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A6 THE EV D.tS STAR. WASHINGTON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 193 THE EVENING STAR |strong feeling of opposition and uitt-|which meited and ran tnto unsalable With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY.....August 30, 1930 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company ess_Ciffice: Ave, Office. 110 East 42nd 8t. ghicaro Office: Lake Michisan Bulldine. uropean Office; 14 Rexent St.. London. Rate by Carrier Within the City. enine Star. P he Evening and Sunday Star (when 4 Sunda: The Evening and (when 5 Sunday: ‘The Sunday Star Collection made at ti of ~ach month. Orders may be sent in by mail or ielephone NAtional 5000. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. >afly and Sunday ily only nday only se | All Other States and Canada. f;uv and Sunday s ally on'y . 1yrl 88 8¢ unday omy Ayr 88 1mo. .00 1 mo., 50 Member of the Associated Prcss. ‘The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news €is- 1t or not ot - e also reserved. The Fiscal Inquiry Begins. The Bureau of Efficiency is wise in anticipating the demand for its per capita tax statistics on Washington and other cities and revising them in ad- vance of the House fiscal inquiry this Fall or this Winter. New population counts have made the former tables pre- pared by the bureau of little current value, for the counts have been either below or above the estimated popula- tions used by the bureau’s statisticians, Likewise, the District has been pro- ducing an annually increasing revenue since the year 1928, used by the bureau in its computations, and it is necessary to show whether these increased revenue demands have been proportionate, in re- spect to the increased revenue demands of other cities, or whether they have been relatively larger. ‘While the bureau did not reach con- clusions or make recommendations in its former report, it did present the facts. Taken in part, these facts were susceptible of varying interpretation. Considered as a whole, they could be interpreted in only one way, and that Interpretation amply justified the peti- tion of Washington taxpayers for equitable fiscal treatment at the hands of Congress. By considering only a part of the bureau’s findings some of the members of the House referred to them as ample proof that their own statements regarding the extreme gen- erosity of the Federal Government toward the District and the favored position of Washington among all tax- paying cities were true. It is doubtful it the bureau can make & report that will not be twisted to suit the ends of whoever makes use of the figures, unless the bureau chooses to state its opinion of the findings and this is improbable. The bureau’s com- ment on its tables, for instance, pointed out that the Government's liability to the city should be computed first, on its tax liability as a municipal tax- payer, and secondly, on its liability on aceount of loss of revenue and on ac- count of extraordinary expenditures oc- casioned by the fact that Washington Is the National Capital. Seme of Wash- ington’s critics in the House took cog- nizance only of the suggestion that the Government's liabllity as a taxpayer | goyen sought re-election ia 1928 for| ynat o dictator, once regarded with 45c rer month I Bunday 8iai’™ ° @°™® | Congress did not seem in a mood to ) 5 |adopt the grand plan of Government mately the plan was modified to prevent such a trespass. Still the power plant stacks remained in place, unlovely, unsymmetrical, and in truth useless. No smoke poured forth from them, for the fires had long been drawn, ever since the Benning plant was put into operation. Some day the stacks would go, the protesting public was assured. Some day the buildinz program would be adopted and developed and the stacks then must be rased. But there were fears lest this might be long postponed. housing. Then it came, the day of decision, and the Capita) development was assured. Months have passed since the project was designed and the power plant site was allocated, but the “dead hand” of Government purchase rested upon it and the doubters who have feared that the stacks would remain indefinitely have been astured. S0 now, in a little while—it all seems 50 short a time in view of the long, long ‘wait—the stacks will be razed. Probably they will be cut with a gas flame and allowed to topple. Maybe they will be disintegrated, section by section. But, in whatever way they fall, their going will mark a period in the development of Washington. They now constitute one landmark which will not be regretted. > A Revolutionary Epidemic. South America seems to have been plunged into an epidemic of revolutions this Summer. First, Bolivia, then Peru, and now threats and rumbles of revolt | in Argentina and Brazil. The old regimes at La Paz and Lima have been definitely overthrown. For the mo- ment, trouble in Argentina and Brazil is confined to certain ominous signs that it is in the offing. Indications of smoldering unrest are more concrete in Argentina, where President Irigoyen is already living in @ state of siege, and two military offi- conglomerates. American sympathy is assured the sufferers from this unusual visitation. American tourists, many of whom are now turning their faces homeward, will find upon arrival here that they have simply escaped the atmospheric calories of this region to be hit by those of the Old World. When the sun goes on a rampage, as it has this Summer, it is Ino respecter of international bounda- ries. . Dangerous Holiday Driving. With Monday a holiday, tens of thou- sands of people are sefting out today on trips to take advantage of the un- | usual span of time free from business occupation. Many, perhaps most of them, .are going by mctor. The result will be a crowding of the roads, and lit is a virtual certainty that there will |be many accidents, due both to con- gestion of the highways and to the recklessness and inexperience of drivers. In the cities, trafic