Evening Star Newspaper, July 16, 1930, Page 8

A—8 THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. THEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor The Evening Star Nem:_pu Company Business 11th St. and Pennsylvania Ave New York Office: 110 East 42nd jchigan Bullal hicago Office: Lake 3 Blropean Oce. 14 Regent St.. London, Ensland. 1. 0y Rate by Carrier Within the City. o Siar T dave) undavs and Sunday Star ays) 65¢ per Sc rer copy Collection made #ach mor.th. ders may be sent in by malil or Lelephons Ations] 5000. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. aly and Sunday. .1 yr. $10.00:1 mo. 88 I 6.00: 1 mo. aily only 1310 56! ¥ Bunday only 11, 3400; 1 mo.. 40c All Other States and C: Daily and Sunday..l yr., $12. aily only Sri S8.01 0. iyrl $5.00i 1mol f i unday only Member of the Associated Press. goThe, Associated Press is exclusively entitled e = 01d and New History. Ore hundred and forty years ago today, on July 16, 1790, President Wash- ington affixed his signature to “An act for establishing the temporary and per- manent seat of the Government of the United States,” and the destiny of the Capital City on the banks ef the Po- tomac was formally written. There is to be a patriotic ceremony this afternoon at the “Old Brick Capi- tol” commemorating the event. The date itself is relatively insignificant, for the President’s signing the measure merely followed in due course the long and heated battle that had marked its frarhing and passage by Congress. The choice of the location involved the youth- ful Nation's fiscal policy as much as geography and came in the nature of & compromise between the already sharply conflicting views of the North- ern and Southern States. ‘Through swaps between Jefferson and Hamilton, the measure itself was passed by the BSenate on July 1 by the slender margin of two votes, and by the House on July 9 by three. July 16 stands as a con- venient mile post, and its recognition is appropriate. The future Capital, more than the past, however, is important to the half- million or so Americans who live here today. They have witnessed the dawn of a new era in Capital building. Long and pitiful years of medn and parsi- monious neglect have been followed by an awakened consciousness of responsi- bility on the part of the Nation to symbolize, in the Capital now building, the Nation's spiritual and physical at- tainment. “Old Brick” everywhere is giving way to white stone. X Coupled with this recognition of the need for material development and beautification of the Capital, the mem- bers of this community look forward to the day when their fellow ericans will open to them the doors of full par- ticipation, as Americans, in the affairs of the Nation that they have helped to build; will free them from the bondage of taxation without repre- sentation and will realize that those whom fate or fortune have destined to live in the Capital of a free republic are not forever to be set aside as aliens in the affairs of its government. ————— Admission to the royal enclosure at the annua: Ascot race meeting has be- come such a problem that it must ne handled by a special secretarial squad. ‘Why not simplify the whole thing by making each applicant do a perfe:t fob with one of those old-time puff ties? In that event it is likely tnat no one nobleman would s> much as brush elbows with another. The Derby is quite another matter. There one's credentials consist simply of the hat of that title. ————— ‘The deaf can hear with their tee:n, according to Cernell University scien- tists. True, mayhap, but alas! the toothless cannot yet chew with thcir ears. et S ‘The radio iz said to be supplanting the old-time soap-box orator. But at least w2 could stay home and avoid hini. chdinier ity Four-Dollar Beryllium. Fifty years ago aluminum, or, as it was then generally styled, aluminium, was rated as a rare, costly metal. The process of its reduction from the clay banks 1n which it occurred as an oxide was expensive and productive of but small quantities. The day when the cap stone of the Washington Monument in this city was finished off by a solid aluminum tip was a notable occasion because of the great rarity of so large a mass of this material. Then came the discovery of a method of produc- tion which by successive steps reduced the cost to the point that the white metal so useful in the arts because of its extreme lightness and durability and immunity from rust be- came virtually as cheap as iron. Now another metal is being similarly developed from rarity and hign cost to larger production and lower cost. This is beryllium, also known as glucinum. It was first isolated in 1828, although existing in large quantities all over the world. Now, a century after its identi- fication, only a few pounds are known to exist in the pure state on account of the high manufacturing cost, more than twenty operations being necessary to convert the ore into the meual. It is, however, a most useful material inas- much as it is only two-thirds the ‘weight of eluminum, is hard enough to scratch glass, has an elasticity equal to the highest grades of steel and four times that of its next lightest metal neighbor, aluminum. For some time re- search has been in progress to effect a reduction process yielding beryllium in practical quantities at an economic rate, in order that the metal might be used in pure state or as an alloy for the making of airplane frames. Announcerhent has just been made that as the result of intensive laboratory experiments beryllium, which has hitherto cost $100 a pound, has been produced for $4, a reduction which gives great encouragement t~ metallurgists and manufacturers and inspires the hone of further reduction which will permit the early adoption of beryllium in the arts. It is estimated that by the use of 70 per cent beryllium alloy ship about one-half. make ing capacity for the “pay load.” X THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C.. WEDNESDAY. JULY 16, 1930. THIS AND THAT This will | world’s record. He has been sitting in very large additional carry- | a tree in his father’s back yard for more In | than one hundred hours and he is de- addition to its superiority tc aluminum | termined to - stick it out until—. WEDNESDAY.....July 16, 1930|in the matter of lightness, it is even |Oh! well, who cares. His male durable. Aluminum is subject to | parent has threatened to subject to this allment. At present the metal is produced only in the form