Evening Star Newspaper, August 11, 1930, Page 8

) THE With Sunday Mo Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY.......August 11, 1830 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office: 11th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. New York Office. 110 East 43nd St. \cago Office’ Lake Michigan Bullding. 'uropean Office._ 14 R!&!nl St.. London, Englan Rate by Carrier Within the City. ening Star... .. .48c rer month ar 60c per month 65¢c per month NG STAR ! cal engagement is either now in prog- ress or is soon to take place between the Northern and the Nationalist forces for the control of Shantung Province through the retention of Tsinanfu, the provincial capital, by the former or its recapture by the latter. At the same lume heavy pressure is being exerted by Feng's forces upon the Nationalist lines to the southwest of Tsinanfu in Northern Honan. ‘The keenest concern is felt regarding the possibility of capture of Hangkow jand its two neighbor cities by the Com- | munist armies, who are now concen- {trating toward that point. Evidences | of disaffection on the part of the Na- e | tionalist soldiers at Hankow have led Orders may be ¢ of by ‘maill Rational sooo. et in by ma Rate b-y Mail—Payable in Advance. nd and Virginia, Fd $10.00; 1 mo.. 85¢ 1 only . 6. junday only Il Other States and Canada. Al {ly" and Sunday..] yr..$12.00: 1mo., $100 | ily on'y L. lyr, $8.00° 0. K iday only ¥ imo. 7 .1yr, $5.00; 1 mol 50c Member of the Associated Press. ‘The Associated Press l\llcl\l!ll‘!l’ entitled to the use for republication of all news cis- tches credited to it or not otherwise cred- Bublithed hereny. " ANl "Sishts of Bubiication 5f ere of puolication of pecial ‘dispatcnés herein are al ¥ —_— Friendly Japan. Not long ago a distinguished Jap-| anese naval officer took his life out of | Temorse over the “injustice” done the ' Nipponese navy by the London treaty. He was a member of that militant admiralty group at Tokio, which had | its counterpart in both London and| ‘Washington and which bitterly opposed ratification of the pact. The anti-treaty | forces were routed in both Great Britain and the United States. Only Japan has yet to give formal approval of the treaty. William R. Castle, jr, Assistant/ Becretary of State, who carried out a | brilliantly successful special American | ambassadorship in Japan while the | London Conference was in progre.s, has Just expresse¢ some timely nxnllmenmi anent Japan's delay in ratifying the treaty. Speaking with intimate knowl- edge of the Tokio government’s at- titude toward the United States, as well as that of Japan in general, Secretary Castle declares that the delay in no wise denotes hostility or unfriendliness to this country. He particularly takes issue with the thought, uttered in the heat of the Senate treaty debate, that “America would better watch Japan" After the treaty became effective. Loyalty to pledged obligations, Mr. Castle points out, is an outstanding Japanese tait. Suggestions of treaty faithlessness are not only painful to the Japanat, he says, but “irritating to those who know Japan.” Apart from envisaging no possibility on the iniernational horizon that could incite her to make war on the United States, there is the even weightler argument, from Japan's standpoint, that the Jap- anese people would virtual'v commit economic suicide by alienating the Iriendship of the American people.; Japan’s relations with us, in a very Teal sense, constitute a silken bond. In 1928 her exports to the United States amounted to nearly $400,000,- 000. Four-fifths of that amount was raw silk. One-third of the families of Japan are engaged in sericulture. The livelihood of one-sixth of the popu- Jation comes from silk. Ninety-four per cent of all Japan's silk exports comes to this country. Now and then it is suggested that Japan's “designs” on China con- | tain the perpetual peril of a clash with the United States. The Japanese ! are definitely committed to the policy of the open door in China. They need & prosperous and contented China for purposes of Japanese trade, not an alienated and terrified China. Just as sk is likely to keep the Japanese- American peace, if there were no other guarantee of it, our common aims and purposes in its vast market should ban- ish the possibility of a conflict on the #core of China. Undeniably the fly in the ointment of Japanese-American friendship is the jcontinuance of the immigration exclu- sion provision. The Japanese, Mr. Castle reminds us, continue to nurse that grievance, although they do not air their resentment publicly. Under the circumstances, it is gratifying to find the well informed Assistant Sec- retary of State proclaiming his confi- dence that even a situation deemed an affront to their racial pride cannot, and will not, wither Japan's conviction that “America is a friend to be trusted and one on whose sympathy the nation can eount in the future.” e In the old days the height of danger | was expressed by the phrase “monkey- 5 ing with the buzz-saw.” Today this | peril seems to have given way to firing | & atill. Chinese Complications. Recently a dispatch from Peking | stated that the northern coalitionists, | now in revolt against the Nanking na- tional government, were becoming con- cerned over the successes of the Com- munists in the south. It was feared lest this radical movement might cause the overthrow of the Nanking government, in which case the northern coalition would be compelled to face the Com- miunists. A late Shanghai dispatch, however, throws doubt upon this de- seription of the nofthern state of mind. According to an official statement from Nanking, “intercepted radio reports re- wveal that the northern coalition is in- spiring and actually in league with the Communists, arranging for the Reds to sttack Nanking from the rear.” Now, to complete the ‘confusion, comes a statement from Wang Ching-wei, the Kuomintang left wing leader, who is ot Peking co-operating with Yen Hsi- shan and Peng Yu-hsiang, to the effect that these reports are “fabricated tele- grams and damnable lies, so badly con- eocted as to show only childishness in the fabricator.” ‘This is truly characteristic of the Chinese puzzle. It is hard to know who is who for a month at a time. Partisans change sides quickly. Flat assertions are as flatly denied. Reports from the fighting fields are wholly un- reliable until verified by the acknowl- or ielephone | 00: 1 mo.. 50c I $4.00: 1 mo.. 40c | e also reserved. | to hasty punitive measures. Foreign | governments are concentrating con- | siderable naval forces in the Yangtze at Hankow. If the Communists make their threatened assault upon the city {a catastrophe of first magnitude may ! result, with serious international com- plications. R | Citizenship—With Reservations. In the Rosika