regulations restrain most operators of motor cars from un- safe practices, but on the open road, with long spaces between stop signs and traffic officers, they “step on it” and take chances. Exhilarated by the sense of power and speed, they rush headlong, often over unfamiliar routes, getting a “kick” out of passing other cars and wriggling through narrow openings. A sharp curve or an unex- pected obstacle brings disaster, not cnly to themselves, but to others, the helpless occupants of thefr own cars and those in other vehicles against whom they are driven by their reckless speed. So greet is the peril from these “week end drivers” who do not know how to use the open highway properly that numbers of motorists abstain alto- gether frcm driving on such occasions. Let it be hoped, though hope is faint in view of the records of the past holi- day week ends, that on this occasion & saner spirit will prevail and that the Labor day outing of the people will not be marked by a shocking list of cas- ualties. cers, supposedly under suspicion of plotting against the state, are under arrest. In Brazil, it is the great cattle- breeding state of Rio Grande do Sul, in the south, that is reported to be in turmoil. Revolutionary rumors are dis- credited at Rio de Janeiro, but with neighboring republics aflame with po- litical disaffection, the Brazilian au- thorities appear to be taking time by the forelock and resorting to precau- tionary measures. All of Latin America, like our United States itself, came into republican being through revolution. That fact is fre- quently cited when this or that one of the twenty-one Americas rises against an unpopular regime and by force installs another. We of North America have been accustomed so long to lock upon many established Latin governments, particularly in Argentina and Brazil, as impregnable, that the news from Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro car- ries a distinct element of shock end surprise. Dictatorships come and go among our Latin neighbors, but withal government continues to be exercised on more or less stable lines. Conditions in Argentina for four- teen years have provided the ingredients of a revolution at almost any hour. President Irigoyen acceded to office in 1916 under circumstances that did In an intensified expression of cynicism, Talleyrand is credited with saying that his objection to a married man was that he would do anything for money. That little, old market basket was early recognized as a feature of domesticity playing a powerful part in political economy. ——— An American comedian known as “Old Hoss Hoey” wore a full beard as he sang “The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo.” He set a pace. No less distinguished a comedian than G. Bernard Shaw makes whiskers a feature in current diversion. RS T SVIEEEE ‘The Weather Bureau is strictly scien- tific. It cannot protect the stock exchange speculator any more than it can tell the farmer whose corn crop failed precisely how to manage his silo. ———— ‘The Rapidan is suggestive of proc- esses of statesmanlike thought in emergency which place special accent on the “Rapid.” - A “dry” candidate is naturally com- pelled to admit a sense of disadvantages not reveal him as & statesman overbur- dened with punctilious regard for con- stitutional niceties. Yet when Dr. Iri- when circumstances require him to face 50 many “wet” audiences. — OBt e In several lands it has been decided be computed, and discarded entirely the | another six-year term, Argentina gave apprehension, is more to be welcomed accompanying and equally important suggestion regarding the Federal Gov- ernment’s additional liability on account of. the size and nature of expenditures in the Pederal city. Likewise, the bureau's finding of an adjusted tax rate by a formula that endeavored to reduce all cities to a common starting point was fair enough as far as it went, but it did not go far enough. It did not make the deduc- tions from tax levies of other cities that should be made to cover such items as State taxes, sinking fund and in- terest payments on bonded indebted- ness. As the people of the other cities receive benefits from such tax payments that are denied the people of Washing- ton, it is erroneous to seek an adjusted tax rate comparison or per capita tax comparison without making the deduc- tions for State taxes, sinking fund and interest payments. While the bureau was careful to tabulate the State taxes and sinking fund and interest payments of all cities, it did not deduct them in making its final adjusted tables of com- parison. The bureau should include among its new tables an additional one showing the results of such deductions on an adjusted tax rate. It could easily do. this without committing itself to the principle involved in making these proper deductions. ———— An air race often disappoints the camera boys. It is not necessarily the prettiest girl who wins. R The Stacks Soon to Go. In & relatively short time, perhaps before the end of the year, work will start in the clearing of the site for the new Department of Labor, at the corner of Fourteenth and B streets, the prin- cipal occupant ot which at present is the general office and the former power house of the Potomac Electric Power Gompany, the latter now and for some | years past used merely as a trans- former station. Then will pass out of view a disfigurement of the landscape which has long been the subject of dis- | cussion and protest, the pair of iron smokestacks that rise from the power structure, In the earlier days when the stacks were constantly criticized as unlovely dissonances that marred the Capital scene there was no thought of the great building project that is now under. de- velopment in the Mall-Avenue triangle. True, the proposition that the Govern- ment acquire all this area for such a purpose had been broached and was being urged upon a reluctant, barely listening Congress. Later came the isolated item of appropriation for the buying of the “five squares