of beryllium oxide, which is but one step removed from the pure internal disease known as “fatigue.” [and get s Beryllium, as far as known, is not|very good thing if he would give him a @0~ up him,” which would be good spanking when he brings him to the ground. This same lad has his “re- fueling” crew. His pals every so often ascend to his perch on ladders to take metal. The present success in cheaper him magazines and food. Another production is believed to promise an |aspiring tree-sitter, this time in Illinois, c rermonth | early further reduction to $2 & pound, | dozed off after twenty-five hours of such 60c per month | at, which rate it will be practical to|laudable endeavor and fell to the ground. month | begin large-Scale production and to | This would-be champion, & lad of four- start the use of the metal in the manu- | teen, is now in the hospital, where he Tacturing of planes. The coming of aluminum marked an epoch in the development of the metals using arts. Beryllium may carry them { farther forward. One wonders whether new discoveries, are in store to assist man in his mechanical evolution. i R The Taxicab Situation. It is unfortunate that the House be- fore adjournment did not pass a meas- ure of such importance to the public of Washington as that requiring taxicab operators and companies to show finan- clal responsibility. The bill passed the Senate and was favorably reported by the House District Committee. When it reached the floor of the House under the unanimous consent rule there was one objection and its doom was sealed. How there could have been objection fo such a meritorious proposal is diffi- cult to understand, but it is idle now to discuss it. The simple fact is that the objection was sufficient to rob the pub- lic of the protection that it should have this Summer. Possibly, if the member who ob- jected could have visualized the chaos that now exists in the taxicab situation in Washington, he would have withheld it. With the advent of the thirty-five- cent cab and the new five-cent cab combined with the proposal to run ve- hicles for hire at twenty-five cents to parallel street car lines, Washington has a conglomeration of hackers, the majority of whom are in no way re- sponsible for the damage they may cause by their own negligence. Some of them rent their cars from a central company. They pay in the neighbor- hood of six dollars a day per car. Per- haps this six dollars includes insur- ance for the public against accident, but it would seem more likely that it does not. Some are drivers for small companies, companies from which it is impossible to collect a cent in case of accident, because their equities in the vehicles that they send upon the streets cover no more than the initial payment and in case of accident these vehicles are subject to seizure by the sellers. It is a crying shame that in the Capital of the Nation such a situation should exist. Every other city has iron-clad regulations for its vehicles for hire, but in Washington, the seat of Government, the Public Utilities Commission is utterly unable to en- force its regulations. Congress shculd certainly have remedied this evil at the last session, but it did not see fit to do it. This is another reason why the voteless Capital desires representation in the body which makes its laws. ‘Washington is unrepresented, and con- sequently is left unprotected. It is a sad commentary on the progress of American civilization. —— . The “U. 8. of Europe.” M. Briand has cause for satisfaction with the replies now piling in upon him angnt his memorandum-proposal for European federation. Two answers which are of paramount interest to France=—from Italy and Germany— must fill the master of the Quai d’ Or- say with hope that his grandiose plan for a United States of Europe may some day come within the scope of realiza- M. Briand is entitled to regard it as & fortuitous circumstance that his over- tures for a closer union of Old World states synchronizes with a decided eas- ing of the strain in Franco-Italian naval relations. Italy has just acqui- esced in France's proposal of a six- month building “holiday,” after the French had declined Mussolini’s sugges- tion of an indefinite suspension. Both Italy and Germany, as well as some of the lesser European countries, have underlined in their rejoinders to Briand that no federation of Europe should be considered that would, or could, become a rival to the League |of Nations. Germany's communication, |sent to Paris last night, is emphatic on this score. She insists that the League must not suffer by the activity of any pan-European arrangement, and she opposes the setting up of any new group formations within the League. All forms of closer European co-opera- tion, Berlin stresses, must be tested by their effects on Geneva and, if neces- sary, submitted to the whole League. Paris dispatches report that Ger- many's views “had been anticipated”*by M. Briand. None of them, it is de- clared, is considered impossible of ful- fillment. If the contention of Italy, Germany and other states for a United States of Europe, that shall in no wise dim the glory or crc's the purposes of the League, is sustained it begins to look at long range as if Briand's feder- ation might eventuate in nothing but a League of Nations in another and per- haps attenuated form. If, too, Ger- many'’s insistence—and that of others— that in no way shall it be used for dis- crimination “against any country or continent’—i.e., the United States of America, primarily—is vindicated, Uncle Sam can view the federation without alarm. As all of our Presidents since Wood- row Wilson have pointed out, the League of Nations has virtues and uses for Europe, with respect to which this country has no semblance of & quarrel or ill wishes. e King George of England is said to have several pet hobbles. Perhaps raising first-class sons is one of them. Tree-Sitters. It was thought that when marathon dancing became the craze along with marathon hiking across the country and other activities of similar nature the height of foolishness had been reached by an otherwise comparatively intelligent American public, butsthe lat- est form of endeavor, that of tree- sitting, now being practiced in various parts of the Unitefi States by enterpris- |be found to occupy thelr time. may establish a staying-in-bed record. ‘The attitude of parents who will per- mit their children to indulge in such utterly silly pranks is almost beyond