There have been the critics, too, wha for po- litical purposes are antagonistic to any- thing that the Hoover administration or the Ramsay Macdonald Labor gov- ernment or the existing government in Japan may do. They are the snipers _ in this fight for treaty ratifieation, not guided by principle, but by personal ambition. Under the Constitution of the United States the President may negotiate treaties with foreign nations, but these treaties must be ratified by a two-thirds “'vote of the Senate. It has been obvious for months that many more Benators than the two-thirds required for the ratification are favorable to the tresty. But still there has been delay—delay in the hope that public sentiment may ohange, or that the resuit of the con- gressional elections next November may have an influence upon the vote in the Senate if it is postponed until next| - Winter. No one should deny the right of the minority on any question to a " full expression of its views and to time for consideration. But there is a rea- donable 1imit to such expression and to the time required for consideration. In the case of the London treaty ample * time has been given for consideration. *“The time has come for debate and action. " In some quarters there hos been a ~disposition to belittle the London treaty on the ground that it does not provide for sufficient reduction in naval arma- .ments. The very fact that the threv| freat naval powers of the world heve | eome together in agreement on a limi- tation of their total naval tonnage is however, an astounding accomplish- faent viewed in the light of world opin ion of & quarter of a century ago. It marks a step toward international will- | ngness to settle disputes between na- tions by peaceful means, rather than by warlike, which has not hitherto been equaled. It is something tangible, something on which to hang. Should | the Senate of the United States defea thiz agreement or postpone action on it for months, the hopes of the world weuld be Jowered and the skeptics and | the eynies would have full sway again. | 60c per month | ai i -7 65¢ per month | | the bottom has been virually knocked pan is destined to take and keep t.hp} lead among world powers in trade with China. Proximity and propinquity make that inevitable. To that end, Japan, - !'according to Ishii, has nothing but : enlightened self-interest in the perpetua= tion of “equal opportunity” in Man- churia. closed. Thelr concern is wholly In the direction of holding 1t ajar. Along the Yangtze River and in Shantung Province Japanese traders fecl that they are equipped and endowed to oulstrip all foreign competitors. Al | they want is an even chance. To perpetuste an ali-around permanent | squere deal, “hich is another name for the open door, is what Nippon craves, ! if Viscount Ishii's elucidation of her | policy is reliable. She is evidently ready for a survival of the commercial fittest in the inexhaustible Chinese | market, e Twenty-Three Days in the Air. Late yesterday afternoon the Hunter brothers, who have been fiving over an | airfield in Chicago for the past three weeks and more, brought their plane to the ground with the phenomenal record of 553 hours, 41 minutes and 30 seconde in the air. They had long before broken the record of 420 hours. They had achieved their desire to continue the fight until .Independence day. They had stt & mark for endurance that will probably stand for some time. They brought their ship to earth only when | it was just about ready to cease func- tioning through the wearing out of its motor parts. They had just called for nd their brothers on the field were racing to get aloft with a fresh supply when the engine went into its last splutter and the ship was brought gently to earth Quite apart from the matter of human endurance, this performance i8 astound- ing. It called in the first place for an effective organization and co-operation between the land force and the air force. In the course of the flight the brothers on the ground made no less than 228 refueling contacts. That meant leaving the ground 223 times and mansuvering into position for dropping a pipeline from one plane to the other and main- tainirg a precise relationship for sev- eral minutes. When honors are paid for this extraordinary achievement, the | men who did the essential work of re- fueling must not be forgotten, It now remains for technical experts by their examination of the plane to determine how far this flight has ad- vanced aviation. It has certainly dem- onstrated that a plane can be kept in motion, continuously for more than twenty-three daye. It has proved | that the duration of a flight, given A sturdy machine, is lime ited for all practical purpcses only by the supply of gas and ofl, and, | of coursz provender of the erew. It has shown that if & sufficient fuel, ofl and food supply ean be assured, & ma- chine can function long enough to fly around the world nearly twice over. For the flight which was ended yester- day covered, it is estimated, 41475 miles, Of more immediate iInterest to the public than even the sclentifie demon- stration of the plane, City of Chicago, is the question of the reward of the Hun- ter family, brothers, sister and mother, all of whom participated, for their| plucky and successful venture. They | Are deserving of every dollar that can be gained from such a performance. And it 18 to be hoped that they will not be mulcted of their winnings by | the chicane of schemers and parasites. | Their rugged qualities of character have given them a place in the American heart. - Large areas in which the fruit crop has becn & fallure will make the Euro- pean boycott of American apples a lite tle easler to bear. The absence of apples | is a misfortune which renders an apple boycott only a gesture without practical | significance. G - e A number of statesmen wall as usual | reach home in time to receive loyal local | congratulations for remaining in the contest instead of bring ieft torn limb from limb on the field of debate. | rmonae g Responkibilities of censorship assumed y Mussolini are impressive, The task of doing all the talking for a historically | important nation is by no means slight. | r——— Summer Vacation Spending. A dispatch from Paris tells an inter- esting story of the repercussion of the tock market collapse of last Autumn and the present depression in American securities upon French business, par- ticularly upon the hotel and tourist ac- commodation industry. It states that Theater offices say that plays next season will be better than ever. The theater is the great roulette wheel which | provides for a few large winings to be ! paid from innumerable minor invest- | ments. - —.