Evening Star Newspaper, August 29, 1930, Page 8

THE EVENING STA N Sundsy Soirning B8itien. WABHINGTON, D. O, FRIDAY........August 20, 1930 THEODORE W. NOYES, .., Editor \.“! ‘fif*fi*fi‘rm t the L) (E‘m'. rnl ver month por mon er or ielewi Rate by Mall—Payable in Advance. ryland and Virginia. 7 and Sunday.....1 yr. $10. & 13T 86 sy only r. M All Mh-a!ulu and C-md- i fii Sun: das oms ph.AE erein ein. ispatcheés :!' The Federal Obligation. Any intimation that the District is| willing fo accept an inerease in its tax | burden in exchange for a paltry addi- tlon of some half a million dollars to | the inadequate lump sum is too absurd to consider as a serious proposal. No | such preposterous bargain could enter the head of any one acquainted with | fundamental prineiples in the city's | long fight for fair treatment from Con- gress in financing the Capital. This fight has been based on the fact, ol vious to evervbody, that the Federal Government is mot living up to its law- ful and self-imposed obligations in ap- propriating for the Federal City. let| the Federal Government determine anew, if need be, and by any method it chooses, the extent of its own obliga- tions. Let the Federal Goverpment ap- propriate its full and fair share of Cap- ital expenses. Then the question ef inereasing the loeal tax rate can be ap- proached from the angles of justifica- tlon and mecessity and discussed intel- ligently. Budget policy demands, In the case of the District, & presumption on paper as to the sources of revenue that Congress will appropriate in meeting District ex- penses. Why this should be so, when Congress reserves to itself, and to itself alone, the decision as to the amount of appropriations as well as the division of expenses, is another matter, But as the District budget for 1932, approved by the Commissioners, exceeds the money that can be raised by a $1.70 tax fate and a $9,500,000 lump sum, the Commissioners. have based revenue avallabllity on a $1,80 tax rate and & $16,000,000 lymp sum. | | throughout Great Britain as well. There .| is difference of opinion merely as to New York judgeships scandal volume. It begins to leok as the country was about to be regak with » sensational disclosure of metro- politan maladministration eomparable to those of the past, in the eourse of which numerous eminent Americans have come to bitter grief. e r———— The Complex in India. Sir John Simon, ehairman of the British Statutory Commission on India, has taken occasion during his presence in Washington this week to make some enlightening observations concerning gonditions in the yrealm of the rajahs. He confesses British anxiety for a eom- plete understanding in this eountry of the problems which have to be faced in any attempt to gratify India's long- ing for self government. As to that “ultimate goal,” Sir John informs us, unanimity exists not omnly ameng the ifdependence party in India, but the time and method. ‘What we of the West need chiefly to remember, this autheritative exponent of British policy explains, is that politi- cal development in India ecannot be | considered from the erdinary Oceidental viewpoint. To discuss independence for India in terms analogous to the Ameri- can Colonies’ struggle for independence from the British erown a century and & half ago—for instance—is deeried as wholly beside the mark, India's teem- 4ng tens of millions are tom by ancient grudges which have their roets in racial, religious and tribal differences and the flerce animosities these en- | gender. Mr. Gandhi's followers, though |they number several million, sonsti- tute, after all, only an insigrificant minority of persons fitted by educa- tion even to understand what self gov- ernment means. The overwhelming mass of Indians is undoubtedly both ignorant ef, and indifferent to, that issue. These and a host of other factors make of India a complex bafing to British and Indian statesmanship, yet not one that discourages leaders in both countries from their determina- tion to work out a sane solution of the problem. Sir John Simon radiates hope that this may sooner or later come to pass, provided the ‘“non-eo-operation” dogma of Mahatma Gandhi and his cohorts does not crystallize into a sul- len refusal to embark upon any kind of progressive development Ir-iing to Indian autonomy. Sir John invites American attention to one aspect of the problem, to whieh little thought is given abroad. That is the strategic necessities Britain faces, especially on India's famed northwest frontier, The “soldiers of the King” Their action, of course, is & WArRINg (are burdened with a definite responsi- that local taxes will go up again unless | pjlity, Simon contends, for the terri- Congress adequately increases its con- | torial security of the Indian empire. tribution. The $10,000,000 set down &8 | “One-third of the area of India is not representing the Federal contribution is | British at all,” he sald in an address based on nothing more tangible than & | broadcast from Washington last night. hope that the Budget Bureau will ap- | “It consists of 560 Indian states, the prove it, the Budget Bureau's poliey in the past having beem not to commit Congress to spending