understanding. These boys range in age from ien to eighteen. Certainly, if school duties do mnot claim them something of constructive nature can of course, it may be that some parents be- lieve that when their sons are under constant observation, high up in the back yard, it may keep them out of mischief, but if it does that it also keeps them out of the development of the kind of character that makes for the manhood of the next generation. It wouid certainly appear that this craze could be speedily ended by the judicious application of the modern successor of the old-fashioned birch rod. Then the desire to sit would no longer be present. e Overseer Voliva cf Zion City has ex- pelled from its industries and its con- fines three young women for having admitted that they had bought and had been chewing gum. Of course, that is pretty heinous, but, Wilbur, suppose it had been that confection of nature, spruce gum? Would your heart stiil have been as hard? The British Parliament, clinging to tradition, asks that ‘“candles may be brought” when darkness gathers along the Thames. How ridiculous! Of course, there is nothing funny about the con- stantly filled snuff boxes in our ewn Senate. Riviera cafes have banned the use of their napkins by fair patrons wiao are renewing their make-up. They might go even further and interdict the use of the fork for rearranging those beards and mustaches so dear to the Frenchman’s heart. —— e One of the men particularly wan‘ed in the Lingle murder case walked un- suspectingly into the arms of the police. What's in a name? Apparently plenty this time; the surname of this par- ticular gangster is Dullard. Helen says she is not queen any more and Michael is set down a peg frcm the kingship. It seems to be a sort of “face cards wild” game that the Ru- manians are sitting in. —r——————— First we have “trunk murders,” and “sult case murders.” Now down in Lima they are enjoying a “valise murder. When wil! the “brief case murder” come along? Ttaly retalictes against the Smoot- Hawley tariff bill by raisifig the tarift on American automobiles. Maybe this is the war Mr. Mussolini has had on bis chest so long. . SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Hero Overlooked. When we're speaking of heroes and try- ing to frame A list to inscribe in the temple of fame, Let's pause for a moment and join in a song For the hero obscure who is lost in the throng. Perhaps 'neath a bushel his lamp strug- gles dim; Yet the world puts a lot of dependence on him Who faces his duty, still scorning to shirk— The man who says nothing, but just goes to work. His courage is not of the sort that may win Applause and reward in the battle's flerce din; His hardship is one that full many would shun, For it's farewell to friends when there’s work to be done. 1t's farewell to sunshine and farewell to song— The way of endeavor is lonely and long. Men must honor, though fools may dis- miss with a smirk, The man who says nothing, but just goes to work. A Harsh Critie. “Does that man speak in his official capacity?” “Certainly not,” answered Senator Sorghum. “He invariably speaks in his official incapacity.” A Method of Selection. “Where is your family going to spend the Summer?” “It isn't decided yet,” answered Mr. Cumrox, wearily. “Mother and the girls are still writing letters to find out which hotel charges the most.” Harsh Philosophy. This life is oft a game of nerve ‘Which fools are wrong to play with. 'Tis not s0 much what you deserve As what you get away with. Both Sides. “He says that life without me will not be worth living,” said the impressionable girl. “Well,” answered Miss Cayenne, “he may change his mind about that propo- sition. But if you marry him, you may both be saying life isn't worth living.” Lack of Acquaintance. “Why do you insist on despising wealth?” “Perhaps,” said the man with artistic temperament, “it's because I never got well enough acquainted with it to know its good qualities.” Contrast. ‘The human being chants of Spring, And ‘customed toll doth shirk. ‘The microbe doesn't stop to sing, But settles down to work. “Fohgive yoh enemies as fur as you with ' ing youths, who evidently possess more * kin,” said Uncle Eben. “But dat doesn't eluminum it will be possible to re- muscle than brains, caps the climax. mean dat you is expected to lay yohse't ¢ @uce, the welzht of any given air- One lad in Kansas City now claims the wide open to mo’ troubl¢ at deir han’s. Built.” BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. We find in our little black book the following note, “The why of attempting to be clever, especially by persons who by no means can be so.” Sometimes it seems as if it is always the man or woman who is not at all clever, in the popular sense of the wor?t, who mostly wants to shine as a wit. Soclety is full of these misguided persons. One cannot board a public vehicle, stand on a corner or enter an elevator— especially an elevator—without meeting one or more of the species. These persons have got in the back of their heads, in some utterly unac- countable way, the idea that there is scarcely anything else to life besides being bright, witty, clever. They all want to be Will Rogerses. If one may judge from their frantic attempts, they believe that Will is the greatest man in the United States, and certainly the one most worth imi- tating. Well, now, we saw that true humor- ist in his good film, “So This Is Lon- don,” and we have only praise to utter of him and it. But it seems to us that the quality most worth imitating about Will Rogers is not his wisecracking, as good as it is, but his homely common sense and his kindliness. It takes a wise man, indeed, to be kind as well as funny. *k* ‘The trouble with the would-be funny men one meets in the everyday is that mostly they are neither funny nor clever, and especially they are not kind. Mostly their attempts at wit are based on cracks at their conception of the foibles of others. The only per- son in the world sacred to them is the man speaking. If the tables are turned and they find themselves the butt of the joke, as sometimes happens at the hands (or, rather, tongue) of a really clever person, they will show all and lin sundry quick enough just how deep their relish of a joke goes. The proximity of human beings in an elevator leads to some of the choicest attempts at wit in modern life. Perhaps this very physical juxtaposition makes them feel that a solemn dignity in standing is somewhat out of place. ‘The