site” at the western edge of the triangle, on a part of which the great Commerce Depart- ment Building is now rising. Then the protest against the stacks was renewed, in stronger terms, but nothing was done. Some time later it was proposed to him a majority so overwhelming as to leave no doubt that he was the peo- ple’s choice. Meantime, the eighty-year- old President has used the federal power in a way to violate the suscep- tibilities of those who believe in states’ rights. It is Irigoyen’s interference in the provincial affairs of the Argentine republic that is at the root of present- hour disturbances. Brazil is weathering a desperate eco- nomic erisis not unlike the distress af- flicting many other countries in the world. It may be that popular dissatisfaction with resultant conditions gives rise to revolutionary temper in the vast realm of the Amazon. One explanation of revolt rumors is that acts of banditry in the cattle regions of Rio Grande do Sul may have induced the belief abroad—the rumors emanate from ad- jacent Uruguay—that Brazil faces revo- lution. The Government and people of the United States view political disorder in Latin America from but one angle— that of a sincere wish that it may prove ephemeral and work out to the enduring betterment and contentment of the nations involved. Domestic tranquillity in the other Americas is almost as much of a North American as it is a Central and Latin American interest. The ideal of pan-American- ism, to which the Colossus of the North is heartily committed, can never be fully realized if chronic instability pre- vails on either side of the Isthmus of Panama. e Reports of an utter failure of the corn crop may result in making life a little easier, after all, for benighted citizens who distilled their grain and dodged the “revenues.” ———t e Britain's Hot Wave. ‘When it gets so hot in London that afternoon tea is replaced by iced drinks, and when the brokers of Throckmorton street discard their wgistcoats, then indeed a climatic crisis is at hand. That is the situation in London now, and not alone London, but all through Western Europe, ranging from Spain to Scan- dinavia. Dispatches from over there read like the local news of America a month ago. At the air ministry station in the heart of London the mercury scored 93.5 degrees, the highest temperature recorded there in nineteen years. At the official Kew Observatory, which is lin one of the cooler suburbs, 92 de- | grees were registered. The usual tradi- tional reference to the humidity as the chief cause of discomfort, it is reported, is the commonplace of comment. In violation of all the laws of sartorial propriety, business men are going to their offices in the “city” in tennis shirts open at the neck. This is indeed a disaster. Why, the heat has been so intense as to warp the rails of the London & Northeastern line near Har- than feared. ——— SHOOTING STARS, BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. ‘Wonderings. We wonder how the radio brings A lot of interesting things; Just as our old folks wondered why The lightnings played across the sky. ‘We wonder how some sudden fame Is wakened by a mighty name; We wonder, with a touch of pain, ‘Why it is doomed to fade again. ‘We wonder at the airship flight. ‘We wonder at electric light. ‘We wonder at the patient way Each meets the tax he has to pay. We wonder, as the skies revolve, At problems we can never solve— And life into our being flings Simply a world of wonderings. Interview. “There is an interviewer waiting to see you,” said the secretary. “Find out whether his ideas agree with mine,” answered Senator Sorghum. “If they don't. there's no use of wasting the precious moments.” Jud Tunkins says a high-flyin’ finan- cler 16 a man who can persuade folks to make loans on insecurities. Might of the Innumerable. We hate the fly that glistens by In undisturbed authority And seems to say “I wield today ‘The ‘Will of the Majority!"” In Time of Stress. “Has the drought hit you?” “Hard,” answered Farmer Corntossel. “What are you going to do about it?” “Same as the rest of the folks; go to the motion pictures an’ try to forget my troubles.” “A slight annoyance,” sald Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “‘may reduce a great man to irritation. In order to preserve the proper picture, statesmen devote large abilities to averting slight an- noyances.” Music and Polities. Musicians gently exercise A talent which the listeners prize, And get into a sorry fix When once they mix in polities. “Dat old banjo am a hangin’ on de wall,” said Uncle Eben, “an’ it ain’ been in tune since away last Fall—cause I wants to serve notice dat I is one o' dese musiclans dat has gone on strike.” PROBRMRRIL - S Illegal Robberies? From the Detroit News. It appears now that a lot of the boys have been getting away with il Tobberies. Tae next time a thug to hold you up, demand that he show you his license. row so that traffic has had to be re- erect a Government power plant at the river's edge, below the Bureau of En- |Stefansson, the explorer, on the effect | From the Worcester Evening Gazette. craving and Printing, with a stack that would have dominated the scene in- silistically, This proposal cvpked & lost their ‘entire stocks of “aweets,” 000 routed. Not even a broadcast by \of heat waves in the Arctic regions could ease the situation. Confectioners A Large Order. Perhaps the reason Mr. Gerard didn't name the women who “rule” Ame is that there are approgximately of them. 15,000, THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. Man is defined as & thinking animal, but do very many human beings think? | Especially before they speak? | TTalk is at once the most pleasing | thing in the world and the most an- | noying. ‘Without it we would not be human: with it we constantly run the danger of becoming offended. It is talk which causes most of the trouble among men. So wise a man as the late John Wanamaker knew this many years ago, | when he wrote: “A little more good- willingness one