any amount greatly in excess of the previous year's expenditures. The previous year's ex- penditures, in this ease, amounted to $8,500,000. Ten million dollars does not represent, by any means, the just ob- ligation of the Federal Government. The Commissioners, after justifying their recommended expenditures before the Budget Bureau in hearings in Oe- taher, should be prepared to champion vigorously the District's eause, demand- ing as authoriged spokesmen for the unrepresented eftisens of this com- munity the lawful assymption of Ped- eral obligations by the Federal Govern- ment. It is a question that copcerns them, as the executive heads of the mu- nieipality, responsible for its develop- ment and growth, as much as it does the taxpayers. If the Federal Govern- ment meets its self-imposed obligations to the District there will be no necessity for another increase in local taxation. ] No censorship is sufficiently streng to Injure the salability of books advertised in the drug store as ‘‘unexpurgated.” The term is alluring to the perverse imagination. It is recorded that a small heokseller once made large profits by announcing an ‘“unexpurgated” edition of that irreproachable poetess, Felicia Hemans, whese writing as she deseribed the landing of the Pilgrim Fathers was 88 impeccable in thought as it was in| presody. ————— Many Americans would enjoy seeing Sir Themas Lipton take the yachting trophy heme. But, in tribute to a good sportsman, & good race will be provided. - Boviets wish \to trade. Their pre- gram is bewilderingly comprehensive, | indicating & willingness to barter in| sverything from eeonomic ideals to eom- | mercial commodities. B ] On the Manhattan War Front. Bulletins from the front, the battle line of the eitizenry of New Yerk versus | the entrenched forces of Tammany Hall: Distriet Leader Healy, until lately | deputy commissioner of the department of plant and structures, i indicted by 8 Pederal grand jury for making a false return of income in the omission ef eertain large items believed to be part of the give and take of office brokerage. Mayor Walker is served, even as he {5 greeting the German fiyers at the @ity Hall, with & summons in & slander suit for $350,000 brought by Mr. Cash, former city marshal, who claims that he paid for als place. Anonymous letters are received by | the State inquisitors named by the Qevernor to investigate charges of the sale of judgeships in Greater New York, naming twe mere jurists as purchasers of the ermine, making a total of eleven, not counting Mr. Ewald, whose troubles gave rise to the present inguiry. ‘These latest charges, by the way, put Ewald with his $10,000 “loan” to Mr. Healy, in the plker class, for they allege that the justices in question paid $125.000 and $226,000 respectively for (their meminations, & nemination being equiv- slent to an election, Letters are received by the State At- torney General's assistant, who is pres yulers of which Jook to the British erown, under their treaties of agree- ment, to preserve their integrity and protect them from external danger.” + Sir John Simon “beldly” says that “Britain is entitled te the sympathy and support of the American people in the effort she is making to develop self-government, inatitutions in India." He pleads that Britain is working to that end “in the face of every sort of difficulty and discouragement.” The chairman of the Indian Commission of Inquiry has at any rate laid before us an array of facts whieh merit our dis- passionate consideration, freed from any of that purely sentimental interest which Americans are always ready to evince in the struggle of sybject peoples for those rights which our own Declara- tion of Independence sets forth as in- alienable. Campaign boosters should net worry over suspicions that rival boosters are trying to subordinate their arguments in attention. It is mot the velume of expression that inevitably eounts. Sometimes a small phrase like “Rum, Romanism and Rebellion” or “Cross of Gold and Crown of Thorns” will destroy the most erudite eratorical calculations, - ——— ‘The sloquent and convineing Senator Fess is on record in faver of the popu- lar theory that Ohlo is still headquar~ ters for a large amount of pelitieal in- formatien. — revo————— Pluck in an air race eounts for much. | The Hopkins lass who evanked her own | plane and carried on could not finish | of her own that was worth while, v An inexperienced artist paints pic- tures and commands attentien, Inex- perience if sufficiently audaeious ean easily be mistaken for originality. Fog Flying. That the day is net far off when that nemesis of airmen, impenetrable fog, will be conquered is indieated by the number of successful experiments re- cently eonducted by scientists, who are striving valiantly to provide means to overcome a hazard that has taken the lives of hundreds of fiyers. John Hays Hammend, jr, son ef the eminent in- ternational engineer and himself the inventor of valusble devices in nu paratus which, plaeed in fropt of the pilot's cockpit on a plane, will show through even the most opague mist & terday, before a group of experts Chicago, Barl C. Hanson demonstrated on s miniature scale