— A large element of American states-| manship concedes to Europe leadership | in fashions of attire, but not in tenden-| tles of economic thought. . The Open Door in China. Viscount Kikujiro Ishii, well remem- hered special wartime Japanese Am- bassador to the Unitcd States, has just| published his memoirs in Tokio. They| disclose for the first time the history of | the celebrated Ishyi-Lansing agreement | whereby the United States recognized Japan's “special interests” in China— an agreement abrogated in 1923, fol- Jowing understandings reached at the| Washington conference of 1921.22 Viscount Ishil reveals that he sought to have the United States acknowledge that Japan had “paramount interests’ eiple of “spheres of interest.” tary Tansing having rejected the sug- gestion of “paramount interests.” Ishii| proposed “special interests and influ- ence ‘ence” were dropped It is with reference to the future, Tather than the past, that Viscount | considerable | that cannot be found in Europe, moun= in China, but falled, because Pr&'lidenti Wilson stood firmly against the prin-| Seere-| " Pinally the words “and influ-| out of the tourist trade in France. Many fashionable hotels on the boule~ vards which normally by this time are full have s0 many empty rooms that ! they have reduced their rates from the regular charge of two hundred francs a | day to sixty francs. The same 18 true with | Deauvilie, Le Tougquet and other water- ing places. Curiously enough, there is & increase in the Girman tourist traffic in France, but this has by no means compensated the falling off of | the richer American patronage. This sugg:sts that perhaps scme of the Americans who have been regularly g0Ing across the ocean for their sume mering are now seeing America, perhaps, | for the first time. Maybe they have tuned up the famlly motor cars and have started forth on expeditions of | discovery. Thry will ind much that is | interesting. They will even be aston- ished at the uttractiveness of thar | homeland. They can see things here tains as high as the Alps, Iakes larger than any the Old World has to offer, forests vaster than any mcross the sea, natural wonders that cannot be ap- proached for grandeur or intcrest by anything clsewhere in the world. Maybe these home-staying Americans, trimming thelr vacation sails to the lowered financial wind, will find s0 much of interest and entertainment and instruction and pleasure here at home this Summer that they will conclude that they have been making a mistake Ishii speaks in terms of far-reaching fmportance. He sets forth that while the Ishii-Lansing accord has been for- mally annulled, Japan's “special in- terests” in China, especially in Man- ‘ehuria, were never based on a diplo- matic agreement, but are “a geographi- eal actuality” which “neceds no recogni- The distingulshed Nipponese states- in the past in hunting diversion and restful change overseas. They can find just as expensive resorts as in foreign lands if money-spending is an object. And again they can find much cheaper and more satisfactory accommodations The Japanese fear only thn’ the door now open may some time be | . Adelphians, beaten in their first contest )l.‘}o €04 1 jiey can get into Snaces & sparse population: Nobody wishes the hotel keepers and resort promoters of Prance any il luck, but it may be remarked that this coun- try can use American money at home very effectively and satisfactorily this Summer. Indeed, the diversion of some of the millions that have been poured into foreign tills for Summer pleasuring heretofore might, if diverted into home pockets, make a considerable difference in the economic situation in America. — e A Glorious Base Ball Fourth. When the other day the Washington ball club beat St. Louis, its perennial bean-spiller, two games in one after- noon 1. Was observed that only one factor prevented perfeciion. That was that the second game was not, like the first, won by the home team in the final inning, which is always the ideal of the ardent rooter. Yesterday the Washing- ton contingent won another double- header, making two in one week, which is a very commendable performance, especially for a pennant contender. ‘This was a more important double- header to win than the St. Louls dual victory, inasmuch as the victims yes- terday were the New York Yenkees, who are treading close upon the heels of the Nationals in the pennant race. But again the afternoon’s doings fell short of perfection by a single factor. That was that the league-leading Phil- with the humble Bostonians, were not similarly treated in the second en- counter. Had Manager Cornelius Mc- Gillicuddy’s Athletics lost the second game as well, then, indeed, the sun would have set upon a perfect day for Washington. In that event last night's fireworks would have erackled and blazed upon the heads of the Senatorial league leaders, out in front by twelve points, whereas the rockets’ red glare found them in second place by a single point. But nobody wailed bitterly over the deficiency of yesterday's record—that is, nobody in Washington, unless it be the visiting Yankees of Gotham. Thirty-three thousand people saw the games, & turnout that has been equaled in this city only on the occasion of the world serles games played here, truly & sterling performance before an ap- preciative audience. And if there are any doubters today in Washington re- garding the pennant aspirations of the entire Washington aggregation or any skeptics anent the bright chances of the home team for highest honors, they are, indeed, sodden cynics, incurable by even so effective a remedy for pessi- mism as a double-header won on a holi- day from the nearest rival in the league race. . ‘Tearing up telephone directories is still a favorite method of saluting a hero on parade. Courteous restraint prevents the subseriber who resents the dial system from picking up the tele- phone