Evening Star Newspaper, August 14, 1930, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR WASHINGTON, D. C. August 14, 1930 THEODORE W. NOYES. ...Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Uffice: Lith 8. and Pennsylvania ave New York Office. 11 n ca. ““Lake Michigan Building. ice. 14 Regent 8t.. London, Englan . Rate by Carrier Within the City. ine Star. . .. 45¢ rer month and Sunday $i davs) 60c per month Evening and Sundas’ Siar ndass) . * #5¢ per monts The Sunday St ity llection made at the end o Qiders mav be sent in by mail or .elephone NAtional 5000. Rate by Mall—Payable in Advance. | Maryland and Virginia. v and Sunday. .. ] ¥r.$10.00; 1 mo. s 56.00: 1 mo.. ails only .56 inday only . $4.00. 1 mo.. ily and Sunday ily only . nday onis ssociated Press. ‘The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use ior republication of news Cig- r Bot is T and also *I rein Al rights of tches herein are also rese: e jocal 1ews publication of rved. The Triangle Traffic Problem. An article in today's Star, one of the series discussing the elaborate report recently prepared on solving some of the eity's parking probiems, describes, the dificul in handling traffic to be encountered when the Government's | building program in the Avenue tii- angle is completed. Unfertunately, the report does not go much beyond a de- scription of the difficulties. No con- crete program of what to do about It has yet been formulated. ‘There have | been many suggestions and it is time for definite agreement on adoption of thti best. The article today, for instance, quotes the parking report as inviting attention to the fact that the large Government departments, employing thousands of | workers, and located within the busin: district, create “double lcads” of traf- fic. “Thess burdens are felt in traffic movement during peak hours,” the re- port says, “but more critically in con- nection with the automobile terminal facilities. The problem will be greatly intensified m the near future through the construction of the triangle group, which will concentrate in the central business district additional thousands of empioyes. The location of this group eZng immediately adjacent to the area of most concentrated business activity and in a cistrict where traffic and park- ing conditions already are very difficult, presents traffic questions of serious im- | portance.” But what is going to be done about it? New Government buildings are aiready completed or nearing completion with- in the triangle. Every mcnth finds changes. But whils it has besn decided in advance that there will be some 23,- 000 employes housed In the triangle group, and while it has besn definitely ascertained that about 23.6 per cent of these depend on their own cars for transportation-to and frem work and that at least 5428 ali-day parkers must either be provided for or forced to leave their cars far from work, no decision has been made on meeting the problem. ‘The parking committee found that curb parking would be out of the ques- tion, and dismissed as impractical the suggestion that park space to the west and south of the triangie group be con- verted int> storage garages. It has left to another committes, of which Col. U. 8. Grant, 3d, is chairman, adoption of | a plan for disposing of the parked automcbi'es of Government workers, and how to arrange for mass transpor- tation facilitis within the triangle. The best solution will no doubt follow continued study. But the solution should be reached whiiz the layout of the new group of builcings is still on paper. Some method of avoiding undue | congestion and ccntinued traffic snarls Within the new triongle is as important 8s the appearance and the location of the buildings. vt President Hoover's ears are sympa- | thetically attuned to the swelling cho- rus, rising from all p:rts of the land, of “Nobody knows how dry I am.” He has seen droughts in all parts of the world and he knows how terrible they | can be. e ST P Gen. Smith-Dorrien. Sixte-1 vears ago this month the name of a British major general was| on the whole world’s lips and on the nerves of the German high command— | Horace Smith-Dorrien, commander of | that gallant army of Biitain's “Pirst Hundred Thousand,* ‘which' éaved the day at Mons and 1a Cateau: ' Smith- Dorrien, who faced unharmed great | dangers in war. was killed in a prosaic sutomobile smash in England on Tues- day. The “Contemptibles.” the Kaiser bad just dubbed the dogged force of Toromies who barred the way of the Prussian Guard in the earliest furious fighting in Beigium and France. Gen von Kluck, the German commander | who lost the first Battle of the Marne, acquired a higher opinion of the troops thrown across the Channel to stem the onrushing tide of feldgrau. Von Kluck placed an eminent estimate on Gen. 8mith-Dorrien in particular. It was the latter’s stand at La Cateau, Von Kluck later said, “vhich saved the entente.” Field Marshal Sir John French was | esmmander in chiel of the British | Expedit v Force catapulted into France as a desperate emergency meas- ure of aid to Joffre. Smith-Dorrien was at the head of its Second Corps. French maintained thzt retreat from La Cateau on August 25, 1914, was a necestity. Smith-Dorrien, whose force was directly involved, held that for him and his army a retirement was virtuelly | impossible. In view of the fact that| the King's regulations clothed him with | authority, as supreme commander on the spot, to override Sir John Frencii's! orders, Smith-Dorrien decided to Lold | on. “We will stand and fight," he tcid ! his men. They did so. Although ncv uni sally agreed that his tenacity sav~d | the whole British position at a crucial hour and checked the German advanse on a most vital scale, Ir=nh chaged that Smith-Dorrien had “risked a sec-| ond Sedan”—the fatal eng-g°mcnt in the Pranco-Prussian War of 1570-7i which spelled France’s doom. The Second Army Corps lsader’s reply to this taunt was that if he had continied to retreat with his exhausicd men. he fantry's “stanchness and astoundin: accuracy with the rifie” that decided im not to turn back. Generalissimo Joftre telegraphed Prench to congratu- late Smith-Dorrien “on the powerful effect that the Battle of La Cateau had on the security of the Prench Army's left flank.” But the epicode remained / bone of British military contention for a decade and more, even though Sir John eventually commended his subor- dinate’s action. Sir John French prevailed in the immediate controversy over the right- eousness of Smith-Dorrien’s disobedi- ence of retreat orders, and the latter was directed to