Schwimmer case the ! United States Supreme Court upheld | the Government. for refusing to admit ! her to citizenship, as Mme. Schwimmer, an avowed pacifist, would not swear to { “support and defend the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America against all enemies” as re- quired in the naturalization law. But Mme, Schwimmer was Mme. zSehwsmmer, and tne decision of the| Supreme Court has not been inter-! preted as applying in every case. Shortly after this decision the lower courts denied citizenship to Rev. Doug- las Clyde MacIntosh, who served as a| chaplain with the Canadian forces| overseas, and to Miss Marie Brand, who served as a nurse with the British be- hind the lines in France. Both were willing to take the oath of allegiance “with reservations.” But the lower courts were not willing to accept the reservations. Dr. MacIntosh said he| could not promise to take up arms in event of war, because he could not de cide until he knew what the war wa: about and it was obviously impossible to know that in advance. Miss Brand said her religious convictions forbade her personally to take up arms, and she declined to swear unqualifiedly to de- fend the Constitution, The United States Circuit Court of Appeals, in New York, reversed the lower courts, however, and held that the reservations were admissible, point- ing out some of the differences between these and the Schwimmer case. Last Saturday the Solicitor General an- nounced that he had directed an ap- peal to the United States Supreme Court, and the Government will fight the case on through. It is plainly the duty of the Solicitor General to appeal the case. The matter ought to be settled. It is far better that aliens, as well as citizens, should know the dividing line between eligibility and ineligibility to citizenship than that the matter be left hanging in the air, as it now is. If the naturalization laws and eligibility tests appear to be ridiculous or silly, the best thing to do is to test them thoroughly and to find out. If they are, the proper remedies may be applied. No one can entertain reasonable doubt that Dr. MacIntosh and Miss Brand would make good citizens. The only thing, apparently, that stands be- tween ‘them and citizenship is a strong conviction, honestly expressed. To re- gard the oath of allegiance as a pro- tective device against subversive doc- trinaires is to overlook the obvious fact that the applicant for citizenship en- tering this land for the deliberate pur- pose of “boring from within” would do nothing so willingly or enthusiastically as to swear glibly to an oath of alle- giance. To do otherwise would be to thwart his purpose at the outset. And as going to war does not depend upon personal convictions as much as upon the wording of the selective-draft law, and as voicing convictions depends upon the stringency of sedition laws invoked | in time of war, there does not seem to be much -purpose in putting such a| whale of a lot of importance in the lit- | eral acceptance of an oath. One who| is intelligent enough to form an opinion | and to stick to it is not such poor ma- terial for good citizenship, after all. There is no questioning the right of a Nation to lay down its qualifications for citizenship and to allow the appli- cant to take them or leave them alone. But it is questionable, indeed, whether qualities for citizenship can be gauged upon the parrotlike recital of an oath. When eligibility to citizenship is nar- rowed down to whether an applicant will or will not say he will bear arms in defense of the Constitution, a false value is immediately placed upon a per- sonal opinion or conviction. The intel- | ligent and really honest applicant does not know. And, other things being | equal, if he believes he would not bear arms, that belief or conviction is merely interesting, but unimportant. No oath! should bar him forever from the right of intelligent dissent. The majorily opinion will always be able to take care of the eventualities. King George V's yacht comes in a tailender off Cowes. But at any rate it does not throw him. et A Respite From the Heat. For the comparative chill which be- fell this part of the country yesterday, lowering the temperature by more than ten degrees and giving two nights con- ducive to sound sleep, sincere gratitude is felt. The continuous high tempera- | tures of the past week had worn down | the resistance of people to a dangerous point. Several successive hundred-de- gree days played havoc with young and old alike, and had it not been for the | respite of the drop doubtless many | would have succumbed this week to the | heat. No mechanical device, such as an electric fan, can make the temperature safely comfortable for those who are compelled to work, with body or mind, in midsummer, However thinly clad, however careful one may be in the matter of diet, or speed of physical ac- tion, the heated air takes its toll of the | system. In tropical regions the inhabi- tants, through generations of endurance, become inured to the heat. But in the THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON. earth is not cooled off at night, the pavements in the cilies remain super- heated for the full twenty-four hours. The temperature differential between the hours of light and the hours of dark- ness is much less than when the rains fall occasionally. Residents of the District have been fortunate this year in the assurance of an abundant water supply. This is owing to the improvement in the sys- tem of storage and distribution com- pleted a few years ago. The present protracted heat spell and drought have put the first severe test upon the local system. At no time since the beginning of the period of high temperature and aridity has there been any cause for anxiety on the score of the sufficiency of the water supply, within the Dis- | trict. In adjacent sections in Mary- land and Virginia, however, there have {been shortages, notably in Maryland, { where it has been necesssary to curtail { the use of the water for lawns and gardens, virtually rationing the people. This has now been in large measure corrected by the making of additional connections with the District supply. Thus the enlarged local service has been greatly helpful to the surrounding areas in the States. Without the Dis- { trict water, sickness in some sections of Maryland due to the heat and the lowered supply would have been seri- ously prevalent. In the course of hearings concerning raids on New Jersey restaurants official approval was given of the use of the “ebulliometer,” the instrument utilized by agents in testing the alcoholic con- tent of beer, It may not be long until these are bootlegged, like machine guns, and every table in every speak- easy will have one as standard equip- ment for the edification of its would-be ebullient