itself and throwing it out of the ‘window. —— . Numerous and conflicting suspicions lead the uninformed public into a men- tal attitude which suggests that there | Was no real murder in the first place; that some writer merely imagined one. —— e A sign of Russian stability is offersd THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON. D. C, SATURDAY, THIS AND THAT In all the talk of wet and dry, why jhas no one mentioned the chocolate ice cream soda? There is the best of all the fountain drinks, if you ask thousands. Strong men, weak women, tough boys and nice little girls, one and all point to the old original chocolate iee cream soda—"with vanilla cream, please”— as the one and only. Perhaps the plain vanilla soda was the first of the historic fountain drinks, but it was run a close second by the fosming mixture based on chocolate. The ice cream soda somehcw got & reputation for being a feminine drink, but the boys behind the counters will tell you that more men indulge in this pleasantry than women. e The taste for chocolate is one of the amazing things in the gustatory world. People of all races and climes prefer it. There are few persons, indeed, who are willing to say that they do not hocolate, in one form or another, is the universal fiavor, swallowing up vanilla, which it requires to bring out its smooth qualities. ‘The old-fashioned chocolate ice cream sgda still leads at the fountains. The writer here can recall his first “ice cream sody,” at the age of about 6 years. With the early—very early— film showing the city fire engines, it is among his earliest recollections. We have forgotten whether the soda was served in the village drug store, or in a room especially set up for the pur- pose. We believe it was the former. The marble top of the counter made a particular impression, but even larger was the appeal of the foam which cov- ered the top ot*th‘e ',}“,:‘ Since those days the chccolate ice cream soda has seen many rivals, rang- ing from the “sundae,” a most absurd word, to the multitudinous concoctions which appear and vanish, but through them all the foam has remained. Some sodas are all foam, as every addict knows. The glass is filled about one-third full of liquid, and about two- thirds “fiz2.” so t when one gets down to the most delectable part there 1s practically nothing there to enjoy. Children invariably prefer the foam. It has an appeal of mystery to them, and tantalizes them with a foretaste of good to come. ‘The adult soda consumer could dis- nse with the “flzz.” The more fizz, e has found, the less chocolate liquor. There are three secrets, or perhaps four, to the perfect chocolate ice cream soda. There must be plenty of liquid, it must be cold, the ice cream must be firm, and above all, the chocolate flavor must be good. ok x ‘There are as many chocolate “tastes,” of course, as there are fountains. Al- though the industry has standardized recipes for “simple syrup,” as it is called, and the better brands of choco- late run uniform, perhaps no two makers get exactly the same flavor. Some chocolate ‘'sodas taste for all the world like poor whisky. Others have the true flavor of their important ingredient. The best of these sodas have plenty of water in them, permit- ting the imbiber to have a bit of soda with each bite of cream, and yet still have plenty of liquid to drink after the fce cream has been consumed. This may not seem & very important mat- ter, in the face of world problems, but it is weighty enough when one orders BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. a chocolate ice cream soda-—with vanilla cream. Nothing is more disturbing to the soda “fan” than to find only a few teaspoonfuls of soda in the bottom of good, but the expert desires to be re- warded with many a good gulp. He knows that there is plenty of room in the average glass for both cream and liquid. He resents “fizz” covering up a paucity of either. e B ‘The curious thing about the choco- late ice cream soda is that the more it costs the worse it is. The best ones to be secured usually come at a mod- erate prive, while one must invariably be suspicious of those at fancy prices. In the old days the “nickel soda” was the best. Even today one occasionally runs upon a place where a real soda is served for 5 cents. Because the choco- late soda is the basis of the trade, the dispensers usually serve as good ones as they can. One is safer ordering this mixture than any other, From a dietetic standpoint the choco- late ice cream soda appears to be en- tirely harmiless. It is amazing how many of them a person In average health can consume in a day without the slightest feeling of remorse. A prominent Washingtonian recently went on a chocolate ice cream soda “spree.” All his life he had held in leash his appetite for this beverage, food, or what you will. Never within his memory had he ever eaten or drunk more than one of them in a single day. That afternoon he began with two, and from then on ordered himself one every time he hap- pened to be near a drug store. What was his amazement. late in the evening, to discover that the mixtures had “sat” extremely well, that he never felt better in his life, and that he de- manded no other food. He is now eonsidering living entirely on chocolate ice cream sodas for & week, just to see how this beneficent concoction would stand up over a longer period. EREE Perhaps nine out of ten consumers de- mand “vanilla ice cream” when they ask for the time-honored soda of sodas. There iz scmething about vanilia cream which “goes” with chocolate situp; the two together make one of the world’s favorite tastes. Chocolate cream in chocolate liquid is a bit too much of a good thing. One of the good points to the sodas is that few persons feel called upon to go the limit as our friend outlined above. One soda a day is enough for the average person, Usually this comes in the middle of the afternoon, when there seems to be a normal demand for something to eat. 