surrender his command and return to Eng'and. Smith-Dorrien soon had his revenge for the h a- tion thus put upon him, for F ich himsell afterwerd was recalled from France by Kitchener and given the raore or less decorative post of inspec- tor general. R New Air Records. Yesterday marked the establishment of two major air records, one for speed across the continent and the other for endurance of plane end man in the air. Of the two ti almost unbelievable time in whi<h Capt. Frank Hawks flew from Glendale, Calif., to Valley Stream, N. Y., is the more spectacular, but for sheer persistence and the “will to win" the smashing of the endurance record by Dale Jackscn and Forest O'Brine ranks high in the annals of human ac- complishment. Hawks. who has made a specialty of annihilating time between the Atlantic and the Pacific. pushed his tricky little red and white racer from West to East at two hundred and thirty miles an hour to hang up an all- time mark of sustained speed, not only between California and New York, but for a distance of more than twenty-five hundred miles. He beat the record of Col. and Mrs. Lindbergh by two hours, and as he climbed out of the cockpit he naively remarked, “I am going to try it again in the Fall and make a real fast trip.” His actual fiying time yesterday was eleven hours and forty minutes, but he made three stops of fifteen minutes apiece, which gave him elapsed time of approximately twelve hours and a half. Not so spectacular were the other record breakers of yesterday. Before they even began their flight, which was to end in regaining the title which had been taken from them by the Hunter brothers, Jackson and O'Brine knew that they must spend more than three weary weeks aloft before they could begin to think about regaining their title. Tiree weeks aloft cooped up in a stuffy cabin before the record could conceivably be within their grasp! Certainly not a pleasant pros- pect. But nothing daunted, they climbed into their faithful old ship and prepared to make it their aerial bun- galow for the time needed to set up a new record. And twenty-three days after their plane left the ground they completed five hundred and fifty-four hours and forty-one minutes of con- tinuous refueling flight and are again the undisputed champions of endur- ance aviators. Hawks' record is the result of the scme of piloting skill plus a speedy plane and smoothly performing en- gine. The endurance fiyers likewise showed skill of the highest order in making their various contacts with the “nurse” ship, but they have needed per- sistence and courage besides to combat the hours of sleeplessness and the deys and nights of acute discomfort. These attributes are perhaps best exemplified by their announcement that they in- tend, if possible, to stay aloft for an- other three weeks. Whether they succeed in their ambitious plans is a matter of conjecture, but that they will break the old record by a sub- stantial margin is almost a foregone conclusion. It is a far cry from the one minute of sustained flight of the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk, a little more than twenty-five years ago, to the three weeks and three days that Jack- son and O'Brine have compieted up t> the present time, and there is just as wide a difference between the train speed across the continent a quarter of a century ago and the dawn-to-dusk flight of Capt. Hawks, but neither of the two records is likely to stand for long. Hawks flew at an average speed of better than two hundred and thirty miles an hour. His ship was of the Iatest design. But in a week, or a month, or a year, perhaps, a faster ship will probably blaze its way through the skies carrying its occupant, whoever he may be, to fame and glory. If the endurance holders stay up six weeks, probably some one else, as persistent as they, will start off and stay up two months or more. There is nothing so fragile in these days cf aviation prog- ress as air championships. The heroes of today are almost forgotten tomor- row, but to Capt. Hawks, Dale Jackson and Porest O'Brine go congratulations for sterling achievements. R — The plant pethologist at Pennsyl- vania State College verifies the story of half-baked apples hanging from fruit trees. Along about September 15 an- other half-baked crop will come under his observation. - L The Shaking-Down of Mr. Ewald. If what Mayor Walker and former Tammany leader Olvany have told the | district attorney of Greater New York is correct—and their testimony is un- equivocal and specific—the “loan” of $10,000 without ini-rest by Mis. Ewald | to District Leader Healy preceding Mr. Ewald’s appointment as magistrate was just wasted money, for the mayor de- clares that Mr. Healy had nothing whatever to do with the appointment that Mr. Ewald was chosen on the strength of recommendations that came from other sources and that, as fer as the appointment was concernad, Mr. Ewald's money, “if he voluntariiy con- tributed any,” might as well have been thrown into the sewr: {or ail the good it did him. THe m- added that he looked upon this aff2ir as “a very la- mentable thing.” Judge Glvany. deny- ing any knowledge c{ 1 Healy's in- fluence and activities in Dehall of Ewsld, said that if any money was paid “neither the Demccr- ic organ 21- tion nor myself received cne cent in reference to it.” Taking these two statem-nts as “(he truth, the whole truth, and ncthing but ihe truth ™ it heeins to look as i per- haps Mr. Healy, having &novledge of Mr. Ewald’s a:surxd appolntment in loan. If this is true the transaction as- sumes the character of that well known political trick, the “shake-down.” It makes, of course, no difference morally whether Healy got the job for Ewald or not so lcng as he got the money. Nor does it make any differencs from the Ewald point of view whether the money went for value received or “into the sewer.” If he thought he was buy- ing the judgeship he was just as guilty if the vendor had nothing to sell him as if he had. ‘The “shake-down” as seems thus to have been worked in New York in the Ewald case is part of the game. It has long been recognized as the usufruct of the lesser members of the political machine. In former timss, at lcast, about the only rule was that th~ buyer of favors must not be squeezed: util he squealed. Whatever anybody could get { out of him just shert of that. point was legitimate pickings. Maybe that is still the rule in New York. e If any more proof of pollution in | Rock Creek were needed, the presence of suckers there is about conclustve. | These fish, which seem to be a sort of trial-sample turned