toward another would not cost much, but would go far toward easing up the difficulties that come along our path—in Summer time as well as Winter. Mot of us are ‘strikers’ about something or other every week or 80, but we get over our upsetness by thinking and seeing our own aults instead of the faults of others.” By not talking, in other words. By ing one's thoughts to himself un- til the troubles are ironed out, and one becomes tranquilized. There are wondered, at some time or other, why it is that so many of their fellows seem 80 “touchy,” so impossible to speak to without receiving some linguistic slap in return. ‘The only fair conclusion is that they are not so much mean as they are un- thoughtful. They speak, in other words, without thinking. ~The result is that their remarks often rub others the wrong way, give them a reputation for being intolerant, and brand them as dictatorial. lew people who have not EREE ‘What they have really done, of course, | is to speak without thinking. The thought in the mind pops out, when it | would be best from every standpoint if it did not. Usually first thoughts are | not good thoughts, especially as they | bear upon the minds, habits, deeds of | others. Probably first thoughts, based upon emotions, in so far as they con= | cern one's self are the very best thoughts of all. That is why those who act according to their emotions, their| real inner desires, usually come out best, in the long run. Too much bal- | ancing of pros and cons in life seldom | gets one anywhere. In regard to others, however, one cannot think too much. And, alas, it is | exactly here that most of us think the least!” We are willing to think a bit about our own precious problems, but when it comes to the problems of others we attempt to solvé them off- | hand, and then become sullen when they show their disapproval. Yet how is it possible for us to expect others to ac- | cept shallow thinking or no thinking | at all, in the place of real thinking, or at least an honest attempt to weigh matters? 1t is all too evident that most human beings are not interested in the prob- lems of other human beings. In fact, those who make a profession of other peoples’ business are commonly Te- garded with suspicion, although they may be the best-hearted people in the world. If they are not interested, why do they butt in and attempt to give “ad- vice” on problems about which they know nothing and even refuse to think? Let one speak up and say that he pro- poses to fence in his lot, some neigh- bor is sure to pop up with an objection, although every other lot in the com- munity may be hedged and fenced in | properly. What does the objector know | ——or care —about the reasons which P! attempt to be witty. the major curses under which mankind lies. There are perhaps not more than » dozen real wits in the world at any one time, but evidently most men and | themselves off as . TRACEWELL. laugh” out of ev d not irritating. If they would content themselves with being serious, which is what they really are, they would at least possess the merit of be- | ing honest. It is not strange that some of the best men who have ever lived have ended up by believing, if not saying, that the more they W of human beings the better they like dogs. A recent glorious book, one of the bravest written in many a year, ends with practically the same thought. Man, the creature, rubs the author the wrong way. He does not need to confess that he “cannot get along” with his own tribe, because he has got along for many years with apparent success. But_his tem; ent has been such that the thoughtless remarks of others, probably in most cases without malice, strike him ‘as malicious, and he would willingly end his days, so he indicates in his beautiful book, in the company of his dogs and his beloved birds. ‘There are thousands of readers of this book—and it is much to the eredit of the American people that it bas thou- sands—who will echo his thoughts, although it is perhaps true that they will not say anything about it out loud, lest some one accuse them of the same thoughtless speech against which we inveigh here. * ok ok x Thoughtless speech nowhere comes into its own so well as in relation to one'’s To “stick up” for what one has is not only the fashion of the hour, but probably it is & por- tion of that divine common sense of which humanity has a share. When such loyalty, however, defies both in- telligence and common sense, it is aoout time to call a halt on it. One such instance was heard the other day. Two men were discussing a favorite topic among men, radio. For some reason women have little in- terest in.the subject. But men will “talk radio” by the hour. These two were discussing the merits of loud speakers, “I have the best loud speaker of them all,” said one, naming an old phono- graph attachment, made five years 8go. “You have a right to like what you like, of course,” sald the other. “In questions of taste, every man is his own judge. But honestly, if you had that speaker alongside one of the latest dynamics, you would wonder how you thought yours even fair in tone quality.” The first speaker showed signs of becoming offended. Hadn't he heard them all, and wasn't his old speaker the best he had ever heard? Didn't all his guests say the same thing? (Wonderful, indeed!) ‘The second aker quit. But what he would have liked to have said was simply this: “Then you honestly be- lieve that the thousands of men who have been working to improve radio tone during the past five years have ac- complished nothing at all? That the millions of dollars spent in research has been thrown away? That the many millions of Americans who have bought later sets and speakers have been cheated?” But wisely the man refrained from any such speech, for he knew that it was simply another version of the old story, speaking without thinking, It used to be, “Love me, love my dog,” but today it is “Love me, love my radio set, love my motor car, love my house, love my selection of a Summer cottage.” Man