'The chocolate ice cream soda fills the bill nicely. It lacks the urge, if one may call it, of stronger drinks. One must be moderate. This, it would seem, is one of the good points in its favor. With the exception of some such person as instanced above, who “euts loose” on a soda “spree,” your average consumer has no inclination to be a hog. This is because a soda is “filling.” It is not all “froth” by any means. It.belongs in the class of those good things which cheer but _do not inebriate, as the poet sald. The de- mand for it is so univertal that a good one may be purchased almost any- where. Even the smallest crossroads store serves a good chocolate soda. by the fact that Leningrad, once St. Petersburg, then Petrograd, has not | changed its name in a considerable | space of time. ———ats China has always had wars. The astute Celestial longs for the days when | they were fought with firecrackers in- stead of modern ammunition. s SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOMNSON. Glorious Fifth, A patriot mood Must surely intrude As fireworks fllumine the sky. The Fourth fades away And I venture to say, “Hooray for the Fifth of July!” ‘The date that is dear Unto patriot cheer Is the Fourth, as no one can deny, But the day that brings rest, After all, may be best— So, “Hooray for the Fifth of July!” Use in Moderation. “What's your opinion of prohibi- tion?" 1 “It's a good thing,” answered Senator | Sorghum. “For everybody?” “Ot couwse. But, like alcohol, the | discreet politician may find it some- ' thing to be used in moderation.” Jud Tunkins says a man starts in politics by runniag for the legislature and then gets so scared that he simply | has to keep on running. As Relationships Change. Life works in a peculiar way, And trouble mnone should borrow.' Your enemy of yesterday May be your friend tomorrow. Turn About, “Why are you so interested in real | estate booms?"” “Tryin’ to get even,” said Farmer Corntossel. “Farmers have invested a heap o' money in stocks. We hope to get some of those Wall Streeters per- | suaded to invest in farms.” “To repeat scandal,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “is to reduce your- self to the situation of an unpaid en- tertainer of a crude audience.” Words and Deeds. Of doctors sometimes we must feel An inclination wary. Small cures they often will reveal With large vocabulary. “Women kin work jes' as well as men,” said Uncle Eben. “But some men tries to flatter 'em too much by lettin’ 'em do ALL de worl e The Bone Business. From the San Antonio Evening News. New tariff act puts skeletons on the free list. While the gunmen may fol- low an infant industry, the framers re soned, they certainly do not need pr tection. ) rele. Prom the Hamilton Ontario Spectator. here. They can have bathing and cos- tume showing and sightseeing just as freely as in the Old World and even more freely in some recpects. They can The suggestion tMat motorists be taxed $10 each to relieve unemployment has a very W, d the motorists’ are unemployed be able to pay the 8107 1 tribute to Mr. Folger's Great cultural benefits are predicted as a result of the fund of $10,000,000 left by Henry Clay Folger, long an official of the Standard Oil Co. as an endowment for - the Shakespeare Me- morial Library in Washington, wbich is to house the priceless Folger collec~ tion of the works of the t. The country and the r{n\o‘:al apital are lared to be great gainers. de;‘l:new:d lflu‘::l‘a in Shakespeare in America 18 foreseen by the Fort \.)!Ilyne News-Sentinel, recaliing that “there has been much proper lamenting of the fact that while, in every town of any size in England, Germany, France, Russia and Austria, there are, every year, Shakespearean seasons of gener- ous ' length and profitable interest, Americans have been shamefully neg- lecting his genius for more than a quarter of a century. No more impor+ tant step to implant and revive the art of Shakespeare in the United States was ever taken than that of the late Henry Clay Folger, New York capital- ist, for many years actively connected with the Standard Oil Co., as pr slt‘ienl and chairman of the board. * It will be a most appropriate memorial both to Shakespeare and to one whose bequest should fi far to spread Shake- spearean knowledge in the United States.” * K kK estion that “engraved upon the por of the memorial should be the finest tribute ever paid to the Bard of Avon, by the late Robert G. Inger- soll, ‘An’ ocean of intellect whose waves lapped every shore of thought, 1s made by the Oklahoma City Okl?- homan, while the Pasadena Star-News, referring to the “priceless riches in the works of this author, with their “riches of imagery, refinements of (’.'ul.-v ture and adornments of learning, finds it of interest that “a man of large business affairs found time in the midst of the strenuosities of modern life to drink deep of the fountain of Shake- ean wit and wisdom.” A “Nowhere else, even in England’ says the New York World, “are there such advantages for study of his period as the institute will offer. The Folger Shakespeare Memorial will be a great ‘The s j addition to_the attractions of Wash- ington as a museum city. They are lhge-dy considerable. e National Museum is growing. Some day the valuable exhibits of the Agricultural Museum may be worthily housed. Such buildings a8 Pan-American and National Geograbhic headquarters, the Patent Office, Library of Congress and the Government Printing Office have some pretensions &s museums. Private donors like W. W. Corcoran have remembered the city. In the Freer Gallery, for example, are unique opportunities for viewing and studying the art of Whistler. That the gift rengthens the posi- tion of the !Ahrnry of Congress in its rescarch character as a resort for workers_in all fields” is the conclusion of the Providence Journal, as it points out, “The resources of the ger M:morial will be exactly as available to students as if it were under '.PE roof of the Congressional Library.” The ! Journal views 1t “an interesting he lays upon the trustees of Amherst College ',h':o duty of administering th’ library and its great funds. That . paper continue: “Longfellow once !envied Shakespeare his undisputed po- I sition in literature as an author ‘by no eritic vexed,’ but the Folger Shake- | peare Memorial shows that the great of being a poet uj whom a kingly fortune has been lavished in order to assemble his works and everything caring upon their interpretation for [the benefit of the present and future ages.” | “The plays of Shakespeare,™ records the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, “do not draw