out by nature, will thrive where & self-respecting angle- worm would, figuratively, turn up his toes. ———— e Four hundred and thirty-eight men, more than ever before ih the history of {the institution, worked their way through Princeton last year. The boys | are steadily getting on to what a fine | handicap tais gives them over their | non-employed classmates. v—ora The Prince of Wales is to throw off ceremonial yoke and, for a brief period, be boss of his own time, state London dispatches. Even a prince ought to have a day off occasionally, just like his butler and chauffeur. ———— “What is the idea in being presented at the Court of St. James's?” some one writes to a question-and-answer department. That is a query that United States Ministers and Ambassa- dors have been wearily propounding to themselves for many -years. et In the big Balkan checkers tourna- ment Carol, having made the king row, is clamoring to be crowned irrespective of a reconciliation with Helen. It is thought by many that he will be jumped eventually. — ——— A submarine aircraft carrier is soon to be an accepted fact, according to Navy Department officials. Old Mother Nature already has produced a perfect one in the chrysalis of the dragon-fly. e L e SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. A Vacation. They told him that he needed rest. He hurried far away | Where o'er the ocean’s foamy crest ‘The wholesome breezes play. He shot the chutes, he looped the loop; He joined the mazy dance; He saw the side show minstrel troupe, And watched the ponies prance. H: ate hot sausages and things He ne'er had seen before; He won a cane by throwing rings Until his arms were sore. Hg walked the boardwalk all day long, X%d heard the music play ‘Where rival organs big and strong In strong discord grind away. He drank long mixtures filled with ice, Ate lobsters and sardines; He dallied with the cards and dice And played the slot machines. He tried to keep the pace in vain. He did his level best. He had to hurry home again Because he needed rest. Reform. “What we want,” said the discontented reform.” answered Senator Sorghum, “we want it; but each of us is convinced that the wrongs in which he is inter- ested ought to wait until all the rest have been attended to.” Pursuit of the Practical. “You are not saying as much about the trusts as you used to.” “No,” answered Parmer Corntossel. “There’s altogether too much tempta- tion for a man to keep chasin’ octopuses when he ought to be pickin' potato bugs,” Finanee, Some people by investments win; Of this there isn't any doubt. You go and put your money in And wonder who will take it out. A Criterion. “What makes you think that Mr. Scadds is not & man of influence in this community?” answered Miss Cayenne, ‘I have observed that he never runs his automobile at any greater speed than that permitted by the law.” An Epicure. “That man is what I call a real | epicure,” remarked a grandstand spec- tator as a man left at the close of the seventh inning. “Indeed?” “Yes. He would rather eat than see a base ball game.” Advice. Oh, never be a grafter! “Tis & way with dapger fraught, Its a palace when you're lucky And a prison when you're caught. “Some men can't talk wifout usin’ long words,” saild Uncle Eben, “jes de same as some men has to take a whole day foh a piece of work dat dey ought to do in half an hour. ——oe— Page Florida and California. From the Pocatello Idaho Tribune. According to reports from )y | the popcorn has been popping on the | stalks out in the fields. It is now time | for Kansas to come through with a re- | port of the hens laying hard-boiled eggs. e Looking to the Future. Prom the Kalamazoo Gazette. Whoever would have thought that the time would come, right in the middle of the picnic season, when a good, drench- mous delight? ————— Real Punishment. Indeed. advance, as-umed, as the district leader, role of th® fri'nd in need wio couid weuld have courted “ceriain disa‘te In Ris memeirs Smith-Do: wrote Ihl(fi was his {~12h in the B in- 0 the triek for th: aspivent for the megisiracy, end then sent his hoach- man T-mmepey to Mrs. E-2ld for a Tiom (he Omaha World-Heraid. ‘To make the punishment fit the erim» Weschester Countv, N. Y., is placing radio receivers i every cell o its new ik - ing rain would be regarded with uneani- | One cannot help believing that the | novelist who produces one book a year | can do a better job than he who write: two stories annually. ‘What can be said, then, for the work | of a man who turns out a dozen “book- | length” novels every 12 months. | As far as we can see there has never | been but one man in the history of the writing world who succeeded fn mass- | production Wwriting and at the same time made his work artistic. | He was Alexandre Dumas. ‘The fact that ne could produce mil- | lions of words annually did not vitiate | that arrangement of them which the | world has agreed to call good. | His romances, whether he wrote | them entirely himself or only stood in | the relation of master mind to them. | produce an agreeable effect which only | true art in fiction can achieve. | Art, one may be forgiven for belie ing, is the result of quantity only when | a supreme mind makes it so. A mere productive mind is not enough. | There are scores of ambitious, vital | persons writing heavily for the satis- | action of immediate reading needs. Against them surely nothing can be said, except that they are not for the ages. They themselves would be the first | to admit this—indeed, do proclaim the same, in those occasional articles which they write to satisfy the demands of hero worship, in an age when quantity often usurps the place once given to quality. | * % % * | We hope readers here will pardon our | annual enthusiasm for Dumas. Here was a unigue man in the ages, an ex- | ceptional writer, one whose productiv- | ity resembled that of a machine, yet | whose masterpieces are the perennial wonder of all who read and write. And what is 1t about the “Three | Musketeers” series, for instances, which | sets them off sharply from the mass of writing done by the rapid-fire men of v? We ‘were reading, or attempting to read, a detective story produced by the master of the craft in England, a man | who does more in a day's work than | the average person produces in a week or a month. Actually. Probably a month would be a fairer comparison. In the end, the story was good, but it took pages to get started, and the method used was a mere blocking in, 2 cheap, inartistic way of doing what Dumas, in a different medium, it must be_confessed, did so much better. For the quality