customers, ] Bobby Jones takes a plunge in the surf “while on vacation,” and asserts 1t is the first time ih ten long years he has had time to don a bathing suit. The condition of amateurs who follow the delightful recreation of golf is indeed a pitiable one. Talk about golf widows— how about golf slaves? R The selection of the youngest major general of the United States Army to be chief of staff causes surprise in Army circles. Well, Captain of A~ llery Napo- leon Bonaparte was one of the youngest captains in the French Army, but he stood the jump to full general pretty well, — Cr—e— Illustrated London papers show the captains of French and Italian athletic teams each carrying a bouquet, warmly osculating before the beginning of track and field hostilities. If that can hap- pen, then there is hope for Harvard and Princeton, for West Point and An- napolis. — e ‘The United States has only 9,773 fit aircraft machines, while there are 13,- 041 licensed pilots. In any national crisis the reme nder would have to go a-gliding or else writing magazine arti- cles. Another war might even see the re-entry into service of musenm pieces. ——e—— At’last Mr. Claudius H. Huston has entered the past tense as a chairman. The trouble with him seems to have been that he was for long convinced he was in the pluperfect category. —e——— Just think of the foolishness of being a “Peeping Tom"” and staying up all night with modern revues perfectly ac- cessible, not to mention bathing beaches easily accessible. — e ‘William Penn is said to have paid $80,000 for Pennsylvania. He could scarcely get a good batch of votes for that today. o SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. A Cause of Song. I hasn't got a dollar As I goes along the street, I isn't apprehensive Of a burglar I might meet. I hasn't got no business Foh to fill my soul wif doubt; I hasn't got a dollar— An’ dat’s what T's singin’ ‘bout. Oh, de Summer brings de haystack An’ de Winter brings de snow. I sometimes has a quarter, But I seldom has much mo’. The trusts dey couldn't skeer me; I'll nebber git de gout— I hasn't got a dollar— An’ dat’s what I's singin’ ’bout. Not to Be Persuaded. “Would you allow your name to go on the pay roll of & corporation?” “Never,” answered Senator Sorghum. “Anybody that needs the benefit of my counsel and support hereafter will have to come around with the cold currency in a lump sum A Custom of the Town. “No,” said Bronco Bob to the affa- ble stranger, “we don’t want any in- surance office in Crimson Guich.” “But you are providing for the future.” “Maybe. But in this settlement we don't play any game that doesn’t per- mit & gentleman to be on hand with a six-shooter to protect his interests when it's time to cash in. Caste. E'en ’mongst the humbler animals Distinctions strange abound. Some dogs have ribbons ’'round their necks, And some are in the pound. No Apprehension. “What is your idea of classical mu- sic?” asked the friend of former days. “Classical music,” answered Mr. Cumrox, “is what you pay $5 to hear and what you'd give $50 to get away from.” A Comparison. “I can't see much to this here game of golf,” said Farmer Corntossel. “It requires a great deal of sclence.” “Mebbe. But after seein’ one of these city chaps tryin’ to swing a | seythe, I've concluded that scythin’ noi only takes more skill, but hez a con- | siderable spice of danger.” THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Fortunate is the man who can sleep well in extremely hot weather, for to him shall be given reservoirs of strength | to meet the heat of the day. It is remarkable how so many people | growl about not being able to sleep this kind of weather and to what extremes they go to try to secure a little rest. They pile out into the open, where it is no cooler than inside, and put up | with all the discomforts of hard earth, mosquitoes, insects of all kinds, in the | belief that they are better off. | They have traded a comfortable bed and clean linen for the most difficult | sleeping place in the world. They have | given up the opportunity for scanty, or perhaps no night dress, in order to re- | pose in regulation regalia. | After they bave lain several hours beneath the unaccustomed light of the | sky, trying heroically to go to sleep, they djop at last into a fretful doze, from which they wake in nol more than 10 minutes. By this time they are so stiff and sore | that they willingly go home, only to find their sleeping apartment hotter | than ever, but the bed soft and ar-| rangements for sleeping surely more | civilized. * ok Xk % False modesty, one may believe, Is re- | sponsible for more fretful sleeping in hot weather than anything else. | Sleepers should recognize that the present season is unusual and that it | demands unusual remedies. One of the simplest of these—and by all odds the best—is the expedient of | sleeping without clothes of any kind. | “Oh, I can’t do that!” some one will | say, aimost invariably, when it is sug- | gested to them, but the season calls for nothing else. Surely the dark is cover enough, if it is augmented by certain | protective devices of the human mind. | “The need for clothes is as old as the | hills, and perbaps older. An explana- tion s given in the story of Adam and Eve; maybe it explains, and maybe it doesn't; at any rate, the fact remains sure. Steps toward a wholssome nudity have been gigantic during the past 20 vears, with the children of tho wi leading the movement with their sun suits. What & happy, healthy lot the boys and girls are, with their bright eyes and tanned skins, whether they live at seashore, mountains, or in the hotter streets of the great cities! There is many and many an adult, stiffly dressed in too many clothes, who has cast an envious eye upon the natu- ral freedom of the little ones, as they g0 around all day long in practically nothing at all | Older people are mnot children, it may be admitted, but surely they could forget their clothes long enough to be comfortable at night. If a new ap- proach to life, a new state of mind, is needed in any individual case, then there is nothing for that one to do except acquire it. * * * * ‘Too frequent reference to home thermometers. is to be shunned during | such an extended heated term as the present. ‘We do not mean that one should not look at them. Inierest in the weather is natural with man, because it is a | part of his life. The very living of millions depends upon whether it rains. But to carry thermometers from one floor to another in a house, to check | up on the difference in degree between them, as some persons do, Is something of a mistake. In the first place, nothing can be done about it. In the second, such particular knowledge does one no good at all, except satisfy a curiosity which had better be left quiescent. | Such a hot Summer as this one will | do more than all the arguments of the scientists toward bringing about a new practical system of keeping homes cool. More than & year ago a Midwestern engineer suggested homes with immov- able windows, permanently sealed down, with all ventilation to be by ducts, the air heated for Winter and cooled for Summer, and circulated irrespective of outside conditions. Most home owners have looked at their hot-water heating systems, and mildly wondered why they could not be con- verted to the purpose of cooling the house. The water in the system would be just as good conveyor of cold as of heat. There is a good joke going the rounds of the newspaper exchanges: Tenant— Why can't you put ice water in the radiators, janitor? Janitor—It can’t be done, ma'm. Tenant—Well, what was that you had in them last Winter? * % X X Sleeping in the hot weather has two effects, in the main, upon human beings. 