a device which visibility, ‘While both these devices, and others which have been tried from time to , are still in the experimental stage, t progress has undoubtedly been myfle, and it may eenfidently be ex. p ted that if the end is not in sight at the present time it will not pe long warded with success, ¥og, ever since a plane was able to stay in the air for an sppreciable length of time, has been the ehief hasard of fiying. Caught in its paring the preliminaries of the inquiry, ' enshrouding cloak even the most akilled asserting “in the money,” hut she made & record | | | electrical and magnetic fleld, has ll-‘ ready produeed a small television ap-| | | ‘before these intensive efforts will be re- [ that the Iate magistrate pilot is likely to find himself fighting & an’' got hisself & Aadrew Macrery, 'holhd-bwtlm m--umum- Frequently fiyers orchestra” THE EVENING ventions will lower the fatality toll. — et —— Gallant Sportsmen. Selection of Enterprise as the A- fea's ‘Oup contender, which was without the completion of schedule of trial Faces, has cepted without question er the owners and managers of the three competitors, Whirlwind, Yankee and Weetamoe. The three rejeeted yachts have been stripped of their racing gear and sent to Winter storage, 1t is gratifying, not surprising, that the deelsion of the cup committee has been so gallantly accepted. The three rejected yachts cost approximately $3.000,000, which is an expenditure practieally without any return. These yachts will, of course, be used in future regattas, but they will be regarded as fallures for the purpese for which they were designed and eonstrueted. Their cost 1s the contribution of a number of American sportsmen to the defense of the America's Oup, These men have rendered a valuable service, even though thelr yachts failed of selection, ‘They, in fact, contributed to the defense— whether that defensive is effective or not this year—in just the same apirit that Sir Thomas Lipton has bullt five challengers without as yet meeting success. the N been ac- protest by In the races between Shamroek and |in Enterprise there will be no element of “time allowance” This facter gave rise to much discussion in past matches. Metheds of measuring the yachts to de- termine the allowance were perennial eauses of dispute. Now the yachts race strietly on thelr ewn without handicaps, | 1 The races will be 80 spaced in time as to afford & chance for & variety of | the conditions, for Uight breeses and for stiff ones. Save in case of exceptional prev- alence of ealm weather, or on the other hand of high winds, the sailing qualities of the two boats in all eonditiens within the limits of safety will be fully tested. ——.e i A eircus clown draws large money and laughs regardless of political com- plications. As he balances his bank hook he may be pardoned if he reealls l'::t Em “He laughs best that laughs ————— Plays popular in this eountry are in- terdicted by British censorship. Some day there may be a retaliative Ameriean Assertion that some parts of Shake- speare are positively immeral. Enough good jobs are st the disposal of Al Smith to prevent him frem voic- ing any personal suspicion ef impending "hard times.” ———t e In polities & “dry” may hesitate to assert uneompromising epinion. A apirly of compromise has always been deemed emsential to politieal suecess, ———— he-mnmduummfiu slogan “Treat 'em rough!” is still ye. led upon, #4 in the ease of Cole Blease, —————— Ameriea honors its great actars of the | ¥ screen. The actors have been doing their best to develop great poets and my. siclans worthy to share in the hanor, ———— SHOOTING STARS. WY PHILANDER JOMNSON. “What's In a Name?” What's in & name today? A most mendacious son Was, in & hopeful way, Christened “George ‘Washington," He's an impetuous youth Who never tells the ruth, “Columbus Brown” is found h: oreature all sedate ‘whom ne praises sound For explorations great. A gentle elf is he Who's always sick at ges. “Napaleon!” we call; Referring to a mule, Respect becomes but amall For what we learned at school, A name for valor rash Must trudge beneath the lash. Vlln is the title brought To “glorify” dull clay. Old heroes are as naught "Mongst hevoes of today. Let Jane and Jim eluteh fame And say “What's in a name!" Depending en Oratery. “How much money sre you going to spend en your eampaign?” “None,” answered Senater Sorghum. "How can you hape to win?" “By means of eratory. I will let my :l:::?m backers show that money Jud Tunkins -lt"l' . "mnhk marriage” looks to him like & family quarre] started as early as possible, Small, Sincere Reformation. 