which made his | stories excel is the one which makes | any fiction breathe, live. It is that of character drawing. = Just how it is done | no one can explain. It is not to be| analyzed, although scores of persons have set themselves up as analysts. The quality which we agree to call | life in & work of fiction resembles real | life in its irreducibility to rules. The | way one man does it may be torn to pieces, but it is mere dissection. It displays the course of the muscles, but it does not tell who makes them move, or_why. | ‘The queer workings of the human | mind, its reactions, its hates, loves, vagaries, these constitute life as we know it, for all action and reaction in rational human beings is dependent | upon the state of mind. Life and love, | viewed from one standpoint (although not the only one), are merely states | of mind * ok ok K Alexandre Dumas, the elder, knew more states of mind in a week than | most of us experience in a lifetime. He fitted Walt Whitman's description of himself; he was large, he contained multitudes, OLOGNE GAZETTE.—The trial aL Hamburg of the officers of the German steamship Falke for & revolutionary project against the government of Venezuela has resulted in an acquittal. It will be recalled that the executive of- ficer and owners of this vessel conspired with certain Venezuelan reactionaries to | create a demonstration against the Venezuelan authorities and obliged the crew of the steamer to join with them in the manifestation. While not in- tended to be more tha: gesture of dis- approval of Venezuelan international policies and sentiments, the affair cre- ated the utmost excitement, especially when the participants donned military uniforms and fired some hlank shots from the ship's saluting battery and ran up an allen flag in a Venezuelan port. The court in exculpating the accused parties indicated that the exoneration did not necessarily carry with it an in- dorsement of the behavior of these men for thus voluntarily joining in an ex- pression of protest against a friendly nation, ok Wife Cannot Pledge Husband’s Credit for Cigarettes. ‘The Daily Mail, London —Cigarettes are a luxury and not a necessity for a | woman. Judge Roope Reeve, K. C., gave this decision at the Worcester County Court recently, and ruled that a wife could not pledge her husband's credit for cigarettes. Charles Henry Downes, a grocer of Kempsey, near Worcester, who sued J. Phillips of Kempsey for payment for cigarettes | supplied Mrs. Phillips, said that usually the cigarettes which the last-named ordered each week were charged on the grocery bill. In October last, however, Mrs. Phlliips asked him to put them on !a s-parate slip, as a check on the ex- !tent to which she was smoking. Mr. Phillips said that hig wife's purpose in doing this was to keep her smoking habit from his knowledge, as he was | very much ageinst it. ¥ Build Highway To Provide Employment. Neues Wiener Tagblatt, Vienna.—With the idea of putting thousands of idle men to work, the government is enter- ing upon the project of building two new highways in the Austrian Alps. One of these roads will lead through the Gross-Glockner Mountains, and the other, called the Pack-Strasse, will con- nect Klagenfurt to Kaernten Province, | with Gratz, the capital of Styria While the first route will be of bene- fit_chiefly to Austrians living in the Salzburg, Tirol and Carinthian regions, the Pack-Strasse will be a facile inter- national highway between Austria, | Hungary and Italy, and is opposed by | certain anti-government papers. Who profess to see a pact with Mussolini, or at least Italian influence in the choice of this route, affording, as it will, a new and much more direct communication botween Italy and Austria. The Pack- Strasse, on the other hand, will obviate the present necessity of Austrians hav- ing to travel through a portion of Jugeslavia via the former Austrian city of Marburg, when journeying between Klagenfurt and Gratz, As the new sur- ve; is all in Austrian territory. PR Association To Aid Hote! Business. El Mercurio. Santiagd—The hotel | business in Chile is expscted to be noticeably improved and promoted by the formation of the National Hotel Assoniation (Ln Socirdad Nacional de i Hoteles), an enterprise with a gross capital of 10.000,000 pesos ($1.215,000), | divided into 10,000 sheres of 1,000 pesos cach. The funds of the organization will he at the disposal of shareholders who wish to increase the business of theii present establishments, or _erect new units. All construction work, un- der the by-laws of the society, will be supervised by the ministry of public orks and buildings. The principal nction of the association, however, will be to finance going burinesses, which need money for expansion and BY CHARLES E. THIS AND THAT TRACEWELL. ‘That is why, in reading his incom- parable stories, one never thinks of mass production, but only sees two en on horseback, galloping over the roads of France, or a man and woman standing beneath the trees of the beau- tiful park at Versailles. This man had an abundance of vital power in his make-up which he was able to use for the rapid produc- tion of ficticn, but this power was so vital, if one may put it that way, that it was able to achieve as artistically with much as most writers can with little. If any one knows a better way to put the secret of the charm of Dumas than that, we wish they would let us know about it. Some of the French writers have called him a veritable source of life, one with the powers of creation. They have called him river, mountain, sun, in an effort to put some label on his colossal powers. All gets back to the plain fact, that he could write voluminously better than any one else ever could. He had no recourse to cheap tricks of his trade. He wrote because words bubbled in 1k:lm as ordered expression. And order art. He did not describe a character by any set rule, often he did not describe him at all, but in the end the reader knew the man. No profound character analysis, mind you. That he left to defter hands. His were large, coarse hands, able to block out-the broad sweep of those scenarios which he anticipated the movie world many years in creating. Yet his characters somehow have a bit of his amazing vitality. The men and women in all too many of our modern tales do mnot scem exactly human. Dumas’ people are always real, although common sense often tells us that they are in actualily the merest figments of the imagination. That, ladies and gentlemen, is genius. * oK K K ‘Whether a man produces little or much will make no particular difference