Evening Star Newspaper, July 13, 1930, Page 20

2 THE EVENING STAR o With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. SUNDAY..........July 18, 1830 . Editor THEODORE W. NOYES. The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office: St. and Pennsylvania Ave. Office: 110 East 42nd 8t. e e Rate by Carrier Within the City. ‘8 iS¢ cer monf th 65¢ per month Sc rer copy W) nd e Sunday Sta: Collection mads Qriders mag be sent in by m Ational 5000. Rate by Mall—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. h mor:t! or telephone 5c 40c | ily only . Bundsy” only All Other State 1y and Sunday..1 100 s inday’only " 80 Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled 1o the use for republication of all news ois atches credited to it or not otherwise cred. ted i and also the local rews All rights of publication of Special dispatches herein are also reserved. —_— Not a Difficult Research. The resolution adopted by the House ©f Representatives on July 3 for the appciatient of a committee of seven to inquire into District-Federal fiscal Telations authorizes the committee “to sit during the sessions and recesses of the House, to hold hearings, to require the attendance of witnesses, to compel the production of books, papers and documents and to take testimony.” ‘There will be no necessity of invoking the compulsory power of the commit- tee to get plenty of testimony on the Subject of the equities of Federal con- tribution to the maintenance of the District. The citizens and the officials of the District are ready and eager to present themselves before the commit- tee with arguments and with data and figures in support of their contention that the Government's share of the maintenance of the Capital municipality is not a gratuity and is not adequate under the lump-sum provision, which has prevailed for some years. Nor should it be necessary for the Committee of Seven “to sit during the 8Sesslons of the House” in order to com- Dlete this research and to reach its conclusions. For there is no occasion for such protraction of the inquiry as to extend it beyond the time of the convening of the next session. The case is not a difficult one if it is ap- proached in the spirit of equity and without prejudice. It is, indeed, rather & simple proposition. Here is the Dis- trict of Columbia, a non-industrial com- munity, with inflexibly restricted area, incapable of territorial expansion, and by reason of certain restraints and re- strictions imposed by acts of Congress and municipal ordinances based upon statutes, held to a minimum of commer- clal development. It is required to maintain a high standard of equipment; with exceptionally broad streets and with a great area of parking. It has no large concentrations of wealth in private hands susceptible of taxation. ‘This community must pay without any recourse of appeal the taxes that are imposed upon it at the mandate of Congress. It must pay the amount of tax revenues necessary to meet the bill presented in the form of the annual appropriation measure, less a certain amount which has since 1878, a period of fifty-two years, been contributed by the Government in consideration of the District’s lack of means and weight of Tesponsibility as the National Capital. Congress may fix the tax rate and it may direct the scale of assessment for taxation purposes. It has done this in the past. It may revise those rates at any time. It may impose new taxes, finding fresh resources for tax levying, even as it is now suggested in the en- abling resolution under which the Com- mittee of Seven is to act that ‘“new forms of taxation and sources of rev- enue” may be found. The only question, after all, is ‘whether the District is taxed to a point of reasonable sufficiency, whether its privately owned property is fairly as- sessed and whether the per capita tex payment is in correct proportion. Does the average Washingtonian pay as much as he should in comparison with the average citizen of other cities of simi- lar size and conditions? On that score there are abundant figures, and there is ample proof to show that the per capita taxation in the District of Columbia is high, that there is no tax dodging, that there is no hiding of wealth from the assessor. In short, it has been shown again and again, and can be shown once more that the District pays all it should in reason pay in taxes of its own toward its maintenance, that it needs the aid of Government contribution, and that in equity that contribution should be proportioned to the amount of the Dis- trict's share of Capital cost and should not be subject to the whim and econom- ical stringency of the appropriative body. Apparently Mooney has become some- thing of a philosopher, realizing that imprisonment keeps him before the public, whereas freedom would have caused him to be forgotten. —— e Tempers and Telephones. Many a person has lost temper with | the telephong, In the days before the | dial system the central exchange | operator was the favorite object of years, or 23.8 per cent. stantial accretion. increased from the fact that Manhattan borough lost 18.6 per cent in the dec- ade, all other boroughs gaining. The actual depletion of Manhattan was 427,664. This decrease is attributed to to reflect he will recognize that the fault is his own and not that of the machine, and certainly not that of the operator. There was & case in New York the other day illustrating the absurdity of telephone temper. This had a financial side. Fred Roth went into a cigar store in the Bronx to use the phone and he dropped three nickels, one after the other, into the slot to at- tract the attention of the operator. When the third nickel failed he saw red, raged, tore the door off the tele- phone booth and made such a nuisance of himself generally that he was ar- rested and held on $1,000 bond for the . (grand jury on a charge of felonious assault committed upon the policeman who checked him in his violent career. Let Mr. Roth be a horrible example to those who are annoyed by the tele- phone. It serves wonderfully well and fails only when something is wrong with the machine, which is once in a blue moon. B ) A Hideous Menace. Washington has just banned the promiscuous loud speaker as a nuisance, but unless adjacent Maryland and Vir- ginia follow suit, the Capital is in danger of suffering a shocking torment of sound if a new German device should be imported to this country. Its advent in Berlin is noted in a