such large audiences as they did !in the years gone by. Talking pictures, the radio and many other things were causing the flame that has burned for centuries, and which should now burn bright, to flicker, and professors were {finding it difficult to interest students ‘in these sixteenth century sum provided Mr. Fol rives in the nick of ll:x’l. and wil backing & genius like T ar- such alma mater that | | drematist has the further distinction | '‘American Culture D(;clared Beneficiary of Folger Fund! should be able to hold his own against the talkies.” o e Although acknowledging that “America has as fine a collection of Shakespearean folios and rare editions as the British Museum itself,” the Grand Rapids Press, nevertheless, suggests, “In a way It seems regrettable that vast funds of this type should go to increasing the knowledge about a sixteenth century genius when a similar amount would open many opportunitis for bringing out and developing the genius of the present day.” “There can be little question of the value of the gift in terms of scholar- ship,” says the Hartford Courant, be- lieving that “the collection should grow in size and influence,” while the Asbury Park Press states that the memorial “places America in the fore in honoring the great poet and promises further to sustain the universal popularity that his writings so richly deserve.” The Spring- field Republican advises that “it would seem that a relatively small guarantee would be sufficlent to establish in America a permanent Shakespearean company as intelligent as the various English companies.” Rockefeller’s Gift to New York Lauded Prom the New York Herald Tribune. The really magnificent conception embodied in Mr. Rockefeller's latest offer of his Washington Heights prop- erty to New York City for park pur- poses is & little breath-taking, at once in its gemerosity and in the scope of the development which it envisions. Thirteen years ago, when Mr. Rocke- feller first acquired the land with the intention of giving it to the city, the Barnard collection was still in Mr. Barnard's hands, and the idea of a great museum building did not enter into the project. Even so, the gen- erosity of an offer which would have dedicated the most commanding spot in the city to the public, crowned the chain of parks established along the Hudson water front with an exception- ally fine development and secured for the city almost the last area available for park use anywhere neat its cen- ter, was immediately apprecialed. Mayor Mitchel, involved in the diffi- culties of the war period, was unable w0 accept the offer. In 1923, however, Mayor Hylan was engaged upon plans for developing the Inwood and River- side Drive Park areas, and he ap- pointed a committee of the board of estimate to see if the transfer could not be arranged. It came to nothing, but again in 1926, Mr, Rockefeller was un- derstood to have taken up the matter with Mayor Walker. Inthe mean- while, through Mr. Rockefeller's own donation, the cloisters and their col- lections of gothic art had passed into the hands of the Metropolitan Museum. This now makes possible the completed scheme, with an imposing museum bullding set in appropriate surround- l‘x;’!s‘ the whole composing a munificent rmer— - Neighbors’ Radios. From the Hamilton (Ontario) Spectator. An appeal is made to the public for | & radio set for a hospital ward. There |should be a quick response—everybody belm{’v\llltng to give away the set owned by the next-door neighbor. e Task for World League. From the St. Louls Times. 1f the League of Nations can stop the fight between the American bears and bulls it will be a strong inducement for ation. AR S Santa Silent on Dry Law. PFrom the Buffalo Evening News. All classes respect Santa Claus. He 't yet expressid an opinion on prohibition. organi; e Haven’t Much to Control. From the Bantor Daily Commercial, Virtue is relative. Most of the people who boast of their self-control haven't ruch to control. the glass. Even those few gulps are | the United States to join the Geneva | JULY 5, 1930. | THE LIBRARY TABLE By the Booklover Both as vallant crusader for pure | food and as long-time resident of the National Capital, Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, who died on Monday, was much be loved by the ple of Washington. I is a matter of great satisfaction to his le; of friends lley, crowded and useful career, should ha written an account of his life and pub- lished it under the title “H: W. Wiley; an Autoblography.” is a thoroughly interesting one, of hum- ble m;mnmfis on an Indiana farm, of primitive early conditions, of hardships, of struggles for an education. of life as 8 soldier, of teaching, of travel and study abroad, of the long battle for pure food., of a late marriage and an interesting family, ot writing and lec- turing and political campaignin f threatened dismissal ‘The whole story has been told with a simplicity, an enthusiasm, & gusto and a humor that cause the reader to enter into the spirit of an amazingly rich and satisfying life. ik Wiley was not only born in the tra- ditional log cabin that seems the fitting origin of such giants and pioneers as he, but also his first school was built of logs. The pupils of the school were graded according to the one of the five McGufTey readers they read. His fath- er, a farmer, was in addition teacher of the school, but was also the ductor in his section of Southern In- diana of the “underground railway,” by which runaway slaves were assisted in their flights to the North. Wiley re- lates that “Uncle Tom's Cabin” was read aloud to the family by his father week by week as it appeared serially in the National Bra. & states that his educational training was greatly influ- enced by the reading of the books he secured from the peripatetic libraries that wcre established in Indiana in the early 1850's. These libraries were de- posited with the town trustees for a certain length of time and then trans- ferred to th> next township. By means of ‘such interchanges every township of the State had in the course of a few years access to good collections of his- tory, fiction and goneral Mterature. The most lasting impression of all these books made on Wiley was from his reading of John 8. C. Abbot istory of Napoleon Bonaparte.” Wiley