touch of elbows, of backs, of sleeves inspires them, through a strange alchemy, to a loose tongue. ‘The Bible has been preaching the evils of a wagging tongue for lo these many centuries, but the modern ele- vator_instantly undoes all the good of those“fine old utterances. Let the would-be clever man but set foot within an elevator, especially in his own building, immediately he be- gins to jibe, josh, joke about something or other, or, preferably, about some one or other. * ok ok X ‘The herd mind, operating on a small scale, always provides the fellow with an appreciative audience. ‘We advise all those ambitious to set themselves up in the world as witty to begin on an elevator. The crowding, the discomfort, tend to create an atmosphere from which every one would willing escape. ‘Too often the door of release does not come until an upper floor. the transit one must, per- force, listen to the would-be humorist. Until the actual door of release ar- rives, whether it be the sixth, seventh or ninth floors, or whatever number, the only exit is by way of the laugh, either genuine or simulated. One may pretend, of course, a stolid indifferencc. The danger of this method, however, is that the wise- cracker, offended, struck in his vitals by indifference, may turn with all his fury upon you. Then one may be forced to laugh out of the other side of his mouth. The easiest way, and perhaps the best, every- thing considered, is to lead the cheering section. to grin the moment the clever boy . Let him see that you fully appreciate his abilities. Let | him deduce—and he is a ready deducer —that you think, with a little more practice, he could replace Will Rogers almost any time. ‘The result will be that he will reserve you for a victim for the eighth floor. You fool him by getting off at the seventh. R * % There still remains the these, attempts to be clever. “why” of cleverness. It has its place in soclety; but, after all, it is only a place. Cleverness cannot take the place of integrity, of uprightness, of honest thoughts and purposes, of decency, of righteousness, of kindness, of a hundred and one qualities which men and women may acquire. Yet it is commonly observed that thousands of persons would rather turn a bon-mot, even if it is against a d friend, than suffer the accusation being good. To be told that they are good causes them to blush, but to know that they perhaps hurt the feelings of a friend by their talk only makes them declare, “Oh, he'll get over it. The sad part of it is that only a very small percentage of the aspiring humor- ists have any ability along their chosen e. God did not intend them for funny men. He made them decent citizens, perhaps, good fathers, good working- men. Yet every last man of them be- lieves himself clever, able to turn an idea so as to cause a laugh. Thus we see how cheap, after all, is laughter, de- pending upon nothing, too often not worth laughing at. * ok kK One might think, offhand, that the “smart city feller” might be more given to attempts at cleverness than the coun- try boy. The truth is that there is no more vicious wisecracker than the morons of the small towns, to whom no one nor any subject is sacred. %o‘ the desire to be thought clever, at any price, lies deep in human nature. Perhaps it is based, as so many other desires are, on a deep seated inferiority complex. Illiteracy has left its taint. Those who know the least aspire to be regarded as “real bright.” Their children, even though they be educated in evay sense of the term, still harbor that old inferiority com- plex. Fearful that others will regard them as dumb, they try hard to place themselves as bright and shining lights. The world would be better off if all such would content themselves with a simple, courteous exchange of greetings with their fellow human beings. Let them leave cleverness to the truly clever, '"fl be happy by being decent, though dull. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. You can lead a horse to the trough, but you can't make him drink—or, in the case of the Senate, think. Presi- dent Hoover and G. O. P. leaders be- tween them have managed by dint of brute force to round up a_ total of some 60-odd Senators for the naval treaty session. But at no stage of its dreary can more than ten or a dozen members—usually fewer than that—be discovered in the chamber. Yecterday, for example, when Senator Robinson, Republican, of India ful- minated for hours against the pact, his audience, for the most part, consisted of Senafor Shortridge, Republican, of California. Indeed, it lodked from the galleries as if Robinson was concen- trating exclusively on the solemn sage of San Francisco. What happens is that Senators amble in for quorum calls, then stream away, one by one, leaving the treaty and its respective assailants and defenders to their own dull devices. When reservations are up for a vote, and when the ratification yeas and nays are called for, the Senate will fill up. Meantime statesmen are spellbiding to empty benches—a sad commentary on their interest in a project so prodigious as naval limita- tion and world peace. K % ¥ President Hoover is sending Dr. Wil- liam M. Jardine of Kansas to Egypt as American Minister because of our in- i terest in the development of long staple cotton. The average person ih this country isn't aware that cotton of that particular grade enters largely into the manufacture of automobile tires, Egypt now has a practical monopoly of it. The United States has begun to cultivate long staple cotton in the Imperial Val- ley of California and plans are afoot to extend the planting of it to other suitable sections. The former Secretary of Agriculture, who is a bit of a cot- ton expert, will probably look into con- ditions in the British Sudan, too. John Bull latterly has been complaining about the quality of cotton he imports from Dixie. He claims that the boll weevil is seriously deteriorating it. Dr. Jar- dine should be in position to learn how much there’s in the British determin- ation some day to obtain from the Su- dan the bulk of the supplies now im- ported from the U. 8. A. * ok K Harold A, Lafount of Utah, chairman of the Federal Radio Commission, is receiving congratulations on the 'big hit recently made in the movies by his beautiful young daughter, Constance. She triumphed over a hundred-odd rivals in a New York try-out for star tion with which she is now engaged. Miss Lafount has already been cast for a play in which she