1 cannot smite the foemen gret Who in life's pathway lie; Btill 1 may show a righteous hate, Por I ean swat & fly, Ameng Actors. “You are the great cowboy setor?” “I am,” answered Cactus Joe. “Hew did you happen to let that clear view of the terrain below. Yes-| Proncho toss you?" “That's the stage manager's business, gathered for the National Alr Races at| The animal wasn't wup-rly rehearsed.” "We imagine a nut man," said Hi Ho, the Sage of Chinatown, “who 15 ex- enables a pllot through ear phones to ex: hear” light and to be guided safely to Pected to do great things. This work of an airport regardless of the state of ‘MAgINation’ proves teo often that fio tion is greater than truth:" New Pharmacy. The pharmacist a0 erudita Became confused one Summer night; For on his shelves are many wares ‘That serve to complicate his cares. He flls prescriptions as they come With cigarettes and chewing gum. "mum-wnm'-m Uncle Ehep. “But it's got mitted dat de pride of de fa; boy dat laid down de shovel an m-,:- STAR, WASHINGTON, B C. THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES B. TRACEWELL. sald | What The great playwright here uncon- sciously set down the first rule of book criticism. Never tell your love for a book—if yuu vnn your friend to enjoy it. ‘e speak. of course, of the amateur nrm.y e( eriticism, not the professional. “book review,” whatever lh-t b, uun are thousands of these Al reviews, passed on from one of books to another. ‘Say, have you read lo-md-ln! ‘Inu'll ll.l‘ 1. lut the fate of many a volume has e;mded upen such unprofessional re- ws. LY ‘The booklover who desires that his friend like a certain book must be ex- R%Q‘I.y wary in his praise of it. eaution -pplies to plays, too, but more to books. ‘The surest way we know to kill & hook for a friend is to praise it T your appisuse be luk i ukewarm, lnv\h\nl. if you desire the other to the work as you did, un- pre, ud ow let us try to see what it is which causes this curious state of affairs. One might think, offhand, that there would be no surer way of inducing s friend \elunld 8 book than to launeh vurd but in the Jast analysis. And every one is ® mlhe: he knows it or :ot at a stranger, and say to self, ! don't lke Irs looks” yeu are p-)ohnloilw deductions, Ilfl'ltmlh professors of the schools v,:t sneer at you, if professors were to sneering, which they are not, Thn human mind works this way, regard to praise and blame: It braces. itself to resist. If you ise, it inclines to blame. If you blame, it inclines to praise. * * ¥ ‘Therefore, it you would have a friend enjoy the same book you do, be very eau om in pnl-lnl it to him. as sometimes induce lluldnn to do what they want mem to do by ordering them to de opposite, s0 do you with your mend in regard to the new book which has enthralled you. Never rush up to him, and sa; "Here is the best bdok written in The 2,000 years. It is beuuuml Its author is a brave man, is one of truth. ehologist, (lorlmu book He handles words as they should be handled, I cannot begin tell you the powerful impres- sion this book hn made upon me, It is & book for dreams,” No, never be so foolish. Say nothing at all. That is the best . Just expose him to the book. he asks snything about n. uy, ln an as lndll!nnnl s tone , 1t is fairly toodl This ool ‘h:vmeh will set him to a thing about it. along this line: Yw His mind will work to | Of sentimentality. de- | It, even before he knows [to all Ways = rurll’ But don’t expect toe much g ..i}°‘-pln"""" + deat: und, becatie 1 » & greal , A use I am & Mur 9u t:hk.l ‘!.'ll! lfl-“ es two to make a rremook a great author and a great reader. Where did I hear that Oh, yes, Walt Whitman|" % E loloulw You do mot see him for & week. One day he comes up with & light in his eyes. You know what it is. It is that book. You had the same light in yours, and know. “How you like the book?” you ask him, casually, trying your best not to bt!.rl}' any interest. “The best book in 3,000 years,” he says, with conviction. “I sat up all night reading it. It is filled with sen- timent, but without the slightest trace It is Dickens with- out the guff, Zola withum the crude- ness, suvenum without his precious- ness.” “T am glad you liked it.” " lavn it. When my time comes to g0, I want to take it with me to Para- | ¥® dise.” I thought you would like it." “You thought—- * ek The most ameun thing for & laver, of course, is ulmnauwm- e burning to tell the world | ¢! of t.lu Iatest love eonsumes the heart and mind. One wants to go to the housetops and yell the gaod news, so that rsby, thinking of stuffy business plans, may shake mselves free of worries and 8o live for a few hours in the elouds, Every one ought to live in the elouds t times. The earth is too much with us, as the poet said, We need the free- dom given by a good book. Andb{n(oodboekommm- good book. There are thousands of mediumly good ones printed every year. Authors and publishers vie with one another to give the reading public enough books. But only now and then, in every age, comes a good book of the sort we mean. * ok ok % find one of these, husfi yeur ast, but do not tell your friends about it. At least, do not tell any more of them you ean help. "There will be & Tew, of course, whose appreciation of will be such as to arejllmce them In tavor of your selece on. uyqunynhmdnmunbo,w them as to y But there 'Ill be others to whom the good news will mean only resentment. What does he know about books, any- way? How dare he say a book is good or bad? 8o keep your secret love to yourself, and know that sooner or later all those for whom the book is destined will find That is a law of good books, known good book away from those for whom it written, “Pairly good, eh?