was able to go through his collegs course only by working on his father's farm on Saturdays to pay his college room rent and by cooking his own meals. His college course was broken by brief serv- ice in the Union Army. He comments that had be been born 7 miles farther south he would probably have been a Conftderate soldier. R When Wiley finished his college cours: he decided to study medicine. To earn money for his medical course he resorted to teaching. Hearing of a vacancy in the northern part of the State, he spent all of his money in making a personal application, oniy to arrive too late, The- journey back of a hundred miles was made on foot. He had to swim a river at one point, keep- ing his clothes dry by making a bundle of them and holding them out of the water. At last a position as a country school teacher was found. A year of teaching was followed by an apgl:;n- ticeship to a country doctor. en came & tutorship in Greek and Latin in Indianapolis and a salary that en- abled him to take his course in a medi- cal college and sccure his degree of doctor of medicine. On graduation he was chosen professor of chemistry in the medical college, but feeling the need of more knowledge, he resolved to go to Harvard. On the way he stopped | off at Washington to visit his old friend and colleague, the then -chief of the Division of Chemistry of the Department of Agriculture, little realizging at the time that within 10 years he would be- {come the Government's chief chemist. The Harvard experience brings pictures of John Tyndall, Lowell Institute lec- turer; of Asa Gray and Louis Agassiz, | Harvard professors; of Charles W. Eliot, at that time known as the “boy presi- dent” or Harvard, and of Dr. Charles E. Monroe, then assistant professor at Harvard and later professor in George Washingtcn University. =~ At Monroe's suggestion Wiley applied’for a Harvard degree in science. To secure it required 17 days of examinations, oral and writ- ten, involving college entrance, fresh- man, sophomore, junior and two sen- for conditions. He got the coveted de- gree and cum laude therewith. Re- turning to Indianapolis, Wiley nearly killed himself by holding three teach- ing jobs, teaching chemistry at each, in_ a denominational college in the morning, in a high school in the after- noon and in the medical school in the evening. Then followed nine years of teaching chemistry at Purdue Uni- vergity. Two amusing incidents are con- nected with that experience. One of these was a reprimand from the board of trustees because of his conduct un- becoming a professor in riding a high- wheel bicycle. Wiley promptly re- signed, but the trustees refused to ac- cept it. Much later the board of trus- tees elected him president of the uni- versity on one day, but before notify- ing him of their action they rescinded it at the instance of Benjamin lel‘l-[ |son, then ex-President of the United States. on the ground (to quote his own words) that “he is a bachelor and does not attend church regularly, and, in my opinion, the head of a great insti- tution like 'Purdue should a strict attendant at church and be a married man.” * kK K More than half of the “autobiogra- phy” is devoted to Dr. Wiley's Wash- ington career, including the battle for pure food—in Congress, in the Depart- ment of Agriculture, in the courts, and even at the White House. This part of Dr. Wiley's life has been lived under thesobservation of Washingtonians, who are recommended to read this stirring history of the father of pure food. As 2 fighter for pure food, as well as & soldier in the Civil War, he was fittingly buried in Arlington National Cemetery. * oK ok ok The John Newbery medal, awarded annually by the section for library work with children of the American Library Association for the most distinguished children’s book of the past year, was presented to Rachel Field for “Hitty. Her First Hundred Years” during the recent session of the American Library Association conference in Los Angeles. The medal is named in honor of John Newbery, an eighteenth century pub- lisher and bookseller, who was one of the first publishers to devote attention to children’s books. It is the gift of Frederic G. Melcher of New York City d ashioned wonder doll discovered by Miss Field and Dorothy Lathrop, the illustrator, in the window of a New York antiqu- shop. Both the author and illustrator wanted “Hitty,” but she was an early American doll and very expensive. She was finally bought in’ partnership and her imaginary life history written by Miss Field and lllustrated by Miss Lathrop. Miss Peld is the author of “Taxis and Toadstools,” “Eliza and the Elves” and other stories, plays and poems for children. Miss Lathrop illus- trated, among other books, Walter De La Mare’s “Three Mulla-Mulgars” and Dorothy Canfield Fisher’s *Made-to- order Storics.” Among those who have won the medal in former years are Hendrik Van Loon for “The Story of Mankind,” Hugh Lofting for “The Voy- ages of Dr. Doolittle,” Dhan Gopal Muker|i for “Gay Neck” and Will James for “Smoky.” Last year the medal was given to Eric P. Keily for “Ths Trum- peter of Krakow.” * ko ow Among those whose work appears in “The Stuffed Owl: An Anthology of Bad Verse,” edited by D, B. Wyndham Lewis and Charles Lee, are such bright names as Byron, Keats, Goldsmith, first con- | g 'ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC This is djing of TI!I’\Q!. This paper puts at your disposal the services of an extensive organization in Wash- | ington to serve you in any capacity that relates to information. This serv- jce 18 free. Failure to make use of it deprives you of benefits to which you are entitled. Your obligation is only 2 cents in coin or stamps in- closed with your inquiry for direct reply. Addréss The Evening Star Information Bureau, Frederic J. Has- kin, director, Washington, D. C. Q. Can people commute by airplane? —H. W. A. Some companies are furnishing commuters’ strip tickets. This kind of business will probably grow rapidly. Q. Where should a thermometer be piaced in & room?—W. P. L. A. It depends on the existing condi- tions and the kind of thermometer. the thermometer the most representative temperature. Generally it is placed about 5 feet higl Q. What is the origin of the expres- sion “CGo by the board"?