may be a thinking animal, but often enough he does not prove it. Not that thoughts need be logical, but at least they should be thoughts. Even the human mind, as quickly as it acts, requires some time to act sensibly. Every person alive is a product of a complex age, and the brain has more factors to consider today than the brain of a century ago. Speak, if you must, but for Heaven's sake think just a moment about the one to whom you are speaking. Nation Awaits Opportunity To Greet Universal regret is expressed that, through technicalities in the immigra- tion laws, delay is threatened in the naturalization of Bernt Balchen and John Buys of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition. Should their stay in “Lit- tle America” with Admiral Byrd post- pone their official r ition by Amer- ica itself, is the question raised. “Balchen is just the type that most Americans would welcome,” says the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, with the con- viction that, “for naturalization pur- poses, America and ‘Little America’ should certainly be viewed as one.” The | Roanoke Times maintains that “so brave and daring a pilot as Bernt Bal- chen, who has assisted in urrylnf the American flag to the far ends of the earth, should not be penalized in his desire to become a citizen”; that “America should be proud to call such a man one of its own and to assist him in every way.” The Detroit Free Press holds that “as h; ;I the ;polrl':mgel things is concerned, he was ouul‘;e the jurisdiction of the United States than the member of a military expeditionary force is.” o "Repruen{luve Bloom of New York, says the Springfield Republican, last May introduced a bill providing that the term of absence of an alien ‘under employment or contract with the Government of the United States or an American institution of research,” and actually engaged in the work required of him, shall be included in the five ears’ term of continuous residence re- quired for naturalization. The only question regarding the merit of this proposal is whether the terms ought not to be made still more liberal. * Kk * “There should be a disposition,” vises the Columbus Ohio State Journ “to help worth-while men to ‘become American citizens. * * * 'x‘echnlc!:l_ experts forget the spirit of the statul The Hartford Times suggests that “our mariners who left their homes on voy- ages of sometimes more than two years duration to foreign ports and seas did not lose their legal residence on that account.” In support &lt mls;xten l; citizenship, the Times states: Yz‘l wb‘:{; !:t!a {‘l:‘eulc:w nd t, and we eve A "“'Adm\umn to citizenship in the Ulnted States,” explains the Schenec- tady Gazette, “is hedged about by serious vestrictions. Were these relaxed to any extent, there would be an fnflux of un- desirable foreigners, But were these undesirables not clamoring to enter this country, we could open our doors freely to others whom we could I'cldll&e-c- cept as citizens. The case of rnt Balchen, pilot of the Byrd expedition; is in point with this situation.” The New London Day sees in the present application “another of those cases in which technicalities of the law prevent a working of the spirit of the law.” “We are rather proud” avers the , “that Bernt Bal- chen selected this country as his future e. It goes without saying that he would be a good American if permitted to take the oath of allegiance. Haggling over inconsequential provisions of the law, however, may discourage him.” The Milwaukee Journal asks, “Who is more entitled to citizenship than those who go forth under America’s flag to discover and claim for her new soil?” “This Norwegian pilot,” it is pointed out by the mdhnmm Star, “was one of the heroes of Byrd Polar Ex- tion. The admiral praised ghly ‘as a true, capable, dependable man,’ whose abllity lifted the di- tion's huge airplane against confused currents through us gorge the Polar plateau. Balchen took out first_papers in 1927. It would be nothing less than outra to geous to penalize erica him for the period spent with Admiral | us Fusm s him | tion, Balchen as Citizen “He has demonstrated beyond ‘ques- tion his g:lcmuuom for citizenship,” states the hester Times-Union. “And while others confronted with the same opportunities might have conducted themselves with a degree of intelligence, daring, bravery and heroism correspond- ing to Balchen’s, it remains that Balchen is the chosen child of the particular circumstance, and thus comes up for special consideration. The American public will approve the special interest shown in Baichen's case by Secretary of Labor Davis in asking the Commissioner of Naturalization to present the case |in Pederal Court with special recom- mendations.” ‘The Providence Bulletin voices the judgment, “We ought to be so happy in welcoming such a remarkable chap as Balchen to American citizenship that, if anything, his pers should be speed- ed rather than held up.” The Passaic Daily Herald concludes that “we need a citizenship that can think for itself as an offset to the tyranny of ignorance, apathy and political corruption.” “It is conceivable,” thinks the New York Times, “that the courts might reckon service at Little America as in the nature of the ‘continuous' residence required, but a short cut to the relief of the two applicants is proposed in the bill introduced by Representative Bloom.” “The immigration commissioner neces- sarily must respect the law,” says the Kalamazoo Gazette, “but if the law really operates as he ks it does in this instance, it should be changed as quick- ly as possible.” The Hartford Courant feels that the proposed law ‘“covers adequately cases such as this, in which intelligent and loyal men of alien nativity leave this country while their citizenship is pending, to serve the United States, either directly or through an accredited institution.” ———— Road Beautification Pushed by Des Moines From the Des Moines Tribune. Public-spirited people of Des Moines and Indianola are going to see to it that