|was WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Eugene Meyer, ]r. ranks as the most likely successor of Ro; Government service one of most brilliant financlers associated with it in our day. Until he voluntarily “‘M & year ago, aging direc. tor of tion. xnthntponhemredtheummru- ord of serving under four Presidents in succession-—Wilson, whe first appointed hl.m then Harding, Coolldge nnd llgo- Organized for war needs, the pomm developed in its lm« an into & purely emergency rellef lnuv for agriculture. Mr, Meyer, who is him- -eu a dirt farmer in Westohester Coun- N. Y., eventually directed financial openuom running into the hundreds of millions for the henefit of distressed agriculture, acqut s first-hand, country-wide kno both of its problems and of farm leaders. Born in Oalifornia, educated at Yale and abroad, Meyer resides in New York State when he is not at his home in Washington. He is a Republican. President Hooyer is known to held s high epinion ef his talents. . " hbtrtr dlhy will mark ’lm {orlnll open- ng of the congressional campaign, Everything that's gone hefore has been a( Lhe skirmishing order, including the ly barrages let down by the mm- nve national committee m!meogrl batteries. The 1930 centest, it al- ready certain, will be far more fast and | sf furious than any off-year campaign since the Wilson give-me-another-Dem- ocratic-Congress battle of 1918, The Democrats’ determination to make the Hoover administration the paramount issue is the factor destined to fill the impending fray with bitterness and ran- eor. It won't be long now before the air—in & very literal sense, for radio is to be intensively used by both parties —will be jammed with mtmvml-l statie. The Republicans have ndnned for 1930 service Paul Gasscoigne, whi had charge of their broadgasting nmlvi- ties in previous campaigns. LR Poru the second South American country wlthm recent tf to which the United Btates dispaf a new en- voy on the brink of a revelution. Ed- ward F. Feely, our ne wnw wlo- livis, reached La most at the very mame t th- .u lllu jovernment was given order of the !oot This very day, August 29, when the nvolummt rty s taking cen- trol at Li M. Durlnl. llnwly lppolmed nluu States Ambassador Peru, is sailing from New York to thn tur.u).m terrain. Mr. Dearing recent~ relinquished the post of Minister to tugal, to accept otion to am- bassadorial rank ru. In the ease of the Bolivian revolution, the United States sent Minister Feely La Paz with credentials in blank, there being no conatitutionally eleeted President to whom he eould be mndmd time. The Auwod!-wu that Am- bassador Dearing will : to Lim with the same sort of blind d&:\m!en'a. awaiting uu arrival of mn worthy of Uncle Sam n‘recornl Not the least of the mulu nl u}wm of British uvz¢ ington this week was lxpluhn ol the theory that humer in John lulll sons, as Mllk Twain once clalmed, is )‘u Finding them~ el u th. land of wisecrac) of the visiting barristers ploe.."( to show that they can do a Jimmie Walker now and then, too. “Your lunch and dlnner hospitality,” sald one of them in & pest-prandial speech of response, “has net only beel We have found it distensi R Gladys Moon Jones, the Washington g:ml lady who told the Caraway te Lobby Committee last Winter exactly where it headed in—as far as she was congerned-—has Ju-t sailed for Paris on business. ding her interna . When she made oont mlon to the gayety of the Nation be. the Caraway quissers, she was pro- o ”y?ug::edlnmfl thn;mrla ler for n rs. Jones, law, 'hn sh xtensive. at the | more, is one of the mominees for the World Court beneh, EER] N “Wmn on ovslnher 18 and 14 second con- ference of fiuhnlw uperu in the ustry, The first conf d last year in Pittsburgh in co- with the Oarny Mlmh of nca- demie. e meeting here wfll be purely » . The Printing Industries Di- of the Technieal ris’ Society, the Government Prinf Office and the United Typothetae !:?Amnlc- will joinu{nlponwr the November confer- the National Capital, its main features will laboratory demonstrations and working exhlb\u of the latest deviees in printing ma- ehtnm. including photographic proc- * ok x ¥ Recently the Department of Com- mnmm-d-mnuonwmmuot l.rn in the conquest of trade in the Philippines, In sueh products as rayon and goods the Japanese ue nearly crwflln( all others out of the market, ineluding Americans, A dis- ‘Yankee textile manufacturer Who recently returned from Manila cites sn_example of hew Ji op- erates. Not long ago & New England mill sent out to the Philippines some .mmm patterns of an le it in- to offer for sale. Ex- were placed on trength of the samples, Before the orders eould be filled Japanese manu- facturers had succeeded in obtaini copies of the samples, duplicating goods and deluging Manila with 'lhnm at prices far below American prices. Here's possibly semething for the flex- tbh achinery of the United Sial Commission to get its new teet! mw. LR One of our famous war-time ses who has just received in perznum rank he hll in 1917-18, Admiral Willlam 8, Sims, stormy petrel of the controversy with Jasephus Daniels and commander in chief of our naval forces in European waters. Sims i nw retirement at N Where he wa his last command as presid: Naval War College. His