—R. S. A. It was & nautical expression, meaning to go over the side of a ves- sel, as in the case of a mast broken off short. A. The Morro Castle in Havana is & picturesque fortress, built about 1633 on a jutting promontory, 200 feet above the water, opposite the narrow harbor entrance to Havana. the Spanish, and although the Dutch captured the city of San Juan in 1635 they did not capture Morro. It re- mained in Spanish possession until the | Spanish-Amferican War. Q. How long have stock exchanges | existed?—L. B. A. The idea of a stock exchange 1s an old one, and stock brokers, so called, have existed for many years. Nelson states that as early as 1285 in England the térm broker is referred to in an act of Parliament. Q. How did Julian Eltinge happen to become & female impersonator?— 2 01 6. A, Julian Elflng, whose real name is willlam Julian Dalton, was born in Boston in 1883. He was employed in a bank in Boston, and at that time the | ut on a show | different banks' clerks annually, called the Bank Offices Show. Eltinge (or Daiton) played first in the | chorus, and later the leading femaie role. He achieved such marked success that he became a T;olmlcmnl female impersonator. He began his profes- sional career at Keith's Theater, Boston. Q. Has_automobile registration gone over 25,000,000?—M. G. A. In 1929 it was 26,501,443, Q Can I get a patent for & new remedy?—H. B. P. A. Patents for medicine compounds are obtainable m rare instances and | must amount to a startling generic dis- covery before being patentable. Since the Government has practically ceased granting patents of this class, appli- cants are advised to keep the prepara- tion of the medicine secret and protect the proprietary article when placed on the market by means of trade mark, print and label registration. Q. Which companies had the first chain stcres in the United States?-— W. H. B. A. The first of the existing chain store systems appears to have been the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., which a special department devoted e Pao | @ When was Morro Castle buflt?— | H It was built by | In fact, | the Wide Wosid J. HASKIN. was founded in 1858. The Jones Bro- thers Tea Co. was established in 1873, h's Five and Tgn Cent Stores 1879, James Butier Oo.'s Grocery |Chain 'in 1862, MeCrory Storss in 1882, Kresge Co. in 1885, United Cigar Stores in 1901, J. C. Penney Stores in 1902 and the United Drug Co. in 1902, Since 1900 the chain store idea in the United States has spread in ifferent branches, including automobile supplies, bakeries, clothing shops, confectionery shops, drugs, shoes and tobacco products. Q. Where was the first synagogue in the United States built? —W. g A. Touro Synagogue in Newport, R. I., is the oldest. It was built in 1762, and is still in use. Q. How docs one refinish a canoe? R. A. The first step in refinishing & | canoe is to sandpaper it. All cracks | should then be senled with a tarred | putty-like preparation which may be | burchased in any large paint store for this purpose. Specially prepared marine paint should Be used, each coat | being lightly sandpapered. The num- ber of coats depends on the condition of the canoe. After the last coat of paint has been applied and sand- | bapered, a coat of varnish should be applied. The woodwork of the canoe | should be well cleaned. sandpapered and varnished. Between each coat 6f vai nish the woodwork should be sand- papered lightly. Q. Has Great Britain modified her | view on free trade?—E. A. B. A. Shortly after the outbreak of the World War in 1915 Great Britain im- | posed certain duties on luxuries. In 11920 the imports of dyestuffs and coal | tar dves were completely prohibited. In | 1021 a duty of 3313 per cent was tm- | posed on the products of the so-called | key industries, such as optical instru- ments, barometers and wireless appara- tus. In 1925 some of the duties which |had been removed were restored, al though in the adyocacy of this more was said about the desirability of pre- yenting unemployment through the | protection of = established industries than about lowering rates. Although the import duties are not to be com- pared with the great volume of Great | Britain's trade, they are of great sub- | stantive consequence. There has been | unmistakably a departure from the | lans of British trade as it existed be- ore 1014, Q. How can one guess at the - | nunciation of Hawaiian worde?—J, gro A. The Hawalian alphabet consists of 112 letters. The vowels are [8s in Spanish, and are nounced, not slurred. Q. Is 18 too old to begin studying the | violin with an idea of becoming l’con- | cert player>—F. T. A. Etude says that most violin stue | dents have completed their studies for | the profession.at that age. Violin play=~ ing must be begun in very ear]y child- hood or youth to develop into a highly | paid profession. Q. What is Gresham'’s Law?—L. M. A. Gresham's Law I8 a principle in |finance and political economy, formu- | lated about the middle of the sixteenth | century by Sir Thomas Gresham, founder of the London Royal Exchange. The principle is: “Bad money drives out 8ood money from circulation. The | good coin (full weight and standard in | purity) will be- hoarded and the worn and thin, or light coins, will be used. Good money will also be used for ex- port to other countries, where it will | obtain more in exchange, while the light | coins will be used at home, thus depre- | ciating the national currency.” ven values ways pro- Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands Highligh 1ghlights on L= templated voyage of 15 German girls from Hamburg to the Re- public of Argentina nas been radically interfered with by the refusal of the Argentine consul at Ber- lin to indorse the passports of the in- tended tourists. This attitude on the part_of the consul is said to be due to the fact that all the young ladies were ostensibly going to Buenos Aires to at- tend an International Convention of Artists, though none of them wae known to have any acquaintance or connection with any sort of art what- ever. In fact, up until the moment of their departure for foreign shores was announced, these girls had all been em:lnyed either in cafes or theaters, an in menial cr domestic, rather than artistic, capacities. No doubt the real purpose of the voyage of these young women to Argentina is ‘o secure posi- tions as entertainers in different es- tablishments where s'nging and danc- ing is provided for the delectation of the guests, and the police of Hamburg are inclined to consider this employ~ ment & valid justification for.the vise of the Argentine eonsul. It is belleved that 12 of the girls, who are over 21 years of age, cannot, be detained. if their immigrant qualifications are satisfac- tory in all other respects. * kX ok Dr. Herrera Wins. Applause as Equestrian. El Tiempo, Bogota.