dispatch which states that the other day orchestral selections were sprayed over a radius of twenty-five miles from the roof of an experimental laboratory. These strains of music, equal in volume to an orchestra of 2,000 pieces, came from 8 mammoth new loud speaker which takes a current of 120 amperes, welghs more than 100 pounds, and has a dia- phragm a sixteenth of an inch thick, with a vibration of half an inch on either side of the center, this vibration being strong enough to produce air waves that can be felt one hundred and fifty feet away. It is now planned in Berlin to attach the monster to a balloon anchored three thousand feet aloft and to broadcast from it a con- cert audible to the whole city of Berlin. Think of the possibilities of such a gigantic noise machine! Stationed in some complacent area under the pro- tection of a liberal law or a lack of law, it would sweep the whole District of Columbia with its din. It might be a pleasant din for a little while, agree- able to lovers of music for brief periods. But even the finest music becomes a pest if continued too long. And there is no guarantee that the titanic mouth- piece would be confined to musical notes. Advertising slogans, so-called dramatic sketches, orations, arguments, the whole range of radio might be showered down upon an area of many, many square miles. This is not a fantastic concept. It is quite possible that it will happen unless some restraint is put upon the loudspeaker outside of the District. The blare of the neighbor’s horn will be as nothing compared with the crash and boom of the commercial balloon- borne broadcaster. This is the time to act against such a hideous possibility, before the German device has been imported. N Nearly Seven Millions. The official census figures for Greater New York almost justify the pre-enu- meration claim of seven millions for the metropolis. The figure as stated is 6,955,363, a gain of 1,335,315 in ten ‘This is a sub- though not a phenomenal Its significance, however, is the movement of Manhattanites into the suburbs, their migration being due to the increase in rents in the older borough. This increase in rents is in turn due to the diminishing residential area, which finally in turn is the result of the expansion of business territory. In short, Manhattan is becoming the “business office” of the greater city. The heaviest increase of all the bor- oughs is that in Queens County, which comprises Long Island beyond the bounds of Brooklyn. That borough grew from 469,042 to 1,079,407, a gain of 610,365, or 130 per cent. Thus the Queens borough gain was almost one and a half times the loss of Manhattan. It does not follow that the Manhat- tanites who quit that area all moved to Queens. It is, however, significant of a desire for better living in more wholesome conditions that this migra- tion, in whichever direction it may have mainly gone, has taken place. ————— A young dancer is required to rerove her entire costume. In the unequal distributions of fame her name is not remembered, while the musical man- ager takes the benefit of many pages of gratuitous advertising. ———e————— With weapons flourishing on every provocation in all parts of the land, the old motto “Safety first” may as well be thrown into the discard along with & number of good old maxims that have no present significance. ———— A Luxurious Credit. New York City is now the scene of an extraordinary case of extension of credit in defiance of all rules of busi- ness precaution. Recently a large- spending man about town, a broker, suffered a complete financial collapse. He had within a few months spent over protestation, and many s tirade has| ‘W0 mMillion dollars, and. not only the been poured into the ears of the im- personal young women at the switch- others were mortally hit by the blow- “E; out. He was indicted, arrested and bail- m’f’ifl” em;:; '::"dmg the | ¢ and is now. under examination in dials have come into use it is hard to | Federal bankruptcy- proceedings, with o the disclosure of some highly interest- get any satisfaction from “cussing the ]‘ e” when things go wrong. There ing matter relating to his gayeties and ot | is living, as stated, in luxury. The hotel company is putting him up without cost ough two arerequired to|and the automobile company is furnish- iz o «there are a | ing transportation and service and even however, is that he is even now occupy- & three-room”cuite at one of the firm of which he was a partner but extravagances. One of the particularly entertaining revelations in the case, most expensive hotels in the city and his meals there on an elaborate THE culties we try to help him out.” Simi- larly at the hotel it was explained that the management is grateful for their guest's patronage in the past and takes pleasure in indicating an expectation that he will be able to pay some time in the tuture, This certainly is & case of credit plus. The hotel company and the motor car company are both gambling on the financial rehabilitation of their client. There are probably very few cases of this kind on record. ————— Exit, Horse Police! A few years ago the last horse- drawn fire engine went out of service, and now comes the inevitable ai nouncement that the horse-mounted policeman is to make hfs exit from the stage of modern city life in Washington. Like the spirited fire horse, the policeman’s mount won the affection of the community during the many years he trudged along the country roads in all kinds of weather, doing his part along with the bluecoat to protect life and property. There is bound to be a certain sentimental regret as the faith- ful animal gives way to the motor in another fleld . of service, but the change is a proper one. There was a time when the horse Wwas & necessary and important cog in the .police organization, to enable an officer to patrol large and sparsely settled suburban areas on the outskirts of town. But with the number of automobiles on the highways today there is an unnecessary hazard, both to the horse and to the mounted police- man, without any offsetting advantage in continuing this mode of patrol work. In recent years the Police Department has developed a system of patrolling the suburbs by placing policemen in auto- mobiles, which make it possible for them to traverse their entire precinct fre- quently during the day and night. With motor transportation the policeman can 80 quickly to the scene of trouble any- where in his territory. It was to be