1t either makes them sleep well, or poorly, a natural enough result, of course. Those who sleep well find that | the heat drugs them, in a sense, to an overpowering _stupor, which, although it may not be quite as restful as the | sleep of cold weather, partly makes up for the deficlency by giving a larger portion of it. It is the common complaint of even those who sleep well during the heat that the sleep secured has not been “restful.” But the effects of sleep, one may well believe, are partly dependent upon the mental attitude. The poor slcepers fret and fume, toss around, turn over, wildly declare’ that they cannot sleep, and in a few hours are reduced to the exact mental status of the insomniac, whose chief burden, physicians declare, is not so much lack of sleep as the knowledge that they are not sleeping, and the resulting worry which this causes them. It is said by physicians that even the most sleepless individuals do get some sleep, and that this amount, small though it may be, would be quite enough, i the patient would refuse to worry about being awake the remainder of the time. ‘The repose which the slaepless get on | their beds is a great deal in itself. Those who have dog or cat friends know that these animals never waste their energies in useless running around. If there is no particular sport or prey in sight they will go into a corner and there curl them- | selves up to restful slumber. Cats even spend a great deal of time simply lyinz still, most often hunched up on their stomachs, contemplating the wotld around them. A restless rushing to and fro in the world is not to be commended for hot weather, although thousands and thou- sands_of persons will continue to Go just that thing, as if they were trying to_run away from the heat. But the heat is everywhere, and there is no escaping it. It must be met. A wise way to meet it is to wear as little clothing as possible, and to get as much rest as one may, while eating as little as possible. Such methods keep down bodily heat, the desirable thing, not only by not building it up, buc also by permitting it to escape. Refrigerating the blood might be tried. Every one knows that permitting cold water to run over the wrists helps cool the entire body. The method is not feasible for hour-by-hour usage, how- ever. But small bracelets of “dry ice,” one would think, would enable one to keep the blood refrigerated at all times. We would suggest experiments along this line to those who manufacture the stuf. 1t is not beyond belief that man will some day devise scientific methods for keeping himself comfortable during hot weather. comfortable to a degree far be- yond anything known at present. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. If political parties are less ungrateful was an American military observer jn than Republics, Cordell Hull, Demo- | cratic senatorial nominee in Tennessee, | deserves well of the Democrats, not only | of his State, but of the Nation. To this | observer comes an authenticated tale | of the days before the lightning of | Raskobian plenty struck the organiza- tion which Jouett Shouse and Charles | Michelson now command. It dates | back to the dark and dreary interval between the 1920 presidential debacle | and the 1924 national dissension in | Madison Square Garden. At the urgent | request. of George White of Ohio, Hull | had taken over the national chairman- | ship in 1921, in order, if possible, to heal the breach left in’ the Democratic party by the ill-starred Cox campaign. | With the chairmanship, Hull also took over an empty treasury. There came & time when the till didn't contain enough o meet the meager weekly pay roll at | national headquarters. Hull had $10,000 | in Liberty bonds—his private savings. | He told the cashier to take them to a | Washington bank and borrow the | equivalent on the chairman's personal note, Not for a couple of years after- ward was cash in sight to ‘cover the loan, and then, with financial fair weather in prospect, Hull permitted the | National Committee to reimburse him and take up the note. * X X X It's difficult to conceive of & more classic example of penny-wise-pound- foolishness than the hesitation to go | on with the second big Navy dirigible, | ZRS-5. Here's Uncle Sam, authorized under the London treaty to spend $450,000,000 on 150 new destroyers. | The ZRS-5 represents a cost of about $3,000,000, or the exact equivalent of | a single destroyer! Just what prompts | the naval authorities to consider dirigi- | ble limitation, at the very moment the | performances of the giant lighteer- than-air ships of Germany and Great | Britain — respectively, Graf Zeppelin | and R-100—are chalienging world ad- miration, passes comprehension, Our reluctance to keep the pace in dirigi- | ble construction 15 all the msore amaz- ing, constdering that the United States has the enormous advantage of pos- sessing helium gas in inexhaustible quantities. In 1924, when we had the Shenandoah and acquired from Ger- many the Los Angeles, we led the world in rigid airships. If ZRS-5 is not built America will sink automatically to third place in dirigible strength, and our prestige as an air power be corre- spondingly dimmed. o As the result of the drought the President’s Camp fgn the Rapidan— that, by the way, is' its official designa- tion—is now equipped with an adequate fire-extinguishing system of its own. | The Marines put it in. The last work on hydrant instaliation was completed only & few days ago. Apparatus suffi- cient to cope with any likely blaze is now ready for action. A detachment of the Marine squad, which is the watch on the Rapidan, has been as- signed the special duty of functioning as a fire department. Some day we | may read: “Fire broke out on the | Rapidan last night, but the Marines | have the situation well in hand.” ® ok W Robert F. Kelley, chief of the East- ern European division at the