—The horse show and the selections of the winners in the different_classes were mnue;s o{f en- tic interest to thousands of peo- ;;]i‘:.‘ h’;'he jumping (hurdling) was es- peelally applauded, this contost being won by the crack equestrian, Dr. Olaya Herrera, in an amazirg vault over a gate more (han 2 meters {7 feet) high. * o x X China Both Alert and Inert in Business. North China Standard, Peiping.—Is China alert, progressive, ambitious, prosperous—or is she inert, stricken, de- pressed, in the slough of trade despond? She is both, according to raports reach- ing the editor from our translation staff. For instance: “Business deprassion in Tientsin is more and more intensified as days pass. This is due to continuous disturbance and heavy taxes, which have exhausted the people here and in the interior, and have almost Xilled their purchasing power. To make matters worse, rail- way communication in 1920 was inter- rupted from time to time, exchange rates grew unfavorable to China and | silver went down with alarming rapid- ity, resulting in advance of prices. The banking business has decreased 50 per cent compared with 1928. Nearly one- fourth of tenants, both business and domestic, are in default in their rentals, and many Arms have had to close their oors. S So much for conditions in Hopel province. Manchuria has & very dif- ferent story: “Railroad building in North Man- churia is receiving special attention. Lines connecting th: different distrib- uting centers in North Manchuria are to be built for economic development of the territory. Throughout the Hm\’- ince commercial enterprises are flour- ishing.” Why should Manchuria go ahead and Tientsin, in Hopel Province, slip back- ward? ‘The answer lies not entirely in the new opportunities that exist in an undeveloped couniry, but, to a large ex- tent, on the peace and protection as- sured by Japanese proximity. WAL Beggars Give Tourists Bad Impression. Imparcial, Montevideo.—Every day the abuse assumes ter proportions. Upon our principal avenue, in the sec- tion comprehended between the Calle Paraguay and the Plaza Independencia, there abound beggars in astonishing numbers. We believe that there exists Chatterton, Burns, Southey, Leigh Hunt, ‘Wordsworth, Emerson, Poe and Tenny- son. Even the great have had their moments of sophomoric banality. against stueet begging an ordinance, as there exist other ordiriances which are designed to prohibit other evils mani- fest themselves in a city so large and mu:a. Regardless, hn:r’inr. n‘e how L COMERCIO, Lima.—The con- effective many other prohibitfons are, 1t seems to us especially desirable that in this season so employed by tourists, and 80 otherwise enjoyed by them, this par- ticular recrudescence should be at least diminished, producing, as it does, so many disagreeable impressions in visit« ors to our city. Too often these ex- cursionists encounter what is di able to their senses in a lack of eleanli= ness of streets and plazas, in the exist- ence of unpleasant odors, in prominent- ly situated ,public places, and in the wretched operation of many public services. But, regardless of all other defects, the police should at least clear the streets of the mendicants, and in- sure the foreign visitor immunity from this sort of molestation, incorporating, as it does, such an unfavorable reflec- tion upon our present prosperity, as far as the general public is concerned. * K ok ok Something Too Human About Ford Menu, Manchester Guardian—Mr. Henry Ford is a man of his word, and now that he has announced that he in- tends to live to be 100, presumably he will do it. Unlike those more or less accidental centenarians who achieve the distinction first and publish their diet sheet afterward, Mr. Ford has pre- sented the world with his bill of fare in advance of the event, since at the present moment he i5 a year or two short of 70. On the face of it, his recipe |for longevity 1is simple, not to say austere: Fruit for breakfast. Protein for luncheon. Starch for dinner. One’s only criticism would be thafy | there 15 something just a little too) | human and appealing about “fruit for® | breakfast.” Surely the correct version {‘nught to have been: Vitamins for breakfast, Protein for luncheon, Starch for dinner. | with an occasional calorie or ration of | calcium, if the human machine should | happen to experience “that sinking feel- ing” about 11 o'clock in the morning. | It will be observed that there is no air of Bohemia about Mr, Ford's bill of | fare; “starch for dinner” suggests a de- cidedly stift and formal function. How- ever, it will save trouble in some ways, If the cook takes a night off without | notics, the diner can always live up to ithe formula by gnawing his shirtfront. * ook | Palestine's National Debt Mounts. Falastin, Jaffa—Our national debt is mounting—higher than would seem possible for a small state. We might | well paraphrase Dr. Johnson, who, when advised that Goldsmith had died ine debted for some £5,000, exclaimed: ‘Was ever a poet so trusted before?” e A Cruelist Blow of All. From the Ramilton Onario Spectator. Still another heavyweight box contest has ended with a foul bl(l;: But th> foulest blow of all and the one '00“ !Qld&m cummemefl upon the wallop the public is getting in the pocketbook. b " H ) Motion Pictures Advance. From the Muskegon Chronicle. The movies really have advanced. They are no longer advertised as “stu- | pendous productions.” -t The Rumanian Romper. Prom the Muncie Morning Star, Several kings have reached secon | childhood, but young Michael of By | mania is the first to desert a throne for a nursery. - Concerned Corn. From the Des Moines Tribune-Capital. &)muafnth;mmmthubemup a short time Probably worrying about pected & i ] i e ce wi - bring and won't. -