the paved highway between the two places is lined with blooming holly- hocks next year. That is & did idea. The greatest merit of it is that it will demonstrate, at the minimum of cost and in the minimum of time, the great appeal of roadside beautification ;A; ut;he traveling public—which is all Hollyhocks for decoration are excel- lent. They are suitable in Towa. The: have given charm to the Amana vil- lages in the past. Recently they have been adopted for decorative pi by some Sioux City organizations. They are hardy, quick-growing and rennial. Miles of highway lined with ollyhocks will be miles of charm. But there is less interest in holly- hocks than in roadside beautification. Nobody dreams of just one kind of beautification for all Towa roads. Yet eventually some sort of beautification, providing variety but consistent enough, too, will come for all Iowa roads. Nice Idea for U. S.? From the Lincoln State Journal The ful way of keeping money in circula. 5 men who had been hoard- ing coin were promptly executed. ndurance Recordings. From the Montans Record-H lled the game of Any one who ne sense digs, who digs with a purpose, is in a an archaeologist. Schliemann, coverer of the sites of ancient Troy, and Tiryns, was not a trained . His story is one of the many interesting ones told in “Magic Spades: the Romance of Archaeology,” by R. V. D. Magoffin, president of the Archaeological Institute of America, and Emily C. Davis, archaeological staff writer -of Science Service. “Heinrich Schliemann_as a boy had been so thrilled by Homer’s epics that he then and there decided to find the sites of the cities mentioned in the story of the Trojan War. Every one laughed at him, much as did Noah's neigh on another prophetic occasion. Schlie~ mann had to work almost a lifetime before he earned money enou of it gained in business in Indianapolis --to put his faith to the test. He visited in 1868 what were believed t3 | be Homeric sites. Then between 1871 and 1890 he found and partially ex< below the entrance to the Dardanelles, and Mycenae, o and Orchomenus in Greece. it archaeology need not be the interest of only the few experts who are able all who have concerning it & cultural curiosity, is the opi of the authors of this book. Certainly they have done much to make the achievements of archaeologists during the past 50 years seem like a thrill- ingly romantic tale. The initial chap- ter, “The Spade Is Mightier Than the Pen,” gives the keynote. The sec- ‘The Modern Tone of shows that the prob- lems of archaeology are not those the dead past, but are closeiy related 1o modern life, with its wonderful in- ventions, many of which were of coursé known ~to ancients. ‘“‘Magic Spades” is not limited to classical archaeology, but covers recent archaeo- logical discoveries.throughout the world --in the British Isles, Scandinavian countreis, India, Eastern, Western and Central North America, Central America and South America, as well as in Greece, Italy and Egypt. * % % % “Magic Spades” is full of entertain- ing anecdotes, many of them illustra- ting the frony of human existence and the tricks played by fate. The famous Venus of Cyrene almost became a nat- uralized American citizen, but chance decreed otherwise. The School of Clas- sical Studies of the American Archae- ological Institute at Rome was carry- ing on excavations at Cyrene, in North Africa, under a permit from the Turkish goyernment. After Italy defeated Turkey ia the war of 1911, part of the in- demnity was the Cyrenaica. Italy then purchased from the American school its archaeological tools and the permit was ended. After an interval Italy be- gan exc: fons where the Americans had left off and within a few days a “guard stumbled over a piece of em- bedded stone. The stone was marble, and the marble was one of the sculp- tured wonders of the world. It was Venus of Cyrene.” A sculptured relief found on the Acropolis at Athens shows s fight between a cat and a dog, both of which look exactly like twentieth century animals of the same names. the Jol Hopkins Museum, Baltimore, a painting on an anclent Greek cup is of a man and a boy spinning a top. Ancient sculptures and m\nunll and numerous objects found tombs and elsewhere demonstrate that Greek, Roman and Egyptian boys had about the same amusements toys as boys today. “But the ancient Greek or Roman boy did not know the luxury of hte greatest juvenile necessity, a pocket knife? Didn’t he, though! There have come to many of our museums in the last few years, from the recent excava- tions, scores of ancient pocket knives, 8 good many with the blades of bronze still in them. Even if our knife blades are a bit better than those of two or three thousand years ago, the handles of bone and ivory on the ancient knives are more beautiful than ours. A handle of ivory on one is carved to represent the figure of an Atlas, another repre- sents a full-armed gladiator, another | is like a fish.” Perhaps many people ' do not know that beneath the London | of today, buried 8 to 25 feet, lie the remains of ancient Roman Londinium. “Construction gangs working on office Y | "The little volume, “A Walk to Horace Soviet government has a force- | | he | 1rom. the Carol insists he is still a in On tite mnt Qumugglu s hulldings often dig through the Roman layer, and turn up pottery and other objects, but not yet have they struck the foundation plan or walls of Roman villa.” e possibility of such s r down some tery in Peru reveals much about the Jife of the people who made the pottery, probably in the early centuries of the Christian era. There are jars and jugs in the form of potatoes and other vege- tables, fish, guinea pigs, houses and individuals, even diseased and deformed ihdividuals. One {uz represents a man with a diseased lip, other men with amputated limbs. The ancient Peru- vians evidently surgeons of some skill. “Skulls unearthed at Machu Picchu and in other parts of Peru have revealed wide use of surgery; and as the collections increase, we become more and