State De- partment, and Secretary Stimson's | nrincipal adviser on Russian affairs, | has just gone ta Europe on a protract- ed official visit. No man in Washing- ton has Soviet conditions so thorough- Iy at his finger tip as Kelley, who is also one of the youngest men’ in high | the American _embi the Baltic provinces, with headquarters in Finland. Once he was a consul at Calcutta. F Former Senator James D. Phelan of California, who has just passed away at San Francisco, was the custodian of one of the great unrecorded political secrets of 1920. At least that is the legend that grew up around him. As| all the world knew, the Democrats, during the Winter of 1919-20, flirted seriously with the idea of asking Her- bert Hoover to be their presidential candidate. But only insiders aware that Phelan, a fellow Californian, originated the idea. He called a coun- cil ‘of war on the subject at his pri- vate hotel quarters in the old Shore- ham, in Washington. A dozen party leaders of national prominence sat in. Just about the time the project was ready to spring, and an invitation to Hoover was in process of being drafted (so_runs the story), Julius H. Barnes came forth with a New York speech in | which Hoover was publicly labeled a life-long Republican, That knocked the Phelan scheme into a cocked hat, and the Democrats forthwith began the quest for another white hope. * Kok % Waterloo, Towa, in the northeastern corner of ‘the Hawkeye State, where Mrs. Herbert Hoover spent her girl- hood, claims to be about the only spot in the parched Middle West to escape the drought. out there when the pastures were brown or the meadows made short by absence of rain. In the vicinity of Waterloo 10 days have marked the longest pe- riod between showers. Mostly through the growing season rain has fallen every week. “Why Northeastern Iowa should be favored every year with rain- fall,” says the Waterloo Evening Courier, en other sections are affiicted by drought, is explained on the theory that | We are about 1,000 miles from the Gulf of Mexico, at which point saturation of moisture in the atmosphere is most likely to occur.” * ok ok ok Letters acknowledging congratulations on his recent elevation to the peerage are reaching Washington friends from Baron Howard of Penrith, formerly Sir Esme Howard, late British Ambassador to the United States. “Howard of Pen- rith,” he says, “is what I'm to be known as in future. Lord Howard takes his title from his old home, Lyulph's Tower, Ulleswater, Penrith. He writes that he has just taken “a little place in town"— a house at No. 7 Egerton place, S. W. London—mainly for his boys. It is situated in the heart of fashionable Belgravia, not far from the offices of . Lord Howard says that his latchstring is perpetually out for the hosts of American friends acquired during his family's six years at Washington. (Copyright, 1930.) Noted Educator Hits Vulgarity in Music From the Pasadena Star-News. ‘Tco many motion picture theme songs are vulgarly suggestive. There is merit in the plea which Dr. Rufus B. von Kleinsmid, president of the University of Southern California, »made to the convention of the Music Teachers’ Asso- ciation, in session at Pasadena. He |urged the music teachers to do some-| thing drastic to eliminate “nastiness” from songs, pictures and the stage. Unless the degrading features are D. C., MONDAY, AUGUST .11, were | ‘There hasn't been a time | 1930. The Political Mill By G. Gould Lincoln. Now and then real public service is rewarded a: the polls. Representative Cordell Huil of Tennessee, Who won the | Democratic nomination for Senator in his State a day or two ago, makes a case in point. For nearly 24 years, with a single hiatus of two years, Mr. Hull has been a member of the House. He has been a respected member of the body, a studious member and an influ- ential member. It appears now that he is rewarded by being translated into the | Senate, where he will certainly not lower the average for industry and in-| telligence. _Tennessee now and then has gone Republican, it is true. But Mr. Hull's nomination for the Senate ! this year is likely to be tantamount to election in November. The Tennessee member of the House now apparently going to the Senate, has been a strong party man. He was the chairman of the Democratic National Committee for several years and con- ducted the affairs of the party, already torn with dissentions, with fairness and efficiency. He was the candidate of the Tennessee Democrats for the Demo- cratic presidential nomination in 1928 {and for a time was a rallying post for | | Southern Democrats who were opposed {to the nomination of Alfred E. Smith !at the Houston convention. In the end, however, the Tennessee delegation, like | others from the South, bowed to the |demand for Smith. Mr. Hull remained | regular in the campaign. e An A A couple of years ago another dis- tinguished member of the House from Tennessee, Finis J. Garrett, sought to leave the House and enter the Senate. | Cike Mr. Hull, Garrett had been a mem- | ber of the House for a score of years. But he tackled a tougher proposition When he sought senatorial nomination. He was opposed to Senator Kenneth McKellar, and_Senator McKellar has always had a big following in the State. Garrett lost and has since been appoint- ed a judge of the United States Court of Customs Appeals. He had been Democratic leader of the House and was recognized as one of the ablest members of the body. Judge Hull—he was a judge before he entered the House—was for many years & member of the House ways and means committee, which deals with all tariff and revenue legislation. He was, indeed, regarded as an authority on the subject of the tariff and revenue legis- lation of all kinds. He takes that knowledge with him to the Senate. * % K Kk e Hoover administration had little lnmmplnin about in the results of the primary elections held in seyeral States fast week. Tennessce, by the way, was one of these States. Representative B. Carroll Rice, Republican, of the first congressional district had a real fight on his hands. He had supported the administration in its opposition to the | passage of the Norris bill, making the | operation of the Muscle Shoals power and nitrate projects governmental af- fairs. His opponent, Sam R. Price. ra the waterpower issue against| Rice and sought to make him out a friend of the “power trust.”” Presldent‘ |ton, D. C. | to women whom ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC Have we had the pleasure of serving you through our Washington Informa- tion Bureau? Can't we be of some help to you in your problems? Our business is to furnish you with authori- tative information, and we invite you to ask us any question of fact in which | you are interested. Send your inquiry | to The Evening Star Information Bureau, | Frederic J. Haskin, director, Washing- | Inclose 2 cents in coin or stamps for return postage. Q. Is golf played in South Africa?