expected that before long the horse would have to step aside in police work, too, but he will not be forgotten. Twenty years from now old- timers will still be telling their grand- children about the days when policemen patrolled their beats on horseback. — e An Irritating He_ . There is a type of automobile horn in use in the National Capital, as else- where, which packs within the limit of four notes the maximum irritating effect. As it is impossible to put music into words, it is sufi__nt to say that the horn goes “too-t.o—too-toot.” Every one will recognize it, as every one has heard it. @ erhaps it was when one was trying hic Jest to master some intricate problem in his daily work. Just as he got to the key idea of the situation, and had harnessed the well known train of thought for a successful run, his meditations were broken by “too-too—too-toot!"” Or perhaps it was in the equally well known middle of the night, ere slum- ber's chains had bound him, that he heard the gay young blood down the block arriving home from a wild party. “Too-too—too-toot !" It is the irritating insistence of the call, which bores itself into the mind as well as into the ears, that demands redress. The law-abiding will wonder what can be done about it. The question of city noises is more and more coming to the fore, as municipalities everywhere attempt to curb the misuse of radio, and so on. Perhaps it is not out of place to sug- gest the considefration, at least, of the abolition of trick automobile horns. —_————— ‘The Archduke Leopold of Austria is in trouble for trying to sell the family jewels. Perhaps it is & wise social rule, after all, that makes it undesirable for aristocracy to attempt too active par- ticipation in*trade. —_————— A Chicago racketeer has many dis- guises avallable, ranging from that of the political official to that of the po- lice reporter, who instead of gathering news is risking his life to manufac- ture it. ———————— Missionaries have been working hard for many years, but have evidently been obliged to leave many native Chinese unconverted. ON BEING A CHRISTIAN BY THE RIGHT REV. JAMES E. FREEMAN, D. D, LL. D, Bishop of Washington. Text, “Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus."— Philippians, ii.5. ‘We acquire proficiency in any art or craft through the study of a perfect model. No one may hope to attain any- thing approximating excellence without long days and hours spent in pursuing the wny’l‘ and methods of an acknowl- edged master. I have watched students in the galleries in Europe attempting to reproduce on their own canvas the work of some famous artist. Laboriously they studied color and form, attempting so far as they might to reproduce a pic- ture that had gained world attention. In every sphere of life men follow the same method. would advise his converts in thflf‘ as to the course they should follow at- taining Christian character he ad- monished them, “Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus.” He would seem to say, “Study the model.” It sounds like a counsel of per- fection. Many of us satisfy ourselves with what we call “joining the church,” and regard it as the highest expression of our fidelity to the Christian cause. That there is value in this is unquestioned, but to be a Christian certainly means more than giving adherence to som expressed form of Christian faith. Probably we have little to question about our form of faith. There is a hrfer difference of opinion about that which defines the essential quality and character of the Christian disciple. Men have been studying the mind of the Master through nearly 20 centuries, and it is so unfathomable that they have only gleaned certain facts con- cerning it. No figure in human history has been studied more critically or per- sistently. The very fact that there are S0 many expressions of religious faith in the multiplied religious denomina. tions witnesses to the fact that a com- plete approximation of the mind of .:1:8 is yet to be had. To have the ‘When the great apostle | hood. e | “The Mind of Jesus,” in which he at- only their point of view, but to attempt to reproduce it. What we say with our lips may not always be a true inter- pretation of our mind. The ancient words, “As a man thinketh, so is he,” holds true, and our mental attitude regulates our conduct and practice, False appraisals of life grow out of an indifferent and inaccurate study; true appraisals grow out of a careful and taking study of events and condi- ons. Most of the confusion of our age with Teference to the mind of Jesus can | be traced to a superficial study of His life and teachings. We seem to think that to accept Him as a great teacher, incomparably greater than any that has ever lived, and to reverence Him, meets the requirements of Christian disciple- . The study of His mind neces- sarily implies, if we would be His fol- lowers, a reproduction of His attitude toward life and attempt to live our life according to His design and plan. It must mean the shaping of our course in consonance with His. It must compel us, when situations arise that involve decision upon our part, to ask the ques- tion, “What in such a situation would the Master do?"” A distinguished newspaper man, Louls Howland of the Indianapolis News, has written from the point of view of a lay- man an engaging little book, entitled tempts to make evident the effect pro- duced upon life by an effort to live ac- cording to the teaching of Jesus. He reaches the inevitable conclusion that to have the mind of Jesus means to order our life in accordance with His life, to share His view of life, to square it ac- cording to His ideals and to view it in the light of its obligation as a sacred trust. One thing must be clear to any student of the life of Jesus, namely, that it presents a challenging conception and that it is governed by the highest of motives. To follow the model, to live according to the rule of the Master must mean an adaptation of our life to d of a person means to secure not follow Me." His life. “If any man will come after Me, let him take up his cross—and Cuba’s Political Embarrassments Have Repercussions in Washington BY WILLIAM HARD. With the arrival in Washington of another emissary of the great and good deeds of President Machado of Cuba, and with the continued presence here of a considerable number of Cuban exiles who have fled from the impact of his deeds, the Cuban question has stopped being a foreign question and become