more respectful of the opera- tions the Peruvians attempted. Coca leaves were used as an anesthetic. Even s0, some processes would have been ex- tremely painful as the doctors used in- struments no more delicate than sharp- ened chisels and saws of stone, bronze, andobsidian, * * * The cranialoperation known as trepanning was frequently practiced. The large percentage of suc- cessful operations found among the skull collections suggested to Dr. Mac- Curdy that the surgeons must have l effective means of combat- ing infections.” * ok ok % ‘The name “Mrs. Grundy” has for long‘been the symbol of morality—or, perhaps more accurately, of conven- tional propriety. We can all visualize her figure in caricature, though it is not as universally familiar as those of “Uncle Sam” and “John Bull.” cent book called “Mrs. y Markun, bears the subtitle “A History of Four Centuries of Morals Intended to llluminate Present Problems in Great Britain and the United States.” Mrs. Grundy’s point of view is shown to have changed according to the time and place of her incarnation. n Mrs. Grundy was an ancient Spartan she insisted that free-born boys should e taught to steal, for she knew their courage and self-reliance would other- wise imperiled.” But in medieval Hngland a man was for sheep stealing. Mr. Markun's k contains @ mass of interesting detail. which might be considered evidence for vari- ous differing theories. *w ok ox The Sabine Farm of Horace has been identifled by scholars and put on the map “to the east or the northeast of Rome beyond Tivoli, the ancient Tiby Wwhich is scme 24 miles from the city. Sabine Farm,” by E, K. Rand, describes the spot vividly and is helped by good illustrations. The farm lles in a shady vale, Tunning north and south, where the temperature is pleasantly moderate, neither hot nor cold. Ilexes and chest- nuts and shrubs and vines make the place beautiful, and the villa is “not 100 el te for the poet's need of moderation.” It has 12 small rooms and now possesses a bath which was not there when Horace acquired the place. * ok ok ok he assassin has his the heart of the victim. 3 thinks this inhuman, but it suits my to practice it, but may be shared by | j.po0) of [ stocked the Wabash River with In | of the city would permit public tribute 2 | pledged their loyalty, they seek in va- ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC Did you ever write a letter to Fred- eric J. Haskin? You can ask him any question of fact and get the answer in & personal letter. Here is & great edu- cational idea introduced into the lives of the most intelligent people in the world—American newspaper readers. It is a part of that best of a newspaper—service. There is no charge except 2 cents in coin or stamps for return postage. Address Frederic J. Haskin, director, The Evening Star Information Bureau, Washington, D. C. Q. Is there a_monument to Rudolph | Valentino?—N. B. A. In De Longpre Park, Hollywood, & statue by Noble Burnham has been erected to him. It is said to be the first public statue ever erected to a motion picture celebrity. At its un- veiling Dolores Del Rio voiced a tribute to Valentino in three languages—Eng- lish, Spanish and French. The memo- rial was the :lfl of admirers from all over the world, Q. Does a pre-medical course cover two or four years?—J. M. 8. A. Some med) schools require that a student have four years of pre-medical before he is eligible to enter the professional school. The average Te- quirement, however, is two years' pre- medical study. Q. Is the American Association Base Ball League rated higher than the Pa- cific Coast Base Ball League?—R. F. B. | A. They are in the same classifica- | n. Q. Has the Federal Government over F.C. M. - A. It has stocked the river with the kinds of fish native to those waters. Q. Can asbestos shingles be used over | an old shingle roof?—N. A. Q. A. Asbestos shingles would be satis- | factory. They are light and are a pro- tection against fire. snow counted in measuring a | 's rainfall?—C. E. ! The Weather Bureau says that| snowfall that occurs at the Government | observing stations is reduced to its equivalent in rainfall with the Ilatter in determining the amount of precipitation during the year. As a rule the ratio of unmelted | to melted snow is 1 to 10—that is, 10 | inches of snow will ordinarily make | about 1 inch of water. Q. Does the naturalization of a man make his wife an American citizen also?—E. A. A. It no longer does. Since Septem- ber 22, 1922, it has been necessary for & woman to become naturalized per- scnally. Q. What was the origin of Labor day?—J. M. A. May 8, 1882, Peter J. McGuire, general secretary of the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, arose in Claren Hall on Thirteenth street in New York City, at a meeting of the Central Labor Union, and moved that a day be set aside “as a festive day dur- ing which a parade through the streets to American industry.” The first Labor day celebration was held Tuesday, Sep- tember 5, 1882. In 1884, the New York Central Labor Union decided to hold the Labor day celebration on the first Monday in September, which was - tember 1. At the convention of American fon of Labor, which was held in Chicago October 9, the following resolution was a 2 “Resolved, That the first Monday in September of each year be set apart as and_included |, J. HASKIN. wage workers, ive of sex, call- tionality.” The first Monday }:‘ 8e ‘l‘c‘mw 'fiyn been observed as Labor day ever since that convention. Q. How often do people in cities change their address?—F. C. A. In the American Magazine, Ralph L. Polk. publisher of city directories, says that 65 per cent of the people in cities change their home or business address yearly. Even including the country, not one person in a thousand avolds some sort of change every five years, Q. When was the money of belliger- ent aliens which was in American banks taken over by the Government?