— | D. H. i A. Almost every town in the Union | of South Africa has at least one golf course. _Johannesburg, or the Wit- watersrand, which includes several reef or mining townships, has at least 12. Q. Is it legal for a bank to charge 50 cents a month against checking ac- counts when they run below a certain sum?—T. I T. A. It is quite usual for banks to charge & fee of 50 cents when accounts run below $100. This is a legal pro- | cedure. | Q. Do any of the first-class battle- | ships use coal for propulsion?—J. F. A. The Navy Department says that there are no first-class battleships now | in commission which use coal. Q. What may be used to avold per- | spiring under the arms and staining | one’s clothes?>—C. E. R. ! A. The American Medical Association | suggests the use of a 25 per cent solu- tion of aluminum _chioride. This should be lightly dabbed on the af- fected areas for three or four days, or | until some irritation appears. It should | be repeated in three or four weeks. | Any medication should be discontinued | upon the appearance of ‘the slightest indication of inflammation. Q. Kindly settle an argument. Can foreign flags fly from embassies with- | out the Stars and Stripes”—R. K. A. A foreign embassy may fly a for- eign flag without having it accompanied | by the American flag. The foreign em- | bassy is under the jurisdiction of the | country which it Tepresents; there- | fore, the law of that country applies. Q. Was there ever such a person as | Lydia Pinkham? If so, when did she | start in business?—N. 8. A. There was such a person. Ac- | cording to the “Life of Lydla Pinkham,” | it was after the panic of 1873, when her | husband failed in business, that she de- cided to market the medicine that she had long been making and distributing | she relt it would | benefit. For seven years after it.was | put on the market, Mrs. Pinkham pre- | pared the concoction of herbs on her | own Kkitchen stove, Q. Is more cream used on Sundays, than on week days?—B. P. | A. It depends somewhat on the lo- | cation of the consumer. The average | American family uses thrce times as much cream on Sunday, but less milk. | At Christmas and Thanksgiving time | lhrse or four times as much cream is | used. Hoover, when the situation was made celar to him, came to the aid of Mr. Rice’ with a letter, in which he ex-| plained clearly and without any chance | of misunderstanding that the adminis-| tration is opposed to Government oper- | ation of Muscle Shoals. This letter of | the President gave the clear intimation that if the Norris bill is passed by both | Houses of Congress and sent to him he | will_veto it. This rather sounds the death knell, of the Norris proposal in is Congress at all events. / S Coon as the Jetter of the President | to Mr. Rice was made public there wa: a hewl in a number of quarters abou the President’s interfering in a party primary. But other Presidents have done the same thing when they believed themselves warranted. And now Mr. Hoover apparently has been justified, since Rice has won the nomination over his opponent, Price. S Rl e Another strong supporter of the ad- ministration, Henry J. Allen, won the nomination for Senator in the Repub- lican primary in Kansas. Furthermore, | Gov. Reed of Kansas, who made the| principal issue of his campaign for re-| nomination an attack upon the Federal | Farm Board and its policies, was handily defeated by the candidate of the more regular group of Republicans in the Sunflower State, Frank Hancke. “Dave” Mulvane, as the veteran Republican national committeeman for Kansas is { known to Republicans all over the country, took off his coat and worked | hard to defeat Reed and nominate his opponent. If Kansas is any criterion, the defection from the Hoover admin- istration in the agricultural West, re- as has been declared.to be the case. If| ever things looked bad for the G. O. P.| in the great States of the West, it seems that they should look very black at thy present writing. First, low prices of wheat and other commodities and then | a drought have hit the farmers hard this year. It is human nature to charge all ills to the powers that be. The ad- | ministration in Washington, be it Re- publican or Democratic, always comes in for _criticlsm when' the economic situation is bad for any great group of | the population. i ok Kk Out in Nebraska tomorrow Senator George W. Norris, arch enemy of the Hoover administration, will be a_candi- date before the voters for the Repub- lican nomination to the Senate. If all | | debate of some years ago. ported frequently, may not be so strong i ;, L | Q. What do_the Mexican 10-gallon | hats weigh?—D. L. | A. When these hats are trimmed with leather and metal ornaments, they | actually weigh from 5 to 8 pounds. Q. What is the purpose of the Kuo- | mintang mentioned so frequently as| operating in China?—N. R. A. The English translation of Kuo-| mintang is as follows: Kuo means| country, min means people, and tang | or tong means association. The whole | word is interpreted: Association to | | and almost J. HASKL country into the hands of bri; the u:en‘peopl The association is half political. e. patriotic, half Q. When was the first arithmetic text book published?—S. M. G. ‘A. Cocker's Arithmetic, the first com- plete manual for “numerists,” was pub- lished on the 3d of September, 1677, by Sir Roger L'Estrange. The author, Wwho died before it was published, be- came proverbial in England as a master of mathematical subjects. His book was a “best seller” for nearly a century. Q. Which States were first settled by Spaniards?—W. D. E. A. The following States were frst settled by Epaniards: California—San Diego, 1769; Florida—St. 1565; New Mexico—Santa Fe, Texas—San Antonio, 1690. Q. Is it true that books in librarieg are a means of spreading diseases?— Augustine, 1582; . W, A. Billings, a_former medical officer of New York City, holds that 99 per cent of cases of communicable diseases are transmitted from person to person never by books. Many libraries disregard the possible danger from books entirely. Tuberculosis may adhere to books, especially to the saliva= moistened thumbed areas. Examina- tion of library books for mouth bacteria shows streptococei in not more than one in every 20 books. This indicates disease transfer through books is not great. Q. Is there any special significance attached to the number 402—L. L. T. A. Forty is a number that has been regarded as peculiarly significant. The idea may have originated with readers of the Bible, who notice that Moses was 40 days on the mount, Elijah was fed | 40 days by the ravens, the rain of the flood fell 40 days, another 40 days elapsed before Noah opened the window of the ark, 40 days was the period of embalming, Jonah gave Nineveh 40 days to repent, the Lord fasted 40 gays, and He was seen 40 days after His resurrection. Old English law also featured many 40-day periods. Q. Swallows have a nest on a window cap of our veranda in July and are hatching eggs. Will there be time for the fledglings to learn to fly? I calcu- late it will have to be done within seven weeks.