one of the liveliest domestic issues in the National Capital. Machado and the New Yorkers who have got into sugar planting in Cuba and the propagandists whom he and they accelerate upon their missions in the United States maintain in com- munications to journalists and in com- munications to our Government that the Machado administration is the noblest and most righteous that free Cuba has ever had. The counter- propagandists, who usually seem to leave Cuba between meals with a pencil and a collar button for spare parts, maintain that they are not permitted to hold even ordinary peaceful political meetings in criticism of the policies of Machado and that the Island of Cuba is steeped in corruption, swamped by unconstitutionality and ~drenched 1in assassinations. *x x x This contest concerning a foreign country is getting fought out on our soil, and, if all diplomatic pretenses are dismissed from a consideration of the matter, there is not the slightest doubt that the outcome of the struggle will be determined in a very large degree, if not wholly, by the Government at ‘Washington. The Government at Washington, in accordance with the principle that Cuba is a free and totally independent country, is saying nothing. In accord- ance, however, with the principle of our Cuban treaty of 1904, which speaks of our_responsibility for the maintenance in Cuba of “a government adequate for the protection of life, property and in- dividual liberty,” it seems to be en- gaging in considerable quiet activity. * k% x It has become known here that our Ambassador in Cuba, Mr. Harry F. enheim, has been busying himself vana, not only as an Ambassador President Machado, but as a volun- teer reconciler and pacifier of the Cuban elements opposed to President Machado. Those elements, headed by Carlos Mendieta y Montefur, maintain that they represent an overwhelming majority of the Cuban people and they assert that if the United States Govern- ment will only announce that it will keep its hands off Cuba and not inter- vene there on Machado's behalf, they can strenuously but easily persuade the President in not much more than half an hour to get on a boat and go to London. ‘ xR A few months ago our Government seemed to be pretty well standing by Machado. Today, Ambassador Gug- Gi at to e SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Back to the Primitive. They tell me that in ages old Amphibian ancestors I had. This story, which is often told, Does not seem scandalous or sad. And as the Summer days draw near, At man’s restraints I often balk— And when the ocean’s roar I hear, I would much rather swim than walk. The Inquiring Mind. “A Senator is supposed to know all about pretty much everything.” “On the contrary,” answered Senator Sorghum, “an eminent legislator's as- sumptions of knowledge are likely to be 80 humble as to make him desire to start one investigation after another.” Jud Tunkins says there are still folks that insist that farmers use bad gram- mar. Some of 'em do, but only when they are trying to qualify as public en- tertainers. Reckless Aviator. ‘With heroes falling through the air, With perturbation undenied, I vow that I can’t see where ‘There should be joy in suicide. Sense of Humor. “Has & woman a sense of humor?” “I don't know,” answered Miss Ca- yenne. “A great many women have been seriously impressed by love letters that caused jllflumnmly!o’llunh derision.” “The difference between women and town, “is that women seeking power rely upon cosmetics and men upon uniforms.” ‘The Honored Student. ‘The mocking bird with borrowed song Carries & message sweet and strong. In him much merit we discern, Because he is content to learn. “De unemployment situation,” said Uncle Eben, “is divided between de genheim is reliably reported to be offer- ing concessions to Carlos Mendieta y Montefur to induce him to consent to Machado’s continuance in presidential power, along with a new opportunity to Mendieta's party to get actually on the ballot and actually to cast its votes in the approaching November election for members of Congress. Mendieta is said to have spurned this offer. He seems to be all out for complete constitutionality and legality in its full purity. He demands the restoration of the unabridged constitu- tion of Cuba as delivered to the Cuban people by our Gen. Leonard Wood dur- ing our first Cuban occupation. He demands equally the restoration of the unamended and unsullied election law of Cuba as delivered to the Cuban people more recently by our Gen. Enoch Crowder. He wants Machado to retire and to give way to the results of alto- gether new elections under a constitu- tion and under an election law un- changed by Machado's edicts. * ok ok ‘The embarrassing feature of the sit- uation—embarrassing to us—is that Mendieta y Montefur is supported in his views and in his obstinacies by such Cuban celebrities as Cosme de la Tor- riente, who has been president of the Cuban Conservative party, member of the Cuban Senate, Cuban Minister to Spain, Cuban Ambassador to the United States, Cuban delegate to the League of Nations and world president of the League of Nations Assembly. Cosme de la Torriente, who is a distinguished jurist, is reputed to be preparing a memorandum to the League calling upon it to do something about “tyranny in Cuba in default of action by the United States. * oK K K e | profitable plants now clinging on to men,” said Hi Ho, the sage of China- | tion them | less than in October, ts | tober, 1929, average hourly earn! e | widely. t man dat wants work and ¥an't get it an’ de man dat can get work, but don't by the office of the mayor of Artemisa in the Province of Pinar Del Rio, I have the honor to inform you that such order was given by me.” Thereupon the court decided: “This court lacks jurisdiction.” In these circumstances the ““National- istas” would like well enough to resort to arms to regain what they claim to | be their “liberties,” but they also claim | that the United States aiways inter- venes in Cuba to help put down any and all resorts to arms against any | Cuban government no matter how un- constitutional. They, therefore, allege that, since the United States will not let them get their “liberties” by their own efforts, it ought to restore those “liberties” to them through Ambassa- dor Guggenheim, or, if necessary, through the Marine Corps. xown Contrariwise, the defenders of Presi- dent Machado in this country—both | those who do it as a labor of love and | those who do it as part of & paid | lobby, as revealed by the recent Sena- |torial Lobby Committee—allege he: | that even if President Machado's ad- ministration in Cuba is ‘“unconstitu- tional” and “illegal” it at any rate maintains “stability,” and that “stabil- ity” is what a Latin American country needs a whole lot more than it needs “lberty." Our puzzled Government sometimes greatly regrets that our Cuban treaty of 1904 did not simply promise the Cubans “stability” without mentioning “liberty. “Liberty” having been men- tioned, however, our Ambassador Gug- genheim at Havana continues to try to | get for the Cuban “Nationalists” a sort | |of compromise mixed drink of it, con- | | sisting of more “liberty” and more | Machado together. Thus once more we in fact are taking a hand in the government of free Cuba. (Copyright. 