will play a talkie lead opposite John Gilbert, an achieve- ment sald to be a record for a begin- ner. Admirers predict for her a bril- liant career on the .screen. TR OE K X Patrick J. Hurley, Secretary of War, has come pretty near to hanging up a flying record. Last Saturday he break- fasted in Washington, flew to Pitts- burgh for lunch and dined the same evening at_the President’s camp on the Rapidan. During his five hours in the Smoky City “Pat” attended a reunion of the 3d (Marne) Division, A. E. F. and saw the Pirates play base ball. Then he took off for the Virginia mountains, where he turned up unper- turbed as a daisy. The War Depart- ment chief salled in his crack official Army plane—one of the ships known among the aviators at Bolling Field as “sacred cows.” Hurley has just ac- quired a half .interest in the big new Shoreham Building, at Fifteenth and H streets. He's a bull on the future of Washington, where he has long been an owner of downtown property. ) By October the Department of Com- merce expects to move out of its pres- ent quarters into the central section of the mammoth building some day to be occupied ‘in its immense entirety at the head of the Federal “triangle.” Robert P. Lamont, Secretary of Commerce, is in ‘receptive ‘mood for suggestions of a suitable inscription to be carved along the Fourteenth street front of Uncle Sam’s newest, finest and biggest office building. The sentiment will have to be 300 feet long and glorify commerce. Perhaps Homer’s “Odyssey” contains what Lamont wants. Somebody has proposed that there be emblazoned over e “The House That Her work in a famous Hollywood organiza- | bert | could have celel gether. A grateful but slow-moving Republic has just done justice to a faithful na- tional servant, Elwood Babbitt, United States trade commissioner at Van- couver, British Columbia. He has been awarded a substantial sum by Congress for the loss of all his personal effects at Tokio during the Japanese earthquake of 1923, In addition, Mr. and Mrs. Babbitt suffered the loss of one of their daughters on the same tragic occasion. The family arrived in Tokio the morn- ing of the very day the earthquake occurred. Not long afterward Mr. Bab- bitt was transferred to duty as com- mercial attache in Australia and later to Vancouver. The appropriation be- latedly compensaling him was included in one of the eleventh-hour deficiency bills at the instigation of Senator Pitt- man, Democrat, of Nevada. Wi %4 Mrs. Reed Smoot, charming bride of the senior Senator from Utah, is famed throughout the Mormon world for her zeal in behalf of the Latter Day Saints’ Hospital for Children at Salt Lake City. For years she has devoted the bulk of her time to its supervision, especially to the task of raising funds for its mainte- nance. Mrs. Smoot hit upon the idea of asking children to contribute annu- ally a penny aplece for each year of their respective lives. The result today is a revenue of some $20,000 a year to- ward upkeep of the hospital, Mrs. Smoot rejoices to know that there's a kindred spirit in the senatorial circle at ‘Washington—Senator James Couzens, Republican, of Michigan. “Jim"” Couzens has lavished millions upon welfare projects for poor and crippled children in Detroit and elsewhere. LS e SR From Michigan some observant Wol- verine reader of thess observations rises to comment on a recent reference to Senator Vandenberg’s dazzling white rai- ment—one of the glittering features of the pending naval treaty debate. “Don’t let Arthur get away with any claim that this outfit is new,” says the cor- respondent, “because it ain’t. He had it made for his campaign out here in 1928. He always wore it when he was addressing woman voters. It was on one of those occa~'-ns that an op- ponent insisted on having Vandenberg say whether he was waging a sartorial or a senatorial campaign.” (Copyright, 1930.) - o Absence of Senators Is Cause for Chagrin To the Editor of The Star: I have read your timely editorial, “Absenteeism,” in Monday's Star with much interest. The absence of Senators at a time like this (excepting through illness), is unpardonable, Many of them, instead of being “about their father’s (U. 8.) business” which they are under oath to conduct to the best of their ability, are away, the Lord only knows where, It will be too bad, when they come up for re-election, if the ballot box does not have a message for them, saying stay away forever. It is with chagrin I note that the Senators from New Mexico, where I lived for so many years, are among the absentees. One being an aristocrat, the other of the people, is evidence that the dlcremuon is not confined to any one class. T trust your editorial will be brought to the notice of gvery absent Senator. MRS. WILLIAM R. WALTON. e Honoring the Pedestrian. Prom the Albany Evening News, And maybe some day things will come to the point in this country where the Nation will feel that it should erect a monument to the unknown pedestrian. ————— Prize Fighters Endangered. From the Cleveland News. Commission ruling that box York must protect ghmlvu"r‘m‘; }1‘5:1 blows as best they can leaves prize fighters no safer than other citizens. —————— Rhine Misses Opportunity. From the Omaha Evening World-Herald. or two longer before evacuati Rhine, Germany and m:h:mmngu"': One would not say anything against |ing .| they keep their blood in circulation? 1f the French had waited. just a a.yl Booth Tarkington to- men will have Sad State of Affairs on . Washington Strget Cars To the Editor of The Star: Why is it that the Capital of the greatest nation and country on this planet will put up with the awful con- ditions of the trolley companies Washington, D. C.? The condition of the uniforms of the conductors and motormen of some of the cars is a dis- grace to North America. On a green car that the writer went uptown on a few days l{n the conductor’s uniform looked as if it might have been worn years, and years, and years. Holes and darned and drawn together places, and leather binding of pockets worn and whole uniform filthy dirty. I suppose the poor man has a family to keep that takes all his salary. But why doesn't the company furnish their conductors and motormen uniforms? And the old, filthy, out-of-date cars, some of them with their long seats, one on each side of the car, must have been the first that were ever used in the District of Columbia, and so filthy dirty that one is afraid to sit down in them. There doesn’t seem to be an