—F. E. P. A. The Bureau of Biological Survey says that the birds described are prob- ably cliff swallows, and that the period of seven weeks is not too short for the young to be ready for their flight. In- cubation ordinarily requires two weeks, the young bir remain in the nest two weeks, and have then three weeks Lleft to develop their strength; which is sufficient time. It is likely that this is the second brood of the Summer. Q. What is a Yarborough?—N. P. A. It is 2 hand of 13 cards. none of which is above a nine. The odds against holding such a hand are 1,827 to 1. It is named for an Englishman who held the hand. Q. Who namfed the Columbia River? R. D. E. A. It was named by Capt. Robert Gray, who discovered it in 1791. It was named for his ship, the Columbia, which he had sailed around the world. He was the first to carry the American flag around the world. Q. What statue fell from its pedestal in a Washington park early this Sum- mer?—J. R. B. A. On June 6, 1930, the statue of Nathanael Greene fell from its pedestal in Stanton Park. “}hole Nation Cudgels Braiuns Over Edison’s Lady-or-Tiger When Thomas Edison created his| dilemma on the desert to test the youths chosen as candidates for his | patronage he started the whole coun- | try on a hot-weather -topic of con-| versation rivaling the lady-or-the-tiger | He also stirred up chnsiderable comment . upon his methods and on the competition in_general. ! While the Memphis Commercial Ap- peal points out that “most of the con- | testants favored saving the scientist first,” the Omaha paper is strongly of the opinion that the head of the party “had blundered badly and did not deserve to be saved.”. In making this point the World-Herald asks, “What was the expedition doing out there who laugh at the question have several solutions to offer. The| Baltimore Sun suggests that “of course the pat answer in an Edison examina- tion is that the scientist and the boy | should be saved—the one to provide | the college education, the other to | have it.” Other solutions center around | the fiancee. The Kansas City Star | thinks: “The solution is obvious. Gal- | lantiy send back to civilization the society lady, her child and the eldest guide. Then you and your flancee | and the youngest guide eat the two scientists ‘and escape.” The Bloom- | ington Pantagraph declares the ques- tion puts the contestants in a diffi- | cult situation. “Each expects to have | a flancee some ‘day. When that day | comes, how could he face his sweet- the reports from the State are| true, Senator Norrls will win the | nomination because of his personal | strength with the voters. He is op- | posed by State Treasurer Stebbins, | representing the regular wing of the Republican party. ~ The Democrats | would be terribly” disappointed if Nor- | ris were to lose the nomination, for two reasons: First, they regard Norris as | a thorn in the side of the Republican | administration” more useful to them in | the Senate than an announced Demo- ! crat might be if he had-Norris’ place. | Secondly, Senator Norris left his party’s | national ticket—Hoover and Curtis—in | 1928 and supported with his voice and | his vote the Democtatic nominees in | | elections in his State, although he has always clung to the G. O. P. when it came time to be nominated and elected to office. There is talk today that n‘ number: of Democrats will go into_the | | Republican primary tomorrow and help | | nominate Norris. | | Former Senator Hitchcock of Ne- | braska, it appears, is to have the. | Democratic senatorial nomination. Just what that will mean remains to be seen. | At present the limelight is centered en- | tirely upon the struggle of Senator Nor- | | ris for renomination on the Repub- lican ticket. If Norris and Hitchcock are left to fight it out for the Senate in the ' Fall election, enough regular Republicans who will | undertake to punish Norris for his de- | sertion of the party in 1928 to give the election to Hitchcock. This is a vear in | which the party whip is being cracked with a good deal of effect over the shoulders of bolters, as evidenced by what has happened to Senator Simmons | of North Carolina and Senator Heflin | of Alabama, Democrals. i e | The threatened revolt of So\llhernj Republicans, under the leadership of Col. Horace Mann, who, like former | Chalrman_Huston of the Republican | | National Committee, is from Tennessee, against. the Hoover administratjop be- cause of “patronage” in the Southern States sounds rather futile. The dele- gates from the Southern States to the next Republican National Convention are not likely to be in a position to dic- | tate to the Republican party who shall | be its nominee for President, even Jf they try to do so. President Hoover there may be |\ heart if ‘she should recall his answer | to this proposition and show him up | as willing to leave her alone on a | desert isle, if necessity ever came.” | Believing that the contestant would | not save himself, the Milwaukee Sen-| tinel smiles at another angle of the case. “With death as his own portion, | should he send her out to live a life | forever to be marred by his sacrifice?” | So perhaps the Syracuse Herald is offering the best bet when it suggests, “The chances are, by the way, that the average male speculator will decide in | favor of his flancee, himself, and one | of the guides.” | ‘The more serious criticism is directed | against the entire examination. The | questions bring forth declarations of | distinct disapproval. In the opinion of | the Asbury Park Press, “As an index | of intelligence or powers of logic, -they are less valuable than asking whether one likes chocolate ice cream better | than vanilla, and why?” The charac- ter of the test leads the Worcester Eve- ning Gazette to declare, “After all, the winning of the Edison scholarship | means only that the winner was better ‘equipped thdn his*rivals’ to win that particular kind of competition.” The -Fort Worth Record-Telegram | pposes the examination, in saying, “It is a Rice idea—that of Selecting a boy | each year for a free university scholar- | ship. ~ But it doesn’t seem exactly the | thing to do to use the class as a target for personal® whimsies.” *As the Cin- | cinnati Times-Star puts it. “Never were | so many scemingly unrelated items grouped together since the Walrus and the Carpenter talked ‘of many things, of shoes and ships and sealing wax, of