1930.) S Dollar’s Buying Power Higher by Three Cents BY HARDEN COLFAX. In consequence of the decline of commodity prices, the purchasing power of the dollar has advanced approxi- mately 3 cents, as compared with this time last year. It is obvious, thetefore, that ‘“real wages” have increased correspondingly. That is to say that the wage earner can buy more for his wages today than he could a year ago. No one has been more &rompz to realize this situation than the leaders of organized labor. Following out the policy of improvement in worker effi- clency which they adopted for the American Federation of Labor some time ago, these leaders say that the only chance for an increase in wages lies in increased eficiency, both on the part of the workers and on the part of management. They are clamoring strongly for efficlency management, * ok ok ox Organized labor does not wish to see wages reduced. Employers are equally unwilling to see the purchasing power of their best customers cut down by wage reductions. Both realize, how- ever, that, with commodities selling for less than they did a year.ago, profits, employment and business stability de- pend decidedly on efficiency. Organized labor also has come to realize, according to its leaders, that stability of employment is fully as im- portant as the rate of pay. They realize that it is not advantageous to have a high-wage scale when the hours worked under that scale are few and far be- tween. This has tended to change the attitude of organized labor toward SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, JULY 13, 1930—PART TWO. Capital Sidelights BY WILL P. KENNEDY, ‘The way in which Representative “Dick” Elliott of Indiana cleared up ® program of more than 30 bills under consideration before the House Com- mittee of Public Buildings and Grounds, many of which were of particular in- terest because they are important steps in the development of the National Capital, proved the efficacy of common horse sense and good nature in legis- lation as well as in other business transactions. “Dick” Elliott is & typical Hoosler, and his friends in Congress describe him as “common as an old shoe.” He always has a fund of interesting anec- dotes and visits soclably among his col- leagues while Congress is in session. No matter what important legislation may be awaiting action before his com- mittee, or how many important meas- ures he may have on the calendar, “Dick” never has the appearance of being rushed or excited. He seldom orates in the House. He never appears to feel his importance, and yet when the smoke of legislative contest is over and the dust kicked up by excited members has died down, “Dick” Elliott emerges with his work well done and & new record of achievement. Those who have watched the Federal building program most closely recognize that “Dick” Elliott within the past five years has achleved for the National Capital and is carrying out a sys- tematic businesslike program of con- struction of Federal buildings through- out the country, which his colleagues believed impossible when he k charge. In this last Congress alone the meas- ures that he put through for building up Washington and making more ef- ficient the Federal activities include: Authorization for acquisition, estab- lishment and development of the George Washington Memorial Parkwa; skirting both banks of the Potom: River, from Mount Vernon and Fort Washington to the Great Falls on the Potomac, with an initial appropriation already made of $1,000,000. Authorizing the architect of the Cap- ital to enter into a contract for con- struction of the Supfeme Court Build- ing, with a limit of cost of $8,250,000. Authorizing the purchase by the Sec- retary of Commerce of additional land for the Bureau of Standards. Authorizing a necessary increase in the White House police force. Amending the act to authorize the Secretary of Commerce to purchase a site and construct a bullding for use 25 a constant frequency monitoring radio station. Providing better facilities for the en- forcement of the customs and immigra- tion laws. Authorizing the Secretary of Com- merce to purchase land and construct buildings and facilities for radio re- search investigation. To establish a commercial airport in the District of Columbia. To authorize the extension of the National History Building of the United States National Museum, wherein is stored the famous Roosevelt collection, at a cost of $6,500,000. To extend, remodel and enlarge the Post Office Building in the District of Columbia, to double its present size, at an_estimated cost of $4,000,000. ‘To provide for enlarging the Capitol ds. grounds. Authorizing the erection of an office building for the Pan-American Union. The amount of work involved in com- mittee hearings and in proper con- sideration of this legislation, including very considerable negotiations with the Senate, is little realized by the hun- dreds of thousands of persons who will benefit through the work so efficiently done by this good-natured Hoosier legislator, who takes special pride in whatever he can do to help make the National Capital the most beautiful city in the world, and to expedite the progress of this development so that it may be completed as nearly as possible before the bicentennial celebration in 1932, * ok k% Scores of members of the House have accepted a wholesale invation, extend- ed to all members of the United States Senate and House of Representatives, to be house guests at any time this Summer, or at any other time, for any length of time they may choose, of one citizen of the United States living in Northern Minnesota. Representative