in the after years, although it may make considerable in the size of his bank roll while alive. No writer will be lauded because he produced 100 novels, unless that hun- dred is freighted with an abiding in- terest which will pass unharmed through the changes of the years. It is amazing to note with what surety the greatest novelists of all countries and ages have passed up, in their work, the trifling fads of their days, and have concentrated on the sure workings of heart, hand and mind, the same in all times and among all peoples. You will search the few novels of Jane Austen in vain for any actions, words or scenes peculiar to England in her time. At most you will discover only a half dozen of unusual words (such as “ha-ha” for a small stream). With that capable selection which after years has agreed to call genius, Miss Austen selected her pepery and women from real life, and set them forth in words which mean the same today as then. The same may be said of Dumas’ stories. Despite their translation into a new tongue, and the lack of any personal acquaintance with swashbuck- ling romance on the part of readers, these romances of his breathe perpet- ually a certain gusto, which is merely a reflection of his spirit He had the wriling * the impal- pable but nevertheless powerful some- thing or other which finds its way into the minds and hearts of his readers. In future ages, no one will write this way of the English word-mill to whom we have referred. But Alexandre Dumas, a hundred years from now, will find other readers to praise him as we do now. Highlights on the Wide World Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands improvements. It is felt that the pro- vision of better and more abundant accommodations for hotel dwellers will be the incentive for many more af- fluent foreign tourists to visit Vene- zuela, especially because of its incom- parable native attractions, and the proximity of the United States to its shores. The net profits from the loans or shares will be added to the capital funds for a certain period, and no loans will be made for a longer term than 10 years, secured by adequate second mortgage. * ok ¥ & New York Bank Opens New Branch in Buenos Aires. La Nacion, Buenos Aires.—The Na- tional City Bank of New York has opened at No. 161 Calle Pueyrredon its eleventh local branch office and counting house. This will conveniently g:rmn the banking services of this Ipful institution to be enjoyed in the new western quarter of the capital. Every assistance and facility offered at the main bank, situated, as is well known, at the ‘corner of Bartolome Mitre and San Martin, will be afforded by the new location. The new building is an attractive and commodious structure, and its doorway is an accurate replica, though some- what smaller, of the entrance to the mother institution in the City of New York, in North America. The interior 1s replete with every requisite for com- fort, and for the prompt and scientific transaction of modern banking and commerce. e Celebrate Final Osmpaign Against French. El Dictamen, Vera Cruz.—They cele- brated in Puebla and in Coscoma- tepec de Bravo the anniversary of the final campaign against the French in 1866, which began, with the famous conflict of the 5th of May. The glori- ous advance made by the gallant forces of the republic against the Napoleonic troops, the “first soldiers of the world,” will never be forgotten as long as Mex- ico survives. The ceremonies began with reveille at 6 in the morning, May 10, and continued with a program of military music, cannonades and patriotic address, In which the entire population took part. These battles marked the final overthrow of Maximilian, and the triumph of President Juarez. ——— Farm Must Have Farmer to Succeed From the Meridian Star. Henry Ford predicts that the old-time farm and the old-time farming are soon to pass away. Future farming will be on a huge scale—scientific ~direction, mechanical efficlency, mass production. No more farm personality—mere mechanics. On the other hand, Martin J. Insull, Illinois utility magnate, declares that farming will never pass beyond the stage of individual management. “The farm,” says he, “will never pass beyond a family affair. Here we have two different views— the one, the mos’ outstanding manu- facturer of the present day, who helieves solely in the eficiency of powar me- chanics; the other, the leading capital- ist of the Middle West, who believes that mechanics can never suprlant human element. Neither one is a farmer by experi- ence. Both seem to be discussing a sub- ject about which neither knows enough to speak with real authority. Despite both Messrs. Insull and Ford, the farmer will go along in the future as in the past— Making many mistakes, eking out & modest existence, sowing and Teaping— feedin, the world. Changes will come. Efficiency will supplant some present inefficlencies. System will supplant disorganization. Production will increase and doubtless prices will decrease. But the farm will never succeed with- out the farmer. Even nature cannot get along without the human element. The Political Mill By G. Gould Lincoln. Senator George W. Norris o Nebraska is the Republican nominee for the Senate to succeed himself. Despite the fact that he bolted his party’s national ticket and supported Al Smith for President in 1928, it was practically a foregone conclusion that Norris would be nominated. He had been the dominant political figure in his State for years. Furthermore, the plea was made by some of his supporters to the Democrats to go into the Republican primary and help nominate Senator Norris “against his_regular Republican opponent, State Treasurer Stebbins. How many of the Democrats in Nebraska will be willing t> support Senator Norris in November against their own party's candidate, former Senator Gilbert M. Hitchcock, remains to be seen. What is of even more interest, however, is the number of regular Republicans in Nebraska who may desert Senator Norris and vote for Hitchcock. The Repub- ‘What is your question? Whatever it | may b>*unless it be a request for legal, medical or financial advice, it will be answered without cost to you, and you will receive the reply in a personal letter. Write your question clearly and | briefly, inclose 2-cent stamp for return postage, agd address The Evening Star Informati Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, irector, Washington, D. C. Q. What is dead reckoning in air- plane travel?