frien 'm ler whether the admiral will tardih oun- sent to scoept the Distinguished Medal, which he scorned at the -|l of the war, on the ground that thn same reward had been conferred | officers who “fmln ished” themsplves by losing the! hips. For 10 y! Sims’ Dmlnruhhed Service Medal hy been g:herln; rust and dust at the Navy Department. (Copyrisht, 1980.) ————- A Moot Point as to the House of Mary and Ned To the Editor of Thegltar: Il\ a recent edition of The Star there ted in the eversinteresting and vslu department conducted by Mr, Frederic J. Haskin the following ques- uon and answer: & ‘Where the apastrophe placed phrase, “Neds and Marys house”? d Mary's house." gflu the phrase would read, an houses.” , It is earrectly YNed Mary’s ! Correctly, the last sentence in the answer should read: If each has a house the phrase would reld. “Ned's and Mary's house,"” In other words, “house” should be in the aingular and not the plural, If Ned has two houses and Mary has two houses, then it would be proper to write, "Ned's and Mary's houses.” But it ]Nsd hl): only one :‘:uu and M only one house, according to al “)lod' thorities, we should spesk and Mary's house.” FRANCIS DE SALES RYAN. o Double Dose. Prom the Flint Dally Journal. FRIDAY, AU t | Shaee ambition to GUST 29, 1930. Motorists’ Champion Is a Benefactor present-day nuwmbllm must brave. The evil engendered by an npomeun attitude on his part trans- cends the penalty of a few sarcastic words an mu It has resulted in ey 'h?.' it periectly . egit- il . - drive & motor car, is needed’ then motorists who refuses to believe that we are eternally doomed by the of the fathers” when they laid out streets one-half or one-quas as wide as they lhmlld have been. His slogan will be, “Pewer restrictions and an lll-d-y K;rk\n' plau lar mrv mo- work!” Hs w\ll be free o( uw seemingly prevalent among officials of the day that the only cure for traffic ills lies in uduc trafie by dis- couraging gh the p\unl on of & .' more mmfllom and lations. He will argue that, since ho fare of the people should be par: mount, the Governm whether Na- tional, State or Jocal, cln confer no greater benefit uypen its millions of motorists than by maki the way easler for those who to drive mmnobuoa and who are wul\nl and rsum the accom) re- numl His reuanln be d" the Wb m%nzb“ hmon to spend upon an Wl beget lfin it it is necessary spend mney to excite the emmln senses, then a few.more dollars ean be found to provide a portion of this vast country for parking and the ge: eral allevistion of erowding of frat fic. He will realize that it will be no small boon to a worker to be able to drive his car to work and to earn his dafly bread unhampered by the |M & fear of a “ticket” at the day's end. He will understand that there is no sub- stitute for lawful lvuulu in the solution ol tha prob Maj. 8hinn deserves the thanks of all mowrdom Will he go the whole way and become immortal? ARTHUR W, DEW, - ——— w| Where Was the Battle of Kings Mountain Fought? To the Bditor of The Star: I have just read in your issue of August 22 Mr. A. §. Lanier's repetition of the old and oft disproved statement that the battle of Kings Mountain was foyght in North Carelina. In his address to Congress on this subject, May 5, 1906, Lh! Hon. E. G. ‘Webb, Representative from North Caro- lina, said: “The principal peak is something like five miles from the ridge on which the battle was fought, the battle ridge being about 500 yards long and 200 yards wide and beln,lquiw over the N¢ Ou'ollinl line, York County, Sou L But the convin and official evi- dence for the location of the battle lovers. You cannot keep a | Carolin ing Battle of Kings Mountain and t.he l-v ot " 1t is issued by au- t‘tflflty om‘nlrul, nnd l(l‘ mm’ mly nrocuu & {ree cop rt IV contains a d.luu-!m of the locluon in question, as follows: “There never has been any- uncer- tainty as to the actual loeation of the ground on whlch the Battle of Kings Mountain lou!h but due to the Mm and limitations in e-fly maps ttle has fnqunll n described wab Show nam R "t'l'% The origin of this portion of the bound- | sons. ary was the center of the the Catawba and the Soul the Catawba.” Arm reference to other surveys and ps and subsequent corrections, the chux:‘ar concludes with these words: lon of the Kings Moun- B tain quadrangle will show that the bat- nllrolg tle Sroung P‘; ded, the battle ground m Inten 3 ld nevertheless e within the borders of South :ll!rullnl"' & i n cer of e historical section of the Wat Dej e v 5 et c-mnn-. recently sald: “This is no lon tter of controversy; the Government has set- lent Yor His Soclety, Yark, 8. €, n 7 msiorkal et Library of Congress Is a Treasure Chest T‘Th‘hn '“l‘." of b’l':: Star; ery ne ty to eompare with th. delicate -rcmbutuu of Congressional Library, S5 g All its beauty eannot be mn by un | e R e T e Ou are centuries d- of u be read 'l In nfl’ ‘v ail of * architecture mehu knowle very m-rble o mesn e silence 18 much farther south, hence solitu -zu you ind nurul( b.l edunhd ai'o flhl; ts.nt litera- turo, lnl the ||m of learning en- e nmm e familiar ‘The dulluh eolofl innate love nm. 0 nn: uf on the celling you read th o | Homer, Canssermery 10 