oper- ator on either line that knows how to operate a car. The writer had a near- broken wrist from being thrown against the iron part where the operator stant while getting on, the motorman start- the car with that awful, clumsy jerk while the writer was getting on. Had an aching wrist and black and blue marks for weeks. There was a day when the Washing- ton, D. C., street cars were started and pped without throwing human beings all over the cars and no risk of break- ing their limbs, and clean and com- fortable seats. At present some of their seats feel as if they were packed with Just yesterday the writer waited a half hour on the platform in front of the main entrance to the Senate Office ! Building for a Mount Pleasant car and I at last boarded a Friendship Heights car and transferred to Mount Pleasant at Dupont Circle and was late to an appointment. It is usually the other way, more Mount Pleasant cars any other kind. But they were scarce yesterday. ‘Why should such conditions exist in the Capital of the United States of America? Is there no one with es- thetic taste or human feeling enough to care how the human beings without automobiles get through the city from work to their places of rest between work to see to it that conditions are changed' M. A. R. STOTTLEMEYER. States Should Be United in Better Laws for Workers To the Editor of the Star: How often do we say, the United States of America? Let us say 't over again, “united.” Are we united? Is it not one State trying to outdo the other and at variance for industries? ‘We do hope that Congress will pass a law for the five-day week, eight-hour day. Take the married women out of industry and business, women whose husbands are earning good salaries: teachers, paid social workers, Catholic charities, Y. W. C. A, city pay rolls and State pay rolls. Parents educating their sons and daughters feel discour- aged because there is no employment for them. So many positions are given married women through politics. President Hoover knows of Russia’s trials, of the starvation, hunger, when people ate the bark of the trees, the grass; and were found dead of starva- tion with grass in their mouths. Na- ture had been unkind to Russia. The sun can be cruel as well as good. The drought of Russia caused more sorrow than all the wars. Now Russia is forcing its woffien into industry. Any one witnessing the distress of the young animal taken away by force from its mother can understand the heartaches of the Russian women. A country cannot be a happy one that builds its wealth and progress on the heartaches of its women and children. In some States the employes work 14 hours a day. Let us have uniform hours through all the States. The high tension of the machine and the monotony! The *employe should not | work more than five days a week. That will distribute the work more freely. Some employment for all those who wish ?Aol ‘work. Idle people are un- happy people. We have too many churches—more religion in everyday life. Stone and mortar does not make religion. We have also too many automobiles. People who do not walk five blocks, how can they keep well? How can Here in New Bedford, the cotton mills and factories are in an ideal place, right on the water, with an abundance of French windows. The employes have a beach, Hazelton Park, with tennis grounds, bowling _alleys, and the loveliest trees. When I think of the factory help crowded in the sub- ways, in the stifiing, soft coal smoky city, how fortunate the New Bedford owners are to give their employes the bright clear sky with the golden sun- shine and the cool, balmy air! New York is not ideal for the worker in Summer. The trolley cars are clean and comfortable with leather —seats. There are three or four parks. The Commons has the loveliest garden of roses, playgrounds for the children. There are neat, trim cottages with ga Now that June and roses are with us, it is exquisite. My dear mother and I always go to the poor district when we visit a_town. There we can understand the heart of the people. The tariff may prove a blessing. Mr. Hoover has solved very trying, difficult calamities. He will lead America out of unemployment. GERTRUDE FERGUSON. New Bedford, Mass. e Sets a Good Example by Making Work for the Idle To the Editor of The Star: ‘There has been so much said and published in the newspapers concern- ing unemployment in the labor class that I decided to help ths situation in a small way. As I am the owner of the property at the address bélow.' and there has an urgent need for a retaining wall along the east side of my property for some time, I decided to do the work at this time. I employed one laborer for one week to complete the job. When that wall was finished 1 had another wall built in front and in the driveway of my property, which re- quired the services of three and four men about another week, besides the material that was used on both jobs. I did not have the money to pay cash for the work. The bank was kind enough to me what I needed. Same can be paid back as I am able to_do so. A My position is nothing more than a Federal employe of the Treasury De- partment. It occurred to me that those persons who are so situated that are contemplating doing work in the labor and bullding fieM, why not do it at this time? This is offered-to you as as it was thought that suggestion, through the columns of your paper something could be said that might help the unemployed situation. ER, ——————_ Golf Bug Plays Havoc. From the Savannah Morning News. ‘The golf bug is said to have wrought more ravages in some parts of the gar- dening _country- than almost any other t. It attacks the gardeners. And ‘I::Ifill",\' just at the time when the truck needs hoeing. ¥ 2 Reactionary Evolution. the Little Rock Arkansas 9 F'The only solution of the taxation problem is to pack up and go back to the jungle. Those We Have Now. From the Miami Daily News, least & good many of us-will, . M. E. 11 Irving smfiuogm-u of , readers, oul it cost do ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC This great service is maintained by The Evening Star for the benefit of its who may use it MZ:.L with- to themselves. All 'y have to is ask for any information desired they will receive prompt answers by mal Questions must be clearly wflthnxnlnfl stated as briefly as pos- ‘ashington, D. C. Q. What size flag should be hung from a 90-foot flagpole>—W. C. A. A flag 10x19 feet would be suit- able. Q. In reading stage directions, on ‘which side of the stage Is it the right of the actor facing the audience, or the right of the audi- ence?