—E. W. M. A. Dead reckoning means navigating, or laying the course, taking into con- sideration ! the following factors: Air speed of the plane, true course from starting point to destination, magnetic variation at start and at destination which would affect reading of compass, miles between start and destination, wind, its_firection and _velocity (this would afféct speed and direction of 1 of plane). _Considering these factors, one would figure what the true lican national organization, through its new chairman, Senator Fess of Ohio, has announced that it proposes to go to the bat for Norris as the Republican nominee in the coming campaign. That seems to be heaping coals of fire upon the independent Mr. Norris' head, con- smennf the Norris attitude toward the Republican national ticket two years ago. * x % % ‘The Democrats appear to be more successful than the Republicans in deal- ing with party bolters. While Senator Norris was being nominced as a Re- publican by his party in Nebraska, Senator Thomas J. Heflin of Alabama was nc' permitted by the Democrats of his State to enter the party primary in that Stafe. He must run as endent in the November elections. ead, the nominee of the party aator in the primary held on a3, is not considered a particularly strong candidate. He has sought the nomination in the past and has been defeated. But he bears the party label this time, and Heflin will be without it. “Marse” Tom is still full of fight, but he has the party organization and the control of the election machinery against him. If he can overcome these odds in a State as strongly Democratic as Alabama he will have achieved a political _miracle. A great stump speaker, Heflin will, it is expected, get into every nook and corner of the State in the next two months and a half, to rally the voters against “Al Smith, Raskob, Tammany and rum,” which he insists are the real issues in the campaign. * ok ok K Senator Joseph T. Robinson, Demo- cratic nominee for Vice President in 1928 and his party’s leader in the Senate, has won renomination for the Senate in Arkansas. Here again the expected happened. He ran far ahead of his opponent, T. W. Campbell, an attorney of Little Rock. All the efforts of Democrats who did not care for the Smith nomination in 1928 to supplant Democratic members of the Senate and House who remained loyal to the Demo- cratic national ticket in that year have apparently failed. The renomination of Senator Robinson, who was Al Smith’s running mate two years ago, shows conciusively that the dire threats against Smith Democrats in Southern and border States, made in 1928, have proved to be mere wind. Senator Rob- inson was entitled to renomination, he has been a forceful party leader in the Senate and an able legislator. Doubt- less his State delegation will go to the next Democratic national convention intent upon nominating Robinson for President—not Vice President. * ok ok ok Out in Ohio the Democrats have gone ahead and nominated another ‘wet” for Senator. Former Representative Robert J. Bulkley, running as a wet, won handily cver his opponents in the senatorial primary. It remains to be seen, however, how a wet will get along in the home of the Anti-Saloon League when it comes to the general election. Senator MeCulloch, who was nominated by the Republicans, is a dry. The battle between the wets and the drys in this race for the Senate will be pretty clearly drawn. Former Senator Atlee Pomerene was the last wet Demo- crat to go down to defeat in Ohio be- fore a dry Republican, the late Sena- tor Frank B. Willis, Ohip is strongly Republican as a rule, although the Democrats have elected Governors and occasonally Senators in that State. The fight for the Senate seat this Fall will be watched with the keenest interest in view of the drive of the wets to make a showing in the elections this year. * %k Xk X ‘The attitude of the Republican Na- tional Committee toward Senator Norris, a party bolter in 1928, indicates political sagacity. The National Com- mittee and Senator Fess, its new chair- man, are not anxious to encourage bolters and the promise of support to Senator Norris, now that he has been nominated, is not intended as an en- couragement to bolters. But it is in- tended as an olive branch to that wing of the Republican party in the West which has been more or less off the reservation, except in national elec- tions, for a number of years. Suppose the national chairman, Mr. Fess, had announced the Republican organization would withhold support from Mr. Norris this year. It would merely have made a martyr of Senator Norris in a State which s full of progressive voters who like Senator Norris. The gesture of friendliness, furthermore, may be of assistance to party harmony/| in other States. The Republicans, a general rule, play’party politics suc: cessfully. * K ok K Mr. Norris, it is true, might say tha# he cares nothing for the support of éh Republican national organization. u‘ he went into the Republican primary and he bears the party‘label. If he did not wish to run as a Republican, he did not have to do so. He could have entered the Democratic primary, or he could have announced himself an in< dependent candidate. If he cared to do so, Mr. Norris would have a difficalt. time defending his record for party. loyalty. Perhaps he may have prefer- red to run as an independent. If he did, ?e“ restrained his inclinations success- ully. i * k% x ‘When all is said and done, it must be recognized that there are progressivesis well as conservatives in the Republican party, and, unless the party continpes to spread its mantle over both prdgres- sives and conservatives, the G. O. P. is doomed. There should be room for the Norrises and the La Follettes as for the Fesses and Reeds and the Smoots in the Republican party. The progressive wing has its functions and uses and after all is a valuable asset to the G. O. P. *® oK oK ' Running for senatorial nominations is getting to be a mere publicity stunt in some of the States. Take Massachu- setts for example. Pirst, Walter 1. But- ler, a grocer and a former pugilfst, sought to file for the Senate in the Re- publican primary. He was led to do 80 probably by the fact that a name- sake of Senator Norris, a grocer, filed for the senatorial nomination in Nebraska. Willlam M. Butler, former Senator, is the leading candidate for the senatorial nomination of the Rej - can side in Massachusetts. Wall thought his name was sufficiently that of William M. to put him in - running. Furthermore, Walter I gflt olumns of newspaper advertisement pe- cause of his threat to enter the sen- atorial primary. This may have \r“ helpful to the grocery business. But in the end Walter 1. Butler failed to have the requisite number of signatures to his nomination papers and his name will not be listed on the primary ballot. s Wk . ‘There is another contestant for the senatorial nomination in Massachusetts, however, who has about as little ‘chance for anything except publicity as had Walter 1. Butler. Andrew J. “Bossy” Gillis, mayor of Newburyport, got to- zether sufficient signatures to have him- self entered In the Republican primary against Willlam M. Butler l‘nd Eben I e . direction” would be, then, applying the variatiohy what the magnetic direction would then, applying the compara- tive speed and direction of the plane and how much he would have to. “crab” it to keep him on his course, he would get his compass reading for his flight and also the time it should take him to make That is dead reckoning. Q. What'is the source of the remark, "‘l‘wen_‘z; ;mléun PFrenchmen can’t be A. It is a song in the musical com- edy, “Tour of Paris.” Q Who is the Minister to Pana-| ma?