lomer, e8] re, , e fellow, Shell ’A;x'mu-. !m.o". Bmh"., ‘ennyson & Only by hours nl" unu-p!luun can the real m{nm meaning permeate r soul and sink deep into your mmi"“ real appreciation and ‘lnlsm-nd come to dwell in your heart an corAnlll & part of your grewth. around you, everything you and touch was ence mere flul’m shapeless mass, transformed by, man and given outward u‘preul ‘The marble, which was ence a buri unteuched resource, is now made inta intricate design; mmn highest -tr J:. ments are uln?m for the eyes of seekers of know Like the Onheml of §t. Peter and |t Plul ln uflfllt thfl:ker. will flnl hhnl.l' of learning. The Library e Wisdom s the prinel - lom w’l& therefore get wisdom, and getting, got understanding.” ROSE d & treasure . BIGGS. -1 Carroll Creek Is a Source of Pollution To the Editor of The Carroll Oreek, of ederiok, lll., runn into th l(onoue! River, 'hlo t present is doing little n'. tm way of auuuon, lnl inf River ume nt Hoover prob-bly is thn nm Pr’:a‘u‘: who ever deal ith flood relief and dmulm nll.( all onee. -~ -~ r—.— Just Like Him. 'r-- the Milwaukee Sentinal. mlul Mn ordered Semator Borah &h 'e rather the Idaho statesman u eonu in minority report. [ e & Canal the - ah 'm S u"" m'un ;Ill:l' aver ?rrnll and ki present des nluon nl m 'l!!?l and’ it mmml nlm% ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC —aflhmfi-—m ‘This will be WIM relates to informa free. Your obligation is only 2 gents in eoin or stamps inclosed with your Beinine atar " intarmation Bures, | N en! rie J. Haskin, director, Washing- ton, D. C. mnu:udndbyum Q. How much o Ay “gins | OPened studio heads ask for them. Q. How old is Aimee Semple Mc- Pherson?—S8, N. A My B evangelist was In , - tario, Ootober 9, 1890, so is almost 40 years old. Q. How many poork attend conven- tions in New York City?—N, A. D. A. In the year ended April 30, 1930. New York held 1,001 conventions and L;:'m brought 800,000 persons to the city. Q. Is Preud still living?—W. N. A. He is still living. He is 74 years of age and in very poor health, but is still pursuing his faverite line of investiga- v.lonli:,ha plumbing of unknown mental worlds, Q. When you take s pint of cream and whip lt, do you have any more eream?—R. B, A. It weighs no more, wtum ater volum been Q. Bhould one say, “Two and two is (our M' “Two and two are four'?— A. Dr Vigetelly says: As lb- ition or statement "h" ., for four is two two specifie things are. added to two others the verb must be in L In the former case we are sa) & ecertaln duh and definite attained or fotal given by the combina- tlon of m numbers; ip the latter we say that in a given things are so many things. men undoubtedly four men—thn is, four men are (constituted of) twe and two. Be- yond doubt, twice one is cannot be {hat two (as a specific number) are twice one. Q. How many people are -uhnrlbeu to building and loan associations in this country?—F. M, G. A, There are more than 13,000 such associations with almost 12,000,000 sub» cbeennmduewut.uwu Star. K4 Gerard thinks they scribers. Q. How often lhD\ll% ‘n“h given a bath in Summert! —A. A. It should be bathed every 10 days, or once & week when the weather is Use lukewarm water and or shampoo, ¢ Q. How fast do raindrops fall?—R. ‘A The Weather Bureau says tha fall faster than 25 fel‘ of '.lmn fall only Suj -ump? the uloul is 2,500 feet, a fairly common height, and that the speed of fall is the greatest possible by ild soap hot. | torrid zone exten J. HASKIN. the time of be . velocity is 30 feet per second, an time of fall 2 minutes. l?m what authority did the Ur’ud ,m.nnd oln armed force into 87— e United States’ mmfi in Nl is authorised in spirit by m traditional American policy of the leally by the Tog Toquest of mwmumnu ex '3 mumumuv-w d?—D. 8. A. Damascus, Syris, is known as the oldest Qity 1o the worid: O s !u'{'m'?“‘h. Sve perished of have ‘oo y Ve pe or ve been destroyed. Q. Oan a take cigars anc cigarettes into CIM without paying duty?—A. A, The Departmerit of Commerce says one can take 40 cigars and 100 cigarettes in open mmu into Canada free of duty. If are in- closed and have an amount greater than this, they are dutiable. The duty on dnu 15 $3.90 per pounu plus 25 per ad valorem. cigarettes the (uw 15 $4.10 & puund plue 25 per eent ad valorem. Q. What are some of the steps that can be taken to prevent cnme?r!' w A. H. E. Barnes says: “Pirst in preven crime is to see that the human individual is well born; second, te education; third, sufficient manual or v:‘uu:nulnl lduf‘lhon I;) :g: means of making & vmi mm.h i m'.hodx of ht btmmt vlc'.lnu oI . 'hn I..d the first Summer oamp m wyfl—u % organised Bummer camp had “'fi'.'."" about fifty years age. In est Balch established a eamp !or boys on Lake Asquam in New Hamp- shire, Bhortly afterward other camps Ton to grow Fapidly. e meerth st grow rapidly. e health, edu- uflm‘l and recreational values c( a eamps for boys had becom organised by 1900 that & llfl!flll’ -mnt for girls was . Is the .m ette of Gllbert Stu ‘The palette fnlll which it is l.- Ihvul mt m “Athenaeum"” portrals pllnhd is owned '.V » J. L. 0 Perris. ple are burn each je?—B. m ‘world m-m}mm e lhe deaths 100, "380 b con What determines the boundaries earth’s zones?