— A. 8. K. A. The United States Government | took over alien money which was in October American banks on 6, 1917, the date that the trading-with-the- enemy act was passed. Q. Will & dogwood tree which now bears pmk blossoms continue to do so, or will the blossoms be white in & few years?—F. M. E. A. The pink variety of is now a distinct variety, having been de- veloped from pink specimens of the wild dogwood. ~The color of the blos- soms is probably determined to some extent by soil conditions, but it is rea- sonable to suppose that a definitely ink variety would continue giving pink lossoms. Q. What are the required qualifica- tions for a yeoman in the Navy?—C. 8. A. The Navy De] it says that the qualifications for third-class yeo- men are as follows: Legible penman- ship; spelling, including nautical terms; ability to add, multiply, divide and sub- tract whole numbers, ple fractions and decimals; general knowledge of chapter 45, Navy Regulations 1920, con- cerning enlistments and discharges and part D of this manual (qualifications for .enlisted men), knowledge of official ccrespondence, how routed, (ogm ex- pressions, etc.; elementary knowl of use of typewriter, knowledge of ship organization, function of various de- partments on board ship. Q. How far up the Amazon is the tide apparent?—F. F. A. The Pan-American Union says that the Amazon tide is felt hundreds of miles up the Amazon. Q. Was an ass an animal ridden by upper-class people in Palestine?—A. V. A. One writer says, “The most noble and honorable amongst the Jews were wont to be mounted on asses.” Tra- | ditionally Mary made the journey from | Nazareth to Bethlehem mounted on an ass. Q. Which city is older, Quebec or Montreal?>—L. T. A. Both were founded as Indian vil- lages about 1535, but Quebec was laid out as a city by Champlain in 1608, while Montreal was laid out as a city by the French in 1642, Q. Which has the greater lifting power, the monoplane or biplane?—H. T. McL. A. The monoplane type, with & single span, produces more lift for the same than the biplane or . A mongplane may not have quite the same area as a biplane, yet the lft it be equal. For this reason is con- 1884, | all the hand, is also true of machines with three or more sets of , such as the tri- a laborers’ national holiday, and that we recommend its observance by all Excerpts From Newsp L every limit of propriety and decorum. Instead of being supporters and digni- fiers of the law to which they have L DIA, Quito.—Unscrupulous law- yers should be subjected to the severest censure and punis| rious and most devious ways to under- mine its authority and make of it a discredit. In too many cases which only by all decent people, but most as- suredly by other advocates who strive to upl’!lold the ori 1 honor and in- tegrity of the profession. Some of these venial attorneys, instead of being interpreters and maintainers of the law, actually undermine it, and are a bigger detriment to the peace and order of the republic than the vilest criminals they strive to exculpate from the just consequences of their miserable offenses. A recent instance of this perversion of justice is one in which a man being tried for evasion of military service was adjudged innocent of this offense be- cause of his complicity during the pe- riod in other enormities, which, though even more serious from the stan it of the public, did not happen to be Isel.ngl tried. Upon such a foundation as this did one of these judicial men- aces seek the liberation of his client! be retained in the tribunals of justice, such activities as these upon the part of those admitted to the bar should come under the attention and the pen- alties of our éourts. It is high time a concerted attack be made upon the im- moralities of attorneys who mock jus- tice xn;urersnml gain. What opinion, too, should be held of lawyers soliciting suits of divorce through advertisements? Is not & man thus willing to disrupt a family, and to expel children from their home for his petty fee, a contemptible wretch, destitute both of principle and patriotism? oy, KR Urges Uncle Sam To Buy Galapagos Islands. Neues Wiener Tagblatt, Vienna —Gif- ford Pinchot and Capt. M Donald, jr., have petitioned the Govern- ment of the United States to buy the Galaj The pagos Islands from Ecuador. attention of the United States was first directed to this archipel through an exciting experience (or celebrated ad- venture) of Dr. Ritter of Berlin, and his lady friend, who were found living on one of the islands by Capt. Mac- Donald, U. 8. N. Should the United States make this purcl , it 18 ex- ted they will make part of it a wild- ife sanctuary and establish on other islands a meteorol station, and possibly a commercial center. The ad- miralty will also nkfily nl:nke tl:\ne Gala- pages group a naval and coa! d, serviceable both in time of wl‘t’:rn peace. The possession of these islands would be of important benefit and value to the United States. The terms upon which the R?uhlh: of Ecuador might be willing to dispose of the islands not, at this writing, been announced. * ok X ok e sxdsiee g taste very well. I know there is always something for the next evening.” ——— Carol, You Knave! Asheville Times. apparently regards him as a knave. 2s s £ # 58 B A s E 2 g E plane and the quadruplane, Highlights on the Wide World npérs of Other Lands National Library Building Inadequate. La Prensa, Buenos Aires.—In the year 1901 the National Library was installed in the bulldf at 556 Calle Was the Loteria de Beneficencia ;g;neflclmt"). the matters upon which the culprit was | and If the confidence of the people is to | f upon the st . Such conditions should be remedied without further delay. It is true, some helpful action has been taken, for on August 31, 1928, an executive resolu- tion authorized the purchase on Sep- tember 13 of the same year, on suggestion of Senor Paul pesos (about $340,000), but ‘expenditure left no funds available for furnishing the * ok ok ¥ Rubens Regarded As Most Famous Belgian. o B esteemed the incom Sessions miot. only of Fian glum, but of the world. One Fascist in Forty i g2 g8k £ £