Melvin Maas, who is one of the most picturesque characters in the House, being an inveterate flyer, who thinks nothing of commuting by airplane between the Twin Cities and ‘Washington, Eublicly extended this in- vitation on the floor of the House on behalf of W. H. Fawcet, commonly known as “Capt. Billy,” a publisher who got into that game by getting ottt a regimental paper in France. He now owns one of the finest lake-side estates in the entire United States, called Breezy Point at Pequot, Minn., on Big Pelican Lake. Many of his colleagues have already assured Representative Maas that he can report to “Capt. Billy” that they will be glad to enjoy his hospitality this Summer. * o % Old Man Plutarch, of more or less happy school-day memories, has just been trotted out again to tellingly illus- trate a point by Commissioner William John Cooper of the United States Office of Education. He recalls Plutarch’s story of an old man who went to see the Olympic games. When he arrived there were no seats left, and he wandered from sec- tion to section hunun%etor & possible vacant place. When reached the section occupied by the Spartans, most of them rose at once and requested him to be seated, whereupon all the Greeks applauded. Turning to the assembled multitude, the old man shouted, “Alas, all the Greeks know what is right, but only the Lacedemonians practice it!" Said Dr. Cooper, in clinching his argument: “More than mere knowledge is required to insure programs. The principle of the electric magnet may Temain a mere academic fact, or be utilized as a plaything, or be made to develop an electric era in the history of the world. There is & vast difference between knowing the right thing to do lflld &%ml’ ét' as our old Gu‘;efk historian poin out so many centuries ago.” Emphasizing that similar experiences with individuals are had every day, Dr. mergers and consolidations. In many instances, it is felt that these consoli- dations will ‘rmmou efficiency in man- agement and stability of employment. ‘The pooling of resources has come to be & natural and essential trend in business life, provided such mergers are made with the object of attaining efficiency and not as a gamble. CTET Labor leaders point out that the two industriesr which stand out as being in a depressed condition—coal and tex- tiles—are finding it difficult to improve their positions, because they are over- mined, overmilled and overcompanied. If the coal mines of the country were merged into fewer operating corpora- tions and the inefficient and unprofit- able properties closed, many believe th.l:)al tt!l:e h'ziu.s:lry :ldould t‘: placed in a on offer adequate wages and steady work to miners. The same is held to be true of the textile industry, which is woefully in need of an ation to remove the obsolete and un- the industry. According to the industrial confer- ence board, hourly earnings in the manufacturing industries at the be- ginning of this year amounted to 58.2 fin"’a. m::;’l ;u zhllhzr rate than anuary, , weekly et averaged between 1.25 and IM“::,:?I , 1920. Since Oc- have varied within a half-cent n‘x’:‘}e‘, but weekly wages have fluctuated more The number of hours worked week has off between 4 and Cooper recalls & story about the British sclentist Haldane. A medical friend, he states, recently had to deal with two women brought in dying4of diabetes to the hospital where 'he worked. Both had been treated before, and taught to inject themselves twice dally with in- sulin. But one had broken her syringe and had not troubled to replace it at once, while the other had neglected her injections for two days because she was coming to the hospital in any case for another complaint. Attitudes like this are so common that the discovery of insulin has made no appreciable differ- ence to the mortality in England from dhbfifii “Until we are ready not only to re- ceive new truth in these fields Irom the Lynds and the Gleucks, but to apply it in our and acting we can- not achieve the miracles that come from discoveries in the natural sciences. Just as the men of 1830 were opening up the wilderness, were clearing away the undergrowth of centuries and mak- ing new crops grow where only wild ani- mals had gone, so the century which lies ehead of us should be marked by the opening up of men's minds, the sweeping away of ideas which have grown up more or less hit-and-miss through the centuries Speeding to Beat Bees. From the Haverhill Evening Gasette. gfll;n the average since last October. Thus the stability of wage rates fhe stabliy of employment. pae she 'y of employment 8l fluctuation. It is in this latter ‘x;mnn are anxious to see b o eral in 'Inmm The official tests to determine the of bees’ flight will inform us of the start we need to escape their sting. ————— Grand and Glorious Feeling. From the Toledo Blade. Even if the home the seventh-inning price of admission, doesn"t win, is worth the BY FREDERIC Noise 15 & merciless efficiency. ‘The incessant raucous bellowing of a radio late at night or the clatter enemy of and clang of metal garl alley early in the morni if there is anything in common report, do create such disturbance of rest and annoyance as to lower vitality for work the next day. In addition and of more direct importance is the fact that un- necessary noises in a work room demon- strably reduce the efficlency of most workers there engaged. The reduction of efficlency in the one case is indirect; in the latter it is immediate. | ‘This, the United States Bureau of | Labor ~ Statistics ~reports, has been | wholly established through a series of experiments and stud! n nolse diminution. Some of the results are no less than amazing. Persons looking for expressive similes are fond of citing a bofler works as about the noisiest of the works of | man. One of the experiments which | the bureau reports employed this well known example of noise production. The experiment had to do with the work in the assembly room of a com- pany engaged in the manufacture of temperature - regulating instruments, This assembly department where work- €rs put together the parts of the deli- cate instrument was located immedi- ately adjacent to a boller works. It was removed away from the din to another location. After assembly, each | instrument which had been put to- | gether was carefully inspected. When | the work had been done next the boiler | shop the average of rejections was 75 per cent of the number of instruments. | These had to be done