—E. J. T. A. 'l'h division of the .earth's sur- into torrid, temperate and frigid au is def by the amount of the. w-h:‘ of the earth's axis to plane of E. ecliptic. This inclina- tion being 28 27 minutes, the from the lwwr to Iatitude 23 d;&nfl 27 minul both north and south, while the two tem- ither , the rema egions Shout each' Pole !nru:l.u'fl:n v g _g What is a round of ammunition? & Jueiion fw oue it Gerard Stirs Controversy With List of Nation?s_Rulers amended, includes upwnrd of There are protesta e of the ecoun ly rule or ave potential power, while there is & fairly large group of comments in sup~ lmw!u array of bankers, dustry,” says the Cincinnati Times- '‘And yet, if each of these men went ey lomorrov on 8 year's vaca- tion, t) thus temporarily de- difference. Save in ease of An- drew Mellon, who happens to be Secre- tary of the Treasury, and Henry Ford, who is a singularly colorful personage, few of their countrymen would eve learn that they were not at their des! 1 of mlhrhlmlc POW 1s seen in the group I by the Wor- gester Telegram, but thal tends that “they could mot sustain themselves did not this influence oper- ate consistently for the common good.” The Youngstown Vindicator helds that “our very rich men have been very much :\‘r’r‘en.in&xenltht l{:nour Govern- ment e lasf years they are likely to be in the next m" ‘The Utica Observer-Dispatch believes that “the Oovernment is not run by a handful of biq ‘E ness leaders, but the rful, more pow- erful, assistance of the rank and file of the voters.” *x Tulers, if Mr. Gerard u:’f'g found it out,” asserts the Kansas Cit; “are the of the Dnn.‘ . They may not always rule the country well, but they rule it. If Mr. 't, we suggest riment for let him run for wxgleic office and anneunce that his magnates are behind him. Then let s e B e " napol knwlodu that Mr, Cerard’s ‘rulers’ were back of & eandidate would defeat lll, with one or ‘That paper ‘he imagines that preme in th Unlhd “Mmltfllhl the lr;t'o'lunnu utd the apirit of the peo- ple." Quoting Mr. Otntdl statement um . on the list “rule by virtue o ‘Our g 1 ‘eopie, inert n states: they may often | more thn w pets in the indus. trial drama. Lm mxum: [ in their lu.nfll ryle the rulers when they will. “Some of thase vhmn he inclyded,” thinks the San Franeisco Ohronicle, “will be surprised to learn that M are Just as a_random there is Samuel Inmll 1t is gm hurt his feelings to learn powerful, and yet that Prank Smllh. hll personal cholee for United States Sen- ator from Illinois, got by the guter door” The New York Evening considering_prohibition, farm re- et ‘and the tariff ‘as “im) of legislation,” suggests that “it m m be pertinent to nk Mr. Gerard whe! his ‘rulers’ ean be held res) No hn' any one of them,” ina_Jou calls the Gerard statement “a grim fll joke,” adding: "Our Senators and rclum.lg:el have been them- selves serioualy. punntl( are not » Inpnrhm. u""c 'nmelledlthn“t.he th‘.mm is overestimated”; Boat they have made many mistakes and the public, judy I:‘y'.hglmol dispute their pow®-" The Times also "It mlv bu that Ilr Glmd has too many in his list. luded ‘There are many names not presidents and eaptains of in- | cantral, eountry, mved of its ‘rulers,’ ww‘l'r‘!gnmr notiee | tem. llllwnlkn Journal holds is too m"d m the necessity ' "l -uu f ce between ' d the rights mot"&."‘ " uu.l rlum now obtaina.” O!nfit the men -:mu .yx;nu- X ith our * ok k* these men may :e‘qunnted" nm‘:n- Ben ibune. “Some have been nenhlnluul&mluflnlnchl lndivlluauy el'uncmuly ville Qourier-Journal llllllfll ‘within the counclls uuy be obscure but dominating figures who constttate th:”.rndlpamrutwhenmluv’h s "It has to be somel " maintains the Fort Worth Record- lmln “It may as well be that list as any other. More important appears to be the understudies now in eourse ol training. wlll they be as successful in qudmu u 25 the g nen k;cwln. lfl yoln?" The Flint Dally Journal, MW< :ver, 5: “We lm m;u“kml uuumy re really our rulers. er is mot in the hands of any ene lstm b “The lmk fact l&\xt the list,” t:.- bune, lnclulu fe nmn which were eunq: for wealth and power l generation ago.” The Tribune em llu:l the point that “the new weal uct of a uen‘lvnl mind. "( he every eader of 1d who has controlled national des- tinies has done it by & .{;nlrmul rather a material power,” inion the nw-n Dnmlnlcm Nl":’ Mr. Gerard mean sy that An\erlu. for the time being, has passed beyond the reach of these influences?” Ahsence of women's names is n by the s-v-nnnh Mom:n' ‘l:‘e'" w‘h.h “‘zl present attitu it ey are nn‘r{ satisfied with gt sug- t near] 'V of the -lh mfiu l’ 'fih?'nuu at e New York lun recalls the visit { Prince Henry of Prussia in 1902 oe_of ncn n! simi- uup from )l-r Genrd‘l list must 4 proaf m‘ m such men ve no S ruling the land to- R And Low, Toeo. From the Hamilton Onterio Spectator. After the wuthor of the last hv 'g..ll-a muu'oledlll wuk ol tem- perature as mean. Message in Bottles. From the loml::' (Ontario) Spectator. ————— Had No Change. Prom the Cleveland News. nany names if ¢ which ?; net be- long re, others mua jve been inserted for The mmmimltb:unnw P inaide his uhfluh%"rhlhdm we , Be explained