—F. N. A. The Hon. Roy T. Davis of Missourl has béen Envoy Extraordinary and Ministar j Plcnipotentiary to the Republic of Pahama since December 16, 1929, -3 | Q. Does the color of @ person's clothes make him easicr or harder to see on a highway at night?>—P. M. L. A. There is a decided difference. Light-colored, clothes are a protection to a pedestrian. Q. How high, is the fog over New- foundland? What is the difference etween fog and clouds?—J. E. H. A. The fog near Newfoundland is sometimes 8,000 t high. There is no difference betweeh fog and clouds ex- cept that when ; d formation is low and is unbroken’ it is called a fog. Q. Were soldiers during the World ‘War paid while confined in disciplinary barracks?—J. Lj D. A. Soldiers fWho were thus confined were paid only from the date of their restoration to active service. Q. How do ‘Brazil nuts grow?—G. M. A. The Brazil nut grows in a heavy shell “ke a coconut shell except that it is smooth, and the meat of the nut is arranged within the shell like the parts of an orange. Q. When was Aguinaldo captured? What has become of him?—A. E. O. A. Aguinaldo was captured on March 23, 1901. He oath of alle- giance on April 2. He has retired from public life, and was recently married. Q. Why was Wall Street, New York City, so named?>—G. A. P. A. It was so named because it fol- lows the line of the early city wall across Manhattan Island. watches?—R. P. A. The oil used in watches—or that which should be used—comes from a cavity in the jawbone of the Korpolse or the blackfish. The best quality is rare. Cape Cod fishermen bring in most of Q. What kind of ofl is used in| ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. the mercury often goes The best grade is that which remains practically unchanged at these low temperatures. A single drop to this oil is enough to lubricate a watch. How can raw foods such as fruits, lettuce, celery, etc., be disinfected before being put into a refrigerator>—D. H. A. The Home Refrigeration Service ‘Vermont, where far below zero. | says that raw foods should be washed thoroughly, then immersed for 5 min- uates in a stone jar filled with a fresh chloride of lime solution, half an ounce of lime to two gallons of water. Food flavor or quality will not be harmed and the germs will be destroyed. Q. What foreign languages are the most necessary for a singer to know?— M. K. M A. The Musician says that Italian, German and Prench are the most important. Q. To settle a friendly argument. was Patrick Henry a descendant of John Henty, a Scotsman, who served in Virginia'as county surveyor, colonel and judge of s county court. His mother was of Welsh descent. Henry to the Church of Eng- land.” Brunton Church in Williamsl 3 Va., contains a pew with a silver marker bearing the patriot’s name. Q. What was the Gordian knot?— W. O. A. This expression has its origin in the tale of Gordius, a Phrygian peasant, | owner of a yoke of oxen, who became | King. He dedicated his car and oxen to Zeus, and the knot of the yoke was ied so skillfully that an oracle declared that whosoever should unloose it would be ruler of Asia. When Alex= ander the Great came to Gordium, he cut the knot in two with his sword and applied the prophecy to himself. Q. Where did Velasquez study to be a painter?—S. W. K. A. Albert Hechman says that Velas- quez—*one of the greatest painters of all times—was virtually self-taught, save for a little instruction he received from some local painters in his birth- place.” Q. What proportion of the English- speaking people of the world live in the United States?>—H. R. A. Sixty per cent live in the United States. Q. What did the Capitol of the United States cost and at what value 8 it now assessed?—J. P. A. The cost of the Capitol, including the grading of the grounds, alterations and repairs, up to 1827, was $2,433- 844.13. 1In 1927 the assessed value of the Capitol Building and grounds was given as $37,500,000. Q. What breed are racing pigeons? How fast do their wings move in flight>—J. E. A. A pigeon’s wings move at approxi- mately 150 to 200 times a minute in fast fiight. The Bureau of Biological Survey says that racing pigeons are bred only from birds with known records and that no breed besides the homing breed is used for racing pigeon breeding today. Q. In what States are the infant mortality rates the lowest?>—T. D, A. The Child Health Association sa"s that as a group the cities of the Pacif> Coast continue their undisputed leade:- ship as the banner home for babic:. Oregon and Washington lead the pri - cession, with the cities of Minnesota '\ third place. Vermont, Utah and Cal 10{!\!! cities show the same avera: rates. it. To be tested, it is taken up into Mencken, Facin The approaching marriage of Henry L. Mencken creates a sensation in_the literary and philosophical world. 