—H. W. A. It is to the right from the specta- tor’s point of view. ‘What is the status of Richard E. Q. ds | Byrd in the Navy?—B. M. G. A. It is that of rear admiral retired, on active duty, and on extended leave. He receives the pay of a rear admiral retired, which is $4,500 a year. Q. What German dialect is consid- ered the standard pronunciation?—B. G. A. In Germany there is no standard of J)ronunchunn that is acknowledged and absolutely followed by the mass of intelligent people. The so-called stand- ard of some people is the pronunciation of the stage, which again is divided info the pronunciation of tragedy and com- edy. In the latter, of course, is heard the more natural pronunciation of everyday life. The sectional differences are very marked, but in general there is a North German and a South Ger- man pronunciation. Q. What is the maximum weight the average steel, clincher rim bicycle wheel will hold?>—G. R. W. A. There are quite a few different factors which enter into the strength of a built-up wheel as well as the road conditions and the conditions of the tires. As far as we have been able to ascertain there have never been any definite tests made to determine this. An authority says he has known a bicy- «<le to carry a weight of approximately 300 pounds on two wheels, but he does not know how long the bicycle could stand this weight nor whether it would have been possible over a rough, stony road surface. The condition of the tightness of the spokes, as well as the angle of the lacing and the strength of the spokes, also contributes to the serv- iceability and strength of the wheel. Q. Should one say “I wonder who I shall see today,” or “I wonder whom I shall see today?”—N. E. H. A. The objective form is correct. “whom™ Q. How many college graduates are there in the United States?—P. A. B. A. According to the latest statistics available, there are 1,604.218 college graduates in the United States, 1099,- 428 of which are men and 594,890 of which are women. Q. How much money is given to charity in the United States?—C. H. C. A. Elwood Street, director of the Community Chest in Washington, D. C., esf tes that the total amount given to charity in the United States is over $300,000,000 a year. J. HASKIN. . Who is the president of the Bank of International Settlements? Where is it?>—G. E. A. Gates McGarrah, formerly chair- man of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, has been elected the first president of the Bank of International Settlements. The bank is in el, Switzerland, where exceptional tax-free privileges It will deal only viduals. The directorate is made up, in the main, of direct representatives of the great national banks of England, France, Germany, Italy, Belgium and Japan. It is an outgrowth of the Young plan and is to act as trustee to receive the payments of war repara- tions from Germany and allocate them to the allled and associated powers which won the World War. Q. What is a trot line?—A. D. G. A. It is a stout line reaching across a stream; or for some distance from one bank, bearing at frequent intervals single hooks hung by short lines. Q. How many islands comprise the City of Venice?—H. M. A. Tt is situated on 120 islands in a shallow bay of the Adriatic Sea, the Gulf of Venice. The islands are close together and are only separated by nar- row canals, which serve as streets. There are about 175 of these, over which there are 378 bridges. The city is 2%, miles from the mainland and connected by railroad bridges which contain 222 arches. It covers an area of 944 square miles and the population in 1921 was 519,208 Q. Why did Oxford choose the Bixby letter of Lincoln’s as an example of good English?—W. S. T. A. The Bixby letter was written by President Lincoln to Mrs. Bixby at the time he learned that she gave six or seven sons to the Union cause. It is considered one of the best examples of rhythmical English and is written in somewhat the same manner as free verse. It is said that Oxford University -regards the Gettysburg address and the Bixby letter as two examples of beauti- ful rhythimical English. Q Jnat is the population of Ceylon? Al The population of Ceylon is esti- mated at about 5,250,000. Q. How many community trusts are there in the United Statés?>—W. N. A. There arc now 75, and they are administering trusts totaling $32,000,000. Last year they distributed $803,636. Q. What is the chief center of the Worsh‘lf of Khrishna?>—P. S. G. A. Mathura is the center of the wor- ship of the “Divine Beloved.” Q. Was_domestic news published in the first English news sheets?—C, N, A. The sheet was limited to foreign news. Q. Has the New York Athletic Com~ mission ruled out foul blows?—F. F., A. The commission has legalized low punches, but permits the fighters to wear a special protective apparatus which will obviate injury from blows in the abdominal region. Q. Which is more stylish, bobbed or long hair?>—D. L. C. A. Each style has its exponents. It is stated, however, that in a le chain of beauty shops women had 60,000 fewer haircuts this February than in the corresponding month of last year. Waterways Measure Hailed As Congress Achievement Much cor ndation is expressed for the passage the current rivers and harbors bill carrying $145,000,000 for 170 projects in waterway improvement. It is held to be a major achitvement of the session of Congress, and satisfac- tion is felt that cities of the inland sec- tion are to be provided with means of access to the sea. Better freight rates and employment are held to ke im- portant results. Some areas feel that they have not been properly favored, however, and there is a touch of skep- ticism as to results. “In its present phase the project is a promising economic experiment,” sais the Cincinnati Times-Star, with the con- clusion: “On the whole, the waterways system should knit more closely the greatest free trade area in the world— namely, the United States. With our foreign trade menaced by uncertainties, it is all the more necessary that the various sections of the country have cheap access to each other's products.” The Long Beach Press-Telegram ob- serves that ‘“the Mississippi, Missouri and Ohio Valleys have felt that they have been deprived of the full benefits of the Panama Canal” and that “the plans that now take form are especially designed to meet the situation.” “The Illinols waterway may not