cabbages and king In the opinion of the Dayton News, “It is easy to see that the young hopefuls answered nct | as they themselves thought, but as they thought Mr. Edison would like them to answer.” Despite these criticisms, Mr. Edison | is not without many supporters. The Canton Repository makes a strong de- nunciation of the fault-finders and fol- lows it with the declaration, “Mr. Edi- son, or any other man of hi8 position, knows what he is about without asking P |seem to be strongly erected for help.” As the Oakland Tribune re- marks, “Probably the gauge to intel- ligence which Edison and his associates are applying is as god as any which could be found.” This belief is support- ed by the observation of the Flint Daily Journal that “The questions demanded broad preparation in many fields of learning, common sense, originality, personal opinior”; and of the Topeka Daily Capital that “The boy who makes the best recqrd in an examination of this kind—granted, of course, that those who ~grade the papers are thoughtful, socialmnded, altruistic men—is pretty certain to justify Mr. Edison's hope.” “The answers, no doubt,” states the Chattanoga Times, “disclosed to the inventor, not only the knowledge and ignorance of the contestants, but also something of the very stuff of which they are made and the way they lcok at life” The work of the coniestants especially pleases the Manchester Union, which asserts: “As a whole, they seem to have made a remarkably good showing. One gravely doubts if 49 of their elders, similarly selected, ‘would have acquitted themselves much more creditably.” The Albany Evening News isn't quite so outspoken, but subtly hints, “It will be profitable for adults to go over the questions to see how many can answered.” “Perhaps time will test Mr. Fdison's wisdom,” and the Ohio State Journal holds a belief kindred to his own, that “if one possesses a general krowledge and a lively imagination, he doesn't need much else in any fieid of en- deavor,” for in the words of the Mil- waukee Sentinel, “Fifty years from now, the careers of his chosen proteges will speak for themselves as to the value of his manner of making a choice.” ‘Whoever is right or wrong, one can- not overlogk a little message of the Providence Journal concerning Arthur Williams:® ,“We who never heard of Avogadro'¢ hypothesis, who are wholly uncertain’ gs to whom we would leave to die in {ne desert and who have no notion whatever of the going value of a low-priced motor car that has been driven 5,000 miles, wish him the best of luck. o Ousting Safeguards Are Held Desirable From the Louisville Times. Dispatches indicate that, for the time being, anyway, Miami has abandoned the effort to hound Scarface Al out of the community. Since the failure of what was regarded as the strongest of the legal proceedings pending against Capone, the county solicitor has said he will drop the others, and the gang- ster’s attorney announces that his client is “more determined than ever to re- main.” It is easy to sympathize with the desire of Miami officials to rid their city of Capone. His undesirability as citizen or neighbor can scarcely be questioned. However, the elements of this un- desirability seem to be somewhat imponderable in the court room. Capone’s prosecutors in Miami have been unable to fasten anything tangible whereby he can b: ejected or jailed according to due piocess of law. The safeguards against ousting a member of the community without some resson which is definite and conclusive in this country. Which is fortunate, however unfortunate it may appear to the anti- | Capone crusaders in Miami at tire mo- ment. Officials should not be armed & | ful Democrat in the second district, also | With power to send on his way any was a wet, which gave the Republicans | individual they happen to dislike. The - stili more to think about.. The Repub- | things that may incur the dislike of edgments of defeated leaders. News- paper correspondents are not permitted eliminated from motion pictures, they, has been secking to bring about the se- will fail, in the opinion of this noted|lection -of efficient and honest Federal educator. Something sweet and Clehn‘omcem'ln the South and if his efforts Climatic Discontent. The weather man doth gaze afar position at the State Department. He's just turned 36. While he will not con- fine his researches exclusively to Rus- temperate zones, where extreme heat is only occasional, the price paid to Na- in the fighting zone and must make their reports from rumors and partisan proclamations. Nobody = knows how many men there are in the field or what is the equipment of the oppos- ing b “The some evidences that gith ture for extraordinary temperatures is a severe one. In this present situation the lack of | motsture. due to the general drought from which a large portion of the coun- try is now suffering, is an additional With brain in constant action. Whate'er he brings, the chances are It won't bring satisfaction. “Sometimes,” sald Uncle Eben, “de man dat keeps tellin' bout reform is de man dat is stirrin’ thilgs up an’ sian_matters, they're bound to engage his foremost’ attention, in light of re- cent trade developments. Mr. Kelley will, of course, not go to Moscow, as we're not on diplomatic speaking terms with the Soviet. But he will inguire exhaustively into Russian relations with European countries. _including | must be substituted for vulgarity, he id. He urged the music teachers to say and do all possible to put an end to trashy music in radlo broadcasts This is & very timely and important urging. Radio and the motion picture: are the two leading fofins of entertain- ment today. They showd be kept clean and wholesome. ad on the toes of the Mann follow- that is uniortunate for them. When the rock-ribbed Republican second congressional district of Massa- chusetts last Spring sent a Democrat to the House to fill & vacancy cold chills | ran up and down the spines of the Re- publican members of the House from Brooks, & prominent business man, who | also is said to have strong farm con- | tacts, against Granfield. They aze Lent | on making a special eflort (o regain thi district and §f the Republicans are | united in the ¥all they probably \\'flll do so, for the '\mmw been strongly | | licans are likely to nominate Joshua L. | Officials are not always or necessarily discreditable. Here, then, is consolation—except for the wayfarer whose.social order Is that of the bum instsad of the gangster and who must “move .on” as bidden, although he is inferor to a Capone only in capacity to do harm and ability- to spend money in the local shops. geasonable assurance show that a criti- cause of distress. Without raln the makin’ de trouble wuss.” trade conditions. During the war Kelley \ the Bay State. Granficld, the success- Republican in the