1t is suggested that behind his withering satire_on marriage snd domestic life there been a milder Mencken, and that Mis latest step was to have been expected. It is even asserted that re- cent utterances from the editor of the American Mercury have given pre- monitions of & new purpose in life. “Mr. Mencken stands revealed. He is convicted on his own testimony,” says the Harrisburg Telegraph. The Louisville Times suspects him of pos- sessing a “mellow, lenient contempla- tion,” instead of feeling “as angry as he writes.” The Springfield (Mass.) Union considers the possibility that he “belleves he possesses the power of de- tachment to a degree which will per- mig him to enjoy and be edified by the spfimcle of himself in such a position.” Tl Columbus Ohio State Journal | saggests that “the ghost of Nietzsche, | Mencken's guiding spirit, should hang {its head in shame” But the Fort | Wayne News-Sentinel imagines “the | | ghades of Schopenhauer and Nietasche | chuckling—with their grim old heads together.” “So Mr. Mencken, arch foe of boobery, enfant terrible of American Jetters, high priest of bachelorhood, 15 going to get married!” exclaims the Raleigh News and Observer. “Chuckles in waste places, ironic glee in the in- tellectual desert to which this Olympian Jove long ago consigned innocuous everyday mortals, all the hopefuls who have dared risk their thoughts on pa- per. Yes, sir, Mr. Mencken is going to come down off Olympus and wed! Perhaps he won't do it like mere mor- tals. ‘There's his past to consider. There'll be a difference of stage set- ting, but, after all, he's going to get married.” » R “Came the Summer, as the Holl wood title writers were wont to sa muses the Hartford Times. “Came the gentle zephyrs wafting the overpower- ing fragrance of roses on moonlit nights and came the first stirrings of the ten- der passion in the breast of the hard- hearted swashbuckler who had solemn- 1y and publicly foresworn domestieity for male society, the wassail bowl, the flagon and the vitriol-dipped pen. Perhaps under the gentle influence of his new estate the sage may even find it not impossible some time to say a few kindly wotds about the yokels, Democrats, Republicans, Socialists, Methodists, college professors, office holders, traffic cops, drys, modernists, medievalists, chiropractors, realtors, press agents and the great host of others who so long have been the tar- gets for his barbed shafts.” A change has been suspected by the Bebit Daily News, which avers that | “there has been less vitriol in h editorial inkpot,” and holds that “these | symptoms must have been disturbing | to_Mr. Mencken's admirers among_the | Draper. Gillis has been a storm center in Newburyport for years. He has no chance_and no qualifications for Sen- ator. But he can get a lot of publicity by running for the senatorial nomina- tion. * %k * The Democrats in Massachusetts have been unable to get together on a slate for the Senator, Governor, lieutenant vernor, etc. The consequence is that g" are entered in the Democratic sen- atorial primary. of whom two are drys, former Gov. Fugene Nobel Foss and Peter J. Hoyce, and three are wets, Marcus A. Coolidge, Joseph F. O'Con- nell and Thomas C. O'Brien. Still an- other Democrat, Daniel H. Coakley, has filed as an independent. Coakley has promised to withdraw from the race, however, if the Democrats will agree to back a slate picked by Senator David I. Walsh. Senator Walsh, however, is picking no slates this year, although he has urged harmony in the party ranks. Within a few days, the time for with- drawals and substitutions will have come to an end. Still the Democrats are divided. They may be throwing away a chance in Massachusetts this g Matrimony, Hazed by Public He Assailed ‘civilized minority.’” The Baltimore Sun, of which Mr. Mencken is a col tributing editor, has had similar sus- picions, as to which it says: “Do you not remember the rich eloquence but lately poured forth in praise of & gas ce in the cellar? you not recall the long series of his dissertations on house and garden, on parlor music and interior decoration, on protection of homes from industrial smoke and stabilization of the wage scale for domestic help? Have you overlooked the mounting violence of his contempt for the Latin Quarter and all Bohemians, and the sweet serenity which his voice and pen recovered when he turned to pay tribute to the custom of marriage? Were you completely de- ceived by his alr of purely obj treatment of these grave matters The Sun states that it is its “well informed and reasoned opinion that Mr. Mencken will be a good husband and a grand provider.” R “Truly it is & changed world in which we live,” declares the Roancke Times, with the comment: “Mr. Mencken's surrender is complete. Not oniy is he to surrender his glorious freedom for the comforts of a home but he has been made an honorary member of the Kiwanis Club of Montgomery, Ala., the home city of his bride-to-be. H. L. Mencken, Kiwanian and married man! It just doesn't seem possible.” The St. Paul Pioneer Press announces that “the St. Paul Kiwanis Club is considering the bestowal of honorary membership upon the critic,” and concludes that “to make the conversion complete all that is needed is an invitation from the fundamentalists.” “So long as he doesn’t join the Anti- S loon League or start whooping for a general censorship of books, few of his friends will fear that his pen has lost its sting.” in the opinion of the Des Moines Tribune-Capital. The Memphis Commercial-Appeal offers the judg- ment, “The regeneration of Mr. Mencken will be thorough when he in- vites Paul Elmer More and Irving Babbitt to dinner leads the Baltimore Rotarians in community singing, hugs a Methodist bishop and announces for Dr. Hoover in 1932.” Recalling the “Mencken of yester- year,” the Omaha World-Herald reviews the ' transformation of the writer: “There was a finality about his judg- ments and & charm in his biting scorn which were irresisiible. Traditions and customs were his fair prey, and his lusty attacks added enormously to the jov of living in _a drab decade. Then there was one Mencken. And he was inevi- tably a bachelor. But the new Mencken is one of many. He belleves in good government. He belleves in liberalism. If the profits which the fire of hiy youth rought to the comparative complacen-e f his middle age be so_invested, he probably believes in_the United Staies Steel Corporation. Why should e not also believe in matrimony? Surely there is no reason why a scholarly, well in- tentioned, middle-aged liberal should be dlen{f;i gae sedentary pleasures of fam- ily life.” “The piain, everyday duffers whom he has long derided have tiie privilege " declares the Oakland Trib- he must not track mud inte the house. ‘A';:d he must not forget to telephone the 7e.” “His vision gradually will broadem,” thinks the Kansas City Star. “His views will be modified. They will remain his views, but they cannot escape being in- fluenced by the intimate companionship upon which he is entering. He may not admit it and the future Mrs. Mencken may disavow it, but the green-covered American Mercury is about to come under a new and comj ite editorship that ought to prove to its advantage.” ———— But Can He Stay That Way? From the Albany Evening News. Now a professor says a man can marry on $25 a week. That is just the year., rouble—ne ca. mArry on noihing.