be completed by 1933, as Gov. Emmerson hopes, but it will be completed—no doubt about that,” declares the Rock Island Argus. “The great Mississippi basin is to have sea connections. More favorable freight rates are bound to contalz. ]It '&l take time, y!sl.A hutt '!he national waterway program at last taking definite shape. For that let us be thankful.” * ok kX “The interrelation of water conserv: tion, personal and property safety, con- sequent stabilization of values and the meshing of annual crop transportation facilities into the maximum of speed, with the minimum of expense, will con- stitute the greatest economic equation of the ages,” avers the Fort Worth Record-Telegram, describing the project as one which has been “a veritable po- litical will-o'-the-wisp for nearly a half century” and “one of the really con- structive pieces of legislation' turned out by a Congress in the 1900s.” “As an engineer and a business man,” remarks the Louisville Times, “Presi- dent Hoover looks at inland waterways as every State looks at its possessed or prospective highways. He wants the gaps improved, just as Kentuckians want the gaps in their primary road system improved. His attitude toward the projected outlay is highly praise- worthy and highly constructive.” The Hartford Courant looks upon the mat- ter as “fulfillment of a campaign pledge to improve and consolidate the coun- try's inland waterways system,” as “giving impetus to our recently begun return to economic normality” and as pr?ml!!n‘ 12,000 miles of waterways.” “There seems to be no question,” thinks the Chattanooga Times, “that it will have a profound effect upon the country, especially that part of it lying between the Allegheny and the Rocky Mountain ranges.” The Times adds: “The work of developing these water- ways will give employment to thousands of men at a time when unemployment is a serious problem. It will also stim- ulate other lines of endeavor, in that Snd Suppiics. Boat and barge Waluny and supplies. and barge will be spurred " = The Cleveland News also advises “Quick action is the important re- quirement, so far as concerns relief of unemployment. Work for thousands of additional men might be extremely de- sirable this Summer and not particularly needed next Summer. Fortunately, speed should be possitle ‘= &hie con- nection. Plans for dredging and other- wl.:’enllmpmvlng ;m;a 'R’rfn harbors are usually prepares A y long tn_ddvence of the appropriations. If the President can speed up depart- mental .procedure in letting contracts and attending to other details the em- gh!mfinl benefit should not be long de- * k *x X “A powerful antidote to insularity” is seen by the San Antonio Express. which believes that “the system will make virtual time, a large saving on bulk freight, extend and distribute industrial devel- opment and help to decen con- gested centers of population.” “The President’s hope for a valuable system of inland waterways ot beyond attainment,” concedes the Okla- homa City Times, adding that “the im- mediate efit of the new measure is that it will place a large number of men at work at a time when many are jobless.” The Birmingham News sees “a substantial stride toward improving the transportation facilities of North America,” and predicts that “as the years pass, billions will Fo into the dredging and deepening of waterways, not only, but into the cutting of canals for the furtherance and expediting of the Nation's commerce.” The New York Evening Post offers the judgment: ‘“Many of these projects are largely founded upon “faith that improved navigation will bring a re- vival of shipping on rivers and chan- nels whose traffic almost vanished in the great era of railroad expansion. A renaissance of river shipping has e in that part of the Mississippi system where improvements have already been made, but time alone will justify e of the great outlays made by the \ad ernment.” ¥ “Commerce will be able to move to the sea at New Orleans through con- tinuous adequate river channels,” says the New Orleans Times-Picayune, ob- serving that “the Government now stands committed to the plan in its entirety.” The Erie Dispatch-Hefal lauds the project as a whole, and; pecially approves provision for ‘the Delaware River and for Western Pehn- sylvania. The Little Rock Arkansas Ga- zette calls it “the responsz of Congfess to one of the greatest needs of the Nation,” while demanding future atten- tion to the Arkansas River. The Salt Lake Deseret News calls it “a ma- Jestic scheme,” while holding that “the West has other water improvement pro- grams in whose efficacy it firmly be- lieves.” “During the session,” states the Chi- cago Daily News, “Congress was criti- cized for many sins of omission and for much woeful waste of time and en- ergy. Yet it has to its credit con- structive service of great value. Its waterway legislation alone is enough to make the session memorable in a posi- tive and progressive sense. The pre- posterous limitation of water flow at- tached by Congress to the Illinois link of the Lakes-to-Gulf Waterway must be el'minated at an early day. Until it is eliminated the legislation so de- servedly lauded by Mr. Hoover will be marred by a grave and wanton blunder.” ———e—— Canadian Vote Drives Based on Flag Waving From the Des Moines Register. Americans are taking more than usual interest in the Canadian election of July 28, since the campaign is om- ing largely a contest in flag-waving. Both the Liberals and the Conserva- tives are asking for votes on the basis of their loyalty to the empire and their anxiety to punish the United States for enacting the new tariff. * * * Although America in enacting the present tariff law is partly responsible for this flag-waving competition ip Can- ada, with its implied economic hostility [to Uncle Sam, the appeal of Dominion politicians to a narrow type of impe- rialism is unfortunate. Th‘e’ebest lnlz:- ests of each nation require the contin- uance of close co-operation with the other. ‘Trade between the United States and Canada is larger than that existing be- tween any other two nations, and Amer- ican investments in Canada are double those in any other foreign country. American tourists spend $289,000,000 a year in Canada, and Canadians spend xrly. I.lhl‘rd as much in this coun- It is likely the politicians’ a) rel.l to the is being made hmlyp or 'the into office, - S May See More. From the Grand Rapids Press. ville | Love at first second look tht is all righ muge, So S 8