over again. lni the new and quiet location, rejections | abruptly declined to only 7 per cent. | Not only that, but the output rose | from 80 instruments assembled by the | force in a given unit of time to 110, a gain of 30. Not only was the work more perfectly done, but the output was | phenomenally increased. The same group of workers were engaged upon precisely the same kind of work in both the noisy and quiet locations. For purposes of measuring noise in its effect upon human efficiency, a unit of measurement has been created. It is called the decibel. A decibel !s the smallest appreciable change which the average, normal human ear can detect in the level and power of a sound. All Sound Producers Hinder Workers. Noise has its effect upon efficiency cans in the g may and, Effect of Noise Upon Human Efficien J. HASKIN. boller works, it is obvious that little could be done to improve ronditions. And in a blacksmith shop manifestly it would be out of the question to use rubber anvils. The ciash of metal on metal inevitably must be productive of noise. Yet there is one method by which even a metal working shop can be improved. Experiments show that noise is mate- rially added to by reflected sounds. The clash of a punching machine makes a given sound. Some n of that sound is thrown back into the ears of the workers from the walls. It is, in effect, an echo—an immediate echo. Material is now available which gives back a minimum such reflected sound. Citles Consider Noise Abatement. Careful manufacture of many types of machinery, particularly office equip- ment, can reduce sound. The excel- lence of the state of repair in which such machinery is kept has a great deal to do with the resulting noise. Loose parts which rattle and bang create added noise. Typewriters, for example, placed on pads make less noise than those merely resting on & wood desk surface. Floors manufactured of sound- absorbing material will appreciably minimize every noise in a room. In large cities, where noise of traffic from the stree's, from factory whistles and from the general hum and din of human endeavor invades the windows and distracts workers, the problem has been solved by keeping windows closed, their edges fitting tightly into soun repelling material. In such cases arti- ficial ventilating systems must be em- ployed. In such metropolises New York, Chicago and Cleveland there are many offices where windows never are opened. In rebullding the executive offices at the White House, following the fire last Christmas eve, this treat- ment was given the windows. Never before has such interest been shown in the abatement of noise. Many interests are affected beside the ques. tion of personal annoyance. The Ame: ican Society of Safety Engineers, for example, has studied the question Many workers in handling machinery may be caused to start suddenly, mak- ing some involuntary movement of a hand, and in that instant the hand will touch a saw, a punch, a flying wheel, and a disastrous accident is caused. The noise is responsible, not only in places where mechanicai, manufacturing work is done as in the manufacturing work is done as in the ex- ample of the temperature instrument fac- tory. Another impressive example which the bureau reports has to do with a large writers and adding machines and such appliances employed in connection with clerical as opposed to manufacturing work made the average amount of sound found in such an office. By a careful study of and then a rearrange- ment of the work, the volume of sound was reduced from 45 to 35 decibels. Al- though no other rearrangements were made and although the identical staff were concerned, it was found that, after the change, output of work increased 12 per cent. Still another case has to do with a large telephone operators’ room. The number of decibels of noise was re- duced from 50 to 35. The immediate result was a 42 per cent reduction in the number of errors made. A saving of 3 cents on each message was ef- fecteg. It "seems that almost any kind of noise is destructive of efficiency. Usually intermittent noises are regarded as most annoying and distracting. However, in & factory, an experiment ‘was made in materially reducing the noise of a loud but_steadily humming ventilating fan. A 12 per cent increase in production re- sulted immediately. Some noises could scarcely be re- garded as reducible. Reverting to the work room in an insurance office. Type- | Instruments Prove Damage. Scientists have invented and used | delicate instruments to reflect the ef- | fects of noise upon the physical system, | Bome of these experiments, made upon sleeping persons, show that noises reach |even the unconscious sensitiveness, There is an instrument which measures the extent of relaxation or of tenseness |in sleep. Here is a typical record taken |from a man who fell asleep at 12:30 |am. The line on the chart begins to | drift rapidly toward the relaxation in- | dicator. At 1:30 a motor truck passes | and the graph line darts back toward | the tenseness indicator. Again relaxa- tion sets in, but about 2:45 some one coughs. Even that sound causes an- other jerk back. At about 4:16 in the morning a window slams. causes & sharp reaction. And so on. Although the experts find that some persons are hypersensitive and respond to noises more than others, noise does have a definite effect on Inci- , it is found that tomobile horns cause much more annoyance than radio—three times as much, in fact. | Many cities are working on the rob- lem of noise abaterent, and reduction |in preventable noises may be expected | confidently. Of course, there will al- | ways be some extremely sensitive peo= | Ple bothered by the most trifiing sound such as the man awakened by a little kitten entering his room, treading on a soft carpet, and who barked angrily ;', ;t'm creature, “You would stamp your eet!” British Political Rapids Moving to Great Issues BY A. G. GARDINER, England's Greatest Liberal Editor. LONDON, July 12.—The political rapids here are moving swiftly to great issues. The Labor government is visibly shaky and in the critical division in the House of Commons on Wednesday it was saved from disaster by only three votes. The most significant feature of this incident was the fact that David Lloyd George engineered the attack, which his Liberal party followers believed was only a harmless demonstration of inde- pendence. The Tories lay in ambush at a neighboring club and descended on the House at a given signal to turn the demonstration into a close call for the MacDonald cabinet. Many Liberals are furious at being betrayed into abstaining from support of the government and are severely criticizing Lloyd George, who put on the whips against the government at the Jast moment and nearly helped the Tories to convert the skirmish into a decisive defeat. ok ok % ‘The Conservative party is now clam- oring for an election. Their position in the "country has been strengthened owing to the fallure of Labor to dimin- ish unemployment and to the apparent revival of the protectionist cause, and in spite of the quarrel between Stanley Baldwin, the Tory leader, and Lord Beaverbrook over food taxes, they are confident of victory at the polls. They want to force an election immediately for two reasons. Pirst, they wish to obtain power in time to control the Imperial Confer- ence, which has been summoned for Autumn, in order to use it to inaugu- rate a policy of imperial protection against foreign countries, coupled with free trade within the empire. If Labor keeps control, -Chancellor of the Ex- chequer Snowden, who is an uncompro- mising free trader, will scotch any at- tempt to establish tariffs and the Tories therefore regard an immediate election as vital to the protectionist cause. * ok kX ‘The second ground for wanting to rush the election is the question of India, which is on the eve of a most fateful decision. Here party differences are less acute, and MacDonald is in negotiation with the leaders of both the Tories and the Liberals. But the Tories are naturally anxious to have the handling of the Round Table Confer- ence, which follows the Im) al Con- ference. The prospects of confer- ence are still obscure. There is a strong suspicion current that the government intends to throw over the Simon report and go into con- ference with more advanced rroboum ‘The speech of Viceroy Irwin of India on Wednesday, with emphasis laid on the Dominion status as the goal of his policy, is taken to give color to this | Pa view. Lord Irwin is clearly prepared to go to extreme lengths in meeting the Indian situation, consistent with the security of India and the protec- tion of minorities. * ok ok ‘This correspondent has reason to know that the government intends go- ing into conference bound neither b'y the Simon scheme nor by Lord Irwin's views. The leaders privately deny any intention of shelving the Simon report, but on the other hand they do not ac- cept it “t deflr;‘m: the limits of the vernment's policy. n‘l‘hh is wise in view of their anxiety to attract to the erence the most representative opinion of India, which is only possible on the assurance that discussion and settlemen e lem. Informed opinion here is that the rospects of the situation are much mproved and that the idea of boy- cott the conference Is vanishing. The fact thal representatives of the lems the native states will cer- (e will alone assure general " (Copyrishts 030> tainly a Fifty Years Ago In The Star The following news item in The Star of July 8, uualt:. ding the " possibility of an inter- Nicaragua ocegnic ship canal by the Canal. Ni Toute was of interest in view of the renewal of the Nicaragua project as 2 supplement to the Panama waterway: “We are enabled to lay before the readers of The Star the following summary of the results obtained through the recent visit of Mr. Menocal to Nicaragua: Through the diversion into Lake Nicaragua of the headwat- ers of the Rio Grande, now falling into the Pacific, an excellent surface drain- age is secured and the Lajas route will be substituted for the line of the canal instead of the Rio del Medio route. This will reduce the estimate for labor $3,000,000. It was found that from the mouth of the San Carlos River, on the Atlantic slope, and fall- ing into the San Juan River, the canal can be excavated almost in a direct line to Greytown, a distance of 35 miles, This shortens the canal, as originally located, 7 miles without increasing the depth of the cuttings and reduces the estimate $4,000,000. An examination of the locality shows the probability that one dam across the San Juan River 53 feet in height will be made above the mouth of the San Carlos, The effect will be to make an unin- terrupted navigation of the River San Juan to the lake, a distance of 63 miles; thence by Lake Nicaragua 56 miles to Virgin Bay, making a total of 119 miles of unimpeded navigation and actual canalization on the East Coast, as be- fore stated, of 35 miles and on the West Coast of 17 mil 1ift docks on each of 15 feet and tide lock of 9 feet at Brito. The est: mated cost approximately as thus im- proved in location will not exceed $45,000,000, exclusive of contingent ex- penses for surveys, supervision of labor and the inteérest on money, and as an offset the concession granted by the government of Nica: of several thousand square miles of valuable lands.” * * % The famous fast of Dr. Tanner in New York tooklphce ;2 years -gn‘ 9 starting on the 28th day of Tanner's June with 40 days as ob- Fast. Jective. Skepticism re« < garding the good faith of the faster was early expressed. The Star of July 9, 1880, says: “The first stage has been reached in the row that was bound to come sooner or later between the old and new_schools of medicine over the case of Dr. Tanner, the 40-day faster, in The charge is now flatly made by some of the former that the tlent has been surreptitiously sup- plied with food h{ his watchers during the course of the experiment. The charge does not seem to ba perfectly sustained, but the effect of it will doubtless be to throw a cloud upon the whole transaction and to convince at least a portion the medical faculty that the task undertaken is a hty’llc:l‘.lmp;nlmy ""Jdl fi;’l‘ Lhfi patient is a huml as they have al al claimed. 4 “Whether the experiment, had it been conducted without any suspicion or cause for any, would have been - dueuveollood.lncmucu.mrro- ure or success, may perhaps be open Lo question, but it certainly would have be:r':dmmd. :g the credit of Dr. Blgen- m AN e other regulars, as they style themselves, had they accepted Dr. Tanner’s tion that they showd rescribe tests and do the watoh- g, instead of standing aloof and cry- ing fraud as they now do. Had :m‘ done this it is likely that the experi. ment would have added something ta_ scientific knowledge, whatever the re.' sult might have been, bécause then the public would have recejved the cone clusions as final.”